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The Washington herald., 1921-09-29

A FEW ADDING MACHINES OF DIP
feient makes which have been taken In
exchange for our Wales Visible Adding ana
Listing Machines; generally overhauled and
in frst-class shape: bargains. WALES
ADDING MACHINE CO.. 712 18th ct. NV.
Main 1886. Newton N. Minnix, district
manager. i' 24A
The Washington herald., 1921-09-29
INSURANCE.

FIRE AND AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE IN
the Oldest Of American companies, estsb-
nshed In l's6 For rites and other data
ask for Mr. Eliot. LOUIS r SHOEMAKER
lar New yort ~. NJ MAIN liza 1ns
The Washington herald., 1921-09-29

18TH, m. y. n AkE.: BRK: >
b; immed. poss.: $500 cash. 81. no.
& CO., 9th q 4
The Washington herald., 1921-05-09
A Model for Other Cities.

THE Carnegie estate has offered the District of
Columbia sufficient fund to build second
main-branch library The library trustees have an
option on an excellent site at very moderate
price, $4,000, off Pennsylvania avenue, Seventh
street southeast. This amount is in the emergency
bill for the District now before Congress. The
Herald believes this is an emergency item worthy
not only of approval but of commentator by Con-
gress. 1t calls for investment by Congress of
only. the $4,000 ito secure gratuty five times or
more as large.
Congress can do nothing better and of greater
value to the country whole. than to make
Washington a civic and social laboratory. This has
been done in sort of hit and miss way, if Con-
gress will pardon what is not meant at all a
criticism. But The Herald does most earnestly be-
lieve that the District Congressional committees
should make comprehensive study of this city and
frame program for progressive action to make this
center for students Of city planning, place that
has solved the many problems which everywhere
are involved in city development.
Most of these will be found to center around
education and libraries essential factor. The
great Congressional Library is national not city
institution. 1t is not object lesson for cities.
The Carnegie Library is. Neither does the former
at all fill the atter's place. Washington, because
of the character of its population which is peculiar
to it among American cities, has an unusual number
In its population is unusual number of spec
ialiss OF students Of those interested in every kind
of social economic and scientific activity. This is
shown in the kind of books for which there is de-
mand relatively to the fiction demand. These
people cannot go to the Congressional Library.
Even if free go there, they would not feel so and
they cannot it they do the Carnegie. More
over, this is city of distances, which op jover
into Maryland and Virginia. ....
Yet to accommodate these many to whom an
I5-cent street fare is of importance, there
is but one branch library. To say there should be
several, at least FIVE more is but to say what is
patent to everyone Mr.. Carnegie built the central
library and the branch. His estate is willing
to build another and if this generous offer is
cepted, others may follow.
So it can happen with but minimum cost, that
this be made library center and model for
other cities where libraries may find the finest Ii
brary system, where the ALLEGATION OF branches has
been carefully worked out, where the schools make
the most complete use of the libraries and the
libraries most completely co-ordinated with the
schools, and where every person is brought in con-
tact, educatonay and intelligenty with the use Of
books
The value of libraries to people, if given its
full expression is endless No city has yet been
able to show the full field of usefulness Washing
ton should be that city. When it is, there will be
others who will all, adopt parts OF this sys
TEN, and the leven will spread nationally.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-09
Break Loose Again.

DOLAND. by the invasion of Upper Silesia, has
hurt her own cause, She is taking the same
ecurse there as on the East when she pushed her
boundaries far into Lithuania, taking control of
Wilma. Then it was the act of Irregular" troons
Again it is irregular" troops But in this instance
as then, these are fully armed, we'll equipped, NOV
ing as an army under competent leaders, Now as
then the Polish authorities dsclamed
- III Poland is so helpless government that
she cannot control her armies, she has long
way to go to establish dependable government 1t
has been her unhappy fate to be unable to control
hssself, to be torn by conflicting ambitions When
there was no one else to fight the Poles fought
SJnQng themselves, Internal dissensions made her
an. easy prey to the outsiders. She seems not to
have learned her lesson and to be- still altogether
100 quick the trigger
SHE IS proving herself very uncomfortable
The Washington herald., 1921-05-09

