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The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-01-10

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The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-01-10

Young Zollie Hutchins, of Utica.
came down to see his grandmother,
Mrs. NIB. Fisher, during the holi-
days. Mrs. Fisher is only the step
mother of Zollie's mother but the
devotion of the entire Fisher family
line to their step-mother and step
grandmother is tribute to step
mothers everywhere.
At the regular monthly meeting
held Wednesday the board of mana
gers OF the Kings Daughters Hospi-
tai chose the following named off,
GERS for the year 1920: President,
Mrs. B. S. Cato; vice-president, Mrs.
Aylward; recording secretary, Mrs.
J. w. Cassidy; financial secretary,
Mrs. e. M. Bee; treasurer, Mrs. f.
III. Hartman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo, Johnson and
their two children Lenora, and John
Higdon, arrived from Chicago yes
terday and were guests Of Mrs. r..
L. Boadwee. They are leaving today
for Meadville to visit Mrs. Johnson's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Dune Higdon.
Mrs. n. B. Fisher has returned from
d weeks visit to her daughter, Mrs,
Lucy Price, ct Crystal Springs.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-01-10
Coming ''Why | Would
Not Marry" and Geraldine
Farrar in "The World and Its
Woman. "

The Morgan Memorial Circle re-
ports gratifying success of their dali
ly meetings during the week There
has been an average attendance of
thirteen and they have given relief
to a worthy family who needed SYM
pathy and help.
The sewerage proposition will be
taken up January 20 at which time
bids are expected to be flied. The
Board should have the moral as we'll
as financial support of every citizen
on the momentous question before it
which so vitality affects the commun-
ity.
For Sale.-70 acres of extra good
land. Made from 1000 to 1400 lbs
cotton per acre. All under fence
with dwelling houses and barn.
40 acres in cultivation and 80 in
wood and pasture. For sale at SIS
per acre. 1h miles from depot
Northwest of Brookhaven.-1saiah
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-14
new DEVICE ASSURES
CRISP, DELICIOUS TOAST

In all the realms OF good things to
eat, what is there more delicious than
a piece OF crisp, tender toast or ex-
actly the right degree OF golden
brownness. not burned dried up. hard
or tough. How seldom IL Is that one
can count certainly on each piece
being just right without any burned
parts. while other parts are still I'M
toasted?
Toast properly prepared Is more
easily digested than fresh bread. be-
cause in toast the starch Is changed
into a dextrine double sugar. me
heat necessary to dextrinize starch Is
approximately 800 degrees HOW
ever, when the bread is exposed to a
hotter fire and the outside Is charred'
leaving the inside as moist as ever,
the starch is not Transformed ana
the result is merely soggy piece OF
bread, scorched on the outside
The only source of heat that VIII
make perfect toast, as II should be
made, is uniform electric heat. A big
new toaster automatically times the
toast. 1t is a simple machine so con-
structed that when slices OF bread are
placed in the receiver a DOWNWARD
pressure on two small levers lowers
the bread into the oven, turns on the
electric current, and so engages
timing arrangement that the toast
ing proceeds without any attention
whatever from the attendant When
the toast is just right the lever Is re-
leased by the time, the current turn
ed of and the toast lifted out OF the
machine automatically.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-14
ELECTRICITY AIDED
j. s. SIGNAL CORPS
BY Stage Audion Amplifiers Men
Were Able to Hear Enemy
Conversations.

1t is common knowledge, espe-
cially among men OF the United States
Signal Corps who served with the
A. f. F.. that by means of the won
derful Q, s, and 10 stage audion am
plihers, available in the present war.
and by placing parallel loop Of
wire over a few hundred feet near
the front lines. that enemy converse
lions could be easily and accurately
intercepted and amplified, says q
writer in Electrical Experimenter.
As has been said, this phenomena
is more or less well known, but IT is
not generally known that. As recently
pointed out by . United States radio
expert who invented the simplifying
radio buzzer system used in trench
and field warfare carried on by the
allied troops, II was possible by the
use OF the high power ten-step am
pliners, both French and American
type, to oyerhear telephone CONVERSE
ton and also telegraphic signals
whenever the Germans happened to
communicate over wires. at a distance
OF one mile behind the front line
trenches.
Interrogated at this point. the ex-
pert explained that not such a long
wire loop was necessary as might be
supposed, out tnAt u wire ABOUT -oV
feet long, placed parallel to the Ger
man trenches. was all that was neces-
sary. and just to show that the
"Yanks" had the "Boche" on the run
long before he entered his trenches,
underground dugouts, and wine cell
lars, IL is a matter of record that the
allied troops, in many instances, and
particularly toward the close of the
war, found whole sections Of German
telephone instruments over a con-
siderable area near the front lines
entirely sealed with red labels marked
"Verboten."
Furthermore, some OF the captives
stated that their troops had been or
dered not to use the telephone at all
under any consideration. even where
the wires were laid in iron pipes.
Many other valuable uses were
made of these eight and ten-step
vacuum ampliiers, some Of which
will be described in future articles.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-14
Electricity-What Is It?

