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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-20
CAPTAINS BLAME
EACH OTHER FOR
ship COLLISION
Officers Of Steamer and
Destroyer Graham At :
tend Inquiry.

NEW YORK. Dec. leach cap
tain blames the other for the COL
lision of the steamship Panama anc
the United States destroyer Graham
off Sea Girt Friday.
Before TIE naval board OF inquiry
of the steamship Maryland. officers
from the Graham testified they
heard no whistles from the Panama
to Indicate she was going astern.
whereas officers aboard the Panama
maintained they sounded two blasts.
Conidr. William F. Amsden, Of the
Graham. contended that had NOT the
Panama changed her course, the
Graham would have passed her on
the starboard side. but Capt. w. b.
Oakley, of the Panama, insisted that
had he not changed the course of his
boat just before the collision, the
two ships would have come together
head-on.
Inquiry to Continue.
The inquiry will continue Tuesday.
According to testimony of the
Graham officers and crew, the
Panama was first sighted 500 or 400
yards away and bore a Iona green
light. Later her red light appeared,
1t was said, and the order was at
once given aboard the Graham fo-
full speed astern. While the alarm
was being sounded Comdr. Amsden
called for full power ahead to
avoid the collision, but too late
The collision occurred at 5:21 D.
m as We were going fifteen knots
Amsden said. The Panama en-
tered No. 1 fireroom and carried
away the auxiliary steam lines, en-
veloping ,the ship in steam. AS
soon as recovered from the shock
1 called up the mast to learn the
extent of the damage. It was i'm
possible to see for the steam.
81 ran aft and found we were
still intact 1 then requested the
Panama to keep slowly ahead-to
keep the ships together uutn +
ascertained the extent of the dam
age. 1 found the ship was not
sinking.
Locked Together Five Hours.
The captain of the Panama
wanted to beach me on Seagirt.
This I prohibited. We were locked
together until 1890, when wreck
ing tugs pried us apart. / kept
only a skeleton crew aboard the
Graham.
Capt. Oakley. of the Panama, said
it was shortly after o'clock when
he first observed the Graham's
lights ahead. Il gave orders to
port the helm and show the red
light" he testified.
when 1 noticed the other vessel
kept coming on / gave orders to
port helm again. The vessel was
SELL approaching, and / gave a
blast and hard port the helm. Two
blasts came from the Graham. Then
i ordered full steam astern The de-
stroyer gave three whistles. fol-
lowed with three blasts. indicating
1 was going astern. We collided
at 5:19."
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-20
MASS TOMORROW
FOR C.. F. KEANE

Mass will be sung at st. Martins
Church tomorrow morning at 9
o'clock over the body of Callahan
F. keane. assistant treasurer of
the Munsey Trust Company, who
died at his home, 81 Seaton Place
northeast, Sunday evening. He
was so years old
Mr.. Keane came to Washington
in 1888. from County Kerry, Ire
land, where he was born. He has
been with the Washington Savings,
Ohio National and Union Savings
banks.
Ten years ago he Joined the star
of the United States Trust Com
pany and was with that organize
ton when 1t merged with the Nun
sey Trust Company. His wife and
daughter. Helena, survive him. Mr..
Keane was a member of the Knights
of Columbus and the Holy Name
Society. He was a close friend of
the late Cardinal Gibbons.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-20
Will Hays Denies
He Has Resigned
Admits Offer to Head Film
Concern, But Says He Has
Hands Full Now.

NEW YORK, Dec. l9.-Postmaster
General Will Hays denied last night
that he had resigned from the POST
office Department to accept the pres
idency of a motion picture combine.
He admitted he had received the
offer, but declined to confirm ,
rumor that the, annual salary would
be 100000.
His comment was:
Il have not resigned. There are
326, 600 co-workers in the Postoffice
Department. We spend 600.000.o00
a year, handle 100. 900 letters every
hour. and this year will carry
$500, 100000 parcel post packages.
The postal savings is the largest
bank in the world, and altogether
the postoffice is the biggest business
in the world. / have my hands full. -"
Hays Is at the home of Col. Will
lam Boyce Thompson, at Yonkers.
He will leave in a few days for Sui
phur Springs, Va, for a rest, 1t is
understood. accompanied by Col.
Thompson.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-20
BARON WINS CHILD
AND HER MILLIONS

