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z WOMEN INJURED
WHEN HIT BY CAR

Robert T Smoak, forty years old,
OF 1914 E street northeast. is today
al Casualty Hospital suffering from
injuries sustained last night when
he was struck by a street car OF
the Capital Traction Company al
Eighth and Maryland avenue north
east.
Two women were injured last night
when they were struck by a street
car at Fourteenth street and New
York avenue northwest. The injured
were Miss Beatrice Eastwood. OF 1860
Potomac avenue southeast, and Miss
Dora Cross, of Cherrydale, Va
An automobile operated by Lee
Simonton, of Radio, Va, crashed into
gate post at the Park road en-
trance to the Soldiers Home yester-
day. throwing Lieut.. E. H. Mills and
John Williams. both of Arlington,
Va, and occupants of the Simonton
machine to the ground. Lieutenant
Mills and Williams were treated at
the Soldiers Home Hospital for minor
injuries. Simonton escaped unin
jured.
Slight damage resulted when an
automobile. operated by Marven Wes-
ley, OF ala Fessenden street, Chevy
Chase, collided with a street car of
the Washington Railway and Electric
Company at Sixteenth and H streets
northwest yesterday.
An automobile operated by Rudolph
Alexander. OF 1904 Twenty sixth street
northwest, Collided at Twenty first
and p streets northwest yesterday
with an automobile operated by Ru-
ben Bogley, OF 1907 Twenty eighth
street northwest. Both machines were
slightly damaged.
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What are YOU going
to do TONIGHT?

CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS. one of the greatest of
all writers of animal stories will make you love
Stripes the Unconcerned," bright, intelligent,
little skunk, who loved nothing so much as mind
ing,hs own business, and providing for himself
and his family. After Mr.. Roberts tells you this
story, youwill pause beforeyou carelessy
word skunk" in describing depraved character.
These and many other great writers are waiting
for you between the covers of March Cosmopolitan,
which you can buy on your way home this evening.
From the quiet recesses of their studies, they
have made their observations, and woven their
stories for you. Each has an enormous following
"a following that has made Cosmopolitan the
magazine preferred by more than million Amer
leans, who each month pay more for the privilege
of reading Cosmopolitan than they pay for the
single edition of any other magazine.
To make certain OF an evening with these
world famous writers, get your March Cosmopol-
itan at once. Since it is Americas tavOrite maya.
zine, it naturally follows that it is also America's
fastest selling magazine.
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l. W. w. THREATEN JAIL.

JEROME, Ariz.. Feb. 11.-ATrest OF
a score OF men said TO be ]. w. W.
leaders caused anxiety on the part
of city authorities when a crowd
surrounded the jail and treatened to
tear it down unless their comrades
were released.
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SOLDIER BROTHERS MEET;
THEN DEATH TAKES ONE

DETROIT, Feb. 11.-Three days be-
fore the armistice was signed two
lines of khaki-clad men marched along
q highway in France.
Private Edward ]. Hanrahan,' Fifth
Machine Gun battalion, Second di-
vision, heard his name called. He
looked about and saw his brother,
Sergt. John Hanrahan, 6O2d Engineers.
They had not met for four years, and
the reunion was joyous.
Just a few hours before the armis-
tice was signed, November IL, Private
Hanrahan was STRUCK by a piece Of
fIying shrapnel. He died the same
dRv
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ITOW would you like to spend the evening in
i i the entertaining company of the worlds
greatest writer's! The privilege is yours!
For you, fine, thoughtful JOHN GALswoRTHY,
the greatest of novelists, will come from his quiet
home in livingstone Manaton, Devon, to tell you
the story of an English vicar who thought so much
about saving souls that he lost his own daughter.
JUDGE BEN B. LINDSEY will step down from the
bench of the Juvenile Court in Denver to tell you
what he learned in France about our wonderful
boys and what they really think of the Y. M. C. A.
and why. Judge Lindsey says: "They were not
thinking of saving their own souls; they were not
thinking of anything so selfish" Compare them
with the English vicar about whom Galsworthy
writes.
FANNIE Hurst. who understands the human
heart as few people have ever understood it, will
tell you story about poor little Jewish boy,
whose mother bought him fiddle for his birthday
with the money that she had saved to buy hersefa
new waist. The next time you hear a Heifetz or
an Elman, you will remember this story.
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AZ SOLONS FAVOR
TEACHERS RAISE

