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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-28

dom. and not aetionI Have they
shot off MISUNDERSTANDING"
The response was: MANY ladies
i mean by that the upper and
middle classes-are suffering an
utter reaction and war-weariness,
and are resting, while others who
are still active have taken up party
politics and are merged In party
activities"
RECALLED A PICTURE
OF EARLY WAR DAYS.
Later. in referring to munition
workers. l recalled a picture that
WAS engraved on my memory for
ever in December, 1917.
A raw, foggy day at Gretna
Green, where the largest munition
factory in the United Kingdom and
a whole town had grown up prac.
tically over night--a long line OF
women workers standing outside
the superintendent office, most OF
them with sad and apprehensive ex.
pressions.
What are they doing?'I queried.
Those" replied my guide, ARE
the women who have been sent for
to hear that some one belonging to
them has gone west There Is a
line like that every day. They get
four days off, then return to work.
and one seldom hears a complaint
from them"
PLACES GIVEN UP TO
THE EX-SERVICE MEN.
Today many Of those same wom-
en- are fighting to keep themselves
and their families alive--fighting TO
put bread into their children's
mouths-many OF them having vol
unfairly given up their places for
ex-servtce men to fill. OF course
some have gone back to their
homes. But there are many out OF
work and ip want. 1t is the natural
swing of the pendulum. hen there
is tremendous prejudice in favor
of one class In a community, such
as there is here for ex-service men,
and quite justly, another class must
necessarily suffer. In contrast to
the way the women were glorified
during the war, they are no wat
their lowest ebb.
Foreseeing this emergency, that
exceptional leader, the late Marry
Macarthur, directly the armistice
was signed. revived the activities
of the Queens Work for Women
Fund which had lain dormant dur.
ing the war, by getting grant OF
$500 900 from the Prince of Wales
Fund. This organization. now func.
tioning under the title of Central
Committee on Women's Training
and Employment. will take any
woman who can prove that because
Of the war she is unemployable,
train her, and place her in a job.
A war detriment is husband
killed. finances gone. place in fac
tory taken by returned soldier, Ill
health, college training interrupted
by war work. etc. The committee
have barristers, doctors and teach
ers Of all kinds on their lists. A
department for domestic training
has just been started for girls who
worked in factories and for whom
there is now no work In that line.
WORK UNDER CHARGE OF
REMARKABLE WOMEN.
This great work is under the
direction OF a remarkable woman,
Miss Lillian Barker.
One finds her at her office in the
labor ministry building. In one of the
quaint old streets near Westminster
abbey. We were met by that quiet
courtesy that English business has
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There all seemed normal, except
the train schedules, which, it was
cheerfully admitted. were modified
by the lack of coal. The docks were
animated by the usual unruffled
British industry, and in the docile
countryside along our route to Lon
don, there was only peace--except
what trouble or foreboding might
lie In the brown wheat fields, scorch-
ed by the summers drought. There
were the accustomed matched cot
tages with their clustering gardens,
the sweeping meadows and noble
woods that have always spelled
England and contentment.
UNDER CURRENT
OF UNCERTAINTY
CAUSED BY THE STRIKES.
London, crowded with its influx Of
touring Americans, and nearing the
end Of it's season, seems, at least on
the surface, to have reverted to all
the charm and comforts of prewar
days. But one senses very soon an
undercurrent Of uncertainty which
is caused by the strikes OF few
weeks ago, the Irish question, the
unemployed, and the heavy taxes.
Our first visit was to business
friend, a woman who, from small
beginnings, has built up a great
dressmaking establishment.
How goes the world with you?"
! asked.
WELL" she answered. this is an
example: one day / ordered the
usual flower boxes for the front
windows Of the shop. The next day
1 countermanded them, thinking
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plete for us Americans without
mention Of Lady Aston. The La
Dor women tell you that she has
been most tactful In her dealings
with them by going TO them and
saying: II don't know much about
your specific problems; you must
help me to learn"
She has initiated a fine move.
There will be held at her house
conferences OF the women doing
vital work here. They will make
an attempt to coordinate effort,
and prevent overlapping. This COM
mittee will also act as clearing
house for the exchange OF ideas.
Also. one evening every month
Lady Aston is at home to repre-
ssntatives Of women's organizations
and Members of Parliament. 1t Is
a very interesting gathering. most
OF the men being labor members.
and the women specialists in their
own lines.
But though there is unquestion.
ably much anxiety about the pres
ent and the Immediate future, the
most noticeable characteristic, as
ever in England, is the quiet cour-
age, the British determination to
push through somehow.
The women leaders who were
conspicuous In the war arc still.
unless deferred by illness, working
hard. The present activities OF
women's war organizations would
fill a book. and l will write about
them in another article.
We talk to every one we see and
find that all women are of the
same opinion on two subjects; that
ha MT M -
still a long way from a solution,
and that the most important ques-
ton in the world today is disarm-
ament. Everything else paies be-
SILENT REVELATION is
UNRED WAY WITH WORKERS
AS an answer to what has be-
come of the revolution that we
were promised would follow the
war, by the slavey who came to
put ones room in order, the boot
boy, the small shopkeeper, etc. my
own conclusion Is that IL is go
ing on. 1t is silent and bloodless,
ut IL is memorable. Labor Is rap
idly learning that to use force 10
psycholog1cally a mistake, and In
effectual in the end.
In regard to the question as to
where women stood in the coal
strike and where their sympathies
were in the breaking down Of the
triple alliance, there is natural
cleavage. Margaret Bondfield, the
head Of the National Federation of
Women Workers, says that the
miners wives stood firmly behind
the strikers and that all labor wo-
men backed them to the limit. She
attributes the breakdown of the
triple alliance to q question of i'm
perfect machinery. while she ad-
mits IL Is true that at the end
some Of the leaders may have had
cold feet.
Other women's reaction is that
the miners claims were not JUST.
fled and the triple alliance was
broken for political reasons.
That this country has touched
rockbottom economically I believe to
be true: inelegantly would add that
it is still humping along somewhere
down there. The pessinists like
to say that there are worse times
coming. but we feel assured that,
when the turn comes, II will be up
ward.
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DRINK AND "FLAVORS" WITH 500 ALCOHOL NOW
AXE THE PLACE OF BOOTLEG PRODUCT i'm BACK ROOMS