action In business through our won
derful American telegraph system.
and even when annoyed by too fire.
quent telephone calls In our hearts.
yet not in our tempers. the useful
ness OF electricity has coupled up
with the wonders and convenience OF
our telephone system. we cannot. and.
therefore. do not deny it's convenience
And then. In the home, we are again
reminded most emphatically OF the
modern wonders OF electricity; this
benehcient, even IL almost thunder
standable agency proves undeniabie
value in furnishing the cheer OF cleo
tire illumination and then through heat
in comfort giving. from the thermom-
eter standpoint. And just as we'll the
vacuum cleaner. The electric wash
ing machine. the electric iron. the
electric sewing machine-all furnish
reasons and good reasons, too. at that
for all mankind to rejoice for cleo
tricity's sake as now harnessod for
their benefit, convenience and happt
ness. and. in fact. what electricity.
from all standpoints, has measured by
what IL has meant to them.
And now. lest we forget, allow me
to present, in closing, the electric
range. for II you disagree with me
on all other points. I know that my
appeal to your appetite and stomachs
in presenting the electric range and
it's close relation as coupled up with
tempting morsels OF food on the din
ing table of your happy homo must
then bring forth q feeling of full APP
probation OF electricity.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-14

and stands twenty-six inches high,
Weighing approximately 200 pounds.
1t operates on the centrifugal prin-
cipal. the outer diameter OF the basket
which contains the clothes travelling
at the rate of 1000 feet per minute.
throwing the water out, which in
turn is replaced by air drawn in from
the center and forced through the
clothes.
1t will dry for ironing In from
twelve to fifteen minutes with no dan
ger on injury to the finest piece of
goods, no broken buttons, no clothes
line or clothes pins.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-14
FIRST RADIO TELEGRAPH
PROVED SUCCESS IN 1895

As far back as 1892 inventors were
dreaming OF plans which would elm
mate wires from communication, but
1t was not until the last part of the
century that actual results to this end
were made.
II was eighty years ago when the
nrst patents on wire telegraph sys-
TENS were issued in England and
America. The first suggestion that
wires might be eliminated came only
rev years after The beginning OF
line telegraph, and although wireless
biography by COZ 'uction was prac-
ticed experiment. in 1si2, Il was
not until 1895 that radio-telegraphy
was FIRST accom- shed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-14

Since tho very day electricity was
discovered through flying kite.
men. brains and millions have been
most busily and enthusiastically en-
gagged to so harness the given
agency and wonderful power with
the benefit of its application to man.
to the home. to the mills and factories
and In many other ways. with the idea
OF efficiency, helpfulness. production.
economy and convenience all plainly
In view.
And in this, honest endeavor and
effort of man and inventive genius
have been well rewarded, and brains
with capital have reaped handsome
dividends and most generous re-
wards.
In fact II would seem that cleo
tricity-that almost unexpiainabie,
mysterious, imponderable agent-in
it's production of light, heat and pow
er when properly understood and
the greatest of all Gods gifts to man
We realize and should rightly and
fully appreciate the marvellous power
OF this divine gift every day more
and more as II dawns upon US in each
succeeding practical. efficient, depend.
able. useful way.
We realized this most fully during
the past war. when electricity
through its wireless application.
brought us despair as well as mes
sages OF the most encouraging sort.
We realized II in a lesser way. but in
n way more generally useful to more
people. as a convenience for quick
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-14
ELECTRICITY AIDS ART
OF MOVING PICTURES

