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left to make personal
property returns at Dis
trict Building to avoid
20% penalty. This is not
a United States income
tax return.
August l is the last day
to make a return.
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Denoted Detective Rsigns.

yoeeph r. Grant. for fifteen years
on the District police force. will not
accept his demotion from detective
sergeant TO a uniformed policeman.
Grants resignation was sent to the
District Commissioners yesterday and
probably will be accepted today.
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1EARl 6EElf -
By BILL PRICE
ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD.
BY BILL PRICE.

Tho great H and 8 Zoo Is rapidly
filling with birds and animals not seen
IN any zoo in the world. PHIL MANS
FIELD now contributes the only spec
iren Of its kind in existence:
This Ii the Fandangus Fadorso
Which somewhat resembles . horse
II wears spsts and shoes.
Drinks rotten booze,
And walks like q crab off its course.
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ECONOMY PlcEoN-HoLES
YANk CASES, SAY HELM

Predicting that the Government
would be forced to call back into serv.
tce many of the employees recently re-
iedsed In the campaign for political
economy" Senator j. Thomas Helm
OF Alabama last night told member
OF the Federal Employees Union that
the "meatax methods employed in
affecting separations threatened to
cripple the administration of the Gov.
eminent.
Senator Helm declared that as a
result OF reduced operating forces the
Government would acquire a tendency
to ptgeon-hole cases Of ex-soldiers.
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Fined $45 for Tenth Offense

Edward Pinkney. colored. twenty
three years old. yesterday was arrest.
ed for the tenth time charged with
speeding. He was fined si5 In Police
Court.
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] knew the &c bag 81 peanuts
was getting small, but you can
believe me ~ not when tell
you l saw . man counting the
peanuts With which. he was fiji.
ing the bags. However, my wife
says that's nothing--our three.
year-old daughter can do that
and not half try.
SLIM SIM,
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NEIGHBORHOOD SAYINGS.

Famous sayings of the tribe"
around Virginia avenue and Tenth
street southwest:
"FLEA"-"I know you. shame"
"REDS"-"Ooh, Sis
"DOPEY"-"Can ! go?"
'AIRTIGHT"--"Ain't we got funf"
"FOOTS"-"Where you going home
at?"
"SALTY''-"Putten out"
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HENRY SMITH.
BACON VS.. sHAKEsPEARE VS..
VOLSTEAD.

A friend asked me this. n we drank
near.beer:
why did they call tho English writer
William Shakespeare"
Sure, I'll tell you" answered land
ordered the san,e),
They called him Shakespeare because
that was his name
MEMO SNOW.
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GIRL, 16,ISDGN|ED
MARRIAGE LICENSE
UNLESSPA WRITES
Great Falls Young Woman and
Prospective Groom Encounter
Obstacle at Rockville.

ROCKVILLE. Nd. July a3.-Robert
II. Harmon has resigned al principal
Of the Rockville High School and will.
1t In understood. become associated
with a Washington educational insti.
tuition. He was principal Of the Rock
vile school just one year.
Mr. and Mrs. Ledoux z. Riggs, Of
Goshen. this county, announce the
marriage in Baltimore on Monday Of
their daughter, Miss Sarah G. Riggs.
and Franklin p. Dwyer. of Laytons-
vile. The bride was last year princi-
pal Of the public school At Redland.
this county.
Because the young lady was but
sixteen years old and did not have the
written consent of her parents, Henry
w. Daley adm Mary T. Woods. both Of
Great Falls, Va, were unable to obtain
u marriage license from the clerk of
the circpit court here yesterday after.
noon.
Harry "A. Dawson. appointed post
master OF Rockville to succeed Joseph
Reading. took charge of the office to-
day. He announced that George w.
Mullican, assistant postmaster, and
Oscar T. Gather. clerk in the office,
would be retained.
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Some one asked me what became
OF the G. 0. c. nuts in summer. I
told them that G. o. C. nuts change
in summer to beach nuts but still
stick to the column.
OIDONO.
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When we saw red nose In the
old days we nearly always knew
the cause. but when we see ono
now we wonder whether 1t comes
from sunshine" or ''moonshine.
BOB BURNETT.
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When whipping cream add three or
TOUR not more. drops Of lemon juice
and II will soon become thick,
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ne ssryses: ct
.CARL T. THONER (

