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The Washington times., 1921-06-06
JUNE 6, 1921
Married Women In The
Government Service
By BILL PRICE.

matt with the Government
to which wish attention. believing that laid
before the public the matter could be remedied
Just reductions being made in the personnel
Of hardest mt
the Bureau Now there hundreds Of young women
whose only their daily competence perhaps
should earnings of them having homes and being
whose husbands from $1,000 $4,000 and
told working add their bank
10 the
believe they live they should live"
their These worthy
but with the single whose jobs sufficient food
keep them enough their living and place
married the seventh
willing their ought be compelled single self
supporting should laid off until the married
of this character left it's roll
Because of husbands holding positions
Of importance the the wives this influence
hold their positions could enumerate great such
believe sufficient
the
thing If it fight be carried further
the of the the widows
little families to the fight 1t the nten
non TO make protest against who is sesuppoing
whether married SINGLE but it is intended against
those who independent" without their monthly
checks And these among the highest paid clerks.
A WAR RISKER.
The matter referred to by the writer is entirely in the
hands of executive heads charged with the duty of ayne
OFF, employees as Government rolls being cut down
1t is subject that has often been considered in Congresson
al committees at Cabinet meetings. and conferences OF
department heads with their subornaes but no law has
ever been passed or definite regulations adopted
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uUM ANISMS
William Atherton Du Puy-

On the theory OF leaving them with a smile
when you say good-by, Senator George Moses OF
New Hampshire tells this story at the end OF
speech,
There was a merchant in a small town who
wished TO scduaint the farmers with the fact
that he would buy their cowhides. He bored a
hole in his door and stuck into II from the out
side the bushy tail OF a steer
1t arrested the attention OF the hrst farmer
who came down the street: in fact, 1t seemed to
arouse in him a high pitch OF excitement
He felt about the steer and that auger hole
lust as the Senator felt about his speech. He
wondered how he ever managed to get through it.
As one goes around prying into the antecedents
of men who stand out prominently in public life
he is rather surprised to find the number of them
who trace their descent back to that small num-
Der OF French settlers that have been absorbed
into our body polite.
There is Frank. .MondelI, for instance. major
ity leader in the House of Representatives His
father spelled his name Mondelle, was a pioneer
In the Upper Mississippi volley and ran a frontier
hotel Prairie de CHEN. in Wisconsin Speaker
Gillett has a name of similarly French origin.
Senator Charles T.. Curtis is the descendant of
French trader and the daughter of Chief White
Plume of the Kansas Indians, from whom the
state takes its name. Then there is Maj Gen.
John A. Lejeune. head of the marine corps. de-
scendant of French voyageur, and the next OF
rank in that service, Maj Gen. Wendell c. Neville
General Pershing is of French trapper stock The
prosecutors of Senator Bert NJ. Fernald OF Maine
we're French Canadians Herbert Hoover traces
his family back to Huber, the Frenchman
when he enlisted in the marines in the late war
Edwin Denny says, ne went uoWn 10
Pari. island, where the leathernecks were train
ed and carried with him only the clothes in
which he stood. He thought the Government had
fighting togs ready, mans size.
But as he six feet two and weighed 254
mounds he couldn't find any clothes that would
- or him The non-coms who administered the
training told him not to mind, that they would
fix that all right
60 he nut on the biggest clothes he could find,
"a ,,,here they failed TO meet, he tied strings
from buttonholes to buttons. The non-coms
work cd him fourteen hours day and gradually
tho qaps where his garments yawned decreased
untii finally he was worked down to fit them.
copyright 1891, by Public Ledger co.,
The Washington times., 1921-06-06
a Mighty American Navy
Means Peace For Nation

wish to meddie in others affairs.
Our splendid neighbor at the
North knows how free we are from
any spirit of aggression. We believe
it sympathizes with us and would
like to see mighty American navy,
which it knows has in the past been
a bulwark of safety for Canada as
well as for the United States, and
never a mehace to Canada.
But if Jefferson had not made the
one mistake in his great career by
scrapping the navy after our indc-
pendence was secured, we should
not have had the War of 1912.
And if the Republican party had
not made the same mistake after the
Cleveland Administration, by allow
ing the great white feet that Sec.
retary Whitney began to build to
become disintegrated and obsolete,
we should not have had the Spanish
War.
The sole purpose of a great navy
for the United States IN the future
is to prevent aggressive, dominat-
ing, dictatorial powers from tres
passing upon our worldwide inter
ests. 1t will never menace the peace
of the world.
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The March of EUents

