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Story That Saves Writers' Gray Matter CHICAGO, ILL.--Novelists certainly don't have to use up gray matter working their Imaginations overtime "when real-life experiences like this are bobbing up: It all began when somebody discovered that there were two Lieut. Arthur M. Kincalds on the records of the United States army. The right one was found first. The impostor was found in San Francisco enlisted as a private under the name of Theodore La Grand. He says he Isn't * spy and tells the following story: Bis name is Theodore Schude. He was born in Germany. In 1913 he came to America and for five months lived in Red Bank, N. J., working in a factory. He then returned to Germany to go to school, and when the war began joined the German army, la 1915 he was made a lieutenant for bravery in battlQ. In 191Q he was captured by the French, but escaped and made his way back to Ms own regiment, where he was put in the Intelligence section. In Brussels he had charge of all papers taken from captured or interned soldiers and came into possession of Klncald's discharge papers. In Berlin, after the armistice, he helped break up a meeting of socialists by shooting one of the speakers. When the radicals came into power he was sentenced to death. But he escaped and made hi* way to Holland. To avoid being sent back, he represented himself as Kincald. He became dangerously ill and the Holland authorities referred his case to the American Relief society, which sent him eventually to the base hospital at Fort Sheridan for treatment--as Kincald. Following his discharge with $1,000 in back pay Schude went to San Francisco, where he destroyed all evidence of his Identity with the exception of one photograph showing him in the uniform of a German lieutenant-- which betrayed him. Movement to Eliminate the Defective^ • Should Begin in the Schools. -. >" By ARTHUR WOODS, Former New York PoUe* Yes; Old H. C L. Has Got Diamonds Too K 'ANSAS CITY, MO.--Glum with despondency, a young man half a decade ago pawned a diamond solitaire at the Welfare Loan agency. He asked for a maximum loan, and receiving |B0, 'stuffed the bills absentmindedly Into his pocket as he turned to leave. There Is some significance attached to Ike pawning of a diamond solitaire by • long-faced youth, who displays no Interest In the £ash he receives for it. Perhaps Frank Nevin, appraiser, smiled, and perhaps he did not. He had seen many diamonds pawned in flve years. Regularly twice a year, the interest on the loan was paid. The appraiser end the doleful youth of 1916 became acquainted. Recently the debtor entered and declared his Intention to redeem the diamond. Nevin smiled ex- »pectantty as the $60 was counted out and banded to him. "It's a dickens of a life," said the visitor as he took the ring. "If I had $200 today I could make a fortune, but this is about all I own. I haven't ' been worth much for the last five years--had all the ambition knocked WELFARE LOAN A out of me then. If I had saved $200 I could clean up now. I have a real proposition. Instead of using it, I've got to sell this ring for whatever I can get and hit the road." "But, see here," called the appraiser, as the young man turned to leave, "anybody will give you morethan $200 for that stone now." "Sure, they wiH," Insisted Nevin. "Diamonds are worth five times as much now as when you bought that." "But, but " - The man of five years' sorrowing had dashed from the office without cum* pletlng his sentence. . The American girl athletes, who took part In the seventh Olympic games at Antwerp, nard#f before Albert. 'Little'Miss Wainwright, the thirteen-year-old swimmer. Is the last figure at left King BIRD CLUB HAS 700 BOARDERS Three Floors and Basement Needed to Accommodate the Feathered Pets. Qld Mother Nature b Not Always Genial CHESTERTON, IND.--It was Sunday night in the sand dunes of Indiana at the head of Lake Michigan, where an army of nature-lovers hopes to see established the Dunes National park. A thunder storm was raging over the sand hills. Lightning flared; thunder crashed; rain fell In torrents. In the house of the Prairie Club of Chicago some fifty members •at about the big open fire place. The atorm was fierce enough to make the men nervosa and fslghten some of the women. A few of the younger members of the club had taken refuge In an open tact it scant hundred feet to th$ rear |tC, the clubhouse. ^mong them was Edward Olmstead, son of Hawley Olmstead, who Is the secretary of the club. Inside the clubhouse, Mrs. Olmstead had become nervous as to her boy's safety. Olmstead decided to see If everything was right with the boy. Pulling on a heavy coat and rain hat, he stepped from the beachhouse into the storm. Mrs. Olmstead and a group of friends stood at the beachhouse windows and watched Olmstead's progress through the storm. The son watched from the door of the tent. Fifteen feet from the club Olmstead was struck by a bolt of lightning. For a full minute the crowd In the beach* house stared in horror and then a score of the men rushed to the scene. Mrs. Olmstead and the son were overcome. The body was carried to the house, where all efforts at resuscitation proved unsuccessfuL A litter was made and the dead man placed on it, then with six members of the club as r bearers the march to Chesterton, five miles away, through the roughest sec-, tlon of the dunes, began. the Busy Bee and Traffic Swarmed iENVER.