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The Washington times., 1924-12-25

shepherds have ever been the humblest of toers TO
THE COMMON WORKERS OF THE EARTH. To their
dull eyes the Glory famed; for their sad all the
midnight vault filled with golden carrolngs
suppose that for each of the Christmas has
its special message With generous hands send out gifts
and charywth reverent feet tread the church aises
But somehow it has always seemed to that Christmas
has deeper meaning than that which touch with gifts
or alteration of the Babe That Babe within the manger
is not all the meaning of Christmas Day What of
those shepherds waiting the hsa What of the
which great Heaven sent their toll and loneliness
THAT STRANGE NEW MESSAGE WHICH HAD NEVER
COME BEFORE TO EARTH.
"Great Joy shall be to ALL PEOPLE-On earth peace
good will toward men! Never before had people
known the promise of had great light Of
good will dawned the dark hill Of the workers DESC
lation It a rich and powerful world which those
Roman ruled world whose philosophy still shapes
thought and action There luxury and favor
limited in that world but nowhere in its laws creeds
treasures there good will for the poor and the tg
Alone depised they watched through the long night of
their oppression.
And then at last it came-THE PROMISE ON THE
SKY! The glad that One had at last share
their lot and fight their
A BABE BORN IN A MANGER!
Babe who to know the rasp Of poverty, the salty
sting Of sweat the cruel drag of weary dusty feet the
agony Of loneliness betrayal death upon the All
poor working suffer in their need and gno-
rance all that is heaped them by fes hard lash He
knew He not only to be Saviour, but to be their
neighbor and their friend The living presence of Gods
good will to those who'd known only mans injustice and
brute cruelty
So tonight / am remembering that while kings and
scholars slept the simple shepherds the angels Of
Lord The rule OF greed and seshness is yet over
Men still crawl home brute weary, while their brothers
feast at But has that quite vanished from
the sky. And has that promise fallen still nor
ceased grow and fruit within the hearts of men, We
still watch weary beside ckering fires through the night
But at last know that Good VIII lives. And we
who work call the hils-'A Merry Christmas
Pal The dawn is nesr!''
Peace to you, and day of rest and joy!
ELSIE ROBINSON, Your Friend
CcsOSishe 1894 1ns Features Syndicate InOA
The Washington times., 1924-12-25
If the Criminal Were Rich
He Would Get His Gnn hv UCcnrt Ordnr

You notice that it is against the law to send revovers
ana otner small deadly instruments through the mails
tnero individual States cities have forbidden the sale
OF weapons that criminals in their "hodups But the
sent MAIL from another State and the United States Post
Office would deliver to him. The laws did interfere with
sending things like that through the mails although thew did
1orOld selling such dangerous things the counter
Now law forbiddng use of the mails for revolver
ales The criminal will always be able his gun as he
mas always got his cocaine and his bootleg whsey it will
be made difficult for awhile
Inc criminal morally is poor and luckily he cannot afford
70 re the great corporation lawyers that work for big fnan
cers and make the Constitution useful to their clients
the criminals that want guns in their hold-ups COULD
re the big lawyers how quickly that against sending re-
voers through the mail would be declared unconstitutional
You know the Constitution says quite plainly that nothing
must interfere with the right Of the citizens to possess and
bear arms.
In old days before had invented cocaine bootleg
whskey daylight holdups etc. it considered important
that every citizen should be well armed.
Those were the days Of tyrants-days when it was Gus
tomay to deprive the little Of his weapon that only the
kings soldiers would be armed And then it was easv to
handle the people
The founders Of this nation the wise fathers that wrote
the Declaration OF Independence and the others that after
long discussion framed the Constitution felt RIGHT
10 HAVE WEAPONS was just as important the right
free speech free assembly, etc.
However while the Constitution is powerful institution
and used frequently to interference with child labor
etc. cannot luckily be used behalf Of the down rodden
criminal
While the Constitution says he entitled to
have his deadly weapon and while technically presumably
unconstitutional to pass law against shipping weapons from
one State to another it's quite certain that the law viii stand
Nobody BIG ENOUGH objects 70 i.
The Washington times., 1924-12-25