The remarkable night scenes that
have now become quite commonplace
in American photoplays are due In
large measure to the use or powerful
searchlights.
In fact, the development OF high ef-
nciency searchlights for military pur'
poses led to the introduction or this
means of illumination, and II Is held
by many film men that the day Is not
far distant when one or more pow
erful searchlights will replace the
vast batteries of arc lamps or mer
cury-vapor tubes now employed TOT
Illuminating the photopiay sets.-sci'
entific American.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-14
MOTORS NOW LESSEN
DRUDCERY OF SEWING


The days OF hard sewing are past
Every woman who does sewing AT
home can now accomplish ten times
as much as before without fatigue,
IL she has an electric motor attach
ment on an automatic sewing
machine. ~ l"-
Would II not be convenient TO sew
where you wish to sew, in the sit
ting-room or out on the yeranda!
Then you need only remove lamp
from it's socket and insert the motor
connection any place where there is
electric current. -.
The sewing machine with motor Is
10 light that 1t may he easily carried
and placed on any kind OF table.
IL is run by merely placing your foot
on the controlled, and with a gentle
spressure the motor starts. When more
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-14
ELECTRIC HEARING NOW
SET FOR NEXT FRIDAY

The date for a hearing on complaints
OF excessive charges for extension OF
electric service by the Potomac Flee
trio Power Company has been changed
from next Monday to Friday. accord
ing to an announcement by Wal
ter c Allen, executive secretary TO
the Public Utilities Commission.
This is the second change in the
date for this hearing. The orig insl
date was Monday. March y. The
hearing will be public and will begin
In the board room Of the District
Building at 10 O'Clock.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-14

speed is required a little more pres
sure Is needed. Without Jolt or Jar
the machine starts or stops Instantly.
Lghtness and smoothness OF run
ing are essential qualities OF the
family sewing machine. and they are
consplcuously present In the modern
machine with motor attachment.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-14
ELECTRIC CLOTHES DRIER
LAUNDRY DEVICE

The most recent addition to the
electric home 1aundry-an electric
clothes drier-has been recently in
vented. The machine occupies a space
or twenty-four Inches by thirty inches
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-14
Why you are the loser
when electrical prices
are too low

Every contractor worthy of the name and
of your patronage must have expenses such as
rent, light, wear and tear on tools and equip
ment and many other incidental expenses.
A certain proportion of this expense must
be charged to every piece of work which con-
tractor undertakes-that is, if the contractor
is to make fair profit and continue in business.
If this "overhead" is not considered, one Of
two things must happen. Either the contractor
must ''take it out of the job" skimp on the ma
teral or workmanship or lose money and even
tually fail. Needless to say the first expedient
will usually be attempted your loss.
Ordinary business judgment will tell you
to patronize a contractor who has had enough
experience to teach him how to estimate lob
correctly.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-17
RED CROSS RECEIVES
THREE 1000 CHECKS
Workers Sent TO Banks and
Others to Horse Show.

Three checks for 81 900 each. one the
gift Of Mrs. William Church Osborn and
the other two anonymous were received
yesterday by the chairman Of the Red
Cross Roll Call. at 1107 Broadway
Additional workers were sent to banks
where no booths had been installed.
making the total number of banks Gov
cred sixty. Although they began a can
yass only yesterday morning, an infor-
NAL report from the Hearn store en-
ployees showed subscription of $500
-Four Junior League girls Joined the
Horse SHOW group and were active can
Nassers. They are Miss Olivia Sterner.
Miss Consuelo Bates Miss Katherine
Seabury and Miss Etheldred Seaburv.
The Christmas seal sale. which for
merry was under the auspices of the
Red Cross, will this year be conducted
by the New York Tuberculosis Associa-
ton and the Brooklyn Bureau of Chart
ties the director of the association an
nounces. The Red Cross and the Tu-
berculosis Association are working in
harmony. he says bat warns that the
name or emblem OF the Red Cross should
not be used n connection with the
Christmas seal sale, which will be held
trom December / TO December II.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-17
RECTOR AT FIRE TRIES TO
SAVE WOMAN AND BABY
Ladder Too Short. bat Fire
mans Jump Rescues Both.

