1 4
If False Friend |j
(Copyright. 1919, by the Weßtern News
paper Union.)
An ideal situation had been secured
by Rhoda Marsh and she fully ap
pffeotnted its benefits. Waldron &
Bayne was a well established brok
erage house, the stenographic work
was light, the actual working hours
few and the compensation was most
liberal.
"1 haven't met Mr. Bayne yet,"
Rhoda told#her mother. "He is away
on business, but if he Is anything like
Mr. Waldron I have certainly nothing
to complain of. Mr. Waldron told me
he was going away for a month's rest
when his partner comes back."
The group of offices comprised four
rooms. At the back of the suite was
a compartment that was almost vault
like in its presentment. It had a heavy
barred door, a high-up tier of small
windows and was filled with metal
boxes that held the securities of the
firm. Half of Rhoda's time was giv
en to arranging these and keeping
tcace of transfers and coupon collec
tions.
• Waldron was a thoughtful
employer. Often, when
the exchange upon which he operated
\£i.s closed, he would seem to
pleasure and relief from business
care in telling Rhoda something of hla
career and his plans for the future.
"I have put in ten hard years build
.lng up this business from a small
start;" he narrated. "My idea In tak
ing in Mr. Bayne as a working part
ner was to divide the responsibility.
dream is to retire and settle down
in some quiet, pretty village."
Mrs. Marsh noted a subdued and
almost disappointed expression on the
kw of her daughter when she came
one af ternoaa and announced
tlaVit Mr. Waldron had gone away on
his vacation.
"And Bayne has returned,?"
"Yes, mother, and I have something
to tell you about him that troubles
me. He pays no particular attention
to me, does not recall that he ever
saw me beforeTbut I remember him
clearly. It has made me uneasy to
recognize him as a man who used to
visit the offices of Gurdon & Co., that
mining stock concern for which I
worked two years ago, and which
scored such a disastrous failure.
Mother and daughter discussed the
situation. However, Rhoda accepted
her mother's counsel to confine her at
tention to her duties.
Rhoda came into the office from
lunch one_ noon to overhear some
: Prominent Women Gather In Michigan j
j: To Hold -Grand Peace Jubilee Pageant j
IN commemoration of the valiant
work accomplished In the service of
1 their country by their many members,
and those of their families, who serv
ed under their country's flag during
r the great war, the Woman's Benefit
I Association is holding a grand Peace
Jubilee Pageant at their beautiful
headquarters In Port Huron, Michigan,
September 15 to 19. Delegates and
representatives from every state in
the union and all the provinces In
Canada, are in attendance.
Most prominent among the special
events at the Peace Jubilee Is the
demobilization of the Association's
Service Flag, each one of the many
stars on it representing the family of
an Association member which gave a
father, son or brother to the cau?e of
humanity. Besides these men who did
their bit in khaki, 2,700 reviews of
the Woman's Benefit Association
were organized as active units of the
Red Cross and over 200,000 members
enthusiastically gave their every efEort
in this work during the war.
words in the"next room that filled her
with alarm. Her appearance was un
noticed by Bayne and a companion.
Distinctly Rhoda heard Bayne say:
"Yopr part is easy, Merrill. I will
make out a check for fift'y thousand
dollars which you are to cash, take
the train at once for Booneville and
put up at the Clarendon hotel. I will
join you there this evening. I am
going to take ,what negotiable bonds
we have. It's a clean sweep and fixes
us for life.
Rhod.. pretended to busy herself
among some letters as the man she
now knew to be a colleague of Bayne
came into the room she was in. She
was trembling all over as Bayne in
turn crossed the apartment, but he
did not notice her agitation.
"Miss Marsh," he spoke, "you may
go home, if you wish, as I have a
meeting here with some clients thai
will take all the afternoon."
Ithoda bowed silently, although het
heart was beating like a trip hammer.
She went into the rear room, where
she kept her wraps. Then she acted
upop the first impulse that came to
her mind. There was one special box
where the negotiable securities were
kept. In a moment she had emptied
it. In another she had bundled its
consents into a small locked by
START ROAD WORK IN SOUTH
A! 1 States Now Actively Engaged in
Improving Highways for Better
Transportation.
Road construction, which has been
suspended or partly suspended in
every part of the South since the
United States ent n d the war, is re
suming in all southern states on a
far greater scale than ever before in
t!i" history of that section of the coun
t ry.
