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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-05

Mrs. p. E. Patton of Regain
shopped and visited here today.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-19
Drawings by. Leslie Elton
Story by Hal Cochran
CHAPTER %

But before they knew the cyclone
came cres by Jack looked about him and noticed that the little Nut
eny out 81 Flip chung to Jack continued growing
What harm Jack And
thicker white
just in Of Jack and his Flip
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-19

There was a loud bang and when
the smoke had cleared away Nancy
and Nick saw a dreadful sight.
The tin soldiers had put a big
shooting cracker under the toy bridge
and blown it up.
Something else had happened. too.
Every one of the wooden soldiers
in their brave red jackets lay in a
long row on the ground.
"Are they all dead?" exclaimed
Nancy in dismay. did the shoot
ing kill them?'
mo" said the Tinker Man, "but
well have TO hurry and help them
mp. They can't get up when they
fall down because they can't bend
in the middle"
ITS funny how they could all be
hit at once" Nick couldn't help say
ing in spite of their hurry.
wooden soldiers are like ten
pins" exclaimed the Tinker Man.
when one gets knocked over, he
falls against the soldier next to him
and knocks him down, too. He falls
against his neighbor and he falls,
and so on down the line. No doubt
the general got hit with the splinter
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-19

In TOW VII ihc Siou'"'
off the bridge and fell backward,
and that knocked them all over. Cen
eral Gold Braid is always getting
hurt"
All the time they were talking, the
three of them were hurrying toward
the scene of battle, and now they ar
rived at the field.
The tin soldiers had stopped firing
because there was no one left to shoot
at. and the bridge being down they
could not get over the river TO cap
ture the enemy.
They had jumped off their tin no: ses
and were wiping the water off their
steeds and off themselves too, to
keep from ruSting, as the wooden
soldiers had used water guns.
Nick set General Gold Braid on
his feet first. and soon they had the
rest of the wooden soldiers on their
feet in n nice even row.
Think you," said General Gold
Braid stiffly. "Will you kindly look
for my arms. I've lost them both,
l believe"
ITO Be Continued
Copyright, 1923, NEA Service,
Inc.)
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
HEART FAILURE
LEADSlN D. {.
DEATHS
Tuberculosis Displaced As Most
Fatal Disease Here,
Report Shows.

tuberculosis, which for years has
contributed the highest death rate
from any one disease in Washington,
is no longer the cause of the great
est number of deaths here. Organic
disease of the heart is now showing
the greatest number of fatalities in
this city.
Health Department statistics in.
dictate that the mortality from heart
disease has displaced tuberculosis as
the disease which contributes the
highest death rate" says the weekly
bulletin of the department.
"It should be borne in mind" the
report continues, that while the
available figures are larger for heart
disease alone, they do not represent
entirely all fatalities which might
quite properly be attributed to this
disorder. Many deaths from acute
diseases, pneumonia, for one in
stance, are strongly influenced by a
weakened heart action, In the ab-
sence of which. the patients would
have had a far better chance of re-
coVery.
Something may be done in con-
trolling the onset of those. maladieS
which essentially affect the heart,
and much can be done to diminish
the mortality by an early knowledge
Of the existence of these defects. A
goodly proportion of these heart
troubles originates in early life and
the patient himself is unaware OF
their existence.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
60 PERS
To LEAD
FIGHT
Employees Facing Wage Cut TO
Be Selected for First
Experiment.

The task of unionizing 1900
women workers in Washington,
some of them threatened with
wage cuts because Of the mini
mum wage decision of I the Su-
preme Court, is the subject of a
conference at the American Fed
Grafton of Labor headquarters to-
day.
GOmpers Dominates.
President Gompers' is dominating
the meeting, which twenty officials
of local labor organizations are Mt
tending. Their purpose is to
mobilize for a grim fight with
Washington employers of female
labor who are said ITO be contemplat-
ing wholesale wage reductions be-
cause the MINIMUM wage law has
been wiped out Of existence
In addition To representatives of
the two retail clerks unions, dele
gates from the women employed in
the printing trades, the bookbinders,
the cigar makers, the drafting trade.
the Central Labor Union, the vari-
Gus departments of the A. f. of l..
are joined in the conference, which
convened III The assembly hall Of
the federation shortly after II
o'clock today.
Miss Ethel Smith, of the National
Women'st Trade Union League, also
attended, the conference. IT is not
expected that definite policy will
be framed at this preliminary or
ganiZation conference.
1t is understood that a tentative
plan of organizing women workers
in the District already, has been
arrived at by the A: II. of L. Of
ficials. Inasmuch as Washington
is the Capital of the country, the
Federation is ready ITO expend a
considerable amount of money to
save minimum wage standards that
have been established here. They
believe the success of unionizing
women workers here would have a
stimulating effect on labor through
out the United States.
Unless / mistake the feeling IF
the working women of this city,
says President Qompers, they will
welcome the relief to be had
through organization. We shall dis
cuss in our conference a program
for an immediate and vigorous
campaign to- organize the women
wage carriers OF w washington exec
lively and solidly and in this
splendid cause ] feel I have the
support Of the public opinion of
Washington"
The Federation meeting today is
entirely independent of the cam
paigh Of the National Women s
Trade Union League to organize a
national protest of working and
professional women against the
Supreme Court notification of the
minimum wage law. In many IN.
'dustrial districts the unionization of
women workers has reached a high
state of development, but, with the
exception Of the Federation of Fed
eral employees, which contains a
large percentage of women mem.
bers. there has been little organiza-
ton along the same line here.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
MT. PLEASANT BUILDING
GROUP ELECTS DR.. Balm

