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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1917-08-10
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q demande
La sponsabilite
des Etrangers

LIE gouvernement ct le S6nat
des Etats-Unis ne sont pas dispo-
s6s q n6gliger le problAme des
6trangers, tandis qu'un demi-mil-
lion de jeunes Americans sont ap-
pel6s aux armes. La resolution
Chamberlain, qui mettrait les
strangers sur le meme pied que
les citoyens en- matiere de respon-
sabilit6, est le r6snltat de beau
coup d'agitation qui s'est faite de-
puts que la loi de la consumption a
6t6 mise en- vigueur. lie fait que
des centaines de mile hommes
d'age 4 etre conscrits ne seraient
pas d6rang6s de leurs emplois, qui
leur rapportent souvent des salai-
res extraordinaires, ct 6ohappe-
raient ainsi q la responsabilit6 mi
litaire, est manifestement con-
traire au sens de la justice. De la
sorte, tous les sacrifices sont pour
les uns, tandis que les autres en-
recueilleront les fruits, pesprit IL
bre ct en- Giant parfaitement ras-
sur6s sur leur sort.
ST les trait6s existants n'empe-
chent pas ladoption dun service
obligatoire pour les 6trangers, il
est certain que quelque chose en-
CO sens devrait etre fat par des
moyens l6gaux. ST on trouve des
obstacles dams les trait6s, des ef-
forts seront probablement fats
pour que les gouvernements des
pays qui sont nos allies oonsen-
tent q un arrangement r6ciproque
par le4uel les 6trangers r6sidant
aux Etats- Unis seraient assujettis
au service obligatoire lei, tandis
que les citoyens des Etats- Unis
r6sidant dams des pays europeans
seraient assujettis q la meme obi
cation envers le pays od ils de-
meurent.
81 l'6tranger aux Etats-U -Unis a
le choix de robligation mllitaire
gu d'etre d6port6 4 son ancienne
patrie, qui le r6olamerait pour le
service militaire, il est tout proba-
bic quill pr6f6rerait demeurer ici
ct subir notre loi de conscription.
Naturellement il ne s'agit lei que
des suiets des pays avec lesquels
nous sommes on termes amicaux.
On ne voudrait pas des sujets des
pays qui sont nos ennemis ou des
pays qui sont allies avec nos enne-
mis-.
Dams ce grand conait envelop-
pant la plus grande partie du
monde civilis6, P6tranger en- quel-
que part. II ne doit pas 6ohaPper
a Accomplishment de CO devoir
par laccident dune residence
temporaire. Puisque le service
obIigatoire est maintenant la regle
parmi les bellig6rants, tout hom-
me d'age milltaire dams tout pays
en- guerre devrait etre mis- sur le
meme pied d'6galit6, au'i]s soient
citoyens ou 6trargers.
On annonce que le gouverne-
ment des Etats- Unis va prendre
les measures n6cessaires pour faire
dlsparaftre cette anomalie ct corri-
ger cette injustice. II est 3 souhai-
ter quill montre plus de diligence
qu'en montr5 le Congress sur la
question de palimentation, laquel-
le continue q s'6terniser, au grand
d6triment du peuple am6ricain ct
de nos allies.
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-04
Their Place i'm the Sun
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

You probably noticed during the hot spell that ths
Washington police sweered in thick blue uniforms Ths
traffic squad standing all day in the burning suffered
real misery during the last few days. Several of the
compelled to leave the crossings to get what little
lief they could in the shade 1t fierce ordeal for them
The blue uniform which the police In is much
thinner than the winter garb but nevertheless thicker
garment than that by the average Washington pede
been giving good deal Of consideration to the question but
that it presented seemingly nsurmountable difficulties.
In the first place. the police of Washington, is the
in other Cities buy their uniforms To compel
them therefore, to adopt mohr other goods OF expensive
quality for few weeks of the year would be financial bur-
den that many of them would not to undertake Then
again. what might thin enough for midday is not al
ways thick enough for midnight The Major says that
fortune is awaiting the who invent blue serge
cloth which will be comfortable in the at keep its
shape in the be enough at night and be service
able from spring until fall
It may be necessary after ALL to adopt the khaki uni
form similar to that by the army The mounted men
and motorcycle police already atred in khaki but
of them say the cloth not comfortable the blue SERGE
is to be hoped that the Police Department will continue
its search for light khaki cloth that will take the place
of the thick uniform being And in of rain
cold weather it might be good idea for the duty
have at hand ponchos other light for the cold
hours of the night The policeman, after all is soldier and
while is of course necessary that he be uniformly clad
essential that he be contentd instead OF discontinued
and comfortable instead of uncomfortable Because the
police like all other aborng fokstheir efficiency is
in proportion to their bodily comfort.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-04
wv. R. Hearst Endorsed for Mayor
By Independents"
At Least One of His Real Friends Hopes That
Not Run.