Forty-two members OF Congress
have agreed to vote for a bill which
will give District school teachers a
minimum salary of $1,000 per year.
This was the announcement of the
committee on schools OF the Piney
Branch Citizens Association at z
meeting OF the organization last
night at the Iowa Avenue Methodist
Church. The members held a long
debate over the question OF increased
wages for teachers.
Resolutions were adopted urging
Government control of the country's
wire systems until a Congressional
investigation shall have determined
the best method OF future operation.
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PRESIDENT APPROVES
BUDGET SYSTEM PLAN

President Wilson has csbled his ap-
proVaI OF the national budget system
as proposed in the House by Chair
man SherIey OF the Appropriations
Committee.
Glad TO hear you have sub nittsd
. national budget system. Hope you
will succeed" the cable reads.
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U. S. HOSPITALITY CAME
NEAR KILLING BISHOP

LONDON. Feb. 1.-THE American
hospitality and enthusiasm are over
wheIming," says the Bishop of Oxford.
describing his recent visit to the
States.
"onIy the plague OF influenza, which
shut certain cities, kept me from be-
ing killed"
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The Earl OF Reading, who re-
Gently resigned his post as special
counselor to the British peace
delegation at Paris, soon will re-
turn TO the United States. accom-
panied by Sir Grimwood Mears,
according to a report from Lon
don. The Earl OF Reading is
special ambassador to the United
States, and il is expected will
again return TO Washington. Sir
Grimwood Mears headed the COM
mittee which Investigated the
German atrocities in Belgium.
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KILLED IN ACTION
PRIYATES.
Cal. Los Angeles, Nick CarletillO.
MINI, Ada, Elmer =. ChaFlson.
Mimi. Mountain Lake, Alfred u. Hanson.
Ohio, CaFTOltOn, Edward J. Howell.
Ohio, Bedford. Edward Oktavec.
DIED OF WOUNDS.
PRIYATES.
Mich. Highland Park, Charles j. MCClcl-
Mo-. Sedhlia, Antoine =. Wagner.
y. ", Albany, Walter Dixon.
Ian.
y. Y, Utica, Earl J. Santimaw.
Pa, Philadelphia, Thomas l.. Burnett.
DIED FROM ACCIDENT AND
OTHER CAUSES.
PRIVATE.
Ga, Columbus, Lee BuIIaFd.
CORPORALS.
y. Y, YOnkers, Arthur Edwards Mackay.
Okla, Bailey, Leo MrCiriff.
WAGNER
y. v, GaspOTt, Charles ID. Harrington.
DIED OF DISEASE.
PRIVATES.
Ark, Mulberry, OryiIIe ShaddoH
Neb.. Bushyille, Paul w. HaKeI
~. j., Elizabeth, Joseph DOyle
n. ", Brooklyn, Joseph Evans
Ohio, Cleveland, Felix FIschIetio
Ore, Castor, George ID. Hodges
Wis, Red Granite, Robert BIackWoOd
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Total Casualties Announced Now 241, Ass;
Fl Dead, 1923 Wounded in Today's Lists

casualty lists
total for the
the
The total for both
corps far S Al
The army lists issued today contained the of killed IN
wounded wounded
wounded slightly and I missing in action.
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GLASS WOULD ISSUE
1OBILLION IN BONDS

Congress had before it today Sec
retary GIass's request for permission
TO issue $4,000 100000 in Liberty
bonds. Glass also asked the Treas
ury be allowed to fix the interest
rate on the Victory loan.
Glass also seeks permission to is
sue Treasury notes. maturing within
FIVE years, up TO an additional So.
OO0, 100000. He also requested that
the Treasury be allowed be deter
mine tax exemptions in future issues
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DRY PROCLAMATION
STAMPED ILLEGAL

