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The Washington herald., 1922-03-16
Two-War Veteran Speaks.
To the Editor, The wsshinstoa Herald:

10 tne EQltof, Inc WAshln&ton nctsto'
May a bald-headed relict' OF two
wars enter the sanctum sanctorum
Of your open Court" and relieve
himself of the thoughts that mean
der the wilderness of his mind7
am one Of the few who are
privileged to wear a Confederate
Cross and a service bar of a soldier
OF the Spanish war. and cannot help
comparing the attitude Of soldiers
of those two wars with that of the
ex-service men of the world war.
When the civil war ended the
Confederate soldier went back to
desolated. in many cases. a ruined
home. He went mopeyless and al
most ragged. Undaunted, however.
he went to work and pulled
through. No Congress, afraid Of
or tried to bride him with a bonus.
No state offered him a bounty. and
to his lasting credit. be II said, he
never asked for one. His patriot.
ism was of far too nne a quality
to be measured by dollars and
cents.
With the veteran Of the Spanish
war il was the same as to bounty
and pension. When the Maine went
down in Havana Harbor, he had
FASTENED to the nearest recruiting
station and offered service. He too.
sustained loss of position, suffered
privations, faced death and lost in
equal proportion to those of the
world war or Union veterans Of the
civil war. When he signed his last
pay roll he considered his account
with the Federal government squared,
got back in civil harness and for
got it"
SENEX.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-16
Facing the Bonus Issue Squarely.

n ELIEF is expressed in divisions of the
ID press, prompted Of course, by the opinions
of officials and legislators spoken or I'M
Piled that legislation providing "a bonus for world
veterans will not be passed at this session of
Congress. If the bill sponsored by the Ways and
Means Committee OF the House is pushed through
next Monday, it is averred, the measure will be
put too far down the Senate calendar to be
reached before adjournment.
If this presumption is we'll founded, it indicates
determination on the part Of the Upper House to
respect the wishes of the President and faith
that the men and women whom such compensation
is destined to benefit will not construe a proper
regard for the economic welfare of the nation as
callousness niggardness. Mr. Harding, the
Republican administration head, has shown himself
willing to risk at next Novembers polls the result
OF vote following failure to provide bonus legis-
lation if the time should not have been found ripe
to finance it. He impressed upon Congress in his
message that in the event it deemed impossible
to recompense the veterans without employing long
term methods, he would rather see the thing go
So much for hypothetical concurrence in
his Sentiments by the Senate.
AS concerns an implied faith in several mil
lions of voters, the thought that substantially
fewer members of the House of Representatives
tther political futures in the failure or passage
OF bonus bill at this session than is often sup
posed. small number may have made their lead
ing bid for votes with such plank as bonus or
bust" but with the vast majority it was a COM
posite platform upon which they stood The threats
of November retaIiations by former service men
have been far more often the outbursts of indv-
iduals small groups than the officially warranted
messages of recognized veterans organizations
The former of khaki and blue who are
good citizens and regularly exercise their franchises
going to think several times before they work
defeat who has done all in his power to
put his prediction promises into practice and has
failed. temporarily, through the fault of
national condition, not personal inclination,
The Republican party is pledged in its platform
to discharge to the fullest the obligations which
of the services rendered by its defenders sea and
on land" The it has put in office are over
whelmingy in favor of paying the debt of gratitude
and paying it, if the beneficiary desires in cold cash.
1t is only lack of means, not lack of intent that
may bring about the delay in payment.
There may be deal of pyrotechncs in the
House when Speaker Gllett takes charge again on
Monday. He is reported as determinedly against
the jsmming through of the bill evolved by the
Ways and Means Committee. 1t is further held
probable that President Harding would veto it if
Executives attitude toward the bonus is far re-
moved from mere political considerations If the
nations finances not ready to bear the burdens
imposed by the bill under discussion he is ready
to tel the veterans and abide the consequences.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-16
More Praise for Critic.

