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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-12
D. c: HEADS ASKED
TO AID EMPLOYEES
Union Delegation Presents
Plea for Help to Restore
20 Per Cent Cut.

A~deiegation Of the Federal Finn
ployes' Union. No. 80. today presented
Commissioner Brownlow a resolution
requesting the commissioners of the
District ito use their good offices with
Congress to restore the 20 per cent
reduction Of 1874 to municipal statu-
tory employees.
Commissioner Brownlew declared
that he would do everything in his
power to aid in the readjustment of
the very much underpaid salaries"
"t24o Bonus Eaten Up by Rent"
A number of employees of the Dis
trict contend that the $240 bonus has
been eaten up already by rent in
creases. For this reason the bonus
does not benefit the clerk in the least,
but goes into the pockets Of others. it
is declared.
Before any congressional commit
tee and at any time. il I can aid in
bringing about readjustment of in
adequate salaries. l will surely take
active steps," Commissioner Brown
low declared. II am in hearty sympa-
thy with the employees represented by
this delegation. I will present their
mission which is readjusting govern
ment salaries"
The resolution declared in a pre-
amble that the compensation Of all
officers and employees of the District,
except school teachers of the public
schools and employees Of the Are de-
partment, was reduced 20 per cent
per annum under an act Of Congress-
approved June 20. 1874.
During the period Of forty-fve yeAfs
following this date. the preamble
stated. approximately 1900 statutory
employees are still carried on the
rolls with that 20 per cent handicap.
Averages Less Than Women's Pay.
1t is also pointed out that the min
fmum wage board for woman workers
in mercantile establishments in the
District has established . minimum
Of $3.50 per week, or $S5s per an
mum. for less than which a woman
in this city could not exist although
the average basic salary of statutory
employees is approximately $3.50 per
annum. g.. -. -.
The resolution declares that the
employees most respectfully request
the Commissioners of the District of
Columbia to use their good offices
to restore to those statutory employees
the reduction of the act of 1874
Evening star., 1919-10-12
BIuffing the Banker.

A T the new Rodin Museum in the
- Hotel Biron, in Paris. sculptor
said:
'If Rodin didn't like you he wouldn't
work for you. Rodin would never in the
world have worked for war profiteer.
"a rich banker once commissioned
Rodin to do him group representing
Polyphemus crushing Acis under the
rock. Rodin put the man off and put
him off but finally, on the bankers thir-
tieth or fortieth visit to the studio,
Rodin led him up to a great, formless
lump of modelling clay.
There you are,' he said. There's
your group
"That?' spluttered the banker That
lump?'
Certainly said Rodin. That's the
rock
1.-THE banker gave a sneering laugh.
"'But where is Acis?' he said.
Under the rock, of course-crushed,'
answered Rodin.
1.-The banker laughed again.
r'Oh, indeed! But Polyphemus?'
Polyphemus?' said Rodin. DO you
suppose he'd linger round here after
committing such deed as that?'"
Evening star., 1919-10-12
REPATRIATION DAYS
IN BERLIN.

ing UP real estate boundaries IN 'ho
occupied zone and as the hotels are
all full of American officers he lived
mostly with peasant families. He
talked with many of these regarding
the Americans
HE said that the German farmer
folk never complained to him that
the American soldiers had committed
outrages, but that they had several
minor grievances. He said the Ger
man peasant regarded the Americans
millionaire lunatics.
1.-the peasants told me- said the
returned traveller, that you might
never know an American was mad,
unless a fly came into the room.
When an American sees fly a
strange, hard glitter comes into his
eye. Then you see he is crazy. His
mania makes him want to hit that
fly. He folds up his newspaper and
tiptoes over behind the fly and strikes
at 1t with great viciousness. II 1t
does not die ne pursues it and calls
in more soldiers and all strike at the
tiy.'
1.-THE traveller said that some Ger
man families who had observed this
strange action on the part Of Amer
lean soldiers were willing to make al
lowances. They said that probably
in America flies were large and that
their bites caused instant death.
Therefore Americans had formed
habit Of killing all flies they saw.
"The traveller said that another
proof that the farmers in the occu-
pied zone had that the Americans
were stark, raving mad. was because
the Americans made them open their
windows at night and let in the dead
ly night air, which every German
peasant knows Is most poisonous.
"The peasants say that American
soldiers told them that it was one Of
Presidents Wilson's fourteen points
that all Germans should have their
windows open at night. which Is
proof to some that the Americans
want to kill the Germans off with
consumption, while others say that
it Is a proof to some that Wilson Is
as mad as the rest of the Americans"
Evening star., 1919-10-12
Peace and War.

