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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-11
SESSION OF REPUBLICAN
STATE CHAIRMEN HELD

The National Association of Repub-
ilcan State Chairmen met at the New
Willard this morning to hear reports
upon political conditions in the sew
eral states. This organization is
auxiliary to the national committee
was created in 1918 and consists of
men and women from all the states.
Galen l.. TAFT Of Maryland. secre
tary-treasurer of the organiza ton.
presided at the meeting this morn
ing: Chairman Hays of the national
committee welcomed the members and
made short address of encourage
m me and suggestion. Mr.. TAFT ex-
planned before the meeting that the
object of the association is to pro
mote efficiency in campaign work. to
standardize efforts. insure economical
methods and to put the conduct of
campaigns upon a strictly business
basis. The association co-ordinates
with county and district chairmen and
with the national committee.
The days session was devoted to
hearing reports from the states and
talking over republican prospects
generally. The meeting was exec
utive in character.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-11
LINER IMPERATOR SAILS;
COAL MATTER ADJUSTED
Offer Made by British Ministry of
Shipping to Replace Excess
Fuel Is Accepted.

NEW YORK, December 1.-THE for
mer German passenger liner Impera-
tor. now a British ship under Cunard
line operation, sailed today for Ply
mouth, Cherbourg and Southampton
She was TO have departed at noon
yesterday. but her clearance papers
were held up on orders from Wash
ington while charges that she had ex-
ceeded her supply of bunker coal were
being adjusted.
The offer of the British ministry Of
shipping to replace the excess coal
was accepted last night and the ship
released, but too late to enable her to
get away on high tide. The liner
had 200 passengers on this, her first
voyage. as passenger ship since she
left here under the German flag in
July, 1914.
An investigation has been begun by
the Department of Justice to discover
who was responsible for furnishing
and loading the surplus coal "in vio-
iation of the United States laws and
regulations"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-11
PROF. GARNER TO SPEAK
ON CHIMPANZEE TRAITS

Prof. r. L. Garner is not speaking
hguratively when he discusses Chin
panzees ] have met" as he will do
before the National, Geographic So
ciety at the New Masonic Temple to-
morrow afternoon and evening, for
he has educated twenty-seven of that
type OF ape. not to mention twelve
gorillas. Moreover. he has lived for
twenty-three years of the past TWEEN
ty-seven in African jungles. studying
the habits of the manlike animals
which. he holds, form link between
the man and the monkey races in the
process of evolution.
While the scientific world is not en-
tirely in accord with Prof Gamers
theory that apes can communicate
with each other by means of a spoken
language. his observations are high
ly interesting. Especially are those
which deal with the manlike qualities
of the apes. which he has observed
making beds, forming families. pre-
pairing food and performing many
other tasks after the same manner as
that of primitive man.
Prof. Garner has stated that baby
apes are born with instincts little
better developed than those Of a child.
and that the mother and father bring
to bear methods of imitation and cor
rection in its training similar to those
in the case of human children
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-11
ADVANCE IN LIVING COST
SINCE 1918 is SHOWN
Increase Over 13o Per Cent in Fur
niture, Furnishings and Cloth
ing; Food Over 80 Per Cent.

Furniture and furnishings and cloth
ing increased in price more than 1879
per cent from 1913 to October, 1919. ac
cording to figures announced today by
the bureau of labor statistics, on the
average increase of living costs in the
United States.
Food increased in price in the six-year
period more than so per cent, the bureau
reported, and housing increased nearly
90 per cent. while fuel and light jumped
more than As per cent over the 1915
Il, cage. The average increase for the
family budget for all items, according
to the bureau, amounted to S2.1 per
cent.
The figures announced today by the
bureau are based on an investigation
conducted among $1,000 families in nine
ty-tWo localities. The bureau estimate
that 49, per cent of the total famii,
budget goes for food. and that the
total family expenditure since 1913 for
food has increased sos per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-11

OF late years the oil wells of Mex
leo have brought great wealth to
that country, which now ranks next to
the United States and Russia in the pro-
ductiOn Of petroleum
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-11
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
COMMISSION SUGGESTED
Former Chief Counsel of Federal
Trade Body Addresses Members
of City Club.

