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The Washington herald., 1919-03-24
Loew's Painee-Marguerite Clark
In "Threc Men and a Giri.-

Marguerite Clark and Mr.. and Mrs.
Drew, in two screen comedies. are the
FEATURES of big double photoplay
bill at Loew's Palace Theater for the
first four days of this week. beginning
yesterday. Marguerite Clark is seen
as the star of a modern version of the
old story OF "Goldielocks and the
Three Bears" although the title given
the present picture is Three Men and
a Girl" Miss Clark is seen in the role
Of young girl who abandons her
aged and wealthy fiance at the altar,
fees to summer house in the woods
in her wedding finery. where she falls
asleep. She awakes to find the place
tenanted by three women-hating men,
who agree to let her stay IL she with
not trespass on their part of the
house. In the end Miss Clark. as the
heroine, not only overcomes their de-
testation of women. but she has the
satisfaction of rejecting their pro-
posals of love-all except one.
The Drews are pictured in one OF
the cleverest satires they have ever
brought to the silver sheet 1t is en-
titled Once a Mason, and is a bril-
liant coricature of the efforts OF a
man to hide his Masonic secrets from
his VIE hdther tnan enoure Her
silence, he invents some secrets,
which she tells to all her friends. When
he learns how she has spread abroad
the secrets" he declares himself tho
Benedict Arnold of Freemasonary'
and pretends that he wants to die.
In the end. she agrees to tell her
friends that the secrets" were only
joke, but she fades out Of the pic
ture secure in her belief that she Is
the only woman In the world who
knows Masonry.
These two double-bill features are
amply supplemented by Pathe News
pictures and the Palace orchestral ac-
commandment. Ethel Clayton will be
the Palace attraction for the last three
DAYS of the week in 'Pettigrew's
girl"
The Washington herald., 1919-03-24
CrundalPs Knick crbocGs - .sEx.
perimental MnrrinRe.v

Seldom has there been a happier
combination of star and vehicle than
is encountered in the photoplay,
Experimental Marriage" shown at
Crandalrs Knickerbocker yesterday,
in which Constance Talmadge por-
trays the leading role. So delight
fully whimsical Is Miss Talmadge's
portrayal and so entertaining the
plot that the attention of the spec
tator is fairly riveted to the screen
during the hour and a quarter of
its showing. Experimental Mar
riage" owes its origin to the play.
Saturday to Monday" by William
J. Hurlburt. Its central figure is
Suzanne Ercoll, a young and alto
gether charming widow, a thorough
believer in woman's rights and free
dom. Consequently when Foxcraft
Grey, a rising barrister. madly in
love with her asks the momentuous
question, he meets with a refusal.
Being resourceful. he induces her to
reveal her objections. and meets ii
with a proposal of a part-time mar
riage; in all ways legal and bind
ing, but with the understanding that
from Tuesday until Friday OF each
week, the wife Is to live alone and
be permitted to pursue her career
as she wishes. She agrees and they
marry. whereupon Grey insists that
she live stictly up to the letter
of the bargain. determined to con-
vince her of her folly. Numerous
complications, humorous in the ex-
treme. follow as a result OF which
a third person, Dot Harrington. Is
the innocent cause of suspicion on
Suzanne's part. who lays a trap for
Gray. Needless TO say, the story
works out to the logical and obvious
conclusion-the termination OF the
weekend marriage" arrangement
for the until death do us part"
variety. While it would be difficult
to picture any other actress than
Miss Talmadge in the role of Su-
zanne. due credit must be given to
Harrison Ford. who displays an un-
usual conception and takes full ad-
vantage of the opportunities offer
ed by the husbands role. The sup
porting cast was adequate. Sup
Elementary attractions include the
Hearst News. and Hearts in Hook" :"
comedy. The same program will
be repeated tonight.
The Washington herald., 1919-03-24

'ical features, including expertly
synchronized accompaniment for
the screened offerings.
The Washington herald., 1919-03-24
Coming Events
Cast Their Shadows

rreparc Now to Withstand the cr,.,.
The Washington herald., 1919-03-24
DOCTOR URGED
AN OPERATION
Instead took Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound
and Was Cured.

