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The Washington times., 1915-06-02
ON GETTING ACQUAINTED

A great deal of hand shaking, en-
tertaining, and exchange of pretty
compliments, marked the sessions
of the Pan-American financial con-
ference here last week. Members
of the conference are now off on a
swing around the circle to engage
in similar ceremonies in other
cities.
But getting acquainted is only
the first step. What is more needed
is a careful study of South Ameri-
can trade conditions, business
houses, credit relations, and buying
methods.
The story is told of one great
Argentine firm of automobile SELL
ers that placed an order with we'll
known American automobile build
ing concern. The firm wrote back
that the cars would be sent as soon
as payment in advance, including
freight charges, was received. The
order was cancelled.
Long term credit is one of the
keys to Latin-American trade. En-
deavors to collect, even upon deliv-
cry, are received by firms of good
standing down there as little short
of insults. The leisurely way of
doing business may be an annoyance
to American statesmen, but until
these agents learn the ways of their
buyers, they stand little chance in
competition with nations that have
studied South American business
methods and temperament. Only
by such painstaking effort will bust
ness men of the United States be
able to seize trade which rightfully
is theirs.
The Washington times., 1915-06-02
Says Pedestrians Have Responsible
ity in Avoiding Accidents.

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
Please accept the congratulations of
an automobilist on your editorial of
May 20. entitled, This Thing Must
Stop" The sentiment of the thinking
class of drivers will certainly be with
you in a movement to hold down to a
minimum the dangers that are natur-
ally connected with an increasing street
traffic, and / am persuaded that 1 voice
the feeling Of a large number OF car
owners in seconding your motion that
few Joy riders be placed behind the
bars.
l would. however. ask you to accept
an amendment. to the effect that a few
drivers who do not follow the rules Of
the road" be sent along with the 10y
riders' to keel them company.
While fully in sympathy with the side
Of the question that you presented.
may I as a practical driver of fair
experience invite your attention to an
other phase of the danger in question.
to which you made no reference?
Should not the pedestrian be reason
ably expected to do his share toward
avoiding accidents? Why Is Il that pub
lie protests, complaints, and warning
are always, or practically always, d.
Within two weeks l have very mar
rowly escaped running over three per-
sons under circumstances which
maintain were entirely the fault of
these three people. for l was strictly
and absolutely within the regulations,
and was driving with caution. These
three incidents are characteristic OF
almost daily occurrences in our streets.
The 1000 miles that l have driven
have taught me to drive cautiously
and have shown to me the justice OF
traffic regulations. but l would re-
spectfully invite attention to the fact
that IL the public insists upon crossing
streets in the middle OF the block
without looking In the direction of traf.
fic. or II people cross from corners
diagonally. or II children Intentionally
stand In the wav of automobiles for
the distinct purpose of making the
| driver cross to the left. 1t is not the
! driver alone who is TO blame in case
| Of accident. and This Thing Must
Stop"
AN OWNER AND DRIVER.
Washington, May 90
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the future. The National Government
could furnish at little expense blanks re-
Quired for such an organization and
American patriotism OF our people the
labor required. There surely would be
no difficulty in procuring we'll equipped
officers for the organization. in all To-
calities. as most of the Spanish war
vets are still in their prime, and would
be ready with others to take up arms
should a call be made for which neces-
sity existed.
The conservation OF such scheme
would be valuable experience when
the real time comes. VET.
Washington, May 80.
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tive Of war was promoted by
King Podiebrad Of Bohemia in the
fifteenth century. His country had
been swimming in blood for many
years; had withstood crusades, and
defeated almost all Europe during
the Hussite wars. He proposed to
the King of France in 1464 the es-
tablishment Of an international
tribunal, to be composed of reigning
kings and princes, it's object being
to work together for the glory of
God, the good Of the universal
church, and the independence Of ma
tions." But the most Christian
Louis XI was not of a mind with
him, and the dream was dissipated.
The unlikelihood of there being
realized the aims of the peace
leaguers is no argument against
their propaganda and efforts to
bring about world peace organi-
zation. But to the practical mind
their labors are educational more
than anything else, helping to
habituate mems thought to the ad-
vantages and desirability of peace
and to the abomination of war ex-
cept as the ultimate resort. The
fact is with us, and probably will
remain with US for many centuries
to come, however, that the possi-
bility Of such last resort always ex-
lists, and in determining when re-
course shall be had to it it is doubt
full If a first class power, whether
Great Britain, the United States or
any other, would submit to the man.
dates Of the other powers, all Of
whom, Of necessity, on account of
the condition of world affairs in this
age, would be more or less inter-
ested in the matters at issue.
The Washington times., 1915-06-02
EFFICIENCY VS.. ALIMONY

