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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-09
The Traffic Coppet
BY FREDERICK ). HAsKIN

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 9.-The
coppet is a new and popular institu-
ton in this city. She is not to be
confused with the woman policeman
who goes around in pursuit of the
hayward girl. The coppet is chill
drens traffic officer. She gives her
services to make dangerous street
crossings safe, and all the pay she
draws is in smiles from the children.
Washington has 100 coppets, and Mrs.
Ellis Logan, who is in charge of the
force" says that she can use 500.
The idea came to Washington when
New York mothers were taking their
children to school during the milk
strike emergency. Mothers went to
all sorts of trouble and made every
effort to see that their children got to
school safely.
Interest was aroused in the hazards
to which children are exposed on the
streets, and the question raised: Why
shouldn't a city organize the women
who could give half an hour a day or
just half an hour week to get the
children safely across streets where
no traffic officers are stationed. Mrs.
Logan thought Washington could. The
city traffic department liked the idea
and agreed to back up the corps and
to give instructions.
The plan was first tried out at The
Wilson Normal School, where the
pupils are children in the first four
grades and in the kindergarten. These
youngsters, practically all under 10
years, have had dangerous routes to
travel. A car line runs on one side
of the school and two other lines run
parallel with this, two and three
blocks away.
Mrs. Logan regarded the street car
crossing by this school as a good
place to demonstrate the work of the
coppet. She and three other volun-
teers were broken in by the head OF
the city traffic department one morn
ing at $3.50, and for half an hour they
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-09

being extended to dangerous crossings
farther from the schol buildings.
At every center. Mrs. Logan places
four women. There must be one, she
says, for each corner, SO that tramc
in every direction may be efficiently
watched, and so that the children may
be assisted across the four cross
walks. The traffic department has
agreed to back up the coppets in the
event of their reporting cases of speed
ing or refusal to obey signals. So far
there has been no difficulty of this
sort. The city is heartily cooperating
with the volunteer traffic officers. But
in the event of trouble the four women
to crossing would insure that driv'
er's number would be taken and, too
there would be witnesses.
Mrs. Logan is getting letters, tele
phone calls and visits every day from
women who are anxious to help. One
woman who was visiting in Washing
ton for month, arranged to give some
time each day to the children. Another
a woman of 20, still spry and alert
was eager to help. She said that she
had been looking for civic welfare
work and this was something she could
do.
I'VE have given our money to the
children of Europe" says Mrs. Logan
For our own children we ask only q
little time. 1t is woman's work, done
in a dignified, efficient manner, and
women are responding 10 the sugges
ton of new field for service. The
volunteers have come from all walks
of life"
Work Benefits Coppets
Mrs. Logan thought of the traffic
work only as a service that the women
could give to the city, but a promi
nent doctor in the city sees POSSIBLE
ties for physical benefit. He told hel
that he wished all of his women pa
tients who could got out would take
up traffic work. There is nothing,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-09

The Territorial Historical Museum,
at Juneau, Alaska, which is now open
TO the public, contains about 10000
Eskimo curios and relics.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-09
INFANT is BURIED

WILLIAMSBURG, Ohio. Feb. O.
The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Guy
Armacost, who died Monday evening,
was buried Wednesday afternoon
with funeral services at the grave.
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were kept busy plotting troops OF
school children between the four side
walks of the crossing.
The children took with enthusiasm
to the mamma policeman" as they
at once nicknamed the volunteer traf-
fic officers. They also responded to
the efforts of the women to teach
them how to cross the streets. Dan
gers of diagonal crossing and of neg
lecting to watch for automobiles were
explained so that the children would
be more careful at'corners unprotect-
ed by traffic guardians.
From that beginning the project
spread to Is school centers in one
week, and it is being extended almost
as rapidly now. Even in the suburbs,
women have volunteered to patrol the
railroad crossings near school build
ings. One notably dangerous subur-
ban crossing not far from a school is
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-09
TRY SULPHUR ON
AN ECZEMA SKIN
Costs Little and Overcomes
Trouble Almost Over
Night.

