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Potent.

He Rugged her in the shadowy hall
way.
"Oh,' she gtggled breathlessly. 81
never realized the power of the press
until this mOment.".-America Legion
Weekly.
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Cost Of New Lamp ls Low.

4 new incandescent lamp, filled with
Neon gas, can be burned continuously
Mt cost OF about SO cents per month,
as 1T consumes current at the rate Of
only five watts per hour. The red
light emitted is used for Signalling
Popular Mechanics Magazine.
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The chicken house on the farm need
not be elaborate. 1t should not be
connected with any other building.
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, In raising market fowls there are
several breeds of fowls that reach n
great weight in very short time.
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$50 DISASTER Death
TOLL FOR One YEAR
Red Cross Gives s1,o71,Oo9 Re-
lief When $4,000 Families
Are Made Homeless.

Forty-three disasters. rerrtipp T.,
the death in the United States of $40
PERSONS and the injury OF $500 called
i'r emergency relief measures and
tue expenditure OF s1.S71, 600 by the
american Red Cross during the flsca,
year ending June 80, 1921, says An
announcement based upon the forth
coming annual report Of the Red Cross
Ahese disasters caused property dam.
age estimated at $4,000, 900, affected
S!StE-seTen communities and rendered
$1,000 families homeless.
The years disasters were OF vary
ing types. including several which pre-
'iously had never been thought of
rs falling within that classified.
tion. The Red Cross furnished
reilel IN seventeen fires Of magnitude,
nFe hoods, seven tornadoes or cy
ciohes, one devastating storm, three
explosions, Including the one in Wall
street; one building accident, two
typhoid enldemics, tho most serious be-
ing that at Salem. Ohio, which at.
lected per cent OF the population ::
one smallpox epidemic, in the republic
OK HAITI; one train wreck, the race riot
nj Tulsa, Okla. the famine in China.
emergency relief In famine among the
Indians Of Alaska, the xrasshoppsr
plague in North Dakota and an earth
quake in Italy.
Pueblo Most Serious
Ey far the most severe Of the dis.
nSters in the United States during the
period covered by the Red Cross re-
port was the Pueblo flood early in
June. 1921. The rehabilitation prob
lem confronting the Red Cross in
Pueblo was one Of the most difficult
IN recent years. When the first news
OF the horror was flashed throughout
the country, the American Red Cross
National Headquarters responded with
a grant OF 100000 for relief work.
Governor Shoup OF Colorado, appro-
ciating the long and successful EXPERT
ence OF the Red Cross in organizing
disaster relief work, placed the en-
tire responsibility for the administra.
ton Of relief In its hands.
In response to appeals from Pres.
dent Harding, Governor Shoup and
other governors Of western states and
through local chapters Of the Red
Cross and other community organiza-
tions, pnblic-splrited citizens brought
the total contributed for Pueblo's re-
Mobilization to more than $S25,OOO.
The terrible havoc wrought by the
flood waters is matter Of record.
More than $500 homes were affected
and 1851 persons were left homeless.
Estimates Of 100000 as an absolute
minimum for rehabilitation were made
by Red Cross officials IN charge of the
relief work
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Fast Work In Wall Street

The Wall street explosion WAS notn-
bic In that relief workers OF the Red
cross were on the scene twenty min
utes after the disaster occurred. The
race Riot mt Tulsa also was unique In
disaster relief annals in that outside
OF small emergency relief fund con-
tributed by the Red Cross, the only
relief measures outside the city con-
sisted Of the service Of social work
ers, nurses and trained executive
whose object was to assist local forces
in directing their own efforts.
In decided contrast with the pre-
Vlous year, only one tornado assumed
the proportions OF II major disaster.
This occurred on April II. in the Dor
der sections Of Texas and Arkansas
with the city Of TcXHrkana as the
center. The significant feature of this
disaster relief work was the fact that
1t covered so much rural territory as
to make necessary large number Of
relief workers.
The famine in China, neceSSitating
relief expenditures totalling more than
Sl,O00,00O by the American Red Cross
was by far the most serious OF the
foreign disasters In which the Red
Cross gave aid.
Builds Up It's Machinery
In connection with the administra-
tlon Of disaster relief measures, an in
creasing effectiveness on the part OF
the Red Cross to deal with emergcn-
cies was manifested during the past
year. In 1928 Chapters OF the Amerl-
can Red Cross there have been formed
special committees to survey the re.
sources Of their respective communi.
ties and to be prepared in case Of
disaster. In others Of the 3,4O2 active
Chapters, network Of communication
has been formed through which instan.
taneous relief may be dispatched to
any part Of tho United States.
That Its work III this field may be
continued with ever greater effective
ness, the American Red Cross Is ap-
pealing for widespread renewal Of
membership during It's Annual Roll
Call, to be conducted this year from
November II to "a.
The Washington times., 1921-08-01
Both Jest and Earnest
2 taxation have taken too much
on the job Of supplying more