To the Editor, The Washington Herald:
The readers Of The Herald may be
complimented upon their kind atti-
tude toward writers WHOM they ap-
preciate by expressing their senti-
ments in the Open Court. 1t must
be most encouraging to a writer to
feel that his work receives the ad-
miration and support Of those who
read and appreciate what is offered
them.
Buckleigh oxford's letter in the
Open Court extends praise to write
who undoubtedly handles one Of the
most difficult features in the paper.
To be able to criticise a theatrical
production iptelligently and Impair
TALLY must indeed be a task. Earle
Dorsey has shown that he is capable
of reviewing any style of play in
most interesting manner and at the
same time act fairly in the interests
Of the stage and also the public.
When a celebrity comes to town with
a past record and doesn't deliver the
goods in full justice to his reputa-
ton; Mr.. Dorsey picks him up by
letting him know that he Is holding
out" on the people. when a play
wright tries to- slip a poor vehicle
with an attractive name on the the
atergoers. you can depend upon the
Earle to expose the ruse. All this
he does apparently without consult
ing the advertising department. He
evidently adopts the view that one
can't be a critic and a press agent
at the same time and still be a-good
critic.
Earle Dorsey brings to mind the
exploits OF Haywood Broun when he
became dramatic critic on the New
York Tribune after sitting in the
press box all summer writing up the
national game. Mr.. Broun wrote
criticism Of a play in which famous
actress took the leading part and he
raped her in palmer terms than he
ever hammered a bone headed ball
player. She took offense and wrote
the paper and demanded to know
who this nobody was who dared to
call three strikes on her Mr.. Broun
obliged her the very next day in
way which convinced her that he
knew ball from a strike on the
stage as well as on the diamond.
Earle Dorsey not only knows
theatrical ball from a strike but he
calls them every time.
HARRY KABAT.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-16
Luring Doctors Back to the Land.

SSI Tow DO all doctors make living" we city
folk used to ask one another as new
shingles blossomed out like wild flowers after a
spring rain. The question lost pregnancy during
the war, but since that time the plethora of NJ. DIS
in the great centers has begun to become apparent
again.
The National Congress on Medical Educat ton,
meeting last week in Chicago, sensing greater
danger to the country at large than the possibility
OF pinched existence for many physicians if they
remained municipality gregarious, naugurated a
back to the farm" movement for the ministers to
aing bodies. The shortage in rural communities
was declared to be acute and simultaneously it was
emphasized that the movement of the ADLER physi-
clans is toward the cities.
Further expositing this idea, the Kansas City
Times finds that the nation as whole has one
physician for about every 700 inhabitants more than
double the number for England the country which
ranks next to America in this respect"
The trouble, continues the Times is an made
quate distribution, "a lack which already is BEGIN
ming tell in public health conditions of the cities
as compared with country districts In the entire
registration area in the United States in recent
I7-year period the death rate in cities decreased "a
per 1000 population while in the country districts
there was an increase in the rate of 6 per 1000
THE migration of the medical profession to
the cities is part of general movemest in the
same direction, especially marked in recent decades
More particularly, the migration has been due to
radical changes in the methods of medical practice
and the development of medical science A half
century ago. according to leading medical au
thority, every physician carried within himself his
whole ;armamentarium' Medical books were few.
Specialization was hardly known and hospital ia
The Washington herald., 1922-03-16

CT IFE" is generally of sanguine nature, Blu
l. occasionally in viewing the ravages O
blue-law paternasm, some of its staff writers gro,
glo6my. Here is what of them foresees as tn
Official program of day in the life of citize
in 1885,
Weakened by alarm bell controlled from
police station. Rises and dresses according to
regulations forbidding use of colors other than
white, black and blue
Breakfasts on three cubes of compressed
energy.
Leaves home for morality center Assigned
to duty with purity squad destroying nude
. statuary.
Destroys statues.
Lunches on two cubes of e. compressed
energy.
Destroys more statues.
Arrives home. Checks in on time clock
Shakes wifc's hand being allowed to kiss her
sny Mondays and Thursdays.
Dinner: four cubes.
Reads Manual for the Inefficient"
Prepares for bed
Lights turned out by switch at police sta
ton
Still, those cubes" sound mysterious. Per-
haps they will combine all the elements of an
csculent dinner with the stimulating effects of
Olympian nectar.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-16
PASTOR DECLARES
DANCING INDECENT

