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The Washington times., 1923-10-30
WORDS FROM
THE LIPS OF
WISE MEN

"REQUENT consideration of q
thing wears off the strange
ness OF 1t and shows 1t in its
several lights and various ways
OF appearance to the view Of the
mind.
Absence of occupation Is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind
distressed.-Cowper.
Every noble crown is, and on
earth will forever be, crown of
thorns.
Youth is confident, manhood
wary, and old age confident again.
The absurd man is he who
never changes.
Criticism is easy, and art IL
difficult.
Not always actions show the man,
we. find;
Who does a kindness IL not
therefore kind;
Perhaps prosperity becalmed his
Perhaps the wind just shifted
from the east: 80
Not therefore humble he 6Yvho
seeks retreat, 49,. y.
Pride. guides his steps and bids
him shun the great.-Pope.
There Is no disguise which can
long conceal love where 1t does,
or feign 1t where it does not,
exist.
Nothing is so contagious as
example and we never do any
great good or great evil which
does not produce it's like.
The greatest effort of friend
ship is not show our own faults
to a friend, but to make him see
his own.
Great names debase, instead of
elevate. those who cannot sus-
tain them.
We cannot expect perfection in
any one, but we may demand con-
sistency of every one.
Nature never did betray the
heart that loved her.
It happens by a common vice
OF nature that we trust most to,
and are most seriously frightened
at, things which are not seen,
which are hidden away and un-
known.
Copyright. 1923. by Newspaper
Feature Service, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1923-10-30
HistOru Made While You Watch.

A ND tremors Of joy emanate from Washington g as
~ ator Curtis Republican whip and power IN the fiI
committee announces Administration intent to =
taxes all down the line, regardless of bonus egslahf
This declaration, following White House confer
should help to counteract the market effect OF stat
from Lloyd George that all hope of reparations settle
must be relnquished unless Poincare reverses his
at Campigny and accepts indemnity reduction Othe1
chaos for Europe If that's so, prepare for chaos.
President Renal Pasha of Turkey sends greetings
the new republic established yesterday by, the Nal
Assembly at Angora. Wish him we'll. There's COMP
earnest honest individual who has already made hi
and may yet change the compiexion of the Near Eas
Trotsky is writing book etiquette. The worst Il
in Russia too. Anarchy pershes in the manicurists
and retreats before rules of precedent World revolt
Danish the thought 1t isn't approved in the best cir
The Darling bomber, Leviathan of aeroplanes 4
eight and half tons sixtythree hundred feet up in
The event dismissed with few lines is more signl
bit of than most of the past weeks featured STD
Limited aviation mail service eight years ago, merc1
cargoes today and in carload lots tomorrow. CaA
fruits and berries picked at sunrise for Manhattan
tables; peaches plucked in Cape Colony Monday an
fresh by high attitudes for Chicagos Thursday ma
flying freight has G4T1ved.
The Ruhr isn't supplying all food for reflection
Copyright Features Syndicate Inc and Herbert 81
The Washington times., 1923-10-30
GARRETT P. SERVISS EXPLAINS
EGYPTS MYSTIC SCIENCE
By Garrett P. Seryiss.
People of the Nile of 5000 Years Ago Had
Astronomical Calculations.
. and Writcr. ON Scientific TOPICS d

