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The Washington times., 1923-04-17
Various NOn-PrOducers.

MIR. AND MRS OSER purchase estate Lake
IN Neuchate Rockefellers latest grandson will share
himself between his dear Switzerland and MRS.
Osers native land Gables his resolution to be-
come an American citizen. We'd rather learn that good
dairy farmer from the same district contemplated
ducing kind.
The Island Legislature enters into the ninth week
of it's fiibnster Public welfare does interest party
warfare Some day there II be law-makng and less
jaw-shaking the United States Then this country will
truly government of the people by the people for
the people"
Meanwhile, many Rhode Island state departments
function because rowdy session refuses to
init enabling acts to pass.
Democracy needs to take several nps and tucks in par
amentary procedure before boast OF competence
The Washington times., 1923-04-17
Regulations for Hackers in
Washington

Traffic regulations governing hackers in this city are so
inconsistencies determinations etc. and the whole
thing bawed through decisions that it might
be wise the District Commissioners to put experts at
them and keep them engaged until sensible practical
regulations be made through act of Congress
Judge Hardison of the Police Court has ruled that the
regulation prohibiting lettering circing by hackers
dangerous custom unconstitutional because is
discriminatory permitting certain classes of hackers notably
carrying 81 designs their tags to do what others
are forbidden do.
The IL hackers classed lverymen serving hotels
depots wharve Under United States Supreme
Court decision they cassed public utilities when
taking passengers from depot wharves etc. and to certain
under the Public Utilities Commission These
hackers allowed to pick the streets
Thus they do not the public at large They taxes
the District government in contrast with public hackers
who pay SO per year for each car operated.
The charge made that the IL hackers consideration
their with Union Station and with hotels pay
these places rakefs of 10 per cent every dollar col
lected AT the Union Station the autos stand private
property of the railway terminal company Around the large
hotels of Washington they occupy the public Streets which
belong to the people of Washington while other hackers
The hotels of take the position that they be served
by responsible taxcab and compelled to
their patrons to unknown public hackers.
On the other hand the peculiar apparently unfair cond
ton presents itself of organized taxi companies financially
well backed and charging less for their services than other
classes of hackers being denied the right of having
few OF their txs stand in front OF their properties In
OF the most congeSted streets OF Washington hotel
Cupies side of the street with many parked for its
patrons Right the large taxi company
has its Offices with telephone connection with its central
office but denied the right park any of its cars which
go the public stands away from telephone connection
One point in the much involved intricate problem that
organized taxi companies thoroughly responsible should when
serving the public at low rates. be permitted to get in prompt
touch with the public The cheaper the transportation when
offered by responsible individuals companies the easier
should be the publc's to it.
The Washington times., 1923-04-17
For Government and Priest
The Same Bullet. It Does Not Work That Way Always.

Herbert Kaufman says of Monsignor Butchkavitchs
cution Bohevsm stands beside Monsgnor Butchkavitch
and shares his death before firing squad The execution of
priest and the suicide of by the bullet
That ought be that way millions of be-
ieve but it ism t so always.
Truth forever the scGfOd,
Wrong forever on the thr0ne'
is not quite fortunately Truth gets down off of the
scaffod eventually and wrong kicked off of the throne
But it takes time Many thousands of Christians suffered
under Marcus Aureus But he lived on, glorious and
happy Caesar nearly sixty years. beloved by his
subjects than monarch that lived and for his med
tations is still honored as great philosopher.
Providence is patient
What important and menacng for the Soviet gov
eminent than individual injustice is news via Swzer
land OF serious peasant rebellion against Bolshevism in
South Russia If the peasants TURN in spite of the free land
Boshevism
is built in few very powerful headquarters
and supported on the backs Of millions of dull that
know only I'VE the land now
Lay heavily outrage beyond endurance their
religious faith and down will the government.
The Washington times., 1923-04-17
ISLES ESCAPE
ENGLISH
TAXES

