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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-12-02
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Miss Janet Kerns OF North Royal
street, left today to visit her par
ents in Upperville, Va.
Mrs. William J. Klinger, and
daughter of Cincinnati, Ohio, are
spending some time with her par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph J. Brad:
ley, in North Royal street.
The regular meeting Of Potomac
Lodge No. 38, l. 0. Q. f., will be
held tonight in Odd Fellows Hall. 1t
is hoped that all members will be IN
attendance.
A number of Alexandrians expect
to attend the dance which will be
given tonight by the Mary Wash
ington Chapter, No. so, Order East
ern Star, at 431 18th street north
west.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-12-02

It will be fine opportunity for all
Sunday school teachers TO clinch the
teaching upon the pupil. Members
and workers Of ali churches are cor
daily invited to attend. The topic
for the service this evening will be,
Get Back to God" a beautiful solo
Of invitation was sung gy Miss Sue
Risheill.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-12-02

Storm II was most effective pre-
.sentation CT the way in which the
Master comes into the storms OF lie,
into the trouble and sorrow of human
experience. He related out of fund
OF personal experience telling Incl
dents how our Lord had stilled the
:empest>in the home and in the heart.
He told of tragedies impending and
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-12-02

and quite a number come forward IL
the quiet invitation. There are no
clap-trap methods and the after
service is not prolonged. Quite a
large number of workers are stead
ily engaged in prayer and in per-
sonal service. Sunday will be day
Of great climax, it is believed, to the
gradually increasing tide Of power.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-12-02
INCREASING INTEREST

The largest audience assembled at
the First Baptist church last ev.ning
10 listen to the seremon Of Rev. W.
II. Brannock on Christ Shilling the
wartlcd off by the presence OF the
Lord Of Life. The interest was tense
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-12-02

Getting Ready
For the Big Pay Day
There's a big pay day coming for
the folks who have joined the Mt.
Vernon Savings Banks Insured
Savings Plan.
On that pay day everybody is going to get
a cheek for 1000 And if they don't live to
sec that pay day their loved ones will get
the $1,000.
Here's what these folks are doing: Every
one OF them, or the average, is putting
away $500 a month.
This money IS not onlv saved Tor them, but,
having been accepted under the plan and
furnished satisfactory evidence Of good
health, the mere act Of saving this small
amount each month also lnsures their lives
for 81 000 at no additional expense
Just think Of that! Under this plan, which
is presented by the Mt. Vernon Savings
Bank and the Continental Assurance Com
pany, there's no chance OF losing OUT.
Efycy live, YOU get the 81 900 you've saved,
and if you die Your loved ones get it
# you should become permanently inca
pacitated, your plans will 60 through just
the same, for the Continental Assurance
Company will pay you $40 month with
which to keep up your payments
Just think what this means to the man Of
modest means, who doesn't know whether
to save money Or carry insurance! Bv this
plan he can do both at the same time.
Get ready for this big pay day! 81 :
Join the thousands Of other folks Tn1- w.
who are going to draw that .@1saTngs 3
$1,000 check. s</ssh L Mass.
Clip the coupon today, and <I any ys way. me
we will tell you lots of </sUfEiD s3vI Ike; 1 Ply
other advantages which Name
he plan has. Or stop ,
i, and let us tell you >>, .''''.'.''''''''.'.'.
about it. - Age ..:.:..::.. - =:
MT. VERNON
SAVINGS hx-p~ RANT
, 1921-05-26
THEY NEED BASEBALL.