neishbor for any country to have and an undepend-
able friend and ally, aptto get her friend into
trouble than to be help. In Siesa she is fighting
her own allies. She is at war with her friends She
is shooting down Italians and British and would
shoot even the French, IL they got in her way. To
hold the Polish government blameless is impossible
She was comparatively certain to be awarded
all of Siiesia that should be given to her or fairly
decently and safely intrusted to her. She had the
sympathy of the other powers and the ardent sup
port of France She would surely have gained a
considerable part, If not all, the Silesian mineral
region which Is all she should have, or needs.
To transfer to her the industrial sections which
are German beyond reasonable dispute, would
eopardize her retention of any part. France would
give her all, but France is not in mood, state
Of mind to be always wise. Others OF the allies,
more temperately weighing today with tomorrow,
would give her what she needs that would not
merely be constant bone of contention. The
present action makes this more difficult 1t weakens
the French influence her behalf and, forcing her
unreasonable ambitions both East and West, she
may fall between the two stools.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-09
Back With Friends.

ITO THE average man the street who watches
i the passing show. it would that Pres.
dent Harding had said the final word as to any
separate peace with Germany. The Lloyd George
note from the supreme council, with Secretary
Hughes reply, can only mean that separate treaty
is far away from the Presidents program
Mr.. Hughes accepts for this government naming
American representatives to sit with, and unofciay
act with the supreme council, the ambassadorial
council and the reparations commission, all con-
cerned with the Interpretation the administration and
enforcement of the treaty of Versailles. This is
not acceptance Of the treaty. far from it. But it
shows that in the judgment of the Presidential his
Cabinet, whose members concurred unanimously
the interests of the United States are so entwined
in the treaty, that this government must continue
to act with its associates in the war. 4
1t would seem to make sufficiently plain also
that the President intends to resubmt to the SEM
ate the treaty thoroughly denatured 1t may not be
far guess that this will come after settlement of
the Yap and other mandate controversies which
does not now seem far away. Also such settle
ment may have much easier approach through
the shorter distance of this more intimate assoca-
ton and renewal of common action.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-09
ARTIST AIDS CLASSIFYING
OF SWEET POTATOES.

1t has long been a serious prob
lem among those who are studying
the varieties Of vegetables TO nnd
some means whereby accurate de-
scrtptions OF color values in vege-
tables could be indicated" said W.
n Beattie, Of the Bureau OF Plant
Industry. when he explained the ap-
plication Of art TO the classification
OF sweet potato varieties at the
Department OF Agriculture exhibit
that Is being held at the Public
Library.
The sweet potato offers a good
example Of the value OF such color
definition when IL comes to arranc-
ing the many varieties OF the sweet
potato in their proper classes. Three
distinct characters must be taken
into consideration in classifying the
varieties Of sweet potatoes: First,
the type Of vine growth and the
shape OF the leaves: second. the
color characteristics Of the stems
and foliage, and third, the shane
and colon Of the potatoes them
selves.
For many years horticulturists
and botsnists attempted to classify
sweet potatoes according TO their
many varieties, using the ordinary
horticultural characters for descib-
tEg them, but il was found that
these were not sufficient and that
they did not serve as a definite and
infallible grade"
The credit for the present system
OF classifying sweet potato variet .es.
as used by the Department Of Agri-
culture. Is largely due to Mr.. Fred
J. Tyler. who for a number OF years
was engaged in the Varietal work
FOR the department he explained
Mr.. Tyler soon found that the usual
classification was not suitable ani
he therefore worked out the present
system Through the work Of the
artists in the department. il has
been possible not only to clearly de-
nne all color values. but also TO
bring out the compete range in size.
shape, venstion and other special
chsracteristics. Tho set OF paini-
lngs and the drawings now on CA
hiott at the Public Library iIlus-
trate the possibilities OF this t,pe
OF visual instruction which - not
possible throu 81 the means Of pho
Biography in its Iresent form.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-09
LAW AND GOSPEL,


