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The Washington herald., 1921-02-13
Mr.. Fosdiek's Figures.

Raymond B. Fosdick has produced an
unfattering monograph on the relatively
OF American crime and the police. He
tells US that in 1919 there were $500 odd
automobiles stolen in New York and 200
in London. In the same period 3482 cars
were lifted" in Detroit and 10 in Liverpool
Also, we learn that in 1919 there were
SIX times as many murders in Chicago
as in London. Chicago is not exceptional"
says Mr.. Fosdick morosely and calls our
attention to the fact that in a recent
year there were more homicides in New
York than in all of England and Wales
According to Raymond's handbook, there
is reason to believe that "our greater
comparative propensity for crime is to
certain degree due to the makeup of our
population, quite apart from the ineficiency
of our police forces" The only grain of
comfort left is the reflection of how
much worse it would be if it were not
for prohibition. The prize police of this
commonwealth would seem to have ex-
listed in NOrleans, prior to the drouth.
Mr.. Fosdick states that the minions of
the law in this city were withdrawn
scrupulously from duty in fourteen caba-
rets at IL o'clock Saturday nights lest
their presence might seem to countenance
the violation Of the Sunday liquor law"
The Washington herald., 1921-02-13

your house. Now, like a good wife, she
sent her most precious ornaments-her bi-
diamonds and large rubies and her collar
OF hundred links all but her golden girdle,
which had been lately seen on her person
at Milan. and which she had now lent one
OF her fathers courtiers to wear at a
masQue All her other jcwel>, a she gently
reminded the Duke, were in pawn in
Venice.
Toward the end OF this period, extrava-
gance had become so universal that the law
tried to remedy matters by passing very
strong "sumutuary laws regulating the
cost Of robes, the kind Of buttons and belts,
length of trains, value Ci Jewels, amount
and kind OF furs, even limiting the cost of
foods and bed landings in frantic at
tempt to curb "ruinou> extravaganza"
False hair was also forbidden but to no
avail Great quantities OF it were worn,
made chiefly OF white and yellow. Blondes
were then in style. 1t was then that Fra
Bernadino and Savonarola thundered
against painted faces and the unspeakable
length of trains Both OF them erected al
tars in public square with a statue of the
devil upon them and bcsought the people
to be cleansed by throwing their "vanities"
upon the altar to be burned.
As early as the reign of Francis /,
French styles established tyranny over
Europe. In his last sermon preached be-
fore Edward VI the great Latimer tried to
inaugurate a Made in England" campaign
by launching TRADE against the capitula-
ton of the entire nation to fashion, par
ticularly French hoods. And, when they
ing of the heade, they will call and say,
make them ready, and come to the cover
Give me my French hood, give me my
bonnet, and my cap, and so forth. But
here is a vengeance devil; we must have
our power "a name he gave to the bonnet)
from Turkey of velvet Far fete dear
bought, and, when it cometh, it is a false
signe. l had rather have a true English
signe than a signe from Turkey; it is a
false signe when il covereth not their
heads, as it should do. For if they would
keep it under the power, as they ought to
do there should not be any such tuSsocks
nor tufts be seen as there be, nor such Law
ing out OF the hair, nor braiding to have it
open" But both the gentleman and ladies
continued to follow the lamented French
style.
When one secs the sober and sedate
Englishman of TODAY who is tailored in
Bond street, it IS hard TO picture his Sew
enteenth Century forebear wearing car
rings and a rose stuck above the ear But
the courtiers Of the elegant Charles |
were so adorned. Charles also invented
style of his own, the love lock" The hair
was worn we'll down on the forehead, well
parted, and the notorious love lock" 4
curl on the left side of the head, was longer
than the rest of the hair. This innovation.
it is said, caused more commotion among
the "staid people of the country" than
anything else that the King had done
During the reign of Louis XVI and illfated
Marie Antoinette, peculiar fashions of hair
dressing reached their height Mr.. Par
sons tells how quickly the young queens
The Washington herald., 1921-02-13
Writes of Yesterdays Vanities
New Book History of the Styles

