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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-24

Editor The Washington Times:
"HE League of Nations may be
as dead as African slavery,
u but shouldn't we people who
are interested in democracy stop
and thfnk-dOes 1t take a League
OF Nations or a World Court or
any such alliance to drag a nation
into war? Did league or q court
drag US in the world war? No
all it takes is an isult to our ma
tion-and that can always be read
lily managed by those interested.
Then are the flower of our coun-
try, our beautiful youth called
upon to aVenge that insult-tO
leave everything behind that they
hold dear-to fight and bleed and
die for democracy. o, democracy,
what sorrows follow in your wake!
What, may | ask, is war? Isn't
it merely an effect-and does fight
ing an effect ever do any real
good? Can we help to get Europe
on her feet? Does she want to get
up? Will those in whose hands is
the power to lift her up allow her
to be lifted up? Would Europe al
low an outsider to strike at the
cause of her troubles? Would any
of us permit an outsider coming
into our homes debating to US
about our troubles-telling/ us
what caused them, and suggesting
q remedy? / do not think so-for
II we were good enough and sensi.
BILE enough to permit such a thing
then it would not be necessary.
We would find the flaws in our
own mechanism and be too proud
to let anyone else Do The EapajEina,
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puddle that woman might ninCe
across safely.
But today's woman does not
mince. She walks, and her fest
are shod to Withstand mudpuddles.
1t. doesn't seem to me that
there is any falling off in the
marriage rate because women have
lost mystery"
The truth is, that in the old
days women spread the lure Of
mystery when they hadn't any
thing else to invite interest.
Now they have work, profes-
sions, achievement very real
things to appeal to men who pre-
fer women to animated dolls.
'Girls were more looked after
twenty years ago." states Mr..
Lawrence.
Perhaps! Looking after" a
woman is likely to be merely a
gesture. Once it had to do with
a yoiuminous amount Of cere-
mony. In this day Of limited
space and more limited time it
probably would prove embar.
RAISING.
1 think Mr.. Lawrence overrates
the modernity Of women and IN
derrates that of men!
Copyright, 1928. King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
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must sacrifice all / love and hold
dear to obtain them. Is a coun-
try or a flag much good to a
broken heart? What is coun-
try, anyhow-what makes up a
world? Is not human hearts
our world? Why crush some that
others may continue to beat? Is
1t Gods will that I shall say
to my brother, Go out and fight
for me-shed your blood, be
MANNED, blinded, crippled-that my
world, my heart shall beat, while
yours is silenced forever"
What did the millions of sons
of France die for? The glory
of France? Was it worth while?
Is not France spoken of harshly
in the world today? What has
she done with her freedom? Bit
the hand that helped her!
Is it not so much tumble for
anyone to say that we fight
"for a world in which the man
is held more precious than the
machine, the system or the
State? Does that hold good
when man is put up to do the
fighting? The worst part of it
is that the choicest flowers are
taken while the unfortunate
weeds are left behind.
The dragon Of war has its
monstrous mouth open for choice
bits only-those physically and
mentally fit. o. cruel, cruel
monster! won't you ever be sati-
ated? Will there never be peace
on earth, good will to men?"
OREGON MARIE McKER
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Once Overs
tCopyright 1923
KEEP YOUR CHILDREN BUSY TO KEEP THEM OUT

OF MISCHIEF.

Father and Mother you with the bright lively boys and
girls what outlet you giving your chdrens activities?
Are you leaving entirely to the schools to provide
study, and play also?
Do not realize that there several hours
child day when that child casting about for sort
of entertainment "busy'' work.
Busy work-the something which fills in between the
positive duties
There is old saying about the old fellow who finds
plenty for idle hands do and there truth in that
than parents would believe in regard to their
children.
What about the time that you allow children to
to school too early into their study rooms and yet the
time must be spent somewhere?
What your children do and talk about in those minutes
before school, when there is time to and
the only aim is 'fkl time"
The teacher could you from his her standpoint of
many reasons why undesirable for your children get
to school more than three minutes before the last
bell rings
AS parents if awake to the possibilities of eva
entering your kddes minds you may find that rrepsrabe
moral injury has been done already:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-24