Y ONDON.-To live where in
come taxes are almost negli-
- gible is the hope of every
Engllshman. That would be
paradise.
In the British Isles the middle
class citizens pay 6 shillings IN
the pound-or in the language of
dollars, $1.50 goes to the govern
ment out of every SIS earned. A
heavy. taxi
Therefore, overburdened tax
payers of England, Scotland and
Wales wonder at and envy the
people of the Channel Islands and
the Isle of Man, who are almost
exempt from paying taxes of any
kind. Their income tax amounts
to sixpence in the pound - IL
cents in every SIS they earn. The
Channel Islands and the Isle OF
Man belong to Great Britain. and
so the average Briton is asking
why should not the government
Of this country impose taxation
on the islanders in the ratio to
which the average taxpayer in
Great Britain proper has become
accustomed.
The British treasury has inves"
tigated the matter. 1t has sent
the home secretary, in the guise
of a determined beggar with
grievance, to make a request" to
the states Of the Islands of Jer.
sey and Guernsey to make a con-
tribution to the national ex-
chequer, but the islands have
fallen back on their ancient
rights and prerogatives and re.
fuse to become involved in the
finances of the empire.
They maintain that neither the
crown nor Parliament has any
clear authority to impose taxa
ton on the islands. Theoreti-
cally, the King, by order in coun.
Gil, or the King in Parliament by
statute, may make laws for and
tax them without their consent.
To do so, however. would not
be only a violation of what the
islanders regard as their consti.
tutional rights and privileges,
but would he. in fact, a clear
breach of what is now uni
versally accepted maxim of the
British constitution-namel that
there shall be no taxation with.
out representation. The people
of the islands have always re.
garded this as an inestimable
privilege, and as a result have
never shown any overmastering
desire for representation in the
imperial Parliament.
The Washington times., 1923-04-17
Superstition Is Hard to Kill
But It's Power Is Dying.

Lord Carnarvon whose paid for the digging up
the ancient Pharaoh TuAnkh Amen died Blood poisoning
started poisonous insect caused his death Then his
sstant Howard Carter reported dangerously ill Cairo
That will be interesting those that believe magic
ghosts ancient superstitions of various kinds That
who has been working desperately hard for months in trying
climate with heavy responsibilities should become ILL., naturally
stition
But while they build up their supersttious theories
discuss them and reve in them the superstition mongers don
really BELIEVE them Therefore the supersttons
you The world has passed beyond the control
superstition And while large bodies of human beings
their spiritual guidance to upersous teaching that makes
no difference because such bodies do the world
affairs Their superstition deprves them of any mental
power and therefore of influence The gnorant follow
they lead
The Washington times., 1923-04-17
WORDS FROM
THE LIPS OF
WISE MEN

r TITLE said i soonest
IL men0e0'
Make haste to live and con-
slider each day a new life.
1t is temperament far more
than ideas that makes q man.
Nothing Is of worth but truth,
before which all men are equal.
In whose heart, there is no
song,
To him the miles are many and
long.
Circumstances need not make
the man. The wise man makes
the circumstances.
We seldom find people un-
grateful as long as we are in
position to render them service.
A disposition to preserve and
an ability to improve, taken to-
gether.s is a fine standard for,
statesman.
Use the talent that you possess.
The woods would be very silent
were no birds to sing but those
that sing best.
A man who gives his children
habits of industry provides Tor
them better than by giving them
a fortune.
There is a mixed good in human
affairs; the best principles, II
pushed to excess, may degen-
crate into fatal vices.
True happiness is Of a retired
nature and an enemy to pomp
and noise. 1t arises from the en-
joyment of ones self and from
the friendship and conversation
of a few select companions.
Fine sense and exalted sense
are not half so useful as common
sense-there are forty men Of
wit for one man of good sense.
The happiest period in life fire.
uuently is middle age, when the
eager passions of youth are
cooled and the infirmities OF age
not yet begun.
Observe carefully what dis
pleases or pleases you in others,
and be persuaded that in gen
eral. the same things will please
or displease them in you.
copyright, 1923, Newspaper Feature
Service, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1923-04-17
Time Is the One IncurnbLe Dise0'

OUIS PASTEUR searching for check for phyloxers,
which destroys vineyards, stumbled upon the clue to
- germ diseases Science celebrated Paseur centenary
Sunday
DR.. Fexner speaking at the Montefore Hospital pays
tribute foremost of nineteenth century pathologsts
and extends his remarks to more modern trlumphs
Among other laboratory he confirms the efficacy
nsun and does not hesitate to acclaim the
cure as the longest step medicine has yet taken.
He reiterates faith in vaccination, and finds apparent
limits to the physicians skill except the measure OF man
years :.
The utility of the human machine may be extended be-
vord present averages but tissue will be invioate
Time e the one ncurable malady of the Adamson family
Copyright by Features Syndicate. Incl
The Washington times., 1923-04-17
Lucy Lowell Shows How Few Kind
Words Change Tone of
Family Life \
By Lucy Lowell.

