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The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-09-28

c"'erE or the Potomac river through the beautiful drives and wmks cStnb-
along Its banks the capital need u n longer hold terrors for those who
must remain within the tcn.nnc limit Of the District.
No less II parsonage than President John Quincy Adams wndcd through
III marshes and tangled grass to the banks Of the Potomac for M caly morn.
ig DIP while the same interesting proceeding is recorded " President Taylor.
l"lny ~ mcets high officials bent upon the same errand. and almost Mt
te same hour OF The morning just about seven o'clock. The secretary OF
STATE II Mrs lansing rei investigating the charms Of the municipal bathing
poo with cov"tous eyes md Mrs Lansing longs to ~ nj the skill acquired
during The winter months at the naamium IN Capitol Hill.
Senator and Mrs. Morris Sheppard n tell % lust exnctly whore n find
inc best spot In III" pool or striking out or II dive. Or just merely to take
V easy ad float. often their companions in the pool are Representative and
Nicholas Iongworth. both Of whom love the watcrn and IRE Sper swim.
hTSi or Mr.a ana Mrs. NufuSl Day, sol and daughter lnlaw Of Mr. Justice Day
orl Representative William 7. Forland
A whole cabinet family of enthusiastic swimmers is that Of tbe SECRETARY
of n Mrs. Baker. who offer take a plunge twice n In Tbev hova mn
Ideal pool at In the Woods.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-09-28

ing The gun M shoulder hold, the finger grip, and, most of an the tarrt Tho
big fat mi wo approaches the rail with II confident smile n banrs unrc.
rcsHuny 20 times, md then explains what II wonderful shot ne once b,dn,,D
was there. The tall, thin chap, who seemst to strain under the weight of un
M nnd complains o. hist bad sight, IA nlsOt there. lie squlntcd 40 lines hn
tore pulling the trigger, just to prove his assertion. Also here was tho MN.
eic fellow with the bulldog jaw who went about shooting targets ms t,or,,
! was part o his days work lie took his time and hit the hull.
And, best OF ALL, there were pretty young girls, anxious to be instructed
The only trouble the instructors had with them, after getting hem IN hud nn
gun, to convince them that II was impossible to hold ones bunds ,m.
mes er and fire the gun 1T the same time. Aud us utue scrasn -
svery time the rifle barked.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-09-28

TO put together burned and cut money
when offered for redemption. Many
interesting stories are told about her
work.
Some years ago, so the story goes,
n farmer, while feeding his pigs.
cropped n roll Of bills, which wa de-
vourcd by n Of them. The pig wns
Killed nj once and cut open, aud the
pulp was found. This was sent 20 the
treasury department, the pieces pur
together ana the money refunded 70
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-09-28

months. The river for water sports,
the fine parks and country roads for
driving, country clubs and roof eur.
nrnS, both private and public. and
numerous delightful places for dining
nj frcsco ar" all revelations Ia those
who So" tn" capital only In it's mid.
winter ~ early spring aspect.
Not even 10y the greatest stretch
NJ the imagination could one call
Washington Il watering place. or even
n umncr resort. but since the rrdis-
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-09-28

Ut INC NhtIOnhI KIiir ASSOCIntlOn Of
America the screams are from tlmld
womdn just learning the use Of fire.
arms, and the shouts emanatc from
husky men who have just rung the
bull'S.cye.
Every day n line OF people files
Into the temporary gallery to take nd.
vantage Of the free use az guns and
ammunition which the organization
has offered 10 the public. The crack
Of the rifles Is continuous.
Instructors are kept busy cxDlnin.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-09-28

marks hanging Out all over them. oil.
Nious signs Of sight Scors unG
strangers In Washington. "Whut build.
ing Is that Z" asked the man. pointing
To the capitol building, which b" WINS
facing, and could see It's entire length
from north TO south. The man spoke
United States" his language anC
tone, rs well as his style ~ dress
showing him TO be an educated. pretty
wcll.sct.up man.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-09-28
Kind Words,

