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The Washington times., 1925-06-05

LII Of us think that OF considerable lmpOr1ancc
and we acquire impression that affairs could not
- get along without S.
Sometimes we be very necessary ~ tne eyes y
others It is singular how death we observe the
world moving smoothly &.
Lincoln or a Garfield may be removed Some hearts
are broken the majority of homes lite continues q
usual
We throw pebble into pool There are few r1pples
but soon the surface again Somehow Or other TINS
world has way of waggng It moved long years before
we came and it will move along after we are gone.
If anyone thinks he somewhat it is good plan Tor him
TO go to the cemetery while and what wall be-
come of him.
William Feather says, Lincoln Stefens after years Of
activity in behalf df civilization rested from his abors and
finally public confession IN which he said was
shock to discover that the world did not fall tO pieces
when he let CO.
may be right for take hold and do share but
we should think highly Of ourselves Even if we do
not do our share will from other place
You remember what Mordecai said to Esther Il thou
altogether holdest thy peace this time doubtless deliver
ance and enlargement shall arrive the Jews from another
place but thou and thy fathers house shall be destroyed
Sometimes we get idea that holding up the sky
or that the universe depends upon
We but little specks that and and the
Of the will go without assistance.
The Washington times., 1925-06-05
|BRIDEGROOM'S
ATTIRE
Mrs. Cornelius BeeckmanI

NAAOs NVA AAt(AlOS OC(NAAAAGAAAb
nEAR MRS. BEECxMAN:
~ A friend of mine is getting
married soon and is planning on
having the ceremony performed
at e nuptial mass at 10 a. m.
Will you please tell me what the
correct attire will be for the bride
groom? Will a dark blue busi-
ness suit be appropriate and in
good taste? My friend is wearing
a veil and white dress. Every
one seems to differ In opinion on
this matter and so she is i'll doubt.
PEGGY.
THERE is only, one correct at.
tire for the groom in day
time wedding of this formal kind.
that is, when the bride is wear
ing the formal white dress and
veil. That attire Is cutaWsly coat
and dark striped trousers. il
looks inconsistent and inappro-
pirate for him to wear an lnfor-
NAL business suit when she is
formally attired. But this is the
only substitute" He must de-
eide if he is to be correctly dressed,
or incorrectly dressed. No one
else can decide for him.
nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ A and B, cousins, started
out together in the front seat
of AS machine with the under
standing that they were to call
for AS professional friend, c.
A is driving. When c came out
to the car, A asked b to please
be kind enough to cake the rear
seat as A wished to discuss some
professional matters with c. b
is now offended at 4 for being
asked to do this. Was A right or
wrong? ANXIOUS.
ID SHOULD not be offended 1t
ID A. There are many times
when we must combine a pleas
ure with a professional talk, and
A was perfectly within his or her
social rights in doing this. EVi-
IDENTIFY A was courteous in eX-
planning the situation to Ii, and
B should have accepted with an
equal courtesy. 3 was socially
narrow-minded and provincial,
and showed that lie or she is not
used to a generous adaptation to
the wishes of other people
Mrs. Beeekman will he glad 10
answer questions on etiquette
submitted by readt-rS.D
The Washington times., 1925-06-05
ONLY CULTURE
PILL

