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EDITORIAL PAGE
OF THE
WiflSWIiliSfcNHW&ES
november 2 3, 1917
Washington
WBnmWms
THE NATIONAL DAILY
ARTHUR BRISBANE. Editor and Ownir
EDGAR D. SHAW, i-uDiiiner
Entered econd elm mutter at tht Pottofflc at Washington, P. C
Published Every Evening- (locludlnc Sundays) by the .
Washington Times Company, Munsey Building, Pennsylvania Ave.
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nUDAT. NOVEMBER tt. U17.
Old Gentlemen, Please Walk
i
Down Stairs Save Coal
Also Keep Your Knee Joints in Working Order.
j At the lunch and quitting' hours thousands of elevators
go empty to the tops of buildings to take people DOWN.
It is suggested to those, that have time and patriotic
impulse that they walk down -instead of waiting for the
elevator, saving power and coaL
- We urge this advice upon old gentlemen, whose knew
weak as their fiftieth year vanishes into the "Ewigkeit."
. After fifty we walk too slowly and. too little. We walk
with legs straight, neglecting the hinges of the kneefij and
ther hinges higher up.
Walking up stairs is not good for the old. It tires the
heart, unless you walk VERY SLOWLY.
But walking down stairs is the best possible exercise.
TEYIT.
,
In walking down stairs the power of gravitation car
ries you, all you have to do Is watch your step, bend your
ancient joints, keeping them in working order, retaining that
feeble imitation of youth which.age values so highly. .
, While yon 'walk down stairs, gentlemen of middle age,
"watch your step and breathe deeply, keep your backbone
straight, and THINE.
i You can do much thinking between the twelfth floor
and the sidewalk. .
If you are working hard for small pay, ask yourself once
on each step: "What is the matter with me?"
If you are rich, paying many little men less than you
ought, ask yourself TWICE on each step: "What is the
matter with me?"
Walk -down stairs, bend your) knees, save coal, THINE.'
This advice alone is worth the entire cent that this newspa
per cost you. (
This Reader Misses the Point
Entirely
She Wants the Rich to Do Without Extra Footmen.
Here is part of a letter from a thoughtless Democrat:
"Won't you please write an editorial for the people of
wealth to try and economize by not having more servants
than is really necessary at this time when our beloved
America is in such strife and 'Don't Waste is the slogan
of the day?
"What attracted my attention most was an open car
riage, drawn by two fine horses. The driver was in expen
sive livery. Seated beside the driver was a footman whose
livery matched that of 'the driver to a T. In the back was
a lone passenger. Far be it from me to begrudge the rich
their comforts for I believe that every person ought to live
as well as' ha can possibly afford "
The lady who writes has missed the point. One man
would perhaps be enough to drive the horses. But the lady
in her carriage goes calling. Andwhen she goes calling, one
man drives the horses, while theother gets down to open the
door and take in the cards, or ask if the person visited is at
home.
Even in war time, you would hardly ask a prosperous
lady to open the door of her 'own carriage or her own auto
mobile, or walk all the way from the curb to the front door
to ask "Is your Mistress in?"
You will say, perhaps, that with a horse and carriage
you need one man to hold the horses while the other opens
the carriage door, but with an automobile one man, should be
enough, as the motor would not run away while the driver
got down to open the door.
: Another serious mistake. On a really 'fashionable auto
mobile, it is beneath the dignity of the driver to get off his
Beat and open the door. And in addition, the owner has
formed THE HABIT of having two men sit in front of her,
one with his arms folded looking foolish, and the other guid
ing the car.
And HABIT, you know, is powerful
We know no more interesting sight than one visible on
Hf th avenue, in New York city, a hundred times daily one
small lady sitting inside of a big automobile with two husky
young men in front of her, she using up ten dollars worth of
wages and ten dollars worth of gasolene while knitting two
cents worth of socks.
She reminds us that after all the rich are willing to
"do their bit" and that is some comfort.
"Real-I-Zation" and the Cosmos
We Never Saw Realization Spelled THAT Way Before,
Hence This Editorial
All the way from number 1810 Watrous avenue, Tampa,
Florida, Mrs. Mary Lawton Metcalfe writes a letter and
gids a pamphlet
She calls us "Dear Thinker," tells us we are called "to
commune in the ether with the cosmos," and adds, "I know
yon in the sun vibration but more particularly as the man
who said once, 'the world's greatest need is the distribution
of knowledge.' "
AH the lady asks in return is, that we publish a little
auauscript for those "alive to the demands of humanity for
ttofKeal-LZatidn of Truth." We print the MS. and so
would you if you had had such nice compliments sent
witb.it.
