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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-12

/ deck herself gaudily in order TO at.
tract a mate.
The same day that this girl came
to me another girl was returned She
had read the article about her in the
newspapers and telephoned to me- do
not want to give her name. az she 10
beginning her life over again, and
II would not be fair to her, but you
read OF her case last week.
She had real roses in her cheeks,
and as she stood crying beside me,
sobbing out where she had been and
how she had happened to leave her
home, thought how pretty she was
and what an escape she had had
Il didn't mean 10 stay away for
ever, anyway" she said: "Just long
enough to brighten them / thought
my mother had been mean to me be
cause she wouldn't let me go out
nights to movie shows with the girls
and fellows I knew. 1 was handing
over all my money to her, and
wanted to have a good time, that was
all.
I'VE lived in three rooms, and there
was a bed in the front room, so I
couldn't ask anybody up TO see me
ever. ! had to go out. Only I didn't
know about things.
"She Always Had Money
-I went to stay with n girl I know
that lad a furnished room, and she
said she hadn't worked steady for
weeks, but she always had money
just the same. when 1 wouldn't 20
cut with her and some Of the fellows
that came there. she said I needed =
good beating up, then I'd learn sense.
Inf I - a.. -.
papers. and got cut to a phone"
She has gone back to her mother,
but the family is to move into four
rooms.
The secretary OF one of the largest
and best organizations which handle
the girl problem, brought this up ~
one OF the greatest causes why girls
go outside Of their homes for recre-
alton.
They work very hard, these little
girls, just at the period OF adolescence,
when romance and love are Natures
lure to mating. II Is perfectly normal
and natural for them to want social
enJoyments. They cannot entertain
friends in these little homes. That Is
why you will see girls OF fourteen
and fifteen and sixteen standing
around on street corners talking TO
boys OF their own age. They have no
where to go.
cit L. q prObIe1 for the women ~
the cities to take mp In cooperation
with the girls themselves. There
must he social eenteru that are open
evenings, not = few scattered ones.
bWt rr-ry 90 th-rt u u ~ step
from the street corner to the 'SIttIaS-
Room' behind . handy saloSa."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-12
THE PAINTED GIRL
By MRS. GRACE HUMISTON

Two days ago young girl my Office with her friend
married She had been deeply wronged she said under
promise of marriage and sought the full redress of the law the
man whom she had loved.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-12

She was young and very pretty,
with the eyes of the pure Russian
type, and the alluring expression
around her lips when she smiled that
seems to be the birthrlght OF these
girls with the Slav strain behind
them.
After hearing her case fully. and
investigating the truth Of some parts
OF II. l believed her story. but frank
Iy. when she first entered the office,
/ felt that she was not the injured
character she said she was.
The Arst advice that I gave to her
friead later when we talked to-
Eether alone. was to have her be sure
and wash her face before she nP-
Feared At the office again or In court.
Painted Face to Blame.
II told her that myself" said the
friend, but she thought she needed
q little bit OF color. she was so pale"
Almost within an hour a detective
who has had experience on missing
girl cases for a year. told me that he
believed the girls vino 0vordrosse4
and painted their faces, were to blame
for the opinion men had of them.
81 know what I'm talking about"
he said. Look around Fourth ave-
nue. or University place. or any big
manufacturing district at noon time.
and see the way those girls fx them
selves up. There's many a woman
with q record behind her, who would
be ashamed to look like that. You
can scraps the paint OF them, Mrs.
Humiston. and II q daughter OF mine
was to come home dressed the way
they do. do you know what I'd do7
I'd whip her or have her mother do
II for me"
have seen the girls from the DIS
trictt he speaks OF. Ny ho.hs " In
the Washington Square section. and I
know the types we'll.
I think the way to settle this IL
among the girls themselves II these
aame girls would fern eomnittees
among themselves to help me SIGHT
conditions, 1 would gladly welcome
their help.
One Cause Of Evil.
This Is surely one phase OF the
causes which lead to immortality. and
know It can be met in this way.
don't believe that every girl who
paints her face Is bad" by any
means. ! do think she is making q
mistake that reacts on her.
A painted face has been the sign
manual fer centuries OF the woman
Of easy morals
Yet there are thousands OF good
women who paint their faces. II Is
q modern manifestation OF the same
Impulse that made the savage girl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-12
MRS. HUM|STON SAYS


