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The Washington times., 1925-06-10

TN a little book on Science
IL and Life" Robert Andrews
Millikan, famous for his measure
distinguished scientific work, has
included a chapter on Science
and Religion" which, think,
should be read by every person
who imagines that there is a con-
flict between science and religion,
as well as by all who are troubled
by doubts about God.
Man has no more important
thing to do than to settle these
questions as far as he possibly
can. In comparison, his greatest
enterprises sink into insignifi-
canoe. They belong to the order
Of ant hills. They are conceived
for an existence that Is as
ephemeral as the morning dew
drops and their deceptive flash
of glory is as quickly gone.
The example Of a leader in the
most abstruse scientific invesu-
cations of modern science, like
Doctor Mi1likan, must have a
strong influence upon wavering
minds. In showing why in the
nature OF things there can be
no conflict between science and
religion, he says:
1.-THE purpose Of science Is to
develop without prejudice or pre-
conception Of any kind a knowl-
edge Of the facts, the laws and
the processes OF nature. The
even more important task OF re-
ligion, on the other hand, Is to
develop the consciences, the
ideals and the aspirations OF
mankind"
Deeper Side of Existence.
Doctor Millikan says it IL an
obvious fact that every one who
reflects at all believes in one
way or another in God" And
he goes on:
although you may not believe
in some particular conception or
God which / may try to give ex-
preston to, and although it Is
unquestionably true that many OF
our conceptions are sometimes
childishly anthropomorphic, every
one who is sufficiently in posses
sion Of his faculties to recognize
his own inability to comprehend
the problem Of existence bows
his head in the presence OF Ma
ture, If you will. the God, l pre-
fer to say, who is behind 1t all
and whose attributes are partially
revealed to us in it all, SO that
it pains me as much as 1t did
Kelvin "to hear crudely atheistic
views expressed by men who
have never known the deeper
.i1o ~ of -
1t is the growth of mans con-
ception of God that prevents con-
flict between progressive science
and religion. Such growth Is
beautifully expressed in a little
book, an unrhymed poem. pri.
vately printed by a friend of
mine, called THE Living God.
The most dangerous forces stir
ring in the world today unite in
decrying God and religion. Many
persons join in the cry under the
mistaken and illogical notion that
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foolish dream and that only the
fog is real.
see the crest and am filled with
a shouting desire to share my ais
covery. And yet dread the at
tempt am so very sure that l
will put il clunsily-I am. IN Iact'
ouite certain that you Will laugh
at me, unless you've already maze
the discovery for yourself-never-
theless I shall try. 1t might nelp
someone.
1t began when I was cheated.
I SUPPOSE being cheated Is one or
the commonest human expert
ences. Yet we never seem to
grow accustomed to it. It strikes
each one Of us with fresh bitter
ness as though it bad never hap
pened before in the world. 1t
struck me that way. was
cheated out of a sum OF money
that seemed very large to me.
had been poor and had worked
extremely hard for that money.
At last luck had come my way.
It seemed TO me that with the
luck there came a very definite,
unacceptable obligation to help
those who were struggling as
had struggled without luck.
Please don't infer from this
that I'm trying to present myself
in a sanctimonious light or as
play my own unselftshness. II
wasn't an unselfish impulse.
have never been a very good or
kind person. 1 was very fond or
myself and very pleased with my
own attainment. And l had no
intentions whatever OF parking
any halos on my marcel. But
had a liking for good sportsman
ship just as I had a liking for
shower baths and manicures. 1t
was a matter OF personal groom
ing to me-not Of Righteousness.
I want to make this plain, be-
cause If it isn't plain to you this
article will seem the disgusting
snug bleating of a ten-cent saint
which I'm not.
I felt that l had to help others.
So instead of using my good COM
mon sense, as l should nave
done, l made a grandly senti-
mental gesture to one whom l
thought needed help. And was
promptly and permanently re-
iieved of much hard-earned kale.
Then 1 began to act as people
always act who function sloppily
inJtead of sensibly. blamed 1t
on God and 1 did my best to ut
terly blast His standing in the
community.
Don't you trust Him." said.
"Lookit how he treats noble souls
like me. Throws us down flat!
AS time went on, however, and
God continued to run the world
despite my expose, it dawned
upon me that 1 had been making
The Washington times., 1925-06-10
HOW BICYCLE
ARRIVED

