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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-05
Dime Mystery Motive.

Lloyd Lehrbas, of the Inter
national News Service, formerly
OF Shanghai, knows more about
China than any other man we
ever met. But that-or they--are
several other stories.
This is his latest observation on
local life:
During the recent Ice, Age in
washington, man stood in front
or the Pennsylvania kiosk. AL
though the morning was cold, he
stood and shivered, kicking a
heel into the ice.
He watched the thermometer,
the barometer, the nervous black
line OF the thermograph or what.
ever it is, and everything else on
the board. Always kicking his
heel.
After an hour OF frigid OBSERVE
ton, during which he was curl.
ousiy observed by many. who
took him for visiting scientist.
he bent over and picked from the
scattered ice beneath his agitat-
ing heel the object Of his covert
attentions--one thin, cold dime!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-05

All Sailed from HandIng
Heavy Arabian Color Lacet Lace Cur
tains, mounted on good, heavy net-beau-
tiful. A big range to select from at
~ former prices
All Sales Final
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-05
Look Askance at World.

The midwinter dinner of the
Board Of Trade is due to happen
saturday night at the Willard.
All we have to say is that if
the end Of the world comes TO-
morrow, somebody will be playing
a dirty trick on Dick Corner.
who has been working for weeks
like A husky member of the
Seppalla dog team.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-05
UphoLstery and Drapery Fabrics


Is yds. 27-inch Figured Mohair Velour
Frieze, $11OO Special $500
3la, yds. 27-inch Plain Mulberry Velour,
$1,000. Special .................$$ $3.50
49, yds. 5O-inch Dark Mulberry and
Gold Damask, $4.75. Special 80. $3.50
6la yds. 5O-inch Dark Blue and Gold
Damask, $3.50. Special $3.50
24s4 yds. 5O-inch Dark Gold Armure,
$500. Special ..................... $500
III yds. 5O-inch Lavender and Gray
Sunfast Armure, $500. Special $500
Is yds. 5O-inch Brown and Gray Sun
fast Poplin, $3.50. Special $500
9 yds. 5O-inch Brown and Blue Sunfast
Poplin, $500. Special $500 ......... $3.50
Assortment 36-inch Plain Poplins
Brown, Light Blue and Lavender, 75c.
Special, yd........... A........... 4Oc
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-05
Lamp and Art
Gift Shop

:: !: ): :. !: :
One lot of slightly soled lamp shades in
various sizes and colors
4-inch Side Light Shades, $1.25 to $500.
Snecial .... SOC Ea.
10 and IL inch Boudor and Bridge Shades,
$500 to $780, Special. ...........$ $3.50
Two-burner Table and Floor Lamp 4
Shades, Is, 20 and % inch, up to $50
Some
Two-burner Table Lamp and Silk Shade, prices up
TO $4,000 Special $3.50
larger size, prices up to $500 Special -. $2lOO
few odd Chinese scarfs .............h Price
table of Odds and Ends ...............h Price
All Sales Final
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-05
rapery Department Clearance Sale Of Curtains, 2
Su1fast so Rayon Gauze

Suitable for glass curtains in French
doors, also for sun and breakfast porches.
Prices were SITS and $500 Now
$1.5O I'd.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-05
Beautiful VoiIe Curtains

With draWnwork and motifs, lace inser-
ton and edgings; in white, ivory and ecru;
ali 212 yards long.
Regular prices, $500, $3.50, $5.75. Special,
$3.50 pair.
Regular prices, $500, $3.50, $500, a85.
Special, $3.50 pair.
Take advantage of these opportunities
to prepare for Inauguration. Redecorate
your guest room with beautiful Warp
Print CretOnnes at half regular prices
Were $3.50. Now -. SITS Yd.
We're $500. Now. go. $1.OO I'd.
Imported Cretonnes
Make new draperies or slip covers that
will freshen up your living room. Regular
price $3.50 and $1.75 yard. Now
75c and 88c Yd.
32-In. Wide FLorentine Silks
Plain green and brown only, excellent
material. $3.50 yard. Now. 75c yd.
Domestic CretOnne and Chintz
Very good qualities and colorings. Re9-
ularly 75c and 85c. Now. ....... .S9c V
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-05

