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The Washington times., 1922-05-28
To Throw Good Money After Bad i'm Setting to
Work a Wicked and MiSchieVOuS Process
Would BE to Stamp One Worse Man Than
the SWimdler, Declares English Author.

vite him to swindle me again If he
can"
Now, this was not sentimental.
ity: I am not a bit fonder Of being
swindled than other people, and
IL society would treat swim.
dlers properly I would denounce
them without the slightest re-
morse and not grudge a reason
able expenditure Of time and en-
ergy in the business. But to
throw good money after bad in
setting TO work a wicked and mis-
chie&ous process like the one de-
scribe2 in this book would be to
stamp myself as a worse man
than the swindler, who earned the
money more energetically and ap-
propriated it no more unjustly
than earn and appropriate my
dividends.
must. however. warn our
thieves that caen promise them
no immunity from police pursuit
IL they rob me Some time after
the operation just recorded. an un-
invited guest came to luncheon
party in my house. He Tor she)
got away with an overcon and
pocketful OF my wife's best table
silver. But instead of selecting
my oVercoat he took the best over
coat. which was that of one of my
The Washington times., 1922-05-28
Detection Uncertain.

Ny guest was insured against
theft. the insurance company had
to buy him a new overcoat. and
the matter thus paid out Of my
hands into those Of the police.
was concerned. was the same. He
was not captured, and he had the
social satisfaction of providing
employment for others in convert
ing into a strongly fortified OBJ
The Washington times., 1922-05-28
BY COLE MORGAN,

Universal Service Staff Correspondent.
A MEXICAN manufacturers Of
A wash fabric wearing
Il - apparel have developed a
new medium of cutting produc-
ton cost and increasing profits
by utilizing the cheap native
labor of Porto Rico.
Vast quantities of semi-tropic-
weight suits, shirts, waists, col
lars, handkerchiefs and under
wear now are being shipped from
New York and other American
cities to Porto Rico, already cut
and fashioned ready for sewing,
where they are put together on
piecework basis by women and
girls OF the island and then ship.
ped back as finished products
ready for the trade.
The development Of this indus
try was told to Universal Serv-
ice recently by Colonel George
r. Stanton, for thirteen years
chief of the Porto Rican insular
police, who is in Washington on
leave of absence.
Ono manufacturer, Colonel
Stanton said, had told him he
could add 40 cents per suit profit
in mems clothes in 1,000-lot ship
ments made up in Porto Rico,
after covering cost Of transporta-
ton and handling, as compared
with cost OF manufacture in New
York. This is possible through
the absence of any export and
import duties, Porto Rico being
an American possession.
Porto Rico, only ninety.eight
miles long and thirty-six miles
wide. he said, has a population OF
1850, 900, an average of S72 per
square mile. With this abund-
ance of labor the wage average
is less than 81 per day. Cost Of
The Washington times., 1922-05-28
THINGS YOU CAN
WIN IN FIVE YEARS.

You can speak French. or Ital-
ian or Spanish fuently in 1927.
even II you don't know one word
Of any foreign tongue now.
You can have a beautiful COM
plexion and a good figure.
You can be a money Garner, en-
tirely Independent Of any other
person in the world. for as long
as you shall live and keep your
health.
Five years! look back from
forty-one to thirty-six and think
Of what I would do II were only
thirty.six again! 1t seems to me I
would rise early, and sometimes
see the sunrise
(And by the way, whether It is
over the houses or some city
square. or over an old harbor full
Of shipping, or over the dewy oaks
and silent, shadowless meadows OF
the real country, here Is daily
treat, that makes all the galleries
Of Europe seem lifeless and cramp-
ed-and most OF us miss 1t three
hundred and sixty-five times a
yearD
would see the sunrise, and then
have a good half hour Of French
or Spanish verbs before breakfast
to remove myself at last from
the agonized cropping after the
battling "avoir" and "etre"-and
then breakfast temperately upon
fruit and whole wheat toast. and
then, inspired and refreshed, go at
my work sanely and steadily until
one o'clock. Then luncheon, and
mending or letters
But no. 1 stop in discourage
ment. II I have been forty-one
years vainly striving for this ideal.
I could achieve It as easily now as
at thirty-six or twenty-six!
The Washington times., 1922-05-28
'Flapperism' Is Revolt
OF Youth, Says M. ID.

