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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-12
used
To PRESERVE
POSTS
Treatment Lengthens Life
of Lumber, Expert
Declares

With wood becoming scarce and
labor more expensive folks are find
ing it necessary TO use some means
of making their fence posts last
longer. Experiments have shown
that creosote will solve the problem.
Professor Z. r. Gross, of the
New Jersey State College of Agrl.
culture, says fence posts treated
in creosote will last from three to
five times as long as untreateu
posts. This is especially true of
the softer varieties of wood such
as willow, ash, elm, soft maple.
white cedar, and cottonwood. Many
consider it advisable to creosote
even the harder woods such az
oak, red cedar, and chestnut.
1t is better to use round posts
for creosoting rather than split
posts, as the penetration will be
more uniform. All bark must be
stripped off and the timber well
seasoned before creosoting. Creo,
sote from eight to inches above the
depth to which the post is to be
set, since most rotting takes place
at or just below the ground line.
Posts three or four inches in
diameter at the top give best
results as they are strong enough
for most purposes and usually last
as long as larger posts.
1t is important to get thorough
and deep penetration of the
creosote. A good vat is made of
an old steel barrel set over a
roughly constructed furnace. The
creosote is kept at the boiling
point and each batch OF posts is
left in the vat about two hours,
depending on the rapidity of pene-
tration. One inch penetration
should be obtained. In order to
determine this a post may be split
or sawed in two. The tops of the
posts are either dipped or painted
with hot Creosote,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-12
CHIMNEY FIRE LOSSES
$12,ooo,ooo EACH YEAR

Over $12, 100000 annually is the
loss from fire throughout the Unit.
ed States caused by defective and
improperly constructed chimneys,
according to the National Board of
Fire Underwriters.
Building chimney in the prop
er way seems simple matter, but
this stupendous sum is the loss
every year due to ignorance or will
full neglect of men in the building
industry who do work on chimneys.
The principal object in building a
chimney is to prevent flames and
sparks from entering other parts
Of the structure from the chimney.
Too many Americans evidently
endeavor to save the cost of flue
lining, metal lath and other fire.
preventing materials in chimney
construction, and frequently the
building burns down in consequence.
When building a small home be
sure the chimneys are properly con-
Structed
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-12

establish itself as the sole arbiter
of who shall or shall not use the
word, which was coined by Charles
N. Chadbourn, a member of the
Minneapolis Real Estate Board and
formally adopted by the national
association at it's convention in
New Orleans in March, 1916.
In 1917 the association filed an
injunction suit to restrain North
western Telephone Company in
Minneapolis from publishing in it's
directories as realtors those not
members of the local board.
The injunction was granted by
the District Court in Hennepin
county, MINI. 1t intends to en-
courage its member boards through
out the country to take vigorous
steps against offenders,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-12
NEW SYSTEM Of
SURFAC|NG
FOUND
Tinted cemen t Product Used
for Both Interiors. and
Exteriors

Rough stone walls, brick walls
and many other rough surfaces and
combinations of a variety OF these
surfaces long have presented diff
dcult problem to the decorator who
Sas had to deal with such situa-
lions on both interior and exterior
work.
A system of decorating now avail
able cares for all such surfaces and
allows them to be decorated in a
most artistic manner, and in such
q way that any desired color or
texture can be reproduced.
The product used is Portland
cement in liquid form, produced by
a chemical process and carrying
sand and asbestos in suspension.
It retains the natural set, hardening
and curing features of the port
land cement base.
The base color is white Portland
cement, which may be colored or
material is applied with a brush
to stone, wood brick, concrete,
plaster, metal or painted surfaces.
Any smooth stipple or stucco effects
can be duplicated. Rough concrete
or brick surfaces first are given
coat of waterproofing material
made by the same firm which manu-
features the finishing coat. This
first coat is applied with an air
spray and fills out the small in
equalities in the rough surface as
q base for the final coat.
1t is declared that the finish
will not crack or scale and that
It is free from the fine, hair checks
which appear in ordinary plaster.
1t will adhere and bond to painted
surfaces and may be used for
treating defective stone, brick and
cement walls. It may be applied
over brown cement plaster, making
1t unnecessary to apply the usual
finish or dash coat for painting,
since the material will produce
both the color and the texture.
For outside work it can be APP
Piled without injury when subjected
to a hot sun or winds and after
1t is applied an hour ordinary
showers will not injure the sur
lace. 1t will adhere to wood and
metal, allowing wooden or metal
corniees to be finished to match
the Stucco or stone work.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-12

Undersecretary Of State during the
Wilson administration.
Hull said his private business had
suffered from his three years in nd
tional politics and that he was
anxious to get back to it. In addi-
ton, he said, his health was i'm
paired.
II will be right at Mr.. Davis
elbow" said Hull, land will tend
him every assistance"
Hull said he and Davis had been
personal friends for many years.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-12
STORM SWEEPS ITALY,
DOING GREAT DAMAGE

