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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1929-12-26, Page 2.0110111111111101111111111111 tlI fpa►Il�'IuerIllrlion!)�jll�iinninitiCr�llfl�rr il l(r(litfifnillf 17. H CHAPTER V. MUSIC IN TEO .Alla Mrs. Walden Garrick and Dick walked slowly They found Glenn at life Cecil;, "dtrago Gregory, K.C. made a strong til 9.30 Pau., and they may be used down Forty-ninth Street and across They Et bit .fagged.to help in the house, the garden, or Sixth Avenue, laughing a Ruth's ruse '(Ruth? -•--,why she's all right, Mrs. , appeal at the Old Ballet' 'tor Govern- the kitchen; and be permitted more °I a bit sore. • Waldon," ho hasteneo. "Yes, I heard ! xuent assistance in finding `Work for fre6dom in cvnnectiait with social' ga- "I. Suppose you feel put out!" pun- something about an accident. Just; discharged prisoners. ben convicted tlierings, etc. ned Garrick. • the steering gear went wrong. , But heli a mo"A, Ijrfsoner°ho has arrived at this Dick was too puzzled to. get it. "She she was quick enough to get from many times, lee paid, : an entploYer stage may r who ti Stage Il, e tainl ilt us through the Inner under and the -ear took the fence in- .rightly Hesitated) to take him' into his where the atm of the atitborities is y p Circle with as much neatness and dts- stead d.f up the bridge an emp oy � ,. is to bring the pi ((Why that's like the affair over at Gerards' the other night," supplied . ), into two se( does, for "hard labor' .and Lahr of.er. �'ardinary' prisoners," adds the writer . + in the Daily Chroicle, "ale of Ord Bai a A,t the end of six months of thein is' "' tits 1 1 5 g And a: New Kind of Prison the Inmates sof Which Will Beof the money they earn by their prison Given a Fortnight Holiday work, luxuries, "includ:lig tobacco, After Good Behaviour and 'books, drawing neterictl, and such Return to : Complete Their Sentence. incaroeratiou, prisoners who have tel ves t. t er s ce a h nut i ad �'1 and c worked sed a well :are to. be .permitted' to buy, oat things, sad to subscril)b to a news. - paper. "Their Bells will remail( lighted un- patch off—at employment. h isomers to feel that patch as,a sardine goes from the river )east that's what 1 hoard:, "'In my view,. be went on,,. it confidence is placed in them, and that to the tin in the movies... Only, 1 They 'harried your:g Buckley with rong,in ahighly ciw"llised State "that they are expected to prove themselves, w Hef ff 1 sheen], Ill exist wonder why?" questions but he was guarded, such a state o ,a a rs s otr worthy -of that conl'cdence, Garrick was thinking of the threat protested� that he knew nothing more, and' i cannot help Peeking ,.that sonic ,i heli doings are not strictly watch - that "Could it be that' she took winding up again with the assurance, steps should ad and supeivisec, they p 1 � ant for men ist •a that way of keeping .us out of clan- "she's all right, though.' ger?" "But how -do you know she's_ all He stopped short and looked bac):. right?" insisted Garrick. ` p stranger was lurking back eBecause`I vas talking to Vira over A tough of them. Garrick moved ahead and the wire who» I made the, appointment stopped again. ` The stranger stopped and slouched nth a garage. Garrick walked back quickly and as he passed him looked over and smiled. "I'm on," he. laughed and the man dropped his eye in sheepish sullenness. They turned the corner and again into Fiftieth Street As they passed the other door of the. garage which ran through the block Garrick hesi- tated as h' ' to walk through it aud locate the shadower. As he did so he saw another roan slink into a door- way. "'We've discovered one. another has moved up to take his place. An old and, very effective device." He hurried down the street with Dick, plunged into the subway, waited for a train, then walked on out the other exit. No "tail" could hold down Garrick if'he suspected he was being shadowed. What did it mean? Still speculat- ing, they went on to Garrick's city apartment at Bachelor's Hall and turned in. The next morning was rainy, damp and depressing. Garrick and Dick had breakfasted and were discussing the events of. the day before. Gar- rick's mind was most active when his physical being seemed laziest. Stretch- ing out in his chair, raising his arms slowly above bis head, he yawned and was about. to deliver himself of some sage. _ $$servation on life in general and the case in particular when the telephone ,rang. "Hang it, what's this? Answer it, Dick, old man?" Dick's mind and body ° were both' alert. Ile had breakfasted with' a couple of invisible companions, love. the dissimilar and averaged. them. and anxiety. "Garrick." • He held' his•. There was no -approval of the butter - hand now over the transmitter. "My fly and the 'candle in Dick, however, word! It's Mrs. Walden." "Nita Walden? Here? Tell her there's a little reception room down there. We'll be with her right•away." Nita Walden was distractedly wink- ing quick and balling the handkerchief in her hand as