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The Washington times., 1920-10-11
MATTRESSES
City Club Women IDEAL
EN- OFF Arm" at Grill
Opening.
WOULDN'T TAKE TIPS
Courageous Men Present
Declare Domestic Labor
Problem Solved.
WOULDN'T TAKE TIPS

When the women at the women's
City Club last night found that there
were more persons present at their
opening buffet supper than they'd
planned for, and that there weren't
enough mattresses to take care Of the
trade they pitched in and donned
aprons and passed plates themselves
The few mere men who were brave
enough to come out and Join the
nearly a thousand women said they
didn't see why Washington women
should be kicking about the shortage
OF domestic labor when they perform
cd SO beautifully as mattresses.
The throng at the opening OF the
clubs new grin was 30 great that II
was impossible TO serve all OF the
guests In the grill, 80 II became neces-
pary to turn the assembly room up
stairs into an impromptu dining room.
Mrs Marie Moore Provost and Mrs.
Maude Howell Smith and others car
ried trays upstairs and down stairs.
and performed all the other duties
OF regular waitres-es-and--oh Joy I
there was no tipping to be done.
The Washington times., 1920-10-11
COLUMBUS DAY TO
Be OBSERVED HERE
Italian Catholic Society and
Knights Of Columbus Will
Hold Ceremonies.

Columbus Day will be celebrated in
Washington tomorrow with celebra-
tions under the auspices of the Itai-
ian Catholic Society of Washington
and the Fourth Degree, Knights OF
Columbus.
The Fourth Degree. which is the
patriotic degree, will hold the exena-
plification of the degree at their hall
at o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
About $50 candidates, from Washing
Ton, Baltimore and Alexandra, viii
be initiated.
A big ball will be held by the de-
gree at the willard Hotel at $3.50
o'clock tomorrow night. 1t is ex-
pected that 500 members will attend
Admiral and Mrs. w. S. Benson VIII
be honor guests. The ~degree team
will be put on by the Warrington
assembly.
Charles w. Darr, master Of the de-
gree. Is now in Porto Rico. whore a
number of new candidates arc being
initiated. In his absence the ball In
in charge Of Michael w. Schaefer.
william S. Auman, of the .Baltimors
delepation, and George Evans
The Right Rev. A. Cossio, auditor
of the Apostolic delegation: DR.. @. b.
Ceccato. commercial delegate OF The
Italian government; and DR.. G Il.
Mcclure. secretary general Of tho In
ternational High Commission. VIII
speak at the celebration scheduled
for 8 o'clock tomorrow night at 7fe
sixth street northwest, under the aus
pices of the Italian Catholic Society.
The boys band of the Holy Rosary
Church will play.
Leo A. Rover will deliver an 81
dress on the work of the Knights OF
columbus at St Johns College At III
-.-ia.i. 4ar,,arrau- naming
The Washington times., 1920-10-11

"A girl can't walk down + street
these days without being insulted,"
declared Mrs. Farling. "Why the
whole male population of Washington
ia flirting, the ice man, the carpenter,
the chauffeur. every kind of man, and,
yes even the nice man."
1waIk down r street with me-
xny. Mrs. vnp Wrinkle. "Whst do you
acc. A givI. a fur hung loosely around
her neck. n pocketbook suspended
s~ductively from her arm. and hob
And can yco blame thewf
art'. a shswc to abuse the men Of
Washington this way. Why the Ssen
Of wsshingtcu are the finest In the
world.
nLAMEs LACK OF ESCORTS.
The solution OF the problem Is to
rid the streets and the movies OF tho
unescorted girls. II girl does not
want the men to fiirt with her she
should stay or the streets unescorted.
II is almost impossible to prosecute
cases because seldom VIII the girl
pres. the charges against the man,
and in many cases will not even give
her name.
aNo. Z do not believe In nm anti
pnshiru cs~paiGr for wnshi~nton.
rid the streets and movies Of the I'M
escorted Eiri and the problem will
soIve tts~tf
what Washington needs is a good
old-fsshioned antimasbing campaign,
The Washington times., 1920-10-11
PLAN HEALING SERVICES
AT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Second Series Begins Tomorrow
Morning at st. Stephens.

