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Evening star., 1921-05-26

PRE-WAR PRICES ON
Building Materials from Large
Sixth Street Government War
Offices and Army Camp.
pcorv. Steam RadiatorS
Porch Screens, Sink SpigotS,
window Shades Range Boilers,
cantonment Sash, Heating Boilefa
Plaster Board. Pipe,
Roofinz Tanks.
IN thtuhs Electrical PixtuoA
Kitchen Sinks Paving Blocks,
Doors. Hardware ana Frames. &hv
Windows. complete 80
White vitreous Toilet Outn0. 50
Lavatories. complete 500
Used Wall Board. per foot. ....:;;... AVE
Sbeathing Flooring. Trim. Siding.
Electric Fixtures for entire house
SIDNEY L. HECHINGER
HOUSEKEEPING co.
Camp Meigs Main once,
9Th and Florida ave. 9th and O Sta
northeast. southwest.
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SWEATER Rlue silk size 3S cost $45: sill
for SIS. dress. Alice blue crepe. Si3 size IS
l2'S Grsrd st NV
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
MALE-COntinued.

POSITION ny elderly. active man as watch
man; good reference. Address 2b46 Nichols
GSs
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III llI'lN''S, %oAth: o-story high: fine copdi-
lion: enough material TO build Groom hunga-
low. Sec me before buy ing elsewhere. Wash
inSton Barracks. foot iIa st. Inquire for
Mr.. X
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STESOGRAPHER-Rec graduate Of busi-
ness school: $50 per month to start. Address
Lawyer. Box. lIl-K. Star Office. .7s
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Send tor M. Norman.
Highest cash prices paid for second hand cloth
ing Phone Main 341a. 7l5 ~ 1t. s.w. jeSs
FURNITURE. rugs, antiques. We pay more
than ever for household effects. 8. A. Cam.
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coal. RANGE. also gas plate and oven: COED
condition reasonable. la 18th st.
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SACHS SAYS Main 63O6
WE BUY. SELL. EXcHANGE.
Household furniture. ONCE fixtures, talking
machines.
SACHS FURNITURE CO.
r0P sfh AND n sra
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GAS fINri RES-rompictc set, globes. etc ::
like new: cheap. q. II. C"ui~. y. 1l4i-J. 80
RAKY rkAkIAGE-Nem; ivory reed. &l;'. 3si
I.nworth pl 2Is
Evening star., 1921-05-26

YOUNG LADY with knowledge of tyrng for
general office work. Personnel Bureau. 3O5
Bond building. 1fth and New York
YOUNG LADY-slerk in confectionery: eN-
pPrienced: references: good salary to capable
person Apply 331o IAN (; nv
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AIRY CARRIAGE-Reed;s good condition; ST..
oil ion Apt oSs
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3Ol Southern Bldg. Main 372

Listed today-Small hotel of 33 rooms To-
Gated near Dupont Circle. This is an unusual
opportunity to secure a first class house. Elec-
tric elevator. beautiful dining rooms. draw
ing rooms and reception hall: price. 81. 600
ii you want to dispose of your business Of
any kind profit by the reputation and success
of our office. All transactions carefully and
conhdentafly handled.
Marshall Business Brokers,
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FOR SALE-M1SCELLANE0US

CASH REGISTER-i cent TO 81. with printer.
3oS 10th II. NV.
FINE WILTON RUG. 9x4: Italian -flet hand
made lace he'd cover. iSS i1th st.
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ApDlv 20 9th ST. NV.
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several wanted. at once
good salaries. Washington business Bureau,
Union Savings Bank building. 10 l4th.
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/. high school graduate with
Ice. Personnel Bureau. 3bS
Ith and New York ave.
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

observation-disclosures Capitol and Library: OK
elusive and paying; books open to inspection.
Price. 81. 100.
Marshall Business Brokers. 929 y. Y. ave.
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SALESMEN-Positons for three men: those
qualifying will earn SEQ per week. Call Main
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PRIVATE SECRETARY. accountant stenog
raphcr. typ.st, familiar with office details. FL
ing. etc: fifteen years experience. I. Q. BOX
13:,o Washington. D. L.
Evening star., 1921-05-26
FOR SALE-MIsCELLANEOUS

