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The Washington times., 1920-06-19
MAY ENJO|N
VAN SCHA|CK
Court Action to Prevent Recess
Appointment Hinted by
WestIake.

fr John Van Schsiek, Jr, rsjseted
by the Senate as a Commissioner OF
the District OF Columbia, Is given .
recess appointment to the post. an
injunction in the District Supreme
Court to restrain him from taking
over the duties OF the office may be
sought This was indicated today by
William b. Westlake, president OF the
Federation OF Citizens Association.
''The Senate OF the United States
has agreed that this man 10 ineffici-
ont and incapable OF holding the Of
flee OF Comm ssioner," said Westlake.
I'm view OF this, ] do not believe IL
will be legal to give him a recess ap-
pointment l am sure the courts
would grant restraining order.
"a committee OF seven United
States Senators has Investigated Van
Schaick They reported TO the SEN
ate their findings unfavorable to Van
Sohaick. The Senate indorsed the re-
port, which believe officially brands
Van Sehaick, in the eyes OF the
United States Government, as IN
efficient and incapable OF holding the
office OF Commissioner. How can he,
in view OF all this. take up the duties
OF tho officer"
Westlake did not say he contem-
plated urging either the citizens as
sociation, of which he is an officer,
or the federation to take action.
No precedent has been found, II Is
said, for giving Van Schaick the Of
fice by a recess appointment. Van
Schaick, himself, today refused to
state whether he would accept such
appointment.
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DIR. BUNKER TO SPEAK
AT MYRTILLA MINER

Commencement exercises OF the Myr-
tilla Miner Normal School will be
held in the assembly hall OF the
school. Georgia avenue and Euclid
street northwest, Tuesday evening at
8 o'clock.
Dr. +. ]. Bunker. chief OF the city
administration of the United states
Bureau OF Education, will deliver the
graduation address. Diplomas will
be presented by Fountain Peyton,
member Of the Board of Education
of the District
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Lorton Inmates Want
PooLLike Horses Haze

Svpt. Charles c. Foster, OF the Dis.
trict OF Columbia prisons. has a fine
problem OF discrimination on his
hands
II horses at the Occoquan Work
house have a swimming pool ninety
feet in circumference. neatly con-
.creted, with gravel bottom. places for
currycomb massage, and virtually ev-
erything that makes tirst-class
natatorium, except hot water and
showers. shouldn't the human inmates
of the reformatory at Lorton. a mile
away. have a swimming pool?
And then this:
II black and white hogs. intended
for food for the prisoners, can splash
around in natatoriums to their por.
cine hearts content, why must the
aforesaid prisoners content them.
selves with a tub and showers and
not have a plunge bath?
LIKELY TO CAUSE sQUEALs.
Even when a man is sent to the re-
formatory for a breach Of the civil
code. he's likely TO have some sense
OF discrimination.
When it soaks into his skin that
the pigs get comforts which aren't
afforded him, there's probability
that he will "squeal."
All this. superintendent Foster,
with the advice and counsel OF the
national committee or Prisons and
prison labor. is trying to adjust
WATER WON'T Run Up HILL.
Really. it's not his fault the men
don't have a plunge bath. It's due
TO the perversities OF nature, which
refuses to make water run up hill.
There is plenty OF room for the
swimming pool in the middle court
Of the dormitory group. now be
ing constructed by inmates out OF
bricks they also make. Still other
inmates could be drafted to do
the excavation and construct the
bottom and sides for the pool; but
the reformstory is so situated that
no way yet has been found 10 con
duct water to fill the pool without
pumping.
Engineers are scouting for water
source which is above the level OF
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DENY Van SC1AICK'S
ELIGIBILITY FOR JOB
Officers of Parents League Ask the
District Supreme Court to Rule
on Superintendent.

