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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-12
Will Ideals and Principles Control
The Districts Delegates?
By BILL PRICE.

There will soon be selected from the District delegates
representing the two dominant political parties IN the ma
tiona conventions There cannot possibly be bona hide
election of these delegates The form of an election will be
through and il be the best that can be had under
the American conditions prevailing in the District
However the delegates selected, there is open to
the candidates for deegatoral honors real opportunity to
place ideals and principles above partisanshp and political
barter District delegates in national conventions In the
past have been parity with the vermform appendix,
simply in the way and useless. They went to the conven
tons for partisan purposes to trade and be raded WIN 10
the for whatever patronage handouts might
along if the candidate they voted for should be nomi
mated and elected
If the delegates to the coming conventions will depart
from Washington with a determination to place the
of suffrage and the welfare Of people generally above
all partisan and patronage considerations they will set
mark that will something and lift them to the patl
otto esteem of their fellow citizens
Washington the Nations Capital and every national
convention should emphasized for its benefit the fact
that nothing but the most liberal treatment should be
accorded the District by Congress and the Presidential
candidates
Next to the spirit of Washington first last, and all the
time before your election and mean what you
say, that you will not cast vote for any PRESIDENTIAL
candidate in either convention who is not in favor OF the
same suffrage rights here that accorded other Amer
cans Moreover find out from each candidate where he
stands on this question and make your vote count accord
ingly
The Districts votes will be worth something in each
convention Make them work for the highest ideals forget
ting all about patronage
There will be space in these columns for the views of
square men who stand soldly this platform.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-12
1890 a Day Promotion For
Government Workers Ridiculous.

TO the Editor OF THE TIMES:
Secretary Lane was assuredly right
when he said that the Government
service needed big men. I refer to
the recent practice of some bureaus
or tho Government in inaugurating a
system OF s8o-a-year promotion; 81
month, or. to be exact. 10 % cents
a day. These munificent promotions
are offered to high-grade clerks.
consider this nothing more than an
insult to the intelligence OF such
clerks. II a high-grade clerk--for
that matter, a clerk Of any civil
service grade is not worth at
least n grade promotion Of s2oo-or is
worth no more than a promotion of
10 % cents a day. he or she Is not
worth anything. know OF several
instance of late where such promo
tons" have done more to create an III
feeling rather than the good feeling
a deserved promotion should create.
AN OBSERVER. ,
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Bonus on Sliding Scale Basis.

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
| have watched with interest your
efforts in behalf Of our ex-soldlers
for an increased bonus, While there
may be many boys who do not need
the money, ] am sure the majority
do need It, But II is not a question
OF need. The boys deserve It,
Let us have a sliding scale as to
the amount OF bonus, so much for
each day, or month OF service. not a
lump sum to each and every boy, for
II does not seem quite fair for the
boy who was away only a month or
two to receive the same as the boy
who was away two years or more.
Let the boys be paid in cash. Every
boy could not use q homestead.
A FRIEND.
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Jack Dempsey and American
LeSion.

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
To hear the American Legion tell
u. Jack Dempsey is an outcast Of the
United States. II Dempsey Is to be
condemned for not existing, then
why not condemn most OF our
fighters, for there were only a few
THAI went in the service Voluntarily
CHARLES II. LETT0W.
1892 Third street northwest.
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From, The Public To The Editor

the street cars and making moro room
for the Federal workers going to and
coming from work.
I wish to ask this writer whether
he or she would be willing to 60
jolting through the streets in an
army truck and why 1t wasn't sug-
gcsted that trucks be provided for
the war workers to travel over estab-
lished routes and charge the nominal
sum OF 8 cents fare?
EX-RAINBOw SOLDIER.
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DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:

