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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-04
Advertising the Votelessness
of Washington Y
We Should Have an Organization to Direct the Voluntary
Efforts Of Washingtonians in Making Our Plight
Known Throughout the Nation
Rv BILL PRICE.

There are several organizations in Washington whose object
is to boost suffrage for the District Of Columba-ther par
tcular brand of suffrage!
There organization especially designed to push the
advertising of our votessnes feebon Americans through
out the nation to outside of Washington strong
pressure upon Congress which must depend for our
ultimate Amercanization
We have talked and argued much among ourselves for
suffrage We have taken views to Congress AS usual
the community is divided to what it wants is willing
Influential and organizations favor and tight
for legislation which other influential and organ
cations believe impossible to get for many years
to
The entire community unanimous in desiring Constitu
tona amendment sort of legislation that will put
identcally the basis all other Americansthe
right for President Vice President Senators and
congressman, and local officials
is the opinion however of who have poed Congress
that this impossible in the future The House might
favor it, but sentiment in the Senate up this time strong
against giving Senators population the Of the
District Senators from the large States of the UnonNew
York. Pennsylvania Ohio, uinos-are jealous Of having
their votes and the interests and wishes of their constituents
offset by the votes Of Senators from small States.
Therefore strong element of District people favors getting
from Congress the acceptable suffrage body
willing to grant, make of what get, and then
tinue the fight for broader suffrage
In other words Washington people, usual, present
divided front to Congress.
AL Washington should recognize that will get
suffrage Of hndat least any kind that will be thorough
~ satisfactorythrough strictly local pressure We
have the aid Of faminded Americans all nation
the great majority Of whom do realize that
vOteess and helpless TO get that aid should
every honorable method of advertising condition
Roadway has been made in this direction
through the enthusiastic voluntary efforts Of individual
Wasnngtonans many OF whom have followed suggestions
IN this newspaper Of writing letters away Wash
ngon without envelopes and leerheads carrying
scrpons telling all who them what situation is
Some WaShngtonians write terse sentences all over the
backs of envelopes and they found that this attracts
much attention and causes inquiries.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-04
Lucy Lowell Tells of Old Couple
That Missed One of Lies
Best Things
By Lucy Lowell.
Best Things

." e Is ninety, this fine old
~ man, and his wife is
- eighty-five.
His face is Sere as an oak leaf
that has too long braved autumn
winds, crinkled and shrive!ed
bit and the color of breakfast
coffee heavy with cream. But that
makes no difference to the old
wife, for her face is that way
too-a few creases for every year.
every laugh, every tear
And her eyes are bright. You
see the autumn skies sometimes
when they seem quite bright and
blue-a bit frostily blue perhaps
like their old eyes.
For this couple doesn't believe
in a great deal OF sentiment,
you're to understand Perhaps
they didn't at the very beginning,
when she was nineteen and he
was twenty-four and their hair
was shining brown instead Of gray
and he asked her to marry him
and she promised with a faster
heartbeat.
What They Have Missed.
Perhaps he didn't put his arm
round her and kiss her ever go
gently and say a word or two
that was rather sweeter than SEN
sible. I'm sure ! don't know
what happened on that day more
than a half century ago, and
these old folks claim that they
don't know either.
They say they've forgotten.
But / doubt it. Human beings
have remarkable memories for
some things. And / can't believe
that a man ever forgets what he
says at such time-or a girl
either. Can you?
Well, then, We'll pass that point.
They've just been celebrating
their fift1eth wedding anniversary,
and it was very wonderful &C.
casion with their friends gathered
round and their children and
their chiIdren's children.
There was an enormous dinner
table with ''granddaddy" at the
head and the newest baby at the
foot and relatives of all ages in
between. And oh, such things to
eat-most Of them prepared by
gran ma s. own old hands!
And afterward someone got out
camera and took a picture of
the party. And then the little
finder" was pointed at the CID
man and old woman themselves,
and he was asked to put his arm
round her just to give the pic
ture a touch, you see. But he
said no, sir, he wouldn't do it!
Can you imagine that?
We've lived together in peace
and happiness half a century,"
was the explanation he gave.
mostly because we've never put
our arms around each other. We
think it's silly!
THE other reason we've got
on so we'll is because she never
has bothered with the styles. She's
worn the same sort of things ever
since we were married and got
along just as well as women that
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-04
WORDS FROM
THE LIPS OF
WISE MEN

