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car from this Office. and there are many
more II one will consider the nearby
suburbs of Washington as people In
many other large cities regard their
suburbs, the natural places for their
homes.
"One of the most difficult things to
find in Washington today is the small
apartments for men with
their families. 1 should certainly adj
wise men coming from distance to
leave their families behind until they
are able to find quarters in some Of
our suburban sections. Some of the
families that have come on have had
a serious time, to say the least In
more than one case it has been neces-
sary for the family to return to their
former home until the husband and
father could take some time to make
housing provision for them"
Asked about the extortion in regard
to raising rents being practiced by
some landlords, Miss Greedy said
ut is true. and it is not only repre-
hensible from a moral and business
standpoint. but it is distinctly unpatri-
otto to charge undue prices for rooms
and to raise out of due proportion the
prices of rooms occupied by tenants
who have been paying fair price for
months, perhaps for years. forcing
them by the conditions to pay an ex-
orbitant rate or to get out.
such case came before US within
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Lewis. We want your opinion goo
gooed the marquise, Judgment of
Paris Then she and the baronne
giggled The princess had enough of
it, and throwed me into the Limousine.
La Gall-Ie-ree" she. told the chauffeur.
ITO buy me an outfit. I've got trench
spats, chain mail vest. wrist watch
studded with diamonds, gold handbag
for sandwiches, platinum neck chain
for my identity medal. a medicine chest
that weighs nine pounds and rose
quartz plugs to stuff in my ears against
artillery conclusion"
shopping"
It is never spoken of, but everybody
knows that there are, at this moment,
steen hundred thousand American
troops in France. Well, recently some
forty men of them were permitted to
visit Paris on their own.
Nobody knows why.
Were not led by the hand" the
doughboys boosted on the train. NO
body meets US at the Paris depot"
Nobody met them. That's right.
Now you'll know why.
When they landed at the Care de
FEST four nice American Red cross
ladies' happened to be strolling around
there.
mo ma.am," said the doughbeys.
we're just going to meander free and
easy like in Paris"
All right" said the mothers. III
you need US we're here"
bunch OF twenty wandered two
hours in the dingy streets Of that de-
pressing district, which corresponds to
North Sd street, Philadelphia. They sat
in ninth-rate cafes, took bad change
Cthe walters thought that they were
English) and soured their stomachs
with red wine. Tapping their chests
to bring up the gas. they finally inter-
viewed the Red Cross ladies' at the
depot.
Were due at the Y. NJ. c. A. they
admitted, because we promised on
honor to report on arriving. It's all we
have TO do. We're free in Paris"'
o. Instantly an automobile caryall was
lined up. You know the kind-old see
ing Paris" In Kaleidoscope trip IT
whisked the Sammys through maze
of streets to a beautiful broad avenue
in a quarter quiet. refined and rich. An
old residential mansion flew the Y. M
c. A. flag.
The Sammys reported.
That's done" they said. NOW Wen
hunt up hotel"
A party dressed like a major beamed on
them.
Good idea" he said. Its my own
principle in foreign cities. Good luck
Remember. we're here. if you need US"
Now, it would be foolshness to pretend
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morning the new clerk was in her place
and reported that through the agency
offered she had secured pleasant room
within square OF the end OF the Mount
Pleasant car line.
quiet and effective work in this di-
rection has been going on in Washington
since last August During the summer
the Secretary of the Interior foresaw the
clerk-housing problem looming ahead as
additional clerks were being called to
Washington, and to do his part in meet
ing 1t he invited Washington woman ex-
perienced in social work to come into his
department and do her best for the situa-
ton especially as it related to housing
the new employees called to the service of
the Department of the Interior Miss
Antoinette Greedy is that woman. and she
has been steadily and satisfactorily meet
ing the situation not only in it's relation
to her own department. but to others.
Miss GreeIy's plan of campaign has been
simple, straightforward, thorough and
therefore very satisfactory. She has kept
before herself and before those with
whom she has dealt certain standards.
Two of these are that prices of rooms
must be neither too high nor too low.
Either condition, she believes, tends to
unbalance the system Inflated prices are
unjust and unpatriotic. rents set too low
from spirit of patriotism are not likely
to maintain an even business relation be-
tween landlord and tenant.