Whose action ph otoeraphs have ,eas sees
featured In The Times. ere nov Avoilabis
for general commercial work Of every
ca. why ". u; faos :F' 'ssstssssRA' when '''
Tel<phsse Yrs.klin 1904.
ITO F St. N. w.
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Courtesy Is Keynote Of
Best Marriage, He Says

Pastor chappslI Believes Little.
Inconspicuous Attentions and
Kindly interest Best ProIong
courtship Romance and
Make Matrimony a Success.
Try Calling on Your. Wife, He
Suggests. 81
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THE COLUMN DOING FINE.

THE COLUMN DOING FINE.
am much pleased to note tho
continuance Of tho fraternal feel
ing in the g. o. c. toward all
newcomers, and the sustained In
terest In tho column throughout
Washington. like the idea Of
contributOrs signing their nAInes.
There b no reason why we
should conceal them.
HENRY SMITH.
CMr. Smith Ia an old and loya
Tan OF the column. In fact, he q
one of It's godfathers. While II Is |
good idea to sign names. there 10 NJ
to this effect. Man,
writer's and artists are bashful lnt
many others like the idea of monde
plumes.)
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A meeting in the interest of . new
branch of the Ku Klux was held ut
the Opera House last night. when
Col. J. Q. Nolan. of Georgia. explained
the purposes of the organization.
, 1921-09-07
IELEGR MS.
ST. CROIX STATION

San Juan, 7. R., Sept. st.-Yesterday
noon while a freight train was crossing
the railroad bridge between Santuce and
San Juan the two trucks loaded with
sugar came off the track and broke down
the bridge, falling into the sea. Some
painters we're painting the bridge and
four we're brushed off BY the falling
cars. Three were killed and one serious
ly injured.
Capeto~n, Sept. 1st~. -Speaking at a
Luncheon given in his honour yesterday,
General SHUTS. vino also attended the
Imperial Conference and who also was
a factor in che Anglo IRISH peace p~arIeys,
referred TO the matters engaging him
while in London. The Premier manifest
ed hopefdlness for a conclusion of peace
with Great Britain and Ireland. He
pointad our the dangers Of the Silesian
, 1921-09-07

Doubtless she TOO is experiencing delay
through the very calm weather,
The 8. S. wv. M. Topper" left New
York on Friday, End INST having 30
tons of cargo for F~rederiksted and 40
tons for 3hristiansted The next steam
er leaving New York will be the S. s.
"PulWico on the 18th mss.
, 1921-09-07

ItIO no wan ~
and Japan, who are launching problems
on the world, he advised that. IN the
hurricane now sweeping the world the
motto should be go slow. General
SHUTS said the situation in Ireland when
he arrived in London was indescrlbable
Any idea of such a state OF affairs, II II
had existed before the Great War would
have been secuted, the Premier declar-
ed. The situation, the Premier declared
was difficult, but no hopeless. The on
ly solution to it was Home Rule. General
Smuts characterized world conditions as
exceedingly sad to anyone coming IN con-
tact with these problems. Cheers greeted
his declaration that the withdrawal Of
the United States from international at
fairs left the British Empire as the only
stabilizing influence in the world af-
fairs" According to General SHUTS the
peace of the world is closely bound with
the Silesian question, as it was with
Belgium in 1914. There might have been
at any moment a devastating conflict.
General SHUTS declared, and consequent
ly the Dominion strengthened the hands
of Great Britain i'll preventing Sl!esla
from dragging German! and France
into another war. Europe now knows
that she is dealing not only with Great
Britain but with the British Empire.
General SHUTS said it was considered
unnecessary to pursue the constitutional
position at the conference, but to leave
well enough alone and refer the question
to more peaceful times.
Washington. Sept. LIST. The Italian
Govt. has formally accepted Mr.. Har-
ding's invitation to participate in the
Washington Conference for information.
al reduction OF ornaments and discussion
Of Pacific and Far Eastern questions.
The acceptance completes the list OF
nations invited to participate Great
Britain, France, China, and Japan al
ready having faNourably answered the
invitation.
Dublin, Sept. 1st.-It was authorita-
lively stated here this evening that the
reply of the Sim Fem Cabinet to the
latest communication Of Mr.. Lloyd
George on. the British Cows peace pro
posals, and which was despatched to Mr..
Lloyd George last evening, is an accep-
lance OF the invitation for a further CON
ference in London. No plenipotentlaries
have been nominated however.
Washington, Sept. 1st.-Authority was
granted by the interstate commerce COM
mission today to the western and south
western railways to reduce by 81 a nun
dred pounds the rate o. grain and grain
products for export from Missouri and
Mississippi river ports and on grain from
the territory between the river and from
, 1921-09-07
LOCAL..