Less than half regular prices Nets,
Voiles, Scrins, Gauze, for window cur
tains; Rayon, Repp, Poplin, Cretonnes,
Damask, Velour and Tapestry, suitable for
pillows, curtains and upholstery.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-06

ton she weakened and the man was summoned
for the death march, she saved him from L1ath
Society and the crime forgotten for the
moment sentimcntality and the maternal instnc:
held sway and made the final decision for Mrs. Fer
gusOn.
Experience has shown that men in public office
deal with such issues abstractly while women take
personal view and are swayed to a greater
extent by their emotions.
When Congress declared war, Miss Rankin, mem
Der from Montana, with tears flowing down her
cheeks voted no. She explained frankly that her
aversion to dictated her vote. Sentimental
swayed her against the overwhelming de
mands OF her constituents expressed in letters ana
wires to her before Congress voted the issue OF
But the situation presented in the cases Of Mrs.
Ferguson and Miss Rankin is not blanket ndict-
ment against women holding office Many Of them
fill positions school boards exceptionally we'll.
In state, county and municipal offices calling for
straight executive talent. women filling import
ant places acceptaby. but where decisions pull al
the heart strings and the instinct to protect hui
against execution is aroused, women find the
task hard. There doubtless irmness Is best dis;
played by men. The ballot or office holding Is too
new privilege of women yet to dull their emo
tiona imagination they grapple with the sterner
aspects of a public career.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-06
Editorial Comment
Highways in the Motor Age
Chicago Tribune)

Chicago Tribune)
The other day woman driving her car over a
railroad grade crossing at haywood killed be-
a thunderstorm drowned the noise of an APP
preaching train
There should have been no unguarded grade
crossing in the environs Of great city. In fact
the whole grade crossing question has got to be
restudied The automobile has given it a new
urgency. generation ago we heard much of grade
crossings and there was legislation to compel rail
roads to elevate tracks Some elevating was done
but it was not possible financially for the roads
to complete the schemes proposed. Public opinion
subsided Then appeared the automobile. 1t has
made every street intersection grade crossing
Millions of gasoline locomotives lun the highways
at high speed, not rails and guarded rights Of
way. much less elevated tracks, but in the public
streets. They create a much difficult and
dangerous responsibility than the railways did
They have transformed conditions on the streets
and highways and new regulations and policies
must be evolved to deal with the conditions
planning must yield to considerations of safety. They
must not make death traps of curves and corners
as they do now.
The automobile also compels consideration
of safeguards on railway and electric lines With
all the world in automobiles, in state of perpetua
mobility the older standards must 60. Track elc
vation track depression safety devices. rules,
regulations must be restudied anL the common neet
for greater safety must he met.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-06
LETTER FROM SALLY ATHERTON
TO LESLIE PRESCOTT
C0NTINT1En

felt like cat. Leslie, to be think
ing all these things about poor Dick,
even while | was trying to comfort
him for his loss. That is why, ex-
pect. I am telling it all to you. am
furnishing myself by letting you
know how very horried | am in my
own little inside.
1t sometimes seems strange to me,
Leslie dear. that Fate lets me stay
in this world. I'm not particularly
lovable. and l certainly have no one
who loves me very dearly now that
Bee is gone. Why should Fate still
give me life while it takes Bee away,
leaving child behind?
The specialist told me this morn
ing that probably Bee might have
lived had he been called earlier be-
fore the child was born, but it would
have cost the life of the child. He
supposed that Mr.. Summers would
rather have his child live than his
! wife. looked at him in utter sur
prise. couldn't think that anyone
could be so -blooded. In fact,
| asked him:
"Why, don't you love your wife p
He answered.: II have never mar
ried.''
II thought so." was my briGf com
ment. 1T may be all right for a
man Of science to carry it to such a
degree that he thinks only of carry
ing on the race, but for my part
prefer man who has little heart
| in him."
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-06
=: The TQngle =:

The specialist smiled, and said:
"Mrs. Athcrton, you are a woman of
courage. like you
"That's more than ! can say for
you," I answered. ut will be six
teen or seventeen years, Doctor, be-
fore little Beatrice thcy have
called her Bcatrice) evil be able to
be of any good to the world, and her
mother has always been of great
good not only to Dick but to others
of her friends, and for the next six
teen years she would go on doing Il
good work by making the world
happy"
The specialist looked superior, but
he held out his hand, and | was so
mad at him that l ignored it when
he said goodbye.
presume, Leslie, that I shall miss
Bee more than anyone else, for some
her. more freely than to any other
YOU will understand this, because
this way before.
7 wonder who will care when I &C
out? Probably no one. Therein
getting morbid Hope you're well
and happy, Leslie. Tell Mr.. Prescott
I'll be here only about three weeks
! longer which, although it will make
my vacation longer than thought
| will bring me back TO the office about
the end of the month.
| Lots Of love.
SALLY.
] Copyright. 1925, NEA Service, Inc
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-06