Democrats and Independents in New York City want
William Randolph Hearst to accept the nomination for
Mayor.
BE was nominated once ELECTED and swindled out Of
the election And that occasion he carried the City OF
New York without the help of any politician or any organ
zaton-excpt that of newspaper protecting and working
for its readers.
Now the Democrats need somebody strong enough to
win for them against combination of big money and fake
reform and they get Hearst because they know he
can wn-whenever the voters allowed to count their
votes
The Washington Times advises Mr.. Hearst most earn
esty to keep out of it.
Being mayor of city is mo business for real news
paper man.
Hearst with his newspapers all the United States
regulate half dozen mayors and make them attend to
business.
By watching public officials from the top to the bot
TOM prasng those that do well telling the truth about those
that do i'll Hearst renders great service to the people of the
country
It would be neglect of duty for him concentrate his
mind the New York City Hall and its duties for four years
honestly and efficiently putting the corporations
where they belong giving the poor people the service that
they deserve is great temptation.
But in the United States at this time it is THE VERY
HIGH SPOTS that need attention
Such man is Hearst, really fearless in public work
indifferent to everything but the welfare of the country and
his readers, has right to concentrate on detail
If he is well advised he will find some to run for
mayor, encourage him. support him and elect him-then
worth while, is GENERAL SUPERVISION.
The manager of big store would be foolish to
ate on the running of elevator for four years The
manager Of big chain of newspapers has right
centrate City Hall for four years. Organize depu
TIE, supervise, should be the editors motto
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-04
Winifred Blacks Article on Love
At Forty

isn't trying to make herself over
to suit him, or to make him over to
suit her-any more.
Love? Whyl The love a man
gives to q beautiful girl Of eight
cen isn't to be mentioned IN the
same breath with the love he gives
to a woman forty years old, who
nursed him through the tonsilitis,
and stood by him through the
panic, and warned him through the
partnership that turned out so
badly down town.
Eighteen is all right-eighteen
is sweet and fresh and beautiful,
eighteen is helpless and appealing
and charming-but where is eight
cen when the woman Of forty
stands beside a little, new-made
grave, and holds her hands out to
the man whose heart and hers ara
buried there together?
Forty? Why, forty is OctoberI
May is lovely, June is beautiful,
August rs splendid, but, oh, the joy
Of rich, grateful, bracing October.
In love? No, a man doesn't fall
in love with forty. He just loves
her-that's all.
And the man who loves a woman
gives her a thousand times more
precious a gift than the man gives
who only "falls in love-" When
you fall in love, you may fall out
of love again.
But when you love you keep on
loving; and neither forty years,
nor fifty, nor sixty make any diff
ference to a man, or to a woman
either, who's worth counting at all.
wish the woman who killed
herself because her husband said
she was too old for him to love
had packed her trunk and had gone
away on a visit to some old friends
who knew her when she was young
and pretty-and / wish while she
was there that she had read a lit
tie and studied a good deal, and
brought herself to realize lust
exactly the sort Of man she had
been living with. If she had done
this she would be alive today. and
wondering how in the world she
stood life with such a man so long.
Copyright. 1917. by Esvspaper Featurs
Service. Inc Great Britain Rights Rsssrvsd)
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the mother can reclaim it.
That fact, from the viewpoint
of the woman who may later adopt
the baby, is great safeguard. Its
parents can never trouble her.
Unknown relations will not turn up.
If you adopt such baby, F. R.,
you will know very little about 1t.
And this is well.
Doctors will tell you that you do
not need to know its history. They
will tell you that the old theories
Of hereditary taints and influences
are now disproved. They will give
you the up-to-date theory that a
normal child, born with pure blood,
enters the world with "a clean
bill of health"
The child you adopt will become
what you make 1t. Read that last
sentence again, F. R. 1t contains,
in ten words, the up-to-date theory
of child-training, on which many
books are written.
Take it very young, therefore,
before it has formed habits. Love
it, feed it, keep it clean, give it
plenty of fresh air, and let it
alone.
Let it grow quietly and simply,
like the healthy little animal it is.
THE CHILD WILL MAKE LIFE
DIFFERENT AND WONDERFUL.
1t will repay you In a thousand
ways. 1t will make your life differ
ent and wonderful. II will give
you a new and consuming inter
est.
BY the time it has begun to
crawl around, and to need con-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-04

