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The Washington times., 1919-12-11

lady whom ! love very dearly. I
told her / love her and will marry
her as soon as / finish school. which
Will be in about Q year. She seems
to care for me, too. az she has
often told me that she could never
give me up as she looks upon me
as her very best friend.
However. there is one thing
which puzzles me very much and
that is. she accepts the attentions
OF other men by going out with
them to dances, tbeaters. etc. Do
you think she Is treating me fair
iy? I have always been faithful
and good to her and have given
her the best of everything
PUZZLED.
In every love affair one OF the
persons involved seems more loyal
and more enthralied than the
other. Sometimes it 10 the man.
Usually it is the woman. I wouldn't
worry about her desire to play
around with other boys. l know
a girl who does the same thing
and she declares she never goes
out with other men that it doesn't
seem to draw her nearer and make
her more thoroughly appreciate
her real man." The idea of
giving them rope" applies to
women as we'll as to men. Sit back
and watch her perform, if she
wants TO. like the man who said:
Go 1t, Sal. and I'll hold your bon
net" II you're the right man for
her, she'll come back and get her
bonnet and after you're married
she won't need to wonder whether
she might have met some other
man for whom she could have
cared for more than she does for
you. Let her have a little harm
less fling so long as there's moth
Ing serious with the other boys
and as long as she doesn't deceive
you about her actions.
The Washington times., 1919-12-11
Here Is a Complaining Soldier
And If the Facts Are As He Believes Them to Be, No
Wonder He Is Disconnected.

What Americans doing in Silesia where than
two thousand have just been sent to act soldier police
men? What business have Americans in Trau, where
United States marines landed recently to keep the
Italians from doing something that somebody thought I
ians ought not to do?
What business have our men in Siberia anywhere
in Russia, country with which we are not at war?
Here is q letter from soldier, printed just received
Read it You easily that it is authentic Naturally
the Is not printed with it. It long way and
ought to be published:
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fSoay.
epeschss-By Prof A. q. Buhfman and
Uric s. J. Dunbar, and solo dances by
Princess Luana Kahaie, Of Hawaii. French
Club, Washington Salon, 1917 n street
northwest. 0 o. m.
Meeting-California State Association.
Thomson School, Twelfth and l. streets
northwest, . .. m.
Nsstins-Art sectios. Tvsntisth Century
C1ub. At clubhouse. : p. m.
Dancs-Bius Triangle Recreation Center.
rventieth and b streets north west. 1880
,. IA.
Asetine-CAemicai Society Of Washing
ton. assembly hall. Cosmos Club. p. m.
Lecturs-By Or. Henry Allen Tupper.
First Baptist Church. Sixteenth and o
stsssts nSPthvest. ,. n
observation-disclosures Nurse Association.
clubhouse. 1897 K street northwest p. N.
0sa3 a tAs Ps4onaA q. A. h, a A. r.
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Once-Overs
Copyright 1919. International Feature Service Inc
A IIIII z GIRI AND A PIC MIcrAKC

