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The Washington times., 1926-12-20
COlOred '"Sallies" Will
Hold Holiday Rally

The annual Yuletide musical
rally of the colored branch of the
Salvation Army will be held at ST.
Luke p. e. Church Wednesday
night at S:15.
The program will be under the
direction of Commander ]. N. Rob-
erts. Moving pictures showing ac-
t!vities of fthe Salvation Army
work will be. a part of the pro.
gram
The Washington times., 1926-12-20
Radio Legislation Waits
Until After Holidays

Agreement on radio legislation
probably will be reached shortly
after the holidays, Senate and
House conferees announced after
a conference today.
Senator Dill CD, OF Washington,
denied reports that the House
would seek to pass an emergency
bill before Christmas.
The Washington times., 1926-12-20
LOVE BY THE KILOWATT

"AIazda, darling" he wrote, ''be
mine. Incandescent one: What's life
without you? Ohm is not ohm with
out the light Of your presence. My
heart IL a transformer that steps up
at every thought Of you. i would
lay my head alongside your switch;
the touch of your hand Is like live
wire. Marry me, and let US have q
little meter in our home"
CLIFFORD GARRISON
The Washington times., 1926-12-20
HOUSE ACTIVE
On D. {. BILLS

Although Congress will adjourn
for the holidays at the close of
business Wednesday. this week will
bring important DEVELOPMENTS for
the District in the House. .
The Underhill bill providing $685..
100000 for the purchase of public
building sites south of Pennsylvania
Avenue will come before the Com
The Washington times., 1926-12-20
Committee Sees Vote
On Boulder Dam Bill

The House Irrigation Committee
decided today to vote at 1880 o'clock
Wednesday on the Swing Boulder
dam bill. Approval of the measure
is regarded as certain.
A move by Representative Leath-
The Washington times., 1926-12-20
When Opportunity knocks
at your door 1T doesn't use a
policemon's club. You'Ue got
to be listening and thinking.
ABE.
DECIDE 1T YOURSELF

He and she both easily agreed
That kiss il a common noun
And that there IL much of 1t
All through each town.
They didn't discuss the part of speech,
Because they didn't have time.
All they knew, in their great bliss,
Was that it was difficult to decline.
GENEVIEVE.
The Washington times., 1926-12-20

The intention of the Wash
f1tgton Gdslight COMPANY to
seek higher gas rates indi-
Gates that 1ce are to aOitness
another charge of the Light
Brigade" PETE.
The Washington times., 1926-12-20
Chill Refuses to Yield
Mrs. Oracle 5 Hubby
An Times staff Photos

Refusal of the Chilean to permit extradon OF
Count Humberto ACQUIRE de Urbino will deprive the
wealthy Mrs Constance s. Oracle of opportunity
treve gems Headquarters Detective Ira Keck of
trip to Santiago. Chile. was learned today.
The Washington times., 1926-12-20
SQUEEZING 4 STRONG ONE

Ren Krushizgoozle squeezes all
the breath out of his opponent,
Garlic Gravi.''' so that he won't
De so strong).
The Washington times., 1926-12-20

STORK'S CHRISTMAS VISIT
Christmas makes me most happy and
gay.
Because the stork brought me on that
day.
So II / am a bit delighted the reason
you see
1t was Christmas morning of 1885
thank you. just 43.
JOSEPH S. BLOCK.
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is BIRTH CONTROL BUNK?

Bill: / read that Leander J,
Gentle, of Atlanta, father of
twenty-eight children, and proud
IN announcing that "Gnother one
is due," shook hands With Presi-
dent Coolidge and received other
official fGUOrs IN this city.
Leander, I observe, remarked:
'tNoaV this birth control bust
ness is all bunk. The only hap
piness IN life is to haze children--
as n,any as you can." These OBJ
serUations truly represent the
caUe man of old. Yet / p0onder
what Leander's qUives think on
the subject of birth control each
time they bear him q child and
add to their oWn troubles and
woes, while he struts around to
be admired by men aOho knOw
nothing of child births terrOrs
and dangers, and care less.
AUNT DEDA.
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erwood Rl Of Utah to delay action.
was blocked.
The Washington times., 1926-10-04
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
a NE HUNDRED THOUSAND women. each
What Use Is O. Baby?

