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The Washington times., 1920-08-18
HARDING DECLINES
y TO GIVE Up PORCH
veranda Campaign will Con-
tlnue, Nominee Insists After
Conference With Leaders.
NJ ,. BART CAMPBELL
Interua tioHaI News Service.

MARION, OHIO. Aug. ls.-Senator
Warren @. Harding, Republican nom
inee for President, is to attend today
the annual picnic OF the lumoermen
of the Marion district at Lincoln
Park.
The Senator said he would probably
deliver a short informal address to
the iumbermen. among whom number
cd life long friends Of his.
His keynote" address of the week.
however, was 10 be delivered to-
morrow when present and former
members of the Ohio State Assembly
will gather at the front porch.
Il trust 1t will now be generally
understood that my front porch cam
paign is TO go on" the Senator added
"All reports to the contrary are, OF
course. silly"
IL was said at the candidates head
quarters that yesterdays conference
between himself and Republican nat
ional Chairman viii II. Hays. Senator
Harry s. New of Indiana, chairman
of the Republican speakers beureau.
and other Republican leaders, had
resulted in a speaking campaign for
the Senator which would ht in with
his front porch campaign.
Senator Harding's campaign Will
be conducted in accord with the dig
nifty of one who aspires to the high
est office of the United States" SEN
ator New said. or course he will de-
liver q number of important address,
es at important centers of population.
That has been his plan since he was
nominated. / am only speaking for
myself when l say we care not for
the antics of Governor Cox nor do
we believe the American people are
for these antics. We do not think
they want Jimmy in the White
House"
The Washington times., 1920-08-18
MONEY MARKET.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1S.-In the for
cign exchange market there were
slight recessions at the opening de-
mand. Sterling selling at 363%,
cables, 3.631a. off a.. Franc cables,
rs; checks, 7.27. off .02. Lire cables
1881; checks. 4.s5. off .02. Swiss
cables. 1850; checks. 1854, off .06.
Peseta cables sold at 1915; checks,
1910, unchanged. Stockholm cables.
20.TO; checks, 20.65. unchanged. Chris
tiania cables, 1920; checks. 1915. off
.05. Copenhagen cables. 1920: checks,
1915, unchanged. Belgian cables
77S, 1888; checks, 7.75, off .O4. Marks,
zoo, off .02.
The Washington times., 1920-08-18
CUT OUT NEXT
YEARS BURLEY CROP

LEXINGTON. KY. Aug. 1s.-Dele-
gates representing hurley tobacco
growers OF three States will meet In
Lexington tomorrow to decide whether
10000 hurley growers. producing an
average Of 100000. 900 pounds OF to-
bscco annually, will cut out the crop
In 1921.
Delegates to this meeting have been
selected at county conventions held
throughout the hurley district OF Ken
lucky and In the hurley producing
sections OF Ohio and Indiana.
At a meeting OF the leading hurley
growers held In Lexington. August 4,
300 farmers from twenty-eight Ken
lucky, Ohio, and Indiana counties
went on record as unanimously In
favor OF cutting out the crop next
year. This action was not taken as
hnal, however. due to the fact that
many hurley raising counties we're
not represented In the convention,
and the second convention was called
In order that all growers of the
three States might have a chance to
act on the question.
Agitation In favor of cutting out
next years hurley crop has been
brewing since the close of sales last
winter. According to leading grow
ers, at least 40 per cent, OF the 1919
crop was grown without proft to
the producing farmers. and the
present crop, although above average
in quantity. will fall far below last
years crop In quality. Tobacco manu-
facturers OF the country who buy
practically all OF the hurley crop
raised in this section are already
overstocked on second grade tobacco.
growers say. and they are expecting
prices to fall this winter to a point
where profit is no longer possible
except to the farmer with nothing but
high-grade weed to sell.
The Washington times., 1920-08-18
MEXICAN RAILROAD
INCREASES FREIGHT RATE

A general increase OF % per cent
on freight rates of the National Rail-
ways Of Mexico will become effective
on September I, excepting to COM
petitive points on the Mexican rail
way, including Mexico City via Vera
Cruz. Pachuca, Pueblo and Vera Cruz.
The increase will be applicable to
all commodities except locally pro-
duced food, agricultural products and
live stock. 1t will not affect foreign
goods consigned to Mexico City
through Vera Cruz.
The Washington times., 1920-08-18
BRITISH LABOR LEADERS
DELAYED AT BOULOCNE

