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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-06-14
WHAT THEY FOUGHT THE WAR FOR

The Stars and Stripes. one of the official papers OF the
American soldiers in France, does not take much stock in men
who say that if we do not do SO and so, then we have fought
the war in vain. The soldiers paper contends that the aihes
have not fought the war in vain, but that Germany has.
Nor does the Stars and Stripes believe that we fought the
war for any mere altruistc purpose. Our direct OBJECT was
10 help catch a burglar who was using a gun when we learned
after three years of watchful waiting and keeping ourselves
or being kept-out of war, we awoke to the realization that the
burglar meant to punch our heads as well as those OF France
and England. Then we pitched in and helped to do the
fighting. But speaking of certain elements that overseas
paper says:
They will give utterance at the top of their lungs
as follows: "The war has been fought in vain" You
will hear that said so earnestly. and on. SO many
sides, that it will be worth while keeping in mind what
arrant nonsense it is. Americas chief reason for
ands-was self defense. 1t was to avoid capture and
enslavement by Germania on a tout. 1t was the same
purpose which animates every posse of citizens who
are out to catch a maniacal burglar. That purpose
has been achieved. The burglar nation is in the lock
up. Our chief reason for going to war. then, has
already been rewarded. If the posse, before it breaks
up, can readiust the affairs of the neighborhoOd so
.as to discourage future burglarious enterprises on the
part of any nation, SO much the better. But don't let
anyone kid you into thinking for one moment that we
fought the war in vain. 1t was Germany who did that.
That has a good American ring to it. 1t has that rims
because it contains the truth and it states the truth in the
words of common sense as well as common knowledge. The
politicians will read all sorts of meanings into the war, but tt
the men who did the fighting of the war had one meaning anC
that was to punch the face of Germany, as any bully ought t
have his face punched.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-06-14
THE AMERICAN split" IN PARIS

Just what has happened in what is called the American
peace delegation is not known on this side of the ocean and
the presumption is that some one is interfering with the trans
mission of the facts, some censorship, probably.
The Chicago Tribune says that one of its correspondents
Mr.. Henry Wales, some days ago filed in Paris or London, q
dispatch on the resignation of Mr.. Bullitt, who is one of the
experts" on the American mission, and who was, we believe,
entrusted with a Russian mission by the president, but the
dispatch did not get through.
The Tribune suspects that the delegation has been split.
somewhere near the middle, over the peace terms, One-half
of them siding with the German contentious, namely, that they
are too severe. That there has been a division along such
lines is undoubtedly true, and it is admitted that there have
been many designations on the commission, although it is
claimed they are of minor officials.
They must have taken a queer lot of Americans along, if
any number Of men in that encourage which has been spend
ing Uncle Sans money living i'll Paris, are now dissenters
On the allied peace terms. Those terms are moderate and they
are even modest and any official American who sides with
Germany on those terms can never have been much of an
american.
But how did they get on the commission of expert adj
visers to the American delegates? The truth is that among
those advisers a motley collection of socialists have turned up.
Men like Lincoln Steffens-Steffens is a German name to
begin with-have always been off on the American viewpoint.
1t was Steffens who got his friend Trotzky the passport that
enabled him to go to Russia to "biow up the government and
make peace with the Germans" as he boosted in New York.
along as expert advisers and now they seem to have turned
tail on the American contentious and are giving aid and COM
fort to the Germans.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-06-14
BLOCKADE MAY STOP MORE BARIES

Ii the Germans are going to balk they may find that the
blockade will be taken up again, even if it prevents another
million babies being born in Germany, where the women are
really entitled to a rest in this baby-bearing4 business. They
were encouraged in the past to bear babies as rabbits bear
their young, continuously. The kaiser himself decorated or
gave rewards to women when they had produced a certain
number of babies.
That kind of encouragement did not take the mothers into
consideration. 1t was simply part of the war madness of the
kaiser and his associated war lords, most of whom turned out
to be boobs when the fighting came that they had sought and
longed for. The mothers were imposed upon to produce
cannon fodder for the would-be world conquerors. Cannon
fodder was all their babies amounted to in the end and for
such ends the women degraded themselves into the semblance
of domestic animals instead of human beings.
And now these same war lords-who still rule Germanv-
want damages because the allied blockade hindered the propa-
cation of more of the kind that raped Belgium and Northern,
France. They want damages for the losses in babies at bom4
while they were away ravishing the wives and daughters of
their neishbors and driving them into sexual bondage.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-06-14