NTHE peace treaty causes a good
i deal of hard fighting among our
politicians" said George NJ. Cohan. the
New York playwright.
81 understand that the other day re-
publican and democratic senator met
in the lobby of hotel.
Senator, said the republican. come
over here and let's have a friendly dis
cussion on article X of the peace cove
nant.'
But the democratic senator shook his
head.
I'm sorry. senator he said, but
you'll have to excuse me till next
month
Senator. why so?'
Because in a friendly argument on
the covenant with Senator Bing last
week dislocated a knuckle of my left
hand. and what do I amount to in q
peace argument, senator. without my
famous left hook?'"
Evening star., 1919-10-12
Continued from Eighth Page.)

evening sobriety ceases. They do not
know wine and drink down little
quarter glasses, as IL they were guz-
zling drinks at their bar at home.
American public house visitors are
disgustingly drunk (sternhagelvolD
Then the inhabitants are terrorized.
"In fours and fives they fall upon
the harmless pedestrians going their
peaceful way. They demand SOU
vcnirs' But they do not politely ask
for them, but waylay the approach
ing stranger with doubled fist, hitting
him under the chin. and robbing him
of his walking stick or. his watch.
If the victim accidentally falls they
take his purse too. Also blow with
the knife serves them in good stead.
And in revolver shooting they are
also in practice. If at times living
targets are their stake, then the joy
of the sport increases. In peace
times we have often laughed heartily
over the antics of the Arizona Kicker
For three long weeks I had the
opportunity to become acquainted
with the pretended fables as an un-
speakably sad truth enacted on Ger
man soil.
Richard Henry Little. the corre-
spondent Of the Chicago Tribune and
clever humorist. to whose notice
this piece came. determined to have
a bit of fun on the basis Of this
idea" and did.
He cornered 'traveller' and
quoted the latter as telling just what
the German countryman thought of
the American. Then he wrote for his
paper:
Some Of the German newspapers
have published lately stories claim
ing that the American soldiers in
the occupied territory along the
Rhine are guilty os all sorts of afro
cious crimes. A German. who has
been travelling in the American zone
and around Cologne told me today
that, Of course, there was no foundation
for these silly yarns and the major
ity Of the Germans paid no atten-
tion to them. He said he was look
Evening star., 1919-10-12
A Great Walker.

d REPRESENTATIVE PHILIP PITT
~ CAMPBELL of Kansas. who gen.
orally wears stock about his neck,
pulls his hair down the middle of his
forehead and is said to look like both
Bobby Burns and Henry Clay, is one
of the champion pedestrians of Con-
gress. He has a summer home across
the Potomac river amid the Virginia
hills and walks to the Capitol when
the weather is good. For three
months in the winter Campbell shuts
up his country place and stops right
down town in Washington at steam
heated hoted. No building of fur
mace fires for Campbell.
Representative Martin B. Madden
of Illinois. is also great walker
Mr.. Madden is slightly lame, but he
takes walking stick in hand and fire.
quently walks three miles to the
Capitol building.
Evening star., 1919-10-12
Secret Leaks Out.

THE secret of Secretary Daniels
funny hat has leaked out. 1t is
not made-to- order hat at all. as
some people have supposed for a trifie
over thirty years, during which the
Secretary has been wearing the same
styled hat 1t is just big black
fedora with the crown left "au natu-
ral,' as they say of rutabagas and
such in high-toned restaurants. The
general assumption always has been
that the Secretary had couple of
yards of extra felt put into the crowns
of his hats
Evening star., 1919-10-12
The Bonehead.

HCOME men can't pay you a compli-
ment without putting their foot in
it, and, as it were, giving you a kick"
said the brilliant Elsie de Wolfe at a
Colony Club tea.
Il know a pretty girl-she's not as
young as she used to be--to whom one
of these boneheaded men said at a din
ner:
'''How thick and glossy your hair is,
My wife's hair is quite gray, though
she's much younger than YOU
1.-THE girl laughed.
"'Oh, WE'LL she said, III l were your
wife I guess my hair would be quite
gray, too.'"
Evening star., 1919-10-12
ftfppanGy loses.

ToHN d. ROCKEFELLER, Jr., in a
= Y. M. G. A. address on salesmanship
cautioned his young auditors against
fippancy.
Nothing In flippancy," he said. "A
middie-ased- gentleman with. thinning
locks came into barber shop the other
morning as was being shaved. He sat
down in chair and said:
want haircut
Yes. Sir said flippant young bar
Der. Which one?'
The midde-aged gentleman got I'm
ana left without a word, Flippancv
had lost that shop good customer"
Evening star., 1919-10-12
Quaint IrreverenCe.

