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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-10-03
ALEXANDRIA IN HER NEW GARB

While our good old and historic
city may not yet. be wearing her
silver slippers, the almost sudden
transition Of Alexandria into a YER
liable beehive of industry shows we
are ,"getting there" apparently with
leaps and bounds. The present con-
dition of our neal estate business IS
nroof conclusive of this.
Less than half dozen years a:9
hundreds CT houses were vacant IN
Alexandria. Today an unoccuplet
dwelling-that is anything hablsable
would be "a curiosity. The To-
cal trade was languishing, while a
large percentage 'of the city's pop
ulation was employed in Washing
ton.
Work was scarce here, with no
immediate prospects of a change IN
conditions. 1t is not so now. 1t IS
no longer the workman seeking the
Job: but it is the job seeking the
workman.
1t can be said that Alexandria
went to bed under normal condl-
tons and awoke with the arrival ct
important industries in our midst
which have caused a complete met
amorrhosis. Thousands of strangers
were soon invading the city inQuir-
ing for accommodations, and this
is still going on, but in more lin
tied sense.
The newcomers have stimulated
business to a great extent, and
Alexandria merchants who previ-
ously spent but little in printers
ink now realize the Importance Of
advertising. The Gazette has often
Of late experienced difficulty in
meeting the wants of the CONNER
cial public. 1t is not the leading
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-10-03
THE LATE GEORGE AULD

As will be seen elsewhere in the
Gazette, George Aud, one of the old
st and most generally known resi-
:tnts of Fairfax county, has passed
rto the other world The deceased
rs we'll up in the eighties, and
AID lived to see virtually all the
s.; couaintances CT his youth pay the
!c5t of nature.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1919-08-16

celled hunting and fishing. ~ anu N
Fss SIS IS but an an eptome Of what there to make klamath
SsnGc.h , few hundred less than years. It has had
It had the boomer to eonend man nadap 3 Like all
% mad its nerncne strfes that have resulted in making Klamath
houses s ne W Gny y IN the world that boast Of three
we want you to know the straight of to explode something
houses Klamath Falls It not I ie esome ane for court %
nave taxed about them for ten years. nothing mvster
city city in % MhSs sGn wse make this his
had and few something has marked the builders
That word tells whole story One set
I1 IndWn s atsned M e build the court house what locally
they would not The first set while Then the other cot
got the upper hand and the second on the old
s tne result Neither yet occupied for they are still scran
pe Rhs oisr be Snd wdns will Continue % to until
will accept and hen n er sf all anegsa good
TO something better They ashamed Of their fight right now
on to win is keeping them m the same old story YOU have
heard so often only this time court houses the stake and while
scrap and but little attention it. Whenever It is men,
n m we % aom get so we lust get tired so inter-
uons Inc joke is on and going accept it with
SMILE.
When decided
desire
it but desire to see
you could not
Now that
city where great fortunes
what you buy for today Look at its lands
the for
a owners
to
ST.
the
in Of
nothing
o is
That why klamath Falls be city 2o s25
ten
about klamath
of
to
strho the
Is thai
to
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And while activities
in
bought and paid for the Modoc
from klamath Falls to point Nevada
The evening world., 1919-04-01
Inventions Of the Day

A metal cigarette case that fits the
vest pocket has been invented. from
which a single cigarette can be taken
without removing the case.
The opening of new telegraph
cables to Ceylon has enabled the
island to receive messages from Lon
don within half an hour OF their fil-
ing.
To relieve the hand OF the man
forced 10 become a straphanger in a
crowded car New Jersey inventor
has patented a hooked wristet
Peru win wage war on malaria by
treating patients protecting residents
OF malaral regions, destroying germ
bearing Insects and draining lowlands.
Tests made IN Europe have led ok
perts TO decide that ivy benefits rather
than Injuries stone walls, on which Il
grows. by drawing excess moisture
from them.
The evening world., 1919-04-01
Mrs. Jarr Is Suspicious of Those Who Battle in
the Famous Kelly POOL

