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The Washington times., 1926-01-14
If Traffic Control Is Not
Centralized, Then What?
By BILL PRICE

oard If Trade and several civic bodies have rejected
recommendations Of committees that the Director o. Ira
traffic regulations for the District and that all police
officials and policemen detailed traffic work shall be
trolled by his direct orders and subject thereto.
IF there Is not to be Capitalization Of traffic control in
the Director Traffic then what is to be done to put
end to divided authority and constant frcon2 Safety In
washington said the Of Trade committee will
be obtained by divided authority Quite pertinent and in
disputable.
confesse that he authority direct traffic policemen
they should be directed He admits friction That
cannot be avoided under the conditions ure7aiino.
Public welfare suffers under hydraheaded authority.
Centralized authority and responsibility are unquesonaby
essential in the success Of all undertakings
Director of Traffic who direct is little but
gureead His efforts go for nothing They may be set
aside they happen suit the controlling influences
II Mr. Eldrdge for example, certain action from
traffic policemen 60 through the head Of the Police
and then to the District Commissioner in charge
department. sometimes to the entire Board OF Com
mssoners
This sort of thing doesn't get anywhere and doesn't work
The Department Of Washington charged with the
enforcement of all laws and regulations It is not natural
that the Of that department will wish to surrender
thory over policemen under him. in traffic matters
he feels that this would have the effect of dividing the
thory he believes he should have might cripple the
administration Of police affairs.
Congress will either have to give the Director Of Traffic
pratcsIly removing them from allegiance to the superi
tenden of police will have to put in the hands Of the
Police Department full responsibility Tor Of traffic
further to the rear and probably aboshng his office alto
gether.
There little for the people of the District have
pay salaries holding wall flowers ornamental
than useful There traffic problems that do not
directly relate police enforcement but they few
to maintain separate traffic bureau that do nothing
unless approved by others
The situation coming head and must be settled Con-
tnued friction going help things the police depart
traffic bureau There be smooth sail
ing greater safety is to be obtained in this city
Whatever Congress does it must give authority to
body the permits of unworthy drivers who daily
life and property here Mr.. Eldridge is perfectly
right wanting authority revoke the licenses Of drivers
who frequently the Police Court Of driving
while drunk speeding carelessness and wrecng Wide
to revoke the permits Of dangerous and should
be given by Congress with little delay possible
The Washington times., 1926-01-14

0NOAIE time ago the writer visited the wild sand dune
country of northern Indiana
This sandy waste stretches along the southern shore
IF Lake Michigan between Gary and Michigan City.
The high sand hills ages old Some are wandering
dunes Moving slowly through the they have worked
Eastward In their track dunes born Others are
fixed their sides sand cherries and stunted pines
struggle for existence.
Indians have and gone pioneer scouts nave gwen
adventuresome settlers and they ~ turn nave mace
way teemng city bred but the dunes have remained
them the great invention Of the age had cTadle
and a elimination.
Here Octave Chanute made experiments with elders
giving his information the Wright Brothers later on
And here day night great roaring planes W overhead
carving the mails from Cleveland and Chicago
The dunes have out1ived the wilderness they commune
untamed in the heart Of civilization
IN their enduring ruggedness there is message or IN
spiration helps who feels it to hold on ~ the
trials of life.
The face of the dunes like the face Of tne common
people. It is grim, determined, enduring
1T possesses neither the kngy grandeur Of tne towering
mountains the abject serfdom OF lmpotent deserts
Through the passing chiads it has remalned renamed y
spite Of and remained one OF the engmas q
geological endurance.
Buffeted driven about torn asunder the
main and remaining combine In lines that alter DAY ~
day that that retreat that advances but INES Lnag M
in the shadows Of evening" gaun beaten ana
but sublimely everlasting.
In the face of the dunes there is seen this example g
endless endurance.
II its barren beauty there speaks message 81 grim
courage and indomitable lasting power
The Washington times., 1926-01-14
Bridesmaids of Long Ago
Many Dear Old Lady Will Look Upon Them and Sigh
Over Fond Memories