BEIp-one enamel single spring, mattress
kitchen table, sanitary couch. 500 Ia. ave
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-20
PARENTS SHOW WISDOM
(St. Petersburg Times

Est. Petersburg Times.)
In these days when many parents, inten-
tionally or Internationally, contribute to axness
in discipline of boys and girls it is gratifying to
note the outcome of strike" of 40 high school
boys in Augusta Me. The boys quit because one
of the members of the school had been punished
Did the parents Of the boys sympathize with
them as so many unwisely do and try to find
reasons for condemning the teacher for the ex-
ercse of discipline? The record shows that they
did nothing of the kind, but by common consent
they stood back of the teacher.
When 40 boys were informed by their parents
that they must return to school at once or the
alternative would be the infection of corporal
punishment such as was given the offending pu-
pill, they decided that school strikes were not so
attractive after all and that attendance at school
promised more in the way of comfort to them
selves.
The action of these boys in quitting school as
a protest against the authority placed over them
is not surprising, but rather it is in keeping with
the spirit of the times. They see disregard for
authority on all hands, and it was only natural
that they should conclude that strike could be
made effective.
The example of the parents of Augusta may
well be taken, into the memory of the parents of
other communities. There may come the time in
almost any school when a test of authority pre-
seAts itself, If parents are inclined to sympa-
thiSe with their children, right or wrong a con-
dition is created which can only mean trouble
for all concerned
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-20

Our idol stands before us, and does some merry
tricks and we applaud in chorus this prince of
joyous hicks. We watch his every antie we
laugh until we weep, our gee is almost frantic,
our admiration deep We say, "Oh, was there
ever so comical gent? A guy so wondrous clev
err at spreading merriment? We certainly adore
him, he gladdens all days, and if it wouldn't
bore him our college yell we'd raise" But To-
he pulled bunder-perhaps it was a crime-and
now we're trampling under the chap we called
sublime. We have no thought of mercy as we
apply the gaf to that form, fat and. pursy at
which we used to laugh In highly moral dudgeon
we knock him from his feet and call for ak and
bludgeon to make the job complete. No doubt
we've done some evil we truly moral guys; our
records full of.weevil do not advertise Oh,
poor old human nature, it always is the same
no court or legislature can change it's foolish
game We worship some one madly until he
makes a break, then, morally and sadly we burn
him at the stake. The more we used to love him
when he was in his bloom, the fercer do we
shove him and kick him to his doom.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-20
Daily Poem
LOOKING BACKWARD
Bonneville JourneD

I'm the chap that got high wages.
Now | get it in the neck.
I'm the chump that bought potatoes
at ten dollars a peck.
| INDUCED in rump and sirloin, say
at ninety cents a pound,
And l paid half dollar for the bot
tom OF the round.
l blew in about three dollars for u
simple cotton sheet,
and | have paid eighteen-fifty just 20
decorate my feet.
l recall had to dig up seven dollars
for hat,
forty dollars for Il flat!
I've had money, scads of money, and
| tell you it seemed good,
And | flung it out regardless, as Il
drunken sailor would.
Just how long 'twould keep on COM
ing-huh! didn't know or care
All l knew was | was living like a
blooming millionaire
But today | need a dollar, and |
haven't got a dime,
And the boss has told me, coldly,
there'll be no more overtime.
I've had money, and I've spent it, and
| don't know where it went;
All | know is, I've been wealthy, and
| haven't saved a cent?
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-20
FRANCE STANDS PAT