To start her list Miss Greedy sent a
circular letter to every one of the old
employees of the Department of the
Interior. asking each If in his or her
home there was not room. or rooms.
which could be offered at moderate
rental to the newcomers into their de-
partment She set forth the patriotic
side of the case. and she also asked for
a spirit of sisterly or brotherly in
terest in the housing of the new fell
low workers.
This plan worked admirably. Hun
dreds of men and women in the Depart
ment of the Interior own their own
homes, and they responded to the call
in the spirit in which it was made. With
this nucleus of list, Miss Greedy start
out, and she has added to it from many
outside sources. She also took up another
line Of the work. She visited. or sent
her representative to visit, rooms on
her lHt. In this way she knows that
the price is right, and that neighbor-
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SEEING gighfs of Paris "Tame Affair" for Soldiers

rooms. The most elegant, on the Avenue
Montaigne itself, was full up. smart
establishment of the Champs Elysees was
occupied. The Sammies wandered close
TO noon. Dog tired and as hungry as
bears they footed it back to the Y. NJ
G. A. and saw the major.
Hum he said. 'I see You should
have telegraphed."
The boys looked at each other blankly
The major meditated.
TRY the Pavilion" he exclaimed sud-
denly. II know what you boys want-a
trst-class real patrician house. Try the
Pavilion. I used to go there on my bache-
Tor trips. before the war. You can use my
name-no. I'll go with you"
Now, Hank tells it.
Gosh says Hank, that automobile
carryall was waiting. We whizzed
through a million streets. where every
one was talking French, and fetched
up at swell outfit 1T must be $40 a
day" says Jake. What do you care?
replies the major. Go and try them.
I'll wait here l wasn't on yet. In
side they Just throwed the bunch of US
says Jake. Tree frank seextyr said
the hotel clerk with the diamond.
Sixty cents. haw. Then we registered
and ate lunch. Say. wasn't on yet"
They got "on" that evening, whom
they started out to hunt that real Paris
show which mighty few have struck.
DE Pavillon" whispered the hotel
clerk. "Arount de cornaire. Hot
stuffs,"
What they saw was a strictly first
ali Il -l1tr
cially by the Y. M. C. A. at the music
hall annex of that popular hotel for en-
listed men.
Mile. Anselme. well known soprano,
topped the program. Ripat. wounded
French soldier, was heard in poilu dit
ties. Blazer, a violinist, did limitations
on the fiddle of cats. birds and a hair
Tipped Spanish boy singing the Mar
seiilaise." The Ward Brothers were
applauded in comedy acrobatics, and
Pep and Jep did a refined and novel
parlor conversation with slap-s sticks
and an ak This act came straight from
the Royal Bristol Music Hall in Eng
land. and Is the sensation of the Paris
fast set Mile. Bermeart walloped the
cello, introducing Orla and his canine
friends. And All stood while singing
My Country, TITS of Thee"
The major showed up accidentally in
THE best of It," he said, as he helped
the Sammys on with their overcoats
SIS that we don't have to hustle for a
taxi-auto in the dark wet. drizzling
Paris streets. We walk straight into
our hotel. $50 they did, by lnonu-
mental corridor. with green plants and
lounge seats.)
'Ah, gay Paree" exclaimed the major
This way to the hotel lift IL you are
sleepy In fact Che Whispered, the
front door is locked, by municipal or
ders Inppelns Che whispered lewer)
Good night. old sports! All. gay I'aree!
If they could only see US. in Pitts
burgh"
The Pavilion is one of the great
Paris hotels. taken over bodily by our
expeditionary forces. Red Cross and
Y. NJ. c. A, for the physical comfort
and moral security Of the troops ir
Paris. STERLING HELLO.
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safe means of securing their chattels
1t has been given to the Rambler as
tradition that 1t was at banquet
in this hotel that President Andrew
jackson declared that the Union must
be preserved" The Rambler has at
hand no record of this particular ban
quot and has not now the time to look
it up, but the sentiment was frequent
ly expressed by President Jackson. and
with great emphasis, in his proclama-
ton promulgated at Washington De-
cember 10, 1882, against notification.
