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The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
WAS FIRST PRESIDENT
OF NATIONAL FEEDER ALTON.

Miss Laughlin was the first pres
ident OF the National Federation of
Business and Professional Women
having been elected at the first
convention Of tho organization, held
in St. Louis in 1919. She stumped
for suffrage for four years and a
half. and during tho war was one
of the -Four minute men" Miss
Laughlin holds many offices on
boards and commissions. and is a
director OF the New England So
ciety of wellesley College. She is
also an officer in the California
Federation of Women's Clubs, a
member of the bar of the State of
California and a member Of the
Associate Collegiate Alumni. Dur
ing the war she organized and di-
rected the California branch of the
National League for Woman's Serv-
ice
Questioned with respect to her
attitude on disarmament and world
peace, Miss Laughlin says that she
is opposed to war fundamentally
as are many other good people. but
that she does not believe that the
United States or any other nation
should lay down its arms until all
the rest of the world does.
81 am a paCificist in so far as I
believe with many others that war
is a terrible and unnecessary sac
rifice OF human life" she said, but
il it came to choice between
peace and honor and justice, would
choose war. l think that We should
have gone into the recent war long
before we did. II / could have had
my way we should have gone in
the moment the Lusitania was
sunk"
The Japanese question Is still
acute in California, according to
Miss Laughlin, who hopes that the
people OF the East will awaken to
the reality OF the peril which
menaces the white people OF the
State.
1t is problem which In my
estimation is far more dIfficult of
solution than the colored problem
in the South" she explained, FOR
the Japanese are proud, ambitious
and tricky. II Is a constant battle
of wits between the Japanese and
the whites, for they will avail
themselves ~of any possible subter-
fuge or legal teehnicaIity to In
sinuate themselves whore they are
not wanted"
Miss Laugblin will return to
California upon the conclusion > OF
the convention. .ss...-.,r..
II. W. q.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
SHORT N-RAYS FOR CANCER
NOT NEW DISCOVERY.

Local scientists and physicians
commenting on the article pub
lishcd yesterday on the discovery"
.of N-rays Of very high penetrating
power by Frof. William Duane. OF
Harvard. declared last night that
such rays, the laws governing them.
and their therapeutic use have been
known for some years. Many sCien-
lists and physicians in laboratories
other than at Harvard have been
experimenting with the X-rays or
cry short length that are produced
by very high voltagcs in the vac
Ium tube. It is these waves Of
greater frequency that arc nearly
n" sam" as the gamma r. ys that
iro given off from radium and that
have the very great penetration
That tho news dispatch from Cam
bridge is simply a summary Of the
work that has heen done in the
0aSt, is tn" opinion OF those ia
formed on the subject.
At least three local laboratories
arc USING these very short N-rayS
in tho treatment of cancer. accord
ing to a local radiologist seen last
night. Will" all this work is in the
development stage, it is reported
that in several instances cases that
were considered inopcrablc and
hopeless year ago are now alive
md evidently improving
It was pointed out that as the
radium supply is limited and cx-
pensive, N-rays of this kind may
be the means of saving those who
cannot be treSed with radium.
However. radium is much easier to
apply to the cancer. and while the
first cost is great, the only subse-
quent expense is the interest on
the investment.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
Five Lame Ducks
Admitted to D. G.
Bar Association

The names of five more lame
ducks" who will, to a more or less
extent. make Washington their
headquarters after March 4. were
added yesterday to the ever-grow-
ing list of men once prominent in
public life who now maintain law
Offices here.
The names went on the list when
Attorney General A. Mitchell Pal
mer, Assistant Attorney General
frank Davis, jr.. Senator Hoke
Smith. of Georgia: Representative
Scott Ferris, OF Oklahoma. and era
ham Edgerton, solicitor Of the Navy
Department, were sworn in yester-
day by the District Supreme Court
in general term as members of the
District OF Columbia Bar Associa-
tiOn.
Rear Admiral Samuel MCGOWAN.
former Paymastrr General of the
Navy, was also sworn in as a mem
ber.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
MARSHALLS LEAVE
TO RENTER BODY

