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The Washington times., 1925-04-13
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
By DOCTOR FRANK CRANE
Habit and Emotion

NEW Of us realize that emotions are as much the
creatures of habit actions
Our passions have to have rut to run N as Wen
as our deeds
nature peculiar thing 1t IS always easier .o
to do thing again that have done DeIoTe anu caSc
In proportion to the number of times we have done IL
The German proverb perfectly true that all beginnings
difficult.
Prudence Penny recently quoted from someone as Ioo
Every established mental condition is acquired napl
and become such by continued repetition OF InoughG
Dependency and cheerfunes anger and camnes
ness and generostyindeed all of mind-are habits
bui up by choice, until they have become automatic
constantly repeated at last becomes fixed haD Of
the mind and from such habits develops the life S
One why you at certain thing Is Inat
under similar circumstances have been angry before
We do not realize that irritable and speak sharply
and are otherwise dsagreeabe simply because we have
fallen into the way of it. We have followed the line OF least
resistance and the habit has grown upon us.
OpposlteIy being polite and gentle and loving IS not
wholly matter of disposition but it largely matter Of
habit.
If we get of expressing pleasant thoughts and
saving pleasant things will continue to do Increasingly
and life will be much easier If get into the way
of REFRESHING any such emotions it grows constantly easier
to represS them.
Character is determined largely by habits They
difficult They require exercise OF will power 10
order to commence them with every repetition the viii
power required less and finally they operate OF them
selves. .
We do not have to watch habit. It watches itself We
do not lave to be careful or what we snail do Inc nap
takes of us.
By forming good habits one places himself in the hands
of an automatic policeman who unconsciousy determines
his course of life
will and good intentions may vary according moods
and life that governed by them apt to be spotted
indeed But who has created good habits presents
pretty uniform surface Of politeness and gentiity
The Washington times., 1925-04-13
Millions for Labor

Once President of United States complained that you
couldn't rstclass in this country for less than
hundred hundred and fifty dollars YEAR That
time ago.
You will still find people prepared to show that
going dogs wormen actually their work
driving their automobiles and buy silk stockings for
their wives and daughters.
ALI that nothing in view Of this latest
The organized locomotive engineers own big bank They
have bought the Equitable Building New York worth about
forty million dollars and bringing in four and onehalf mil
lions YEAR in and they selling millions of bonds
On that building
That's encouraging news for worknnen And it DOEsN T
annoy capitalists, you may be
High finance knows there is nothing quoting and sooh-
ing the possession of large of money. labor
union bank and the bank forty million dollar
building you will find that labor union in favor of stable
government opposed any Boshevm that might sell
that building for the benefit Of the proletarat
The Washington times., 1925-04-13

CHOW do they ascertain the
u distance of stars too far
away to show measurable
paralIax, based on comparison
with the diameter Of the earth 3
orbit?" asks reader.
There are several approximate
ways, the best, perhaps, being
that OF w. s. Adams. called the
"spectroscopic method"
It has been discovered that
there are certain lines in the
light OF stars whose appearance
varies in a regular way with the
absolute luminosity of the stars
examined. The lines used for
this purpose belong to the sub
stances strontium and calcium.
In stars OF high luminosity, /.
e., intrinsicalIy very bright, GER
tain definite strontium lines are
brilliant, while a certain calcium
line in the. same spectrum is
faint. On the other hand, in stars
OF small luminosity, or bright
ness, these same two sets of lines
present exactly opposite appear
ances relatively to one another,
the calcium line being strength
ened and the strontium lines
weakened.
This popularity. which it is
thought may be due to special
conditions of ionization in the
stellar atmospheres, serves as
mark of distinction between stars
OF high luminosity and stars of
low luminosity, without regard
to their apparent brightness.
which varies with their distance.
1t Is thus possible Ito determine
a definite numerical relationship
between the intrinsic brightness
of a star and the relative strength
Of these lines"
Stars Outshine Sun.
When we speak Of luminosity
we refer to the absolute bright.
ness of a star as 1t would appear
seen from a standard distance.
and not from it's apparent bright
ness as seen from the earth. The
standard distance that has been
chosen is ten parsecs, /. e., ten
times the distance corresponding
to a parallaX of one. second of
arc. When a star is, mathemati-
cally, brought up to that distance
it's apparent brightness becomes
it's absolute brightness DUNN.
osity) or it's absolute magnitude.
If the sun were pushed away
ten parsecs it would sink to about
the fifth magnitude. on the
other hand there are stars in far
The Washington times., 1925-04-13
GARRETT P. SERVISS TELLS OF
DISTANCE OF STARS
Spectroscope's Lines Prove Celestial Yardstick
When Parallax Method Fails

