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THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1922, | the Empty Purse AS $50,000 SUNT eee GOES OTHE ARY Even Actor Hilliard’s Counsel Lauds Playwright as a Genius, George M. Cohan recetyed more verbal bouquets in Supreme Court to- day than he ever has received from / bis legions of friends and admirers around the Rialto or in thé Friars’ Club, These were flung to a jury by, his lawyer, as well as opposing coun- ” EXPERTS IN HUNT FOR MILLIONS OF Kathleen Norris, Novelist, FALED EXPORTERS pms Cant’t Find $3,500,000 of As- sets Childs & Jacobs Were - Supposed to Have. « Teer ee WAS A MILLION DRAWN? Indications Are That Liabilities ‘of Bankrupt Firm WII Reach $9,000,000. i “The worst thing “The worst thing “It_is only the poor “When you are poor “People with money, “What fun can a “Poor people are “There are so many sel, in the summing up of the $60,000 Se pe eee Pe BS f : Indications that the liabilities of the you can do for a hoy you can do for a girl who enjoy the flavor you are up against especially the young, rich tamily have even never bored with life. more things that pull Suit ‘brought agaiset him: by- Rovers bankrupt firm of Childs & Josephs, ho ON eS A SO pe Aes A hi! Siw, Sano 5 Hilliard, the actor. ‘The case went . exporters and importers, of No. 60 is to leave him is to marry her to of life.’ reality. When you are neither enjoy life, nor in giving each other For them, it is a stray. apart the rich couple t> tha: Jury early’ Chis: aiterhoon ‘Wall Street, would be increased from money.” money.” rich you don’t know are disciplined by It.” Christmas presents!” gle, and they enjoy than that bring them “George Cohan is a wonderful al~ what reality means.” Only the Poor Can Enjoy The Flavor of Life, Says Kathleen Norris, Novelist American Romance Writer Declares Discipline of Poverty Teaches Enjoyment of Living— Where Rich Are Bored the Poor Get Thrills and Therein Are the Richer. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall) He may have a house, but money, N “The worst thing you can do for a boy is to leave him money." ‘The worst thing you can do 7,000,000 to $9,000,000 because of the reported inability of creditots to locate j) merchandise on the warehouse re- ceipts of which they had loaned thonéy, were followed to-day by the announcement that creditor banks have asked the New York Credit Men’s Association to make a thorough investigation of the firm's affairs and how it conducted its business, par- ticuarly, in relation to the securing of loans. ‘Accountants employed by the cred- itors, it is reported, have shown in their reports thar figures alleged to have been submitted by Childs & Jo- sephs to bonks for the purpose of se- curing credit amount to approxi- matey $3,500,000 more than the as- sets the auditors have been able to over. The figures of the accountants also show, it is stated, that $1,050,000 was chemist, a‘wonderful creator, like the alchemists of old, who turned dross Into gold,” sang W. M. K. Olcott of. counsel for Hilliard. ‘The. great Cohan," he continued, the uns paralleled genius in ptaywriting. Cohan’s counsel, Moses L. Male- vinsky, was as unstinted in his praise as was his adversary and heaped a continuous rain of verbal bouquets on Georgle’s shoulders. But Mr. Male-* believe necessary. The budget then] vinsky did not.treat, Hilliard as kind- will be presented to the Kansan In-|ty, Once he -referred to the plamtift dustrial Court, which probably will|as ‘the temperamental and. disap- be asked to reopen the Topeka hear-| pointed Mr, Hillard.’ Ing so labor may testify. In the opening of his summing up, “That a girl can dress on Mi Cohan's counsel declared. that Mr. Berger's $87.56 budget is ridiculou Ncott ought to’ get down on his knees - Mrs, Charles J. Maunsell, one of the d ask George's forgiveness for in- Seams ARs of the Topeka girls} sinuating that-he was a: ‘twelcher,’’ eclared, as opening: ‘She might get along six montha— pore Er ets aes ps ae on Topeka employers wouldn't! ‘I am not going to:get down on my have her in their stores in such a rig.