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18 BOSTON POST, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1921 The Independent Democratic Paper of New England (Tgnued Dally br Piihlisblng Co.) JUNE 21. NO. 18; YOU 417. Office. 259 Ronton 4.

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and Avenue de Paris, France. BOSTON POST possesses, the largest Daily Morning circulation in the United Fourth Estate. runsD.AY. JUNH 21, mr HERE IT IS Real Summer has come. We may accept it as an established fact without mental reservation.

As to its continuance with that go; it is good while it lasts, and if the promise of the heavens and the guess of Weather Bureau have significance we may hope for the best. What are we to do about it? Just yield to impulse of so far as we can. There is all nature calling to us in the most friendly mood, exuberant in the flourish of its attractions, in the promise of delighted welcome. There is the opportunity of the vacation season; not all can put behind them the obligations of daily toil for any considerable length of time, but even such can grasp that which comes within their reach. We have at least started the summer with something of the impulse which is traditional.

And we like. it. ALL CAN HELP There are times when it is right and proper for the people as a whole to help in the punishing of flagrant violations of laws passed for their benefit. It is with that thought in mind that the Volunteer Safe Roads Committee has been organized by some citizens who realize how difficult it is for officers to see all the violations of the rules of the road by drivers of motor cars. The joining of this association is automatic.

All one needs to do is to take the numbers of cars whose drivers are recklessly speeding or are otherwise breaking the laws, and sending them to Frank A. Goodwin, Registrar of Motor Vehicles, at the State House, describing the offence and mentioning the time and place of its occurrence. This is wholly justified surveillance over law violations that may not be reached in any other way. It can do a great deal of good if carefully, but energetically practiced. THEN AND NOW It is still fresh in memory, that fine day in 1916 when the country was startled by the news that a great German submarine called the Deutschland had slipped into Chesapeake bay after safely passing under the cordon of British and French cruisers standing guard off tho Virginia capes.

We were not then at war with Germany, and the Deutachland was admittedly on a peaceful mission. The exploit of its captain in getting to Amenca safely was admired and extolled, aiid a general, if brief, era of good feeling set in. Much boasting was heaid from German and pro- German sources as to the colossal significance of the trip. It was, for a certainty, Germany's day. Five years have passed.

Last Thursday the French nav-y took that same Deutschland seven miles off Cherbourg and sunk her in a series of submarine target experiments. The lesson of it transit gloria mundi," when that glory is predicated upon a militarism that thinks it can conquer the rest of mankind. hably continue the job, protest or no protest, ju.st as a marine would be expected to do. Former Secretary Daniels may now take a fling at his critics, just as an editor back at his desk would have a right to do. Meanwhile there is laudable pride in the growing greatness of the defenders of the Pacific.

HARMFUL AND NEEDLESS The scheme of Chairman Fordney, of the House Ways and Means Committee to place a 25 per cent ad valorem duty duty on finished lumber is a harmful and needless thing that cannot be defended on grounds. This would be the highest import tax ever placed on the material, several times higher than that in the Payne-Aldrich bill. It is devised simply for the better profits of big timber combines that have grown rich from the necessities of the people. For two reasons this plan to boost the price of lumber is indefensible. First, the growing scarcity of timber kll over the land, to such an extent that desperate measures are being taken to preserve what we have left from utter destruction.

Put a high tariff on lumber, discourage imports, and at once there starts a still more insistent attack on our forests; the people must have lumber, therefore cut all that can be cut will be the rule, and all the splendid efforts at forest preservation will go for naught. Again, the whole country is sorely in need of lumber for building purposes. The housing shortage is universal. People want homes of their own. It is costly enough for them to build at present prices of material; but with a tremendous tariff on imported lumber, their cost would be greatly increased.

