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Evening star., 1926-10-24

There will be meeting OF. the girl
reserve committee, followed BY tea at
the home of Miss Elsa Peterson,
chairman of the girl reserve depart
ment, who has just returned from
Enterprise, kans. on Friday, at 4
pm. 2501 Massachusetts avenue.
The Bon Secour Club of Central
High School is having a Halloween
party Friday. October %. at the Blue
Triangle. Twentieth and B. The club
advisors. Miss Emily White. Miss
Alma Boyd and Miss Louise Hart,
will act as chaperones.
The girls reserve grade school rally
Of the northwest and southwest sec
'tions of the city will be held at the
Y. w. c. A.. 614 E street Wednes-
day. at $3.50 pm. Mrs. Randel Cozier,
the club advisor, will bes in charge.
The girl reserve grade school rally
of the northeast and southeast sec
tions of the city will be held at the
Eastern Presbyterian Church, Thurs
day. October 2s. at $50 pm. Mrs.
Robert Hall, the club advisor, will be
in charge.
Industrial Department.
The opening noon luncheon for in
Evening star., 1926-10-24
z ARE KILLED, II HURT.

CLAREMONT, Calf. October %
CF).-Two persons were killed and Il
others injured. one probably fatally.
here last night when the first car of
a Los Angeles-bound Pacific Electric
train rolled down a steep embankment
after crashing into heavily loaded
motor truck.
The dead are: Leon a. Atwood.
San Bernardino; c. j. Mccormick, Los
Angeles. August Thomas. Los An
geles. truck driver. was critically in
jured. He was removed to a hospital
at Pomona. where it was said he was
not expected to live.
Evening star., 1926-10-24

Alice Hutchins Drake November 8. at
the Mount Pleasant Library. at pm.
The Kamp Kahlert cGmnlittee meet.
ing. which was postponed from last
week. will take place tomorrow at IL
a I'M. at headquarters.
The speaker at the vesper service at
the Elizabeth Somers residence this
afternoon will be DIR. l.. W. Glaze
brook. Special music will be feature
Of the service.
Evening star., 1926-10-24
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Evening star., 1926-10-24

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carpets Here you will find gorgeous patterns in Wltons long
wearing Administers Velves Tapestry rugs and others. All
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Evening star., 1926-10-24
Fashion
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More and more the trend is
toward carpet--not only for
halls and stairs, but carpet over
the entire floor. An estimate
will be cheerfully given.
Evening star., 1926-10-24

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Evening star., 1926-10-24

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Evening star., 1926-10-24
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The Washington times., 1926-09-28
Buying Hatred
And Paying Cash.

This nation is doing all to make against prob
able and attractive to other nations.
dollars Europe while the band played and patriots bought
Liberty bonds.
That laid the foundation of Europe's hatred.
Today industrial loans of many billions made by private
American financiers to Europe's fihancers.
Foreign countries have reasons running into tens of Millions
TO welcome with
The great ndusrasts and putocats of Europe control
ling their nations could wipe their private debts cancel
bond issues of billions with declaration of Settlement
Of the would be cheaper than paying the debts.
And consider the danger in that accursed World Court
propaganda.
to abide by World Court decisions regardless
of childish reservations would be ample pretex for
We should be told the matter at issue NOT included
reservations and that must NOT the
Of court to which we voluntarily adhered.
and hatred in other nations shall be fortunate
war; by keeping aoo attending own business
and keeping ourselves prepared.
Shortly after the armistice American sitting with nigh
officers of the French army told by of
should think that this armce war so far as
they concerned The next will be your war will
come within twelve years.
Seven years have passed since then remember the
advice Of Washington may keep another seven
years and seventy yearsbut only if always READY
FOR WAR.
we send judge to sit against ten in a European
court submitting the affairs Of greatest country in the
world to the decisions of European haters DESERVE
whatever we GET.
Our international putocrats foolishy use their political
Tools to force this country into entangements with Europe
War would be bad for them great war was for the
Russian Gar and his Grand Dukes.
The silly Car said he would fight TO HIS LAST MOUJIK
The moujiks led by Bolshevsts decided it would be
DeCter TO sacrifice their last Garland did So
American puocracy bent forcing the United States into
European Court and unnecessary dangers should TAKE
WARNING, and remember Russia
The Washington times., 1926-09-28
Senator SmoOt and Merit in
the Civil Service

