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Evening star., 1922-09-13
M0ON'SH|NERS HARD H|T
BY ARLINGTON STATUTE
At Least, So County Prosecutor
Tells Resident; Who Resents
Light Fines.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CLARENDON, Va, September 13.-
Consumers and distillers Of intoxi-
cants get scant sympathy in Airing
! ton county when convicted. according
to a letter by Frank L. Ball, COM
monwealth's attorney. to Frank 6.
Campbell, secretary of the Arlington
County Civic Federation.
| The letter to Mr.. Campbell was in
| reply to communicat tion asking
Mr.. Ball why small fines were beins
| assessed for violation Of the prohibi-
| tion act, when legislation recently
! enacted provides a $40 fee for the Of
fcer making the arrest in addition to
other punishment. Mr.. Campbell told
Mr.! Ball that according to the public
press fines averaged about 81 and
costs.
Mr.. Ball explained in reply that the
fee for officers was included in the
i costs. which made the latter far ex-
ceed the fines and in the aggregate
was pretty stiff on the offenders.
Mr.. Balls letter explaining the sys-
| tenn of fines and costs follows:
In reply to your letter of Septem-
! Der 8. regarding the payment of fees
to officers in cases of violation of the
: prohibition law. l beg to state that the
! regular fees provided by law are being
| collected and paid to the officers. ! am
satisfied that the provision of the law
I increasing the fees has brought good
results in increased activity on the
part of officers charged with the spe
/ cial enforcement of this act and po
! lice officers in general. We have ii so
| arranged now that an officer making
! an arrest for violation of the prohib-
; ton act receives the sum of $40 in
case the party is convicted. and upon
; seizure of still and conviction of
the party running it he receives the
sum Of $50.
! "This last provision has been
! specially beneficial and has resulted
| in the capture of great many stills
/ not only in our own country. but
others throughout the state. These
costs have been assessed in every
! conviction under the prohibition law
| defendants in every case in which
| the fine was collected. In some cases
| the defendants are not able to pay
! and serve their time out in Jail. and
! in such cases the state pays the Of
| ficer a very small fee.
You will probably notice also in
| the paper that in cases OF drunken
ness very small fees have been as
| seSsed. This comes of the fact that
| the auditor has ruled that officers
are entitled to regular prohibition
/ fees in cases where party is found
| drunk in a public place. Under this
/ provision of the act we are now as
! sessing the sum of S2250 costs. which,
in addition to the minimum fine.
| makes quite a considerable punish
ment for an ordinary drunk. This
provision of the law is compare
lively new one, but it is now being
strictly enforced and officers are re-
ceiving their fees
Evening star., 1922-09-13
Deatbs.

1ooHC The officers and members Of Charlie
Sumner Lodge, No T. X Of p will oleas,
meet at Pyth!an Temple. Iath and G So
Wednesday. September II. at o'c.ock I,
WILLIAM H. Young
81 OKDER OF e. e. WILLIE H. CORRIS
WESLEY II. BANKS, SECRETARY
YOUNG. The officers and members of tb,
1rhnd Lodge. !. N. F., are requested Z,
attend the funeral nf .,ur late Br, WlI
LIAM III. iotNG. Thursday, sept IA 1922
aa ! o'clock from the Union Wesley Church
STrd ST between L and sts NV AL
lodges are cordially invited to attend
,,, MlNGO. SANDERS, g. H.
nENRf ). WASHINGTON, Secretary
YOUNG. Adah Lodge. No. g. s. r. A. Yo,
are hereby notified toNattend the funeral oi
Bro- WILLIAM ii. Yot-NG. Thursday sept
-. i3Z2, AT pm. from the Union w.si.,
.nurch 2.'rd st. between I. and NJ sis Jw
Al SISTER lodges cordially invited tt
attend. & n UI-Ir w =,
S. ID. REYNOLDS. Secrr,ary
Evening star., 1922-09-13
POISON rum BLINDS
FORMER DISTRICT MAN

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 13.-Fear-
ing an epidemic o>poison rum deaths
in Manhattan, pafalleling the ex-
perience of Brooklyn, where wood
alcohol has claimed dozen victims
since Labor day, the police today
were seeking the source of the liquor
which this morning sent three per-
sons to Manhattan hospitals, two un-
conscious and one blind, and blinded
a woman on Staten Island.
Reuben Rubins was picked up un-
conscious on Avenue Il. When he
was revived he told the police he had
forgotten where he got the liquor
Another victim. as yet unidentified
was found on Sd avenue, unconscious
while the third. John H, Hopkins
who came here recently from Wash
ington, found on a stoop, on Mott
street, is unable to see.
Mrs. Blanche Forriscall. who lives
in Manhattan. got out Of an automobile
in front of StapIeton police station
on Staten Island and screamed
Il am going blind"
Her condition is serious Upon her
complaint. the police arrested two
men with whom she said she had
drinks last night.
Evening star., 1922-09-13
RITES FOR MRS. McCAHILl