nNE HUNDRED THOUSAND women each wearing
blue armlet emblazoned with silver dove and
carrying banners Inscribed where Reason Rules
There Is No War; marched down the streets of London not
long ago in a gigantic peace demonstration.
They made speeches. passed resolutions and then went
home.
Had Mars been standing the side lines he would have
burst into loud outlaws.
What women speeches and resolutions do the face
of prevailing distrust and national animosity?
A little black moustached Frenchman stood tinkerng
with mechanism of wood, wire and canvas
He Louis Beriot, the aviator who few days later
flew his monopane across the English Channel
He had just made successful trial flight and landed
when pompous individual approached and delivered him.
self thus:
'This machine may fly all right but what use is iti'
''What use is baby2'' was the arman's reply.
Mars himself what this baby of 1909 had grown into
by the summer of 1914
Every great moral movement, from the Reformation to
the abolition of slavery began with few people who fought
against what they considered evil until others joined
them and the movement gained momentum and power.
Each began baby and grew to the power of full
stature.
At time about each conemptuous ''What good does
it do?'' asked
The powerful movement of today the feeble
ment of yesterday which grounded on the right.
In all Likelihood little immediate effect will be from
the London demonstration But let not Mars be
that the gesture is wholly impotent
Marching women, If their demonstration seems
futile indicate the in the world of baby which
growing year by year.
The Washington times., 1926-10-04
Heavyweight Hippo Father and Mother

These placid Bobbie years DID, and
aged nine They live in Londons Geological Garden and in
the world because they the father and mother of
the first baby hppopoamus born in the big Zoo in the last
-four years.
The baby at birth weighed about hundred pounds The
father mother weigh about 1000 pounds and will weigh
double that few years hence Hppopotamuses continue get
ting fat for long time.
This couple much like pigs is interesting to
contemplate The nost you know closed when they
under water. The name "hippopotamus from two
Greek words meaning horses and river although they
are not in the least like a river horse.
Their eyes are dull, movements slow. They honest
vegetarans the mother very fond of her baby The
father not allowed to it, You be
what father hppopotamus will do Lion and tiger fathers
You be QUITE sure rule that they
viii eat up their young at least in captivity they get
at them.
We cannot imagine that these creatures THINK. Their
eyes the Of the head little any brain above Their
faces and heads very much like the ideal young of
this period illustrated in magazines fashion pictures
al face and very little brain
In the African tropics the savages will kill four thousand
pound monster of this kind eat the meat until they
eat longer lie down. to sleep wake and eat again.
They continue eating for days. after the meat has begun to
decay when you that read would not within hundred
yards of the decaying
You may Those savages are not far above the hippo
poamus that they devour You mistaken The LOWEST
savage MAKES PLANS. The HIGHEST animal makes none
The Washington times., 1926-10-04
CITY OF THE LAMAS

NIIBET is an interesting and
i picturesque country. The
leading religion of the Tibetans is
Lamaism, and it is in Lhasa, the
capital of Tibet and the chief
city Of the Lamas, or priests,
that much of interest can be seen
by the curious.
Lhasa is situated in a valley,
near the XVI River, and surround
ed by high, barren mountains.
To the unknowing eye. Lhasa
would appear as the least inter
esting of all the cities and towns
in Tibet, for there is but a very
ordinary landscape surrounding it,
and Tibet is noted for the grand
ness of it's scenery. But in the
middle of the city stands a huge
palace. the Potala. This is the
Vatican" of the Lamas, for it is
the home of the Dalai Lama, or
Grand Lama (who corresponds to
the Pope of the Catholics, and is
a very important parsonage in.
decd. 1t is an imposing picture.
this giant edifice, with its red
walls and golden roof against the
blue sky.
The ceremonies that take place
in Lhasa are extremely interest
ing. and not the least of these
takes place the evening OF the
full moon Of the first month. At
The Washington times., 1926-10-04