Any breaking out of the skin, even
fiery, itching eczema, can be quickly
overcome by applying Mentho-Sulphur,
declares a noted skin specialist. Be-
cause of its germ destroying proper
ties, this sulphur preparation instant
ly brings ease from skin irritation,
soothes and heals the eczema right up
and leaves the skin clear and smooth.
1t seldom fails to relieve the tor
ment without delay. Sufferers from
skin trouble should obtain small jar
of Mentho-Sulphur from any good
druggist and use it like cold cream
Advertisement.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-09
Greatest Farm Power Value Eve
Harvester Co.'S Exceptional Offer
Effective February 3, to May l, 1922

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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-09
TEACHER SETS UP RECORD

MONROVIA, Ind, Feb. 9.-Charles
Ragland, instructor in English in the
Monrovia high school, has taught
school twenty-one consecutive years.
He is 40 years old. Thirty-three years
of his life has been spent in schools.
He started to school when he was I
years old and was never tardy or alb
sent.
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Republic also is interested. He sent
his secretary to obtain all details from
Mrs. Logan with view to having the
plan put into effect in Argentina
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-09
Will Present Playlet
At HolFansburg Tuesda,

WILLIAMSBURG, Ohio. Feb. 9.-The
Pythian Sisters of williamsburg will
give a playlet on Tuesday evening,
Feb. IA, the title being THE Sistren,
or The Old Maids Convention"
The Washington times., 1922-12-07
A Tarantula That Com
mitted Suicide.

Mr.. A. s. Lanier tells of his ex.
periences with tarantula he had
captured:
Placing the tarantula into a
bottle, I started walking toward
my office, holding the bottle In
front of my and watching him.
After about four attempts to climb
the sides Of the bottle he either
threw himself or fell on his back.
l stopped walking and, holding
the bottle where the bright sun
light would strike fun upon him.
saw a thick milky looking sub.
stance coming from his mouth.
He then raised his two small
front legs that are located al.
rectly in front of his head, and
proceeded to dip his "fangs up
and down, not sideways like other
spiders, into this secretion.
His fangs were curved Just IKE
those In a rattlesnake and, after
dipping them several times, >he
pulled the two little legs over
them and seemed to stick his fangs
into them. He repeated this three
times or possibly four and in less
than minute was stone dead. He
had committed suicide"
The Washington times., 1922-12-07
By Lucy Lowell
THEY have hurried away fror

"HEY have hurried away from
the courtroom with its rows
u OF curious eyes to- the little
home tucked somewhere in the
narrow streets OF Philadelphia.
Mother white faced and hunted
have no doubt. and pretty
daughter tossing her head!
Hurry along the street, Mother,
and hold your head high. Daugh.
ter, II you can! For shame is at
your heelsi
Up the steps quickly, quickly!
And close the door softly lest the
neighbors, behind their curtains,
hear and sneer! Down with the
shades and into the farthest,
room, never, never to come out
again as you came before!
Thief! It's written against the
dark in letters of fire, little
Mother, little Daughter. Why
did you think happiness could
come out OF wrong? And what
was II the Judge asked as he
pushed his glasses up. up, quite
to the top of his honey nose, and
fixed steel-grey. steel-piercing eyes
right on your heart?
You. a mother, went to a store
with your daughter and watched
while she stole olothes7"
And you made your trembling
lips say Yes" and you tried to
make him understand that you
were all to blame, before he took
down his glasses and took out his
handkerchief, the biggest. whitest
80
and polished the glasses and
polished and polished, and finally
said Hump" and sent you away
while he thought 1t over.
But you didn't tell him all about
You didn't tell about the baby
that lay in your arms. all silky
and sweet and trusting, with
tiny hands fluttering toward the
life that only you could give.
Nor about the little girl at your
knee still asking. always asking,
and receiving, too, what you had
for her and yourself as well!
You didn't explain about the
baby grown tall, gone out into a
world where often, all too often,
clothes count for character; the
baby--she's still Baby to you
sobbing with hurt over her cheap
attire, begging you for something
better, something your slender
purse could not buy!
Bitter, lines showing round the
pouting lips, then, at sight of q
fur or. q jewel. Envy shoulder
ing in clear, young eyes like
poison in q woodland pool. A
shutting off of condolences as
you set round Sthe table in the
evening. her pretty face sulleh
under the old silk-covered lamp.
How II must have clutched like
an icy hand, that ominous
silence!
believe you took that disas-
trous journey to the department
store In a white daze, and that
you didn't really understand TN
Il vas time for you TO assume
The Washington times., 1922-12-07
Boy Who Never Laughs Is Big
Puzzle to Psychologists and
Educators in London
Copyright. 1922. ~ Star Company.

