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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-29
WORDS FROM
THE LIPS OF
WISE MEN
Copyright. 1923. BY star Company

WY ELCOME is the best dish
w on the table.
A cause that cannot stand de-
feated is not worth fighting for.
He who rises late may trot all
day and not overtake his business
If a man empties his purse into
his head, no one can take it from
him.
The surest proof of being en-
dowed with noble qualities is to be
free from envy.
The more fully you are right in
a quarrel the easier you will find
it to pardon.
Doubt is the vestibule which all
must pass before they can enter
into the temple of Wisdom.
To love for the sake of being
loved is human-but to love for
the sake of loving is angelic.
Disbursement is the worst mis-
fortune that can befall a man. 1t
is the death of his strength.
On the whole, there is only one
person in the world toward whom
it is safe to be always inflexible,
and that is yourself.
The tragedy of our country, as
Of other lands, is that we often
mean so extraordinarily well and
do so extraordinarily badly.
True happiness, we are told, con-
sists in getting out Of ones self,
but the point is not only should
we get out, you must stay out,
and to stay out you must have
some absorbing errand.
In order that people may be
happy in their work these three
things are necessary: They must
be fit for it, they must not do too
much of it, and they must have
a sense of success in 1t.
Little books are read the most
and little songs are the dearest
loved. And when Nature would
make anything especially rare and
beautiful, she makes it little
little pearls, little diamonds, little
dews.
copyright 1923, International Fea-
lures Service, 1nc-)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-29
Garrett p. Serviss Shows How the
Procession of the EquinOxes
Is Caused
By Garrett P. Serviss.
Is Caused
Astronomer AutOrit Subjects Of Scientific Interest

eve always read your articles
with most absorbing interest.
Mind you, we do not doubt any
thing that astronomers tell US, so
much Of which is interesting and
awe-inspiring, but we cannot un-
derstand the Procession of the
Equinoxes.' If the earth wabbles
in its axis, then it seems to us 1t
cannot always hold the angle Of
23h degrees, which the plane of
the orbit makes with the plane Of
the equator. Please explain
Mr.. and Mrs. e. s. B., DeQueen,
Ark"
" HE wabbling of the earth's
axis, of which you speak, is
- very slight, the change Of
latitude caused by it not exceed
ing three-tenths of a second of
arc, i. e., less than one 0,000th
part of 231a degrees.
Here are the main facts: The
axis about which the earth makes
it's daily rotation is tipped out of
a perpendicular to the plane in
which it (the EARTH revolves an
nually around the sun, at an
lLi6AC III dOOul 90 u OCElCCS' iC
direction in which the axis tips
with reference to surrounding
space remains nearly unchanged
in a human lifetime, and would
remain absolutely unchanged for
ever but for the fact that the
earth, instead of being perfectly
spherical in shape, is swollen
around it's equatorial regions to a
srfn
through the earth along the line
of its axis, j. e., from pole to pole,
is twenty-SiX miles less than the
distance through it in the equa-
torial plane.
Now, this equatorial protuber-
ance of the earth serves, so to
speak, as the arm of a lever for
the attraction of the sun to take
hold of, and to act upon in such
a way as to tend to set the axis
Of the earth more toward a per-
pendicular to the plane Of the
ecliptic, in which the sun Is sit
uated. In other words, the sun
may be said to pull the longer
diameter of the earth toward it
self the SUM.
But, the earth being in rela-
lively swift rotation about it's
axis, the line Of the suns pull
is constantly shifting it's position
around the equator, and the re-
suit is not an actual change in
the direction of the inclination Of
the axis, but instead a twisting
motion of the axis, the ends Of
which, the poles, are thus caused
to reVolVe around the poles of
the ecliptic. This motion is anal
Ogous to that of the axis Of a
gyroscope, which when pulled
downward does not fall, but
shifts it's position in 81 horizontal
circle.
Now, the equatorial protuber-
ance of the earth is not great
compared with the size of the
earth, and consequently the eff
feet of the suns pull upon it, Just
described, is but small compared
with tn effect of it's pull upon
the earth as whole, so that the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-29
Once-Overs
Copyright 1923 by international Service
YOUR ILLNESS AND YOUR DISPOSITION

