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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-18
Would You Like a Wooden
Ship for q House Boat?


D. LASKER head of the Shipping Board, tells you the
~ country is going to lose $4,000O0000O on its ship
- ping enterprise At least he looks the situation in the
face and gives you the FACTS
1t seems pity, however, that the fleet of wooden
ships which cost $24OOOOOOO to be 'sold scrapped
or sunk before the first Of October
An ingenious mind like that of Lasker, it is safe to
predict will find better for them If they had
them in China they would anchor them along river banks,
providing homes and good fishing for million people
Why not GIVE them to China if we can't do better'
Or better, why not give to any American citizen
that will find place for water 'front.' In Flor
da Georgia, Maine the Great Lakes along the big
rivers the Inhabitants would be delighted to have the
wooden ships paying nominal rental purchase price
Over hundred and fifty of these ships lying in
Jamaica Bay If it is question of scrapping them, this
writer will undertake to find hundred and fifty fam
lilies anxious to have them for homes at Scrap Prices"
To them for flying machine targets would be sheer
waste CA floating raft would do wel), the wooden
hus offering resistance to INT would be worthless
in an experiment.
P. S. TO OUR READERS:
If you would like big wooden ship for house boat,
write A. D. Lasker the Shipping Board He'll oblige
you, if possible
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-18
President Harding, Please
Ride Oy1Iy q TrOtter
= RESIDENT HARDING is going to ride

PRESIDENT HARDING is going to ride horseback, after
giving up the exercise for thirty years 1t is an ex-
cellent idea due to his family physician General Saw
yer, whose health ideas eminently sound.
But President Harding should ride only big, strong
boned, well-bred American trotting horse.
Not running thoroughbred and not army charger,
not some animal selected for its unworthy unnatural side
wheel gaits but regular American trotte such as Ma
than Straus or General Miles, both experts would know
how to select.
The American trotter does not stumble, which is the
important thing, especially for man as heavy and tall
the President
This writer persuaded the late Joseph Pulitzer to re-
sumo horseback riding which he had neglected since the
days he served in the cavalry in the civil war be was
suspicious first became careful man, murmurng
Brisbane Brisbane you in league with my heirs to
have me killed." but he started big trotter named
Injour" rode anything but troters never had
fall, or stumble
He nearly sixty and almost blind at the time but
he rode regularly taking American rotters to Europe
sith him.
The people couldn't afford to have anything happen
to President Harding just now, hence this advice.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-18
The StupendOus Folly of
Putting Duty on Crude Oil

and other inundated, colonial or eco
nomically pre-empted lands.
Our safety in war, our prosperity
in peace, depend largely on the as
surance of an adequate future sup
ply Of mineral oil for fuel, power,
fabrication and the invaluable and
almost illimitable by-products SO es-
sential in industry, science and mill
tary defense.
Yet the tFordney tariff bill flies
directly counter to this wise policy
of our State Department by propos-
ing duty on imported crude oil of
35 cents barrel! Also Is cents a
barrel on fuel oil! Al
Such duty would be unimpor-
tant as a source Of revenue, for it
would tend to debar importations.
1t would not protect, but would
rather hasten the exhaustion of the
home oil supply.
And it would defeat the supreme
purpose of American foresight,
which now aims to supplement our
waning home supply by acquisitions
abroad. HI.
Surely, such stupendous folly can
not expect the assent of an Ameri-
can Congress or President.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-18
Suppose Japan Did Win,
Fighting Us

n OINCARE former President of France is quoted by
Lausanne, of the most important French editors,
as follows:
Tomorrow, or in the very future, thousand
questions may arise in the Pacific between the United
States and Japan which will be embtered by the hatred
of How far will England then be drawn by her ALI
ancei No is in the confidence of fate We have
therefore, the right and duty to maintain freedom
that ourselves may not be carried away later the
tide of adventures
THAT interests America, and THIS interests ENG
LAND If the United States and Japan at war; and
England should help Japan, Of two things would
happen.
The probable happening would be victory for
the United States would not be pleasant for England
to find the United States conqueror of Japan with Eng
land back of Japan.
Suppose the IMPROBABLE happening, victory over
America, with the help Of England. What would happen
THEM
Nobody knows better than the English that the imme
date result would be the rising of Aatc peoples against
any kind of white interference control in Asia
With Japan victor in world war, JAPAN and not
ENGLAND would rule India and the rest of Asia.
The English will not ally themselves with any Asiac
power in fight against America any important white
power for that would considerably harm to
England than, for instance, to the United States
We could stand reverse if we had to- then collect
ourselves and adjust matters satisfactorily
But if England ONCE lost her hold on her outside
possessions those that held unwlngly-no of course
her white colonies like Australia and Canada-woud be
lost to her forever
England KNOWS that, for she is managed by states
men, not by politicians.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-18
HUM ANISMS
William Anterior Du Puy-