The numbers at the bottom Of this illustration difficult
read indicate the years. beginning with 1881 and ending
1924 The numbers the Sde reading upward indicate the
members in the American Federation in the various years.
Beginning in 1884, with thousand members the Fedora
ton climbed in 1920 to than 100000 Then in 1921
1922 1923 and 1924 slump very violent in 1921 And
the present report the membership less than
demonstrated in the election that labor does
not want LABOR PARTY in politics or If it does WANT
IT, in the abstract does not VOTE for when election day
comes around.
The big drop in the Federation Of Labor enrolment is due
part probably to prosperous times and the great demand
Tor mechanics and others since 1920 when membership the
Federation reached its peak To belong to the Federation
means paying dues and when jobs plentiful and employers
are offering bonuses they have been in many trades
paying dues probably unnecessary and tiresome
The wise worker, however will remember that union is
strength and paying dues essential part of union
organizations cannot be kept together without money
The man that leaves organization when his POCKET no
longer needs may be sorry that he diminished power
wnen tne day comes as surely WILL when his pocket and
pay envelope will need the help of the organization.
meanwhile here strikngly presented the FACTS and
ne figures that each may think and anayze
himself
The Washington times., 1924-12-25

which shall be to all people And suddenly there
with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host
prasng God and saying-GL0RY TO GOD IN THE
HIGHEST AND ON EARTH PEACE, GOOD WILL
TOWARD MEN"
DEAR PALS.
have been thinking of that passage for the last hour
as watched the sky darken outside my office window
and waited for the words to which should make my
Christmas message to you Across the way they're putting
up new skyscraper. The rivetng machine has just
stopped and the workers going home huddled into
themselves with wearness All the are filled with
workers. their tired faces bent down. their hands dangling
at their sides like heavy tools And above the first
star hangs within the sky hung that night so long
ago when watching shepherds heard the angels sing
Weary workers under arlit skya promise hung above
the earth's sad pain
So I've been thinking of that passage from ST. Luke
Somehow it comforts who worker, to remember
that the Great Vision and the promise of Good Will was
given first to common shepherds herdng sheep lonely
hills Not to the rich to the powerful to the wise
the great not to the teachers and bankers of the land
But to the tired abOrers hudded bit of fre-sleepy
cold worn with toll To stupid, plOdding such as
The Washington times., 1924-12-25
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
The ShOU-Of.
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE.

NNE way tell real aristocra is that he does not like
to show off.
He does not want anyone to think him WISER better
or capable than he really is.
If you like to put your best foot forward make good
IMPRESSION be fattered have people think that you
wtter clever than you are you have plenty Of
company. That what the multitude want along the broad
way.
It is not that you bad is only that you
The exceptional wants such thing He does not
like to be pverpraised Flatery when it is not deserved
does not tickle him; it humliates him.
The right kind of man nstnctivey ccnceas his virtues
his nudity When his pety discovered, he bushes.
When he is elected to high office it sobers him. The most
he gets out Of riches the Of responsibility he
wins fame artist soldier engineer writer is hard
for him believe that it is largely due luck.
Even your praise cannot find him, your blame
not swerve him.
The right kind of is his audience. He does
things to satisfy himself and not other people.
When you find the typical showoff that always playing
to the galleries you have a low order Of man.
For most of the people always doing this. Most
people do not to be able to play the vn they
to have people think they play it, They do not want
write good stuff they want to have people think they
The right kind of aims at doing good work. The
kind of aims at having people think that he
do it. One looks the thing DONE the other the reward
The Washington times., 1924-12-25
GARRETT P. SERVISS ON LIGHT
AS UNIT OF MEASUREMENT
Series of Mirrors Around Globe Could Fix It's
Circumference by Speed of Flashes

