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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-25


boxing when was young"
said Nora suddenly. 80
1 don't use UP a lot of time today
running around looking for difficult
ties to surmount."
when you've met real troubles
and dealt with them there's not 4
great deal Of temptation to see how
many imaginary woes you can
manufacture" replied Grace SYM
pathetically.
What have you to say about IT."
demanded Nora turning to me sud
denly.
What have I to say?
Why, that II those two girls live
up to their philosophy they've come
pretty near solving the problem of
living!
Whether you call 1T shadow box
ing or "tilting at windmills" or just
plain looking for trouble"-don't
most of us use up a tragic deal of
time and energy making things al
most unendurably hard for ourselves
and, incidentally, for all those with
whom we come in contact? Don't
we sit around and worry about what
may be going to happen and about
what may refuse to occur and how
II we go down the wrong side of the
street we. may invite calamity?
It's too good to be true" we say,
And:
Let's knock on wood so as not to
spoil the luck"
No, we're not superstitious., We
don't believe that knocking on WOO
means anything. We haven't tn
slightest idea that unless we pro
pitiate the gods Of mischance b.
recognizing that things are going
almost too well, they will turn
against us. But we're just indulgine
in little shadow boxing.
In a world where the conditions
under which we fight for progress
and even for place are necessarily
so hard, It would seem that a little
pleasant optimism might be the best
equipment we could find.
Haven't YOU ever planned a pic
mic, and then spent all the inter-
veping time wondering what you'd
do IL it rained? Have you never
ordered a new Easter costume and
then agonized over the possibilities
Of its not being done in time and
the further possibility Of its being
so cold on Easter Sunday that you
couldn't wear your new suit IL 1t
were done? Then you could pierce
yourself on whichever horn of the
dilemma you wished.
When you multiply such petty
worries by ten or a hundred you
come to the big problems which
exist chiefly in your imagination.
What's the use of struggling with
them? Why use up your energy
on hypothetical questions when
you can have plenty of real fights
just to get ahead in the world and
make the most of yourself and
opportunity?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-25
By Arthur Stringer,
Wsll-known Novelist and Author
Of Countrywide Rsputatiss-

XII UT you must never make
me angry. Honey" Torrte
said, hiding her head on;his
shoulder. 1T makes me say things
and do things I'm sorry for after
wards"
He found at the core of that
acknowledgment something keenly
able to disturb him.
What have you done?" he asked.
trying to make the question = a
casual one.
All Given Up.
I've done what you wanted me
to-" she told him.
"What?" he repeated.
I've given up that room. I've
given up everything"
"Everything?" he echoed.
"All want is you" she MAIN
tanned. still clinging to him
But what have you given up?"
he still insisted, apprehensive be-
fore the unknown.
She sat back in the wide-armed
chair, hopping the pointed red
nose with her tiny damp rag of a
handkerchief. Her face was heavy.
with its last look Of youth van
ished.
I'm not going on with that
stagework," she announced.
This was more than he had
Joked for, more than he had rea-
4on to. expect.
do you mean you've quarreled
18th Krassler?" he heard himself
demanding, with that prospect too
'bviously anything but a disturb
ing one.
Torrie shook her haed.
THE whole things been taken
off. The Seiberts said the play
hadn't a chance for Broadway, and
here was a dispute about book
ings. Then the hacker refused to
ut up the last $4,000 for costumes
and Krassler said that was the
straw that broke the camels back"
Storrow's relief. at this acknowl-
"dgement, was overcast by IL color
ing Of disappointment in the dis
covery that the return to the
status quo had not been as en-
tirely voluntary one as 1t had
bul IL WdS~o Dik clouu,
he remembered, which hung above
forrie. Yet it was clearly one with
n silver lining. from his point of
view. And she in time would come
to see It as he saw IT..
do you feel bad about this7"
he finally asked her. Her attitude,
as she sat readusting the hairpins
in her thick crown of hair, took on
q touch of the judicial.
IT did, Honey, when 1 couldn't
keep from thinking that you hated
me-" she said as she stood up and
shook out her skirts. And that
play may have been rotten, as Lee
Seibert said IL was. But / wasn't
doing my part so rottenly, and Sell
bert knows It
This caused Storrow to look
about at her. 1t was a new note
from her, that naive trumpeting Of
her own power.
you mean you've a feeling II
might lead him to offering you
something else?" he asked.
She hesitated for = moment.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-25

appearance of Battlesburg. Ger,
tainly he would never have thought
Of calling the busy manufacturing
city a boob town. nor looked at the
wide-awaks citizens with any idea
of calling from tho many easy
money.
The once quiet Main street was
now busy thoroughfare-serve
by an up-to-date trolley line that
connected with Hoytsville and other
thriving towns.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-25
O
from Get