PROVIDENCE. r. /. Feb 1.-THE
Providence JoGFual prints today
statement declaring that after coH-
sultation with some OF the best
known constitutional lawyers iI the
country. II is believed The action OF
Acting Secretary Polk in proclaim
ing the prohibition amendment CT
fective and adopted was illegal. The
proclamation is entirely void. the
Journal contends for the reason thar
when IL was made thirty-siN states
bad not ratified the amendment
This list OF States" the state
ment reads. Included a number OF
states the constitutions OF which con
tained provisions for referendum OF
the acts and resolutions OF their leg
iElative assemblies. Among these
States were Ohio and California"
Cites Ohio Case.
The referendum provision in Ohio.
the journal continues, has been be
fore the United States Supreme Court
which held that the people Of Ohio,
under the provision. are a part of the
lezielature. An amendment 10 this
provision was adopted at the general
election in 1918, the statement points
cut, under which ratification by the
assembly OF a national constitutional
amendment may be subjected to a
referendum. The right of the people
of California 10 similar action is
cutie as clear. according 10 the Jour
hal. The statement continues:
Undoubtedly. the State OF Ohio. for
instance. has not ratified, and ratih
cation cannot be said to have Oc-
CURED in the State OF Ohio until the
referendum. proceedings have been
completed.
Assumed Toe Much
Therefore, Nr. PoIk's proclamation
declaring that thirty-six States had
ratified as OF January 16r 1919, is void
and without force. 1t assumed thai
the States listed as ratifying had COM
rleted their procedure when in fact
their procedure was no more com
PIete than it would have been if only
sne house OF the general assembly
had acted and the decision OF the
ether house was still undetermined
LINCOLN. Neb., Feb. 11.-Gov-
Samuel r. McKelvie declared yestsr-
Gay he believed there was nearly as
much intoxicating liquor in Nebraska
when he assumed office recently as
there was when this State had open
saloons He made this, statement in
connection with a request for an
emergency appropriation by the legis-
latuFe to employ men TO prevent the
importation OF alcoholic liquors.
Nebraska has been a dry" State
for more than a year.
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in the lands of their genesis. Yet the
annual concert and operate record OF
Philadelphia, New York, Chicago and
Boston will unquestionably surpass both
in quality and quantity the sum total
of yearly achievement in any four cities
of continental Europe. Even the war, SO
baneful in its effect on certain other ar
tistic fields, failed to retard this develop
ment. In spite of obstacles most of our
great symphony orchestras have thrlven
brilliantly throughout the world up
heaval.
In the season that is drawing to close
Mr.. Stokowski's organization has made
a superb record. There has also been
rich artistic refreshmcnt in many OF
the Metropolitan Company's opera olIIs'
while exceptional geniuses like Rachman-
inoff and Heifetz have vastly y stimulated
the concert stage activities here
Surely this potent interest IN music
must eventually result in the growth OF
a significant school of native composers
Aside from our deficiency in that re-.
gard America is indeed, as Mr.. Stokowskl
has described it, the foremost oil music
making countries.
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"MONRoEIZING" THE WORLD

IT WILL be interesting to watch the
scramble for credit for the specific
shield to the Monroe Doctrine incorpo-
rated IN the league f-nations covenant
Democratic partisans will doubtless make
the most of the fact that President Will
son offered the amendment and that
Colonel House prepared it. Republicans
will point to their critical heavy artillery
as the chief weapon in winning the
proviso.
Some future day, when everybody is a
little calmer, it may perhaps be realized
that American principles won no super
lative victory this week when the cate
gorical Monroe Doctrine clause was in
serted in the revised draft. The really
great battle was gained for justice some
time ago when the stipulations regarding
national aggression were agreed upon
by the league of-nations committee.
BY the very nature and structure of
the pact the western hemisphere was ad-
mirably protected All the revisers have
lately done is to give a name to par
ticular application of broad principle.
No wonder the amendment was "adopted
without prolonged opposition"
AS Mr. Taft has repeatedly pointed
out, the entire world was "Monroeized"
by the regulations of the original pact
Not even tory diplomatist can be ex-
pected to fight long concerning a pro-
posal the meaning of which is merely
redundant.
AS to sincere champions of the world
league, who comprehended it's scope from
the start, it would be ungracious of them
TO object because the document is now
adorned with superfluous language. Some
persons have to be told thing several
times over, and in several different ways
before they will believe it.
Their glee over the alleged victory
will happily stimulate the cause of world
peace and incidentally amuse others who
may realize that the rejoicing, although
welcome, is decidedly belated.
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Member Of the Associated Press
PbIsdelphia, Saturday. April Il, 1919
STATE SOVEREIGNTY IMPERILED

