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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-03

'To pursue the even tenor of
their way"
This oft-quoted line used in refer.
ring to the ordinary. everyday,
uneventful mode of living, is from
Gray's "Elegy in Country
Churchydfd."
The Washington times., 1923-11-08
KIN EAR MISS LOWELL:
IT have lost q very deaI

KIN EAR MISS LOWELL:
II have lost q very dear
- friend. The night he died
I felt as If he were with me but
in more sympathetic contact than
we ever had known before. The
sense Of his nearness was like
a light all about.
But it does not come back.
feel only the dreariness of my
loss. Has he forgotten me or has
his kind, courageous spirit gone
out of existence?
II am Ill with grief.
My dear "C'-If only could
help you out Of your grief SO you
might see that death Is the
spirits release-never its destruc-
ton!
You believe that the dead live.
The sense of light you expert
ence when your friend died sure
ly convinced you-if you needed
convincing.
Light is the spiritual symbol of
life, and has been since time be-
gan. ''I am the light of the
world" said the Teacher whose
doctrine was Immortality.
But sorrow is like q veil, OBJ
scuring clear vision.
So may l offer you some
. thoughts which must have come
to you, yourself, when you were
able to regard death more imper-
sonally-not as the terrific, crush
ing force 1t seems to you now?
You know that the body Is a
faulty thing, only a little less
transient than leaves borne in the
springtime and falling-in the
autumn.
It is an inadequate instrument
through which. the spirit must
work in its progress upward.
The Washington times., 1923-11-08
BOY BABIES IN
MAJORITY IN
PARAGUAY

nARAGUAY is q brave little
South American republic
which has as It's near neigh
bors the larger nations Of Brazil.
Uruguay and Argentina. A
couple Of generations ago Para
quay fought q war against these
richer, more populous countries.
Although the Paraguayan armies
won many battles, performed
prodigies OF valor and even prac-
tically annihilated one Brazilian
army, they could not Withstand
superior numbers. In the END
they were forced to make peace.
Peace really was made with q
nation composed mainly Of wo-
men, since practically all the
men Of fighting age had been
killed. All sorts Of schemes
were employed to induce male
immigration, as Paraguay is q
new country and needs man.
power for its development. Then
over a series of years the scien.
lists began to take note OF
strange fact. Whereas, ordl-
nar1ly the number Of male babies
born about balances the number
or female babies in Paraguay 1t
came about by some mysterious
law of nature that very many
more boy babies were born than
girl babies.
The passing Of the years has
brought the nation almost back
to the normal ratio, but bachelors
are still unpopular in that little
republic. The natives are mainly
Guaranis or half-breeds with
strong proportion of GuaranI
blood. They are simple, peace.
ful people, and 1t Is hard to as
sociate their love Of festivals and
flowers with the wonderful fight
they put up against such over"
whelming odds.
Paraguay was favorite terri
tory for Spanish explorers in the
sixteenth century. In 1882 Sebas-
tian Cabot, the English navigator
and explorer, visited the country.
The year Is divided into two
easons-summer and winter.
Because they are south of the
equator, while we are enjoying
summer weather the Paraguay.
ans are in the midst Of their win
ter season.
Copyright, 1928, by Newspaper
Feature Service. 1nc)
The Washington times., 1923-11-08
WORDS FROM
THE LIPS OF
WISE MEN

" ACH one sees what he car
M ries in his heart.
Perseverance is q Roman virtue
That wins each godlike act, and
plucks success
Even from the spear.proof crest
Of rugged danger.--Harvard.
A judicious reticence is hard to
learn, but it is one Of the great
lessons Of life.
We are shaped and fashioned
by what we love.
Aspiring minds must sometimes
sustain loss.
He that enlarges his curiosity
regarding the works Of nature
demonstrably multiplleS the In
let's Of happiness.
Fortune alters with change Of
conduct.
One ungrateful man does in
jury to all the unfortunate.
No man was ever great with
out divine inspiration.
How vain the ardor Of the crowd,
How low, how little are the proud.
How INDECENT the great!
Thomas Gray.
Man IL by nature q civic ami
NAL.
He who intends to do an injury
has already done it.
There is no kind Of life that is
free Of obligations.
The first duty Of man IL the
seeking after and investigation of
truth.
Those who seek for much are
in want of much.
To moderate your mind and
speech when you are angry, or
else to hold your peace, Is a sign
Of no ordinary nature.
The worthiest people are often
the most injured .by slander, as
we usually find that to be the
best fruit which the birds have
been pecking at.
No man sympathizes with the
sorrows Of vanity.
No crime Is more infamous
than the violation OF truth.
(CopyrIRht, 1929, Newspaper Featur,
Service. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1923-11-08