During the great notification con-
troversy. waged during the years 1873
to 1893, inclusive, Jackson made many
public announcements that the Union
must be preserved
Notification was that doctrine of
which John C. Calhoun ~yas the ablest
exponent, which asserted the right of
any state to declare the unconstitu-
tionality of any United States law,
though It should have been enacted in
the proper manner and held to be con-
stitutional by the Supreme Court of the
United States, 1t was further held that
any attempt to enforce such law
in a state which refused to acknowl-
edge its validity would Justify it in
leaving the Union. The arguments in
favor of notification were in the main
based on the language used by Jeffer-
son and Madison in the Kentucky and
Virginia resolutions of 1898 and 1893 in
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Special Correspondence OF The star
PARIS, December 20. 1917
|IFTY American soldiers were
4" taken into French families to
J see Paris
If nght-hearted and young. They had
been under fire. built railroads and
Won pilots certificates. So their
are safe. Cable the news to America.
It is an unprecedented movement IN
French families. because they hear
that American mothers are wor-
RED French gratitude could go no
further-against fmmemorial custom,
letting strangers into the closed circle.
Before the lads arrived. a few, perhaps,
sent off their daughters. Pardon
ignorant French mothers. who can also
have their worries. But the main
push
''''I am sure they have a daughter.
said one Sammy. II see signs OF her
Ill over the fiat"
He ought to. He was occupying her
room. which was the reason why they
sent her to her aunt's. Many weli-to-
do Paris families have no spare room,
even.
IT know blamed we'll they have a
daughter" said another. she follows
me around. from breakfast TO lunch
and sits admiring me while am
writing letters but as soon as we get
talking, the mother pops In. Not
suspicious-no, you're not on-but just
beaming, and to get her share. That's
right, Wflfred. They regard me as a
taken vows before sailing. as pure as
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the past day or two. A telephone CIR
with small salary came to my ONO
almost In tears. She had occupied a
room at a moderate rent for severa
months. On going to pay for her new
month she was told that the rent o
the room had been doubled and she
could either pay or leave. She coult
not pay. SO she left, not KNOWN.
where she was to sleep that night
Some one had told her of this officc
and before the close of the day W
were able to place her In a fair-price
room a little farther up town tina
she had been accustomed to, but in Il
better place.
Another case brought to our motto
was OF a woman who worked in tn
bureau of engraving and printing. ST. g
had occupied a room for twelve years
and was summarily elected the othe
day because she declined to pay tn
exorbitant increase in its rental.
I'VE simply will not list rooms whic'
we regard as too highly priced. II We
consider them SO we reason with tho
landlords. begging them not to take
advantage of the present crisis to dea
unfairly with the clerks. We appea
to their patriotism to do the rigf
thing. The consequence is that the
rooms on our list are fair in price a ,
we'll as being rooms that we can per
sonaIly recommend. since we have see
them"
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0OHIs is true story OF girl who
arrived in Washington one morn
ing recently to take govern
q ment position she had secured
by civil service examination. After re-
porting at headquarters she set out to
spend part of the day in finding suitable
housing accommodation. Returning dis
consulate few hours later she declared
that the only thing which had offered
within her means was a room in Alex
andria a long distance from the car.
A fellow clerk heard her wall. Il think
you can do better than that, since you
are willing to go some distance from the
center of town. Go to this woman and
ask her to help you find ROOM" and she
wrote down a name and address. Next
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The Hun Spirit.

sSer HE Germans, eating bread tina,
's one-third sawdust," saio Gen.
Michael Ryan of Cincinnati at the meat
packers convention in Chicago. ARE
desperate, and they'll soon be taking
desperate stems to get peace-a peace.
of course, without indemnities.
THE Germans first plunged the
world into war and now they went to
get off without punishment Why. the
rascals are worse than little Tommy.
Where's Tommy said his mother
on Christmas morning.
" I'm almost ashamed to tell you,
ma'am,' said the cook.
Jane, where is her his mother re-
peated.
would you believe it, miiam?'
groaned the cook. He's locked himself
in the pantry where we put the mince
pies and he says he's going to eat and
eat and eat till he's too sick to be
whipped
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Tore Down Wall to Let Kaiser Ride Through
@HE sineularly modest manner IN

H1HE singuIarly modest manner in
which Gen. Allenby made his
< entry into Jerusalem recalls, by
its vivid contrast, the barbarous con-
duct of the kaiser when he visited
Palestine in 1898.
