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The Washington times., 1919-12-06
CHRISTMAS
CIT TS,A|M OF DRIVE
Citizens Committee Launches
15-Day Campaign to Assist
Unemployed Here.

Jobs as Christmas Presents is the
slogan of the Citizens Committee on
Unemployment which will launch a
ffteen-day drive Monday to place
service men and other persons unem-
ployed, in positions before Christmas.
The cooperation of employers of
Washington is asked in an appeal
made today by John E. German and
George l.. Price, who are directing
the campaign.
Employers are urged to. list with
the committee, whose headquarters
is at. 140S Pennsylvania avenue, all
positions open in their establish
ments. They are asked to telephone
to Main S474, branches 40 to ia.
The committee in charge is COM
posed of representatives of various
welfare organizations, with Commits
sioner Louis Brownlow as chairman n
The staff at the headquarters during
the last two months has obtained
jobs for about 5000 men and women
1t is the purpose of the committed
to start the new year with every
man and woman in the District WIN
seeks work, employed. II a person ID
in need of a job he or she need only
apply at the employment headquar-
ters, and every effort will be made
to aid them The bureau seeks onl,
professional and clerical positions
for women. but includes laboring
and trade jobs for men.
The Washington times., 1919-12-06
PRESIDENT SHOWS
NO I'LL EFFECTS
OF PARLEY

Apparently showing no Ill Ell.
fects of his long interview with
Senator's Hitchcock and Fall
yesterday afternoon, President
Wilson awoke and breakfaSed
early this morning.
After breakfast the President
gave his attention to the matters
of routine business scheduled by
DIR. Grayson and was in very
good spirits, according to White
House attaches.
DIR. Francis Y. Dercum, the
Philadelphia neurologist, made
his weekly visit to the White
House today to Scheck up" on
the Presidents condition with
DR.. Grayson. Following this
conference II is expected that the
two physicians will issue can Of
fetal bulletin on the Presidents
condition.
The Washington times., 1919-12-06
JENKINS SAW COMEDY
IN ARREST AS KDNAPER

Los ANGELES Cal. Dec. 6.-United
States Consular Agent William o.
jenkins was not without that saving
sense OF humor to sustain him during
his confinement in Mexican peni-
tentiary on a charge of conspiracy
with his kidnapers. This Is shown
by a letter he wrote from the prison.
in which he referred to his expert
ences as "bit of hard luck" not
without its comical side.
In letter dated November 25
from the state penitentiary at Pucbia,
Mexico, to William B. Bates, of Los
Angeles, who was a schoolmate of
the official in Tennessee, jenkins said
IT have had a bit of hard luck re-
Gently and got stuck to the tune cf
nearly 100000 pesos in Mexican gold.
And not only that but now the local
authorities, in an endeavor to cover
up their own criminal responsibility
for the neglect of the city, have tried
to accuse me of completely with the
rebels who kidnapped me, and have
me In jail
1T is certainly the limit when a
man is taken from his home, half
killed with exposure, his family all
sick with fright his money taken
away from him, and then for good
measure thrown into Jail for doing
IL himself. II IL were not bit seri-
Gus for me Ii woulc be comical and it
has its comicai side anyway.
Il have refused to accept my lib
erty on bail az I did not want to
compromise with the dogs, and for
that reason am in Jail, but feel that /
will get quicker action that way than
by entering any sort of transaction
with them
The Washington times., 1919-12-06
ELLIS ISLAND ALIENS
' HEARINGS COMPLETED

NEW YORK, Dec. 6.-Hearings on
all deportation cases of alleged alien
reds held on Ellis Island have been
completed. according to Byron II. Uh,,
deputy commi ssioner of immigration.
in charge of the station. Papers in
the eighty Investigations are being
prepared for review by the Depart
ment of Labor in Washington, where
decisions as to deportations will be
made.
Emma Goldman and Alexander
Berkmau, locked up at Ellis Island,
have given the authorities no trou-
BILE, according to Uhl.
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U. S STARTS PROBE
OF JENKINS RELEASE
BY WILLIAM PHILIP sIMMs,
Il. q. staff CerrerDoMdent.

