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The Washington times., 1924-02-08
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Declares Both Parties Are
Alike in Bartering Away
Birthrights Of Nation.
By TOM EVERETT.
COauo0n0Iltan Navva Harvico.

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Magnus johnson, United States
Senator from Minnesota, today
said that former Secretary Of
the Interior Albert B. Fall, when
he bartered away the birthright
Of the American people, simply
took advantage of the Govern
ment's system. The people are
to blame, he pointed out, more
than Sinclair, Doheny and Fall.
He said public ownership and
Government development of the
oil fields would have prevented
Sinclair, Doheny and Fall from
grabbing the last remaining oil
reserves.
Accuses Whole Nation.
"The more see Of the scandalous
revelations brought out by the
Senate Investigating Committee" !"
he said, ''the more I am convinced
that the trouble with the whole
thing does not lie with Doheny,
Sinclair and Fall. The trouble lies
in an entirely different direction
and the cause is far more funda-
mental than most people think:
The real crime lies at the door of
the people. Sinclair, Doheny and
Fall just took advantage of cir
COmStanceS.
'If the oil fields had been ma
tionalized and the oil industry de-
veloped by the Government years
ago, there would have been no
chance for a Secretary Of Interior
bartering away the birthright of
the people.
and Doheny want to get posses
sion of these things when there is
an opportunity to do so. So long as
oil fields are to be exploited by
+ private interests, individuals will
want to grab as much of them as
they can. So, they bring pressure
to bear upon men in official posi-
ton and get them to violate their
trust" Johnson said.
Parties Exactly Alike.
Another thing that the investi.
cation has brought out is that the
two old parties are exacly alike.
Former Attorney General Pal
mer's act in refusing to appeal the
case against the Southern Pacific
Railway was even forse than what
FAN pulled off.
THE fact, too, that Doheny en-
ployed so many prominent Demo
Gratis who had just stepped out OF
the cabinet, proves how susceptible
men are to the temptations Of big
business so long as they have not
a sound economic philosophy
Points Out Needs.
'If McAdoo, Garrison, Lane
Palmer, Fall and DENLY had beer
believers in public ownership Of the
oil industry, they would never have
offered their services to private in
terests to further the exploitation
Of this heritage of the people.
I'VE need two things: first, more
F'armer.Labor Congressman anC
Senators; second, naturalization o1
oil and other natural resources"
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formed in the district year ago
TO put over a bond issue held
meeting at the Arlington county
court house last night.
The association, learning OF new
organization having formed in the
district, known as the Arlington
District Good Roads Commission,
discussed at some length their plan
Of action. After a number OF the
members spoke faVoring a plan
whereby the people of the district
could get together 1t was voted to
disband the old organization in favor
of the new one.
1t was brought out strongly by
J. Thomas Manning. r. E. Plymale'
and Walter X. Handy that with
two organizations in the district no
The Washington times., 1924-02-08
6 FIRES IN HOUR
TAX F|REMEN
TO LIMIT
Damage In All Amounts to But
Several Hundred
Dollars.

Six fires broke out in Washing.
ton between and last night, tax
ing the city's fire-fighting apparatus
to the maximum. The alarms came
In almost simultaneously. Several
hundred dollars damage was caused
by these fires, and three others, re.
ported during the earlier part Of
the evening.
Many Of the alarms answered
were for chimney fires, where the
loss was negligible. The damage 70
others ran into three figures.
When the firemen arrive at the
place northwest, the flames had
made considerable headway. Ben.
jamin Pershing, the proprietor, said
that about $400 worth of stock
was ruined.
Fire in the apartment of K. e.
Malson, 1914 Irving street north.
west, did fully $500 damage, it was
reported. Much of the damage is
said to have been due to smoke and
water.
Children playing with matches
started a blaze in the home of
walter Brown, '56 P street north
west, last night. The basewood of
the floor were charred.
The fires occurring between 8
and 8 o'clock were at the following
places: 1880 Duncan street north
east: 1910 Sixteenth street north
west; 1S47 Columbia road northwest;
rear Of 1887 Florida avenue north
west: 1891 Seventeenth street
northwest, and 1712 Sixteenth street
northwest:
The Washington times., 1924-02-08
FRENCH ARTISTS DROP
BAN UPON AMERICAN