The walls of the sacred city. several
times destroyed. and as often patiently
rebuilt bys reverent hands. were COM
pletely restored by the Turk Suleiman
the Magnificent in the sixteenth CEN
fury. From that time until Williams
visit they remained in perfect condi-
ton, no desecration being attempted at
any time, as far as historical records
show.
There are two gates on each side of
the city, but their narrow openings
do not permit the passage of anything
broader than camel; indeed. camels
rarely pass through them. the neces-
sary merchandise. building material
and almost everything that enters or
leaves the city being transported on
the backs of donkeys. It is the ac-
cepted tradition that none of the gates
were ever made wide enough to admit
a wheeled vehicle. Although the walls
were not completed during King Da-
vids lifetime. 1t is said that even his
chariot respected the boundaries.
When William arrived he announced
that he would do the thing that no
monarch had ever done-he would ride
into Jerusalem in his royal chariot.
In addition to the sentiment that
any sane and civilized ruler would
have respected. there was a physical
obstacle that. to any person whose
mind was not affected by something
worse than excessive vanity, would
have seemed insurmountable-a mass
of solid masonry thirty-two feet high
and eleven feet thick. But William
made his desire known and immediate
ly the sultan gave orders that the
necessary opening be made.
Jaffa gate is the most frequented
entrance. 1t is in the west wall. near
Davids Tower and the foot of Mount
Zion. Until the railroad was built be-
was the point of arrival and departure
for camel trains for Jaffa. Damascus
and other centers of traffic. Probably
on account of the greater amount of
business at this point, the only fairly
wide street in the city extends from
this gate, eastward $50 or 200 yards. The
street is named David street. The other
because they are too narrow and are
frequently interrupted by stairways.
So at best the ride within the city Is
a very short one.
Close by Jaffa gate the work of
breaking through the wall was begun.
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snow, a species Of rare bird or curl
osfty Ono things certain-they're
ashamed Of Paris
The Paris papers are full Of both
rare bird and shame of Paris reputa-
tion.
"These boys are Sir Galahads." they
warn the population. They are as
pure as babes, yet devils in the fight.
Be tender Of them
So when a roughneck from Omaha
broke loose from his French family.
pleading .'orders'-just once. to hunt
up a real Paris show-the very loafers
of the boulevard prevaricated to him.
where's the Folies-Bergere? he
asked.
Don't know" replied the apple
woman
Never heard of It," affirmed the
newspaper merchant
There Is no such place" the Apache
answered
= where's the Moulin RougeT' he asked.
TITS shut said the policeman.
ut burned down in 1872" declared the
shopman.
tit was never any fun" replied the
rounder. IF you want a good time
s1o to the agricultural society
@My Sammy's been. His name Is Joe.
II heard a lecture on munitions at
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mother came and told me. No, you're
not on-not to scold me. but to thank
me. Listen. They've been told were
cast iron"
The French family took Joe to see
old Paris. An uncle. engineer of the
Paris municipality, led him through
miles Of unknown catacombs, where he
saw walled-up secret passages of mid
die age noble families He saw the
kitchens of st. Louis and the dungeons
Of the Louvre. which tourists never
see He went to the house OF Henry
". In the Place des Vosges. which has
two hidden rooms built in 1t. Nobody
can find them.
my" says Joe, but Paris Is the old
place"
Another, whose name is George. was
taken by an elderly bachelor French
millionaire whose fortune was made
at the Hotel Majestic. parlor. bedroom
and bath. But they never ate there
THE old boy and his three brothers
held up hands of holy horror at the
idea of IT. One don't eat here. one
feedsr they said Come with US for
eating They knew every gilt-edged
restaurant of Paris. and the cooks and
walters knew them; yet they kept
saying all the time IL was de-
cadence At the Maison Doree there
was eating. AT the Cafe Anglais, there
was cooking One of the four brothers
would make up the menu for the next
day. and the three others would call it
punk. Order that at yoisins? they
knocked. No. since Charles is mo-
bilized. the only place for duck and
turnips is Paillard's.' Say. would you
think that duck and turnips could be
the best dish in Paris? It is. take 1t
from me, ! never saw a show. Dinner
lasted to and then we went to bed.
guess no soldier ever ate as l did"
My" says George. "all Paris is just
eating"
He never say anything but restaurants
rants.
