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The Liberal Daily Democrat from Liberal, Kansas • 4

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LIBRARIAN PUTS ROBBERY TALES UNDER THE BAN FOR YOUTHS UNDER 18 much larger incomes than that from countries outside Austria? They have decended upon the worth of the certificates, was 'placed on file in this office in 1918. However, this provided for the issuing, of $50,000 worth, of the certificates and there is no record to show Notice -wretched city' in hordes. It is harder (By International News Aervke) to get a room in Vienna today than Pittsburgh Feb. 326Books on' wherj, state officials 'knew any in. any city in Surope Although I telegraphed for a room a week ii thing about the issuing -of any other certificates until colonel Travis ask: banditry, hold-ups and, robbery or crime of any kind even detective stories will not be given but to chil- advance of my arrival everything 'was occupied and I orced- to visit ed foriTa statement of the? number i I urou vr iwya up 10 seventeen jJn(, rlv W.

sixteen hotels before I could find ji LUXURY IN VIENNT AND MONEY FLOWS LIKE WATER By DOROTHY THOMPSON. (By International News Service) Vienna, Feb. 26-Thfr latest fashion in correspondence from Vienna is concerned with its luxury. "The Crowded cafes and, cabarets," "bau-tifully clothed 'luxurious ii-these some of the things which a visitor to Vienna sees and records as his impressions; I want to ayinequivQcalIy that if there Is any luxury in Vienna today Jt is not among the Viaenriese, Who among them has money for a dinner at a thousand kronen? Fpr gowns at fifteen or twenty thousand? place to stay. Then I had to give assurance that -1 would remain very according to Miss Grace Endicott, head of ihe children's de-1 These certificates, It seems, were partment of the central Carnegie "tewed with nothing back of x- Sunday (February 27) issue of the Chicago IJejalcJ apd Examiner will feature, in a page article the "remarkable icasei.of Mirian Rubin, the talking girl," and her miraculous recovery under CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENTS after all other meth- 'qds hadajled.

i( i This case has produced nation-wide attention. You want Jo know the particulars! Don't fail to read Sunday's Herald EXaminer i .) i "--f DR. VERA L. YOUNG, lUffi '1 hrarv Mm lfw .11 fXM cept the future prospects of the com fany. They to be redeemed by the, creation (of a surplus fund to be set aside from the future earnings of the company.

They were issued to the Pettyjohnst and personally Similar, action, has been taken in Minneapolis if is that nothing would b4 'done to encourage boys or girls in a life of crime. of the blood and thunder kind were long, i If I hinted that I might remain ten days or two weeks the cerk would reply: cannot afford to take you for that: length of time. There is too' great a demand for rooms." Foreigner Dine The restaurants are crowded with foreigners. They order hors d'ouvres, held to furnish boys particularly guaranteed- by them, and disposed of with ideas which later developed in- outside of jt, is said Bank to.crimes of a serious nature' some Wilson they 4 V. were not 8ubiect to supervision by the Tales of harmless adventure- are held to be all right; according to Miss but the rough-stuff is -under the According tq Miss En-dicott's iew books which would be suitable for boys would be Steven blue-, sky board because they were not sold in-Kansas.

1 Walter when asked as to his connections with the Bankers Life Insurance company, of Kansas 'denied that he had ever, had anything to do withjts busines sexcept to permit the use of his name as "a director. Is it the nobility? I positively, know that Count Graf and the Grand Duchess Marie Theresa are receiving "dollar packets'? of food from theUnited States. Is it the merchant class? The same prices which are exorbitant Jn kronen -shrink at nothing when translated-; Into dollars, of even francs. Merchants are selling themselves into bankruptcy. Is it 'the officlas of the Austrian' government? The former minister of foreign affairs," Rentier, is the envy of all his friends because he has recently made a tract to write an article once "a month white bread, fish, i delicate fruit, pastry, and get it.

have taken special pains to listen to 'the' conversations around me in places' of this sort. I have heard much Polish, German (of the Prussian variety, easily distinguishable from Vienna German) FrehchTltalian English. In the specialty shops women are buying beautiful gowns, gorgeous furs, at thousands of kronen, which rarely run up into three figures in dollars, no matter how extravagant the snender. The Bhoppe'rs. too.

I no- son's Treasure island, Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand "-Leagues Under the Sea," Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer'' Stockton's r.f. "Buccaneers COAL OIL Per. Gallon Use the Sudden Service Card and Pirates" and "Captain Chap." the action stories 'must, be denatured before they can be obtained for an American newspaper, for this tice difficulty -with their "Ger-he is paid and is thereby infi- man. 4 1 nitely richer than he ever was as the Soma Wonderful Opera. The opera is as gorgeous as ever.