Senator Nathan Barksdale Dial of South Caro-
INA, who had the temerity TO enter a campaign
some Years ago in which "Pitchtorlt' Ben Tillman
and the tumuItuous Governor Rlease were both
rival candidates, is genial Southern gentleman
from whom stories like the following trickle al
When he runs for office. he says. he insists
that the people make election day a holiday. that
they come out and have a good time.
There was once a tramp. he says, who accosted
a good lady. told his hard luck story and asked
for aims The lady said that she did not regard
able bodied man who could work for living She
would, however. give him a dime. not as duty
but as a pleasure.
Make 1t a quarter" said the tramp. and enjoy
yourself thoroughly" &"s '...f
II folks take pleasure in voting for him. says
the Senator. let JOY be unconfined-
Forty years ago the grasshoppers ate up three
successive crops for the farmers OF Iowa and
reduced them to such penury as these. the pro-
There were two farmer boys out In northwest
Iowa at that time who might have been mere
farmers but for those grasshoppers.
Frank Mondell left the farm of thes preacher
who had brought him UP and rode a cattle train
down to Chicago because Of those grasshoppers.
1t was the beginning of devious life, which has
fnaily,led to the majority leadership in the House
Of Representatives.
Elmer Darwin Ball, now Assistant Secretary OF
Agriculture, reacted differently, He got inter
ested in insects He has spent the intervening
forty years in studying them. He has developed
a speciality, the leaf hopper. He knows more
about leaf hoppers than anybody else. And be-
cause he does ne has discovered the secrets Of
the diseases that infect potato fields and beet
fields and has pointed the way toward proven
ton and cure Of those diseases
Neither Solomon in his wisdom. Croesus with
hts wealth. nor Methuselah In the length of his
wears was able to command the elements of n
full life that Is within the reach of the street
conductor of today" says Dr. William Joseph
Shoyyalter of the National Geographic Society
solomon never came home late at night and
pressed button to illuminate his domicile," Mr..
Showalter continued. "Croesus never sent a
telegram Methuselah at $50 had never been
800 miles from the place OF his BIRTH
........s Copyright. 1871. by Public Ledger Co.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-18
Helpful Ferry
Y arranging tariffs there is one
obviously sensible principle to be
followed-admit free of duty
A MOTHER corporation with a
"a soul is discovered.

IA soul is discovered.
Last Friday evening a dozen
travellers stood on the dock at An
napolis and watched the ferry to
Claiborne disappear in the rain.
They had missed the last boat.
And when the boat left Claiborne
on its return trip several parties of
automobiles, cold and bedraggled,
also stood on the dock. They had
arrived five minutes late.
Then Agent Sherman, at Claiborne,
and General Manager Howard, at
Annapolis, got busy, and as result
the steamer Gov. Harrington, named
for the justly popular former
3 Chief Executive Of Maryland, was
ordered to make an extra trip. The
Eastern Shore passengers were taken
to Claiborne, where buses were
provided for their further transpor-
tation, and the westbound travellers
were landed at Annapolis at l
o'clock in the morning.
The Claiborne-Annapolis Ferry,
Inc, suffered big monetary loss,
paying boat and dock crews four
hours overtime in order to accom-
modate two dozen belated travellers.
Employees on boat and ashore work
ed cheerfully in a pouring rain
hustling baggage, pushing water
logged automobiles.
Our hats are off to the ferry COM
pany, to its accommodating general
manager and its energetic Claiborne
representative.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-18
Anarchy! BoLsheUism! HeLp /!

