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The Washington times., 1920-09-04

fact that they know absolutely hoth-
ing about, their own local suffrage. or
ganizations. Some OF them do not
even know that they have local suf-
frage association"
Needless to say. the long-avowed
suffragists are welcoming into the
fold OF voters these women who have
formerly been antis, or, at least, in
different to the cause.
"The women OF America want every
woman in the country who is eligible
10 vote in the coming election" said a
prominent suffragette. "We're glad
enough to see the antis getting on
the band wagon"
The Washington times., 1920-09-04
CHANGE HOURS OF WHITE
HOUSE BAND CONCERTS

Owing to the shortening OF the
days, the Saturday afternoon con
certs given in the White House Lot
by the U. S. Marine Band will begin
one-half hour earlier, namely at
4:30 d. M. during the Saturdays In
September.
The season will close with the con-
cert of Saturday. September 20.
The Washington times., 1920-09-04
Cake Eaters to Stage
Comedy ShouU Today

novel costumes have been promised
Tor the affair. .,
The annual beauty contest drew out
the banner crowd of the year. The
beach was jammed, and there was n
lot of good-natured sport. Provision
will be made today for handling n
large crowd. t'
The Washington times., 1920-09-04
FIVE TIMES A NOTARY.

J. Allen Riordon, auditor for the
Norfolk and Washington Steamboat
Company, has been reappointed by
President Wilson as a notary public
for five years from August 90. This
is Mr.. Riordon's fifth term as notary
in and for the District OF Columbia,
he having held similar commissions
under Presidents Mckinley, Roosevelt,
Taft, and Wilson.
The Washington times., 1920-09-04
Musicians Here Go
On Warpath Because
~Den1and For Jazz

double handful of sour notes was dropped into the
symphonic jangle today raging in Washington musical
circles.
Erstwhie peaceful musicians are putting down their
trsty volns and other musical weapons, surrepttousy
snatching the hachet from the family woodpie and the
carving knife from the kitchen table, and galopng wildly
into the omen seeking whom they may devOur.
The Washington times., 1920-09-04
ZIMMERMAN TO HOLD
Community SERVICES

DR.. Albert II. Zimmerman, candi-
date for Congress from the Eighth
Virginia district, will conduct Sc
ries of community services on Amer
lea, the Land of Greatness" at Ches-
terbrook. Va, September 8, 10. IL and
Il.
The Washington times., 1920-09-04
~OL. ELISHA THEALL, who

has returned TO his duties
with the Marine Corps, fully
recovered from injuries suffer-
ed In November, 1918. when
he Was knocked down by an
automobile. For three months
he Was not expected to re-
cover.
The Washington times., 1920-09-04
Women Once Opposed
To Vote Now Anxious
To Exercise the Ballot

Former antsuffragettes and women who always have
been Indifferent to the question of equal suffrage
anxious to vote than the women who have worked
consistently for the cause according officer of
League Of American Voters.
The Washington times., 1920-09-04

INSPECTOR CLIFFORD L. GRANT chief of dstsc-
tives Of the Metropolitan Police Department who
yesterday celebrated his fifth anniversary in that office
This photograph the latest made of the Inspector is
regarded by him his best He left today for his last
fishing excursion of the season.
The Washington times., 1920-09-04
CLAIM HIGHER
MILK UNFAIR
B. & 0. Officials Say New Rate
on Product Does Not
Justify Boost.