You have given such good advice
to so many girls / would appreciate
it if you would help me. am
seventeen years old and am in love
with a fellow two years my senior.
He doesn't live in this city, but
corresponds with me. ! love him
dearly and he has told me of his
love for me. But what i can't un-
derstand is that he doesn't write to
me often. Some times L hear from
him once in six months, bat when
L do hear from him he always tells
me that I'm the only girl he cares
for. Should l answer his letters
or be silent? BRUNETTE.
You are very foolish to waste
either your love or your time on a
man who writes so seldom, even
though he does protest his love.
Things move too fast in this TWEEN
tieth century for girl to wait six
months to hear from. q man who
is supposed to love her.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAN:
What have to ask you is a bit
different from your usual questions.
What ! want to know is do you
agree with my friends tina. ! should
be glad things are happening so. I
am a young lady (twenty-two), and
] am said to be pretty. but 7 cannot
dance, have never attended
dance. or picnic or any other
gathering Of young peopie-such az
a party. have never had a real
pal, girl or boy, one that I would
dare to speak my feelings to or
have a confidential talk with. Yet
mother says I am better off. Don't
think am old-fashioncd or ignorant
or very poor, although ! am not
rich, have read books and at least
one newspaper a day for the last
ten years, but my trouble seems to
be that ] am the only girl In our
family and every one Is too busy
to pay me any attention, What
would you advise me to do? |
have a great longing for something
all the time. and I know 1t is to
get out among young people as
other young ladies do. Don't get
the idea I am very innocent. as I
am far from II, thanks TO mother.
BROWN EYES.
You are living a most abnormal,
unhealthy life, the only saving
grace of which is that your de-
sire for companionship your own
age has not been killed. Keep
that desire alive and indulge it.
Don't let another day or week or
month pass without making an
effort to get out with and among
young people. Such letter as
yours. is almost uncanny. ! can
not help but wonder where you
went to school, whether you have
ever worked or not, gone to church
or had any opportunity to make
contacts in life. Get out doors, 90
to the movies, the theaters, CON
certs, community parties and
dances. Learn TO dance, or
to sing or do something that
will give you the opportunity
for some natural expression.
otherwise I'm sure something viii,
break out somewhere, sometime.
| don't care what your patents or
relatives say. You are not better
Of. The time 10 make friends and
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IKE" WRITES ON LIZARDS.

Dear Listen and Look:
Dis is der nrst time I got to anser
der knocks vot every body sends in
about mine boys vot stand on street.
and I want I should explain.
I sell dose boys der cloathes vot dey
ware, and I guarantees every suit vot
sell Is der latest und most up-to-dste
style. Now for why shouldn't dey
stand on q busy corner to show on
mine good goods7 furthermore. IL dey
stand dcre all DER time. 1 can always
md dem ven der next instsiement IL
due.
Maybe der persons vot Is kicking der
most Is some from dem girls vot Is
making 500 q month and wears seal
skin coat vot costs $500. You know
der kind. The yuns vot chew gum
and der rag all day over a typewriter,
und at night sit in der Lounge Of der
Washington Hotel, after a big meal
from = stack OF whosts at Chitds.
Please do nee an favor Bill, oHk some
from der girls vot Is kicking vot kind
Of oIosthes IL on der becks Of dem fell
lows vot dey dance Wit at der Arcade
und oder places. Maybe dey like bet
ter dot Kind vot wears very low soft
collars NIT shoestring ties, like l seen
plenty from at desc dances. IKI
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To the Editor Of THE TINES
when will we get the bonus that
has been promised us? Why not col
loct the interest that England owes
us and use II to pay bonuses? l
have seen fighting on two fronts
and spent Ave months in Germany.
AN EX-SOLDIER BOY.
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DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
am a constant reader OF your
articles, but have never written
you myself as yet, although think
your advice is OF the very best and
much to be appreciated. noticed
an article In your column signed
Worried" stating she is engaged
TO a young man and loves him, but
because OF his social standing hor
parents object. ] was engaged to
q man for almost two years and be-
cause OF my parents objections on
those same grounds broke 0rt
with him only to find there was
very little TO look forward to in
life. My relatives always found
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-12
Once-Overs
Copyright 1920 international Feature Service. Inc.
YOU ARE THE NEW YEAR.

What OF year 1920 depends yourself
No happy unless think happy thoughts
you you thing your
you the fire which your heart
Envy won't help Cut it out
Jealousy won't help Forget It,
Discomfort anything for you either blot also
II dissatisfied do things dissatisfaction
Busy happy ife when you improving
each day. be in knowing
a larger home
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am a stranger in Washington.
One of your grocers the other day
refused to sell me a bottle OF milk
because l did not have an empty
bottle to give him. although j Of
fered to leave a cash deposit for the
bottle. Still he refused. / never had
this happen to me elsewhere. {
JOSEPH HARRISON, Eye Street.
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Alexandria. Va. March IL.

Alexandria. Va. March IL.
II will ease my mind IL you will print
this reply to your fair contributor or
a few days ago, who had been nav
ing troubles on the street cars:
We are for womcn's equal rights,
on street cars, NJ. r. NJ,
II you should feel inclined to cuss
= Us boys won't give q denim.
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More About Army Trucks For
TRANSPORTATION.

To The Editor OF THE TTMFSi
In The Times 7 read an article
signed "a Citizen and Govern.
rent Clerk" which suggests that
army trucks and other autos" be
used to carry tho soldiers who have
occasion to travel about Washington
thereby relieving tho congestion on
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-12
What has become of the guy who
, was going to prove the draft law
unconstitutional? +. A. S.
Green Spring, w. Va.

