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The Washington times., 1923-04-21
WAR STARTS ON
ENEMIES OF
CAME
Sportsmen Of Maryland Urged
to Help Rid State Of
Predatory Birds.

ROCKVILLE, Nd, April 21.-H.
L. LeCompte, State game warden.
has issued an appeal to sportsmen
throughout the State to, assist In a
campaign to rid the State as far
as possible of bird and chicken
hawks, on which law OF the State
provides small bounties, and also
urges that warfare be made on
other kinds of hawks, owls. weasels,
crows and all enemies of game and
birds.
LeCompte calls upon sports
men to insist that their representa-
tives in the approaching legislature
enact legislation to check the rapid
destruction of game and birds in
the State by placing substantial
bounties on their enemies He also
asks the cooperation of the sports
men in other of his plans to con-
served the States game ana BIRD
supply. .,, o.
ciety of Amateur Gardeners, held at
the home of the president. Mrs.
Leonard l.. Nicholson, jr., plans Tor
feautifying the grounds surround
ing the public school building mere
were discussed. DIR. George r.
Lewis, county supervisor OF Fuphc
The Washington times., 1923-04-21
RE Al TY VALUES
IN DISTRICT
To SOAR :.
Far-Sighted Investors. Offered
Chance to Participate in Ad-
vancing Prices.
By ROBERT F. HOLDEN.

"Just so sure as the nation grows,
so must it's Cabital' is q fitting slo-
gan used by one of Washington's
leading real estate firms.
These few words signalize briefly
the staunch character of Washing
ton realty values and gives the
far-sighted investor a further In
centive to profit in the forward.
natural and necessary growth or
the city.
While high prices prevail for
there is no indication that the
peak has been reached, or that 1t
is anywhere near in sight.
AS one man, whose authority is
unQuestioned in the local realty
field, said recently, You can point
your pencil, blindfolded, on the map
of Washington and buy with a GER
tainty OF big future profits, but
be sure that you deal through q
reputable real estate firm, other
wise some of your profits might be
discounted at the time you buy.
This terse advice did not apply
to the average Washington realty
firm. In fact there is probably no
other city in the United States
where the real estate board and
it's members maintain so high q
standard and place so much regard
upon the faithful performance Of
their clients trust.
1t seems that, in nearly every In
stance, the realty firms in Wash
ington today are instilling greater
confidence in the public mind and
developing a broader ideal in the
relations between themselves and
their clients.
Therefore, while It is probably
true that one can buy property in
Washington blindfolded with a GER
tainty of big future profits, it. is
equally true, and most important
that you consult your real estate
broker, whose intelligent knowledge
of local realty values will protect
you against error, make saving
on the initial cost, and assure you
of greater future profits.
The Washington times., 1923-04-21
nousekeeper. Address No. 4 Rue
MAGELLAN'S HELMET Is
FOUND m PHILIPPINES

NEW YORK. April 21.-The
brass helmet worn by Magellen, the
great, explorer, in 1921, has been
located In the Philippines by Major
III. ID. Shelton. United States army,
according to word received here.
He purchased the helmet from
Moros. who told him the history
of the headpiece.
He In confident IL is genuine.
The Washington times., 1923-04-21

able against a frontal attack by
enemy battleships.
Turning abruptly toward Balboa,
the plane passed over the fortified
islands guarding the canal. On
these are mounted fourteen-inch
guns, which can be Outshot by
10000 yards by heavy turret fire
from guns of superdreadnOughts
The fort guns appeared little more
than toy caEnons sticking over the
rocky lodges.
A short circling flight over
Panama City and the plane went
straight to the canal-from 1000
feet elevation slender, twisting
green line, winding seemingly with
out direction among steep, shaggy
hills on either side.
In Miraflores locks, first on the
Pacific side. two liners-from the
high altitude scarcely more than
play boats-were being lowered to
the level of the ocean. Two aver
age sized vessels can be handled
easily in one lock at the same time.
To the right a. miniature engine
and train, much like those i'm an
amusement park, crept slowly
along, putting out dense black
clouds that settled over the sur
rounding green hills, The steel
rails shone like silver lines under
the terrifically blazing tropical ssun.
Without notice drops of rain
The Washington times., 1923-04-21

