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The Washington times., 1918-07-27

THIS FEEDS THE cHIL0s MIND WHICH IS SAVAGE MIND
Everything eats and grows what it eats, from
Of the billions of separate cells in your body to the imag
nation Of Shakespeare fed by the worlds history and the
world about him
Of all hungry things the chld's imagination is hun
giest And you want to develop the right kind Of man.
the child must have for its brain the food that it wants
Even grownup human beings forever telling them
selves fairy stories to what they viii be might be. Or
with other fairy stories, excusing mistakes and failures
The chd's body before its birth goes through all the
stages Of animal development from the single cell to the
fully developed young human
The childs mind after birth, passes through all the
different phases that have marked the mind Of in his
progress from savagery up
The savage likes fishing and hunting and animals and
strange stories-the facts tire and bore him.
It is the with the little boy for his mind is going
through the savage state in slow evolution Just his
body went through all the various forms and phases before
he was born.
The Washington times., 1918-07-27

Imagination is force in your brain, Just physical
strength is another force in your muscles.
You let your child play run, fly his kite, roll hoop
knowing that the strength thus created and stored up his
body will be used for serious work later
You do not put your child to mans work. but let child
ish play develop him. What you do for his BODY do also
for his MIND. Let that mind play let feed the fairy
stories and wild imagnations Teach the child gradually
and kindly the value of accuracy But do not show stupid
severity, magnng the Importance of childish falsehood
which is only imagination running riot.
brutal father, heavy stick well applied would have
killed imagination in Shakespeare.
And when he got his first job in London holding horses
for penny outside of the heatr he would have stuck
his job and held horses errands until he died-
stead Of creating the literature Of the modern world
Where you find man with no outlook little hope no
prospects you find usually poor head plus treat
men based on stupid idea that the child should act like
q man
Remember that is natural for children to tell false
hoods to take what is not their own to exaggeae-a
ages do it all their lives Children do it instnctvey.
Train the child kindly, slowly, patiently, feed his i'm
agnaon and you will find the first picture in this editorial
change to the second picture The imagination that lives
on Mother Goose in childhood will create fact in maturity
The Washington times., 1918-07-27
HEARD AND SEEN

Congressman Thomas s. Flood. a
New York State, and was used As .
freighter between river points On
the bay. Not many years ago saw
the former pride Of the ChesapeakO
lying on its side nearly fully sub
merged either Just inside OF outside
the Baltimore basin.
c. R JAMES.
B. P. says the old ferry steamers
were dismantled and made into coal
barges, this may be so Of the city
OF Washington" but the @City Of
Alexandria" caught fire at her dock
in Alexandria and was toWed across
to the fats, where she burned to the
waters edge.
This was about twenty-sevsn
years ago c. ]. BROWN,
SIS Seventh st. s. W.
P. S.-Who remembers the Mat
tano." that sat on the water like .
duck?
Some Strong John Thompson
Pupils.
An old reader sends me this list,
which ! print just as he WROTE it:
Pupils of Abbott School, Of which
Mr.. Strong John Thompson was
principal:
FRED FISHBACK, FRED
baker; JOHN WARD,
Elks' Club; SAM HART, of Lans-
burgh & Bro; w. W. BURDETTE,
JOE ZIMMERMAN, letter carrier;
CAPT. JULIUS PEYSER, THOS.
BATTALION CHEF
PROCTOR, Fire Department; the
KING boys, Of Kings Palace; the
boys, of b. Coleman &
Son; BERT MOORE. paperhanger;
by. ANNADALE, plumber; WILL
L1AM NJ U H L H EISEN, BOB
DOWNING, carpenter.
q
The Washington times., 1918-07-27
Mrs. Wilson WOOdrOW'S Article
Those Who Think Youth Seedme and Old Age the Harvest
Are PernCiOuS, False and Foolish
the Harvest

