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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-04-07
In Five Years.

YESTERDAY was the fifth anniversary Of
Americas declaration of war against Ger
many.
II has been an cvcntful half decade In some
way or another that proclamation of Woodrow Will
sons, placing the United States in the ranks of the
allies has had its effect on the lives of every one
of US.
The most noticeable change has been, perhaps.
that the provincial era in Our history is over.
Americans no longer are villagers, to any great
extent
The war made US, for the first time, reslly
acquainted with each other. Precipitation of men
from every province into the military melting NOT
was most instrumental in bringing about this change
Furthermore. We became men of the world Two
millions overseas had good deal to do with this
And, OF course, where the WERE there mothers.
sisters and wives were also, in spirit So the great
idea permeated through the whole mass
War conditions placed many of those who re-
manned outside military activities on plane of lux
ury such as they had never before imagined For
tunes came to poor men overnight. 1t was newt
able that the people should be gilded for time
with that culture which comes with money.
The war brought to the new order 1t will
require more than temporary depression such as
We now experience to plunge Io5,oooooo people
back into the old order.
1t sometimes seems as il the United States and
one or two of the British dominions, alone came
from the victorious-with something definite
gained. These gained contact universal with the
world.
AS for the others-France England. BELGIUM.
1taly-they lost almost as surely as the central
powers. The cost of what they secured was so
heavy that they cannot bear the burden.
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X Washington schoolhouses heard every
and then
Most OF these probably. unfounded There
will be an element of hysteria among District peo-
pie for some time Ito when the question Of
building security is under discussion
But two or three OF these rumors may have
basis in fact. Is anyone sure? Is it within the
limits OF possibility that the roof OF one OF these
buildings will crumble some day, without warming
crushing out the lives OF those underneath?
There is no better time than the present to
find out. Every schoolhouse in the District should
be subjected such rigid building inspection that
it would be impossible for any flaws to remain
hidden. This inspection should be conducted by
the best experts procurablc.
Whenever the slightest doubt was ict there
should be alternative to ordering at such
repairs is would place the building a long way
Beyond the margin OF safety.
With the that this had been done.
Washington parents would spend happier days
while their children at school.
a number OF in one OF the District high
schools were closed Tuesday because OF large
cracks which appeared in the plaster around ono of
the supporting beams. Dr. Stephen L. Kramer,
assistant superintendent of schools decided after
examination that this constituted sufficient indca-
ton OF danger to warrant ordering the rooms va
Gated until repairs were completed.
But if the defect is there these rooms have been
as dangerous during the past few weeks as they
were at the moment when the cracks became visible
Ceilings often crack There may be no danger
after all But why await warning visible to the
eye or car of the layman when experts could probe
behind the ribs of lathng and tell us at once
Exceedingly unsafe conditions were found in a
dozen District thcatcrs when rigid inspection was
made Yet to the average or woman there
was nothing apparent to indicate this danger If the
knickerbocker had not collapsed there would have
been no investigation OF the other buildings-and
the public would have gone supremacy uncon-
scious OF its insecurity.
Why wait longer to ascertain the actual condi-
ton OF the school buildings? We have the oppor-
tunity and the incentive start with a clean slate
Do the few dollars OF additional expense count
against the possibility, remote though it NAV be.
OF crushed-out child lives.
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errors that have crept in and are
maintained to the grievous injury
Of the service. This government
does not exist simply to serve as
an employer; there are nobler aims.
The sole reason for the existence of
the Civil Service Commission Is to
aid the government by obtaining
the best and most efficient class of
employees possible to carry on the
work of the various governmental
departments. It is not its office to
work to increase its own personnel
or to add TO the number of eligi-
bles on the rolls, regardless of nom
existent vacancies. Accepting this
view. how can we reconcile the
holding of regular spring and fall
examinations to secure eligibles for
all grades. when the present regis
tiers contain the names of many per-
sons who have taken the examina-
| ton in good faith and are waiting
to be certified? This too, when
there are few vacancies and the
lax" is falling everywhere, separa-
tions being made 'for-the good OF
| the service"
Another unsolved mystery is why
applicants for skilled labor positions
are required to take clerical ex-
| aminations. Can the efficiency Of
a painter or blacksmith be proper
ly tested by his ability to solve
a problem in vulgar" fractions, or
to bound Wyoming.
case in point is found in my
own experience. Years ago. acting
on the advice of those high in au-
thority. I entered the classified serv-
| ice by taking the next regular ex-
animation" 1t was for skilled la
| borers, but took il and passed
with an average of 80 per cent. In
due time l was certified and sent to
the Government Printing Office.
where I was placed in a FASTING and
| folding section. After I had worked
a few days the forelady asked me
| IL ! could not work a little faster.
| at the same time explaining that
we were paid by the hundred" and
up to date l had earned about l6
cents. l have often wondered who
| was to blame in this case. The
| commission lad been given a truth
full statement concerning my edu-
cation in the Michigan State Normal
\ school and my experience as a
teacher in Chicago. They did not
ask IL ] had learned a trade. and yet
the place to which i was certified
| required skill WHICH Couiu oHiy Oe
secured through an apprenticeship
| I could not have worked one day IN
any publishing house outside the
| government.
Finally. In justice to the less fo--
tunate clfss. a change should be
made regarding Executive ap-
poihtees. The recipient of an Exec
utive order should be admitted to
take the regular examination. and
| IL successful. should then be certi-
| fed; but under no circumstances
should clerks be placed in the
classified service-in many cases
given choice positions and big sala-
ries-without examination. This rule
| obtains in England, no persons be-
ing admitted to the service without
proof of their having necessary
| qualifications, regardless Of then
lions.
| KITTY MEGINN.
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WORLD SET BACK !
BY WAR, HE SAYS

