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The Washington herald., 1921-06-27
MOTORCYCLE RIDER
NEAR DEATH FROM
TRUCKCOLLISI0N
Secretary of Rep. Hill of
Maryland, Sustains
Fractured Skull.

One man was probably fatally in
jured and five men and a woman
received minor injuries in District
trafic accidents Saturday.
Crashing headlong into the side of
a laundry truck while riding a mo-
torcycle at Thirteenth and K streets
northwest Saturday afternoon. Leh-
man Tarbart, 20 years old. 1895 K
street northwest, secretary to Rep
resentative John Philip Hill, of
Maryland. was probably fatally in
jured. He sustained a fractured
skull and internal injuries besides
bodily bruises. Tarbart was taken
to the Emergency Hospital where
physicians early Saturday morning
ported his condition critical.
Crashed Into Truck.
According to police, Tarbart was
preceding north on Thirteenth
street and was preparing to turn
east on K street He failed to see
the truck going west on K street.
The truck was operated by Cramuel
Dyler, 627 Vermont avenue north
west Tyler was arrested and Ia
ter released.
Struck oy an auto truck as he
was crossing at Seventh and f
s.reest southwest, 5-year-old An
502 Seventh street
southwest sustained bruises and Ia
cerations about the head and body.
He was earned into the Washington
Saritarium Dispensary at Sixth and
y streets southwest. The accident
occurred at 9:35 o'clock Saturday
morning. The truck was driven by
James Graham, colored, %, years
old, 101 C street southwest.
Auto Strikes Bicycle.
While riding a bicycle at Tenth
and streets southwest. yesterday
morning. Robert Cook, IL years old,
94l c street southwest, was thrown
to the street when he collided with
an automobile operated by George
w. Frazier. 100 B street southwest
and sustained injuries about the leg.
The lad was treated at the Emer-
gency Hospital.
James Granger, Is years old. 1872
North Carolina avenue southeast,
a bicyclist, sustained injuries about
the back and bodily bruises when
struck by an auto truck operated
by Clarence NJ Shif1ett, 956 F street
southwest. The accident occurred
a First street and Virginia avenue
southeast, at 10:40 o'clock Saturday
morning.
Woman in Auto Hurt.
Mrs. Charles widmyer, 3415 Geor-
gia avenue. an occupant of the auto
mobile driven by her husband. was
injured about the body when the
automobile colli1ed with car of
the Washington Railway and Elec-
trio Company at Georgia avenue
and Park road early Saturday after
noon.
While running to catch a street
car at the foot of the Highway
Bridge late Saturday afternoon.
Leroy W. Mcbride, SO years old,
1882 l. street southeast. was struck
by an automobile operated by Annie
W. Bradley. 1888 First street north
west. He sustained cuts about the
head and body. Mcbride was treat
ed at the Emergency Hospital.
Seven-year-old Robert B. White,
Ills Fifth street southeast, was in
jured about the body when he was
struck at Virginia avenue and Sec
ond street southeast by a nautomo-
bile operated by Fred Colbert. COL
ored. 20 years old, 1919 Thirteenth
street southeast.
The Washington herald., 1921-06-27
6 DeLdIDdre Bdthers
DrOIUned in IS Hours

WILMINGTON. Del, June as.-
Six drownings in IS hours is Dela-
wares record Saturday niht
The drowned are: Two chtldr "A
of Adolph Karejo. Wilmington:
Palese vincenzo, %, Wilmington:
Herman Everett. 6. Wilmington:
James X. Austin, %. Wilmington.
and >5oah swiggett. %, Middletown.
All six of the deaths w-re acciden-
tai. incident to swimming.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-29
SAYS LICENSE Law new FILM THEATER
GUARDS TRANSFERS I'm N. W. SECTION
Allan E. Walker Co. Plans
Film House at Florida Ave.
And 14th Street.

