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The Washington times., 1921-10-17
Diplomatic Immunity
For Speedsters
By BILL PRICE.

Traffic officers in that portion OF Washington which
houses the embassies and legations OF foreign nations
have recently had unpleasant experiences with under
officials of these establishments who promptly fell back
upon their diplomatic immunity from arrest and, in in
stances invited the officers to regions which are popuary
supposed to be much warmer than this terrestrial
sphere.
The Police Department has had reports of some Of
these instances, but if it has passed the facts to the
State Department there does not appear to be any de.
in the utter Of certain diplomats
to abiding by the traffic laws Of the Capital Of the
ton to which they have been sent.
Speeding in the crowded streets of Washington
dangers human lives and it is not fitting that officials
of foreign embassies legations should feel themselves
at liberty to violate District laws with impunty, simply
because they are immune to arrest
Authentic cases of speeding ignoring traffic signals,
and running through crowds about take street
have been brought to the attention Of this writer with
dates hours and of the operators of the cars
Occasionally the operators refused to give their names
while in others they did at the time threatening
to report the traffic policemen who bothered them The
numbers the cars gave the information to the lega-
tons embassies to which the machines registered
The regular chaufeurs of these establishments are sell
dom found breaking local traffic laws and the offend<
usually understrappers who feel their impoance
Traffic officers have also found that several occa-
sions they have been duped by violators who made
claims to immunity foreign representatives when they
counterfeit.
The matter is naturally delicate one and the State
Department would be reluctant to complain to ambassa
dors ministers The Police Department also dislikes
to bother the State Department.
Trained diplomats punctious in their observance
of the civil laws of the countries to which they &C.
credited In all probability the ambassadors and min.
listers not cognzant of these acts of their subord
mates They may get useful information from the facts
herewith presented
The Washington times., 1921-10-17
The Strongest Social
Force
n HE strongest social force is imitation.
More people are influenced by examI

More people are influenced by example than by rea-
In fact, it works out in practice is
valuable only for its suggestive power Our acts not
controlled by Ninety nine hunredhs of them
controlled by habit and most habits the
of imitation.
When actor the stage yawns persstenty by and BY
the audience begins to yawn. |
If you start out in the morning with smile you will
discover that you greeted everywhere with smiles
Your example has become infectious. !
All you have to do to be insulted is to be insulting
This law has crystalized into the proverb, "He who
would have friends must show himself friendly"
Imitation is very considerable of crime Crime
waves may be explained at least in part by this.
Even suicides are influenced by imitation. Sometime
ago there quite wave of bchoride mercury poison
ing. |
Readers of newspapers, which includes all of u.s. have
noticed that certain crimes of similar nature appear for
while and then disappear to make way for another kind
crimes
The instinct of imitation the first and strongest that
appears in the child In fact almost all that child learns
in his first few. years is by imitation
The of this is that few have creative mag
nation. In most of us imagination simply operates
mirror We unconscousy reproduce impressions that
been made upon
The dynamic in fashion is nothing but imitation Some
years ago somebody started the style of creasng
down in 'front.' and all trousers creased today
In fact fashion is curious combination of imitation
and individuality The lady says she does not want hat
like anybody else; still she wants sufficiently to resemble
the hats of socially prominent people that she will not
pear peculiar
All popular movements including revolutions strikes
and created by the motive of imitation
People get cured by imitation, doubtless many Of
the miracles Of the various fads and cults due the
imitation of supposed to be healed in that
Stop in the street and look upward and remain stand
ing for five minutes and crowd will collect around you
all looking up
Start to applaud in the theater and other people will join
you.
Be decent and pleasant and deccncy and peasantness
will spring up around you.
Be grouchy and vicious and you viii spread grouchness
and vciousness typhoid carrier spreads germs
The Washington times., 1921-10-17
Terrible! But

n RESIDENT OBREGON Of Mex
leo has ordered the railroads
q to grant free transportation
to unemployed men to assist them
in looking for new jobs.
There you have display Of ar
bitrary power which would be i'm
possible-lawfully-under our form
of government. It is the act Of a
dictator. Rank tyranny, the rail
road stockholders probably call it.
And yet ..
The Washington times., 1921-10-17
MIR. B. Baer
TOO QUICK FOR Us.