she gazed out of the window at her car in which McKay was biting with bulldog grip at his pipe as if contemplating something distasteful. Garrick closed the door as she rush- ed excitedly to him and seized his hand with fingers that clincher] uncon- sciously. "Guy . . I am desperate) It's Ruth again—my little girl. You must find her for ine. i can't take anyone into.I my confidence except you and Dick. 1 don't know which way to turn. She didn't come home last night. I have walked and walked the floor waiting for her. I haven't e'v'en had a tele- phone call from her or anyone else. What shall I do? She never, never did this before. My Ruthie—my little girl. Oh, Guy, I can't stand the worry and uncertainty of it. H alp me, please," There was a knock at the door. Garrick opened it. It was McKay. "Please, sir, I was just talking to a friend of mine, a chatnfeur, who drives for some people out on the south shore, who live up the street. Miss Ruth's car was wrecked out on the Island— ran into a fence or something on an approach to one of the bridges on the Motor Parkway—oyer the embanlc- nien.t—near Smithtown." "Was she hurt? Where is'she?". Mrs. Walden's acute ears had caught even the modulated words. "No one knows, ma'am. There was not a trace of anyone around the car —just the machine, left there." Garrick took down the telephone receiv and called a Bryant number. Dick glanced over quickly. It was a number he had . seen. in the hallway of the Inner Circle and had made a mental note of. Dvidently Garrick had bone the same. be taken>by_,the Govern 1 are permitted went: to provide emp oy mr certain amount of self -admin r - i nthis position in order that they may tion, and any group may: elect a spa have an opportunity Of becoming good the really` so desire.' cies of prefect who shall form a con- citizens ifYnesting link betweon them and the "The Judge was dealing with a man prison authorities. "Prisoners in Stage II no louger weareiso un:i r, but are given clothes distinguishable from those of free civilians of the artisan class. "Roomsare provided in whbch, after theday's work is over, they may meet to read, write, or enjoy themselves in some' other quiet way. ,"Among many ' further. privileges granted to prisoners in Stage II is that they - may possess musical in- struments, decorate their cells ,with pictures, and may keep plants. "When a prisoner has been six months in Stage II, and has served altogether, half of his term of punish - „lent, he may be permitted •a week's holiday to visit his fa'niily, or for a purpose w advances his education or beipee providing for him when heels' released "When a prisoner has been ffix- months in Stage III, if his progress` justifies the privilege, he may accept work with an employer outside the prison, provided the latter pays the full local wages. "Twenty-five per cent. o£ the money thus earned is placed to the prisoner's credit, the. rest must •be handed over to the prison authorities for his board and lodging. Such prisoner workers 1 Dick I hdpe so are not to wear clothing or bear signs it was. just this vivacious type of ment •of State, or, if that a., that would distinguish them from free cistron wvillotuntar- workmen. to meet her at. the tea rooms of the who had. pleaded guilty toea number Champs Elysees' at three and she said of charges ot uttering forged elieciues p she was. That's all 'I know." and who had been previously eenvict- It was nearly three when Garrick ed tan tines. . and Dick sauntered into the lobby of "Work had been fount ;for . the mi. the Champs E yiees, looked about eau- sonar, said the - judge, and he would tiously, and proceeded to got under be bound over. 'i ain going to, try,a cover. great experiment,` he added." had Before the tea' room on; the rnez ran- "The man, said' judge Gregory, b ine floor hung a sign: "Radio Concerts stated that when he came out of pre Daily." They nosed in, saw that the son he found it almost impossible to o coast was clear, and selected a table obtain a situatio to enable him in an. angular corner, with a mirror live an honest life. • 'In conseCuence so placed that it was a veritable peri- he had been driven back to crime," scope. "'I hear that same story from many An orchestra in 'Neww a ck. was broad- otlier young men who are i%ouaud casting some selection _ as they sat before me,' went on the Judge, atter down at the table and ordered tea and I believe it to be true. It is a. m crumpets. seconds that has oppressed me very much in -It was not more than sixty se recent times. I recognize that it must after three that they saw Glenn come be'correct that when a man ,has been in, looking pale and tired, select a convicted many times for serious of - table at the other end of•the room and fences, the ordlnar tradesman or drop into a chair facing the entrance. manufacturers or other,empIoyer,hosi- Ten minutes later Vira bustled in, tates, and rightly hesitates, to take excited and angry about something,. a man with such a history into his and worried. Glenn rose and greeted