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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24

| limited to serVitude. Statutory recoc-
milton of slavery occurred in Nrassa
chusetts in 1641. Connecticut in 1850
and Virginia in 1861.
Q. How many deaths from pe,laSra
were there in the United States last
year?-L. ID.
A. Two thousand deaths from this
disease occurred last year in this
country.
Q. What is the wage standard
sought by orGa nized women?-W. III.
A. The principle Of wage determine
| ton approved by the director of the
Womens Bureau of the Department
| of Labor. Miss Mary Anderson. Is
that wages should be established on
| the basis of occupation and not ION
| the basis of sex or race.
O. Does any State have a tax of
| more than cents a gallon on gaso-
| line?-C. L. r.
A. Arkansas and North Carolina
both have a Accent tax on gasoline.
| while South Carolina levies scent
! tax.
@. Do we have any American
| Chamber OF Commerce or similar
organization in Europe?-O. G. w.
A. There are American Chambers
| of Commerce in England. BelgiuI
| France Germany, Holland, ltaiH
| Portugal, Spain, Turkey and Greco.
Q. Can you describe the ''robber
| crab"?-D. NJ.
A. This crab is found on certain
islands of the Pacific. He grows 10
enormous size and is creature OF
immense strength. This crab lives III
den in the ground. lie climbs pam
trees so that he may obtain cocsnuts
on which he lives.
o. What year did Crittendon en-
bark on his tilibusterinE expedition
to Cuba "A. X.
A. Crittendon of Kentucky sailed
from New Orleans on August 3. 1881 -.
with Narcisco Lopez. They landed Al
Bahia Hundo. west of Havana. on Au
gust H. 1851, where Crittendon was
left with 1870 men. while Lopez moved
on Las Pozas with 323 Col. CritteuI
don was captured while trying to es-
cape to New Orleans after Lopez was
tried and executed for high treason
| Crittendon was shot at Havana with
| so others.
Gen. Robert f. Lee said: THE thor
| ouUh education of people is the most
eficGcious means of promoting thc
| prosperity of the Nation" These
1cords of the distinguished Souther"
! general arc none the less true nor
than achen he spoke them. our Wash :
tnaton information bureau is ono Of
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ton of free Information and CdnCd 70
tional data in the 1cOrld. Its services
are free to readers Of this paper. Az
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

There would have to be a regular
fee for the service, plus the under
standing that the expense Of the OPP
erations would be paid by the house
holder. This much would be funda
mental. The total cost might be in.
cluded in the final fee, If that would
be more acceptable.
This standing of the Back Yards
Expert would be necessary for the
following reason:
What she Tor he) would do in bring
ing the grounds from nothing tc
something would be so simple that
the householder might 'kick". against
the charge, after he had witnessed
the seeming ease with which the ex
pert had secured results.
The same thing happens in other
professions. A patient has pleurisy
and the regular family physician pre-
scribes the application of a hot-water
bag. The sick man gets no better
SO a consultant comes in. The con
sulting physician asks the mode OF
treatment to date, mods his head
gives a few preliminary Athens:
and says, TRY an ice bag
When the recovered patient later
gets bill for $40 from the consult
ant, he is apt to feel that he has
been ovepcharged. He is inclined TIC
forget that he is paying for knowl
edge and experience, costly things for
any man to acquire.
y: X x 4
We know of a radio expert who
was implored by radio receiving set
owner to come to his home and "tel
me what is the matter with the
thing" The radio man said he would
come and that his charge would be
SO, regardless of consequences.
The owner agreed cheerfully, think
ing he was getting off cheap. The
expert entered and made the tactica
mistake of discovering the trouble toe
quickly. If he had put up d bluff
of having difficulty over the matter
and had spent a half hour or more
over it, the owner would have thought
he had got his moneys worth. AS it
was, the first thing the expert did
was to test the B batteries, which he
found completely used up.
"Your B batteries are no good" he
announced.
"WeI?"
Get yourself some new Bs and
your set will be all right
When he then asked for his So the
OWIl0E put up d l0TT1Dl0 nOll6T, dS
the expert expressed it.
Much the same thing might occur
in the case of our Back Yards Expert.
After the customer. or the client
whatever you choose to call him, had
seen the grass growing so nicely and
the flowers blooming as only Nature
can make Them bloom, he might for
get the bit of knowledge and expert
ence the expert possessed.
Brains, time, money and work are
the four sides of the garden square,
and the greatest of these is fore
thought.
To look at a place and see what
could be done with it, and then to
go ahead and do it--this would be
the agreeable work of the Back Yards
Expert.
Some time would be required. but
not as much as might be thought by
the uninitiated. Money would be an
absolute essential, as good seed, and
plenty of it, shrubs, bulbs, fertilizers,
ETC., cost money. AS for the work
it would be a labor of love as we'll
as of profit.
A small corps of such experts. &C.
lively at work, could do more in a
year to beautify Washington than all
the talk-including this-in a century.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24

