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Putnam patriot., 1923-12-07
Lindernan.smith

On Saturday afternoon. Dee. lst, at the nome of Nr. and Mrs. Joseph Smith of Hanover. Conn, their only daughter lmogeue, was united in marriage to Walter Robinson linde- man of Woodstock.
 The ceremony was performed by The Rev Mir McGloud. the double ring service being used "O Promise Me was beautifully rendered just before the service The bride was attended by her cousin. Miss Flora House. a. maid of honor and Elizabeth Adams as flower girl.
 After the reception the party sat down to a wedding breakfast It ha- ing thc groam's birthday novel feat ure was the cutting ef the gfeam E birthday cake.
 The decorations were ot pink and white. the arch nnder which the eere- mony was performed being of pink and white roses and evergreen. r ffe same color scheme was carried out lu the rooms. with pink and white ribbons caught uu with numerous bells. The brides gown was Of white satin with veil caught with orange blossoms.
 AftcF g wedding trip the couple will reside n Woodstock at the home of the gso6m's parents. Mir and Mrs. W ] Liademan.
 Friends 0f Air. and Mrs Windsor Clark gave them a surprise at the Grange Hall Saturday evening. t. be- ing their fifth wedding anniversary. \ sum of money was presented to them
Putnam patriot., 1923-12-07
NORTH ASHFORD

Services of the Eastford Baptist church on Sunday were well attended. Worship took the form of a Thanks giving service A duet was rendered by Mrs. Eleanor Lewis and Miss Pearl Morse. Mrs. Eleanor Lewis presided at the organ. The pastor, Rev. Nor man NJ. Bloore preached on ''rhe Ha- bit of Thankfulness." At Westford in the afternoon. Mrs. Bloore sang "Ten Thousand Thanks to Jesus" and Rolfe N. Lyon presided at the organ.
Putnam patriot., 1923-12-07

Lord Beayerbrook has bought the Pail Mall Gazette which was founded in 1865. II was based on the Pen dennis" Thackeray-id of a jour nal written by a gentleman for gentlemen" and was noted for its high literary quality.
Putnam patriot., 1923-12-07

sawgraxa, a tall grass that grows in mzrshy places of Florida, is used for paper pulp.
Evening star., 1923-03-17
Bunk.

Bunk, the police dog, has arrived in
the police force and has taken up his
duties. His career will be watched
with interest. But let us not be hasty
or impatient. This is new town to
Officer Bunk. He was born and raised
or reared, in Ithaca, and there is some
difference between Ithaca and Wash
ington This is a larger town, and
Bunk should be given time to get his
bearings, learn the ropes and the
streets, get in touch with local condi-
tions and get line on our prominent
criminals. Whether Washington Grim
inals are worse and craftier than those
in Ithaca is not known. and Bunk has
given no opinion on this subject. He is
keeping an open mind and perhaps an
open mouth. 1t is believed by the most
loyal Washingtonians that criminals
or evildoers of a certain kind are suf-
ffciently numerous in Washington to
keep Officer Bunk interested and
awake. Just how much of an amend
ment enforcer Bunk will turn out to
he remains TO be seen. That he has
fine sense of smell is taken for granted.
and that ought to help him in his
work Friends of this new addition to
the police force hope that he will rise
superior to his name-Bunk.
Evening star., 1923-03-17

instances of the loss of lifetime saw
ines are related.
If 1t could be possible to reach and
influence these classes of people and
have them deposit their savings in
American banks or banks conducted
under our laws things would be far
better. The question is how to do it..
A compatriot gets the reputation Of
being shrewd business man and Of
being wizard in making money. He
Is believed to be honest. He comes
from the home country and speaks
the language of home. He promises
to pay much higher rate of interest
much higher rate of interest than
money can earn. He pays this interest
for a time, not out of earnings, but
out of depositors' money. The news
travels that he is really paying 'steen
per cent. When the deposits are to his
satisfaction the compatriot disappears
and there is wailing. Is there no
agency that can reach these foreign
language people and make ii clear to
them that there is no wide and easy
road to fortune, that get-rich-Quick
schemes are run by sharpers for their
own benefit. and that savings should
be deposited in the American way?
Evening star., 1923-03-17

