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The Washington times., 1920-10-23
FLEE
AFTER ACCIDENTS
Police Looking for Two Drivers
Who Drove Off After
Collisions.

The police are looking for two au-
toists who drove off in their ma
chimes after they had knocked down
and injured three persons yesterday.
William Carroll. ten years old, and
Robert Carroll, five. both colored, liv'
ing at 81 Station road southeast, were
thrown from the horse they were
riding when q motorcycle struck the
animal. The elder boy was injured
about the back and the other was
bruised about the face. The horse
was also injured. A search is being
made for the operator of the ma
chine.
Mrs. Cassie Schofield, sixty-six
years old, Hyattsville, Md, reported
to the police that she was Knocked
down at II and Thirteenth streets
northwest yesterday by an automo
bile and was bruised about the body
She said the machine Is owned by
William Druid, 1851 Twenty-first
street northwest. put is not able to
say who was operating the car.
While playing in front of her home
Edna Bond, colored. six years old
1870 Third street southwest, was
knocked down by an automobile
operated by John Peplushy, olo N
street northwest She was bruisco
about the body and received a lacera-
ton on the head.
Mary NJ. Carter, colored, 80 II sire,
southwest, was struck by an automo
bile at Pennsylvania avenue ant
Third street northwest when she at
tempted to cross the street. She waS
bruised about the head and her shout
der was injured. The machine was
operated by Edward a. Farrell, "A;
Twelfth street southeast.
In collision between an automobile
and the motorcycle he was riding
Abraham Buckingham, policeman O
No. 10 precinct, had his left les
bruised. The automobile was being
operated by Coursin Il. ConSlin, $50.
Crittenden street northwest, and the
collision occurred on Sixteenth street
The Washington times., 1920-10-23

would yet lack eighty years OF having
earned an amount equal to our 1920
taxes"
FIGURED IN SILVER,
In silver dollars the vast amount
of money would reach from New
York to San Francisco with enough
left to run a silver cable across the
Atlantic ocean. This is figured on
the basis that a silver dollar is IL
inches in diameter and 2-25 OF an
inch thick, weighing one ounce. Plac-
ing our dollars flat together, they
will count 100 to a foot. The distance
from New York to San Francisco Is
6 S2S miles. Placed sdge to edge,
only eight will be required to meas
ure a foot. This means S42,24O to the
mile, the total amount in silver dol
lars measuring 12S,o32 miles, or more
than four complete lines around the
earth. 1t would take 33,S04 trucks,
OF five-ton size, to carry the money in
silver dollars
TAX PILE IN PAPER.
Let us imagine further our tax pile
in one-dollaI notes. A one-dollar bill
is 3% inches wide by Tax inches long
and weighs .003 of a pound. Uncle
Sans I'VE and two-fifths billions will
weigh in one-dollar bills 16,22422b
pounds. or 135 carloads Of paper
money. Placed end TO end, the tax
money would reach n distance OF
6S2,S37 miles or more than twenty
seven complete lines of distance
around the globe, or In other words
pave a street eight feet wide entirely
around the earth.
The Washington times., 1920-10-23
Warns
TOKEEPCLE
Health Department Tells Dis
trict Restaurants to Watch
Their Steps,"

Watch your step" is the warn
ing that is being give Washington
restaurant proprietors by the Dis
trict Health Department.
Licenses for the 500 or more res
tauratsurs who do business in
Washington will have to be re
newed November ], which accounts
for the nightly scrubbing of kitchen
floors and the polishing of pots and
pans.
GRACE FOR TABDY.
Applicants for renewal or licenses
are being received daily at the
Health Department. Health Depart
ment officials believe that most Of
the applicants will be passed upon
by that date. To care for tardy APP
plicants, whose reasons are sufficient
a week or more will be allowed.
Announcement is made that the
rules and regulations regarding sani-
tation and pure food will be strictly
enforced this year. Proprietors who
are lax in this respect are being told
TO watch their step" There Is no
reason TO believe, il is said. that
many applications win be refused, as
inspectors have kept close watch
during the past year.
The Washington times., 1920-10-23
PAPER HANGER FATALLY
STRICKEN AT HIS WORK
Coroner to Hold Inquiry Into
Death of J. w. Maple.

While working at paper hanging at
Alb street southwest this morning,
J. William Maple, sixty-two years old,
GAG B street southwest, collapsed and
died almost Immediately. DR.. C. w.
Montgomery G23 Sixth street south
west, was called in, and pronounced
him dead. The body is being held at
473 F street until the coroner's In
quest is held.
Maple was one of the most promi-
nent members of the Fifth Baptist
Church, Sixth and + streets south
east. He rs survived by his wife.
The Washington times., 1920-10-23
BURGLARS GET 15O
CASES OF WH|SKEy
Police Trying to Trace Big Vel
low Truck That Was Seen
at Warehouse.

