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The Washington times., 1921-07-14
HUM MS
William Anterior Du Puy-

Tony Lufkin, of Massachu SETS has recently
been appointed Collector of Customs at Boston.
one of the best paying jobs in the gift OF the Pres
dent .--.
This young used to be the genial secretary
To Congressman Gardner and succeeded him when
the latter died in uniform during the
IL was some ten years ago. in the summer time.
and Tony was drinking lemonade in hammock
up at Beverly. Mass. when the telephone rang.
He answered it and voice at the other end said:
Hello. This is the President" ...
The president Of what?" queried. Tony
.'''Of the United States" was the answer.
Mr. Taft had come up to Beverly for the sum-
mer and was getting in touch with his neighbors.
Senator Wesley Livsey Jones' OF Washington.
recently took up the game of golf and formed
the habit Of playing in the early morning This
schedule worked out in such a way that IL would
have suited his convenience much better IL Con.
gress had met earlier in the morning His friends
noticed that. shortly after making this discov
cry, he introduced daylight savings bill.
None of Senator Jones associates from the
Northwest plays golf and he has had difficulty
in getting early morning company Eventually,
Congressman Albert johnson, of his State fear
ing the approach of corpulency, with the years.
purchased golfers beginning outfit for 1928
and commenced answering the 5 o'clock call OF
the alarm clock. After three months Of exer-
ton he claims to be an expert at replacing divots.
The only American representative of the
League Of Nations is Ernest Greenwood, who is
STYLED the American correspondent of the Inter.
national Labor Office. He maintains headuuar-
tiers in Washington. He used to be connected
with the United States Department of Labor. He
ing Of labor leaders held In Washington shortly
after the armstice signed and which be-
cause Of the anita yonistic attitude of the Amer
lean Congress and public. put damper plans
for other meetings over here.
Gov. Tom Campbell, Of Arizona, is a very tall,
very striking figure. topped with wide cowboy
hat And when he appeared at the Chicago con-
vention as he recently appeared in Washington
on reclamation matters he attracted no little at
tention
Congressman, Arthur NJ. Free of California
Is the happy father OF two sets OF twins and in
this respect has attained distinction that can
be claimed by no other man ip public life 4.
Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Co
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Our Dangerous Air
JUNK
THE following letter will interest those responsible

THE following letter will interest those responsible for
the lives OF filters in the Postoce and other branches
of public service. 1t would be worth while to nvesti-
gate the statement that the percentage of fatalities flying
greater in the United States than any other country
There is doubt that the percentage of JUNK in flying
machines is by far greater in our country than in any
other. This letter should attract attention:
7O8 w. Ave &c. Angeles
June 80, 1921.
Editor The Times
Dear sr- have followed with speeds. interest
air matters In January special the Air
ice took the first through pouch from New York
flying a passenger in the mail pit
Ny experiences forced landings and information
terialcaused accidents
that the amstice American fatalities
kinds of fyng-greatly exceed those country
Following disgracefu failure in
quantities of all kinds Of
the Air Mail Service is
American spane industry let down by the
against bankruptcy. .,ss
struggle might charge IL off to
iers them costing valuable American lives
days numbers Of them
Nearly all of the war-made should
the French strapped theirs Aside human
would loss tr
quated junk and stimulate the
sadly need unless continue trailing the world
Yours truly,
JOHN GOLDSTROM,
Member Asco Club of Southern California;
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A Real
COnundrun,
I N the newspaper columns we come
across the name of L. K, Trell.

IN the newspaper columns we come
across the name of l.. r. Trell,
. president of the American Rail
road Bureau. Mr.. Trell asks a
question: real, vital, burning, up
to-date question.
"How," he asks, edo you expect
a man to balance a column accu-
rately when he's got one eye on the
figures in the ledger and the other
on the figures of the girls in the
office?'
His question came at the end of a
long protest against the kind of
clothes the girls are wearing these
days - transparent waists, short
skirts, web stockings, rolled down to
the knees, etc. With his protest we
have no sympathy. We firmly be.
ieve in girls wearing what they
want to wear. If Mr.. Trell doesn' 7
want to wear a transparent waist
or short skirt, the Constitution of
the United States Will protect him.
But when it comes to his ques-
tion-ah! That is a puzzler. In the
presence of that conundrum we are
as helpless as Carpenter before a
Dempsey. 1t floors US.
Dear Mr.. Trell, how do you ex-
pect any man to do any kind of
work when he has an eye-or even
half an eye-on the sweet. pretty,
charming, delightful, lovely and
lovable girls that you see in every
city of the United States' Why
expect him to do any work at all'
WHY not let him alone and give him
a chance7
Anyway, why be killioy!
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he March
Of EUenst
THE property of Countess Won
Rernstorc valued at $1,000