We are told that countless messages are to be sent to
United States senators urging them to act favOrably on the
league of nations. But who is going to pay for these messages?
Who is going to put up the big slush funds? Before we
entered the war they used to flood congressman with messages
protesting against war. Those messages were paid for in bulk
by the pacifists and by the prO-German; societies. But who is
going to do the paying in this instance?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-06-14
A GOOD PISTOL BUT NOT LOADED

president of the United States holding a pistol at the breast
of the senate of the United States and demanding as the
price of peace that there shall be on the part of the senate
personally contrived and wholly extra constitutional scheme
of world reorganization.
The pistol is not loaded, however. Furthermore, the
president who is holding the pistol and threatening to keep
the country in war Indefinitely unless the senate yields to
him knows that the pistol is not loaded.
The reason for the positive statement that the pistol is
not loaded is as plain as the nose on your face.
After the last word has been said about executive powers
and legislative limitations the fact remains that the constitu-
ton does not make the president the dictator of the acts of
congress but does make the congress the judge of the acts, of
the president, and in case of need his executioner.
The document aforesaid leaves no doubt as to the where
abouts of the ultimate authority.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-06-14

Congress finds that there are thousands more on the
Washington payroll than there were when the armistice VA
signed. But may it not be true that it takes more clerks to
demObilize an army than to assemble it?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-06-14

Ruth Law says she is going to fly across the Atlantic and
do it within six weeks in an ordinary biplane. We are for
you, Ruth, and we hope you will show the men how it is to
be done. If this is not woman's age, what is it?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-06-14

While they are all agreed that Germany must not be
traded with overmuch, it is not true that all are laying plans
TO get the benefits of such trade?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-06-14

An aviator succeeded the other day in landing on a hotel
roof at Cleveland. He evidently had confidence in the old say
ing that there is room at the top.
The Washington times., 1919-04-18
LEARN TO EAT SLOWLY AND THOROUGHLY.
CONTINUED from First Co


This is not the most pleasant topic in the world for
editorial discussion But it is very necessary topic since
millions of Americans ruin their health and shorten their
lives by third more because they stupidity refuse to
realize the Importance of chewing slowly and thoroughly
If you would eat each day exactly one-haf much
YOU do at you to be the ordinarily well
fed ctizen-and you would chew the remaining half for
period three times long that which you devote
your entire meal you would be stronger ADLER man. and
never know the meaning Of dyspepsia.
Bismarck lived to be DID, because In Dr. SchWenninger
he had man who FORCED HIM to eat slowly and care
fully.
Napoleon was dyspepc wreck and failure at forty
because while he ate heartily it his boast that he
never spent more than fifteen minutes at a meal and
unfortunately he had Dr. Schwennnger enforce mod
Grafton.
Concerning the process of digestion that goes on within
the stomach remember this thing: That process de-
bends entirely upon heahat is to say upon the presence
of the blood in the stomach and the surrounding tissues
After you have eaten you must not take violent
else nor do hard mental work you do you Withdraw
the blood from the stomach to the muscles the BRAIN
and dyspepsia is inevitable But today want to talk
to you about eating slowly Try it from on to
an exaggerated exenyOu will be grateful for this advice
The Washington times., 1919-04-18
Public to Peep Into Family
Closet of Street Railway
Concession That Is Beated Recognition Of the Rights q
the People.
BY EARL GOODWIN.

