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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-19
A MEANS TO EVADE WAR

powers. 1t thereby becomes the
ally of said power, and that all
money so loaned become total
casualties, and need never be re-
paid.
Then let our Government say
to the holders Of tax-exempt
Liberty bonds. Your money has
suffered an 80 per cent depre-
ciation," and if there is too much
distress amongst the financiers,
let our Government give each of
them a brass medal with two
bars, and issue them an insurance
policy due in twenty years. That
should make them feel much
better.
In conclusion let me explain
that l am not a pacifist. / have
served in three wars, and hope
to add another service ribbon to
my collection.
If our lawmakers are sincere
in seeking a means to evade wars
and if it is generally known that
money advanced to promote wars
will be lost, then war will cease,
with the possible exception of
revolution against tyrannicai and
corrupt governments.
a. G. GARRISON
Joplin, Mo.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-19
GARRETT P. SERVISS ON MOON
AND EARTH SUN DANCE
Noted Astronomer Explains How Planets Move
in Their Appointed Paths.

; to blend the second arc Of the
great circle into continuity with
the first. The successive posi-.
tions of the moon with respect to
the earth are shown as the moon
passes from the full phase back
to the phase of new moon, with
which we began.
But while seeming from the
earth to have moved backward
with respect to the sun after leav.
ing third quarter position ct
az" yet. as the continuity Of the
dotted line, always extending to-
ward the left, shows, there IL
no backward motion as viewed
from the sun. but on the con-
trary, the moon keeps on together
with the earth, never returning
on it's track in space which Is
simply a sinuous curve, always
concave toward the sun.
The third row continues the
curve from new moon back to full
moon. so that the picture shows
the moons track for a month and
a half. Owing to the small scale
on which it Is necessary to make
the drawing, 1t may appear as IL
the moons orbit in space became
slightly convex toward the sun at
new moon, but in reality this is
not so, as a drawing on a suffi-
GENTLY large scale would show.
The radius Of curvature Of the
moons path changes, but never
the sense Of curvature: l. e., the
center is always in the direction
Of the sun.
OF course. the relative velocity
of the moon in its path changes,
else it could not pass from q posi-
ton behind the earth at first
quarter to position ahead Of the
earth at third quarter. and faI
back behind again at the next
first quarter. The expressions
behind and ahead Of" OF
course, refer here to the direction
of the motion Of the earth around
the sun.
The perturbationS that alter
the velocity of the moon result
from changing phases OF tbs
combination Of the earth's and
the suns attraction. The center
of gravity of the earth and moon
system being a thousand miles
below the earth's surface, we
have been able to draw the
sketch AS if the earth were not
moved from it's mean position by
the moons attraction. In reality
they both follow weaving courses,
but the earth's deviation is slight.
The small circles represent
the apparent revolution of the
moon around the earth. But
as the earth is at the same time
revolving around the sun and
taking the moon along, the dot
ted curve shows the real path of
the moon auth respect to the
sun. In the second and third
roaOs the last figure of the pre-
ceding ron Is repeated on the
right.
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To the Editor OF The Times:
" HERE seems to be a great
distress among the financiers
Il of this nation because of the
seeming inclination of the French
and other nations wanting to dis
count or repudiate their war
debts.
Now it seems to me that IT the
executive and making powers
of the United States were really
seeking for a way whereby world
wars could be avoided, the RENE
DIV here presents itself. Let the
President of the United States,
issue a call for a conference OF
all nations, to be held at wash
incton, D. c., in open session.
and at that time make a propo.
sition to them that the United
States Government will forgive 50
per cent of the money owed to
the United States by her allies
for war supplies il they will do
the same thing by one another.
Further. that all nations who
have subscribed to the League
of Nations. including the United
States, will sign an agreement
that hereafter. that in case of
war, when one country loans
money to one of the belligerent
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-19