T1ME is the herald of truth.
l. Envy is am enemy to honor.
Do things and do. not talk
about them.
A tongue given to speaking evil
is the sign of an evil mind.
All men think all men mortal
but themselves.
If you leap into we'll. Provi.
dence~~is not bound to help you
out.
He that is loudly praised will
also be clamorously censured.
The defects of great men are
the consolation of the ounces.
What cannot be repaired is not
to be regretted.
Men do not suspect faults
which they do not themselves
commit.
He that raises false hopes to
serve a present purpose only
makes a way for disappointment
and discomfort.
Talking and eloquence are not
the saame-to speak, and to speak
well, are two very different
things.
It's the mind that makes the
body rich.
1t is not enough to run-one
must start in time.
1t Is wise not to seek a secret
and honest not to reveal it.
People count up the faults of
those who keep them waiting.
Affection of wisdom often
prevents us from becoming wise.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-04
U.S.. VS.. BRITAIN
IN TOURIST
CONTEST
II UCERNE, Switzerland Eng
4 land and the United States

UCERNE, Switzerland-E Eng
land and the United States
are running a close race for
the honor of having the most
tourists of any single country in
Switzerland during one year, ac-
cording to figures compiled in
Lucernes official information bu-
reau.
So far England always has lei,
but this year the contest may re-
suit in a dead heat, in the opin-
ion Of Miss Elizabeth Peyer, direc-
trice of the bureau.
Last year the American tourists
who visited Lucerne alone num-
bered 10000. England sent 10000.
Figures for other Swiss resorts
were comparatively the same.
THE Americans are favorites,
however" Miss Peyer says. They
have wonderful spirit we like.
They have money, and they are
willing to spend it. The price,
doesn't matter seems to be their
favorite expression"
SWitZerland's tourist trade since
the war has never come up to
the maximum reached in pre-
war years, when Germans, Rus
slams and Austrians represented
about so per cent of the total
number of tourists in any one
year.
Now the Germans and Rus
slams are unable to come on &C
count of unfavorable exchange
rates, and mo one ever speaks
of the Austrians any MORE" Is
the way the Swiss put it.
To make up for the loss of the
people of these three nationalities
the Swiss have been cultivating
and propagandizing the Scandina-
VANS and Hollanders. But this
year they, also. are cut off on &C
count of disruption OF railroad
traffic by the Ruhr occupation.
Different nationalities come to
Switzerland at different times of
the year, according to Swiss no
tel proprietors. After the winter
sport season, patronized by
sprinkling of all nationalities, the
English usually are the first to
appear in the warm weather re-
sorts, coming around Easter time.
- In April and May the Scandina-
vians have been partly taking the
place of the Russians, Germans
and Austrians. The Americans ar
rive in June. July and August,
and the English usually close the
season, also, in September.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-04
XMAS PLANT
AS CEREAL
PLANNED

VANCOUVER, British Column
" bia-A method by which the
prickles may be taken out
Of holly leaves, which could then
be used as breakfast food, is be-
ing sought by committee Of Vic
toria, British Columbia, city coun-
Gil.
The committee is negotiating
with Stephen M. Hoye, Yale
scientist and chemist, and the
State Agricultural College of Cor
nell, under George w. Cavanaugh,
by whom the food value of holly
leaf has been discovered.
Their report indicates that the
prickles can be extracted, also
that the holly leaf contains
several times as much protein as
wheat, two and a half times as
much fat as wheat, oats and corn,
and eight times as much as
barley.
After being put through a
vacuum process holly leaf has
been tried out on animals, which
eagerly deVoured it and grew fat,
Thousands of tons of these
holly leaves are going to waste
on Vancouver island, where the
pretty and valuable bush grows
in profusion.
Mayor Hayward, of Victoria,
Vancouver island. capital of Brit
ish Columbia, believes holly leaves
could be prepared and put up in
cartons as successfully as the
products which have made Battle
Creek and other American centers
famous.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-04

