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The Washington times., 1919-11-17
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX.


/ look over your columns avary
day and find out that you help a
lot OF people, and l am sure YOU
can help me. I am young mar
ried woman and my husband won't
i've with me, but he comes to see
me ABOUT hve nights a week Some
times we quarrel and sometimes
we don't He is invited TO
party. and he says he is going. but
L oont want him to go, for l want
him TO go out with me. Dou you
thlnk he should go? He very sell
oom goes out with me unless we
go 10 a movie. l really think he
Is ashamed Of me. 1 dress very
piainly for 1 want to save all the
money L can. When l do go out
win MIN he draws my attention to
some OF the other girls who are
dressed up, and l feel very badly
ABOUT 1t. What I want to know is
40 you think he should go TO the
self? PAIuINE
In the first place, your living az
rangements are all wrong | don't
think would permit husband who
N hoI hNc Win l1le 10 Cdll i've
times a week. II he likes you we'll
enough to call that often, he ought
TO live with you as your husband.
If he doesn't care to live as your
husband, he ought not to expect to
monopolize your time. While l
abhor extravaganza in dress, l
think looking shabby is the great
est mistake a woman can make.
Clothes have a legitimate place
in ones living expenses and every
woman should do her best to dress
attractivly. AS to the party, it
doesn't seem right for husband to
accept an invitation which ex-
cludes his wife. Your living ar
rangements are so unusual, how
ever, that l suppose your husband
thinks anything is all right. Don't
quarrel with him. Life is too short
to spend it that way. Besides it
never does any good.
The Washington times., 1919-11-17
Heavens Is the King SICK.

Love is love just as silk is sili
and up TO date all the kings nurses
and all the kings men have nCt
found any very successful adulterS-
tion."-The Times.
The Washington times., 1919-11-17
Fords Or Autos?
OLIVER & RURIINGAME

AUTOMOBILE REPAIRING
Fords repaired and automobiles fixed.
REAR OF 30 II ST. N e.
The Washington times., 1919-11-17
How Much Off

A thirst parlor at Eleventh and
You streets bears this inscription or
side wall:
soft Drinks Off All Kinds
The Washington times., 1919-11-17
Theater Ticket Speculators-

Three complaints about thts:
Unable to get hheoter seats at tbs
boz Offices of usedters, bat able to
get plenty at hotel specstIators' of
fees for greatly enhanced prices.
For instance: offered five and O
half for ttco seats at one shoe and
couldn't get anything s0orth vhiie.
At the hotel, hotceper, got ioondsr-
ful seats IN the fue end a half class
paying seuen seventy. Who gets
the ertru t1ar tar. Ard tciy is the
heater ticket spec1llator ollotred?
The Washington times., 1919-11-17
A Little Light Suppcr Perh,nsr

Lttle Ldght SuppSr, Ftrnaps!
Well, here's chance for some one
to get the inside dope on electrical
wiring, III bet. The Electrical Con-
tractors-Dealers Association is 60
ing to have banquet in the Ebbitt
Hotel, November 21st- IL J. c. Nc
LAUGHLIN goes, ] hope his cleo
trio automobile doesn't run out Of
juice en- route.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-01

ator Knox no more belong in the same
political group than Abraham Lin
coin and Jefferson Davis did. There
is just as much cleaverage between
them on policies which really matter
in the life of the common man.
The old party organizations hold
together because they are old party
organizations land because system
of individual and geographical priv
ileges has grown up about them. The
control of government is business.
1t yields an actual tangible income.
1t yields enormous semi-legitimate
profits, as when it threw hundreds of
millions of dollars worth of war con-
tracts into the Southern States dur
ing the war. 1t is vested interest,
almost as much as the United States
Steel Corporation. AS long as this
lasts the voters ballot, unless he is
reactionary, will be thrown away. The
liberal voter who does not care to
vote the Socialist ticket is in effect
disinfranchised.
But it is, as Mr.. McCurdy again
points out, a second party that is
wanted, not a third one; we need a
liberal party, not having one.-Atlan-
ia Georgian.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-01
NEEDS SECOND PARTY
NOT A THIRD PARTY
Opposite Views of World Questions
Are Not Now Presented by the
Existing Parties

