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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-26
TRANSPORT EDUCATION
BOARD TOLOCATE HERE

The Highway Transport Education
Board of the National Automobile
Chamber OF Commerce. will open Of
fices in Washington, II was announc-
ed today.
c. T. Tilden, professor Of engineer
ing mechanics at Yale University,
and one of the best-known engineer
ing educators IN the United States,
has been selected 20 direct the work
Of the board. ale will take up his
new duties at once and formulate a
comprehensive program for courses
in highway transport education.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-26
MID-CTTY ASSOCIATION
TO HEAR PHONE EXPERT

Members OF the Mid-City Citizens
Association will hear the history OF
the telephone tomorrow night when
they will be addressed by Henry Ran
SON. OF the Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company. The lecture will
be illustrated.
The public school building fund will
be discussed at the meeting and i'm
portant committee reports from the
traffic and police committees will be
read. The meeting will be held in the
Thomson School, Twelfth and l. street,
northwest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-26

In many cases, IL was said. the
bootleggers. seeing that they were
chased. and fearing that they would
be arrested II they went to their old
haunts, stopped at some other places
and unlozded their liquor. liz nearly
every case. when they arrived at
their usual haunts. there were police
men or prohibition officers awaiting
them.
The police and revenue officers have
enlisted the aid OF some adventurous
Washin II onians who own high
powered cars. to aid them In arrest
ing bootleKgers on the Maryland
roads, but the fear of damaging the
cars have always kept them down to
a speed OF nifty or sixty miles an
hour, and at this rate OF speed the
police maintain, they cannot expect
to catch bootleggers with specially
hiEh-GeAred automobiles, who can
easily maintain. and often do, a speed
OF eighty or eighty-1ve miles an hour.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-26
SILLY
Police Allege Xmas
"Hooch" Was Made
In District.
LIQUID BARB WIRE
Two Suspected Manufac-
turers Held for VOL
stead Law Viola
ton.
It was still night last night.
In fact, II was a two still night.
Roth stills u,nuId havc hccp "a

Both stills would have been all
right If they had been still.
But they weren't. They were GO
ing full blast, so the police say.
You may talk about your Christ
mas spirit. but, according to the pc.
lice, Christmas spirit was a weak
member compared to these still
spirits.
Both stills were discovered last
night by revenue agents and police
men from Number Five precinct.
One OF them was in tho home OF
Howard II. Miller. 1923 Second street
southeast. This ono was in the
bathroom. Miller was also in the
bathroom. And 10 were a couple Of
Federal agents and Sergeants Davis
and Dollhouse and Patrolman Dan
ieIs, of Number Five. They were
all in tho bathroom, but not for
long. The still was the hrst to 60
out. 1t went out twice. Miller went
out but once. That once was
plenty.
stu number two lived in a spe-
cially made closet, It's said. Tho
closet was in the homs OF Edward
T.. Anderson. 331 Seventeenth street
southeast. That still was stillcd
forever by Precinct Detective
Charles c. Wise and Sergeant W. l..
Thomas, Of Number Five, Andersen
won't look back on this Christmas
with pleasure.
The police declare that both mcl
have been supplying liquid barbcd
wire to Navy Yard employees
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-26
TO
TUESDAY
Writers Who Will Prepare War
Story Seek Govern
ment Records.