always are following the fashions.
A Bingham dress made plain Is
what she's always had and a
very good garment It makes for
her, too!' ..',,..'
Maybe Gown Played Part.
Now ! wonder If. they haven't
missed a great deal in their long
lives, these two? The little, ten
der caress, the soft word, the
hand resting for a moment Oh the
shoulder, the gesture which is so
tiny in itself but measn so much?
l wonder, too, if mothers"
sticking to the same old style,
day in and day out, has had any
thing to do with it?
There's strange, happy excite
ment in a gown quite different
from all gowns that have gone
before. 1t seems to make a new
woman out Of the old one. Would
father" have been inclined to-
ward a new tenderness for the
old wife who seemed in an odd
manner to have become new and
mysterious because of a differ
ent and fashionable dress?
Copyright 1923, King Features
Syndicate, IncO
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-04
Indian Mounds
Endure Ages

ut. LOUIS.-Earthen mounds
- built by the Indians in the
~ Mississippi valley are more
enduring than the pyramids of
Egypt, according to DR.. Henry
M. Whelpley, archeologist and
scientist, who is excavating in the
mounds at Cahokia, Ill.
MANY persons see no reason
for excavations In the mounds.
except for plumber" he said. LAS
a matter of fact very few mounds
have ever been opened which
yielded anything of commercial
value. The American Indians
built these mounds chiefly as
memorials. They may have built
some as forts and few as
graves, hut these were not the
most common purposes"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-04
Once-Overs
Copyright, 1929 Inc)
YOU MUST ADHERE TO THE RULES OF THE GAME

Lots OF person are given to protest against conditions
want 10 KICK right and left when things do go to
SUIT them but they do not deep enough the cause
of the trouble.
Ihere plays OF basket ball and other sports
which are settled on points by referee
10 you not know who always Directing
to the decisions of the referee?
hen referee does not please you the only way to get
satisfaction is to choose another referee
You have to abide by the decisions of an n inst
referee for certain period but while you right to
object to any injustice he you need not
make yourself obnoxious o ALL
Ii there anything which is disgusting to see ner
sons trying to relax in play spells cawng and fighting
instead of being real sports.
real sportsman knows the rules of the game adheres
to It's rules strictly, and the strictly he pavs the
better the craftsmanship.
VI course II is pugisc stuff you in for-but even
30 there are rules and ethics among great fistc cham
pons DO not be dog fighter a bowler.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-04
Many Tourists
in Florida

" AMPA, Fla. - Tourist travel
into Florida this winter was
Il by far the heaviest on rec
ora, according to o. l.. Mitchell
and r. J. Fernshell. prominent
officials of the New York Central
lines.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-04

Here's little snapshot of e. G.
SCOTT, a Washingtonian who
made . trip to Cincinnati a year
ago with voteless Washington
banners across the rear and sides
Of his car. Countless people asked
him for information.
Scott writes to this paper
II am contemplating leaving
Washington the latter part of
September for a ross-country
auto trip to Portland, Oregon,
and return. As / am interested
In the fight of The Times and
civic bodies to obtain some sort
Of suffrage, ! am wondering if
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-04
A Case of Undigested Democracy.


