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The Washington times., 1923-10-27
WORDS FROM
THE LIPS OF
WISE MEN

TIME books which help you
most are those which make
u you think the most. The
hardest way of learning IS by
easy reading.
Unless a man has trained him
self for his chance, the chance
will only make him ridiculous. A
great occasion is worth to a man
exactly what his antecedents
have enabled him to make of 1t.
Love thyself last; cherish thou
hearts that hate thee;
Corruption wins not more than
honesty;
Still in thy right hand carry
gentle peace,
To silence envious tongues.
Shakespeare.
Men, in general, are but great
children.
Modesty is always inseparable
from true merit.
Men seldom wish ardently for
what they wish for only from
reason.
A resolute man cares nothing
about difficulties.
None is wealthy but the afflu-
ent in soul.
It is great folly to wish to be
exclusively wise.
Avoid, II possible, mourning an
obligation which you have reason
to believe you will never have it
in your power to repay.
It is hardly possible to suspect
another, without having in ones
self the seeds of baseness the
party Is accused Of.
What renders the vanity OF
others insupportable is that it
wounds our own.
The best sport is to do the
deed and say nothing.
The world can pry out every.
thing about US which 1t has in
mind to know. But there Is this
consolation, which men can never
accept in their own cases, that
the world doesn't care.
What martial music is to march
men should song be to humanity.
Copyright, 1923. by Newspaper
Feature Service, Inc)
The Washington times., 1923-10-27

N a compartment Of a French
railroad train, on the way
4 from Luchon, "the queen of
the Pyrenees," to Toulouse, I
happened to sit opposite to lady
who had evidently been climbing
among the mountains as myself
had. After inspecting some pho
Geographic negatives with a criti-
cal, and not approving, eve, she
took from her handbag a small
sketch book, and fell to turning
over its pages, with smiles of
qualification. She held the book
in such way that, without any
indiscretion, could see much Of
its contents.
The sketches were not more
than three by four inches In size,
drawn in black and white, with
a few colors. The pleasure that
their maker displayed in review
ing them interested me as much
as the drawings, though they were
truly fine, and threw me into a
meditation on the value for every
body of some knowledge Of the
art Of sketching.
I thought of my own very t1n-
satisfactory photographs OF some
of the scenes which these simple
crayons so charmingly repro
duced, and resolved that upon
my return home would try to
acquire a little skill in that most
useful and pleasing art.
I could read in the absorbed
face before me the exquisite de-
light that the artist derived from
her pictures. l could see her re-
making in her memory the pencil
strokes that had transferred the
peaks, the glaciers, the clouds,
the hanging woods, the mountain
cupped lakes and the preciplce-
leaping waterfalls, to the pages
of her sketch-book. In doing that
she had mirrored herself In the
Pyrenees, and during all the rest
of her life she would see her
self there at work. whenever she
opened the book.
That, I reflected, is one OF
the elements of the incalculab1e
superiority that the sketch, made
by the viewers hand, under the
direction of the viewers mind,
and with the Interpretation of his
awakened imagination, possesses
over the mechanical photograph,
which cannot tell the whole truth,
and often misses the oest part
of the truth, just because 1t Is
unspiritual and unimaginative.
Even for scientific purposes
photograph is often inferior to
sketch. Mountains, in particular,
suffer from the failure Of the
photograph to reproduce their APP
pearance, and their moral effect,
as the actual spectator sees and
feels them. The photograph is
undiscriminating; it sees too much
that unessential and reproduces
It with offensive and misleading
conspicuousness.
The camera is a Cyclops. with
one eye, and therefore without
sense of perspective. That, no
doubt, was what saved Ulysses
and his companions when the
one.eyed giants of Mt. Etna threw
rocks after their retreatiag ship.
Not possessing the parallactic
effect of two-eyed vision they
could not judge distance. The
artist, in his sketch, has various
ways at his command for repre-
senting relative distance, and the
effects of atmospheric ABSORB
ton. The photograph exaggerates
and falsifies shades and shadows.
The Washington times., 1923-10-27
Mexico MOUes TOward Canada.

