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"I Hope It Is a Boy.""
It Was, George Washington.
He Was a Good Man.
Hired Lawyers Attacked
Him.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
(Copyright 19X9.)
One hundred and eighty-seven
years ago today, Mary Ball Wash
ington was expecting her first
baby. Many times probably she
llad said to her husband, Augus
tine, "I hope it will be a boy."
xJach time, he, having gone
through the performance four
times with his first wife, had re
plied, "Of course, it will be a boy,
my dear: dont be nervous. But
if it SHOULD happen to be a girl,
you must be glad. It is always
best to start your family with a
IgirL Good influence on the boys
coming later."
It was a boy, George, whom you
know.
George Washington was a real
American and removed by less
than one hundred years from an
immigrant ancestor. This should
interest those that would bar out
immigrants under the impression
that we have nothing more to
Cain by fresh blood from Europe.
Courageous was Washington. A
young man, he undertook to whip
England with about fourteen thou
sand soldiers, and twenty-five hun
dred stragglers that you couldn't
call soldiers. And he did it
When he was sixty-four years
old, without any hesitation, he ac
cepted the command of all troops
raised or to be raised in the United
States, to fight France if it should
ie necessary. Fortunately it
it necessary.
f He was a brave man, living and
tying, in that respect you may
compare him with brave old Clem-
jenceau. "I die hard," said Wash
ington at the last moment, "but I
jam not afraid to go."
English, French, Red Indian,
Hessian, or old Death himself,
I George Washington was ready for
ftthem all. And he conquered them
taH, including death, for he can
ffiever die.
jS When Washington died, 120
frears ago, Napoleon bound all his
flags and standards with crepa for
'tea days, and the ships of Eng
land. NOT Including those that
'Georgo Washington had sent to the
ffcottom, put their flags at half
pmast. r
Frederick the Great had sent
ifclm a .sword from Potsdam with a
complimentary message.
It WTHmfglve. quite a shocS to
Frederick if he could Tniow that
Washington's successor sent that
sword back against Germany on
' the side of England in a war that
4 was to destroy Frederick's family,
and that the same successor of
Washington,' at this particular mo
ment, is deciding whether Ger
many is to get anything to eat,
and how much, if any, of her
money she shall be allowed to
keep.
You learn without regret al
though you don't tell your little
boy until he is fifteen that the
story of George Washington and
the cherry tree is all made up,
never happened, born in the im
agination of Mr. Weems, who
wrote about Washington and had
to invent something to decorate
George's dull boyhood.
The truth about Washington is
more interesting than anything
that Mr. Weems or Munchausen
himself could invent
In view of recent interesting
performances, you and Woodrow
Wilson will recall today the at
tacks made on Washington by an
assortment of blackguards. Cu-
triously enough, while a few of
.the Dowerful men. rich Tories
with British sympathies, attack
ed Washington themselves, not
hiding behind the coattails of
their lawyers, even in that early
day the greater number of Greek
and Roman names signed to at
tacks on Washington hid the
names of lawyers practicing at
the bar.
On the ship this morning,
Woodrow Wilson may be amus
ing himself thinking about the
mud thrown at George Washing
ton. The President must remem
ber "with particular amusement
that one of the vilest slanderers
of Washington was appropriately
framed Beckley.
Beckley wrote his slanders un
ider the name, "A Calm Ob
server." He accused Washington
tor stealing money trom the
Treasury. Here is a Rarrmlp at
his comment on Washington:
V, "How can the people feel re
spect for the rulers who trample
on the laws and constitutions of
the land? What will posterity
say of the man (Washington)
"who has done this thing? Will
it not say that the mask of po
litical hypocrisy has been worn
by Caesar, by Cromwell, and by
Washington alike?"
Mr. Beckley did his best, in
stigated by those that hired him.
But he could learn something
about the art of slander if he
could come back today and read
paid attacks that legal prosti
tutes of big corporations and
income tax dodgers are making
on Woodrow Wilson.
President Wilson must be par
ticularly interested at this mo
ment in recalling the attacks made
6n Washington after he had
signed Jay's treaty with Eng
land. Looked at in this day, it is
a rather hard trrv nroiiw
WEATHER:
Rain tonight and to
morrow. Temperature at
S a. in. 34 degree. Nor
mal temperature for Feb
ruary 22 tor laat thirty
yearx 35 degrees.
