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The Washington herald., 1922-03-20
Suggests Federal Solons.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
recently read in The Herald a
letter signed by one Nj. Kinney in
which he states his opposition. to
intoxicants Of any kind and crit
icises W. S. E. for suggesting a
new law to permit alcoholic drink
to be made in homes. etc. 1t is
plainly evident that both parties
are wrong and prejudlced.
am a man As years Of age and
was always until recently in favor
of prohibition, but now that We
have had prohibition for several
years and it has proved to be
failure. cannot see-h any fair
minded person can favor II. II has
caused the birth OF bootlegging.
curse which Is sweeping. the coun-
try causing death and lawlessness
everywhere. I defy any prohibit
zionist to name anything that will
produce restful sleep like wine and
that will stimulate like whisky
1 believe that the U. s. government
acting with the State government
should manufacture beer. wire and
whisky and retail it in respectable
ba-rooms in every city throughout
the country, the barrooms TO. be
owned and run by the U. S. gov
ernment.
Laws regulating the sale OF the
drinks named herein could be
made. for. instance the bartender
not to be allowed TO sell to any
one apparently under influence Of
an intoxicsnt and to refuse, to sell
to anyone who had already pur-
chased something and whom he had
reason to believe was purchasing
too much. No treating or lettering
to be allowed; no more than one
quart of whisky or 'one quart of
wine to be sold at time; beer TO
be sold by the glass as also wine
and whisky; beer also to be sold in
pitcher or other receptacle; beer .te
be put up in one-fourth kegs, but
sold only to reputable organizations
holding smokers. BY carrying out my
SUGGESTION the government would
make the profit. that the manufactu-
rers Of beer. wine. and whisky for
merly made, also the profit that the
saloon keepers made and further,
the taxes formerly paid BY tbe
manufacturers and saloon-keepers.
The barrooms could be open from
n. m. daily until s p. m. The
bartenders and certain other. en-
ployes could, be put under the Civil
Service. :
The laws governing drunkenness
could remain as they are at pres
GRANT TARL.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-20
A Few Months Back.
To the Editor, TIE Washing ton Herali

To the Editor, Tie wsshtnrtou HeraIi:
I met an old army buddy OF
mine on F street the other day.
He used to be a cook in the rainy
old days when the Ninetieth di-
vision was kicking UP the mud
around Stenzy or, little later.
making dates with the daughters
OF the enemy with bars OF Y. NJ
c. A. cholocate. The. old boy was
walking along with his head down
and disconsolate look on his
face At first l suspected that. be-
ing on. F street, he had an especial
and, perhaps. reprehensible reason
for keeping his head down. 1t was
8 o'clock in the afternoon and
the sidewalk was a sunset sea OF
feminine charm. with flesh colored
stockings revealing the charm OF
perfectly shaped ankles.
Feeling that his thoughts were q
Bit astray from. the rocky path of
virtue and feeling no longer any
animosity for the days when he
was a lordly cook and I a down
tFodden X. P. ! stopped him to
demonstrate jocularly. I would take
the poor fellow around 70 the Y.
II. c. A, thought, introduce him
TO our secretary, and perhaps
allow him to accompany me to
church that evening.
+ But the poor fellow responded
to my salute in no jocular fashion.
II wish TO hei"-that is what
he said, Mr.. Editor. and l repeat his
exact words. although realize
that the high standards OF your
paper may not permit tho publica-
tion Of such language and l myself
heartily disspprove Of it
II wish to hell this domn govern
ment would start another war.
Damn the words, but don't un-
derstand what has become OF the
100000 of US who claimed to be
1o2 per cent he-men three years
ago. why, every man ] meet on
the street now seems to be a per-
feet lady-and some Of them wear
ing service buttons at that. II we
don't have another war pretty quick
this domn country II 60 to hell
The guys is getting too soft now-a-
days"
Now. Mr.. Editor, is it not possible
that these words, crude and vulgar
though they were. may not have
been the natural outpourings Of q
rough but sincere philosopher who
has probed to the core the reason
for some Of our national troubles
today.
To use this old cooks own words:
Haven't the guys got So soft in
the relaxation from war that they
can't come back to the old. hard
boiled stun .again-the stun that
made US great before and must
clear away our troubles now.
took his words to heart. I
vowed that for one month would
not touch a single ice cream soda
or chocolate matted milk. have
done my part, don't you think. to
bring our country back to nor
malcy. How about others follow
ing the suggestion.
BUDDY
The Washington herald., 1922-03-20
Rally VIII BE Held
By Girl Veterans

