davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1923-02-09
WORKER IN MANHOLE
INJURED BY AUTOIST
Machine Backs Into Barricade,
Filming F. B, Duchesne and
Cutting Eis Face.

Frank B. Duchesae. twenty-seven
years old, 27l2 Sherman avenue, was
injured yesterday afternoon while
working in Chesapeake and Po-
tomac Company manhole at Caroline
and 18th streets. An automobile own
Cd and driven by. Robert Burks. )
Newlands avenue. Chevy Chase, back
ed into a barricade about the opening.
Duchesne being caught between the
barricade and manhole. His face was
cut and his body bruised.
John III. Hortskamp. nine years old,
45s1 Conduit road, escaped injury yes
terday afternoon, when his bicycle
collided with tho touring car of Carl
Bayliss. 1929 Canal road, i'm front of
4l17 Conduit road. Frank Tibbett.
Rosslyn, Va, driver OF the car, took
the boy to Georgetown University
Hospital and had physicians examine
him.
4 collision between tho touring car
OF IIinson Henry. 101 Alabama avenue
southeast. and a car driven by an
unidentified man occurred yesterday Y
afternoon near 18th street and Good
Hope road southeast. Henry's car
was damaged to the amount of $50.
Occupants of the vehicles were not
hurt
Evening star., 1923-02-09
BANDIT ROBBERY STORY
BEING INVESTIGATED
Harvey Restaurant Cashier De-
tanned, Awaiting Information :.
From the West.

j. Gordon Brown, nineteen years
old, of 1917 Kenyon street, cashier at
Harvey's restaurant, which was held
up on Saturday night several weeks
ago by bandits, who escaped with the
contents of the cash drawer. was be-
ing detained at the first precinct to-
day while headquarters, detectives
were awaiting word from the west
i'm reply to their request for informA-
ton regarding Browns life before
coming to Washington.
Opposite the name on the headquar-
ters book there is neither charge nor
compIainanf written Detectives
Kelly, Darnall, Scrivener and Spring
man are listed as the officers in the
case. They. with others, have beer
Investigating the Harvey hold-up foi
several weeks.
Evening star., 1923-02-09
MRS. DAY REELECTED.

Mrs. Herbert l.. Day was reelected
prcsidcn; of the board OF directors
of the y. W. c. s. at the annual
meeting yesterday.
Mis-: Elizabeth Eastman was made
first .vicc rresident: Miss aiildre d
Barthalow was reelected as second
vice president. and Miss Margaret T..
Fox was reelected treasurer of the
organization. Mrs. Robert Lansing
will act as corresponding secretary
and Mrs. Frederick E. Wright was
elected to act as recording secretary.
Evening star., 1923-02-09

YOU'RE .sN EASY PRf;N. with your
HrSh reduced below healthy stand
ard. for grip. pneumonia. and other
dangerous. discnxcs. And it's for just
this condition that DIR. Pierce's Gold
en- Medical Discovery is especially
valuable.
NE. whether from wasting disease or
defective nutrition. the 'sDiScovery''
~vf1l bring you UP to the healthy
standard-by restoring the normal ac-
ffon OF the deranged organs. A
~treRxth-rcstorer and hesh-builder.
IiUuid or tablets.
Evening star., 1923-06-19
Be Careful, Henry.

Henry Ford is quoted as saying. Il
have no desire to be President OF the
United States. / am too much occu-
pied with my. own affairs to become
the next President, and do not intend
to run. All this you hear about my
name being associated with the presi-
dency is newspaper talk. There is
nothing in it,"
Interesting, but unconvincing, in
the face Of the propaganda being con-
Quoted in his behalf by politicians who
are evidently not amateurs in the art
of skillful management. His state
ment lacks the essense Of finality. and
is of the stereotyped form Of the am
bilious who display shyness at the
proper time and want to be urged a
little" 1t is a we'll recognized pre-
liminary in the game of candidacy,
one of the first steps. The public will
so appraise his utterance, stick its
tongue in its cheek and wink the other
eye. 1t always does so in this phase.
There is only 100 per cent. simon
pure variety OF dodging q nomlna-
ton, and that is by saying, Il will
not have it and will not accept it II
offered me-" Theodore Roosevelt ap-
lied il the night he was elected in
1904. He afterward lived to regret
having done so. That fateful utter
ance haunted him later, but it had
been couched in such emphatic lam
guage that he could not go back on it.
So Mr.. Ford should be cautious in
these disclaimers of candidacy and
stick closely to the accepted formula,
which leaves the door still open to the
possibility of graciously bowling to
what may seem to the managers the
public demand for a nomination at
some psychological moment. He must
not hamper them with chance ex-
preston which will leave them out on
limb, there to be sawed off,
Evening star., 1923-06-19