There can be no good excuse for
1ngton as a result OF the increased
freight rates. according to officials OF
he Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
company, who declare that the raise,
insofar as IL affects milk. is so trivial
hat IL would be unfair to raise the
price OF milk even one cent a quart.
DR.. Harvey W. Wiley, OF the Mary
and and Virginia MIX Producers As
.ocistion, few days ago declared
hat the producers viewed an In
Yease as being fair in view OF In
teased freight rates and cost OF farm
labor.
According TO officials OF the rail-
road company. the average rate OF
Increase OF milk per quart within
ifty-mile radius OF the milk zones en-
teriag Washington averages from
IA to 1A mills per quart.
BOOST FIGURED IN MILLS.
Mind you, this is not cents. but
Mills" said an official OF the com
Dany," and II dealer raised one cent
On a quart OF milk he would be get
ting eight times what he would have
to pay on his transportation rate on
nis ih'Itab' ~
ton charges"
A table, sent in by officials OF the
railroad company, gives the princi-
PAL milk shipping stations into WASH
ington, showing the distance carried
and the cost OF transportation OF
ten-gallon can OF milk, which Is the
average container for shipment for
household use.
From Frederick. Md, to Washing
ton. a distance OF hfty-seven miles.
the old rate for milk per quart was
s mills and the present rate Is 9%
mills or an increase of Ia mills per
quart.
TABLE ON QUART BASIS.
From Adamstown. Md. to Washing
ton, forty-seven miles there Is an in
crease OF * mills per quart under
the new rate. Each ten-gallon can
contains forty quarts and the table
given is on the quart basis, so that
II can clearly be understood by the
consumer.
officials of the railroad company
also give figures showing that the in
crease in freight rates on clothes.
fruits, vegetables, meats and other
commodities from various sections of
the country to Washington are COM
paratively small.
The increase on a suit of mems
clothing from Baltimore will be but
5 mills on a suit. The increase on
mems shoes from Boston is about 5.4
mills the pair The increased freight
rate on a 20O-pound barrel of flour
from Minneapolis is but % cents;
dozen oranges from California is 20
cents and dressed meats from Chicago
per pound in carloads lots fill ad-
vance 2.S mills per pound.
According to the railroad officials
these are the increased rates per unit
as they affect the ultimate consumer.
The Washington times., 1920-09-04
= O'CONNELL,

nANIEL T. O'CONNELL,
who today retired a. head Of
the Irish National Bureau here
TO resume the practice Of law
In Boston. Wright Mccormick
will succeed him.
The Washington times., 1920-09-04

So he wrote a 'Marche Funebre OF
jazz" This he flung to the world in
n June ISSUE of Musical America.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-15
Calvin Coolidge Says

(F'rom his address at the Univer-
sity Of Vermont, June sS, 1s20.)
There are two methods Of education.
One is the laboratory or experiment
station method. When problems arise
they are sent there, where the methods
OF exact science are applied and the an
swer returned. The process is of no
consequence; the answer alone IA de-
sired. This is the method Of authority.
Those who drink at that we'll thirst
again.
Life is not an exact science. In ethics.
civics, economies and politics all the
facts are not known. For dealing with
these questions We need colleges Of the
liberal arts to which men go to learn
the process for discovering truth. These
institutions are established to teach men
to think, to create within them we'll Of
water everlasting. This is the justifsca-
ton of that democracy which is the
foundation Of our Republic.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-15

by scientific development Of the
port and its terminals through joint
action with the Jersey ninterland---
an integral part of the New York
district. Resources on both sides Of
the Hudson should be put into one
pool. For unity Of interest and eff
fort is needed to free New York
City proper Of the choking pressure
which now threatens to drive bust
ness away from the port because
handling it is too cumbersome and
costly and also adds painfully to
the expense Of food distribution.
Little old New York is o pictur-
esque memory. The New York of
to-day, to be prosperous and COM
Portable, to establish efficiency and
order in its economic life, must look
to a future in which expansion be-
yond the Hudson will figure as an
essential element.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-15
To Build or Not to Build

Will building materials be cheaper
next spring? That question is being
revolved By those whose housing
problem is not solved. Recently COM
mon brick tumbled Is per cent over
night, from s30.75 a thousand to
S22.7o, delivered on the job. This
has raised hopes Of similar decreases
in the case Of other materials. But.
as The Engineering News-Record
notes, brick has been relatively high
er in price than most building materi-
ais have been. In early 1914 brick
sold alongside dock in New York at
$3.50 a thousand, against the recent
price Of $25. So brick is still high.
So are the other building mate
rials. Consider cement. In the
spring Of 1915 it sold for So cents a
barrel at the dock, against the pres
ent price of $4.10 on the job. Ce-
ment manufacturers have contended
with an acute car shortage and til
cost Of coal has been exorbitaE
New-York tribune., 1920-10-15
Electric Automotive Power
To the Editor Of The Tribune

Sir: Automotive engineers over all
the country ars trying to find some
economical means Of UTILIZING No
sroleum or its by-products to obviate
the slackening Of the use Of the gaso-
line automotive machines.
Electric motive power now looms nm
as the logical solution. providing the
electric lighting companies cooperate in
establishing charging and exchange sta
tions throughout the cities and proyid-
ing the standardization Of the different
vehicle batteries is accomplished. so anv
vehicle with standard batteries can make
exchanges; then the people will demand
the electrification Of all vehicles in
the large cities and suburbs-namelv.
taxicabs, trucks, etc--as they are far
moro economical, cleaner, cheaper 70
operate and moro sanitary for the
streets~
Imagine New York quiet, gasless and
the great economical changes made by
the electrifcation Of most all vehicles.
Then life would be worth living in the
finest city in the world, but to-day New
York is smoked and choked with gaso-
line terrors. IN
New York, Oct. 10, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-15
Too Much Tumultv

