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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-07-31
ADvERTIssMEN1
DO YOU
KNOW As MUCH
AS YOUR CAT?
She's ! knowing cat.

She's q knowing cat.
She asks for little just her meals,
3 saucer OF milk and 3 place III the
sun. She gets plenty Of sleep and
exercise. She never worries, never
frets. What is the results, Such
vitality and resistance that we say,
Cats have nine lives. "
What does your cat do when she
IS not well? She eats catnip, II she
can md 1t. she eats grass and Der
tain green plants to which her IN.
stinct leads her.
Your cat takes herbs for B tonic.
Did you ever stop to think that
Old Mother Nature, who supplies
the herbs necessary TO your cats
health. has also provided the herbs
necessary to your own well-heiE
You don't have to hunt for them
as the cat does. The herbs you
need are skilIfully blended and com
pounded in Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, an old
fashioned tonic that will help to
restore your energy.
Feels Better NOaD
Mrs. Gust Green of 401 Lincoln
park Boulevard, Rockford. Illinois.
writes: II was weak and rundown
but the Vegetable Compound has
helped me and feel better now.
i recommend Il to all women who
need more strength.
For more than fifty years this
medicine has been taken BIZ women
with very satisfactory results
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Dr0lCn ~
POpi7si
n here Nay Also Be
d Bit Of EnUv

They're bit disappointed that their plans have III
fallen through and somewhat chagrined that they -
dividually. weren't chosen and frankly heyre envous
They toe, have been looking forward g the time
when Love shall call them and Il BIZ hard not g
be the first But, mind Dan Cupid y still around
and still looking fer more hearts enroll y his edgsE
81 Love.
But Be careful don't Iet creep ii deeply that
viii spoil you and take away ths lovely sweetness
which Is ycnr chief charm For envy do this II you
brood over Il and nurse II 20 your henrk Be glad and
Joyous and Lovs viii you too Just when eket
expect ffs-pOPIMI.
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LIVES UNDER
WATER

THOUSANDS OF years before
j man discovered the diving
bell as a method Of breathing and
keeping. dry under water. there
lived a species Of spider which
had solved the same difficulty.
This spider has SURVEYED to this
day in our ponds and bitches.
He IL commonly known as the
Water.Spider and technically as
the aquatic silver-swimmer." he-
cause of his appearance under
water. The hairs which cover
half Of his body are long and
hooked at the end, and have the
power Of entangling the air when
exposed, so that the animal,
enveloped in, bubble, looks like
q bali of quicksilver as It sWims
beneath the surface.
The two largest hoists In the
world are now in use In Canada.
They can <a $50 tons of ore
an hour from depth Of 500
feet.
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Test Your knowledge With
Times Daily Dozen
BY a. l.. Wilbert. M. a.

ways generous and considerable Of
the welfare of the Romans, espe-
cially during times Of public
calamity.
8. GEOGRAPHY. The highest
mountain in the world is Mt.
Everest, one of the Himalayas.
1t is $4,000 feet above sea level.
4. BUSINESS. High wages and
short hours are no disadvantage
to American manufacturers seek.
ing world trade, because the out.
put per man in the United States
Is the highest in the world.
S. MANKIND. The Rothschilds,
the celebrated family Of interna-
tional bankers,j was founded in
the city Of Frankfort-on-the-M Main.
6. HUMAN NATURE. Convolu-
tons are the windings and fold
ings of the brain.
z. GENERAL SCIENCE. The
planet Neptune is 2,70O, 00O, 900
miles away from the earth.
8. LAW. A person is said to
die intestate when he dies with
out making a will.
8. CIVICS. The purposes of
our Government as stated In the
Preamble of the United States
Constitution are: ITO form a
more perfect Union, establish
justice, insure domestic tranquil
lity, provide for the common de-
Tense, promote the general well
fare, and secure the blessings Of
liberty to ourselves and our
posterity."
10. ART. st. Peters, in Rome,
is considered one OF the most
beautiful churches In the world.
II. MUSIC. "Liebestod" death
Song), one of the masterpieces OF
Wagner's genius, closes his great
music drama, Tristan and
Isolde"
IL. HEALTH. The best method
OF overcoming imaginary ills Is
to go to a reliable physician and
learn the truth.
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THOSE NOISY
CHILDREN
-By Z. Lanar Matthews