CHICAGO. May 27.-There is
nothing mysterious about the flap
per-she is just "a female who
has lived down thousands Of years
Of hypocrisy and now has become
what she most desired to be for
ages. a human being" DR.. Lee A.
Stone, head of the Chicago De-
partment Of Health. said in AN
address before a health conference.
"Flapperism-or modern femin-
ism-is just the revolt of youth"
added DR.. Stone. 1T is the re-
sumption OF the original status Of
mankind"
The Washington times., 1922-05-28
Firemen Fight Blaze
While Baby is Borti

OAKLAND, May 27.-when the
fire trucks and engines arrived at
James Browns home, they were
told to make as little noise as
possible. "A baby's being born"
the chief told them.
The firemen made as little noise
as possible, and the baby was born
about the time the blaze was e,-
tinguished.
The Washington times., 1922-05-28
Town Plans to BUILD
Church After IS Yrs.

JAMESTOWN, Tenn. May 27.-
Plans for the building Of a church
have been announced by the Rev
Robert Hall. pastor OF the South
ern Methodist congregation here.
Notwithstanding tho fAct that
the town has been Incorporated
eighty.five years, this is the first
structure of it's kind TO be erected.
The Washington times., 1922-05-28
THE WASTED JOY
AND ACHIEVEMENT.

Yet the very forming OF this ideal
has some effect, and one does man.
age some Of the work. some Of the
verbs, some Of the sun.rises. One
does begin dimly to realize all the
wasted Joy and achievement and
beauty that goes begging in the
world. year after year after year.
The Washington times., 1922-05-28

stacle the flimsy gate through
which he had effected an entrance,
thereby giving my fiat the ap-
pearance of a private madhouse.
On another occasion a drunken
. woman obtained admission by pre-
senting an authentic letter from a
soft-hearted member of the House
OF Lords. I had no guests at the
moment, and as she. too, wanted
an overcoat she took mine. and
actually interviewed me with 1t
most perfunctorily concealed un-
der her jacket. When / called
her attention to It. she handed IL
back to me effusively, begged mo
to shake hands with her. and went
her way.
Now these things occur by the
dozen every day, in spite Of the
severity with which they are pun
ished when the thief is captured
by the police. I dare say all my
readers. If not too young to have
completed a representative ex-
perience. could add two or thre
similar stories. What do they go
to prove?
Just that detect ion is 50 uncer-
tain that its consequences have
no really effective deterrence for
the potential offender. while the
unpleasant and expensive conse-
quences Of prosecution, being alb
solutely certain. have very
strong deterrent effect, indeed, on
the prosecutor. In short. all the
hideous cruelty practiced by US
foI the sake Of deterrence is
wasted; we are damning our souls
at g1eat expense and trouble for
nothing.
Another article by
George Bernard Shaw on
modern methods of pun
ishment will appear next
Sunday. :.
The Washington times., 1922-05-28

"HERE is all the difference in
the world between deterrencs
- as an incident Of the opera
tion of criminal law and deterrence
as its sole object and justification.
In a purely deterrent system. for
instance, it matters not jot who
Is punished provided somebody is
punished and the public persuaded
that he is guilty. The effect OF
hanging or imprisoning the wrong
man is as deterrent as hanging or
imprisoning the right one.
The Washington times., 1922-05-28
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, the famous Engli

BERNARD SHAW the famous English his
~ prolific writer
and when writing favte
probably Engnd greatest pubs He Of the minded
deGging
s considerable risk
The Washington times., 1922-05-28
WHAT OF YOURSELF
FIVE YEARS HENCEe

Five years from now will find
us in the year 1927.
This Is what the children in
school would call "a simple declara-
tive sentence" Most Of US may
be reasonably sure of reaching that
The Washington times., 1922-05-28

six dollars would mean to you
or me. But sheer patriotism obliged
her TO take II. because they
couldn't find another woman who
knew what she did about that
particular subject.
Magnetic. bright, inspiring con-
fidence-of course, both Of these
women were that. But so Is any
woman who has found her work.
her avenue for service and self
expression! The tragedy of most
women's lives is that they are
living in conditions not OF their
own making, forced to use all their
energies upon ends that are either
distasteful or useless.
The Washington times., 1922-05-28

