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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-19
Remember to Oil Your
Electric Sewing
Machine

Remember to oil your electric
sewing machine. If it is used
every day, oil about once
week. The electric machine Sews
at a greater speed than the
best power type, and hence par
ticular care must be used to
oil it regularly. When sewing.
less frequently, put a few drops
on each time after using it.
Buy only the best grade Of
oil, for a poorer quality will
form a gum and make it diff
cult to run the machine. In
case this happens, the parts of
the machine must be washed
thoroughly in kerosene, or if
the gum is heavy and hard to
get off the parts must be boiled
in a solution of washing soda
and water.
Another nrecaution is to be
sure to keep your machine from
an open window where rain may
strike it, Rust is the great
enemy Of all machines.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-19
PENNsY PLANS CERTIFICATE
ISSUE OF $31, 500, 900

TO enable 1t to purchase ATS
freight locomotives and $50 steel
passenger cars, the Pennsylvania
railroad today asked authority from
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion to assume liability for $31, $780,
900 of 8 per cent equipment trust
certificates.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-19
Easter Suits for
w omen and Misses
$3.50

Charming, youthful suits Of Poiret twill
for the miss and smalls woman, show
ing the tailored model and many versions
Of the jacquette, blouse and box coat.
Some three-piece models, too. with an at
tached blouse of colored crepe.
For the large woman, suits of tricotine,
tailored in long, straight lines, with
nug-fitting sleeves and other touches
that take every unnecessary inch from
her appearance.
All sizes are included in this one
priced showing, from ID misses to 52N
for women of extra size.
Second Floor.
The Washington times., 1923-01-28
HERE'S WAY TO SEE
MASS OF SHRINERS

TT AVE you tried visualize a crowd of 100000 peo
II pie, the number of Shrners, exclusive of other
- guests, who will visit this city during the Imperial
Council session. Ancient Arabic Order Mobiles of the Mys
tic Shrine, next June?
If you haven here's way of getting at the problem
You have the First Division review in Washing
ton following the of that famous unit from Ger
many You remember how long it took that division to
pass point where you stood Rank upon rank of men,
massed though they in the closest possible formation
you recall extended down the Avenue far eye could
reach That flowing river of men otaed less than 100000
You multiply that number by at least ten in order
arrive estimate of the true number You may be
able imagine First Division reviews.
If you an't you, baseball FAM may recall the
biggest the brought to the American
League Park Multiply that crowd by twelve fifteen,
and you will be hitting pretty close to the true estimate
Ninety thousand people watched Jack Dempsey hammer
Carpenter into heplessness the huge at Jersey
City You would have to multiply that vast throng by
three and onethird times order to equal the total of
Washington s Shrine visitors
Now when you have this all straight in your mind con-
slider that therew be at least 100000 visitors than
Shriners to add to this tremendous total bringing the
grand total to 100000.
There's the problem Washingonans called upon to
face
Only four months remain in which to prepare for the
arrival of these guests.
Five hundred thousand guests! One each for every
man woman and child In the District of Columbia!
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Seat of American Culture
Shifted to Prairie Towns

CHICAGO, Jan. %.
THE seat of American culture is
no longer centered in the
Empire of the East" with .Bos
ton it's capital, but has shifted to
the prairie towns of the Middle
West.
Detective stories and best sell
ers now flood Boylston street and
the Back Bay. while Milton and
Emerson have hied themselves
westward and won the hearts of
the gopher prairie and other Main
street towns through the medium
of the ladies reading circles.
Such were the views expressed
today by George B. Utley, presi-
dent Of the American Library AS
ISOLATION, in convention here.
The West has better taste in
literature than the East" said Mr..
Utley. "You can possibly account
for that by the recent flood Of i'm
migration. The West still Is about
80 per cent American.
mo matter where You go-into
an oil town in Oklahoma. into a
Colorado mining town, or into
lumber town in Michigan, you will
find. the same elements you find
in New York orBostOn.
Zach little community is me-
tropolis on q small scale, Each
has its own little Bohemia with
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WOMEN SEEK CANDY
AND RICH DESSERTS

