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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-01
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proper authorities.
Uncle Tom Butler and the 4
YeOmen %
Can it be possible that nv de-
friend Tom Butler Of Pennsylvania
known and loved throughout thia
fair land as "Uncle Tom" Butler.
has forgotten his well known chfVs
airy and has gone so far as 10 in.
dictate his unwillingness to continue
the battalion Of yeomen (f) as an
adjunct to the navy? Uncle Tom
is the chairman Of the House Com
mittee on Naval Affairs, a great
man and q veteran naval IegislstoE.,
No greater example Of Women's
patriotism has been shown than BY
the women who enlisted in the navy
and in the marine corps Wash.
ington never saw a prettier sight,
nor has it ever seen women more
devoted to their country Dear
Uncle Tom, / pray that you win
not lay your heavy hand upon the
battalion and wipe it utterly FROM
the face Of the earth. We like
these yeomen % and want to sea
the battalion perpetuated-
A Professor Of English from MinOiA-
The other day my friend.
THOMAS CARTER, who is heIps
ing the Government straighten
some statistics down on 18th and D
streets, N. w.. was handing me Dms
real dope on the birds called the
seventeen year locust.
Here is the tale exactly as he
sounded it of to me:
Hey! LedthernSek, do NOu kROsO
that ia my home t0sCa, dO1VR ~
Girdrd. III. one wear the IOeHSfs
we're so thick you couldn't see -
square inch on the sidewalks, that
UGsR't covered Nth locust. The
sidewalks IOere 80 fill Of EN- that II
you tried to yak you Would slip az
OUeT yourself.
"OHe day the banker of oar tOsOs5
slipped on one of these birds and
broke has arm. IL got so bad YOsL
had to yak out IN the streets, HRta
one day feIC people t0eTe Fsess dosCH,'
so they decided to build bOdFdwGE
through the tOsCH. Yes siT! TkdHs
holU thick then tCere N my hons
torn. TH say those birds WeTe
pretty thick do1IH there"
JACK CURLEY.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-01
Call the Streets

Call the Streets
After you get through with the
Sal drive and finally get the dead
cat to its last resting place, why
not start a little movement all
your own, insisting upon the street
car companies have their conduc-
tors call the streets? Do you
know of anv other CITY where street
car conductors never call the
streets? Perhaps l shouldn't say
never" for there are probably one
in every hundred conductors in
this city who do this. Washington
is a mecca for tourists and this
feature of the city will always be,
becoming, / believe, more and more
so. A stranger asks you to direct
him to a certain point; you do so,
telling him just what car to take
and where to get off; that's the
easy part, for the cars are very
plainly and simply marked, but
poor Mr.. Stranger gets on the
right car. expects to hear the
street you tod him to get of at
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-01
HERE AND THERE

Who remembers who made IA
nous that grand old song Daddy
Wouldn't Buy Ne a Bow-wow?"
And "Ta "a "a IA boom de day?'
Who sang that?
Add to successfully succeeding
in getting by the copy desk, the
New York Tribune's president
Wilson's Fourteen Joints"
No one has mentioned It yet, so
l may say that The Times staff
went to its annual dinner at the
Emerson Hotel in Baltimore last
week. Just like a lot Of writer's to
frequent a hotel with a literary
name like that.
JESS SUFFER- tells me that fish are
selling cheap as dirt down the river
and surmises there is no real reason
for high prices in this city.
Seems to me the District building
promised US some cheap fish a while
back.
NJ. ]. reports a cat in the alley be-
tween Church. @, 14th and 18th
streets.
/ get an S o S from a former
soldier who says Cap TOM KIRBY
has the wrong slant on that bronze
guidon which he claims is floating
the wrong way on the Grant Me-
mortal:
IF Kirby will notice the horses"
says this correspondent, he will see
the artillery outfit has come to an
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-01

