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The Washington herald., 1922-08-18
New York City
Day BY Day
By o. o. Mcintyre.

NEW YORK, Aug. 17,-rhoughts
while stroiiing around New York:
A group Of subway track walkers.
Their faces an elephantins gray.
Arnold Genthe. the photographer.
Looks like a country school teacher.
Slim young things tripping to the
Orange Pekoe parlors. Filled with
serpentine knowledge. And the
naive charm Of doves.
italian laborers sobbing Puccini
and eating garlic. Little Mary
Eaton, the toe dancer. Wearing
one Of those Grecian robe effects.
That mother IL spanking her child
with loaf OF bread. Bell ringing
fish mongers. There's Fox. the car
toonist. I wish Glare Briggs would
return my raincoat.
A black speck In the white sky.
An aeroplane. Or I'm bilious. Won
der II that traffic cop knows his
garter 10 down. o, for a spread
ing palm and a long Tom Collins.
Nurses Babies. And the smell Of
parsnips. A little row of French
and Italian cafes. Their doorways
. bloom with flowers.
Street gamins pitching pennies on
q cathedral step. Old women gath
ortng up piles Of kindling. And .
white hearse followed by q solitary
carriage. I must snap out Of this
neighborhood. over there is Cherry
Hill And the picturesque street
market. Where the horse radish
grinders wear masks. A district
of Incidence. sloth and indifference.
And here's Broadway's Automo-
bile Row with its overtone Of gaudi-
ness. Tom Healy's old restaurant.
Once the gayest spot In town. Ver-
non Castle used to arrive after
midnight and take the trap drum
.ner's place. And he whanged a
mean skillet.
Rust spotted milk cans. Riding
academies. The Hotel des Artistes.
And the sweep Of Central Park
West. Nurses with nothing to take
care Of save fluffy lap dogs. A
smashed automobile against a park
tee. The finish OF a Joy ride. A
Dlue-smocked painter asleep at his
easel. The mid-afternoon carriage
riders. Cobbed horses with silver
trappings. And languorous ladies
with their postage stamp parasols.
And there's the polar bear cage with
its huge cakes of ice and swaying
tears.
There is a daily air service now
to Atlantic City from New York.
The ship sails at o'clock in the
afternoon and returns to New York
early every morning. The fare is
s45 one way and SIS the round trip.
The flight takes seventy-fve min
utes. 1t Is aiso possible to make
an eighty-minute fly to Southamp-
ton for the same price. 1t costs a
little more to fly to Newport. The
rodromes are mostly at Garden
City.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-18
Vocational Training.

I>OL. FORBES, director of the Veterans
" Bureau, proposes vocational training courses
in government hospitals He thinks that tuber-
cuoss patient on the road to recovery needs men
tai as we'll as physical tonic. This is practical
and constructive idea-something better than we
usually get shere veterans concerned
The disabled looks to the future bitterly
and hopelessly. The best years of his life have
been taken away from him. If he is allowed to
brood he soon reaches stage where medicine can
not help him, stage where life holds nothing but
despair.
he test of the idea will come in its applica-
tion 1t is almost too much to hope, we presume,
that professional musician with the slightly
neurotic tendencies which artists have, be not
placed at work learning the carpenters trade If
vocational training i'll government hospitals is
applied wisely it will become an unmitigated bene-
ht to the poor fellows. If it is not applied wisely
1t is apt to arouse even more bitterness even more
revolt, or cause even unbalanced viewpoints
life
There is reason why Patients should be
allowed to brood over their troubles There is still
less reason that they should be forced to undergo
discipline which is distasteful to them What is
needed in the application of the new idea is a tol-
Grant and learned man in charge-not chap who
looks upon veterans as chunks of marble in
stouecutter's yard.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-18

