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The Washington herald., 1921-08-24
BY Decree of the Nations,

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
Call the nations large and small
Call the Yellow Man and white
And in feast of reason, all
Will decree IL wrong TO fight.
Will decree the Golden Rule.
Which has bafIled man as such.
As the thing that any fool
Knows a nation loveth much.
By decree say what is "ain't"
And what "ain't" has always been;
Envy never was the taint
That has caused a race to sin.
Scrap the battleship and plane.
Melt your cannon by the fires
Kindled of a holy strain
And the strenth of your desires
True that man makes up the stats
And no matter how you would,
1t has proved that up to date
You can't legislate him good.
But we'll do II with the stat.
And by joint decree enforce
That the lowly stream of late
Shall rise higher than its source.
Call the nations large and small.
Call the Yellow Man and White
And in feast OF treason. all
May decree an awful fight!
-WINIFRED TRAPNELI.
The Washington herald., 1921-08-24

ist without the material body. all
are dependent and interdependent
The living soul OF the Bible Is
the real man of Scripture: Spirit,
soul and body in Immortality. Jesus
was an example, Enoch and Elijah
were examples. There Is not a liv-
ing soul in the world today. nor will
there be until Eden is re-established
with tho $4,000 on Mount Zion. -
the Adamic men reincarnated, that
IL. resurrected. Let the dead bury
their dead" Jesus said.
Solomon knew what he was talk
ing about when he said there is
nothing new only in the sense OF
its rediscovery or rebirth. One So
called scientist said. speaking wiser
than he knew: III we go back far
enough into the past We will arrive
at tomorrow" Plato said, speaking
doubtless wiser than he knew, il
we want TO go into deep water: that
when the procession OF the equinox
has gone the entire circle Of the
Zodiac the world begins anew"
Ny! I could I'LL your paper for a
month. But this may give some of
your readers indigestion.
WILL L. REEZON.
WashinRton II q
The Washington herald., 1921-08-24
Replies to Marion Welsh.
To the Editor. The Washington Herald:

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
The charges made by Marion
Welsh in your issue OF August 80
against governmental and private
employment agencies show that
proper investigation had not been
made. These charges are sufficient
ly serious to require proof by the
author. and they should not have
been published without investigs-
tion as to their authenticity.
The writer handled special cases
for the United States Employment
Service in the District of Columbia
for several years on a sl-a-year
basis and holds certificate of
meritorious service from the La Dor
Department for her work in that
capacity. The government agency
has never charged any fee. The
bureau functions under a board
composed of representatives from
the Board Of Trade. Chamber of
Commerce. the Merchants and Manu-
facturers' Association and various
welfare bodies.
Following the armistice. Commits
sioner Brownlow appointed the
Board of Management Bureau for
returned soldiers. sailors and Ma
rines. and after the $4,000 service
men and twice as many out-of town
service men had been placed he ap-
pointed the citizens committee on
employment The writer served on
both of the boards. representing the
women's organizations. Washing
ton merchants hold the best record
in the United States for taking the
boys back in their old positions.
In addition to my work for the
District l have personally and with
out charge aided hundreds of other
persons in securing positions. The
time and energy consumed in help
ing others has been q great expense
to me. find that cannot continue
this work unless the applicant for
job will bear the expenses Of my
work in their behalf.
Psychologically, the same rule
holds true with employment as in
all other matters: the person who
wants something for nothing; that
is, the person who wants the gov
ernmental or the private employ
ment agency, or even the employer
to bear all the cost of securing her
a position. usually does not meet the
responsibility after getting the job.
as well as the person who is will
ing TO bear a fair share of the cost.
Time means money, and is Of
more value to the employer than the
cost OF an advertisement. High
grade establishments prefer to Sc
cure their personnel through
reputable employment agency thus
interviewing only a few selected
applicants.
Competent employees prefer to pay
a commission to I good employment
agency rather than undergo the
embarrassment Of waiting among q
crowd of people in answer to an
advertisement
MARY WRIGHT JOHNSON.
The Washington herald., 1921-08-24
Life of Blood Is Soul.
To the Editor. The Washington Herald:

