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The Washington herald., 1918-05-01

Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald
New York, April So
They sat behind me.
At a perfectly good play.
Maybe you heard 'em.
They are known on Broadway.
As the "Theater Takers"
There were four in the party.
Two women and two.
What they brought with them.
One OF the males.
That made it dificult to determine.
Where the chin left of.
And the Adams Apple began.
And another ran.
10 tne molar type
He seemed to be all teeth.
They knew more about the play.
Than Gene Walter.
Who wrote II.
Nothing escaped them.
And they wanted.
Everybody to hear.
Their scintiIlating quips.
Including a few friends.
Down in Baltimore.
And finally I turned.
And told Old Squirrel Tooth.
That they were making.
So much noise on the stage.
couldn't get every line.
OF what they were saying.
And that I didn't want.
To see the show at all.
Just wanted to hear them.
And his companion said:
who is that vulgar person."
Meaning me.
And she looked at me.
Through her lorgnette.
And that settled me.
can stand anything.
Except being looked at
Through a lorgnette.
1t always makes me feel.
Like a miserable worm.
And they kept on talking.
And knocking the play.
And spelling the evening.
For everybody around.
And every now and then.
I would start to protest.
But ia think.
or that lorgnette.
And break out in a cold sweat.
And at.cr the show.
/ sneaked all the way home.
The Washington herald., 1918-05-01
ASKS INVESTIGATION
OF SMOKE NUISANCE
Moore Introduces Resolution Direct
ing Committee to Make Inquiry.

Soft coal smoke. which has had
practically free sway in washine-
ton ever since last winter when an
thracits was scarce. received at
tention yesterday in ConEress.
Representative J. Hampton Moore,
OF PennsylvGnia. introduced a reso-
luton In the House calling for ar
investigation into the smoke nul-.
sance. Washington for q time be-
ing forgot that there was q Law
on the statute books forbiddlns
smoky chimneys. its chief coucerr
last winter to get any kind OF coal
and burn IL TO keep warm The
resolution reads:
Whereas the smoke nuisance ,fr
the District OF Columbia f. increas-
ing, 20 the prejudice OF the comfort
and health OF the people. and like
wise threatens to deface the ar
chitecture OF the National Capitol;
therefore.
BE IL resolved that the commit
tee on the District OF Columbia be
requested TO make inquiry into the
causes OF the smoke nuisance, with
special reference 90 the use of fuel
and the banking OF fires in the Dis
trict of Columbia. and report &c
Congress such legislation for the
abatement thereof. as the facts with
due regard to all parties interested
may warrant"
The Washington herald., 1918-05-01
WILEY AS SENATOR
HOPE FOR SUFFRAGE
Missourian. Ardent for Cause. May
Cast Deciding Vote.

Victory for the suffrage amend
ment which has passed tho House
and 10 now before the Sonata has
been made practically certain by
the appointment Of xenophon p.
whitley TO succeed TO the vacancy
caused by the death Of Senator
Stone OF Missouri. wilney 10 said
to be an ardent suffragist. and his
vote 10 counted upon TO decide the
fate of the amendment.
Senator Guion. who was recently
appointed TO succeed Senator Brous-
sard OF Louisiana. 10 also counted
for the amendment Both OF these
votes have been added TO the Sen
ate since the last poll Of the suf-
fraGe workers showed that two
votes were needed to insure the
amendments passage
Members OF the Missouri dele
cation in Congress expressed great
satisfaction over the appointment
OF wilney, who 10 generally regard
ed as an able lawyer and accom-
plished orator. He has never been
active in politics. although his
brother. Lebbeus wilney, was Judge
of the extra-territorial court in
Shanghai under appointment of
President Cleveland, and later At
torney General OF the PHILIPPINES
under President Mckinley.
II Wilhey's vote should be the
deciding factor in the Senate. Mis-
souri, would be able to claim the
distinctiop OF having cast the de-
Gliding vote in both houses. as the
final vote for the amendment in the
House was cast by Representative
Russell. OF the Fourteenth Mis-
souri, District Moreover. II Rus
sell had not voted, Speaker Clark
would have decided the tie, and Mis-
souri, still would have held the
honor OF the deciding vote.
The Washington herald., 1918-05-01
Samuel Gompers.