Senator power and influence in personnel matters
connected Federal Government getting fresh
ings these days The Utah Senator charged by Dr. f. O.
Sowe of the Government League which seek
ing make merit something in the civil service with
undermining the merit principle in the civil service senator
Smoot and his helpers do not hesitate to thwa the
will of the law, done in the Redistribution act
W. c. Deming president of the Civil Service Commission
holly denies these charges and classes Senator Smoo as
friend civil service laws and to the merit principle
Out in Utah. Senator Smoot is having hot Tight Tor re-
election The Democrats have nominated AshDy snow OF
Salt Lake. as their candidate for the Senate
Mr. Snow has taken up the published statement OF Senator
Emoot that the number of Utah people holding
positions in Washington has increased from five to more
than 400 since Mr. Smoot elected to the Senate
Mr. says this boast of putting 400 at the public
crib where Senator Smoot found only five
Utah voters who not vitality concerned in uphodg the
merit principle in the civil service may approve OF Senator
Shoots crib" activities in Washington Whether these
activities be cassed getting the spois OF war is
matter of opinion The Utah Senator doesn't seem to nave
overlooked any opportunities for his constituents, who WILL
doubtless give him due credit therefor
The Civil Service Commission apparently does its best to
uphold the civil service laws and the principle Of merit in the
Government service but it, unquestionab faces powerful
Congressional influences that constantly seek to have the laws
evaded nued in appointments These influences have
filled the Government service with their own followers OF
friends, putting them in high positions
Pull" is still power in this town. Merit controls as
getting Government service and in the protection OF
those in minor positions. Merit though never gets us
share Of the better positions.
The Washington times., 1926-09-28

EhBEhT HOONEH is strange sort or p0uJlclan.
II When he makes speech he usually says some-s
- thing worth thinking about
In late tterance he pointed out that the aim of edu
cation should be produce normal children but that as
yet no one knows what normal child is.
The child prize fighter would pick normal and the
one poet would choose would be entirely different in
character.
The standard in normally depends upon the individual
who does the picking.
In our image is the usual guiding motto.
Beyond few Northumberland good health and an
active mnd-men into disagreement.
The do not know what normal child is like
is because do know what normal man. is like, be-
behind it all do not know what here for
What was put this whrlng globe in space for,
anyway
What is his biggest job here?
He placed here without definite instructions He finds
himself CROPPING around trying understand what he to
do what he is to be, what he is here for?
On such questions get infinite variety OF personal
opinions but proved multitude Of sparks
but steady flame.
We do not know absolutely whether Gene Tunney, Ser
geant York. Eugene " Debs Percy Bysshe Shelly
nearest to living the kind of life intended to live
earth.
We only watch, think, and to conclu-
sons. -
In terms planets our earth is young Nan is sti
younger Civilization and thought younger yet HUI
mainly is its than its ending.
The earth will spinning through space great labora
tory wherein will work their experiments and their
destiny accept the word of scientistsfor billions
of years.
In time the answers to the great questions: What
am IL Why was put here? What am supposed to be-
come? May be found.
We do not know them Perhaps because we are too
young to know.
The Washington times., 1926-09-28
It Seems Mr.. Penn Was Right
Pack Points Out It Would Take 100 Years to
a Timber Famine Should One Come.