The article BELOW the articles HrstOn hO Is 1Orkas
the BrGHdon for The WGh0toH TSs has written IN her
davors help and protect the g1 Of the large cities Mrs HEto"s
the BrundOn found paper
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-13
Little Benny's
Note Book
By LEE PAPE

Pop was taking a bath in the bath
room Sundey AFTERNOON, singing and
making all kinds Of funny noises like
he always does wen be is taking
bath and sumbody started to wissel
for me outside, being Pubs Simkins
and Leroy Shoostcr and Sam Cross,
and went down TO the frunt door,
saving, Hello, fellows, say, who wunts
to heer Il CRATE concert free of charge!
Them saving they did and | Sed, Fol
10 me, its the gratest singer in the
werld. don't make any noise anybody.
And we ali snuck upstairs and stood
Inside the bathroom door, and pop
was singing, Ira la Ia, ira la, la, tbs
the merry munth of MAY, everybod:S
doing il, doing wat, doing wat, all the
angels have big feet, dun diddy dun
dun. dee dunn.
Wich Us fellows started TO keep each
other frum eiggchng, pop singing,
had little dog and he looked like you.
and he looked like you. and he looked
like Won, | had little dog and he
looked like YOU, wat the heck 10 We
care, bum. diddv bum, on the 4th of
Martch ate some startch, and the un-
lcrtakers name was yip iddy | av.
Wich Jest then he stopped all of a
>uddin, saving, Watts that whispering
ont there. Mecning the audicnts, still
telling each other to stop eiggeling,
and We all quick keep quiet, pop say
| ing, ] thawt | herd sumthing, 0 say
can you see, ware are YOU going my
pritty maid, over the tents and out. she
sed, over the tents on my prittv he'd
and if you don't like il, lumpv dumpv
dump it. the camcls are coming her
ray, herray. *'A'
Wich jest then the audients all start
ed TO clap rs if they thawt il was the
gratest concert they ever went TO- and
pop yelled out, Benny, Benny. I've got
Sumthing to say to YOU. YOU send thoSt
| hoodlums nome and waite lest ware YOU
are
Ony I dident heer him on account Of
me running down stairs like the dick.
! en> with the rest Of the audicnts.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-13
A Far Reaching Decision.
Boston Transcript

The supreme court of the United
States has handed down decision sus-
tanning the right Of an employer TO say
he will operate his enterprise
as Fan open shop. as "a closed
shop. or as "a combination shop
"a shop in which union and non union
men work side bv side and are unques,
toned as to their affiliations with labor
organizations The only dissenters
were Associate Justices Brand"ls,
Holmes and Clark. and of this minority
only the first named filed Il formal
opinion. The chief Justice and the
five associate justices who Joined IN
the ma ioritv opinion held that the
Hitehmau Coal & Coke company and
the Eagle Glass Manufacturing COM
lany OF West Virginia We're entitled
To operate their plants as open shops,
and that the conduct of the officials
Of the miners union was unlawful
and malicious IA that those officials
deliberately and alvisedly selected
tbat method OF charging the union 5
membership which would inhict in
Jury not only upon the company, but
upon those employees Of the company
who persisted in their refusal to seek
refuge from suchs injury by joining
the union.
The opinion Of the court conceded
the right OF the working men TO form
unions and enlarge their membership
bv inviting other working men 10
join. - but held that this right must be
exercised "wita reasonable regard for
the conflicting rights Of others accord
ng TO the fundamental maxim, SO
use Your own property rs not to inJurc
the rights OF another. The defend
ants sought to unionize the plaintiff 5
plant secretly with view to COMPEL
ing the plaintiff to substitute a closed
shol for IAN open shop. This the
defendants hoped to accomplish when
their membership had been enlarged to
that point where a strike would have
compelled a shutdown Of the plaintiff s
plant. The court held, therefore, that
his was not a bona fide effort to On
large the membership Of the union,
since new members We're not desired
except rs q means TO the end Of com
polling the owners to the mines 10
chauge their methods of operation
There are many other points of the
decision which define with equal clear
ness the relative rights Of employer
and emrlove. Samuel Gompcrs is re
! olted as regarding the decision as
= far-reaehiug and unwarrantablc.
| ANY decision of any court, however
which reaches far enough to restrain
the attempt Of Mn. Gompcrs and his
associates to subject each and every
! wa9C Garner between the two oceans
! to the tyranny of the laborism which
/ they are trying to set up in this coun
! try is regarded by Mr.. Gompers as I'M
warrantahle, so that his comment Is
neither surprising nor Inconsistent.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-13
The Editor Barometer.
{ The Boston transcript