That was some cat and rat ranch
proposition I read the other day.
Start with 100 900 cats. with a IA:
ranch near by to feed the cats: the
rats to be fed from what was 'eft
after the cats were skinned for their
fur. 1t would require 100 men to
skin 10000 cats each day. Now, why
NOT cross the cats with snakes and
then they would shed their skins.
saving all the expense OF employing
labor? READER
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Problems and Pitfalls of Workers Here
Especially For Washington Women

little sooner and without so much
trouble and worry or my part.
RENENGEFUL.
The worst pastime in the world
is the gentle art OF hating people.
The quickest way to get revenge
on this man is to charge him and
the experience you have had to
profit and loss. The next thing
is to fill your life with pleasant,
wholesome thoughts.
What he did is done by men
everywhere, all the time. AS far
as a woman Is concerned most
men are moral towards. He
probably suffered, trying to bring
himself to the point of telling
you the truth, just as much as
you did when you found it out.
That was probably the reason he
went away when he did. He saw
that the time had come for a
showdown. or. in your case, an
engagement. He didn't know how
to side step, so he ran away. eX-
pecting you to draw your own in
OiChNco anu IOuCiuSlOuo' L utIc
many a man who would face can
non music with much gallantry
who wouldn't face a woman in a
situation like this. Men are al
ways ready to declare their love
for you, but the man is rare who
ever admitted to a woman that
he didn't love her, after he had
once declared he did.
Just be glad that the affair didn't
reach the engagement stage and
even more fervently thank Heaven
that he learned the real state of his
feelings before, rather than after,
marriage. Cheer up. There's
nothing in this vengeance business
and yendettas are not at all
American.
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II. A. s.. Alexandra. Va. says IN
answer to young NATHANIEL .
Eliot. that he believes he can prove.
as Eliot SAYS he can. that every cat
has three tails" II some of you fell
lows do not soon prove 1t, they may
bring in another style of cats.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-12
AMT THIS AWFUL MABELl

Yes / am sorry to say there
are he-vamps on II street north
east. They wear spats just
like the + street boys. "
street was at one time safe
from fiirtatious people.
L. Il. G.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-12
I would like to join a New York
State Club il one is organized.
RALPH DOUGLASS JONES.

~ s,s
Idare you to print this: Why did
the high schools, representing the
scholastic league. except Eastern,
: fail to recognize Gonzaga High
School, last year high school cham
pions? Even if they were AFRAID
OF getting beat, they should nave
done SO out OF true sportsmansnlp.
c. REAGAN.
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get interested is in your youth.
Even persons who have lived
normal lives find they make fewer
and fewer friends as they grow
older and you are not even max
ing friends at the very time of
your life when you can best do
so. Get out of the rut you are in
and write me that you have done
so and how you did it.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
We are three young girls. con-
sidered very attractive, and are
pronounced swell dancers. We are
chums, two OF us being sisters. and
each of us have a steady friend.
But of late they have neglected us
and we are anxious to know the
reason why. We have seen them
of late with some other girls whom
We have reason to dislike. We care
lot for these boys and as they
do not seem to care for US any
longer. do you think it wise TO give
them up and seek happiness else
where. or would you try to regain
their friendship. We are anxious
to receive YOUR advice.
THREE BROKEN HEARTED
CHUMS.
1t appears that you have lost
out on a wholesale basis and there
seems nothing to do but accept
your loss with as good grace as
possible. The fact that all three
have taken TO their heels makes
it apparent that they are acting
deliberately. You had better look
elsewhere for companionship.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
am a daily reader OF your
columns and enjoy them very
much, and several times I have
gotten some advice on a subject
am worried about myself. Now
am writing to yet some straight
facts about an affair have thought
quite good bit about went
with young man for quite a good
while and we were about to become
engaged when he became very VI
and went away for some time. lie
asked mo to w-itc 20 him as soon
as I got homo from seeing him on.
ana ! did so. Weeks passed and
never heard a word from him. Then
one day one Of my girl friends saw
him in the city. called him up
and asked for an explanation. and
he said ho had just found he did
not care for me. Now. Miss Fair
LA, ho~ can | get. revenge on a
r"n who acted in such msnner7
lie could at least have told mo
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DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:

DEAR MISS fAlhf An
About Ave months ago I enjoyed
the friendship OF two very fine
young ladies. In fact. 1, hardly
knew just which one I cared for
the most. but realizing that / could
not continue the friendship OF both
without being deceitful, ' therefore
decided to discontinue the friend
ship OF ono, and max" my choice.
This I did to my sorrow. as |
thought had chosen tire right one.
but as time went on ] realized my
mistak>- Now, could YOU advise
me just what steps to take to turn
the tables; in other words, get back
my old girl (the one ] really loVeD
and discontinue the friendship OF
my present girl? | am not en-
gagged to either one, you see. there
fore am under no obligations to my
present girl see my old girl
every morning and think there
might be some chance OF my get
ting back in her favor again.
Il. Il. NJ
What's that old line about bless
ings increasing AS they take
wing? Like most human beings
you want what you want until you
get it and then you find you don't
want II at all. I'll wager you'll
be writing in the same vein after
you get your "old girl back" It's
the peach on the highest branch
Just out OF reach that always
looks the biggest and the ripest
and the sweetest. ! am saying all
this instead OF telling you how TO
get the other girl, because | want
you to stop and think and make
sure whether il Is a genuine feel
ing that makes you want to drop
one girl and want the other back
or whether IL isn't just little bit
of ennui and and wanting some
thing you haven't got and not
wanting something you're fairly
sure Of. BY your own confession,
you thought the present girl was
"the right one" when you made
your choice Ave months ago.
II you insist you want the other
one, don't know anyway to do
thing hut to do II. Start paying
court to her again. II she's one
kind OF girl, you'll get snubbed for
your pains "a chance you'll have
TO take) and II she's another sort,
she'll flop back into your arms, in
spite OF the way you've treated
her.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-12
HEARD A Nd S f E n

Please give the name Of the author
of the poem which begins:
In Flanders fields where poppies grow,
Between the crosses. row on row"
w. T. X.
Lieut.. Col. John McRae, Canadian
army, was the author. Book stords
have poem.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-12

We have heard that a dead snake
wiggles its tail until sunset. When
the sun sets in the Pacific why is it
that the snakes tail keeps on wig
Cling in New Jersey?
S. I. TANNING.
Mt. Rainier, Md.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-12

How do the anti-bonus crabs in
Congress think another army Is to
be raised IL needed for Mexico.
Japan. or some other country?
They are disgusting all the real
soldiers. JOHN KENNEDY.
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something TO find fault with or
complain about anyhow. ] went
back to him. and after almost a
year (they not knowing we were
going together. in the meantime
telling me IL had cared for him
| would never have given him up
or forgotten him so soon), | told
them l was going to marry him. All
this, of course. meant losing their
friendship. as they arc not the kind
to forgive, but l will say ] have
been happier than ! have been in
my life. Nor would | exchange the
past two years of my married life
with my husband. though he be
poor and not have a so-called social
standing, than havo married and
live the unhappy lives some OF the
present-day girls are living through
marrying for those things. IT is
too much like selling your birth
right for a mess OF pottage.
VIOLET 3.
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HOW 3DOUGH.BOY" STARTED.

VIM. WATSON AYRES says the
American soldier was called dough
boy" because he was the hour
(flower) Of the army.
l.. E. CLARK says an old army man
tells him that "dough-boy' Is quite
old and believes 1t originated because
dough-boys were FIRST on X. p.
(kitchen police) duty.
Mr.. CLARK continues: On the old
English sailing boats the sailor al
ways carried lime juice. and no drink
was complete without it. The Amer
leans named them "1imeys."
The English originally called the
French soldiers "crepaud," which In
French means toad. From this the
French soldiers were called frogs.
1t may have started from their habit
of eating frogs legs.
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, Dear Priceless Bill:
Reading about the girl who
wanted to nominate the hand
Z soonest boys and girls around
) fourteen years OF age. your eyes
} have never had treat unless
. they have beheld Eddie b, Bust
ness High Schools FATTY Ar
!. buckle" and his Bess. Great
X pair. this. VI. r.
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appreciated your editorial on the
drivers. There Is another class that
unnecessarily sound their horns on
residence streets. often disturbing
night workers and the sick. ]. F. c.
7 insist that the three funniest
things in Washington are the
bronze 'whiskers on the Dupont
statue, the Postofficc clock, and
the W. X. and r.. system.
CHARLES LAMAY.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. observation-disclosures.
see a sign at 30 w street north
west: Garage for Rent. Furnished"
l.. EMORY WHITE.
If Congress would advance the
Presidential inaugural date we
would have soft winds, blue skies,
sweet flowers and chanting birds
for our great open-air festival.
STACY WILMINGTON.
PATIENT PETE writes, in poetry,
a growl about a manicure girl In a
barber shop. Pete says she started at
3!t5 to trim another gents nails and
swap bunk. pote was in the barber's
chair an hour and wanted his own
nails attended to, but whom he left
chat pair OF birds were still cooling.
have 5000 per cent Confederate
states bond. issued In 1854 AK your
readers II there IL any value attAehsdf
q. l. NorK116xAn d.
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RICHARD BUTLER played Ben
Hur at the National in this city in
1914. VAN buren, played the part
Of Ben Hur about two years later.
CHARLES JOSEPH.
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Is it true that Rock Creek Park
leads Potomac Park as the center
Of cooling in automobiles !
TEXAS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-12

7 see a sign at 30 w street north
west: Garage for Rent. Furnished"
l.. EMORY WHITE.
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have a $500 per cent Confederate
states bond, issued In 1884. Ask Your
readers II there IL any value attAehsdf
q. L NOTKI16RAn