do not believe in martyrdom.
l think those capable of martyr
dom are worth infinitely more
alive, to their country, than those
who are dead, to it. What gain
from all our loss. but that the
world those high in power) is
free again to fight and slaughter?
To do the same thing over again
for which so many loved ones
died.
III nag must forever be
washed and rewashed clean by
the blood of our loved ones
better there were no flag. What
is flag or a country to me if l
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Dare we speak Of foreign en-
tanglements. lightly? Can we lift
up our heads at the word Lib
erty? Have we forgotten the
100000 dead-the 10000, 900
manned and wounded? That's
what this liberty that we're en-
Dying today means. Has the
world forgotten so soon? Take 1t
lnsly-you and /. How many are
!ylng dead-how many are manned
and wounded, that just you and
| might live and enjoy this free
dom. Oh, the pity that such a
power is SO vested in anyone, to
send men to slaughter that others
might live!
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~ ~ ODA]AS1N WOAAASAA AO AASS eSAAN@ y
xA Young men, especially,
are not so interested in women
as they were twenty or more
years ago. It's because women
have lost the mystery that they
had in the Victorian days when
they were protected" and the
growing freedom between men
and women has lost them the
pang of novelty, and men just are
losing interest in them.
These statements are attributed
to David Herman Lawrence, the
author.
I wonder if Mr.. Lawrence has
considered that men have changed
within the period mentioned quite
as much as the women have, and
that the girl of twenty-five years
ago would no more interest the
man of today than would a
museum curiosity-excepting as a
curiosity?
Modes of expression are diff
ferent from those Of twenty years
ago-but / don't believe they are
less interested or sincere.
Chiva1ry in the day Of Sir Wal
ter Raleigh was expressed in
spreading coat over a mud
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GRAFTERS JAILED IN SPAIN

men have had to submit to rigor-
Gus examination regarding the
conducting OF their duties, and
hundreds have been committed to
Jail, while it is reported that
many have escaped Imprisonment
by suicide. In some provinces the
jails are full, and military bar
racks have been requisitioned.
Inspection of the asylum for
waits at Aranjuez, revealed al
most indescribable conditions of
dirt, damp and cold. Nearly every
child was i'll, verminous and suf-
fering from loathsome diseases.
For every 100 children there were
nearly fifty well-nourished and
Well-paid attendants.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-24

MK ADRID-General Rivera, the
N dictator, has exposed an al
AsA mos, unbelievable amount
or corruption existing In the civil
service and other governmental
departments in his efforts to wipe
out graft and reform the coun-
try,s administration from top to
bottom.
Nearly every day mayors, alder
men and municipal employees are
imprisoned for misrepresentation
or funds. and appalling abuses
have been discovered in the ad-
ministratiOn of the law, the prison
system and the police force.
All ministries, civil governors
q provinces, mayors and alder
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-24

THERE were lot of institutions in the
Good Old Days which were neither
very useful nor ornamental. Panta-
lettes, for instance And whiskers. And
hoopskirts, and red flannel underwear and
molasses n sulphur as Spring tonic. AND
REPENTANCE. Yes, you heard Alright.
1 said Repentance. And I'm here to declare
that / consider repentance, when done on
the grand scale, one of the most odious
pastimes on earth.
It is both necessary and wholesome to
Be Sorry at times. If you've done some
thing WRONG, face the fact. Make what
amends you can. Take yourself apart and
call yourself all the names you know. Lock
the world out and get down and grovel
Grovel hard. Make a good job of it. Kill
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printing photo
graphs locomotive workers. and especially the pictures of
hard working that clean the dining bill
Of fare where all passengers may see them.
is by condescension; it's hard sense
The intelligence that directs capital that is to say, the
sared of the railroad know that they themselves give
better work to the of the road the invisible stock
holders, when their good work is appreciated.
They know that likes to be credited with doing
his best when he DOES his best They have made their
minds that those that do the HARD entitled
spicuous credit So they print pictures of workers where
everybody will them
Perhaps this good example will be followed.
You may 'artocrats living in glory removing
the preposterous of putting
instead picture of the cook responsible for the good dinner
or OF the gardener whose skill produced the flowers that deco
rate the table.
Usually railroads advertise themselves with pictures
scenery, high mountains, picturesque waterfalls
BAD idea. But the BEST scenery that
gaze upon is such face that of the locomotive engineer
In this picture Seeing this the picture of James M Stauffer
and his helper fireman. Joseph Gberg the passenger
NOW can sleep soundly for know THOSE won't go
to Sleep
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-24
Force Without Matter
1t Can't Act.