ONES, merchant, up against it.
His business, his prosperity, his
financial stability-all involved
in lawsuit. He is waiting for
Judge Gazoozem to decide his case.
Every day he reads every line in
the newspapers to see if Judge Ga
zoozem has decided his case. Every
day he calls up his lawyer to ask
if Judge Gazoozem has decided his
case and the lawyer peevishly re-
plies, ''Not yet"
Then Jones reads among the So
ciety notes:
Judge Gazoozem caught
twelve-pound striped bass in
the surf at Seabright, N. j."
And Jones says to himself:
"Isn't that NIGEL"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-18

tends 10 hamper business is
- shown in small way by this
incident:
A jeweler sells well-known
fountain pen for $2.50-the pre-
war price. Recently a customer
selected one, laid down $3.50, took
the pen and started to walk away.
EXCUSE me,' the dealer said,
"there's war tax of per cent, 13
cents extra"
"He picked up his money!" the
dealer says, "and walked out, with
out saying word. If the tax had
been only 1 per cent, 1 would not
have asked the customer for it.
What we need is a ] per cent tax
on all sales in place of special taxes
on a few lines of business.
In many minor transactions the
sales tax would be absorbed by the
dealer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-18

IN arranging tariffs there is one
obviously sensible principle to be
followed-admit free of duty
non-competitive rawmaterials which
can be manufactured at home, used
at home or exported at profit.
Especially should this principle
apply to such raw material as
crude petroleum.
Today we are using more crude
! petroleum and petroleum products
than our native wells at highest de-
velopment can yield.
The domestic supply of this nom
renewable natural resource Is in peril
of extinction. Some experts place
its life as low as twenty years.
Clearly, then, the prudent thing
for Americans to do is to get hold
of petroleum wells in other lands,
bring the crude oil here and manu-
facture its products for our own
use and for export.
That is why our State Department
is so anxious that British, French,
Dutch and other foreign interests
shall not debar American enterprise
from access on fair terms to petro-
leum supplies in Mesopotamia, the
Dutch Indies, Venezuela, Colombia
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-18
MIR. B. Baer

oss-r4<As lsa,. b, STR oc.e-s,

All good Americans go to
Paris to be bad.
France is sister Republic
TO America. It's no harm TO
hug and kiss your sister.
Every hotel in Paree now
has American bar where
Tibetan barkeep mixes Egyp-
tan drinks for exiled tour
lists from Madagascar. II
isn't necessary for Amer
lean TO speak French in
Paris. Your bahkroll is
your interpreter.
American tourists get
along with French by sign
language. Sign this. Sign
that. Sign those. Con-
sensus of bevel-edged opin.
ion that Yank in Europe is
just plain fish.
Fish ,s p,,v who rats
taLar for long wall ora
nays two fares for nr,viIege
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-18
Fools Farmers
THE movement to unite the farm
ers and the shop and factory

TdE movement to unite the farm
ers and the shop and factory
= workers in working for common
political and economic objects has
become serious enough to brighten
partisan leaders and the big inter
ests that own them.
Newspapers like the New York
Times and Philadelphia Ledger join
with such agricultural publications
as the National Stockman and Sec
rotary Wallace's Farmer in warning
the farmers to have nothing to do
with the labor unions and in argu-
ing that the interests Of the farmer
and the shop worker are fundamen-
tally hostile.
The shop worker and the farmer
ought to know that that is nonsense.
The town and city workers are the
farmers customers. The better
wages they get the better prices the
farmer gets for his products.
The prosperity of The city worker
is the prosperity of the farmer.
They ought to work hand-in-h hand in
politics and in organization. When
ever they learn that truth and put it
in practice, the people will be better
off and the predatory interests will
lose lot of prey.
When Wallace's Farmer says that
"the farmers are suffering more
now from the leaders of labor than
from the leaders of finance" and
when the New York Times says that
cit is to the farmers interest that
labor wages shall be kept low" they
both speak falsely and both give the
farmer advice that is directly
against his interests.
The farmers should initiate the
town and city workers by organic
ing their own cooperative and eco
nomic unions. Then they can talk
to the politicians in tones that will
be needed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-18
Nuisance Taxes

TOW the present war taxation
II tends to hamper business is
= shown in a small way by this
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-18
AN OLD SUPERSTITION

No person or animal
should pass between a bride
and bridegroom from the
marriage ceremony until the
wedding breakfast. IL this
rule be broken the marriage
will not be a happy one.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-18
A LITTLE HIGHBROw.

