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The Washington times., 1926-02-26
SAVE THE SAVER,
BANKER URGES.
By RICHARD HATTON

call for American bankers TO
redoubIe their efforts to protecl
innocent savers from the wiles OF
the unsound invest Thent promoter
comes from the West, where the
Western regional savings CONFER
ence of the savings bank division
Of the American Bankers Associa'
ton is meeting at Portland, Ore,
today.
With super-schemes of fraud be-
ing developed in all directions by
hirh-powered salesman who are
becoming more and more crafty
every day., the time is at hand for
the nations bankers to put forth
reaoubled efforts to protect their
savings depositors from the wiles or
crooks, ii was declared here today
BY w, r. Morehouse, vice presi-
dent Of the Security Trust and
Savings Bank, of Los Angeles.
Mr.. Morenouse, using actual in
stances of these modern schemes,
described how chain selling plans,
conducted on lines that would In
sure their breaking down to the
benefit of the promoters, are en-
ployed to cheat working girls out
of their savings. He also told how
q recent campaign for distributing
stock in an unsound corporation
brought to the promoters over
81, 00O, 900 in commission In three
months and took the savings OF
thousands of small investors. and
oe stiH another case in which
religious revival meeting methods,
staged in q tent on a fake oil field
equipped with make-believe wells
and pumps. were used in a big
stock selling drive that impoy-
erished a large group of elderly
men and women.
Unless our savings bankers come
20 the rescue and help to stop this
mefarious business OF defrauding and
ewindling our savors OF the fruits
Of their labors," Mr.. Morehouse
eaid, s.the waste IL certain to In
crease each day. The solution to
this great problem is in the hands
OF our bankers. If they will CO.
operate with those who save they
can make il hard for these plum
derers to continue in business. Has
ten the day when our bankers, with
out exception, win gladly welcome
interviews with depositors who con-
template making investments.
The best service q bank can
render D novice investor Is to keep
him from making poor investments
~ helping him to make good ones. =
The Washington times., 1926-02-26
Chicago Live Stock

CHICAGO. Feb. 26.-Hogs adj.
vanced 15@5Oc today, largely on
shipping account. Some of the
lightWeights were as much as 75c
higher, owing to a scarcity and
active demand for those grades.
Receipts were estimated at 10000.
the same as last week. Top reached
$13.75.
The cattle market was. nominally
steady. Demand was poor and
trading light.
Lambs were also steady.
BY Z. s. Bureau Of Markets
HOGS-Receipts. $4,000: market IS a
soc higher. Bulk, $11.65Q 1926: top.
$12. Is; heavyweight. s115OM12.25: me-
dunn weight. $12m13; lightweight.
$12.25 @13-35: light lights. s12.50m13.75:
heavy packing sows. smooth, $1,000
1885: packing sowss rough $1o9 1875;
pigs. $13@13.75.
CATTLE Receipts. 1000: market
steady. Calves 1000: steady. Beef
steers choice and prime $10.50@1 II. SO
medium and good $9@10.25; good and
choice, $10G11.50; common and me-
dunn. $T9s.50. Butcher cattle. heifers.
s5.5o61o; cows. $4.5o@s;. bulls, $500
sheep-Receipts. 1000 Market steady.
Lambs. fat 1898 @14; culls and COM
mon. S11Q12: yearlings. $lQ@11.50;
yearling wethers. $9G10; ewes, $S@9:
culls and common. $2.5O@5; feeder
lambs, $13614
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BANK EMPLo DYES HONOR
COLLEAGUE or 8 YEARS

Eleven employees of the American
security and Trust Company gave
q surprise party last night to VII.
liam Bowie, teller Of the Primes
Georges Bank OF HyattsviIIe, at the
home al i. Frank Rushe, iii Univer
sity Park. Mi. Bowie has been
connected for nine years With the
banking institution.
Among the guests were Fred
Hanks Z. Pierce Riddle, James s.
Pierce Riddle, James i. Pease; il
s. Barrett. j. g. Lawrence, III M.
Finney, R. wv. Hawkins, j. q. Gray.
and r.. II. MilIer
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Liverpool Cotton