I'd the Editor. The Washington Herald:
To Editor of Washington Herald:
The. nation now at Brother Crafts
Extends some coed old-fashioned
laughs.
The churches that so long have tried
With law and gospel mixed to tide
Ger all the human ills below
Have had at las: TO let them go
And say that Ch rist did not ordain
Salvation through the legal aim.
And marriage also some now see
Is not what they thought 1t to be.
For. surely, IL God Joined in love
The tie would hold below. above
Two hearts that beat as one would
walk
And toe at once the heavenly chalk
But DER the land divorce has spread.
The hearts that beat as one are
dead:
An that is missed and free-love
reigns-
So where's the ministerial gainsc
Dear friends, allow me now to say
That you know not the narrow
way.
You have no right Gods name to
take
And make of marriage but a fake.
God marries none but those who
prove
As born again" unto His love:
But these your churches never
know.
So what they reap Is what they sow.
You better now confess. retire
And let your false church creeds
expire
Let the gay world wag as IL must
In free-love. marriage, or in lust
And never more claim God puts
through
thing he cannot. would not do.
FRANCIS b. LIVESEY,
West Friendship, Maryland.
April IS, 1921.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-09
MONDAY, MAY 0, 1921.

threatening stars dominate tod y
according to astrology. Jupiter
uranus and Venus are all adverse
Neptune alone being in 5ene,i,
aspect.
During this configuraticn all spec.
ulatiVe business should be avoided:
The sway is not favorable FOR be.
ginning any new projects.
Discomfort concerning certain
trade conditions will be mora and
more expressed by the people rs III.
summer advances, for commercial
Jealousy will become strong,
Uranus gives warning thai the
planetary government is conducive
to intrigue and deception amo7s
persons as well as nations.
Under this rule of the stars wom-
en- may be especially susceptible tc
the evil influence of Uranus, which
encourages, double dealing, especial
ly in love affairs.
The seers declare that the in
crease of scandals, SO long prophe.
sled, will finally cause a strong r.-
action In favor of strict standards
of marriages
Revelations of immortality In bipb
places will be- made in a way that
compels official attention, astrolo.
gers prophesy.
The seers explain that in the Unit.
ed states there is an influence that
stimulates childish self-satisfaction
In personal achievement, but this
will be less dominating as the ma.
tion advances.
Persons whose birthdate II Is
should avoid changes of business or
places of residence In the comins
year Those who are employed will
be more fortunate financially than
those who have Independent busi-
ness or professional interests. 4,
Children born on this day viii be
studious and thoughtful. .Thcse SUBJ
jects of Taurus are likely to hold
Important positions, but they may
be extravagant
The Washington herald., 1921-05-09
WANTS YOUNGSTERS To SEE
CIRCUS PARADE.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
Seeking to impose upon your gem
erosity once more. I ask as a favor
that Mr.. Kramer, assistant superin-
tendent of schools, be urged to re-
fleet and rescind what must appear
to every boy a drastic order-not
to permit the children to witness
the circus parade.
All of us men folks-Mr. Kramer.
too-once were boys, and we know
what is the crowning event and de-
sire of the boy heart. next to red
tops. books, long pants, and jam
seeing the circus. Mr.. Kramer, in
his decision, no doubt means we'll,
but / cannot concede that he is fol-
lowing the Golden Rule.
believe that the vast majority
will agree with me. and that when
the facts are presented to Mr.. Kra-
mer he will relent and put a rift
In the cloud that he has caused TO
hover over the children.
Honestly. don't you think that
keeping the youngsters in school
will do more damage than to let
them see the circusr Their studies
will be half-hearted; their minds
filled with elephants, tigers, lions,
and especially the funny antics. and
capers OF our ancestors described ~
Darwin.
Have a heart. Help the. boy, for
he will be a boy but once.
JOHN w. JENKINS.
Washington, May g.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-09
Candy Makers Engage [
Special De LUXE Train