Out in Denver a woman has arisen
in protest against applied efficiency
in the household. Many more timid
souls, who have long revolted in
wardly at that dread phrase, but
have stood in awe of the superior
persons who fling it at one at every
turn, will applaud this Denver
woman in unholy glee. For she has
arisen in her wrath and applied for
a divorce on the ground that her
husband, after spending thirteen
years studying efficiency, here and in
Germany, insisted in applying it to
her household.
The Denver home had prospered
and fourished and two children were
therein, so the plaintiff alleges. She
was a good "housekeeper," the chill
dren were cared for, and her hus-
bands appetite was appeased regu-
larly. Things were running smoothly
when the defendant, it is set forth,
bCSoh w PldI opOuI lOSC
and insisted that the kitchen utensils
were not arranged properly, that
the bread knife was across the room
from the bread, that the dishes
could be washed in eight minutes in
stead of fifteen, and that the time
for bathing the children varied as
much as an hour daily. Then, it is
alleged, he had certain other COM
plants about household accounts,
and he probably even tried to teach
the housewife how to clean house in
more sanitary and expeditions man.
ner.
The plaintiffs succinct conclusion
Is that the treatment she received
was brutal, and that, anyway, had
she not been keeping house for
twenty years, and ought she not
know more than any mere man
about it? One waits breathlessly
for the mans answer to that. Elk.
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Tomorrow.

George Washington University commence
ment. Chi Omega senior dance and girls
Meeting. National Mental Hygiene Associa-
ton. Gridiron room. New Willard p. m.
Rost festival. by Miss Clarins Mccarthy. soo7
Meeting. District suffrage League. Peoples
Forum. Eighth street and Market square.
Memorial service. Elm Camp. No. s. Wood
men of the World. Old Masonic Temple.
nnc and Of
Meeting. EIks' orphans { committee. Eils'
Bazaar % and Grand Yahrmarkt. sa.ns.rbund
hall. for widows and orphans of German
Noyena q .reparation. chapel Of tn. Nos.
blessed Sacrament, near Fourteenth and
Novena. Sacred Heart Church. 7:4b .. m.
Novena. st. Matthews Church. s and 7:so
p. m.
Masonc-Hiram, No. 10; La Fayette. No. iss
Masonic Board of Relief: Esther. No. &
Knights Of Pythias-Franklin, No. 4
odd FellowsEcolumbia. No 10; Salem No.
%; Covenant, No. Is.
Elm Camp, No. s: Maple Grove No. t.
Ladies' Circle.
National Union.w: H. Collins Council.
Sons OF Veterans-Richard J. Harden Camp.
No. q.
Modern woodmen Of America-A. r. r1ibott
Camp. No. 1882; Columbia Camp No. 1ls28.
knights OF Columbus-spaldins Council.
Corpus Christi mass and procession, Francis
can Fathers. at Monastery. Brookland- 8
a. m.
Commencement exercises National Trainiss 8
School for Women and Girls. Lincoln
Luncheon. beneft of the athletic fund. Cen
tral High School, p. m.
Meeting. Pocahontas Memorial Association,
Hotel Bellevue, 4:S0 p. m.
| Meeting. Noncommssioned Officers Associa-
| tion Of the First Infantry, D. C. n. c.,
school room in Oyster Building D. IN.
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MANY EVENTS LISTED
FOR CAPITAL TODAY
Meetings and Entertainments to
Be Held In Every Section Of
City by Various Societies.
Today.