10 the Edl.or or Tho Tribune.
Sir: Reading SO much political "guF''
gets one trife confused at times. but
Senator Spencer, Missouri, has brought
to the front the handspring of the
whole political campaign--too much
Tumulty.
AT the time OF Ahe Presidents sick
ness. the public was informed that no
one was allowed in the sickroom except
MT. Tumulty and the doctors in attend
ance. At the same time lengthy
statement was published as emanatinr
from the White House, giving the Amer
can governments attitude toward Mex
leo. This communication bore all the
earmarks Of Joseph P. Tumulty and re-
suited IN the resignation of one Of the
BEST Secretaries of State this govern
ment ever had-Robert Lansing.
Senator Spencer is to be commended
1or MS courage in daring to bring to
the front the real conditions in WASH
ington. The League Of Nations con-
sroversy is nothing to the American peo-
pie. We want return to sanity and a
government by American citizens for
American citizens. CITIZEN.
New York, Oct. IL, 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-10-15
Economics of Josephus

The Hon. Josephus Daniels, who
is one Of the Democratic Admins
tration's greatest mistakes-none
the less serious because he is laugh
able---is spouting words of warning.
Unless the people heed his storm sig
mails and vote tho way he thinks
they ought to, terrible things are in
store for them. The least that can
happen, according to the Hon. Jo-
sephus, is that wages and profits
may go back to the levels Of 1912
that dark period Of American his
tory which preceded Mr.. Wilson's
discovery Of emotional, or hysterical,
economics. The Hon. Josephus
wants every voter to contrast his
present happy state with his con-
dition during the last year Of Mr..
Taft's Administration. That, he
thinks, is practical test that ought
to insure four years moro of pater-
lalism.
The contrast Is not so favorable to
the policies Of Mr.. Wilson and the
minds which follow his as the Hon.
Josephus imagines. 1t Is perfectly
true that by the fatuous policy of
unlimited imitation. the cost Of liv-
ing was forced up to exorbitant
levels and that wages perforce fol-
lowed. But the advantage Of the
worker in the race with prices has
been slight, If there has been any
advantage at all. He has made more
dollars, but each dollar has been
halved in purchasing power, and as
an inevitable result Of the policy of
preposterous imitation, supplemented
by the determination to force prices
down suddenly for political effect,
the worker now finds that his Job is
none too secure and the business
man finds that his profits are
shrinking where they haven't wholly
vanished. The excess profits tax is
no longer source Of annoyance to
many businesses, which have been
compelled to shut down by reason
of the arbitrary policies Of the Ad-
ministration's financial agent, the
Federal Reserve Board.
What four years more of emo
tional economies would do to busi-
ness and labor is not pleasant to
contemplate; but we needn't think
Of it too seriously. We are going to
have period Of good, old-fashioned,
sound business policies, as the re-
suits on the first Tuesday after the
first Monday in November will show.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-15

Every dollar added to the price OF
coal adds five cents to the cost Of a
barrel Of cement. Nevertheless, the
price Of cement is high.
How about sand, gravel and
crushed stone? Gravel sells for 80
a cubic yard, against So one year
ago; sand at $1.50, against S1.26;
crushed stone at $2.10, against $1.76
to $1.85. All these prices represent
heavy advances over pre-war figures
Business is once more supposed to
be operating on supply and de.
mand basis, but the belief Is COM
mon that producers, in formal and
informal combination, prefer small
business with large profits to a big
business with small profits. Any
way, the camel's back is bending
perilously. Construction work is
meager everywhere. That producers
and dealers in building materials
will endure for any great length of
time market made stagnant
through high prices is not likely.
The, deadlock, it may be predicted,
will soon be broken.
Now comes the inevitable ques-
ton: "To build or not to build next
spring." The easiest answer is,
Wait and see, and then decide"
But many must know beforehand.
Probably the best advice that can be
given at this time Is to 60 ahead
with projects, for otherwise they
will be compelled to wait until the
spring Of 1922.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-15
A Horrible Record in kaayti

