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i ilfcc teSfc VOL. 87 NO. 39 POVERTY GENIUS OF POUR Viennese Invent New Jobs for Earning Living When Old Methods Fail. 6EHTEEL DANCERS FOR HIBf Rich' Man's Son and Wife Dance in Public for PaySifters of Refuse Find So Much Profit Capital. ists-Crowd Them-Out.

Viennese of the poorer classes have always been noted for inventing queer jobs to a living by. The "carriage-door-opener" waited for the close of theater performances to open and shut carriage-doors for those that drove away, who willingly gave a tip for this voluntary service. The "waterman" at cabstands washed the spokes of the wheels and the hoofs of the horses when the cab came back from a drive, and this useful work was paid for by the fare, not by the coachman, who was too proud to do it. Aid for the Lottery Shy. Outside the government lottery office an old woman would offer to play the numbers or even to advise what numbers to, play if any person lingering near looked too shy to enter the shop.

These and a great many other Jobs of the same kind no longer exist, since Vienna has been struck down by misfortune and her citizens have money for anything but the bare necessaries of life. On the outskirts of the city, where big factories are surmounted by high chimneys, there is still much building ground waiting for future enterprise. Here enormous mounds of refuse have accumulated, consisting chiefly of ashes and dross. Some poor woman who could not bear sight of her children shivering around the cold stove, may have been the first to visit the refuse heaps with a hook and basket in search of bits of unconsumed coal. Her example was soon followed, and in the course of bitter winters the number of people grabbing for coke increased to a small army.

The next to appear on the stage of this new profession was the capitalist, who took over the product of the cokegrabbers' efforts and distributed it to the channels of underhand traffic. Some of these have already become millionaires of course, Austrian crown millionaires. A very short time ago students of the highest class in the best grammar school of Vienna (the Schottengymnasium) were caught In the act of selling an enormous quantity of firewood (which did not exist) to a syndicate of bankers. The students had formed a stock company and were buying and selling on speculation tp the amount of millions. Genteel Dancers for Hire.

In one of the most popular night restaurants an elegant couple appears every evening at the same hour and is welcomed enthusiastically by the owner and his regular guests. These two open the dance with a fox trot around the room. They are generally considered the most faithful-guests of the place. Only a small number are in the secret of their real character. The woman is his wife, whom he married against the will of a purse-proud father.

The 10,000 crowns a month paid by the father to the prodigal are not sufficient to keep this lively young pair in clothing and food, so they resolved to earn their bread. But the only thing in the world that they could do well was to fox trot The exquisite way in which they danced together in their courting days made them generally admired. Now the owner of the night restaurant pays them 40,000 crowns a month, treats them with the greatest uespect as the most honored guests of the place and gives them an excellent champagne supper every night. Why should boys learn Greek and Latin, mathematics and history when fox trotting promises so much more brilliant a career? Business ethics and morals certainly have gone astray, but only a Pharisee could blame this people on that account CUTS FUSE OFBURNING BOMB Plotters Fire on Watchman in Brooklyn Building Who Prevents Explosion. New York.A sputtering fuse, attached to a large square bomb in the basement of a house in process of reconstruction in Brooklyn, was cut just in the nick of time by the night watchman, Tony Franko.

The fuse was severed two inches from the bomb. Franko was so badly burned while hacking at the fuse with a pocket knife that he had to be taken to a hospital. His condition is serious. He told physicians that as he went Into the cellar he saw two men, one of whom had just lighted a match. They ran away after firing shots at him.

Dentist Sent Airplane After Patient Little Sioux, la.Insisting that William Peterson, farmer, should have dental work done immediately, a dentist of Omaha, sent an airplane after, him to save time for the busy, farmer. INDIANS NOW 336,337 Estimate of Population Is Given Out by Commissioner. Increase of 31,387 for Last Ten Years Is ShownTotal Area of Indian- r. Lands 589,111 Acres. Bay, Wis.The Indian popuIftlon of the United States, according to Gato Sells, commissioner of Indian affairs, is 336,837, as against 304,950 ten years ago, showing an increase of 31387.