nHkOuS <A6GEOuOuhcE AA1u "ElbCG Okl
" HE Able TIL. MOREAux,
director of the observatory
n of Bourges. France, in a
new book, which many will find
fascinating, on 1.-THE Mysterious
Science Of the Pharaohs," argues
for the opinion that man has
fallen from more perfect state
instead Of rising from a more I'M
perfect one, anil supports his ar
gument by quoting evidence that
the builders of the Great pyramid
Of Cheops applied certain astro-
nomical data in their work with
a degree of accuracy not shown
even In the construction Of some
modern observatories.
What he says of the extraordi-
nary perfection Of workmanship
and the surprising mastery of
mechanical power exhibited by
the pyramid builders in the val
ley of the Nile. four or five thou
sand years ago, is quite correct,
but he seems to have an exagger-
.ated estimate Of the amount of
knowledge required for their
achievements.
Their pole star was not the
Alpha Ursae MINORS, which serves
:. US in that capacity, but the star
now known as Alpha Draconis.
In a land of starry skies like
Egypt, the relative fixity Of this
star, while all the others seemed
to revolve around 1t, was a fact
of easy observation.
Near it on one side was the
bowl OF the Little Dipper," with
the conspicuous star Beta Ursae
MINORS, and on the opposite side,
equally near, was the brilliant
row forming the handle of the
Great Dipper."
Nobody could help noticing that
these conspicuous star-groupS had
diurnal motion around the pole
star alpha Draconis). 1t was
the simplest of astronomical OBJ
servations. 1t was easier to per-
ceive the central, or axial. posi-
ton of the pole star then than
it is today.
There remained the problem Of
fixing the position of the real
pole, around which. in a small
This, of course. required skill.
OIlLJ liiO 0AlAAPAC<oS oSOAAASh'A
cal knowledge. 1t was a question
to be solved by careful observa-
ton and measurements. NOT by
mysterious science" It's nature
was as clear as day; there was
not a whiff Of the smoke of mys-
terry about it. That the Egyptian
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of the time
were able to make such exact
observations is, indeed, surpris-
ing, but 1t implies no other kind
of superiority than uncommon
correctness OF eve and manual
dexterity, and these were exhib-
tied by many of the neolithic
cave dwellers, who made out of
such materials as bone and flint
articles OF marvellous perfection
of form and delicacy of finish.
1t is true that we do not know
the history of the admirable prac-
tical science Of the builders of
the Great Pyramid. and we do
not know-though we can guess,
considering the part that wonder.
mongering played in the religious
practices of those times-why
this knowledge was not commu.
nicated outside of the narrow
circle Of the elect. But we can
plainly see that 1t was not knowl
The Washington times., 1923-10-30
LUCY LOWELL
ON FLAPPERS
AT FIFTY
BY LUCY LOWELL.

! A famous surgeon, VIII oS Q
laboratory experiments have
= challenged every natural law
OF bodily age and decay, now
makes an announcement to In
teregt women.
He states that he almost has
completed a simple scientific proc.
ess to restore girlish youth and
beauty to the middle years.
Taking the age menace from
the half-century mark" Is some
thing the way he explains 1t.
And the newspaper article telling
OF the promise and the discovery
is headed "Flappers at Fifty"
Well-Just as many thanks to
the illustrious scientist-but who
wants to be flapper at fifty?
OF course I am quite ready to
admit that there are women
whose lack Of actual purpose in
life has left them, at middle age,
with nothing more substantial to
exist upon than memory of the
eternal tribute paid to youth.
These will be only too eager to
capture at least the semblance Of
years that have gone.
For no earthly power may reach
backward and lift springtime into
autumn. Science may be able to
force q brighter color in autumn
flowers. But the flowers will be
fall blossoms Just the same-hardy
ones without perfume, instead Of
young violets and anemones.
Twenty is age Of fifteen--and
thirty decrepitude.
Thirty sees fifty as age but
looks upon twenty as a callow
period.
It seems to me that fifty should
be the high noon of life. Behind
lie the mistakes Of inexperience.
Ahead wait at least twenty or
thirty years in which lessons
laugh by experience may be put
to practical use.
The body is of infinitely less
consequence to the individual
than the mind. What though it
be crowned by gray and marked
bv crows feet? For each gray
hair the mind should have de-
veloped added tolerance: for each
wrinkle clearer vision.
And what woman Of fifty, who
understands her own assets, needs
to bother with the lovely trap
pings Of twenty?
she may enjoy those in her
s-perhaps-and reserve
the very real beauty that middle
age brings for herself. -,
don't believe fifty-yea" 'old
flapperism will be popular IN
America. Our women are roo
level-headed!
ICopyriSht, 1928. King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1923-10-30
SAP AND SALT
BY Bert Moses

Sickness puts more good reso-
1utions in you than religion.
Nature abhors a vacuum. which
may explain why she also abhors
Congress-.
Money creates sins a whole lot
faster than charity can cover them.
Divorce is a luxury that should
be left alone until you can at
ford It.
Honesty in politics would prob
ably pay If some one had nerve
enough to try 1t.
It Is easy to be philosopher II
YOU have a fixed income big
enough to protect you from hard
work.
A trouble Is great or small ac-
cording to how long you quit
work to wary about the thing.
Bad music inspires converse
ton; good music bushes 1t.
Hez Heck says: "Your wife's
relations Is folks who don't know
how to live nor when to de-"
(CopyriRht, 1929. Premier Syndicate. mo
The Washington times., 1923-10-30
Torture of Animals
A Chance for Kind Hearts.