,' Such words as Eeal-I-Eatioh, and "At-one-Ment," the
latter much enjoyed by our Christian Science friends, give
., (Cosiissed at Bottom of Last Column.)
The Goth In Italy
By Raeitiaekers
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Washington Must Yote
The Mas Who Decs Not JBegeve la a Vote Tor WMUafWa'b a Sack
. Nafeer.
Raemaekers has pictured the Kaiaer addressing
Caesar and reciting his attitude as a conqueror of Italy.
He i8 comparing his deeds with those of Attilla, hiB em
inent predecessor, as the disciple of frightfulness. It
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is a matter of gratification that the only way the
Kaiser can really discuss this matter with Caesar is to
go where he is, and some live American soldier may be
the one to start him on the trip.
Mrs. Wilson Woodrow's Article On Woman's Place
WOMAN is certainly an ag
gravating creature. She
is always breaking pas
ture. She simply will
not' stay within the nice, little
fence of limitations that has been
built up around her.
It must be awfully annoying to
the serious-minded ladies and gen
tlemen, who write ponderous gen
eralities about her to have her al
ways Jumping up like, a Jack-ln-the-bor
and disproving them.
But the reactionary ladies and
gentlemen are patient and per
severing. They never allow them
selves to become discouraged.
They see woman placidly knit
ting in the sun, so they erect a
neat cage for her and then they
stand back and say:
"There! That's where she be
longs. Now let's hope she will
stay 'put' for good! "
And presently woman looks
around and yawns, and says, "I
don't like this old cage. It's damp
and unsanitary and the decorations
are all out of' date." So she
promptly demolishes the structure
and walks out.
Again the busy ladles and gen
tlemen are horrified. "The con
trary beast! " they wail. "She's
spoiled another chapter or our
treat work. We had just proved
logically, positively and irrefutably
that the last cage defined the ut
most limits of woman's capability.
And now she's toppled the whole
thing over. All that's left to do Is
to hobble her and tie her to the
tree of tradition." So they Imme
diately perform that task.
My! The Worry Woman Causes Us.
Woman bears it meekly for a lit
tle while. Then she kicks herself
loose, pulls the tree down and goes
on her way dragging ' a"r har-
Then there's another terrjble
flutter In the dove-cote, and the
timorous ladles and gentlemen be
gin tp prophesy all the horrible
things that will happen to the
world If woman can roam around
at her own sweet will. This sort
of prophesying is one of the great
est mental adventures, because it
is such a gamble. And all these
predictions now form one of the
most picturesque exhibits of the
dustheaps of the world.
Such prophecies are and always
have been dire. When women first
began to go to college, doctors and
laymen wrote grave treatises to
show that the female constitution
could not stand the strain of the
college curriculum. Either her
brain or her nerves, probably both,
would give way under the weight
of knowledge she would imbibe,
and the next generation, would
have to bear the collegiate sins of
the mothers. They would have
neither brains nor nerves, and
would be fortunate If thsy pos
sessed legs and arms.
The laymen and doctors put up
a handsome argument, but as nsual
woman was mean enough to de
molish It Before my mental vision
rises one particular woman who
before her marriage flitted from
college to college gathering de
grees and post-graduate courses as
lightly as a boy collects postage
stamps, and Is now the mother of
five sturdy children.
Just now the dove-cote minority
are shaking their heads and
worrying a good deal about the
effects on the future generation
of woman's present work in the
munition factories.
Gertrude Atherton, in writing
of , her visit to one of these es
tablishments in France, says the
manager told her that he made
the experiment of employing
women with the deepest misgiv
ing. Those seeking positions
were Just the sort of women he
would have rejected if the sturdy
women of the farms had applied.
"Those who did apply," she
says, "were girls or young married
women who had spent all the
working years of their lives stoop
ing over sewing machines; sunken
chested workers in artificial flow
ers; confectioners, waitresses,
clerks. One and all looked on the
verge of a decline, with not an
ounce of reserve vitality for work
that taxed the endurance of men;
but he made up his mind to em
ploy them and fill up their places
as rapidly as they collapsed.
