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The Washington times., 1920-04-21
To-day.

IOuay.
Informal Reception-National Shakes
pcare Federation, Dewey Hotel, from to
y. m.
Play-'Merchant of Venice,- by Shakes
peare Society OF Washington, auditorium,
Central High School, Thirteenth and Cliff
ton streets northwest, s:1b .. m.
Maple Sugar Party-vermont state As
ISOLATION, University Club, Fifteenth and I
streets northwest, 1880 y. IN.
Inter.club Dapoe-National Catholic
Community House. col B street northwest.
y. m.
Annual Spring Play-"For one Night
only" by students OF st. Johns College,
Carroll Hall. Tenth and @ streets north
west, slb y. m.
Meeting-Colonial Beach Society Of
Washington, 1926 Euclid street northwest,
y. m.
MeetinE-Rryn Mawr Club. 1900 O street
Meeting Of Education, District Of
Columbia, Franklin School Thirtssutb and
n streets northwest, 4p. m.
Meeting-District q Columbia Society.
Sons uf American LeVolg;IOn, EauBhcf's
restaurant, sp. m.
Dsnoe-student Council. George wash.
ibston University, Mrs. Dyers Dance Hall
lsiI n street northwest s!so .. m
The Washington times., 1920-04-21

is King, and is acting like it. We
are all spending more to earn more
to spend more to earn more to
spend more ad infinitum.
Anybody but a fool knows this
cannot last forever.
We are keeping things going
now by expanding credits and cur
rency.
In other words, we are borrow
ing to keep up our spree.
Some day the panic will come.
People will take a notion to ask
for their money. And there will
not be any.
There isn't much now. Try to
get a $50 gold piece at your bank
and see. Try to get 500 in silver
We have nothing but checks,
greenbacks and notes, which are
but promises. OF course, as long
as everybody believes in them they
are all right But some day or
other the public will say at the
bank window, II don't want paper
- promises - cashiers checks.
want my money. want coin"
Then what?
Why, then the debacle. Banks
will fail Business concerns will
crash. Factories will shut down.
And when the house falls the
workers will be found under the
wreckage. They will be the ones
to suffer.
There will be unemployment,
bread lines, the usual smash-up
that comes about once In twenty
years.
Then the people will 60 back to
work-sadder, but wiser.
All this is no diatribe against
labor. The unions are perfectly
right in asking for all the wages
thev can get.
But the only point is that they
cannot make any permanent i'm
provement in wages. they cannot
get any advantage they can hold.
the goose that lays the golden egg.
they cannot do anything except kill
until they get together with carital.
talk things over and make adjust
ments that shall benefit all nartieg
Selfish. greedy. intolcrant labor
Is every whit as dangerous as SELF
ish, greedy and intolorant capital
The Washington times., 1920-04-21
Money Is Cheap and individuals
Should Receive More of It

Editor of The Times:
have read the Spectators article and while cannot
at all agree with it, it may be because is well written
and expresses the view only himself but of many per-
fecty wemeaning people who but side of the pres
ent economic situation
To my mind however, the Spectator puts the cart be-
fore the horse and draws what is obviously wrong
nomic conclusion.
Prices high including the high price of labor, be-
cause imitation has made money cheap Imitation not the
result of high prices but high prices the result Of
imitation.
Money has but little intrinsic value. 1t is mainly
measure of value and good deal Of money has been
issued and is in circulation that money becomes cheap and
takes of it to buy anything including labor This
is rudimentary.
another reason for the high cost of labor is that the
world catching up production It is making the amount
of products that usually makes and in addition making
what it did not make during the and making what
destroyed during the war.
All this unusual demand for labor and, con-
sequently, unusual price for labor.
Of course the Spectator says this cannot go on for
ever because eventually will catch up in production
But is very fortunate thing that it go for
while and that the working people, the producing element of
the country the most important and generally the least
sidered and least rewarded getting the compensa
on they ought to have and which for one hope they will
continue to have.
The welfare of nation the welfare of the
The prosperity Of nation measured by the ability of the
to buy When speak of being proud of Amer
ican standard of living the high standard of living
of the masses
In every country in poverty India there
small class that live we-even too well But the pride
of America that whole people live WELL and to live
well they must be paid well
And they not paid well and live well they
cannot buy well and Immediately the and the fac
tories and the farms and the whole community feel the pinch
of hard times.
If there are those-and there are-among the nonunon
classes whose unncreang incomes make them particu
ary the burden Of the high cost of living the solution
that problem not to the working people less to
the writer's and doctors and clerks and cergymen and
teachers more
Money is cheap, and in all justice individuals should
receive Of it, to maintain former standards of
living and the aim and purpose of civilization ought to
be to improve the standard of living.
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
The Washington times., 1920-04-21
BUSINESS HIGH NOTABLEs