Yes, the war has set the world
back half Il century" says DR.. Rob-
ert s. Woodward. who recently re-
signed as president of the Carnegie
Institute in Washington.
The wormen have gone crazy
over the luNuries which the high
wages brought them. The essential
virtues practiced by our forefathers
who built this great country-indus-
try. thrift and fidelity-have been
almost destroyed. Neither you nor
! will live to see the regeneration.
After the civil war it took search.
and greater appreciation of thirty
years: now it will take much longer.
Nations rise and fall. but the
progress goes on. For instance. this
war. which has wrought such ire
mendous havoc abroad. has produced
an enormous stimulation in all sci
entifc reSenrrh. People have got TO
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right where they have started. The economy that
would justify their use must needs be great indeed
FAR greater than the saving in the pay OF one
operative.
The one-man cars are slow. uncomfortable and
dangerous. Those who are forced to travel in this
fashion must endure discomforts enough, even in
the most spacious, best-designed cars. When these
discomforts doubled by alleged labor-saving
device. patrons have the right to register the most
vigorous protests. District citizens associations
taking step in the right direction for the people
of their own neighborhoods. At nearly every meet
ing in the last two weeks resolutions have been
adopted protesting against the continued Of
these
toothless Traction companies arc not afraid of
toothless creatures and probably will continue to
operate these until some more forcible action
is taken.
To watch long line of men, women and chill
dren trying to jostlc their way through a narrow
entrance, crowded, pushed this way and that is a
sorry spectacle. 1t illustrates the depths which
once great transportation industry has fallen The
comfort of street railway patrons has decreased
steadily during the past few years.
Some say the street railway is becoming rapidly
thing OF the past There is nothing which ade-
quatey replaces it yet. And while we must endure
it, the public it to itself to let the companies
know its patience is nearing the breaking point
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Yanks Didn't Take Sedan.