remarkable Italian boy medium tried for the $500
prize offered for genuine raising of spirits from vastly
deep elsewhere On the attempt produced
fairly respectable rappings and poundings.
On the third time he tied securely that
movement impossible. And a spirit raped
Force cannot act without matter
Spirits without material BODIES Them
selves In material WORLD. If it not So the wise
Lord would not have forced upon the imperfect bodies
which such nuisance with infancy toothache
ness, old age and death.
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the thing within yourself that made do that wrong
Then, having been sorry and having made all possible
amends and having killed the wrong, for the uvva Mike
bury your sin and FORGET it. Don't continue to repent
all the landscape and interrupt every
your walls of There's sorrow or right
eousness In such repentance. It's simply particularly
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women are paid
good wages-as
they should be-
. great deal bet
ter than the
average work
ingman was paid
before La b o r
drove common
sense into the
heads of capital,
before organiza-
ton made wages
what they are
now.
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catch Some Big Fellows"
Says Judge Mack. 1t Happens Rarely

To Judge Mack of the United Court big
men and little look alkewhen they break the law
When he was called upon to poor negro who
had sold glass OF beer for ten regretted that
not possible to get some of these big fellows sell whs
Key Tor dollar drink and champagne for twenty-five dol
lars bottle
This however is country in which it is customary
70 get the big fellows you steal enough you apt to
keep what steal Ask the profteer Break
You.
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obnoxious manifestation of Selfishness and
Conceit
Your main responsibility isn't to repent
for the wrong things you've done, but to go
ahead and do some right things. The world
ism t interested in your failures in vital
need of constructive successes. It wants
action, not anguish. And it's your sacred
duty to provide that action. You've no more
right to neglect that duty by going off on
debauch of repentance than by getting
drunk or using dope or indulging in any
other kind of spree. Morally, there's no
difference in the two acts.
IT'S JUST AS SELFISH TO HOG
THE CENTER STAGE WITH YOUR
TEARS AS WITH YOUR TANTRUMS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-24

Here's picture the Pennsylvania Railroad prints
the m of distributed in the dining its rail-
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eS
Two good first
class American
workingmen are
shown here, a
skillful locomo-
tive engineer,
and his helper,
the fireman, who
will be an engi-
neer in time.
Upon these two
men the lives Of
passengers de-
pend, and also
on them depend
the long or
short life of the
ex pc nsive ma
chine confided
TO their care.
It's an excellent
idea to put
these pictures
where every pas
senger on the
train will see
them.
Even better,
Pennsylvania "B
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-24

TALK ABOUT YOUR SINS CONTINUALLY AS IT
WOULD BE TO TALK ABOUT YOUR VIRTUES
And the the woman who carries a gloomy heart
through life because of past msdemeanor surely
Stacker to his her responsibility the soldier who
evades duas surely offender against society the
thief or the thug.
Copyright, Features
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-24
The Men That Run the Engines
the Ladies That Clean the Cars

This Is Step Toward Civilization.
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It would be
false and unjust
70 say that there
is a note Of
'scondescension"
in the action Of
the railr a d
management in
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-24
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
-
By DIR. FRANK CRANE.
True Meaning of Christmas.

