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The Washington times., 1925-08-17
BUSINESS MEN
WAR ON FREE
LOT PLAN
Bureau Here Objects to Tao
tics of Real Estate Firms
in Craftsmanship

The Better Business Bureau of
Washington is waging a strenuous
campaign against the so-called
free lot system" employed by
some real estate concerns here to
lure buyers to subdivisions.
Agents for these companies, &C.
cording to the bureau, distribute
cards at public gatherings and
prospects are asked to sign their
names and addresses in order that
they may be in line for one of the
free" lots.
Shortly after this the prospect
hears from the company and learns
that he is entitled to a lot valued
at about $500, upon payment of a
nominal amount such as $39, which
covers the consideration for the lot
In order to obtain a deed how.
eVer.~ the prospect must go to the
subdivision and see the property.
Able statesmen await his arrival.
The lot Is usually on the out
skirts of some subdivision and is
often only 20 or rs feet wide, Then
the prospect Is urged to buy the
lot next to, his at it's regular price
of 5000 or/else buy an entirely new
property in a more desirable sec.
ton of the subdivision at a much
higher price, from which will be
deducted the 5000 for the small lot.
The Better Business Bureau in
sists that If the company can af-
ford to sell all the advertising lots
for 500, there is no justification in
claiming that they are valued at
5000. And if the company cannot
afford to sell all the lots for the
nominal amount mentioned in their
communication, it is an admission
that they get their prospects on the
property by trickery and trust to
salesmanship TO load them up with
something else.
The Washington times., 1925-08-17

ly in the past, but only recently
has there been any attention paid
to the emotional phase of the ex-
pertinent. cannot say whether
science will derive any benefit from
this particular test. can only
point to the possibility that, in
the study of emotions under a va
riety of conditions. psychologists
and psychiatrists may add to their
stores OF knowledge"
Other medical men, who failed
to see anything starNingly novel
in the Moss experiment, preferred
not to have their names used in
public discussion of the test.
The Washington times., 1925-08-17
WRONG HOUSE,
IS ROBBER' s
EXCUSE
Police Seek Man Who Makes
Plea When Surprised in
Northwest Homes

A daylight robber operating in
the northwest section of the city,
who. when surprised, excuses his
presence by declaring that he is
In the wrong house, is being sought
by headquarters detectives and
Tenth precinct police today.
Shortly after Frank A. Birgfelder.
chief clerk of the Treasury De.
partment. left his home at 1888
seventeenth street northwest, to-
day, the sound of footsteps in the
mousse aroused his wife, Mrs. Mary
Birgfelder.
AS Mrs. Birgfelder came out of
ner Kitchen a well-dressed man,
ABOUT thirty.five years old, wearing
Iortoise-shell glasses, came down
her stairs.
questioned about his being in the
mouse, the man said he was sorry
put ne had gotten In by mistake
ana was in the wrong residence.
he left, according to Mrs. Brig
Ielder, and when she called to a
friend OF hers. who was in the
kitchen. and to a next-door neigh.
Dor, the man broke into a run
and disappeared near Seventeenth
and Monroe streets.
A pocketbook containing $50 and
some change was missing from
Mrs. Birgfelders bedroom bureau.
She said that jewelry of great value
was in the room and within reach
of the burglar, who was evidently
frightened before he could com.
plete ransacking the upper floors.
Police believe that the man is
the same one who has entered a
number Of homes in Mount Pleas.
ant and looted them of thousands
Of dollars worth of jewelry and
money.
Headquarters Detectives John
Fowler and John FIaherty are in.
vestigating the case.
The Washington times., 1925-08-17
CHESAPEAKE BEACHS
MAJOR GENERAL"
OF POLICE,

The captain of the police force
at Chesapeake Beach is, we are
informed by a contrib, a major
general" an unusually high po-
sition for the commanding Off
GER of a police force. The cap
tain, Peterson, wears two stars,
the emblem of major general,
instead of two bars on the shout
ders of his uniform coat.
Whatever his real official
title the captain" is mighty lib
eral about the bathing suits the
girls wear. He is not likely to
bother any damsel who steers
clear of the actual September
Morn stuff.
The Washington times., 1925-08-17
SEES
GOOD IN
Plan
Director Denies Cause for
complaint-Says Some Sal
aries Need Readiustment