80 that's your famous efficiency
engineer" she cried. ''That loafer.
that tramp. that wretch who has
broken the heart OF his poor wife
for even IL Mrs. Gratch- Omission IS
militant Bolshevist. she Is n woman
and Is somebody's mother. or would
be II she had any children!
80 that's the man you are asso-
ciating with in business? / suppose
you got him the posltion!" Mrs. Jarr
went on. isn't 1t bad enough you
have such friends but that you must
take them down TO your office and
have them with you there7 And you
go out with that sort OF people. riding
in your taKicabs. while l sit home
waiting and worrying half the night"
But 1t isn't late dear" said Mr..
Jarr. "It youll only bo PATIENT
"Pauentl That's why / am treated
the way | ami" retorted Mrs. Jarr
"If | were not patient, IL did as other
women do! DO l ride in taxicabs
when l go out? MOI Not even IL its
raining. l take q street car, and
maybe ruin what poor few clothes l
have! But you ride in taxicabs with
your Gus and your Slavinsky people
that, thank goodness, | wouldn't ride
in golden chariots with! But after
this l won't pinch and scrape and
save and deny myself luxuries that
you do not deny yourself!"
-Now, don't be cross" Mr.. Jarr
began again. II can explain. The
office paid for the taxi Omission
was with those fellows / had to
md him. The boss sent me TO ind
him. did find him. You know /
was out after them; or rather him.
Be reasonable"
But Mrs. Jarr thought she'd sob a
little Just to show Mr.. Jarr her feel
ings were hurt. 1t doesn't do for
a W.T. to let her husband on too
easily.
80 you see." added Mr.. Jarr
seeing the domestic skies were clear
ing. everything Is all right"
And everything was all right. But
where is the man who can leave
well enough alone? lie thought he
would entertain Mrs. Jarr with a COM
plete account Of the evenings do
. ings.
And you should have seen the boss
playing Kelly pool" he began.
what" cried Mrs. Jarr. "Sc
THAT'S what you were dotngl Out
playing Kelly Pool-where is Kelly'f
Pool2 And while I'm home fixing
? over the children's clothes to save mS
, little money! OIL Oil Ont"
No, II 10 not known at this writ
The evening world., 1919-04-01
SIR THOMAS'S MISTAKE.

R THOMAS Upton amazed that the people of the United
States loving personal liberty they do should have voted
~ the whole country dry"
Sir Thomas does not to be unjust to the people Of the
United States lie will doubt offer them his apologies and
phy when he finds ont that they who voted the whole
country dry but number Of their socacd representatives whipped
into line by fanaca minority with powerful lobby.
81 not by convinced Sir Thomas chat your
prohibition venture is going to be and for this idea
of world prohibition it aughabe England would tolerate
IT, There is much protest against time restrc
tons Of liquor that they beginning to be relaxed"
Sir Thomas will be surprised the number OF Americans
meets who convinced that what he calls their prohibition venture
going to be anything but and who already
to prevent the OF disorder Hypocrisy deception
depra which would be follow enforcement Of the Ma
tional Prohibition Amendment.
As for world prohibition few Americans considering anything
absurd The great hope Of the country the thousands
earyed healthy young Americans who coming home
week after living people who drink wine without thinking
themselves potential dunkad and who have been enough
TO let noxcan become associated in the popular with the
saloon at its disreputabe degraded worst.
The evening world., 1919-04-01

common scoid more effectively.
As IL Is to-day. the question OF tho
neighbor who lnfringes upon her
nelghbor's rights and privileges is n
serious one and one that causes not
only annoyance but hardship. espe-
cially In the modern city homes OF
the skyscrapers.
The dictionary defines n common
scold as "a woman who offends
against the peace OF the community
by constant scolding."
The woman mentioned above attrib-
utes her troubles TO a desire to sing
and because she closed n driveway
which forced her neighbors to drive
around"
Whether this woman Is guilty or
not, is unimportant The big question
Is, how many hundreds of people are
guilty of similar offenses, whose
neighbors are lenient TO the breaking
point and who do not go TO the ex-
tremity OF taking. such women TO q
court OF Justice?
Perhaps the judge Of to-day will In
the light OF present methods OF liv-
ing put a different construction on
the definition Of a common scold. He
may hnd that It Is not limited
to the female OF the species"
II were the Judge. would define
common scold as follows:
The woman who plays the piano
after midnight when her neighbort
want To sleep.
She who keeps the talking machin,
going on Sunday afternoon when tn,
hard working person upstairs wants
TO rest and read.
Tho woman who abuses the butcher
the baker, the candlestick- maker
through the common dumb waiter.
She who airs the family trouble
with her husband while the window
are wide open,
The gossip who beratos her neigh
bor and begins her TRADE "No don
like TO talk about people, butt
The woman who "shoos" the chill
The evening world., 1919-04-01
What Is a Common ScOLd?
By Sophie Irene Loeb
orrssru Co New kEyeHsw wUidl
The Woman Who Infringes on the Rights of Others.
inges on the Rights of Others.