OTIS of rainbows, if you look for them. Airships re-
fueed in fight pick up the Mexican border and carry
IL It within twelve hours distance of the Canadian line
The truth isn't maps; spaces aren't measured by rods
and naces forget ground mileage remember clock surveys
Seattles travelling headong toward the Atlantlc the
stretch between Manhattan and San Francisco is mere
sun ride Calculate progress accordingly ana plan
with sky-freighter in view
Time MASTERS to the sidings clear the track for ex-
press trains of thought Crowd your crops force caw
ding acres scientists have discovered new fertilizer tna
terminates seeds in week Two dollars soon where one
crew before Opportunity can't halt for laggards Move
fost
The Washington times., 1923-10-27


It ignores coIors and tints,
color photography being, usual
~, libel on nature.
Widely extended landscapes,
with distant frames OF hill or
mountain, are almost hopeless
subjects for photography, although
they are often the scenes which
most powerfully affect the be.
holders imagination, and which
he Is most DESTROYS ito preserve
in picture.
After my experience with the
mountain sketches seen n the
train, as just described, I stayed
for while in Carcassonne, that
wonderful medieval fortress city
of Languedoc, from whose creme
lated battlements the eye wanders
over vast stretches of golden
brown country, rising afar off
into hill ranges and isolated emf
nences, from which, in the days
OF the crusades, and earlier in
the times of the Moorish tnva.
sions. the glitter of armor, and
the flutter of war pennons an
nounced to the anxious watchers
on the walls the approach of a
host OF enemies and the horrors
of u siege.
! wished intensely to fix those
views on paper, or on glass, In
order to see them again, and feel
all OF their power of suggestion,
during the winter days 'Ind eve.
nings at home. But no photo
graph that I could make and
none that could find made by
experts, gave even a hint Of the
fascination of these scenes. The
distant frame was lost. -he land
scape values were ignored or
falsifted, the charm had utterly
vanished. and longed to possess
for but a single hour the skill OF
the lady Of the sketch.book.
The Washington times., 1923-10-27
SAP AND SALT
BY Bert Nose,

Prayer, to be effective, should
contain little noise.
The big Job goes to the fellow
who has made good in a little
one.
Troubles can run as fast to-
ward you as you can run from
them.
Adam and Eve had this ad-
vantage - there were no prece-
dents to bother them.
Blunders don't hurt any man
who Is courageous enough to sur.
vive them.
The test Of true friendship
comes when it costs you real
money to maintain it.
In a contest for the last word,
an echo Is the only thing that
can beat a woman.
A nice neighborhood is one
where none. of the neighbors has
a car as good as yours.
Adam and Eve would probably
have resorted to the alibi If there
had been any other folks around
for witnesses.
Hez Heck says: "A hero should
never eat soup in public"
Copyright. 1898. Premier SyndioaNA. IMo.
The Washington times., 1923-10-27
WOMAN WHO
MAY BE FIRST
u. S. SAINT
BY MARK sTUYvESANT.

by N1kAkSn 6IO1VE6tANLo
~ NE Of the most beloved
heroines of Americas his
- tory-though her memory
has left only a calm and beauti-
full impress with nothing OF spec
tacluar quality on the nations
history-is perhaps to become the
first native saint Of the United
States.
In the Vatican at Rome an
illustrious papaI commission IL
investigating the claim to saint
hood of Mother Elizabeth Anne
Seton, the brilliant, pious. and
thoroughly American woman who
founded the branch in this
country Of the Sisters Of Charity.
It was in 1774 that a baby
daughter came to the home Of the
distinguished DIR. Richard Bayley,
first professor OF anatomy ut
Columbia College-now Columbia
University--in New York City.
The baby grew to lovely girl
and young womanhood. BY birth
an aristocrat, she moved in the
highest social circles Of her time.
Yet she was a. most devoted mem
Der of the Anglican church. and
more than all her jewels she
loved a plain silver crucifix.
When she was twenty she was
married in st. Paul's Church to
William Magee Seton and had
several children. Then. because
Of her husbands illness she went
for q long stay with her family,
in Italy. Friends there con-
verted her to the Roman Catho-
lie faith.
Many sorrows awaited Eliza
beth Anne Seton upon her return
to America, one Of the greatest
being the death Of her husband.
Immediately afterward she
founded a Catholic girls school
in Emmitsburg, Nd, near Balti-
more. Though not at that time
a nun, she wore a religious cos
tune like that of the sisters Of
oks =
A few. years later Mrs. Seton
sent her daughters to France to
learn and bring back with them
the rules of the st. Vincent de
Paul Order, so that she might
found branch Of it here. Ma
poleon refused to permit them to
enter the country. But their in
domitable mother finally man.
aged to establish the branch at
her school in Emmitsburg, and
much against her will, she was
made Mother Superior.
Besides being brilliant execu-
tive. Mother Seton was described
by writer's of the time as a
'ssoul afire with the love Of God"
The society now numbers more
than 5000 members.
If Mother Seton Is declared
worthy Of being a saint, two gor-
geous and beautiful ceremonies
will take place in Rome. sepa-
rated. perhaps by several years.
The first is the Identification in
ST, Peters. After some time has
nnassed the Pope and Cardinals
will officiate at the cannonization
ceremonies. For this st. Peters
viii be illumined and hung with
rich tapestries, upon which the
arms Of the Pope and the United
States will be embroidered in
gold and silver.
The Washington times., 1923-10-27
Knew Him When