nfbble at bridge, and, Of course,
at the play and the pictures. that
the demand for good sweets has
grown apace.
Coming to meals, 1t il found
by a great firm catering for the
tastes OF thousands OF women
Of every type daily that most
women will select something which
is either difficult to prepare at
home or impossible to make ow-
ing to the variety Of ingredients
required. They are fond of I1ors
d'oeuvres and of salads. Both
appeal to the eye, and both take
much, trouble to make for . SMALL
party.
In the same way, women like
the entrees rather than Joints
or fish. An entree demands those
'fixings,, which make 1t so tasty,
and which are troublesome to
e&0fte for oneself, because they
take time and trouble to pre-
pare. This accounts for the ire
mandous popularity Of fried po-
tatoes. To fry a potato to per-
lection is an art which few home
cooks seem to possess.
Omelettes, again. take ''knack"
in preparation. And among ONE
lettes it is found the jam omelette
is first favorite. while jam pan.
cakes are always in request for
the same reason. They take
trouble to make well at home.
I'VE find that women like
sweet things. dishes with fruit
as basis, and light meals COM
posed of things which they do not
find at home or which take
trouble to prepare said an ex-
pert attached to the staff Of
Messrs. Lyons. Above all. they
are finding that it is an economy
to eat regular meals when they
are out. To return home after
a round Of shopping, theater-go-
ing, or any other recreation,
means a bad headache, which
spoils everything. So lunch out
is now recognized not only as
one Of the pleasures, but the nec-
essities Of the program. The
business woman discovered the
fact long ago, and other women,
being initiative creatures, have
followed her lead"
The Washington times., 1923-01-28

ing: Publicity, w. w. Jermane.
chairman; auditing. Monte J..
Sanger: souvenirs and badges.
Samuel Hart: service and Informal
ton, M. A. Winter; concessions,
Wisdom d. Brown: baggage,
Charles d. shackelford; bands
and concerts. Harry q. Kimba1l:
banquets. James C. Hoyle: con-
gressional. Representative Clifford
ireland: imperial divan and ladies',
Leonard p. Steuart; fireworks.
George Duval. jr.; hospitality,
Henry Lansburgh; insurance. viii
liam Montgomery; law, Carter b.
Keene: parades and patrols. L..
Whiting Estes; program. Roe
FuIkerson; recorders, r. Lawrence
Walker; registration, James r.
Gibbs, and songs. Warren w.
Grimes.
The Washington times., 1923-01-28

LONDON, Jan. 81.
IN the days, when women went
out little and servants were
not so difficult to procure it
was considered an extravaganza
to get meal "out. .
Today hundreds OF British
women live in small flats or one
or two rooms, where the prepare
ton of meal involves market
ing, cooking and washing up I'M
der such cramped conditions that
the outlay Of time and trouble
involved often makes it greater
economy to get the principal
meals of the day outside
The business girl started the
fashion with her midday lunch,
and nowadays every woman adj
Tnits the advantage Of being able
to spend a day away from home
with q square meal as part Of the
days routine.
Women may be conservative in
some ways, but in matters Of food
they love change. For some time
past it has been very noticeable
that the English woman has taken
fancy to the "sundae' and ice
cream habit in the morning, wher-
ever a soda fountain is installed
Most women like sweet things,
particularly if they are pretty to
look at. and the sundae, with its
mixture of fruit syrup, fruit,
cream, and ice cream, appeals to
her artistic eye
The ice cream habit is also
making headway in our uncertain
climate. Apart from its food
value, it is one Of the simplest OF
sweets. Children always choose
an ice in preference to any other
desert, and you will notice that
what the children select is gener-
ally demanded by the grown-ups
Of the party.
1t is not only in the matter Of
sundaes and ices that women
show their love for sweet things.
The demand for candies and choc-
olates has become almost as much
feature Of today's shopping as
it is on, the other side of the
Atlantic, where candy making is
a very thriving industry, 1t is
not only for desert, but also to
The Washington times., 1923-01-28
WEIRD COMPUTATION
HEEL S TO VISUALIZE,
SHRINE MULTITUDE.
If City Were Emptied of All Inhabitants, and
Then Thrown Open to Shriners Only, the,
Population Would BE Greater Than Before
Exodus DIFFICULT to Realize Magnitude of
Convention Here i'm june.