as they always have done and always
will do.
This is exceedingly gratifying in
formation. From the recent cpl
demic of outbursts on the part of
reformers we had almost come to
the conclusion that women were
doomed to perdition. Their skirts
were getting shorter from month to
month. They danced without corsets.
They used lip-sticks and eyebrow
pencils, face powder and even rouge.
They no longer cared for Beethoven,
but were crazy over jazz.
The denunciations of the reformers
disturbed US. If women were rapidly
going to the devil we could not
figure out what to do without them.
Miss Adams has reassured US.
Everything is all right and the re
formers are merely "off their nut"
Customs and fashions! Therein
lies the explanation. Women es-
tablish them and women follow
them. In short, women do just about
as they please. And what they do
is right until they decide that 1t is
wrong.
Miss Addams, we thank you.
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We TOWNE GOSSIP
Registered U. g. Patent oeAe>
K. G. B.

Dear X. C. B.-Do you remember when you
told about "Jim's" baby? Please tell-it again.
/ used to live in the building on West Twelfth
street where you would often go, and did so
want to you, the telephone girl entered
into friendly conspiracy with me to let me
know the very next time you came. And she
did, and / saw you. U lived on the ground
foor.) / peeked and saw you stop and stroke
the gorgeous cst-Tiger was his name. He
was disdainfm creature to most but to you
he arched his back and actually fawned Now
this you did not know, that Tiger went to the
front door and sat and wsited-immovable-
an hour, waiting for you to return. But what
want to thank you most for is the never failing
cheerness you rsdate 1t did seem as il
could never smile again when My Sun went
West-but / can now, and I'll let you guess
the reason when ask you to please tell about
"Jims" baby again. Thank you. IRENE.
Chicago, Ill
The Washington times., 1921-06-06

THE controversy between the Sen
ate and the House over the
- naval bill should be settled in
Favor of the Senate.
Both the Senate and the House
have drastically reduced the United
States Army and they are right. The
United States does not need and
twill not endure a great standing
army.
But the Senate believes that we
should have mighty navy for coast
defense and protection of our COM
merce. The Senate is right.
Pacifst representatives in Congress
and the pacifst editors may have
good hearts and good intentions.
But pacifsts never know how to
light, and never learn how to keep
the peace.
The possession of mighty navy
means peace for the United States.
1t will never be a menace to any
other nation. Every sensible Ameri-
can knows that we are not jealous
or envious of any other nations pos
sessions, that we have no designs
against any other nation; that we
do not covet any neighbor's people
or anything that is his; nor do we
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TRANCE is getting back to earth

= ,
4 thanks to Premier BRAND. The
vote of confidence given by the
Chamber and duplicated later by the
Senate is the best assurance of peace
Europe has had since the three
peacemakers Of Paris botched their
task so miseHbly.
Now Germany can go to work In
earnest, and if France also follows
Germany's industrious example
pending the fulfllment of Germany
reparation engagements-the benefi-
cent competition of production and
trade will very rapidly repair the
ruin wrought by war as destruc-
tive as it was criminal in its origin.
1t is too bad that such men as
Lloyd George, Aristide BRAND, Clio
litti, DR.. Wirth and Chickerin were
not in power in those fatal days of
July, 1914.
Admiral Sims is again making an
unpleasant spectacle of himself. He
has been belittling the achievements
of our navy in order to win the ap-
plause of British jingoes; and as
suring his hearers that he. is glad
to be in free country where he can
get a drink when he wants it.
Admiral Sims has sometimes acted
for the American people, but he
never speaks for them and he does
not represent them. He was born
under a forei gn flag and that flag
inspires such patriotism as he feels.
Possibly he is unaware Of this fact.
Several Congressman have voiced
their patriotic Indignation over the
assertion of Representative Michael
son that the bankers dragged us into
the war. If these angry Congressman
want to read something ridiculous,
now that most of the world is sane
again, let them turn over the files
of the newspapers and run their eyes
up and down the columns of war
propaganda which were printed to
excite Americans to fever heat.
Hardly one word in ten of those
lurid tales and passionate appeals
was true. Most of the stuff was
fiction that ought not to have i'm
posed upon any thinking mind. Yet
it did the work it was intended to
do. And it cost money-millions
Of it.
Where did those millions come
FRONT
Who paid for that mass of lying,
cant, humbug, sensationalism and
appeals that alternately played upon
the ignorance, the sympathies and
the passions of Experimentation
peoplef
Jane Addams, the social worker,
SAYS she does not despair of the
future of women because they smoke
and wear short skirts. Women, she
SAYS. follow customs and fashions
The Washington times., 1921-06-06
The BuLUnrk
of Democracy
nECENT publications of the
United States Census Bureau
~ contain several interesting


