New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 5, 1922, Page 14

JAKE THE NEWSBOY PEASANTISNOT ~ [aee o oo EASY TODECENE ... ..o Haven Shoots Himself M I5 Found Not to Be So Stupid or | literate Aiter All Kazan, Aug. 5-—The Russian peas- ant, upon intimate contact, has been found to be not so {lliterate or so stu- Front of His Home, New Haven, Aug Solomon Ru- | bin, better known as 'Jake the | Newsboy," a cripple who sold papers at Church and Chapel streets at night for four years and who was known by thousands committed suicide at pid as it has been the habit to rep. | 1:45 vesterday afternoon in front of resent him. While he may not always | N8 home at Pine street by shoot. be able to read, he possesses a natur. | IN8 himself hehind the right ear with a) shrewdness and intelligence which | 32-caliher pistol. His friends said stand him in good stead A practic I'Iml he was subject to fits and {t Is common sense s often a good substi- | thOUENt that he killed himself in one tute for book learning f of these American Rellef Administration | Jake was taken to workers have had much to do with | hospital in the hospital ambulance the Russian peasant in thelr various|a8nd died soon after arriving there RREUNGR 15 N aks: RS, have | Jake had carried a pistol for over come to regard him with respect a year having a police permit to do How 18 it.' ‘one of the Russian in. | %0. He used to walk home to Fair terpreters was asked, “that although | Haven after he got through work these peasants cannot read and write | at 1 30 in the morning and he said they seem to be able to make accur-|that he needed a gun to protect the ate computations, and to master the|money that he sometimes carried intricacles of the Russiun currency? Jake was crippled in the right They seem to understand perfectly | 8ide, but he almost always carried a even the new bank notes in which | huge bunch of papers, usually on those marked 100 rubles equal those| his left hip. He would use a strap put out last year which were worth|t0 hold them together. One of his 1,000,000 comrades said that he would carry Appreciate Stupidity. a big pack whether he sold them or “They appreciate the value of stu- | not pldity,” was the answer. “They like| One of the newsboys said that he to appear simple, more simple than understood that Jake owed money they are It {s partly a pose with!'and was worried about this. He said them, but it has its practical side, too.| that he understood that Jake owed They appear guilcless and manage to| one news dealer $05 and another drive a good bargain because their| $60 very guilelessness allays the sus-| Jalke's father is Samuel Rubin, a ploion of the person with whom they | drygoods merchant of 222 Pine street are dealing Isadore, a brother of Jake, formerly “I hand them a 1,000,000 ruble| note. 'What is this?' they ask 1 teil| them that it is a million. They ac- cept it. But try handing them a 100,- 000 ruble note and say that it is a| million. They will shake their heads. You may point out that it has mnml[}fl”NTRYLESS MEN ciphers following the figure. They will not accept it. ‘But,’ you persist, | RuAMINfi EURUPE ‘you cannot read, why do you think I, em lying to you?' ‘But T have never| Thousands There Now Unable to Claim Citizenship in Any Land New Haven and ar the entrance to He has several sis- Chapel streets, the Subway cafe, | tars and brothers seen that sort of a million before, they answer and they will not take it. | “You take a paper to a peasant to be signed. He looks at it and asks| what it is all about. You read it to him. He nods but protests that he cannot write. 'Let someone else write my name on it." he says, and later he| may repudiate the agreement, saying that he never signer it and did not even know what it contained. | “I believe that many of them who! can both read and write are careful to conceal that knowledge, believing that it will be to their advantage to| do so. They are not so stupid as they, There are hundreds of thousands of appear.” |human beings at the present time on [the continent of Eurgpe who cannot claim citizenship of any country. They are scattered all over the continent, ORIGINAL SHEIK IS OUT-SHEIKED HERE {312 tc= resrers o vesh lity they are to a certain extent pris- oners. They cannot go about from that Benjamin C. Jones, Grand Rapids | one country to another with the free- manufacturer, has for women is sim-|[dom of an ordinary person, whose ply excruciating, according to the di- |passport is altogether in order. vorce petition filed in the superior | . Without Protections. court today by Mrs. Emily Stewart| Another, and not the least trying, Jones of Oak Park. constquence of thelr lack of citizen- She says he “out-sheiks the Sheik |ghip is that these unfortunates can- in alluring kualities and personal [not caim the protecting of any con- charm. Women flock about him eag- sul, minister or ambassador. In Ber- erly, listening to every intonation of his voice, wherever he mingles in so- ciety. They sent him love notes, | flowers, candy and begged to hold his | hand, the wife's bill charges. Far| from being annoyed by these atten- | tions, his wife avers, he enjoys the flattery and boasts of his conquests. He has told her, she relates, of| many instances when women strangers stopped their automobiles when they saw him pass His glossy hair and glowing eyes geem to cast a spell over them and they would order their chauffeurs to | follow him and would ask him to| ride with them { In her bill Mrs. Jones tells of let- | ters from a woman in Minnesota to “Sweet Daddy,” signed “Belle.”” She | charges Mr. Jones is a student of the ‘platonic school of love." i CROWLEY BROS. 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TEL. 2026 193 MAIN ST- | | Cripple Who Sold Papers in New | ran the news stand at Church and] ~EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1922 [ R ane More thand 00 S M S ealSe Dulmas srama eadeie ering a woman passenger into a life boat. zens of no country have had children born in countries of which, by law, the children have automatically become citizens. lin alone there are about half a mil- lian Russians who have no passports, and who refuse either to be registered at the Bolshevik consulate there as Russfan citizens, or to return to Rus- sia. 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