employment.' her, all animation, now that a girl was "The Judge made the reference to in question. State action quoted above,' and con- Garrick and Dick, watching and tinned; wondering scussionhof Ratat to h an fallen had Vira and "I Hope Somebody . Wilt" Garrick was taking a cruel delight "'How it can be done it is t•ery in sounding Dick. • difficult to say without inquiry, but To his serious mind, -confessed, mebody, either some Depart - Ruth isnot be Ruth that had for him the greatest done, some assn attraction. As he put it, an intellect-., Ey' undertake to' inquire if' at is not "Among the other numerous 'pri- ual girl have been merely in- possible in some way to provide pro- vileges enjoyed by the ' prisoners in ho nal age s the to terisifying•his. own nature. • ductive employment for ,mss liable w e � their. own clothes, andpermission •usa Garick was urging' him on and de- leave prison without any sea own bow linen. They may use liveri ' a little 'scientific homily on chance of obtaining work theired 1 .e many letters as e- og wise old nature that brought together . •e'If that r ne'it appears to ceive hoose and their correspondence Me `that. thele must be tutndreds they 'choose, the authorities young mon who will be, ficin time to is not read t con - time, discharged from prison, whose eider it advisable that this should be only chance of getting a living is to ,done. go back to their evil companions and i "The cells need not be locked dur- a.sk for their assistance. Unfortunate ing the day, and the prisoners may ly, that assistance is: only granted, on have two week's. holiday in the year, most occasions, upon terms that they on ,conditions similar to those on share again in some crime.which tbe occupants of Stage Ieob- "'In the present circumstances 1 tain their one week's holiday. 'believe your cry for help, andI have "While the necessary improvement taken steps to try and assist you. ot the morals of criminals is aimed I am going to try a great experiment- at, the view is held In the Ministry Through the kindness of Colonel ,Cecil for Justice that more will be aecom- Bevis, of the' Central Discharged Pri- lilished by cultivating the psychology soners' Aid Society, .I am in a posh of the offenders." tion to say that you will be found em- ployment' "The ;fudge then bound him over." A Real Departure JAPAR - .... the garden," 646 'Fresh ��®fit the. ...,: , BeH�. ;, Though Famous•How to appy By DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS AND MARY PICKFORD . , . p paradox/sal, '. We like all other mortals, are busi- sense of lois. .Itsounds p ly engaged in the quoat of happiness. The reader will 'please - not infer that we take ourselves to be autboii- tios on the subject of success and hap- piuess. It is our belief that no one. upon whom fortune has heaped' a full measure - of success has really the slightest idea of how it all happened. hefilth, plenty of .fresh air and exec- ' We would be great hypocrites if we disc, occupation with some worthy did not acanowledge that luck has purpose, .even it one does not get very but it is really a fact that .one of the best ways of adding to our happiness . is by decreasing the number of our pleasures. The needs of life, the re-. quirements for happiness, are so' few and simple that they are within the reach of everyone. .• Good digestion, wliich means good and they 'vera soon into a discussion of Rae and the evident 'dissipation she showed. of iris "One does not readily thinkg sowing wild oats,' remarked Garrick. "Yet they often do. This is one of the strange anomalies of the new freedom of women." ° Dick frt vned as he thought of the glamor of the life they had seen at the Inner Circle. What the end. of it all might be, he evidently preferred not to guess. At least he -did not pur- sue the subject, "Do you know, I've been worrying a good deal about the. handwriting an that autographic film," Garrick chang- ed the subject as he brought out du- plicate u plicate prints he 'hacl made. "Whose is it? Do you happento have a note or letter from Ruth'?" Dick could not avoid the point-blank inquiry. He pnllll a little noeefroni his pocket. Garrick took the note "and laic) i, down on the table beside the print. Then with his -pencil he began noting the formation of letters, the capitals, a score of little character- istics. 