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The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
Foot Bridges
OUer Streets

~ ISTRICT officials who daily
Id become more perplexed over
traffic problems of Washing
ton have had submitted to them the
suggestion of light steel bridges to
span congested and dangerous
thoroughfares.
The author of this plan, a well
known Washingtonian, has con-
ferred with Commissioner Rudolph
and Major Sullivan, of the Police
Department, suggesting bridges
from sidewalk to sidewalk, with
either stairways or inclined planes.
Fanciful as the scheme may seem,
it serves to further focus attention
on the multiplying traffic dangers
and problems of the National Capt.
tai and the complications involved
in attempting to solve them.
Washington is growing fast in
population, and the use of auto
mobiles has by no means reached
maximum. The hazards to pedes-
trians and automobile owners do
not decrease. Naturally city Of
ficials are interested in any and
every plan offered and are con-
stantly studying the traffic laws
and methods of other cities to de-
termine whether these would i'm
prove conditions here.
The Engineer Commissioner has
had several plans laid before him
for subway parking through the
construction of immense under
ground garages. That might re-
lieve the park ing congestion
throughout the business center of
Washington, but would not be of
direct benefit in making the streets
safer.
Both of these schemes would call
for Congressional appropriations,
by no means likely for some time
to come.
There is a real opening for those
who have practical suggestions.
Theorists on traffic troubles are
numerous, but they merely clutter
up things and add to the burdens
of officials who earnestly seek
way to something helpful.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
WdLLace's Thrift

11ERE are a few facts which
n haven't been headlined but
IL which, in significance, prob
ably eclipse many which are:
A change in the CRATE bars of
one of Uncle Sans research lab
oratories saved $500 a year of
YOUR money.
Opening shop to repair awnings
saved $4,000 year-formerly if an
awning got out of keller the
bureaucrats simply ordered a new
one.
Cutting 5000 obsolete names
from mailing list saved $1,000 a
year and won the gratitude of mail
clerks.
Centralized buying of food for
forest rangers plugged $4,000 of
former annual waste.
These are typical achievements in
one department alone-the Depart
ment of Agriculture. In sum,
Farmer Wallace saved $4,000, 900
and his work was better than ever.
1t CAN be done.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
Wananaaker,
Great, Good
MYTH the passing of John
w Wanamaker another living
" force has become a pre-

MYTH the passing of John
w Wanamaker another living
w force has become a pre-
cious memory.
For two generations his name has
been a household word throughout
the land-a synonym of business
enterprise and commercial integrity,
the practical embodiment of Chris
tian qualities.
John Wanamaker will take his
place with those Americans whose
careers conspicuously illustrate
Emerson s statement that AMER
ICA IS BUT ANOTHER NAME
FOR OPPORTUNITY.
And so his name, long honored,
will become one wherewith to con-
jure; one to stimulate and inspire
the youth eager to convert ambi-
tion into achievement, concen-
trated and intelligent effort into
significant success.
The gamut of John Wanamaker's s
life is indicated in two figures
the $1.25 weekly wage with which
he started as errand boy in a
Philadelphia book store and the
more than $3,OO0,O00 insurance
which he carried on his life.
Between these extremes stretches
long, picturesque, influential
career. John Wanamaker was per-
haps the most distinguished, most
active Christian layman in America.
His Bethany Sunday School, the
largest in the land, was the pet
child of his spirit.
As Postmaster General under
President Harrison he applied to
public office and public service the
same principles and organizing
talents with which he achieved
such marked success in the private
business that has become an insti-
tuition in Philadelphia and New
York.
His avowed purpose was to make
of business an honorable profess
sion which could command the de-
votion of the highest type of man.
hood. Even failure would be
dignified by so lofty a purpose.
Because John Wanamaker herein
succeeded so splendidly a nation
of practical idealists rises to call
him blessed.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
When Luck Steps In

AZ ORALISTS tell us there's no
M such thing as luck. Be dill
xvx gent, improve every oppor-
tunity, practice the recommended
virtues and success will come by
compulsiOn, NOT by favor.
Over the large expanse of life as
lived by the greatest number this
counsel is unquestionably sound and
true.
And yet, how are you to explain
that it was Schwab's lone dime in
the Orange IN. j. church lottery,
out of all the thousands of dimes.
that won the $1,000 bullY
True, some dime had to win, but.
of all investors, why Schwab, al
ready unique favorite of the gods
of high successf
Is it that there's a psychic law
OF gravitation insuring that to them
who have shall be given9
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
France Still
Celebrating