French delegates 10 the armament conference
at Washington, it is reported, will consent to no
reduction of their countrys military power unless
adequate guarantees of security from Germany
are afforded by the other nations According to
the French view it is necessary for an army of
at least million men to stand guard over the
German frontiers. and if the league of nations
or an alliance of friendly governments will not
supply this army the French themselves feel under
the necessity of doing it.
1t is hardly necessary to point out that either
alternative of the French demands would be in
consistent with the purpose of the conference
So long one nation is being forced by another
to do something against its own will it is at war
with that nation, no matter what pretences are
made in treaties By providing fer the subjuga-
ion of Germany by force-that is, holding Ger
many under military compusion to compliance
with the terms of the allied demands, the Yer
sailles treaty simply provided for prolonging the
war for the next forty years.
his is becoming we'll understood by everybody
but the French. The other nations, England,
America, Italy and the smaller members OF the
war alliance, willing to return to a genuine
peace basis They realize that they must 20 SO to
escape ruin.
If France persists in her attitude one effect
must be to separate her from her present friends.
/ he maintenance of army Of a million soldiers
will soon reduce her to financial ruin The bur
den OF such an establishment is only less crushing
than that Of actual war. And yet it is situation
from which she can escape only by another war
which will leave Germany so crushed and split to
pieces as to be helpless.
Germany understands this perfectly, and is far
too shrewd TO become the aggressor in any such
war. Hence, France must either support her
lntolerable burden until all her national resources
crumble under 1t, or start a war of her own by
such acts of aggression as will offend Great Brit
am and America, both of which want peace. In
that case, it would be France alone against Ger
many
The pacific atmosphere of Washington should
be favorable to calmer and more rational consid-
erations than prevailed at Versailles In the mean
tme 1t is increasingly apparent that the coming
meeting will be of even more historic Importance
than the conference which framed the existing
treaty.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-20

Much favorable criticism has been heard con-
corning the letter Of A. L. Onell. safety commit
teeman of the Atlantic Coast Lines Lakeland dis
trct, addressed to the heads of the Lakeland
schools, calling attention to the danger to which
children are exposed both by the crossing of the
railway tracks at points other than at railway
crossings and by the careless negotiation of street
intersections without taking care to see that there
is no danger of being run down by approaching
traffic. The matter of using the Coast Line track
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-20

for street purposes can readily be remedied but
it is another story when street traffic is taken into
consideration Probably Lakeland is no worse
than any other live. modern city with regard to
automobile regulation or lack of regulation UNI
questionably the traffic rules are violated and will
continue to be violated despite the caution and the
instruction of city officers who cannot be expected
to cover such wide territory efficiently In the
final analysis it is up to the individual motorst to
do the right and the sane thing. Safety at all
found profitable investment.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-20
Laugh Line

Those who grasp at too much end
by getting too little.
-
Be what your friends think you are,
avoid being what your enemies say
you are, go forward and be happy.
+ + O.
An Amended Slogan
own your home" is a good slogan,
especially if you can make your own
repairs.-Boston Herald.
This Modern Rush
Haircutting Done While You
Watt" is a BARRIERS sign downtown.
That ought to be quite a help to b
busy man.-New York Mail
Melting As 1t Were
Speaking of odd SMILES writes
J. c. M, you might also mention
Swinnerton's description of Gaga in
'Goquette.' He had large, soft,
brown eyes, like chocolate which has
Teen in a warm place.
Novelty Lost Charm
A Michigan woman left her huS-
band hundred and fifty times in LIZ
years. Then the husband applied for
a divorce. The pleasure of having
her come back at last wore out-To-
ledo Blade.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-20

Several attended the speaking in
the Calf Ribs neighborhood Wednes-
day night. 1t was a prohibition lee
ture and during the course of his re-
marks the man drank nearly d bucket
of water.
Washington Hooks says a person
can live on one side of a town so
long and look at things in the same
direction so much that he comes to
the conclusion ii is the way it looks
to everybody; but when he moves to
some other part of town he begins to
look at things from a different angie
and has to readjust his specs.
II Il
Frisby Hancock was at preaching
last Sunday all shaved up so that no.
body knew him hardly. You can tell
thai FIisby shaves himself because he
always leaves some lather on the bot
tom of each ear.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-20