loves 1t. To leave it there, to lose
it forever, she thinks will break
her heart.
On the other hand, the child has
no legal father. The girl is what
the world calls unfortunate. She
is Just out Of the hospital where
she gave the baby birth. She is
still to Ill to work; she has no
money, no home, no friends who
will take in the baby. What is she
to do?
The great institution steps in.
The sister at the receiving desk,
who alone observes her struggle,
tells her that she may remain
with the baby for a year or even
for two years, paying her own
way and the baby's by caring for
her child and helping in the care
Of the other foundlings.
But here, again, there is a prob
lem. The girl mother has con-
cealed her misfortune from her
family and her friends. To enter
the institution would be to betray
herself. Nevertheless, fifty per
cent Of the mothers remain with
their babies.
The others put their babies in
the cradle, sign the documents
which end their motherhood, and
90 back to life with the ghost of
q baby's cry perhaps forever in
their ears.
There are instances, Of course,
where these young mothers do not
love their babies. They have suf-
fered much. In their despair and
weakness, they uniustly blame
their babies for their misfortunes.
They leave them in the cradle
without a tear. 49,.
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Champ Clark For D. c. Suffrage
Continued from First Column.)

Continued from First Coumn)
live in the District is comfortable for corporations to
operate in great city where the people have vote-nd
can only say, "0uch Please don't
But the corporations will have give up that comfort
and soon.
This of the great cities of the country and will
be greater each year.
To keep vast body Of men and deprived of all
share in their government is disgrace any nation
Washington is the head of the nation.
who cannot vote is like head that cannot think
It is disgrace to this country to have voteless Capt.
ta just disgrace to the individual to have thought
less head.
We congratulate the and women Of Washington
that they have with them in their fight for suffrage Champ
Clark. Speaker of the House. and powerful man. BE
is openly for them in their fight to got the Others not
far from him secretly against them
Ways must be found to convert those enemies
The who opposes suffrage for Washington is the
enemy of the city And he is the enemy OF the country be-
cause he works against the country's interest.
1t is not desirable decent respectable that the Capital
of republic should be inhabited by and wnen enjoy
ing politically the status OF the black slaves before the Civil
War,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-04