TEMPLE COMPLETED IN 1915.
To the Friend Of People:
WI :'s II and mas ssss
It completed In the year 1915.
CAN NOT ADoPT SISTER
To the Friend People:
can adopt girl of lawful age a. his sister. n
isr.s sa. sssD, Are before
N9. There Is no provision under the law. Of
years Of age.
SOCIALIST VOTE FOR PRESIDENT
To the Friend OF People:
Who the Socialist ticket for President
IN 1915? Who ran on the Socialist ticket in Is2o7
, Benson I rsn -, on the Socialist teke, in 1915
in 1920. He received sis7ss votes. '''
Friend Of the People:
Of w, Mhft ws: shs value e entire gold
-, The value Of Americas gold production in
MAJoRIrIEs IN NEBRASKA ELECTION.
To the Friend of Pespis
state of Nebrsskav A K K
His majority 22.4so votes.
-RosE THAT ALL ARE rRAIsNe-
To the Friend of the People:
Who wrote the following verse and what is
The rose that all are praisine
Is not the rose for me;
Upon the fautless tree.
But But, there's here's. ,ss rose in y9ndss glen
For me its beauty saving
Oh that's the rose for me.
1t is called The Rose That All Ar. Prai.-
ing" it was written by Thomas Haynes Bayiy.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-18

U. .. AIDS HOWARD UNIVERSITY.
To the Friend Of the People:
Howard University? d. F. T.
The United Slater government gives a certain
Ho%ard q tniSenssy 0 snd Il. look.
after the expenditures Of the school Outside OF
that the government has nothing to do with the
operation Of the school.
EDUCATION OF NURSES.
To Friend Of the People:
VIII you please tell me II high school edu-
cation is required before one can become q trained
ana now many years Of MISS rs
Two years of high school work are required be-
nurses receive some compensation while train.
ing. Three years apprenticeship are required be-
fore one can become graduate nurse.
COLONIAL DANES MEMBERSHIP
To the Friend Of People:
b.rshp to Ss coon % snIy sSi
It Is understood that candidates for member
ship are not taken in upon their own application.
voted on or S.eu.. member % and It Is then
Is acceptable to the society.
CANNOT FREEZE ALCOHOL.
To DE Friend of the People
Can alcohol be frozen. and II So through what
process? C. I'M
According to tn. Bureau of Chemistry. De-
PENSIONS FOR coNFEDERArEs
To the Friend People:
Do any Of the Confederate veterans their
widows receive pensions from the United States
government? MRS. F. A. J.
Confederate veterans. or widows Of veterans
not pensioned by the United States government
but. IL after a soldier had served in the Confed-
United States government. he is entitled to a pene
sion as given to other soldiers.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-18
Name OF Georgetown.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald.
Readers of your valuable paper
VIII be interested in the following
historical Information on the name
Of Georgetown:
II is generally assumed that the
name Of Georgetown was given in
honor Of one of the kings Of Eng
iand. Many towns of this name
may possibly be so named, but this
old settlement in the present Dis
trict Of Columbia was named for
another party.
An English gentleman who is
chieny known as the grandfather
Of Daniel Boone, the. pioneer, laid
out the present site of Georgetown.
The fact does not seem to be rs
corded IN the various histories Of
the National Capital, but in the M
ttonal Cyclopedia Of American
Biography. volume 9. page l10 "a
Is stated .of George Boone Sd that
he -purchased . large tract Of land
The Washington herald., 1922-08-18
Likes the Open Court.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
The Open Court letters are worth
the price: especially such letters as
the ones by ''Veritas" and Jus
tinan" in Mondays issue.
I am glad that these are free to
speak OF the signal failure of this
administration to do anything that
is a near approach to constructive
legislation. Also I am glad that
there are those who have not for
gotten the facts that characterize
the Wilson administration as the
greatest achievement of all the
ages. And yet there are among us
those who would brand him as
worse than a criminal. Time will
cure all things and eternity will
reveal the motives of mems hearts
and lives. Here Is my heartiest
commendation of the Open Court
letters and inviting all to write.
c. c. CARR.
Herndon, Va, r. F. D. l.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-18