Anybody who dances is either
drunk or a fool" said the Rev. C.
Wendell Wilson. OF Poughkeepsie. N
Y, addressing the members of the
Federation OF Young Peoples So
cieties- The federation met to thresh
out the unpleassntness that arose
when the Tabernacle Baptist Society
threatened to withdraw from the
federation IL the Presbyterian Society
went through with a dance TO be held
for the beneft of the church.
1t was the address by the Rev.
Mr.. Wilson that led to the greatest
Indignation of the young people. for
he talked against dancing, they say.
in such a way as to cast a slur upon
the morals of those who dance. while
favor dancing.
Anybody who dances is either
drunk or a fool" said Mr.. Wilson
Conscience alone cannot be a guide
for you as to whether you should or
should not dance. II I followed my
conscience / might follow also some
Of the young girls whom I see each
day along the street But do not
trust to my conscience. / take Jesus
Christ with me when I go upon the
street. and you must let Christ and
not your conscience decide for you
against dancing"
Mr.. Wilson spoke of a recent dance
at which. it was reported. 1000 girls
were present without corsets. He
went on to describe the evils to which
dancing led. He told of dance halls
where rooms were connected with
them, and when paying for a dance
with a girl one paid at the same time
for other privileges. The minister
closed with a prayer that they might
see the light. as he believed them to
be not malicious. but misguided.
A member Of the Tabernacle Bap-
lists. which society first objected to
the dance held by the Presbyterians.
said no matter how Godly a young
man was he could not dance with a
girl without having impure thoughts.
A young man from the dancing
members" said IL that was the way
the Bsptists felt they were wise in
avoiding the dance. but that the
Presbytsrians had no such feelings.
New York World.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-16
STORY OF HOW BEARPAw
MOUNTAINS WERE FORMED.

How the Bearpaw Mountains OF
Montana were formed and how an
area miles away from the noun
tains was broken up by the move
ments of the mountains during ge-
oloRic time was told by Frank
Reeves. OF the Geological Society.
at the meeting OF the Geological
Society.
The regional natlyinC cretaceous
formations which epcircIe the Bear
paw Mountains Of North Central
Montana are highly disturbed by
a periphersl zone OF faults about
2 miles wide, which is separated
from the mountains by a belt from
s TO l miles wide. Of Unfsulted
strata" he said. These faults are
deep fractures in the earth's crust.
OF from to 20 miles in length.
along which the strata on one side
have been moved up or down from
few feet TO 1900 feet Most of
these faults are tangential TO or
form arcs Of circles circumscrfbeo
about the Bearpaw Mountains"
"As most. ~ not all. of the faults
are thrust faults: |. e, faults in
which the strata on the upthrown
side have been showed over on the
strata on the downthrown side: and
as, parallel with these faults, there
are overturned folds, the strata
apparently have been under great
horizontal compression. The forces
that produced this compression
were obviously associated with
crystal movements in the Besrpsw
Mountains.
These mountains represent a cir
cular area about thirty-siX miles
in diameter in which the Cretsceous
rocks Of the plains have been bowed
upward in a dome about 1000 feet
above the surrounding country.
During early Tertiary times great
masses of volcanic ashes and lava
were poured out on this elevated
surface through volcanic vents. The
mountains at present represent a
cluster of dissected volcanic cones
''lt is thought that beneath these
mountains. at a depth Of a mile or
so. that theer Is a laccolithic mass
Of igneous rock and that the intru-
sion Of this mushroom-like form Of
molten lava into the sedimentary
strata bowed up the everything beds
in a dome that was probably ~
miles higher than its present ele-
walton. The sedimentary beds in
this dome would be stretched and
fissured and through these assures
the molten rock would escape to the
surface and form volcanoes. Later
either as a result OF the upward
escape Of the magma or Of a sar
in the earth's crust induced by the
weight Of the laccolith. the upper
surface of the whole laccolith wa.
lowered.
The beds everything the laccoIith.
however. having been heightened by
the solidihcstion OF lava into th.
tensional assures could not settle
down with the laccolith to their
present position without 'buckIins.
and II Is possible that the Intrusion
CT igneious bikes and stills into the
strata everything the laccolithic
mass would so metamorphose and
reinforce the strta that they would
not buckle in the center of the arSr
but would transmit the enmpressive
stresses out to fits abutments ana
produce the zone Of thrut faults and
overturned folds that encircIe the
mountains"
W. D.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-16
TRIAL ENDED,
SAY LEADERS

