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The Washington times., 1924-02-04
nation BOWS IN GRIEF
OVER PASSING Of
GREAT AMERICAN
By GEORGE R. HOLMES
International News Service.

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In the calm peacefulness of death, Woodrow Will
SON slept in his modest little brick house in street
today while reverent nation and inspired world
passed silently by and laid on his doorstep beIated
tributes to his greatness. rs
A commanding figure in ife,- Americas great
wartime President became in death an even oftier,
more towering symbol Of the ideals for which he
gave his life. And his passing from the stage Of
world affairs, which he had so long played the
leading role called forth expressions of sorrow in
such volume never before witnessed.
From the far corners of the earth today came
messengers to mourn his going. The simple slip Of
paper that bore the words of an European monarch
lay side by side the hall table with the single
rose that was the mute offering of plainly dressed
woman whose identity obscured by the tear
stained veil that hid her face.
HIS GREATNESS ACKNOWLEDGED
The World, less than America hastened to give to
Woodrow Wilson in death that which had been denied
him in the latter days Of his turbulent sincere
acknowledgment that when the Book Of Time is closed
ones Of all time.
Messages of and of regard came from manv
places tOday-from London where he deipned to via;t
king and called him Sr" instead of "Your Majesty:"
from Paris where he spent the most momentous dav: Of
his epocha life retracing the map of the world; from
Rome where he first acclaimed with fervor that
wa: almost idolatrOus and then hated with vehemence
that amounted to Obsession from the Americas whose
closer knship he sought further; from the faroff
Philippines whose independence he favored; from the
strong, firm hand.
FLAGS EXPRESS SORROW
Wherever the printed word known and wherever the
echoes of great conflict penetrated, Woodrow Wilson
was known and the acclaim that sometimes denied
him in life came to him today he slept the last lone
sleep in the quiet in the bacwash of presenta
affairs -
In the National Capital and ON public buildings
everywhere the public expressed by flars
whipping at halfstaff in the cold February sunshine
They will remain for thirty days. the period of official
mourning set aside by proclamation Of President Coolidge
At the Capitol ITSELF the sounds of conflict and bitter
partean strife that have marked recent weeks were
stled Both houses of Congress and then adjourned
out Of respect to his memory and there were expres
sions Of tribute and of from those who in
life had opposed him and blocked his policies with per
sistence that had its root in profound dislike and dsus
The Washington times., 1924-02-04
SENATORS HALT
OIL INQUIRY
FOR DAY
Committee Will Tomorrow
Ask Passage of New Reso-
luton for Fall Quiz.

BY KENNETH CLARK.
International News Service.

All activities in the naval of
reserve leasing scandal inquiry came
to complete standstill today out
of respect to the memory of Wood
row Wilson.
With Congress merely meeting
and adjourning almost Immediately,
the Public Lands Committee could
not obtain from the Senate re.
affirmation of it's authority to con-
duct Investigations into the leasing
of Elk Hills and Teapot Dome by
former Secretary Of Interior Albert
B. Fall.
Senator Lenroot Rep) Of Wiscon-
sin, chairman. announced, however,
that the committee tomorrow would
ask the Senate to pass again the
oil probing resolutions, on which Fall
based his challenge not to testify
further before the committee.
Pending approval Of the resolu-
tions by the Senate, expected by
unanimous vote. and the reappear.
ance of Fall, probably Wednesday,
morning, the committee has decided
not to hear other witnesses.
Numerous stockholders who are
in Washington under subpoena,
have been told their examination
would be delayed until the corn.
Continued ON Page 9. Column 50
The Washington times., 1924-02-04
French Mourn Death
OF Great Leader
And Thinker

PARIS, Feb. President
Millerand, in the name of the
French nation, today sent the
following message to Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson: "In the name
of the French nation and in nv
own personal name / join with
all my heart in your mourning.
"My country will never for
get the great President who had
such a considerable part in the
decision which placed the United
States beside France and her
allies in the war of right against
might.
Humanity will preserve the
memory Of this noble thinker
whose greatest desire was to as
sure permanent peace"
The Washington times., 1924-02-04
COOLIDGE ASKS
WEST To SAVE
FARMERS
President Promises Aid of U.
S. to Help ''Work Out
the Future"
By ROBERT s. THORNBURGH,
International News Service.