Most of us are under the impress
sion that because we have choice
of two major candidates and two
major platforms in presidential cleo
tions we therefore have two major
parties. This is an interesting illu-
sion, but, as Allen McCurdy sets forth
in an Particle in the New York Ma
ton, not wholesome one. Writing
in 1891 James Bryce declared of
our supposedly opposing political
groups: Neither has anything def
mite to say about any one of the
twenty issues one hears discussed as
seriously involving the welfare of the
people. All has been lost save office
or the hope of it"
Vice President Marshall, Mr.. Nc
Curdy says, has offered five dollars
to anyone who can tell him the dill
erence between the Republican par
ty and the Democratic party. VIII
liam Hard, writing in the Metropoli-
tan Magazine, asserts: "The truth is
that there are no national parties
in America. That is, in America, the
major parties, the Democratic and
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-01
SELECT YOUR SEED
POTATOES AT HARVEST

The custom of using as seed pota-
toes left from the previous seasons
crop, after having disposed of the
best, must be discontinued if the pres
ent quality and yield of the crop is
to be materially improved, say spe-
cialists of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. The grower
cannot expect to get maximum
yields from inferior seed stock any
more than the dairyman can expect
to get maximum milk yields from
scrub cows. The best time to select
seed potatoes, according to the spe-
cialists, is in the fall when the crop
is being harvested. Then the yield
of the individual plant and the quail
ty of the tubers can be considered.
Good seed is pure in respect to the
variety; is produced by healthy, Wig
orous, heavy-yielding plants grown
under favorable climatic conditions;
is somewhat immature; reasonably
uniform in size and shape; firm and
sound. The first sprouts should be-
gin to develop at planting time.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-01
parties, are not parties at

Republican parties, are not parties at
ALL"
Not parties at all in the sense that
they represent opposing views of
great issues in which the people are
profoundly interested, On basic
questions we have only one great par
ty-"one of the most reactionary par
ties of stability and order in the
world" "This party" Mr.. McCurdy
says, "has two sections; the Northern,
or Republican, and the Southern, or
Democratic"
This is startling analysis for those
who have voted the straight Republi-
can or straight Democratic ticket all
their lives, and are proud of it. Yet
think it over. The Democrats were
once the party of individual initia-
tive and national isolation. Within
seven years they have become the
party of Capitalization and a vast
scheme of international alliances, if
they are judged by the President they
elected and now support. The Re-
publicans, on the other hand, have
taken up narrow view of American
ism which they once spurned land are
on the whole nearer the Jeffersonian
theories than are their opponents.
But the parties have not simply
changed places, or names or member
ship; they have become intermixed
and intermingled. There are progress
sive groups in each party in Congress
which run more easily together than
with the reactonary groups of their
own party. Hiram johnson and Sen
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-01

world, from her soil; but that does
not pay our debt to her. Nothing
can pay such a debt. She now de-
sires that we should promise to lend
our great force to keep her safe
against the power she has had most
reason to fear Another great nation
volunteers the same promise. 1t is
one of the fine reversals of history
that the other nation should be the
very power from whom France fought
to set US free.
"a new day has dawned. Old an
tagonisms are forgotten. The COM
mon cause of freedom and enlighten-
ment has created new comradeships
and a new perception of what it is
wise and necessary for great nations
to do to free the world of intolerable
fear. The governments who wish to
be members of the League of Ma
tions ask leave of the council of the
league to be permitted to go to the
assistance of a friend whose situa-
ton has been found to be one of pc
culiar peril, without awaiting the ad-
vice of the league to act.
at is by taking such pledges as
this that we prove ourselves faithful
to the utmost to the high obliga-
lions of gratitude and tested friend
ship. Such an act as this seems to
me to be one of the proofs that we
are people that sees the true heart
of duty and prefers honor to its own
separate course of peace.
"Woodrow Wilson"
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-01
WILSON'S MESSAGE
ON FRENCH TREATY

