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The Washington times., 1922-08-26
mystery MAN" ADMITS
KILLING IN SElF.DEFENSE

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 26.-
Hang me II you want to, but don't
tell mother. Notify my brother, but
my mother and father must not
know"
Thus Smith Matthews pleaded
with officers when he was arrested.
charged with the murder Of Harvey
c. Nelson, who was shot and killed
last Sunday night by a mystery
man"
Matthews. forty-five years old. is
the father of three children in Raj.
eigh, N. c.. he told officers. He does
not deny the shooting and will plead
sclf.defense.
Nelson was killed when he at.
tempted to drive a stranger" away
from the home Of his sister.in.law.
Mrs. Lillian Stinnett. The latter had
refused to tell the name of her
friend, insisting she had forgot.
ten" Il.
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RADIO PICTURE
D|SCOVERER To
LECTURE HERE
c. Francis jenkins to Make
First Public Appearance
at Central High.

Washingtonians will have ex.
planned to them the mystery OF
pictures by radio at Central High
School community center Wednesday
night by c. Francis jenkins, the
discoverer. who will make his first
public appearance. The discovery
has created intense interest among
radio fans. Invitations have been
forwarded to all the members Of
Congress to attend the lecture.
Jenkins, who Is an inventor Of
note and whose protector. which
made motion pictures possible. Is at
the national museum. has been
awarded the Elliott Cresson and
John Scott Medals by the Franklin
institute of Philadelphia. !
In addition to Mr.. jenkins
address, there will be recreational
singing, under the direction Of Rob.
ert Lawrence, and readings by
Esther Cloyd. Stephen Kramer. as.
sistant superintendent OF public
schools, will preside.
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PRIZE .F|REMEN
GET WELCOME
BY ALEXANDRIA
City Turns Out to Greet Men
Who Won Honors at State
Convention.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. Aug. 20
Alexandria firemen. who won high
honors at the State firemen's con-
vention at Hampton. Va. returned
on the Norfolk boat arriving in this
city at 6 o'clock this morning. They
were met by the stay-at.hornes and
all of the fire apparatus Of the city,
and the bells of the city fire houses
were rung in welcome.
When the firemen left the boat a
line OF march was formed, and,
headed by the Citizens Band, which
accompanied Truck Company No. /
u the convention. the parade moved
up King street. The firemen were
carried on the wagons and engines
Of the companies to their respective
engine houses. The firemen report
having had fine time.
Fire early today destroyed a
frame dwelling and blrr on King
street road extended just beyond
the city limits. The blaze was
not discovered until it had gained
much headway and Harry Gray
and his wife. who occupies tho
house, escaped from the house
with difficulty. Truck company
No. responded to the alarm.
The property formerly was oc-
cupied by Charles Kersting and 10
considered one OF the finest loca.
tions in this section os the country.
II is owned by William Stcnnell.
The loss is party covered by in.
surance.
The United States Army Band
from Fort Hunt gave a concert
last night at Prince and Washing
ton streets.
The Alexandria machine gun
company, which has been training
at Virginia Beach with the rest OF
the State militia for the past two
weeks, has returned.
1t is said the old city council
will not meet again, unless called
in special session as the new coun.
Gil will take office on September l..
council will be the selection Of
city manager.
The Old Dominion Boat Club Is
making arrangements for the hold.
ing OF a regntta on the Potomac
in the near future. Already fifteen
entries in the events have been
made and others are expected to
follow.
Mrs. Irene Harrison has been
granted a divorce from Arthur w.
Harrison.
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MISS TUMULTY
LOW; PARENTS
HASTEN TO HER
Father and Mother Leave for
Germany When Injured Girl
Gets Pneumonia.

