RED TAP ED TAPE was once the means of tying up official documents. Now- sdays red tape is the means of tying up most anything from gumshoes to governments. Red tape may draw a lime against the errors of slipshod workers. ters efficiency and makes a hangman's noose for action, Unfortunately just as it arrived aboard he was ordered to another ship. In the ket remained behind. ©. K. but the basket. and it eould not be “expended” be- and rather new, ed with several cific coast cruiser. The navigator “respectfully stated” that his baggage had gone adrift, the basket with it. original owner. The yeoman prepared all papers in due form explaining the loss of the article and forwarded them to Washington. ments of explanation were sent out to ‘he navigator. He smeared on a few more and mailed the packet back to his old ship. On arrival the batch was not fully understood. It was endorsed a few times more and boosted on to oaptain. four and a half times, Each time it connected a few dozen more endorse- ments, remarks, comments, and respectful statements. Finally the captain called in his yeo- man. "Jones" blankety-blank waste basket batch of rot on my desk again I'm going to dis- rate you to coal-passer. If I don’t find it I'l! rate you up to chief.” Jones aye- aye-sired and beat it. He looked up Ms rate and that of chief, something like ten dollars. ashore and spent ten beans Next day the captain found under his desk a fine new waste basket, It was just like the one he'd lost. In the bottom of it was a pile of paper torn to bits. Red tape had heen suipped in- to a million pieces, But suppose everybody started snip- ping. SLOP CHEST A few years hence the |ast rem- nant of oldtime spars will be uprooted and laid in the navy yards to ret. Rig- ging has already gone. is the cry. There is also metamorphosis, that's not a kind of bug. apes to men, Though the samples will not bear too keen philosophical seru- old naval customs have become so rooted In the serviee that they do not Sisappear even after centuries, and when the old Roman eatapult has given way to hundred-ton breech load- ers. They merely change. ©n a long cruise the saflorman runs shy of clothing. His work suffers in proportion to his fl-clad condition. Skippers have recognized this mari time maxim by keeping a slop-chest. Abonrd a tidy man-of-war any mess is known as ‘slope’ Slop-chests hold a miscellaneous supply of seaman's clothing. Hence the name. An account of the first slop-chest wns ¢hronicled In 450 B. C. It con- mined 1000 garments, gssorted in three sizes, sotly alike and cut to fit the stern- sheets of galley slaves, Ethnologists sometimes refer to them (the gar- ments) as breech-clouts, or nearly a life-size fathom, acesunt of siop-chests in 1402. He in cluded leather boots, woven shirts, dirks, breeches, sea-bonnets and neck- orchiefs. He makes no mention of wrist watches, John Paul Jones turned the “slop- Job” over to his supercargo or purser, However, he got his lttle rake-off at the end of the cruise. For It must be understood that 2,000 miles and a wenth out fixes a pretty good price on neeessary apparel, Gum-boots were the greatest step after the Civil war, O12 sea-dogs put them down as a sign that the navy was going to h~1 “The iden of a tar mind- mg wet feet!” Yet they dally turned to the chest for sewing gear, needles and thimbles, and the like. Then the Twentieth Century broke like a typhwon over our world. A holo Covurighe by Cowrgy Mutiren Adu wf 3 2 g GL PI Os TN caust of progress swept away the relies of man's past. Mechanical genius was supreme. Only the char red stubble of original ideas remained The slop-chest was one. Now we have the “Clothing and Small Stores Roem.” In it our mechan teal Jack may procure silk necker off, and the purchase record is in quad ruplicate. It's still the slop-chest, how: ever, only different. That is metamorphosis; which cleansing life, of Wright and Curtiss, but only aeronautic prowess runs back years and more. When we contemplate the $1,000, 000,000 which has been suggested for the next avintion budget, and the plag government's former attitude, in 1861 by He was a young inventor whe Washington Lowe. died only four years ago after a long enemies in the capitol. They had call ed him a