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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-11-23
Splendid Honor Roll OF
Government Employees
By BILL RIG

Creating intense enthusiasm in the closing hours Of
the war work campaign the official announcement that
employees of the Government here had contributed
100000 of the than 100000 raised for the content
ment and happiness of American soldiers abroad
That was real achievement for these civil soldiers Of
Uncle SAM for it must be remembered that the conbu
lions from employees too well paid whose pocket
books have been kept lean throughout the past giving
to liberty, democracy and humanity in whatever worthy
they were asked to helps whose obligations for Liberty
loan purchases will be binding for months to come ana
whose willingness to go the limit for their country has
never been doubted.
Westinghouse of all classes and kinds have been
equally unselfsh in making the campaign and in
demonstrating that the right kind of appeal never fails in
this city, whose citizens handle organized work with
pacity that exists in few other places.
There should never again be charges in Congress
made for political purposes the Statestha the Govern
ment clerk in Washington has fcinch That hight have
been partly true when politicians themselves able
to place their favores in fat positions is not the fact
now There 'soft" places during the when here
and there were clerks doing little That was not their
choosing They under devoid Of executive abih
ties and management They worked when they given
it to do.
The percentage was mighty small. On the other hand
the bulk of the employees have toed long and arduouy
their best in brains and energy to the Government
1t is within the ranks of these faithful and that
there too often failure to recognize merit and worth and
to tender reward of promotion American soldiers who
fought ntrepidy against the foe promotion honor
able recognition Rewards for civil workers have been too
few They have not been permitted out of the trenches
for needed rest.
know executive departments employing thousands Of
clerks where there has not yet been allowed annual and
sick leaves anywhere the provisions of the law where
faithful clerks WORKOUT and tired deserving like sol
diers fighting at the 'front.' relief Last year. in one
department. clerks permitted ten days annual leave
and this year fifteen days which the majority have not
taken The best work cannot be had from and women
under the trying circumstances of the last eighteen months
without proper rest. -
Still the talk goes of dismssing large numbers Of
employees because their work Expenditures must
be cut to the limit Meaning that the permanent employees
must step into the gap and shoulder extra loads that win
be imposed probably to be indefinitely deprived of sufficient
leave to enable them to refresh weary bodies and minds
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TODAY'S TOPIC
"PROMISCUOUS KISSING"

said I talked like an old maid
when 1 refused to kiss him good
night on the occasion of his first
call?
We have met men who do not
want friendship, who seem to de-
sire only a light mockery OF love.
VIII some of my brothers give me
their views on this question?
A PERPLEXED GIRL
Further letters on this subject
vii be published in this column of
The Times. Correspondents with
interesting ideas are welcome to
write me.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
I should like to ask "Une
Femme" Just one question. What
would her husband say or do II
she came home and told him all
about the good times she has had
with n nice young man?
We would feel we had lowered
ourselves to countenance such con
fidences on the part of our hus-
bands. Why should the wife con-
tribute all the virtue to the fam
lily. b. E.
what Shall She DO.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
read with deep interest your
advice to war workers. In the
Evening Times and have decided
to ask you concerning my own
life ! am a young woman
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Fairfax Writes Pitfalls War
Especially for Washington Women
By T. E. Powers