"YIS is the third of a series
of articles by George Ber-
nard Shato, in tohich he
condemns society's attitude to-
ward and Endorsement of modern
methods of punishment for crimi-
mails. Other articles aViu follo1U.
The Washington times., 1922-05-28

-uriting stories, studying, taking lessons
and dedicate THE NEXT WHOLE TWO
YEARS TO 1T, With no thought of immediate
results, pith the thought of Dhat you may
some day be able to GIVE predominating oUer
that of Uhdt you may possibly GET.
This no more can fail to form a riUer than
any actual little streams that trickle dolDn a
mountain side.
o The loay to begin living the ideal life is-to
begin.
The Washington times., 1922-05-28
THINK OUT YOUR
FIRST STEP.

Now there is a first step TO.
ward that changed life OF 1927,
and any woman who is dissatis-
fled with her life now is in honor
bound to think out that step and
at least make a move toward TAX.
ing II. When 1t Is taken, the next
step will appear plainly, and all
the succeeding steps will present
The Washington times., 1922-05-28
PICK NEW
LIFE AMID
BEGIN lit
The Way to Start
Living the Ideal
Life Ts-to Start,
Says p o p u a r
Woman Writer.
BY KATHLEEN NORRIS

SeVXI Ho is she?" cranins
" women murmur curl
w ously, looking at the
distinguished. happy-looking wom-
an in the rich furs sitting next
to the guest of honor on the plat
form. and evidently quite as much
q parsonage herself.
That's Margaret King" some
body whispers back. Don't you re-
member-she was Margaret Sex
ton? Don't you remember that
she married, and they lost all their
money. and they sort of disappear
The Washington times., 1922-05-28
KATEHL LEEN NORRIS SAYS

IF your life CON-
pIetely satisfies
you nOU, then, of
course, let u e | |
enough alone.
=
But if you are sick
of bills, economies,
drudgeries, the stu
pid office routine, or
the fiat from lDhich
you and John and the
babies sees no pros
pect of moving, then
look about you.
The New York herald., 1922-07-07

States Railroad Labor Boards acts
should be regarded as II the board
never could make a mistake. Any
body can make a mistake. Every
body does make mistakes. And If
the board does fall into error. or if
conditions and facts so change as to
make any findings equivalent to an
error, the correction should be made.
But not at the point of a pistol. Not
on the threat that unless the board
changes its decision to the liking of
one or of the other of the two par
ties involved 1t cannot be a decision
for those for whom it is made.
1t is to be said for Chairman
HOOPER of the United States Railroad
Labor Board that he has not shown
himself a man that will truckle
to powerful influence or cringe to
the bully. His independent, forceful
attitude has done much to raise his
board in the esteem of the American
people. This is why they will give
the very keenest attention to any
suggestion of compromise between
the United States Railroad Labor
Board and BERT M. JEwEH-why
they will ask of themselves, What
kind of compromise?
The New York herald., 1922-07-07
Horse Shows Made Educational

The practice of requiring exhibi.
tors at horse shows to give the breed
ing Of their horses Is good one, and
the Association, OF American Horse
Shows has done well to adopt 1t. In
formation of this sort is especially
important in the saddle, hunting and
jumping classes. Students Of type
are thus enabled to see the results of
various crosses.
AS a majority OF the hunters and
jumpers are either clean bred or hall
bred, it would be we'll whenever pos
sible to give the family from which
dams of the latter type are de-
scended. Many fine half breds are
from standard bred dams, while
others are from saddle or hackney
mares. Still others. particularly the
middle and heavy weights. are from
the coarser draft families.
~ Such information would be highly
educational. The Association Of
American Horse Shows has the ma
cbinery and the authority to enforce
its rule. The results should ben Of
value to the exhibitors and the pub
lie as we'll as to the breeders.
The New York herald., 1922-07-07
PERU ACCEPTS HUGHES
PLAN TO END DISPUTE
Makes Minor Reservations
Issue Up to Chile.