TOPEKA, Kans., Dec. 19.-Countess
de Mumm, 5 years old, will soon be
on her way to join her father, Baron
de Mumm. in Germany, following a
courts award
The trip will come as the climax
OF years of litigation begun when
Mrs. c. c. Scoville. of Seneca, Kans.,
obtained custody of the child on the
death of her mother
With the custody OF the countess,
the father RECEIVERS millions Of dol
lars in the large estates involved in
the case
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-20
WEALTHY RECLUSE
LIVES IN STA BILE

NEW YORK. Dec, 1s.-Although ad.
hitting he was worth $21 900, Will
lam G. Mohrnlan. IS. recluse of Ozone
he lived in a stable Oh not much over
81 month.
Norman was taken forcibly into
court to answer charges brought by
Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Offenfort to the
effect that he had refused to return
to them $500 paid as deposit on prop
erty. The sale was held up, they
claimed. due to the refusal of
Mohrman's wife, from whom he is
separated, to sign the deeds.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-20
is MEN ARRESTED:
KU NUX ACCUSED
IN TRIPLE KILLING
Oklaho m a Prosecutor
Charges Against Klap
Cause Stir.

ARDMoRE. Okla. Dec. -. - The
arrest of, sixteen men. pnost Of them
members Of the Ku Klux Klan. has
created a stir in Carter County ana
caused the prosecutor to charge TO-
day that the killing Of three men
last Thursday niEhtswas the result
of the Klan's efforts to force Joe
Carroll, an alleged bootlegEer. out
Of the country.
The charges against members OF
the Khan are declared to rest largely
on the story OF csrrolis widow. and
IN. nndin~ Of one Of the dead men
dressed In the regatta of the Khan
and near him several Khan masks.
rpne body was found at a place SO
marked by horses hoofs and the tires
OF autos the authorities are con-
WINGED II was the place where the
Khan net.
Minister Ii Held.
The men killed, besides Joe Car
roll were John Smith. of Healdton.
: friend of Carroll. who lived al
wiIson. and C. G. Sims. an Ardmore
policeman. 1t was Sims body that
was found wearing the garb of the
Khan.
Among the sixteen. men arrested
are the Rev. Leon Julius, Baptist
minister, Of Healdton: DR.. f. Z,
Harlow, Frank Cardweil. an insur-
ance agent, and w. L. Hilton, all
of Healdton.
Sheriff Garrett declared that he
has evidence that many of the men
who went to the Carroll home 70
raid IL were drunk at the time
The principal story of the shoot
ing comes from the widow, who Is
the mother of five children The
oldest is ls years and the youngest
Is 10 months.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-20
X. C. CLolUn Band Makes
First Appearance Tonight

Carroll Council. Knights Of Column
bus. will hold Christmas tree party
tonight at ST. Mary's Hall, Fifth and
H streets northwest A short business
meeting will be held. Grand knight
Francis Mccain in the chair. Fol-
lowing the meeting Joseph ]. Degnan.
lecturer Of the council. will stage the
entertainment and the knights Of Co
lumbus Clown Band will make their
first appearance.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-20
Recover Allies Automobile

The automobile of Milton E. Allies,
president Of the Riggs National Bank,
which was stolen from In front of his
home. 1910 l street northwest, Decem-
Der 16, was recovered yesterday by
Headquarters Detectives Alligood, Con-
ners, Jett and Houghlett, abandoned
in woods near Arcola. Va.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-20
Herald Want Ads Bring Results
ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY!