Underground Dealers In Whiskey See Their
Industry Threatened by the Newest of Poisonous
Liquors with High Power Kick-Bought at Drug
Stores, Near-Becr Saloons and Delicatessens--
"Dope" Much Cheaper Than Real Liquor and Its
Grip ON Drinker Harder to Break, Insanity OFTEN
Resulting.
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OF course, II one had never been
In England before. one would i'm
asine that the deluge was at hand.
there is 30 much restitution. One
Is approached every few minutes by
the most pitiful-looking creatures.
The woman who begged Of me a
shilling for drink last night was
typical. She had on only a cloth
dress. fun OF rents and tears over
her bare skin. She had obviously
already taken to much and when /
found II impossible to shake her off
and exclaimed. How can en-
courage you to kill yourself with
drinking?" she retorted. You're
right. lady, there aren't hanythinx
in this death business-what with
sittin' all day with a gold crown
on your cad that's 80 'eavy it 'urts,
and 'oldin' arp that you don't
know how to play"
But one always has seen more ex-
IRENE poverty in ondon than any.
where else. i can never forget the
contrasts at one Of the tubliees. The
rich costumes and jewels of men
and women In gorseously capari.
soned carriages In the procession
under the stands where we sat.
half-naked creatures on their stom-
achs, groveling for the crumbs that
fell from our luncheon baskets.
REMINDED OF THE HORROR
SEEN DURING THE WAR.
Today when one comes suddenly
upon something that reminds one OF
the horrors OF that war, closed only
two short years and q half ago. one
a 70 III
as smoothly and normally as IL ia.
Considering everything, readjust.
ment has been rapid.
A whole generation of men wers
swept away. There isn't a family
that hasn't one or more vacant
places-and yet there are smiIes
and endeavor on every hand.
In Whitehall, one Of London's
busiest streets. there stands a tan
monument-utterly simple in design
ana carved from granite.
On II are engraved these words:
TO the Glorious Dead"
1t IL the Cenotaph-the memorial
to Britain's sons killed in the war.
AT Its base are flowers. piled up
against Its granite sides-great
wreathes Of roses. small sprays Of
lesser glory. and even little bunches
OF wild flowers. each bearing the
name of some soldier and placed
there on the anniversary of his
death.
There 10 q stiffness about that
great granite rock. rising from its
flower-covered base. No matter how
busy and bright the day may be, nor
how crowded the street, it holds
about its vicinity the stiffness of a
shrine. There Is nothing in Lon.
don--not In any Of the crowdinR
monuments of England's past-that
represents the heart of England az
does that simple piece OF granite.
1t seems to US to stand in White
hall. amid the lurching omnibuses
and taNicabs and hurrying people;
but. In reality, 1t stands in the
hearts of England.
II seems to us to be made of gran.
its; but in reality it is built of i'm
mortal memories, of young life laid
down. or supreme unshaken cour-
age, OF the glory OF sacrifice.
As long as that monument stands
one need have no fear that England
will ever fail to go steadfastly for
ward.
(Copyright, 1871 By Mcclure syndicataS
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of dress and her rather abrupt man.
ner.
ARE UNFAIR
FOR THE WORKING WOMAN.
In answer to our questions she
gave It as her opinion that the con-
dition of women today, the unem-
ployment, the lack of distinctive
political activity, the apparent slack.
ening In effort along many lines.
was due to economic and not to
political causes.
81 think, personally" she said.
that we have struck rock bottom. I
think we struck Il when we faced
the coal strike. the strike of the
triple alliance-and I think we are
going to go up from now ON. Women
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Here In Washington this extract
Is claiming new victims every day.
Practically every druggist in Wash
ington now refuses to sell It without
n doctors prescription, but there are
many near-beer saloons where the
rummy finds 1t easy to buy, as long
as he has so cents to pay for. two
ounce bottle.
The users of these compounds
for beverages are not confined To
any one walk of life. While there
Is hardly any doubt that they find
great favor with the old rum
hound Of bygone days. they are
also claiming victims among pco-
pie who seldom touched whiskoy
when tho saloons were wide open.
There is a prominent contractor
in this city who used 10 conflne
his drinking TO three bottles Of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-28
BY MRS. BORDEN HARTMAN.