TIT Virginia, West Virginia and
Kentucky the work of rhaking per
manent and new hitrhwnys eannot sjet
uli swing during ihe winter season,
out < xt« nsive preparations are under
in t!: • t.• •«.« fcr intense activ
ity in the ln the balance of
jho southern t' * jvtiere as good
work <":;n ' e dor. in the winter in
•h" I'miner, 1 '■* starts hnv(
' «-<*n made. G»'e:it activity is' reported
in T ouisiana and Mississippi.
?o;ds for PAS3EM3er haul
Highways Are New- Used to Grei-tc;-
Extcnt Thar. Raiiroads—Change
Made Recently.
The need for good *oads is the ac
knowledgment by government officials
that for passenger haul the public
roads are used to a greater extent
than the railroads. 'This condition-has
been created within a single genera
lion.
Prominent among the speakers at
the Jubilee are Governor Sleeper, of
Michigan, with his staff. Mayor James
Couzens of Detroit, and Major Edwin
Denby, U. S. Marine Corps, of Detroit,
who has the honor of giving the de
mobilization address.
A crowd which is taxing Port
Huron's accommodations to the ut
most is gathered for the Jubilee and
every available inch of hotel space,
Uoth in the city and at the near-by
summer resorts is engaged. In addi
tion the S. S. Naronic, Flagship of the
Northern Navigation Company Fleet
is being used as a hotel and is docked
near the Association's headquarters.
At the same time as the Grand
Peace Jubiiee Pageant is ueaig held,
the Association holds its Quadren
nial Supreme Review to which 110
delegates hoid credentials.
This woman's society, the largest
in the - world, began its career very
modestly 27 years ago under the guid
ing hand of Miss Bina M. West, a
Michigan girl. She still ranks as its
two keys, which she hid among
some old files, and was breathlessly
arranging to hasten from th<- -pot to
the bank, when Bayne entered the
room, noticed the empty box and
guessed the truth.
She stood at bay as he confronted
her. She defied him as he threaten
ed and stormed. At last, flinging her
to a chair, he left the room, closing
and locking the barred door, and she
surmised that he planned to keep her
a prisoner until he returned with tools
to break open the safe.
The moment he was gone Rhoda
sprang into action. Her eyes flashed
with determination as she ran to a
chair, placed it directly in the center
of the room and crumpled up and
lighted a handful of newspapers,
mounted the chair, held the flames
beneath the tinv globe of mercury in
the ceiling, and knew that within a
very few minutes the fire department
given , the electric signal, would be
scanning the building to locate the
source of the same.
The main door was broken open and
the barred one forced free. To a po
lice officer Rhoda narrated her story.
Somehow, guessing the truth, prob
ably, Bayne must have fled. A tele
gram secured his accomplice and the
fifty thousand dollars at Booneville,
and the man confessed the truth, cor
roborating Rhoda's accusation.
"You jewel of courage and loyalty!"
commended Merle Waldron when he
returned, and a little ilater, so con
vinced was he that he had found a
treasure in the bright, intelligent girl
who had saved him his fortune, that
he asked her tb share it and his love.
No Novelty.
"How did you lind the feller that
runs the Busy Bee store?" inquired an
acquaintance.
"I just rummaged around till I un
earthed him," replied a citizen of
Sandy Mush, Ark., who had been shop
ping in Tumlinville.
"Yes, but I heerd that he was in
mighty, bad health?"
"Mebby so. He may have been puny,
hut I didn't notice it. I found him
asleep in the back room setting on a
keg, and when I asked him if he had
any axle grease he 'lowed he had, but
wanted to know if I couldn't just as
well come around later, when he'd
proMy be standing up. Nope, I didn't
see anything peculiar about him. —-
Kansas City Star.
\
One at a Time.
We attended a country wedding and
at the conclusion of the ceremony
were astonished to see the bride start
on the honeymoon alone. When asked
the reason the bridegroom explained
that both couldn't he away at the
same time as there would be no one
to feed the stock and he would take
his trip down the river shooting ducks
when the bride came back. —Chicago
Tribune.
leader with the title of Supreme Com
mander. Today 212,000 women are en
rolled in the Association and It rdbks
strongest among all the fraternal x>*
cieties in America for women.
Miss Frances D. Partridge, the Su
preme Record Keeper is devoting -h® r
life to the work, and ranks with, the
leading women actuaries of the conti
nent In her custody repose Invest
ments of over twelve million dollars,
earning interest of over half a million
yearly.