Once it was Gompers, then it became Sam
Gompers, then Mr.. Gompers now it is Mr.. Samuel
Gompers. When he rises in his place and talks he
goes directly to the point. Speaking in Canada
before joint session of the house and senate he
reused the utmost enthusiasm when he said:
/ would rather drop fighting for the right
than not to hight at all. If we should fail
ana repeat we cannot fail, we must not fail
we will not fail, it is better to fall fighting
than 1t IS to submit willingly to the woke
Inc Willingness to submit to the tyrant's
yoke SIMPLY means the sitting and the
stamping out of the spirit of liberty The
Wihngness to fight and the sacrifice for
liberty keeps the spark alive in the hearts ~
some men and in time it will rekindIe snd
spread into a flame, a consuming flame go
that every man will rise up and fght again
for liberty. e' again
Gut OF the war would come new concents
OF human night, human welfare and social
nsnee, and there would come new, better
and nobler time. God grant that the dav ;s
near at hand when the forces not only of the
arms, but the forces of the spirit DOMINATING
tne mind OF the peoples of all democratic
countries shall prevail, and our bows come
nome to us with the triumphs of glory.
We have often thanked God that Woodrow
wilson is our President, and by the same token
we owe much to those who placed Mr.. Samuel
Oompers in place to speak for majority of
our people.
The Washington herald., 1918-05-01

ment of the trouble can be had
Some of Chairman Hays Washing
ton friends say leave IL TO Hays"
We heard some prominent leaders
say in 1916 leave il to Wilcox
and they did so. and got left for
their trouble.
China is having tariff troubles.
To help her out Of her diculffity
forty-one tariff experts OF the world,
representing fifteen different nations.
have gone to help with the work of
readjustment and to give the Chi
nese the kind of a tarin that will
allow her to meet both her local
and foreign problems in a more busi-
nesslike manner.
1t was devoutly hoped by Chinese
statesmen that she would be able to
enjoy the fruits of an immediate 5
per cent tariff increase, pending the
fixing of the complete tariff sched-
uIe. But the influence of some for
eign nation, the identity OF which
has not been made plain. held that
plan up.
Much speculation was INDUCED in
as TO this nation. Millard insists
Russia. France nor Great Britain.
Beyond that 1t is not definitely
known, but there are indications that
Germany itself was busy. through
its propagandists. in preventing the
consumma tion of this step.
THE OBSERVER.
The Washington herald., 1918-05-01

The secretary of the German imperial treasury
says he does not yet know the amount of in
demnity Germany will receive. We know how
much Germany will receive from your Uncle Sam
We're giving figures, but we spent more yester-
day.
The Washington herald., 1918-05-01
A LINE O. CHEER
EACH DAY o. THE YEAR
BY John kendriek Bangs.
MAY IN WARTIME.

MAY IN WARTIME.
There's War afoot and yet here
comes the day
That's redolent of flowers OF the May,
And all the air is soft, and birds awing
Their songs Of Joy in rich exultance
sing:
And trees burst forth in garb Of blos-
som white
To tell how Spring hath followed
Winters night
And Wars afoot-and am glad
therefor.
And forthwith will I go into the
War,
And what can I'll do that they who'd
place
The stamp Of ruin on these gifts OF
grace
May be exterminate. and out of pain
The soul OF man may taste Mays
peace again,
And 20 its way as birds do, free Of
care.
In full enjoyment of these blessings
Copyright. isIs)
The Washington herald., 1918-05-01
Mooney Tries to Stop Strike.

San Francisco. Cal. April 30
Thomas ]. Mooney, under sentence
Of death for murder in connection
with the Preparedness Day parade
bomb explosion here in 1915. has
sent a telegram to President Will
son stating that he has made every
effort to stop the proposed general
strike threatened in his behalf on
May /. ..
The Washington herald., 1918-05-01
This for Some Women Only.

thousands OF American women are playing their
splendid part in war workout other thousands are
not.
There is little good in lodging the facts with
eamouflsge of publicity for the few real workers be-
hind which the sinking thousands may hide.
Too many are throwing 4 sop to conscience
The Washington herald., 1918-05-01

There few men who have hung on to their
money so many years that they think it beyond
draft age.
The Washington herald., 1918-05-01

Now they've given Emperor Charles mother-in-
law twenty-four hours to leave Austria Charles
got in wrong through simply writing letter to
his wifc's brother.
The Washington herald., 1918-05-01

Frances deputy high commissioner to the
United States is Mr.. de Billy, but related in no way
to Herr William.
The Washington herald., 1918-05-01

The oldest member Of the Red Cross
in America lie said to be Mrs. wasteil.
who lives In Clinton. Mich. and is iDi
years old
The Washington herald., 1918-05-01

The hospital for the American Red
Cross personnel at one OF the centers
OF activities in the war zone has
opened with twenty beds.
The Washington herald., 1918-05-01