((VVTHEN a woman's forty
" years old" said the
man, "she ought to
be killed, or put into
a convent or somewhere, and her
husband ought to have the right to
go and get a new wife"
"An right" said the mans wife,
and she went into the next room
and took a pistol out Of a drawer
and shot herself through the
heart and died.
The man told the whole store at
the coroner's inquest And he
went free, and by this time ! sup
pose he is looking for the new
wife. I hope, for the sake Of the
new wife, that he doesn't find her.
How foolish the poor woman
was to die for such a man as that.
Forty! Why, that's just the be-
ginning Of the happiest time in a
woman's life-er a mans either,
for that matter!
At twenty, Lies q FEVER. AT
thirty, life's a chill. At forty, life
is life--full. rich. crowded with
understanding, packed with friend
ship, gemmed with experience as
is the sky gemmed with stars.
No woman in the world Is as
good a pal as is the woman Of
forty. She's learned to make al
lowances. She's learned to believe
excuses-or to pretend to believe
them. She's learned-and this is
the most valuable lesson Of all
what to forget and what to re-
member.
And she has learned that love Is
only q part Of life-not all, or even
half Of it. She's learned that mar
rage is a partnership; and, even
at that, only an episode in a really
full and rounded life.
She isn't perfect herself, and she
doesn't expect her husband to be
perfect. She doesn't watch the
clock and go into Mysteries if hus-
band is five minutes late, and she
doesn't call him up on the tele-
phone four or five times day to
find eut if he still loves her.
She has her own friends, her own
interests, her own life, and she
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slant care and watching, it will
be so deep in your heart, and so
fascinating in itself, that no
trouble it causes will seem too
great.
There will be hours and DAYS
when your pride and joy in it viii
seem almost too much to bear.
There will be hours and days
when, as you watch it in sickness,
your anguish will also seem too
much to bear. But you have be-
come its mother. You must take,
and will be willing to take, the
happiness and unhappiness, the
griefs, the joys, the anxieties, that
every mother of every child en-
dures.
Your home, which has been so
silent, will be filled with the voice
OF child-the crying Of a child,
the laughter of a child, the first
stammering words of a child.
When you have been away and
are hurryinR home to the child,
you will hear its voice as you
open your front door. In the hall,
perhaps, you will see a tiny shoe.
On the floor of the first room you
enter may lie a doll, a woollv
lamb, a little cart. 1t is the trail
Of the baby's toys-the most won
derful trail in the world, and the
shortest route to the normal
human heart.
There is always a chance that in
the end you may be "disappoint-
ed" There Is always a chance that,
notwithstanding your love and
care and patience, the child may
not turn out we'll" But what Of
that?
We play for big stakes in this
life of ours. We take a chance"
every time we make a decision.
The chances with a child are no
greater than the rest.
Around us we see children turn
out well or i'll. Sometimes we are
staggered by an instance in which
the child who turns out worst has
seemingly had the best training.
Again, we see the boy who, as a
child, had no training at all, rise
far above his fellows. These cases,
we know, are exceptions. They do
not affect the great law that we
must all, to the best of our ability,
work out fair course for the
young who follow US.
Your course, F. R., Is very SIM
pie. Adopt the child, do your best
for it in every way, and leave the
rest to God.
Whatever comes. you will have
done your part-a beautiful part
in the work of our time.
| wish there were many more
like you, for 1t seems almost a
crime to he a woman in a child
less home today when. a. never
before, the cries Of Orphans are
filing the world.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-04

IN would be sorry. But, in
any case my message to
you is this: Adopt a baby.
Don't wait. Don't give your in
terest time to cool. Don't talk
over the plan with your friends
and ask their advice.
Adopt the baby, and adopt it
now. Then talk it over as much
as you please.
As to the method, go to the New
York Founding Hospital, on Sixty
eighth street, between Third and
Lexington avenues. Tell the sister
in charge that you wish to adopt
a baby.
She will give you a blank appli-
cation to fill out. One Of the in
stitution's investigators will look
up your record. II, in her opinion,
you will make a good mother you
will be shown a number Of babies
and allowed to make a choice.
Very much the same method, no
doubt, is followed in the other
asylums. ! mention the New York
Founding Hospital because l have
visited it and examined its work.
You will not be allowed to adopt
the baby Immediately, but you may
take it home. The institution will
watch your care Of it. After a
certain period-one, two, or three
years-if you have made good"
with that baby you will be per-
mitted to adopt it.
THE MOTHER AND THE
CRADLE OF TEARS"
There are enough babies In the
New York Founding Asylum to
fill hundreds Of hungry hearts.
This, usually, is the way they come
there.
On the ground floor Of the in
stitution, near the main entrance,
stands a cradle. 1t is called "the
cradle Of tears" and with good
reason. More tears have been
shed over it than over any other
cradle in America.
Day and night it stands there,
clean and empty. At intervals,
long or short, a woman creeps in
from the street. Usually she is
young; usually she Is ill-stag-
gering, perhaps, with weakness;
always she is poor and unhappy.
In her arms she carries a baby.
Sometimes, like its mother, it is
weak and i'll; sometimes it is a
splendid baby, fat and strong. The
girl who carries it drags herself
to the cradle, and there, sick. pen
niless, she fights the great battle
Of her life.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-04
By Elijah beth Jord n.

