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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24

Printing Pressmen Send in
SIS, and Mid City Associa-
ton Contributes $40.

The campaign of The Washing
ton Times and Washington Her
aid to raise $4,000 to employ
special counsel for the Public
Utilities Commission to fight the
Potomac Electric Power Company
valuation case has been endorsed
by two more organizations.
Citizens And Union Act.
Printing Pressmen's Union, No.
/, following in the footsteps of the
many other labor. organizations here,
voted a contribution of $25. Mid
City Citizens Association, another
wide-awake organization, last night
decided to send in $40 to the fund.
Never in the history of public
utilities in Washington has such
interest been shown in any one
utility case. The public realizes the
Importance of winning this one and
for this reason is intellectually
supporting the $4,000 fund.
The total in the fund today is
$2,654.30, with $354.7O yet to be
Many other organizations are
scheduled to hold meetings this
week. and an appropriation is ex-
pected to. be voted by them. 1t was
predicted today that the closing of
the fund was now only q matter of
q few days.
In a short time, the litigation in
the courts over the valuati0Ff=Ease
will start again. This, court fight
will be one of the hardest the local
commission has ever had to fight
It needs all the help obtainable. The
added services of special counsel is
necessary.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24

eyes, my grandma 10 mighty SICK
Johnny to his boss did say,
Something like two weeks
Before the opening game day.
The boss was quite human,
He had been a freckled boy,
He wouldn't call Johnny liar.
He wouldn't mar prospective JOY.
Three days before the opening game
Johnny's face became quite sad.
The boss suspected the reason,
And said: "Too bad, too bad!"
Then to Johnny he remarked:
IT don't think she will survive,
l hate to see her pass away
Into another world to dive.
So, Johnny, the day she cashes in
You needn't report for work:
Just go on out to the ball park,
You're not the kind to shirk.
Just shed a tear or two for me, boy,
Don't let sorrow make you stag
ger,
But yell like he'll. youngster.
If our boys knock q tbree-bag-
ger" THE OFFICE GOAT.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
BOY SCOUTS HELP IN
FOREST FIRE FIGHT

Boy Scouts yesterday showed
their worth when they aided the
Silver Spring Volunteer Fire De-
partment fight q woods fire at
Four Corners, Md.
Organizing three brigades at the
request Of the Silver Spring depart
ment, Troop Is, which was biv-
ouacked at Camp Woodrow Wilson.
Burnt Mills, Md, hurried to the
fire. After an hour Of fighting the
fire was finally suppressed.
This is the second fire which this
troop participated in the last year.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
JUDGE DIsMISSES CASE
OF WOMEN IN DISPUTE

Charges of assault against Mrs.
Elizabeth Wrenn, Of e29 Twenty.
fifth street northwest, were dis.
missed by Judge Harrison in police
court today.
Mrs. Wrenn was alleged to have
struck Mrs. Mary r. Cunninehan N,
as the result of a quarrel over who
should have possession of a bench
Mrs. Wrenn declared that II he.
longed to her because her son had
made 1t. Mrs. Cunningham in.
sisted that 1t was hers inasmuch
as her son had presented it TO her
Puzzled the Judge dismissed the
case. esq
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
ASKS RIGHT TO CHANGE
HIS NAME TO "R. M. BLAIR

RAYMOND NJ. Reese today pc
titioned the District Supreme Court
for permission to change his name
to Raymond M. Blair" Repre-
sented by Attorney w. H. Sholes,
he declares that when five years
old his father and mother separated.
the former going to California, the
latter going to live with her par
ents.
Reese says that both consented
that he should live with Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas M. Blair, the latter
being his godmother with the un-
Outstanding that they were to adopt
him when he was of school age.
He says he was known in school
by the name of blair" and that
his graduation diploma from the
High School contains that name.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
LEGION TO RAISE FUND
FOR DECORATING GRAVES

The District department of the
American Legion will join in the
nationwide American Legion cam
paign to raise an endowment fund
to be used to decorate annually the
graves of former American service
men who died and were buried on
foreign soil.
A meeting of local representatives
of the legion posts were held in
the District building last night
Two plans of raising this fund were
discussed. These plans will be sub
mitted to a meeting of the legion's
executive committee tomorrow
night.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
"CANCER MONTH" PLANNED
TO REPLACE EARLIER WEEK

