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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-12

midst.
my object has been to make
this collection a true epitome of
English art for the past cen
fury and a half. English art
throughout the centuries-I do not
speak OF the Primitives-is not
second to the art of any nation in
the world. Look through the last
Few centuries and you will find
English art, the art of the home
and not of the palace, transcends
In outline, in form, and in color
that OF any OF our neighbors. I
wanted to show here to succeeding
generations a collection of Brit.
ish art which would really tell us
our true position"
The collection is remarkably
complete. Reynolds, Romney,
Raeburn, Lawrence and Hoppner
are all represented by fine works.
George Morland, old Crome, and
Constable by several delightful
small works.
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SAP AND SALT
.RY Bert Moses

l--by bert NAV
You can't keep q real man
down.
If you can eat, sleep, work and
love. what more do you want!
To get rid Of a bad idea you
have to substitute q better one.
The best writer's are those who
get by with the fewest adjectives.
Doctors get the credit and the
fee: all Nature does is the curing.
Onions would be drug on the
market IL people could smell their
own breaths.
To succeed every institution
must keep two elements satisfied
its help and its customers.
Hez Heck says, when you
swing an ak you sweat when
you swing a golf stick you per.
spires'"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-12
ROYAL RANK
FOR BRIDE
OF DUKE
s'c1R1ghh Ip1a. p star ConnDang.

r oNDON. That the future
Duchess Of York is to as
- sumo royal rank after her
marriage is to be made part Of
the royal marriage contract now
AS q member Of royalty, the fu-
ture duchess will rank before
every lady In the peerage from
the duchesses downward. She
will, In public at. any rate, be en-
titled to be addressed as Mad.
am" by everybody not of royal
rank, and she will be attended at
all public and private social func-
tons by q lady-in-waiting.
At court she win rank, until
the Prince Of Wales marries, as
would the wife OF the Prince Of
Wales: that is to say, before
every royal lady except the
Queen. The future Duchess Of
York will indeed, after her mar
riage and until the Prince Of
Wales marries, fill the position
that the Princess Of Wales has al
ways occupied in England. She
will be the first" hostess in the
country. and her home will be-
come the center Of the best soci-
ETY..
The absence Of a Princess Of
Wales has been felt in society.
but the social duties that would
normally fall to her will in the
future be performed by the Ouch
ess Of York.
All this, Of course, means that
a big income must come from
somewhere, for the Duke, even
with the extra $4,000 a year that
he is supposed to get from the
nation when he marries land 1t
is in the existing state Of affairs
only a supposition), could not pos
sibly support the position he win
occupy after his wedding.
1t is said that the Prince Of
Wales will come to his brothers
financial assistance, and at the
moment this seems the only pos
sible way in which the Duke and
future Duchess of York win be
able to maintain the dignity Of
their station.
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Lucy Lowell Gets Letter from Girl
Eager to Become a
Trained Nurse
Become /;
Trained Nurse

into the world to relieve suffering
IL am capable OF doing il.
Isn't there someone in New
York who would give me a start
on my chosen profession by help
ing just a little financially2 Fifty
dollars would do it. promise that.
would pay IL back in small
amounts while I am training and
would study hard and be sue
cessful and be the most thankful
girl in the world. LOUISE"
Someway or other / don't think
you're as badly off as you believe,
Louise. A girl who has the pluck
to start in at thirteen and to work
and study after hours and raise
herself from q job at a factory
bench to the position Of secretary
to the head of big firm Is a
capable person and bound to sue
coed some time, some place.
Don't think, Louise, that I'M
derestimate the achievement
1t Is that-of bravely donning
your slender, shabby clothes in
this day Of stylish dressing so
that you may spend your money
in helping out the folks at home.
Your heart, should say, is golden
and your self-sacrifice a beautiful
thing.
Have you thought OF trying for
some evening work to make up
the fifty dollars you need?
Or, why don't you go to the
president OF your company, who
has known you and respected you
and reaped the benefit Of your
diligence through six years, and
tell him exactly what you have
written to me?
Americans are pretty human
gentlemen, even when they are
corporation presidents. It rather
seems to me that he would like
to help you.
Above all, don't stop having the
"unsatisfied feeling" It is that
very feeling from which springs
success.
Copyright. 1923, by King Features
syndicate. 1nc.)
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WORDS FROM
THE LIPS OF
WISE MEN
n SINGLE fact Is worth q ship
A load Of argument.

