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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-04-20
LEGION TO IGNORE q
BONUS BILL ERRORS
Herbert L. Grymes Says No
Court Move Is Contemplated
By Service Men.

Unless the typographical errors in
the Soldiers Bonus bill are taken in.
to court by opponents of the measure,
it is not likely that any change will
be made in its wording, Herbert L..
Grymes, legal representative of the
American Legion, said recently. The
bill as it now reads, Mr.. Grymes
pointed out, would prevent the issu-
ance of only one series of bonds.
those maturing in 1898. He believes
there will be plenty of money to take
care of all soldiers without this
series.
In the meanwhile, however, the
Legion is not going to be caught I'M
aware if the matter is carried to the
courts. Throughout the States an or
ganization of lawyers, all members of
the Legion, has been formed as a sort
of council of defense.
There are about ten of these men,
and all are making a study of the bo-
nus bill. They will be prepared to go
into court in its defense at moments
notice. Mr.. Grymes is the local mem
Der of the council, and the others are
scattered all over the State.
IF we are taken into court" Mr..
Grymes said Friday, Eve will be
ready to defend the bill. If the court
/ decides that there shall be changes,
those will be made, of course, without
argument. However, we are not 60
ing to start anything of our own mi
tiative.
"The only series that could not be
issued under the bill as it now stands
is that which would muture in 1898.
l think we can go ahead with the
work without issuing that series, pro-
vided, of course, the bill passes at the
fall election.
THE money needed was figured ra-
ther literally, l understand, and was
based on the theory that large num-
Der of men would want to take the
educational course, costing about $50
month. l imagine most of the men
will want the money as cash, and
some will be saved there.
THE first series will be dated as of
August l and advertised for sale
with accrued interest, 1t will be per
fectly legal in that way"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-04-20

formed, but it is one which they are,
or ought to be, comrades with differ
ent duties perhaps, but with more or
less equal authority. Certainly the
wife is entitled to be consulted and to
be informed as to the plans, circum-
stances and conditions of the husband
before she is required to render ODE
dience to him in the matter of chm.
ging her place of abode and giving up
a comfortable home.
The Court finds in the testimony
that the husband was guilty of neglect
to provide for the wife after he had
left Frostburg. The Court expresses
the belief that the husband did not
want his wife to come to Detroit or
that he was interested in the welfare
of his wife and their infant child, as
he did not write to her for months.
A. Taylor Smith represented Mrs.
Shartzer and Paul Praeger was at
torney for the husband.
In another opinion filed by Judge
Doub Saturday he dismisses the bill
of Henry H. Hill for separation from
lsOra Hill, of Hancock, on the ground
of desertion. F. Brooke Whiting was
attorney for the husband, while the
wife was represented by Urner G.
Carl.
At the time of the marriage the de-
PENDANT wife was widow with son
of Is, and lived on the property at
Hancock owned by the son. The
testimony showed that the husband
was addicted to drink and quarreled
with his wife and stepson.
The wife's refusal to give up her
comfortable home at Hancock and live
in Cumberland boarding house with
her husband, who was employed in
that city, is upheld The Court states
that it was shown that it was not I'M
usual for Hill, when drunk, to come
home and abuse his wife. 1t was
shown that the husband, last October.
went to Hancock and caused a dis
turbance in his home, for which he
was locked up on a drunk and dis
orderly charge. Judge Doub says the
wife cannot be blamed for not want
ing to come to Cumberland. Her con-
duct cannot be regarded as desertion,
he holds.
Bertrand C. Black, this city,
through Urner G. Carl. attorney, has
brought suit for an absolute divorce
from his wife, Mabel J. Black. They
were married in Cumberland March 9,
1921. Desertion is alleged.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-04-20

Announcement of the engagement
of Miss Mary Chamberlain, of the
Druid Apartments, Baltimore, to Mr..
Marshall Wellington Crane. of Oak
land, has been made by the parents
of Miss Chamberlain.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-04-20

Send your Job Printing to The Re-
publican Job Printing Office.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02
Both Jest and Earnest