Belle think the short skirts are
30 becoming to most girls. and that's
why like them.
Nell-That's real noble OF your dear.
with your feet, too
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-09-28
What Uncle Sans Expert on Charred Money Does

MANY thousands OF dollars ore saved annually for the good, but often
~ careless people o these United States by Mrs. Amanda f. Brown, the
rhnrrel money expert " lhe lrnnsnry dcInlmcnt II is Mrs Brnnns Luty
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-09-28
Rifle Practice Becomes a Fad in the CAPITAL

F YOU chance to be passing net Fourteenth and e streets and ore
' attracted ny M shots screams. and shouts, he not alarmed-be dance
Is little, Investigation will show that the rifles arr being Arcd in the aIsrv
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-09-28
Washington Folk Rediscover the Potomac River

EROM ono standpoint ihc rrolongod session ~ Tho SIxty.fourth congress hoe
! ony been prolific OF things political, but It has also served to give Wash
Ington n place In the hearts # II large number Of transient residents My to-
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-09-28
Senator Kern Discovers Bad Case Of ignorance

w ASiIlNGToN-S"nnto John W. Kern of Indiana had nm experience the
w other day which he viii not oon forget lie was crossing Ia" plaM
cast OF The cnLIinI WHOM D.. Mn. hnlLcl Ly n umn nnl mnm.n ML .--..-
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-19

re their wives" And so are the hus-
bands of most women Of genius.
There can be little question that sucn
a tendency to avoid motherhood, both
among women Of intelligence and refine
ment and those merely of fashion and
social position. does actually exist quite
extensively And II half the diatribes
and denunciation of prophets moralists
and social reformers In all ages are to
be believed, 1t has always been so.
Indeed, 1t may be possible that this
deliberate lessening OF fertility on the
part of the successful members of the
sex may have been one of the, at least
contributing, causes OF the curious posi-
tion OF women in respect to mental
ability.
To put 1t crudely, biologically speak
ing, their general average is good, but
their range of variation extremely
limited. They seem to have reached
something the same state of equilibrium,
which the labor unions endeavored to Sc
cure, in their earlier days, among work
ingmen, by making the achievement Of
the average man the limit of production
and discouraging the exceptional worker
of ability from putting forth any of his
powers above this average.
Statistically considered, the infrequ-
ency Of striking degrees Of ability, COM
monty known as genius among women,
y. Great Britain Rights Reserved.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-19

lege presidents and Congressman by
Elizabeth futile, the royal and ducal
group by Isabella and the Jukes gang by
Margaret, the mother Of criminals"
1t should of course, be understood that
the question of the number of children
is not involved in this discussion from
the Minnesota Minervas point Of view.
Every reasonable consideration and pro-
lection in that regard of the mothers
health and comfort and personal rights,
as we'll as the better care and training
possible for a reasonably limited number
of children, is conceded. providing that
such limitation secures the survival OF
the family and the continuance of the
stock in at least undiminished numbers.
Nor, on the other hand, has it much
bearing upon the mating or motherhood
of that rare and unusual creature, the
female genius. Firstly, because, like her
male counterpart, she Is such q rare ac-
cidert. in biological language, sport"
occurring only once in several million
births, and then apparently by accident,
that she doesn't count. Secondly, be-
cause, again like her male counterpart,
when she does occur she Is extremely
apt to be sterile. and either does not
marry at all or Is most unfortunate in
her matrimonial experiences. AS Mr..
Dooley has truthfully remarked. "Most
men Of JANUS are onhappiy marrid-so
Copyright 1919. by the Star Com
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-19