Jessie and Frances were the
= noisiest girls / ever saw IN
= business office They talked
louder, laughed louder and rat.
tied the office equipment more
vigorously than any young
women have ever known.
Then one evening I was In
vited to supper at their home.
After that / knew why Jessie
ana Frances were so boisterous.
It was Fred, the oldest son,
who starred a. noise-maker. Be
fore the boy entered the room
we heard him in the hall exc
cutting d dance on his heels.
Right after that / heard shriels
and Wells from the adjoining room.
Presently ! gathered that Fred
had undertaken to stop his
younger brother from high div
ing off the head of the bed.
Then the father arrived. he
threw his hat on a hook, held
out his arms to his wee daugh-
ter and shouted In a tremendous
bass voice: Come to your daddy.
With q shrill cry she sprang into
his arms. and he entered the liv-
ing room with the child on his
shoulder both laughing loudly.
Then seeing a visitor, he apollo
gized for his whirlWind entrance
and quieted down.
soon the telephone rang and
Jimmy, who answered It,, called
from the top Of the stairs, Fran.
ces: Telephone!'' After which he
slid down the bannisters and re-
sumed his seat with great gusto.
When / left, / was exhausted.
/ wondered how the mother sur.
vived in that household. It was
that big, breezy, blatant father
who set the pace.
Children should be trained 70
walk quietly, tolk low. laugh sort
". close doors noiselessly. move
things carefully and in short to
avoid any sounds that will dis.
turb other people. That is the
mark OF good breeding,
1t is really a pity that all young
ones can not grow up out In the
great open spaces where they
can give vent to their youthful
exuberance. but the fact remains
that millions OF children are
growing UP in crowded cities
and they win simply have to
learn to fit In with their sur
roundings.
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observed in many people who had
q marked intolerance toward
various articles OF food Thus a
woman who was. under medical
observation could not tolerate
fish, eggs and Strawberries. The
addition Of sugar to the food re-
suited in the disappearance of all
symptoms Of intolerance.
Sugar may alternate the pain
in cases Of 4 gastric ulcer or
whore there Is an abnormally in
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When Lore Enters a Girls Life -

TTS always the waythere's never Joy that hasn't
accompanying sorrow.
And II i with this quartete who gaily started
their vacation trip. They bad planned what wonderful
time the four Of them were going 10 have And they'd
promised each other that nothing-no. nothing 81 a
would come between them But they rsckoned without
Love-
OF course; be was hiding when the four were making
their plans, and be- likewise did planning his
own account And JUST when they having the most
eorous lime sc sent the whom be had plektd for
the favor 81 quartetteand pfesto Gle GU rtette
hecama d trio
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done in order
to improve the
N p lie a SAINT
taste Of a
medicine.
Recent ex.
perience, how.
ever, h a 3
shown I h a t
sugar not only
improves the
taste of q
drug, but often
increases its
action. Thus
according to
M. M. Loeper
and Marchal,
aspirin a n d
antipirine with
1900 - -r,,.,,A
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-07-31

creased acidity Of the gastric
juice.
How can this beneficial action
OF sugar upon the mucous Of the
stomach be explained? Recent
observations OF Loeper have
shown that this would seem to
depend upon two physical pheno-
mena: ID Sugar increases the
quantity OF water in the stomaOta
thus rendering the gastric juice
more dilute. 90 1t promotes the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-07-31
EyeIess Worms

INFORMS have no eyes or ears.
NV vet they are very sensitive
to light. says Nature Magazine.
They dart into their burrows with
great rapidity as q lantern ap-
proaches.
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Salient Facts

II you lose your bodkin, try
threading your ribbon. etc, with
q hairpin. In knitting a hairpin
; il most useful to take off the
etitches. Slip these on to the
pin, and just twist the ends SO
that they hald to1ether-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-07-31
BY Chas. A. 1. Reed, MD.
Former President Of the Association
Medical Association.

MoST drugs are usually taxi
U1 en- in sweet water or with
syrup; syrups being added to
LIQUID medicine and pills being
sugar coated. This Is usually
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-07-31

do not produce irritation in some
people who usually suffer from
these symptoms while taking
these drugs.
The same phenomenon could be
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-07-31

Al kind of Indian corn Il grown
In Missouri because the large eobs
make good corncob pipes.
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No, For Love Is a
$3.50 Affair
AT Best
By Beatrice Fairfax

An Authority on the Problems Of
Love and Marriage
The broad ax., 1926-10-02

Republican candidate for Treasurer of Cook County long
life friend of Hon. Martin B. Madden, who delivered the
Grafton of his life when he him with the big red
illuminated book, containing the three thousand of
his well wishers who attended the banquet in his honor
the Rainbo Gardens.
The broad ax., 1926-10-02
PHILOSOPHICAL NEWS