The average citizen would have to pay for the fattening of the timber barons to the extent of an iircrease in building costs amounting to $2,000,000,000 a year, as estimated by Congressman Hamilton Fish, of New York. If the majority party in Congress consents to this imposition on the whole people for the enriching of a few, a thing that is also against the policy of forest protection, a day of reckoning will come that it may not relish. SHAKING EXCHANGE RATES Secretary Hoover has found it necessary to ask the Allied Reparations Commission to be more careful as to the manner in which Germany makes of the indemnity installments. For he claims that the recent payment played havoc w'ith the exchange rates and with international trade generally. It appears that the excliange market was getting along nicely u-ith the pound sterling up to about $4.00 and with francs, marks and lire working up to the highest levels reached in many months.

Then came the big installment on the indemnity which by request of the Reparations Commission Germany paid in dollars. As a result of the purchase of dollars for this payment they advanced sharply in price or what is the same thing sterling, francs, marks and lire were depressed. The disruption was quite violent but presumably will be temporary as it may be assumed that the payment of the indemnity installment be used to meet bills here and thus the return of the American bills will tend to restore the exchange again. The incident shows, however, how these huge international financial transactions resulting from factors outside of ordinary business may cause a good deal of trouble from time to time. Hence Mr.

request that in the future installments be paid in allied currency or if in dollars that the buying of our currency be extended over a longer period. It is probable that these payments will have to be regulated pretty carefully from now on, or they may be a constant source of wide fluctuations in prices of both goods and currency and thus entail a gambling risk which the average merchant should not be called upon to assume. All Sorts BY Newton Newkirk WHAT THE SPHINX SAYS "If you get nothing out of life, that is because you have put nothing in it." LOVE OR LUCRE? Dear Mr. begin with, 1 will admit that I am 44, although my friends say I look a day over 20. I have a peaches-and-cream complexion and my hair is as black as a raven s.

Recently, while on an automobile tour, I XX as thrown very much in the com-I pany of a young man whoar; parents have unlimited wealth. He is 19 years old at present, but he is very- large for hi.s age. A few years ago his grandmother left him a bequest of He loves me devotedly, has proposed, and I have begun to feel an increasing affection for him. Now, Mr. Newkirk, will you tell me If you think this Is true love, or do you think my Inner conscience is stimulated by the thoughts of the money which this young man will be the possessor of at his mUjorlty? IMA PEACHK.

P. was born in a leap year, so I have seen only 11 THE CHEERFUL CHERUB I pUjctd cow TKoutfK tonjY lo't My dounxs UPc, poor not-. THE OBSERVANT CITIZEN OLD AMHERST The centennial observances at Amherst this week call attention in a striking way to the honorable place and history of the small college in New England. So long has Amherst been a part of our educational life here that it is almost surprising to realize that the splendid institution dates back only to 1821; it seems much more venerable that that. All the more in the face of the fact that it is not old as many colleges go arc its achievements to be praised and admired.

For a century Amherst has been a potent force for culture and for the making of manhood in this State and her influence has gone to the borders of the world. She has produced leaders in every line of noble human endeavor, pioneers of learning, torch-bearers' of patriotism. Her sons have always been actuated by an intense enthusiasm, a deep love of their motherland a determination to with the best there was in them. That spirit still rules, Wc wish every felicity to Amherst at this festal lime and a long life of usefulness reaching into the ages unknown. A EXPOSE (From the Kalamazoo Gazette.) The Boston Post been awarded tho Pulitzer gold medal for "the most disinterested and merltoriouB public service rendered by any during 1920.

The service upon which tho award was made was the puncturing of the Ponzl bnbble by the Post. The Post undertook and carried through successfully the expose and Dear you admit 44, your friends say jou look a day over 20. It is not always safe to believe all your friends tell you, Where do you get a peaches-and-cream complexion? Is It guaranteed skin-deep and of a fast color that will not fade in the sun or wash off In the rain? The reason I ask is because there are two kinds of complexions. One Dame Nature, the greatest beauty specialist in the business, kindly bestows on a girl, the other comes In and with an application of cold cream before retiring. Of course.

none of my business, but just curious to know which variety yours Is. It Is rather odd that at the age of 44, your hair remains black as a This seems to me not only odd. but you visit the (or send-your hair to him by parcel post) to have it re-bru- netted. Generally at your age, the silver beautiful badge that every sensible woman should wear with to show among the or black. However, let us be getting on to your question; You say the poor young fish whom you are menacing with matrimony is but 19, but will, in two yearn, be worth he loves you that you hesitate to man-y him because you fear that you might be doing so for his money instead of for love.