The Oneida Indian reservation, near here, has a population of 2,657, Com- xatosJAQex Sells' annual Although no figures for last year are available, he believes this year's total is. a substantial increase over that of 1019. Population of other Indian reservations in this vicinity show: Keshena school, 5,023, including a large number of students from the Oneida reservation school, which was closed last year Laona agency 364 Winnebago, 1,251 Menominee, 1,760. Wisconsin has a total Indian population of 10,319, Commissioner Sells reports. Marriages last year between Indians and whites total nine in the state, while those between Indians totaled seventy-eight Of the total number of Indians In Wisconsin, 3,461 are Protestants and 1,955 Catholics.

The total area of Indian lands in the state is shown as 549,111 acres. Keshena reservation the largest, having 231,680 acres'. Tuberculosis is still the "white plague" among the Indians, but the commissioner the progress made in fighting it a lessons In sanitation and correct living. AN ENGLISH BEAUTY A'', A charming portrait of Lady Geoella Katherine Wellesley, daughter of Clare, Countess of Cowley. Her mother Is a daughter of Sir Francis George Stapleton, and widow of the third Earl of Cowley.

HONOR FOR 'HIGHLAND MARY' Admirers of Robert Bums, Scotch Poet, Remove Body to Its New Resting Place. Greenock, Scotland.With great solemnity the remains of Mary Campbell, Robert Burns' "Highland were transferred from the Old West kirk yard here to a new grave in Greenock cemetery. The removal was necessitated by an extension of a local shipyard. From the spot where Mary was buried 134 years ago the coffin was borne reverently on the shoulders of representatives of Burns clubs from all over the country to its new resting place, and a large crowd of Burns admirers attended an impressive funeral service. The monument which Burns admirers erected on Mary's grave In 1842 covers the new tomb.

lllMlllllllH I lllfHlHll MIlA Human Fly Helps Anchor Shabby Walls New York.Aided by. a "hu- assumed the hazardous task of anchoring tottering walls of -the nine-story Strathmore apartment and store building at Broadway and Fiftysecond street, half of which collapsed Wednesday, burying, it is believed, seven woikme- 1 $(- In debris. While the steeple jack In the glared ofepowerfuld searchlights acale th walls an at each tier made fast cables anchored in the center of the structure, a corps of firemen dug in tons of brick and plaster below searching for bodies of iiii'i I i Father and Son Join Army.fl Louisville, Ky.After passing the army medical examination, Jacob Barnett, aged thirty-five, and his son Hurdley, eighteen, have gone to their home to get their affairs in shape. They will become members of the same unit, and are now under orders to report to San Diego, for coast defense "OCEANOF AIR" NEEDSWATCHING Navigation Lanes May Differ From Day to Day, Says Government Meteorologist DATA MUST BE GATHERED Meteorologists Should Decide, After Study of Air Conditions, What Route and Altitude a Plane jSRoulcTTaRe. 7 Washington, D.

CThe of air" which followers of aviation believe some day will be filled with great air liners, plying their way on regular schedules, must be studied from a meteorological standpoint and the whims and fancies of the element must be reduced to easily understood data before the dream of world-wide commercial aviation can become a reality, according to C. LeRoy Meisinger, government meteorologist here. Mr. Meisinger in a paper'discussing the effect of air conditions on commercial aviation says that meteorology is the mainstay of aviation, regardless of the confidence a pilot may have in his motor and in his plane. The "ocean of air," he says, constantly is changing and does not contain steadfast currents, such as the Gulf stream and the Japan current, which are found in oceans of water.

Must Gather Data. Because of the constantly changing condition of the aerial routes through which the air liners of the future would travel Mr. Meisinger declares before big commercial aviation companies can operate on a large scale, great nrasses of data on air conditions at all times of the all places and all circumstances must be gathered. He suggests placing consulting meteorologists on the staffs of all aviation companies to study the air as it affects aviation and to decide daily what altitude and what route a plane should take from one city to another. Air conditions are so changeable, Mr.