TOO QUICK FOR Us.
old DOC BAILEY. of
" Chicago, leaps into
arena of publicity with nim-
BILE suggestions about diets.
Doc buzzes that there Ia no
reason why we shouldn't
live to pay taxes for two
hundred years. 1t doesn't
seem enough.
PY following Docs ulti-
matum all of us can
vote straight Republican
ticket for next two CEN
turtles. All you've got to
do is to chew radium very
carefully.
A FRAID Doc Is too quick
for us. Boarding house
radiun hash is not yet
staple article Of diet In
catch as catch can food
plunges.
ONB-ARM dairy lunchos
" will grow another arm
before they plaster radium
on menu between universal
prunes and transatlantic
oysters.
MIDNIGHT lunch wagons
AVA will have to have moro
watchmen than United
States Treasury II folks
start smoothing down their
synthetic coffee with two
Jumps of domestic radium.
CAN you pipe free lunch
" student natwhesling into
quick and sudden lunch
morgue with one nickel in
both hands7 Orders half
fare portion OF fresh coun-
try radium and then leaps
out over the transom.
CURB inspector hobbies
~ into Automat. Slips
Transparent dino into pitch
blende slot and gets double
million dollar slice of uran-
ium ore buttered with
eighteen karat diamond
sauce. Then stokes UP on
radium soup and leaves
through nearest ceiling.
Coroner's Jury finds that
he had fifteen hundred
pounds pressure on each
vest button. Direct viola
ton of factory and boiisr
laws.
DIETER step slow on this
~ radium business. Might
be too quick for us.
The Washington times., 1921-10-17
Dead, He
Still Lives
n EATH struck down a great
leader when his sudden blow
- felled Philander Chase Knox.

markable native and acquired pow
ers. His trained and logical intel
lect clearly perceived facts in their
real form and hunted down the
truth through any mazes Of false
hood or sophistry. And what his
mind saw, that his tongue told
forcibly and convincingly.
Senator Knox was unquestionably
the ablest lawyer in the Senate, and
his extraordinary talents and ex-
traordinary learning in the law
were always honorably and usefully
employed.
He did not amass riches by show
ing criminally y-minded corporations
how to evade or defy the law of the
land. He brought the most power
full and the most lawless corpora
tions in the country to the bar Of
public justice and there he whipped
them into sullen submission to the
laws.
At a great personal sacrifice, he
assumed the office Of Attorney-Gen-
eral and made the Department of
Justice a splendidly dignifed and
honorable and powerful arm Of the
Government. AS AttorneyG General
he prosecuted the Northern Securi-
ties case and won it for the people
against the most powerful banking
and railroad interests in America.
When he became Secretary Of
State, his extraordinary good sense,
his great natural powers, his i'm
mense acquired powers, his devotion
to justice, his intense loyalty to his
own country and the wonderful
lucidity of his reasoning and his
language, combined with a polished
and sincere urbanity of disposition
and expression, ranked him at once
with such pre-eminent Secretaries
as Jefferson and Marcy, and
Webster, and raised him, at times,
approximately near to the always
overlapping stature of Abraham
Lincoln himself.
The "dollar diplomacy" which he
inaugurated would have been ex-
actly to the mind of the Great
President.
The treaties which Secretary
Knox negotiated, the policy which
he established in our relations with
the Asiatic nations, and his firm
and successful insistence upon
American rights in every part Of
the world are still monuments to
his patriotism and his powers upon
which a great people will continue
to look with pride and gladness.
In his later years in the Senate
it fell to Senator Knox to lead the
noble and victorious fight against
the policies of Woodrow Wilson and
his purpose to entangle us for years
to come in the perilous politics Of
Europe.
The powerful argument delivered
by Senator Knox, in which he tore
in shreds the disguise Of rhetoric
and sentimentality and demagogy
with which the so-called League Of
Nations proposals were clothed, will
always stand as a wonderful ex-
ample of true and splendid victory.
A great leader indeed has gone
through the gateway Of death to
join the immortals.
Our America is poorer than it
was the day before Senator Knox
died, but how immeasurably richer it
is because he was born and lived and
served his native land with all
his heart, with all his mind, with
all his devotion, and with all that
capacious, noble and wonderful in
tellect which was at once the ad-
miration and the envy of all who
The Washington times., 1921-10-17
The March
OF EUentS
\ RESIDENT HARDING makes
- ,,a,-.y ,ola,,, that he hao M Nv