DR.. Seneca 3. Balm was last night
elected president of the Mount Pleas
ant Building Association at a meet
ing of stockholders in the Park Saw
ings Bank building. George r. Har'
rell was selected vice president
Charles r. Clayton, secretary; Har'
ley V. Speelman, treasurer, and W.
j. Bowman, collector.
The association voted a new board
Of directors. A dividend of per
cent and an extra dividend Of 10 per
cent was declared at the meet. The
office of the association has been
moved to 3014 Fourteenth street
northwest.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
'BALLOU To HEAD
SCHOOLS
AGAIN
Reelection. for Three Years
More by Board of Education
Seems Assured.

DIR. Frank w. Ballou, superin-
,tendent OF schools, whose three-year
term expires June so. will be re-
elected by the Board of Education
for another thFee-year term, it was
understood today.
The board, it is said, is satisfied
with Or. Ballou's record here and is
anxious for him to continue in
office. The election probably will
be held the last of next month or
the early part of June. DR.. Ballous
1t became known today. will accept
reappointment to the post.
No opposition to DR.. Ballou's APP
pointment is expected from any
member of the board. The board,
it is understood, has informally dis
cussed the coming election, and it
appears that DR.. Ballou will be the
unanimous choice.
DIR. BaIlou came to Washington
from Boston, where he was assist
ant superintendent of schools. He
succeeded Ernest L. Thurston as
superintendent here.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
CHASE IS
WORK|NGFOR
IDEALS
Beautiful Maryland Suburb
!. Plans High Standards for
7 New Developments.

The village of Chevy Chase. Md,
beautiful suburb just across the
District line, which was beginning
to believe that it had about reached
the limit of its development, Is anti
cipating a considerable building
boom during the coming year.
The boom will be a result of the
extension of Grafton street west
ward to Wisconsin avenue, furnish.
ing a new and much needed traffic
outlet for residents of Somerset,
Friendship Heights, Drummond
Bethesda, and 'other sections skirt
ing Wisconsin avenue.
The only connecting highway at
present between Wisconsin and
Connecticut avenues in the subur-
ban section is Bradley Lane, and
much of the traffic that now goes
over this artery will be diverted to
Grafton street in the future. Work
on the extension of the street has
already begun and will be completed
In the fall. Grafton street inter
scots Connecticut avenue at Chevy
Chase Circle.
To Maintain Standard.
The building development that is
expected to follow the opening up
of the street will be in keeping with
the present standard of beauty of
the suburb. All of the houses must
be detached, with ample grounds
around them, and apartment houses
and stores will continue to be
barred.
The village OF Chevy Chase is
one of the few suburban communities
that absolutely forbids stores of
any kind This policy has been
closely followed, so as not to mar
the beauty of the suburb. But this
does not mean that residents of the
village are without store facilities.
Business houses of every descrip.
tion-siX groceries, two drug stores
two hardware stores, three tailors, a
shoemaker. an automobile supply
shop, bakery, a delicatessen store,
a gaS-filling station, a bank, and a
motion. picture theater-are to be
found within a few blocks, just
south of the Circle on the District
side. There is only one store on the
Maryland side, and that is a grocery
on the Brookeville road, long estab
lished and some distance from the
heart of the village.
The natural beauty of the vii
lage of Chevy Chase, with it's
hedges, shrubbery, shade trees
and countless varieties of birds, is
said to surpass that of any other
community in this section of the
country. The maintenance of this
standard of beauty is the domi
mating thought in the minds of
the Chevy Chase Citizens Commit.
tee, the governing body of the
village.
Has Novel Government.
The village of Chevy Chase is
known AS Section of the Chevy
Continued on Page 2S)
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
WOMAN ASKS $4,000
FOR PERSONAL INJURY

