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The Adair County news., 1921-01-19
E.lIow Artists.

Mr.. Pedalbass-I am a musician. I
give recitals on the pipe organ.
Mr.. Proudfather-That so? wish
you could meet my son. he plays
the mouth organ in vaudeville. You
organists might be able to help each
other.--Columbia State.
The Adair County news., 1921-01-19
Iust rfke the old Homo.

Mr.. Scrapleigh-Can you give my
daughter home such as she has been
accustomed to?
The Suitor-Well, I've got bull ter
rier and fighting cat and parrot
and If that won't do 1t know where
I can get a chImpanzee.
The Adair County news., 1921-01-19

81 suppose you'll
be telling me that
you're collecting
statistics for a
government bu-
reau, or maybe
for the state
board of health.
1t seems that
t h e authorities
are greatly inter-
ested in family
mat t ers tina t
don't one ern
them nowadays,
and every day or
two somehow
The Adair County news., 1921-01-19
The Dear Girls.

Dora-Did you see the way that man
smiled at mel
Dorls-Yes. dear. Let me have
look at your face. Perhaps you've got
smut on your nosel
The Adair County news., 1921-01-19

81 heard Mabel said when she mar
ried that she had selected the very
flower of her admirers. To what par
ticular bloom did she liken himf"
"At first she thought he was the
pink of perfection, but when the baby
came to claim her attention, he was
just mere poppy"
The Adair County news., 1921-01-19
A GREAT HELP

ssT SUPPOSE you do your own
L washing, ma'am2" inquired the
seedy stranger.
Eyes, do, although don't see that
it's any of your business" re-
piled Mrs. Curfew, with some warmth.
The Adair County news., 1921-01-19

all over and was
covered with a
cold sweat"
"And yet, under
other circum =
stances, Kersmith
might show all
kinds of courage"
said the hotel
keeper. at isn't
safe to jump to
conclusions about
such things. a
woman will climb
a tree, and shrek
for the police il
she sees a mOUSp
The Adair County news., 1921-01-19
Xxx SURE CURES

UOtD JINGLEsoN says he can
~ cure any disease by drinking
hot water" announced the bald board
er. "He has had every disease that
is officially recognized by the Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons
The Adair County news., 1921-01-19

and has baniShed
them all by that
simple means.
Anything be
comes a curative
agent if a man be-
lieves in it hard
enough" said the
star b GARD e r.
Jasper Jon e $
says he was tor
mented with rheu-
matlSm L or [ e n
years, and tried
every t h i n G of
which We read in
the alrnanacS and
The Adair County news., 1921-01-19
Way Of Escape.

Flatbush-"That's a funny thing
about bowlegged man.
Bensonhurst-Wh What's that?
"Why, when he meets mad dog in
a narrow alley he's more bow-legged
than ever"
The Adair County news., 1921-01-19

Reggie is going to the country Cd
Saturday.
''For a week-end?"
"Yes; his heads been botherine
him. Boston Transcript.
The Adair County news., 1921-01-19
THE UNATTAINABLE

GGTHERES a spot on my back,
L about the size of postage
stamp, that has been itching all day."
said the retired merchant, "and it has
caused me more grief than the last
attack of rheumatism. 1 can't reach
The Adair County news., 1921-01-19
VARIETIES OF COURAGE

GSD ERSMITH is an awful coward"
IN said the retired merchant. He
hasn't as much spunk as a chipmunk.
This morning 1 saw man half his
size twist his nose, and he never Of
fered to defend himself. He trembIed
The Adair County news., 1921-01-19
RaautlfuI.

Mary-They say that very wise peO-
pie are awfully homely.
Marty livery ardently) Mary,
you're the most beautiful girl b thk
world Cornell Widow.
The Adair County news., 1921-01-19
Nentune,S Laundry

II would like to see the wash Of the
sea-"
'aThe best time to do that ought to
be when you are crossing the line"
The Adair County news., 1921-01-19

Worlds Supply of NItrates.
The worlds visible supply of MI
trates is estimated at 2, 100000 tons.
Evening star., 1921-10-26
SERBIA FEELS RELIEVED.
Charles Drive for Crown Had En-
dangered All Central Europe.
By Gable to The Star and Chicago Daily New

