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The Washington times., 1921-10-05
The IIuhrish Trihnsmen

Luhrish tribesmen Of
Persia are a strange people.
with customs Of their own.
Murderous, ruthless, they
are most hospitable, and vie
with each other In entertain.
Ing their guests, to whom
they are verv puncttii~,s.
The Washington times., 1921-10-05
A Chance Today for EUery
Boy and Girl

M ILLIONS of children have begun the year of study
IvI of mental work-a year of hope and opportunity
In the great city schools Of iron and brick and
glass the children go in Thousands great procession
blocking the streets at the morning and evening hours
In the country, lonesome hilsides the small schools
opening, patient ready for the work that
little pay and little gratitude and few chill
dren gather from far and under the sanng single
roof and the flag that flies above it,
At the opening of school fathers mothers should
talk to their children and impress upon them what the
public schools
For ages human beings ruled, they miserable
RANT. ''' 1'.'0
Very slowly the people the bottom moved toward the
top slowly and painfully country after another they
KNOWLEDGE,
In this country, than any other, that right has
been developed.
Every boy and girl who will may learn The wonderful
art Of printing and the knowledge of reading open all
science, all history, everything that is worth while the
mind of every child
The boys they go school look very much alike and
act very much alike The big boys the little boys.
and the little boys retaliate when they dare.
spirit looking down from above upon the children
would little difference But the difference there and
it is largely in the spirit in which the opening of school
is greeted.
Try to make your children realize that school is THEIR
OPPORTUNITY. Make them feel that when the school
doors open to them than if the door of some
great mine of Aladdn's wealth opened before them
Wealth without knowledge nothing. knowledge alone
makes possession worth while.
Tell your boys and girls how the greatest success in the
world has been by study and usually by children who
had little opportunexcept the chance to get knowledge
Make them understand how long taken to establish
public schools and let everybody learn.
Tell your little boy that he has as good chance TO-DAY
any boy born in the country-IF HE WILL TAKE IT.
Make your little girl feel that what the school teaches
to her she will teach to her children in the future and do
work as important as that Of any man.
Interest yourself in the school life of your children
their'sudes in their success and especially in their disa
poinments and school sorrows-those sorrows are very
real to little children
you do so, become acquainted with the teacher
in whose hands children placed Make teacher
feel that you appreciate the that the teacher does
the greatest work in the world
Make your/chren realize What they owe to the teacher
OBEDIENCE, RESPECT AND GRATITUDE.
The Washington times., 1921-10-05
A Curious Fish.

There Is a fish which lies
buried In the coral sand OF
the South Seas. the spines
Of whose dorsal fin are hol-
low like the fangs Of O rattle
snake. When stepped on It
elects a poison which kills or
cripples the victim.
The Washington times., 1921-10-05
Where the
Trouble Lies

vYYE can tell the Unemployment
w Conference something.
.o1.. Men work for wages.
ii takes cash TO pay wages.
No money, no wages.
Plants must produce before they
can sell goods and get money.
Meantime they must borrow
No bank loans, no production, no
sales, no money, no wages, no work.
II all comes back to the banks.
The banks never had so u.ucL
money in their possession and were
never so stingy with it. Bank loans
have been forcibly reduced three
billion dollars in about two years.
: Money lying idle in banks is Of no
use to anybody.
1t ought to be at work.
If the nations money was work
ing, the nations working people
would be working.
idle money makes idle men.
The Unemployment Conference
can confer till the cows come home
aud get nowhere as long as it talks
about unemployed workers.
1t can only get somewhere by fluid
ing a way to get Stacker bankers to
employ money.
q. That's the right word Stacker
Wartime is not the only time
that the country needs patriotism
and courage.
The bankers who refuse to be of
service now are just as bad as any
Bergdoll who refused 10 serve the
country under arms.
Men who refused to serve in the
war were punished severely.
Nobody condemned these slackers
in harsher terms than did bankers.
And yet many bankers are slack
ing all over the country.
We will have no prosperous times
for farms, factories. merchants and
workers until the banks loosen their
boards of money. And if they delay
too long, the banking business will
not be any too profitable by and by.
We think that anybody with sense
enough to come in out Of the rain
could see where the trouble is and
how to cure it,
The Washington times., 1921-10-05

OWING to fact that Polo
" Grounds was built by
same architect who designs
bathrooms in boarding
houses. only 10000 furnace.
eyed maniaCs can enjoy
acute privilege of lamping
series.
The Washington times., 1921-10-05
We TOWNE GOSSIP
Registered [. s Patent ONCE.
Registered [. s Psten
BY X. c. b.