Washington will have another
large motion picture house. for
Allan E. walker Investment COM
pany plans TO erect, at Florida ave-
nue. and Fourteenth street, north
west. a building. to be known as the
Belmont theater which will have
capacity for seating 1900 persons.
There will be space available for
several stores.
It is expected that the project will
fill a long-felt need in the Belmont
street section of COLUMBIA Heights
for a nearby motion picture house.
In the neighbcrhood are some Of the
largest apartment houses in the city.
contributing the density of popula-
tion in the community
As designed by r. =. Beresford.
orchitect. the theater will have an
auditorium approximately $50 feet
long. with the screen at the east
end. The seats will be arranged in
four sections. two in the center Of
the hour and one on each side, with
eight large boxes midway back from
Nne EGFttn. NAuf dlEtFH VIII
run the length OF the auditorium and
semicircUlar aisle will transverse
il directly pack of the row Of boxes.
Adjoining the theater proper the
full length Of the building on the
Fourteenth street side and forming
part of the whole project will be
nine stores with one story fronts.
The store at the intersection Of
Fourteenth and Florida avenue will
have a double doorway at the cor
ner.
The corporation will carry out the
project through its construction de-
partment and will control the COM
pleted amusement enterprise, il is
stated Work is expected TO begin
shortly.
The corporation recently COM
pleted a row of stores = block awav
from the site Of the proposed
theater, facing Fourteenth street at
Belmont. The theater will occupy
the last available frontage OF un-
improved ground on Fourteenth
street in that vicinity.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-29

so there'd be q witness to what ]
done
THE pig won't live long enough,
says, to use as an exhibit in your
senile fireside mendacitS. Your
grandchildren will have to take your
word for it I'll give you 500 for
the animal
"Rufe looked at me astonished.
"The shoat can't be worth any
thing like that to you he says
What do you want him forr
Viewing me casuistically.' says
I. with a rare smile, you wouldn't
think that I've got an artistic side
to my temper. But have. I'm a
collector of pigs. I've secured the
world for unusual pigs. Over in the
Wabash Valley I've got hog ranch
with most every specimen on 1t from
a Merino to a Poland China. This
looks like a blooded pig to me
Rufe.' says I. I believe it's gen
uine Berkshire. That's why I'd like
to have it.
I'D shore like to accommodate
you says he. but I've got the ar
tistic tenement, too. don't see why
II amt art when you can steal a
shoat better than anybody else can
Shoats is a kind of inspiration and
genius with me. Specially this one
I wouldn't take $3.50 for that ami
NAL .-,.
Now. listen says /, wiping OF
my forehead. It's not SO much a
matter of business with me as 1t is
art, and not so much art as 1t is
phil an thropy. Being a connoisseur
and disseminator of pigs. l wouldn't
feel like I'd done my duty to the
world unless 1 added that Berkshire
to my collection Not intrinsically
but according to the ethics of pigs
as friends and coadjutors of man.
kind, 1 offer you $500 for the ami.
NAL. ~ -r-
JEFF says this pork esthete. II
amt money; it's sentiment with me.
"Seven hundred says L.
Make it so0,' says Rufe, and I'll
crush the sentiment out of my
heart
IT went under my clothes for my
money-belt. and counted him out
forty $50 gold certificates.
I'll just take him into my own
room, says l, and lock him up till
after breakfast
The Washington herald., 1921-05-29

Il took the pig by the hind leg.
steam calliope at the circus.
Let me tote him in for you
says Rufe; and he picks up the beast
under one arm, holding his snour
with the other hand. and packs him
into my room like a sleeping baby.
After breakfast Rufe, who had a
chronic case of haberdashery ever
since 1 got his trousseau, says he
believes he will amble down to Mis-
ftzky's and look over some royal
purple socks. And then / got as
busy as one-armed man with the
nettle-rash pasting on wall paper.
/ found an old negro man with an
express wagon to hire; and We tied
the pig in sack and drove down to
the circus grounds
Il found George B. Tapley In lit
tie tent with a window nap open.
He was a fattish man with an i'm
mediate eye, in a black skuIl-cap,
with four-ounce diamond screwed
into the bosom of his red sweater.
Are you George B. Tayley? i
asks.
L swear it, says he.
Well, I've got it. says, I.
Designate says he. Are you the
guinea pigs for the Asiastic python
or the alfalfa for the sacred buffalo p
Neither, says i. I've got Beppo,
\ the educated hog, in a sack in that
wagon. i found him roofing UP the
nowers in. my front yard this morn
ing. I'll take the flve thousand doll
lars in large bills. if it's handy
George b. hustles out of his tent,
and asks me to follow. We went
into one of the side shows. In there
was a jet black pig with a pink
ribbon around his neck lying on
some hay and eating carrots that a
man was feeding to him
Hey, Mac calls G. B., Nothing
wrong with the worldwide this
morning, is there?
Him? No. says the man. He's
got an appetite like a chorus girl
at 1 a. m
How'd you get this piper says
Tapley to me. Eating too many
pork chops last night?
Il pulls out the paper and shows
him the ad.
| Fake says he. Don't know
anything about it. You've beheld
The Washington herald., 1921-05-29

