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The Washington times., 1919-05-01
Beatrice Writes Problems and Pitfalls War Workers
Especially for Washington Women

are capable OF much better things;
l like the way you spoke OF your
mother. and 1 know she is q Won
der. 1 envy you, but your love for
her should teach you that woman's
affections are not to be trifled with
either in word or action.
A MOTHERLESS GIRL
Another "FaIr and Square Letter.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
1 have been reading your column
on the Fair and Square subject
for some time, and 1, too, have a
letter that I should be glad to have
YOU publish for the beneht OF girls
who are running around with mar
ried men. And I trust that every
one who reads this plea of an un-
happy wife may put herself in my
place and change her amusement
I am twenty-three years old and
have been married for more than
three years. At the time of my
marriage l was popular and good
looking. 1 was only a poor girl. but
had been we'll brought up and all OF
the bows l went with had money eX-
cept the man l married. He was a
poor boy whose salary was a great
deal less than mine; but it was love
at first sight with me, and in short
time we were married
About a year after I married 7
discovered my husband was going
about with other girAs, and, Of
course. 1 was heart-broien. As 1
expected to become a mother In a
few months, l put up with 1t for
the sake of my baby. And then.
too. l thought the baby would make
a difference, but things went on just
as before. only a good deal worse.
Now, Miss Fairfax, what 1 can't
understand is this--my husband
claims that his love for me has
never changed; that he cares as
much about me as re ever dld, ana
from his actions and treatment or
me you would still think we were on
our honeymoon, and our friends re-
card MS as a devoted couple. ! just
cant make up my mind what to do.
az 7 care about him more than ever,
and I haven't anyone to go to for
advice. so that is why l am writing
10 YOU. All of the girls my husband
goes with know he is married and
the father of little girl. Yet that
makes no difference to them. He
claims they mean nothing to him,
and that they are only pastime-
He has even gone so far as to tn
troduce me to some of them. Please
tell me what you think.
HEART-BROKEN ANNE.
To an unbiased confidant like
myself, it seems that you have
been unduly worried over your
husbands silly flirtatiOns with
Young women. Some men never
seem to outgrow the high school
pastime of hanging around" with
girls. If this weakness OF char
acter were serious, l think his
manner to you would have
changed, and he would not have
kept the loverlike ways OF the
honeymoon. l should try not to
let this rather foolish weakness on
his part worry me unduly. Many
wives have the same thing to con-
tend with and they win out in the
long run by patience and a little
gond-natured banter now and then
The Washington times., 1919-05-01
To-day.

To-Day.
Address-David ]. Lewis, Federal tarin
commission, before Georgia State Society
Thomson School, Twelfth and i streets
northwest, $3.50 p. m
May pole party and dance-Federal EN-
ployes' Union No. ?, Wardman Park Inn,
$3.50 p. m.
Address-Prof Samuel J. McWatteTs, Of
American University, Browning and the
Christian Faith" Foundry Church, p. m
Meeting-workers in Y. w. c. A. mem
bership drive, Y. W. G. A. recreation cen
ter, 1886 Fourteenth street northwest.
p. m.
Aeeting-Ladies' Auxiliary Of Adath Is
rael Synagogue vestry rooms OF syna-
goEue, p. m.
May baII-RalIiI oils Grotto drill corps.
ball room Of New Willard Hotel, $3.50 p. m.
Meeting-OrgaI izRtion meeting OF COM
nissioned officers, q. s. Naval Reserve
Force, auditorium OF Interior Department,
Eighteenth and F streets northwest 4:45
p. m.
Concert and dance-Journeymen Book
binders Union, Pythian Temple, $50 o.
m.
Lecture-E. c. Dutton. Washington at
torney, before class In elementary banking
Of the Washington chapter. American In
gtituts Of Banking. 1914 r street north
west DR.. william l. Robins will also
The Washington times., 1919-05-01
More About the District Boys.

