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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-21
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Used Sewing
Machines
$40, SIS
and SIS

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anteed to be in good
sewing condition. Re-
constructed SingeHs,
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known makes taken as
trade ms for new
electric sewing ma
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Kann's Fourth Floor
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-21
Wash Goods
Remnants

Remnant lengths Of Wash
Fabrics, including prints, per.
Gales, gingharns, voiles and
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good useful lengths.
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our own stock. Good lengths
OF percales, ginghans, plisse
crepes, printed voiles, plain
yoiles. ripplettes. cotton dress
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goods. A yard ........ AON
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sucker, in stripes and checks.
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800 Yards Of cotton dress
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-21
Large Toys

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-23
Publicity Seekers.

Since Lindbcrgh and Chamberlin
spsnned the Atlantic by air. good
many allegedly brave, but certainly
publicity seeking, persons have indi-
Gated a strong desire to make the
New York-Paris trip. Reports from
the camp of Comdr Byrd state that
telephone messages are constantly
pouring in from would-be passenger
aspirants for overseas honors.
There is only one conclusion to be
drawn from these absurd bids for pub
lefty, and that is that professional
seekers of the limelight are attempt
ing to leash in" while the subject of
aviation engrosses the world. Any
one who has read the daily papers
knows full well that Byrd's plane will
be loaded to capacity with gasoline
and crew when it ICONS into the air
for Paris, and that Rodman Wanna
maker, who has spent some half a
million dollars in backing the flight,
is in no need of "for hire" revenue
from the America.
The quest for publicity on the part
of some Americans is q national mis-.
fortune. Any event Of worldwide in
terest is the cue for these people to
push aggressively forward in the
hope of getting a bit of reflected glory.
It is almost as bad as the steady
stream of ridiculous pictures that ema.
nate from the movie colonies. Women
to whom it would be compliment to
refer to as actresses cause their por-
traits to be broadcast with allegedly
new fads, such as photographs Of
their hoy friends" on their stockings,
mousetraps as carriers, and pea-eating
with knives. Anything to get pub
licity!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-23
UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago To-day

Food bill passed by Hous. of Rep.
resentatives. 365 to 5. after the inser-
ton OF drastic amendment prohibit.
ing further manufacturing of intoXI-
eating liquors during the war.
Six American ambulance men r ceived
French war cross for courage and de.
votion at the front. Z. American
flyers in France fight nine battles in
one week. with 81 planes in acton.
American gunners land two
shells on U.boat, smashing cOnnins
tower and periscope. Nation
asked to observe Fourth of July with
solemnity rejecting the sober de.
termination "of democracy at war
for its ideals and its existence"
Federal officials decide draft numbers
VIII be drawn In Washington to avoid
local faYoritiSrn Moscow lead
err stirred by eloquence of Elihu Root.
Root mission will probably
visit japan on its return to the United
States. Russian commission
receives uproarious welcome in House
and gives assurance of Russia's ear
nest purpose to continue the war.
Secretary Baker appeals to editors
throughout country to help make sue
cess Of drive for Regular Army re-
cruits. Liberty bonds are sell
ing at premium. President
signs order creating Board of Exports
Control to regulate the export of GER
tain commodities, over which powers
OF supervision are necessary for the
welfare of America and it's allies. As
war measure 1t Is expected to stabi-
lie prices and reduce cost Of living.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-23
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

