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have forty-cent dollar in this coun- try because the present national a1- ministration, in it's vast war expen- ditures, proceeded to treat the dollar just as if it were worth forty cents With cost plus contracts enricning favored contractors, with money thrown to the winds in a hundred directions, with an Overburdened fed eral payroll and with every wild scheme of extravaganza in operation that it was possible for a criminally wasteful administration to originate, the purchasing power of money was deliberately forced down, while under the operations of the federal reserve act the currency was inflated to the bursting point.
 What wonder, and in such circum- stances, that there was a fabulous, a fictitious rise in prices? If you can buy certain commodity with & quart of milk, and proceed to dilute the milk with a sixty per cent mixture of water, you cannot reasonably expect that the combination will be more than twice as valuable. This is exactly what the administration has done with our stock of money.
 Under such a system of waste and Initiation there has naturally and in- evitably resulted great hardship to millions of people during the period of readjustment. The door of opportun- ity has been opened to the speculator and the profiteer; deliberately open ed by the administration. It may not be true that the administration has purposely sought to create such. con ditions; but that it has created them is as clear as the monday sun The attempt to shift the responsibility upon the shoulders of congress is the work of dishonest, designing dema, gogues, willing to bunk" the people if they can for partisan and personal advantage they believe will come to them through the interruptions perpe- tration of this fraud.
 There is going to be no relief from the deep seated abuses congress is insincerely attacked for not correcting until the men primarily responsible for their creation, and still in control of the executive branch of the govern ment, are busted from power. That job the people are getting ready to do in November, and they will not be turned from their purpose by the act ivities of the Democratic camouflage corps which is now seeking to make congress the sacrificia1 goat to wash away the sins of the party and politi- clans in power.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-07-10
LOOKING FOR A GOAT

Democratic politicians, their dupes and tools, persist in the pretense that the responsibility for the high cost of living and failure to correct it, belongs to congress. Certain political dema- gogues, some of them masquerading in other occupations, have recently been issuing public statements to the effect that the adjournment of con- gross without bringing living costs down is a confession of congressional unwillingness to come to the relief of the people.
 The assumption put forward is that some act of congress could remedy the high cost of living evil. President Wilson, when he asked congress to stay in Washington last summer while he left his post of duty to go about on a stumping tour, suggested to con- gress that it ought to reduce the high cost of living which had attained such aggravated proportions since his cleo tion as president on a platform prom ising relief from what was denounced by his party in 1912 as high living cost. He didn't of course tell just how an act of congress could accom- -'lish this purpose.
 All this demagogoism is of course intended only to befool the Amer1can people, and relieve from responsibility for existing conditions the party and the political leadership under whose control they were created. The in- sincerity of the performance is so manifest that it only serves to disgust the American people with the poli- ticians who, having got the country into such mess, are now trying to make capital out of the fact that the Wrecking crew cannot clear up the debris and reconstruct the track, the cars and the engines as quickly as the incompetents who ran the train into the ditch were able to destroy 1t.
 The high cost of living, is, primar- fly the low value of the dollar. We
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it in the tangled web of European in trigue which we had had no part in weaving and which would enmesh us only to our own destruction. Then they would transplant here the same system of caste and class and warning groups that is keeping Europe fuce to face with civil as we'll as inter- national war.
 They are preaching here the gospel that every element, every occupation, every class" should hate and fight and oppress the others; and that the purpose of every such class should be 10 seize the government and use it as a means of expressing, undoing and even exterminating the others.
 Those who preach, and those who accept, such a gospel, are traitors to representative republicanism in the true sense of that term, little under stood anywhere in the world beyond the borders of the United States.
 Now is time for standing true to the real, underlying, fundamental and eternal truths of American republican ism and republican Americanism.
 The Republican party must stand forth as the apostle of this historic conception of Americanism.
 It must boldly fight for it if this nation is to be saved.
 The perils of the time are not imag- mary We are face to face with them.
 The nation will survive them. But only through the patriotic, the de- voted, the consecrated service of men who comprehend and love and are will ing, regardless of immediate conse- quences, to battle for true American ism; the Americanism of Washington, of Lincoln, of Roosevelt and of the mil lions who have stood by and with them in all that they did to the great end that
 Government of the people,
 By the people, for the people,
 Shall not perish from the earth"
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s E. T. Meredith, secretary of Agri- culture, has issued and widely circu- lated statement in which he com plains because of the reduction of the appropriations asked for by the department of agriculture. It seems that Secretary Meredith still has enough money left to spend in cir cularizing the country at great length for the purpose of attempting to dis credit the action of congress in cut ting down the swollen estimates sub- mitted by his department, in the inter- est mostly, not of the farmers, but of the Washington salary-drawers.
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The administration papers talk of the Chicago ticket as having been nominated by "cabal" A "cabal' is any combination of voters not taking it's orders from the white house. To differ with the Wilful One constitutes Conspiracy" Voting the Republican ticket against His wishes will be treason" This brand of journalism is what comes of being moro loyal to a single politician than to the United States government.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-07-10
WHAT AMERICANISM
 MEANS