Why irritable and unreasonable when you
i'll?
Why allow your imagination to lead you think that
your pains and your aches much than those of
anyone else?
Thousands of persons have suffered and are suffering
than you and yet only small percentage of
them make much fuss you
Stewng and frettg and becoming angry aggravate any
pain have and how foolish you your
discomfort
Lying still and keeping quiet the best things YOU
do in illness
Be hopeful and cheerful and help yourself get we'll
Get rid of the idea that you sorely afflicted
than anyone else.
Use
Ii you know that all that medical and physical
do Tor being done and that do the
rest, why not give nature the chance do it's part?
Nature cannot work unless you quiet mentally and
physically.
1t is to your advantage to cooperate with
those who caring for you.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-29
Good Indian Answers
They Are Very "Direct" Red Men.

Indians spontaneously produce appropriate
difficult questions
Early in the last century when missionaries called upon
the famous Red Jacket in the Genesee Valley
Christian of him, he listened attentivey Then he said:
''You white men killed your God that is YOUR look
out Don't try to make red responsible for what
YOU did. If He had here should have treated
Him kindly and given Him wigwam."
The other day very foolish in the department
that takes of American Indians and does it badly
nounced that the Pueblo Indians give up
dancing The Pueb1os replied:
''We shall stop dancing when the white stops
his dancing. You tell 20 initiate the white man.
like the white money like the white man, and
settle down like the white All right well dance like
the white man, and he dances good deal
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-29

> twisting around of the axis is
slow as compared with the revo-
luton of the earth around the
sun. The latter takes one year,
while the revolution of the poles
requires no less than 25,S00
years. This revolution is the
procession of the eQuinoxes, so
called because it produces a
backward, or westward, move
ment of the equinoxes Uhe two
opposite points where the plane
of the equator intersects that of
the ecliptic).
To avoid confusion I have thus
far not mentioned the fact that
the moon as we'll as the sun is
concerned in the production of
the procession. and in truth the
moon, because of it's relative
nearness, is four times as effec-
tive as the sun. Nevertheless,
the nature Of the action Is alike
with both, while it's principle can
be much more clearly explained
when the pull of the sun alone is
considered
The moon does not travel ex-
actly in the plane of the ecliptic,
so that the direction of her at
traction varies, with the conse-
quence that she causes a nodding
Of the earth's poles as they move
slowly around the poles of the
ecliptic, which is called mutation.
AS a result of mutation the obliq-
uity of the ecliptic, j. e., the an
gle OF inclination to the equator,
varies periodically in a cycle Of
between eighteen and nineteen
years, alternately increasing nine
seconds above the mean and then
decreasing mine seconds below it.
In addition to this, in conse-
Quence Of various disturbing ac-
lions too abstruse to be discussed
here the obliquity of the ecliptic
undergoes certain small secular
changes" taking long periods of
time. At present the angle is
diminishing about half a second
of arc per year. After it has
diminished to 24A degrees it will
slowly increase again. but it has
been calculated that it can never
exceed about 25 degrees. So our
proud old earth-mother doesn't
courtesy too low.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-29
Rum Held Route
to Insanity

~ HICAGO-In the old days the
road led from the corner
" saloon over the hill to the
poor house. Today it leads to the
insane asylum.
DIR. Sidney Kuh, professor at
Rush Medical College, lecturing
before the Mental Hygiene So
ciety here, termed moonshine
drinking as the route to in
sanity"
patients suffering from alco-
holism are on the increase"
warned DIR. Kuh. "They used to
go to the poor house. Now they
go to psychopathic hospitals and
then to State institutions for the
insane"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-29
They Hate 1t, and Seek 1t
Drugs and War.

Everybody has heard the victim of drink drugs
ing that he could keep from his curse and everybody
has him drift back to the thing that he hates and fears
and that rules him.
War with its wholesale murders be drug
controls the nations including the most civilized They
and hate it, wish they could keep from it, but they drift
back
The strange longing in the drug fiend affecting every
nerve little different in the nation It commercial itch
ing for somebody eses business somebody ese property
And that commercial itch for money trade bigger
profitable loans brings the drunkenness
of
It starts in envy hatred and ends in wh patriotism
that is itself kind of debauch.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-29
Letter IS Years
on the Way

w ERU. Ind.-A letter written
- by his mother in Germany
l. nearly five years before her
death thirty years ago has been
received here by Bernhard Lind
ner, city treasurer. Oscar Lind.
ner, a brother, who lives in Bourg-
stadt, Saxony, found the letter
among old papers, 1t had owl
IDENTIFY been misplaced by their
mother when she had INTENDED to
mail It. .l,.n1
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-29
SAP AND SALT
BY Bert Moses

Those who make themselves
miserable in this world in order
to ne happy in the next are TAX
ing a long chance.
HeZ Heck says: "Old houses
and old people both hev roof
troubles
Copyright. 1923. by Premier Syn
dictate, Incl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-29
The Key That Franklin Dropped.
Then Won't Haze the Same WORRIES.