The body of Mrs. Mary McCahill.
formerly of this city. who was killed
in an automobile accident on the road
to Oberrammagcau, arrive at New
York yesterday aboard the steamer
Majestic. 1t was accompanied by her
son, Eugene ?. McCahiil; her daugh-
ter. Miss Eleanor McCahill. and John
d. Costello.
to Lake City. Mimi, where funeral
services are to be held Saturday
morning.
Mrs. McCahill formerly resided at
2l32 Bancroft place. She was with
Miss Mary Tumulty. who also was
Evening star., 1922-09-13
Births Reported.

The following births have been reported to
the health department in the last twenty four
hours:
Arthur T. and Ne,tie F. Day. boy.
Carlton L. and Verdi A. kidwell, girl.
Howard E and Marie A. Na!rn, boy.
Raymond H. and Meta l.. Conger. girl.
Joseph c. and Marie +. V-nspitzinger. boy.
Raymond c. and Bessie NJ. Dempsey. boy.
Richard and Thelma Mccormick, girl.
William +. and Marie +. Orton. girl
Christopher and Edrena Magee. girl.
Charles A. and Elsie I. Bright, girl.
Harry W. and Pauline Smith, girl
Anthony and Grace Olivete. girl
Albert Z. and Eta Steinem. boy.
Jacob Il. and Harriet NJ. Wyckon. hoy.
Frank ]. and Lois Rarteman. boy.
Leonard c. and Anna Mitchell, girl.
Byron L. and Lucy v. Ralston, girl.
Benjamin and Saoma Durrette. girl.
Charles II. and Louise NJ. BeaUyerd. gir..
Carl W. and Anna johnson. girl.
Henry H. and Mary A. Gould, girl.
Thomas W. and Lillian Hall, girl
Marcus and Elsie r. Cubbage. girl.
Oscar ". and Lsvinia James. girl.
Albert and Grace Washington, boy.
Orange and Corine Bailey, boy.
Hayes and Julia Branch. girl.
Evening star., 1922-09-13
Deaths Reported.

The following deaths have been reported to
the health department in the last twenty four
hours:
George ". Jones. so. IIIa 9Th ST. sw
lie Roy +: Bnrnum. 33, Georgetown Tniver-
Jennie V Greer. 20. 1921 9Th ST
Fred 7: Watson. SO. 360l Both st. ne
h Gertrude Clark. 49, Casualty Hospital
Gertrude Scott. -. government hotels, Uni6n
station plaza.
+ James Sullivan. 43 1I42 23d ST.
Beatrice T.. Hunt 80. Emergency Hospital
Lewis McDevitt. weeks Chiliren's Hos
pital.
Sarah Brown. 81. 42s r ST
Payton Snylcs. 20. Casualty Hospital
Evening star., 1922-09-13
Gar1 of Tbanks.

ALLEN. We wish TO extend to our relatives
and friends our sincere appreciation fo:
their kindness and sympathy during her ill
ness and thanks for Their beautifu. floral
fr butes at the death of our dear mother
CAROLINE ALLEN
JAMES ALLEN RERTIE Y WALKER
AND MAGGIE STOyALL.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1922-02-04
Roosevelt-Sequoia Must Be Protected
Against the Water Power Act
p,nr MRS n SHERMAN G. B. GRINNHLL.

Bade President Sierra Cub-lhe Sierra ciuh' aS W
propo RooveSquoa National park cannot support W
Barbour bill unless it bring the park under the
nroteton given bv the existing national parks we
must of kinds of parks wrong IN prnce anu
dangerous practice Our representative IN Washington Is
to work only for park exempt from power privilege
Mrs Sherman Chairman Department OF Apped duca
ton General of Womens CubThe policy OF the Genera
Federation clubs the complete conservation OF the National
Parks and national projects which 1t supports
must principle We therefore opposed to the Barbour
federation strongly favored the project for
National park passage the Jones Esch BILL but cannot
support while subject the Water Power act IN
full protection from the provisions OF the
Water shall be compelled do utmost to defeat It,
National Parks Committee National Council OF q
Eastern and Resolved That the opinion of
this committee Barbour bill H R. 7452) to create the Roosevelt
should amended protect the entire
within the park from water developments IN the same
existing national parks protected and that this
mie of such park thus protected and
the establishment park without such proeconGeorge
Bird Grnnell Chairman; John B. Burnham, Secretary.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1922-02-04
Terrible Indictment of Civilization:
Plenty Here; Starvation There