CINCE the advent Of the auto
- mobile, the popularity OF the
ycle has slumped. But ct GER
tain seasons and in some parts OF
the country it is much in use. The
fact that the six.Say bicycle races
attract thousands of people Is
proof that cycling is a spolt and
not an oId-time fad.
But there was a time when
newspapers and periodicals all
over the country heralded the
bicycle as "a menace to the
American public" just as the
radio was considered a menace to
the theater. After much agita-
ton laws were passed which per-
mitted cyclers the same privileges
as drivers of vehicles, and the
parks were thrown open to them.
Strictly speaking, no one in
vented the bicycle or the tricycle..
Each is the developed result Of a
long series Of mechanical devices
for accelerating human speed.
The bas-reliefs of Egypt and
Babylon show crude anticipations
Of them. But it was not until
the beginning of the nineteenth
century that any devices OF this
sort came into general use.
The ''wheele." a clumsy affair
known in England about. the
year 1865, the "celerifere" in
vented by a Frenchman. M. de
Sivrac, and the dandy-horse were
all crude forerunners Of the mod.
ern bicycle. II the two-wheeled
bicycle can be attributed to any
one person, the credit is due
Pierre Michaux, a worker in
French forge.
One day, while M. Michaux
was at work, a man brought a
draisine to the forge to be re-
paired. The draisine was made
of a long narrow board support
ed by two wheels, one toward the
front and the other at the rear.
The driver seated himself astride
and propelled 1t by means Of
pushing the ground first with
one foot and then with the other.
The draisine being ready for its
owner, Ernest, son of Pierre
Michaux, seized upon the idea Of
riding it back to town. But it's
as fatiguing as walking" he COM
planned to his father.
Put IL couple of foot rests
in 'front.'" M. Michaux suggested.
"or better still. fix bent handle
on the axle-like a grindstone,
you know"
This experiment worked so we'll
that the velocipede las 1t was
called, was adopted as a vast
improvement over the old
fashioned and almost useless
draiSine.
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Sauce for the Chinese

The japanese intelligent and determined to maintain
their standards of living The Toxic Chuo says Chinese
and Korean aborers will be strictly EXCLUDED from the
Japanese labor market.
Very justly the japanese complain that the 10000 Chinese
laborers in Japan doing work than Japanese
for lower pay, to japanese prosperity and
Japan's higher standards Of living
The Koreans conquered by Japan have GER
tain moral rights But they will be kept they can
prove that they have jobs waiting for them.
To Japanese friends complaining Of against
Asatc immigration, and asking the League Nations to
interfere with laws, say politely Read your OWN
Ask yourselves there is better for keeping
Chinese out Of Japan than there is for keeping ALL Asiatc
out Of the United States
To that add with perfect friendness our mmi
grafton laws will stand and that asking the League Ma
ons settle the internal affairs Of this country is one wav
of adding the determination this country managed
by the UNITED STATES
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GARRETT p. SERVISS SHOWS
HOW SCIENCE AIDS RELIGION
Only Persons Ignorant of Facts See Reason for
Any Conflict Between Two.

