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The Washington times., 1918-12-11
By EARL GOODWIN.

Congress should realize that is unfair and unbusness
like to take away the national support of the National
Capital without establishing definite substitute
The foryyear-old half and half plan will probably be
superseded but because of the peculiar situation in which
Washington is placed it viii become derect city unless
Congress establishes in lieu of the old partnership plan
definite arrangement of financing whereby the National City
will know just where it stands all the time.
At present the House of Representatives proposes that
the national support be withdrawn except charitable
matter and that in place Of the legal understanding hereto
fore existing between the nation and the Capital cold back
door handout be substituted. The House doesn't
propose that Washngtonians be given VOTE but would
leave them without Federal support and still without rep
resentation in Congress- and without voice in their
local affairs If anyone could imagine undemocratic
and more unAmercan scheme than that written in the
District BILL let's frame it and hang it in the windows
along with the captured German helmets.
What should have is definite agreement with the
United States Government to just what it proposes
pay for the support of its Capital Whether it be found that
the Government should pay sevenyfTe per cent of the
Capitals expense fifty per cent twenty-five per cent
matters little long the agreement is made legally
and founded solid fact Moreover, the people of Wash
ington should be allowed to VOTE, and members Of Con
gress know and ought to set to work to remedy this
forty old fault
And in passing let this is the shortest editorial
ever written on the subject of the haandhaf plan
The Washington times., 1918-12-11
From The Public To The Editor

lenses for telescopes and sights came
from Germany this supply stopped, 50
the Bureau of Standards got busy and
are now making perfect glass for
lenses which are ground at the naval
shop, saving the Government So 900 a
year.
Think OF how they fought Senator
Tillman when he advocated a Govern
ment owned powder plant. Now at
the Indian Head powder factory We
make the best powder in the world
for less than the contractors price.
At the Naval Gun Factory they
build a perfectly accurate fourteen
inch gun for less than $50, 900, WITH
the highest paid mechanics, an eight
hour day. with thirty days leave. one
half day on Saturday during summer
months. The contractors price for a
fourteen-inch gun Is $4,000, which.
after they are built. many of these
guns have to be refitted and gone
over in the Naval Gun Factory before
being placed on a battleship.
Because Secretary Daniels was
honest and fearless enough to advo-
cate a Government armor plant which
would save the Government millions
of dollars. they criticised and ridi-
culed him in the papers and maya
zines At this plant now being built
they will also make the big gun forg-
ings for the Naval Gun Factory.
big item in railroad control you
overlook is. before the Government
took over tho railroads embargoes
were numerous. freight and passenger
service was delayed everywhere, how
rapidly soldiers and supplies were
moved under Government control
JOHN r. RIGGLES,
Seabrook, Md.
The Washington times., 1918-12-11
Beatrice Pitfalls Workers
Especially for Washington Women

good friends bring out the best in
each other, keep each other on the
alert. They are less likely to take
each other for granted. to fall
into a kind Of mental slovenliness,
than men are in their friendship
with each other, or than women
are.
There can scarcely, in fact, be
a more interesting relationship,
short Of love itself. than an in
formal eomradeship between a
man and a woman who have tastes
Ia common.
Is there such a relationship in
your life? And if there isn't,
don't you wish there were?
The really wise way to take life
IS to think Of love as a mysteri-
Gus, a divine surprise, unforeseen
and unforseeablc. Arrange your
Life and live it as if love didn't
exist. perhaps this is q sort of
game, too, but it's an innocent
one.) Reach out for all the
friendships that are open to you,
whether with men or women. This
world is as interesting a place as
any of US can conceive of. Don't
you long to talk to somebody
about the things you personally
find in it? You yourself have
perhaps an interesting mind and
personality. Don't you need to
exchange your thoughts /and
guesses and enthusiasms with
somebody who will understand?
can assure you that you will
be far happier, taking life in this
way, than if you persistently re-
mained blind to all that the uni
verse can offer. short Of the one
supreme gift of love. Love will
really mean a great deal more to
you if you haven't had a share
in contriving it, if you haven't
spent too much care in setting the
scene and turning the lights low,
and in arranging your own pi-
quaint and irresistible personal
effect.
Inc richest and most reward
ing love will come, of course, to
the man or woman who isn't too
impatiently expecting it. That is
the way of love.
1t is likely to descend with its
magic suddenness upon such a girl
as my correspondent. who isn't
greedy about the gifts of life, who
is unself-conscious, and who has
the gift of understanding friend
ship.
So / implore her to overcome
that discouragement she feels, to
insist on her right to friendship
without love, when that is what
she wishes. and to believe, for it
is true, that there are many men
in the world who need a woman
friend quite as much as she may
need a friend who isn't a lover.
And / hope one Of them may en-
counter her.
The Washington times., 1918-12-11
HEARD AND SEEN