AAAOCAASbAOAA9A 1NOWo 6CEVACGs
President Coolidge today called
upon the people Of the great agri.
cultural northwest to come to the
rescue Of their banking and farm.
ing interests, and promised the aid
and cooperation Of the Federal
Government to save the situation.
Addressing a conference Of lead.
ing representatives Of these vital
national interests in the northwest
ern States, the President declared
that reconstruction, not charity"
was the policy Of the Government
IN providing financial rehabilitation
Tor the wheat country and outlined
program OF remedial measures de.
signed to enable the farmer to
work out his future with the help
OF funds advanced by the Govern
ment."
Steps to be taken by the Govern.
ment We're announced by the Pres.
ident as:
"a Enactment OF the Norbeck.
Burtness bill providing an appro.
priation for the purpose of promot-
ing the diversification of agricul-
ture In certain sections of the
country which heretofore have been
devoted primarily to the production
OF wheat, and
(2l Authorizing the War Finance
corporation to make advances for
Continued on Page 8. Column ~
The Washington times., 1924-02-04
WILL BE PLACED
IN CHAPEL CRYPT
DR.. Frank Crane Ranks
Wilson With Washington
and LincOln
By DIR. FRANK CRANE.

dents Of the United States with
Abraham Lincoln and George
Washington.
Each Of these men is great as
he Represented and embodied a
great natienaa idea "a
Washington stood for the in
tegrity Of American independ-
ence.
Lincoln stood for the in-
dissOluble unity Of the country
and for the abolition of human
slavery.
Woodrow Wilson will forever
be identified with Americas or
ganic union with the other
nations of the world.
He represents q distinct phase
of the worlds progress; the
first step in the abandonment
of the old order of rival
nations and the beginning of
the new order of cooperative
nations. He will be forever
identified with the idea of the
supremacy of the arbitrament
of law as a substitute for the
old arbitrament of war.
At the close of the great
war. largely through the efforts
of Woodrow Wilson, the world
started upon the program of
federation.
To this idea Woodrow Wilson
gave his life utterly.
AS he recedes into the per-
spective of years his figure will
loom larger and more majestic.
For the size of a man in his
tory does not depend upon the
incidents of his personality, it
depends upon the magnitude of
the star to which he bitches
his wagon.
His was
''The divine
Insanity of noble minds
That never falters nor abates,
But labOrs and endures and
waits"
The Washington times., 1924-02-04

messages to break the soli-
tude Of S street. Occasional
passers-by would halt for q
few moments, glance Curl
ously at the curtained house
and then pass ON. Some
times they lifted their hats
in involuntary tribute to the
fallen leader who lay within.
Mrs. Wilson bore up un-
der the strain with remark
able fortitude. She had a
period of near collapse i'm
mediately following the for
mer Presidents death. She
had been his constant nurse
and coE24pion for nine
The Washington times., 1924-02-04
THEFT OF $1o3, 900 GOLD
BRINGS 5YEARS IN PRISON

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.--Convicted
by a jury of the theft of $103,O0O in
gold from the Guaranty Trust Com
pany Of New York in 1922, Henry
H. Merner, former manager Of the
Asia Banking Corporations branch
at Peking, China, was sentenced to
Sing Sing prison for five to ten
years.
Most of the stolen gold was recov.
cred by William c'Big Bill'0 Nye.
former Government Secret Service
operative
The Washington times., 1924-02-04
HUSBAND DIES RATHER
THAN PAY HIS ALIMONY

CHICAGO, Feb. 4.-Edward Nadie,
forty, killed himself when his wife
telephoned. to tell him that the court
had ordered his immediate appear
ance for refusing to pay her $1,000
alimony, allowed under a decree Of
separate maintenance.
"All they'll get is my dead body"
Nadle shouted through the telephone
in answer to his wife. A shot was
heard over the telephone and the
Judge stopped proceedings while
Mrs. Nadle went home to invests.
gate. She found her husband dead.
The Washington times., 1924-02-04
CALLS AMERICA MOST
NEUROTlC COUNTRY

LONDON, Feb. 4.-The United
States is the worlds most neurotlc
country, with Britain close second,
said DIR. Walter E. Dixon, Cam
bridge University professor, in a
lecture on Drug Addicts" at the
Royal Institution. Neurotics are
easy drug victims, he asserted, add
ing that coffee and tea are drugs
as well as alcohol.
"Any one who smokes twenty
cigarettes a day puts per cent Of
his blood out Of play" DR.. Dixon
opined.
The Washington times., 1924-02-04
BRITISH MOURN
DEATH Of
WILSON
Lloyd George Sees Great Loss
to WorId-Nation unites
in Tribute.
By DAVID M. CHURCH,
international News Service.

