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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-05-17
BLAMEM0V|ES
FOR DIVORCES
Committee Of Baptlsts Puts
Films in Same Class as
John Barleycorn.

Motion pictures arc principal
cause OF divorce, the Southern Rap
list Convention was told al 10 hnal
session today, I'm the report on mar
riase and divorce, submitted by the
committee 'on temperance end social
service.
The celluloid aim is placed in
class with the late John BarleycoTn
in the< disrupting OF homes The
ground is not that wives become mat
inee fans and feed their husbands
frankfurters. The complaint is
against the eternal triangle class OF
play.
"The motion picture as now con
Quoted IL undoubtedly a large factor
In the sad divorce situation, unless
all the laws OF psychology and sug-
gestion have become imperative"
says the report.
Films Too Suggestive.
Nearly every him put upon the
screen contains evil suggestion, calcu-
lated at first TO bring the blush Of
modesty and virtue to the cheek, and
then to remove IL and bring in it's
stead the nush OF passion and the
blsnching purpose to do wrong
Many OF the hlms are based upon
the eternal triangle and the sugGcs-
ton OF disregard. II not open breach,
OF the marital relation. II we con-
tinue to feed the minds and hearts of
our young people upon this sort Of
thing, we may expect a worse har-
vest still.
at does not help matters TO say
that these photo plays usually end
right; indeed, that makes them all
the more destructive and alluring"
such things may be made to end
right on the screen, but they do not
end right in life. The fact that a
picture has been passed and approved
by the National Board of Censors does
not In any sense guarantee that II 10
void Of evil.
THE National Board of Censors
was organized by and Is maintained
in the interest OF the producers OF
motion pictures; it has as one of its
distinct purposes the keeping of
enough OF the salacious in the pic
lures TO attract a depraved public
and to create an increasing appetite
for that sort OF thing.
in other words the purpose is to
make every picture just as bad as
possible within police control and
federation"
duOtcs
The report quotes Government sta
tistics for 1898. 1905. and 1915 TO in
dictate a rapid increase in the per
centsge OF divorces TO the population.
Liquor and lax marriage and divorce
laws were the other principal causes
Sivcn besides the moving picture.
The committee recommended n uni
form marriage and divorce code for
all States, prohibiting marriage with
out parental consent of males under
twenty.one or females under eight
cen; publication of bans for thirty
days: physical examination as a re-
quisite to the issuing of a marriage
license, and divorce laws conforming
closely to Bible standards, and pro-
hibition Of remarriage by either par
ty whore the divorce is for grounds
other than infidelity.
The report called upon pastors to
give greater attention 10 the proc
Iamstion of Bible teachings on divorce
and the sanctity Of the home.
A report on the Negro Theological
Seminary at Nashville and memorial
service for deceased officers were the
principal business of the final session.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-05-17
K. OF c. SCHOOL TO OPEN
GARAGE FOR STUDENTS

a further extension of tho knights
Of Columbus Evening Trades School
work In Washington is to be made
this evening, when new branch will
be opened at 1ttS First street north
east a specially constructed garage.
with a capacity for eight care. has
been leased by the school for the au-
tomobile mechanics classes,
Service and eN-service men and
women arc offered free tuition in any
Of the courses. The new building "
TO house the trouble shooting and
garage work lessons Of the mechanics'
course, principally.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-05-17
Parachute Drop Clues
Thrill to 10, 900 AS Air
Tournament Closes

dropped out because OF motor trouble.
The other three finished about hye
yards apart.
The winner was Lieut.. Leo Post.
Colonel II. Il. Hartney crossed the
line right on his tail, with Lieut.. h.
A. McGinnis third. Lieut.. +. .. Car
roll was forced down by motor
trouble.
A race for pH4 planes was flown
over course from Bolling Field 10
the Navy Yard. around the Capitol, In
back OF the Washington Monument.
around the wireless towers at Airing
on. to the steel Plant and back TO
Boiling Field. a distance estimated a
twenty-five miles.
Lieuts. Logan. c. :. Johnson and
Lyman Patterson flew the course,
Logan winning in fifteen minutes
flat. with Patterson second. follow
ing him by thirty seconds.
No Accidents In Tournament.
Fully 1000 persons were on the
field during the day and several thou
sands more watched the stunts from
automobiles on the Speedway. Air
service officers expressed themselves
as entirely catisned with the tourna-
ment from every standpoint. There
were no accidents OF any sort during
the three days, which is considered
a remarkable record, considering the
number OF flights and the difficult
stunts performed.
The only disappointment WAS due
TO the fact that one OF the most in
teresting races, one scheduled be-
tween an MD-3 plane, a Looming
monoplane. and French Spad, thre :
OF the worlds fastest machines, had
To be cancelled because OF an order
from Secretary Daniels preventing
the use of the Looming plane, Navy
machine, on Sunday. The Looming has
made speed OF 10 miles an hour
and army officers were especially
eager to sec IL in action against the
other machines. Many inquiries as
TO the reason for the cancelling of
this race were made by disappointed
spectators. This race was scheduled
for Sunday because Of requests from
number of people who could not be
present Friday or Saturday.
This is the frst of a series of an
nual air tournaments to be carried
out by the Army and is one of the
largest events of it's kind yet held.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-05-17
Going to
New York?
Let The Times Help
You Secure Your
Hotel Accom- modatiops