items.
One shows that there are about
six million owners of farms and
two million tenant farmers. Among
the tenants are not included farm
laborers.
Another shows that the proportion
of foreign born population to native
born was less in 1920 than in 1910.
The proportion of tenant farmers
to farm owners is altogether too
great. As that proportion rises the
danger to a conservative, stable
democracy increases.
The history of all free govern
ments demonstrates that the small
Independent agriculturist, who owns
his own farm, is educated, and has
access to information affecting the
public affairs of his country, is the
bulwark of democracy.
The tenant farmer helps to move
things fast, for better or for worse.
He is capable of precipitating re-
action beyond the point of recovery.
Those who want progressive
changes that ave beneficial to evo-
luton ought to watch the diminish
ing number of men who own and
cultivate their own farms and the
growing numbers who rent them.
When the renters equal the owners
the farmer class will cease to be the
conservative, progressive element in
American life. ...... ... .
The Washington times., 1921-06-06
Antelope and Auto

The running speed of the antelope was as
certained in picturesque and Unprecedented
fashion, II has been disclosed during the re-
cent expedition of the American Museum of Nat
ural History into Asia. The leader OF this ex-
pedition decided to devote day TO chasing an
antelope herd in his automobile. Consulting his
speedometer records later he found that the
herd had travelled at sixty miles hour for
almost two hours, and then had slowed down to
about hfty or a little lesS
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THE LONELY PARENT.

When 1 hear a locomotive,
BE Il either night or day
I wonder IL Il was the one
That took our boy away
To a far Western village.
Not aimlessly to roam,
But, like a real American.
To build himself a home.
We are lonesome here without him.
And at night l wake and start,
But the passing locomotive
Is the beating OF my heart.
The Washington times., 1921-06-06
CHEsAPEAKE REACH PRICES.

Some of the prices being
charged the public at Chesapeake
Beach are outrageous, and. IL
they continue. Washington people
should take steps to show their
resentment. Pop, for instance.
sells for 10 cents and in Wash
ington cents; a certain brand
of cigarettes 80 cents, in WASH
ington 81 cents.
II extortionate prices continue
there 1 suggest that visitors
carry their own luncheon,
smokes, etc. READER.
The Washington times., 1921-06-06
pBEroN FIsHERFoLK.

Bretons are the bravest
f,sherfolk In the world. In
the season 5000 men are en-
gagged in cod fishing and
2b.0OO to 10000 in sardine
fishing. In addition, much
trade is done in oysters,
shrimps, funny. mackerel,
and lobsterA
The Washington times., 1921-06-06
MIR. B. Baer
SUNDAY AT BEACH.
coOyrisht. 1891. e- star Co.

Papa. gamma, all little
popsndmymmies decide on
Sunday at beach. Pop Is
tired after a hard weeks
strike. Load umbrella full
of beach delicstessen. Have
argument with conductor
over little Frankie, who is
eleven years old In school,
but can't count past FIVE in
street car.
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"LADDIE BOYS" LAMENT.


IPs great to be Presidents pup,
And haze pour name sung far ana
near:
Your doinos chronicled IN dduy stories
By every roportorial seer.
But don't much Ike the use Of my
BY totts and chur1ps Of JOY
As they coll for hot dog aud roll,
By lightly yelling, CONE LADDIB
BOYP
IL kIader makes me lesry.
Even cautious and dtscreet,
Cam IL he true that hot dogs
Contain some of my kfssnen's
meatf
I guess I'd better be wstchfuI,
As I pass the butchers By.
Or some day \ msy be nstssinG.
which would make Warren sigh.
w. w.
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THE OPTIMIST.

He says this tot0n's as dry as SNUFF,
Not a drop to be found;
Yet. tohen the moon lights up the totox,
There's noonshtne oil ground.
He doesn't stDedr. he doesn't curse,
The feIIoto merely or3ns;
soys things might have been mach
tcorss
IF VoLsTEAD had BEEN TWINS.
OIDONO.
The Washington times., 1921-06-06

Eight little popsndmom-
mics crawl into three bath
ing suits. Everybody starts
eating soon as thcy hit
beach. Dinner lasts all day
with intermissions for
lunch. Pop beRutifles beach
with hollow sardine cans,
loose bottles, empty ba-
mana hides.
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s1 s1n1fARlan5EE -

If, when whiskey is gone, the boot
leggers will learn hypnotism they
ought to command good prices just
to make fellow think he is stewed
A hypnotic. jag ought not to leave
any after effects. BRIDGEPORT.
The Washington times., 1921-06-06
MARITAL PHILOSOPHY,

As to which II the most at
tractive--s blonde or brunette
I've found that n man does not
realize how attractive q brunette
In until he has married a blonde.
A. HAM.
The Washington times., 1921-06-06
woRD-saUARE THOUGHTS.