splashed against the sides. To the
left a black cloud lowered. The
plane climbed through the" cloud
and again found the burning sun.
As far as eye could reach in all
directions were splashes of green
and brown - entangIing jungle
swamps of the Isthmus, in the old
days, before the advent of army
engineers. breeders of disease and
anguish and fear. Here and there
a green pool blended into the blue
of the horizon. Today these swamps
are covered with oil to prevent
breeding of mosquitoes. At inter.
walls jagged brown hilltops poke
their ugly heads skyward
Next-Culebra Cut, where millions
of cubic yards of earth tumbled
down 300 feet to rest in the channel
OF the canal. A pair of dredges are
working constantly, gradually cut
ting back the bank, so that in event
of another slide the channel will not
be blocked.
Here freighter, flying a French
flag, passes a tramp carrying the
symbol OF the German republic.
Scores OF other vessels dot the
canal from end to end.
The pilot pointed over the pro-
pellers. There ahead lay the Attain.
tic about twenty miles away. Be
hind the Pacific was slowly fading
from view.
The Washington times., 1923-04-21
PANAMA CANAL
BEAUTY SEEN
FROM AIR
Congress Members Impressed
as They Fly Across Isthmus
Above the Great Ditch
BY International News Service.

BALBOA CANAL ZONE, April 81.
The wondrous scenic beauty Of
the Panama Canal never can be
fully pictured until one has taken
the short trip across the Istnmus
by airplane.
crossing in an airplane is not
now marvellous accomplishment;
1t is.~done every day by army and
navy filters from the bases at Colon
ana Balboa. But to a party of six,
including four members of Con-
gress, from the navy transport
henderson, which carried Secretary
DENLY to the United States fleet
maneuVers. the air jaunt over the
great ditch, as it is called here,
unfolded "a graphic picture like that
from the page of fairy tale of
old.
The trip was made in a Martin
bomber and two scout planes.
Soaring over the historic ruins of
Old Panama City, sacked more than
zOO years ago by brazen pirate
bands, the planes, starting. from
BaIboa Field, headed to Panama
Bay, spotted densely with great
dreadnoughts. destroyers, submar-
ines, auxiliary craft from one OF the
largest battle armadas ever gather
ed in peace time.
This formidable fleet, fresh from
extensive maneuvers, resembled, AS
1t lay at anchor beneath, a squadron
of tiny toy ships on some green
park pond-not a force with powell
to blow up cities. with guns that
shoot $4,000 yards.
Toy Fleet ON Toy Sea.
Just beyond the flagship Nary
land, Americas most powerful fight
ing craft in commission, the air
plane carrier Langley kicked IN
faint rlIffles in the water as she
steamed out to seas The pilot, a
young lieutenant from Iowa, head
ed the nose of the bomber down |
ward. Suddenly over the flat top
deck Of the carrier shot an army
scout plane The Langley, formerly |
the electric collier Jupiter, has been |
converted into gigantic floating |
platform. from which army planes
take off and land.
The scout headed toward Toboga |
Island, small rocky isle belong
ing to the Republic of Panama. It |
stands near the entrance of the |
canal, and, in the opinion of high |
navy and army officers, it is Inn
peratiVe that this island be strongly
fortified to protect more adequately /
the canal. With a sixteen-inch bat
terry there it is believed the canal
could be made WellFnigh invulner-
The Washington times., 1923-04-21
Concrete Built Homes
Practical, Asserts
An Authority

term used for hardening, quickly
or slowly.
Thus man accomplfshes in few
hours what Nature requires ages
to ccomplish-the making of
stone.
1t comes into the building of
every house. Foundations are of
concrete; chimneys are often made
of 1t.
Some of the materials with which
to make it are found frequently on
the ground near at hand.
They are sand, steam cinders and
gravel.
Houses built entirely OF concrete
are perfectly practicable, and the
labor which can be used in con-
crete building is for the most part
of the unskilled type, hence readily
available.
Contrary to general opinion, con-
crete construction is not new and
untried.
Great structures erected by the
Romans which have withstood the
ravages of 1000 years are Of con-
crete.
In many places excavations show
marks of boards which have. made
impressions on the concrete walls
of such structures.
Those marks. still plainly visible,
show that their method OF using
wooden molds were not unlike the
building practice of today in max
ing walls or the nodded type of
concrete.
There are strong possibilities that
100 years from now concrete will
be the universal material for home
building.
The Washington times., 1923-04-21
CoLLlERY MEN STRIKE FOR
REGULAR LUNCH HOUR