opinion. They know that women are
they are necessary to the happiness,
If not the peace, Of any other world.
This evangelist particularly de-
nounces woman's style in dress. That
criticism does no good and it does no
harm. A million yards Of denuncia.
ton will not add one inch to womans
clothes. She determines that matter
for herself, and no man, whether he
is an evangelist or nothing more than
mere husband, has. she thinks, any
full by nature, but If she thinks a bit
of lace. bit of ribbon and some feath-
ers will increase her charm she will
carry out her will though a hundred
evangelists scowl and lament. 1t
would he just as sensible for a dwarf
to stand on Giesboro Point and try to
hold back the tides Of the Potomac
river as for any man to try to keep
woman from dressing in style. Some
have held that woman dresses for the
Solt pun poSe VI dtti Solic
succeeds admirably. But woman
dresses for women also. She knows
that she has the best taste in Wash
ington, that she wears her clothes
with style and that she knows bar
gain when she finds one. She wants
other women to look on with pleasure
of course. and if not with pleasure,
then with envy.
Evening star., 1923-03-17
New Traffic Rules.

Washington may soon have a new
set Of traffic rules. The traffic commit
tee has placed it's report in the hands
Of the District Commissioners. 1t is in
dicated that the committee has con-
centrated on the safety regulations,
such as speed, right of way, headlights
and signals.
Washington wants the most en-
lightened traffic rules it can get. 1t
wants rules dictated by its own ex-
perience and the experience of other
cities. Then, when the Commissioners
the wisest and fairest rules that can
be devised the city asks that drivers
and pedestrians observe them. 1t
asks that the police shall he vigilant
in enforcing them There are drivers
and pedestrians who seem unwilling
to observe any regulations that are
out of line with their immediate con-
venience or their whim of a moment.
heretofore whenever traffic regula-
tionS have been agreed upon by the
uulnOIllleS l1eTe nave DCeH Il
number of motorists who seemed to
feel that they We're not bound by these
regulations because they did not APP
prove them. They would say that this
is d fool rule" that is an unwiSc
regulation and SO forth. Many men
had their own ideas about what safe
rate of speed should be, and what the
rule of right of way should be. The
auto-driving public is still in division
on these and other matters. There is
criticism from drivers that the speed
limit is too low, and from pedestrians
that it is too high.
When the new set of rules is adopted
and put into effect the traffic regula-
tions should be observed by every
body. The police must enforce them
for the protection of the public and for
the education of those persons who do
not know the rules or are Indifferent
to their observance. This is the only
way in which the dangers of the
street may be reduced.
Evening star., 1923-03-17
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

ditions for the United States Depart
ment of Labor.
n y +
There is rejoicing both in the dip
lomatic corps and in American OFF,
cial quarters over the prospective re-
turn of DIR. Alfred SEE as Chinese
minister. No diplomat sent to the
United States ever enjoyed such in
innate personal ties with Washington
as SEE does. He was one of the first
Chinese boys sent to our country to
be educated and prides himself on
once having been a Washington high
school cadet They were the days
when young Cinnamon wore pigtails
and there are grown-ups at the capt
tai who remember vividly having
pulled the queue Of young Sze. Later
he was among the first batch of Chi
nese students educated at Chinese
government expense in American
universities. He was graduated at
Cornell under the presidency OF ia
cob G.. Schurman, now our minister at
Peking.
An exodus of American writer's to
Europe is in progress. Each and
every one begins operations at wash
ington for the dual purpose of arm
credentials and fixing up his fences at
foreign embassies and legations. Sen
ator Hiram Johnson, who is due IN
England today or tomorrow, was Of
fered a seductive writing contract
covering his European meanderings,
but would not SuCcumb. Senator Mo-
ses will be heard from through news
paper dispatches. Among the well
known professional scribeS who will
explore old world chaos are Lothrop
Stoddard author of THE Rising Tide
of Color" and THE New World of Is
lam" and Garet Garrett. who is going
to look into economic conditions.
Garrett is an ardent anti-cancella-
zionist and may be expected to turn
up live material in substantiation of
Europe's ability. some day. somehow,
to square accounts with Uncle Sam.
Apropos the hot water into which
some of President iarding's personal
appointees to federal Office recently
have run, this observers attention is
called to the ethics which inspired
Woodrow Wilson with regard to
nominations that could be assailed as
personal. His admirers claim that,
apart from cabinet selections, Presi-
dent Wilson religiously immuniZei
hlmSeif against the possibility or SOc.l
criticism. II is of record that il any
deserving democrat was ever recon-
mended TOR Office and happened to be
named Wilson, exhaustive inquiry
was necessary to determine that he
by no chance was a remote relation of
the President. The late James Cor
don Bennett was no less particular.
He once heard the Paris edition OF
the New York Herald had a reporter
named Bennett. Fire young Ben
nett" was the proprietor's imperious
order One Bennett on the Herald
is enough"
(Copyrirht 1qo2
Evening star., 1923-03-17
St. Patrick Day in Ireland.


