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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-03-24
NoMore Cracked Dishes
In Texas Restaurants
lIBy Associated press.l

AUSTIN, TEN. March 23.-No
more cracked dishes are to be al
lowed in Tezas restaurants under
thc provisions of II law approved
toda! by Governor Nen.
Tho law also provides that all
restaurants and hotel dishesrmust
Q sterilized after use and pro-
mbits the employment of persons
with infectious or contagious dis
eases in dn!rics. restaurants,
hotels or meat markets.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-03-24
I.aoo Teacher. In session

MoNTGoMEIiY, ALA. March o.
Fittccn hundred acknowledgements from
all sections of Alabama are here for
mo tortieih annual convention OF the
Alabama E~ducational association
which begins tomorrow and continues
through Saturday. Officials mn.
pounccd tonight that the
registration Thursday will show more
than $500 teachers on hand for the
meeting.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-03-24

S~hiphuildcrs Declare Cash Dividend.
CLEVELAND. OHIO. March Or
Directors of the American Shipbuild-
ing Company today declared the reg
ular quarterly dividends of "a per
cent cash on the preferred and COM
mon stock, and ali extra dividend Of
Ii per cent cash on the common
shares. all payable on May =, To stock
of record al the close of business
ADriI IL.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24
NORMALCY OF ENGLISH

THOSE school teachers in this city who
i have formulated a creed to be memorized
by pupils willing to speak and encourage
others to speak better English have done
something quite as worthy of attention az
the book Of manners recently issued by some
of their associates to turn the youthful mind
away from jazz and backward toward nor
NAL tastes.
Americans are in a hurry. They walk
quickly and quickly they talk. They clip
and abbreviate words and sentences and
often slide over syllable as IL it were
creased Listen any day TO the converse
tion of people VINO have high school di-
piomas or even college degrees and learn
for yourself what violence can be done TO
the common tongue by folk who have had
every opportunity to cultivate respect for it,
There are college girls who can ask with.
out blushing for cupa tea. There are ac-
complished secretaries who say with fine
infection, I'm tell him va called" They
probably learned that trick of speech from
the highly educated boss.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24
A HOMECOMING

HTT MUST not happen again :" said Pres-
l. dent Harding on a pier in New York
yesterday at the last pitiful homecoming Of
soldiers who were among the first to die
under the American flag in Europe.
Who will dispute that sentiment or ques-
tion the need of the resolve expressed in this
instance with genuine feeling by man who
controls the greatest political forces in the
world?
Of course it must not happen again. But
it will happen so long as politicians con
tinue to sneer and swagger and say, like
Mrs. Bersdoll, that wars must always be.
1t will continue to happen so long as
statesmen refuse to put the structure of all
their plans on moral and intellectual grounds
rather thnn on foundations of purely ma
terial interest II will happen again, per-
haps.
But wars will not always be- II men of
the type now in command of national and
international affairs cannot find ways to
prevent them forever the plain people Of
the world will make other experiments. They
will risk changes that may be disastrous
But they want peace. Their patience is
almost exhausted
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24
ARCHITECTURAL REPENTANCE

THE necessity of the City Hall annex
= having passed the stage of argument
10 is fitting to emphasize the possibilities Of
atonement contained in the project.
The, artistic oifenses of the Public Build
inss are Of such heroic proportions that de-
spair has long been the portion of their
most earnest critics. The City Hall. mon
strous incubus. inept survival Of the worst
features of French Renaissance garbled with
Norman and Romancsque improprieties is
like the Websterian Massachusetts, in at least
one respect-''there she stands
Dreams Of its removal, visions of its dem
clifton, however glorious, are vain. But
an opportunity is at hand to conduct the
supplementary undertaking along the lines
Of chastened reform and good taste.
The new building, which will house the
now crowded Department of Public Safety
need not be excessively costly to conform to
the march of improvement in American
architecture. The structure at Broad and
Race streets can be made TO serve both or
namental as we'll as practical purposes
Now is the time TO be wary Of bunglers
The cornerstone Of the annex should be laid
in a spirit Of contrition. The message of
how not to do 1T is to be read at what ought
to be the junction of the citys two main
arteries.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24
MYSTERY OF THE BEES

