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The Washington herald., 1922-12-12
'FAGS' Do MOT HURT
VOICE, SAY EXPERTS
Washington Authorities Have
No Fear Of Cigarettes
Running Musical Tone.
LONDON DOCTOR REBUTTED
Lawrence Declares Most Fa.
nous vocaIists Are De-
voices of Cigarettes.

Future Galli.Curci's and other
persons aspiring to singing fame
can puff away at cigarettes as
much as their hearts desire, with
out fear Of any detrimental effect
on the quality Of their voices.
Statements to this effect were
made yesterday by persons in au.
thority, in refutation Of a report re-
Gently issued by prominent Lon.
don physician.
THEORY RIDICULOUS"
'The theory of a London physi.
clan that the voice of the world is
fast losing its quality by the in.
creasing fad of cigarette smoking,
particularly among women, is ridic-
ulous." stated Robert Lawrence
former grand opera singer and di.
rector of the Washington Music AS
ISOLATION, as he freshly lighted a
cigarette Of popular brand.
In my years Of association with
singers Of fame l observed that 30
per cent Of the best were smokers,
1t didn't affect them. but. on the
other hand. seemed to stimulate
them and to give them clearer
voices. 1t was commonly known
that the famous Enrico Caruso
would smoke between his opera
acts" he declared.
WORD OF DOCTOR.
DIR. G. Bach Gill, 1924 l street
northwest, prominent throat spe-
cialist. stated that he could see no
evil effects on the vocal organs as
result of smoking. In my ex-
perience l have found more throat
trouble among persons who do not
smoke than among those who do"
he stated.
There Is no doubt but that smok.
ing acts as an antiseptic to the
throat and the benefits derived.
believe, overbalance the alleged
harm from moderate smoking.
HARM SOON CURED.
The pitch and tone of the voice
are produced by formations of
muscles in the mouth and tongue
and the vocal organs only produce
the sound. Smoking to excess will
cause an Inflammation of the larynx
and the vocal cords, but the condi-
tion Is relieved shortly after the
singer returns to moderate smok-
ing"
Physicians at the Episcopal Eye,
Ear and Throat Hospital and other
prominent surgeons all declared
that they could see no Ill effects
to the vocal organs Of a smoker.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12
District Heads Revive
Tubercular School Fight

The Court of Appeals yesterday
took under advisement the request
of the District Commissioners for
a reversal Of the decree of the Dis
trict Supreme Court which prevent
ed the construction OF a school for
tubercular pupils at Fourteenth and
Upshur streets northwest.
The property owners of that vi
cinity. headed by Charles e. Hunt,
secured an Injunction against the
Commissioners on the ground that
such a school would affect real es-
tate values and endanger the lives
near the proposed school
The Commissioners claimed that
in ordering this school built they
were complying with an act of Con-
gress.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12
Small Girl Is Injured
When Hit by Machine

Rruises about the face and body
were sustained by Dorothy Carter,
colored, eight years old. 1929 TWEEN.
ty.first street northwest, when she
was struck at noon yesterday by an
automobile, driven by Julian Cooper,
81s Twenty-first street northwest,
as she was crossing on Twenty-first
near L streets northwest.
=. She was removed to Emergency
Hospital and treated by DR.. Gaines,
of the house staff, who declared her
condition was not serious.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12
TODAY.

TODAY.
Dinner Dance-University Club. p. m.
Luncheon-Frederick ]. Libby, City
Club. 1850 p. m.
Meetinx-civitan Club, Lafayette Ho-
tel. $3.50 p. m.
Meeting-Brookiand Brotherhood. Lord
Memorial Hall. p. m.
Meeti g-Cooley Mccullough Post.
American Legion, Arlington Hotel,
p. M
Tea-CoileKe women's Club. 1922 i
street northwest. p. m.
Observation-Disclosures Union Of Sodal-
tiles. Carroll Hall, evening.
Meeting Sixteenth Street Heights
Citizens Association. 1925 Holly street
northwest. p. m.
Meeting-women's Club Of Bethesda,
home of Mrs. L. w. Glazebrook. 2022
p street. . p. m.
Meeting-Mississippi Society. WASH
Clothes shower"-Mrs e. J. Brennan,
Harrington Hotel, evening.
Banquet-F era Bar Association,
Rauscher's, p. m.
illustrated Lecture-walter s. Adams,
OF Mt. Wilson Observatory. Administra-
tion building of the Carnegie Institution
Of Washington. a:3e p. m.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12
Man Justifies His Act of
"Sitting Upon" Spouse