1t of modern civilization such
abundance millions of people suffering for the
bare other millions starving death The purchasing
power grain crop little than half what
average for of 1910-1914 inclusive.
This the his
the essend demand reducing his purchases of
of of
on their savings compelled practice
ducng and thus still further restrict the farmers
ke And ourselves vicious circle which ing
difficulty in breaking through.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1922-02-04

The that people are staggering uhuei "' ~
Of xaton and that it is the part patriotism cut necessary govern
expenditures to the bone. ,., -.
This is not all submit that the proposed leglsla'o uS NO. a.
purpored, fill crying need Of which has long DetL n'o
thing ana hU e pass"
ace of this bill not necessary for the physical welfare w
girls of this country "health supervisors and scho nurses men
toned in the bill could nothing opinion when Go'
performed school teachers themselves Whle a' 1e SAINT ~
parting literary and business knowledge
There are different schools of medicine different views as 10 w al
of healing; and the citizen generally was unwilling " SUNNI
upon his privileges and outes "a m
dreu to consent government even his own go e
tend paternais aid through another bureau IN Washington
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1922-02-04
Capper-Fess Education Bill Announcer h"io
on the National Treasury
- cr,,,rop LAWRENCE c. PHIPPs of Colorado.

One of the most effective arguments against The
enactment of the so-called Capper-Fess physical ecu
cation bill is the amount of annual appropriation re
ouired to put the provisions Of the measure INTO Ell
foo+ 10 some Of course, it may seem nggardly to
advance such reason III 0ppositon " s"N'I ''''-
know it has been quite the CUSTOM Tor some ''' pass
to speak terms of billions when referring 70 '"v
ted States treasury and to scott at an annual outlay Oh
$4,000 600 or 100000, the sum provided Tor IL
this bill, as unworthy Of serious considerations
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1922-02-04

"Section 2. This ar
ticle shall be construed
as abrOgating in every
respect the common law
disabilities of women.
Section 3. This act
shall not affect laws
regulating the employ
ment of women In in
dustry.
Section 4. All acts
and parts of acts in con-
flict with any of the pro-
visions of this statute are
hereby repealed"
This bill, it is evident
from the most cursory
reading, is revolutionary.
Its enactment by the
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1922-02-04
Bv JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN

OMAN against woman That
is going to be the lineup IN
the next cOnstitutional-amend-
ment battle. Ctriously enough,
the battle between opposing
forces Of the newly-enfran-
chised women voters is to be
fought over equal rights for
women" Offhand a mere man
would suppose that equal
rights for women was exact
ly what all women wanted.
And annal rights for women,
The Washington herald., 1922-03-31
The Bureau and the Veterans.

NUMBER of District Legion posts have ex-
~ ploded some quite vitriolic blasts lately
against the administration OF the Veterans Bureau.
All sorts of charges have been advanced by in
dividual members and some of the most serious of
these have been incorporated in resolutions.
Complaints against the functioning of "a gov
eminent department that holds in its hands the
fate and fortunes OF many men who deserve the
best the country has to offer attract than
passing notice. This is true especially when these
complaints come from former service whose
employnicnt at the bureau puts them in position
10 obtain inside information.
AT the same time the minds OF former service
men have not lost all the wte-hot heat which they
obtained in the cauldron OF war. They arc prone
10 speak hastily. Legion officials OF the District
department have taken by far the wisest course in
fact the only wise possible, in demanding
that the men who have made the complaint present
evidence in black and white and reduce their briefs
TO concrete instances before executive action is
taken.
If one-haf the allegations made against the
administration OF the Veterans Bureau are true the
District department take no action strenuous
enough to clean up conditions. 1t will be a matter
Tor the national executives of the Legion to press
before Congress and demand action. This one
department of the government should, above all
others be above suspicion and the blemshes which
int some of the most lamentable incidents in our
postwar history. Certainly, after the clean-ups
which have resulted during the past two years. the
administration OF the bureau cannot have retro
crossed so far as some of the complaints voiced re-
Gently would indicate.
II must be remembered that the task of decen-
realization of the bureau, probably wise step in
che long run has been accomplished only with a
,,,ountan of detail which has caused some unavoid-
able tangles. In many respects the machinery has
been made simpler. Perhaps the very smplifca-
t;on of most OF the parts has resulted in making
others more complicated than before.
District Commander Watson B. Miller has
shown cool head during the war OF words which
has progressed for the past two weeks. This has
entailed many more incidents than have appeared
ON the surface But through it all he has main
taned that the only object OF the department will
be to assure justice to the veterans-both to the
men employed at the bureau and the millions of
others who deal with the bureau for insurance or
compensation
Col Forbes, director OF the bureau, has ex-
pressed himself as anxious to cooperate with
.egon officials in seeing that some of the condi-
SOS complained OF are cleaned up if they be
The Washington herald., 1922-03-31

