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The Washington times., 1922-05-12
AII-Washington Program Will
Be Given at Central High
School on Evening Of May
25-U. s. Navy Band to
Play.

Plans for The Washington Times
free concert at Central High School
Auditorium on the evening Of May
25, as a preliminary to Music Week,
have virtually been completed.
Secretary DENLY has authorized
the United States Navy Band to play
at this concert, and Brig. Gen. H. II.
Bandholtz has been asked to desig
nate the United States Army Band
| to play 30 as to make the concert q
mass band affair.
The program will be all-Washing
ton, none but the compositions OF
Washington composers being played
and none but Washingtonians par
ticipating in the Instrumentation.
Charles Benter. director OF the
United States Navy Band, will intro
duce for the first time in public
"The Washington Times March,
written by himself. This 10 a stir
ring and inspiring march, with great
majesty and impressive swing, and
Is sure to be we'll received. Benter
has written a number Of marches
his friends allude to him as Sousa' 8
successor-but he regards THE
Washington Times March" as his
masterpiece.
Leigh to Lead Band.
Francis Leigh, director OF the
United States Army Band, will lead
the one or two bands in the play
ing Of two selections from his mass
In b fiat.
Robert Lawrence, organizing di-
rector of Music Week, will lead the
audience In the singing of two
popular songs-"There's u Time"
by Abe Kaminsky and Johnny
salb, and TRY to Forget" by A.
Gamse.
Both Of these songs were pub
I.lished in The Sunday Times and
achieved great popularity. Mr..
Lawrence was given his choice of
all the music published in The Sun
day times and he selected these
two as best suited for choral sing
ing.
enteen numbers. all OF which. with
the exception OF Washington
Times March" have been publish;
ed in this paper during the past
six months.
The committee in charge of the
concert is desirous OF communi.
eating with several OF the com.
posers with regard to arranging for
! the presentation of their compost.
tions Those who are requested TO
telephone or come TO The Wash.
ington Times office as soon as pos
/ sible are Harry w. Rose and W. J,
| Monohan, who wrote "Oh Girl OF
Mine: Billy Augustin, who wrote
why Won't You Be Jealous OF
| Me?": Wallace Gardner, who wrote
Dreamy Dream Girl; Russell
Jones. who wrote THAT Band from
| Dixieland," and Armand Gum
precht. who wrote "A Mother'f
Lullaby"
Admission Cards Free.
Admission to the concert will b'
by cards. which, will be furnished
free by The Washington Times
The number OF cards will be lin
ited to the capacity OF the Contra
High School Auditorium. A coupon
will be published in The Washing
ton Times several days in advance
OF the concert. and this coupon
will be exchangeable at The w ash
ington Times office for pastebosrt
admission cards.
The Washington times., 1922-05-12
General WI on Defensive.
His Divorce Denied.

Justice Bailey. OF the District Su.
preme Court, today denied the peti
ton OF Harry Berman for an abso.
lutte divorce from Dora Berman, al
leging misconduct, the charges oi
the husband not being sustained.
The Washington times., 1922-05-12
REAL FOREIGN
POLICY NOT VIA
WORLDLEAGUES
Senator Johnson Tells Hard
U. S. Can Speak as Indi-
vidual Nation.
By WILLIAM HARD
CosmopolitaH News Service.

asked Senator johnson Of Call
fornia q question today that his
critics in political gatherings and
in newspapers have often recently
expressed q great desire to hear
him answer. This question, as
put II to him. is:
I'm view Of the fact that you
were against the Covenant OF the
League OF Nations and also against
the Four.Power Treaty, will you
The Washington times., 1922-05-12
NAVY CLASS To
TOUR To JAPAN
F0RB|CREUN|ON
Secretary DENLY to Accom-
pany 20 Members Of "81"
on U. S. Transport.
Universal Service.