1.-THE French army having adopted n new system of
physical training for recruits" says the Pittsburgh
Chronicle T Telegraph, (which includes running, climb
ing, weight-lifting and Ginning, it is reasonably con-
cluded that they have taken a leaf from the Amer
lean military manual. Il is weH known that the SPLEEN
did average physique Of our soldiers, in comparison
with their French associates in arms, made a pro-
found impression abroad. The French military au-
thorities made close inquiry into the reasons for our
young mems stamina and agility and decided that they
were largely due to engaging in baseball and other
outdoor sports unknown in France. The French do
play a species Of football, but as a people are not en-
thusiastic about open-air pastimes. Like the British
officials, the French were worried during the war by
discoveries Of deterioration of the youthful physique
and now they are taking steps to remedy it,
while the French army plans sound sensible, they
do not go FAR enough. Gymnasium work is all right
in its way, developing understood muscles. but its
are those containing the element Of competition, es-
their boys and youths could be induced to take up
baseball and football as national sports the French
problem would be solved in time. 1t was generally ad-
mitted during the war that the finest specimens of
manhood were the Americans, the Canadians and the
Australians, all of whom were more accustomed to
outdoor sports than the youth of other nationalities.
Waterloo may have been won .on the playing fields
of Eton,' but the aristocrntic schools of England could
furnish only a minute proportion of the men who
were called to the colors in the latest and gres.sst of
wars. While there is room for improvement in the
American physique, it is gratifying to find the French
adopting some of our methods to make their young
men strong to defend their country in time of need"
, 1921-05-26
A MooNsHININc Professor.

Louis Agassiz Shaw, the Harvard professor and
member of Boston's Back Bay social set, who was ar
rested for violation of the Volstead act and in whose
home was found an elaborate still, has been discharged
by the federal authorities, but he will not get his
still back, the commissioner ruling it to be contra
band.
In the hearing the commissioner based his
discharge of the prisoner upon the fact that the search
warrant obtained in the case was illegal and value
less and the evidence secured, in the form of various
bottles of moonshine, on the strength of the warrant
was of no use because of its illegality. In fact it
was tainted evidence.
1t was under the fourth and fifth amendments to
the federal constitution, relating to search and seizure
that the loophole was found whereby the professor
was freed of the charge against him, although the
world is aware that he possessed a still and made
moonshine after the same manner of thousands of
other but humber brethren to be used for the same
purpose.
1t seems at times that the question as to whether
the United States is bone dry is yet to be determined.
About all there is to the Shaw case is the publicity
Harvard received and the knowledge that if some
wealthy philanthropist desires to establish a chair of
home brew, the qualified occupant is right at hand
and ready to go to work.
, 1921-05-26
EUROPE AND THE LEAGUE.

Major Cecil Battine writing in the Fortnightly Re-
view of Europe's future under the League of Ma
lions, has this to say:
'The optimistic, if not credulous, persons who chant
the advent Of a new era in European relations, and
who trust to the newly Pledged League of Nations to
keep the peace in future, are expecting a good deal
from the diplomatic skill of its agents. The oppon-
snts and critics of the league, who distrust and even
ietest the ideas upon which it is founded, have two
principal criticisms to make against its authority. The
tirst is that it impairs the rights of national sovereign
~, since no man can owe allegiance to two different
sovereign authorities. 1t is increasingly difficult to
for the hateful crime of high treason has become RAM
pant of late in more than one European state. The
second criticism is that the diplomacy of the league
must necessarily weaken the diplomacy of its COM
porent states by dividing the authority. Yet since it
IS only the state which can support its agents by force,
the league authority will be a farce and fraud when
ever the policy of the state as directed by its states
men and diplomatists fails to coincide with the &C
ton of the league. Anyone conversant with the Dip
lomatic history of countries which have been known to
maintain different and parallel relations with foreign
powers at the same time will realize the complications
which are sure to happen. The war between Russia
and Japan of 1904 was a notorious example of many
such cases. The danger is not very clearly defined at
present, because no one, except Lord Robert Cecil
and its numerous salaried officials, takes the league
quite seriously, but if once it fell into the hands, or
under the influence, of some capable intriguer with
IN its fold, or into the hands of some European cab
met, its potentialities for stirring up strife and breed
ing wars will be enormous. Imagine the League of
Nations under the yelled direction of a Bismarck, or
the open management of one of the many able cardi-
mails who have steered the political course of the papacy
in European history. The creation of this wonderful
league is an attempt to revive the international con-
troll of a pacifist papacy in a new insidious form, but
it is worth noting that the militarist parties, such as
are said still to exist in Germany, are converts to the
scheme. So they well may be, for no greater danger
to the future peace of Europe was ever planned in
the light Of day than this e~gregious folly"
, 1921-05-26
TRANSPORTING EXPLOSIVES.