One of the leading progressives in
this organization and a woman who
shares with Miss West the distinction
of having been with the Association
since its inception is Miss Nellie E.
Lounsbury, of Warren, Pennsylvania.
For a number of years she has been
a member of the board of trustees and
has gained for herself an enviable'
reputation throughout the country as
a business executive. Miss Louns
bury is attending the Grand Peace
Jubilee this week accompanied by the
delegates from her district.
URGE SENATE Tb
HASTEN PEACE
Leaders in Forty Staies, Re
gardless of Party. Sign
Ringing Appeal.
PACT WITHOUT AMENDMENT
Say Every Day of Delay Puts
World in imminent Peril of
New War —Point to
National Unrest
New York (Special.)— Two hundred ,
and fifty leading Americans, Repub
licans and Democrats representing for
ty different states and every prominent
activity have joined in a non-partisan
effort to bring about the ratification
of the Peace Treaty "without amend
ment and without delay." Their names
are attached to an address to the
United States senate, which was made
public today, through the League to
Enforce Peace, after it had been sent
to every member of the senate.
The signers, almost without excep
tion. are men and women of national
reputation. They include such promi
nent citizens as ex-President Taft,
George W. Wickersham, Attorney Gen
eral in the last Republican administra
tion; A. Lawrence Lowell, president of
Harvard; Charles C. Moore of San
Francisco, president of the Panama
Exposition; Judge George Gray of Wil
mington, Del.; President Samuel Gom
pers of the American Federation of
Labor, Harry A. Wheeler of C u?ago,
retiring president of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States; Mrs.
Ca.rrie i Chapman Catt, president of the
National American Woman Suffrage
Association; Cyrus H. K. Curtis, the
Philadelphia publisher: President He
ber J. Grant of the Mormon Church,
and Spargo, leader of the Socialists
who supported the war..
The signers declare that every day
of delay in ratifying the treaty puts
the world in "imminent peril of new
war."
Their statement follows:
In the senate at Washington, now
that the committee on foreign rela
tions has reported the treaty, the lines
are sharply drawn between the imme
diate ratification of the treaty of peace
with Germany, and its amendment with
a reassembling of the conference and
a reopening of negotiations that, would
bring great delay and prolong un
certainty in settling the great issues of
the peace. No partisan plea can be
made. Party lines are already broken.
Standing at a distance from the
conflict in the senate chamber, w*>
plead for immediate ratification with
out delay. Our land requires it. A
state of nervous strain, tension and
unrest exists, manifests itself in dis
turbances, which in some cases have
. no self evident connection with the
war, but which are, in fact, its after
math. The world is put in imminent
peril of new wars by the lapse of each
day. Dissensions between us and our
former allies are being sown. We
firmly believe and solemnly declare
that the states and cities in which we
dwell desire immediate peace.
The waging of war steadied and"
united the American people. Peace
will bring prosperity, and prosperity
content. Delay in the senate postpon
ing ratification in this uncertain period
of neither peac*e nor war has resulted
in indecision and doubt, bred strife and
quickened the cupidity of those who
sell the daily necessities of life and
the fears of those whose daily wage
no longer fills the daily market basket.
We beseefch the senate to give the
land peace and certainty by a ratifica
tion which will not keep us longer in
the shadows of possible w r ars. but give
the whole world the light of peace.
Reservations in the nature of clarifi
cations in the meaning of the treaty,
not Inconsistent with its terms, will
not require the reopening 'of the ne
gotiations with Germany and with our
associates ,in the war,) which we all
and each united to win.
But there is no possibility of doubt
that amendment of the treaty, as is
now proposed in the Senate Commit
tee on Foreign Relations, would re
quire negotiation and a reopening of
all the questions decided at Paris.
Mouths of delay would follow. The
perils of the present would become
the deadly dangers of the near future.
All the doubt engendered would aid
the plots for violent revolution in this
and other lands. The issues here and
elsewhere between capital and labor,
th® conspiracy of speculator and prof
iteer. would all grow and become more
perilous.
This cannot be. The American peo
ple cannot, after a victorious war,
permit its government to petition Ger
many, which has accepted the treaty,
for its consent to changes in the trea
ty. Yet if the United States sheuld
amend the treaty for its own purpose
and policy, Germany would have full
right to ask for concessions. Ger
many has agreed to make no claim in
regard to enemy property seized in
this country to an amount of sevep
hundred million, dollars. Our recent
foe could ask for a reopening of this
issue and of the Lusitania claims. It
could raise every question open be
fore hostilities in regard to submarine
and the treatment of its na
tionals in this country. All the pro
visions for our trade in Germany
raised by the economic clauses of the
treaty, many of them vital to our in
dustries and our farms, as in Sye
patents, dye supplies and fertilizers,
the working af the Reparation Com
mission, which superintends the
trade of all with Germany, could all
be brought up by Berlin for readjust
ment by our negotiators, acting for
the United States alone and no longer
associated with other victorious pow
ers or supported by a victorious
American army on the German border.