Men and women of the nation who
will write, from the viewpoint Of
Americans, the history of the late
war, providing for future genera
tons an accurate account of the
great conflict, will gather in Wash
ington this week for a joint con-
ference.
TO COLLECT RECORDS.
Historians. fearing that many i'm
portant papers will be mislaid unless
immediate access Is given TO all war
records. will lay great stress this
week on the importance of collecting
these war records within a short time.
Writers of history from every part
OF tho United States, representing po-
liticsl. religious, sociological and
other historical societies. will take
part in the convention which opens
Tuesday.
These seven organizations will be
represented: American Historical AS
ISOLATION. American Political Science
Association, American Sociology cal
Society. American Catholic Historical
Association. Mississippi Valley His
torical Association, and the AgricGl-
tural Historical Association.
Tuesday the convention will devote
the entire day to a joint conference
on the war with these speakers:
Karl Singewald. OF the histori cal
division of the Maryland Council Of
Defense: Albert +. Mckinley, OF the
University OF Pennsylvania: Joseph
Schafer. of the State Historical
Society of Wisconsin. and others.
MANY NOTED SPEAKERS.
Many Washington men have been
invited to address the convention,
among them j. Franklin Jameson, OF
the Carnegie Institute: Gallard Hunt.
Department of State: Charles Moore,
Library OF Congress: Theodore Be
Tote, curator OF American History, of
the National Museum, and W. +. Will
loughby. Institution for Government
Research.
A dinner at the Willard Hotel FRI
day night is the leading social event
scheduled for the convention. DR..
Jameson will preside and these men
will speak: the French Amba ssa dor.
Secretary OF War Baker, Professor
Gilbert Murray OF oxford. and DR..
James J. Walsh, of Cathedral College,
New York.
Pan-American political and diplo-
matte relations will be discussed
Thursday. This session will be held
in the Pan-American Building. The
position OF America In regard to
the League of Nations will be set
forth by Manuel dc Olivcira Lima, of
the Catholic University.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-26
PEPC0 WANTS
11-2CL.RAISE
Demand for Higher Rate Prob
ably Will Be Made in
February.

4 ten-cent per kilowat hour charge
for electric current, one and half
cent more than the present rate, will
probably be asked by the Potomac
Electric Power Company when it files
a petition -early in February for in
creased rates.
ASKS FER CENT RETURN.
When the petition for this rate is
presented to the Public Utilities Com
mission the question, what IL a fair
rate OF return to allow the company
to earn once more comes 10 the
front.
The electric company seeks per
cent but tho commission 80 lar has
held utility corporations, with the ex-
ception OF the Capital Traction Com
pany, down to . per cent. Tho COM
pany claims it is now getting below 6
per cont.
GAS CONTAIN WANTS RAISE.
Another utility, tho Washington
Gas Light Company, will be before
the mission in the next several
months. The company will seek
either continuation OF the present
rates or q still higher charge for this
commodity.
A definite decision as to whether
there will be higher fares in Wash
ington Will come this week from the
Public Utilities Commission.
1t is generally believed the COM
mission will turn down the petition
Of the Washington Railway and
Electric Company for an increase in
fare to 3 cents straight. In event
the petition is granted, the commits
sion is expected TO establish precc-
dent by making the new ,are ef-
fective on only one line. that of the
petitioner.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-26
Musicale at HadIeiuh.

An Ampico musicale will be given
at the Hadlelgh Hotel. V and Six
teenth streets northwest. ut $3.50 this
afternoon. The public IL invited.
Mrs. Florence Howard and other solo
ists will be accompanied by the
hmpico.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-26
Bible Pageant Today.

Depicting the heroic men and
women Of the Bible, a Bible pageant,
under the direction of Daniel w.
Chase, will be given at 4 o'clock this
afternoon at the Young Women's
Christian Association. Ninth and
Rhode Island avenue northwest. Miss
Ada Woods will be the reader.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-26
WOULD CLOSE
UP WAR RISK
Senator FreIinghuysen Believes
lessened Work Of Bureau
Makes II Necessary.

