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The Washington times., 1918-09-07
By DR.. VIM. A. McKeever,
One of the nations best known au-
thorities on training children.

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One of the nations best known au
thorities on training children.
KIT requires six months to test
a young man out in this
city. At the end OF that
time he is either absorbed
by the environment or absorbing an
environment of his own. He is
either swallowed up by the hum
drum and the grind of the place or
he is starting something on his
own initiative. And you may most
certainly judge his suIure accord
ingly, as to whether or not his ca
reer will be worth while"
Thus spoke a keen analyst of
human conduct and character, a
man who has been watching the
rising and the falling tide of hu-
manity in a big city for more than
a score of years past
How about the boy in your house?
Are you helping him to grow a
strong and forceful personality,
like a firm rock that juts out from
the bank OF a river? Or Is he to,
be slowly borne away and at
upon the turbulent stream of social
custom?. 1t depends largely upon
the relation OF your growing boy
to his environment. For the same
influences which tend TO make
character will likewise mar it.
The weakling slowly yields to
outside influences. submits to tradi-
ton and customs, loses his indivi-
duality in the human melting pot
Conversely, the boy of sturdy mind,
of firm, self-directed purpose-this
boy slowly heads his course to-
ward an independent career and
constructive citizenship.
Teach your boy how TO absorb his
environment rather han be absorb
ed by it. The success of your effort
will not be determined SO much by
the breeding or the temperament
of your boy as by the method and
the straightforwardness of your
guidance.
First of all, counsel with your boy
over this matter of independent &C
ton. Explain to him how he may
frequently move with the crowd and
yet not always be wholly of it. He
may thus outwardly become a strict
conformist and inwardIy 4 noncon-
formist-
The Washington times., 1918-09-07
Shall She Marry A Soldier?
Der Micc Eair-faY.

Shall She Marry A Soldier?
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I have been going with a young
man nearly two years; he is now
in camp and expects to sail for
France very soon. Every time he
calls he insists on my marrying
him before he goes over. I have
asked him to wait, but he posi-
lively refuses. Please tell me
what you think I should do. /
have considered the matter and
cannot decide. NJ. A. C.
l have written on this subject
great many times and see no cause
to change my views. The question
of whether a girl shall or shall not
be a "war bride" is alas, one of
sordid money consideration. If
you and the young soldier can af-
ford to provide for possible emer-
gencies that he may not be here
to face, it will be all right to
marry him. If you or he, have
little money, or you have q profess
sion or situation that pays enough
to put you in the financially indie
pendent class, l should certainly
marry the soldier boy. But if you
have not, and are likely to become
dependent on others, it is hardly
fair to take the risk.
The Washington times., 1918-09-07

her name It all comes back to me.
l tried to find another girl, but
they are all so different / have
lost al interest in my work, which
really liked before. | realize that
l am not treating myself fairly
and also the people for whom I
work. Could you suggest some
plan by which l could take an in
terest in life.
A PECULIAR BOY.
You are evidently of a more seri-
Gus and sensitive temperament
than are most boys of your age,
and the reason the young lady
made such a deep impression on
You is that she brought out the bet
ter side of your character and
seems to have "mothered" you,
which was apparently what you
needed.
1t will not tend to make you
any happier to let your mind dwell
constantly on woman who is the
wife of another. So ] should try
to change my work, get a new
"job," and see what a new environ
ment and new associations will do
to give you a more cheerful out
look on life. This is no time for
morbid introspection; you are liv-
ing in the most interesting time in
the worlds history; you have your
part to play along with every one
else; wake up, your country needs
YOU.
The Washington times., 1918-09-07

me. I'll manage well enough; TIL
just pack our things and taxi down
to the studio by noon, IL you can
have it ready for me then. But I'd
be so happy II Evelyn could meet
me there" 1 concluded, acknowledge
ing to myself at last how much
1 needed a woman's friendship
woman's help.
Then I hung up the receiver and
stared about the room. On his
smooth. untouched bed lay Jim's
letter.
1 seized 1t fiercely and tore It
into tiny bits From the bureau
where it had futtered in a white
shower, little scrap winked up at
me maiiciously. On it was written
one word:
Betty"
To Be Continued.
The Washington times., 1918-09-07
Ten Years Time.