NUMBER 11,083.
PRESIDENT
ON
AGENT KILLED
AFTER DEATH
GRAPPLEWITH
BOOTLEGGER
How William' E. Payne, Virginia
dry agent and terror of bootleggers,
last night engaged in a death grap
ple with his slayer before he was
finally shot down at Rosslyn, was
told to The Times today by Kather
ine Jackson, a negress, . believed to
have been the only witness to the
tragedy.
The slayer sought to hide in the
home of the Jackson woman after
the shooting, but she "slammed the
door in his face and locked it," she
says. He rushed into a vacant house
next door and is believed to have es-J
caped through a back entrance.
Armed men and'deputies from the
office of Sheriff Howard Fields, of
Alexandria county, .are today search
ing the tills 'of the county "foV the
negro.
Three arrests have been made.
Two of the men were released and!
the third probably will be given his
liberty -within the next few hours
since the authorities do not believe
he had any connection with the
crime.
Heard Payne's Warning.
"I was in my home just back from
the rear of the Arlington Trust Com
pany, when I heard someone cry out,
Stop, there, or I'll shoot,'" the Jack
son woman told The Times.
"When I went to my front door I
saw a colored man who was being
chased by a white man, suddenly turn
and throw up his hands. The white
man, Mr. Payne, started toward him,
and as he did so, the colored man
lowered bis hands and flashed a
pistol."
Payne rushed the colored man, the
woman says.
Both men displayed suns. With
their free left hands each grappled
the other by the throat.
"I tried to call out that a fight
(Continued on Page 2, Column 3.)
LONDON, Feb. 22.- -Defeat or the
Bolshevik forces by allied troops on
the Murmansk front, was reported
in the latest official communique re
ceived from northern Russia.
"Despite the severe weather allied
troops reached Sogoja, sixty miles
from Soroka (on the Murman rail
way). The enemy lost fifty killed
and eighty taken prisoner." the state
ment said. "Our casualties were
slight. The material captured In
cluded machine guns, rifles, and lo
comotives." TODAY
England kept the right to search
our ships.
No American trader could land
at Bermuda or any island of the
Caribbean Sea owned by the
British crown. He couldn't sail up
any river or trade at any port in
Canada, Nova Scotia, New Bruns
wick, or anywhere in territory
owned by the Hudson Bay Com
pany. But British ships could
come to any United States port
and sail up any river, etc.
They slandered Washington.
They told him he was ruining the
country. They told him he was
disgracing himself and every
American. He stood all that
quite calmly, as other men worth
while have stood abuse. He did
what HE thought was wise, con
sulting himself, as every man
worth while must do.
The world celebrates his birth
day and forgets his detractors. It
pays to have courage and follow
vnnr indpmfint
AD FORCES
OUT
BOLSHEVIK!
Published every evening (inclndlnjt Sunday)
Entered oj second-clan matter. At the poat-
office at Washington. P. C
HIS DEATH STARTS
A CIVIL WAR
DR. K.URT EISNER,
Bavarian Premier, whose assassina
tion has resulted in civil warfare.
GREER INVITE!
Argument in the strange case of the
bakery children was concluded in
Juvenile Court this morning about 1
Y o'clock. Judgo Kathryn Sellers took
the case under advisement.
The case had been on trial one
month, and testimony covering 2,600
pages and going back a generation
bad been offered.
Levi H. David, counsel for Mr. and
Mrs. William A, Greer, who are le
spondents in the inquiry, offered a
series of motions by which he sought
to have the case dismissed. He also
moved that certain evidence be
stricken from the record. Each mo
tion was denied by the court. Excep
tions were noted.
The proceedings,, while technically
not a prosecution, the Greer counsel
said, had the effect of a prosecution
because of the many serious charges
made by witnesses for the District.
"Mr. Greer invites an indictment
by the grand jury so that this thing
may be threshed out." Attorney David
declared.
"It he is guilty of all Assistant
j Corporation Counsel Barse charges.
) he ought to be indicted a dozen times,"
, be added.
verse to the Greers, Attorney David
declared, It will be "a judicial declara-
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BERNSTORFF L
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
AMSTERDAM. Feb. 22. Count von
Bcrn.torff, in an interview with the
Berlin correspondent of the Handcls
blad. Ftrongly supported the League
of Nationw. As evidence of his belie"
in arbitration, h taid he "concluded
three arbitration treaties with the
United States, all of which were re
jected by Berlin."