II this is a day of Jazz and extravaganza
as the reformerS say pointing at women's
abbfviated skirts and scanty attire, until
one begins to believe that never were an
age and people SO .shamelessly enslaved by
fashion, glance at Frank Alvas Parsons
new book "The Psychology OF Dress"
Doubleday, Page and Company reminds
us that our grandmothers and great grand
mothers, yes and our great grandfathers
also, furnished texts Just as striking for
the preachers Of their day. Hoop skirts,
leg omutton sleeves, trains and pinnacles
OF hair dressing, even French bonnets were
denounced as vehemently as georgette
waists and lace stockings
As far back as the medieval ages when
baronial halls were little more than
draughty barns furnished with a table, a
few benches and wassail bowl, the ladies
thought not of making their dwellings
more comfortable but Of adorning their
heads
by far the most remarkable part of
ladies' dress in this reign (I422 to I45T
was their head gear which consisted of
two horns like those of an OK, sometimes
spread out for two feet or more on both
sides of the head, sometimes towering up
above it, and sometimes branching out
obliquely but in all cases supporting a veil
or curtain. Other ladies wore monster
mitre hats, others sugar-loaf hoods with
dress shaped like a heart, and some few
large Turkish turbans with the folks puffed
out" The church raved bitterly against
these things and popular preacher en-
ployed boys to chase the women in the
streets, tearing off their horns and braying
like
Nor were the lords themselves free from
vanity for their sleeves were 50 long that
when a gentleman took a walk he tied his
sleeves in knot that he might not stumble
over them And if he were a nobleman
his pointed shoes extended two feet in
front.
But the church approved of good man
ncrs for one, Fra Bovincinio gives instruc-
who would be deemed well bred should not
make a noice when they use a spoon in
company, nor blow the nose without using
a cloth, nor lick no blow on the fingers,
nor remark on the cooking of the food
Also they will wash the hands little after
each meal to take off the grease"
In the renaissance, age OF riotous beauty
and magnihcencc the gallant was just a
Brilliant in satin, gold and silver brocade,
pIunes, costly 1aces and jewels as his
iadv. Sometimes, if occasion demanded, he
borrowed his wife's fnery. The Duke
Francesca Gouzaga of Mantau once sent
A summons to his wife, the beautiful young
patroness Of art and leader ii Northern
Iralv, Isabella d'ESte who was visiting her
father at Fcrrara and requested her to lend
rim some of her finest jewels with which
TO adorn' his person at the feast Of St.
George. 81 send Alberto da Bologna with
the keys of my jewel boxes, that he may
rivc you whatever you WISH" she wrote.
"Sircc | would not only, give my treasure,
but my blood, for your honour and for
The Washington herald., 1921-02-13
Must Paw the Penalty.

JEW York is a fine illustration OF
what always happens to city that
refuses, or neglects to fairly keep
pace in school building with the increase
. Of school population That city has I'D
died around with housing experiments and
so-called economy" until it now faces an
urgent seating deficit of 6I,ooo in its build
ing accommodations
The Board of Education has now had to
approve a building program of S6s,34sooo
to supply this deficit This will add s4,-
100000 a year to the school carrying
charges, if based on bond issues as it must
be, since even partial cash payment is i'm
possible
Nor is this an, as even this huge sum
when expended would leave the schools
Overcrowded, classes OF size which makes
any pretense of individual attention or OBJ
servation beyond hope, and would leave no
provision for future growth.
Few cities can keep up with school popu-
lation demands on a cash basis, but all of
them can keep on a $3.50 system of half
cash and not over 2o-year bonds, unless
they permit by their folly, condition like
hat OF New York and, only to less extent,
what has come here in Washington. Other
city expenditures can be delayed without
financial penalty; school buildings cannot
When the day of reckoning is postponed
in school sittings, it brings a financial sit
nation which carries an excessive burden.
1t adds to this an educational situation
which denies to the younger generation
that basis OF fundamental intelligence upon
which not alone our political structure, but
or industrial structure rests
The Washington herald., 1921-02-13

the teachers; make the schools an example
of applied democracy; make them in the
educational system the cooperative product
OF the initiative, the personality and in
dividuality of the teachers who must best
understand the needs or they have mis-
taken their calling.
Develop in the teachers the very high
est educational ability by unlocking the
door and throwing away the key to the
prison house of their individual efforts
The Washington herald., 1921-02-13
Immigrant Distribution.