Demand for a complete investi-
CATION of the classification of
women employees in the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing will meet
with no opposition from bureau
officials, it was stated by Direc-
tor Alvin w. Hall today in reply
to a resolution passed by bureau
workers yesterday and submitted
to the Federation of Federal En-
ployes.
"a survey by the personnel
classification board of the work
in the bureau and the proper clas-
sification of the positions would
receive our hearty cooperation"
Mr.. Hall declared.
Denies Discrimination
There is no doubt in my mind
that. under the present classified
ton many of the employees are
underpaid while, on the other
Mr.. Hall concluded.
The claim that forewomen hold
ing the same position and respon-
sibility as foremen are being dis
eliminated against in salaries was
denied by Mr.. Hall.
"A large number Of the women
who hold positions with. the title
"forewOmen" are really nothing
more than supervisors.
These women certainly cannot
expect to receive the same pay as
a skilled foreman in the mechanics
or other branches of the bureau.
The title "forewomen" is a mis-
homer and, in most instances,
means nothing more than that the
woman so designated is in charge
of a number of women in the
money counting or other depart
ments of the bureau where no tech
nical knowledge is required" Mr..
Hall said.
Complaints Few, He Says
Director Hall said that little com.
plant has been made by the en-
ployes since the present rating
system went into effect over year
ago.
plants from time to time, most Of
which we have tried to remedy,
but on the whole there have been
very few" he said. I'VE have had
the benefit OF a years experience
in the matter. and / think a new
survey by the personnel classified
ton board would prove to be a
good thing"
In the resolution submitted to
the Federal of Federal employees
the workers also ask that the Fed
GRAFTON use its power to have the
conditions surrounding the leaves
and vacations adjusted so that bu-
reau employees may take sick leave
under the present permissive statute
pending a passage of standard
law governing leaves.
The resolution was signed by
Belle A. Treuland, president of Fed
eral Employees Union No. los, made
up of women employees Of the bu-
reau; Gertrude McNally, secretary
of the union and vice president OF
the Federation of Federal En-
ployes: Margaret Garry. Rose Bren-
nan and Mae c. Bergevin.
The Washington times., 1925-08-17
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<azzzS- By BILL PRICE e PC Us, az OFFICE
CHEERFUL CHATTER
REG. US. PAT OFFICE

CHEEhF III OhfA1 AER
Fire-ceHt cigars are popular IN
Pittsburgh we are informed. Prob
ably because they're used to all
kinds Of smokes" there!
A BroOkIyn man 1ctshes to knoU
tchat is the proper tCdy of helping
his son, eIo is sd1ophone player,
to "get mp in the tcorld." Dynamite
is probably the most appropriate
: suggestion.
A, sports editor says that pitch
ing alone cap handicap the Mack
men in their quest for the penndnt.
Yes. especially the Washington
pitching!
A Denrer' tcon1dn, appearing In
court. said that but for intoTicdnts
her married life 1rould have, been
happy one. Her husband re-
taliates By saying if 1t hadn't been
for. intoTicGnts there aCould hare
been no happiness in his married
life.
Economical conditions forcing
MeEico to Dry up" netcs item
asserts. Too bad that these con-
ditions can't apply to some Con-
greSSnten Ue knotc!
JOE Fl. HOLMAN.
The Washington times., 1925-08-17
VIEW
HIGHWAY
ROUTES
Major Carey to inspect Those
Proposed for Eastern
Lee Terminus

Several proposed routes for the
eastern terminus of the Lee High
way will be inspected tomorrow
by Major Carey Brown, acting
Director of Public Buildings and
Parks, and a group Of Virginia
officials.
Final Link q Problem
The problem Of connecting the
final link of the highway running
between Falls Church and the Ar
lington Memorial Bridge will be
under consideration.
The highway is an important
feature OF the regional coming de
velopment of Virginia, proposed by
the National Capital Park Commits
sion.
Plans for regional development
in Virginia probably will be worked
out by the commission in advance
of the converting of Congress nexl
December.
One of the important features oil
the development viii be the restOra
ton of the Lee Mansion in Airing.
ton National Cemetery, as a Lee
Shrine" with the original colonial
furniture and decorations of the
house in place.
The work OF restoration will cost
the Federal Government 1925, 900.
The ultimate development of the
entire Virginia shore line from the
Highway bridge to the upper Po'
tomac Is to be considered as part
Of the development proposed by the
Park Commission.
Following a meeting of the city
planning committee, of which Major
Brown is chairman, early in Sep
TENDER, the National Capital Park
Commission probably will hold a
meeting and approve the regional
plan now in process of formula
ton.
The Washington times., 1925-08-17