with your own eyes the marvellous.
worldwide porcine wonder of the
four-footed kingdom eating with
preternatural sagacity his matutin-
al meal, unstrayed and unstole.
Good morning.
Il was beginning to see. / got in
the wagon and told Uncle Ned to
drive to the most adjacent orifice
of the nearest alley. There / took
out my pig. got the range carefully
for the other opening. set the
sights. and gave him such a kick
that he went out the other end OF
the alley twenty feet ahead of his
SqueaL. r.--
Then I paid Uncle Ned his fifty
cents. and walked down to the
newspaper office. l wanted to hear
1t in cold syllables. got the ad-
'yertising man to. his window.
ITO decide a bet says I, wasn't
the man, who had this ad. put in
last night short and fat, with long.
black whiskers and a club-foot?
HE was not says the man. He
would measure about six feet by
four and a half inches, with corn
silk hair. and dressed like the
pansies OF the conservatory
AT dinner time / went back to
Mrs. Peevy's.
Shall 1 keep some soup hot for
Mr.. Tatum till he comes back? she
asks
III you do. ma'am.' says l, you'll
more than exhaust for firewood all
the coal in the bosom of the earth
and all the forests on the outside
of IT.
so there, you see" said Jefferson
Peters. in Conclusion. how hard it
is ever to find a fair-minded and
honest business partner"
But" / began. with the freedom
kof long acquaintance, the rule
should work both ways. II you had
offered to divide the reward you
would not have lost"
AJeff's look Of dignified reproach
stopped me.
That don't involve the same
principles at all" said he. Mine
was a legitimate and moral attempt
at speculation. Buy low and sell
high-don't Wall Street indorse it?
Bulls and bears and pigs-what's
the difference? Why not bristles
as well as horns and fur"
The Washington herald., 1921-05-29
Sells TuoeIUe Acres
Near Chevy Chase

Twelve acres of land. composing
the estate of the late Rebecca Som
nemann. situated in Chevy Chase.
Md. between Brookville and Broad
Branch roads and Western avenue
and Primrose street were sold this
week in a private sealed bid sale 10
Theodore Sonnemann. of Chevy
Chase. son of the late Mrs Some
mann. II is understood the consid-
Grafton was large.
AS a result of the sale the tract
will remain in possession Of the
Sonnemsnn family, which has con-
trolled the property for about IS
years. Mr.. Sonnemann acquired the
land, IL is said. to preclude it's SUBJ
division for commercial use. He
will hold IL as an investment.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-29

NEW YORK, May 1S-when thu
astute ziegfeld closed his Midnight
Frolic with Brosdway's who who
in at the death watch he fired .
final bsrrage at the conditions that
brought about the closing He de-
ciared that he would not consent 10
petty police fnterference-the sip
ping Of drinks Of patrons who paid
IS seat for table chairs
He also declared that since pro-
hibition chorus girls who drank
were drinking more than ever.
Whereas they formerly drank q
cocktail In a public cafe they now
went to apartments and drank IL
by the bottle and cared not a hg
for the morning after.
I. Mr.. ziegfeid was careful to state
that the majority of chorus girls
do not drink Indeed In the TWEEN
ty-fve years of his theatrical ca
reer he has seen less drinking
among chorus girls than he has
among society debutantes.
II is quite true. as he states. that
when some unusual robbery or
crime happens the police blotter
shows that it was preceded by an
orgy of some kind at which chorus
girls" attended and at which there
was much drinking.
Yet every police reporter knows
that the term chorus girl" refers
to many girls who are not strictly
speaking chorus girls" The sing
ers OF the cabarets. the drink push
ers In cheap dance halls and even
the girls of the streets have a habit
of giving their occupation as
chorus girls" II Is flexible
term that applies to the nymph du
pave as well as the shoplifter.
There are hundreds Of chorus
girls in New York who are leading
clean, respectable lives. so Ar. zleg'
field states, and he points TO ths
fact that in 100 in his employ ir
one production so per cent are to-
tally abstemious and 10 per cen'
have never been intoxicated
The Washington herald., 1921-05-29
Ira High Says It's Best to
Operate Within New
Measure.

