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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-23

1YXTHAT is boyi
Nv He is the person who is going to carry on what
N you have started
He is to sit right where you sitting and attend 10
those things you think important when you gone
You may adopt all the policies you please but how they
will be carried depends him.
Even if you make leagues and treaties, he will have to
manage them.
he Is going to sit At your desk in the Senate and occupy
your place the Supreme Bench.
He is going to in and take your prisons,
churches universities counting houses and corporations
When you get DONE all your work is going to be judged
and praised condemned by him.
Your reputation and your fortune in his hands.
He will read the books you write sell them to the
secondhand
HE will assume control Of your cities.
Right the future President playing marbles, and
the famous Of his day complaining because he
does not want to 60 to bed.
Not your contemporaries and fellow citizens but the boys
there in the school yard going say whether after
all you grand and noble hero blatherskite.
is the boy who will amend your rules alter creeds
laugh at your mistakes.
He may think kindly Of you and say you did the best
you could he may not. Watch your stepl
All your work for him. and the fate Of the nation and
of humanity is in his hands
So it might be as well to pay him attention
copyrishk Mcclure Newspaper
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-23

$4,000 miles in diameter, and
glowing more brilliantly than any
light that we can make on the
earth, the reader should not think
of this gas that makes up the
sun as resembling the gas In q
balloon or in an auto motor.
In the first place, it consists Of
every sort Of matter reduced 70
what we call the gaseous state by
the enormous heat to which It II
subjected. Except for certain ele-
ments. like hydrogen and oxygen,
capable of existing in gaseous
state on the cool earth. nearly
everything in the sun would turn
into the solid state If it were
cooled off. On the other hand,
everything that is solid on the
earth would become gaseous IL
removed to the sun. No doubt
there is enough iron in the sun
kept in the state of gas by the
tremendous heat to form q flock
Of solid iron planets each as large
as the earth IL cooled off 10 the
terrestrial order Of temperature.
And yet we should undoubtedly
find the interior of the gaseous
sun held by pressure in state
Of rigidity bearing some resem-
blance to that of a solid. In
fact. 1t is very difficult to pic
ture the state Of the suns in.
terror owing to the conflict be-
tween the enormous heat, driv-
ing the atoms and the constitu-
ents Of the atoms asunder. and
the enormous pressure holding
all the particles together and OPP
posing their movements. We
cannot reproduce such q condi-
ton In laboratories, and can only
represent its ed1aences ideally.
All Of our direct knowledge about
the sun relates to its outer
shell and what we may speak Of
as its atmosphere. There, too,
the heat is far above anything
with which we can experiment
on the earth. And there the sun
spots form, due to the operation
OF stupendous forces, of which
we know very little except that
they are in nature such as our
physics and chemistry have taught
us something about.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-23

AS MEN NEED THEM-NOT so MANY WOMEN
WOULD BE SEEKING PEACE OF MIND AND con-
TENEMENT OF HEART AWAY FROM THE HOME!
They many try to find it there and be-
come ab disappointed creatures deserted in their old age
for the brighter outside that they afraid of
what the average home does to its wom And they
reason to be-
women will stay in the home if men will stay with
them But men will not stay They 60 outside for their
stimulation and then home looking for nice soft
cushion which to rest But the cushion aired
exercised becomes fabby and inert and Papa goes
out seek fuffier with pink frls it. And
daughter looks at the poor old cushion and says herself
and to the world Well, I'd like to see any man make
THAT out Of MET
$50 she proceeds to keep herself well aired and her
fr crisp and fresh and though the frlls may get bit
she grows fabby What's more if she her
looking longingly after another frll she doesn't
weep and get her eyes red She says calmly Run along
Freddy and stretch your soul Bit and then she looks
about for younger, darker head to snugge In other
words she just refuses be poor neglected wife I'm for
her Don't misunderstood I'm NOT for the silly little
fools who waste time and health in designations and proms
love affairs Both overcrowded with that
Sort but they don't count heavily in the worlds progress
I'm standing up for the women, the quiet, homeoving
women the kind these sigh for who refusing to
PAY FOR HOME THE PRICE THAT MOST MEN
ASK. There's lot I'd like to say, but my baby's
walked up and is yipping for his breakfast
"MILL1E"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-23