LITTLE GIRL AND A BIG MISTAKE.
Daddy IN get breakfast for mother headache
claimed little before the off
But after q toilet
Dad found little daughter still pnkng and she near the
kitchen ~ '
But hard to lace Shoes" not find nv
big the offered. ~ '"'
That little maiden with the loving helpful
where with morning arS
Rad had the kettle boiling toaser
hot she might have finished her efforts dressing
But she did not get start
You will get to the office at given time you
=
ready with the trial balance first day Of
TIE month do not start for about
ast
The whole thing Is getting started right
There and heaps Of good folk in
tt sberts6tsd little who accomplish any
ding bseanss they jump IN and got started
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do not ssk Cor fancy -rass" or sutsnesi,sa
This soldier frankly gives his and address which
have For family he does not wish them printed
There to mind after reading the letter, the fr
qqeny repeated charge that many Of these former soldiers
not sincere wanting work that they wish Is pick out
easy jobs paying fancy pces that there jobs for them
if they apply at the Employment Bureau 1910 Psnseyi
vania avenue.
At that bureau maintained largely by welfare org.ni-
atoms, at the hour called there seventy and
that not be had The day before there seventy
five applicants in line at the hour with many others
arriving during the day officials Of the bureau had jobs
for them.
state of unemployment in sight in this city which b
taken into account by authorities and employer
is stated that there is falling off In positions
available here but that the main is that many
ployed people coming into Washington hunting work
Congress having refused appropriation for maintaining
employment bureaus in different parts of the country the
local bureau has way of knowing whether there
ployment in other ctes way of finding out whether
there demands for workers other localities to which
the local surplus might be sent
Hundreds seeking work at the bureau tell stories to
wiring the hardest hearts
Deception may be practced by Of the applicants;
may desire to shift from present employmsut bat
there has at last arrived genuine unemploynsut pcoh
for this city.
met master plumber who said that oolored iabsruu
engaged in that work have been strike for six weeks FOR
Sc per day. and of the plumbers compelled 70 nav
that.
At Sixth street and Louisiana avenue were lot a
picks and shove with six eight colored men sandne
against building.
eyes," admitted, "we want rs cents an hour: S
per day We go to work at 7:30 and quit at II they
don't want US at that price, can get along
A curious situation, isn't iti
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HE ARD A ND SEEN

The only character Lacking tn -
scheme to BUY all washiaehoa q
81 An acre is COL SELLERG
HaadssnA
The public reads in ths Heard ssi
Seea section Of The Times sbess
Eood-looking druggists and bank
clerks; but has anyone ever eat a
eye on . more handsome" ma tAan
RAY FLEISHMANN. who for
years was connected With tie B. H.
Stinemet1 Co., on r street Not
only handsome, but q regular ~Beas
BrummeIl."
A MALE FRIEND.
WAs KBsweThisi
Could you inform ne thru tits col
umn whether there il q wiscOoah
State society in Washingtpa?
HARRY HAHN reports tAak
women want 10 belong to tie A
Club.
Certainly Not for Beauty, ARyv1y.
In view OF the complaint about the
shortage of leather. Congress could
make hit with the wearefs of shoes
by prohibiting the manufacture Of
those leather coats which are being
worn just for styie-Colx~skts
(Mo.) Mtssoxrsan-
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Here's a Case Where the
Man Does the WORRYING.
DEAR MISS FAIRF.

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
am twenty-five and for the
past four years have been going
steady-that is. three nights q week
and every Sunday-with q young
The Washington times., 1919-12-11

Of Douglas Fairbanks. or Little
Old Terpsichore, or some other foe
70 ennui. And az the rules are now.
tho man must pay the bill II that
rule were changed, it might be diff
ferent But as things stand, the
boresome man must pay for the
privilege Of girls companionship.
But you will never hear Of the at
tractive man being denied girls
society for lack Of money to spend.
BABETTE.
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A Soldiers Pathetic Plea, and
Some Really Serious Facts
By BILL PRICE.

The brief but pathetic letter printed herewith Is ast
used to awaken sympathy in this but to call at
t,on to really serious state of growing unemployment IN
the District which authorities and the public should know
about:
The Washington times., 1919-12-11

Alta Boy!
Notice TO the loafers OF KinYley
who were loafing around on the salt
barrels, telling all kinds of stories
and interfering with other peoplsb
business: You don't need TO intse-
tere with my business. a. I have paA
the house rent and settled my &C.
counts to satsfaction.-A. Peter
son, Kingsley, la, Nsscs.
The Washington times., 1919-12-11

Newspaper arithneties differ.
This newspaper COUNTS but 1e
shopping days until Christmns.
Look at the calendar for voxr-
self. And those tweive days con-
tain but sir shopping hosrs
each. If you Wait untd the last
inmate you utll suffer greet DIS
appotntment.
The Washington times., 1919-12-11

Our Mexican affairs remind me of
the story Of Mr.. Smiths protest,
which he voiced as follows: "Sir,
YOU have grossly insulted me; you
hove called me a liar: you have
pulled my nose; spit in my face and
kicked me downstairs. Beware. SIR,
that you do not rouse the sleeping
bon in my breast" ENC.
The Washington times., 1919-12-11
Where Ii BsIlstoa?

