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Evening star., 1923-08-12
CAMP GOOD WILL
TAKES LAST GROUP
100 Mothers and Children
Guests for Final Period
of This Season.

More than 16O children and their
mothers are enjoying the facilities
of Camp Good Will. These are the
last guests of the season. having
arrived at the Associated Charities
camp Thursday.
Friday the workers of the camp
held an impressive memorial service
at 3 pm, lest in the joy of the camp
life, the national day of mourning
for President Harding should go un-
observed. The program consisted of
Onward, Christian Soldiers; march
into pavilion and hymn; announce
ment of purpose of the program and
of period of silence by the superin-
tendent; five minutes of silence
throughout the camp; Lead, Kindly
Light" solo, Miss Geneva r. Fitz:
historic sketch. Life of Harding-
Miss f.. Bessie Baker; "Harding's
Creed" Andrew Ashburn; Home Life
of the Harlings." Miss Mary East
man; ABIDE With Me-" solo, Miss
Mary Knox Fitz: 'HarIling. the Presi-
dent Miss Ida NJ. Brownrigg, super
intendent of the camp; Battle Hymn
of the Republic"
Yesterday was Navy Yard day and
the large party of children enjoyed
to the full the treat of ice cream
provided by the navy yard commit
tee. The races We're run in vigorous
style, competing for the navy yard
prizes.
Today Rev. W. W Shearer will
conduct services in the pavilion at
the camp at $3.50 pm. Tomorrow Mr..
Faw, payter of the Pilgrims Church,
will bring A party Of children for A
dramatization of Bible stories. On
Tuesday Harry Angelica and Miss
Randall of the Wilson Normal School
will entertain.
Camp Peasants fourth party of
15S has more mothers than any
previous group. The capacity of the
dining room is SO taxed that two
"set-ups" are required. No amount
of rain can dampen their ardor. SO
great is their appreciation for the
good food, pure air and rest. Last
weeks concert by the campers them
selves was the best of the season.
The flag at half-staff, in respect for
the late President Harding, is under
stood by even the smallest child in
the camp.
Funds are still needed for the ex-
penseS Of the two camps. Contribu-
tions sent to the treasurer. Harry q.
Meem, 1922 11th street, will be great
ly appreciated and promptly ac-
knowledged.
Evening star., 1923-08-12
D. c. PERSONAL TAX
! RETURNS DOUBLED
Assessor Says $1,000 Will
File Valuations; 20 Per Cent
Penalty Aids Officers.

Personal tax returns to the District
Tor the current fiscal year, more than
double those of last year. have been
tied in the Office of District Tax Asses
sor William P. Richards.
Although final tabulation of the re-
turns has not been completed. Mr.. Rich
ards says they probably will total $4,000,
as compared with approximately $1,000
last year.
Mr.. Richards has not yet figured the
personal taxes to be collected. as the
compilation of the total taxes due on
the basis of the returns has not been
finished. He believes, however it will
exceed by 20 per cent the amount coll
lected last year.
The increase is attributed to advance
newspaper publicity of the intention to
impose a 20 per cent increase in the
assessed value of the taxable property
provided returns were not made on or
before August /.
Work IS Lessened.
The voluntary filing of the returns,
Mr.. Richards says. has materially les
sened the field work of the personal tax
officers.
The assessors office devotes particular
attention to the owners of automobiles.
A list of all persons to whom automo-
die licenses have been granted is
checked against the list of personal tax
returns to discover all persons who
have failed to make returns. Those
guilty of delinquency are penalized by
an increase of 20 per cent i'll the taxable
value of their cars. This system of
checking has reduced greatly the num-
Der of automobile owners who fail to
make tax returns
The largest part of the total taxes
each year Is collected from the public
utilities, banks and trust companies and
other business institutions
Evening star., 1923-08-12
B[ADENSbURCR
PHONE POLES TO co
Company Announces Plans to
Use Underground Con-
duits and Cables.