"He took me over his great es
tablishment," she goes on, "and
showed me the result. It was one
of the astonishing examples not
only of the grim courage of women
under pressure but of that nine
livtd endowment of the female in
which the male can never bring
himself to believe save only when
confronted by a practical demon
stration. "The women had high chests
and brawny arms. They tossed
thirty and forty pound shells from
one to another as lightly as they
may have once tossed a cluster of
artificial flowers. Their skins were
dear and often ruddy. They
showed no signs whatever of over
work and they were, almost with
out exception, the original appli
cants." Ah. women are not nearly such
fragile flowers as many of the
drones among them and the sen
timentalists of either sex like to
think.
Woman Steps Out to Save Situa
tion. No fact of current acceptance is
more rapidly becoming a myth
than the claim that women are
unfitted for any sort of work
which they choose to undertake.
The fiction of the "weaker sex"
has been pretty well exploded by
the Russian women's Battalion of
Death. They stood such rigorous
preparatory training as few men
could endure, and the world knows
the manner in which they conduct
ed themselves in actual warfare.
It is said that during the com
ing year women will be in great
demand to take the place of men
in orchards and running tractors
or threshing machine. The men
are either being drafted or lured
away from the duties of the farm
by the fancy prices they can get
for a day's work digging ditches
or doing carpenter work.
The woman's committee of the
Council of National Defense has
published 'a letter from a promi
nent horticulturist, who says:
"I want women to fill the places
of men liable to draft or enlist
ment, and I know the greatest re
spect is shown to women who
work in the orchards or on the
farm."
And there you are! We have
all heard the plaintive voice from
the dovecote cryiofJ tha woman's
place is in the home, though
worlds fall. And a very agree
able arrangement it was until eco
nomic conditions decreed that she
was a necessary factor in the
world's work and that she must
either step out of the home and
hustle for a job or else starve in
genteel privacy.
And now the great movements
of the world have called upon
their woman power to come tor
Td and fill the short .
who are needed in other capaci
ties, and fill them effectively.
The dovecote people should
worry. Woman need not. i
By EABL GODWIN."
.Any man who now lags,- behind the procession to the
Capitol to ask- for a. vote for the District of Columbia is a
reactionary,
We want Washington to manage its own affairs.
Any man who openly declares he is NOT in. favor of a
full-fledged vote for the National Capital has lost his ap
preciation of Americanism.
Airp- man whd believes in a policy of "let well enough
nlmn" is tiling
We haven't been "well-ei&JBgh" for along time.
One 6f the best examples of the awakening which hat
just taken place in the District of Columbia is the list of
names of men who are now1 on committees organised to get
the vote here.
Some of these men will frankly tell yon that six years
ago they would have opposed any such movement ae the.
one now stirring in this city.
In some of the citizens' associations there is an influ
ence .af work to put an obstacle in the way of united Wash
ington. That influence, if ,it will come to the light and show it
self, will prove, to be" about as important as a Halloween
pumpkin. . . '
The men who are working to bring about the best or
ganisation thk city has ever seen, are upon a high platform.
Every1 one can see them. They have nothing to conceal. '
They are asking the entire; District of Columbia togo
to Congress to petition that body to adopt a resolution
amending thoCoBfltitatiom. so as to stive'the residents of the
District of Columbia the status of the CITIZENS of a State.
Do yon get that difference! ' .
" We areitfOT citisens. We are merely residents.
The Bevolution was fought to obtain for us the right to
be. citizens of the United States. There were Tories and weak
sisters even then, who placed stumbling blocks in. the way of
George Washington. ' -
Any jaan who will oppose this present movement to
Americanize the Nation's Capital is a spiritual descendant
of the Toriesof 1776.
Any man who believes the privileges of citizenship
would not agree with Washington might Jry living in Mexico.
They have very few privileges there.
As X have pointed out, this movement is not the move
ment of a select few. It is a movement for every resident of
Washington. The men who have given the most attention to
the matter have invited every one to get into the procession.
That is the only way we will get a vote here,. Team work
and earnest endeavor will win, and we cannot have one
without the other.
HEARD AND SEEN
Never before has there bees so
much, talk about the vote on the
street, in stores, in, clubs, hotel lob
bies, or wnerever men gainer.
have followed this matter for yean,
and never before ha it been so earn
estly agitated. Here are some of the
things which the leaders of the pres
ent movement are saying:
- CUNO H. RUDOLPH,. presJdeat
Second National Bank: i
"I am thoroughly in earnest when
I say I am in favor of a vote here'.
