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The Washington times., 1921-09-08
THEY'RE HUMAN
William AthertOn Du Puy-

Brig. Gen smedley D. Butler, of the marines.
whose reputation is that Of a fighting son OF
gum. Is In command at the big marine training
station at Quantico down the river from Wash
ington.
The other day they brought word to him that
a marine was dying in the hospital of double
pneumonia. He went TO see the boy,
This is no way for a marine to die" he told
him. Let's change the subject. Is there any
thing you want?"
.."I-wsnt some buttermilk.' said the marine.
but the doctor says I can't have it,"
But you can. said the general Il will get
1t myself"
But the general found that there was nd but
with instructions that speed regulations were to
be disregarded to town twenty miles away.
1t was back with the buttermilk in fifty minutes.
The marine drank his fill Of II.
In two weeks he was back at drill again.
Senator John William Harreld is the first Re
publican elected to the upper branch Of Con
sress from Oklahoma. He is the perfect motion
picture type Of what the Senator from Oklahoma
stature. whitehaired, stubby -mustached. bushy
eyebrowed, with a face that stands out like a
rock cliff along the rivers sweep
OF Kentucky origin is Senator Harreld with
ancestral lines which run back to North Carolina
and Virginia. He is the son Of a sawlog man
and grew up In the vicinity OF Morgantown. He
taught school youngster. alternating 1t with
reading law. He had practiced this profession
for eleven years in Morgantown and gone so far
TO become prosecuting attorney and to save
$4,000. when. in 1913, he went to Oklahoma In
that State in eight years this Kentucky lawyer
has made himself millionaire and United
States Senator.
Il came past the front gate Of the White House
not long ago and there, with hts foot on the step
that leads to the walk to the Executive Mansion
stood q certain Congressman who is not currently
classed among the shrinking violets. A photog-
rapher had his machine set up and was taking
the statesmau's picture.
step lively. young man." the Congressman
was saying as ] approached. MY constituents
demand all my time. can't let you photograph
ers and reporters use 1t up just because you want
copy"
= The camera clicked and the public servant
moved on. The photograp pher whom knew, was
swearing softly to himself. 20 stopped to hear.
THE big four.flusher," he saving "He
hired me to come out here and take his picture
At the white House gate"
Copyright ls2l.)
The Washington times., 1921-09-08
Easier Said Than Done

THERE is nothing new in At
torney General Daugherty s
, . thesis that it is the duty of
government to uphold unflinchingly
the supremacy Of law.
But it will produce a new situa-
ton if his idea is ever consistently
applied.
BY custom we haye easy law for
the rich sand powerful, and rigid
law for the weak. -
BY custom we proudly enact many
laws and then reserve the right arbi-
trarily to choose which to obey.
A regime of unsparing enforce
ment would purge the statute books
as they had never been purged
before. a....
The Washington times., 1921-09-08
We. TOWNE GOSSIP
Registered u. q Patent ofneA
X. c. B.

DEAR K. C. BIN writing you because
know you will understand. have big brother
who was cover there" for two years When he
came home he brought bit Of shrapnel in his
married and has been planning on a home that
he dreamed Of before the war. l saw him today,
and as he talked his eyes shone and his cheeks
grew rosy and I was alarmed by his short dry
cough and quickened breath. And, of course,
cried. He is waiting on the War Risk and
Insurance Board. He wants to be good fellow
and q regular American and he doesn't COM
plain, and when he gets his compensation and
the home he plans he feels that everything will
be all right
But, my dear X. c. B., when saw him today
l wondered il that compensation check wouldn't
come too late. A BIG SISTER
The Washington times., 1921-09-08
To Fight the Ubiquitous
BOrL0nd LaIO
By Billy PRICE.