Meisinger says, that a plane traveling'between the same two points might have to take a different route almost every day in order to make the trip with the least dangerl Also plane flying from New York to Chicago might find a certain route the best, while one traveling from Chicago to New York on the same day might find an entirely different route more favorable. Things to Consider. Some of the things which airplane dispatchers will have to consider, he says, are the speed and direction of the wind In the area to be traversed, the frequency of low clouds and fog, the frequency and intensity of thunderstorms, the vertical temperature distribution, the normal values of precipitation at flying fields and the effect of atmospheric pressure on aerial instruments, particularly the altimeter. The changing conditions in the air make it impossible to gather the nee-, essary information in a single pathfinding flight over an area, he continues, but by gathering data in numerous flights at all times of the year and in all circumstances a system of averages could be devised which would aid greatly in dispatching planes. GERMANS PUN SKYSCRAPERS Propose to Break Housing Shortage by Rivaling Tallest Buildings in New York.

Berlin.Agitation for construction of "skyscrapers" has started in virtually every city in Germany, where the housing problem has taxed the ingenuity of officials, and flat dwellers. Architects have drawn specifications for buildings to rival the tallest In New York, and sanitary and hygienic authorities are lecturing on the probable effect of high buildings, darkened streets and' congested business and residence centers. The agitation has been carried on intensively In where there Is a great shortage of houses. Buildings In German cities were link ited under the old regime to a uniform height. Few are more than four stories high.

The tallest business building in Berlin is only five stories. PARROT BECOMES REFORMER This Bird Would Be a Frost as Companion for a Pirate, but Is All. Right in Lodge. Dover, Del.Dover's lodge of Elks has a parrot.in its clubrooms which assists the house- committee in enforcing the rules against the use of improper language. -The bird has learned eight fitting rebukes for a corresponding number of forbidden expressions, the use of which has been cut down to a minimum.

Clifford Hawkins, steward, also is training Polly to censor minor Infractions of the rules. It is possible the parrot "wlir be loaned to other lodges, as. several for the use of the fs Ig Arm Venice Attaches. "Vienna.Swords are. now worn by officers for protection aff the order of the president of the Vienna trirainal court, because of the many attacks upon judges and witnesses cently in court rooms.

STl PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. Mim. SATURDAY SEPTEMBEE 24, 1921 PARIS HOUSE CRISIS Shortage of Homes Having Curious Effect on Divorce. No Place to Go for Couples So They Just Kiss and Make Up Not a Flat, Few Hovels. Paris.The great difficulty of finding lodgings in Paris': has been the cause of many unusual incidents, recently.

Divorced persons seeking separate apartments are having such difficulty In finding them that In pne case at leasf they their temperajnental, differences, to keep their old apartment, A painter and his wife who had been divorced mutual agreement were both looking for apartments. Frequently their paths crossed in their search fox' quarters. The first time they met they bowed gravely but politely. Their mutual smile gradually broadened as the hunt for flats narrowed down to a few hovels in the slum section. "Let's kiss" and make up and go back to our flat," the wife finally said, and they did.

President who recently took possession of the lElysee palace, received 41 applications for his apartment In the Avenue de, Villars. Henry L'andru, who Qas been in La Sante prison for the last 20 months awaiting trial on charges growing out of the disappearance women, recently was dispossessed, from the flat that he had occupied on, the Boulevard Rochechouart, a rather sordid section of Paris. Requests came from every quarter in Paris, some even from aristocratic Auteuil, asking that the flat be reserved. 5 A vagrant Just finishing 30 days In La Sante prison told his cellmate under sentence ot five years for swindling that he dreaded to return into cold, dreary Paris. He was homeless prospects of spending the winter nights under Paris bridges did not appeal to him.

