The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-05
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
BY JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON Nov. 4.-Taking for granted
that you know your %selectee of today, this is
second of two articles designed to demonstrate
how different Cor how much the same) he is
from his draftee brother of % years ago.
Here's what the conscriptee of 1917 was think
ing about and doing:
James Ten Eyck had just staggered the
thought of human endurance by rowing $50
miles up the Hudson from New York to Albany
without rest. Hazel Cunningham put an ex-
clamation point after that by swimming the
Golden Gate.
There we're %bombings in a Chicago theater;
in a Milwaukee church (the bomb didn't ex-
to the police station where 10 persons were
killed.; in the governors mansion in Sacra-
mento, Calf; in a church in st. Paul; in an
express company package in Sea Bright, N. j.
in a railroad car in Windsor, N. c.; and in a
petticoat factory in Queens on Long Island.
A fellow named Harold R. Peat caused a
sort of Gone With the Wind sensation by
coming out with a book called Private Peat. -
Joyce Kilmer published Main Street and
Other Poems" and nobody cared. . James
Branch Cabell ignored the war Chereby get.
ting criticized) with Cream of the Jest"
The big railroad strike was in the making,
with 10 Chicago railroads workers threaten
ing to do something about it unless the pay
envelopes were fattened.
Gen. John j. Black jack Pershing was
made General by an act of Congress. . He
forbade the soldiers in France to drink any.
thing stronger than light wines and beers.
And caught it from both sides. i. The pro.
hibitionists claiming he had violated the holy
dictum of the Eighteenth Amendment to the
Constitution (Which was still in the process O
ratification by permitting the boys to drink
anything stronger than sarsaparilla. AND
the boys grumbled that they couldn't fight or
beer and sherry. More than 1000 saloons
closed in New York because of taxes. .ane
the father of prohibition" Sen. Morris Shop
pard of Texas, predicted the alltime death
of Demon Rum by the spring of 1918.
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise urged women's sui
frage because it would make the world safe
for peace. . But in Washington scores of suf
fragettes were sent to the workhouse at DC
caquan for picketing the White House. . .Anc
trouble broke out then because the ladies
went on hunger strikes, claimed they were
brutally mistreated. And sued for the con
sideration and privileges of political prison
ers.'
If you couldn't sing "K-K-Katy,'' There.
A Long, Long Trail" Pack Up You
Troubles" and '"Tipperary," you couldn't sing
Jesse L.. Williams wrote a title-shockins
room farce era was well under way with
"Parlor. Bedroom and Bath" Sir Arthur
Guy Employs lover the Top was selling
more copies than the Bible. . Ethel Barry
more was giving Broadway a successful re
vival of THE Lady of the Camellias' anc
a couple of gents named Victor Herbert ane
Jerome Kern had turned out a tuneful bi
called Miss 1917"
There was a big scandal in New York be
cause a little girl, daughter of a family tina
had come down in the world, testified in the
detention home that her mother and fine
ladies' who called on her mother smoked
cigarets! /
A History building was a skyscraper ir
anybody's city. And if you followed the auto
mobile advertising, you tried to figure ou
whether to put a brand new 57.50 winter tor
on the old .flivver or go high-hat and spene