WARRINGTON, July (Associated
Press) Peru at last adopted an atti-
tude toward the State Departments
Tacna-Arica compromise plan to-day
which gave promise Of revfving, at
least temporarily. the quiescent Chilean
Peruvian negotiations here.
After two weeks Of deliberation, char
acterized by many exchanges of opinion
between it's Foreign Office and it's dele
cation in Washington, the Peruvian
Government Is understood to have laid
before Secretary Hughes an acceptance
of the American plan, qualified only by
such reservations as the Peruvian dele
gates believed would be accepted by
Chile.
When the Peruvian position was COM
municated in turn to the Chileans, how
ever. new evidences Of uncertainty de-
veloped. and no one in the Chilean group
would predict tonight whether the de-
cision would be for acceptance or re-
lection. 1t was indicated that the Peru
Wan reservations must be subjected to
the most painstalking examination and
that an opinion might not be formulated
for several days.
The precise character Of the reserva-
tions settled upon by the Foreign Office
Of Peru was not revealed, but 1t was in
dicated that they applied to the third
clause Of the American plan, prescribing
the procedure in case no plebisclte is
held in Tacna AFRICA.
The New York herald., 1922-07-07
Puss in the Flower Shop.
Daisies, Marlgolds and Primroses
the Cats Favorites.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Passing
through one OF the railway terminals
in Manhattan each morning on my way
to business have noticed the display
in a florists shop. Not the flowers
alone attracted my attention but large
black cat whose name is Mig
He takes great interest in the flowers
as they are being arranged for the day.
Since he was kitten there have been
three flowers that have particularly at
tracted him. and these are the daisies,
marigolds and primroses. 1t has been
mystery to the people who know Mig
why he should be attracted by these
flowers. Many times during the day he
will walk up to these varieties and in
hale the perfume with seeming delight,
and whenever he wants to sleep it is
always near these flowers that he takes
his nap.
Recently one of the men called at
the shop from the great greenhouses in
the suburbs. where all of these flowers
are grown and he noticed Nig's fond-
ness for these special flowers, and he
said to him, Mig. I know why you are
so fond Of the daisies. marigolds and
primroses; 1t is because catnip Is grown
with these flowers. Now. isn't that so
Nig?"
And all Mig could do was simply to
look up to the florist and smile. And
the mystery was solved.
GEORGE WILSON JENNINGS.
BRooKLYN, July 6.
The New York herald., 1922-07-07
RAIN DELAYS THRESHINC
OF GRAIN IN NORTHEAST
Proves Beneficial to Greater
Part of Corn Crop.

WASHINGTON, July 6.-Rain which
proved the farmers friend In some part.
of the country was his foe In other
sections during the week ending Tues
day, the Weather Bureau reported to-
day.
Harvesting and threshing of grain was
retarded by rains in the northeastern
States and among uncut grain there was
considerable damage done by rain and
wind. Harvesting of >winter wheat
generally went aong Satisfactorily.
Additional moisture combined with
cool weather aided the spring wheat
crop in the Dakotas. The crop was
suffering greatly from drought in Wash
ington and Oregon, where not irrigated
and in Utah and Montana.
Dry weather was damaging the oats
crop. practically throughout the whole
region where that crop is grown
The rains proved of great beneft to
most of the corn crop. The tempera-
ture was favorable for growth In all
sections. except In Minnesota and Wis
consin. where warm weather was
needed.
The New York herald., 1922-07-07
Lenroot's Tariff Warning.

