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The Washington herald., 1919-06-01
Noted DC. Author Praises
Stories of Girl Graduates

ing will bring to many OF them tn
first realization of what the futur
means"
In their letter you have pub
hshed in your columns" she told
the Girl Graduate Editor. L see my
self again a girl of II. determined
to make myself the great Ameri-
can novelist
Laughingly. but with moistened
eyes. she told of her first and last
attempt at novel writing.
thought it was wonderful.
she said. but after one editor
after another had rejected 1t l was
convinced my literary career had
been blighted. II was not until
] had married that realized nv
line lay in short story writing
and that had better leave loveis
for others"
Always Wanted to Write.
Like several of the GIRLS who
have written the Girl Graduate
Editor. Mrs. Frye said she had
always wanted to write"
Il remember scribbIing as lust a
wee GIRL she said, "'and in school
my favorite lessons were alwavs
those with writing attached to
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Nationwide Strike
May Iie-Up Wires
G.. T. u. A. Threatens to Call Out All Teleg,
raphers Unless Phone Girls at Atlanta
Are Reinstated in Jobs.

The fight of union wire operators
phone workers reinstated there as
sumed national Importance last night
when It was stated by union officials
that unless the Atlanta situation Is
satisfactorily adjusted there will be a
nationwide strike of telegraph and
telephone workers.
President S. J. Konenkamp of the
Commercial TeIegraphers' Union. with
which the telephone workers are af-
fiiiated. is said to have authorized
the ultimatum rendered Atlanta ccm-
panies yesterday demanding reinstate-
ment of the discharged telephone
workers. under threat Of a general
walkout Monday afternoon.
May Call Out Over Million.
Some 100 girls were discharged in
Atlanta and the strike there would
involve only about 1000 workers.
but 100000 wire workers would be
out on the general call through the
country. officials here estimated last
night. II the railroad telegraphers
follow, 200. 900 more will be affected.
President Konenkamp. who is in
Montreal. Canada is said to have
sent word to the Atlanta workers
that he is ready for the showdown
threatened Recently. when here.
.
move to meet these continued viola
tions of faith on the part of the
companies will be action by us
there will be no more talking"
Last night F. H. Mcdowell, chair
man Of the legislative committee OF
the Washington District Council C..
T. U. A., said: Notice has been serv-
ed upon the officials OF the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company
and the Southern Bell Telephone Com
pany at Atlanta. that unless discharg-
ed telephone girls are reinstated by
noon Monday a nation wide strike
will be called Of all members OF the
C. T U. A. and the Interna tional
Brotherhood OF Electrical Workers at
3p m. Monday.
Prepared for General Strike. =
President Konenkamp, was told OF
the ultimatum and approved OF ii. The
International Union fs prepared TO
back a nationwide strike 10 II Is
forced by the stubborness Of the of.
ficials at Atlanta"
Mcdowell said a national strike
would involve more than 2O0.0ao men,
bers OF the two unions He declared
that the railway telesraphers' unions.
with 10000 members. is prepared 20
back the other unions If the COM
panies attempt to send commercial
business over railroad wires.
The CT. u. A. in entering this
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A possible nonstop transatlantic
tight from Europe to America by
the navy seaplane NC-4 is interest
ing Navy Department officials.
A dispatch received at the depart
ment from Admiral Plunkett. COM
manding the destroyer force. indi-
Gated a desire to attempt the return
trip. In the dispatch he asked if the
department had any further in
structions. As he was in complete
control of the first part of the jour-
ney. it was believed here his mes
sage was a hint for authority to
make the return trip.
Asks Further INSTRUCTIONS"
His dispatch-the only one re-
ceived from him at the Navy Depart
ment yesterday-said:
"NC-4 arrived Plymouth. 1924 8.
m. t.. in perfect condition. Joint
mission of seaplane division and
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Your Ambition Story contests
are wonderful"
ENTHUSIASTICALLY. Mrs. Virginia
King Frye. author. and friend of
all girls. indorses the contests The
washington Herald is conducting
in the high and normal schools
OF the city.
The stories have read" Mrs.
Frye told the Girl Graduate Edi-
tor yesterday. have been mar
yeIous when one realized they all
we're written by schoolgirls. Many
OF them show the exact mental
process that leads to success-and
/ prophesy those girls will re-
aIize the dreams about which they
have written.
In consenting to act as one of
the judges in the Girl. Graduate
contest for The Herald. Mrs. Frye
declared that she believed the con-
test would be OF great benefit to
the girls.
They can't all win" she said. ''bu
IN of them can write. and the writ
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taught. all through their boyhood up
to the point OF war, that bloodshed
was to be avoided at all cost. and
that the civil law was a remedy for
all qarrels. however passionate, and
that the code of life was gentle, cour-
teous and kind. Now suddenly all
that was reversed by the necessity
OF killing Germans by any means. in
large numbers, at every hour Of the
day and night. Their bayonet drill
was devised scientifically to inflame
their blood lust. have seen boys
SO influenced that after they had stab
bed the ssndbags ferociously, they
kicked them as though they were
then bodies OF their enemy. onicers
told them impressively that after
they had once been really "blooded. '
that is to say. when they had really
killed their man, they would like it
and want to go on killing.
"w'>re's 'Arry?" asked q cockney
serser, whose platoon was bsyonet-
ting CiArirans in a trench tight. Arr
vas a tender-hearted fellow. rather
.'sotty," and the sergeant called
for him to do little bit OF killing
SO that he should be properly hard
ened and get the blood lust. 1t was
part OF the training.
So every day boys who had come
out Of nurseries and academies for
young gentlemen" and elementary
schools regulated by a gentle code.
were taught how to kill the enemy by
patiently watching for any head to
show above a sandbag parapet, by
machine cunning a group Of men visi-
Bile through a periscope. by bombing
him or knitting him in the darkness
of No Mans Land. by strangling him
in underground tunnels. by blowing
him up at the touch of a mine charge.
by soaking his dug-outs with poison
gas. and by smashing him to death
with gun fire. precisely as he tried to
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ght. is putting aside its own griev-
ances In favor of the telephone girls"
said Mcdowell. From seventy-five
to one hundred girl opera..srs have
been discharged by the Atlanta COM
panies for no reason except that they
became union members. Fourteen
were discharged in one group last
Friday.
Tried to Reach BurIcson.
The union has made repeated ef-
forts to call this practice TO the at
tention OF Postmaster General Burle-
son and recently also took it Up with
Secretary Wilson of the Labor De-
partInent. Nothing came Of these ap-
peals.''
a. w. Carter served the ultimatum
on the Atlanta officials. Carter is
general chairman OF the c. T. U. A.
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Burned Beyond Reeognition.