"CH1LDREN. even when irreverent,
are delightful" said Bishop
Nude at a Boston charity bazaar.
"a little Boston girl was told by her
nurse one day that If she was
naughty she couldn't go to heaven.
"'Oh, well'--and the little girl
tossed her head-'oh, WELL she said,
I've been in the Zoo and the Aquar-
ium and Coney Island and Palm
Beach. I guess l can't expect to go
everywhere"
Evening star., 1919-10-12
Trains and Minds.

NCHICAGO motormen." said Chan
-cellor, Day at a. Syracuse -lunch=;
con, have been striking for a dollar
an hour. College professors on 1S
ccnts an hour don't strike"
The chancellor chuckled grimly.
This shows US" he said, "how
much more important the world con-
siders it to mind the train than to
train the mind"
Evening star., 1919-10-12
PithiIy Said.

4" NDREW CARNEGIE" said a
minister. was a Christian. but
practical Christian. He believed in
Christian deeds rather than chris.
tain words.
l once heard Mr.. Carnegie say
pithily:
ihere's as much difference in be-
ing good and doing good AZ there 10
Del"een being man and doing .
man." H.
Evening star., 1919-10-12
A Poets Plant.

DoET ALFRED MOVES was com.
planning to a publisher about the
failure of one of his books.
You don't advertise me-" he said,
bitterly.
II know, but"
Poetry" interrupted the poet. is
like a wheelbarrow. 1t won't go un-
less it's pushed"
Evening star., 1919-10-12
Sure Thing.

ETT was silk umbrella" said the
hotel boarder. land it had a long
rosewood handle that was hooked in
the end"
That's nothing" said the hotel
clerk. II had an umbrella with a gold
handle once. and it was hooked in
the end, too"
Evening star., 1919-10-12
Around the City.

Keep IL, 6On-Wont en-! wen, l IKE
you all the better for 1t. Mighty fine
boy. sir"
For the newsboy. with a widening Of
his grin into rich unstudied laughter
that showed a mouth over-full of big
white "tush teeth" was back from his
run and handing the fat man his
dime.
In his demonstration Of head and
hands the man had forgotten to reck-
on with the impishnass Of a fun-lov-
ing street tacker.
LIE looked as IL he owned bank.
And he was talking to a man
who looked as if he owned two.
And while they confabbed in front
OF a hotel wrinkled woman came
up to them leading a wrinkled man.
She was selling matches-5 cents
box, three for
The one-bank man waved aside the
matches. but put some money in the
womans hands and asked her un-
lucky companion how he came to lose
his sight.
The blind man said that he had
never had any sight to lose. He was
born that way.
The man of the two banks Clipped
in with a donation, then the couple
moved on. the blind man philosoph-
ically serene and the woman shrilling
her slogan-'Matches! Five cents
box three for"
And the one-bank man said to the
one who owned two:
Il had my eyes bandaged for week
once. Blindness is a tragic thing"
Which showed that. in his case any
how. a little knowledge was not a
dangerous thing.
IF you have to keep your eyes and
ears open for gnats of incidents
that happen right along, you have
doubtless come across that all-know-
ing acquaintance-name Of Legion
who will say to you something like
this:
II wish you could write up some of
the things 4 see! Why there isn't
day that don't run into regular
screams"
She doesn't say in so many bald
words that they are more interesting
than your own experiences, but the
inference is so assertive that you
ask, in behalf of your column:
Mention something. I love to get
hold Of a scream"
"Why-er-isn't it funny how things
on the tip of your tongue? Tell you
what I'll do. The next time 1 come
across something that will help you
out I'll jot it down and send it to
you"
In your desire to be honest you in
terrupt to ask her why she doesn't
write it herself and send it to
paper and get paid for it. She ac-
cepts your suggestion with the good
nature of a genius who is too lazy to
work.
II know 1 ought to. My friends are
always after me to write novel, but
it Is such bother to typewrite.
Maybe 1 will some day. Why don't
you"
And because you have the sense to
know that your ability is tallow
candle instead Of motor headlight
knack, instead of a regular gift
you admit, with humble frankness:
II don't because I can't"
Then Legion feels sorry for you,
and trips off, with the complacent
knowledge that she at least has
shown you how much better she could
do your work than you are doing it
yourself. And for the balance of that
day you feel cheap and disheartened
and wonder if it is worth keeping
OH
But when night comes you kneel at
the window and look up at the stars
while you say your prayers, because
you know that God lives up there
somewhere-and you feel that it is
better to make the most of a small
gift than to throw away big one.
And that makes 1t all right.
NANNIE LANCASTER.
BIuffing the Banker.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-02-22
MEMBERS All:
SIC MING Up
FOR P()()LTR
ASS0C|AT 7 |0n
Many Poultrymen Leave
Their Names at Farm
Bureau Office, Organiza-
ton Headquarters.