Kiurino and Kurtz still sing as gloriously. The operetta is still the most by schoolboys. i The Pennsylvania.T)oard of censors for moving pictures recency" ruled out al films that capitalized; crime in a favorable way. 7''t''' PRESBYTERIANS HAVE BEGUN PLANS FOR EASTER 'chief minister of the Austrian government. Is it the workingmen? The average salary of a skilled worker in Veinna today is 600 kronen a PHONE '-'49.

fascinating in The stalls and week, which is less tha nenough to Doxeg i are filled with foreigners. Vi "I did not have a cent invested in the company," he said, "and I never received "a cent from it. One day Charley Pettyjohn told me he wanted to put me on the board of directors and as I remember I talked with Wjlson, who was then superintendent of insurance, about the and told him I did not know thatT wanted to permit JShis. He told me that if I did tiot want to be a director in the company I did not have to do sq and I never qualified and never so much as attended a 'directors' The only connections I ever had with the company; was to' attend a ban'quetT giv6nl the salesmen; and officials at Kansas City, where a lot of other people were entertained. Mrs.

Wilson and I were there Js invited guests, as a number of others Colonel Travis said he was opposed to the" selling of such certificates as Ilitif ennese stand In line "to purchase stnding room. At nearly every performance, so an usher whom I questioned told me, some one of these patrons faints It is hard; to stand all evening, in a closely 4 packed 'space when you haven't to eat. The Viennese still patronize the-cafes. Coffee is cheaper than coal, "The Presbyterian people have Begun to prepare for their Easter- pro-gram. The program will be carried on in about the same wanner as they usually are; -A.

number musical selections will be given and the little folks will have full' sway of the program, plans are being made, a little earlier this year than All people who do not 1 attend church 3 buy one luxurious dinner at tne Bristol, or the Imperial, of at any one of the fashionable hotels and restaurants. I believe that the statements which are circulated about the speculators who have made vast fortunes on the exchange are exaggerated. It is true that thousands who have a little money speculate, "with it. There isa certain recklessness born desperation. Men; have so little to even if they lose all, and they might win something.

Those' who speculate take great risks on the "misery boom" and most of their fortunes are of paper. Speculating is very risky when the kronen, drops, as it has recently done, two hundred to the dollar with- in ten S. Food elsewhere are cordially invited to at A1 1 XT tend thf special Easter service as wiob isauea u'ine oanners xjuv in-j surance company of Kansas and posed of by the Pettyjohns because We Have just received a car Red Star Flour J. E. George Grocery Co.

and cafes are warm, Often the women-are charmingly dressed. Viennese women wear their clothes with more grace than any women in Europe, and evening dresses wear a long time, and "seldom, go out of style, I have seen many into cafes in threadbare coats and emerge from them like butterflies from a (shoulders and lovely gowns, They order Others around "them take iced cakes and confections well as all others. It a question it is any harder to serve two masters than it is to master two servants. PETTYJOHN'S CERTIFICATES -'X FACE TREMENDOUS LOSS he 'considered i it the same as, selling "so much blue sky." he said that under the ruling of the attorney general's office he did -not know what the insurance superintendent could do to stop such hia practice. There are, of the "Schleich unumciat mm nave uittue iiiuiivy-uil i thp- ilWai tA mJ- These are the foreigners.

Meanwhde, Kanai City Newtpaper Man's Name If Linked With Big' Financial i Catastrophe. I the Austrian food "controller says these people, who en masse are one of the blights of the city, eke out a I I "We have bread to the first of Jan-i uary. After that we shall starve un wretched enough existence through less some country comes to Our re- their mean business. Because no one I'-' '1. '1 i rf.

RETURN MATCH (By Democrat's Topeka Correspondent) Topeka, Feb. 26. That the holders of the worth of cuaranteed certificates ut "but speculation in such narrow limits as' But if they starve it wil he amidst the ol ancient ijaoyion, among for the Bankers Life com those who come from a land of plen forced to move withinV Most of them pany and guaranteed by' the Petti-john name, will get only a few cents ty to live lavishly in a land of want. Armory, Liberal, Kan. on the dollar as result of SUNDAY AT THE I are the victims of circumstances.

