The Washington times., 1925-09-11
Ringers" in Beauty Pageant
Car Track Paving
By BILL PRICE

Those of us who realize that beauty is only skin deep
will nevertheless deprecate the charges from Atlantic City
that beauty is be skinned ito farewell In the beauty
pageant to be decided there today.
It is awful to think the beauties who have been sent
different cities of the country take part in the contest
for the beautiful in America are poisonous sat-
belief that professional rngers-grls at
picture being considered ana
that everything has been of them take away
the big prize being Miss America Withdrawal OF two
of the alleged professionals may not aay suspicious
Washington entrant in this contest beautiful GIRL
and the female portion of population going to be
wrought up to high pitch the ntmations of frame
up What's the of picking representative some
professional beauty identified with the movie business to
get the honor How is the movie business to get accessons
to its ranks of if the nonrfsona beauties are
skinned out of rights and their chances to get into the
The old sage who wrote that skin deep stuff about
beauty knew nothing methods of nning beauties
out of first prizes nothing the heart burns and eaouses
involved such huge undertaking picking the most
SHINING is by no means new thing greatest
Those of who possess no physical beauty
whatever have away from there trimmed to the bone
Yet we hope nothing these OF tr1ckery
agreeing the returns before the ballots are counted
The famous Congressman John Allen Of Tupelo, MISS.
used to say that in his the white people always fired
off several early the morning OF elections just
to let the colored voters know there was to De ar
The it well that they seldom tried to
only interested in what kind OF majority
the white election managers would turn In
Congress many Investigations and there has been
any underhanded business Atlantic City we hope that Con
Tom Banton of Texas and Senator Tom Helm OF
this business bitter end The beauties of the female
sex will demand and the garden variety of the male sex
will be mildly interested in it.
The last issue of the City Club Tribune official organ of
the City Club and edited by its able president Harry
this paragraph which print because reflects
the views of of the most powerful civic bodies In Wash
ington:
Thanks to Bill Price for editorial asking that the
streets joining the car tracks be paved
Existing laws pointed out in the editorial referred to-
outside of the tracks, shall be done the expense of the
local street railway companies.
The fairness OF these corporations having DO this work
wholly their expense when these portions of the streets are
likewise used by all kinds of traffic to question That
the running of heavy tracks does produce
usual the streets is matter OF record and for that
the companies should bear part OF the ex
penze of paving and repairs.
The important thing Washington in these days of bad
that the railway companies be compelled to comply
with the law just other taxpayers instead of permitting
conditions in and along tracks that disgrace and
menace to traffic.
District promptly enorce all other laws Of
for street against property and of these
laws unjust the bearing the railways Poor
with small pieces Of property compelled to meet street
without delays thoughtful consideration In
places in this the street companies allowed to
openly fagrant, violate the law and escape their obga
TONS resulting in dangerous unsghty conditions for which
somebody is responsible.
High District officials charged duty seeing
that laws complied with by subordinates in the District
the laws unfair Congress should be asked
repeal them Until Congress this the avors heretofore
shown street railway companies must
We gave specific instances Of where many thousands
of dollars have been spent horougfares for paving
asphalt cement and where the streets public shame
because of conditions between and adjacent to railway tracks
There other they known the engineer
ing department of the District.
square deal for all taxpayers all this newspaper asks
doesn believe that street railway corporation should be
been happening The plain citizen must toe the mark
and assessments matter what the state of his fl
A corporation should do the
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