Many members are already being
citation, formed to boost the industry
in the Valley and to manage the
Poultry Show
The duty Of interesting all poultry
men ii such q plan fell to Assistant
Farm Adviser J. P. Hertel, who has
done so much toward the organiZa-
tion and success Of the Poultry Show.
He is to take up the matter at each
Farm Center meeting throughout the
Valley. keeping the idea of the or
ganization in the minds Of the ranch
ers.
At these Farm Center meetings di-
rectors are to be appointed from
each town that is sufficiently inter
ested. Holtville, Calexico, Imperial.
Ell Centre, Brawlev, Calipatria and
probably Seeley will be represented
by directors, who are to meet, elect
officers, make bylaws and draw up
a constitution.
The first act of this association
will be to take over as association
property the paraphernalia owned by
the chick show management, holding
it in readiness for coming poul-
try shows. The members of the
poultry organization will pay dues of
Sl.00 to start with. other and more
definite arrar gemerts to be made by
the directors or officers.
A letter from Assistant Farm Ad-
wiser Hertel follows:
"The poultry show has been a sue
cess from every point of view. The
educational features were were es-
9ecially brought out and appreciated
by the audience. About thousand
people attended the show, heard some
of the lectures, saw the birds, and
are now ready to raise better poul-
try.
"The credit for the success of the
show and the management of the
same is due to the efforts OF J. F.
Warner. the popular Rhode Island
Red fancier of Brawley. 1t was due
to his interest and efforts that the
splendid display was assembled. and
it is hoped that other pouitrymen may
take an interest and help toward other
shows in future years.
The poultrv organization is under
way, and with such men as Mr.. War
ner, it will no doubt be successful in
every way.
"a complete financial statement
Of costs and expenditures will be
published in a dav or two. as well as
the prizes distributed The making
and arrangement of the coops as we'll
as the displays at the show We're all
under MIR. Warmers direction, and the
noultrymen of the Valley through the
Farm Bureau extend to him a vote
of thanks for his untiring efforts.
"The Brawley Poultry Show was no
doubt the best ever held in the Val
ley, but it is believed that in another
year, with the help of other poultry
men, a show of twice this capacity
can be arranged. We hope this will
be accomplished.
81. P. RERTEL,
"Assistant Farm Adviser"
Imperial Valley press., 1919-02-22
FOR
FOURTH FARM
ASSE EMbLY IS
ANN0UN
Number of Experts on Ag-
ricultural Questions of
Interest to Valley Grow.
ers on Program.

The Fourth Annual Farm Assem-
bly, of the Valley will be held on
Saturday, March 1, at the Ell Cen
of the Farm Bureau.
DR.. Woodbridge o. Johnson, farm
advisor, who IS in charge of the ar
rangements, promises good pro-
gram.
On the basis of thet attendance in
pas wears, it is expected that, favored
with good weather, the assembly will
Assemblies have been held at Impe-
rial, Brawley and Holtville with at
tendances ranging from 600 to 1900.
Among those who will be on the
program are C. f, Grunsky, consult
ing engineer for the Irrigation Dis
trict, who will take up the allah
sorbing and all-important question OF
water: Walter f. Packard, assistant
state leader of farm advisers, anc
Miss Ruth Dickey, farm home dem,
onstration agent.
Among others listed but tentative
are experts on the subjects Of beef
cattle feeding, viticulture and tn,
grape industry, which promises tC
become an important adjunction o.
Valley activity; marketing of vege
tables; the hog auction sales, by {
member of the San Joaquin Valley
Farm Bureau.
Each of these topics are of inter
est to great number of ranehers anc
growers and each will be of i'm
mense assistance to those engaged il
the particular activities touched up
| on.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-02-22
b| c .SPO R 7
PROJECT IS
PLANNED FOR
SAL1ON SEA
Formation of Gun Club
With Numerous Mem
bers Is Announced by Pro-
mOterS.