LIVERY little while there is a startling
IL disclosure Of the varied interests of the
State Government. The latest comes in an
announcement from Harrisburg that the
Department Of Agriculture is about to issue
bulletin calling the attention of the farm
ers TO the necessity Of feeding their bees.
The frosts which killed the fruit tree
blossoms destroyed that on which the bees
feed when first they emerge from their sea
son Of Information, and the succeeding cool
weather has delayed the opening of other
blossoms to such an extent that the bees
are in danger of starvation unless food Is
provided for them.
Town dwellers who see no humor in the
story of the man who resolved to keep a
bee in order to get his home supply Of
honey, will wonder how the bees will be fed
When blossoms are not available, will they
eat cornmeal? Or does the housewife have
to make sweet puddinss for them?
Pure-fo food experts will be in no such haze
OF ignorance, for they know that unscrupu
ious bee keepers have been IN the habit Of
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24
MISS ALICE A. JOHNSON
On Home Economics

HOUSEHOLD mechanics such as paint
IL ing and the ability to overhaul washing
machines when they become faulty should be
introduced as part of the roster of all girls
in the second term of the third year Of
junior high school. according to Miss Alice
A. Johnson, assistant on economics and
domestic science in the public schools.
And when ] say painting l do not refer
to some girls who are adept at the use of
rouge Miss johnson said.
I'm connection with the introduction Of
household mechanics for girls l believe also
that camp cookery would be of great use
IL presented to boys in an interesting man
ner.
I'm the latter case it would be impossible
to call it by any other name than camp
cookery, since the study has to be taken
from a psychological standpoint.
IF you tell boys that you are going to
teach them the values of food products they
will become grouchy and say they have fin =
ished their course in the study Of physiology.
and for that very reason it is necessary to
teach the subject in an interesting way.
Health Is Important
"On the other hand. we must not forget
the Importance of health instruction entirely
in the pursuit of domestic science.
I'm the making of menus. which we teach
IN the second year. tnerc are many VINO say
that they have younger brothers or sisters
who are not able to drink milk. In order
TO get around this we teach them the i'm
portancc OF milk In the diet and tell them
the ways in which milk can be taken in
other forms, such as custard and rice pud-
ding.
Because of eccentricitieS in the diet
many of the students are under weight.
This can be easily overcome by finding a
putritinus fond substnnrC which will suDDlV
the system with the lacking chemicals. !
think that each girl should be closely OBJ
served for any falling off in weight
Cooking on u large basis should be given
in the second term of the third year as well
as the making Of a family budget.
THE teaching Of the latter subject has
been taken up in college, but many of the
boys and girls in high school do NOT enter
the universities; therefore | believe that n
matter like the budget would not come amiss
IL taught to both boys and girls alike.
Men, when they grow up. fail to realize
the amounts that are expended for household
usage ond merely pass the matter over lightly
by saying that they have allowed so much
money for the purchasing of foodstuffs and
utensils.
Urges Course In Schools
THE establishing of n model apartment
in the public schools would be of great ad =
vantage to girls studying domestic science
and home economies because in this way
they would be able to receive advice without
suffering for their mistakes as they perhaps
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24
Where the Bees Get Stung

TT YOU happen to keep bee, in your bon
J. net or otherwise, you will be interested
in coming bulletin of the State Department
Of Agriculture setting forth that early bios
SONS and late frosts, blooms destroyed and
flowers delayed, are going to make this
hard summer for the industrious honey
maker. As the poet says:
How doth.the little busy bee
Get Stung by Nature sour
Who let's Jack Frost attack the tree
And kill the opening flower
Though we think the intelligence Of this
animal has been much ovcrrated. We admit
that 1927 has provided him with some
handicap.
Who does not work must lack the "eats" :;
it is law imperial.
And how can bees dIStill their sweets
Without the raw material?
Il simply cant be done. The honey in.
dustry needs protection pap, If YOU wish
70 cnll 1t so. You've simply got 10 feed
your bee or bees if you don't want il or
them 10 starye or dcteriorate.
With laws OF nature thus defed
Now wouldn't II be funny.
II. lawless humble bees decide
To turn out bootleg honcyf
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24
WHAT KEEPS 1T UP?