objects of popular derision Almost every American poll
tcan could achieve election by attacking them to the labor
ing the rich longer alone in their idle
ness Thanks the heat decatessen shops tele
and launres three apartments and laborby
according her fashion, Patricia, the pride of Mil
lionares' Row.
The yawning peevish wives whose Indifference repused
friends solicitation weren't the wives of extremely rich
They the wives of automobile salesmen insur
small brokers' auditors, real estate dealers and
such gentry. And three blocks in the less expensive
apartments, ranging from $25 $55 equally idle
wives, equally neglected children, equally ROOTLESS
HOMES.
What's the answer? dont know-do you? But do know
that something going to happen to any community which
makes it too for drones and parasites to exist 1t
would happen to school of fish, of bees flock of
tribe of apes If the parasites outnumber the
workers, living off the community without contributing to
it, that community going to smash And what is true of
bees is true of We're only larger animals and
tribal laws haven't changed greatly during the
ess evolution We afford parasites
community any than the bees Pretty we IL
have to begin to do something about it.
hat
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-19

lou know I've known much about apartment house
people, in superficial way. We owned home
when youngster and Fred and | started buying
married. Most of friends either
their places buying hem and have had
intimate association with foaters And do you know
I've to the conclusion that they're different Of
people Sort of a species of human being suppose
it's because they have deep attachment any
paceno roos-but they don't feel that they have
any share in the civic responsibility.
the places much the Elaborate Hobbies
in fancy and gilt and iron work with gded elevators
began my work g. but usually I'd have ring and ring
before could get the out of bed. They'd
the yawning in their nghgowns and kimonos and
usually talk through crack in the door, If there
were children they their nghtgowns dirty with
toused hair don believe Of those people get fully
dressed before
''They the queerest when ID ask what they
were going gvejust if / begging for myself.
It little indignant. tried to make them that
it was THEIR work much as mine-that it
munty affair. But they acted il | talking about
community requirements Of Lisbon Paris London.
Something with which they hadn't the slightest At
grudgngIy give 50 cents dollar rid
One who lived in apartment house which
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9 ss#ss# ssys,5s4 By ELSIE ROBINSON
By T. E. Powers

cost at least $85-she had on negligee al
most covered with real lace-gave me %
cents.
"Isn't that disgusting? Do you suppose
we always had people like that in our coun-
try? Or have the easy, modern ways of liv-
ing evolved new speciesG"
Yes, we've always had creatures like that.
| suppose that even in the primordial slime
there were gobs of jely-life that played in
with the gang, participating in the common
community offensive, and gobs of jelly-life
which floated about with beauteous uncon-
Germ as to what was happening to the mole
cules Life has always numbered its drones
and parasites as we'll as it's builders and plug
gers. But it's doubtless if they ever before
were able to make themselves so thoroughly
comfortable in such great numbers.
The idle rich have for q long time been
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-19

Haydn will interest you:
Editor, Washington Times:
Dear Sir: In 1892, the great
Francis Joseph Haydn, then
sixty years old, being on his
first visit to London, and being
the object on which all eyes,
royal, musical and ordinary,
were fixed, the University of
Oxford wished to do its share
in the lionizing of the great
composer by comforting on him
the doctor of music degree.
However, there was the for
mality, dictated by custom, of
: first receiving from the COM
poser a proof of his legibility
and Haydn was accordingly re-
That is what you might call
that have studied melody in q
Guilty Of writing music, just i
can realize the facility that
marvellous puzzle of harmony
side down and any other wa
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-19

moons motion with respect to
the earth at the various suces-
sive points where 1t Is shown.
Beginning at Il" we see the
moon in the position of new
moon, when it is between the sun
and the earth Che sun being sup
posed to be at the center OF the
large circle]. At "2" the moon
has moved farther from the SUM-
but at the same time has been
carried toward the left by the
motion of the earth, the path that
it has followed in space being
shown by the first arc OF the
dotted curve. At 80" the moon
is in the position. or phase. OF
first quarter, at -" it is in the
gibbous phase, and at s. it
reaches the full moon position, be-
ing now on the opposite side of
the earth from the sun. The
dotted curve indicates the path
that it has followed while pass
ing from new moon to full moon.
Now take the second row. where
figure IS" is repeated in order
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-19
OFTEN have letters Of in :
quiry about the revolution of

r OFTEN have letters Of in
quiry about the revolution OF
u the moon around the earth.
Many persons find it difficult to
understand the effect of the COM
bination of the motion of the
earth around the sun with that
of the moon around the earth.
am here making a new attempt
to explain this effect graphically.
In the picture the three rows
of small circles strung upon arcs
of a larger circle are supposed to
be continuous, the left hand end
Of each being repeated at the
right-hand end of the next row
below so that the three arcs Of
the large circle, II placed end to
end, would form single arc.
This large circle represents the
orbit Of the earth around the sun.
while the small circles represent
the apparent orbit of the moon
around the earth, which is car
ried forward Coward the left
into successive positions by the
coincident motion of the earth
around the sun. The small ar
rows show the direction of the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-19

