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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-24
WANTS PARKING SPACE
FOR BABY CARRIAGES
Denver Woman Puts Novel Request
Up to "Open House"
Councilman.

DENVER. March 2I.--Councilmas
Louis Straub, who represents a con-
stituency of nearly 10000 persons in
the Denver city government. believes
In giving the people who elect him
to office a run for their money"
One day of each week he devotcs
to open house" discussion with :hc
voters in his downtown office. Com
plants and suggestions are freely
sought by the councilman. and much
freak legislation" is advocated dur
ing these discussions.
Strauh's district includes much OF
the business center OF Denver. and
among the councilman's frequent
callers is a woman who conducts
store on the main thoroughfare. Her
plea is for the passage of a city ordi.
nance creating parking space for
baby carriages.
Il have such limited space in my
store" she told the councilman, that
when few customers bring their
baby carriages in they fill up all
the aisle space.
II think the city ought to mark or
a parking space on the sidewalk
where mothers could park their baby
carriages instead OF wheeling them
into the stores"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-24
UNCLE SAM |SON
TAXDODGERS TRAIL
Hunt Affects Millions Of Returns
Showing Evasion and Jug
Cling OF Figures.

Uncle Sam is now cunning for tax
dodgers. The hunt Affects millions
OF returns under the recent nlings'
The number of evaslons, involving
large sums. Is not expected TO be
heavy, IL was declared today at the
Internal Revenue Bureau.
Jugglers OF income have been re-
duced to a negligible minimum. Com
missioner Roper believes, through the
rigid checking system set up TO as
sure accuracy and prevent dishonesty
toward the Government.
Income tax jugglers, who willfully
sought TO deceive the Government In
their returns will feel swift punish
ment, Commissioner Roper warned.
The teeth OF the law for the tax
dodger and violator, and the aid OF
every lawful agency for the volun-
tary taxpayer are our watchwords."
Mr.. Roper said.
Even handed justice Is a heavy re-
sponsibility. Only through careful
siftings can delinquents be CLASSIFIED"
Commissioner Roper said there will
be three distinct classes of delin-
quency with which the bureau Will
deal. First, the taxpayer who had
reasonable cause for lapse or delay;
second the fellow who didn't look up
or didn't realize his obligations: and
third. persons who wilfully evaded
compliance with the law.
Mr.. Roper has issued Instructions
which stripped OF all verbiage. mean
the path OF the willful tax-dodger
will be hard and rocky. Mr.. Roper
said many cases OF failure were due
to ignorance or negligence, which
may be excused under some condi-
lions. but bureau officials will not
listen to "alibis" from tax-dodgers or
jugglers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-24

she didn't return.
Mrs. Degenhardt. employed as ste
nographeT, said her husband met her
last Monday as she came from the
Office and pointed revolver at her,
saying:
eco to your home and get ready
20 ny with me- Don't stop to tell
a policeman on the way"
She testified her husband followed
her TO her apartment, and. again
pointing the pistol. told her:
Love me or die"
When he left TO get a vslise she
called the police.
The magistrate said:
so you. Degenhardt, claim to be
in love, too? You probably are. But
OF loyesick diseases there are many
sorts. Your sort seems TO be OF
the kind which will do better in the
workhouse.
"A week ago another man told me
he was in love. l sent him TO Belle
yue. He told me he was not crazy.
But am awaiting a report.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-24
A Timely
Underpricing--
Stenciled
Grass
Rugs

Now is the time to
buy your summer rugs.
The values offered are
truly remarkable for
such Artistic rugs
$4.95 value. -. ~AsOO
Size 4I,x7l,. &C IN
$8.45 value. 80. @OsOV
Size 6x9 it. G. IN
S13.45 value. ~ sOV
Offered in many diff
ferent patterns and
colors in border de-
signs. You'll appreciate
the values more after
seeing these splendid
rugs.
Fourth Floor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-24

On the right model of white GeorCette
crepe, short sleeves, panel front and collar
Of net, trimmed in a three-ruffle edge Of
sheerest lace, three-quarter inch side tucks
and the very tiniest of pearl buttons and
narrow black ribbon tie, at x1O.95.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-24
CHILD BORN In PRISON
LEAVES WITH PARENTS