TT WAS in June of last year that living
4 costs in the United States reached the
peak. The prices of the necessities of life
were then approximately S5 degrees above
the normal general schedule OF 1914
In July Of last year the reaction started.
Since then the total general cost of living
has decreased 17.5 per cent. Clothing IL
down 35 per cent Food is down 80 per
cent.
The recession continues and affects all the
essential commodities but one. That one is
coal. which never budged from the peak, but
kept on going skyward. Since the down.
ward movement Of all other prices began,
the cost Of coal has increased 13 per cent
The statistics on which this summary is
based were provided by the National In
dustrial Conference Board
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24
HUMANISMS
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY

FNliI reporters at the State Department
l. have established for themselves n very
accurate and reliable barometer of the inter
national situation.
That barometer is the part down the
chin of Secretary Hughes. which diverts
one portion Of his carefully trimmed
whiskcrs sharply to the right and the other
portion no less sharply to the left.
When international matters are serene
that part divides the two areas as mathe-
maticnlly as does a spite fence the yards
Of uncongenial neighbors. And the altcrna-
ting brown and white strands of his beard
take off in opposite directions like spray
from the bow of boat. They are uniform,
balanced, symmetrical
But il there Is dissension among the M
tionS. If programs are going awry, il some
obstreperous one has thrown monkey
wrench the part in the sccretary's whskers
is likely to lead off to the southeast or
southwest. to waver, to lose itself In the
jungle. Then, on days of uncertainty. the
nart may remain ccntered but indistinct
like a trail through tangled grass. And
when some American born idea is affronted
every whiSkcr on the Hughes chin stands
forth as an individual bent on giving an
ocular demonstration Of the pcrpcndicularity
of the Hughes backbone
Thus does the Secretary of State at II
O'Clock each morning display relief map
of the affairs of the world.
wbo, w,uia,, u ,1oEiDIor hmm, .
scnotor frnm IIIinois thomrh Ioro on"nu .lho Nv"
or tho Uomsc If RcnrcScntotivos G,lt "''nnppr @
to Congress he regarded his service MS an
cNpcrinen' ana a'a NOT Know whether he
Whs GOING TO Wunt 10 stay or NOT lie was
III r lhtrruruHh , ralWny Daron OUT ms way had
political ambitions.
ne Sot un unprr'ehccu secretary. who
HGiueu Esl MN sNiillu''!, put deSpite this the
me was soncWhal confusing ana nc didn
seem 10 get tne hahg or ~ Attcr SIN months
I%H pt'trTt omd X ',Ilut AT MY own anna
lruriSnnesS ai,H MS secretary asked him just
what IL was tnal seemed 10 stand most in
msn ,nc way OF MS adjustment 10 congressional
HE.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24
NOW MY IDEA IS THIS
Daily Talks WHh Thinking Phiadephias Subjects they
KnOiU Best

might suffer when they were no longer under
guiding hand.
ITO be able to market properly and buy
the foodstuffs that have the most value is
indeed study that too much stress cannot
be laid upon. and with this comes the ability
to vary the diet.
"The study of domestic science in the sec
ond term Of; the third year fails to provide
for canning in large quantities. / feel that
canning should be taken up on larger
scale. because of its great value in house
keeping. TO be sure, 1t is taught on a
small basis in the seventh and eighth grades,
but when it comes to doing it on n large
scale many difficulties will be encountered
that could have been ordinarily overcome
had the student been given course before
leaving school,"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24
IN THE FOURTH WARD