I'M WORRIED nov AT MY toil-worn
desk.
ABOUT THE girl.
I'VE THOUGHT Of
I'VE READ about. her.
WHO WAS gwen AND IT'S just oc-
away. Cured.
IN HEX babyhood TO NY mudded
tt
AND EVER since
HAS LIVED life. 'n ADOPT We might
OF LUXURY. PLAN like that,
WILL" HILL BAN At AND SWITCH all
children.
UPON A farm. n,cx avn 49,,
WHERE SHE was
born. no THE sort Of nome
THERE'S JUST been EACH CHILD de-
TOLL serves.
AND mih.i .' COVE AND THEN it occurs
AND COOKING meals. .o.
AND WASHING
things. AS WE take our
- wives.
AND SHE never knew.
THAT SHE wasn't bands. wi NUS
the child.
or yrn ss-... fall. FOR VEAL or woe.
UT hI" wow '''"0'
AND ANYWAY. WE SHOULD also
THE PAPER says 70. VIVA,
SHE'S A selfish girl.
THE KIDS that come.
AS MOST girls are.
AND HERE am.
are. ' '''' '''' AT THE jumping off
place.
that' AND I'VE got no.
.'oo where.
s.,,.,,, BUT SOMEHOW or
WILL sEND her back. other.
~ 90, I'M ''"-"0'h THINK they've
played.
ing A LOW down trick.
AS I'VE sat here. ON THE selfish girl
The Washington times., 1921-10-05
The March
Of EDents

ueau Soiulef Is ndnusolllt
- thought, Of course. But we
cannot help thinking that it would
be far handsomer 10 pay what the
nation owes to the known living
soldiers before spending money upon
the unknown dead.
The dead can wait. They sleep
well, wherever they lie. They
have no pain. no hunger, 10 thirst.
They need no help that human
hands can give. And AS for glory,
theirs is the chief glory Of a var
that was singularly lacking in true
glory, save for that which the
private soldiers bought with their
endurance and valor in the midst Of
all the Internal brutahties and hOr-
rors Of modern warfare.
We are certain that if the un-
known dead could speak from their
graves they would demand that
their living comrades be ministered
to before everything else
The Relief Commission estimates
that it will cost $180,OO0,OOO to save
the starving people OF Russia. That
is a large sum, but it is less By
$7,0O0,000 than the sum handed
over to the bogus, self styled Ambas-
sador, Boris Bakhmeteff. who rep
reseEfs no government at all, and
who has been permitted to spend
these millions at his own sweet will
and pleasure.
This bogus Ambassador is, re-
ported TO have several millions of
the original huge sum in his posses
sion still. If that is true, the money
should be taken away from him and
given to the poor people whom he
and his confederates did so much to
bring to their present wretched and
pitiable condition.
Secretary DENLY insists that
proper appropriations shall be made
for submarines. OF course, our navy
needs submarines. The other navies
have them and will use them,
too, the first time they go to war
with Us or anybody else.
1t was very wicked for the Ger
mans to use submarines and poison
gas against their enemies, but now
that the other powers have become
accustomed to such weapons they will
keep them On hand and use them to
the limit when occasion offers. Any
body with any sense at all knows
that. The only sensible thing to do
is to have ready gas plants and
submarines of our own.
President Oregon Announces that
the Mexican army is being rapidly
demobilized and that the government
will apply the money thus saved to
building schools and spreading edu-
cation. The president also declares
that Mexico earnestly desires to
live in peace with all American ma
tions, and that as far as possible
his government will lend assistance
in educating and uplifting the
neighboring Latin-American peoples
of Central America.
1t strikes us that Mexico is we'll
started on the way to order and
progress with man at the head
Of affairs who is so capable and SO
and so full of fine ideals
az is President Obregon.
We do not believe that there are
four million idle workers in the
country Estimates are uncertain
hines ,nd II ouroo not nolc nox L..
The Washington times., 1921-10-05
Mr.. B. Baer
WIN OR LOSE. WE WIN.
VANKS and Giants 60 at