TAMAoUA, Pa, April s1.-Be-
cause the operators OF the Reeves
dale colliery have put into effect
. rule BY which the whistle blows
for lunch time when . breakdown
occurs at the colliery in the morn
ing. the $50 employees went on
strike.
The company's idea il to run
through the rest Of the day without
q shutdown, while the men want y
regular lunch hour.
The Washington times., 1923-04-21

School property, submitted a plat
showing the location OF growing
trees and shrubbery. buildings.
walks. etc, and this win be used
as a guide by the Washington ex-
pert who viii give advice as to the
arrangement OF the things to be
planted, etc. 1t was definitely de-
cided to do the first work next
Thursday afternoon beginning st 3
o'clock.
The new officers OF the Rock
vile Society are: President, Mrs.
Leonard L. Nicholson, jr.; vice
president. Mrs. Chauncey M. Grub,
secretary, Miss Katherine Poole.
treasurer, Mrs. Ernest +. Ballard.
The Washington times., 1923-04-21
TO INSPECT

Drive out 10th st. to Alaska Avenue,
out Alaska Avenue to Georgia Avenue,
out Georgia Avenue through Silver
Spring to Sligo, turn to right at Sligo
on to the Colesville Pike and about 500
yards from Sligo on your right you
will come to the entrance gates of
Seven Oaks.
The Washington times., 1923-04-21
BERNHARDT'S COMPANION
ADVERTISES FOR A JOB

PARIS, April 21.-The following
paragraph appeared recently In the
situations wanted" columns of the
Paris newspapers:
Nine. de Gournay, aged fifty
years, for many years the companion
of Nine. Sarah Bernhardt, left free
by the sad event Of her death, seeks
a place as companion. reader or
The Washington times., 1923-04-21

eve are using up our supply OF
wood in the United States" says an
authority, -four times as fast as it
is growing again.
That fact may be as good q start
ing point as any from which to con.
slider the place Of concrete in home
building.
Concrete today has particular
service to perform
1t furnishes a means of relieving
material and of skilled labor and is
assuming a position among the va
rious substances OF which houses
are built that may become increas-
ingly important.
For the season of 1923 house
building conditions are not ideal.
Shortage of labor is likely to
force building costs to a higher
level unless relief is brought.
Concrete, rightly handled, is a
satisfactory solution Of the diff
Guilty
What is concrete? Concrete is
stones mixed in mortar. More spe-
it is a mixture of portland
cement, sand, gravel and water.
When it becomes fluid mass it
can be nodded in any. form de-
sired.
AS soon as the water touches the
portland cement the hardening pro-
cess begins.
The exact chemical change which
takes place in the cement harden
ing is still mystery, but the ac-
complishment is we'll understood
and can be controlled, so that con-
crete can ho made tn SGT nm tho
The Washington times., 1923-04-21
Food Index Number
Drops Six Cents
For Week
BY Cosmopolltan News Service.

NEW YORK, April I'll
Bradstreet's Food Index Num-
Der, based on the wholesale
prices per pound OF thirty-one
articles used for food, is 1888,
compared with $3.50 last week
and 1926 for the week ending
April 20, 1922.
The wholesale commodity
markets were comparatively
quiet this week, with the price
tendency somewhat reactionary,
only twenty-foar advances APP
pearing in the 338 quotations
received by Dun's Review, as
compared with thirty-three re-
auctions.
nousekeeper. Address No. Rue
Oliver"
The advertisement brought q fair
1umber of answers. Nine. de Gour-
nay said she wanted, above all, a
Iuiet, retired life.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-02-24
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Recent arrivals from the Kantishna mining district report that by the first of the present month 54 tons of high grade ore had been hauled out from the Quigley Red Top mine. The vein is said to be narrow, but carries high values. Five men are working at the mine at the present time, and Jack Lucey has the contract to haul the ore to the railroad. Lucey now has F head of horses, and will add four more shortly.
 Mrs Ed Brooker is running first class roadhouse on Friday Creek, and is said to be busy, as the travel thru there this winter is bringing much pat ronage to her hostelry.
 John Lake and John Bigelow are sinking on the Bigelow and Frederick ground on Eldorado. They will prob ably take out between fifteen and 20 tons of ore.
 Jack Singleton has an excellent roadhouse at Kobi. It is a twO-StOry frame building. Henry Knight at Tok- lat is starting the construction of a new roadhouse.
 Several dog teams are making regu- lar trips on the Kobi trail. Five or six teams are engaged in freighting. Coke Hill is now carrying the mail thru to Lake Minchumina with horses and d few double enders.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-02-24
TIDES FOR THE WEEK