The prisoners exchanged clothing and cards of identity, and when the warder called for the vagrant to send.him out into the cold world the swindler responded. The fraud was discovered only when the swindler's lawyer called at the jail. BLIND IN ETERNAL TRIANGLE Husband, Alleged Affinity, Sightless Battle Royal. Atlanta, Ga.That love is blind has just been proved in police court here when a blind man, his blind wife, and her alleged affinity, blind also, were arraigned for trial following a battle royal between the two men, after the husband had come home unexpectedly. Martin Strone, the husband, told the recorder that while peddling religious tracts in the streets a friend had warned him that a rival was paying court to his wife and that he had better go home.

On his arrival there he said he found Sam Stewart enjoying a chat with the wife. Then the fight started. Most of the furniture in the room was wrecked, but the combatants suffered less injury, due to their inability to get at each other properly. "One day'ln a dark cell in the police station for Stewart," said the judge. TEETH ARE WORTH $150 EACH Jury Fixes Value in Awarding Damages to Man Who Lost Thirty.

Atlantic City.One hundred and fifty dollars per tooth was the value placed on the cuspids, bicuspids and molars of Abram Froshin of Philadelphia hi Atlantic circuit court following a trial of his suit against Michael paley, a jitney owner of tills city. The total loss of Froshin was 30 teeth, and the verdict was $4,500. Froshin and his wife were passengers In a jitney when the machine crashed into a rope stretched across South Carolina avenue. The rope struck Froshin in the mouth and took all but the last two. of hls molara Parts of the gums were also destroyed, and experts testified that there Is a possibility that Froshin will have to live on liquid foods the remainder of his life.

3-Legged Wolf To Be Used as Decoy Lefty," the three-legged leader of a wolf pack In the Crested Butte section of Colorado and whose cunning is blamed by stockmen for the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars of live stock, is again In the hands of federal hunters. "Big Lefty" escaped from a steel trap eight years ago and, as leader of seven other wolves, has left a trail of partly eaten carcasses wherever he roamed since. The big wolf will not be killed, but instead will be used! as a decoy in an effort to trap his oUoweis. Fell Dead Into Grave He Was Digging. Decatur, Mich.Overcome by heart disease while digging grave in the cemetery, Edward Tonells, seventythree years old, a -sexton, fell dead Into the there by Us GERMAN LIVING COST IS HIGH Food Necessaries Show Advances Up to 4,000 Per Cent Since 1914.

tsV CL0THIN6 AND SHOES-UP Official Report From Berlin Declares That Middle-Class Struggle for Existence Is HopelessSugar report received here through official channels from Berlin outlines by comparative tables of prices of essential commodities in 1914 and 1920 the advance in the cost of living in Germany since the outbreak of the European war. According to the figures, the cost of living for an unmarried clerk living away from home has risen from177 marks a month in 1914 to 500 marks this year. The actual cost of the essential articles of food for a family of four at present is estimated at 650 marks a month. Clothing Out of Question. Clothing, the report says, is impossible to purchase at present prices.

A suit which in 1914 cost 80 marks is now reported to sell for 1,000 marks, a price increase of 1,150 per cent. The cost of shoes has Increased over 1,000 per cent. Shoes which in 1914 sold at 15 marks a pair are now bringing 175 marks. Men's shirts which could formerly be bought for marks each are now being sold for 95 marks, arise of 1,166 per cent. Similar price increases prevail for all essential commodities, the increases ranging from 225 per cent for electric current to 1,556 per cent for soap, a piece of soap which before the war cost 30 pfennigs now selling for 5 marks.

The Increase in the cost of food essentials, according to the figures given in the report, Is even more startling. The cost of eggs has risen 4,066 per cent, one egg now costing marks. Lard comes next, with a percentage Increase of 3,733. Bice, cereals, butter and bacon have increased in price' more than 2,000 per cenl 8ugar Increases Least. The article of food which has In'creased least in price since 1914 is sugar, which has gone up the comparatively small amount of 316 per cent.

Before the war sugar sold in Germany for 25 pfennigs a pound. It now brings, the report says, 1.04 marks. Milk also has retained a low cost In comparison with the tremendous increases prevailing in most commodities. Its cost has risen 320 per cent. According to the report, the average monthly earnings of the German middle classes are only from 800 to 600 marks.