VANKS and Giants 60 at
it hammer and tongs to-
day. May turn out to be
toy hammer and sugar
longs, but looks like war
10 knife without napkins.
A Ii kinds OF voters are
agitated over result Of
today's game. Turnstile
bugs grab another chance
TO squirt at Babe Ruth
missing sure home run by
only three strikes. This
series is home brewed.
Every Spalding gymnast in
tournament is one OF neigh!
boris children. Win or lose,
we win.
w HE T HER Giants or
Yanks are fiattened out
like wet autumn leaves. that
flag OF victory remains in
family. Just like papa
when he robs baby's clay
bank to buy himself snifter
Of hotch-lesger's syrup.
A THOUGH direct viola.
ton of our next six
amendments. you can't stop
stop citizens from betting
their local bankroils on
series. Even hoboes who
never work are betting
their next years salaries on
result.
OWING to fact that Polo
" Grounds was built by
same architect who designs
bathrooms in boarding
houses. only 10000 furnace.
eyed maniaCs can enjoy
acute privilege of lamping
series.
NEW YORK has popula-
~ ton OF 5000 600 exclu-
sive Of draft dodger lists
published in Washington.
Only one out Of every 100
cits will pipe series. Which
means that rich fans will
be inside looking out while
regular bugs Will be making
meal Off ticker tape.
A LWAYS that way. When
"A we have company in
parlor old man has to stay
out in kitchen. Taxpayer
who gets in TO see games
can make money lecturing
on baseball skirmish TO
other 1I9 during winter.
THIS is purely local cpl
l. demic. Fumigated re-,
ports may leak out into
provinces. We're cooking
baseball cabbage. Fragrant
Odor may be waited over
entire country. but we're
dining on It exclusively.
VANISS or Giants may
win. But. win or lose.
The Washington times., 1921-10-05
THE oPTIMISTS VIEW.

IcSHE needed not their feeble praise,
Whose heart went singing all her days
~ In splendid sacrificial ways.
And she toiled for others good,
Because her spirit understood,
Saw not their cold ingratitude.
How could she care, who daily felt
Gods beauty through her being melt?
How could she know the hurt they dealt?
coryrIsnt, 1891, sy Ept rsstur. synSicst. Tsc
The Washington times., 1921-10-05
She Gave All
By Angela Morgan
THE PESSIMIST'S VIEW.

A SKIING nothing of life, she went
a On sacrificial errands bent.
"A Life gave her naught, for all she spent
For all her pity, few there were
When sorrow came, to comfort her,
And none brought frankincense or myIrh.
The Washington times., 1921-10-05
Must Genillses Drink?

4 \ argument that has been ad-
oanced against prohibition is
that all the worlds great men
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-12

the development of better immi-
grafton policies; the provision of higher
pay for competent and industrious en-
ployees of the department; and legisla-
tive consideration of the program of the
presidents industrial conference
These suggestions outline a program
which, if satisfactorily worked out and
made effective, would go far toward solv-
ing such national problems as periods of
unemployment. illiteracy, Americaniza-
ton of foreign-born residents, racial con-
ficts and others equally as important
and perplexing.
1t is hardly likely that the problems
covered by these suggestions will be
solved in a few years. Public interest in
them, however, and serious study of them
will hasten progress. 1t is a promise of
such progress, and also of the possibili-
ties of such branch of government as
the department of labor, that they have
been summed up and put forward at the
close of the first eight years of the de-
partment's existence.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-12
WORK FOR LABOR DEPARTMENT.

In his final report to congress former
Secretary of Labor Wilson made a num-
Der of recommendations for future con
sideration. As summarized in The Sur
vey for Feb. 90, these suggestions merit
the attention of citizens who do not con-
slider their whole public duty discharged
on election days. The Survey says:
These include the development of the
United States employment service so that
no wage-earners shall vainly want for
profitable work, while profitable work
anywhere waits in vain for wage-earn-
ers; the utilization of public lands and
community credits so that wage-earners
may be given opportunities for cooper
alive self-employment; legislation rela-
tive to the adjustment of seasonal to non
seasonal industries; the promotion of the
training of wage-earners within their in
dustries for the purpose of making their
employment more profitable to themselves
and their work more useful to their EN-
ployers and TO the public; the maximum
national protection for Yopengand chill
dren of underpaid wage-earners; the per-
petuation of the division of Negro eco
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-12
T0day's Anniversaries.