TT the Aqutana while she was troopship that
made my last visits to England Those days when
everything and everybody organized for and
admired with all ones heart and soul not only the fighting
men, those onhearted who stayed at home and
did their bit
Where those now-and what they doing?
That the question asked ourselves the other day
again the Aqutana carried into the Soen The giant ship
now transformed the most luxurious liner aoa steamed
with it's anchored yachts and bunting and
was warped into the busy docks of Southampton.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-28
BRITISH WOMEN WAR
WORKERS ARE LOSING
THEIR HIGH IDEALS

Noted Red Cross Executive Sees Members of Her
Sex Who Aided i'm Great Struggle Forced to
Return to Pre-War Conditions and Explains
the Situation as She Finds it. Some of the
Great Problems Left by the Conflict Dissected
BY One of Americas Most Prominent Writer'S
Mrs. Borden Hartman, Oho took cork
EuOpe?
the
at We
labor leaders
qualified write the social
conditions Her
of the Uorlds
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-28

Washington Times on the subject,
several months ago, there was .
big public protest against the sell
ing of these extracts and tonics.
Major Gessford conferred with the
United States Revenue officials
and the people were Informed
through the columns OF the press
that the drinks would be driven off
the market.
One manufacturer and the own
ers OF several near-beer barrooms
were arrested and brought before
the court. Nothing much hap
pened, the near-beer saloons arc
still selling the poison and the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-28

of dress and her rather abrupt ma
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-11-02
Dents fer Wires

The pastor OF Kockefel cr's
,hurch at Cleveland, Ohio, re-
:ently took the above heading as
lis text, and he asked his hear
4rs to put the following don'ts
n their wives mirrors:
Don't marry a man Tor !iv-
ing. but for love. Manhood with
)ut money is better than money
without manhood.
2-Don't overdrcss nor unGrr-
dress; common sense is so:Ic-
TIMES better than style.
81 wife with 4 hobble skirt
and a husband with patched trurs
crS make 4 poor pair. y woman
can throw more out OF a window
with Il spoon than q man can put
into the cellar with a shovel.
don't think that the way To-
run house = 10 run away from
it. 1t Is wrong to 90 around lee
turing other women ON how to
bring up children while YOU are
neglccting your own.
5-Don't tell your troubles to
your neighbors. They have cnuf
OF their own Fight it out with
yourself if il takes all summer.
Don't nag: the pool-mana-
ger is always glad to welcome
YOUR husband with q smile.
Don't try to get more out
OF looking glass than you put into
it. Natures sunshine is better
for woman's beauty than mans
powders and paints.
S-Don't forget to tell the truth
especially to the conductor.
about the age of your child: hon
esty is worth more 70 Won and
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-11-02

