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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-14
MRS. FEATHERsToNE GETS
DIVORCE FOR DESERnoN

CLARENDON, Va. Jan. 14-Mrs.
Maude H. d. Featherstone. who re-
Gently was granted q divorce from
her husband. Robert Featherstone, is
now convinced that there ID q lot Of
uncertainty in this world.
In giving out information on d.
vorce cases at the Arlington county
courthouse. officials became some
what mixed up and stated that Mrs.
Featherstone's husband had been
awarded the decree. and that's what
the newspapers said.
Mrs. Featherstone says that after
this she's going to be her own press
agent In family matters and let the
courts attend strictly to legal mat
terra
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-14
SPEEDING MOTORISTS
KILL MOTORCYCLE COP

BEACH, Inn, Jan. 14.-william
Peterson, q motorcycle policeman OF
Winthrop Harbor. H., was shot to
death yesterday by unknown persons
in q speeding auto which he was pur-
suing.
The car was travelling at q speed es-
timated at fifty miles an hour. Peter
son had come within hailing distance
of the machine when q man in the
back seat opened fire with a shotgun.
The policeman's motorcycle upset and
the rider was dead when found. The
auto continued It's dash toward Chi.
cago. Local officials believe Il mas q
hoooeNmuGgftng o.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-14

American building. which II the home
OF this arms conference, the action
and attitude OF President Roosevelt.
strongly supported by Elihu Root
then Secretary Of State and now one
of the plenipotentiaries OF this CON-
ference, resulted In such style OF
architecture and location for the Pan.
American building that such style ana
location not only helped 70 digniiy
q world capital but 70 provide noble
structure that could be not only Q
Pan-American but q world capitol and
meeting place.
"Whiie the final decision a. to ioca,
ton and style OF architecture rested
in the governing board Of the Pan
American Union. composed or the
twenty Latin-American diplomatic
representatives and the Secretary or
State of the United States. the de-
Gliding influence actually was the at
titude Of President Roosevelt. Secre-
tary Root. and Ambassador Nabuco,
"A majority OF the Latin-American
diplomatic. representative were %
much In favor of q location uptown
and q building in which they could
have their embassies and legations
that there was real danger that what
Ia now q great peace palace would
have been a modern business struc-
ture.
A World Meeting Place.
"Mr. Root. In his delicate position
as chairman of the governing board.
lad to seen impartial. although at
heart strongly favoring the idea Of .
peace palace. When the decision was
to be made at an informal meeting
which Ambassador Nabuco called at
the Brazilian embassy Of the Latin
American diplomats, went at his re-
quest to see President Roosevelt. who
Immediately authorized me to convey
to the Latin-American diplomats his
viewpoint that the Pan-Amertcan
building should be located and built
with the one idea that II should be
a structure worthy Of a meeting place
not only of all the American nations
but, IL necessary, of all the world.
There was no equivocation In his at
utude.
"In response to the invitation Of
Ambassador Nabuco appeared at
this informal meeting and delivered
the message verbatim of the Presi.
dent, with the result that every Latin
American diplomat present went on
record to the effect that at the ap-
preaching meeting Of the governing
board he would support the plan for
locating the building and construct
ing II upon noble lines at the Seven
tenth street entrance Of Potomac
Park, between the Washington Monu.
ment and the Lincoln Memorial and
within the immediate neighborhood Of
the White House and other notable
Government buildings. Then Presi-
dent Roosevelt said. we will have at
one end of the Mall the MAGNIFICENT
Capitol Of the United States and near
the other end, along with the WASH
ington Monument and Lincoln Memo
rial. the noble capitol Of the Western
Hemisphere
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-14
CITY CLUB WILL OFPN
ITS NEW HOME TONIGHT

The new 100000 clubhouse Of the
City Club, located on @ street be-
tween thirteenth and Fourteenth
street northwest. will throw open its
doors tonight. Formal opening will
be marked by a housewarming party.
In the top-floor auditorium. where
the formal presentation Of the build
ing to the membership will take place,
seats have been provided for 1000 per-
sons. Following the presentation by
z. c. Graham. president. there win be
an address by DR.. James e. Freeman.
rector OF Epiphany Church. and sew
eral musical numbers. Dancing will
follow, and at 1919 o'clock Q buffet
supper viii be served.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-14
REMINDER
PROPOSED FOR.
Allied POWERS
"Pay Your Debts Before You
Pay Your Soldiers" Suggest
Cd az Hint to Europe. z
BY J. BART CAMPBELL.

