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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-01

not a Southern custom and Mr.
Snowden issued the paper every; day
with the exception &c Sundays,
Christmas and July 4. To test my
memory, ] have investigated alti
found by casually examining my
files that the Gazette was issued on
the following THANKSGIVING Days:
1872, November 2S; 1887 November
30. 1892. November %; 1902, Novem,-
Der % and 1910, November "A ana
the years in between"
The Gazette regrets that this er-
ror has been made and attributes the
cause to the fact that when the paper
was acquired by the present owner
ship the files were in very poor con-
dition with reference to complete,
ness and an Investigation resulted
in this misleading information to the
editor. We feel however, that the
observace of Thanksgiving has been
extended to the Southern States now
as we'll as to the Northern and that
this day set aside by the president
q nd governor as one upon which we
should return thanks for blessings
received should be ly observed
along with the two other days set
aside as national holidays.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-01

the greater Alexandria come into
a splendid renascence."
On October l. 1921, just three
days before the election we pub
ished an editorial OF similar ma
ture urging the peole to so to the
polls and vote and see that the
City Manager form OF govern
ment was not defeated by over
confidence upon the part OF those
who favored it.
But if we had not supported the
plan but on the other hand had op-
posed it we would feel it our priv
lege As well as our duty to support
the plan should it prove an I'M
provement over the old and if it
should not 50 prove to point out
t our readers the defects therein.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-01
OUR SPENDING HABITS

The national industries conference
board has Just completed 4 study OF
public expenditure that throws m
teresting light on tibet spending hab-
its CT the leading nations. 1t also
rather effectively negatives the view
quite generally entertained tnat
public expenditures since the arms
tice has been reduced.
For example, take public eXpendi-
ture i'm the United States. In the last
nre-war year, taxation, Federal, State
and local, diverted Ga per cent OF
the national income. BY 1920 that
ratio had grown to IL per cent, ana
to 143 per cent in l920-2l. In the
calendar year 1921, the last period Tor
which the data is available, one-siXth
of the national income went for the
support of governmnt. This untay-
orable showing is to be attributed, IN
mart, to the tremendous increase IN
local and State expenditure during
the years since the war.
But even in the case of Federal
government expenditures for which
Republican statiSticians have dis
nlaved much experiences in Juggling
the figures to create a favorable opin
ion of the administration, this report
indicates that savings have been
much more apparent than real. In
the fiscal year 1920 the expenses
of the Federal government fell just
below five billions. The money eX-
nqnditure two years later had been
reduced to "A billions, but in the
meantime the purchasing power of
the dollar had been increased so sub
stantially that the conference board
concludes that the Federal tax bur
den was actually 10 per cent higher
in the latter year than in the for
mer. The fluctuating value of the
dollar is a factor which cannot be
overlooked in arriving at correct
statement Of the weight of tax bur
dens. Yet it is a factor which has
not been given any consideration
whatever by the Budget Bureau and
others who are Boosting of govern
ment economy Richmond Times
Dispatch.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-01
THE FIRST THANKSGIVING DAY
(By Louis Hardy)

The Pilgrims came TO worship
In America, they say,
Because the king would not let them
In their own and only way.
They suffered many hardships,
Coming over here,
They began building houses,
And they all were CT good cheer
They cleared the land for gardens
And sowed the seeds with care.
The fall has brought them good har-
vests,
And they were all thankful there.
And they prepared 4 feast in quick
ness,
And the Indians they did invite,
And there was feast:ng going on
From morning until night.
The aboce little poem written by
Louis Hardy, aged 9. was received
too late for publication Wednesday,
Hardy is a student of Washington
School, and is a member of the fifth
grade class.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-01
Can Steer Ships
By This Echo
CBy United Prcss.J