is so marked as to be almost incredible
In view of the excellent general average
or competence in the sex. Every scien-
fist who has sympathetically followed the
arguments of his fellow suffragists has
been struck with the extraordinary range
of continents and centuries which has to
be raked in order to gather a score of
distinguished names.
But it was not until Havelock Ellis.
himself an ardent suffragist as an Incl
dent in the course of a carefully planned
study of British genius to discover the
ancestry and class-descent of great men
and women, made a reasonably complete
table of the great names of English his.
tory. that the astonishing discrepancy be-
tween the numbers of great men and
great women was clearly realized Out
of 965 individuals in the last 1900
years of English history who could
be held to have fairly deserved the title
of great. excluding, of course crowned
heads, members of the nobility and
others whose pre-eminence was solely
due to their inherited official position or
station. only sixty-five were women, or
about or per cent of the total.
or course, the legal and other arbitrary
and traditional handicaps of sex account
FOR some of this discrepancy, but, in view
of the fact that more than two-thirds of
the total 965 names had achieved great
ness in literature, music and the drama,
all of which are open and always have
been open to women Gndeed, nine-tenths
of the women who won success won 1t in
one of these three flelds), by no means
all OF 1t. But II women wish this extraor-
binary divergence between the sexes to
continue they could certainly adopt no
surer method than the policy suggested
by the lady from Minnesota.
1t may be also that this policy of
avoidance Of motherhood by successful
and superior women helps to account for
another anthropologic puzzle, and that is
the singular and striking tendency of SUI
perior families and the descendants of
great men to die out and disappear. We
hear much of those who don't, but they
are the decided exception. Take list of
all the great families and distinguished
men of any given historical age and an
other two centuries later. and invariably
two-thirds OF the first list of names and
families will have totally disappeared
and left no trace The present English
House of Lords, for instance, has only
20 per cent of its members who can trace
back their ancestry as mobiles over two
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-19

operate upon intellectual and moral quail
ties instead of merely muscular and
cardiac.
The danger from biological point of
view is even more serious than il SINH
lar proportion of men of superior ability
and character should decline fatherhood,
because a mans share in race continu-
ance is limited simply to contributing
one-half of the hereditary characters.
while woman takes that single corrugated
cell, SO tiny as to be invisible to the
naked eye, and in addition to having
contributed her half of the heredity, pro-
vides the nutrition, the shelter and the
environment for its development through
a series of changes of such immensely
and magnitude that the race has taken
ten or twelve million years to work them
out
AS It is perhaps hardly necessary to
point out, the loss is Just as great on
the male side of the race as on the
female, because a mother transmits not
merely her own feminine qualities, both
mental and physical, to her daughters,
but male qualities and abilities to her
sons, which she does not possess or dis
play at all, but which she has inherited
from her father or grandfather. Even
where these qualities are such as could
appear In both sexes. they may be totally
absent In mother and In her daughters,
and yet reappear not only in her sons,
but also in the sons of her daughters.
striking negative illustration of this
sort of skipping" inheritance is a singu-
lar and fortunately rather rare disease
or rather morbid tendency. known as
hemophilia.
There is equally good evidence, though
not OF such vivid and striking character,
that mental and moral characters can
also be transmitted In this curious sex.
limited, alternating fashion. SO tina. a
woman's Importance as an ancestrsss Of
future generations may depend very lit
tie on what she is personally, providing
that she be healthy and sensible, and
very much upon what her father and her
grandfather were.
Three OF the largest and most anthro-
pologically famous family groups-the
Jonathan Edwards stock the brilliant
group of kings and mobiles descended
from Isabella Of Vermandois, according
to Starr Jordan, and at the other end OF
the scale the notorious Jukes family or
criminals and outcasts were all banded
not by q man but by woman. The
Edwards family Of 1900 Governors, COL
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-19