The most ambitious SPORTING pro-
ject of the SJuthewest has been
launched and is lon>the way to success
full naturalization under the name
of the Salton Sea Boat and Gun
Club.
It's purposes will be threefold-
practical, sporting and advertising.
In the practical field it hopes to re-
claim hundreds of acres of salt lands
adjacent to the famous inland sea !;
in the sporting section it intends to
stock these lands and provide pre-
serve for birds for hunting purposes;
in thte boost end, it will be one of the
greatest advertising and publicity
mediums for the Valley.
According to it's promoters, it al
ready has about 1900 members signed
up, including Harry Chandler, pub
Usher of the Los Angeles Timese, and
other prominent Los Angeles and
Southern California business men and
sportsmen.
1t is proposed to purchase or OBJ
tain and reclaim now arid lands for
the creation of the huge game pre-
serve on which hundreds of thousands
of migratory birds will be given ref
uge. Because of the natural advan-
tages possessed by this section, it is
believed that the Salton Sea sec
ton will make the best gun preserve
in the country.
Charles l.. Childers has been ap-
pointed legal representative of the
club in this community, while similar
appointments have been made at Ca
lexico and other points. Complete or
ganization of the club is expected
within a few weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-02-22
SOLDIER DIES
ACROSS SEAS
OF PNEUMONIA

Mrs. d. l.. Zinn yesterday re-
ceived the sad news that her broth
er, Corporal Dwight Persinger, died
in France on January 81 from an
attack of bronchial pneumonia, just
a few days before his contingent was
to sail for America
Corporal Fersinger went to France
from Kansas last June with the Six
ty-first Engineers, Company A, as
railway operating unit. He spent
a winter in the Imperial Valley and
had many friends here.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-02-22
JUSTICE ASKS
PEACE MEET FOR
IRISH FREEDOM
(By Associated Press)

Philadelphia, Feb. 22.-Justice
Daniel Cohalan of the New York Su-
preme court, speaking before con-
vention of the Irish race, said that
unless the doctrine of self-determina-
iton is applied to Ireland there can
be no just or permanent peace from
the work of the peace conference.
The justice took exception to the
statement that the Irish is one of
domestic policy of the British empire
He said:
Surely no question involving the
right of one people to govern another
without the consent of that people
can be regarded as other than an in
ternational problem"
Imperial Valley press., 1919-02-22
Stop Audiences
of Clenenceau
(By Associated Press)

Paris, Feb. 22-It is announced
that Premier Clemenceau is
somewhat fatigued and will re-
ceive no one today. He has been
absolutely forbidden to speak.
Alexander Miller and the former
minister of war said the premier
was rather more tired. "YOu
know he was a naughty boy yes
terday and Over-exerted himself.
However, his condition is genarl-
ly satisfactory" When one of
the attending physicians proposed
an injuection of morphine to re-
duce the action of the lungs and
prevent the edges of the wound
from rubbing, Premier Clemen-
ceau shouted: what? What?
Morphine. Morphine! You want
to finish me! You are in the
pay of the B0lsheviki!" The ply
sician threw up his hand and
said: "There you are. We want
to give your chest rest and you
nearly burst it,"
Imperial Valley press., 1919-02-22
lBY Associated Pressl

Berlin, Feb. 22.-The Germans de-
Tending the Posen front against the
Poles at Birnbaum have addressed a
communication to National Assembly
man Opler protesting against the of
ficial order to vacate territory held
by them, in accordance with the ar
mistice conditions. They declared:
I'VE propose to remain as long as
a cartridge is left and so long as a
spark of fire remains no Pole will
succeed in invading our linees. The
path to the point designated by Foch
will lead oyer the bodies of thousands
of GermaH men. If Foch is deter
mined to force matters to the utter
most extreme he will find us ready.
We will open the gates to Bolshev-
ism which will overflow Europe"
Imperial Valley press., 1919-02-22
WILSON NEARS
U. S. SHORES.

lBy Associated Press)
Aboard the George Washing
ton-President Wilson's steamer
IS less than 500 miles due east of
Boston. The president has con-
tinucd his work with intervals
for recreation. 1t seems possible
that he will cOnfine himself in
his speech i'll Boston an an ap-
propriate response to the well
coming ceremonies.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-02-22
AMBITIONS
.0F RACES
A I
L N BUR c
Polish and Ukranian Ar
mics Clash Despite Eff
forts of the Allies to End
Fighting.

Paries, Feb. 22-The Battle Of
Lemberg has been resumed, accord
ing to a Cracow dispatch filed Fri
day. The Ukranians attacked vio-
lently and the are credited with the
object of capturing the city before
the Inter-Allied commission arrives.
So far the small Polish garrison has
withtstood the assaults.
The Inter-Allied commission went
to Warsaw to continue it's efforts,
after beginning an attempt to open
negotiations for an armstice.