There appears to be reduction in the number
OF wood alcoholy fatalities Other kinds of fool
ishness are about normal.
Most women have attentive husbands, but in
many instances they are attentive to other mems
wives.
Mr. Edison forgets one: How many chances out
of a possible 100 has lamb in Wall Street?
It looks as II the divorce mills will not have
summer.
There Is a big difference between bravery and
fearlessness. Many fools unafraid
There is big difference between bravery
and fearlessness. Many fools are unafraid.
What is more inspiring than robin singing
in the rain?'
AN extra $40 bill in your pay envelope"
The labor question will never be settled untn
somebody invents another name for 1t.
In Abyssinia the wife is the head Of the house,
but she probably forgets it when a mouse
scurries across the floor.
1t is reported that effort may be made to
get some of the movie stars to work" for less
than $50 a minute. There is no danger, however,
that they will try to put these people down on
a level with preachers and professors.
Budget Director Dawes acts as II he intended
to do the job he appointed to do and moth
ing less Some of the politicians will begin pretty
soon to think the man must be crazy or some
thing.
The people who rewriting American his
tory for use in the public schools refer to the
American Revolution a sad mistake" and as
they get that idea accepted they will
doubtless endeavor to explain how Lincoln blund
cred in thwarting. England's desire to have the
United States split up at the time of the Cvii
War.
A New Jersey has been arrested and
found guilty of disordery conduct for hugging
his wife at bathing beach. Glorious! Every
married man will have ready made excuse now
II his wife chides him for neglecting to kiss her
when she meets him on his return from town
The Washington times., 1921-08-01
LaW and Public Opinion

IT is common enough to say that public opinion makes
law and that you cannot make public opinion by law.
favorite corollary of this is that law be
forced unless public opinion is behind it. This is not
wholly true
Of course it would be true certain extreme For
instance you could not enforce law this country which
prescribed that every must have three wives,
law that every citizen must join particular church
Such law would be simply ignored and very properly
There quite few who regard the prohibition law
in this category The trouble with these people is they
start reasoning from a wrong premise. They
matter of that the and the sale of alcohol is
entirely personal and private matter
They not to blame for thinking this, it is
idea that has been bred into them for generations is
of the oldest and most deeply rooted of civilization
To those persons who live in America but whose minds
saturated with the European point of view, and to
those whose ideas absorbed from the particular social
circle in which they move circle in which drinking
alcoholic beverages is accepted matter of course
nothing less than outrage that they should not
be allowed to drink what they please.
Now the real effect of the prohibition law not going
to be- found in the arrest and punishment of these people,
o the application of physical force changes nobodys mind
The real benefit Of the prohibition law is that the drink
ing class becoming slowly of the fact that the
consciousness and sentiment of majority of the population
of the United States regard alcohol dangerous and
authorizing drug precisely level with opium and
heroin
This view of the great of the American people,
having been expressed in constitutional amendment will
gradually work its way into the minority.
After the present stocks of liquor have been depleted
hoc stimulant, and after present army of hard
drinkers has died off, the coming generation will enter
world in which the consumption of alcohol will simply
have place
Laws, if they hold on long enough under stable
government gradually change public opinion provided of
that these human laws founded upon the deeper
laws of science and OF nature
Alcohol is not necessary food 1t is habitforming
drug of which the consequences have been most disastrous
to minority. That is why majority Of people, who
were unnred by it, have decided that the world is better
off without that temptation to the weak.
The Washington times., 1921-08-01
Extension or Immediate
ReDenL of Ball Rent Act
By BILL PRICE.