600, has been ordered restored
toEher. >gN,
The property Of Max Henkels,
valued at $s75,ooo, has been ordered
restored to him.
Both properties were illegally
seized by the Alien Property Jus
itodian during the war. Decent
Americans are glad to see the
United States courts undoing the
injustice that was done by At
torney General Palmer and Garvan.
All the seizures and sales of alien
enemy property we're in violation of
4 solemn treaty and of the recog-
nized law of nations. The whole
performance, including the authori
zation by the Congress and Presi-
dent Wilson, was dishonorable and
q stain upon our national good
name. In individual cases, the Gus
todian went beyond not only the
law, but the limits of ordinary fair
ness, and the disposition of some
valuable properties. such as those
obtained by the chemical dye trust
and the relatives and political
! friends of the Custodian, ought yet
to be Investigated and examined by
the Congress and the courts.
Too many of these 100 per cent"
patriots made it thousand per cent
when they got the chance.
Let the good work of restoration
go on. The courts are on the right
track and should be applauded by
all who hold the honor and good
name Of our America above any
price in money Of stolen goods.
. The Greeks accuse the Turks of
pillage, outrage and massacre, and
the Turks accuse the Greeks of the
same wholesale crimes.
No one familiar with the wars of
the Balkans and the Near East will
doubt that both accusations are
true. In the former Balkan wars
the savage cruelty of the soldiery--
Greek, Bulgarian and Serbian alike
shocked civilized peoples. And
while the Turkish soldier is by in
clination and by religion a very
humane and decent man, his alb
horrence and hatred of the Greeks
is beyond all restraint.
1t would be a much better Europe
if the Balkans and Turkey suddenly
changed places with the bottom of
the adjacent sea. .... ..s
, , The simplest way out of European
entanglements is to negotiate an
entirely new and separate peace
treaty with the German Republic.
The Empire with which we went to
war has vanished, and if our
pledged word is worth anything,
we should make treaty carrying
out the promises we made to the
German people if they would cease
fighting and abolish their Imperial
Government That would be Just
to the German people, honorable to
us and advantageous to the whole
world.
: The British Government has sue
cessfully protected the few coal
owners against the naturalization
demand Of the many coal miners,
but it is questionable if the owners
will be gamers in the long run, and
il is certain that the English people
have lost heavily.
1t will take hundreds of millions
to regain the losses inflicted by this
domestic economic war, and the cost
of economic war, Ike the cost of
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E1r. 3. Baer
TOWER OF BABBLE.

Once again will nations OF
world meet TO see what it's
all about. Washington will
be the prattle grounds for
diplomatic immigrants from
France, Italy. japan, Great
Britain, and China.
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Stars and Stripes

Cable from china says the people are eating
cat meat Soon they'll be feline quite kittenish.
suppose that sugar concern failed the other
day because itssdirectors didn't have sand enough
to keep II going.
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cry OF peace Will sdturdte
acoustics. One word VIII
lead to another. Jap. French
man, Chinaman, Italian will
all talk on peace at same
time. AS this Is peaceful
clinic, Washington police
have been ordered not to use
riot clubs.
Everybody hut diplomats
knows that war Is over.
Three years ago Kaiser beat
his arms into ploughshares
and his legs into Holland.
Kaiser will not be very
present at peace choir re-
hearsal. Which is gross
slight to man who made con-
ference possible.
Affair at Washington will
he diplomatteawan of peace
full dialects. Thunderous
shower of kind words will
moisten parched fields of am
bassadorial brains. One word
will lead to another. Finally
japan will agree to put more
phosphorus on bum japanese
matches.
Peace will settle silently
over conference, and diplo-
mats win pick all the feath-
ers. out Of her wings.
Esperanto interpreter will
faint in seven languages.
Talking will adjourn to think
up new gestures.
Japanese statesmen will
spill peace eulogy In code,
meaning that fifty more
cruisers are being launched
In old Nippon. Sweet words
will never take place ot
sugar in coffee. Finally dip
lomats will agree to leave
peace conference up to board
of arbitration.
All foreign diplomats will
then go on sightseeing tour
to u. S. Treasury to see how
much money we have left to
borrow.
historic SAYINGS NO. T.
The public be damned.
Washington Railway anil
Electric Conn any.
At that. Greenwich VII
laxe IL more Summed
against than Summing.
| shot an arr NV In the air.
I watched it's flight with
earnest care;
Ny aim was true, my judy
meht keen,
II landed on my lanj-
lords bean.
The Washington times., 1921-07-14
THINGS WE HATE.