Cancer Week" is a thing of the
past 1t Is Cancer Month" now.
Arrangements have been made to
replace the one week drive by the
American Society for the Control
of Cancer, the Washington branch
announced today.
The United States and Canada.
according to the plan, are divided
into seven districts, in each OF
which an intensive campaign will
be for a period OF one month.
washington is expected to be
reached next September, through
this ARRANGEMENT.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
Pepco Suit Fund Now Totals $2,654
(71IEARDpoSEkKlI{7|
L-oBY BILL PRICE c-rA-N |

FISH FINS ON WOMEN'S HATS
We don't like to see our Wash
ington girls out of style. There
fore. we refer to Sundays styles
in Paris, where some Of the
women wore fancy aprons, and
large numbers Of them used
fish fins for hat decorations.
They were not kitchen aprons.
You can bet your life on that.
Neither were the fish fins of
the common variety that we
know. The Parisien damsels
gathered fancy colored fins, pre-
ferring the gauze- winged tiger
fish of the China sea.
We expect to go fishing soon.
We know some fishermen who
always carry with them bait
that makes the fins Of all fish
they catch resemble the colors
of the rainbow. Do any of our
women readers want some Of
these fins?
The best we can do is to prom
Use the fins of some croakers,
cat fish, perch or toad fish.
The toad fish we adore. He is
a beautiful creature. His mouth
alone is Of a type of beauty I'M
excelled in fish life. Why not
have them mummyized and
wear them on hats?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
Operetta by 100 Students.

"AN at Sea-" an operetta in two
acts by David Stevens, will be pre-
scented by students of the Shaw
Junior High School, in the Dunbar
High School. Friday and Saturday,
May 4 and 5. More than 100 stud
ents will take part in the produc-
ton, including Misses Gwendolyn
Hughes. Anola Miller, Beatrice
Brooks. and Gorham Fletcher,
James TYSON and WILDER Robinson.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
RTH MES.

For laundresses. the sOapstOne.
For diplomats. the boundary stone.
For architects, the cornerstone.
For cooks. puddingstO
For sugar dealers, the sandstone.
For taxi drivers, milestOnes.
For grOuches. the bIuestOne.
For IrishmeH, the blarney stone,
For borrowers. the tOuchNtODe.
For pedestrians. the paVIngstOne.
For stock brokers, the curbstOne.
For shOemakers, the cObblestOne,
For burglars, the keystone.
FOR manlcur1sts. the pumLcestOne.
For tourists. the Yellowstone,
FOR beauties. the peachstOne.
For Renuises, the Tombstone.
For most Of us. the grIndstOna.
FALLS CHURCH.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
CongratuIates Baltimore.

Cuno II. Rudolph. president of
the Board OF District Commission.
ers, In latter to Mayor William r.
Broening, OF Baltimore, today con-
graduated that city on the oreani.
zation OF the Baltimore Safety
Council which will be conducted
aIonS the same lines as the Wash.
tngtOn Safety Council
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
Benefit Dance for Band.

A benefit dance for the George
Washington Post. No. l band will
be given Thursday night in the
Arcade auditorium. The band
orchestra will play relays with the
regular Arcade orchestra. The
dance is under the auspices of the
Legion. Proceeds will go to pay
off the band debt. This band went
to New Orleans and played during
the Legion convention.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
ANACOST|A HAS
LIVE BODY Of
CITIZENS
Association Organized Forty
Years Has Secured Many
Improvements.