An intelligent Washingtonian, we'll versed in the
rental situation in the District and the numerous COM
plications growing out of it, writes this to the editor
regarding the Ball rent act:
behalf Of reasonable tenants grant there
nao soa anf At on
i; s;ss s : fss
The presumption has been that Congress intends to
extend the Ball act for months until May g.
1922, but the suggestion contained in the foregoing
paragraph is serious enough to receive the earnest at
tention of Senator BALL, author of the existing law
and chairman of the Senate Committee the District
of Columbia, which has agreed to seven-month's
tension.
The failure Of Congress to extend the Ball act would
indeed be deplorable with the present law expiring
just winter is beginning. The correspondent is right
in saying that it would be better to repeal the act
that tenants might begin the fight for homes in winter
Capt. JAMES F. OYSTER, former member Of the
Rent Commission has publicly stated that if the Ball
act is not extended HALF THE PEOPLE OF
WASHINGTON WILL BE THROWN OUT OF THEIR
HOMES: !" 1t would, of course, be unspeakable
calamity that the job of attempting to throw them out
should begin with winter
The delay in action by Congress is causing worry,
but there is reason to believe that Senator BALL will
not defer pressing the bill in the Senate until Congress
has recessed or adjourned.
Another point made by G. P H. is that the act should
be extended if possible, WITHOUT AMENDMENT
amendment will invite legal controversy. The
courts, the writer says, have held the law consttu
tiona and amendments may tie up things while they
again being tested
There are less than three months until the Ball law
expires Congress acts quite slowly, and for that
anxiety increases each day that in the
necessary extension legislation may fail of passage
The outlook would indeed be gloomy for thousands Of
Washngtonians should the present delay continue too
long
The Washington times., 1921-08-01
MIR. B. Baer
No WORK. NO BEER.
Copyright. 1921. BY star Company.

A THOUGH staggering
Awith heat, waItzing with
taxes, inebriated wi h
amendments. America is
sober today. What has
prohibish accomplished for
u. S.?
DRo-BoozENIsTS claim
il that more men are out
Of work. That's easily ex-
planned. Birds out of work
are same bar patrols who
used to do mooching around
saloons. Now. they seem to
be out of work because they
have no place to loaf.
TENTS. who used to
" stretch fun double
octave on free lunch and
drive four beers tandem,
are yachting on park
benches. Saloons are closed
tighter than miser's wal
let.
TIGAR STORE pilgrims
~ claim times are harder
than subway seat. But
cuckoos who hung around
tobacco garage in old days
never worked. They were
so lazy they would starve TO
death in Automat with hat
full of nickels.
THEY had no Job then.
Il They still stick to
original statement. You
can't be out of work twice
at the same time.
VILLAGE loafer out
Y grows nal Il town. .
Comes to New York where
there is more loafing to do.
Hangs around beer bunga-
lows until amendment panic
flattens him like bridal
bouquet in old family album.
Walks up and down Broad
way looking for place TO
park his thirst. Hodels
about tough times.
Ills idea of job is night
HI Waterman in land OF
e,vrnal sunshine. ".
LIE imagines that oysters
III are born on half shell.
He doesn't know that some
workman had, to open EN-.
Hears factory whistles blow.
ing, but thinks that en-
gineer is amusing his baby,
DUT when he squawks
I'D that there is no work,
brigade of calamity experts
joins in ruination chorus.
DROHIBITION has mado
IL work. For internal rev.
enue agents.
The Washington times., 1921-08-01
DIAMOND SUBSTITUTE.

The stone which miner
ologists know as the zir-
con. found in Ceylon. In
New South Wales and In
the Auvergne. Is often said
to be as white and full of
brilliancy as a diamond.
Its specific gravity Is,
however. much higher than
a diamond.
The Washington times., 1921-08-01
LIVES Of

Lives of fireflies remind us.
AS they flicker In the night,
That they never could afford IL
II they had to pay for light.
The Washington times., 1921-08-01
plant food.
HU M A n is MS
William AthertOn Du Puy-

Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi tells
of a certain campaign in the South of which he
was cognizant in which a henchman of one
faction living in the hills was saddled with the
responsibility OF organizing that district
All went well until the opposition began TO
assert boldly that this man was. no less active
purloiner of his neighbors hogs than as
political liner.up of votes. This tax must be
allayed and II suggested that a pledge OF
reform. Endorsed by competent authority must
be issued. o.
The, county boss called the hillman on the
carpet and talked plainly to him. He said that
it was necessary to political success that he
quit stealing hogs. 1t had, therefore, been de-
cided that, IL he would turn from those ways
which were open to criticism and lay off the
shoats of his neighbors he would be presented
rolled around with two prize porkers.
The hillman scratched. his head In contem-
plative consideration. .-... .
well" he said finally, I'll do it, but will
lose meat" ..-....-. ...
Uncle Joe Cannon was telling of the diff
culties that the amateur politician experiences
when he first goes out and attempts to so de-
port himself capture the votes of his fellows
Down in Danville he knew man who printed
the notice of his candidacy in the papers and
went ont on the street corner of a Saturday
afternoon to catch up with his handshaking
among the farmers, an activity that he had long
This man was very conscious that his name
was right there in the papers in capital letters
and that all the folks were looking him over
making up their minds to whether they would
kiss or kill him.
One farmer stood on the edge of the group and
watched He observed the mechanical, pump
handle handshake, the stiff erectness, the formal
address Of the candidate.
Huh" he heard to calculate. "Runnn
for office and amt let his check rein down yet"
- -
Senator Ashurst, of Arizona, who keeps a
diary. says that Woodrow Wilson coined the
phrase 'T1yphenated American" on May 16, 1914,
at a speech upon the occasion of the unvelnng
of the Barry Monument. He says that he,
Ashurst nudged his neghbor when the phrase
was first uttered and remarked that would
hear more of It, '..b.. q,
VIII Irwin, the war correspondent, talks even
better than he writes and nothing peases him
better than to gather around table with
group OF his fellows and give them the low
down on conditions as he has seen them in
Europe. ... . ..
Eugene Meyer, head of the War Finance Cor
marathon was born with silver spoon in his
mouth prepared especially ut Yale for a, career
in banking studied abroad, served an apprentice
ship in his fathers bank, organized himself
model institution, and made enough money to
buy a bucketful Of radum.
Copyright 1921,
The Washington times., 1921-08-01
The March
of EUentS

Daily Express is referred to
those mistaken persons who
think that the Hearst papers are
wickedly making a war-bogey out
of the innocent and amiable Japa-
nese military imperialistic designs:
"The military caste Of Japan
is trying by might and main to
persuade the people that the
Washington conference is q cum
ningly laid trap to destroy
Japan.
I'VE are convinced that the
proposal of the United States is
without Interior motive and
that its sole motive is to secure
world peace. If Japan refuses
to participate we will be driven
to believe she harbors designs
Incompatible with peace.
1--WE have already agreed to
the conference. Furthermore,
we believe that American alarm
over Japanese ornaments is JUS
titled"
They know international politics
better in London than we do here
in America because they are old
hands at the game and we are green
amateurs.
The Express is exactly right
and so have the Hearst papers been
all the time on this question. The
tone of Japan's reluctant accept
ance, received since this British
comment was written, shows that
japanese imperialism intends to
fight to hold all it has gained.
Harvard is still dedicated to free
thought and free speech. A Har-
ward professor can still teach there
and be a man.
The majority of our universities
made themselves contemplate dur
ing the war by prohibiting free
speech and Furnishing those who
INDUCED in it. 1t is refreshing to
see one American institution of
learning uphold the most funda-
mental of all our institutions of
liberty and self-government.
The Anglo-Persian Oil Company,
a British concern backed by the
British government, has obtained
a concession which gives it the
monopoly of the Persian oil fields.
This excludes Americans from oil
production in Persia.
We went to the expense of many
lives and many billions of dollars to
make British and French influence
instead of German influence pre-
dominant in the Near East-because
that, of course, was the real cause
and object Of the European war.
Now, it seems, we are not to be
permitted even to do business with
the mandate" territory, rescued
from autocracy for the glorious
cause of democracy.
Vice President Coolidge deplores
the prevalence of independent think
ing. He finds that children ques-
ton their parents infallibility, that
school teachers question the infalli.
bility Of boards of education, that
men and women question the infalG-
bility of public officials-and this
rebellious condition is, to his mind,
The Washington times., 1921-08-01
LIES LITTLE QUERIES NO. 2