Peace itself, the peace of the world,
is delayed until ratification comes.
And any amendment postpones peace.
Germany and England alone of the
principal powers have ratified. The
other principals necessarily await our
action, influential and powerful as we
are today in the world's affairs. The
ravages of war on more than a score
of fighting fronts are continued by
any needless delay. Let the senate
give the world peace by ratification
without amendment.
Ever, the amendment for which most
can be said, the provision in regard to
Shantung, will secure nothing which
cannot be gained if China, backed by
the powerful advocacy of the United
States, addresses itself to the machin
ery for righting international wrongs
and meeting just claifns created by
the league nations. China,
after eighty years of oppressive trea
ties and despoiled rights, by which all
the great powers have profited direct
ly or indirectly, has for the first time,
in this covenant and treaty, the means
and method to secure justice and the
removal of the oppressive economic in
terference of stronger nations whose
citizens are within her gates, protect
ed by a long succession of interna
tional agreements. Moreover, it should
be remembered that the clause regard
ing Shantung was made upon the state
ment by Japan that she will return the
territory to China and, therefore, upon
that condition, compliance with which
promise the league can require.
The peace of the present and the
lighter" .nesr? of the future can he hp -t
! secured by the ratification o* th" COY -
| nant and treaty without amendment
Let the somite take no action thst will
i give any party to the treaty, and e. :>e
cinlly Germany, ground for maintain
ing that the ratification of the Un :t ' 1
Stat? s is not complete a™d that • -
es requiring a resumption i f on r
? encr and negotiations have been ma "a
| in it.
Among the signers in Pennsylra
; ma, Ohio, and West Virginia, arc:
Pennsylvania.
Geo'/re Burn ham. Jr.. President Civil
STvica R form Association. >
R. I T . Conwell, President Temple Uni
versity.
! Cyrus H K. Curt;,-. Publisher.
| F.v Tuel Harden Church, President of
""-»rd Carnegie Institute,
jA. v . rqnhar, President A. B. Farqu
har Company.
| I 3 ;-."""'.ol Feis\ Manufacturer.
William Fiinn, Financier.
Richard Gilbert, Secretary-Treasurer
Miners' State Union.
Vance C. McCormick, Chairman War
Trade Board.
Benjamin Thaw, Financier.
: John A. Voll, President Glass
Blowers' Association.
Ohio. "
James M. Cox, Governor.
John P. Prey, Editor Intern
Molders' Journal.
W. G. Lee, President Brotherhood Rail
way Trainmen.
Timothy Shea, Acting President Broth
erhood Locomotive Firemen and En
ginemen.
L. E. Shepard, President. Order ol
Railway Conductors.
Warren S. Stone, Grand Chief Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers.
W. O. Thompson President Ohio State
University.
Charles P. Thwing, President Western
Reserve University.
Joseph F. Valentine, President Inter
national Molders' Union of North
America.
West Virginia.
John J. Cornwall, Governor.
Muscular Music.
"Thank goodness, now the Hun has
shown himself in his true colors, our
ears are no longer shattered with the
noisy music of Richard Strauss."
The speaker was Handel Booth, sec
retary of the Denver Philharmonic so
ciety.
"I know a chap,'' he went on, "who
said to his music teacher:
" 'Professor, I'd like to take up the
study of Strauss with you. What will
it cost?'
" 'Dot, mein friendt,' said the old
professor, 'vill depend on how many
times der piano will have to be re
built' "
Business Women Federating.
The first national convention of busi
ness women of America will be held in
St. Louis, Mo.. July 14. One of the Im
portant subjects to be discussed is
housing for business worsen. This coi>
ventlon is a step toward the federation
of business women. Behind the move
ment If a national committee of keen
business and professional women, rep
resenting every section of the country,
with headquarters at 600 Lexington
avenue, New York city. Lena Madesin
Phillips is the executive secretary of
the federation.
No Escape.
"Good morning, Mrs. Jagsby. We
are peace delegates."