The United States transport Hen
derson will sail from Hampton
Roads May 90, carrying the Ameri-
can members Of the Naval Academy
of class OF 1881 to participate in
that class's reunion to be held this
year at Tokyo. Japan, July 4.
The invitation for the reunion
has been received from the Japa-
nese government officially and was
also rendered by Admiral Uriu, who
was a member Of the 1881 class.
On its voyage to japan the Hen
derson will go via the Panama
canal and touch at San Diego to
take on class members.
Secretary of the Navy DENLY. at
the request of the President, will
accompany the excursionists. Mr..
DENLY Is only a "brother-in-law" Of
the class. his sister having married
Gilbert Wilkes. member Of the
class. Secretary of War Weeks Is,
however, an actual member Of that
class, but II was decided that the
Administration could not spare two
Cabinet officers this year. Mr..
Weeks has been obliged. It is un-
derstood, to decline the invitation
of Japan.
The Henderson will visit Port au
Prince, Colon. Honolulu, Yokohama.
Nagasaki, Shanghai, Manila, and,
returning, Guam, Honolulu, San
Francisco.
The Washington times., 1922-05-12
DR|vEONPEK|NG
REPORTED PLAN
Of GEN. CHANG
London Gets Unconfirmed Dis.
patch of Design to Renew
Chinese War.
BY international News Service.

LONDON. May l2.-Renewal of
civil war is threatened in China,
according to advices from Peking
today.
They reported the Manchurians
were preparing to take the field in
new campaign against Peking
and the city's guardian army under
Gen. WI Pei.Fu.
Gen. Chang Tso-Lin and Gen.
Sun Lieh.Chun, it is understood in
Peking, are on their way south
from Mukden with re-enforcements
to resume the assault on the
capital.
The foregoing message Is not con.
firmed from any official source.
and In view Of the chaotic condition
into which General Chang's army
was thrown by its defeat, the news
Is being received with reserve.
General Wu on Defensive.
PAU TING-FU, China. Nav IA
Gen. WI Pei.Fu. who has returned
to this vantage point to watch cab
met making in Peking, announced
today that he would not undertake
another campaign against his enc.
mies-Gen. Chang Tso-Lin and DIR.
Sun Vat Sen.
General WI said there would be
no more fighting unless his foes
undertook the aggressive against
him.
The Washington times., 1922-05-12

more Miles Per Car" by Ray
McNamara. starting In The Times
Auto Section May IA, takes the
rough spots out Of motoring.
The Washington times., 1922-05-12

Autoists! Know your car. Read
More Miles Per Car" by Ray Nc
Namara, every Sunday in The Times
Auto Section.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28
FEWER SERVANTS NOW

One of the curious facts that the re-
cent census disclosed-or rather cor
roborated, for 1t had been observed De
fore-is the steady dimlnutior in the
number Of house servants and domes-
tic workers. In ten years and in spite
of q steadily growing population the
number Of cooks decreased more thar
one-fifth, the number of chambermaldS
more than o~ne-quarter, the number OF
general maids one-fifth, of home
laundry workers one-quarter and or
dressnakers in the home nearly one
half. Unlike previous advanced civil
izations, our W fiourishes without q
constant increase in the numbers OF
the servant class, says the Youths
Companion. The reason of course Is
the extent to which machines have
come to do the work of hands. Inc
garment factories have long taken
much of the sewing out of the private
house, and the invention of every SORT
of mechanical and electrical appliance
for housework has made it possible TO
maintain a consistently high standard
of living with the services Of only
a few of the people who would once
have been necessary.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

The country furnishes the most sue
cesses, says Gary, the steel king. He
advises every young man to get his
start in the country, which "gives
him a better chance" 1t is good ad.
vice, but 1t should be directed at par
ents. Until youth leaves home, its
environment is selected for it. For
getting this, in the mad scramble for
wealth, is parents greatest sin. A
youth spent in the country is a legacy.
In the city, it often Is a curse and a
ball-and-chain that never can be
shaken off.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