; Colonel, Battles and his brother. the
once mayor; Andy Dempsey. tho
owner of the hotel; Judge Hampton;
Henry Quig, Abe Gunther and Mr..
Welles now had mansions that
could have booked without shame at
the residences on Fifth avenue.
But perhaps the most pretentious
of the dwellings in this colony Of
millionaires were the homes Of J.
Rufus Wallingford, and Horace Dan.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-25
The Woman
-.,--.ObSerVer
The Unemployed.

r T was Saturday afternoon on a
warm fall day that THE
WOMAN was walking down
Seventh street. On the stone wall
of market square q man Of about
fifty years was laboriously carving
. rose from a raw turnip. He was
carefully shaping each petal. It re-
quired some skill.
- Tho man was no doubt ono Of tho
many Of the unemployed THE
WOMAN could not help wondering
II he had applied himself to his last
job a. industriously and painstak-
inkly ~ he was carving the rose II
he would be Gtting there.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-25

objected Eddie, as he followed his
employers out Of the room. The
three girls stood staring after
them. They were all happy. but
not one of them realized how near
they had come to misery.
Anyone following the steps Of
Horace Daw and J. Rufus Walling-
ford two years later would have
marveled greatly at the changed
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-25
S-O-M-E Vamp.

IN VEN the Western Union mes
sengsr boys know them. THE
WOMAN was in the eleva-
tor on her way to tho office when
tiny built, painted and powdered.
oootie-garaSed. short-skirted, low
wasted low-heeled bit of femininity
entered. Also present was q messen-
ger boy. When she left the elevator
at the seventh floor with that gait pc
culiar to her type. the messenger boy
addressed the operator: Some
vamp"'
(Note to uninitiated: Cootie garage
IL fluffy arrangement over ears.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-25

Were q couple Of honest men.
Blackie." said Wallingford' as
though he had made a great dis.
4overy.
"Yes, and we never knew it,
move We tell the girls. but before
they could get out Of the room a
4Amiliar voice smote on their ears
ia familiar face appeared from
fhe hall and Eddie Lamb. fatter
Ind moro smiling than ever. pro-
PEELED himself into the room,
Eddie! tho voices Of Daw and
Nallingford united in one an
Flushed word.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-25
By Jane Mel can

.<r HEARD" almost sniffled
Blackie-"we've got a for
tune. q legitimate for
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-25
The Action to Date.

Is J. Rufus waiiingford and hts sccom-
Iplice. Horace Daw, known as s'Blackis,"
descend on tho little town of Battles
Surg. Iowa, with intent to fleece the
sehsms. psw comes 'fifst. ana after
tauding Wailingford TO the skies. the
Rastsr schemsr appsara He decides on
ehe spur of the moment to build . FAC
1ery for the making OF covered carDst
xacks. and his enthusiasm an prem
tses carry, away the chief moneysd mon
ts the town EDDIE dd Lamb; the hotel
l4ng ford to invest. Everything L. going
ewimmingly, but Daw has fallen In
kove with Dorothy Wales, daughter Of
~ real estate dealer. and Wailingford
las lost his heart to pretty Fannie
Jasper. the hotel stenoEraphsr; Fannie.
soom to take letters. has been dis
cha rged by Dempsey. the hotel pro-
brietor. and Wallingford. apologixing.
las Offered her post as his secretary,
M HIGH she accepts. Then she tells him
Chat she sees through his schemes and
So s him to 90 on. He convinces her
he IL all right. Dempsey get. suspicious
ID evidence.
Il (-Get- Rich Quick w.lliinsford"
% Cosmopolitan Production
based on some Of the famous Wal.
lingford stories and tho famous
play BY George M. Conan, d.
kected by Frank Borzage and re-
leased as Paramount Picture.)
Y
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-25
This Day in History.