The District Commissioners the proper persons to
cad continuous fight the meanest and most unjust
district aw--the Borland amendment Not only should
hat fight begin when the proptous moment arrives but
should be continued until Congress has repealed this
enactment The entire citizenship of the District should
back the Commissioners to the limit.
Commissioner RUDOLPH personally condemned this
law to the author when it pending in Congress and
has changed his opinion that its unfarness should
be wiped off the District statutes The amendment
conceived in malice toward the people of the District by
that petty Mssourian who retired from Congress by
his people shortly after he put the law through The
District is thankful that there few, if any like him
left in the national legislature. a...
Under this amendment the property owner pays 50
per cent of the cost of street and roadway improvement
the District government 80 per cent and the Federal
Government 20 per cent Yet these thoroughfares
for the of the general public and of far greater bene
fit to the people whole than to individual property
owners. #t
So unjust this law that in many cases it amounts To
absolute conscaon of the property of the poor. Only
recently an humble colored man in Anacostia
sessed $500 road improvements on his little home,
valued by District officials at not ST. 900.
The District Supreme Court has already held that the
law is unconstitutional applying to suburban prop
critics where the assessment upon property is
often greater than the properties actually worth.
This is in sections where there conveniences,
such water sewer gas etc., and where piece of
land may be shallow in depth, but considerable
distance along roadway. 1t is not doubted that the
Court of Appeals will sustain the lower court
The law should have been literally construed in the
first place by the District Assessor and Corporation
Counsel but instead it has been rgdy enforced to the
harm of many worthy taxpayers.
Aside from the glarng njustices of the law such
forcing property to pay for street and roadway
improvements of most value to the general public the
amendment is one of the distractions to home building
in the District One of the foundation rocks of the
American Republic that class of citizens who struggle
their homes Through all sorts of privatons they
persevere until they achieve that independence of the
landlord which means much The general situation is
not encouraging could be for home construction
and when to this is added the heavy costs imposed by
the Borland law the drawbacks in the District con-
siderable The repeal Of the law will greatly aid home
building here.
The Washington times., 1921-09-08
Nip and Tuck.

FIGURES supplied by the Ameri-
can Petroleum Institute indi-
cate that the race between sup
ply of and demand for gasoline in
the United States is now nip and
tuck.
In June the demand exceeded the
production by per cent, slightly
reducing reserves; in June, a year
ago, the excess was less than l per
cent. But the halving of our exports
in the intervening year left more
chances for home joy rides, the net
reserve on June 30 being nearly 50
per cent greater than at the CORE
spending date last year.
What will happen when business
regains its stride and all the flivvers
are put in motion remains to be
told as another story. The Hall Of
Fame still invites the man who can
produce a cheap substitute gas
that will 60.
The Washington times., 1921-09-08


THE Governor of West Virginia
announces that call the force
Z of the State" will be employed
to prosecute those recently guilty
of the recent insurrection.
This, of course, is to be expected.
- But will the State also exhibit
equal energy in seeking to correct
the bad conditions which impelled
thousands of mine workers to be-
ieve, however mistakenly, that only
by recourse to arms could they make
their lot in life tolerablei
If the State of West Virginia
wishes to prevent repetitions of in
lsurrectionary outbursts it must seek
out and so far as possible remove
the causes.
The causes are notorious-denial
to workers of freedom of opinion or
assembly; prostitution of govern
ment TO partisan service OF special
interests.
q Corporations there control deputy
sheriffs by paying bonuses to them
to act as labor spies and bullies.
"The law" which should be i'm
partial, is there used defantly by
a privileged minority to hold labor
in a subjection that is not much bet
ter than involuntary servitude.
There is wrong on both sides in
West Virginia. Each side is de-
termined to obtain absolute mastery
over the other. And mastery by en-
ployers' associations is as dangerous
and destructive to human liberty as
absolute dictation by labor unions.
In West Virginia the State govern
rnent is on the side of the employers
association.
The Washington times., 1921-09-08
Once-Overs
Copyright. 1871, International News Service, Inc
CAN YOU STAND DISAPPOINTMENT
nv L. Il MuNnY

Are you one Of those fellows that always want
TO be let In on the ground floor II anything good
or OF material advantage, is In effect, but want
to be counted distinctly out II the tide turns the
other way?
In other words, are you a good sport?
Can you take your medicine or do you whine |?
1t IL Just in such little ways that the really
fine and big and broad Of mind is found out.
The little person writhes and turns and twists
visibiy and audibly when things do not suit him.
The person worth while, the born and bred in
the bone gentleman or lady never by look or ges-
ture Acknowledges defeat
II 10 how well can you take disappointing fail
urs which proves your worthiness OF success
and often turns the smallest the most modest be-
ginnings into overwhelming victory.
But the captain Of victory never makes . wry
face. ~
The Washington times., 1921-09-08
Conditions Under Which
We Could Safely Disnrn,