Kind young female reader, with hair close cropped
carefully HIDDEN, knees carefully DISPLAYED, consider
ldfashioned girls bridesmaids
British Queen Mother Alexandra
The picture this shows group Of high born and
beautiful young English girls selected in the long ago,
bridesmaids of Alexandra when she married the then Prince
of Wales later King Edward and father of the PRESENT
KING George.
These very oldashoned dresses with the huge skirts
punches of flowers all around heavy wreaths Of above
the pretty faces.
But there much here praise The dresses very low
necked but they beautiful and modest The girls fore
heads uncovered toused hair coming their
eyes, after the fashion of female Skye-terrier.
And above ALL the minds of these young women seem to
be the part Of the body the face the eyes,
spirit
Their costumes do show frenzied desire show as
much of their legs from the knees up the police allow
Give the old bridesmaids credit for THAT.
They old-fashioned old fogy if you like
But after ALL they had theory that woman should be
beautifully DRESSED not rugged spec
men for the study Of all beholders.
Can you imagine what good Queen Victoria motherinla
Alexandra the bride would have said if these eight brides
maids had appeared in modern apper She prob
ably wouldn't have said anything the shock would killed
her before she could utter sound and her good German
band the prince consor would probably have tainted
But stand anything when get used to it Ladies
shaved ladies knees bare-what We re
used to it.
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THELIFEBOAT INVENTION

runwale of cork attached to its
upper frame, with an additional
alright chamber at the bottom.
He called his model an unim-
mersible'' boat. It was exhibited
in 1884 and attracted the. atten-
ton of no less a person than
George w, who was then Prince
of Wales. This royal parsonage
was so impressed with the inven-
ton that he insisted on defrayinN
the expenses of all of Lukin's ex-
periments.
But In spite of royal recogni-
ton and demonstrated worth only
one vessel was fitted with life
boats on Lukin's principle. And
this boat Is reported to have
saved many lives. But, as is al
ways the case with new inven-
tions, it failed to attract deserv'
ing attention until the occurrence
of a great catastrophe. A sea-
faring boat called the Adventure
was wrecked at the mouth of the
Tyne river in full view of thou
sands who stood on the shore
and watched the crew, one by
one, fall from the rigging into
the sea, while they looked on,
powerless to go to the rescue.
This terrible disaster stimulated
the interest of people in the pos
sibilities Of the lifeboat, and the
premiums offered for its perfec
ton led eventually to its nniver
sal adoption. >
The Washington times., 1926-01-14
By ELSIE ROBINSON

baby's toy and shoe and lock Of
hair. And poor dear Ethel White
who simply can't bear the hole
DAYS ever since her sweetheart
ran away with her best chum.
And humesick Mrs. Roberts, VINO
had never enjoyed q Christmas
since she left England.
These other mourners comfort
Ellen in her annual festival OF
grief. They, too, feel that IT,
would be a dissertation to laugh
and dance on a day when mem
orv 40 racks the heart. So yearly
fhey gather around their dead,
the poor, withered dead they Will
not bury, and go through all the
agony Of loss again.
.sFIow wrong it Is? And what
an exasperating nuisance! There's
nothing holy in this revival OF
grief at the cost or your own
and the fanily's joy. Its as
selfish and disgusting as the e1
hibition of any other sort OF
tantrum. For it is a tantrum,
nothing more or less. It's an
emotional debauch. 1t doesn't
serve the dead and 1t is an out
rage on the living.
No good end is served at any
time of the year by reading tear
stained letters, or mourning over
empty little shoes or drinking
again a cup Of bitter memories.
II agony has marked your life
and what life hasn't been marked
by agony? Give it decent inter
ment. Bury or burn those let
ters and that precious wee shoe.
Bury the memories in your
heart. Then cover the grave with
the flowers Of your love or for
yiveness and step back into the
parade where you belong!
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Meditations of a Wife
READ EN- AND GROW WISE.
ISee Editorial. ]
BY Helen Rowland

