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The Washington times., 1921-05-05
Sitting in Church
PERSISTENT NUDGER

comfortably

A + Last they were comfortably
IVA seated The whispered con-
- versation hushed as the great
II Dtpe organ swelled out the volumin-
Gus music The. visiting country
krslative" sat In rapt attention.
SAungrily drinking In each note. To
her II was wonderful. Her eyes
Y took In the beauty OF the great
|. buildings interior. the massive
4 pillars and arches, the long rows of
seats hlled to overnowing with peo-
Eple, the tall ushers silently moving
EAack and forth and the wonderful
sripe organ which nlled the whole
back end Of the church.
The minister arose to speak. The
visiting country relative had read
snuch about this famous minister
and now was actually going to hear
Thin She was going to make the
most Of this opportunity and enjoy
lsvery moment of this learned mans
ttalk.
4 A nudge in the side caused her to
turn In haste toward her city rela-
Euve.
There 10 Margaret Jones'" stage
Swhispered the ''NudEsr," indicating
Sthe direction by . Jerk OF the head
sand causing several persons to
fglance over In Margaret Jones
sdirsctfon. The visitor nodded and
tturned her attention back to tho
tspeaker. In q few moments anot her
Enudgs digging deep into her side.
Emade her turn quickly. This time
~ was the ushers going forward
I'm double hle which the "Nudger"
wished the visitor to see. A nod
twas not sufficient this time as the
f''Nudger" persisted in receiving .
verbal answer.
NUDGING IN CODE.
Z The visitor was thankful tho mu-
nc started Just then. as the 'Nudx-
Or" was rather deaf and punctur-
I'd the quiet with whispered
Auh." while holding her head in
san attentive position.
: At . particularly interesting
place In the sermon three quick,
eharp 5abs were telegraphed
Ahrou1h tho ribs to the mind of
fhs visitor. Reluctantly she turn
% from the minister to hear about
q young married couple sitting
near.
During the next hour the visitor
learned that paul was a MARTYR.
R-That feathers were not worn
much on the new hats--"That a
;man's soul shines out through his
tyes-And the second gin sit
1ng In the choir was . married
Coman--Tnat the Old World re-
9lgiou was no better than the re-
ugfon OF today--The city relative
pad never seen $50 many bald.
headed men At one time"-"and that
Che world 10 growing better-no
worse"
She learned that one long. slow
The Washington times., 1921-05-05
ASK THE GIRL.
Mss FAIRFAX:


have often read your column.
and unless you are in real life
some man who writes both the
letters and answers maybe you can
help me. By the way, IL you really
are a woman, your work is certain
ly interesting. to say the least.
I'd like to meet you. Here's my
problems:
I'm engaged to, let's call her
Mary. In June she graduates from
college and our engagement Is then
to be announced. When / became
engaged to hea It was early in
1918. When L left her and homo
to wear my country's uniform, my
prospects, financially, were bright.
In year l would have graduated
from university and would have
gone into my fathers business and
would have lad an income besides.
When i returned from France
my fathers business was gone and
my own money lost. and my col
lege course not completed. In fact,
about all l had was couple of
medals and a sixty-dollar bonus.
1t will take me a year now to nm
ish my university course. for
couldn't take up my work where
] had left off. Besides. I have to
work now and go to school in the
evenings. My work pays me two
thousand year and / find Il hard
to live on 1t and go to school
IL II fair to Mary to ask her to
wait any longer for me? IL will
he two years before / can sup
port her as she Is used to living.
She Is twenty-five and will be
twenty-four then. Our engagement
has not been announced as vet.
have not seen her for eight months.
She lives in the Middle West. Ny
honp was there, but Ia here now. I
Vas back to soc her three times
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With

nudge meant to turn slowly and
look. One quick nudge indicated
something very interesting. Two
short quick ones showed signs OF
something new and interesting to
the "Nudger's" eyes.
Growing impatient. the visitor
had tried ignoring the signals.
only to have them dig faster and
deeper into her side. Also to ind
that three sharp. quick nudges
were not to be denied.
She uttered a sigh OF relief when
they arose TO go.
isn't he a splendid speaker
questioned the "NudEer."
II expect he is" slowly answer
ed the visitor.
The Washington times., 1921-05-05
Author Is Scholar