Of our daily life-viz. food. fibre
and timber
Few Are Cultivated
Not more than 10 per cent are
cultivated at all, and most of
these are cultivated only in an
incidental way" Moreover. it APP
pears that we have not yet dis
covered for certain what are the
plants capable of being the most
useful and valuable to man. Such
q statement, backed by q leader
of botanical science. may well
astonish those who have sup
posed that wheat, corn and other
great cereals that have been Gull
tivated in all civilized lands for
thousands of years must almost
necessarily be the best that Ma
ture affords for human needs.
Yet here are Prof. Bailey's
words on the subject:
I'VE have no reason to believe
that the species now cultivated
are intrinsically the most useful
of those that exist. Some neglect
ed weed, in the hands OF a skilled
botanist, may some day overturn
all our agriculture"
Theory Well Founded.
The history Of the potato shows
how well founded this prediction
may be. The ancient people of
South America, shut off from and
unknown to the great mass of
mankind in the Eastern world.
developed that astonishing tuber
fQy human food, and the discov-
erers OF America carried it across
the Atlantic in the sixteenth CEN
tury. Spain was then the leader
of the European nations, and in
Spain the potato first grew in
Old World soil. Today there is
probably no civilized country In
which the potato is not treasured
almost as jealously as wheat, the
queen of the grains in it's quality
OF nourisher and sustainer of
hum2n life.
There are other instructive II
less striking examples OF the con-
version of weeds" and wild
fruits into agricultural staples.
But how many besides the potato
have forged to the front and
taken high rank among the indis-
pensables? There have been more
developments of new plant foods
for mans animal servants than
for the master. except in the line
of luxuries, led by the royal
strawberry. Still, the strawberry
as furnished by nature never had
need Of an introduction at the
mC1t epicurean table.
Judging by the past, it will be
a long road to the realization of
Prof. Bailey's vision Of trans
formed agriculture. China has
been cultivating wheat for at
least 5000 years, and although
her agriculturists have been so
skillful that they are even now
able to produce more wheat per
acre than is grown in any State
of this Union, they have not
found any substitute for the old
grain.
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this time at least a hundred tor
mas, or large wooden structures,
are erected along the streets.
These structures form a shelter
for numerous imgaes Of gods. men
and animals, all carved out Of
butter dyed various colors. Be-
fore the tormas affairs are erected
and butter-lamps swing over them.
When darkness falls, the Dalai
Lama appears to inspect the tor
mas. Great crowds await him,
and they are kept in order by
policemen armed with long whips,
who used them indiscriminately
to keep the mob in order. At last
he arrives. Surrounded by q troop
Of soldiers and seated in a sedan
chair of yellow brocade, the Dalai
Lama makes his rounds. And the
sight is indeed a colorful one
the bright uniforms OF the SOL
diers. the flags. the policemen, the
yellow and red robes of the
Lamas, and last but not least.
the Dalai Lama himself. Fire
crackers are set off and red and
green lights cast a. weird glow
over the multitude. This goes on
for almost the whole night. for
after the high priest has retired,
private professions pass, as people
of rank, high ecclesiastics and so
on also wish to view the sight.
The Washington times., 1926-10-04
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
ny Helen Rowland

Cold Cuts
WHEN a man begins to COM
w plain of the cold in the
moonlight. there is no use trying
to fool yourself any longer. The
frost is on his love!
Most blides go to the altar in
flowing wells and white satin
most bridegrooms in a cold per-
SEPARATION.
To the girl who steals another
woman's husband, there always
comes a poignant moment, when
she realizes that he is beginning
over his shoulder to see il he
can find the tracks that lead
back to his wife.
The average mans heart IS
like a sponge; no matter how badly
1t has been "wrung" it springs
right back into shape again, at
the first smile from a sympa-
thetic woman.
The most sympathetic sight on
earth is that of a stalWart six
footer trying to laugh off his
little half-portion wife's burst Of
reprimand.
Marriage is like Christmas shop
ping. No matter how often you
have been through it, you always
go into it, next time, with the
same hope and enthusiasm-and
come out with the same old
"Whats-the-u feeling.
Many a wife has been amazed
to discover that her husband,
who was too helpless" at home
to pour his own coffee or open
his own eggs, is known among his
fishing cronies as the "best cook
and dishWasher In camp"
After q girl has tried forty or
fifty ways Of making a man pro-
pose marriage, she can nearly al
ways succeed, at the last mo-
ment, by 'giving him up" for
another man.
A girl misses half the thrills and
heartaches in life if she doesn't
maryland the other half II she
does IA !.
The Washington times., 1926-10-04
By ELSIE ROBINSON


