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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-26

than the best of ours. Give your
Imagination a little rein when you
look at Venus In her glory. Re-
member that she is certainly a
world of the same physical
measure as this world of ours,
although as to her spiritual, or if
you prefer, psychic, value we
know nothing. Science has not
yet detected by it's observations
any evidence on that point-n0
signs of her inhabitants. But
there is something enigmatical
about her.
You will be surprised at her
excessive brightness. Late in the
fall she will be so brilliant that
if you go round the corner of a
building in the darkness. where
you can catch her rays by them
selves you will find that she
casts a shadow Sometimes she
is visible in the daylight.
Napoleon once saw her at full
noon, and being, like Alexander,
stepped in fatality and instinct,
with imagination, he thrilled with
the instantaneous belief that it
was his star greeting him from
the middle of the blue dome over
head.
Once every 5s4 days Venus
comes back to make her tri-
umphal progress through the eve
ming heavens. The Chaldean
shepherds. the ancient Egyptian
pyramid builders, the worId-con
quering Romans, and thousands
of years before them the van
ished races of the pictured
Neolithic caverns, saw and adj
mired that wonderful orb, that
diamond lamp, cleaning at the
closing gates of night. Watch
her at Christmas and at New
Year; she will then add a
celestial splendor to the holiday
season.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-26
By Garrett P. Serviss
Noted Astronomer and Writer on
Scientific Topics of Popular
Interest

Interest
TIME origin of most of the Won
i derful legends and myths
that have mystified and delighted
the world for so many centuries.
giving rise to whole libraries or
poetry and romance in many Ian
guages, is probably indicated in
the letter that here follows:
Would you kindly let me know
IL it is true that Mr.. Edison
shoots an electric star in the
heavens at night? Also how it is
done, and from where?
Mrs. +. NJ. S., New York.
Here is a myth, born, developed
and become as irrepressible as the
cricket on the hearth. in our own
time. 1 remember it's birth my
self, although 1 do not know who
its celestial father or mother was.
1t sprang into being in the
eighties Of the last century, dur
ihg one of Venus periodical re-
turns to the throne of the Eve
ming Star. 1t was at the time
when Edison was attracting uni
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-26
LISTEN, WORLD!
Rv ELSIE ROBINSON

from racing any
thing? Death is
God calling us.
His hands are
stretched out to
take us to the
place he has pre-
pared. If we
cannot bring our
selves to feel
this we should
pray for faith
and teach our
children to pray
There is a time
Tor Or a y e + d
time for funerals
"a time for mat
inees-a time, a
proper time, for
everything.
No, RELOCATING
funerals to men
would not be a
success, l am GER
tain. Times are
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-26

- N~AA
in this column
protesting against
the attendance OF
women and chill
dren at funerals.
1t was a. drastic
letter, but 1t
wasn't half as
drastic as I wish
ed to make 1t. l
have known the
black agony OF
separation myself,
and pity for the
agony Of others
held my hand.
But since that
article was pub
lished hundreds
90 o0cXuara have
been re C iv e d,
som e indignant
at nv "vandai-
49,, - hut MANY
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-26
Who Said It

"True friendship is plant of
slow growth"
Lasting, sincere friendship de-
Velops gradually, Washington
AYERS, in his rSocial Ma Xims."
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-08
sss-.i..s.-i.ss
ALONG
LIES TRAIL
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean of Men, University of Illinois.
%, 1925. Western Newspaper Union.)
BY THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean of Men, University of Illinois.
MARRYING RICH