How many people know that
Lewis Carroll, the famous author of
"Alice in Wonderland" was an en-
inent oxford scholar. who wrote an
elementary Treatise on Determi-
nants?" His real name was Charles
Lutwidge DodEson.
The Washington times., 1921-05-05

ERE sketches Incorporating details
moyen tendency shown in Of the
peasngy in the black
hed bodice fastening under the has tight elbow
organdie ruffe
white braid used at the neck repeated the full skirt
RODER FABRIC used for the henna the foreground
with border design andth Of
81 blue and white checked silk The high collar fastens
see button Beneath the
OF the Rodr
very short sleeves blue trimming
HE third sketch right with
long straight body introduced openings
fabric s 're0 ~
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President Harding II the first Presi-
dent who has belonged to the Baptist
Church.
The Washington times., 1921-05-05

The concluding nslment of this nameless serial is published
today. f'"'~>
? The contest for the best title for this full swing
The man, woman child who submits the appropriate
title Will receive 500 in cash from The Washington Times
Here is the only rule
The vinning title must consist of three
'uords or less, 1T must be original, and Indicate
the character Of the story.
Everybody is eligible participate except en-
poyes of The Washington Times and their families
All titles must be in the hands of the Editor by next Thurs
gay night have read the serial you qualified write
title, and you have week in which to do It.
There Is no limit to the number of titles anyone may submit
The judges will be Mrs William Atherton DuPuy president of
the American PenwomenS League Guy Boweman librarian at
the Public Library and Vivian ST. John Literary of The
Washington Times
The winning title and the of the winner published
May 49,
The Washington times., 1921-05-05

ms Shs anniversary Of the DEATH 1921 Of Napo-
On 81 Halsna The emperor died cancer on tbs
10y Island whittier he had been sent exile after
dsfsat, 1t Waterloo by the Duke Of Wellington.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-12-16

seemed more fitted than what they had been
doing. Still others have been detailed to
one or the other of the two training schools
for a course of instruction.
In a few instances men of exceptional
ability, or of peculiar aptitude for impart-
ing their knowledge to others have been de-
tailed to the instruction schools as profess
sors or lecturers. A few members of the
faculty of these schools have been engaged
from outside the service because of out
standing qualifications for some highly spe-
cialized branch of instruction.
In no case however has a man been dis
missed for political reasons. Ability alone
or at least capacity for Improvement have
been considered in retaining men, it being
the cardinal principle of Burns that politics
be kept out of his department.
SO much for personnel. The second great
step in the direction of greater efficiency was
the extension of the operations Of the Bureau
of Investigations to practically every nook
and corner Of the United States. Under the
old regime the work Of the department had
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-12-16

stroy that net. A man from the supstrata
Of human depravity contracted with certain
parties to murder five of US and to murder
our chief witness, Gallagher His price was
$4,000 for the five lives The deaths of
Gallagher and myself would have meant the
complete ruin of the chances of the prosecu-
ton for success. The assassin got busy, but
fortunately we learned of his contract in
time, and he was baked. Not, however,
until he had blown up Gallagher's house. 1t
is clearly in the recollection of the majority
CT newspaper readers what the next stop
was Francis J. Heney, the special proscu-
tor of the graft cases. was shot down in open
court.
Some Of my reports will show how, on the
other hand, those alleged representatives and
apostles Of labor involved in the Mcnamara
dynamiting outrages tried to plant dress suit
cases filled with nitroglycerin in rooms adj
joining mine at hotels and how they planned
to blow up my offices with every one in
them"
AS matter of fact, Burns never has been
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-12-16
William J. Burns Works Out Plan in Reorgan-
lzing Force and Consolidation of Crime
Prevention Agencies May Be Result