Vice President and Mrs Thomas
r. Marshall left Washington les'er.
day for Marion. Ind. whore f0eN
will RENTER the body of their foster
son, Clarence Aloysius Norr'soT
Marshall. today.
The child died February Is 'as'
year and was buried in NJ Olive.
Cemetery here. Mr.. and Mrs Mar
shall had expressed the intention ".
later taking the body to the fam ..
plot in Marion and yesterday o. vas
disinterred and sent on 10 Msr.''
accompanied by the Vice Fresf00T'
and Mrs Marshall and their s"r~'-
tary, Mark ThiStlewaitc. Burial VIII
be made late this afternoon in Ma
rion and the party is expected 10 re-
turn Immediately.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
FEAST FEATURES
VALENTINE PARTY

a ST. Valentine party. dG-.-C 'r-
course or which a number of st'ra.
tive features were introduced r,--
held in the dining room .f r.r
Monterey restaurant 5o- T'-rrsr:r
street northwest. last night. l-.r o.
O'Clock until midnight
Bert Dickson. proprietor ~ f'-
Monterey and his wife. v.rs rho
hosts to five couples Who ~rf.
merry at the festive hoard
Incidentally the event also ra-l r1
the celebration of the hrrth rf NJ
Harry Z. Thomas, who ~,',nrarsf
her 64th birthday ycstcrdsr I..
lowing arc the names 0F r.r
couples present: Mr and Mr. fa-r
.C. Thomas. Mr. and Mrs Bert To. .-
son, Mr.. and Mrs Charl"s DrrI.0.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Dr~k s0~. N-
and Mrs Edward Fowler and NJ.
and Mrs. NJ. Payne.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
CANCER MORTALITY ON
INCREASE, SAY DOCTORS,

That cancer mortality is on the
increase at the rate of ~ per cent
a year, and that the death rate due
to this disease has practically
doubled in the last forty years are
facts that were brought out at the
last meeting of the Medical Society.
At the saem time, infant mortality,
deaths from tuberculosis and other
diseases are gradually decreasing.
over 10000 deaths per year occur
in this country because of cancer lit
was estimated.
Mortality increase is occurring in
England as well as America. accord
Ing TO statistics compiled by health
authorities and insurance companies,
and physicians are at a loss for an
explanation
Early treatment and Identification
of cancer were urged, and doctors
were told that undue optimism
should not replace careful, sxamina-
tion OF indefinite early aymhtoms. In
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
CALIFORNIA WOMEN
GAIN SUPREMACY.

Complete equality of women with
men before the law is now one of
the greatest needs in this country.
in the opinion of Miss Laughlin.
who was the author of the progress
sive jury laws in California which
permit women to serve on juries
with men. These laws have been
in operation several Years, she says.
and have been highly successful.
She is also the author of the COM
munity property bill and other ad-
vanCed measures. either already on
the California statute books or
about TO become laws. The position
of women in California is much bet
ter than before suffrage was
granted. she says. California wom-
en- have been able to improve their
legal status since they gained the
vote. she says.
Miss LauGhlin. who is a coun-
cillor Of Wellesley College, points
with satisfaction to the improved
standing of women in the institu-
tions of higher learning in this
country, where they are now re-
ccived on practically the same
footing as men.
There was a time and within my
make a hard fight to enter the pro-
fessions in this country, but now,
happily. all this is changed" said
Miss Laughlin.
The number of women serving on
the faculties of coeducational col
leges should be increased. but Miss
LaughIin believes that the dispar-
ity is gradually diminishing.
She points to the University OF
California as presenting evidence
of the tendency toward equalizing
this difference. The woman's club
of the faculty of this university
now has eighty members, she says.
Suffrage was granted the women
OF California by tho !egisla'uc@ IN
1911. When the California civic
League was organized in 1912 ful
the promotion If the Interests -
the women of the State and with
the object Of aCquainting the newly
enfranchised citizens with tho
rights and responsibilities. Miss
Laughlin was elected presiI, ut 4
the organization serving in that
capacity for seEcrII Y"aIs.
W0.len arc nov taking an active
part III 'nc political life n the Stat"
snc saws. Three wrman are now
in the legislature; a woman holds
the Office Of district attorney Of
Alameda County. which lies just
across the hay from san Francisco;
another, Miss Grace Caukin. has an
administrative position with the
Federal Land Office in San Francis
CO. Throughout tho state. women
are serving on boards and commits
sions and there arc several women
justices Of tho peace. Mrs. An
nette Adams. who camc to Wash
ington a. Assistant Attorney Gen
cral Of tho United States. is a rep
resentattvr California professional
woman
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15