The release of Consular Agent
william o. Jenkins by the Mexican
Authorities is shrouded in mystery,
and the State Department today be-
gan a thorough investigation of the
manner In which the American con-
sular official was liberated from the
Puebia Jail
BY whom the $500 bail was fur
nished. upon whose authority the
amount was put up. and the motives
underlying these acts, are totally un-
known here. Not only is the State
Department absolutely in the dark
az TO the facts in the case, but Jen-
Afns himself. IL Is said, does not know
bow or why he was turned loose.
A report from Mexico City stated
that the money had been put up by
Salter Hansen, a Danish-American
banker. newly arrived in Mexico, and
an impression got abroad that per-
haps there had been a change of at
titude on the part of the United States
Government.
Ut Is absolutely false Secretary
of State Robert Lansing announced
today. The State Department never
FOR q moment thought of changing
the policy of Jenkins in refusing
ball.
State Department officials are
puzzled over the latest turn in the
Mexican AFFAIR. 1t is understood that
the consular agent himself has begun
an investigation on his own account
to nnd out why and by whom bail was
given for his freedom
From the start Jenkins has refused
20 give bail. though the amount was
rfdicuiously small. Carranza's reply
10 Secretary Lansing's note asking for
the release OF Jenkins mentioned the
fact that although the bail in Jenkin' S
casa had purposely been made very
small Jenkins refused to put 1T up.
II Is not believed in official circles
that Jenkins, himself, underwent a
Change OF heart In this respect In
'fact, letters and reports from the
consular agent have made it per-
rectIy plain that he would not con-
slider such q thing. as it was q mat
Ter OF principle with him. and tha,
II he furnished bond now, the whole
thing would come UP again some
time. "and I might as well have II
ont now"
There - . general rumor here thai
Hansen might have been acting in
the case on behalf OF the Mexican
ninister of finance, Luis Cabrera
very smooth diplomat. aud that Jen-
kins' release in this fashion was mere
~ one way out OF tight place; IN
fact, a method of saving Carrsnza.
face
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FOG AIDS BANDITS TO
ESCAPE U. S. TROOPS
Prevents Airplsne Pursuit of Mexi.
cans Who Raided American
Ranch, Says Col. Buck.

SAN ANTONIO. Tex Dec. Col.
Beaumont B. Buck, commander of the
Laredo district, was prevented from
sending airplanes with machine guns
TO chase the bandits who raided the
store at the Clareno ranch and bound
and gagged the storekeeper. after
looting the place, because OF the heavy
fog.
He said today there was no hope of
capturing the men. The understand
ing along the border is that United
States soldiers will not go after the
bandits unless there is excellent rea-
son for believing they will be cap
tured.
Adjutant General Cope, Of the Texas
national guard, has ordered a squad
OF rangers to go from Laredo to Ia
pata to try and capture the bandits.
The Washington times., 1919-12-06
WASHINGTON HERALD
. IS REPORTED SOLD
c. T. Brainard Said to Have Dis.
posed of His Control
in Paper.

NEW YORK, Dec. 6.-Sale Of the
Washington Herald. a morning paper
published in the National Capital by
c. T. Brainard, head of Harper & Bro.
is expected to be announced on Mon
day
While the identity OF the purchas-
ers has not been revealed, Il was de-
MED they are connected with either
Governor Lowden of Illinois or Her
bert Hover A report that Charles
X. Crane of Chicago is connected with
the purchase was not confirmed, but
1T was not specifically denied. Crane,
who Is multi-millionaire, formerly
was Republican, but supported the
Wilson candidacy and administration
None of the Washington stockhold-
ers of the Herald knew of the sale of
the paper when seen today. Mr.
Brainard has the majority OF the
stock, they pointed out, and he might
have disposed of his holdings.
MI Hoover, when seen at the in
dustrial conference at the Pan-Amcri-
can Building this morning, declared
that there is nothing in it,"
When asked whether it was true
that he was Interested in the pur-
chase of the Washington Herald, he
answered:
he people who are getting the
money together TO engage in that en-
t6rpT,fc Will make announcement in
due time"
TN speaking of the people are
you referring to yourself, Mr.. Crane,
and Mr.. Lowden?" he was asked.
i don't even know whether Mr.
Crane and Mr.. Lowden are connected
with the enterprise" was Mr.. Hoo
ver's reply. where they are getting
the money from and how they are
getting il is beyond me-"
The Washington times., 1919-12-06