A Topeka man says: 'K there isn't any he'll
then where has business gone7"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-18
THE AGE OF MAKING A WILL.

The age at which most persons may make
valid Wills is twenty-one in most OF the States,
but in California, Connecticut. Idaho, Montana.
Utah. Oklahoma. North and South Dakota, eight
cen In the age.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-18
Stars and Stripes

A washington COW ate $50 worth of TINT. That
milk ought to sell at good price.
The high cost OF living isn't marker to the
high. cost OF loafing.
Miss De Style-Does she shine in society,"
Miss Gunbusta--An but her nose
The average church never sees its full congre-
cation out unless II happens to be burning
Nowadays when you say man is above board
you do not know whether 1t refers to his hon
esty or the ouija.
A LITTLE HIGHBROw.
De styie-The old Greek critics remind me n
whole lot Of Babe Ruth.
Gunbusta--How sol
De Style--They frequently knocked a Homer.
A Topeka man says: IL there isn't any hell
then where has business gomez"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-18
We TOWNE GOSSIP
Registered u. g Patent Office
BY X. C.. B.

ear X. C. B.: 7 AND SKATER my
"As On Tram AND SO like Dante.
An CHE xr..
sitting wORsHIPED my
Beatrice.
JsT OPPOSITE me.
IN A cloak OF
Nd was absorbed. sience.
I AN evening AND KEPT on read
paper: ms'
R APPEARED to AND ALL at once.
be-
THE REAL, hero
Nd SHE was visit came.
." =. A BOY of twelve
-
ND i had a wish. 'ee'''
HAT oo,,,. ,.u AND HE dragged
her ' himself.
ow VERY beauti- WITH THE aid of
full. clutches.
THOUGHT she AND BEFORE
was. could wink.
~ ,,Ls Ho" "ouid SHE HAD him down.
D RETURN 20 b.r. IN THE seat she had
HE FADED mster. AND SHE stood up.
F HER tired eyes AND SMILED on
ND THAT could
love. LIKE A suneam.
ND ALSO obey. ON A dropping
flower.
AND ALL he did
live. WAS VINCE little.
; Sc CHEAPLY as AND understood.
BECAUSE INA
ND OTHER things. man.
HERE WERE in AND KNOW the
my mind. difference.
HAT 1 might have BETWEEN admira-
said. ton.
UT I'm no AND JUST
Lochinvar compassion.
ND THEN besides AND KNOW
from whom.
MEN WELCOME
UT SHE'D call either.
policeman. E -
- AND 1 left the train.
ND HAVE me
arrested. THANK you. n
The Washington times., 1921-10-28
Rhyning Optin,ist

man has tried in vain to shape his
daily acts because his course 10
never sane. he balks at facing facts.
Take Billy Smith. who thinks the
boss is owing him a raise; he says
the firm should come across with
twice what now IL pays. Alas. BIZ
will not once admit a fact as pain %
day; at work he doesn't make
hit, but fritters time away Il
cursed with many a foolish IA >
and many an idle whim; he real. >
isn't worth his salt, so there's no
raise for him. IL Bill had only
used his brain and faced the facts
we show. he might have missed
lot of pain and many moons of wo,
Fer it is best to understand 1.
things we have to face. Hard facts
are met on eYery hand. in every
time and place Much wiser -foiks
, than William know mat every das
exacts, from folks who think and
, folks who grow. a tribute to hard
facts.
The Washington times., 1921-10-28
TO CHECK A
COLD
BY Brice Belden, M. D.