Scores of them are Jews from Poaml and Hungary, who, forced to fie'- from thei rown countries, are afford i METHODIST TABERNACLE cent crash of the L. Pettyjohn 4i stitutions at Olathe, was the" opinion exnressed here Thursday, by Wednesday, ed reiuge nownere, are everywnere gunday school After a Frank L. Travis, state insurance-sup-erintendent. 0 ii Colonel Travis 'exnlamed1 that at denied work, and so take to the only montVt stay at home iet us make the business which is open to them. They attrendance a big one.il go into the country, buy up small At a m.

jIoly Communion ser-quaritities of white flour and vege- yice Let all membei.s be present and tables from the avaricious peasants, ,4. famflv. I lz3UlIL1 the time the insurance company went MARGH.v;i into the hands of a receiver, its legal and sell it" to dealers who" sell It. At 6.30 the Epworth League hour; STARTING A 8:30 P. M.

reserve was more than $8,000 below the requirements of the law and that this deficit would have to be met out of the $23,000 received in the sale of again, wno sen sun anomer ume. ifor ymjfg people if The which js indicated by At 7.j0 the pa8t0r will the final price the food accrues 1 This is the dosing service of the to no-one ihdmdualuViSrepattet among a dozen miserable wetches'leave There are also, to. be sure, a e-w a members and frfends t5 at- the compahyto-a Tes insurance company. After mis is tanen irom the sale' price, the expense of wind-inff ud the affairs of th6 company teftd the services will have to be'pajd and then the h8l- valuables of the destitute rich, the You are 'welcome all lx nobility of the Olden days, and sold I PRESBVf ERl AN 'CHlAtCH dfirs of these certificates will have to 'mini in with the other Creditors and share ip the remainder with them as the court directs. 1 tft -i''v r.

UM 1 ho- i a i fi 3 them in other -countries for prices fabulous in kronen, which theit real value. Few Among "New The scarlet fever has abated TheV issuing of these' 'certificates the quarantine has been lifted apd These are the "nouvenaux riche" now everybody can come to church.J m. iL.i I together with many other affairs 6f the company' are matters' that the. Republican state -officials, do not seem ol Vienna. so iew inniiuej ought to come Decause win are not worth considering.

They in jjo, ourselves good to; meet with and no way indicate the' return of a real worship God. We ought to come be- M. 1L. fttf BTB W.J V.l'.' a.h Wl able, to clearly explain, aespue we fact: that H.iH.SMotter, Republican Walter E. Wilson, prosperity, vu.vub cause vjoaiios a uicsamg only another symptom of the disease Jougjjt to come because'' we should from which Vienna is God for hia podness tVjis Who; then, are the people who durin? fever epidemici, state commissioner, and Fred Trigg of all direct give Vienna its -unmistakable air oi Thank him Jhat it has been stayed, ors the company.

5-Tlie certificates seem to have been opul encei maKe 11 wue wai and that, the people 01 our cny are issued without the approval or sanc- na has an air of more unbriaieo to a normal etate 01 Vien than it had before the wan health asram. license uon 01 any responBtme ki -have been-hahdled in a way mLIPASEA They are the tbej school Mit- without record or authority. The rec For to the person witn 9.45," Every scholar is urgea oe dollars, pounds or francs, who is.present as expect to make final to resist the Jemptatibn tf proWftrtfe ifor our automobile beneath the surface of jife, A the and a icalloUs' exterior to DJvine worship at "11; Theme "The those symptoms of misery which nowed bf the hour." flaunt themselves even in the hauntsi christian Endeavor at 6:80. full ords of the blue -sky board do nqt shov'wliete iawipicltion was ever made by. the, Pettyjohns, of the officials of the Bankers Life Insurance conipany for permission to sell the certificates, an Bank Commissioner nian hftirmftn of the "Tommy DOGTOR of laxury, Vienna is a veritable fairy attendance id desired, TT IlOVIlj "blue board, that he did Public worship at ,7:80.

Come thou land. with us and we wil thee good. The not know the certificates were in existence until his" attention was called in rtm several months before' the public very cordially invited. KALI fASHA and DOCTOR put oni" one the cleanest and most scien-" rv tif ic matches ever staged in Liberal and both are eager for another chance, You'll miss a good -one if you miss .1 ALSO A GOOD PRELIMINARY Pettyjohn crash. Also, L.J., Pettyjohn, secretary of state, and member Boarcl Very' Cheap.

Jfjcame to Vienna after a tour of Ital.twith so little money that I. was seriously troubled whether I could stay! for even a week. I could not hayi lived for" three days on what 1 hnd Jin Paryj, London or even in Rome But' I found that it was literally. impossible for an American to be poor tr. x'ionnn Tt-.

to live well ol the blue sky board, states that no matter was -ever brought before the board relative to any of the transac THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH All reiiar services at the Christian church tomorrow. The quarantine is lifted, the pastor is at home and will preach'bcth Sunny morning and Eeconed Gents on Sole at Taylor's Drug Stor tions of the Olathe 'Pettyjohns, who are not relation to him. Tn ho- r..

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1920-1921