This Administration has attempted
to conceal a frightful condition in
Hayti. General Barnett comes out
fatty with the truth. He was
shocked beyond expression" and
gave prompt orders to correct
abuses. Was it for this that Dan
iels removed him as commandant?
we repeat-the Marines were not
primarily to blame. They were I'M
der Daniels's orders. He has known
the facts since September, 1919
more than a year-but he and the
Administration have ignored them.
Admitting that Hayti is we'll rid
Of 1880 bandits, is it wise for the
United States, as a national policy,
to assume forcibly the mandate to
kill all bandits everywhere?
This Administration has given
three principles to the world:
l. We should be too proud to fight.
2. Peace without victory.
3. Self-deternination FOR weak
nations.
How beautiful! How peaceful!
How just! And now we ere not too
proud to fight poor little Hayti. We
secure peace in Hayti by victory
by slaughtering 5000 men. The
self determination" rs regards
Hayti, is all ours
Josephus Daniels is just the man
for job like this. He Is a great
fighter when the other fellow can't
fight. He is "bold and audacious," to
use his own words, when there is no
danger. Does he represent the spirit
Of the United States7
New-York tribune., 1920-10-15
A Black Swami

The Bar Association has developed
no small amount of courage with re-
spect to the Endorsement of judicial
candidates. But it has been chary
about expressing condemnation. Its
severe handling Of the impudent
candidacy Of Judge Swami there
fore has novelty-marks an advance
on which the association may well
be congratulated.
AS a representative in Congress
Judge Of the Court Of General Ses-
sions and as District Attorney
Mr.. Swami has shown his quality
1t is reported by the Bar Associa-
tion committee, whose language is
restrained though emphatic, that as
Congressman his record was mot
noteworthy" that as judge he was
oppressive and as District Attorney
his conduct has been scandalous,
terrorizing defendants in criminal
cases and by oppressive methods
seeking to obtain from them in
eliminating evidence. Judge Ingra-
ham, in his official report in 1917,
wrote blistering description of Mr..
Swami which ought to forbid
thought Of elevating him to the Su-
preme bench.
AS q politician Mr.. Swami has
been Of the superserviceable type
first plant to Murphy and then to
Hearst, and at times to both Of them
contemporaneously, Yet there is
danger that this man will be elected
justice Of the Supreme Court. 1t
is Presidential year and little at
tention is paid to local candidates.,
It is to be hoped that the singing
condemnation Of the Bar Associa-
ton will arouse the electorate to
consider Swami. This is all that is
necessary to bring about his defeat.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-15
The New York of Tomorrow

The public hasn't been impressed
so much as it should have been BY
the exercises marking the breaking
Of ground for the New York-New
Jersey vehicular tunnel. This is one
of those practical enterprises in To-
cal self-help WHICH often escape the
limelight. Yet it means much for
the welfare of the city, now
cramped beyond comfort and suffer
ing from the economic limitations Of
life on an over-built island.
New York City has expanded to
the north and across the Harlem
and East rivers. But its most vital
communications are toward the
west, where the Hudson acts as O.
formidable barrier. The develop
ment of the older part Of New York
has been checked by the lack of easy
intercourse with the New Jersey
trunk terminals, and the cost Of
living here has been artificially
raised by the imperfect and anti
quated facilities for food distribu-
tion which Manhattan Island has In
herited. The very spaciousness Of
our water boundaries has worked
against US.
The vehicular tunnel to New Jer-
Sey is only a first step toward over
coming grievous natural handicaps.
Its construction should be followed
New-York tribune., 1920-10-15
If Leninism Lasts Longer

Friends of Russia, concerned about
the 1niseries of that unhappy land,
of course passionately long for an
early end to the Bolshevist regime
any way,.any how. The vivisection
Of great but helpless people is
shocking to every righteous sensi-
bility.
But those more Interested in Bol-
shevism as general system, and de-
sirous of preventing the spread of
its destructive doctrines, are not SO
insistent on q speedy demise. They
see offsetting benefits in longer
continuance Of the Bolshevist expert
ment. They woul1 have no sincere
person of any political sect i'll doubt
Of its lesson. The heartlessness of
this attitude, with its indifference to
the suffering of millions while the
experiment proceeds, is excused bv
the plea that world welfare must be
put first; that the surest way to
conquer Bolshevism everywhere is
TO allow it to wreak its will in Rus
sla under circumstances most favor
able to its success.
II Lenine and Trotzky should at
once meet their just deserts, one can
easily imagine the defense that
would be made. Bolshovist apolo-
gists would say that noble effort
u realize higher social state was
defeated by the fact that it came to
power while Russia was disorgan-
tied by the great war, and that the
Bolshevist regime from its begin
ming was compelled to fight foreign
foes and domestic reactionaries.
The legend would circulate that if
Lenine had been able to command
peace the world would have rated
him as one Of the great lawgivers.
There would be nothing in the de-
tense, of course, but superficial
plausibility, but it would doubtless
be accepted by many, and attempts
TO revive Bolshevism would trouble
the future.
Bolshevism is even more insult
able to an era of peace than to an
era Of war. So It is O pity that it
mas not had q chance to demonstrate
Is qualities under peaceful con-
iitions. Should outside powers keep
aloof and esve the settlement to the
aussiar alone, Russian sutferings
New-York tribune., 1920-10-15
Government by Echo