Burglars forced an entrance to the
warehouse at Fourth and f streets
northeast early this morning and
stole $50 cases OF whiskey estimated
to be worth $4,000.
John w. NesIine, 1922 New Hamp-
shire avenue northwest. who had a
permit to withdraw liquor from
bonded warehouses for medicinal
purposes, reported the theft
The police have learned that a
large yellow truck was seen TO leave
the place about 1 o'clock this morning
and they are endeavoring to trace
the machine. A rear door had been
jimmied open by the thieves.
Need hcipf A Times Want Ad will
do the work. Phone Main SEQ new.
The Washington times., 1920-10-23
FORMER HORSE OWNER
EXPIRED In POVERTY
Charles Ambrose, Who Died at
Bennings, Was Well Known.

The man known as '-Scotty," who
was found dead yesterday in a house
on the Benning race track, was iden-
titled today as Charles Ambrose, six
ty-seven years old, of Pasadena, Cal.
Ambrose had been a well-known fig
ure on the race tracks of the country
and at one time owned several thor
oughbreds. Ill-luck trailed him in his
later years until he became almost
penniless. For some time he had been
caring for horses at the Benning race
track.
At the morguo II was said ne had
died from natural causes. He has
relatives in Los Angeles and Pasa-
dena
The Washington times., 1920-10-23
S5l.06 PER PERSON
u. S. ESTIMATE
OF CASH

Distribution Of the money in
the country outside Of the amount
held in the Treasury and Federal
Reserve system is estimated at
$51.O6 per capita on September l,
or an increase Of s13.18 over July
/, 1917, by the Federal Reserve
Board in its monthly bulletin.
The board put the general stock
of money in the country on Sep
TENDER 1 at 1850, 800, the
amount held in the Treasury at
s4s5, 1884, 277, the amount held by
Federal Reserve Banks at S2,03l,-
5li,59S, and the amount held out
side these Government agencies at
S5,479, 6s1, sos.
The Washington times., 1920-10-23
FARM UNIT TO
FIGHT H.C.OFL.
Prominent Washingtons Organ
lie In Effort TO Slice 20
p. C. Off Expenses.

Believing that the high cost Of
living can be reduced at least 20
per cent within the next six months
through a new community co-opera-
tive plan, f. G. Cottrell, director
at the Bureau Of Mines, and other
Prominent WashIngtonians have
organized what is TO be known as
"The Better Lie Unit System"
Vice chairman of the organization
is Mrs. Howard l.. Hodgkins, presi-
dent of the Woman's Federated
Clubs. Bell Turner Davis is secre-
tary.
WILL MEET OCTOBER -.
The association. which will hold .
meeting October Is at the hcadquAr-
tiers of the Federal Employees Union.
No. 2, second moor. 1923 New York
avenue northwest, plans to obtain =
membership OF thousands of Wash
ingtonians, including many local mer-
chants from whom the members viii
make their purchases in the EFFORT to
bring down the high cost OF living.
1t will cost 81 TO become a member
Of the association. Through SEQ
rotary Davis, former school teacher,
insurance broker and organizer or
the Chamber OF Commerce at
Oshkosh. Wis, invitations to the
meeting are being sent out through
local community centers, the Federal
employees union. local merchants.
federated clubs and others who feel
the cooperative buying movement
will be a success II conducted prop
arlv
The Washington times., 1920-10-23

According to the latest census re-
norts there are 105,000,00o people in
Continental United States. This means
- levy of s51.55 for every man, woman
and child in the country.
If SPENT ON HOUSING.
As means of overcoming the
shortage in housing throughout the
nation. this cash would build more
han 100000 modest fve-room cot
,ages, costing $4,000 each. sufficient
% house more than 100000 people,
allowing Eve to n family, or the en-
ire population of New York State,
or twenty-seven of our less populous
Western States of less than 500, 900
population each. This money also
would give to each OF these indi-
viduals a Ford automobile costing
54e5 each.
speaking of high wages paid to-
day." said Mr.. Hackney. think OF
this: The earliest dawn OF recorded
history began about 5000 years be
fore Christ or 1000 years ago, in
Guiding the present century.
IF Father Adam had begun work
ing on the first day OF his life at
s1.4T a minute--sss.I6 an hour, or
s2,lIs a day. working every day since,
taking no Sundays or holidays, not
oven stopping for lunch or sleep, care
fully saving all his earnings, not
even buying Eve a now dress or
spring hat, having no twentieth cen
tury high cost 81 living 10 pay, he
The Washington times., 1920-10-23
BURLESON RECOMMENDS
2CT. MAIL TO CONGRESS