gan his courtship by kissing your
itzy-bitzy pink finger tips, instead
of with tacl1le-and when there
were lots Of thrills between the
first glance and the first kiss.
Warning man against any
thing dangerous, from a drink to
a woman, is like telling a small
boy on which shelf you've put the
fruitcake that he mustn't touch"
A woman is young until the day
when she stops fearing that men
will deceive her and begins wish
ing they would.
Half the men take marriage so
seriously that no woman can drag
them into it--and the other half
take it so lightly that no woman
can keep them in it.
A woman is not really fat until
she begins spending her days try
ing to spot other women who are
fatter than she is.
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III l. s
killed in a railroad accident as
she was on her way to celebrate
the holidays in Ellen's new home
Ellen was twenty-one then and
newly married. 1t was q ter
rible Chrismtas for her.
All through the year the lone
illness and grief persisted. Every
one was very patient with her,
for they knew she must be SUI
fering.
When the next Christmas came
around the whole family planned
to gather together. In spite OF
their great loss, they looked Tor
ward to the day Of seeing eacn
other. There were tears In their
hearts when the day daWneo'
but there we're smiles on their
faces. 1t was good day after
all. and they were sure that
somewhere Mother was rejoicing
with them.
Ellen alone did not smile. She
felt it would be dissertation to
smile. She spent most OF the
day in her room, crying. She felt
a little shocked at the others be-
cause they seemed to be ENJOY
ing themselves.
For fifteen years Ellen has
spent Christmas that way. Other
sorrows have come. Dad dieo.
Her sister Amy ran away with
worthless scamp. The BANK
failed. All these happenings
shocked and dismayed Ellen ana
each happening was added TO
that gloomy reckoning which she
held on Christmas Day.
Naturally it isn't very pleasant
for the family to have Ellen
glooming around this way They
no longer sympathize with her
The Washington times., 1926-01-14
ONCE-OVERS

In going home from the shop the office you have been
iosed in crowded has bumped voTr
automobile have been held up by jams the cross
streets. and when you reach your door you in
fighting mood
Notwithstanding that your family has had nothing to do
with your exasperatng experiences you your anger
on the home folk
Is this the square thing to dot
Why make the whole family unhappy just because others
have caused you to be upset.
1t become general experience that the persons in
of rush periods show
sderation for anything but themselves
But it is different with you in your home
You take the good cheer and the happiness
Of your family just because you have had encounter
rraddening crowds to reach there
The Washington times., 1926-01-14

Put and Take
A LAS, the younger generation
"A seem to have turned the
graceful fencing game Of love
into wrestling match!
Every girl thinks that she will
die when love is dead-but. thank
heaven, there are lots of things to
live for, for between the last Kiss
and the last breath!
The trouble with this world is
that every poor fish" wants to
be Big Fish-and every big
fish wants the whole aquarium!
A man is never really contented.
As soon as he stops worrying
about his heart he begins worry.
ing about his waistline-as soon
as he ceases to be tempted by
forbidden women he begins to be
tempted by forbidden food.
An oId.fashioned woman is one
who remembers when a man be-
The Washington times., 1926-01-14
A WIDOWS
SIGNATURE
Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman

nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ I lost my husband few
months ago. How should I sign
letters - Mrs. Mary Brown" or
Mrs. Henry Brown" or no Mrs. >?
2. My father is living with me.
and wish to send out Christmas
cards to mutual friends for both
OF US. How should I sign them?
L. NJ. B.
A widow uses the same name
that she used when her husband
was living. Therefore. on your
visiting cards and for all other
formal cards you still use Mrs
Henry Brown
Mrs" ia never used in the
direct signature OF a letter.
Therefore your. letters to people
who do not know your formal
name and your business and pro.
fessional letters. should be signed
like this:
Yours very truly.
Mary Smith Brown.
CMrs. Henry Brown)
2 II is not necessary, you
know, for people in mourning to
send Christmas cards, because
your friends will understand that
YOU are to be excused from social
obligations OF all kinds. How
ever. il you wish to send them, 1t
Is very kind of you, and 1t Is, or
course, proper.
If you are sending one card for
your father and yourself. then
the only thing to do is to sign the
names under the greeting. Like
this:
Mary Smith Brown.
Robert Allen Smith.
In other words the names would
be signed as IL they were the
signature Of a letter.
The Washington times., 1926-01-14
JUST TWENTY
YEARS AGO
BY William Moore.