Another St. Patrick's day has come
to find Ireland torn with strife and
heart-sickened by hope of peace de
ferred. 1t is true the wearers of the
green are at comparative peace with
their ancient enemies. There is no
conflict with the British, for the Brit
ish have departed. Between the
Orangemen OF the north and the Cath
olics of the south there is truce. War
in Ireland today is fraternal, and be.
cause brother is arrayed against
brother the conflict is waged with the
extreme of bitterness, leaving scars
which will require generations for
their healing.
But, dark and dscouraging as is
the present, there is ray of hope
in the fact that the government of
the Free State continues to function.
President Cosgrave and those asso-
ciated with him have shown that they
have both the will and the courage to
govern. The world has been shocked
at times by the severity Of their meas.
ures, hut it must be realized that they
are confronted with desperate opposi-
ton, and ii may be that drastic re-
preston is necessary if the situation
is to be kept in hand at all.
1t cannot he doubted that the Free
State government is more strongly in
trenched today than ever before, but
those neck k-Ornothing followers of
Eamonn De Valera show no signs of
Willingness to give up the struggle.
The warfare they are waging is along
guerrilla lines. always difficult to COM
bat. but day by day they are being
pressed harder and their field of opera
tionS circumscribed. There are no in
dications that new adherents are being
won to their cause. and without such
recruiting their end is inevitable.
While the situation in Ireland is de-
plorable, and a cause of grief to all
true friends of the Irish people, the
world should be charitable in its criti-
cisms and slow to find in present tur-
moil evidence of incapacity for self.
government. 1t must be remembered
that complete freedom for Ireland has
been a dream of centuries. and men
do not readily relinquish dreams for
which their fathers have gladly died
1t may be true that under the present
scheme of a Free State government
they can have all the substance of
liberty, but the shadow is not there,
and often shadows are dearer to mems 8
hearts than concrete benefits. So the
world should be patient with the Irish.
for they are not the first people who
have had to win through travail and
suffering to freedom and happiness
and orderly rule.
Evening star., 1923-03-17
IN A FEW WORDS

1 have always contended that there
was no more highly sexed period than
the Victorian era, when a girl was
ankle.
MARY ROBERTS RINEHART.
My ideal man is poet in his
heart. whether his business is selling
bonds or building bridges.
PEGGY WOOD.
I have lived to be 11O years old,
but l cannot see any reason for 1t
except that I stopped drinking when
I was eighty-five.
MANUEL LEE SILVA.
1t is not reparations the French
want, it is security, which isn't
strange considering that their
country has been invaded three times
in two generations.
-LoRD ROBERT CECIL.
We have abundant evidence that
violence has been done to the old-time
democratic theory Of the rights of
the states against federal invasion.
guaranteed by the Constitution.
GOV. SMITH On. W
The lives lost on the field of action
in the world war were absolutely
wasted and the selfish, narrow states
manship of the European nations has
brought those countries to the brink
of a conflict that will make the last
war look like a sham battle.
CAPT. EDDIE RICKENBACKER.
Evening star., 1923-03-17
EDITORIAL DIGEST