The editor Of the Express and Stand.
ard. an excellent weekly newspaper of
Newport. VT, in looking back over 20
years Of his editorship Of that paper re-
fleets that while his efforts in that
period have mainly been to improve his
paper and to improve his town, the ex
perience has improved him, too. One
can easily see how il must have been
SO. The conscientious editor labors to
make his town cleaner more enter
Uprising, more populous, more prosperous.
better built, better paved. better
.schooled, better churched The better
the town. the better his paper must be
II II assumes to represent the town; and
with every Improvement in the com
munlty and its organ, the public spirit
ed editor must find himself growing a
little larger morally and intellectuallv
And II may be noted that if the con
trary tendency is IN progress in a com
mlnlty, the paper and its director must
also feel that. If no new suitable struc-
turc takes the place OF the business
| block that was burned; IT, in default
OF decent paving system the streets
degenerate into mud-holes; if law en-
torcement becomes lax, aud the moral
sentiment Of the community falls off
TT good men move away, and bad men
move ln-thcn the village editor must
feel himself passing into Il correspond
ing decline. IN either case he is q kind
! OF intellectual and moral thermometer
of the community. There was once
proverb about the difficulty Of run
ming nonpareiI newspaper i'll long
primer town. The maStertul country
editor gets out Of that difficulty by
| booming his town until he raises If from
the long primer to the nonpareil class.
t This interesting fact doubtless ex
| plains the circumstances that so many
| OF our best public men, IN this country,
| have been developed from country edi-
| tors. The general tendency Of all of
our communities is upward. Compare
-, them today, from Maine to California
towns with public libraries, with
shaded and paved and lighted streets.
with halls and societies. with soaring
/ business blocks. with excellent high
schools everywhere, with radiating lines
of trollevs. with profitable industries
aud an immensely augmented scale of
comfort in living conditionS-wit the
leverage town Of 80 wears ago. The
Improvement has been virtually uni
jversal, and it has been tremendous. And
# We consider that the editor who has
been organizing, stimulating and glow
ingly recording ali this mus: have bad
his personal share in the uplift. We find
| i'll the general condition an ample rea
son for the election OF countless coun-
try editors to congress and for the in
clusion Of no small number of them in
the cabinets Of our presidents Growing
with their paper, they burst the bonds
Of the little printing shop, and may be
icome the pillar Of a people 5 hope
| Tho Eino Gan 40 no ,rro6u - IL
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-13
DADDYS EV[NDN(
ARY TALL d1
~ MARY GpAUAkf BONNER
CHANGING PLACES.
81 MARY GRAHAn. RQNNEl

whats the matter. Mr.. SUM-" asked
the King of the Clouds. You seem
to be having a high old time
We'll" said Mr.. Sun. Il can't very |
well have a low old time because / am |
never low down in the world. | am |
always high up, and so / have high |
time it's true. And l suppose it's a |
high old time, because time is old. |
There has been time as long as | can |
remember and that's very long while
l can tell YOU"
1T is indeed" said the King of the
Clouds. Have you any idea how old
you are?"
4 haven't" said Mr.. Sun. II really
have been SO busy all my life that l
have never counted the time. But l
know it's such a long time that l
couldn't possibly figure it all out. For
it would take some one who could do
arithmetic to find out
whats arithmetic and who can do
it2" asked the King of the Clouds.
Arithmetic is a lesson they study
in school. School is a place where
children go to learn about all sorts of
things such as how TO add two and
Two and how to spell words. They
learn how TO talk beautifully and they
find out where they live in the world.
They also study about other places
and about the seas and the noun
tains"
Gracious" said the King of the
tJoI1dS IT am clad | don't have tn
f.! 90 To school,
/ so am l." said Mr.. Sun, but they
| seem to be quite happy. | suppose
| they become just as used TO it as we
! do TO shining and raining
Il suppose So" said the King of the
| Clouds. But why are YOU having
such a frolic today"
Il heard the earth whispering to the
breeze" said Mr.. Sun, that some of
! the randropS were leaving. The earth
| said that Mr.. Sun was drawing them
TO him, and | laughed for it was quite,
| quite true"
L think I'll have to have a frolic
soon" said the King Of the Clouds.
And the sun drew water from the
earth through his powerful ray work.
ers. What fun he did have and how
he laughed and shoue and sparkled.
A few minutes later some wild ducks
few high up in the air. Where are
you going:' asked the sun.
Were going to fly far out In the
bay" they said. DO YOU see:" Ant
they pointed with their wings beyond
the city and beyond the country, neal
the place where the ocean and SKY
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-13