Sam never saw anything but teas
dressmakers and big shops, being
taken by a fashionable American in Paris
married to a title.
"'You don't mind? said the princess
I want to show you on My SOL
dier.--that's the way she introduced
me to the duchess and the marquise
Then they hiked me down to Column
bins for waffies and to introduce me
to the countess and the baronne. We
never went out at nights not the
way Of the great families. but we sal
around In par1ors playing tric-trac-
acknowledgements Every after.
noon she kept me runnin'. Wouldn't
let me of at the dressmakers. Had t
see them try on. / judged hats a.
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lower Avenue were not only utterly neglected. but
there arose question to whether they be-
onged to the United States or had reverted to the
owners heirs Of the owners at the time OF the
laying ont Of the federal territory. Some of the
early citizens of Washington built their habfta-
lions the reservations. fenced In certain areas
tons on and back from the Avenue under the
plow, raising tolerably good crops Of corn, wheat
and tobacco. Some of the citizens took up the
question Of the right Of these settlers the
reservations. and during the early stages of the
discussion the term ''squatters" applied to
them. The question of 'tsquatter sovereignty" be-
lively and noisy Issue in local affairs and
1t claimed much of the attention of the people
of the city for several years. In some Of the old
chronicles the presumption of the public lands
along the Avenue by squatters is euphoniously
referred to as innovations on the commons"
The private ownership of lots in
these reservations" along the Avenue
extends back to about 1922. when Con-
gress passed an act authorizing the
corporation of Washington to drain
the ground in and near certain public
reservations, and ITO effect these OBJ
jects the corporation Is authorized to
lay off in building lots certain parts
of the public reservations Nos. 10, IL
and IL and other squares. and also
part of B street, as laid out and desig-
mated in the original plan of the city.
which lots they may sell at auction
and afterwards to enclosing, planting
and improving other reservations and
building bridges, etc. the surplus, II
any, to be paid into the Treasury Of
the United States"
The first owners of lots in the block
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the Agricultural Society,"" says Joe.
And I saw movies on French Ell
fort Our Dear Wounded the 'Cathe-
draIs' and the Steel Trade The
daughter sat holding my hand so II
wasn't so bad. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES !
told her she was pretty. she just
blushed and gobbled.
Ran and told her mother. and the
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Christians. Jews and Mohammedans
alike regard the walls as sacred and
they were Mortified and enraged at the
PROCLAMATION. A riot resulted. Several
persons lost their lives, but the work
went ON and the breach was made,
William rode into Jerusalem, down
the brief length Of David street. and
rode back. The f1endish deed was done.
Dead and MANNED bodies and sadness
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in thousands of reverent hearts count
ed as little then as they would now.
Williams desire was gratthed. What
King David could not do was an easy
thing for him. Great was the kaiser.
The prompt compliance Of tho sui.
tan with Williams shocking and hui
initiating request seems incredible. but
the sultan knew the kaiser. The breach
in the wa still Eemaics.
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that all Paris is in a protective league
against the Sammies. All the same, the
ajesty OF their white robe abashes hot
babies. So what would you think Of hotel
men? There were seven fine hotels Of old
time whooping. close around the Rond-
Point. One. beside the river had no
Arizona republican., 1917-11-05
Y.M.C.A. NORk 1O
 BE TALK AT DINNER

Not for the purpose of raising sub scriptions, but solely with a view to placing before the people of Phoenix an approximation of the big job which has been undertaken by the Y. NJ. C. A. war welfare work committees, complimentary dinner will be given at the WOman's club, Wednesday even- ing, November :. at 6;30 o'clock.
 Able speakers have been invited to make short addresses following the banquet, and to outline to those pres- cnt the objectives of the committees and the means which are to be en- ployed in their attainment.
 Included in the list of speakers are the names of James G. McNary, prom inent banker of Fl Paso, President von klenSmid of the University of Ari- zona, and Governor Thomas E. Camp bell
 The talks will be devoted to the purpose of lmpressing upon those sur rounding the banquet board the neces- sity of assisting that portion of this nationally important movement which has been started in this district, and to accentuate the much greater Sacri- flee that is being made by the man in the training camp.
 Dr. J. c. Norton is chairman of the committee in charge.