Elizabeth Marshall today filed
suit in the District Supreme Court
against the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company and the Wash.
ington Terminal Company for sos.
COO each, alleging personal injuries.
Plaintiff represented by Attorney
Max Rhoade, alleges that she was
employed by the defendant con,
panies as a cleaner and that while
crossing the track May l, 1922. AT
the "Foreman's Office" In the ward
OF the company, she was struck by
an engine and seriously and per.
n4anently injured.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
TASTING THE EVIDENCE.

Dear Bill: A Los Angeles,
CAL, Jury IN a bootleggimg case
Wos given the right to drink the
eU1demce. 1t did so, found the
stuff good and disagreed upon
o. Verd1ct. With the Evidence all
drunk up 1t may not be possible
to try the case again.
Washington juries IN some
cases mould like to test the evi-
dence by drimking it, but IN other
cases l doubt If you could get
members of jury to drink the
stuff offered IN Evidence. 1t
WoItd be equiUHLemi to sentence
ing themselves to death.
ia YBIRD.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
SIXTEEN BITTEN BY
DOGS IN PAST WEEK

The District Health Department
today issued a warning to the people
of the District to avoid sick dogs
THE poundmaster has been ex.
eeedingly busy during the past week
in rounding up dogs that have
bitten persons and animals" says
the departments weekly report.
During the week ending April Ia,
sixteen dogs who had bitten per-
sons were collected and examined.
None of the animals, however, man.
ltested symptoms Of rabies.'
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
PEPC0SlJIT
FUN IS
S2,694
Success of Citizens Fight Now
Means Return of About $40
to Each Consumer.

The average Washington family
using electricity will get a $40
refund if the Public Utilities
Commission wins the Potomac
Electric Power Company valua-
ton case, which is before the
District courts.
The electric company now has
in its treasury $4,OOO,000 of the
peoples money, most of which
will be returned to $1,000 cleo
trio consumers in Washington ir
event the commission wins the
case.
Going to $5,OOO,OOO.
The t4,000,000 is today's figure.
BY the time the case is finally set.
tied this fund will total about $4,000.
600, thus increasing the consumers
individual share in the fund.
Citizens who are contributing to
the fund to retain special counsel to
fight this case Iii the courtsgwi1l get
something back. They are fighting
both for d principle and a cash re-
turn.
The electric case is now at stand
still. In a short time the fight in
the courts will begin. District law
yers are confident of winning.
They are seeking possession of the
ever growing impounded fund to re-
turn it to the public, rightful own
ers of the money.
Dividend Is Declared.
The fund to retain Conrad I'll.
Syme, whose work as special
counsel for the commission ends on
July 1, has now reached $2,694.3a.
If $4,000 is raised by July /, Mr..
Syme will continue at his post for
the next year, during which time
the case is expected to be finally
settled.
Directors of the Washington Rail-
way and Electric Company, sole
owners of the Potomac Electric
Power Company, yesterday declared
a S per cent dividend on the com
mon stock Of the parent corporation.
The dividend to be distributed totals
1925, 900
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
EMINENT SPEAKERS FOR
SOCIAL WORK CONFERENCE

DIR. Livingston Farand, president
of Cornell University, formerly
connected with the American Red
Cross in this city, will speak on
Social Work and Health Pro.
grams" at the fiftieth anniversary
of the National Conference of So
cial Work. to be held here soon.
Among the other speakers will be
DR.. Frank j. Goodnow, president
of Johns Hopkins University; Ros
coe Pound, dean of Harvard Univer
sity law school, and the Rev.
Smaller Mathews, dean of the divin
ity school, University of Chicago.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
BUG HOLLOW NOTES.