Monthly meeting Association Of Oldest In
habitants, old Engine House. Nineteenth
psnst sns barss4 fSr %dcs. Orphan.
Meeting. Mutual nfs Insurance Company.
comme1cemen Enn ] exercises. Howard University.
1880 p. m. Alumni reunion. 10 a. m. Ban
jubilee df services. @ israel M. q. church. 8 D. m.
Meeting OF board OF control. Washington
District Epworth League. Lincoln Road NJ.
George Washington University commence
ment week events; Smoker of Engineering
mic, annual meeting OF board Of trustees.
Lecture, '.Dietetics" Hamline M. E. Church.
Mestlng. es M cSsmber hHy a Of Commerce. RI m sp.m
Commencement. Bliss Electrical School. Car
MsnnG.1i. ,c, InstIsSts Hs So ss g. Kin. soono, n,
Royal Arch Masons; Areme. No, 10. Eastern n
knights of Pythias-Mount Vernon, No. s;
Eaual No: II: Friendship Temple. No. ..
oda as Feseral City. 10. %: hsrmons Re- Ns
Mt. Nebo No: e Eneampmsnt.
National Union-General deputies meeting at
sons Of veterans-oen. M. Emm.t urell
I. TomR 8. f. NJ %.Iosceola Tribe. No. H.
Royal Arcanum-Municipal Council. Francis
Modern woodmen of America-Potomao
Camp. No. 1910.
Field day events. St. Cecelia's Academy
Sixth and East Capitol streets, 4 p. m.
Noyena or nine days prayer. Chapel Of the
Blessed Sacrament, v street, between -Four
teenth and Fifteenth streets northwest, AS
D.
Commencement. Academy OF the Visitation.
Connecticut avenue and L street northwest
10 q. M
Concert. United States Soldiers Home Band.
band stand. at home, $40 p. m.
Meeting, District OF Columbia Association Of
| Drugless Physicians. in office OF the secre-
tary. iii street northwest, 8 p. m.
The Washington times., 1915-06-02
Miss E. L. Hoffman Wins
In Stenotypist Contest

Miss f. L. Hoffman wa san easy
winner in a spirited contest for accu-
racy. conducted at the Public Library
last night by the local chapter OF the
National Association of Stenotypists'
Eight experts entered the contest.
The competition consisted OF toIr TOUT
periods of dictation at the rates OF so,
100, ITO, and lbs words a minute: MISE
Hoffman had the highest percentage IN
esch period. Her mark for accuracy
was 100 in the first two takes. and 20
and 80 in the others. Kenneth, M .
Johnson, president OF the local chapter
was dictator and referee.
The Washington times., 1915-06-02
Amusements.

Natfonal-Aborn Opera Company, IN ''Er-
mimic" s,l5 p. m.
Columbia-Columbia Stock Company in
Mile. Modiste," s:15 y. m.
Pois-Stock Players in The Divorce oues-
tion" 2:20 and $50 p. m.
Keith s-Polite vaudeville. z:15 and s:B D. m.
Cosmos-Vaudeville, continuous.
CrandaIs-Photoplays continuous.
Garden-Photoplays continuous.
Strand-Fhotoplays. continuous.
Arcade-Skating, s D. m.
Glen Echo-All amusements.
Marshall Hall-Outdoor attractions.
Colonial Beach-Music and Dancing; all sea-
side attractions.
The Washington times., 1915-06-02

perience VS.. theory never has pre-
sented clearer cut case. The Colo
RADIO solon who is to adjudicate this
difference, and decide whether eff
cheney or alimony shall prevail
henceforth, will be a Daniel in. his
own country.
The Washington times., 1915-06-02
Land Values Most Difficult.
THE TIMES MAIL BAG

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publication
the Of
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ton arg moot
The Washington times., 1915-06-02
Recess for Civic Body,

Absence from the city of many mem.
bers has caused a postponement unit!
fall of a meeting of the District Council
Of the National Civic Federation
The Washington times., 1915-06-02

Washington. May go.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1915-09-03

lightning speed pea pickers. Mr.. Gar,
rard thought he had very fine crop OF
peas and employed them to pick them
and they picked them in about three
hours eight thousand pounds. Rufus
Nixon says he was a witness to the
operation. Now if any of you doub.
this you are welcome to do so.
We learn that Mr.. j. w. Meriwether
expects to marry soon and Mr.. S. &.
Garrard is going to give him q fine
gray horse as bridal present.
We are expecting visit in the near
future from Mrs M. F. Lloyd, OF
Brent. Lefiore county, and Mrs Mails
sa Coggin, from Swifttown, same
county.
We can hardly understand or see
how 1t is that our people down here
get so stuck up about once year, but
we guess 1t is kinder natural, they
are making molasses. Not only do
they get stuck up but they get devil
t3h sweet Well, we all have our short
comings to contend with and our cross
to bear.
- Come on now, all ye correspondents,
and let's make the dear old Advertiser
come up each week full of news.
Luck to all. TOBE.
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PROVIDENCE.

