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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-08

state universities that will conduct
the contest in their respective COM
monwealths are listed the University
OF kentucky, the University OF North
Carolina, the University of South
Carolina, the University of Virginia,
the University of North Dakota, the
University of Maryland. the Unlver-
slty of South Dakota, the University
OF Tennessee, and many others,
The contest last year was won by
Miss Garland Johnson, a pupil IN the
Bridgeport; West Virginia, high school
MISS Johnson, upon her graduation,
will attend one OF the leading women's
colleges, all tuition and reasonable en-
penses pelng betrayed by the donor
OF the scholarship. The FIRST scholar
ship offered was awarded Miss Nath-
erlne =. Butterlieid, Weiser, Idaho,
who is now III her second year in col
!cge under the terms of the scholar
SHIP. The scholarship is valued at not
less than $1,000.
Complete rules of the contest, a
photography, suggestions and otner
information may be had upon appll-
cation 10 the Highway and Highway
Transport Education Committee, VII
lard Building, Washington, d. C., 1t
is announced.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-08
High School Students
Offered Scholarship

Washington, D. c., For the third
consecutive year, four years unlver-
sity scholarship is being offered high
school students to encourage them IN
the study of highway economics, &C
cording to an announcement today
from the office of the Highway and
Highway Transport Education Com
mittce.
The scholarship, won previously by
two young women residing respective
" in Idaho and West Virginia, is
given by Harvey S. Fircstone, Akron,
Ohio, member of the committee, for
the best essay written on the subject
"How Good Roads Are Developing
Ny Community" submitted in a ma
tional essay contest. Essays, according
to rules announced today, are not to
exceed 700 words in length, and must
be in the hands of a high school
teacher or principal not later than May
/. All students of high school grade,
including both public and private
schools, are eligible to compete.
Aims of the contest, slim
ulation according to the COM
mittee are the stimulation Of
problems of highway transport, high
way economics and highway engineer
ing, as coroilary TO course in
these subjects now being prepared
for the committee by the leading
economists and engineers of the
country for use in colleges and univcr-
sites.
Not only are high school pupils of
the forty-eight states eligible TO COM
pete. but notices are being sent to the
school authorities of the territories
and possessions of the United States.
Pupils in the District of Columbia,
Alaska, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the
Philippines submitted manuscripts in
last years contest. Announcements
are being made at once to all school
officials in the United States.
The conduct of the contest neccs-
states an organization for each
state, being effected in the majority of
instances through the state depart
ment of public instruction, Or through
leading state university. These or
ganizations, it is said will receive the
essays for their respective states,
make a selection of the best submit
ted. and forward il to the Office Of the
committee at Washington. Among the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-08
RAILROADS MADE U. ).
GREAT

Rome was mistress of the world
solely because ali roads led to Rome.
Britain has been mistress of the seas
for more than three hundred years
only because having defeated the
Spanish Armada, she has controlled
during that period the instrumental
ties of transportation on the hlgn
seas.
The application of steam to trans
portation marked the greatest single
step forward in human civilization
that had occurred in 40 centuries. II
was the development of the railroad
system of the United States, and that
alone, that made it possible to extend
the confines of our great republic
from ocean to ocean. The greatest
single economic value Of railroad
transportation to human society IS
the fact that it removes the artificial
advantages of geographic location and
enables country that spreads over
continent to develop consistently all
the territory within its jurisdiction
But for the application of steam
bit for the development Of the great
est railroad system of the known
world, the population of the United
States today would be along our ocear
frontiers and our inland waterways
I The Nations Business.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-08
The Baby's Habits