THIS is the anniversary of the birth, in 1887, OF An
drew Carnegie, who made hundreds Of millions in
steel, and gave away nearly all his wealth for libra
res and humanitarian before his death in 1919
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-25
CALAMITY
HUNTERS
BY Beatrice Fairfax

DID most Of my shadow
boxing when I was young"
said Nora aYiddenly $50
New-York tribune., 1921-03-21

5 Podwal--a squalid property placed at
her disposal--are working men and
women of title at tasks which once
servants performed for them.
In the dingy little courtyard General
Oblonsky, formerly architect at the
Russian court, chops wood for living
with several officers of the crack In
perial Guards, one of whom has lost
his reason and must be watched. In a
small and dirty building Prince Me-
schersky, who was master of cere-
monies at the imperial court, peals DO
tatoes for his daily bread
In the crowded rooms the meals are
served by women of the Russian no
bility-Princess Rukoff, widow of Ad
miral Rukoff, who was executed by the
Bolsheviki; Princess. Ouchtomskv.
whose husband was reputed one of the
richest men in Petrogrod and ia now
cashier in the next room at 4.OOo Po-
ish marks month, the equivalent Of
81 to-day, and Nine KoudravwtsAv
widow of the Vice Mayor of Petrocradl
who was put to death by the Red revo-
lutlonlsts.
Colonel Runs Errands
Colonel Kesselaef, of the Imner;o,
RUSSIAN Guards, runs errands for NJ 20 :
tLuolnof, and refugees who collonso
from exhaustion while waitino ftdp pse
1909 are attended by Mile. Carapesof
former wealthy resident of Petro,' Jl,
grad, now nurse.
working In an American Red Cross
New-York tribune., 1921-03-21

ing soup kitchens, sewing rooms and
workshops for members of her unhappy
class and taking orders from her are
men who once commanded the armed
FORCES of the Russian Emperor. On
her staff are admirals, generals, gov
ernors, mayors and members of the
old Petrograd court, while her husband
has laid aside his gubernatorial duties
to become her secretary.
A beautiful woman, she hides the
tragedy of her life under an optimism
that is an example to the unhappy folk
TO whom she ministers. A woman Of
action, too, for she escaped from Petro-
grad with her two sons after freeing
her husband from the fortress of Peter
and Paul and arming him with a ficti-
tious passport that enabled him to flee
to Warsaw. Here the family was re-
united
Nobelmen Become Servants
Selling virtually all she possessed to
aid her fellow-countrymen, Nine. Lubi-
non organized the Warsaw branch of
the Russian Red Cross, which is heinz
aided by the American organization.
Sparing not herself, Nine. Lubinof
has not spared the colony Of refnrses
which included many Of the TOW =
Russian nobility. In the SOUP kitchen
and woodward which she has estah-
llshed IN a Russian orthodox church at
New-York tribune., 1921-03-21
Drop in SAd' Rates Means
Disaster, Publishers Say
High Paper Prices and Contin.
ued Labor Cost Pointed Out
at Executives Mret;nv

LOUISVILLE, KY, March 2O.--Fi-
nancial disaster would follow the re-
duction of advertising rates, was the
consensus Of opinion Of publishers and
advertising executives attending n
meeting of the officers and directors of
the National Association of Newspaper
Executives here to-day, according to
Charles Miller, Of Atlanta, president.
Retailers have been misled by the
spot market prices Of paper" said MIR.
Miller. at is true that the spot mar
ket rvice of paper has dropped from 12
cents pound TO Z. However, publish
ers buy their paper on contract, Last
year they were paying cents. Now
they are paying 81. Then. too, freight
rates are higher and there have been no
reductions in the wage scales of union
men. Consequently lower rates are
out of the question"
Plans we're discussed for the annual
convention of the association in At
lanta the week of June IL In coniunc-
tion with the meeting Of the Associated
Advertising Clubs of the World. 1t
was announced that President Harding
would speak at one of the sessions.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-21
Naphtna Kills 8 Revelers