]. A. says:
'T wouldn't mind paying cents
for a transfer If the street car COM
panies would sell six tickets for %
cents again, each ticket to be good
for one fare. Everything that is
bought and sold for money, except
rides on the street cars and Govern
ment work, has advanced in price
from so to 100 per cent Then why
not let the street car companies
have a finger in the pie?'
Found
A disabled carrier pigeon with a
band on one foot with (511S) print
ed on it and a plain brass ring on the
other foot. Owner can have same by
calling.
JOSEPH DECKELMAN,
Baltimore St.,
Hyattsville, Md.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-01

BIG Picture Shows Old Father Time Testing Human
Beings, OUR Wearing Qualities. We Don't Like the
Rough Places, Sharp Stones of Hard Luck, High Wall
DisaPpointments Quagmires of Mistakes Steep Hills
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HEARD AND SEEN
By EARL GOODWIN.

Why is it that some of our best
friends and some of the soldiers best
friends are evidently in earnest in
their efforts to wipe out the Govern
ment employment agency?
Strange as it may appear, there
is a strongly organized opposition
to the United States Government
continuing its employment agencies.
Here IN Washington, the local en-
Ployment office, cooperating with
the Board of Management for Re
turning Soldiers. Sailors, and Ma
rines, has placed thousands of re-
turning fighters. free of all charge;
and, what is highly creditable, has
placed TWO soldiers from out of
town for every ONE soldier whose
home was here before the war.
One of the attacks on the Gov
ernment employment agency was
made last week by the Hon. Thomas
L. Blanton Of Texas, a member of
Congress, who was successful in
knocking out the employment agency
item as it Aoated through the House
on the tail end of an appropriation
bill. / believe Mr.. Blanton was Just
as serious about this attack as he
was when he campaiRned for Con-
gress on a platform which included
cutting out what he termed Congress
sional pink teas. He was the man,
you remember. who declared he
would force Congress to convene at
9 o'clock every day instead of noon.
Mr.. Blanton believes that there
are too many hi4h-salaried officials
connected with the employment bu-
reau. never heard of any Govern
ment official who had to carry his
salary home in a wheelbarrow. The
truth Of the situation. as l see it, is
that private employment agencies
have spread ugly propaganda in the
hope of a return to the old days of
graft.
Asa Phillips Water Supply Plan.
We will have to have a greater
supply Of water for Washington
sooner or later. Just what plan is
to be adopted just now is impossi-
bic to predict but / want to con-
graduate ASA PHILLIPS, District
Drainage Engineer on the plan
handed to Engineer Commissioner
KUTZ. Mr.. Phillips is a genius at
engineering, and whether or not his
plan is put into effect it will serve
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abrupt halt and that the wind has
carried the guidon forward moss
naturally"
A correspondent signing "YEO-
WOMAN" puts the lack Of park
benches up to the District Commits
sioners. That is not right. Tbs
Commissioners OF the District Of Coz
lumbia have nothing to do with thSs
parks. They are United States prop
erty, and are administered by th&s
engineer officer in charge Of Publi0,
Buildings and Grounds. I wish he'd
get US some park benches.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-01

Made Automobile Tire, Takes the Road As 1t Comes,
Travels the Distance, Proves the Possession of MILE
AGE for the Tire of Rubber, and COURAGE for the
Human Being.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-01
From the Editors Mail

called in ample time for him to
push the button and get of, but
never a word does he hear pertain
ing to this particular street unless,
he asks some other passenger
where he is or can manage to keep
track of his whereabouts by watch~,
ing the street signs. It's easy
enough for a native or one who
has been in the city for some tina
to grope his way around, knowing
that he will get no voluntary in
formation as to his whereabouts,
but the percentage of floating and
tourist population here is very
high and these people should be
taken care of. Don't you think
this is a fairly good suggeston2
Then, after we get this matter m
working order, we can take anothe4
crack at the ''aisle hogs" who wonEs
move up front and block the wzyri
so others can't get by them Eli? J
NORTHEAST
Your paper has devoted q good
deal of space to Dead Cats" ON th9l
streets of Washington Now, Whzl ;,
about the dogs that are killed by th&
automobile drivers, who pay no a.,
tention to these dumb beasts since
permission has been granted them |
to dash up and down the streets b.
tween intersections Walking 10 vUrA |
the other morning saw one oE thN !
cars used by a local market run |
down a dog, killing il What's 10 b |
said about this? A READER
That dead cat has reached Thomas /
! Circle. Have you seen It?
A war worker who Is sore e ~ !
idea of any kind of regulation whieh
will put up food prices tells me- hS
was charged twenty cents for an or
binary hot dog sandwich at a sOs
called popular" lunchroom SatuR
! day.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-01

of Misfortune, or Any of the
Tests. But the Well Made
Human Being, Like the Well
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-01

