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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-01

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This whole matter Of prece-
dence came up for long and
anxious discussion at q session Of
the Luncheon Club, composed Of
Senate women. A good many Of
the "ex's" will stay in Washing
ton, and they wanted to know
where they would stand under
the new order of things.
RULES, IRON BOUND.
There were three pages Of typed
copy that had been put together
by someone connected with the
club as a guide to the new crop
OF "ex's"; the idea was to let them
know just what they could do
and just what they couldn't do.
Such a set OF ironbound rules and
regulations! And they were taken
So seriously!
For example, the wives Of
former Senators are not permitted
to occupy the little reserved gal
Iery in the Senate chamber, and
the loss of that privilege seemed
to weigh rather heavily on some
Of those present.
You'll have to get used to IT,"
1 consoled them. You're just
plain animals now"
There will be plenty Of new
rules and a new order of prece-
dence. Mrs. Harry s. New, wife
Of the newly-appointed Postmaster
General. goes into a place in the
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clan must write his prescriptions
in triplicate, one copy for his
own protection, one for the local
druggist and one for the health
department. Nor Is he allowed
to prescribe narcotics for an ad-
dict without decreasing the dos
age. The Harrison act, according
to La Motto, is "as comprehen-
sive and as nearly perfect as
possible, yet it does not cover the
situation. The root Of the evil
remains untouched"
In an interesting volume called
"The Opium Monopoly" this au.
thor. following the lead Of Sam
uel Merwin, has traced the evil
to Great Britain's door. In effect
1t is pointed out that the British
government makes every effort
to encourage and extend the pro-
duction Of opium, which is lun by
the government az a monopoly.
The British Blue Book and of
fetal reports deal quite frankly
with this matter:
"The opium revenue is partly
raised by q monopoly OF the pro-
ductiOn Of the drug i'm Bengal and
the United provinces, and partly
by the levy Of duty ON all opium
imported from native Is states.
e In these two provinces the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-01

The worst effect Of habituaI
debts is mental.
Debt IL q form OF cheating, a
form Of stealing.
Many q woman who considers
herself honest win move away
from town persuading herself
that she win send the money back
to the doctor and the plumber,
just as soon as she can.
Many a woman removes her
trade from some decent dealer,
just because she il ashamed to
face him with the conscientious
ness Of her unpaid bill.
Thousands of marriages go on
the rocks because of bills.
And hundreds Of little lives are
inexorably crushed out Of the
world because women hesitate to
face new responsibilities while the
old are still so heavy a burdn.
Women are, to me at least, the
interesting. the growing, and the
most promising sex. But the
blame for domestic debts is largely
due to women, and in no ave-
nue. have the newly enfranchised
citizens shown such reactionary
tendencies. such stupidity. as
here.
Perhaps this is our heritage
from a hundred generations Of
financially irresponsible grand
mothers and great grandmothers.
THE GOOD OLD DAYS"
Women never had money, or
business responsibilities, in the
middle ages.
Even a hundred years ago, It
was the man Of the house who
bought the silks and mousselines,
and the painted cups from China.
and the "Injy" shawls and teas,
when a ship was in Boston or
New York harbor.
It was the husband who stop
ped at the market. on his way
downtown, and sent home the
joints and the vegetables to his
obediently waiting wife. And the
wife made, or superintended the
making Of, the buildings and the
Syllabus exactly as he liked them.
And when I was a child it was
customary for a wife to ask for
household money at the break
fast table; "I'1l need some money
today, dear" Certain advanced
husbands were instructing their
wives In the use OF the check
book; many wives did not like the
change. There were many little
jokes in those days about wife
coaxing hubby" for extrava-
gances and about the utter un-
trustworthiness of the average
woman when hats and new gowns
were concerned.
TO WOMAN'S SHAME.
To our shame. many Of us wom-
en- still keep that old standard.
We are as ignorant as children
Of the value of money. And
worse, there Is no feminine con.
science in the matter. no honest
facing Of the ugly truth that we
are savages still where beads and
feathers are concerned.
For the woman who is never
quite abreast of her housework
we have little sympathy. But we
never think of condemning, for
moral slovenliness infinitely more
contemplate than the mere physi
cal laxness, the woman whose at
fairs are all In disorder.
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MRS. POINDEXTER
Social Upsets Are Coming in Capital Next Fall When
Some Of Those Who Have Been Very Much
I'm Will Be Out or Nearly So