K 1854 She hadn't steam engine cogged wheel,
dynamo, chemical laboratory printing press
electric device
Since them she has boed centuries of progress COM
peey revised racial habits and customs built schools
universities factories railroads and abandoned system
of caste hardly less drastic than midas.
Mobiles who within recollection, would sword in
aeeI Of % cdn
tional pariahs-fo isolated from the rest of the
muntyand permitted only to engage in such occupa-
tons the handling of offa faying dead animals and
like degradations These kaleidoscope changes naturally
affect politics and mark economics.
Radicaism has begun to grip the Islands.
Sons of who recently averted their faces in the
presence of betters, boldly rant the worst of Boil
Mass sentiment is all for expedency and opportunism
The elder statesmen have passed Parliament and
cabinet are drafted from a social melting pot.
Labor makes insolent demands upon capital. All is
Women even claim the right of birth control Map
lines haven't quit shifting by long shot
The Miracle Shop A gain Reports.
POSTMASTER GENERAL NEW, promising the thrill
of twenty-eightzhour coastto-coast mail service
by midsummer finds performance ahead OF pre-
diction.
pair of army avators have already clipped
hour and ten minutes from that propheey r;obt
spend weekends at their California bungalows and be
back on the job bright and early Monday morning
Peru, Ind. carpenter, in less haste to reach ms
destination, ships Grated merchandise to Honolulu
and works at his trade there until he earns enough to
buy twenty-sixfoot boat, which he is now remodel
ing for voyage India and the Holy Lands, where he
expects ''to resume the work started by Moses
one way or another detefmlnauoh SetS Imeie.
AS reminded by the approaching fIftleth an
nversary of Luther Burbank to whose Gauntiess lnag
nation indebted for threench descendant Of the
crossed raspberry and dewbery the softenng of the
walnuts hard shell, and the reduction of the trees
maturity from twenty to ten years. z
He also grew plums almonds, apples and flowers
of size and flavor that nature couldn't produce All
result of opening the eyes of the potato to the posi-
bility of improving itself. ~
If only he could accomplish much for some fellow
beings! .
law suit discoses how an elevenyear-od boy, with
his thigh terribly crushed and the contents of the
abdominal cavity damned against heart and lungs was
operated Italian hospital in New York and re-
paired equal to new: 80
Faith hope and skill and ''never say die,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-04
AESOP ADVISES HIM
TO HOLD TIGHT TO
THE BONE
By HERBERT KAUFMAN.
MI POINCARE has been reading Ruhr inv

Nh POINCARE has been reading Ruhr inventories
lVl% and Aesops Fables. He now knows how much
his bone of contention is worth, and won't
drop it to snatch at any shadowy offer. .
France for the twentieth time declares mistaken
intention to take reparations when and where she
locate them, until Germany tenders full as
nominated in the bond of Versailles.
Seven and half billions don't begin to interest
the Franco-Begian combination.
They'd much rather hold the mines, FORCES, and
foundries under seizure Occupation serves two
purposest furnishes the entente with lmitless sup
plies of ore and fuel and deprives shrewder COM
pettor of basic products.
Berlins last overture is brsquey rejected Medators
again warned to keep out.
A League of BOObs Will Do.
NM KERGUEZEC, head of the French naval CON-
IVA mission, repeats his kind offer to form in
ternational fleet
Britain America, and Japan cordially invited to
surrender their maritime power by reducing navies to
constable sze France always rerving the privilege of
unrestricted submarine flotlas and ashp squadrons.
These, we told, necessary for defense. Just
what the Kaiser used to say.
A very canny program All the world protects
French while she devotes saved millions (not
mention billions belonging to and others) to the
maintenance of irresistible armies and control of the
continent.
If Poincare can't have League of Nations league
of boobs will suit his purpose.
Tokyo and MOscOIU Consider Partnership.
KTEANWHHE, things happening to the East
nj Russia, shut out elsewhere, turns to Japan and
discusses understandings.
The Soviets have territory and stuffs than
present population and undeveoped industries need.
Japan, with 900 workmen idle and the fastest
brthrate, has more energy than she can feed
Moscow will barter concessions, minerals, oil, coal
and agricultural lands for tools, munitions, nanufac
tured wares, direction and recognition-with a little
change the side.
Necessity knows law-especially when self
preservation is the issue.
TrotZky's government must find help-the Mikado's
people larders and outlets.
Tokyo is the hardest thinking capital on EARTH and
at times the most bewildered. A pygmy kingdom
can't change into giant power within sixty and
not pay penalties for national Impotence.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-07-04

% $3.50 Canton and silk Sport Dresses .S19.75
3 $500 Canton Crepe Dresses reduced TO S37.5
l $3.50 Beaded Crepe Dress reduced to- .S39.75
2 $500 Beaded Crepe Dresses reduced to S47.5
2 $500 Tailored Twill Dresses ......... $3.50
6 Si2.50 Twill Dresses ...............S2 1 20
7 S69.50 Twill Dresses ...............S3 4.75
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-07-04

S6950 Canton and Lace Dresses. S3f.75
- $3.50 Sport Dresses reduced TO ...... 1915
S23.75 Canton Crepe Dresses reduced to S11.SS
IL S24.75 Canton Crepe Dresses reduced TO S12.3S
II $3.50 Sport Dresses reduced TO. ...... S14.75
$3.50 Sport Dresses reduced TO. ..... S17.25
$500 Canton Crepe Dresses reduced TO $3.50
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-07-04

) $500 Canton Crepe Dresses reduced TO S225O
3 $3.50 Canton Crepe Dresses reduced 20 S23.75
SI7.50 Taffeta Dresses reduced to- S23.75
$3.50 Canton and Lace Dresses STATS
S $500 Canton Crepe Dresses reduced TO $3.50
4 $3.50 Canton and Chiffon Dresses S2975
2 $500 Lace Dresses reduced TO. ...... $3.50
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1923-08-09
Remarkable Telescope.