dren away on the only stoop in the
neighborhood.
The woman who steals her neigh
bor's best maid.
The woman who Furnishes her little
lost Johnnie all the way up the street
The landlady who tells the short
comings OF one of her tenants to an
other.
The loud nagging wife who never
has kind word for her long suffer-
ing husband.
The gaudy girl who ridicules her
old fashioned mother 30 that all the
neighbors may hear.
The woman owner who continually
puts out the sign, "No Children
Wanted Here"
The salnt-likc creature who goes
about defaming n girls character be-
cause she happens 10 be jealous OF her
good looks.
The society woman who Is forever
lupraiding her servants. and telling her
| friends about their iniquities.
The woman who argues with tho
conductor while she keeps a row OF
people waiting to get on or off the
car.
The woman who insists on carrying
her wailIng infant to a night per-
formance.
And as for men scolds-that is an
other story.
The whole matter may be summed
up in one definition OF a common
scold-he or she who raises any hue
or cry and causes disturbance or dis
comfort without proper regard for the
community.
The evening world., 1919-04-01
BLACKENING ITS EYE.

HE charge made by the Postal Telegraph Company that
$3oOsOoOO boost telephone rates part Of the Bureson
programme control might have less weight Il
the Postmaster Generals policy in raising domestic telegraph rates
had not furnished striking and omnou analogy Of fact
The Postal Telegraph did not want increase Of rates The
Western Union did General Bureson heved the head
of the Postal Telegraph system and the Western Union got the raise
it wanted There charge surmise about this The public
has seen it happen
According the Postal Telegraph "he campaign for increased
telephone rates nauguated by the Bell Company before its lines
by Mr. Buon to be continued by the latter in
behalf Of the Bell Telephone Company the power Of the Postmaster
being relied do what the Bell Company had difficulty
in doing"
If the public finds this entirely credible assertion it because
Postmaster General Bureson procedure in known instances has
made it
That powerful corporations should be able to Government
control for their ends the last thing the people Of the United
States looked foeven the strenuous preocupaon of
Thanks to Mr. Bureson Government control Of public utilities
in time Of peace getting to have the blacklist
United States quit" Root
volumes Of argument into five words.
The evening world., 1919-04-01

yVTIIEN Mr.. Jarr arrived home by
w taXicab with friends from a
rare evening out, playing
Kelly pool. and what not, 1t was
somewhat after IL p. NJ. or middle
class retiring time.
Mr.. Jarr counted II all in the days
work and alighted from the vehicle
at tho corner. bade his companions
goodnight. and hastened home with
out stopping anywhere else-in re-
sponse TO any other gentleman's in
vitation. In fact, in every way Mr..
husband was above reproach.
But as he neared the portals OF the
house wherein he dwelt he saw all
the front windows OF his apartments
darken. II was a danger signal that
every husband knows. A worried
wlfo will hang out OF a window
watching for a belated husband, OBJ
sessed with the fear that something
has happened to him. Then when she
does see him approach safe and
sound. she turns out the light and
receives him in darkness and silence.
Why1
Hello, kidd" said Mr.. Jarr. cheer
lily. as no keyed himself in and
turned on the light.
There was no reply from his good
lady, who, in her boudoir. feigned
sleep.
81 said Hello. lxidr" remarked Mr..
Jarr. "Ain't mad. are you? Boss
sent me out with our efficiency en-
glneer with some reports, and
Mrs. Jarr sat bolt upright.
Don't speak to me! Never speah
to me agaln!" she hlBsed. II shall
never speak another word 10 you!"
And TO prove how arm was her re-
solve in this. she poured forth a tor
rent OF reproaches In which Mr.. Jar
was charged with everything from
cruelty and non-support to cold
hearted indifference, neglect of home
and Job and children. bad company
hard heart and utter collapse OF char
acter.
but, dearie!" pleaded Mr.. Jarr
"Just listen! I'll explain"
"Can you explain being with tina
Gus and that Slavinsky and that Raj
ferty?" cried Mrs. Jarr. mo. l wasn'
watching you from the window
Don't natter yourself. But / hear
all about IT."
But didn't they telephone 20
from the office that ! was sent ou
with our efficiency engineer, Dinks
ton?" asked Mr.. Jarr. Mrs. Jar
caught ut the first syllable OF tn
name.
The evening world., 1919-04-01
THE ASSURANCE MOST WANTED.