The Rev. Eliot White, rector of Grace
chapel, IN East Thirteenth street. at
tempted 20 rescue Mrs Julia Masterlone
and her baby, eighteen months old.
from second floor window of a burn
ing apartment building at 406 East
Thirteenth street yesterday morning,
but the ladder he got from an IRON
workers shop nearby was too short
DR. julius Roman Of 52S East Thirteenth
street. physician, who was visiting
the Rev. Mr.. White in the parish
house, tried to get up the stairway to
the woman but the smoke forced him
back
other tenants escaped uninjured. Mr..
White said he believed even with the
short ladder he could have rescued Mrs
Masterlone, who had taken refuge on
the second floor sill with the child in
her arms but he was afraid the baby
might have fallen in being handed down
10 him
Fireman John Mcdonald Of Engine
Company leaped across TO the window
from one story building adjoining,
and when Hook and Ladder 3 arrived.
carried Mrs. Mastcrlone and her child
down The fire caused about $4,000
damage.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-17
PROPOSAL TO LICENSE
ELEVATOR MEN LOSES
City Rejects Enright Plan to
Get Finger Prints.

The newest scheme Of Richard e. En-
ight, Police Commissioner to insure
the city against criminals is to compel
elevator operators to register their
inBerprints with the Police Depart.
ment That recommendation was re-.
V.eealed yesterday when the Board OF
ldermen took up consideration OF an
ordnance proposed by Alderman
George w. Harris to provide for the
licensing of all elevator operators.
The Police Commissioner in letter
to Alderman Harris suggested The fin
gerprint idea on the ground that eleva-
tor operators often were found TO be
accomplices of criminals.
The Board Of Aldermen. in adopting
IS committees recommendation to file
the proposed ordinance, thus killing il.
sat down hard upon the Commissioner
plan.
Your committee believes" said the
report, that this inference Of potential
criminality in the issuance Of public
licenses should be confined to the mar
rowest limits consistent with public
safety. This is the spirit OF autocratic
militarism and not OF democratic civil
government"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-17
MORE SPACE PLANNED
FOR G. o. p. WOMEN
Expect to Take Over State
Committee Rooms.

Republican women probably will take
over the building at 43 West Thirty
ninth street which for some time has
housed the mems Republican State Com
mittee, according to a member Of the
latter committee yesterday The adj
vsory committee of the Women's State
Executive Committee. whose chairman
is Mrs. Charles II. Sabin. held a meet
ing TO discuss this plan.
The new club house viii have eXecu-
tive offices. meeting rooms and a res
taurant operated in connection with the
grill Of the National Republican Club, in
West Fortieth street, which is directly
back Of the Thirty-ninth street house
To make way for the women the Re
publican state Committee will move it's
executive Offices to the national head
quarters in Fortieth street. and it is
possible that the offices OF the Republi-
can County Committee. now at 105 West
Fortieth street, may be brought under
this roof. This will house the entire
Republican activities both social and or
ganizational.
The Republican National Committee
has arranged to take over several floors
in the new office building being erected
next door on the east
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-17
HRS. GAIT ATTACKS
GOSSIP IN POLITICS
Asks Women to Take Pledge
Not to Engage in Slander
Against Opponents.
MEET AT PENNSYLVANIA
Charge Democrats Made Deal
With G. 0. p. to Trade Votes
in State Races.