cause of laughter, what he called
"the typical case" of the fat man
in the street wildly pursuing his
hat on a windy day.
"I cannot imagine" he said,
"such sight iniuriOusly affect
ing the most highly sensitive on
locker"
DIR. Kimmins has been finding
out what funny sights make chill
dren laugh most. "In the do
mestic life of the child" he said.
1.-The dog and cat are retained on
the pedestal of the fairy story,
and are endowed by the children
with a much higher range OF
ability than is granted to them
by adults"
A classification of adult rela-
tives who make the children
laugh was unflattering to father
and uncle. tThe mother" said
DR.. Kimmins, "is rarely the OBJ
ject who provokes laughter. 1t
Is generally Che uncle, and less
frequently the father. Occasion
ally the aunt appears as the
mirth-provoking element" He
added that children frequently re-
joiced at the failure Of father,
but never criticized mother. He
quoted one girl who remarked,
1T takes a lot to make father
laugh, but even he had to
Join in"
DIR. Kimmins said that occur.
rences In trains. tramcars and
omnibuses provided rich har-
vest of humorous situations which
were much quoted by children OF
all classes.
DIR. Kimmins laid down the
great fundamental truth that the
man who provokes most mirth In
street accidents Is nearly always
a fat man.
The Washington times., 1922-12-07
POPPING A WHIP OVER
D. C.. EMPLOYEES
Colonel Keller's Drastic Action May Be Legal,
But Is It Human or Right?
By BILL PRICE.

. Instead of marking those who de-
liberately impose upon the Gov
ernment, the officials make some
general rule reducing sick leave
to ten days or fifteen days and
apply II too rigidly to meritorious
cases of genuine illness. There
are thousands of faithful, loyal
clerks who never falsify their
statements as to illness. Some of
them are not in good health. In
rileritorious cases, the facts off
which may be ascertained, they
are entitled to thirty days, II
necessary, and should not De de-
cause there are dishonest clerks
who do take advantage of the lib
eral treatment accorded by officials
over them. The effect Is to pun
ish all for the wrongdoing OF
few.
Municipal Employees.
The municipal government long
ago adopted the same rules as
the Federal Government in the
matter Of vacation and sick leaves,
and, until Colonel Keller's drastic
action, the employees OF the Dis
trict have been fairly treated. 1t
is noticeable that Commissioners
Rudolph and Oyster do not follow
the example of the Engineer Com
missioner. AS successful business
men, before becoming public
servants, they learned that kindly
treatment begets the contentment
and efficiency from workers.
Hard-boiled treatment OF human
beings, whether I'm government or
business life, never succeeds In ,ts
aims or promotes that atmosphere
SO necessary to obtaining the best
results.
1t is not fair or right that en-
ployes Of the Engineer Depart
ment should have their annual
leaves limited to thirty days, in
cluding sickness. If a valued EN-.
ploye has taken his or her an.
nual leave and is stricken with
illness, confined at home or IN a
hospital, that employe Is entitled
not only to thirty days sick leave,
II necessary. but to sixty days II
circumstances warrant. That Is
the policy Of many heads OF de-
partments, and II is the right
policy. 1t is human policy.
Worthy employees, conscientious IN
the discharge of their duties,
honorable in their statements,
should not be made to suffer be-
cause there is deception and dis
honesty on the part OF a few.
The Washington times., 1922-12-07
ONCE OVERS
THE PARLOR FURNITURE

Do you feel all out Of sorts when you GO home and find
the furniture and other articles in the home changed
aboutf
Husbands generally things to be in the order
all the time.
But husbands home enough to have much
chance of becoming tired of appearances wives do.
Many wives home twenty -four hours day, many of
which they alone not surprising that they get
tired of seeing every piece of furniture book case chair
couch rug in the old place
In the old spot day after day. and year after year.
they have right to get tired and want change once
while. ~
They have desire how things would look changed
around in different positions and they know that everything
better and evenly changed about occasionally
80 it is after all economy. ~
But husbands think this is tomfooery because in
their offices and shops furniture and machines kept
in nearly the position year after year.
In the office shop there is not the personal close inter
est that wife bestows her home. So
The Washington times., 1922-12-07

