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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-01

14cId1O LIES
January president Harding
confirmed the report that Albert 3.
Fall. Secretary of the Interior, was
to resign March 4, to engage in
private business.
January 6--Frederick Curtin, fiji.
ty-two years old. was revived, after
his heart action and breathing had
stopped for more than eighteen
minutes, by an operation performed
by DIR. J.. A. Cannon, of the Gal.
inger Memorial Hospital.
January 6-Struck by two trains
at Monumental Station, Md, Mrs.
John Baggott and her daughter,
Hilda, eighteen months old, of Al
burton, Md, were killed. Five
others were injured.
january 1l-President Harding
signed an order for the withdrawal
Of American troops from the Rhine.
January 15-Fire partially de.
stroyed the Norfolk apartments, 201-
203-2O5 d street northeast. Seven
persons, two of them firemen, were
overcome by smoke, The damage
was 100000.
Four persons were killed in traffic
accidents.
January 16-The drug expose Of
The Times and The Herald and the
Hearst organization was started In
this city when the Washington
Chamber of Commerce, the Kalorama
Citizens Association and \the Pet
worth Citizens Association adopted
resolutions calling upon President
Harding to set aside a National
Anti-Narcotic Week"
January 20-Legislation apprO.
priating $4,5OO,O0O for erection OF q
national archives building was passed
in the Senate.
January 26-Announcement that
twenty-eight Bureau of Engraving
and Printing officials had been dis
missed by President Harding In
March. 1922, was made at the White
House.
January 21-Numbers Of Wash.
1ngton people lost an aggregate of
$4,000 in the crash Of the Commun-
1ty Finance Company, a "blind
pool, that filed a voluntary peti.
ton in bankruptcy.
February president Harding
paid tribute to the anti,drug cam
paign Of The Times and The Her.
aid and pledged the support of the
government in stamping out the
drug evil.
February IA special commit.
tee Of the Senate started investiga-
ton into charges of waste and ir-
Irregularities in the administration
of the Veterans Bureau.
February Incomplete reorgani-
10 tinn Of cohnnl
system was recommended by DR..
Joseph f. F'innigan, superintendent
of education of Pennsylvania, to
the joint Congressional Committee
on Education.
February 20-Supplies of the Dis.
trict public schools were destroyed
house. Damage was estimated at
$4,000. ~
February 23-Briefs opposing the
minimum wage law for women in
the District were filed in the United
State Supreme Court by Wade H.
Ellis and Callen B. Ellis, represent
ing the Children's Hospital, as an
employer, and also Willie A. Lyons,
as an employe.
February "a Nominations by
President Harding of Postmaster
General Hubert Work, of Colorado,
to succeed Secretary of the Interior
Fall, and Senator Harry New, of
Indiana, to succeed DIR. Work as
Postmaster General, were con-
firmed by the Senate.
March DIR. William Moultan
Marston, jr., inventor of the "lie de.
tector," was arrested, charged with
using the mails to defraud.
March I'm. H. Reiss and Will
liam J. Kidd were arrested in a raid
IN which $4,000 worth Of drugs were
seized.
March 15-Charles F. Cramer. for
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-01
|Ronlping Around
the
Radio Dial
BY Listner-In

