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. SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1920 Jobs for English Princes? -" Lots of Them Are Open * Movies Would Pay Big “@f Course They Might Marry Heiresses, byt Think of Money as Auto Salesmen or Guides to Americans. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) HAT can a Prinoe do to earn his living? It ts reported that the Prince of Wales and his brothers, Prince . Albert, Prince Henry and Prince George, are in the market for o) Paying jobs, as a result of the H. C. of L, which makes quite inadequate ithe annual allowance of $30,000 each of them has enjoyed heretofore. King George bas taken pity on their poverty—comparatively spcaking—and al- ne though he is unable to increase their funds from the paternal pocketbook, he has suspended the rule forbidding members of the Royal Family to en- = wage in business. ».One, of the Royal Highnesses declined a magnificent offer in 1914 from a large financial house because of this rule. It is understood that the offer has fust been renewed : But with all the respect in the world for the charni, good taste and BEd sense of England's princes—and (at Yeast the heir to the throne con- Wibed America during his ree visit that he possessed all these Avftbutee—whet sort of jobs are -oquatified to hold down? eit (We may begin by eliminating sev- \cucenal of those highly profitable v gations into which the wise Ameri an father to-day urges his son—I aefer to the aristocracies of. labor, 1/Me painters, the carpenters, the win- Mew cleaners, the railroad by ‘eqogds. England's princes, it |: ‘Ja @ay, could not hold cards in any “ofthese unions. Probably, right off the reel, a prince of the blood foyal could earn more money in the mevies than any- where else, Ladies of title, Mary ° 'Wigieford reports, are planning to figment their incomes from this BQurce. Almost any enterprising screen director would pay one of those five-figure salaries to be able lish royalty wants a job. They might make ood brokers If any enterprising New York res- taurant could contract with one of the Princes to dine there as often as once a week, that eating establish- ment could change $5 apiece for its - highballs and get away with it. The proprietor’s fortune would be made, even if the poor Prince died an early death Or, supposing the Princes woul: rather earn less money and make up for it by boarding at home, they surely could take in plenty of tlps by acting aa guides to the public through show portions of the royal domains or through such historic edifices as Westminster Abbey. The income derived from American tour- ists alone would help out that $30,000 allowance considerab! Finally, there is the sure resource of impecuntous titles the world over. Russtan, German, Italian, Austrian stock \ to “star’ the Prince or Wales, or even Princes’ have never worried when seme of his brothers. And if «a they got hard up. “What,” they have double’ were provided, the work asked naively, * American heir- oe) Meiian't greatly out into the royal esses for? It is conceded that cer 1éiSure. tain members of the English nobility, ‘Another occupation which susirests !f not of the blood roydl, have won new fortunes by the simple process of marrying those made in America, Before King George's sons are re- duced to the bread Ine and the soup Kitchen, some one should point out to them that the supply of title-hun- gry American mammas is far from being exhausted! -.ttaelt is demonstrating automobiles, Adapt one of the Kaiser's sons an auto- ‘ He salesman? Even tf every 4iclish prince is not an expert mo- ‘torist, he knows more about cars than—say—about U. 8. Steel or the manufacture of overcoats, Detroit papers please copy the fact that Eng- arr [gaily (The New York Evening World) = “Whe tot By ROY Ibe ‘ Copsright, 1020, by The Press Publishing Co, RS. JARR had taken Willie “And he wears fifteen-year ise ia r boys’ suits, my, my!’ remar! ° M Jarr to buy him a summer aul cierk in admiring tones. “Look at 5 want long pants, maw!" 0,0 japel”” And sure enough, on all S'nitfimpered Master Willie Jarr. the labels sewed on very tight and "18 3evou are too young to have long hard, whereas the buttons Bing, bat c by a thread or two, Wa in trousers,” said his mother, “and you by & ad or two, was the marking fifteen years.” Wille will do as mamma bids you.” is a big boy for his Mrs. Jarr had opened her handbag unmured Mrs. Jarr. proydly. feel out the newspaper clipping of after the men of my aide ihe advertisement to see if the sults family The ahoes, you may, gtidwn her looked like the costumes are on the next aisle?" ‘The salesman oPAdtured- bowed, marked down the delivery di- “You'd be surprised, madam, to rections, called “Forward!” ahd hand- akpow what wo salespeople have to ¢ Jarr over to the shoe aales- andure at the hands of the now opu- man "Pmt and rudely overbearing working Had It been @ man customer the & said the aaleeaman, with @ shoe clerk would have gotten one h, apropos of nothing. shoe off him and takep it away and But the the de- waited on his other customers first, Adent De f knowing the man with one shoe would one world were nothing Jarre. be helpless the wiile, but Mra, Jarr, 4 el don't see why the tanextra heing a Indy, the shoe clerk gave <Palr of trousers with those school Willle Jarr a foot measure to play witits,” she sald, “But you can send and smiled and said "High or The gray sult to my address.” Calfskin or Kid? Have you > ooMCharge?” asked the salesman, our line with cloth tops? Your t‘eHe knew Mrs, Jarr was a cash or -B." ©. 