The second of a series of healing
missions in local Episcopal Churches
will be held tomorrow. Morning serv-
ices will be held at 1880 o'clock in st.
stephens Church, Fourteenth street
near Columbia road northwest; and
evening services at Epiphany Church,
Thirteenth and G streets northwest
at s o'clock.
The first of the fall series of heal
ing missions was held a week ago
Two hundred patients were treated at
St Stephens and forty-two at Epiph-
any.
The Washington times., 1920-10-11
v. F. w. AUXILIARY TO MEET.

The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Veter-
ans of Foreign Wars will hold a
meeting at 14S street northwest to-
morrow night at 8 o'clock. All mem
bers are requested to attend, mas
much as the outlining of plans for
the winter program of the society will
be arranged.
The Washington times., 1920-10-11
MISSIONS IN BELGIUM.

The Methodist Church has estab-
Iished missions in Belgium and the
Method Church South in Slavic
countries.
The work of these churches" said
Mr.. Ward, sis likely to become the
most extraordinary development OF
brotherhood and evangelical religion
in Europe and the opening of the
doors to a great union of the Anglo
Saxon and Slav races"
The three committees, appointed
this noon, are:
Nominations: Rev. r. Moffat
Gautrey. London; T. Howell. Rev
John Coburn: Rev. DR.. Harry. Dr.
Worth M. Tippy. DR.. Rolvix Harlan,
Phi. D., New York; Rev. w. 3. Beau
champ, ID. D., Nashville; Rev. Tom
Sykes, London, and William Ward
London.
Findings: DR.. Samuel Zane Bat
ten. Philadelphia: c. ]. Ammon, Lon
don: J. o. Mccarthy. DR.. Thomas
Reyf ]. G. Shearer. Toronto, Canada
Rev. r. Albert Moore. Toronto; Rev.
J. Foster Wilcox; Rev. 5. w. Hughes,
London; Canon L. Skey, Toronto; T.
B. Macauley, Montreal: Rev. Charles
Fry, and DR.. Worth NJ. Tippy.
Business: w. T. Toynbee, London
DR.. Samuel Zane Batten; Rev. ]
Foster Wilcox: Rev. r. b. Whyte, Dr.
Hugh T. Stevenson: DR.. McIlroy. Rev
l.. B. Lanceley, Toronto; DR.. Harry
and Ben G.. Spoor, NJ. p, London.
The Washington times., 1920-10-11
CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY TO
HOLD TAG DAY SATURDAY

Tag day for the Christ Child Society
will be held next Saturday instead of
in December as heretofore. according
to announcement from the board Of
directors.
The captains in charge of the work
are Nine. Calderon, Mrs. Daniel G.
Stapleton, Mrs. w. J. Baxter Mrs.
William ]. McGee, Mrs. John Shea,
Mrs. Berens, Mrs. Thomas Sheridan
and Miss Florence Roach.
The Washington times., 1920-10-11
Men Here Flirt--:-But
Girlies Coax 'Enn To,
Says Mrs. Van Wrinkle

"It's the girls fault, said Mrs Nina c. Van Winkle
director of the womans police bureau, in to the
charge that the whole male population of Washington is
flirting"
Thus did the police chief turn unsympa-
shetic to the cry for anmashing campaign from
the girls of Washington, expressed by Mrs Sarah
Farng who was Washington's first policewoman.
The Washington times., 1920-10-11

DELEGATES from all parts of the world are attend
ing the convention in Washington of the World
Brotherhood Federation which held its first business
session this morning Delegates shown In the photog-
rsph from left to right are w Wird, Of London; r.
J. Harry, of London and DR.. T. Albert Moore of
Toronto In the inset is Miss Lily Herber OF Chrisana
also delegate.
The Washington times., 1920-10-11
MIss MARTHA NORRIS,

