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The Washington times., 1923-02-26
Love Traps For Boil
Weevi Secuted
By Scientists
BY Cosmopolitan News Service.

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-Love
traps TO exterminate the "billion
dollar bandit" the boil weevil,
as proposed by DIR. Hudson
Maxim, may not be feasible,
scientists today declared.
DR.. Maxim found the sex inn
pulse strong in the boil weevils.
He placed a female in a cage,
then took a male two miles
away, and found the insect on
being released flew straight into
the bower of his lady fair.
Therefore, DR.. Maxim planned
to cage the female boil weevils
to decoy the amorous males.
But scientists say it must be
established whether the boil
weevil is homogeneous or poly
gamous before the experiment
can be utilized. They say if the
boil weeviI is homogeneous, then
all the females must be caught
and Gagged, while in the other
case, the male boil weevil on
his flight to the trysting cage
may be enticed along the road
by some uncaged female boil
weevils, leaving the Maxim
bride lamenting.
The Washington times., 1923-02-26
DISEASE KILLING
GREEKS BY
SCORES.
297 Refugees Die From Plague
in Two Months in One
Camp.
By international News Service.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 26.-
Scores of Greek Christian and Otto
man refugees in the detention camp
at Scutari are dying daily in the
plaques of typhus and smallpox
which are ravaging the fugitives.
Two hundred and ninety-seven refu.
gees died in this camp within the
past seventy days.
All of. the fugitives gathered at
Scutari were transported from Trebi-
zon, where they had been concen-
trated from the interior of Anatolia.
According to the Near East Relief
Administration 10000 refugees are
in the camp living in filthy stables
and barracks.
General Harrington, commander
of the British troops in CONSTANT.
nople, sent a party to investigate.
The investigators reported that ron.
ditions were fully as bad as had
been pictured.
The Near East Relief Administra.
ton is rushing medicines and food
stuffs.
Ninety per cent of the old men
and children are living in such a con-
.diti0n Of filth and disease as would
kill the. hardest animal" it was re-
ported by A. K. Jennings, Of Utica,
n. z, an agent of the American
Near East Relief.
The sick and the well lie wrapped
UP in bundles Of dirty rags, their
bony claw-like hands reaching out
to grab the food doled out to them.
Frequently men and women die
silently. while those lying alongside
them are not aware of the fact"
The Washington times., 1923-02-26

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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Floor.
The Washington times., 1923-02-26

Paintings of landscapes, taken
during outings in and near Washing
ton by members of the Landscape
Club were placed on exhibition at
the clubs studio, 1921 Fifteenth
street northwest. yesterday after
noon. The exhibit will continue
until March II and is open to the
public.
The Washington times., 1923-02-26

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loom finish; in all wanted EO0
street and evening shades OON
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we'll as plain Colors; worth OOo
Csc yard. AON
36-inch Yarn MerceriZed Wash
Satin-A handsome soft.clinging
cotton fabric with the appear
ance Of all silk satin; all wanted
shades, also black and white;
ideal for lingerie: worth Tx
$1.00 yard. ....... OON
The Washington times., 1923-02-26
Sale of I212c to l9c
Men s Handkerchief, Zoe

Good quality soft finish Handkerchiefs with hem
stitched borders including colored woven border Styles
white satin striped and plain white Hemstitched Hand
kerchefs-at savings up to nearly one-haf because
they odd lots and slight seconds The defects in
the latter consist only of an occasional thick thread
or rregulsr stitching Choice at 1Oc.
Floor.
Evening star., 1923-02-10
The Black Nanny Monument.