otherwise be overlooked and In which
the white physician could not carry as
potent influence. The negro physician
can do his race and the world ines
timable good In preventing disease
checking it and In healing men ar
fiicted with those maladies recently
believed to be hopeless, but now
classed as durable. The negro ply
sician ought naturally to get into
closer touch with his race than the
white physician can.
The medical school of Howard Uni
versity has been doing great service
for many years, but this rich endow.
ment and the corresponding fund
raised by subscription will enable 1t
to expand and reach a higher degree
of usefulness. The school, according
to the news, Is to receive 100000,
half of which was pledged by the gen.
eral education board Of New York,
with the provision that the university
raise a similar sum through public
by July 1. The Interior
Department, which has supervision OF
the university, announces that the
university has raised $246,940, leav-
ing only a trife over $4,000 to be
raised within the time set. The money
is not to be all Immediately available,
but, according to the endowment
terms, will become available at inter
walls until July /, 1925.
The spirit which the alumni and
other friends of Howard University
have shown in subscribing sum equal
to that allotted by the general edu-
cation board Of New York Is evidence
of their faith in Howard.
Evening star., 1923-06-19

citizens to give II to another set and
paying political promises with appro-
priations. The mayor said something
about the cont oilers veracity, ex-
pressing himself in the shortest and
ugliest word known for that purpose
The controller rejoined that the mayor
could not call him by that word. The
mayor demonstrated that he could by
calling him by the same word again.
The controller asked the mayor to step
outside in the hall and settle it." The
mayor arose, but not to go outside,
and the controller applied the short
and ugly word with embellishments,
and referred to certain recent court
experiences Of the mayor. Friends Of
the two then got between and checked
the hostilities, which finally died away
with variations Of the lighting talk"
and references to yellow and to the
propriety Of having folks examined
by alienists. The episode was lively
while 1t lasted, which was perhaps five
minutes. A lot can be said in FIVE
minutes, enough to make history.
Manhattan's history is full of those
peppery five-minute periods.
Evening star., 1923-06-19
ROYALTY and Public Golf.

The Duke Of York and his bride
have subscribed to the new municipal
golf course in Richmond Park, near
London, each paying three guineas for
annual tickets. This course has re-
Gently been opened to give people of
moderate means an opportunity to
play golf at reasonable cost. So the
duke and duchess. if they play there,
which is close to their own White
Lodge, will have to take their turn
with the artisans and clerks who
throng the public links daily.
The present royal family Of England
is extremely democratic, and its men,
bers Go not put on side" though
maintaining a proper degree of dignity
and distance. The Duke of York s
elder brother. the Prince of Wales, is
a free mixer and interposes few bar
riers of restraint between himself and
the public.
A contact between the Duke and
Duchess of York and the people on the
golf course will be wholesome for
both sides. The game is leveler. Any
player who fiubs shot has strong
sympathy for any player in the sarge
class, and any one who makes good
stroke, a long drive or an accurate
putt is admired, whether he be in one
class or another. There is, indeed, no
"class" in golf, that is, in the real
game the game that is played for the
games sake. There is just one line
of distinction, and that is between the
amateur and the professional, and it
is only technical line at that.
Without doubt the Duke and
Duchess of York will have jolly good
time on the course at Richmond Park.
and they will be cordially received by
the .devotees of the ancient game.
These young people will probably ask
no dispensations or extra courtesies,
taking their chances with the others.
Evening star., 1923-06-19
Parking" "

