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The Washington herald., 1922-08-21
Defends Union Labor.
The Editor. The washinsto ton Herald:

To the Editor, The Warrington Herald:
A letter to the open Court in
the Herald signed "A Former Union
Member" called my attention to the
fact that the author either does not
know what he Is talking about, or
has been grossly misinformed. The
gentleman in question calls his
foolish Imagination "A Remedy for
Strikes" He also states that he
has at one time worked In q labor
union once.
In the first place / would like to
tell him that the labor leaders"
do not count ballots for a strike or
any other election ballots. A com
mittee Is appointed for such work.
By committee 1 mean from three
to five members and not leaders. /
would also like to say that If II
were not for organized labor he
probably would be working at an
average Of twelve hours a day for
a wage not exceeding 81. and as TO
the fact (as he says) that IS per
cent of the railroad strikers are
moral towards. I am sure that IL
he were a man. he would give
them credit. for the hard and almost
unendurable struggle against pow
erty and hardship that they must
be suffering just to continue to
hold far from decent living wage.
A HERALD READER.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-21
We Print the Gumps as a
Brilliant, Penetrating Hu-
man Document, Not as
PrOpapanda-

To the Editor, The Washington Herald:
i have always read with interest
your splendid editorials concerning
the enforcement of our prohibition
laws. Your articles have been un-
answerable. and the puny attempts
of some writers to answer them
through the Open Court columns
only show the weakness of the
cause of the vets
However. cannot reconcile your
excellent editorials. particularly
your recent commendation of Pres
ident Albee, of the Keith theaters.
with the publication of such car
toons as the one that appeared on
page II (The Gumps) of The Her
aid this morning august 19). BY
the way. do you pay real money
for The Gumps?
1t seems that nothing could be
more inconsistent. unless It would
be your publication of a bootlegger
J. B. LEEMON.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-21

est developments of medical science
The nursing service is far behind
that of medicine. In many coun-
tries he finds there are no trained
nurses. the service being such as
to repel the kind of young women
needed
The profession of sanitary en-
cheering continues the professor.
In bulletin on the subject of the
Public Health Service, "is almost
unknown except in a few countries
and yet it is the men in this pro-
fession who must be depended upon
10 construct and safeguard public
water supplies, build sewers and
drain swamps. manage the disposal
OF waters and solve the problems
OF plumbing. ventilation and other
matters connected with the health
fulness of mans environment.
sanitary engineering lis taught
IN part, at least, and under other
names In schools of engineering,
but usually without sufficient at
tention being given to it's public
health relations. Opportunities .for
students to receive instruction in
publics health administration are
still more limited. and the conse-
quence is that. outside of a few
countries, there Is a great dearth
of competent health officers. Yet
there are ministries of health, local
boards Of health and the like,
which are constantly creating new
offices to he filled. More and more
the need of employing men spe-
cially trained for this field of ad-
ministration is being felt There
are only few real schools of pub
lie health in the world today, and
these. with one exception, are all
small and inadequately endowed.
The health movement has risen
like flood and Is overflowing the
banks Of the medical profession. It
Is well-nigh impossible for medical
students to acquire all the informa-
ton and skill required for modern.
curative practice and at the same