precision of our knowledge of the
velocity of light is what Professor
Nicholson was after in his recent
work at Mount Wilson and Mount
San Antonio in California, where.
by he hoped to reduce the probable
error in the adopted speed Of light
to so little as only one mile. per
second. If that were done, he be-
lieved that it would be possible to
measure distances on the earth as
small as only so or 100 miles
directly with a light signal, which
would give results of at least the
same order of accuracy as those
that have hitherto been attainable
only by the tedious method of tri-
angulation.
Results of Tests.
In this first summers cam.
paign, using signals between the
two mountain tops, twenty-five
miles apart, he obtained a new
measure of the light velocity
which gives for its result 299S2O
kilometers instead of the 299S6O
kilometers of Newcomb's meas
urement, which for a long time
past has been generally used.
The probable error, or uncer-
tainty, of the Newcomb estimate
was twenty or thirty miles, plus
or minus. Professor Nicholson
does rot, in the preliminary an
nouncement, specify the estimated
uncertainty in the new result, but
he gives the measurement equal
weight" with the old, and says
that in the next years work it is
hoped to obtain results four or
five times more accurate.
With regard to these measure
ments it is unfortunate that, ow-
ing to our over-conservativeisul In
clinging to the old English system
Of standards, instead of formally
adopting the metric system, it re-
mains a necessity, in conveying
pop0ser information about sub
iects like this. to turn meters into
feet and 16ilometers into miles.
Let us have done with it, then,
and say that 299820 kilometers
equal about 1876, ,299.15 miles, while
299,S40 kilometersN equal about
1S6.324 miles. The new measure
ment; therefore shortens the dis
tance travelled by light in one
second. by 24.S5 miles, or about
one part In 1900.
The Washington times., 1924-12-25

WI HEN the human mind gets
w firm grasp on few
great fundamental facts
it has the ability to use those
facts for discovering many more.
II we could reflect beam of
light by a system Of mirrors
around great circle Of the globe,
and IL we recorded with great
precision the times Of departure
and arrival of the light, we
should have a new measure OF
the circumference of the earth,
which might give more accurate
results than any other. The dis
tance across an ocean could be
similarly measured. Similar
measurements have already been
made with radio waves, whose
speed is the same as that of
light.
Light travels about 10000
miles per second. The distance
around the earth is known to be
about 25, 900 miles. So we should
get our light signal back again
in about 0.1344 of a second; or it
would go around the globe LA
times in a single second.
If we could land a geodeist on
the moon, supplied with the
necessary apparatus, including
tank of good terrestrial air, he
would get his light signals back
frora a mirror on the earth in
about two and one-half seconds,
the light having travelled in that
brief space twice the distance be-
tween the Surface of the earth
and that of the moon.
Gauging Short Distances.
But he would find, if la STAYED
at his work long enough, that
there were times when the hxht
took less than two-and-a-third sec.
onds for its double journey, while
at other times 1t required over
two-and-two-thirds seconds. Thus,
by the unvaryfng speed of light
he would obtain a measure of the
varying distance of the moon from
the earth as it travels around in
it's elliptical orbit.
For general approximations such
measurements might suffice, but
if light were used to obtain accu-
rate measures of smaller distances
on the earth's surface, its velocity
would need to be known with in
creased exactness. Such increased
The Washington times., 1924-12-25

"HERE are two principal
regions where conditions are
Il most favorable for the de-
velopment of cyclonic storms in
the tropics, one in the region inn
mediately south and southwest OF
the Cape Verde islands in the
eastern Atlantic ocean and the
other in the western third Of the
Caribbean sea. The establishment
of this fact was one Of the most
important results of an exhaustive
study of West India hurricanes
and other revolving tropical storms
of the North Atlantic ocean, which
was completed by, one Of the fore
casters at the central office of the
Weather Bureau Of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
All available data from ships az
reported to the photographic of
flee of the navy and to the marine
division of the Weather Bureau for
a period of thirty-seven years from
1887 to 1928, inclusive, including
the daily weather maps Of the
Weather Bureau and the publica.
The Washington times., 1924-12-25
WEATHER BUREAU DETERMINES
WHERE HURRICANES DEVELOP