Now, you ask me to tell you your own mind in this matter. I would gladly do so if I could, but 1 do not po.so as a inind-reader, and if you cannot make up your mind on this problem, your yelp for help to me, or to anybody else will not avail. The only way I can conceive to help you discover your own desir" in this matter would be for some unforeseen circumstances to cheat the young man out of his inheritance. Then you would know whether you love him for himself or merely $50,000 worth. N.

One Hundred Per Cent Wool glove Sunday tetween North Church Chapel and Penhallow street. Finder return lo Portsmouth H. Newspaper. TO DAD happened in the home of a neighbor the other night and over the rarlor door saw the legend worked In letters of red, 'What Is Home Without a the matter with What Is Home Without a He gets vp early, lights the lire, boils an egg and wipes oft the dew of the dawn with his boots while many another Is sleeping. He makes the weekly handout for the butcher, the grocer, the milkman and baker, and his Saturday night stipend is shrunk like a flannel shirt before he has been home an hour.

there is a noise during the night Ma kicks Pa in the back and commands him to go downstairs and kill the burglar or die in the attempt. Mother dams the socks, but Dad bought the socks in the first and the needles and the yarn afterward. buys the chicken for the Sunday dinner, carves it after everyone else is served draws the neck from the ruins. without a mother is bad enough, but home without a father would be an absolute fizzle. to got your may have lots of somehow or other you manage to pay the bills, so for A DANGEROUS PLUNGE From the Scsnton (Penn.) Times.

The Boston Post, recognized as one oi the great newspapens in America, The the Story of Movies The History of the Screen and the Strange Marvels Achieved Stars in Pictures and Story THF. PACIFIC FLEET Secretary Dcnby would better beware of the perennial critics. He has decided to send a big fleet of oil burning warships to the Pacific coast. This means most of our modem capital ships and so tt is easy to estimate formidable character and capability of the proposed western fleet. There may as there undoubtedly is, a justifiable reason for the decision, but this conclusion applies to his predecessor as well as vO iuinself.

hen Daniels ordcifd tiic big to Ponzi in the face jf the of both police and financial au- that the scheme WHa It took courage and of a high order to break through barrier of mlHiona, get the facts and make them known to the world. The Boston Post and Ita staff are to bo congratulated on the woll- xnerited' honor 4hat to the neighborhood of California, Hawaii and the Fhillipiv.es a howl went up! There was talk oi inefficiency, lack of judgment, want oi experience and what not. Will history repeat and give ufi another hysteria? Dcnby will prob- has been awarded the $500 gold medal the Joseph Pulitzer Foundation for most distinguished and meritorious public service rendered by any newspaper during the year 1920. The award was based upon the exposure of the financial career of Charles Ponzl, the Boston schemer swindler. The iPtost oot only unmasked the Ponzi fraud but compelled the city and State vo act and to light the criminal career of Ponzl, with result that his fren- aled finance bubble was burst and Ponzl finally se.rt to JalL The Post, in the gives much of the credit the exposure to the high sense of newspaper and courage of Richard Giorier.

ass.o'.ant editor and publisher ii the Post, S.7 in the absence of his father ed.tor and publisher of the Post, was in charge of the publication and directed the campaign against Ponzl and frtudulent scheme. It took courage for the Post to act agatnjst Ponzi. Mr. Grozler and the Post had been duly warned by a leading attorney of Boston of the risk they would run in making the attack on PonzL Ponzl himself declared that he act immediately if any attack was made on his business, which had been endorsed by supposedly keen men. Including several public officials.

