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The Washington times., 1922-04-11

Around the Death Bed.
Commandments Boiled
Down.
Mr.. ftiIlquit Is Wrong.
T. r. Ryan, In Diamonds.
+ ARTHUR BRISBANE

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The Genoa conference begins
work. First will come organic
Ing, while important men pri-
vately discuss what, If anything,
they can do.
That conference is like
gathering Of surgeons around
the bedside of dying man.
"Shall we operateg How
shall we operate? VIII he sur
svive a major operation7 viii
he live if we don't operate?"
Such are the questions at
Genoa. The patient is Europe,
the head doctor 10 Lloyd George.
The principal diseased spots
are Russia and Germany. There
are dozen others
The Episcopal Church sug-
eests boiling down the Ten
Commandments for the sake OF
brevity. They seem well boiled
down already. But everything,
mo matter how condensed, can
be condensed still more. For
real brevity you might get
along with two commandments:
First commandment-Be just.
Second commandment-Don't
he a fool
The Washington times., 1922-04-11
BRYS0N A MODERN 'JEKN AND HYDE
A New View Of Slain
Butterfly Girl
Ci0se-Up of Former. U.|
s. EmpLOye at Wheel
of Automobile. III!

Helen Kirby
Haines,
former
War Risk
girl, who
was killed
in Penn
sylvania
following a
quarrel with
DR.. Herbert
j. Bryson, of
Washington,
with whom
she was
living as
his wife
despite the
fact that
she has a
husband
here.
The Washington times., 1922-04-11

Thunder showers This aft
ernoon or tonight. cooler to-
night. "Wednesday fair and
cooler. increasing south or
southwest winds.
The Washington times., 1922-04-11
Leyees Break.
BY international News Service.

BEARDSTOWN, IN. April H.
Weakened by the pressure OF the
highest waters in the Illinois rivers
history. the levee here broke before
noon today, and twenty-six square
blocks of the city were Inundated.
Approximately 400 people were
made homeless! No loss OF life has
been reported so far.
The Washington times., 1922-04-11

Mr.. Rockefeller, jr., talking TO
his Bible class In the new home,
told the young men his father
had succeeded because he had at
tended 10 zone thing at a time"
That Is a good thing for young
,scople 10 remember. One thing
at a time means many Aings in
due time
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lamped him or because the ponies had
not broken right for me yesterday,
yet 1 guess / must have been rather
rude to this young thing, because j
quite forcefully urged him to go out
to nearby restaurant and pack in
few ham sandwiches, as the plans
for the day did not include having
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VV ERE all going crazy.
\n/ We're all going crazy!
" " The ca binet won't tell
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deader than the German mark is on
the money exchanges of the world at
the present time.
II had just about recovered my
sangfroid when in comes 'Cutey,'
such being the name that is applied
to lots Of guys who sing tenor and
who are generally dressed up in naval
officers uniforms with army swords
hitched on the sides. The Army and
Navy don't do it that way. but 1t
seems to be a rule among theatrical
folks that a tenor must be done up
like naval lieutenant or admiral or
whatever he is. or 1t must be because
way back in 'Pinafore' time some one
hung a pinsticker on him. and they
have done So ever since.
He floats down by my chair, which,
by the way, is called my throne by the
ladies of the chorus, and after pulling
out one of those new italian. silk
handkerchiefs and gently mopping
his smooth lily white forehead. chirps
something about like this: 81 trust
that my part may be run over very
quickly this morning. as have q
luncheon engagement with several
ladies and we are going to motor
I'm the afternoon. OF course, !
have gone over my part at my quar-
tors, and while l am not yet letter
perfect, I will just hum through the
airs this morning.
ssT DON'T know whether It was be-
! cause I was not over-ksen on
Algernon Montmorency when I first
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sunhurned country, lad who disdains
the use of headgear during the sum-
mer months. Compared with the
average stage manager. friend Job
NJ ancient time led q placid ana
aerene existence. His life was like
N. course of a bark sailing on trou-
h,ed seas, and it Is better, perhaps,
In order that we may have de-
.crintion that is accurate. to listen
to the tale of woe of the man who
for two or three weeks has been
hus;ly engaged in preparing new
oYering for the fall opening In New
York.