TRANCE certainly is a jubilant
nation. She is always in cele-
4 brant mood. That is one rea-
son at least that all Americans want
to get to Paris before they die.
Having centenaried the sandwich
man as a walking advertiser, and
asparagus discovery as a most de-
lectable vegetable, and having ac-
claimed one hundred years of Mo-
liere, impatient France is now pre-
pairing to celebrate, through its
coiffeurs, the fiftieth anniversary of
the Marcel wavel
The inventor, NJ. Marcel, is still
alive. He opines that the present
day hat is the enemy of woman s
best appearance. Naturally, he ad-
vocates the hatless, hairful woman.
Long may he, she and it wavel
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
We TOWNE GOSSIP
l. Copyright 1927 By Star Company.
By X. c. B.

Dear X. c. B-This is not a story, but an
absolute fact An Airedale dog, named Gypsy
Queen has eleven fine puppies. Ten are per-
feet beauties and one is Q tiny weaklins.
Yesterday the mistress Of Gypsy Queen missed
the stunted puppy and began looking for 1t.
She found 1t In another box bed with her
mother standing over It, Thinking she was
going to desert 1t. the mistiess carried II back
to the litter. This morning II was missing
again and the mother also. Searched for the
second time. II was found In q deep hole the
mother dog had dug In the soft ground and
had bedded down with leaves to make II COM
Portable. There was Gypsy Queen with the
little scrub puppy that didn't have a chance
with its husky brothers and sisters and the
little puppy was enjoying its breakfast with
the mothers big warm head thrown over 1t.
Doesn't this prove, K C. B., the great intelli.
gence and loyalty in the voiceless love of lust
a dog?" OLIVE L. d.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
A Photograph h That Talks
BY Henry Smith Williams

MODERN science seems by
NA way OF forcing the word
wonderment" out OF the die
tionary. II has made miracles
commonplace. and robbed us OF
The privilege Of being aston
ished.
We are ready to believe any
thing that the magicians Of
science tell US.
When. therefore. IL is an
nounced that a way has been
found to make a movie-film
talk. even as 1t projects pic
lures, no one so much as gasps.
Nor does II seem especially
surprising that several inventors
should be credited with produc-
ing a talking film almost stimuli.
taneously.
Probably many investors not
yet heard from have been on
the track OF the discovery. The
ones who are said to have sue
ceeded are DIR. Lee De Forest:
a Scandinavian engineer not
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
SOlDing the Wind

TOR many years in the anthra-
4 cite country the mining COM
i panies robbed supporting pill
lars and gave no aid and little heed
when homes on the surface were
ruined.
Theirs was the traditional Bour-
bon attitude of After me the
deluge."
The deluge has come in the form
of a law holding officials of the
mining companies criminally re-
sponsible, and they don't like it.
They like it so little, in fact, that
they are exerting every effort to
get the Supreme Court of the
United States to declare the law
unconstitutional.
The case has been argued, but
not decided. The highest court
has held that Pennsylvania may
tax anthracite coal sent beyond
Pennsylvania borders. 1t would
be strange, indeed, if Pennsyl-
vania could not protect the homes
within its borders.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
STEINMETZ ON COSMIC
ETHER.
BY Edgar Lucien Larkin,

Director Mount Loue Observatory.
I RECENTLY quoted the
! worlds greatest electrical
expert mathematician. DR..
Steinmetz, as stating that there
is no ether.
His secretary has sent me an
accurate copy Of a radio broad
casted by DR.. Steinmetz. 1t is
one OF the most comprehensive
scientific productions since
Newton. | quote his words on
ether:
For long time We have
believed that light is a wave
motion of some hypothetical
thing called ether. This theory
never was satisfactory, because
1t required that the ether must
be so extremely thin that the
earth and all bodies move
through 1t with terrific speed
-100,0 900 feet per second-with-
out any trace of friction. And
at the same time the ether must
be a solid body Of high rigidity.
This is unreasonable FL
nally the belief in an etner had
to be abandoned as being con-
tradicted by Einstein's Theory
of Relativit" which js now
meeting general acceptance"
After explaining the true
nature of electromagnetic
space waves, DR.. Steinmets
states:
THE radio waves and light
waves are electro-magnetic
waves, that is. periodic varia-
tions Of the electromagnetic
field in space"
This settles for all time CEN
turies of theorizing about ether.
Variations of electromagnetic
potential In an electromagnetic
field Of force are not waves
they are variations only.
No argument can upset this
clear and rigidly scientific pres
entation Of the case.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