banks and borrowing money for tue
sake of carrying government bonds
That is new money, new at leaS' g
far as the purchase Of securities OF
ANY kind IS concerned. Everywhere
il is being encouraged by those who are
pushing the loan, by the banks them
selves. Standing solidlv behind the
movement is the whole strength OF inc
federal reserve system. which has made
il possible for the banks TO make loans
Of this kind on a scale which would
have utterly been out Of the question
before the federal reserve system was
established.
Above are three of the sources from
which the money 10 run the war Is GO
ing to come. There are others-the d.
version of insurance premiums, Tor IN
stance, and the current deposits beng
made in savings banks-w which need
not be gone into All we arc trying To
do is to show that to the question
| q Where is all the money coming
fromo" there is mighty good answer
There are lots of places where tn,
money is coming from.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-13
We're Going to Fly Far Out" They
Said.

were all that could be seen. The bay
was very near the ocean, and it was
only little distance beyond.
Il think" said Mr.. Sun, that l will
join you, | will move along slowly
and will shine where Won go, for the
King Of the Clouds sent some of the
army of raindrops out there this morn
ing"
ITO be sure did" said The King of
the Clouds. well. if you go out there,
they can come in here. Wen just
change places, eh?"
The very idea ] had in mind" said
Mr.. Sun
Are You coming. are You camin@E
called the wild ducks. We are in
hurry today. for we need good. quick
flying To make Us feel better. We're
greatly in need Of exercise
I'm coming, I'm coming said Mr..
Sun.
SO Mr.. Sun followed the wild ducks
out into the bay and then lie shnne
down over the great ocean. The rain
drops left aS soon as Mr.. sun appeared.
aud they began to play about where
Mr.. Sun had been shining and whore
he had been drawing The raindrops
from the earth.
The people down on the earth said
1.-THE sun drew wafer from the earth
and that's sign of rain. To be sure
here is the rain. And probably quite
NO., rhv tho SlIu Il shining Fl 9lNNaNS
seems so strange that in one place it
may be raining and III another the sun
may be shining
But they didn't know that this time
the sun and rain had arranged to
change places and that the sun was
shining Just where the raindrops had
been playing!
But the King Of the Clouds chuckled
as he heard the people talk.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-13
THURSDAY, DECEMBER Is. 1917.
VERMONT SETS THE PACE.

Massachusetts, is doing more for her
soldiers than any other state in the
Gsion. following in this matter the
standard which was set during the
Civil war, and careful souls are look
ing forward with some dread rs to
what the ultimate burden may prove
20 hc. This commonwealth is paving
$40 month to every soldier or sailor
OF hcrs iu the war, in addition to what
hy gets from the national government.
This payment under the present act
win not continue beyond January II
next, unless the time he extended
which is considered likely. Attorney
General AtwiiI has ruled that drafted
men are not eligible for the $40, and
there will undoubtedly be pressure to
have them included. Having made 50
generous Il start. the legislature may
not be- disposed TO draw back from the
standard which has been set. Other
states are disposed to hold that Massa,
rhusctts has set too rapid pace for
them in this matter of paving her sol
diers and sailors Springfield Republi.
can.
This is all right for home consump-
tiou, but is about a, fair toward Yer
mont as other statements which have
appeared iu the editorial column, u
the Republican, The Vermont legisla
turc, without dissenting volce, imme
diatclv voted -i,GptHo .or a war fuue
when our lreaa ti,n Germany came
4 This was lager amount, population
! and wealth considered. than the appro
j priation made by the Massachusetts,
/ legislature. Vermont also voted SO ;
month state pay for her soldiers ans
/ sailors in the war, following 9TH,
/ standard set in the Civil war. Thi
action autedated that of Massachusetts
in fact it set an example for the Ba,
|, state Vermont in addition, in case
of real need, is paying $50 montl
each to the families Of dependent sol
dicr, This state also paid the $40
month extra TO her soldiers. who wcr
called into the federal service ON tn
Mexican border in the summer of 1915
the governor calling special >essio
of the legislature for that purpose
When it comes to setting the pace Yea
mont is the leader and Massachusett
the follower.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-13