TF ANYTHING were needed to prove that
4 the police in some important sections are
getting out of the control of the Administra-
tion and into the hands Of the political tongs,
which few Mayors ever have been able to
cope with successfully. it was provided
yesterday at the beginning of the Civil
Service probe into the Department Of Public
Safety.
Senator Sslus appeared to believe that
he had made out a case against Mr.. Moores
Administration. What he really did was to
make out case against the school Of politics
In which he himself is q past master.
The Fourth Ward appears to be in pretty
bad shape. IL is possible 10 blame the
Mayor for that only if you are innocent
enough TO believe that any one underworld
political faction is any better. any more
enlightened, any more honest than the fac
dons opposed to il.
The corruption of police and police de.
partments begins with underiings in the
wards and the men who rule them. It is
necessary to believe that these men have
actually been exerting powerful influence in
City Hall, as they often have done before.
TO seize authority that belongs to the Mayor
by the simple expedient of converting some
Of his subordinates.
No one will believe that Mr.. Moore has
consented to any compromise with the
panders. Why, then. was the crusade
promised by Mr.. Gordon not begun before?
Did police officers higher up know of what
was happening downtown?
The developments Of yesterday promise
excitement at City Hall and in the Fourth
Ward. But more than excitement ought to
come out Of the hearings. Men ought to be
named And if the Mayor Is being sold out
the merchants ought to be publicly identified.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24
SETTLING DOWN?

TAPAN is getting out Of regions in Siberia
- which her militarists and jingoes vowed
to hold. Toxic has ordered the evacuation
of Shantung. The United States Govern
ment has made It plain that 1t will recog-
nize the new Mexican Government IL Presi :
dent Oregon can see his way clear to accept
terms dictated in part at least by Secretary
Fall. British troops are moving toward
Sllesia to uphold the rule Of reason but 1t
appears that, after all, their assistance may
not be needed in the settlement Of this new
est row in Europe.
These events are significant, even in the
swift current of contemporary affairs The
minds of governments and peoples seem to
be clearing.
This country should be on friendly terms
with Mexico because, so long as we stand
austerely and suspiciously aoof, we shall
continue to help the people who, for their
own sake, seek to create hatred Of the United
States south of the border. The terms OF
recognition proposed by Washington are not
such, il rumor is to be credited, which a
sensitive man or sensitive people could
readily accept. The President of Mexico is
asked to sign a written agreement to do the
things which under ordinary circumstances
are trusted to the honor Of Governments
and national executives.
Obregon may sign the protocol" Doing
so he will, of course, provide some fresh
ammunition for the army Of enemies that
surrounds him as it has surrounded every
Mexican who ever sought to direct national
affairs in the interest of the people. He
may sign, nevertheless, TO gain the advan-
tages that recognition would bring him.
Our own Government is in this instance
not without justification for its caution.
For. in the eyes of a large part of Europe.
we are held partly responsible for n great
deal that goes on in Mexico. The Monroe
Doctrine acts both ways. The protocol is
not for the protection of American lives and
American interests alone.
Japan in evacuating Siberia is merely ac-
cepting the inevitable. On Russian terri
tory the japanese were a challenge not only
to Russia, but to the whole world Of Allied
and American opinion. The withdrawal
from Shantung, so suddenly announced sug-
gests various possible meanings.
The japanese still are determined to es-
tablish and administer II Monroe Doctrine
of the East. Presumably they have been
doing with money and political agreements
in Shantung what they found they could not
do by force or the threat Of force.
The japanese adventure in imperial ex-
pansion has been enormously costly. 1t
may be that the burden became too heavy
to be carried safely. At any rate, this sud
den conformation Of the Toxic Government
with policy which only n year ago the
japanese war leaders sternly and proudly
rejected is more interesting and significant
than any news that has come recently from
any foreign capital
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24
CHINA SEES THE POINT

CHlNA and Germany are at peace by rea-
~ son Of an agreement signed between the
two nations" at Pekin on May 20.
The quoted words are significant. Eyi-
IDENTIFY the Chinese, who refused to become
party TO the Treaty Of Versailles at the
time of its framing in 1919, experience the
feeling that one -sided peace lacks some
thing Of con vincing values. There seems to
have been In the republic no overwhelming
disposition to reconcile antipsthy TO treat
iax Independently with Germany with de-
sire 10 end the state of war by resolution.
The paradox which they have rejected is
ths one which perpleIes the majority Of
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