Draw Yourself mental picture Of q
not too tall. slightly forpulent per-
son whose thinning licks are tinged
With gray. a man whose face is lined
with deep creases. in whose eyes
h,rns the light Of desire to have
.omethins done right and done now.
roI,arless, with striped silk shirt, he
-. astride a chair on the apron Of
the stage; the apron being that part
that is rounded and next to the foot
,,.hts Let him describe his daily
work and you will gather some sort
!, an idea of how q play is built.
80
opAKE he as follows: TT you think
. that President Harding and his
b..hinet have q hard time with the
rroblems that CONFRONT thsm; II you
-. ..ft,ared \ funcf that aCongress
e bouncing along the troubled PATH
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ting over $3.50 per. but from the
dog that she put on when she
bounced out Of her limousine you
might have thought that Sarah Bern
hardt had been an understudy to her
and that all the great actresses Of
the world were simply second flddles
why do you know" he queried
that jane pranced down to where
I am sitting. and with ever SO slight
an inclination Of the head started in
to tell me what we would do-you
got that we stun. Even calloused
as 1 am. it nearly knocked Inc of my
feet and caused me to bite through
a good ten-cent cigar that had paid
real money for.
''She followed up this vocal barrage
with a lot more of the same kind of
stuff, and when / finally got my
breath. / said to her: Now. sister.
just go over there and take q seat.
and when l am ready to have your
august presence in this part Of the
theater l will dispatch a courier to
you with the Information that you
are needed at the 'front.' Do you
know, if looks could kill. ! would be
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brought to their attention in which
stinctively interested. In the social
rendezvous on the corner they did
have an instructive interest,"" ex-
planned Mr.. Whitney.
1t is a primitive interest that draws
young men to poolrooms and billiard
parlors. Mr.. Whitney says. Here they
may enjoy each others company and
here they may try their skill in COM
petition with each other In games
that call for such muscular and men,
tai action as the race has been en-
gaging in since the beginning. That
poolrooms are considered bad places
is no reflection on the game, but
rather on the thinking people Of the
community. Many of them seem to
have the idea that the young fellow
goes there for some other reason than
that he meets his friends and tries
his skill and gets a little exercise.
They would prefer to wipe out such
a place rather than go to any trouble
to make it unobjectionable," Mr..
Whitney said.
Another primitive pastlme of adults,
which is relaxing but not constructive,
is smoking. Mr.. Whitney, holds that the
relaxation that men derive from smok-
ing is from the pleasure Of building a
fire. that fire has been an important
element in the history Of man, and that
now his pleasure in building a tiny fire
in a pipe and watching 1t burn harks
back to the days when he built fires to
protect and to feed himself and his
family.
Mr. Whitney told Of a worker in the
Chicago stockyards, one of the most de-
pendable, capable and highest paid,
whose work, home life and character
were entirely unassailable. who always
drank himself drunk Immediately upon
receiving his pay every Saturday after
noon. A welfare worker for the COM
pany asked him why he did it. IT'S the
quickest way out of the stockyards."
was his reason.
The majority of workers in a city.
while they like their work in a way and
have q certain pride in their skill at it,
are not SO enthused by it that work is
play. They are usually glad when work
is over. They welcome a holiday 30
that the can get away for time from
the labor at which they earn their liv-
ing. 1t is usually specialized work. per-
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way of politics. and that the guy
that sits down and tries to figure
out how he can beat the income tax
and get pre-war 'hooch' for SO a
bottle is facing hard times. you have
another mental disturbance coming.
because IL all OF them had their trou-
bles rolled into one and compounded
monthly. they would have a double
distilled cinch compared with the
pleasant little Job that I have on
my hands at the present moment.
Say" he continued. Just stick
around the rest of the day watching
US work-that is, watch me work
to try to get the rest Of those So
called luminaries to put a little-yes.
just a tiny-bit Of intelligence in their
actions. Before we get set and the
capricious prima donna arrives with
her maid and pet poodle, let me speak
a word or two about the people with
whom I come In contact every day.
'The majority OF people in the
theatrical world are just big kids.
with all the jealousies and manner
isms of a six-year-old spoiled young
ster. Capricious-no, this is not the
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haps just one or two movements of the
arms in which they engage all day. an
activity far removed from the occupa-
ton Of primitive days when men hunted
and found and fashioned for themselves
all the things that made them more
comfortable
THE quickest and most satisfactory
way out of a humdrum existence
made up of drudgery and tiredness Is
to find something in which you are
instinctively interested and in which
you may actively engage.