PARIS, Feb. 8.-The president,
vice president and secretaries of the
Society Of Independent Artists who
resigned in protest against the
hanging Of Gerald Murphy's
gigantic picture of the steamship
olympic at the Grand Palace exhibi-
ton withdrew the designations to.
day. Murphy is a New Yorker.
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head-way would be made In putting
over a bond issue.
Announcement is made that the
third anniversary dinner Of Airing
ton Lodge No. 1913. I. o. o. F., Of
Clarendon, will be given at the
CherFydale Firemens Auditorium
on Thursday night, March 13.
Frank Davis has been appointed
chairman of committee on arrange
ments and w. L. Bragg to arrange
for speakers. The dinner will be in
The Washington times., 1924-02-08

charge Of Milton Crutchley. High
officials Of the order from Wash.
ington and Virginia win attend,
and an excellent musical program
is being arranged.
There viii be a special meeting
Of Columbia Lodge, No. 2S5, A. r.
and A. M. tomorrow night at the
Masonic Temple at Clarendon at
1880 o'clock, at which time degrees
will be conferred on several candi-
dafea
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GRADE CROSSING DEATH
is PROBED BY CORONER

RAVENNA, Ohio, Feb. 8.-Cor-
oner r. D. Worden today was in
vestigating the death of James
Trevo, twenty.seven, of Brooklyn,
N. Y, driver for the Cleveland Film
Exchange, who was killed when his
car was hit by an Erie train ut
grade crossing here last night.
Films valued at $4,000 were de-
stroyed.
The Washington times., 1924-02-08
Many Whispers in Oil
Lease Scandal
BY K. g. B.
News Service


IF all the names that whispered about in Washington
as likely to be drawn into the oil lease scandal do get
of the Investigating committee it going to
make some very considerable list.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22
Passing It Along
" SUPPOSE its all right" said
 . Warren, when his wife stood ar

~ SOIIoOC It all liSHl3 Sulu Ss Warren, when his wife stood ar
 rayed for his approval in her new afternoon frocb. But you see, I don't admire black velvet nightgowns."
 "Why, Tom, this is the very latest mode, and I think these long simple lines extremely becoming"
 "Of course you do. Edith," Warren conceded. T don't in the least blame you, my dear, but the truth is you, like most every other woman, really have no permanent sense of beauty in dress. You adjust your ideas to every whim of fashion. If hoopskirts would come in tomorrow you would have pair or set, or whatever you call them. day after tomorrow, and you would declare that the flare of the full skirt spread over hoops the most graceful line imaginable"
 Perhaps you're right, Tom. I do like to be in fashion, but think. those last century styles were frightfully ugly. There was nothing natural or simple about them"
 No untutored savage maiden could ask for anything more simple and nat ural than that sleeveless shift you're wearing. Why, it hasn't even a belt" /"
 Belts aren't so good this season, but if you would like it better with a sash or girdle l can have one added"
 What's the use? If you're going to
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Listening M On Foe

be stylish, be stylish! Besides, I'm not sure that belt would make that cos tune look much more like something to wear in company. Speaking of old styles, I remember how wonderful mother used to look in her black watered silk. There was a dress that had some making. It fitted her figure, and it was trimmed. When she put it on we boys thought she looked like a queen. It was her best dress for years. In those days women didn't have to buy something new for every social event.
 Those were the daysw said Mrs. Warren, smilingly.
 The next morning after her husband had left for his office she went across town to sit by the wheelchair of dear little lady in a soft gray wrapper with lace at the throat and wrists. She told the elder woman how Tom cherished the memory of his mother in a black watered silk as a queenly vision and as a fashion model for all time.
 "You can never know how sick was of that dress" said the little old lady between her tears and laughter, but money was scarce and the boys had to be educated so I wore it long after it was out of style. It's in the spareroom, in the cedar chest. Get it, dear"
 That evening when Warren came home he found his dinner clothes laid out and his wife already dressed and
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Is Called For orConmunlty
 Chest Drive