THICAGO.-Charlie Ray, an
old-time bookie, once a
~ familiar figure about the IA
nous Washington Park race
course, thought he'd try talking
the judge out of it when arraigned
on q charge of placing bets.
Judge Trude," he said, IT knew
your father forty years ago,
He's been dead forty-one
years." the court answered with
a scowl.
well, judge, knew some one
in your family" Ray grew very
nervous. He felt that he wasn't
getting 1t over at all.
II don't see much evidence
against this man." Judge Trude
interrupted, and added: Dis
charged!'
Ray sighed.
The Washington times., 1923-10-27
Once-Overs
Copyright, 1929. King syndicate)
HAVE THE TRAITS OF THE BIG MAN NOT

your head is all swelled up the job you hold Won
are not going to be of much the job you so pufed
up about.
little bit Of authority direct others causes Won IN
desire all occasions to show the power YOU have Won
doomed for fall. - 'O
1t is only the of small caber who pufs right up
when advancement authority comes to him.
Inc really 6lg man is too busy-too much interested in
his work-to have time to think about himself
The really big does suggestions but
~ seeks advice. ~ e04
The really big his Judgment in sitting the
chair from the wheat but he is glad have something to
Sift besides his own ideas ~
Next time you try gain audience with the real head Of
business house firm notice this-the men whom Won
see before get to the big boss apparently the
important about the place.
1t does not take much to make the little man show his
authority. 49,
The really big man is modest, earnest unassuming OBJ
servant, courteous.
The Washington times., 1923-10-27
Miracles and Parallels.

LLOYD GEORGE confides the fortunes of civilza-
ton to the combined moral influence OF Great
Britain and the United States. He's certain that
we can promote peace anywhere without flarebackg
There isn't nation in Europe that would think Of
going to with
Having so neutrally minded our affairs, lets
mind 'em some more.
DR.. William Mayo, celebrated surgeon, forecasts
the disappearance of midgets General Tom Thumb
might have been transformed into Hercules by doses
of thyroid secretions and iodine.
One stunted child grew seven inches in single
year on the magic diet.
H. G. Wells thought he pulling Whopper
when he furnished fiction with giant-making food
In less than decade it's the druggists shelf
About Il per cent Of drafted men from mountainous
districts and the Great Lakes region were too gotrous
for military service. It won't happen again. Wen give
them the iodine they require hereafter
The Japanese consistent fish and seaweed EATERS like
sailors never have goiter. Unbalanced ratons re-
sponsibe for half Of human disorders, unbalanced
leadership to blame for than half the disorders
in which Grant humans are engaging.
Contrary to expectation the streets aren't filled with
leress armless veterans Ampuation is seldom neces
sarv since it found that piece of healthy bone from
one part of the body be successfully grated to
another. :, :.
Nowadays Sawbones healthy skin section TO
renlace diseased Material for parable there:
With Europe inviting to deliver ourselves for the
ronair Of her rotting systems.
The Washington times., 1923-10-27
Indians, 10000 Years Old
They Felt as We Feel.

In California, j. Harrington representing the Smith
sonian Institution has dug up skeletons Of human beings
buried ten thousand years Bones Of humans elephants
ana maadons are found together the site of ancient
Indian settlement.
we had read imagination would be interesting bring
back that day when the Monaghan ancestor Indians
fighting he thought would last forever He
cruelty. ' -e ~
The Washington times., 1923-10-27
TOURISTS OUGHT TO SKETCH,
GARRETT P. SERVISS SAYS
By Garrett p. Serviss.
Camera Fails to Record True Eye Perspective; Artist
Truly Appreciates Topography.
and Writer on Scientific Topics .

r a ignores coors and tnts
train, Color
The Washington times., 1923-10-27
The Grand Imperial Wizard,
EX-DentiSt
What Thinks He of These Non-Anglosaxonsi

Mr. Evans who in private life modest dentist is in
public the Imperial Wizard Of the Ku Klux Khan This
good dentist and wizard surrounded by his Dragons Cy
copses Grand Dragons Kokards and others Of the Grand
Ku Klux Kloncilum, is worried about his country.
New York especially bothers him. He feels responsibility
for its welfare and Zone hundred per cent American
salvation.
Saws he:
The Washington times., 1923-10-27
Where Shall the Trail End?