Intsrnatienal News Service.
PAY your debts before you pay
your soidiersr
Administration leaders today de-
France and other European nations.
which are still maintaining extensive
land armaments. of the 81. 900. 900 900
foreign indebtedness to the United
States.
II was pointed out chat the British
government, while France has done
nothing, has already arranged TO
hquidate its share Of the foreign debt
by the issuance of four billions worth
Of bonds, which would take care OF the
soldiers bonus.
France, according to confidential
advices reaching members OF the Sen
ate Finance Committee, 10 still pro
Tossing an inability to nquidate either
principal or interest Of her debt to this
country.
senator Medin Mccormick, member
Of the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, at whose residence here the
proposed British debt bond issue was
discussed by Senator Lodge and other
Republican leaders. Is believed to have
explained the position Of the Senate
when he said:
Last year we sold abroad two BILL
hon dollars worth Of goods more than
We imported. obviously through the
extension of private credits. This
cannot 30 on forever. What profit
can there be In sending an American
representative to the Genoa confer
ence only to manifest our inability to
extend financial help to q group OF
European states whose political diff
ferences and financial deficits con-
spire to prevent our helping them?"
Senator McCormick's statement was
made in connection with . resolution
he announced he would offer In the
Senate Monday. which would call upon
Secretary Hughes to furnish the SEN
| ate with the latest information re-
garding the ability to pay on the part
Of France and other nations like Po-
land, which are said to have informed
the State Department that they can
not meet even the interest due on
what they owe the United States.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-14

in this observation. and that is that
Washington will always make its first
consideration the purpose Of con.
tinuing to build a beautiful and noble
city that will appeal not only/to the
imagination and admiration of Ameri-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-14

The radiator fan u moro necessary
at low speeds Of ten miles an hour or
less than when the car II travelling at
q greater speed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-14
British Guards Started Riots.

Rioting in Madras. which marred
the reception to the Prince Of Wales.
was provoked by activities Of the
newly organised civil guards Sail
endra N. Chose. director Of the Ameri-
can Commission to Promote Self
government In India, said today.
Tho civil guards composed Of
British residents and hah-breed
Ang1o-Indians, were organized three
weeks ago, and were armed by the
British authorities to coerce the PEG.
pie and prevent the carrying out Of
the hartal-
The action q these gunner Is
particularly unfortunate, because O
conference looking to arranging peace
IN india, IN scheduled to be held to-
day between Mohandas X. Gandhi
and other Nationalist leaders and
representative Of the British gvverr~
menis
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-14
WASHINGTON IS
WORLD SCAPFTAL
BARRETT SAYS
Tells Real Estate Board Build
srs Have Future in Their Keep
ing to Make or Mar.