| knees and a) wryth: She would stand no chance of beau| suid yesterdig,'9 anaes ‘Mr. hoot the results.” together.” NUGENT TO SUCCEED Working Girls Must Have Silk Stockings, Insist MURPHY IN BRONX MenChampions in Kansas men Champion Shop Girls— Their Budget Is $232.50. $20,000, unsecured. Commercial Cable Co, $3,000, un- secured, The firm of Childs & Josephs began ‘business in 1907 as Childs & Com- pany at No. 71 Wall Street. In 1910 the name was changed to Childs, Parr & Josephs, the partners being Harr R. Childs, Hugo 8. Josephs and Will- iam Parr. In 1919 the firm moved to No. 60 Wall Street and a year later Mr. Parr retired, the firm then taking the name of Childs & Josephs. Both the Childs and the Josephs families are noted for their entertain- ments and their social activities. The involuntary bankruptey pro- ceedings against Childs & Josephs were instituted by the National Park Bank, the American Exchange Na- tional Bank and the Bank of British West Africa, with total claims of $238,000, after a creditors’ committee had ddne everything possible to stay the crash until the firm's affairs His Selection as County Leader May Be Announced Within a Few Days. TOPEKA, March 7.—The working girl must have her slik stockings and Topeka laboring men, from rib- bon clerk to railroad fireman, are out to see that she gets them, Miss Nell Berger's $87.56 yeurly dress budget for shop girls, which Stephen A. Nugent, Democratic leader of the 4th Assembly District in the Bronx, it was sald to-day hed But why?" I persist “Because people with especially young people, money, neither gh Sh a might be rehabilitated.. feb *46 enjoy life nor are disciplined by [teen selected by 7. ie —let alone a husband. ait BERS iike sear Geasding UME tke — SO A ne ee she answered. Pasar ad hati a for! provided for 25-cent cotton stockings,| ‘The wage row continued to spread| weet oa te givens year “thronee Paptcy. THAS. H. CLARKSON & CO. PROBST “When I say that the poor are P of Bronx County, Now| was denounced at a mass meeting|throughout Kansas to-day. Kansas 4 In two crisp, serious epigrams, the happy people,’ she added, in | vacant because of the recent death of letters written by Cohan to Hilliard, achearinws; & Feb. 26, bef by Jabor leaders as unworthy of the] University co-eds submitted various] that the “foi * Geérge had Sind; Townsend, yeteres in’ banke BROKERS, SUSPEND] xatnteen Norris, author of cite bie conversational paren Arthur H. Murphy. An intimation] air womanhood of Kansas budgets at class work, showing how| broken his sa fog a ai thy LE Aa ‘ " saremieerneneetonnte PA are y a." esis, “of cour: lo not mei aCe 2h 4 ty a . a 4 ‘ ruptcy, and to be continued, it 5] pigbttities Are Placed at §145,000, ‘Mother, Lucretia coed: the utterly destitute, those who |that Mr, Nugent ts the man to be] Men took the lead at the meeting. naeed ‘har sus. a ae ee gariatomn ovat Ove stn as ee Hares e Childs and and Aanets About 870,000. “The Beloved Woman,"’ and at are really suffering for the neces- |named is expected from Charles F.| tynion leaders charged that girls were : 0 $700 a year, Sure Biliera'a failure of the lugo 8. Josephs will be asked to ex- 0) _— least a dozen more warmly human sities of life. But I do mean the Murphy before Friday night, when , ee er age, * ‘ool ere Was,"’ to Cohan, plain why $1,050,000, as the figures cake san d soMErase ali of Mae Ae cea aslo Eval people who have to work to get [irene in ten mec cent when warned that if they attended the/GIRL DISOBEYS TRAFFIC | who rewrote it.and made it a Broad. accountants show, was withdrawn | Charles apilessecs OEE i tip The Recados OF along, who must plan and save shah ells ie meeting they would “soon be tooking! COP; IN CELL ALL NIGHT | “°Y Success. It is Hilliard’s claim jm the firm during a single yeur| Proadv.ay, suspended business to-day hus summed up pe for their pleasures, who are cutive Committee to make the} for other jobs." , that an oral agreement was made in and to give the cdeditors information which might help Herman A. Eggers, life, in which she believes most thrown together and made de- selection Mr. Murphy, it is said, had a con- ference with Mr. Nugent to-day, and me, |the announcement of his selection were | could be looked for any time follow- as the result of an involuntary peti- tion in bankruptcy being filed against firmly, and which colors all her pendent on each other's love and the company's receiver, locate the] .