In a communication signed by IL
r. Tanner, president. and /. A. Jury"
secretary" the attention of the JUS
tices OF the District Supreme Court
has been called to the ineligibility OF
Dr. John Van Schaick. jr. as mem
Der OF the Board of Education.
The chief justice, Mr.. Mccoy, said
today he would bring the matter 10
the attention OF the other justices OF
the court.
The writer's. who are officers OF
the Parents League, declare that DR..
Van Schaick was not bona hde
resident of this city for five years
prior to his appointment, as the law
requires. Accompanying the letter is
n transcript of the testimony given
by DR.. Van Schaick before the Senate
investigating committee, in which he
said he voted at Cobbleskil. n. Y.
in 1916.
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Washington Fourteenth City

eout. may indicate that the men more
often remarry than the women, but
since husbands are generally Older
than their wives, the marriage re-
ldtionship is more often broken by
then death OF the husband than by
tn" death OF the wife.
In jumping from seventeenth 20
fourteenth place in the list OF the
larger cities, Washington has pasSed
Newark, Cincinnati, New ORLEANS and
Minneapolis. Washington'S increase
in population since the last census
amounted to 106,502.
Is LEADING CITIES.
With the exception of Philadelphia
the returns for which have not beer
completed. figures for the eighteen
leading cities for 1920, as compa ""d
with the last census, are shown he.
low:
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Erin Go Bragh. +.
"MozZelton."
"Rnn GinrRni'n

BON IlOrRnl.
Indications are that the foreign
born population of Washington. which
now ranks as the fourteenth largest
city in the United States, again will
be led by the Irish, followed by the
Jewish and Italian populations in the
order named. according to the mass
OF census information now being tab
ulated by the Bureau OF Census.
Also the indications are that there
will be several thousand more fe-
males in the District than males, and
the percentage is expected to be much
larger this year than that OF the last
census, due to the large number or
female war workers who arc now
residents fthe National Capital. In
1910 there were 931 males to 100 fe-
, males.
GIRLS MARRY YOUNGER.
Figures so far tabulated by the bu-
reau show that more Washington
girls than men marry between the
ages OF fifteen and nineteen. as well
as from twenty to twentyfour, but
from thirty-three to forty-four the
percentage is much larger among the
males, while in the age group forty
| Ave and over IL very largely exceeds
| than for the females.
IL IL also shown. thus far. that
there will be larger proportion OF
widows than widowers in the DIS
trict. This, Census officials point
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f'Washington, Heart
OF America, " Wins
Times Slogan Contest
washington, the Heart of America. /"

This is the slogan for Washington 1t has been de-
cded upon by officers of the Board Of Trade Chamber
of Commerce. Merchants and Manufacturers Association
Rotary Club, City Club Women's City Club, and the
Kiwanis.
Officers of these organizations acting judges in The
Washington Times contest obtain suitable slogan for
Washington after several days of deberaton selected the
slogan submitted by Capt c. F. Sellers of the passport
division State Department. the best suited for the
Canital of the Nation.
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BIG SUGAR SHIPMENT
DUE FROM ARGENTINA

Fourteen thousand tons OF sugar
will arrive in this country from Ar
gentina during July. Howard Figg,
assistant to the Attorney General,
said the sugar has been purchased by
American firms through the aid OF the
Department Of Justice and the State
Department
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DIPLOMAS GIVEN 1923
AT GONZAGA COLLEGE

Twenty-three diplomas we're pre-
sented last night by Gonzaga College
Al the seventy-hrst annual commence
ment exercises in he college audi
torium.
The sheepskins were presented by
the Most Rev John Bonzano, apos-
tolic delegate to the United states.
Senator David ]. Walsh OF Massa.
cbusetts delivered the address.
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Need a Ton Of Coal?
Police Property Clerk
Is Seeking an Owner
who wants a ton Of coal?

Edwin y. Hesse, property clerk
OF the Police Department has II.
The coal was found" abandoned
in an alley in the rear OF u street.
between First and Second streets
northwest.
No one claimed it. so Hesse sent
gang to remove II. The black
diamonds" now repose in the Eighth
precinct awaiting a claimant.
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CAFE St. MARKS CLOSED
DURING JULY And AUGUST

The Cafe st. Marks will close dur.
ing tho months OF July and August
while extensive Improvements are be.
ing made. u will reopen again on
September I.
The tea and supper dance, will be
discontinued for the present. begin
ming next week.
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NEW MANAGER NAMED.