Growth and change are always 60
ing on in the English language.
Changes have, indeed, been coming
over language ever since men began
to write it, and presumably changes
were going on before men learned to
write 1t. Here we come upon q new
twist in the words park and parking.
Park" itself is old enough, having
meant in other centuries an inclosed
piece Of private land. Long ago it be-
came military term, and when army
wagons were lined up at the end of
days march they went Into park"
1t became very easy then to say that
the wagons were parked. With the
automobile park" came into general
use. Where to park, at what angle
to park, how long to park and where
not to park were phrases in every
body's speech. Now it is said that
some ocean liners to conform to our
prohibition laws are parking" their
liquor at Halifax, and that other ocean
liners are using Bermuda as a park
ing station for their stores OF liquor.
Perhaps after a while the checkroom
Of hotel may be called a parking
station for hats and coats. and we
may see in restaurants such signs as
mot responsible for hats and umbrel-
las unless parked" On the door OF
ones hotel room may be a notice that
the hotel will not be responsible for
the loss of jewelry, etc, unless parked
with the cashier.
Evening star., 1923-06-19
Kansas Industrial Court Seriously
Crippled by Supreme Court.

When Gov. Davis of Kansas an
nounced his intention of killing the
Kansas industrial court there was
wide discussion and divergence of
opinion as TO whether or not he
could achieve that purpose. Now.
asserts the Brooklyn Eagle. the
Supreme Court OF the United States.
Mr.. Chief Justice Taft writing the
opinion. accomplishes the task for
him. The law Is dead" However,
there is considerable editorial dis
sent from that conclusion, although
il is generally accepted that the
court decision. as the Knickerbock-
er Press (Albany) says, seems to
shear the Kansas tribunal Of so
much power that it may as well be
listed among the experiments which
have failed" Most people. the
Pittsburgh Gazette Times thinks,
while deploring another failure to
devise scheme assuring the peace
or Justice in industrial relations. will
find satisfaction In the decision" and
the Boston Globe agrees that al
though the decision marks another
failure to get our Industrial troubles
settled settled bib, by m the ,,,,S courts" there will
AT the time Of it's defeat" how
ever, "it would be ungenerous." the
New York Herald feels. mot to rec
ognize the fine ideal which former
Gov. Henry j. Allen sought to real
ize' through the Kansas industrial
court. That ideal. as the Springfield
Republican expresses it. was the
hope of establishing a definite right
Of the public in all serious dis
putes between organized labor and
concentrated capital" But 1.-The Su-
preme Court, with its fetish Of free
dom of contracts bars the way" the
Duluth Herald declares, and employ
cheap as they can. regardless of the
human needs of the workers, will re-
Joice. Labor leaders who want to be
free to invoke at will the arbitrament
of industrial war will rejoice. The
public, which disagrees with both
these views and wants Industrial JUS
tice with peace. is puzzled. and won
ders which way to turn next" In
deed, observes the Philadelphia Bull
letin. Mr.. Gompers and the trade
unionists and the large employers of
labor might properly shake hands,
after the manner of the belligerents
from the opposite corners Of the
to fight out their disputes" The Kan
sas experiment Twas a sincere effort
to avert strikes and lockouts." the
Arkansas Democrat Uittle Rock)
comedies. but in the hopes Of doing
this 1t ran afoul of the Constitution
of the United States" and while
strikes are highly objectionable"
Supreme Court is Of the opinion that
it is possible to pay too dearly for
immunity from them, and that Kan
sas paid too dearly"
Evening star., 1923-06-19
A Flow of Language Lava.

Mayor Hylan Of New York, secure
in his second term of four years, has
a way of taking chances in his office
as the chief executive of Greater New
York, chances that he would never
have taken in his first term because
an ebullition Of official temperament
is likely to cost in terms of votes at
election time. His honor" has just
erupted like Etna, with a considerable
flow Of language lava in the direction
of the controller Of the municipality,
Mr.. Craig. The mayor and the con.
troller have been making faces at each
other for some time, and the strain
became too great yesterday, when at
a meeting of the board of estimates
the explosion came. The controller
said something about grand larceny,
and taking money from one set Of
Evening star., 1923-06-19
Howard University Endowment.