The ella monsters make us mad
Whenever one we spy;
They'd only grin and grin like sin
IL all the world went dry.
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A Pair of Verses

Wronr may be wrong or right be right.
But how shall we draw the line7
I'm for the little dog In the fight.
IL the big dog isn't mine.
Private sieuths, alas. remind us
That it's hard to seem sublime,
For the wives we chuck behind us
Find the lovenests every time
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AHEsIi

Proressor--What electrical phenomenon has
been known for ages7 One which even Adam
and Eve notlced7
Student latter deep thousht)--Llke bodies re-
pei; unlike bodies attract.
Some people scratch their heads whiis think
ing: others just scratch their heads.
The Washington times., 1921-07-14

Everybody but diplomats
knows that war is over.
Three years ago Kaiser beat
his arms into ploughshares
and his legs into Holland.
The Washington times., 1921-07-14

All foreign diplomats will
then go on sightseeing tour
to u. s. Treasury to see how
much money we have left to
borrow.
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Kaiser will not be very
present at peace choir re-
hearsal. Which is gross
slight to man who made con-
ference possible.
The Washington times., 1921-07-14

! shot an arrow In the air.
I watched it's flight with
earnest care:
Ny aim was true, my judy
meht keen,
II landed on my lanj-
lords bean.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
3 Auto Bandits Seize Pay Roll
After Gun Battle With Detective

Three bandits, believed by the po-
lice to have been New Jersey gangsters,
escaped at noon yesterday after dar-
ing hold-up in East Thirty second
Street, during which more than twenty
shots were exchanged between them
and Detectiv James Mcdonald, of the
East Thirty-fifth Street station.
The victim of the hold-up men was
Arthur Steinkamp, bookkeeper for the
Paul l.. Bryant Company, of 542 First
Avenue, who was returning from the
bank with the firms pay roll of S1,774.
He was attacked by two men, while a
third sat in a high powered motor car,
prepared to make dash to safety.
Steinkamp was struck on the arm and
dropped two envelopes holding the cur
rency, and at command of one of
the bandits he fell to the sidewalk.
The attack was made in Thirty second
stree~ between First and Second ave-
nues.
Detective Mcdonald was escorting
an7ther messenger with pay roll half
8 block away, and at first believed the
attack on Steinkamp was a ruse to
separate him from his companion. When
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
Hirshfeld Sees Trail
OF Traction i'm Schools
Also Agrees With Irish Protes.
Against New History Books
by Harvard Professor

David Hirshfeld, Commissioner OF
Accounts, took his pen in hand yes
terday to inform Mayor Hylan that he
quite agreed with the protest made by
the Irish Progressive League against
the new history books in the public
schools. written by Professor Albert
Bushnell Hart, who has been teaching
history and government at Harvard
University since 1883. The traction in
terests were to blame, Mr.. Hirshfield
intimated
The Irish Progressive League as
serted that the new text book ignored
"the century-old teaching that the Dec
laration of independence truthfully re-
cites numerous acts of intolerable op-
preston of the colonists by the Brit
ish." Commissioner Hirshfield thinks
himself that Professor Hart ought to
brush up on his history bit.
II fully agree with the Irish Pro-
gressive League he wrote, Chat the
text books used in, our public schools
should contain the true history of our
country.
"It is unfortunate that the traction
interests and the $2,000000 slush fund
money-bound leaders. who. four years
ago, urged Major John Purroy MitchePs
reelection for Mayor and this year are
behind Major Curran, arc backing the
inside ring in the school system in it's
fnposition to an Investigation of the
Department of Education by me. as
Commissioner of Accounts. in spite Of
the fact that the beard Itself is IA
v0rable.'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18