THE three reasons given by the
London woman doctor why
i men should do the cooking,
scrubbing and other rough work
in the home, freeing women to do
uplift work outside, are undeni-
ably impressive.
Men are supposed to be phys
ically the stronger sex; they admit
that they are the more competent /;
hence since cooking, scrubbing, etc.,
are hard tasks but socially necessary,
we ought to have this work done by
those who can do it best.
And the sad part of it-for the
mems that this line of reasoning
is no joke, the trend of events is fore
ing it into effect.
Disappearance of women willing
to do housework is either closing the
home except as place of lodging or
is forcing Mr.. Husband to share its
cares and toll.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02

DERHAPs you have seen
a collection Of sayings
and writings about the fair
sex called "woman-Angel or
Devil"
You pays your money and
takes your choice. Or you bor-
row the book-or turn the pages
Of your own voluminous expert
ence-and then worship or ma
lign the fair one to suit your
prejudice.
But woman remains as she
is, despite your praise or your
,lamejust a Human Being. va
riously compounded Of all the
elements-good, bad and indif-
ferent-that go into the making
Of this human stuff.
And not only are there all
kinds of women. but each in
dividual woman runs the gsmut
Of human possibility.
She may, indeed, be angel or
devil or any proportionate
composition OF the two ex-
tremes.
Wherein she is precisely like
her feilow-human - the mere
male.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02
Mr.. COuzeps
and The ID. C..
THE appointment Of Mayor
James Couzens, of Detroit,


James Couzens, Of Detroit,
Il to succeed Senator New
berry will be particularly crafty
ing to people Of the District Of Co.
lumbia if he should be made a men,
Der of the Senate District Commit
tee, where he can apply his won
derful experience in city manage
ment to local legislation.
Washington is the loser when
House and Senate committees on
the District are made up Of mem
bers who have had little or no sx-
perience in intricate and important
problems of a municipal nature.
Too often in the past House COM
mittees on the District have been
composed of Congressman from
country districts. The result has
shown in antagonisms to legislative
recommendation by the District
Commissioners and appeals from
Washington people.
The management of large and
small cities by experts, trained in
municipal administration, is making
headway in the United States.
Every year cities do away with the
old political system of electing
spoilsmen to high places and put
everything in the hands of city
managers, paid well for their serv-
ices, and presumably free from ac-
tive party affiliations.
Mr.. Couzens comes to the Senate
splendidly equipped for useful work
for the National Capital. He has
solved many pressing problems for
Detroit, the most notable being the
street railway tangle there. Under
his leadership the street railways Of
Detroit are now owned by the mu-
nicipality, and the public is de-
lighted.
The outstanding municipal prob
lem of the District is that of the
street railways-lower fares and
better service. Congress has spent
years trying to unravel the compli-
cations and has done nothing. Mr..
Couzens will strengthen municipal
ownership ideas in that body. The
street railways here ought to be
owned by the city.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02
Gods and Beasts
BY DR.. Charles Fleischer-

same as the totaIity Of the fe-
males Of our species.
II you have some of the devil
in you, surely you can afford to
show a fellow feeling to the
man or woman whose devilish-
ness breaks out in faults or
even in crimes.
II you are sufficiently con-
firmed in your average good
ness you should not really re-
gard as an insufferable bore one
who appears almost too good TO
be true.
On the whole this human na-
ture of ours deserves almost
everything that has been said
or written about it
The psalmist was right who
said we are but little lower
than the angels. The whole
Hebraic teachings Is right IN
regarding us as children Of God.
On the other hand, the Chris
tan doctrine is also correct that
asserts we have the "old Adam"
in us. with all that this involves
Of tendency toward evil-to be
counteracted by accepting and
following Divine example.
The latest novel by II. G.
Wells. now running in Hearst's
International, is entitled Men
Like Gods" At the same time
a New York theater is showing
a curious play. comparing hu-
man and animal life.
The one suggests the Godward
progress of man in the next
1000 years. The other portrays
the blackest pessimism IN show
ing that human beings are
plainly and inevitably like
beasts.
This time you cannot have
your choice.
Whatever you may choose TO
think on this score. you are
bound to act as q being that
cannot help but move toward
the good.
And on the Plateau OF the
Good, dream dreams and see
visions OF a new gcod-alwa,s .
better.
Copyright. 1894. by King Features
Syndicate. fno.D
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02
Luck and
Ability