The recent explosion of a truck load of nitro-gly-
cerin at Bonneville calls very forcible attention to
state, county and municipal authorities of the ex-
treme danger in the handling and transportation of
high explosives. While there are regulations govern.
ing these matters there should be additional ones. 1t
was only by the rarest good fortune that the explosion
occurred where it did, since it had to occur at all. A
hundred yards difference in the progress of the truck
would have added many more to the list of killed and
injured.
The explosion could very easily have taken place
on the streets of Casper and aside from the toll of
human life a million dollars in damage could have
resulted.
1t is but a few years since that an identical calam-
ity occurred in the Big Horn basin country; and it
was but a few days subsequent to the Bonneville ac-
cident that another nitroglycerin explosion took place
near Woriand.
Such disasters are all too frequent. Every precau-
ton and safeguard should be thrown around the trans
portation and handling of this treacherous explosive,
and the public should have warning of the character
OF the load by requiring trucks used for the purpose
, 1921-05-26
THE NEwsBoY OF BRooKLINE.

"There is something very fine in the decision of
the people of Brookline, Mass" asserts the New York
Herald, 'o erect a tablet in their town hall in honor
of Scotty, a newsboy who at Is entered the 101st Regi-
ment and at Epieds held a pass single handed, kill
ing 81 of the enemy before he was killed; there is
something very fine in President Harding's purpose to
attend the ceremony if he possibly can.
"Brookline, once the Hamlet of Muddy River is
a city in numbers, the home of a rich and favored
population. 1t will not incorporate as a city, but
clings to the town form of government. Its town hall
is a real town hall. 1t clings to the best New Eng
land traditions; and the ~newsboys, of whom Scotty-
Albert Edward Scott-was typical, personify those
traditions They take care of themselves, they work
hard, they grin at hard knocks. They have wit and
native shrewdness, honesty grounded on honor and in
formed by good sense. Probably Scotty had some
body dependent upon him, and his customers would
never have suspected from his demeanor that he bore
a burden of responsibility. He asked no charity and
sought no aims. To go on the town was a POSSIBLE
ity that never entered his head. He had a head to
think with and a body to work with, and he asked no
Seotty was as lively a youngster as Brookline offered
for inspection, ready for any deviltry that would
worry the peace officers of the Massachusetts town.
peace Officers who, like New York's, possess skill. ex-
perience and shrewdness. and for whose good judg-
ment and sympathy many a mischievous youngster has
cause to be thankful.
He saw his duty and he did it; did it in war as
he cid it in peace; did it in France as he did it in
Brookline, and Brookline and the president of the
United States and all the rest of us will do well to
honor him as a type of sturdy, self-reliant, manly
American boys"
, 1921-05-26
The Glut IN Products

faetured articles The South Amer.
can. Aslatic and Austraiasian com
munities which produce a large share
OF the worlds raw material have had
to bear the heaviest burden Of price
deflation. and as yet they have not
recovered their Commercial equiE.
brium-
The uncompromlsing attitude OF
British miners ppear to contrast
with h attitude OF labor on the con
tinent Of Europe. There have been
no important strikes or other labor
Disturbances on a larger scale In the
continental. countries. and while fur.
Their adjustments must stin be mad in
lnbor conditions abroad as well as / n
America the attitude OF labor gener-
ally offers a basis for encourage
ment.
The rebuilding OF export business
must come gradually. Until present
large stocks are absorbed and a-healthy
demand once more established, ar
tificiai stimulation must be detriment-
al to the b,st interests both OF ex-
porters and their customers.
, 1921-05-26
srILLMAN CRIES QUITS.

When James Stillman came into court charging his
wife with ~infidelity and asking divorce from her, he
overlooked the formality of being blameless himself.
The courts call it coming into court with clean
hands" This condition New York courts require of
a plaintiff in divorce proceedings.
Stillman sought to crush his wife by the degrading
and immoral charges he made against her; and to add
to her further disgrace the secrecy of the proceedings
was violated in a campaign of publicity the like of
which is unknown in such cases before. He not only
compelled her to fight for her own honor but the
legitimacy of her child. How desperately shs fought
and how she turned the weapon of publicity against
him and forced him from the presidency of the worlds
greatest bank. made a nervous wreck of him, made him
cry quits, call off his divorce proceedings, thereby
acknowledging his fatherhood of the child he would
disown, proved him an adulterer common and noto-
rious, placed him in such shamed position that he
scarcely ventures in public and desires only to flee to
Europe and get away from it all, is now written in
the final chapter of the famous scandal.
He'll had nothing on Fiji Stillman in a matter of
fury when her scoundrelly husband scorned her. And
if there is anyone who will not rejoice at her COM
plete triumph he is not much of a person.
, 1921-05-26
National Bank of Commerce. \. VI.