\ At the monthly luncheon OF the
Washington Real Estate Board, held
At the Hotel Lafayette January IL.
John Barrett, former director of the
Pan-American Union. as the guest Of
honor. discussed the work and fea-
lures Of the arms conference, and fol-
lowed his talk with an exhibition Of
colored lantern slides Of the Pan
American building. as the headquar-
tiers OF the conference, and hence
the capital of the world" In the
course of Mr.. Barrett's remarks he
emphasized the important bearing Of
the conference on Washington as a
world capital. He said:
That Washington has become and
, ever will be regarded as a world
capital. and an ideal meeting place Of
international world congresses is the
great outstanding result Of the arms
conference. as far as Washington IT.
self Is concerned. For all those d.
rectly interested In this city, the con-
ference has justified it's calling on
J this ground II for no other. The
great responsibility therefore now
srests upon the people Of Washington,
sby making the city more and more
beautiful, more noble and more hos
Hpitable. a world capital to which the
master minds Of every nation will
wish to come to consider and settle
! world problems. II the people Of
Washington, such as it's representa-
tive real estate men, fail to do their
part, Washington win not remain in
the race with London. Paris, Berlin,
Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires, or
even Tokyo and Picking.
Must Continue to Build.
"It is a fact that nearly every
pienipotentiary delegate and every
leading newspaper correspondent has
expressed the opinion that, for the
achievement of real results, Washing
ton is ahead Of any other world
capital and provides not only the most
beautiful but practical environment.
There is, however, one If or proviso
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-14
QUEEN ANXIOUS
OvERPL|GHT Of
Wales IN INDIA
British civil Guards" Started
Madras Riots, Says Rep
resentative Here.
~ I.ssrnssss.aI Nsws Service.

~ International Vow SeRvfee.
LONDON. Jan. 14.-In response to
urgent telephone messages from
Buckingham palace. the India office
today treasured Queen Mary that the
Prince Of Wales was safe and that he
had suffsred no injury In the riots
which reeted his appearance At
Madras on Friday.
When word WIS received from
Madras that dioting had broken out in
the Indian city simultaneously with
the arrival Of the Prince, the royal
family. and especially the Queen,
became anxious.
Special inquiries were made ty the
India Office and Il was learned that
not only was the Prince safe. but that
II had been decided II would not be
necessary for him to abandon the
rest Of his tour.
Madras was much ouieter today. thu
India Office announced.
, 1922-11-22
The SLIDER Spoon.

noN7T ALLOW the fact that you were born
~ without a silver spoon in your mouth 10 worry
you, and heap up n lot of imaginary obstacles in
your pathway TO success. This silver spoon stuff
Is about 90 per cent hokum. Get out and dig in
and get your own silver ware. 1t is not the most
difficult thing in the world to accumulate.
II you are clean and honorable in your transae-
tons and industrious and efficient in your under
takings you vii; find yourself in possession of
more birthday spoons, souvenirs of subsequent an
niversaries, than you ever believed existed.
Why stress the first birthday spoon, it is not the
real important one? If your folks were fortunate
enough TO have an extra one TO hand you when
the. could or would keep ON handing you another
on each anniversary. They might have retired from
the spoon business or be unable to rustic one when
needed at the right time. That has happened in
endless cases that can be recalled.
The thing 10 do is not to place too much store
by that first spoon, hut just as soon as you can
dig for yourself. 60 after your own spoons.
Don't you know that the real fellows in this
world never heard of silver spoons until they had
done enough to have whole silver services pre-
sented TO them by folks giving three cheers at
the same time? And ut the banquet in celebration
ate with their knives and wondered "what the he'll
all the spoons were for?"
Away back among our unknown and unmourned
ancestors the silver spoon was set up as the EN-
blem Of good fortune. Silver was n fairly scarce
and valuable article. To have a silver spoon out
of which to feed the newest heir or heircss indi
Gated the state Of afduence of the family and there
fore its rank and standing in the community. The
children Of such families, so favored. in the use
of silver spoons 10 serve them nourishment, grew
up TO maintain the family prominence. This sys-
ten obtained for generations, with variations of
course, until the roughnecks broke into the game
and exposed the fallacy of the silver spoon Just as
they have kicked the Sawdust out of many another
ancient and supposedly sacred institution and sen.
timent.
The roughneck upset the silver spoon dope by
going out and proving his superiority over the kid
that had one among his playthings at home. From
that day it was off, and silver spoons lost their
talismanic potency.
, 1922-11-22
Gone The Goat Route.