religion is nothing but superstition.
Many think that God is banlshed
by the Punishment Of the old, mar
row, temporary, anthropomorLh bic
conceptions Of him.
They really suppose that they
are warning on God when they
denounce the crueltics and fulfill
ties of conduct ascribed to the
Jehovah" Of the Old Testament.
He represented an infinitely bet
ter conception Of godhood than
any of the Olynpian group, alter
nately worshiped and laughed at
by the intellectual Greeks; but his
passing is but a phenomenon of
the expanding human mind, while
the real God-God felt but un-
Misunderstanding always, and comes
nearer to man as man more and
more clearly perceives his rela-
tions to the universe.
Aim OF Science.
I have just received a beautiful
letter on this subject, written by
a. deeply thinking woman, from
which l will quote:
"In your article on the Real
Aim Of Science you say that you
make no pretense to define God.
While 1, with a purely religious
nature, am obliged to define God
to myself-in a way to recon
cile my religious and scientific
views. God is the Life Principle.
In the beginning the Spirit of
God brooded upon the face of
the waters!' In time this life
principle evolved for itself work
shops, which we know as the
cells of all living matter. Divid-
ing, subdividing, by the process
of evolution, all the different
forms were produced in wondrous
design. God made them God
Is in me, my personal Saviour,
vivifying every cell of my body.
He Is in every other living
being, making each my brother.
He dwells and works in every
living blade Of grass, in all ami
NAL and insect life, giving me q
feeling of kinship with them,
though 1 believe 1 am q part of
Gods acme of creation, making
me also akin to all life through
out the universe, in whatever
planet 1t may have been fortu-
nate enough to develop"
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Profit and Loss

would always feel the poorer ZOE
The loss Of that aparticular Wao
Nothing could ever take Its placs
Tn FACT. at least seven times =
doy went through all the more
hitter pangs of bankruptcy JuSs
thinLinr about the miserable
money. -. .4,,,clr
me At first I had squealed on
God and made myself foonsn ~
60 doing. Now I was double
crossing myself - spelling per
factIv good days by tnlnkln8
about a lot of metal trash. no
money on earth was worth spOH'
ing one hour Of Life Tor.
when that came to me caugnI
nv first glimpse OF the greaI
truth through a fog. What WAS
money worth-or any materiai
achievement worth? What olo
make a life rich or poor? was II
a hankroll? The other fellow had
NV bankron and / didn't. But
was he richer than /? No; l
knew he wasn't. I knew tne IN
+imata life of that man and how
weary and unhappy and hungry
money in the world couldn't make
him ANYTHING but poor. AND
All, THE POVERTY ON EARTH
C0TnDN'T KEEP ME- FROM
RETNG RICH IF HAD THE
RIGHT ATTITUDE. What was
the right attitude? For an IN
slant / saw 1t was tnls' II
isn't the mo-. that makes
man rich but the spirit In Whlcn
he gets and spends that money.
1t isn't the loss OF money tnat
makes a man poor but the spirit
in which he regards the loss.
I had lost some money, to De
sure. But had given 1t from a
clean and happy impulse. IL l
could have held on to that I'M
pulse could have laughed at the
money loss. If could have en-
tered that impulse in my Dank
book 1 would have seen that II
overbalanced any outlay OF casn.
FOR 1 WAS RICH ACCORDING
TO MY OWN GENEROSITY,
TOLERANCE AND GOOD HUI
NOR, AND WAS POOR AG,
CORDING TO MY LACK OF
THOSE QUALITIES. They were
the only things that counted or
endured. They were the only
treasure could pile up with any
certainty-the only wealth that
would earn enduring dividends Of
power with my fellow men.
That's the great Truth l some
times glimpse like shining
mountain through the fog. I'm
passing it on because maybe you.
too, have been cheated and feel
you have been robbed utterly.
YOU HAVEN'T BEEN ROBBED
AT ALL-UNLESS YOU THINK
YOU HAVE.
The Washington times., 1925-06-10

BE ORIGINAL.