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait proposed
to the members of the League Of
Women Voters. AT meeting yesterday
in the Hotel Pennsylvania that they
take two vows-not to repeat bad words
about any political candidate hereafter,
and to hold rieidly aloof from anything
that was like gossip.
I'm my service to my country. politi-
cally," ran the second vow. Il swear
that will never descend to the level
OF street gossip"
But that shouldn't apply only to the
men" said Miss Mary Garrett Hay
from the floor Men gossip ever 50
much more than women. Make the
men take the oath, too"
Both this vow and the other one. in
which the one taking it solemnly swore
not to whisper or repeat a bad word
about any candidate on tine other side,
were received with applause when Mrs.
Gait proposed them Many of the
women in the audience declared that
they would not only take the vows, but,
would keep them
During her speech Mrs Gait charged
that Democrats and Republicans traded
votes in the recent State election, and
declared the charges were substantiated
by election figures and by reports made
to members and officers Of the league.
There was a report before cleo
tion that the two major political
parties had made a deal to com
bine on the election of a Governor
and to return a certain candidate -
%. -.
This was repeatedly denied. But The
Republicans by thousands voted for
Democratic Governor, in exchange for a
Republican Senator The deal didn't
work absolutely, for it didn't save the
Democratic Governor, though he did get
a popular vote l doubt very much If
that trade had not taken place if the
Senator who was sacrificed would have
been defeated.
1T is clear that between 100000 ana
100000 votes were traded in that way.
The election figures show it. and work
ers in election districts reported to rs
bargains they had overheard being made.
This was not only true in New York
but in other counties.
But the point is that both the Demo-
cratic and Republican authorities were
pressing women To go out and teach
other women to vote a straight ticket
while the men were being instructed to
trade off and not vote a straight ticket.
In modern slang they put one over
on the women and they put one
over on the men. This is one of the
tricks Of the men. Women may be just
rs capable Of trickery, but they haven't
been trained yet, and / hope they never
will be-"
Mrs Catherine Waugh McCulloch,
chairman of the uniform laws committee,
suggested appointing women on the
state law commissions where vacancies
occur other charmen Of committees TO
speak were Mrs Frederick =. Bagley.
Miss Mary Mcdowell Mrs. Larue.
Brown, Mrs. Richard Edwards, Dr. Val
ria II. Parker Mrs. Edward Costigan
and Mrs. Mary Sumner Boyd. The con-
vention closed with a dinner at which
Mrs T. Louis Slade presided.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-17
FUGITIVE HIT TWICE
IN REVOLVER CHASE
Policeman Captures Suspect
After Being Disarmed.

Two negroes and Patrolman Thomas
Malloy had a fight IN the basement of
an apartment house at 1,o3S sifth
avenue early yesterday morning The
patrolman's revolver was wrested from
him. The negroes fled to the street,
Patrolman Malloy following, and ran
through Eighty-second street to Park
avenue.
Finding the runners TOO fleet. Maloy
stopped a taXicab and picked up PATROL
man Schweinler of the East Eighty
eighth street station. In Eighty-first
street between Third and Lexington
avenues. Schwcinler fired several shots,
and the runners turned into an apart
ment house and disappeared.
The officers went TO the roof of the
house and found there Thomas Saun-
ders, IS years old, negro, of 222 East
Eighty-sixth street. with wounds in the
right arm and thigh. The other man
escaped Saunders wounds were
dressed. and in Harlem Court he was
held in 5000 bail on suspicion OF rob-
bprV-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-17
Guards Watch Home of
Escaped Jersey Leper

DIR. HERBERT f. RICKETTS,,
superintendent Of the Essex
County Isolation Hospital, Belle
Vile, n. j., confirmed yesterday
a report that Tellus Measure Of
Orange, who had been adjudged
a leper, escaped from the hos
pital last Thursday. DR.. Rick
etts said he had reason to believe
Measure had escaped from the
country.
A guard has been maintained
at his home, 81 White street,
since the escape. Measure, who is
a Greek and rs years old, was
employed in the disc record pow
der making department of the
Edison Photograph Company III
Orange. Arrangements had been
made, DR.. Ricketts, said, to trans
fer Messure to a leper colony in
Louisiana.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-17
LACK OF JEWISH RITE
NOT ANNULMENT CAUSE
Justice Advises Appeal of
Case to Settle Point.

Supreme Court Justice Hotchkiss de-
MED yesterday Mrs. Sarah Watkins S
application for annulment OF her mar
riage to Theodore Watkins and advised
the litigants to appeal from his judg-
ment. He stated that justices of the
Special Term in various parts of the
State have decided the question in
volved In different ways and he thought
1t would be advisable for the higher
courts to settle il authoritatively.
Mrs. Watkins asked for the annual
ment upon the ground of fraud and
misrepresentation. She said her hus-
band had promised before their mar
riage by civil ceremony that he would
marry her in the orthodox Jewish man
ner. but refused to do so later.
Justice Hotchkiss said in his opinion
that kind of fraud did not justify an
nulment and he pointed out that Justice
Cropsey, in Brooklyn, had rendered a
similar opinion on the other hand