4 SINGLE fact Is worth q ship
"a load Of argument.
Terror Is more exhausting than
combat.
The most fortunate man Is he
who thinks himself so.
He is the best dressed whose
dress no one observes.
Luck is always against the man
who depends upon it.
Steep regions cannot be sur
mounted except with winding
paths.
A lie is like a snowball-the
further you roll it the bigger it
becomes.
Discipline is a medicine to be
used sparingly lest it's virtue be
lost.
He who has never known ad.
versity is but half acquainted
with himself.
Enthusiasm breeds revolution.
but revolution is apt to kill en-
thusiasm.
Parents should not have one
law for themselves and another
for their children.
Flattery blows a bubble around
a man-just praise puts q foun.
dalton under him.
Discretion is the perfection Of
reason and a guide to us In all
the duties OF life.
Learning without thought IL
labor lost-thought without learn.
ing Is sometimes perilous.
Noble souls, through dust and
heat,
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger. -Longfellow.
Hope thinks nothing difficult
despair tells us that difficulty In
insurmountable.
Copyright, 1928. Newspaper Feature
Service. Incl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-12
By Lucy Lowell.

/" ERE'S a letter. q brave and
strange Hnissive. Read It:
Dear Miss Lowell: I do
hope you WIN not think me bold
for writing you when there are so
many who need your attention
more than I do.
II am girl Of twenty and all
my life my one ambition has been
to be nurse, to help relieve the
sick and helpless and make life
seem worth living to them. This
has been my hope, my cherished
ambition.
4But I am only a grammar
school graduate, and have been
working since I was thirteen. !
started in a factory, but that did
not satisfy me. When was four
teen came to the Big Town and
secured position as office girl.
/ stayed after my work was
through and learned tipping and
studied to the best Of my ability
without the aid of a tutor. I
always had that unsatisfied feel
ing.
To-day, at twenty, do all the
personal work Of the president
Of the company. My salary is
fairly good, considering the amount
Of schooling received. But what
I want most to say IL that always
have been striving to be free from
debt and get just the few things
necessary to every girls ward
robe, that I may start out on my
chosen profession. But something
always turns up.
Don't get the idea that I am
a pessimist. I keep my face to
the sunshine, SO the shadows fall
behind me.
My folks are very poor and
1t is helping sthem out that has
left me without bank account and
oh, so very limited and shabby a
wardrobe. But have health,
vitality and that desire to go out
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Once-Overs
MEET NEW PEOPLE AND ENLARGE YOUR CIRCLE
p

Make it point to meet some people in while
You will gain viewpoints and different ideas from
association with people.
Every intellectual person meet if you sufficiently
intellectual to bring out his Ideas will give you much to
think about
When you begin to think in channels you will make
discoveries.
is SO easy to let your train of thought stay on one
track and wear out that track.
When you no longer add to your knowledge and expert
to expand. 80
Often association for time with persons outside von
circle your own home town gives you greater apprca
ton Of the with whom you better ACQUAINTED
At any rate it good thing broaden one environ
ment. A
One often tired Of the faces and the same
good qualities as embodied in those every day. So
one is apt to forget the good points Of daily associates
Old friends best but is essential for you to meet
outsiders not only to but to appreciate the home ok
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Many World Famous Art Works in
Lady Lever Collection

ONDO N.-Two little china
figures were. by ORA
matte contrast, the princi-
pal attractions in the great collec-
ton Of world famous works Of art
gathered by Viscount Leverhulme
in the Lady Lever Art Gallery,
which was opened at Port Sum
light recently by Princes Beatrice.
They attracted attention be-
cause Of the story Lord Lever
hulme told about them at the
opening ceremony.
Those two Derby bisque fig
ures,'I he said, were the first
things ever bought for my col
lection. They stood on the mantle
piece of our little home in Upper
Dickinson street. Wigan, in the
days when was young grocer.
"I do not think they need be
ashamed Of the company in which
they find themselves today, nor,
think. need the costly works be
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SPIRITUALIST
IS READY TO
DO BATTLE