We are glad indeed to be spared the
pleasure of stepping in again with our
few items of news from this part OF
the moral vineyard.
1t has been the pleasure of a great
many of our friends and neighbors to
attend prOtracted meeting in LeXing-
ton and every one is ready to testify
that it was good to he there. The SER
mons preached were very instructive
and impressive. II was a union meet
ing Of three denominations-M Methodist,
Baptist and Presbyterian-and they
seemed to be perfectly united. We
learn that the meeting will close to.
night and we hope and trust that it
will be our pleasure in the near future
to attend another such meeting, as il
did not appear to us that it was the
blind leading the blind. We are per-
fectIy satisfied in our own minds that
it would be the testimony Of each ant
everyone who attended that they re-
ceived a blessing from attending those
services, if they did not it was their
own fault. 1t was clearly proven there
that we do not belong to ourselves; we
belong to each other. When we do not
belong to each other there is no co-ope-
ration among US, and we are plainly
taught that United we stand and di-
vided we fall "
We are sorry to learn of the illness
of our neighbor and friend, Mr.. Par
ham Williams. We hope he will speed
lily recover as he is very useful man
in bis neighborhood-kind and obliging
to alas we'll as the leader in our
Sunday school at Liberty Chapel
church.
h Sam Wlloughby, from near Random
Shot plantation, on the YazCo River,
is visiting Tom Wigley for a few days.
He reports good crops in his pOrtiit.
of the delta country.
1t seems that Swifttown's Jake
wants to. hear little more about the
fish with four feet and four legs which
we have. The water dried up in the
pond where they were and they just
hit the road and walked off down to
the creek. but as they are tame we
look for them back when it rains.
While it may be possible that they
are attending a camp meeting down
on the coast or attending the jOllifca-
tion of Bilbo down at Jackson. ANY
way we expect them back in the early
spring.
We learn from Mr.. Cap Garrard that
Ed Harvey and Payne Meriwether are
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JENKINsVILLE.

Mr.. and Mrs c. Sudbeck and Miss
Gladys and Master Clement O'Renly
were guests of Lexington friends Tues
day.
Miss Lessie Rhyme has been the
highly attractive guest Of C.. Sudbeck
and family and went with them to Lex
lngtOn Tuesday.
Misses lnez Mcclellan, CoraMcLelIan
and Lua SwInney enrolled their names
to the membership of the NJ. f. Church,
South, at Bowling Green the past
week.
The revival meetings at the Nj. f.
Church were closed last Friday. The
membership was greatly faith
strengthened and general good accom-
plished all around.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos Siddon have
asked for itheir membership letter in
the M. +. Church at Bowling Green to
place in the LouIiana church with
which they are at preents affiliated.
Prof Bryan NJ SeitzerI our popular
Confined on mage d.
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THORNTON.