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright. 1921.
BELGRADE. Serbia, October 90
Relief is felt in Serbia over the fail
ure of eX-Emperor Charles to take
Budapest, and regain the Hungarian
crown. His success would have en-
dangered the peace of central Europe.
In well informed circles it is said that
Charles was induced to make this
desperate attempt not only by the IN
sistence of his ambitious wife. but
also because of his precarious finan-
cial situationn, all his large estates
: having been confiscated by either
: Italy or Hungary. Money was get
ting scarcer daily, and he and his
= supporters decided TO play their last
p card. thinking that the present AL
banian ENHANCEMENT would prevent
Serbia from acting, and that. should
he succeed in regaining the crown,
Rumania would not oppose him In a
military way.
supporters proved wrong. Serbia alone
was prepared to throw $4,000 men
into Hungary within forty-eiSht hours
and 100000 more were ready to fol-
low within a week. Now Hungary
will be compelled to pay heavy pen
atty for the frustrated attempt of the
ex-king. Rumania's> declaration that
she would support Serbia reached
Belgrade yesterday. The cabinet at
orce drafted the following ultimatum,
which was sent to Budapest forth
with:
/. The Hungarian army must be
demobilized Immediately.
. A commission of control formed
of officers of the little entente will
be appointed. through which the dis
armament of Hungary will be carried
out
3. All the expenses incurred by the
little entente states which were
forced to mobilize must be paid by
Hungary.
Evening star., 1921-10-26
LIGHTING ORDERED.
AT V|ADUCT POSTS
City Electrical Department
Decides on Measure to Re-
duce Auto Peril.

In an effort to reduce the danger
of automobiles colliding with the iron
uprights of railroad viaducts. the
electrical department of the District
today decided to place lights on the
posts at the entrances of these street
tunnels.
Capt. John E. Wood, assistant en-
gineer commissioner, said he hoped
to be able to place flood lights at the
tops of these posts that would make
them stand out at night and be
clearly visible to motorists.
If it is found impossible to use flood
lights some other form of illumina-
ton will be used.
I'VE are satisfied" said Capt. Wood,
that the cost of maintaining these
lights will be insignificant in COM
parison with the damage to auto
mobiles, or even the loss of life, re-
sulting from machines colliding with
these posts"
The lights will be installed as soon
as possible. More than a year ago
q youth was killed in the collision
of an automobile with one of the
viaduct posts.
Following that death the District
applied white paint to these posts
but collisions continued to occur. II
is hoped by District officials that the
placing of lights on the uprights will
eliminate the existing danger.
Evening star., 1921-10-26

the vital problems of the day could
be presented and discussed; and for
a central gathering place, adequately
housed, where the men and the many
organizations of men of the city could
meet on common ground for their
own benefit and for the benefit OF the
community at large.
Result New City Club.
/, "The result was the establishment
of the City Club of today. Looking
about them, the members of the old
Commercial Club saw many local
civic, social and business organiza-
tionS of Washington men, all working
in their own way for the betterment
| of community life, but all separated
lby the lack of common meeting
place, and in many cases without any
(; meeting place at all. except such pub
lie quarters as they might obtain for
| each meeting.
MAR. of the members Of each OF
| these organizations were potential
City Club members then. and have
| become members now. The 800 MEM
! bers of the Commercial Club, under
! the leadership of j. a. Whitfield, it's
sixth and last president. brought
| them into the ranks in whirlWind
campaign, led by Charles w. Semmes:
/ in the spring of 1919. which showed
| that the need of an organization
such as we now have had not been
misjudged. Starting with a goal of
| $50 members, this goal was soon
raised to 1.5O0, and promptly reached.
Early in 1920, the organization was
reincorporated as the City Club, with
! Mr.. Whitfield as its first president;
the club forum meetings were start
ed, the group activities begun, and
the plans for new building drawn.
| building Was Postponed.
! "An abnormal building situation.
however. forced a tpostponement OF
construction. while further study
of the future resulted in some
changes in the building plans. Early
this year the plans which are now
being completed before your eyes
were adopted. and on last June 1 the
/ ground was broken on this site.
1T was my great privilege to have
again been chosen president OF TINS
organization shortly before this build
| ing was started. and my double prlVi-
lege to have a hand in bringing 1t to
completion, with the invaluable aid or
! Mr.. Sharp. chairman of the building
committee; of Milton +. Allies, chair
man of the permanent finance commit
| tee; of John Dolph, our second vice
president and chairman OF the tempo
| rary finance committee: of our fellow
4 members Frederic 3. Pyle. the archl-
Evening star., 1921-10-26