Men catch cold more easily than
women and need more. clothing to
keep warm. The average man, bun
died up in winter like an arctic eX-
plorer, wonders why women al dress
scantily in cold weather without get
ting chilled to the bone or dying of
pneumonia. Easily explained, says
DR.. Dudley A. Sargent, head of the
Sargent School for Physical Education
of Girls. His explanation is that wom-
en- are protected by a layer of fat over
their blood vessels. Men lack this
protection, also have their blood cir
culatory system nearer the skin. In
dividuals vary. A sensible plan is to
dress, at all times, so you are com
fortable-neither too warm nor too
cold.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

Some of the explorers talk as though
a trip to the North pole by airplane
were little more than a weekend di-
version. But nobody has noticed any
Of them making the little jaunt. Even
so adventurous a soul as Amundsen
has been trying to make a getaway
for a whole season without managing
to do so.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

Lord Leverhullme, the British peer
who has made a great fortune in man
ufacturing soap, does not think that
the possession of a mere material
wealth gives a nation a clear field in
industrial competition. Speaking at
Bolton, he said that American owner
ship of three-fourths of all the gold In
the world was not as great an asset
as the Yankee habit Of early rising.
He also warned his hearers that the
attitude of some English youths who
expected to inherit money In looking
on work as degrading would not aid
their country in competition with a
nation whose young men took the OPP
posite view. There are not a few
young men in America who might
profit by this British advice.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

Portable school buildings are recon-
mended by an educator. If they are
Intended to change their locations FIRE.
quently, a better excuse for being late
or missing school altogether was never
invented.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

London mflkmen," admits Punch,
ARE complaining that the lids Of
their milk cans are being stolen iD
large quantities." London should
learn to get its milk In bottles.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

Education should be sound as well
as %pervasive, says the Review of Re
views. Nothing is more to be desired
and encouraged than the tendency Of
men who work for wages to study po-
litical and economic science. We shall
be secure from radicalism and dam
gerous socialism only by virtue Of the
trained mentality of our workers. Pri-
vate property is a beneficent institu-
ton in a democratic republic, if con
ditions are such that every intelligent
and Industrious man may reasonably
hope to becme a capitalist to some ex-
tent, while also earning wages or sal
airy.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

Somehow or other, the news that the
price Of Cuban raw sugar Is shooting
up gives a fellow a chilly sensation.
whether he's interested in sugar or
not. 1t reminds n so much Of the
last time.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

The Scandal Sheet from the Big
City wins the Limburger Cheese Med
al for Offensiveness. It's many col
umns of Nauseating Details Of Scan
dal and Crime make it Unfit for De-
cent Homes. Carry it out and Throw
1t in the Garbage Can before the Chill
dren see the Filthy Sheetl
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

1t Is said that the Russians planted
some Of the American corn sent to
feed them and were delighted with the
crop. Now If they test it out for bread,
hominy and mush and ignore its al
coholic potentialities, they will fno
It good stuff.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28
SNyEE7HE4AR7 s List KISS rs SOLEMN REOOIz
FOR "NlZCK" COLLINS IRELAND,S NAN OF

In dispute, and his wit was trenchant
and incisive. He loved debating, and
was overwhelming when he flashed his
not very good teeth, or whipped back
the long lock of hair that fell over
his forehead. Spare moments. when
he was not arguing he devoted to drill.
ing with the other London Irish at
Wormwood Scrubs.
In 1915. at the age Of twenty five.
he returned to Dublin. He hired him.
self out first as accountant. and then
became secretary TO the Sim Fein
leader. Count Plunkett. From April,
1915 on for space, he wandered from
one branch of the postal service to
another.
He fought in the rebellion Of 1916,
though at the time, he was simply an
inconspicuous member of a large force
of young men as enthusiastic and as
courageous as himself. He was cap
tured during that rebellion and de-
ported to Wandsworth Prison and later
sent to the Frongoch internment camp.
1t was in 1918. after months Of
guerrilla warfare that he was elected
member of the Dali Eireann from. his
home district of South Cork. And here
in this tumultuous council chamber,
"Aiicky" surprised all his friends.
They knew he could handle an ar.
gument with the best of them, but
they had not realized that he was
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28
Talked to Lloyd George
With Price on His Head