Aubrey S. Misell has been appoint
ed manager for the washington
Queen Quality Boot shop. The new
manager brings to the Washington
branch an experience Of years in the
retail shoe business.
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ROB NORTHWEST HOME.

Gaining entrance by forcing
a screen door. a thief yesterday stole
gold watch, worth $40 from the
home of Elmer A. King, $500 Sherrier
place northwest
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in delinquent
for
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TO GIVE MINSTREL SHOW.

An old-fashioned minstrel show will
be given by the Terminal II. r. Y.
NJ. c. A. In the gymnasium at Union
station, at $40 o'clock Tuesday
night
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} the reformntorY when this is
found, convicts Will have some OF
the advantages of RiIey's -or Swim
min Hole.
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could be with me and be In school as
they were not situated to go TO school
from her parents!
Il never anticipated their mother
coming East again. SO when they
disappeared, / suspected IL was she.
but feared also that some band OF
kIdnapers had got in its work.
1T has been conclusively shown to
me that she and not strangers have
the children. This information has
brought such consolation to. me that
shall not proceed further at present.
Altogether the children have been out
OF my immediate care only about a
year during their whole lives. / am
lonesome without them. but shall bide
my time in peace. hopeful the tide
may turn"
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Washingtonian, and Proud of 1t
SSO

Capt.
c. r. Sellers,
who was
today paid
S. a word
for his
slogan,
Washington,
the Heart
of America.
He is
employed
in the
Passport
Division,
State
Department.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-24
PARTY LOYALTY.

Many clever arguments are being
advanced by Republican propaganda
spreaders for loyal Democrats to split
their ticket and vote for a RepubIi-
can president and vice president, and
stand firm by the remainder of the
Democratic nominees.
1t is an argument as old as the
fight between the parties and as false
as Gains claim for immunity from
punishment after the murder of his
brother.
1t is well known to all who stop
and think that the president names
the various federal officials in Florida.
1t is well known that Republican
president would Dust many loyal
Democrats and it is a plain certainty
that many negro voters in the Middle
West and North would demand the
appointment of negroes to offices
within the State.
There is only one course open. That
is to vote the straight ticket, re-
CARELESS of Republican arguments.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-24
ARTICLE TEN

Republican campaigners have twist
ed the text of the famous Article X
of the Treaty of Versailles until they
have buried the true wording under
mass a false. constructions, The
Journal is publishing on the first page
of it's second section the text of the
treaty. But just to make sure the
famous article over which so many
questions have been raised is clearly
in every voters mind, it is repro
duced here:
THE members of the league
undertake to respect and preserve
as against external aggression the
territorial integrity and existing
political independence of all mem
bers of the league. In case Of
any threat of danger of such ag-
gression. the council shall advise
upon the means by which this
obligation shall be fulfilled"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-24
CHILDREN NEED FRIENDS.

There are in West Florida MANY
homeless, orphan children. They have
been neglected and uncared for and
always they reach out their tiny
hands in search of friends
Through the West Florida Branch
of the Children's Home Society YOU
and l are privileged to aid these lit
tie children. The Society is asking an
endowment of $4,000 for three years
to carry on and extend its work.
Every cent raised in West Florida
will be expended here.
The members of the Society are
leaders in West Florida business and
civic life. Their pledge that the
money will be spent carefully and
properly is guarantee enough that
such is the case.
Some day this week you will be
approached and asked to give what
you can and will. You will be asked
to make the pledge for three years If
possible. The cause is worthy, it is
close at home and it means much to
the little ones who are less fortunate
than your own children
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-24