Congress has wrestled for two months
with immigration only to restore the skel-
eton to its closet. When viewed by some
others it was unfair labor competition; to
others it was needed common labor; to
others it was ignorance, superstition and
the wholly undesirable
1t is most wanted and most feared in
the cities, the congested centers of in
dustry and of labor. The problem rests
almost wholly there, as does that of Amer
icanization, illiteracy, radicalism and crime.
Intrigue, plotting and criminal tendency
flourish where the mass is greatest
Yet it is just where the mass is greatest
there is the most highly organized propa-
gsnda to increase the mass. No city is
ever as big as it wants to be; no industry
has quite as largeGa labor body to draw
from as satisfies it The real problem of
immigration in its greater menace, lies IN
the stuffed stomach and Unsuitable appetite
OF our cities.
The January issue of the Labor Review
of the Department Of Labor has as its
lead article: Immigrant Farm Colonies
in Southern New Jersey" This points in
itself the moral of much of the immigrant
tale 1t is not so much a solution as to
numbers as of distribution, which should
be sought.
There is ample room right m the re-
gion of city congestion for tens of thou
sands of new population to reduce the
cost of feeding the city mass. The new
comers are largely from the land; they
should go to the land, where they would
develop individualism and not the herd
instinct nor the pack instinct
1t would seem comparatively simple that
beginning with a process of selection be-
fore permitted to leave the homeland, there
should be at this end process of distribu-
ton to destinations arranged in advance.
The machinery for this IS not difficult.
We have a Department of Labor. Use
it. We have a Department of Agriculture
Use it Bring them together in correla-
ton through board or bureau or what
not of employment and settlement. This
would be but utilizing the information these
departments already have and making of
value what is now largely waste motion
and effort
Every State has some similar organza-
ton which would form tentacles reaching
to every rural district in the country. They
would gladly cooperate to receive, care for
and place the human material sent them,
while the rural communities are organized
to educate and Americsnze
Immigrants who go to the land are not
a menace. Unless mistakenly colonized
they quickly are absorbed in the American
total They have what they sought. They
feel the freedom of which they dreamed,
and the country has the benefit of their in
dustry, in new wealth.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-13
Demouatize at the Source.

There is no other American institution
where there is so little of democracy as
m the public schools, supposed to be the
p foundation of all our democratic institu-
tons The schools are supposed to teach
democracy, while experiencing none of it.
Recently IN Philadelphia a group of
teachers reported to the board of educa-
ton on the physical condition of the
school buildings and their sanitary needs.
The response was: IF they don't like the
conditions, let them resign; the place of
the teacher is in the classroom and no
where else"
There are very few cities where those
who do the actual teaching have anything
to say as to the courses of study, methods,
school programs, school administration or
the system of education as a whole or in
any detail, let alone as to school building
plans and the teaching conditions. They
are but links in An endless chain process
held to strict accountability, without any
advisory responsibility or any freedom of
action.
- Nothing as a rule could be more auto
cratic in organization and operation than
this basis upon which our democracy is
supposed to rest. Instead of developing
initiative, individuality and personality,
o. these are repressed- The teachers place
is in the classroom" in the endless grind
with no more right of deviation than the
machine that drives pegs in a shoe factory.
course of study may be as old as the
Decalogue and remain as Interchangeable so
far as those who use it are concerned. The
teacher must follow it as spread out before
her. She must use text books that teach
Ahistory as melodrama, and still hear her
ant prodigies sing-song: THE boy
2d on the burning deck
cannot help it if he had no more
nor if he is still there. 1t is hers
do or die and not to reason why.
facher has her own problems, but
Ppy one way to solve them and
he way provided by those who
have had a new educational idea
Y years, while she is not permitted
one.
o schools in the same city present
situation and conditions. But all
treated the same For the teacher,
Lren, all classes and all schools are
lne. They are but material to be run
kh the mill built to grind out uni
product from infinitely diverse ma
is just one way to remedy this
is to open the schools to the
IF democracy. 1t is to unfetter
The Washington herald., 1921-02-13