But convinced of the entirely fraudulent nature of the Ponzi plan, Mr. Grozler the Post took the Summer reaches Boston at 7:36 this evening. 4 4 4 that instant the sun will be at the fuithest point north of the equator that it ever reaches. For a moment It seems stand still there before it starts to travel again. That is why tho beginning of summer Is called "the Summer the latter word being compounded from or "sun, and meaning "to cause to 'fr One of the perplexing problems of the male sex on dress occasions is "whal colored tie to wear with a dress not referring, of course, to those who are familiar" with the books on etiquette.) At almost every banquet In Boston one sees about equal division of white ties and black.

This important problem Is called to mind by seeing a photograph In which the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Connaught and Fremier Eloj'd Georgs appear. (The latter has had his hair cut recently, by the way.) All are wearing snowy whits their black swallow-tailed coats. I guess the answer to that problem. always one thing more to keep a reformer busy. Here comes a woman who signs herself who objects to the nature of the formal salute to tho flag, and who proposes to a 100 per cent reverence for our colors by a change In the manner of the salute to a simple wave of the Do you think YOU would "gain for the Stars and Stripes by waving a hand at it Instead of making a formal salute? Today Is the longest day Of the year; but need a split-second watch to Drove it.

The total decrease of the length is only one minute In a period of the next six consecutive days. And there will be a variation of less than two minutes In the time of the setting from now until the sixth of July. It would seem to take a lot of courage to start building a new railroad just at this time, when there are so many abandoned tracks in New England and so many other lines that are rot maklTig a cent pi profit. However, tho plan is afoot to build a railway 111 miles long across northern Maine to Frontier Lake in Quebec, to bo run by electric power. Many miles of it will be tlirough a wild forest region." It is from the forest products that the profit is e.xpccted to come.

Speaking of abandoned railways, there are also quite a number of abandoned old amusement parks scattered about New England which once were popular pleasure resorts. One of the most famous of these was the old Dlghton Rock Park on the hanks of the Taunton River. The spectacular buildings of this old resoit went UP in flames a few days ago. They had stood unused for several years, although In their early daj's they had been visited by thousand.s on every pleasant summer day. We hear so much about Plymouth Rock nowadays that the younger generation is likely to grow up in rance of its old rival, old Dlghton Rock, which stands in the river near the site of the Dighton Rock Park.

Dighton is a genuine mystery. It contains an elaborate inscription which nobody ever has been able to read. Tbis was old even In 1680, when white men It. Some attribute its origin to some old Indian tribe; others think the Norsemen carved the inscription. Its chief clAims to fame in recent years, however, have been through the use of the name for an'amusement park, which was burned last week, and for a brand of "pants.

street bath-house Is officially opened and had a capacity crowd on the holiday. Visitors to that resort are warned to use the towels carefully for fear of having splinters in the towels penetrate their body. I am Informed that a quantity of white sand is to be placed on the beach soon. The condition of the beach at present is poor. 4r Storekeepers in some of the outlying districts of Boston tell me that the demand for candy and ice cream cones on the part of small children this year exceeds anything in their Thsv sav little ones, hardy able to No.

(Fatty) Arbuckle in Butcher In the beginning It was Roscoe Arbuckle. It was that way for a good many years, while the owner of the name was growing out of boyhood and making his start upon the stage. Then he went Into the movies with the old Keystone company, playing minor parts for some time and then mounting all the rungs of the ladder that lead to stardom. His comedy stuff in these early years was crude, but it was funny to the great majority of movie fans, Tivey roared when the familiar figure hppeared and they did not stop roaring until the last custard pie had been deposited neatly, top downward, upon an unsuspecting head. It was then that people forgot all about the Roscoe part of the name and everywhere the comedian was known as Fatty Arbuckle.

And ijow It Is Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle, his press agent informs the w'orld. He has graduated from sheer slapstick stuff, so the Fatty must be used with parentheses enclosing It. The photograph reproduced above shows the rotund hero of scores of comedies In his first Paramount picture play, "The Butcher This was still In the slapstick daj-s. Now he Is doing full length photo plays for the same company. In 1916 Arbuckle was appearing in leading parts In Sennett comedies with Alice Lake as his leading woman.