Americanism means serving, through government, the general welfare, rather than the selfish aims and ends of groups, classes, elements or indi- viduals.
 The system of organizing groups and crowds and gangs of people and then forcing upon the people schemes matched in the special interests of some one particular element, is a vio- lation of the fundamental principle of Americanism.
 The man or woman to whom the general welware is not more import ant than the attainment of the imme- diate selfish ends of the particular group to which he or she belongs, is not good American, because not pos sessed by the true spirit of American ism.
 Government by bullyragging, govern ment by threat, government by fear, as against the common good, has been the constantly increasing menace by which, now, the very life of this re- public is threatened.
 Class loyalty, group loyalty, gang loyalty, racial loyalty, loyalty to principles, as opposed to loyalty to government existing for the service of all, without regard to caste or class, is the curse of European civilization.
 A larger fealty to the common good is what Americanism stands for. It is what Republicanism must stand for, if this nation is to be saved from that form of civil war which arises from the continuous battle of classes, with in and without the law, for advantage attained at the sacrifice of the princi pies of equity in human relationship fundamental in a real republic.
 Europe is crazy quilt of warning tribes, races, tongues each hating and ready to fight the others. Its age old religious and racial antagOnisms, it's class and caste divisions, it's conner cial and dynastic jealousies and rival ries, are the things that have kept it and will keep it at war so long as they persist, regardless of scraps of papers or leagues of nations founded upon gradiloquent phrases.
 Here in America we have govern ment whose national motto is Out of many one." Out of many races, re- Hgions, classes, groups, one people; one union, indivisible, now and for ever.
 To lose that ideal would be to lose America.
 Yet many forces are at work seek ing to destroy that for which this re. public was founded and has to this time been maintained by the brave and the great who have fought and wrought that this nation might be born and live in the fulfl1ment of it's mission.
 There are those who would Euro peanize America They would involve
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The Democratic party stands so little show of being given another lease of power in the United States th2t it might prepare a soft place to light by asking the League of Nations to give it that Armenian mandate, of course not, that we have it in for the Armenians so strong.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-07-10

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt complains that congress has tiled the hands of exc cutive officers" How long do you suppose the federal pay roll would be if the administration job holders had more than their teeth and feet to work with?
The Cordova daily times., 1920-07-10

When both an officer of the law and a bootlegger are forced to go to the hospital for repairs should the bout be declared a draw?
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President Wilson cannot understand how it is that the Chicago platform makers be guilty of the impudence of failing to endorse his administra- tion.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-07-10

Some people are so constituted that when the have nothing to worry about they worry about nothing.
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If you keep going after worthwhile things hard enough, they will begin to meet you half way.
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Many man throws his tongue into high gear. before he -gets his brain going. ~-- r5--r
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By the streets of By and By' one arrives at the house of never ;
The Washington times., 1920-07-27
COSMOS.