MARQUETTE, Mich, March 20
Three men are dead, one is not ex-
pected to recover and two are seri-
ously Ill at Covington as a result Of q
celebration Friday night Of their re-
turn from winters work in the lum-
Der camps.
The party, it is said, imbibed near
alcoholic drinks for time, then set
out to find something more satisfying
One purchased bottle of wood naph-
tina, which, according to William Gre
bassa, Deputy State Food and Drug
Inspector, was responsible for the
deaths. Crebassa is investigating re-
ports that the bottle did not bear the
customary poison warning.
The dead are: Victor Panula, fifty
five years old; Ed Salo, thirty four
and Robert Ojala, seventy-fve.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-21

warehouse are twenty officers Of the
Imperial Guards Regiment, headed by
NJ Riekshensky, lawyer of Kiev, who
arrived in the Polish capital without
underclothing or footwear. He said
his sister had been killed this winter
by the Bolsheviki and that the capital
OF the Ukraine had become a city of
the dead
Nine. Lubinoff boasts a storehouse
about the size Of an American house
wife's pantry, which is in charge of
Michael Shrachenko, the son Of the
Governor of Tchernijof, who was
killed by the Bolsheviki. The assistant
storekeeper Is Victor Borsenko, who
was Governor Of NovRorod.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-21
The Clean Slate

HE great, national heartache which
reached the breaking point last Tuesday,
when millions of our prosperous citizens
fessed up to their incomes and sent in their
tax checks, has abated somewhat There's
faint tint OF rose on the horizon, proclairr1ing
that all hopes of bright future are not quite
dead: lhe only new rnourners are perhaps,
the legal gentlemen whose duty it was to
Wh1ttle the fat from incomes until thew ap-
preached attenuation. For now they are again
Just lawyers" rather than surgeons-for
whole year
It's Moulting Time
Let us cast aside the shroud of gloom that
we have draped over our strong, capable
bodies these past few months and stand forth
again as Arnerlcans-the people who believe
and are believed who do and dare; who
struggle and succeed; who fight and win!
We have clean slate down at Washington What
is written thereon depends as much upon each one
OF us-whether he live in Newbod, Nebraska of
seventy inhabitants, or New York. N. Y, of seven
mlon-as 1T does upon the man the people have just
put in the White House. Let try make it
writing that is worthwhile Let peace content and
prosperity be written between the lines.
The Epidenc
To accomplish this there must be an epidemic of
get busy. The war has had long aftermath. But
even the most optimistic panhandler knows that all
atternaths have to have end-and this is it'll From
now stand alone. AS prop for our short
coming, the war is "old stuff" Here's where we get
to work-all of us Triumph has risen from the
ashes of failure for centuries. 1t shall rise again
Everything that has Happened has happened before
and will happen again.
Why not bundle up your grouch-tak and throw
it away with the spasa you had about your income
tax and start your whole life with "a clean slate?
It's good thing to kick but it's better get it.
ow IN the world is the going
debts and bring old times back people country
do not down brass tacks prosperity?
Every time American citizen anything encourage
other American citizen by action he pulling
down the morale just that muchand should be muzzed
The Rotary Club Of New York is inclined to believe that
when each of realizes that there
in even less seaworthy craft than the problem will
be solved. And though it may be unwise opening of
lately-healed wounds Rotary bids each work for
common goalhat he may double the income
that he paid this year!
New-York tribune., 1921-03-21
/ oss Government
Interference in
Business Sought
x.,;onal Commerce Cham
her Also to Demand More
Rusinessin Government at
Atlantic City Convention
v~.~ ne Trio~ne's wa.ainste~ B~reas

rvega fAe Tr7oHfars = 0asesa0lcs nNFeoS
rasHrNGTON, March 20. - More
,-.;ress methods in government and
=. government management of busi-
will be the general theme of the
'..s annual meeting Of the Chamber
rnmmerce of the United States at
a..,sntie City April q to %, the cham
announced to-day. Speakers will
:srlade government officials and busi~
ness men.
ii hs done as heretofore. in group ses
VA, s.sns Groups representing the major
s::S;s;ons of business will take up, first,
ss.ab,en,s peculiar to the industries or
Irtsrests within the group, and, sec
"a "a major problems common to all
srs;ness. s,s' which will include the ques-
.,an Of tariff and taxation.
TIRE program marks departure
~ the chamber in that groups will
~ a;s.nss questions of more general
s.,nre s.s than those affecting solely the
;rSustries within the group. The pur-
rnss Of this is to get the fullest and
;~sest discussion on broad general
.l..hlenns thas touch various phases of
BUSINESS differently.
National Council to Meet
The dsv before the convention there
III he meeting of the national coun-
III If the chamber, made up of one rep
tentative from each of the more than
! s00 organizations included within the
I.ssmbers membership.
In the first day of group meetings
Ise group representing domestic distri-
hntion will discuss currents nries de-
Zines and their effects, constructive
mssns for better marketing by produce
aychanges and boards of trade and
rethods of merchandising which will
erahle the distributor better to meet
conditisns Of financial stringency.
Treatment of wages, contract cancel
,s.,ons. better accounting methods and
tbe need OF national statistics on pro-
auction will be taken up by the group
rsuresenting fabricated production. The
snsnce group will have before it mat
urs connected with the governments
iscal policy, taxation, including the
proposed turnover tax, reorganization
Of government operations and the qucs-
lion Of the governments future policy
With respect to rediscount rates.
Recent agitation in Congress looking
10 the enactment of legislation which
would provide for government manage
usnt Of basic industries will provide
the subject for discussion in the nat
ural resources production group.
When the groups meet to take up the
subjects Of. taxation and the tariff each
group will consider with relation to
taxation these questions: Should there
be an increase in the income tax
Should there be sales tax? Should
there be resort to loans?
With regard to tariff policies these
questions will be gone into: Should
the tariff be framed with due regard to
export trade sakes or the protection of
manufacturing in the United States
Should the fact that we are now a
creditor nation alter our tariff policy
With respect to protection? Should the
United States tariff offer trading or
Hsrgaining possibilities for interna-
soral commercial treaties to encourage
New-York tribune., 1921-03-21
Barring of Clergymen
From Commons F1ayed
Ministers Put in Same Category
as Criminals and Lunatics,
Saws DIR. ColIch