Wideswecping reforms must be
accomplished by the incoming Re-
publican administration or the peo-
plo will turn on the Republican
party "as they have on the Demo
cratic party" Senator Frelinghuy-
sen, Republican, Of New Jersey, de-
clared in the Senate Friday.
ADVOCATES ECONOMY.
eve must put the country on
sound financial basis" Senator Frel-
inghuysen said. "Our foreign policy
must be thoroughly American. Above
all. we must return to constitutions
government and cast aside any and
all autocratic practices"
The Senator said he was not yet
convinced OF the feasibility Of an as.
ISOLATION of nations.
A return to the prc-wa. basis In
the executive department was the
nrst reform urged by Senator Frel-
inghuysen, who declared that the
time has come for q sweeping reduc-
ton in the number OF Government
employees.
Declaring that 81 per cent of the
men who served in the world war
Senator Frelinghuysen urged the
abandonment OF the War Risk Insur-
ance Bureau and the turning over OF
this work to the Pension Bureau.
"Other bureaus in Washington are
sSelled out OF all proportion to what
they should be-" he declared. In the
war Department. he said. there arc
sun many employees working on
claims out OF the war OF 1912.
mars SHIPPING BOARD.
Il know OF no more outrageous vio-
lation OF business principles in the
conduct OF the Government than the
extraordinary extravagancc and
waste practiccd by the United States
Shipping BOARD" Senator FreIinShuy-
sen declared. at should become one
OF the chief aims Of our Republican
Administration to turn over i'm
mediately to private ownership all
Government owned vessels. TO make
America first in tho number OF ships
and tonnage. and one of the first acts
should be TO rescue or sell the
Lcviathan, resting and rusting in
New York harb1r. and many other
ships, condition not prevalent in
England
SEA POWER NEEDED.
What we need is sea power enough
TO protect all that We are, all that we
have and ell that we do" Senator
FTciinghuN said in urging large
navy" but" nc added, IF these ship. are
not properly manncd by efficiently
trained men, arc large navy means
nothing.
II am in favor of proposals by
this Government to both Britain and
Japan that their naval forces and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-26
Xmas Party Thursday.

The Johnson-Powen Community
Center will give a Christmas party
next Thursday night, with Santa Claus
giving presents to the children. Chill
sIrAn of the Johnson and Powell
schools will present an entertainment.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-26
War on Bootleggers
Needs Speedy Autos,
Say Revenue Agents

Unless the Washington police and the prohibition
agents obtain high power cars, bootlegging will
flourish in Washington. This is the opinion voiced by
policemen and prohibition agents who have been chasing
bootleggers the Maryland roads during the past two
weeks.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-26

Want ads In The Washington T4iues
will I've accepted I'll II a. m for publica-
ton tho same day Quick action brine
quick results
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-26

FIVE YEAR OLD PAUL
SWITZER. Jr.. of 62l Il
street northwest. is Washing
tons latest and youngest en-
try In the movies. His mother.
whose stage name is Dot Buck
ley. recently left the legiti-
mate for the screen.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-06-17
BLAINE's BODY TO BE MOVED

Washington, D. c., June 1.-THE
bodies of James G. Blaine, republican
nominee for the presidency in 1884,
and twice secretary of state, and Of
his wife, Harriet s.. Blaine, are to
find permanent resting place in a
memorial park near the state house
at Augusta, Maine, where Mrs. Blaine
was born and where Mr.. Blaine NOV
eds from Pennsylvania when young
man. ags,.9 Ii
The bodies were disinterred today
from the family plot in Rock Creek
cemetery here and will be sent to-,
morrow to Augusta where they will be;
buried Sunday.
foMr. Blaine died in Washington Oh
January q, $685., soon after retir-
ing from his second service rs secre-
tary Of state and Mrs. Blaine died .
year later. .,s
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-06-17
AMERICA.

America!. The beautiful
I've heard them sing that song,
The Land Of golden fortunes, a 100
For the Brave and the Strong.
America! The Land Of the free,
With fields Of golden grain, &
Where's Righteousness and Liberty,
And no one works in vain.
America! Thy Grown is Glory
Thy Royalty in lasting peace,
High above all stands thy honor,
And Nobility united is.
America! The Land Of Wonders,
/ love each sacred state,
/ love thy woods and thy waters,
What better could our Lord create ?
America! The greatest country,
Thy flags q symbol to, the sky,
With Stars, Stripes and great Souls
We're ready to fight and die.
Written by Agnes L. D. Woodford.
Minot, N. D.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-06-17
It Paws to be SQUARE