itSuJ ~ may Sneu upon Oui FoWu
needs of national defensive policy.
If Japan'is to continue her efforts
forcibly to acquire a. monopoly of
the trade of North China, while en-
couraging Britain to aspire to
similar monopoly in the Southern
provinces of China; if the tactics
we have seen applied by Japan in
Korea, Manchuria, Shantung and
Siberia are to become her fixed
policy, then it is important for us
to know how far Britain is willing
to "stand by" Japan in those tao
tics and how much or how little
dependence we may hereafter put in
international pledges of the "open
door"
The circle of international rela-
tions. contains no segment more
pregnant with menace to America s
future than that which includes the
100000, 900 people ofChina and the
adjacent lands and islands.
Here, as Seward foretold, is the
probable theater of the worlds next
great developments. ...
Whether China shall be kept free
to self development unvexed by un-
welcome external pressure, or
goaded by expressions until forced
to battle for its life, means much to
China, but more to white civiliza-
ton.
1t was not mere knight errantry
which drew John Hay to China IS
aid when he proclaimed and won
lip assent to the doctrine of the
"open door,
His act was chivalrous, but his
motive was intensely practical. He
foresaw that in a peaceful Orient
American commerce would attain
most benefcent growth. He realized
that an embittered, foreign-hating
China would. not simply keep the
whole white race under the continu-
al hazard of war, but also curtail
greatly the natural circle of peace
full American opportunity.
What he then saw is now clear
to all.
The United States, with its out
post in the Philippines, is today a
territorial part of the Orient and
has new reasons to promote its
peaceful welfare.
1t can afford to consider dis
armament seriously only when con-
ditions which threaten the peace of
the Orient are securely relieved of
their potency for evil,
The Washington times., 1921-09-08
MIR. B. Baer
MONTH OF sNEEZE.
TENDER.

old proverb. Between
grass and hay. Mean
ing too late for one thing.
Too early for another
NEW proyerb. Batwesn
grass and hay. Mean.
ing too late to dodge hay
fever. Too early to stop
sneezing.
TIMOTHY catarrh is now
canvassing country. Rea-
son why our Presidents are
evicted in March instead OF
September Is that we don't
want two sneezes to be last
act of an administrS tion.
WHETHER you are suf.
w fering from load OF
hay fever, or only bale, 1.
10 tough fun. Other diseas ses
may run their course. But
alfalfa fever is built on
circular track.
CoLDENRoD is our ma
" tional bouquet. Patriotic
clover sniffer salutcs II
with three razzing sneezes
and tiger. Other citizens
may take off hat 10 na-
tional air. But when grass
invalid shifts national air
he sneezes himself out of
his hat, shoes and socks.
SCIENTIFIC name IL ba-
~ cillussubtilis, with sneeze
on second syllable.
TT is blanket indictment.
= Covers entire works like
second mortgage on harm.
1t is only illness known to
Rockefeller Institute where
relatives are requested to
omit pansies and hoIlyhocks
before doctors nomination
II seconded by coroner as
sistant.
VICTIM acts like Re was
v stuffed with Copenhagen
snuff. Talks with pro.
nounced pollen brogue. in,
order to permit two red
Hosed. watery.eyed meadow
inhalers to establish con.
versa ton. II has beeI nee.
essary to invent Morse
code in sneezes. Language
OF flowers. .
uAY malaria Is citizens
~ own fault. Grabs yaca.
ton. Goes to suburbs for
lark. Comes back cuckoo.
In the old days two pints
made q quart. but now less
than one pint can make a
funeral.
Can a schooner three miles
from shore be referred to as
near.beery .>
The Blue Lawyers Of
Kansas, Queen OF the Nut
States. are soon to wage a
campaign against transpar.
ent shirtwaists. Having rid
the State Of booze, II now
seeks 10 eliminate the peek.
a-booze. a .
The Washington times., 1921-09-08

Can a schooner three miles
from shore be referred to as
near.beery ..> ..
The Washington times., 1921-09-08

In the old days two pints
made q quart. but now less
than one pint can make a
funeral. ."
The Washington times., 1921-09-08