Washington, July 29.-President
Wilson's message to the senate fol-
lows:
Gentlemen of the Senate: take
pleasure in laying before you treaty
with the republic of France, the OBJ
ject of which is immediate military
assistance to France of the United
States of America in case of an un-
provoked movement of aggression
against her on the part of Germany.
l earnestly hope that this treaty will
meet with your cordial approval and
will receive an early ratification at
your hands, along with the treaty OF
peace with Germany. Now that you
have had an opportunity to examine
the great document presented to
you two weeks ago, it seems oppor-
tune to lay before you this treaty
which is meant to be in effect part
of it.
at was signed on the same day
with the treaty of peace and is in
tended as temporary supplement to
it. 1t is believed that the treaty with
Germany itself provides protection to
France against aggression from her
recent enemy on the east; but the
years Immediately ahead of US con-
tain many incalculable possibilities.
The covenant of the League of Ma
tions provides for military action for
the protection of it's members only
upon advice of the council of the
league-advice given, it is to be pre-
sumed, only upon deliberation and
acted upon by each of the govern
ments of the member states only if
its own judgment justifes such ac-
ton. The object of the special treaty
with France which l now submit to
you is to provide for immediate as
sistance to France by the United
States in case of any unprovoked
movement of aggression against her
by Germany without waiting for the
advice of the council of the League
of Nations that such action be taken.
1t is to be an arrangement not in
dependent of the League of Nations,
but under it.
at is, therefore, expressly provi-
ded that this treaty shall be made
the subject of consideration at the
same time with the treaty of peace
with Germany; that this special ar
rangement shall receive the approval
of the council of the league, and
that this special provision for the
safety of France shall remain in
=. faree. only until, upon application OF
one of the parties to it, the council
of the league, acting, if necessary, by
a majority vote, shall agree that the
provisions of the covenant of the
league afford her sufficient protection.
81 was moved to sign this treaty
by considerations which will, l hope,
seem as persuasive and as irresistible
to you as they seem to me. We are
bound to France by ties of friendship
which we have always regarded and
shall always regard as peculiarly sa-
cred. She assisted us to win our
freedom as a nation. 1t is seriously
to be doubted whether we could have
won it without her gallant and time
ly aid. We have recently had the
privilege of assisting in driving enc
mics, who were also enemies of the
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-01
FOR SALE

Eight acres Marietta car line, z
room residence, all conveniences,
beautiful oak grove, east front, ex-
celIent neighborhood. Will sell
cheap on reasonable terms. See us
for particulars. Holland Realty Co.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-01

What a funny thing life really is.
A toothless old woman will vainly
seek recognition for the blue blood
in her veins while the whole town
goes mad over kitchen maid with
the bloom of youth in her cheeks.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-01

People do not generally blame a
miser for his penurious propensities.
They envy him his riches.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-01
SENATOR SMITH SAYS
STATE RETAINS POWER

Atlanta, Ga, July 31.-Seeking to
correct an erroneous impression
among certain persons in Georgia and
elsewhere that the federal prohibition
law will rob the states of any super
vision over enforcement of constitu-
tional prohibition, United States Sen
ator Hoke Smith of Georgia has is
sued statement. Senator Smith d.
reefs attention to the language Of the
constitutional amendment giving the
federal and state governments "con-
current power" to enforce by appro-
pirate legislation the mandate of the
amendment to the constitution.
The statement of Senator Smith
reads:
'From newspaper publications it
seems that in certain quarters there
is anxiety lest after the first of jan
uary the enforcement of prohibition
will be left. entirely to federal au-
thorities.
"Such fear is without foundation.
In preparing the constitutional
amendment we were careful to OBJ
serve the authority of the states.
Section 2 provides that congress and
the several states shall have concur
rent power to enforce this amendment
by appropriate legislation. This leg
islation does not supersede state leg
islation; it supplements state legisla-
ton and state authorities are author
lied to legislate in concurrence with
congress to enforce the law"
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-08-01

The desire to be pleased is univer.
sal. The desire to please should be
the same.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-11-11
SENATE RESERVATION.