Pioneer Lodge had its regular meet
ing Friday, September "a, at the home
Of Mrs. Irene Gaines. All of the men,
bers were present. Among the visitors
were Dr. and Mrs. Henry Ysabell
Wilson, Mrs. Naola Smith, Mr.. Ches-
ter Collymore (who also applied for
membership and our regular visitor
who seems more like member, Miss
Alice Boyd. The speaker for the even
ing was Miss Olga Rudholm, psyche
analyst, who gave a very delightful
lecture on Psychology" Plans have
been made for her to give a series of
lectures during the winter, one Friday
night of each month.
The next regular meeting will be
Friday night at p. m, at 1862 Yer
non avenue. The lecturer for that
evening will be Dr. Ida M. Alexander,
her subject, "The Quest of the Think
err" All visitors are welcome.
The broad ax., 1926-10-02
COLORFUL NEWS MOVIES
By THE CAMERAMAN

brary has on file more than fifty re-
quests for the new story of Little
Africa; while Howard University Lii
brary, from which, few years ago,
was snatched a volume upon the gen.
eral topics Of ultra-socialistic principles
lest the students might be influenced
by certain alleged colorful communis-
tic theories, will probably secure an
ample supply of the volume, Niger
Heaven"
This column does not hold any in
tensely adverse brief to Mr.. Van
Vechten's book, written at the semi
social expense Of good ethics as be-
tween the author and those who danced
and dined him into the midst of their
heavenly" moments of relaxation.
This column merely repeats what il
averred few weeks ago-that the
reeking and riotous cabaret and Char
lesion life of Harlem, or of any other
location or group Of American citizens.
whether white, black, yellow, brown
or red, is of little consequence when
the substantial detectives of such a
group or locality are sincerely consid-
cred for a moment. Science, Art,
Wealth, Religion and Economic Prog
The broad ax., 1926-10-02
Literary Demand and Supply

Literary Demand and Supply
Carl Van Vechten- lauthor of Mig
ger Heavenly and his publishers seem
destined to make fortune out of the
sales of the much sought after volume
depicting Negro life in Harlem. In
the same manner in which Three
Weeks" outsold Ramona" and a score
Of other volumes of genuine merit,
Niger Heaven" seems destined to
corral the present Negro sales market
of literary gems" The supply is I'M
limited, and the demand is like a
whirlwind Dusty volumes of Dunbar,
Dubois and others, devoted to por-
trayals which the Negro needs to read,
still 60 a-begging for buyers; but
printers Of ''Nigger Heaven" are work
ing overtime to keep up with the law
of demand.
1t is reported that the Harlem
branch of the New York Public Lii
The broad ax., 1926-10-02
NEGRO CRIMINALITY EXAG-
GERATED SAYS BARROW IN
HARPER'S
(N.A.A.C.P. Press Service)

Writing on "Crime and the Alarm
lists" in the October number of Har-
per's Monthly Magazine, Clarence
barrow points out that the crime Of
Negroes is vastly exaggerated. "The
colored population" declares Mr.. Oar
row, is charged with share in the
commission of crime quite out of pro-
portion to their number. This, too,
should always be consideed in cohnec-
ton with the fact that in the north
they live in industrial centers and in
restricted, crowded areas and that
colored people, owing to race preju-
dice and poverty, are much more apt to
be accused and convicted than the
whites"
The broad ax., 1926-10-02
ENTERTAINS FOR BowLINGS

The Chicago Alumni Club of Roger
Williams University rendered DIR. and
Mrs. "A. J. Bowling reception upon
their leaving for Nashville, Tenn,
where they go to take up work at the
school. There were nearly one hun
bred graduates and former students
present at this time and Judge William
Henry Harrison, assistant attorney
general of the state of Illinois, pre-
sided throughout the evening. The
club pledged $4,000 to be paid by
Christmas which is indeed very en-
couraging to all Rogerites.
The broad ax., 1926-10-02

