Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1925, Page 27

AUTO HOBOES NEW NATIONAL PROBLEM Come Through Towns Asking Charity—Most of Them Are Called Frauds. By the Associated LITTLE ROC September 26.—The “Weary Willle,” a unique fig- ure in American life a decade or mcre ago, is rapidly vanishing from the landscape and is being replaced by a product of the age of the automobile the “flivver hobo"—or rather hoboes, for the new type seldom travels alone, to officials of Little Rock social agencies The “flivver hohoes” are always without money and in most instances accompanied by large families. They enter a city from unknown places and with unknown destinations and apply to community funds and soclal agencies for aid, sickness being the most common plea. The usual requests are for money, gasoline and oil or for repairs to their automobiles, officials say, "They usually claim that they left home because of labor conditions apf are going to some distant place tg seek employment, ask- ing aid in getting to their destina- tions. according ‘Won't Sell Ca s to aid them by selling the are always refected by the of Little Rock Out of a large num- ber of “stranded tourists” who have applied for aid here not one would consider parting with the automobile. Tickets to their homes or to the stated destination are also not desired. Most of the ‘flivver tourists’ that apply for aid are frauds and we do not propose to give them money or line, so as to pass them on to some other city vs C. H. Wickard of the Little Rock Social Service Ex- change. “The Social Service Exchange will 1 distressed tourists and will fur- nish them food and buy medicines when there is sickness, but will n encourage fraud by purchasing gaso- line or paying for repairs. Serious Problem. “The ‘flivver hobo’ is a serious prob- lem that is nation-wide in its scope. These nomads, who are modern tramps, wander almlessly about the country applying for charity and with no destination or purpose. They are perpetrating fraud on soclal agencies and community tunds in many cities. Correspondence of this office shows that these nomads are applying at many cities in the Middle West and that most of them are ‘headed west.’ “The greatest tragedy in connection with the modern hobo is the neglected and undernourished children who are compelled to follow. They have no opportunity for schooling and their health is in most instances impaired by unnecessary exposure and lack of wholesome food. The compulsory school law does not affect the ‘flivver | hobo,’ because he is never stationary [department and 1s not registered in any city. No Cure Seen. “There seems to be no cure for the evil. When they apply for aid we must help the children or the mothers who are ill or in need of food. This has been done on numerous occasfons, | but in each instance we have refused to buy gasoline and ofl or to give money. This would not remedy the situation, but would simply pass the responsibility to another cit ASTORIA, Oreg., September 26 (). | —The gasoline gy itinerary worker and auto tramp are finding the way hard and small town suckers few and far between in Oregon as a result of ctivities of social workers. Miss Ma- rian Bowen of the local Red Cross re- cently reported this condition. A meeting of goclal workers was held in Portland in June and a central clearing house was established there, ‘Wwhere reports on this class of people are gathered from social workers throughout Oregon and are given State-wide publicity. Miss Bowen said many applicants for help would fade away from the auto camp when directed where to find w LAWYERS SEEKING WORD IN ELECTION OF JUDGES Washington State Attorneys Want to Indicate Preference for Bench Candidates. By the Assgeiated Press. SEATTLE, September 26. — Con- tending that the average layman does not know the qualifications of judi- cial candidates, the Washington State Bar Assoclation is proposing amendments to State election laws whereby members of the legal pro- fession could iIndicate their prefer- ences in candidates for the bench. The proposal, which originated at a recent State convention, would not in- terfere with the present method of voting, members of the association explain. After filings for judgeships have been made, the lawyers would take a vote on the candidates and make an indorsement. This recom- mendation would be printed on the official ba'lots under the name of the approved candidate. The association believes thousands of voters would be guided by the in- dorsements. A counter suggestion, proposed by a local newspaper in a humorous vein, would exclude lawyers from voting gnr judges on the ground of preju- ice. NEW DATA REVEALED ON SHAKESPEARE’S LIFE 0ld Diary Found With Many References to Great Dra- matic Author. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, September 26.