All telephone poles and wires along
the Bladensburg road are to be re-
placed by underground cable and con-
duit. ii was announced yesterday by
Charles T. Clagett divisional mana ger
of the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company.
This operation conforms to the
plan of the District Commissioners
to make the Bladensburg road d fit
ting entrance TO the city of Washing
ton. and will be completed about jan
uary l, 1924. al cost of $4,000, il is
estimated.
The paving schedule of the District
calls for widening of Bla6ensburs
road to a siXty-foot highway the in
stallation of center parking space
and for paving from l. street north
east. where the present paving stops.
TO Qneens Chapel road.
1t is understood that further ap-
preparation will be asked of Congress
to complete the paving from Queens
Chapel road to the District lie. This
section is now served by aerial cable
and wire; and the rebuilding of the
line will require the placing of 5.S25
trench feet of duct conduit, twenty
seven manholeS, 1850 feet of cable
The telephone company, anticipat-
ing extensive development in the
Bladensburg road section, has pro-
vidcd ample facilities to take care Of
telephone growth for several years
to come.
Evening star., 1923-08-12
TWO-MINUTE TALKS ON
SAFETY.
MEETING THE PEDESTRIAN.

All motorists are at times
pedestrians. If. therefore,
every driver of a motor vehicle
would practice the golden
rule" of the road and treat pc
destrians as he himself would
have motorists treat him when
on foot, there would be few per-
sons knocked down and seri-
ously injured by thoughtless or
reckless drivers.
In some states the law pro-
vides that pedestrians have the
right of way at all places ex-
cept at policed intersections.
The cross-walks are provided
for the use of persons on foot
and the motorist has no more
right to drive over them with
out due regard to pedestrians
than he has to drive on the
sidewalk. When approaching a
crossing slow down and keep
your machine under perfect
control. If there are obstruc-
tions ahead. such as parked
cars, from behind which some
one may step directly in front
of your machine. sound your
horn as warning.
Remember that there are
many reckless pedestrians on
the streets at all times. Some
one may take chance and try
to beat YOU TO Il crossing.
There are also old people on the
street who may become con-
fused in the center of the street
and the unnecessary blowing
of your horn will only add to
their confusion. You may meet
person who is too deaf to
hear your horn or whose eye
sight makes it difficult to see
you until too late.
Many people cannot judge the
speed of an automobile and so
do not allow sufficient time to
escape being struck. Children
seldom know anything of the
traffic law and may suddenly
dart out into the street in front
Of your car. and then seeing 1t.
become confused or frightened.
Be prepared for the unexpect-
ed at all times, il is better to
lose a little time and surrender
some of your rights of the road
than to be the cause of some
ones injury or death.
Any driver can keep an auto
going when the road ahead Is
clear and nothing happens, but
il takes a real driver to pre-
vent an accident. BE a real
driver or quit before it is too
late.
Prepared by
WASHINGTON SAFETY
COUNCIL.
Evening star., 1923-08-12
SOUTHERN BACKS BONDS.

The Southern railway was authorized
yesterday by the Interstate Commerce
Commission to assume the liability for
payment of interest and principal of an
issue Of $1,3o0,O00 in per cent bonus
which will nominally be issued by the
city Of Greensboro. N. C. The sum
raised by the bond issue has been spent
i'm improving and extending the South
ems terminal at Greensboro.
Evening star., 1923-08-12
GOLD PRODUCTION DROPS.
$45, 5,s4e,1O Refined in 1922, Mint
Figures Show.

Refinery production of gold for the
calendar year 1922, aggregated s4S,-
$4,000 in value, according to figures
made public yesterday by Director
Scobey of the mint. Silver produc-
ton in the same period aggregated
6.240,O48, the value being computed
at 81 an ounce.
Gold production was s1.21s,2oO be-
low that of 1921, while the output of
silver was $3.167.607 greater
In 1915 gold production was s1O1,-
o35. 700, and that of silver totalled
74.961,075 ounces. records that still
stand.
Evening star., 1923-08-12
DEFERS TO CUMMINS.
Senator Moses Would Not Oppose
Him for Senate Chair.