Regarding anti-German feeling In
America, von Bernstorff said:
"For years before the war, and
even afterward, the extraordinarily
strong pacifism of the United States
produced an anti-German feeling be
cause the Americans believed Ger
many to be the enemy of all pacific
efforts.'
CITY WASTES 800,000 GALS.
OF WATER DAILY, IS CLAIM
FREDERICK. Md., Feb. 22
Througli defective underground pip
ing systems, with! n a few thousands
as many gallons of water as Frederick
Is using is daily running to waste, de
clares City Engineer Emory C. Crum.
He has submitted a report to the
board of aldermen showing that daily
800.000 g-allons of water leak from
mains and defective hydrant spigots.
HOW TO MAKE THOSE KA3IOC8
SALVATION ABMY DOUGHNUTS
Next Sunday's New York American will
tell why tho Salvation Army made uch a
hit with the American aoldlera abroad.
Recipes for those famous doughnuts, cakes,
pies, blxcults and everything else which
were always ready In abundance for tho
hunrry doughboys, will be printed in next
Sunday's New York American. Order now
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ZUrtlCH, Feb. 22, Violent com
mnnlst (Bolshevik) riots have
broken out la Budapest. Four
vrere killed and tvrenty-fonr
Troanded In street battle. A
state of siege has been proclaimed,
led by Rosslan and German lead
ers, the rioters stormed the tele
graph office, the railway station,
and the plant of the newspaper
Xepcaza. Later government troops
stormed and retook the railway
station.
LONDON, Feb. 22. Civil war has
broken out in Bavaria, following the
assassination of Premier Xur$ Eis
ner and the shooting of other minis
ters, according to advices from W,ei
roar, Germany, today, quoting a
speech delivered to the national as
sembly by Philip Scheidemann, injh4j
isrer wiinour poniouo in tne new
German cabinet.
"The earth is rocking under our
feet," said Scheidemann. "Perhaps
in a short time there will come a
complete collapse."
Riots have broken out in Bruns
wick, Germany, where a mob of 1,000
men and women stormed the Diet
building, said a dispatch from there
today.
700 Spartacans Killed.
More than 700 Spartacans were
killed In the fighting at Hervest and
Dorsten, according to an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen.
The Spartacans are said to have oc
cupied Battrupp. New riots are re
ported in Gotha, Stettin, and Ham
burg.
The civil strife broke out in Munich
at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. It
; is areported In dispatches received
here today.
j At that hour the church bells were
i uiib tinu iv,uuu wurHinen mari'nea i
! from the suburbs into the city. Short- (
i ly afterward violent fighting broke i
i out. The mobs plundered shops and j
j residence. Hundreds of civilians lied I
from the city. Others were prevented
after the Spartacans seized the rall
iway stations.
I Workmen's dictatorships have been
! proclaimed, and Spartacans in armed
automobile are rushing through tho
streets. Many anarchists arc said to I
have Joined them
War Minister Arrested.
War Minister Rosshaupter, wound
ed during shooting in the diet cham
ber, is reported to have been arrest
ed later by the Spartacans. (A Zu
rich dispatch by- way of Paris said
Rosshaupter had died from his
wounds).
Spartacans and Majority Socialist;
aro making demonstrations against
(Continued on Page 2, Column 4.)
.-ujyuua, ia., reD. j.. two men,,!
giving tbclr names as Charles A.
Prentiss and Harry K. Lee, are held
here today as suspects in connection
with the assault on Miss Julia May
Garrett, near her home at Seminary,
Va on February 2.
Prentiss was in a soldier uniform
and Leo in civilian clotchs when ap
prehended. They are being held for
the arrival of Sheriff J. Robert Al
lison, of Fairfax county. Roth men
are said to answer the descriptions
or the girrs assailants.
According to the police, the men
were arrested on complaint of two
local hotelkeepers for the theft of
towels. They first stated that they
were from northeast Virginia, and
had just arrived from Atlanta on
their way to Jacksonville, Fla.
The men were held at the sugges
tion of George M. Sparks, a local
newspaper man, who had been fol
lowing the accounts in the "Wash
ington Times of the assault, and was
familiar with the description of the
assailants.