Yeomanettes, marinettes ana
nurses, who served during the world
war. Will participate in. a patriotic
rally 70 be held at the home. Of Mrs
Henry Dimock, 1891 Sixteenth street
northwest. tonight at 8 o'clock.
Addresses will be delivered by
Ms. Henry, F. Dimock. Admiral T
J: Cowie. former paymaster general
United States navy. and Dr.. Thomas
Green. OF the National American
Red. Cross. oncials OF rnsny Of the
American Legion posts will also be
present and several Of the post COM
rnsnders viii deliver brief addresses.
The, reeeiyfpg line viii be composed
OF Mrs. Wesley Martin Stoner, Mrs-
Mark w. Potter. Mrs. Alfred p
Thom. Miss Lois K Beech. Com
mander Of u. s. s Jacobs Jones
Post; Miss Ruth Graham, commander
of Bellesu Wood Post: Miss Anne
K Hsrkins, commander of Jane a.
Delsno Post OF The American Legion,
and Miss Louise Graves, Miss Hope
knickerbocker and Miss Adelaide f.
Harbers-
The Washington herald., 1922-03-20

on our soil II takes three genera
tions to make an American)
1t is our duty to take care Of our
soldiers. IL is a debt this nation
owes them. and IL must be paid
before any other debt. Every
American soldier should have a
permanent income Of at least $50
per month. Those who were
wounded. gassed or shell-shocked
should have 800 per month and
those who are permanently disabled
should have 5000 per month, as
they. must employ men nurses TO
care for them. All OF. them should
have country or city suburban
bungalows given them by the gov
srnment So they can spend the rest
Of their days in peace.
War is an awful shock to the
nervous system OF those who take
part in It. II will take these SOL
diers years. some OF them a life
time to get over II.
A CIVIL WAR VETERANS
DAUGHTER.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-20
A New Language.

THE HERALD's lexicographer last week COM
i piled quite an inclusive compendium Of
rent Americanisms. From the language of F
street he extracted the 1922 sediment. From fra
ternity houses, boarding schools and government
offices he obtained material to add to his list. The
result may have been trHe shocking to some pro-
fessors OF rhetoric. More conservative ministers
of the gospel possibly lamepted the degeneracy Of
the Presidents English But shocking or other
wise, the facts remain. From the sky-blue skirtcd
aapper and the bell-tIouscred college boy to the
average professor himself, Americans have lost
utterly the ability to express their real feelings
through the medium of the language used by
Shakespeare, Milton and Lord Tennyson.
The young gentleman OF today who cuddles
close to pretty maiden on the paror sofa, for ex
ample, would sound absolutely ridiculous if he tried
to express his sentiments in the English he learned
at college. His success with the maiden would be
almost as dubious if he returned to the language
OF Virgil or Cicero. 1t is no reflection on the
scholarship or taste of the young man or woman
who talks American in the present. era. The college
boy who talks about eats pajamas,' etc. may well
stand at the head of his literature classes He may
have drunk deep from the sacred spring OF the css
sizes. But he shows simple common sense when he
abandons these in ordinary conversation.
For America to build up distinctive culture Of
her own will require, perhaps, couple OF CEN
luIlcS. Lie laStcr our own language develops the
faster this day will come. Before the great war
under the conservative rein of our colleges, We
were content to. accept the standards of European
culture But Yankee soldiers came back from the
old soil with one thing firmly impressed on their
minds, That the wide divergence between
European standards and American standards The
average American, officer and man \alike, pretty
largely failed to understand European culture
British, French German civilization failed to i'm
press him. Rightly or wrongly. he was tremen-
dously impressed with the great superiority of
American civilization.
His return gave American cultural development
along distinctly New World lines the greatest i'm
petus it had known since the American revolution
The great variety of new, vigorous and expressive
phrases in along street and on the campus of
Georgetown or George Washington is one of the
most noticeable forms this development has taken
Nothing, fortunately, can be done to control the
course: OF this growth Probably 50 per cent of the
Slang now in use will have disappeared in a
couple of years The evolution OF language will
eliminate that which is weaker than the available
English words which express the same idea An
other so per cent it is unreasonable to suppose
will become permanent part of the new language
The Washington herald., 1922-03-20
What Is Love?