That will be a most unusual and interesting event
when President Ham, of the Washington Railway and
Electric Company, stands up and courteously
hundreds of inquiries that will be addressed to him by
representatives Of civic and labor organizations very deeply
interested in the petition Of his company to the Public
Utilities Commission for permission to obtain from the
public further revenues to meet the heavy deficit that
alleged to exist in operating expenses
While this concession to voteless Washington would
have been valuable to the company made two or
three years ago, it Is nevertheless beated recognition
of the fact that In the operation of public utilities the
people generally have most vital interest not only in
what they pay for the service they get but the character
of that service.
The three great factors in street railway and public
utility operation THE PEOPLE, because humanity
ahead of doars the investors, who have taken
chances and entitled to reasonable returns their
money; and the and women who employed to
operate the machinery of the corporation in behalf Of
the public.
The time has passed, never to return when utility
corporations may disregard the good will Of the public or
rghul requests of their employees So has the time gone
when organizations of employees may things their way
without consideration for the public the rights of their
employers
Every law of the future attempting to deal with dis
turbances between labor and capital where the public is
directly and Immediately concerned should grant to the
public the right to come in participant and make
its views known through medium of ballot boxes or other
wise.
In local street car matters now pending the public
will courteousy seek information as to facts and figures
past and present. and the head of the railway company
most polite and reasonable proposes to answer if it can
be done, whatever questions asked.
While it is well to develop the past history Of this com
pany the issue is whether the company entitled to
further Money squandered in the past will
improve service the future. However prejudced
the public may the bad record of the days gone BY
lit is perfectly willing to do justice. 1t wants to know
for ITSELF though just what all the facts are, that
can measure the justice
The Washington times., 1919-04-18
A HOUSEKEEPER's PROBLEM

to interest say, "Oh, we can't put
ourselves in such 4 position that the
boys will say we are charity par
ties, can we?" You see. dear
friend, they give any excuse rather
than consider the boys and their
need for q good sisterly interest, in
stead Of q vampires delightful COM
pany.
was hoping you would talk on
this subject sooner or later, and I
am glad you have done so. Girls
lucky enough to have brothers in
the service will be more interested
in other girls brothers, as they want
others to feel an interest in their
own. WHITE HOPE.
Ny dear girl, why do you not
start q Society for the Preven-
ton Of Cruelty to Soldiers" your
self. Get a dozen or more of your
girl friends to pledge themselves,
not to encroach a penny more on
that precious sixty dollars than is
absolutely necessary. Of course,
the soldier won't let you pay for
all the entertainment whatever it
The Washington times., 1919-04-18
WHAT'S Doing; Where; When

merce, in club rooms, D. m.
Stainer's CruciiXion-Choir of Israel G..
NJ. f Church, under direction OF Mrs.
charlotte Wallace Murray. at church.
FIRST and b streets southwest. 8 p. m.
Tomorrow.
MeetinE-hississippi Society. l214 +
street northwest. s p. m. Senator Key
PtttmAn OF Nevada will speak.
Dance-kansAs State Society, Wilson
normal school, Eleventh and Harvard
streets northwest. 4 p. m.
Addresses-ChArles Edward Russell and
Capt. T: Edward Jones, before Grand
Army OF Americans at Community Cen
ter, 2Oll Georgia avenue northwest, 8 p. m.
Reading-"Neo-P la tonism." before So
eiety for Philosophical Inquiry, Public
Library, 1880 p. m.
The Washington times., 1919-04-18
Today.

Today.
Movie shoWinE-"Come Clean" At the
United Service Club oG America DSpoht
Circle, S:lb p. m.
MsetinR-Locsl branch of Association
for the Advancement OF Progressive Ed.
ueatiou, in auditorium Public Library
p. m.
Addrsss-"History and Problems OF the
Czscho-Slovnk Nation" Charles Pergler'
Mount Vernon Seminary, Nebraska ave-
nue., B:30 p. m.
stAiner'S Crucihxion-By Evening Choir
OF Church OF the Covenant, 1870 p. m
EeetinE-Wiiliam B. Cushing Auxiliary
No. I, Sons OF Union Veterans Auxiliary
in Pythian Temple, .. m.
AeetinG-Board Of directors and mem
borBhip committee Of Chamber OF Com
The Washington times., 1919-04-18
HEARD AND SEEN