—W. J. Laurence of the London Shakespeare League claims that he has found in- disputable proof that “Hamlet” was first produced in 1600, instead of the Reaction Prevails In Many Markets During Busy Week By dhe Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 26.— Reactionary tendencies prevailed in all the financlal and commodity markets this week. Attempts to bolster up stock prices met with little success, liquidation of stand- ard industrial shares gaining head- way under the cover of speculative upbidding of a few motor and high-priced specialty Issues. After a severe general reaction, the mar- ket recovered quickly, only to meet a renewed onslaught of selling as the week closed. The Young Business and Profes- sional Women's Council will hold its first meeting of the season tomorrow evening, 7 o'clock, 614 E street, when plans for the Winter's program will be discussed. Miss Mildred J. Bar- tholow is chairman of the council. This month marks the close of the thirty-fourth , session of the Summer conferences, so-called outdoor Summer schools of the Y. W. C. A. So popu- lar have they become that since June 10,000 young women have gathered for 10-day periods of study, inspira tion and recreation. Everyday business relations, your duty and mine, women in politics, women'’s share in securing better so. cfal legislation, the profession of homemaking, and the girls and women of other races in our home commu- nity repeatedly appear in the pro- grams. ~ Forum discussions with no textbooks or examinations given, pre- dominate. Christian ideals and their practical interpretation today are prominently stressed throughout the 10-day period of study and discussion. Outdoor rec- reatlon and sporting events contin- ually balance the more Intellectual hours. On Tuesday, September 29, follow- Ing club supper, members of the Washington Y. W. C. A., who have attended the eastern community con- ferences held at Silver Bay on Lake George, Camp Nepahwin and Eagles Mere, will report the findings of these conferences to the business girls. Sup- per is served at 6:15 in_the Adminis- tration building, 614 E_street, to every business woman who Is inter- ested in this department. Reserva- tions should be phoned in by Monday noon. There are comfortable and cozy places to rest and read for those who wish to come early. The membership committee an- nounces the date for the Fall festival for all members of the Y. W. C. A. as of October 15. The {industrial department of the Y. W. C. A. invites girls employed in homes in the city to tea at the ad- ministration building, 614 E. street northwest, Thursday from 3:30 to 5:30. Girls who have recently come to Washington to live are especially urged to come and get acquainted and help in the planning of the Thursday afternoon and evening’'s program for the Fall and Winter. The Greek Club of the industrial will meet this week at 614 E street Wednesday, September 30, 7 p.m. Mrs. Victor Kissel is presi- dent. The Y. W. C. A school council will hold its first meeting for this season Wednesday at 614 E street. Miss Al- berta Collins, president of the council, will preside. The council is made up of representatives of every class in the school and serves in an advisory ca- pacity to the director. Registrations for classes in the Y. W. C. A. school can be made at the administration buflding, 614 E street, beginning September 29. Classes will open October 5 in the new classrooms, located at 610 E street, under the di- rection of Miss Marian R. Miller. Three additional classes have been scheduled for this year. Students in “Modern Drama” will study the best plays booked for this season in Wash- ington theaters; the *“Golden Book' class will use the literary publication of that name for its text book, and a course in personal hygiene and anat- omy will be conducted under the lead- ership of Dr. Amy J. Rule. What Tomorrow Means to You BY MARY BLAKE. Tomorrow's planetary aspects can- not be diagnosed with any degree o certainty, as they are mot only ce plex, but variable. During the early part of the day there are indications that astrological conditions are ex- ceptionally adverse and the signs counsel great care in order to avold accident, disappointment or trouble. Some short time before noon, although circumspection is still needed, much more propitious influences are busy and will stimulate a desire to accom- plish something and “to get some- where” in your work. This is only transitory, however, and unfavorable aspects will again prevafl, with occa- sional, but_brief, glimpses of bright- ness and cheerfulness. The most ad- visable course to pursue, in view of conditlons so kaleldoscoplc, is to con- fine your energies to routine duty and to maintain poise and “look before vou leap,” if you should sense the