"HIS seems to be a tornado
year. Such years have
generally occurred in series,
coincident with waxing stage
in the sun-spot period. Sun spots
do not cause tornados, but their
existence may show when the
sun is in a state suitable for act
ing electro.magnetically with I'M
usual energy upon its attendant
planets. electromagnetic forces
are not yet recognized as play-
ing a major part In meteorology.
but they may play 1t all the same.
They are mysteries, i.e., unex-
planned phenomena connected with
tornadoes which at least suggest
an electrical origin. In sun spots
enormous electrical forces appear
to be In operation. A tornado is
q faint, almost microscopic image
Of the gigantic whirl OF a sun
spot. A tornado is from q few
rods to say half q mile in diam
eter, the black center Of sun
spot Is as. broad as the whole
earth and is surrounded by mil
lions OF square miles OF violent
disturbances.
Still, it is not intended to draw
a parallel between sun spoots and
tornadoes. but only to remark
that while occurring, one may
say simultaneously with reference
to certain critical states Of the
sun, they also exhibit striking.
though superficial resemblances
to one another. However, it must
not be forgotten that the sun and
the earth are as widely different
in physical condition as they are
in appearance and in size physi-
cal condition but not physical
or rather chemical makeup for
the same elementary substances
are in both, and 1t is not certain
that either of them contains any
element whatever that does not
exist in some form in the other.
But when we compare their
respective conditions we find that
the earth is a solid ball, as rigid.
at least, upon the whole, as steel,
while the sun. also ball, though
more than a million times larger.
is composed of gas. Here again
a difference of condition or state,
must be noted. When we say
that the sun is ball Of gas
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-23
THE SEVEN DEADLY EVILS
OF MARRIED LIFE

leave them alone. can they? So
the friends remain a burning
problem for years, or until they
move away, or drift away, and
go out Of Betty's and Jim's lives
anyway. Friends interrupting the
actual honeymoon. Friends drag
ging them to places they hate
to 60, expensive places, firing
places. Friends inve.gling them
into gambling too nigh. eating and
drinking too much, entertaining
too lavishly, friends suggesting
that they join the golf club. that
they subscribe to the hospital,
that they take out more insur-
ance, that they buy in the new
manor estates"
No less searching Is Mrs. Norris
analysis OF the man or woman
who enters to form the marriage
triangle:
''Out of all the marital problems
the third person problem occurs
only rarely. Most marriages don't
go on the rocks because of an.
other man, or another woman, al
though all our fiction and all our
plays are built about that situa.
ton. But the outside man or
woman entering the problem is
only an effect. The cause lies
elsewhere. Yet jealousy may well
be listed fifth in the causes Of
unhappy marriages, for many q
silly woman likes to make her
husband jealous simply to crafty
her own vanity, and many man
forgets how sensitive Is, his wife's
love for him, and now easily hurt.
He knows that he is faithful, even
in thought. and he laughs at her
sober face and filling eyes. But
, she suffers agonies, while the
other woman innocently claims his
gallantry. and displays her pretty
power over him. and something
harmful is done to the wife's love
and confidence from which Il
never recovera."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-23

~ ATHLEEN NORRIS. the ia
nous novelist, herself
IN happy and successful wife,
upholds marriage and strikes q
blow at divorce in August Hearst's
international by charting Tor
Young couples-and old ones too
the rocks upon which the matri-
monial bark may be wrecked.
Based on her observations, the
seven deadly evils OF marriage
are:
LIST. MONEY. The husband wor-
ries about it, and the wife wastes
it.
2nd. THE FAMILY-his or hers.
Sometimes they both pgonize over
this for years.
3rd. FRIENDS. 1t is inevitable
that husband and wife shall dis
like some Of the others friends,
4th. FAMILIARITY. In too
many marriages nothing Is kept
secret, everything is coarsened,
ali the blooYll disappears.
9Th. ANOTHER MANOR AN
OTHER WOMAN. Usually this is
the result Of some deeper trouble.
9Th. UNTIDINESS. The woman
who wants to keep her husband
must be a fanatic about "trifles"
Of appearance and manner.
TIN. TOO MUCH TALK. A
careless word may remain to eat
like acid into the soul Of hus-
band or wife.
AS an example Of the strik-
ing way in which Mrs. Norris
drives home her truths note her
comment on the third peril
friends"
Thirdly, there are the friends.
1t is inevitable thai Betty and
Jimmy shall cordially dislike some
of each others friends. Why don't
the friends ever see this? One
wishes that a notice to this ef-
feet might be sent out with the
wedding announcements.
They can't tell their friends to
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-23
Two Brave Men
Superstition Is Dying.