TO the Editor Of The Times:
On the editorial page OF The Times,
: read with interest an article by
Col Tenney Ross. on The Facts
About the 313th Infantry"
The following is taken from the
history Of the Thirty-seyenth divi-
SION written by Major H. W. Feneser,
Of the Thirty-seventh division head
quarters:
AT IL O'Clock on the night OF sep
:ember % the artillery preparation
commenced and each hour added to
rs intensity until guns OF all caliber
were contributing their part 10 one
OF the mightiest artillery prepara-
lions ever attempted in this war.
This preparation reached its maxi
mum at $50 a. m. September 26, when
z rolled off over the enemy trenches
and strong points in a barrage, which
enabled infantrymen, following, close
" and quickly TO overcome all re-
sistance left by the enemy.
The sun rose bright and clear
september % and for that one day,
conditions were ideal for the task OF
the infantrymen The battle-map-
NEsn's Land was an outline only, and
Immediately difficulty began to arise
N bringing forward artillery. The
.sround, soft underneath the dry
rust. and broken by shell holes,
formed quagmires through which IL
was almost hopeless to try 10 pull
heavy limbers.
ssDurinR that night showers (Which
continued for the next five days)
added TO the burden, and the freshly
constructed dirt roads soon became
knee-deep trail OF mud. Next
Amorning the infantry took up the
ftack and pushed on, over ground
- BY she'll holes and through for
tangled with shattered trees and
ID wire The town Of IVORY on
ft was captured. A little later
ucon. off the division sector
night. which had been entered
The Washington times., 1919-05-01
SIGNS OF SPRING.
APRIL

APRIL.
/ catch the robins laughter-note.
A queen robes in the waking trees,
And JonQuirs scalloped petticoat
Doth rustic In the April breeze.
MAY.
Transfgured IL the earth with cheer
And beauty lavished with amaze;
The unEpent ElOTies OF the year,
New-visioned in these blissfUI days.
The rapture or blue skies above,
The miracle Of green fields under,
Are tokens OF a boundless love
Mirrored in forms of endless won
der s. NJ. GAINES
The Washington times., 1919-05-01
Once-Overs
Copyright, 1919, International Feature Service In
NOW WE'RE GETTING GOING.

NOW WERE
gloomy gums who the whole
going the bow and everything is topy tury
Well pessmistc ideas forthwith for the
majority the people the good old United States far from
the madhouse.
world industries stagnated thousands
thousands of work general depression all along the %
Of mighty effort either private
public enterprise followed by period Of quot
relaxation?
give along line to the stress Of after
shall TO
longer stride than ever before
The Washington times., 1919-05-01

Regarding comparison as to VOTE
LESS Washington and Ballot Boz
Carendon-says some one who signs
himself @SLNICUS" - what's ths
odds In Washington you can't vote.
he AYERS, and In Clarendon II you
are q Democrat your vote is not
needed; II q Rspubiean the Vots
cast Is loves labor lnsts
The Washington times., 1919-05-01

The muster was held in the nag
ship building on F street. Nine can
didates, equally divided among the
Headquarters building, the Munsey
and the Rapley, were chosen and
commissioned to fare forth and hold
up everyone for subscriptions. To
the Biggest GOGETTER win go the
honor of christening one Of the new
ships.
The Washington times., 1919-05-01
HEARD AND SEEN

it 90, because theu hGvs orders %
let the staff nm ~it." You kaoss
SOhGt that Is. In TeGIity this con-
posing room order shows ne -
about three times a tceek.
The Washington times., 1919-05-01

A carrier pigeon win 3 hurs
wing landed on the roof Of t.
Munsey Building the Other dEE.
Ny once boy, JIMMY RICK
ETTS took care Of Ehe bird
which had q message t1ed 70 oaS
leg Here's the message:
W..-.R.-..L .L---.Y
B---R---KA
IN give q prize OF two ticksts
10 any theater IN washington b
the person who sends the clever
est message based on those letters.
The Washington times., 1919-05-01
Delta Tau Delta.