With his bare feet dangling from
the side of his cut down soapbox
wagon-evidentIy the labor of his
dark hands--a small negro boy
trund1ed himself carefully through
the intricacies OF downtown traf-
fic. As. he feached the cross
street where Z stood he glanced
up and saw a street car rapidly
bearing down upon him. 1 held
my breath for fear the quaint
equipment and its owner would
continue on their way and be
crushed beneath the car. But no!
The dusky driver paused within
a few inches of the street car
track. and with a lordly gesture
of his grimy little paw waved the
conductor to pass. Quite uncon-
scious of the pigmy vehicle and
its magnanimous owner the con-
ductor continued safely on his
way.
Who says that professional
courtesy is extinct?
ALICE PETTUS HALL.
The Washington times., 1925-08-17
YOUTH Is SOUGHT FOR
PULLING FALSE ALARM

For pulling a false alarm at
Thirty-fourth and Lowell streets
northwest, at midnight last night,
police Of the Tenleytown precinct
are looking for young man dressed
in a white shirt and white Knockers.
The description was given by
Doctor Moulden. of 3401 Lowell
street northwest, after the false
alarm was sounded.
The Washington times., 1925-08-17
To Talk on Washington

An educational lecture on "The
Trails of George Washington" from
his birthplace at Wakefield, Va,
to the tomb at Mt. Vernon, will be
given by e. B. Thompson at the
Community Service Chapel of the
American University Friday night
at 1880 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1925-08-17
THE LAY OF THE CLERK.

Morning, and getting up,
And eating my shredded bran,
And going to work Il just can't
sllirlxl.
And doing the best can.
Writing and filing stuff,
Summer, spring, winter, fall,
A wonderful game and little blame
To one, should he end 1t all.
Payday, and paying bills,
And ever more bills to pay,
And not from a shop will the dunning
stop
Till after the Judgment day.
Pleasure: I've heard of It,
But that's for the higheF-ups
Who throw the bull and are always
But not for ms under-pups.
Evening, and soon to bed
And trying to get some rest.
And I'll be glad, and you, too, my
lad,
When we can be going west!
JACK HENRY.
The Washington times., 1925-08-17
louisville JOTTTNGS.

The other night Nose Dufunk saw
someone walking down the road
dressed In white. At first he thought
II was a "Kluxer," hut later found
out IL was Slim Swipe walking in his
sleep.
Some city fIappeF strOlIed down
Main st. today without any stock
ings on. and she passed right by
WeeEy Zunlz's store. when WeeZy
saw this sight, he didn't know
whether he was seeing things or not.
and asked Ned SpaFlZes. who was
standing near by. what color stock
ings that gal had on. Ned told him
them wasn't stockings. They was
the gals legs.
Willie Meet, who IL thinking of
getting married, asked Silas ZoOze
what a husband should expect during
his married life. Silas told him the
only thing TO expect was a lot of
bills. Willie doesn't know whether to
get married or not now.
Sign In Weezy Zunk's store:
"PIease do not handle the eggs. you
might annoy the Chickens
p. DE ALPHEUS
The Washington times., 1925-08-17
YOU CAN'T BELIEVE 'EM.

Ny bonnie lies ouer the ocean,
Ny bonnie lies oUer the sea,
Ny bonnie lies orer derotion
That she processes so strongly for
me- SILICUS..
The Washington times., 1925-08-17
THE LOST ELIZABETH.

When roads were rough, when they
were smooth, we two shared all life's
tolts and joys tOgether-and now
FOU are mine no. mOre-whO were
my own, / walk a1One-I walk
O, what's the use Of talk,
OF anything9 They cannot bring
You back.
And yet, III say: I'D like to see
I'D simply love to say cha, hal"
when he met death
That wretch, that meanest man that
ever did draw breath
That lOw-dOwn cur, who, when my
back WAS turned
Stole you from me-SEhOse love you
never spurned,
That scamp, unspeakabIe and vile
that stole my tin Elizabeth"
TIM TOOTLES.
r. s.-And 1 had no Insurance. on
her, either!
Bluffs Wife-I know a man
who has been married thirty years
and he has never gone out in the
evening without his wife. That's
love.
Buff know q man who was
married fifty years and he never
goes out. That's rheumatism.
ROSE 8. STREET..
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The Washington times., 1925-08-27
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
Deep Into Deep
By DOCTOR FRANK CRANE