Burned Beyond Reeognition.
An even bloodier catastrophe be-
fell the Roamer car of Louis
LecocQ, of Los Angeles. which, in
its ninety-siXth lap got out OF con-
troll, entering the back stretch and
turned over. pinning Lecocq and his
mechanic, r. Bandini. under the
wreckage which Immediately burst
into flames
Before the gaze of the thousands
many of whom lined the course on
either side of the catastrophe,
Lecoca and Bandini were SO badly
burned that their bodies were al
most unrecognizable. The third
casualty befell the Ballot car Of
Bablot, which was being driven b.
Jean Chassagne. This car hit the
retaining wall at the head of the
home stretch, throwing out Chas-
sange and Romiquer. his mechanic.
The driver escaped injury. but
Romiquer was hurt about the head.
wilcox was a dark horse. held at
10 to l in the betting. but a young
ster of stamina and nerve.
Eddie Hearne. in a Durant Special.
was second. and Jnles GouS in a
second Feog.a,.shird, wilcoa'ss time
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ALLIES RESENTFUL
OF JUNKER TACTICS

Paris, May n.-The insistence Of the
German delegates on their right to
debate the peace terms is viewed with
resentment by the allied ENJOYS. who
point to the fact that during the
war the Germans violated inter-
national procedure in every possible
way. -
Their latest violation of recognized
procedure. the publication Of their
couater-proposals before they were
handed to the allies. Is held to be
proof of the belief entertained in
many quarters that the Junkers are
stifl in control in Berlin
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Three Auto Driuers
Die on Speedway;
Wilcox Is Winner
Arthur Thurman, Said to Be from District;
Louis Lecooq and R. Bandni Sacrificed
in 5OO-Mile Liberty Sweepstakes at Indi-
anapolis-First Prize of $4,000 Goes to
Green Driver of Peugot.