it is foolish to expect such thing.
Under no circumstances will Japan
or France consent to disarm. Both
have so plainly stated in advance
of the conference. And, of course,
while two nations each maintain mil
itary establishments larger than
that of Germany in 1914, and while
England and Japan each maintain
a naval establishment far more for
midable than any Germany ever had,
self-security compels us to main
tain and to keep on increasing our
naval armament.
AS Mr.. Harding says, we have
facts and not ideals to deal with.
1t is gratifying to hear such CON-
mon sense coming from the White
House. 1t is a pity that like COM
mon sense was absent from the
White House from 1914 until 1921.
With Harding in office those seven
years would have made a far bet
ter history for us and for all the
world. Our greatest national weak
ness is emotionalism. Our greatest
lack, is the homely quality Of cool
reasonableness. The President has
this quality in high degree and
shows it in our foreign affairs. The
nation can be sure that its proper
and necessary preparedness will
not be weakened while possible
and probable-foes are increasing
their means Of attack upon US.
England is thoroughly aroused
and angered by the decision of the
League as to upper Silesia. If
this decision stands Germany will
collapse financially and industrially
in no long time. The British be-
lieve-as we believe-that such a
collapse will precipitate' the univer-
sal bankruptcy of Europe and bring
on convulsions which can end only
in anarchy or in military despotisms
erected upon the ruins of over
thrown democracies. So they are
not only alarmed, but evidently get
ting into a mood to ally themselves
with Germany and Italy to resist
the Leagues decision by protests
that may lead to resistance by
force.
American advocates of the
League of Nations ought now to be
able to see how wrong they have
been and how right were those who
kept our country out Of that pre-
posterous imitation of the equally
preposterous Holy Alliance. The
League was sure to split upon some
such rock as this Silesian dispute,
and the only result Of Americas
membership would have been that
we would have been compelled to
take one side or the other, to our
own loss with the losing side and
no possible gain with the winning
side. The absurd sentimentality
which assumed that the alliance
against the Central European na-
tions would result in lasting love
between the Allies had no warrant
in human nature, history or plain
horse sense. These Governments
have always intrigued, cheated and
fought, and they will continue to do
so, and would have continued to do
so if we had been foolish enough to
entangle our own nation in the web
of their unscrupulous and greedy
diplomacy. Let us be thankful for
what the Senate did to Mr.. Wilson's
stupid and dangerous quack pan
The Washington times., 1921-10-17
THEY'RE HUMAN
By
william Atherton Du Puy

Johi Avery Lomax II q college professor down
Texas way and an author. Among other things
he Is the compiler Of Cowboy Ballads" Of the
West. which volume he regards as containing
many frontier folk songs very we'll worth pre-
serving.
II he hadn't got them into print, he holds many
Of them might have been lost and certain color
Of the early West would have been gone forever
So, upon a certain occasion he consulted with
his friend Dane Coolidge who was a writer OF
stories and a Government naturalist. and on his
vav 10 Arizona for specimens. Would Coolidge
keen his eye out for the cowboy songs and pick
up any likely specimens he ran upon. Coolidge
didn't know much about songs Of the time, but
he would try. He was authorized to buy songs
where this was necessary to get them In COM
So. on a cattle ranch down in Papaso country
Coolidge heard q cowboy singing a song that
seemed to be Just the sort Of thing he was look
ing for. II had the sweep Of the Western plains
and the devil ay-care spirit thereo1. ne shpped
the cowboy ten iron men for writing 1t down for
When hs turned IT in to Lomax his prize
find It turned out to be none other than our old
friend Casey Jones"
pouslas Nolan. the motion picture actor. told
me that Eddy Cantor. tho comedian, told him
that Benny Leonard. the lightweight champion.
told him tho following story:
sized town. and thsy had local prtssfishter there
in whom they took considerable pride. and he
arran1ed exhibition bout with this y0ungster
They agreed that they would put on . neat show
In hx rounds that would give tho audience It's
moneys worth, but that there would Be nothing
rough
SO the bout ran along somewhat uneventfully
ana Benny was careless and everything and all
of a sudden this local bruiser eot i6ea into his
head that II would rebound greatly to his glory
n he shouid hand a knockout on tho champion.
40 he waited his opportunity and in the third
round when Benny wasn't paying much attention.
handed him an awful upporcut right on the
point of tho chin. Leonard was nearly lifted off
his feet and was all sroGsy and woory and mighty
clad that the gong sounded just at that moment.
He was hinselif again. however at the begin
ming OF tho next round When he entered the
ring ne walked up TO the local fighter and shook
hands as In the custom at the beginning Of the
final round Of a fight.
whats tho idesf" said that individual. This
amt the last round"
Like fun II isn't" said Benny.
And was
DR. Simeon Fess. Representative in Congress
from yellow SprfnRv. Ohio. In a college profes-
sor a scholar in politics. but has shown himself
40 rood at Il that his associates have chosen him
the chairman of the National Republican Con-
ere~sfonaI COMMITTEES, tho business Of which ia to
keep them where they are.
cspyrisht. 1881.
RECKLESS RHYMES NO. ].
She met him at q big resort
He was no ray decHIver.
ibid you come hero for goiff" she asked
ryxyN.. sold hn IIoxt
The Washington times., 1921-10-17
We TOWNE GOSSIP
BY K. c. B.