More good back yards are going to
waste in the District of Columbia
than one could count on his fingers IL
he had as many hands as an octopus.
1t gives an amateur gardener grow
Ing pains to stroll through many COM
munities and note the wasted oppor-
tunities for beauty which lie unre-
garded in the form Of back yards.
There are so many factors tending
toward destruction, toward uncouth-
ness, in the direction of ugliness that
1t hardly behooves any one who pos
sesseS a plot of ground to allow it to
grow uncultivated.
They are tearing down trees all
over the District, to the present, If
not the ultimate, loss of the National
Capital. Noise, too, is blurring our
ears.
Shall we allow our eyes to be SINH
larly ill-treated?
Every one who owns a yard and
cultivates 1t not is denying himself
and others Just so much more beauty
that might be as easily had as not
The sight of such back yards, with
poor grass, or none at all, utterly lack
ing in flowers or vines of any descrip-
ton, makes the veriest amateur gar
dener have a mighty desire to go to
work.
We know many an honest gardener
who would like nothing better than to
be given permission by the owners to
enter such yards and put them into the
shape which Nature is so willing to
give them.
We have often thought that there
is a splendid business opportunity, as
well as much soul satisfaction, await
ing some ambitious gardener who
would set himself up as back yard
expert.
The rich have their landscape gar
deners, the cities have their planners
and art commissions, but nowhere, SO
far as we know. is there any one de-
voting himself solely to the business of
beautifying plain, simple city back
yards.
Select 10 ordinary householders. who
take no care of their yards, perhaps
there would not be a single one of
them who would not rather have his
yard beautiful than ugly.
Men do not desire ugliness, they
simply endure it.
The trouble Is that they do not know
how to begin. They are the victims
Of the city, and until some one or
soIHelnlHS pubs tnem out OF their
lethargy they will continue to have
drear, shapeless yards back of their
homes. eve say "back yards; the
term includes side ones, II the plot
possesses them. Also front yards)
1t is not every one who is born a
gardener, although there are some
such. 1t is not every man or woman
who is skillful with plants, as indi-
viduals, or with groups of plants, as
In the aggregation we call the lawn"
1t is not surprising, therefore, that
many householders endure unattrac-
tive surroundings.
X X X * 'r
This is exactly where, of course.
the Back Yards Expert would come in.
Perhaps a woman would be able to
handle the situation better than a
man. She would have more tact. and
you'd be more interested in the dress
ing OF the house in proper lawns.
shrubbery and flowers
This interesting occupation presrm-
ABLY might be carried on after the
regular working day was over. Per.
maps a Government worker might un.
dertake it. A requisite would be q
full professional status.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24

The American theater celebrates all
Kinds of personalities. 1t gives the
public what the public wants. What
the public wants is decided by popular
fancy. which is tickle. What the pub.
lie wanted one year is precisely what
the public does not want the next.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24

France has made a bold stand for
the French franc. The American tour.
list is compelled to undergo new
processes of mental arithmetic in
figuring out how many francs there
are to the dollar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24

Gertrude Ederle swan the Channel.
attaining prominence by explaining
why they did not quite make the dis.
lance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24
Ambitious FLIGHTS.