New York, Dec. DIR. H. c. Hay
es, physicist, hold the National Acad-
envy of Science here that with an
echo you can tell to hair just how
deep the ocean is, at any point in all
its 100000 square miles, and with
an echo to guide you will be able to
navigate safely through a fog so
thick you can't see the bows Of your
own boat.
Dr.. Hayes has been conducting re-
search work at the navy department
experimental station at Annapolis.
He told the academy;
During the war. while the navy was
experimenting with the device known
as the NV type of listeninginstru-
ment it was found that with tins
instrument the location of an enemy
submarine could be determined, to-
gether with its direction of movement,
and that other sounds, to which the lis
tener did not wish TO pay attention,
could be focused out Subsequent
experimentation enabled the navy to
work out three methods, all using the
NV sound-receiver, Of determining
the depth of the ocean and to chart
the entire surface OF the ocean-tloor
from Newport, r. l., to Gibraltar
some 5000 miles.
1.-TWO of the methods are Tor deter
mining depths of shallow water, the
other for deep-sea depths, but all de-
pend on sending out sound from d
vessel and receiving an echo from the
sea bottom"
The NV receiver, he said, is mount
ed near the bows of a lonfg naval yes
sci. The ships propellers, revolving
~ tha stern. throw out sound IN every
direction. but no attention is paid to
ANYTHING but the echo coming back
from below"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-01
SAYS-NOW STIFF
JOINTS MUST GO!
New Discovery Limbers En- Up and
Even the Cracking Ceases

Yes. IFS true-the world progress
All YOU have to do nowadays to
l;n,her M that stiff, rusty knee JOINT
is 10 squeeze half inch OF miracle
working substance from a tuce'
Then rub it on the offending part
for about a quarter of a minute or
until it soaks through the skin and
disappears on it's errand OF mercy
Then read the evening newspaper
and go to bed.
The CHANGES are that your misbe-
having knee Joint will lose its "creak
while YOU are dreaming about the
HIGH fences YOU used to leap when you
were a yOungster.
and in the morning says one
who has tried the. new discovery,
you'll feel so happy that you'll want
to Jump into your sDortlest clothes
and walk briskly down the street Just
to show the neighbors that you are
not as old as they think you are
Joint-Ease: They call this wonder
working substance, for the reason
that when ordinary remedies fail to
timber up the stiff, inflamed rheu
matte Joint, or reduce the swelling
Joint Ease succeeds.
It's a good name for a good, clean,
stainless prescription that in Just a
few months has proven to a multi
tude of people that lame, swollen,
distorted joints can speedily have the
kinks taken out of them and work as
smoothly as ever.
But joint-Ease is for bothersome
Joints, whether in knee, ankle, hip,
shoulder, spine or finger, and for that
purpose its sale is immense.
Leadbeater Drug Corporation and
druggists everywhere report a big
demand.-adV.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-01
Gazette Custom Was To
Issue Paper Says Citizen

The Gazette is in receipt of let
ter from City Auditor f. F. Price,
one of AleXandria'S Oldest and best
informed citizens. stating that the
notice in the Gazette Wednesday at
ternoon was just little wrong and
went on to say that upon Thanksgiv-
ing days in the past the Gazette was
issued. His letter in part reads:
The notice was all right with the eX-
ception that it was wrong, the error,
of course. being one of the head and
not of the heart and not to miSlead or
to misinform. In fact Harold Snowden
at times referred to Thanksgiving as
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-01
GERMAN PLEDGES

According to Clenlenceau the
German government has no more
regard for It's written agreements
than some ladies have for that por-
ton of the marriage contract
wherin they promise to obey.
They never intended to abide by
it when they made the promise
and regard il only as a part OF the
ceremony and usually refuse to
condescend to discuss it. Old
fashioned ideas seem to have
fallen into inocuouS destitute or
else buried in the grave OF legends.
Clemenceau is undoubtedly a
diplomat Of marked ability, who
has decided that the best policy is
to tell the truth to the American
people and win their attention by
surprising but convincing facts.
lie is preaching simple doctrine
namely, either make certain OF
peace or prepare to continue fight
ing-eNpend your energies in as
surfing peace or take the other horn
OF the dilemma and extend human
effort. energy and life and treas
ure in human slaughter.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-01