I ACKSON used to say, loosely, per-
hapS, that he had chosen his first
wife for her beauty, for she had no
money. and the next time he married,
he was going to marry rich.
Taere was no doubt as to the beauty
of JAckson's wife. She was slender
of figure and regular OF features and
her hair was glory of shimmering
"copper"
1T ought TO be as easy to love a
rich girl as one who has nothing"
heard a young fellow say not long
ago. l suppose so; I've never tried it,
but love isn't such difficult matter
under proper conditions. We are all
more or less prone TO it.
Wheeler was one of the most prom
Using men in college. He made a fine
scholastic record he had an attractive
personality, and his enthusiasm for
his work in medical college attracted
the attention of all of his teachers,
and convinced everyone that he would
be heard from in the medical world.
He settled down in q western city;
he became known in a remarkably
short time as a skillful surgeon, and
just when his friends were sure that
the promises of his youth were going
to be fulfilled, he married rich.
] met him a few years ago. He
was living in a fashionable hotel. He
was growing fat and stuDid-looking.
He had given up his practice, he said.
His wife didn't like his being away so
much. They travelled a little; they
played bridge; they had two beauti-
full Angora cats that demanded con-
siderable though and attention to
keep them in proper condition; he
was really very busy, he admitted.
His wife, also, was pretty we'll en-
crossed with her complexion and
couple of chins which she was at
tempting to unity. 1t was really
wonderful life they lived.
Pollard also married rich He was
intending to become an engineer and
he had gotten good start The lux
ury into which his wife brought him,
however, killed all his ambition. He
has an office downtown now he sells
little life insurance and his wife let's
him keep what he makes for spending
money while she talks about my
house" and 'my automobiles" and
what l intend to do to improve my
FARMS
She admires Pollard. He is strong
and handsome and playS golf excel
lently and adds a good deal to the
dignity and attractiveness of her
menage.
have wondered sometimes, how
ever, if it wasn't really Jackson who
actually married rich.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-08
Public Accidents
Lead Death Toll

transferring itself to the field of pub
TIC accidents, in other words to our
streets, our highways, our transpor-
tatlon systems and our public build
ings. 1t is following the advance of
power, but whether, as we develop
public protective measures and there
by diminish public accidents. it will
transfer itself to our homes, remains
to be seen-for today it is sufficient
to realize that the focus of the dis
order has moved into the public life
of the community.
The only new thing about the saSe-
ty movement in our day is that It is
movement and not an institution or
an instinct and that is wholly becaus,
of the abnormally rapid development
of modern life. If life would slow
down as it did in prehistoric times
safety would be family matter; it
would be part of the family discipline.
like not eating with ones knife or not
lying in bed in the morning, both I'M
doubtedly prehistoric vices
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-08
SINCERITY

MY FATHER was one of the most
AVA truly religious men whom have
ever known. He never laid down a
precept to his children that he himself
did not follow. He said little, but his
life was most exemplary. Every week
day morning, and morning and eve
ming on Sunday he gathered the family
around him for family prayers.
l supposed for a long time that
every householder who was a member
Of the church did the same thing, but
sometimes to save myself embarrass-
ment / had to explain to the unre-
generate youths who came to spend
the night with me just what the family
procedure was.
But faithful as he was in the home
circle, | do not recall ever hearing my
father offer prayer in public or make
a speech when testimonies" were
called for at pray meeting or other re-
ligious exercises. Usually he was
quite silent, or, if forced to it by too
insistent leader, he repeated a verse of
Scripture, and contented himself with
that.
Possibly it was his natural reticence
before strangers, probably it was his
broad northumberland dialect that at
tracted attention to his speech and
made him self-conscious, but what
ever it was though he spoke easily
and fOrcefully to us at home, he took
no part in public meetings, but sat
silently and motionless listening TO
what others had to say. 1t annoyed
and almost disappointed me at times.
AT revival meetings which every
winter formed part of the social ac-
tivity of our simple rural community.
we were always regular attendants.
Sometimes when the roads were pass
able these exercises lasted from No
vember until March and taxed the
forensic and hortatory powers of the
religious leaders. Father took no part.
excepting to be punctiliously faithful
IN his attendance.
1t was John Rhodes, a fluent ag-
gressive neighbor, who organized the
forces of righteousness, who pleaded
with the sinner reluctant to give up
his petty sins, who was the first to
lead in prayer, and the most eager to
give testimony as to what the Lord
had done for his soul. He fascinated
me and made me wish that my father
sitting silent and serious were more
like him.
what wonderful prayer your IA.
ther makes" l said to Henry Rhodes
one night. boy of my own age.
DO you think so?' he replied. "Well
we never hear him excepting when the
revivais are on. Your father doesn't
get into it very heavy"
Eut didn't say anything.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-08
BRITISH TRY TO
SAVE OLD Swiftly
Auto and Tractor Eliminate
Anvil Worker.