Charles T. Crockett, accused by
his wife. Mrs. Pauline Crockett, OF
having sat on her." was acquitted
of a charge Of assault yesterday in
Police Court on his plea Of justiti-
cation.
Mrs. Crockett said that because
she protested to her husband about
cluttering up their home with his
drunken friends. he actually sat on
her.
Crockett said that his wife began
the trouble by calling him a liar
and then struck at him. 1t was to
restrain her, he said. that he seized
her by the arms and stopped ner
from further fighting him by his
weight.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12
Advice Of Wife
Costs Farmer
Fine in District

DICHARD DAWSON. . farm
~ r Of MhdIeburg, Va. b
500 out Of pocket because he
took his wife's sdvice.
She advised him. he said IN
Police Court yesterday, to take
his pistol along with him when
he left homo IN IN antomobiIe
carly Sunday morning. He lis.
tened and obcyed.
Policeman Danlkmeyer. Of the
Second precinct, who arrested
the driver Of the car for violat-
ing the traffic regulations, dis
covered that Dawson carried
the gun and arrested him too.
Tho court imposed . fine Of
S100.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12
MAJORS RECOVERY CERTAIN

Assurance Of the recovery Of Mai
Rufus Maddox. Of the Chemical
Warfare Service. was announced
last night at Emergency Hospital,
where he was removed last Sunday
afternoon after swallowing by mis-
take a small quantity OF veronal
powder. He was at his home. 330i
Newark street northwest. when he
mistook the veronal for headache
powder.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12
Protest Use of Camp
Grant as Prison Site

A delegation from Rockford. III.
headed by former Mayor W. w.
Bennett. appeared before the House
Judiciary Committee yesterday to
protest against the proposal to es-
tablish a Federal reformatory at
Camp Grant.
The ground on which the Rock.
ford delegation based their opposi-
ton was that they did not want
their city known as a prison
town" and that the land on which
the camp is located will be eventu.
ally needed for industrial develop
ment.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12
MERGER DECISION DELAYED

No decision had been reached at
a late hour yesterday on the pro-
posed merger of the Armour and
Morris meat packing interests, Sec
retary of Agriculture Wallace told
reporters last night. An opinion on
the proposition may be rendered
today, Mr.. Wallace said.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12
FINANCE
AND
BUSINESS.
~ y. O. FORBH.

/ often interview business
men Of national prominence
who cannot ut all explain why
they succeeded.
Yet, when I start them of on
q description of their career,
step by step, from boyhood on,
usually it is very easy for me
to see exactly what led to their
rise.
FEss
The other evening the re-
Gently elected president Of one
OF Americas very largest in
dustrial enterprises told me the
story of his life. He thus COW
cred the whole period of his
youth:
"After attending the local
schools graduated from the
Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology"
That wasn't particularly il
iuminating, SO / started delv-
ing q bit:
"Were you particularly in
terested in any one thing while
ut school?" l asked.
"No, well - nothing except
that ] rigged up q machine
shop or laboratory at home and
built mechanical things, includ-
ing q motor which worked all
right. I had to get some of
the castings made. The presi-
dent of a local company, q
friend of my father, had this
Then he added as an after
thought, at was a rather
queer thing, wasn't it, that this
same man gave me my first
job"
There" / exclaimed. "That
explains a whole lot - every
thing. Right there was a
turning point in your life"
81 never thought of it that
way. How do you mean?" he
asked.
"why," 1 exclaimed, "that
man gave you a job because
You had done something out of
the ordinary-which made an
impression on him, a sufficient
impression to make him willing
to put you on his pay roll by
and by. He saw in you a doer.
You created your own influ-
ence, and the only influence
worth while always is the in
6uence we ourselves create"
By cross-examining him like
q Philadelphia lawyer / wormed
out of him what preceded every
important promotion in his
career. And there was a per-
feet, clear cut, abundantly suf-
ficient cause each time.
For example, he was trans
ferred from the dirtiest kind
of work in the shop to the Of
fee because the rather humble
part he played in taking the in
ventory of his department at
tracted the notice of his su-
periors, so much more careful
ly and Systematically and busi-
ness-like was it done than the
work done by any of the 9TH
ers.
Later he made his mark by
presenting figures to the head
of the company showing that
they had on hand only 20 per
cent of stock of the goods
which accounted for 80 per
cent of their sales and 80 per
cent of stock covering goods
which accounted for only 20
per cent of the sales.
That convinced the president
that this young man was of ex-
ecutive caliber.
When he reached the selling
end of the business his funda-
mental, expert, technical knowl-
edge of the requirements of Gus
toners enabled him to win con-
tract after contract. And, Of
course, recognition came in the
form of promotion to the posi-
tion of directing all sales.
Now, this mans career is
merely one of the hundreds of
illustrations i have received of
Continued on Page 10, Column g..
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12
All Government Clerks Will Retain Jobs Under Reorganization