(Note-Deduct 45 minutes from time given to secure time of high or low water at Seward.)
 Saturday, Feb. A. a High, 6:25, am, 7.2; 7:45, 4.9. Low, 1929, IS.
 Sunday, Feb. 25- High, 7:33 am. 72; 9:2S pm. 5.1. Low, 0:50 am, 3.3; 2:54 pm. Is.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-02-24

Flashlights. Seward Drug Co. 4Otf
Seward daily gateway., 1923-02-24

Saturday Gateway $500 per year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-16
Drennen's Reliable Woolens

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 ALL-WOOL PLAID SUITINGS-Showing te,n the new ,.;S color oG combinations; '4 S4.98 ALL,%ooL A i.vsoI L,sa STORM SERGE $1.48 ALL-WO0L WHITE EGYPTIAN q QQ CREPE-50 inches wide ..... ~A'oO Al ALh,%ooL in.Se" n;da FRENCH SERGE S1.69 ALt-WooL ;.Snos x;Sr STORM SERGE $1.9S AEL,woot EL,,e PIN. PIN STRIPE ,risn TAF SPAS ALL-WOOL PIN STRIPED FRENCH SER sEkGE-54 E, inches $2.98 wide, at ................r
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-16
OCTOBER SALE Of Drennen's Dependable Silks

Foreign and American Weaves and Designing Foreign annd American Weaves and Designing
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29

rant girls saying that they do not
dare marry until they can be sure of
being comfortable, and that they do
not dare have a child until they are
sure that they can take care of the
child, do not blame them, but feel
intensely sorry for them.
Delight That Are Missed.
1t seems such a pity that, with the
world trimming with adventures,
teeming with emotions and delights
that would make DArtagnan and
Quixote and Tom Sawyer turn pale
with envy, they must sit back mani
curing their shell-pink little hands
and be anxious only to do as the other
girls do.
Not for them the three-cornered
drawing room with its splendid view
of the blanket factory, not for them
the Joyous suppers when hot biscuit
and baked potatoes are food for the
gods. not for them ecstatic rambles
through poorer streets even than their
own, and the park concert for treat,
and the occasional company dinner a
work of sheer love and sacrifice!
Are there women in the world
poorer, I wonder, than the women
who do not know what love, and
youth. and poverty spell, together?
The Saturday nights musing over old
bookstores, the Sunday morning treat
of real cream, the game Of the bud
get
Insidious Prosperity.
And then-too soon - insidious
prosperity creeping in. and the mar
Vicious Sunday when Mary and Dick
walk through the five-room house,
with the garden and the backyard
all come true and turn to glance
back, with tear-filled eyes, for last
farewell TO the three old absurd in
convenient rooms where they were SO
happy!
They can't help it-thrift and hon.
esty and industry ana love have
worked the usual miracle-whether or
no, they have to be rich
Dick is talking about getting lit
tie car-Mary only says wistfuully !:
"But weren't we happy" She can
not stop the tide that is carrying them
up-up--up-
And, meanwhile, the other girls. the
girls who stood out for that mystic
three thousand a year, the girls who
had to be so sure Of everything, are
goinng down-down-down.
They don't know anything about
work, or the value of money, or SER
WICKLOW should they?
They can only worry, and suffer.
The One Fearless Woman.
They have to face, in middle-age
perhaps, all the unlovely struggle that
Mary took with youth and grace and
enthusiasm, and conquered.
They can't 20 back; those years Of
learning were all spent with the hair
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Stories of the Town

This is the story of the disappearing
gelatin.
Mrs. S. one morning decided to have
gelatin as the dinner desert. She lii
the gas and Tiled the little pan in
which she mixed the gelatin with wa
ter, placing it over the flame. When
the water was hot she poured in the
powder. Gelatin satisfactorily mixed,
she turned Gt the gas and left it upon
the stove to cool, going about her other
household duties.
About IL o'clock. Mrs. S. looked to
see how the dessert VS. getting along.
The pan on the stove was empty.
Maybe ] didn't mix it in that pan.
but thought l did," remarked Mrs.
s. to a visiting neirhbor. All other
pans in the kitchen failed to disclose
the gelatin.
Am l 50 absent-minded that
poured that stuff down the sink ?"
thought Mrs. S.
She went back to the stove. She
placed her hand upon IL and peered
into that pan hard. Her hand was
sticky when she lifted it.
The gelatin was found. 1t made a
rubbery coating for the pan under the
gas stove burners and also appeared
on the front Of the stove and the floor.
The little pan is in the garbage can
now.
His Ford coupe had been standing
in the rain and when he got It start
ed it spluttered and stopped in the
middle of Travis street in front Of a
storage garage, in the door Of which
stood a negro employe and a couple
Of passersby who had taken refuge
from the downpour.
-He's got watah in dat OIL engine
and it sure will be hard to start"
commented the negro. And 50 1t
proved. The Ford driver used the
starter until the battery was almost
run down but failed to get a response
from the motor. Then he got out and
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29