During his first Few months cry
ing is child's only means of express
sion, and he quickly learns to make
effective use of his limited oppor-
tunities. 1t is important for the
mother to distinguish between cry
ing caused by pain, illness or hunger
and crying caused by temper. These
cries are more or less distinctive, but
no one can be sure in every case just
what crying baby is attempting to
express.
A cry caused by hunger is fretful
and often interrupted by sucking the
thumb; it ceases when the child is
fed. A cry caused by indigestion is
similar; the child is relieved for a
short time by feeding but soon be-
gins to cry again. If he has acute
pain, such as earache, the cry is
sharp, repeated at frequent intervals
and accompanied by other SYMPTOMS
of distress, such as restlessness, con-
traction Of the features and drawing
up the legs. In serious illness the
cry is usually feeble, fairly constant
except when the child is asleep and
exaggerated by slight causes.
a limited amount of crying is useful
exercise for the baby and should not
distress his mother unduly. More
over, crying may be merely the ex-
preston of wish to be taken up, to
be played with, carried about or other
wise amused, to be given a pacifier or
to be INDUCED in other bad habits.
If not INDUCED in these ways he may
from temper. The cry of temper is
loud and violent, accompanied by Wig
orous kicking or by holding the body
rigid. Proper treatment of a baby
when he cries this way may prevent
many months of discomfort and spare
him the formation of his bad habit
All other possible causes of crying ex.
,:ept temper should first be elm
mated. Then, according. to Holt, il
the child continues to cry when he
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-08

is warm and dry and comfortable, he
should simply be allowed to cry it
out. This often requires an hour and
in extreme cases two or three hours.
A second struggle will seldom last
more than ten or fifteen minutes and
third will rarely be necessary.
Gas may form in the childs stomach
during prolonged crying. 1t is conse-
quently permissible to take him up
after Is minutes and hold him erect;
he generally expels gas at once and
Immediately experiences relief. As
soon as he experiences relief he should
go back to his crib. 1t is much
easier at the time for his mother to
take the baby and give him what he
wants, but by doing so she is storing
up trouble for herself and the baby.
The child who learns that he can get
what he wants by crying for it forms
in one hour bad habits that it will
take years to break him of and the
mother will discover too late that she
has allowed him to establish a
tyranny that she will have hard
time to break.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-08
"NCOME IN THE UNITED
STATES"

The moss prosperous | per cent OF
the income receivers of the country in
1918 had nearly ii per cent OF the
total income. This L per cent had
incomes totaling over $6,O0U,0OO,0OO.
That sounds like material fer start
ing an operation on 1.-THE capitalists
class" "the rich are getting richer
or "the domination of the dollars"
But it gets little different sound
when we add the statement:
"When we start from the top Of the
income scale we must go down to
people receiving $4,000 per annum III
order to include l per cent OF the in
come receivers"
These figures are taken from SIN
come in the United States" the re-
suit of more than a year of work by
the staff of the National Bureau Of
Economic Research. According to
the Research. According to the Bu-
reau, the aggregate income OF the
American people in 1918 was SCI ,oOO,-
100000 This does not include any
allowance for the money value OF
work done by housewives for their
own families. This has been cstl-
mated at S1S,450,000 900.
Most of the huge increase in the
national income during the war was
due merely to the rise Of prices. The
per capita income rose from 1919 in
1909 to $3.50 in 1918. If those figures
we're turned into 1913 prices we find
that the 1909 income was 1898 and the
1918 income S372.-The Nations
Business.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-08
ARE YOU
THIN AND
SCRAWNY?
The Bones of the Body Were
Not Intended to Show
Cover Them With
Flesh

Nobody wants to be called ''fat,"
but even fat people arc better off than
those unfcrtunatcs who are so pain
fully thin that they have that "scraw-
ny" look. Especially is this true of
women The rounded figure is the
figure Of health and beauty. If YOU
are too thin you can add solid, firm
flesh by taking GUIDES Pepto- ManGan
with your meals for few weeks. 1t
will put you in better health and Ma
turc vii! restore you TO your normal
weight. Pepto- Mangan itself does
rot add weight but it does build up
health. You won't be thin and scraw-
ny if you are well. Get it Of your drug
gist. He sells it in both liquid and
tablet form. Advertisement.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-08
Norfolk Wants Station
Richmond and Norfolk Fighting For
Air Station-Chamber of Com
merce Aids

Norfolk, Va, March 7.-Business
interests in Norfolk are preparing to
lock horns with Richmond in the eff
forts to make this city one of the
landing places for the proposed air
ship line from New IGrl; to the Gulf,
which is being projected in Washing
ton. The Norfolk Chamber Of Com
merce today took the matter under
consideration and is awaiting develop
ments. 1t plans to throw its influence
behind the proposition.
Several Norfolk business men and
bankers have been approached with
regard to the financial end of the
plan, but they are non-committal as TO
whether or not they have actually in
vested in the scheme. If they do it is
believed their influence will be felt in
obtaining the station for this city.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-08
BELL TELEPHONE REPORT