~ OLONEL KELLER, Engineer
Commissioner of the Dis
~ trict, is within his legal
rights the human side of it be-
ing altogether different-cracking
whip over the more than
1000 employees of the Engineer
Department of the District gov
ernment by requiring them to
punch time clocks and in virtually
taking from them the sick leave
they have felt they were entitled
to in addition to annual leave.
There are men, in and out of
Congress who refer TO Government
employees as having "unheard of
cinches," and who lay emphasis
upon the statement that these EN-.
ployes are annually allowed thirty
days vacation leave and another
thirty days for sick leave, or a total
Of sixty days at the expense Of the
= Federal or District governments.
The Laws Of Leave.
The law of March Is, 1898. gave
to heads of executive departments
and establishments permission to
grant thirty days in the event Of
illness.
The law does not give these
leaves Of absence as a matte~ Of
right. 1t is just q sort of Santa
Claus affair. II the Santa Claus
at the head Of each executive es-
tablishment happens to be a kind
ly and human sort Of old fellow
he treats his workers well. II
he happens to be a slave driver
he can and does do about as he
pleases. particularly In the mat
ter of sick leave.
Custom has. of course, given
the thirty days annual leave to
Federal and District employees
for many years. although work
ing conditions frequently do not
permit thousands Of them to take
that much time. There have been
abuses of the sick leave; there
are abuses today. Some clerks.
exhausting their annual leave In
pursuit of pleasure, take time off
and have it charged to sick leave,
believing that they are legally
entitled to thirty days II they
happen to be feeling badly or
they need an extra day for shop
ping or some other personal mat
ter.
Furnishing All for q Few.
This abuse has resulted in a
general tightening up in execu-
tive departments as to sick leave.
The Washington times., 1922-12-07

-F Won haven't already supplied
Yourself with holiday Spirits"
II then you may as we'll recon-
cile yourself to the thought OF
eating your Christmas dinner
without any stomach-warming
appetizer containing more than
the much.abused one-half Of one
per cent.
Perhaps the reader will give
vent to a little snicker of disbe-
lief as he lovingly fondles a card
in his pocket bearing the latest
quotations of his favorite boot
logger.
But real honest to goodness
liauor will be more scarce this
Holiday season than foot-warm-
ers in the tropics, according to
prohibition officials here.
Oh, yes. they languidly admit,
there will, be. some hard stuff'
to be had. the kind that unscru-
pulous LIQUOR traffickers let flow
with free abandon, at prices
which induce purchase. But It's
liquor only after fashion. they
point out.
'"Poison, to be more accurate"
they dolefully declare.
Real liquor. the kind that
warmed stomachs and gladdened'
heArts during the holiday season
in .voistead days, viii be
more scarce than In any year
since prohibition became law In
the United States, they confident
Iy assert. And the little that win
be available, they say, will be
offered at prohibitive prices.
The prohibition department.
anticipating the usual holiday
rush." has adopted more strin-
gent measures to check Snug
Cling and bootlegefne. Late last
month Prohibition Commissioner
Haynes's personal staff of gen.
eral prohibition agents was moved
about with the purpose. II. was
explained, Of having them In To-
The Washington times., 1922-12-07
Lucy Lowell Tells How Girls Love
of Fmery Led Mother Almost
to Prison Door

few pieces of finery!
Some way or other I can't hold
II against you as I probably
should, little mother. not while
you and I and most of this
whole, wide world are rightly or
wrongly. prettily or sillily little
finery mad!
Here's hoping that some day
some Judge who Is so great and
wise that his words will boom
all the way round the earth, will
repeat the warning against look
ing on the outward appearance,
and that mothers tears will be
dried thereby!
(CopyriHht. 49,, by King Features
Syndicate, Ltd
The Washington times., 1922-12-07