ROME. July IA severe storm
swept throughout Italy, damaging
ships in nearly all the ports and
flooding the lower parts of Naples.
Lightning struck the steamer To-
maso di Savoia in a dockyard in
Genoa, where she was being re-
paired.
In Northern Italy hail damaged
the crops, while a terrific cyclone
swept lara, uprooting trees and
devastating vineyards.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-12
HULL NOT CANDIDATE
TO SUCCEED HIMSELF

NEW YORK, July 11-Cordell
Hull. chairman of the Democratic
National Committee, will not be
candidate again FOR that honor
under any circumstances" he said
this afternoon following a confer
ehce with John w. Davis, Demo
cratic Presidential nominee at the
nome of Frank L. Polk, former
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-07-11
ENCOURAGING DRUNKENNESS

Excusing lawlcss saloon keepers with
one hundred dollar fines is not the only
way Judges can help popularize lawless
drink. Here is the method said to be
used by Chicago police Judge It came
out in conversation between the editor
of the Issue and police official.
"On what charge are drunks booked
by the police?" asked the editor.
'Disorderly, conduct" was the reply.
what is done with them?"
"They are fined about five dollars and
costs and if they cannot pay we send
them to the bridewell."
'Are all the drunks fned?'
'Yes, all except tie ones who have
liquor on them
''What happens to these?"
'Fhey are booked under the state law"
Illinois Prohibition Act?"
Eyes. they are charged with possession
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-07-11
of liquor under the Illinois Prohibition

of liquor under the Illinois Prohibition
Act"
What happens to tbem?'
"Oh, they are discharged
DO you mean to tell me that all who
are booked under the state law are dis
charged and not even fined as much as
those charged with d;sorderly conduct"
Yes, if they have liquor on them they
are all discharged. { guess the Judge
thinks the minimum fine is too much so
he does not fine them at all"
In this police court a man caught
breaking jewelry store window would
probably be fined for disorderly conduct.
But if he should be fortunate enough to
be caught with diamonds in his posses
sion, stolen from the show window, the
Judge would discharge him on the theory
that the penalty for burglary is too Sc
we're.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-07-11
Barrelhouae Section in Chicago Is
Transformed by Dry Law
BARBER SHOP REPLACES
IIINKY DINK'S SALOON
No Shabby Shoes at Worlds Busiest
Corner; Police See Fewer
Drunks Now

Five dry years have brought a wonder
ful change 10 Chicago Both the saloons
and their finished products, drunks, are
disappearing from public view. All over
the city the Improvement brought by
prohibition is noticeable But i'll the old
barrel house district on Clark street,
south OF Van Buren, tic contrast be-
tween conditions now and five years ago
is astonishing. Five years ago there
were eighteen saloons in the two blocks
south of Van Buren; now there are none.
Just after midnight on July /, 1919,
the streets were full of reeling, drunken
buns just turned out of Hinky Dinks
and other saloons along Clark street be-
tween Van Buren and Harrison For
years this section OF the street had
scaleely ever been free from ragged,
drunken men. Now a drunk is seldom
seen in this district The police at the
Harrison street station report an astound-
ing decrease III the number OF drunks ar
rested as compared to the old wet days.
a barber shop occupies a part of the
space that was formerly Hinky Dink's
famous saloon. The rest of this store
room is~occupied by Chinese merchant.
Another of the famous barrel house sa-
loon places of the old days has been
transformed into a modern real estate
office occupied by John E. Colmon and
Co. This real estate firm is taking ad-
vantage of the vast Improvement in real
estate conditions since the saloons have
given way to other business enterprises
Real estate operators report that rents
along Clark street in the barrel house
section have doubled. Across the street
from Hinky Dink's a modern, well fur
nished home bakery and .delicatessen
store has been opened
A sign on the window reads Ladies
especially invited" Five years ago such
a sign would have meant nothing in this
location, for very few ladies ever ven
tured south of Van Buren in those days.
One Vacancy Explained
There is some vacant property along
Clark street in the old saloon district. On
the door of one vacant store this sign ap-
pears: CLOSED for one year for violation
of the National Prohibition Act Signed,
Edwin A. Olson, District Attorney"
While legitimate business is better in this
section, not all are satisfied. One man
interviewed stated that he had been in
business just across the street from Hinky
Dink's for forty years and business never
was worse. This seemed strange until
he admitted that he was pawn broker
and second hand dealer
lConcluded ON Page 81
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-07-11
Woman Candidate for Lower House
Declared to Be Victor by
432 Votes
A. S. L. CARRIED ON FIGHT
FOR RECOUNT
Result Gives 25th District Dry Rep
resentative First Time in
History