'The writing is Ruth's all right," he remarked. "I think I'm getting a line on Ruth. She's a game bird but, she flies funny." There was a pause. The- concert number was now a solo, "Love's Old Sweet Song." Suddienly --- ah -h -h Bies zz sz re, Buzz zz zz zz. A shade of. annoyance passed aver Dick's• face as the song was broken into w Bzzezzzz—•dot-dash-drat-dot-dash. Dick scowled. Garrick tapped the table absent-mindedly. Then suddenly each looked tip and caught the eyes of the other. "Paging Miss Ruth Walden from the Sea Vamp, Meet poo in the Pink Room' tonight. Jack."' The dots and dashes ceased. Then th- solo started again. Garrick looked into "alio mirror which gave him. a 'refIeetion. of Glenn' and Vira. They had got it, too. interrup- tion and dashes had meant only to most in the room. A few moments later Glenn paid the check and the two rose to go. Gar•. rick hastily did the sante. "They will tell Ruth," he- nodded to Dick as they wont out. "w'o've just simplf got to hear what ie said in that Pink Ream tonight,". considered_ Gai'r ick. Dick's face. lighted up. as if a sun ray are had bee nawitchedl. on. "My wireless dictagraph!" he exclaimed, (To be continued.) played a leading part in our Iives. o, let us set down our little homily thus: "Be as lucky as possible• and nothing can prevent your ultimate. success." It there is one thing that exceeds the futility of telling people how to be successful, it; is telling them how to be happy. The'very term "pursuit of happiness" is misleading, for 'it implies that, like some kind of game, it should be chased to its lair. Where- as everyone knows from common ex- perience that the harder you go after it, the less chauce you have of.ftnd- ing it. To us, happiness is the direct result of learning to be contented with con- ditions that cannot be remedied, and 'discontented with conditions that can be improved—and then striving to im- prove them. This almost exhausts. our total stock of wisdom on the sub- ject. . We invited a newspaper writer to our home in Beverley Hills for the week -end. Although he politely did his best to conceal it, it did not take a• mind reader to detect that he had come to study us so that -he could pass on to others the secret of our sup- posed success. He left us, we fear, baffled and disappointed. For what did we do that evening? Before .dinner we stood out on the lawn and watched' • the yellow full moon with binoculars, and observed that the top was dented by a -huge crater. Going indoors, we sat before a log fire while George Ade and Charles Chaplin, who were among our guests, engaged in a spirited contest to see who could remember and sing press agent writes about hint and try - hag to behave so as to uphold :the il- lusion. The best corrective is a sense . of humor. When someone tells us us- ual that eve attract larger crowds, .when, and the motion -picture business, our we appear In public, than the Prest next productions, and so on. dent, we reflect that a wbite elephant After dinner, someone made the as -walking down Main Street would; sertion that no one in the company draw a larger crowd than any one of could walk naturally through the -din- us. ing room, without exhibiting a par- The -strain of acting up to people's expectations has grown. too great. We have fallen back on the simple expedi• ent of being ourselves and reserving our acting for the screen. Incidentally,' cultivating a taste for simple things. has been a great benefit to us in our. ne work in that we find it easier to speak top at sunrise, and went to bed before the common human language of hope,' tp 11. Our newspaper friend was un- love, fear and the other elementsl questionably disappointed ;tt such a emotions. And we are inclined to believe that "commonplace evening. • The iuost unhappy people we have nothing great of any kind can be met are those who, aro coustantly achieved with a feeling of superiority, seeking new aiid, more extraordinary, to 'what one is doing or • for the peo- ple for whom it is done—that. nothing notable has ever been written, ' com- posed, chiseled, or acted with the tongue in the cheek or with a sneer. -- "Liberty." far with • it, . and the zest or life. and peace of mind that go with these thingsthis, so far as we know, boxes the whole compass of human enjoy- ment. Take away one item, and you may chase happiness to the ends of the earth and `not find it. ,Add to them ad lib.—setthe sumbersonie machines' of pleasure running at full speed, In- troduce every new device for enjoy- ment that man can invent—and you will have added nothing Important. Such'a philosophy runs against the restless current of the times. Yet we know that it suits us. We discovered long ago that what we liked best were • simple things, freedom from social,. compunction, the right to live without"` dictation. And here at home, resting quietly atte.r.,e_d aY'e work, Qein-e...__ 'ple we want' to see, affecting nothing., we do not feel, refusing to do things because someone else finds them amusing, looking forward to the fu- ture with enthusiasm—this Is the bests way we know of being happy. Being ordinary is, under the condi- tions' of modern life, something et, an art. One of the commonest flhusiois is that in order to make an impression on other people we must assume qualities we do not possess, adopt airs that sit but poorly upon us, and in general try to sustain theefiction that we- are' more gifted, important, -and splendid than we really are-.: T[ief, temptation is particiilai•y great for a person in the public eye. -The motion -picture star is in con- stant danger "of believing wbat his "This is Glenn Buckley's brother," he prevaricated. "Is he there? Well, clo yo• t know where 1 can call him? You think he's at the Cecil? Thank. you.,,, Garrick turned, without betraying where it was he had called. "They're sonr.a friends o1 his, I thought .per- haps . Glenn (night gine as some in- formation. 