len I was kid. TWAS TAKEN with
cramps.
ERE WAC IVY AND NEARLY
drowned.
MED WILLIE
AND HAD to quit.
10 WAS my chum. wu,cu pp.,,v
was more.
ID IN our town.
THAN I'D prayed for.
ERE WAS hardly
boy. AND I'VE always
- fisured.
s fast. THE LORD overdit it.
WILLIE could. AND ANYWAY.
I'D used to bras. THE OTHER day.
.o,rT willie WHEN CHICK
iribben. fe"s'er came.
ID FINALLY. To BAT Tor Ruth.
- AND SOME Clan.
LAD a fight. fan.
TIL ANoruuD MADE A nasty crack
10Y. REMEMBERED
40 SAID Mickey WINE
Flynn AND CLOSED my
uLD SWIM a. eyes. :.
sst;. AND PRAYED that
Chick.
WILLIE could.
WOULD MAKE hit
I'd TO settle it. -.
AND HE made a
. PLANNED nome run
{. AND A little later.
HAD an idea.
LAT MICKEY
would win. I'D IRf it again.
I'D 7 went .v.v BUT finally figured.
INTO MY PRAYING
INV Inc "ooo'' average.
ID MuMBLED WAS so very high.
I'D BETTER not
SAD hts'e prayer. force It.
LAT WILLIE AND CHICK ,tue.
would win. out.
ID so he did AND THERE you are.
R MICKEY Flynn. THANK you. 49,.
The Washington times., 1921-10-17
Tho Rainbow.

Why In the rainbow 20
frequently seen during sum-
NOR and so seldom during
winter7 It's formation, we
are told. requires co-epist-
encs OF rain and sunshine, a
condition that often occurs
during local showers but
rarely during = general
storm, ..-.,.-
The Washington times., 1921-10-17
RECKLESS RHYMES NO. ].

She met him at q big resort,
He was no ray deceIver.
did you come hero for goiff' she asked.
why, no." said he. Hay feverr
Rome women wear short skfrts for nothing at
an: others have two perfectly good exousss-
The Seward gateway., 1921-07-09

Mrs.Earl Sweek and three children left on the train Wednesday afternoon for a short visit to friends in Anchor age.
The Seward gateway., 1921-07-09
BOTH FACTIONS FAVOR
 RITCHIE FOR JUDGESHIP

Attorney Elmer F. Ritchie, of Val dez, mingled among Cordovans this morning on his return home from a trip to California, where he spent the mast six months looking over oil lands Mir. Ritchie is being urged by his friends to accept the appointment as judge for this division, and although he is conducting no campaign for the office it is believed that President War ren G. Harding will shortly send his name to the senate. He has the en- dorsement of National Committeeman Mcbride and it is understood that Del egate Sutherland is also backing him. The only opposition to MT. Ritchie is James Wickersham, who has filed a protest against all of the candidates endorsed by the Republican organiza- ton of Alaska
 MT. Ritchie is one of the leading law yers.of the territory and is eminently qualified to occupy the position. He has been practicing law for a number of years and has met with much sue cess in this profession, Formerly he was a newspaper man, having owneh and edited papers at Seward and Val deg. The appointment of Mir. Ritchie as Judge would be received with much favor by residents of the Third Divi- sion.-Cordova Times.
The Seward gateway., 1921-07-09
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE GATEWAY
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR


 Alaskan Engineering Commission Trains leave and arrive at Seward as follows:- 2:3O P. M. Tuesday and Friday for Roosevelt, Tunnel, Girdwood and Anchorage. Arrive 9:45 P. M. Wednesday and Saturday. connections at Anchorage on Wednes- day and Saturday at 7:30 A. M. for Matanuska, Wasilla, Houston, Falkeetna, and Chulitna on Mon day, Wednesday, Friday at S:3O A. M. for Matanuska, Eska and Chickaloon.
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SOCIETY
Edited by Miss Elsie Leslie

Miss Rogna Johnson, bookkeeper at Brown & Hawkins returned Tuesday from Anchorage where she was a visitor during the Fourth.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles Krefting were homecoming passengers on the train Tuesday from short visit to Anchorage where they visited friends during the Fourth of July.
 * # *
 Miss Mary Mcconnell and her moth CT Mrs. James Mcconnell, and Mrs. Emmet Mcconnell of Latouche return ed Tuesday evening from q visit to Eska Creek and Anchorage.
 * * *
 Mrs. James Hayden arrived on the Admiral Watson from Seattle on \ visit to her mother and father, MT. and Mrs. Sam Graff. Mrs. Hayden will remain in Seward during the summer months.
 Mir. and Mrs. Charles Hubbard of the Primrose Mine arrived in town Saturday evening to attend the big celebration and while in town they were Seward Hotel guests.
 Miss Una North, asstant cashier of the Bank of Seward returned on the train Tuesday from visit to her many friends in Anchorage, where she made her home for a number of years.
The Seward gateway., 1921-07-09
UNITED STATES DEBT LISTED
 AT TWENTY THREE BILLION