LONDON, Aug. IS. William c.
Adamson, laborite member of the
House of Commons, and Harry Gosl-
ing, head of the transport workers.
who went to Paris as representatives
of the British Council of Action, to
confer with leaders of French labor,
stopped OF at Boulogne for a confer
ence and will not arrive home until
tonight.
An erroneous announcement that
the labor leaders had arrived this
morning and Immediately called
session OF the Council of Labor" had
been made.
The Washington times., 1920-08-18
PRODUCING 1000 CARS DAILY.

Advices received in local Ford au-
tomobile circles announce that with
1S5, 900 orders on the books, the Ford
Motor Company is producing 1000
cars daily
During the fiscal year ended July
81, the company turned out 100000
The new schedule which
went into effect August l calls for
the production of 1,250,0OO cars and
$50, 1000 tractors for the next twelve
months.
The Washington times., 1920-08-18
TO OPEN TURKEY BANK.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 1S-A
New York trust company has leased
building in the Galata section of
Constantinople and will open up a
general banking business here next
fall. with view to meeting the
needs of American shipping lines
and commercial concerns which have
entered the Black Sea and Mediter-
ranean trade.
The Washington times., 1920-08-18
BANK SHARES
FEATURE TODAY
National Metropolitan Securi-
ties Lead in Stock Exchange
Trading-Qther Notes.
NJ WILLIAM NJ. CONRAD.

Shares OF the National Metropolitan
Bank featured In the trading on the
floor OF the Washington Stock Ex-
change today when thirty were sold
at 225.
The nrst nve sales were OF fve
shares each. while three went on the
sixth and two on the seventh.
Two shares OF Lanston Monotype
sold at TlH, and after call Capital
Traction sold at seh, with eight
shares figuring In the trading.
Washington Gas sold at 43, with ten
shares passing in the first sale and
fifteen in the closing one.
The Washington times., 1920-08-18
FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1s.-The foreign
exchange market was easy In the
early dealings today
Demand sterling 3.82%.
Franc cables 7.2S, checks 7.2I.
Lire cables 4.S5H. checks 4.s.s
Guilder cables 80 1-3. checks 80.
Belgian cables 7.76, checks 7.75.
Marks 200.
The Washington times., 1920-08-18
ICE PRICE TUMBLES,

DALLAS, Tex. Aug. 1s.-All the ice
companies which discontinued deliv-
cries last Saturday in face of threat
ened charges Of profiteering unless
they met the demand of Federal Off
cials that ice be retailed at 65 cents.
instead of so cents, resumed deliveries
today, selling at the reduced price.
The district attorneys office announc-
ed that it expects similar results in
the campaign against high prices for
ice in other north Texas cities.
The Washington times., 1920-08-18
BIG OIL STRIKE.

Oil investors of Washington are
deeply interested in news from the
West Columbia oil field of the Texas
Gulf coast where a big oil well re-
Gently brought in by the Texas Com
pany Is still flowing from $4,000 to
26,OOO barrels o day.
The we'll Is considered by authori-
ties the best since the days of Spindle
TOP, and there Is great deal of
speculation as to whether IL is a FORE
runner OF something resembling the
famous Spindle Top pool.
The yield per acre in the Gulf Coast
oil fields Is enormous. The old Spin
die Top field covered about forty to
Atty acres. The present West Column
bia field, which has been producing
two years, covers about sixty-ive
acres. Consequently, Texas Com.
pany's well. a mile and a quarter from
other production, indicates the pos
sibility OF what in the Gulf Coast ter
ritory would be an extraordinary ex-
panse of productive territory.
NATIONAL GAMERS CONVENTION.
Atlantic City has been chosen a.
the meeting place for the fourteenth
The Washington times., 1920-08-18
ACTION EXPECTED TODAY
ON COAL WAGE REVISION

CLEVELAND. Ohio. Aug. 1S.-De-
cisive action on the readjus tment Of
the wage scale of coal miners is
expected today when the joint scale
committee of the central bituminous
coal district. including Ohio. Indiana,
Illinois, and western Pennsylvania,
reconvenes here.
Operators have offered greater in
creases than those contained in their
proposal of Monday. when they in
dicated their willingness to grant
men employed on the day basis in
the mines as great percentage of
increases as was given to tonnage
workers in the award of President
Wilson's coal commission.
The offer made is not satisfac-
tory" President John l.. Lewis, of the
United Mine Workers, declared.
The Washington times., 1920-08-18
MR.. ADAIR HERE.