Three big acts that lead the Co.'S
mos Theater bill this week are num-
bers much above the ordinary vaude-
vile Of the popular variety, the
Three Dolce Sisters an exquisite Of
fering presented by Nine. Dorothy
Jardon. the grand opera star. being
beautiful to the eye, musical to the
ear, novel, dainty, and of the high
est type of vaudeville art. The
sisters all have excellent voices that
blend delightfully."- in clasic numbers
that are deftly blended into syncopa-
ton and jazz but in way seldom
offered on the stage. Their act is the
artistic feature of the bill. Hazel
Green and her jazz band is an ex-
ceptional number. Miss Green sings
sentimental, syncopated and jazz
songs and her unique band of five
plays artistic solos as well as the
rafting jazz and snappy syncopation
music for which 1t is featured. The
Broadway Four is quartet OF
strong manly voices with knoWl-
edge of music that becomes pleasant
ly apparent in their varied harmony
songs; ALI Grant amuses with new
line of philosophy in stories. poetic
recitations and songs: Hughes and
Debrow furnish the big laughmaker.
a half-blackface blend of songs and
amusing comedy; Armstrong and
The Washington times., 1920-07-27
STRAND.

"The Five Petrowas," In spectacular
feats of hand-to- hand balancing and
posing offered at the Strand Theater
this week. is undoubtedly one OF the
most elaborate. Surrounded by a
stage setting OF glittering beaded
glass, this troup consisting OF two
women and three men. give a con-
sistentiy graceful and highly enter
tanning performance from the start
to finish OF their number.
The vaudeville portion OF the bill
opens with "The Two Yaquis," Mexi-
can Indians in songs and dances Of
distinctly modern tinge which later, as
the number progresses, develops into
regular war dance on the part OF
the male member OF the team. Lee
Hete, William Harris, and Marble
Winters. are next seen In a timely
and tuneful comedy and singing
number which went over with a zest.
An appealing sentimental ballad sung
! by MISS Winters was also well re-
ceived. Ethel May Hall and her COM
pany offered laughable one-act
comedy, entitled "The Wrong Guy"
Tilyou and Rogers. eccentric come
dians and acrobats, are in a class by
tn hemselves.
As the photoplay offering for the
week, there's a good drama in Frank
Keenan's latest production. dollar
for Dollar" Mr.. Keenan, is again the
polished figure OF society and the re-
lentless man OF business.
Short subjects. consisting OF a null
tiple reel comedy, a beautiful scenic,
and the latest Fox News, together
with orchestral features as arranged
by Arthur ]. Maxwell, close two hours
and fifteen minutes Of good entertain
ment.
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HAPPENINGS IN SOCIETY
Meredhs to Entertain House Party-AttOrney General
Prolongs Vacatim-News of the Diplomats

attended by Miss Georgianna viii.
Jams and the bridegroom's brother.
Ensign Hillyer Gearing. was the test
man. Frank Louis GEAndy, jr., Of
Norfolk, gave his sister In marriage.
She wore a gown OF white organdie
and lace over white satin, with a
hat OF white tulle. and carried a bou-
quet OF lilies OF the valley. M IS
Williams wore pink wolfe and filet
lace, with a hat OF pink straw, and
carried pink snapdragons. After a
wedding trip Lieutenant Gearing will
take his bride to Newport. where he
has been ordered for duty
Mr.. and Mrs. Lucian. II. shrader are
guests OF Mr.. Won NJ Summers. in
Sixteenth street during their stay OF
few days in Washington, after which
they expect TO tour other points OF
interest In the East on their wedding
trip. Mrs. Shrader formerly was
Miss Bessie Pauline Willis, the ac-
complished young daughter OF Mrs.
Emma Riner Wills, of Willis Vir-
ginia' where the wedding took place
on July %.
Mr. ard Mrs" James y. Young left
Washington Saturday for New York,
whence they sailed yesterday on the
S s. George Washington for Genoa
en- route TO Venice, where Mr.. Young
VIII be stationed as United States
consul. '..'.'.' y.
- .''r ..r'.D .N.
b. Herbert Hengsuer. chief OF the
Consular Bureau, will leave Wash
ingtop next week for. series OF
visits on the North Shore. "'
The engagement OF Miss Ellie Wood
Page. of Charlottesville, Va, and A. A.
Morsen Keith, Of Richmond, has been
announced. The wedding will take
place In September. Mr.. Keith is a
son of the late Judge James Keith, OF
Richmond and FauquJet county. His
mother Was Miss Fannie Morsen. Mr..
Keith is a graduate of the Virginia
Military institute, also the University
Of virginia.: served h the, aviation
corps during the worlds war and
was instructor in several camps in
Continued on Page. Fifteen)
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Thornwell Haynes. of the United
States Consular Service, who has been
enjoying two months leave of alb
sence in South Carolina is spending
several days in Washington before
sailing for his new post at Berne
Switzerland
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At the TheQterS