THE pirates of century hence will not sing
Three dead men on a dead mans chest
Yo, no, no and bottle Of rum
here may be revival of the picturesque old
custom OF hanging from the yard-arm. Walking
the plank again may become fashionable. But
there will be no rum" in the sailors vocabulary
At least, this is the opinion gained from the
annual report of the Seamen's Institute OF the
Episcopal Church, which manages lodging houses
and recreation places for rovers OF the deep when
they come on dry land. During the past few years,
according to this document. not only has poor
Jack" become sober but he has acquired uncon-
querabe taste for ice-cream sodas. At least there
were half million Of these drinks sold by the
institute during the past year.
Thus passes the romance of old days. Imagine
the hers Boarding House" with all the babel
like crowd chewing tooacco, cursing the purple
and drinking-ice-cream sodas.
Rum for ten centuries has constituted an essen
tial color in any picture of the seas The future
artist; who deal with the blue deep must have
new assortment Of paints.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-18

may ask? Prohibition has de-
prived our government of over $500
100000 annual revenue. In addi-
ition. more than 800. 100000 has to
be expended to maintain an inef-
fectual fight against the Illicit
liquor traffic. All this money has
to be wrung out of poor people.
through taxes on their incomes.
Prohibition has added 100000 per-
sons to the army of unemployed
This does not look as II prohibition
has transformed misery into happi-
ness. Thousands of the aged. SICK
and ,infirm have sunk into their
graves because they have been de-
prived Of the accustomed stimulant
that sustained their lives. and many
others have died agonizing deaths
from drinking poison. This does not
look as if prohibition had saved
lives
Prohibitionists promised US that
we would be able to demolish all
the jails and dismiss all the police
force after prohibition took effect.
But what has been the result? The
jails are overcrowded. and every
police chief is asking for more
patrolmen. Never. in the whole
course of our history, has there been
so much infamous crime. or SO much
juvenile depravity as at present
Young people were kept out of the
old-time saloons. but now there are
dens of iniquity, that keep open
seven days in the week. twenty-four
hours a day. and which are fire.
quented by young boys and girls
This does not look as IL prohibition
had made America cleaner and bet
ter, but IL does look as II IL was
the deep damnation of our youth.
Prohibition has not even reduced
drunkenness. The latest report of
the Washington police gives sixty
arrests for drunkenness in forty
eight hours. Previous reports gave
sixty arrests in twenty-four hours;
ninety-eight arrests in forty-eight
hours: forty-five arrests in twenty
-FOUR hours: an extremely fair aver
age would be twenty arrests for
drunkenness every day. London,
which has open saloons, with fifteen
times the population of WASHINGTON.
reports 100 arrests per day, only
nve times the number of arrests in
Washington. Therefore, Washing
ton with prohibition. is three times
as drunken as is London, with
thousands of saloons. These figures
are eloquent: prohibition is a howl
ing success, isn't IL?
Sam Simple says that the Nine
teenth amendment will enforce the
Eighteenth. Mr.. S. forgets a few
things. He forgets the record OF
New Zealand. a country that adopted
full woman suffrage IN the year
1898. New Zealand also went
dry. but when the women realized
what an infamous. abominable thing
prohibition was, they voted IL out
OF the country. and with 1t. they
voted out two other denominations,
namely. compulsory vaccination and
conscription. He also forgets that,
in this country. prohibition was
achieved before woman suffrage
was. and that the men who forced
prohibition on the country, are the
very men who put themselves on
record as declaring that the women
were UNFIT for citizenship: One of
these men declared in the halls Of
the legislature. that he would
sooner go lowell, the place that
Billy Sunday breaches about so
much-than vote to give the rights
OF citizenship to the women Of
America. Yet he was one OF tbose
who forced prohibition on us.
HUGH B. ROSSELL
The Washington herald., 1922-08-18
OPEN COURT LETTERS TO THE HERALD
Other Peoples Views OF Topics Of Current Interest
s of Current Interest

in what is now Berks County. Penn
sylvania, which he settled and
named Exeter. He subsequently
purchased tracts Of land in Mary
land and Virginia, among them the
ground upon which Georgetown,
District of Columbia now stands.
which place he laid out and named
after himself"
The quotation is from a very
authentic and complete biography.
whose editors and contributors in
clude such distinguished authorities
as Senator Ledge. The fact is q
matter OF family history with the
present writer. because George
Boone Sd was his great-great-
great-great-grand The cir
cumstance is certainly Of historic
interest and should be credited to
the memory OF Daniel Boone's dis
tinguished grandfather.
WILLIAM HARRISON LAMB.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-18