I A TTORNEY GENERAL S C H A F.
a FER'S challenge to Mr.. Burleson, in
the matter of increased telephone and
telegraph rates, involves no less vital a
principle than that upon which the whole
structure of the American union is based.
Too often in the past the public has
suffered helplessly from the postmaster
generals arrogance. This time, how
ever, the people of Pennsylvania are in
trenched strongly behind constitutional
bulwark. 1t is direct imputation of state
sovereignty when Mr.. Burleson pursues
his reckless rate-raising methods in fiat
defiance of the Public Service Commits
sion, the legal sanction of which is in
dispensable to the enforcement of laws
regarding corporations chartered in this
commonwealth.
The excuse that his action is war
measure is absurdly flimsy. The war is
over. Unless there is any validity in
sheer tyranny there is no palliation for
Mr.. Burlesons presumption. He simply
throws down the gage to state sover-
eighty. Mr.. Schaffer takes it up.
The contest should not be ended un-
til the highest courts have decided
whether or not Pennsylvanians are still
entitled to enjoy their explicit constitu-
tional privileges.
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SHIFTING WINDS

NEITHER Mr.. Pepper nor Mr.. Hitch
= cock added anything new to general
knowledge of the proposed league of
nations in their debate at the Metropoli-
tan Opera House. They reiterated old
arguments and traversed ground long
familiar to any one wt.o has even cas-
ually followed contemporary criticism
of the American peace plan.
What the debate did show, however,
was that the inevitable reaction has set
in among those critics who some weeks
ago seemed immovable in their opposi-
ton to a new system of international
relationships. Mr.. Pepper, for example,
admitted the necessity for a league of
nations. though he was, at the beginning,
seemingly opposed not only to the de-
tails of the Paris covenant, but to the
principle as well. The great and indis-
pensable second thought is having it's
effect.
We may look forward to the next
session of Congress with the assurance
that Mr.. Lodge and his associates will
react much as Mr.. Pepper has done after
q calmer contemplation of the league-of
nations plan and better knowledge
made available through the experience
of the last few weeks, of the forces
opposed to the covenant provisions in
Europe.
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PIONEERS OF THE SKY

MOT the least exciting thing about the
= y preparations for a transatlantic air.
plane flight is the secrecy with which
each interested country is surrounding
its plans.
Columbus has been Spain's best ad-
yertisement for 400 years. The nation
that can claim the honor of the first
air fight between Europe and America
will achieve enduring glory. Even the
Germans, it is said, are still hoping to
participate in the greatest sporting con-
test of all time. They are credited with
an ambition to drive Zeppelin or air.
plane to America before any other air
machine accomplishes the passage, and
thus make desperate try for the esteem
which civilization now denies them.
The resources of the British, the
French and our own men are pretty
evenly matched No one not directly
associated with the enterprise in one
country or another knows how far prep
Z arations have progressed. The general
public may not know who has won until
Jubilant birdmen drop from the skies
here or on the other side of the world
Our money--all that we have-is on
the fliers whose flag has never yet beer
turned back from any place where its
people wished to carry it.
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and a new law must be enacted. II will
be mistake to repass the old Dingley
law, for conditions have changed since
it served its ends.
We are confronted by the necessity of
adjusting our tariff laws to the needs
of a nation which is the creditor and not
the debtor of the rest of the world. The
interest and the principal of the debt
owed to us will have to be paid in goods,
for our debtors have nothing else with
which to pay. But they cannot be
allowed to food our markets with low
priced goods to be sold in competition
with goods made by high-priced Amer
ican labor.
Every workingman is intensely inter-
ested in the protection of our own mar
kets against ruinous competition with
foreign made goods. And every working
man who gives a moments thought to
the matter knows that the employer who
has to sell his goods is the man who must
take the lead in demanding that Con-
gress pass the proper laws.
If the tariff is too high to enable the
foreigner to sell his goods here at Amer
can prices, he cannot pay what he owes
us. 1t will tax the ingenuity of trade
and financial experts to. draft the right
kind of tariff law to serve the needs
of the nation in these trying days.
So far as the men who gathered at the
Manufacturers Club, incidentally to do
honor to the senior senator from this
state, but really to talk about the kind
of laws needed in the present emergency
so far as these men recognized the>new
conditions and proposed to meet them,
they should be welcomed by workers and
employers alike as leaders to be followed
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AMERICA, THE MUSIc-MAKER