to prejudice his chances of being
retained In the bureau. The rolls
include ex-service men, non-ser-
vice men. married women and wo-
men not quite SO greedy. whs6 IL
came time TO decentraliez ri re-
duce the number Of employees on
the payroll the ex-service men
were the first to be led to the gate
IL was either a case of going to
other parts of the country or re-
signing. Would men who have a
permanent home and all business
connections in the Capital be Justi-
fled In selling out and going to
Texas or Illinois or Utah or Ore
gon- OF course-not. Especially
when the pussyfoot officials have
an alternative. Why not drop the
married women who just stick
around TO pass away the time while
their husbands are pulling down q
big salary in another branch of the
service. Why not let those who
are from other parts of the countrv
and who are just hanging around
Washington for no good reason 60
back to their home districts Here
comes a tricky looking chief clerk
now with very valuable lookinc
paper in his hand-Bet it's my no.
tice to be in New Mexico within
three days. Ah-justice. thou - r
parable. THE RAMBLER.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-31
Ban On Gas.

THE ban poison gas agreed upon during
the conference limitation of ornaments
and ratified by the Senate without dissent
ing vote, certainly will settle the controversy
which has gone for some time concerning its
value and its humanity.
Army experts contend tia; its use constitutes
the most merciful form of modern warfare Per-
haps they right. Death from gas certainly is
attended by the suffering which follows machine
gun, bayonet shrapnel wounds. The after
effects on those who survive still in question
Military doctors who contend that gas does not
necessarily superinduce tuberculosis and like hor
rors Of disease may be right.
Nevertheless, average Americans will thank
God that this nation has fit to restrict the use
OF the nightmare strangler of the world war. Ger
tainly its psychological effect troops engaged
was greater than that created by any other form
of warfare. 1t was the perfection of machine
bat. The element of personal struggle was lacking
entirely. The enemy utterly invisible, in
tangible, superhuman.
Hundreds of gas victims walking the streets
of Washington today. Some seem we'll on the road
to recovery. Others dying by inches. Perhaps
it depends the man. But to the outsider the
question resolves down to ths-here are so many
individual human beings who might be in perfect
health today if gas had not been used.
Casualties in a war fought entirely with clubs
would be almost unnoticeable. Add swords to the
clubs and few killed. Add rifles and
the death lists grow apace. Arm men with machine
guns and send them out to fight each other,
thousands of other homes plunged in sorrow.
So on, ad inhni.um. Every device for killing
human beings adds so many to the toll
a nation must pay when the dogs un-
1eashed.
Instead of raising dispute the abolition
of poison gas would it not be well 70 work in the
direction of abolishing weapon after another
til in some distant Utopia, fighting go forth
of DID, armed only with clubs with their bare
fstso
If those times come, will be and in
ternational questions incapable of arbitration set
tied Just as fairly and just effectively.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-31