TR. JOHN LEWIS considering mutual future coal
IVI strikes with British confreres won't have the
set of worries; world largely at the mercy of
miners picks and operators greed at least less a
tonand expenseshould the Guot idea prove practicable
Hard lines though for Monsieur Poincare Of what
them the Ruhrs wealth. with blue skies drive the wheels
of all nations He tyrannize few hundred miles of
earth but all the kings horses and all the kings can't
confiscate the riches of the Heavens.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-29
AMAZING HAPPENINGS
DEPEND ON ONE
LITTLE WORD
By HERBERT KAUFMAN.

OUNGERs about the harbor front of Cadz some four
hundred and thrtyone years ago weren't particularly
impressed as three cockle-shels weighed anchor and
sailed westward New worlds discovered very
ordinary circumstances.
Vital events preceded by commonplace shadows and
great moments licked from pinchbeck clerks.
Christ was born in a Manager.
Mohammed~ began his long ride history bag
gage camel
The first phases of astounding adventures lustrious
and have been uniformly
romantic
Even the telephone and wireless made very casual
entrance into the
So give second thought NJ. Jules Guillots simple
little machine of which the papers have just told you.
Is Man Greater Than Nature?
THIS Frenchman, the cables scantiy announce has
devised instrument which obtains positive and
negative currents from the atmosphere. When
bined they light lamps and produce heat
We told that the first model successfully keeps ten
ftycande ncandescent bulbs constantly
burning
From the description at hand Guots CONTINUANCE is no
complicated than radio and like radio operated
by small antennae.
nterocean conversation far credible achievement
than the of electricity from the atmosphere
Nature surely capable of generating any forces that
can create
Nothing should nfeasible to generation of sky
Anine coors and radium should have presented vaser
difficulties to research than the extraction Of lightning from
its universal element.
The Key That Franklin Dropped
IT'S dollars cruers NJ Gulot picked up the key
of Frankn kite and unlocked the storehouses Of
: fuel.
H-and billions upon billions hang on that word-the
ether is great common battery and generator industrial
and economic revolutions beyond estimate at hand
Existing systems of transportation will be promptly
vised Trains will drop their tenders and dispense with
powerhouses aeroplanes tap the clouds they fly
product Every factory and household will be its own
Edison company.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-29
Parliament Makes Faces and Does NOTHING.

rEANWHILE fire vegetable eater stubbornly
V proceeds with his ndefensble and indgesble project
Belgium is listening to Italy. Mussolini is for
Intervention and the best obtanable terms.
SHINES invites company of American business to
examine Germanys condition and figure for themselves how
much she pay
Asquth, who brought England into the war, bitterly
assas Bonar Laws benevolent impotence and demands
blazing light the bruta policy of arbitrary ally.
The treaty of Versailles he claims, prohibited the
ton of either bank of the Rhine by armed forces The full
filment of it's terms amply protects France
Sir Edward Grggs late private secretary to Lloyd George
denies that the poiu collector of reparatons The r
color planted in Germany emblem of spoliaon.
Parliament cheers while of all parties Of another
Alsace Lorraine matchmaking But does nothing
Russia Makes q PeriLOus Play.
IF Russia would not be pariah-Moscow will do some
thng-and very promptly-to allay international fury
against the outrage she contemplates Christianity
Should high dgntares of the Catholic church be slain by
the sovets Moscow forthwith becomes an mpous CAIN an
Ishmael with every race and treasury against her.
But Lenin and Trotsky too shrewd to invoke such
ostracism. Those desperate gamblers filling an
already bad hand with perilous card Mark you,
they'll lay it down without play.
Washington adds it's note to the protest Of Jew and gentle,
Catholic and Baptist, republic and empire.
The hate that saked cars blood won't drink Roes
A Few Less Important Folk.
N old gentleman with a very bad memory and worse
~ morals meets a forgotten wife, woos her and pro-
poses marriage. Nine spouses have been dis
snch distinguished specialist shouldn't be careless
Which brings up the of the doctor who forgot that
there's small amount arsenic in every human. He had
diagnosed natural death criminal poisoning and put
innocent in Jail for thirty The law should not
accept hasty and unconfrmed opinions Neither should
anybody else 40 g,
dollars is particularly Weighing the consequence Of hasy
words mothers will outs her off without cent she
doesn t revise her opinion Of the family,
She can have two hundred thousand dollars Tor SIMPLY
saying, q apologize"
fortune hangs on two little words
'a King T lures Syndicate and Herbert
The Washington times., 1923-03-01
Maintaining a Playground
Through Community Effort
What the Teachers Association of the Franklin
Thomson School is Doing.