; Light is at the top-light that
is life.
But the body is a handicap IN
that struggle.
It's limitations dull the percep-
tions, hold back understanding
Why, therefore, when death
strikes 1t down, should not the
spirit be free to see and act with
a vision caught only in flashes
when a prisoner in the body?
OF course we do not know ex-
actly where the spiritual world
may be, or what conditions are
there. That it is in and around
our own world seems reasonable,
since we, too, are partly spirit.
So 1t surely is possible that
spirit beyond flesh may hold COM
munion with spirit in flesh. It
even seems likely such communion
may be realized through the phys.
ical brain.
I believe the sense Of light you
describe was such a communica-
ton, a message of happiness and
courage.
You will understand that If
your brain is disordered by grief
the message will not be recorded.
II the receiving station Is out Of
order, etheric waves fail to strike
a spark, since spiritual matter is
a million times more delicate than
electricity.
Your friend would not have
forgotten YOU had he lived.
And since loyalty and love are
qualities Of the spirit, why should
he forget you now?
Conquer your grief. my dear
&C." and I am sure he will come
back-in so far as coming back
is possible over the Great Divide.
Copyright. 1923. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1923-11-08
Once-Overs
Copyright 1923 by international Features Service Ino>
GET OUT OF THE HABIT OF THINKING BACKWARD

by International Features Service Inc)
GET OUT OF THE HABIT OF THINKING BACKWARD.
AS you look back YOU can think of many good opportun
ties of which you did not take advantage.
Most of your thoughts Of the past are vain regrets.
But why making opportunities for yourself
NOW9
''Too old to make start Is your opinion firmly
intrenched your subconscious mind that you cannot
timber up your thoughts enough to good opportunity
now when you get itY
You have passed up as good opportunities you will
have just in the past two three years. because you
past the prime of life
You always say, now, eff were little younger"
Get out of the habit of thinking backward
Do not waste time looking behind, waste precious
moments given you to the great things might
compsh in the future if you were really awake to the
fact that not age that counts much attitude.
There many ways in which you could better your
position.
you have your faculties and can eat three meals
day. you ought brains enough to take your oppor
unltles as fast they presented
The Washington times., 1923-11-08
Vicious Turtle

OLEAN, N. Y.-The body had
gone into soup two days be-
fore, but the head of a swapping
turtle, displayed at the Elks' Cluo
still had all the power in the
bite of it's teeth. Today Patrick
Collins knows more about turtles.
A party of Elks captured the
turtle in the mud of Olean Creek
and took the prize to the CLUB:
The steward cut off the head ana
turtle soup was served. the
steward kept the head and de-
monstrated Its bite with STICK.
That's n mighty weak blte.
said Collins, and he placed a little
ringer between the teeth. Two
men, with sticks, were able to
pry open the jaw after several
minutes. Now there's q bandage
around the digit.
The Washington times., 1923-11-08
Unique Offer

MARION, IlI.-Police Magistrate
NA L. B. Long was quite start
led out of his judicial dignity
here when J. B. Kris. fined on a
charge of drunkenness, snatched
out his false teeth and handed
them to his honor.
"I want to pay my fine with
these" Kris said, "as I have no
money left"
This court is not operating
pawn shop" his honor freezingly
observed.
Kris was sent to Jail for non-
payment Of the fine.
The Washington times., 1923-11-08
Your Rich Uncle
Would You Greet Him? Rather.

world conference into which your old Uncle has
lured last to be all settled Everybody
sents naturally your rich uncle coming from
traa you would quickly receive him. him
down and exhibit his 'bank roll
Germany agrees pay the bl-tha u.s. the travelling
penses hotel bills etcof the various delegates with their
retinues of secretaries and servants
That will be quite BILL but it is confidently hoped and
expected among the allies that there will be another bill
Sderably bigger-thats the bill Uncle Sam will get when
It's over.
The Washington times., 1923-11-08
LITTLE CHICKS WITH
NOTWITHSTANDING
CROWS
By HERBERT KAUFMAN.

g * HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS has just been
~ offered and refused for Oregon timber tract which
several folks still living in the neghborhood could have
bought for $1,000.
Prime truck farms between Tacoma and Seattle bring $500
Not long ago. they went begging for $50
hundred thousand square leagues of available North
west land purchasabe with clerks savings and school
teachers nesteggs viii repeat the performance before
black haired generations turn grey.
Villages Puyallup haven't yet shed their false fronts
despite the fact that they snugge the nations premier
berry district and chief preserving center.
Mother Hubbard Had But One Cupboard.
TITLE chicks Of industry breaking shell the Pacific
| when Mckinley first entered the White House,
rapidly becoming cocks Of commerce, sending chal-
lenCng crows around the world.
Old Mother Columbia must open other cupboards she
hopes keep hungry factory packs supplied with bones
They've themselves bare Of adjacent natural
sources so necessity whips them the Rockies cheap
abundance
The law Of Supply and Demand not boOsterubs and rail-
way promotion departments lis settling the sage with
mllers and vegetabepackers, and fruit
Gamers cement kln and brickyard Oresmeers and milk
condensers chemical laboratories and looms.
The movement is irresistible Balance sheets compel it.
The Washington times., 1923-11-08
Opportunity Designs Greenhouse.

1OU recently read how the Westinghouse company and
Y Columbia University botanists have cut Natures
maturity schedules fifty per cent, by forcing germ
nation and growth with artificial heat and illumination.
Opportunity has designed similar electrified greenhouse
beyond the Mississippi Plants located there will expand
faster than any of previous record.
The Great War; with its nsatate appetite, has driven
production to desperation and frontiers.
Our clip should and shall be there; the
Souths shuttes opresses prosperng beside its
plantations.
The Washington times., 1923-11-08
The Lure Of the Bdrgain Counter.

VICIOUS circle Of long-hauls, increasing all funda-
~ mental costs from wages to rents in One-hah the
United States is breaking by calculation.
The rest Of the country needs rawstu the Northwest
needs development.
It's less expensive process and finish merchandise where
bases are exhausless than tote double burdens the
Range and pay conscatory at every economic toll
gate en- route
Nothing Withstand twenty-sx million horsepower
+o nlns lure Of two-thousand-mile bargain counter,
crowded with wood, copper, wool and pasturage
That's what's drawing another collection Of Pttsburgh
Tarences Detrots Daytons and Grand Rapids Over the
Hills to the Storehouse.
IT'S all matter Of dollars and sensan for the sake OF
bigger dollars because defeat the
distance from initial final operation isn't promptly
shortened.
The Washington times., 1923-11-08
No SDnnish Castle Bonds For Wall Street.

TILL and prophetic Wall Street foresaw the inevitable
- trend Of progress and stretched anticipatory rails
from Minneapolis elevators Pacific harbors And
please note that they dOube-trGcked the system; .
Chicago Milwaukee and ST. Paul directors peeked beyond
the curtain and courageouy brdged twoday expanse OF
wilderness with the efficient traffic structure on
earth.
The late j. P Morgan knew where and how great our
couldn't get him to sell America snort
while the virgin Northwest guaranteed dvloenos OH con-
structve optimism. 49,
Hartman studied the prospect and poured millions into
the fertile lap of possibility.
Seates amazing port facilities the last word in COM
petence and magnitude inspired by analysis not atu
ous enthusiasm Boomers spectators build the best
but it takes ardheaded veTytg finance
to underwrte and operate machinery for an eager
young empire. :, :, .4,
Westward Ho! And 90 the limit! No man with title
f vision can stand on the Great Divide the future and
remain a conservative.
The Washington times., 1923-11-08
TruinIouds of KnOt-HOLes.