Downing presents songs by a eapti-
waiting miss who is good to LOOK
upon and amusing tramp comedy and
wheel stunts by the comedian OF the
pair. while Raymond and Lynn COM
plete the list with songs and chan'
The added matinee feature, Katherine
MacDonald's picture Passions Play
ground" is a most interesting and
delightfully played picture romance
that might have been better named
Dangerous Eyes" Sunshine com
edy. a new Mutt and Jeff and the
Pathe News round out a fine bill OF
entertaining vaudeville.
The Washington times., 1920-07-27
GEARING-GRANDY NUPTIALS.

The marrieg of Miss Margaret h.
Grandy. daughter of Mrs Frank
Louis Grandy, of Baltimore and Nor
folk, to Lieut.. Wallace Gearing, L.
S. N, took place yesterday afternoon
at 8 o'clock in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Benjamin Davis Williams. at
Ruxton, Md. The Rev. William Olive
Smith. rector of the Church of the
Good Shepherd, of Ruxton, performed
the ceremony, which was followed by
a reception for the relatives and a
few intimate friends. The bride was
The Washington times., 1920-07-27
CROKER NOT ALARMED
BY DISORDERS IN ERIN

QUEENSTOWN, July 27.-Richard
Croker, former Tammany boss" Of
New York accompanied by Mrs Crok-
er, arrived yesterday from New York.
They left Immediately for Dublin on
thei rway to Glencairn. the Croker
estate.
Croker said he would not dispose
of his Irish home on account of the
growing disorders in this country. nor
is he nervous about living and trav-
cling in Ireland
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came on recently from their home In
Oklahoma to visit Mr.. and Mrs,
Tuttle, are now at their camp In the
Canadian woods Mrs. Flynn was
formerly Miss Margaret Tuttle"A
Judge and Mrs. Charles Il. Howry,
who are remaining late in town, Will
probably leave Washington late in
August for brief visits to Bass Rocks,
Mass. and White sulphur Springs,
W. Va. Miss Elizabeth Howry Is
spending the summer in the Maine
woods and Miss Mary Howry is in
California studying the methods in
use In famous school of dancing.
Miss Ruth Hitchcock has Joined
Senator and Mrs. Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock
in Atlantic City, and they are staying
at the Hotel Ambassador.
Raymond r. Baker, director OF the
mint, reached Washington yesterday
from Lenox, Mass, where he went
with Mrs. Baker and her children,
after a long stay in California. Mrs.
Baker. her infant daughter. and her
two sons. Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt,
jr., and George W. Vanderbilt, moved
yesterday from the LcnOX Club, where
they have been since their return
from California, to HOLLYWOOD, their
beautiful estate at LenoX.
Announcement is made of the mar
riage of Miss Iris Evans, daughter of
Holden a. Evans of Baltimore, to
Edward A. Cashell, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. +. Hazel Cashell of Rockville,
Nd The rar.pn,pr u.oO
Friday evening at s o'clock at the
rectory Of st. Adams Church, Cathe-
dral Close. in this city, by the pastor,
Rev. Charles T. Warner. There were
no attendants and no company at the
wedding. as the young couple sud
denly made up their minds to be mar
ried. The bride wore a modish gown
of navy blue taffeta cut in one piece
on the straight lines that are so fash
ionable now with a small blue taffeta
hat. They left Immediately after the
ceremony for wedding journey
which will end in Detroit, where Mr..
Cashell will enter business. He has
been a student at Johns Hopkins Uni
versity in Baltimore for several years
and while attending school there met
the bride.
Thornwell Haynes, Of the United
States Consular Service, who has been
enjoying two months leave OF alb
sence in South Carolina is spending
several days in Washington before
sailing for his new post at Berne,
Switzerland.
Mrs. Julian James and Mrs. Vylla
Poe Wilson will return to town to-
day from Wake efiel Id Manor, Va, where
they spent the week end with Brig.
Gen. and Mrs. George Barnett.
Mrs. Barnetts daughter. Miss Anne
Gordon. came up from Wakefield yes
terday to spend a few days in Wash
ington.
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AUTO UPSETS, DRIVER DEAD.