instruction colonts aside in five for
woods perhaps sounded foolish the day William Penn said
It. Today we have eightyone million of idle land in this
country Of of the Mississippi River fit for nothing
but growing Had Mr. Penn been needed during all
these years. that tremendous figure could be cut
of the lumber industry is in the Rocky Mountain
country That high freight rates Our forest fire
son has been October l. the national white pine
blister quarantine goes into effect Three States Washing
ton California and Minnesota vote in November forestry
legislation
Speaking the Sesqu in PENIS Woods naugurang the
forestry educational drive for the year. Charles Larop Pack
president Of the American Tree Association lined up
startling figures and reminded of the great jumps in popua
ton he pointed food shortage could be corrected in
year two but that would take hundred years to correct
timber famine once it
This is the eh year since the Government made the first
Pack has published hafmon copies of the Forestry
Primer mark the He will send you copy for
stamp for postage This rectes the forestry situation in small
sized words It shows that Mr. Penn right and points
what should do about this of the greatest economic
problems before the country.
The Washington times., 1926-09-28
ROYAL SCIENCE
By Garrett P. Serviss

THE Prince of Wales, honored
4 with the presidency of the
British Association for the Ad.
vancement of Science at its re.
cent annual meeting in Oxford,
covered himself with more than
royal glory by showing that he
has a deep appreciation of the
Importance Of scientific research
and complete awareness of the
supremacy of facts over theories.
The guidance of scientific re-
search in it's inception, he said,
lies with the genius of the in
dividual; its results for the future
may lie far beyond the realiza-
ton of the scientific workers
themselves. !
He found an example of this in
the history of the flying machine.
At the oxford meeting Of the as
ISOLATION in 1894 the question of
mechanical flight was discussed,
and Hiram Maxim presented the
case from the viewpoint OF the
practical inventor. Afterward the
great scientific leader of the time,
Lord Kelvin, poked fun at Max
inns machine, which, to be sure,
was not practical success,
though it showed that, given the
needed conditions, it could rise
and move in the air. There, as
the Prince might have said. was
a case Of inventive genius seeing
clearer than mathematico-physi-
cal genius, whose trust is in for
mulas, even when they project
perilously over the verge of the
precipice Of facts. Maxim in Eng
land and Langley" in America
were right with Nature, while
Kelvin in England and Newcomb
in America were wrong with her.
Mathematical deduction, poorly
based on fact, misled both Of the
last-named geniuses, while both
Of the firstnamed failed in their
immediate experiments only be-
cause of mechanical Imperfect.
tons and lack of sufficient pre-
liminary experience.
Fruitful research. as the Prince
virtually said in other words, de.
ponds upon and is advanced only
by experiment. Imagination, Of
course, has to lead the way, but
sometimes the imagination seems
~ pCCoIIIe IdISleQ III a nldLneGla"
tical web. The invention of for
mulas is undertaken prematurely.
There must be an extensive ac-
emulation of thoroughly tested
facts before they can safely be
tied up with a formula. Look how.
Newton was held back from pro-
claiming the law of planetary
gravitation for many long. years
because his formula appeared to
be inconsistent with the facts of
observation.
In that case the formula las
right, but even it's inventor put
it aside until the real facts that
were to justify it had been re-
Vealed.
1 do not mean to suggest that
in modern research generally a
less degree of accordance with ex-
perience is demanded before the
acceptance of a theory than was
required by Newton. That cer-
tainly is not true with the real
leaders of science; If it were, then
very soon there would be no sci.
ence. Nevertheless, 1t sometimes
happens that attractive theories
The Washington times., 1926-09-28
MOTHER OF
GOETHE

A THOUGH Katherine Textor,
"A mother of Goethe, married
merely to please her parents, the
home she established was filled
with happiness. She was IS when
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, the
greatest poet and dramatist Ger.
many has ever produced was
born.
And this fact is an important
one in interpreting the relation
ship between mother and son.
Because she was so young, Mrs.
Goethe treated her son as a
brother or playmate, and he
looked up to her as dear friend
who could invent delightful
games. The young mother was
very clever and had genius for
storytelling. She would sit for
hours making up fairy tales and
leaving the denouement for her
sons invention. This gave his
imagination free play, and when
he was still very young his
mother realized his ability to
weave fantastic plots and smooth
out intricate situations.
One of Goethe's biographers
says of Mrs. Goethe: "All the
freshness, the wit and the humor
we find in Goethe; all the depth
of feeling and the poetry were
foreshadowed in his mothers
character" This was a mighty
tribute, and, according to history,
well deserved.
The Washington times., 1926-09-28
By ELSIE ROBINSON