Last Sunday Bill Price printed the
request of H. H. SWEARINGEN
who wanted some one to furnish
him the poem about the fox that
wanted to become a horse; and If
Mr.. Swearingen will let me know
his address I'll send him what pur-
ports to be the entire poem. three
pages long, typewriter by lRV
BELT, who says he spent one
whole evening at the job.
Connecticut Avenue Citizens AS
sociation meets tonight in the Army
and Navy Preparatory School. DAN
CALLAHAN will be there with an
interesting speech, so the announce
ment promises.
FANNIE DOWDEN writes that
she's getting ready to sing when
Johnny Comes Marching Home, "
and all she needs is the words.
Who'll suggest something?
Ro4c about the open sugar bOUE
noto that the Hdr Is orer9
How about that bump that used
10 be in front of COMMISSIONER
GARDENERS house? Is it still
there?
GEORGE D. HORNING is giving
away 100 pairs of shoes and the
same number OF stockings this
Christmas
About That Original Movie Theater.
GEORGE DAILY, writing from the
Dewey Hotel. says the first moving
picture theater in Washington was
at Tenth and d streets northwest.
He says it was established long be-
fore the Cosmos"
The Washington times., 1918-12-11
TODAY'S TOPIC
. FRIENDSHIP WITHOUT LOVE.

cold-blooded business Of secur-
ing profitable partners for them
selves at any eost-if that should
be the sad meaning that love has
for you-then you won't be able
to see any place for mems and
women's friendships.
But l believe the truth is quite
different.
! believe there is room in the
world for love and friendship both.
In the first place. no one life
can be altogether given up to love.
Real love is rather a rare visitor.
II we are very young. and perhaps
rather silly, we may devote a large
amount Of time and thought to
Irritation, but that's another mat
ter. Many people love but once
in a lifetime. Moreover, love
doesn't always come when one is
eighteen, breathless and on tip
toe. 1t may wait for a decade,
The Washington times., 1918-12-11
Government Ownership in the
Navy.

Mr.. Arthur Brisbane.
Dear Sir: Your To-day" articles are
wonderful. II is too had th,re are not
any other editors in the United States
with brains, honesty and courage to
write such articles in their papers.
Please say something about Govern
ment ownership in the navy, which, UP
to the time OF the war, seemed to be
run to keep the steel trusts going
You know how they fought Secretary
Daniels for advocating the Govern
ment armor plant. The brooklyn
navy yard built the battIeship Ari-
zona in less than the contract and at
81 5000 less than the contractors
price. also within the time limit. The
employees got fifteen days annual leave
and worked an eight-hour day.
The Naval Gun Factory torpedoes
are perfect, they never leak air and
sink, they build them for less than
$1,000 each. The factory price of the
contractor was $4,000. Secretary
Daniels cut them down to $4,000 from
Bliss, OF Brooklyn. n. y.
When the war started the Naval
Gun Factory designed and made a
three-inch anti-aircraft gun on short
order. they also designed a rust-proof
gun out OF Mcneil metal which stands
the salt sea water and does not rust
out on deck
Before the war the navy supply OF
The Washington times., 1918-12-11

till one has gotten calmer, more
used to life.
Who Doesn't Need Friendsl
So unless one wishes to be a re-
cluse, there's a good deal Of oneself
left over to devote 10 friendship.
And while the close sisterly friend
ships Of women, and the comrade-
ships Of men, are indispensable.
1 suppose that really the most
stimulating friendship in the
world is that between a man and
a woman.
And that is because Of their dif-
ferences, their contrasts. They are
sure never to feel quite the same
about anything, or to think quite
the same. And comradeship is
more of an adventure when YOU
never can tell in advance in inst
what way your comrade will th:ik
and talk and act.
Then q man and woman who are
The Washington times., 1918-12-11
~ OES a woman always re-
gard a man as a possible
- lover?