lowed those about you to dictate
your method of life, your mode Of
thought, your manner of action,
instead Of firmly, sweetly, smiling
ly making them understand that
you meant to do exactly as you
pleased. no matter how absurd
your would-be guardians, the
younger generation. might think it.
Always q Puzzle
l never could understand why
woman's grown-up children so
often consider themselves divinely
empowered to guard and guide
their parents life. Why, for in
stance, IL mother wants to wear
red roses in her bonnet instead
of the eternal pansies, should
grown-up daughter demonstrate
and nag until they family compro-
mise on petunias. which mother
has always detested?. Or why, If
mother wants to marry for the
second or third time, or change
her religion or take swimming
lessons, should the matter be dis
cussed pro and con for days in
the family circle? 1t surely is en-
tirely mothers own affair.
And today, when every human
being. man, woman or child. is
gladly doing his bit to help win
the war, why, to consider oneself
superfiuous no matter what ones
years is just as much of a delu-
sion as to imagine oneself Mary
Queen Of Scots or Charlemagne.
The Washington times., 1918-07-27

obliterated for me by gradually ac-
curing q mental picture gallery
Of women who were old in years
but who possessed in full measure
the only real youth there is, the
youth Of the heart
Too Busy to Age.
No one could have called them
superfluous nor have granted
them the patronizing and grudg-
ing right to live. They had too
much to give, and they gave roy
ally. They were too busy to be
decrepit or feeble; too mellow, too
finely tempered, too tolerant for
harsh criticism or censure; too
wise and too philosophical to be
cowed by any circumstance or
crushed by any grief. They were
women who had proved under fire
that they were still the masters
of their fate and still the captains
OF their souls
Some of the most potent and
molding forces in my life have
been elderly women who never
dreamed Of being molding forces
OF Of exerting an active influence,
but, nevertheless, could not fail
Of doing so because Of what they
were and what they stood for.
It should be the gift and the
grace Of elderly women to inspire
the younger generation, not so
much the extremity youthful, per-
haps, because extreme youth
rightly enough wants to explore,
to find its own way and enjoy it;
The Washington times., 1918-07-27

T READ an article the other day
written by q woman who
= signed herself "A Superhuous
Old Lady In 1t she asked Of the
public in general:
viii you not help us to come
out Of our corners and be q part
Of the great world again? Is there
really no important work for us to
do? We are all mortally tired Of
the corners, Of being bossed
around by our dear, grown-up chill
dren, Of being dead while we are
still alive"
Horror Of Age.
Her words began to haunt me.
1 found my mind reverting to them
again and again could not imag-
inc the woman who had written
them being either ''bossed around"
or, as she says later. belonging to
that army Of old ladies so
"squelched and sat upon by their
superior children that their unhap-
piness is enough to break ones
heart"
Even as a child I had a horror Of
old age, its decrepitude, its ugli-
ness, its weight of woe. 1t is so
difficult to understand. Nature
offers no counterparts for it and no
symbols of 1t. Autumn wraps her
self in the splendors of scarlet and
gold, and winter offers a contrast
Of somber mysterious beauty.
But this horror Of old age was
The Washington times., 1918-07-27

Some time ago this column had the
pleasure Of reeiting the fact that
RALPH LEE has one Of the most re-
tentive memories in the world
1 am now glad to be able to sub
stantiate my claim for this champion
memory by publishing the following
outburst from George o'Connor, the
East Capitol street nightingale:
Says George:
aRalph Lee says he remembers
taking trip on the steamer Sue
sChieE Is barking back soHss tsnss' as
kGrks 60"
The nightingale continues:
"WiI YOU ask that some well-in-
formed reader who remembers Mur-
raw. the lightning calculator, and
his dog. or TALBOT PULIZZI'S de-
but with the Linthicum Institute
Dramatic Club, to kindly stand up?
While he is on his feet, ask him about
COLONEL PINCHOVER, and what
became of the life-sized oil painting
of him, which, l am told, used to
hang in HAGERTY'S ART GAL
LERY?
That's all for the present"
P. S.-"FELIX MAHONY ought 70
know something about these matters,
for Il once saw him talking to Will
LIAM, B. BRYAN.
CHARLES KERN thinks very
wisely that the city man should go
to the country to purchase garden
truck. He says:
Farmers are raising enough stun,
Int the great trouble is in getting
help to harvest the crops and snip
ping the crops after harvesting,
There must be seventeen tnouI
sand automobiles in this town, and
their owners could do a lot toward
helping the situation by getting IN
touch with the farms in the outly-
Sno section and then going right
there to gather the garden sass,
cherries and peaches.
How about running municipal
buses into the neighborhoods from
which come the biggest crowds OF
war workers and other toilers! 1t
would help relieve the congestion.
BILL CONRAD, who used to work
on the Star and now has something
or other to do with a bunch Of coal
mines, is on his way TO Atlantic City.
Good bye, Bill, take care of yourself
and your new moustache.
Steamboat Lore.
Forty-fye or fifty years ago the
Samuel J. Pentz" was an excursion
boat which made daily trips from
Baltimore to Holly Grove, In those
days a popular family excursion
point on the eastern shore Of the
Chesapeake Bay. II was considered
the finest excursion boat Baltimore
had ever had up to that time. Later
it had to yield its crown to the
Theodore Weems," which made ex-
cursions to Bay Ridge, much further
down on the western shore. Twenty
five or possibly thirty years ago the
Pentz passed into the hands Of =
small syndicate headed By the late
The Washington times., 1918-07-27