not hesitate to ferret out the evil deed Of
the rich and powerful.
MY quarry was the rich then" said
Burns, "and went after the rich crook just
as would go after any menace to society.
Whether a crook has millions at his COM
mand or just his wits and knife makes no
difference to me. My business Is to detect
criminals and bring then. to the courts for
trial In San Francisco When / was after
the men Of wealth and long established
political power, a price was get on my head,
Just as it was set afterward when started
10 drive from their hiding places the men
with torch and dynamite who vi and killed
in labor's name.
These two situations bringing ab"lt per-
sonal peril, may be interesting, the OF COM
ing about through the prosecution d the
rich malefactor and the O. 1er thro' n the
search for the malefactorS who !. ed-as-
representatives of labor.
1.-THE wealthy criminals felt my net draw
ing closer and closer, and they feemed to
realize that my elimination wou& help de-
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-12-16
Origin of Steeplechase

TIME etymology Of steeplechase is too
obvious to need set explanation.
Founders of the sport merely fixed
upon distant steeple and rode straight to
1t, crossing CALAMITY hedge, ditch, paling.
turf or timber, pasture, crops, moorland or
ridge and furrow-whoso riding straightest,
came in first and was winner.
But there are few indeed, to whom
wild goose chase bears any implication of
sport, yet the phrase derives from a sport
hazardous, indeed 1t is said to have begun
in Ireland, where a chosen leader took
mounted men cross country, but chose al
ways the toughest widest going to be
found. If mischance befell the leader some
other took up the Enthusiastically there
was change of leaders If the first proved
timorous. For danger real and thrilling
was the spice of the wild goose chase.
The winner was not he who came home
first, but he who had hunked nothing in
the route, even possibly have gone further
around to negotiate an extra hazard.
Knowing this / have wondered a little
II the Wild Geese--the Irish legions who,
fighting for alien kings, have shown them
selves prodigies Of valor-did not take their
name from the sport nearest the heart of
their homeland.
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Schools in Washington and New York Formed
by Department of Justice to Improve
Efficiency of Government Sleuths

bring into play as the means Of preventing
the potential criminal from becoming an
actual violator of the laws of the land. To
this end he is striving to make the Depart
ment of Justice Bureau of Investigation so
efficient, so far-seeing in its ramifications
and operations that it will put not the fear
of God, perhaps, but so to speak, the fear of
Burns into the hearts of all budding young
potential criminals.
One of the first steps in this process Of
increasing the efficiency of the Department
Of Justice was taken by Mr.. Burns when
he began wedding out the dead wood" in
his organization. Burns has no objection to
fat detectives. provided they are fat below
and not above the necktie. He has gone
through the record of every man in his de-
partment, and has interviewed most of his
operatives in person.
Detectives Who Can Teach
To Be Made Instructors
Upon some the axe has fallen. Others
have been assigned to work for which they
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-12-16
Mad Terrors Of the New War PORTRAYED