To the Editor. The washinrton Herald:
We had an interesting discussion
around our family freside-that is
around our family gas iog-last night
but couldn't seem to reach any con-
clusion. Gathered about were moth
er and father, who are rather con-
fined cynics; sister Lulu and her
beau, who seem to be on the point
of quarrel, over the argument; my
kid sister, Eileen. who doesn't know
much about il yet BUTTS anxious TO
learn and myself, whose experiences
have been so varied that. can't pre-
tend TO have an Ineligible opinion
Of the matter >
The question is: What is love?
Father. says that the whole thing
Is pure .starshfne-he' won't dignity It
with, the name of 'moonshine."
Mother says it's merely the work
ing out, of certain natural laws and
that its foolish to consider without a
weekly. income OF at least 800.
Sister Lulu's beau, George. who is
a Georgetown boy, quoted something
written by a guy named Browning
about love being half angel and half
bird. and all a wonder and Wild
desire"
He said Mas suggestion about the
800 q week angle was a sacrilege
and took all the poetry out Of il.
Lulu, who likes to be partinacious.
had to agree with mama-which has
almost started a quarrel, as I said
before.
Now my kid. sister, Eileen, express
ed an opinion decidedly her own. She
has been hanging cut around a pop
ular street ice cream parlor lately
and she says love is ''just the cats
pajamas." = 80, .
Now in this argument, because OF
my varied experience, I wasn't able
to side with anybody but had to agree
with everybody.
Mr.. Editor. perhaps your Miss
Blake or some of your readers can
suggest a definition OF love which
will settle this argument and bring
peace back to our family. 1t is sadly
needed. Father got so disguised over
the whole discussion that he called up
his faVorite oootlegger. bought a
quart of moonshine filed with fusf1
oil. and has been laid up In bed ever
since. Mother Is SO mad that, she
threatens to- get a divorce and break
up the home after tuenty-six years
Of happy married life.
PATRICK. FRANCHISE DE VAN
DERWATER FIEKELSTEIN.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-20
Rumania Shares Emope's Ills.

HUAANIA, of the smaller unfortunates of
N the world struggle, is reaping full measure
Of postwar woes, like all the former entente nations
and some Of the allied. The part played by Ru-
MANIA m the was brief and to herself disastrous
Refranirg from declaring herself until she fanced
the tide of battle was swinging permanently Eng
land France and Russia, she est her lot with them,
only to be involved in the profound setbacks of 1916
and 1917, Rich in grain stores, she overrun by
the Germans who looted her granaries and dissi-
Pated her armies. She not of enough strate-
sic importance to warrant her defense by shifting
divisions from the main fsent and So impoverished
and routed she faded Of the picture of bellis-
erepeys '..., &c.,,
Attention is called to Rumania's depressed ex-
change and finance conditions by the Department
Of Commerce, the basis of statement. Just given
out being cables received from Trade Commissioner
Van Norman. 1t is set forth that exchange remains
practically stationary. Large budget deficits con-
tnue the recent tax laws having been repealed be-
fore being enforced and the substitute laws no,
having been formulated or enacted. Retrenchment
on isolated items Of public expenditure has been
effected, and certain items Of revenue have in
creased. Foreign and domestic trade, being re-
strcted by priee-hxation, embargoes, export per
uts and exchange control continues to be sluggish
The winter sowings were hardly more than half
those of the previous year. The opening of the
NonAAnCL4 PlPc alc Is An event OF importance, but
petroleum production has declined slightly.
The Rumanian leu (normal value so1o,). con-
tnnes to- hold exchange level at; about sooos,
which it reached toward the end of November after
a rise from its record low point of about mills
early in November. r. ~ o.
According TO press statement, the total rev.
enue OF the Rumanian treasury from all sources dur
ing the hrst,eight months Of the current fiscal year
was approximately 3zoo,ooo,ooo lei. The revenues
estimated in the ordinary budget for this fiscal year
was 77osooo,ooo lei. The actual deficit in the or
binary budget during the FIRST eight months was,
therefore at the rate of more than 3ooooooooo lei
for the twelve months. In addition to the ordinary
budget, there were two extraordinary budgets called
the LIQUIDATION and restoration budgets, the esti-
mated expenditure OF which totaled about 2soo,-
100000 leif Hence, the actual deficit for the fiscal
The Washington herald., 1922-03-20