FORESGN REPRESENTATIVE
R-ynnt, Griffith and BrnASozs
2Z6 FIftA 1veBne. New York
Peoples Cas- Bldg, Chienge.
4aI DegOns llre ST., BOsfOG
COT Grant Bids. AtiAFs~s Ga
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION
Payable In Advance
neIIve-> =. ty Cnrrier In Alexandria and
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-01

Entered u; 'ho Postofice Gt A.sSa,'drSeI'
Virgir.i-. II seoo''d Gloss znutfer
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-01
6. s. s. Is the Great Builder of Red.
Blood and Rheumatism
Must Col Just Try III

"Rheumatism? Ne? No, indeeG. it's
nil zone. every bit Of it! It's sunshine
and 10Y for me now for the first time In
wears. ] feel wonderful glory again in
the free motion used to have when my
DAYS were younger l look ut my hands
and think Of the twists and swellings they
used to have. I bend way over TO tho
floor I haven't been able to do that in
many years | can thank S. S. 5. for 1t
all! To NE IL was q rising sun of JOY and
liberty. Brothers and sisters in misery,
do not close your eyes and think that
health. free motion and strength are gone
from YOU foreverl Il is not 30. It is here
and now for all Of YOU. S. 5. $. IS wait
ing to help you." There is 4 reason why
s. $. s. will help You. When you increase
the number of your ed-blood cells. the
entire system undcrg0es tremendous
c:aucc. Everything depends on blood
strength. Blood which is minus sufficient
red-cclls leads to q laa; list of troubles.
Rheumatism is one e them. $. ). :. is
the great blood-clcaTser, b!ood-builGer,
system strengthener, nerve invigorator. lt
sfops skin crup;i9us, TOO, piiaples, black
heads. acne. hollis, eczema. IL buliuS up
run down. tired lA.l Gad women be7uti-
fics caluIleXionS, makes The 1'e"h !iFilef.
Start : ). :. tid,S, IS s,h a. al drug
s.crrs T., two si2rs re hr5cr size bottle
j; ths mrr. ecappt!i,...
s y s.: a::'' Ss:irS IL ag ali
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-01
SUPPORTED NEW PLAN

We have lately mad occasion to
express a few views with reference
to our new city government and
we understand that there are some
of our readers who had thought
this paper had not favored the
present plan and would seem TO
think that this fact, ii true, would
deprive us of the right OF any criti-
cism we might in the future desire
TO make in the interest OF the pub
lie or its new government. Both
assumptions are wrong. The Ga
zette did advocate and most hearth
" indorse the adoption OF the new
city government plan and urged
the people to adopt We repro
.uce a few excerpts from such cdi-
orials in order to enlighten any
tho may be laboring under a false
IMPRESSION. On June 10, 1921.
he Gazette editorially said;
The manager idea has done
way with the old spoils system.
he city's affairs are looked az
ter with the same zeal and fidelity
as would be those of a large indus
trial enterprise. This means not
only the savings OF thousands OF
dollars annually, but the absolute
equivalent OF 4 dollars worth OF
value for every dollar expended.
1t is a pledge OF economy. 1T IS
good business put in active prac-
tice.
1--WE believe the sentiment OF
AleNaudria today to be over
whelmiugly in fave OF this form
OF city government. We urge
every citizen TO cast his vote at the
proper time, and see to it PERSONAL
" that the measure may not be de
featcd for lack of interest at :he
polls. The committee recently ap-
pointed to prepare the plans are
actively at work aud the Gazette
from time to time will publish the
result Of their labors.
again on June Is, 1921, The
Gazette still advocating the new
plan of government said:
"Aud So it goes oil One OF our
leading citizens has but recently
returned from Norfolk an d
Lyuchburg, and he reports the
citizens in both places enthusiaS-
tic over their city manager and
the efficiency and economy OF
their administrations. NorfolN
is especially a most admirable cN-
ample. Although it had doubled
Its population suddenly during the
war, yot the new government, dat
ing from September, 1918. re-
duccd is inherited deficit by tive
million dollars, had added 81, 500
600 OF public Improvements
made the police aud fire depart
mcuts the best paid in the country
established q juvenile court, en-
plovcd visiting nurses, openel
free medical and dental clinics an(
established & city hospital.
"\Vhat Norfolk has accom-
plishcd Alexandria can achieve II
proportion We are emphatic II
the assertion that with the CITY
mduager form OF government. thu
real Alexardria Villav AIKEN anC
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-01
Public Pulse
Alexandria, Va.
Nov 90 1922.