New York-There are almost as
many folk aspiring to fame through
writing popular songs as those who
would snare the elusive bubble by
going on the stage. The procession
up Tin Pan Alley is as steady as
that which passes through the the
atrical producers doors.
And, as in the theatre, merit does
not always win out. Publicity and
exploitation of the name of a song
counts for as much as the publiciz-
ing of an actors name.
When song publisher accepts a
new air for publication he immedi-
ately arranges with phonograph rec
ord and mechanical piano roll manu-
facturers for the recording Of the
song. Then the song is given to
professionals who plug, it by sing
ing it in theatres, by having dance
orchestras play it and by having it
broadcast over the radio. Thousands
of dollars are spent in, exploiting q
tune until it becomes popular.
In the meantime there may come
into the hands of the publisher a
song of similar theme but of higher
merit. Yet he will not accept it be-
cause he has already set the ma
chinery in motion to popularize the
first song and campaign to exploit
the second and better song would
bring about loss of money on the
song already started on its way.
And then the personal equation
enters into the thing. A composer
may walk into a managers office and
play his tune. The manager will
say it's rotten and the composer
walks down Tin Pan Alley to an
other publisher who thinks it is a
great tune, publishes it. exploits IL
! and makes a fortune for himself and
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-06
DON'T BE sure
YOUR RACE
ISSUPERI0R
BY CHESTER H. ROWELL

vi 1 EN- NOVV OAA
Some interesting lights on racial
Superiority" or the claim Of it have
been brought out in recent discus.
sions in Hawaii.
As sentiment, all races have it.
The Emperor Chen Lung, reject
ing a proposal of the English king
on the ground that China had every
thing it needed, congratulated King
George on his becoming humility. and
tremble."
The Tongan> islanders have ira
dtion that God made the Tongan
first. the pig next, and the white
man last.
If there have been certain great
men in the outside world-the Ton
gans have heard of George Wash.
ington and Napole on-these, because
they we're great, must have been
shipwrecked Tongans.
The Greeks called all outsiders
"barbarians," and the Jews were the
"chosen people"
Just now it is the "nordics" who
claim superiority, because they hap
pen to fill, in this generation, the
place held in earlier generations by
other peoples. The sense of superi.
ority is form of racial egotism.
First the Jews, Then the Chinese
When it comes to scientific exam.
ination of the facts, as distinguished
from peoples feelings Of them, very
little exact knowledge exists. but
that little suggests some interesting
| conclusions.
There are undeniably some races
really inferior. The Australian alb.
originies are so: the Pacific Island.
ers may be so; whether the negroes
are so is debated, and therefore de.
batable.
But among the superior races, the
Jews rank first. the Chinese second
and the Japanese, Caucasians, anc
certain Indian peoples third. Thi
in avorauo conaCjfy and monfa lity
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-06
Too Many Easy Lifts"
louisville Journal and Courier)

Two Anderson, Ind, boys linked" from Indiana
to Florida by way OF Washington, ID. c. The
youngsters have just arrived at home with the
statement that they made the entire round trip
hike with entire success and expedition and walk
ed only five miles Of the distance Which goes to
show how difficult it has become in this country to
function as pedestrian What will become OF legs
and feet If locomotion continues as we have it in
this auto era? Is man to lose the Of his pedal
extremeties and end by consigning himself and his
useless stumps to wheel chair at such times a.
he may fit to leave his motor car? Surely II
is time to start revival of pedestrianism. The
genuine "hiker' should some sort of conspicu
Gus sign or decoration to inform the motoring worid
that he doesn't for lift" but that he is actu
ally hiking" and not taking" The chief trouble
with many of our present-day pedestrians or so
called mixers, is the fact that hiking is tn
thing they want to do everything else but.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-06
ADVENTURE OF
THE TWINS
THE LAND OF LOST THINGS
BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