The endowment which comes to
Howard University gives great salts.
faction to the friends of this useful
and in many ways remarkable insti-
tuition. Friends of this university are
not all in Washington, but are scat.
tered throughout the United States,
for the institution has a reputation
wider than the bounds Of the District,
and its usefulness to the negro race
and it's usefulness in that way to the
white race are acknowledged wherever
the work of the university Is known.
The money goes to the medical school
of the university, which is doing a
practical and splendid work In train
ing physicians, dentists and pharma-
cists.
The negro race has great need for
qualified physicians and dentists. 1t
is hard to estimate the use which the
correctly trained negro physician can
be to his own people. He can carry
enlightenment as to hygiene, santa
tion and correct ways Of living into
millions Of poor homes which might
Evening star., 1923-06-19
Etna's Eruption.

Etna's eruption promises to be one
Of the most destructive in it's recent
history, though perhaps not in terms
of human life. 1t is thus far taking
toll mainly Of property, the lava flow
covering a large area. Three small
towns have been completely destroyed,
$4,000 people have been rendered
homeless. Two separate lava streams
are flowing, one toward the sea at
Giarre, which has 10000 Inhabitants
This stream is two kilometers wide
and fifty feet deep. The other stream
is flowing more to the northeast, and
at latest accounts had practically sur
rounded Linguaglossa, a city Of $4,000
inhabitants ten miles from the crater.
This eruption, which is the most Sc
we're for many years, started with a
violent explosion which sent forth an
enormous quantity Of debris and at
the same time opened cracks in the
cone wall through which the lava
streams poured Warnings had been
given sufficiently, so that the people
We're out of the range of the first ex-
posion. and there was no such dis
aster as that at Pelee, in Martinique,
when the convulsion occurred with
such suddenness and force as to de-
stroy thousands.
1t is singular fact that in all vol
ings and disasters, the people persist
in clinging to their homes on the very
verge of deadly menace. This is par
ticularly true in Sicily. Etna has
erupted many times and has taken
tremendous toll altogether in human
life and in property, but again and
again the people have returned to
their little holdings on the slopes.
They always seem to think their
chances are greater than those Of the
volcano. They place themselves be-
tween the old lava flows and assume
the risk of new one coming their
way. But the danger is not alone from
lava. 1t arises from the showers OF
scoria blown from the great vent by
the gas explosions in the neither cham
bers of the earth, from the gas itself
and from the finely powdered par
ticles that fall as ash.
In the museum at Pompeii are dis
played figures of human beings taken
from the ruins there in remarkable
state of preservation. Evidences in
dicate that these people were not
killed by the flames or heat from
Fesuvius in the great eruption that
destroyed that city, but were suffo-
Gated by gas and ashes. In some cases
their postures are such as to show
that they were overtaken by death in
their sleep. Nesuvius, however, did
not emit lava toward Pompeii on that
occasion, and the city was buried vir-
tually in ashes.
AT Etna, on this occasion, the erup-
ton has been of greater violence than
usual, and the amount Of lava has
been enormous. A stream two kilo-
meters wide by fifty feet deep. such
as that reported as approaching
Giarre, is a tremendous volume of
molten matter. Millions of tons Of
rock must be melted in the incalcula-
BILE heat of the earth's furnace to form
this flow. The spectacle presented by
this awful force of nature in activity
is beyond description. Those who have
witnessed an eruption Of this char
in words
Evening star., 1923-06-19
EDITORIAL DIGEST