Don't be copyst; be original.
If artscally inclined you will success as long
depend upon copying the pictures using
their designs.
The world is demanding something different
You may be able to produce it.
Your retarded progress possibly due mental laznes
Someone else furnishes ideas and you them.
It might surprise you taking stock of yourself for the
past week. realize that you have put one hour
of solid thought.
Your daily work is routine and because experience
you do it passably well.
But at home do you ever time to think of some
way to increase your incomef
Because ideas do not you rapidly, you give up
making effort to think than ''Skn Deep"
The Washington times., 1925-06-10
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
ROnk2
b DOCTOR FRANK CRANE
BOOKS

yWyHERE are not many good books in the world
AS man gets older his books slough off and his
- l;brorv o,rovva smaller At last he has very little
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AVA OC9 -
to dinly per-
ceive a Truth.
I am discovering
it as one discov-
ers a great noun
tain through a
fog. There are
days when I see
it quite clearly
and all my spirit
Is uplifted by the
sight. There are
other days when
the fog hides it
and / lose sight
of it entirely.
Then the fog of
doubt and bitter.
ness seems to
Croon into my
very heart, and
/ feel that my
visi ION Of the
beautiful noun
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LISTEN, WORLD!

q fool Of myself.
After all. He'd
given me q brain.
hadn't He? And
at no time had
He limited that !
might stop using
it. If ] had
made a fool Of
myself, it was e.
tireIy my own
fault. Then why
try to pass tho
buck to Him?
So / quit blaW
ing it on GOD
and went on to
the second phase,
that Of regret. /
.had loved my
nice pretty wac
Of kale and ! re-
gretted its pass
ing. No mat0r
how much moN
Lo1o r made
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WIDOWS
ATTIRE
mrs. Cornelius Beeckman

hEAR MRS. BEECt&MAN:
~ Please tell me how a widow
should dress for a church we'd
ding!
(2) Should her attendants be
married persons?
(S) What color dress and flow
ers for a church or home wed
ding? PERPLEXED.
CHE should wear an afternoon
~ dress of some becoming color,
or a three-piece suit or a travel
ing suit or dress. She should not
wear the white dress of the bride
for-the-first-time, or the wedding
veil or orange blossoms. Her
idea should be. to dress very dig
nifiedly and conservatively.
ca Usually she has only one
attendant-a matron of honor
There is no reason why she
should not have a maid of honor,
but it seems inappropriate for
her to have bridesmaids.
90 She may wear any cOlCr
but white. An ecru or beige lace
dress over a slip of apricot or
some other becoming color makes
an effective gown for n home
wedding, or indeed for a church
wedding also. Her flowers should
be of soft pastel shades--not
white.
Hat and Gloves at a Wedding.
nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
II My sister is to bn married
this month. This is to he n
very simple home wedding at
high noon.- The bride is to be
/ am to be maid of honor and
would like to know whether or
not should wear hat AHA gloves.
PANSY.
USUALLY when the bride
- wears an informal white
dress for a home wedding, 1t is
becoming for her to wear a nat.
A large, soft, picture hat of lace.
Or soft straw, or, best of all, soft
horse-hair, is usually most eff
fective and completes the har-
mony of the costume. 1t is not
necessary Tor the bride to wear
. gloves.
nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ Is it proper for a mother,
sister, aunt or cousin to give
the bride-to-be a shower? Or
the intended mother-in-law or
any one of the in-laws? Or for
a friend? D. r.
THERE are really no rules in
Il etiquette that govern the Civ
ing of showers. Really, anyone
may give a shower who wishes
to. The chief thing is to avoid
as much as possible having "rhe
shower look like begging
party'-which they too often
develop into. They are apt 20
look more like a begging party
If close relatives. plan them -.
don't you think so?
Mrs, BaeCkman will be glad
to answer questions on etiquette
submitted by readers.)
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Who Said It

BE checked for silence,
But never taxed for speech"
Do not be afraid to keep silent,
Shakespeare says In "'All's Well
That Ends Well"
"Care that is entered once into
the breast
Will have the whole possession
ere IL rest"
Care drives out all other
Jonson remarks in "A Tale Of a
thoughts from the mind, Ben
Tub"
The Washington times., 1925-06-10
SAP AND SALT
BY Bert Moses