Motor Speedway Indianapolis May 3l-Ihee automobile
Sweepstakes here. by Howard Wilcox in Peugot
First of the casualties befe the Thurman Special which
driven by Arthur Thurman. of Washington D. c. got of his
control the upper the foyh lap and turned killing
Thurman and critically nunns NJ Molnero. his mechsnician
Mrs. Thurman. his beautiful wife the gandstand
to Indianapolis
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TROUBLE AT SARAJEV0
CAUSES SIEGE STATE

Miisn. May 90 tjelayed).-A state OF
siege has been proclaimed in Belgrade
as the result Of Socialist agitation fob
lowing the arrest Of several radical
leaders in Sarajeyo. according to ad-
wees received here
Bloody encounters are said 10 hare
occurred between troops and civiliaos.
Many regiments have been recalled
from Hungary. u was reported.
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BERNSTORFF BRANDS
TREATY DEATH EDICT

London. May S.--"No German can
be found who will attach his name to
a document that would be the death
sentence OF the Fatherland." Count
Won Bernstorff is quoted as saying to-
day in Berlin.
This quotation was contained in a
news agency dispatch. in which the
former German Ambassador to the
United States denied as ridiculous the
report that he was slated to succeed
Count Won Brockdorff-Rantzau as
head Of the German delegation at ver-
sailles
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NC-4 Flight Home
Ambition of Navy
Possible Nonstop Return Trip Interests
Officers-Daniels and Roosevelt
Praise Read and Crew.

he destroyer force accomplished
Regret loss of NC-1 and damage t.
NC-5. Nevertheless information oi
utmost value gained thereby. Has
department any further instruc-
tions?'
A return trip by the NC-4 would
be much more difficult than the
fight across just finished. Not
only is the distance greater than
that of any leg of the Eastward
flight. but winds generally are un-
favorable, handicap particular
ly hard for a heavy seaplane to
overcome.
So far. officials have refused 10
speculate whether the attempt will
be made. Secretary Daniels has re-
fused to discuss the plan.
NC-3 Being Sent Home.
The NC-3. according to reports, is
being taken apart for shipment back
home. The NC-4. if a flight home
ward Is decided against. will be
SnlDDGQ DdCh u
Admiral Plunkett's reference in his
dispatch to the information obtained
through the NC-1 and the NC-3 in
terested navy officials. Commander
Towers feat in sailing the NC-S into
Ponta Delgada practically by dead
reckoning''-sailing without the aid OF
the sun and stars-will show what a
seaplane Of the NC type can do on
the water as well as in the air. prop
erly handled.
Messages to Read.
The moment news OF the arrival al
Plymouth of the NC-4 had been
rushed to his desk. Secretary Dan-
iels dictated and dispatched the foi,
lowing message to Commander Albert
Gushing Read:
"All OF the people OF America are
happy Nover your successful fight,
which has been an epoch-making event
in the history of the world.
MY congra tulations and greetings
and good wishes"
Assistant Secretary OF the Navy
Roosevelt, in an interview. said:
I'VE are all perfectly delighted.
may add that we all expected II OF
comdr. Reed and his gallant Ameri-
can crew. They have now completed
the trip mapped out for them in its
entirety. and can tell you that the
American navy. to a man. is mighty
glad and proud of the wonderful
achievement"
Praised by British.
Congratulations to Comdr. Reed and
his crew and the naval air service
have been sent by. the. British Ad-
miralty through Admiral Knapp. The
admiraps letter was quoted i'm the
following cablegram from Admiral
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Vessels Whistles Shrek,
Cheers of Great Crowds
Arise.
EPOCHAL FEAT FINISHED
American Navy's Famous
Aircraft Ends Last Leg
Of Its Flight.