The two Englishmen lying dead somewhere near tie
OF Mount Everest might be alive but for the fact that
their Ihbean porter able to carry heavy loads through air
poor In oxygen refused to 60 with them The superst
ous portes said they heard the goddess Of the
warning them back They left the Enghmen to their fate
In old days, every desert and forest had voices
Demons and bowling Spirits frightened travellers in their
sleep and scattered their horses and camels
And phantom shapes drew them the path You read
Of it in Marcus POlo's Travels
Now such voices heard the highest mountain tons
and up the North Pole where you can prove ism AZ
and where loneliness turns the mind toward marvels
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-23
By ELSIE ROBINSON
cspyrlshl. 1874 Y 80 conpang.

HER slippers, gathering up HER bath
towelsf Is there anything fair about one
giving up everything for the otheri
Why should her whole life go into
the petty, largely unnecessary things; while
he gamers all the more colorful expert
ence? am not arguing for every woman
to go into the business world with men. /
am not pleading for every woman to throw
away her broom and grab pick and
shovel. I am not asking every woman to
put the baby carriage away and learn to fly
plane. But do say that if man could
once realize and admit to themselves and to
the world THAT WOMEN NEED BOOKS
AND MUSIC AND TRIPS AND UNIV
TERRUPTED LEISURE HOURS AND
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-23
LISTEN, WORLD!
CONSIDERABLE ink has been split in

NDNSIDERABLE ink has been split in
the cause Of Husbands, and How to
~ Keep Them The time is coming
when that timeworn topic viii have to give
place to Wives and How to Get Them. No
longer do our young girls yearn for man
to pick up after, and our old girls grow
gray in domestic drudgery. Why mott
Well, I'll let Mile tell it:
Dear Elsie
I've always enjoyed your column,
though never before have felt that
wanted to do the talking myself But I've
been reading SO much about these men who
sigh for home-loving girls that now / break
my silence. I've stood lot from these
men who complain. But, like Cousin Egbert
in 'Ruggles, I can be pushed list SO fur. !
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-23
GARRETT P. SERVISS ON SUN
SPOTS AND TORNADOES

Storms Faint Images of Whirls on Solar Surface,
Although Not Necessarily Caused by Them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
WATERWAYS
 TO HELP NATION
Canalization Of Rivers Will Be Economic Salvation
(By Associated Press. ]

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 2-Canalization of the Mississippi river already accom- plished in part, would prove an eco- homie salvation to the country at large, Brigadier General T. O.. Ashburn, Unit ed States army, executive head of the inland waterways corporation, said to- day. He was here to attend meeting of the corporations advisory board which planned to leave by rail tonight for Cairo on river inspection trip.
 Congress has ''seen the light" the peo- pie are demanding it and now the rail roads are preparing to coordinate trans portation systems with river traffic, General Ashburn asserted.
 Our corporation exists to prepare the rivers to carry freight. When our Mississippi and tributary river system is completed, we will sell it undoubted- ly, but not to railroads. Then we will move on to another river"
 General Ashburn said congress had appropriated $5,OOO,O00 for additional dredges which would construct an eight or nine foot channel between St. Louis and Cairo. The lower river, he said, would "take care of itself except for necessary revetment and bank protec- tion o
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
Part ime Parents Blamed
 In Delinquency Of Youths
Investigations Show Flapper Mothers And Sheik Fathers Are Responsible For Bad Children

COG, 900 children in America are in dam ger without proper community safe guards"
 He emphasized, that the chief enemies of boyhood are communicable disease, of which he said, pneumonia was TO- sponsible for the greatest number during the period from five to IA years, and tuberculosis from 15 to 19 years.
 Meanwhile Dr. Herbert D. Williams of Toledo. Ohio, looked at the moral as- poets of youth, and told the convention that the boys were not to blame if they were ''bad."
 'Too many part-time parents are potent factors in delinquency" he said. Practically every investigation that has been made has shown prepopderance of broken homes among the delinquents as compared with normal girls and boys"
 He told of a survey covering 32 states and dealing with 7,59S cases of delinquent children which showed that in 51.2 per cent of the cases the child had not enjoyed a normal home life, due to the loss of one parent by death, divorce or separation.
 "When I begin an analysis of my cases," he said, q immediately strike upon individuals in the home who are closely connected with the delinquent acts. Undue severity on the part of one parent, or abuse of one parent by the other has accounted for several of my cases"
 Dr.. William A. McKeever, of Law renee, Kan., declared that "boys do not naturally go wrong any more than they naturally go right" and said that a ''bad-community problem" often lay be- hind the "bad-boy problem"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
DEATH VERDICT
 GIVEN NEGROES
 IN COURT HERE
John Milton, Axeman, And Willie Green, Con-
 victed Of Murder