LONDON, Feb. % (By MaiD.-The
Rev. DR.: Cough, prebendary of St.
Pauls Cathedral, protested in an ad-
dress he delivered recently against
the exclusion of clergymen from the
British Parliament. He pointed out
that to be eligible for Parliament they
would first have to give up the church.
1t was monstrous. said DR.. Cough,
that country calling itself demo
cratic should stipulate that a man
should give up his calling if he wanted
to serve his country. 1t was putting
the clergy in the same category as
the only two other classes barred from
Parliament, criminals and lunatics, he
declared.
DR.. Cough intmated that in his
opinion clergymcn were quite as well
qualified to be legislators as lawyers.
The whole training of the legal mind,
he said, was against the development
of the creative faculty so necessary
in the making of laws
New-York tribune., 1921-03-21
Russian Aristocrats
Compelled to Peel
Potatoes for Living
S, 900 Members of Nobility.
Refugees From Bolshe-
Wiki, Do Menial Tasks in
Warsaw in Order to Exist

WARSAW. Feb. IL (By MaiD.-
Driven from palace to hovcl, some of
the members Of the aristocracy of old
Russia now are pealing potatoes or
chopping wood here for living,
Five thousand men and women and
children, some of whose resoundinc
titles once brought them homage of
courtiers, are clustered here after hav-
ing fled to Poland before the Bolshe-
wiki. Helping them to help themselves
is Nine. Ludmila Lubinoff, herself q
refugee, though born princess of one
of the oldest Russian houses and The
wife of the one time civil governor of
Warsaw
This remarkable woman is conduct
New-York tribune., 1921-03-21
Anarchists on Hunger Strike

MILAN, March 2o.-Enrico Malatesta,
the anarchist leader who was arrested
last October in connection with an
anarchist plot discovered by the police
of Milan, has gone on hunger strike,
in which he has been Joined by the
other anarchists arrested with him.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-21
Dominican Freights Lower

An steamship lines running from
ports in the Dominican Republic to New
York have announced a reduction Of
per cent in frelghts on shipments TO
this port. In addtion, one company has
announced special rate on raw sugar
cf s0S75 per 100 pounds, except where
contracts have already been made.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-21

our export trade7 Should the United
States tariff be liberal in its provisions
In view of our desire for liheral,tv of
tariff on the part OF other couatrics?
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THE SOLDIERS BONUS

President Harding has spoken The bonus the America
soldier indefinitely postponed, which
passed if he prevent it.
He argues that afford But argue against
the billions which has and policy will require He
not word against porbarre expenditure He
protest other legislation which appro
priatons But justice
he suddenly feels that poor When the soldiers
asked leave their occupations forth and
who would ubugae the world did speak whether could
afford it,? Well few did Des said couldn't Victor
the But the patriotic people said
duty and thought nothing but Sacrifice
And what about the who made
home and taking advantage of Why opposing
the bonus We particularly fortunes but
do blame them for refusing share little
justice the who offered all
the ideals which make possible The soldier
the place talk appropa
ons barely enough government
justice at the call of duty in
1918