we mean by it? What 90 we
really know about it?
Does our. htppant title explain
honor, or love, or courage? Does
it state the chemical constituents
of the dream in the heart OF g.
poet, or the wonder that turns q
careless girl into a heroic mother?
Does 1t explain music or analyze
art or unveil the mystery of vio-
let's? Does it even explain the
ecstatic wag of a little puppy's
tail?
We're glib with our prattle of
Iandular ReactionS-Protop
-Evolution-but do we know
enough to manufacture a baby
mosquito, much less full.fledged
human? Could we have devised
the crudest sunset or fabricated
even a one-cylinder thunder
storm? Why, the smallest pinch
of dust, with it's infinite power
and mystery, jeers at our effront-
cry!
And rise today, as patriotic
American, to protest against the
disgusting smartness Of our
higher education" It is un-
doubtedly wise to keep theology
out of our schools. But our wis
dom is q cheap and shallow thing
IL it does not do reverence to the
things we do not know-to the
everlasting beauty and mystery
which cannot be contained in any
laboratory vial.
Were I making the laws, no
man or woman should be allowed
to teach in any American school
or college who was lacking in
such reverent perception. Nc
matter what his other qualifica.
tions might be, II wonder and
awe had withered in him he
should be disqualified. For no
spirit is wise or strong or fertile
unless 1t houses a shrine to the
Unknown God. And no educa-
ton educates which does not
make the student humble him.
self before the Everlasting Mys.
terry.
The Washington times., 1926-10-04
Puzzled Republicans
They Have a Wet and Dry Elephant.

New York politicians puzzled Their candidate for the
Senate The upstate people, the Y W. G. A. etc.
dry The problem is to write platform that will sound dry
UP the State and wet down in New York City.
Mr. Crstman who intends run against Senator Wads-
worth straight and prohibition candidate
the Senator of helping defeat Lenroot in Wisconsin
No such help was NECESSARY. Mr. Lenroot voted for
the World Court and thus SETTLED HIMSELF did four
Csher Republican Senator'S.
They now know that American voters MEANT it when,
by 900 plurality they decided United
able itself without help League Nations
door World Court back door.
The Washington times., 1926-10-04

r liberty HYDE BAILEY, of
L. Cornell University. chairman
of the recent International Con-
gress Of Plant Sciences, is not
only a great botanist, but he is
also a philosopher, quality that
1t does not fall to the lot of every
scientist to possess. A philosopher
casts his eye over the world and
tries to see things in the large,
without losing himself in the de-
tails of particular researches. And
especially he considers the broad
human bearing of all knowledge
that is worth while. This pl1ilo.
sophical habit of mind, which
also characterized Luther Bur-
bank, is not always appreciated
by those who care for nothing
but Science for sciences sake"
Science for mans sake is the
philosophical view.
At the congress referred to
Professor Bailey, instead of dis
coursing on technicalities OF
botanical classification. dwelt
The Washington times., 1926-10-04

vest and the fishing streams
Fair gods of love, and scowliCg
gods Of war, gods of, the dahce
and gods Of good red wine. Gods
for the gladiator in his bloody
pit, or for the mother dreaming
OF her child. A thousand gods,
with incense burning on each
shrine.
Yet for wise Athens, that was
not enough. For Athens had a
burning lust for Truth. And there
were questions which they could
not answer on the Hill of Mars.
And mysteries no symbol could un-
veil. So to that Power which they
sensed, but could not know, they
built another shrine. And wrote
upon that altar:
TO THE UNKNOWN GOD
OF all the wisdom for which
Athens gained her fame. that was
the wisest, noblest deed-that
knowing so much, they should yet
do reverence to the things they
did not know.
I've been thinking Of Athens
today.
Forrest Neal made me think OF
II. 4 OEISSC mas just SFduudISu
from college and is waiting for
the world to recognize the fact.
College did great deal for For
rest--so he says. Not only did it
give him much information, but
look at all the trash and super
stition it eliminated from his life.
For instance, all the old religious
superstition, particularly the be.
lief in God.
"Of course there's certain
charm to ones childish belief in
God" says Forrest, "but it doesn't
take much of a course in biology
or philosophy to show you what
bunk it all is. 1 admit I felt a
little queer at first when / be-
gan to realize it-sort of lost. But
saw very soon that intelligent
persons had to face the fact that
there simply couldn't be q God.
ats just the Life Force"
That Is what Forrest has beer
telling me. out Of the vast wisdom
The Washington times., 1926-10-04
Cool Young Lady