After receiving information that
their daughter, Miss Mary Tumulty,
had developed pneumonia following
an automobile accident in which she
nearly met death. Joseph Tumulty,
private secretary to Woodrow viii.
son when the latter was President.
and Mrs. Tumulty hurried to New
York last night and will today take
passage on the steamship Majestic
for Europe.
Miss Tumulty was in an accident
on the Munich h-Oberammergau road.
One OF her companions, Mrs. Mary
McCahill. who also was injured in
the accident. died a short time
after she was removed to a hos.
pital. Thomas H. Claffey: a friend
Of the Tumulty family. will accom-.
pany Mr.. and Mrs. Tumulty.
At first 1t was reported that Miss
Tumulty was in a serious condi-
ton, but later reports showed that
she was improving. A cable last
night informed the parents that she
had developed pneumonia.
Mr.. Tumulty will be informed by
radio during his sea trip of Miss
Tumulty's condition. Timothy r.
Ansberry, who has long been asso.
ISOLATED with Mr.. Tumulty, has
hurried from Vienna to the We'll.
helm Hospital, where Miss Tumulty
Is being treated. A dispatch from
Berlin received later confirmed the
news that the young woman had
developed pneumonia, but did not
tell of the seriousness OF her condi-
ton,
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u. S. Working Force
Is Still 30 Per Cent
Above Normal

Employed under the civil
service status with the Govern
ment in Washington are $1,000
persons, according to a REPORT
of the last fiscal year issued
yesterday.
There are 56O,S63 persons
under the civil service status
in all.
Though the Governments
working force in the classified
service has been reduced ap-
proximately 40 per cent from
the war peak of 917,760 a: the
time of the armistice, Novem-
Der IL, 1918, it is still nearly
80 per cent above the pre-wal
mark of 43S,057 on June 80,
1916.
On July 81, 1920, more than
100000 of the war force had
been dropped, the Lota. then
being 691,1l6, and in the next
twelve months nearly another
100000 had been cut OF, the
total July 81, 1921, having
been 1914
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six were killed in the rising OF
Easter week, 1916. One of these
was my brother.in.law.
1T may be worth the telling al
this time to point out a somewhat
usual fact OF a purely personal ma
ture. 1t is unusual. certainly. when
one stops to consider that IN forty
years, ireland has lost almost half
her population through emigration.
Out Of my family of eight, only one,
my brother Patrick, voluntarily left
Ireland. My sister, Helen now tcrty
years of age, became a Nun and is in
a convent in Yorkshire. And there
is my stay in London. Blu; other
wise we have all elected to remain in
cur own country.
Country Above Men.
Il recall how Interested Richard
Croker vas in this. lie himself,
an emigrant who eventually came
back to his native land, believed
the day would come when ireland
would attract immigrants. How
ever that may be, at least l think
it is just as we'll for the world to
eager for the opportunity uf leav.
ing their own shores"
And this was all that Collins
would vouChsafe-by way of bio.
graphical details. When pressed
him for more, he reminded me of
what he had had to say when first
submitted by written questions.
Never mind my family or me.
lreland's fight for freedom is much
bigger subject than any man or any
group of men. And II Is the fight
the true truth about it-that mat.
ters."
But having said this much, he had
made a constructive suggestion. In
his opinion ! could make no better
start than by hunting out Zion Mac.
Neill, professor of early and MEDIEVAL
Irish history in the National Uni.
versity, one of the founders of the
Gaelic League. president of the Irish
volunteers, and now kIncola (speakerl
of Dali EiTeann.
And so II was, few days later, /
hired a jaunting car and set for h
for Black Rock, where surprise
awaited me in the home of Zion Mac.
Neill.
Chapter 3 Of the interesting story
Of Michael Collins will appear to.
morrow.
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MISSES HIS FIRST VOTE
SINCE LINcolN'S TIME

MIDDLEPORT, Ohio, Aug. 26.--
Thomas Thorne Is downcast. He re.
Gently lost-during the Ohio pri.
maries-his only vote since he first
voted. His initial ballot was cast
for Abraham Lincoln.
Since that time Thorne never
missed an election, casting his vote
on every issue that arose. This
year, he was III and could not get
to the polls.
Dating from the first sdministra.
ton OF President Lincoln. Thorne
was postmaster OF Saxon, a small
office, until II was discontinued re.
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DOPING OF PARIS RACE
HORSES TO BE PRoBED

