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The Washington times., 1921-01-10
The Railroad POWer;
HOU 1t Is MarshaLed
URING the discussion, a year
ago, of the bill which returned

~
ID ago, of the bill which returned
the railroads to private owner
ship with authority to increase their
rates until they earned q per cent,
the charge was made that the lobby
supporting this move was the most
powerful ever assembled III this
city.
But not until few days ago.
when Congressman Esch, House
champion of the railroad bill, spoke
Of it, did the average citizen gain a
realization of how powerful it was.
This is Mr.. Esch's description OF
part of the force which pressed upon
Congress for legislation in the in
tercst of an investing class;
ITO persuade Congress to adopt the
plan of fixed percentage return the
president of the National Association OF
Owners OF Railroad Securities had pre-
Pared and presented to the House Com
mittee on Interstate Commerce one OF
The most remarkable memorials ever
offered to Congress.
The Signers represented nineteen and
one-half billions of dollars, or 70 per
cent of the resources of financial insti-
tutions in the ffty-six largest cities in
the United States.
They represented 5000 savings
banks, life insurance, fire, marine and
surety companies, national and State
banks and trust companies. They rep
resented other fduciary institutions,
such as estates and individual investors,
to the number of $3.50.
They represented / 600 business or
CARNATIONS, such as boards of trade,
chambers of commerce and business
firms, NTH a membership of oper
10000. They represented over 9,OOO,-
900 savings depositors and $4,000, 900
policy holders.'
Maybe they did and maybe they
didn't. Few of those 100000 saw
lngs depositors or of those 23,0OO,-
600 policy holders are ever consulted
when the presidents of the banks
and of the life insurance companies
pull the strings for legislation.
But at least they said they did,
and Congress believed them and
gave them in heaping measure what
they asked for; indeed, more than
most of them ever expected to get.
That is why today your freight
The Washington times., 1921-01-10

Two Alexandra, girls write that
they never notice much flirting in
Washington. At least nobody ever
tries it on them.
noticed this on a church bulletin:
What is the Worst Thing IN the WorIdP'
Underneath in smaller letters was
this:
Singing By our choir Morning and
Evening" CHEVY.
The Washington times., 1921-01-10

Artificial flowers are
blooming all the year round
under the benevolent rays
OF the premature sun. Flies
buzz germfully in our semi
tropical lunchrooms. The
stenograPher chews her
Wrigley cud contentedly and
the green moss on the In
terborough windows lends a
pastoral tinge to the peace
full subway riots. Every
thing is so serene and hap
by that Congress is think =
ing OF passing few more
amendments.
The Washington times., 1921-01-10
NAMING HER BABY.
She ransacked every novel.

She ransacked every novel.
And the dictionary. too,
But nothing ever printed
For her baby's name would do:
She hunted applications
From the present and the past,
And this Is what she named him
When they christened him at last:
Julian Harold Egbert
Ulysses Victor Paul
Algernon Marcus Cecil
Sylvester George McFsll.
But after all tho trouble
She'd taken for his sake.
His father called him Fatty.
And his schoolmstes called him Jake.
DAN ID. LYON.
The Washington times., 1921-01-10

The FIFTH Avenue f1au.
per applies an extra tourni-
uuet OF rurs TO h"r neck and
can't understand why her
ankles should get cold I'M
der their warm blanket or
lip rouge. Spring Is here and
the sap runs through the
coils OF the condenser to
gladden. the life Of the home
brewer.
The Washington times., 1921-01-10

The spring lamb gambols
en- casserole on the hash
can menu. The nimble
sparkle of second childhood
comes to John D.'s eye as the
the Spring freshet Of fiy-
vers overruns the banks Of
the boulevards and Easo-
line jumps a cent a bubble.
The grounding throws a Mt
of shadows and then pops
back into his tunnel to wait
until March 18th and the
first instnllment OF income
taxes have passed. The
spring crop OF nickels drops
into the telephone boxes and
reaps n harvest of raucous
silence.
The Washington times., 1921-01-10