John A. NJ. >Adair, of Portland Ind,
president Of the International Finance
Corporation. arrived in the city today
to attend a meeting of the board of
directors of the corporation. Mr..
Adair served a number of terms in
Congress and is well known in Wash
ington.
The Washington times., 1920-08-18
FRENCH LOAN TO GREECE.

1t has been. reported that the
French Government is arranging to
lend to the Greek Government 3OO,.
100000 drachmas. One-half OF this
amount Is to be appropriated for the
sole purpose OF repairing the railroads 6
of Greece. These lines are deterio-
rated as a result OF the operations Of
the Allied armies.
The Washington times., 1920-08-18
MCCALL DENIES TAKING JOB.

BOSTON, Aug. 1S.--Former Cow
ernor Samuel w. Mccall today denied
published reports that he had ac-
cepted President Wilson's OFFER OF ap-
pointment as member OF the United
states Tariff Commission. Mccall
said he still has the offer under con-
sideration.
The Washington times., 1920-08-18
CANADIANS ASK INCREASE.

WINNIPEG. Aug. 1s.-Canadian Pa
cifc Railway trainmen In the West
ern division have begun to press their
claims for wage increases OF from so
to 100 precent before the board OF
railway conciliation sitting here
The Washington times., 1920-08-18
BRUSSELS PARLEY SEPT. "a.

PARIS. Aug. 1s.-The date OF the
international financial conference to
be held In Brussels was officially
hxed today as September %
The Washington times., 1920-08-18
BAND CONCERT
BY THE BOY SCOUT BAND.
AT JUDICIARY SQUARE.
AT 1890 y. NJ.
]. l. KIDwELL, Director.

]. l. KIDwELL, Director.
America" NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .Ascher
Msrch-"Ei Captain" 49,. souss.
Serenade-"Gloamin tTrio for
altos).
(Musiclans I. Pinney. @. Duvall and
l.. Smallwood)
March--"Our Director" ... Bigelow
Lied by Director willmuth. OF the
Interior Band.)
Overture-'Conduero ........ King
Intermezzo-WaitZ- Lak'a
Rose" with vocal solo) .... Nevin
Musician Lawrence Smsllwood.)
March-''Down the Alps' .. Burton
Lied by Director Burton. of the
war Risk Band.)
Evening Shadows" with cornet
Musician Robert Blatt.)
March-"Call Me Henry -. ;Bcnter
director Benter. Of the Navy
Yard Band. and Henry Lans-
burgh. call Me Henry" will be
present Director Renter will
lead the band while the audience
cornst soio-"You're Million
Miles From Nowhere"
Musician G. Hsycs)
arch-"Tnvercsrsill' ..... Lithrov
"Th. stsr-spsnsled Banner"
The Washington times., 1920-08-18
B u S | N E S S
LOCAL SECURITIES.
Waskisxtoa stock ExcksaSe-
TODAY'S SALES.

Nationsl Metropolitan Bank, 6u225
o0225. og225. og225. 5g225. 3g225
2Q2a5.
Lanston Monotype. PONY.
After call
Capital Traction, sgs6n.
Washington Gas, 1OQ43, 15a43.
The Washington times., 1920-08-18

the audit committee Of local
bankers for the American Bankers
Association convention. Is now con.
sidering the handling OF the work
which will be assigned to il.
w. r. DeLashmutt. cashier of the
United States Savings Bank, is vice
chairman of this committee. which
also has in its personnel f. f. Her
rell, Merchants Bank; ID. S. Venables.
Standard Savings Bank; Ferdinand
Petit, Citizens Savings Bank, and
Charles c. Eckloff. Hamilton Savings
Bank.
The Washington times., 1920-08-18
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
g.. Q..t.t.as Received , =.