PARIS, Aug. 26.--The biggest
doping scandal since pre.war days,
involving, according to report, sew.
eral American trainers. is the sen.
sation of that large part OF Paris
known as the racing world. Stew.
ards OF the racing club have the
cases unders advisement and II is
expected that several trainers will
he barred for life from French rae.
ing stables.
Frequently. throughout the sea.
son. dark horses have come in as
winners. upsetting all predictions
and all dope based on records. The
saliva Of some Of the horses which
had been acting peculiarly was ex.
smined by a veterinarian, DR.. Kauff.
mann.
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You are supposed to make a pair
OF corsets last two years. and a
kimono. costing $2.9S, should stretch
over five years of service.
Your principal recreation should
be semi annual trips to the dentist,
and you may contribute seven cents
week to charity. presumably other
than that which begins and ends at
home.
Such is the life indorsed by the
State house budget for working
women earning between SIS and SIS
a week.
Only 81 Per Diem For Meals.
She should spend s154.92 per year
for her clothes and 81 a day for
meals. Breakfast may cost s.25.
lunch $50. and dinner S.45.
Incidentals, such as hairpins. hair
nets, handkerchiefs, toilet accesso-
ries. stationery and stamps. shoe
strings, etc. should cost $.25 per
week. No mention is made of rouge
or earrings.
The budget is sublimely uncon-
cerned about change of styles. A
heavy coat costing $40 is supposed
to weather three winters, with a
new lining costing S4.25 ecah
season. A working girl is supposed
to work along on three union suits
year and six pairs Of stockings.
No wonder they have been accused
of eliminating all but the essential
undergarments. At the bottom of
the inf.exible clothes budget there
Is the following naive advice: Bar.
gain sales should be patronized
whenever possible"
Miss Ethel NJ. johnson, assistant
commissioner of the minimum wage
commission, declares, after a thor.
ough investigation of living condi.
tions among unmarried working
women, that 80 is the least possible
amount required TO lead a decent
existence and that 81 a week should
keep a working girl supplied with all
the res sonable luXuries of life.
Working women waste most of
their money, because they actually
do not know how they are spending
II, she says. They spend each dollar
at a time and have no perspective on
the whole. They spend $3.50 for a
jar of face cream and then quiet their
conseiences by saving 30 cents a week
on cheap lunches.
Invest In Frivolous Clothes.
Miss Johnson says few women
know how to save their money.
THE habit OF thrift is a symptom,
OF old age, and rarely an asset OF
youth. Girls in their twenties look
upon their future as an investment
into which they put all their present
capital.
"They buy stock in the form OF
frivolous clothes and good times, even
though they realize that the stocks
are apt to pay uncertain interest
But there is always the chance that
the Investments will bring fabulous
results in the way Of wealthy mar
riage,
"If misfortune strikes them, they
are surprised that they haven't fore
seen the possibility of being without
funds and determine that as soon ls
they begin earning again they VII
lay aside a certain sum every week
But they usually forget their good
intentions. blithely going on, hoping
that something fortunate will happen
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GRANDMOTHER OF IS
LOOPS THE LOOP IN AIR

CAPE MAY. N. j., Aug. 2S.-Mrs.
Peter F. Quidort, eighty.flve, and
grandmother, rode In an airplane
here yesterday and enjoyed II when
the pilot did stunts.
She made the flight with Capt.
Jack Robertson, British sirman, cred.
tied with nine German planes, who
said he was "jolly well bowled over"
when Mrs. ouidort made the request.
Robertson climbed high, did two
easy loops and then asked Mrs. oui.
dort II she was frightened.
GO as far as you like. sonny" she
replied.
After they landed. Mrs. Quidort
said she would 90 on another flight
II he would do the falling leaf and
tail spin.
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WRECK WHICH HURT SCORE
Is LAID TO NEGLIGENCE

The wreck on the Baltimore and
Ohio at Elwood City, Pa, on August
6, in which nearly two score persons
were injured, was caused by negli.
gence Of the train crew in mot exer.
cising proper precautions" accord.
ing to report made by the Inter
state Commerce Commission today.
The wreck was a rear.end col.
lision between freight and passenger
trains.
The Washington times., 1922-08-26

On your vacation you will want
timely news and thrilling fiction.
You will insure your getting both
n you order the Daily and Sunday
Washington Times sent TO your
mountain or seasbOre resort.
The Washington times., 1922-08-26
GIRLS, HERE'S HOW TO LIVE
IN LUXURY ON $l7 A WEEK

BOSTON, Aug. 26-If you have than street
dress and hats you exravagant accord
ing the standards which the budgets of the Massachu
sets Minimum Wage Commission sets for working girls
The Washington times., 1922-08-26
RELATES
STORY Of
BOYH00[|
Commander Tells How He Was
Summoned to Ireland for
Easter Rebellion.