"HE coming weeks win SEQ
good many changes in
precedence" In official lite.
Precedence is hard and fast in
Washington society, so long az
ones status does not change.
But when one is an Eek" matters
are decidedly different.
For few weeks I was on the
way toward becoming an lex"
myself. / found myself gradually
slipping down the rungs Of the
social ladder. I have been in
the first rank among the Sena~
tors wives, because OF the length
of my husbands service, but re
Gently I found myself being put
a little further down the side Of
the table-gradually getting out
of 1t.
/ didn't mind, because II I he
came an Tex" knew I might
as well get used to it gradually.
However, Mr.. Poindexter's APP
pointment as ambassador to
Peru has stopped the decline.
WHICH WAS WHICH?
The bitterest controversies have
been waged, at times. over 1uss-
tons of social precedence. RIOT
so long ago 1t was a question of
state of whether q Cabinet Off
GERS wife outranked a Senator's
wife-and, after long argument, 1t
was finally settled-by some one
that the Senator outranks the
Cabinet officer, except at dinner!
Now why a Cabinet officer is
a more important parsonage at
dinner than in an elevator. can
not understand; but the fact re-
mains that a Senator precedes a
Cabinet officer when he enters an
elevator, but the Cabinet officer
precedes the Senator at a dinner.
Justices Of the Supreme Court
outrank either. recall, some
years ago, dinner at which Mrs.
Lurton, wife of the Justice, and
certain Cabinet officers were
guests. The wife Of one Cabinet
officer stood near me in the line;
and as the guest OF honor was
about an hour late, we stood
draped about the room, rather
unhappily for the most part and
certainly rather weary.
At last she spoke to me.
my feet are paining me so I
simply can't stand it." she re-
marked.
WELL" I replied, why don't
you sit DOWN."
SUCH A SHOCK!
have never forgotten the
shocked surprise in her look as
she heard me.
WHAT Sit down in the pres
ence of a Justices wife? Never!"
And her tired feet had to stand
the strain for perhaps a quarter
of an hour more.
AS for myself, I should never
let questions of social precedence
take place above physical COM
fort unless the necessity were
much greater than that!
I have no illusions about Wash
ington society. The toboggan is
nicely CREASED for those who
don't stay up in the first rank.
You're inland then you're out.
You're up-and then you're down.
But after all, what can you ex,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-01

crop is grown under the control 0G
a government department.. The
cuItlvatOr Of opium In these mo-
nOpOly districts receives . license
and is granted advances to enable
him to prepare the land for the
crop and he Is required 20 deliver
the whole Of the product ut q nix.
ed price to opium agents. by whom
it Is dispatched to the government
factories at Patha and Ghazipur.
The money advanced to the cult
vatOr bears no interest. The Brit
ish Indian government lends money
without interest In no other cases"
The opium is auctioned off by
the government once a month.
At that point the British govern
ment steps officially out Of the
picture and the smugglers step in.
AS La Motto states it:
1.-THE British government en-
cOurages poppy production even
to the extent Of lending money
without interest to all those who
are willing to raise this most prof
table crop. The monopoly opium
is sold once month to the high.
est bidders, and some Of these
highest bidders are INSCRIPTIONS
men who must find their markets
how and where they can. That
fact, Of course, Is Of ND moment 70
the British gOvornment."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-01

Women are, to at least the interesting the growing
and the most promising But the blame for domestic
debts is largely due to women, and in have
the newly enanchised citizens shown such stupidity
here
To our shame, many Of women ignorant
children Of the value of money And worse, there is
feminine conscience in the matter honest facing Of the
ugly truth that we savages still where beads and
feathers concerned.
One of the hardest things for and learn
that the person whose mind is cuttered with the
worry Of petty debts is free for bigger thoughts.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-01