McALESTER, Okla. March pa
Thelma Clark. two, the other day left
the' only home she has ever known
the women's ward OF the State prison
here. The child was freed when her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Clark
were released from sentences OF four
years for the killing of a physician
over matter involving Theima's
mother.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-24
To Keep Their Digestion Perfect Nothing is so Safe and
Pleasant as Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets

sage or any OF the other savory fla
workings so universally used in soups,
roasts, dressing, etc. As a rule IL the
stomach balks at such things, II will
be disturbed by cheese, milk, coffee.
pies and almost anything that most
people like so we'll Such conditions
as these are met quite adequately by
following the meal with one or two
Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets. They di-
gest food and at the same time supply
the stomach with an alkaline effect
that prevents, gassiness, heartburn,
sour risings, drowsiness after eating
and such distresses so familiar to
those susceptible to indigestion or
dyspepsia. Get a box of these tablets
at any drug store in the United States
or Canada, price so cents, and then
note how comfortable the stomach
feels. Your most excellent cook may
use garlic without a protest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-24
LOVE TOO WILD, HE
SITS ALONE IN CELL
Chauffeur, IS, Sent to Work
house for Drawing Pistol on
Estranged Wife.

NEW YORK, March 2I-Clair
Degenhardt. a chauffeur, nineteen,
was sent To the workhouse for "A
month by Magistrate Sweetser in the
West Side court yesterday. His
twenty-year-old wife, from whom he
rs separated, told the court Degea-
hardt had threatened to shoot her IL
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-24
FOR ONCE CITIZENS
RATIFY PHONE BOOST

HUTCHINSON, Kan, March 81
This smacks of the impossible but
it's all true. Following an announce
ment by the local telephone COM
pany at Nickerson, near here. the
other day that it's rates had been
raised, the townspeople held a mass
meeting and voted by reclamation
and unanimously Endorsed the step.
That's not all
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-24

An experienced observer in charge
OF a large office said it was waste
OF words to tell most people to eat
plain food. They prefer the food
that delights the eye. Checking up
on the after effects the usual dis
tresses of gassiness. sour. risinGs
water brash, logginess, and so on
with one or two Stuarts DyspC psia
Tablets. These supply the stomach
with an alkaline effect, thus promot-
ing normal conditions as in health.
food. Men and women are but chill
dren Of a larger growth when 1t comes
to eating the foods that satisfy, even
though they may cause indigestion.
Indigestion is not necessarily con
fined to those who live high. 1t may
follow so simple a process as the
flavor OF a bay leaf, thyme, garlic,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-24
MRS. @. HUNTINGTON
Nl HATFIELD, wife of

Prince Hatfield Won VIII
denburg, who obtained
from the heirs of her faith
er by adoption, the late
Coils P. Huntington, sew
eral millions more than
the will allowed her. She
arrived in New York re-
Gently on her way to Cali
fornia.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-24
Editorial
THOUGHTS LIVE

Why do these names
live: Ralph Waldo EN-
erson, William Ellery
Claiming, Alice Cary,
Oliver Wendell Holmes?
Because these individuals
planted their thoughts in
human hearts. instead of
scattering their words
over empty heads. These
individuals had gracious
words; they lived to i'm
part a heart-throb of
comfort. Their words
have given a second lus-
ter to so many tear-dim-
med eyes. They have
helped others against the
eddies and rapids of life.
Right thoughts live and
teach us To fear nothing.
to work hard, to hope and
to trust. Their thoughts
have lived because they
proved that you cannot
fail when you believe in
yourself and your under
takings.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-05-28
BABIES HELP PAY FOR WAR
Even Talcum Powder Has Been Levied
Upon to Meet Expenditures Due
70 Slaughter.