At the Business High School 1,5O&s
pupils and alumni gathered to hOnOG.
the boys who went to war either irony.
the school or from the ranks Of th8s
alumni.
Of the $50 tCho tCent to tOGF only,
nineteen we're not present at The
neetiHg-dRd those IUhO lCers misc
ING tCere those lOhO died ~ HRifoTm.
That's a wonderfully interesting
piece of news. II shows the spirit o.
the Business High Schol.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-01
Granny Hunts back again.

1 see by the paper that JIMMIE
MACALLISTER is starting a gers~
mum farm. Interesting, to say the
least
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-01

NJ. ]. reports a cat in the alley be-
tween Church. @. 14th and 18th
streets.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-01

ROSS ANDREWS, MARK SMITH
JOE ROBINSON, and SOUTH TRIM
BILE are fishing for bass.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-01

ROY VERNON tells me he likes hiaS
little pink house on the hillside.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-12
GOVT SAVED
 $25,OOO,OOO

Washington, March 12-By the policy of placing disabled soldiers sailors and marines for retraining in the existing institutions of the coun- try. it is figured that the government has been saved over 25,00o,000 which is a reasonable cost had all the men in training, and to be trained, been assembled in one or two insdtu- tons provided and controlled by the federal government. By using the existing educational institutions, rep resenting an investment of over S30O,- 100000, there is available for the dis abled man an infinitely greater oppor- tunity than could possibly be given through any institution tnaugurated q especially for this work.
 The training Is now given in the best institutions of the United States ranging from Harvard and Yale, Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy, Case School of Applied Science, Columbia University, and the various land grant colleges of the states to agricultural schools, scientific schools, and in some instances direct in the industries. There are. altogether some 500 trades, professions, occupa-
 ttons, cauings, and the industries from which a choice may be made by the disabled man He is by no means, conIhned to manual trades and occu- patious, and the sole an!matjng and dominating thought and object of the Gt,vernue as expressed and carried out by Ats agent, the federal board for vocational education, Is to do i that thing for the disabled mar i which will insure to him the grea tes 1 pcssihilt for future usefulness, hap l piness, and contentment according te l his capabilities
 Placing the men in existing iusti- 1 tutlons instead of herdtng them 1T 1 great camps of crippled an1 disabled 1 men has a beneficial effect upon tho ] men themselves, from a physiolo gica 1 standpoint, causing them to lose sigh 1 of their disabilities. to minimize them ! and concentrate their attention upoI i the capabilities remaining to then l and which are being capitalized b! | retraining.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-12
HOMER s. CUMMINGS SAYS REGENT
 REPUBLICAN FILIBUSTER PROVED
 INJURIOUS TO YANKEE BUSINESS

genial task of picking flaws and ind ing minor objections. It Is a sorry business, fit only for narrow minds and men without heart or vision. Let us not be disturbed by the action of the dissenting Senators. Their ob- tections are written in sand. The in stinct of the American people is with the League of Nations. The alterna- tive program of immediate withdraw al and studious self isolation Is not only a policy of utter selfshness but it must inevitably lead in the end to q world cataclysm in which we shall all be engulfed. I had hoped and still hope that this will not become a par tisan question. The interests at stake are too intricate and too important. The issue concerns our national hon or, our safety and the very structure of civilization. These things are greater than any political party. Fsr- mer President Taft has very properly said that 'partisanship stops at the waters edge Let us support the President in his efforts to secure a treaty of peace based upon a sta bilizing League of Nations, so that war may not recur and the standards of justice may be applied to all na- tiOns alike"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-12
PEASANT HABITS
 PUZZLE SOLDIERS

