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Mr. Johnson Keeps Them All
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Guessing as He Goes Out
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to War on Liquor. ;
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By ROBERT WELLES RITCHIE,
Universal Service Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Aug. 23.—1 f it is a dis
tinction for one mere American to
have thrown a scare into all of Great
Britain, then surely some on is due
to advance to the front 'and center
and pin a medal on the expansive
chest of one William E.—so-called
Pussyfoot — Johnson, temperance
worker and representative in Britain
of the Anti-Saloon League back
home, {
For ' Pussyfoot Johnson has done
that litfle thing; he has the back hair
of every honest drinker in these isles
rearing up on end through fear that
by some magic he alone and unaided
is 'going to snatch the cheering cup
from British lips. And do that in
iquitous thing right speedily, too!
The amusing feature of this little
tale, lads, is that Friend Pussyfoot
hadn’t done a thing to merit all this
bogey-man stuff except to saw wood
and say nothing. Only he had the
misfortune to be discovered— to be
discovered sawing wood and saying
nothing.
MUCKRAKER STARTS WHEEZE.
This week the Daily Mail sent out
an enterprising survival of the muck
raking age of fifteen years ago to
write a series of scarey stories
about how American prohibition
spellbinders already were secretly
at work. to convert the British Isles
to the present aarched condition that
inhabitants of the 1. 8. A. are enjoy
ing. This belated muckraker was an
industrious soul; he went at his job
hard, and the very second person he
picked on was Pussyfoot Johnson.
What he said*-to the extent of
a close-packed column in the Daily
Mail—about the insidious methods of
this same ° Mr. Johnson, how he
moved into an area of wetness, pussy
fotted around for a spell and suddeniy
made that area dry as a dog biscuit,
was ipdeed a crime. The late la
mented Guy Fawkes, who once, many
years ago, plotted to blow up the
House of Parliament and all who
happened to be thm‘ei{: at the time,
was a babe in arms in comparison
with the picture this Daily Mail man
drew of Mr. Pussyfoot Johnson. He
was a ravening fanatic with the as
tuteness of a Cachiavelli, jwas this
American propagandist; he worked in
the dark; he snatched honest liquor
from honegt men‘s lips without their
seeing the hand that did the trick.
The ‘day after the Daily “Mail's
broadside appeared Mr. Johnson had
the bad judgment to go to Finland.
Why Finland, nobody knows. He
might have chosen Kansas City of
Timbuctoa. The smooth tongued aides
he left behind him said he'd gone to
Finland in answer to an urgent call
from “influential people” in that dis
tant land; they did not know just
when he’d return.
This was a tactical blunder on the
part. of Mr. Johnson—perhaps. The
Daily Mail exu'ted that it had
“smoked him out.* Publicity, it de
clated was bad for Mr. Johnson's
buginess. Therefore, having received
the big bawl-out, Pussyfoot had been
forced to fice. |
PLAYING A DEEP GAME.
But perhaps—just perhaps, dear
reader—Mr. Johnson of Kansas, or
wherever he hails from originally,
‘was playing a deeper game than the
Daily Mail wotted when he ducked
for Linland after the “exposure.” It
is barely possible he believed that
by playing up to the part attributed
to him, by sustaining his reputation
as a “pussyfoot,” he could the better
uphold that very reputation as a
worker in the dark which the London
paper had fixed upon him,
However, the scare was abroad in
London. ‘
Other papers began to inquire into
the mysterious menace exercised by
this mild-mannered gentleman with
glasses and an embonpoint. The Eve
ning News took up the ery and sent
out @ young man to interview “a
prominent American engineer at
present in London."” The News repre
sentative must have found this
“prominent American engineer” in the
Savoy bar, for his gloomy predictions
ag to what Pussyfoot Johnson would |
do to the well known Demon over
here had the prophesies of Jeremiah,
of Holy Writ, looking like a real
estater's prospectus,
PUSSY OVERTURNS TIPPLE.
Then the Evening News followed
up with a cartoon by Poy—the king
pin of the pencil boys over here—on
the front page. It represented a Kitty
wearing a Methodistical tie and silk
hat tipping over the “mug of bitter”
of the honeet British worker while he
was engrossed in his newspaper, and
it whs entitled “Pussyfoot.”