Mr.. Hearst is gradually expanding.
II he continues to do things the
other New York papers do not want
him to do, and IL he has ambitions,
he is likely 10 take a big flyer in ma
tional politics which will completely
astonish them. The Hearst organiza-
tion has some good logical thinkers
in IT.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-01

Tacoma in the last few days has paid Congress
man Albert johnson one of the sincerest cOmpi-
ents it probably has been his good fortune to
receive
This has consisted in turning out tho the weather
Has been stormy, to packa dozen meetings at which
AZ has appeared to more than the capacity of the
halls in which they were held. And each succeeding
gathering is denser than the one before.
The reason is very clear; Albert johnson has re-
turned to his district with message from the heart
Of the world. He has been to the field where the
embattled forces of the earth striving for the
supremacy of great ideas. He has talked with the
military leaders, with the civil leaders, with the
privates in the army and the plain people n the
towns
He has seen the sights of horrors murderous
kaser inflicted upon civilization, and has glimpsed
the glory of the ideal the democratic governments
ere fighting to realize for every people.
Albert johnson has grown and matured. He is a
INHERENT and better Albert johnson than the one
this district elected to congress some years ago.
He has brought us from the front testimony of
high Importance to every one Of us. HE comes
back to us with the pledge that he is with Woodrow
Wilson and will be with him thru to victorious
peace.
For his message and for his pledge Tacoma will
thank her congressman. He is true blue Ameri-
can representing true blue American district in
the national congress, and all are proud of him.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-01
IS
OUTCOME OF
AN OLD FEUD

Patsy Matteson, the automo-
bile driver who was slugged and
robbed OF $3.50 early Friday
morning was the victim of a per-
sonal enemy, according to infor-
nation obtained by the police.
Matteson has recovered con-
sciousness sufficiently to tell the
mans name.
According to police informa-
ton. Matte5on's assailant was
man with whom Matteson has had
trouble before. The man got in
Matteson's car on Pacific avenue
at l o'clock in the morning and
ordered the driver to take him
out Center street.
Matteson feared trouble, but
had no suspicion that he would
be slugged from behind. He re-
members nothing from the mo-
ment he applied his brakes at
25th and Ash streets until he
awoke in the Tacoma General
hospital.
Matteson suffered a slight con-
cussion of the brain but is slowly
recovering.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-01
New Years Eve
Safe and Sane

Tacoma had q safe and sane
New Years eve.
There weren't any serious acci-
dents during the night, despite
the fact that crowds on the down.
town streets were greater than
ever before.
No fire alarms were turned In
during the entire night, an un-
usual circumstance which city
firemen commented on Tuesday.
On every previous New Years
eve the fire department has re-
sponded to an average of six fire
ALARMS. turned In By New Years
revelerz,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-01
Business Booming

Tacoma, at this New Years beginning, does not
fact that the year just ended has been lively in
BUSINESS way and that present conditions indicate
: contnuance Of the prosperity.
The bank cearings they tell us, show an increase
Ibr 1917 Of 38 per cent 1916. That is interest
ing what is more important is the fact that every
man and woman in Tacoma who wants it has work
at reasonably good wages every merchant who is
At all alive to his opportunities has all the business
his resources care for; every rentable house in
the city is tenanted at good rental
And we are just at the beginning of an amazing
development
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-01
CLAIM YOUTHS
LOOTED CAR

Four young Tacomans, C. Hart
man, Charles Hogan, George Hag-
gerty and Walter Russell, were
arrested at o'clock New Years
morning by Policeman Hicks,
charged with stripping the auto
mobile of Jack Balmer, 702 So.
Yakima ave. Of all it's access
series.
Balmer had an accident on
Puyallup ave. earlier in the even
ing. He left his car at the curb
until morning. The four men
stripped it of batteries, horns,
magnetic and other accessories,
the police say, and were captured
as they were carrying the loot
down an East Side street. All
of the stolen articles were found
on the men, the police say.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-01
Hoover

Mr.. Hoover is being subjected to degree of badg-
ering in Washington from politicians who are
boxing for political capital. There is mighty lit
Tie sympathy for that sort of thing thru the coun-
try.
The Food Administration has tremendous job
on its hands, So far as the country can see it is
working intelligenty and energeticay to solve the
difficulties to food and to get the supplies
to our allies that are so vitality needed.
There is no politics in the Food Administration.
Mr. Hoover was chosen for the place because of his
splendid record. The nation is behind him.
The best way to show this confidence is to re-
spond to his request for one meatless day, one
Uheatless day and one wheatless meal every day.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-01
Thrifty Mr.. Vanderlip