+, The liabilities of the concern were work—that poor people are richer service, merchandise which he has been re-|ostimated at $145,000 with assets of : aaa . _ ported unable to find and because of| ahout $70,000, - than) rich (people—richer tn hap; “My little niece said to which hundréds of thousands of dol-| ‘Three creditors signed the petition, ‘But, Aunt Kathie, if there connection with the transfer of this show whereby Cohan was to rewrite “Honest John O'Brien" into a stage vehicle syitable for Hilliard. It. developed that Hilliard made Bay Ridge, who refused to obey the|certain disparaging remarkn ahont Three working girls, four other women and about 150 men were present at the start of the meeting. But that didn’t keep it from develop- IRg Into the indignation aftalr it wae Tried to Drive Aute Acri iness, in achievement, in love, in “the flavor of Jars of commercial paper has been} ine: é two young men, both equally vive ting the memorial meeting for Arthur sterks' | 7@Me policeman at Fifth Avenue and|Cohan around the Friars’ Club and y and their claims being: Joseph e a A tended to be, The Retail Clerks’ changed to the status of “unsecured| Greenticld, President of the Seminole | < wm and clean and fine, and one had | 44" yfurphy, which will be held in the | |"! abkis ath Street and tried to cross the|Whem Cohan learned of theso state~ wouldn't it be assets,’ a lot of money Union appointed two mule depart- skbaail z ; i ae J City Hall this afternoon, ments he informed his old friend Phe Federal Reserve Bank, which Hier a Neleana eet Giat He Mrs, Norrie and ber husband, better to marry him? E 1 sald, Mr, Nugont was born in the Bronx (ment store clerks to draw up a Seca s eae the stream of ve-/tHilllard that the oral part of their was reported to have held approxt- shia y = eeat Major Charles G. Norris—him- My dear, you cannot find a 11° the election district where he {s hicles, spent the night in a cell of the/agreement’ waa “off.” Hilliard is Lruce Bileski wis appointed receiver young man withia lot of Toney working girl's Gross budget. ae am ee mately $2,000,000 of the company's Paper put up for loans by member banks, pointed out to-day that the latter took up these notes at the time of the failure and denied that it was affected in any way by the bank- ruptcy. or that it had anything to do with the calling in of the Prosecuting Committee of the Credit Men's As- sociation for an investigation, Two million dollars of the liabilities aid to be represented by claims New York ks and the re- mainder largely by banks in other parts of this country and abroad The National Bank of South Africa, Ltd, a British Corporation with a ‘ranch Office at No. 44 Reaver Street, bas the largest individual claim— $2,149,347.50, with $415,000 of secured ssets, according to the court records, éaving a total of $1,734,347.50 un- secured. Harry Judson, agent of the bank, ted to-day, however, that its other oranches hone to locate merchandi: mast Africa and in India on which Money was loaned so that the amount of unsecured assets would be re- duced. Much of the company’s ts are said to be “frozen,” or unavailable just now for liquidation, but that they would soon be at the disposal of the creditors. As conditions stand now, it ia indicated that the firm's assets are problematical, The following is a list of creditors and the amounts and status of th claims, as shown in the record of the hearing before Judge Mack Park-Union Foreign Banking Corp., C. A. Holder, President, claim, $571,- 000, of which $200,000 ts secured, Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, a British Corporation, a branch at No. 44 Beaver Street, $488,- 000, unsecured. Bank of New York, $165,000, un- red, and $253,000, secured, ‘American Exchange National Bank, $175,000, unsecured. National City Bank of New York, $200,000, unsecured Bank of British W 500, unsecured, and Columbia Bank, $27,500, unsecured. Columbia Trust Compe .y, $80,000, unsecured, and $109,000, “‘theoreti- eally"’ secured. National Park Bank, claim, $343,000 we the value of the security they k to recover. National Banking Corporation, $200,000, unsecured, and $328,000, se- cured, | Standard Bank of South Africa, a British corporation, with a branch at No, 68 Wall Street, total claim, $378, - 000, with $100,000 unsecured. Brown Bros., $33,700, of which $2,500 is secured. Brown, Shipley & Co. $68,200, secured. Morgan, Grenfell & Co, of London, $138,000, unsecured, and $129,000, se- ured. Converse & Co., $16,000, unsecured. The Hunter Manufacturing and Commercial Co,, $56,000, unsecured. Minot, Hooper & Co., $515,000, un- ecured, and $126,000, secured, Smith, Hogg & Co', $331,000, totally insecured. it Africa, 839.