Members of the Anacostia Citi-
zens Association have two particu-
lar detectives this year, one, that
Of securing the second installment
of $50, 1000 toward the $150,000 Gov
eminent recreational park, and the
second, the paving of Minnesota
avenue, between Good Hope road
and Pennsylvania avenue southeast.
Knowing well the past record of
this hustling organization across the
river, residents in the community
appear confident that both of the
1923 detectives will be pushed to a
satisfactory conclusion.
Many an association would have
Laid down" after they had re-
ceived an appropriation of $4,000
from Congress as a nucleus for the
establishment of the sixty-four acre
Federal recreational tract, which
will mean so much to their COM
munity, but not so with the Ana
inspiration to go after the second
$50 900 installment this year and the
intention of making a drive next
year for the third and final $4,000
installment.
Long a Leader.
DR.. George G. Havenner, presi-
dent of the Anacostia Citizens, is
the leading spirit of the organiza-
ton and has been for many years.
DIR. Havenner was first president
of the organization, from 1895 to
1898, and was persuaded to take
over the leadership for the second
time in November of last year.
Among the major improvements
secured by the association during
its long life may be mentioned the
electric street railway; the new
Anacostia bridge; the old Pennsyl-
Vania avenue bridge; the opening of
Minnesota avenue; the erection Of
modern fire engine and school
houses; a new police station; the
reclamation of the Anacostia flats;
an appropriation of $4,000 for the
Improvement of section D of the
Anacostia park; paved roadways;
water, sewerage and lights.
The roster of the association from
its inception is long one, among
which are many deserving of spe.
cial mention. In addition to those
citizens previously referred to, may
be found at one time or another
active in the affairs of the associa-
ton the following: DIR. r. A. Pyles,
Continued on Page 24l
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
A RIGHT SORT OF BOSS.

District Commissioner RUDOLPH
q GIay or two before the opening
game at the American League Park:
IAN requests for leaves OF absence,
owing to funerals. weddings, lame
back, housekeeping, sore throat,
headache, indigestion, etc, must be
in by 10 o. m. on the day OF the
game.")
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
THE MEAN OLD THING.

tletOe,
But then she was not kissed,
For In truth I'D have you understand
He was only o cRFtOOnlst.
III. SMITH.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24

If zoe could all Kve in neigh
bOrhoods as fine as real estate
men represent oil neighborIeoods
to be, aOOnLdG't 1T be grand and
glorious? ALONZO F.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
PsYCHOGAsPs.

PS CHOGASP
He a0ho laughs last is the
duntbbeU.
The Average plumber doesn't
doesn't seem to haze Gny diff
Guilty IN making both ends meet.
There's many a slip 'ttOirt hip
and lip.
One thing the long skirt has
done Is to eliminate traffic con-
gestioa.
The IGw of graduation
"EOerythimg that goes up must
come dOtVn"-eUidentLy doesn't
apply to specuIutors in sugar.
Many fine friendship has
been spoiled by marriage.
"HildG, tell Mr.. O'HMron that
boGrders are not ALLOWED to eat
sGrdines IN bed"
THOMAS ]. FORD.
THE school,, OF Apt
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
A ''HAIRBREADTH" ESCAPE.

A hairdresser fain he wand We'd.
But he. could not make the
hitch;
A nOn-uniOn girl we hear she was
For she left him at the switch.
HANK HAWKINS.
The Washington times., 1923-02-04

spectrum is the red and at the other end the violet
between the other colors that we see. Below the
red and above the violet as we learn from science
there are colors VIBRATIONS" utterly beyond
the reach of our dull physical perception The eye
Of science perceives them, not the eye Of man.
These vibrations, beyond our knowledge, sight,
and consciousness work in the radio that penetrates
the ether. They affect us and control us, although
we don't perceive or understand them, as we with
our scientific processes affect, disturb control and
destroy microscopic life that Is not aware Of our
existence.
As the suns physical light, bounded by the red
rays at one end and the violet rays at the other has
well defined limits for u.s. so there Is also spiritual
light Of the mind so far above the physical light as
mind Is above matter.
In the spiritual spectrum you find CHARITY
at one end, JUSTICE at the other, with science
knowledge and truth between
Highest Of all Is JUSTICE It includes all the
others, pure white light includes all the coors of
the spectrum, Where there Is JUSTICE nothing
is lacking For Justice Is truth, knowledge, and
charity And In It's highest development 1t calls In
science to enlighten all.
This you realize when you remember that only
few generations back miserable lunatics were
chained to stone foors fogged, starved, tortured
with floods Of cold water justice. not yet en-
hghtened by science, believing that they were
vicious, depraved or inhabited by devils
Science, enlightening justice, has changed that.
And SO 1t will change many other things Too day
what we call "justice" is STILL too often, another
name for SELFISHNESS and power
Marvellous are the color revelations Of the
spectrum that analyses the suns physical light,
separating one color from the other. And wonder
The Washington times., 1923-02-04