Postal estimates to be submitted to
Congress, Postmaster General Burle-
son said yesterday, will not recon-
mend any increase in the 2-cent first
class letter rate, in connection With
any plan Of taxation revision, and
will renew the departments previous
recommendations for a 1-cent local
delivery rate.
The Washington times., 1920-10-23
CARDINAL TO SAY MASS.

Cardinal Gibbons will say the Z
o'clock mass tomorrow morning at
st. Mary's Church, 727 Fifth street
northwest. He arrived in this city
from Baltimore today. He also will
assist at solemn high mass at 1920
o'clock in the morning.
The Washington times., 1920-10-23
AUTO THIEF WOUNDED.

WRENTHAM. Mass, Oct 23.-One
member OF a band of automobile
thieves was wounded and he and his
three companions were driven away
by a fusillade OF rife shots fired by
Gustave +. Virthow and a friend
when the gang tried to break into
garage here today.
The Washington times., 1920-10-23
PROBE ESTHONIA DEAL.

The state Department Is making in
vestiEation of the report that 113
American locomotives have found
their way into Soviet Russia. II is
reported by private sources that these
locomotives were sold by the War
Department to Esthonla.
The Washington times., 1920-10-23
so Per Cent of u. s.
Goldfish Are Matched
40 Miles From d. &.

Do you know that the frisky goldfish you observed
encrcng the little glass gobuar aquarium in the home of
your friend out in Seattle Wash, in Portland, Me-, or
Atlanta Ga or if not in these widely separated cities, IN
the Capital had been Matched in Frederick county, Md
about FORTY miles
The Washington times., 1920-10-23
Heiqhts Mayor to Speak.

John Gabriel, mayor OF Capitol
Heights. Md, will speak at the Public
Library, New York avenue and Eighth
street, Monday night at 3 o'clock un-
der the auspices OF the Single Tax As
sociation Of the District OF Column
bia
The Washington times., 1920-10-23
DR F. II. KNUBEL, who

JN N nv D1H7
presiding at the sessions OF
the United Lutheran COnyen-
ton, in session here this week.
He advocates a world Lutheran
conference In 1921 or 1922 and
suggests Washington as the
meeting place.
The Washington times., 1920-10-23
Could Belt Earth With
Uncle Sans Tax Money
F1ue Billions Collected
Who said Uncle Sam was not rich7

Well for the fiscal year, ending June 80, 1920, your
rich uncle collected in taxes the supendou of $5408
O75O6S according Tate IT, Hackney of the Field Audit
Section of Tax Unit of the Treasury Department
who compiled the tax figures
The Washington times., 1920-10-23

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The Washington times., 1920-10-23

Need heIpf A Times Want Ad win
do the work. Phone Main 6260 new.
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Evening star., 1920-11-20
The South and Protection.
This is from a news story:

y
THE President elect got as warm a
welcome in Louisiana and Texas as
he had received in the north during
the campaign He comes away con-
WINGED that there is a goodly num-
ber of protectionists in the south.
particularly among cotton. sugar and
rice men. Some told him he would
have carried New Orleans il the peo-
pie had been taught how to scratch
tickets and IL the racial question had
not entered into party feeling"
There has always been "a goodly
number Of protectionists in the south"
Indeed. but for racial question. the
south would long since have been a
protection stronghold. Her sugar, her
rice and her cotton have all demanded
protection, and received it, Their
growth has been stimulated by the ap.
plication Of the principle which. with
two brief intermissions. has marked
our course with respect to the tariff
for the past sixty years.
But that principle has been applied,
not by the party the south supported,
but by the party she opposed. The
south supported Mr.. Cleveland. with
his low tariff and single standard finan.
cial views. 1t supported Mr.. Bryan.
with his low tariff and double standard
financial views, and it has just sup
Evening star., 1920-11-20
The New Congress.