REPRESENTATIVE JOHN p. HILL, of Mary
~ land, right and Representative George II.
Tinkham, Of Massachusetts,, whose proposed
changes to the "dry" laws won for them the nick
name, ABarleycorn Twins" congratulate each
other.
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Continued on Page 10. Column s
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12

Now, this mans career is
merely one of the hundreds of
illustrations i have received of
The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-05-20
Brookhaven Battery Co.
1S1 S. Jackson St. BrOOkhayen, Miss
Representing Willard
Storage Batteries
REDUCING AUTO ACCIDENTS.

The record of automobile accidents
appalling, but it can be reduced, in
spite Of popular tendencies to reckless
conduct.
In Detroit campaign to educate the
public to automobile dangers has sue
ceeded in cutting the number of these
fatalities in a year from 240 to 1874.
In Massachusetts in 1920 there were
11,055 drivers and passengers in auto
mobiles injured. A campaign for bet
ter driving was promoted in 1921, with
the result that the number of drivers
and passengers injured was reduced to
3744.
This year in Massachusetts special ef-
forts have been made to educate pc
destrians to show more care, as in many
cases they are the ones to blame. But
a very large part of the victims of such
accidents are children who run out into
the street in front of automobiles and
dealing with them is a special problem.
Drivers must never expect that chill
dren will use sound sense, and they
must run slowly while passing groups
of them along the side of the roads
The habit of playing ball in the streets
is one of the most frequent cause Of
accidents. Many children will persist in
running after a ball when it falls in
front of an approaching car and fire.
quently they do so when the car is so
near them that the driver cannot pos
sibly stop unless his machine is run
ming verA slowly. The modern child
needs to be educated in street dangers
just as much as in arithmetic. Those
that show disregard of such instruc-
tions need some kind of penalty that
they will remember.
The best way to educate drivers to the
need for extreme caution in running
crowded streets, is to take away
the licenses of all who are caught do
ing wrong things. The knowledge that
a man will probably be taken off the
if he does not show prudence
and courtesy is more educational than
any warnings in the shape of mere
words and threats can be.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-05-20
Program Of Baptist School Of Evangel-
ism to be Held at Clinton, Miss,
May 2eth-June lst.

Monday - Sunset Service, ]. w. Sto-
rer; Address, DR.. Arch c. Cree.
Tuesday Man in, His Natural
State" j. w. Lee; righteousness, j.
D. Franks. Intermission. Address, Dr.
Arch c. Cree; Address, DR.. A. T. Rob
ertson. Recreation and Lunch. stew
ardship", ]. D. Ray; "Tithing", w. NE
Furr; Sunset Service. w. A. Sullivan;
Address. DR.. A. t. Robertson.
Wednesday - Sin, NJ. o. Patterson;
THE New Birth, ]. A. Taylor. Inter-
mission. Address, DIR. A. T. Robertson.
Recreation and Lunch. Repentance.
]. P. Williams; Faith, T. w. Young;
Sunset Service, ]. C. Greenoe; Address.
DR.. A. T. Robertson.
Thursday - "Christ's Compassion for
the Lost. w. A. Borum; "The Sacrifice
of Christ. ]. F. Willis. Intermissfon.
Address, DR.. A. T. Robertson. Recrea-
tion and Lunch. Salvation, Present.
Past. Future. ]. w. Mayfield; THE
Holy Spirit" L. r. Christie; Sunset Ser
vice, J.. NJ. Walker; Address, DR.. A. T.
Robertson.
All Baptist ministers are cordially in
vited to attend this School of Evangel-
ism. The Baptist State Convention
Board and Mississippi College will pay
all expenses except railroad fare.
Preachers are expected to bring towels,
soap. sheets and pillow cases. The
board is free. 1t would be great help
if churches will pay the railroad fare
Of their pastors and see that they at
tend We had great meeting last year
and are expecting many more this time.
Quite a large number have already sent
in their names.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-05-20
PRoHIB1T1oN A LIVING ISSUE.