The Annual Report of the Amerl-
can Telephone and Telegraph
Company for 1921, is fresh from
the press. We shall publish varl-
Gus items Of this exhaustive and
interesting report in our news col
umns later. AS we said recently,
however, we know of nothing
more instructive and enlightenlng
to the average reader than the pub
LEGATION at intervals Of the inner
operations Of our great industrial
ORGANIZATIONS. This is, indeed,
history in the making. The laying
bare of the tllousand-and-one de-
tails that go to the making up OF a
product or utility that is part and
parcel of our national organism.
A few years ago a great cloud hoy
cred over the country-that Of the
discomfort and restlcssneSs of Ia
Dor; the stirring up and undue
emphasis Of class-consclousness.
This seemed at the time to be the
one problem that we had to settle,
with no amicable solution offer
ing. Many OF the thinking people
of the country were in despair.
The rift seemed to be widening
and the trouble growing. The war
came along. however, and with
volcanic force scattered into dust
and ashes all domestic problems
concentrating the interest of man.
kind on one sole thing-the pres
ervation OF free institutions in the
world and the reservation to the
individual Of liberty. Many shib-
boleths of many kinds went alike
into the melting pot. Economic,
sociological, financial. and polit-
ical theories, some OF them ages
old, disappeared in the general
menstruuin. Bankers OF interna-
tional fame, for instance, would
have told you that war was i'm
possible without money; that no
nation in the world could stand a
debt of even ten billions, because
nocountry could Securethat credit,
and that 4 world -conflasratlon
was impossible because the worlds
tinanciers would not permit It.
But it came. nevertheless. and any
one Of half-dozen nations would
now be happy and fortunate with
a war debt Of what the bankers
then called an Impossible sum.
One of the problems that the
war helped to solve was that OF the
relationship between employer and
employee. As we said only last
week, the great industrial concerns
OF the country are all busily en-
gagged in study OF these relations.
and we may confidently look to
their ultimate adjustment.
The Bell Telephcae SYSTEM has
long been a student OF these prob
lens. It's product is service and
utility to mankind, and It is Pc
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-08
For Greater Alexandra

Fern to Maryland Shore
Improved Highway to Falrtaz.
Greut White Way OF, King Street.
Belgian Blocks replaced on Washing
ton HighaUay By asphalt.
North Alfred and Columbus Streets
iDproved to Washington Boulevard
New Public School.
Washington Boulevard made safe o.
AUDITING strips.
More Fairgrounds for the children.
Public Park.
Modern Y. NJ. C.. A. Building.
Reduction IN Gas Rates.
Reduction in City Ta1es.
200 Houses or Apartments.
Municipal Pier
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-08

culiar in that it uses little or no
raw material, but chiefly labor il
its output. 1t is one Of the emil
nently successful institutions OF
the country, and as it practices
merciless publicity, it is easy tor
the man who reads to understand
the methods and the steps OF its
success.
1t is only forgive years since
the telephone was invented. Yet
today the United States has u.s.,
$4,000 owned and connected tel
ephone stations, or two-thlrds OF
all the telephones in the world.
Europe has only one telephone to
each one hundred Of its popula-
ton, while, as stated, i'll this coun-
try we have about one to seven.
We have but a sixteenth of the
worlds people, and two-thlrds OF
the telephones i'll use.
The Bell system some time ago
saw that a main element OF its
strength would consist in a wide
distribution Of its ownership. The
total number Of its shareholders OF
record, December 81, 1921, was
| 1S6,342, Of which 175,OS5 held
less than 100 shares, each; 9,9l2
held from 100 to 1000 shares
each; $40 held from 1000 to
5000 shares, each; and only l.
| held 5000 shares or more, each
| 147,09l held Is shares or less.
each. At the end OF 1921, about
9 II per cent OF the stock was
held by trustees; about ) IL per
cent Of the stock was in the names
of brokers; and about | per cent
Of the stock was held in Europe
OF the 1862 stockholders OF
record, approximately 25,700 are
employees of the Bell System, and
there are more than $4,000 enl-
ployecs in all who are now paying
for stock of the System on the in
stallmcnt plan. The average MUM
Der OF shares held ten years age
was sixty-seven; today It Is
twenty nine, or all average hold
ing of $1,000 The American
Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany has more holders Of its stock,
and has the widest distribution OF
ownership or any corporation IL
the United States, and therefore
in all probability, in the world.
We have heretofore noted III
these columns the various soclo-
logical reforms and improvements
adopted by the Company in its re-
,lations with its employees. This
in conjunction with its wise policy
of wide distribution OF ownership
among those on its payrolls, estab-
fish it firmly as among the large
industrial concerns of the country
who are gradually achieving a
proper solution OF the problems OF
labor and capital as they have eN-
listed in the past.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-08