Shakespeare TOOt's long deferred
concert was gave last night. as
Shake has now recovered MS
health pretty well. There was
people here from as far away as
AIOzankO, and Shake was applaud
ed to all the echoes. He read sew
eraI of the old fayOrites, and his
latest poems. "IBe Kind to Ants"
and "Dumb Dusk" which moved
the audience profoundly. Uncle Ell
TOmplxins, who heard Dickens when
he was a boy, says Shake Is lots
like him. Selections was also rem
dered by Wood Tick and sigsbee
good. In. between the recltatiOns
by Shake.
DIR. RubbIey. the Osteopath from
Granville, was here yesterday tend
ing to Miss Pretti Week, who has
been suffering ron ~. ne ~ hst
ter at this writing.
Mr., o, ID. Dickens. Of st. Louls,
was here last week selling gro
ceries and calling on Miss Pretti
Weeke.
Patrick Murphy had the chill
dren's picture taken ON old DObbtn
by q travelling photographer on st.
Patrick's dav. and Pulliam Legg has
been busy since treating him Dob
bin1 for the heaves. He says he
thinks he will pull through: but
it was too much of q strain for q
horse ii years old. Mr.. Murphy
has hopes of getting enough for
the nlcfHre from q city Sunday
paDer. though, to pay Pulliam. We
will have a copy of the picture
when IL comes out. as Daniel and
Robert and Plus and MavOuFneen
and Michael and Peter and Bene-
dict and Margaret and Sweetie are
favOrites with all and an honor to
any horse.
Willie MatehwelI Sundayed out
at the EIyeher Tompkins' place.
playing with little Igetta and
sIgofta Holt. from Pink City, who
are there again.
GENE BLOSSOM.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
Y. M. C. A. TO ENTERTAIN
$50 BOYS AT CAMP LET'S

About $50 boys will be the guests
of the Y. M. c. A. at Camp Let's
near the banks Of the Rhodes river
beginning June %. The camp,
which consists of about 149 acres OF
good soil, will be titled and Vegeta-
bleS grown.
Tennis courts, baseball diamonds
and an athletic field have been made.
Canoes and rowbOats have been
placed on the river and there will be
aquatic sports.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
CHINESE MERCHANT IS
ACQUITTED OF ASSAULT

Charges Of assault with a deadly
weapon, following the shooting of
Elmer Turner. colored, March 25.
against Lee Yen, proprietor of a chop
Suey house at 1910 Seventh street
northwest, were today dismissed by
Judge Hardison in police court.
Yen is alleged to have shot Turner
in the back following an argument
over a bill, in which dishes and
other culinary ammunition fitted
hither and Won,
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
On Pennsylvania Avenue
zoe see the sign, "HoteL Ara
rat" That's the spot where
Pop Noah aOds left high and
dry. FRED VETTER.
THE GOATS CLOSE CALL.

Bits Office Goat was feeling fine,
Ate three red shirts off Bills clothes
line.
Bill took a club and broke it's back
And tied the goat to railroad track.
The fast express was coming nigh.
Bills .. g. was doomed, but not to
die.
He had commissions and. in his pain,
Coughed up the red shirts and tagged
the train. TUTZIJK
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
4 f. OIL. Seeks To OrganizeDC.W Women
(S1IEARIl.toSEEB}O!.
~A1zRR1f0 'L-oBy BILL PRICE 9 Aaz ~ !
SLOGANS AND TRADEMARKS.

SLOGANS AND TRADEMARKS.
PUZZLED" thinks the fans
of the old column might have
some fun over commercial slo-
gans and trademarks. That is,
print the slogan or trademark
and see how many shrewd folks
are able to tell the product it
advertises and the name of the
company producing or selling it.
We do know one thing-this
would be mighty fine free adver-
Using for somebody.
In the collection Puzzled"
sends in we note these two:
"THE CORSET INVISIBLE"
THE HAM WHAT AM"
We don't quite get this corset
ad. All of them, we thought,
should be invisible when worn by
dainty -femininity. If anybody
wishes to explain this we want
the explanation from WOMEN,
not men.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
BACK TO PROBLEMS AGAIN.

1--WE haven't had a math prob
lem in long time" says H. B.
ROSSELL, and he invites arith-
metical sharks who follow the
column to turn into the editor
their answers to this one:
A, speaking to B., addresses
him in the following verse:
''My youthful friend, when first
we met,
Twas years ago, you see,
My age exceeded yours as much
As three times three does three;
Now. when your age is doubled,
and
We meet again, i Ween,
Your age approaches mine as close
AS eight does to sixteen"
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
WORD WISDOM.

Notice the array of consonants
in the four words following:
Schnapps,
SchmeItZ,
Sphragistics,
Phthisic.
And those two words in which
all the vowels follow in rotation:
AbstemiOus,
FacetiOus.
And this old-time sentence,
where one vowel is repeated in all
the words:
Persevere, We perfect men,
Ever keep these precepts ten.
H. SMITH.
1T MIGHT BE WORSE.
(From the Kaukauna Wis TirnesN
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
Biologists to Meet.

The Biological Society will hold
its regular meeting, Saturday at
p. m at the Cosmos Club. Two
illustrated addresses will be given.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
School Health Report.