II is known that the license law
operates to safeguard the pubic IN
the ownership and transfer OF real
property. but the public does not
know Il. and will be slow to realize
/ IL without help, declares Ira T.
High, in the recent issue OF the
Real Estate journal. =
Actively made use Of. the license
law creates a safety zone INSIDE
which 1t is best for the public 20
restrict its dealings II a man Is
wronged by a licensed broker he
has a ready-made power Of pun
ishment over that broker. This
thought. IL we can plant it in every
mans mind. will lead to more and
more trust in realty men," says Mr..
High.
"One does not hesitate to place
his most vital affairs in the hands
of a lawyer he knows to be prac-
ticing before the bar. We want
people to have that sense of Sc
curity in putting their real estate
| business in the hands of licensed
brokers.
Even though the rare cases of
prosecution, where suit is brought
to deprive a realty dealer of his
license. thereby also depriving him
of public confidence, may do a great
deal toward teaching people the
value of the license Law, still that
process is a long one.
IF we are to get any immediate
henefit from the license law we
have got to tell the public in a
faster way than that. In fact any
/ l1,r
are unfamiliar can't have much
everyday influence for either good
or bad.
/ But how are we to arouse this
public sence of security in dealing
with the licensed broker? Many
means will occur to the dealers who
keep the matter on their minds
I'm conversation you can sow the
seeds of confidence by always
speaking Of the state license as a
safeguard against malpractice, Just
as you would speak Of a surety
bond as a protection to those who
intrust their funds to a treasurer.
You may be asked to advise a
client about transacting real estate
business in another community. II
he is to engage the services of a
realty dealer. tell him TO be sure
and pick a licensed man.
You will have opportunities TO
get a good word for the license into
your local newspapers: always
make the most of them. II you will
write an article or an interview ex-
planning the public value Of the liz
cense law, the chances are good
that your local editor will print IL.
! 1T may be a good plan to fea-
rture licensed broker on your sta
| tionery and even on your windows.
Through constant little reminders.
with advertising, and occasional
prosecutions under the law. the
public will gradually come to trust
a great deal to the license
when corresponding with strans.
ers on the subject of local real es-
tate mention the fact that you are
licensed broker. unless IL is prom
inently displayed on your letter.
head.
TT is certain that IL we who are
directly interested in the license
law do not make II known. and use
il. our rosy expectations will come
to nothing. We don't want to think
that we have fostered a useless law.
and il will be the same as useless n
il isn't used"
The Washington herald., 1921-05-29
SUNDAY. MAY -. 1921.

stNbhls MAI ~ lH@As
This is not a lucky day, accord
ing to sstrology. Saturn rules with
sinister power that overcomes the
kindly sway Of Venus.
Old thoughts and old ideas are
likely TO gain consideration under
this rule Of Saturn which would tear
down what progress has built up.
Materialism will make a strong
claim at this time. when there is a
falling away Of ideslism before the
constant stressing OF the practical
side of life.
Women may find this a most un-
favorable day. making for restless
ness and dissatisfaction with them
selves and with life.
The planetary influences are espe-
cially bad for women past youth.
making for discouragement and de-
preston. For this reason a cheer
full. positive attitude Of mind should
be maintained.
II is an unlucky sway for love
affairs. Young and old may be
equally susceptible. and all will re-
gret engagements made under this
direction Of the stars.
Money will seem more necessary
than love to women who are wooed
today. and there may be a strong
inclination for girls to marry old
men.
This should be a time for caution
when travelling through dark places.
and motorists are warned that sat
urn gives cleverness and craft 10
robbers who lie In wait along thor
oughfares.
Persons whose birthdate IL is may
have a strenuous year. Those who
are employed should be particularly
careful. The young will have love
affairs.
Children born on this day prob
ably will be sensitive and high
strung. These subjects Of Gemini
succeed best in artistic professions.
Girls are likely to have sventful
married lives,
The Washington herald., 1921-05-29
HEARING TUESDAY
ON BALL RENT ACT
~
Bill to Continue District Com
mission VIII Be Intro
duced This Week.

Senator BAH. chairman of the sem
ate district committee, expects To
present his resolution continuing
the district rent commission for a
two-year period to the senate next
Wednesday.
II think that the second hearing
next Tuesday will give US all the
data we need" said Senator Ball.
and hope to be able to present
my resolution to the Senate on the
following day. 1 do not think there
will be much difference of opinion
! among members of the district COM
&ittee on the subject.s
Fhe Tuesday hearing will be de-
voted\entirely to the testimony of
landlords and tenants A large
number Of titnesses have requested
the committeA to permit them to
be heard. Senator Ball has not yet
determined whom he will call first
on the stand. although he thinks IL
only fair that the RIAL estate opera
tors should be given full and free
opportunity to state tIeir point of
view particularly after the testi-
mory Of members of the rent COM
mission last Wednesday.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-29
Sons of America Hold
Patriotic Rally T0dag