HE DEPARTMENT of Justice is assuredy not collect
~ ~; ~ess IN its feet Note how promptly Attorney
General Daugherty takes action in the Forbes case
Prosecution won't wait upon further disclosures OF
washington announces intention to proceed without
COMPROMISE or quarter against all persons who have par
tcpated in the reputed derehctons Netner rank nor
influence shall shield the guilty. 80
But why wasn't the fostering co9n 6O6e aera 5G
nd Co,one Hines have been tugging at Federal coat
tails FOR months there powers behind the throne
to block their previous efforts?
wa at the beginning of the end Of the sordid trall
And how comes it that the boosted efficiency OF re-
ronized National Administration didn't include the
ose s1,nervision of bureau spending money an
nma1v than Congresses not very long Appropriated
for our total overhead?
The Washington times., 1923-10-27

Imperial Wizard Of French following
the Ku Klux worried because
IN this country little
than third Of native "Heine blends pretty
literature
distinguished have earth has produced
Christopher Columbus Spnoza another Jew
hadn't drop OF Anglo-Saxon blended
blood he phioso-
did have, o his pher jew GENTLE
. good Of Jewish blood.
without questioning the sin
to certify of Wizard Evans st
because unbendabep
Yet Disare in England blend proof
ed well enough to make Vic
toT1a Empress OF India Catholics the Presidency at
Gannbetta, in
ed establishing at
The points here made courteously will of course
interest the Wizard would suggest that
pher Columbus was Angosaxon he Italian his
fathers side and his mothers side descended from
Spanish Jews that had been forced conceal their religion
The great Wizard Of the Ku Klux will admit that Aexan
der the Great Caesar Napoleon Bonaparte Mcheangelo
Beethoven Arcmedes Socrates Aristotle Plato Pyhagoas
and others with whom the dentist wizard is familiar
not exactly Angosaxons. Yet they each made mark in
the world
Why not be content to let the exclusively
JOY the glorious titles Koards Cyclopses Wizards Imperial
Wizard etc. while allowing those that Anglo Saxons
70 along and do what little they the outskirts of
intellectual life and civilized activity
The Washington times., 1923-10-27

York about and succassfI bino sIon
political equality
assmable foreigners native at intermarage
Americans while the better basis physical mental
Aliens added together moral equality with no mena
total almost three and ing unreal OF uneugenc conse
the quencleS TO succeeding genera
American stock. tons.
this is to continue mean, a cumina
its and attain its ing spiritual wedding
will the State, char
assimilation Of citizenship which
alien element higher temporal loyalty shall
plete with these permitted exist"
people, course will appreciate the Imperial Wizards
soicitude They also undoubtedly must be amazed
New Yorks growth and general prosperity considering
the number Of unassimable foreigners within its ranks
How marvellous that those ''unassmlable' creatures
should be able stand without difficulty the increased real
Of billion dollars in year. that they
should manage in spite Of their unassmable foreign char
aCerss to build up the greatest city in the world city
worth in actual cash than many American States and
many foreign countries.
All this the unassimilable' foreigners, as
much as it does the Imperial Wizard himself.
what he thinks it ought to be- worries about many different
and they foreigners few thousand years ago-when
they from Asia-but it seems to Wizard Evans
that the only foreigner worth while the AngloSaxon
The Imperial Wizard and all the Cyclopses Kokards
presumably pure Anglo Saxons, think they are.
Then there the various religions unless you happen to
be Protestant you can't really be valuable citizen the
United States In fact you ought be tolerated here
ct all
The To-day column Of The Washington Herald contained
this comment the Imperial Wizards important speech
The Washington times., 1923-10-27
HE CAN'T GET TWELVE
BILLIONS FROM A
JUNK PILE
By HERBERT KAUFMAN.