The writer knows of woman who
found this in hunting up old furn-
iture and refinishing it herself. She
knows of lawyer who raises chick
ems, of a printer who has rare col
lection OF books. of a business man
who breeds dogs. of senator who
likes to cook, of workingmen who
have found joy in building their own
houses.
There is much enjoyment in being
in a cause" The child who sits in his
high chair at table and drops his spoon,
laughs with glee when he hears 1t
clatter on the floor. His father picks
it up. The child drops it again and
laughs. Again and again the faher
must pick up the spoon. If he does
not understand he thinks the child
is merely being obstinate. In reality
the child is finding perhaps his fist
pleasure in achievement. in causing
things to happen. in being in
often in later life makes it possible
cause'-an instructive liking that
for work to turn into play.
Mr.. Whitney would sound a warning
to city parents concerning the play
life of their children. I'VE should
have sympathy and understanding
with the play of children. Their
whole childhood Is play activity that
will shape their lives. The learning
process goes on more out Of school
than in school. A child who lives In
an apartment without a room OF his
own, without pets to care for, with
out being able to pound and hammer.
to run and jump. because of the peo-
ple downstairs, has a tremendous ham
dicap. He can't be the little savage
that he has a right to be at this stage
of his existence" Mr.. Whitney points
Copyright. 1927
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and manner won my confidence at once
r said: Look here, you seem to be
| a sensible man, who wouldn't do any
| body any harm. What do you mean
| by that crazy statement at the White
House and that story about prefer
ring to remain among lunatics be-
| cause the government employees In
Washington go to work an hour ear
| lier every morning.?
His round face flushed with emo
tion. and, wiping a tear from his eye
he replied: Friend, I never tried to
do no one no harm in my life. l can
explain to you why I went to- the
White House and why it Is better
1 that / should stay here for the pres
ent, and 1 amt crazy, neither. But
wont tell you about it unless you
pfomise not to let anybody know
where 1 am, who might git me out OF
here before I'm willin' to CO."
To obtain the story I was forced to
assent to his conditions and he
plunged at once into his narrative.
ITO begin with, I'm a dairy farmer.
live about twelve miles from Wash
| ington, and I been bringing milk to
my customers in the city here every
| morning. Most Of my customers
| work for the government and I had
to get up at o'clock so as to de-
liver the milk in time for their break
fast. Lately these customers have
been going to work an hour earlier,
which gets me up at o'clock. If
that was all that bothered me could
stand 1t all right. but most of my
daylight-savin' troubles have come be-
cause I'm republican"
At this statement Mr.. John Doe
saw from my expression that I did
not consider him misplaced in an
! insane asylum and he hastened to
deal with the political feature of his
story.
And that. sir. came about in this
| way:
"All Of my neighbors are truck
farmers or dairy farmers and most
of their customers are government
clerks in Washington. so to make
their deliveries in time they have to
get up now at o'clock. They blame
me for this. cause President Hard-
ing made the clerks go to work ear
lier and I am the only republican
voter in the township.
Luke Seaton's father, half asleep
from gettin' up SO CARLY, walks into
the field mower in the dark. cuttin'
his leg so he had to have ffvt stitches
in it and Luke ssRds me the bin
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cause my President had the old man
working before daylight.
Jake Fenton, who draws a seine
in the river when the tide is right.
hollered to me as he went by on the
road: Say. Dave. see that President
Of your'n has fixed tho sun SO they
get an extra hour Of daylight In
Washington. We need all the sleep
we can get these days. and I'd be
obleegef to ye' II you'd get him to
regulate the moon so the ebb flow
in the river will come at o'clock
tonight instead of ~
ITO top 1t all, my cows have baked
on the daylight savin'. They been
stayin' in their pasture until sun
down, but since been goin' to bed
at Z o'clock to git up at I've had to
bring 'em In earlier. At first they
Just looked at the settin' sun and
then looked at me in protestin
way; later !. had to drive 'em out OF
the pasture one at q time, and today
when I came hsme from the city
found that they had gone on a hun
ger strike. goin' dry, and putin me
out Of business entirely.