tect. and Samuel ]. Prescott, the
builder, and of other members too
numerous to mention in this brief
sketch, who have given unstintedly of
their time, their money and their
thought to bring our effort to sue
cessful conclusion.
Building Shows Success.
THAT it has been successful, l am
happy to think. is indicated by these
ceremonies today. Here we have our
great building. nearly ready for oc-
cupancy; here we have the vice presi-
dent of our nation, holder of the sec
ond highest office in the land, fore
going for a space the cares of state
to dedicate for US this building in
greater state; and here we have. in
this noble gift from the Washington
kiwanis Club, the symbol of the sue
cess of which l have spoken. For TINS
gift is presented by the kiwanis Cluh
l like to think, as an appreciation of
the fact that we are providing for it.
as we are for all similar orga anlza-
tions, meeting place which it can
call it's own; place where 1t can
work out its group programs, as
other bodies also can work out their
group programs, under the roof of an
organization where all groups are
welcome.
And because all groups are well
come here, because members of every
group are members here. we ar:
proud today of the work we have ac-
complished and the hope we have in
store. Here we hope to build an or
GaniZation as broad and as great as
our great city, and to provide home
which will be home to ala real City
Club; a prominent club home.
Reads List of Contents.
Following Mr.. Graham's address.
Roy l.. Neuhauser, secretary of the
club, read a list of the contents of the
stone, after which it was set in place
by Vice President Coolidge.
I'm recognition of the close and Pc
culiar relation between the govern
ment of the United States and the
people of this great city of Washing
ton" said the Vice President, Il have
come here today to lay the corner
stone of this handsome building and
to dedicate it to public service, for
which it is being raised.
This is more than a social club. 1t
is a club to reach out for something
larger and higher in accordance with
the present expressed aspirations of
the American people.
This building also typif1es the
great change that has come to the
city of Washington. Laid out with
the thought that it would be only the
Evening star., 1921-10-26
CITIZENS SECURE
SCORES Of NAMES
House-to-House Drive for
New Members Launched
All Over City Today.
PLAN STUMP SPEECHES
Mass Meeting and Band Music
Also Intended to Renew Cam
paign Interest.

Spurred on by the success of the
two registration days. the member
ship teams of the various citizens
associations today launched their
house-to-house canvass to register
more men and women in the citizens
movement.
Each neighborhood is being can
vaSSed by members of the association
in that section, and the business sec
ton, including office buildings and
stores. is being covered by CEN
trail committee, headed by G. NJ.
koOckogey
Keen competition has developed
between the teams of the thirty-siN
associations to outdo each other IN
the enrolment work. The central
committee has had gayel made from
a piece of historic wood to he award
ed the association showing the largest
percentage of increase in membership
when the drive is over.
Mr.. Koockogey announced today thai
he has designated registrars in many
of the office buildings. Among thos"
appointed today are: Union Trust
building, A. Coulter Wells; National
Savings and Trust Company. Georg"
Francis Williams; Evans building,
Guy H. Johnson; Metzerott building.
Charles A. Baker; Washington Loan
and Trust building, Francis c. Wal
Victor building. l.. r. Randolph: OuraI
building. L. c. Julihn; Aibee building.
Tom Grant; McKim building, Joseph
H. Hurley; LeDroit building, william
p. Normoyle; Evening Star building.
Guy V Collins; District building, Cor
bin Birch, and McGill building.
Thomas f. Eggleston.
stump Speeches Planned.
To stir up renewed enthusiasm in
ha r a n,
will stage a series of stump speeches
in the downtown section tomorrow
and Friday nights.
The Takoma Park Community Band,
riding in an automobile truck, Will
parade the business section both
nights. At all busy corners the band
will render brief concerts, after which
one of the civic leaders will make
four-minute appeal to the street
crowds TO join a citizens association.
The speakers will call attention I"
many municipal improvements the
mental in obtaining, and Will cite the
many needs of the city which still
must be sought.
The North Capitol and lexington
Association will follow the same plan
to awaken the men and women of that
section to the duty of becoming an ac
tive citizen.
Many Names Secured.
The North Capitol and lexington "r-
ganiZation has designated William T..
Wise to arrange for a mass meeting
Saturday night at Truxton Circle. North
Capitol street and Florida avenue. Mr
Wise hopes to obtain the services of the
Boy Scout Band to go through The
neighborhood and call the people to the
meeting.
Reports reaching headquarters of III"
drive in room sol, District building, to-
day indicate that the membership cam
paign is gaining momentum daily.
Scores of men and women submitted
their names on tho blanks published in
the newspapers yesterday.
Evening star., 1921-10-26
|CFTY CLUB BUILDING
| CORNER STONE LAID
Vice President Coolidge Dedi-
Gates Structure at 1920
G Street.
GivEN BY KIWANIANS
Claude Woodward, in Presentation,
Says Gift Is Demonstra-
| ton of Spirit,
GIVEN BY KIWANIANS