Did YOU ever plant Your feet in
the corn rows or cool them in
DicEey's swimmin' hole Havel
Won read "Ivanhoe" BY the hight
Of a big log fire and wondered
whether P'fesser Ship would
switch YOU next day for not
knowing your McGuffey?
If you have done these things,
kind reader, then you have lived
somewhere III the Kentucky
country, and YOU are a better
man or woman for having lived
there. The immediate names re-
late TO 4 vicinage particularly
dear to the writer Of these lines,
an fashioned southern ooun-
try where most of his childhood
was spent and where his FIRST
and firmest inpT@s~ions Of lie
were gained. But they IN gen
eral are names redolent of cuun-
try lie in the States and - the
reader they will probably bring
back memories gentle and sweet.
There was always courthouse
in the center Of the town square.
shaded by big NAPLES and Gins
and beeches. and around II on
County Court DAY do you remcm-
Der the country horses and mules
that moved restlcS>ly within their
tctherS attached TO the iron rings
OF the courthouse fence: lust
across the courthouse yard. be-
tween the obi hotel on one end
and your grandfather'S store On
IN cother. was the Office ct The
country NEWSPAPER. Do yuu re
ulcbcr that Like the hotel and
the store it was pioneer. aud
Won used to watch the gri.nv
printer at hi- case and the editor
AT hi, desk. almost confident That
the printer wa, the dcftc>t and.
the editor the >martc-t man that
ever lived.
Good DAYS. Bright day>. They
will not CONS again. But many
other little bav, and girls have
been through them since tl.-n.
and many more are rapturui;~iv
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-11-02
Madison in she Legislature

Ii Madison county must send n
Republican O. ale coming session
OF the legisi~.ure. she couldn L
make n better selection from that
party than Jim Park. who is the
republican nominee. The Daily
Register has the highest regard
for" Jim" Is he is known to his
host OF friends. He is q fine. up
standing young man, with n
bright future before him. and. if
elected, will undoubtedly do his
very best to represent old Madi-
son in the WAY that she should
be represented
But. there IS bound to be a
serious impeachment to the amount
of service that Park could give
the people OF Madison at the
forthcoming session. Even re-
publicans concedc that the House
OF Representative. 10 which he
Is seeking election. i certain to
be Democratic The House al
ways goes Democratic in the
years in which county tickets are
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-11-02
Iiushand and Wife Write

Mr.. and Mrs James carson
Columbus, y. NJ, sign z letter
saying, 'NVe shall never be with
out Foley Cathartic Tablets Tor
we believe them TO be essential
10 good health The EeeP The
stomach sweet, liver active and
bowels regular Danish constr
patton, indigestion. bihousness
and headache Sold everywhere.
nov
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-11-02

them than Il nickel. \ boy who
is 8 years old at home and q on
the cars will soon learn other
things that are not "a
9-Don't forget thar home a
WOMAN kingdom, where She
reigns as a queen To be . mo
Their OF a Lincoln. Garfield or q
Wilson i- To be the mother OF 4
prince.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-11-02