Con well the word. appearing below,
You may need some of them as you go;
Different meanings all have, you say,
which furnishes some variety.
The diagopsls. tho not very rare,
Have been selected with some care.
ha~NN NNNa.
The Washington times., 1921-06-06
TRUTH.

BY far the greatest thing in life
Is, to bear truths be inner night and DAY
what matter IL IL cause us strife,
In times like these we dare not play.
EDWARD j. IRVINE.
The Washington times., 1921-06-06

One thing can be said of the
fans" of III. and s. They come
in very handily in hot weather
Y. T.
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FANS EAR AWAY.

Two letters today from fans of
II and s far away. One Is from
Denver. the envelope being address
ed TO "The @. o. c., Washington, d.
c., Skipper Bill" The fan says that
the column is greater TO him away
from Washington than it was here.
The other Is from MARIAN R.,
Birmingham, Ala II and s Is hor
consolation, she says. She has seen
few cake-eaters in Birmingham,
whose citizens call them 'jelly
beans"
Call out the Blue Law Guards! A
prominent New Jersey dentist told
the Dental Society of that State that
chewing tobacco "is one of the best
disinfectants known to dental sci
ence." He added that if reformers
succeed in banishing tobacco that
diseases Of the teeth will increase.
A. W. I.
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dfalhsBEPthaHAd
ALAS, POOR VENUS!

The Venus de Milo is perfect. I'm told.
In pose-snd a figure that charms:
But II she has heart, tits marble an
cold.
And how could she hug without srmsr
BOX CAR HARRY.
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NOT so PARTICULAR.

We'll, young man, SO You wish to
be my son-in-law"
Not in the least, but marrying
your daughter, as intend TO DO,
can't see how 1t can be avoided"
. @. S.
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WHERE IT'S ALL SETTLED.

Your fans DISCUSS everything, but I
rise to say that the brightest aggre-
cation of intellectual athletes ever
assembled together meets around the
table in the main room of the Ma
tional University Law School library.
All perplexing questions of church
and state, OF science, law and litera-
tCre, are there settled with dispatch
and fnality. It's done daily
HAMMURABBI.
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HAMMURABBL

"I'n let no man conquer my heart"
"Oh, Ethel"
But I wouldn't mind letting the
right one have a mandate over it,
CHEVY.
The Washington times., 1921-06-06

Phil, jr., perches out for
slow simmer in sun. Gets
blisters on his fragile neck
bigger than elephant toes.
Little Minnie gets lost be-
tween two waves and pub
fishes standard recitation
for help. Donald is kid
naped by his curious dis
position. Follows a Pomer-
anian, thinking IT is a new
kind OF mutton chop with
legs.
The Washington times., 1921-06-06
Stars and Stripes

"Sit down when you are in trouble" says
!, financial expert, "and see where you
stand"
That Boston girl who swallowed two hun
dred phonograph needles and a dozen new
pens may have been foolish, but she has
many good points about her.
Mary had little lamb
The littlest, thinnest slice;
But that was all she could afford
At the prevailing price.
"rMy dear" said the mother, you'll wear
that two-piece bathing suit or nothing at
all.
"If," replied the daughter, 'you feel that
way about it, mother. don't for the life of
me see why you won't let me wear the one
piece" ,..
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kind OF mutton chop with
legs.
Children get scattered,
like Mexican army. Nom
enjoys herself screaming at
'em in ecstasy of motherly
affection. Old man eats
himself bowlegged, chokes
on fishbone while asking
MON when next meal
starts.
Green beach flies join gay
family circle, sting baby.
sample chow-chow, snap at
pop. A fly always thinks
it's his picnic. VS.
Donald wants to loop-the-
loop. Gertie wants balloon,
Terwilliger wants peanuts.
Pop is wiplng his chin on
back of hand when next
meal suddenly starts. Sun
day at beach seems to be
all meals.
Anything that is spoiled
or can't be chewed is left
behind on beach as testi-
monial to happy occasion.
Monday on beach looks
like remnant sale on gar
bage scow. Beach Is boule-
ward OF empty milk bottles,
esplanade of cracker boxes
and triumphant parade of
sardine kimonos.
BY time guards get beach
smoothed and ironed out,
it's Sunday again.
The Washington times., 1921-06-06

