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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-23
GIRLS MUST HAVE
ROOMS OR co HOME

Who can find rooms for two girl
war workers? Read this:
81 want to be like bug in a rug.
In some warm spot in town.
Have you a wee little corner some
where
In which to lay me down?
Edith NJ Crump. Main 25TO. branch
3I20."
And this:
Must have room within week or re-
turn home; am one OF the undesired
women war workers, but am as quiet
and orderly as most men and do not
smoke: wish single room, preferably
in section between Dupont Circle and
Columbia road. Call Main 2JTO.
branch III, between and s."
These two advertisements appear
today. Tho young woman who says
she must find a room within a week
or leave is Miss Florence Clarke, of
1871 California street northwest.
What is your answer?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-23
SENATORS DELAY
-rss
ELECTIONS PROBE

There was a growing conviction
in the Senate today that the Prfvi-
Ieges and Election Committee will not
report the Pomerene resolution. TO
investigate primary campaign ex-
penditures" in Michigan apd -akler
States" before the election SS
Republican threats Of retallation
In case an attempt Is made to pass
the resolution have caused the DEM
ocratic majority OF the committee to
pause. Any action will be taken only
after due elaboration. Two amend
ments to the bill have been prepared
by Republican Senator's The amend
ments are very similar. both propos-
ing an investigation OF effort OF Of
ficials and employees OF the Federal
Government in behalf of certain can
dldates and against others In, .Yio-
lation of the Federal statutes"
Two sessions of the Privileges and
Elections Committee have been held
since the initial meeting, which was
taken up entirely with rowing be-
tween the Republican and Democratic
members. At neither of the last two
meetings has the committee been
able to muster a quorum. 1t Is pre-
dicted that the committee Will not
be able to secure a quorum to consfd-s
err the resolution before the elections
are held.
The Privileges and Elections Com
mittee is the body that investigated
the disloyalty charges against Sena-
tor Robert LaFollette- 1t has been on
the point OF finally disposing" OF
the matter in a report to the Senate
for the last six months. but during
that time never has been able to get
quorum together to write the re-
port.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-23
CHORUS GIRLS GET
HOUSES IN CAMPS

Two houses for chorus girls have
been built at Camp Dix. y. j.. and
Camp Upton. Long Island, the Y. w.
c. A. War Work Council announced
today. The houses were built by the
housing committee of the council, I'M
der the supervision of Mrs. John d.
Rockefeller. Jr., chairman, at the re
quest OF Chairman Fosdick, OF the
commission on training camp activi-
ties.
The players houses" will be used
in connection with the Liberty The
alter circuit in the camps and cantcn-
ments. Chorus girls performing in
these Out-Of-tOwn camps at night will
be housed after the show and then
can move to the next camp the fol-
lowing day without going back to the
cities.
Each house will accommodate thir-
ty women.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-23

master Chance in experimenting the
contest, are agreed that the success
OF the contest was directly due to
the manner. of separating the. Cons
testants into three classes, with sepa-
rate prizes for each. In section 3
particularly, composed OF station men.
rural carriers and collectors, with but
limited opportunities for selling
stamps, is the wisdom of this division
shown. In previous contests, these
men were forced to compete against
downtown men, and had but slender
opportunities of sharing in the prize
money.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-23
CLIFF HOUSE Is CLOSED

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23.-The
Cliff House. world-famous resort on
the farthest tip Of the San Francisco
peninsular, has closed its doors
after ffty-two years of hilarious ex-
istence. The order banning the sale
of liquor within half mile OF a mifi-
tary establishment was responsible.
The Cliff House was built in 1866 by
Sam Brennan from the wreckage ofa
ship which went ashore. It was de-
stroyed by FIRE in 1894 and again in
1907.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-23
Band Concerts
BY THE