ideas were copied by the court zone day,
in I775, the new queen took up from her
dressing table Two peacock feathers and
placed them with several little ostrich
plCmes n her hair. Louis NV came in
and greatly admired his wife, saving he
had never seen her look so well. Almost
Immediately feathers came into fashion, not
in France only but throughout Europe.
But when, shortly afterward, Marie An
toirette sent a Portrait Of herself, wearing
large feathers as a head-dreSS, TO her
mother, the Impress Maria Theresa re-
turned it. There has been, no doubt, some
mistake, write Maria Theresa: I received
the portrait OF an actress, not that OF
queen; | am expecting the right one.
This inordinate tendency TO make the
head ridiculous is one of the most peculiar
of all the queer fashions Of this brief but
hectic reign. In I7zS the queen herself in
vented what was known the hedge
hog" Stvle Of hair dressing. This huge
mass Of frizzIed hair ticd on with ribbons,
and its successor called the hall hedge
hog" lasted for several years, by which
time the invention OF new and strange
foI ms became a mania with the queen and
her devoted followers. Such terms a
"spaniers ears" forest" "cabCiolet," and
mad dog" were given these grotesque in
ventions, and flowers, fruits, wires, ribbons
and other materal were freely used IN
for days without Encouragement.
"The scaffolding Of gauze, flowers, and
feathers was raised TO such height that
no carriages could be found lofty enough
for ladies' use The occupants were obliged
either to put their heads out Of the win
dows, or to kneel on the carriage floor, 50
as to protect the fragile structures" The
police chief of Paris wrote the manager OF
a theater that there were constant com
plants of huge head dresses, hats loaded
with plumes, flowers, fruits, and ribbons
built so high that they ObStructed the
view of those in the pit.
Put one of the queerest styles dictated
by fashion is found in the colonial customs
of our own prim New England. 1t was
the universal custom for a newly married
couple to appear the first Sunday alter
the ceremony land generally the four sue
Ceeding Sundays) at church, dressed in all
the bridal hnery they could get together
The couple generally arrived a bit late that
the observers nigh all be seated before
their arrival; then they walked slowly arm
in arm to the assigned seats, while the en-
tire congregation gave their hushcd and
respectful attention. At an appointed time,
generally Just before the sermon, the couple
arose and turned slowly around two or
three times that every angle OF their ap-
pearsnce might be properly viewed; they
then sat down while the sermon proceeded.
Although abbreviated skirts and back
less gowns NAV seem quite shocking now,
il is quite possible that we shall live 10
look back upon these as the good old days
when people dressed in a becoming and
decourous fashion.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-13
Moon Madness.

A million leagues withdrawn, your whit
,ened craters moulder in the sun
And ana the retrscted light defeats our night,
Wreathes our living darkness in vour
dead splendor.
All your clutter of dead Garth is made
thing of beauty binding. y
Regnant in the mist that binds the earth
So that we wake sharply from our dull
dreams
To the beclouded pageant of the skies
And know that we are strangers lost in
eternity,
Bemazed among the untracked stars and
very weary for home.
Mary V. Harris.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-13
Among Our Merry
Contemporaries.

The two principal kinds of time are
standard and wrist watch.-Detroit Journal.
The East may not be as woolly as the
West, but it's wilder.-Greenville, Is. c.
Piedmont.
=. we see that the silk shirt has departed.
Well, it's probably better of-Brooklyn
Eagle.
. The most annoying questions of the day
are those little Willie asks.-Kingston Brit
ish Wing.
The rumors from Russia had it wrong
II IS not Lenine, but hope, that is dead
there.-Ney York Herald.
The fellow who waits longest for the
lowest price is going to buy on the upturn.
Birmingham Age-HeraId
The Washington herald., 1921-02-13

The Chateau of Maintenon, a short dis
tance from Paris and unscarred by the
world war, dates from the Sixteenth CEN
tury. More tragic memories than those
of the fascinating Nine de Maintenon hang
about the structure for it was here that
Louis XIV started work on a great aque-
duct, construction OF which cost the lives
of 10000 men and expenditure OF 5o,oooyo
francs.
lOf the diversity of architectural styles,
Andre Hallays in his recent book THE
The Washington herald., 1921-02-13

Andre HRlays The Spell OF the Heart OF France.
Spell of the Heart of France" has this to
say:
at has been continued and enlarged
without rigorous following of the original
plan. 1t is built of stone and brick, work
ed and chiselled like the jewels of the
French Renaissance. Some parts have
been restored, others have preserved their
aspect of ancientness. But here, as every
where else, time has performed its harmon
izing work, and what the centuries have
not yet finished, the soft October light
succeeds in completing"
The Washington herald., 1921-02-13
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY - 1ea1.