Every man Is the architect of
his own plumbers.
Widows catch more men than
the police.
Where there are no morals,
there are no hypocrites.
The female OF the species is
more costly than the male.
The man with an abscessed ear
has only one trouble in the world.
Needs take the pennies from the
purse; desires take the dollars.
The Washington times., 1925-09-01
Pique OF ''Unbobbed''
Girl Causes )
Fires

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. T.
Because a fifteen-year-old Cam
den girl couldn't have her hair
bobbed, firemen saved her home
from burning three times. Then
she ran away once and now is
in the house of detention.
Mary D'Aiva has long, dark
tresses, but she wanted to be
"flapperish." Father and mother
said mo" Mary threatened to
run away-and did.
When she got back home she
threatened Something would
happen if she couldn't bob her
hair" Something did.
Twice in one day fire was
discovered in her home. DAM
age was slight, but bundles of
charred newspapers made the
firemen suspicious. They ques-
toned Mary, but didn't detain
her. But they watched.
Another fire. Mary was ar
rested. She admitted setting
the fires because she was
mad" Then she took it all
back. But she's still held. But
her head is unboWed and I'M
bobbed.
The Washington times., 1925-09-01
SAL VAGE EEATS
AMAZING To
BR|TONS
II Ships of German Fleet
Sunk at Scapa Flow Have
Been Raised
By CHARLES A. SMITH
international News Service

LONDON, Sept. Renewed at
tention is being directed to the
wonderful salvage operations now
progressing at Scapa Flow with
the announcement that the seven
teenth destroyer of the scuttled
German grand fleet has been sal
vaged successfully.
Since early last year this wild
and lonely spot in the Orkney
Islands has been the scene of one
of the greatest salvage feats the
world has ever witnessed, during
which scuttled ships have been
raised to the surface at an average
rate OF one every two weeks.
The feat is all the more remark
able when it is considered that this
enterprise is the first piece of
salvage work the firm concerned has
ever attempted. !.
Used German Dock
Ironically enough, the salvage
work has only been possible
through an ex-GeT1man floating
dock being used during the opera
tions The dock was towed- from
Germany in two parts over 700
miles of the North sea to'9 SUapa
Flow, and the successful salvaging
has been mainly due to the dock
being used.
Each scuttled ship is raised by
the same methods. The floor of
the ocean is carefully swept until
ship is located. The two halves
of the floating dock are then moor
ed on each side of the wreck.
Divers then fix powerful 9-inch
steel wire cables at each end, and
the ship is lifted by man-handled
Wi oh fTy srrh IN 10
other cables to be passed under
Meath Altogether ten cables are
used and the wreck by this means
is Graded between the two docks.
Then begins the exciting part of
the salvage operations. AS soon
as the ship has been raised a few
feet from the bottom the dock,
with the ship in its cradle, is gent
ly toWed by powerful tue toward
Mill Bay, sandy beach on the
Isle of Hoy. While the towing is
in progress the winches are kept
working and the ship is thus grad
ually lifted until it is beached in
shallow water.
HOLES SEALED UP
Another party of men then take
over the wreck. Divers seal UP the
holes made when she was scut.
tied, the water is pumped out, and
eventually she is relocated The
third operation then commences
with the towing of the rejuvenated
wreck round the headland to
Lyness, Orkney, where she is
broken up by means of powerful
oxy -acetylene flames, which cut
through the steel like a knife
through cheese.
The steel is cut into five feet
lengths and shipped to England
for sale. So rapid is the breaking
up that a destroyer will become a
pile of steel plates in three weeks
The biggest undertaking of the
| salvage company at Scapa will
| commense next spring, when they
| commense to raise the two largest
ships of the German Grand Fleet,
| the Hindenburg and the Seydlitz,
both weighing $4,000 tons.
The company proposes to pur-
| chase a 10000 ton floating dock,
which they will cut into six Sec
tions, in order to raise these two
! ships.
The Washington times., 1925-09-01
STANDARD OIL CUTS
GASOLINE ONE CENT