meaning when the labor party is the
much as the establishment of an out
and-out labor ministry would require
election of twice as many members of
parliament as labor now controls, the
Pittsburgh Sun thinks it probable
Mr.. Law will go down before a coali-
tion, such as held Mr.. George in power
long after his direct party following
had dwindled to almost nothing" 1t
is possible, however, that too much
significance" is being attached to the
developments. the Indianapolis Star
suggests. because, while the result
of the by-elections jolted the present
government, the damage is by no
means irreparabfc.'
Lack of any policy to rr-~at existing
situations. especially the housing
muddle, has had the effect of weaken
ing the governments position as the
Utica Press sees it, and that paper
suggests eventually the ministry may
be reconstructed and even Lloyd
George drawn into it to prevent a
| labor ministry. While expected, 1.-The
reaction against the conservative as
cendancy has begun sooner than ex-
pected," says the Syracuse Herald
which likewise calls attention to the
fact Ito make the development more
servative loss is gain, not for the
liberal opposition, but for British la
Dor and its platform of heterogeneous
radicalism.''
After outlining in detail the pro-
gram of the British laborites. the
Louisville Post says: eff the English
labor party should prevail we do not
say that such a victory would spell
| the doom of the British empire, but
we may not doubt that it would cause
| panic of far-reaching character 1t
is inconceivable that a majority OF
the English voters will favor that
program, but it is not inconceivable
that with the opposition divided be-
tween conservatives and liberals the
labor party may not be formidable in
the next few years" This is far from
being the feeling of the St. Pau
Pioneer-Press. however, which thinks
"a labor government just now would
be an enlightening experiment. Re-
sponsibility always has great powers
of Transforming radicalism, and the
day 1t comes into power. if ever. the
education of the labor party will be-
gin" The New York Globe Is con-
vinced "the conservative government
seems to have seriously misunderstood
| the temper of the people upon the
| purely domestic and partially local is
sue of housing. Here is q real de-
| partuTe. David Lloyd George found
his Waterloo in the near eastern af.
fair and every other CONSPICUOUS gov.
| ernment head that has come a crop
per since 1918 discovered his Difficult.
ties in International affairs" II
should also be remembered, the Hart.
| ford Times says, that "in England JUS
now votes against the government are
| symptomatic of the general unres,
which is explained simply by the fact
| that there has been a great war"
Evening star., 1923-03-17
Discrimination.

Uncle Sam discriminates between
his two wards, Porto Rico and the
Philippines, when it comes to allow
ing wee drappie." The War De
partment announces that Porto Rico
must remain dry, but that the Philip
pines may gang their ain gait in
the case of regulating the liquor traf-
fic. This decision was reached after
consultation with the Department of
Justice.
1t is explained that Porto Rico is
literally a part Of the United States.
therefore subject to all its laws and
regulations. The charter of the Philip
pines, however, endows that govern
ment with power to make local laws,
and the Philippines have never passed
a Eolstead act.
Evening star., 1923-03-17
More Playgrounds.

An increase in playground facilities
Is in prospect. Money becoming avail
able on July l will. it is said, make
possible the opening of eleven addi-
tional school yards and three new
municipal Fairgrounds. and this will
give a total of fifty-five recreation
centers for Washington's children.
This is progress. The public play
ground idea goes ahead. With safe
play places provided for the children
they will not, or ought not to, use the
streets as Fairgrounds, fewer will be
run down by vehicles and they will
proper apparatus for health-promoting
and bodybuilding games.
Evening star., 1923-03-17

Albert jeremiah Beveridge, who
has not been in Washington for a
long time. is due here next week on
literary mission. He desires to
consult the Trumbull letters, in the
Lincoln collection at the Library of
Congress, in connection with his
forthcoming monumental life of
Abraham Lincoln. To cotemporary
Washingtonians who knew Beveridge
as a brilliant young senator of the
United States, 1t will be a matter of
some difficulty to realize that he is
In his sixty-first year. He is be-
lieved, in light of recent events in
Indiana, definitely to have forsworn
politics and to have determined to
dedicate himself exclusively to writ
ing pursuits. His Lincoln will prob
ably, like his classic John Marshall,
run to four imposing volumes and
prospectively occupy him, as the
earlier work did. several years.
Breckfnridge Long uses as a
cigarette case beautiful little re-
ceptacle of gold which served one
of his grandfathers, S, NJ Breckin-
ridge of Kentucky, as snuffbox.
The young Missouri democrat con-
cedes that his ancestor would doubt
less turn in his grave if he could
divine the profane uses to which his
Snuff-container now is put yet"
hat nf
cites are any worse than snuff. at
that"
X X
There has just sailed for his native
heatk a Briton who won the coveted
honor of knighthood for services rem
dered to the motherland at Washing
ton. He is Sir A. Maurice Low, vet
for many years the resident repre-
sentative of the aristocratic London
Morning Post A Britisher who's been
knighted isn't really knight until
he has knelt before his sovereign and
received the. "accolade" This con-
sists of a royal embrace. and a slight
blow on the shoulder with the fat
blade of 4 sword. Low has been
domiciled in the United States for
more than thirty years. No writer of
any nationality has a wider acquaint-
ance with our politics and politicians.
He was a war correspondent in cuba
and once wrote two-volume work
on The American People: A Study in
National Psychology" In 1918. he
produced Woodrow Wilson: An In
depreciation" During the Roosevelt
administration Low was commissioned
to Investigate British industrial con-
Evening star., 1923-03-17
Impending Labor Control Looms in
Great Britain.