Hartford, acknowledgements efforts
are being made here and in other
agricultural districts of England to
save the picturesque old-fashioned vii
lage blacksmith from passing into
oblivion
The smith of England today is not
"toiling and rejoicing" to draw undue
attention to himself, but is sorrow
ing" great deal more than in the
days when LOngfellow idealized him.
all because of the advent of the auto
mobile and the motor tractor.
In their desire to save" the village
blacksmith the Hertfordshire county
council members announced recently
particulars of plan designed to keep
alive the decaying industry which has
been so hard hit by the modern or
ganization of the big manufacturers
and their agents who supply standard
lied parts of farm implements and
machinery on lines of mass production.
The ministry of agriculture. too, has
become interested in the scheme to
prevent the passing of the blacksmith
and has agreed to cooperate III the
movement.
Special committees appointed to In
vestigate the plight of the smithy have
reported that there are many articles
in popular demand which cannot be
satisfactorily produced by factory
methods because of the skill and the
handiwOrk of the craftsman which
should count more than mere cheap
ness.
With a view to giving the village
blacksmith a new lease on life, a spe-
cial exhibit was arranged for the
recent Herts agricultural show, where
prizes were awarded for agricultural
implements. wrought iron gates. scroll
work, door fittings. general utility
wares, such as weather vanes and UNI
brella and golf stands.
f. w. Speaight, director of the ex-
hibit, has also proposed various other
schemes designed TO prevent the
garage from replacing the blacksmith
shop and silencing the ring of the
anvil forever.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-08
FROM A PRISONER

4 PRISONER in the federal
A prison at Atlanta, Ca, asked
for writing material and a check
book bearing the name of a
Rhode Island bank. When the
guard handed them to him, he
sat down on his prison bunk and
wrote:
American Legion Endowment
Fund,
National Headquarters Ameri-
can Legion,
indianapolis, Ind.
'Dear Comrades: / herewith
enclose a check for SIS as my
: contribution towards the celes-
!. tial fund that has been under
taken by the American Legion,
for the purpose that carries the
high ideals of the noble work of
the organization.
May | ask you to kindly place
this small amount to the allotted
quota that is required from the
state of Rhode Island organiza-
tions of the American Legion.
81 regret exceedingly, due to
my present position, 1 cannot
give to you my physical assist
ance for the success of this
drive, but assure you of my sin
cere good wishes and confidence
in your work. Your comrade,
etc"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-08
Tenement Army OF
Wall Street United

association operates either singly or In
conjunction with uptown agencies.
Irish pioneers, late Joined by Aus,
TRANS, Syrians an GREEKS, head the
census in downtown Manhattan, which
also includes Slavs, Turks, Armenians,
Serbs, Rumanians, Scandinavians and
other nationalities seemingly too di.
verse ever to bring together. Yet
racial demarcations, socially consid.
cred, are disappearing, association
heads assert
Common Employment Has Helped.
Common employment has helped to-
ward this coalescence. Wall street
buildings like the Equitable, Empire
and the various banks carry on their
payrolls for cleaning and other work
some 3,731 women and 1851 men OF
the neighborhood. They work split
tricks at the start and the end of the
night, as rule. and often double In
restaurants at noon. Annual earnings
for families in the district, with both
parents working, average $1,000 EACH
according to Paul Franklin, executive
director of the association.
Group activities and the second gen
Grafton of children have been the prin
cipal factors in the "get-together"
phenomenon presented by the commu
nifty, it was said. The association has
long since dispensed with interpreters
Where grownups have not picked ur
English their offspring are on hand to
piece out. To all practical purposes
the % nations speak common tongue
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-08
Che.
American
! Legion
Copy for This Department Supplied by the
American Legion News Service.)
81 900, OOO-MARK
HAS BEEN PASSED