The funeral Of Miss Asia Ogaard
wa a well attended and very impress
sive occasion. Some half a hundred
cars made up the procession which
started from C~olquhoun MI. Pleas
ant at $50 .. m, escort d by the rec
tors of st. Johns and St. Paul's who
both otficia5ed al the o~bsequies. The
body was laid 10 rest il the cemetery at
Fr~ederiksted, amid a profusion of flow
ers.
AS we go 70 press the sIoop Mizpah
which has been out from St Thomas
since Monday night is just entering port.
The football team ard tn excursioni5ts
who accompanied it 10 the sister island
are returning by this boat.
The Creole has not yet been heard OF.
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THE NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY s. 1921.

strength OF these erroneous reports he
must have spent during the last three
years about one hundred million gold
rubles in Jewels and in other forms, try
Ing TO hasten on a general revolution by
substituting newspapers and movements
and in payments TO agents.
From Lenines point of view all this
outlay Is dead loss. for Lloyd George
has not yet been blown up the British
Empire stIll exists. America and France
are still bourgeois republics. Despite
the grimness OF the subject, one cannot
help smiling at the idea OF Lenines
trust In human nature being gradually
undermined by the continual failure OF
foreign comrades" to start revolutions
In the outside world and to account Tor
the large sums OF money with which
they We're entrusted
During the last year the Kremlin has
become what the Americans would call
"a hangout for sharks" and. blinded
though he Is by his fanaticism, Lenine
cannot have failed to see that most OF
the alleged Tcrrorists by whom he Is
surrounded have only one idea-and that
is to get money out OF him. 1t is not
his own money. of course. that Lenine
Is spending so literally. but nevertheless
the shock TO his self-esteem has been
considerable. Nobody likes to be duped
and even a RED Gear is inclined to
become impatient with people who as
sure him once q month or so for three
years that England and America are on
their last legs.
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however, be able to utilize these lines
OF retreat; such things have happened
IN history before. lie may have to
give the peasants their land and be I'M
able ten years hence (if he is still in
power them TO take the land back
again.
Denationalixins Mines Likely.
Lenine may have to denationalize
many or the factories and coal mines
which he wishes foreign concessionaries
10 exploit, just at the time when the
British miners are pressing for the ma
tionalization or the British coal mines !;
and he may be unable to nationaiize
them again
friend OF Lcnine has told me that
he is at last convinced that there will
De no universal revolution, and has be-
come somewhat irritated with the for
eisn agents who misled him SO long on
this subject. The heat with which he
declared at the Tenth Communist Con-
gress that whoever believes In a uni
Nersal revolution is mad" certainly
seems to lend some support to this view.
Curiously enough II was Martens, the
first disabuscd him OF this dcusion so
Tar as America Was concerned and the
process OF disillusonment was completed
BY information received from other
sources. AS g. matter of fact Lenine
was victim to his own agents, who.
knowing that he pinned his faith to an
imminent cataclysm, gave him only the
sort OF reports that he wanted. On the
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-08
Human Life Needlessly Shortened.