MAKING education popular has
W1 not brought about higher
learning but has created a horde
of half-baked intellectuals and cul-
ture-chasers who want their learn
ing not only condensed but quick,
says Isaac Goldberg, writing in
1.-THE American Mercury"
"The lower learning is found in
the high places; the higher learn
ing is found in the humblest
walks" says Mr.. Goldberg. THE
invention of printing has laid a
demotic road to the former. Once
even kings were compelled to
study; now he who motors may
read. The lower learning is thus
clearly a product of our contem-
porary illusion of democracy.
"As one illusion leads to another,
we may trace the origin OF the
lower learning to the illusion Of
culture that is conferred upon the
populace by widespread instruc-
ton in the rudiments of reading.
AN age that is built upon ana
around commerce-that makes or
the high-school municipal train
ing-schoo1 for cheap clerical help
that appraises Time as an ele-
ment to be outwitted rather than
as a dimension to be enjoyed,
naturally makes fetch of speed.
So, too, our culture-chaser wants
his learning not only condensed,
but quick. No time for frills, for
hesitant speculation, for adumbra-
ton. Give it to him in neat
H.. To Lot. A1~
down, in clear-cut outlines. Nor
is this enough. He must be flat
tered in his conceit. What he
is getting is the real substance;
the rest Is highbrow.
1--WE have thus produced a liter
ature that takes it's place logical
ly, not with books and magazines
of valid sort, but with spurious
medication by pellets and nos
trums. We have produced, at
last, an education that works
while you sleep, with no time
lost from your regular occupa-
ton. The aim of the anthology
and it's fellow forms of abbrevi-
ated information comedies with
the latest fashion in feminine at
tire: to get as much as possible
into as little space. At lest
from the standpoint of the reader,
it is means, suggesting pleas
ure. What is it in practice?
Largely hit-or-miss compilation,
so inclusive as to render itself
nugatory. and used by the reader,
not as a means, but as an end.
''The general effect is to create.
not public for the better things,
but a horde of half lf-baked intel.
lectuals who regularly go through
enough tabloid courses to provide
gossip for the dinner-table.
THE way to raise the public
taste is to expose it to great art,
but not to make a sing lie conces-
sion. Any other course lowers
art and the public alike.
The problem, as l see it, Is
not to cajole the public into ac.
cepting something that's good
for it; not to coat the pills of
culture with sugar of flattery,
debasement, adulteration. All
this-Which Is the lower learning
The Washington times., 1925-06-05
GARRETT P. SERVISS TELLS OF
SENSING ROTUNDITY
Students Must Learn to Think of Earth as
Great Ball.

TN a sentence which struck me
ii as the best in one Of his
novels-perhaps the straightest
sentence he ever wrote--Henry
James, describing a sea voyage,
spoke Of rounding the great
curves of the globe.
/ wonder how many there are
who feel that they are living on a
globe, or ball, realizing" the
roundness Of the earth as they
realize, for instance, the flat
ness of a floor, or table.
To do SO, of course, is to make
intellectual perception take cap
tive. and overbear. the perceptions
of the senses-but that Is by no
means an impossible, or even a
very difficult, thing to do. We
accomplish it every day when we
correct by mental effort the de-
ceptions of the eye or the ear.
It is true that the intellect is de-
pendent upon the senses for it's
facts; but 1t ras the priceless
quality of being able to utilize
facts that are not present as well
as others that are present, In
making a mental picture which
shall show the whole instead Of
only a part of an object or scene.
Cause of Confusion.
/ may be mistaken in supposing
that there are but few who use
this power to correct immediate
sense impressions when thinking
of the earth. But ! am sure that
there are many who do not use
1t, and from that comes much OF
the confusion that troubles be-
ginners in the st udS of astronomy,
and of geography in it's astro-
nomical aspects.
One can make no real progress
as long as he forms his idea of
the earth from the very minute
portion that falls within the range
of his eyesight at any one time.
l should be surprised to meet an
astronomer, or a geographer, who
standing for example in the deep
valley of Chamonix. had any
other feeling about Mt. Blanc
and the other towering peaks and
domes shutting him in on all
sides, than that they are simple
irregularities and protuberances
breaking the spherical surface OF
a huge globe, in comparison with
which they are almost nothing.
AS long as one does not ment'
ally sense" the rotundity of the
earth, and does not feel" the
globe turning when he sees the
sun rising in the east, or setting
in the west, as truly as he feels
that his smooth.running auto Is
swiftly moving in an opposite di-
rection to that in which the trees,
fences and houses seem to be
streaming past him, so long he
will stumble in attempting to
grasp astronomical conceptions.
The simple notion of the an
t'podes rs an obstacle for many per-
sons. They have not sufficiently
trained the imagination in group
ing scientific facts to free them
selves from the tyranny of the
narrow local impressions that the
senses, unaided by reflection upon
The Washington times., 1925-06-05
WORDS FROM
WISE MEN

NNHE fearful unbelief is un-
i belief in yourself.-Carlyle.
There is an hour in each mans
life appointed
To make his happiness, if then
he seize it.
Beaumont and Fletcher
Life goes headlong. We, chase
some flying scheme, or we are
hunted by some fear or command
behind us.-Emerson.
There is no man suddenly
either excellently good or ex-
tremely evil.--Sir Philip Sidney.
---
1t is the soul itself which sees
and hears, and not those parts
which are, as 1t were, but windows
of the soul.--Cicero.
Health and cheerfulness mu-
tualiy beget each other.-Addison
The Washington times., 1925-06-05
Why DID Amos KneeI
When He Proposed?