full the uses that scientists make of the spectre
scope
In it they study the movements of suns
trions of miles away learn whether those suns are
receding or coming toward us and at what speed
they move.
And from the spectroscope we learn Of what
materials distant suns are made We find in our
own sun, and in suns Of which the lights Journey
here Is many long years, the same materials that
there are on this earth, ron hydrogen, carbon, all
the elements" known to us that make up the
material world.
Science enables us to study the outside uni
verse.
Analysis Of our spiritual light on the earth
enables to study ourselves in the individuals and
nations about us.
And thus far, unfortunately, 1t Is sad, dismal,
although NOT completely discouragng analysis
We find CHARITY. But too much of it is close
at home, too much Of it is limited to the next door
neighbor, or one town or country, and too little
charity among nations, too often NONE.
We possess SCIENCE, marvellously devel.
oped. Remember that men are only 1000 years
away from the Stone Age, when their scientific
knowledge was limited to making bow and arrow
striking light and shaping flint.
Science we have, but how do we USE it?
We make flying machines and use them to bomb
and destroy those that have not injured us, women
and children, in war.
We from the air its nitrogen which could be used
to make Of the earth fertile garden.
But most powerful interested in that nitro
because is the basis Of EXPLOSIVES that destroy
We study and understand chemistry and we use it to
manufacture poison gases 70 highly developed that one n
The Washington times., 1923-02-04

The 18th verse of that First Chapter begins:
And God said, Let there be lights in the
armament of the heaven to diuide the day from
the night"
The 10th, 18th and 18th verses read:
"And God made flUo great HeEts: the
greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light
to rule the night: He made the stars also.
And God set them in the armament of the
heaOen to siDe light upon the earth,
And to rule oOer the day and oUer the
night, and to divide the light from the dark
ness: and God snU that it soas good"
That was done AFTER the command. "Iet
there be light"
Nearly six thousand years ago those words
were uttered, according to the Bibles teaching.
For many hundreds Of millions of years. &C.
cordlng to the teachings Of science the suns pvsi
cal light has flooded this earth, rolling slowly
around the protecting sun.
Beautiful and comforting is the sunlight that
warns us. lights our paths, gives color to flowers
and trees and to the cheeks Of children
The sun rises and sets in glory, bringing new
hope with each morning, leaving darkness and rest
IN the evening.
But the sun worshipped by the ancients the
sun upon which we depend for our lives, our food,
our warmth, and our material light is only the
PHYSICAL light Of the world.
That surely was not the light meant when.
before the sun and moon had been created, the
words were uttered, "Let there be light"
tAat was another light, the light that grows
and shines within the soul and mind of man. the
ngnt tnat Is spreading over the earth, but spread
ing SO SLOWLY
MIR McCay's admirable cartoon shows the giant
sum- million times as big as this earth, suspended
by light chain from the fngertips of Divine Power
the picture is far from exaggerated. For our
sun is one OF endless millions and only small sun
among those millions. Within reach of our tele-
scopes there is another one million times as big
as ours.
So great is the gigantic universe that our sun.
our little earth and the other planets our neighbors
would be invisible specks of matter in the palm Of
Gods hand
In the suns light divided in the spectrum as
our feeble, half developed eyes perceive it, there
The Washington times., 1923-02-04