Baltimore, Md.-'Nearly fou-
years l suffered from organ
The Washington herald., 1919-03-24
Bogs Rich in Fuel.

Winnipeg.-Peat beds in Manitoba
are estimated to contain nearly -
100000 tons of fuel.
The Washington herald., 1919-03-24
Moore,s Garden-'sThe Light Of
victoPy.s

Moore's Garden-isThe Light Of
victoPy.s
The realism of present-day naval
warfare combines with the languorous
charm of the South Seas to make of
THE Light of Victory" In which
Monroe Salisbury is the pictured star
at Moore's Garden Theater, the first
four days of the current week, one Of
the most genuinely gripping and de-
lightfully unconventional cinema Of
ferings of the year The story of the
young lieutenant who blasted his ca
reer in the navy through the persis-
tent use of alcohol and finally was
stripped of the insignia of rank and
marooned on a savage island in the
South Seas by court-martial, is one
that embodies SO much that Is new to
the uses Of the scenario writer that II
Is scarcely comparable to any other
film spectacle in which Mr.. Salisbury
has been seen.
Mr.. Salisbury offers an impersona-
tion that is marked by great variety
of dramatic expression and impressive
forcefulness. The supporting cast,
also, does much to render this a no.
table addition to current film releases
The Garden program is completed
by the usual abbreviated picture sub
jects and orchestral accompaniment.
The Washington herald., 1919-03-24
Times Square

At Broadway, 44th to 4Sth Streets
the center of New York's social
and business activities. In close
proximity TO all railway terminals.
The Washington herald., 1919-03-24

The Rev. w. G. Davenport, rector
emeritus OF Emmanuel Church,
preached the sermon yesterday morn
ing. At the evening service the Rev
George w. Atkinson preached.
The Washington herald., 1919-03-24

Anacostia Council. No. IA. Daughters
Of America. will give its annual dance
tomorrow night in Masonic Temple.
Eighth and F streets northeast.
The Washington herald., 1919-03-24

George E. Frazier, son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. 6. NJ. Frazier. of Maple View
avenue southeast, who enlisted In the
Motor Corps of the army and who
had been in France more than a year,
returned home yesterday.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-09

cepted theory being that he had no par
ticular concern with the sum total of
appropriations, merely spending what
Congress, in It's discretion, allotted to
him.
AT present the power which spends
also audits. The various departmental
auditors and the Controller Of the Treas
ury are executive officers. Mr.. Goods
bill remedies this anomaly. 1t creates
an Accounting Department, independent
Of the executive departments, whose
head, the Controller General Of the
United States, is to serve during good
behavior and to be removable only by
action Of Congress. All the powers now
vested in the Controller Of the Treasury
and the various departmental auditors
are transferred to the new Accounting
Department. which is to serve as an
agency Of Congress to supervise and
control expenditures. A permanent Joint
Congressional Committee on Receipts
and Expenditures Of the government is
also established, which is to keep track
Of fiscal operations.
Here is scheme which brings the Ex-
ecutive, as the originator of appropria-
tions, and Congress, as the holder of the
purse, into closer and more logical rela-
tions. It is as near an approach to the
budgetary system Of countries which
have the parliamentary form of govern
ment as is practicable under our separa-
tist Constitution. 1t opens the way to
rational fiscal system. If it doesn't ac-
complish that saving which Mr.. Aldrich
predicted for "business methods" it will
not be because the system is at fault,
a keen sense of the necessity and value
of governmental economy.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-09
AS Drawn

II am convinced" the Paris Matim
quotes President Wilson, "that our
treaty project violates none of our prin-
ciples. The treaty, as drawn
up, however, entirely conforms with my
fourteen points"
ENTIRELY" is strong word. What
the President means is that the German
outcry is unjustifed. Territories not in
disputably non-German have been left
with Germany. Doubtful areas are to
have plebiscites. There is no economic
exclusion. The reparation bill, not as
large as the fourteen points authorize
represents modification in Germany's in
terest.
And wherein the treaty may seem not
literally square with the fourteen points
the explanation is that the fourteen
points were not meant to be literally
applied; the subject matter was too vast
for any exact formula. Asquith, Lloyd
George and Balfour found this out, and
SO did Clemenceau and the President.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-09
Change Trains, Not Cows