- 600, secured of London, J. P. Stevens & Co., $251,000, un- ured, foodward, Baldwin & Co., $383,000, red. under bond of $20,000. Members of the firm are Charles H. Clarkson and Bernard B. Ingram. It was not associated with any New York exchan| as WILL HELP TO REPAY LINDSAY’S VICTIMS of the Dr. nlid Sayn He W' Who Lost Dr. Knute Arvid Enlind, Indicted for complicity with Alfred E, Lindsay, against whom many wealthy women have made complaints of embe Ald Women nds. of investment funds, was arraigned to-day before Judge Crain in General Sessions. Assistant District Attorney Murphy said that District Attorney Banton had agi with Dr. Enlind's counsel, Mr. Muehlenbrink, to ask for $10,000 ball instead of $59,000. Mr. Murphy said to-day he was ceiving many additional complaints unst Lindsay which he fs investi kating with a view to putting them before the Dr. Enlind, Mr, Murphys: promised to do everything possible to relmburse the women who entrusted money to Lindsay through him, a RUBIN ON TRIAL FOR ALLEGED FAKE CREDIT Charged With Loanx on Harry Rubin, formerly and suit business at No. Street, indicted in De Herman B, Schwartz, turer of No, ree of grand la trial to-day be fn the Crimin Court Getting Frandutent 7 in th Street, on a was placed on » Justice Wasservogel 1 Branch of the Rubin ts with obtaining money fro! New Netherlands upon imercial paper designated as trade ptances, Those were for sixty and ninety days. Schwarta who was rated at $20,000, fuil leaving the | instalment of $5,000 unpaid by Rubin, Schwartz was the upon whose credit the money was given to Rubin, It is charged ‘this : was fraudulent, The N sociation of Credit men is in- {in the ease, which is a test one. See YOUNG GIRL OF MYSTERY SEALS HER LIPS TO ALL! Police ify Her. are mystified by | yparently about Unable to n of a girl, fifteen years old, who was taken into custody jn Mariners Harbor last night after the attention of the police -was called to actions. While seemingly | not dumb, she has not spoken a wor since she was arrested, either volun- tarily or in answer to questions, She | | | was taken to the city farm colony at fying her, but the Newark Board of @tandard O11 Co. of New York, Zducation was unable to assist, New Springville for observation as to her sanity. The girl i# five feet four inches tall weighs 100 pounds, is of light complex: fon with blue eyes. wore a brown | coat, enlico dress, blue slike stoekin and low shoes, She ware a blue hi and carried a brown haf, ° had no money, but had two gold rings, A mutilated paper, apparently made out by the Newark Board of Education, seem) offer th® only hope of iden- self a leading American novelist, the author of ‘‘Brass'' and other books—have just arrived in New York for thelr annual visit with old familiar faces and places. ‘They made their home in this city and on Long Island until a few years ago, when they re- turned to buy a prune ranch in their native California, I found this tall, good-looking, gifted pair at the Hotel Chatham, and hastened to put to Mrs. Norr the question which, I'm sure, has puzzled many of her readers—es- pecially since the appearance, a few months ago, of ‘The Be- loved Woman.”” That engaging heroine is brought to the verge of mutri- mony with one of the greatest catches in recent fiction—a mil- lionaire, a gentleman, un almost- ambassador, And she turns him down, “‘cold,"' for a poor but hon- her est suitor, who un give neither pleasures nor _ palaces. Wherein ‘the beloved woman," however, plays true to the form of all the girls of whom Mrs. Norris has written in such a happy fashion as to give her the reputation of the womun writer best loved by American women. “Why are you always on the side of the emptiest purses?"’ I asked Kathleen Norris, when we were comfortably established in opposite corners of one of the green velvet sofas in the Chatham lounge. “Do you really think poor people have a better time than rich peopl and if so, why?" — “It is only the poor who ever enjoy the flavor of life,”’ she an- swered, quickly and earnestly, “When you are poor you are up againgt reality, When you are rich—you don't know what reality means."* Mrs. Norris, it ought to be sald at this point, Is qualified by ex- perience to discuss the relative merits of prosperity and of—com- parative—poverty. She is not in the position of the rich little girl who presi her nose against the window pane and thinks it would be love- ly to sing in the street for her bread, Despite the Norns royalties, male and female, de- spite the prune ranch, it wasn’t so many years ¢ Kathleen Norris almost regretfully recalls, that she and “C, G."" were living in a walk-up apartment near the And before “L' on $25 a week. her marriaj al family of children whose parents wer! knew all the struggles, stratagems, self-denials of the yday, non-propertied Americans whom she puts into her novels. “My father left us nothing,” she told me frankly. "I am so glad of It! The worst thing you can do for boys or girly is to} them money. And, if 1h way about it," she adde expressive, beautiful close pressed, ‘my : he is named for his dead uncle, Frank Norris, a third Norris vov- elist—"won't be left any money. who has as much character as the man without it.’ “That's why,'’ Kathleen Nor- ris added, with a smile of whim- sical apology, ‘I just can't bear to sentence my heroines to a life of wealthy matrimony. That's why, if I had a daughter, 1 should want her to marry a man who is poor. “If you should take twins, two boys just as much alike nature ever makes any two, and if when they were in their cradles you should put one into a rich home, the other into a poor home--l believe that when those two were grown the poor boy would be i MAN and the rich boy would be a weakling. ,He would miss all the wonderful discipline which life would give his brother."’ “It seems to be generally ud- mitted that poverty, when not too sharp, is yaluable — disci plin- arian,” I said, ‘But why do you consider it a state so much hap- plier than any other! “Because poor people are never bored with life, for one reason," she replied promptly. “Life, for them, is a struggle. They work for what they have, and so they enjoy the results of their labor." “What fun can a rich family have even in such a matter giving each other Christmas pres ents? Go through all the shops of this town and try to find som« thing which will please a rich girl asa gift. You can't do it, I have heard the members of a family with plenty of money discuss what they will give cach other, The new cars, the fur coats, the Jewels, whether they cost $100 or $1,000, mean absolutely nothing to either giver or recipient There isn’t any thrill! “And yet I remembe added Mrs. Norris softly, “when I used to buy something for 65 cents— money that I'd saved a nickel ata time—and it meant joy and won- to us both. ‘How did you R find THAT for 65 cents?" would be the incredulous er Oh, you know how it is—the j of saving and planning for months at a time to buy father a new umbrella or mother a ne rocking chair—or even a present for the HOUSE! “The rich can’t understand that Neither cun they understand t Joys of hospitality. What does it mean when | ask my fricnds to leave the dinner in their ma ficent home and come down to a dinner that might have cooked by the same chef in hotel? But when you Plan for your parties, when youcan Invite guests whose tuple 1s per haps not so \ell loaded even yours—then you know the ing of being hospitable. “The husband and wif rich haven't the sume need f each other as the poor m his wife. The latter thinks and works all day to make u bap) welcome for her husband comes in tired and cold day's work. She trie H favorite dish on + she makes his cha for him, the two have quiet hours here been this have to mear who are |robbery of the Express Company. now the leader, fifty-four years ago He has been in politics for the last thirty-one years, He has been Dep- uty Receiver of Taxes and Deputy Commissioner of Charities, He was Deputy Commissioner of Public W fare until last year, when he resigned First nounced hose and ROBBERY against Martha Full old, of No. 527 ve fifty-five years West 145th Street, ar- ed Saturday charged with