To the Editor OF the Times:
Your paper has attributed to
Mr.. p. T. Barnum the expression.
'"The stupidity Of the public can.
not be exaggerated" will add.
the stupidity of the Darwinian
Scientist cannot be exaggerated.
This is in answer to the Challenges
on the last column Of the issue
of your paper of January 81 last.
entitled, "A Challenge to Spiritual.
ISM" In sounding my conch.
stand ready for battle. Yours
very truly,
ADRIAN VAN WYEK BUDD.
Pupil Of 1shwara Agenii,
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MYEW YORK reports nearly 500 cases 81 sleepne sic
~ ness in week. Take care. Spanish fl carries Il
- deadly singer st both ends
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Some Perfectly Obvious Things.


x - MING engineers, caught with empty canteens
NI desert off the Gulf of California distilled sea
49, water in tin cans and won through. The head
is full Of relief expeditions.
DR.. Pearl, also at Johns Hopkins, finds that most
folk die from arrangements of the alimentary tract
heart troubles and pulmonary infections.
Nothing to Methuselah, still such knowledge
hasn't taught hundred generations to watch diet,
control passions avoid exposure When we properly
protect ourselves in these respects, than thirty
persons in million will be centenarians.
Slum babies found to be healthier than Vanity
Fairs Perfectly credible. Tenement jewellers nurse
their children and personally for them There are
still no substitutes for devoted mothers
Father Knickerb0cker's Market Basket.
TITS proposition looks especially feasible when
reads the Agricultural Departments statement that
Father Knickerbocker buys billion pounds of but
ter cheese and poultry; eats billion pounds Of meat
drinks billion and a-haH quarts of milk, and consumes
corresponding quantities Of fruit bread vegetables and
fish every year.
Considering which figures, New York should be far
more concerned the difficulties of farmers and ranch
men, All America is interdependable Sectionalsm cam
not serve national welfare We prosper uniformly
not at ALL
The stock ticker should therefore jump at tidngs Of
farm, orchard, RANCH and planta
ton yield for 1922.
Texas led the way with q billion-dollar output The
South produced 90 per cent Of the total The country s
coming aongl
tcepyr,sAt aaaahz
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-24
AN OPEN LETTER

EDITOR EVENINGS NEWS:
May I ask that you kindly publish
the following letter in your paper:
An open letter to Committeeman
Hoy. OF Woodbridge township.
AZ president of the Avenel Pro.
gressive Association and a member
of the local taxpayers association,
I attended the special meeting held
day night for the purpose OF addins
to the representation OF citizens IN
favor OF granting a permit to the
Steel Equipment Corporation to ex-
tend their present plant at Avens 81.
Aside from this issue l had no fur
ther interest at the meeting. l pre-
pared to leave the hall, but You
invited me to stay. I pleaded an
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-24

that the road committee, of which
you are chairman. be investigated
by the township committee. I have
evidently placed myself in your dis
favor as head OF this organization
On account OF this resolution.
Now. Mr.. Hoy. you accuse me IN
language u~nbecoming a ma in yolr
high position OF not having a GER
tain necessary human organ. I chal-
ienge you 10 prove that you have all
the necessary qualifications as a hui
maj which you claim I lack. I
challenge you to go before your
constituents and demand that they
make thorough and impartial In
vestigation Of the committee OF
which you are chairman. You have
nothing TO fear Mr.. Hoy so long as
you administration of this office
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-24

ed in the boys are there. any time
IN the day or night, rain OF snow,
and fight fires and protect your prop
erty from loss. with charity that
can't live on kind words. Help them
remember u boys who get up from
their beds and answer alarms in the
dead Of night.
A year ago nine lives were lost.
and II viii always go down a our
memory. Then we missed our fire.
men, the watch Of the city. When
the Mandel building burned they
were reused from their beds in the
early morning and answered without
4 grun5ie. SO It Is up 10 the people
to do their bit and fight for pay for
our Perth Amboy fire ladies.
ARTHUR MARTINsEN.
Steadman Place.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-24

other engagement whereupon you
Insulted me with the remark that
I did not have the CUTS to stay. >
Just what did you mean by this re-
mark?
Mr.. Hoy you were elected by the
vote OF the people to act as Their
public servant and not to cast. in
sulting remarks when your employ
ers are present to see that you carry
out your sworn duty honestly and
faithfully. 1t is very fortunate that
the citizens OF this township have
no power at present to use the
privilege of recalling public servants
who abuse their employers. But the
da of reckoning shall come.
M Hoy, at the iass meeting of the
Avenel Progressive Association a
resolution was unanimously adopted
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-24
THE FIRYkfEN
itor Evening News:

Editor Evening News:
I recently read a letter TO the
News from Mr.. Weeks regarding the
city dumps. They are a nuisance,
l agree with Mr.. Weeks. His family
is TO be protected, and the brave Gre
men who risk their lives going to the
fire. There are hazards enough with
out crazy calls. 1 hope boa IS rings
every hour In the day until the city
puts a man 10 watch the dumps.
Another thing / favor is pay for
u boys. New Brunswick has men
paid to stay in the frehouse at all
times. Perth Amboy is a wonderful
city and has a great manufacturing
enterprise which requires fire SER
vices. Every time the alarm il turn,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-24

newspaper in taking up the subject
for editorial comment evidently did
not consider the article carefully
from which 1t obtained its informa-
ton. 1t Is true that the proposed
concerts are to be given free to the
city of Newark. but voluntary sub
scriptions from the public will foot
the bills. There will be no request
made from the city authorities for
an appropriation, and therefore the
concerts will be free to the city gov
eminent, and no burden to the tax
payers will be incurred. But the
players will be paid and well paid.
Yours very truly,
(Signed)
EDWARD SCHAAF, Pres.
Newark Philharmonic Concert Band.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-24

has been conducted honestly and
faithfully. AS citizens we are priv
ileged to ask for this investigation
without any threats or hesitation
from any publicly elected official
and as citizens we demand II. The
records Of your committee are pub
lie property.
Threatened violence begets moth
ing, the power OF words, the pow sr
or press and pen and the mower Of
referendum shall always predomi-
nate, and truth crushed to earth
shall rise.
Your very truly.
HARRY S. ABRAMS.
iou ma things you need offered for
sale under ARTICLES Fer saiea IN are
Classified Section today. Vs
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-22
KEYPoRT CHURCHES

ST. JOHNS NJ. E.-Rev. II. d.
Strattcn, pastor. Glass meeting at
o:45 A. NJ. Andrew j. Latham, lead
er. Morning service and sermon by
the pastor at 1920 A. NJ. Topic:
"Trumpeting the Gospel" Sunday
school at $3.50 P. M. Harry Nance
superintendent. Evening service and
sermon by the pastor at 1880 P. NJ.
Topic: THE Nations Call-Wanted,
a Man"
REFoRMED-Rev. T. T. 70. I:ey-
nolds, pastor. Sunday school at els
A. NJ. George S. Hyer, superinter-
dent. Morning service and sermon
by the pastor at 10:45 A. NJ. Topic:
Moving Powers" Special address
to the junior church. Evening wor-
ship and sermon at 7:45 P. NJ. Top
ic of general interest.
CALVARY M. E.-Rev. H. B.
White. pastor. Sunday school at
GAS A. M T. Walter Snyder, SUI
perintendent. Morning service and
sermon by the pastor at II A. NJ.
Topic: Our Christian Mission" Ep-
worth league meeting at 1880 P. NJ.
Evening worship and sermon at s P.
NJ. Topic: The Constitution, Tenn
perance."
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN - Rev.
William A. Service. pastor. Morn
ing worship and sermon at 1890 A.
NJ. Preaching by the Rev. ]. l..
Ewing, the Synodical s%uperinten-
dent. Sunday school at 1880 A. NJ.
Raymond D. Mckinney. superinten-
dent. Evening worship and sermon
by the pastor at s P. NJ.
FIRST BAPTIST-Rev. Frank S.
Harwood, pastor. Sunday school at
$3.50 A. NJ. T. j. Hopkins, superin-
tendent. Morning service and SER
mon by the pastor at 10:45 A. M.
Special address to the children, top
ic: "A Double Exposure" Topic of
discourse; People Who Are in the
Way" Baptist Young Peoples meet
ing at 7:15 p. M. Leader Miss Eliza
beth Chinery, topic: Gems From
Books l have Read" Evening wor-
ship and sermon by the pastor at s
p. M. Topic: THE Will to Win"
ST. MARY'S EPISCOPAL-Rev.
Philip S. Smith, rector. Sunday
school at 9:45 A. NJ. Morning pray
er and mathis. Charles j. Lehn, con-
ductor at IL A. M,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-22
KEYP0RT