"Peace delegates?"
"Tessum. We were sent by Mr.
Jagsby, who was unable to get home
last night. He wants us to arrange
the asmistice terms and settle on the
size of the Indemnity he owes you."
"Umph! You tell Mr. Jagsby if he
dosn't show up here in the next hour
111 come and get him. He's not in
Holland." —Birmingham Age-Herald.
COAST TO COAST
U. S. FOR LEAGUE
MILLIONS ACCLAIM WILSON AS
HE SPEEDS ACROSS
THE LAND.
FEW ASK FOR CHANGES
Majority Feel That President's Guid
ance Should Be Held—He Regards
Pact As Sure to Come Soon.
(By Mt. Clemens News Bureau)
Aboard President Wilson's Special
Train —From the Capital t at Washing
ton to the far Pacific coast the Presi
dent of the United States has jour
neyed on the most unusual expedition
ever undertaken by a chief executive
of the nation.
To discuss national questions, many
presidents have toured the land; but
Mr. Wilson is laying before America
a question which affects the whole
world —the question of whether or not
we are to join in the League of Na
tions; whether we are to forget our
former isolation and share with the
other peoples of the earth the respon*
sibilities of maintaining civilization
and preventing, as he says we can do,
future warfare.
Between the capital and the coast
the president made fifteen speeches
and half a dozen brief talks. All of
100,000 fellow citizens listened to him.
Several millions had the chance to see
him, and apparently everyone wanted
to see him, from those who thronged
the streets of the cities and towns
where he stopped, to those who came
to the railside or stood at little flag
stations in remote places, knowing
their only reward could he a fleeting
glimpse and a wave of the hand.
He has met and .talked to all types
uf citizens—to men big in the bust*
ness, financial nnd professional worlds,
to farmers and iueehani9al workers,
to Indians and cowboys and foreigu
born herders and rangers, to soldiers
and to mothers who lost soldier-sons
in the latf war.
What do they all tell him? unani
mously they say they want peace
definitely settled, they want no more
wars, they want the League of Na
tions, and most of the American peo>
pie, it may be fairly said, tell the
President they want the League just
as it is, without the reservations or
amendments which certain senators
have insisted upon. The majority ot
citizens say to those who interview
them on this tour:
"Woodrow Wilson guided us rightly
before and during the war with Ger-i
many. We entered that war, every*
one agrees, to end* all wars. He Says
the league can do that. We want to
do that, so let us keep on trusting him
and get the league into operation aa
soon as possible. Forget politics."
Most Americans encountered on the
tour have forgotten politics. Repub
lican Governors and Mayors have in
troduced the President to his audi
ence; the Major part of the local com
mittees which have met him have
{>een Republicans. They have all said:
"We are nothing but Americans, Mr.
President."
Mr. Wilson's arguments for the
league, briefly summarized, are those:
There can be no peace, either now
or in the future, without it. There
can only be a regrouping of nations
and a new "Balance of Power," which
is certain to lead to war. There can,
be no war in the future, with the
league in existence, because no single
nation would defy tfie united rest of
mankind, and if it did, it could be
brought to terms by' an economic
boycott, and without the use of arms.,
There can be no reduction in th®
cost of living until the league is es
tablished, for nations will not go
ahead with peace time production uiu
til they know that peace is definitely
assured and that production of war
material is no longer necessary.
There can be, wonderful prosperity,
the league in existence, for rel
ations of labor and capital all over
the world will be made closer and
more friendly, and the worker will re
ceive a fairer share of what he pro
duces.
These declaration of the president,
logically and eloquently put, have left
his hearers thinking and thinking
deeply. And then Mr? Wilson ha»
pointed out, the people themselves, as
differentiated from senators and politi
cians, seem to want just what the»
president wants, which is America for
leadership.
Quite as unusual as the purpose of
the cross country tour is the manner
In which it is being carried out and
the completeness 'of the arrange
ments on the nine car train which if
bearing the party.
At the rear is the private car May
flower, occupied by the President and
Mrs. Wilson. Next is a compartment
car for the secretary Tumulty, Ad
miral Grayson, Mr. Wilson's Physi
cian, four stenographers, the chief
executive clerk and seven secret ser
vice men. Byond are three compart
ment cars which house twenty-one
correspondents, five movie men, and
a telegraphic and a railroad expert-
Then there is a dinner, a club car, and
two baggage cars, one of them con
verted into a business office. The
train was exactly on timf at every
stop between Washington and the
Coast.