Did you greet the New Year via
radio? Some class, isn't it? Just sit
back in the easy chair and let the
merrymakers pass In review. II the
| program gets little dull at one
station, turn the dial q bit, pick
up q jazzier program, and Danish
boredom. No intermissions. no
slow mOments-you can pick your
| own style Of merrtment and keep 1t
going.
AS the old hand passes 11:30 and
enters the home stretch Of 1923,
you begin to realize that the year
really is dying. The chimes OF
the Church of the Epiphany. ~
clear, mellow notes, ding-dong In
via WCAP. Fitting music for the
dying for the old year. It makes
you Retrospective. But you don't
want to retrospective, so you turn
the dial and in comes WDAP at
Chicago, Some Of the boys are
about getting all the loving"
As the snappy selection comes
to an end, you turn the dial, and
10 and behold! What dramatic con-
trasts there are in radio! A turn OF
the dial and you are thrown clean
out of a jazz palace headlong into
church.
It's Zion City, Illinois. Some good
brother, probably down on his
knees, praying to the Good Lord
to save this wicked old world Of
ours. It's an old-fashioned watch
night service. the kind we used to
attend in the old days. The good
brother is talking about the dying
year. what opportunities the new
year holds forth.
You turn the dial a fraction and
the ecclesiastical voice fades into
the strains of Shake Your Feet, Z"
played with pep. It's lie Paradis
Cafe. It's nearly IL and above the
strains of the orchestra you can
hear the voices and laughter of the
merFymakers. A moments pause.
Then the chimes begin to toll the
midnight hour and loud shout
goes up. Whistles, yells, horns,
laughter. It stops for a second
while the orchestra strikes up 'The
Star-Spangled Banner" Then the
din resumes. Happy New Year!
If you fans are no more blase
than Listner-In thinks you are, you
got a real thrill last night when
the Philharmonic Society concert
being broadcast from WEAF, was
interrupted by an SOS call from a
ship In distress which was picked
up by the operator at the broad
casting station. Relief was dispatch
ed at once.
That SOS SO aroused my curiosity
that to save my soul couldn't en-
joy the rest Of the program. Why
didn't the announcer tell something
more about that SOS-what ship
sent it, where it was located, and
what the trouble was? That was
news, hot spot news. but never a
word of 1t was served UP to the
hungry radio fans.
It reminds me of the days when
NOF, the Naval Air Station at
Anacostia, one of the best modu
lated sets that ever operated, was
broadcasting. There was a fatal
airplane accident at the field one
afternoon and out of respect to the
memory of the dead, the program
for the evening was cancelled. Hero
was hot news that could have been
served to the public, yet the an
nouncer merely stated that an &C
cident had occurred, giving not a
single detail.
Oh, boy, il we could only get back
at these announcers through the air
and ask them about some of the
things they don't tell us.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-01
MY. SOLONS TRY
TO GET AIS
COAT
Bill to Buy Governor Home
Work Of Mysterious
Friend.

ALBANY, N. Y, Jan. Freak
legislation today found its way into
the Capitol preparatory to the
opening Of the 1924 session Of the
legislation tomorrow.
A bill seeking to establish sum-
mer home for Gov. Alfred e. Smith
on the barge canal, mysteriously
appeared on the desk of Speaker III.
Edmund Machold today.
The bill would appropriate
$11 ,0OO.21 to establish the home,
the 81 cents being to buy the
house."
It would authorize the expendi-
ture Of $500 for the purchase of
black GALLUP balls so the governor
can play his favorite game in the
moonlight"
The sum of $26, 900. 900 would be
appropriated to keep the twenty
six democratic senators on ice dur
ing the summer.'%
Il am afraid this measure would
give the budget committee heart
failure" laughed Speaker Machold.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-01

Wasn't that Philharmonic concert
a bird? If you missed it, there'll be
another in three weeks-the night of
January 81. Here's some musical
free lunch that's worth eating.
And say, couldn't that fellow
Powell ticket the keys? His fingers
certainly were working overtime.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-01
HOUSES ARE SCARCE AND
RENTALS HIGH IN TOKYO

TOKYO, Jan. IA famine in
houses of moderate size and a con.
sequent increase in rents have been
noticeable in Tokyo following the
recent quake and fire.
The house and room section of
the social affairs bureau in Tokyo
is besieged daily with requests for
small houses, which It cannot sup
ply Rents have increased tremen.
dously.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-01
Euents Of 1923 Giuen
I Chronologically

Some of the most important events affecting the
District of Columbia which occurred during 1929 follow in
chronological order CLEANED from The Times and The
Herald files:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-01

recommendation for the District of
Columbia for the year ending June
30, 1925. were submitted to Congress
by President Coolidge.
December 1.-THE District of
Columbia Rent Commission was
threatened with dlscontinuance be.
cause of lack of funds.
December 19-James l.. Wilmeth,
former director Of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing. refused to
resume the position unless the
twenty men dismissed with
him were relnstated.
peceusher et-DisappearaRee 81 a
Pet ~ alleged customers Of a iocaI
liguor rsng resuited IN dry members
- Consress askiRg that an '-,.-...s
rstion - eouditinne ~ maaae.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-01
PHILADELPHIA CORONER
SAYS WHISKEY Is POISON