1t IS picking cotton time now.
Ihere was dance given at the school
house at Thornton and all reported a
grand time to the chaperOnes.
Mr., and Mrs. Iva Brown returned
home Friday from pleasant visit at
| EbeneZer.
Miss Annie May Buck was vel
come visitor Of Miss +. V. Brown last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Harthcock and
children spent a few days on Richard
son Bend plantation.
Mr.. Bonnie Thornton. of this place,
and Miss TIME Curtis, of Utica, were
married at the brides home. We wish
them a long and happy married life.
5. J, Brown. Mr.. and Mrs. Iva Brown
and daughter. Loretta, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. +. Harthcock and children and MIR.
Willie .DOty went to Bee Lake on a
fish fry Saturday.
Mrs. Herman Harthcock spent few
days with MIR. Hsrthcock's father, Mr..
Jim Harthcock, of Zeiglervile.
j. b. D0ty is spending a few days
with his son, Willie. on Richardson
Bend.
Mrs. S. j. Brown and daughter, f.
v, attended the meeting in Lexington
last week
Mr.. Ed Hale was in Thornton Satur.
day.
Mr. Lloyd Smith. Of Mileston, at.
tended the dance here Wednesday
night.
Misses Bridges, of Yazoo City, visit.
ed MISS Annie May Edwards last week.
Martin Smith. of Zeiglerville, was in
Thornton Wednesday and Thursday
We bid you all adieu.
WE VW4
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TO the denunciatiOn of innocent and
unsuspecting people. Our gossips
overlook another important fact: that
is, that they become very well known
in their own locality, and their brand
of conversation becomes quite as well
known in their circle through extens-
i've advertising, as are "Mennen's Tai
cum Powder, or Eagle Brand con-
densed milk" or Heinz's tifty-seven
varieties of preserves to the reading
public. Personally | have no quarrel
with gossips, knowing could not re-
form them, and believing if we cannot
bring some happiness to others we have
lived in vain. | would provide myself
as subject for an afternoons enter
! tainment with the same gracious will
| ingness that would write for them
my favorite cake recipe or impart to
the many other housekeeping secret
dear to my heart, only hoping their
enjoyment of the proceeding would be
in proportion to the tolerant indiffer-
ence with which | regarded it. How
ever such people are attempting to de-
stroy the peace and happiness of We
ry lovely world and since they may not
remain upon earth always, and | would
| hesitate to encourage them in the be-
lief that there is very good time
awaiting them in the next world, my
advice to them would be to cease gos-
| siping and try to learn how to live.
! Sooner or later they will find them
selves saying with the dear, lonely lit
| tie boy in the picture, whose little girl
sweetheart had gone away down the
garden path with his deadliest rival :;
Nobody loves me, am going out into
| tie garden and eat worms.
| Echoest, have thought of the strug-
| giles of poor man to rear and educate
dear little girls, the quality Of whose
| perfected WOmanhood shall reflect hon
or upon him, but it is through suffer
ing and our struggles that the soul be-
comes great, if we are big enough and
brave enough to rise superior to our
misfOrtunes. Fate is forever handing
US nice fresh lemon and the face we
make over it is the test which proves
our strength. We thank you, dear
lady, for your generous estimate of
our character and the kindly mention
o. our article and that of Aunt Saman-
bHa' hCdL Wy ClluOioG dll you Say Ol
wOman's vocation as homemaker and
caretaker, and ! object to having you
compare yourself to thirty-fve cents as
contributor to this paper. | have
read with pleasure every one of your
splendid articles. | beg tc second your
appeal to the intelligence Of Holmes
county to make The Advertiser the
best country paper in circulation.
There are many active brains from
whom an occasional contribution would
be real pleasure. Is it not duty as
public-spirited citizens to do our share?
Echoest, feel so much like a citi-
zen ] forget that in denying us the
right of suffrage our men-folk declare
we are not citizens. Some of them
even 20 SO far as tJ say we cannot be
''ladies" and fellow citizens" at the
same time and they say further they
will not help US make out our ticket,
or even raise their hats to US when we
get in their way at the polls. In the
face of such alarming threats, is it
wise or desirable to become a citizen
at all, | wonder? The chivalry and
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ELLISON COMMUNITY.

Charles Dwyer In September WO-
mans World has this to say
Almost two thousand years have
passed since the beam and the mote
were used 10 teach charity and yet
every day the saying grows newer and
more needful. 1t fits our fretful life.
We are full of senseless irritatiOns and
in our misery we solve our own faults
and pick at our neighbor.s We shall
never get rid of the notes. Our little
flaws are as thick and numberless as
the gay notes that people the sun
beams, but sunbeams are not the kind
of beams used in the saying. These
beams are the big imperfections, the
misjudgments, the jealousies that pos
sess us like demons. If we could cast
them out there would come wonder
full revelation. We should find our
seIves,seeing all our fellows differently.
Life would be far better, brighter and
sweeter for them and for us. misun-
deFstandings, petty criticisms and
small gossip are the banes of exist
ence. The need of the world is for
more charity in the individual-an all
embracing charity that makes US tole-
rant, considerate, careful, merciful
and just 1t is because we ignore the
big faults in ourselves and magnify
the trifes in others that troubles come.
The quickest wav to bring heaven to
earth would be TO think more sanely
of ourselves and more kindly of every |
body else. Judge not that ye be not |
Judged For with what judgment ye
judge We shall be judged; and with
what measure ye mete, it shall be |
measured to you again. And why be- |
holdeSt thou the mote that is in thy |
brothers eye, but considerest not the |
beam that is in thine own eyer
The truth and beauty of the forego-
ing editorial impressed me strongly. |
| am afraid many of our good people,
some of them enthusiastic church peo-
pIe, have overlooked those beautiful
passages, beginning: Judge not that
We be not judged" in the book which
they pretend to have accepted as their
guide, or else they do not fear the
retrbution promised them by a just
and mercifu God. They do not realize
that the evil whichSthey imagine they
see in others is but the reflection OF
their own inner consciousness, and
they too readily suspect others of do
ing the things they themselves would
do if given the opportunity. They do
not know that they cannot always
Judge others by themselves without
doing them an injustice. They ina
CINE they have only to denounce man
or woman, and the world will hold its
breath to listen and condemn. The life
of such people is a series of mistakes,
and this my friends is the crOwning
one of them all, for when this busy
generous world pauses in its onward
march of progress it is to listen to
things which are worth hearing, not