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Of all the illogical arguments ever
attempted, surely that of William Wade
Hinshaw against the daylight saving law, in
yesterdays Tribune, is entitled to the prize
| was raised on a farm and have long
owned a small farm If there is one thing
about farming unchanged and unchange-
able it is this: No matter what the law or
the clock says, farm work is regulated by
the sun. I'm not in the milk business, but
my COW is not mlked one minute earlier
because of the law and need never be.
AS to milk trains, if the law works the
loss alleged by Mr. Hinshaw why doesn't
he and why don't the rest of the dairymen.
instead of fighting the daylight saving law.
merely tell the transportation people
they'll have to run milk trains BY sun times
What sort of fool would a railroad man
ager be that would insist upon causing his
patrons loss merely to follow a time
schedule which no law compels him 10
follow? How long would he hold out if
dairymen declined to meet his hour-too-
early train? L. ESAEP.
lrvington, N. j., June 2, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-09
Aiar, but Not Open

It is reported from Paris that the
President will not comply with the Sen
ate's request for a copy of the peace
treaty. The President is entirely within
shis technical rights in withholding the
text of an unsigned convention. He would
5be sustained by precedents in refusing
ethe Senate's plea. But the precedents
he would have to rely on would be those
Of old-fashioned diplomacy.
- Old-fashioned diplomacy was intensely
lfurtive. For that reason the champions
of the new diplomacy denounced it. They
heralded the approach of the new era of
"open agreements, openly arrived at"
Has that era come, or hasn't it come?
That is the real issue raised by the SEN
.ate's request; for the Senate knows we'll
enough that, according to the traditions
of the non-open school, the resolution it
passed was something in the nature of
a breach Of etiquette.
Are we yet in the era Of the open
door? The Senate had some ground for
thinking we were The covenant of the
league Of nations, which is part of the
treaty of peace, was published in full,
then amended and republished in full.
The provisions of the main body of the
treaty were given to the world in sum-
mary which was supposed to be compre-
hensive and accurate The German pro-
tests against various sections of the
document, discussing it's details without
reservation, have appeared in the news
papers. So have the council Of three's
replies thereto.
The veil of secrecy which shrouds the
text has been lifted entirely so far as
the reading public Of Germany, Holland,
Switzerland and various other countries
is concerned. A large part of the world
is openly arriving at an understanding
of the terms offered the Germans.
The precedents of the old diplomacy
have, therefore, been recklessly shat
tered. We are walking, in part, in the
light Of the new dispensation. Why
should we not walk in it's full noontide?
Diplomacy, it appears, is still mys-
tery, even if it is "open." It vouchsafes
US the covenant and Brockdorff- Rant
zau's epistles. But the details of repara-
Gions and territorial settlements it still
covers with a somewhat diaphanous
mantle
New-York tribune., 1919-06-09
Coming Round to Il