The postbellum II. c. L. has hit the
babies.
In the Home Sector William G. Shep-
herd says: about So, 100000 will 90
into Uncle Sans Golfers from the pock.
cts and purses of soda water drink
ers in 1920. Folks who like bowling
or billiards or pool will give about a
million and a half to Uncle Sam. Peo-
pie who play cards will give him two
and a quarter millions. Automobiles
and motorcycles will bring him in so
cents a head from the whole log, 000,-
600 of us. Wen give him about S55,-
O0O,0O0 for going to theaters and NOV.
les.
Every one of the 100000, 900 of us,
indeed, will give Uncle Sam an aver
age of W cents a day, directly, for
pleasure and conveniences, with baby
paying tribute for his talcum powder,
mother and sister paying tribute for
their perfumes, father paying tribute
for his cigarettes and athletic club
dues, all the kids paying tribute for
the movies and their trips to the cor
ner soda fountain.
"The war did it all, too. We're pay.
ing just ten times more to Uncle Sam
in internal revenue this year than we
did in 1914. We paid so little then
one-tenth of ~ cents a day-and we
paid it so indirectly that few of us
realized that there really was such a
person lin the world as Uncle
Sam. At last :he old party has
found us. Since then a lot of us have
fought and died for him. And if he's
worth dying for he's worth support.
ing"
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-05-28
MAY DEVELC1 GUM MARKET
Opening of Mesopotamia to civiIiza-
ton Likely to Add Largely to the
Worlds Supply.


AS law and order come into the wild
and unsettled mountains Of MesOpO-
tamia, especially when new roads and
the eventual railway connect the
northern Kurdish country around Mo
sui with the rest of the world, many
q now useless tree and shrub will
doubtless be put to service as a con
tributOr of gum. The gums of MesO-
potamia have many commercial uses,
and the unsystematic tapping and
trading that now brings the product
on pack animals to Suleimanaya,
where merchants buy it from the
Kurds and sell 1t again to other mer-
chants in Bagdad, is a mere sugges-
ton of the industry that may be de-
velOped by enterprising promoters who
may have observed the extent of this
natural resource in Mesopotamia and
looked further afield than Aleppo and
Bagdad for markets. Now that Brit
ish occupation has opened the land to
western ideas, it would not be sur
prising If the gum industry grew to be
a source of considerable national
wealth, and an important factor in
creating a new MesOpotamia.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-05-28
FOUND THAT NEATNESS PAYS
indianapolis Youths Possibly Only
Needed Good Example, Though
the Pennies May Have Helped.

Somebody invented an old saw to
the effect that bad news travels
fast" In the vicinity of the Weidely
Motors company's plant good news did
the same thing.
One day a d%irty-faced urchin Of the
neighborhood asked Bill Umphrey Of
the Weidely company for a penny.
"WaSh your face and hands and I'll
come through" Billy told the kid.
When Mr.. Umphrey emerged from
his office at noon the youngster was
there, his face and hands glowing like
a ~lOO-candle power lamp. He got the
penny.
An hour later, when Mr.. Umphrey
returned, there was a lineup as long
as that for the "FOllies." A regiment
of clean hands was Outstretched for
coins of the realm. The generous Billy
came through again.
He started something. Now the
kids have begun work on George
Weidely and Truman Rapp. The re-
suit is that Irish Hill youthful coun-
stenances and hands beam like a cir.
Gus Observation-Disclosures News.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-05-28
oil Wells Detected Electrically.

New uses for electricity are con-
stantly appearing. One Of the latest
is the detection of crude oil in the
earth instead of boring for 1t.
1t is stated that crude petroleum
has been located electrically in the
shallow oilfeld neal Corsicana, Texas,
and that further tests are being made
around Burkburnett. A series of bat
teries is used for the test, the negative
terminal being connected to a wire
which is dropped into dry waterhole,
valley or indentation, and the positive
terminal being connected to a '1and
wire,' which Is used to make contact
at various points on the surface of the
field investigated. 1t is stated that
the higher electrical resistance of oil
compared with other constituents Of
the earth. permits it to be located by
the reduced detection Of a sensitive
instrument in the circuit.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-05-28
This Old Earth.

In a recent lecture Sir Oliver Lodge,
the eminent English scientist who is
now visiting America, announced that
the earth would probably continue TO
exist for 20,OOO,OOO years more. These
are, Of course, round numbers. Some
scientists estimate that the earth will
live for ten times this age. There have
been animals of one kind and another
on this planet for fully this length Of
time. The dinosaurs are believed to
have lived through some such period.
The age of man. which Is probably only
a few thousand years, seems the mer-
est trifle by comparison. When we
consider how man has developed dur
ing recorded history, which is less than
ten thousand years, we may hope that
he will evolve to an infinitely finer type
In the future.-BOys' Life.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-05-28
ENGLISH TERMS ARE ADOPTED
French Take Kindly to a Number o.
Expressions That They Learned
During the War.