having in her possession six American Express money orders sald ito be part of a $ 000 holdup and robbery. She was im- mediately rearrested by Detectiv lan Niagara Falls,;who cam with © Warrant for her arrest on the charge of being un accessory to the added other ne the total of talk and mutual comfort. | There are so many more things -hat pull apart the rich couple than that bring them together, “Tt had lunch to-day,"’ mused ithleen Norris, ‘in a restaurant filled with rich women. Honestly, I don't think the explosion of a bomb in the room would have stirred them—they were so bored And I thought to myself, ‘You poor, pathetic parasites, putting your white-gloved hands into your gold mesh bags to pay $7.50 for a single lunch. What are you getting out of life?" “It was the daughter of one of these Women, a little girl of six- | teen, Whose mother found that she and w boy friend of nineteen had hired a flat together, in which innocently enough, I belleve the two were entertaining their young friegls after the theatre And when the mother asked the ‘You have EVERYTHING. why on earth did you do such 4 thing as this? the sixteen-year old answered, wearily, ‘L was so bored, mother! | | "The girl who ts a stenographer telephone operator or ‘ behind the counter is far boppier than ‘euch a rich girl as this, If who anyhody wanted more n of the pathos of rich wort lives, he found it dur- the war when they had theic | And how they grabbed it 40a their cars, working for ] t fred Cron, selling Liberty SHELL PINK and the rest Now we're eice—and there's nothin ROSE, ) to do any more! Lhe rich miss reality,’ Katt JADE Norris cried again. ‘I b y believe that the differ J between the $5,000 income CIEL BLUE # the $50,000 income is a ~ ‘erin happiness-wit'aii |} ORCHIDIE siance in favo “wf the um | RESEDA Ud line ehe added, in va ke to lom we pave and beg’n again! V. A. E. Gregory, pastor of “the Congregational capital in general, at the Berger budget and its predicted a revolution in this country leading to a new social order because of il health, He is Presi- i ‘ J. O. Stevie dent of the Jackson Club of the]iabor teaders, then sronx in the rear of priate for women dress compiled $2: silk stockings and face ON CHARGE, ¥ Sih working girl's Magistrate Levine in Jefferson Market | young women Court to-day dismissed the charge|budget totalling essities that a work- ing girl must hav to $78 minimum wage of $15.10 a week, Three more girls pointed to investigate at d stores and make any increases they BONWIT Lhe Church, de- scoffed cent “bloodless by Magistrate ville Court. who sought to restrain her = Brown, | #fternoon, had to call a fellow patrol- ‘ke, but a man} man and half carry her to the side- Nek Ancre Cheese " hall arose and| walk. In court to-day she was quite Levasbagaar< iecpedbcey suggested It would be more appro-| penitent and sald she would obey next meat. But it has all the to make up the) time, food value of the former a a e ‘oncert to on Vork. i . 50, Including | Stara from tho Metropolitan and Chi- ing taste ‘of the latter. powder, They cago Opera concert on to live, bringing |18, at the demanding | ington Avenue and 26th Stree money for t cupational th Hospital and Fordham Hospital the concert, npanies will aturday then were ap- work at partment rapy NLY two or three of a kind, of fine French batiste—each an exquisite ex- ample of Paris needlecraft and originality. Hand Embroidery Hand Drawn Work Fine Laces Tuckings Blanket Stitched Edges WOMEN’S BLOUSES—MAI West 30th Street Station and to-day} Seeking a was released on suspended sentence Renaud in the York- Patrolman Dilworth of Trafic A avening, 69th Regiment Armory, Lex- ontinuanca of the oc- to extend this work to A dance will follow TELLER & CO. DE a> FIFTH AVENUE AT 38™ STREET FOR WEDNESDAY A Special Purchase of About One Hundred PARIS HANDMADE BLOUSES FROM A LEADING BLOUSEMAKER OF PARIS 7.50 Actual Values 12.50 to 15.00 verdict of $50,000, as he alleges he turned down two stage offers because of Cohan’s promise to turn over the “O'Brien” show to him in March, 1919, yesterday New, Coated, Sanitary Wrapper AINCRE With the Genuine Roguefort Flavor CNEESE Madeby SHARPLESS, Phila. ove sing at a March t, to raise Bellevue Embroidered Scalloped Edges Flutings Double Frills Fichus N FLOOR