BY THE
L. S. SOLDIERS HOME BAND
THIS AFTERNOON, BEGINNING AT
5:45 O'CLOCK
JOHN s. NJ. ZIMMERMANN, Director
MY Country 'Tis of Thee"
March, March OF the Anzacs"
Lithgow
Overture, "Aroldo" Verdi
Moroccan. claire de Lune" Thome
Selection, The Rose OF CASTLE"
Descriptive, Graveyard Ghosts
Weaver
Intermezzo. "Blossoms' Fox
Patrol characteristics. Ireland
Forever" .Myddleton
Finale, Wooden Leg Charlie" Murphy
The Star-SpanEled Banner"
AT THE MARINE BARRACKS
THIS AFTERNOON AT 4:3O O'CLOCK
BY THE
U. S. MARINE BAND
WILLIAM H. SANTELMANN, Leader
March. "Sambre and Meuse" RusId
Overture, Marriage Of Figaro
Mozart
Petite Bijouterie" ...... .Bohm
Trumpet Solo, THE Gondolier' .Simons
Musician Harry Glantzl:
Selection. Bohemian GirI". ..... Balfs
The Evolution Of Dixie. Lake
Marines Hymn. The Halls of
MontezumA."
"The star-spangled Banner"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-23
ERzBERGER URGES
LEAGUE OF NATIONS

AMSTERDAM. Sept. 23.-The vos-
siche Zeitung prints a plan for a
league OF nations drawn up by Ma
thias Erzberger. leader Of the German
Centrist party. II will be published
soon in book form.
In his plan. ETZberEer declared a
league Of nations is the only way to
peace. Ehzberger invited criticism
and practical counter-proposals.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-23
z SOLDIERS KILLED
AS GUN EXPLODES

The explosion OF a dummy gun at
the Arcadia, Cal. balloon school, Fri
day, caused the death OF two privates
and the serious injury of another. the
War Department announced today.
The dead are: Guy Wehland and
Ray Bailey Thompson. James Lock
wood Rumney was injured.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-23
FRENCH FOREGOING LUXURY.

PARIS, Sept. @3.-The receipts from
the French luxury tax during July
were $1,000 900, or less than one-third
OF the budget estimate. As compared
with a normal period. the total yield
of French taxation shows an in
crease OF more than 20 per cent.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-23
BANK CHECKS TAX 4 CENTS.

LONDON. Sept 23.-Taking effect
this month, the tax on bank checks
has been raised from . cents to
cents. The heavy impost will do
away with small checks and save
labor to the banks.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-23
NATION MASTERING
WOMEN FOR WAR

Machinery designed to force men
out of non-essential employment and
muster women of the nation to take
their places was put in motion today
by 1000 community labor boards
reaching into every section of the
country, acting under detailed instruc-
lions from the United States Employ
ment Service
Each board soon will publish lists
of industries in which men should be
replaced by women. The lists will be
based on minute surveys of all in
dustrial plants in each boards dis
trict- Each job viii be studied to
determine whether . woman should
I'LL it.
Publication of the lists Is expected
to cause employers to comply and
substitute women as a-result OF moral
pressure. and where that fails,
stronger measures may be under
taken The employment service,
working through the war industries
board. has power to shut on the sup
ply of raw materials from any plant.
This move is a result of the en-
larged army program, under which
about 1000 900 men will have been
oChN " AehNO W meat - -
expected to weed out of non-essential
employment every man in the nation.
The corolary Is the probable Undue
tion of hundreds OF thousands OF wo-
men, not only into non-essential in
dustries. but into munitio factories
dustries, but into munition factories
women workers may run into mill
lions.
The women are imperatively need
ed to insure an adequate supply OF
material and munitions to the fight
ing men in France. Because OF the
nationwide labor shortage, the mu-
nitions program faces serious delay.
This is made plain in these in
structions to local boards sent out
by the Employment Service:
ITO the extent that We fall behind
in the supply OF material we shall
have to make up the deficit from the
living bodies OF our young men, This
is not rhetoric 1t is precise, cold
military calculation
"As soon as the facts are realized,
are going to cease carry
ing on business as usual and swarm
into war work"
Each Job Considered.
The use of the term "non-essentiaI
in the instructions to
boards has a special sig-l
rificance. Although a man is work
ing in a munition factory, and even
is making shells, he still may be class
flied as a -non-essential worker" This
will occur when the community
boards survey shows that the mans
job can and should be filled by Al
woman.
The program really means the !
women of the nation are to be mus
tered to help turn out the shells with
which our soldiers will blast their
path toward Berlin.
In making the surveys the boards {
will lay emphasis on the jobs and |
not on the industry as a whole.
The employment service, which |
now has a corner on all employment |
in the United States, will assume re-
sponsibility for listing and filling |
with women the jobs which its COM
boards pass on
Every precaution will be taken to |
guard the health and safety Of the |
women workers. Two women mem |
oers will be added to the personnel 1
Of each community board. Boards !,
are composed of representatives OF
both employers and employees.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-23
BILL FIGHT,
CERTAIN IN HOUSE