LTHOUGH the total of wages paid in this State decreased
"A per cent from January February the State Industrial
- - Commission points out that the decline mainly due
10 reductions the number Of work hours and decreased pay
scales. Furthermore, the Commission Declares
when the weekly earnings compared
with that OF the price published by
States Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1t that
these factors concerned the position of
has improved the in his earnings"
From January February earnings have declined
whereas the retail price OF food has declined
the months December 1918 February, 1919,
decline weekly
period food prices declined cent"
Averages and percentages instructive In this however
they do not for thousands of workers who trying pay
prices with incomes carry the comfort that would
the that either pewa wages will be increased
prices consistently lowered that thousands families have
their standards Of living forced downward during war
have hope that those standards need 60 still lower
The evening world., 1919-04-01
cLosE-UPs OF BoLsHEVISM.

WASHINGTON, March 3l-Industry and business are at
stands in Budapest according advices the
parmen made public to-day by Acting Secretary Phillips
despatch from Vienna states that all industrial
stopped in the Hungarian capital that inventory
being taken by the Boshevk authorities OF all factory
plants banking institutions and shops OF every variety All
property being sequesrated both real and personal
despatch says every house by now
In control at Budapest belonging the state and
ammunition OF every kind have been requisitioned.
Imagine New York hauled to that and "n-
ventored" by seconstuted "authores light fngers
The evening world., 1919-04-01
British Army SLANG

THE British soldier is usually
known as Tommy" (short for
Thomas Atkins'O; one who
lodges hard work or the fighting line
is a "scrounger;" the soldiers helmet
Is "tin hiatt" machine guns are
"typewriters" or "riveters;" anti
aircraft guns, "Archy' or "Archi-
bald" the German minnewerfer or
trench mortar. "Minnehaha" or
"Minnie;" a light tank, "whippet;"
the German outpost shelters made of
concrete or steel are pill boxes;"
and dugouts are bug houses" "fea
pots" or funk holes"
An "arrive" is a shell coming your
way from the enemy's gun. A shell
is a "crump." and a shell hole a
"crump hole" but Tommy has a sep
arate name for each OF the many
kinds OF shell the Germans send
over. Shells which burst with a
cloud OF black smoke are Jack
The evening world., 1919-04-01

Johnsons'' and BLACK Mar
shells from trench mortars are 4
boxes" 42-centimetre shells
Busy Berthas;" a shell which h1s
two or three times like a Gil
nrecracker Is a "whizz bang;" q
with small wire wings fred frer
trench cannon especially for bix
ing down barbed wire Is e
flower"
Pig squeak" Is a shell which 4
Its name from the noise II ninI
shells which give no warnin.
their approach are Creeping
mic" and "Silent Susle;" while
which makes a whistling noisa
'Whistling Jimmie" "Pincauu.
and dying pigs are types Of e.
torpedoes, so named from NJ
shapes. A "dud' Is a shell ri
fails TO explode.
"Blighty" is England and "Bllr
one" a wound necessitating reInI
TO England: TO "go west" is to an
be killed: "grousing," finding "a
"dodRing the column" or "su|
ing the lead" shamming siclso|
windy or "wind-up," fear or a
feet;" "cootles," body lice; "hoa n|
officers sleeping bag; "gunfre, {" &
morning drink OF tea;' "cushy," N
Jake" universal term for satiH
ton: II girl is pretty, II a SD
good, II anything Is all right,
are all Jake"
The evening world., 1919-04-01

ing whether the Jarrs will ever be
reconciled. Mr.. Jarr is willing 20 be
reconciled, of course. But after what
he's done? Never!
For still Mrs. Jarr wonders If there
were any professional models in one
piece bathing suits at Kelly's Pool2
on, She read OF such things in the
newspapersi
The evening world., 1919-04-01

This Is an un-
usual complaint
to-day.
And yet there
is greater need
for II than there
was in Id en-
tim es W h c n
everybody knew
@ v cry b o d y y
n eig h or and
could stop the
The evening world., 1919-04-01
SOAP WEED FOR FEED.

