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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-05

The average man would not object u
tho income tax being reduced to one half OF
one per cent kick.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-05
T'lGE House had recessed at Is q. III

TNlTE House had recessed al - q. H.
/ until 10. The members troopcd off 70
th'i: hotels and boarding houses Suppo,iug
lLnt al vas over.
by private agreement. at = u'clorG in one
Of ;ho Offices in the Capitol th" adm!ni>'ra-
t.on leaders assembled, Tho details for tn"
coming morning session Wcro again ro-
Nrar,cd Al possible parliamentary move,
nrtr anticipated and provided Rguins'
A. th" state printing houS" every body
,"rk"d under high pr",Sur". No such uigh'
cl"cpt on Il closing night Of previous sc,-
,,on4. had been noWn. All thC bills
hrnught out under the ne" speaker had ~
nuyr tho amendment, inserted and the bills
printed.
n"w coIcndar had to bo sct NJ fur
House thnt assembled an hour ahoad Of riuc.
iu>rcad Of the ordinary Wunbcr If ral"u.
dare Of the day. tnrce times Il, man. were
run Of tho press.
Put two "al"udars on c'rrr mcuhcrs
i, *. was the order. "Tn"N hcrp tic
vrguIar plumber in reserve.
The idea was that If any Of 1hc oppu>r.
1.rn STOLE thc calendars others woGId ho ready
mt an instant : notice.
.N O'Clock an that s.c"plrs> Tao~day
morning Harry McDoyitr, Tho Goycrnor'y
iriyaro secretary. b"lhought him Of The need
"i Judge.
One Would be required to swear in tLe
row speaker
Judge Hargsst. % tbc Duuphin County
l'oirt, was called. II" was just getting nur
,,f bod. lie wa> on hand, though. vhrn tho
House came TO order.
II was strenuous time"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-05

|, may be supposed at least, that
Panama is not now without respect for
NrtiClC y.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-05

Dared to shed his coat. tnSrll doubt.
less wished WeScott would keep his shirt on.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-05
SHORT CUTS

Everybody should go over the top in the
local drive for health
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-05
THE DANCING CRAZE
New Vulgar Dances Are Old Almost
as Civllization--A ReversIon to the
Savage Legislative
History OF Last Week
By GEORGE NOX MCCAIN

ERNEST l.. TrSTIN. director of public
l. welfare. in his war upon vulgar, dances
IS fighting to restore not only dcccncy, but
civilization tQ the dance room.
The roSturNs aud movements Of the pres
cnt day popular dances are not new.
They are only more prevalent thnn hero
totorc They originated in the slums and
dives Of European cities. That is. some
Of them.
"TcddIiug is the modern Vutgrowth OF
tho barbnric shuttle.
"Shmmyiug" Is phase OF the "danSe iu
ventrc.' imported from Egypt. Ii was in q.
troduccd at the Worlds Fair IN Chicago III
1899 and suppressed there after n fcw
weeks
When an attempt was made to rcintroducc
1t in Now York in the December following
Inspector Williams. the car Of the Ten
dcrloin." bowlcd it out.
II was too vulgar even for the rcd light
district Of tho metropolis.
Condemned as this dance and its varia =
tions have ever been. the new adaptation
known rs tho "Shimmy' is merely II shifting
of the muscular movement 20 the shoulders.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-05

Said the bore If an optimist, l;arnnh' 'In;;
"Chcer up aud be- happy 'Tis easy a. ,.i
II things cant be worse then they re N'0'"
10 grow better
And the rain disappears when it cannot get
wcttCr. ,h
Cheer up DO the duty that calls !oA VII"
zcSt 80
So we killed Barney Grin as truth l''o'
best,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-05
nnRECTOH 1rSTIN, Miss Wala, Mr.
/ NInnnirn nmn tlIn ~ nil,nrc inAnrnrAnL nj