Winter has APPARENTLY de-
Cided not to give us any
free ice. The municipal
snow shOvelers are resting
on their summer laurels, but
there is no decrease in the
temperature Of the city bud
gci
The Washington times., 1921-01-10

New York State passes
pleasure tax on bad checks
as u Jersey skeeter con-
suits the train schedule for
Manhattan and then hutters
into town on a southern
hurricane. He bites a guy
on Third avenue and slowly
croaks of sympathetic wood
alcoholism as a flock OF
cuckoos twitter hourfully.
The Washington times., 1921-01-10

A violet horns its timid
head above the valuable
real estate on Long Island.
Since the stores started sell
ing blackjacks in l44-piece
sets ali heads have been
tmid.
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Once-Overs
Inc.
REMEMBER YOUR EMrLoyE - HUMAN.
By y. y. MENDN.

70 10
AS manager or foreman, remember that YOU
can never get the best out Of those under YOU
If you bcrato your workmcn in the presence
OF others.
An empoye tcprmanded before others is
Chagrined and becomes antagonists. with Hu
desire to do better. There are few exceptions.
An Cmploye taken to- task before others may
make the appearance "f Improvement to- try to
hold his Job. but i'm his heart there IL more thau
likely the spirit and feeling OF hatred and re-
Nengc.
The man who IS given plain but kind talk
some time when he IL alone with his employer
is quite likely to get the spirit of doing better
and real desire to show progress and make
good.
II with considarate criticism a man does not
show up better, then he IL a poor specimen not
worth retaining. ,.......
The day of the brow beating boss t. missed
Men can be handled no longer like cattle. Tor
the thinking man Is fast taking the place pT the
stulid workman.
Successful employers learning this fact
and are deVotlng more time to a study of co
operative systems ths most winning method.
The Washington times., 1921-01-10

An Alexandra fellow recently
told me that he has girl
whose hair is so red that every
time she lays her head on his
chest 1t gives him the HEART
BURN. CHIC.
The Washington times., 1921-01-10

II has been an open
winter with no snow. But
take a long look at the
family Jewels in the coat
bin before YOU decide to
trade EN- In for "a bathing
suit
The Washington times., 1921-01-10

A man may be the captain of
his soul" but, as a rule, his wife
Is the captain OF his pay en-
velope. HAROLD STODDARD.
The Washington times., 1921-01-10
We TOWNE GOSSIP
Registered U. & Patent Office
BY K. C.. B.

l HATE to worry you. = AND HAD been
ABOUT MY hiccups.
AND WRITE about ' DAY morning !"
them.
BECAUSE know THAT Al! at once
so MANY times. 1T SEEMED to me-
THERE ARE other THAT A couple of
hccups. hiccups.
AND OTHER SOUGHT ESCAPE.
AT THE same
AND THAT anybody. moment.
WHO KEEPS AND JARED me So
insisting. r,,
THAT HIS troubles. m
ARE ALL important. crisis.
WILL SOON or late. AND whispered
GET HIMSELF ~
dsliked, TO MY anxious wife
BUT HERE am. Il HAVE feeling.
WITH SCORES Of THAT'S ALL there
BY ORDINARY mail. THERE AREN'T any
AND SPECIAL
delivery. AND was right
AND KILOGRAMS. AND VERY shortly.
AND TELEPHONE WENT to sleep.
messages. ANN IN +bo ,,o.;
ALL OF them telling WHEN | woke
OF hicccfs cures MY WIFE was there.
AND WHAT can do.
EDGE them. AND SAID to me.
AND SAY to those. IF YOU start again.
WHO SENT the cures. I'm GOING to dousl
THAT ON Saturday
morning. WITH A pail of ice
water"
WHEN I'D been in do. '''A ''O''
bed.
ro, r,vo BUT JUST stay quiet
hours. I THANK YOU
The Washington times., 1921-01-10
Mr.. B. Baer
OUT IN THE HOT sun.