has told him he was a good
scout and a lovable brother"
when she thanked him. for the
little things he did for her.
There was nothing, you see, in
their relationship to be criticised.
They loved each other. But
used to feel a strange emptiness
there, a bit of color missing from
the picture Of their lives.
Mother died one day and brother
and sister, drawn very, very close
In their sorrow, grieved rather
more than do most who lose a
dear one.
1t was months later that the
sister. with her head on my
shoulder and sobs tearing her
throat, told me what had been
hardest to bear.
IF I'd only said the words,
made her understand, how l loved
her! That's what hurts so! But
we all were inarticulate. Born so,
it seems! Now l know she'd
have been happier If we'd have
said the little things that mean
love!'
Poor little grief-stricken daugh-
ter! And only one of those who
believe themselves born mar
ticulate"'
Most of us are "inarticulate"
in some degree, and 1 wonder If
it's necessary? We find it hard
to speak the little, tender word
Perhaps we're afraid of seeming
sentimental. Yet who of us pos
sibly could seem awkward through
saying: You're very fine and
I'm fond of you!'
A bit Of affection put into
words may change a whole aspect
of life. And when the one we
love has gone there'll be no re-
greet for the thing unsaid!
Copyright. 1928. by King Features
Syndicate Inc)
The Washington times., 1923-04-17

" HERE were just three of
. them-this girl / know, her
\ brother, year older, and
their mother. And they lived to-
gether in the most perfect amity.
Their dispositions were about
the same, so there was complete
understanding between the three.
Their ideals, for they had those,
harmonized. Sister had worked
up from a humble position to
that of office manager of a big
real estate firm.
Brother had little business of
his own that paid enough to help
keep the house comfortably and
maintain a little car and buy
theater tickets once in a while.
Nothing ostentatious, you under
stand, just pleasant.
Mother was the homemaker,
and fine job she did all the
time. She knew how to cook,
and she gave her family food that
kept their digestions in perfect
order. And when one of the
children" showed signs of a cold,
mother was there with the home
remedies that some way or other
always seemed efficacious. And
never a bit of dust in her cor
ners, though she did not give the
impression 70 drudging.
So, as l say, they got along in
perfect accord and happiness.
And without one visible sign
of Affection!
l have never, so long as I've
known them, seen daughter kiss
mother goodbye when she left
for work Of a morning. I have
never seen mothers hand rest on
sons shoulder nor heard her call
him by one of the foolish little
exquisite names she must have
used when he was a wee laden.
Sister never, to my knowledge,
The Washington times., 1923-04-17
Once-Overs
Copyright 1923, International Feature
HAVING THE MERE ANIMAL SPIRIT GETS YOU
NOWHERE

AS soon as you become angry at someone, do you
think of doing that person bodily injury?
You think it would be gratifying to you to him
lying crushed and bleeding at your feet isn't it true?
You allow yourself to get worked up to such pitch
that there murder in your heart as pos
sible while keeping from committing a crime.
If you would bit Of common sense you would
know that such thoughts and feelings nure you phys
cally if not the other person.
Are you not ashamed of the things you have con-
templated as means of getting even" with some
person against whom you have grievance?
If you gave much thought to placing yourself in
position where this could have no influence on
your job your standing you do to thoughts of re-
venge by doing him physical injury you would be
more successful and far happier.
Why cultivate the animal spirit, the fighting element
in your makeup when it gets you nowhere?
The Washington times., 1923-04-17
SAP AND SALT
RV Rerf MOSnS

The way to have things happen
is to make them happen.
Merchandise has a hard time
living up to the reputation given
it by statesmen.
The probability is that a Vamp
in short skirt would never have
made much of an impression
upon Adam.
Hez Heck says: "One woman is
plenty enough fer one man to
look after besides maxim a Twin
and doin' the evenin' chores"
Copyright. 1923. Premier Syndicate, Inc. }
The Washington times., 1923-04-17
A New GERMANY
Foch s Plan for France s Safety.