MISS MARTHA MURKlS,
one Of the Washington
girls who has been bitten by
the movie bug" and whose
good looks may give her the
honor Of appearing as a movie
star for three whole days ut
the American Legion carnival
in celebration Of Armistiee
Day.
The Washington times., 1920-10-11

NAT C. wILDMAN, executive
of the Deatel Advertising
Society and vice president OF
the Baltimore Ad Club, who
will address the Washington
Ad Club as a feature Of the
dinner and entertainment to
be given tomorrow night at
the Dewey Hotel
The Washington times., 1920-10-11
CITIZENS MEET TONIGHT.

A metieng of the Sixteenth Street
Heights Citizens Association will be
held at the home of ID. w. Holmes,
1925 Holly street. tomorrow night at
o'clock.
The Washington times., 1920-10-11
Women Not Scarce,
Only Particular.

There are just az many work
ing women In the country as
there ever were--nnd many
thousand more. The reason
people have trouble getting fe-
male help IL that women are
more particular. and don't have
to take the less desirable Jobs.
But let the job be satisfactory
Washington Times-and note
the result. Martin w. Hysons
Co. recently advertised in The
Times for n woman TO do gen
eral homework. They write:
"ve always receive good re-
suits from Times ads" SO
will you. Phone yours to
Main $500.
The Washington times., 1920-10-11
25NAT|ONS IN
CHURCH MEET
Brotherhood Congress Appoints
Committees in Opening Ses-
sion in Capital Today.

With the appointment Of three big
committees, the reading of the mes
sage from its president, and the re-
port of the world commissioners,
the opening business session of the
World Brotherhood Congress got
under way this morning in the First
Congregational Church, Tenth and
G streets northwest.
The congress is attended by dele
gates from twenty-five nations, and
will be in session here until Wed
nesday night.
GAINS FROM CATHOLICS.
Methodist Episcopal Church. mis-
sions are making rapid progress in
Catholic countries OF Europe. William
Ward, world commissioner OF the
World brotherhood, declared in his
report before the opening session or
the Equalization.
''Sinee the revolution OF 1918 there
has been a remarkable religious
renaissance in Czecho- -Slovakia," he
said. Thousands OF people have left
the Roman Catholic Church. some OF
them to Join the Protestant religious
bodies, while others have drifted into
an agnostic attitude of life. Many
OF these people are searching with
anxious hearts for the essential
things OF religious life. 1t is situa-
tion full of danger, but let IL be said
at once, too full of a great hope for
the future"
The New York herald., 1920-01-04

the Supreme Court Exclusion provisions were
Incorporated in the Philippine organic law
tpassed July /. 1907 that prepared the way Tor
the Jones act OF 1916. The Chinese auti-Amer-
lean boycott was one OF its products More
recently the desire OF Japanese to develop
land and other natursf resources in the phil
ippines has led to Philippine legislation dis
tasteful to Japanese. our policy has been to
conserve 'the Philippines for the Fipnos.''
and the Filipnos have acted in the spirit OF
sef-preservation. under our protecting wing
There Is no reason to suppose that the jap
anese would deny to the Filipinos the right
OF adopting measures that japanese felt com
pelled TO adopt for their own protection i'm
their own land: but there might be a Japanese
The New York herald., 1920-01-04
More Than Sixteen States in
the N. Y. u. Vocational School