tions and tender care which the mite
children received. One cannot help
but marvel at the desire to perpetuate
In bronze or marble a figure which
represents so much that really is and
should be abhorrent, to the woman
hood of the whole civilized world.
We have all heard touching stories
of the affectionate relationship exist
ing between some black mammies and
their little white charges whom they
nursed with such tender care. The
lot of some slave women was no doubt
better than that of others. They We're
all slaves, nevertheless, and the
anguish suffered by one black nanny
whose children were snatched from
forever outweighed in the balance
all the kindness bestowed upon all
the slave women fortunate enough
to receive it for $50 years.
Surely in their zeal to pay tribute
to the faithful services rendered by
the black nanny the descendants OF
slaveholding ancestors have forgotten
to the institution of slavery itself.
II the black nanny statue Is ever
erected-which, dear Lord. forbid
there are thousands of colored men
and women who will fervent1y pray
that on some stormy night the light
ming will strike it and the heavenly
elements will send it crashing to the
ground, so that the descendants of
black nammies will not forever be
the physical suffering which the
mothers and grandmothers of the race
endured for nearly 300 years.
MARYsCHURCH TERRELL,
Honorary President of the National
Association Of Colored Women. .
Evening star., 1923-02-10

months and Of reducing his organiza-
ton to q decidedly lower status.
Whatever the mistakes that may
have been made at Lausanne by rep.
resentatives Of the allied powers, the
fact stands forth that they were seek.
ing to establish peace in the near east
by adjusting to the conditions caused
by the ill-conceived, wrongly conduct.
ed military enterprise of Greece In
Asia Minor. It has been impossible to
forget or ignore the denominations per-
petrated by the Turks following the
collapse Of the Greek campaign. I'm.
wise efforts to re-establish commercial
rights in Asia may have played into
the hands Of the Turks at Lausanne.
but it is never to be forgotten that the
Angora government is Moslem
power, with a black record Of cruelties
and untrustworthiness.
Doubtless the refusal Of Russia to
take a hand in the game has infiu.
enced the Turks In their apparent de-
termination not to press the situation
to the point Of war. 1t is not to be
believed that dread Of the moral re.
sponsibility for conflict has deferred
Kemal and his associates. If they
thought there, was chance for them
to win they would probably proceed,
seizing the first opportunity to inf1ict
a serious blow upon the allies. Recon
sideration of the ultimatum issued the
other day may be interpreted as q
realization that military move would
be disastrous to the newly established
Turkish government, which has every
thing to gain from pacific measures
and everything to lose from war.
Evening star., 1923-02-10
Turkey Reconsiders.

Turkeys grant Of additional time to
the allied warships at Smyrna, pend
ing reference to Angora, may merely
postpone the collision, or it may por.-
tend a definite withdrawal from the
bellicose attitude of the Turks. If the
Moslem leaders thought to frighten off
the allies, or to cause a split on that
side, they have completely failed in
their plan. Their threats to fire upon
the allied warships at Smyrna have
had precisely /the opposite effect.
France and England are drawing even
closer together, while Italy now comes
forward with announcement Of COM
plete accord with them.
Kemal Pasha is! not stupid, and only
a stupid leader would precipitate a
conflict now in the circumstances of
allied solidarity. At Lausanne the
Turks were offered maximum of
concessions. The conference failed at
the point of the excessive demands of
the Angora government, demands
which could not be granted short of
conceding to the Turks the position of
a victorious, fully rehabilitated nation
of the first class. Kemal doubtless
realizes that there Is risk now In pro.
ceeding to war, risk Of losing all that
has been gained during the past few
Evening star., 1923-02-10
| workings afterward reveals few, If

workings afterward reveals few, If
any, clues.
|; 1t is. however, always to be assumed
that the detonation was due to some.
body's carelessness. failure to observe
rules. If mine Is damp" which is
to say gaseous, it Is supposedly safe.
guarded by regulations against the
use of fire underground, the lighting
of matches by smokers, the exposure
of lamp flames. In regions where the
mine workers are of different nation.
alities these rules are supposed to be
printed in all the languages employed
by the members Of the force. But
even when the rules are plainly known
to all infractions occur.
In both the New Mexico and the
British Columbia disasters, which
have just taken such a heavy toll of
life, without doubt some breach of
regulations was the cause. Both mines
were highly gaseous, and required the
strictest observance Of the ordinary
precautions against fire. The occur
renee of these two explosions so close
together can be regarded as no more
than a coincidence. terrible in it's re.
suits, but-indicative of nothing more
than that the habit of e-breaking
prevails in widely separated regions.
Coal mines, such as those just visit
led by tragedy, are especially subject
to explosion. Yet these disasters have
occurred in other mines, where min
erals produce gas that may be ignited
or where dust prevails. The latter
element is rare underground, owing
to the prevalence of moisture. In
every well managed mine tests Of the
air are frequently made, and the sud
den development Of damp is as far
as possible checked against by such
observations. In rare instances pockets
of such gas are opened and men are
overwhelmed before the ventilating
systems can overcome the poison. In
each of these recent cases, however,
the disastrous factor has been an eX-
plosion, and that means a spark or a
flame, either of which, in turn, means
carelessness.
Evening star., 1923-02-10
EDITORIAL DIGEST