The Administration emergency
power bill, scheduled TO come up In
the House early this week. was fac
ing a sharp night today. ~
Members from several wsstefu
States declare the bill grants -tks
right OF Government deVelopment Of
waterpower sites and 20 supersedes
the big waterpower bill already
passed by the House and now befors
the Senate.
Chairman Sims. OF the House In
terstate Commerce Committee, who
has the bill in charge, and Congress-
man Esch, ranking Republican OF the
committee. both hold that the meaa-
ure does not contemplate the devel-
opment OF hydro-electric power,
Life Of Bin Brief. 80
They admit that some waterpower
sites and attached plants might be
taken over for the period Of the war
IL they were mishandled by private
capital but the life OF the bill they
declare is too short to allow any ex-
tensive development plans on Gov
eminent initiative.
The avowed purpose OF the bin. as
stated by Secretary Baker. Fuel Ad-
ministrator Garfield. and others, 10
to aid financially or to construct
power plants in the coal fields And
to transmit power. on long-distanes
lines to shipyards and other war
work centers. where power shortaHs
is holding up production OF EtfS-
tons and. other war materials.
Western Congressman contend that
the bill allows the Government to
acquire or construct any power
plant. without limitation. They also
point to the restriction in the meas
ure that no navigable stream Is to
be damned without consent of the
Secretary OF War and chief OF engi-
neers. as proof that the framersriSf
Otherwise. theyideclare, this restric-
ton would not have been found
necessary. .,s,
Backed ny President. -.
Passage OF the bill, which Presi-
dent Wilson has declared Is OF ~capi-
tai and immediate Importance As .
war measure" Is certain. but a bat
tie to limit and define its powers -
equally certain
The bill carries sf75.ooo. 900 for
power development.
The first work contemplated under
1t is the construction Of power plants
in the Pennsylvania coal held to sup
ply plants in Pittsburgh and on the
seaboard.
Fuel Administrator Garfield told
the Interstate Commerce Committee
that the bill will save millions of
tons OF coal In addition to valuable
shipping space In the New England
manufacturing district alone.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-06-15
.LEGLESS DIAMOND
CUTTERS WORKING
-W.S.S.-

Brighton, England, May II (By
Imail)-Soldiers who have lost a leg
but whose hands and sight are per-
feet, are learning diamond cutting
and polishing in this Atlantic City OF
England. They are employed almost
Exclusively in an industry new to Eng
land and expect before the war is
over to compete on favorable ba-
sis with the more highly skilled dia-
mond cutters of Amsterdam and Ant
werp, where in pre-war days there
was monopoly of the business. Two
large, modern, four-story buildings
are being put up which when complet
ed will employ 1900 discharged sol
Idiers. i# n
Only ex-soldiers with unimpairec
leyesight and perfect control of theil
fingers are taken, because everything
depends on a mans accuracy of visior
and control of his hands. Even with
these qualities it takes a man a life.
time to learn the trade.
First the men pass through a train
ing school. When a man is first ad
mitted he is put to work on marbles
such as he played with when boy
He cuts up and polishes the marble:
as will later do with the rea
stones. The marbles are first sawr
in half, and then ground into shape OF
a steel disc. This serves to give hin
some idea of the finished shape of thu
real diamond, but it is impossible t.
get the face even approximately cor
ect, owing to the softness of the mar
BILE.
Instead of cutting the SO facets o1
surfaces found on the finished bril-
Imperial Valley press., 1918-06-15
DENTAL PETITION
IS POPULAR WITH
PEOPLE Of VALLEY
-W.S.S.-