IN HE ordinary cold in the head Is
apt to be neglected: time is ex'
pected to act as the healer.
While 1t is true that many colds
clear up of themselves. 1t is also
fact that a cold Is often the first
stage of a serious affection OF the
respiratory tract or Of some general
infection.
When one contracts a cold and
feels creepy, chilly and hot by turns
he should have his temperature
taken. II it is above normal he
should go to, bed. ~
A person affected with a cold
should sleep in a, room by himself,
or at least in a separate bed. He
should, If he remains up and about,
avoid places where there1 Is. over
crowding or poor ventilation.
, Every person suffering from a
cold must protect others against
infection by depositing> all nasal
and mouth secretions discharged
through coughing or sneezing In
pieces OF cloth or paper, which must
be burned after use.
1t is for the protection of all the
people that expectoration is pro-
hibited in public places and convey
ances and on the sidewalks, since
there is no question whatever that
colds, pneumonia and various other
Infections owe their spread to this
dangerous habit. ..f
The diseases spread by careless
splitting are tuberculosis, pneumonia,
influenza, diptheria, tonsilitis, infec-
.tious colds and bronchitis.
Anyone in apparently good health
may harbor the germs Of disease
in the mouth. nose and throat and
not fall Ill himself, although trans
hitting infection resulting in illness
to others through indulgence in spit
ting.
When one reflects that one in
every four deaths Is caused by tuber-
culosis and pneumonia 1t Is obvious
how necessary II is to stop their CHIEF
cause-promiscuous splitting.
The Washington times., 1921-10-28
miger's THE WINE OF LIFE "s James Montgomery Flag
The Story of an Ambitious Young Sculp-
tor Who Goes to New York to Win
His Way to Fortune,

sether conscious OF what he was
saying. ~ -
"He gave her the use OF Il until
he gets back from Paris" Pannie
AtwilI announced with shrug.
How long has she been there7"
storrow demanded. with his pulses
pounding I'm spite OF himself.
For two days" he was told.
Then She doesn't know I'm
here9" demanded storrow. alto
gether unconscious Of the egotism
In that question.
search me-" parried the girl,
will her repeated laugh OF cool
amusement The smile went out
OF her fac" as she stood studying
his preoccupied eyes. She sighed,
without quite knowing IL. Then
she turned towards the still open
door.
Call me up when you want me-"
she said over her shoulder. And
she closed the door as she went
out, leaving Storrow standing
stock still in the center of his
studio.
All day long, in fact. he found
himself stopping in his work TO
listen for sounds from the neigh
boring room. He found Il impos-
sible TO accomplish anything in
that mood. He could not keep his
thoughts on the sketch before
him for five minutes at a time.
He heard the distant growi Of
thunder In the southeast and real
lied from a glance out OF his win.
dows that a storm was about TO
break over the city. Those re-
peated challenging rolls of thun-
der we're too much for him. He
: had the love of the hilltop wan.
derer for wind and rain. So he
unearthed faded, raincoat, closed
his windows and caught up his
hat. Then he made for the street,
hungry for the huge sanities OF
the wind and air. He had almost
reached the street door when he
was arrested by low and liquid
bubbling Of laughter.
TO Be Continued TomorrowJ
Copyright. 1920. by Arthur strinssr
published by Arrangement with Intsras
tional Fsature Service. Inc)
The Washington times., 1921-10-28
A Stirring Narrative of the Influence OF
" Love on the Lives of Girl
and Man.

"ls there any other way7', de.
manded Storrow, already depressed
by suspicion of wasted effort,
He felt the need for guidance, felt
1t keenly and continually, yet he
nursed the instructive distaste OF
the solitary worker for the criti-
cism OF otherr.
That's something I've been
wondering about" acknowledged
Hardy with his captivating smile.
"I've been wondering II this turn
OF yours toward sculpture isn't
more OF an accident than you Inn
agine. Take these animal groups
you've done, for instance! They're
more episode than they are stat
uesque! They're more dramatic
than they are plastic.
Storrow hesitated. But the air of
cool capability about Hardy, the
light of earnestness In the already
slightly faded eyes, gave him the
courage to go on.
Il always wanted 10 Wrlte the
story of man and a woman thrown
empty.handed into the wilderness.
tossed through some trick of fate
into our Northern Barren Grounds,
for instance. as naked as Adam and
Eve turned out of the Garden
'And survive?" asked Hardy.
trifle breathlessly.
Eyes, survive"
But how?"
by human wit, or wood-craft,
or whatever you want to call It,"
was the answer. .'
"Greatp' cried Hardy. do 1t
But, why the North"
Because the North's the only
country know well enough for the
work."
That's right" admitted the older
man after a moment of meditation.
And the North is new. 1t would be
a change from the over-worked trop-
icar setting. That side Of it's been