he saw the thieves snatch the envelopes,
however, he pursued them, emptying
his revolver in the chase The two
bandits made for the car and one of
them leaped into rear seat The other
staggered just before reaching the
car, however, and was pulled into it
by his companions. The detective is
convinced he had wounded him.
AS the auto started the two bandits
turned and emptied their reyolvers at
Mcdonald, who had miraculous escape
from being hit. The only car available
with which to give chase was a slow
moving auto truck, arid the bandits
easily got away.
The fight between the bandits and
Mcdonald was witnessed by scores of
persons in the block, who scurried to
cover at the first shot, and it was from
one of these that the police got their
information that the car used by the
robbers bore New Jersey license plate,
although the numbers had not been
taken. Mcdonald Immediately went to
New Jersey and sent out general
alarm to all hospitals to detain any
person applying for treatment for a
gunshot wound.
Steinkamp was not badly injured in
the attack. He lives at 1874 West Sixty
sixth Street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
Lasker to Cut
Boards Budget
In Half i'm 1922
Agency Is Nearing Point at
Which Draining Treas
ury to Run Shipping Will
End, Chairman Asserts
Took Trade at Low Mark
Few Months of Good Times
Would Wine Out All Its
Losses, He Announces
From The Tri5ume's washsnoton Bureo


WASHINGTON, Sept 17.-Remedies
for the financial maladies with which
the American governmental shipping
agency was afflicted prior to the as
sumption Of control by the present
Shipping Board are being applied with
so much success that Congress will be
asked to appropriate not more than
$5O,000,000 for the fiscal year beginning
July /, 1922, Chairman Lasker an
nounced to-day in outlining the hopes
of the board for the future
"The Shipping Board" he said, "is
getting in sight Of the time when the
need of draining great sums fo: oper-
ations from the country will end. We
have set the sum of $1O0,0oO,00o as our
budget for the present fiscal year, and
this will be cut in two when we go be-
fore Congress next year and ask for
$50,000,000 to operate the governments
ships for the fiscal year ending June
30 1928"
Chairman Lasker said he desired to
convey, to the man on the street the
impression that the time had arrived
when the Shipping Board could look
forward with hope to time not far
distant when the drain on the public
treasury occasioned by vast sums lost
through operation costs would be
endet
Shipping at Lowest Mark
world shipping in July, August and
SEPTEMBER he said, was at the low
est known in theghistory of sea trade.
with every private concern losing
money, except the large passenger
liners. If we had business improve
ment we could wipe out all our losses
IN three or four months. If this is
the case in private industry, how can
the government be expected to do a
great deal better"
Chairman Lasker said that during
July, the first month for which COM
plete accounts could be made I'D since
the new board was appointed. the loss
IN operations amounted to $500, 900.
This sum included the total operating
cost of all vessels whose VOYAGES were
terminated and in addition took care
of all other expenses for the month.
not excluding the salaries Of the Ship
ping Board commissioners. He said
the board had fixed the sum of S5 .0OO.
600 month as the maximum losses fer
the remainder of the present fiscal wear
This sum, he added, compared with an
average operating loss under the pre-
vious Shipping Board of between Sill
000,00 and $12,OO0,0O0 a month
The chairman made public a letter to
Director of the Budget Dawes pointing
out that to obtain the Presidents COM
Continued on page sjx)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
Fse tiash Between League
and Arms Farley Plans
!, -aa.-'rs lar Fear Propaganda to
hamper Work of the Wash. !,
'ngton Conference
- 'eM Ihe Tributes Washinoton Buyeo,

rsm sss re Tributes Washington, Bureau
..'' .'"'AShiNGToN, Sept. 17.-In the
,an 0' oil some of the most pro-
l.. Assa Of the Senate opponents of the
! ssS OF Nations, there is likelihood
49,. cash between the disarmament
$ M'n'ss'on program at Geneva and the
( !, s.a,a OF the Washington conference
, !. ''a'i1at'on OF armaments.
y. : Is held BY some of the extreme
4, SsVaents Of the League of Nations -
VII, ossnate that the Geneva conference
efs,, m " all possible to hasten its nro-
eta ssta, 20 completion before the Wash
sh sarl conference can complete its
sl ihen, as they sec it, propaganda
Ra.,;e set on foot to hamper the
q >1hni.agton ~. conference and to xesL
Isssuah ps.hs about the adoption Of the tne
botSS OF Nations disarmament nlan
this s ~ ene nations in the league and
shis .ysahtry. The ultimate oD,ect VI
stniii.,s Unit ,sney hold, will be to got the
lens. 'a'es INTO the League of Ma
ss'das dh'sads 6 of Senator Hiram, Johnson
sinej sseolted him with being in
shesh.u 60 this view ard doubtful
.'aeas - s, ne Geneva proceedings and
ss5,inx.s;. washington could be made to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
Man, 60, Weds Seventh
Time; Wives All Sisters
lowan's Last Five Mates Were
Widows; Latest Bride
Is 78 Years Old
Special Dispatch to The r,ibun