nIRECTUR 1T'STIN, Miss Wall, Mrs.
- Madeira and the others interested will,
if they go back far enough, discover that the
Objectionable poSturings and paroxysms of
today aren't marker to some old dances.
They are centuries old. They we're pat
terncd after still older dances popular in
Cairo and Cunstantinoplc, Tunis and Tan
gierS.
Originally all dances were religious or
pagan ceremonies.
The wrctrhcd humans thought TO aprcaSc
divine wrath by cutting capcrs and comfort
ing their limbs
Sayagcs arc doing the same thing TO this
day.
Through course Of ages the wolfe"
finally reached France, and three centuries
ago was the popular dance.
The movements of the lady in this dance
were reduced to embracing as tightly as
possible the neck of her cavalier.
II was the first dance in which The male
performer embraced his partner.
In fact. the lady in one part oc the per-
Torrance did not touch the ground. Her
partner held her suspended with his loft arm
as he executed four movements of the dance.
The "chcch tn-c cheek" is an adaptation
OF a posture in III" old soup plate waltz,
or Coney Island glide
1t IS said that some Now England college
boys introduced the fad and made 1t popular.
In the waltz the girl paced her hand
under her chin and her partner rested his
cheek against II.
There appears 70 be nothing now under the
sun, even in dancing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-10-08

A MERICA has been dryer
"A than ironing board for
three years. Population Of
country In Ito, 900, 900. About
ten per cent Of that stagger-
ing amount are too young to
be bootleggers. But they'll
grow. 49,.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-10-08
We Should WOrru.

THE story comes from Russia of
a restaurant proprietor buying
. a set of antique furniture for
100000 rubles, which today
amounts to less than 500.
The present condition of foreign
exchange makes one dizzy. The
figures give a fair indication of the
topsy-turvy state of the world s
business affairs. Francs, marks,
kronen, lire, crowns, drachmas,
pesetas, guilders, finmarks as well as
rubles have all gone crazy.
Russia is said to be preparing to
issue 100000 rubles notes. They
will come in handy for tips and car
fare. School children of the future
will have to learn the multiplication
table up to trillions and quadrilIions.
The traveller of the future, after
a repast of veal chops and a seidel
Of beer in German restaurant, NAV
get from the waiter a bill for 1,OOO,-
00O,0O0,000 100000 marks, which will
equal fifty cents in American money.
We are worrying about the high
cost of living. When we break a
thousand dollar bill to buy pair of
shoe laces or lip-stick we still have
a little change left.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-10-08
THEY'RE HUMAN
By
Atherton Du puy-

I had always thought that chemistry was a
frightfully dry subject, but here was this chief
Of the chemical warfare service this Brig. Gen.
Amos A. Fries, showing US through the great
plant at Edgewood ARISEN Il and making It almost
romantic.
The catalyst he was saying-and II I make
technical mistakes in the reporting they are mine
and not hiss the Cupid Of chemistry. 1t is the
matchmaker. It brings about unions that would
not otherwise occur yet does not enter into those
unions. is unaffected by them. 1t Is just like
Cupid.
oxide, two gases Put them together and they
will not unite. Put them in the sun, and they
will. The Is the catalyst. Charcoal Will get
the same result. 1t does not enter into the COM
bination, but II gets action.
The substance resulting is called phosgene. and
IL you take that word apart you will find that
IL means born in the sun" 1t was one of the
strafers during, the And yet didn't know
there a romance in chemistry.
And this terrible mustard gas! Do you know
what 1t Is made Of?
You break table salt up into its two parts.
chlorine a gas and sodium, which is lye and
throw the I've away. Then you change alcohol
into a gas. And you put the two gases to-
gether and run them through hot sulphur. There
you have it-mustard gas, the great man killer.
But they put lot OF detail In just to make
It hard.
Robert F. Griggs is the discoverer and explorer
of 1.-THE Valley Of 1000 Smokes" In the shadow
of Mt. Katmai, the biggest volcano in the world,
off the coast Of Alaska.
He has led six expendiuons TO that valley where
the world might tumble on one at any moment;
where the ash crusts might break through and
drop him in for parboing.
One is likely to be bit appalled,. when this
man relates his experiences to picture these ex.
petitions as calling for a stupendous amount Of
physical courage. This Is the way DR.. Griggs
explains It:
Most things" he says. loom large in pro-
portion to ones closeness to them. Danger Is
the single exception. The closer one Is to dan
ger the more diminutive 1t appears"
Robert Forrest Wilson, co-author with Bene-
dict Crowell, former Assistant Secretary Of War
of six volumes of history of How America Went
to War" volumes which have just appered. used
to be a newspaper reporter around Washington.
Back in the days of the Ballinger- Pinchot fight
II was Wilson who turned up the biggest beat
of the year by inducing a clerk to let him take
out and photograph certain letters In the Balling-
err files These afterward became famous as the
"Dick.toDick" letters, for, Mr.. Balnger and his
correspondent both bore the name OF Richard.
Copyright 1871.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-10-08
Encouraging.
THE sudden advance in the price
Of crude oil is an encoura p;no