Senator Moses. republican, of New
Hampshire, announced in a statement
issued yesterday from his office here
that he would not be a candidate for
president of the Senate should Sena-
tor Cummins of Iowa, decide to accept
reelection to the place.
Rowboats and Launches always
in stock for immediate delivery.
Call by and look them over.
John j. Odenwald
1908 NV Phone Franklin 6so3
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A THOUGHT

Let the young men find favor in
thine eyes, for we have come in a
good day.I Samuel z4:S.
Sweet day, SO ,cool, SO calm, SO
bright,
The bridal Of the earth and sky;
The dew shall weep they fall tonight,
For thou must die.
George Herbert.
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YOUR MOODS

How often do your moods change? And what makes
them change? The liver and digestive system have lot
of food " .
The chief people talk so much about the weather
IS not because weather helps inerferes with their plans
but because it is powerful at governing their moods
Dttc to explain how the weather effect the mind
or spirits unless concede, with Coue that we are
slaves of our imagnations.
Under certain set of circumstances you find yourself
happy and careree provided the weather bright and
sunny Under ldenca the circumstances when it's
raining the sky leaden and overcast most of us are
gloomy angud and make mountains out of molehis
: Writers of stage melodrama follow this psychology
Trouble sadness and forebodngs unfoded before
background of mournfu winds and vciousy swrng RAIN
The last act the happy ending usually takes place with
the shining and everybody full of pep and joy except the
villain
adrenaaso have powerful over our emotions or
moods These little bodies by excessive or deficient secre
fioh of chemicals make the glands unfortunate owner
melancholy almost to the point of insanity, terrified into
earhystera exhilarated if the glands
ing essence of John Bareycorn
People with violent emotions often merely the victims
of diseased glands
After ALL what wonderful thing it is, that our moods
change abruptly and completely happy life life
of contrasts with joy and dispeasure balancing Offset
ting each other.
Take youngster with appetite candy that seem
ngy cannot be satisfied Put him to work candy store
Come back in and you'll find him interested in
bread and butter than in candy With unlimited supply
of sweets before him. he has contrast such he had
when sweets luxury The contrast absent, he loses
interest
Joy to be JOY when it is a constant diet Occa
iona troubles disapponments make joy stand out as
desirable contrast So appreciate happiness when
have it.
Too much happiness is poison In downcas moments
sit back take stock of ourselves analyze condition.
make new resoutonsin general maintain perspective
7on life
become confident and arrogant about riding ability
that it'd be next to impossible TO to live with
10 understand your moods and to keep them from down
ing remember slaves to the Law of Contrasts
with change always inevitable later.
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FAT AND LEAN Statesmen

Science having pronounced the
fat and the lean salesman precisely
equal in ability, an issue upon
which all priori reasoning has fail
ed for century is fairly deter
mined. 1t is universally agreed
that good bartender, innkeeper,
mayor, or colyum conductor must
be fat; that Presbyterian elders,
schoolmasters, and civil service
reformers must be lean. But no
one could guess whether the
Sancho Panza and Flagstaff type
would make better commercial
trvelers than the Don Quixote and
Poins type. The>ability Of the fat
man to concilate his prospective
customer. to radiate mirth and get
a contract signed under cover of a
chuckle, is indubitable; but might
it not be offset by the superior en-
terprise, agility, and determination
Of the lean man: The tall man
may overthrow the guard that a
busy merchant places at his door;
but may not the short man slip in
while the guard dozes? These
questions have distracted the bust
ness world for decades Having
settled them, science may now
press on to the browning issue of
all-are doctors with boards better
than doctors who have only mus
taches. and if so, how are we to
rate practitioners with sideburns {?
Concealed in this issue of fat VS..
lean statesmen there lay concealed
the deadliest dynamite. Science
had long since shown the precise
degree of conveXity or concavity of
countenance desirable in statesmen
and laid down rules for selecting
batnen according to thai" skill in
fitting together jigsaw puzzles.
Every, employer worth his salt
knows that a man who sells per-
fumes or lingerie must have a con-
vex cOuntenance with pronathous
jaw. and that a man who sells ord
nance and bayonets must have a
,eoncaye countenance, like a buds
ding poet. But conceive theiagony
of the soap manufacturer who,
finding after prolonged tests just
the salesman. with the right
geometrical cast of face and the
right ability in pinning donkey
tails to the wall, learns that he
lacks two and three-fourths pounds
of the proper weight! Now such
doubts are disposed of.-New York
Evening Post.
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YOUR DREAMS