--in this "Gateway to the 1IYRY NEW YORK HOUSE Wonderfully Accomplished Parrots and Cockatoos, Temperamental Canaries and Brilliant Blaekand - Yellow Tropioalt.. ) . 4 That Imitate Musical Instruments. Hew York.--Quite the most populous boarding house In New York city this summer is Virginia Pope's Bird club, at 130 West Sixty-fifth street. They counted up to the 700th bird that had arrived the other day, and then It took so much time to serve bird ^ed, meal worms, boiled eggs and baked apples for the little guests that they stopped counting, and no one knows how many birds there are now --three floors and a basement of them, including a bird comic opera troupe. It Is a very chatty place, this bird dub, and when a reporter dropped In a gay «volce said "Hello!" cheerfully and then began In a clear voice to sing: Yankee Doodle came to town riding on a pony, Stuck a feather in his hat and called it Macaroni. The nonchalant reception of a guest was in keeping with the character of the singer, who la one of the aristocrats of the club. He is a Mexican yellow head parrot, a wonderful bird, one in 10,000,' worth many thousands of dollars; there have never been a dozen so valuable In the country, and his mistress would not take any price for him. Polly is patriotic in his musical selections; he sings "Marching Through Georgia" and shouts "Vive la France," and if you knew his mistress you would know where he learned the sentiments, for he speaks ex actly in her voice. Polly also knows his primer and if he happens <to be In a showing-off mood he will ask "Can you spell cat? I can spell cat-- c-a-t, cat." He will do the same with the word dog and wind up with: "What does the canary do?" and with twitter and trills he will show how the canary sings. An Acrobatic Cockatoo. But the talented Mexican is not the greatest bird socially In the club if he la worth In cold cash, at least $5,000. There is a big white Malacca cockatoo, "Coco," with a rose-tinted crest, who is in the $1,000 class and who trots around the floor, does a side tracking dance when In a frisky mood, and nips at visitors' feet and really does the honors of the place. If 'a visitor puts an inviting hand down to him he is likely to take a bite in earnest, though he rubs his head gently against Miss Pope when she appears, nips her ears and fingers, but ever so gently. He is a conceited creature and poses for admiration openly. He does gymnastic stunts on a chair, and to attract your attention and show you how he does it he calls "Hello" now and again in a voice that Is astonishingly human. He can converse fluently in both French and Spanish. While the club has its greatest number of visitors in summer. It is an allthe- year-round affair and takes in not only boarders, but hospital patients, birds that have bad manners, and others for one reason or another. Miss Virginia Pope was the first woman to put the bird club and hospital on the map. She has a wonderful fondness for the little creatures, birds having been her favorite pets from the time she was a little girl, and she has remarkable control over them and they seem to h&ve absolute confidence In her. When she has taken in a sick bird that needs constant care and warmth she has been known to take it to bed with her and with it lying up close to her throat she has cared for it all night, ready to attend to its slightest need. Birds Are Temperamental. "Give the birds something to amuse them," says Miss Pope, "especially the parrots; clothes pins, a buckle with a strap, a key on a ring, or a little bell, and one parrot has been known to go to sleep with a little china doll in its claw, like a child. Toys keep them from pulling out their plumage. "Birds are very temperamental. I had one canary that I could n^>t persuade to take a bath. It fluttered its wings and appeared very angry and unhappy every time the bath was brought until one day bjp chance I brought the water In a very gay-colored little dish. I was surprised to see it hop down to it quickly and there was never again trouble with that little bird's baths. The little tramp, as I had called it, became a clean little gentleman." Birds go to the club sometimes to learn good table manners. Some of them are very naughty about scattering seed out of the dishes onto the floor. It la a bad habit which can be We have been very amateurish in our handling of the question of criminal defectives. Prevention, of course, is the great aim. We do aot want to wait until a