The following article from Varda-
mans Weekly appeared in the Baptist
Record the past week.
"The Senatorial Campaign which is
now on US is growing more interesting
every day.
Nothing has been said of late about
the prohibition question which Bryan
thinks is one of the most vital problems
before the American people.
There is no doubt about the question
being a matter of great concern, and
before the issue is thoroughly settled
it is going to be discussed by the A
merican people. There is no question
but that it ought to be talked about
and sentiment crystalized around the
cause of prohibition. 1t is very foolish
to leave the question IN an unfinished
and unsettled state. The officers of the
law should see to the strict enforce
ment of the law, and if possible carry
out the desire of the American people,
and their wishes when the prohibition
amendment was adopted.
1T can only be done by the crystal
ization of public sentiment in favor OF
prohibition. / think also that it should
be a subject of discussion in the pulpits
of Mississippi and America. There is
nothing that will be more potential for
good than the wise, conservative influ-
ence of the ministers and members of
the Christian churches of the country"
VIM. Jennings Bryan said:-
II confess to a great surprise at the
manner in which the vets have acted.
[ always supposed that when we had
an election in this country it settled
things. l know it always did when !
was a candidate. This is a law-abiding
nation. We abide by the vote of the
majority 1 never supposed when the
nation went dry that there would be
any large number of people who claim
ed to be good citizens who would open
ly and hagrantly break the law. The
United States went dry by tremendous
majority Theer has never been pres
idential election where theer was so
large a majority for one candidate as
there was for the Prohibition Amend
ment."
All the vets had to do was to OBJ
tain more than one third of the votes
of both Houses of Congress. They fail
ed Then all they had to do was to
obtain a majority vote in only one
branch of the Legislatures in eleven
states. We had to have 72 Houses in
Sc states for ratification. In less than
a year and half we had 90 Houses
out of 96. They were ableoto hold only
four branches of state Legislatures and
recently they lost even one Of them.
When did any party ever have such
tremendous majority?
The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-05-20
GOING INTO poLrrrcs.

1t is all right for young men to enter
politics, If they see fit, but il they
haven't mighty clean record in their
lives behind them, it will come out
when they enter the political arena.
Whenever a man gets into politics, he
can expect to have all his faults aired
and many things attributed to him that
he never said or did. That is one of
the reasons that keeps many a good,
clean man out of politics, for he does
not want his character besmirched, as
will always be done by people who
don't care If they slander another.
In speaking Of going into politics, the
Youths Companion has the following to
say:
A Senator of the United States, who
has also been honored with the office
of governor of his state, recently ad-
vised an audience of university students
not go into public life.
Don't blight your career by becom-
ing mayor of your home city," he said
Mine out of ten who enter public
career make failure of life and die
in poverty, and the tenth man usually
just gets by. If 1 had my life to live
over again I'd no more risk public
career than 1 would risk cutting off
my right hand"
Is that good advice or bad? We do
not see how we can help calling 1T
bad advice, although at the same time
we must admit that public life is un-
certain and to an honest man not a
lucrative career. 1t seems to us that
the distinguished speaker should have
said something like this:-
IF you young men are tempted to
go into politics and public life for what
you can make out of it for yourselves,
my advice is to keep out. You will not
be we'll paid. If you are reasonably a
BILE, you can make more money in bus
mess or in the practice of your pro-
fession, and you will also enjoy Sc
curity of position that the politician
never knows. Most men who are am
bilious merely for themselves get little
out of public life except a certain a.
mount of reputation, which they find as
they grow older to be empty of any real
satisfaction.
"But do not avoid public life for
purely selfish reasons. If your neigh
pOTS yOu C6A SCANC IASAlA ebS AhA0S
or or member Of Congress. or IL you
see chance for real public service that
no other competent man will perform,
do not be afraid to offer yourself. Gov
ernment is necessity. If the educated
and capable will not engage in it, the
baser sort will, with sad results. If
you go into politics with the idea of
seeking your own advantage, you will
be disappointed, and rightly so. If you
shun public service when you are need
ed, you will be untrue to your country
and to yourself"
That kind of advice would have SCUM
ded better from the platform and look
ed better in print, And it might per-
haps have had some effect in combat
ing the spirit of selfshness and mater
ialism that is already too prevalent
Newton Record.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-05-20
KNIcKEReockER TIMES