rrOw the Queen of Rumania
donned her coronation robes
III especially for the benefit
of two American visitors and
staged an impromptu rehearsal
of the ceremony Is the engaging
story told by Mrs. b. Frank Me-
bane OF Spray. N. c., just back
from Europe.
A frequent visitor to the Ma
tional Capital. Mrs. Mebane re-
cited for her friends here the de-
tails Of the unusual experience
which befell her and Mrs. Kemble
White, of Fairmont, w. Va, while
abroad.
When Mrs. Mebane was ac-
lively engaged in relief work in
the Balkan states in 1919 she was
extended an invitation to visit
the Rumahian Queen Marie at
her summer palace in Sanaia, in
the Carpathian mountains. Upon
reaching central Europe with
Mrs. White on their recent trip
abroad the invitation was re-
newed, and the two American
women were requested to stay
with Queen Marie at Sanaia and
then to remain for the coronation
and until the royal family re-
turned to Bucharest.
But the guests, who were ac-
corded a hearty welcome by the
Queen, regretfully informed their
hostess that they could not re-
main for the ceremony. where
upon the Queen, throwing aside
her royal dignity. ordered brought
out all the robes which had just
been made for her coronation.
put them on for the benefit OF
her guests and walked .iown the
The Washington times., 1922-12-07
oNDoN.-There is a boy who


never laughs and science Is
IL Investigating" him. He is
the find" of DR.. c. w. Kimmins,
psychologist and educationist. who
told of his discovery In an ad.
dress on The Sense OF Visual
Humor in Children" delivered to
the psychology section OF the
British Association.
when asked to give an ac-
count Of the funniest sight he
had ever. seen," said DIR. Kim
minis. "this boy. who is fourteen
years of age, said he had never
seen a funny sight. Inquiries
seemed to indicate that he
never derives any pleasure from
the contemplation of a humor-
GUS situation. He is quite intelli-
gent.
"when he was asked IL he
ever went to the cinema, he re
piled, 'Oh, yes, ! go because the
other boys 60, but I have never
seen anything in the cinema to
to- laugh at
"It is an interesting case"
commented DR.. Kimmins, "and
will be further Investigated"
Professor McDougall has devel-
oped a new theory of laughter.
the basis of which Is that II you
did not laugh you would have a
pain. His way of putting 1t Is:
The biological function Of
laughter Is defense of the Or
ganism against the many minor
a pains to which man is exposed
by reason of the high sensitiv-
ity of his primitive sympathetic
tendencies"
DIR. Kimmins had his doubts
about this, and instanced, as the
The Washington times., 1922-12-07

drawing room of her summer
palace so that they could get an
idea Of what the coronation pro.
cession would be like. To give
added effect to the scene, the
Queens daughter, Princess Eliza.
beth, now Queen of Greece, wore
her court dress.
"It will not look real" the
Queen said, "''unless I wear my
crown" And the jeweled golden
diadem was forthwith produced,
placed upon her head. and the
costume for the coronation was
complete. :.
As delighted as a girl gradu-
ating from school was the Queen
with her gorgeous robes. Mrs.
Mebane, told her friends. RE
peatedly the Queen paively
asked: How do look?' and
had the mistress of the robes
hold out the long train for the
inspection of her American visi-
tors.
Queen Marie confidsd to Mrs.
Mebane the sole remaining ambi-
ton of her life--to visit America
and, If possible. to travel through
every State in tho Union. The
Queen, however, spoke rather
hopelessiy Of ever realizing this
ambition. owing to the pressing
duties in her own country neces-
stating her constant presence
there.
Mrs. Mebane and Mrs. White,
Just before leaving, were invited
to dine with the royal family,
the company including the King
and Queen Of Rumania and the
King and Queen Of Greece.
The Washington times., 1922-12-07
Dry Holiday Is Forecast Made by
Prohibition Department for This Year

calities where they were un-
known.
Reports to the prohibition de-
partment indicate that this shake.
up has produced results exceed
ing the expectations of officials.
The efforts of the general pro-
hibition agents. officials say, have
served as stimulus to Federal,
State and local enforcement
agents. The prohibition depart.
ment here for several weeks past
has been receiving daily reports
of liquor round.ups, in which
great quantities of contraband
booze were seized and the Of
tenders caught.
Throuehout the land the courts
are cooperating to the utmost In
making the Volstead amendment
effective. Prohibition officials
express satisfaction over reports
that judges are showing no
leniency whatever to liquor law
violators, penalizing them to the
limit In most cases and seldom
IL ever, exonerating them.