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1. - Poi.
sonous liquor was held responsible
for the deaths of S75 persons in
this city during the year. In a
statement published by Deputy
Coroner Paul.
This city is wide OPEN" he con,
tinued. "So-called liquor is being
sold openly on the corners. You can
buy all you want. But most of IT
is poisonous. You can't buy pre-.
war liquor, for no one will sell it.
They may call it imported stuff.
but most Of it is either moonshine,
denatured or colored alcohol, aiIu
Is poisonous"
To guard against an old-fashione0
New Year celebration here, with
new fashioned liquors, Coroner
Knight will placard the city with
posters showing photographs Of the
bodies Of victims of poisonous bev-
erages, and bearing warnings
against indiscriminate purchase and
consumption of "hooch."
Vendors of poisonous liquors win
be charged with homicide wherever
results of an inquest indicate death
from their wares. the coroner said.
ANl1CEG ABE cHADHE AMT
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-01
ITALY IS TO DECORATE
HER FAITHFUL WORKERS

ROME, Jan. Premier Musso.-
lini has approved a proposal for
new decoration, THE Star of
Merit" which is to be conferred on
workers who have shown special
merits of fitness, loyalty and moral
ity. Those to be honored must have
served a minimum of twenty-five
years in the same industry or thirty.
five years as agriculturists.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-01

Our Wishes for 1924
For the closing you have favored with the largest
business in history and hope continue to merit your
y approval in just such substantial manner
Our wish is that the coming year will hold for each of you the
fullest measure of happiness and prospermay be in re-
atty Happy New Year. .AAS
To Be of Greater Service to Our Public
Will Be Our Endeavor in the New Year
To make this pleasant better place to shop
by continued Improvement the physical arrangement by
adoption Of the newest methods by constantly improving
service.
To make where courtesy
going forward all the things pertaining storekeepng
shall be the watchword bending every effort
highest ideals Of merchandising
To make you at ease here so sure Of your
welcome and certain Of appreciation you
all times be glad the benefit your suggestions
criticisms Well welcome them; you will be
improved this will be better store than today
To safeguard quality zeaouy as nearly fory-four
of ghprinciped merchandising taught U.s. To
search and send representatives every corner Of the
globe for the merchandise that best meets your
ton to maintaining buying Offices in the following
Europe London Paris Brussels, Berlin, Frankfort, Vienna
and Florence
We determined to spare efforts maintain this estab
shmen shopping center worthy Of the Importance and
prominence Washington has attained city and as the Capt.
tai of the Nation
Closed Today, New Years Day
mt Z At r.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-29
Safe Fat Reduction

Reduce, reduce, reduce, is the
slogan of all fat people. Get thin,
be slim, is the cry of fashion and
society. And the overfat wiring
their hands in modification and
helplessness; revolving at nauseat-
ing drugs, afraid of violent eXer-
else, dreading the unwelcome and
unsatisfying diet, until they hit
upon the harmless Marmola Pre-
scription and learn through it that
they may safely reduce steadily
and easily without one change in
their mode of life, but harmless
ly, secretly, and quickly reaching
their ideal of figure, with a
smoother skin, better appetite and
health than they have ever known.
And now comes Marmola Prescrip-
ton Tablets from the same fam
ously harmless formula as the
Marmola Prescription. 1t be-
hooves you to learn the satisfac-
tory, beneficial effects of this
great, safe, fat reducer by giving
to your druggist one dollar for
box, or sending a like amount to
the MarmoIa company, 1912 Wood
ward avenue, Detroit, Mich, with
a request that they mail to you
box of Marmola Prescription Tab
lets-(adv,)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-29
GENERAL C0NFERENC
CITY TO Be CHOSEN
Methodist Committee to Meet
Thursday At Louisville to Re-
ceive Invitations

LOUISVILLE, KY, April %
The committee on general confer
ence entertainment of the Meth
Odist Episcopal church South, viii
meetei in Louisville, May 1, it is an
nOunced. This is the committee
appointed by the general confer
ence of 1922, to receive invitations
and select the place of meeting Tor
approaching session of General Con
ference in 1926.
DR.. S. H. C. Burgin, of San
Antonio, Texas, is chairman of the
committee, and R. S. satterfield, of
Nashville, associate editor of the
Christian Advocate, is secretary
Other members are: W. R. Cross.
Salem, Va; w. E. Brock, Chatta.
noOga, Tenn; j. M. Rogers, Savan-
nah, Ga, The three last named
members are laymen. According TO
DIR. Satterfield, the meeting ON
May l, in Louisville, will not de
termine the place of meeting, but
will formulate a statement to be
sent to those cities which have ex-
tended invitations, outlining the
needs of the general conference
body, and what is expected of the
city entertaining the body. The
place of meeting will be decided
upon at a later meeting. 1t is un-
derstood that several cities have
already applied for the quadrenniaI
meeting, among them Karsas City,
Richmond, Va, Charleston, S. C..I
Savannah, Ga, Chattanooga, Tenn,
Jacksonville, Fla, Hot Springs,
Ark, is again asking for it. Since
1910 general conference meetings
have beeJ held as follows: Ashevilie,
N. c., 1910; Oklahoma City, 1911;
Atlanta, 1918; Hot Springs, 1922.
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LOANS. LOANS
PACE FIVE
Bx Bloaser
BY Martin
By Stanley