The Life Extension Institute has no magic sy's-
tenn of exercise, diet hygiene. So far as science
knows, there is no universal panacca tor the Ills
Of humanity. Yet human life in the United States
/, ncedcssly shortened average OF al least
X years, and i, is the duty Of every single one
OF US 10 avoid premature physical breakdown.
Every day than 1900 people die in the
United States because they did not know they we're
sick until disease had gotten such start that Il
was impossible for the physician TO check It after
he had been called in. Figures show that there
hardly three people in hundred who do not need
some advice or suggestion regarding their physical
condition or their manner Of living. More than
100 900 men and women between the ages Of 40
and 60 die each year in the United States from
diseases Of the heart, circulation and Kidneys
most OF them prcventabo. These diseases do not
develop over night. Detected in time, they can
be checked or cured.
The average individual knows all TOO little abou,
his own body. He may have studied physiology
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-08
REMARKED WIDOWS NOT
TO GET POILUS' BODIES
French Bill Would Send Them
to Heroes Parents.

special Gable TO THE NFw Yosx H.sALp.
Copyright, 1891. By THE New YoKx HERALD
New York Herald Bureau,
Paris, May :.
The French Chamber or Deputies IL
to be called upon to solve a problem
which would have defied Solomon's
wisdom when It reaches the bill pro-
viding that the bodies OF French soldiers
whose widows have remarked shall be
turned over to the soldiers parents In
stead OF to wives who have found new
husbands
In arranging for the transfer OF the
bodies from the battle fields to local
cemeteries. the authorities have en-
countered thousands OF such cases and
It has developed that some OF the
widows who remarked arc still drs ~
ing pensions under the French law, and
some declare they should not be bur-
dened with the care OF graves which
might interfere in the happiness OF their
present married life. while others are
equally insistent that their remarrying
did not relieve them of duties prompted
by affectionate memory for their dead
soldier husbands.
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New Discovery Takes
Off Flesh Almost
"While You Wait!"

A pound q day the very first
week without medicine, special
foods, starving, baths or exer-
else. Results in 48 hours!
A r last simple secret has been
~ discovered by the worlds great
: est food specialist which enables
you TO cat pound day off your
weight without the slightest discom-
fort. In fact you will cnjov your meals
rs never before.
Thousands OF men and women who
have tried strenuous diets, special re-
ducing baths, salts, medicine and vio-
lent exercising without results have
found this new scientific way a rcvela-
ton. A pound or more day from
the very start can be counted on in most
cases, and with each pound you
lose you will note remarkable in
crease in energy and general health.
Women so stout they could never
wear light colors or attractive styles
without being conspicuous marvel at
the sudden change that has enabled
them To wear the most wildly colorcd
and fluffy styled clothes. Men who
used to puff when they walked the
least bit quickly--Esen who were rap
idly becoming inactive and sluggish
unable to enjoy outdoor exercise or
pleasure, find their return to youthful
energy almost miraculous.
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making Russia a veritable servile state.
One OF his friends whom I recently met
In Reyal was so conscious of this dam
ger that he suggested jokingly 70 the
Bolshevlk leaders in Moscow that they
should change their motto, "Worsers OF
the World Unite" into Capitalists OF
the World Unite." and the pleasantly
contained so much truth that II was re-
ceiyed colby.
Lenine intends. ! am told, TO give Tor
oigners concessions such as will entail
large preliminary outlay on their part
and bring In so much profit for at least
Ave or six years. The timber and MIN
ing concessions which he has given VIII
yield nothing for years and the colonial
ton projects which he has ia hand VIII
entail the construction of irrigation
works which will take a long time 70
complete. II is doubtful, however,
whether such concessions will attract
foreign capitalists, who WILL one ana
all. be anxious TO get such concessions
as viii enable them to get their money
worth in the shortest possible space OF
time. so that they can clear out before
the deluge.
The contracts that have been mace
with Mr. yandcrlip and other foreigners
can hardly be regarded as serious u =
lot until an attempt 10 hidbr - 49,
them out that we can see what they are
worth The KamchatSa concessions
may not be approved OF by the Far
Eastern Government, or by siberian Ia
Dor, or by the Japanese and Lenlnes
writ does not run In kamchatka. Prob
ably all the concessions that have SO
far been obtained were got by clever
business men who intend to sell them
to somebody outside Russia and who
will themselves remain in Paris. London
or New York to watch what happens
60 the men to whom they sold their con-
cossiorS when these daring pioneers en-
ter Russia.
NJ that IS going into Russia Is only
drop ia tho ocean when We consider
how much ia needed. All the cloth and
boots that have been imported viii not
be enough to satisfy the wants or the
Bolsheviki themselves aud the Fed army.
so that this year, at all events, there
will be little grain got from the peas
ants in exchange for manufactured ar
ticles Moreover, the Bolshevihi are
making their purchases In that waste
full and unbusinesslike way which is
characteristic of all government depart
ments everywhere.
Lenine thus has given way In many
directions; the peasants in particular
have been too much for him. and they
viii make him 80 further yet. But
Lenine has left open several lines OF
retreat TO Ills old position. one being
the refusal TO make the peasants pro-
prictors OF Il cir land and to extend the
private ownership OF crops Carter de-
duaton of the tax in kind) for a longer
period than ten years. lie may not
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-08
1.-THE First Wealth Is Health"