With American Troops in North Russia, Mar. -(Correspondence of The Associated Press)-The habits and customs of the North Russian peasant are sources of unceasing wonder to the American soldier. The peasants are primitive and are con tent to reside where the average American housewife would roll up her sleeves and spend many days i'll scrubbing before she would live. In these wooden or log huts hundreds of Yankee infantrymen and engineers are billeted this winter.
 The Americans, generally spea king, occupy one half of the house and the family the other. The Americans half is as clean as constant policing can make 1t. But as for the other half, there are chickens, husky dogs of the arctic type, and from two to four generations of peasants wan dering more or less fisceIlaneously about their one or two rooms
 But they keep the chickens coop ed up part of the day" one Detroit Michigan, private told the Associated Press correspondent. You see," he added, they only let them out in the morning to police the kitchen. That's easier than sweeping out"
 The Russian family's side of all these houses Is alright. It is bitterly cold up here in the forests during the six months winter, and the peas ant doesn't believe in wasting heat, His windows are sealed up tight and never, never opened. He doesn't mind the resultant odOr.
 But the American does, and opens the windows in his side of the house and the peasant shakes his head graveIy and worries for fear his
 strange khaki-clad guests will catch cold.
 But the American doesn't catch | cold, and neither does the peasant 1 for that matter, in his alright rooms
 Both systems seem to work equally
 well. Since the cold weather has really set in, the soldier and civilian l populations have both been surpris- | ingly healthy.
 One peasant habit which the Amer 1 ican makes countless jokes about i: | as time honored and unswerva bIe | among the Russians as it is strange | to the Americans. That is. sleepine i on the stove. The Russian village stoves are built of brick or clay o1 ! porcelain. They are about as large a!
 ordinary American bathroom and fla ] on top, except where the brick chim l ney pokes through. One stokes then 1 once or twice a day, until all the i wood is burned out, and then close them up, letting the heated brick radiate their warmth The fat tops ot l these stoves are bed spaces, for thu 1 eldest or most honored of the faml
 lies. American officers have surpris | ol
 invitations to use these choicest of al 1 hedS
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-12
TASHUA AND LONG HILL

MT. Bernstein has sold his place to Italian parties who have taken pos session. MT. Bernstein has taken his household effects to Bridgeport
 Daniel Murphy of Danbury is a wis itor at the home of MT. and Mrs. Abraham Wildman.
 Edward Cotton was given an en- JoyabIe birthday party Saturday eve ming, March 2nd, at his home m Tashua by 20 of his friends from Bridgeport. A merry evening was spent.
 l smith Davis has sold his place to Bridgeport parties.
 1 Adam Linkowski of Torrington is staying at the home of his daughter l Mrs Jankowski.
 A valuable horse on the Swartz place died this past week of Iockjaw. 1 Mir and Mrs. Benedict Spath were given a neighborhood reception at their home Friday evening. Whist was enjoyed the early part of the evening, then dancing followed. The guests present were Mrs. Ell Jen-
 nings and son Emerson of Bridge port, Daniel Murphy of Danbury, MT.
 and Mrs. Joseph Kohler, the Misses Beatrice and Stella Kohler, MT. and lNIrs. Charles Kuechele, Le Roy Ma tcey, MT. and Mrs. Lorenzo R. Wild man, Mrs Samuel G. Seeley, the
 Misses Evelyn Nend Dorothy Seeley, tN1r and Mrs. Albert Heinrich, Miss Louise Heinrich, George Heinrich
 Mir and Mrs. John Keuchele, George Karl and Louise KuecheIe, MT. and Mrs. Benjamin TurTfey, Miss Jennie Turney, William Spath and MT. and Mrs. Benedict Spath.
 The news has reached here of the marriage of Mrs. George Sherman, a former resident of Long Hil, to Wilbur Dunbar of Thomaston, Conn.
 IA supper was given by the ladies
 of the Methodist church in their so-
 ciaI room Friday evening and re ception given to MT. and Mrs. Charles N. Gallup, who leave Long Hill about April 1st to make their home witt
 their daughter, Mrs. H. Edward James.
 Miss Dorothy Beach is visiting rel. a,tiYes in New Rochelle.
 A meeting of those interested in g Community Hall and fire departmen 5 in Long Hill was held WednesdaJ evening in Toucey's hall. Another meeting will be held there March 19.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-12
STEPNEY