All of this. however. deals more
with opinion of the value of the in
dustrial court than 1t does with edi-
torial surmise as to the effect of the
decision on the future of the court
On this matter there is an interesting
divergence of opinion. The whole
issue" as the Newark News sees 1t.
depends upon a clear line of demar-
cation between what. constitutes an
essentially private business and what
is an essentially public business" and
the highest court cannot reconcile
with the constitutional freedom of
contract the idea that the common
calling are clothed with a public in
terest merely because one makes COM
modities for and sells to the public. F"
Thus. In the opinion of the SPRING
is shattered in the vital points Of its
structure in the first test OF is va
lldity under the federal Constitution" E"
But this position is emphatically
refuted by the Wichita Beacon, ex-
Gov. Aliens paper, which says that
the court Is not abolished by the
1t still has the power to fix wages
in the business Of transportation and
the production OF fuel. 1t still has
the power to restrict strikes in es
sential industries. 1t has all the
powers 1t had before, with regard to
the general operation Of the court"
unfortunately, the paper adds, the
decision follows the recent minimum
wage decision Of the same body and
deprives labor Of what a very great
body OF American people believe is
a very much needed protection in the
form of wage fixing"
At the same time. replies the
Kansas City Star, without the power
to fix a temporary wage scale. the
Kansas court would have no basis for
action in forcing an agreement that
would tide over q strike" and. more
over. the courts decision that the
packing industry Is not affected with
public interest to the degree that it
would give the state the right to
assume police powers over IL prac-
ed in the Kansas industrial court
measure" There are intima tions. ao-
cording to the New Orleans Times
Picayune. that other industries
sought to be regulated under the act
may escape that regulation because
public interest to warrant super
vision by the Industrial court" Out
side the realm of transportation,
light, heat. power and irrigation com. com.
finds it difficult to imagine a busi-
ness that is'' so affected. and the
Milwaukee Sentinel sees in the de-
cision warning against "the tend
ency to overwork the idea of public
utility" The primary purpose of the
law was the regulation OF the mining
industry. the St Louis Globe-Demo-
crat points out, and IL the inter-
probation of the Supreme Court can
be accepted as applying to mining
"as directly as to food, the effect of
the decision Is to make il practically
imperative" That is the result which
the Topeka Capital predicts, for IL it is
held that fuel or clothing cannot be
separated in this way from ordinary
business, the law would fall to pieces"
Evening star., 1923-06-19
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

Any number of urgent situations
may develop in President Harding's
absence to require an emergency
meeting Of the cabinet Mr.. Harding's
assurance that he will see no "usurpa-
ton" Of executive authority in such
procedure is therefore not so academic
as 1t seems. If Secretary Hughes,
making use of the privilege Wood
row Wilson denied Robert Lansing,
should summon the cabinet, his main
difficulty will be in counting a
quorum. According to present indi-
cations, midsummer is likely to find
only the Secretary of State, the Post
master General and the Secretary OF
Labor in Washington, Mexico, Turkey,
the Ruhr. the twelve-mile limit, war
a random half-dozen Incidents" each
one of which might suddenly flare
into cabinet rank"
xx r
Sir Auckland Geddes has made such
a satisfactory recovery from the re-
cent affection OF his eyesight that he
will shortly start on his projected
trip to England. The British ambas-
sador will sail on the Cunarder Beren-
garia on June %. He is sure to have
a busy time in London. 1t is long
since there was such a crop of Brit
ish-American diplomatic incidents as
the past six months have churned up.
With the closing of the British debt
negotiations the way was paved for
crop of lesser incidents, though sew
eral OF them bristle with ugly diff
culties. The Newcastle consulate
squabble Is unsettled. No decision has
been reached on the British denial of
our right to impose a non-bootlegging
pledge upon purchasers of American
ships. The gravest issue of all--our
desire to extend the right Of search
at sea to twelve miles--probably will
remain open a long time Premier
Baldwin is sure to want exhaustive
advices from Ambassador Geddes on
all these controversial questions
American prohibition developments
are being closely scrutinized by the
British. Geddes will be expected TO
bring authentic tidings from the
worlds dryest front.
Lieut.. Nina Van Wrinkle. Washing
tons woman police chief. was making
an inspection Of her night force this
week, and stopped for CHEEKY word
with one Of her officers on patrol.
Anything stirring?" Mrs. Van Wrinkle
asked. Handsome man in a-limousine
just tried to pick me up" was the re-