NEW YORK. Aug. 1.-THE stock
closed steady today; govern
ment bonds unchanged; railway and
other bonds steady.
Yo~tsrd.v
The Washington times., 1920-08-18
GAMERS CONVENTION

Atlantic City has been chosen a.
the meeting place for the fourteenth
Evening star., 1920-11-14

no one knows just what that faculty
may be-"
And as one watches the little fam
lily party from LodZ which has set out
on a kind of endless pilgrimage over
which they have no control of any
kind. it seems a terrifying thing to
have that very ancient secret bound
lup in such a little boy. His father
who taught him the game two years
ago. hovers solicitously. His mother
| looks on in bewilde erment, not under
standing. knowing only that her child
| is not as other children. incapable of
| saving him from what seems. some
| way, to be dangerous and deadly
gift. Five thousand years ago. if
those who have delved deepest are to
be believed. chess was already being
played. For all those years men have
been trying to wiring from it the in
| ner significance and connections of
the game.
! around all the most fabulous storied
figures of the earth. Harun al-RaShid.
lCharlemagne and all the rest. Its
origin has been disputed with des-
peration, and settled, at one time or
another, in every ancient land there
is. Any number of persons have had
saddled upon them the doubtful honor
of being the originators of the game
Japheth. Shem. King Solomon. Nerxes.
| Palamedes. Hermes. Aristotle, Zeno-
| Uid, ondlTeHScnd, the feTS1dn
mer. Was il philosophy, religion. the
science fthe stars. militarism, the
Ipsychicism of Hindustan where it
really is thought to have begun. which
started 1t and SO somewhat solves the
Everlasting question of its entity nd
its chief significance? Or was it just
| a woman? For one rumor has il,
among all those rumors which have
been current IN the past few thousand
years, that it was the wife of Ravan.
King of Ceylon, in the second age of
| the world. who contrived this most
ingenious game for the amusement of
her lord.
1 X \
| 1t was a crime at certain times in
| early Europe to be caught at chess
SO violent were the denunciations OF
| the game that Il would seem there
was some fear of il involved. IT was
, considered a devils game. with mssi c
| of some black variety woven through
st. Peter Damian. cardinal bishop of
! Ostia. in 1861. they say. wrote a sting
Evening star., 1920-11-14

cept in this one way of playing chess.
He is natural boy--he loves to cycle
and to play foot ball and every kind
of game"
Just then Samuel Rzeszewski. likely
to become chess champion of the
world, hurtled across the room saw
agely. and slapped his manager loud
ly on the cheek Manager threw out
his hands in an enlightening, shrug to
the caller. You see" he said. with q
cross between weary bitterness and
the exultation of a person whose
normal, isn't IT,"
1t was plain to be seen that the little
tan-clad figure. with the restless
hands and quiet eyes. undaunted by
the flashlights popping hfdeously on
every side, was wild for lack of exer-
else. The privilege of slapping and
pummeling every one in sight would
seem to be the right of such a little
boy. cooped up in hotel after hotel
peered at. flashed at. exhibited to al
the world. His father was his one
refuge. Once in a while he would &C
close to him. They seemed to have q
happy understanding all their own
and when his father put his hands
caressingly on his face or hair. the
little chess player would quiet down
and smile.
when he is playing chess" his
manager remarked. "he is different, a
kind of angel. When he plays it is
not he. No one Is less concerned abou,
the game than he. He seems the leas,
interested of all. He goes from board
to board with no consciousness OF
himself. and with Incredibly swift
movements. There is no strain. He
takes 1t easily. No. when he plays il
is as II it were not he at ALL"
And then he spoke of the books and
articles which have been written
about the child. and of the theories
which have been advanced as to how
he plays his game: "Some think his
reasoning does it. and that he goes
through mental processes sixteen te
seventeen times faster than the or
dinary man. Some think il is just in
tuition. instinct. something uneA-
pIainable as yet. But no one can tell
They can only say. in the asst analy-
sis, that 1t is the chess faculty And
Evening star., 1920-11-14
THE CITY