t>afionai Bank oil commerce. N NJ
In the manufacturing countries Of
Europe the productive machinery Is
in better condition than il has been
since the end of the war. Physi>al
plants have been rchabilitated. rail-
way congestion relieved and the fuel
shortage overcome. Unfortunately.
under present conditions the produc-
tive capacity OF Europe. like thai OF
the United States. cannot be profit
ably employed Every country In the
world has large stocks Of imported
mecaandise awaiting absorption and
in some localities stocks are so large
that II Is impossible TO provide proper
storage facilities. The absorption of
his accumulation has begun. but Is
being retarded in the countries which
are Europe's best customers because
countries arc unable to dispose
Of their own products. This condl-
ton is further aggravated by the fact
hat the worldwide fall in commodity
prices has affected primary commodi-
ties more than semi finished n manu-
, 1921-05-26
WILL AWAIT COURTS ACTION.

The city council has acted wisely in passing a reso-
luton multiplying the city election called for June z to
submit to the electors n proposition for the adoption
of the city manager form of government under the
statute passed by the recent legislature. In the man
damus proceedings at Sheridan to compel the city
commissioners to call an election for the same pur-
pose, Judge Burgess rendered an opinion that a city
manager within the meaning of the law is a city Of
fetal; and that the constitution requires a city Off
cal to be n qualified citizen of the state and munich
palty; and since the city manager statute provides
that a city manager need not be a resident Of the
municipality he serves, this provision is unconstitu-
tonaL
The Sheridan court did not render judgment in the
case before him but on agreement of the parties GER
titled the proceedings to the supreme court for final
decision.
Since Casper and Sheridan are in the same situa-
ton, both seeking adoption of the manager form of
government, it would be folly to proceed without ths
judgment of the supreme court.
1t is h hardly likely that the court ill hand down an
opinion in time for a special election in June.
, 1921-05-26
HE SENATE IsHMAELITE.

II President Harding were not so honorable a gen.
tleman and above such tactics we might be forced to
the belief that he had employed Senator LaFollette to
open fire on him upon the theory that a LaFollette
knock is very valuable in comparison with a boost
from almost anyone else in public life.
No one takes LaFollette seriously any more and
everybody has grown to regard him as opposed to
everybody and everything and in addition, a common
scold.
IL he ever got anywhere with any of his stuff it
could be better understood why he continued, but
since he does not, the wonder is how he keeps up the
courage to kid himself.
, 1921-05-26

most powerful explosive used In the
European war. Isi4-1s- II is n com
pound produced by h substitution Of
nitro groups for hydrogen atoms in
mcthyi bcnzine- II forms pale yellow
cry stals darkenlng % deep brown. Is
, 1921-05-26

to be painted red or some other distinctive color and
warning signs displayed.
Even IL men must expose themselves to great risks
in transporting explosives. there is no need of sub
jeeting the general public to greater risk than can
possibly be avoided.
, 1921-05-26

There is no use in bowling ones self hoarse about
the sex complex in moving pictures best sellers and
elsewhere when it is so in~sistently present in every
day life Who would have thought it ground for a
new trial In court because the opposing counsel took
one of the lady jurors out to lunch?
, 1921-05-26

that win drive the impurities out
and leave your blood stream nour-
ishing and robust
S-s-S-, the well known herb alter
alive, is fine for this; get II frnr
, 1921-05-26