; and out of date. Tt did not 1ooi
me nna hit when was told thaE'
women were subjected because
thew were the superiors rather
than the EQUALS OF men, ana tnat
the limitations placed upon tneir
lives were necessary because they
were ON plane with the angels.
Angels. / argued, would not nave
to anDlv to inferior mortals Tor
averv. dollar they spent. every
independent move they made.
And there you have the bitter
truth. Grandma. All the gallant
nv Of the Good Old Days was just
so much ornamental bunk. Part
Of the gentlelnan's decorative
haberdashery, as it were. They
didn't protect ladies'. Oe sause
thev thought they were OF rarer,
finer clay. They protected them
because they thought they were
in the same class as ehlldren
and idiots and would prove
menace to society unless ne.
strained by such ''protection.
And they put that sentiment into
cold, hard, legal phraseology Tor
all the coming generations 20
read. If you want TO Iind OUT
what district or people tnink
of women and children, donl
listen to the signing loveiorn gal
lants or the warbhng OF q mock
ing bird in some magnolia tree.
Shuttle down to the court mouse
and look up the law.
Look up the laws which per-
init a man to bring his mistress
into the home, but deny his wife
a divorce.
Look up the laws which make
the child the property OF the
father, regardless OF the rights OF
the case.
Look up the laws which allow a
man to beat his wife. YoI won't
need to look very far for that.
Judge Ogden Persons, of Moultrie,
Georgia, ruled in the Superior
Court on April IA, 1925, tnat
man has a right to spank his
wife under certain circum-'
stances. .
You lived a happy, sheltered
life, Grandma dear, and to you
that gallantry was the real thing.
You don't realize that it Was but
poisonous hypocrisy to the woman
who wasn't as lucky as you.
We haven't as pretty manners
between men and women today.
In all probability the world will
never see such pretty manners
again. But it is seeing right
now infinitely more fairness and
justice. And the companianship
which will spring from the new
relationship will be 100 per cent
more reliable as basis for
human progress.
The Washington times., 1925-06-05
Wise BOnaparte

Napoleon understood human nature He ddnt know that
he describing modern American fnanciers when
he invented his Legion of Honor and said that by putting
little ribbon in the coat of ardent Republican could
change that Republican to good Bonapartist He didn
know that that would apply also to of American
fnanciers little red ribbon of the Legion of Honor stuck
IN their buonhole for in particular changed
good Of them from fairly good Americans to some
thing quite different and has set them bowling Eu-
rope ought not be expected to back the money that
she borrowed from the American people.
The Washington times., 1925-06-05

other facts correlated with those
Immediately before their eyes,
impose upon them.
How is it possible" asks one,
in earnest perplexity, "for people
to be standing on the other side
OF the earth with their heads
down and their leet up?"
Like Great Ball.
When one is trained to think
Of the earth in no other sense
than as a great ball, whose center
Is "the bottom of down" for any.
one anywhere on It's surface, no
such difficulty can arise. Every
body knows by local experience
that bodies fall down. Every
body is also told. in school at
least, that the direction in which
bodies fall, or are drawn" by
gravity, is toward the center of
the ball called the earth. This is
the conception of falling that all
ought, exclusively. to keep in
mind; but what they do keep in
mind Is simply the word down,
without considering that down"
has no other meaning than toward
the center of gravity Of the earth.
/ sometimes think that the most
instructive object in the world is
a school globe of the earth. Elk
cept for small geographical de-
tails a globe is worth more than
a score of aliases and maps. You
cannot study it too much. A
globe one foot in diameter is large
enough to show all the principal
geographical features and all the
important countries and places.
1t should be firmly poised on an
axis of rotation and mounted with
a meridian circle" and a horizon
circle" 1t shows the world as 1t
is, and solves hundred problems
at a glance. And with your men
tai eye you can sec {. thousand
ships rounding its great curves"
The Washington times., 1925-06-05