Establishment of an International
trade commission as one of the ways
for ending international animosities
was suggested by John Walsh. former
chief counsel of the Federal Trade
Commission, in an address yesterday
at the weekly luncheon of the City
Club.
THE world war was brought about
by national competition for world
trade" said Mr.. Walsh. The inter
national animositieS that are bred by
this strife for trade supremacy might
be eliminated. some experts contend.
by the creation of an international
trade commission which would check
unfair practices in international
trade. This suggestion is of immense
Importance to the world just now.
when international agreements foH
the control of the markets of the
world are being formed
Mr. Walsh said the keystone of the
Federal Trade Commission was the
resolve to declare unfair methods of
competition unlawful.
Mr.. Walsh paid tribute to the up
rightness of the average business
man.
MY experience in helping to umpire
the game of trade he said, has
taught me that only the most infini-
tessimal fraction of the business men
of the country are unfair or dishon-
est. Most of them are trying earn
estiy to uphold the name of their
business"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-11
PREDICTS RECORD CROWD
AT G. o. P. CONVENTION
Mr.. bert of Kentucky Also Believes
Mr.. Hays Will Continue Dur
ing Campaign.

A. T. Hert of Kentucky. chairman
of the committee on arrangements for
the republican national convention,
said today that the meeting of repub-
licans at Chicago June promises to
be the largest political convention
ever held in point of numbers in at
tendance. The committee will meet
early in January to take up the work
of preparing to handle the great
crowd expected At that meeting
plans for seating the press represent
atives will be taken up and the stand
ing committee of correspondents. the
official body in charge of the PRESS
galleries at the Capitol. will be in
vited to attend.
Mr.. Hert. in talking with the news
paper men today spoke of the tribute
paid Chairman Hays of the national
committee at the mountaineering of
the committee yesterday. and said the
demonstration of appreciation of his
work was impressive.
While / know it has been the Gus
tom for presidential candidates to
name the chairman of the national
committee. to conduct the presidential
campaign l predict that Mr. Hays will
he asked to continue his work
throughout the campaign"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-11
Four Fires Reported.

Fire of undetermined origin yester-
day afternoon occurred in the house
of Ratley Thorn. I749 Oregon avenue.
Damage to the house and contents
amounted to $500.
Matilda Tyler's house. at 100 Reeves
street. was damaged by fire to the
amount of 800 yesterday afternoon
Firemen were unable to determine it's
origin.
Overturning of an alcohol stove last
night resulted in a fire in the home
of Emma Crews 1910 Park road. Only
about $25 damage was done
An Army truck caught fire at Geor-
gia avenue and Farragut street about
o'clock this morning and was dam
aged to the amount Of $500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-11
MRS. EMMA L. HAZEN DIES.
Widow Of Former D. C. Physician
Was Seventy-Five Years Old.

Mrs Emma L. Hazen. widow of DR..
DaEid IL. Hazen. died yesterday, fol-
aoWihS ionS illness. at her residence,
2I22 Connecticut avenue. She was sey,
enty-hVe years old. and was born in
germantown. n. j. In 1878 she married
Dr. Hazen, physician of this city,
and lived here up to the time of her
death.
Surviving her are a son. DIR Henry
II. HaZen, of this city; a brother
charles Honeyman. of New York, and
a sister. Miss Alice H. Honeyman, Of
this city. Funeral services will be held
tomorrow afternoon at o'clock at
her late residence. Rev. DIR. John L.
Palmer of the Washington Heights pres
byterian Church will officiate. Inter
ment will be in Rock Creek cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-11

The City of Mexico. with a popula-
ton of about half a million. is the
capital and chief center of culture of
the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-11
No "Red" Peril Here, Says Taft.

NEW YORK, December 11.-Dan-
ger of bolshevism is past in America
William Howard Taft declared last
r;~ht before the Yale Civic Club, be
cause the leaders of dissatisfa ction
! ~, found that they could not turn
this country into a bolshevik govern
ment"
The Washington times., 1919-06-06
Beatrice Fairfax Writes the Problems and Pitfalls the War Workers
Especially for Washington Women