CHICAGO. May S.-Delegates. their
families and friends. are going to
travel 10 the National Candy As
sociation convention at Atlantic
City in special de luxe train.
En- route the train will pick up
passengers from st. Louis. Detroit.
Cleveland. Cincinnati. IndianapoIIs.
Toledo Columbus. Buffalo and Pitts
burgh.
The train leaves Chicago sunday
ImorninS. May o. Atlantic City will
be reached the following evening.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-09
DEPRECIATING BONDS.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
In the Herald April %. F. NJ.
Burrows stated il was his opinion
the depreciation of Liberty bonos
was the greatest factor in the un-
rest situation of the country. In
my opinion the depreciation OF
Liberty bonds has about as mucn
to do with the condition of the
country as the League of Nations
has with the home brew question on
the Planet Mars.
'Tis true everybody was urged
to buy Liberty bonds. don't like
the word "forcefully" Mr.. Burrows
used in his letter I have too
much respect and sympathy for the
officials then in power upon whom
the financing of the war was thrust.
to let such statements go unchal-
lenged. Deeply as I deplored our
being drawn into the European
conflict. ! feel as I think every true
hearted American must. how
blessed we were to have such a
man as William C. McAdoo to col
lect the funds so necessary to put
our boys over the top.
'Tis bad for the poor. that Lib
erty bonds depreciate. but then we
shouldn't have expected anything
else. IL we threw them on the mar
ket at the mercy of the brokers. In
reality they have not deprecated.
Now as to the relief OF the new sec
retary. there are several ways
in which he might rob Peter to
pay Paul" in order to take them off
the hands of the poor. IL il becomes
half as necessary so to do as it was
for his predecessor to sell thems
For fear of space will not attemp,
to show the true cause of the pres
ent unrest situation.
P. F. SKINNER.
Washington. May
The Washington herald., 1921-05-09
TRAINING IN RANGE FINDINGS
MOST IMPORTANT. TESTS SHOW.

"osf imfohTANT. TESTS SHOW.
Tests in which $1,000 separate
readings were taken by seventeen
different observers using self-con.
tained base range finders Of the
army. were described by DR.. l. c.
Gardner Of the Ordnance Depart
ment at a meeting Of the Philo-
sophical Society Saturday night at
the Cosmos Club.
Out at Fort Sill. Okla, trials Of
the various kinds Of range finders
In use have just been completed.
and DR.. Gardner made the irst an
nouncement regarding these tests
that have been conducted by the
Ordnance Department. with the CO.
operation of the Field ARTILLERY and
the Bureau OF Standards. which was
represented at the tests by W. o.
Lytle.
After a brief discussion Of IN.
fundamental details Of the construc-
tion OF the range finders, DR.. Gard
ner declared that the most striking
feature shown by the test was that
the comparative merits Of the dif-
ferent observers differed much more
widely than for the different range
finders.
With the present range finders
therefore, the selection and train
ing OF personnel is much more i'm
portant than the selection Of an in
strument," he declared.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-09

NEW YORK. May "a page from
the diary OF a modern Samuel Pepys:
Up betimes and 10 the Waldorf to
see the editors. gathered here. Then
home and worked a little. but in a
pet at the posture Of my affairs and
decided to loaf through the day and
frolique.
And happily b. Dudley sent word
to join him and we would paint our
faces like the mime and ride on an
elephant in a circus parade for
charity, which We did, but felt very
foolish.
BY and by Dexter FeIIowes. the
circus man. had US to lunch and Zip.
with three of the fairest ladies 1
! have seen in many a day, and all
away to Schraft's. where we had
cake with layers of ice cream COW
cred with a sauce Of chocolate.
In the evening came H Hobart,
the picture play man. and S. Gibson
and to his chambers. where a tayny-
complexiOned lady from Tahaiti
came and told us Of far-away places
and l recited a comique piece Of my
own making about Danny Damron.
who travelled from Dubuque to Des
Moines. All very merry and SO to
bed, my poor head aching all the
night long.
Two comedians who have Joined
forces for the presentation Of a nu-
ct II,
other afternoon. The chorus was
lining up for a number. One mem
Der on the end was rather stout and
had seen more summers than is usu-
al with the average Broadway cory
phec.
Where in the world did you come
FROM" asked the comedian.
Sizes a newspaper mans friend, {"
was tie reply.
Whose: Horace Greeley'sg"
Drab and grimy Grand street Is
preparing for the hot DAYS that san
its energy. The 'beding Is ready
to remove 10 the sidewalk, where a
large number OF the residents try 10
sleep through its torrid nights. The
little cellar ice shops are opened up
for the season. In the winter they
dispense coal by the lump or basket.
The only bits OF color are the
bright splashes of oranges and an
pies on the pushcarts. 1t is a touch
of the Old World. Most OF the peo-
pie are newly-arrived foreigners
And few indeed hav journeyed
north of Fourteenth street. Al
night they read, mostly phiIisophy
Kant, Spinoza, Descartes, James
and Holt.
The well-dressed man is stubborn
about changing fashions. Each
year the tailors and cutters meet
and decide on new sartorial gee
gaws, but a stroll on Fifth avenue
shows that the smartest dressers
are wearing the same styles of last
year. Mems clothes fit snugly, the
trousers have a roll and the padded
shoulder that was heralded for a re-
vival failed to revive. Brown and
tan materials are the leaders The
silk shirt fingers. but Is slowly los
ing its popularity.
Carol McComas, whose most not
able success was achieved this year
in Miss Lulu Bett, broke into all
the front pages last week because
a fortune was willed TO her by a
man from Pittsburgh to whom she
was once betrothed. Interesting
news indeed, but far more interest
ing is Miss McComsS career, She is
a valued friend OF the writer ana
one of the few who gives the lie
to the pubiic's estimation OF stage
folk. She Is never seen in public
places. Her home life is spent
among the flowers Of a pretty coun-
try estate. No press agent races to
newspaper shops with her picturea
The Washington herald., 1921-05-09
GIVES HIS VIEWS ON ENGLAND.