Einchestcr-An old hand fire en-
ginc, presented to the Sarah Zane Fire
Company in 1910 by Miss Sarah Eliza
beth Zane, is to be presented to the
National Museum in Washington, ac-
cording to a resolution adopted by the
company Saturday night. 1t is small
engine that ha dto be pumped by hand,
and is said 10 be one of very few Of
the kind now in existence and we'll
preserved
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-08
ELAMES EXAGGERATED
ADVERTISING

The general tenor Of much Of the
prcsent-day retail advertising was
severely criticized in a speech maGc
by Alvin L. Dodd, manager OF the
Domestic Distribution Department OF
the National Chamber before meet
state Merchants Council held IN
Chicago.
Absurd Claims and exaggerated
statements made in advertising II
the opinion of Mr.. Dodd, are more re-
sponsibe than high prices for any
lack Of confidence which the pubic
may have in retailers. Investigations
made by the Domestic Distribution
Department, Mr.. Dodd declared, show
that retail of most commodities Bear
logical relation to wholesale and
manufacturers prices and to The
prices OF raw materials used to pro-
ducc these goods. Prices charged hy
retail merchants, he said, appear 10
be moderate in Il general scE5c ana IN
costs.
No reader Of an advertisement, said
Mr. Dodd, vii! believe that q retailer
will sell goods at 4 price representing
onc-ha!f the value OF the goods. The
public, he said, on reading AT advert!s
mcnt setting forth sucf a claim, IN
nlcdiatcly puts the merchant down a.
a PROTECT who has been charging
twice too much for his goods or dis
misses the statement as false on Its
face. This kind OF advertising, he
said, induces the public to doubt even
advertisements setting forth real val
ues and real price reduction.-Ihc
Nations Business.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-08

The Boss-"I'm afraid you are not
qualified for the position; you don't
know anything about my business"
Applicant-"Don't l, though! | am
engaged to your stenographer. =
Boston Transcript
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-08
THEODORE HARRIS, President.

c,te-ed nj she Postofficc OF Alexandria
VirginiG, as second class matter
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-08

Madrid in point of geographical
elevation, is the highest city in Eu-
rope.
Buenos Aires has more thsn 500
drug stores and more than COO per-
fume shops and beauty parlors.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-08

Speakin' o. tn Washin'tOn
parley, Admiral Kato has a
nice, roomy kimono sleeve t
laugh in. Tn good die young,
but reformers often worry
along till they're eighty.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-08

FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES
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92s Fifth Avenue, New York
Peoples Gas Bldg, Chicago.
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The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-05-17
Gilman

Mrs. DR.. Pullen has returned
from California where she spent
several weeks with her mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Wheelock,
accompanied by Miss Lila Hast
ings, are spending several days in
Portland and Lawrence, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Gayhart
of Groveton were in town SATURDAY.
calling on friends.
Eugene O'Malley of Hardwick
and daughter Miss Mary O'Malley
of Waterbury spent the week end
with Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Boyle.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-05-17
Local News

The regular meeting Of the w
r. c., at &. A. Z. hall Thursday
afternoon at 2.30 will observe
Peace and Arbitration day with a
special program. The general or
der for the convention will also be
read and arranged for.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-04
HA[y IS SLATED
IRISH STATE HEAD
r,..+ Governor General Re.
norted to Have Accepted
Post at Dublin
CRAIG ISSUES uLTIMATum
BIZ Associated Press