Back in the days of the Taft Admins
tration Nelson w. Aldrich told the SEN
ate that if the governments business
were handled in business way saving
Of 80 PER cent could be made on the an
nual appropriations. Congress at that
time was not interested in putting gov
ernmental appropriation and expenditure
on sound bookkeeping basis. It dis
couraged Mr.. Taft's praiseworthy efforts
to systematic the estimates. When he
persisted in doing what he could to
establish an informal budget system it
pus rider in an appropriation act for
bidding the transmission of estimates to
Congress except in the old helter-skelter
fashion.
That mood has passed. If Congress
. doesn't reduce expenditures it will either
nave to lay heavier taxes or to run the
country further into debt. Believing that
q budget system will eliminate waste.
Congress is now for it. The Senate Com
nsittee on Rules has just reported reso
sution creating a special committee to
work out budget plans. It will consider
the Mccormick bill, which provides for
ttsie Capitalization Of ali control over esti-
mates in the hands of the President and
sIor an independent auditing agency re-
gsponsible to Congress. In the House Of
Representatives Mr.. Good, the chairman
so2 the Appropriations Committee, has
spresented bill differing somewhat in
"details from Senator McCormick's.
The general purport of these measures
is to make responsibility for appropria-
lions definite and tc establish critical
zsupervision of expenditure. Under the
present system the department and bu-
reau heads make their own estimates
sand transmit them TO Congress through
she Secretary Of the Treasury. Mr.. Good
aseeks to end the laxity and lack of ac-
sseountability which this method fosters
ny establishing q Bureau Of the Budget
IN the Office Of the President. This bu-
Sreau Is to handle all estimates, including
lahoss OF the Treasury Department, and
Iis TO assist the President In making out
q complete statement Of the appropria~
stions needed, with forecast Of the rev.
senaes Tor the year and suggestions tor
Iaew taxation II deficit is indicated.
The President thus assumes tho obligs-
sticn Of balancing eutlsy and income.
This be hasy ypsvsr dons u far, tho -
New-York tribune., 1919-06-09
O. B. u. Spells Revolution
By Stanley rost
STAFF Correspondent Of The Tribu,,

STAFF Correspondent of The Tribune
1ohole into local, national and inter
national industrial unioms, all to be en-
tertocked, dovetailed, acelded into One
Big Union for all woge avorkers; big
u'som bent on oggressiuely forging
ahead and compelling shorter hours,
more aOdges and better conditions
IN and out of the aooykskop,
and as each Advance is made
holding on g,>i,nly to the fresh
gain aOith the determination to push
still further fora0ard-gaiaing strength
from each victory and learning by
every temporary setback-mntil the
aCorkamg class Is able to take possess
sion and control of the machinery,
premises and materials of production
right from the capitalists hands, and
use that control to distribute the prod
uct entirely among the aoorkers.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-09
Roads

Almost the first business of society is
roads--then more and more roads, and
when it has no more roads to build it's
work in this world will be nearly done
This country's read building has hardly
begun. There was a slump during the
war, inevitably, so that we are behind
the normal rate of development, which
was too slow. 1t is gratifying and sig
nifcant, therefore, that highway MAX
ing is now proceeding on a scale never
before touched in the United States.
Price concessions from the producers
Of raw materials broke the cycle Of
waiting that still hobbies many indus
tries.
New York has already contracted for
100000 yards Of roads.
Pennsylvania means to spend between
$20,o00,0O0 and 24,0oo,O00 this season.
Illinois intends to construct 500 miles
of trunk line highway.
Minnesota is we'll started on a S15,-
100000 programme.
One small Iowa county has voted
$1,5ooooo.
Other states are hard at work, COM
parably.
There has been great squirt in joint
state and Federal projects, aggregating
10000 miles. Thomas Mcdonald, for
merly chief engineer of the Iowa State
Highways Commission, who was recent
ly appointed director of the public roads
bureau Of the Department of Agricult-
ure, has found way to "short-cut" the
routine of Federal approval and CO.
operation. The central Office in Wash
ington now passes on the general prof.
ect. If it acts favorably-and it is sure
to act promptly, in any event-the
whole project is turned over to the
proper district engineer, there being ten
such engineers, with full authority to
act from then on. The district engi-
ncers keep in close touch with the state
and local engineers as they develop the
details of the projects and pass on them
as fast as they progress, with the result
that when the state engineer has
A~o~"Co AAAS Hlldl decisions Cne FeQcrdl
bureau is prepared to act coincidentally
with him through it's district represent
ative.
This speeding up Of the wheels of
governmental procedure is so gratifying
to the states that the dissatisfaction
which has existed in the past with the
workings of the Federal aid system is
disspating. Some states are SO far ex-
ceeding the quota of the Federal fnan-
cial assistance they are entitled to that,
instead Of spending dollar for dollar, as
planned, they are spending four dollars
for every dollar they receive from tho
national treasury.
One effect Of this increasing popular
ity OF tho Federal aid administration
may be, it is said by some Of the good
roads advocates, to diminish the chances
OF the Townsend Federal Highway Com
mission bill becoming a law. This
bill, extensively amended, has just been
reintroduced into the Senate by Senator
Townsend, Of Michigan. It provides for
the spending Of $425, ZOO, 900 on q sys-
TEN of roads entirely under national
eonstruction, ownership and msintsn-
New-York tribune., 1919-06-09
Gotham Gleanings
lsSIS1sS2IS0 02|y7 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
quite warm spell last wk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Case was