AT the conclusion OF the prelimi-
nary stages of the active canvass for
the American Legion's 100000 en-
dOwment fund for disabled veterans
and orphans of the World war, the
,0O0000-mark had been passed, ac-
,ording to National Commander James
a. Drain. Nine states had "gone over
the top" completing their quotas, in
most cases with a substantial oversub-
scrlption.
Kentucky was the first state to com
plete its quota, oversubscribing 1t by
30 per cent. Tennessee and Arkansas
followed closely. The first Northern
fund was North Dakota. South Da-
kOta was not far behind. Other states
which completed their quotas in the
early stages of the nationwide cam
paign were North Carolina, Utah and
Nevada.
Avon Park, Florida town with a
population of 800, claims to be the
only city in the country to have
trebled its quota in two hours. The
town raised $1,5O3 against a quota Of
S425 by noon of the first day and
pushed on. A total of $947 was sub
scribed in the first ten minutes.
George G. Baumgartner, Civil war
veteran of Phoenix, Ariz., sent in a
check for So. He said he would send
that amount each month. The first
contribution at Tucson was from the
Associated Federal Students at the
University of Arizona, who gave half
the funds in their treasury.
Attaches of the United States Vet
Grams bureau office at Minneapolis,
Mimi, pledged themselves to raise
$4,000 Patients and attaches at
the United States Veterans hospital,
No. 90, at Excelsior Springs, Mo-, con-
tributed $3.50, Employees of the Den
yer (COlo.) office of the veterans hu-
reau pledged 1925 to the fund, every
person making a contribution.
Votaw-Swank post No. 45S at Neoga.
ILL.,, raised it's quota in the face Of
many difficulties. This farming COM
munity had been having hard times. A
bank had failed with a large loss
Funds and supplies had been sent in
large quantities to the victims of the
terrible tornado which struck Just
south Of the town last spring. But the
quota was raised.
Many governors are taking an ac-
tive part in the work for the fund
Among those who have recently ac-
cepted the Craftsmanship of their state
committees are: Franklin S. Billings,
Vermont; John J. Blaine, Wisconsin;
Alvin T. Fuller, Massachusetts; Albert
G. Richie, Legionnaire, Maryland;
George S. Silzer, New Jersey, and AL
fred E. Smith, New York
Former governors are also active in
the work. Among those more recently
accepting places on state committees
are: Claiming H. Cox Massachu-
sets; Frederick D. Gardner Missouri;
Carey Hardee, Florida; A. H. Longino,
Mississippi; Nathan L. Miller, New
York; David I. Walsh, Massachusetts;
Charles S. Whitman, New York.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-08
Clubhouse md Playground
Provided by Corporations.

New York.-Wall street with its
skyscrapers houses an Office population
of 100000 by day and is held by a
tenement garrison of 10000 by night.
Wall street is the sole livelihood of
this skeleton force of nightfolk. In
discharge of a sense of obligation it
has quietly fostered an interesting
piece of citizenship work the last ten
years.
The major result of the work, lead
ers say, has been to convert the dis
trict from New York's most polyglot
belt, with 1,40O families representing
% nationalities, into probably it's most
closely knit, most homogeneous COM
munity.
Financed by 1000 Corporations.
The work is financed by 1000 cor
pOrations, firms and individuals under
the name of the Bowling Green Neigh
borhooo associations.
The activity is expressed, for ex-
ample, in terms of a model four-story
clearinghouse on West street for head
quarters; 100000 playground cover
ing nine city lots on the river front /;
% tlOurishing orcheStras and clubs for
young people; nine social and political
clubs and lodges for adults; educa-
tional classes. health clinics and COM
munity services in general which the
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-08
Hazard Transferred from
Industries to Streets.
BY c. B. AUEL, President, National
Safety Council.