With an extra session in prospect, 1t
is noted there need be no delay in or
ganizing the Sixty-seventh Congress.
Many new faces will appear, but not
to disturb the old faces qualified 1or
leadership by service. and likely, there
fore. to serve again.
In the Senate Mr.. Lodge will again
lead the majority. and preside over
the committee on foreign relations
two very important places. And pre-
sumably Mr.. Underwood will again
lead the minority. He will begin
new ternl-his secondhand his party
in the chamber has no man better
qualified as a parliamentarian to care
for it's interests.
In the House Mr.. Gillett seems
scheduled to succeed himself in the
chair. where he is now serving ac-
ceptably to his party. MIR. Mondell
will, it is to be expected, succeed HIM
self as floor leader. He has shown
quality in his place, and the west
from which he hails-showed quality
in the recent campaign. Both, there
fore, deserve a renewal of recognition.
Champ Clark was d victim of the
landslide, and drops out. He will be
missed. A competent man, aggressive
enough in the minority to give the
majority something to think about,
he would have made a good shepherd
a of 70, ipe
the minority seats in the next House.
But Mr.. kitchin, another competent
man, and with almost as much expert
ence, will be present to fill the place.
So that, with both parties ready to
fall in behind qualified and trusted
men, the new Congress should get un-
der way promptly.
Evening star., 1920-11-20
Mr.. Harding's Program.

Mr. Harding continues to insist that
we should put our own house in order
do SO, indeed, before we can
safely determine and enter upon our
duty to the outside world. He has
several times referred to the subject,
and said at New Orleans Thursday,
that ''if we are effective in solving our
problems at home we shall be better
able to help solve those Of the world
as BELTS our part in modern civiliza-
tion.''
The country is well advised as to
Mr.. Harding's program for putting
our house in order. He wants a pro-
tective tariff-one that will serve the
double purpose of raising money for
revenue uses and fostering deserving
home industries, SO that capital may
draw good dividends, labor good and
steady wages, and our industrial in.
dependence be still further promoted.
He wants railroad transportation to
continue in private hands and opera
ton, and made fully serviceable for
the growing demands of a rapidly
growing volume of traffic.
He wants merchant marine. carry
ing in constantly increasing quantities
American products under the Ameri
can flag to all parts of the trading
earth.
And he wants, as does every other
American who appreciates the new
times and their demands, full steam
ahead at home in the way Of produc.
tion, and the best possible feeling for
our institutions and for one another
among all citizens and in all sections.
The more it is considered the more
persuasive Mr.. Harding's program be-
comes; and all should wish him sue.
cess in his efforts to carry it out
Stabilize America, and America can
help stabilize the world.
Evening star., 1920-11-20

tics. A partisan congressional majority
might at any time move a department
under political influences or for party
advantage.
OF course, this is all beside the ques-
tion Of governmental efficiency. Con-
ceive the situation as an instance with
the Secretary Of Agriculture located,
say, at Davenport. the Secretary of
Commerce at New York, the Secretary
of the Interior at Lincoln. Neb., and
leaving perhaps the Attorney General
and Secretaries of State. War, Navy
and Treasury here. Then comes the
call for cabinet meeting. Some
mileage! Perhaps by that time the
airplane service will be developed to
enable the department chiefs to move
quickly from between their headquar-
ters and the White House.
There is only one place in which the
government can properly function. and
that is in the Capital city. That Capt.
tai city is now Washington, d. c., and
it will take a constitutional amend
ment to change it. Until it is changed
there will probably be no scattering Of
headquarters offices, although some Of
the strictly subordinate special branch
es and offices may be located else
where. The capital will remain the
seat of government for some years
to come. regardless of crowds.
Evening star., 1920-11-20
Greece in Reaction.

Paraders in Athens, celebrating the
anti-venizelos victory at the polls, have
carried, 1t is reported. portraits of two
former monarchs, Constantine and
William Hohenzollern. The combina-
tion is not tactful, to say the least.
II the Greek people do not want more
trouble than they have already suf-
fered, they should forget the imperial
brother-in-law whose influence 80
nearly involved them in the disaster
of the central powers. The portrait
sof William is not popular-save with
"a small percentage Of the people
even in Berlin. 1t should be turned
to the wall at Athens, however that
of-Constantine may be displayed.
Greece will need financial aid in the
near future-is even now talking
about raising funds by foreign loans
and the raising Of the former kaiser's
picture is a poor way to gain credit
with the only nations that are in a
position to advance funds. and the
kaiserworship may prove troublesome
in other ways. For instance, there
is no assurance that. with the
former king restored and Hohenzollern
set up as a sort of national patron
saint, Greece will be able to hold the
territorial accessions which We're Sc
cured for her through. the statesman
ship of Venezelos, now sentenced to
pOlitical exile The nortrait display is
at least tactless.
Evening star., 1920-11-20
Rate by Mail-Payable in Advance.
MARYLAND and VIRGINIA.
Herbert Hoover's Appeal.