On July 7 Judge Friend OF the circuit
court declared Mrs. Rcna Elrod the le-
gally nominated candidate for member in
the General Assembly from the 18th
senatorial district. The decision of the
court followed a contest. involving a re-
count extending over a period of more
than a month. The recount showed that
Mrs. E1rod received 432 more votes than
John Paul, who had been declared the
nominee. With only three candidates
nominated in the 25th district for the
house of representatives in the state leg
islature Mrs Elrod is Certain OF election.
This will mean an additional vote in sup
port of prohibition enforcement legisla-
ton. There will be three women in the
lower house at Springfield during the
next session as i result Of Mrs. Erodas
victory. The other two will be Mrs.
Lottie Holman O'Neill of the 41st dis
trict and Mrs. J. Pau1 Goode Of the 5th
district. The 18th district which named
Mrs. Elrod as one of the three nominees
for the lower house, is one of the largest
senatorial districts in the state 1t lies
wholly within the city of Chicago Never
before in the history ol this district has a
dry candidate been named for the lower
house
League Helped in Campaign
When Mrs. Elrod was brought into
the field as a dry candidate, political
leaders declared that ii would be impos-
sible for her to win. Nevertheless, she
made strenuous campaign for the NOM
nation. The Anti Saloon League put up
hard fight for Mrs. Elrod under the di-
rection of Warren G. Jones, northwest
side district superintendent of the League,
and Mrs. Lena B. Mathes, superintendent
of the Woman's Department. Meetings
were held under the auspices of the
League in favor of Mrs. Elrod throughout
the district. Women's organizations were
enlisted in support of this woman cand-
date who would support prohibition en-
forcement The official returns declared
John Paul to be the winner by narrow
margin. Reports of Irregularities reached
the Anti-Saloon League. Upon investi-
CATION of these reports the League de-
cided that there was sufficient basis for
a contest. Under the direction of State
Superintendent Ebbert and Joseph Col
lier, attorney for the League, the fight
was made Attorney Howard P. Castle
representing Mrs. Elrod in the court
presentation of the case.
Mr.. c. F. Manahan, Warren G.. Jones,
J. A. Little, and C. E. Peterson of the
League staff, worked in the court on the
recount of the ballots, which was in pro-
gress for more than month.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-12

the popuace, who hug the semblance,
the idea of freedom, while they are manip-
ulated more ruthlessly than before. Every
revolution, every struggle towards popu-
lar government, has some such manifes-
tation in its wake.
Despotic governments in throwing off
some one despotism, always fly to an
exaggerated extreme. China, with its
age grown traditions, its closely knit
customs centering about the idea of the
Emperor as the Son of Heaven, be-
came republic. Mexico with its ira
dition of authority has toyed with re-
publicanism under one president and an
other as long as the president has re-
manned strong enough to rule. Turkey,
with, its whole religious life. its customs
and traditions bound up in the idea of
the divine authority of the Sultan and
Caliph, now essays republicanism in an
advanced form with the sovereign peo-
pie in control.
In all of these cases, however. and
in others that could be enumerated, the
root idea of the government has re-
manned the same and comes back in
variably to despotic control of an igror-
ant electorate. until that electorate has
advanced sufficiently in education and
in understanding to control itself. The
more extreme the form of liberal gov
ernment proposed, the less able people
accustomed to despotism are likely to
understand it and the more chance the
supposed liberals have of exercising con-
troll. Even in those countries like Eng
land, the United states and France
where the republican idea has been the
root of all political thinking for genera
tons its practical application falls far
short of the ideal.
So one is driven back to the uncom-
Portable truth that liberal government
is something attainable only through
travail and difficulty. One cannot bring
about liberal constitution through
magical means and have republican
form of government, therefore freedom
lives upon earth. Freedom is something
for which. we continuously strive.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-12
A NEW CONFERENCE.

Tackled on to the naval appr(
ton bill was n resolution calling
President Coolidge to convene an
conference looking toward the fu
limitation of naval ornaments.
was passed by the Senate withoI
rious opposition, and it speed
urged that this nation immed|
begin negotiations with Great n
France, Italy and Japan to
about a reduction of "sub-surfac6'
surface craft. Ii
The accomplishments from the
conference for the limitatioI
armament. though far from adeq
were sufficiently attractive to j
a second one. The spirit of dis
ment was present, although cond'
were not propitious. But a new
ing prevails in the world
France, facing. the necessity OF
failing her expenditures, must I
mize on ornaments: Great Britt
in the hands of a pacifist govern
and Japan, after restoring the
occasioned by an earthquake,
probably be only too glad to min
her military budgets.
The alterations should and d
less will be taken into consider
by President Coolidge. But the
ference should be called at the ca
possible date. Delays, as past
shown, have been too costly. Pc;
on the minds of everyone; it i
thing most earnestly desired b.
world as a whole. And the best
to obtain peace is through the S
ing of the instruments Of warfa
Reading Tribune.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-12
THEY WILL BELIEVE THE
WORST