Kind ladies and gentlemen that agtated about
section in the interest of science carried to the lives
of human beings and Of animals Also might devote
their attention to the catching of animals in traps
Twenty millions Of animals thus tortured every year.
And this does not take into the hundreds of millions
of frogs and other creatures impaled alive fish
hooks for the amusement of boys and
is suggested that trappers be compelled traps
kill the animals caught One thing certain The antivv
sectionists might they chose work very big scale
rather than interfere with science and its painless
conducted under complete anaesthesa all done battle
against disease.
Unscientic unauthorized vvisection and ALL vivi
section by school children should be stopped of
The Washington times., 1923-10-30

; edge requiring for It's acquire
ment or possession any special
revelation from on high, or any
extraordinary intellectual devel-
opment.
AS to the cryptic speculations
of Piazzi Smith concerning the
divine purpose embodied in the
building Of the Pyramid Of
Cheops, which the Able Moreux
revives. and the imaginary funda-
mental system OF units Of meas
urement petrified in the relative
dimensions Of the gigantic pile
Of masonry. wa may set them
aside as delusive, though interest
ing, dreams.
The able makes a long Jump
when he goes from the pyramid
builders to the prehistoric Gro
Magnons, and finishes with a
needless plunge when he asserts
that 1t appears just as natural
to consider the men Of the Stone
Age as degenerates C'veritables
degrades'O as to believe in their
primitive state Of savagery.
It is true that there are tribes
yet living who are, OF recently
have been, in the Stone Age Of
culture, living much as the pre-
historic races did; but what does
that indicate IL not that the Stone
Age is naturally first step in
human existence.
Both history and pre-history
accord in showing that the line of
progress is from savagery, through
barbarism, to civilizations; and
that successive civilizations,
though the primacy has often
shifted from one nation or race
to another, always tend to spread
wider and rise higher. There Is
no evidence anywhere of a fall
of the race Of man. He has
never gone backward, except
temporarily and locally, and then
only in externals. He has never
possessed any mysterious science.
Science is antipodal to mystery.
The Washington times., 1923-10-30
Once-Overs
Copyright. 1929.
INCREASE YOUR BANK ACCOUNT INSTEAD OF
YOUR EXPENDITURES

Just why do you allow your expenditures to increase
with your increase of salary wagesY
With larger income each year you ought to be able to
show larger bank account
you are ostrich you will stick your head into the
sand OF what would like to do with a little extra
money and spend it fast you hands on it.
get things charged you will have spent long
before, on the strength of your increase.
You will never get ahead by this plan You are not
making friends by your methods.
You are trying to cultivate certain persons perhaps
those friends Will fade fast enough it show
down and you cannot pay your bills.
Last year you resolved to turn leaf in this
respect You did not stick to your good resolutions.
The Washington times., 1923-10-30
God and Country

Editor The Washington Times:
"HE following inscription may
be seen on the east wing of
II Union Station:
Let all the deeds thou airnst at
be they country's, thy Gods and
truths be noble and the nobIeness
that lies in other men, sleeping.
but never dead. will rise in majesty
to meet thine own"
contend that it should read
thus: Let all the deeds thou
aimst ut be thy Gods. thy coun-
try's and truths be noble, etc"
Putting God first at all times ia
absolutely correct. and 1 defy the
world to take issue.
THOMAS L. HEALY.
The Washington times., 1923-10-30
Ban Curb Moron

--EOKUK, Iowa - Curbstone
TX morons must go. according
IN to the edict Of Chief OF
Police Mcpherson.
Although this Is no metropolis.
the youth of the town have city
WAYS. They insist on taking
young flappers for joy rides with
out first being properly intro
duced
In Keokuk proper introduction
Is a social prerequisite.
Hence several male vamps,
termed "curbstone morons" by
the police, are languishing in jail
to pay for their social errors.
The Washington times., 1923-10-30
Feathers iron. Dead Men's cons.