Realizing the difficulty Of
securing hotel accommodations
in the great metropolis, The
Washington Times has estab-
lished q Hotel Bureau with a
branch in New York.
There is no charge for the
accommodation. You simply
phone our local bureau. The
request is Immediately for
warded to our New York bu-
reau and you are instructed
Just whore to telephone when
you arrive in New York in
any case where time does not
permit a reply from New
York in advance OF the pro-
posed trip. In this way YOU
know that your accommoda-
lions have been provided be.
fore you reach the hotel,
lust PHONE MAIN $3.50
And Ask For Hotel Bureau.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-05-17
TEACHERS WANT STREET
BEFORE SCHOOL CLOSED

Teachers of the Adams School. r
street between Seventeenth and
Eighteenth streets northwest. have
sent a petition to the District Com
missioners asking that the street in
front of the school be closed at re-
cess, and for short periods before the
opening and following closing OF
school
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-05-17
CONCERT TOMORROW
BY PARKVIEW BAND

Prof. Albert Jones. director of the
recently organized Parkview Band,
which will give its second concert at
the Psrkview School tomorrow even
ing. desires that all musicians who
want to affiliate with the band be
present at the recitals which wii be
given every Friday evening.
Miss Margaret Wilson. daughter Of
the President, will deliver SHIRT
talk at Tuesday evenings concert,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-05-17

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Evening journal., 1920-06-22

ress. with drawbridee and all the
emoluments OF an ancient castle.
While IL served as a penal sta
tion in the hands Of the United States
Government 10 was the abode OF DR..
samuel A. Mudd. one OF "the Lincoln
cOnspiratOrs' Who was sentenced 90
hard labor for the rest Of his life on
the island lie remained there. how
ever, only four years. obtaining his
pardon from President Johnson by
reason OF Mudd's heroic services TO
other prisoners and 20 his captorS In
I the yellow fever epidemic that wiped
out almost everybody In the fort In
/ 1869
Mudd was a country doctor living
+ In Charles county. Maryland % miles
I from Washington. during the Civil
/ War Although he was In sympathy
with the SOuth's cause. he and his
relatives decricd any connection with
the plot 90 Nil Lincoln and Secretary
/ seward. At any rate. at 4 a. m. on
January i6. 1865, Mudd answered a
rap at his door and found two horse
men, one Of whom had suffered a
broken leg. The doctor set the frac-
iurcd bone, persuaded the men 90
remain there until afternoon and
then. at their own insislence, allowed
them 10 depart
The next day Dr. Mudd received the
news that President Lincoln had ben
/ assassinaicd The nicht before and
John Wilkes Booth The assassin. had
broken his leg in trying 10 escape
lie had hardly read the newspapers
before a company Of soldiers visited
his home in search of Booth and his
confederate TWO days later. after
Booth had been killed In a barn 30
Virginia and his confederate had su.
rendered. Dr Mudd was arrested and
charged with being party io thr
conspiracy.
! Although he pleaded his innocence
he and four others were tried and
sentenced 90 prison for life. Five of
the cOnspiralOrs were hanged.
. The cost Of constructing Fort Jcf
Evening journal., 1920-06-22