lunatic when he proposed to fly over the Confederate bring back information. There was n rumor that the hostile was nbout to attack. Young Lowe's balloon was used as a last re sort. He ascended about 3.000 feel, drifted over the enemy batteries, and returned with what proved to be straight dope that Johnny Red had ne intention of starting anything. This exploit was such s feather In Lowe's bonnet that his pay was in Wiich ruined For, though he made subsequent of paying a common Prof, sch a sum when men were dying for less” cre As a compromise | Bat his retirement soon followed. Sie semper the “eit” The Union army then made its own “aserostats.” ns they were called, Reg ular reconnaissance work was carried out, but as the balloon was always captive the zone of Inquiry was very narrow. Foreigners caine over to in vestigate the wild rumors which had The technique of this early aviation doubled-spliced at the seams. Inflation was achieved by means of hot air from and had to be cut. The observer land ed when and where he could, Usually a Confederate prison eamp. STREAMS HE bridge is shrouded In penetrable gloom, So Is ths Inky black is the splotch of a hattleship ahead. Two The fleet is steaming ‘darkened’ in column, A hell rings. takes his tense eyés from The ©. O. D. never the rail’ the engineroom voice-tube. “Condenser temperatures show we've run out of *U.m-m,” grunte the OO. 0. D. as is as definite as a investigator Tells Why “Tolerant America” Is Plagued With Murders and Thefts. TASK OF POLICE MUCH HARDER Neither the Police of London Nor Paris Would Be Able to Cope With Crime. in New York or Chicago, Says Raymond B. Fosdick. New York.—Tolerant American cities are overrun with eriminals to a greater extent than metropolitan districts In cording to Raymond B. Fosdick, who made public statistics compiled for the { bureau of social hygiene, “The police of an American city are | fnced with a task such as European | police organizations have no knowledge of,” sald Mr. Fosdick In giving statis ties from one part of his forthcoming work on “American Police Systems” | “The metropolitan police force of Lon- { don, with all Its splendid efficiency, | would be overwhelmed in New York, i and the brigade de surete of Paris, with its ingenuity and mechanical equipment, would fall far below the { level of its present achievement if it | were confronted with the situation In i Chicago.” { Mr. Fosdick discusses the relation of { heterogeneous population in America | to the crime rate, and concludes that preponderance of crime In this country fs augmented by unassimilated or | poorly assimilated races. We Condone Violence. “Tt must not be supposed, however, | that our foreign and colored popula tion is the sole cause of our excesgive crime rate,” continues Mr. Fosdick. races were stricken from the caleuln ly exceed rope. With all Hs k fiature the contalnge a strong strain We condone violence and shirk its pun. Ishmont. “As to the fact of criminality the stntistice furnish star ting evidence. London In 1916, with a population of 7.250.000, had nine pre. meditated murders, Chicago, one-third the size of London, in the same period had 105, nearly twelve times London's totnl, In 1918 Chicago had 14 more murders than England and Wales In 1019 the nummber of murders in Chi eago was almost exactly six times the ! pumber committed in Lendon. “In 1918 New York had six times | more hamicides than London, and ex our excessive and Wales hy 67. This contrast eannot re ntiributed to the neenliar conditions in London induced hy the war ut the years from 1014 to 1918, incly- dive, New York had more homicides than occurred In London during any three-year period previous to the out. wreak of the war in 1014, “Sintiaties of this kind could be mul. | tiplfed at length. period 1016-18, inclusive, Glasgow had 88 homicides; Philadelphia, which only a trifle larger, same period 281. Liverpool and St in 19150 number 8t, of Louis had 11 homicides times the that Liverpool ber, More Burglaries Here, “Equally significant is the compari. son of burglary statistics between Great Britain and the United States In 1015, for example, New York city had approximately eight times as many burglaries as London had {in the same perfod. In 1917 New