STEVE" RANKIN, who was q bat
talon sergeant-major with the 18th
Field Artillery outside CoblenZ, is
back home as q civilian to help boost
the v Loan. He says it took him
Just 4S hours to jump from Coblenz
to Brest when his discharge came
through, and he was so eager to
come home he would have rowed
back IL It was necessary.
The Washington times., 1919-04-18
Beatrice of the Problems and Pitfalls of the War Workers
Especially for Washington W omen

came home, and the second young
man asked me to give up the first-
l asked the second to stay away
until 1 could find the courage to
tell the first. I finally did as he
requested.
While in those twelve days, the
second young man flirted with a
war-worker and went out with her
several times. But he came to me
and said he was going to play fair
and 1 believed him. A couple OF
evenings ago he told me he was
going home and to bed, and later
caught him sitting on the porch
with this girl, and he did not speak
to me, but turned his head. Now
do you think this young man likes
this girl, or is he tickle and does
not know whom he likes? I do every
thing that I think will please him
and he has always been q jolly good
fellow to me until lately.
II you can kindly give me some
advice 1 would be only too CRATE
full to you. This young man has
asked TO call. but I said no as
a man who lies before will lie af-
ter. So please tell me what to do.
v. V. S.
1t is perfectly plain to an un-
biased confida ( that the second
young man is only trifling with
you. And his conduct is the more
caddish as he induced you to give
up a friend with whom you had
associated for three years. If you
have an ounce of pride left, "for-
get him." which may. indeed, be
slang, but is also sound philosophy.
The Washington times., 1919-04-18
Once-Overs
Copyright 1919, International Feature Service, Inc
PUTTING A CROUCH IN WRITING.

A that he has to
his departments have them
the following: 81 have crouch be-
Cause"
The you get dispute where you employed
writing to the question,
why am grouchy?"
Perhaps old passed hot words yith wife
you morning thereby starting lot of feeng
has by by wife.
silly thing quarrel about-did amount to
thing
Vxng perhaps such slight Importance might have
all
display allow
ing 10 exercised small matters.
should write tn hole occurrence
paper?
You would surely very much ashamed of yourself.
The Washington times., 1919-04-18

TAG DAY" FOR COLUMBIA.
~Tag Day" tomorrow for Co
Iumbia Hospital is to obtain
funds for new hospital supplies,
for baby clothes, linen, etc. This
is WashingtOn'S only hospital for
women and babies. OF 5000
babies born in this city each year
1000 first see the light at COlum.
bia.
Buy a tag without fan There
can be no more meritOriOus cause.
The Washington times., 1919-04-18
DEAR MSS FAIRFAX:

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
While at a dance last winter a
year ago I met a soldier who es-
corted me home. From that time
until he went away last July, we
went out together four or five times
every week. We grew fond OF each
other and before he left. we made
promises to write to each other as
often as possible.
After he arrived on the other
side. received mail from him Usu-
ally twice a week. a couple Of
months later 1 used to hear from
him once a week. and then only
once every two weeks. but now 1
hear from him once a month,
Now. Miss Fairfax, I have kept
my promise. and have written every
week. I asked him every time
write why he does not write more
often, he only answers. that he has
to work very hard" But l do think
he could find time to write at least
once a week.
Should 1 break my promise, or
should l write just as often as
have been doing?
am very anxious to hear from
you. JUANlTA.
have had a great many letters
of this character from girls. And
the only dignified thing to do is to
write about as often as the soldier,
unless he is i'll or you really do
know that he is busy, as is some
times the case. There is no use
flooding a man with letters when
he is tapering off the correspond
ence.
The Washington times., 1919-04-18

ing it. He's planning a big dinner
for the boys at the Y. IL. C. "A.
HUT. The medals for army service
to D. G. soldiers viii be presented
at that time.
Speaking Of swell stationery.
ERNEST DANIEL has a picture Of
a glass Of ice cream soda on his,
but along comes ROSS ANDREWS,
with an envelope lined with awning
striped silk, with a golden coat Of
arms upon the letter paper and los
Of other impressive nick-nacks
JOHN r. RIGGLES, who is run
ming for the nomination to Congress
from the Fifth Maryland district.
was in one OF the Heard and Seen
columns favorite lunch rooms the
other day. John is a resident Of
Seabrook, Md, where they VOTE,
of course. / trust that IL John gets
to Congress he will help Washington,
d. C., get a vote-we need It badly
enough.
Sh! Sh!
One quart of Grape Juice
One pound Of sugar
Two yeast cakes
Two quarts water
S'~nd in covered crock one week,
s. I'D bottle.
LIAM A. sCHLoBoHM.
The Washington times., 1919-04-18