HE must be chopped, sawed sanded athed turned
to trm mould door, shutter, sash, chair and show
case, within sight of its own stump, and the very
stump macerated pulped and pressed into substitute
lumber.
OF all criminal extravaganza ranscends payment OF
freight charges sawdus shavings chips and knothoes
Ship in net FORM and knockown and behold prices tumble
from their insolent peaks.
Why load five cars with live beef and mutton when the
dressed carcasses may be held in onef
Little journeys distant saughterhouses for hoof horn
hide hair ofa and blood explain why meat so dear at
the butchers block.
Additional sockyards are breasting the Oregon trail
Armours and Swfts and Wilson's too shrewd to leave
loophole open for underselng competition.
The Washington times., 1923-11-08
DEATH SEEN AS RELEASE OF
IMMORTAL SPIRIT

Lucy Lowell Says Departed Try to Comfort Dear Ones
Left Behind.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-09

NEW YORK June s-The Engin-
eering and Mining Journal-Press
saws; A few large orders for sopper
were placed last week at i4.76e, de-
liyered, this being the lowest price
reached for e~lectrolytic copper o.
standard shapes, At that Level sum
cient buying support was received
TO absorb all the metal offered anu
the price has reacted upward SO tnse
today virtually all producers arc
asking 15c delivered. ~
The oficial price for lead OF the
American Smelling and Hehnlns
Company continues at 7.26e, N MeS,
york. Producers are pretty wen
aieanaa nm of metal for delivery be-
fore the end of the month. a
Galyanizers have bought ENC a
little more freely but .d the tb mat ten.
stal vie slight downward. Most
Of the demand lately has been .iof
delivery.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-09
Our Industrial Community
THE INDUSTRIALIST SAYS

derful instrument that we hear SO
little about these days-the constitu-
ton OF the United States. That
instrument Is the light OF your lib
erty and mine. Il is an ark Of the
covenant Of the rights of the poor
and the rights of the humble. In that
instrument every man finds all the
protection that a good man wants,
and God knows it is all that a bad
man should ever have
Work
It Is impossible TO achieve by do
ing less than ones best.
1t matters not whether ones JOB
be to stoke a furnace, pound a type
writer, handle tools, tend looms, dig
coal. run an engine. answer CORES
p~ondence, teach children, sweep the
streets, preach, pillow sell goods or
edit a publication the work can be
done in a way that enobles charact-
er or in a way that degrades It.
Not the nature of the work, but
the nature Of the spirit in which
the work Is done, counts
No man or woman, who is doing
superior work ever feels superior 20
that work.
It is he who is doing work in a
way that is not worth doing who
feels that the work is not worth
doing.
Were Carlyle alive today he could
not write a truer or more timely
word than this. "Work is the grand
cure for all the maladies and miser-
les that ever beset mankind-honest
work which you intend getting
done"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-09
BabSOn'S Weekly Digest
On Industrial and
Business situation

during periods of depression, pros
perity can be brought back. 1t has
been learned that the bank rate bears
the same relation to business that
the governor bears to an engine.
Hence, the banks have been re-
Gently united in the Federal Re-
serve System which can control the
discount rate with the sole object
of eliminating reckless booms and
preventing needless panics.
IF, however, you will talk with
any bank man, thoroughly informed
in economics, he will tell you that
the goal cannot be reached except
with the help of the advertising
man OF the country and the trans
portation systems. The three great
est factors effecting business are
money rates, advertising rates, n
transportation rates. Given control
of these three factors one can go a
long way in eliminating the hills and
valleys of business. The Federal Re-
serve Board is doing Is we'll as it
can with only one of these tools, but
at present it is like a carpenter with
only a hammer, and without a saw
or chisel. The Interstate Commerce
Commission which controls the rates
of transportation, have the saw; but
the advertising men have the chisel.
Some day your Associated Adver-
Using Clubs of the World will take
I'D the question of using advertls-
ing rates as a tool in connection with
the steadying of business conditions.
"When business is recklessly ex-
panding, advertising rates should be
materially increased; so that when
business is depressed advertising
rates may be correspondingly re-
| duced. One of the best barometers or
business is the size of our daily pa
pers. l do not want to reduce the
size of our papers over a period of
| years. Rather | want to see them
continue to increase in size. ], how
ever, do object to a big paper one
year and a small paper the next
year. Business conditions will be-
come steady and gradually increase
only when the amount of advertis'
ing becomes steady and gradually
increases. Violent fluctuations in
| advertising are not merely the re-
suit of fuctuation in business; but
are largely the cause.
"a concern stops advertising be-
| cause its business has fallen Off, but
the fact of its stopping advertising
I makes business still worse than 1t
| otherwise would be. To speak statis-
tically, advertising begins to fall of
because business begins to decline,
but business declines to the depths
much worse than it otherwise would
because advertising Is decreased. The
changing of advertising rates and
railroad rates in accordance with the
Babsonchart would not only greatly
benefit business as a whole, but
would benefit those who have ad-
vertising space to sell and those who
have Transportation to sell. Busi-
ness in every way will be helped by
what I call this ultimate advertis-
ing. May we hasten the day when
1t will be used"
General Business as reflected in the
Babsonchart continues in satisfac-
tory volume, running this week at
. ner ant above normal.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-09
A LIVING WAGE
mo Man Entitled To More Than He
Earns,