Perhaps ,in the first analysis, the
joke is on the correspondent of Uni
versal Service, whose office is one
floor. above that of Pussyfoot John
gon. The correspondent had ridden in
the so-called “lift" with Mr. Johnson,
had talked with Mr. Johnson, knew
he was some sort of a prohibitionist
person—and let it go at that. So the
correspondent had a “beat” pulled off
under his very nose,
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His Love Pat Cosls
George a Five Spot
(By International News Service.)
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Mamue Stickfort, his fiancee. Foley told
the judge it was only o lover's “pat
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One of Group of 500 Caroline
Islands May Become U. S.
Coaling Station.
In view of all the agitation stirred
Lp by the navy department over the
division of the formerly German Car.
oline Islands.in the Pacific, it bex!nl‘
to look as if the United States is go
ing to get something tangible out of
the war at that—namely, the hitherto
fttle known island of Yap.
Yap is one of the group of 500 or so
tiny islands making up the Carolines,
and before the war was used by the
German administrator :s the govern
ing center. The island is important
to the United States because of its
vla!ue as a wireless and coaling sta
tion.
Ordinary laymen can be excused for
pleading ignorance to the locality of
Yap when President Wilson himself
admgted to the Senators comprising
the Foreign Relations Committee that
he had never hearc of it until he re
turned from Paris and the navy de
partment wanted to know who was
going to get Yap. Up until that tlme‘
either Britain or Japan was going to
get it, but now it appears that the
Stars and Stripes may shortly be
hoisted there.
After the war with Spain it was
thought that the Caroline Islands
wculd be acquired by this country
along with the Philippines. How
ever, the deal did not materialize,
and in 15899 the group was bought by
Germany for approximately §12,-
000,000, ‘
* HAD IRISH KING.
Some years later an American
woman placed a valuation of $9,500,-
000 on Yap alone, claiming it as part
of her husband's estate, Her hus-‘
band, one David O'Keefe, an itinerant |
irishman, had heen blown up on the
little island in a gale back in the sev
enties and—
“The natives there liked his hair,
Ttey liked his Irish smile,
So they crowned him King Paajau's
drum,
The nabob of thom all—"
For thirty years O'Keefe ruled Yap.‘
and upon his death the attorney gen.
eral of the United States ruled that
the island was the property of tho
widow, There was some talk of send
ing a warship there to take posses
sion, but it was never done. |
The Caroline Islands have for many
senrs been a matter of much research
and scientific discussion. For on
many -6f the islands are massive
stone ruins, Indicating that at one
time a people of high civilization oc
cupied them. |
FIVE-TON COINS FOUND,
Numerous other evidences of the
efvilization that onee flourished there
have been found on “the Island of
Yap itself. These include coins made
of stone, some of which have been
found to weigh five tons,
On Yap are great stone terraces,
embankments and roads of neatly
laid stone blocks, stone graves, stone
platforms and enormous chambers
recembling counell lodges with gables
and tall pillars, frequently carved,
The island is surrounded by a eoral
reef thirty-five miles long by five
broad. Copra has been exported for
vears. It has an excellent harbor In
Toemil, which undoubtedly will In the
future be used by American battle
ships,
The Caroline Islands are ahout 1100
miles east of the Phillppines and
1,000 miles north of New Guinea,
FEven Canines Feel
.
High Cost of Living
CHICAGO, Aug, 30,014 Man High Cost
hns stepped on the tall of the Chicago
bowwow, There In a serious shortage of
hones
No longer does little Willie pick up al
the stray canines to be fed from the rieh
leavings from the family table
“No, indeed,” siys ma, “We need all
the seraps for hash!" And so the poor
dogglie has none
About 10,000 fewer dog licenses were |»-
‘sued last year than in the preceding yoa
Ba Old Dog Tfl{ will beecame ns extinet
as the deodo If old man High Cost keeps
D Mis auerry pace,
HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN — A Newspaper for People Who Think — SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1919,
Yip! Yap! Yap!
Oh, the Island of Yap is the home of the chap
Who is sick of the high cost of clothing;
On that fortunate isle they go clad in a smile,
And they look on a collar with loathing.
When the folks take a dip they look very kip
In the one-piece attire they were born in,
And a necklace of shells suffices the belles
When a social affair they would horn in.
Yes, life is a snap on the Island of Yap,
Where no one is out profiteering—
They couldn't, at that, for a citizen’s flat
Is the shade of a palm in a clearing;
And the boosting of food is by Nature taboo'd,
For she treats all the Yappers as boarders;
With a fish and a yam, not a soul gives a ——clam
For gougers or packers or hoarders.