Thomas e. ogram. chairman
This committee will be in charge
Of the sale Of all grandstand
tickets.
District physicians, surgeons.
dentists, and druggists win be
enrolled under the medical and
Red Cross committee, DR.. Charles
Stanley White, chairman. The
committee will establish first aid
stations throughout the city and
will make available the entire hos
pital resources Of the city, free
Of charge. to the visitors. Sew
eral emergency hospitals. thor
oughly stated with physicians
and nurses and enlarged ambu-
lance facilities are being planned.
Among the other committees
charged with arrangements for
the coming session are the follow.
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feet for, each car, which must
include clearance in front and
back, more than 200 miles long,
extending from Washington near
ly to New York.
The automobiles in this line
would consume $50 barrels of
gasoline for each ten miles trav-
eled.
SPECIAL PHONE SERVICE.
Plans are being completed by
the telephone and telegraph COM
mittee to establish & special Shrine
switchboard at the central office,
through which any one Of the thou
sands Of visitors can be reached
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candle-lighted tea rooms. bobbed
hair and parlor bolsheyism: its
own literati; its four hundred and
it's masses.
I'm each community it makes q
difference If you live on the wrong
side of the railroad tracks. But
the Middle West will be found
more responsive to good literature
than the once cultured East"
There 10 no accounting in taste
for books, according to Mr.. Utley.
He pointed out that the duty of
the librarian is to direct public
taste, but stated that the associa-
ton is unanimous in opposing
censorship.
THE crime in reading sala-
cious book" he said, docs not con.
sist so much in injury to ones
morals, but is an unforgivable
waste Of time"
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with as little delay as any local
telephone subscriber. This COM
mittee, of which Burdett Stryker.
general manager of the Chesa-
peake and Potomac Telephone
. Company, is chairman, is divided
into three subcommittee as fol-
lows: Telephone. House Hamilton,
chairman; information and postal
facilities. Merritt o. Chance,
postmaster of Washington, and
telegraph, G. Manson Foote.
Samuel J. Prescott, noted local
builder, who is chairman OF the
grandsta11d committee, has already
been in conference with compa-
The Washington times., 1923-01-28