WHEREAS brain, wisdom, eN.
w perience-the natural by
products OF accumulating years
are the more valuable assets
of a rational state OF society.
Thanks. Henry. for your
word of encouragement TO us
oldsters. Henceforth we shall
try to make hope hold out
while life lasts.
Perhaps. Henry. YOU have
heard OF Browning-not Pete.
the ballplayer. but Robert. the
poet-who said: Grow old
along with me, The best is
yet TO be-the last OF life. for
which the first was made
Copyright. 1899. by King Feature.
syndicate. Incl
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
Button, ButtOn-By Bugs" Baer

IF you happened to lose any buttons in
old days. civilization hung on integrity
of your suspenders. Buttons were all on
clothing and on shoes.
NOW buttons are so important that
~ they're thinking Of putting forty
eight Of EN- in our flag instead Of stars.
YOU used to crank up old vehicle with
whip. Now you self-crank your f1ivver
with button. There are more buttons on
corporation presidents desk than there
are on drum majors parade coat
EVERY time new territory 10 made
Il State. another button 10 sewed to
Liberty's torch.
WHAT became Of that light that mother
W used to hang In window to steer her
wayward boys rubber heels back to old
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

homestead? Mother won't live in any
place that hasn't got electric lights.
WHICH makes those romantic old par.
w lor lamps nothing but row of buttons.
THEY milk COWS by buttons. President
! Harding dedicated Panama Canal by
pressing button three thousand miles
away Maybe 1t was four. What do but
tons know about geography
nOoRs open by mysterious buttons.
y Bottom button is always bootlegger's
apartment.
THEY start trains BY buttons. Wreck
'em same way Elevators are PACED
by buttons. run by buttons Hotels are
operated by buttons. And, II you want
to register any squawks, what happens?
IN old days. manager Of hotel would
! meet you face to face. Now you've got
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

ND yet there is this time
- a bit OF sense hidden un-
der the usually meaningless
meanderings Of this many
wheeled moralist.
Perhaps the writer is willing
to find Il because he is him
self past forty. II surely is
true-Dr. osler to the contrary
notwithstanding-that forty and
experience land fifty. sixty,
seventy and more experience
are a desirable equipment to-
ward doing the significant work
Of the world.
With the callous cruelty char.
acteristic OF a merely material
istic civilization. the modern
Western world. with its whir.
ring industrialism. has put too
much Of a premium upon mere
youth. vitality and Drawn.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

light. Amplitying vacuum tubes
;triodes) are in the circuit. and
they carry the current to n
radio telephone receiver. or loud
speaker. which reproduces the
sounds just as IN case OF an
ordinary radio message.
The transformation OF a little
beam OF light shining through
q crack IN q Photographic mega
tive into human speech or the
tones Of an orchestra ts an
out-and-eut miracle. And the
miracles Of science still tzsci-
nate us, even II we are by wsy
OF ceasing to marvel at them.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
Wait Until Forty
BY DR.. Charles Fleischer-

snce. I was about thirty-eight
or thirty-nine before / began
to think very much about max
ing money"
We should all be glad and
grateful that baby Henry did
not begin in his cradle TO
think very much about making
money.
Just as Uncle Sam has most
OF the gold of the world. 90
your Uncle Henry would have
most Of us mortgaged TO him
by this time.
As II is. his postponement OF
money-making until he WIS
nearly forty has certainly saved
the rest Of us from being
dragged at the papier-mache
chariot wheels of this mechani-
cal conqueror.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
Stars and Stripes

Europe has made such a stupid mess
OF everything that she now poses in the
capacity of adviser to us. Generally it
happens that way.
Sing Sing boarder has sent Christmas
cards out to his friends which say:
Having q wonderful time. Wish YOU
were here"
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

One New York man must pay $50 n
week alimony out of his s35 salary,
which seems only fair to the wife, with
the cost of everything so high.
deserted wives of the Turkish Sultan,' but
the trouble is that most of the husbands
In the world are very busy.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