crime has been committed before we do any-* thing aboit the feeble-minded offender. It is only fair to the individuals affected, as well as to the public, that examination should be made vety generally and that the proper kind of treatment should be given to those who are suffering from mental diseases. We recognize this in bodily diseases, yet in niany they are nothing like so dangerous Vo the community as these mental troubles. Many a child who is slightly deranged may In growing up become eteadily worse because df unfavorable associations lack of skilled treatment. I believe it is possible to redeiem a considerable proportion of defective children if their cases are diagnosed early and if they are given kind and skillful treatment. There is no duty that I can think of which is more obligatory upon a community than to give children a fair chance--the children who particularly need help in order to o/err come the handicap of Cental deficiency whicji may bring to them late? such terrible results. ' The beginning of a movement to eliminate the defective from our midst should start in the schools. Examinations should be mads and children who are dull, stupid and unpromising, but as yet not criminals* should be separated and treated. If it is found that after kind and prolonged treatment the child cannot be made normal Ik should be put per| manently in an institution. |- • : ?"• £> ' '• . ' •• W • • 4", '^Workmen Don't Want Philanthropy; They Want a Fair Deal All Around^ , wr broken. Parrots sometimes have not! the bath habit because in their native climates there are heavy dews and they are not accustomed to the baths taken by smaller birds. A, spray bath with an atomizer or plant sprayer twice a week keeps them clean and happy. Birds are subject to all sorts of ills which affect human beings. They have indigestion if th^y have poor seed; they are sure to get rheumatism if their perches are left damp, they have a variety of typhoid fever, and it is bad for any of them to hang in drafts or out of doors, and they may have different affections of the lungs. Very ill birds are sometimes given a I Turkish bath by being fastened to. a hot-water bag and a cloth placed ovei | them to Induce perspiration. From Canaries to Crows. Canaries, of course, predominate In L . Ai_ » a a numbers in the clubhouse, but then I because they had earned it, because I promised it to them. I didn t really are birds of all kinds, including the I give it away, at that. We're all working together. We all did pretty5 various-talented parrots. Aside from those already mentioned, Polly Shapard talks and also sings "Yankee Doodle." There is a Panama parrot whose accomplishment is singing "Tipperary"; on6 parrot crows like a cock, and of two others, mates, Polly and Abe, one whistles the "Merry Widow Waltz," and the other dances ihe waltz on his perch. ,• There Is a big black crow who used to speak German, but cannot now be By W. H. TODD, President Todd Ship Yards Corporation. No! I gave that million to the boys because it was coming to them* good work for the last four years and I simply .was giving the gang I work with a split on what was made. Four years ago I gave each ot ovc^ men a chance to put down his name for a piece of stock. | Loyalty 6f labor? You can't buy that with a million times a mil-* lion. Incentive to increased efficiency? There's not a big man in our outfit who was not lifted out of the ranks by hit own effort. Philanthropy ? Workmen don't want philanthropy. They want a {kit deal aU around. Maybe there's a lade of oommon sense in high places. There's a lob induced to say a word in the lan-1 in both sides understanding each other. It seems to me the present difiM ?eUdagbili8Lhale big"^^^* <S£ ^ is due to ^ much Propaganda and too little hard work. ' | nut shells for nests, and very cunning | What makes an American workman sick is the chap who gets in if hole of his own making, then runs to the workmen, throws his arms around them, and begs them to help him out. On the other hand^there'a the workman who says he can't work longer than six hours k day, and when he gets six hours complains that six hours' pay isn't enough to live on. Why doesn't he work longer, then? I'm working more hours a day now than I ever did. « > Iri, ed for twenty minutes at Seventeenth •nd Champa streets by a swarm of visiting honey bees which undecidedly circled about the street for several minutes before landing in and around * small roadster owned by Wells Little- Held, manager of the Llctlefield Rubber company of 1539 Broadway. Excited automobilist8 were bewildered as traffic became blocked. Many persons believed that another tramway riot was In progress, while pedestrians did not know what to do as they fought their way through the •warm of bees which held up the traffic. Capt Barnard Cummlngs, formerly With the air service of the United ptates army, now a cattle rancher at Craig, Colo., and M. P. Llpps, a postoffice employee, living