0. @. customer, but {t alway8 flat- “Oh, no,” Mrs, Jarr replied, “4-C." velered the ladies to ask them if they "I beg your pardon.” sald the clerk, «laadin't accounts at the stor “put you will find I m right Our 24Oh, no," said Mrs, Jar high ladies’ boots of calfskin alze 2-B haven't an a sunt with will fit you neatly, his implied she only had Jiso jt proved, with the more exclusive sh ney have the nicest salespeople ie sales: affectad to be |, here,’ said Mrs, Jagr to herself, and and Mrs. Ldded And wh J took the chastened W: home with am here H look at your her, ordering the shoes as well ag the adi wes, T want a pair of ser sui at. hom viceable boots,’ ‘ there's nothing to it!" re- “The ladles’ shoe department bs on ms shoe clerk to the oloth- . next alate,” said the clork e sinan. “Mark the boys’ suits x; big boy. How old ts he, did you s le and the women's shoes small, ebasseHe'n just cleven," replied the ou get tho dames going and Ponzi, Like Other Get-Rich-Quick Wizards, Proved Barnum Was Right When He Said, “The Public Likes to Be Humbugged” The English Put Millions Into “South Sea } Company” and the French Into “fhe Mis- sissippi Company.” Copyright, 1920, by The Press Pululshing Co. (The Now York Evening World) ‘Hb Ponzi swindle’ in Boston appears to furnish additional confirmation of George M. Cohan's assertion In song that P. T. Barnum had the right idea, It was Mr. Barnum who eald “the people like to be hum- bugged.” Ponzi’s plan to accumulate wealth was ¢dentical with that of William F. Miller of Brooklyn, who promised to pay investors profits of 520 per cent. able for Government: stock. The pros pect of phenomenal profits brought hordes of investors to Paris and all France went into a frenzy of apecula- tion. In October, 1719, the shares of Law's company were selling for forty times their face value, Law ventured a year. The scheme of eaclr was based on the wel! known hankering to get to take over the entire finnncla nan e | 7 ry Ww on't heard @gement of France and pay off the something for nothing, If there \s anybody in the country who hasn't heard Seria Geb, Ho lesued cioode. and of “520 per cent. Miller” it Jen't the fault of the newspapers, Tho history of gigantic swindling ———— - transactions proves that experience lg not a teacher, Despatches from Boston state that numerous persons who have invested money with Ponzi floods of paper money. In February, 1720, about all the assets of France were bound up in Law's concerns and the price of land and commodities had climbed to heights that threatened starvation. People had to get rid of their Mississippi shares and found no time compriged what 4s now the en- tire Mississippi Valley. Law incorporated a company for the exploitation of the Missiasipp! still have full confidence in him. Valley and the shares were exchange- market for them. In May, 1720, Law ‘They will not wake up until they — r -_ — Se wat find that their money is irretrievably A 6S ” Fi Y A Take Nene efan after (ite aWaenink tenog.” Five Years Ago, it is quite likely that some of them Alice Houston Now Draws will fall for the next grafter who promises the impossible, . ° ° Tue niet ue prone: Sauabats Salary in Five Figures tracted dupes from the beginning of 2 time. History is full of the achieve- Her Recip By Fay Stevenson. ments of men and women who have © Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Fyening World) preyed on all classes of society by suaranteeing great profits. Just 200 667 THE girl who means to succeed in the Yusiness world neods no ‘pull I All she needs is a fair amount.of brains, a large bump of common sense, a goodly portion of ‘stfektoitiveneas’ and her success is as years ago two immense easy money schemes collapsed, one in England, certain as the rising and the setting of the pun.” Harken, girls, to the advice of Mins the other in France, and tens of thousands of confiding investors were beggared, These were the South Sea Allce Houston, who startea to work as a stenographer five years ago and to-day draws « salary in five fi, ires Large Bump of Common Sense, Fair Amount of Brains, Plan Your Work at Home. ae FO IEF WO above tn Company In England and the Missis- sipp! Company in France. Just who conceived the idea of the South Sea Company !s a matter of doubt, He was able to interest wealthy London merchants, The com- ‘ Ps pany was formed in 1711, and in re- 3% & Wall Street secretary, To-day turn for a monopoly of the British ~!