Taking the needs as outlined for existence, the report says, examination of the tables gives some conception of the present hopeless struggle of the middle classes for existence on the meager return of their work. CAT LEADS TO LIQUOR New York Revenue Officers Trail Inebriated "Tom" to the Source of Supply. New York.Confounding those who say cats will not drink hard liquor, Harold B. Dobbs, internal revenue agent, avers that a tipsy "Tom" reeling along the street led him and brother officers to a cache of 50 gallons of alcohol and other intoxicating beverages in the cellar of a saloon at Sixth avenue and Forty-fourth street In the place, according to Dobbs, were several more cats, and all ous. Moreover, there was.

a determined effort made by each cat to obtain a share of a dark brown liquid that had leaked from an overturned demijohn on the floor. Thomas Fitzgerald, proprietor of the saloon, and his bartender, Hugh Leokey, were arrested by Dobbs and charged with violating the prohibition amendment. i Girl Sneezed So Hard -I Eye Popped From HeacT Sneezing with such violence as to cause her eye to fall out was the experience of Miss Marjorie Pryor of Chester, Pa. The optic was replaced. According to the hospital authorities, it Is'not unusual for the eye to be removed for some operations, but to have it forced out by coughing or sneezing is unique In medical annals.

Miss Pryor has left the hospital, suffering no serious effects from the peculiar experience. ERIN SENDS LIONS TO AFRICA Dublin Zoo Exports Irish-Born Beasts -x to Dark ContinentFirst Time 7i Dublin, Ireland.Dublin is now exporting lions to South Africa. The Dublin Zoo has a famous lion house, where the animals have been successfully bred. It has been able to supply lions on demand to other zoos in the United Kingdom, but this Is the first time an order has.been received from FIND LATENT TALENT Psychology Used in Tests at University of Wisconsin. Experts Hunt Among Freshmen for Material for Likely Journalists and Machinists.

Madison, Wis.Psychological tests of ability for machine shop work evidenced by freshmen in the college of engineering are being undertaken by the department of psychology at the University of Wisconsin. The results of the tests are being computed by students in vocational psychology as a part of their work in preparing to become employment managers. Another set of tests designed to gauge journalistic ability is to be given to freshmen in the course of journalism in conjunction with schools of journalism in other universities. These tests will be given for several successive years to determine whether it is possible to discover latent newspaper, talent through psychology tests. The system of giving psychological tests, instead of regular entrance examinations to students who wish to enter a university, has been tried in several universities.

The idea is that a student who has a good mind, but has insufficient or inferior high school training, may be advised as to the lines of study for which he is best fitted. In this regard, the University of Wisconsin is giving more specific tests than most other universities. By giving a dozen or more tests for the same results, the psychologists at the university are determining which tests are best. In a small series of tests already conducted, however, the results do not correspond well with the scholastic records of the students tested. GIANT FROM NORWAY Aason is 8 feet 9 inches tall, weighs 503 pounds and is eighteen years old.

He was born In Mlmedahe, Norway, and comes of a race of giants. He wears No. 21 shoes and nine yards of cloth are required to make a suit for him. In the picture he is shown in comparison with a man of average size. FUR COAT MAKES "DIPLOMAT" "Rubberneck" Guide Heaps Unexpected Honor on Newspaper Correspondent.

Washington.Hudson Hawley, formerly in the American expeditionary force and now a Washington correspondent, has an overcoat made of an Arizona wildcat skin. It has a marabou collar. Small of stature and wearing a pointed, upturned mustache, Hawley has created a sensation In Washington with his striking civilian attire, but he just won recognition from a most unexpected source. Having been made Paris correspondent of a press association, he went to the French embassy to have his passport vised. Hawley emerged from the main entrance of the embassy and drew the collar of his fur coat up around his cheeks just in time to hear the official barker oh one of Washington's "rubberneck wagons" announce in stentorian tones in the load of tourists: "You may now see the French ambassador leaving the official residence." There Was She, Waiting.