THE tragedy Of hungry Russia is a

THE tragedy of hungry Russia is as old as
i the oldest records of that unhappy land.
For centuries the Four Horsemen have galloped
with brides uncurbed through its sordid cities its
dirty little villages, and its drab, somber country
side. Its present rulers, attempting to make prac-
teal certain theories of advanced socialism, doubt
less have contributed to the present heart-rending
hopelessness which lies heavy the Muscovite
world. They have been aptly described as "a COM
bination of bandits and idiots"
But in the dramatic sorrows of the great hinter-
land both of European civilization and Asiatic bar
barism they only an incident. The people Of
Russia have starved from days beyond written
record. They have no good old times when
every peasant had chicken in his pot on Sunday"
For instance in 1878 we have an account OF a
Russian famine from the pen of an English traveller
which, with the archaic spelling changed, might
almost be incorporated into news dispatch from
the Volga area today. 1t was written by Anthony
Jenknson, a representative of the Russia Company,
who bore letters from Queen Elizabeth to Ivan
the Terrible in Moscow.
"And nowe" wrote Jenkinson to Lord Burghley
on August S-we make few amendments in his
spelling for clarity's sake-"somewhat touchinge the
state of this countrye, God hath plagued it many
ways; ffirste by famine that the people have been
enforced to cate breade made OF barke OF trees,
besydes many uncleane things, yea, and it is
reportyd for certeyn that IN some places ney nave
eaten one another. Also the Prynce hattie, by
soundry torments, putt to death create nomoer
of his people, cheyfely of his nobytye, gentlemen,
and pryncypall merchants. Further, the plague
hattie consumed (by credible reports) this Taste
we're about 100000. Besides all this the Crymmes,
valyante natyon of Tartars, in the latter ende
of May Taste invaded this realme, gave the Prynce
an ovcrthrowe in the feldes, caused him to retyre,
burnte and consumed all the countrye before them,
and came to the cyttye of Musko, sett flyer one
the same, not leavinge house standinge and
few people are now escaped The nomber OF
those that were burnte, besydes such as were
caryed away captyves by the said Crymmes, Is
thoughte to be above 100000"
The Washington herald., 1922-03-31
Country Schools.

OWEVER complicated Washington's school
II problems may be they are simple compared
to those faced by nearby Virginia.
The gathering of teachers from all sections Of
the Old Dominion at Alexandra this week may
focus some attention on the almost unanswerable
questions that will be discussed there. The educa-
tonal troubles of Loudoun, Fairfax, Arlington,
Prince William, Fauquier, Orange and Culpeper
counties which constitute natural feeding ground
for the offices and industries of the District deserve
more than passing thought from Washington
people.
The county seats, Manassas, Culpeper, War
renton, Orange, Leesburg and the rest have excel
lent high schools. Lack of facilities to be found IN
great city schools is compensated for by the closer
associations between teachers and pups-the human
touch replacing the machine.
But northern Virginia is essentially rural Com
munication between its scattered villages is difficult
This is especially true during the winter months
which constitute large part of the country school
year. The roads in many cases are hip deep in
mud. Almost the only possible way of getting to
school from some OF the isolated farmhouses is on
horseback. Even then passage is uncertain. Edu-
cation must be won at the expense of bardsbins
which rival any of those described in anecdotes of
the boyhood days of makers of our country
Adequate pay for teachers, both in high schools
and in the little neighborhood schoolhouses from
which must come the education of the bulk of the
people, is another Problem difficult to answer.
County budgets and county taxes often are COM
Puted on system the basis for which no man
knows and no man ever will. Late last fall Fairfax
County was trying to explain empty Golfers to
young lady teachers whose board bills were in
arrears. The county fathers had hard time cx-
planning and the young ladies were in no mood to
listen.
Problems OF rural education have hoored
Weather States than Virginia. have left helpless
far more prosperous rural sections than the five or
six northern counties in which the District of Co.
umbia is most interested. Because of the locality
in which the State Teachers Association is meet
ing this spring it is to be hoped that these prob,
lens receive thorough airing. Some answer may
be forthcoming.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-31
Reds-and Royal Purples.

wv ELL-wishers of the present Russian govern
w ment, we presume will make much of the
attempted assassination of Dr. Paul MiliukoH.
leader OF the Russian Democratic party, in Berlin
yesterday. 1t was not an agent of the Soviet gov
eminent who fired the shot but reactionary, fam
attic in his bitterness against all those who caused
downfall OF the Gar and the system he renre
sented. To the mind of that fanatic, Dr. Miliukof.
preacher of American democracy for Russia was az
evil influence as Lenin
Not the Reds alone but the Blacks, or perhaps
the Royal Puppies are spreading dangerous prop
uganda through the world Few Americans, brought
up to know the meaning of real liberty and real
equality, have any sympathy with the Bolshevists
and the false doctrines they spread. Fewer Ameri-
cans still have any sympathy for royalty and tyr
amy The thought of king, or czar or a
kaise- has been the bugbear of our history.
There have been some very good kings and some
teachings of the little red schooihouse have i'm
idea that all royalty is contemplate dangerous
sometimes and most of the time only ludicrous.
Few Americans appreciate the true posi-
ton OF the Kaiser. To most of us he was, despite
the mighty. serious problem he had created only a
joke, comic opera figure.
1t is incomprehensible 70 most Americans that
any people can look upon a man with the same
veneration that we look upon the Stars and Stripes
Our sympathies turn more naturally to those who
deny all authority than those who would set up
what. to us, is such silly authority.
fet in almost all Eastern Europe from Berlin
to Moscow, the return of kings looms as dangerous
sometimes as the food of Bolshevism.