A chemist is unable to resist his
own ability to create a monster capa'
BILE of wrecking the human world.
This invention becomes a military
secret" possessed by all the nations
of the civilized world. 1t Is held In
readiness for the next war"
And with such Grass wickedness
staring humanity in the face, there
are those who rise, even today, and
score others for whining" as they
call it, about the good and the beau
tiful!
The mind of man Is curious thing.
1t can be led so far. then 1t bucks.
To hammer away at 'the good and
beautiful is to disgust persons Of Ger.
tain temperament, such as the cynical
Thackeray. with the whole program.
This Is the danger faced by all
those who believe intellectually in
program Of good, yet have enough
common sense to know that ''you can
lead horse to water. but you can't
make him drink"
To successfully straddle the fence,
in the best sense Of that phrase, and
to preach righteousness without max
ing 1t namby:pamby is a work for
real "he-men."
Perhaps Bruce Barton Is the great
est living exponent Of this good prop.
uganda.
For many years he has spoken, in
the main, Of 1.-THE good and the beau
tiful," with an ever.increasing audi
ence.
In all this time he has managed
who possess some influence. but too
often 1ss- It TO damn those who are
not afraid to speak up for what they
believe in.
This result he has secured, in part,
by being able and willing to adopt
the best methods Of the critics, so
that. fiattered despite themselves, they
applaud him in order to pat them.
selves upon the back!
There Is method in this madness, in
deed.
To put over an idea nowadays it
is best to fall in with the whims of
those who may fay.
Despite the claims to psychology"
set UP by these self-satisfled persons,
they fall" for "apple sauce" as read
lily as the remainder of mankind.
With their aid, one may put over"
and the beautiful that will reach
Is most needed.
Fighting without their undoubtedly
clever pens, those who believe in such
work find themselves handicapped and
must devote part Of their energy to
combating those who ought to be
lined up with them.
So, in his day, the decent, manly
Bulwer-Lytton found himself the butt
of one who should have been his ally,
William M. Thackeray.
These two might have united in
praise of the good and the beautiful"
but Thackeray found only a whine in
Bulwer-Lytton. So his greatest female
character remains a schemer.
X \ X X
Along the path Of one who would
preach goodness lie many pitfalls,
chief among which Is that of disgust.
Somehow, some way, means must
be found for reconciling the talk with
the thing itself.
Character must be the answer.
The man of character can do what
others cannot do. He Is the hope of
the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-23
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

yes. there were two French girls
caught there and held with the old
folks, while the battles ragged all
about them!
Right in the middle of the war this
little baby was born, and when the
! armistice and Christmas came she
was about years old. OF course,
| in the midst of battle, the baby had
| never had toys and she had never
seen a doll. She had just seen guns
and bayonets and-Huns!
Then the American boys put up a
| great, high Christmas tree In a neld
| and invited everybody in the village to
come and get q present. The quarter.
master found his supplies OF jam ana
| cookies and canned fruit mysteri-
ously fade away about that time. but
he was never court-martialed for
shortage.
| Now, when 1t came time to give
baby a present, there was a pretty
| "poupee" for it. Baby was too young
| to talk, and had never heard Of a
! poupee, but as soon as the 6-foot
| Yankee captain held 1t out, she crowed
and gurgled in genuine French, and
reached for ia poupee," and laughed
| out loud as she Rugged 1t to her
| breast. She knew poupee when she
| saw it. without being told-and it
would be safe to guess that not one
in hundred of our readers know
what Is q poupee. Chats O. French
baby's secret, shared with the cap
tain. HurrahD Now she Is about II
years old. but maybe the captain may
find her. next September, still play
| ing with the poupee.
u X \ y
| That doll in France win be matched
by the 100 dolls that Comdr. Mac.
| MILAN will give to Eskimo babies
| next Christmas to show how much
| we American kids" like the dolls
which old Eskimo Santa Claus brings
down from the Arctic every Christmas.
Doll about is fair play.
Just fancy those Eskimo girls
giggling at the 100 or more Yankee
dolls, all without any sealskin cloaks
such as Eskimo kids wear. and all
dressed up so funny. and all so slim as
il they never got enough. blubber to
| make them fat and warm! Maybe
| the dolls will teach them how to
| say one or two words in Yankee talk
| Mamma" for instance.
| Hurry! Mail all your last Christ.
mas dolls today to Comdr. Macmillan,
so he won't need to worry, and can
give his thoughts to recording mag
| netic currents and tidal waves and
the whales and aurora borealises and
other wild animals. Now he is crazy
about the doll shortage, for it nearly
spoils his two-year scientific explora.
ton OF the Arctic Ocean of Labrador.
! Postscript-Tell dad that .Comdr,
Macmillan also wants a million pipes
ana q lot of tobacco. Eskimos would
| mush mile for a camel, a walrus
! or a reindeer, or anything else thev
could smoke. They have thousa nds
OF "huskies." but not one pound of
Barking Dog" Huskies bite so no.
! body can smoke 'em. Barking Dogs
| never bite. sos! ''
(CopyriGht. 1927. by Paul v. Collins)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-23
Blackbirds.