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
l have headed this little article
as have to arouse interest of all
readers (including yourself) from
probably a lethargy Cor at least
monotony) that the subject OF
What is the Soul?" may have in
duced by this time in your readers.
Those who hav, been trying to tell
what the soul is. rely on the Bible
(that suits me): SO read this and
see IL you can reason nationally for
a moment: "The word of God is
quick. and powerful, and sharper
than any two-edged sword, piercing
even to the dividing asunder OF soul
and spirit, and of the joints and
narrow" etc. So IL the Bible counts
for anything the soul and spirit are
two entirely different things. The
soul Is the life OF the blood. the
spirit is the life of the nerve. So
while they must go together. we do
read that God is able to pierce them
asunder. Soul cannot exist with
1ut spirit, nor spirit without soul,
nor can the material body exist
without both the soul and the spirit,
no more can the soul and spirit ex
The Washington herald., 1921-08-24
Another Thirty Years.

SSW/ HAT will woman look like in Io5o?" We
w do not know. But if it worries any young
man. our advice to him is not to wait, but find one
now and if she WILL marry her. The Baltimore
Sun worried the next generation of femninity
with bobbed hair and boards, says: "The decadence
of the masculine has been evident for gen.
Grafton The conquering spirit of masculinity has
passed from him into the feminine soul"
OF course that is pretty serious. 1t too, brings
into even more importance the discussion in The
Heralds Open Court, to just what is the soul.
If it is, say, the BREATH then thanks to pro-
hibition, "the conquering spirit of masculinty will
not be offensive in its own habitat. But if it is
strong enough to oust its tenant and take possession
then in way will have accomplished his
age-old strugge-the conquest of woman.
But why worry? Woman has been woman for
quite bit of time. She has varied in outward looks
from time to time. This is not the first trial at
bobbed hair and knickers. 1t is not the first time
she has tempted with her physical perfections. The
eternal feminine" has but started another heat.
She has never had any real doubt as to her SUI
periority to and the wise man has always con-
ceded it. The pronounced evolution is that
women have found they can be economically inde-
pendent, and have gained liking for earning their
spending money. Surely every male man
should wish more strength to their elbows.
No man has ever objected to woman's work
ing for him for his board and keep; many a man
has been entirely willing his wife should take in
washing; many has been family dressmaker,
as we'll as dairymaid, fireman and housekeeper. 1t
is mean man who would not be willing she should
pay for this work with money earned in other bust
ness vocatons such themselves undertake.
We decline to be disturbed to the coming thirty
years Nature has made women quite sufficiently
distinctive from men, and even if 800 years from
they should grow boards, Our guess is that
men would still love them delight in their society
and admire the way they curled their fetching
moustaches.
The Washington herald., 1921-08-24

locking of transportation energies, is essential
To quibble or split hairs, to delve in the past,
whether that past is but that of government con-
troll or of railroad exploitation, is like dispute
over free will and foreordination-it gets no.
where. II the preference is to call it loan rather
than payment of debt this is immaterial. Whether
the situation is blamed upon Mr.. McAdoo, or the
railroads themselves is equally immaterial. The
essential is that by the help of the government the
railroads can get $sooooo,ooo now, not from the
government, not from the Treasury, but from pri-
vate investors. They get this also on their own
securities which they float through government
channels. r.
Or to put it in another way, the government
helps the railroads get from private what it
owes them and agrees to extend payment for 10
years on what the railroads it, the government.
With this cash the roads pay their debts, and
start the wheels of industry. Barring transporta-
in prices; all materials are low enough to warrant
broad buying. Those who should know, who are
not connected with the railroads and who will not
profit from their expenditures, say this fund in its
turnovers will give work to 100000 men this fall
and winter. It should also make possible reduc-
ton in commodity freight rates
Why then use this bill as bunghole for flow
of oratory while all business waitsl Why adjourn
it until lungs are rested and overworked throats
healed? Why keep the money idle, the men un-
employed and cars out of use? The harvests will
be over before the Congressional vacation, and it
will be easier the farmers and the business
men back home if transportation is not left in
shackles, and the railroads without purchasing
power.