Nov. %, 1922.
Editor Gazette:
In reference to your editorial ap-
bearing Saturday, November %,
would YOU be so kind as to inform
the public as to what issues of your
paper carried any matter favoring
the installation of the New City Gov
ernment. That is, of course. other
than paid advertisements.
Respectfully yours,
r. F. DOWNHAM.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-01

Bill May says he knows a girl
who is so prudish she won't even
wear stockings with fast colors.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-05
Dorothy Dix
(TO BE CONTINUED,

I'VE need beauty and grace Just as much
as we need toll and struggle, and if God had
not intended us to have one as much as the
other, he would not have made lilies, as well
as cabbages and potatoes. Both Sevres vases
ana IRON pots are necessary in comfortable
and complete household.
wish that women appreciated this Just
little more. 1 wish that they could realize
mat the woman who is an ornament to life
who makes her home beautiful and her home
NE charming, who keel her husband inter
eSted, and her children inspired, and who is
the sun which radiates social circle has
made the best possible use Of her talents.
She has done bigger and finer thing
than IT she was a frompy author of a best
seller, or a successful lawyer, with an unsuc-
cesstul home in the BACKGROUND, or a self
centered actress who had been too absorbed
IN her own career to ever consider any other
human being.
The trouble with the modern woman is
that she thinks she must capitalize every par
tlcle of ability she has, and sell it in dollars
and cents over the counter. She thinks brains
ana ordnance, and charm of personality are
commodities too liable for home cOnsump-
ton She doesn't feel that she should feed
her family and friends on nectar and ambro-
STA. Corned beef is good enough for them.
SO the woman of talent is career mad, and
considers that she is simply throwing her
gifts away if she bestows them on her init
mate circle.
Il think that this is the most pitiful mis-
take that women lake, and that the saddest
thing on earth is that they do not realize the
Importance of maxim beautiful and happy,
and cheerful home--the sort of a home that
husband and children think of as the most
attractive place on earth, and that is an
oasis in the desert to every stranger who
tastes it's blessed hospitality. Nothing else
| that a woman can ever do, does as much good
as such a home. No other influence she can
WELD is so potent, or so lasting
And to make home like that takes all
the gifts with which God Almighty ever en-
dowed any woman. 1t is no job for fool
woman.
Its because I think that women We're
meant to be parlor ornaments as well as
kitchen utensils, and because / think their
mission is to sof+ | the hard edges of ex-
istence that | hold that the greatest thing
| A woman can do is to make fine art of liv-
ng--aS Marie does"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-05
The Outline of History-By H. @. Wells
|. The Romance of Mother Earth