There was a time whea I would have
hesitated. Your campaign' has con
vinced me. I hesitate no longer."
W. T. G ALLTHER, presides Board
of Trade and president American
National Bank:
"I am strong for, the vote."
JOSEPH STRASBURGER, mer
chantIn my opinionMhe greatest
need in Washington at the present
time Is suffrage for the people, and
in addition to this is the great need
of places to house the increased pop
ulation ol the aty.
A. LEFTWICH SINCLAIR, attor
ney: "National representation for
the District of Columbia Now and
Forever."
LOUIS OTTENBERG, attorney:
The best way to get the vote for
Washington Is to determine upon
a sensible program, and then all
bands get behind if
W. W. EVERETT, vice president
of Woodward & Lothrop: "To give
the District of Columbia the status
of a State U the ONLY thing to do."
CHARLES W. RAT, merchant,
member of the firm of Barber &
Ross: "I have always been Is favor
of a vote for Washington, and waft
secretary of a movement started
eight years ago to bring this very
thing to Congress."
J. HARRY CUNNINGHAM, busi
ness man and secretary of the Board
of Trade: "Get behind the. reeola
tioo. Dont argue about details. Get
behind the, resolution-""
Ej CX BRANDENBERG, attorney;
"Oae thine mast be remembered: We
cannot afford to delay. Congress
convenss in a few days."
SIDNEY BIEBER, business mas:
"The District of Colurabia.ean get
anything It wants from Congress If tt
will formulate Its request and pre
sent It In a manner to show Congress
the people of the District are organ
ized for It"
Several dayt ago I puiKthtd em
editorial bated on the pita of
Washington boy who teas drafted.
He eaidhe vat proud to be selected,
but back in hie mind he had a feeU
ing that if he teas good enough to
fight he vat good enough to vote. I
am reminded of this again on recoil
ing what the chairman of the vote
getting committee, THEODORE
NOYSS eaid to the Board of Trade
a vhite ago: "Washington tent more
soldiers to the Mexican border than
twenty-two of the Stales."
Anything to start an argument.
It Is fairly widely rumored that
the War Department, speaking of tt
as 'an organization of individuals,
condemns the further knitting 'of
sweaters for soldiers on the ground
that there are enough' already.
And yet here Is GENERAL KUHN
at Camp Meade saying that "there is
a real need for sweaters Tor some. of
the men at Camp Meade."
MILTON AILES Is one of our lead
ing citizens, but I'll bet a hat he
would like to be as good looking aa
bis younger brother, 'GENE AILES.
This is Friday afternoon.
Do the school boys and girls still
'speak pieces" and read "com
positions" oh Fridays?
And If not, whyr
Who remembers Miss Nellie' Boy
den's kindergarten?
"Real-I-Zation" and the Cosmos
(Continued from First Column.)
much pleasure and do no harm. They help to pass away the
time, while we wait for real scientific truth. The efforts of
alchemists to make gold out of base metals helped to pass the
time, while waiting for the cyanide process that can profit
ably extract the twentieth part of an ounce of gold from two
thousand pounds of ore.
Here is the little MS.:
BF.ATiTZATION.
realise a great Rock of Truth l the Conscious Billows of thvXova
Buosiance. Tula la Light,- Heat, Flra,
Motion. Energy, Air, .Water:
I
looms up in the Silent Sea of
Thought The tide has swept far
out, and on this Rock of Realisation
I am a growth of this substance: the
Substance of Mind. Like the sea
sponge, every ceil of ray being Is
made, nourished, sustained In the
actual Sea, of Being.
Far away is the murmuring mu
sic of the incoming Tide: nearer,
nearer, my God. in Thee!
I am eager with desire that Thou
hast given me, 0 Father, that the
Inflowing. Tide shall flood me with
verflr
Christ power.
Thy Divine Spirit broods over tha
non-resistant still substance, and the
Golden Tide sweeps In. me: and over
me: and through me.- I am a new
creature In Light, Love, Life. I am
Eternal Life.
I thank Thee.
Issued by Golden Glow Bible
Club, Tampa,. Florida, by Marj
Lawton Metcalfe, 1810 Watxow'
Avenue, Tampa,' Florida, V."
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