The patriotic order, Sons Of Amer
ica of the District of Columbia.
will hold a rally Monday evening.
June 6. at s o'clock, in the hail of
Camp No. 9. 4es X street southwest.
Patriotic organizations and citizens
are being urged to attend
The Washington herald., 1921-05-29

come reckernized as the champion
shoat-stealer of the world
It's proper to be ambitious,
says 1; and hog-stealing will do
very well for Mount Nebo; but in
the outside world. Mr.. NTatum, IL
would be considered as crude a
piece of business as a bear raid on
Bay State Gas. However, it will
do as a guarantee of good faith
Wen go into partnership. I've got
a thousand dollars cash capital; and
with that homeward-plods atmos-
phere Of yours we ought to be able
to win out few shares of Soon
Parted, preferred. in the money mar
ket'
so I attaches Rufe, and we 60
away from Mount Nebo down into
the lowlands. And all the way /
coach him for his part in the gratis
1 had in mind. / had idled away
two months on the Florida coast,
and was feeling all to the Ponce de
Leon, besides having so many new
schemes up my sleeve that had to
wear kfmonos to hold 'em.
II intended to assume q funnel
shape and NOW a path nine miles
wide through the farming belt of
the Middle West; so we headed in
that direction. But when we got
as far as Lexington we found Blink
ley Brothers circus there, and the
bluegrass peasantry romping into
town and pounding the Belgian
blocks with their hand-pegged sa-
bots as artless and arbitrary as an
extra session of a Datto Bryan duma
never pass a circus without pull
ing the valve-cord and coming down
for a little Key West money; so I
engaged a couple of rooms and
board for Rufe and me at a house
near the circus grounds run by a
widow lady named Peevy. Then l
took Rufe to clothing store and
The Washington herald., 1921-05-29
Re |Nsw6$5k ci!gpayBEsygPpify} y,EsygPp:f}i

N Many Of them come to New York
with their mothers and live at
home Others. owing 20 the high
cost OF living live in the small
towns around New York and go
home AFTER each performance.
Drinking is cause for instant
dismissal for those who indulge.
Stage managers never permit a girl
to come TO a performance the sec
ond time II she has ever shown any
Indication of being. az Broadway
says. ''ginned up
Stars are recruited from the
chorus ranks and naturally the
most Of them are ambitious. London
calls it's show girls ladies OF the
chorus" Broadway calls them
chorus vamps." The chorus girls
are, by the very nature Of their
profession. unjust1y maiigned- Per-
haps prohibition will stop midnight
wine suppers and cocktail parties
That win help.
New York is really going TO do
something about its terpsichorean
urge. High brow dancing is the
compelling motif for unlocking
many social purses for Greek out
door theater which may be built up
along the Hudson and which will
be looked after artistically by the
great ChaIif-who has trained the
feet of the society debs and many
OF the professional dancers. There
will be a ballet and spectacles may
be presented for the countryside
Folk dances too. predicting things
that most % us 'do not appreciate.
will be presented ] remember once
Of seeing Fokine and his wife DO
a harvest dance on the Century
roof. II symbolized the welcoming
of the rain by wheat, but TO me IL
looked like NJ. Fokine was chas-
ing his wife around the stage and
trying hard not to catch her. II
the new school makes IL possible
to understand these dances intelli-
gently il will save many of US
! much suffering.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-29

Amei wh1be
gray the kee hero ad whIbe : -
by the
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o heroes ssa
Tombstone epitaph., 1921-02-27

as to the poorest animal in the herd. Their decision was quickly reached and unanimous. Bennett agreeing 70 show em all mp as judges of cattle hy cultivating the animal picked as the scrub by the self styled judges, 70 the point that he will be classed IS the best one Of the bunch purchased. The other cowmen are firm in their belief that it can't he done. and were open in their cautions that Fred can't make bull out of what might have been good lady COW. At any rate the outcome of the affair will he watched with interest in these parts. Those who are inclined to doubt Fred's ability aver that in ease he should win he will only add another feather in his cap in the line of hay ing the best bull
Tombstone epitaph., 1921-02-27
CAMERON LEAVES FOR WASH
 iNGToN AND INAUGURATION

PHOENIX. Feb. l5.-Hon Ralph H. Cameron. United States senator-elect. left last night for Las Vegas. New. whence he will go to Salt Lake and thence to Washington. arriving in time for the inauguration. Mrs. Cam eron will follow about the first of March. Mir. Cameron said that he did not believe congress would be called in extraordinary session before March 21 and possibly not before April 4th. That was the information he gathered before he left Washington a month aoo. There will be little to be gained by the assembling of congress before the senate finance committee and the house committee on ways and means have finished the general tariff and the tax sreaAjustment bills which will have the right-of-way over all other legislation