at 2340 South ^roadway, finally solved the problem. Captain Cummins hurried to a nearby <ptore and secured two boxes. A temporary bee hive was constructed and Captain Cummins and Mr. Llpps pro- 4 <>*2 •* .? . „ - -• /T4 ' Waging War on Rats of Galveston ceeded to pick up the bees with their hands. Placing the bees Into the box a handful at a time, the "queen bee" of the raiders was finally captured and placed In the hive. The bees then commenced to swarm off the roadster and buzzed about their new heme. Llpps was stung nearly a score of times before he obtained the confidence of the bees. Patrolman Leon Ballegeer made no attempt to fight off the bees and within a few minutes had the traffic moving and back to normal again. Llpps said he was going to take the bees home with him. pdds and Ends--And Out of the Ordinary OUIBVILLE, KY.--By being born, i young Miss Bartlett was enabled 1 P , v ;o present her mother and herself with | ' J 52.000.000 and to settle a bitter court ,!.r, jlght. C. P. Moorman, wealthy brewer, *eft S will such as fiction writers invent. It provided that the $2,000,000 /-.^estate was to go to charity it, his •' . •granddaughter did not give birth to a ' "' ,-Child before she was 25 years old. The ^ .. 11 also provided a life annuity And ,000 In cash for the granddaugb- ;er. The heiress was not satisfied, but Jwas prevented at the time from suing to break the will by another stlpulawhich automatically eliminated I any contesting beneficiary. The young | heiress was married to Lieut. Philip Farnsworth Bartlett after a war romance. The baby was born In Silver City, N. M. NEW YORK.--A "sugar bowl" riot broke out among 1,750 immigrants in the Ellis Island dining-room when, for the first time since the war, sugar, substituted for molasses to sweeten coffee, was put on the tables. Several aliens were removed to hospitals, one with three fraetured ribs. Some of the hundreds had not seen sugar since the first months of the war. BARTLETT, TEXAS.--Texas has a hero in the person of Roy t&nnedy, 11. And, due to Roy's courage, quick thinking and red sweater, more than 200 passengers on a Missouri, Kansas ft Texas train were snatched from almost certain death from a washout. He brought the train to a stop Jusi seven feet from the washout. The grateful^ passengers presented him with a purse of about $5,000, and he has another thousand coming from the railroad company. n£SZMj£.tjL.^ ,-fri Jr.». they look in them when they go to sleep at night with little heads out at the round opening. Miss Pope has reason to love cockatooe, for one of them. Bob, saved her life at one time, pecking her cheek early one morning, awakening her to the smell of *moke and a fire. Some of the most valuable birds In the club at present are the brilliant black-and-yellow tropicals, which can learn the sound of musical instru ments and to sound a bugle call. One of these in a big roomy cage was being prepared the other day for a trip to England. Part of his food was being sent with him', seed and meal worms, and there were full directions for a further diet of egg, chicken, apples, etc., that could be served to him from the ship's table. He went off with a messenger, his future own er being a little English girl. An un usual bird of distinguished appearance which is a permanent guest It a corllla which once belonged to Margaret Anglln, the actress. If you are selecting parrots they will tell you at the club that the South African is the best imitator .and the Mexican and South American have the biggest repertoires. Ambulanoe for the Hospital. The club hospital has had its own ambulance, a pretty thing that a child would like for a plaything, a little cov ered affair similar to a regular ambulance and drawn by a tiny horse. It was a feature in some of the animal league parades. There is a surgical department to the hospital and birds' Mi". Steady Increase in Divorces Means i" ; Devastated Chicago in 30 Years. I By WILLIAM F. McDERMOTT, Chicago. If the present rate of divorces continues in Chicago for the next generation the city will by I960 be more desolate than any of the war ravished cities in France. | Take the figures of the last ten years, for instance, as far as they are* available. In 1911 there were 30,417 marriages and 3,442 divorces, or once out of each 8.83 marriages failed; in 1915 thefe were 31,509 marriages and 4,116 divorces, or one divorce to every 7.65 marriages. Th» increase of divorce over marriage in that period was 13.3 per cent. The years following, being war years, cannot be taken as normal. But last year, the first full year of peace, there were 37,583 marriages, while; the local judges handling divorce cases estimated there would be between 5,000 and 6,000 divorces. Taking the mean ,of the two figures, or 5,500, it would show one divorce for every 6.83 marriages, or an increase of approximately 23 per cent over the divorce rate of 1911. Three decades more, at that rate, will see divorces equaling the number of marriages. Take the figures for 1914, a normal peace year. Out of 3,577 famiwings and legs when broken can often! lies getting divorces, only seventy.owned their homesj in 9,171 cases, or be set satisfactorily. There is also a nearly two-thirds, there were no children. little bird burying ground out in Buf- Increasing childlessness, especially among our native American peo-2 turbed ^eswng^iacl81!