ress are the detectives which we
should be gainfully pursuing these
days-not what might have been had
the barrier been placed around amalga-
nation processes, or what might be
were America living in the millennium
Of the Golden Rule Period-which it
is not.
Of course, Mr.. Van Vechten is out
for the money, and we cannot censure
him severely for such common fault
or virtue, as the case may be. We
can, however, lament over the gullibil-
ity Of our own group, which, as usual,
is swallowing hook, line and sinker,
baited with literary nothingness.
The Cottonpickers
The announcement has been broad
cast from the Mississippi Delta that
there is a shortage of twenty thousand
cottonpickers for the incoming season
The S. 0. S. call has been sounded and
the announcement predicts that the
cotton labor gap will be filled with Ne
groes and Mexicans. just why there
is a shortage in the delta district, where
free labor once abounded, does not ap-
pear; but the fact remains that appre-
hension is aboard in Mississippi lest
precious King Cotton waste some Of
his sweetness on the desert air.
Let US look briefly at the ECONOMIC
anomaly which is beginning to make
its presence felt, not only in Missis-
sippi but elsewhere in the Southland
where Negro labor is now sitting up
and taking notice.
Due to the iniquities of the crop
mortgage systems southern farm land:
are being slowly but surely deserted
BY Negro farm tenants and operators
This indirect influence is pulling away
from the agricultural fields blocs oi
efficient Negro 1aborers who, if they
cannot reach the steel and automobile
plants of the North, are content tc
hire themselves out to Tennessee and
Birmingham steel employers.
The output Of Mississippi cotton t
the New England textile industries
has been curtailed, but to the present
slight textile depression in New Eng
land, and because of the growth Of
North Cardinals textile industries
which now absorb larger share of the
Soutf's cotton. Wages, at low ebb in
the South now, as ever, have not been
made to keep apace with the new
southern prosperity, and the most
poorly paid worker Of all, the Negro
Is still being kept Gin his place" in in
dustry, agriculture. and otherwise.
The broad ax., 1926-10-02
COMMITTEE MEETS

The General Carnival Committee of
A. U. X. & d. of A., under the direc-
ton Of Mrs. Eliza Jackson, state grand
queen of Illinois, met in a large and
enthusiastic meeting Sunday afternoon,
at Bailey's Hall.
The broad ax., 1926-10-02

plan which should be pursued here to
bring about his complete emancipation,
what consolation would be enjoyed by
the black path6nders of America.
Cannot something be done to pre-
serve the u. N. /. A., give it virile
leadership Of integrity, new plan Of
action, and save it as the model, in
form at least, from which new units of
racial solidarity may be created and
dedicated to the service of the strug-
Cling race?
The broad ax., 1926-10-02

The downfall Of Mr. Jack Dempsey,
ex-heavyweight boxing champion OF
the world, with reservations, is not I'M
like the plight of white man, who,
having been injured in wreck, pre-
ferred death to a ride to the hospital
in an ambulance which bore the body
of a colored man.
Dodging Dempsey, who became
weak in the legs, short Of breath, and
shy Of punching force, after a three
wears marathon Of evasion Of one Mr..
Harry Wills, has suffered grievous
unnercuts both from Mr. Tunney and
Father Time. In his gloom, however,
Mr.. Dempsey is consoled by the fact
that he was defeated by an American
"a fellow countryman-a man who
speaks the English language" and
scored uppercuts with American
punches. Mr. Dempsey, aided by Mr..
Richard and several other good Amer
lean "sportsmen," did not think it was
ethical to fight Mr.. Harry Wills for
the worlds chamionship, and those
years Of lodging fghting-took
their toll from Mr.. Dempsey's once
husky frame.
Mr.. Tunney. even before uppercut-
ting Mr.. Dempsey into submission,
ascribed TO the policy of white cham
pionships only Chat is, of course, ex-
cepting another international war is
fought) and will probably grow fat,
sleek, and slow evading Mr.. Wills and
battling second and third-raters Of his
own hue. However, it was good to
change champions, because even in the
ring, variety is the spice Of life.
OF course prize-fghting is a brutal,
barbaric sport; and it wouldn't elevate
the Negro race any if Mr.. Wills were
to fight and win. Yet, as long as good
American and EngIish-speaking sports
men are going to engage in warfare,
either in the ring or in the field Of shot
and shell. why not make 1t 100 per cent
American. just like the Ku Klux Khan
says IT should be-?
The broad ax., 1926-10-02
HOME FROM THE EAST

Hon. Louis B. Anderson and Chas.
S. Jackson have returned from Phil
adelphia, where they witnessed the
Dempsey Tunney fight and visited the
exhibition.
The broad ax., 1926-10-02