Dean Inge-the gloomy dean" OF
st. Paul's-dismisses democracy in the
United States by saying that govern
ment in this country is nothing but a
rule of trusts and bosses. If man
of Dean Inge's gifts is capable of fall
ing into so gross an error upon the
strength of sensationally distorted evil
dence how much more will the average
foreigner be misled by similar reports
as to how this country conducts it
self?
The question, which carries it own
answer, is suggested by the flood of
scandal now pouring out of Washing
ton and reaching the ends Of the
world through cabled accounts that will
certainly not be framed with view
to flattering the United States. Amer
leans know that even the worst of
the rumors now current do not imply
a state of general corruption, but the
uncomplimentary remark from Dean
Inge is an indication of how they will
be widely interpreted abroad. II fol-
lows that Ambassador kellogg was do
ing his country an important service
when, in his address to the British
newspapermen. he pointed out the UNI
fairness of making general differences
as to the state of political morals in
the United States. from the output of
the Senate investigation mill. But
Kellog's voice will not be able to stem
the tide of SANDER, and the longer the
Washington Investigations continue
without reaching definite conclusions.
the worse it will be for the United
States abroad. This is not the most
important reason why the investigation
fever in Washington should be kept
within bounds and expedited by every
possible means, but it is nevertheless
a real reason,-Detroit Free Press.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-12
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, then a hideous idea came to me.
got my car, tore down to Shaftstown
and dug IN the ambulance doctors
who had worked over her at the
, scene of the wreck. That injury to
her head had affected the brain, and
her mind must be that of a little
child again!".
Mike uttered an ejaculation Of
shocked pity and Trevor went on in
shaking tones:
"The doctors said they had told
her stepmother this might happen
when she regained consciousness
that she might not recognize those
about her nor even recall her own
identity. Her memory might return
after a little or-never! But i tell
you, Mike, there must be dim glim-
mering in her poor clouded brain that
drove her to. the window this morn
ing even though she mightn't have
known why and didn't know me
when she saw me /. l haven't given
up hope; never shall, but can you
guess why l am in such rush to
get back to town now?"
Mike nodded and replied grimly:
"For fear they'll try to marry her
out of hand to that rascal of n cousin
of hers. But what can you do,
Trevor? I'm with you for anything
short of murder and don't know
that I'd stop at that, shield or no
shield, but if the poor girls mind is
gone entirely"
Il want her." The cry of agony
rang out upon the night air. "Tm
going to get her out of that house
and take her where she'll be safe and
cared for, and where I can see her
and try to make her remember me
make her care for me all over again
II that's impossible, if she never
knows me and 1 mean no more to
her than any other stranger l mean
to protect her all the rest of her life
Thanks, old man, for your offer to
help me but-there's your own girl,
you know"
"I've not forgot" Mike said sim
ply. "We'll hunt in couples, Trevor y
For a moment his companion took
his right hand from the wheel and
shook that OF his pal and the COM
pact was made.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-12
FLYING TO EXTREMES

Writers upon the status of the new
Turkey, since the Sultan and Caliph,
temporarily, perhaps, i have been rele-
gated into the limbo, and repubicanism
of the most advanced type is in the sad
die. are pessimistic or congratulatory ac-
cording to the trend of their minds.
Those who see good in the extension
of western thought in all directions re-
gardless of the soil in which it may fall,
look to Turkey regenerated and free.
There are others. however, who shake
their heads.
A recent writer in the Current His
tory magazine, Turkish publicist of
high standing who conceals his name for
political reasons expresses a conserva-
tive view. "On the face, this is the
most popular constitution the civilized
word has ever SEEM" he writes in re-
gard to the new Turkish constitution.
"In principle it provides the people with
the power to exercise a very strict con-
troll over the machinery of administra-
ton. In practice, however, it will be
far from doing so, for the very simple
reason that Turkey is not ripe for a
liberal constitution of such an extreme
type, if indeed she is fit for a charter
of any but the most elementary char
acte,. The great mass of the popula-
ton, which is stepped in ignorance, is
not even capable of understanding the
meaning of the new institutions. How
can the people make use of rights they
Go not understand? The elections, since
the suppression in 1908 of the personal
rule of the Sultan, have been an out
rageous farce, never more so than in
connection with the present assembly.
| The government sees to it that all of its
nominees are returned at the polls. thus
rendering the deputies really responsible
to the government and not to the ma
ton
Rcpublicanism of this kind is certain
lly no new thing. Mexico and certain
South and Central American govern
ments have used it extensively. 1t is
even in practice in these United States,
where large blocks of ignorant voters
may be controlled. The tendency for a
strong leader to usurp power under the
guise of excessively radical forms of
republcanism is also an old story and
' is common scheme to throw sop to