twenty-four years old, and have
been married since I was fifteen.
1 became acquainted with a man
seventeen years older than my
self' and was persuaded to mar
ry without my mothers consent.
And like so many runaway
marriages. 1t has turned out bad
ly.
My husband has ben going on
sprees every month for five or
six years and stays drunk for
nearly two weeks every time. I
have two dear little children.
He behaves like a brute to us,
raving all night and chasing us
out OF the house. He humilIates
me before people and makes my
lire hell on earth. Finances
were so bad with US that / went
10 work a year ago, and am now
making a fairly. good salary.
would 1t not be better to break
from a man like this than to
stay with him until wrecked in
mind and body? B.G.L
Twenty-four is very young to
resign oneself to such a life as
you describe, particularly as its
humiliations reflect on your chill
dren and their future, as we'll as
on yourself. Nothing is ever gain
ed by submitting to such brutality,
It Is even bad for the man himself,
who Is thus allowed to throw all
standards OF decency to the winds.
BY all means make a separate
home for yourself and your chill
dren. and II any question arises
neoessitating legal advice, consult
the Law Department Of the George
Washington University, who give
free legal aid to women and chill
dren.
Both Ought 10 Be in School
DEAR MIS- FAIRFAX:
am a. young lady eighteen
years OF age and am deeply in
love with a young man of the
same age. we are both anxious
to get married at once. but want
your advice as to how we can OBJ
tain the necessary license, both
being under age. Is il possible
to get married without your
parents consent. Don't say we
are too young. for we know our
minds absolutely. We will thank
you for any suggestion you may
offer. SINCERITY"
II you are in earnest, when you
say you will thank me for any
suggestion ] may have to offer,
please do not think of doing any
thing so utterly foolish as marry
ing at eighteen. In the first place,
Sincerity" being girl and
eighteen, you are older than a boy
of the same age, and will be TAX
ing an unfair advantage OF one
who is an infant In the eyes of
the law by marrying him. No. his
marriage without his parents con-
sent would not be legal in the
District of Columbia. I certainly
hope you young people will re-
consider this rash step.
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TN Thursdays issue of The
Times a young man wrote to
this column some very cynical
things about kissing. Among other
youthful and ill-digested conclu-
sions, he proclaimed that no man
OF his acquaintance ever paid any
attention to a girl unless he ex-
pected some reward in the way Of
kisses. He assumed / would think
him a rather low sort or a per-
son, and l did agree that his ideals
were pretty shoddy.
Evidently ! am not alone in my
belief, to glance at today's mail. a
snowstorm Of protest greets this
young mans point Of view. and
among the blizzard Of letters not
one appears to differ with me.
Every Man Tries This Game.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
have been around a good deal.
and / find that almost every man
will try the kissing game, but IL
a girl is of the right sort she will
naturally refuse. and a man Will
respect her even though she may
lose n few undesirable acquaint-
ances like the young man who
wrote you.
A man with morals as loose as
your correspondents appear to be
will never be able to hold the
friendship Of a really good girl
Why won't men be satisfied with
being Just good pals. and not de-
handing affection IL they really
don't care.
know nothing of this young
man, but judge he would prove
to be some insignificant person
that has made nothing of himself.
a Stacker in every sense Of the
word, with little or no training.
for a mans training develops his
mind and ideals and one who has
no ideals has no ambition. I am
only glad that all men do not
hold the same views OF women as
this one. He seems TO think we
are lust pieces OF machinery-just
another girl to be kissed.
ANNE.
Has Her sympathy.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
/ read with much interest the
letter from B. L. on promiscuous
kissing. He is evidently not the
kind whose company mice girls"
would seek. He has met the
wrong sort of girl or his ideals
would be higher. He has my
sympathy, and must still be at
the ten-year-old stage OF develop
ment. when we used to play kiss
ing games at our parties and
poor B. L. never got over that
form of amusement.
He needn't think ! am an "old
hen" either-in fact. l am pretty
much OF a chicken. being only
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One of our faithful readers sends in this question
why is it said that general office work. II long COL
tnued, is demoraliEing to a man? :,
"Young men engaged as cashiers, bookkeepers, and
credit work their way up and get good pay Please
tell us why the general Office workers get demorazed
The writer in the above question signs himself cam
bilious" for purposes of publication in this column
The signature suggests the answer to his question
General office work-that is to say the sort Of work
which requires to do whatever he told mere ana
there, without any fixed occupation-DoES demorahze
It demoralzes them because they are NOT ambitious
For the right kind of man general office work ought
to be the geppngstone to suecess the office offers any
possibilities of the office does not oter any
such possibilities the quicker worker gets out OF II the
better.
The duty of faithful employee to work hard for the
man that pays him. 49,
And the duty of the employer to give the ambitious
worker a chance to rise.
The engaged in particular kind Of work is apt
to forge aheadeVen very slowbecause circumstances
compel him TO CONCENTRATE HIS ATTENTION
BE MUST think of one thing all the time; he develops
The general worker is not COMPELLED to concen
rate his mind and his energies on any one particular thing
HE HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME SHIFT
LESS And CARELESS IF he PLEAsEs.
If he lacks ambition he is very apt to drift into dull
routine sort Of rut and to become what friends call
"demorahzed"
There are many men trudging along as handy in
various Offices stores, ETC.
Some Of them get downheared and feel that there
not chance.
for speaking to these discouraged demoraized men,
It too late to get back your moral tone It is
too late for ambition to be aroused in you
If the general office man" will make up his mind to
be SPECIALIST as well as GENERAL man, he will get
along
If he makes up his mind to do two things PAR
TICULARLY WELL. and with particular display of
energy, he will get along.
It is absolutely the fact that the dullest employer
appreciates the man THAT GIVES HIM MONEY IN THE
SHAPE OF GOOD WORK.
And it is fact that employers need good hard faith
full workers much than the workers need good
ployers.
1t may take time to attract the attention of
busy employer.
An effort to do something particularly well may even
be resented by dull man officiousness at first.
But the who wants to succeed MUST SUCCEED
IN SPITE OF LACK OF APPRECIATION, IN SPITE
OF EVERYTHING.
Work general utility clerk is dangerous because
such work does not compel keep thing as
have said
There is speed to the stream with narrow banks. It
loses its speed when the banks widen and the water spreads
out all over the meadow.
The ordinary general office is such spreading
stream with little power, little notion little energy
He must dig for himself his banks his own water
course he must control his direction concentrate his power
MAKE UP HIS MIND NOT TO BE DEMoRALIZED, and
he won't be demoralized.
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FINE CONTRIBUTION TO SMOKE
FUND.