CHICAGO, Sept. IA reduction
of / cent a gallon in the retail
price of gasoline was made effec-
tive today by the Standard Oil Com.
pany, of Indiana. in the eleven
States in which it operates.
! The cut, the second within a
week, brings the price to Is. cents
gallon, August rs, the price was
reduced 2 cents gallon.
Both reductions, according to an
announcement from the company,
were brought about by "competi-
tive conditions
The Washington times., 1925-09-01
ALL'S NOT COLD THAT
SHINES, SINNERS FIND

SOUTH BEND. Ind, Sept. l.
Formal demand for an increase of
So week in wages has been filed
with the shining par1ors of the city
by the shoe sinners. This action
came as a result of the parIors an
nouncing a scent boost on the
price of the shine.
Bootblacks claim the 5 cents that
formerly went into their pockets
as a tip now goes into the cash
register as a portion of the fee.
The wage scale for competent boot
blacks in this city is $35 peg week.
The Washington times., 1925-09-01
ULSTER PARLIAMENT
ACTS ON LACK or JOBS

BELFAST. Sept. Due 70 the
unemployment problem becoming
suddenly acute, the Ulster parila-
ment has been specially summoned
to discuss this question.
listers unemployed now number
5000, and the number II being
sweIled daily by linen trade EN-.
ployes, who are being dismissed
due to unprecedented depression in
the linen trade.
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MINUS LEG AND EYE,
BUT TERRIER IS GAME

YORK, Pa. Sept. lone of the
most remarkable dogs in this Sec
ton, it is believed, is owned by
George Schailain. The dog, which
is a rat TERROR, is blind in one eye.
has but three legs, one being cut
off by a moving machine several
years ago, is twelve years old and
weighs but five and one-half pounds.
Beside being great ratter. this
dog has assisted in killing more
than twenty-five groundhogs. many
of which he conquered himself. Re.
Gently he stood his ground and as
sisted in killing a raccoon which
had been freed several hours.
The Washington times., 1925-09-01
E. l. FLYNN TO MARRY
"MISS SYRACUSE" OF '22

Miss Rosamond NJ Fahey, the
Miss Syracuse" Of 1922 at the At
lantic City beauty pageant, will be
married September Is at Syracuse,
N. Y, to Edward L. Flynn,
formerly of Washington, it was an
nounced here today.
The romance began when Mr..
Flynn and Miss Fahey were en-
ployed in the Internal Revenue Blu
reau office at Syracuse. Mr.. FLYNN
has since opened an accouutancy
office in New York city. His
mother, Mrs. Anna Flynn, lives at
$40 Upshur street northwest.
The Washington times., 1925-09-01
10000 Women s H'kerchiefs
I Il, s9sss e the II for 39c
Irregulars Of til
1Oc Grade.

Buy them for school days Women's sheer lawn Hand
kerchiefs with hemstiched borders White and
all the wanted colors, with dainty embroidered
No holes in these handkerchief only slight mperecons
in the hemsttching.
Paas Royal-Bargan Basement
The Washington times., 1925-09-01
BOGUS U. S. DOLLARS
ARE WORRYING BALKANS

SOFIA, Sept. COLLECTORS Of
American dollars, theemost popular
American product in the Balkans,
are worried about the value Of
their boards now that American
legations in the Balkans have no
titled banking institutions to be
on the lookout for bogus $40 bills.
American paper money has be-
come the currency of trade here.
The easiest way to send money in
the Balkans is to inclose American
paper dollars in letters. They are
accepted everywhere at premium.
Bulgaria's latest song hit ex-