Did you have dream which you toiled until ex-
hausted, then waken in the morning all tired out?
that he far in Canada in logging crew. and that he
chopped wood hour after hour. Quitting time finally came
And just as Doan was curling in his dreamand bunk
for sound sleep, the alarm clock woke him up
81 wouldn't mind it much he says eff had any wood
to show for my work
Doland wants to know why he stiff and aching
when he wakened if he had really put in eight hours
with an ak.
plausible explanation of this might be that the feeling
Of fatigue originates in the BRAIN where dreams staged
and that exhaustion elegraphed from brain cells
eles and joints.
Here, again. encounter the terrific force
along the Coue line of reasoning.
We recall baseball pitcher who dreamed that he pitched
30-inning game. Next day his sore and
halsed that he couldn't lift it,
Obviously since his had not gone through the ges-
cures OF pitching during Sleep it's failure imaginary
Or at least it originated in imagination then the imaginary
condition was translated into actual exhaustion of bodily
cells.
Concedng all this, it will appeal to most of as logical
proposition to endeavor to imagine that healthy and
that our endocrne batteries charged with plenty of
serve energy The rule works backward the for
ward
Some psychic cults believe that in Sleep the spirit
e BODY and carries on separate existence in other
wOr1d planet dimension earthly location returning to
the body at the moment of awakening
1t would have to travel with lightning speed to get back
h the sleeper Weakened unexpectedly in the middle of the
night.
The bizarre is interesting whether we agree or not
In the last analysis, state of mind (imagnation)
dominates actions You this illustrated the World
Var People had to be worked to warike state mind
magnaton) before they ready to face the shrapne
Md bayonets
And there be peace in Europe until the people
t into peaceful state Of mndfreed of hatreds rvaries
nd stubborn refusal to admit the truth. f
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The professor pulled his worn, gor-
geously-hued dressing gown more
closely about him as he sank once
more into his chair. 81 have heard
them in my own country many years
before the late war and the memory
of them is with me always. But let
us forget the storm if we can. The
case you mentioned; is it murder?"
Frankly, l don't know" Barry
responded. 1T is similar to that
Tudor affair at Sandy Cove last sum-
:ner-"
A sudden, sharp detonation burst
cracking upon their ears and both
men leaped to their feet and stood
for the fraction of second staring
at each other. The professors ner-
vousness had fallen from him and
he spoke with the calmness of fatal
ism:
There was no lightning. That
was not thunder, but a shot! Comet"
The realization Of the truth had
pierced the detectives conscious
ness even before his host voiced it
o'iu HS oPi ohS AoA tuS COOI. f1S uc
flung it open, with the rotund figure
in the tattered dressing gown close
at his heels, he heard Enthusiastically
the sound of hurrying footsteps be-
low and plunged for the head of the
stairs.
The narrow hall was but dimly
lighted and in the unnatural sill
ence which followed the echo of
the shot, their own feet as they
clattered down the matting-covered
stairs drowned out the lesser sound
which had come up to them.
The hallway directly below was
deserted and the door leading into
the apartment was closed and blank.
Professor Semyonov paused to ham
mer upon it but Barry fastened on
downward, his eyes striving to pierce
the gloom. Was that fleeing figure
below him or just his own distorted
shadow advancing before his reck-
less descent?
On the third floor he halted. The
door of this apartment also, which
his host had told him was occupied
by a woman portrait painter, was
closed, but from the line of the sill
strcamed an peculiar bright light
like beam of sunshine. The pro-
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fessor ceased his fruitless effort
and rejoined his companion just as
there came a soft thud and then
ing and pounding.
Perhaps we were mistaken,
Barry remarked. ut might have
been a fracas out in the street
The professor shook his head de.
cidedly and then pointed to the line
Of light from beneath the door be-
fore them.
Someone is in here, at any rate.
We will knock"
Suiting his action to the word, he
raped smartly, waited, and raped
again, but there came no response,
only the steady glare of that garish
light and the banging from the en-
trance on the ground floor.
Professor Semyonov shrugged and
turned to descend still further, but
the sergeant grasped his arm.
"That's only someone who heard
what we did-the officer on this beat,
perhaps-and wants to investigate.
Let me wait. If anything is wrong
in this house, it is behind that door!
I'm going to assume responsibility
/, for breaking it in, professor. Stand
back!"
The door itself was massive one
but the lock evidently old and film
sy and at his third onslaught it
snapped with such suddenness that
he was almost prccipitated into the
apartment.
A single glance sufficed to show
the outlines of daintily carved fur
niture and cushions scattered about
in profusion by an obviously femin-
inc hand but the room was empty
and it's only illumination was that
strange ray of counterfeit sunlight
which streamed through an opened
door in the opposite wall, a door
which led evidently to that studio
built over the strip of garden of
which the professor had spoken.
The still, heated air was heavy
with subtle, cloying perfume but
mingled with it was a harsh, acrid
odor that was not new to the de-
tective and he sprang across to the
doorway of the studio and then
paused.
Facing him upon large easel
was the portrait of women in
gray evening gown poised on the
third step of staircase with one
slippered foot slightly advanced and
hand Of startling whiteness upon
which huge emerald blazed rested
on the dark, polished wood of the
balustrade. The painting was only
half finished, but it was indicated
IN broad splashes Of color and with
the bold, sweeping lines of the car
toonist which rendered the likeness
unmistakable to anyone familiar
with the lineaments of those in the
city's highest society.
All this Barry took in with one
darting plance and then his eyes
travelled to the foot of the easel and
what lay there. 1t was the hud-
died body of woman with masses
of tawny hair scarcely dishevelled
by her fall and spreading stain,
upon the breast of her paint daubed
smock.
Kneeling beside it he gently
raised the head, which rolled back
ward in his hands and the curious
iy long, narrow, half-opened eyes
stared up suddenly into his with a
dull. unwinking gaze.
Dead" the professor announced
beside him. "She was at work when
the shot pierced her breast. See,
her thumb is /still thrust through
the palette and the maulstick and
brush have but just fallen from her
hands,"
Continued in Our Next Issue)
Copyright, 1922, NEA Service)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-01-22
MAKING rs CONTENT