spite OF considerable research work
just what is cancer is unknown, al
though much is known about what
it is not, it was pointed out. Caught
early enough, cancer is durable in a
large number of cases by means Of
a major operation, radium or X-ray
treatment, it was said.
Those who delivered papers on
various aspects OF cancer were DR..
$. r. Karpeles, DR.. Joseph Mundell,
'Dr. Leon MarteI, and DR.. J. Russell
'Verbrycke, jr. Among those who
took part in the discussion were DR..
I. B. Nichols, DR.. c. Augustus Simp-
son, DR.. E. Y. Simpson, DR.. Frank r.
Hagner.
|, The section on nervous and mental
diseases was permanently organized
and DR.. John NJ. Ladd and DR.. W. r,
Rappaport were elected chairman
and secretary.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
USE OF HARMONIC
MATHEMATICS SERIES,

How the harmonic mathematics
series are used in problems of
physics was told by DR.. D. r. Har-
per at the Mathematics Club meet
ing at the Bureau of Standards yes
terday afternoon.
Harmonic series embrace those
mathematical functions which have
properties somewhat similar TO
those of the ordinary trigonometric
sine and cosine." he said, land they
were so named because acoustic
harmonics are represented mathe-
matically by the sine and cosine
curves" He suggested how this Sc
ries can be used in potential, gravi-
rational or electric problems, and
problems of thermal conduction. and
vibration of strings, drums and bars.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
QUESTIONS SUPREMACY OF
AIRPLANE.

TO the Editor. The WHshiREt0u Herald:
The great controversy as 10
whether the~battIeships will remain
the backbone Of the feet, or whe,h-
er the airpIane has made warshirs
useless is not only q very interest
ing subject but one that has many
angles to il.
That this question should ts rct-
tied as soon as possible is needless
to say. For Congress TO continue
20 appropriate vsBt sums Of monsr
for a navy, which in time may prove
absolutely useless when attacked bv
an airplsnc, is not only ridiculous
but the very height Of folly
The war proved beyond doubt that
the airplsne is a very important
unit in modern warfare u was
found that sirplancs were great
help in directing tho movements cr
an attacking army, but a. grr they
have not demonstrated their er.. o
uNeness in naval warfare
There are some that say that 70
is an easy matter for an alrnIars r..
drop a bomb on the deck OF an
enemy wsrship. Ir this Is ;rur 'r,r
the hattleship will have 10 drop r.,
as a factor in future naval hafr...
md the airpIanc will take its nra,,
but it is an open question ss r.
whether all the promising thing
said Of the airplan, are true
After powder and bullets werr .--
vented the fighters did away urr
their coats OF arms. and if MAY f-
that with tho great dcvcIour1rrr ..
the airplane IL will mean the rassrr.
0; the bsttlrshiD. hur o. has Vet I'd.
be proven THAI aIrUIanas will SUI
plant battIeshIps as the nation g
first line Of d,r,n~a
LELAND , JAMES
Mashinrrrr L-cE-----.- IL
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
Oil Fever Hits Canada.

The Canadian land Office is again
being hcsieged by prospcCtors filing
on oil claims, and thousands OF new
applications have been made within
the past week. The oil strike re-
ported seventy miles north OF the
Porcupine Forest Reserve is the
cause Of the excitement. This is
the second rush the district has eX-
perienced this year, the strike forty
miles north in the spring making
the town the mecca Of prospectors
for the summer and fall.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
TWELVE ADMITTED
TO TRADE BOARD

Twelve applicants were admitted
to membership in the Board of Trade
at a meeting OF the executive COM
mittee yesterday.
f. c. Graham, vice chairman of
the committee. presided. in the ab-
senCe of Chairman Samuel J. Pres
colt. Following are the names Of
the new members: c. NJ. Towers. C.
ThysOn. jr.: John W Oehmann. Ed
mund Q. Carl Charles Il. Mccoy.
James w. Lyons, l.. c. Leigh. James
Howell Gordon, George Perkins, Ben
F. Young, Charles T. FeIter and
George Briggs ColbeCk
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
CBorn February l2. 1907
By GRACE ID. n. GELDERT.

With malice toward none and love
for all"
Lone was his heart and lone the
way he trOd.
So may one write upon the sculP-
tUred wall:
Lincoln, a man unknown 20 all save
God.
Stranger among the crowds that
thronged his path.
Waiting. apart from other men and
lands,
Praying for strength. above the
crash OF wrath.
Welding the broken nation in his
hands.
Simple and plain as some SCARED
cedar tree,
Deep ran his roots Of life in com
mon sod.
Lifting his head. he touched In
finity:
He was a man unknown TO all save
God
From The Cotton on Frsss
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
He Had No Dog.