LONDON, Feb. 4.-Through-
out London American flags float
at half mast in tribute to the
memory of the late Woodrow
Wilson. Men prominent in every
walk of life united in praising
the achievements and ideals Of
the dead American statesman.
"He was a great man by every
test" said Former Premier David
Lloyd George. ellis life and
death constitute one of those
tragedies. associated with great
ideals which make men immor-
tai. His name will endure for
ever"
Great, Is LOndOn's View.
1t is probable that American or
ganizations in London will unite
In conducting memorial services.
Dispatches from Washington an
nouncing Mr.. Wilson'S death were
conspiculously displayed on the
first pages of newspapers and all
commented on the greatness Of the
former President. For the most
part the press predicted that only
the future can estimate the great
ness Of the late statesman.
Frank B. Kellogg, American am
bassador, commented:
"It was with deep sorrow that
heard of former President Wilson's
death. Though many differed with
him all unite in honoring his high
IDEALS"
Ahead Of His Time.
I'VE think Of ex-President viii.
son as a statesman of great char
acter-in some respects far in ad.
vance Of his time" said Canon
Alexander.
Charles George Ammon,, parlia-
mentary secretary to the admiralty,
commented: "He gave expression
to great ideals and ideals, in the
long run, are the only real things
in the world"
World "His Class Room"
The Times said: with all his
faults he CWilson) was a great man
who played for a while a greater
part in world affairs than any OF
his predecessors. He was q famous
professor of politics, who, for a
while. had the world for his class
room"
The Washington times., 1924-02-04

THRONGS REVERENTIAL.
The emotional tenseness
that was so marked about
the Wilson home in S street
since the former President
first fell seriously i'll ON Fri
day gave way today to COM
parative quietude. The Curl
GUS and reverential hun.
dreds who stood in daylight
and in darkness in the
streets adjacent to the house
had disappeared today.
The undertakers finished
their necessary task and
there was only the tramping
of messenger boys bringing
The Washington times., 1924-02-04

Woodrow Wilson has passed
into history. He has left the
field of contention and stepped
into his place before the jury
Of the centuries.
Our estimate Of every man
during his life is yitiated by
the. reactions of his personality.
Our enthusiastic affection for
him may exalt him more than
he deserves; our intense aver
sion to him may lead us to do
him injustice.
Death sp0nges away our likes
and dislikes and leaves the fig
ure standing true.
Woodrow Wilson will rank as
one of the three great Presi-
The Washington times., 1924-02-04
CABINET
RET|RES WITH
vEN|zELOS

ATHENS. Feb. 4.-The Greek
cabinet resigned today. M. Kafan.
daris probably will succeed Venice
los as premier.
venizelos decided to retire after
being informed by doctors he was
suffering from a heart trouble.
The Greek liberal Republicans
have decided to vote against the
Hellenic dynasty in the Forthcoming
national plebiscite to determine
the future form az Greece's govern.
ment.
The Washington times., 1924-02-04
)BSEQU|ES
At HOUSE
PRIVATE
Interment Will Be Decided
Upon After Final Tribute
at Church.

Simplicity will mark the
funeral services for Wood
row Wilson on Wednesday,
Rear Admiral Cary T. Gray
SON, the late war Presidents
personal physician, an
nounced today from the
steps Of 234O S street north
west, Wilson's home, where
he died at 11:15 o'clock
yesterday morning.
Unless there be a COM
pelIing demand for a state
funeral, Mrs. Wilson's pres
ent wishes will be carried
out. According to Admiral
Grayson, Mrs. Wilson de-
sires quiet and simple rites.
SERVICES AT HOUSE
Service will be held at
the house at 3 o'clock We'd
nesday afternoon. The Rev.
James H. Taylor, pastor of
the Central Presbyterian
Church, 3O45 Fifteenth
street northwest, which Will
SON attended, will officiate.
At $3.50, a second service
will be held at Bethlehem
Chapel in the National
Cathedral, when DR.. Taylor
will be assisted by the Right
Rev. James E. Freeman,
bishop of Washington, and
the Rev. Sylvester Beach,
pastor of Wilson's church at
Princeton, N. J.
Following the services,
the body of the great states
man will be placed in the
crypt at the chapel, pending
further arrangements.
MAY LIE IN STATE
Before Admiral Grayson's
announcement, it was stated
unofficially. by Senator Joe
+. Robinson, Democratic
leader of the Senate, who
called at the Wilson home,
that there was every proba-
'bility that the body would
lie in state in the rotunda of
the Capitol and would be
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-19
CHAPTER 1
CONDO
Drawings By Lee Wright
Story By Hal Cochran

elephants the
you Well Dsw first
0
of
realized
folks ready unpack'ther
The first they
to an to Jack
watched the the front Of the
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-19