with an impressive ceremony the
corner stone of the new City Club
building, 1920 G street northwest, was
! laid today and the building dedicated
by Calvin Coolidge. Vice President of
the United States.
Several hundred men prominent in
political and commercial life of this
city gathered for the dedication. The
corner stone was the gift of the XII
wants Club, and was presented by
claude Woodward, president of the
ofSanlzat atlon, in a short address.
The ceremonies were begun by Ed
win Z. Graham. president of the City
CluD. The invocation was pronounced
by DR.. Abram Simon. president of the
board OF education and a member of
the club.
In presenting the corner stone Mr..
woodward said that the gift of stone
was demonstration in a practical
way OF the kiWanis spirit. I'VE build"
and expressed the hope that friendly
feelings and cordial relations existing
between the two clubs would endure.
Speech Of President.
In accepting the gift President Graz
ham said
MIR. Woodward Mr. Vice President
and gentlemen of the City and XII
wants clubs, it now becomes my
pleasant duty to accept this stone in
the name of the members of the City
Club, and in SO doing, l want to point
out how this enduring and appre-
ciated gift symbolizes the success
1 might say the culmination-of the
aims which have inspired our or
ganization ever since its founding.
This orgSnization-this body of
Washington men--nearly 1.5oo strong
had it's root in the Washington
Commercial Club. Founded in 1909 by
group of 100 of the leading bust
ness and professional men of the
capital the Commercial Clubs es-
tablishment marked almost the first
appearance in Washington of a de-
sire for Il closer union. through So
cial contact and comradeship. of the
diverse factors in the city's business
and professional life. While it's aims
might be judged restricted by the
broader social standards of today, yet
in it's time it filled a long-felt need
in the community and did much to-
ward establishing that civic and COM
munal consciousness which is bios
Soming before US today in such rich
and wholesome measure.
Watched Its Growth.
Il had the privilege of being one of
the organizers and the first president
of the Commercial Club. and 1 watch
ed it grow through the successive
3residencies of Milton L. Allies, Will
liam c. Johnson, John l.. Weaver and
James Sharp to a membership of sew
eral hundred-first housed in the old
Cameron home on Lafayette square
and later in our present quarters on
street.
Then the great war came, and life
in Washington was stirred as it had
not been stirred in decades. The war
brought a great increase in the popu-
lation and Importance of our city. but
lit brought also a much greater re-
sult-a realization among. our mem
berS of the need for club with a
broader appeal; for a forum where
Evening star., 1921-10-26

seat Of the federal government, the
home of the executive, the Congress
and the Supreme Court, which de-
cides what is law, it has since gath
cred around it metropolitan and
cosmopolitan life, composed of those
not in the service of the government
men of affairs. leaders in tie indus
trial and business life of a great city
fast approaching million popula-
tion.
Dedicated to Service.
1T is in recognition of this condi-
tion that this club has been formed
and dedicated to the performance of
high public service. We Americans
,, have often been criticised for mate
rlaliSm. for caring only for the ma
terial things of life. 1t is true that
our material resources are great, in
mill, in mine, in forest and factory
but we have more than these, and
Trey are not our supreme conSidera-
ton. For side by side with these
| noble churches and charities whose
scope is so gigantic as to stagger the
! imagination. These represent our
higher impulses.
And it is for a purpose similar
to the purposes of these institutions
| that this club-this great edifice-
EiS being built. This club is a repre-
sentation of our higher and better
selves You will meet here, not SIM
ply for your own pleasure, but to
give time and thought and attention
to the things that really matter in
the higher life and humanity.
"And in carrying out this purpose
1 am sure that the government of
the United States joins with you
with every desire to help. May this
building stand as monument to the
good citizenship that has built it
, ministering to the public welfare and
to the highest impulses of your fell
low citizens"
On the platform during the cere-
monies were the Vice President, the
Commissioners of the District of CO.
lumbia, Mr.. Graham, Mr.. Semmes Mr..
| Neuhauser, DR.. Simon, Mr.. Wood
ward and James Sharp. former pres
! ident of the Commercial Club and
| chairman of the building committee
| for the new clubhouse.
|. The club officers are now bending
all efforts to have the building ready
| for occupancy in time for New
Year day housewarming, although
| this depends on factors not Yet set
, tied. The contractor expects to COM
plete his work in five weeks. after
which the interior decoration and
! furnishing will be done. The entire
| cost of the building. fully equipped
! will be close to S1,000,01h.
Evening star., 1921-10-26
ADVANCE Party
BOOKEDON OLYMPIC
Lord and Lady Lee With
Arms Delegates Soon to
Sail for United States.
BY the Associat ted Press.