Quite a warm spell last wk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Case was
to the theatre Wed. eve'g.
Fred c. Kelly of Washington
is sojourning in our BUSY midst.
Have Gotham Glcanings follow
you to your summer habitat-Advt.
-Brockdorff Pennberton gave a
dinner Friday evening. to a selected
few.
Items to the effect that ye scribe
attended dinner Tues. eve'g are
a lie.
-Chet Barnett was a pleasant
caller Thurs, also Jim Montague
and others.
Jack Calder of Utica was in
Gotham last wk. purchasing his
trousseau.
Mrs. Mont Glass of New Ro
chelle is better Of the cold she had
the fore part of last week.
II. w. Wilson is going to take
an ocean voyage soon to the u. S.
Joe Tumulty will be glad to see him.
The many friends of Col R. Fl.
Van Deman will be glad to learn
that he has just reed the Distin-
guished Service Medal.
Eddie Brady the 2nd Best Limo
typer in the World has got new
pair Of trick shoes Of the exclusive
2-color type. Oh you Eddie saw we.
&C. LIE Roy Baldridge, who used
to cartoon for the Stars and Str;nes
pass'd thro' Gotham this wk. on his
en- route to San Diego, CAL, to visit
his mother.
The clipped paragraphs the Literary
Digest flashes on the screen are rood
enough paragraphs, but whoever arranpss
them evidently thinks they ara cood
enough. Ihe points are underlined, so
That the audience, as tho spectators are
called, may have most Of its thinking done
for it.
However, the pnderscoring may be done
to avoid argument. When young man
and young woman disagree as to the
point OF wheeze, one world is lkelv to
lead to another
"Relicf for Short Lines."-Su headline.
Good.
Suggestion for song writers: The Joseph
Urban Blues.
=. r. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-09
IT'S Thus With Kansas

The Kansas Legislature will meet in
special session on June IA, for one day,
for the purpose of ratifying the Federal
woman suffrage amendment. More than
that--the Kansas legislators will make
a voluntary offering to the suffrage
cause by waving salary and mileage in
cident to the special session, that it may
unnecessary expense.
This is the kind of thing that cheers
the suffrage heart. Too much have
women known as friends" the politi-
clans ready only with their words, gen.
erous in promises that cost nothing.
But Legislature so imbued with enthu-
siasm for political womanhood that it
pays it's own fare to cast a vote for the
Federal amendment! May it's example
never perish!
The full value Of this testimonial is
only realized by contrast with the some
what cool replies received from certain
other suffrage states in response to the
women's request for special sessions.
The grief is greatest in the case
of Wyoming, which gave it's women
the franchise exactly fifty years ago,
and has now so far forgotten those gal
liant days that it makes the following
reply to the request for special session:
"Thc Wyoming Legislature will not meet
until 1921. AS Wyoming was the first
state to adopt equal suffrage, no ques-
tion that our Legislature will ratify
constitutional amendment. No special
session will be called, for the reason
that we already have equal suffrage, and
the expense of a special session is not
justified, as of no benefit to the people
Of this state.
"R. D. CAREY, Governor"
But it is long way from Topeka to
Cheyenne, and the Kansas solution of
the problem Of expense may not yet
have travelled up the mountainside.
Women are notorious bargain hunters.
Even in Wyoming we predict they will
get that amendment ratified, if it does
not cost them anything.