Annual dinner GAMMA ETA
Chapter, G. W. u, at University
Club Friday, Nav 2. Delts any
where near Washington are re-
uuested to make reservations by
calling the chapter house, 1922
Mass Ave, phone Franklin 2578.
Big Folks will be at the dinner.
All Delts turn out
The Washington times., 1919-05-01

Speaking Of Commissioner Gard
ner and the fire insurance companies,
where did FRED S. WALKER find
that word ''hamestring?" Fred has
chased pigs long enough to know
better than to use that word the
way he did. Please tell him that
| said so.
VALENTINE RUFF.
Whdt happened Is this: ] spelled
- ,,vona. md The proof readers let
The Washington times., 1919-05-01

HERMAN GASCH is going to
visit FRED BLUNDON'S stock farm
over In Maryland soon.
The Washington times., 1919-05-01

MISS R FLEMING Of the Head
quarters and Tennessee is sure no
one else has a look in. MISS Nell
LIE FRIEL MISS LEILA TIFFLEY
and MRS. RUTH MITCHELL are
certain that the sponsor will be from
ID. C.. But il q New Yorker doesn't
win Mrs. FLORENCE COLEMAN and
MISS E. L. FOOTE will want to
know the reason why. MISS ANNA
MURPHY and MISS E. NJ. WILEY
hear the voice Of Beacon Hill urging
them on to Victory and MISS DOR
.OTHY SCHAAFF recalls that ''Ole
Virginny never tires"
The Washington times., 1919-05-01

Herm wants a COW or something.
He is going to take a sort Of cattle
fine arts commission, including MEL
HAZEN, PAUL DEPUTY and
CHARLIE SCHAFER.
The Washington times., 1919-05-01

National Representation Confer
ence at the home of THEODORE W..
MOVES, 1870 New Hampshire ave
nue., Friday, at 8 o'clock p. m I'm
portant-
The Washington times., 1919-05-01

over me LQlS a III HuAL luo WaSSOA
Sam? l paid my ice bill
Washington Chapter, American As
sociation Of Teachers Of Spanish, will
hold a meeting at George Washing
ton University, 2023 G street north
west, on Friday evening at $3.50
O'Clock. PROF. HENRY GRATTAN
DOYLE, acting president has ap-
pointed the following committees:
Nominations, DR.. G. A Sherwen, OF
the international High Commission;
RENE SAMSON, Of the Central High
School; JUAN B. SALDANA- Con-
stitution, CECIL KNIGHT JONES, Of
the Library Of Congress; MSS
MARY B. GRAMS, OF the Central
High School; MISS RUTH WILL
SON, Of the Military Intelligence Bu-
reau, War Department All persons
interested in Spanish life and cul-
ture are eligible to membership.
The Washington times., 1919-05-01

Hero are some q the Aats ansvsra
sorry can't print syeryone's:
Wnlskey runners left yestsrdEE-
Bringing Earl enormous supply"
R q. SOUSn
The Washington times., 1919-05-01

S@my WIN Decide FORz. -
VIII Announce FOmOErOTE, VIZ Gets
the TAeEter Tieketz.
The Washington times., 1919-05-01

Girls Of the Shipping Board dress
ed the decks the other day for the
Victory Loan drive. The prevailing
mode was the V front
The Washington times., 1919-05-01

think the pigeon is mine that n
missing from our loft, and that tho
message was from Dad, who was
missing, too, about the time The
Pigeon was reported captured, ana
was for mother. Feading=
won't return, love, yet: Baftfu~-~
eyewater especially seductive"
Please send the tickets To K
LOOMS, apartment 5, 1901 Columbia
road
The Washington times., 1919-05-01
You Oueht to Know, Russ!