We all know what an army Of
French words has billeted itself per-
m%anently upon the English language.
Not so many Of us think Of the inter-
change of prisoners, so to speak, be-
tween French and English, of the nu-
merous English words naturalized in
France. In sport, of course, this Eng
fish contingent was to be expected.
Champion" "ring," Knockout" "com-
Ing man." Singles" football" tour
ing club" skating rink,"-long is the
list Of such English words in French.
Even the French labor dialect has
suffered some English infUSions-
trade union" lockout" leaders"
There is eve the lovely verb lockout
err" whisky" and "pale ale" and
other exported names of sin must most
ly remain unmentiOnable here.
The war has introduced "boy scouts
hardly to be recognized in it's French
pronunciation, ~"scoOts." Tanks" and
nurses" are familiar words i'm con
temporary French. AT q theater or rail
road office you are almost rs likely to
get a ticket" as a "billet." "On the
golf links" wrote an English collector
of French Anglicisms last year, zone
may hear 'J'ai droppe une bale in
stead Of the clumsy 'laisse tomber.'"
"Lavatory" has suffered a sea change.
In Paris 1t means a barber shop where
you car get q shampoo.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-05-28
Get Busy!

Real development lies in arOusing
the potential worth that has been ~
ing dormant in your character. The
first step is in starting something that
will challenge the whole being TO ac-
tivity. Many a man does not feel
equal to the tasks of the day. But
circumstances are such that he has to
make the start. The first few strokes
Of the pencil may not mean much, but
the fact that he starts something
arouses him to keener thinking. and
before long he may be doing his best
work. And each idea begets another
until the fellow is aroused to full ca
pacity. Yes, and there are occasions
when the very stress of necessity
makes a man rise to the superman
that lies within. each Of Gods crea-
lures waiting the challenge worthy
Of it.-Grit.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-05-28
lbanez's Contribution to Poe Memorial

When Senior Blasco Ibanez said that
the Bronx should erect a memorial to
Edgar Allan POe-and threw down
500 to show that he means business
he acted like a poet. Though Poe
pried into a number of hooks and
crannies Of European literature, he
seems never to have interested him
self in Spain Or Spanish. : His "Oval
Portrait is located In zone of those
piles of commingled gloom and grand
eur" which have so long been associ-
ated with Spanish ~architectures, and
that is about the extent Of his debt
to the land of our guest. But poets
do not look for reasons; they are con-
tent with opportunities. Seeing that
we had no adequate Poe memorial, he
seized upon the chance to make q good
suggestion. Possibly, also, Poe's
-Four Beasts in One" prompted gen.
erous thoughts in the author Of "The
Four Horsemen."--New York Evening
Post.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-05-28
SPORES SCATTERED BY WIND
Remarkable Reproduction OF Species
Of Fungus Is One of the Wonders
of Nature.

: We often wonder at the amazingly
sudden upspringing of mushrooms and
toadstools. Today the green of the
lawn is unbroken. In the night a gen.
tie rain falls, and we wake to see
q crowded group of yellOwiSh-white
"~inkycaps" spreading their parasols
In the very shadow Of our doorstep.
Mr.. Burton o. Longyear In the Cutters
Book describes the marvellous repro
ductive powers of these fragile and
short-lived plants.
Each species Of fungus produces
upon or within some part of its fruit
body countless numbers of minute re-
productive bodies called spores. SO
small and light are they that they float
in the air as an invisible dust. Many
of them fall to the ground and are
washed into the soil by rains. Others
are waited away on every breeze, car
ried possibly for days, to be brought
down at length by rain many leagues
from their starting point. In this
way they are carried to the ends OF
the earth, busted into every crack and
Granny, lodged on every exposed sur
face Of wood or soil and caught on
every dew-moistened leaf or twig.
The amazing number Of spores pro-
duced by a single fungus can be real
lied only by knowing their relative
size. Thus in the case Of most puff
balls at least three thousand of the
globular spores. when laid side by side.
would be required to form a line one
inch long. A compact mass of such
spores, the size of a parlor-match
head. would contain the Incompetent
sible number of thirty millions of these
microscopic bodies, enough to cover
an acre of ground with four spores
for every square inch of surface.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-05-28
Plastic DRESSING for Wounds.