ITHE AMERICAN public is not ordinarily cruel
but that does not alter the fact that it dearly
loves n goat. The resignation of Senator Newberry
simply indicates that il has annexed another one.
Regardless of the facts in the situation il was
plainly evident that so far as the public was con-
cerned it would never be happy until the senator
was driven from public life. That Newberryism,
which came to be the descriptive term by which ex-
cessivc campaign expenditures were known, became
a political issue, was not surprising. 1t was an is
sue in elections far removed from its original set
ting, and the details of the Michigan senatorial
election of several years ago employed for all and
more than they were worth.
a brief resume is not out of place here.
Senator Newberry and his associates were con.
victed on the charge of spending more money in
n primary than the federal statute permitted The
supreme court decided that the statute did not
been obtained under a distorted Interpretation of
the law. 1t was not proved that the money had
been corruptly spent. 1t was, so far as the evil
.dence disclosed. expended for legitimate organiza-
tions and publicity purposes. Senator Newberry
was ccntending against the richest man in Mich
igan, in whose behalf was employed a huge federal
machine, an immense publicity organization and
an army of employees and agents of Henry Ford, the
total value of this in the campaign being vastly
greater than the amount spent in Newberry's be-
half. The outcTy against Newberry would not
have been loud or general except for the fact that
Henry Ford, disappointed in his attempt to "break"
into the senate, wished to revenge his rejection by
the voters of Michigan in the election which fol
lowed the widely advertised primary. Mr.. Ford
has financed a nationwide campaign against his
successful competitor, who serve with his sons in
tile cause of the country during the World war
while Henry Ford was procuring exemption for his
son Edsel through his "pull' with President VIII
son, and making money out of war contracts.
Now that Senator Newberry has been COATED
and retired it is 10 be hoped that large expendi-
lures for political purposes will go out of style
and be heard of no more in American public life.
This case wasno worse than many another but
it simply broke at a time when the public was
less tolerant of things than it had previously been
and Il goat was the only appeasing solution.
, 1922-11-22
Troubles and Troubles.

TF Yor are not so constituted that you can throw
J. off your troubles and worries when you put on
vour coat to 90 home after your days business Is
over. believe. us, Brother, it is a nice comfortable
habit you had better cultivate for your own future
good.
Somebody said, a long while ago never carry
vour troubles and worries over the thresholu d
YOUR home. That was then and still is excellent
advice. There ought to be one retreat where peace,
harmony and comfort exclude all else; i there -
no such place found in the home, then II Is no
home and nobody much will be found hanging
around there. .
If the v~exatioms, defeats, and disappointment Of
the day are to be gone over, picked to pieces and
whined about in the presence of the family, the
evening is spoiled for all the other members, the
dinner is not enjoyed and everybody hastens TO
get away TO n more agreeable atmosphere.
No, your troubles should not be dragged home
for post norton examination In fact your troubles
should not be dragged anywhere outside the four
walls of your office. That is the place to settle
them and the only place. When you try to enter
tain your friends with a recitation of your gloom.
please Smember that you nre adHmg nothing
whatever TO your popularity.
Everybody has his own from which he is striv-
ing to get away, and yours are uninteresting and
tiresome and contribute just about zero to human
happiness.
When you learn TO lock up your days troubles in
the vault, safe or bottom drawer of your roll-top
and shorten your face with n smile and a little
cheerfulness, you'll be welcome at home, Mary
will hasten TO doll up with a fresh kitchen apron,
the youngsters will climb on your knee and love
you up a batch without fear of being snarled at.
Then after dinner take the Wnole Works 10 tue NOV
les and give the n~eighbors a chance TO say, "Well,
old Jones is a regular guy" To have that remark
get about the neighborhood is worth a whole lot
to you and your business.
It is worth a million dollars more than to have
an impression prevail that "Old Jones is the worst
old crouch on the street. Always got troubles and
always telling folks about them
Shed your troubles like a duck sheds rain. For
get them and save your energy TO pick them to
pieces the next day. They are never so formidable
then as they appear after a nights worry over
them.
, 1922-11-22