according to Siegel. more than
twice as many Japanese are ,enter-
ing the country annually as would
be permitted under the letter of the
immigration law. Students arriv-
ing from other countries are check
ed against their quota but are al
lowed to arrive in unlimited guam
titles from Japan, he declared.
The agitation in the West has
not brought any general conviction
to Representatives and Senators from
other sections as to the menace of
Japanese immigration. but the
Coast Senators and Representatives
have convinced their colleagues, ac-
cording to Siegel, of the unfairness
of the "gentlemen's agreement" as
against the per cent quotas.
1t Is our hope that the whole
matter will be settled by diplomacy, 4"
said -Siegel. because of an act
forbidding the immigration Of per-
sons Ineligible to be citizens would
be aimed directly at Japan and
would be bitterly resented there. It
would, at least, undo much of the
good feeling which was produced at
the disarmament conference.
ITO be satisfactory the new d.
plomatic agreement would have to
place much more stringent restric-
tions on travel into the United
States for business or study. Many
of those arriving as students are
not students. japanese officials are
obliged to issue passports for those
putting themselves forward as stu
dents and our inspectors are COM
PEELED to admit these students"
The members of the House Com
mittee on Immigration expect the
immigration law to be completely
overhauled. Hearings will be COM
menced this fall for that purpose,
according to the Representative.
There Is great demand, he said,
to increase the quotas from to s
per cent and there Is also a strong
sentiment from the opposite direc-
tion in favor of reducing 1t to . per
cent. Agitation has also been
started in favor of barring immi-
grafton entirely for five years.
The cry for increase in immigra-
tion is said to come largely from
those who want unskflled labor,
but pressure Is also coming from
all over the country because of the
shortage Of servant girls. The
shortage Of domestics is 60 great,
the Representative said. that the de-
mand for them IL an appreciable
factor of the propaganda for more
immigration.
The Virgin Islands. our new
possessions which were formerly
the Danish West Indies, are being
depopulated in sections because the
women are leaving for this country,
where they are employed In house,
holds at wages which are fabulous
I'm comparison with those in the
Caribbean" said Mr.. SiegeL There
are no restrictions -on Immigration
from the Virgin Islands. The i'm
migration Of domestic servants and
elevator boys from other islands
of the West Indies equals their
quotas"
The Washington herald., 1922-08-18
Likes Boston Uniforms.
To the Editor. The Washington Herald:

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
Boston-that home Of so much that
is desirable-has solved the problem
Of uniform for the police whose duty
it is to watch the traffic. The uniform
consists of a soft gray flannel shirt.
belted with a narrow black belt. and
the collar held with a narrow four
in-hand black tie. Black leather put
eees and a white hat of the 'pith
helmet shape recommends itself at
first glance as the ideal hot-weather
uniform for this most trying OF all
police jobs. I forgot to say the trous-
ers were a gray. also, though darker
than the shirt.
/ cannot imagine the cost of this
as being very great and the comfort
which must ensue would commend it.
self to those who have the welfare
of our traffic police at heart.
A WOMAN TRAVELLER.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-18
Discusses Doctor" Title.
0 the Editor. The Warrington Herald

The claim in a recent professional
journal that OF all the professional
men the physician Is the most snob-
bish in regard to the use OF the
professional title Of doctor is per-
haps not altogether true. In my
fifty odd years of intimate associa-
tion with physicians. ind that the
big men are most considerate and
most courteous in the use OF pro-
fessional titles. 1t Is the small fell
low who Is the chief offender against
professional ethics When the four
year NJ. D. insists upon mistering
the seven-year Phi. D.. he Is either
grossly ignorant, or the snobbiest
of snobs. He shows his size by at
tempting to minimize his superiors.
He does not know that the title
Doctor" is a title only. and not a
profession. The men who are worth
while in the medicar world do not
need to be professionally discourte-
Gus, nor are they in any way in
clined to be. Sincerely,
The Washington herald., 1922-08-18
He Denounces Prohibition.
% the Editor. The Washington Heradd:

To the Editor. The Washington Hersdd:
/ read with interest your edi-
torials. Success to Mr.. Haynes"
and "Albee Acts Wisely; also let
ter in the Open Court from Sam
Simple.
when we think of the ''prohibi-
tion navy" Of swift gunboats, pre-
pared to run down. capture. or tor
pedo the rum-runners, we naturally
think of that other feet, the saloon
ships of the Shipping Board, which
you ably described a short time
since. in your excellent editorial
entitled, Uncle Sam. Bootlegger."
Indeed. Uncle Sam is like the King
of France as depleted by Victor
Hugo, who tells of the King. walk
ing between two of his closest re-
tainers, on his right, the court
physician, on his left. the lord high
executioner. A bystander remarks:
Look at the King between those
two. a physician for himself and a
hangman for everybody else" So.
thanks to prohibition, we have the
saloon ship mad the bootleggin doc
tor for those who can pay the price.
the gunboat and the prison for those
who are too poor to pay It,.
You say: Let US drink to the
success Of the prohibition navy"
With what huid shall we drink its
health? Shall we go on board of one
of the Shipping Board vessels, and
drink IL In one of the liquors of
the ancient days? Or shall we stay
at home and drink 1t In dirty water?
For that is the only term that truth.
fully describes the various soft
drinks" that are eagerly consumed
by the American public; drinks COM
posed of glucose. slxim milk, corn
starch. synthetic fiavor. saccharin.
analins colors, water and gas: waht
concoction to put into the human
stomach
You say that prohibition has
transferred misery into happiness,
saved lives, and made America
cleaner and better" In whst. way.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-18
Women Voters TO Meet.

HYATTSvILLE. Nd. Aug. IT,
Philip B. Perlman. Maryland State
secretary. and william Tyler Page.
clerk Of the United States House of
representatives. who recently with
drew as a candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for the Senate.
will address the, Hyattsvilie League
of Women Voters at meeting
Monday night In the parish hall OF
Pinkney Memorial Church. Mrs. X.
J. Morris. chairman of the league.
II IN chargs Of the program
The Washington herald., 1922-08-18
DISTANCE RECORD
is SET BY PAPER

ATLANTA, Ca. Aug. IA record
In summertime radio telephone
feats has been attained by the
broadcasting station of the At
lanta Journal. Despite the static
handicaps which make It extremely
difficult to reach distant points
through the ether at this time OF
the year. the radio operators Of the
Georgia newspaper using a standard
Western Electric transmitting set.
broadcasted a concert recently that
was heard distinctly on the Oneon-
ia, a river tug. anchored at Colum-
bia River Harvor. Astoria. Oregon
The Washington herald., 1922-08-18
Doesn't Like Strikebreakers.
To the Editor. The Washington Herald:

To the Editor. The Washington Hersh:
So Lieutenant-Go Barrows,
Of Nebraska. who was reported as
being hard up for money, has taken
unto himself a Job protecting
strikebreakers!
Who knows but what IL he proves
eficient and distinguishes himself
hy beating a few strike leaders In
Lincoln he may be elevated TO q
big paying Job (which he so sorely
needs) with Baldwin-Felts agency.
Maybe the lieutenant-governo Is
carrying out the advice of wen
known college professor. President
Emeritus Eliot. of Harvard, who
once said:
"A strikebreaker is Americas
greatest asset. He's a hero
PHILIP EBERT.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-18

Communications will not be
returned unless specific request
for such return II made and
stamps inciosed.
Letters should be typewriter
whenever possible. Commanica-
lions extremely dimcuIt to read
will not be considered. No COM
munications signed with hctitious
names will be used.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-18
Yes, Who Is?

One OF your contemporaries gives
us the following phrase In large
type:
Hint of Drastic Action Seen In
Praise of Roosevelts Vigorous
Methods"
This anent our present coal
trouble. We must remember thas
Roosevelt received the praise for
settlement Of the coal str ke OF his
administration. but Cleveland was
the power behind the throne.
Who is the Cleveland of today!
MARGuERITE III PoNT LEE.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-18

into a gentle
mems agreement"
that works. a
japanese exclu-
sion act will be
passed by Con-
gress before the
end of the year.
according to Rep
resentative Isaac
Siegel of the
House Immigra-
tion Committee.
u n d e r the
Agreement a n d
without any fault
on the part Of
the ] a p a n e s 9
government o r
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