employers that unprotected lug large sums
of money around the streets they should pick girls like Miss
Phyllis Krse.
Miss Krise her way from New York coal company
where is cashier bank Two stepped from an
automobile poked pistol in her face and departed with
$4764 in cash and checks.
The cashier wasted time screaming fanting etc. She
too busy using her eyes and her wits In little while
the police had the number and description of the automobile
and hundreds of patromen the lookout for it.
It only few hours later that Patroman Thomas
Paterson month the force by the wayspotted the
cash-$2264
In this hugnfesed town ready gun with which to shoot
hodup men full OF holes should accompany in transit
The next best bet is pair Of sharp eyes cool head
The Washington times., 1926-10-04
Ideas Wanted
Especially One Idea.

The Pennsylvania Railroad asks its employees volunteer
''new ideas for the Improvement Of the service
In the you read Twenty bus lines ncor-
porated in August There IAN idea in the motor bus
lines that will the railroads trouble if they ignore it,
And there the flying machine idea that in spite Of the
National Governments sluggishnes will make railroad values
ehrink and shrink
The idea" that all the railroads need in these flying
chine and motor bus days idea that will keep railroads
abreast Of the times.
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A THENS was
n pro u d, a

ago.
Wise men held
council on the.
Hill Of Mars
and to them
scholars C a m Q
from every land
b r i n & ing the
wisdom of that
ancient world.
CIR e a t marble
halls housed gal
leries of art and
parchments COW
cred with all
that the race
then knew of
art and science.
ma gic and phil.
osophy.
And in the
temples t h e r e
were affairs to a
thousand gods.
G0f7a Of the haPs
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LISTEN, WORLD!
n zr orr rannrAxc0Ay

Of his twentieth
century college
education. And
I've been won
dering just how
far we have
progressed since
t h o 8 g ancient,
p a 6 an days.
And who are
wiser--we, who
so lightly sweep
God from the
sky, or they
who in their
wisdom raised
yet another al
tar--to the I'm.
known God?
This L / I Q
Force - ] u 8 t
what is 1t, any
way?
We talk of 1t
as gIbly as
though it were a
patent medicine.
R1tf what do
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Jail, or Nice Trip?
1t Depends on How MUCH You Steal

Edward Brooks and George Fore New Jersey boys fifteen
years DID, caught rabbits took them home for PETS and
let them go again. when told catching rabbits illegal
Nevertheless they spent three nights in Jail judge with
let them CO. Other gentlemen than fifteen
years c capturd oil belonging the Government
and did NOT let them CO. They haven't gone and won't go
to jail That's modern justice Steal loaf of bread-Ja
Steal ten mllions-Trp to Europe.
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Keen for Play

A LMOST the entire time Of one
"A instructor in the extension
division Of the University of
Texas 10 devoted to the promo
ton Of educational play ana
recreation in the schools, espe'
cially in rural sections.
The Washington times., 1926-10-04

upon the essential relations of the
earth's plants to its human in
habitants. He brought out the
fact that of the half miI4on
The Washington times., 1926-10-04

species of higher plants that.
botanists have studied and named
not even SO May as 100 supply
us with the three great staples
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-23

to Commander McQuig in the eve
ming at one of the Portland hotels
IN charge of local committee.
Commander McQuigg with his es-
cort of Maine Legion officers will
then come to Augusta, arriving here
on the 1921 A. M. train. Thew will
probably stay at the Augusta House
that night. The following mornings
Friday, Jan. 20, Commander Nc
Qulgg will go to Readfield, where he
VIII visit his daughter, Miss Pauline
McQulgg, who is a teacher at Kents
Hill Seminary.
Returning to Augusta, Commander
McQuigg will leave on the 1925 Z.
M. train for Bangor, where in the
afternoon conference will be held
with the members of the Legion and
Auxiliary in that part of the State
A banquet will be held in his honor
on Friday evening at Bangor, and
immediately following, the command
er and his secretary will start Oil
their return trip to Indianapolis, Ind.
On account of the fact that Com
mander McQuigg's stay in central
Maine will be, largely taken up with
his visit to Kents Hill, it is probable
that the Legion and Auxiliary men,
bers in this section will confer with
him either at the, Portland or Ban
gor meetings. Matters of general in
terest to the Legion, including the
membership drive, will be discussed
at the conferences.