elected. and this year will be nu
exception. The Senate may he
close but that House is going To-
have a good Democratic majori-
ity. and even Jim viii corccdc
this. we imagine.
50 the question ARISES. Just haW
much influence will Jim Park. ~
4 republican representative from
Madison-if clccted-have in a
Democratic House: How much
good would he be able to do Tor
Madison county: how much
voice would nc have in the FRAN
ing Of legislation What could
he do Tor the Normal School Or
other thing that mean 4 lot in
Madison county:
The answer j. easy. Hc could
do very. very little. With party
line drawn closely. a they are
bound to be in the coming legis-
laturc, republican member OF
the House, with lis Democratic
majority. is going to be given a
nice comfortable seat IN corner
somewhere and told 10 sit down
and be a goYd little boy. The
Democrats VIII frame the lcci-la-
tinn that CONES from the House
and don't YOU forget IT Park i:
4 fine fellow. and the Democrats
will lind him : nice quiet corner
and tel him 20 write back 10 the
folks in Madison and tell then
what's going OF. around him.
Now this is no fable. Ono
upon a time. years ago before h,
reformed, the Daily Register mar
served term N the Frankfort
legislature. anc he Vouches fo1
the fact that the above is just
about what VIII happen to Jim
my Park a: the hands of the
Democrats Of the legislature
he wins next Tuesday.
Now the Eastern Normal schoo
is located in Richmond and every
cent that is spent al the Norma
HNHOcl hiCstiiS lilstl IliuSli lIIOilCN
put in circulation in Richmond
and Madison county and that
much more business done here
Eastern needs more dormitory
space. Old Madison has other
interests before the next leeisla-
turc Her farmers are already
more than paying their share 81
taxes. There will be efforts to
increase taxes with big bond is
sue and i'll other ways.
Madison must have a man in
the House who can WELD an i'm
portant influence with the major
ity OF its mcmbers-the Demo
Gratis. She must have Il man who
will be able 20 work with that
ma jority. and see to it that her
every interest is protected: a
man who will. by reason OF that
fact, receive the best committee
assignments, and hold other po-
Sitions where he can really
achieve something of real benefit
to his people at home.
Luckily. there is another can
didatc for the Legislature in Mad
ison county who has this oppor-
tunity to work with the Demo-
cratic majority OF the House, and
who is at the same time, just as
nice a man, and Just as able and
high-class in every way as our
friend, Jim Park. That young
man is d. Willis Kennedy. the
Democratic candidate for the
Legislature.
Farmers, business men, tax
payers, and all others in Madison
who want TO see Madison's rep
resentative have a real voice in
the next legislature would do
well to think this matter over
carefully, regardless of their
usual party affiliation.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-11-02

(Arthur Krock, Louisville Times)
Kind reads-, did you ever live
down on th~ south Fork? Did
you ever follow the frost carpet
to Winlock's Farm in October
for chestnuts and hickory nuts ?
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-12-23
And He Meant So We'll.

was escOfting two girl friends
home from q dance one night, when we
noticed D wide-open window In house
we were passing. Thinking to. avert a
possible burglary | stuck my head In
side and shouted, Say. good people
But that was as far as ] got, for a
huekeITul OF water struck me full IN
tie face and furious female voice
shouted II Gold you what you'd get II
yOu didn't get home before ten i''-Chi-
eago Journal.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-12-23
O. 81. Time Table
PARIS BRANCH

Leaves Daily for Paris
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-12-23
.gonanza. sInnIfies Good Fortune.

Bonanza" Signifies Good Fortune.
Bonanza" Is a Spanish word mean
ing fair weather or "favoring
wind 1t Is used in mining districts to
signify an abundance Of precious metal
or rich ore. The miners of Comsfock
Lode, wonderful gold and silver mine
IN Nevada which yielded $40 million
dollars worth Of ore In thirty years.
first used bonanza In this way. The
word Is now aiso used to signify any
good fortune or successful enterprise.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-12-23
ellnd people Good Gardeners.


Blind men make good gardeners, says
Mrs. Dancombe Of London, founder OF
the Guild of Blind Gardeners. VINO was
an enthusiastic gardener before her
sight began to fail. II can tell differ
ent flowers quite easily By The sense
Of touch She said. Miss .. Brown.
who Is Interested il the guilt. asates
the instance OF blind gardener she
employed who could tell dilfereni s3pes
af roses by touch alone, where to other
people scent was the chief guide.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-12-23

When a man says he is demanding
his rights he usually means he is de
manding some special privilege.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-12-23

Men do not amount to much in
lots OF ways, but they seldom think
it Is necessary to display their chests
backs and calves. They take 1t for
granted that Everybody knows they
have them.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-12-23

Love doesn't amount to much un-
less 1t macs a lover believe things
that aren't so.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-12-23
Wasted EfFor4

4 girl can study music for years and
years and forget Il all In less than six
months after her wedding.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-12-23

Which Blow out Finally.
The way Of the transgressor ID hard
but he can generally afford pneu.
matte tires. Boston Transcript.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-12-23

Some try to do those aboue them
good and others to do" them good.