What Senator LENRoor has told the
majority leaders about his vote on
their tariff measure when IL comes
up fpr final passage in the Senate is
what Republicans and protectionists
by the thousands are saying about
their votes on the tariff makers
themselves when they come up for
reelection at the national polls.
Senator LESRooT is for reasonable
protective tariff rates. He is for CIV
ing American industries the protec-
tion they should have against foreign
made goods that are too desperately
cheap whether because OF pauper
labor or because of debased foreign
exchanges. But Senator LENRoor
will not stand for tariff rates that can
result only in holding up prices al
ready too high for the American peo-
pie, or in even raising still higher
the prices now so far up.
Senator LENRooT would like to act
with his party, he would like to have
the Senate majority make a tariff
bill that he could support. But when
it comes to choice between stand
ing with his party on an inordinate
tariff against the public interest or
standing with the American people
against a hardship and wrong t6
them Senator LENRoor gives his as
sociates fair warning he will stand
with the people and against their
measure. 1t must be better thansthey
are doing or he cannot vote for it.
Senator LENRooT is of the younger
members of the Senate, in closer
touch and sympathy with the folks
back home. He comes from a
State, Wisconsin, which has been in
tensely Republican and soundly pro-
tective. But with his understanding
OF the folks back home in his Repub-
lican and protective State he knows
that the American people will not
stand for tariff extremes that make
high living costs higher and shut
this country's products out Of the
markets Of the world. So he tells the
Senate majority the truth.
If his plain speaking brings the
Senate tariff makers to their political
as well as their economic senses Sen
ator LENRoor does them a good serv-
ice no less than he does the country
a good service. II they go on to the
end with tariff monstrosity that
the Lenroots cannot vote for in the
Senate and that the American people
will not vote for at the polls so much
the worse for them.
The New York herald., 1922-07-07
Its Up to You."
A Dangerous Precedent Seen in Ap.
prOvaI of the Phrase.

To THE NEW York Herald: Your
seeming approval Of the phrase "It's ur
TO YOU" despite its elanginess. will sc
Ear toward popularizlng 1t among the
more educated classes and for that
very reason a journal of the standing
of THE NEW YoRK HERALD should be
cautious In lending It's Endorsement to
the employment Of a word or combina-
ton OF words rated at the present time
as slang. t
Would not a dangerous precedent be
established, in visor of which the door
might be opened to admit other express
sions composed OF words which when
taken separately are OF honest parent
age. and vet when Joined together In
an unlawful union produce an offspring
which is not legitimate. and hence would
still be regarded as an outcast among
the more respectable elements?
As to the expression itself, I regret
being Obliged for once to disagree with
THE New York HERALD, for look upon
the phrase 1T is up to you" as far too
slangy and too low ever to rise to the
dignity Of an honored position in our
lexicons. That 1t has force there is no
question but so too nave other express
sions which II printed would doubtless
shock your readers. A giants strength
Is often his own undoing. CRITIC.
NEW York, July 8.
The New York herald., 1922-07-07

Kepubli. and Abraham Lincoln, and In
1913, when survivors OF his company
were present at the fiftieth anniversary
of the battle of Gettysburg, he was
called upon to repeat the Gettysburg
Address on the spot where President
Lincoln delivered the original on Novem-
ber. 10. 1863. He knows both of the
Lincoln inaugural addresses by heart
Edmund Seymour, banker at As
Wall street, one of the later generation
Of ranchmen, probably keeps in as close
touch with the living old timers in the
West as any other Of The Plainsmen
now living in New York. On the wall
Of his office is the Identical As Colt
carried for more than twenty-five years
by Clark b. Stocking. the last of the
old guards. He also has a buffalo gun
with history and other relics whose
value is principally in their associations.
Mr.. Seymour Is president of the Amer
lean Bison Society, in which DR.. william
T. Hornaday and Professor Henry Fair
field Osborn are interested.
NJ. s. Garretson, who knows the
plains from Texas to Montana, resides
at Clifton, N. j. He is secretary of
the American Bison Society. His pet
aversion Is the inaccuracy Of Western
Life as portrayed on the films.
william Francis Hooker Is In active
service as editor Of the Eric RGilroad
MdgnsIne. and writes entertainingly
about life and transportation on the
plains from 1873 on. as the spirit moves
which is quite often. His brochure,
The Prairie Schooner" now out Of
print, is valued by everybody fortunate
enough to possess a copy. His knowl-
edge Of driving oxen and mules in the
prairie country is unexcelled.
Plainsmen living In the West have to
swap their experiences by mail. Ellis
T. ("Doc") Peirce. who says that he can
always figure his age by the fact that
he was born on the day the Mexican
war began. is the best and most regu-
lar correspondent, and any Plainsnan
you meet in New York has one or more
letters from Peirce In his pocket. Mr..
Hooker has hundreds Of them, and he
says that they sometimes come two or
three In a day. The two Plainsmen
still older, the Hon. John Hunton of
Fort Laramie, Wyo, and Clark b.
Stocking of Los Angeles, CAL, are occa-
sionally heard from, but less often.
NEW York, July 6. ROBERT BRUCE.