Texas. Later 1t WAS seized by the
Conferedates and held for brief per-
iod. only to be re-taken by Federals
and converted into a prison where
opponeas in the Union were con-
fined
Dry Tortugas- Island is about 20
miles west and north OF Key West 10
is the largest OF a group OF five small
coral keys that form the southwest
crly point Of Florida. But in area It's
extent is only A acres. Q OF which
are covered or inclosed by the five
sided fortress that gave the place
what importance 10 had. Around 10
and within two miles are The other
four keys: LOggerhead- sporting a
lighthouse-Bird key-with q a.popula-
ton OF something Ike i.O5i.O9S birds
sand key-haying nothing on 10 but
a few weeds-and another coral reef.
unnamed.
A lighthouse tender with his wife
and LILLE daughter live on Logger
head
Until two weeks ago a corparal and
[ five martens were stationed at Dry
TOrlugas. occupying quarters In the
old, abandoned fort. They were plac-
ed there by the Key West naval sta
| tiOn TO prevent smuggling Of whiskey
from Cuba to the States. During
/ their six weeks stay. however. the
alleged smuglers changed their tactics
with the result that the marines did
not succeed In intcrceptIng a single
! swallow OF liquor.
Before that time and at inieryale
since the regular garrison OF 300 men
was removed i'm 1908. the guard
were sent 10 prevent smuggling from
Cuba and Mexica 10 avoid payment
OF duty.
Fort jefferson in its day was On,
most formidable fertilization in Amer
ica Built in iSij % had two deck
OF 1876 cannon each. Of six inches. sur
mounting the ramparis We're 40 90
inch cannon. 4 m0at 20 feet wide
and 70 feet deep surrounded the fort
Evening journal., 1920-06-22

ferson is locally estimated at 81 a
brick" or s26.O0O.OO0. Most elaborate
plans were carried out. including a
system OF cisterns, dungeons and
hidden gunslois. Onlcers quarters
quite cxtravagant for those days
were constructed at one side " the
drill ground In the enclosure. Docks,
COaling station and narrow gauge
railway for transporting munitions
and supplies were part OF the equip
mcni.
But Dry Toriugas Is no more n
living thing It's last inhahitant has
departed. only the blinking OF The
Loggcrhead lighthouse at night and
the continuous flutlering OF birds
wings by day relieve the monoiony
aud lOnesOmencss.
Evening journal., 1920-06-22
DRY TORTUGAS
GLORY IS GONE
People Also Missing From
One Time Famous
Island
is ELEVEN ACRE
SPOT IN ATLANTIC

DRY TORTUGAS. VIA. June ~
UNITED Press. There is one place.
anyway. where the 1920 official CEN
sus returns will not excite the least in
terest, even though the returns are
pretty apt 20 set a national record
for decrease in population.
That Is Dry rOriugas Island yes,
you'll need your maps and miscro-
scopes.
For in the decade just closed Dry
Tortugas' decrease has been Just eX-
actly 100 per cent. in 1919 there were
81 inhabitants" on the island: today
there Is not one
But II Dry TOrtugas (have you
found il yet?) may not glory in its
present solitude. IL may well harken
Of the old days when. in its heyday.
II boasied Of the 1900 souls living IN
the enclosure OF its ancient Fort JEFF
fersOn. In those days 10 was the key
TO the Gulf Of Mexico and the main
defense for the United States coastal
line from Key West TO Brownsville.
Evening journal., 1920-06-22
MONEY WAS WELL
HIDDf\=OIS(0AEH

LONDON, June 22.-The next time
r. RaMisky wants TO hide his money
he'll swallow 10 and then be afraid
they'll use a stomach pump % take
10 from lim. kazWsky Is Pole and
was on his way from America TO
a few shillIngs In English money.
but the nurses found S22O In gold
pieces In his clothing and then put
N-rays 10 his boots and discovered
1890 more In American gold.
Evening journal., 1920-06-22
Silk Dresses
$40 and SIS

White and Flesh Georgettes, Crepe de
Chimes, Satlns, Etc, In dozens Of stylish new
models. Values to $3.50.
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-22
THE FAIRIES HOLIDAY.

~ NE morning when Elsie got up
" she found 1t was raining very
hard and that Of course put an end to
all that Elsie had planned for the day.
She was to- take her lunch with
some other girls and their mothers
and go to the park for picnic.
Elsie did not want any breakfast
She did not want to say good morning
even. She was cross at everybody be-
cause ii rained.
Il just think 1t is too mean for any
thing, this old rain to come and spoil
our fun" she said.
But. my dear, the park will be
much sweeter and cleaner after the
rain," said her mother. BE II good,
cheerful little daughter and smile"
But Elsie would not smile She
poufed and even cried, and when
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-22
Scots spurn Sunday Work.