time keep abreast OF the times in
the collateral science Of preventive
medicine and the arts of sanitation.
Another fact must be taken into
account. Greater emphasis than
formerly Is now being given to the
positive side of health. Health Is
more than the absence of disease:
1t includes comfort, vigor. ability
to work efficiently. and ability to
enjoy life: Amelforation of insani-
tary conditions for the sake of hu-
man Comfort, cleanliness for its
moral influence. exercise, athletics
and attention to posture and the
movements of the body are parts
Of the modern health movement
So. also are the efforts to lessen
fatigue in factory labor These are
matters of hygiene focused upon
normal living Rnd not upon abnor-
NAL conditions. They also extend
outside the, ordinary realm of the
Dhysician. s.r
The Washington herald., 1922-08-21
Socialism and the Bible.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
l note. the very excellent article
of Mr.. Shaffer's in the Open Court
OF August Is and note with inter-
est his position that for Socialists
to claim the Bible as their author
ity is not fair to them or to the
Bible"
/ have heard a Socialist college
professor make almost the Identical
statement. which is absolutely true
when we use the term Socialism
either to define a political party or
an economic theory
The basic principle of Socialism
is the transfer of the means of
production from private TO collec-
tive control and to produce for
social use instead OF profit.
This, of course. has nothing to
do with religion or the Bible, as
Its justification is the recent de-
velopment OF machinery and big
business which now confronts us
with the proposition that the gov
ernment must own the railroads or
the railroads will own the govern
mint"
Socialism exists as a sentiment.
as well as an economic theory and
an organized political party.
The sentiments of brotherhood.
mutual aid. charity. kindness and
sympathy as taught by Jesus may
find a reflex in developed people as
individuals. as a sentiment without
reference to politics or economics
and solely as a psychological fac
tor and thus form an unofficial re-
ligious side to Socialism.
No political party has ever lived
up to its political ideals and il
would not be surprising that in
case Of Socialism's political sue
cess that il would be necessary to
use the recall and referendum as
check on some of its elected Of
ficials, just as the business man
uses the cash register as a check
on his employees.
NJ. F. DAUGHERTY.
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last would jump on the track. H P. H.
The modern e.prs:: ps;:sn%ssr ass % iocoro,iye a, ca can
heavy a. raj. shs .sh. 81 psst proriasd i !.
BY a train behind It to keep It from jumping on
so,s., pr.st.e: on .ssouns o. q curves s and and
Il not often exceeded by railroad trains over any
considerable distance.
NEW York oMNIBUsEs.
Friend People;
~, How many omnibusss are there IN New York
There 11.sls omnibuses in New York City.
according to the latest figures available usaD.
JoHNsoN's sHUT-oUTs.
To Friend Of People:
Did Walter Johnson. Washington pitcher ever
pitch two shut-outs In one day' H. II.
spns book By
shut-out games in one day since he has been in
major league baseball.
POLO GROUNDS DISTANCE.
10 Psopis:
s: 6. Ds; Y
W. A. D.
The distance - sss feet inchs.
STATE FLowERs.
To the rnead Of ne People.
Please give me the State flower for each Of the
Nebraska. New Hsmpshirs California | and se;s Ten.
nessee. W. T.
The orange blossom is the State flower OF
saSebrush. Nevada: eoIdenrod MebrasRs; parpfe
lilac. New Hsmpshirs: golden poppy. California,
and passion flower. Tennessee.
wAsHINGToN's BY-NAME
Friend OF the People:
What is the sobriquet and by-name of wa.h-
inston? w r
."The City of Magnificent Distances" is Wash
ington's by-name.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-21
Seniority vs.. Efficiency.