We journey to the distant Pole
But certain plans we lack.
The query which confronts the soul
Is, How'll we get back?"
And so, whene'er our fancies turn
Unto lofty track,
The problem that we have to learn
Is, How'll we get back?''
Jud Tunkins says a flivver used to
be funny and now it's a national prob
lem; which shows the power of the
majority.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24

A dictator is usually only a tenn.
porary political expedient. A present
inclination seems to contemplate the
establishment Of Dictator" as e per.
manent and authoritative title.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Katydid.
We've had our Summer sorrow. an
we've waited
To hear the CHEEKY Autumn's light
refrain.
We thought we were especially ill.
fated--
But the katydid is singin' once
again.
0 katydid, you surely are a wonder!
You use your legs for music, SO we
hear,
Instead Of dancing to the rhythmic
thunder
OF jazz-time artists who are drawing
near.
So. katydid, keep saving on your
ditty.
SO simple, yet so honest and so true,
Which holds a. certain sentiment of
pity
And, in discomfort, bids us hope
anew.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24

ANY first page just at present will
convince the newspaper reader that
the police are exercising more influ.
ence on popular taste than the poll
ticians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24

A town with a losing base ball team
is naturally expected to become strong
in boosting it's commercial advantages
and points Of historic interest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24

The drama dinplays new ideas. Some
OF the ideas are SO new that they
make the old STUFF appear like a re.
vival of the much discussed doctrine
Of total depravity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24

The Hall-Mi case failed to secure
the early attention that would have
made it a first-class motion picture
scenario.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24

The Prince Of Wales falls off a horse
occasionally; not often enough to draw
an international crowd for admiration
of the event.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24

When President Coolidge comes
back in late September he will leave
numerous fish to be caught. None of
them. however, will be famous.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24

A great many American girls are
studying music abroad. In the mean
time, the American saxophonist con-
tinues to collect the salary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24

Police responsibilities take on new
burdens when the old Potomac River
itself asserts interference as an OBJ
structor Of traffic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24

A drought, followed by a freshet.
is calculated to make the farmer won
der whether politics can provide him
with the relief he really needs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24

From, the Canton Daily News.
Don't hold that q mistake is neces.
sarily serious. Many a. man has done
q GOOD 9ss4 tU migfalEA .-.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24
Feministic Domination.

Some day we will have a woman as
President Of the United States"
II hope So" answered Miss Cayenne
But the male will still have to be
considered. A woman is always judged
by the type Of husband she selects"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24

A crime wave is motion picture
scenario which has to run the chance
Of being suppressed by the grand
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24
PolysylIabic Philosophication

0 Science, when you raise a storm
This much you always do:
You make six syllables perform
The work Of one or two.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24

"A crap game" said Uncle Eben.
lis a poor excuse a Monday morning
foh what you done VIII yoh money on
Saturday night"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24
YeS--But.

Yes-But.
You have said many things that
people ought to remember
YES" replied Senator Sorghum,
but have said a great many more
things I hope they will consent to for
get
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24

The Evening Star. with the Sunday morn
ING edition. is delivered by rarriere within
me city at 80 cents per month; daily only
40 cents per month Sunday only. 20 cents
per month. Orders may be sent by mail or
telephone Main 5000, Collection rs made by
carrier at the end of each month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-24
Editor
The Evening Star Newspaper Company

Business Once.
=. 18th ST. and Pennsylvania Ave.
New York Office: 10 East 42nd st.
. Chicago Offic4. Tower Building.
european Office: IA Recent ST. London,
England.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27
Advertising Pays