Mr.. Vanderbilt national director OF the war saw
ing stamp department of the o; s. treasury, was in
Chicago one day last week. He brought precepts
and example with him.
ssThis is time when we must cut expenses to the
bone, = he told the Chicago Evening Post. young
men who spend money for flowers candy theaters
and other luxures for their best girls people who
give rich dinners and decorate their homes lavshly
for entertainments; all who buy things today that
they do without, are allies of the kaiser"
Mr.. Vanderbilt the same newspaper says, "gave
the foregoing opinion as he alighted from his pri
vate car at the Union Staton''-said car being the
ssuxurious private carr which "carries him about
the country in his crusade for economy" The next
day Chicago paper ran Washington dispatch
saying that the fuel administration, a means Of
1aving coal was planning to take steps to bring
about the cutting down of suburban steam railroad
passenger service during the non-rush hours in
Chicago and other large cities"
Altogether, Mr.. Vanderlp gave Chicago so much
food for thought as to suggest the need of food
{or-thought administrator Republic.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-01
THE TASK OF BEING A WIFE

THE TASK OF BEING A WIFE
Tell me about your boy, An
ME-" | said to Tim Lafferty's wife
that morning. ''Is he well?'
"He is the finest boy in town
but he's the greatest trouble to
me. is my buddy" interrupted
Margaret Ann.
In spite Of her mothers warn
ing glance she went on. '1He isn't
very polite, Aunt Margie, and he
eats too fast, especially candy.
When anyone gives us candy lie
eats his up twice as fast as l eat
mine and then he creeps over in
front OF me and looks so wistful
that / have to give him at least
half of mine. Aunt Margie, |
think he is going to be a glutton. :
I laughed. Margaret Ann is
dear child, little book, and oh,
how ! wished she was mine. After
she had gone out to play on the
lawn, Annie said, Dear Miss Mar.
garet, am happy to see you look
ing so well, but saw Mr.. Waverly
on the street as | came in this
morning and it struck me that he
is not looking as well as he
should"
well, you see, Annie, he was
up late last night"
well, my dear Miss Margaret,
| think you had better take good
care of your husband"
What do you mean, Annie?'
Nothing at all, Miss Margaret,
except that he looks to me as
tho he needed all the care YOU
can possibly give him in order to
keep him fit"
Little book, little book, am I!
La selfish self-centered person?
Should l pay more attention to
Dick? l try to be good to him al
| ways and | think | have made
him comfortable and happy. We
never have any real fuses be-
cause | will not fuss, but per-
| rejudices as / might be.
No one but you, little book,
knows how hard l try to be
good wife and to be a good wife
is a trying job for the best OF
women.
Just now it is something ter
rible for Alice. | went over there
this morning and | cannot forget
the look of despair on her face
when l told her about my meet
ing Pat and that he had known
all about Harvey from the first.
How do you think he found
1t out?" she asked. 1T cannot
be possible that he does not trust
me and so has had me watched
"No, dear, Pat has implicit
confidence in you, but the night
Harvey came to see you Pat met
him just as he was coming in.
Something made Pat think he
was the man you had told him
about. So he came in and waited
in another room where he could
not hear what you said, for Pat
Ks no eavesdropper, until Harvey
left. Then he followed him to
see where he lived. He has been
over there once or twice since to
see IL Harvey was still there, and
yesterday morning he met me-"
What shall l tell him, Mar
gie?"
1.-THE truth"
do you think he will believe
it,"
Eyes, | think so, but whether
he believes or not, it is on the
knees of the gods. You have
done all you can in the matter"
You say he insists that l shall
Harvey no money!"
Eyes"
"Then what can I do?"
"Well, I'll pay that note today
and then III go over and make
that wicked old miser of father
Of his disgorge."
And so, little book, I am going
down to -, ostensibly to visit
!N,-4l-.oo4~
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-01
Woman First
to be Jailed

A woman has the honor Of be-
ing the first Tacoma person ar
rested in Tacoma in 1918.
Annie Wallace, 23, made the
mistake of imbibing not unwisely
but too we'll on New Years eve.
Police Officers Peterson and
Mathies found Annie footing q
horn and attracting plenty of at
tention on Broadway at 1910
New Years morning.
She was booked at the city all
under the caption OF drunk"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-01