LIVERPOOL, Feb. Moderate
business done in spots. Prices
steady Sales. 5000 bales.
Middlings, fair, 1913; strictly good
middlings, T1.43; good middlings,
11.13; strictly middIings, 1888; mid
dlingss 1888: strictly low middlings,
S.73; low middlings, 8.88; strictly
good ordinary, sos; good ordinary,
733
Futures opened quiet. March
opened at 9.S4; May, 9.75; July.
$50; October, 9.37.
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NEWS AND QUOTATIONS OF THE FINANCIAL MARKETS.
Local Stocks

FURNISHED by w. b. Hibbs & Coz
SALES
Washington Gas 5s, $500@99ha.
Capitol Traction Co., 10Q117, log
117A. 7@117N.
washington Railway & Electric
Pfd., 10@91.
AFTER CALL
Washington Gas Light. 10Q73%
Riggs National Bank, 10@476A.
National Mortgage & Investment
Pfd., 50@S.
CAN loans-Money, SOC per cent.
aid I Ask,
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Chicago Grain Market

CHICAGO. Feb. 26 Grains
opened irregular today
Wheat started steady to sc
higher for May and n to sc lower
for new crop months. Trade Was.
after the start.
Corn was to nc lower with
scattered selling on the more favor.
able weather
Oats were unchanged.
The Washington times., 1926-02-26
Nav YorIs cotton
lnsernnaianal Ne.ve aerrlce

INTERNATIONAL News heFVlCe
NEW YORK, Feb. 26. The cot
ton market was unsteady az the
first prices from II to IL points
lower March opened at S19.4S,
down 12 points May. $IS.8S, down
III points. and July, 1882, down
IL points.
The Washington times., 1926-02-26
Broker Loan Cain

Brokers loans outstanding for che
week ending February ia. amounted
to $3,13S.724 900. gain Of $1,136.
900 over the preceding week, the
Federal Reserve Board announced
today.
The Washington times., 1926-02-26
Canadian Wheat

WINNIPEG, Feb. 26.-opening
wheat prices today were as follows:
May, $1.501z @1.50%, up NC; July,
$1.48ss, unchanged; October, $1.31A,
up &c.
The Washington times., 1926-02-26
Year for Robbing Mother

UNION CITY, N. j., Feb. Be-
Found guilty Of robbing his mother
Of IS, Eugene Lusente, is, was SEN
fenced TO serve year in prison.
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Short Term Securities
1Icnrniahed hv w 3 Hfhhs & Co.

w. q, HIDDs q %,
bid 4 Ask
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ON Stocks

srurnisi,ed BY W. B. Hibbs 4 Col
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