KENNETH FRYE says he knows
where it is, because be sold Q mar
chine ever there 10 z a. DUDLEY.
The Washington times., 1919-12-11
Alta Boy!

Sign on a DaHoe Palao.
The Washington times., 1919-12-11
A Hot riDA

~Red-Hot- .Dse-s-Hst.
Day Prize Fex.Trst 70 be
Given Here BY the Laurel
JaxxiAettes."
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Ihs only character lAca1ng tn -
scheme to BUY all washiaetoa q
81 An acre is COL SELLERS.
The Washington times., 1919-12-11

REV. d. WELLINGTON CUR
RAN, who has been man ging tn
nation wide campaign for the Epis
copal Church, is being congratulate,
by his friends for having done one O
the best jobs in all the dioceses o
the church.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-10
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

When the flat on one side of man contains a 60-horsepower player piano and the flat on the other side of him contains a 30-horsepower phonograph it is waste of time to tell him any thing about the soothing influence of music. \
 Much as it may amuse a Stuff. the fact is that the average married woman doesn't give three hooraws in Halifax how her husband votes
 Before he gets her it gives him a headache to be away from her. But after he gets her it gives him a head ache to be with her.
 Anyway, when a deaf mute is making love to deaf mute girl, he doesn t have to feel around under the lounge to see if there is a dictograph concealed there. Opera singers may not be bravei than other men. But you must admit that they are always ready to face the music
 The old fashioned woman who used tc believe that the waltz was an in vention of the devil now has a daugh- | ter who lets strange man get a half nelson on her before they jump off int, | the chaste but strenuous motions oi 1 the tango.
 <, We used to think that the fa1fi in dian was the most onery living thing l When it comes to oneriness the YaQu is a mere theological student wher | compared with the Hun. The Yaqu l.never even heard of Kultur.
 Perhaps when this nation goes dr, 1.-the Hottentots and the South Sea Is flanders will send missionaries to thi! land to spread the gospel of brotherl, love and tt wean us from the slougl of bigotry and intolerance into whicl we have wandered.
 And what has become / the old-fash lioned candidate who used to refer t. his-opponent as ''the most infinitesima atom on Gods fair footstool.'
 Of course he thinks that she is al
 ways going to look as fair and swee as she does when he calls on her in tn evening when they are counting. Bu he has an awful jolt coming. | And you may have noticed that self made man seldom forgets to pro vide himself with big head.
 ! And a man wouldn't care a hang ho' 'much his wife sorried if she dldn
 persist in worrying out loud.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-10
A COTTAGE BY THE SEA

Samuel Minturn Peck in the Boston
 Transcript.
 Be mine a home beside the waves-
 A hillside flaked with clover white That answer to the foam that laves
 Tho sand and scents the sea winds
 flight:
 Yes. there I'd bide and never roam
 By water land and sky made free, There on cliff I'd build my home,
 A cottage by the songful sea- The great deep's charm of changeful- The seasons through my moods would
 meet. Tn icy or grief ne'er cease to bless, Echong every pulses beat; And. oh. the harmonies that ring By day and night in every key Across my dreams their balm would fling Within my cottage by the sea. When darkness fled and came the morn. And blossom bubbles lit~the surge, What glorious fancies would be born 1 vergei Ay, visions of the East would throng- ] What tales the wind would tell to me While listening to it's wondrous song 1 Anear my cottage by the seal. | I'd watch betimes the seabirds' flight l Past bar of sand and rocky isle, Their wings would gleam like petals | white Dawn's shattered rose in morning i smile. t 1 A myriad beauties day by day i Would lift to me their glamorie 1 Mid shifting mist and fairy spray
 There at my cottage by the sea l The land alas. grim Time derides. l On even. rocks he works his will; Meath quake and flood there's naught abides, A
 Ocean alone defies him still; s And something fast the soul eser craveS.
 Some symbol of eternityax
 And 'twould be mine beside the waves
 Within my cottage by the sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Gnmbetta and Danton