The Burlington Route (c.B.&Q RR) serves eleven great
states illinois, Iowa. Wisconsin. Minnesota. Missouri.
Nebraska. Kansas, South Dakota. Colorado Wyoming
and Montana. which produced 50% of the wheat 52%
of the corn, 60% of the OATS 500 of the alfalfa 42%
of the sugar beet crop of 1920 contained 41% of the
cattle. 45% of the hogs and 31% of the sheep of the
nation. and comprise almost equal to that of
ENGLAND Wales Scotland. Ireland France. Spain. Italy.
Portugal Switzerland. BELGIUM. Holland. Denmark and
Germany combined.
With its 8 389 miles of splendidy equipped and care
fully manned road and through traffic agreements with
connecting lines. It provides willing. courteous and.
above ALL dependable service-passenser and freight.
from Chicago and St Loms-Everywhere West.
When you ship travel just say Huntington" to your
local sent--he will understand
Ps. EusTs
Passenger Traffic MANAGER Manager
BURLINGTON Buldins 547 West
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-10
WIN Dixie VIII Be Millions
Better Off This Autun1,
rvYYHILE recent developments in cotton
M are highly cheering, there are other

vvYYHILE recent developments in cotton
M are highly cheering, there are other
circumstances no less prophetic Of a
prosperous autumn for the South Note
worthy among these is the markedly reduced
cost at which this years crops have been
raised. Upwards of one and third billion
dollars, thinks The Manufacturers Record,
may be credited to Southern farm interests
as a result of savings in commercial fertl-
Hzer, labor and loans and credits.
Last year some five million tons Of fertil-
izer, costing in the neighborhood Of two hun
dred and twenty-five million dollars, were
used; whereas this year the amount is hardly
half as much, and the cost per ton not more
than half. 1t is inferred accordingly that
from the proceeds Of the oncoming harvest
not more than one-fourth as much will go for
fertilizer bills as in 1920 saving of, say,
one hundred and sixty-nine million dollars. A
curtailment of more than nine and nalI
million acres in the area Of cotton planted
has doubtless saved much expense in cultlva-
ton and picking; the estimate is two hundred
million dollars. In the high-piping years,
when credits from stores and banks were easy
to obtain, heavy debts were piled against
crops long before harvest-time, the average
running as high in some States as three hum
dred dollars a pillow and aggregat1ng for the
entire South not less than one billion two
hundred million dollars. Under the stricter
regime which prevailed last spring this sum
greatly contracted, perhaps to the extent OF
q billion dollars.
In these three items, then, the saving will
be far more than enough to offset the year s
reduced acreage and also the probable reduc-
ton in the volume and value of crops. In
deed, The Manufacturers Record estimates
that the approximate potential purchasing
power" of Southern agriculture, which
amounted to six hundred and eigthy-seven
million dollars in 1920, will reach, in this
year of thrift, one billion seven hundred and
forty-fve million dollars. Wherefore:
1t looks as if the Southern farmer
might be better off in fact at the end OF
= this season than he was last with con-
siderable less to sell, but immeasurably
less to buy. If so, he will have learned
wonderfully important lesson. He will
have learned that the reason for farming
is to make a living, provide comforts, and
lay up a competence. The living he will
in future make at home; the comforts
he will buy to the best of his oppor-
s. tunity; the competence will come out OF
/, the success of the new order of farming.
| These interesting analyses and forecasts,
IL will be observed are independent of the
swift, steady advance the last few days have
witnessed in the cotton market. Their sig
nificance comes from economies already eff
fected tendencies already fixed. All the more
heartening, then, is the climb in cotton val
uses.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-10
YOUNG girl asks me if I can tell