/
FUND.
ELMER E. SIMPSON, secretary
Of the Kiwanis Club, walked into
this office today with two checks
aggregating SIT as a contribution
from that club to the Heard and
Seen SMOKE FUND for soldiers
recuperating in Walter Reed Hos
pital or elsewhere
This is how the money was
raised: The Kiwanis Club is q
get-together institution of good-fel-
lowship and the upbuilding Of this
community. Formalities. are banned.
To address a fellow-member as
"Mr." brings an instant fine of 10
cents; to be late at the meetings is
likewise to be fined 10 cents. It
costs money to forget that you are
among good fellows all working in a
common cause.
ELMER SIMPSON is the de-
positary for these fines. The total
shows that ITO 10-cent pieces have
been paid in as penalties for for
getfulness. He did not know any
better place for the money than
the smoke fund.
/ acknowledge receipt of a large
number Of tobacco coupons fro.l
good fellows who are too modest to
give their names.
CHARLES B. TANNER and two
persons unnamed send tobacco cou-
pons for the sick soldier tobacco
fund. Thank you all for the boys.
For plucky HARRY wARDMAN
there will be hearty congratulation
on the opening of his magnificen>
Wardman Park Hotel, Connecticut
avenue and Woodley road. When
the entire building is completed, as
it will be in a few months, the insti-
tuition will be the largest and most
commodious apartment-hotel in the
United States, having 100 rooms
and over 800 baths. The hotel sec
ton for transients has several hun
dred rooms while the apartment
section constitutes the remainder.
The erection of this great structure
has been carried on in war times
under incessant difficulties. Few
men besides HARRY WARDMAN
would have had the nerve and grit
to tackle the job. Faith in Wash
ington's future and characteristic
perseverance and determination put
the work across where thousands
would have given up the attempt.
ALFRED GUS KARGER. son Of
the veteran GUS KARGER who is
so widely beloved is somewhat
doubtful whether he is going to like
little pictures in Heard and Seen.
He is just a big kid. but wide-awake.
He reads everything in these columns
and Is especially fond Of reminis-
cences.
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Once-Overs
Copyright by International Feature Service Inc
YOU WILL ENJOY 1T.

YOU Wild ENJU1
You lived simply life and felt better
Own the truth
For awhile hard curb desires and change
choice of food the strict observance of these
mind full of renewed
ambitions
Have enjoyed home life than ever?
dressed and place to CO. for
have been pongg pressing last years suit and have
and clothes Them to relieve
shortage and pocketbook.
But really feel good about il, don't you?
beginning mind the right relationship
the things
this life.
The ban relieved usual tension Of dv
that customary Sunday everybody else
at home contened to do and actually
found it good
You realize that in the missed most of the
pleasure Of motoring mad desire to make distance instead of
joyng the you wenta along
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l acknowledge receipt of a large
number Of tobacco coupons FROM
good fellows who are too modest to
give their names.
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HEARD AND SEEN
%SAWED-OFF-

SAWED-OfF
is diseonsolsts
over the short
straps on the new
cars Of the Capt.
tai Traction COM
pany. He walls:
These are nice
cars, but for
Heavens sake,
why did they
make the straps
so short? It's
painful to see Us
sawed-off chaps
trying 10 stand
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It Vas q Good Cause
UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN
$170, 900
ORGANIZED AT REQUEST OF PRESIDENT WILSON
NOVEMBER Ills, 1918.

November 90 1918
Arthur Brisbane, Esq,
The Washington Times,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr.. Brisbane:
On behalf of the committee 1 want to convey
our appreciation of the support which The Times
gave to the united war work campaign. The pub
licity which we received from the press very
potent factor in bringing the success which was
attained, and The Times most certainly gave us
splendid assistance. also want to thank you for
The Times generous contribution.
With cordial regards, l am,
Very truly yours,
CORCORAN THOM, Chairman.
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CHARLES B. TANNER and two
persons unnamed send tobacco cou-
pons for the sick soldier tobacco
fund. Thank you all for the boys.
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MARGARET
MCCAIN