THE OTHER morning, as an F
street car was carrying full
quota of workers, "war"
and otherwise, down town, some
thing happened to the power or
the brake and the car stopped.
A pretty blonde girl who had
been languidly hanging to a strap
Immediately showed signs of in
terest. She glanced about the car,
studied her immediate group of
straphangers, like vaudeville art
list ingratiating himself with the
audience before beginning his turn.
She had the pretty, droopy type
Of blondeness that suggests sec
ond-day rose" which has been
wired, dashed to a toothpick and
made to hold up its head, in a
brave attempt to give it the fresh
ness it has lost on the florists
counter. She began:
"It this limousine has broke
down, 1 am late again, making
three times this week I've got a
scowl from the boss. If this bright
young working girl don't look out,
she'll get fired"
A middle-aged man looked at her
indulgently; fledgling in straw
hat smiled. A lady of uncertain
age who suggested the cookbook
stencil, Bring the vinegar to boil
ing point" shifted, and the blonde
girls companion, with the air Of
giving a cue, answered:
"a lot you'd care If they fred
you-with your prospects"
Haven't any prospects-my face
is at present my fortune" And
the girl who suggested "a second
day rose" swung her head around
so that everyone could see how
good-looking she was.
Your race landed your fortune,
you mean" the obliging friend led
on.
And my cheerful manners
passed it up"
By this time the strap-hangers
and thoe who had seats settled
in them with the comfortable ex-
preston of people who are about
to be entertained. Some jaws
dropped, and some shut tight as
clans according to the tempera-
ments of their owners. The
blond girl continued:
mo, it seemed They didn't like
me, / lacked the repose of We're
The Washington times., 1919-06-06
What's Doing; Where; When

Neutrality-suspicious. League Of Washing
ton. Public Library. p. m.
Observation-Disclosures High School Alumni
Association. boats leave at 10 a. m. and
80 and C:l5 r. m.
PIay-"Engaged by Wednesday" aus
piceS Wslther LeaEIn NJ Christ, Lutheran
Church. New Jersey ache. between NJ and
y streets northwest. ; 10 -. m.
Exhibition and Vaudeville Show-Troop
Tenth and G streets northwest, y. m.
Address-CommissiOne David j. Lewis.
Of the Tariff Commission, before Georgia
state Society, Thomson School, Twelfth
and l. streets northwest, $3.50 p. m.
Meeting-Liberty Legion, No. ], Private
Soldiers and Sailors Legion. Board Of
Trade Rooms, S p. N.
Victory Celebration - Wilson Normal
School, Eleventh and Harvard streets
northwest s p. II.
Meeting-Ohio Girls Club, Wilson Nor
NAL School, Eleventh and Harvard streets
northwest. p. m.
illustrated Lecture-Lieut. Philippe Bar
bier, OF the Belgian Legation. Officers
club Of Washington, Dupont Circle. Sis
y.
Smoker-Happa Alpha Alumni Associa-
ton, X A. House. 25ll Fourteenth street
northwest, $50 p. IN.
Victory Celebration-Wilson Normal
School Eleventh and Harvard streets
ho MeetfnsETePsch hers Club. clubrooms. 3
p. m. Reception for members and friends,
Picnic-Maine State Society, Miller
Cabin, Rock Creek Park, p. m. War
workers and others from Maine. are in
Yited.
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Today

Today
Mass Meeting-New Masonic Temple,
Thirteenth street and New York avenue
northwest, p. m. Korea" subject OF
discussion. Speakers, Bishop John William
Hamilton. chancellor of American Univer-
sityi William Elliott Grfhs. Of New York
DR.. Floyd Tomkins, Of Philadelphia. and
DR.. Philip Jaisohn.
Anniversary Celebration - Washington
Hebrew Congregation. twenty NTH ami
Versary Of the ordination of Dr. Abram
Simon. at Eighth Street Temple. S p. m.
Characterization hall in the Govern
ment hotels for war workers. Senate and
Union Station Plaza, 1880 p. m.
Address-Miss Clara Mort4nson, secretary
Of District Minimum Wage Board. auspices
Progressive League, Y. w. c. A, 6l9 Four
tenth street northwest, 1880 p. m.
Mass MeetinB-Betsy Ross Post, No. I,
World War Veterans. Red Cross rest
rooms, Corcoran Courts, Seventeenth street
m. All female naval reservists invited.
DemonstrEtion-Miss Theodore Z. Miller.
Menus for the Fireless Cooker" Wilson
Normal School, Eleventh and Harvard
streets northwest, Z:30 p. m.
Address-Col. c. D. Herrorr. expert
ences with the A. e. r" before Sheridan
Post, G. a. R, l4l2 Pennsylvanis avenue
northwest, p. m.
Entertainment-Washi Players to
Washington men returned from overseas,
Carroll Hall, p. m. The Law" plain
will be presented. Public invited.
French Language Class-Washington
salon. 1913 H street northwest, 7:l5 p. IN.
Tuition free.
concert-U. s. sohierS' Home Band.
eandStand, 6 p, m.
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TODAY'S TOPIC
WHY THEY DIDN'T WANT HER