HAY malaria is citizens
~ own fault. Grabs yaca.
ton. Goes to suburbs for
lark. Comes back cuckoo.
The Washington times., 1921-09-08
Philosophyina GroceryStore
BY Angela Morgan
NEY grocer has q kindly face,
M Something sparkles when he spea
AVA Words Of wisdom uavs of~orsee
|y Angela Morgan

NEY grocer has q kindly face,
M Something sparkles when he speaks
~ Words Of wisdom, ways of~grsce.
While he wraps the things you've bought
He can keep q kindled thought;
While he handles tins and jars,
He can move among the stars.
Said my grocer yesterday,
"T can't help what others say;
Talking Of the things they see
Everything's alive to me.
Not q thing touch is dead -
Sugar, salt or four" he said.
mot q thing with which Pm dealing
But is full Of life and feeling"
Looking on my grocer then,
How pitied foolish men
Too preoccupied with trade
To behold how things are made.
"Why, this counter where stand"
And he stroked it with his hand,
"This which seems thing Of wood,
II we only understood.
Suffers pain and rapture, too,
Just ss human beings do.
Ever hear timber scream
when. you're saving of . beamf
Ever hear tomatoes talk
when you pull 'em from the ssarkf
Look and see It for yourseki
See 'em crowding on the shelf,
laughing, whispering and playing
Wish knew what they were sayinsr'
Here my grocer. snapped the string.
There's q use for everything.
There's q reason and cause
For the beauty anad the flaws
OF this great and goodly earth.
Not Stone but has It's worth.
Not q common grain Of corn
But is glad for being born" ~
"How YOU love your vorkr said
Like king he raised his head,
And the Joy that leaped from him ..
Must have charmed the cherubim.
Love It! Well, it's like throne
Where live among my own!
Every single thing that's in IL
Gives me gladness every minute"
So I tell the folks who say
Grocer men are common clay,
"No, for I have talked with one
Worthy as q princes son. ......
He who finds his work q friend.
Owns kingdom without end" .. -
Copyright is,i. sy King ssturss ,syaaieats. Ia
The Washington times., 1921-09-08
y ONE commentators on the dis
\ armament conference are not
~, I.-l.-.-l A. ~ 80


- able to distinguish the cart
from the horse.
It is easy to say that disarmament
should comeS first on the program,
but if it comes at all it will have
to come last, for simple and an
obvious reason. -.
No nation which has due concern
for it's safety and welfare could con-
sent to disarm until the major
causes of friction had either been
assuaged by common and very
definite understanding or put fairly
on the way to settlement.
Specifically the demand of certain
Japanese elements that nothing
shall be done at the conference about
Far Eastern frictions until other
questions are settled is on it's face
absurd, since these frictions are to-
day among the most urgent reasons
why the United States should keep
strong arms in reserve.
1t is common belief that the con-
ference has for one of it's, objects
to relieve Great Britain of a serious
, embarrassment. Britain's alliance
with Japan was about to expire.
Canada and Australia both opposed
renewal, if renewal meant interfer-
ence with their policy of Japanese
exclusion. To renew, therefore,
meant discord within the Empire
and offense to the United States,
while refusal to renew meant affront
to Japan.
It is the function of diplomacy to
invent escapes from such dilemmas.
A conference on disarmament, with
collateral consideration of causes of
friction in the Far East, promised
possible escape to Great Britain;
and British diplomacy eagerly
favored it.
American interest in general dis
armament is widespread, though
more or less academic, but American
interest in curbing the menace of
Japanese imperialism is practical
and acute.
o. While rescue of British statesmen
from dilemmas of their own creation
forms no part of American duty,
showdown of international policy in
Asia would be of real value to us.
Our foremost concern will be not
in what recommendation the con-
ference may propose as to future
disarmament in general, but in what
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The Cordova daily times., 1921-12-15
MARRIAGE
 RESULTS IN DIVORCE