An unusual number of initiative pc
titions are being circulated this year
to have verious measures put on the
ballot for the lection next November
Of these the petition to amend the
dental law is popular with the people
because it is measure for the bene-
fit of the masses and brings dentis-
try to a plane where the eighty per
cent who now fail to have dentistry
done. may tave their teeth fixed with
out fear of excessive charges.
That the measure is receiving gen.
eral approval is shown by the way
signatures are being obtained in all
parts of the state. More than $4,000
people have already signed the petit
tion and others sign as soon as it is
explained to them.
The amendment has four sections,
all of which mean that the practice of
dentistry will be bettered and the peo-
pie benefited. The first section pro-
vides that members of the board of
dental examiners shall have higher
educational qualifications than are
now provided by law.
The second section puts dentists on
the same plane with doctors and fol-
lows the medical law. 1t permits den-
fists to come to California and prac-
tice if they are graduates of reputa-
BILE dental colleges, have passed some
other state board and have practiced
five years in other states.
The third section provides that it
shall be misdemeanor for a dentist
to administer an anesthetic except in
the pesence of an adult third person.
This is protection for both the den-
tist and the patient.
The fourth section provides that
nothing in any dental law shall be
construed to mean that it is unpro-
fessional to advertise, nor that the
charging of low fees shall be deemed
unprofessional. This section places
dentists among the progressive pro-
fessions and follows the example set
by the architects, which profession
recognizes advertising as honorable
and professional. That low fees may
be charged without the dentist being
called unprofessional means that the
people will have the chance to get
work done on their teeth at easonable
Figures. t.S8
Imperial Valley press., 1918-06-15

liant, the men cut six planes on th'
marble, and afterward grind the base
roughly into the shape of the collet
or neck. When man does this skill
fully he is given a small diamond to
cut, and it is great day in a mans
training when this stage arrivese. The
feeling that he has stone worth from
500 to $3.50 in his possession to cut
and polish gives him sense of re-
sponsibility.
| While undergoin gtraining the men
receive no wagese, but they receive a
government allowance of about 81 a
week. After they have advanced far
enough to be entrusted with dia-
mond they are put on wage basis
of from $40 to $50 week, depending
on their ability. Their training usu-
ally occupies period of from three to
six months.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-06-15

great burden off our shoulders ane
give us a square deal.
If can get 80 per cent of the farm
ers of this valley to sign petition
to postpone the drainagee until after
the war, will you see that it is done
Is it not fact that the president,
in his message, asked that all public
and private work not absolutely es-
sential be postponed until after the
war? This is one which is not needed
at all.
! We know that if Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo knew of the fact
that this half-million dollars or more
was being spent unnecessarily ne
would have it stopped Immediately un-
til after the war.
! When the whole nation is working
to economize and conserve and buying
bonds to help win the war, it seems
worse than foolish for the U. S. R. S.
to spend half million dollars or
more for something absolutely un-
necessary. William G. McAdoo has
wisely stopped the building of $780,,
900 postoffice, which the people want
at Vinton, Iowa, until after the war,
and here the U. S. r. S. are spending
a half million dollars or more for an
draining ditch which the
people do not want and which will al
ways be burden and expense.
Please give this your careful con-
sideration and let me hear from you
at once about circulating a petition
or stop the digging and pumping of
the ground water.
Yours very truly,
GEORGE FISHBAUGH,
Vice President Yuma Valley Water
Users Association. Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-06-15

ley to be pumped over the levee for
all time TO come, when they must
know if they leave it alone it will
take care of itself and flow under the
levee as it has for hundreds of years
There is not an acre of land in the
valley that is seeping or threatening
to seep from the water used for irri-
cation.
Six of US have measured the ground
water and find it just as low as it
has been for the last fifteen years
except in the vicinity of the Weir dam
in the Colorado river and where the
surplus water is dumped in the Ia
goons by the U. S. R. S.
My dear secretary, / wish to re-
mind you of the letter from Chief En-
gineer Davis to Congressman Car
Hayden, stating that there were 5000
acres water-logged and the crops lost
in the Yuma valley. This is false
and untrue and they were unable tc
show me one acre that was water.
logged. Mr.. Schlect, at the same
meeting, made statement to the
board of engineers that the Colo
rado river raises the ground water
at every overflow and that it does not
go back to its natural level. This is
not believed by anyone in the valley,
even the old settlers who have
watched this thing for 40 years.
The photograph at the head of this
article will show you the great waste
of land. 1t is fully rods wide and
.25 miles long; 200 acres will be ruined
to reclaim less than Is and cost half
a million dollars or more. Every
word of this can be proven.
My dear secretary, would you not
call this incompetency?
All we ask of you is to keep this
Imperial Valley press., 1918-06-15