Minot is enjoying its third visit
from the Johnny Jones Exposition this
week. It is not often that an or
ganization of this nature wins it, way
into the hearts Of the public - the
Johnny Jones people have with the
residents of Minot and Northwestern
North Dakota. The shows are all
perfectly clean, wholesome and enter
tanning. A five-year-old child may
attend any of them unaccompanied in
perfect safety. The Exposition rep
resents the ideal of the Wizard Of the
Amusement World, Johnny Jones,
who has builded around a mental pic
ture for many years, until he has
succeeded in effecting the greatest ex-
position Of its kind in the world. Mr..
Jones started out as a poor Pennsyl-
vania boy, and unlike Barnum Of old,
he did not believe that fool was
born every minute and that the public
loved to be humbugged. The growth
Of his Exposition has been steady but
sure. A man Of the highest character
himself, Mr.. Jones has surrounded
himself with people who are honest
and clean. You will find no act that
is the least suggestive of any indecent
thing in the entire Exposition. The
$50 people connected with the EXPOSE
ton must measure up to the proper
standard or they will most surely
part company with Johnny Jones. He
has surrounded himself with such men
as. Col. Salter, the gentlemanly press
agent, who has long been connected
with the Exposition and who has done
his full share in building up this or
ganization; Col. Ellsworth, who is in
charge of the Animal Circus, most
lovable gentleman hailing from Ken
lucky and who now threatens to drop
the 'tColonel" since America has be-
come the great Sahara Desert; Col.
Barclay and other men internationally
known in the Exposition world. They
are all just folks, who like to be
friends with those they meet and who
like to make friends wherever they
60.
Il always find it easier to be- nice
to people than otherwise Johnny
Jones remarked to an Independent
representative. This is one of the
secrets of his success. It costs so
little to be polite and Mr.. Jones has
demonstrated that it pays to be on,
the square. There are no gambling
devices with this concern. No short
change artists. Everything is clean.
Mr.. Jones is delightful gentleman to
meet. He knows every detail of his
business, knows to a penny what every
tent, every one of his AZ cars, and
what every tent stake cost. He is a
glutton for detail and can be found
anywhere about the spacious grounds
at most any hour of the day or night,
yet withal he has time for a pleasant
word with everybody.
There is only one Johnny Jones in
the entire world and Minot is proud
of the fact that he and his estimable
associates are again with, us.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-11
WAS GONE BEYOND RECALL
Headgear for Which Young Wife Had
Pined Adorned Head of One
More Fortunate.

every day for week." the young
wife said wistfully, 1--WE gone down
to look at hat in show window
a wonderful hat, Tom; the kind of
hat woman dreams of but sees only
once in years. OF course, knew that
i could not hope to buy it, as it was
far more expensive than we could af-
ford. The price was"
Perhaps we could manage 1t, dear,
If you wish it so much" Tom inter-
rupted fondIy. Business has been a
little better the last month. have
two new contracts for large apartment
houses. How much is the haiti"
''That is dear Of yon, Tom," she
responded with a grateful smile,
though her eyes grew sad, "but it is
too late. Our cook happened to pass
the store. saw her wearing it home"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-11
Imnortant TO Enothora
SOMETHING TO WORK WITH
Young Man Perfectly Willing to Prac-
tlce Economy If Old Gentleman
Would Supply Materials.

There is well-known banker
whose only son does not, his father
contends, appreciate the value of q
dollar by about 90 cents. A short time
ago the youth approached the old gen.
tIeman with request for consider.
able sum in addition to his regular al
lowance.
Look here, my boy" the father
said severely, "You do not seem to
realize that you spend great deal of
money-throw it away, in fact, Don't
you think it about time that you be-
gan to econOmize a bit?"
eyes, I do, father" the young man
responded earnestly. "Been thinking
just that-fne thing, economy; pro-
vide against rainy day, and all that
sort Of rot. I'd love to start right in
economizing, but can't, because
haven't cent to economize. If you'll
just pass over that thousand, how
ever, will begin, right away!"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-11