Monday Cupid made great gains
in the enemy territory. The re-
suit Of the invasion was 20 mar
|riage licenses issued in one day.
This breaks all local records with
the exception of the day before
Christmas. The majority of the
happy grooms lately have been
soldiers, so many, in fact, that
the elevator man at the court
house was heard to murmur, II
wonder IL there are any more sim
gle men out there"
Marriage licenses were issued in
Tacoma Monday to L. A. Hawk
and Mary Wolovin of Tacoma; to
Bertram B. Farber and Edna Full
er Of Seattle; to Franklin Roe
ginger of Portland and Elinor
Knox Of Palo Alto, CAL; to Fred
Barnum and Margaret Billings Of
Dryad; to David Lake OF Seattle
and Grace Walker Of Los Angeles;
to r. M. Stewart of Lakota Beach
land Ester Meeham of Tacoma: to
David D. Clark and Clara M. Lind
|strom of Tacoma; to John Sned-
don and Maggie Dawson of Seat
tile; to Harold Bishop and Eunie
Gates of Los Angeles; to Lewis
|Lyttle of Oakland, Cal, and Elena
IL. Arnant of Tacoma; to c. e.
Pierce and Mary d. Joyce Of Ia
coma; to Mike Scalera and There's
|sa Mazsa of Tacoma.
To Otto Saare and Pearl Hir-
|vedo of Burnett; to Ralph d. Win
stead and Marie Exc Of Burnett:
Ito Raymond Lester and Mamie
ISternberg Of Tacoma: to Collin r.
Woods and Mary Jezerneck Of
San Francisco: to Charles e. Nc
Glodin and Edna Alberts of Taco
ma; to John BeckAnd and Ragno
Fjlatter OF Tacoma; to John Paul
States and Florence johnson Of
Tacoma; to Arthur Graybrook and
| N. B. Affairs of Tacoma: to Fred
M. Creviston and Gertrude e. Mig
hill of Tacoma; to Chris Mahon
and Ella Arthur of Morton; to
Merrill Black and Florence M.
Fleming of Portland: to J. A. Ro-
man and Hannah johnson Of Taco
ma; to ]. e. Greenman and Pyrl
Cameron of Tacoma; to John Gu
0ek of Olympia and Margaret
Bangs of North Yakima; to George
If. Armitage of Billings Mont. and
Louise Weber Of Great Falls,
Mont.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-01

Dear Miss Grey: have a
little money to invest, and q
friend Of mine-a man-is try
ing to advise me in the matter.
He seems to have very good
ideas on the subject. but since
he has never had any financial
success himself, I don't know
whether his advice is practical
or not. He Ia a good friend and
l do not wish to offend him by
not needing his advice. What
would you advise me to do?
A FRIEND.
The man who has not succeeded
financially Il scarcely the person
o act in the capacity Of advises
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-01
S&'dWffG

Donna Tenney, and am going to
talk to that old man in a way
that will startle HMM a way
that no one has ever used with
the old man before.
ITO Be Continued.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-01
Womens Year---1918
BY CYNTHIA GREY

I'm glad for that I'm We not the war;
The speaker she had delightful home motor
chocolate Chow children She would been onp
all her life of rich had not the
come along to reveal her sefishness and shalowness
Scarcely belonged the count most ened class OF
fine ladies doesn't ALL The world isn't the
least attention to her petty personal vanities
with
1913 WOMAN YEAR with not only much in the
but in other human activity.
The economical privileges and duties which femn have sought for
their night Each slipping
to her special that revolution
being accomplished with scarcely the swirl of world events
truly democratic resolution with hoOrs for equal endea
Leaders there others
humorous DR. Shaw backed the the voting Mrs W. K
Vanderbilt the of the rich who finance wonderful system of
devoted paotm Miss Tarbe who explain home
Monies deutante make taxation and the tariff clear
and in Tacoma other j. p Weyehaeuser the Red
Cross president who all the organizing ability
And
of eveheaded business girls and factory privaes in the
great home guard assuming her share of burdens with
complaint we'll
Unknown will find 1918 the greatest of all her
history written simply because she longer content trust
her life to chance to let things happen to her.
She according planbut it is still mans
She Tuesdays the suggestion
while food proees deaf pleading and warnings She
millions of soe1swl baks dis
trbuOn of muchneeded supplies.
Contrary prophecies of what would do with
DOM she does herself against but with
he chooses for herself she decides almost unanimously labor devoed
for
She completing his work. always % beginning
Of time.
"As unto the bow the cord u.s.
So unto the Is
Tho she bends him, she obeys him,
Tho she draws him, she follows"
Woman finds meeting the most needs of the worlds
crucial hour with her conscience and her affections combined service
sacrifice for
that 's might
NOT he ZINC at a in