a YOUNG girl asks me if I can tell her
II what qualities man should nave
- to make him an ideal husband, be-
cause she wants to be sure that the man she
picks out for a life partner has all IF the
genuine, blown-in-the-bottle guarantees of
being the real thing before she marches with
him to the altar.
Why, child, there is no more set standard
for grading husbands, and to which they must
conform, as there is for judging Durocs, and
Holsteins, ard goats, and other domestic anil
mails. You can't credit husband with SO
many points in his favor because he has a
we'll shaped head. and a kind and gentle dis
position. Nor can you take off so many
dement's because his stomach is bigger than
his head, or he isn't free mixer as regards
housekeeping allowances.
There can be no ideal husband because
there are many women of many minds, and
| every mothers daughter Of them has diff
ferent mind about what she likes best in d
man. Which is Gods mercy; for otherwise,
there would be a few Brigham Youngs, with
| thousands of wives apiece, and an over sup
ply Of old bachelors.
Heaven knows the competition for every
eligible man is fierce enough now, and it
makes one tremble to think what it woula
be if scores of women were after model
hubsand the way they go after model hat
at bargain sale.
Praise be, this is not the case. Feminine
taste differs in husbands even as it does
in millinery. What is one woman's meat is
another womans poison. The man one lady
can't abide, fires the fancy Of her sister. He
who bores one woman to tears, casts a spell
of enchantment over another, and so the
merry wedding bells continue to ring on.
No human being can even guess what a
woman's ideal is going to be, or look like, or
act like. The riddle that the Sphinx broods
over in the desert is what did she ever
see in HIM?" And every woman has asked
it at every marriage she has ever attended
| And nobody answers it.
Different women like men for different
| qualities, and have different ideals. Among
my acquaintance is a young woman who had
stormy and temptestuous excursion on the
matrimonial sea with a young rounder who
drank himself to death before he was thirty
| In the course of time the widow was wooeo
| by most estimable gentleman of irreproach
able morals and conduct, but she refused him
"You see," she said by way Of explanation
| Johnny had spoiled me for marriage with
any other man. There was some excitement
and pep to being married to Johnny, for
never knew when he came home Of an eve
ming whether he would bring me bunch OF
American Beauties, or give me beating
Some thrill to that, believe me! I couldn't
stand being married to man who woulo
always punch the home time clock on the
dot at 6:33, and who would be always just
exactly what he should be, and that you know
| beforehand he was going to be. I'd yaWn
myself to DEATH"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-10
DOROTHY DIXS TALKS-TIE IDEAL HUSBAND


A man who kept you keyed up to fighting
pitch, and who made family life a lurid mel
odrama, that was one woman's ideal of hus-
band. There are plenty Of other women
whose ideal man is the cave man. There is
something in strength and brutality that ap-
peals to the primitive in them, and they never
really love any man Of whom they are not
afraid. They pine to be wooed with club
and they make slavish wives to the men who
have nerve enough to snatch them up by the
hair Of their heads, so to speak, and marry
them while they are protesting they never
will.
Contrarily, there are women whose ideal
of husband is a nice, soft mush poultice.
These women are bosses by nature, and they
can never be happy with any man who will
not let them tell him where he gets on, and
where he gets off. Such a womans idea of
good husband is a man who lets his wife
walk in front, and point him to a seat in
car, and say "sit there who permits
his better nine-tenths to pick out his clothes,
tell him what he may eat, and how to have
his hair cut
The type Of man who calls his wife 'moth-
er" may not be romantic or heroic in appear
ance, but he finds himself mighty comfortable
and well taken care of, and you never hear OF
the woman going to Reno.
Another womans ideal of husband is a
cash register. ALI she asks of a man is for
him to be good money maKer. He may be
handsome or hideous, with the figure OF a
Greed God, or runty and bow-legged. It's
all one to her, so long as he comes across
with fine clothes, and jewels, and the price
of splurge. Her affection and her interest
in her husband have been bought on the
installment plan, and last just az long as he
can keep up the payments.
Most women's ideal Of a husband is a
friend, somebody they can chum with, and to
whom they can talk about their souls, and
vivisect their emotions. Somebody who will
understand them, and be interested in every
thing they think, and think they think.
This appears to be the most unattainable
of all matrimonial dreams. The cases in
which husbands and wives are real friends
and companions who enjoy each others So
ciety, and who never talk out-as we never
do talk out with really congenial souls-is
so rare that they excite universal comment
among their acquaintance Women perish
of envy over a wife whose husband laughs at
her jokes, and listens to her stories, and
| really looks alive and awake in her company.
All of which, little sister, goes to show
there is no ideal husband, and no standard
among women as to what constitutes perfec-
| ton in husband.
| Speaking, by and large, the ideal husband
| is the one you didn't marry
| Copyright, 1921, by The Wheeler Syndi-
| cate, Inc.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-10
Testing the League of Nations