Members of the Axis club committee working for the Community Chest drive are requested to meet in the parlors of the Southern club Saturday morning at 10 o'clock in order to report and check up on subscriptions collected. The following are captains in this team:
 Mrs. Edmund Armes, Mrs. Carson Adams, Mrs. Clifford Adams, Mrs. Jack Bowron, Mrs K. w. Constantine, Mrs. Dan Dimmick, Mrs. Milton Fies, Mrs. w. l. Grubb, Miss Annie Floyd, Mrs. Ed Herzog, Mrs. Scale Harris, Mrs. Lloyd Josselyn, Mrs. c. H. Nabb, Mrs. Marris Newfield, Mrs. T. s. Neville, Mrs. W. A. Pattillo, Mrs. Erie Pettus, Miss Louise Roberts, Mrs. Rosenberger,
 Mrs. c. s. Simmons, Mrs. Angus Taylor, Mrs. c. M. Williamson, Mrs. Ed Warren. Mrs. Charles G. Brown and Mrs. Dora c. Fell, co-chairmen.
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cloaked ready to start for the party for which they were engaged.
 What's the grand rush?" he in- quired.
 "Oh, I just thought that for once, Tom, I wouldn't keep you waiting"
 That suits me-" sang out Warren genially, as he hastened to dress, and in a short time they were driving off for the little dinner party in the best of gay spirits. Strangely enough Toms gayety deserted him when he met his wife and their hostess and the other guests in the drawing room after they had removed their wraps. He gave Edith a mortified glance, and forgot what he was saying to the person to whom he was being introduced. But Mrs. Warren was calm and lovely and was really the life of the party the whole evening.
 Well, don't know what you meant by 1t, but you certainly made a spec tacle of yourself tonight" he said as they drove homeward. Honest, Edith, you looked like a freak in that dress, pleats and outings, and with those those spit curls! Everybody must have thought you were crazy"
 Oh, no, dear, not at all. I told our hostess that was dressing to please you-that your mother had kindly lent me a costume that you think far ex- cells for style and beauty the presentday fashions: She thought it most inter- 'esting of you, as she explained to the others.
 You think you're smart, don't you?"
 NO, not so very. You see, Tom, your mother suggested it."
 For a momen tthere was silence be- tween them. Then Tom took one hand off the steering wheel for an instant and gave Edith's hand a little squeeze,
 Mother, bless her, always did know now to manage me and now-and now she's teaching you"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22
ST. JOHNS PASTOR AND FAMILY GIVEN RECEPTION

The people of the St. John Methodist church gave their new pastor and his family pounding on their return for the fifth year to them. Things good to eat from ham to jam-everything imaginable were placed in the pantry and the pastor assured that they were going to stand by him this year.
 Plans are about complete for large building program for the St. John. church this year.
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ting acquainted with the young man, but when people are engaged twos company and three is crowd, no mat ter how much you like the third party. What can I do? E. A. G.
 Answer: She will never forgive you for telling her that you could do with a little less of her society, but that is the only way you can ever get rid of your buttinsky friend. You will have to speak plainly, for there is no use in vast ing hints on any one who IS as thick-skinned as rh1noceros, and who has so, little sensitiveness that she cannot feel the difference in atmosphere between being warmly welcomed and barely tol- erated.
 Certainly, one of the greatest prob lens in the world is how to deal with the too-friendly friend; the friend who wishes herself on you in season and out of season, and who seems to think that because you like her you can never gel an overdose of her society.
 She forgets that you have other
 duties, other interests in life, and
 that no matter how much you care
 for her there are times when her
 presence is a bore, and when 1t is
 highly inconvenient to have her
 about. Nobody wants any outsider
 to be continually underfoot. No
 body wants an outsider popping in
 at the back door, seeing and know
 ing everything that is going on in
 household. No one wants an out
 slider who feels privileged to know
 and advise you about all of your
 private affairs.
 Yet there are plenty of women
 who construe friendship just that
 way.
 Because you are fond of them, and they are fond of you, they feel that they have a right to dictate to you about whom you shall employ for your doctor; how you shah raise your chil- dren, and to pick out your hats and your furniture for you. They are hurt if you go to parties that they are not invited to, and insulted if you don't have them to every entertainment you give. There is never an hour of the day Tor night when you can feel that you are secure from having them come to see you.
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nerves because sne tags me and the y O u n g man to whom I am en- gagged continually: She drops in and spend the evening with us, and wher- ever we go we have to take her along with us. Naturally we do not desire her com pany continually. I do not like to speak to her about it, as she was the means of my get
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22