Wedding carriages were drawn
up outside the village church. and
Mr.. and Mrs. Maggie just arrived on
the scene in time to see the bride
and bridegroom leaving after the
ceremony.
What a sweet sight" breathed
Mrs. Maggie. "He looks as though
he'd like to eat her"
"Umph" grunted Naggles. "And
In ten years time he'll wish he
had!"
The Washington times., 1918-09-07
This Day in History.

THIS is the anniversary of the completion of the first
circmnavgation of the globe by Magellan the intrepid
navigator after whom the straits between Patagonia and
Terra del Fuego named He was killed in the Philip
pines but he had then completed his feat of sailing round
the world, thus assuring himself name in history
The Washington times., 1918-09-07
The Care of the Piano.

DAMP the pianos greatest enemy Great heat is as In
furious as extreme cold. Do not place piano against
an outside wall opposite to door, To keep the keys
from turning yellow leave the piano open for two or three
hours every day. Marks the keyboard should be
moved with damp chamois leather.
The Washington times., 1918-09-07

Dear Miss Fairfax: I am
eighteen and quite attractive, and
also considered pretty. l have
been going about with young of
ficer and like him very much, and
he has also confessed his love for
me. But the last time he called
we had a sort of little love spat,
and / admit / was harsh in what /
said, but later on in the evening
we talked as though nothing had
happened.
He has not called since, and l
cannot conceive what has hap
pened. He told me he had put in
an application for foreign service,
but l feel if this had been the case
he would let me know. Can you
solve this mystery for me? Do
you think he has another girl? !
know if ! drop him a line or two he
would call, but | am little unde-
cided and don't want him to know
1 am worrying. ANXIOUS.
It looks as if your little Glove
spat" had gone farther than you
realized. And if you are conscious
of having been "harsh" in what
you said, it would be perfectly
proper for you to take the first
step toward reconciliation. These
days we are giving all those fine
young men in uniform the benefit
of the doubt.
She Brought Out the Best in Him.
Dear Miss Fairfax: | am a
young man twenty years of age,
and when / was sixtxeen my
father died and l was forced to
discontinue school. 7 secured a
position and met a young lady
who held a responsible place in
the same firm; she was four years
my senior. She soon discovered
that my education had been neg
lected and prevailed on me to at
tend evening classes and study,
which l did.
As time went on l found myself
in love with her; my position
would not enable me to have
asked her to marry me. Later she
got a better position in another
city, and when she was leaving
here l asked her if l made good
would she marry me? She re-
fused, and l realized then that l
was not her equal. She promised
to write me, which she did. / de-
termined to make good, even
though she refused me, and l did
not give her up completely.
Later l heard from one of her
friends that she was married, and
tried to forget her, but somehow
could not. still work at the same
place, and when I come across some
of her work or some one mentions
The Washington times., 1918-09-07
The Wolves OfNeU York
A STORY OF LOVE AND MYSTERY.
VaLenski Asks, SlOan All Sorts of
Questions About the American
Police and POis0ns.