This typewriter drawing. Bin, is
to be Cleopatra. She's the
young lady who ran around Julius
tight sharply and then grabbed Mark
Antony, who was an easy Mark.
f. w. ZAUGG.
The Washington times., 1921-06-06

BY time guards get bench
smoothed and ironed out,
It's Sunday again.
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Anything that is spoiled
or can't be chewed is left
behind on beach as testi-
moniaI to happy occasion.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-20
DEMPSEY'S CHECK DRAWN
FOUR DAYS BEFORE FIGHT

NEW YORK, July 2o.-Tex Rick
ard. promoter OF the Dempsey-Car-
pentier fight OF July 2, was examined
in discovery proceedings yesterday by
William Klein, attorney for Frank j.
Spellman. who is suing Dempsey and
Jack Kearns for 100000 for breach
OF contract.
Richard testified that on June %
he drew to the order of James Woods
a check for $500, 900. Dempsey's share
of the fight money, and TO Robert
Edgren a check for 100000, Car
pentier's share. Richard did not
know what had become of the money.
He exhibited the cancelled checks
Richard testified he believed that
Dempsey was interested in certain
movie rights in connection with the
fight, but he was not certain as to
the amounts. He had no personal
knowledge of the contracts. No ques-
tons were asked and no explanation
was made as to the reason for max
ing one check-Dempsey's payable
to Woods, when 1t was understood
the two checks were to be made pay
able to Edgren.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-20
Kirkwood Will Show
His "Stuff" With
Golf Sticks

Joseph Kirkwood, the Australian
golf professional, will show his
wizard stuff today at Columbia
for the gallery after the last tee
off in the qualifying round. Kirk
wood does many amazing things
with the irons and balls. He has
trick shots galore. In addition to
the exhibition, British open cham
pion, Jock Hutchison, of Glenview,
will enter into a putting contest
with Mrs Luch Brahany, Column
bias champion Ct the putting
green. Hutchinson says he knows
he will be up against a real cham
pion, but will try his best. The
odds, according to Columbia mem
bers, are very much against Hutch.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-20
Tournament Was Open
All Right, And
Wide Open

The twenty-fifth open golf
championship at Columbia is
under the auspices Of the u. s.
G. A. 1t is open to any profess
sional or amateur. There have
been twenty-five open tourna-
ments, but one of them was rot
under the u. s. G. A. The quail
flying round is eighteen holes, and
the professionals have protested
vigorously. AS one pro remarked,
It's the open championship, and
it's so wide open, you walk right
in and turn around, and swalk
out again" Forty-three qualified
yesterday, it is likely that num-
Der will get in today. II eighty
six start tomorrow it will repre-
sent one third of the field, which
is Just about what would happen
if thirty-six holes were used for
qualifying.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-20
JANOWSKI RETAINS LEAD
IN CHESS TOURNAMENT

ATLANTIC CITY. July 2o.-David
Janowski. chess champion of France,
retained his half-game lead in the chess
masters tournament In the tenth
round by defeating Stasch MlotkowsiSi.
Of Los Angeles, after twenty-nine
moves. The final round win be played
today.
N. T. Whitaker. Washington. de-
feated J. p. Harvey, Fenelon Falls. On
tario. default S. 7. Sharp, Philadel.
phia, and /. s. Turnover, Washington,
draw, twenty-seven moves. The con.
tests between Samuel Factor, Chica~o;
Frank Marshall. American champion;
Charles J<ffe, New York, and V. Sour.
min, Washington, were adjournCy.
The stsnd.Vig: Janowski, ~; Whit
aker, z; Hago, 81; Jaffe, s.; Factor,
Sharp and Turnover. each; Marshall
and Sournin, AZ each: Mlotkowsh, 4;
Harvey and Jackson, 1 each.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-20
TAGGING ALL THE BASES

The Yanks are certainly stepping
right along. They won their eighth
straight game at Detroit by trim
ming George Dauss-
The Browns trimmed the Athletics
thanks to timely hitting by Jacob
son. SEVERED and Gerber.
The veteran Babe Adams tanned
the Giants in the last game OF the
Pittsburgh-New York series and won
an even break for the league lead
ers.
Sherrod Smith gave up thirteen hits
to the Cubs and lost his game in the
thirteenth inning when Johnny
Kellehcr knocked in two runs
Geary, Cincinnati recruit pitcher.
tanned the Phillies.
Southworth's triple and Boeckefs
homer in the ninth gave the Braves
an unlocked for victory over the
Cardinals.