But such IN
stances are rare.
Many a wretch
ed girl crawls to
that cradle a
dozen times, and
away again, be-
fore she finds
courageSto leave
the baby in it
She does it then
for the baby's
sake. She knows
it will be fed
and sheltered.
When at last
she has left it,
and has gone,
the new arrival
is removed to
t h e reception
ward. 1t is en-
tered as another
in the big city's
| o n z list Of
"a b an d o n g d"
waits. There is
No wav by which
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-04

Shall she give
up her baby, or
shall she keep
it? The problem
is for her to de-
eide b u t it
must be decided
once for all.
There will be no
chance to re-
consider. From
the moment she
lays that baby
m that cradle
she has no fur
Their claim on it.
Here are the
two sides Of the
problem she con-
siders as she
stands with the
baby in her
a r m S, looking
down into "the
cradle OF tears.
On the one
hand is the great
fact that it is
her bahy. She
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-04
Elizabeth Jordan Writes on Babies"

es
a exploded
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-04
Champ Clark for D. G. Suffrage
He Says the Moneyed Interests Oppose I-So They Do
BUT WASHINGTON WILL VOTE.

We sent to Champ Clark editorial advocating cert
oms and receive this friendly and interesting letter
he distinguished Speaker of the House:
My dear Mr.. Brisbane:
thank you for sending me marked copy of
The Times. read it with great deal of pleasure
I have been intending ever since you bought The
Times to write you letter congratuating you, and
the people of Washington; but when was a boy one
of the copies set by the old Field schoolmaster was
representation is the thief of time" which is a
very poor excuse, of course for delay; but have
been very busy. From the bottom of my heart do
congratulate you-and congratulate even more
the people of Washington. I hope you will increase
your fame and your bank account.
By the way, see that you are pegging away at
the proposition to have the people of this District
vote. Along in July or August, 1898, introduced
bill to make Territory out of this District give
them legislature with two branches governor ap-
pointed by the President, and the right to elect
delegate to Congress introduced it in three Con-
crosses, but never could get it reported
think that you will discover that all the
moneyed interests of this town are bitterly opposed
to your position. I know they controlled the com
mittee on the District then and would never let nv
bill be reported.
When you have nothing else to do, come up and
see me.
Your friend,
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CHAMP CLARK.

We don't know about increasing fame or bank account
put we do guarantee to keep at the question of suffrage
the and women of Washington.
And if this newspaper and its growing family of more
than fifty thousand intelligent readers keep at it. the District
Of Columbia win vote
There is doubt as Speaker Clark says that money,
especially organized money that exploits the people and in
jures the business of Washington objects voting in this
city.
But organized money, like organized nobility in the
ancient days. has ALWAYS objected to the people control
ling themselves
Money against the American Revolution, against
freedom for the Satebut that didn't keep this country
English.
Corporation money and other kinds of money in
Washington are opposed to suffrage for and women that
Continued at Bottom Of Column)
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Dear Miss JordanI I haven't any
baby. / cannot have one. IL IL wise
to adopt oneF Or would be Borry
afterwardF And IL I adopt one, how
will do TIT r. r.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-11-09
Method In Their plan.

The lieutenant colonel tells the story
of the goat barrage,' says a CORE
spondent in France A few of the old
timers who have fought at his side in
China and the Philippines and Mexico
call him Goat" No one else does.
''They were having machine gun
practice up a draw" said he, 'and a
sentry was stationed at the bend TO
keep people from wandering up that
draw and getting their heads shot of
before the boys could stop squirting.
But he did not challenge me.
What are you here forT | asked.
Keep people from going up the
canyon and getting hurt said the boy.
"'Yop didn't stop me- l said.
"'They said to let you come replied
the sentry"