The - Negro soldiers who we're
hanged and their Al associates who
were sentenced to life Imprisonment de
served their punishment. Wearing the
uniforms of United States soldiers they
set ont deliberately to commit indis-
rriminate murder The New York
World, while offering no eNteuuation
for the sentences imposed by court
martial, sees in the horrible affair a
warning to Southern officials The
Houston police, by their mistrcatment
Of the soldiers because they were
black aroused in them the frenzy OF
resentment which was responsible for
the affair last August. when the Ne
grocS "shot up the town. killing and
mgiming amy person, who happened to
be i'm sight. The police Of Houston, Il
they have conscicnccs. have Il pretty
bitter memory to abide with them to
their diving days
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-13
Sugar Famine Broken

\ prominent tuauri"r dropped IN at
OF well known book store ON Fifth
avenue. He wanted a complete edition
ot Washington Irving. In convorsa
ton with the proprietor they touched
uu food shortage and difficulty IN get
ting supplies. especially sugar, except
in small quantities The book store
manager obliginglv opened page Of the
edition desired, from which the imam
ciCr read.
THE tea was served out of maic>-
tie delft teapot. ouumcntcd with
paintings OF Fat little Dutch shepherds
aud shcphcrdcSscs tending pig with
boats sailing in the air, and houses
built in the clouds, and sundry other
ingenious Dutch fantastic. To
swcetCn the beverage. q lump ut sugar
was laid beside each rap---aud the COM
pauy alternately uihblcd and slipped
with great dccorgm. until an improve
mcnt was introduced by "a shrcwd and
economic old lady, which was TO suS
pend u large lump directly over the
trg-tahlc, by q string from the ceiling,
so that II could b. swung from mouth
10 m9uth--an ingenious eNpcdIent
which is still kept up by some families
iu Albany hut which prevails without
exception In Communipaw. Bergen.
Flatbush, and all our uncontammated
villages.
Food for thought, he said - food
Tor thought The Wall Street Jour
nal Straws.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-13
A REAL HAIR SAVER
AND BEAUTIFIER
Found at Last-Shows Results at Once
or Nothing to Pay.

Here 5 good news for men and wom-
en- whose hair is falling out, who are
growing bald, whose scalps are covered
with dandruff, and itch like mad.
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YOU with the genuine Partisan sage
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Of hair, promote a new growth, entire
~ Danish every trace of dandruff ami
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is, will be refunded.
Thousands can testify to the excel
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No matter whether bothered with
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itching scalp, try Partisan sage tonight.
You will not be disappointed. There
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cately perfumed, and will not color or
| streak the hair.
/ Wilfred F. Root will supply YOU and
| guarantee money refunded if not sat
/ isfied-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-13
Get Wood Ready for Next Year.
Bennington Banner

New England will pull through after
i fashion this winter in spite of the
coal situation nut next winter the case
to remedy it is now. When there is
Il real coal famine, the first places cut
off will be where there is 4 plentiful
wood supply and that means Vermont.
Only few wears ago there quarters Of
tn" people in Vermont burned wood
and they are likely to do so again II
IS no great hardship provided the wood
Is dr,E, and the way to get dry wood
i to buy it a year ahead when il is
green and dry it under cover This
winter is the time to break next win
ter 5 fuel famine
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-13

The Mortified News admits that the
thermometer in its town 'drops down
easily, but pleads in otfset that 'the
warm welcome our guests get while
visiting here makes one forget what
the thermometer dishes up That is
the right kind Of talk. Hospitality is
a pretty good characteristic Of any com
munitv, and we have never heard that
Northfeld was lac liking in that respect.