or these primitive peoples cease, and the true
Egyptians appear on the scene. The former
people were hut builders and lat campara-
lively low stage of Neoithic culture: the later
were already a civilized NeoIithic people:
they used brick and wood buildings, instead
OF their predecessors novels, and thew were
WORKING stone. Very soon they passed into
the Bronze Age. They possessed a system
OF picture writing almost as developed as the
contemporary writing of the Sumerians, but
quite different in character
POSSIBLY there was an Eruption from south
ern Arabia by way of Alden, of fresh peonle
VINO came into upper Egypt and descended
slowly toward the delta of tina Nile DR. Wal
lis Bulge writes of them as ''conquerors from
the East" But their gods and their WAYS,
IKE their picture writing, were very different
indeed from the Sumerian. One of the ear
lest known figures of a deity is that of a
h-ppopotamus goddess, and so very distinc-
lively African.
The clay of the Nile is not so fine and
plastic as the Sumerian clay, and the Egyp-
tlans made no use of it for writing But
they early resorted to strips of the papyrus
reed fastened together, from whose name
comes our word paper"
The broad outline of the history of Egvpt
Is simpler than the history of Mesopotamia,
IL mas long been the custom to divide the ruI-
ers OF Egypt into succession of Dynasties.
and in speaking of the periods of Egyptian
history it is usual to :reak of the first. fourth
tlans were ultimately conquered by the Per
SLAMS after their establishment in Babylon,
and when finally Egypt fell to Alexander the
Great IN 332 B. c., it was Dynasty XXI that
came to an end.
An Exhausting Undertaking
In that long history of over 1000 wears,
much longer period than that between the
career or Alexander the Great and the present
dav' certain broad phases of development may
De noted here. There was phase known as
the old kingdom" which eliminated in the
WITH Dynasty; this Dynasty marks period of
wealth and splendor, and its monarchs were
making monuments for themselves as no men
nave ever before or since had a chance to
display and crafty 1t was Cheops and Che
phren and Mycerinus of this WITH Dynasty
VINO raised the vast piles of the great and
the second and the third pyramids at Gizeh.
lhese unmeanlng sepulchral piles, of an al
most incredible vastGess, erected in an age
When engineering scieIce had scarcely begun,
exhausted the resources of Egypt through
| three long reigns, and left her wasted as if
by war.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-05
REALISM IN ART
BY DR.. Frank Crane

There have always been two schools in art ;
one has made toward the goal of showing
things as they are, the other has preferred
things as they ought to be.
The first are the Realists, the second are
the Romanticists.
Neither one of these tendencies is sound
if it entirely excludes the .ott-r.
If you produce a picture, for instance, of
any scene exactly as it is, it you reproduce a
conversation precisely as it took place or if
you describe actions or circumstances just as
they are without throwing any light from
your own emotions upon them, You are no
more than photographer or reporter,
On the other hand, if in your zeal for strong
feeling you get entirely away from the real,
that also is not art.
The true master must have two qualifica-
lions. He must have the high vision of what
he wants to do, and he must have skill
enough in his fingers and knowledge enough
of his materials to do this without being
absurd or grotesque.
The sculptor must not only have his con-
ception of beauty, but lie mus know how to
work his clay; the painter needs not only a
vivid imagination, but he must understand
the value of his paints; and so on.
In "The Seven Heaven a play by Austin
Strong, there is a vivid scene in which the
ideal and the real are skiIfIlly blended.
The poor bedraggled girl, who all her life
has been abused and subdued, is awakened
by love Her lover tells her that if she will
take into her own mind the thought of cour-
age and say constantly to herself that she is
not afraid she will be able to conquer her
fears and assert her independence.
In a scene of great dramatic power, she
follows this advice. Repeating to herself
that she is brave, that she is not afraid that
she has courage, she turns against the tyran-
nous old woman who had always cowed her,
and blazes forth in such a fury and majesty
| of self-assertion that the old harridan flees
| in terror.
Some critics have objected to this scene
because it seems improbable. But it is good
art simply because it makes tn improbable
| seem probable. In other words, art is not
merely truth, it is more than the truth. 1t is
the truth suffused with emtion. 1t is the
| truth Of which the two wings, the real and
! the ideal, beat with e4Lal force.
The attempt of the amateur fails because
| his vision is too strong for his skill. He has
not the craftsmanship to make his materials
Garry his vision. And the attempt of the
artist, especially if he be too sophisticated
| and affected with the sort 6 snobbery we
| call highbrow, is to overvalue his materials
| and forget that they are nothing unless they
| are made to shine.
| The author of ''The Seventh Heaven" has
shown us sordid things, and made them
| beautiful No artist has a right to produce
| anything except beauty.
| He may speak of low and even disgusting
! things, if he will, but, unless he can make
them radiate some sort of beauty, his work
| has no excuse.
| Copyright, 1922