sHE highest bid received for the u. S. S. Consttu-
ton when offered at scrap heap auction was $4,000
Approximately what France will get out Of Ger
many If Poncare continues to beach yon fast-breakng
ship Of state.
Meanwhile Great Britain spurred by other cocredcrs
strives interest America in wrestling asset
from that defiant fanatics exclusive control.
Even Louis Loucheur alarmed by the handwriting on 4
the wall begins to fear lest his doginthemanger pre-
shadow.
The Quai dOrsay, however according to late cables
bndly isregards veerng popular opinion and still holds
out for twelve half bilondollar settlement
At this writing international commission for the
Ruhr will be acceptable except under condition that any
investigating committee shall acknowledge the superior
authority Of the Preparations commission and each nation
participating in such survey binds itself to majority
recommendations.
Meet the Nice Spider.
oTEP into the Web little golden fly, and meet the
- nice entente spider.
Caught in the meshes Of such scheme YOUR
lone protest wouldn't avail against general agreemen
to cancel war debts putativey giving Germany benefit OF
the concessions and actually putting money in French
pockets.
The only role we dare in safety is the part
of an uncompromised and independent counsellor de-
verng no pledges and left free to protect outstanding
foreign loans to the last dollar
Provided way may be found to perpetuate our
present happy isolation, may consent to study the
facts diagnose the desperate and suggest REM
edy: but we won't risk another drop of our blood IN
transmission operation for the strengthening OF Eu-
of incompetent diplomatic quacks whose malpractice
has added economic gangrene to once durable wound
An eight million plurality for aoofness and not one
cent for intrigued Hold fast, Mr.. Coolidge!
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-10-11
INQUIRE ILT0 SEAS SECRETS
Things Concerning the Denizens
Of Oceans Depths.

Humans may have their matrimonial
tangles, but they are nothing to the
matrimonial problems of the native
oyster. In "Animals Of the Sea-" f..
Martin Duncan, F. 2. s., tells us thst
each individual changes Its sex at DIFF
ferent periods, but the authorities ID
not agree as to the sex with which the
oyster starts Its life. Young oysters
enjoy but forty-eight hours freedom
as moving creatures; then they settle
down for life. Among the oysters enc
mics is the starfish. An invasion of
"fve-fngers" will sometimes destroy
q whole bed Of oysters in a single
night. Some most interesting points
CLEANED from this book include: The
female lobster has been known to pro-
duce 100000 eggs at time. Limpets
go on travelling expeditions at night,
but by wonderful homing Instinct, re-
turn to exactly the same spot on their
home" rock. Whelks have from 900
to 25O teeth each. the Wrinkle possesses
set Of $500, but the dental outfit of
the umbrella SHELF is 10000 teeth.
The sea urchin has four different kinds
OF spines. each with specialized func-
tion-weapons, poison bearers, "chew-
ers" and cleaners. A giant clam will
weigh 500 pounds. A fifty-four-pound
ling was found to possess 2S,361, 600
eggs.-BOston Transcript.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-10-11
Too Much Neatness.

once knew a woman who had the
reputation of being the best house
keeper for miles around. Her neigh
bors described her kitchen floor as
$50 clean you could eat off It," But
when think of that woman, remem-
ber one long, hot summer afternoon
when I was playing with her children
and ran into the kitchen to get
drink Of water. had turned on the
faucet over the black sheet-iron sink
when her small daughter appeared In
the doorway, an agonized expression
on her face.
"Oh, mother will be mad at you"
she whispered. you've let the sink
get all wet. She always oils 1t right
after lunch, and then we can't turn on
the water till dinner time"
But I want a drink" l explained
''I know" said the other child. but
mother says there's NO need Of our
wanting drinks of water in the after
noon. Clara Savage Littledale in the
Designer.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-10-11
oFFENsE THAT COST HAND
Assault in Court Regarded as serious
Matter in England During the
Earlier Reigns.

In earlier times, and certainly
throughout the reigns of the Tudors
and the Stuarts, and even later, the
man who struck a blow or threw
missile in court invariably had his
right hand cut off, in addition to other
penalties. the Manchester Guardian
says. When a prisoner who had just
been sentenced to death by Chief JUS
tice Richardson at Salisbury assizes
threw a brickbat at that judge, an
Indictment was Immediately prepared
and the culprit's right hand was then
and there cut off and nailed to the
gibbet on which he was Immediately
afterward hung. Even so late as 1893
the earl Of Thanet was fined 5000 and
given one years Imprisonment for in.
stigating a riot In court. In addition
to this he was bound over in a sum Of
$4,000 to be Of good behavior for
seven years.
In 1877 Cosgrave. an American,
threw an egg at Vice Chancellor
Malins, and he was Immediately COM
mitted to prison and did not receive
his discharge until placed on board &
ship sailing for New York.