something of the baby shapeless-
ness. That freckled nose-only
just beginning to grow a regular
bridge. The back of his neck
you stoop and kiss it with
sudden tug at your heart.
Your little soni How few the
years are after all, since you heard
that first, faint cry. And how
unreasonable you are to expect
so much of him. What il he
doesn't pick up after himself
or remember what you told him
to get at the grocery? What IL
he does sneak out of his Satur-
day morning chores? There's
plenty of time yet for the stress
and the pain of life. Thank God
you can keep him a baby yet
for little while.
You've felt that way often and
often, haven't you, my dear?
Tucking them in at night
breathing little prayer to God
to keep YOUR babies safe. But
did you ever stop to think of the
other little tykes who aren't
YOUR babies, who crawl up late
to cold and frowsy beds, and sleep
with tears, of WEAKNESS upon
IuSlE cHSekSs Inc OIler uIIlS
tads who are still "nothin' but
babies" yet who carry burdens
that would crush mature men
and women?
There's Dora for instance. Dora
is fifteen. She's working her way
through High School" in Mrs.
Gales house. Dora's understood:
a nervous. dreamy girl going
through difficult adolescence. If
she were your little girl you'd
worry about her thin chest, that
habit of twitching she has. Dora
looks like a baby too. when she
sleeps-but this is her daily pro-
gram.
She rises at six-gives the Gale
baby his bottle. gets breakfast
for Mr.. Gale and Tom, takes cot.
fee and toast and the paper in
to Mrs. Gale, stacks the dishes
and gives the kitchen a tidying.
then scoots for her eight o'clock
class. After school she washes
the breakfast and lunch dishes,
sweeps and dusts the house (Mrs.
Gale being out walking or visit.
ing. with the baby, prepares the
vegetables for dinner and usually
starts them cooking. Sets the
The Washington times., 1926-09-28

After dinner she cleans the
kitchen and dining room again,
does the dishes, the settles down
to study and watch baby hile
Mr.. and Mrs. Gale go out. On
Saturdays she has fun day of
cleaning and cooking. Sunday is
her worst day of all for the Gales
like Sunday company. Or they|
frequently go off and leave thel
baby with her. Once in a very
great while she is given ticket
for a movie. She never has 3
whole Saturday or Sunday to her.
self.
All this Dora does for her ''room
and board" while she goes to
High School. Mrs. Gale now and
then gives her a second hand
dress. Everyone says. Isn't II
lucky that Dora has such a love-
ly home to live in while she goea
to SCHOOL,"
There are Doras in every com
munity. We would rend the
heavens with our protests If any,
one. abused OUR children in such
a manner, vet we watch the abuse
of other children with the utmost
complacency. In eleven States OF
the union even worse abuse IN
countenanced. In these States
children, who are the wards OF
the States. are placed with foster
parents under a contract which
is practically equivalent with the
old binding out" process.
This indenture agreement I'M
plies an arrangement whereby the
foster home takes the child be.
cause it needs household help or
farm labor and proceeds to
tract such labor from the child\
with little orr no return in then
way of education or affection. Re.
cent investigation by the United
States Children's Bureau has re-
vealed the fact that thousands OF
children are thus condemned TO
terms of semiservitude. often en-
forced by the utmost severity.
Neva r. Deardorff has written
a moving account Of these bound
out children in the July issue OF
The Survey. You had better read
it before you tuck Jimmy in bed
tonight. It may deepen the love
in your heart and widen the
scope Of your prayer.
The Washington times., 1926-09-28