today, according to special dispatches
received here by the Excelsior. Judi
cial authorities at Puebla refused to
allow the consular agent to re-enter
the prison.
Mr.. Jenkins move, according to dis
patches, was prompted by a desire to
secure unconditional liberty, Mr.. Jen-
kins being quoted as declaring that
$500 bail was furnished by his friend,
j. Walter Hansen, without his knowl-
edge. and that he refused to accept
conditional freedom.
Hilaro Medina, undersectary of
foreign relations, iss-quoted by the
Excelsior az stating that the release
of Mr.. Jenkins had removed all cause
for friction between the United
States and Mexico.
The freeing of Mr.. jenkins came as
a surprise to him. the dispatch adds.
He was awakened from his nights
sleep by Chief of Police Zavaleta- and
at once dressed himself, gathered to-
gether his few belongings and was
conveyed to his home. His release,
IL was said was not unexpected in
Puebla.
Advices to Ell Democratic state that
Consul Jenkins was set free after the
authorities had been handed a check
for $500 (American) signed by J.
Salter Hansen, drawn on the Guar
anty Trust Company of New York.
1t is declared that Mr.. Hansen con-
Quoted all the negotiations for the
release.
NEW YORK, Dec. 6-The Guaranty
Trust Company said today that j.
Salter Hansen has an account at its
Fifth avenue branch, which has been
inactive for some time. No further
Information concerning Mr.. Hansen
was available.
Went To Mexico In June.
At the apartment house here in
which Hansen lived for two years,
IL was said that he had gone to Mex
leo last June, returned in September
and on October had given up his
suite, asking, however that his mail
be held No further word had been
received from him.
The j. Salter Hansen referred to
in the foregoing probably Is the
theatrical man. of the name formerly
of Chicago. This Mr.. Hansen was in
yolved in a dispute with the British
authorities in 1918 over incidents in
connection with the production of the
play of "Croesus," involving an al
legged threat against Arthur Bour-
chier, the English actor-manager.
The dispatches from London at that
period stated that he had been bound
over in S1o,0 sureties in that city to
keep the peace for a year, and that
he shortly afterward left England
for France.
The Washington times., 1919-12-06
ITCHING SKIN
TROUHE0NARMS
Started Like Heat Bumps,
Burned. Cuticura Heals.

Ny trouble hrss started on my
arms like beat bumps, but grew larger
uoii they seemed 10 stop growing
and trned rcd and hard and sfsn-
wards fessered and scaled. They
kched and b0ned, and Whenever l
vosA ga real wsnm I epuh not have
suy peaee- and I scratched them
Ny e3olhes stuck and worried M
and I could not sSeep much.
rhAh sent Tor q free sample of
Cuf3cun- Il seemed 10 do good 80 I
boaRA6 NOSE. and I used only four
esbes q Soapwkh theCuiann Oint-
maH when w1s h0ieA." l6iGned)
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Revsps further toub,e By using
csdsHa tos Ill sniles pWposes-
8sso H., Otse1k = aaA Sos. rsaEuo
n. SD tbruuShsot tie vWid- For
s~k enrA free sdd-e.s: ~C~iesr1 LAk-
Qs1k.A DsVa n h.SAs.- MasA-
C@a Ssso Aav~s ~is>A-s.
The Washington times., 1919-12-06
COMING TO HARVARD.