10 stop a runaway and come back
to the sidewalk without doing Il.
The folks who tried 10 stop runa-
way horses were divided into two
classes. One class was composed OF
those CHAPS who stationed themselves
directly IN the path Of cnconing run
rways and waved their arms above
their heads and shouted. ~Ho, girl
Ho. girl Ho. Eirir and then. ahe7
the runaway was getting pretty c,ose
things prey crowded.. they
changed their minds about stopping It
after all and turned around and re-
Joined h spectators on the side
walk.
And the other class comprised those
hrash persons who cried. Get backi
Get back, III stop herr and got out
IN ths gutter and sprinted alongside
the runaway as Il Numbered by, and
grabbed at the flying rcins. and
MISSED and landed back on this side
walk tn. same as anybody else. only
the wrong end u9. after a kind OF
i~oop-theloop which was like the fin
, 1922-11-22
Autosuggestion for Snor-
ing Cure.

They tell how effectively snoring is
being cured by the new science of
autosuggestion. and how painiessiy,
with nothing for the patient to do
but repeat twenty times each evening
some such statement as Night by
night, in every way. I am snoring
less and less
By tho simple and agreeable means
Of self-hypnosis one OF the greatest
evils is being swiftly done away with
and the world left a lot safer for en-
during friendships between man and
mar and enduring love between man
and wonk
One looks back without regret to
the days when snoring. IL cured at
all. was cured only by physical VIC
lenee or the creation OF some land Of
awful fear; like the fear Of divorce,
for instance.
Admi.teciy. those old fashioned
cures were. in the last analysis, an
, 1922-11-22
Tired Business Man
Really Tired.

After twenty years OF hard service
In the Joke column. where he rlvaied
the commuter. tho roformer. the
motherin.law and other standard
figures OF American humor. the tired
ment on medical grounds. A Chicago
doctor says he is really an invalid.
and shouldn't be joked about.
In an address, before the Tri-Siate
Medical Society the medical defender
OF the tired business man diagnosed
his malay as chronic fatigue intoxl-
cation. And he comDlimented the vic
tins of hat disease by declaring that
oniy live wires ever caught it-never
crazy incompetents.
To jes: about an invalid has ever
been considered in bad taste. and II
the joke writer's and ~cartoonists paw
heed to the medical verdict they will
gracefully drop the tired businessman
from their stock IN trade. v e
though It hurts them like the dickens
to do without him.
II that happens II will be the first
time In history that q stock figure Of
the oliesmiths has yer been granted
retirement on the ground of health.
Indeed. come to think of It. It wiz
probably be the first time that such
a figure has ever been permitted to
retire on any pre:ext whatever.
Noah himself, is still toiling week
after week at the laborious task Of ex-
torting laughs from the readers of
comic papers. and Methuselah Is not
much less diligent. The age and de
.rarrFs.rln Of ehnga xraaaEah1a ffustr~aG
has never earned them so much as a
true of that ancient and pathetic
character. the mother-in-law.
Compared to their careers, the ca
| reer Of the tired business man has
been that of a mere mushroom. The
present generation witnessed his rise
TO fame. In the beginning he WASN'T
a joke but a highly serious figure,
invoked by the theatrical producers
as the dominant influence of the
American stage.
The tired business man was their
excuse for not producing higbbrow
plays. When fretful. longhaired crit
les would ask why they didn't elevate
the stage with Ibsen. Hauptmann and
S~trindberg. they would say;
flush! Don't frlghten the tire,
business manr'
When hlghbrows walled at the in
terminable succession OF musical girl
shows the managers said;
Don't you understand that we do
this because the tired business mar
is tired? He thinks SO hard all day
making the z that he can't
think at night. We ourselves would
liove to produce the intellectual mir
acles OF this here Fibsen. Gilman
and the other ~geniuse5 you mention.
but the tired business man has to
have his girl shows
And so the tired business man soon
became a Joke. and worked faithfully
G. the joo. But the Chicago doctor
says he must be given rest, to stop
the accumulation OF fatigue material,
and a regular curse of medical treat
ment to put him on his feet again.