Aurelia Herrera knocked out
Young Corbe1. after five rounds
of furious fighting at Los Angeles.
CAS- if anybody cared)
Rumblings OF future European
war were heard on the Continent.
France announced it was ready
to take the wind out of Ger
paany's sales, while British states
men were prepared to go to any
lengths to prevent conflict with
the Teutons.
Pop" Geers was acclaimed the
greatest harness race driver, and
Dan Patch the greatest horse of
the age.
The steamer Cherokee went
aground on Erigantin& Beach, near
Atlantic City, on the spot where
today realtors are peddling lots
at fabulous prices. The press was
.oud in it's praises of the heroism
Of Captain Archibald. who refused
to leave the vessel until the last
moment.
Wives of Purdue Institute pro-
fessors formed a club in 1906 to
solve the problems of humanity.
In 1906. after their husbands be-
gan to lose weight and present
particularly widowed appearance,
thew decided to abandon the idea
of elevating humanity and try
cooking better meals for their
husband. and Washing their kid
dies faces bft oftener.
Willie Hoppe, then a 19.year-
cid youth, defeated Maurice Wig
naux. the French billiard cham
pion, winning the championship
Of the world.
The Washington times., 1926-01-14
LISTEN, WORLD!

grief, or try to
be patient with
her They think
it's "pIain selfish
for Ellen to be
such a Crouch
on ris t.T1as
Day
Ellen hearing
them. adds =
martyrs crown
to her other hoI-
iday equipment
Fortunately she
finds quite q
number OF pe0-
pie who agree
with her. There's
poor Mrs. Wilson
who reads her
dead husbands
love letters every
Christmas. And
Mrs Audrey who
opens a pitiful
little box that
holds a. dead
The Washington times., 1926-01-14

TlHE holidays
JIG aren't q time
Of feasting and
good cheer to
Ellen. Oh yes,
the house is dec
ora t e d a n d
there's q big din
ner and heaps OF
presents for all.
But there are no
holly wreaths
hanging in 81
lens h e art .
There's crepe in
GLCG1eks
Every We a r
when others are
planning for the
Big Rejoicing
Ellen prepares
for gloom. For
fifteen v ca rs
Ellen has done
that. f If I e e n
wears ago Ellen's
The Washington times., 1926-01-14
SAYINGS OF WISE MEN

A LII the arts which belong to
"A polished life have some COM
mon tie. and are connected as it
were by some relationship.
Cicero
Many man fails to become a
thinker for the sole reason that
his memory is too good.-Nietz-
sche. Nt
Necessity is the plea for every
Infringement Of human freedom.
The Washington times., 1926-01-14

1t is the argument of tyrants. 1t
is the creed of slaves.-Pitt.
Prevention is better than cure.
Erasmus.
There is no lettering Of author
itv. Shakespeare.
Forgiveness to the injured does
belong
But they ne'er atone who have
done the wrong.
Dryden.
The Washington times., 1926-01-14
DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
Tho FncO ~ the Dunes
The Face Of the Dunes
By DR.. FRANK CRANE

0lOME time ago the writer visited the wild sand dune
- country Of northern Indiana.
The Washington times., 1926-01-14