Many Interesting new features have
been embodied in mn astronomical tel.
escopc recently supplied by mn Eng.
Iish firm 10 III" brazilian government.
This telescope II ~ Inches In diameter
md has two Photographic sinr cam.
erns placed nboy" the main tube. The
vertical nNls Of III" iclcscop. rovolvcs
In ball b"arlnrs-'hc Introduction NJ
which hns been attended with com.
plete SUCCESS. Not only do they render
the telescope very easy to set. but they
reduce IN" work which Inns to be done
by the clock which drives the tcic.
scop" +" ns 10 keep " fixed upon n Ger.
tain portion Of the heavens for photo.
graphic purposes. So accurately mndc
is the whole mechanism that II will
maintain the telescope directed TO N
particular sinr for three or -Four hours
without the slightest adjustment.
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1923-08-09
Laws Against kissing.

Kissing IL considered nm unhealthy
practice by some people. A few ycnrs
ago the physicians OF Milwaukee pre-.
pared n bill for the absolute suppress.
sion OF kissing. on the ground that the
practice was hyglcnicnliy dangerous.
The bill did not become law or II
would have made Milwaukee more IN.
nous. But such laws existed In Puri.
tan New England. In 1850 Captain
kcmblc OF Boston WINS 'sc, for two
hours IN the public stocks for his lrwd
and unsccmly behaviour which con
sisted In kissing his wife publi1ucly
on the Snbbnth.day. upon the door.
step Of his house. when he had Just
returned from mn absence of three
years" Twelve years later Jonathan
and Susannah Smith were each fined
hvc shillIngs and costs for smiling on
the Lords day" The smile. It would
appear. was only less hc!nous thar
the kiss Itself
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1923-08-09
CLOSE TO DEATH
Animal Collectors Experience
With 0rang.Utan.
Incident illustrates the Remarkable
Strength Possessed by the
Jungle Beast.

To transfer wild animal from one
cage to another Is simple matter.
Food Is placed on the floor OF the new
cage, and this Is backed up to the
open end OF the old one; the bnrs IRE
lifted and the beast walks into his
new quarters. Nothing could he easier,
and yet at the time Of which | nm
writing l still feel twinrcs from an
almost fatal accident that happened
to me when was putting IN ornnI,
utan into II larger cage Ut my animal
house in Singapore.
lie was just short of fullgrown, II
peaccahle sort Of fellow. Ills fuvorIte
food, large onion. was In his new
home. which was pushed up against
his old cage. wns on top Of this.
pulling up the bars to let him move
out. The iron sockets were rusty, md
I Ind some trouble In shaking the
bars loose. At last there was only one
left. but TINT was stuck fast.
While was trying to shake II free
with both hands, my left hnnd for,u-
nately, grnsping and covering the end
Of 1t, suddenly the thing shot up nnd--
my hand still covering the cnd--gnvr
me a terrible blow. which knocked my
nose fiat against the side OF my face
and sent me rolling. unconscious. on
the cage. My men, who did not realize
TINT was hurt. ronred with laughter.
What Ind happened was this: The
orang. having watched me pull up the
other bars, caught the idea OF what
! WINS trying TO do. He wns impatient
to get ut that tempting onion. 80 he
grabbed the bar and shot II up. II
my hand had not been over the top
Of II. he would have killed me.
The next time | saw the ornng, Ilsi
Chu. was feeding him boiled rice
and talking to him In Malay. What
heard him say was something like
this: III ! could make you work, you
Junglc.man. ! wouldn't do n lick for
q ycnr." Certainly the beast had Il
terrible strength. My nose Is still
crooked ms mark OF II. - Charles
Mayer In Asia.