The Washington Times here
with presents the second install
mont of the life of Michael Collins,
IRISH leader, as related by him to
Hdyde,t, Talbot, Well-knoWn nel0s-
paper Writer, shortly before his
death. This first chapter appeared
yesterday.
nv uAVntN rAIpnT
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-11-14
CONTINUE GOOD WORK

In the budget of needs for funds for school work ON Maui which
is to be recommended to the department of public instruction in
Honolulu for inclusion in the Legislative appropriation is an item of
$4,000 for transportation of school children Of the grammar school
age for whom no schools within walking distance are provided. Such
item is IA continuance Of a policy that was advocated as an expert
ment two years ago and for which $4,000 was provided for the pres
ent biennial period.
transportation of school children to points where thew NAV
complete a grammar school education has been in process of test
on Maui for a little more than 10 months. There will not be sufi-
cent funds in the $4,000 allowed by the legislature to carry out the
present program until a new appropriation is secured. Either that
program will have to be curtaied or the board of supervisors will
have to appropriate further money from the general fund when the
appropriation of $4,000 is exhausted.
On Maui transportation of school children has passed the expert
mental stage. Two years ago the members of the board of supervis-
os were doubtful of the wisdom of the proposal to secure $4,000
for experimental work. On Friday there was no doubt in the minds
of the majority that a larger sum was required for the next biennial
period and that the work should 90 forward, not be discontinued.
inclusion of a provision for school childrens transportation did not
have to be called to the attention of the board for members of the
board brought up the subject for themselves. No voice was raised
against the proposal by any one attending the meeting and the one
voice that was raised in its favor and in favor of increasing the
amount to be asked over the sum now available found sympathetic
and willing listeners
transportation of school children has come to stay. 1t is in line
with an economical policy Of larger schools in the more populous
sections to which may 90 for the higher grade work the children
from a more extended area, and as such it has the approval of the
department of public instruction. 1t is in line with the demands
Of parents that their children be afforded an opportunity to secure
at least a grammar school education even though being reared in
a rural section. SO long as the department of public instruction has
a policy of disseminating schools where there are less than a given
number of pupils it becomes practically a necessity if illteracy on
Maui is to be decreased and not permitted to increase.
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AN UNUSUAL COURT

In a court room one expects to hear argued the disputes of OPP
posing claimants, charges of wrongs, miSdecdS and crimes against
prisoners, desperate pleas in defense of such charges, bitterness and
contention. One naturally comes to associate the court room with
a certain amount Of sordidncsS. Therefore the scene in the circuit
court room ON Saturday night was am unusual one for there a court
had been convened to reward, not to punish.
In other senses, also, the scene was unusual. I'm the dock there
was no SulIcn faced criminal. In the jury box there was no pamcl
of - men to decide upon the facts in the case. In the court room
there were no sad eyed women and children hoping that the bread
winner of a family may be freed and no more or less morbid thrOng
Of onlookerS. Instead there filed the court room Il crowd Of bright
faced, alert, eager, happy boys, a number of interested men and a
few women at the back OF the room.
\ court had been convened which was to reward, not to punish.
1t was a court to award honOrS not to proclaim dshOnor. 1t was the
court of honor of the Maui Boy Scouts Council and the boys who
filled the court room were there to be commended, not to be con-
demned. Good deeds, not i'll doing, formed the subject matter that
came before Judge Case, the presiding judge and his three aSsoci-
atcS. Nothing OF SternncSS sat upon the cOuntcnanceS of the Judges.
They wore an air of kindness and their satisfaction in The proceed
ings was no less keen than that of the boys who were there to re-
ccive diplomas and merit badges that testified to their carnestness
in their work and the persistence they had shown in effort and in
well doing,
As one sat there and watched and listened to the proceedings
one could not help but wish that a court room might be maintained
for the purpose of commencing all good citizens and might be used
for that purpose more frequently than for the hearing Of charges
of OfenSeS against the laws of the land. And then came the thought
honor and the wider spread becomes the Boy Scout movement. the
less frequently il will be needed for mediation of disputes and for
the hearing Of the eases of moral offenders. Those who make their
rule of life that Of the Boy Scouts, "Do a good turn daily, !" seldom
are in the courts of the land as iigantS in civil suits or as defendants
in criminal proceedings.
Out Of the Boy Scouts movement there rise up visions of a
brighter, better and happier world that encourage the belief of the
inherent goodness of something in human nature that is entertained
by all optimSts and all lovers Of mankind.
In scouting there are many, many lessons to be commended but
the best lesson Of all is the one that is the keystone in the arch of
every religion that can lay claim to divinity, the Scouts rule of life
to Go a GOOD turn daily, to live for others as well as for himself, He
learns from its practice that the most lasting satisfaction and hap
piness that can be found in life is the helping of others the shedding
OF the light of happiness and Of hepfulncSS upon the lives of others.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-11-14
THE OPTIMISTIC PESSIMIST

