The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-12
Today
Thsy "Tpoks Another One.
Ingenious Woman.
1000, 900 for Babies.
Music for Taxpayers.

Music for Taxpayers.
I-Dy ARTHUR BRISBANE
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They stook over" another big
man in Wall Street, last week.
The gentleman, name known to
everybody in the United States,
crawled too far out on the limb
Of speculation.
One of his loans called for more
than ten million dollars, and they
had him.
These are days when big fel-
lows with real pocketbooks do
profitable 6shing. These are days
also whsn little men, IL they pos
sesssd two things, usually lacking,
Judgment and MONEY, would lay
the foundation of fortune by buy
Ing securities really cheap.
Stocks are thrown overheard by
men that can't hold on. 1t takes
judgment TO discern which are
worth buying, and money to buy.
1t II we'll known on stock ex-
changes that everybody rushes TO
buy when prices are too high and
nobody buys when prices are
really low. Russell Sage said to
this writer once: Everybody has
at least one chance in his lifetime
to buy Western Union for $50 a
share. When your chance comes.
buy it."
When a thing is perfect, you
admire it, SO admire THIS:
A lady, name unknown, golden
hair, shining limousine, bought
$1,000 worth of merchandise, paid
$500 down, took with her the goods
and the store detective, who was to
collect the $500 at her house.
She drove the detective to
handsome sanitarium in the sub
urbs, let him wait in the car with
the goods while she interviewed
the sanitarium proprietor, saying:
my husband, outside, suffering
from delirium tremens, thinks he
Is detective. Can you keep him
all night?"
The sanitarium man could and
DID, with the help of two "husk-
ies," who sat on the raging, genu-
inc detective.
The lady drove OF with the
goods. Not Lilith, Delilah and
Cleopatra, all rolled into one, could
improve on that
Women, now in politics, have in
huence. and are, already asking for
Government money. They don't
want to build a courthouse where
1t is not needed, or spend millions
of pork" on useless river improve
ments.
They ask that Government spend
four million dollars to educate ig-
norant young mothers, that babies
may be properly cared for, and, in
case OF necessity, to send nurses
and physicians when the babies are
born. Z. Is : =,
There is no real value except.
child life. Thousands Of children
die at birth or Immediately after
ward because OF the mothers pow
erty or ignorance.
Women ask for the protection of
human babies much less than the
Agricultural Department spends to
help farmers bring up the baby
pigs, lambs, calves and mule colts.
The four millions should be spent.
All villages in the district of
Southern Albania are destroyed by
earthquake. Hundreds are killed,
thousands homeless, nobody here
cares much. 1t is as though the
destroyed town Tepelani were on
the bright star Aldebaran.
This is a real sign Of the times.
Twenty kegs containing 100000
bright new pennies were shipped
to Cuba yesterday. Until lately
nobody used pennies in Cuba.
They were beneath. contempt.
Mr.. Boyle, county treasurer in +
Cleveland, will nave band play
outside his office as taxpayers
march up to the windows. He
thinks it will ms!'o them pay more
cheerfully.
Ancient kings lad the idea long
before Mr.. Boyle was born. They
had the band play, leading armies
Of men marched to be shot, and
it worked well. They marched and
fought to the music.
Some day, trif1ing and foolish as
IL may sound, tho band will play
while men dig bitches and harvest
crops, and that will be the begin
ming of civilization. The talking
machine is used already in some
places to cheer cigar makers and
seamstresses-a good beginning.
Miss Betty Tevis, eighteen years
old, from Kentucky, had arranged
to marry young man, twenty
four. He learned that she was not
rich and Tilted her on the tele-
phone. That is what the report
ers guess. .
A few minutes afterward Betty
Tevis pressed a revolver against
her heart, pulled the trigger, and
died.
More interesting than mere
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