TT is an old discussion whether
ones success depends upon
= luck or whether he is justified
in crediting it to his own ability.
Most successful men are. inclined
to think that q little of both ele-
ments enters into the matter.
The very best way to look at it,
however, is that while there is un-
doubtedly something in luck, yet
luck has a way of favoring the
prepared.
Luck often comes around and
knocks at our door, and we are not
In.
Besides this, while luck may give
US a good start, it cannot be de-
pended upon to stay with us.
Frederick D. Underwood, presi-
dent of the Erie Railroad, in a re-
cent newspaper article succinctly
stated the case when he said that
"No ones luck holds too long"
Luck is a good deal like lightning.
There is no doubt that there is
such thing as lightning, that it
is a tremendous force, but so long
as people sat around and waited
for it, so long as they simply won-
dered at it and feared it, about all
the result it accomplished was a
tremendous amount of erratic
damage.
When men began to study the
laws of electricity and to adjust
their wires and machines to those
laws, lightning ceased to be merely
a wild horse of the skies and began
to trot along profitably the ways
of commerce and production.
Luck, in fine, is something we do
not understand and the more we
increase the mass of things we
do understand, the less we fear
luck and depend upon it.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02

II you wish to. be gallant you
may say that there are not so
many male seraphs to the
square mile Of earth as there
are female angels.
Or. II you choose to be a bit
gay, you may even positively
assert that men are much more
devilish than women. And you
nay at least negatively aid your
assertion by indicating how
ashamed a man acts when you
charge him with goodness.
And how flattered even de-
cent men seem II you suggest
that they are a bit devilish.
When you stop playing with
this fundamentally serious sub
ject you have to admit that
men, too. are just human be-
ines-each within himself a
mixture Of all kinds Of qualities.
and the totality Of males vary
ing and averaging about the
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02
To the Editor:

To the EDITOR:
TuIE writer. born IN England.
= of q French mother and
an Italian father. Is an Ameri-
can first and always, and re-
sents the new activities by the
pro-Europe press.
1t is' absurd for anyone with
good common sense to think
that q League Of Nothing"
could stop the Powers over
there from squabbling. II they
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02
The Unmarried Mother
RISS NANCY JORDAN war
u romance appears to be devel-
VI oping so that all concerned


M romance appears to be devel-
kvx oping so that all concerned
may live happily forever after.
Automatically held for deporta-
tion when, as an unmarried mother,
she arrived in New York with her
three-year-old boy, Miss Jordan has
been admitted by Labor Secretary
Davis. She is now under the foster
ing care of the divorced wife of the
Kansas City man who befriended
Miss Jordan In England during the
war.
A bit complicated, but your imagi-
nation can "do the rest" What in
terests us specifically in this case is
its evidence of the friendlier attitude
toward the unmarried mother. This
is one of the incidentally humane
outgrowths of the war.
In Lille, France-where, natural
ly, they value all contributions to-
ward the diminishing population
the mayor surprised the non-French
world last summer by officially ac-
ceptlng and dedicating a monument
to the unmarried mother and her
child.
Even strictest safeguarding of the
monogamic home should permit a
sympathetic acceptance of the un-
married mother and a most solicit
Gus regard and care for the unof-
Tending and handicapped child.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02
THE SPECTATOR
The Lighter Spirit

he viii say and think under
given conditions. He is q pup
pet. and puppet shows are In
teresting.
Then. Il is quite as amusing
to notice how people do what
you do not expect OF them.
how they break all traditions.
flare up irrationally. remain
calm when they should be ex-
cited and laugh when you en-,
pect them to cry.
If one can cultivate the by
= standing mind enough 70
keep himself from taking this
world too seriously. II is not
such a stupid place. An sorts
Of amusing things are going
on. OF course. we do not refer
to the frivolous spirit. TO one
who takes nothing seriously.
to the soul that has no tears.
to those whose notion Of en-
joyment is an unceasing and
empty cackle. Extremes are
always vicious. and extreme
levity Is quite as trying as ex-
treme solemnity.
But it is a. safe general rule
that people who are not fun
iamentally gay are not very
much interested in anything.
They are careful and troubled
about many things. as was Sis
ter Martha. and they forget
the one thing needful. which
Ia light in the human spirit.
A ND those who are deficient
- In playfulness rarely DO
good work. One must have q
good deal Of the fun spirit IL
he is not to hate his work.
Most Of the bad work Of the
world is done by people who
10 not like their jobs, and the
good work is done by those
who enjoy what they are do
ing.
And then. as to success-aft.
er all. that. too. is a matter Of
the human spirit. II is not
our gains nor privileges, It in
the quality and tone Of our
whole life that counts. And
the tone OF success In joy.
Tragedy is the tone Of failure.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02
The Man Who
Couldn't Get Elected