Two negroes were sentenced to hang by juries in the criminal division of circuit court Tuesday. In both cases, the defendants were charged with grew some murders and in both, the juries required but ten minutes deliberation before bringing in verdicts of death.
 The first verdict of the current capital week found John Milton guilty of murdering eight-months old Maedron Collins and attempting to assault the childs mother near Morris, Ala, about four months ago. The verdict was re- turned in ten minutes after Judge Will liam E. Fort had finished charging the jury.
 The second, returned in Judge H. B. Heflin's court, found Willie Green guilty of murdering his wife, Martha, and fixed the punishment at death by hanging.
 Because of the brutal way in which Milton had hit the small baby on the head with an axe, the trial aroused considerable feeling in the county, and the courtroom was filled to overflowing when the verdict was read. Despite the warning of Judge Fort that there be no demonstration of any kind, several spec tators applauded the verdict.
 Receives Verdict Clamly
 The convicted slayer received the yer dict calmly, staring into the eyes of Judge Fort. The only sign of emotion came when he was transferred 10 the cage, when he held his head in his hands.
 On the other hand, the mother of te dead victim expressed her satisfac- tinon in the verdict. ''He ought not to live; if he got out he might kill some other mothers baby" she said.
 According to the evidence brought out in the case, Milton, a trustee in a county prison camp, followed Mrs. Collins into the woods and attempted to assault her. Aroused by the screams of her children, Milton swung an ax at the baby and then hit Mrs. Collins, breaking her right arm and cutting her head.
 After the crime, he escaped to Ohio, where he was captured in Ravenna, six weeks ago and was returned to the lief AClSOu SOuuty Jdh ny Sulcl ACCPuly Sheriff Henry $. Hill and Deputy Johnny Jones.
 During the arguments Tuesday morn- ing, Solicitor Jim Davis demanded a death verdict for Milton, holding that the murder was premediated. After the trial, F. A. Tharp and Frank Balm bridge, Milton's attorneys, stated that they did not know whether an appeal would be filed or not. Judge Fort is to pass formal sentence Saturday.
 The second negro to be sentenced to hang, Willie Green, stabbed his wife during fight at Fifteenth street and Avenue A, several mnoths ago, accord ing to testimony in the trial. The case was heard for the first time during the October capital week and was declared a mistrial after the jury was unabl to agree on a verdict. At that time. II is said that seven jurors held out for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
n.as,d Wire no The Are.Herald)

(l08So0 w lF6 lV 1M0 kASCsuoA0lOJ
 CHICAGO, Dec. 2.-The American boy is under the microscope of kindly group of Investigations here. The pep, punch, ambitions and ideals of young America are being analysed and lauded, and, whenever faults are found, the blame is placed squarely on flapper mothers and shiek fathers of that gen eration which, though the elder, re- fuses to admit it. .fsi +t
 From all parts of the United States, 200 representatives. of every organiza- ton engaged in work among boys gath cred Monday for the opening of con- vention here at which cooperation in their various activities will be worked out. There are members of Rotary, Kiwanis, The Lions, The Boy Scouts, The Knights of Columbus, The Y. M. c. A. and the big grother movement.
 The light on the snub nosed, freckled- faced youths of the. nation came in ad- dresses at the opening sessions.
 '.The average American boy is health fest at the age of Il years," Lorne w. Barclay of Valparisco, Ind, vice presi- dent of the Children's Foundation of America, told the convention.
 'aThe average boy" he continued, "goes to bed at five minutes of nine every evening, get up at five minutes after seven, brushes his teeth five out of seven days a week, and drinks IA glasses of milk daily.
 ''The most dangerous year of his life is his first year. The death rate under one year of age is 84 per thousand. At twelve years it is 2.2 per thousand"
 Barclay declared that ''with all our enlightenment and prosperity, the 35,-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
TENNESSEE FIRE
 FATAL TO CHILD
Heroic Fathers Efforts At Rescue May Prove
 Fruitless