IA Bv Associated PTcss
g,nudon. Dec. 4.-The appointment
=, T,mothy Healy as the first governor
=. ..,.rol of the Irish Free State Is now
s..srded as a certainty. It is UNDER
.,ood that the post was offered to him
.sms - time ago and that its final allot-
m.nt TO the veteran champion Of Irish
.u,onomy depended only upon his ac-
ceptance.
ITbat acceptance, according to several
=, tho best Informed correspondents in
nublin, has now been given, and the
aonsens,s of opinion today was that the
snno,iflcement ''the King has been
olcased TO appoint" will Immediately
Sollow the declaration. Of his Matesty's
Ssssnt % to the Irish bill, which will pass
;ts third and final reading in the House
' mo % %annoinfment Of Healy IL regarded
enthusiastically here. "Tim's' sharp
Mw .smg,,e with which in the past he has
sometimes goadcd his opponents In the
Touse of Commons, has been forgotten
by the present generation: 1t IS De'
T.ved that majority of his own coun-
frymen VIII eAtehu "'Ah "e"'J "e'
come.
whom Kcvin O'lliggins, Minister Of,
Home Affairs. Is Mr.. Healy's nephew,
are reported as unanimously support
inc the appointment. 1t is stated also
that the Irish Cabinet is already consid.
crably indebted to Mr.. Healy for prac.
tical advice in the technical details Of
parliamentary conduct and admins.
tration.
the last time as the Provisional Parlia-
ment of Ireland. 1t assemblies tOmOr.
row a. one of the three estates Of the
new Irish realm. The others are the
King, represented by the Governor Cen
cral, and the Senate. which has not yet
been formed.
Reports from Dublin tell Of the con.
tinued energy Of the Provisional Gov.
ernment to forestull any last .minutc
attempts to prevent the final establish.
ment of the Free State Administration.
Belfast. Dec. 4.--(By A. P.)-Sir
James Craig. the lister Premier, in an
address at Derry yesterday. said he
would not be a party to any COM
mission that would place his fellow.
countrymen and his fellow -loyalists
under foreign flag and foreign juris-
diction.
He declared his hearers were aware
that those who had been advocating
acceptance of the peace treaty with
Great Britain at the same time had
been suggesting 1t would pean an i'm
portant step toward the establishment
Of an independent republic. Conse.
Quently if he. MS Prime Minister Of
lister. acquesced in setting up bOun.
diary commission he also would be ac-
Qniescing in handing over loyal sub.
iects and their descendants to a fate
which they abhorred.
As a means Of bridging the difficulty
tho Premier suggested direct negotia. |
tions between the north and south Gov.
srnments which might adjust matters
by an exchange Of districts without u
surrender OF entire counties. Tic
thought that any decisions BY a boun. ,
Diary commission might leave both sides !
dissatisfied and that the matter Of
boundaries, after all, was as nothing
compared with the establishment of co. /
operation between the north and the !,
south.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-04
Wanan,aker's 8 D0lul Stairs Store
Is Christmas Store AUon- One Gallery,
Perfectly Ventilated, Brightly Lighted, and
With Thousands of Attractive Gifts of
Standard Quality at IS and Less
DOJUn-FiLLed Quilts
$3.50

Lighter than one could imagine
possible after seeing their fluffy ex-
panse, and warm as only down can
make them. Made especially for us.
and the incest comfortables one could
wish for. Blue or rose lowered sateen
tops and plain backs and borders.
down stairs store. CentraD
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-04
Pure Linen Table
Dan,ask, So and
1925 Yard

Pretty patterns as well as close
firm weave-an ideal gift for Mother.
Snowy white, with the high sheen that
makes good linen lovely. 20 inches
wide.
Down Stairs store. CentrnD
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-04

Richard Osllers. Miss Helen Taulaue,
Mrs: Edwin Beokmyer, Mn. Frederick
2. Warren. Mrs. Alexander NJ. Fox,
Jr., Mrs. Howard 9. Roberts, Mrs. b.
w. Elliott. Mrs. Albert Wade, MYs.
William e. Hexamef, Miss Winifrod
Nicholson, Miss Elizabeth Elliott, Niiee
Helen. ,Ro6. Mrs. H. Newiin brown,
Miss Miriam Wood and Mrs. ". Scott
Smith.