The arrest of Gandhi is the end
of the Gandhi experiment" said
Baranta Koomar Roy. of the
Friends of Freedom for India. re-
Gently. The revolutionary party
has remained in the background
for two years and given the policy
Of peaceful revolution, Of nonco-
operation a thorough chance. At
the end OF it the British have ar
rested the leader who preached
peace. Now the old revolutionary
party will come into power. and the
Importation of arms will become a
vital question. Revolution begins
today.
would II not be better for Eng
land to evacuate India peacefully,
for officials and the army to leave
in peace? II they do not, We will
rise and with bayonets and machine
guns drive them out. We want
peace. We gave Gandhi, whom we
end peacefully. Will England force
US to kill?
I'VE are under the shadow of an
event of the highest potentiality for
India" he said; AN event which
constitutes an assault on the high
est aspirations OF the world. on
which We base our hopes for a re-
deemed world. Gandhi said: 4 can
not hate Englishmen. but I COLI
tinue to protest against the system
which England has set up in India.
We must not confuse our hatred of
a system with a hatred of men,
Do you realize what has come to
pass when a man who stands for
that cannot be permitted at large?
"Gandhi Is the figurehead, the
symbol of midas struggle for free
dom. One-fifth of the human race
are engaged in a life and death
struggle to gain freedom from the
rule OF an alien race which has
proved itself to be rapacious and
inept. 1t must be fougn. not in
terms of race antagonism, but on
principle. British rule in India
rests not on the consent of the gov
erned, but on brute force. Camou-
mage 1t as you will. It rests on
military might.
when English statesmen were in
Washington to profess world peace
their machine guns and artillery
"Ste hoioihe oowH IBypt, also an
old race. and the people of India.
Think Of the irony of 1t. Those
same delegates were engaged in
maintaining the largest army of
occupation in the world, the army
of occupation IN India. Do the
English people intend to be dragged
at the coat-tails of the junkers and
imperialists7 ..
The answer is often made that
the Indian people are not At to
govern themselves. Even IL that
were true, 1t does not constitute a
moral sanction for England or any
one else to impose rule on the
people of India. English rule rep
resents only $50 years, a mere frac-
tion of Indian history. The previous
empire lasted 500 years of CEN
tralized administration, covering the
whole country. We got on very
well before English rule.
About $50 years ago the contact
became political" he said, largely
as result Of the need for a police
force to guard the agencies and
protect the trade routes"
The Washington herald., 1922-03-16

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REPRESENTATION.
Friend People: !
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represented by one Congressman. J. A L.
one Is and
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TO the Friend OF tie People:
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square miles. The land amounts to 2.s73,774
square miles. and the water area. exclusive Of the
Of Mexico within the three mile limit. amounts to
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To the Friend OF the People:
+ the stats Of c.I,,orHs SEe,!1F Dopu. to
get the full information. J. r.
The veterans relief law will be tested in the
California courts in the near future: For further
Sacramento Cal
PREMIUMS ON MONEY.
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There her, i. P.smiSm Of go on the gold piece If
any Of the others.
THREE STRIKES.
To the Friend Of the People:
affairs" come from? NJ J. W.
The quotation
s,rksfor ycur altar, and your res
is from Marco Bosssris" by Fitz-Greene Halieck.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-16

tion which would quickly set all
guessing at rest-to wit:-Let the
governments democratic govern
ment we like to call it-designate
one of its already existing hos
pitfalls as a general hospital-divid
ed into several departments-one
under orthodox treatment. one un-
der osteopathic, one under chiro-
practic direction. Let the incoming
patients themselves select to which
each shall be assigned. Let results
be fairly tabulated and little by
little the truth will assert itself
without the acrimonious discussion
which now engages attention
Thus surgical operation can be
compared with bloodless surgery
vivisectional medicine can be COM
pared with druEless methods. To
me this would seem a perfectly fair
and just arrangement, that should
be pleasing to all-and displeasinG
to none.
JAMES =. BRIGGS.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-16
Just Yarns.