The sudden advance in the price
of crude oil is an encouraging
sign that business is improving.
The big concerns are offering bet
ter prices to the producers because
they want more oil production. The
big companies want more crude oil
because there is an increasing de-
mand for the fuel oil and gasoline
which drive motors and manufac-
turing machinery. The owners of
motors and manufacturing ma
chinery want more fuel oil and gaso-
line because they have more to do
and see more business in sight.
That's the cycle which starts at
the oil well. 1t is all very signifi-
CAM and very encouraging.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-10-08
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW.
Nv MIINDY

Just your luck hard' yesterday
hitting yourself fear that tomorrow will be unfortunate
In the light Of today should plan for tomorrow.
best, must not yesterday.
Of yesterday enable avoid making the
sort Of mistakes today and in the future.
Charge up valuable knowledge
carry them.
Worry the past has thwad what might otherwise have
brilliant
has prevented thousands from making decision
would benefited them throughout their
Todays job big one-a that person comfortably
fill to completeness -.....
Part Of today's job is forming plans for
Of yesterdays-to decide your for today
Today may be the great turning point Of your lfe
the morning with much interest life
high tide which TO bear highest
prepared TO fill that ongedfor placethe
#...s
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-10-08
Audubon's Old Home.

The house where John
James Audubon made his
home and where Prof. Morse
tried out his first telegraph
instrument In New York city
In falling into decay. In the
village of Audubon, Pa, the
Audubon landmarks have
been preserved.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-10-08
Train Robbery.

The first train robbery is said to have taken
place forty-eight years ago at Verdi, New, when
the Overland Express was held up and despoiled
of about $780, 900. This robbery marked a new
departure In the field Of crime, for previously
only stage coaches and travellers had fallen prey
to hoidup men. When Western outlaws are dis
cussed, the name Of Jesse James Is usually the
first brought UP, but he was not the pioneer
train robber. That dubious distinction belongs
to one Buck Taylor who, with four companions,
engineered the train holdup which was the first
of q long string Of similar crimes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-10-08
The March
Of EUents
TRANCE, England and Japan are
II coming to the Washington

coming to the Washington
conference with trading pro-
posals. These proposals will take
various forms, but they will all be
aimed at three definite detectives.
These are:
1.-The cancellation of the war
debts owed to US.
2-An alliance by which the
United States agrees hereafter to
defend the Allies in possession of
their war spoils.
3-The consent of the United
States to Japanese naval, military
and civil control of China and
Siberia.
Mr.. Hughes is not the man we
believe him to be if the British,
French and Japanese diplomats sue
coed in obtaining any one of these
three objects.
To forecast the probability of in
ducing Japan, England and France
to agree to disarmament it is nee
essary to understand the character
of these Powers. All three are ter
ritorially small nations which have
become rich and powerful by con-
quest and colonization. Their en-
pires have been built up and main
tanned by military and naval force.
Each one of them would lose its
conquests and tribute-paying col
onies if they laid aside the military
and naval ornaments which alone
keep the lands and peoples they
rule and exploit under subsection.
To propose disarmament to en-
pires built and sustained only by
navaism and militarism is to talk
to the winds. 1t may confidently
be taken for granted that neither
Japan, England nor France has the
remotest intention of abandoning
imperialism or militarism at the
Washington conference. They will
be there to trade and to get as
much as they can from the United
States in return for nothing that
the United States wants or needs,
and for that purpose only.
The United States should not can
Gel one dollar of the foreign indebt-
edness.
The United States should not
make any sort of alliance with any
other Power or Powers.
The United States should not
guarantee any other Power in the
possession of any lands or colonies
or war spoils of any kind.
The United States should attend
to its own business, make it clear
that it intends no aggression upon
any other Power, and that it is both
able and determined to defend its
own rights against any other Pow
er or combination of Powers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-10-08

IF you beat him to II, he's
= your customer. II he beats
you to draw. your wife Is
your widow.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-10-08

ROOTLEGGERS have to
~ wear badges to keep from
selling stuff to each other.
Only way to tell hootchlegger
from customer Is to see who
pulls out bottle first.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-10-08
When Do
We Eat !?
TEMPORA! o mores!