^?lfttie "otc I pie, the growth of the apartment habit, and the tendency toward ease* birds shared one of these little coffins I indulgence and fast living only presage more diyorc^, The first had been 111 and died and , _eater menace to the future of America. v - * *. \ Iff*;.. c. , was brought to the club to be prepared for burial, and In the meantime Its mate died of grief and loneliness and they were buried together. New York does not stand first in the cities of the country in its love and care for birds, Miss Pope says. Boston has' that honor; Philadelphia is second and this city third. New York birds have their manlcUres, however. Well-cared-for birds have their bills and claws trimmed every so often. - t M:1: & 'The Best Advice I Can Give to Women .Witfi Nothing to Do--Go to Wo^" t v- - v - • :-- • By MRS. WALTER WILLETT, Chicago. United States government expert rat trappers with some of a day's catch In Galveston, Texas, where a campaign Is being waged against rats In the dock district. It Is estimated that rats cause $30,000,000- damage in New York city alone every year. I have a husband, a home, a car and a' prize bulldog--but I have fnVpn a job and gone to work. The day is coming when there won't be/ny silly, idle women, waiting for hubby to come home and then dragging him out at night when he ia • tired and wants rest The clinging vine days are gone. The homes are going to be happier when women who haven*t children to care for go out and get jobs for themselves. I got, mine without a suggestion from anyone and without telling my husband. I've been a bridge-playing, day-sleeping loungeabout long enough. My husband says English labor I ^ improves my disposition as well aa my understanding of how men come L!,hlt!?aLiQ,^ I home tired at night and while he is too surprised to understand it all yet, he likes it It is the be*t advica I can gife women wifli nothing to do--30 to ¥ X* i / % ii * *, British Workers 8end Greetings. Portsmouth, England. -- British workers, In convention here, sent a message of greeting to American workers on the occasion of Labor day in the United States. The message, signed by Ben Smith of the textile workers, Robert Smillle of the coal miners, Harry Gosling of the trans- , --00 u A v port workers and O. K. Cramp of the | bridge-playing, day-sleeping loungeabout long enough. railway men, said " stretches Its hand across grasp of brotherly friendship to Its American cousins. International solidarity means a steady movement toward world peace and progress.' „ $$53 |V^: i wotk. AWFUL CONDITIONS IN INDIA Worst In 45 Years, 8ays a Baptist For- ' |ppn Missionary luglSli ' , R e p o r t . ' " New York.--Economic conditions In India now are the worst in the last 45 years, according to a survey by the American Baptist Foreign Missionary society, made public here. The report, prepared by Rev. „W. L. Ferguson, describes a state of "unrest, with political and social disorders such as India has not known foe centuries. If ever." "Conditions in south India have equaled the worst ever known to the Inhabitants of that poverty-stricken country," It continues. "Our mission stations, ^besieged day and night by throngs of hungry people crying for food, were able to offer but slight aid, the appeal was s6 great. Men and women, through sheer weakness, staggered about like drunken people. Suffering was intensified by lack of drinking water, while an epidemic of cholera took great tolls of human life. "Our missionaries provided relief to the best of their ability, and for months over a hundred children with ' > Judge flsHer, Chicago Mmridptf' turned from a trip to the heart of soviet Russia as special commissioner out protection, food or clothing were J of the joint distribution committee for Jewish war sufferers. If soviet fed and sheltered at the Baptist com-1 jjug8ia should fall now, nothing but chaos would result There is no «°°p "• MU organized party or oytem capable of taking over the function of government there. Even the anti-bolshevistB recognise this fact and thflir osly hope is to find some basis of compromise. " many as 5,000 at a time. "Historic old shade trees were stripped of all foliage to provide fodder for the cattle. In ordinary tlm the lopping off of a single branch of one of these woold hate been cooald> ered a crlma." ' •ML. Bobart G. McCutchwm, Dean School of Music, Da Paaw XJniversitj-- There has been more poor pedagogy demonstrated in the teaching of music I in the public school tban in any other subject with which I am familiar. L r*. A £ ifrv, f.