Trapped, agonized, blazing, seventeen
girls and boys fell, among the so
who fought and ran and shrieked for
life.
And they said that the man who
was responsible looked Crushed" in
court, and that he intended to make
generous amends" But they didn
lock him in the grim darkness AMI
chill of Death Row. They didn't come
and shave his head. and slit his left
trouser leg for the murderous current
that should shock him "painlessly'
out Of the sweetness and fullness Of
life. He didn't even see a Jail.
How does the gunman's act COM
pare with the crimes of the men who
sent poisoned meat out to rot the in
testines Of the soldiers who were risk
ing their lives for us and America, the
men who filled life-preseryers with
grass, and made slickers of glazed
paper? How many Of them went,
despised and lonely, on that terrible
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Anxious-eyed, curious neighbors con-
suited with the police and after due
time the minions of the law deseandc.,
upon Elsie's poison built home and ac-
cused her of practicing medicine with
out license or something. This might
mark q refutation of the axiom that
practice makes perfect. While every
one is agreed that Elsie had been prac-
ticing long enough yet the police in
reference certainly shows her system
to be long way from perfection.
She was SO disgusted or proud that
she confessed. HardbOiled officials es-
cortcd her to Joliet penitentiary for a
life sentence. She has dreary exist
ence to look forward to outside of the
certainty OF being fed, clothed for the
rest of her existence. BY this time she
probably realizes that no locomotive
engineer on earth is worth the price of
her freedom. She took her love af-
fairs too much to heart and tipped
Cupid's darts with poison-a bad bust
ness all around.
In the further western state the
wife of the stevedore, who will neither
love her nor their baby, staggers OUT
of the court condemned to life SEN
tence of worse than celibacy. She has
her freedom and can doubtless take
in washing. Unless she decides TO at
tempt an even worse fate by dropping
4 little poison in the stevedore's cof-
fee. If she tries that she will be both
cred by even worse than a loveless
home.
The divorce laws may or may not
be right, but the hideous discrimina-
tions and the lottery of guessing at
the courts decision cannot be right
As it is now, the whole future life
Of an unhappy man or woman depends
on the state he or she lives in, and
quite often, on what the judge had
for breakfast. II Mrs. Judge gave him
good cup of coffee, the applicants for
freedom might get their liberty with
smile. II his oatmeal is soggy, they
stand fair chance of being sent back
to their chains with a still more 'soggy
sermon.
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life for that wretched soulP A pau
per in money and pauper in happi-
ness. When she arrived in court, she
related a pitiful story of her weary
existence and showed how it was i'm
possible for her to continue living
with her husband and retain any Of
her earlier welded happiness, now
made all the more miserable by the
constant reminder Of her shattered
dreams. -.
She wished to be freed from the
yoke of law which bound her to a
non-sympathetic oge who heaped in
suit on injury by lying, evil incrim,
nations against her virtue which he
know was intact, This man was evil
IDENTIFY a coward or else he would not
have dared taunt and insult one he
knew had no recourse to means that
might have made him soften his vitu.
perations. The woman was sinless, in
the eyes of the law in this particular
state, and so probably was her hus-
band, judging from the result of the
courts finding. II
The court. after due deliberation,
denied her divorce and added a SER,
mon to the effect that marriage was
getting to be considered as a general
convenience and therefore meant moth
ing. The court held that as marriage
was a sacred institution, this particu-
lar tribunal didn't believe in divorce
except where the conditions were
such that people must be separated.
FREEDOM WARRANTED.
Now perhaps 1 may be considered
a difference of opinion in holding that
the condition in this particular case,
while evidently not tallying with those
of the Legislature prescribing where
and how divorce may be granted were
certainly such as to warrant this wom-
an freedom from her brutal husband
and conditions which she described as
intolerable.
In this case the state presumed to
know more about the conditions than
she-although no one will deny that
she was in better position to Judge
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Kathleen Norris Excoriates Death Penalty National G.

A HIDEOUS and cruel thing has
been going on for a long time,
and the morning newspapers have
been faithfully reporting it.
In the great state prison a young
man Is awaiting his own execution,
he has been convicted Of murder in
the first degree, his crime was that
eIightful modern menace, bank rob.
ocry, accompanied with the usual
readiness to murder if need arose.
One of the mans confederates is sery-
ing life Imprisonment.
The hideous and cruel part of this
particular case Is that the great ma
chine Of death has been halted, not
once, but three separate times, so
that this prisoner could be cross-ex-
amined again, and yet again, as to
the identities Of his companions in
crime.
Three times he has been brought
within few hours of the end, he has
said his weeping farcwells, through
cell bars. he has been fortified b.
whatever religion and his own young
philosophy could do for him, the hor.
rble last ritual of head-shaving and
garment-slittiDg has been set in mo-
tion--and then has come the repricve !!
MERE READING sICKENs.
Ones own heart, beating placidiy
over morning coffee and morning
mail, has plunged sickcningly at the
mere reading of it. To face it all, the
bitter darkness of last hours, with
all ones kind turning coldly and re-.
vengefully to watch ones last, strug-
sling breath, the heavy agony Of spiri!
that must accompany the knowledge
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time appealing to the law? She want
ed to marry a married man whose
wife stood in the way.
Instead of going to the liberal Hi.
nois courts, going through a lot of
courts expensive rigamarole, and run
ming the risk Of finding on the bench
judge with a yearning to strike a
blow at tolerance, this lady poisoned
her lovers wife.
Then she married the man (whose
name was Bible.) But he got in her
bad books, and she decided that the
true love of her heart was a locomo-
tive engineer. Once more Cupid picked
an unfortunate target, for this man
also was married. He had an invalid
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flouters Of another amendment.
To return to the court that refused
the divorce to the pitiful petitioner
whose husband denied her and their
baby love, kisses, or even the negative
comforts of indifference: what help
has given to morality by It's holier-
than-the-law attitude?
What IL the woman driven out into
the cold should follow the example Of
the Illinois lady who recently con-
tossed that she had not wasted her
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ture of whose tennis and running and
algebra and young aspirations and
young friendships we are so proud,
does he want to become hated BY his
kind, and to walk out, in some grim
dawning, to face the dangling moose,
and the open coffin that are awaiting
his power and his hopes and prom
Use? Was It his fault that his first
little cries didn't echo in the filth
and smells of a slum, instead of in
the pink-and-white scented sunshine
of an ideally and Iovingly-equipped
nursery?
Let us admit the fresh, clean air
Of latter-day justice to this national
cancer, let US abandon the death
chair, with the stake and the pyre,
the ducking stool and the iron maiden,
the galleys and the rack.
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Discrimination Among States Results
in Cruel Wrong, Especially to
Poor, Says Author
By RUPERT HUGHES