1t IS rather amusing, not to say pitiful to have
so thrilling a story that of the awful conduct
OF the colored troops in the French occupied Ger
man territory, punctured The crimes of the men
from North Africa duly horrfyng
Our Congress was to be asked to demand that
the French withdraw them. Americans were to be
so shocked that they would take upon themselves
this obligation of humanity. They were to be ar
rayed on behalf of terrorized German womankind.
Just then Secretary of State Colby issued a
formal statement that there were no Senegalese
among the French troops of occupation and had
not been for some time During the period of
these complaints, the black men were conspicuous
by their absence.
1t is all very much like the case of the farmer
arrested for keeping cross dog that had bitten
child. His defense that his dog was harmless,
that it was kind dog, that it was too old to bite
anyone, that it had teeth, and finally that he did
not have and never had had dog
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
PROTEST CUT IN CHEMICAL
WARFARE APPROPRIATION.

The cutting of the Chemical War
fare Service appropriations from
81, 100000 to s1,5p0.0oo has been wig
orously protested against In resolu-
tions adopted by the American
Chemical Society committee on ma
tional policies. The proposed reduc-
ton will seriously cripple this i'm
portsnt branch of the army, the
committee says. W.D.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
BOARD OF SURVEYS AND MAPS
ELECTS OFFICERS.

The Board OF Surveys and Maps
which co-ordinates the map making
Of the country has reelected o. c,
Merrill. chairman; VIM. Bowie, vice
chairman, and c. II. Birdseye, sec
retary. By special Executive order
the Federal Power Commission. the
Army Air Service, and the Naval
Aviation Service have been added to
it's membership.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
New York worid.D

Col Robert G. Ingerson once
complained in a lecture on Lincoln
that Washington had already been
transformed into a steel engraving
and that We no longer knew any
thing about him as a human being.
In spite Of the fact that there are
many men alive who knew Abra-
ham Lincoln in the flesh, the
process of turning him into a stee.
engraving has already advanced so
far that il is doubtful IL the orig
inal lincoln will ever be recovered.
Nobody would protest more pas
siOnately than he against the Snug
endeavors of these prigs to iron ali
the lines out of his shrewd and
rugged and honest old face, vet pro
test is probably useless. BY one Of
those perverse jokes Of history the
most human OF American Presidents
is to be robbed OF the character
istics that made him human and is
TO be presented to posterity as the
wax image of an itlnerant evan
gelist.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
SAYS GLADSTONE UANDT-0
HELGOLNND TO GERMAN.

To the Editor The Washington Herald:
II seems To tho vrlr,- that tu..-
correspondent on tho Irish u4.s....-
lose sight Of the crucial ami ...s .-
Gus facts. namely that ,raa--,.r..
in one OF his a.truisrn. MOODS
handed the hey Of the Nu-,H -.
and tho Baltic to Germany fr
HelgOland. Who can imagine
Great Britain. through Lro,d ,..nrr.
or any premier. hardIn- th, A.- ,.
tho world seas to the SInu Fem no.
public OF Ireland or any other ma
ton H. too Transparent IN TO-
guire argument. that SN,r,rr D., OK
pected only by conquest. and 20 no e
goIng {" he the ronquSror-
Once before th, writer. though
N" courtesy OF The Herald. pointed
out that tho bone Of Confsr'rr ~
not political hut question u' ,r-
Premacy between the orauE, and
the green. ss evidenced hN tho pres
ent LEGISLATION establishing ruo
parlIameHJs. which Is the only com
promise until the DAY dswns that
religious differences arc ahand07r1
as We do in this beloved country 90
ours. II seems a paradox that two
Christian bodies believing '-r
orthodox principles should rr 50
higuted as 10 attempt in rre ,vor-
iicth century what was common I-
the sixteenth century. hs.a ..r one
faction sees Mt 10 believe su.-. than
the other can believe. b., th..
ireland.
The Irish as a race ha,- high
place in civilization. Tf,r a-r
Varm-hesrtcd. hOspita bile Gen. -rrs
brilliant. and as lawyers ~n|E.r-r
oubIiCitSts, orators haN, lsu r.uars
That they would play r-.a. nz-,
II not domjnaiin= pa~r " r.-.' O.
politics goes without say -- tr,.
abandoned this one great i'd rC ..
religious biCoJry.
ELIJAH T Knott
MashLnElnn L q e. 4 ~
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15

guarded and was rightly estimated by those in
command who knew him best . s,
The world can now best serve itself by for
getting him. He should be dropped from memory.
He should be left to dry rot in his living grave He
is of no consequence. In power he was constant
menace. But the old order in Germany has passed
forever and he has gone with it. He simply is not
yet buried
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
New York Hersld-l