The 1921 Winter sun has
been milder than a cubeb
cigarette. Weather mechan-
les describe II as an open
winter, although the buf-
fet doors are closed tighter
than Colonel House mouth
in the question season.
The Washington times., 1921-01-10

travel as you paid six years ago
and for the most part get inferior
service.
That is also why Congressman
Huddleston recently said in the
House:
"The power of the interests be-
hind the railroads Is overwhelming.
They are able to mold and control
public opinion at will. AT a sign
from them the presses OF great
newspapers change stroke, the chan
nels Of public information are block.
ed, criticism is Silenced, and bandages
are placed upon the eyes of the
people. Dealing with the great self
iSh interests we are confronted not
only by railroad officials and manipu-
lators but with captains of indus
try and finance, capitalists, and, after
them, with civic bodies and with
wealth and property interests with
lines running from the heart of Wall
Street throughout American business
life down to the shareholder Of the
country bank.
"All are marshaled to meet an at
tack. II is not merely matter of
politics or business but ties onto
social affiliation and prestige; and
strangled in business life but alien
ated from his friends. To attack the
great financial interests is, they say,
making war on society and on our in
stitutions.' To criticize the crooked
arrangements of railroads. the
schemes by which they are enabled
to fleece the people, Is to be a So
cialist' or a 'bolshevist' and an en-
envy of society and to be frowned
on by the highest social classes from
the metropolitan clubhouse to the
lively circles Of the village literary
society,""
The people with. a special interest
organized, fought for and got what
they wanted.
The people who merely pay the
freight did not organize, did not
HSnt ana SOI-IeIL.
There is a lesson here and some
day. the plain folks will see it.
When they do there will be a new
railroad bill, and it will NOT be a
bill to raise rates and profits, but
to insure good service-service and
benefits for ALL the people.
our heads in approval, for each
knows of his own char1ner how she
tits her chin, or turns her head, or
darts her coquettish eye, or maybe
lisps and pouts, and thereby makes
us bounden slaves.
Nothing but a certain style"
quotha! Why, that was all Homer
had, style like the heaving ocean,
whose waves seem like to be no
more eternal in their basin than the
Greeks hexameters in the mind of
man.
And all that is left of burning
Sappho is few fragments, yet even
these meager shards of song, picked
up in times debris, have ravished
the hearts of all lovers of letters
with their amazing charm.
And Dante, Hugo, Keats and
swashbuckling Shakespeare himself
1T was the inimitable nay of each
that fills the world with the fra
GRANGE Of his imperishable fame.
Style, way, manner, this it is that
comes from God, and is bestowed as
divine and royal favor upon this
soul and that, at His inscrutable
will.
This is that divine spark for
which the world is an hungered.
This it is that trumpeted Kipling
to the four winds, that gives vogue
to Shaw or Chesterton or Wells, that
made Poe immortal, and that en-
ables one writer to get dollar a
word while another. yoiply trioa 70
The Washington times., 1921-01-10

The old mans pockets are
closed since Xmas. All he
has is n lucky coin. It's
lucky because he still has it.
when they call it an open
winter they only mean the
weather.
The Washington times., 1921-01-10