FOR White Orpington eggs
for Matching. Neon Buchanan.
-28-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-29

Ferdinand Gluck, a boy nine
months old, has crossed the ocean
alone, and it would be fun to hear
him tell about it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-29

United States is insisting on its
right with debtor rations, but may
get only what is left.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-29
Let the Riddles
ROmp Outdoors
In All Weathers
There is Nothing Like
Fresh Air Play to Build
Sturdy Bodies. If Colds
i Come Treat Externally.

Children should play outdoors daily in
winter as well as in summer. To keep
them indoors so much is a mistake. For
healthy growth they need and must have
lots of outdoor exercise.
Of course, some colds will come as a
result of exposure. But constant inter-
nal dosing must not be thought of.
Vicks answers the need. 1t is exter-
nally applied and can be used frequently
without upsetting the digestion.
When rubbed on over throat and chest
Vicks acts externally like liniment or
plaster. At the same time the ingre-
dents, vaporized by the body heat, are
inhaled directly into the affected parts.
Vicks is the ideal treatment for chill
dren's cold troubles.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-29

BOYCE-ITE removes carbon from
your motor. Sold by Jimmie
Lott.-28-6t
Evening star., 1924-06-08
Peartree's Portrait

Thomas Gainsborough was little
boy who liked to draw pictures better
than he liked to do anything else.
The reason probably was because he
could draw such good pictures. By
the time he was ten years old he
had sketched every tree and cottage
and all the boys and girls in his viii
lage of Sudbury, England.
Thomas father, who was a mill
liner and then a clothier and a crepe
maker in turn, one day came in the
house and said: somebody has been
stealing pears out of our pear or
chard." Tommy was almost as an
CRY as his father to hear this news,
for the big, fine pears were just be-
ginning to get juicy and yellow. and
if anybody was going to have those
pears Tommy wanted to be the one.
He decided to go about catching the
thief. but when he told his father he
would get the fellow, whoever he was.
his father just laughed and said: "A
fine chance ten-year-old would
have to catch anybody"
Day after day went by and the
pears continued to disappear as soon
as they got ripe. One morning when
Tom went out to the orchard to see
Evening star., 1924-06-08
n of Dressing the Fapper for Coming Summer Season

as we used to know her. tho rather
awkward girl OF in-betwecn age, that
call for closest consideration. ,
Theoretically 1t may be that or.
candle. tu,les and other rather crisp
materials make charming evening.
frocks for the girl OF napper years,
but in actual practice II often turns
out that the crisp, fresh fabrics of
this genus add to rather than detract
from the fapper's awkwardness: the
occurrences that we hoped would be
SO becoming only heightens her en-
barra ssment.
EVERY young girl really yearns to
wear the soft clinging fabrics for
evening. Georgette crepe is her am
bition. In planning ~the summer
wardrobe of your fiapper daughter
don't overlook at least one white
georgette crepe frock. 1t will serve
a multitude OF occasions. Worn this
evening with a scarlet chiffon scarf
it presents quite a different appear
ance than when worn last week with
an enormous yellow rose posed at the
girdle and scarf Of yellow georgette
edged with yellow ostrich. With
jade necklace and a jade green scarf
your fiapper will be quite n different
creature, though she wears the same
frock.
Less serviceable. though still highly
desirable, are the georgette frocks
Of the clear pastel hues that have
been chosen SO frequently this spring
and summer in the making Of young
girls frocks. These clear pastel tones
have been spoken of as "Directoire'
shades. And doubtless you could find
precedents for them in the fashions
prescribed by Paris in the early years
of the last century. Some one else with
less addiction to the lore Of history
has dubbed them ice cream colors."
because they really do suggest the
clear, strong pastel tones OF
Neapolitan brick.
If any fashion ever does honestly
originate in this land OF ours, the
chances are it is among the flappers
or those young women who are just
past the fiapper age. For the young
girl cares precious little about the
prestige and name of great designers,
and she would sooner wear new
style because certain smartly dressed
girls in her school had adopted 1t than
because it was affected by well
dressed women in France. The
chances are that flapper daughter OF
yours would think most smart French
women absurdly dressed. anyway
because they did not conform to the
ideas of smartness as developed in
her circle of f1apper associates.
And so it happens very often that,
riding quite independently Of France.
American girls do develop a style of
their own-and it is a style passed
Evening star., 1924-06-08