Great credit is due the Florida Commercial
Secretaries Association for the work accomplished
in drafting general plan for the regulation of
motor camps for Florida towns and cities The
recommendations contained in a somewhat lengthy
report are valuable as guide posts to standard and
co-ordinaed procedure. 1t is recommended that
the fundamentals for all camps are FIRST. registra-
ton of all users of auto camps rigid sanitary rules
and regulations; supervision by custodian al
ways on duty; the provision of necessary facilities
such as water, light and sometimes cooking ia
cilities; the retaining of the camp for strictly
bonafde tourists and a small Tee to cover upkeep
and protection.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-20

A Miami woman claims to have caught fish
and then had shark bite on the fish, so that she
caught both the fish and the shark, and we can't
help wondering what would have happened if she
had kept on fishing.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-20

Speaking CT the Punta Corda story about the
add that the owner of the bag got it from lob
ster-which increases the percentage of verismili-
tude in the story, we think
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-20

Why not a city flower along with our prospec-
tive city slogan and flag? Just as suggestion,
there's the hibiscus, which is beautiful either in
hedges or planted alone, and comes in many love
" shades.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-20

Father was shaving when he said that if he ever
caught one of his folks pulling out their
eyebrows--why if the Lord hadn't meant hair
to grow their eyes. He wouldn't have put
it there
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-20

After all that has been said about petticoat
rule in the South Florida Press Association, the
ladies were more seen than heard, while the gen.
tlemen were fully as much heard as soon.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-20

Nothing is commoner in Lakeland than some
thing new to be proud of. and right now it is the
football team of the Lakeland High school
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-20

The man who shot his wife while she was play
ing the organ was really too harsh Let EN- have
a little pleasure, say we
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-20

Such excellent results follow the tapping of
" Thorn" thought tank" that we can't help
wondering what would happen if someone should
hit him over the head
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29

stroycd. The universe is eternal. The very
idea of creation and destruction is drawn from
the phenomenon of life, not from the inanl-
mate universe There is neither beginning
nor end to our universe or our world. 1t IS
immeasurably, intellectually older than former
scientists supposed. Our world may as likely
be destroyed by fire as suffer the fate formerly
predicted by science-that steadily cooling, 1t
would be only matter of time before our little
planet became lifeless and dead.
The clock wound up at the beginning to
run for certain time, a universe provided at
its creation with certain store of available
energy, to dissipate and live by at an ever de-
creasing rate" Professor Soddy points out,
until it arrived ultimately and inevitably at
complete physical stagnation and death, is
being displaced by less arbitrary view as
science advances and invades more and more
the vast territory still beyond its ken.
"It is at least as legitimate to conceive
universe of perxnansnt sesaE.ee. @ArrEing in its
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29

energy of its material components the
means to rejuvenate itself perennially over
vast periods of time either internationally and
catastrophically, which is the first possibility
that presents itself, continuously and IN
orderly fashion, if there exist compensating
phenomena still outside the ken Of science.
These conclusions concerning the structure
of the universe are based upon detailed study
of radioactivity. To-day we know our
authority explains, 'that the radioactive min
erals are in reality geological clocks, and they
record more accurately than in any other way
the age of the stratum in which they occur. In
a uranium material, for example, each l per
cent of lead in terms of the quantity of ura-
mum signifies the lapse of period of $4,000
900 years. Errors, of course, are possible, II
lead should have been an original constituent
of the mineral, but these are minimlzed by TAX
ing large number of different minerals
The earboniferous rocks tested by this new
method appear to have an age Of some 35Or
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29