176S-Six students We're expelled from
Oxford university for having en-
braced Methodism.
1S29-Martin Van Buren, resigned the
goyernorship of New York.
1S34-Hilary A. Herbert, secretary of
the navy during the second Cleve-
land administration, born at Lau-
rensyille. s. c. Died at Tampa,
Fla. March 6. 1919.
1S62-George Peabody, the American
philanthropist. presented $3.50
900 for dwellings for the poor of
London.
1S71-The reading rooms of the Cincin-
natl public library were first
opened ON Sunday.
1S96-The authorities of Cambridge uni
versity refused to consider the
question of comforting degrees up
on women.
1912-The federal government began q
suit against the sugar trust.
1919-The first death in New York from
sleeping sickness occurred.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-12
KERENSKY COMES BACK.

\ recent cable from Paris announced
that Alexander Kerensky had left for
Reval to assume personal command of
the movement to overthrow the soviet
government. The despatch added that
the program under which he will work
was drawn up by the Russian revolutions
airy committee in Paris last January and
has since been revised and approved by
allied military and diplomatic chiefs.
Later reports say that he is even now
in Petrograd.
This lends new interest and meaning
to the present revolt. Kerensky had al
most been forgotten-so short-lived is
public memory in these kaleidoscope
times. 1t was he who, after the downfall
of carbon. and the first confused move
ments of the revolution, set up a repre-
sentative government and undertook to
hold Russia loyal to the allies in their
war against the common enemy. He
was overthrow by the Bolsheviki with
the aid of German gold and German in
fiuence. Little has been heard from him
for a year or two. Most Americans
have probably fancied him dead, or at
least out of the game for good. And
here he shows signs of coming back, as
head of a counter-revolution. If he sue
ceeds, it will be one of the most strik-
ing reversals of fortune in history.
1t will mean much, too, for Russia
and the world, if he succeeds. "Within
six months" Kerensky prophesies, Rus
STA no longer will be a communist state
but republic modelled like America"
May the hope come tue!
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-12
SATURDAY, MARCH u. 1921.
PERJURY,

In a city that has usually prided it
self on its administration of justice sew
eral indictments for perjury have been
brought by the grand jury, growing out
of a celebrated murder trial which in
volved a police magistrate. 1t was es-
tablished by the testimony of several witt
nesses that there were only three men
directly concerned with the crime. One
of them was shot, and it was accepted
as self-evident that one of the other two
did the shooting. Witnesses heard the
report and saw the fash. The only ques-
ton was, which of tho survivors did it?
One of the suspected pair was tried
and acquitted, with the testimony evil
IDENTIFY establishing his innocence. Then
the other was tried, but he likewise was
acquitted. The witnesses in the two
trials were mostly the same persons, but
they did not tell the same stories. The
testimony of some of them varied so
markedly from the first trial to the sec
ond that it became the obvious duty of
the prosecuting attorney to proceed
against them for perjury ito make an ex-
ample of them
How desirable it is that such an ex-
ample should be made is indicated from
the statement that never in the hun
bred years of that county's history has
there been a conviction for perjury. That
there has been a great deal of perjury
goes without saying. The witnesses in
this murder case would certainly never
have ventured to take such liberties with
the truth if they had not realized that
witnesses did that sort of thing right
along with impunity.
This is an evil of which too little has
been said. Perjury has grown to alarm
ing proportions, in the last few years
in almost every section of the
country. 1t is one of the big contribu-
tory causes of the increase in violent
crime, though it has not been sufficiently
recognized as crime-breeder. Why
should criminals fear the law, if they
have good reason for believing that they
and their friends can cheat the law by
lying on the witness stand?
This country needs new respect for
the oath as much as it needs anything
of this age than a wave of
convictions and punishments for the in
5idious crime of perjury, which saps
the very foundations of justice and cor
rupts the mutual faith without which
society cannot hold together.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-12
In the DAVIS News.

DIR. Robinson q. Jones, who has been
honOred with election to the presidency
of the department of superintendent of
the National Education association, is
widely known in educational circles, his
practical work as a superintendent and
his authorship of several standard text
books having combined to give him a
high standing in the profession. DR..
Jones is 30 years old and a native of
Kansas City. His practical training
was received at the Ohio Central Nor
NAL school and at Ohio Northern uni
versity. After graduating from the last
named institution in 1894 he spent near
ly 20 years as a school superintendent in
various towns of Illinois. In 1913 he was
called to Rockford, H.. where he estab-
lished a reputation for efficiency and ad-
ministrative ability which led a few
years later to his present post as head
of the public school system of Cleve-
land.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-12
The Highway Question.