Douglas receiving the benefit advertising campaign
has just recently been
group of enthusiastic Joined in subscribing
sufficient with city
in trio publications
10 be read inquiries
received from points in
fe published for number months
bringing results
concerning
complete
kept the advertising other
advertising has arrived and taken up residence here
Which brings to the property
holders Douglas
with shortage of homes premium
pnfurnshed properties suitable
One this
furnished home in which establish his family He employed
and doubt
filling all available
in
Already another the
furnished convenient at
premium and Douglas facing condition probably
thing rghted
expect within the building
more residences and modern furnished will be erected
be erected fact the city the
advertising carried
prospective
drawn the city able in which reside.
Some citizens lose the
first advertising before others will
begin realize that building
carried to completion Every
Of the advertising through
suitable home here, will
Any seeking
from the city and advising others
facilities.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27
WITH EDITORS
PARENTHooD SCHOOLS
Gel Paso Times. }


"A suggestion by
in by of the visiting
be said in behalf of this gentleman's he
"Unwse undesirable
mpaience profound
factors in lessening
Society engaging
centers, there to
for
o ganays
It's eucatve building
reflects
ideals There little
deinquents from fit and adequate
This strikes
of conditions
the the child
which ordinarily
reflect the prevailing
dction.
Difficulties of a
there
field Of labor promise
volunteers 0 i appear n
indeed would voluntarily
the telling
and middeaged their will
be task
the
outbreaks
a years
proud that the dear little Johnnie
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27
RSAEB[6

Now we learn that the Aaharajah of
Indore has been in this country three
weeks without endorsing a single cold
cream
*@*
Famous. seats: Stock Exchange,
Board of Trade, Senate, pants
Sir Harry Lauder is in America on
a farewell tour. These annual occas-
ions are getting to be quite a pleasant
custom,
Headlines you never see; THERE'S
NO CURE FOR IT." SAYS CRIME
PREVENTION LEADER
Well known last lines: 1T worked
just fine last night until 2 o'clock, but
tonight we don't seem to be able to
get a thing"
Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Incl
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27
UTTERrNG sLANDER IN SILENCE
(Arizona Republican }

Paris recently that slander can
through deafmute
him quarrel restaurant
required that sanderous state
could sand equally
wella
ruling
applied
O. s a consideration. -
Of maxi nsnu
be
from to pass
street thing
them The derisive
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27
WESTINGHOUSE
LETTEPM9}
1NG@1
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26, = Br'r An
w drews, ne cont say nothin. He
Just lay low.
You may have missed the customary
ballyhoo this year about what the pro-
hibition enforcers were going to do to
make the holidays bone dry. 1t used
to be a good annual story for all the
newspapers.
The fact is that General Lincoln C,
Andrews and his subordinates will eat
their Christmas dinners serenely con-
sident that while there may be much
liquor available, hardly any of 1t is fit
to drink
Here are their figures:
Not more than five or six rum ships
off the North Atlantic coast this year.
Probably 60 at this time last year.
More than 200 the year before:
About $S5 three years ago.
THUS smuggling has, been cut to a
l minimum in the New York sector
once a great alcoholic sluiceway The
Florida coastline now is the principal
objective of the rum runner and it gen
orally is achieved, as it is poorly
guarded. Any rum runner who would
not prefer to operate off those sunny
shores, with the appoach of winter,
rather than those of the North Atlantic,
doubtless. is stupid enough to be very
easily caught anyway.
EOR a time the assistant secretary of
the treasury in charge of prohibi-
ton was badly discouraged. He SEEM
ed to be on the verge of resigning
every two or three weeks.
But latly those at the treasury have
no72ced that his seeming pessimism
has changed to a pronounced optimism
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27
More Truth Than Poetry
By JAMES j. MONTAGUE
DEFYING CERTAIN MICRO