Away TO Once-Upon-a-Tme Land
went Nancy and Nick with Mister
Mugs in his magic automobile.
They rode over seven hills Of
seven colors, and on top of the last
hill, all covered with blue forget
me-nots aud yiolets, stood the blue
castle Of Cinderella and her prince.
The little car stopped at the front
door of the palace and gray mouse
in pumpkin-colored velvet let them
in.
A gray rat in pumpkin-colored
satin took their cards on a card tray
and said he would tell the queen that
they were there, also the prince, who
was now called King Char ming in
stead of Prince Charming.
They all sat down in a lovely blue
and pumpkin-colored room and
waited, and by and by Cinderella
came running down the marble
stairs and burst into the room.
"Oh, forgot" she laughed, "they
are always telling me that ! should
be dignified now that / am a queen.
But it's so hard There!" And she
spread out her train and Strengthened
her crown.
"But I'm 50 glad to see you, you
dears!" she beamed. "Hello Nancy !!
Hello, Nick! Hello, Mister Mugs !!
You see I know your names from
your cards. And now do sit down
and tell me about all the news and
everything. How is my dear god
mother. the Fairy Queen?"
"She's fine and dandy" said Mis-
ter Mugs. "She sent me to find
out if you are happy, and if not,
why, and all about it. These Twins
just came along for a ride"
Cinderella mean Queen Cinder-
ella--laughed and gave Nancy hug.
Then she sighed. II am happy all
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-19

except one thing" she said. "My
two older sisters live with me, and
although they mean 10 be kind, they
are always telling me what / should
do-now that l am queen suppose
they think I should pull a long face
and sit with my hands in my lap
and all that. And when L give a
party it's just awful. They just sit
against a wall and make remarks
about everybody, and nobody dances
with them and they get cross and
then they scold me-"
SIS that all you have to be un-
happy about?" laughed Mister Mugs.
Il don't think it is laughing mat
ter" declared Cinderella. And even
my husband is getting tired of them
sitting around croaking all the time.
"Why, it is only a laughing mat
ter" said Mister Mugs. because
it is SO easily fixed. The trouble
with your poor sisters is that they
want to be young and lovely, too. SO
l am going to give you some beauty
cream / brought along. Rub a little
on their faces while they are asleep
and tomorrow they will be young and
as pretty as you are. and of course
that will make them happy and kind
hearted"
"Oh, thank you" cried Cinderella.
an put it on the minute they get
to sleep. / am so glad you came. !"
awe must be going now" said Mis-
ter Mugs, so they all left the blue
castle, Cinderella waving to them
from a window.
II always did feel sorry for those
old sisters" said Nancy. Il never
thought Cinderella could be happy
either as long as they were old and
ugly"
ITO Be C0ntinued.)
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-16

p~PehenSlDle. me number of persons
employed in the industries of the Ed
lson brain-value table is more than
100000. Moving pictures, electric
railways and the telephone have 300
600 a piece. Electrical supplies, and
the telegraph overtop 100000 each.
Electric lighting keeps 100000 en-
ployees' busy. The other industries in
the list run from 10000 to 10000.
Central station, electrical service of
all sorts. forming Americas fifth larg-
est industry, has 100000 employees.
The annual income of the people
who have jobs because Edison had
ideas-the aggregate. wage and sal
airy account of the specified industries
is S1,664, 100000. In 1919 the total
gross sales value, at point of produc-
ton, in five of the industries was ST.
467, 701 500. Electrical machines. ap-
planes and supplies alone came to
almost S1.0O0,OO0,OO0. The baby item.
was fixtures, at S42,267 ,593.
1t is all the development of 4G
years. Edison vas born in 1917. In
1868 he patented his first machine.
an electric vote counter. The con
gressmen of the day wanted nothing
less than they wanted that. He got
his first big invention money. $4,000.
for a stock ticker, an improved model.
in 1870. It was nOt till 1877. however.
that he produced the first of the de-
vices hat have piled up the fifteen
billion-dollar investment in thousands
of plants and factories. In that wear
he brought forth the telephone trans
mitter and the monograph. The lat
ter lay idle for years.
Hundreds of Patents.
All in all. Edison has taken out
more patents than any other individ-
ual. In Edison, His Life and In
ventions,n by Frank L.. DYER and
Thomas c. Martin. a list of more than
a thousand patents, complete to 1909.
covers p pages, aside from 1888 for
eign patents. By 1917 the total had
passed the 100 mark, even though in
late years Edison devoted himself
chiefly to perfeeting his work. To the
total must be added the 20 inventions
which Edison contributed as president
Of the naval consulting board and
Which were in use or ready to use
at the end Of the war. All this is
the result, as Edison says facetiouslv
of two short lives he has ALWAYS
worked Is hours a day or ~thereabouts
Money has not been his object. save a.
# enabled him 10 pursue his work.
Years ago Mr.. Dyer, his Geographic
and patent attorney, was discussins
with Edison q new invention. a ma
chine for taking pictures on a con
tinuous strip Of negative. When tbp-
had discussed and decided the de
tails of the American patent applics
ton, Mr.. Dyer said: "And do you
want a patent in England, too?n
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-16
ABSECON NEWS LETTER
NEWS OF INTEREST IN AND ABOUT THIS THRIVING CITY
AS cHRoNIcLED BY LENA ROBINSON.
hrs. Laura Reed spent Sunday as