I N OUR evening mail is a letter from the Post
i office Department announcing that Miss Nina
T. Holmes, clerk in the Detroit office, has broken
all records for rapid distribution of letters in the
history of the postal service
There is enclosed eulogy of Miss Holnes
from the postmaster at Detroit in which he states
that the young woman has attained her speed
record in competition with hundreds of men clerks
and that her success is due to hard work and close
application to study.
II is we'll that Miss Holmes should win such
applause from the "big bosses" at Washington
But here question suggests itself. Let US
presume that orders were issued to reduce the
clerical personnel at the Detroit postoHice This
would be carried out according the seniority rule
Would Miss Holmes, in case her seniority was be-
low that OF some affable old chap who never in his
he did anything his own initiative, be
dismissed,
It seems TO us that this is pertinent query.
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New York City
Day BY Day
By o. o. Mcintyre.

ON THE ATLANTIC. Aug. 3o.-I
The Mauretania, on which ride.
sailed at noon. She 10 the fastest
trans s-Atlantic liner afloat. having
crossed once in four days and six
hours. There was the usual hurrah
leaving the dock. Crowds. Cheers.
Fiuttering handkerchiefs.
There is something heroic about
the little tugs that pull the grey.
hounds out to sea. 1t is as though
fly-weight had knocked out
Dempsey. And as they put-pnt
away nonchalantly one can see the
deck hands yawn. As much as to
say. I'VE gave you start. Try
to cross.h
The passenger list shows few
notables. The only, persons the
cameramen thought worth photo
graphing were Marcus Loew. the
movie magnate. and Or. Minas
Gregory, chief alienist at Bellevue.
1t may have been Imagination. but
when / met DR.. Gregory ! thought
he gave me rather professional
look.
Going out the harbor spent my
time watching those intrepid young
sailors run up to the dizzy tops of
rope ladders and fashion queer
knots. The mates are English and
different from the mates knew on
the Ohio river steamboats,. They
do not curse. They merely shout,
Garry on!" 4
At lunch my wife and I were
placed at the captains table. There
were five at the table besides the
captain. He is youngish looking
and talked of his garden at his
home near Liverpool He has four
days at home twice a month and
he digs afl the tine with his hoe.
My first half day at sea, as Louis
Mann would say, was mot SO goot."
lost my cap a one pound note
and my lunch so I spent the late
, afternoon playing with my deck
stewards cat. He-anyway I call
him TOMS a greatly Travelled fe.
line. having crossed more than. 40
times. Tom seemed to understand
my magnificent paleness. d..
MY greatest thrill of the day was
to see the walters rushing about
with their silver buckets filled
with champagne bottles. And
when the bar opened beyond the
three mile limit the rush to Alaska
years ago. was eclipsed. Codk-
tails are a shilling a throw-or
Jolt. One young man insisted up.
on holding high-balI glass aloft
and thumbing his nose in the gem
eral direction Of the Statue of Lib
erty.
The squeamish feeling l have the
first day reminds me Of a story the
late Bert Williams told. A mother
and father were reclining in deck
chairs. their faces a pea green. A
5-year-old son scampered about
in high glee. He was trying finally
to climb up the deck rail. The
mother turned languidly to her hus-
band with: "John. speak to Willie"
Father lifted his head feebly and
whispered: Hello. Willie"
The Washington herald., 1922-08-21

What are the rewards Of ambition. initiative and
hard work IN the government servicei Is II not
true that the Federsi wofIers' only concern Is to
keep clean efficiency reeordl i II to his interest
70 do one thing more than is. absolutely demanded
Of hims According to some observers around
Washington the man who works when the chief
clerk is not looking would be the ultimate reward
Of the long quest Of Diogenes with his lantern.
Only sheer honesty and devotion to duty would
keep him busy.
Is there any reward to which Miss Holmes can
look other than the publicity she has received? If
there is the government deserves. many apologies
from many people.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-21
Pushcart Peddlers.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
The pushcart merchant in bring
ing his wares to the customer may
be a benefactor or a cheat. One
will find both classes on the streets
of this city. Some are polite: 9TH
ers are impudent. These men are
Tor the most part foreigners, and
come here attracted by the pros
poets Of better income and living
conditions than are obtainable in
their native lands. Then why should
they cheat and insult their Ameri-
can patrons?
Ny experience has been that 20
per cent of taem must be watched
or they'll cheat you. For two even
ings in succession 1 bought fruit OF
these vendors, and. fortunately, 1
examined my purchase soon after
ward and found they had slipped
one spoiled pear one evening and a
bad banana the next. returned
them Immediately. otherwise ]
might never have been able to Sc
cure an adjustment.
There is a severe penalty for de-
liberately selling spoiled foods.
vegetables or fruits. and if a few
of these fellows were given a heavy
fine and a judicial lecture, IL might
serve an excellent purpose.
If pushcart patrons would make
note of the dealers badge number
and lhen examine purchases i'm
mediately, IL might help also.
The health department inspectors
could help a lot in this work, es-
pecially IL they employed middle
aged or elderly men and women to
make purchases of these petty
cheats, as they seem to be the per-
sons selected as their prey.
If the practice continues, then
about the only way to stop II will
be to deprive them of their licenses
or let the public strike"
These fellows in many instances
stay here only a few years. gain q
fortune that will enable them to
live in luxury in their native lands,
to which they return. OF course.
some come to stay. and make good
citizens. But Is the percentage
great enough to warrant our sup
port under the circumstances.
There are real American mer-
chants who will be glad to serve
you without cheating or insulting
you. Why not patronize them?
l. !. B.
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Keep Us Out of War" Slogan
Really Existed, st.
LOuisian Saws.
To the Editor, The Washington Herald /:

To the Editor, The Washington Herald:
Referring to the two articles that
recently appeared in The Herald
and which were signed by a Mr..
Edaw. in which he tried to dis
credit the slogan of the Democratic
party in 1915: He kept US out of
war" as being an indefensible lie,
etc, / would like to know on what
authority Mr.. Edaw bases his posi-
tive statement. However. I think
his evidence Is based on heresay,
therefore his ignorance as to facts
is comprehensible. AS to its origin,
II was no doubt taken from Mr..
Wilson's own statement when he
was addressing a gathering of peo-
pie at East st. Louis. Illinois, from
the rear platform of a Pennsyi-
vania train returning from his
Western trip. about 1915. The re-
mark was made to one Of his cues
TONERS, and in substance he said
that "he had kept us out of war"
etc.
During the convention which was
held In st. Louis. No, there were
any number of these slogans in
use and could be seen displayed in
different parts OF the city and es-
pecially around the Coliseum, where
the delegates to the convention held
their sessions. While II may no,
have been adopted the official slo-
gan Of the Democratic party, IL
was used by, them. and IN no way
was 1t discredited by any of the
delegates there.
On the eve Of the election, In
this same city. there was suspended
between two of the city's largest
and In the most prom
inent downtown section, this slo-
gan was displayed and was large
enough to be seen distance of
several blocks. Also in the city OF
Dayton. Ohio. this slogan appeared
on q poster in an amusement park.
and was not removed until about
1920. Mr.. Edaw's travels have
availed him nothing in the knowl.
edge OF facts.
Mr.. Edaw 10 apparently an ego
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= I
FLINT RIvER 30 MILES LONG.
How long Is IN. Flint River in c.sGc.a, T1sRY
1t is $50 miles long.
WHO WROTE This QUOTATIONS.
To the Friend Of TIE Psopie
| wrote is' The worlds stage on which all psrts
of and
HISTORY OF HALLEY,s COMET.
To the Friend Of the People
u.n WIN you please give me brief history of
temporarily visited our solar system or have be-
come permanent members of It none have sur
rseerd dasIns b Back
rops durnT a., and MSas S @
Of Ens.s s s as .se
reason. be an object Of great sclsntihe interest
.%d Apr tIf' 1915 is II m. the psrhs,os m M
for the twenty-ninth time
NUMBER OF ROMAN CATHOLICS.
How many Roman Catholics are there in the
Th.r. are approximately sss.ooo.ooo Catholic.
in the world.
TWO RoCKEFELLER DONATIONS.
To the Friend of People:
How much did the Rockefeller Foundation
Sersty Of tTe herop.o msrsfy OF snd fne Uni
The Rockefeller Foundation donated $4,000. 900
to the University Of Brussels and '1oooooo to the
SPEED OF TRAINS.
To the Friend Of People:
How fast has railroad train been known to
The Washington herald., 1922-08-21
Are Government Hotels I'm.
fair to Room Renters of
ID. c.? This Writer
Thinks So.

To the Editor, The Washington Herald:
The Washington Herald for Au-
gust is quoted Mrs. Clara Sears
Taylor, Of the District Rent Conn
mission. on various phases Of the
local housing situation. Mrs. Tay-
lor observed. among other things.
that should the government hotels
be discontinued the housing short
age would be accentuated. That
opinion is not concurred in and is
not founded on facts. ANY time
within the last two years the gov
ernment dormitories could have
been dispensed with and their
clientele distributed among the
hundreds OF idle rooms advertised
for rent in the National Capital.
There is no excuse for the continu-
snce Of the unfair competition ere
ated by the operation OF these
hotels.
1t appears further that the Rent
Commission of1cial divested herself
of certain information that she
could not possibly possess in ac-
curste degree. to wit: She re-
marked that there are many rooms
for rent in Washington, but they
are undesirable ones" That gen
eral statement about the quality Of
the rooms will be resented by large
numbers of householders whose
livelihood is pieced out by renting
a few rooms. Mrs. Taylor could not
possibly know whether all the
rooms for rent here are ''undesir-
able" and was not justified in max
ing any such sweeping statement.
Among the total number there may
be some undesirable. II would be
very unusual in any city IL such
were not the case. but II is safe
to assume that the majority of the
rooms offered are desirable.
r. L. s. CODY.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-21
Some Unfavorable Sidelights
On the Career of Wood
row Wilson.
To the Editor. The Washington Herald:

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
Long before Woodrow Wilson
came out of the backwoods of OBJ
scurity, l had well defined and
strong convictions about what is
the difference between able. con-
structive statesmen. and mediocre,
politicians. Big men,
able men. really constructive states
men are noted for their keen dis
cernment Of state needs, and their
Willingness to be just as ready to
do conscientious work in the in
terest of the people. as to jump at
international problems. That means
strong convictions. and it likewise
carries consistency in words and
deeds. both in public and in private
life. That mold does not fit
Woodrow Wilson at all: IL he
should live q thousand years he
would scarcely ever be able to
measure UP to that standard-that
ideal. He is an ideaiist. but most
emphatically, he is of the kind that
the world does not need. My con-
victions of him before he entered
the White House were that he was
far in the wrong-that he was
ehhtbSu, as
well as lacking integrity and sx-
ecutive ability. Wilson's eight
years record has doubly verified my
convictions of him before he be-
gan. His past record was cloudy
and dingy with doubt and uncer-
tainty-inconsistency, dogged at his
heels. Wilson was opposed to
Grover Cleveland's move for PEN
sions; then. Wilson turned. wab-
bled right around and asked An
drew Carnegie for q pension. He
was 56stly refused as being un-
worthy. Before Wilson had got
ten the idea of getting into politics
he assailed the labor unions as
exertine q pernicious influence.
that the members Of said unions
did as little work as possible for
q days work: and that they in
fiuenced others to do the same. Soon
after that Wilson was posing AZ a
special friend Of labor-he now
needed their. votes. Wilson had
said that Bryan sought to be knocked
into q cocked-hat. Later. he c1ms
moping up to the Democratic ma
tional convention in Baltimore
(f912), with very few instructed
all his campaign
The Washington herald., 1922-08-21
OPEN COURT LETTERS TO THE HERALD
Other Peoples Views Current Interest

tlstlcal country travelling mar
therefore one can account for his
being SO positive as to the non
existence of the above-mentioned
slogan However. Mr.. Edaw, IL ex
listed In fact. In the future IL Won
use other sources for obtaining your
information than confining il tc
conversations with Sunday school
girls. you will find the rest of YOUR
positive opinion exploded in fact
ST. LOCISIAS.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-21

September rs. 1853. the third son Il
the late Alfred Harmsworth. bar
He WAS educated ID
Trinity College, Dublin. receiving
his B. A. degree In 1891.
He entered the house Of COM
mons from Droitwich in 1906 sno
occupied a seat there until 1910.
From private parliamentary secre-
taryships he became Q member OF
the prime ministers secretariat and
In 1919 was named parliamentary
undersecretary for foreign AFFAIRS
and acting minister OF blockade.
He served as q member OF the su-
perior council of the blockade in
Paris and Of the supreme economic
council
He has been . member Of the up
per house of Parliament since 1911
and Is q member Of the Conscrva-
tive Labor faction.
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ing with his faultiess fiow OF elo-
quence. he had a mighty small fol-
lowing. Then. IL 1t had not been
for the cccked-hat Bryan. Wilson
would have missed the nomination.
which he did not deserve at the
expense of Bryan's intrigue and
his cheating Champ Clark.
EARNEST WHITE
The Washington herald., 1922-08-21

e X e C u tives. ac-
cording to George
c. Whipple. pro-
fessor of sanitary
engineering. Har-
ward University.
In a discussion
of education Of
h e a ! I h officers.
He says there are
medical schools in
almost all coun-
tries. and, though
these schools diff
fer in excellence,
their programs Of
study run along
the same general
lines and include
n3nv Of tho lot.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-21

interc SITS lett by
Lord Northcline.
noted Britis h
publisher W h o
died recently. is
the general belief
in British circles.
Sir &c ell. q
younger brother
Of Lord North
cline, has been
appointed trustee
oro tenn Of the
enterprises Lord
Northcline C o n
trolled.
Sir Cecil has
devoted most OF
his time TO d.
olomatic W ork.
Ha Waa harm
The Washington herald., 1922-08-21

The idea of the average flapper Of today
is that Maudie Muller was an awful chump to
do all that work in the bayfield,
The Washington herald., 1922-08-21
"Who's Who"
In Days News

That Lord Rothermere (Sir Cecil
will head the vast in
The Washington herald., 1922-08-21

Communications will not be
returned unless specific request
for such return is made and
stamps inciosed.
Letters should be typewritten
whenever possibIe. ommunica-
tions extremely dimeuIt to read
will not be considered. No conn
munications signed with fictitious
names will be used.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-21
Tim ely Opinions
on World Topics
"Health Experts Worlds Greatest
Need" Declares Sanitary
Professor.

The world stands today In great
need Of competent physicians, nurses.
sanitary engineers and public health