become too dazzling in the eyes
of those who need all their powers
of vision for detecting the facts.
A kind of intellectual dishonesty
may even take root in normally
sane minds when a novel theory
that affords opportunity for fasci-
mating intellectual excursions is
to be defended and bolstered up at
any cost.
A striking. though upon reflec-
ton perfectly natural, fact, dwelt
upon in the Prince of Wales adj
dress, was the tendency of sci
entific advance to become highly
accelerated after great wars in
volving the interests and resources
of many nations. This, as he
pointed out, was notable after
the close of the Napoleonic period,
and now, after the World War 1t
is still more in evidence. War,
calling out the utmost powers of
the peoples concerned in waging
1t, inevitably sows the seeds of
progress in practical science and
scatters them widely over the
earth. Thus the old, old story is
repeated of the birth of good out
OF evil. The deeper the plunge
of the pendulum. the greater the
energy gathered for it's subsequent
upward swing.
The Washington times., 1926-09-28
HOW TO SET
THE TABLE
Mrs! Cornelius BeeckmanI
NEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
PIaaSa civa mo a faxv

WMrS. OOrnelluS beeckmanl
NEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ /. Please give me a few
rules about setting a table.
2. Should the plate be turned
up or down?
3. Should olives be eaten with
the fingers or fork?
4. Is it mannerly to converse
with a person or persons whom
you have not been introduced to
while riding on the street car?
DAILY READER.
Place the forks on the left of
the plate. Place the spoons and
the knives on the right of the
plate. If a Observation-Disclosures plate
is to be placed, place it on the
left of the plate, and put the
glasses on the right of the plate.
So far as possible arrange the
utensils in the order in which
they are to be used. For instance,
if soup is to be served first,
place the soup spoon on the outer
right of the plate. The idea is
that the diner starts with the
utensils farthest away from the
plate and works toward the plate.
The last utensil to be used is the
salad fork on the left of the plate.
Then the utensils for the dessert
should be brought in with the
dessert.
9. The plate, when the place is
laid, should be turned up.
3. Eat olives in the fingers.
Nibble them, and don't put the
pit in your mouth.
4. No. 1t is not mannerly nor
wisei
The Washington times., 1926-09-28
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
By Xix
BY Helen Rowland

Every Girl. Her Own Santa Claus
nNCE upon a time, every girl
" looked forward to marriage
as she did to Christmas Day, and
to husband as a Life.Santa-
Claus.
But, nowadays, nearly every girl
is her own Santa Claus, who goes
out and brings home her own
Christmas tree and buys her own
baubles.
Marriage is no longer the royal
road to a life Of ease and luxury.
1t is more like a labor. union. in
which two jobs and two pay
envelopes blossom where there
used to be only one.
~'"I'll clean your safety-razor, if
you'll powder my back and cover
me with diamonds" is no longer
the slogan of domestic reciprocity.
It's III run a typewriter down
town and help with the bills, If
you'll turn the washing machine
uptown and help with the meals"
Every morn. / bring thee vio-
lets" is not the modern lovers
line"
When a man gets through pay
ing. for the Ntheater tickets, the
taxi and the cover charge, he is
just about exhausted financially
and Economically. And, it's the
hand that wears the engagement
ring that buys its own orchids
and brings its own violets, most
Of the time.
Girls no longer look forward
time, when they will gather in
enough gloves, silk stockings and
imported wrist watches to last
throughout the year.
When girl wants anything.
from husband to a motor car,
she first gets job-and then goes
AFTER it! She knows that is the
quickest and surest way to get it.
She has discovered that sitting
helplessly back and wishing on
NAiO III" HlOOIl get IISE
much in this life except a cold in
the head.
When Christmas comes around
she climbs down, her own chimney
and fills her own little stocking
and is pleased and thankful If
she doesn't have to kiss herself
under the mistletoe.
It is all a little sad and un-
romantic to us who once enjoyed
the sweetness and thrin OF being
clinging and dependent. But it's
really much more refreshing and
satisfying. much more fun work
ing for things, than it was wait
ing around for some man to
shower" them on you. The
shower" never comes when you
most long for it-and then it Is
always apt to be something you
don't want and have to look CRATE
full for.
Now, the hand that rocks the
cradle, also cradles the 'rocks,"
and buys its own gloves and din
ner rings-and the high cost of
loving is no longer a national
problem or a bar to marriage.