im- pbulse to leap. Children born tomorrow will, by ap- pearance, give every promise of health and vigor. Too much must not, in their case, be taken for granted, and careful attention must be given to alimentation, as only in this way will these children's constitutions be bullt up in a manner able to with- stand health dangers. Temperamen- tally they will be high strung. nervous and extremely sensitive. They will always yleld an affectionate response to kindness. Other methods will only make them stubborn. They will show great aptitude in their studies, and, while their success may be retarded by self-consciousness, they will in all probability attain a great degree of happiness. It tomorrow is vour birthday you are impulsive rather than deliberative, emotional and mot a bit “matter-of- fact,” and impatient rather than for- bearing. As a result of the mistakes that your temperament has induced you to make in the past, you have a great fund of hindsight. This, how- ever, does not seem to have imnroved or augmented vour stock of foresight. This i8 a condition to be regretted, in view of your versatility and origi- nality. Once you conceive an idea— date usually assigned to this play, 1601, and that he will give details of the opening night of Shakespeare's famous tragedy in. lectures which he expects to deliver shortly at Harvard Unlversity. Other members of the London Shakespeare League also report re- cent discoveries, glving new _details concerning the poet’s career. St. John Ervine, the dramatist and novelist, recently found an old diary in an English country house which makes many personal references to Shake- speare and proves, in Mr. Ervine's opinion, that the master dramatist Was a man of eminence among his cotemporaries. P Lead Now Being Tempered. Lead is now being tempered and hardened by a new process worked | out by sclentists of the Western Flectric Company. It is done chiefly by a special heating process and the addition of a very small amount of alloy. The experiments have been highly successful and have achieved what scientists have been working toward for cemturies. and your mind is prolific of them— You go at it with a vim that excites the envy of all. If, however, your dreams do not come true at once, fretting, impatience and unjustified disappointment destroy all further ef- fort. As “Rome was not buflt in a day,” so any worth-while plan can- not be successfully consummated within the time allowance that you would give it. You have a keen sense of humor and can even enjoy a joke on your- self. You are whimsical and vivacious and very loving and demonstrative in your family. Well known persons born on this day are: Arnold H. Guyot. Reographer; Richard H. Bull, mathematiclan; Henry M. MacCracken. clergyman: Frances E. Willard, reformer; Kate Douglas Wiggin, author, and Freder- ick Macmonnies, sculptor. (Copsright. 1925.) The present year is of special in- terest to printers and booklovers, as it marks the four hundredth anniver- sary of the first book printed in the English language. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Who Stole the Bride? And Why? The Night of the Wedding By C. N.and A. M. WILLIAMSON, Authors of “The Lightning Conductor” and other fascinsting Tonmances of mystery and love Copyright. 1 The New House. HO I am doesn’t matter. And you won't be able to find out, because I'm using a public tele- phone. Though, of you can try, if you like to waste time. It isn't my name that's fmportant. It's my message. As an admirer of your talent who doesn’t wish you to fail ridiculously after all your success, 1 warn you solemnly, as you value your reputation, to keep off the Haste-Carroll case. Make any excuses you choose. But keep off. Otherwise ruin—perhaps death for rou.” ¥Fhanks for the advice,” Dagon re- torted, extremely puzzled, but speak- ing with airy indifference of tone. “Please add to your goodness by stat- ing why 1 should keep off the gra: 1 mean the c No answer was vouchsafed to this question. Dagon repeated it several times, in varied forms, but silence answered, with the odd impish echo of the telephone. At last, softly whis- tling, the detective hung up the re- celver. He believed that the volce had in all probability called him from a pub- lic telephone. The speaker would have a fool to run an unnecessary sk, especially when degling with & detective. Now which of my lot, if any of them, wanted to frighten me?” Dagon asked himself, casting his eyes over each of the photographs in turn. Whoever it was might have saved himself or herself the trouble, for in- stead of beinz frishtened the detec- tive felt doubly keen. But, of course, the person who had called him up wouldn't stop there! Something else would happen. Dagon would have given a good deal to know what. His new theory, however, was not