%* Houston sails to Europe for a trade with South’ AmeMoa and the %% Weeks’ vacation, but before Icav- Paoific islands agreed to and finally ‘8 1 Vielted her at her downtown did, {n 1719, assume the British na- Mee. where she made the tional debt amounting to about $260,. "atement in regard to the business 000,000. Prior to this time the com- ® nS ype Lab Y: OMA (Oe Nehe pany had concerned itself largely with biggest ficids for the modern girl,” trade and commerce and made money, said Miss Houston, “and I would ad- ‘The high finance operations began Vis every ambitious girl to study it i As @ stepping stone to other posi- in 1718, and stories of extraordinary tions, {1 is like a magico key which profits brought a great demand for unlooks all doors shares of stook, The company issued | ‘Any girl who hus a good education ahacaa Ail fast aa @hay could oe Gants stenography and shorthand and uts her mind to it’ like «irl in 4. Just before the collapse in 1720 nerick, can i, Many gine the stock brought $5,000 a share. have complilined that men are fealous Hundreds of “get-rich-quick” con~ Bul" right here Towinh torany that ail cerns sprang up in imitation of the the men I have met have b nh most South Sea Company, The whole Kind and appreciative of any effort | . aa la. Dave made. I thi verage bu country was affiicted with specula- have mide. tate prvi guertecht deat tive fever, In August, 1720, the bub- « fair brain and @ good proportion of ble burst. Millions of shares of South cammon sense, Sea stook were offered for sale with — “There is just one message th would like to give to the girls who bo takers. are anxious to succeed,” continued At the time of the inflation to Miss Houston, nd that is that they bursting of the South Sea bubble in form us much interest in the concern that came up during the day and plan England one Robeft Law, a Scot, a % Possible. Interest in the work you out her work for the next day just as newad‘one Ke Wee Soot, ® are doing is bound to muke you do a inap must do.” soldier of fortune, was giving the Too many giris lock up a gard to clothes and what the French people an expensive lesson in nd leave them at the « girl should wear Miss Houas- financial wizardry. Law, through the fice. It doean't hurt to take a few ton sald: ‘ ‘cris jp rie AER ee age of these {deas along home with you doesn't make a particle of dif- friendship of the Duke Orleans, ana let them grow ference what a girl wears—a filmy the Regent of in 1715 was en- “Personally, I belleve every girl jazz dress ur @ tailored skirt and abled to start a private banking busi- should have a hobby. Mine is motor- blouse. at's u mattet of her own ness in Paris and obtained a monop- 198 but at the same time a girl who personal taste. Al her empto : igh Scie cred pote Ae going to succeed ought to close her cures about is what is in her head oly of trade and colonisation of the and review the day ¢ ought much interest she shows in he territory of Louisiana, which a that to think of ai! the business question feb,” en Cassie Chadwick, Mme. Theresa Humbert $ and Wm. F. Miller Also Received Huge Sums From “Investors declared a bankrupt and fled from France, ‘The country and the people were bankrupt too. Little old New York, supposedly the home of worldly wisdom, fell to the tune of about §4,000,000 to "520 Per Cent. Miller’ in 1899. In July of that year advertisements appeared in the nowspapers stating that_ the Franklin syndicate, No. 144 Ployd Street, Brooklyn, would pay 10 per cent. Interest weekly on money |n- vested with the concern, Shares were offered at $19 each jeorge F, Miller, the guiding spirit ef the Frankiln pyndicate, professed to have inside information on the market and said he obtained profits enabling him to pay 10 per cont. a weak to Inventors from deals on the Stock Exchange. Money came in so fast to Miller and his aides in his Brooklyn ihome that they could not count It. They stood knee deep in money. It be- ame {mpoasible to continue the pay~ ments of dividends ‘because of the clerical work involved. Miller diswp- peared on Noy. 24, white thousands were clumoring outaide his door to pay him money. He was later ar- rested in Canada, convicted and sen- tenced to serve ten yeors in Bing Sing Prison. In 1902 Paris was turned inside out, as it were, by the arrest of Mme. Humbert on a charge of swindling many of the greatest financiers of France. She, her husband, Frederic, and her brothers, Emile and Romaine Daurlignag, were tried and convicted and sentenced to prison. The swindling operations of Mme. Humbert extended over a period of twenty years, In 