1 see q lot of advertising In your
paper which says Of. o. B." Wash
ington. What does that mean-fun
of booze? X 1. Il
The Washington times., 1919-05-01

SAM KIMBERLY, Of the American
Ice Company, came near running
over me this a. m What's the matter
Sam? / paid my ice bill
The Washington times., 1919-05-01

Wilhelm rudely laughed, yet bonAs
early ended strife.
Washington reared liberty: yoaR
bonds establish every safeguard.
Walk, Run, Leap, Yell
Bonds express enthusiasm swell
FRANK CRANE,
SO Sixteenth street southeast
The Washington times., 1919-05-01

Washington Residents IIft Year
selves BY Exercising Equal SuRragal
WILLIAM LOwBER,
S719 New Hampshire avenue
The Washington times., 1919-05-01

Walter Reeds Loving Young Braves
Earned Everlasting Salvation
J. H. GRnEA
1922 New York avenue N w.
Washington, Respond Loya1y;
You'll Beat Every Enfranehised
State. THOMAS DICKSON.
1924 Crescent Place, N W.
why Ruth Likes Yo1- Better
Elect Excellent Seats"
1919 Kenyon street
Watch Republican Leaders YSus1
Before Early Extra Session
X. HOFMAH
Room 2o4, P. NJ C. o.
We Readers Like Your Bright EdS-
toriaIs. ENTHUSIASTIC SUBSCRIB-
ERS. C. ]. SIMPSON
Postotfice Department, Division
of Equipment and Supplies.
Wilson relieved Liberty yoIesI
Bolshevikics educating evil. Sub
scribel
What results league ycarn? Being
everyone's equality standard,
Why refuse league? Yield III
lBragSart Emperor Europe starving.
+. SCHNEIDER
1924 New Jersey avenue n. w
WARNING READERS! LOAN
YOUR BIT. ELIMINATE ENEMY
SARCASM.
GEORGE BERNsTocK-
New-York tribune., 1919-02-26

ground of I. W. W.-ism against which the
whole labor movement of the Pacific Coast.
however much opposed to this doctrine,
stands out. number of men who vera
on the general strike committee of 333
made personal and irresponsible state
ments to newspaper men, politicians and
employers that labor would take over in
dustry and operate it for itself when the
strike had crippled the city. This was
straight |. W. ". doctrine 1t was not the
doctrine of the official strike committee or
OF It's legitimate spokesman. Indeed, the
committee voted down a resolution to that
end. But certain acts of the committee
seemed to confirm syndicalist purpose
They We're such humanitarian acts as the
serving of dinners at twenty-one places bv
the unions in those lines, and the providing
OF milk by the milk drivers to families re-
quiring this food for babies and children.
Beyond all these revolutionary asnocts
Of the strike was the fact to which citv
and Federal authorities sincerely testify.
that certain -unquestionably manv
outside the A. F. Of L. labor organizations
that struck, and, it is claimed, numbers
within them as well-hoped and planned
for revolutionary, soviet government to
arise from the chaos of the general strike
Chaos did not come Some say because
the strikers believed implicitly in the eff
cacy Of folded arms and organized a police
force Of 250 discharged commissioned and
non-co commissioned officers to watch and
caution their men. Others say because
the city over-awed the strikers with force
800 special police, 1900 soldiers and
arsenals OF fircarms-and because the
heart of the workers was not in the strike
However that may be, these facts stand out:
There was absolutely no violence. The
normal police docket of a hundred day
fell to about thirty.
Mayor Ole Hanson and "The Seattle
STAR" crying "Seattle is prostrate!" "Under
which fag?" and This is a test of union
ism or I. W. W-ism," centred the attention
of the whole nation on one aspect of the
strike and convinced the whole nation that
only the ending Of the strike saved Seattle
and perhaps the whole nation from Boil
shevism.
But in all this there are also doubts and
questionings, as we'll as facts
The strike leaders claim that they began
Of their own volition to try TO end the
strike, that they were satisfied with the
showing made the first two days, that they
would have had it called Off by the third
night if the Mayor by repeated threats of
martial lawthreats never carried out
had not aroused the fighting spirit of the
rank and file of the big strike committee.
which debated for two days a resolution to
end the strike and only got it passed in
time for finish on the fifth day.
The Mayor and his party believe that it
was only the threats of martial law that
brought the committee around to thinking
at all of ending the strike. They believe
that force alone curbed an absolutely rcvo-
lutionary set of leaders
The whole thing may be fairly summed
up in the question:
Did radical labor leaders Of Seattle use
the general strike to start revolution. or
Did Mayor Hanson use the revolution"
to break the strike?
New-York tribune., 1919-02-26
"Plunger" Ludendorff