NY KID nephew mace resolution
not to fight any more at night over
Heard and Seen, but he's not keep
ing it. BLUE EYES.
TELEPHONE CURIOUS NAMES.
Il. NJ. O'S finds in the telephone
directory these names of subscribers
spain, Ireland. Britain. German,
French; Buick, Maxwell Ford, STUFF.
Victory, Defeat; Honour. Virtue;
Coffin, Flower; Belt. Suit; Felt, Cot
ton, WOODEN; Cat, Bird, PARROT.
Roache; Husband. Child: Pepper,
Parsley; Little, Small. Long, Short;
Cane. Castle; Stone, Steel, Wood,
Glass, Gas: Prince, King, Queen,
Sultan; Baker, Blacksmith. Judge,
Locksmith, Carpenter; Singer. Piper.
When a violinist gets so popular
that two rows of girls try to firt
with him at the same time he has
them all beat JEAN CORBIN,
violinist of the Metropolitan orches-
ira, is a fine musician.
RED-HEAD.
Wen have to send some one to
break the news to Moriarty's wife"
said Pat.
send lienneSSeN, suggested one or
the gang. He can do IL gradual
You know he shutters"
". n r.
Then drink to ireland, raising
4 song while pulses throb
%or tell the world how in our hearts
Il dies into > sob.
choke back the rising tcar.drop
And give h,r three timCS three
To- Ircla nd. dear God bless her
And help her to he free
ERIN co BRAGH
Tho clergyman hired an Irishman
to clean out his cellar As Pat car
ried out tho numerous empty bottles,
lifting each one TO see it there was
anything in IT, the minister noticed
him and remarked, They are all dead
ones, Fat
But there Is one good thing about
them" Pat answered. They all had
the minister with them when they
passed away. HAPPY SIX.
\ drunk whose friend found him
lying ir the gutter inquired how u
| happened.
! you shoe he replied. 81 saw two
lamp posts and leaned on the wrong
| one" BOBBY HATCH
The Washington times., 1921-01-10
SOUNDS NATURAL.

SOUNDS NATURAL.
On one OF the Christmas cards
sent Juno ME-" she says, was this:
There was little man
And he bought q little card,
lie wTinkled up his forehead
And pondered long and hard
II" tried - think up wishes
That clever Cuss might quote
And finally he said on a..
Aud this Is what hu wrote.
MERRY CHRlsTMAs,
II n girl had date with "A MAJ
would you call II q mandate
j. r. STREEkS.
The Washington times., 1921-01-10
NO. rs HERO.

No, rs HERO.
No. : truck boasts hero OF the
Fire Department in Country" PAD
GETT, fireman. For daring rescue
in notable fire some years ago lie
was presented with a gold medal by
former Commissioner mcfarland, on
behalf of the people of Washington. He
is the only holder of such a medal in
the department
18TH AND h S. l..
The Washington times., 1921-01-10

Father fell upon the ice.
because he could not stand
lie saw the Stars and stripes,
And We saw beforehand
BILLIE :
The Washington times., 1921-01-10

Courtesy is like the air on the
inside of a tire. There may be
nothing to IT,. but still 1t eases
many IA jolt and saves many a
rupture. ". ~. w, ST.
The Washington times., 1921-01-10
ANAGRAMSIN ANIMALS

The following are ten animals tor
the fans 10 cipher on: NAKORoGA,
AGILROL, EOHRS, YNOk EN-,
SMOEO. ALAML, PEOLAED, CNkSK,
HAEYN, MEDORDRAY.
IONA STILL
The Washington times., 1921-01-10
l maintain that KARL J. o. was
right. The century began Jan. LIST.
1900, and was therefore Il years
old January LIST, 1921.
CASEY.

Sergeant-Private Smith, you should
be in the aviation corps.
Smith--Why:
Sergeant-Because you are no good
on earth. IRENE.
The Washington times., 1921-01-10

Many shabby coat hides an
honest quart. NJ. NJ. TIL.
The Washington times., 1921-01-10
PUZZLES AND PROBLEMS.

Good riddles, puesles and prob
lens arc submitted 10 II and S
Uithout ans,DerS. They are not
printed. Kindly send your dnstoers
Nth dny Of these.
The Washington times., 1921-01-10

To ETHEL and SYLVIA: You az"
welcome to join the other gloom
chasers of II and S. BILL.
The Washington times., 1921-01-10

Anyhow, 1t is agreed that the
short skirts are great for get
ting up stares. MARJORIE Il.
The Washington times., 1921-01-10

I saw your wife this morning.
Did you notice her gold tooth"
No. she had her mouth shut.
Well, that wasn't my wife.
DAN d. LYON.
The Washington times., 1921-01-10

My kid nephew made resolution
not to fight any more at night over
Heard and Seen, but he's not keep
ing it. BLUE EYES.
The Washington times., 1921-01-10