The reservation to the peace treaty Saturday by the senate will very probably be acceptable to other members of the lea que of nations inasmuch as it is not vital, nor will it seriously affect the league organ ization. But the spirit in which it was conceived it regrettabIc.
 The reservation in effect provides that America alone shall be judge of whether or not she has fulfilled the obligations she assumes in becoming a member state of the league As originally provided for in Article 1, of the league covenant, Any member of the league may, after two years of its intention to do so, withdraw from the league provided that all its international obligations and all its obligations under this covenant shall have been fulfilled at the time of its withdrawal" "
 This, says the senate, is too yague too indefinite It would leave the United States in an unprotected position. So it proceeds to qualify the clause by saying that America is to be the sole judge of the question of whether or not it has full filled all it's obligations international or those incurred IS a member of the league America, it atirms, is not assured of the good faith of the league and, having no con tidence in the fairness of its decisions, de- clines to become a member unless she is left to be the sole arbiter of how long she will remain in the league and the conditions under which she may withdraw
 II t lIo,,-- ,+, this case, it is plain that President Wilson's fears for the destruction of the league may have much foundation in fact It is al- most universally conceded that the coyen- ant in its original form was as weak as it could be and yet contain any promise of being able to function. If weakened by the adoption of all the reservations propos- ed by Senator Lodges coterie, it will most assuredly be a total failure.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-11-11

Wilson and General Shuts signed it be- cause they realized that it was the best treaty that could be obtained under the circumstances and because they were con vinced that under the league of nations as 1t was proposed in time 1t would be possible to correct many of the objectionable fca- lures. For the last four months. obicctmg republican senators have occupied the at tcntion of the nation with their obstructive tactics. And they have accomplished uoth- ing.
 Already they seem to have lost sight of the fact that the United States was compelled to send millions of men overseas. It Is no longer a question of the United States becoming involved in European af- fairs. On the contrary, 1t Is a matter of arrangement of a system under which we will never again be so deeply involved as has been the case during the past three years Isolation has been proven to be an impossible thing for America, and unless we cooperate for peace and help enforce such peace, the future will find us again mixed in European wars.
 American force made victory possible American diplomacy attempted to secure the fruits of that victory by making it impossible, or at least highly improbable, that American force would ever be nccps- sary again And American politicians are doing their utmost to defeat that effort.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-11-11
WATERING THE DOLLAR.
(Kansas City Starr

When the economists tell Us one cause of high prices is the imitation of the Alr- rency, what they mean in the Kansas lang uage is this: There is a lot more money in the World-or what passes for money, in cluding bank deposits-than there was a few years ago. But there are no more of the things people want to buy; no more houses clothes, shoes, or food.
 Obviously if you double the amount of money in the country without changing the amount of goods, people will have twice as much money as they had before, but they will not be any better off. They will not be able to buy more than they could before, because there will be no more stuff to buy
 What will happen? Prices will go Ap, so an article that cost one dollar before, will cost two dollars under the new ar engagement. For, after all, money is only the yardstick for measuring relative values of goods. If you change the length of the measuring stick that fact doesn't in creacs the amount of goods to be measured.
 During the war all the nations, mclud- ing the United States, issued bonds far in excess of the amount of the savings of the people. A good share of the money the government collected from the sale of bonds was borrowed from banks. This merely means that credits, future ability to pay, were capitalized and became part of the money system of the country.
 So the money supply was greatly in creased and prices went up to keep pace with the change in the measuring stick. That is one reason why the dollar will not buy so much as it would five years ago.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-11-11
A YEAR AGO.