This Is one Of q series Of
Woman.tO- Woman Talks on pres
ent-day family and social prob
LENS that Mrs. Norris, Americas
best loved and most popular
woman writer, L. writing espe-
ciaIly for The Times Herald. An
other talk will be printed next
Sunday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-01
KATHLEEN NORRIS
SAWS
The Blame for Domestic Debts Is Largely Womans-
To Our Shame, Many of Us Are as Ignorant
as Children of Value of Money"

to rent three upper rooms to
boarders? And need add that
they never made q gown or had
a boarder, although their lives
were one desperate struggle for
order and system?
They lived, because they didn't
quite starve, and they died as
public charges. They cleaned
Mondays disorder on Friday, and
washed Fridays plates on Sunday
evening. They made their beds
once in every twenty-four hours,
but usually not before S o'clock
in the afternoon.
And all their world pitied, con-
demned and blamed them. It was
so obvious--it was so simply ex-
planned, their failure.
LAZINESS WE DON'T SEE
But the failure of men and
women whose financial affairs
are in exactly the same condition
is not visible to the casual
glance.
We don't see the laziness. the
slovenliness there. We don't see
that the Bakers failure to pay
their big milk bill was one of the
reasons why the honest old dairy.
man and his wife had to give up
the business.
Helen Baker makes a delicious
story OF the awful day when the
gas man came and turned off her
gas, and the telephone man came
and disconnected her telephone,
and we laugh. But would we
laugh If Helen said:
Jack doesn't take baths. you
know, and I never will wash
dishes! And the consequence is
that the board OF health came in
here yesterday"
No, that isn't so funny. That
is disgusting. Personal unclean-
ness means great deal more to
our civilization than moral and
mental uncleanness does. And
one of the hardest things for men
and women to learn IL that the
person whose mind is not clut-
tered with the worry Of petty
debts is free for bigger thoughts.
THE HAPPY STATE.
The man whose hands are not
tied by an overdraught at the Of
flee is free to take the new job.
The husband and wife who are
abreast Of their obligations may
lament the sudden emergency,
but when the crisis is over and
the little girl is well enough to
look forward to Daddy's return
every night to feed her her soup
in spoonfuls and name every bite
Of her milk toast-then there is
no bitter aftermath of dread for
doctors and nurses bills.
There Is no ugly financial con-
sideration to rise up in connec-
ton with the miracle of the life
Of the child that is given back to
them.
Copyright. 1923. by the Republic
Syndicate)
This Is one Of q series Of
Woman-tO-WOman Talks on pres
ent-day family and social prob
LENS that Mrs. Norris, Americas
best loved and most popular
woman writer, IL writing espe-
ciaIly for The Times-Herald. An
other talk will be printed next
Sunday,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-01

looking woman with . very cor.
dial manner.
Her husband IL 4 multimilliOn-
aire, and is not one Of the farm
or socialist ''blockers." ! think
he intends to conform to all the
conventions, and that he will not
be like his near neighbor, sena-
tor Broolxhart, who says he doesn't
intend to run around in one Of
those evening suits and wear .
high hat" am sure he need
not worry too much about the
high hat, because / think the
men here have done away with
them to q great extent.
When we first came here four
teen years ago 1t WAS almost OBJ
Iigatory and / remember well
mild-mannered little man from
Missouri who said he had to store
his high hat and long-tailed coat
here when he went home be-
cause his constituents would de-
feat him for sure" II they knew
he had them.
Mention. Of the Willard recalls
a little incident Of precedent. ]
proposed the daughter Of . Sena-
tor for q place in the Luncheon
Club once, on the ground that she
was his hostess when she was IN
the city. One woman questioned
me:
Does she keep D home here?
she asked. Doesn't she 1--we IN
the WiIlard7s
RULES IN ANY GAME.
And the woman who asked the
question lived IN . hotel herself!
But maybe she had forgotten
thatl
There have 70 be rules In any
game. There has to be precedence
IN society. The seniority rule -
adhered to pretty strictly. and 90
Il the position Of various officials
in the social hierarchy. Men
come to washington to represent
their constituents, and thsy have
to take the places allotted them
they don't step into the places LETT
vacant by their predecessors. There
are rules to the game and the
game has to be played by the
rules.
It's quite different from the
situation when I came to wash
ington fourteen years ago. In 1t
least one respect. Then Repub.
Hcans and Democrats. socially,
were at swords points. The Re
publicans had their own little
social clique, and the Democrats
had theirs. They rarely mixed.
And when the Progressives came
in-what Q turmoil that made, TO
be surei
came here, Of course. - the
wife Of an arch-Progressive. One
day I was one Of . group OF Pro
gressive women at some function
given by the wife Of one OF the
standpatters. When We ap-
preached her, she turned her back
on as.
CAN'T GET RID OF IT.
These tactics were ell right when
we came singly, but when We de-
seconded upon her en- masse she
had to face some Of Us. And then
she found out that we were human
beings like herself, and eventually
she became very friendly toward
US.
That feeling Of antagonisn on
political grounds doesn't survive
now In Washington society. The
formation CT luncheon clubs in the
Senate and House has done O
great deal to END 1t. Recently
at q. tea given by Mrs. Shepherd.
Of Texas, most Of the guests. ]
think, were Republicans.
But precedence remains. and
probably always win remain
though II many more wild-eyed
Bolshevists break In on the hill.
we never can be sure what II
going to happen!
(Copyright, 1898, by Twenty-First
Century PresG.l
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SAY US