my wife amt had q nights sleep
since this daylight-savin' business
begun. and 1 tell you It's made her
powerful irritable. with doin' all the
cookin' and keepin' boarders. Her
first meal begins at $3.50 am, when
me and the hired hand eats. and after
that she's servin' 'em all day. Four
Of the children go to the county
school, where the time Amt changed
none. and my oldest girl goes to the
high school In Washington, where
she and two of our boarders who
are government clerks have to be at
their desks accordin' to the new
hours They have to ride In my milk
wagon to the city at am. every
day, cause tho mornin' train 10 run
MIN on the same old schedule and 1t
would gettum in too late.
This mornin', after deliverin' the
milk, my daughter and the clerks. I
visited round to learn what the folks
in washington thought Of the change
of government working hours and
found that they were against It.
Then made up my mind that sorne-
body ought to let the President know
the harm that was being done % he
could straighten out this 'mix-up'-
with one-half the people tryin' to &C.
cept the laws Of nature with regard to
the hours Of work. eatin. ard alsepin'.
but not bein.l able to DO II. scsnse tAey
had to make . lyin' by dotu5 bnsnsss
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by watching some picture or spectacle
or activity Of others.
What are some real recreations'
in which one uses the primitive nerve
paths of his brain?" 1 asked this So
ciologst. In reply he mentioned
many, long list from which any
body should be able to choose one
that he would like.
| Gardening. Raising chickens. Keep
| ing animals crow. a horse, pets OF
any kind that require attention. Out
door games, such as ball, golf, tennis.
even croquet. Hiking. swimming.
Picnics Camping. hunting. fishing,
going off in the country away from
the store or the factory, away from
telephones and telegraphs and rail-
roads. Interest in the fine arts
singing or playing an instrument
painting or drawing or designing.
Making things. Carpentering. Pho
toplay Radio. Tinkering with an
automobile or any kind Of machinery
that interests one. Collecting things.
Dancing. Companionship with the
opposite sex. Playing pool or bill
lizards or bowling. Acting in plays.
Having a hobby Of any kind that
arouses Npur keen interest
Perhaps even taking a night school
course in some subject of which you
are very fond and to which your tall
ents seem to be adapted will prove
to be the right recreation for you II
your daily work happens to be dis
tasteful, according to Mr.. Whitney.
X r
THIS was the case with boy who
l.. recently was granted a scholar
ship which enbales him to study art
for three years in Rome. This boy.
said Mr.. Whitney. was following
special interest He worked in the
daytime. At night, while hundreds
of thousands of other boys were
standing on the street corners, he at
tended night school. losing himself,
recreating himself, in art work. He
has an unusual future before him,
undoubtedly. a prospect Of greatness,
because he spent his leisure time to
advantage. When the prospect
opened to advantage he was prepared
to take it.
Not that one should blame the
other boys who were on the street
corner while he was at art school.
1t was just that nothing had been
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! with the other half Of the people who
were forced to change their workin
| hours, against the will of the majority
Of 'em.
When I got back to the farm, my
wife was cryin' and goin' on at a
great rate, and she had the children
cryin', too. At first she wouldn't tell
me nothip'. just kept cryin' to the
children that her father had always
said that no good would ever come to
her from marryin' republican. FL
nally she told me that Jim Bowlder.
my hired hand, had come to the house
, for another breakfast, just after she
had given the children theirs. and
when she reminded him that she had
cooked him one meal that morning, he
told her that no six-foot-three-in inch
man could work all the morning on a
midnight lunch She said that Jim
had insulted her and that had to git
him to apologize. I figured that both
of them were out of their heads from
savin' daylight, and not entirely for
gittin' Jim's size. and the fact that at
times he is kinder Quick-tempered, I
would have let it drop. but my wife
began to yell at the children to notice
that their father was the kind of
man who wouldn't protect their moth
er in their own home.