de We're, I wasn't sufficiently
aloof, I was a child of nature and
l liked the movies. / said what
thought and l thought what l
said"
81 didn't know it was off-but
say, you weren't marrying them,
the lead commented.
anyone that married him,
would-a married them, and no
mistake"
The passengers gulped in the
broken romance, two or three of
them seemed on the point of Civ
ing up their cherished seats for
nearer view of the girl who was
telling "the story of her life" to
a street car.
"Was he stuck on them? the
lead inquired.
Wasn't he, though-his mother,
two old maid aunts and a sister.
They were some dried peaches,
believe me. They were all ter
ribly refined, never talked about
their clothes, their neighbors,
their indigestion, the laundress,
or how much anything cost"
Gee, they must have been all
deaf and dumb, weren't they?"
mo, they'd talk your head off
The Washington times., 1919-06-06

canned EN- all at the end Of ten
days-they were welcome to have
little Alfred back again. And it's
the open season for me-say, isn't
this car ever going to get right?
Let's walk"
And they left the car. And for
a moment or two the passengers
wore an expectant or Keith look,
as If awaiting the next number on
the bill. No one would have been
surprised if a man and a girl had
arisen from their seats and begun
to sing a topical song, with little
dancing on the side. But none Of
the other passengers appeared to
have a gift fer vaudeville except
the monologue girl, and everyone
began to fret about the power, or
the brake, or whatever it was that
was holding them up.
Finally a woman said to her
husband, ~ don't wonder they
didn't want her, I'd just hate to
have a son Of mine married to a
human graphophone that had to
turn herself on, in a street car,
or bust"
The man said: "SheIl have an
other line of talk the next time
the car stops, she'll tell them why
she didn't want them, or how her
grandfather killed her grand
mother-it's all the same to her
as long as she gets an audience.
"Well, land sakes," said the
woman, otis a wonder she don't
get a turn to do on the stage, or
demonstrate making coffee or bis
cults in a department store, or
try for a job on a rubber-neck
wagon, where she'd make some
thing off her line Of talk"
And the man said: She isn't
clever enough for that"
And doubtless the man was
right. She enjoyed being a pub
lie entertainer, her public could
not escape her, and she gave them
her little turn. With more
ability, or even industry, she
might have got a job in vaude-
vile, but the stopped car and the
ready-made audience filled her
immediate needs, and she let it
go at that.
The uncalled for monologue en-
plains so much. She was pretty,
charmingly dressed, and at first
glance highly attractive. But her
craving for attention-even in a
public street car-sealed her fate.
She had made herself cheap
doubtless that was why she sug-
gested a secondary rose" = me,
even before she began to, Inter
tain. the car. -
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about what they read, and what
was in the papers, Peace Confer
ence and fourteen points, and
things like that, and they talked
about pictures and art galleries.
Oh, they did talk, forever and for
ever, about nothing at all"
at must have been simply
dreadful for you"
at was, l thought I'd forget my
American and take to making
signs. Everyone called on me from
the president of the Divinity Col
lege that's in their town, down to
the girls that used to be in love
with him. And l passed remarks
on how they did their hair, or how
bald they were if they hadn't any
to do, and their clothes and things
like that-and the dried peaches
just dried little harder"
Didn't they expect you to talk
any,"
. They didn't call that falkland
wasn't it funny, they never said
Cut it OUT or anything like that
but you just felt their disap-
provaI frost-biring you"
How lon, did you stand it,"
asked the sympathetic friend.
81 went for a month, and l
The Washington times., 1919-06-06
TREASURY WATCEMENS PAY

The watchmen OF the Treasury De-
partrnent, in view Of the changes con-
tempiated by the Commission on Re-
classification Of Salaries for Govern
ment Employees, submit to your notice
the following inequalities and dis
examinations against them, which We
feel you would be glad to note in your
valuable paper and at the same time
render other assistance in your power.
Aside from being paid a price far
below the cost maintenance, they are
compelled to work seven days a week,
which includes holidays, half-holidays,
and Sundays, whilst all workers in
other capacities receive these days,
about siXty-eight in all, at full pay.
II a Waterman can't be spared one
day a week and can't be given the
annual holidays and halfholidays, and
can't be paid double time for working
at q time when others are excused,
would 1t not be feasible and proper
The Washington times., 1919-06-06

to add to his annual leave the differ
ence in time gained by the employees
OF a different status? And at the
same time give him a living wage,
500 month. Those OF you who are
getting more than 800 a month. and
all of you are getting very much
more, know the reasonableness OF this
request, and no doubt will use your
best efforts toward an equitable ar
rangement. II its equalization Of
privileges, coupled with compensation
for services rendered based as we'll on
changed conditions OF living. we are
confident there will be no reniging
when your recommendations are
handed in, and that we won't figure
in that class Of also ran. A watcb-
mans stomach responds to the grunt
OF a hog and the caclIle OF a hen, and
ham and eggs taste good to him. How
about IL?
TREASURY WATCHAAS,A
The Washington times., 1919-06-06