There was a time in my
life when I thought debts
just petty domestic
debts-were an inevitable
part Of life. Nowadays
the only word I have for
debt is unnecessary,
and the only word for
debtors stupid"
One Of the paradoxes is
that persons in debt are
always much more ex-
travagant than the others
who keep an orderly re-
lationship with grocer
and landlord.
y y y
The worst effect Of
habitual debts is mental.
Debt is a form Of cheat
ing, a form of stealing.
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ranks Of Cabinet naembeFs' wives.
and will discover at first hand
just the differences in social place
and privilege that the change I'm
plies.
As the wife Of an ambassador,
my place win be among the dipio-
mats, and there viii be things TO
learn there, too.
One OF the things Mrs. New
will be expected to do. IN her
present position. is to cali on all
Senate women. It's q part Of the
Cabinet job, and 1t has to be gone
through with as part Of the
social ritual. Those three pages
Of typed matter outlining the new
status will mean more to some
than to others, but they're In
teresting to everybody.
LIKES COOLIDGE HUMOR.
The farewell parties have been
pleasant, but just a bit sad. The
F'relinghuysens gave a dinner In
honor of the Coolidges and I had
the pleasure Of sitting next to the
Vice Notwithstanding that I
enjoy. for he IL full Of quiet
humor.
When the wives Of the ex-Sen-
ators and ex-Congressrnen 90
away some Of US will not meet
again. perhaps, for years. Mrs.
Calder, Mrs. France and Mrs.
Couzens gave an elaborate tea at
the. Willard farewell for Mrs.
Calder and Mrs. France, but the
first appearance for Mrs. Couzens.
Mrs. Calder looked unusually
we'll that day in a beautiful shade
OF blue georgette trimmed in
white beading. OF course, all the
dresses worn by the well-dressed
women are made along the pre-
vailing lines-straight and long,
and with very little trimming.
Mrs. France always dresses In
dark colors-very handsome but
not conspicuous.
It was the first time had seen
Mrs. Couzens, and / can hardly
recall how she was dressed, but
I know she Is a bright, attractive
The McCarthy weekly news., 1923-11-10

Al Jackson left for a trip down the Nizina during the first part of the week. He contemplates stalking ground adjoining Martin Harais, who, it is reported has made a good find. Several other men are awaiting reports.
 Colonel Stevenson had the mis fortune to lose his horse yester day. The horse attempted to en ter the BreneWi ok barn and in some manner broke it's neck. The carcass was sold to the dog mushnrS.
 Page col 8
The McCarthy weekly news., 1923-11-10
Town Talk

V. J. .DWyer, mayor, innkeep CT and. merchant of Strlena was d business visitor to Mccarthy Wednesday.
 Mrs. Wills suffered a severe a tack of grippe during the pas week. She put ir her appearance Thursday howevar, and is now we'll on the road to recovery. Neat Job Printing at moderate prices done at the News Office.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1923-11-10

was brot to town for repairs.
 The driver. Art Laverty, res cued himself by climb ping to the rear end, one side of which lest ed on some rocks, and was slight ly above the surface of the water
 At the point where the acci- dent occurred there is a sharp curve in the road, making it ne cessary for cars to run far into the bank then turn toward the lake and carefully s5raighten out to the road again. The truck be ing heavy affair, with a long body and a wheel tread fully foot wider than that of the or dinary car is not exactly adapt ed to such maneuvers. A slight snow had made the road slipper y, making it impossible for tn 6 driver to turn back into the road the car plunging into the water. It's cargo at the time consisted merely of load of wood which it was bringing to town.
 This same truck, two weeks a. go, broke cribbing in the road on the hill just beyond the low CT Tonsina road house. This was due as much to defective crib bing as to the weight of the truck, which was carrying two ton load of freight to the mining camp at Gukana. The road com mission is rebuilding the crib bing at this point.
 The truck is the only one of it's type Used here and is too large and too heavy for the trail in it's present condition. It was purchased by the Slate Creek Mining Company from mine ope- rators near Strelna, when opera tions in that vicinity ceased.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1923-11-10
cHITINA