~ OES a woman always re-
gard a man as a possible
- lover?
Does a man value a woman
only as she suggests romance?
Are there no sympathetic
friendships between men and
women into which even the
thought of love never enters?
All these questions are asked,
as they have been asked many
times before, by a girl who has
written me in actual despair.
81 am lonely and need friends"
she tells me. And friendship
means everything to me, for so
far / haven't experienced love.
But / am getting discouraged.
Three times / have begun what
seemed to me a real friendship
with a young man, and yet each
one of them has shown me that he
cared nothing for me as a friend.
When | refused to let them make
love to me they didn't care to
come to see me any more. Are
all men like that? | don't think
it can be my fault, because l am
not the kind Of girl who tries to
make men fall in love with her"
Now | know quite we'll that
there are many worldly wise folk
who would confirm this girls
fears. They would assure her
that honest friendship between
men and women is a delusion, and
that unless she attracts him as a
lover, there is no man on earth
who will take her friendship
seriously, or trouble to waste his
evenings in mere talk with her.
Two Kinds Of Girls.
And, unfortunately. far too many
young people are of this way of
thinking. Too many thoughtless
youth divide the feminine universe
into captivating girls, peaches"
whom they are sure they could
love, for a while, anyway, and
whom they intend TO make
love to the minute they have a
chance-and the less conspicuous
kind, whom they don't care 10 cx-
change a word with.
And too many precocious young
girls regard any young man they
may encounter merely as so much
material out of which an admireT
and ultimately a suitor, can be
artfully made.
But you will admit that these
are the mistaken ones, who regard
love as a game, to be played very
shrewdly. They are not the ones
who understand the reality of
love. And so they are not the ones
to whom we look to decide this
matter of love and friendship.
If you think of all the men and
women in the world as engaged in
The Washington times., 1918-12-11

fathers and the mothers and the public school teachers
the TEACHERS OF ALL.
The public school teachers the most marvellous
family in the worlds history They the nteec-
tual fathers of thousands of children and of grown
and Theirs is very great opportunity and
sponsibility.
The mind of the next generation will reflect NOT
THE MIND OF THE EDITOR OR THE CLERGYMAN
OR THE LITERARY INDIVIDUAL OF TODAY, BUT
THE MIND OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER.
And there is nothing Important than that the
teachers should with the deepest of responsibility
devote their best energies to this constant thought what
am creating the public opinion Of the future?"
The Washington times., 1918-12-11

The first movie show I ever saw
was in Willard's Hall, Iong since de-
parted to make room for Peacock
Alleys north entrance. That mist
have been nearly twenty-five years
ago. The show was an exhibition Of
French cinema ore cinemetagraph
reels, showing merely scenes as l
recall and no picture stories such as
thrill the nation nightly nov. Ad-
mission was so cents and / thought
1t the most wonderful show ! had
ever seen.
Also don't a lot OF US remember
dropping nickels in the slot at the
old Columbia phonograph place on
Pennsylvania avenue between Ninth
and Tenth streets northwest, to see
the little movie shows that came in
iron boxes?
Officers Of the New York State
Club. Just organized:
CHARLES C. ADAMS, president
Miss JEANNE HAYDEN, vice pres
ident.
Miss IRENE DUNSKLE, secretary
PATRICK J. HALTIGAN, treas
urer.
Rev. DAVID H. EDWARDS, chap
lain.
JIMMY BAIRD. vice president Of
the Fuller Construction Company,
under whose supervision millions Of
dollars OF buildings were rushed to
completion in Washington in war
time. sails for France this week in
the interests OF his company. JIMMY
is capable of handling the biggest
sort Of construction work in Francs
or anywhere else.
The Washington times., 1918-12-11