More than sixteen states are represented
among the ESQ disabled soldier veterans who
are taking the vocational courses at New York
University to fit themselves for important civil
ian occupations. Without exception all these
men are studying for professions other than
those in viii III they had been employed before
they joined the colors and were dsa bled dur
ing active service.
THAT splendid spirit which led our men to
victory" said Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth
Brown 'is impeling these disabled men 20 re-
fuse little jobs which they might easily have
done, and instead to fight winning battle
against great odds. They are determined to
count for great deal in the future Of industry.
All they ask is that industry give them upon
the completion of their studies the opportunity
of proving their worth, just the government
has given them the chance of returning to
civil life as highly trained specialists"
truly national group. these represent
New York, New Jersey. Texas California.
Connecticut Massachusetts. Pennsylvania.
Kansas. Ohio. Michigan. Maryland. Georgia.
Utah. Wisconsin and Minnesota. No matter
how distressing their njury-some have been
gassed some have lost an arm leg. some arc
lame. and others are partly paralyzed-these
boys look to the future with confidence.
Their determination is clearly expressed by
the student from Texas who said. Were not
candidates for an old soldiers home. We are
preparing for professions which VIII be better
than the positions we had before the war
a former shipping clerk from upstate New
York will receive diploma from the School or
Journalism and another from Brooklyn Is going
to be an expert accountant when he completes
his course. pre-war electrician from the
Bronx is fitting himself for an important place
in the world Of commerce a one time Kansas
bank clerk is learning the ntrcacies OF foreign
trade and a soldier from Harlem who was
professional singer is studying the ins and
outs of export commerce a New York city
fireman who resigned to serve the infantry IL
now a student in the export class and a man
who before the war put up flag poles on the
sky scrapers Of a middle western metropolis
IL learning the art OF advertising.
Recently brief questionable was filled out
by these students and their answers afford an
interesting study. An interesting table OF ne
fore the occupations and post graduation
ambitions be compiled from the question:
naires. The tables foow:--
Before the war vocations CLERK. a. per
cent statesmen. 26 per cent students, per
cent no definite occupations per cent book
keeper, per cent: executives. 8 per cent !;
machine workers. 3 per cent; purchasing
agents, singers editors steel workers, store
keepers, painters, pharmacists secretaries and
electricians, one per cent each.
Post graduation ambitions Accounting, 80
per cent; export and foreign trade, 2s per
cent advertising, 3 per cent business execu-
tives per cent finance 3 per cent: salesman-
ship, one per cent; journalism, one per cent.
The New York herald., 1920-01-04
On the Stump for the Immortality of the Soul

soul as they wend their zgzag way back to
At four O'Clock in the afternoon the Bluebird
Special pulls into Spookerville to the footing OF
horns and the blowing of the brickyard whistle
An American audience is always fair. especial
ly such an issue as the immortality of the
soul where guess Is good as a smile Be-
sides there is slight hangover in the town
from the ghost-distilled spirits OF the morning.
The great Belgian dreamer. fat. gray and
sleek, advances to the platform to speak.
my distinguished spirit-baiting opponent has
laid his case before YOU. 7 do not talk in the
jargon of science. I will not tell you of ghosts
have not a spirit up my sleeve. have no
bootleg wraiths Tsroans and catcallsl up my
sleeve. l do not appeal to your reason
TGet the hook. from the village school,
masterl. ] appeal to your vision your intu-
ition. your ina ginaton. your sense of eternals
land we saved Belgium from the Germans
for that nuts hide-eh! some one whispered
I do not believe in ghosts in the sense in which
ghosts; are all ghosts; man is spirit; mat
ter does not exist: the soul is immortal because
everything is immortal AS your great Emer-
son said [Can the culture, yells an original
Bryan man from the gallery]-as your great
Emerson has sad,' went on Maeternck.
unperturbed as a goldfish in an April shower.
I'VE are living our Immortality and life after
death is mere continuation; nothing new will
happen over there"
Won't he?" howled a big buckaroo who
flourished thermos of wood alcohol above his
head. Then what the hel!''
But Maurice quickly gave the buebird high
sign to the A. p and the train pulled out
before the bottle Of Kansas hippocrene reached
the auther of Wisdom and Destiny"
Thus will be waged the this winter
throughout the length and breadth of our fair
land between the propounders of the Atom
Ghost and the Art-Ghost 1t is combat be-
tween scientist and mystic; and prognos-
ticate that common ground will not be found
in Kansas California and Massachusetts will
probably vote pro-Maeternck. Los Angeles
and Boston took up ghosts and the immortality
of the soul before they had done with the milk
bottle stage of their civic evolution. But in
the Middle West you have got to show EN-
And Sir Oliver Lodge can show 'em anything
they want. Maeterlinck believe would rather
be right. or even wrong, than be President OF
the League of Spirits. Besides. he sticks to his
Article x, which is that the human soul is
more important than the existence of grand
fathers ghost and his moonlight hunt for stills
In 1924 l wager that the Presidential election
will be fought out on the question of granting
the suffrage to ghosts.
The New York herald., 1920-01-04