LONDON. Dec. 6.-The newest
"hands across the seas" movement is
in education. Send the
Oldest son to Cambridge and the sec
ond son to Harvard is the an
nouncsd program of several OF the
leading families of England.
The Washington times., 1919-12-06
SIS FOR CATS TAIL.

NEW YORK, Dec. 6.-Joseph Far
rone's cat had mango on its tail. Joe
cut the tail off to keep the mango
from spreading. The Judge fined
him So.
The Washington times., 1919-12-06
JENKINS FREE, BUT
ONLY OUT ON BAIL
u. S. Consul Still Technically
Prisoner and Must An
SWer to Court.
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any situation THAI may require his
attention
And the fact that he was clean
shaven put out of countenance GER
tain members of Congress who sail
they UNDERSTOOD the President had
grown q long white beard during his
illness.
The Washington times., 1919-12-06
DULL TIME FOR THESE MEN

COLOMA. Cal. Dec e.-The last
unmarried girl in this town was re-
Gently welded. There are twenty-six
bachelors left.
The Washington times., 1919-12-06
SAY JENKINS ASKED
TO BE RE-MPRISONED

MEXICO CITY, Dee. s-w. o. Jen-
ktAs, Unised States consular agent at
Puebla who was released from prison
there on Thursday night. attempted
TO secure his reimprisonment there
The Washington times., 1919-12-06
HAPG00D COMING HOME.

Norman Hapgood. American minis
ter TO Denmark. win return to the
United States soon on a vacation,
Third Assistant Secretary Of State
Long announced today.
Long denied Hapgood is being re-
called
The Washington times., 1919-12-06
tn Prevent Influenza

Colds cause Grip and Infuenza-LAXA' A
TIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets remove
the cause. There is only one "Bromo Quin-
-Adyt
The Washington times., 1919-12-06

VOU, perhaps, already have your November
i number. You have looked at the Table of
Contents-Ibahez, Maeterlinck. Conan Doyle,
G. K Chesterton. Or nearer home; Judge E. H.
Gary, head of u. S. Steel, on Something More
Than the Pay Envelope" Or b. G. Forbes,
<. C. B., Walt Mason, DIR. Frank Crane.
Or you have, maybe, turned first to the Art
lay-Book-Science- the Month. One thing
is certain, you have noticed the real authority
ofHearst's-its splendid serious side.
The Washington times., 1919-12-06

IF you don't particularly care for a magazine
i that will make you think-if you are not inter-
ested in magazine bit beyond the ordinary
you won't want Hearst's this month or any other.
BUT, if you want the works of the worlds
great writers; if you want the words of the
worlds real leaders; if you want the thoughts
of the worlds great thinkers; don't fail to make
sure each month"; starting today with November,
of ofgetting your regular copy of Hearsts MAGAZINE.
The Washington times., 1919-12-06

RUr-you say-you buy a magazine for its
ID fiction. Good! Here in Hearst's for No
vember are stories by Robert w. Chambers,
Richard Washburn Child, Arthur Somers Roche,
and Bruno Lessins. Arthur Strinser, Edwin Bal
mer and Gouverneur Morris. Besides these are
three English writers, F. E. Baily. Derek Vane.
E. Phillips Dependencies well as Maurice
Level the best of the modern French writers.
All these and several others in selected stories
stories that will make you think!
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1919-02-06
From Rhode Island.