The other day a mother blackbird
broke into print by holding up a base
ball game in Chicago while she was
trying to teach her fiedgling to fly.
Utterly unconscious that she was in.
terrupting an exhibition of the great
American sport, she not only checked
the contest, but later, when the young
bird was removed to a safer position.
she held the attention of thousands Of
spectators in competition with the
struggle in progress on the diamond.
That mother blackbird scored the vic.
tory that day.
Now comes a story from Jeanette.
Pa, bringing blackbirds again to pub.
lie notice in print. A flock Of one hun.
dred of them made a concerted attack
upon a cat summing herself in the
yard and literally tore her to pieces.
While no inquest can be had upon the
remains to, determine the cause OF
this tragedy, 1t may be assumed that
Mitzi, the late feline. had. after the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-23
A Citizen Cites a Case
OF Police Misconduct

To the Editor of The Star:
have been noticing your recent
editorials concerning the action of our
police officers in the District and wish
to say that all your editorials are en-
tirely justified. ] would like to cite
for example a case that / took part
in. I was driving on Massachusetts,
avenue at the rate Of % miles per
hour when small car passed me at the
rate of over 80 miles an hour. After
reaching Massachusetts avenue north
east this car slowed down and passed
it. There were man and a woman
in the car. At Eleventh and Massa-
chusetts avenue this man stopped me
and made me go to. the precinct of
which he was an officer. He did not
make me put up collateral, but told
me to report at Night Court. When
I reached the courthouse a lawyer
was standing in front of the building,
who asked me about my case and said
he knew the officer and would fix it
up. The officer arrived and they
seemed to know each other, the officer
taking the ticket and tearing it up.
After he left, the lawyer told me it
would cost me $40 for the service and
warned me that would be rearrested
If I failed to pay. When ] gave him
check he asked me If I didn't have
any bills SO that he might give the
officer some for his trouble. That is
only one Of several such cases could
quote regarding the honesty of the
Washington police force. What good
Is the word Of a citizen who is trying
to obey the laws of this city against
that Of one Of the exalted guardians
Of the law, STEPPED in his own self
Importance. II the citizen protests
against false charges? None at all!
All he can do is to pay the bill and
hope for an easy fine,
wish you would publish this in
your editorial page as just one more
protest against the actions Of the
Washington police.
GEORGE w. HUFF.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-23
Film Studio Economies.

The spirit Of economy has struck
the motion picture industry, and Ii a
move just made by one of the larger
studios 10 followed by others there will
be drastic cuts in expenses, notably
in salaries. Whether the public will
get the benefit of these savings re-
mains to be seen. At present the in
terest is. chiefly centered in the effect
Of horizontal slashings that are to be
made in the actual stipends OF stars
and substars and directors and execu-
tives all down the line. The immedi-
ate announcement in the studio that
has taken the initiative is that a ten
per cent cut will be made in all sal
aries exceeding $50 n week. This fol-
lows a cut Of twenty-five per cent vol
unfairly agreed to by the higher ex'
ecutives OF the organization.
Undoubtedly the motion picture In
dustry has been overpaid. Expenses
have been enormous. Film stars have
been given six-figure stipends which
were vastly in excess of their previous
earnings on the legitimate stage
Some Of them have gone into the six
ngurs class from the four-figure class
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-23
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Among the Mummies.

Among the Mummies.
I caught a glimpse into the gloom
OF resplendent ancient tomb,
Where mummies reigned in silent
state,
Amid ancestral memories great.
And there were many precious things;
Gold chairs and glittering finger rings,
And statues delicately wrought
With hands that were by Genius
taught,
Pictures and writing, stories told
AN ancient wisdom to unfold.
/ looked again. And there was
shown
No sign of any telephone;
There was no radio in sight,
Nor even an electric light;
No plans for harvesting machines,
Nor steamships great, nor submarines,
Nor any chart that might explain
The promise of an aeroplane.
I'm glad" said-and turned away
I'm common clay, alive today!'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-23