drawn the soft collar of his shirt
over the official blouse And az he
put his hand to his neck now and
| then II may he that he was grueline
under the afl'iction Of that thing thai
Bible job calls a boil Just maybe.
This infrirtion Of uniform regula
tions raspeo thr military conscience
OF the Others each of whom OBJ
viously entoy"d telling the other
loud enoarh for surrounding ears to
reported ara conveying the tmpres-
sion that IL v'as "xactly the thing
they were going to do. but
II isn't only mic. ana men that
upset plans-there's women! In this
case a couple of them. as pink as
lips so crayoned and lashes so sticky
black that their eyes glowed like
hand painted lanterns into the eyes
of the young officers. and--the private
was alone with his boil.
Seated unobtrusively apart was an
other woman. dressed in quiet brown.
who. being alone. doubtless was in
terested in the romance under way
but. who notices a woman in quiet
brown when georgette young women
are around?
After bit the officers sauntered
and went out.
The georgettes got up. paid their
checks and went out.
Then the woman in brown got up
paid her check and went out
The officers strolled to the corner
hotel and leaned their uniformed per-
fections over the railing.
The georgettes poised lightly on
the curb. luringly inviting advances
The woman in brown approached
the young officers:
Boys. you had better move on. AZ
to those girls, I've already got their
numbers. and. while I should hate
to see you dishonor your uniform, II
you don't mend your ways you may
all meet at Occoquan-move on!"
The young officers, who were too
Jealous over the honor Of tho pri-
Yates uniform to give a thought ia
their own, moved on.
The georgettes vanished into thin
ALTHOUGH why air should be either
thin or plump is a. something beyond
everyday comprehension and the
member of the woman's bureau OF
the police department walked Off with
the Iaurels.
She was on her job.
MAMIE LANCASTER.
Evening star., 1920-11-14

TT Theodore Roosevelt were alive to-
day he probably would have ex-
| claimed Bully" and clapped his
hands In slee when he read the
news that Miss Alice Robertson. OF
Muskogee. Okla. had been elected te
Congress-, gaining the distinction ol
I being the second woman elected to
| Congress in the United States and the
only woman elected in the year OF ths
republican landslide.
Roosevelt discovered Miss Robertson
in a way. When the Spanish American
| war broke out she assisted in the or
| ganizatior Of the famous Capt. Capror
Company Of Rough Riders. and person
ally prepared kit for every man in the
company, which included a 'housewife'
packet and a new Testament.
II was during this early war work
that Roosevelt met Miss Robertson.
The two formed friendship which re-
suited in Roosevelt naming her post
mistress Of Muskogee. She was the hrst
woman to be put in charge Of first
class post ONCE in the United States.
- y
Miss Robertson, who is sixty tve
years Of age, was q bitter opponent Of
woman suffrage and took the ballot
with reluctance whom the state legis-
llature give 1t to the gentler sex. Last
spring she said: "The men have thrust
the vote on US and now l am going to
see whether they meant it," and she
nled for the Office of Congress forth.
with.
She was a novice in politics. The
proprietor Of a cafeteria in the city of
Muskogee, a woman farmer with lots
of friends. but no organization. But
the complete returns from the second
district retired the veteran, w. W.
normal democratic majority of 5000
votes and elected the woman candi-
date by 273 votes.
Miss Robertson was born within ten
miles of Muskogee. at an Indian mis-
sion, where her father labored for the
betterment Of tribal conditions and
handing down his zeal for the i'm
provemen Of the red men to daugh.
ter who sacrificed the best years OF
her life for the Indians. Miss Rob-
ertson went to Boston to school. spe-
cialized first in stenography and then
economic science. She was the irst
stenographer in Indian Territory. and
in the early days when the Indian
commissions sat at Fort Gibson IT was
Alice Robsrtson who TOO took rasss the hear ar
nome a school for Indian girls and
taught them how to cook and sew.
As the village Of Muskogee grew into
a large town Alice Robertson turned
her home into q boarding house and
later established q cafeteria, which
she still owns and manages and where
she conducted her campaign for Con-
Rreys between mealtime and when
she could spare few minutes from
the business of writing bills-of-fare
and ordering beefsteak.
with the Robertson home a mecca
for Indians, Alice Robertson became q
foster smother to one Indian girl after
another, and it is known that she per-
sonally watched over the tender years
Of twenty orphan Indian girls and
gave them starts in life that led them
to success.
It was because Of her unselhsh de-
votion to the Indians that Miss Rob.
ertson was appointed Indian school
supervisor for the Muskogee district
during the Mckinley administration.
The congresswoman-el Is zeal