road we are treading to-day, in past pos
siby 80 remote that even the very atoms OF
it's civilization literally have had time to dis
integrate"
From this new point of view Professor Sod
dy makes the daring suggestions that the tradl-
tional doctrine Of the fall of man from for
mer higher state and the newer scientific view
of the continuous ascent Of man to the present
level are by no means as irreconcilable as they
have heretofore appeared. Judging from the
accomplishments of modern engineers with
comparatively restricted supplies Of energy,
race which could transnute matter might
transform desert continents, 'thaw the frozen
poles and make the whole world one smiling
Garden of Eden. Possibly they could explore
the outer realms Of space, enaigrating to more
favorable worlds as the superfuous to-day emil
crate to more favorable continents. The leg
end of the fall Of man, possibly, may be all
that has survived OF such time before, for
some unknown reason, the whole world was
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29

0o0 900 and the oldest Archean rocks Of over
,500,000000 years"
The evolution, or rather the devolution Of
matter, in continuous change, the generation
and the destruction of atoms are going on
under the eyes of these scientists. These pro-
cesses involve periods of time SO vast, even IN
the most favorable cases, that the physicist OF
a generation ago would have dismissed them
as physically inconceivable. Yet to-day these
figures are actually determined by direct meas
urement in the laboratories. Radium and
ra0ioactivity have taught science to measure
time in terms of million and billions Of years.
The discovery that our world is SO infinitely
more ancient than physical science had hitherto
held possible has led Professor Soddy 10 specu-
late whether humanity shared in this incredi-
bly, remote past of the world.
In the light Of the knowledge acquired
through radium and the study Of radioactivity,
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29

a more exalted material destiny than any
which have been foretold-these possibilities
are not the promise of another world. ''They
exist in this, to be fought and struggled for
in the old familiar way, to be wrung from
the grip of nature, as all our achievements
and civilization have, in the past, been wrung
by the labor Of the collective brain of man
kind guiding, directing and multiplying the in
dividual's puny power. This is the message of
hope and inspiration to the race which radium
has contributed to the great problems of
existence"
The ascent of man has been but one long
fight with nature for energy. The struggle
fer existence is continuous struggle for
fresh physical energy.
Ali around the primitive, aboriginal savage
existed vast potentialities of food and
warmth He knew not how to use them for
his own purposes, 1t is much the same with
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29

will attach themselves to something akin to an
electric lamp socket and draw thence from the
public mains the supply of pure physical
energy required for the days work without any
necessity of absorbing at the same time the
useless husks--the material wrappings in
which this energy is done up-that constitute
our present food"
What then, we may ask, is to become of
cur teeth, our stomachs, our vital organs?
But Professor Soddy merely uses this picture
to emphasize that 'now new factor is at work
in the world which alters its whole economy
and in the light of which everything old,
whether appertaining to peace or war, to the
body, the brain or the soul, awaits its turn
to be reexamined, and, if found wanting, dis
csrded."
But if the discovery Of radium and the study
Of radioactiWty light the way TO this vision Of
g future earthly paradise, they are no less
penetrating in their illumination OF the past
of the world and OF our universe. Professor
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29
BY K. A. PARKER

Soddy's picture of the physical universe is not
that, for instance depicted in such a recent
work as II. G. Wels's The Outline of His
tory--a universe in which, Mr. Wells says,
there will be time when the day will be
RS long as the year is now, and the cooling
sun, shorn of its beams, will hang motionless
in the heavens" Such conception is CON
trary to the new science. On the contrary,
matter and energy cannot be created or de-
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29
The Discovery of Radiunl and Radio
ActiUity May Be Chapter One in q Book
OF Nature Hitherto Closed to Mankind
Illustrated by WILL CRAWFORD

smallest ultimate particles the seeds of its own
regeneration. But the linking of the ends of
he\process together into such closed cycle
still involves the assumption of events un-
known and reversal of the known continuous
direction of energy transformations"
eve are no longer" he reiterates elsewhere,
'the inhabitants of universe slowly dying
from the physical exhaustion of its energy,
but o. universe which has in the internal