Transcript that there is a revolving
lack of consistency In the wholesale
dismissal of Army officers because the
government is reluctant to pay their
salaries and the batting Of a distln-
Euished general because he chooses
to retire and accept commercial en-
ployment. Sentimentally, this looks
like ingratitude toward men who
have dedicated their lives to the Serv-
ices of the government and it pre-
sents evidence of a curious forgetful-
ness on the part of Congress of the
heroic service rendered by Gen. Har-
bord in Chateau-Thierry and at Sois-
sons. Gen. Harbord is entitled to
retirement. His record gives him a
sentimental claim to retired pay.
The future of the Army demands that
officers shall not be forbidden to work
in private capacity after they have
reached the age where they are entl-
tied to surcease from the rigors Of
military life" It also is the opinion
of the Columbus Dispatch that the
Senate. by eliminating this clause
from the Army bill, removed the i'm
piled reflection from Gen. Harbord,
whose remarkable efficiency in organ
izing the supply department of our
Army in France saved American lives
as Well as American money" Fully
indorsing all that the War Secretary
said. the Appleton Post-Crescent in
sists that Weeks is right. The spe-
charging that the officers of the War
Department are dishonest; that the
government is dishonest and incapa-
BILE of protecting itself: that the fed
eral business is conducted by a graft
system. 1t is, as he alleges. an insult
which is not even based' on suspicion.
Cen. Harbord Is entitled TO his re-
tired pay by custom. He committed
no wrong by accepting a position"
'By. its action the House placed a
H. IL 1l1
Post points out. Had Gen. Harbord
elected to do nothing after his retire
ment Congress would have given him
his half pay. The theory of Congress
is that retired Army and Navy officers
should live around Washington and
Washington hotels or the Army and
Navy Club. Gen. Harbord preferred
to make contribution to American
industry and Congress Furnishes him
for his Willingness to work"
The Des Moines Register. however,
Gen Harbord should be favored
when the boys who actually fought
the war are having, most of them. a
hard time to get living job" and it
later points out that neither Gen.
Harbord nor any other general or
admiral can serve two masters faith
fully at the same time when their
interests are not identical. Nobody
doubts that ninety-nine out Of any
hundred officers would try, if draw
ing money from n corpora ton for
negotiating business with the gov
ernment, to put the governments in
terests first. But nobody doubts,
either, that 1t would be a much
smaller proportion that succeeded in
doing it. The whole scheme or stu
alton. or whatever it be called. is
wrong fundamentally and totally.
Why equivocate because Harbord is
affected"
Evening star., 1923-02-10
New-Fashioned Winter.

The Washington climate, sometimes
irreverently spoken of as the Wash
ington climates, has been doing itself
proud, with a few Irregularities.
Everybody is praising it. Even those
irreconcilables from the north where
mo matter how cold it gets you don't
feel it because the air is so dry" have
of our climate. Visitors from Cali.
fornia. where next to native sons and
daughters climate seems to be the
most important output, admit that
after all one may live in Washington
in winter without being run down by
a snowplow or frozen to death beside
ones own radiator. Persons from the
gulf states and from those south At
lantic states where oranges are as
many as persimmons, and palms as
common as ragweed, say that Wash
ington in winter is endurable if you
do but keep the overcoat buttoned
and the collar turned up.
If we could be assured that this sort
of new.fashioned winter might be de-
pended on year after year Washington
would become famous as a winter re-
sort, and the papers would be full of
pictures showing beautiful bathers
splashing in the January Potomac.
Not far above the Mason and Dixon
line states and cities have been hav-
ing old.fashioned winter Here we
have had but little cold and one fall
Of dry snow which a kindly sun soon
melted. But let us not shake hands
with ourselves too enthusiastically.
February is still with us and March
is coming.
Evening star., 1923-02-10