She Gave Up the First fer the seeOnt
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
am a young girl Of nineteen
years old, and have for the past
three years been engaged to q
young man OF twenty-five. In 1917,
he left me and Joined the navy.
About a year and a half ago l met
another young man and l learned
to love him very much. He seemed
TO think as much OF me. Two
weeks ago my friend in the navy
The Washington times., 1919-04-18

may be. And while you are about
it add a plank to the society's
platform to the effect that you are
going to be especially nice to the
boys that have been wounded.
We had it out about dancing a
few days ago, and 1 believe we
decided when the lame soldiers
were a bit offish about the girls
sitting out dances with them, it
very probably was a case of hurt
pride, and that the best thing to
do under the circumstances was to
keep on being mice"
The Washington times., 1919-04-18

When the Rainbow Division gets
home we're going to give the Hos
pital Unit from this town whop-
ping big party. Isaac Cans is the
Chairman of the committee arrang
The Washington times., 1919-04-18
"sOciety For the Prevention OF Cru
city To SOIdIers."

"sOciety For the Prevention OF Cru
city To SOIdIers."
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
wish to goodness there were just
a hundred girls who think the same
as you on the subject of a Society
For the Prevention OF Cruelty TO
Soldiers" mentioned in your column
the other night. know this world
would be much happier. have
thought much about the subject, but
it seems to me the girls OF today
spend their money on their clothes
and let the boys spend their sixty
on food and foolish trifes that
girl can do very well without.
My chums have tried to interest
other girls in the Dutch treat"
system, whenever they could do so
without hurting the pride Of our
boys. But the girls we have tried
The Washington times., 1919-04-18
MISS FAIRFAX:

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
have read with interest the let
ters written to you by many house
keepers and will tell you my tale.
am young married Wom-
an, twenty-three years old and
the mother OF two children. Ny
husband has q job paying 800 a
month, and he gives me between
S46 and 34S every two weeks. Out
Of that have to furnish everything
house rent, fuel. grocery and
meat bill, insurance, q small furni-
ture bill. medicine, clothes for all
and once in a while the theater.
Ny grocery and meat bill COM
bined is &24 every two weeks.
have a small. cheap house, 80 my
rent is not high. Ny children get
a new spring coat and hat each year
and a winter coat every other year,
the same as my husband and /.
got a coat this year, the first In
three seasons. can sew and
make up cheap dresses for the chill
dren, and they look as well as
most children. We always have
good shoes and I have good dress
for the street Sometimes I manage
to save IS a month, but nos often.
Please pass your opinion on this
letter. NELLIE r.
This young housekeeper seems
to be an excellent manager, and
the family budget which even in
cludes an occasional trip to the
theater, would indicate economy
and shrewd buying. Undoubtedly
she would not be able to do so
well if it were not for her ability
to sew, and every mother, with a
daughter, should bear this in mind
and instruct her girl in these
womanly arts.
Some mothers cherish foolish
belief that if a girl is not taught
to sew, she will not have to do it,
that this girls inepitude, in other
words, will secure for her a good
match. l have seen in several
instances, the practical working
out of this plan and it seldom
secures the eligible party, but
often wretchedness, bad manage
ment and much humiliation on the
part of the young wife.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-03-11
TO PROBE RloTING M
LONDON OF Y. 6. SOLDIERS

London. March 1O-An inquiry was
hecun today by a board consisting Of
TWO American army officers and one
naval officer into the riotirg Sunday
in which soldiers and sailors and Lon
don police were involved. the inquiry
probably will continue for several days,
IS a large number of witnesses are to
Dc examined.
Representatives of Scotland Yard
and the British army were present in
response TO an invitation u watch the
proceedings, hich viii be secret.
Discussing the investlg4 ion, the ma
val officer sain to Tho Assoriated Press
ti.at if the evidence adiaced war
rinted action courtmartIai proceedings
would follow. 1t was no unlikely he
added, that the board wodld make
some recommendation regarding E
l.tions between Americs'. forces aud
he police. lie pointed out that Brit
ish colonial soldiers we're concerned
L. the incidert, as well a. Americans
ara declared that il vas merely a
clash between military aud rolice au-
thurity, and had no Significance.
II Is not expected that the affair sil
affect the future leave ct American
soldiers in london.