Three and half million children
IN central and eastern Europe will
suffer from cold and hunger-many of
them will perish-during the coming
winter unless the American people pro-
vide means of relief This is the sub
stance Of an appeal just issued by
Herbert Hoover, head of the Ameri-
can Relief Administration European
fund. who asks contributions to the
aggregate of $23,O00.00O. This amount,
he estimates. added to present re-
sources of the administration, will
carry the work through the winter
and round out the record of the great
history of the world.
Failure to provide for these children
in their Distress says Mr.. Hoover,
would be equivalent to turning them
from Americas door when there is no
other door,"
Mr.. Hoover expresses regret that
conditions again compel him to ask
the American people to finance char
table work abroad, but he makes the
appeal in entire confidence that the re-
sponse will be generous and willing.
America does not and never will fight
children" he says, "and the children
of every race and creed, of friend and
former enemy alike, have been cared
for on a basis Of absolute equality;
and it is a fact that nothing America
has ever done as an act of grace has
sunk so deep in the heart of the world.
In the minds of millions of men and
women of ten different nations there
dwells a though which supersedes all
others with regard to us, and that is
the grateful thought of our solicitude
for their children"
Overhead expenses having been pro-
vided for. Mr.. Hoover is able to give
assurance that every dollar contrib
uted will buy full dollars worth of
relief, and the American people will
accept that assurance at its full face
value. They have gotten into the way
of believing a thing when Herbert
Hoover says it. His record of five
years of unselfish and unremunerated
service, during which he has disbursed
hundreds of millions of dollars with
out breath of scandal, is one calcu
lated to inspire confidence. Mr..
lions he now asks, and if that sum
is not sufficient he has only to ask
for more.
Evening star., 1920-11-20
Disintegrating the Government.

Proposals to lessen the housing con-
gestion here-which are really in fact
inspired by a desire to punish the
Washington landlords for charging
high prices Tor their property-by
shifting certain. branches Of the gov
ernment to other cities can hardly
be made in seriousness. They are
doubtless hasty expressions of i'm
patience with distressing condition
that has prevailed in Washington in
common with other parts of the coun-
try as a result of the dislocation of
the war. If the matter were calmly
considered it could be seen how dan
gerous would be any move of this
kind toward disintegration of the gov
ernment plant.
Suppose the Department of Agri-
culture, which has been mentioned in
this connection, were moved to Daven-
port, Iowa. or perhaps to Independence.
Mo-. or Moline, Ill.-just to mention
the farming region-what guaranty is
there that in five or ten years it would
not be necessary to move it again to
some other point grown jealous Of this
benefit conferred upon one Of those
three cities? Suppose it were moved
TO ST. Louis? What would Chicago
say or Omaha. or Kansas City?
The prospect Immediately develops
Of an itinerant government. a depart
mental system on wheels. so to speak.
shifting around to prevent local preju-
dices and peevishness. There are sin
lister possibilities in a scheme Of this
kind in the way Of practical" poll
Evening star., 1920-11-20
ported Gov Cox on a low tariff plat

ported Gov Cox on low tariff plat
form.
1t is to the republicans. who have
controlled the country and fashioned
it's tariff laws during all but sixteen
of the past sixty years, that the south
is indebted for the great benefits she
has derived from the policy of protec-
tion. Her opposition to her benefac-
tors has cost her nothing Protection.
being a truly national policy, applied
to all interests wherever existing that
had claims upon recognition. Even
if the republicans had desired to leave
the south because of her short-sighted
policy out of their calculations. they
could not have done so.
In time the south will vote according
to her interests and convictions, and
not according to prejudices hanging
over from earlier days.
Evening star., 1920-11-20
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHIIANDER JOHNSON.

The Gentlemanly Cob.
Oh, now and then sailor may indulge
in recreation.
Provided it is harmless and refined.
He may attempt a little song or else
a recitation
To show the elevation Of his mind.
He must be kind and gentle when he's
boxing Of the compass,
Remembering that politeness always
And when he swabs the deck, be care
ful to avoid rumpus;
And, particularly, he must never
haze.
His fist upon the visage of friend he
mustn't try out,
Nor in anger bite another person's
He mustn't kick shin or break an
arm or gouge an eye out,
Nor put carbolic in the ginger beer.
He must ever be respectful to the
officers above him,
Never prying into pranks Of col.
lege days.
He nust regulate his conduct so that
every one will love him,
For the lowly COB must never, never
haze.