BY the Associa ted Press.
LONDON, October 26.-Lord and
Lady Lee Of Fareham. with an ad-
vance party of the British delegation
to the Washington conference. in
Guiding Admiral Chatfield and other
naval officers and Srinawasa Sastri
the Indian delegate, left Waterloo
station this morning for Southampton,
whence they will sail for America on
the steamship Olympic.
A large party of friends were at the
station to bid them farewell. These
included George Harvey, the United
States ambassador; J. Wilson Taylor
and other representative of the Brit
iSh foreign office.
Wellington Koo, the Chinese dele
gate, with his wife, and a staff of
Japanese military representatives,
also will travel to America on the
Olympic.
A nationwide appeal for English
women to demonstrate their support
Of their statesmen at the Washington
conference is contained in a letter to
the London Times signed by Lady
Astor and Mrs. Margaret Wintring-
ham, members of parliament, and
three other prominent women.
The letter urges the press, clergy
men. teachers, parents and school
children to help to get every woman
to seize this opportunity of expressing
hope for the success of the confer
ence, and adds:
I'VE believe that the prime minister
will go to Washington with such a
mandate from the women of this
country as shall ring through the
world
On the supposition that the steam
ship carrying the delegates will sail
November 5, the letter suggests that
on November 8 every woman and
every girl over fourteen years of age
send a signed post card bearing
"Godspeed." addressed to the premier
or chief British delegate aboard the
Aquitania at Liverpool.
The movement is advocated as a
response to American women who
have called across the sea"
The other signers of the letter are
Millicent Fawcett, suffragette and
publicist. Agnes Maude Royden.
preacher and publicist. and Ethel
Snowden, wife of Philip Snowden,
former socialist member of parlia-
ment
Evening star., 1921-10-26
Holds sBObbed Brains
Aboue Bodied Hair in
Selection of Girls
BY the Associated Press.


BALTIMORE, October 20
Judging a girls fitness for busi-
ness by the length of her hnir
as nm employment standard hns
little more to recommend II
tnan the selection of a man be-
cause he wears a bOw-tte or a
fOur-in-hand, In the opinion OF
DIR. William w. Guth. president
Of GOucher College Of Balti-
more. While a little vanity Is
good for any woman, "bObbed
brains" are a more vital subject
than bObbed hair, according to
President Guth.
cit Is difficult to see wly this
harmless feminine whim has
aroused such widespread dis
cussiOn," DIR. Guth added, "un-
less, perhaps, 1t fS true that we
delight in making mountains
out of mOlehills. For all the
evidence visible from a college
Office points to the fact that
the young girl of today il aim
ing toward Il standard not to be
compared with uniform Golf
fures-the standard of real
usefulness in the home, in the
community and in the world of
business.
$50 much has been said about
the vanitieS and frivOlftie~ OF
the modern girl that 1T Is only
fair to point out that the aver
age girl of today Is far better
equipped. mentally. than the
girl of IA generation nEO. The
girl of today wants to be use
full as well as ornamental"
Evening star., 1921-10-26
ACCIDENT DATA WRONG.

The Star in its Sunday issue stated
in connection with the report of the
accident and death of Mrs. Anna f.
Davis. that police at headquarters
did not receive details from Emer-
gency Hospital authorities as hereto
fore has been customary in case of
death from accident
This was incorrect. The hospital
gave all information obtainable con-
cerning the accident to the police
promptly. and Supt. Sandidge person
ally called the coroner.s office after
Mrs. Davis died and advised that tfoffice
of the matter.
That the night force at headquarters
had no details of the affair until late
in the evening. it develops, was due
to the fact that the attache there
who received the report from the hos
pital overlooked recording it in the
usual manner.