\ drunk whose friend found him
lying iu the gutter inquired how II
happened.
you shoe he replied. 81 saw two
lamr posts and 7 leaned on the wrong
one" BOBBY HATCH.
The Washington times., 1921-01-10
Style

n HE criticism Of a certain au-
I thor was made recently that
"there is nothing to him but
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-12
RIPPING RHYMES
BY Walt Mason
LOOKING AHEAD

A man can't see an hour ahead;
In one brief hour he may be dead,
from all his labors gone: life's SO
uncertain none IA say. I'll see the
finish of this day, and greet anoth-
err dawn" The citizen, in gorgeous
health, goes forth to gather in some
wealth, a buoyant, cheerful scout;
he strides along the village street,
an airship drops @ sack of wheat,
and he is flattened out. Oh, all va
rieties of doom are round about us,
dumping gloom upon the human
race; our lives we're taking in u
hand, wherever we may walk DR.
stand, or ride or dance or chase.
And yet along our course we speed
as though our lives were guaranteed
for eighty-seven years; next year we
will insure our lives and save some
money, that our wives may eat, If
death appears. Next year, or may
be five years hence. we'll show we
have some good horse sense, and
salt some coin away; next year we'll
tread the thrifty track and lift the
mortgage from the shack-we're out
for fun today. thus reason multi
tudes Of jays who look ahead to
countless days that they may never
see: no man who on this planet
rides can safely bet one hour divides
him from eternitS.. Let us be pru-
dent, then, and wise, meet obliga-
lions as they rise, and cancel every
debt; If there are chores that
should be done oh, let US do them
ere the sun OF this bright day has
set.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-12

production of soft coal? J. H. F.
A. For the year ending June So'
1921, Pennsylvania led the states OF
the Union in the production of btu
minous coal with a record Of $685.
600 net tons. West Virginia stood Sec
ond, producing 1899 5000 tons and
Illinois third. with 32.053.0OO mel
tons.
T. q ". Is inconsistencies a disease : NJ
A. Homesickness or Nostalgia ~
a combination of psychic and bodily
disturbances. and in a severe form
must be regarded as a disease. 1t
may lead to melancholia and death.
Q. When did the custom of fun
eral sermons originate? d. S.
A. The custom of funeral SER
mons, together with various rites
in connection with the burials may
be tracked back to antiquity. Even
the primitive peoples had certain
ceremonies in connection with the
burial of their dead. In ancient
Greece and Rome the custom Of eul-
ogizing the dead was very popular.
@. Is there sue a word as
"somewhen?" c. S. w.
A. This word is given In diction-
aries with the definition "at some in
definite time" and is marked rare"
H. G. Wells uses the word frequent
ly. which helps to give it a fixed place
in English literature.
@. How large is the Pacific
ocean? H. F. S.
A. With its bordering seas, the
Pacific Ocean has an area of about
$1,000, 900 square miles. which is
equal to the entire land surface Of
the globe.
@. What does "om" mean? J.N.B.
A. This was a Sanskrit sacred
syllable similar to u Amen. Ac-
cording to Manu-, the syllable had to
be uttered before every Vedic rscita-
ton and again at it's close, otherwise
the sacred knowledge and its merit
would be lost.
@. How old was Jesus when he
began to teach? N. S. N.
A.. In the gospel according to
Luke. is the statement that when
Jesus began his ministry he was
"about 80 years of age" This is
not definite and may have been SO
mentioned because the Jews had a
theory that a teacher should be at
least 40 years old.
@. Was any part of the United
States ever called New Sweden?
A. New Sweden was an early
name for the region between New
York and Virginia.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-12
UNCLE SANS HUNTERS
BY Frederic j. Haskin.

