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The Washington times., 1925-03-02
Propaganda In Prayer
Stirs Legislature
In Iowa

DES MONIES, Iowa, March z.
Prayer censorship . may be
established in the Iowa legisla-
ture. There is dep muttering
among some of the Hawkeye
solons that ministers who open
the sessions with long prayers
should first submit advance
copies Of their intended suppl
cations.
The cause of all the rupnbles
was q prayer by the Reverend
Frank w. Mutchler, pastor of
the Union Park Church of Christ,
of this city. The pastor asked
for blessing for the proposed
child labor amendment.
Opponents Of the measure
considered this propaganda and
lobbying on the floor for the
bill.
The supporters Of the child
labor amendment poOh-poohed
such charges and 50 the tempest
in the teapot RACES on.
The Washington times., 1925-03-02
F|SKE STRIKES
BACK At SIMS

Continued from First Page.)
| the committee Saturday that
Mitchell had violated orders by not
submitting the article to his
superior officer for approval.
Compiled With Orders
"I have in no way disobeyed or
transgressed any known order or
instruction that am familiar
WITH" said Mitchell.
President Coolidge gave him per-
mission to write the articles, and
subsequent approval also was
granted by Major General Mason
NJ. Patrick, chief of air service,
Mitchell said.
II complied with both the Presi-
dents verbal and written instruc-
TONS" Mitchell declared.
| Mitchell's letter, addressed to
Congressman Lampert (Rep) of
Wisconsin, chairman of the COM
mittee, follows:
| According to press reports,
am informed that evidence has been
given that disobeyed the orders Of
the War Department and the Presi-
dent, or both, in writing some arti-
cles on air power which were pub
lished in the Saturday Evening
Post. l, therefore, desire to ac-
| quaint you with the facts in the
case.
Went To See President.
"In the month Of November,
| 1924, an editor of the Saturday
Evening Post called on me and
desired that ] write a series Of
articles on air power.
This, / informed him, I would be
| very happy to do, but that it would
be necessary for the magazine to
obtain permission for me to do so.
Several days after this / received
a message from Philadelphia that
one of the editors had received an
appointment with the President to
discuss this subject.
Upon reaching the White House
the editor called my office and
companying him in his interview
with the President. 1 proceeded at
once.
Il THE President reiterated his
great interest in aeronautics which
he has always shown, and said he
considered a series OF articles on
this subject to be beneficial and
that / should obtain the permission
Of nv superior officer, the chief Of
the air service.
1.-The editor of the Saturday 1--we
ming Post and ] returned to my
office. Immediately reported to
the chief OF the air service what
| had occurred and requested permits
sion to write the articles. He gave
permission then for me to Write
: them. No mention was made al
all about submitting copies.
Letter From Coolidge.
! Following this conversation from
the chief of air service, received
> the following letter from the Presi
dent dated November IL, 1924:
: "'My Dear General Mitchell:
Confirming my conversation
with you this morning, / do mo-
know of any objection TO your pre-
pairing some articles on aviation
so far as | am concerned. But, Of
course, I cannot speak for youl
superior officers. This should bt
taken up with them, and their de
cision in relation to the article:
followed:
with kindest regards, I an
very truly yours,
calvin COOLIDGE
complied with both the Presi
dents verbal and written instruc
tions.
THE point of my violating orders
was never raised. to my knowledge
until the testimony given to your
The Washington times., 1925-03-02
Undertaken Denies
Lenin Grew Beard
After Death
' International News Service.


CHICAGO, March 2.-Nicolai
Lenin will never need another
shave, as his body lies exposed
for public veneration in the Rus
sian capital, declared Harry G.
Samson, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
director of the National Selected
Morticians, in an address here.
Press reports have said that
the cathedral in which Lenin
lies was closed so that his
cheeks might be shaved, owing
to the growth of his beard after
death.
"Hair does not grow after
DEATH" said Samson. "There
is not a single authenticated
instance of hair growing after
death. This is a superstition
which science reveals to be
without foundation.
The Washington times., 1925-03-02
ADVERTISEMENT

Prices realized on Swift & Company
sales of carcass beef in washington, ..
c., for week ending Saturday, February
80, 1925. on shipments sold out. ranged
from 800 cents to 1900 cents per pound
and averaged 1913 cents per pound.
The Washington times., 1925-03-02
committee on February %, 1925
By Secretary Weeks).
Should Have Been Told.

1T would seem that II / had
violated orders, my attention should
have been drawn to them long be-
fore the present time and action
taken accordingly. These articles
appeared periodically and could have
been stopped had the War Depart.
ment desired. I have in no way
disobeyed or transgressed any known
order or instruction that am
familiar with"
Evening star., 1925-06-14
THERE'S ALWAYS SOME LAW THAT BIRD CAN BE HELD ON
NO MATTER WHAT HE'S DOING"

high crime for a plumber to bring his
tools with him. However, that's the
way things Is in this world. John
Smith looks out for John Smith, and
Henery Jones can take run and
jump with himself"
What" 1 asks, was that other
reason you spoke of for having so
many new lawS?"
New members of the legislature, ;"
explains High Dome
What's the difference" 1 inquiries.
between the new ones and old ones?''
We'll" answers Finnegan, "the old
babies that has got their jobs cinched
don't work themselves into sweat at
the sessions, but the new birds that
has got reputation to make is al
ways on their toes with new laws. If
they don't introduce an average of
half a dozen bills a day they figure
the one: :gallus boys back home will
figure they're loafing on the Job and
give them the raus at the next cleo
tion. / don't know if they is any fig.
ures, but I'll bet that 90 per cent of
the stuff introduced in legislatures is
shot into the hopper by first-year
lads
"They get some good ones in, once
in while, don't they?" I asks.
mot so far" shoots back High
Dome" "They is mostly silly laws
that the boys figure'll crash the front
pages of the city papers for them.
The real important stuff is framed up
by couple Of the big committees
whilh is usually run by some hard
Evening star., 1925-06-14
If You Don't Know About It. Says Finnegan,
1t Is Quite Likely It's Against the Law

YOU dig up a law nobody ever heard
of and plaster d fat fine on you"
Just the same I insists "a bov
that behaves hsself and don't take
nothing that amt his'n and don't
bother the neighbors none amt gonna
get in no jams"
'No?" comes back High Dome
Il read story once about a guy that
pulled the same kinda crack to a lad
who was a lawyer guy. They made a
little bet, and that afternoon the wise
bobo was pinched four times. and
when he got home that night he
found that his wife had been pinched
twice, as we'll"
'What'd she do?' I inquiries.
she was run in for once" returns
Finnegan, for leaving the top of the
barbage can open and another time
for walking across a lot in the corner
| that didn't belong TO her. 1t did be-
| long to the lawyer lad. and he had
her pinched for treSpasSing. Her hus-
band was arrested for crossing the
street diagonally, eXpectorating on the
sidewalk, standing at a busy corner
| talking with three other men for half
an hour, making it an unlawful as
Sembly and keeping one Of the girls
in the factory working five minutes
| overtime.
rs that crime?" L asks.
I'm that State" SAYS High Dome"
1T was unlawful to work a girl over
| Is overtime. / wouldn't be surprised
| if you were committing some kind
of a crime right now
II know it, snaps. I'm listening
| to you, amt 1?'
Evening star., 1925-06-14

boiled wampuses that's been on the
job long enough to know better"
If the bills them new bozos spring
are all the bunk" Iwant to know,
'how do they get passed?"
Trading, kid" explains Finnegan.
Trading. Bill Gluff. of Blivins Coun-
ty, is got set of pet bills, and so has
Jim Woosit. of Bling County. Gluff
says to Whoosit, You scratch my
back, and I'll do the same for yours
and that goes for the rest of the
0luffs and the Whoosits in the Legis-
lature. There's always enough guys
in the assembly, with records to make
back home, to go in on a trade and
put the program over. The old wise
count of the fact that the young uns
might crab the act on the big appro-
priation bills and the etc. Besides
that. the big guys in the legislature
are usually got their eye on some
big stake job. and they can't take a
chance of offending some bimbo that
might carry a county in his pocket.
It's all politics and fence building, and
the pro-bonehead publico is the goat,
as per usual"
HMELL," says I, ''it don't make no
difference how many laws they
is on the books If they don't enforce
them.'
That's true in a way" admits
High Dome" "but it's pretty tough
to have some bright young prosecut.
ing attorney with a grudge against
Evening star., 1925-06-14

referred to don't take in nobody as
young as my little ones and in fact 1t
amt got no kindergarten or primary
grades but was organized by Commits
sioner Enright of the N. Y. police
force to train men that is already po-
licemens to be better policemens and
learn common patrolmens to be SER
geants. lieutenants and finely cap
tains Of police.
1t seems they's lot more to ad-
vancing in the police profession than
just serving a certain number of yrs.
in this or that capacity, and unless
you show ability and get the right
kind of education you will be patrol
man all your life and never a officer.
The people that runs the school makes
a effort to find out which Is the most
likeliest pupils and then they give
them special training to fit them for
officers like the officers training
schools In the Army.
I was not able to get much informa-
tion In regards to the courses OF study,
but I presume that one Of the first
things they try to learn them is to
not arrest the wrong man, though In
greater N. Y. you can't hardly make
a mistake and a specially in Brooklyn,
where pretty near anybody can be
arrested with reason, and they say
Evening star., 1925-06-14
81 CAN NO LONGER LEAP LIKE YOUNG PORPOISE DO NOT
YODEI.

NO" said Beverly Jones.
I'D have set them two feet wider
apart; they're too narrow, old chap,
| too narrow
Poppleton shook his head sadly at
the gates. we had quite a strug
gle," said Beverly before we
| finally decided on sandstone"
Great mistake said Poppleton.
''Too soft. Look at this''-here he
picked up a big stone and began
pounding at the gate-post. See how
! easily 1t chips. Smashes right off
Look at that-the whole corner
knocks right off. see"'
/ began to see that there is a sort
of understanding, a kind of free
masonry, among men who have sum
mer places. One shows his things;
the other runs them down, and breaks
them. This makes the whole thing
easy at once.
Beverly-Jones showed his lawn.
Your turf is all wrong, old boy"
said Poppleton. Look, it has no
body to it. See, l can kick holes in
| it with my heel. Look at that, and
| that, If / had on stronger boots l
| could kick this lawn all to pieces"
Beverly-Jones showed his new boat
| house next and Poppleton knocked
hole in the side with a hammer to
show that the lumber was too thin.
IF that were my boathouse." he said.
I'D rip the outside clean off it and
use shtngle and stucco."
1t was, l noticed, Poppletons plan
| first to imagine Beverly Jones things
his own, and then to smash them, and
then give them back smashed to
| Beverly-Jones. This seemed to please
them both. Beverly-Jones and Pop
| pleton, after an hour or so of it, were
| delighted with one another.
| Yet somehow, when / tried It my
self, it failed to work
| do you know what ! would do
! with that cedar Summer-hou If it
was mine?" 1 asked my host the next
| day.
| NO" he said
| I'D set off can of blasting powder
| under 1t, / answered. But Beverly
Jones looked hurt.
| Not that these people are not doing
all they can for me. They are trying
| their best. This is Liberty Hall, 5"
| Mrs. Beverly-Jones said to me on the
| first day of my visit. I'VE want YOU
TO feel that you are to do absolutely as
you like
Absolutely as l like. How / should
like to have answered: Madam. |
have now reached a time of life when
human society at breakfast is i'm
possible to me; when any conversation
Evening star., 1925-06-14
By RING LARDNER.

~ o the editor: A man like 1 that
has got house full of chill
dren or kiddies as the case
L may be can't help from giving
whole lot of thought to the
school question and where to send
them to school and etc. and the Mrs.
keeps after me to put what some call
my mind on the subject and come to
some decision and we was talking 1t
over the other night and I said you
know IL will cost hundreds of dollars
to send them anyWheres and she says
yes but We have got to send them
somewheres if only to relieve the con-
gestion at home and If you don't send
them somewheres it will cost hun
dreds of dollars just the same because
we will half to hire Or s poltcemens
to regulate traffic right here in the
house because the way II Is now you
can't walk from one room to another
without indulging in football tactics
and we could send them to school for
the same amt. of money which we
would otherwise half TO pay out for
salary for traffic policemens because
traffic policemens and in fact police
mems of all kinds is high salary pro-
fession.
Well a little vile after this I was
talking to one of the kiddies themselfs
and l asked him what he wanted to be
when he growed up and he said he
would like to be policeman and all
Evening star., 1925-06-14

not wait to do my exercises this
morning. he says, / don't believe II
will hurt any to let them go this one
morning.
And l says. no. you don't look as
If 1t hurt you unbearably. and then
we went down to breakfast, and ii
was raining, so he says do you mind
running me down to the depot, he
says, I don't believe l had ought TO
walk in the rain.
And l says of course dear l don t
mind running you down to the depot
or to my intimate friends, either, not
If you are going to lay down on this
exercise stuff so quick
Geo. was sore as a pup at that and
he says. nonsense, I am doing no
such thing, this is a exceptional day,
that's all,
Well, them dumbbells actually wore
spots on the bedroom carpet, stand
ing there so long, and only FOR me
busting them off onct in while they
would have been utterly ruined from
not getting used. AS for that wall
puller. why after the first few weeks
give up hoping that Geo. would
ever get the wall pulled down, and
was just crazy to see into the next
house, L had never been up in that
bedroom of theirs.
But onct in a while Geo. would pick
up the boxing gloves and look at 'em
and stick 'em back in the tissue paper
where 1t seemed they belonged. And
the only time he exercised with them
things was when that Joe Bush of
the Hawthorne Club would be around
and then all he would exercise was
his tongue telling how TO keep
healthy with your will power
Finally / couldn't stand the strain
no more. One afternoon when Geo.
hadn't come home yet and Junior was
out, I sneaked up in our room. col
lected them articles of physical cul.
ture, and polished 'em up a little, in
cluding the price tage which was still
on them. Then I made up a bundle
and started for the sports good de
partment of the Emporium.
And / will say they was good sports
in that department all right, on &C
count the head fioorwalker got my
point at once. He knew l was a
mother, and being a floorwalker him
self with plenty of practice at home
nights, we had a sympathetic feeling.
Say mister, 1 says. these things
was bought up here several weeks ago
but they are just as good as new,
Evening star., 1925-06-14

times, was also through playing on
the carpet sweeper.
Well, having finished my exercise.
I by then felt all fresh and full of
health and able to shell some peas
for diner. And while 1 was doing
so / thought. really now ! must keep
this up regular. only not overdo it.
of course, on account l am not the
type of girl that too many athletics
is becoming to, although | will say
there are few look any better in
sports clothes then myself, especially
the evening models.
OF course men Is a good deal diff.
ferent from ladies and don't stick
to a habit as good, that is. except
to poker, golf and committing. Pretty
nearly every husband in our town has
one OF them sports constantly on his
mind.
erable interest when he come home
that night to see would he remem-
ber the gymnasium outfit he had
brought out the night before. And
he did. What was even further, he
set the stuff all out ready for the
next day. At least he set and Junior
put it out under directions.
There now. says Geo. when Junior
had got all done, don't that look
DuSlleSSllhe, L nope 10 tell tne "OTIO
that when I get through with them
Indian clubs and dumbbells and etc.
this family will better step lively
when l speak. I am conner be a
strong man.
And / says well don't wear 'em out
too soon Geo., with little care they
might last you quite a while.
And he says now don't get sarcastic,
suppose you think l amt conner
do it, but 1 am, he says, and what
is even further, / intend from now
on walking to the station every day.
\
WELL, we got a series Of Natl holi-
w days in this country that don't
appear on the calendar or get an.
nounced by the President nor have
banks close on 'em, and these holi-
days is what is known to every fam
lily as Exceptional Days. and 1 be-
lieve that Alibi Ike was born on the
first of them. And Ike's birthday
turned out to be the next morning
after Geo. had set up his amateur
gymnasium outfit.
He was late getting up, and he says
we'll, well. too bad. / guess / better
Evening star., 1925-06-14
Slang of Flyers.

JUST as the Army and Navy have
their special slang expressions, so
the Air Service has developed a vo-
cabulary all its own, says Popular Me.
chanics. An officer who cannot fly Is
known as a "kiwi," after the New Zea-
land bird with undeveloped wings.
Ground flying" describes talk about
flying, a man Is in a fiat spin" when
he becomes confused in conversation,
and IL a speaker at banquet talks
too long, he Is given a gentle hint to
land" by making the letter "T" of
two matches, the outline of a plane.
Washed out" Is the aviator's equiva-
lent for getting killed and cracked
up" means wrecked. Anti.aircraft
guns are called Arches A plane
of any kind Is spoken of as a Job;
prop" is short for propeller and
give 'er the gun" Is the aerial equiv
alent Of the motorists step on the
gas" To set down" is to land. but
il a flyer falls few feet when run
ming parallel to the ground. he pan
cakes" Training planes with Hispano-
Suza motors are called misses" a
Jenny. Is a plane with a JN.type
motor. The barrel roll' Is complete
revolution lengthwise, "zooming" is to
climb sharply for a short period. and
sausage" is the name for q small
dirigible or balloon.
Evening star., 1925-06-14

ominous phrase-that / should wake
them all up!
What sort of alarm-clock did they
take me for, anyway!
All, well! They know better now
1t was only yesterday afternoon that
Beverly-Jones found me standing here
in the gloom of some cedar-trees be-
side the edge of the pond and took
me back so quietly to the house that
I realized he thought / meant to
drown myself. So I did.
l could have stood it better-my
coming here, / mean-if they hadn't
come down to the station in a body
to meet me-sillylooking men in
colored blazers and girls with no hats
all making a hullabaloo of welcome.
I'VE are quite a small party" Mrs.
Beverly-Jones had written.
Small party, indeed Why, after
six days there are still some of the
idiots whose names I haven't got
straight,
Somehow from the very first |
could feel that Beverly-Jones was
disappointed in me. He said nothing
But l knew it. On that first after
noon, between my arrival and evening
dinner, he took me about his place,
to show it to me.
| wish that at some proper time
l mad learned just what II is that
you say when a man shows you about
his place.
These big gates" said Beverly
Jones, I'VE only put up this year"
said, oh why shouldn't they put
them up this year?1 I'VE had quite
a struggle" he continued, before we
finally decided on sandstone" I said:
You did. eh?"
This lawn" said Beverly-Jones,
I'VE laid down the first year we were
here" He looked me right in the
face as he said 1t and I looked straight
back at him. but l saw no reason
to challenge his statement.
/ could feel that Beverly Jones
grew depressed as he showed me
round l was sorry for him. but un.
able to help.
VET how simple a thing it seems
when done by others. / saw the
difference at once when Beverly
Jones took round young Poppleton.
These big gates" began Beverly
Jones as he showed Poppleton round
the place with me trailing beside
them. I'VE only put up this year"
Poppleton, who has a Summer place
of his own. looked at the gates very
critically. Nov. do you know what
I'd have done with those gates, if they
were mine?" he said.
Evening star., 1925-06-14
Tricks of Policeman's Trade Taught
In New York Lead to Undying Notoriety

and dangling a purse in her hand and
all of a sudden a tough egg jumped
out of the alley and grabbed the purse
and run as fast as he could run "a
would you diagnose it as justiflabIe
embezzlement or a mild Irritation and
t2) which Of the . would you chase,
he or she?"
Or
Suppose you was standing on
Riverside drive and they was a
woman and a baby in arms and the
woman handed you the baby and
asked you would you promise to hold
it a vile and you promised and then
the woman throwed herself in the
river and was drowning. would you
break your promise and drop the baby
and jump in and save the woman or
would you try and sell the baby a
ticket to the Policemens field day at
Jamaica?"
But. of course. the most important
courses at the policemens school
would half to be language and elocu-
tion with gestures. A policeman
won't never get nowheres If he can't
insult private citizens and insult them
SO loud and in such novel terms that
a big crowd will gather round to
cheer. When you can talk rough
enough so that you can make a old
lady cry with one sentence you are
ready for promotion to lieutenant at
lease.
One of the other main duties of a
policeman in N. Y. now days is to
know by instinct just the instant that
the public has mastered the latest
traffic rules so that he can report to
headquarters and get them changed.
These and many other tricks of the
trade Is learned to pupils in the new
school, and I only wished they would
of left my little boy matriculate, as he
takes after his mama and would make
a great captain Of police.