Drafted by the Army in March. 49,
Shipped to Kelly Field to fix flying machines"
We were promised the trip in nice pullman
train;
We got tourist sleepers" Well! Never
again -
The machines" when we got there (who
wouldn't be sore ~,
Were plain picks and shovels, which we used
galore.
Went from Kelly" to Payne Field, Miss;
Fine new barracks, 'sOme place" this;
Five miles from West Point, ON a country road,
The ''jits" ran often (when they had a load
Transferred to Camp Meade the 9th day of
July.
Texas sand was bad enough, but Camp Meade
-myi
1t 'sure did" call up past events. for hit
"Measle Hill'' and few days in tents.
didn't stay in Lower Camp" but tried once
more.
And soon got transferred to the Medical Corps,
Here am, and here I'll stay.
Until l get my DISCHARGE-happy day.
W. II. r.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1919-02-06
Our Canteen and the Happy Eight

One by one I'll introduce to you
Our happy bunch, that's never blue,
And the funny things that we all do
Keep us smiling and happy to.
Our lieutenant. George McDonough, a splendid
man is he,
Happy. grand and socable as can be-
He calls our canteen his big Woolworth store,
Because we sell for five and ten-and more.
Next comes Sergt Flad. slim and tall
If he was clerk he could beat us all.
In his big Office all day and night long
Writing to his Emma or singing her song.
Next in line is Walter Haupt. "B. P";
handsome buck private ia he
Who clerks like Us. on the cigar stand
And sells the smokes to- beat the band.
After that comes JEFF 4. Herd.
Say, boys, this g-y Is some Bird
Not born nutty, as some folks say
But he just naturally got that way.
Number FIVE is John A. ScintO
The candy counters the place he's in to;
A candy Kid you may not see,
Though some of the profits in him may be.
A baltimore boy is Edward Kness
Tie register keys he likes to press:
Lots of weekly visitors has he.
Which makes him happy happy can be.
The soft drink kid" is George Helmig,
he eats. grows fat and is getting big,
There was always pie seen in his face,
Till he saw them made in a factory place.
William King is the eighth, but ruler he $
not,
Three stripes he had. but they're forgot;
And now has less money to put in the bank.
Private JOHN A. SCINTO,
4th Company, LIST Training Battalion.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1919-02-06
Good Bye. Old Twenty-Five.

To the officers and men of the 22d Infant
Brigade who willingly gave their best. eff0r
and made it a brigade second to none and OF
they can claim membership in with pride.
The Sc -enty seconds m 4stered out,
The Sixty thirds away,
The Thirty third Machine Gun
Has put in it's last day.
Headquarters Twenty second Brigade
Was held until the last,
Now all that still remains with us
Are memories of the past.
As the years roll ever onward,
More and more OUT thoughts will turn
To the old brigade with sadness.
For old comrades we will yearn,
And from general TO private
, We will miss you, old brigade,
For the principles you stood for,
For the efforts each one made
That no other should surpass you,
10 our duty we were true,
And we gave the best that's in us.
Was there more that we could do?
With every energy we str0ve
Your record to maintain,
That others, do what'er they would
Have striven for In vain.
And now, goodbye, old Twenty-Five,
Though scattered far and wide
10 distant places of the earth,
Wen think Of You with pride
And with just touch of sadness
AS our thoughts revert, to you,
80 last goodbye, old outfit,
Rough and ready Twenty-Five.
BY J. M. WOODS,
sergt. Major. 22d Infantry Brigade.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1919-02-06
Memories.
]. N. WOODS.

wa NNOOD0e
Sergeant Major, 22d Infantry Brigade
It's kinder still an lonesome
Since the fellers went away,
The air itself feels empty,
Sorter hOmesick, should say.
An II kinder chOkes yer gullct
An yer. throat begins TO swell,
An you notice big difference
Since the boys quit raisin' hell.
An you think o. yer OIL bunkies.
Tom an Dick an Ed an Bill.
An yer mind begins ter wander
An yer eyes begin ter fill,
An you wOnder>if you'll ever
Meet up with them boys agin--
Boys 80 full o. fun an mischief
Thet 1t looks fist like sin
Ter hev ter bawl SIGH fellers out
Fer somethin' they would do
Agin the regulations,
But the job wnz up ter you.
An you'd do 1t in the good OIL way
Tibet left no sign o. doubt
With the fellers that were guilty
Tibet they'd had a bawlln' out.
But they warn't no hard feelin's
over things like thet, you know,
Fer they knowed tibet we OIL timers
Had ter show 'em how ter 90.
) Now tibet the wars all over,
They air scattered here an there,
A ''steppin' high an handsome
An "feelin' free as air.
Army discipline is in the pasv,
They do jist as they please,
An go an come whene'er they like,
As free as wanderin' breeze.
In spite o. this their minds'll
Often turn ter soldier days,
An their eyes will sorter moisten,
An they'll see as through a haze
The faces Nv OIL comrades,
Army bunkfes, good an true,
Then they'll banker fer the OIL times
While they're livin' in the new.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1919-02-06