XXTRITiNG for the little newspaper"
Nxs published by the Philadelphia Or
shestrar Leopold Stokowski declares that
he came to this country because America
was fast becoming (and has since COM
pletely become) the great music making
country of the world"
More than the spirit of mere CRATE
fful appreciation is contained in these
words They reflect fact which Amer
tcnns, habitually deprecatory in artistic
matters, have rather hesitsted to realize.
The old practice of looking abroad for
Hfkistic standards is deeply ingrained.
{ 81 n.nch Of the music we produce is the
><S1duct of European inspiration that the
80hlie has been reluctant to admit that
~ play those works on the whole better
ond more freeuently than they are played
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LOST LOVE

WHO wins his love shall lose her,
w Who loses her shall gain:
For still the spirit woos her,
The soul without stain,
And memory still pursues her
With longings not in vain!
LIE LOSES her who gains her,
IL Who watches, day by day, ~.
The dust of time that stains her,
The griefs that leave her gray,
The flesh that yet enchains her
Whose grace hath passed away.
Oh. HAPPIER he who gains not
~ The love some seem to gain,
The joy that custom stains not
Shall still with him remain,
The loveliness that wanes net,
The love that ne'er can wane.
TN DREAMS she grows hot older,
l. The lands of dream among,
Though all the world wax colder,
Though all the songs be sung,
In dreams shall he behold her
Still fair and kind and young.
Andrew Lang.
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Answers to Yesterdays ouIz

Answers to Yesterdays QuIz
1, Odessa is in southwestern Russia, on
the Black Sea.
.. Admiral Grayson is President Wilson's
personal physician. ~ s'
8. The highest mountain rising from any
island in the Pacific Ocean is Mauna
Kea in Hawai-. The summit is 13, sos
feet above sea level. J q
4. There are thirteen lunar months in
year.
s, A "danse macabre' is a dance over
which Death is supposed to preside.
@. A nuncupative will is one made by word
of mouth.
7. A sardonyx is an orange brown car
nelian. According to Pliny the stone
is called ''sard'' from Sardis in Asia
Minor, where it is found, and ''onyx,"
the nail, because its color resembles
that of the skin under the nail.
8. Gargantua is giant with an enormous
appetite, described In Rabelais's prose
and verse satire. ''The Life of Gar
gantua.'' The name has become
proyerbial for an Unsuitable eater.
0. The word leviathan should be proa
nounced with the 'i'' long as In fight.
and the accent on the second syllable
10. ssStaccato'' describes music played in an
abrupt. sharply detached manner. The
word Is alsS used .pf speech.
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A Soma In the Nioht

The way | go lies through lonely land;
The night is dark, without a single star.
Dangers and pitfalls lurk on every hand;
And ere the morning l must travel far.
Long time l stood, my spirit filled with
dread,
Fearing to launch into the black unknown.
Not knowing where my footsteps might be
led
dared not make the venture all alone.
But since you came to me, dear heart and
true,
And in my hand your own so trusting laid,
And whispered, Il will take the road with
you,"
walk the darkened pathway unafraid.
EDWARD SEXTON JONES'
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-
~ league of nations, we may safely conclude
it will have no standing army.
How to Make Friends With the Artistes
The dramatic critics we know are mere
Pollyannas compared to their hotspur breth :
rem on western papers. This is the way the
critic of the Des Moines Leader felt about
three lady vaudeville performers who dis
pleased his fastdious eye
Effie is an old jade of fifty summers,
Jessie frisky flly Of forty. and Addie.
the flower of the family. capering mon
strosity of thirty-fve. Their long, skinny
arms equipped with talons at the eX-
tremities, swung mechanically. and anon
waved frantically at the suffering
audience. The mouths of their rancid
features opened like caverns. and sounds
like the wailng of damned souls issued
therefrom. They pranced around the stage
with a motion that suggested a cross be-
tween the danse du ventre and fox trot-
strange creatures with painted faces and
hideous mien.