THRISTMAS is the protest of the human RAJ
I against gloom.
- The one thing time nor force can suppress
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-24
LUCY LOWELL ON MODERN
MEN AND WOMEN
By Lucy Lowell.
Charge Modern Girls Don't Allure Men
They Don't Need To.

n KoDERN women do not allure 4 puddle that woman
Evening star., 1923-10-20
CATHOLIC CHARITIES
BOARD PLANS BANQUET

The Catholic Charities Committee,
meeting at the City Club last night,
elected officers, and completed plans
for the annual banquet at Rauscher's.
November 20. when Archbishop Curley
will be the guest of honor.
Arthur j. May was elected presi-
dent; Frank r. Weller. vice president;
Hugh Reilly. treasurer. and Joseph
ID. Sullivan, secretary. Rev. DR.. John
O'Grady will serve as director.
Michael Heister is chairman of a
committee which will conduct a mem
bership drive during the interval prior
to the banquet.
Reports were made by John Walsh
on the big brothers and by Frances
II. Weller for the boys welfare COM
mittee.
other officers of the committee elect
ed were: Executive committee. the
Rev. p c. Gavan, the Rev. a. j. Olds.
]. Auth, NJ G. Schaeffer. Adam a.
Weschler. Michael Heister, Robert
McChesney. Harry r. Carroll, Leo j..
KoIb. John Walsh. +. ]. Rice, J. H.
Johnson. jr. and D. ]. DUNCAN.
An advisory committee was elected
consisting OF Admiral w. S. Benson,
James y. Baden, Joseph A. Berberich,
Joheph J. Boiling. Samuel J. Brinkley,
James Z. Collifiower. DR.. II. j. Cros-
son. John T. Crowley. Clarence Dono-
nue. Rossa r Do"nihs, r. a. Drury'
John A. Echert, Maj. Eugene Ed
wards. Charles Floecker, Thomas J..
Finnan, Joseph T. Fitzgerald, Frank
Fenwick. Edward Gramm. DIR. Charles
!. Griffith, William T. Hughes, DIR.
Charles X. koones. C. Lanman, John
Mcdonald, Michael C. Mccormick, Dr.
NJ. Darcy Magee, John Merkling. Or.
John F. Moran, c. +. L. Moran, DR..
Francis McQuillan, w. F. Normoyle,
l.. A. Payne, l.. r. Peak, John Pellen,
E. j. Quinn. Raphael Semmes, w. A
Simpson, Justice c. J. Smyth, Justice
Wendell F. Stafford, Allan E. Walker,
Raymond j. Wise and DR.. c. P. Neill.
Evening star., 1923-10-20


when she bade her friends in Lincoln
goodbye. Reservations on the Levia-
than were made through the Shipping
Board with greatest secrecy ds TO ho
would use the tickets. Even the
the plan, was in the plot % keep 81
lence in it's dispatches until after the
Leviathan was at sea.
But it was no use. Somewhere the
plan leaked out, and the embarrassed
silence of officials at the War De-
partment when questioned about it
could not prevent knowledge getting
about that the general and his sister
were going for private pilgrimage
to France as means of rest and relay
alton before he takes up next spring
the last months of his active efforts
to make the military policy of the
United States reflect in measures of
national preparedness the lessons he
learned in France.
If Gen. Pershing and Mrs. Butler
have any definite itinerary they will
follow in France, they are keeping it
to themselves. The only official state
ment about the trip obtainable at the
War Department was the emphatic
and authoritative assertion that it
was wholly without significance ex-
cept to the travellers themselves.
Gen. Pershing has no mission of
any character abroad officials say,
except to enjoy himself, and, perhaps,
to conduct his sister over those scenes
of the battlefront most vividly etched
in his memory. He would be heartily
glad if his plans to- get entirely away
from American shores unnoticed had
been possible of achievement, and
even more happy If he and Mrs. But
Ter could have rambled about France
unrecognized. AS 1t is, he intends to
use every means in his power to Sc
cure privacy during his stay there,
and hopes his old comrades-in-arms
in France will understand his feelings
and meet his wishes in that regard.
1t was recalled today that when
Pershing sailed for France in 1917 to
lay the groundwork in France for the
greatest American Army ever organ
lied, there was a miScue in the Sc
crecy as to his departure. While
Pershing and his staff boarded the
Baltic as civilians and without dis
closure of their names, cases of Off
cial papers they needed arrived at the
dock with the glaring legend. Gen.
Pershing's STAFF, S. S. Baltic" stem
One reserve officer, called at the last
moment to join the staff, arrived in
uniform. He was almost mobbed in
the haste of getting him out of sight.
Gen. Pershing originally had hoped
to spend the coming six months ram
bling about abroad, but can be gbne
only three months, as things have
turned out. BY that time he must
come back to complete the task to
which he has devoted himself since
the war, the perfection of business
like methods of insuring national Sc
curity.
Evening star., 1923-10-20
DEFIANT MOTHER
STAR.TLES COURT
Mrs. Juanita Williams, Beat
en- by Son, Refuses to Ap-
pear at His Hearing.