totally destroyed, that the aviation fields,
hangers, &C., were but a mass Of glowing
embers. What 1 saw prepared me for worse
evils to follow"
This destruction might have been fore
seen, these officials had done nothing to pre-
vent it. Why?
Because Of lack of Imagination because
of routine.
The lessons of the last wur had been
quickly forgotten The military spirit repels
invention; it is a spirit of application: 1t
suspects every new invention.
War, moreover, is work demanding all
the faculties Of man, physical moral, intel
ectlal. The most industrious the most
courageous, the strongest triumph Famous
man9uvres do not gain battle. Great cap
tains were great because they hao new ideas.
To organize d surprise and to avoid being
taken by surprise-that is the art Of war.
The leaders had disputed day after day
whether a military service of eighteen
months or two years was preferable!
Because they had constructed some thou
sands Of tanks. some hundreds of airplanes,
they thought the country was prepared!
These defenders" had paid no more atten-
ton to the plans of some young officers than
they had given to the ideas of national de-
fence of writer, a pekn! whose book. APP
pearfng in 1916, had cast a prophetic vision
on the war. Then the author writes:
TT is tradition to put the military on
one side, civilians on the other 1t is the
ancient distinction between combatant and
'noncombatant. There is always a Chinese
wall supposed to be on the frontier, behind
which the nation continues its normal life as
far as possible. Because 1t was so In 1917,
because our state of being unprepared con-
strained us to accept this paradox, the Gov
eminent has accepted the necessity of falling
into the same error.
1.-THE dead, men, women and children, lie
there by hundreds of thousands under the
ruins Of Paris. Why have these nonprofes-
SIGNALS of war been sacrificed?
Armies? Derision! There is only a
nation. And since this nation Is vulnerable
en- bloc it ought TO De defended en- bloc or
allowed to defend itself"
After accusing military leaders and politi-
" The New York Herald
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spent the evening at the Coincide Francois
whore a revival was on of Comedies 'Hor-
acc" and how on his way home he rehearsed
the vehement words of a character of the
piece who inveighed against Rome and called
down on the wicked city deluge of fire. The
author asks himself If such rage against
ones country is natural feeling. He an
swers that he has heard equal invective in
the mouths of Frenchmen who for their
pacific notions and love of humanity would
sacrifice their brothers and their country.
Crossing the Seine by the Pont Neuf he
contemplates the Examinations in the water
and recalls the nights of 1917-191S when the
same scenes were lighted by theabursting of
German bombs. &c.
He hears the noise OF a motor over his
head and takes 1t for a patrol airplane. At
the same time he has a hallucination and
fancles that he overlooks the entire city
Arch of Triumph, Trocadero, Eiffel Tower.
streets, gardens, monuments. 1t lies under
his eye like an illuminated map.
A tremendous explosion followed by others
interrupts his revery All at once the great
sleeping city at all points bursts into flames
Men fee from the ruins. uttering cries of
fright. bomb falls on the Palace of JUS
tice, oblterating the vast building.
Was the author afraid? He does not
hHoNs buC ne WaS poWeTleSS 10 even Try
to escape the universal destruction.
A period Of Inconsistencies follows, from
which he rouses in tho dawn, although the
light is so sombre he is in doubt If 1t be
day. Everywhere he gees ruin. of statue,
church, palace. not house Is intact. The
Louvre is but a mass Of rubble
He picks his way to Notre Dame. 1t was
a ruin. Not far from the statue Of Charlie
magne lies a broken airplane, q colossus,
with dislocated wings and its entrails still on
fire. Near by lie the bodies of Jour aviators.
They were the instruments of death.
This Is the first attack. In a few instants
1t had annihilated the work Of ten centuries.
The author sits among the ruins and asks
himself what definite disaster is to follow.
What is to be done to meet or avoid new at
tacks?
II did not yet know" ne says, that the
Ministries Of War. Interior. Marine, had been
DOWNRIGHT 1901
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-12-16

A article entitled THE First Attack
~ lately published in La ReDue Heb
n domaddire by Alphonse Seche has a
special interest due to the coming interna-
tional discussion of limiting armament to be
held in Washington. This author, who may
be called a successor Of Paul Derouede, who
after 1870 kept shouting "Revenge!" like
him no doubt expresses the views of many
FIenchmen. Instead Of favoring disarma-
ment in any degree Seche advocates armiug
every citizen, man and woman, and entrust-
irg the safety of France to truly national
army.
Seche Uses the allegorical method Of
spreading these ideas. He tells of having
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-12-16
Men Outrun Horses
+ N the days Of the wild and Woolly
West plainsmen and travellers by