CELINA, Tenn, Dec. 2.-Heroism of a father was unable to save a two-year- old child from a burning building near here last night when MT. and Mrs. Har- lin Lackey and another of their chil- dren sustained perhaps fatal burns. The infants five-year-old brother is believed dying and physicians say the two par ents probably will not recover.
 The fire began early last night while the Lackey family was eating supper, presumably in a defective flue, and spread rapidly when MT. Lackey, alarmed by the screams of his wife, hurled kerosene lamp against closed door. He had believed the dor open and the lamp burst, throwing oil over the floor and door.
 The blazing oil spread rapidly over the floor almost shutting off exit by the door. MT. Lackey picked up his wife and carried her through the door. He returned a few moments later, run ming through the blazing oil which had spread in front of the door to save the two children.
 The younger child, frightened by the flames and smoke had crawled under his mothers bed. The father made des- perate attempt to reach the boy, but the child crawled beyond his reach.
 With his clothing afire and almost overcome by heat and smoke, MT. Lackey seized the elder boy, whose clothes also were ablaze and dashed back through the blazing doorway. Neighbors helped him to extinguish his blazing clothes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
K: RAee!Q eeQ pReeeAlts&
 o11Sa ra1o
Program for. December { (Courtesy Rasio DiEcst)
 (By Associated Press)

WISE Atlanta Journal t4es, s-s pro. WEEI Boston (sos) Big Brother club WMAa Chicago News {447.g 6 organ 6:30 orchestra; 3 talk; S:15 Clara E. Laughlin; s:so auto editor; lecture; s:1t WaJ Chicago GAS, "a concert. vocal reads5 SiH lo2 ksine0w S,1sk skylara. XIV Chicago 1sss) s:sS story: T con. cert; reading! s:2o musical: s:is talki WIS Chicago ts4s) s:so organ: ' lul. laby; 7:15 music, speeches. opera. WAX WIW cTsHslana ss sss soa ma'o
 WFAA Dallas News (476) 8:30-9:3o or- voc DayenpoTt e4sD sandman; 9 WWJ Detroit News (s17) 7:so News or chestra, bass. soprano; orchestra; 10 KFXX, Hastings t2s1) s:so orchestra. WDaF Kansas City Star tiiiS s-7 tray elogue; readings. story lady. ensemble; KHJ Los Angeles Times tss5) s:so children: 10 features: 12 orchestra.
 WHAs louisville Times Ho" 7:so-s WING Memphis Commercial Appeal ''WyCCo Minnea polis-st. Paul GID 7:so lecture 8 musical: 10 musical.
 CkAC Montrealc 42s5 s9, s:so program; WEAF New YOrk (4S2) services; 1:30 talk; s Harmony Four; S:ao oratoria so- ''ISa WIN New York tsso, s;1o employ. mert sso 0rchs'tPa Pa ioGv s;sS ons dance; lo;so WIZ New York (456) s orchestra; ! Wall Street Journal review; 7:10, talk; e:30 WOR Newark (4o5) s:16 sports.
 WTAY Oak Park (28c) 6:46 artists; . feature; 10:15 soprano, tenor. orchestra.
 KGO Oakland (312) orchestra; 10 in- strumental. trio, quartet; IF orchestra.
 WAAW Omaha (286) 7:30 bridge talk s-9 song hits, talk.
 WDAR Philadelphia (3s6) 6:30 talk.
 WEI Philadelphia (ssb) talk; talk; WCAE Pittsburgh (4s2) s:so Uncle Kaybee GAS special; 7:30 concert.
 KGW Portland (492) children's pro- WKAQ Porto Rico (sso) 1o:so-1s con- KPO San Francisco (42s) s:so orches- tra; 7:sO children; g orchestra; 10 organ II program; 12 band.
 WGY Schenectady (3s0l 6:45 book re- view; Radio drama, WGY players; 10:30 KFQX Seattle (23S) reports: 9 bed time; 10 music; 12 dance.
 WBZ Springfield (33D 6:05 bedtime. 6:15 talk; 6:45 orchestra; 7:15 concert; s:15 choir 9:01 musical.
 WRC Washington (469) children: {: 6:15 concert; 7:15 motor talk; 7:30 an- nounced. 7:45 talk; S:20 concert trio; 9:30 WCBD Zion (345) male quartet. solos. whistling. flute, trio.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
ARTHUR IS DUBBED
 M ROBINSON CASE
Ex-Army Officers Testimony To Be Valuable, Say Police

PARIS, Dec. 2.-James Charles Ar thur, former British army officer, who was arrested yesterday as the mysteri- ous aide de camp to the Indian prince entangled in the sensational Robinson blackmail suit in London, underwent a lengthy examination this afternoon.
 Arthur will undergo formal interro- gation before the French judicial au- thorities Thursday when it is expected he will shed new light on the events leading up to the famous London trial. At this trial it was testified that he was one of the ring leaders in the plot to mulct the eastern potentate out of a huge fortune. It is stated that Ar thur contended he, as we'll as the In- dian prince, was a victim of the black mailing plot and that he lost 500,O00 francs of his own funds.