The arrest of number of consprators Bavaria whom
OF the most important killed himself when arrested
Tered with plan to put Prince Rupprecht the
OF new German empire.
That part of Marshal Fochs plan
man empire to be made up of Catholic Germany allied with
France and planned forever offset what France
OF all, the increasing German population.
Foch believes that the ancient hostility between Catholic
South Germany and Protestant North Germany
useful to France Religion is stronger than national feeling
his idea.
The Washington times., 1923-04-17
Boats on Seine
Slash Fares

@ARIS.-To make more money
the boats that ply up and
Il down the Seine are to re-
duce their fares. A deficit OF
nearly 10000 francs was found
i'm the 1922 business, therefore the
administration has decided that a
reduction Of fares will increase
materially the amount Of passen-
gers and make. up the shortage.
The Washington times., 1923-04-17
and Brutus-W0s 0l1 HOnOr0l


FASHION repudiates the Venus de Milo The lady is
- too buxom for present tastes The perfect "a chal
lenges the Judgment of Pars-and of New York.
Woman be modish must be petite Nature, however,
has indicated acceptance of the edict.
Dress designers may decree what they please; but style
put millions of persons into bed of Procrustes and
op their bodies to fit
Grace and beauty matters of personal opinion Homer
was too particuarze the charms of Trojan Helen
left loneliness the Imagination of the reader
each pictured his ideal and agreed with the
poet that the heroine of the Had matchless creature
Pudd head Wilson might well have included matrmony
in his observation when he said that differences of opinion
made horse racing possible Some likes EN- fat and
likes thin As witness the case of gentleman who
his wife of obtaining husband by false pretenses
She weighed $50 pounds the altar then reduced to 140
That wasn't what he bargained for
The Washington times., 1923-04-17
CONAN DOYLE SOLVES
ANOTHER DEEP
MYSTERY
By HERBERT KAUFMAN.

TAR DOYLE finds traces of ectoplasm on the walls of
Babylon. Daniel, it seems, medium, not
prophet The hand that warned Belshazzar reached
from the tomb. We live to learn
If Dr. Doyle will refer history with which he is notably
familiar, Rome and Greece will tell him of Chaldean NEGRO
bafflngy adept all the quirks Of soohsayng
fre-writing and ventriloqusm.
Ur was famed court of magic Thurston, Kellar and
Houn despite intervening ages could have taught its gilt
bearded votars little They might have shown
much beyond modern conception
Prof Paul Haupt of Gottengen and Johns Hopkins prod
ding about Mesopotama thirty ago. found traces
of the many wells which black practiced
Gent civilizations quite familiar with the properties Of
PHOSPHORUS and sympathetic inks
The seal of Cyrus unearthed in the bed of Babylonian
canal celebrates the treason of Marduk high priests who
M the writer's memory accurately opened the gates OF the
city the enemy and delivered King and court to the sword
Meme, meme, tecke, uphdrsin probably agreed
signal for the conspirators.
INVOKED controve legend and archaeology, Biblical
search inclined to yield the book of Daniel to spiritual
istic interpretation
,Pirncy Under the Nose of Manhattan.
IF Dr. Doyle in communication with W. Clarke RUSSELL
will he kindly inform that singer of sea sagas that plot
comparable the best of his lurd tales muzzes
guards puzzled by the erratic course of vessel off
Long Island pursue and board the strange craft Not soul
about Empty cartridges strew the deck. Smashed
bottles lie everywhere Broken, dsordered suggests
terrific struggle Piracy mutiny The flags of three
different the locker The absence of bullet
marks or sbloodstans further cOnfounds surmse.
lne1pncaDe nose
hatanraw melodrama in the shadow OF the Woolworth
building.
O. Henry found romance reckoning from every doorway
The srangest story in the world nudges your elbow in the
subway crowd Fiction has less imagination than reality
"And Brutus-W0s on Honorable Man"
* n POINCARE Grating at Dunkrk, recalls how often
MI British armies stormed and possessed that
Ag'@y wracked port
He reminds citizens of terrorized centuries of
put the sword of the wrack and ruin that followed
successive enemy occupation, of the humiatng of
concludes with MARBLES of the love and understanding
that now bind the two great channel neghbors.
NJ Poincare remembers his Shakespeare And Brutus-
was an honorable So they all honorable men.
If you don't catch the point read Julius Caesar again.
New Britain herald., 1923-10-15