tions of various foreign meteoro-
logical services, were used in the
work of replotting the tracks of
all storms of tropical origin. 1t
was found that no storms Of
cyclonic character developed over
the eastern two-thirds of the
Caribbean sea during the entire
period of thirty-seven years.
Another important conclusion
reached is that a tropical cyclone
will recurve to the northward and
\northeastward at the first favor
able opportunity, irrespective of
longitude or time of year. That
so many OF these storms travel
far to the westward before recurv.
ing is because of the influence of
the semi-permanent area of high
pressure which extends from the
Vicinity of the Azores west-south-
westward to the coast of the South
Atlantic States. Whenever there
is temporary breaking down of
this area of high pressure to the
northward Of a hurricane 1t will
Immediately start to recurve.
The Washington times., 1924-12-25
WORDS OF WISE MEN

the calling dignifies the man. the ,much more
IA advances his calling.
The friends thou hast and their adoption tried,
Grapple them thy soul with hoops of
Desire not to live long, but to live WELL
The dew waits for voice to call it to the sun.
No iron chain outward force Of any kind ca1n,ev
compel the soul Of to believe to diSbelieve.
Shadow owes its birth to light.
The Washington times., 1924-12-25

HE CAME TO WORKING MEN!

C A ND there in the same country shepherds
~ abiding in the field, keeping watch over their
flock by night And 10, the angel of the Lord
came upon them and the glory of the Lord shone round
about them And the angel said unto them Fear
not for behold, bring you good tidngs of great JOY
The Washington times., 1924-12-25

NE way to tell real arisocrat Is that he does not Ike
to show off.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-15
srAnr uTnn


Floyd clark. seattle artist 10
inred into a vacant hauaa on Beacon
Hlit b. mysterious eeman ln
black and is overcome lie hWakrs
en- an unchartrd isle ruled hY women
OF Ereat rtrenEth and beauty. funy
men are their subjects
Tuha. a beautiful maiden, falls IN
love With clark lie learns from
smith. an uid shipwTeck. that the
women sacrifice their husbands 90
the sod ~ fire, ia the belief that
they win paradise. The Old queen
of the island takes a fancy 90 CLARK
Hr rebnffs her she flosa him. 10
The men rise In revolt They make
Clark their king lie 10 uugrow ned
hy the wiles - roha, She hidrs him
in a cave fTom the wrath ~ her
queen. llo escapes 60 ne iunE -
e. avoid being sacrificed on the
altar ~ love. There q prehistoric
beast drives him bark a. the arms ~
love and death lie mhrriea Toba
amid tribal rite and pomp, She
takes him 20 her cave There. under
The spell ~ the tropic niEht CLARK
fnrErts death In the arms - love.
He retifca secure In The thought
that he has wen the love ~ thls
girt against her GOD % fire. but
awakss later a. find her hnslling In
the gloom of early mofnlnEi before
the Bridal knife % sacrifice
Clark fleea from the cave. and
braves the monster In the forest lie
suddenly comes upon the animal
but III pays no attention 20 him
NOW co on wITit TirE story
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duck. we all miss the children
wha, VIII we do when the Twins
go homer
Suddenly the little fairy had an
idea. Il know wha. III dor she
cried. What DO you say n ia
each Of you up Ike new. and then
take you to the houses Of children
who haven't many toys"
Instantly there were 40 many
voices all yelling at once tina, n,
fairy had TO put her hands over no,
cars.
All right All riEhtg' she laughed
But remember you won't stay new
long. You'll lose ears and tails and
get dingsd and lose your paint and
be left out IN tho rain and every,
thing. us always that way when
kiddies play with toys"
We don't care, We don't care.'
sang all the Doofunny Ianders.
please do hurry" croaked the
little frog. You haven't changed
me back yet and the mink may
come any minute"
"i'li begin on you" said Silver
Wings. waving her wand.
Instantly the little shlvering fros
changed hack into a puffy. cotton
frog with tissue paper skin. Hc
looked very happy.
Then one by ono she changed ali
the toys, and made them like new,
except the Cut.outs. They were "a
old.fashioned that they needed a
new set Of clothes altogether.
The Twins helped Silver Wings ia
take the toys TO their new homes
As for Mister Fuzz wuxx, IN.
pipe-cicaner man. he wanted TO 20
back to his old home IND live with
his master, who made him.
Nancy and Nick said goodby 10
Silver Wings, but as she flew away
she called. II think the Fairy
Queen has a new adventure for
YOU"
TO BE Continued
Copyright. 1924. Seattle STAR
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-15
ADVENTURES
0FTHE TWINS
NO. 25-WHAT SILVER WINGS DID
%Olive Roberts Barton