Invitations have been received by
several relatives and friends to the
wedding of Miss Marion Adair WV
ers, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Rob
ert Vivers of Lynhurst, to Frank
Winfield Scott Tilton, son of Mr..
and Mrs. G.. Webster Tilton OF
Rutherford, the ceremony to take
place in Grace church. Rutherford
on Wednesday evening october
10th. Both are well-known here
having been frequent visitors at the
home of Mrs. F. w. Tilton of Third
street.
The ladies' Democratic club of
this borough will hold a food sale
in the borough hall on Saturday,
September 29th.
Mrs. Tilton T. Van Mater of
South Keyport was hostess to the
afternoon bridge club at her home
this week, the prize winners being
Mrs. e. I. Hoose. Mrs. Norman
B. Lockwood and Mrs. o. c. Bo-
gardus. Following the game a
pleasant time was enjoyed. Those
playing were Mrs. Harvey S. Bedle.
Mrs. Elmer e. Morris. Mrs. Edith
v. Wyckoff, Mrs. L. F. Enrich
Mrs. James t. Walling, Mrs. Will
lam T. Walling, Mrs. Harvey Bron
ner, Mrs. Asbury w. Campbell, Mrs
N. B Lockwood, Mrs. e. T. Hoose,
Mrs. w. T. Van Mater and Mrs. o.
C. Bogardus.
Mr. and Mrs. David Matthews OF
Red Bank were guests OF the lat
ter's mother Mrs. Isaac N. Johnson
Of Osborn street this week.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-22
TOTTENVILLE

Mrs. George Del Crosse and Miss
Antoinette Narciso are home after
a vacation in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Margaret Allen has gone to
San Antonio Texas, to teach at the
Bonn-Avon school for girls.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Hamblet
sare home after a trip up the state by
auto.
Patrolman Eugene Newman has
returned to duty from his annual
vacation which he spent up the
state.
Police Captain James McIvor and
Patrolman Edward Streeter, clerical
man at the local station attended
the annual dinner of the Police
Captains Association at Marconi's
hotel, New Dorp. Wednesday night.
A marriage license has been is
sued to Miss Mary Zolantia and
Charles Kovach of Kreischer street
Kreischerville.
A dance was held last night at
the Young Mems Business Club
house.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the
Aquehonga Athletic Club has ar
ranged for another card party to be
held at the club house Tuesday af-
ternoon
Staten Island Court. Order of
Amaranth, met last night at the
Masonic temple
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-22
DRIVE !
TO WOODBRIDGE
G. O. P. Primary Candidates
Speak at Meeting of Re-
pubIicanS

WOODBRIDGE, Sept. %. = Out
side of a stirring speech by Senator
Morgan +. Larson, who was accord
ed a cordial reception when he APP
peared last night before a well at
tended meeting of the Republican
Club, the chief interest of the audi
ence centered around the primary
fight for the nomination of sheriff,
both candidates. Frederick Gowen
and David A. Brown being present.
Brown, being a native son, was with
out doubt the popular figure with
the listeners but the speech of Cow
en-, in which he ably put forward his
platform and assured his opponent
of his support in case he is defeated.
was given an enthusiastic round of
applause.
Besides the speakers above noted
Assemblymen Hansen and Hoffman,
and John A. Smith. a candidate for
nomination to that office, gave brief
talks outlining their stands. Direc-
tor Dey and F~reeholders Orpen were
others who spoke.
The, only candidate for a local Of
flee present except Mayor Louis Neu-
berg who presided as president OF
the club were Barron Levi, cand
date as committeeman from the first
ward. and William Hoy. candidate
from the second ward. Levi was the
only one to speak.
Chairman Neuberg named the fol-
lowing executive COMMITTEES TO OUT
line and direct the campaign: Bar
ron McNulty. Asher Fitz Randolph.
j. H. Thayer Martin. r. A. Hirner,
F. F. Anness, NJ. 1. Demarest, and T.
w. LiddIe.