1T appears that the making of
l. a talking film presents COM
paratively few difficulties. In
Mr.. Hoxie's apparatus 2 tiny
mirror scarcely larger than a
pin head is arranged to throw a
beam OF light on a moving
negative. The mirror is con-
nected with a diaphragm which
vibrates to the human voice or
other sounds just as does the
diaphragm Of a recording phono-
graph. In effect, the needle
like beam Of light from the
mirror leaves its record on the
sensitive film just as the needle
Of the phonograph traces its
record on the wax cylinder or
disc.
In each case the record con-
sists essentially Of a waving
line, the rate and range Of Us-
cillation corresponding to the
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

modulations Of the voice or the
tones OF the musical instrumen:
being recorded.
The talking movie film. then.
looks like any other movie film.
plus a tiny. wavy white line
running along the edge. Mr..
Hoxie calls his apparatus a
pallophotophone, from Greek
words that mean literally
shaking light"
DCT how is this shaking
II light" line to be trans
formed into sound? There is
no groove in the film along
which a reproducing needle
could run. as in the case Of the
phonograph record. All that
can be done is to project light
through the waving line as the
film unrolls. letting il fall on n
bit OF metal whose sensitive
ness TO the passage OF a current
Of electricity is momentarily
modified by variations in tho
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

STILL. let US listen further
~ as is our American custom
to the tinlizzie philosopher:
''Give me the man OF forty
who has had lots OF expert
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

MY DEAR Olive.
mAYse YOU read.
SOMETHING wrote.
AND PRINTED here.
IN w4ica I said.
THAT AL til.
mothers.
OF ALL the world.
GAVE a little more.
OF THE love they
had.
AND THE strength
they had.
TO THE vayward
ones.
.unru::-.,
ones.
AND ! thought of that
. .
WHEN YOUR letter
came.
. .
AND IT isn't strange
YOUR CANINE
friend.
SHOULD DO this
thing.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

IT'S REALLY A BORE, IN FACT.
A lot of Americans are coming back from
Europe because money has become almost
worthless over there
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
to complain to some button.

WE'RE getting button-faced from living
w that way. Our eyes are starting to
look like button holes.
WE cook by buttons, eat by buttons and
W everything tastes like buttons.
WE sleep on buttons. We're awakened
w by buttons. Those pleasant old Sun
day morning church chimes are nothing
but buttons. Pianos are played by 'em,
nations are devastated by some bird
pushing wrong button and peace confer
ences are congested with delegates with
skulls like buttons.
A ND when your own button head finally
IA pulls loose from its frail thread Of
sanity, You wind up in State button
house playing Button, button. whose got
that buttonf"
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
WAYSIDE WISDOM.
ICopyrigh: 1872:
BY S. E. Kiser-

7 WANT to Join the Ku Klux Klan
Or something of that special kind.
Because l think my fellow man
Should get some jolts l have In mind;
l wish to punish those who fail
To drink the kind of milk l drink;
I'm eager to be on his trail
Who isn't thinking as l think.
7 WANT to mask myself and ride
l. With others Of my kind at night;
want 10 help when tar's applied
To those who have stirred up my spite.
I lack the nerve to start alone
To lay chastisement on my foe,
But, with q masked mob and unknown,
My courage would be great, I know.
I'm keen to help to regulate
L The lives of men whom could name;
They haven't harmed me. but I hate
Them most intensely. just the same.
They have enjoyment such as I've
Decided that ought to shun;
With help. think that could drive
Them out of town and spoil their fun.
THIS freedom people talk about
L Grows more alarming every day;
The time has come to stamp it out,
The world is getting much too gay.
Each prejudice I have should be
Imposed upon my fellow man;
He ought to like what pleases me:
want to Join the Ku Klux Klan.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

LINE THAT CAN'T BE CROSSED,
In Germany they have succeeded in finding
q synthetic substitute for about everything
but money.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

BUT NEvERTHE.
LESS.
IT'S GOOD to write.
AND PUT it down.
WHERE SELFISH
folk.
MAY STOP and read.
THAT ALL OF US
WHO HAVE our
strength.
OWE A Ii tie more.
TO THE " saker ones
THAN WE can owe.
TO THE stronger
ones.
AND YOUR Air.dale
dog.
JUST TEACHES
this.
IN THE car. .h.
takes.
OF HER weakest one
THANK you.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

MOT that IT matters particu-
~ larry what Henry Ford
says. for he does not often say
much when he talks.
But as the cynical proverb
puts 1t, Money talks" And we
have a sad habit in America.
of hanging on the words Of q
very rich man as II gold were
the symbol Of wisdom.
II q man has made a million
we are eager for his opinion
on everything. from tinlizzies to
metaphysics. And IL he is a
billionaire-then Solomon. Soc
rates and Company would bet
ter look to their laureis.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