Chancellor Scheidemann rufled Junker
sensibilities the other day when he called
Ludendorff "plunger" But Schede-
mann was right. In the military sense
Ludendorff was a gambler. His gambling
propensities, translated into strategy,
ruined Germany.
Ludendorff made two disastrous
plunges. The first was his decision
in the winter of 1851, in favor of
unrestricted submarine warfare. His
influence overruIed Bethmann- -Hollweg.
Had Ludendorf stood by the Chancellor
Germany might have hoped to avoid war
with the United States. The second
plunge was the German West Front Of
fensive Of 1918, which there is reason to
believe Hindenburg and the Kaiser op-
posed.
Hindenburg's relations with Luden-
dortf are still to be cleared up, but the
elder and minor partner in the once
famous military firm showed great deal
of magnanimity in accepting response
bilities at headquarters when Ludendorff
was about to run away. Hindenburg is
still magnanimous. His letter to Scheide-
mann says "The unscrupuous and
frivolous characteristics of the plunger
are wholly foreign to his [Ludendorff's1
nature"
This tribute, though we'll meant, misses
the point. Ludendorff was serious minded
and conscientious. But these virtues only
intensified his failings. He took big
chances in spirit Of intense dogmatism
He clung obstinately to conceptions which
events had proved erroneous. He was
headstrong enough TO despise Americas
military power. He was also headstrong
enough to keep on playing Foch's game
in 1918, after the Second Marne had
clearly shown what Foch could do and
intended doing. He was not prudent
enough to retreat quickly. Afterward
he lost the power to retreat.
If Germany had won Ludendorff would
have been acclaimed genius Now the
Germans are beginning to see in him
only the "plunger" who staked Ger
many's all on two throws and lost both.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-26
Put Art to Work

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: 1t IS about tine that America
and her allies realize the important part
which art in all its ramifcations is destined
to play in the immediate future France
has wisely taken the initiative and organ
lied the Interallied Art Association The
Belgian soyereigns and the French g0y-
ernment have given their support and lefus
hope that the United States viii follow suit
Never in the history Of the world has there
been a moment like the present when it IS
so necessary TO reach the hearts Of the
great people through art. and esDeciaE
dramatic art. Sermons, lectures and all
forms CT official propaganda are inevitably
associated with rather stuFy atmosphere
of ennui. One can scarcely blame the gen
eral public for being anxious TO amuse ITSELF
and if the Allies are as alert as they ought
to be they viii take advantage of this fact
CHARLES c. ALL0M.
New York, Feb. II, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-02-26
A Respectful Letter 10 the President