This got me excited. and thought
I'd speak a word q Jim about 1t to
soothe her, SO / follered him out on
the porch, where he was washing his
hands. AS soon as l opened my mouth,
without waitin' to dry his hands, he
knocked me off my feet back into the
house through the screen door. My
wife had never quit cryin', she Just
changed her tune to inform the chill
dren that could have licked Jim II
I had the sperit. That house warn't
no place for me, 80 beat 1t to Wash
him the harm these workin' hours
were doin' so he could straighten 'em
out, before they drove my family and
all my neighbors crazy"
assured John that felt as he did
with regard to daylight saving and
that would endeavor to get the
facts In his case before the authori-
ties. As / was about to take my
leave l said to him: while I am
your case that you would like me to
submit to the PresidentT
He pondered . moment and 4ilen
said eYnpha tfcally: srYes, there IN.
You can tell the President that Luke
9sAton 10 terribly In earnest about
that doctos;s bill and we've got ter
pay sfv.: i o. sss
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BY ARTHUR JAMES.

By ARTHUR JAMES,
"OR a number of years past
~ Washington has been the town
selected for the premier pro-
duction of numerou theatricsl
enterprises. In stage parlance, Sc
lecting q town In which to "try out"
show is called trying it on the
dog" yet Washington is a sort Of
superdog when 1t comes to the
working out of these problems.
1t is a well established fact in the
theatrical mind that IL a show can
"get over" in Washington. 1t will
meet with success in most any other
place. Managers and producers are
in accord that Washington audiences
are not wildly demonstrative. but
they also agree that. In the main. the
audiences here are just critics-that
is, they agree that they are. almost,
just critics. for few theatrical man.
ayers ever concede that any audience
is exactly fair unless said audience
receives the offering with loud ac-
claim.
IT is not an easy matter for pro-
ducers to pick out an offering that
will be a "sure-fire HIT" and many
piece which during the rehearsal
period appeals most strongly to cast,
manager and producer is anything
but accepted by the public when it
Is presented for observation. This
condition is caused. no doubt. by the
ever increasing demand Of tho public
that the theater purveyor must pre-
sent a ware that is 100 per cent to
the good.
In staging a play a thousand and
one things must be taken into con-
sideration. Not only must the
speeches. or lines as they are termed,
be of such a character as to hold
the attention and win tho approval
of the audience; not only must the
costumes. more especially II it is
a musical comedy, be pleasing to- the
eye; not only must the music be
touching and tuneful. tuneful to the
extent that at least some of the airs
will be whistled on the street. but
also the scenery must appeal to the
eye and perforce the acting must be
such as to leave a pleasing and last
ing impression.
For the past two weeks the pre-
liminary rehearsals Of a sizable pro-
duction have been carried on in
Washington.
AS the ticket holder sits waiting
for the curtain to rise on the first
act of a production he unconsciously
assumes an antagonistic mood. This
condition. perhaps, has been occasioned
by his having been "bunked" SO often
by people who took very nebulous
plot and clothed 1t with a lot of
language and a scantiness of costume.
THERE is nothing in the world like
l the rehearsal Of a company Of
players. 1t stands alone, is in a class
entirely by itself. has no synonyms,
and while to those who are privi-
legged to be present 1t seems a tangled.
jumbled-up mass of incongruities, yet
to the initiated ones 1t is like the
rearing of building. As each. days
work is ended the play begins to take
to his mind the completed structure.
sInloId uBo quo 5uoI sIs pus 'MioJ
There is. however, a pathetic and
at the same time very humorous side
of the picture. The trials and tribu
lations of the stage manager are more
multitudinous than the freckles Of a
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word for it. and I don't think that
Webster when he wrote that big dis
connected book called the dictionary
did anything but pass over, the word
that would properly describe them.
Temperamental? They are as tempera-
mental as the weather we have been
having this summer. and yet under
big warm hearted children. but there
appears to be something about the
atmosphere Of the stage that makes
them unlike any other class of peo-
pie in the world.
Take, for instance, Miss "; she
has quite some talent. and probably
with two or three years of strict
coaching and good luck may land on
Broadway as one Of the hits Of that
alley Of sorrows and failures and
some few successes. but you ought to
have seen her when she first bounced
in on me three weeks ago. had
heard about her from her former di-
rector, SO was not entirely surprised
1T the raxz she was trying to give
me when she hoped in. must con-
fess I was knocked of my feet when
she commenced to enumerate the
things she would do and things she
wouldn't do. N'
Sc = +
esEoUR years ago she was working
: in sister act out on Pantages'
circuit on the coast, and ! don't think
thxt she ana her partner were get