TUE whole regiment was out
l. Of step except her Pat.
said the fond mother. as she
saw the boys march by; all the
other feet Of a different mind"
from her sons.
All thinkers and advisers have
emphasized the wisdom and
value Of thrift-except Henry
Ford. But no one has yet
charged Henry with being a
thinker.
Not even his most fervent
admirers. who have already
elected him President
OF the Dearborn Neighbor
hood Club,
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

WELL. then, SIT silent and
w open-mouthed a while and
let Henry do the talking.
Don't try and save money
and be a miser." II Henry had
used a spare moment. before
he became speed-maniac among
efficient" manufacturers, to
learn a little English. he might
have said: Don't try to save
money"
But what's grammar-or his
tory-as a means of money
making? Mere bunk! Only
soul-sucking speeding up Of
your employees counts toward
success. His, IL not theirs.
However. he tells you not to
save and be a miser.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

named in the announcement:
Delmar A. whitson, OF Los An
geles. and Charles A. Hoxie, OF
the General Electric Company
at Schenectady.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
THE HOPE THAT SPRINGS ETERNAL

Our prize optimist is the man who thinks
this Congress is going to discover some way
in which to reduce the income tax.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

WE cook by buttons, eat by buttons ant
W everything tastes like buttons.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
Of mine enemies, make the nay straight before my
Rv.JJ j. Muir Of oTemnABa tChrch

Text suggested by Muir pastor of TempA B.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1922-03-02
FIGHT MADE BY
SENATOR HARRIS
FOR FORD OFFER

Atlanta, Ga-All of Georgia Is in.
terested, doubtless as never before in
one industrial matter, over the FIGHT
to secure the development of Muscle
Shoals IN Alabama, and prominent
people here today discussed the ac-
tivities of United States Senator VIII
liam j. Harris of Georgia, in his sue
cessful fight to bring the offer of
Henry Ford before congress and have
both the senate and the house work
on the proposition concurrentlv TO
save time.
1t will be recalled that Senator Har-
statement from Secretary Weeks said
several weeks ago urging him to
speed up the report and provide in
the contract for manufacture of fer
A short time afterwards a
statement fro mSecretary Weeks said
Ford's offer was not satisfactory in
reference to the fertilizer feature.
This was cleared up promptly in an
exchange of kilograms between Sen
ator Harris and Ford's office in De-
troit.
The Ford offer was sent to the
house and not to the senate and Sen
ator Harris inquired as to the failure
to sent the proposition to both the
senate and house, and then Secretary
Weeks decided to send the report to
The senate.
Before the Secretary of War had
made known his purpose to send the
report to the senate, Senator Harris
made motion that the offer be re-
.erred to the Senate committee on
Agriculture for consideration.
A fight developed, but the report
has gone to the Agriculture com
nittee for consideration. 1t is the
opinion that this committee is sympa-
hetic with the proposition.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1922-03-02
HOW TO COMBAT
The BOIL WEEvIL

A meeting of farmers and those in.
terested in the welfare of the farmer
is scheduled to be held here on Feb
ruary 18th, at 1880 a. m.
How to meet the boil weevil situa.
ton is the main subject to be discus
sed. The best direct and indirect
methods of destroying, sidestepping
and beating the boil weevil to it will
be stressed, along with changes that
should be made in the farming pro-
gram and the marketing facilities that
must be developed.
Boil weevil experts. marketing
specialists, farm crop and livestock
specialists will deal with these sub
jects about which the Georgia farm
er IS now much concerned.
District Agent E. R. Strahan in
charge OF county agent work in this
section of the state has sent out an
nouncement that he has scheduled
TWO groups of speakers that will rea-
en- FOLK, Chattooga, Wilker, Floyd,
HARRISON, Douglas, Campbell, Henry.
5nIooScKdale, Barlow, Gordon, Clayton,
Forsyth, Cobb, Cherokee
PicIkens, Paulding, Hall, Banks, Hab,
ersham. Stephens, Gwinnett, Fayette
and DeKalb counties.
= The speakers enlisted are Roland
turner, railway agriculturist: l. II
1MIa:,rlatt, live stock specialist: j H
Mills, market specialist; E. r. Stra-
nan district agent and boil weeviI
auJhoerlty: 7. A. White, boil weeviI
ana Iertlllzer authority; J. G. Liddell
livestock expert; c. A. Cobb. Editor
southern Ruralist; Dr.Wm. Bradford
agflculturist; Mrs. Leila R. Mize in