In the Chicago Tribune recently there wa advertised the loss of an
automobile and a suit case. Liberal reward a offered for the suit case
and nothing said about the car Readers are given n guess as to the
contents of the suit case but please do not all say that it a not filled with
dry goods
Now approaches the season when fair woman drops casual remarks
OF the beautiful displays of jewelty' silk hosiery and other articles of femin-
inc decoration in the shops OF course she has no thought that Christmas
is less than six weeks away. Ridiculous!
The Kaiser has refuted his own statement that he as 20 a va lord
but a man of peace. He has married again.
It has been discovered that The world war W failed o take the slam ut Of
Islam.
Possibly the tidal waves that "a hit Il = the u Islands Saturday were only the
aftermath of the election shakeup of last Tuesday.
Slips occur sometimes but it = does % il jar a man who has been interviewed
to learn that he said "inquity" when he had thought all the time he said
in equity
A contemporary says that long hair is coming in fast" Hard work
to convince a bald headed man to that effect.
In these days not only is Hawa. filing offices at home with home folk
but it removes a Democrat from a home office and sends him to a job on
the mainland. That's carrying parisanism beyond the extreme.
1t is remarked that merchant marine" is the past tense of wartime
ambition"
Those who accuse women o. 4 hsving been the starters of all mischief
since the days of mother v and the apple overlook the fact tina. she has
always had a man, and usually more than one, to help her.
Nothing pleases the average man more han to be told how essential
he is to business enterprises and the community. If n o n says it for
him. he is apt to say it for himself and that explains why 81 many get
married. They want a listener who will at least pretend to believe what
is said of the hero of the family"
{. II u y
Some folk are so busy figuring out how they will kill time in The even
ing that they have little time left to work days. Killing time is a good
like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
The value IF today is seldom recognized until it has become yesterday.
It was a mainland newspaper that said 1000 utulees burned in Jonah
Kumalaes factory because the fire department couldn't play o them.
u {. = !.
No susan, a dairy herd drinking At the trough is not the watered stock
that keeps up the price of railroad TRANSFORMATION.
y " y A.
There is more truth than poetry in the following which used to be dis
played in the window IF a wet goods establishment in South St Louis
Late to bed and early to rise,
Work like hell and economist
And you'll be unhealthy
Though wealthy and wise.
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but the members of the Legion will feel that they have not received
the support in their undertaking they had a right to expect.
The result has shown the difficulty of getting out a crowd for
an all day race program and that a larger attendance can be secured
for a program that lasts four or five hours than one that extends
from morning until dusk. But it has shown other things as well.
The American population did not turn out in force by any means
and the Japanese population was more cOnSpcuously absent. The
plantations gave a holiday but the workers used the day for other
purposes than going to the races. 1t may be the event was scheduled
too soon after the Fair as some have said, but the fact remains that
Maui may well regret the lack of support given the Legion.
OutStandngly commendable was the action of the Paia and Ka-
hului football players. The teams were to have received a purse of
500 but voluntarily they returned to the management, or rather they
declined to receive and accept that sum and took only the 81 80
that was paid for the football they used. They spashed about in
Il sea of rainwater and slush and ended a display of grit with a
Splendid DISPLAY Of patriotism.