My Dear Mr.. President: I am one of
the American people. AS such I have
talked with many of the American peo-
pie. And as such I have never heard
human being of them say anything else
than that the American people went to
war with Germany because Germany had
insulted the American people, had
wronged and had angered the American
people, and had forced upon the Ameri-
can people a conflict to the death, which
compelled us to enter it in order to end
at once and for all time the German
menace to the future safety of the Amer
lean people.
Yesterday, in your address in Boston.
Mr.. President, you stated that eve" put
all our men and all our means at the dis
posal of those men in Europe who were
fighting for their homes and for their
common cause. Mr.. President, may be
permitted to say that | do not know q
single one of the American people who
agrees with you in that statement? It
was for the reason that 1--WE" were
eiOdoSO anu UetclllllHeU 10 1SnL at once
for oar homes; for the reason that their
common European cause had become oar
American cause--therefore thousands of
our American dead lie amid the homes
Of Europe, with uncounted thousands
ready and willing to follow them and to
die there.
Go into the streets of any American
city, Mr. President, and stop at random
any twenty men, or fifty men, or hrn
dred American men, and inquire of them
one by one whether the United States
fought Germany solely in behalf of Eu-
rope or fought it also in war of self
defence, and get their answers. And.
Mr. President, may l respectfully ssk
you one question and request you to an
swer it before the American people?
When and where have YOU been told
by the American people that a rejection
by them, of the constitution of the league
Of nations as at present framed bv YOU
would mean the willingness and the in
tention Of the American people to aban-
don the suffering and endangered ma
tions of Europe to their fate?
ONE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
New York. Feb. rs, 1919,
New-York tribune., 1919-02-26
Letters to The Tribune
\ Triple Memorial
To the Editor OF Tie Trihnnn

To the Editor Of Tie Tribune.
GNIR: The last recommendation and tba
- most elaborate in Washington's first
annual message to Congress was on
behalf of education. 1t urged the founds-
tion of national university, which. as
Senator Lodge says in his Life of Wash
ington," he had very much at heart and to
which he constantly returned The nation
al university has never advanced beyond
the recommendation of the first President.
What more appropriate, more living
monument could be erected to our dead
heroes than a national house of learning
in our national capital, where could BE-
preserved and propagated the ideals which
they died to keep alive? Here could come
the great from every nation bearing the
torches of the new civilization which the
free peoples of the earth have with their
lifeblood ushered into the world. Here
could the youth Of the land be trained in
all the arts Of good citizenship Here could
be taught in untainted, unhyphenated form
a sterling Americanism.
In loving memory of the greatest Of cur
war heroes let the hall of learning be
called the Roosevelt National University.
Nothing would SO please him than to be
considered one of those who died for his
country-fghting.
The memorial would be threefold in
scope. 1t would be a memorial to Wash
ington, who first realized the need of
pure, unentangled Americanism II would
be a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt. who
in the great crisis was the first to see
the peril lurking in the path Of our
Americanism-w we had Of it in 19l4-
and preach with his whole soul against
the menace. 1t would be a memorial TO
our brave boys who died across the seas
that the ideals for which Americanism
stands might yet live
ARTHUR H. BONE.
Brooklyn. Feb. %. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-26
won it was necessary to preserve its

won it was necessary to preserve its
fruits.
The diction of the President is smooth
and elegant, but he has uttered no such
flaming words in identification of the
nature of the conflict and in prescrip-
tion of remedy as have come from the lips
OF Clemenceau, and the inspired Dan
nunzio, of Italy. Read Maeterlinck the
Belgian, and Redmond the Irishman, and
Miliukoff the Russian, or even Herman
treneau the German, before saying Eu-
rope knew not what the war was about
and what must be it's settlement until
America told her.
1t i'll behoovss any American to init
mate that until our arrival the brave de-
Tenders Of general liberty thought they
were selfishly fighting for purely nation
alistic or imperialistic aims This seems
a hangover from German propaganda
uayS; anC VergeS on insult TO our allies.
Look from any hillside on the Marne at
the serried graves or think of the black
day when the gas cloud rolled across the
lines at Ypres, and you will be little in
clined to belittle the brave dead 1t is no
time for national braggadocio or salutes
to ourselves as the only people. We did
we'll, but have no monopoly Of we'll doing,
and nothing is more likely to sap the
moral foundation of any peace league
than for any nation to overexalt itself.