Now, let US see il we can Wis
ualize our throng of 100000
Shriners in another way.
Imagine every man, woman and
child moving out Of the city Of
Washington next June 2. Inn
agine the city cleared Of every,
person now living here az the
sun goes down on June 2. You
would look down Pennsylvania
avenue and see not one soul-no-
body in sight anywhere, In any
public building. store, or private
home. Two days later the Shrin-
ers come in with their families
and friends. and 10! there is an
entire new population, even larger
than the first, all of them strang-
ers. ..
1870 MILE STRING. !
Another way: Let us form 800 600
Shriners in single file, three feet
apart. How long is this line 10 be?
Five miles? Ten miles? No, keep
on adding to your line until you
get $50 miles of men and you will
have your 100000. Watch this
enormous column winding into
Washington over the mountains
from the northwest. When the
first man reaches the Treasury
Department the last man will still
be good six days walk out of
the city, away out in the noun
tains beyond Cumberland, Md.
And now let us seat our guests
at table, arranging them side by
side, as close as may be comfort
able, on both sides of the table.
How long are you going to make
this table? If you will accommo-
date your guests, your table must
be fifty miles long. This table
would be just long enough to ex-
tend around the four sides Of the
original District of Columbia, with
enough table left to cross the cen.
ter and connect two sides.
One waiter can take care of
perhaps twenty men conveniently.
We therefore find that we must
have $4,000 walters to feed our
Shrine guests alone.
This is what Washington must
face next June.
We have still another way of
getting some idea of the stupen-
dOus event which Is coming to
the National Capital next June:
The Almas Temple, Washington,
D. c., 1923 Shrine committee, is
raising fund of $4,000 to meet
the expenses of preparation and
entertainment. The 100000 Wis
itors, at the most conservative
estimate, based on previous ses-
sions, will leave 100000, 900 in
Washington. This is 500 for
every 81 raised by Washington.
ians. A paying investment?
Wouldn't Wallingford-Rufu j.,
of course-revel in that?
SIX MILE TRAIN.
The population of Washington
is 1851. The share of each
man, woman and child in a pro
rata distribution Of the 10000
900 which will be left here would
be $69.92.
Another measure of the mag
nitude of this event:
The temples so far registered
have requested parking space to
date for $40 Pullman cars, and
this number is being swelled
almost daily. The standard Pull
man car is eighty-two feet long.
These $40 Pulmans would, there
fore, make a train more than
five and seven-tenths miles long,
or nearly six miles. This would
extend from. the Treasury DS-
partment to Chevy Chase Lake.
These PulImans must be so
equipped with temporary water
and sewage mains and with lights
that they can serve as quarters
for their passengers during the
session.
Thirty-fiye thousand automobiles
will come to Washington. In one
line. If all came in caravan, the
line would be. allowing but thirty
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toll, only half size smaller
In placing the fez on his head.
which was more than fifty feet
through from ear to ear, Noble
Nagian unfortunately brushed
loose a hair which, though only
sixty feet long and of about the
size and texture Of a half-inch
steel cable, gathered sufficient
inertia in its 900-foot drop to drive
1t crashing through the top OF an
automobile parked on the Speed
way in East Potomac Park.
Unaware of this accident, the
mammoth Shriner. after a short
run through the Mall. leaped
across the Potomac river, his
heels digging trenches six feet
deep and thirty feet wide in the
soft earth of the Arlington farms.
FOOD BILL HIGH.
Stepping carefully so as to
avoid the scattered towns and
Isolated homes which dotted the
green-clad countryside and, be.
cause of his caution, taking short
strides of but a city block in
length, he set out q find a vacant
meadow sufficiently large to en-.
able him to stretch out for
short afternoon nap and yet so
far removed from the nearest
home or factory that. in case he
should snore, the excessive vibra-
ton of the earth caused thereby
might not shake loose the plaster
and break the windows in the
homes of innocent folk of the
ordinary size.
Now, before you get a chance
to ask a second time what sort
Of a pipe dream this may be,
we'll slip in paragraph of ex-
PLANTATION.
Noble Brobding Nagian is not
30 much a creature of the imag-
inatfon as you may surmise The
city of Washington next June is
going to be called upon to feed
this giant Shriner. His keep will
amount to 100000 daily. Noble
Brobding Nagian is, of course, the
colossal being who would result
from the rolling into one hu .
man of the 100000 Shriners VINO
will be the guests of the National
Capital next June.
Brobding had his inception in
the fertile brain of Charles D.
Warner, of the Almas Temple
1923 Shrine committee.
1T lis, Of course, absolutely i'm.
possible for the human mind to
grasp the significance of such a
number as 100000" Mr.. Warner
explained. 1--WE can visualize a
number like twenty clearly. Many
can visualize a hundred or per.
haps two hundred objects defin-
itely. But when we get up 10
1000 and above we are lost. We
cannot grasp the figures them
selves and must resort to COM
PARSONS.
HOW COMPUTED.
I'm striving to find an ade-
quate picture of this huge, mob
of 100000 persons 1 was perhaps
influenced, as most of us are I'M
consciously, by the new medium
of expression, the motion picture.
We think more instinctively in
pictures today than ever before,
largely because of the influence OF
the movies. And so there grew
before my eyes this giant man,
composed of 100000 rolled into
one"
In reaching his conclusion as to
the size of the giant Shriner Mr..
Warner was compelled to resort to
decidedly interesting form of de-
duction. Knowing the size and ca
pacity of the human stomach, he
figured, with the stomach as a
basis, the sze of the huge man.
The conclusion could not. of
course, be reached by adding up
the heights of the 100000 and
their breadth and weight and so
forth. Mr.. Warner explained that
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~~sees>~s~ese~~.>.>~re NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
an estimate might have been
reached by adding the weights of
the 100000 and. with the weight
known, figure the height of the
combined figure from the known
tables Of normal weights.
SOME BATH TUB.
And now, as Noble Nagian fin
ishes his short nap and, slowly
opening his eyes, which are twelve
feet across from corner to corner.
stretches his arms, each 400 feet
long, and reluctantly sits up. let
us again study his huge frame.
His shoulders are IT'S feet across.
AS he slowly rises and his head
towers up into the June sky, we
would find, If we could apply a
huge tape line. that he stands 900
feet in his socks. The soles of his
shoes would be three and a half
feet thick and his heels about ten
feet thick. His feet would be APP
proximately 100 feet long and forty
feet wide.
This huge being would have to
go some distance to sea in order
to find water deep enough to give
himself bath. He would require
cake of soap as large as ball.
room-and not such a small room
at that-sixty-eight to seventy feet
long and forty-five to forty-eight
feet wide. His towel would be
about $50 feet long.
Brobding could never enjoy the
luxury of shower bath. He
might shampoo his head under
flowing water, however, by lying
down in the rapids of Niagara
Falls and putting his head under
the falls. He would, however,
have to keep his head down.
Walking at the same rate Of
speed as the ordinary man he
would whistle through the air at
a speed of more than fifty miles
an hour. Thus, by walking briskly
for four hours, he could cover
the distance between Washington
and New York.
JUMP HALF MILE.
A man can jump three times his
own length, or more il he is an
athlete. Thus our dainty friend
could jump some 2,70O feet, or
about a half mile, with a slight
run. He could leap over the
Washington Monument with ease.
Brobding could walk through the
Capitol grounds and kick down
the Capitol without faltering in
his stride. The majestic dome
would, perhaps, come little
above his knee.
And what enormous quantities
of food he would consume in a
day! One hundred and fifty thou
sand pounds of meat, or a guam
tity equal to $50 steers weighing,
dressed, 1000 pounds each, would
be to him what a half-pound Of
beef is to the ordinary man. He
would require 150,ve0 of our loaves
Of bread
Coffee? A standard railway gas
oline tank car would furnish him
a demi.tasse! His cigar would be
fifty-four feet long and the ash
he would knock off each time
would fill a five-ton truck.
This giant Shriner could not
wear glasses. No lens of the
size he would require has ever
been cast.
The giants board would cost him
100000 a day.
But Washington could mt.
or course. feed such a gross
creature. Our food would be so
fine and delicate that, should he
sneeze, he would blow it all away.
We will. therefore, resolve our
tez'topped mountain into his
100000 component parts and
treat them as individuais-as, in
fact, we in Washington must next
June. tBy the way. dividing and
ordinary 16o.pound man into
100000 parts. wy I'D give little
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Music Publishers Were
Forced to Retire i'm 1921