THE most crucial test tnuS lar OF the
workableness of the League Of Nations
is the Silesian issue which has been re-
ferred to that body for adjudication. Months
ago the dispute between Sweden and Fin
land over the Aland Islands was carried to
the League and was composed-a goodly
achievement in war prevention, when one
considers how tense the matter was and now
disappointing the decision to Sweden, who
nevertheless accepted it in good spirit. But
the Silesian issue is more complex, and
charged with more dangerous possibilities.
1t lies not simply between Germany and
Poland, nor between Germany and the En-
tente but also between France and England,
with Italy supporting the latter. Poland
claims certain territory in Upper Silesia, her
right to which Germany denies. France up
holds the Polish view, from which England
iissents and after diverse efforts to agree,
the two Powers find themselves still emphat-
ically apart. Lesser differences than this
have kindled war in times gone.
The League of Nations serves a useful pur-
pose simply as court to which heated argu-
ments can be taken and left a while to cool.
Most persons, looking back upon outbursts Of
anger, can see how incomparably better they
would have appeared and have acted and have
been, had the but kept their heads above the
tempest, which more frequently than else
wise was of teapot proportions. Human ma
ture being the same in nations as in the men
and women composing them, an institution
that enables Governments to count ten or d
hundred with dignity and grace, if it does
nothing more, is eminently worth while, is
it not?
This is what the League did for Sweden
and Finland and is doing in the
graver case that involves France and England
as well as Poland and Germany. Moreover, the
larger Powers both have agreed to accept the
decision as finding, in which event the small
er two will do so, not of necessity alone,
but also, no doubt, with good will. All parties
to the controversy seem to grant that its
claims and counter-claims can be judged more
broadly, more equitably by the balanced mind
Of the League than by litigants advocates
so that the common interests of the world, as
we'll as of those directly concerned, will thus
have recognition. Heretofore, be it remember
ed, those great common interests have been
ignored. Their consideration marks ar
upward turn in human history.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-10
THE POOR LITTLE RICH
By H. Addington Bruce

| a the recent annual meeting Of the
~ American Medical Association DR.. Bor-
"A den S. Veeder, of st. Louis, made the
| astonishing statement that malnutrition is
more common among the children Of the rich
than among the children of the poor.
Ones first impulse would be to say, I'm
possible" DR.. Veeders statement would, on
the face of it, seem to be not merely paro-
doXical but absurd Yet there are facts
which go to bear it out
For example, a nutrition survey of school
children in Grand Rapids, Mich, made by DR..
c. H. Johnson, showed that as many as 20
per cent Of children from poor homes were
by no means as we'll nourished as all chill
dren ought to be. Inadequacy Of the food
supply because of poverty would naturally be
assumed to account for this deplorably high
percentage.
And on this assumption one would expect
to find the percentage fall with income in
| crease. Actually DR.. Johnson found 40 per
cent Of malnutriton among children coming
from homes of the exceedingly well-to-do or
the comparatively well-to-do.
There can be but explanation. 1t
lies in the well-established fact, often forgot
ten by parents, that nutrition is not deter
mined by quantity of food alone.
Children who eat too much may be as
poorly nourished as children who eat too lit
tle And children who do not eat quite
enough food may be not nearly so badly off,
in point of nutrition, as children who eat the
wrong KINDS or 1000.
Obviously, children of the well-to-do, I'M
less their parents are familiar with the laws
of hygienc Iiving-as too few parents in any
class seem to be-are more likely than chill
dren of the poor to eat too much and to eat
foods more palatable than nourishing.
Besides which nutrition depends, to a
large extent, on the general state Of the ner-
vous system. If there 6S chronic over-tenson
or fatigue, food will be poorly digested and
assimilated. Then proper nutrition is quite
out of the question.
And it is notorious that in homes of eco
nomic comfort conditions of ten obtain MAX
ing for nervous oVer-tension and fatigue.
Many child of the rich is pampered and
INDUCED to a really nerve-rackng extent. 1t
is permitted to go to "partie1," even to at
tend dances, at an age when it should have
no thought of parties or dances. 1t is al
lowed to stay up late at night several nights
I week. 1t is given a bewildering and ex-
| hausting variety of playthings and amuse-
ments.
In a word, it's whole environment is too
complex for nervous health And such a
condition may more than offest the advan-
ages financial ease should confer DR.. John
;ons findings, considered together with other
eta presented by DR.. Veeder, suggest that
the offsetting is of lamentably frequent oc-
''rI3nCG.
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