off clusters, and few scattered
ones, which, IL brought up to the
standard distance, would Outshina
the sun five or ten thousand
times. At its actual distance the
magnitude OF the sun il 26.6. A
star ten thousand times brighter
than tho sun put in the place OF
the sun would appear TO US of
magnitude 36.5, every increase
of five magnitudes involving an
increase of a hundred-Eold III the
brightness.
Now suppose that q faint tel
escopic star is observed to have
the lines that we have mentioned
so related as to indicate that the
star must possess an absolute
luminosity ten thousand times
greater than the suns. Yet it is
found to shed upon the earth say
only a hundred thousand-m illionth
as much light as we get from the
sun. This difference between Its
absolute brightness as revealed by
its spectroscopic condition, and
its apparent brightness to our
eyes, can only be caused by the
immensely Of its distance.
Gives ForInuIae.
Remember that the intensity OF
light varies inversely as the
square Of the distance. II theS
star in question appeared to shine
with the same brightness as the
sun then its distance, in terms
of the suns distance from the
earth, would be equal to the
square of 10000, /. e., 100; in
other words it would be 100 times
100000 miles. But since Its
apparent brightness is only one
100, 600, 000, 900 of the suns, its
distance must be the square root
Of 10000 divided by one 100000
O00, 000th Ii. e., the square root OF
1,O00, 200, 900 100000 times the
earth's distance from the sun.
This square root Is about $780,
900, which multiplied by $4,000, 900
gives 2,940 million-million miles
for the distance of the giant star.
To illustrate the principle of
spectroscopic Identification of
stellar magnitude, suppose bal
looms painted in patterns CORE
spending to size were scattered
through the sky, some far away, :
others near. A certain pattern
would correspond to a certain
absolute magnitude OF the bal
loon. Then the real size being
known from the pattern the APP
parent size would give a clue to
the distance.
The Washington times., 1925-04-13

ASPARAGUS: Bureau OF Agri-
cultural Economics, Market News
Service, u. S. Department OF
Agriculture released when re-
ceivea) says asparagus is moving
freely. Price trends are gen.
orally lower in latter part of
March. For week ending March
%, shipments were 238 cars. The
, bureau says the same, period
a year ago saw only Al cars
shipped
Note increase in percentage of
periods vision.
TWO MILES A MINUTE: A
Philadelphia establishment turns
out the Two largest circular saws
ever manufacturer. They are
feet 2 inches high, weigh 675
pounds, and each saw has 1870
teeth. They will be installed in
mill at Everett, Wash. to cross
cut hemlock logs, Each Of the
100 teeth travels at the rate OF
two miles minute.
The Washington times., 1925-04-13
The Editors Own Column

NINE EXPLOSIONS: The
American Mining Congress will
have an exhibition of coal mine
equipment in Cincinnati on May
25. Coal operators will. at that
time, discuss the application of
rock dust in mines to prevent ex-
plosion. The Government is rep
resented on committee, drafting
the program for the meeting, by
Fl. Foster Balm, director of Blu
reau of Mines.
CANAL RECORD: In the first
fifteen days of March, 1913 COM
mercial vessels and small
launches transited the Panama
canal. Tolls on the commercial
vessels aggregated $902, 004.45 and
ON the launches 1920, making a
total of $902, 020.65 for the fifteen
day period This extract from the
Panama Canal Record shows con-
clusively we must bring up our
small launch tonnage or go In
the hole in the canal.
The Washington times., 1925-04-13
This how the automobile looked and this is how
the owd stood around and laughed

easily guess how men standing In the crowd
around this little oldashoned Of thirty years
perfectly sure that would WORK The inventor
they considered crank and they wondered how man could
be fool enough to waste his time on such crazy ldea
But time passes and things change
Only little while ago children learned by heart poem
about Darius Green the who was foolish enough to
think he could fly, and fell in the attempt.
just thing that millions were certain OF and
would be flying done by human beings until
they got their pair Of wings up above.
Now flying machines go around the earth carry the mails
regularly over Rocky Mountains and nobody looks
any curiosity when apane is heard hummng in the
sky.
This picture shows how quickly things can change In
world of energetic and big factories.
The Washington times., 1925-04-13
a"sss#sssss==a sR, u By ELSIE ROBINSON

picking on you9 I'll write the forceful
language all right, but maybe the plot will
surprise you.
What kind Of bunko artist are you, any
way, cheating woman into marrying you
-tricking her into thinking that you re
Regular Guy-and then, as soon as you We
got her nicely shackled for life, dropping all
the pretence and letting the poor girl dis
cover for herself that, after all, you're
nothing but new kind of door matt
Never thought of it that way, did youf
Never thought that she was really the in
jured party9 She IS. She thought she was
marrying a MAN-and look what you've
handed SOMETHING THAT ASKS
PERMISSION TO WALK DOWN THE
STREET AND BUY A CIGAR. She wanted
to look up to you, to follow your guidance,
oooon+ voTr advice She wanted t0 ho able
The Washington times., 1925-04-13