cause the young man regards the
girl as no better than himself, II
as good. And it's the girls own
fault"
GRANDMOTHER, dear, I'm sorry
to dent your illusions about the
chiValry Of the young men of your
day, but I simply can't stand by
and let you sideswipe the Modern
Generation in this wholesale man.
ner. So with all due apprecia.
ton Of what you and your gen.
GRAFTON meant to the world, I'm
: going to state q few unpleasant
facts.
It is true that young men knelt
when they proposed in your
youth. They also did many
other decorative stunts when
ladies were present. They bowed
and scraped and sighed. They
fought duels and wrote sonnets.
They wore faded roses, locks of
hair, pink garters and other
romantic garbage parked above
their manly hearts. They rolled
their eyes,, they uncovered their
heads; they drank unlimited
toasts. In short, they did every.
thing to prove their high esteem
of and unselfish devotion to
ladies EXCEPT PROVE II.
What do mean by that?
Simply this. Bows and sigh9 do
not prove high esteem. Duels
and sonnets, treasured roses and
parked garters do not prove un-
selfish devotion. Mans real at
titude toward the women of his
t.
number of times he takes off his
hat, BUT BY THE NUMBER
AND QUALITY OF THE LAWS
AND THE DEFENSE OF HER
proven not by the sonnets he
writes about her but BY THE
RESP SIB LITIES HE
JOBS HE GIVES HER TO DO
HER FOR THOSE JOBS.
It's marvelously easy to take
off ones hat, Grandma dear It's
most becoming to sigh in the
moonlight, or bow low, particu,
larly if you're not too fat. And
there's no more romantic way
of grabbing the limelight than
by challenging some scoundrei
in defense of a sweet ladys
name. Also, where is the sacri-
flee involved in drinking many.
many toasts to The Ladies? Why
know lotta bimbos who
would be willing to give UP
their regular jobs AMI do nothing
but that, week after week. But
when it comes to paying women
wages, or acknowledging woman's
The Washington times., 1925-06-05
Who Said 1t

ambition has but one reward
for all:
A little power, a little transient
fame,
A grave to rest in, and a fading
name."
William Winter, in Queens
Domain" thus seeks to discourage
ambition.
Zone by one thy griefs shall meet
thee;
DO not fear an armed band;
One will fade as others greet
thee
Shadows passing through the
land"
Sorrows do not come all at
one time, Adelaide Proctor re.
marks in Zone by One"
The Washington times., 1925-06-05
ONCE-OVERS
WHY so GRoucHY9

Why grouchy toward those who sit table with you
IN a restaurant?
Why not act like human being? Address those at
table, with of conversation take
and enjoy yourself
spirit of aloofness helps you miss of en-
joyment.
may be that the persons who sit with you in
public eating house not your equal your esma
tion.
But would it hurt you to be courteous9
Besides, the great majority are as good you
They busy folks who have dropped into the same
that you haye-pushing ahead, careless every
thing, except to get something to eat
It helps digestion to relax enough to be agreeable Try
It one week.
The Washington times., 1925-06-05

par excellence-makes, not for
true culture but for culture-cults
and similar pestilential excre-
scenes.
''In adj popularization there is
an element Of loss; TO make some
thing understandable to the peo-
pie is to remove something OF
what is to be understood. The
difference between the lower and
the higher learning-which is an
intellectual, and not a class, dis
tinction-is the difference be-
tween adulteration and purity, be-
tween affectation and sincerity.
between surface appearance and
fundamental solidity."
The Washington times., 1925-06-05

G6TT'S all be-
/ cause the
girls OF today
have made them
selves COMMON Z
sig his Grandma
Bennett. "Going
arou n d dressed
like menwork-
ing with men
taking part in
mems 5 games. How
can they expect
to get the respect
from men which
the girls of nlg
you t h received ?
Why, in my day
men r e gar d e d
young ladies as
something almost
divin e. When
they proposed
they kneIt. Now
adays proposals
The Washington times., 1925-06-05
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
80
By DOCTOR FRANK CRANE
The World Wdgs On

LII Of US think that Of considerable importance
and we ACQUIRE the impression that affairs could not
- get along without
The Washington times., 1925-06-05
LISTEN, WORLD!