Safety Council.
New York.-The world has become
mechanical-man power and horse
power Except as a unit of measure
c1ent) are falling into desuetude.
Harvesting Niagara" was an achieve
nent, conveying it's force to great
distances was an accomplishment, but
TO make Niagara freeze itself into lit
tie cubes in the millionaire's kitchen,
brown the buckwheat cakes on the
foreman's breakfast table and drive
the sewing machine in the third floor
back, transcends any of Aladdin's
mythical efforts. Not content with
Harvesting mere coal deposits and riv-
ers, man harnessed the oil fields, and
with what resut?-the development
of cheap ana light mechanical motive
power enabling him to fllvver the sea,
ilivver the air, and flivver the surface
of the land. See also what the gas
engine is doing for the farms-the last
stronghold Of horse power. First into
our industrial life, next into our pub
lie life and finally into our home life
have crept the manifold applications
Of power to daily needs
Power Takes Toll.
But, because power is the applica-
ton of the mechanical forces which
the human body cannot withstand
power has taken and continues TO take
its toll of life and limb. The path II
Its application to mans needs Is
tracked with bIood-first in the indus
tries some Of which a decade ago were
called slaughter houses" today upon
the streets where every mans life is
in eopardy-perhaps tomorrow with
quest.
Natures own efforts TO protect the
individual of the species from the dam
gers of his environment are marvel
Gus but they are inexorably slow
Human efforts at protection will al
ways lag far behind the inception and
even the conception of the hazard. 1t
seems thet an incredible number of
human beings must be killed or in
Jured before the public conscience is
aroused. 1t is true that the majority
of those Industrial establishments
which were termed slaughter houses"
have at last become safe places IN
which to work, but yet the automobile
has been allowed to take the toll of
100000 lives in this country alone.
Notwithstanding our recognition of
what is going on, the annual increase
in automobile deaths has not been ar
rested. 1t is our human failing not .
foresee these evils and our human
weakness to close our eyes to their
appalling growth until we awake to
find, in their elimination, huge ma
tiOnal problem.
Streets Now Danger Point.
The center of gravity of accidental
deaths in the United States was prob
ably at one time situated in the indus
tries, but since the inception of the
safety movement 1t has been slowly
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-08
Ambition

1t was back in the old days at st.
Nazaire. A couple of perspiring ne
gro stevedores had stopped work for
chat.
Boy" said the first, what yo'-alI
want mos when yo'all am discharged
FUN de ahmy?"
"Ah wants NAH rife mos of ALL" re.
piled the second.
"Yo' rifle? Whaffo' yo' wants yo'
rifie?"
SOS when All gifts me home All kin
plant it in de middle of nah yahd, an
when it rains All sits me by de win
dow an says: Rust, yo' son of a gun,
Inst American Legion Weekly.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-08
Something to Puzzle Over

They had not been married so very
long, but even so the young bride
knew something about the ways Of
fishermen. SO she remarked to the
fish market man; you know, my hus-
band has gone fishing today" The
fish seller nodded noncommittally. 80
just wanted to ask" continued the
bride, without pausing to blush, "what
kind of fish you think / should buy
to hurt his feelings the least?"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-08
Not Sea Lingo

Il heard somebody under my win
dow this morning" said the northern
guest, "remarking, go no."
Eyes, sub" said the southern host
"a wandering sailor?"
mo, just colored neighbor return
ing a garden implement"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-08
Especially the Cent

LET me see," said the young man,
thoughtfully. 1--WE got to buy some
flowers, and some chocolates, and some
theater tickets, and"
Doing mental arithmetic?' inquired
the man at the desk.
mo, sentimental arithmetic" STRAY
Stories.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-08
Lays Egg Inside Egg

Cape May. N. Cape May hens
have lined up On an economy program
and are conserving space by laying one
egg within another. Russell Schellen-
ger, a farmer of Fishing Creek. near
here, while gathering eggs found what
he thought was a double-yolked egg
On opening the egg he found anotheA
complete egg inside,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-08
MINIS Busy Turning
Out Double Eagles"

Philadelphia. - The standard
coin Of the old West Is coming
back into its own, according TO
reports from the United States
mint here, as well as those in
San Francisco and Denver. All
three minis have been specialize
ing in the coming Of double
eagles" The Philadelphia mint
is turning out $4,000 of the $50
gold coins daily, which estab-
fishes a new record for any one
plant, This coinage is the re-
suit of law enacted by con-
gress which provided that one
third of the total outstanding
United States government gold
certificates must be represented
by actual specie.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-08

Liberality does not consist of much
in giving great deal as in giving
seasonably.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-08
Not the Word

Proud Father understand, son.
your school now boasts of a glee club
Son-No, sir, we don't boast of 1t.