bedroom. And was there anything
very strange in his taking an IN
terest in chemistry, and yet not
speaking about IL? What was very
evident was that had no right In
the room Accordingly. 1 withdrew
to my own. and began slowly to un-
dress.
'Presently-throug the roar OF
the WATERFALL heard my hosts
footsteps mounting the stairs. He
went to his room and shut the
door.
II lay down. hslf-dressed, after
ascertaining that candle and
matches were by my side.
But could not sleep. and some
how the sound of Valenskf's foot
steps got on my nerves-that and
the roar OF khe waterfall
Bisbee daily review., 1918-12-03

which until within a fortnight they had maintained and there is now no censorship whatever exercised at this end except upon attempted trade com munications with enemy countries. It has been necessary to keep an open wire constantly available between Paris and the department of state and another between France and the de- partment of war. In order that this might be done with the least possible interference with the other uses of the cables. have temporarily taken over control of both cables in order that they may be used as a single system. I did so at the advice of the most ex- perienced cable officials and I hope that the result will justify my hope that the news of the next few months may pass with the utmost freedom and with the least possible delay from each side of the sea to the other.
 May l not hope, gentlemen of the congress, that in the delicate tasks I shall have to perform on the other side of the sea, in my efforts truly and faithfully to interpret the principles and purposes of the country we love.
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may have the encouragement and the
 added strength of your united sup port? 1 realize the magnitude and diff ficulty of the duty l am undertaking; am pregnantly aware of it's grave responsibilities. l am the servant of the nation. I can have no private thought or purpose of my own in per forming such an errand. 1 go to give the best that is in me to the common settlements which l must now assist in arriving at in conference with the other working heads of the associated governments. l shall count upon your friendly eOuntenance and encourage ment l shall not be inaccessible. The cables and the wireless will render me available for any counsel or service you may desire of me, and I shall be happy in the thought that 1 am con- stantly in touch with the weighty mat ters of domestic policy with which we shall have to deal. I shall make my absence as brief as possible and shall hope to return with the happy assur- ance that it has been possible to trans late into action the great ideals for which America has striven"
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THE PEACE CONFERENCE

Precisely how the great peace conference will operate, few persons outside the inner circles can know. It is possible, however, to give a rough forecast of its program. A Washington dispatch to the New York World, apparently based on dependable in- formation, puts the matter with unusual clearness.
 According to this forecast, the conference will not hold everything in suspense until it can work out complete plan, but will proceed immediately to announce certain broad policies in the treatment of Germany and Austria. Those countries will then be encouraged to go ahead and work out their own destinies as well as they can, while the conference fills in the details, arranges the map of Europe and rewrites international law.
 The principal things that Germany needs to know are these: She must be told how much she will be expected to pay for the damage done to Belgium and northern France how much for the ruin wrought in her illegal submarine warfare; how much in general punitive damages" if the al lies decide to inflict any such penalty. She InQSl D6 lOlO lOO, IlOW IIluCl Ol ollllJ she will be permitted to maintain for police purposes, and how little of navy. It goes without saying that she will not be allowed to squander much of her revenue on any sort of military establishment un- til she has paid her war debts; and after that, her army and navy will probably be limited for prudential reasons, whether the allies agree to limit their own armament or not It must be also determined, without much delay, how much of Germany ter ritory is to be held as security for speedy and honest fulfillment of her financial ob- legations. Possibly the Rhinelands, now being occupied by the armistice terms, will suffice for that purpose.
 It seems reasonable to expect that some such program will be announced soon after the conference gets down to business. In a month or two, then, our enemies may know substantially what their fate is to be, and the rest of the world may know what it is to expect in the way of restoration and reconstruction.
 Such promptness in essentials will be ot great benefit to everybody concerned, en- abling business men and statesmen every where to get their bearings and go ahead more inteligently with their own recon struction work.
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 lines in the interest of expedition and national economies.
 We may hope, I believe, for the formal conclusion of the war by treaty by the time spring has come. The 21 months to which the present control of the railways is limited after formal proclamation of peace shall have been made will end then, at the farthest, take 1t for granted, only to the Jan uary of 1921. The full equipment of the railways which the federal admin istration had planned could not be completed within any such period. The present law does not permit the use of the revenues of the several roads for the execution of such plans except by formal contract with their directors. some of whom will consent, while some will not, and therefore does not afford sufficient authority to undertake improvements upon the scale upon which it would be neees- sary to undertake them.
 Every approach to the difficult subject-matter of decision brings us face to face, therefore, with this un- compromising word: What is right that we should do with the railroads. in the interest Of the public and in fairness to their owners? Let me say at once that 1 have no answer ready. The only thing that is perfectly clear to me is that it is not fair either to the public or to the owners of the railroads to leave the question unan- swered and that it will presently be- come my duty to relinquish control even before the expiration of the statutory period, unless there should appear some clear prospect in the meantime of a legislative solution. Their release would at least produce one element of a solution, namely cer- tainty and a quick stimulation of private initiative.
 T believe that it will be serviceable for me to set forth explicitly is pos sible the alternative courses that lie open to our choice. We can simply release the roads and go back to the old conditions of private manage ments, unrestricted competition with it's multiform regulation by both state and federal authorities; or we can go to the opposite extreme and establish complete government control, if neces- sary by actual government ownership. Or we can adopt an interdemediate course of modified private control. un- der more unified and definite public regulation and under such alterations of the law as will permit wasteful competition to be avoided and a con siderable degree of unification of ad- ministration to be effected, as for ex ample. by regional corporations under which the railways of definable area would be in effect combined in single systees
 The one solution that 1 am ready
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THE GERMAN GOAT