II IulS luIiu soy hhSt "Sh
means go the timesl o the
customs!" rivals the lamentations
of Jeremiah in antiquity. 1t is the
exclamation Of the chronic crouch,
the wall of hopeless despair. We
deplore it, even resent it, as rule.
But there comes a time-ah, yes,
there comes a time
At the Electrical Exhibition in
New York they are displaying what
they call model kitchen in which
time and labor are saved by the use
Of electricity. And the demonstra-
ton that they give you Of its effici-
ency is to turn out a completed
waffle in sixty seconds!
Shades of Lucullus and. Brillat-
Savarinl
Are we never going to learn how to
cook and how to eati Does every
thing have to be made by ma
chineryf Are we coming to the
point where the excellence Of an
American meal will depend upon
the time in which it was prepared
Will the champion cook be the one
who can turn out New England
boiled dinner in fifteen minutesi
If that is the direction in which
we are drifting it is easy to foresee
that cooking will ultimately become
a lost art. Its goose, so to speak,
will be cooked. We shall simply
live on calory pills, protein tablets,
albuminous drops, etc., half a dozen
taken three times day.
Cooking is an art. Cooking in
record time by labor-saving ma
chinery is about the same perform
ance as turning out Autographed
Raphael Madonnas on a rotary press
or manufacturing Venuses di Milo
in multiple molds. Still some peo-
pie never know the difference.
Heaven knows that American
cooking has always been bad
enough.
The endless steak, steak, steak
(, hardly ever properly cooked-and
] the water-logged Goldfish and taste
less stews and unsavory roasts have
! formed the staple meal of the great
majority of people from the Atlantic
to the Pacific from time immemorial.
And the endless pies and the in
digestible stuffingsl And all washed
down with the everlasting ice
water!
The delicate sauces of the French,
the skillful broiling and roasting and
simmering of the Bohemians, the
scientific meal construction of the
Germans are unknown to all save a
few.
The English sole is a more de-
licious fish than the American
founder. And yet real cook, with
pains and loving care, could make
a better dish of the founder than
we have ever been able to make of
the sole.
In fact, a good cook who devotes
time and pains and great intelli-
gence to his task could make a more
palatable dish out of sea weed than
the average hash concocter can
make out of a turkey, because time
and pains and intelligence are the
very heart of cooking.
And now we're trying to cook
faster. o the times! o the man.
ners. Oh, goshl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-10-08
Film Doctor.

new vocation Is that Of the picture theater
doctor" When the proprietor of a motion pic
ture house finds that his shows are not web
attended he sends for "the doctor" The latter
makes psychological study Of the audiences
and ..prescribes" the character Of piceres that
would best suit thaAs
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-10-08


be great suffering this
Winter. Nothing in cellar
but coal. That will heat
houses. But what's going
to heat your
WINTER Of 1855 was
w tough. Snow was fif-
teen feet deep between sa-
looms. Winter Of 1921 Will
be worse even II II doesn't
snow. Prohibition should be
divided into seasons. Light
Summer slipping and heavy
Winter guzzling.
A MERICA has been dryer
"A than ironing board for
three years. Population OF
country IL ITO, 900, 900. About
ten per cent Of that stagger-
ing amount are too young to
be bootleggers. But they'll
grow. 49,.
IF man you meet isn't
bootlegger, then you didn't
meet him. Everybody IL
hootchbooter now. Elevator
boys, motormen, bellhops,
paperhangers, plumbers are
all earnest students working
out horrible examples in alco-
holic arithmetic.
MILKMAN enamels his
AVA bottles white on outside.
Can fill 'em with any colored
Juice, but It still looks like
milk bottle. Revenue agents
ought to lay off rushing
warehouses and raid baby's
cradle. Sure to find pint
flask under pillow.
VOU can sell anything
= that you can pour into
bottles. Average citizen
doesn't care what he drinks
80 long as he can fool Con-
gress. Label on bottle can
be skull and cross-bones and
he will think It picture Of
Santa Claus.
IF they sold stuff In old
= days that they peddle now,
oldtime bar towels would
have to be made Of asbestos.
Can't blow your breath on
breakfast food without burn
ing It. Men have to- shave
'emselves in mirrors made OF
fire glass. One sneeze il
liable to start forest fire.
RooTLEGGERs have to
- wear badges to keep from
selling stuff to each other.
Only way to tell hootchlegger
from customer Is to see who
pulls out bottle first.
IF you beat him to Il, he's
= your customer. II he beats
you to draw, your wife IL
your widow.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-10-08
Mr.. B. Baer
BOTTLED ARSON.