10 the Editor of The Star:
Coiored women all over the United
States stand aghast at the idea OF
erecting a black nanny monument
in the capital of the United States
The condition of the slave woman
was SO pitiabiy, hopelessly helpless
that it is difficult to see how any
women, whether white or black, could
take any pleasure in a marble statue
to perpetuate her memory.
The black nanny. had no home
life. In the very nature Of the case
she could have none. Legal mar
riage was impossible for her. II she
went through a farce ceremony with
slave man, he could be sold away
from her at any time, or she might
! be sold from him, or she might De
taken as a concubine by her master,
his son, the overseer or any otner
white man on the place VINO might
desire her. :.
No colored woman could look upon
a statue of a black NANNY with
dry eye when she remembered now
often the slave woman's heart was
torn with anguish, because the chill
dren, either Of her master or their
| slave father, were ruthlsssly torn
from her in infancy or In youth to
| be sold "down the country" where, IN
l all human probability, she wouio
never see them again.
The black nanny was often 1altn, :,
full in the service Of her mistress
children, while her heart bled over
Iher own little babies, who were thus
deprived Of their mothers ministra-
Evening star., 1923-02-10
A Victory for RESPONSIVENESS.

The overwhelming vote by which
the House yesterday approved the
terms of the British debt settlement is
victory for reasonableness and fair
dealing, and is especially gratifying
in that this gigantic business transac.
tion was spared the ignominy of being
made a partisan issue. or the LOG
three voted in favor of the settlement.
Having been approved by the House
by so impressive a majority. it is a
fair expectation that when the meas
ure comes before the Senate it will not
meet either serious or prolonged op-
position. The House vote undoubtedly
reflects the sentiment of the country.
and senators are. no more anxious to
run counter to public sentiment than
are their colleagues in the other body.
The situation in the Senate is not
so favorable for speedy action. of
course. as it was in the House. The
last of the big supply bills has been
gotten out of the way. but the ship
Senator Jones, in charge of the meas
ure, announces that he will keep it
there until there is q vote or adjourn
ment. But, as stated by the President
and affirmed by senators, there is
ample time for adequate consideration
of the shipping bill. the debt t-funding
bill and other important measures
which are pressing for attention. 1t
is true that under the Senate rules
any or all these measures can be
killed by a filibuster, but the country
is not in the mood to be patient with
any such negative proceedings. It is
a time when positive and constructive
action is required, and whether these
mand is widespread that they be per-
mitted to come to vote.
Incidentally, Chancellor Baldwin Of
the British exchequer must feel lit
tie foolish today. 1t is impossible not
to recall the interview he gave out
upon returning to England. and in
which he complained that fair set
tlement of the debt question was diff
cult because the final say was with
Congress. and that Congress was made
up largely of rural-minded politicians
who had little knowledge of interna-
tional questions. When it came to the
test the American House of Repre-
sentatives gave an exhibition Of
broad minded craftsmanship not often
eq,ialed by the British house of COM
mons.
Evening star., 1923-02-10

Mexico into public life. AS matter
of fact, Charlie" Ward states with
authority that when Bursum was
elected sheriff in the town of Mogollon
the ballots were passed in between
the bars on the Jail window and they
were counted over the bar in John
Cotfee's saloon across the street, be-
cause Ward helped to count-Bursum
into Office.
Some twenty years ago Ward went
to New Mexico to go into the cattle
business. When he got there he
started raising goats in Socorro
county, where Senator Bursum is now
a prominent stock raiser. Ward went
with his flock of goats onto the public
domain and made his own water holes,
establishing three camps in the Mo-
eollon mountains on the state line
between New Mexico and Arizona. He
had as many as 1000 goats and kept
at that business for three years.
It was during that period that he
rode into the town of Mogollon to
vote in the election in which Bursum
was running for sheriff. He arrived
there about $3.50 am. and found the
polls were not open yet The bookkeeper
In the CROSSROADS store Communicated
Ward to act as clerk of the elections,
explaining that they could not open
the polls unless he did, because it was
necessary for them to get fellow
Evening star., 1923-02-10
Started Life as Goat Herder;
Now Occupies Seat in Congress