NEW Of us realize that emotions are as much the
81 creatures of habit actions
- fnr nass;ono hava tn have a rut to well
The Washington times., 1925-04-13

The glory of a workman still of workman
that he does his work WE'LL ought to be his most precious
possession like the 'honor of soldier, dearer to him
than life.-Carlye.
No justly condemn another, because
indeed, truly knows anotherSir Thomas Browne
He that loses his honesty has nothing else to loseLyy
The Washington times., 1925-04-13

To mourn a mischief that s past and gone
Is the way to draw mischief on-Shakespeare
By aspiring to smitude of God in goodness or love-
neither angel transgressed shall trans
gress.-Bacon.
trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch
well as he that goes over to the enemy.-Burke.
The Washington times., 1925-04-13
Things That Are New
Don't Make Fun of Them.

These two little pictures by the distinguished artist Thomas
Powers are put in remind you that the man who
laughs at a new idea likely to feel foolish some day.
The Washington times., 1925-04-13
LISTEN, WORLD!

say if Worm could say anything at
~ all9 Well, here's the chance to
satisfy your curiosity He signs himself
"a T." l bet the A. stands for Angel
and he's perfectly willing that we should
print his lament. In fact, he Graves publicity
cause then maybe his wife will be sorry and
take her heel off his neck.
DEAR ELSIE:
Many times / have started to write
you, but always lost courage for fear you
would think me one of those complaining
husbands But as your advice will mean the
world to me beg you to publish your answer
to this, as my wife will take a tip from you,
she assures me- knowing your knowledge of
life
have been married eight years and have
two children think the world of them and
, 1925-07-22

Ernest Reimer, Mr.. H. E. Lockhart, Mr..
E. Moron. Mr.. Enrique Boil, Mr.. P. c..
LuSk, LIST musician j. w. PauluS and
Mrs. a. G. Paulus. The ship sailed on
the return trip at 4 D. m. All the pas
sengers with the exception of the last
named returned by her and 10 a EDITION
she carved the following: Lieut.. Comdr.
T.. w. Reed, (M.C), U. S. N, Mrs. I.
W. Reed, son ana da1gh;er, Director of
Police NoIan, Miss Richardson, Mr..
George H. Gordon, MabeIle Seely and
Frank Jackson.
1t is advised that for this weeks trip
only, the S. s. Catherine Will arrive with
tne mails on friday. and sail for Marti-
niQue the same evening. The outgoing
service will be performed by the schooner
oVlgjlant leaving Christiansted tor st.
Thomas at 8 o'clock Sunday morning.
See notice as to closing OF mails publish
ed elsewhere in this issue.
The police were measuring up the
streets yesterday; this is probably in
connection with road repair which is
badly needed on the principal streets.
, 1925-07-22
HE HAD THE FIVE DOLLARS.

A boy was arraigned in a police court
on a charge of stealing five dollars from
his employer. The boy secured a lawyer
aud entered a plea Of mot guilty
The lawyer believed in the bays limo
cence, and spoke verv elcquently on the
injustice Of the arrest, dwelling partlcu-
Iarly on what it would mean to ,he boy
in future life if he vas sent to prison.
The count dismissed the case.
Immediately after the boy asked the
lawyer the amount Of his fee.
How much have you gor?' question
ed the lawyer.
WELL" replied the boy, 'I'vs got
that five dOllrrs!"
, 1925-07-22
POLICE AND LEGISLATURE MIX

The affair of Tn ursday afternoon be-
tween Arturo Orliz Zorro and Corporal
Victor EmmanueIiI, OF the traffic squad,
is now under investigation. Corporal
EmmanuelIi in trying to make Mr., Ortiz
Toro prove that h had an automobile
license compelled him 10 90 to the offices
of the license bureau.
When he saw that MIR. Ortiz Ioro had
a license, he attempted. to arrest him
for disturbing the peace. Represen-
tative Rafael Munoz interviewed, telling
the corporal that he was a member Of
the legislature.
While the quarrel was going on, the
sergeant alarms of the House of Repre-
sentatives, who had been sent by the
president Of the House to intervene in
behalf Of Mr.. Ortiz loro. arrived aad
stated his mission. Corporal Emmanu-
ELI threatened both the sergeant at
, 1925-07-22

arrest if they interfered.
Representative Munoz asked in the
House TO have the case thoroughly in
vestigated, and to have the corporal
punished as harshly as the law permits.
While the Police Department is busy in
veStigating the matter, all the evidence
is not yet collected. Ibid.
, 1925-07-22