Admiral von Tirpitz, the master-pirate, responsible for U-boat ruthlessness, has shaved off his Santa Claus whiskers and gone into hiding. A dispatch from Berlin says that 90 per cent of the German people today demand that he be court-martialed The storm against him has been growing for some time It started before Germany asked for an armistice. There was strong CT feeling against him than against the kaiser
 It would be easy for Americans to mis- take the precise nature of that feeling. The Germans have not turned against Iirpitz because they are mortified by the crimes the German navy committed under his orders because they disapprove on principle of the inhumanity he preached and practiced. They have turned against him simply be- cause his policy of sea-assassination failed to win the war.
 He inaugurated that policy with their approval If 1t had succeeded, Tirpitz would have been today national hero in- stead of a national goat. They see now that the indiscriminate sinking of enemy and neutral shipping was destined, from the first, to bring the United States into the war, and thereby lose the war for Ger many With this new illumination, driven into their heads by hard facts they hold their thumbs down for Tirpitz
 Germany has changed little Not in- humanity, but failure, is crime.
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BRITISH BULLDOG NEVER LETS GO
Louisville, Ky. Herald }

Louisville Ky. Herald)
 If the kaiser possessed prescience, or had read history, he must have shivered-as tradition has it that we do if someone steps on our grave-when he knew for certain that his spies had lied, and that the stub born. stick-to-it, bulldog British had de- cided to live or die with the French The British have had bad record for an ann bilious despot to face They brought Philip of Spain to his knees-they curbed the power of Louis the Great of France they grappled with the mighty Napoleon and never let him go. That is the gist of the matter They never let go Great Britain and her dominions have sent over eight and half millions of men into the struggle. When we have sent 5000, ,000 we will have done as we'll And not be- fore, we may add.
 Thousands of American lads will come to us alive and whole because thousands of our blood-brothers from the British Isles have been killed and mutilated- have taught us how to escape. Britain made her army while France and her own navy held the gap.
 That is a fact America-broadly speak ing-is reluctant to admit But it Is so. What Runnymede did was done for us.
 For all this they paid. There is hardly a home in Great Britain which does not have its unvisited grave in France or Bel
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 footing has moved in the three weeks since the fighting stopped. It prom. | ises to outrun any inquiry that may | be instituted and any aid that may be offered. It will not be easy to di. rect it any better than it will direct itself. The American business man Is of quick initiative" Of the railroad question, MT. Will son said he had no solution to offer. He said he was ready to return the | lines to private control whenever a satisfactory arrangement was offered to prevent a return to the old sys- tens under private management with out modification. and asked congress to study the subject.
 Wants Woman Suffrage.
 Recommendations included a re- newed appeal for womaI suffrage in recognition of woman's work in the war; a request for early and favor able action on the unratified Colom- bian treaty; and a suggestion that authority should be given the war trade board or some other body to continue control for time over ex- ports.
 The president concluded with the announcement of his forthcoming trip overseas. He said that since the associated governments had ac- cepted principles enunciated by him as the basis of peace and reasonably desired his personal counsel in their interpretation, he regarded it as his paramount duty to go. Through cables and wireless, he added, he would keep in close touch with all that goes on this side and you will know all that do." He appealed for the encouragement and added strength of united support from con gress.
 Little Debate Heard.