Whatever may be the right or the
wrong of divorce in itself; whether
hose are right who believe that the
sacrament of marriage" is indissolu-
lie under any circumstances, or those
Who believe that divorce should be
GRANTED without reproach at the re-
quest Of either party to "the civil
partnership known as marriage;
here can be little doubt that there
Is cruel wrong in discrimination.
What justice can there be in some
i. the evils of the present day con,
FUSION? In one state, marriage is
dissolved in a few minutes on any one
q seventeen literally interpreted
grounds; in South Carolina, no d.
|orce can be secured on any ground.
Morals are, then, a matter of state
ines, though the people are about<he
Eamc everywhere.
The rich may go TO Iaris or Mex
|co, or some of the easy states and
secure a divorce, without difficulty.
|rhe poor must stay hurried because
hey are poor, if they are also luck
less enough to be poor 10 state with
|lliberal laws.
On the other hand, in some states
the poorest people can secure divorces
with ease, without scandal and with
but notoriety, while the rich cannot
even quarrel and part without being
headlined all around the world. In
many places a judge will grant
dozen divorces in two hours to humble
people and their names are not even
published to the Indifferent public.
LACK OF GROUNDS.
Recently in a western state where
divorce is ordinarily granted on the
slightest pretext, poor. woman, the
wife Of harG-boiled stevedore, told
the judge that her husband loved her
no longer, refused to kiss her, yet was
jealous of other men, and tortured
her with false accusations, never
looked at their baby, and heaped on
his wife odious comparisons with his
.irst wife.
What on earth is there in marriage
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either the man or the woman has been
divorced. Clergymen ought not to be
permitted to select what laws they
will obey any more than policemen.
Yet these same preachers shrek with
horror at the disObedience of other
laws, just as the fiercest defenders
of the sanctity Of the prohibition
amendment are found among those
who pay no respect at all to that
amendment which granted full legal
equality to negroes, and the amend
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

ment forbidding religious interference
with American liberties.
No wonder bootleggers thrive and
have affectionate friends in the high
est places. Did not an ardently dry
senator recently state in the Senate
that bootleggers call at his office in
the Capitol every day and offer their
wares? "The boys say, What do you
want today'?" said the Senator. Ho
never wanted anything but he took no
pains to fumigate himself from the
contact with the lepers. This senator
was perhaps human enough to realize
that he himself and his constituents
were fatty annulling one of the earlier
amendments. He was good sport
enough not to turn informer on the
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and none Of US forever fortunate. This
woman had a most commendable hor-
TOR Of the divorce court. Like the
court referred to, she realized that
divorce is the cause of almost all the
evils of modern times. So instead of
throwing herself on the somewhat du-
bious mercy of the law she took the
law into her own hands and organ
lied a fiendish campaign Of poisoning
as a way out of her difficulties.
In denying herself the intricate
cOnveniences of these modern times
she went back to the horrible conven-
fences of the bad old days when d.
vorce was practically unknown. Large.
ly because of the impossibility Of di.
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ughes Raps Marriage Lottery Caused by Varying Law

wife who stood between the in
fatuated lovers and an honest mar
riage. Our heroine slipped little
powder in the extra woman's medi-
cine and put her out of her misery.
This worked so smoothly that she
poisoned Mr.. Bible and secured her
freedom. Then she married the en-
gineer; for she was a good woman
and would not think of living with a
man in unholy lack Of wedlock.
None Of US are altogether virtuous
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than anyone else,

than anyone else.
To great numbers of intensely vir,
tuous people this court struck great
blow for the home, the sanctity of the
marriage vow and the salvation of the
world from the evil of never-justifi-
able divorce. To unregenerate skep-
tics of organized morality like me a
more just decision might have been
reached.
We hear a great deal from prohibi-
tionists about the sanctity of the law.
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Capital Punishment Deters Crime Then Logically We Should Employ
All Forms of Ev[dong Was Practice in '...
Middle Ages Writer Points Out

nit that 1t Is not necessarily a worse
crime than several others, then We
have placed ourselves in the position
of being obliged to admit the sentence
Of the death penalty in the case of
those others, too.
A child of the slums, shrewd, dar-
ing, intelligent in his own way, utter
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
CLERGY FLOUT LAW.