NOW that the tumult and the
shouting of election are
IN over, it might be well to re-
fleet upon one of the candidates
who never had the remotest chance
of getting elected.
And this candidate was the one
who of all others ought to have
been elected. That is to say, he
was the one man proposed for
position for which he was perfectly
qualified without the shadow. of a
doubt.
Furthermore, if every citizen of
the State of New York had been
asked to name the man best fitted
for the position in question, nine
out of ten of them would have
named this candidate. And he never
had a look-in.
The man in question is Charles
P. Steinmetz. The office for which
he was nominated was State en-
gineer.
His position, his accomplish
nents and his known ability dis
thctly set him apart as the one man
most capable of doing the business
of State engineer.
This shows the peculiar ineffi-
cheney and absurdity of party gov
ernment which is probably the most
admirably devised system in the
world for giving people not what
they want, but what they don t
want.
If the question had simply been
who is the best man for State en-
gineer and Mr.. Steinmetz's name
had been proposed, and if that
question had not been swamped by
party politics, no other candidate
would have allowed his name to be
used.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02
Genuinely American Policy

have such a league. I say Stay
outr They will always be at
odds and that 10 why we wish
to mind our own business.
When the war was on Tur-
key was to be driven from the
map, Now. you see, France
caters to the Turk. Why? To
get the best Of England.
The real American does not
want this country embroiled In
petty jealousies,
MAXINE MAURICE CAREr1T
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02
WAYSIDE WISDOM
Copyright 1s22)
BY s. F.. Kiser-
THE ENNOBLINC PASSION

ssDEAR," he said. '1 love you %
- That If ever l discover
That you are inclined to show
Favor to some other lover
I will lose my present poise
And give way to crazy passion,
l will rob you of your joys
In the customary fashion.
tsT WILL follow you and him
L Slyly, in and out of season;
Cunning, mereiless, and grim.
will rid myself of reason!
He may beg and you may plead,
But my love shall be unshaken;
! will hasten to proceed
In the course 30 often taken"
I" ND. my dearest" she replied
"A IF you ever should deceive me,
/ could not be satisfied
To be rational, believe me;
1t 10 well enough to say
Killings likely to be mussy,
But If you should run away
With another I'd grow fussy.
ssT SHOULD watch In secret, dear,
L Till found the right occasion,
Then, approaching from the rear,
I'd attempt no soft persuasion;
1t would be treat to sow
Thistles where her corpse was lying
Dear. because I love you SO,
I'd be charmed to see you dying"
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02
COED POLITICS
By BUGS" BAER

AGE Of chivaIry 10 dying on
"A vine. Although CASTOR Sultan
may pull an after-you-Alphonse on
Wilhelm, and although U. 8. may
toss its Treasury open to our
foreign boy friends, there is no
reasonable doubt that all Sir
Walter Raleighs are on wrong
side of Weejee Board.
CINCE women decided that
- they looked better with votes,
man has made 'em suffer like
pulled whiskers.
A UTHOUGH Harding Is our
"A first co-educational executive
and was elected by pretty girls
and their sweethearts. what hap.
pens to our only Lady Senator.
ess 90 Mrs. FELTON,, Of Georgia,
where cotton blooms and grows
up to 40 cents per pound!
CHE got her seat four days later
- than men Senators. Those
big unanimous minstrels chaired
themselves four days before Mrs
FELTON, sat down. Forcing US to
morosely admit that there are
more gentlemen in six chapters OF
Daughters Of Revolution than
there are in that august Sena.
torial mob in November.
WHEN longest Speaker of
w House bangs his tack ham.
mer on heads Of Representatives
and urges gentlemen to be seated,
does that include ladies? Not by
two shoestores full Of high heels
CINCE acquiring comfortable
y suffrage and full authority tc
x any ballot whose color doesn't
agree with their present complex.
ion, women have paid scalpe,
prices for their nickel seats.
noes man protect woman like
u Adam protected Eve? Doei
he scare away lions and burglars
Nope.
LIE does not. He only scare.
"a away his own share.
WOMEN have fifty-fifty con
W tract to votes. burglars ant
lions, and all emoluments Of OF
fee appertaining thereto.
TITLE Eva got her vote al
Il most sixty years later thai
Uncle Tom. But now that oil,
Cabin is divided against itseli
And all bungalows divided agains
themselves must fall. Though
nations shall tremble and cradle
be rocked to their foundations
that cafeteria writing on wal
points irIevocably to brown brea,
and Boston beans.
DRoPHNCIDe are promissor,
I notes until something haI
pens. This nation 10 being run b
men and women where formsri
only man was vile.
THERE are two sexes steerinI
1 our Ship Of State. And "
hope that nobody starts one q
those third houseboat nartiAs
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02
VeTOWNE GOSSIP
Il Copyright. 1877. b. Star Company.
BY X. c. B.