I. Belgrade, on the Danube Is the capital
Of the Kingdom OF the Serbs Croats
and Slovenes.
dramatist, especially noted for his
powerful play, "Ei Gran Gaieoto,"
adapted in English under the title,
'"rhe World end His Wife" He was
born in 1888 and died u few years ago.
5. Jonathan Swift In polite Conversation"
Dialogue 2, wrote, II thought you and
he were hand-ln-glove.''
4! The Julian calendar in a. B. c. reformed
the Roman calendar by ordering that
every year whose date number Is ex-
actly divisble by four contain sos
days, and all the others a6S days. Tho
average length OF the Julian year is,
therefore, 1854 days, which is too
long by eleven minutes and fourteen
400 years TO about three days. Tho
discrepancy was repaired by the Gre
gorian calendar in 1882. The differ
thirteen days. The Gresorian calendar
s now used throughout the Christian
world except in Bulgaria. Serbia,
Greece and the Greek Church which
still use the Julian.
.. Wealthy persons are called plutocrats
in alluson to Plutus, the classical gou
of riches. and not in reference to Pluto.
the god of the Internal region. "Plou.
tos" Is Greek and means wealth.
G, The original Templars were members Of
religious order organized to protect
pilgrims to the Holy Land in the Mid
die Ages.
T. a diapason Is a combination OF notes or
parts In harmonious whole. Techni.
cally 1t Is an octave or the compass OF
all the strings of Tyre the foun-
dation stop OF an organ or principal
whether open or stopped; in France
the word describes tuning FORK OF
the pitch registered by It.
s. The first names OF the two Cabots die
coverers of North America, were, re-
spectiyely, John and Sebastian.
g. Idaho is Indian for Gem Of the Noun
tans."
10 The flower zinnia Is named after j. b.
Zinn the German botanist
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24
What Do You know?
QUIZ

/. What son of an American President bs.
came commander Of armies hostile to
tho United States?
.. What was the first State to ratify the
thirteenth constitutional amendment
forb!dding slavery in the United
States?
5. Who wrote the novel, "Rhoda Fleming? :?
4. Who Is President of Cuba?
s. Name three kinds Of palm trees.
6. For what was Lady Bancroft noted?
I. In what part of Ireland Is the County
Galway.
s. What Is meant by jettisoning a cargo?
.. What is a motet in music?
10. When did Bismarck die?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24

dilu,ins honey with glucose Ted to the bees,
which, poor smps that they are, do not
know the difference between the nectar Of
the blossoms and the product Of the chem
lists laboratory Or else they believe In a
forty -four hour week but are unable to cur
tail their work TO that length when depend
ent on the provisions of nature, but leap
to it with unanimity when man makes It
possible for them to decrease their hours
Of labor by carrying ready made sweets to
the hive
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24

Americans. who are natrraly loath to trans
actions involving separate treaty with
Germany.
Orientals arc sometimes accused Of rea-
soning backward. In this case they appear
TO have realized the difficulty of pursuing
simultaneously two absolutely contradictory
lines Of conduct.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24

Bloodhounds used in
Eliza Always Ahead West Virginia TO trace
incendiaries RESPONSE
Bile for the loss Of mine buildings failed to
pick up a trail This is quite in accord
ance with past performance. The blood
hounds never get anywhere, but the faith
of West Virginians continues patheticalIy
unmpaired
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24

We were afraid not to fight" said
Colonel Harvey. In attempting to interpret
politics and trade our Ambassador to Eng
land does not seem to realize that he has
slandered every American soldier who fought
and died in the big war
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24

Since all the parties to the Upper SiIeSa
controversy are agreed that the Versailles
Treaty must be upheld, showdown will
undoubtedly develop the fact that everything
said 10 the contrary was said in a Pick
Wickian sense
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24

Either sublime faith
Squarins the Circle in human ability or
careessness Of the
facts is al that is needed to enable man
confidently to declare that some day wise
statesman will devise q tariff that will do
all that it is intended 10 do and no more.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24

When the President says he could wish
q nation so powerful in righteousness that
none will dare to provoke its wrath, of
course he means us and probably means
thnt we ought TO carry sufficiently big
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24

1t is at least comforting to know that
the alleged inaccuracy of Balys curve can
have absolutely no effect one way or the
other on Babe Ruth's batting average.