There is question that the public should gladly
and eagerly make it possible for the school teachers
live in comfort free from anxiety to their FUTURE well
rewarded for good work in the PRESENT.
We have referred above to teachers men. We do
by this intend ignore belttle the thousands
able and patient who giving their talents and
their strength to the education Of country As mat
ter of fact the unusy treated than the
They paid lower salaries and restrictions
are placed about their freedom of personal action
Washington should be shining example to the rest
Of the country in its appreciation Of its school teachers
Superintendent ThurstonS appeal should be met, and
literally.
The Washington times., 1918-12-11
A Definite Plan or a Back
Door Hand-Out?

If the Government Quits Supporting National Capital Fifty
fifty Basis. Let's Have Perfect Understanding About II
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-08
FREE SHOW DAILY
 1;i FOR SOLDIER BOYS
Anyone in Uniform Is Served Free at
 Palais de Glace in Paris

Paris. November 8.-The Palais de GIace in Paris, which the Y. M. c. A. has opened as an amusement place for American and allied soldiers, is hid. den among the trees in the Champs Elysees and had long been one of the world famous skating rinks It was opened in October and is going to be a life-saver to the lonely boy who has no money to spend in expensive music halls. The theatre in this palace seats 1900 and every afternoon and every night there Is something doing" And it Is open to all.
 The tired French poilu, the British Tommy, tie Polish Legionnaire, the Greek, anybody on the allied side, can walk up to the center and refresh his hungry body with hot soup and salad and sandwiches, alongside of the Amer ican boy The shows are absolutely free to all men and women in the unl- forms of the allied nations.
 The weekly programme Is made up of two professional boxing matches, a week two vaudeville shows given by Broadway's best talent, Chicago's lat est hits and Frisco's popular teams. one religious evening beginning with movies, and one night week of in formal talks and interesting lectures about France The audience at these educational nights is phenomenal, proving that our soldiers want to learn about the wonderful country in which they fought.
 The Paiais de Glace is under the di- rection of Dr. Thomas w. Graham of MinneapolisS Minn., and Miss Elizabeth Gilman of Baltimore, Md, who runs the canteen with the assistance of four other American girls in the uniform of the Y. M. c. A.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-08

pillows and slept on the floor of the lounge room" At Il all lights were out.
 At 11:3o D. m., Miss Elizabeth Gilman of Baltimore, Md, who has charge of the canteen service at the Pavilion thought she would call 1t a days work and go to bed. But just she was starting up stairs, she heard pounding on the door, and went to see what 1t was
 She opened the door to find 24 enlisted men who had travelled IS hours on a railroad train. They wanted cover for the night, and for the love of Uncle Sam, sister, food of some sort" She let them in, went upstairs and called an other canteen worker. Together they went into the kitchen and stole the bread that was hidden in the closets for morn- ing They found key to the storeroom and dragged out canned meat to make into sandwiches. They started a fire in the stove and made hot chocolate, and the 34 boys were fed.
 Then the two women went into the dining room with the tables all set and ready for breakfast, and cleared away those tables, and the men were only too glad to roll up on them and on the floor and sleep the sleep that only tired, war weary soldiers can sleep.
 This is situation that the r. M. c. A. meets from day to day, in spite of the fact that it is renting every available vacant hotel in the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-08
SELMA