ing machine properly; could destroy all life in the
We possess knowledge but only the beQinning-THE
DAWN Of the knowledge that one day shall possess.
In the distribution Of knowledge this country has made
its greatest progress.
knowledge free in the schools and parents are com
PEELED to that their children get that knowledge
But from public schools nine out Of ten pass into dull
life IN which the knowledge Of little grows dull
The real knowledge which all through life from
reading Of good books and thinking good thoughts is
reserved for the few the unusually fortunate
For, while the poor kept from real knowledge by
their poverty and the hard grind o. necessity majority Of
the rich are equally kept from it by foolish luxury and self
indulgence that are the death Of knowledge.
We possess TRUTH yet we turn away from it.
"What Is truth? 20 said testing Plate and
Would not uU0t for an 1nsuOer.
Christ stood before Plate to the truth He was led
away to be crucfied, as PLATE washed his hands
So we wash our hands Of truth. We KNOW that the
poor beside and miserable and that we could help
them. But WE WASH OUR HANDS.
We know that energies going in the wrong direc
tion that we are devotng lives short that which
not worthwhile and negectng opportunity But WE WASH
OUR HANDS and find justification in the thought Every
JUSTICE Of kind we find But in the United States
that Justice is INACCESSIBLE to the poor Any lawyer
will tell that with just claim of $1oO could
push through courts against rich opposition at
a cost OF less than So 900. H.
IT. pays the rich man to fight in the courts.
And It pays the poor man to SUBMIT for that Is the
easiest or the only way out Of it for him.
That Is the kind Of justice that the have In
IL.
kind Of Justice that st. James meant when he said:
"Behold, the hire Of the laborers uUho haze
re0ped dOIOn your fields which Is of you kept back
by fraud cTieth: and the cries of them Which haze
reoped are entered into the of the Lord of
Sab0oth."
We LIGHT that comes to us from the sun tho
physical light and to march against destroy
each other in and to swnde and other
In private business"
We possess the elements Of spiritual light We have
CHARITY but keep too close home We SCIENCE
but misuse it, We have KNOWLEDGE but helps us little
We know the TRUTH, smother it. washing our hands
We have JUSTICE but is beyond the those that
most need 1.-THE poor
However there Is no for encouragement
Conditions million times better than they were
They will be ten million times better time passes
Let each remember that all progress depends on the
total Of millions Of and thoughts representing
manner In which we, INDIVIDUALS, ACT, THINK AND
LIVE.
YOU ARE YOUR BROTHERS, KEEPER, what you do,
COUNTS And while responsible for the horrors
Of the high cost Of living the misuse Of science and the
smothering of knowledge you ARE RESPONSIBLE TO
YOURSELF AND FOR WHAT YOU DO
Let every realize that only few have realized
thus far and the troubles Of the world would quickly
ish away, in the light Of CHARITY SCIENCE, KN0WLr
EDGE. TRUTH AND JUSTIC1
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The Washington times., 1923-02-04

1t Was Not the Mere Physical Light That the Sum
Way and Do Our Work The Bible Itself Tells Us
That the SUN Was Made Before the Words Were
Uttered, "Let There Be Light" Therefore That
Word "LigI1t" Meant the HIGHER Light the Light
That Shines Within the Soul.
The REAL Light of the World, the Light That
Penetrates Thick Skulls and Lights Up the Brain
the Light That Goes Into the Prisons and Into the
Dens the Light That Lifts Men Above the Earth,
and Above Themselves is No Physical Light
"Let There Be Light" Means Eternal Light of
JUSTICE Truth, knowledge, Science, Charity.
The Washington times., 1923-02-04

HAT is the third verse in the First
Chapter Of the Bible. "The First
Book Of Moses, called Genesis"
That light must have been the
light Of the SPIRIT. For AFTER
that first creation Of light came the
creation of sun and moon.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-19
GOES WELL HEELED TO woo LADY LOVE; POLICE
 FIND "YOUNG ARSENAL

KANSAS CITY, Kan, March 19.- The next time J. F. Graham goes "a courting" his 'lady love,' he will leave his "arsenap' at home. The 23-year-old youth vouchsafed this remark shortly after had had paid a $200 fine to Leavenworth authorities, imposed because Graham was carry ing concealed weapons.
 The "bold" lover said he had left his home here to visit his fiancee at Leavenworth and had come "pre- pared" because rival there had threatened to "get him."
 It was while returning that the youth met his nemesis, in the form of a blue-coated law enforcer, who arrested him when blackjack he was carrying fell to the floor of a street car. A search at headquarters revealed two revolvers and razor.