dresser and at the matinee. And
how hard it is to learn to be poor at
forty.
world who is not afraid of poverty,
and that is the woman who has faced
it, not with winnings and evasions
and lies, not grumbling and ashamed
and resentful, but gloriously and
gaily, finding her little flat and her
little income just as thrilling as any
thing that ever happened to Amy Dor
rit or Daddy Goriot.
"You wouldn't mind going back.
would you, Tom?" says this woman
to the bank president or the Wall
Street king.
And the president or the king gives
her long look, and says in all rev.
erence:
"My Lord-What wouldn't I give
just for one day of, it,
Losing LIES Best Years.
You girls who are losing the sweet.
est, the best years of your lives
through fear, remember that you
wouldn't be here today il your moth
ers had been afraid.
Nothing comes Of fear but more
fear.
Take your courage in both hands
and go after your own share of joys
and adventures, little meals, little
pleasures, little Bingham aprons and
custard cups-all the exquisite small
ness of life that is really the biggest
thing in the world!
1t is only when the false gods-the
gods called what Mabel-will-thi
and Observation-Disclosures and
I'D die if-I-couldn 't-entertain my
friends its only when these gods
60 out the back door that the real
gods begin to come in the front one !;
the great gods that make all our lives
worth while.
Your merely superficial friends will
come flocking back to the rich Mary
of 1885: if you succeed, the world
will be full Of friends.
Meanwhile, you and Dick will have
two years, three years, OF an exquisite
isolation and intimacy and mutual
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29

Dicks father is rich, and Dicks life
is insured, and altogether it's good
match.
But, as a matter Of course, she has
been sure Of nothing. The chances
are strongly in favor of her leaving
Dick presently, so that his parentage
and prospects affect her no longer.
What Mary Is Like.
Mary is like a general who goes
into battle STIMULATING that he shall
not be injured nor wearied nor taken
too far from home nor get his feet
wet.
She Is like an aspirant writer who
makes the condition that oil her work
shall appear in the Atlantic" and
that no editor shall ever make an un-
kind comment upon it or want her to
do it when she doesn't feel like it.
She Is like the explorer who does
not wish to get beyond the reach OF
the telephone, or the aviator who runs
his plane about gaily with the wheels
always brushing the grass, or the
scientist who will dare nothing that
other men have not safely proved a
thousand times. .
When hear these fine little igno-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29
KATHLEEN NORRIS SAYS

With love, with cour-
age, with simplicity and
common sense, a girl can
marry today-anywhere!
on eighteen hundred a
year and live delightfully."-,
and have everything in
the world worth while
even including the dearest
thing Of all.
It seems to me that the
adventure of a man and
woman, starting poor into
life, is the greatest thing
in the whole world!
The ideal marriage has
come to be one in which
neither husband nor wife
does any thinking-much
less worrying-at all!
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29

dependence that will really color all
your after lives.
Learning Happiness Together.
You will learn TO be happy together
before you let the rest of the world
in to complicate the problem.
You will learn to distinguish the
real things of life from the sham
the real friends from the sham.
You will Danish the nervous. igno-
rant financial fears of the usual wife,
once and for all, and thereby treble
your husbands respect for you, and
yours for yourself.
You won't be envious, any more
than great scientist, in his labora-
tory, is enyious of the millionaire who
sits down and reads about his expert
ments when they are all done.
Don't let anyone-anything-cheat
you out Of your right 10 live.
And take three hints from an older
traveller who knows every step Of the
road:
/. Try it in 4 perfectly strange
city if you can.
2. Don't envy anyone. The saddcst
most ashamed emotion in life is to he
sorry today for the girl you envied
and hated and resented ten years ago ;
to wish today that she had your limou-
sine and your children and a little OF
your luck.
5. Don't do it at all unless you're
going to love every minute Of it.
Copyright, 1923. by the Republic
Syndicnte.)