w. CIV TIA Ol
Nancy and Nick started back 20
Doofunny Land. taking tho green
frog with them.
DO hurry" the frog kept saying.
looking hack nervousiy toward the
pond 20 see II the brown mink was
following. do you think the fairy
win he goneT'
Il think not" said Nancy. "she
would wait to see how you liked
yourself"
Wei. I don't like myself a biz
and want her TO change mo back
the way used to be. / wasn't
afraid OF anything then except the
wooden waddle duck"
When they arrived. there we're
Mister Fun wuzz and Silver Wings
and everybody waiting anxiousiy 10
see what had happened.
We'll. did you ike it?'' asked Sill
YER Wings when she spied the little
green fellow in Nick's hand.
mo. didn't" said the frog. An
enormous beast was after me and
hear that Is usually the end OF all
real frogs. I'd rather be made OF
cotton and paper and last while
longer"
That's the way with me-"
squeaked the little tin mouse. In
Doofunny Land ! have only the
patent-leather cat and the stocking
kitten 10 fear. and neither Of Thorn
are very fast runners"
"And you know how much chance
Dummies haver' declared the cotton
rabbit. Tapping his long, timber
ears.
The only thing is" quacked the
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cnAprrR XVI.

clark was conscious for tho frat
time that he vas armed, And then.
I like a fash. the thought came 20
him that u the monsters single eye
were destroyed he would BE- able 70
avoid is charges,
That single. great eye fascinated
him.
7 n he could put that eye out
Clark. from fear. was despsr
ste. lie felt Of the knlfe's
blade. II was sharp. With this
he might save himself yet.
Yet he dare not rise lest his move
msnt attract the attention o. ths
monster.
He lay stu and watched Il and
saw tive heavy iii droop IN sleep
Then he 20, slowly To his fact step
by step on ,lptoe. holding his breath,
he approached the monster,
Now he stood before T. This great
eye was closed lie raised tho knife,
His hand was trembling, 4 slip. a
misstep and no would die. Clark
realized that his lie now depended
on the success 81 one blow.
Clark raised tho knife. And
the eye opened. II was like a
great mirror lie saw himself
reflected In Il. Then he struck.
lie put all his strength In the
thrust.
The knife was driven desp. Clark
did no, have time 10 recover Il.
with a rear tha, shook the earth,
that staggered him. the monster
rose.
Clark lodged. TUNED and fed, lie
ran with the fistnea Of the wind
I A hundred PAGES and he stopped and
looked. The monster was founder
ing in rnEc and pain on the sand.
Thru the roar of the blinded beast
came shriil cry from the noun
tains. Clark looked Up, iIn saw the
mountain side dotted with tho fig,
urca OF the natives They had wit.
messed his wpundlnE o. the beast,
Clark. realizing he was under
the eyes Of the island. kncw thss
the time had como to make capt..
tai Of his conquest Of tho mon.
ster. Perhaps, he thought. the
mere fact that he had emerged
the victor over this beast. which
for generations had been dread
cd among these people. might In
the end save his life.
Clark no longer feared the great
brute. He approached Il. He hoped
he might recover the knife.