THE United States il not %
music-mad as three years
ago, figures indicate. Twenty
eight printers and publishers of
music who were going strong in
1919 were idle or out of business
in 1921.
The Washington times., 1923-01-28

WpyrEh 1898
i. Il. -
AYONCHALANTLY leaning the sharp point of the
Washington Monument, which failed to pierce the
enormously thick skin of his hand and which he was
able to reach by STOPPING slightly Noble Brobding Nagan
the outstanding figure the Ancient Arabic Order Mobiles
OF the Mystic Shrine then in session the National Capital
contentedy brushed from his lips with fortyoot fore
half dozen or SO oayes of bread the crumbs from
his 100000 luncheon
He then stopped and rnsed the waters of the
Tidal Basin the oil tank from which he had
just drank his cofee44 Jumps of sugar. pleaseand dry
ing the huge his handkerchief which only 1856
square, ne reached and retrieved his fez which he
had for convenience sake placed dome of the CAPT
to, only half size smaller than his head
The Washington times., 1923-01-28
STATISTICIAN ROLLS
TFIRONG OF 100000
INTO MAMMOTH MAN
Using Combined Hunger of Visitors, Wizard
of Figures Creates Colossal Human Whose
Daily Food Would Cost $3,OOO,O OO-Would
Have to Rinse His Coffee Cup i'm Tidal Basin.
Could Hurdle Monument. With Slight Rum.

eOopyriEht 1898. by The Waslngton Herald Re
with Full Credit.)
Evening star., 1923-09-30
GRAIN PRICES BREAK
IN SATURDAY SALES
Setback Largely Due to Heavy
Profit Taking as Month
Closes.
Rr the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, September 2s.-Wheat,
corn and oats all underwent ma
terial setback in price today owing
largely to profit-taking sales on the
part of holders and because Of month
end settlement of contracts. The
wheat market closed weak, 1 to IN
net lower December, 1.05A to LOS "
and May, 1.09K to 1.09B. Corn fin
ished %aN to 2A down; oats. % to
1% off, and provisions varying from
5-cent declines to an advance OF 2
cents.
Dearth of sufficient buying to alb
sorb the offerings in the wheat mar
ket was evident throughout the day.
An easier market at Liverpool tend
ed to check demand here. and bears
pointed out that United States visible
stocks are nearly double those of a
year ago, Chicago alone having on
hand more than 19,e00,000 bushels,
whereas export clearances have been
smaller than last year. Besides. it
was said domestic -four stocks are
large, and sales from mills far from
brisk. With the wants of September
shorts largely filled yesterday the
market failed to develop rallying
power, and closed at about the days
bottom level.