Lord Leverhulme has encountered
the religious preindces Of the Scots
men who live on the extensive proper
ty he has purchased In the Outer
Hebrides and has suffered rebuff He
had planned to make Stornowny. on
the island of Lewis. the headquarters
OF huge fishing fleet that would
sweep the sens for 500 miles around.
The project involved Sunday labor.
and the islanders. who adhere TO the
strict and intense form OF the Presby-
terinn faith, rejected it.
Commenting on the incident. the
London periodical. Common Sense.
says: "Lord Leverhulme is man of
big ideas and new ideas. while the
population over whom he has declared
the rights of Hardship are folk Of old
and intense ideas. Hence the inerita'
bile collision"
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-22
irish Linen Industry.

Irish linen acquired national impor.
tance in the seventeenth century. Dur
ing the reign Of Charles ii the extern
sion of the Irish wo0len manufacture
appears to have made such rapid
strides that the jealousy of English
manufacturers was aroused. COnse-
quently, an act WAS passed by the
British parliament prohibiting any ex-
port of wool from ireland, except to
England and Wales. Not content with
this. another act was passed later for
bidding any export whatever of wool
or wOOlen manufacture from Ireland.
The woOlen trade being thus reduced
to the quantity required for home con-
sumption, rapidly declined. and It's
place soon taken by linen manufac-
ture.
The old Irish name for fax was
Thin, closely resembling French Tin.
the Latin linum and the English
words lint and linen. Linen dyed
yellow was much worn by the an.
cient Irish, the brughaids, or farmers
being obliged to learn to prac
tice the cultivation Of fax.
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-22
K$EE6izRH|SH[IQt{IE{{A !7&zRizRH[ItI{ 4 s. y E{{jA

won't when you know who they are
"rhey have spoiled my picnic in the
park" said Elsie land 1 am sure
shall never like ralndrops again"
"But wait until l tell you about
them !" said the fairy. "Those are my
sister fairies, and the only time We
ever have holiday is when we can
disguise ourselves as raindrops ami
have u day Off"
"a day off" questioned Elsie
"What do you mean by that"
"Oh, dear Didn't you know that
fairy Is just as busy as can be, run
ming about and whispering good things
into the ears of children who think
| wrong thngs?"
NO; | didn't" said Elsie. 81 never
heard you whispering to me-"
"Oh. yes you have-many times
replied the Fairy. "Only, of course.
yon did not know 1t was fairy who
made YOU do right" -
But why are you not having holt
day, too?" asked Elsie.
II was until you said such thinys-
! about us, and then / had to change
my dress and come to tell you who
the raindrops are. We work se hant
all the time that am sure now YOU
will not be cross with us for having
II sholiday. and when you see nov
bright and green everything is to-
morrow In the park l am sure you
VIII forgive us for playing today"
When Elsie opened her eyes, for.
Of course, she had been asleep the
Fairy had gone. But outside were all
the little raindrops chasing each Other
down the window pane, and as Elsie
watched them with great interest now
one drop. larger than the Others
stopped until 1t was pushed on by thr
others.
THAT drop must have been my
Fairy" thought Elsie. "Oh. you cum
ming little raindrops! don't hate yon
mt ALL love you, and am glad Won
have good time" she said, "and III
never be cross and cry again when
1t rains, for shall know 1t Is fair,
holiday, and I do hope did not spol
the day for the little Fairy who told
me about 1t by being cross"
(Copyright)
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-22

breakfast was over she went sulkily
upstairs to the playroom and looked
Gnt of the window.
"Horrld old ralndrops!" !" Elsie said,
Il just hate raindrops."
"Oh, am sorry" said a voice be-
side her; "for those are my sisters out
there on the window pane"
ON the arm of the big chair In which
she was sitting, Elsie saw II pretty lit
tie creature all in silver, which
spnrkled Ike n diamond, and she knew
That her visitor was n fairy, because
she carried wand.
Il am sorry you hate the ralndrops,"
said the fairy again. ~ am sure you
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-22
His Way.

Doug DOOlittle is our most public
spirited Citizen" said the landlord Of
the tavern at Peeweecuddyhump. mo
matter what time O night the fire bell
rings, he leaps from his bed, pours out
of his front door and goes tearing
down the street like the Charge of the
Light Brigade, struggling into such of
his clothes us he don't drop ana not
stop for. At the scene of devastation
he gets in the way of the firemen,
whOops and yells like n mailman. and
otherwise does his duty as he sees it.
AID If 1t happens to be a false alarm.
he goes hOmeward picking up his
clothes piece at a time along the way
and cussing and growing as if the
failure of anything to burn was a per-
sonal insult to himself."-Kansas City
Star
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-22
.cook orabber" meanes. Criminal.

what is unofficially considered 10 he
the meanest type of crime In England
IN the last five years is the "cook
grnbber." 1t is crime from which
men have held aloof. The crime con-
sists Of Turing a cook away from ones
neighbor. So great has been the
shortage of cooks that desperate
housewives have resorted to quietly
engaging their neighbors' cooks In
conversation at the kitchen doorway
and promising higher wages and better
hours. In any gathering Of women
the consensus of opinion is that cook
In the kitchen is worth II hundred any
where else.
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-22
The Similarity.