If there was even one pear left for
him to eat, he> was. walking along
slowly, drawing little. pictures of all
the things on. the way, as he always
did, when he suddenly looked up to
see big, burly fellow with an un-
shaven face in the. act of climbing
over the stone wall to the pear
trees.
Tom didn't know what to do. He
couldn't capture the man, for he was
too big and rough. If he ran to call
his father, the man might get away
while he was gone. Just as he was
trying to collect his wits the man
spied him. He paused with one foot
hanging over the wall in such a fun
ny manner that Tommy wished he
could draw him. Then, quick as a
fash, the boy decided that was a fine
idea. He opened his sketch book and
made a few rapid lines.
When Tom took the picture to his
father he recognized the thief as
town loafer who had often been sus-
pected of stealing from peoples orch
ards. In fact, he had earned for him
self the title Of Old Tom Peartree.
Thomas picture OF the man was such
Evening star., 1924-06-08

The mature woman has. or thinks she
has. tried out the possibilities Of her
hair and so retains a single method
OK dressing II. varied only occa-
sional,y by the changes Of fashion.
Just at present numbers of smart
fappers are parting their straight
bobbed hair at the back and then
brushing II to the front. OF course,
to do this IL must be cut quite Diff
ferently than for nm ordinary bob.
and once you have made up your
mind that this IL "the" way to do"
bobbed hair then the conventional
shiDgled bob. the side part and the
mop head bob, all seem lacking In
sfnartness. With the hair thus ar
ranged a bandeau may be quickly
fastened in place, keeping the heavy
front section from blowing back.
The effect. you may have observed.
is as IL always there were a heavy
gale blowing from aft.
The participation of French girls
In the American type of sports has
had telling influence on American
sports wear. 1t remained for them to
devise sport frocks that were per-
fectiy suited to the demands or the
game and at the same time utterly
feminine. True though IL is that at
fashionable European resorts where
women from here, there and every
where are assembled. the we'll
dressed English sportswoman is often
awarded the verdict of being best
dressed on links. tennis courts, on
horseback. still the American woman
seems to show less eagerness to copy
tho severe mascuiinity Of the Eng
llsh woman in sports than the easier
fashion of the French woman.
There are many girls who still cling
to the boyish skirt for all sports wear.
but there are others who incline to
the French trick OF wearing a more
femini inc sort of sport frock, avoiding
the complication of separate blouse
and skirt. Crepe de chine in yellow,
green. blue. gray or beige makes
frocks that we would not once have
regarded as at all appropriate for
serious sportsmanship but which
actually prove to be pre-eminently
serviceable.
Copyright. 1924
Evening star., 1924-06-08
Camera Wins.

When the Republic High School
track team met the Valley City team
for their annual meet some of the
members of the latter complained be-
cause Red Bunker. a former Republic
sprinter, had been appointed Judge of
the races. "Of course he'll try to
give the contest to his own school"
they said, but If there's any doubt
about who wins, we'll stick up for
our rights"
Jack Coffey. the star quarter-miler
Of the Republic team, had been dis
qualified at the last minute because
his chemistry grade was low, and on
the day of the meet he was feeling
pretty blue because he couldn't help
his team out. But he had gone to
Valley City anyway to take pictures
of the events, for he was almost e1-
pert with the camera.
At the meet Jack had to content
himself with standing at the finish
with Red and taking pictures of the
winners as they came in. They were
pretfy evenly divided between the
two towns, and when 1t came time
for the relay at the end 1t was found
that each side had an equal number
Of points and this last event would
decide the winning team.
Il was a close race. Jack snapped