Like Gloria Swanson and Bebe Daniels, Miss Lake began her screen career in the w'lldcst kind of slapstick farce.s. In the following year, when the aceor made Butcher ho was supported by A1 St. John and Josephine Stevens, who are seen in the photograph, and by Buster Keaton, who was being given his first chance in the film world. Butcher was a tremendous success, being booked In advance for simultaneous production In no less than 35 theatres In New York alone, almost a record breaker for The plot was hardly as Important as the madcap antics of the principal players. What plot there was concerned the butcher determination to lwin the daughter of the store's She worked as cashlcf In this small town emporium, where everything was on salo from mouse traps to fire escapes.

The other clerk, portrayed by Al St. John, was a formidable rival, and there were times, as revealed in the picture, when he had his rival seemingly distanced. The feud led to a riotous fight between the two youths. In hich iJiey u.sed as ammunition everything on the shelves. Groceries and sailed through tho air, the Inevitable pie found Its inevitable target, and fray culminated In a battle of flour, which added the resemblance of a snowstorm to the general wreckage that had come before.

All this was funny enough, but funnier things happened after the girl had been sent away to school and the two rivals follow'ed. Fatty came wearing dresses and pretending to be the cousin, and his appearance was the signal for yells of delight. The clerk brought with him the, village pest, played by Busier Kt-aton, who contributed some astounding tumbles to tho general hilarity. And it ended as ever.vono had expected, with Fatty the victor and hurrying off with the girl in of the nearest clergyman. Normand, In Cram Story Another Mildred Cram story of the adventurings of Signor Pug, and Hi.s Little will be printed complete in the next Boston Sunday Post Magaxino, say toddle, come into their places a dozen limes a day.

hold up their pennies and lisp out a demand for a stick of candy or an ice cream cone. "I see where they get all the coppers they bring In here, for they are poorly clothfed In many said one man. speaking of ice cream: Immigrants landing at Ellis Island now receive one of their first bits of Americanization when they taste Ice cream, which is new on the menu. I am told that some of them think it a new brand of butter and spread it on their bread. A DIFFERENT FACE ON IT To the Editor of the Post: fWatlon to your editorial of this morning on the accident to a passenger on "The Thunderbolt scenic iast Friday alght, I wish to state that man who fell out of one of tlie cars was standing up, as there are plenty of witnesses to prove.

Furthermore, the hospital to which he was taken reports that ho was not seriously 5 I mlg'ht isfld that on Sunday more than rode on this same railway with safety and comfort. The old-time fault of care leaving tli- tracks has been wliolly eradicated on all the coasters by safety devices under them making It Impossible. I think you will agree that the fact that the passenger referred to was standing up puts a totally different face on cT matter. CHARLES L. RIDOWAT.

Bostoiv Juno. 2 Dii THE ORIGINAL 3 HORT TO SHORT STORY Please read rnles of the Bhort Story CJompetltion on the editorial page of the Sunday Post, Stories raust be original and not copied or Imitated from any publication. gSZS5S2S2SE52S252S2SZ52SZ525ZS25ZSS2S that (Until further notice no stories 'will he returned unless accompanied with self-addressed and stamped envelope.) JIMMY I a case By Joan M. Gray, 47 WalHs Street, Beverly Dear laughed the girl. "I and therefore marry But queried the man asked you five times.

"More than enough. I marry you because already my work. I marry you because it be fair to the work. 1 marry you because one marry a man whom one has banged over the head with an Iron spoon every time he knocked her sand castle down. You I have played fought 19 Jimmy, ever since you were six and I was four, and now you spoil it all by being serious.

keep on playing; 1 can play w'hi I play and work I work. And 19 years later, when and I The yotmg man sat up stiffly In his wicker chair and looked steadily at the girl In the hammock. Sunlight dappled through tho vines and brought summer to play with her dark hair. "What If I should find a Mrs. while you are he asked.

she may hold my kitty and she and I will laugh together, at answered the girl, and her smile was just as gay and friendly. sixth time would be you and I will keep on playing until I find a future Mrs. Judge. When I do, of course, have to find another playmate. I shall never ask you again to share my future my spoon.