4 LMOST all the students Of the Oregon Agricul
n College, born and reared west of the Cascade q
tains either have poor teeth show more or
evidence Of gotre, due to drinking melted snow "
totally lacking in lime and organic salts. Eat more
fish and green vegetables
Buckle the historian refers to identical conditions
observations in upper India and parts of Africa.
Over century ago. Himalayan tribes knew what q
the widely prevalent disease and burned sponges for
sake of the iodine In their ashes
As early as 1907 Mungo Park, the explorer, with
the same practice among negro witchdoctors, also q
Of goitres origin and the efficacy Of iodine treatment
Modern medicine reaches a belated diagnosis and
The group of Psychologists who have just plumed :
selves upon introducing novelty to therapeutics sc
have plucked their feathers from dead mems caps
All sound knowledge isn't recent Previous folk
were fundamental What modern mathematician is
parable to Archimedes9 And, pray, who temper br
nowadaysi
DR.. Branch, Of the Yale-Hunan Hospital, in Chal
credits Chinese practitioners with remedies thai
West might well adopt. Some of their heart stimuli
cathartcs, and dropsy prescriptions much superb
those in pharmacopoeia.
Yesterday is by no means squeezed orange.
The Washington times., 1923-10-30
AN AMERICAN WIZ
NEVER HEARD OF
COLUMBUS
By HERBERT KAUFMAN.

THE Smithsonian Expedition locates the oldest hui
inhabitant of America under the site Of the 20
Hotel at Santa Barbara.
This ancient person, judging by his skull seems to
been hardheaded, bigoted quarrelsome citizen, incap
OF many ideas and dsncned to revise them.
As we have found previous local evidence Of &
the same era ethnologists will investigate var
European family trees and endeavor trace another mil
tory branch Of the CroMagnons reputed descendants o
tribes which populated Western Europe
Coincidenta characteristics suggest that this aborir
may possibly be related to certain NJ Raymond Poinc
who offers objection to the institution Of repara
inquiry having already assured himself that the Versa
treaty forbids acceptance of its recommendations or
cisions.
The Washington times., 1923-10-30
Circus Lemonade.

CEVERAL readers want to know how government
- initiate its currency that dollar will buy sew
billion dollars worth Of money. In precisely the
way that circus lemonade is dilutedconstant addition
water without increasing flavoring content.
Teuton finance simply let the Atlantic into Reichsban
At the present moment, Germany is several quint
marks short Of demand. Had Adam started to con-
quintion and wed the completion Of the job to desc
ants, the task would still be unfinished.
Isn't it wonderful to live in country whose paper
always be as good gold (provided don't wei
security and securities by exposing them to Eurol
influence)f
The Washington times., 1923-10-30
ShakedouOns and Earthquakes,

aid KING COAL still takes his toll despite Gov
I ] Pinchot. The strike settlement plank, up Will
once looked as though he'd walk long way tol
the Republican nomination, won't carry him far, acl
ing to retail coal prices.
psychic victory for the exploited public Nothing
Federal control prevent anthracite profteerng
nation of mine and final charges proves that
ducers instead of wholesalers responsible for the
cost of furnace fuel
It begins to look though the colliery companies h
stronger pull in Congress than the people at large
Memphis meets stranger. For the first time in reel
ton five-minute earthquake visits the city and sl
things generally hundred and fifty miles around Tr
extend through the entire Central Mississippi Valley,
plate glass windows and topple chimneys at Mark
Arkansas, and stage tidal wave the ST. Francis ri
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25
The Undesirable Citizen"

OF course, in all towns as we'll as in
all cities there are men who can talk
biggest when they are away from
home where they are not known. Cen
orally these are men who shirk duty
and dodge responsibility. never con-
tributing as they should to community
progress. There are even those who
seek to retard progress and seem to
take greatest satisfaction in the fail
ure of public effort to develop the
town in the largest possible degree.
These men are conspicuous but they
are conspicuous not in the way that
citizens are who endeavOr to discharge
their every civic and political obliga-
ton. They are, more conspicuous in
small towns than they would be In
great cities, for there they would go
practically unnoticed. Yet conspic-
uousness in small towns has its COM
pensation, for the fellow who won't
go along until he is compelled to go
can easily be reckoned with In one
way or another.-Grit. WI
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25
One-Piece Dresses in
Gay, Peasant Coloring

Little one-piece dresses for children
are made with embroidery at the top
of the hem, around the neck and where
the frock opens in front. over the
shoulders and around the sleeves in
gay, peasant colorlng. The materials
used are light colored linens. Some
dresses are embroidered with round or
oblong medallion designs, and when
the linen is white heavy linen lace is
scantily quilted around the medallions.
Fudge aprons, tea aprons and fancy
work aprons all come in for their
share of embroidery, and some of
them are very original and attractive.
One in old blue linen had oblong. en-
broidered motifs in white and gay col
ors, and around each motif a little
crocheted linen lace was quilted, which
gave very foreign effect to the work.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25
CfoI11n2u1nF1l{Xg
y Building
SAVING THE OLD SHINGLES
Nothing Gained by Their Removal, 10
the Verdict Delivered by
Building Expert.