The famous navy seaplane. NC-4,
lay snugly in Plymouth harbor to-
night. after carrying the Stars
and Stripes from America to Eng
land in the first transatlantic
fight in history.
Lieut.. Comdr. Read and S men
who took the great sky ship safely
through the perils of the Atlantic
air lanes were hailed as heroes
when they skinned into the bay
at e:25 O'Clock this afternoon,
climbed from their places in the
cockpit and boarded the cruiser
Rochester.
Get Noisy Welcome.
There they were greeted with
hearty hand grasps by Admiral
PIunkett. U. s. N. and British Ad-
mirsI Thurby and by their COM
rades of the NC-1 and NC-3. who
failed to get across, while the stir
ring strains of '"The Stars and
Stripes Forever" played by the
ships band. blended with the
screeching of many steam whistles
and the cheering of thousands on
the heights of the town
Welcoming the Americans. the
mayor made a short address. dwell
ing on the historical significance OF
their landing at Plymouth. laud
ing their daring and courage.
where Pilgrims Set Sail.
out of a small beginning here in
1870 sprung a mighty people" said
the mayor. To-day. in the most
dramatic fashion, their descendants
crossed back in a way undreamed
of by their forefathers. Their
achievements will go down in ris-
tory. not only as wonderful
triumph over the elements. but in
bringing the two countries together
fraternaliy-
The NC-4 was berthed within a
short distance Of the spot where.
nearly 800 years ago. the Pilgrim
fathers embarked for the new world
on the Mayflower to settle the land
whose sons have just returned to
old England through the air.
start. Mt o,27 A. NJ.
At 6:27 o'clock this morning. the
NC-4 started away from Ferrol, on
the Northern coast of Spain. where
she had lain overnight after hav-
ing been forced to descend in the
middle OF the Lisbon-Plymouth lap
Of the flight. to have a leaky rad
istor repaired
Soaring under bright skies the
sfaut seaplane crossed the bay OF Bis
cav. being reported with clocklike
regularity by the American destroy
ers stationed along that stretch of
her 3O9-mile flight
Over Rrest. the famous American
military port in France. she circled
at an altitude of LOCO feet at II a m.
then purred away northward across
the English channel, on the last dash
10 miles.
\ fog obscured visibility in that
area. and the plane descended to
within 90 feet of the gray waves.
boring through the mist straight for
plymouth. her navigators setting the
course
Great Crowd Waiting.
At Plymouth a great crowd was
waiting. The people had seized all
noints of vantage. Thousands clus-
tered on The Hoe, the historic emil
pence where. it is told. Drake calmly
finished a game of bowls before going
forth to fight the Spanish armada.
Intercepted wireless messages. rush
cd to London, had told Britain of the
prosress' of the fight, and the word
spread that the Americans were rap
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Bernstor6 Going to Rome.

Rome. May 31.-The Berlin corre-
spondent OF the Corriere DJtaiia
wires that Count Won Bernstorff will
be appointed German ambassador 10
Italy.
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CAPR0NI FALLS 1000
FEET; ESCAPES UNHURT

Milan, May I-Signor Caproni. in
ventor Of the airplancs of that name.
escaped unhurt when big triplane
fell 1000 feet here today. The four
other occupants were injured. 6, ~
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S5O,000 in Prizes
Will Be Divided
By Ten Winners

These are the speedsters who
finished in the money, with the
cars they drove and amounts OF
the prizeS.
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was 5:4Lel. which gives an aver
age of S7.ls miles per hour.
Although the speed average for
the total flight was not so striking
~ in contrast with other recent
events. the race of today was un.
doubtedIy the fastest in history ir
various xspurts. With the terrific
sgeeo = IN the leaders .unreelec
came xp1 sacreased danger to tbs
participsnts
De Paima Piucky Contender.
Wilcox won his race only astel
the hardest kind OF a contest iu
five of his opponents. each. in all
himself drove.
was probably Ralph de Palma, my
old rival of the mile tracks. who
drove a plucky. dashing race in his
l2-cylinder Packard. but long stops
at the pits. one for a broken valve
spring and the other to replace a
front wheel bearing, kept him from
victory.
Mechanical mishaps also played
every member of which quartet was
prominent at some stage of the race
and one of whom. siaston Chevro-
let, was throughout the middle stages
of the race in close attendance or
the flying Hoosier. In the earlier
stages. Wilcox. DE Palma. the Chev.
rolet Brothers, Earl Cooper and tn,
four members OF the French Ballo
team set "A terrific pace. despite tn,
comparatively warm day. which
/ promised TO raise special havoc viii
their tires.
The Ballot cars were plainly too un
tried for such hard race. and de
veloped mechanical trouble which pu
them out. only one of them-Alber1
GUyot-remaininG in a money-win
, ming position at the finiSh.
The tremendous amount Of mechani
cal trouble among the extremely fas
cars allowed several of the steady,
going type OF speedsters TO find place.
among the first ten who divided tn,
$4,000 purse. Steady-Soing tactics
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CONTINUED ON PAGE -FOUR
The Lamar register., 1919-08-27

