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
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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