shaken. In fact, if anything, it was strengthened. But it was very young still, only just out of the sheil and covered with yellow down, as he ex pressed it himself. There were al most as many ways of testing the theory as there were ramifications of the strange case on which he was en- gaged, and Dagon didn't mean to miss one of either. The odd thing was that, so far as he was aware, Capt. Haste was the one person who knew he was paying this short visit to London. And Capt. Haste was the one person of the “lot” (as he put it) whom Dagon did not suspect at least of ulterior motives or hiding some secret knowledge. Also he had an_ appointment with Haste later on. Therefore, Haste was also the one person who could not now have called him up. Ken had loathed the necessity of remaining at Hidden Hall Court, and had well-nigh been driven insane by it. Yet his conviction that Eve was living and in the neighborhood re- mained as obstinate as ever it had been since his first black mood of de- spair_had passed. Some one—if not Rawdon Wells, then another—had shut Eve up in a secret place, and wished him—Kennedy Haste—to be- lieve her dead. But he would not be fooled. And he would stop in the house until he or Dagon—to whom he had taken an almost pathetic fancy— should hit upon the truth. It was par- ticularly disagreeable for Haste hav- ing Wells about the place, suspecting him as he did. But Ken realized the police point of view, that Wells must remain on the spot. And after all, he argued, Wells' presence made his own more than ever essential—as a watch- er. It was not necessary that they should meet; and the Court was big enough for them to keep apart. Dagon, however, had asked Haste it he would object to showing him let- ters from Miss Carroll written just be- fore her marriage, as some chance word might be enlightening to the mind of a detective. Ken had a bun- dle of such letters in town, and being told that Dagon had to go to London for a day, offered to go also and get the parcel. “Can Haste have mentioned my be- ing here?”” he wondered. *I told him I didn’t want it known, as 1 wished to be free and undisturbed. But he may have spoken of it to some one he didn’t think would disturb me.” It was easy, it seemed, to obtain an answer to this question from head- quarters. He had made an appoint- ment to call at the Haste house, os- tensibly to get a glimpse of Eve Car- roll’s letters, but in reality for another object quite as important to him, if not more so. This appointment was for an hour hence, but he was sure that Haste would be at home, and he could not resist calling him up on the phone. “Can you see me now, instead of in an hour’s time, as we arranged?" Dagon asked. “Certainly, I would prefer it,” the answer came. And the detective started out in search of a taxi without an instant's delay. Kennedy Haste's house was on North Audley street. He had lived there only since his engagement to Eve, at which time he had sold the big and somewhat gloomy old home of his boyhood. Eve had selected the new house herself, or, at least, had sald that she would like to live on North Audley street, which had been enough for Ken. Furniture, decorations and everything had been chosen to please her, excepting the suite which Ken had set apart for his adopted sister Pan. The first note struck, even on enter- ing the hall, was gay modernity. Da- gon was shown into a drawing room with a dark carpet, and furniture mostly of old Chinese lacquer, much of it red. There were green curtains, with splashes of purple embroidery and wonderful iridescent bowls con- taining fantastic-colored fruits which might have been stolen from the stage at a performance of “Chu Chin Chow.” Poor little lonely Eve. She would have been a witchlike vision of beauty here, in the wonderful gowns that she affected. Where was she— living or dead? It was as if a voice whispered the question in Dagon's ear. After a moment’s waiting he was taken to another room, a combina- tion of library and smoking room, and there Haste met him at the door—a pale and haggard Haste. “This house is killing me!"” he said. “It's worse than at that haunted hole of Rawdon Wells’'—she and I chose everything together. I can hear her calling me to save her from some horror. “I'm glad you came early. I want to get away—to get back to Essex. Anything may have happened the While I've been gone—who knows?” “I know that nothing has happened to interest you,” Dagon tried to soothe him. “But you can get back as soon as you like, 8o far as I'm concerned. I see how you must feel here. But didn’t you tell me, when you spoke of your new house, that Miss Pandora Haste had furnished her suite en- tirely with thinigs from her old home? Why shouldn't we both go to her rooms, where there’ll be nothing to call up painful memories for