The electrical storm that visited Porto
hic) on the afte noon of july | was one
Of me worst storms ever recorded here.
The storm was more intense in the
central and western section thar in the
vicinity Of San Juan. In Cab0 Rojo
two nen we're killed by igaJniog. In
Corozll one man was killed. II Lares
q woman and a girl were killed In
NardnjiD b nan was killed, and a wo
man was severely burned. In the bar
rio Guadiana d man was killed and his
daughter was severely burned. This
makes a total of seven deaths and two
injuries. The weather bureau reports
that storms of such intensity are rare
in Port, Rico.-Polto Rico Progress.
, 1925-07-22
MERELY WANTED THE MATERIALS.

so you married my daughter think
ing I'd pave the way for you sn business.
Is that it,"
'WeIl-er-not exactly. I'll do the pa
wing. bat | thought you might furnish
the rocks"
, 1925-07-22

he, under provisions Of the said conven-
ton, preserved his Danish Citizenship.
He Subsequently, to wit. on the 2Ist day
OF April, 1925, made a declaration mot a
sworn allegiance to the United States,
nor an absolute severance Of his allegi-
ance 10 the King o. Denmark renouncing
his preserved Danish citizenship and
eIecting citizenship IN the Unitad States.
Could such a declaration enlitie him TO
The right Of nativity in the Virgin Islands
for political purposes? We have already
seen that he could not even become a cltl-
zen oil tha Virgin Islands without special
auth0j Ization from Congress, and if he is
not a Virgin Islander ne does not possess
lna rIglL OF nativity and cannot be 4
member of the Colonial Council neither
by popular election coz by appointment
by the Governor.
On July Is, 1921, the Governmental the
.4%gln Islands FORWARDED . letter to the
Colonial incl, " t%h ialer met on IAe
6tD Jay Ot Angus, 1921, informing it
tnae the Governor lad OeeNadvi5ed by
radio The following proviS0 had been in
serted in an Act OF Congress signed oy
the President, July IL, 1921:
Provided tna1 no person owing al
leglance to any country other than
the United States Of America shall be
eligible to mold Office as Il nembet
of t0e Colonial Couucl! Of M Virgin
Islands OF the DATED States nor nJid any
public offi:e u.der the Government OF
sand islands,"
Ii is unnecessary to go further to show
that Mr.. SLakemann IS not eligible rs Il
member Of the Colonial Council. He is
not a citizen Of the United States. though
he may laler be, according To The treaty,
and under such laws of the United States
as may be enacted for the Virgin Islands.
He is not a citizen OF the Virgin Islands
and therefore does not possess the right
of nativity which is one Of the QuaIifica
tons necessary for eligibility as a mem
beY Of the CoIonIal Council, an since ne
does not possess the right a nativity,
the prOvis0 in the Act of Congress is APP
pIicabie to him, and for no purpose what
ever can he hold office as a member Of
the Colonial Council. If this were allow
ed, then any native citizen oil the Virgin
Islands, who during the war, elected to
preserve his citizenship in Denmark for
fear Of an extension of the Draft Law
and with the fixed purpose OF evading
said law, could follow the same course and
again enter the political family OF The
Virgin Islands with The same status as
those citizens who were loyal enough to
elect citizenship in the United States,
regardless of whether they were drafted
not.
, 1925-07-22
A QUICK MIND.

It's a constant wonder TO me, said
the student of human nature, Ito see
how quickly the minds of some men act.
There are people that can decide in an
instant what it would take others a long
time to consider. met a man the other
evening is that way.
WAS he a lawyer"
Il don,t know; but he had an i~ntellec-
tual grasp that was astounding. | met
him in the hall, Just as he was reaching
for an umbrella"
is that your umbrella?" he inquired.
NO" replied l..
In that case" he answered its
mine,
You may not believe it, but the Eng
lishma had been boasting about the way
they did things across the Pond"
Really he had!
Then the New Highlander thought he'd
have a whack.
Taking about justice being mated out
quickly" he said, "'only yesterday an
airman over here fell out of his aeroplane,
and he was tried and sentenced to six
months in Jail before he hit the groundI,
You don't say SOL" draweled the Eng,
Iishman. What was the charge?''
"Vagrancy, " replied the Yankee. He
had no visible means of supportr'
, 1925-07-22
ITO be continued, J
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The u. s. S. 'Grebe" arrived here at
IL 80 a. m. yesterday from St. Thomas
with the following passengers: Mr..
Evening star., 1925-04-20
Deaths Reported.