Juggle Jump and the Twins knock
ed on every door in Keyhole Land.
But instead Of doors opening, all
they heard was "come in and the
three of them had to squeeze in
through about hundred keyholes.
which is most difficult thing to do.
No one had even heard of Puff, let
alone Puff's lost buttons, so the three
travellers got tired and left that place
for good and all.
'Now where do we 60 from here"
asked Nick.
Juggle Jump stopped and con-
sidered. "I'll look and see." he said,
touching the button that said
stretch"
So off went his neck again. like a
skyrocket on the Fourth, or pulling
taffy on Halloween Night! Indeed.
his head disappeared altogether.
By and by he came back. "I've
just been to see the Man in the
Moon" he said, land he advised me
to 60 the Land of Lost Things. He
says that most everything goes
there, even balances"
"Balances!" cried the Twins.
"What are they?"
II don't know. He didn't say"
remarked Juggle Jump, 'but I've
heard Of people who lost their bal
ance. And tempers, too" he added.
No doubt lost tempers 60 to that
queer place, too, to say nothing of
minds and patience and all the things
people are losing all the time
OF to the Land Of Lost Things
they went, then, still! looking for
Puff's lost buttons. And pretty soon
they came to the biscuit-tin house Of
Ruby Joan the rag doll.
what are you doing here - asked
Ruby Joan, trying to look pleasant,
but only succeeding in staring-star-
ing without any eyes, for her eyes
were completely gone.
Looking for Puff's lost buttons
said Nick. "Puff's the Fairy Queen
cook, and he sneezed so much shak-
ing pepper that he's lost the last but
ton Off his coat"
"Coat!" cried Ruby Joan. "That's
nothing to a head. I've lost both
my shoe button eyes off my head
and l can't see a thing. I'm trying
to find them. We might go together
Just hang onto my coat-tails,
offered Juggle Jump. "We'll go in /.
squad of four. Left, right! Left
right! March,"
"Look!" cried Nick. "This stree
is paved with buttons"
"Of course it isl said Genera
Pershing, the tin-soldier who ha'
been lost down a crack in board
walk and couldn't find his way home
"Of course it is. Where do you sup
pose all the buttons go to that ar
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-06

and subject to revision when more
data are available.
This conclusion is still only i'm
perfectly scientific, but popular OBJ
servation gives no reason to doubt
it..
The Jews have a larger proper
ton Of very superior individuals
than any other race, and very few
idiots, imbeciles, morons and incap-
ales. to bring the average down.
The Chinese, at their top, are the
equals of any other race at its top.
and they have no bottom. The Chi
nese too stupid or lazy to take care
Of himself starved long ago, leaving
no descendants.
The Caucasian average is kept
down by the large number Of surviv-
ing incapables which our institutions
have preserved.
Where Macdonald Was Illogical
Ramsay Macdonald moved a vote
of censure on the present British
government for not solving the prob
| lem of unemployment. It was the
natural move of the opposition.
But 1t must have worried MacDon-
AIDS logical soul to pretend to cen
| sure his enemies for not doing what
he himself had not been able to do.
! and which he believes nobody can
do while the present social system
lasts.
| ElectinR Widows Is Not "M0derniem''
One more Congressional widow
has been elected to fill the place
made vacant by her husbands
death.
The sentiment which leads to such
choice is natural, and. fortunately.
in most cases, the lady had been &C
tive enough in her husbands career
to indicate her competency. But it
is an old-fashioned, not a modern"
sentiment.
Whoever else may approve it. the
women's party and other feminist
organizations should protest. The
sentiment. by their standards. be-
longs to the masculine and feudat
type.
| II represents, not women's right
to stand on their own merits. but
women's title to the protective chiv-
airy Of the stronger" sex.
1t is mans notion Of what he
wants women to want. 1t belongs to
the pre-suffrage age. These women
represent, not themselves Of their
constituents, but their husbands
memories.
It is fortunate that they have usu-
ally done we'll. But this is not fem
inism.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-06
Fourteen Points Guide
to Successful Movies

Hollywood. Cal.-(R-Through a
recently established system of Sc
lecting plots that conform to the
covenant Of IA dramatic points, mo-
ton picture producers here now
practically assure the success Of a
photoplay before it is made. OF
thousands of films produced in tho
past many were failures from the
standpoint of audiences.
The photoplay when adjudged by
this method should contain a major
ity of the fourteen following dra-
matte ingredients: ambition. con-
flict, conspiracy. devotion. eternal
triangle. greed. intrigue, love. moth
er lover, the quadrangle, retribu-
ton. reconciliation, sacrifice. fem
mime appeal.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-06
"Where Men Are Men
and Women Governors"