ATLANTIC. Iowa. Sept. l7.-Fred
Harris, ninety years old, mas just mar
ried his seventh wife. All his wives
were daughters of Peter Yost, VINO
lived IN Milwaukee and sailed freight
er on the Great Lakes in the sixties.
Harris began by marrying the oldest
daughter OF Yost, and he has gone right
down the line. The last FIVE were wild
ows. Mrs. Gustave Eidelmann is the
last bride, and she is now seventy eight
wears old. Her husband, farmer, per
ished in the Minnesota forest fires of
1918. She had been married twice
before.
Harris, who was hack driver, and
later driver of horse ear in Chicayo
after the great fire, recently bought
small fruit farm here on which to pass
his remaining years.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
Coscboys Shoot Up
An Arb1ickle Fin,


THERMOPOLIS, Wyo., Sept.
ia mob of about $50 men and
boys, many of them cowboys, en-
tered the Maverick Theater here
last night where a Fatty" Ar
buckle film was being shown and
shot up the screen and seized the
film. taking it into the street and
burning part of it.
f. q. Buzzetti, manager of the
theater. said to-day that repre-
sentatives of the Purity League
had visited him earlier in the day
and asked him not to run the
picture.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18

Illness Of Premier Bars AN Except
Urgent Business for Several Days

GARLOCH, Scotland, Sept (By Associated Press
era days must eapse before Lloyd George will be able
TO attend to but the
en issued to-day quoting Mr. Lloyd physician
VINO laned the absce which caused his illness
"A medical the Prime is from the
effects of chill and resulting from an
aoess OF heface Rest essential
ne VIII be able transact anything urgent
Reports Lloyd George continues to
improve from his ndispotion He porch of
his residence and it is thought that
by Tuesday, if An Cabinet
garded asl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
British Prepare
IODecide Arms
Council Policy
Program and Selection of
Delegates Will Be Taken
Up When Lloyd George
Returns From Scotland
Balfour Slated to Lead
Military Angle and French
Army Outlay Almost Ger
tain To Be Made Issue
By Arthur S. Draper
Special Gable to The Tribune

copyright. 1921, New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, Sept. II. = AS soon as
Premier Lloyd George returns from
Scotland the government will decide
upon the policy which it intends te
follow at the Washington Conference
on Limitation of Armament and select
the delegates who will be intrustee
with the presentation of that policy.
The rough draft of the agenda has
Deen examined by the Foreign Office
and other government departments. but
thus far little official and detailed in
formation has been received by the
authorities here. They have been work
ing more or less in the dark.
Ambassador Harvey is expected to
see Lord Curzon, the Foreign Secre-
tary' soon TO explain many things re-
garding the order of procedure. Neither
Lloyd George nor MARQUIS Curzon the
Foreign Secretary, will go, not because
tney minimize the Importance of the
conference, but because they are faced
by SO many pressing problems at home
such as unemployment and the Irish
question. as well as the problem in
India.
balfour to Head Delegation
"A. D. Balfour is almost certain to
head the delegation, and Winston
Churchill. Bonar Law and Lord Lee
may be his colleagues.
Mr Balfour, who has held among
others the Offices of Premier, Foreign
Secretary and First Lcrd of the Adn;-
falty, Is considered an ideal selection.
Ihls veteran diplomatist is still eniov-
lrg the best of health ana is wonder
fuiiy keen mentally. His work with
the League of Nations pleased him tre-
mendousiy, and he will undertake his
duties in Washington with the same
keenness and interest.
Bonar Law, who ha. neen taking q
long rest since he was compelled to Quit
as leader of the majority in the
: "use, is now reported to be
tho: oaghly fit. Unlike other Cabinet
ministers, he could spend the three to
five months which the Washington con-
terence is expected to take without
injury to HIS work at home. Law is a
tine parliamentarian, : good speaker
a student and diplomat with long ex-
perience in politics.
ChurchilI's Part Uncertain
Whether Winston Churchill goes de-
pends largely upon the health of Lord
Lee, the First Lord OF the Admiralty.
who recently underwent an operation
Churchilps experience was gained in
almost all of the departments of the
government, but his greatest work was
dore in the army and navy and as mn
nitlons minister His present post as
colonial secretary gives MIN peculiar
fConfEuad on nane aa..rA