COLUMBUS, Dec. 15 That di- vorcees should not remarry for at least six months after the decree of divorce has been granted, is the be- lief by Common Pleas Judge Tar bell, of Brown County. now holding court here.
 The judge expressed his opinions while hearing the suit of Mrs. Lois Thomas, eighteen, for divorce from her husband. Judge Tarbelrs sugges- ton for a six-month interval was preceded by n lecture in which he touched upon the evil of youthful marriages and the bigger wrong of obtaining divorces only to remarry hastily.
 Exception, however, was taken by Mrs. Thomas to the six-month pro- posal. Anything may happen in six months" she said. Mrs. Thomas was allowed divorce.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-12-15
PLEA AGAINST ENFORCEMENT
 OF JONES ACT

WASHINGTON. Dec. 15.-Attorney General Rustgard today presented to the Supreme Court Alaskas protest against enforcement of the Jones Merchant Marine Act. He declared the act is discriminatory against Alaska in favor of Seattle. compelling the Territory to conduct all it's busi- ness with Seattle. He pointed out that merchandise shipped from the United States to Alaska by Canadian railway and water lines is subject to confiscation while goods proceed ing on Canadian lines to Seattle and other points in Pacific states are not penaIized Rustgard referred to a de- cision of the Supreme Court holding that Alaska is part of the United States contending that Congress meant the constitution should have the same force in the Territory as elsewhere
 Solicitor General Beck, replying for the government. said the commerce clause of the constitution did not apply to territories
 Argument on the attack by the at torney general of Alaska on the pro visions of the Jones shipping bill was continued this afternoon In arguing for the government that preference given ports in coast states had been forced. Solicitor General Beck stated the case presented the fascinating experience of exploring virgin terri tory in construing the federal consti- tion" He said the clause of the con stution which provides that "uo preference be given by any reguia- tion of commerce or revenue to the ports of one state over those of an other" had rarely been interpreted for any purpose and so far as he could discover never in it's application to the question raised by Alaska
The Cordova daily times., 1921-12-15
UNEMPLOYMENT HITS
 MEXICAN DISTRICTS

MEXICO CITY. Mex. Dec 15. - Mexico's unemployment problems are increasing.
 More mines have heen shut down because of the low price of metals. throwing additional thousands of workers into idleness It Is said that in the State of Hidalgo alone 4,o00 miners are out of work be- cause of the suspension of opera tions
 Additional men have been dis charged by oil companies in the Tampico region. adding to the al ready serious problem there But there is hope of resumption of work in the oil fields within a short time
 Terribly depressed conditions are reported in Oaxaca, where great numbers are idle.
 Pressing want, with little prospect of substantial relief is reported in Yucatan and Campeche.
 In Vera Cruz the profit-sharing or hunger" law has paralyzed industry and business, and distress is reported among the workers, who expected that the law would fill their pockets as never before.
 There are 90 many sections need ing relief that the government Is able to give little help because of the lean condition of the treasury. Some help is given. but it falls far short of what is needed.
 It is hoped that when recognition comes Mexico may be able to ob- tain financing with which it will be able to improve conditions.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-12-15
DISABLED MEN
 IN TERRITORY
 WILL GET HELP

SEATTLE. Dec l5.-L. C. Jessep. Northwest District manager of the Veterans Bureau. announced that Secretary of War Weeks has author ized Army medical corps officers in Alaskan to examine and report on the condition of World war veterans in the territory needing attention. An effort will be made after January to send bureau representatives north tu ro-operatc with medical officers, rounding mp disabled veterans clig- ihc for compensation or vocational traiuin.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-12-15
LORD CARSON
 ATTACKS IRISH
 PEACE TREATY

LONDON. Dee. l5. Parliament de- bate over the Irish treaty featured d bitter attack on the government by Lord Carson in the House ol Lords and Captain Charles Craig in th" House of Commons Carson said "Brcaus" Ulster is loyal you think you can kick her as you like. l prom iso you she will keep out ol this agreement. Why has Sim Fein been given an army if not to invade Ulster? Was il to invade America or Chan mel Island?"
The Cordova daily times., 1921-12-15
TACOMA MAN IS RECOMMENDED
 AS ASSISTANT

WASHINGTON. Dec. 15,-It is un- dcrstood Secretary of Treasury Mel lon has recommended to President Harding the appointment of Elmer Dover as assistant secretary of the treasury. in charge of the internal revenue customs. Dover was secre- tarl of the Republican National Com mittee from 1904 to 1908 and man ager of Harding's campaign on the Pacific coast