Yuma, Ariz., April 26, 191s.-Hon.
Mr.. Franklin X. Lane, Secretary of
the Interior, Washington, D. C.-Dear
Sir: You letter of March 14th at
hand, in which you mention the re
port of the Arizona Sentinel CONCERN
ing the meeting with the hoard of
engineers and mention the fact that
/ differ radically with them, but /
want to say that l do not differ with
the rs farmers who were present and
who strenuously protested against the
drainage of the ground water.
want to state that the report was
false in saying that it was unani-
mously agreed for the drainage sys-
TEN to go on and can be proven Sc
Imperial Valley press., 1918-06-15

by every one who was at the meet
ing. y ~ IN lAx1l0
We did not expect to fair report
from a board of engineers controlled
by Mr. Schlect
Chief Engineer Davis, Of course
does not want to own up to their mis-
take of trying TO drain the ground
water of the Yuma Valley, as this
ground water is a flowing stream and
its height is controlled by the height
of the Colorado river. 1t does not
seem possible that the United States
should want to place burden on the
farmers of the Yuma Valley by open
ing up the ground water, causing it
to flow to the lower end of the VAL
Imperial Valley press., 1918-06-15

ne man in the office, the clerk in the
tore, the worker in the shop nave
today, in this great discovery, Gets
II !" tbe one sure, quick relief from all
corn and callous pain-the one sure,
ainless remover that makes makes, corr, nee,
|, hapana II takes 2 seconds to APP
pIy "Gets IT.; it dries at once Tken
walk with painless JOY, even with mt
shoes. You know your corn VIII NJ
en- from your tOe-peel IL OIL WIN yYuI
fingers Try it, corn sufferers ahp
you'll smile! :
.C;ets-It" is sold at all druggists tyou
reed nav no more than 20 cents a bot
tie1 or sent on receipt Of price by. H.
Ia wrence e. Co, Chicago, Ill.
Sold in El centro and recommendeo
at the worlds best corn remedy w
Drug store, and Greenleaf Clements
Druggists.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-06-15
STOP CORN AGONY
IN FOUR SECONDS
Use "Gets-It"-See COrns Peel Off

The relief that "Gets-It" gives from
rn-pains-the way it makes corns
nd calluses peel off painlessly in one
iece--is one of the wonders OF the
world. The woman in the home, the
shopper the dancer, the foot traveller,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-21

THE following excerpt from a fine,
l. long letter by William McFee,
Engineer Sub-Leutenant, R. N. R., au-
thor of Casuals Of the Sea and Aliens, is
reprinted from the Chatting Dish in the
Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger.
The letter was doubtless addressed to
Christopher Morley, author of Shandy-
oaf, beverage.-EDIToR Books and the
Book World.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-21
II. NJ. S. CRY OF OXFORD,
May "a, 1918.

M ANY thanks for sending me the
A'A Unpopular Reriep and Raggles
Of Red Gap, which are no doubt still
under way. 1 did hear that this mail
was torpedoed, but the vessel, like good
King Charles, being an unreasonable
time dying, they were able to fish the
letter bags out of her.
The review by B. is pretty good, l
think. He gives me a good show and is
not far away from a sound conclusion
when he suspects that II secretly believe
in life" l do. It's the finest thing out,
with all its darned worries and anxieties.
If anybody imagines am tired of life or,
IS Keats says, "Half in love with easeful
DEATH" let him glance into my soul when
We are at sea and am on watch. Scaredi
I am so scared that l have submitted to
the Admiralty designs for a new surface
craft with the mein engine situated half
way up the mast and the boilers neatly
fitted on each side of the wardroom.
The funnel is horizontal and is camou-
tagged to represent a thirty-six inch
howitzer.
You can assure B. if you meet him that
I sure do believe in life. l admit that
when l was Third often used to feel
certain amount of truth in Keats's plant
rs he listened to the nightingale:
"Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain"
when was torn out Of my blankets and
compelled to "show leg at IL As P. M.
But the feeling wore away toward 8
o'clock, and at when l dug out the
Second I was as spry as kitten and sat
on the hatch until 5 drinking coffee out
of pint mug and smoking sweet boreen
in a clay with vulcanite stem.
Cant do that sort of thing now.
Have to be respectable and take salutes.)
AS to o. Henrys.
With regard to 80. Henry" my last
kitten, who 1 believe is ashore in Salonica
now all among the Macedonian phalanxes,
he was named after your much admired
writer of short stories. You see, o.
Henry's tales are nearly all short, SO is
20. Henry's" tail. Again, 20. Henry" is
clever and cheeky, though he can scratch
vithal. Really, it is unnecessary to give
any more reasons.
I have read all o. Henry. Messrs.
Holder & Stoughton have issued him to
us in shilling volumes. The shilling be-
comes q. Cd. in Hub-el-B ubl, but it is good
valua / am very much impressed with