question OF restrictive measures applied in Asia
by nomnaly Independent state. working un-
der the wing OF Western Power that dis
courages japanese colonization or exploitation
H. the Western hemisphere That is politi-
cal problem OF the first ma gnitude.
The Philippine problem affects American and
non-Amorican Interpretation of the Monroe
Doctrine. When the late Admiral Mahan pro-
pounded the view that the Philippines came
under the orbit OF the Monroe Doctrine his
opinion was sustained by Lord Charles Beres-
ford and riddled by other non-American au-
thorities In Paris there was very strong
opinion that Mr.. Wilson disfavored any per-
mancnt extension Of the Monroe Doctrine. as
an American policy. to Asia. The new map
The New York herald., 1920-01-04
Benjamin De Casseres

CHARACTER sketch OF BENJAMIN De Cdssccs rould be about
~ sditcu daying to get shght OF chameleon playing
cdptrog orr rdinbo the minute yon pm nam dozen as
nihilsc pessm his book poems "The ShddOr
Eater c find that hare joyiumned Rdbeldisidn sou
under thumb If hunng for HIM on Olympus after read
ing has "Emson his Netssche and his "WoH Whitman
H find him there HrOing snocd at his idols If think he
SGtGns after rc0ding Defcncc hypocrisy Hate
and looking fo him Village miH be told he as
at cper IN ST. Pdcks Maybe nE yoM hdc nm noed as
Cynic because Of has thousands Of pdms Your ndgeH as an
again. for his hobby chrn and fairy stories An ncom
rchensibc mystic H after reading "Pcnde and
Posludcs' and ~ Galahad Knight the Absolute Wrong again
For there is his dcy copied dhWambc hymn to Ncc York
"Nattcr Trimphdls to flabbga triotc onit maybe
certainly that after his Great Hcrcsiarc and "The Eternal Return
rhc printed again. for there the street
md sunny humanity of the himself
He himself that he has chdcter he has only moods
he mOrdbIe fired he neither comet Just
bunch Of clouds dny shape that the nds Of his H
list The TOoundest thing life he huOr but got
to through he'll to kn0 it, character fired and he ,chn
he is "red" time to # he thought he had "aessdge
he the type Of that coud be shot before sunrise for ropogdng
IT. " ne rcdy bctered human dtrdon earth ne OF
r be rh Lcnnc hOm eers to be the highest form
Of upidity ertan He feels reding hOeUer that the Allies
did not reach Berlin and burn to the ground That is the only
feeling an him that pOstirc dca cOngena hdtred Of all
things TeutOn. beer
He PhiladclDhin-mhch
Of Supidtydnd his amu hare the North American
continent about 1890 That the North
rred this proof he the inherent rinly Of Columbus firth
He collateral descendant the great Dutch philosopher Benedict
de SpnOsd being chdts
missing here Hcrc) He has been compared Schopnhduer
Poe Nictssche "Jin Hunekcr Buddha
BW he oudnt the whoe for Bdcchus of Bass
Olympus for got to the instead finding
Zeus mp there he fomnd charlie Chaplin.
He rs hedUysct dark hair
yOdtee. He is IOud beere
greatest iring American Eighteenth
the He has cren publishers
readers do not understand BECAUSE he English
sat the b1cachs than those lounge grand
Ace ct Amen!
The New York herald., 1920-01-04