you, while I.look through the letters you're going to let me have?” “Not a bad idea,” sald Haste. “The sight of those old things of the past may cool my nerves a bit. At pres. ent they feel like red-hot wires with the ends cut off.” He took from a drawer in a gor- geous Empire desk an olivewood box, about the size of an ordinary glove box, and then showed Dagon the way upstairs. Pan’s sulte was at the top of the house, for an extension at the back gave plenty of room for serv- ants. Kennedy Haste opened a doese which was not locked, and ushered [13 course, 4. by Pudlic Ledger Company. the detective into a room which might “parlor’” of an early Victorian woman—but an early Vic- torian of much individual taste. “Pandora is only my adopted sister, yet she adored the old house and everything But she cried like a baby when I decided to sell and to let most of the furniture go with You see, this house isn't really large enough for the big, solid things of my father's day; and Eve was unimaginable against a Victorian have been the as you know,” sald Ken, in it. I never cared! the place. background Dagon looked about with intense in His heart was beating fast. He felt as children feel in playing a game of “hide-and-seek,” when some terest. one calls out, “You're warm: “Farly Victorlan things are rather he =aid, trying to “Now, that secretary book- for instance, there between the splendid, I think, be calm. casy D. C, SEPTEMBER 27, 1925—PART 1. windows, with the cupboard under- neath, and twisted pillars running up the sides.” “That old thing is a special pet of Pan's,” answered Haste, distracted for an instant from the gnawing tor- turé of his loss. “She keeps all the souvenirs of her debut into our family in that cupboard.” This was precisely what Dagon had been leading up to as well as he could knew precisely what he wanted to know. “So far, so good!” he told him self. But it was not far enough or good enough yet. He had further to go. Yet he must not force the pace. Haste invited him to sit down on a huge old sofa where Dagon could im agine a girl curling up for a nap, or to read a novel, among the cushions of old-fashioned chintz. And it was of Pandora Haste he thought as ha took certain letters which her adopted brother selected from the olivewood box. Eve's precious little letters,” Ken said “But it you imagine you cover anything useful from them—why, of course, I'd be can reading 1 fool here that are too sacred—and nothing in them, anyhow, except about our two selves. But make what you can of the rest.” ‘They re charming letters Eve without asking questions, and now he | “I never expected to let any one see | dis- | hold them back. There are just a few | her best. not a flirt, and here and there the nature of the flirt peeped out from these perfumed pages. “Poor Rawdon Wells! I'm afraid I | have been rather horrid to him. But it's all your fault, Ken, for coming into my life and making me love you when I was just on the edge of fall- ing in love with him—or was it with his house? Nowadays I think it must ave been only the house; for I can't believe I could ever really have cared with all my heart and soul about any | man except you. Oh, dear, it's frignt- ening, though, breaking the news to Rawdon. Iis eyes can be terrible. I never realized how Italian he is till now, and primitive and all that. But thank goodness we do live in the | twentleth century. I wouldn't go back {into—say, the sixteenth or even sev- | enteenth with Rawdon Wells for any- | thing on eurth This was in one letter. referred to some name she did not mention “When I was a naughty little girl,” sed to cry for thinge nd when they were I didn’t want them any never got over that sort of thing until you cured me by mak- {tng me want for always. Yes, [ the “Tdor’ was ase. 1 was wild whes I the he didn't care—or In another man whose more. But her most ardent we only for my money. When I found shiper could hardly say t she Was | oyt that he loved me—and what he was really like when he was in love— oh, Ken, he made me sick, and I told him so. Afterward we patched up a peace, rather than people should talk—anyhow that was my reason— but I shall never forget as long as I lve.” Before he made any comment, Da- gon finished reading all the letters Haste had handed him, of which there were eight; but in no others was there anything that interested him, except one allusion to Pan: “I'm sorry she feels about mes the way she does, but I can’t blame the poor kid much, considering evervthing—and one or two things she may have been told by—you know who! 1 shall try to win her—yes, try as I never tried when I was flirting my hardest— after you and I have had our honey- moon at that wonderful house of poor Rawdon Wells. (Continued Tomorrow.) 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