year will probably be much more than. a.oooooo,.
600 lei. - iC,4'..5 s. " ,ts 80 ~. !
s,e Sharp; retrenchment in the Rumanian ,foreisH
service is being effected. The Legations at Madrid,
Lisbon, The Hague, Christisnia, Cairo and Toxic
are obe closed; and the personnel in most Of the
remaining missions is 70 be eurtailed. About six
consular offices also will sbc closed The economies
to be effected are estimated at so.ooo,ooo lei.
The cabinet has announced the suspension OF
the general law enacted last year and states its
intention to abolish the heavy tax capital, to re-
wise the whole revenue system, and to establish
state commission to- reform budgetary methods.
Until the new law, is formulated and, enforced,
there can be no important increase in revenues.
The extent to which Rumania is still below nor
NAL in, its expectations, says the department. is
seen in comparison of the three principal groups
Of exports-cereas, petroleum and timber products
of old Rumania in 1913 with the exports Of
Greater Rumania in 1920 and 1921. The exports OF
these commodities in tons for the three years in
question-Ioi3, 1870 and Io2I-are respectively as
follows: Cereals 2,o64e47; o267eo; and I,472,76I.
Petroleum products IJo56,Io7; 2469I2; and 662,34o
Timber products: 2s3,3so; 66,si6; IsS,s2I.
1t is to be hoped that all this depression will not
be in vain. Despite chickering's among some Of the
new states Of Europe, and two real wars in the
past year., the undoubted undereurrent of thought
almost as bad as war itself, and the chances of a
general eonAsgration ought. to be nil for good
many years, as the pangs and deprivations attend
ing and following the last venture Of the field OF
Mars are remembered and endured. " ,.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-20
Try 1t on Men, Not Dogs.

To the Editor, The washipEton Herald:
The suggestion made by James
P. Briggs in The Herald Of March
Is in favor of trying out. in one
government hospital, the different
medical schools OF treatment is-ex-
oellent. The helpless sick have
been experimental upon too much,
For illustration see the motion pic
ture entitled Never wesken." One
hospital for, experiments would les
sen the total number OF expert
ments. At the present time there
are medical schools and govern
ment scientists who are making the
most cruel experiments upon ami
mails (not people) in order to show
results that have been shown many
times before, or are not worth
showing at all. BY all means let
Us have government hospital
where people who like such expert
nents may be subjected to them
instead Of trying them upon the
worlds most, faithful and lovable
being, the dog.
- THOMAS w. GILMER.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-20

tipn's Capital IL there is any ooca-
sion for begging at all! why
should the able bodied be the first
to throw themselves on the mercy
OF the public7 To me IL seems
peculiar. II may be that each OF
those eleven beggars collected more
money around the streets last night
than / made by working hard all
dsy-yet have heard of such cases
and am suspicious.
A man or a woman who is broken
on the wheel of fate, who is hun
cry and cold whose pride is shat
tered. may well beg-tor the first
principle OF existence is self-pre-
servation- And those more fortu-
nate would give gladly TO such as
these.
But for a man in the full flower
OF manhood whose face isn't
pinched by hunger and whose
clothes are not in rags. to stand
at q street corner asking aims
seems to me the ultima thule OF
degradation.
My moral code may be peculiar
But were I such a man think
I would rather pick my neighbor's
pockets than beg from him.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-20
Encouraging Wheat Report.

HF THE satisfactorily large wheat crop har-
OIvested last year by American farmers, but 72,-
$4,000 bushels remained in country mills and ele-
vators on March I, the Department of Agriculture
announces. This it is added is the smallest guam
tity in the record of reports made to the depart
ment for that date during the past ten years with
the exception of 1918, when the abnormally low
stocks of 66,oooooo bushels followed the small
wheat crop of 1917. As regards percentages, the
present record is untouched by any year in the
decade, 1918 not excluded. The more than 1900
900 bushels represent but per cent
This is good news. It shows that the crop has
been moving steadily toward the ultimate consumer,
whether here or abroad. A prime factor in the low
remainder is the heavy expectation of the grain and
this greatly facilitated by monies advanced by
the War Finance Corporation to cover the costs Of
uansshipping farm products. Wheat left in the ele-
vators bears the same relation ordinarily speaking,
to agricultural prosperity goods left on sheive.
at the season end do to merchandising. II is an
undesirable condition, and may be disastrous in
dieation of a bad market. For instance, in 1916
wheat stocks of this class as much as Issooo-
900 bushels and the hardship thus entailed on tht
farmers was in great measure responsible for the
guarantee OF prices by the government in 1917
The brief statement from the Agriculture De-
partnent is Just another sign post along the road
to normal economic condition
The Washington herald., 1922-03-20
Beggars in Washington.