British normalcy apparently has
not lasted very long. in the opinion
of the various editors who have
watched the recent developments in
that country. The fact that, although
he was placed in power by a clear
parliamentary majority, Bonar Law
only a few months later seems to find
it impossible to select a single safe
constituency within which his min
listers safely can secure reelection, is
held to indicate that, after all, the
tory organization does not hold the
confidence of the people. 1t also seems
to be accepted that the labor party
eventually will be placed in the sad
die and that radical methods will have
their try-out in conservative England.
"Bonar Law merely breathes-noth-
ing more" suggests the Detroit News.
because the opposition to liberalism
is not stout enough to draw away the
pulmoter. Labor. the real opposition,
strengthens itself daily and faces only
the profound difficulty of covering too
wide a range of political thought in
it's membership. Mr.. Law does not
understand that the British public
wants its thinking done for 1t, having
been accustomed to that process for a
| long, long time" Immediate action
must be taken if the present ministry
is to survive, and the Philadelphia
Record suggests Mr.. Law may light
en- his ship, which is now laboring in
a heavy sea- by throwing the land
lords overheard. or he may throw the
French overheard. The latter would
lead to startling results and is not to
be looked for Immediately, but the
British prime minister may be driven,
in the course of a few weeks, to make
good his threats. The dissolution of
the entente would be a momentous
event"
Under the English system the la
Dor party tomorrow may be the con-
trolling party" says the Allentown
Call, land it will excite no great sur
prises to those who have watched af-
fairs to see England. the ancient
stronghold of an intrenched land
owning group. in the hands of labor
people and it's policies dictated by
what the Russians term the prole-
tariat. The situation in England is
one that the tories, like the bourbons,
thought never would be possible. That
it was foreseen by that keen news
paper man the late Lord Northcliffe
Is recalled when it is told that he al,
ways encouraged the reporters on his
newspapers to become acquainted
with and very friendly with the lead
ers of the labor party. for. said he,
it will stand you in good stead when
you meet them In Downing street.
Evening star., 1923-03-17
Prosperity's Index.

Railroad earnings are accepted in
the financial world as an unerring in
dex of the condition of trade and in
creases in freight and passenger traffic
infallibly point to increased output of
factory and shop; to added purchasing
power of the general public, to moving
of the farmers products in larger vol
ume and to the ability of the public
to travel on business or for recreation.
Figures given out yesterday by the
Interstate Commerce Commission
speak eloquently in terms of good
news of the steadily growing pros
perity of the nation at large. Taking
the statistics of 1874 class l railroads,
operating about 90 per cent of the
total rail mileage of the United States,
it was found that net earnings during
great as during the month of January
year ago. They amounted to $685.
94l 900, against S35,265,O00 in Janu-
ary, 1922.
The total revenues for January of
this year were $500, 900, compared
with s295,777 900 for the same month
a year ago. An extraordinary increase
in the volume of transportation ac-
counts for the additional total rev.
enues. These figures are regarded as
a wonderful showing of business inn
provement. They constitute evidence
supporting that furnished by the in
creased income tax returns of the
state of the Union in a business way.
Unemployment has decreased, mer-
chants are eager for goods. On every
side abound other evidences showing
that business is on the upgrade with
a steady swing.
Let the pessimist take a back seat
and hold his peace. There is no place
for the grumbler in the good old
United States, for Uncle Sam has
struck his gait and the prosperity pro-
cession is on the move. Let us all
keep step with it.