New YorI1's Health CommisSioner oh
iectS to handwriting on the ground
that IL spreads infection.
If I should meet with G. b. Shaw
or Ringgold w Lardner
promptly should extend my paw
And say How are you, pardner?
Nor should ! give their outstretched
palms
An impolte Inspection
And thus reveal my inward qualms
Lest they should bear infection.
know that germs in rowing bands
Which have no fixed employment,
Find camping out on peoples hands
A means of rare enjoyment,
That when man. with greetings brisk
A set Of digits seizes,
He very often runs the risk
OF picking up diseases.
hut when my friends upon the street
or in my home shall find me,
| feel it would be indiscreet
To keep my hands behind me;
think they d say--and you would too
In accents somewhat testy
We'll what the heck's got into you
That you should be SO chesty?"
SO even though l apprehend
A modicum of danger
In shaking hands with an old friend
AS we'll as with a stranger
He will not vainly seek to make
The usual advances
I'll grab his mitt, though I may take
All sorts of dreadful chances
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27
Colorado Engineering
Council Endorses the
Swing-Johnson Measure

DENVER, Nov. &c tP.-The Col
orado Engineering council made ur
of 13 engineering and technical So
c:eties, today adopted a resolution
endorsing the Swing-Johnson bill
for Colorado river development and
urging it's passage by passage with
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27

the amendments offered by the upper
Colorado river basin states.
The resolution states that the ideal
condition would be for a ratifica
ton of the Colorado river compac,
by all seven states concerned bu;
since that has failed after rour years
effort rhat it believes the amenG
ments proposed to the Swing johnson
bill will give the maximum protec.
tion possible short of actual rat
fication.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27
Abe Martin

Next t. girls face tn easiest thing
t. muSS is u silk plug hat. Their may
be few bashfuI. backward youngsters
left, but Dan Cupid'S business seems T.
have gone plumb T. TIN dogs.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27
TOO TAME

There are still several clean plays
on Broadway, but obviously they "are
not for the young person"
Copyright 1926, Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27
COMPENSATE

A farm journal says that turkeys
when young are very delicate. But
they get tough enough by the time
Thanksgiving comes along.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27
4 CLOTHES CALL

Art: I hear they presented Hamlet
in full dress.
Smart: 1t wouldn't be a bad idea
for some of these revue producers to
do the same with their choruses.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27

Announcements We're received
yesterday of the marriage in Pen
sacoIa, Florida of Miss Clara Bia-
Der and Eugene c. Hinman. Both
of the young people formerly lived
in Douglas.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27


o al child.
who endeavor
be
maryrlike dsinction
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27
EVERY LITTLE HELPS

We suspect that the statement that
bread contains alcohol is piece Of
propaganda put out by one Of the bak-
ing combinations.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27
As WE PROGRESS

1t will not be long before people
arc saying that what this country
needs is Il good dollar cigar
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27

Frosll (after being shoe clerk dur
ing vacation): Yori know we shoe
clerks are hard boiled with women.
Co4ed: Why is that?
i Frosh: Well, when they came in the
store, we always gave them fits
GuckneH Belle Hop.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27

Barber Shall ! cut your hair close?
Coed: No--stand off as far as pos
sible.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27

Madrid is best known for three
things: wine, women and beggars. The
first comes in bulk, the second in
masses but the third in hordes. The
beggars are the richest men in Madrid,
and no wonder, when you hear what
they say:
Sir will you please give me a little
money to buy bit O. bread for l am
so dreadfully thirsty that don't know
where am to get nights lodging"
N Y Medley
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27

Co: Jimmys didn't say more than
three words last night.
Ed: Honestly, honey, you shouldn't
let him kiss you all the time.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27

The guinea pig is no shark at long
division, but it is said that he multi
plies very rapidly.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27

Thanks for the buggy ride" said
the precocious child to its mother.
She was only a merchants daughter,
but she had the goods.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27

Flattery: The molasses on the grid
die cakes of conversation
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27

G. C. Crawford, j. a, Potter and
I. B. Ward compose the committee
in charge of the Elks dance at the
Gadsden next Friday night.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27

TIN not the cake-eater I used to
be-" said grandpa as he refused the
fifth slice. f
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27
IN ON MAnR1n

She's got blue blood in her veins"
rs she taking anything for it?"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27

From our experience, "A word to
the wise" is resented.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-27

Low: What is It sign of when your
nose itches?
Brow: Going TO have company
Low: And what if your head itches?g
Brow: They have arrived!