To the Editor, The washinEtou Herald:
Ny friend and I last night took
a walk down Ninth street and then
along the Avenue as far as the
Capitol. On the way we were
accosted at least eleven. times,
BY beggars who .pitifully pleaded
for a. few cents e to buy a
cup Of coffee and ~get a bed for
the night. Now Mr.. Editor. neither
my friend or myself, are naturally
hard-boiled or. cold-hearted. And
We had money, enough to have doled
out a pittance to each Of the eleven
beggars, without being seriously
Handicapped financially. But we
needed none Of the pitiful pleas
for a reason which my friend called
to my attention and which I believe
to be justified. am sure you Will
agree with me- ..., -<..E T.
Everyone of those beggars was
an able bodied man, broad shoul-
dered, in apparent perfect health.
Of course. II is not Impossible for
such: a man to be out OF luck for
a time. Times are tough. But why
are not the weak, the women and
children, the crippfes, the aged,
begging on the streets Of the Ma
The Washington herald., 1922-03-20
Bonus Ideas Liberal.

To the Editor, The washinxtou Herald: j,
why not raise the money for the
soldiers bonus by taxing the
"slackers" from Is years old: to SO
years old, especially the foreign
element who stayed. at home In
America, annoyed American won.
en- while the real men OF the coun-
try were hghting9fn France? :, ,
why not also tax the Senators
Representative heads of alldepart-
rnents except the, army and navy,
who arc wasting so much time on
the subject and Keeping the SOL
diers. waiting for It.? = = !,
The soldiers should not only have
their bonus, but they should be
given government farms in Cali
fornia and Arizona and the money
to build BUNGALOWS. and buy farm
ing equipment. :. '0y'.e
those who don't want to farm
SHOULD be given government posi-
tiohs now held by naturalized for.
eisners. Germans and Italians AMI
their children (who are moi. Ameri-
cans Just because they were born
The Washington herald., 1922-03-20

OF those that control the tbeat.r
anq over US who give it life and
sustenance. anu
censorship would be undesirable
out"it 'Demi-Yirgins' and Cross
lngs the Rubicons' cannot be put
out of Broadway ~theaters in anv
other way, then,I for one shall well
come censorship. Censorship, il is
true, may do no more. than drive
olrty and salacious plays: under
cover or under ground which is ex-
cuy what ought 80 happen to
Let them be bravely repressed
ana driven into the dark. fostering
corners' Of vice, IL they, cannot
wholly be suppressed. Prohibition
came IN part, as 1t ought to have
come, because distillers and brew
ers,. insisted upon the -inviolable
rights OF the saloon. The theaters
will fare as did the saloon n the
same policy Of madness, tempered
by malignity. prevails in the coun-
ellis of the theater.
The thester is and will continue
to be- The theater, is more than
a 'pastime or luxury-it' Isl high:
lys important national institution,
which may become either -lfabil-
ity. or an asset. Ift merely a pas
time, as is baseball, it would be
enormously important for the
greatest number of American peo-
pie are accessible to it. Whatever
the present-day status of the the
ater may be, this is no more to be
the last word of thessdrana than Is
jazz music to replace Beethoven
and Bach, Schubert and Brahms.
what are the facts about 1the
5 theater of NewiYorlx today? Id 1t
there are being presented: many
good, wholesome. clean, Worthwhile
plays, some plays which are not
uniformly bad but spottily >sugges-
tive, and some plays that are vile
beyond words. The Demi-virgin'
is not a play at ALL" AS / sat
through a perforfna nee thought
Of the degradation of a great art,
that of the theater, the" humiliation
of a calling. THAT of the players,
and the: deep, damning insult OFFER
ed to a people by its presentation.
1--WE must not lose our rypowers Of
discrimination and thereforesof con-
troll over, the theater, which we sup
port and make possible. We must
be the masters OF the theater and
not its nightly slaves. The moral
censorship, the duty Of which rests
upon all Of US, Nes ina very special
way on the few, the fashionable,
the leisurely, ,.thea, weil.circum-
stanced, the privileged. who are the
arbiters in matters Of taste.