ging, forgery, intidelity, cruelty to
children, desertion and hundred 9th
ers. If terrorizing stops crime, then
let US countenance terror. Let US
march these criminals manacled
through the streets, pinching their
open breasts with red hot irons-as
long ago was done in Christian Rome
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

stripes. We don't send mothers into
axle, away from forlorn pauper
babies, and we don't box lepers, in
sane, criminals and those whose only
fault is that they are sick and penni-
less, within four filthy walls.
But we do torture the killer-that
is, the poor and friendless killer.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

be shortened by good behavior.
Was the young gunman's crime az
bad as that Of another man, whose in
surance company notified him one day
that his elevator ropes were not safe:
He forgot this reminder, and there
was a fire in his factory a few days
later that cost seventeen young lives
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

Girls just must curl and waU
bobbed hair to appear their prettieSt
But constant curling and waving burn
and dry the luster, vitality and very
life from the hair.
To offset these bad effects, just get
a 3j-cent bottle of delightful, refresh.
ing "Danderine" at any drug store Ok
self how quickly it reyiyes dry, brit
tie. HfeleSs and fading hair.
"DaRderine" is a dependable tonic
and will do wonders for any girls
hair. 1t nOurishes, stimulates and
strengthens each single hair, bringing
back that youthful CLEAN, CLINT and
vigorous luxuriance. Falling hair stops
and dandruff disappears. "Danderinc
is pleasant aud easy to use.
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Points Out That Clergy, Refusing to
Wed Divorced Persons, Flout Law
as Much as Do Bootleggers.

vorce, the awful arts of the poisoner
were developed to marvellous perfec
ton and fiendish subtlety. People then
had the most ingenious prescriptions
for sending unwelcome rivals writing
to their doom. They also had the
most ingenious ways of administering
the doses,
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walk from the death chamber to the
seat Of ignominy and death?
Not one. We don't catch these muir
derers. We satisfy our vengeance upon
the frantic little jealous Latin who
stabs a faithless wife, or we dis-inter
the body Of some quarrelsome, intern
perate, ignorant brute to prove, BY
endless and costly chemical analysis,
that the wretched woman with whom
he has been living in one filthy room
put arsenic in his sausages.
WHO is HARMED?
We don't stand outside the fac
tories where bewildered, wearied, pois-
oned and cheated children stumble out
to and fro between long looms and
dirty, oily, odorous machinery, and
ask ourselves if this is murder, and
in the first degree.
No, we cling TO the old law Of
an eye for an eye and q tooth for a
tooth, without ever taking the time
or trouble to analyLe it, or to re-
mind ourselves that killing does not
bring back the dead, nor harm the
killer half as much as it does our
selves, the real murderers.
We don't stop to think of the cloud
that these grisly death-chairs and seat
folds hang over our whole ideal of
brotherhood and progress. Even the
woman who would protest that she
never thought about it at all, and con-
sidered 1t none of her business, is
hardened and held back by their mere
existence. Hearing of them, reading
of them, accepting them, in retrogres-
sion-we should have left this sort Of
thing far behind.
We are studying, segregating, edu-
eating the criminal now. We are be-
ginning to see just what tetid streets,
squalid homes, bad food, bad moral
conditions in childhood, cost US in Ia
ter crimes. We find that a large per-
centage Of crime arises from de-
fective mental conditions, that an
other considerable percentage has a
pathological cause. We have passed
the point when merely to hurt the Of
fender, to drag him at the carts tail,
and shut him hungry and cold and
desperate in the dark, gives US a deep,
vengeful satisfaction. In many Of us,
the sight of great prison, of inflex-
ible barred doors and sunless, bleak,
antiseptic corridors arouses but one
humble, grateful thought: There, but
for the grace of God"
WHO ARE WE, TO KILL!
1t is not for us to kill, while we