And We ask If there is anything
better than
JOHNNY GoETZ'S athletic ability!
Dutch" HELD'S pitching?
FRANCIS HILLYARD'S good looks:
HALL WILLIAMS basket throws!
STANLEY FANT'S smiles?
BERNARD WALKERS dancing?
JIMMIE KIRKLAND'S acting?
PAUL FOLEY'S cheer leading?
MIKE YOELSON'S singing?
Mike is a brother of AL Jolson.
BUSINESSITE.
The Washington times., 1920-04-21
LIZARDS AND OyERALLS.

You have great influence with the
lizards, Bill. You made them what
they are. They are the towns great.
ost attraction. Please use your in
fiuencc with them to don overal's. II
they arc patriots they will do II. They
can have cute little bell-bottomed
overalls made by the tailors that will
represent real style, and thus lead In
the overall movement. Now Is their
opportunity to change tho style OF
oNeralls and become real leaders.
The Washington times., 1920-04-21
EAR MISS FAIRFAX:
Some Of my girl friends and
nnxself aaarn To a aUrea that the

Some of my girl friends and
myself seem to agree that the
boys who are studying at q. U. are
first rate.
They are good looking, good
dancers and all around good sports.
Few Of them are stuck up though
most of them dress very nicely, not
sedately, but very sporty.
We have but one objection. not
exactly an objection because that
is the question that 1 am asking
you, but whenever they take any
of us home they always try to kiss
us goodnight and IL we object they
tell us we are young (sixteen) and
as we are older than that we OBJ
ject very much.
We know that these boys mean
nothing and we would like to know
IL II is an unwritten rule among the
boys out there to kiss every girl
that they go out with. We would
also like to have your opinion as
we are in doubt as to what they
think OF a girl who allows this.
Another question is this: How do
they smuggle their souvenirs out
OF the girls houses where they
spend an evening and what they
do with them2 ONE OF EIGHT.
AS I've told you many times
before the old saying relates that
Its a mans to try-a woman to
deny" Unfortunately, there seems
to be an unwritten code among
boys which prompts them to try to
find out what a girl is made Of,
whether she can be kissed or not,
whether they can venture to hug
her-just how far they can 60.
I'm sure the boys you mention
and all others-will have much
better opinion of you IL you are
sweet and Iadylike and unkissable.
Kisses are one Of the real things Of
life. They should never be treated
as trifles. II we're you, and
didn't succeed in doing anything
else, would make Il a point to
be one Of the odd kind, one of the
different sort, one Of the kind
whose kisses are not easily Won.
About the souvenirs" that is
something else again. as Mawruss
would say. The boys had better
answer that question themselves.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
have been going with a fellow
three years my senior and care a
great deal for him and krow he
cares great deal for me because
I have heard several times from
friends that he is afraid he is going
TO lose me and that he thought a
great deal OF mo. This fellow Is
always glad to do anything to
make me happy. but one fault is
that he is not very intelligent. He
has very good position, but I
would like TO know II there Is any
way 7 could help him in his line OF
business.
do not wish TO marry a man
fof his money, but for love
BRUNETTE
The Washington times., 1920-04-21

The sentence, Pack my box
with five dozen liquor jugs" has
all the letters of the alphabet
and repeats only six times. All
the repeated letters are vowels.
Who knows a shorter one?
BREVITY.
The Washington times., 1920-04-21
HAVE BEEN OVERLOOKED.