annually Naturally as q result of
this there has been a great rush of
gold diggers" to the coast, a rush
comparable to that of 1S49 and the
Klondike rush of later years. A seri-
Gus distortion of values has been the
consequence.
Until recently the sky has been the
limit In the matter Of production
costs. Pictures have been made that
cost in the millions. The greater part
Of this expense has been in construc-
ton. There is a heavy bill for IRE
search" The larger studios are thick
with high-paid specialists. scenario
writer's. title writer's. costume design
erS. scenic directors, architects and
publicity promoters. And yet with all
this expense the pictures have not no
ticeably improved in quality or in APP
peal. Some of the greatest successes
have been made by the simpler forms
OF cinema drama.
1t does not necessarily follow that
the economies that are being practiced
will mean n waning of public interest
IN the motion picture. But it Is true
that a change has come about in the
public appreciation of the film plays,
and that taste has somewhat altered
and is now demanding n more varied
entertainment than the mere flea
ture" with supplementary films, that
formerly constituted the usual offer
ing. Vaudeville has been drafted into
the program.
1t is now to be seen whether the sal
airy reductions in the picture business
will cause a return of performers to
the legitimate stage who have been
lured into the film studios by higher
pay. But better plays must be pro-
duced to win public patronage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-23

fashion of cats from time immemorial,
been preying upon the birds. probably
upon their nests. and had been marked
down for destruction.
Blackbirds are especially intelligent
creatures. They do things that be.
token a real reasoning power Their
cousins. the crows, are noted for their
cleverness. Blackbirds like to be
around people. They can be tanned
and become attractive pets. Like
their larger cousins, they have klepto-
maniac qualities. Their voices are
not pleasant, and some people object
to them on that account. But they
render good service to man in the de.
struction of maurauding insects. and
If they take their percentage of pay
in other foods. they are not to be alto
gether blamed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-23
Carnival Shows and
The Public Health

To the Editor of The Star:
I wish to compliment you upon the
editorial in the issue of June II en-
titled Carnival Shows and Disease
1t might be of interest to you and
to your readers to know that the Pub:
lie Health Service has realized for
some time the danger of these travel.
ing SHOWS as a means of spreading
smallpox and possibly other communi.
cable diseases. To forestall just such
an occurrence as mas happened here
IN the District, the Surgeon General
n. 3. Cumming, issued a circular let
ter on January II, 1927, inviting atten-
tion or the managers Of travelling
SHOWS to the danger Of smallpox de-
Veloplng In their organizations unless
all employees were vaccinated. A
copy OF this circular letter was sent
TO each State health officer with a
letter requesting their cooperation in
encouraging In every way possible the
vaccination Of the personnel employed
by travelling shows.
1t Is very gratifying to know that
the District Health Department has
issued orders to withhold permits
from travelling shows unless they
maintain medical stats.
c. C., PIERCE,
Assistant Surgeon General.
Public Health Service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-23
Results of Irish Elections
FOreshadow TrOublous Times

its policy Of non-intercourse and enter
the Dali. but without having its
elected members take the oath of al
legiance to King George. as is re-
Quired by treaty . a very
delicate diplomatic situation with re-
gard to treaty obligations would be
created"
"The difficulty in forming a united
'front.'" in the opinion of the Baltimore
Sun, turns, first. upon the intense
individualism of the Irish character.
and. second, upon the extraordinarily
large number of parties that have
won membership under the system OF
proportional representa- ion," but this
paper hopes that this united front
will be realized under Mr.. Cosgraves
captainship."
Whatever it's future outcome, the
election itself has aroused compliment
tary opinion In many quarters. Says
the Los Angeles Evening Express,
Free State election to result i'm a free.
for-all fight were disappointed. The
voting was orderly without any of the
old-time personal animosity that has
characterized Irish politics, thus belly
ing the old saying that the Irish were
able to govern every country except
ing Ireland" The Chicago Daily
News credits the Irish Free State
with having made remarkable prog
ress, remarking, peace and order pre-
vail, and both the statesmen and the
economists of the Free State are able
to devote serious thought to its finan-
cial and Industrial problems
The Asheville Times thinks that
while the government may not have
won at the polls, It has achieved q
more significant victory than a mere
electoral triumph. 1t has managed
during its short tenure of office to
quiet political agitation and to divert
the interests of the Irish people from
mere political righteousness to the con-
structive tasks of material advance
ment." continues the Times. "This is,
indeed, a notable achievement. It
tends to justify the action of the
British government In awarding Ire
land the status Of a free state, and
vindicates the contentious of all those
patriots who, throughout the years.
have been claiming that the Irish
people were capable OF self.govern.
ment"