West" plainsrnen and travellers BY
= overland wagons held to the belief that
a long journey could be made more speedily
by man afoot than on horseback. In the
army the impression is general that the in
fantry can out-travel the cavalry on long.
grinding marches, but to the Santo Domingo
Indians of New Mexico belongs the credit
of chasing wild horses over the ranges of
hills until the animals are exhausted and
submit to capture.
No Marathon runners have ever been re-
cruited from this tribe of Pueblo Indians, for
the wonderful powers Of endurance Of the
runners of the tribe are little known outside
of the district Immediately surrounding their
village.
These runners of the Santo Domingo come
from race Of fleet footed ancestors. Like
all tribes of American Indians, they have ac-
cepted the means of travelling best suited to
the country where they live The Sioux of
the Dakotas are horsemen. The Santo Do
mingos have been walkers and runners al
ways. Their physique shows the result of
generations of footmen. Great chests, almost
abnormal in development slope downward to
slender waists. while sinewy calves proclaim
the strength to hold to(a hard trail.
Usually their chases of the bands Of wild
horses owned by the tribe are matters of
necessity. The enormous stretches of broken
country where the horses Craze. and the un-
tanned spirits Of animals, many of which
have not been touched by man in their sew
eral years of existence in the hills, make It
necessary to wear the creatures out and run
them down.
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born in 1861 he gives the idea Of vigorous
young middle age and his whole manner Of
conducting business is suggestive Of more
than usual physical energy.
Burns is inclined to ridicule the conven-
tional short story conception of the detec-
tive.
There is nothing to the detective busl-
ness but the application OF energy, perse-
verance, common sense and Imagination" he
is fond of saying.
An examination Of any of a dozen or more
famous cases in which Burns was the chief
investigator shows, however, that he has
brought some other qualities into play from
time to time. Notable of these is that of
physical courage. Scarcely day goes by
that Burns does not receive couple or more
threatening letters, and in the past, especi-
ally in the heat Of some big investigation
such as that of the famous Doodle cases in
San Francisco. the notorious Mcnamara
case or the various bomb outrages prior to
and during the world war, the number of
these threatening letters has run into hun
dreds day.
The Crook Millionaire Is
Quarry Like the Poor Criminal
Repeatedly attempts upon his life have
been made, sometimes by bombs placed on
the doorstep, sometimes by Internal ma
CHIMES sent through the mails, put they
have never frightened him into abandoning
his purpose
Burnss effective activity in tho McNa-
mara case has been used to attempt to show
that he was hostile to labor. Prior to Sep
TENDER 4, 1910, he was considered anything
but an enemy of labor He had been en-
ployed in numerous instances to uncover and
bring to justice doors of evil among the rich
The oregon land fraud cases had been
brought to a successful conclusion by him
and his activities in bringing to justice boss
Reuf of San Francisco, and Mayor Schmidt,
his tool, had shown conclusively that he did
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been carried on in a somewhat perfunctory
way. Operatives were sent out from head
quarters on particular cases. and sometimes
their mission took them into out of the way
places. There was not, however, a unified
and coordinated system for covering the
whole Of the United States
What Burns did was so simple that one
wonders why no one ever thought of doing
it before. He merely annexed to his force of
working operatives practically every city
police department. county sheriff, village
constable and other local peace officers in the
United States. By securing this cooperation,
which in most cases was given with great
cheerfulness, Burns has virtually increased
his personnel several thousandfold with little
Or no additional cost to the Government.
1t is as If he had in one fell swoop added a
couple of hundred thousand active working
members to his staff. The Department of
Justice now stretches in a perfect network,
not only from Portland, Ore, to Portland, Me-,
and from San Diego to Key West, but like
wise betwiXt and between. If Burns
wants" a man whose approximate where
abouts he knows, all he has to do is to notify
his various agencies in that vicinity, and
sooner or later that man is almost sure to
be picked up" Or, in the converse oper-
alton. If the Chief Of Police of Podunk ar
rests suspicious character and finds from
papers or other evidences on his person
facts which seem to indicate that the De-
partment of Justice would be interested in
the case, he promptly notifies Washington.
In this way many important Indicators
have been picked up.
In appearance Burns does not comport
with the popular idea of detective He
has none of the "earmarks" Of either the
"sherlocko" of the funny papers, or even
Of the "fatfooted sleuth" Of popular fiction.
Beyond a certain keenness Of the eye and
a somewhat disconcerting manner of asking
questions there is nothing to suggest the
professional investigator. Though he was
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cal parties of jncapacity, politics, grating.
some incapable of conceiving, others not
wishing to take the trouble of organizing and
still others who refuse to believe, from senti-
mental reasons, in the return of war; the
author proclams that the only safety is in
a nation armed. A word, he says, but adds
that this word will be found sufficient
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-12-16

Wesley Simmons, chief of the Post
Office Inspectors, whose work may be
consolidated with other detective
branches.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-12-16

w. H. Moran, director of the Secret
Service, which deals chiefly with
guarding the President and suppress
ing counterfeiting.