We lizards at Eleventh and
Kenyon streets most humbly ask
honorable mention In your IL
lustrious column. We meet all
requirements, We hang out on
the bread box on the corner.
WATCHING, WAITING.
The Washington times., 1920-04-21
Thi s dainty
little v amp is
the one tn a t
gets them all,
including the F
street and other
lizards. Ism t
my drawin n g
cute? II.
A FRIEND OF THE LIZARDS.

"Big Four" asks II it's true that
cnly King George and the royal males
.of England are "allowed" TO crease
their trousers on the side over there!
Derned If we know. Send this item
to the Prince of Wales. He's game
enough to give you an answer.
The Washington times., 1920-04-21
DIR OLDEST FAN.

The oldest H. and S. fan is LLOYD
DAVIS, who gives his address as "a
Florida avenue and his age as eighty
nine years. He has answered several
problems, finding fun in it
The Washington times., 1920-04-21

They say that. a camel can go
eight days without drink. That's
nothing. We have to go ten days
before we can get prescription for
one. S. r. WOODFORK.
The Washington times., 1920-04-21
Fl E A RID AN EEN

Having gotten everything else It
asked for why doesn't the W. R. &
e. now ask for the White House as a
car barn? J.B
The Washington times., 1920-04-21
CHIRPS FROM CnERRYDALE.

Tho Chorrydalc Weekly states that
Mayor MICKEY JOHNSON and Hon.
J; 7. SrOUlII have leased n tin mine
un IN" speedway that they may re.
GHce the cost Of tin cans.
ALFRED GROOM
The Washington times., 1920-04-21
Beatrice Fairfax Writes Problems and Pitfalls Workers
Especially For Washington Women

Sometimes it is well to remove
the moat from ones own eye be-
fore one worries about the beam
in another's. Intelligence is some
thing inborn and usually not to
be acquired from books. 1t would
do no harm-and probably some
good-to hunt up good books on
the particular subject he is in
terested in. If he is a salesman,
there are hundreds Of books,
few Of them good. There are text
books, manuals of advice and that
sort of thing for every line of
work under the sun. If his Eng
lish is poor, get him a book of
rhetoric and grammar. If he's
poor letter writer, find a text
book on that subject for him. Con-
fidence in him and sympathy will,
however, do him more good than
all the books you can buy. A
critical attitude such as you ex-
press in your letter will do him
more harm than anything else.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
Having helped so many others I
am writing to you for advice. I am
a young man about nineteen years
old and have good time with all
the girls. About two months ago
/ found that / cared more for one
OF the girls than the rest and have
been trying to prove my love for
her. She says she cares for me.
She Is very popular among the boys
and seems to enjoy being with
lot OF them As my present in
come is very small l am not in the
position to ask her to marry me.
Please tell me how ] can keep her
until I get a larger salary.
BROKEN HEARTED.
There never was-there never
will be-a formula which will in
The Washington times., 1920-04-21

On the husband and wife problem
submitted by NATHAN PARK1NS, the
answers are:
SOPHIE Il. hUSTIN-Husband, A
wife, 80.
Q. II. D.-The same.
PATENT OFFICE-The same.
MISS NJ. AGULA-Husband, GO
wife, SO.
IRVING HAND-Husband, SO years
wife, ~ years.
W. ID. PAYNE-Husband, ~; wife
81.
MR.. rARKINS says a. and 33 are
correct.
The Washington times., 1920-04-21

If two Cinnamon and one lunatic
went automobile riding and had a
wreck what would be left?
EVA ASCHENBACK
The Washington times., 1920-04-21
IS 1T AN EXTENSIVE FADs

Several Navy Yard mechanics write
a warning about the overall move
ment They fear that 1t Is to he
nothing but a fad and will result in
boosting price on overalls to men
who wear them regularly, and who
will get the worst of IT, as they see 1t
The Washington times., 1920-04-21
YOIT TELL 'EM, DOC,

II one doctor doctors another doctor,
does the doctor doing the doctoring
doctor the other doctor as the doctor
wants to be doctored, or, does tine doc
tor doing the doctoring doctor the
other doctor as the doctor doing the
doctorIng wants to doctor the doctorT
+. II. S.
The Washington times., 1920-04-21
PRESIDENTIAL SALARIES.