The Ladies' Aid society of the Meth odist church will hold a. meeting and supper at the parsonage on Thursday of this week Supper will be served at the usual hour. Mir and Mrs. Thornton RlaKenan arc receiving congratulations over the arrival of a boy, Sterling Eugene, at their home one day last week Miss Elizabeth Gilbert has spent the wek with out of town friends. John Crowley has accepted a. posi- t1on in a, Bridgeport garage. Mrs. Porter spent the weekend as the guest of her sister. | V3ctor Burr has resumed his duties as mail carrier on Route fl after an enforced absence caused by illness. | Stanley Northrop has been i'll for a week with influenza | The local Red Cross Auxiliary will | hold Q meeting at tine home of Mrs. Carleton Paddock on Wednesday of this week.
 | Stanley Botsford is quite ill at his home with an attack of the measles l MT. and Mrs Moore have spent sew eral days in New Jersey. Mrs. Henry Petit assisted in the store during their absence.
 MT. Vess of TaSlua. has rented the D1lIak place and will move his house
 hold goods here about the 18th.
 Edwin Toucey, who has been spersd- ing some time with his aunt, Mrs Charles Burr, in EaSton, flas been al
 his home here for a few days past.
 Mrs. Turney Northrop has been s
 recent visitor at the home of her son
 Stanley Northrop.
 Mrs. Andrew Curtkss, who has beer
 spending some time in New Jersey
 has spent & few days at her homo l here.
 Mrs. George Sturges and Mrs. Ba ker of Stratfield have been guests O
 Mrs. Milon B. Hawley. } Mrs. Daniel Edwards and Miss Do r4s Sharpe spent Saturday as tn, guest of Bridgeport friends
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-12
HINDENBURG LOYAL.

Berlin, Mar. 12. - Discussing the silence of Field Marshal von Hinden- burg in the face of persistent attacks on General I4udendorf end the sus- picion that he will throw the quarter master general overheard, the Tages Zeitung declares 1t Is informed that the contrary Is the case and that Mar sha1 won Hindenburg will stand by General Ludendorf and all the other men who were associated with him in the conduct of the war for Ger many.
 Tn agreement with the Field Mar shal,' the Tages Zeitung adds, there Is now being prepared a memoraT1r dunn which will set forth all pertinent
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-12

from France, he stepped once more on American soil, at Boston, he found the Cadillac again at his service
 The car in which the President rode from the Commonwealth Pier to the Copley-Plaza Hotel was one of sixty-two Cadillacs which were as- signed to meet the Presidential party. It was driven through the crowded streets of Boston by Sergeant William Shea, chauffeur of Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards. Sergeant Shea was se- lected to drive the Presidents car be- cause Maj. Gen. Edwards had found him to be a particularly skilIfuI pilot in the 20,0o0 miles he covered with a Cadillac Army limousine on the French front.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-12
SWANS DISAPPEAR

Berlin, March 12-Tame swans which have padded about the park ponds of this city have been nysteri- ousIy disappearing, the Vorwaerts states. The paper expresses the be- lief that they are being stolen and slaughtered for food. Tame deer in Grunewald and on the former em- peror's game preserves in the vicinity of Potsdam are reported to be meet ing a similar fate.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-12

facts, and Illuminate the charges made against General Dudenorf. D e. made against General Ludendorf. De- lay in the publication of this docu- ment however, suggests that certain influences are at work to prevent its issuance
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-12

When President Wilson set foot ashore in France, on his first trip to Paris, he found an army Cadillac at his service. When, on his return
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-12
PRESIDENTS PARTY MET
 BY SIXTY-TWO CADIDLACS.

Mir. Wilson Rides Boston Streets in
 Car Distinguished for Army Service in France.