And if the husband divorces her, don't you think that marrying a woman with two children is rather large order for boy of twenty one? Starting out with a ready made family is heavy burden for any youth to assume in these times, and if you have the con-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22

And take it from me, George, no other woman in the world is so fiend- ishly jealous and keeps a man in such abject slavery to her jealousy as does the married woman who has to meet her lover on the sly and who has fits every time she hears of his going out with a girl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22
Social Calendar

The Parent-Teacher association of Phillips High school will meet at 8 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the Phil lips auditorium. After the business meeting the members and visitors are invited to tea in the practice apartment of the home economic and to it's exhibit of millinery work.
 
 The luncheon to be given by the lief ferson County League of Women Vot- CTS in honor of the manufacturers will take place Wednesday, November %, at 12 80 o'clock at the Hillman hotel. For reservations the following num- bers may be called, Main 6351-J, Main 3194-J or Main 3740.
 
 The regular board meeting of the lief ferson County League of Women Voters will be held at headquarters at the Hillman Tuesday morning at 10 80 o'clock.
 
 The Jefferson County League of Women Voters will have their general meeting Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at headquarters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22
Recital Program InAfternoonAt
 Conservatory

The following pupils of the Birming- ham Conservatory will play in recital Saturday afternoon at o'clock in |Cable hall: The Echo (Lynes), Roberta Munger. Waltz (Blake), Lucille Band. March (Lynes), Harry Allen. Lullaby (Diller and Quaille), Mar |jorie Jenkins. The Church Bell (Blake), Evelyn |Calhoun.
 Rain is Coming iBlake), Sara Doug Bass. 4dt +, s. Laughing Waters (Blake), Betty |Lusk. Arabesque (Bursmuller), Dorsey Harris White.
 Shilhouette (Reinhold), Marjorie Da- wis.
 Graceful Dance (Harris), wilbut Chandler.
 Sonatina (Lynes), Pauline Band. Chainese Doll (Spaulding), Dorothy Shields.
 Merry Farmer (schumann), Mar |garet Heath.
 Soldiers March and The Wild Horse men (Schumann), Rosa Earle.
 Grandmother's Minuet (Grieg(, Ter esq Catanzano.
 Meditation (Pheiffer), Maude Wilk- inson. ,..
 The Lark's Song (Tschaikowsky) :, Ruth Dessler.
 Romance to the Evening Star (Wag- ner-Liszt), Helen Hardie. To Spring (Greig), Charles Kilker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22

Being in love with married woman is bound to involve you in a scandal or a divorce case, both pretty messy things and not cal culated to further a young mans fortune or enhance his reputation ill the community.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22

you. Do you think she loved you very much when she solaced herself as soon as you left by marrying another man? No woman who really loved would have done that. She would have waited for you for ten years.
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some other man is supporting his mother. This may even matters up, by and large, but it is small comfort to the woman who has no daughters. Certainly in such cases the woman's son should look after his own mother first.
 DOROTHY DIX.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22

Then what do you think is to be the end of your love affair with a married woman? Do you expect to just go on loving her, hopelessly and aimlessly, having clandestine meetings with her, always living in fear of her husband finding it out? That's a sorid sort of a TO- nance that you won't find much pleasure in, believe me. It isn't the fun that having a nice girl sweetheart would be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22

Answer: Of course, a sons duty is far greater to his own mother than it is to his wife's mother. and if the man has the say-so in such matters he would rather take care of his mother than his mother-in-law. But always the mans wife decides these matters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22