YwvHE Reverend William H. Garth, who was once as
sstant to the famous rector, Doctor W y kamsforo,
Of ST. Georges Church in New York and has recent
II been called to the American Church at Florence lay
some time ago preached from the text, Deep
Calleth Unto Deep. 80
The ost Of the sermon that while there was con
tenton and difference many heads about religion 1nee
was not much difference in hearts .
The heart represents the depth OF emotion ana Ieens
humanity. Religion appeals to the emotion.
The kind of feeling that found in most hymns - pei
ter ground of unity than that which found IN any
Creeds are points Of difference Hymns are points q
unity
The Protestant Unitarian Hebrew feel the human
struggle and aspiration in such hymns as God Moves n
Mysterious Way Holy, Holy, Holy.
Such hymns Doctor Garth infinitely Wldcr gnan
the denominations who sing them for they are not ne WorK
of creed makers but the longing and devotion OF souls
great preacher has said that when he was discouraged
by divisions in the and their controversies ne turned
to the hymn book for comfort
Deep answers unto deep" be says, mot always IKE
the Psalter 1t always faultless logic or finished
literary production perfect oratory that makes speaker
eloquent and powerful
Il on the unity souls feeling and nstnct and not
in the unity of ntelgences that there lies the true unity
of the churches.
The hymns Of the churches are common ground II them
there warfare It is rarely that combatve hymn can
live and be popular.
The Washington times., 1925-08-27
SAP AND
SALT
By BERT MOSES

By BERT MOSES
A bit Of mystery helps a lot in
making a sale.
A man can, soak up just about
as much josh as a woman can
absorb nattery.
Don't work your dyspepsia off
on your friends in the shape Of
conversation.
The best citizens are busy folk
which means that the worst citi-
zens. loaf.
When you know how to keep
out Of law, you know more law
than the lawyers.
Conversation is a good thing ex-
cept in the matter Of expanding
muscular effort.
wives more fer the shape O. their
figgers than fer the contents o.
their heads"
When good luck comes too fast
you don't enjoy it.
Every path in life leads either
to the cemetery or the crematory.
The difference between music
and popular songs is that music
lasts.
To be homely is unavoidable,
but no one needs to be silly unless
he wants to be.
All witnesses lie more or less,
as they want their testimony to
appear important.
A man uses his authority a lot
more when he first gets it than
he does after the novelty has worn
off.
Hez Heck says: After cider
gifts to be about so old, it don't
pay no attention to Volstead."
Beautiful woAGen get old quicker
than the plain variety.
Experience is the most valuable
raw material in the world.
It's a great blessing to be so
poor you can't afford to loaf.
Most wisdom comes along after
the chance to make money on 1t
is gone.
All people taste alike to a
mosquito.
The chief pleasure of a lot Of
folks is doing what they know
is wrong.
The Washington times., 1925-08-27


She was nothing but bond SER
want. There was no pride or dig
nifty in her service. The new idea
IL 80 much better for everyone.
Both of the children call me
Rita" and treat me as they
would a big sister. We are per-
feet comrades, but have never
fused over them and never
Rita is cool and charming and
marvelously efficient. Her home
Is always in shining order, her
budget is never scrambled, her
Drogram never slops over the
edges. Her own life and all the
lives in her charge move with
clocklike regularity. And yet l
wonder if there isn't something
lacking in this nickel-plated per-
lection - something warm ana
yftalizing-som that turns
programs into adventures ana
men into gods. wonder II those
cold fashioned" mothers didn't grip
a greater power than any Rita
fnanipulates despite their eco
nonic dependence.
was reading about one the
other day. 1t was In larry
FOSTERS book, "a BEACHCOMB-
Err IN THE ORIENT" TWO
vo,ng men had been tramping
through the jungle, they were at
the breaking point from fatigue
and heat. Suddenly, after agoniz.
ing hours, they sighted an isolated
matched hut with a shady porch.
1--WE staggered toward IL,
writes the author, dropped upon
it's bamboo floor and collapsed.
"a native woman found US
there. She was an aged bag with
white hair and wrinkled face. she
was small and extremely thin;
her bare legs beneath a snort
skirt were pipestems; her breasts
hung naked like strips OF parch-
ment: the skin chung tightly TO
her skull-like cheeks; her teeth,
protruding beyond her Withered
brown lips, we're black.
"Ugly? Never had seen such
an apparition. It was as though
we had come upon a messenger
of death.
"Rut she brought us cocoanuts.
Souatting upon her skinny heels,
she splif them open with knlfe:
She raised our dizzy heads ana
nonred the cooling beverage down
our parched threats. And as she
noinistered to our needs, there
came into her slanting eyes
kindliness that transformed her
into a thing Of beauty. 1t was
the spirit Of the eternal mother:
which recognized no distinction OF
creed or color. She smiled upon
The Washington times., 1925-08-27
I GARRETT P. SERVISS PICTURES
MARIAN AT NIAGARA FALLS
mars Inhabitant Would Probably Be Awed By
Visit to Niagara, Says Scientist