Ray Bright was Santa Claus on
Christmas eve at the Thompson kin.
dergarten at Terre Haute. His little
daughter Is In the kindergarten, so
he was very careful to change his
voice and actions as much as he could.
But when he went to slip On his Santa
Claus suit he forgot all about the
white handkerchief around his neck
which he wore to keep his cellar from
rubbing the boil underneath.
And after the party was over ana
he had again donned his citizens
clothing he went after his little
daughter. Happily she said, ooh
daddy. Santa Claus was here little
while ago. and then her voice be.
came sympathetic. "and, oh. daddy,
he has boils on his neck, toO."-Indinn.
apolis News.
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-22
BATTLED OVER PIPE ORGAN
for Which James Wait Was Re.
sponsibIe, Made Trouble.

The current appreciatiOns of James
Watt. inventor of the steam engine.
have not, so far as we have seen. called
Yet Watt was responsible for the
first pipe organ built in Scotland. and
round 1t ragged one of the fiercest con.
troversies in the history of the move
ment against Instrumental music in
the Scottish church.
The story Of the organ itself was
told fully when the instrument was
given a year ago to the Glasgow cor
poration. 1t was built by Watt in his
house In High street In 1862. and In
1907 found Its way into st. Andrews
church. Glasgow. On hearing that the
organ was to be played during divine
service. the lord provost of the day
wrote to DIR. Richie. minister of the
church. and an enthusiastic fiddler,
"begging to know of him If such was
really the case" and adding that, II
so, he would consider 1t his duty to
enter solemn protest against him
and the congregation Ter all damages
which might be the consequence. DIR
RitchIe was also held personally re-
sponslble for 'any breach of the peace
which might possibly he accustomed by
the innovation he hau attempted to
Introduce"
After being used Yor one Sunday,
the organ was closed by command Of
the Presbytery; and then the floods
Of controversy were let loose. The
'friends of music" were forcible. II not
very polite. In n series Of pamphlets.
Both sides, OF course, quoted Scripture
freely: and In Presbytery minute the
writer OF the pro-organ pamphlets was
convicted of 'culpable inaccuracy and
scandaions violation Of the truth"
History, so far as we know. does not
record what Watt thought OF 1t all.
The old organ Is now the property
Of Glasgow corporation and stands In
the Central hall Of the Kelyen-GrOYe
galleries.
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-22
THE HOME NEWSPAPER

Dull and muffled now the tumuls
of the city comes to me:
Wagons rattle, hoofs are thudding,
amid laughs and shouts of slee.
Thru the open window pouring,
floods the sultry summer air,
And l see the sunlight shining,
and the heavens, how blue and
fair.
On the table just before me, gray
and blurred, the paper lies,
And look it's columns over
breathlessly with hurried eyes.
Dear old village names are in it,
and to me the pictures come
Of the people as they read it in the
cottages at home.
By the window sits the grandsire
in his leather-covered chair,
While thru darkened panes the
daylight family falls and ling
ers there.
How the old man spells the fine
print thru his goggles trimmed
with brass,
And the pages crisply rustic as
his smoothing fingers pass!
And l see around the table how
the farm girls read it too,
By the faint and pallid glimmer of
the lamp-light when he's thru,
Arms about each others necks
the while their fingers rough
and brown
Roam the gray and wrinkled pag-
es, line by line each column
down.
And outside l see the walls shine
while beneath their mossy
thatch,
And the light green of the chest
nuts and the elms l family
catch,
And l hear the myriad plant-life
growing on the earth's wide
| breast,
While the vernal May-day softly
sinks into it's evening rest.
And | feel subtle perfume from
that dingy page uncoil,
Sweet as scent of budding flow
ers, strong as scent of field and
soil.
And rich, pulsating music
seems to billow thru it all,
In whose quiet swell is mingled
song of lark and lap-wing call.
Ola Hanson Ctr. from the
Swedish by Charles Wharton
Stock.)