Headed by the Association Of the Franklin
Thomson School, at Twelfth and streets northwest the
citizens Of that section of the city today begin campaign
% raise $500 to provide for supervision of the playground
attached to the school until public funds available July
next
is to be community effort for community necessity,
and the money will be raised in short order judging the
lvewre committee of and who handling the
matter and the deep interest being taken by parents and
friends
This playground is the only one between the Mall and
florida avenue in that part Of Washington should have
been kept good condition and continuous service from funds
appropriated by Congress That body reduced playground
funds for the fiscal year much that little money
available For the fiscal year the funds for play
grounds badly cut by Congress- the House requiring
that these appropriations should be paid wholly out OF
District funds the Federal Government contributing share
The growing Importance of Fairgrounds for Washington
children in view Of :he increasing of street traffic
should appeal to congressman and Senators who fathers
OF children and who want the little to have wholesome
and safe recreation and play.
The citizens of the Franklin Thomson section set fine
example 20 those of other parts Of Washington in taking
duty upon themselves of doing what Congress refused to
permit the District and Federal Governments to do.
The Washington times., 1923-03-01
This Is Our Private Struggle"
France
France
It Was Different in 1917.

The French declare themselves much pleased with the vote
In the House of Commons against interference
invasion As matter of fact vote other than the
cast would have been vote to criticize the government and
put Bonar Law Therefore, the had meaning as
regards the Ruhr vote Of confidence for Bonar Law
You read with interest the statement Poincare the
ct the world to regard the Franco German struggle as
private one" You remember not long ago when
another Franco German struggle" going on when
the French did not wish the rest of the world regard
private fight In fact invited quite earnestly to
come In with and money, and whatever else had
Advice then, and help, quite acceptable.
The struggle becomes private one when one Of the
sugg has got the other down on back and pounding
him comfortably.
However far United States is concerned that
struggle may REMAIN private and the win be true Of
future struggles that coming They business
and won't be- Let Europe settle them
The Washington times., 1923-03-01
GARRETT P. SERVISS ON THE
MOON OCEAN THEORY
Nothing Belief That Lunar Planet Has Great Seas Like
Those on Earth.