Dear X. c. B.: Every little while you take
a rap at the BARRIERS who try to sell you hair
tonic and messages and shampoos and singes
and such things. Is there any difference be-
tween a barber trying to sell his wares than
the clerk in the store who trys to sell you
two ties when you need one or SEQ
suit when all you have 10 $40? Why don't
you rap these other birds some time?
CHAIR NO ONE.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02
Stars and Stripes

Illinois man traded his wife to a neigh
Dor for vacant lot. Seems as though
all three Of them are rather a vacant lot
IL, as Conan Dayle says, there are no
flappers in heaven. a man ought to lie
able to keep his mind on his harp play.
ing when he gets there.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02

Hair tonic now gets results, which In
lot more than could be said Of some
Of 1t before prohibition.
General Pershing advises the people
not to drift into a pacifist state of mind.
Bue we believe there Is little danger of
that, with prices where they are.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02

NOME day we may learn to quit
being the Don Quixote among
~ the nations, and decide to put
the interests, the welfare, the pro-
lection of our own land and people
foremost.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02
TRAVEL 10 AN EDUCATOR,

TRAVEL Is AN EDUCATOR.
THAT" said the Philadelphian who was
showing the stranger the sights, "h Indepen.
dence Hail."
"Oh," replied the visitor, "a bachelors
club, ehf"
NOTHING LIKE IT.
Love is a wonderful thing. without Il the
New Jersey coroners would rarely have any.
thing to do.
PRO BONO PUsLIco,
Az longevity tip. the National Life lnsur.
ance Company offers the following advice:
always leave the table hungry" Thus vs
see that our cafeterias are doing their bit In
that noble work-the prolongation Of life.
TOO NEAR HOME.
One Of the worst things about the Near
East is that It isn't farther away.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02

DEOPLE do two sorts of
L things. They do. first,
what you expect, and. second,
what you do not expect. Both
are amusing. IL you look at It
in the right way.
1t is amusing to see how any
man runs true to form, how
accurately you can predict all
Of his reactions. how you can
tell beforehand just about what
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02

II FE has been looked at In
different ways. Some think
It is q tremendously solmen af-
fair. q serious and rather dread
full experiment in which the
least mistake may have fatal
Issues.
Some regard II an a good deal
Of q bore, and their main effort
Is to divert their minds and for
get the realities. Not in the
business Of life. but in the
amusements. the illusions and
the diversions that help us to
forget life is enjoyment to be
found.
Some look on life as an op-
portunity for achievement. and
all their energies are bent
toward accomplishment. either
making money or producing
something in the way Of art or
goods.
Some regard II as a tragedy,
and some as a joke.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02

DERHAPs the sanest view of
L life would include a little
Of all these things-sunshine
and shadow. rest and labor.
struggle and peace. flesh and
spirit. Man is a complex thing.
Whatever be the stuff Of
life. its prevailing tone. I am
persuaded, should be gay.
Whatever the words Of the
song, the accompaniment
should be in a major key and
not minor.
Those who are blessed with
a sense of humor. and those
who cultivate it. will get more
out of the whole story than
those who cannot summon this
lightness.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02
IMP Lord and tie Lord ,ia tighten n,y darkness

Text
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02

THERE are two sexes steering
l our Ship Of State. And we
hope that nobody starts one Of
those third houseboat parties,
The Washington herald., 1922-12-02
NOTHING LIKE IT,
PRO BONO PUalIco.
TOO NEAR HOME

Ono Of the worst things about the Near
East is that It isn't farther away.