~ tne boltof, Inc Washington heraid:
In your Memory Tests" Of cur
rent date, as an answer to question
No. 4, you state. Napoleon III
surrendered to Germany at Sedan
near the close OF the Franco
Prussisn war. September l. 1870. 1t
was captured from the Germans in
1918 by Americans troops"
May 1 take exception to your
answer regarding the capture of
Sedan by American troops in 1915?
The facts arc that American troops
of the First and Fifth Corps were
ordered to be in position to capture
Sedan from the Germans on No
vember z. 1918, and that the First
Division tregularD OF the Fifth
Corps was in position to capture the
town on the morning of the day in
question when ordered to retire
from the position and allow the
French Corps which, in 1870, had
surrendered to the Germans. to
take the city. The movement Of
the Americans was commenced at
once. and the French were left in
undisputed possession of the ground
near wadelaincourt. across the
Meuse from Sedan, which city was
taken shortly after the withdrawal
OF the American forces from the
battlefield.
The Assistant Secretary OF the
Navy, Col. Theodore Roosevelt. can
corroborate the above statement,
for he led the Twenty-sixth In
fantry of the First Division through
the lines of the French Corps, be-
fore the order to withdraw came,
and later gave way to the French
general commanding the area
This is written because there was
glory enough for everyone in the
recent wa-. and IL is not necessary
to add to the many glorIoas deeds
of the Americans in the Meuse-Ar-
gonne offensive. by taking credit
away from our brave ally, the
French.
CHARLES S. COULTER.
Is Malvern avenue, Cherrydale. Va
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BERT DIED IN DETROIT.
To the Friend OF the People:
Ss Williams no as how s os .s hs ass
s me 81 his ' saw % s
:. Bert WILLIAMS died in Detroit. Mich. March
w.m. o wss IS wssn 1.fs died the
tame hn%bo OF his death he was playing Under the
1.-TWO Real Coons." ssThe Son of Ham" In ISL
and paed in he Fesa for the f"e'
EXTENT OF VOCABULARY.
To the Friend People:
to the b best msnos be used to deteT%iPs the
-. Open large Dictionary to any page. count
dictionaly to any other fully printed page. and
one sn upy the humble. OF rs: on any
known words on any one page.
DARWIN WROTE 1T.
To the Friend Of the People:
Kindly advise through your department who
wrote the Descent Of Man. J; O.. H.
THE Descent of Man and Sex Selection" was
written by Charles Darwin,
BONUS NOT DECIDED ON.
To Friend o. People:
understand the State of Pennsylvania is
going to pay bonus to the men who fought in
please inform through your column when it
is going to be paid and to whom should
The State Of Pennsylvania has adjourned it.
sat senate fer the year and will not meet until
had not been decided upon.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
To the Friend Of People:
Graham bell? j. a n
Alexander Graham Bell. inventor of the first
Scotland. in 1874. He educated there and
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Origin of the BOll-Weevil.
the Editor. The Washington Herald:

To the Editor, The Warrington herald.
II happened many years ago.
In the cactus wilds OF Mexico:
A tumble bug sat down to rest
On the shifting wing Of a doodle
bugs nest.
In his swallow-tail coat OF Paris
green,
A handsomer bug was never seen.
ana far.
And her bosom had never known a
care;
But her heart throbs thrummed like
fly in jug
AS she gazed on the handsome tumble
bug.
So shaking the dust from her royal
head
She approached her guest and blush
ingly said:
IT'S leap year stranger
Then he arose
And plaintively asked:
DO you propose?'
Invitations soon went around,
To all the bugs that could be found.
And the crowd that gathered was not
the least.
That ever attended a marriage feast;
And the pomp and glare and the great
renown,
Were never surpassed in doodle bug
town.
At midnight hour the knot was tied,
And the bridegroom kissed his lovely
bride,
While the parting guests Joined. one
and all
In the farewell song called After
the Ball"
The honeymoon passed like a summer
dream
While time flowed on like a,crystal
stream
And all seemed we'll with husband
and wife.
AS they settled to practical life.
Yankee Doodle" his wife's best
song.
Mr.. Tumble Bug heard the whole day
long
And her ladyship laughed till her
eyes turned red,
when he rolled his dough and stood
on his head.
So the Circus bug had plenty to do.
When it came to making living
for two,
For he aided his wife. as a good man
should;
Brought in the water and cut the
wood,
Washed the dishes and swept the
hall
And pushed her to town on a rubber
tired ball.
But when their children began to
come,
AS thick as fees in q bull pups
home,
Their green food instincts were toe
quiet
For the "Out Stinks" Of their fathers
diet;
So bidding their parents a fond adieu
They spread their pinions for pas
lures new,
And halted not on the yellow sand
That CLEANS like gold on the Rio
Grande,
But rising high DER hill and plain
They fell in the cotton belt like rain
And buried themselves, both body and
soul.
In the heart of the Texas Cotton
Boil.
j. A. TAYLOR.
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Crowding in Schools.
To the Editor. The Washington Herald:

To the Editor, The Washington Herald:
will you indulge me with enough
space to bring to the attention Of
the public a condition which ] think
is depio-able.
Ny so mis- a pupil at the John Bur-
roughs' School in the Northeast and
was, as usual, advanced at the Feb
ruary term,
The day the classes went up he
(my son) was sick and not there.
Two or three days after he went In
and found that there was no seat
or desk left for him. Now the seat
part of these desks consists OF a
very small-sized chair TO one
child. He was told to occupy one
of these seats with another child.
which he did as best he could. He
was then told that there was no
books left for him. After a time a
partial list of books were found.
which he was permitted to use part
time (sharing them with another
boy). He brought his books home
and started to study his lessons and
10 and behold there were thirty
pages gone out Of his history.
All the pupils in his grade and In
all the school. as far as can learn,
have to share their book with an
other, one child having the book
part of the time and the other the
rest of the time.
, In this school are three pianos
and one victrola and not half
enough books, which seem all out
of proportion to me.
The teachers are very good: "
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A Cynic Speaks.

To the Editor. The wsshington Herald:
A god man. yes.
This much his friends are willing
to confess;
But narrow, a man of stunted Wis.,
ion.
Walled in by crumbling barriers OF
tradition.
Blinded by precedent; a slave to
caste
His every act seemed prompted by
the past.
There's where ne lived: well fed
content:
A prisoner OF his own environment.
Indolent. Indifferent to the God OF
Chance
Who bade him break the bonds OF
circumstance
And be free.
Shackled. thus he died.
Little dreaming OF the wealth that
lies the other side
OF yonder mountain peak.
HAROLD p. STODDARD.
S32 f street northeast
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Notes
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FRIDAY. ArHm .. lsza
SEES BRIGHT FUTURE
FOR RUBBER INDUsrRy

SEES bright FUTURE
ron RUBBER INDUSTRY
Though the price Of crude rubber
suffered a phenomenal drop from 80
a pound. the price due 20 the ire
mendous demand in 1910. to about
IL cents a pound. the selling price
during the period Of over supply in
1920, DR.. william C. Geer. director
Of the Chemical Laboratories Of the
B. +. Goodrich Company. in an sd-
dress before the American Chemical
Society at Birmingham. Ala, de-
clared that the future OF rubber 10
bright. All parts OF the world. he
said. will need improved transpor-
tatiop facilities I'm the future ana
rubber will necessarily play an I'M
portant part in this development
As crude plantation rubber costs
from Is to IS cents a pound TO pro-
duce. DIR. Geer declared that any
ideas as to new uses for rubber
would now be welcomed by rubber
manufacturers. But he pointed out
that although about 100000 OF
the 10000 900 automobiles in the
world are in the United States. the
future would see improved highway
development throughout the great
continents Of Asia and Africa and
with IL a great Increase In use OF
rubber tires.
The world uses about SOC. 900 tons
of crude rubber and -seventy-nve
per cent of this comes to America.
DR.. Seer said Three-qusrters Of
the American import is used in
pneumatic tires. solid tires and In
ner tubes
During hfs address. DR.. Geer re-
veaIed for the first time that or
ganic accelerators for Fastening the
interaction between sulphur and the
rubber during vulcanizstion were
first developed and used In America.
The laboratory record books Of the
Diamond Rubber Company. which
was later consolidated with the B.
+. Goodrich Company. show That
George Oenslager, In the early
months Of 1895. experimental with
anilin oil. and a long list Of other
organic compounds. with the def
mite purpose OF Fastening the time
OF vulcanization." he said I'm June
Of that year. A. n. Marks directed
its use In factory formulas. and in
February. 1907. he used thiocsrbani-
Tide. The German patents were not
published in this country until 1912.
so that II may be safely stated. I'M
less someone comes forward with
earlier unpublished data. that the
use Of the. organic catalvsts Of vul-
canization originated with Mr.. Oen-
slacer and Mr.. Marks In 1906"
4 The perfection Of a test that ages
rubber as much in a day as in six
months under normal conditions
was announced by Or. Geer. ITO
! determine over-cure and how rap
\ idly a new compound Will age in
comparison with one Of known
properties. I devised a test some
ten years ago by which the rate OF
decay could be predicted" he said.
From this ten years experience I
now believe that in the heat OF 20
degrees c. with plenty OF afr. one
day in the short life oven CORE
spends TO about six months natural
ageing."
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Rough on Cigarettes.
To the Editor, The Washington Herald