Selma, December 7.-lSpecial.)--Ben K. Stroud, manager of the Alabama Manufacturers and Operators associa- ton, with headquarters in Birming- ham, spent today in Selma, meeting with prominent business men. in ali effort to arouse interest in the asso- citation. Mr. Stroud came to Selma at this time to try to induce Selma man. ufacturers to enter the Alabama or ganization recently formed, instead of forming a separate organization. To- caUy. as had been considered here.
 Mr. Stroud represents the aim of the Alabama association as being pri- marily for the furthering of foreign trade, and assisting manufacturers and operators to look after their best interests through helpful legislation. Mir. Stroud left in the afternoon for Mobile. where the association has many members.
 A petition signed by the physicians of Selma and circulated by M. Lehman, J. Hooper Adams and Lucien Burns, members of the city council. prevents the engagement of the Fox Greater Shows, which was to have opened here Monday. sharing profits with the Uni ted Confederate Veterans. their action being based on the contention that this city still is in danger of an influenza epidemic.
 F. c. Melvin. president of the Selma National bank. and Morgan Richards. secretary of the Selma Chamber of Commerce, will return today from Att lantic City, where they have been at tending the reconstruction congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-08
Y. M. [. A. HOTELS
 TAXED ID UTMOST
of American Sol diers Pour Into Paris All Eager to See
 the City

Paris, November S.-Probably the big gest problem that the Young Mems Christian association has to face in the city of Paris is the housing of soldiers who flock to this city in thousands for 29 to 4S hours leave Every American boy who comes to France is eager to see the city of Paris, and the prices of accommodations at the French hotels is beyond the possibilities of their slender purses. The Y. M c. A. has several hotels where they can go and for one franc night can get bed and shower. Meals are served at cost.
 The Pavilion is the largest of these hotels, and as an illustration the crowd that Hooked in there the other night is a good one to be guided by. The hotel was full to overflowing. The other ho- tels in the neighborhood on the overflow list were also crowded to the limit The office also has long list of rooms which French families will rent to soldiers. The list was exhausted Yet the men kept pouring in. Seventy-six men took of their coats, rolled them up, made them into
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-08
SOUTH SEA ISLANDS ARE BIC PROBLEM
 WHEN PEACE COMES
Federation Will Probably Have to Be Created With Some Form of Gen.
 tral Authority

Sydney, Australia, November 7.--(Corre- spondence of the Associated Press )-Pro- nouncement by Arthur J. Balfour, British secretary of state for foreign affairs, that GeTmany's colonies will not be re- turned to her after the war, revives in Australia and New Zealand animated discussion of the future of all the islands in the Pacific south of the equator.
 Whatever conclusion is reached by the allies at the peace conference as to the disposition of German New Guinea and, German Samoa, not to mention the Mar shall, Caroline and Ladrone groups, 1t Is generally admitted that an entire recast ing of the various administrations of the British islands is needed to develop their great potential wealth. afford se- curity for trade and insure adequate de- fense.
 It is believed that federation of all the British archipelago under central authority having it's seat of government at the most convenient center will even tuate after the war.
 Thus, In effect, new state would be created which might be called the British Pacific Federation and might be admin istered by a governor general or high COlInlSSlOn6T.H ouCu d SoNCAiol SOASA t'i or high commissioner would not be con- cerned with the local governmental af-i fairs of any particular group but with
 the federation as a whole. He might be assisted by council composed Of appointed officials, representatives elect ed by each island group, and trade com missioners representing Great Brltan, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Lo- cal legislatures would, under such a |. l. -t1 how lor O O a c a of elf-government as compatible with the proportion of whites to South Sea islanders and Asiatics incapable at pres ent of self-government.
 It is pointed out here, howevo-, that if the British islands are federated, means of communication between them must be provided in order that their administra- tion and general welfare may obtain. Existing steamer services radiate from Sydney In Australia and Auckland in New Zealand, but groups served by any one line have no connecting link with adjacent islands served by other lines, or with China and India, save by way of Sydney.
 Attention Is called to the now we'll known fact that just prior to the war Germany was engaged in linking up her Pacific island possessions with the east with a view to monoply of the copra trade; and 1t is argued from this that If there should be a comprehensive British steamship service with Singapore at one end and New Zealand at the other, in- suring continuous supply of Asfatic labor for the islands, 1t would greatly contribute to the material benefit of the proposed federation.
 Not only will German New Guinea or Kaiser Wilhemland. and German Samoa be disposed of at the peace table, but the exceedingly valuable phosphate is- land Nauru, the German Solomons, the Bismarck archipelago, the Marshalls, the Carolines and Ladrones X