mile to seven miles wide, Ten miles west of the capital, sixty men using IS teams have been sandbassing the em. bankment Of the city water works dam since Saturday. More men will be sent there today 10 wall ID the embankment al either end Of the dam and to reinforce a bypass into the huge lake.
 The lake is expected ta hold nine feet more water. major part Of the Tuesday hood crest, according 10 c, |. Bertz, waterworks superintendent
 Scores of acres of the walnut Grove section are under water and the river for several hundred yards flows across three main traffic streets 10 Capitol Hili and Packing Town, suburbs. where more than six thousand persons live.
 Westward from Oklahoma City, river points from twenty-five to isn miles distant report the most serious flood damage in their history.
 Railway service on all western lines
New Britain herald., 1923-10-15
&WALLOWeD UP M A kasvAlso@ NJoonaos~
 9WAi j I'll HySnAlAs aMoAHssnftn
,p... n es,nr..o, el,t, .ss ys se.s.y ss.'..1

and stepped with q grinding af the brakes almost directly beneath her.
 Out from the shadow of the nsreh came man and walked toward it. kelsey's prudence in not leaving their retreat too soon was justified, The seaFehsrs had left some one on guard. The driver Of the car jumped out to meet him. and as they moved for- ward into the glare Of the head. lamps, Hope shrank hack trembling. The figure in the long, light motor. coat was Rristow,
 Never taking her eyes on them. and with infinite pains, Hope unlatehed the window and raised the lower sash fraction. By a miracle it lifted easily, and without q squeak. Knesi- ing on the floor. she laid her ear close to the sill. The voices noated up to her distinctly.
 No doubt about their having given you boneheads the slip" Bristow was saying, He did not raise his voice nor storm, hut the man eringsd at his tone. You're sure. they didn't get Into The house :"
 ''i don't see how they could have. We went over it with nne-tooth comb"
 Then it's no use spending further lime here, You say the others have been down in the woods for an hour?
New Britain herald., 1923-10-15
FIRE LOSSES MAY
 HIT TWO MILLION
Brush Fires RaVaee Vast Areas in
 California

Los Angeles. Oct. ib,-smoulderinl emhers in the hills and The charred ruins Of many buildings in and about the city were reminders today ot the weekend of Ire which visited the environs Of Los Angeles.
 The brush Ire. which Saturday took two lives in it's sweep. over ib- mile area north of Glendale and Eagle Rock. near here. had hardly been brought under control yesterday when the menace reappeared in other see- tions and in various ways. A dozen houses. four industrial plants and an oil we'll sweiled the total of Sundays confagrations.
 May Be Loss of Life.
 One of these. the blaze which de- stroyed lumber yard and a furni- ture manufacturing plant in Vernon. south of here. was believed to have resulted in loss of life. though no bodies had been found in the ruins early today. Two other plants, plan Ing mill and A glass works. increased the estimate Of loss suffered by indus trial establishments to well over the half million mark.
 In the Santa Monica mountains, west Of here, brush fire in La Flores canyon was under control today after having burned an area of 1900 acres and destroyed three residences. Ten thousand acres at Palo Verdes near the harbor district, wre swept by flames.
 Esti in, a toe of fba total 6ra 1oea yp | volved in Saturdays and yesterdays ranged from $2,000, 900 | 10 more than twice that amount.
New Britain herald., 1923-10-15

That ought to be long enough tc look under every bush and behind every stump. Cali them in. The man drew whistle from his pocket and blew piercingly on it. Bristow was tramping up and down the drive below. She saw him stop short and turn his head toward the road in the direction opposite to that which he himself had come. She caught at the same time the thrum- ming of another motor.
 Who's that?" Bristow exclaimed.
 He had not long to wait for his answer The car, physicians run about, turned in at the gate and drove up. A thin, elderly man got out and stepped toward Bristow.
 "Ah, Dr. Creamer you?" Bristow reverted to his more suave and cour- teous manner, although there was in- terrogation in his tone.
 T see you got ahead of me-" said the other Was it a serious injury?"
 "Injury?" Bristow stared at him. T don't know what you're talking about. I'm out after two runaway patients"
 "So?" Creamer clicked his tongue commiseratingly. But I got call to come out here to an automobile accident. 1 was away from my office at the time" His voice like himself was rather mild and vague,
 "Oh, I see," Bristow nodded. That must have been my two patients. They took my car and made kindling-