Only 35 per cent of .040 public
school pupils examined during the
month of March were of normal
weight, according to the weekly re-
port of the Health Department
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
Oldest Inhabitants to Meet.

The April meeting Of the Associ-
alton of Oldest Inhabitants, Dis
trict of Columbia will be held
Wednesday evening at o'clock in
the Union Engine House. must
cal program will follow the meeting.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
K. of c. Meeting.

Grand Knight John f. Burns will
preside at a meeting of the Keane
Council TO be held tonight at 8
o'clock. Knights of Columbus band
will render a concert following the
meeting
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
CHANGE IS
HELD Up
IN Old
RATE
.secretary's Action Follows
Warning by Admirals That
Service Will Suffer.

Because of protests of labor
organizations and individuals
against the Governments rev
wage schedule for Navy Yard en-
ployes, Secretary of the llayy
DENLY has ordered the reopcning
of the entire question and the
revision of scales which were to
go into effect on May 1, 1t as
announced officially today.
Statement By Roosevelt.
Assistant Secretary of the sSssv4
Roosevelt made the following iste,
ment:
Reports from various navy
yards have convinced the Depart
ment that the recent changes in
the wages of certain trades III pr
vate industrial establishment IN
various localities render 1t mad
visabIe that the wage sche u
just promulgated, which become ef
fective May L. be revised.
Wage boards will therefore be
convened at the various yards -
collect new data and recommend
revised scale, which will go into ef
feet July and continue until the
first of the year Pending revision
of the wage scale effective Ma
no reductions will be made frof -
scale effective Septembr 16, 1891
The proceedings of the wage
will be under the new regulat .ons.
NJ taieaheta
Theat by WOrkmen.
Announcement of the decis.o -
reopen the wage question was Iiss1-fs
by Roosevelt today following a co1s
ference with Rear Admiral Plum .eti,
commandment of the New York
yard, and Rear Admiral n
commandant of the Philade.
navy yard.
They laid before the Secretary the
conditions in the localities OF their
yards, pointing out that only re-
Gently since the local boards had
submitted their data. there had been
marked increases in wages paid BY
commercial firms.
1t is understood the Philadelphia
workmen, as protest against the
new wage scale, had served notice
that their resignation as a body
would be effective on May 1
Admiral Plunkett notified the
department that under the revised
scale it would be impossible Tor the
navy yard to keep even its older
Continued on Page 2S@
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
GOOD JUDGMENT.

"Win you share my lOt?" asked the
city youth
OF the country lass In the blue
sunbOnnet,
ell share II with yOu," she said,
If it's got q garage and a bunga-
FI.APPY JACK.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
PATCHING" NECESSARY

My old man has run away,
And from N. Y. comes a line:
"Dear, I'Ve gone off on a tear
I'm having a ripping time"
HANK HAWKINS.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26

Many a married man fails
to hear opportunity knocking
at the door because his wife
answers both front and back
doors and keeps the telephone
busy all the time!
HANK HA WKINS.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26

Mrs. Minnie WOorst. Of Chicago,
Is visiting at the home of her sister,
Mrs. Mary WursteF.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-02-09
RIDGE MOVE
mot ENDORSED
eeholderS Take No Action
pm Proposition for Span to
TottenviIIe

Kew BRUNSWICK, Feb. 9.-Ap-
val of the authorization by the
Ee of looking into the feasibility
Erecting a bridge over the Kill
/ Kull, between Perth Amboy and
|tenville was asked for by Free
fer Walter Quac''.enbush at the
lion of the county body yesterday
such action was not taken.
|lr. Quackenbush called to the
lholders attention the serious
I'll. jams that are occasioned dur
the warmer months of the year,
en Automobiles are compelled
wait for hours in crossing to
Ern Island owing to the made
tie ferry service, and expressed
feeling that the county board
|uld officially record themselves
b favor of the bridge project.
tirector William S. Dey declared
in his opinion the South Amboy-
end ferry which is soon to
ILtion would go a long iay
psiievfng the present COMPOSITIONS
|le other members of the board
Ecate that the Hudson River tan
now under construction should
hrt a great deal Of the shore
IND traffic from this locality.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-02-09

NOTICE OFF ELECTION
FIRE DISTRICT NO. 8
kotice is hereby given that the annual
ition for
Il Commissioner for three years,
| Commissioners for two Years
| Commissioner for one year
Euing year will be held at Hopelawn
le House, Hopelawn, N. j., on February
J 1898 between the hours of 3 p. NJ. and
Y A. KEYES.
Township Clerk.
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