How many men and women there who hsys
never in all their lives had real, thorough health
examination How many people really know
whether they are healthy not! How many arc
taking patent nostrums for some wholly imaginary
disease while all the time really serious dif-
ficulty is making insidious Roadway because it
has not been pointed out!
To prolong life, to be protected against disease,
and in most to restore health, you must
practice hygiene all along the line. Do workman
like Job in clearing the body Of infection, guarding
it from further Infection from strain from poison,
from food deficiency and food excess, and you
will be adding years to your life and immensely
to your efficiency. But first of all you must have
your body thoroughly examined to sec if there
s something wrong which you do not as yet know
anything about.
You cannot get safely out Of the way OF an
onrushing automobile by saying there is no auto
mobile there. better way is to make careful
survey Of the street before you cross it.
You cannot escape pneumonia, heart trouble,
or kidney trouble, etc, by saying simply that you
have never had il that you feel all
right TO-DAY. You don't know. The only way
to have good health is by detection and corrco-
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Prigs' Paradise, Says M. P.
of Control of Liquor

Special Cable to TUE NEw YorK HEaALp.
COPYRIGHT, 1891. by THE New YoER HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
London. May !.
"HOW long is the liquor con-
troll board to be allowed
TO treat the country like prigs
Paradise?" asked Sir John Recs
IN the House of Commons, when
he was unable to elicit informa-
tion from the Home Secretary
regarding the concessions an
nounecd for May 2.
Saloons under the new conces-
sions were to remain open for an
hour longer, but this has not hap
pcncd.
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treatment can check or cure it. The Insti-
tutc's system OF examinations and reports was
formulated in consultation with the members OF
the Hygiene Reference Board-men who have
for years been engaged in analyzing human lives
and the influences that impair them. This system
has been standardized from the Institutes wide
experience in examining many thousands OF indi-
vlduals. But the physical examination Is only
part Of the Institutes serviccl
The examinations arc no, made from the stand
point Of the hospital or the clinic. They made
constructive hygiene. Their purpose is to provid.
survey Of the life and body of the individual
upon which may be based guidance as to necessary
correction OF hygiene or as 70 the type OF medical
treatment medical observation and supervision
that may be needed.
1t makes no difference where you live. In add-
ton TO its large staff of men and women examining
physicians in the Head Office here in New York,
the Life. Extension Institute has 1000 examining
physicians listed throughout the United States
and Canada.
Examinations Of subscribers who live in New
York and vicinity made az the Head Office OF
the Institute, IS West Forty-fifth Street-on ap-
pointment by telephone or etter-between the
hours Of A. M. and p M. Convenient appoint
ments can also be arranged with the Institutes
examiners in the members home district or city
There is special department for women. Women
physicians arc available at the Head Office for tho
examination OF women members who prefer them.
The reports Of the Institute arc strictly con-
hdcntial and arc not available TO any Insurance.
company or any other organization.
You arc urged to visit the Institute and, without
obligation expense OF any kind, inspect its equip
mcnt and secure full information about its services.