found my mother-in-law sitting VI
comfortably in a rocking chair gowneC
in a pretty lavender negligee. Miss
Sonnet was arranging her hair. in the
elder woman's hand was the telegram
of the day before telling of the ex-
pectea arrival Of her daughter.
will Richard be home TO lunch
eon?" she demanded, as 1 entered the
room.
yes. I have Just telephoned him
you are TO eat your luncheon with us
today, and he will be here at H."
That's good. I want him to see
If there isn't another furnished apart
ment in this building, that he can get
until Harriet and her husband sail.
OF course, Harriet will wish to be
near me, so she can have your bed
room for the week she is here, and
you and Richard and Edwin can sleep
in the other apartment"
Madss Quietly Agrees.
1 suppose my face must have re-
Elected the amazement l felt at this
high handed way of arranging my
household, for she snapped out curt
ly:
You have no objections. I hope.
Naturally, I would like to have my
daughter near me for the week before
she sails on such a perilous errand."
Indeed have no objections" I
returned. In fact it is the very thing
1 had planned to do"
1 spoke the truth. Upon the re-
ceipt of the telegram I had thought
of another furnished apartment as
the only solution for the housing Of
the expected guests. But I should
like to have expressed my astonish-
ment and resentment at the calm way
my mother-in-law ignored me and
took the housekeeping reins in her
own hands.
An Unexpected Champion.
But on account of her weakness. /
held my tongue. Excusing myself /
spent the time before luncheon in
putting the last touches TO the open
ing talk was to deliver before the
club in the afternoon.
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others are now enthusiastic over the
idea. It has long been found that in
order TO attract and retain visitors
for longer than few days or a week
1t is necessary to provide some
amusement and entertainment feat
ures at resort. This is well recog-
nized in Europe and all sort of at
fractions are advertised for their re-
sorts. Florida towns and cities are
slowly taking up the notion, and all
places that have thus undertaken to
provide for the pleasure of visitors
have found 1t successful and well
worth the attention and expense nec-
essary.-Times-U Union.
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Press Comment
Women and Politics.

great many of the women of
Jacksonville-we think the majority
of them-did not desire the ballot, but
now that it has been conferred on
them they are making every effort
to fit themselves for exercising the
franchise properly. This is most COM
mendable and is well worthy of imi-
tation by the men.
The women of the state will play a
great part in it's affairs hereafter We
do not believe this will make any
appreciate change in the political
complexion of the state for the women
will divide about as the men have di-
vided. This does not mean by any
means that the women will vote as
the men who are closest to them will
tell them. They will not do this to
any greater extent than the men have
been voting as the women who are
closest to them have told them We
only mean that families are apt to
agree about politics without anybody
being the boss.
If we judge by Jacksonville more
women than men will be legally quail
fed to vote, partly because of the spe-
cial efforts that have been made to
induce them to qualify and partly be-
cause this year they are not required
to pay poll tax, while the men must
pay it in order to vote. This last
cause OF larger womens than mems
vote will disappear after this election,
for hereafter women as well as men
will be required to pay poll tax be-
fore voting. The women have not
been required to pay it this year be-
cause the tax was for last year and
6a on1
then voters. With them the case was
ing of age.
Heretofore a vote of fifty thousand
has been a very large one for Florida,
fully three times that number next
month
Woman's suffrage doubles the number
qualified to vote and the efforts the
negroes are making to bring out the
entire vote of their race will cause a
fifty per cent increase in the vote on
that account as very few of them
have been voting heretofore.
The activity among the negroes
threatens to disturb the result in
some of the counties, but not in the
State at large, for Florida had a con-
siderable white majority ten years ago
and we believe the census of 1920.
when reported by race VIII show the
whites in the state to outnumber the
blacks by almost two to one. The
white population of the state has in
creased very greatly while reports
from counties that had a large negro
population point to the fact that a
large part of it has moved out of the
state. We believe the white popula-
ton of the state has increased more
than forty per cent, while we doubt
whether the colored population will
show any increase.-Florida Times
Union.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-24