Home owners planning to repair or
recover their single roofs are urged
to save their old shingles in state
ment issued by J. NJ. Berdan, Detroit
building expert.
"Of the 25,OO0,0OO buildings in the
United States" said Mr.. Berdan, mot
quite 5,250,OO0 still have wooden
roofs. OF these wooden roofs, our
field agents report that nearly a
million are in need Of repair. on
account of the fact that many of these
repair jobs have been long deferred.
Just how the owners of these roofs
10 about having the work done, par
ticularly in the midst Of the greatest
building boom since 1909, will depend
the expenditure or saving Of large
sum of money. y
'The conventional method in giving
a house with shingles new roof il to
rip off the old shingles and to lay the
new roof on the old Turing strips.
This means mussing up lawns and
shrubbery, filing the upper floors of.
the house with dirt and dust, and run
ming the chance of getting caught i'll
sudden storm with no roof on the.
house. In addition, of course, is the
cost of the labor for ripping the shin
giles off.
"These risks ind expenses can be.
avoided by living the new roof right
over the old shingles. Whatever me
material of the old roof, whether as
phalt or wooden shingles, the new roof
will be cheaper to lay and will Ufrer'.
& Better insulation for the house; max
ing it cooler in summer and warmer
iii winter. The additional weight 'sl
easily supported, though in some cases,
it may be necessary to brace the raft
ers.
"Home owners will spare themselves
trouble and money by leaving the old
wooden shingles in their places"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25
Fur Coats Are to Be
Simmer Next Season

Fur coats will be slim next year. If
we are to believe'what designers say.
This seasons coats and capes have
been rather voluminous, falling in full
lines from shoulder to hem. The pres
.ent French styles, however, are far
more slender in silhouette than ours
and we will undoubtedly be following
their lines next season.
Already importers are showing ad-
vance models based upon French i'm
ports with long. slender lines. 1t is
presumed that the long skirt vogue
will continue throughout the coming
year, hence advance models all con.
'centrate on the 51-inch length, with a
decided tendency toward the narrow
ankle line. In some cases the ankle
line is so scant that inside straps and
under lacings are provided to make
walking more comfortable. ;
Coats and dolmans are gaining over
the cape for daytime wear. The cape
with the side slits for the arms will
probably remain staple for evening
wear.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25
Shoes I'm Colors
Match the Dress
Various Tones Used Singly
and in Combination
With Others.

BO0tmakerS are among the most YER
satile people in the world. Even the
dressmaker of today, notes a Paris
fashion writer in the New York Trib-
une, is scarcely able to keep pace with
the modern shoemaker in clever ideas.
There apparently is no end to the
original things that he can do.
The c0lors seen in shoes naturally
follow those in dresses. All the gray
and brown tones are used singly and
IN combination with one another. The
grays range from the shade known as
silver gray to smoke color, and the
browns from fawn to the darker cocoa
shades. Otter is particularly popular
at the present time.
In the novelty class are shoes made
OF bright-colored kid. 1t has been some
time since slippers Of colored kid were
worn to any extent. All the green's,
reds and browns seen in dresses are
reflected in the newest footwear of this
sort. Not every woman will have the
courage to appear in shoes of bright
green or red, but the dark blue and
bottle green shades will no doubt be-
come popular, even with the more con-
sentative woman Colored kid is used
for trimmings, such as tongues, insert
ed strips and heels, as well as for en-
tire shoes.
To start an epidemic Of color in
clothes is like upsetting hundreds of
dye pots. Even as far-reaching as
shoes is the influence of bright-colored
prints, which show no sign of waning.
At the recent International silk eX-
position representatives Of the ex-
elusive shoe shops of America were
to be found mingling in the booths
searching for printed materials from
which to- make shoes for the coming
summer.
Cut-steel shoe ornaments are having
tremendous vogue in Paris at the
present time. So great is the demand
for these that manufacturers are
charging as high as $50 francs for a