hundred years. The rest have all sprung
from the ranks, been created by royal
fiat since that time. Great families run
first to seed, then to girls, and then run
out.
There is also another point upon which
science would challenge one OF the as
sumptions of this new emancipation
proclamation of the sex, and that is the
idea that motherhood is in any way in
consistent with or a hindrance to the de-
velopment of individual possibilities to
the highest degree.
All the actual evidence in fact is in
exactly the opposite direction. Married
women, even on the old scale OF an aver
age of from four to seven children In the
family, live longer, suffer less from dis
ease, show a lower percentage of insan-
fty, and have better general average
of health than their unmarried sisters.
Even those forms of cancer peculiar to
women occur with greater frequency and
seriousness In spinsters than in their
married sisters. Large employers OF
women labor, both of the mental and
physical classes. who have studied the
question carefully, declare that the av-
erage woman worker who has never mar
ried breaks down and loses her efficiency
from i've to ten years earlier than her
married or widowed sisters.
While, from the point of view Of In
tellectual development, the most stimu-
lating, broadening and highly educating
experiences of life. not merely for
women, but for both sexes. come from
the care and training of children. Our
children educate us quite as much a we
do them, though our self-conceit dis
likes to admit the fact.
incidentally, also, the New Woman is
very much mistaken If she imagines that
there is any lower type OF female"
which is incapable of suffering" during
childbirth. Women of the peasant and
poorer laboring classes generally do bear
larger families of children than their
more fortunate sisters. because they are
obliged to. and don't make as much COM
plant and cutlery about the process, be-
cause they wouldn't get much sympathy
If they did. But the strongest and
healthiest of peasant women and the
modest" and most "unspoiled' of savage
mothers suffer severely-yes, agonizingly
in childbirth. and an even larger per-
centage of them die or are seriously in
jured in the process than In any higher
races or walks of life.
The only difference is In the amount
of publicity and sympathy they get.
There is no reason to believe that child
bearing is any more dangerous to either
life or nervous system in the most highly
refined and cultured of women than 1t is
in the dullest drudge.
If any woman cannot make up her mind
that Ii is worth while or summon I'D the
courage and fuftitude to face the ordeal
of motherhood for the sake OF its prizes,
1t is as we'll, from racial point Of view,
that she should avoid it, for the character
might be transmitted.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-19

toward motherhood, that the game 10
really not worth the candle, and the
penalties outweigh the prizes, they nave
a perfect right to say so and to re-
frain from both matrimony and mother
hood. IT would be idle as we'll as fool
ish to attempt to alter their attitude by
exhortations upon the duty OF self-sacr1-
flee or the sacredness of suffering ana
fruitfulness.
Moreover. there is a certain amount OF
Justice in this modern Minervas COM
plant that men are inclined to take this
suffering and agony rather too calmly
and as a matter of course And, as she
remarks, 'the majority of doctors being
men," the medical profession has not
been quite SO insistent and energetic as
1t might have been, either in devising
means for lessening the pain of child
birth or in utilizing as fully as possible
the means that it already possesses.
The excitement and extravaganza of
the Twilight Sleep crusade. whose echoes
are only just beginning to die down, will,
in the long run, improve the situation
by making a certain callous, medieval
type of doctor really exert himself to
make confinement painless, as nearly as
possible
However, if there be anything that
women of intellect pride themselves upon
1t Is their ability to discuss subject
from every possible point of view and to
be guided in their conclusions by broad
and rational principles. unswayed by
mere sentiment or emotion. And while
the question of the balance between suf-
fering and satisfaction in motherhood,
for them personally, Is one which they
must decide for themselves, yet there
are other considerations, both Of the
welfare of the race and their own ultl-
mate interests, which weigh heavily on
the other side of the scale.
First of all is the obviously discour-
aging outlook for the future upward prog
ress of the race if all women of intelli-
gence and culture on that account DELHI
erately draw themselves out Of the race
stream, leaving only women of lower
type" to become the mothers of the next
generation.
We hear bitter lamentations from the
sugenists and pacif1sts over the terrible
Notwithstanding effects of war by kill
ing off the strongest and bravest and
leaving only the weaklings to continue
the race. But such policy as this, If ex-
tensively adopted. would be worse than
war. because its adverse selection would
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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-19
What Mrs. Liggett Said of Motherhood