mo Man Entitled To More Than He
Earns
I hear people talk about every
man being entitled to a living wage"
| deny it. No man Is entitled as
matter or right to a living wage.
Every man is entitled to what he
earns. If every man were entitled
to a living wage, the man in the
shoe factory who makes the equiv
alent of 2 pairs of shoes a day might
eat more than the man who would
make the equivalent of 10 pairs OF
shoes 1t will not be long before every
man in the factory will be making
only 2 pairs Of shoes a day instead
of 10. In other words, you must
reward men In accordance with their
efficiency and their capacity TO pro-
duce. Therefore there is a great
deal Of this modern bolshevistic, So
cialistic policy that I take no stock
in. There are too man. doctrinaries
in this country.
What we need in this Republic Is
to get back to fundamental princi-
pies. Let us quit playing horse"
with each other. If you do not do
1t, and those of us who agree on
great political principles cannot get
together II We continue to divide in
name merely, If We continue to d.
vide because we have been assoclat-
ing with a certain crowd all the time,
and there is no principle that
prompts us to action, then, indeed,
the balance of powers will be held
by people who do not hold the fun
damental doctrines that will pre-
serve this Republic and save this
constitutional government Of ours.
l do believe that there was never
struck off by mortal man a more
~marvelously magnificent system OF
government, provided every mar IN
it is willing to do his full duty, pro.
vided he is willing to labor and toll
and deserves success. than that won-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-09
FIND BUSINESS
FEELING GOOD
Weekly Reports Show I'm
provement Partly Due to
Summer Weather

Sentiment in business and trade
circles was more cheerful last week,
according 10 reports of mercantile
agencies. Retail trade, jobbing, dis
tribution of light Summer goods and
crop reports have shown betterment
aided by the arrival of long belated
seasonal weather, according to Brad
streets. Another factor has been
the slightly more optimistic senti-
ment in recent weeks in large pri-
mary and industrial lines.
THE chief gains in actual bust
ness have been largely in the light
wearing apparel trades. wash goods,
dresses, fancy shoes, &c, which have
hitherto Jagged" according to Brad
streets report. THAT there Is a full
disposition to take advantage OF the
more favorable trend of weather is
proved by the pushing of sales
both by jobbers and retailers. In
purely wholesale lines there is little
new activity to be noted and col
lections as a whole still lag, while
the check to new building projects
first noted in April at New York
seems to have spread to other cities
in May. This is especially reflected
in preliminary reports, which snow
a "a per cent. decrease from March
to May in values of building permit
ted at identical cities.
"Other notable industrial develop
ments have to deal with the an
nouncement of new high records OF
production of pig iron, steel ingots'
automobiles and crude petroleum,
the latter due mainly TO expanded
production in the California field,
offsetting quietness in new drilling
in other areas. Pig iron production
in May greatly exceeded hat OF
April and of the peak of wartime,
C1916).p
Dun's Review says in part: "Ex-
cept for an increased consumption
of seasonable goods under the slim
illus of hot weather. there has been
no essential change in business. The
ouieter conditions lately developed
in primary channels have continued,
and current compilations show that
the main price trend IS stilI IN d
downward direction.
From the standpoint of manuIac-
turing activity. there is evidence that
the best previous records are yet
being surpassed in different IN
stances. and gains in railroad earn
ings reflect the unusual volume OF
freight traffic and show that deliv-
cries are being accepted on most con-
tracts previously placed. A contih-
uance of the rapid expansion OF tns
| first quarter might have led TO I'M
wholesome excuses, but conserVa-
tism is the outstanding chdraeterls-
tic of the present situation.