Reply to these two questions,
TO you I'll make salaam:
What hook is it that Miss Blanche Bates?b
Why does Faversham?
The man who invents a noiseless ashcan
will be the patron saint of all apartment
jewellers.
Edith can't think much Of that fellow she
married"
"Why makes you say that"
"She goes about saying she's made another
man of him."
The Washington times., 1921-08-01
PenrOse Bill
Is HniquitOus


{ debtor nations at any rate of inter
fest he chooses and upon such terms
of payment as he chooses. He can
postpone the payment of both prin-
cipal and interest for ten years or
twenty years or fifty years if he
chooses.
He can permit England and
France to substitute German bonds
or Polish bonds or claims on Russia
!, or on China or on the Balkan States
/ or on the man in the moon if he
chooses.
He can relieve England and
France and Italy of all indebtedness
to us and take in place of their obi
, cations any promises to pay of any
state, solvent or bankrupt.
He can assume the whole war debt
of Germany and the whole indem-
nifty imposed on Germany in place
of the obligations and indebtedness
to us of England, France, Italy and
the minor allies.
He can make any bargain he
wants to make, accept any bonds he
wants to accept, annul any debts
he wants to annul, and bind or re-
lease any debtor nation at his own
will and pleasure.
The President and the Congress
and the Supreme Court together can
not advise, control, hinder or revoke
his actions.
He becomes the absolute dictator
of the disposition of ten thousand
millions of dollars-a sum greater
than the whole cost of our Govern
ment, including all our wars and
purchases, from the day George
Washington was inaugurated till
the day Woodrow Wilson was un-
happily projected into the Presi-
dency by the mistaken calculations
and headlong temper of Theodore
Roosevelt.
The man has never lived who was
capable of such gigantic respon-
sibility as this. Mr.. Mellon is not
capable of handling it. No one per-
son is capable of handling it.
If the Congress consents to such
an abdication Of its own rightful
powers, to such an abandonment of
the duty placed upon it by the Con-
stitution, to such a<betrayal of the
trust imposed in it by the people,
it will go down in history as Con-
gress composed of men who were
either incapable or faithless in every
obligation and duty assumed by its
members when they took their SOL
emn oaths of office.
As the people begin to understand
the immense possibilities of the Pen
rose bill, which has been so cum
ningly and so quietly slipped along,
with an almost entire absence of
press comment - except by the
Hearst papers-their amazement is
rapidly changing to indignation.
Nor will the Congress have long to
wait until it hears the gathering
storm of popular anger break.
We have not hesitated to speak
words of friendliness, approval and
encouragement to President Hard
ing. We speak in no petty partisan
spirit when we warn the President
and the Republican party leaders
that if they do not insist upon the
prompt payment of the interest and
the reasonably prompt payment of
the principal installments of these
debts due to us from the allied ma
tions the Republican party cannot
y
The Washington times., 1921-08-01
Relative Importance

Every day we meet people who ask: DO Won
notice any Improvement in business?" Hardly
anybody ever asks rs there any improvement
in the arrangements for taking care OF our dis.
abled solders?"
The Washington times., 1921-08-01
HE KNEW.

Teacher-Who was Ananas2
Little Boyle wrote the English version of
United States history.
The Washington times., 1921-08-01
HELP! HELP!

Colored Valet-Sorry, boss but can't clean
dis here pair o. trousers. 60. ......
Employer-Have you tried ammonia?
Colored Valet-Yes, sab! Yes, sab, But dey
don't fit me.
The Washington times., 1921-08-01

A THOUGH staggering
"A with heat, waItzing with
taxes, inebriated with
amendments. America is
sober today. What has
prohlbish accomplished for
u. S.?
The Washington times., 1921-08-01

There appears to be reduction in the number
OF wood alcoholy fatalities Other kinds of fool
ishness about normal.
The Washington times., 1921-08-01

Budget Director Dawes acts as II he intended
to do the job he was appointed to do. and moth
ing less Some of the politicians will begin prett,
soon to think the man must be crazy or some
thing.
The Washington times., 1921-08-01

TNHEY had no Job then.
Il They still stick to
original statement. You
cant be out of work twice
at the same time.
The Washington times., 1921-08-01

DROHIBITION has mado
III work. For internal rev.
enue agents.