 There was no debate in either house on the presidents trip to France. The only reference to it in the house was made by Representative Mann of Illinois, the republican leader, after the president had delivered his an nual address at the join session in the house chamber.
 T am not objecting to the presi- dent going abroad" said the republi- can leader, but 1 think some wise gentleman on the majority side of the house ought to be able to inform congress what course is to be pur- sued when matters come before us. Is there any way by w'@ch we may make into law anything put through congress before the president re- turnsI?"
 News Article Read.
 After the president spoke. the sen ate was in session only a short while. l At the opening of its session, however, Senator Sherman of Illinois asked l that a newspaper article regarding | plans for the personal comfort of | President Wilson and his party on the trip abroad be read. Senator Phe- Ian of California objected. but on viva voce vote the senate ordered the article read.
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gium-not a street on which the perma- nently maimed do not limp to unaccustom- ed tasks And the figures show that the percentage of casualties from the Mother Country exceeds the percentage from the overseas dominions, thus disposing of one of the meanest, most dastardly lies of the whole satanic German propaganda.
 Why do we repeat this: Because Eng lands contribution is either denied or de rided; because the fact that her ships have coaled, fed and munitioned Italians and French-to say nothing of Americans-is neglected; because the fact that she rose from nothing at all to be full military partner of France is mentioned by no one.
 British bottoms conveyed by British warships took the Americans overseas. If you think that is an excessive boast we will. by agreement with Secretary Baker, take off , per cent. That is our personal-inti- mate phase. It does not stand alone, how ever.
 Where have the British fought? The Suez was in danger. It was the British that protected it. There were German na- val stations in the Pacific. The British mopped them up. Russia asked help by way of the Dardanelles. The British tried to give it. Intervention was needed on the Tigris The British supplied it. The Brit ish were at Salonika British ships were in the Adriatic The British colonial troops freed Africa from the Germans. The Brit ish today are moving south from Archangel and are at Vladivostok.
 It's true story. England has prolonged the war, shows no disposition, the slight est, to curtail it. could, quite easily, mod ify the terms and soften the way. Won't.
 It's the British way, the bulldog British way Not intelligent, some one suggests, and we are not disposed to defend it as such Narrow, rather groovy angular, morose Well and good. But where it bites it holds. never fear. That is why Russia, waking up. finds the Briton at her elbow. That is why Portugal recalling that she has leaned on Britain since long before Napoleon-throws in her lot with the British confidently;
 War with all the world
 Peace with Britain.
 The British are the poorest advertisers in the world No one will ever know the sum of their performance. But they de- liver the goods. Eighty thousand they sent to France, and they have multiplied it an hundredfold And the British, if we may be permitted to suggest anything as revolutionary, are great part-Possibly dominant part-of the Americans. They have contributed to our makeup, language and literature; laws and customs; faith and freedom. We are inconceivable, unrealiz- able, impossible without them. Is not that plain truth?
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Great rejoicing is felt over the prospect i've return to peace basis when we can all go to work producing things that we don need.
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The Germans are sincerely sorry for their error, which postpones for long pc riod the time when they can make another war
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MESSAGE IS
 RECEIVED BY
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SUPPORT PLEA
 HEARD SILENTLY
 BY REPUBLICANS

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