Refusal of Mrs Juanita Williams.
fifteen year-old boy, James Depew.
who was arrested yesterday for beat
ing her over the head with a club
and for housebreaking, to promise to
appear in Juvenile Court on Monday.
October 20. the date TO which Judge
Sellers had continued the case,
brought about a dramatic scene in the
court today, during which Mrs. Will
hams started so lively an argument
that the Judge threatened to remand
her for contempt, but later changed
her mind and set the date for the
hearing on November ), for the con-
venience of the mother.
Mrs. Williams was evidently nerv-
GUS Judge Sellers had announced
the continuance OF the case. panding
an examination Of the boy ut GalIin-
ger Hospital, and the group of news
paper men, police and Mrs. Wiilialns
and a companion were leaving the
room. when Mrs Williams called back
to Judge Sellers:
Your honor. / can't be here on
Monday I've just signed a contract
and I'm going to Durham. y G. for
two weeks"
Judge Sellers called Mrs. Williams
back to the room. After exchanging
II can not be here and will not be
here"
Declared in Contempt.
Young woman" replied Judge Sell
lers, you are in contempt of court"
Vel, l Just can't be here, Judge"
SAID Mrs. Williams; 'All this would
not have happened, anyhow, if YOU
had let me send the boy to ST Mary's
and pay s25 a month for him with
my own money"
Sanford" remarked Judge Sellers.
turning quietly to the probation Off
Ger who occupied desk on her left
Il think I'll remand this woman for
contempt of court"
The dramatic Interchange con-
tinued. 1t looked like something was
going to happen.
Then Judge Sellers looked over the
room and asked if there we're any
newspaper men present. Two came to
the front She then gave history
of the case. showing that the boy
originally had come from Ninuc-
sofa institution and that ar endeaNor
would be made to send him back 10
that state.
Then she obtained from Mrs Will
liams an admission that the latter
had been willing to take the boy
home with her when he was released
from Juvenile Court on probation on
october 1t. 10 give MIN another
chance She told Mrs. Williams she
felt that she had done mothers
duty by the boy, and pointed out to
her frankly that while she might not
have been infallible in her decision.
encouraging the mother to give the
boy a chance" nevertheless, the
mother had been willing and, appar-
emily. satisfied to take the boy home
At one juncture Mrs. Williams in
terrupted with the question: "Is it
possible, judge, that my boy can be a
coward. / am not a coward. I would
hot hit any one who was not locking
at me-"
This was only short interlude.
preceding briefly the disposal of the
case, which was eventually continued
to November 5. for the convenience Of
Mrs. Williams. who said that she
could return to Washingto by that
time There was no contempt of
court action taken.
Evening star., 1923-10-20
"RADIO" SHIPMENT
FINE OLD WHISKY
Consignee Fails to Appear, So His
$1,000 Rum Purchase Is
Confscated Here.

Liquor, disguised as radio goods,
slipped into Washington in three
packing boxes by express, but failed
to reach the consignee, the Central
Radio Company of Washington.
The shipment. discovered late yes
terday afternoon, was placed under
watch by Prohibition Agents Dow
rick and Tilton. who shadowed it at
the American Railway Express Com
pany, waiting for the consignee to
appear.
No one appearing TO claim the
boxes they were seized and found to
contain about $1,000 worth of what
is believed by Harry NJ. Luckett. local
prohibition chief, to be fine old liquors
An investigation has been started
to determine the identity of those
sending and those supposed to re-
cefve the liquor as radio goods. 1t
was labeled from the Philadelphia
Radio Company to Central Radio
Company of Washington. both of
which are believed by officials to be
fictitious.