Industrial plants are o using the
Ambrine treatment for burns, scalds,
and all surface wounds which proved
very successful for casualties incurred
in the world war.
The dressing is a compound of wax
and resins, and is solid when cold. 1t
is heated to about $50 degrees Fab
renheit and applied by means of a spe.
ial atomizer, or it can be generally
daubed on with a soft brush. A plaS-
tic dressing, impervious to air, Is thus
formed, which does not adhere to the
wound and which promotes the healing
process without appreciate contrac-
ton. Disagreement and scars are pre-
vented to a greater extent than was
possible under the old methods.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-05-28
A Disturber.

1t was a scrubby little room, In a
scrubby little part Of a scrubby little
city's scruburbs, and the London trav.
eler didn't approve at all.
When he went TO wash he found that
there was no water for the basin. no
soap to wash with, and no towel to
dry himself with.
So he rang.
Five minutes interim bringing no an.
swer. Inc rang again and then again
n again, until his arm ached. AT
the end Of 20 minutes a waiter of for.
bidding aspect opened the door.
Did yol ring?" he inquired In a
bass. rumlling voice.
"Of corrse I did" snapped the
London visitor.
We'll" aid the waiter as he with
drew. don't do it again. You'll wake
the missis London Tit-Bits.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-05-28
PIPE MAKERS USING BIRCH
Mood Has Been Found to BE Eminent
ly Suitable, After Treatment by
a Special Process.

American birch since the war has &C
Iuired a South American name. Nova
lays it is fashioned into pipes and
then called something besides birch.
The only evident reason for the
change seems to be the fact that the
process that converts soft birch into a
hard pipe was originated In a Latin
American country, according to the
New York Evening Sun.
Brentwood owes It's new name and
It's present prominence in the pipe In
lustry to the war, which cut off the
supply Of briar and sent the prices
Of the stocks in America sky high.
Substitutes have been sought for
the expensive imported briar. The ces-
sation Of importations with the war
they haven't been resumed yet-inten-
SITES the search for an American wood
that would provide a suitable substi-
tute.
Many native hardwoods were tried
without success. Most Of them were
either too hard to be worked into pipes
Or too heavy to rest comfortably be-
tween a smokers lips. Then some
one hit on the expedtent Of trying a
soft wood and employing a process that
would give 1t the required hardness for
use in pipe manufacturing. Birch was
found the most suitable for the pur-
pose.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-05-28
L~enatheninq Life of Silk Stocking.

"No economies are SMALL" says a
French prOverb, and the professional
stocking members job is evidence of
thrift as understood by the Parisienne.
"Here," said one of the craft, "are 30
pairs Of silk stockings which have
been through my hands more times
than / can count, and look at them"
They were patched and darned till
there was little of the original left,
but as Elise remarked, with boots
they still make an effect" Before the
war madame paid three half-pence per
pair to her member and provided the
thread; now she gives fOurpence or
fivepence and expects miracles of en-.
durance from the fragile web. Where
the member formerly spent ten min
utes she now must devote an hour to
some of these stockings. and 1t is diff.
ficult to see how she gets a living.
But madame's motto is, Throw moth
ing away" and she lives up, to 1t.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-05-28
"Easter Ridina" In Bohemia.

In various parts of Bohemia. now
the principal state Of the new Czecho-
Slovak republic. a curious old custom
prevails, that Of Easter riding" On
each Easter day, at four o'clock In the
morning, the riders assemble, dressed
In black and carrying crosses, flags and
other emblems. From Schonwald they
proceed on a three-hours' ride to
Kuhn, where they attend service. The
priest, after a sermon wherein he re-
fers to the horse as a symbol Of pow
or. bestows his benediction on the ami
mails and their riders. This done, the
riders visit the neighboring castles,
where they receive hospitality. subse-
uuently making their way homeward,
escorted by a band and a large crowd.
The origin Of this curious custom is
lost in the mists Of antiquity