OOKS like it's going to
be great suffering this
Winter. Nothing in cellar
but coal. That will heat
houses. But what's going
to heat your
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-04-09

Few have realized that peat might
replace coal and break to large ex,
tent the dependence of some of the
northern states upon distant coal
mines.
For several months a Minneapolis
company has been engaged in the prep
aration of peat for fuel, said TO be the
only enterprise of its kind in the coun.
try. a machine has been perfected that
digs, macerates and spreads out to dry
7OO tons of wet peat in day, or a
quantity sufficient to produce 100 tons
of dry fuel. That's how much peat
contracts in the drying process. One
man operates the machine.
During the summer the machine was
operated on a bog near Minneapolis,
and peat, processed at the University
OF Minnesota, was burned with salts,
factory results in Minneapolis Office
building.
A crusher plant, with a capacity OF
500 tons of peat day, has been built
in Minneapolis during the winter ia
produce powdered peat, and in the
spring ten peat digging machines are
to be started on the Minnesota boys,
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-04-09
SHORTEST, BUT MOST NOTED
February Is Supreme AEove All 9th
ers as the Natal Month of the
WORLDS Famous.

Was there ever such Il month as
February! 1t would seem that IT, 9ugh
1t is the shortest month in the year
it has crowded into its % days more
birthdays Of Worldwide celebrities
than any of the other II months. No
less than q people Of note have seen
the light OF day for the first time in
that month. And their range is wide.
February is not partial to any par
ticular kind Of celebrity.
On February |, 1870, Commodore
David Porter was born. On the third
of the month, 1909 Felix Mendelssohn
came into the world. On the same
day, but in 1911, Horace Greeley fol-
lowed. On the fifth, 1888, Sir Robert
Peel was born. The birthdays of 9TH
er notables occur in this order:
February 6, 1756-Aaron Burr.
February 6, 1838-Sir Henry Irving.
February z, 1S12-Charles Dickens.
February 8, 1S20-William Tecum-
sch Sherman.
February 8, 1S19-John Ruskin.
February 8, 1S28-Jules Verne.
February 8, 1773-William Henry
Harrison.
February o. 1S14-Samuel ]. Tilden.
February 10, 1775-Charles Lamb
February II, 1S47-Thomas A. Edi-
son.
February II, 1SO9-Abraham Lin
coin.
February IL, 1809-Charles Darwin
February Is, 1564-Galileo.
February IS, 1S34-Ernest Haeckel.
February 10, 1717-David Garrick.
February 90 1S29-Joseph Jefferson.
February 81, 1901 John Henry
Newman.
February %, 1732-George Washing,
ton.
February %, 1S19-James Russell
Lowell.
February %, 1685-Ge Gorge Frederick
Haendel.
February %, 1s17-George Frederick
Watts.
February "a, 1S24-George William
Curtis.
February g. 1S02-Victor Hugo.
February u, 1S07--Henry w. Long
fellow.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-04-09
DESIGNED TO UPHOLD WEIGHT
Elephants Foot Is Enormous, Even
When Compared With the Size
of the Beast.

That twice around an elephants
feot equals Its height seems almost in,
credible, yet such is the fact, and a
little reflection will show you that il
is not so wonderful as it appears
to be. Things are large or small
comparatively, and if we could see
the foot of an elephant by itself, il
would present a far different appear.
ance as to size from what it gives
when oVershadowed by the mountain
OF flesh 1t supports. The elephants
In the Indian commissariat being di.
eted according to height require to be
measured annually to determine the
amount OF food to which they are en-.
titled. AT present this is done by
means of the ordinary standard with
crossbar on top, but formerly it was
done by placing rope around the ami.
mails forefoot close to the ground, and
multiplying the length SO obtained by
two. This measurement generally give.
quarter of an inch or so more, but
never less than the exact height.