When questioned by Sparks re
garding their movements several
weeks ago they refused to talk ftir-
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'BONE DRY'
.By BILL PRICE.
For the1" information of a large
number of people in the District who
are 'deeply concerned about what the
Reed "bone dry" law is going to do
here the following are facts that may
be relied on:
The Reed amendment becomes
law the day following the signing
of the revenue bill by the Presi
dent. That Is if. he signs It Monday
in Boston It Is the law of the
District of Columbia beginlngone
minute after midnight, or at 12.01
Tuesday morning. If it is signed
Tuesday 'It -is law beginlng at
12:01 Wednesday, and so on.
It prohibits any person from
ordering, purchasing, or causing
to "bo brought into the District and
intoxicating liquors, except for
medicinal, scientific, or sacra
mental ourposa
The JSupreme Court has held
that thq man who takes a- pint
bottle of -whiskey Into dry terri
tory is- guilty of violating the
law. That stops any man from
bringing into the District from
Baltimore or elsewhere whiskey
of any quantity for even his per
sonal use.
Will Stop "Bootlegging."
Major Pullman, superintendent
of police, believes that be will be
able to stop "bootlegging" in a
few weekB, as the Reed law has
been clearly interpreted by the
highest courts and the punish
ment for violation is severe.
Hundreds of persons who or-
!ncr nf thft law. nn-rl the shlnments
of which may now be on their
way to the District, are not vio
lators. Express and railway com
panies will violate the law If
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"Pension and retirement legisla
tion still stands a good show of pass
ing the House at this session. If
the bill does not pass this session
it is practically certain to pass in
the new Congress."
This was the assertion today of
Congressman Keating, who is in
charge of the bill in the House. Keat
ing and other supporters of the meas
ure are actively at work trying to
get It passed in the final week of
the session.
The last six days of the session
are given oyer In the House to pass
ing measures under suspension of
the rules. The Pension and Retire
ment bill will, in all likelihood, bo
brought up then.
"The chief question now is whether
the matter can be brought to a vote
in the Senate thi3 session." said Mr.
Keating- "If it can be brought to a
vote there is no doubt it will pass.
1 expect it to be voted on in the
House and it will command a ma
jority. "The important fact is that the
movement for pension and retire-'
merit legislation has advanced far
ther this Congress than ever before.
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Times. The ad ran
only twice.
If you want to buy or
sell a car, Phone Miss
Reid, Times Used Car
Bureau, Main 5260.
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FEBRUARY 22 1919.
COMMENT
OF SENATORS
Dr. Mary Walker Dies
Of General Breakdown
First woman to be assistant army surgeon. '. ..
First woman to be a -prisoner of war.
First woman to be exchanged war prisoner.
First woman decorated for bravery.
First woman to have privilege of floor of Congress.
First woman legally permitted to wear male attire.
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CONCLAVE ON
PHILADELPHIA. Pa., Feb. 22. No
tables in all walk? of life are here
today to attend the Irish national
convention, which was opened at
noon. All of the hotels have refused
to accept any more reservations,
while the Bcllevue-Stratford and the
other large hostelries are setting up
hundreds of cots to accommodate the
overflow. The original 5,000 dele
gates is likely to be trebled.
Prominent among the arrivals were
Sonator Walsh of Massachusetts.
Senator Borah of Idaho, Congress
man Joseph McLaughlin, Governors
Sproul and Smith, of Pennsylvania
and New York, respectively; Justice
Cohalan, of New York; the Very
Rev. Peter E. Maginnis. assistant
general of the Carmelite Order, and
Diarmuid Lynch, national secretary
of the Friends of Irish "Freedom.
Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore. Is
to arrive today. He will speak at
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OSWEGO, N.Y.,j
Feb. 22. Dr. Mary
Walker, famous as
the woman who
was authorized by
Congress to wear
masculine clothes,
died last night. She (
was eighty-seven
years old. Death!
was caused by a
general breakdown,
Becently she had
been in failing
health, and had
spent much tixn&at
her farm at Bunk- j
er Hill, six miles;
from here,
she died.
where
- .