An eleventh hour Communication granted prisoner
under death sentence by Mrs. Ferguson, governor
OF Texas has revived the discussion as to whether
women are temperamentally fit for public office The
Chicago Tribune states its decision blunty as fol-
lows:
"The instinct Of women is to protect the
person dependent on them and that brutal
murderer was dependent Mrs Ferguson.
The incident shows that woman is tenn
peramentally untitled for such executive
n ~ responsibility"
Mrs Ferguson first received telegram from the
doomed man imploring mercy She refused to In
tercede but as the hour approached for the execu
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-06

lost in the wash. Down the drain, of
You may all look"
Down on their hands and knees
went the four of them. Ruby Joan
course! Then where? Why right here
to the Land of Lost Things. But all
of them aren't washed off. Some are
sneezed off and some just come off.
lucily found two shoe-buttons at
once, which she said were just as
good as the ones she had lost. 81
know it sounds funny she said,
"but buttons aren't like medicine.
You can change them around"
Nancy helped to stick the shoe
buttons into place and the rag doll
seemed very happy. "Now can see
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-06
Coolidge More Popular

John r. Adams, Republican national committee
for Iowa. finds President Coolidge more pop
uar in the west than ana less need for
legislation along agricultural lines than obtaine l
year ago. He doubts II there is any necessity for
important farm relief at the next session. Secre
tary Jardine after his swing around the circuit
voiced the opinion to the need of farm
legislation but he did say that cooperative market
ing legislation would he all that is necessary at
this time.
Less agitation is being heard in rural section,
for radical panaceas Farmers regard Coolidge as
a conservative leader who can accomplish more
for the country through business administration
than Congress by enacting many unavoidable
laws to fix prices ana legslate prosperity for
tain classes of industry. This is Mr. Adams con
Cluson after a survey of the situation He says:
I'VE have big corn crop in the corn belt and
prices higher The farmers lot is improving.
steadily. Real prosperity is returning to agricu
ural sections and you hear less agitation for radi
cal panaceas. When farm conditions normal the
farmers are conservative"
Perhaps this explains the increasing popuarit
of Calvin Coolidge among the farmers If he con
tinues to maintain the confidence of the American
people another term for him in the White House is
within the realm Of possibility
There is demand in many sections that he be
precedent set by Roosevelt. He probably can hav.
! second nomination if his advisers play the poica
! cards carefully
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-06
Reporter Makes Good
on Beat Though Blind

Gary, Ind.-LP)-Total blindness
has not interfered with the success
Of Allen Naive, s31. as a newspaper
man.
Naive. city hall reporter for The
Gary Post-Tribune, accepts all as
signments and, according to fellow
workmen, gets more than his share
of news. He turns out "clean copy"
on a regulation typewriter.
One of his recent accomplishments
was the writing of a feature story
on a circus which came to Gary. His
story was as bright and colorful as
though he had been able to see the
gayety of which he wrote.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-06
-FABLES ON
DON'T USE ANTI-FAT REMEDIES

Poor digestion and overweight re-
suit from overeating.
that persons who are overweight
when they get past 80 years of life
have less chance of living long than
those who are normal or slightly
underweight.
If person finds that he is con.
siderably overweight he should i'm.
mediately begin to reduce.
This can be done by taking more
exercise, SO as to burn up more en-.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-06

HERO HONORED IN PAGEANT
Calgary, Alta. --[P)-Daniel Davis,
70. a constable Of the Royal North
west Mounted Police so years ago,
who lone-handed escorted 1.100 hos
tile Indians from Fort Walsh, near
the United States border to an In
dian reservation at Eagle Hills.
Saskatchewan, 1870 miles, was on the
program Of historic pageant here
this summer,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-06

the composer. The manager who re-
jected it might have been bilious or
headachy when he heard it. Often
a composer who is not good pianist
ruins his chances of having his song
published by playing it for the pub
Usher when more accomplished
pianist might play it in such way
as to put it over as a success.
Phil Kornheiser is manager of one
of the publishing concerns. He
hears about so new songs a week and