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the
of his works. the greatest number Of the greatest ideas
The railroad when you to understand it, is only
a device for making the world small.
The greatest efforts of the have always been trace
able to the love of praise its greatest caastrophes to
the love Of pleasure.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-19

Prejudice and selfsufficcncy naturally proceed from
inc Experience of the world and ignorance Of mankind
By IMAGINATION a in a dungeon il capable of n
Pertaining himself with and landscapes beaut
full any that be found in tho whole compass of
nature.
All spirits ensaved which things evil
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A Really Complicated Puzzle
It Was Cross ''Notes'' Instead of Words.
It Was Cross

Everybody asks who invented the crossword puzzle
It dates apparently far written words were
known ALI enjoy the interesting habit Of puzzng
The following note which received from reader shows
that other things than words be used in horizontal and
vertical puzzng This anecdote concerning the great
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-19

quested to send in a specimen
of his work.
This was an opportunity for
Haydn to play one of his little
jokes. He sent the examiners
at the university a specimen"
which turned out to be a must
cal crossword puzzle; whether
the score was read upward or
downward, backward or for
ward, starting from the be-
ginning or the middle, or the
end of the page, in every pos
sible way there was always a
melody and an accompaniment.
IRVING KAYE DAVIS
SUPER-PUZZLE. Only those
small way and know the diff
one direction across the page,
was required to produce this
a music, reading crosswise, up
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LISTEN, WORLD!

RR AYBE this article is going to make
M you angry. Maybe, on the other
AV1 hand, it's going to express your own
pet theory. In either case it should make
you think. So let's go!
A friend of mine has recently been as
sisting in a city-wide canvass for charity
funds. During this campaign her city was
laid out in districts, and a district of fairly
expensive apartment houses fell to my
friend. These apartments range from $65
to 500 monthly in rental. Obviously the
people are in comfortable circumstances.
at must have been a snap" said l when
she told me the territory she had been cover
ing.
She laughed rucfully.
81 thought so, too, when they gave it to
me-" she said, "but / found before / was
through the first day that I was all wrong.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-10-07
SPLITTING THE TALK

JUDGE GARY'S advice 10 Let the
other man talk half the time will
not work satisfactorily all of the time, as
men now are.
About what do men talk? AS u rule,
about cash, church, women, golf, or self.
Is there any other answer?
In only the matter of cash is it wise TO
let the other fellow talk much. and that
is largely because he may leak some in
formation thru which YOU can make lS
per cent, or more, profit on him. II he
talks church, he will be annoying as Il
hypocrite. quite likely If he talks women,
he will almost certainly become disgust
ing, as q misled fool Almost invariably
when he talks golf or self he will be ~
ing and making ridiculous effort TO beat
you at it.
Maybe il would be good rule TO let
the other fellow do 80 per cent of the
talking on cash, and shut him up when
he wobbles off the topic.
May we not inquire If Judge Gary has
any rule pertaining TO the time that
woRaaa should be given 10 talk?
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-10-07
A PARABLE OF HEADS