WASHINGTON, D. C., July g. It was announced today that the total interest bearing debt of the United States was $23,252, 900, 900.
The Seward gateway., 1921-07-09

Mrs. Henry Thody, of Chickaloon, arrived in town Tuesday and will be the house guest of MT. and Mrs. Ar thur McNeer for a couple of weeks.
 Mrs.Earl SweeIl and three children left on the train Wednesday afternoon for a short visit to friends in Anchor age.
 Mrs. Samuel Emmens with her daughter Mrs. Suit returned from An chorage on Saturdays train where they visited with MT. Emmens, who was i'll in the Anchorage hospital.
 Mrs. Fred Jonson and young son re turned from Anchorage TuesGay eve where they spent the fourth of July with Mr. Johnson, who is employed as engineer with the A. E. c. at that place.
 * *
 Miss Broadwell, sister of F. Broad well, arrived on the Alameda on a visit to her brother and has accepted a position as teacher in the Anchor age school for the coming term. Miss Broadwell left on Wednesdays train for Anchorage.
 MT. and Mrs. F. E. Leslie and chil- dren spent the Fourth of July at Mile 52 as the house guests of Mr. and Mrs G. w. Colwell.
 Mrs. H. o. Roberts, wife of the manager of the San Juan Fish Com pany and three children arrived on the s. s. Alameda on a visit to her husband. MT. and Mrs. Roberts are living in the apartments formerly oc- cupied by MT. and Mrs. Whittemore.
 Mrs. Porter and daughter Eva, who have been the house guests of MT. and Mrs. Wayne Blue was an outgo- ing passenger on the Admiral Wat son to their home in Seattle.
 MT. and Mrs. Gaston Hardy, who have been in Seward for the past two months left on the Admiral Watson for New York. MT. Hardy has been connected with the Hartman Nation al Bank for number of years and has been in Seward directing the withdrawal of that banking house from the Seward field.
 * * * Miss Suzanne Emmens, accompan- jed by her father, returned Tuesday from Anchorage where she spent the LNo,, r+I,
The Seward gateway., 1921-07-09

The Bridge Club met today with Mrs. Willis o. Perry at her home on Fourth Avenue.
 Mrs. Antone Eide and daughter Marit left on the train yesterday for Anchorage where she will spend few days visiting friends,
 Mrs. Robt. Mcintosh and two chill ren left Friday on a visit to MT. and Mrs. Louis Lee of Mile 40.
 Miss Jennie Peterson who arrived on the Alameda from the states left on yesterdays train for Anchorage on a visit.
 MT. and Mrs. A. H. L. Meyers, book keeper at Brown & Hawkins, left Fri day for Mile 23 to fish and hunt.
The Seward gateway., 1921-07-09

SEWARD METHODIST CHURCH Sunday School Il A. M.; Bible Study Class 12 NOON; Evening Service 7:3O The pIbic is iAN ed.
 DUANE EARL CARTER
 P4!tJr
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LET US DO YOUR JOBWORK
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SUBSCRIBE FOR THE GATEWAY
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LET US DO YOUR JOB WORK
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Mrs. Henry Thody, of Chickaloon, arrived in town Tuesday and will be the house guest of MT. and Mrs. Ar thur McNeer for a couple of weeks.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-08-16
Elevator AT Crystal
Is Destroyed By Fire

! Crystal, N. d., Aug. 16.-The E. F.
Doran elevator here was completely
destroyed by fire Saturday evening.
The blaze when discovered about 9
o'clock already had such a start that
the fire department could do nothing
to check it, but good work was done
in extinguishing smaller fires which
were started on the roofs Of adjacent
buildings by flying sparks.
A good piece of work was done I'M
der the direction OF Mr.. Doran in the
saving of a line of empty box cars
which stood on the side track. They
were uncoupled and showed out Of the
danger zone, one at a time, the last
one being saved with some difficulty
and with some danger to the workers.
Mr.. Doran purchased the elevator
from the. National Elevator company
about a a ago. Fortunately it
contained only a small quantity Of
oats and a. carload of wheat, and was
fully covered with insurance. The
origin of the fire is unknown.