A MAN in Woburn, Mass,
AZ who likes to watch the
IA moon, land discuss the uni
verse;" and who, apparently, does
not like to give up the idea which
Calico entertained, together with
many other astronomers of former
centuries. that the moon is just
like another earth, only smaller,
suggests that the reason why we
see no water on those level parts
of the moon which are still called
maria, or seas" is because of
their great distance from us.
He thinks that, just as we can
see the bottom of harbors, lakes
and rivers, by looking down from
great height, so the oceans of
the moon, although a mile or
more deep, may be transparent
to our eyes 100000 miles away.
Many persons entertain a SINH
lar idea. but it is erroneous. In
fact, the light undergone a double
absorption, once in descending
and again in returning after re.
Election from the bottom, and
enough light must come back to
make the rejecting object visible
from above the surface of the
water.
Camera Better Than Eye.
It is plain that increase of dis
lance of the observer above the
water cannot increase the amount
of light reflected from the bot
tom, but 1t may render the family
illuminated objects on the bottom
easier to be seen for two reasons:
First, because at the increased
distance the confusing reflection
from ripples and wavelets on the
surface Is relatively diminished;
and. second, because the outlines
of objects Of considerable size,
such as large rocks and sandy
shoals, can be better grasped
from a greater distance, where
the light reflected from their
whole surface is collected in a
single view.
But the depth at which such OBJ
jects can be distinguished from
balloons and airships Is not very
great. The Photographic camera
reveals them rather better than
the eye, and the greatest depth
at winch SUCH Photographs nave
been taken Is only between fifty
and sixty feet. OF course, in spe-
cially clear water and where a
beam of light directly touches
a bright submerged object, visi-
bility may extend to somewhat
greater depths.
At the bottom of lunar oceans
just as is the case at the bottom
OF the terrestrial ones, there
would be complete absence of
sunlight. The absorption Of light
by the upper layers of water
would make the oceans dark IN
hue, and they might have a gen.
orally blush tinge. But their
presence would be best revealed
by CLEANS and f1ushes from areas
of total reflection. such as appear
on the surfaces of our seas when
viewed at certain angles.
Moreover. If there were enough
water on the moon to form
oceans. 1t would evaporate and
give birth to clouds, tust as II
does on the earth, and then the
The Washington times., 1923-03-01
HEROINES
FAMOUS IN
HISTORY
0pyrisht asas. ~ star COMPANY.
TT is not known where or when
Helena-Flayia Julia Helena

TT is not known where or when
Helena-Flavia Julia Helena
- was born.
Some authorities say that she
was the daughter of an innkeeper
in Bithynia, one Of the ancient
divisions of Asia Minor. Other
historians record that she was
either a British or Caledonian
princess Of great beauty.
But it is known that Helena
became the wife Of Constantine
Chorus, and bore him a son who
was destined not only to be one
Of the great rulers of history, but
to have vast influence in Chris
tianizing the world.
When Constanitus Chlorus-the
father of Constantine and hus-
band of Helena-was elevated to
the purple and madeS one of the
Caesars, he was forced to repudi-
ate and divorce Helena in order
to marry Theodore, the daughter
Of Maximian, one of the senior
Caesars, for at this time there
were five Caesars who governed
jointly the Roman Empire.
This must have been a great
0OAAO" " ASA OOu
Because his first act upon becom-
ing Caesar was to confer the
title Of Augustus" on his mother
and to cause her to be treated
with the greatest respect and
honor.
It was this son who before q
battle, according to tradition, saw
the sign OF the cross in the
heavens and with It the inscrip-
ton, I'm hoe signo vinces."
From that time, these words were
emblazoned on Constantine's ban
ners.
Constantine afterward caused
Christianity to be adopted by the
State. He also inaugurated Con-
stantinople as the capital of the
Roman Empire. His mother was
constantly with him, but it was
not until her later years that he
converted her to Christianity.
From that time, Helena be-
came an earnest Christian. She
did all in her power to further
this young religion. So fervent
was this good woman's wish to
proclaim her new faith that she
made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
There she built the Church Of the
Holy Sepulchre and the Church
of the Nativity.
The Washington times., 1923-03-01
is LIBERATION
OF INNOCENT
JUSTICE?

Editor of The Washington Times:
l am a reader OF The Times and
several Of the Hearst Magazines.
l am a careful reader and digest
mentally what am reading. Time
and again I see in your paper
where prisoners have been released
who were incarcerated and i'm.
prisoned under various charges,
having served from months to
years under these charges inno-
Gently.
We urgently need a national
law, for the sake of justice, that
merely releasing such prisoner is
an insufficient recompense. For
example, should you be imprison-
ed for murder, life sentence and
after ten or twelve years, the real
murderer should confess. Would
mere liberation be justice? Mo-!
The State having convicted and in
carcerated you should by national
law be compelled to pay you for
every day served under it's mis-
taken charge equal to your daily
wage had you been at liberty, and
double time for every Sunday thus
served under the false or mis-
taken Incarceration.
Also should such innocent victim
be hanged, his family should by
this same law be pensioned,
equivalent to the salary he was
earning before he was indicted and
imprisoned.
Look at it yourself, do you
think it would be Justice to mere
ly turn you loose, after perhaps
serving years Of time innocently?
No! You and I too would be forced
to become real criminals by that
kind OF justice.
Therefore l wish that you use
your best efforts to bring for
ward a propaganda. which will
keep down anarchism. In other
words. we want justice without
fringes.
GEORGE WAGENLANDER.