WASHINGTON. Aug. ia long and bitter
warfare is being waged within the borders OF
the United States, neither side asking nor
granting quarter. No armistice VIII be signed,
and there will be no peace terms. Inc END
of the battling will be the extinction OF one
element in the conflict. On one side are ranged
between four and five hundred government
Biological Survey of the Department OF Agrl-
culture. On the other side are aligned all the
predatory beasts of the nation, from ground
squirrels and jack rabbits up to fierce stock
killing mountain lions, bears and wolves.
Hundreds of millions of dollars damage Is
done annually by wild animals. The big killers
like the wolves and bears take a tremendous
toll in the lives of cattle, sheep and horses on
the western ranges, but the greatest damage Is
done by gophers and other smaller animals
who destroy pasturage capable OF supporting
millions of cows and sheep. The damage done
by the predatory beasts Is timat at $Soo'-
900, 900 a year.
Unfortunately, it is not easy to arouse in
terest and secure cooperation in destroying the
smaller and more numerous pests. The dramatic
appeal of hunting wolves and bears makes 1t
easy for the government hunters to pursue this
work with success. These destroyers are
diminishing fast.
tory animals, big and little, in 1915. Since then
there has been an annual appropriation. and
as a result 200. 900 beasts, big and little, have
been dispatched to the happy hunting ground
by the rifles. traps, and poison bats OF the
federal nimrods. For instance, when the work
wolves, cattle killers of the worst. sort. NOW
there are but a score, and soon there will be
none.
Three-ouarters of the 200, 900 animals slain
have been coyotes, but the total includes some
1000 gray wolves, each one of which destroyed
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-12
Funeral For j. T. Vanderbilt

KEYPORT. Aug. 12-Funera1
services for the late James L. VAN
derbilt. son of John A. Vanderbilt,
were conducted this afternoon. at 2
o'clock. Rev. A. c. Brady, pastor
of Calvary M. E. church, officiating.
interment being in Green Grove
cemetery. Favorite hymns were
rendered by Mrs. Fred l.. Schild-
knecht. James, who was seventeen
year sold, was electrpcuted on Tues
day afternoon when he came in con-
tact with a live wier which had fall
en- to the ground At first it was
thought that he had escaped the
wire. but later it was conceded that
he had stepped on the wire as his
shoe was burned and had in turn
taken hold of 1t to remove it from
the yard -four fingers being burned
off.
He was the con of John A. Van
derbilt and Is survived by three sis.
ters and two brothers, Mrs. William
Andrews, Mrs. William Mrs.
Joseph Thorne, John and Chester.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-12
BY DIR. WILLIAM E. BARTON

It is a good plan for every man to
attend to his own business. Some
men have achieved success in life
through the faithful following of two
simple rules, the first Of which is to
mind their w business and the
second is that of letting other peo-
pies business alone.
But just what is a mans own
business?
That is not a very easy question
to answer
On June 20. 1914, a nan other
wise unknown to fame assassinated
Archduke Francis Ferdinand of
| Austria.
:, Having Celebration
That happened to be my birthday,
and we were having a quiet little
celebration at home when the even
ing papers brought that news. We
were sorry, of course, but we could
moi help it. 1t was none of our
business. My birthday celebration
went on.
But it was not a great while be-
fore it became our business. We
were buying liberty bonds, and rails
ing money for the Red Cross, and
sending our boys across the sea. and
doing many things which we had no
intention of doing on the day before
my birthday.
The whole world participated in
my little domestic birthday party.
The whole world participates in
my home life every day. AS soon
as the morning paper comes, I am
a part of the life of the world.
I do not know how I can attend to
my own business without participant
ing to some extent in very nearly
all that is going on in the world.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-12

@. Can a rural mail carrier trans
fer from one route to another? WIN.
A.. The Postoffice Department
says that II a rural mail carrier can
be found who is willing to exchange
routes. such a transfer could be
made.
@. Describe the climate Of Lon
dom M. I.
A. The climate of London, Eng
land. is temperate, seldom falling
below 80 degrees in winter or ris-
ing above IS degrees in summer.
There is. however. a large rainfall
and a great deal of fog.
@. What was Pastor Russelrs
real name? M. N.
A. Charles Tazesell Russell, who
died in 1916. was known as Pastor
RUSSELL"
Q. What states stand first in the