poetry, by music, and by beauty
deemed its own excuse for being.
But those things are not able
to survive such revolutions as
time has brought upon us. The
pressure OF stern physical neces-
sity has squeezed them out OF
our nature. Our material needs
are so great that all of the men
tai power that our long ages of
evolutionary development have
bestowed upon us has to be
turned entirely to their service
We are undergoing the last form
of the struggle for existence,
and it is only a desperate grip
with material nature, a brutal
physical contest, though, to be
sure, inspired and maintained by
high mentality. With our science
va have mastered natures forces
one after another, bat our victory
has been our undoing. 1t has
resulted in making us natures
slaves, for now we have to groVcl
at the feet Of our own inventions.
Beyond Mechanics
There was a time>-when a Nj.
agara on Mars would have been
worshiped as you worship yours
for it's power to awaken senti-
ments that soar above the level
of simple physical utility. Then
we. no doubt, would have hest
tated, as you now do. to destroy
ary of its features OF sublimity
and beauty that appeal to the I'M
material side of existence.
hut, with my race, l have Virtu'
ally lost the power to experience
it, to share 1t with you. The
thunder Of these waters and the
lightning swift CLEANS that play
on the curving brink awaken In
me only thoughts of the utillz-
able energy of which they gre
signs. That machinery, pitifully
inefficient, which you have
erected to capture but n handful
of this wasting power. is a
stronger magnet for me than the
ing through it's clouds. l can
hardly resist the temptation to
tear it away and, putting in its
place some of our masterpieces
of mechanism, grasp the raging
giant with subduing grip and
bend his magnificent force under
the yoke of work.
But as / take my leave shall
not deny that some ancestral
strain arouses in nTe "A shadowy,
regretful sympathy with your
human love of the true, the beau
tifuI the good In your Niagara
there is, indeed. something be-
yond mechanics"
The Washington times., 1925-08-27
BY ELSIE ROBINSON

ItC&A 10 64Gs SHE
smiled at us with B smile that
had once seemed loathsome, but
which her kindness had changed
into something sweet and holy,
chattering those unfamiliar heath
en- words that were more soIac-
Ing than any sermon that man
can preach.
And Henri and II who de-
spised and scorned the yellow
race, accepted her offerings and
blessed that little mother. Then,
having blessed her, we slept upon
her bamboo floor, until Henri's
dogs annunced the coming Of our
caravan by licking Us franticaIly
in the face
I am thinking. too. Of another
old mother whom / knew. She
was q great, brawny Italian
woman living in an almost deserted
mining camp on the Mother Lode,
IN the Sierra Nevada mountains.
She had been born there in the
gold rush days and had never
gone out" When / first met her
she had never seen a train and
could hardly read. She was
Dronzed and thewed like a giant
from hard work in the grudging
soil OF her garden patch and long
journeys by foot over the rough
hills. She could handle a single
jack as well as any man and had
often done SO working beside her
husband gophering for gold,
Garden work and mining, how
ever, were the least OF her
achievements. For twenty years
she had brought into life every
mountain babe in that district
and had prepared for death every
worn human shell. Nothing
daunted her. She had walked ten
miles through the blazing sun to
care for a lonely prospector down
with smallpox. and stayed with
him through appalling hours, until
he was able to fend for himself.
She had fought fire on the hills
one day and taught her small
daughter to hemstitch on the
next. Her home was q mere
huddle Of scrubbed boards, yet
to have eaten polenta under the
her yard was to have toasted
her. as from the earth, there
emanated healing and refresh
ment. She could not touch a
life without mothering it.
+ That old jungle woman-my
giantess Of the Mother Lode
suppose they were the products
of economic dependence" And
yet I wonder IL Rita will ever
grip life as they have done?
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