1888, shortly after her marriage, she announced that she had deen left a fortune of $20,000,000 by Robert Henry Crawford, an Ameri- can millionaire, Two nephews of Robort Heary Crawford, Robert and Henry sho sald, were contesting the will, Under wench law the fortune of $20, 000,000 was supposed to be locked up. She couldn't touch a cent of it. Develapmenta in the trial proved that there never was a Robert Henry Crawford and that the nephews were myths, although lawyers acting for them carried the will contest through most of the courta of France. Mme. Humbert, through others, engaged these lawyers. She lived in Parts and in her home wae 4 doubly sealed safe in wh the $20,000,000 was supposed to re- pose. By offering exorbitant interest she was able to borrow In the course of twenty years almost $14,000,000. The Humbert tumily disappeared on May ‘1902. The safe was opened th next day and found to be empty Later on the Humberts were caught in Spain ‘Cassie Chadwick was contempor- ancous with Mme. Humbert and used the same framework for swindling, although tt le doubtful if she had ever nm of rench woman prior to 1903, ‘The Chadwick woman was an adventures ail her life but it was not until 1900 that he ern barked on her biz swindling scheme with bankers as her marks, She deposited in « Cleveland, O,, bank a package which, she sald, con- tat $5,000,000 worth of notes and securities whioh had bevn given her by Andrew Carnegie. Mr. Carnegie, she confided to the bankers, was her father ‘On the strength of the package— which contained nothing of valae— and her claimed relationship to Mr. Carnegie, abe negotiated loans from i ( ae SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1920 Bpor Bono Publi By Neal B@mara Laughing, a Pullman Tax Poor Bono Pays a Poll Tax for Voting, an Amusement Tax for for Sleeping, an Income Tay for Working and an Inheritance Tax for Dying. i Coprright, 1990, by The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Krening World) OOR BONO PUBLICO—there he stands. The football of politics, the shinspads of the profiteers and the punching bag of the ta® col- lectors. Poor Bono, Publico ts the goat when the profiteers milk hi the guy that pays the freight. He's im and a lamb when it's time to be fleeced. Poor Bono Publico is the backbone of the Nation, which means that the Nation sits on him. When the landlord's wife needs ® lavailiere, Poor Bono Publico's rent goes up. If Rockefeller loses @ couple of golf balls, Poor Bono pays more for his gasoline. When AWA aN “N the water in raflroad stocks gets stagnant, Poor Bono is pumped for a ttle more oll. And if the boll woevil tackles the cotton crop, Bono pays more for his all-wool clothes, He gets it in the neck so often he ‘wears a necklace made out of two- karat warts. Since Prohibition went into effect the Government's got Bono stagger- ing from the taxes. But he's a good citizen, just the same, He's 100 per cent. American when he buys bis Liberty bonds and 84 per cent. when he sells ‘em. Which is only a trifle, to be sure. Nowadays Poor Bono peya a poli tax for voling, a aunise- ment tax for laughing, # Pullman tax for sleoping, an income tax for work- ing and an {inheritance tax for dy- ing, But it coms him nothing to pick his teeth. Thin is certainly a sweet land of liberty for the pirates, When Labor and Capital stagé¢ a row, Poor Bono Pubdlico furnishes the purse. When any one lets him in on the ground tloor he knows he'll: be pushed off at the top, Poor Bono has listened to promises so Often he wears a cauliflower ear on the side of his dome. From Sandy Hook to San Diego, Poor Bono's the guy thatipays - all the freight. Poor Bono is of the Nation’ He sends a Congressman to Wash- ington for $7,600 a year, and a he gets back 1s a package of seeds. If the Government wishes for anything, it simply rubs Poor Bono likevAlad- din's lamp. He has to rob Peter ta pay the pols. He may not know the words of “The Star Spangled Ban- ner,” but he knows the price of bi Country, "Tis of Thee. If Bono ducks the pirates the loan sharks will get him—he's up to his neck in the river of debt. But Bono 1s never up to his neok so far that another slap misses his Adam's ap- ple. Nay, bot He ip still expected to ti the waiter, to alip a half to the Pullman porter and buy gas’ for the ial boy's bus, And it ‘was ever thus for ,Poor Bono Publico. He patd the insyyance on ancient Rome’ when Nero burned it down. He paid the fiddler in Alex- ander’s ragtinve band when Alexam- der cleaned up Greece. And he paid the bills in bonny Deutschland, when the Kalser went from soup to'nuts. Poor Bono {s simply one of zobs that spring to attention when the old cash regiwter rings. Hé gets the hole in the doughnut when the weather is fair, but does he get the hole in the Mfe preserver qrhem things get rowgh? You guessed it. Ghee UNWANTED Sopnie IRENE ink Fl | I.[TD- Courright, 1080, by ‘The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Mveaing World). Sy MOTHER, twenty-four years A old, slept five nights with her baby in a park. Her etory is a pitiful one, She went in rags in order to clothe her baby, her so-called {!- legitimate child, She worked as, a domestio and earned enough to clothe and feed herself, but it was hard for her to get mufolent for the little one. The mother sald; “It was easy for me to go without food and a bed when I could use the money to buy clothing for the baby,” Her great fear waa that the infant would be taken away from her, She clung to It desperately. She had been turned out by relatives because of the unwelcome child One of the greatest problems of the day is tho unwanted child—the so- called illegitimate, If there is any human being that suffers for the eins of others, it is this ohild I want to say, after a thorough search of the question, that this Problem has been lamentably alow tn the solving. I cannot too foreefally condemn the inhuman attitude that has been taken aguinst this innocent victim of the action of others, I have seen so-called reformers profer to withhold aid and thus pun- ih the ohildren on the presumption that by so doing they will discourage Negitimacy, Pages by the thousands could be written with heart's blood concerning children who have suffered at the hands of _society—soclety which should have been their beat friend. Let us once and for all promote such propaganda, or better still, such legislation as will forever wipe out the stigma of Mlegttimacy from the child, It is Just as sane to brand a boy or girl “murderer” because his or her father or mother committed mur- der, as to call the child “iMegitima because Its father or mother has com- mitted an Miegttimate act. supposedly shrewd bankers all over the country. Like Mme, Humbert, she offered to pay high interem rates, and the bankers nearly @lways came acrom with what ahe wanted, C. 'T, Beckwith, Premdent, and A. B. Spear, cashier of the Citizens’ National Bank of Oberlin, O., loaned her $450, 000 on notes signed “Andrew Carne sie.” Tre bank got into difficulties and Mra, Chadwick was arrested in the Holland House in this the Oberlin Rank failed without 4 assets. Mra. Chadwick was conv... of conspiracy to wreck the bank, and Was sentenced, In 1905, in Cleveland, to ten years in prison. She died in jai! in 1907, y. Thee Shé Is unable to cope with thekard- ship of fostering her child and ing it, and though her heart breaks for the want of that child, she q,joain ‘to mee It suffer, amd as a last resort she must put it ih an inatitution, What happens? ‘The State pays fdr it anywayr The public—-society— son care for that child in vo again travetied in a circle, Wan ve paid an Institution to care for thé ohild when we could have given the money direct to the parent, the flesh-and- blood mother, who would have given greater and better service for perhaps less money. Nature instilled mother love for one purpose—the oare of the by the mother, and any je law that defies the laws of nature, especially in the welfare of childeen, etways has to be changed. I believe that marriage |s the hoi! est thing in the world. Contrary to” the oynic’s cry that marriage is fal ure, In my humble opinion it the one rock upon which ctvilizatio& hax developed. It is the one fou thon upon which the home has beenibutl: ‘The home that has presented th most forceful element im the pr' of humanity, and the better the ho: the better contribution there is to tho welfare of the community, at But always the child is of pare mount importance. If laws fail an education falls to make people qyar! before they have'children, then Wha ever punishment there is to ho |r flicted should be visited on the p rents, a0 The child must have a clear bill Now as to the maintenance of su @ child, Invoke all the law possibvie to make the parents of oblidren re sponsible for their livelihood and care. Pursue any method within re son that will inaure the child's we: belnme. But when the parents fail t do this, then it Is clearly up to && clety to see to it that the child. does not suffer unnecessarily m The best way to do this is\th the home of the mother. The worst thing to do is to separate such « child from its mother. It lg,even more important in his case that he have mother love and. inaleriah pro tection than the child who is born wedlock ‘The most important and progpessive etep to be taken in the ¢ this kind of offspring and gg the community as well, {8 to reco thie child equally with other olfifdre: and in all laws relating to child we'- fare to make no distinction whittever Until this is done, the Stat, tho ernment, society, i6 recalcitrant and wofully wanting in the matter of human helpfulness and in the pro~ motion of the brotherhood of Toa about which we preach so mug and which wo practice go little, itfterest © +