With lull in New England's cotton,
the Mississippi delta and other sections
of the South face the greatest chance
they have ever been given to increase
wages and make the cottonpickers' oc-
cupation pleasant and profitable Alas,
though, grasping at straw, the delta
has turned to the Mexican, who, good
man though he may be, has no equit-
able right to "unhorse" staunch, loyal
American workers, white or black.
Southern steel has long since been
endeavoring to learn the lesson of in
dustrial justice to all, and it is encour-
aging to state that much progress in
this regard has been made Why can
not the Mississippi delta and the other
industrial and agricultural sections of
Dixie go and do likewise?
The Waning U. N. I. A.
Cancerous discord is eating out the
vital forces Of the Universal Negro I'm
provement Society. The Garveyites
and the anti-Garveyites are at each
others threats in a feud which prob
ably will end in the death of the parent
organization. In spite of the humor-
ously pathetic back-to-Africa project
which leaders of the u. N. |. A. so
zealously fostered, the Association
possessed few outstanding virtues,
chief among which was the fact that
SO large body could organize itself,
function, and prosper for so long a
time with a definite objective in mind.
This in itself was an achievement,
which the Negro in America had never
before enjoyed, outside of the field Of
Religion.
Jealousies and self-aggrandizement,
however, are now having their day in
the U. N. I. a. Its definite purposes
are being laid upon the table, while its
leaders are engaging in personal
charges, counter charges, and incarcer-
atoms. The masses, who gave of their
money and energy to stabilize organ
ization among Negroes. are being for
gotten, while its leadership struggles
with itself in fury and self destruction.
Disintegration has set in upon what
was once great organization.
1t would be both graceful and self
saving if the masses who comprise the
U. N. L A. could be kept intact to
face, not an emigration to the dark
continent, but an approach to the prob
lens which beset the Negro in Amer
lea. If the flames Of organization Of
the Negro could be kept alive, 50 that
in an orderly scientific way, he could
put frmness and initiative into the
The broad ax., 1926-10-02
preston News Service)

/. Literary Demand and Supply.
2. The Cottonpickers
3. The Waning U. N. /. A.
g. Curfew Uppercuts Mr.. Dempsey
Evening star., 1926-01-10
BALTIMORE TRAFFIC
TOLL IN 1925 is 149
Autos Kill lis. Trolleys 13 and
Railroads Z. Records of
Police Show.
Special Disnatch to The Star.

Special Disnatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, January 9.-EehiCles
took 149 lives in the clay during 1925
according to records at the Accident
Prevention Bureau of the Police De
partment. With Il total of 115 fatal
tiles, automobiles took the greatest
toll of lives. There were 4.146 per
sons injured in vehicular accidents in
Baltimore during the year. Thirteen
were killed by trolley ears and seven
by railroads. Horse-drawn vehicles
were responsible for two deaths.
During 1924 there We're 124 deaths
in traffic accidents, and of this mum
ber 80 resulted from motor vehicle ac
cidents.
Capt. Joseph McGovern, in charge
of the Accident Prevention Bureau
said his investigation of accidents last
year tended to place the blame even
" on pedestrian and motorist. Many
persons, it was said. instead of keep
ing a sharp lookout as they were
crossing streets, gave their attention
to reading or talking. There was not
a person fatally injured by a vehicle
at a crossing where a traffic police
man was stationed
Evening star., 1926-01-10

I'd like to get up on some house top
and tell the world of car owners why
they need two kinds of human as
sistance when they have trouble with
their cars. I've just been on little
yacation-firSt time I've knocked of
in 10 years-and I've seen how the
idea works in some of the better re-
pair shops and service stations.
The usual plan is to look for a good
mechanic when in trouble. That's a
good plan up to a certain point. A
good mechanic is the only kind All
owner should trust with his car when
it comes to carvin' into it's innards.
But a good mechanic may be "A poor
trouble shooter.
One service station l visited is
gettin' along fine with floor man who
never was mechanic and who
couldn't do a good job on n car if he
tried. But he's a crack shot at putin
his finger on trouble. He can give
the men a pretty good idea of what 5
wrong, and once they know what 5
needed they can do the rest famously.
The trouble with askin' a good me-
Evening star., 1926-01-10

chanic to diagnose trouble is that he's
apt TO think of the new situation in
terms of the last repair job he tackled.
l do it myself unconsciously. It's a
sort of habit. had one chap workin'
for me who told everybody they
needed their springs creased, if they
complained of squeaks. That was his
pet bug.
A trouble-shooter is more open
minded on the subject. His chief in
terest is to make a guess that will hit
the bull's-eye. Usually he is an ex-
perienced motorist himself. That
helps. because he knows what the car
owner is talkin' about.
If 1 were a car owner I'd just pick
out some fellow who knows a lot about
the particular car and let him drive it
around until he gets the hang of the
trouble. I'd pay him what I'd pay
any good doctor for tellin' me what's
wrong with myself. Then I'd go
around to a good, honest workman
and tell him what to do to my car. I'd
get a good job at the lowest possible
cost