jobs in cooking! Cooking is a mans
job and woman's place is the parlor."
AS a matter of fact, there probably
are highly paid chefs today who feel
just that way about 1t.
The situation was getting to the
point where there was no place for
the women in the working world to
go but out. There are even some eX-
tremists who believe that the care of
children should be taken out of the
home and away from the mothers
hands.
at is here the clinging vine gets
into the picture" said Miss Laughlin.
"She developed as dollhouse plant,
because there was nothing much for
her to do. Industry had been moved
from the home Woman's place was
still in the home, but there was moth
ing for her to do. Often the mothers
of these idle girls were responsible for
their parasitism, because they had had
to work so very hard themselves that
their ideal for their daughters was a
condition which would make it pos
sible for them to do nothing harder
than sit on a cushion and sew fine
seam
"But the swing backward toward
primitive standards, when woman was
a worker, to the cave man period, If
you choose, made long sweep during
the war. Women had been seeping
into the professions and businesses
before that time, but their progress
had been almost imperceptible.
"Thus old-time. efficiency, inherited
from their Industrious grandmothers,
no doubt, asserted itself with their new
wartime jobs. Employers were salts
fed and clients made happy. So the
women are staying with their new
work"
According to Miss Laughlin. there
isn't anything disastrous in the situa-
ton. She believes that there is plenty
of work to be done for both men and
women in industrial and professional
lines.
"Enclency ana Worh are NOT mat
tiers of SEX is her dictum.
Miss Laughlin is far from the "cave
woman" in looks, but she is endowed
with vigor of mind and spirit which
would do her cave grandmothers
credit Miss Laughlin practices lew
in San Francisco. She was born in
New England Her college education
was secured at Wellesley and she was
graduated in law from Cornell uni
versity, one of two women in her class.
Later Miss Laughin went to Colo,
RADIO, where she was active in politics,
women having been granted the right
to vote in that state while she was
in college. A number Of years ago
Miss Laughlin went to San Francisco
and there she has built up large law
practice. At first her clients were
nearly all women. But the war added
men to the list. And these men, who
went to her first because their former
counsel had gone to war, have found
the woman lawyer so competent that
they retained her even when the mea
returned to their Offices.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-06-11
The four walls of ne home
a. hooaroo oon,c work

the four walls of ne home
! it became mans work.
"Now homework is diminishing to
such an extent that many women, if
they are to work at all, must go to
the office or the factory" said Miss
Laughlin.
"In the beginnings of the profess
siOns women did not make much of
showing. They practiced medicine
in the actual care of the sick. But
medicine, as profession, was linked
in primitive times with tribal leader
ship and with priestcraft to such an
extent that it belonged almost entirely
to men.
cit has been only in the last few
years that women were admitted to
our medical schools of any standing.
And the few women physicians before
the war had little or no real practice.
Take it in our own time, out in some
neighborhood where there is no doctor.
| If some one is i'll or baby comes do
we send for a man? Certainly not +;
it's a woman who is called in to help.
"The law? There isn't a mother,
never has been a mother, who didn't,
lat times, have to act as judge and
jury in the disputes of her children.
Father may be the court of appeals,
but she is on the bench all day.
Every day mother has to decide and
act according to her decisions. And
10 1nY, CHI ic inc iI1HOn
"In the New England town where
1 was brought up" continued Miss
Laughlin, "the progress of modern in
vention did not touch us for long
time. The industrial revolution, which
took from the home so much of its
drudgery,@ha not reached there when
1 was a little girl.
eve made our own soap, our own
candles, cured our own meats, and
wove the cloth for our clothes. That
is, the women did this work.
EVERY man who is working in an
electric light plant is doing the work
that was once done by wOmen-mak-
ing the lights. Every man who is
working in a weaving mill is doing
the work formerly done by women
Every man working in a soap fac
tory is doing work formerly done by
women.
''The great canning factories, plants
for preserving food, even some of the
work of the meat packing industries,
are built upon work that was formerly
all done by women.
Gin the Philippine islands, where the
basis of the family system was the
matriarch, the mother was head Of
the family. She handled all the funds
and budgeted her household. In Eu-
rope, among the small shopkeepers espe-
cially, women are the cashiers Of the
family and Of the business"
Cooking, homemaking and dress
making are still done in the homes
all over the country to such an extent
that they are still considered women's
work, Miss Laughlin pointed out. But
with community housekeeping and
community Kitchens and ready-made
clothes, the day may come when the
men in charge of the machines that
make the home go round will say:
Imagine those women applying for