who could read and write. Ward re-
members that he didn't like being
locked up in the jail all day taking
the ballots in between the bars on the
window.
"As soon as the polls were closed
we carried the ballots across the
street to cld John Coffees saloon and
counted them sover the bar" recalls
Ward, explaining that "Bursum got
practically every vote"
Ward was cleaning up quite decent
ly in his goat-raising business, but
decided he was living too far from
Broadway. He was 125 miles from
the railroad and it took him nine days
to get to New York
So he sold all but $500 of his goats.
which he drove overland to the Santa
Fe station located at Silver City, and
shipped them to Livingstone Manor.
n. Y. The transportation cost was
exactly $40 per goat, and it took them
fourteen days in transit. Ward lived
in the little town of De Bruce, six
miles out of Livingstone Manor, and
wHeu HIS SOdlS GU anu no " GIL I
in to drive them home to De Bruce it
was like a circus come to town and
all the youngsters for miles around
gathered to see the fun.
"They weren't disappointed. either"
Ward chuckles reminiscently. be
cause those goats sure were hungry
after their long trip, and they went
over the fences, chewed up flower
gardens and window boxes and gen.
orally raised havoc"
For another three years Ward
stuck to the goat business. but he had
a run of hard luck, some of his goats
being poisoned, and the trend of cir
cumstances finally convinced him that
you can't handle live stock in large
quantities in the east.
$50 sold all my goats to packing
house in New Jersey-just breaking
even on my shipment east-and they
were put out as the finest mutton and
lamb" Ward says. He is now in the
general farming business. He is en-
joying his life in Congress because no
one can make him the goat" or "get
his goat'-because he is range-broke o
to all the tricks of that obstreperous
animal.
Evening star., 1923-02-10
Retired Pay of Army Officers Is a
Right, Not q Favor.

The majority of the editors who ois-
cusssd the action Of the House In
eliminating retired pay for Gen. j. o.
Harbord from the Army bill, the Wig
orous defense of the general by Sec
retary of War Weeks and the action
of the Senate in restoring the item
to the measure agreed that the senate
was right. They took the position
that, after all, it was a principle, and
not an Individual, that was affected
and, further. that the thirty years IN
which Harbord had advanced from
buck private to general entitled him
to retirement with all the pay and
allowances due his final rank. ON
GERS have a contract with the govern
ment many editors argued, and wnen
they have kept their part there should
be no choice, SO tar as the govern
ment was concerned. in keeping ts
side Of the obligation.
The fact that the attack placed
Gen. Harbord as merely paid loooy
list, selling his influence for private
salary, while drawing retirement pay
from the government" Is commented
on by the Kansas City Journal, which
then carefully explains the personal
element that enters into the matter
ciple involved is unjust and mischiev-
Gus 1t is of no consequence that Gen.
Harbord, or any other officer retired
to private life. had an unusually nom
orable record. Retirement pay Is not
a reward for past services: II is not
a pension predicated upon tnabllitE
to earn a living 1t is law that has
been In force for decades, and never
seriously challenged until now, pro-
vidins that officers shall retire with
rs per cent of the pay OF their rank
There is no prohibition against en-
gaging in business. The fact that
they may engage in an enterprise
which may deal with the government
does not for a moment vitiate such
employment or justify the withdrawal
of retirement pay This Is likewise
the opinion Of the Oklahoma City OK
lahoman, which asserts that ut Is
hard to conceive of a more reprehen-
sible piece of business 1t is not only
unfair to the general. but it would
not be far wrong to say that this &C
tion constitutes out-and-out robbery
Such action is not only unworthy OF
our Army and our country, 1t Is even
unworthy of Congress. The action OF
the House, overruled by the Senate
mot only took away from Gen. Har-
bord," the st. Joseph News-Press in
sists, IAN undisputed right, but in
doing so placed upon him a stigma
which was wholly unmerited. Gen.
Harbord would not miss his retired
pay and neither would the Treasury.
The act of the House was noteworthy
only as an intentional Insult to one
of the most distinguished officers who
saw service in the American army
n /. the opinion of the Peoria