What do you say if we stroll down to Mrs. and chat with Hla Jaw had tightened, spoke lightly and laughed at the end. The girl was amazed. Jimmy, who had always argued three days over a rejection and Who fairly haunted her bungalow until he was taken back into grace once more! Now he merely laughed it aside and proposed going to see Nina, who was extremely fair and extremely delighted with a chance to ensnare a young man whom gossips had allotted to another young lady. Nannette was hurt by his nonchalance, but Nannette had pride.

thanks, she said, with a little smile. run along. going In and start that song to make me famous. Its name will be Thought He Was in Love With She patted him arm, laughed and went in through the long window, then turned and watched him go. bareheaded, down the shady street to She went to the piano and pick'cd up her pencil, but there were no notes written.

Twilight came, and dusk, and then, you are a great and noble judge, when I am a famed and noted com-, certainly did not loveJim- poser we shall have tea together and you shall hold my black cat and we will tell each other hnw glad we are we I our my marry each Daytime instruction -intensive prep- a a i for Accountancy or Business at Pace Institute. Daytime students can complete Semesters and of the Pace (bourse in half the time required in evening- classes. The Slimmer term for day classes begins Monday morning, July 11, at ic.ssioui are held five a week from 9:30 to lisSO. Write, or for of plan of daytime study. Pace Pace Tremont Boston The Fiiendly Glmo very Department of this business has had a little Convention of its own during the past three months to discuss ways and means of improving Edison Service.

We keep thinking and striving to better our business in your eyes. We ask your aid. The Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston my, Bho ran to tho couch, burled her head in Ita bright cushions and cried and sobbed and wept until, exhausted, she lay staring toward tho house where was being entertained most satisfactorily, evidently, by Nina. Then came a time when Jimmy called her up as usual and came to see her as usual, but with a difference. He talked of charm, her sajdng.s, their good times.

Then pride rose lo its full height. Thereafter she was always busy with her compositions and begged to be excused when Jimmy came. And so, while she was staring at a less paper, Jimmy, white-faced, listened to idea of herself and himself. After several useless attempts Jimmy gave up trying to see Nannette, and she re.alized just what she had done. Always, always she had had Jimmy.

And now, without him, the blithe little songs that had started her on the road to fame would not come, and ythe dajs dragged out, useless and hopelessly wasted. Then one night Mrs. Gilbert gave a dance at the Casino and Nannette, upholding her, appeared and dazzled several pairs of masculine eyes. She gave Jimmy a dance with the greate.st friendliness, remarking that it really looked as though there would be a Mrs. Judge to stroke the cat very soon.

Something happened. Jimmy went white and tore up the dance card he W'as holding. Then he begged pardon and w'ent away, and Nannette, almost blinded by what she had seen in his eyes, proceeded to shatter several other masculine hearts, just to relieve the tension. At length Jimmy carried her off, held closely, and drifting to the tune of (me of her own little love songs. won 5 case, today.

Jimmy. proud of Her voice was steady. Judge will be very proud of you, Her voice trembled in of her, and the hand that held hers suddenly crushed It. awfully warm, dance oft onto the veranda, she said. The stars were twinkling brightly and the night air held the perfume of every flower in the world.

Nannette saw set 50 ung lips and brooding eyes, and her pride fell with a crash. She faced him. she whi.spered chokingly. there possibly be a sixth But pride had risen fell. j'ou enough.

asked. get your cape if you It like cold, cold water, hut Nannette had suffered and he dear, or, so dear lo her. Ho she reached up and with her arms where Jimmy had often dreamed them, said, have jou asked anyone to be Mrs. cried Jimmy, 1 stand it. she said again, may I he Mrs.

Judge?" cried Jimmy, his arms about her, and holding her close, "oh, my They began to live happily ever after. The Oldest Inhabitant Says: warmest records fur the 21st day of June within my recollection by official figures 93 In 1873 and 1884. coldest for this date was 49 In 1918. had no rain at Boston on this date during the past ten years except in the years 1913, 1916, 1918 and.