One year ago today the entire world was electrified by the news that the Ger man government had signed the stringent armistice terms proposed by the allied military authorities in response to the Teu- ton request for truce and cessation Of hostilities. Twelve months ago the allied armies were halted in their victorious push; American soldiers astride the Mouse, hay ing cut thru the main German line of com municatiOn, were stOpt at the height of their successes.
 In the twelve months since the sign ing of that document, changes in the world order most vital in their significance have taken place; governments which had stood for centuries have fallen; new ones sue ceeded to their places. France, filled with soldiers, has seen them sail away as quickly as they came. Two million men of the A. E. F. have been transported home and are again in their accustomed places ln civil life.
 For the most part executive govern ment, including its departmental branches, has functioned well in the intervening space. But legislative work has seemed to move slowly.
 A peace has been arranged. To the Germans it seems an inquitous thing, be- cause of the terrible punishment it con- tains. To General Shuts, the Boer leader, it also was unappealing, because of certain seventies in it's provisions. To President Wilson, it also contained certain objection able features To certain republican lead CTS in the senate it is inquitous because MT, Wilson had such large hand in it's ar engagement. The Germans accepted it be- cause they could do nothing else. MT.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-11-11

What makes the situation at Plume so menacing is the number of controversies of similar character which have not yet been settled in a way commanding the as sent to the disputants. As was pointed out yesterday in the chamber of deputies at Rome, if the allies should permit Italy to annex Plume it would be hard to keep the Czecha-Slovaks from occupying Tes- chen, the Jugoslavs from seizing klagen, the Greeks from taking Thrace, the Ru- manians from anneXing the Banet. If an orgy of 'clam jumping' should begin 1t would be likely to result in a series of disastrous new wars. However unethical the terms of the secret treaties may be, they do put limit on greed, because they were made while the war was still to be won, and before ambition had expanded in the sun of victory. It may seem a grievance to Italian patriots that the most conspicu- Ous point at which the secret treaties left an opening for the application of the 14 points should be Plume, but the responsi- bility for that falls on the negotiators who made the secret treaties, not on the peace conference or on President Wilson. By the secret treaty Italy's claim is definitely excluded; if its terms should be fagrantly violated what effective check could be put on the many states which covet more terri tory than they have been allotted?- Springfield Republican.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-11-11
COMING FRENCH ELECTIONS ARE
 FIRST OF KIND

LYONS, France.-(P)- The election of a successor to President Poincaire is now only four months distant yet parliamentary elections to choose members of the senate and chamber or deputies must first be held as these in joint session at Versailles in January must elect the tenth presi- dent of the republic.
 Results of the coming election are regarded as more obscure than any since the fall of the empire This is all the more true because of the death of one-half million voters in the war, the coming of age of an equal number of new voters and the anticipated notifications of party lines by new issues resulting from the war and reconstruction.
 Six hundred deputies and three hundred senators are to be chosen No aspirant for any of these seats has yet officially declared his can didacy. There will be no primaries or local conventions as in America but the candidates will be selected by party committees with various com bin&tions of different parties whose principles are not too widely separ- ated.
 The socialists are resolved not to combine with any other party but the radicals have decided to form union tickets in some districts with other purely republican organizations.
 The wide difference between presi- dental elections in France and the United States is illustrated in the facJ that nere the president is chos- en by parliament while in America the chief executive is elected by the vote of the people for electors. Con trary to what opinions abroad might expect from the French, elections here are peaceful when compared to those of America.
 Entirely new legislative and exc cutiye machinery is to be selected. The order of this election will be, election of municipal and general councils combined, elections of depu- ties and senators, organization of the congress at Versailles to choose president, reappointment of the old cabinet by the new president and formation of a new cabinet by the new premier, unless he choses to maintain the old cabinet in power.
 Under the new electoral law the legislative districts have been re duced from 600 to 87 and, instead of voting for a single deputy as formerly, the electors will vote for as many deputies as are allotted to any one department. The number of these ranges from one to forty four The government will print and circulate tickets and campaign literature at the expense of the can didates.