81ippose, Nita, you have McKay drive us over to the Cecil, It's on Park Avenue," :They were roundingti#Grand Cen- tial and 'Garriek•bought a couple of evening paper"s - "Another robbery on tong Island,," commented . as he glanced 4own he , 'from the big . headline. "The Prlrr estate in Smithtown.' "The Parrs?",conttr:ntod Mrs, Wal - le "Why, they're fricnds et mine." � —.. • ,w„,tinge -ciicuiitst<:raes,” went 0*1 't.d '",1 .girl and WO Mien" Midarea* C„ln?tnxl:i far pbujhi, "A novel experiment in prison )ife, in which 'high grade' prisoners will, be given a forinignt s holiday a year, t first six months of 1929 .amounted to permitted toe accept work from out-, $175;140,140, says the Bureau of Pub - side employers, and given a share in! lid Roads, United States Department the management of the prison, lat. of Agriculture, on -the basis of figures to bo tried out in Germany. reported to tbe bureau. In New York about. "Pot a purpose of the experiment, the tax became effective May 1, and ec+- P the L 'isoii is under constructiozi'i,tlae Illinois law slid not;become off r . a movie epi near •Brandenburg (and will serve the tive hull) Augusta A total ref the 'Berlin). Pro-; 693,872,662 gallons was taxa 5, - province which includes. i vision will be made for 90o prisoners,' forty-seven states and. theDistrictof and it is expected that' the new in.- Columbia. The 07 centg, Oaxur sopah- stitution will be ready. for its first per gallon was occupants early .in the coining year, ern neighbors once more prove "Save -Daily Chronicle, " f or take the pennies, the pounds will The new prison will be divided look after themselves:" the oldest songs. At dinner, we fear, the conversation did not soar to any great heights. We talked of the us - 1 things• the future of California tide of self-consciousness, precisely Gasoline Receipts Counted as if no one were watching him. This Not counting refunds made, the led to other similar diversions. They total amount of the, gasoline tax col- were not very intellectual, no doubt, lotted by forty-seven of the states but they caused endless merriment. and the District of Columbia in the Then we walked outdoors again, plan- ned a picnic breakfast on a mounts "`f'ou ldnowy,•dearWhenever ` it's a funny, thing, but ( z T eneve"r father' comes ,hone and catches dear A)gorntn cc•)tlling on me, iu.y love flies out; of the window. Travel 'in Old Fashioned ____.�._-..-- Still ashioned. Style • ''" 710":" 'R^-',,;%�) . ,t£^'f'.'.'k;.;';�•. •:7,Y.',:: >f'ZW�2�• 3r,' i n-�.-7,` rrj"§;� Fs , ' p.hk,. F fig., `¢'` .M ..,.,',a 63.13 {rdiK�.�:r . .-iay:F DOWN NORraiff,RN RIVER EY BOAT BED MEN �(ICRA`fE Indian braves, with their sc,0aws, papooses, dogs and ea:toce, mi dowxx the Macken le River by steaniiboat and land at likely looking .sp ways of gratification, who feverishly follow every new cue to pleasure, and careen manly atter happiness. The pleasure seeker is nearly always a dis- contented person, :finally deserted even by the illusion of lrappinese, and the man who makes a business of pleasure is the last person to find it. But this philosophy is not very orig- inal either. Disguise,it as we may, it is only another plea for simplicity, a, brief for the simple, ordinary( and un- fashionable' pleasures—a suggestion that the feverish rush after enjoy- ment is carrying us way past our goal into 'a land of satiety; and boredom. • This experiment we would recom- mend because we- have found it suc- cessful: that ,those whose lives are crowded with amusements look over their list of social 'engagements for the week and ruthlessly cancel three- fourths of them. We think they would be surprised to find with what a quickened house of enjoyment they would greet the ones thii,t remained and with what a: feeling of relief they would welcome a few (evenings in which they could do exactly as they liked. ' When once the adjustment 'is made --anti that is always difficult—tele is sure to find that, for no reason other than force of habit or some social coercion more fancied than .real he has been doing things that not only did not add one jot to his ,genet'al hap-. piness; bat actually bored and depress- ed liiin, It has beenour experience that one can come closer to it full enjoyment of life by tithe process of simplification, and eliininatlon than by adiIingetind multiplying one's forms a amuse-• meet, There ite'o :i loet,.of tion -asses grate , tials fnasquerading ns iilea.sttres that ots. r One can ddisnii a iw,1;'�•,p.A the slightest "The call of the Wild reminds a mail that his best friend is his dogs. MinaCd's Liniment for Distemper. SELF-KNOWLEDGE We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often ear owvtz'harms, which titdl wise powers " Deny us fbr our good; so find we fit, • By losing, of our lit'tye r.e. ---Shakespeatee ISSL!.. No. 51—'29