The will and power to pierce
through and beyond personalities,
partisanship and petty questions
and to discover clearly eternal prin-
ciples was Lincoln's outstanding
trait. Under the fux Of phenomena
and change he saw what was
changeless in the order OF the uni
verse and the progress OF man. To
the end that government for. the
people. of the people and by the
people might not perish from the
earth he carried burdens, ignored
sights and bore reverses, misunder-
standing and undeserved reproach.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15

According to DR.. George G. Cham
bers, director of admissions at the
University Of Pennsylvania the av-
erage man attains perfect intelIi-
gence at the age OF years and
stops on that level for thirty or
forty yesrs, when his intelligence
begins to decrease to the intelli-
gence of a person less than Is year,
old.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
Scientific
Notes and
Comment
Calendar of Meetings.;
Activities of Societies
In Washington

Columbia Historical Society, Cosmos
Club. this evening, Sis O'Clock
The Founding OF an Astronomical
Observatory in Washington" by
DR.. Charles o. Paullin.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15

The man who used to be able to drink just
enough, but never too much, is no longer able
to do even that
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15

Mr.. Harding has been surrounded in
Florida by real friends He caught the largest
FISH.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
(0pepCouhl
Letters ton
heHea+d.
w |othes Folsa' N~~u n
NT On Topses OF = VI
VI Curuus Interest IE,ry
I@T k2AN<.-'

writers of eomniunicstions for
pabIientfen In the Open Court
are feasested To make their
costrfbutions zoo words or IeaE
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15

Mr.. Dawes has his own opinions and is
willing to express them with trimmings to any
biankety- blank Congressman who asks for
them.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
Opinions S
of Other
Ed i t O r S
Brief Comment From
Leading Newspapers
Throughout Nation
CPhilsdeIpbia LedFer ,

Lincoln forever holds a place all
his own in the affections OF his
countrymen because he first loved
them. Whatever he did in the lii,
political was done for them and not
for a personal ambition. In a pro
found humility and in a loneliness
unparalleled he took upon himself
their burden. He asked nothing for
himself and he gave all to them.
He never forgot to be human
There never was a statesman 50
genuinely democratic
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15

Than is the glorious goodly frame of man.
-Du Bartas.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
New York Tribune >

Tho Lincoln religion" il the
feeling aroused by his name can be
50 called. spreads over the earth.
It has no dogmas and it has no
herotiCs. 1t appeals to the learned
and to the unlearned. Lincoln has
become one Of mankind's common
douominatOrs. Humble though OK
.altod, he reveals what all men may
be-. not in far-off ages or in after
life. but here and now. He is ap-
piled Christianity
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15

The Lsviathan is just huge stomach with
an Unsuitable appetite.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
Baltimore Sun

Lincoln was one Of humanity's
prophets; he preached its gospel. he
lived for it and he died for it, For
this reason the world has adopted
this American as its own. has rcCog-
nlzed him as kin to all the peoples
Of the earth. as standing pre-emi-
nontly for the spirit Of justice. love
and brotherhood. Let all Ameri-
cans thank Heaven for Lincoln II
this country is to continue AmerI-
can in aspiration and in soul. Lin
colin must remain ono OF its presid-
Ing patriotic divinities.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-15

Einstein has far easier job than Mr..
Harding. He only has to develop new hypoth-
eses, and leave them for others to disprove.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-14
ADOPT new METHOD
FOR GETTING DUES
American Legion Imposes Penalty on
Last Member to Pay Fee.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, Nov 1S-
Novel methods of collecting member
ship dues have been adopted by local
posts of the American Legion.
Out in Kansas post gave its finance
committee carte blanche in its collec-
tion campaign and a few days later
the Legionnaires were being routed out
of bed at 4 a. m. by members of the
committee, who refused to let the ex-
service man resume his SAUNDERS until
he had paid up.
Another post caused grand rush to
pay 1922 dues when it was announced
that the last man to pay would suffer
the derision of spending an evening in
an improvised guard house.
The various departments of the Lee
gion have entered into a contest for
the honor of being the first to send in
the dues OF its membership.