In a slight but amusing book
called "Sun Hunting" Kenneth l..
Roberts takes away some of the
sting from the lives of those of us
who cannot spend the winter a.
Palm Beach. His description of
life in Florida makes one find
charm in New England winter.
Mr.. Roberts suggests that there
are moral advantages in staying at
home to swear at the soft coal.
AT any rate, you don't have to
stand about worshipping our Am
erican royalty or to, which it in
the lugubrious business of being
democratic. Neither do you have
to pretend it is fun to watch other
people splashing about in the surf
or to watch the other people who
have come to watch you.
people dwaddle along the palm
frlnged avenues and stare at one
another 'blankly and questioning
ly," writes Mr.. Roberts. People
sit self-consciously in wheel chairs
and look searchingly at people in
other wheel chairs. Bicyclists
wheel languidly along the white
roads and gaze intently at every
eye. Are you Charley Schwab?'
each eye seems to ask mutelv.
Are you one of the Stotesburys?
Are you anybody"
Up here in what the Southern
newspapers delight in calling the
Frozen North" people glare at
each other, too. Every eye seems
to say. "Have you twenty tons of
coal in your cellar?" "Where in
the devil did you get it" "Aren'.
you ashamed of yourself?" In
such odd moments as are not de-
voted to "reminiscences about coal
and the days when you could get
1t for five dollars ton, few of
us have time to look at other peo-
pies clothes and Sto curse people
who leave coal in their bins in Or
der to go down to Florida and look
for Charley SchWab. = Hartford
Times.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-01-22
BACK ON THE JOB
WITH A BIG GAIN
''Tanlac Made A Clean Sweep
OF My Troubles and Built
Me Up 20 Pounds, Says
Diel.

II was so weak and WORKOUT l
had to give up my job, but since
taking Tanlac, l have gained twen-
ty pounds and am back at work,
feeling better than 1 ever did in
my 1ife," declared Joseph H. Diel,
well,known carpenter, 3716 Forty
First Ave-, South, Minneapolis,
Mimi, recently.
"A bad attack of 'flu' left me in
an awfully rundown condition and
SO weak couldn't pull my saw.
ate so little that l actually lost
fifteen pounds and when l did eat
anything indigestion nearly suffo-
Gated me. l was constipated and
had a terrible roaring in my head
which ached like it would split in
two.
but Tanlac made a clean sweep
OF all these troubles and now l
have SO much strength and energy
that 'speed-up' Job doesn't tire
me at all. My wife also took Tan
lac with wonderful results and
we are both enthusiastic boosters of
the medicine"
Tanlac is for sale by all good
druggists. Over 35-million bottles
sold.