Do nothing secretly; for time
sees and hears al things, and dis
closes an-Sophocles-
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-11-10
FARM FOLKS

The play Farm Folks is to be
presented at the school house
Thursday evening 7,30 O'clock.
The admission price is to be 25
and 30 cents. The proceeds are
to go Phila. School and the play
is under the suspieces of the Par
eut- Teachers Ass m.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-11-10
Red Cross Gives
$4,000 to Aid
'Clean-Up' Drive

An appropriation Of $4,000 for
Red Cross WORK In conneetion with The
"ciean-up" campaign instituted By the
Government to bring the claims Of al
disabled service men who are entitled
to Federal aid before the proper gov.
ernment bureau for action, has been
made BY the American Red Crosx
The Executive Committee Of the
American Red Gross In making the
appropriation authorized the approprs-
alton Of $4,000 Of this sum to tho
American Legion to defray the ex-
pense Of the Legion representa- tives
assigned to the various districts Of
the Veterans Bureau.
The remainder Of the appropriation
was authorized for apportionmsnt
among the several Divisions Of the
Red Cross for carrying on that part
OF the cleanup" work that falls d.
rectly upon the Red Cross organization.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-11-10
PROVIDENCE ITEMS.

With an excellent faculty and the
arty cooperation of the patrons OF
g Providence community the
hool is doing it's best work.
Fhe music class is progressing
cely under the instruction OF Miss
anderson.
Friends Of Mrs. Frank Breazeale
o sorry she continues Ill With
leumonia.
Mrs, Olin Lee was called to Mo
,mb City last week on the account
the death of her mother Mrs
filkersnn.
Misses Jessie Wood, Mary Ryals
I'D Katie Breazeale motored to
hiladelphia Friday afternoon.
The box supper given Saturday
light at Providence was success.
little over $10O was raised the pro-
,eds we're donated for the piano.
] Buford Taylor carried his brother
Homer, to Meridian Friday Tor an
speration.
An entertainment given by the
solumbia Woodman will bo given
q Pearl Valley Church Monday
,frht. A nice time is anticipated.
Miss ina Gamblin and Ethel Beall
ere married Sunday afternoon at
~ brides home. The bride l. the
|nurhter Of Kirk and Mrs. Gamblin.
4 ! groom Ii the aon Of J. X. and
ikr. Beall. Mr.. and Mrs. Beail will
v re thelr home with the brides
5000. The people Of Providence
|l,h them happiness and success.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-11-10
Young America
Sends Vast Relief
To Needy Abroad

Various relief protects Of the Junior
American Red Cross In European
countries resulted In helping 2s7, ,OoO
destitute children during the last is-
cal year, according to the annual re-
port Of the American Red Cross for
that period. The growth Of the activi-
ties Of the Juniors abroad IL mani
tested by a comparison which shows
this figure is 100000 larger than that
Of the previous fiscal year.
The National Children's Fund raised
by school children, members Of the
Junior American Red Gross, was
drawn upon for 1920, ,557 for these prof.
ects. Receipts for the National Chill
dren's Fund during the last fiscal year
totalled $155,317.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-11-10
DAY OLD BABY DIES

The infant daughter of Mr.
and Mrs Hub King, which was
born Tuesd y night, died Wed
nesday morning, and was bur-
led at Philadelphia Wednesday
afternoon Mrs. King. though
very low Tuesday night, rallied
Wednesday morning. Mrs King
is with her mother, Mrs. F. B.
DeWeese.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-11-10
wondsrsu. Babylon

The city of Babylon, when buflt
BY Nebuchadnezzar. formed one Of
the greatest and most magnificent the
world has ever seen. Ancient his
torians can Hnd no words to describe
the grandeur OF the palaces the
splendid edifices, large gardens and
pleasure grounds, especially the hang.
ing gardens. q sort Of lofty terraced
structure supporting earth enough to
grow trees.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-11-10
Business Men Laughed a, sell.

In 1877, when DR.. Alexander Ora
ham Bell was endeavoring to inter
est capital in the telephone, he was
asked what he thought Of the future
of the instrument and he gave q
pen picture Of the exchanges In every
section and houses supplied with the
instruments as they really are today.
and he was laughed at heartily be-
cause he was SO sanguine Of the fu-
ture.