J. ID. $. asks the salary of the
President ten years ago. Roosevelt
and Presidents before him received
$4,000 per year. One of the last
bills signed by Roosevelt before he
took a train out of Washington for
oyster Bay. March I. 1909, increased
the salary to $4,000 per year Taft
was the first beneficiary, beginning
the day of his inaguration, March 4,
1909.
The Washington times., 1920-04-21

The heading for our column should
be "See Here and Smile"
J.P. WOODS.
The Washington times., 1920-04-21

Try this as twister: The rain ceas-
eth and the wind dismisseth us all.
KARL r. LESH.
The Washington times., 1920-04-21
ARMY OyERALLS AT COST.

i suggest that the Quartermaster
General of the army be authorized to
sell every applicant having an hon
orable discharge a suit Of overalls at
cost price. i hear the army has
large stocks. c. A. G.. DAVE.
The Washington times., 1920-04-21

viii some of our Bible readers
tell us who are the two short
est men spoken of in the Bible?
T. s. THOMPSON.
The Washington times., 1920-04-21

MITCHELL J. FRIEDMAN took his
walking cane for stroll. a rain
came up, he went into n club, hung
the cane on a rack, and In Ave min
utes II was gone. He wonders "
some gent mistook n for an umbrella
The Washington times., 1920-04-21
Little JITANITA Slit

Little JUANITA SUIT says women
talk less in February than in any
| other month of the year because its
the shortest month. This seems logi-
cal.
The Washington times., 1920-04-21
The Spectator

What viii Be the End of the Vicious Circle High High
Wages?
The Washington times., 1920-04-21

A. J. RHODES, Alexandria, fishes
out of his dictionary terribly long
word, the name of a drug. S. i.
PERRY hooks another long one.
FRANK CERCEO sticks to smiles =
with it's mile between the first and
last letter. ALVIN MURRAY and H.
III. H. are for Smiles"
The Washington times., 1920-04-21
O'CONNELL

CHAS. O'CONNELL and FRED
WALKER, candidates for president
and secretary, respectively. of Colum-
bia Typographical Union election
May 26), breezed into this sanctorum
on their way to electioneer among
Times printers.
The Washington times., 1920-04-21

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
VIII you please give me some
advice on this rather queer situa-
tion? I'll give you the true facts.
/ am a young lady twenty-five
years old and am not as homely as
the proverbial mud fence, in other
words, I am considered good-look-
ing, but l never have a chance to
go with a man because no man
ever asks me. 1t is an absolute
truth that, at my present ripe old
age of twenty-five, only one man
ever asked me to go any place
with him and he never did so again.
even though we seemed quite con-
genial on that one solitary occa-
sion.
This state OF affairs doesn't
worry me because "this world is so
full OF number of things that we
can all be as happy as kings" and
there are so many interesting
things to do and so many delight
full stories to read that 1 wouldn't
have time to pine away even IL I
wanted to do so; but I would like to
have n chance to go to dances some
times, and II Is rather inconveni-
ent and undesirable to go without
The Washington times., 1920-04-21

an escort, and I have no brothers
to wheedle into taking me. L. e.
Your predicament surprises me
because your letter indicates that
you have optimism and a sense of
humor, both of which are consid-
cred very good assets in gaining
the attention of men. l am not
offering the following as an >ef-
fort at consolation to you, but 1t
Is fact that the girls who at
tract the most attention. have few
real love affairs and many times a
girl who never catches a vagrant
eye will finally have a really great
love affair. That may be your case.
Fate may be saving you for one OF
the real encounters of life. She
may not wish you to fritter your
efforts away on small things. When
l was little girl, my very best
chum had a maiden aunt. Now
this maiden aunt probably wasn't
very old, but to us kids, she
seemed positively ancient. We
puzzled over Aunt Emma" con-
siderably. We worried about her
not being married and finally pre-
sented our problem to my little
playmate's mother. Didn't Aunt
Emma ever have a beau?" we in
quired singly and collectively and
with equal plaintiveness. can re-
member yet the way her face soft
ened as her memory carried her
back through the years to the days
when she and her sister were girls.
when she and her sister we're
girls. Finally she spoke: Emma
had all the beaux," she explained.
Il never had any one but Tom"
Tom" was her husband.
So you see IL isn't always the
girls who get the most attent ton
who make the most OF their lives.
There was one sister happily mar
ried with her children around her,
living out her days with the beau
who was still her best fellow"
Aunt Emma" grew older and
yellower and lonesomer every year.
When l was quite grown up-and
she was really old-she married
a widower with four or Eve chill
dren.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
Just happened to read A. H. C.'s
letter and would be very glad to
go around with him and teach him
TO dance. ] am Ave feet one. drees
well and am considered very pretty.
l am u fine dancer also. This young
man writes as though he has some
sense, and I am looking for a pal.
MARCELLA.
I'm afraid YOU arc destined to
look further, Marcella. A. b. c.
has, rs vet, failed to reveal his
identity. As ! said before, | fear
he's too good to be true. Per-
haps he was only curious to see
how many fair maids would bite"
Mt his offer.
The Washington times., 1920-04-21