propaganda We now Know, however,
what Germany also knew as soon as
we did-that had the fight continued
the German armies would have been
wiped out or captured by the encif~
cling allied forces. That catastrophe
was arrested by the armistice, and
Germany's manhood is gamer by the
millions. The German race itself
knows nothing of the horrors of in
vasion and fire and sword such as
were inflicted in Belgium and in north
ern France. The German army fully
realized the causes that led to it's
downfall; but the race as whole, the
women and old men and children In
the homes, knew nothing but or the
scarcity of food and the natural In
conveniences of war.
Yanks Superior.
For a true comparison of Yank and
boche one has only to review the
results achieved on any of the fronts
where Yank met boche. The Germans
had superiority of numbers at Can
tigny, but the Yanks unassisted, cap
tured and held the town, thus demon
strating their fighting qualities under
extreme battle conditions and there-
increasing
the British and French by showing
that the enemy'S troops were not IN
Yfncible. In the battle of Belleau wood,
(which followed, although greatly out
Numbered, our men proved their SUI
periority over the enemy and held all
captured ground unflinchingly against
heavy advancing waves OF German
infantry. A single regiment OF the
Sd Division wrote one of the most
brilliant pages in the annals OF MILF
tary history in preventing the cross
ing at certain critical points on its
front, while on either flank the Ger
mans pressed forward. Our men met
the German attacks with vigorous
counter attacks at every point OF
German advance and succeeded in
throwing two German divisions into
complete confusion and capturing
more than 1000 prisoners. AS to Cha
teau Thferry, st. Mihiel and the
battles in the Argonne forests, we
dauntless heroism accredited to the
Yanks - achievements which COM
manded even the admiration of the
Germans themselves. Gen. Pershing
stated that forty German divisions
were used against the Americans
along the Mouse and in the ArgOnne
battles. and between September rs
and November the American troops
captured $1,000 prisoners.
Summed up in one brief sentence,
/ do not think 1 will subject myself
to criticism on account of exaggera-
ton when i say that the part played
by the Yanks in the world war was
Just as great as that part which Is
being played by our illustrious Presi-
dent at the peace table-and we All
knoN The part he Is playing
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1919-02-06
JAZZ BAND WINS FRENCH.
Yank Aggregation Gathers Shekels
With It's SYncopation.

The sensation created in France by
the performance of a jazz band of
American soldiers is amusingly told of
in letter received by Miss Elizabeth
Smith. 1926 West Fayette street, Balti-
more, from her cousin. Louis j. Bot
toner, top sergeant of Company X, 3l3th
Infantry. Sergt. Bottomer does not
read music but he is an expert in play
ing ragtime on the piano. He was on
leave of absence because of wound at
the time referred to in his letter.
That the leader of a French orchestra,
and >>presumably a skilled musician.
should have instructed his players to
study the method of the jazz band and
learn how to play dance music will be
rather astonishing to the people on this
side of the Atlantic.
Sergt. Bottomers letter was dated
Nice, France, and in part is as follows:
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1919-02-06

When Dobler of the 72d Infantry
left Meade last week to go back to
civil life he had obtained promise
from Reed, one of the partly blinded
boys from overseas, to come to his
house in Baltimore and make his
headquarters there whenever he came
to the city. Reed was very apprecia-
tive, and Dobler was much pleased at
the prospect OF having him. It was q
piece of thonghtfulness that was hard
to duplicate