GETTYSBURG. Pa. July 27.-
Thrown through the windshield Of a
large touring car which overturned
when the rear axle broke and wheel
came off, Emile Hansse. aged twenty
seven years. who was driving. met al
most instant death yesterday near
Littlestown.
He was a resident of Salem. w. Va
and with his wife and two children
had been visiting at the home of his
uncle, Henry II. Collins, near Littles-
town.
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THE Secretary OF Agriculture and
Mrs. Meredith, who returned
yesterday TO their apartment at
lTS5 Massachusetts, avenue, will have
as guests Mr.. and Mrs. Earle Butler
OF Des Moines, who are due TO arrive
on Thursday. They have been motor
ing in Canada for some weeks. Mrs.
Hal s. Ray and Miss Margaret Ray
OF Des Moines areN also coming TO
visit Secretary and Mrs. Meredith and
will arrive on Saturday
Mr.. and Mrs. Meredith attended the
Democratic convention In San Fran
cisco and spent some time at their
home In Des Moines. Iowa, where
their son-in-iaw and daughter. Mr.
and Mrs. Frederick O. Bohen, are
established for the summer before re-
turning TO Washington.
= The Attorney General, A. Mitchell
Palmer, who Joined Mrs. Palmer last
week at their home at stroudsburg'
Pa. will remain there until the hrst
OF next week.
The Minister of Uruguay and Nine.
Varela, accompanied by their chill
dren, are established at Rehobeth
Beach. Del. for the remainder OF the
season.
The minister OF Poland, Prince
Iubomirski, will go to Newport today
to Join Princess Lubomirska at their
cottage, which they leased for the
season. The minister will be accom-
panied by his secretary, Mr.. Losh.
Franklin ID. Roosevelt, retiring AS
sistant Secretary Of the Navy and
Democratic nominee for Vice Presi-
dent, is at his summer home on Cam
pobello Island. New Brunswick, with
Mrs. Roosevelt and their children who
have been there several weeks. Mr..
Roosevelt went from Boston to East
port, Me, on the destroyer Hatfield.
He will spend a few days resting at
his home and then stop In Portland
and In New York on his way back to
Washington.
Senator Stephen B. Elkins is at the
Hotel Ambassador, Atlantic City. w<h
his mother, Mrs. Stephen b. Elkins
Mrs. Elkins will go this week to
White Sulphur Springs. w. Va. and
has engaged apartments at the Green
brier Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chauncey NJ. Depew
nave lelt not SpTlnBs, Va, iOT Len
OK, Mass, where they will remain
Ave weeks before going to Briarcliff
Lodge, N. Y.
LEAVE TODAY FOR EAST.
Mrs. Joseph Letter will leave today
for Beverly Farms, Mass, for the re-
mainder Of the season. Mrs. Letter
has spent few days in Washington
with her mother. Mrs. John T.. Will
liams. after being at White sulphur
Springs and Hot Springs for several
weeks. Mr.. Letter, who Joined her
at the springs, has returned to Chi
cago and will go to their summer
home at Beverly Farms later in the
season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Tuttle will
leave Washington on Friday for their
camp on Big Moose Lake in the Ad
irondacks. Miss Adelaide Tuttle is
also leaving town and will make a
series of visits at Rye Beach, N H.,
Marion, Mass. and other places In
New England. She will also spend
some time with Mr. and Mrs. Mont
gomery Blair and Miss Minna Blair
at Hyannisport, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Streeter B. Flynn, who