Erasmus of Rotterdam once declared
OF Amsterdam that he knew city
whose inhabitants dwelt on the tops
Of trees like rocks. 1t was his country-
men who founded the New Amsterdam
which was afterward to develop into
the New York city of our own times.
But one catches again flavor of the
Knickerbocker times in the astound-
ing proposal to turn New York into a
real Amsterdam by reclalming six
miles of the harbOr from the Battery
to within a short distance Of Staten
island for the commuter. The reca-
nation idea, which is intended to keep
"down town" where 1t Is and not let
1t continue its unseemly course up
town as at present, will, If ever it is
carried out, rank with the Zuyder zee
project for daring of design and vast
ness of results. The Battery would
become the real heart of the city, as
the Dutch forefathers probably In
tended 1t to be, remarks the Christian
Science Monitor. But where will
"down town" begin when the marvel
Gus new skyline extends all the way
to Staten and turns the Statue of
Liberty into kind of up-the-rlver
show placer Is the Hook to be the
sea-front Of the New York of the
future2 And what will the Hudson
river of Washington Irving have to
say about the metamorphosis?
The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-05-20

Recently there have been many
shuddering glances at THE possible
rivalry of the black races with Europe,
or Of Islam. There may be risks of
destruction by violence from these
sources, If Europe is foolish enough to
wreck itself internally; but it does not
seem likely that either of those groups
could beat the brain power Of Europe.
Islam, at least in its present form, has
too great drain on Its growth of mind
In the memorizing of the Koran me-
chanically. This atrophles the reason
ing power; and the type Of this sacred
book does not favor clear or logical
thinking. The ideals shown by what
is revered suggest that islam will
never surpass the activities of India,
China or Jewry, writes Flinders Petrie
in the Yale Review. The great intol-
erance of Mohammedanism, and the
lower position accorded in law and
practice to women, will always be
bar to its surprising in civilization the
European races.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-05-20

period from 1915 to the summer Of
1920 saw the general range Of COM
modities In the United States climb
ing on and~up until at the peak of
1920, they were over 100 per cent
higher than In 1910
In the rubber industry this increase
In the cost Of materials and labor
was necessarily reflected In the cost
Of tires. The downward trend in price
which had previously marked the In
dustry up to 1915 was replaced by
period of rising prices. From the
spring Of 1918 until the fall Of 1920
tire figures reached a point where
they were within 80 per cent Of the
1910 level.
End Of Increased Costs.
The fall Of 1920, however, saw the
send of the period of Increased costs
in nearly every raw material and fin-
ished product used by consumers.
Long staple cotton came down as
sharply as 1t had risen, though 1t did
not get back to its old low levels, and
at the beginning Of 1922 is still about
IS per cent higher than in 1910.
In this 1t ranges Just little higher
than the general price average Of all
commodities in the country, as COM
piled by the United States Department
Of Labor.
Labor, costs, too, had come down
part of the way, but still, In this I'M
dustry, stand more than 100 per cent
over the 1910 level.
Crude rubber, which represents less
than 25 per cent of the manufactur-
ing cost Of, tires, fabric and labor be-
ing the big items, has been moving
gradually downward since 1916 and
though now on the upgrade, is still
so per cent below 1910, It's price broke
sharply, too, in the fall of 1920.
Cost Of Tires Fell.
The cost Of finished tires came
down Immediately in the fall Of 1920
in line with the lowered cost Of ma
terials and labor, despite the fact that
there were large accumulations Of
stock, both raw materials and finish
ed products, to be absorbed. So today
we flnd a situation where tires are
90 per cent lower than in 1910.
In other words, tires have not only
gone below the pre-war levels, but
are lower now than they have ever
been IN the history OF this industry.
And this result, In an industry,
such as the tire industry, which makes
up over billion dollars worth Of
finished goods year. is a story Of
tremendous economic significance.