York had four times ns many burglaries as London In 1018 the burglaries which the police reported in New York were approxi mately two and a half times those In Londen, “While war conditions undoubtedly this contrast were by no means entirely responsible for it; In 1015 New York city had more burglaries than occurred In 1813. Chicago In 1016 had 532 more burglaries than London: in 1017, 3.450 more; In 1018, 806 more and in 1019, 2,148 more, tics of robbery. In each of the four years from 1015 to 1918, Inclusive, New York city had from four to five times more robberies than oceurred in all England and Wales in any one of the five years preceding the war. Dickens often acted in theatricals. private RECORD TUNA FISH This 3<h-pound tuna fish, San Diego, Cal, is the taken in California waters. Inrgest ever It is TRIED 70- FORCE WIFE ON RIVAL Finclly Sued for Heavy Damages, Alleging Alienation of Affections. Trenton, N. J.—A remarkable love triangle in which the husband insisted that the “man In the case” either mar- i i by each of then, was revealed In a $100,000 alienation sult filed here by ‘narles B. Chisholmn Newark, N. d., against William C. Parker, society N. J. One of the unusual features of of the t so far North. Hook and line { used In catching it were Not a Houn' to Be Kicked Aroun'. factor in a unique trade. also the best dog In ren county. “possum” { of hunting with the | during the coming season. Germany Are Sent to In- sane Asylums. BITTER TOWARD FATHERLAND try for Not Exchanging Them 5000 Remain in Russian Prison Camps, Stettin, Germany .—Every gent of German war prisoners riving here from Russia contains a eontin- men whe have been sian prison camps. In three weeks the German govern- ment sent 200 of these men to In- sane asylums and sanitariums for treatment. A few have spells of vio lence and during these periods must be kept under guard, but the majori- ty present a listless, woe-begone Airship Hangar guard. the water Is enunsed mostly by winds periods of time. flected by Hatteras. and shoots a cool This berg-cooled spray the rocks of Labra- dor and Maine and the yellow Jersey sands. - If, ns hus been proposed, a mam moth breakwater were built eastward from New Foundinnd shooting the northern current out, America would English brethren built snow igloos, In the Pacific a Japan current and one from Behring sea correspond to the warm and cold pair in the At lantic. The Alaskan coast, like Eng land, Is warm. Below the continental tips a great stream rung clean around the world. In the South Atlantie, Sonth Pacific and Indian oceans sre huge lazy whirl pools 8,000 miles in diameter caused Ly contrary currents. . “ field, Va. at Langley Field *% — | unseeing eyes, or sit quietly weeping, unconscious of the fact that they are home again, The families and sane fire them in greet friends of the soldiers allowed to and them food clothes before they are sent away for treatment. Curses His Own Flag. Nearly all the prisoners exhibit the most intense bitterness not only to ward Russia, but toward the German government as well, Une of them, who bad lost a leg and an arm. and who, it was learned, had heen taken prisoner early in the war and has been confined in many Russian prison camps, shook his fist at a German flig when he srrived, and cursed his country, his people, and all other countries and peoples, “Tow with Germany!” he shout. el. “That is not my flag and Ger | many Is not my fatherland.” He then oners said: “This to me, land has permitted. Why didn’t they exchange me? Because I have only one leg and one arm? I lost them fighting for Germany and all the thanks I've had for It were the mat ten years in a Russian prison.” Tell of Their Sufferings. to give and is had been unable to secure proper medical treatment in the Russian camps, and that their food had been very bad. 200000 Russians in Germany. The German government estimates that not more than 5,000 Germans will re- main in Russian camps this winter, Before the Russo-Polish turned rapidly, but it i= now estimated the east Prussian frontier during the Polish offensive, The German government has ex pended 80,000,600 marks for transpor- tation of Russians home, and $0,000. 