but they should be a lamp to the
feet Of the women in the late
twenties and the thirties and the
forties who are perplexed in the
confusing mazes Of life and worn
with its struggle.
firmly believe that this idea
that youth is the seed-time and
old age the harvest is a pernicious
and false and foolish one. It is
commonly accepted that youth is
the only period Of enjoyment and
achievement and that old age is
the season when from an arm chair
In a chimney corner one may alter
nate between contemplation Of past
errors and mistakes and the
ladling out Of platitudes and sage
advice. That is not age at all lit
is senility.
The chimney corner existence
belongs to those who have allowed
their minds to rust and their bodies
to decay. II you sit and think
rheumatism and Bright's disease
and arterio-sclerosis all day you
will probably have one of those
troubles.
Why You lost
Why is a doormat? Because II
laid itself down for other people
to wipe their feet on. II it had
adopted the air of a prayer-rug, it
would have been hung on the wall
in the drawing room and proudly
exhibited TO guests.
Madame you are cowed and
brow-beaten because you have al
The Washington times., 1918-07-27
Do You Remember

The "big-headed" man who used
to wear a soldier cap and ring the
chimes at the Metropolitan Church,
at Four-and-a-half and C streets
northwest. and who was said to have
sold his head to doctors long before
he died?
-"Star Mary" who used to sell pa
pers at Fifteenth and F, and whO
cussed newsboys who tried to horn
in on her beat?
The Scent bobtailed horse cars
that ran from Seventeenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue northwest to
the House side of the Capitol, stop
ping at a shed like the one used by
the Wrecko cars at the Senate side
now?
The installation of cable cars IN
the early autumn Of 1892 or 1898,
the holding that year Of the G. A. r.
encampment, and the large number
Of vets that used to get down on
their hands and knees and look into
the slot to see what made the eahls
go2
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31
PEACE on THE GREAT LAKES
Threatened Strike of Searen and Fire
men Is Ayerted by Conference
Held at Washington.

Orders calling of the threatened
strike of seamen and firemen on the
great lakes were issued by Victor "a.
Olander, secretary of the Sailors
union. and other union leaders.
The announcement was made fol-
lowing a three-hour discussion be-
tween Olander, Andrew Furuseth,
Patrick O'Brien and Thomas Conway,
representatives Of the men; Chair
man Hurley Of the shipping board and
Il. r. Bass, chairman of the boards
labor adjustments commission.
In meeting all grievances given by
the men for a strike, Chairman Hur-
ley ordered the Lake Carriers asso-
citation and all its members to sign the
nations appeal for men for merchant
ships "as originally drafted and with
out any changes"
He also ordered the association not
to require seamen to register in It's
shipping Offices or assembly rooms
pending further negotiations.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31
Il Paws 70 Be cnur4eo,,s

Policemen should learn 1t paws to he
courteous. A Pittsburgh bluecoat
found such to be fact. He saw man
ana two women getting Off Joplin
car, each carrying a heavy suitcase,
Inc officer, seeing that one of the
women was having trouble in carrying
her baggage, CALAMITY stepped up and
asked that he be permitted to assist
her. When ne picked II up something
inside ratified suspiciously. AT police
station, says the Sun, 70 quarts Of
liquor were removed from the anti.
cases. --Kansas CITY Star.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