Dr Walker was
noted for her habit
of wearing a tall
hat, frock coat,
trousers, a waist
coat and men's
shoes. She advo
cated this dress Consequently the Secretary was
reform, contending ?ed ,t0 8Pe "Without knowing
It 4. 11 definitely whether his voice was
that all "wen bemg heard by the President How
should attire them-1 ever, a few minutes after he had
selves similarly, i "rung off," a radio message was re
rh. WnlifM- was ceived from the George Washington
Jv v t! saying that his voice had been heard
one of the earliest perfectly, and that all was goms
active campaigners
for woman suf
frage. She was a
Democrat.
In the civil war
she was an assist
ant surgeon with
the rank of first
lieutenant, was
captured and held
prisoner by the
Confederates until
exchanged. Later I
she received tho '
Congressional med
al of honor for
bravery in the field.
Early in life she
married a Rome,
N. Y., man. They
separated s o o n.J
TIGER ' MAY BE
ONI AGAIN
MONDAY
PARIS, Feb. 22. Premier Clemen
ceau, providing he continues to lm
prove as at present, will be able to
' resume his duties as chairman of the
peace conference Monday, It was
stated today.
The slight rise In the premier's tem
perature was believed to be due to
his exertions yesterday afternoon,
when he walked about his garden.
He eata heartily and the pain of the
wound is said virtually to have de
parted. His physicians are under
stood to have agreed that no attempt
will be made to remove the bullet at
present, and that there may be no
necessity for an operation later.
Although Emile Cottln, his assail
ant, maintains the attack was under
taken solely on his own responsibility
the authorities continue to search for
possible accomplices. They have ques
tioned practically every known an
archist in the city and the investiga
tion is said to have extended to other
French centers.
The premier did not go to bed last
night. It was stated, but slept In an
arm chair
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GE0K6E: TTASHEiGTOy, Feb.
2i President TTOsoa refused
today to corameat en the Sen
atorial utterances.
It Is hott eertain that the
President's speech at Bestex
Monday will not toach upea the
great derelopments ol his trip to
Paris.
A number ef laportaat wire
less messages were rcseired dw
Jag the day from TTasMagtea aad
from Secretary Lapsing at Paris.
Secretary of tlm Na.w Tfonfalft to.
aay- conversed with' President "Wilson
(aboard, the" George. ."OTaakiaatour 786
mlles-at-sea. Tfcs conrersation, was
possible by means of the wireless
telephone recently perfected by Navy
Department experts.
The wireless phone ha3 not yet
been perfected to the extent that a
'two-way" conversation can be held.
. well aboard the vessel
ATTITUDE OF CONGRESS
MAY DELAY PRESIDENT'S
SECOND TRIP TO FRANCE
By ROBETIT J. BENDER.
ABOARD THE U. S. S. GEORGK
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (delayed).
President Wilson, while still planning
to return to France March 5 or 6, may
alter his program, it was learned to
day. The principal fact that will da-
tprminn Mj itln.rarv Is nniliiraffuut
be the attitude of Congress regarding
tne Lcaffue of Nations and the pend
ing appropriations mil. Jie refused to
discuss either, however.
Whether the President calls a spe
cial session of Congress is also un
derstood to depend on the situation
at home, but it now appears thai a.
special session is unlikely before he
returns from h's second trip. At the
dinner to the Foreign Relations Com
mittees of the House and Senate, the
President, it was stated today, will
explain details of the peace work
"some portions of which are necessar-
ily confidential.'"
PEACE ENVOYS NOW TURN
TO LABOR LEGISLATION
PARIS. Feb. 22. Discussion of the
procedure to be undertaken In case
a nation falls to carry out provisions
of the international labor confer
ences, to which it Is a party, was un
dertaken yesterday by the commis
sion on international labor legisla
tion, it was announced today. The
official communique said:
"The twelfth meeting of the com
mission on international labor legis
lation took place this morning un
der the presidency of Samuel
Gompers. Continuing the examina
tion of the British scheme the com
mission discussed the articles dealing:
with the procedure in regard to com
plaints lodged against a State for
failure to carry out the provisions of
the international labor conferences
to which it was a party.
"The discussion of the article deal
ing with ratification of the conven
tions was adjourned to a later sit
ting. In view of the difficulty arising
in connection with the constitutions
of the various countries.
"The next, meeting will be held
Monday at 2:30."
REED TO TOUR COUNTRY .
IN SPEECH-MAKING FIGHT
ON LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Senator Reed, Missouri, planned to
continue the hostile discussion of the
league of nations today.
Reed Intends to emphasize the potat
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