ADELINE MIKULES says Adam
was the fastest runner in the world
because he was first in the human
race.
The Washington times., 1920-04-21

struct man in winning or keep
ing woman's love. That's one
of the reasons love is such an in
teresting thing. 1t is never cut
and dried. Whatever you do,
don't be too anxious. That's one
sure way to lose any contest. By
that ! don't mean for you to go to
the other extreme and assume an
indifference you do not feel. Try
to make her have a better time
with you than she has with any
one else. If you succeed, you will
have won the first skirmish, at
least.
The Washington times., 1920-04-21

is King, and is acting like it. We
are all spending more to earn more
to spend more to earn more to
spend more ad infnitum.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-04-03

and size may be steamed in their skins,
peeled and used for various dishes like
creamed potatoes, salads or escal-
loped dishes.
Potato Border.-Spread wall of
mashed potato one inch thick around
the outside of a buttered pan. Re-
move the pan and fill the center with
creamed chicken, fish, sweetbreads or
oysters. Reheat and serve very hot.
Potato Puff.-Add the beaten whites
of two eggs to mashed potatoes, using
six medlum-sized potatoes. Season
well and pile ligh into buttered
baking dish and bake until II puffs
and browns. The yolks of eggs with
grated cheese may be added for va
riety.
Potato Soup.-Scald one quart of
milk with two slices of onion. Remove
! the onion and add the milk slowly 20
two cupfuls of hot riced potatoes.
Melt three tablespoonfuls of butter.
add two of flour, one and one-half ten
spoonfuls of salt, stir and mix well;
add pepper, celery salt, and add to the
hot milk cook until smooth. Strain
If necessary, add one teaspoonful of
chopped parsley, and serve.
Curried Potatoes.-Make white
sauce of four tablespoonfuls of fat,
one tablespoonful of cornstarch and
two cupfuls of milk. Melt the butter.
add the starch, then when well mixed
add salt. pepper and four tablespoon
fuls of cheese. To quart Of cooked
diced potatoes add medlum-sized
minced onion; add the sauce to the
potato with n teaspoonful of curry
powder turn into creased baking
dish and bake until brown in a moder-
ate oven.
Potato Stuffing for FowI.-Take two
cupfuls of mashed potato, one and one
fourth cupfuls of bread crumbs, one
fourth of cupful of butter, one egg
beaten, ore teaspoonful of salt. the
same of s..ge and one finely chopped
onion. Combine the ingredients and
mix them well together.
Ne... Ns,-,s ~rie
The Colorado statesman., 1920-04-03


said that she is indeed true enter
tainer who can hold the attention Of
the guests from the carving.
A well-cooked fowl and carefully
kept tools will make the carving a
Measure, and some skillful carvers
enjoy being the center of attraction.
A well-trussed bird looks better on
the table than does bird with legs
and wings at all angles. If the
sinews have been removed from the
legs before cooking they (the legs)
will be much better eating.
few pieces of screen used on the
pas burner TO hold small dishes when
cooking will be found a great saving
A variety of vinegars to be used in
salad making may be prepared at
home. Let the peelings and clean bits
of apples soak = cold water; pour off
the water end let 1t stand in a warm
Mace. Add small bit of vinegar
nIont and in few weeks you will
have good vinegar. Add bit of mint
to one bottle let it stand for two
weeks. then strain. Any herb may be
used In the same way for vinegar fla
oor.