terday shaking hands with old
friends.
Geo. Tinkham OF Boston was wear
ing red tie yesterday.
Joe Rogers, our popular sgt. e
arms. is looking well.
Judge Rucker of No. Is getting
stouter.
John Nolan of Cal is wearing q
Texas style black felt hat.
Looks like some OF our Senators
will have to go 30 ". Y. to get =
look at that treaty.
Our old friend Congressman GARD
doesn't seem to like our Public Utili-
ties a little bit.
For te luvva Nike, why can't We
start a drive to have a few street
sprinklers tour the towns dusty
streets now and then? Dust an inch
deep and still fyin'.
The Washington times., 1919-06-06

q FaSh10ns are frequently strange things.
Nothing could be stranger for instance than the pres
style Of dressing the hair with extraordinary knobs
covering the ears of young ladies' and further piles and
pillows making Eihel towers the upper part Of their
heads.
We print above what may be the source of this modern
style.
It the picture of Hopi Indian lady with the squash
blossom decoration which proclaims that she is still
ried
When she gets husband all that hair viii be undone
and she win afteward in simple braids down
hsr back
this is the real source Of the popular style Of couture
at least strictly American for the HOpi tribe Of Arizona
had unknown centuries of history long before Columbus and
those who followed him made American Indian life 'jus
one thing after another
The dressing of the hair by has always
index Of civilization The highly civilized the ladies
THOUGHT they were attention they gave to their
hair The present styles would indicate very large number
of feminine Solcmons
Among the fighting people of the earth both the
and have used their hair to give themselves
appearance of ferceness Of the Spartans who let their
hair grow long, Lycurgus said: "a large head of hair
makes the handsome graceful and the ugly
terrible
The Baluba women Of the Congo frequently spend
eral weeks In making arrangement of the hair when
special occasion requires particular style
On the other hand the ladies of Madagascar plaster
their hair with clay and beef fat that they will have
TO dress it more than once in several months
The hair has for centuries been in many parts of the
world the badge of marriage The women of Assam in
india their hair short before marriage long aferward
The Fiji women reverse the CUSTOM wearing it long
before marriage and cutting it part of the wedding
ceremony.
The Fiji widow wears no hair at ALL having it closely
cropped on the death of her husband.
There many interesting things about the hair its
life, its growth its death and disappearance <,
There is something to interest there is nothing
to admire, about the prevailing style.
The Hopi lady whose picture print at least leaves
her uncovered subtractng from the present style
fseture which can hardly Aelg being insanitary.
The Washington times., 1919-06-06
HEARD AND SEEN

It is pretty generally admitted that
the cost Of living has increased about
100 per cent. Wages generally over
the country have been boosted, SOL
diers' and sailors pay has been
doubled, and the Department Of La
Dor figures that the dollar today is
really worth but 20 cents. AND
YET, in the departments the Govern
ment still gets the pre-war quantity
of work for the 20-cent dollar.
Harry Hawker failed to land in
Ireland, but he certainly alighted
right in the middle Of the spotlight,
didn't he? His machine ran out Of
gas and he had to stop, but he had
plenty at that banquet.
DAN DONOVAN out Of uniform
Ill make the whole army appear to
Ue demobllized.
The cat Is in the alley between
Eighteenth and Mt. Pleasant streets,
Newton street and Park rad, says
PAT MCGOWAN.
While RAY MORGAN says II was on
New Jersey avenue, near the SiN.n
precinct station.
Congressman Draney Of Florida has
three constituents at the Zoo" They
are bears. He recognized them as Old
friends, formerly OF MOOREHAVEN.
Fla. The mayor Of the town Is a
woman.
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.
Carter Glass, who works at the
Treasury. was up to the Capitol yes
The Washington times., 1919-06-06

June 3, 1919.
Did you ever have a dust bath?
Did you ever ride on a Ninth
street car to Soldiers Home, Wal
ter Reed, or Tacoma Park?
II you have-you did, and you
most assuredly know the condi-
tion OF that part Of Georgia ave-
nue. belonging" to the Washing
ton Railway & Electric Company,
who by the way are at this time
asking a seYen-cent fare.
SCHLEY W. HERMANN.