The call Of their country's service
has been heard by practically all Of
Great Britain's beautiful and talented
peeresses. In the front rank of these
industrious workers in war activities
Is the countess Of Wilton, who has
been devoting herself to war work
since the outbreak of the conflict. She
has served as nurse In one of the
hospitals where wounded soldiers are
being treated and has won the hearts
of the soldiers by her tender and sym,
pathetic care. Before she enlisted ia
the nursing corps she was active in
the many bazaars which hsarked the
early part of the war.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31
STANDARD WAGE
is WAR MEASURE
Its Necessity Reluctantly Admit
ted by Those Responsible
for Its Passage.
LABOR IS AMPLY PROTECTED
Every Safeguard Thrown Around
Law Made Necessary by the Ext
qeneies of War-General News
of Interest In Labor World.

National standardization of wages
as war measure has been the sub.
ject Of discussion between the war
labor policies board and representa-
lives Of industrial management for
several days.
"In seeking Standardization the
precedents of unionized industry are
being followed" Felix Frankfurteri
chairman Of the board said. "Wages
have. Of course, long been standard
lied by the agreements of employers
and employees in many industries.
Now 1t is planned for the whole peo-
pie. Except as q war measure it
frankly would not have been consid-
cred. The president has said that in
drstry plays as essential and as hon.
orable role In this great struggle
as do military ornaments"
The policies board was instructed
by congress to standardiZe wages, Mr..
Frankfurter said, because of the need
to stabilize Industrial conditions, so
that no productive power be wasted,
and the further need for increased
production Of warstuffs.
'But although the showing made by
representatives Of the army. navy and
Emergency Fleet corporation was
overwhelmingly convincing" Mr..
Frnnkurter added. "the policies board
would have hesitated TO ask labor to
make whatever sacrifice wage stand
ardlzation involves, If the proper
standards had not been erected. If
profiteering had been allowed to 20 on
unchecked and the cost Of living had
not been controlled, standardization
would not have been just.
Congress, through the taxes on ex-
cess profits; the war industries board,
through its price fixing by the presi-
dent, through the veto Of $40 wheat,
have prepared the way for standard
izatlon Of wages. Additional methods
Of keeping down the cost Of living
are being investigated at this time"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

Persons who have tried to defraud
the government did not do 80 because
hey desired to solve the cost OF liv-
ing problem with board and room In
prison.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

The way to keep your patriotism
bright behind the lines Is to keep that
belt around your appetite within the
hounds Of reason, and the way to do 1t
~ to refrain from eating like hog
and put In about eight hours ut use.
f,fl work.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

Hundred dollar suits Of mems
clothes are predicted for next year.
There Is an idea. however, that the
most popular clothes for men In the
coming year viii be the suits that have
stood by the wearers for "A full year
before.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

A restraint on travel. aside from e1-
pcnSe and inconvenience, results from
he fact that an immense number OF
Americans just now want to go to
France or nowhere.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

In the hustle and hurry Of war, and
preparations for war, that new star re-
Gently discovered will have to 90 1t
alone for a while. No one can af-
ford the time now to give 1t guild.
ing hand.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

1--WE must not grind up The seed corn
IF the future" Is the way President
Lowell Of Harvard puts the necessity
of not allowing the colleges to be
thinned unduly by the war. The sim.
lie IL at once picturesque and exact.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

II Is pity that profteers cannot be
included in the list of enemy aliens,
for they are enemies to their country
md aliens TO its defense and Its In.
lereStS.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

Honey is recommended MS a substl-
hite for sugar SO If bee stings you,
don't strike back. Be real Ameri-
can and accept the sting as one Of the
necessary wounds of the war.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

The use Of gas masks Is extending
IN China they are using them as u
protection against Infectious plaques
Eventually they may even be used In
legislative debates.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