Oh, would we could flap to the Island of Yap,
For the way we live here is a dub way,
And, once over there, what the deuce would we care
For Hedley or Shonts or their subway?
We'd find no intrigue in the talk of a league,
Lying under the cocoanuts, napping—
Free eats and no rent, and for clothes not a cent—
No wonder the isle has us yapping!
. (By Universal Service.)
LONDON, Aug. 30.—Doughboys
over here are already training for the
ordeal of a dry America.
They are all going home shortly
and their first tho‘ufgr‘us of a New
York or Chicago, or even Saginaw,
Mich,, with no Manhattans or Bronx
cocktails, minus gin fizzes and Scotch
and Bourbon highballs were none too
rosy, and loud were the lamentations
sent up over the edict of prohibition
passed without their 'consent. But
now they have become philosophical
about it and have made up their
minds to face the dry musio of the
States as they faced the boom of the
German guns on the Champagne
front. And speaking of Champagne—
They are training on American ice
cream sodas and sundaes, There are
a few places in london where one
can get a tolerable substitute for the
home grown variety of ice cream and
they are doing a land office business
these days, ‘
| NOT SAME AS HOME, ‘
It isn't the same as back home by
any means, but it's the best that can
be obtained and fills the bill. The
ice cream may be filled with chunxs
of ice and the flavor taste like noth
ing on earth; but what does one c-urc‘
for little details like. that? The!
doughboys are kidding themselves
that it's all the same and are enjoy
ing themselves,
| One of the rare warm days London
‘has enjoyed this summer found :A‘
‘score of doughboys and jackies head
ed for a drug store on the Strand |
'which exhibited the magic slgn:‘
“American Ice Cream Here” They
found the attendant to be an Ameri
enn and immediately took possession
of the fountain, With his limited
supplies they concocted for them
wolves strawberry sodas, sundaes and
frappes, vanilla, pineapple, lemon and
‘nmuw- jces--in faet, they went
through the whole menu of the little
iull' jce cream parlor,
| FAMILIAR FIZZING NOISES,
| 'One of the Yankees inquired dubl
ously |f v real honest-to-goodness
strawberry sundae was avalluble, The
bartender said nothing, but bent
down, handled mysterious gpoons,
produced weird fizzing nolses from
his fountain and filled tall glasses,
The doughboys smiled happlly. They
knew those noises and were content,
L “It's the real goods, son” sald a
lanky Kentuckian, who confessed
that before he came over he never
missed his “shot o bourbon, no suh!”
every day. “I'm converted. It's the
wagon for me from now on, but it's
been a terrible hard job. I've been
guilty, once or twice back home, of
‘frequentln' fce cream stores, and the
sight of those long straws and icy
}gluses just takes me right back.”
. He crossed over to the counter and
‘found another shilling, which ig two
bits in real money. “Hand me an
other peach sundae with lots of nuts
ion top,” said he,
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John C. Kramer Must Serve but
Four Months More of
99-Year Term.
ELMIRA, N, Y., Aug. 30.—Action
taken by . Secretary of War Baker's
military clemency board saved John
C. Kramer of this city teday from
serving his ninety-nine year term in
Fort lL.eavenworth, the record sen
tence imposed by a United States
army court-martial during the war,
This became known when Sergeant
Major Adolph Il.oeb of Fort Leaven
worth arrived here to take Kramer
back to the military penal institu
tion, following his surrender to the
civil authorities here by the local
restaurant proprietor in whose cus
tody he had been paroled.
The clemency board cut ninety
seven and a half years off the ninety
nine year term originally given the
Elmira man. As Kramer had served
fourteen months when he was pa
roled, he will be required to remain
at Leavenworth only four months
longer, should he be found not to
have violated his parole,
Kramer's sentence of ninety-nine
years was the only instance of its
kind to reach the attention of the
FFort leavenworth authorities. For
serious military offenses the sen
tence is usually for life, which
means that the prisoner is at once
sent to a federal prison, where his
chances of parole are slim.
Because Kramer's sentence read
for a specific number of vears it was
possible to keep him at the discipli
nary barracks during the war., Kra
mer was accused of writing a letter
to his sister while he was in the
service expressing disloyalty and hop
ing for the success of the Germans.
ramer claimed that he did not write
the letter, but that his name was
signed to it by his brother-in-law.