T always read Frank Barnetts es- says.- said Chappell Cory. land in ms charming review of Gambetta in Mon days Age-Herald I found the follow = ins: "-rhe motto of the intrepid and dashing Frenchman was Daring ana again daring and daring always
 There seems great Frenchman for every emergency. During the revolu- tion. after the killing of the King. the allied armies were near to Paris and the alarm was sounding at intervals of minute The legislative committee met, and hear Carlyle describe real man:
 ""See Danton enter; the black brows clouded the colossus figure tramping heavy; grim energy looking from all features of the rugged man! strong is that grim son of France and son oI earth; a reality and not formula, too; and surely. now if ever. being hurled low enough it is on earth and on real ities that he rests,
 Iegislatorsn so speaks the stentor voice. as the newspapers yet preserve i it for us, it is not the alarm cannon | that you hear: it is the s-de-charse against our enemies. To conquer them | to hurl them back, what do we require TO dare. and again dare, and without l end to dare.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-10

ment, but as man begins to under stand mors clearly his obligations to- ward his fellows the gallows and the electric chair are being regarded more and more as relics of the dark ages and of doubtful efficiency in check ing crime. Legal executions have never in the past prevented men from committing murder. Jefferson county has had many legal hangings, yet murder cases continue to appear on the dockets, and if there are fewer killings now than there were some years ago, it must be attributed to the abolition of saloons and the en- forcement of strict prohibition laws.
 In most cases murder is not venial crime. It is ''crime of passion" and it is a proverb in all prisons that many of the model prisoners are murderers. Shaffer himself is a product of ignor- ance and a lawless environment, but regardless of his merits and dement's, humane and economic reasons, as well as regard for a mans spiritual vel fare, point to life imprisonment as the best solution Sf such problems
 Transformations of character are wrought behind prison bars and there are opportunities for many years o1 productive labor for the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-10
Food Production
 and Conservation

6N HE food administration is im-
 O pressing upon the farmers the need of maximum crops this year. The requirements for food for export to Europe will be no less than in 1918; they may be even more imperative.
 There was a considerable increase in food crop acreage last year, and it is believed that the acreage will re- main about the same this year. But with more intensive farming and with favorable growing conditions, the total yield should reach a new high record.
 The matter of conservation of food is of vital importance. The department of agriculture's agitation against waste two years ago brought good re- suits. People who had been wasteful began to consider. They now realize the necessity of avoiding waste anc have learned to govern themselves ac. cordingly. With nation wide practice of conservation and with production as large as it was in 1918, there vii
 be food in abundance for everybody.
 Let's keep conservation" as th' tr1o
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-10
poosEyELT,s LAST MESSAGE

From the New York Herald.
 Theodore Roosevelt's first public me.sake to the American people was read at the all-Amerlcan benerit con cert given by the American Defense society in the Hippodrome.
 It rings true to the keynote of undi- mted. unswerving Americanism which he preached constantly from hundred platforms with all the energy and pas sion of his virile nature. That mes sage which the audience cheered after listening to it intently. was:
 q cannot be with you and so all l can do IS to wish you godspeed. There must be no sagging back in the fight for Americanism merely because the war is over There are plenty of per- sons who have already made the as- sertion that they believe the Ameri- can people have a short memory ana that they intend to revive all the for eiSn associations which most directly interfere with the complete American izafion of our people,
 "Our principle in this matter should be absolutely simple. In the -fIrs' place, we should insist that if the inn migrant who comes here does in good faith become an American and assim' Hates himself to us. he shall be treates on an exact equality with every ons l else, for it is an outrage to discrfmi' nate against any such man because ol l creed or birthplace or origin.
 1 But this is predicated upon th' mans becoming in very fact an Ameri
 can and nothing but an American. l
 he tries to keep segregated withmen Q .his own origin and separated from th' ! rest of America. then he isn't ta0otns
 his part as an American g
 '.Tkere can bafno divided allegiance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-10
* < x Paderewski As a Political Leader