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
Now that We finally have cleared
away the liquor evil. what Is Con-
gress going to do about cigarettes?
The increasing use Of the noxious
things is one Of the most disgust
ing signs Of the time that / have
noticed Of late. Is II not well known
that they sap away the vitality OF
our nations manhood?
The shortsighted policy Of the Y.
NJ. c. A. during the war In dis
tributing these niusances, thus in
culcating the cigarette habit in the
lives of hitherto innocent young men,
was reprehensible. As Y. NJ. c..
A. worker at that time. I was strong
ly opposed to II. but allowed myself
to be carried along on the wave
Of the popular enthusiasm which held
sway at that time.
Let America take the next step
and prohibit the manufacture. sale
or use of cigarettes. Then we will
be we'll on the road to becoming a
. righteous nation. J. J. r.
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cans his reasons
and the reasons
of his people for
seeking independ-
ence. He will
head the all
Philippine mis-
sion chosen to
come to WASH
ington.
The search for
and capture of
Aguinsldo twenty
years ago drew
almost as much
attention in those
days as the world
war when Il
broke out His
a rre st brought
the collapse of
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do not complain about them, but do
think that they should be given
better conditions under which to do
their work. We hear a great deal
about making the schools OF the
District of Columbia a model for
the whole world.
The patrons of the John Burrougs'
School would be satisfied II It couIo
be lifted TO even the level OF a
good country graded school.
The children were sent home
about twenty-one times this winter
because the school was too cold.
This sounds like the rural districts.
Thanking you for the space, I am,
A PATRON
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CAN VOW CAN
SHRIMP AND GRAPEFRUIT.


The practicability OF canning food
products such as shrimp. grape
fruit. okra. figs. cane syrup and
sweet potatoes, which are pecu-
liar to the South. has already been
demonstrated. DR.. W. d. BiEelow.
director OF research Laboratories
National Gamers Association Of
this city told the American Chemi-
cal Society at Birmingham, Ala.
yesterday.
That a method Of concentrating
can syrup so that II would Meth
er crystalline nor ferment has been
Chemistry was announced by Dr.
BiEelow. The syrup made by the
evaporation OF sugar cane Juice
heretofore could not be canned be-
cause OF either fermentation or
capitalization. but the new process
which produces a non-crystallizinC
product by a method which inverts
a part OF the cane sugar. will place
new and inviting syrup on the
market.
Acetylene gas. generated by the
action OF water on calcium carbide.
is now being used as motor fuel in
Germany.
Condensed milk IL one Of the
most heavily taxed items OF manu-
featured food imported into Eng
land.
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know one another
better. Men in one
walk of life have
lived in close con-
tact with and have
learned to under
stand those of an
other. The bonds
are closer and the
ties OF sympathy
greater. so even
out of a tremen-
dous debacle good
has come, and that
is the way the
h tory of the
world is written.
IT am studying
peopleS the people
I meet, who seem
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Wants to Recognize Russia,
To the Editor. The Washington Herald:

10 the EDITOR, The washington Herald:
am disguised with The WASH
ington Herald and with all the
other Washington newspapers be-
cause of their uncompromising at
titude toward recognition of the
present government of Russia.
Instead they wish to call back
into power bunch of men who
now are bootlegging for a living IN
the United States or following still
more evil practices in London and
Paris-where they have been quite
properly exiled by the Soviet gov
eminent
Let's get away from this after
the war hysteria and become once
more liberal nation. 1t is laugh
able to observe the fears expressed
In this country of a Red revolu-
ton or for any actual violence at
the hands Of liberal thinkers.
], p, O.
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WHO'S WHO
THE DAYS NEWS

Twenty years ago Emilio Agui-
naldo was a man with a price on
his head-the leader. Of the Philip
pine insurrectionists that American
troops finally Quelled.
. Now Aguinaldo is coming to
Washington TO place before AmerI-