right 70 = voice
in their own AZ
fairs, 4 Fl Al q $
DIFFERENT
IN her article
II CAN'T AF-
FORD A HUE-
BAND, in the
May CosInopoli-
tan, Rheta Childc
DOrr touches up
on this romantic
theory about the
ladies.
q N0AA
had re vO 1T e d
against the doTni
nance Of men in
the world Nov
that Z was able
to reason q liFtle,
the whole thing
seemed to me to
be not only al'bi-
trary and unfair
i,,,f unnacesyaFyi /
The Winslow mail., 1925-10-02

inspected for contraband material
Monday and 96 on Tuesday. The
inspectors register the license num-
Der of the automobiles, where from,
destination, and the name of own
ers.
During the first two days of the
inspection watermelon, citrus
fruits and six cars of corn was
taken from automobiles coming
from eastern and middle western
states. All of this contraband ma
terial was infested, the corn com
ing from Ohio and showing evidence
of the European corn borer, a pest
that somehow found its way over
to the New England states from
Europe. Raw cotton and alfalfa,
which show evidence of weavel in
fection, is also contraband material
and is confiscated by the inspectors.
A station is also located az
Springerville at the junction of the
roads leading from Alpine, Arizona,
The Winslow mail., 1925-10-02
Open Car Buyers Turn
To Overland Standard
Sedan At New Price

With the reduction in price 10
S595O0 on the Overland five-pas-
senger sedan, purchasers of open
cars have found that for the first
time in automobile history real
closed car comfort is obtainable
at open car cost in the light car
field
That is the statement of WHY'S
Overland dealers regarding the
Overland Standard sedan, the price
of which was reduced two weeks
ago far below competition when it
was announced that the new price
on this car would be $59500 fob.
Toledo
Never before has it been posi-
BILE for the public to purchase a
full-sized, five-passenger sedan
with sliding gear transmission for
less than 100000, manufacturers
having believed such an accom-
plishment impossible. When Will
lys-Overland announced the reduc-
tion of the Overland Standard Sc
dan at it's former price of $655.00,
hundreds of orders were placed
overnight and this car soon became
one of the most popular models
in the lower priced group. With
$4,000 price reduction to it's new
low figure of $595.00, prospective
automobile purchasers are turn
ing to the Overland Standard Sc
dan at it's low price instead of the
higher priced open cars.
Some unusual features are stand
ard equipment at the new price
which make for increased quality.
A full nickeled radiator shell and
head lamp rims are standard
equipment and, in addition, one
piece windshield of the latest de-
sign has been installed, adding
much to the convenience and COM
fort of the car as we'll as to its
safety factors.
Willys-Overland engineers have
designed the Overland Standard
sedan as a full-sized, five-passenger
sedan. To provide all possible
comfort for the driver and Occu-
pants, the front seat has been wild
ened and deepened and the rear
seat has also been enlarged, pro-
viding exceptional leg-room. Add
ed to these conveniences are the
long and narrow windows which
provide a maximum of ventilation
and vision
The Winslow mail., 1925-10-02

Smiths third evening of radio
consisted of trying out several new
sets, none of which produced any
better results than the one he had
first installed. But they opened his
eyes to the varities of hook-ups
and theories, and made the words
superheterodyne, neutrodyne, re-
generation and reflex mean some
thing.
Naturally Smith saw what a var
liable thing radio is and how many
ways there are of arriving at some
what the same results. One set
brought in a local station with a
ground connection alone. Two op-
Grated on dry batteries alone. But
in most cases outside aerial and
storage battery were the rule.
"It's remarkable" Smith declar-
ed, watching the dealers radio ex-
pert shift from one set to another,
and it would certainly be confus-
ing, too, if l had not made up my
mind to absorb a little of it at a
time. 1 realize that in buying a
good set to start with I'm plung-
ing rather deeply, but I'd rather
learn the theory of it all by pick
ing it up little by little as l gain
experience from set that rewards
me for my efforts"
He did not have to wait long to
learn bit of the groundwork, for
just as he was busy twirling the
selector dial of regenerative re-
ceiver a neighbor called up to beg
him not to buy anything that would
disturb the neighbOrhood's radio
enjoyment. Regenerative sets act
as miniature, but annoying, broad
casting stations when they oscillate
but their programs are anything
but acceptable.
The advantages OF regeneration,
however, are possible in other types
of receivers such as the neutrodyne,
to mention one. Smith was Inform
ed that radio would be greatly aid
ed by fewer straight regenerative
sets, SO just to be progressive he
crossed this type off his list. He
figured he could be a radio fan
without tanning himself out of
popularity.