THE affairs of The Daily Clarion were
in that period when the newspaper
must SO ahead or become decidedly mort
bund; for, the axiom when you cease
to grow, you begin 10 die fits the case
of q daily newspaper exactly.
Said the Clarlon's Business Manager:
''The Editor of this paper hasn't the
slightest conception of what the readers
want. The thing to do is to Cut his APP
preparation and let me handle the money
thus saved"
Said the Editor: There's too little
Foot-work and too much Catering to the
advertisers in the Business Department.
The downstairs Budget should be Cut
and the saving given to me to go out and
get things ahead of the opposition"
Said the Circulation Manager: THE
Editor lets our Competitor beat us to it
every day and the Business Manager is
wasting money on DeSk-hands, Give me
half the money they burn and I'll keep
the channels Of circulation open and set
new ones"
And the Three of Them sat and sat
and grouched and grouched and Each
pulled for Himself Alone, and, really, The
Daily Clarion headed toward Senility and
Extinction s for, the Opposition worked
as One Team.
But, one day, the Owner dropped in
and Saw why he was getting Deficits in
place of Profits. Whereupon, he said:
These Heads have got to work as one
Head for the Paper Only or the reading
world will sure take to the Opposition.
exclusively, and there will be Dead
Clarion" So. the Owner did what was
Necessary and put his property in fine
Growing condition.
All of which is a sort of George AIDE
parable applicable to the U. S. depart
ments of army, navy and aenonaatics, or
to any private business on arts.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-10-07
IN THE NEXT WAR

THE matter of bombing city in war-
: i time is of rather personal interest.
and Colonel Mitchell testifies that 20 air.
planes could destroy city of average size
in a short time. THE first operation"
he adds, would be to cause harEesaaept
and drive the population out and tbeo
wipe out the city"
II is highly probable tho Coloaci
Mitchell does not vision arieat, as above,
the proceedings. II is not eoiHa TO td1e
one bit OF harrassment by arplares 20
make nlreatened city's population gar
out. Information an hosn "a advance VIII
do It. Neither is it hlody tbas enemy air.
planes, viii give any sotiee whatever.
Modern warfare is aosolgosly naereiisss,
according to the demonstration OF 1915
Is. TIE poscyvof filling the enemy pop
ulz-ion with terror. oy bombing hospitals,
churches. school houses, passenger steam
ers and non-combatsofss generally viii not
be outlawed, nor will the use of poison.
despite all pre-wo agreements. In the
next war, Oeity eepsjations viii be ap-
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-10-07

VoU can get an answer TO
L any question OF fact or In.
formation b. writing The Scat
tie Star Question Editor. 1922
New York ave. Washington.
d. G., and inelooln. cents In
loose stamps for reply. No
medical. legal or marital al.
vice. Personal replies conf.
dcntiaL All letters must be
signed.
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preached in the nighttime and bombed
in their beds.
One mistake which Nc nations and,
perhaps, their professional warriors make
is in Understanding the mercile@ness of
the next war, II is because of the un-
precedented horrors which the next war
will mean that the peoples should strive
for permanent peace with all their might
and main. A way has been found to
wipe out whole cities in short time, 1t
will be done, Moreover, such has been
the demonstration as TO PREPARATIONS, that
the spoils are likely TO be of the old-fash-
toned Roman sort-thc seizure of the
beaten country and the utter subsection
of its people.
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and 0f rugged build. Hs man.
ner i7 Eruff and abrupt
he the army he had the rel.
uiaiIgH Of being q strict dlse..
plinHrian, ana even IN "eltif' he
siill gives tho impreH8lga az be.
lng an army officer III
IN short he 81 hard ho,ied b"
Iio helped orgauilc tho 81, Pra
~ Tho AmtHcan army IN France
md no one ever helsd OF any
one connected with MILITARY DO.
lice who wasn't hard-holled.
no seems exactly the type Of
man needed TO direct the wa
on bootlsggeru and rum run
nerB.
Green r. Harvard graduate.
and a. various times vas n
lawyer banker. editor and
broker
lie explains his work as FOL,
lowE
~ M divided into two man
parts
One 10 10 gather inforns
ton relative 70 liauor coudi-
tons IN all parts 81 tho coun.
try. 20 find out what results
we are getting and how mucf
they arc costing us--a sort OF
cost accounting system
Tho other is criminal inyea.
ugatiOn. dealing with all inter
national and intsr-district cases. -
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-10-07
Biggest Detective job
It's Green's-Chief Of Uncle Sans Prohibit.
ton Enforcement Agents