II is said that he was past master
at disguises, Stories are told that
during the very days when English were
combing the whole Of Ireland for the
man they considered the most dunger-
Gus there he was in London. Once,
II is reported, he met Lloyd George,
and LLOYD George never recognized the
slim, young, genially natured man who
Ialked with him about the weather,
Up until the day of the treaty agree
mpnt with England. Collins was some e
thing of mystery to even bis own men.
He lodged publicity. lie d,d not permit
his picture to be taken. When he went
10 meetings he entered by the back way.
Crowds rarely saw him. Half the
British forces knew his appearance only
from a portrait which had been taken
when Collins was in his twenties.
Once, indeed, in Dublin, the con-
stabulary were Instructed TO get Collins
who, they had learned, was in the city,
ur was described to the soldiers az a
rather tall young man with Il Charlie
Chaplin mustache.
The police guard at the station we're
especially cautioned to watch for Col
Inns In the middle of the day a
Young. smooth faced priest entered the
station and spoke to the soldiers. He
asked then. to help him moment with
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28
Forced to Fight for Life
Against FeilOU COuntrymen

On April - he was on his way to
his home in Dublin. when group Of
irregulars fell upon his party. lie and
the few men with him fired back. and
the ambushers fed.
I'VE only shot few rounds" he
grinned after that affair. Il don't be-
lieve in wasting ammunition.
: Two days before he was actually
killed he missed assassination by mcr-
est chance. 1t was known that he was
going to Greystones. County Wicklow.
But it happened that his Rolls Royce.
known to every one of his enemies.
broke down. He changed cars. But
band OF irregulars, unaware of the
change in machines. waited to spot his
car at Stillergan. The broken car.
towcd along. rounded corner Of the
road, and the irregulars fred on it.
The driver was wounded and the car
wrecked. Had Collins been in II he
probably would have been slain then.
Under the circumstances of the pc
culiarly hazardous life he led. it Is
small wonder that "Micky' had a pre-
monition of his death. Certain it Is
ne never told Kitty, but her heart
! doubtless told her.
Just before the day of his death
when he was leaving friend. the
hearty boyish soldier bid good by to a
friend.
"Good-by," he said. with a slow,
sad smile. II will say good.by. be-
cause ! don't expect I will be seein' you
again
And he didn't. although It seemed
then impossible to his friend that
! Micky' would ever perish His life
seemed curiously guarded against the
tragedies that fall upon the usual life
OF a soldier. He was something Of a
| pixie, something Of the strange CON. q.
btnat!on of humor and magic which
haunts the heroic tales of Dark Rosa :
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28

his trunk. They did and he thanked
them profusely.
And they never knew that 1t was
Michael Collins himself they were
helping.
Collins happened to be hiding In
friendly home one day which had just
had a bereavement. In an upper room,
son of the family lay dead in his
coffin.
In one way or other the English dis
covered that he was hiding in that
house. They pounded at the door.
"Micky" heard them. rushed to the
upper floor, took the corpse out of the
coffin and lay down In 1t himself.
Because it was the room of the dead,
the constabulary only made cursory
examination Of 1t. They left, and
"Micky" respectfully surrendered his
place of concealment to the dead man,
whose refuge by right it was.
One night the house in which he
slept was raided. Collins jumped out
Of bed. leaped through window.
climbed over the roof He was in his
nightshirt. but carried his clothes.
In dark alley he put on his
clothes and then leisure;y wa ked
around to the front of the house where
be had been sleeping and enjoyed the
remaining activity of the raiders.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28