Recently Kramer was paroled in
the custody of Elijah Lazarus .here,
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and—
The ¢ Atlanta National Bank |
Consider these figures: :
N Atlanta’s Clearings 1893: $§ 60,753911.13
ZEEN 3 Atlanta’s Clearings 1918: $2,528,485,083.69
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”:l;'.;v‘.;;f:?‘lq TR There’s rapid-pace growth of 4,200 per cent
N in 25 years,
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g MANUFACTURING helped to do it.
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%_':J'T!' AR us that Atlanta and vicinity, have—
I fT!L//I; More than 400 Manufacturing Plants.
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il Around 50.000 persons engaged in or dependent upon :
Au.;e‘.ifi:é.m Manufacturing, with an annual vayroll of $35,000,000,
About 750 different Manufactured Products that are :
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An annual output approximating $200,000,000. f,
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Resources Over $29,000,000.00
Practically Evervbodv in Atlanta Reads The (ieorsian
Newcastle ‘
Coal Is Now
$20,70 a Ton
. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30—
The tables have been turned on
| the old adage, “As futile as car
rying coals to Newcastle."
The export of coal from New
castle-on-Tyne, England, always
reputed to be one of the biggest
coal mining centers in the
world, and whose coal production
formed one of the foundations
of British export trade, has
ceased, according to advices to
the department of commmerce.
Coal is now &0 scarce in
Newcastle that the price on the
domestic market has risen to
$20.70 a ton. The shortage is
due to the strikes in the mines.
Newcastle would be glad to
buy outside coal now.
his paroie running to September 12.
Kramer was turned over to the civil
authorities charged with theft from
the restaurant keeper’'s cash register,
which charges he denied.
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Chemicals Lend
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Life to Beefsteak
WICHITA, Kan., Aug. 30.—A. E. Smoll,
a chemist with the J. B, Dold Packing
Co., here, is experimenting with a view to
reducing the high cost of living, His lat
eat experiment is with teefsteak,
By a process of dehydration—drawing
all the water out of the meat—the steak
i 8 in a good state of preservation and is
capable of being kept almost indefnitely.
When it is desired to bring the steak
back to a condition of freshness all that
is necessary, Mr. Smoll says, is to soak
it in water., The meat is sald never to
lose its odor of fresh meat and it is as
tough as sole leather when dehydrated.
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Divorced 34 Years;
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Couple Weds Again
SBT. LOUIS, Aug. 30.—Joseph Fortin of
this city and Mrs. Susan Baker of Phoe
nix, Ariz., obtained a marriage license at
Alton, after being diverced J 4 years. Ha
is 63 and Mrs, Baker §9,
They were divorced because they could
not agree. Fortin told the license clerk
that he had married again, that his second
wife had died, and Mrs, Baker had been
married twice, both her husbands being
dead.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30.—A bun
galow in the air!
A cozy, luxurious home, done in
early Spanish architecture, with a/
lawn, flower gardens, palm trvos,‘
etc.—and all of it 200 feet off the
ground, ‘
This is what Walter P. Story Is
having done in the heart of Los An
geles, for Story, wealthy clubman and
owner of the Story Building, 1s build
ing a home on the roof of that down
town skyscraper, Broadway at Sixth.
While thousands pass by beneath
the towering cornices of the office
building, carpenters, brick masons,
plumbers and other workmen are toil
ing 200 feet above the street on what
will be the most unique residence,
not only in Los Angeles, but west of
the Mississippi River.
BACHELOR APARTMENTS.
Story will call it his “Bachelor
Apartments,” but it {s as much a bun
galow atop the skyscraper roof as any
one of a thousand charming Califor
nia cottages dotting the city’'s resi
dence streets,
It is not a redwood bungalow, but
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artificial stone. A red tile roof will
top off the Spanish mission effect.
Inside it is being bullt with an eye to
the most modern designs, Circassian
walnut panel effects being carried
out in some rooms, with the oval ceil«
ing idea also involved, to a degree.
ROOF “LANDSCAPE.”
The “landscaping’” atop the roof will
come after the bungalow is complete,
Two feet or more of earth will be
carried twelve stories up and leveled
out on the roof for a lawn, flower
gardens, ete. There will be a con
crete walk to keep people “off ‘the
grass,” and a gardener will be em«
ployed to look after the lawn and
shrubbery just as if he were at work
out Wilshire way., So far as its be
ing a complete home, there will be no
difference In the ‘h‘ome on a house
top” from a residence on West Adams
street,
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