Dear Dorothy Dix-Should not a son do as much for his mother as he does for his mother-in-law, especially as his own mother is poor and in bad health, while his mother-in-law is well off and has good health? M. c. F.
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Sympathize with your friend at a safe distance is my advice, and let her work out her own. matrimonial prob- lem. DOROTHY DIX.
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MRS. SAKS HOSTESS AT TEA FOR MISS VAUGHN

Mrs. Louis Saks was a hostess of Wednesday afternoon, when she ex- takes the leading part in Rain"
 The Tutwiler was the scene of this delightful hospitality, which included few of the intimate friends of the hostess.
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n EAR MISS DIX-I have a wom- ID an friend of whom I am very
 fond, but she is getting on my
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22

A mother nearly always goes to live with her daughter instead of her son, and thus we have the curious mixups that many a man is supporting his wife's mother and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22

Of course, men who have illicit love affairs don't have to pay the piper quite as high a price as women do, but they don't get off scot-free. They have their little bills to settle and very often it bankrupts them in heart and purse
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MRS. BUTCHER HOSTESS AT BRIDGE LUNCHEON

Mrs. Frank Butcher entertained Fri day with an informal bridge luncheon at her home, honoring her mother, Mrs. Joseph Kenaga, of Urbana, Ohio, and Mrs. Frank 0. Wilson, also of Urbana, the guest of her sister, Mrs. R. H. Cunningham,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22

mon sense you pride yourself on having you won't do 1t.
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ships last is because women wear them out by their exactions. Too much friend is worse than no friend at all, and so the only thing to do with a monopolistic friend is to get rid of the pest as soon as you can. DOROTHY DIX. Dear Miss Dix-When I was eight cen was very much in love with girl of seventeen. She insisted upon our getting married then, but I did not wish to tie myself up in matrimony at such an early age. Shortly afterward the girl got married and is now the mother of two children.
 Lately we have met again, and she tells me that she is very unhappy and doesn't care for her husband and that she still loves me and asks me to take her out.
 Now this is the point. Should I or should l not go out with her? I am twenty-one years of age now, and I figure that I am old enough to have little common sense.
 GEORGE L.
 Answer: You might be as old as Methuselah, George, but you still wouldn't be old enough to have any common sense if you mixed yourself up in an affair with married woman. The man who does that is always headed for 'trouDie, no matter what his age. consider the subject calmly, George, ana see where you get off. The wom- an tells you that she has always loved
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Dorothy Dix's Letter Boz

HoaU To Deal With 4 Too Friendly Friend. Hoau ShqU He Act ToUard His old SaUeet- heart, Who, Though Married, Admits Her Love For Him?-Mother Versus Mother-in-Laav
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The reasons why so few friend
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-19
News in Brief.

The Stork delivered a fine baby boy
to Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Buzzard n day
last week. - SummerVille CIV. Va
Chronicle.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-19

The rapid growth of the telephone
business in Pennsylvania which has
caused tremendous amounts of new
ro.ipment to lie added to the system
Tia veal will continue throughout
1924. according TO a statement by j
&. Lynch, Vice President of the Bell
Telephone Company of Pennsylvania.
.Our S30.0O0.O00 program which we
are Just completing seemed like an
impossible feat ut the beginning of the
wear. But present indications are
fh4f next year we will have to add
about S4O.o000O0 to keep pace with
the needs Of the people of Pennsylva-
mia for new telephones. OF this We
expect that $4,000 300 will 90 into
new ~switchboards and central office
pqaipment. The balance will be re-
quired for new wire, about 630.000
miles. fer new buildings and enlarge
ment of present buildings and for the
hundred and one other things which
are necessary to make a telephone
system function. From the way things
look now we VIII add more than So
600 new telephones N 1924.
THE telephone growth is a baro-
meter of business conditions. During
1921 to 1923 more telephone equip
lnent was added in Pennsylvania than
H. any previous six years. And 1924
from the present outlook will far sur
pass anything even dreamed of a few
years ago.
pennsylvania is a great industrial
state and the fact that such r9pid
strides are being made in the tele
phone business is a sure indication OF
the general prosperity of its diver
sified activities