This Lionel Lukin was the
first who built a lifeboat. ana
was the original inventor or
that principle of safety by whlch
many lives and much property
have been preserved from snip
wreck, and he obtained for IL
the Kings patent in the year
1885,
NlHUS reads the inscription on
the tombstone Of Lionel Lu'
kin, which is still to be found at
Hythe. Kent, England. From It's
content may be gathered the fact
that this man was the originator
of the idea OF equipping vessels
with smaller boats that might be
used in times of emergency. More
than that, he actually constructed
a boat that would keep afloat on
stormy seas.
1t is interesting to- note that the
inventor of this very important
maritime safeguard had spent all
his life on dry land, carefully
sheltered from those very dangers
which he was so anxious to pre-
vent. He was a native of Dunrnow
and later moved to Long Acre,
London, where he devoted himself
to the business OF coach builder.
Just what led him to make his
experiments is not known.
LulSin's boat was made buoy
ant by the use OF q projecting
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required centralized state force for the growth
of their enterprises
He too was at heart a monarchist But the
democratic sentiments that had been sown for
the purpose of getting the people of the colonies
to revolt against the crown was not so easily ban
ished. Hamilton and his colleagues were put to
the job of making the best of it by forcing the
states to accept constitution that would in any
event guarantee the decisive power to the class
that had engineered the revolution.
Hamilton's greatest contribution to the class
in whose early battles he was the most spirited
fighter was his violent suppression of what was
known as the "Whiskey rebellion" The from
tiersmen of Pennsylvania had for decades sow
corn and distilled it into whiskey Hamilton al
secretary of the treasury, drafted spirits tax
the imposition of which was vigorously resented
by the frontiersmen Hamilton persuaded Wash
ington to give him an army of $4,000 men to
march into the locality. This overwhelming show
OF force set precedent for the national govern
ment to interfere in the affairs of the states and
to enforce the DEGREES of a centralized property
controlled state. BY this act control was vested
in the class that to this day holds the strings of
the state power in its grip
Hamilton, with Robert Morris and other "reyo-
utionary" financiers grew rich out of the revolu-
ton and the class hegemony that followed it, He
organized the first bank in New York and hest
tated not at all to use his position as secretary
of the treasury to favor his institution. During
the war, as the confidential agent of John b.
Church. Hamilton made fortune out of the com
missary department of the revolutionary army.
Later, when the division Of spoils came he made
several more fortunes in land speculation land
that had been promised to the veterans
One needs only to read the 'Federaist" an
organ of the banking and manufacturing inter
ests in which most of the writing was done by
Hamilton, to discover in what utter contempt
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of which the traders and manufacturers of Eng
land hoped to stihe the >nascent and promising
trade of the colonies.
John Hancock, another signer of the Declara-
ton OF independence one of the richest of
the colonial merchant princes and dealt extens-
lively in contraband. John Adams was his coun-
sci before the British Admiralty Court in Bos-
ton in suit for recovery of 100000 alleged to
have been incurred by Hancock as a smuggler-
this at the same hour the first blood was flowing
in Lexington.
During the negotiations for peace, John Jay,
Adams and Benz Franklin were the commission
ers for the colonies. Franklin was sympathetic
to France but Adams and Jay were distrustful of
their ally and contrary to their instructions dealt
direct with the British commissioners without
consulting France. However when the matter of
Atlantic fishing rights was discussed, Adams and
Jay first chief justice of the Supreme Court
fought tooth and nail for their former New Eng
land clients ,,
Adams, even after the revolution, had distinctly
mOnarchist tendencies. He was one of the die
hards of the reactiOnary Federalist party that
elected him president. During his term of office
he responsible for the passage of the in
famous "Alien and SeditiOn Laws" expressly
framed to suppress freedom of speech and press.
He consistent advocate of the rights of the
properted classes to hegemony in the state He
himself had an income of $4,000 a year. He
was blunt in his expressions of contempt for the
slower classes"
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THOMAS JEFFERSON, the author of the Dec
laratiOn of Independence, was of a different
type than most of the influential men of the revo-
luton and the constitutional convention He was
an individualist and had, unlike the most certain
broad principles that he chung to. But he too
was an aristocrat. He was not imbued with too
much love of the workers. Like Washington, he
was a Virginia tobacco grower He was a
lawyer.
He represented, before and after the revolution,
not the more powerful sea-board plantation own
ers but the upland cotton raisers, the home man
ufacturers and the frontiersmen, to whom his
philosophy of individualism appealed. He be-
came president after the iniquitous and high
handed administration of Adams and Hamilton
had so discredited the Federalist party, that the
Wings, with Jefferson at their head and support
ed by the back-woods farmers and the small sec
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THE FATHERS

THE Fourth of July has come
again. Once more, a docu-
ment called the Declaration of In
dependence is recited in the
school-roOms and from flag-drap-
ed platforms by little children
and grown men, equally innocent
of all but the simplest and most
doctored details of it's birth
and blissfully unaware that it
has long since died except in In
dependence Day rhetoric.
On this day too are recounted
the heroic stories of the fathers
Of our country. Great, epical
stories they are. Not a word, not
a gesture came from these exalted
and pious founders of a great re-
public that was not gOdliness
itself. All noble men who lived,
fought and died for liberty. They
sacrificed their lives upon the. al
tar of battle and travail that
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JOHN ADAMS, the second president of the
United States and another of the founding
fathers was an extremely rich Massachusetts
lawyer. He came of wealthy family, graduated
from Harvard and later built a very profitable
chenille for himself among New England ship
pers and manufacturers. His first bid for fame
was his leadership in the struggle against the
"stamp act'-one Of the impositons by means