We seriously suspect that the highway
question is considerably bigger than
Stod' BateS-it is rather a question of
a defective system. We see no partic-
ular good in simply changing the result
OF a system and letting the cause re-
main.
We have seen the use to which the
present system may be put The high
way commissioner is a big man. He is
an employer of labor; selectmen come to
MN for favors and gradually it is pos
Slble TO build up an active political ma
chine just as Mr.. Bates has done which
may get strangle hold on our legisla-
tive body.
What Mr.. Bates has done any man oc-
cupylng the same Office may do. One
prominent man had told us that il he
could be highway commissioner for four
years he would run for governor against
anybody without the slightest fear of de-
feac. The present situation is an incen-
tive to political machine building rather
than to road building and we guess that
~ about all the building that has been
done in recent wears.
A commission of three empowered To
engage and discharge a highway suner-
lntendent Is the best way out of the diff
Guilty and we hope to see such an even
Iualty before the present session of the
legislature terminates
Moreover we hope to see the man thus
selected an experienced road builder and
capable civil engineer. Such a man
can be found in Vermont. We have one
here in Burlington in the person of CITY
Engineer Dix who could be trusted to fiji
the position with ability, enthusiasm and
exceptional results. No doubt there are
other competent men in other cities.
Let's have real road builder at the
helm and let's divorce the highway de-
partment from politics. Our first pleas
ant surprise will be ut the increased re-
turn our high way expenditures will
give us.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-12
Little Benny's
Note Book
THE PARK AVE. NEWS.
BY LEE PAPE.

Weather Generel
Big Fite Stopped Leroy Shooster
and skinny Martin neerly had a big fife
last Satidday AFTERNOON, saying to each
other, You hit me, | dare YOU. No, you
60 ahed and hit me ferst. | bubble dare
YOU. for about 20 minnits in the alley
till Flatfoot the cop came and chased
everybody. Amung those present who
would of saw the fife if it had of took
place was Benny Potts, Artie Alexander.
Sid Hunt. Sam Cross, Reddy Merry and
Ed Wernick.
Exter, Mysterious Notes Stuck Under
Doors Last week Pubs Simkins and
Davis got so mad at each other they
stopped speaking, and ever since then
they have both bin finding notes under
their frunt doors with skulls and cross
bones and black hands all over them.
POAIE BY SKINNY MARTIN.
Take 1t Away
"a Him of Hate)
| don't care mutch for ioggriffy.
| dislike TO spell words of every size,
wouldent give cents for history
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-12

but after taking several bottles of the
Vegetable Compound | can now do any,
thing about the house or farm that a
woman should do. l have four months
old baby that IS the healthiest and big
gest baby for his age that have ever
seen. | am willing for my letter to be
used for d testimonial to tell other suf-
fering women how much your medicine
has done for INC, IS | give Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound all the
praise. Mrs. BLAIR L. FISHER, r. d.,
Box ST, Grafton, Pa.
Working early and late-lifting,
carrying, and the heaviest of houshoid
duties-is it any wonder that it results in
backaches and kindred ills. But every
woman who suffers as Mrs. Fisher did
should profit by her experience and
give Lydia T. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound fair trial.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-12
From Here and There.

Mr. and Mrs X. r. Perry spent Sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. T. X. Bayliss
They had lemon pie for dinner made
from a lemon grown on a lemon tree of
Mrs. Bayliss.-Hartland Four Corners.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norris Marshall enjoyed
ney syrup flor tea last Friday night
South Woodstock.
Charley Bowles has purchased a wind
mill and will save some of his own wind.
Horizon Center.
Harrison Parkman enjoyed his fayOrite
educing exercise Saturday afternoon chas-
ing small boys out of the revolving door
at the post office.-Emporia.
William CASTOR was 81 years old on
Feb. 8. On Sunday, the 18th, II relatives
including the Blandings from Barnard,
Kansas, came in and spent the day at the
Castor home.-IOnia.
Mr.. William CASTOR received four birth
day cakes Sunday. One from California,
one from Nebraska. one from Barnard
and one from his wife.-Ionia.
William CASTOR had quite a poor spell
Monday and TueSday-Ionia. 81
They all report a grand time at the
egg roast and much fun in witnessing the
dive Mr.. Charles Bean made. To make a
long story short, he hit i'll some very soft
ground and almost ruined his Sunday suit.
Miller.