Mrs. Laura Reed spent Sunday as
the guest OF Mrs. Anna C.. Fleming and
Miss Collins, at the Pine View Villa.
DR.. and Mrs. William Hurd were the
guests of Mr.. Herman Madden and
Miss Hannah Madden at dinner, al
their home on Church street, Friday
evening"
Mrs. c. NJ. Kesler has returned to
her home, after spending a few days
with her daughter, Mrs. Douglas Cavi-
1eer, of Overlook.
Miss Myra Kesler entertained Miss
Abbie Sanders over the weekend.
Rev. Alexander Corson, district sup
filled the pulpit of the NJ. E. Church
last Sunday evening. Rev. c. X. Dilks
preached at the Chelsea Ventnor
Church, filling the, pulpit for DR.. Ham.
Mrs. Laura Shovel was called to
the bedside of her sister, Mrs. David
Conover, OF Chelsea, on Sunday. Mrs
Conover has been critically i'll the past
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Shovel and
children. Ada and Myrtle, Mr.. and
Mrs. Reaner and son, and Miss Ethel
Reaner, of Maple Shade, spent Sunday
with Mr.. Showelrs, aunt, Mrs. Annie
Robinson.
Mr.. Alfred Shovel left on Sunday
to spend a few days with Mr.. and Mrs.
Lewis Lake, of National Park.
Mr.. and-Mrs. C. NJ. Kesler, Miss My
IA Kesler, Miss Abbie Sanders and Mr..
Frank Cook motored to Philadelphia
on Sunday, to visit Mrs. Frank Cook,
who is in a Philadelphia hospital,
where she underwent an operation.
Miss Adelma Miller spent the week
end as the guest of Miss Naomi Moore,
of Atlantic City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry V. Miller We're
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Doughty, of
Atlantic City, on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Smith entertain
ed on Sunday Mrs. Smiths sister, of
Cedar Brook.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Miller and
children. Edison and Mary, passed
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. S. Vaughn,
at their home in Port Republic.
Mr.. Franklin Mccarthy spent a few
days in New York City recently.
Mr.. John Petri, of Philadelphia,
spent a few days here with his pa
rents.
Mrs. NJ. H. Attales and children have
returned to their home, after a short
stay with Mr.. and Mrs. Stockinger, of
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Laura Reed will leave on We'd
nesday for st. Petersburg, Florida.
where she will spend the remainder of
the winter.
Mrs. Anna C. Fleming entertained
on Thursday Mrs. Amanda Johnson,
Mrs. Anna Johnson and Mrs. Charlotte
Pitney.
The Junior Epworth League, under
the direction of Mrs. C. K. Dilks, will
meet Wednesday afternoon, at the
close of the public school.
The Ahsecon Art Club will meet at
the home of Mrs. F. f. Doughty We'd
nesday afternoon, at 8 o'clock.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Home Department of the Presbyterian
Church was postponed until Thursday,
Jan. "a, when it will be held at the
home of Mrs. James Ballantine, New
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-16
IS BILLIONS IS
VALUE PLACED Oh
EDISON'S Genius
Long List of Industries Founded
Upon His Inventions.
GIVES WORK TO 100000

There is II human bran that has
a bard cash market value f5fay. in the
business and industrial world. of So
000.00O,o00. Billions IS correct. not
millions. That is within - per cent
of equaling the value Of al Re gold
dug from The mines Of the earth since
America was discovered. says the
New York Times.
The brain is that of Thomas Alva
Edison, who many a time has said to
his cronies, well, II worse comes TO
worst, I've got a good trade. | can
always make s75 a month is an ex.
pert telegraph operator and I can live
comfortably ON that"
The SO. O00,0OO,Oo0 represents the
present investment in America alone
in industries which are entirely based
on the inventions of Edison or which
have been materially stimulated by
his inventions. Several Of the coun-
try's largest industries are Included
Here is the list, and it touches only
tie high spots. 1t shows either the
capital or the total investment. ac-
cording to the latest dependable esti-
mates: