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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-13
CzeCho-SIovaIkia Ire
Reused By Charges
Of immortality
By international News Service.

PRAGUE, Feb. 4 The
Czecho-Slovakian Church is seri-
ously perturbed over the alleged
increased immortality in the coun-
try and is appealing to citizens
to mend their ways.
In a manifesto issued by the
bishops to their congregations,
they exhort parents to attend to
their children's moral education
at an early age, and condemn
the manner in which young
women and children are dressed
when attending church. AL the
clergy are asked to post notices
on the doors of their churches
appealing to female worshippers
to come decently clothed.
The bishops find in many
modern dances "a sad and low
morality, and condemn the
growing habit of the sexes bath
ing together ''in scant and in,
decent costume"
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GOLD WEATHER
CHECKS FLOOD
IN MI.
Potomac Waters Rise "a Feet
Above Normal at
WiIliamsport

HAGERSToWN, Nd, Feb. -.
Freezing weather, following a two
day tlaw and rains that swelled
the Potomac River to a. dangerous
I height, checked rapid rise in the
stream last night. when the water
reached fourteen feet above normal
at Williamsport. overflowed many
acres Of lowland and reached the
top OF the banks of the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal.
The river stood at the I4-fo0f
crest until near midnight and began
falling. At 10 O'Clock today the
water had reeeded three feet.
Heavy ice, covering the river for
miles, broke up as the water rose,
and gorges formed. spreading the
water over the Maryland banks.
Later the gorges broke and passed
over the big dams in the river
without doing damage.
Water power electric plants at
dams Nos. 4 and 5 In the Potomac
were flooded, but they have resumed
operation. All of the tributaries of
the Potomac are receding today.
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WOMAN TRUE To
LOVE Or 100
YEARS AGO
Daughter OF Rich Plantation
Owner Who Refused to
Allow Hearts Desire

OKMULGEE, Okla, Feb is. ~
Cherishing for more than 4 cen
fury q love Of her girlhood, Miss
Nancy Boyd, Of OkmuIgse, has
lived 119 years without marrying.
Her life has been q round Of dis
appointments; but as she rits IN
deepening twilight Of life she Is
happy in the thought that SOON
she and her lover win be reunited.
The daughter OF rich Tennessee
plantation owner, her love Cor JeIn
Turner. the son Of d, poor nlAn, Was
frowned upon BY her father, who
visioned for her marriage INTO the
ranks Of the old southern cristoc-
racy.
Il didn't stop loving him,
though, she says. sJem and !
loved each other more than ever
and began planning how we could
get married later, When father
might soften. You see. refused
to marry anyone else.
This was In 1924, Years passed..
1NkAAlCy BAGWs W ttOAAAr4tAAQAgAg - NAAA -
manhood. Then came the year
that began the southland's greatest
tragedy. Jem was killed tl1rse days
after he left Nashville in 1861.
Miss Boyd rode on q train for
the first time IN 1918, when she
came to OlxnNlgee and she mas
never ridden in an automobile.
'.I,d rather like to ride in one Of
those automobiles some time when
feel better, she says. II don't
like them as well as / did our fine
coaches, drawn BY beautiful horses
ours were among the best in the
south, she adds with pride.
Miss Boyd, apparently, II IN good
health. but her eyesight II rapidly
falling
She has collection Of Civil War
newspapers, with brief stories Of
many Important battles. she OBJ
tanned an papers available search
ing for news Of her lover
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LOSER IN DICE GAME
STAYS MAN WHO WON

PHILLIPsBURG. Pa. Feb. IS.
AS q result of bitterness. because
he had lost all his money in a
craps game. John Thompson. TWEEN
ty-one, negro. OF Brainerds. north
OF here. went to the boarding house
OF Henry Stewart, where Richard
Galloway. twenty-seven, the man
who won his money. lived. and shot
Galloway to deaths
He hid until morning and then
surrendered. He is in jail at Belvi-
dere. charged with murder.
According to witnesses, Thompson
went about the job with cool pre-
meditation When he walked in he
amptied his revolver into Galloway's
body, then calmly reloaded and fired
two more shots into his victim.
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IS HELD.
FOR RAZOR
SALES
Street Salesman Is Charged
With Misrepresenting
Their Value

professor Morris Kahntroff,
salesman in the establishment used
by the "Man who Makes Millions
Think" today in Police Court.
through his attorney. Milton king.
declared that he wanted another
week to think over the case in which
he is charged with false advertising.
In granting the continuance Judse
Schuldt changed Kahntroff's S1O0
collateral to a $500 bond.
Information has been filed by Pc.
licen1an J.. e. Kane with Assistant
District Attorney Ralph Given to
the effect that when arrested yes
terday Kahntroff was engaged IN
giving out pencils to q large crowd
which had gathered TO hear his sales
talk. It is said that during the tax
he sold & popular brand Of razor
which is marked ST, but which. ne de-
clared is g. SIS razor.
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APOSTLE or DOOM
IS FOUND I'M NEWARK

NEWARK, Feb. 13. Robert
Reidt. Patchogue. u II. Apostle
of Doom, who disappeared from
his honna two days AFTER an all
night vigil watching FOR his
Hprophesied end Of the world. has
taken refuge Ii this city. where he
declared that ne Never said the
world would home to an end Feb.
ruary s. Others said So. not /. (
THE world win come to an end
some time this year. probably IN
September. Reidt continued. pro-
Hceeding to discussion of the
Biblical basis OF his prophecy. He
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MIX Driver Asks SIS 900

WHITE PLAINS Feb. 1S.
Charles +. Price 81 New Rochelle,
who declares the Bordenss Farm
Products Company 81 New Rochelle
falsely brought about his arrest e
1922 on charge Of polluting milk
with vinegar and thereby eausing
him to lose his position with 4
rival concern. has instituted suit il
the Supreme Court here against
Bordens Tor S35, 900 damages.
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Lost 70, 600 900 Towels

ATLANTIC CITY, Feb. 18 TRAY
elers using sleeping cars On rail-
way systems In this country last
year carried Off 7O.OOO.OO0 towels
from the cars in which to wrap
their shoes Or other articles. AMI
approximately the same number
of sheets and piIIowcases were
taken from Pullmans, Roy Yarnall,
In charge OF the Pullman office III
Atlantic city. told the Rotary Clue
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BOY BURIED UNDER TONS
or COAL IS SUFFOCATED

SCRANTON, Feb. Is. Buried
under tons Of coal IN pocket IN
the yards Of y. r.. Edwards. at
GIenburn, near here, Heath Bailey,
fifteen, Of that place, was snoth.
cred to death.
Workmen at the coal shutes
shovelled frantically for thirty five
minutes IN the hope that the
youngster might be rescued alive.
but he. was dead when they
reached him.
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GIRL, Is, SHOT ON WAY TO
SCHOOL; BOY ARRESTED

NEW YORK. Feb. IL Shot in
the back by an unknown assailant
as she left her Brooklyn home to
return to school Antofnett In
fante. thirteen. was reported near
death in hospital.
Police arrested her ciassmate,
Edward SeIIinger. fourteen, IN con-
nection with the shooting.
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with Mask. BaubIe. Etc.

with Mask, BaubIe, Etc.
The washington Times Advis-
DRY Committee on Amateur The
atricaIs (Messrs. Phillips. Baer
and your humble serv'tD trouped
to Baltimore last night with the
Mistaken Mimi" company. You
knoW--tI1e st. Patrick Players.
If you don't know, or didn't.
shame on you.
The committee boarded b spe-
cial train provided for their use
exclusively (along with the large
company BY Father Hurney, and
had dinner thereon, finishing with
ice cream At Camden Station,
we were met BY q large brass
band and special street cars and
were taken to old Loyola College,
where the play was given before
81 large and enthusiastic audience.
The committee Is willing to
stake their all get that, their
aIIon the assertion that this
company Ii by far the best nom
professional troupe in Washing
ton and vicinity.
Az we jourTeyed home on the
train, the members Of the COM
mittee recalled TO each other I'LL
OF Us being old actors ourselves
once the days Of the jumps
from Kanlxalxee ito Fort Wayne,
and the crealxing boards of the
opera house cit Disraeli, Ias to.
say nothing Of the awful dress
ing room accommodations at the
Gem Playhouse in Portage, Wis.
Them, in b word, were the days.
"A happy time was had by all
concerned, and We Ed takes this
occasion to thank Father Hurney
and Co, for an enjoyable eve.
Mr.. +. Baer, incidentally. has
written the logical successor to
the Banana" song, to which, as
You all know, he contributed the
local color.
The name Of the new opus, az.
he calls same, is:
The Police Are Having q
Great Deal OF Trouble In Slovalxia,
Al the Principal Industry Of the
Country ID Raising Czechs. Z
Claude woodward, formerly an
esteemed citizen Of this place.
but now q big bookcase man IN
New York, came back to town
yesterday for the KiWanis
luncheon.
Claude reports an interesting
time at the lunch. where Doc
Oscar Hunter. one OF the dis
tinguished hired help Of George
Washington University. described
the dibothriocephalu latus in all
its pristine glory.
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Popular Our
Childrens Shoes
$3.95

Made OF sturdy tan
leather, very durable, yet
pliable and conforming to
the needs Of active, grow
ing youthful feet.
Mothers find IN them
proper styling and true
economy measured II
terms Of extra wear
Bring the children sat
llrday.
Sizes 81 % Isl with
spring heels
Sizes 1915 70 = with
rubber heels.
STREET FLOOR
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London's Daughter Divorced

OAKLAND, Calf, Feb. l3.-Joan
London Abbott. daughter Of the
late Jack London, author, has OBJ
tanned a divorce from Park Abbott
and the custody OF their three-year-
old son, Park London Abbott. The
differences arose over Mrs. Alb
bolts desire to. retain the name
London and to give her child that
name, according to the complaint.
ADyERTIsEMENT
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is YOUR CHILD
thin and WEAK !?
McCoy's Cod Liver OIL CompOund
Tablets Puts on Flesh and
Builds Them Up.

In just a few days-quicker than
you ever dreamt of-these wonder
full health building, flesh making
tablets called McCoy's Cod Liver
Oil Compound Tablets will start to
help any thin. underweight little
one.
After sickness and where ricketts,
are suspected they are especially
valuable. No need to give them any
more nasty Cod Liver Oil-these
tablets are made to take the place
of that good, but evil smelling,
stomach upsetting medicine and
they surely do 1t.
A very sickiy child, age 3, gained
IL pounds in z moVths.
Ask any druggist for McCoy's
Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets
Las easy to take as candy, Peoples
Drug Stores
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A DA Y s
w ak
With i'm RING

Cynical Sonnet No. CCCXXIX.
I do not like the way you tell q
joke,
Because you, indicate the
point before
You find the climax, whore YOU
gasp and choke
With laughter. while II listen,
panied and sore.
Too bad you do not know how
much you bore,
Or just how strong my
righteous urge to soak
You In the nose. But I'll do
not roar
With rage. simply say.
Let's get 81 coke. y
don't suppose that you will
ever learn
To tell story. Some folks
never do;
Although, III say, at least, you
try and try.
I don't suppose you ever
thought to yearn
For better things, But stiIl, &
can't blame YOU,
Because you tell 'em better
far than II
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New Girls Hats
and inge BOnl1efs
Tor ring
3.95

AIl-faffeta and combine
tions 81 taffeta. with straw
Or Leghorn, with facing Of
shirred georgette, trimmed ,
with ribbon rose bu q 81
Streaming ribbons. ribbon
bands and nd-painted
flowers give them q touch
OF youth and Spring. I'm
sizes 2 to ~.
FOURTH FLOR
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FOURTH FLOOR. LANsRURGH 3 BRO.
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WHEN DIDIT
HAPPEN?

/. When did Lincoln make his
first call for volunteers?
2. When did Mar& Twain write
"The Jumping Frog?"
8. When did the Genoese block.
ad eVenice
4. When did Thomas Aquinas,
great scholastic philosopher, die?
ade Venice
5. When was the Edict of
Nantes revoked?
ANSWERS
To Yesterdays Queries
1. The Players, a New York
dramatic club was founded in
1888.
2. The name Great Britain was
given to England, Wales and
Scotland in 1904.
8. Hadrian was Emperor or
Rome from III to 1873 A. d.
4. The Mahdi revolt in the
Sudan, Egypt, began in 1881.
5. The Neanderthal prehistoric
man was discovered in 1851.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-07
FIOWered FrOcks
Latest Craze
BY Alice Langelier
international News Service Staff
Correspondent

Correspondents
PARIS.
Uncovered frocks are cutting
Il important figures in madame's
wardrobe this summer. Both the
vogue and the weather invite
them to take plenty OF exercise.
Garden parties and the Grande
Semaine brought them out In
great profusion, and now they are
being packed off TO all the smart
summer resorts. There is nothing
more refreshing on one Of these
hot days than the mousseline
frock spattered with flowers.
whether they be copies Of real boz
tanical specimens or the fancy Of
ons OF the large French fabric
makers. Some are mall-patterned
silks; others with gorgeous spread
ing floral varieties. and still 9TH
ers with geometTic and eccentric
designs.
At 6 recent charity garden fete
the Baronne de Rothschild wore
lowered mousseline de sole over
mauve, with ostrich feathers OF
the same shade. Another printed
chiffon bore the stamp of Patou
and had design OF huge red pop
pies on white. The frock waA
fluffy in its general effect. with
circular skirt and the sleeves fin
ishee with full Circular and gath.
cred flounces.
Callot is showing a charming
figured frock with a design OF tiny
spring flowers Of all coloTs on a
blue background. Broken pleated
flcunces. with solid blue borders.
trim the skirt, and the neck has
plcated frill. Blanche Lebouvier
is making a charming dinner
dress in royal blue. with designs
shading to pink. She is also veil
ing many of her lowered chiffon
dresses with an outer layer of
plain chiffon, thus getting q
charming, hazy effect.
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Foxy Grandpa's Story
WHY THE BEAR WASN'T INTERESTED

: tied down under my pocket-nap.
there's the Canadian"
1 glanced up and there right
over to our right and almost hid
den by a bush was great big
black bear!
Bobby huddled up close TO me
and I tried to do SOME fast
thinking. Kill the bear? Not il
L could possibly help it. OF
course, If he made for US would
be forced to do it. There was
no other way out.
The next question was, Was
he coming for u.s."
/. For the brief moment when I
was turning these things over in
my mind. the bear didn't appear
to see us, so l started to take
steps away from that bear as IL
/ were walking on eggs, with
Bobby following close behind me.
The bear evidently hadn't seen
us or even smelt us. In fact
he was busy doing something.
1t looked to me as If he were
digging in the ground. But what
would bear be doing digging in
the ground?
We tip-toed out of that part
of the wood and several times
Bunny put his head out of my
pocket and whispered:
mo need to hurry now. Foxy
Grandpa. He won't come after
u.s."
But it was some time until I
decided that the bear was not
following us and then stopped
for a moment and asked Bunny:
Bunny, what made you change
your mind about that bear and
tell me there was no use in hur-
rying?"
Because I realized what he
was doing" replied Bunny.
What was he doing?" 1 in
quired.
Digging up some meat he had
hidden in the ground" replied
Bunny. $50 you see we were
all right. He had no interest in
US whatever while he was dig
ging for that treasure.
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By DIR. Chas. A. L. Reed,
Former President Of the American
Medical Association

A LARGE number OF the let
n tiers that I receive from my
readers relate to girls about the
age of fourteen.
One anxious mother, a widow
with an only daughter, who is
the apple OF her eye, writes to
ask my advice. The girl was
brought up in the country. The
mother has moved to the county
seat to give her the benefit. Of
the high school.
She is brilliant as q pupil, very
spirited. gets her lessons easily,
plays vigorously, but has become
thoroughly wrapped up in her ccm-
panions and their sports. She
insists upon going to parties.
dances, and has come in as late
as 2 o'clock in the morning.
She has always been an affec-
tionate and obedient child. but
has latterIy shown the disposi-
ton to be rebellious when her
mother admonishes her against
parties and late hours.
This Is a type OF many cases
that are occurring all over the
country and that probably, above
all others, are sources of anxiety
to parents.
It is to be remembered that a
girl of fourteen is at her most
dangerous period, the period Of
storm and stress, the period when
womanhood with all Of its posi-
bilfties for good and evil is as
sorting itself.
1t is likewise the period when
gir1-nature, no less than boy
nature, demands lots Of pleasure.
1t is the period of fun. 1t is the
period when all social impulses
and aptitudes are being devel-
oped and adjusted. It is the
period when the troublesome sex
problem must be solved consist
emily in order to retain the
purity and subsequent happiness
of the girl.
It is for this very reason that
the conventions of the past have
been developed to assist and pro-
teet a budding girl in her transit
ton from childhood to woman
hood.
The severity of those conven-
lions in the past and, in some
countries. even today, is severe
commentary on the immortality
of manhood. Those conventions
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r NOTICED the Bunny had his
L nose very close to the ground
and that every once in while
he would stop, sit up on his hind
legs and appear to be In deep
thought.
1t was in the north woods of
Canada that this happened, and,
although it turned out to be most
interesting, I must admit that 1t
frightened us all very much for a
few minutes.
Bunny kept this shifting the
ground and sitting up on his hind
legs until / finally asked:
Bunny, what on earth is the
matter with your"
eve seen something, and l
don't know whether we ought to
keep on this TRAIL
what have you SEEM" asked.
'"There! pointed Bunny. See
for yourself"
looked on the ground where
Bunny pointed and replied cas-
ually:
st don't see anything but foot
prints
but what kind Of footprints
Foxy Grandpa?"
Hroradian chIIckied
But what kind of Canadian"
persisted Bunny.
Might be a Canadian Indian"
Canadian bear" whispered
Bunny.
Bear" I exclaimed. II thought
they were the footprints of a
man."
Most people would" said
Bunny. They look so much
alike. But / have examined them
carefully. They are bear foot
prints and there is no use in
going into unnecessary danger"
II quite agree with you, Bun
n.y." l said" Wen go no fur
Their"
But 1t was too late. Because
at that very moment 1 saw Bum
ny trembIe and then he gave one
flying leap and landed right in
my pocket.
Look" he gasped, as he set
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CHAPTER XIII

have mentioned Canada
RlaclSie" and his transfer from
Auburn prison to Sing Sing on
account of his health, and be-
cause Osborne felt the need OF
his influence to promote the best
interests of the Sing Sing pris'
oners.
soon after Blackie's arrival, In
January, his tuhercular condition
became much worse, compelling
him to Clinton prison. in the
was some talk of transferring
him OF Clinton prison, in the
Adirondack region, but Blackie
baked at the plan. pleading TO
remain near his friend, Tom, "
meaning Osborne.
Some time previous, while
BlacIie was still at Auburn,
think it was. on learning of the
mans grave illness. Governor
Whitman had voluntarily de.
clared that he would not let
Blackie die in prison: that, in
view of his wonderful come back
for good and his excellent in
f1uence at Auburn following his
release from solitary" he, the
governor, would pardon him, pro-
vided he was assured there was
no hope of the prisoners re-
covery.
Ito Be Continued Tomorrow
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part of December, but no decl-
sion had been reached. john
son, as acting warden during Os-
borne's absence, had acceded to
the request of the brotherhc cd,
and when returned we found the
men assembled for a meal with
no sign of a guard anywhere.
and when they passed from the
mess hall to the yard the guards
were also conspicuous by their
absence. This was, indeed, radi-
cal departure from long estab-
lished prison custom, but it proved
efficacious. The days went by
and there were no fights. no
disturbances. During the rest OF
Osbornes administration there
was never a guard in the mess
hall nor in the yard during rec
reation time. It was a concrete
justification of the self-govern-
ment plan.
have mentioned Johnson
Charles H. Johnson--the deputy
warden. This man had been head
of an orphan Asylum before COM
ing to Sing Sing as deputy war
den. He had been recommended
to Osborne by o. r. Lewis of the
New York Prison Association-an
organization whose purpose and
functions I don't believe anyone
has ever succeeded in establish
ing.
Johnson, despite this recon-
mendation and the fact that he
had for years been an eleemosyn-
airy institutional officer of the
old school, apparently entered
into Osborne's plans and policies
with enthusiasm. He had a quiet
mannerism and a soft, persua-
sive voice; but to my mind he
agreed too readily to everything
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GIRLS OF FOURTEEN
Mothers Who Permit Daughters Pro-
miscuous Pleasures Impose
Unfair Temptations

were based upon the theory that
unrestrained social relationship
at this period leads to unre-
strained license, with its attend
ant disaster.
There Is no possible doubt Int
that human nature IL the same
today as It was then, and there
il equally no possible doubt that
the protective influence of those
conventions has been largely
withdrawn under the newly de-
veloped conditions Of modern life.
The mother who permits her
daughter to 60 riding alone with
a young man in an automobile
fails to protect her daughter by
subjecting both ner and her es-
cort to unfair temptation.
The encouragement Of exotic
dances instead Of the thoroughly
wholesome ones: the habit Of run
ming parties late into the night,
all without chaperonage, is UNI
fair to both sexes.
All of these questions enter
deeply into the problem Of moral
health and physical welfare Of
society. The solution can come
only by definite, social leadership
supported by q broad consensus
Of respectable mothers and re-
suIting in welI-defined and ir-
resistible set OF taboos.