WAaH1EGroS oct wal
w ton a. Green las tbe blg.
CERT detective Job ln the world
Fgr be- IS charged wits tho
responsibility NJ bringing 20 Jun
tirs tho th0urIndB Of rum run.
ufrs who are attempting 90
HmIggls liquor into America,
tho hundreds OF thDulBuds N
bo0tiegRcu aelliuR their cuff
thruout the country md the L.
zion Of other prohibition Low
ylnlutOrs
He is the "mper-dsicctiFc'
or master mind" n you pre-
fer. OF the federal prohibition
forces His official the ls chief
Prohibition investigator
As mUOr Green fought
oyerneas under Lincoln q, IN,
drewu. tho new prohihluon
chief and this friendship
formed on tho b1ttieneids n
France was one rcHsoH that
caused him 70 Join Andrews IN
the big hattle 10 mako America
drs.
The other reason 81 that
Green lgves a fight The job
Of lending Tho army Of dry %.
tectiyes appealed TO him as
sporting proposition and one
that would fatihfy hls craving
FOR excitement
Green ls in his middle i9's
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-10-07
Editors Mail

Editor The Star,
We have IN our city any mum.
Der Of organizations. elnhs
1eagueg etc. 9hirh claim 10
give the voter and taxpayer
true Information upon civic af.
fairs. but to my way OF think.
tng there Ia a real need for an
organization which would make
researches into the various dc.
paftmonts Of our city and
county governments. and which
would In an unbiased way tell
Tho public, thru the medium OF
the daily papers. lust what the
conditions are and what tho tax.
payer is really getting or no,
getting for hIa money.
Some OF our organizations,
huch as the Municipal lengue.
the Commonwealth club and a
few others. arc doing some
work along that limo. but no,
ono OF them goes into the work
thoro enough, nor DO they cover
very many departments. For
instance, how many orgsnisa.
tons have ever taken 1t upon
themselves 10 find out tho con.
ditions In our city or county
tail=, Va optic Of all the un-
favorable reports and rumors
that we have hoard OF non
,imo TO time about thas. matt.
tgtions9
uo@ many OF tnosa orsp Mia.
TOM h9vo ever CHECKED UP for
thrrsio)vos thru their own com.
niitte1 on tho activities and
conditions prevailing In any ot
our other public institutions.
such as tho county poor house.
tho Flrlands hospital and an.
tho rest Of similar inBtItutlonsr
n they have ever In roccn,
years DONG 40, II has not hoen
reported in tho daily papers,
and which In the only way the
public would know about A.
What ! have said about check.
ing Mp on these institutions an.
plies 10 nll othn, departments
also, We nrc almost completely
IN tho dark nE 10 how efficiently
or lnoffclcntly nny NJ these do,
partments arc conducted, except
to tho extent that Rome n our
city officials Nfo on very rnro
occaSlon1 willing 10 lot NJ pcop
behind tho scenes
LctB get an unbiased. unset
flsh and hard .workinR Civic ITO.
search lcnR,io. or Whatever nnmn
YOU want TO coll IT, but by All
means lci'H have some such an
organization IN tho near future.
We surely need n badly
j g, UNGER,
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Mr.. F1r5t of The Star
Undertakes Here to Remedy Your Troubles II Thes
Are Of Public Interest

akin 70 OUTLAWS, but they keep
within the legal line, and there
is nothing that can be done
about 81; But any reputable
agency will listen 10 reason.
lfr. Fizit: Is me man u7Ito
hrIpa 70 catch dogs ollotocd 70
20 into a yard and take a dog
gtai Is chained up and Is neuer
gIotocd 10 run q, Aroe7
MRS. II.
The dog catcher is not per-
mitted 10 go into . yard and
take a dog that is chained. The
police may do 70 II the dog has
committed some offense that
tusuflea II, or II It has been
proven a vicious dog.
VIZ. FiHt otuu a roorlso
house. aud ono roman tenant
refuses 70 pay rent or 10 "a
Cdic. shF ignores MI demands
for payment and says shc iosi,
not more out What can do
MRS. W
Serve notice on her TO pay
rent or yacate Blanks may Re
had at any stationery store. II
she refuses. you Will have TO
have her elected by the sheriff
TiSs Would require the services
% an attorney. but would he
worth the cost to both you and
her.