M O the
leaders
Lgget
from the Of mothe rhood.
sced where $ much yscd suffer-
the the cultur of the the
her suffering fair 10
education and at the allow and to mothers?
There a baby oday worth the its
mother through i life.
to higehst posi-
ibiity? than womn forget
Of moth hood i'm its goy
o
justification The life should confined
note Of suffer
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-19


hardly help admiring the mag
nificent and unashamed self
centredness OF the chal-
lenge intellectual women
avoid motherhood because
they know it means suffering"
And as there are plenty OF
women of the lower type"
who either have not discovered
or are Indifferent to this ap-
palling fact, "the propagation
Of life should be confined to
them" thus leaving women Of
the higher type free to reach
their highest possibilities" I'M
hindered and unburdened.
OF course, 1t goes without
saying that If intellectual and
cultured women feel this way
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-19
Bv DR.. Woods Hutchinson

the WorId's Foremost Observation-Disclosures
" HE latest idol to be battered Is the
Juggernaut Of motherhood. One of
the New Women of the Middle
West has boldly sounded the Emancipa-
ton of her sex. No more motherhood
Tor the Intelligent and the truly refined,
only the fools and field-hands, "who are
not capable of suffering" should be ex-
pected to bear children.
There is no shuffling or mincing mat
tiers about this declaration. The lance
of the challenger rings squarely in the
Centra of the shiald One can
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-19

MAS Angler B. Duke, Jr., Formerly Miss
Cordelia Biddle, of Philadelphia, and
Her Baby, One of the Latest Examples
of the Type Mrs. Liggett Would Bar
From Motherhood and the Kind of
Mother DR.. Hutchinson Declares the Best.
The Washington herald., 1916-03-19
RUSHED BY
DEMANDS in AMERICAS
Makers Can Secure Big Prices for
Their Cars from Fighting Eu-
ropean Countries.

The manufacturing conditions of Europe
are such at present that the whole world
has to look to America for automobiles,
states the Automobile in an editorial in
the current issue. Large parts OF that
world, outside Europe itself. offer wealthy
and prosperous markets-ready money
markets where the American manufac-
turer has no work to do In selling his
product.
simultaneously. the domestic demand is
at least as great as the supply. 1t is
difficult to find automobiles for ship
ment overseas, so urgent are the calls
from domestic dealers.
The condition prevailed all last year,
but It was only in the late fall that
American automobile Manufacturers
showed signs OF appreciating the facts of
the case.
There is one aspect of it that is still
liable to be neglected. and this is that
when demand exceeds supply for any
commodity the price is raised automati-
cslly. The value of an article in ultima te
terms Is the price that those wanting 1t
are prepared to pay. This means that
the overseas markets which cannot get
automobiles from anywhere except
America are able and willing to pay
handsomely for them. The foreign
markets were never conditioned so ad-
vantageously to the American manu-
facturer.. and 1t is safe to predict that
they will remain in the present state
not longer than for two years after
the conclusion of the war. This gives
America not less than three years and
possibly little longer to make the
best of the opportunity to establish
a worldwide trade on a firm and last
ing basis.
The Washington herald., 1916-03-19
CAN LENGTHEN
Finish ON CAR
M axwell M otor Company
Adds Standard Polish
with Its Sales.
ApPR0VEn nv TRJAI
BY TRIALS
President Flanders Discusses Value of
This Commodity and Declares
Its Use Is Essential.

BY a nationwide campaign cam
paign in which all other manufacturers
are welcome to join-the Maxwell Motor
Company, of Detroit, aims to educate
motorists to the fact that II is within
their power 70 prolong for years the
original glossy finish which their cars
bear at the time of purchase.
In furthering this campaign. the Max
we'll company is enlisting the help of its
own army of distributors and statesmen.
1t has also shown its own good faith in
the matter by adding to the standard
equipment OF each of its cars a can Of
automobile polish. OF brand tested and
approved by competitive trial in it's own
plants.
AN automobile is finished with greater
care than most pianos" declares Presi-
dent Walter Il. Flanders. of the Maxwell
company. Yet it is freely exposed TO
the weather Of all seasons. Often it Is
allowed to stand for weeks without
washing. Especially in the case of
popular priced cars. is it possible that
the owner utterly fails to recognize the