The following deaths have been reported
to the Health Department in the last "a
hours
Lama Bowman. 20, tuberculosis Hospital
Mary B. Gintner, 73, 500 G st. ne.
David e. Brake, 46. 442 Park I'd.
Annie E Lightfoot, 80, 500 Princeton st.
Hugh ]. Mcdonald, 81, 2OOA Q St
William w. Gilbert, S5. Garfield Hospital.
Thomas S. Hopkins. 10. 1917 10th st.
Evening star., 1925-04-20
NEARING LEADS ROW
IN LABOR SESSION
Preoipitates Heated Debate in
Proposal to Indorse Soviet
Recognition.
By the Associated Press.

PHILADELPHIA, April 20.-The
fourth national convention Of the
Workers Education Bureau of Amer
day, defeated suggested resolution
by which the organization would have
indorsed the diplomatic recognition of
Soviet Russia and the resumption of
trade relations Herewith. The resolu-
ton was ruled eXtraneous to the pre-
rogatiVe of the organization.
DIR. Scott Nearing, professor of eco
nomics in the Rand School of Social
Sciences, New York, who announced
he wanted ''to sound the note of rebel
lion" was ruled out of order.
When finally recognized he inter
preted the address of President Will
liam r. Green of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor Saturday night at the
convention banquet as too peaceful" "
Industrial peace" he said, "is the
slogan of the bosses. Industrial war
must be the slogan of the workers. -
He asked an amendment to the report
of the committee on curricula, which
was voted down after President James
H. Maurer of the education bureau
took the platform to excoriate Dr.
Nearing's suggestion.
The incident provoked heated debate
for an hour before being disposed Of
Mr.. Maurer, who is president of the
Pennsylvania State Federation of La
bor, was reelected president of the
education bureau, and Spencer Miller.
jr., New York, was reelected secre-
tary.
Evening star., 1925-04-20
new Q. M. ASSISTANT
ARRIVES IN CAPITAL
Col Zalinski, Nov to Become Brig
adler, Rose From Ranks,
Served 40 Years.

Col. Moses G. Zalinski, Quarter
master Corps, from headquarters, 4th
Corps Area, Atlanta, has arrived here
to assume the duties of assistant to
the quartermaster general of the
Army. with the rank of brigadier
general, an office to which he was
recently appointed. He succeeds Brig
Gen. John T. Knight, assistant quar-
termaster general, who retired yester-
day on account of age.
ZalinSki rose from the ranks, hav-
ing served as a private in Battery
G., 1st Artillery, from October, 1885,
until February IL, 1889. Then he was
appointed a second lieutenant in the
I'd Artillery, and served in that regi-
ment until March 8, 1898, when he
was transferred to the Quartermaster
Corps as captain. Since then he has
served in all grades in that corps, be-
coming a colonel November /, 1915.
During the World War the officer
was, first, depot quartermaster at
Philadelphia, and then quartermaster
of Base Section 2. S. O. S., with sta
ton at Bordeaux. For the latter
service he was awarded the distin-
guished service medal and was made
member of the Order of the Black
Star F'rench). Since his return from
France Zalinski has served as depot
quartermaster at Atlanta and Phila-
delphia, and also as commandant of
the Quartermaster School in the lat
ter city.
Evening star., 1925-04-20
FORESEES DRY WORLD.
Noted Prohibition Worker Be-
lieves Move Is Gaining.

Il believe The chances for world pro-
hibition are brighter right now than
they have ever been, in fact. l think
the world campaign is nearer success
than the move for a national dry law
was in the United States Is years
ago." declared William f. PussyfooD
Johnson in an address last evening at
Foundry Methodist Church.
There are just three countries on
the globe where the work is not or
ganized and progress being made.
They are Greece, Spain and Portugal" ;"
Mr.. Johnson recently returned from
tour of the Balkan states and re-
ported particularly on conditions in
these countries. He says he found a
very strong dry sentiment among the
political leaders of the nations visited.
Referring to conditions in this coun-
try, Mr.. Johnson said that before the
d-y law was written into the Constitu-
ton there were 275 institutions Of
fering and claiming to cure the drink
and drug habit. To-day, after five
years there are just 27 left Is 1t be-
cause they have too much business or
because their business is practically
gomez" he asked.