A machine has been designed for
preparing the desert shrub generally
known as soap weed, To- stock feed,
either alone or by mixing it with cot
tonseed meal.
The evening world., 1919-04-01

We gather Begbe Kaiser is exceedingly
for himself We expected something Of the kind
W may hear that II is s bad hoped.
The evening world., 1919-04-01

FEW days ago n woman was
\ charged with being a common
scold.
The evening world., 1919-04-01
RAIN BV x.RAV,

An Australian Inventor has patent
ed a method for producing rain by
raising large N-rny bulbs by balloons
into higher strata OF air that are filled
wAh moisture.
The evening world., 1919-04-01

An alarm clock is something like husband. ii
matter how many times It FOOLS dsappons or surpri.
you, you never give up hope that you can regulato
so that you depend upon IT,
The evening world., 1919-04-01

n OLsHLNISM Ia mode Down with hobbe! Down with
* sheath Down with the Join the W. w u WoNs
- WEAR END Give us liberty-or give BREATH!
The evening world., 1919-04-01

Next to new love afrair there is nothing aui
rejuvenating as one of the new spring flower hats
brightens the face, glorifes the eyes and eevates
spirit! And it touches no metal-save your pockett
The evening world., 1919-04-01

reforming husband unsatisfactory remodeing an old &
e you nave cut out all the weak spots and places
much OF anything E
patn shave and change clothes have the
spiritually eNang effect a clean Conscience
"hy Is 1t tha the average man is much woz
for being beautiful than he
woman in OF the tubesr average mans M
absolutely immovable.
The evening world., 1919-04-01

Divorce is getting to be merely the p!-...-.
lrmistice between two marriages
The evening world., 1919-04-01

"The United States quit Mr. Root condensed e
volumes OF argument into five words.
The evening world., 1919-04-01

and in the centuries which
conditions which seem now {
siblc. For instance, men co
prlson--often without letting
ture OF the supposed crime
kept there sometimes for life
ria1 Tho Y,rianpart.. ,,...-., a.
The evening world., 1919-04-01
Bachelor Girl Reflection
Oh, SO En,anciDdted

U'Ff Nv Yofs F,I
oh, so Emancipated!
She would rather be pucky pretty!
She would rather be useful witty!
She would rather be wise than and "eye
But she'll TUBE SKIRT, and Il blush TO assert)
She'll totter in hobbies French heels that hurt
Yet she says she's advanced" What pity
The evening world., 1919-04-01
The .Jarr Fa m lily
Row l.. McCardell

y the Press PublIshlns Co. (Tns New Yotk Eve
The evening world., 1919-04-01

Charts That Is why he tocd and planned until the Ia
was passed
1t is hard nowadays TO realize what mighty thing Il
shaping OF human progress
In Magma Charta days there had been laws which :
cover the same ground. But these allowed to beco
The evening world., 1919-04-01

NVTHEN Mr.. Jarr arrived home by |
w taXicab with friends from a
rara eyeninP o,lt nlaying
The evening world., 1919-04-01

vote. The habeas corr
the House of Commons.
to Shaftesbury but "a
opinion, it was passed :
UP in the House of 10
far less swayed by pub
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-08
Motor Trucks Will
Be Installed to Aid
in Delivering Mail

Rural Americans-more than a
million of the-are coming into the
city They are going to live with
us each day and enjoy our habits,
thoughts and pleasures-not in
body but in mind. This is the cause
for their burst of joy at the news of
tht Postoffice department that mo-
tor trucks are to be put on all rural
routes.
The benefit to be derived from
this big development, suggests
almost an endless chain of things at
first thought. But the big benefit
to be derived is this: it will give
our country more unified thought
on all the large problems, and, with
so many of them coming up these
days, in which the help, the interest
and the attention of all is demanded,
it is the biggest achievement since
the birth of the printing press.
Thanks to the motor truck for bring
ing about this progress, for it fulhlls
a much needed contribution to the
education of the rural America.
Discussing the effect to the motor
truck to this field, one of the Post
office department officials stated
that from 5000 to 1000 pounds of
newspapers are being shipped out
of a certain city each day by post
office trucks, and that these papers
reach their destination two hours
earlier than they could if delivered
nv anv other means.
Each day finds more proof that
our education in adapting the motor
truck to greater use in the uplifting
of our national life, is still in the
lower grades. 1t is interesting to
watch the new needs spring up and
the satisfactory manner with which
the motor truck meets each one, and
to know that Paige trucks are among
those bearing the brunt of our
recon struction problems.