Q.-Can ! remngnctise . compass
needle hat has weak polarity by use
Of a horseshoe niagnet?-I. b. G.
A-The photographic office of the
navy department says that in remag-
netizing a compass needle you should
place ire compass SO that the needle
will point directly In a northern and
southern direction. Take a horseshoe
maSnet and. using the mt having a
north polarity. place It above Ina.
half OF the needle between the center
and its south point. Slowly move the
horseshoe wiih a horizontal nsotion
above the mentioned onc-haif Of the
needle several times. taking car that
It does not move back and forth. but
in one direction from the center of
, 1921-05-26
Question Box

ANY reader can get the answer to
any question by writing The Casper
Daily Tribune Information Bureau.
Frederic J. Haskin. Director. Wash
ington. d. G. This offer applies strict
iy to information. The bureau can
not give advice on legal. medical and
financial matters II does not attempt
to settle domestic troubles. nor to un-
dertake exhaustive research on any
subject Wctte your question plainly
and briefly. Give full name and ad-
dress and enclose two cents In stamps
for return postage. An replies IRE
sent direct to the inquirer.D
, 1921-05-26
Q.-why is Phoenix. Arizona,
uarueds-G n

named?-G. A. Il.
A~.-According to an old legend the
phoenix was n bird which was con-
sumed by fire and rose in youthful
freshness from its own ashes The
name seemed appropriate for Phoenix.
Arizona as this city was built on the
remains OF a great pre-c Columbian city.
In prehistoric times. some SO. 900 acres
of land were cultivated by the diver
sion OF water through several hundred
miles of canals.
, 1921-05-26

inssnsitfve 10 friction or crdinary
shock and does not form explosive
metallic salts.
, 1921-05-26

the need,e TO the point for the south.
Then reverse m process taking the
south polarity end Of the and
90 through the same process from
the center point OF the needle to tho
north end Of IL. This should remas-
netizs the needle 50 that It will be
good for some time although IL is not
positive that this method will keep
IL permanently masnetizcd-
Q-Whzf was the personal appcar
anee Of the Duke Of Wellington. Why
was no known rs the Iron Dukey-
w. H.
A-The Duke of Wellington was
during his youth referred to by his
mother as her ugly boy. Arthur
Later in life he is stil described as
being considered ugly, having a lean
body. and hawkiike nose He was
nicknamed The Iron Duke" for his
thoroughness and his conception Of
duty.
Q.-Is T. n. 7. a liquid or = POWDER
At. ~. T.. or T-rinitrotoluol. a
high explosive used for bursting
charges OF projectiles. II ives the
, 1921-05-26

o.-what is punaluan family
r. q.
A.-This is a term adopted into eth,
noiogy and refers to a scheme OF fam
lily life found existing in the Hawaiian
islands when they were discovered.
Tic relationship consists in the MARI.
, 1921-05-26

your druggist today.
Then write US about your
condition, ADDRESSING
Chief Medical Advisor.
s43 Swift Laboratory'
atlanta, Ca We viii
send you free medical
advice suited to your IN
dividual case.
, 1921-05-26

Q.-What Is the length Of the sec
onds pendulum for Parisf-F. J. X.
A--The naval observatory says that
the length OF the seconds pendulum
at Paris 1888 ccntimeters or ss.13
inches.
, 1921-05-26

Blbles A-s absolutely prohibited in
RussA
, 1921-05-26
Be Sure to Keep Blood Pure.
In Summer

Nature intended an creatures to
Withstand the normal changes Of
the seasons. You never saw a wild
animal collapse from heat, did your
People wouldn't get Knocked out"
, 1921-05-26

age Of . group of brothers to n group
Of sisters. each woman being tho wife
OF all the men and each man being
the husband of all the
, 1921-05-26

either, Il they had the
vitality animals get from
their blood
Rich, wholesome blood
gives bodily vigor, and II
hot weather lays you low,
start now to fortify your
vitality with a good tonic
The Nevada County picayune., 1921-09-15

tion, good rural schools, churches, good roads. and other such advantages more beneficial to farmers and their families.
 The Land Settlement Commission at Jefferson will serve the hom eseeker in an authentic representation of all lands,-a service which is not always found from the sometimes over .enthu siastic real estate brokers working for individual profit. Already and elabo- rate set of literature is being Gpre- pared by this Commission in conjunct- ion with the officials of the city of Jefferson and Marion County. Ap- proximately one hundred thousand copies of some of the literature is being prepared.