a niue boy stood at his garden
gate and howled and howled ana
howled. A passing lady paused be-
side him.
whats the matter. little man"
she asked.
o-o-oh!" he walled. PA and
ma won't take me to the movies"
But don't make so much noise
Do they ever take you when Won
cry like that7"
S-s-sometimes they DIDO and
sometimes they DIDN'T" went the
lad. but IL amt no trouble 20
yell"
Who was the poet who wrc,.
about mans humanity to mani
asked Mr.. Bubbles, in a choking
voice.
Il don't recall" said Mr.. Jsxs-
by. What reminded you Of that
quotationT
I've just discovered that Z paid
$40 for a quart Of cold tea"
The Washington herald., 1922-03-16
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NEW YORK. March 15.-About a
year ago there appeared In all New
York newspapers an Advertisement
which was captioned. my Last
$1,000" Underneath it told a frank
story of a young man who had pro-
duced a good play but had fallen
afoul rival producing managers and
was about to be undone. The show
fingered a few days and "fopped."
Today there stands at Seventh
avenue and 4sth street a modern
new theaer built by this same young
mana theater in which is now
showing a successful play written
and staged by him and a theatre
which bears his name. And this
young man is not thirty years of
age.
Ladies and Gentlemcn-Earl Car
roll,
Carroll began life as a program
boy in a Pittsburgh theater. when
I first met him about 10 years ago
he was living at old Bustanoby's
in 3sth street trying feverishly to
crash the gate" in Tin Pan alley
with popular songs.
He wrote a few hits and with this
money retired from song writing to
write plays. so Long Lefty" and
Canary Cottage" made him a snug
fortune and he produced The Lady
of the Lamp" and Daddy Dump
lings"-two plays that ended in An
nancial failure.
play. however, that furnishes the
career. He snatched victory from
would have lost heart. Penniless
and with a distinct financial failure
to his credit he carried his bound
less enthusiasm to a syndicate of
monied men. They heard him. were
Impressed and furnished unlimited
capital.
1t so happened that I saw Car
roll during those hectic days quite
often. He was completely absorbed
by his idea for a theater of his own
he did not eat, he slept only an
hour or SO a night and he went
about as one lost in a hopeless
dream. But not once did bis cour-
age desert. He was always GER
tain he would succeed.
He did. His theater is perhaps the
finest in New York. One OF the fea-
lures Is a green room. a revived form
OF that old green room Of the days Of
Garrick. decorated in jade and gold
and made homelike with handsome
etchings and commodious divans. 1t
Is to be a rendezvous for those who
are doing important things in the
arts.
Women shoppers are responsible
for New York's subway crush. They
fiock downtown during the day. pore
over bargains, lunch. gossip. meet
their friends and then rush home to
get hubby's dinner. Instead of
cleaning up their bargaining and 60
ing leisurely home during the nom
rush hours OF the middle afternoon.
they wait until the Offices and ware
houses and factories and business
houses Of down town have poured
subway channels. The results Is
chaos. The Transit Commission has
found that. during a twenty minute
period, 1900 subway travellers pass
a given point during the peak Of the
downtown rush between and in
the morning. During a corresponding
period in the afternoon rush hours
the 1900 have become $4,000 or g.
600 more-enough to fill six ten-car
subway trains.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-16

DAYS OF THE WEEK.
People:
and May %. ysSs. 'ne week was feofuAf' -
Sunday and Wednesday.
ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
what would the members of the electoral
college do Presldent-elect or Vice PRESIDENT
elect died before they held their meetngI
II the successful candidate. for President or
Vice President should die before the second Mon;
day in January after election the electors would
be empowered under the law, to vote according to
No rresdent-eiect has ever died II a President
elect should die between the second Monday IN
would not be reconvened. but the House Of Rep
biiIty.
BRET HARTE.
Please give me some facts about Bret EaSte'
Bret HaEte: American poet and novelist ;u was
youth he went to California; where several years
F1snesso ''Gof is7o n he sas made o.
recent literature in the University OF California
lowing year He wa: United STATE: Consul ,, Ct
s:5.S SgR:. o0:ss:' Fo:s
Poems" stories Of the Sierra 800. Tales of the
som" Two Men Of sandy Bar: @caIforDia
stories" "A millionaire Of Rough and l, Ready.
the Serras."
THE MOON DEVIL.
To Frien6 Of the People:
am 7. 10, 1Sok mosn for poem beginning hs
The devils in the moon for mischief; they
The Longest. not the twenty first of June.
Sees half the business in a wicked way
On which three single hours Of moonshine smile