every man in town Is a six-footsr
MISS MARGARET MeCAM-
BRIDGE, who has lived in Ne
Pleasant since she was a child. is to
appear at Belasco's next week in the
oh, Boy" musical comedy. She IL
a noted dancer and skater and ths
POssessor OF a sweet and powerful
soprano voice She has done well IN
stage productions and in moving
picture work. Her friends are MAX
ton. '
IN the same comedy will also an
pear RALPH OBRIEN, another
"ashingtonian, in speciality dances.
FORMER Washingtonians In thia
company, all with admirers. arr
MISS ANN WHEATON and MISS
MARIE CARROLL.
z. L. LEVI, of the Bureau of
War Risk Insurance. writes this
column of ALTERATION, which he
thinks may stop some of the worrv
OF war workers about losing posi-
We Whence Wanes Will
Weary We While Whine
Willing Will Wise With
Western Wander Workmen Worlds Of
War When Wonder Work and
Workers War Why WRITING
Worry Work Women Waiting.
CHARLES LATHROP PACK.
president OF the American Forestry
Association. suggests to the District
Commissioners that memorial trees
for the allied nations be planted at
some place in the District. He
thinks II would be a pleasing tribute
to the other allied nations.
He urges that the trees be planted
In an Avenue OF the Allies"
My friend JIGGS, who sometimes
breaks into jingle. is now asking:
Who remembers the old-time lunch
room with the big sugar bowl where
you could help yourself to all YOU
wanted? These are now SWEET
memories. JiggA
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Hungry for . Real Pal.

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
Don't men realize that girls are
brain and heart as. we'll as body!
Don't they know that girls ere
often hungry for a friend-a real
pal? Can they not give her real
regard instead OF the cheap shad-
ows, empty compliments and
spooning?
What value do they place on
the kisses and caresses that they
demand with such assurance after
a first or second meeting?
Can you get the point OF view
Of man ] met one evening at a
picnic who called me young and
crude" because l preferred a sofa
cushion to his shoulder as a head
rest?
Can you get the point of view
OF a man with degrees galore who
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-11-23

On our toes while the cars are rock
ing and lunging around curves. Not
every man In town is a six-footer. >
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nineteen. don't agree with B. L.
when he says a young man goes
with a girl just for a kiss. have
met some men who want to find
out what sort of a girl l am by
trying to kiss me goodnight,
and, though I don't allow IT, they
always come back again. Would
you say they come for the kisses
they do not get? B. L. strikes me
as being a good deal OF a bore,
and / should consider my lips too
nice to be on tap for one of his
kind. A NICE GIRL.
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.

ASSOCIATE GENTLEMAN or lady as secr'-.
tary for manufacturing corporation: 5000 ,n-
terest available; national business. Address
Box 259- b. Star Office
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WANTED-Experienced file clerk to handle
general correspondence files of large industrial
corporation, Alexandria. Va. Address Box 5s-C
Star Office, stating fully experience and salary
cxppcted
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SALESI.ADIES in candy store; day work and
good pay. Nunnallys. lob St NV.
SALESI4ADIES for every department. Jacob
kohner's Dry Goods Store. so It'll NV.
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TEACHERS of dancing rent Penn Gar
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for teaching CLASSES; fine opportunity for ri>nr
parties Penn ave. at 2lst st. NV.
To BUY hardware and paint store; cash Ad-
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AWNING SALESMAN: must be experienced;
two experienced awning men. two helpers. r
@. NJ, Burton & Son. Oil St NV.
RANK RUNNER = Boy in bank :
splendid opportunity; give references. Address
Z BOX &C. Star office. 49,
BARBER, white, to take full charge, $40 week
and one-half receipts. Burlington Hotel, Vt
ave. and Thomas Circle.
BELLMEN - Two. Hudson
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BooKKEEPER. competent. for set Of double
entry books; must be experienced. Gail Gun
bingham Plumbing Supply Co.. 1884 Pa ave.
NV. 17s
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GOOD motherly white woman to cook two
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tary for manufacturing corporation: 5000 ,n-
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CAFE. doing an active business; splendid nr-
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HOTEL BUSINESS for less than cost Q. fur
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LUNCHROOM. long established clearing 81, goo
health; sacrifice $1,000. Address Box sac
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LUNCHEON and roou,ing house; clearing about
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Lunchroom: very desirable: located on Pa
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Address Box "a Il, Star Office.
MARSHALL. Business Brokers' 3l3 y. Y. ar7s.
Rooming house near 9th and Pa. ave-. ~
rooms; well furnished; owner leaving city:
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fountain cost 5000: other good equipments
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Marshall EuSiress BROKERS ?l3 \. y. ave.
ONE OF THE CITY'S WELL KNOWN AUTO
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I-carat Biue-whitc Tiffany
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YOUNG LADY - As book
keeper and general Office assist
ant; salary, SIS per month; one
living in northeast preferred.
Carmack Dry Cleaning Co., 1120
Queen st. ne.