nationalism. A certain group In COM
mercialtsn don't care what nag they
DO business under as long as their
business prospers. It's the plain peo-
pie Of the country that love their eoun-
try. It's Americanlsm that stands
against the alien doctrine of interna-
tionaIism.
IN one speech which President VIII
son made before he left for Europe he
said: The time has come for the Unit
ID States to make the supreme sacri-
Gee Of Joining our fortunes with the
fortunes Of men everywhere That's
internationalism.
There isn't any magic charm se
talisman going to bring peace to the
world When the United States ap-
proves an instrument guaranteeing the
territorial sovereignty Of every mem
Der Of the league II IL placing q trs-
mendous burden on the people Of the
country. Unless the mothers are Will
ing to send their soldiers back to en-
force peace between the Jugo-Slavs
and Hungary. or Finland and Russia.
don't advocate the commitment Of the
nation to q policy OF this kind"
The Lamar register., 1919-08-27
EaseInatIon Of 4 hslmst,

The Hun helmet possesses q strons
fascination for the American soldier.
apparently he Is not able to resist the
temptation to capture one whenever
or wherever he sees 1t. A news story
from the Rhine country tells Us that
German policemen Of the towns oc-
cupied BY the American troops have
given up wearing helmets. Many of
the policemen gave them up because
they had none to wear. Others dis
continued their use because the Amer
lean officers made the discontinuance
. request. The American soldiers. It
ID explained. couldn't resist the i'm
pulse to capture them. The German
policemen were rushed all along the
Rhine and deftiy unbonneted. It all
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EvenIno,

Thus my wife and I have begun
together. think that most of our es.
nings will be spent In the room dedi-
Gated TO kind word for life universal.
No matter how closely the warrfnG
forces of existence. within or without
have pressed upon US elsewhere. when
we enter there we enter peace. We
shall be walled In from all darkness Of
whatsoever meaning: our better selves
will be the sole guests Of those lumin-
Gus hours. And .urely no greater good
fortune can befall any household than
To escape m ienoble evening. To attain
- ncf,ie one Is like lying calmly down
10 sleep on mountain top towards
witch our feet have struggled upward
amid enemies all day lons.-JsRss
Lane Aileo.
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Doctors. Fees Reaulated.

The fees OF doctors were prescribed
by law IN Babylon In the days of Neh-
nchadrezzar. The code of Hninlnurupi
the great lawgiver provided: III doe.
tor has operated with bronze lancet
on a man for severe wound. and has
cured hii or has removed cataract
with bronze lancet for a gentleman
and cured the eye OF the gentleman.
he shall receive ten shekels OF silver.
II the patient be the son OF freed
man, the doctor shall receive tve
shakels"
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KANSAS HARVESTING
22s. .0oo. 900 6UsHEL cRoP.
State VIII Receive S4so, ,oo0. 900 fol
New Wheat

State VIII Receive $3.50, ,ooo. 900 for
New Wheat
Wellington. Kan. - The song of q
golden sea. fretted by the droning on
rush of q horde of reapers, is sweeping
across Kansas. II is the song OF the
wheat. And Kansas waits with batsd
breath until the last echo IL lost in the
vanishing fiatnsss of Its golden
prairies.
1t IL q time sf mighty days in KAN
sas, when Its people respond to the call
Of q war torn and famished world for
food. and nature. not to be shamel
by the efforts OF her children. smiles
generously on the state.
A flood OF s45O. 900. 600 will fow int
Kansas when the 90. 1000 900 bushel
wheat crop 10 sold. Kansas, used to
huge crops. IL fairly staggered At the
prospect Of such opulence.
The yield per acre will not be ex-
cessive. although good. Laborers FROM
svery state In the Union are helping
harvest the great crop.
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GENERAL PERshiNo GIVES
eTADiuM TO FRANCE

Commander Presents Il as Teksn u
American Esteem.
Paris--General Secretary Carter Of
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion presented Pershing Stadium to
the American army. General Pershins
received the stadium on behalf Of the
American Expeditionary Force and
then presented It to the French psoplA
In an address he said In part:
Conscious of the service which ath-
lstes rendered and of the influence
athletic training had In making vic
tery possible. II seems = hitting con-
oaEstea that eur Lahsrs in 4 CANNON