Congress- while under Democratic
control, was, with rare exception, a
mere echo of the Executive. From
Harding's speech at Chattanooga
Mr.. Harding has the faculty Of
putting plain truth into plain words.
The exceptions to government by
echo were rare, indeed, until Con-
gress ceased to be under Democratic
control.
And government by echo, had not
the people interposed and overturned
it, would have saddled us with Mr..
Wilson's League Of Nations plan and
embroiled US indefinitely with Euro
pean politics and European squab-
bles.
What Mr.. Wilson said Democratic
Congressman repeated .- word for
word. His sentiments were their
sentiments, his ideas their ideas.
They accepted his mandates with
out reason. The man who dared to
question the sanctity Of Wilson
opinion was ruthlessly destroyed as
s political factor.
Never was q time in Washington
when conditions so nearly approach
ing a reign Of terror obtained in the
Capitol. Through Mr.. Burlesoil, who
continually lurked in the cloak rooms,
the Executive was constantly on
watch. And wee betide the man as
to whose loyalty-not to the country,
but to the White House-Burleson
brought in an adverse reportl
That condition, thanks to Re-
publican majority, exists no more.
The present Congress Is not Will
son echo.
And neither the next Congress
nor the next President must be q
Wilson echo.
Yet that is all Mr.. Cox is or pre-
tends to be. The words he catches
from the White House he carries
abroad through the land.
The opinions of Mr.. Wilson be-
came his opinions as soon as he had
seen and talked with Mr. Wilson
after the nomination.
We have removed the echo from
the Capitol. Let US keep the other
echo out Of the White House.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-15
Books

Frank Harris has done an excellent
sketch Of Shaw in his nsw volume OF
Contemporary Portraits, but Shaw has
done better. "After finishing my pen
portrait Of Shaw" writes Harris, II sent
him copy asking him to correct any
errors in it. He replied by telling me
that it was incorrigibe and sending me
the following portrait Of himself as an
example Of how / ought to have written
about him."
Before attempting to add Bernard
Shaw to my collection Of Contemporary
Portraits" begins this autobiographical
sketch. II find it necessary to secure
myself IN advance by the fullest admis-
sion OF his extraordinary virtues. With
ont any caviling over trifes I declare
at once that Shaw is the just man made
perfect. I admit that in all his con-
troversies, md in all possible contro.
VERSES, with me or any one else, Shaw
IS, always has been, and always will be.
right"
Later we find Shaw stating Of him
self, Zone OF his favorite sayings is r
always astonish strangers by my ania-
bility. because, as no human being could
possibly be so disegreeable as they ex-
pect me to be, | have only to be COM
monty civil to seem quite charming"
"Those who praise his books to his
face" he adds later, "are dumfounded
by the enthusiasm with which he Joins
IN his own praise, and need all their
presence Of mind to avoid being pro-
voked into withdrawing some IS per
cent or SO Of their estimate"
"shaw's gallantries," writes the
dramatist, "are for the most part non
existent. He says, with some truth.
that no man who has any real work in
the world has time or money for a mr.
suit SO long and expensive as the pur-
suit OF women. He may possibly have
started that protest against the expen-
siveness and the exactions Of beautiful
women which is the main theme Of his
friend Granville Barker's Waste and
The Madras House. Nobody knows his
history in this respect, as he is far too
correct person to kiss and tell. To
all appearances he is a model husband:
and in the various political movements
in which his youth was passed there was
no scandal about him. Yet q popular
anecdote describes a we'll known actor
manager as saying one day at rehearsal
to an actress of distinguished beauty.
Let us give Shaw a beefsteak and put