donned the uniforms and went swag-
gering back To the jail.
A little later three "Tommies' we're
seen strolling out of the prison with the
prisoner feeling. A car chugged up
10 the gate of the prison. feeling and
the 'TOmmies' boarded the ear and
chugged away. The driver Of that car
was elusive "Micky," ChuCkling and
triumphant.
Collins was thirty one years old
when the irregular's bullet crashed into
his head. And his thirty-one years,
Judged by bis experience, were three
times longer than mortal years.
He was born in County Cork and
schooled at Clonakilty, near ROsscar-
berry. He was the son Of humble
farmers, and barefoot he went to the
lower school, II is said that he was
even then II misChievous lad, getting
into tricks that appalled, bis elders.
"Micky" didn't like school much,
and the lower grades proved sufficient
enough for him He had sister work
ing in the poStoftice at London, and
when he was fifteen joined her there
and became n sorter of mails.
Before the World War broke out he
had taken n course at Kings College
and had entered the employ of the
London Office of the Guaranty Trust
Company. 1t Is here he got training
which enabled him to take over the
work Of the finance department Of the
Dail Elreunn
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28
Dancers Put to R0ut
by Collins Unthinkinolv

A curious bedtime story Ia on.
lating how he broke up a S,nds..N. ~.
dance at the Gresham Hotel in iDEessIla Dnss'ila
Collins was engrossed in a conts..Iln. tln.
which did not end until midniaht ~
progress, was "
A correspondent. detailed to oues,,,.
Coilins ABOUT an event which had ~,
only casually mentioned in publics M.
arrived moment or SO after Tn,iis,
had left the conference for his rnn.s
The belbSoy who carried the eor,..
spondent's message to Collins fouss
him already In his pajamas. ~
"Micky,' always obliging, hastii.
slipped on his we'll known raincost ssX
followed the boy downstairs. ~
In the hall leading upon the brilli,,,
dancehall. Micky, for some unkno~s
reason, stopped, and said he woulS
wait for the correspondent. The corr.
spondent came, and Collins, entirsi,
oblivious OF his garb ana surroundinss'
Immediately lost himself in his answer
TO the correspondent questions.
In a moment he was yi1ornr.,.
swinging his arms. His raincoat flsnn"{
open and the shirt Of his pajama DS mi
tapped out. Collins had Just begun u
pound his great broad and bare chsst
when two young women approachsS
They were shocked at the sirSt.
screamed a bit and ran away-Collins
unmindful Of them. A short momsnl
after other women came to the hall IA
be shocked. They were; finally TIE
matron of the hotel was summoned.
The matron, indignant, approached
the floor waiter and complained,
"But it's Himself" said the waits,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28

Shot through the head on the day
he and Miss Kitty Herman, of
County Langford, had year ago
planned to be married.
Shot through the head by men Of
his own country after he had eluded
for half a decade the guns of the
forces of England, which had placed
q bounty of $4,000 on his head,
dead or alive.
1t doesn't much matter to anybody
now what the politics and the SYM
pathies of "Micky" were. Today he
Is a heroic figure who has passed
away. The fate of a nation or ma
tions may hang on his going, bu:
what is that compared to the heart
Of a maid broken.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28

ing Street with Lloyd George and other
Ministers, not so many months ago, he
was well able to hold his own.
On his return to Dublin, he was
made head of the provisional govern
ment, and when Arthur Griffith be-
came Its president Collins was made
in chief of the army.
Michael, who wrote his name in
Gaelic Miccal O'Coilleam-with the
FIRST name pronounced "Meehawl'--
was man Of about 100 pounds He
vas a triiie inclined to stoutness, but
was as nervous as cat. He never
remained In one position more than a
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28
Eiuded CIeUer Traps
Set by British Foes

And it was Collins coolness and re-
source that made it possible for him
TO eIude the English. lie was an in
defatIgable worker, sleeping when he
could get his sleep. Besides, he could
live on about as little sleep as 1t is
possible for any man to live on, His
working days lasted usually from six
in the morning to three the next morn
ing-three hours sleep apparently being
enough for this man Of dangerous days.
There is no doubt but what Collins
grew In mental breadth with his cause.
He was originally not what might be
called schooled man. He was good
at arithmetic, but the other branches
of learning didn't interest him much,
But he loved history. He read every.
thing, as boy, he could find on Irish
history, and strangely enough, when he
sat at that historic meeting in Down