Louisville (Ky) horseshoers ask 81
day.
Our lighting and power industry
employs $4,000.
Striking blacksmiths at the Science
tady IN. " plant Of the American
locomotive company vorcd TO return
to work. The decision was reached
after an appeal to their patriotism by
federal authorities.
The general strike movement
throughout Argentina has failed, ow-
ing to the lack Of support given 1t
by the working classes. Partial strikes
in come industries continue, but these
are not Of national Importance.
The San Francisco Iron Trades coun-
ell, with jurisdiction over all iron
working trades in the San Francisco
bay district, voted to repudiate the ac-
ton Of the Oakland boilermakers and
to order the strikers to return to work
at once.
The Belskedal lumber company plant
resumed operations at Couderay, Wis,
| the sawmilI crew returning to work.
The men asked for a 50-cent increase
II day, or SO day for common labor
and skilled labor higher. The COM
pany granted the increase.
The Yale & Towne company of
| Stamford, Conn, has granted to It's
1920 employees a voluntary increase
Of IS per cent In wages. This is the
third general increase since Novem-
Der, 1915, aggregating SO per cent over
the wage scale then effective.
Striking postmen in Winnipeg and
other western Canadian cities who
refused to obey the order of their com.
mlttee and return to work pending O
hearing on their grievance before O
subcommittee of the cabinet, were no.
tilted that they must report for duty
or their places will be filed.
Managers of British shell manufac
tories reckon that 1t requires three
women, because Of their lighter ply.
siQue, to do the work of two men. Elk
perience has shown that 1t Is unwise
to make long workday for the WON
en- and In most of the shell factories
In this district they put in only eight
hours, while men work liz and In
some plants IL.
Loom fixers and weavers at the War
rem Or. ~ Manufacturing company
and the Parker mills, who have been
on strike for three weeks for a IL
per cent wage increase, decided al
mass meeting to continue the strike
until their demands were granted. OF
the $500 employees $50 are involved
In the strike, forcing a reduction In
output Of more than 30 per cent, &c
cordng to estimates Of company of.
ficaIs.
The striking employees of the Smith
& Wesson company at Springfield
Mass, returned to work pending de-
cIson on the point at issue by Mai
o. j. Getchell, representative Of Sec
rotary of War Baker.
Provision for arbitration affecting
employees and employing lumbermen
and loggers Of the Northwest were
framed at Portland where lumber OPP.
orators Of Oregon, Washington. Idaho
and western Montana met with Col,
Bryce r. Dlsque, commanding thu
spruce production division Of the
United States signal corps. 1t was
| learned.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

In designating the banks Of river,
the terms right and left are used with
reference to the position Of one who is
facing in the direction of the rivers
fiow.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

With sons Of Garfield, Cleveland.
Roosevelt and Taft In the service, the
country does not have to worry over
what to do with the sons Of It's presl-
dents
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

In addition to the customary "R. s.
v, p" dinner invitations may soon
bear the inscription 'B. Y. o. S."
peaning brlng your OWN sugar r---
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

II Germany could invent or discover
, single ching that anybody else wants
she would be more cheerful about the
trade outlook after the war.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

An epidemic Of Influenza Is rampant
in the German army. but ii goes with
out saying they are not sneezlng at
he Americans
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

Not e-en adorable woman can make
Syeralls look pretty by wearing them,
but she can invest them with certain
sttractlveness.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

AbolIshing seams az o war economy
seems strange. How are they going
20 utilize all those cunning little
Datchess
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

The splendid record being made by
our troops abroad should stimulate
In every way the determination to
stand back Of them by those at home,
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

The thought that ones crops will
feed our soldiers ought to make even
such prosaic work rs knocking off
potato bugs patriotic and pleasing.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

A patch on tine pantal0Ons was once
aot far removed from disgrace, in pub
;ic estimation. Now 1t Is one Of the
minor decorations Of war
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

Japan has Just fioated a loan Of
S25,00O,000, which sounds as II 1t Is
proposing to get into the war for one
day. anyway.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

War gardeners are also becoming
more efficient. Either they grow more
vegetables this year than last or their
imagination Is better trained.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

Teuton prisoners think the war VII
be over by fall. Yes. It may be over
IN Germany.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

Ths fact that soap is 50 pound
in Constant!nople probably does not
cause much worry to the average
Turk.