000 marks to bring German prison ers out of Russia. be I, Sd BP BPOP, a Town of 800 Packs Up to Move 10 Miles Away Plisville, Miss—If you don’t like the location of your fown move the town, So say the 800 inhabitants of Kohay, Miss, Some of the build: ings are now on wheels and oth. erg will be loaded on flat cars and carried over a logging road to a site ten miles north of the present location, . tities Future Has No Terrors for Him, Cincinnatl, O~Bernard Parrochnl, cellist (with the Symphony orchestra, is back tn town and will devote his en- tire time to hia art, for he's had a time for a year. He's spent $24, wooed spent it all seeing Europe. Parrochnl will pot have to worry about the fu ture, however, for $180,000 is due him when be becomes sixty-one years old, live years hence, ; Many Compeiled to Toil at Hard Labor and Others Try to Exist on Small Pensions. Berlin —Many of the 50,000 former German officers discharged since the signing of the armistice have joined the great army of unemployed in Ger many, a few have gone to work at hurd labor, and others are trying to make small pensions pay for the ex- pensive necessaries of mere existence. Officers belonging to old, aristocratic, once wealthy families, are in no bet ter situation than their comrades who ‘relied for a living on their army pay. They have long since disposed of most of thelr personal property, and it 1s pot uncomtion to see ne offering to some foreigner a family heirloom . Bp foe enough money to pay a grocery fll. The wives and sisters of some of these men have gone Into the shops, where they earn 350 marks a month, a sum a guest at any of the interna tional hotels frequently pays for a sin. gle meal. The widow of a colonel killed at the front is supporting four children on a pension of less than T00 marks a month, Former soldiers, and particularly the wounded, whose pensions are In. adequate to supply them with food, have been hard hit. Day and night they may be seen standing on the streets with eap in hand, with the suit, was that the three prin. numerous conferences at discussed the “best way “Take Her or Leave Her!” Chisholm says he both, uiti- discussed the situation 0 with event giving to Parker this “Take her or her, You must do either « or other or face ag suit for ishy=lm affirmed that Parker refused to take Chisholm, that he mus te ally matum: leave #1 Hie Lie alienation.” Ch saving The plaintiff sets forth that the Io fatuation of the couple had its incep tion in the summer of 1010, when the Chisholms and the Parks occupied summer cottages at Culver's Lake, N. J. Chisholin Bays that he became firmly that Parker really loved Mrs. Chisholin and that, follow- ing a conference, Parker promised to see no more of Mrs, Chisholm. Parker broke his promise, and the alienation convinced Dashes Through Streets Dressed Only in Underwear and Is Finally Overpowered by Police, New York. —Joseph Longobardi, thir ty-one, of 64 MeDouga! street, was taken Bellevue hospital for ob- servation after he had raced throngh the streets for pearly a mile dressed only in his anderciothing Hundreds of and women on fo nen as he dashed through the from McDougal and Broome Kenmare and lafayette streets where he was overpowered by three policemen and two detectives, flanked glirects At Broome and Lafayette Longo tried to rip up a lamp post, leaped at an automobile Abraham Freundiick of Freand- machine, where. lick abandoned the This did not seem to satisfy him so he leaped out of the machine, rem ome of the wheels off, badly twisting the axle in doing so. Fras ssssnsscsntssnassnnnn ng Sun Heats Acid and Blast Injures Two Men Berkeley, Cal.—Two men were hadly burned when a sixtygal ion field dram of citric acid, heated by the sun's rays, ex- pleded In the Southern Pacific freight yards at Third street and University avenne. The men were standing beside the cir upon which five drums were loaded. ‘The force of the ex plosicn was so great that both were knocked to the ground and the exploding drut was demol- fshed and scattered in frag ments over a radios of 100 yards. Peters and Medagiia were covered with the scalding un SABER ATASRARRRARRERRE. RE ENNELY PARE RARER RLRAREAB RABAT RRGERRRBERAS Finds Wife Starved to Death, Seattie—Returning to his home
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