his theories of spirits with illustrations from
life-or death. Sir Oliver will say
Now. I have seen these ghosts. talked to
them. played poker with them. while my oppo-
nent. Mr. Maeterlinck. only believes in their
possibility. So, my fellow mortals you know
Presidency of the League of Spirits. vote
for me is a vote against the gross materialism
OF the times; vote for me is vote for sci
entific ghost against purely aesthetic
ghost-conception of my distinguished Belgian
opponent vote for me is vote to perpetuate
all your ancestors so that they be
whenever you want to see them. sitting around
the Yule log with them. comforting with them
in the dead of the night on an important busi-
ness deal wherein. having the interests OF
their posterty nearest to their heart. they will
breaking bottle OF bootleg with them behind
the barn Your children. on my plan, will all
ways have playmates they have their
little cousins with them who were scalped by
OF the ball games there.
my opponent. for all his superb imagina-
tion has nowhere produced the goods. Has he
a genuine ghost to show? Has he soul in his
showcase? Has he wrath to his credit? No;
and you know it. He hands you language;
hand you fact. He plays with you. works
vii irrs
but am matter-of- fact Englishman and
bring you case-notes
This ghost business. my fellow beings. is
an infant industry as yet. l demand that the
thrown around it to protect it against the cheap
messages of German ghosts and the underfed,
underpaid coolie ghosts of the Orient You all
know. you intelligent spookerville wghts
what the protective tariff has done for the
industries Of your country. Think what sci
ence will do for your soul and the souls of
your ancestors and posterity if you stick to the
reasoners and are not led INTO the trap of Mr..
Maeterlinck. who would have universal free
trade nsthe matter of spirits. and said
never has seen to boot
After this speech by Sir Oliver Lodge the
electors are invited into the ten-car special
where 'demonstrat tons are given. Ghosts are
had for the asking Messages come out of
the seats to every one. The windows rattle off
their tips on the races Omar Khayyam
and Rabeas sandwiches and rich. rare
wine. with a rousing Fourth Dmensional
believe in Lodge and the immortality of the
The New York herald., 1920-01-04

By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES.
2 YEAR! HEAR.
- Maurice Maeterlinck and Sir Oliver
i u Lodge are going TO stump the country

n Maurice Maeterinck and Sir Oliver
for the immortality OF the soul!
Many campaigns have come and gone since
GEORGE Washington had his ''corlns good
time" in the White House but the campaign
these two candidates for the Presidency of
the first League of Spirits is unique not only
in our own political and spiritual annals. but is
probably the first of its kind to be waged any
where beneath old SEinsteins Bent Light
heavens.
1t will be a roval battle between the cohorts
OF literary mysticism and scientific mysticism
Special cars have been hired by both candi-
dates Every town. village and mining camp.
dry or wet, will be visited A ballot may be
taken each stopping place. and everybody
can vote even the chickens and cows and bees.
at least on the ballots of Maeterlinck. for he
says the sub-kingdoms of life have souls
Flowers and trees should be in on this. for
they. too, have immortal innards; but just how
they can be got to mark their ballots for or
against Maeterlinck or Lodge is a puzzle
Maybe the Belgian will ring in the fairies to
do this work.
remember every political campaign back as
far as 1884, when Grover Cleveland rode into
the White House the back of Burchard.
They have been much alike. There were the
tariff. civil service reform, free silver, the nde-
pendence of the Philippines and "he kept us
out of the war" We all voted yes or no
and got exactly what we didn't vote for The
whirwind tours of Bryan. the porch campaign
campaign Of Taft rather wearied us. The cat
always wiggled out Of the bag after Inaugural
tion day
Today we are sick of the old scrmmages and
the new issues are already wearing us into
yawns. 1t was the psychological moment for
a brand-new set of candidates on a brand-new
tions are preceded by psychic yawns. Bore
dom is the mother of invention The old par
ties have been chasing another in a circle
and eating up the circle they went, leaving
the plain bourgeois voter the inside. Maeter
linck and Lodge got the tip their ouija
boards and they packed up their souls in their
bodies and set sail for this country at the call
OF our intellectual and emotional charley
horse
They both nave a subject that has interested