1 became so absorbed In my task
that when finally finished IL. / bare
ly had time before luncheon 70 dress
for the meeting. / knew OF course
there would be no time after we had
eaten. dreaded hurrying away as
II was.
BY the time we had gathered at the
luncheon table. was so nervous
could hardly ST still
Mrs. Graham, / shall have TO put
you TO bed instead of allowing you
TO go to that club If you do not eat
something. What's the use OF having
a trained nurse IN the house IL she
cannot exercise a little authority"
Miss Sonnet smiled at me across
the luncheon table. But although I
smiled bravely back at her, i could
not swallow anything, absurd as It
seemed.
Dichy laughed disagreea,bly. TITS
enough to make anybody lose appe-
lite. to go out washing"
GO out washing?' aueried hts
mother sharply. What do you
mean?"
A little shiver OF disgust ran over
me. / knew the speech on Dickys
lips He had said It before. Evil
IDENTIFY he quite fancied it as a scath-
ing witticism.
'Launder clothes, or launder brains,
what's the difference?" Both Madge
and the laundress are working be-
cause they think they have TO have
more money than their husbands can
make for them"
1 bit my lips TO keep back the bitter
retort / felt trembling on them. Miss
Sonnot's eyes were fixed on her plate,
but 1 knew her downcast face held
the sympathy for me she could not
openly express.
Then from the last lips in the world
from whom 1 expected sympathy came
triumphant call OF defiant encour-
agement.
Richard, I am ashamed Of you"
My mother-in-la laws voice held all the
whitening contempt from which I had
frequently shrunk.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-24
YOUR BEAUTIFUL HAIR.
L. A a
BY Frank I. Stanton.


For love and for life you have left
me but this:
Only a ringlet to clasp and to kiss!
After the fear, and the tear, and the
prayer,
Only a tress of your beautiful hair
OF your silken. soft, shadowy, beau
tiful hairi
Hair that Love crowned-that his fin
gers unwound
In moments when even the Silence
seemed sound.
And speech was immortali When the
rise and the fall
Of a flower on your beautiful bosom
said ALL
lad earth moved in music and life
was Loves thrall.
You have left me but this. of your
love and your trust;
The love that lies dreamIess in daisies
and dust;
But over my heart, in the night of
despair.
( shall feel the soft fall of your beau
tiful hair
Til drift to Gods Morning and meet
with you there!
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-24
PLAN TOURIST CLUBHOUSE.

In Sanford a number of progress
sive citizens who have been meeting
at lunch time for some months past
10 discuss the future of the city and
suggest improvements, have lately
decided that there should be a club
house built on the lake front and
provided with such features as win
best please the tourist visitors TO the
place. The Herald says that the plans
include the erection of a small. but
well arranged clubhouse. to be called
the Tourists Headquarters or the
Anglers club or something different.
yet suggesting its aims and purposes.
Golf and tennis are mentioned as
probable features of the club plan
and not only the promoters. but many
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-24
a Valuable Miami Asset.

If Miamians only realized It, the
constant connections of 'Bimini" with
booze is working a distinct disad-
vantage to this city.
For some reason, there has grown
up the idea that over at the island,
which is hardly more than fifty miles
from Miami, the little town of Bimini
fairly floats in liquor and that the
chief occupation of residents and of
visitors is filling up on the liquor
whose sale and transportation are
forbidden in this country.
The Herald has made some in
vestigation, incidental to other in
vestigations, and is prepared to state
that conditions at Bimini, with refer
ence to the use of liquor, have been
grossly exaggerated, if not lied about.
1t is true tht Bimini is part of
the British empire throughout which
prohibitio mis- not yet in force. 1t
is true that there are one or two
very small saloons conducted. prin-
cipally, for the negro population. 1t
is true thac there is moderate sized
warehouse there from which liquor
is sold at wholesale. Part of this
warehouse is a bonded department,
where liquor is held subject to the
orders of the local government com
missioner
But that there is very general
drinking or that liquor is unduly free,
from the British standpoint, may be
denied with all conviction.
The point is. that the continued in
ference that Bimini is floating in
1ffr91nr e~{r ,NIo ttar
bad name and there Is a certain re-
Election on one who leaves Miami for
a trip to that much maligned island
This. very naturally, will cripple the
work going on there, a work that is
being financed by men OF this city
and New York.
That development will contribute
to the growth of Miami. This city is
the nearest to Bimini and the fishing
and hunting near and on the island
viii be. If proper publicity is given
them, one of the most effective draw
ing cards for winter visitors who will.
of necessity, first have to come to
Miami. before leaving for those
especial fishing and hunting grounds
It may be stated, without fear of
successful contradiction, that there
are no better places to fish in the
world than right around the island
of Bimini. That is the natural feed
ing grounds for hundreds of different
varieties of game fish and they as
semble there in countless millions
That fact is going to draw multi
tgSes of sportsmen to this part of
our country, many of whom will visit
the islands for a few days sport,