1T 0NTIL the outbreak of the Euro
 " pean war Ignace Jan Paderew- ski was known the world over as a piano virtuoso and composer. The public never thought of him in any other connection, but when the people of his beloved Poland were suffering for food his heart went out to them and he promptly headed a movement in the United States to raise fund for their relief.
 Paderewski's efforts were signally successful. His benevolence was dis tinctly in evidence, for he not only gave the proceeds of his concerts to the Polish cause, but donated virtually lail of his accumulated wealth to the
 relief fund. His last piano recital 1T
 Rirming gham, about four years ago Twas for the benefit of the sufferers. The popular virtuoso was patriot land developed into pohtica Header and a statesman of exceptiona
 ability. In the recent upheaval in hi' native land he was the choice of { large element of his countrymen fo,
 President of the Polish republic. He Ii lnow in Poland, where he is occupied with the task of forming new min Iistry. He is striving to unite the diff |ferent factions and it is earnestl.
 hoped that he will succeed. The Pole
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-10
SONGS THAT LIVE IN MEMORY.

From the New York Herald
 Very many years ago a wise man called Fletcher of Saltoun said that if he were permitted to write the songs for people he would not care who made their laws, and the sentiment has gone echoing along the corridors of time. The present gen. eration concerns itself overmuch, and not always sagaciously. with the makers of it's laws, cares but little for it's song writers. nor needs the warning note in such lyric as Johnny, Get Your Gun,'' made popular at time when the nation should have been looking to the prirning Of its muskets.
 But although we do not know the names of our song writers, the songs themselves make an impression on our minds that remains long after they have become trite and passed into oblivion. There is | not one of them, however, that will not ! in later years awaken memories long l dormant No Highlander can hear 'The Cock O the North without thinking of the piper propped against the wall with both legs crushed and playing that stir ring music while the kilted soldiers charged. Tramp, Tramp, Trampr' and "Rally Round the Flag bring back the days of the civil war to many an old de.
 fender of the union. The Bonnie Blue Flag still stirs the heart of the Con federate veteran. There's a Hot Timt in the Old Town" recalls to the mind Sar
 Juan Hill and the Spanish war as well a:
 the many ragtime melodies of which i
 was the first to become popular.
 | Lyrics that catch the public fancy usu ally voice some passing mood or condi ton, but there is one theme that neve passes-one that served singers and poet
 before Gadmus invented letters. Sucl songs as When Stars Are in the Quie Skies" and Douglas, Tender and True
 may come and go. leaving tender mem
 ories behind them, but there is never
 season. from mating spring to drear
 winter in which the passion that rule
 mems lives does not seek expression i
 scme new melody.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-10
< * * While the Red Flag Waves In Berlin

TIE William Hohenzollern has any H philosophy in his makeup he may find consolation in the thought that he is safe in Holland while Berlin IS a bedlam. There was little surprise when Petrograd became hotbed of anarchy and disorder, but 1t seems strange indeed to think of the Prus- sian capital, formerly one of the most orderly cities on the globe, overrun bv fanatics, with street riots of daily occurrence and fiery speeches inter rupted by the wicked staccato of ma chine guns.
 There was time, and not long ago, at that, when Berliners lived by a police chart. The policeman was a little autocrat and his authority ex- tended in so many directions that it became a jest in other parts of the world. The story that pedestrian who carried his umbrella in such a way that it endangered the eyesight of other pedestrians would be arrest ed and haled to court contained more truth than poetry.
 There was order, order everywhere. The policeman was an humble member of the Prussian autocracy, but behind him and above him were other auto- crats, rising in successive degrees of power and influence, until the All Highest was reached.
 What a woeful spectacle IS now presented! Men who dared not oper their mouths, or did so at the cost o1 prison sentence or exile, are now busily driving the demoralized people to new excesses. The loss of life ha, been less, but apparently there is lit tie choice just now between Berlir and Petrograd, for safe place t' reside.
 The virus of bolshevism which Ger many tried to spread in other coun tries is doing it's work in Germany Just as a tickle wind sometimes drov back waves of poison gas on German in the trenches, the fatherland is pay ing the penalty for a subtle form o sfrightfulness" which wrecked Russia