GIVES HIS VIEWS ON ENGLAND
To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
AS a reader of your wonderful
paper ] wish to ask that the follow
ing little letter of mine be pub
lished in the open court" column.
When a person such as Justinian
sends in a letter asking that more
credit be given to England for her
great help to this world and that
we must be thankfu for what Eng.
land has done for US. one may feel
sure that IL such a writer does not
care to give US his or her name,
that party must be engaged in
keeping the love for mother" Eng
land aroused.
am an American. first and last.
and am willing that England or any
other country gets the credit for
what she does. But when one says
that England is helping humanity,
i must then ask my kind English
friend just how England is helping.
Surely. the mistreatment of the
races In Ireland. Egypt, South AZ
rica, Malta and India Is not helping
this world. We may yet have war
because Americans OF Irish blood
are having their relatives butchered
in Ireland. To me England is a
breeder of wars. She is always mis-
treating, some country. I do not
want to have war with England but
mark my word, we can not not and
must not. after having just fought
a bloody war for the benefit Of hu-
manity. allow innocent women and
children be shot down by Huns.
+. II. voVANoV1TCH
Washington, Nav g.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-09

and they invariably reply. NO. I'll
sell you a house" There are a good
ly number OF empty houses in this
city.
Due credit should be given to
Senator Ball and his co-workers in
the fight they are so faithfully
waging to make il possible for the
poor people TO pay rent and have a
place to stay without being driven
from pillar to post. And may heaven
he the reward for the members OF
the Rent Commission who are SO
faithfully working to protect the
poor of this city.
&c. CUNNINGHAM.
Washington, April 6.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-09

In the old days the teachers boy-pet used
flowers. Now the cadet wins her heart with
the fash of gold braid and brass buttons.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-09

Our participation in the allied council. may
be all right provided that they first promise
us vote of thanks.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-09

They've taken the pint fssk they now want
our gun.' Will they eventually get our hip
pocket handkerchief? :.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-09

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
Respecting the scarcity () of
houses In this beautiful City of
Magnificent Distances, / beg space
through your valuable columns to
add just few words To what has
been said along that line.
There is not much more scarcity
of houses In washington today
than thora was eight or ten years
ago. 90 10 any one fof. the real estate
places and ask for q house to rent
The Washington herald., 1921-05-09

- TIL, headline, allies Will Deliver ultima
,-tum to Germany,"~has taken its place along
side of Weather Today"
The Washington herald., 1921-05-09

Bergdoll's attorney, Samuel T. AnselI is
doubtless beginning to wonder If that, tale OF
the rainbow and the pot Of gold is true after all.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-09

The indictment for bribery of Florida's
former governor is not unlike the insurance of
the barn after the FIRE.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-09

Is Marion depopulated? President Harding
is considering chairman for the national
committee, man from Iowa.