The freeze-u has put an end to the work on the Chitina tun neI for the season. An extension Ot time has been granted the con tractor, owing to a charge in the terms of the contract. These at first called for the removal, by the contractor, of the earth only to the top of the tunnel, the rail road company agreeing to clear the lower part of the cut. It pro we'd, however, that slides thru the tim bering into the tunnel could not be prevented. There fore. the time of the contract Was extended, next years work being to remove every thing to the level of the track and ten feet each way from the center of the track at the base. Tbe sides of the cut will have a slope of forty five degrees Approximately thir ty thousand cubic yards of earth have been removed this year, the second year of work on the cut.
 Wilson Miller. who conducts the IazIina road house, 58 miles out, on the trail, met with a con siderable loss last week, when one of his big gray horses, run ming loose, fell over a cliff and burst blood vessel. When found the animal was dead. The horse was one of a fine team, with which Mir. Miller had planned on doing extensive freighting this winter.
 IIs Truck Takes A Dive
 A three ton Packard truck be longing to the Slate Creek Mi ming Company took dive into a deep lake three miles out on the trail last week, and remained there almost completely submer ged until rercued last Monday by caterpillar tractor. The truck seemed loath to leave it's watery resting place and at first disappeared completely; but af ter much coaxing it arose and
The McCarthy weekly news., 1923-11-10
Stulls Will
 Soon Be Loaded

Andy Taylor is constructing a heavy derrick beside the Mother Lode warehouse for A. E. Trimm who will use it to load timber consigned to Kennecott, on cars.
 The timber has been cut dur ing the past summer.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-05-03
SCHOOL NOTES

The local high school baseball team
won the first game of the season on the
home diamond Saturday from Cotton
wood 1t was an interesting game
from start to finish. Score was "a to %.
Seventh grade gave its annual pro-
gram Friday afternoon, consisting of
the following numbers: Forestry Week
notes Liberty notes, skit by the boys.
The Daughters of the Year by the
girls. Phlitus and the Steam Cars, the
Zoobso Band, by clown artists; vocal
duet, group calesthenics; picture pos
ing, five girls; instrumental duet; coon
duet. A goodly number of patrons re-
sponded to invitations to attend.
Ethel Henderson and Prudence Nor
gan have been absent from the seventh
grade on account of illness.
The seventh grade treated them
selves to number of musical selec>
lions Friday, having brought their in
struments for the ZoObos band.
~. (FrOm last week.
Those on the honor roll in the sew
enth grade for the fifth period are !:
Ethel Broughman. George BrOughman,
Floria Burke, Alice Byron, Helen
Carlton, Raymond Derrig, Vivian Far
ris, Lucille Frizzell, Kenneth Harris,
George Hogan, Cornell Korthuis, Ralph
Miller, Prudence Morgan, Leona Smith,
John Steinhouser, Edith Wilkin, Gar
rett Workman. Eva Wiley, Walter
Wilson and Zelda Lingo.
The sixth grade is reviewing spelling
and arithmetic and is spending consfd-
cradle time on silent reading.
Honor roll for the eighth grade for
the period just ended is: Ilde Chand-
Ter. Martha Neis. Bob Hardy, Lois
Gillett, Mildred Mather, Mary Webb,
Dorthy Stockton, Elma Mattox and
Nadine Gilkeson.
Those on the honor roll are Mar
ian Hurley, 81 percent George Schleier,
81 percent and Ethel Wilson, 80 per-
cent.
Viola lie Bout showed the most i'm
prOvement this six weeks over last six
weeks in the fifth grade, having i'm
proved percent in average.
Those attaining an average above
30 in the fourth grade are June
Eimers, Jack Wieder. Charlse Bon
stlom, Lenore Sims, Eve Jesse and
Nancy Ring.
Honor pupils for the thirl grade this
six weeks are: Jack Dyer, Grace Titus,
Eleanor Carrots, Elizabeth Nail, John
Lukens and Mary Frances Pickolick.