Flora, Ind.Fred Rhodes awoke at his home several miles out in the country to find the roads blocked by snow drifts. He was to marry Miss Vera Gardner 80 miles away, but by the time fie had cleaned a path through the snow and had made a horseback trip to Elkhart, his train was gone and he was nine hours late reaching the bride's home. She was still waiting Doe Wanders Through Beavertown, Pa.A large doe chased by dogs came down the main street here and taking a flying leap, landed In the garden of Fulmer's hotel. After a few minutes she again jumped the fence and trotted through the business streets, often stopping to look in windows. The doe returned to the garden and then to the woods.

JIJS 2.40 PER TEAR GAMBLING ORGY SWEEPS NATION "7 Come 11" Is Now United States Anthem to the Tune of Two Billion Dollars. FRENZY SEIZES THE COUNTRY Treasury Officials Deeply Concerned Over SituationMay Make Gen. era! Appeal to Public to Checks Gambling. Washington, D. CApproximately $2,000,000,000 changed hands last year as a result of the gambling mania, it was estimated here on the basis of Information reaching government heads through official and unofficial channels.

Treasury officials are deeply concerned over the situation, which indicates, they say, that the United States Is still clinging to wasteful and extravagant habits that grew up since the armistice. The situation has been brought to the attention of Secretary of Treasury Houston. Director William Mather Lewis of the savings division now is considering whether a general appeal to the public through ministers and civic societies would be effective In checking gambling. Frenzy Seizes Nation. Lewis has just returned to Washington from a trip through the country In which he gave some attention to a study of the situation.

"Gambling at cards and betting on racing has reached a frenzy never before equaled," he said. "Thousands appear to be engaged in it in one form or another, either as betting commissioners or bettors. "It Is true that money changing ownership through games of chance does not represent economic waste. But seldom are winnings put to any useful economic purpose. "The federal government, of course, Is powerless to act to check the mania except through amoral appeal." No Loss, But No Gain.

Nearly $1,000,000,000 was won at poker and other card games alone this year, it was estimated. Tax receipts on sales of playing cards now average more than $3,000,000 a year. This indicates the sale of 40,000,000 packs, which alone cost more than $15,000,000. At every race meeting that lasts a week several million dollars change hands at the tracks, it is estimated. This includes no estimate of the vast of sums wagered at places distant from the tracks through betting commissioners.

U. S. DOOMS BURROS AS PEST Animals Charged With Destroying the Beauty of Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Washington.The lowly burro, enshrined in western legend as the heroic prospector, has been officially classed as. a "veritable pest" by the United States government. This animal, and its progeny In countless numbers, abandoned by its former owners, according to Stephen T.

Mather, director of the national park service, has selected the Grand canyon of the Colorado for its habitat, and the availability of the canyon's scenic beauties in consequence are almost disappearing. The burro, Mr. Mather says, "de- stroys the trails, denudes the pastures of grass and other forage so that native wild game, such as antelope, has been forced out." He adds that "the time is not far distant when radical steps will have to be taken to eliminate the burro evil." SOLUTION FOR FUEL PROBLEM French Scientist Urges Use of Wind and Water to Replaoe Coal. Paris.Wind and water hold the solution of the fuel shortage In France, B. Colardeau told his associates at the Academy of Sciences at its last meeting.

He presented what he considered proof in the results of an Installation on his kitchen faucet of a water turbine which-drives a dynamo that charges storage batteries. City pressure on the water, he explained, Is sufficient to furnish a household with electric light In the country, M. Colardeau would Install windmills to pump water to elevated tanks and utilize the fall of the water through a pipe to turn the charging turbine. New Interest has been taken here In this Idea of household Installations, because the higher costs of fuel and power, it is considered, may make practicable these water turbines. 8erves In Regiment He Commanded.

Camp Sherman, O.James G. Barney, first sergeant of company Tenth infantry, is now a "noncom" In an outfit he once commanded. He was an emergency major in the regiment during the war and commanded the regiment during the absence of the colonel. The captain under whom he serves was once his second lieutenant, He has been twenty-four years In the army and could have had a commission but for a physical defect, which was overlooked during the war -ijgpl.