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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-08

AUGMENTED IN PROPORTION
TO THE NUMBER EMPLOYED"
Is it true?
Sure, it's true.
But what of 1t?
why conclude that such con-
dition demonstrates that there s
something wrong with feminine
Jobs? Why not conclude that II
demonstrates even more con-
clusively that there's something
wrong with the old scheme OF
matrimony?
The fact that women began
getting divorces as soon as they
achieved jobs doesn't prove that
jobs lured them from their
homes. 1t simply proves that
their lives in those homes were
unsatisfactory and that they
grasped the first opportunity to
escape from such conditions
A great deal of tawdry senti-
ment has been written about the
Old Fashioned Home. There's
nothing finer in the world than a
real home, be 1t OF old or new
fashion. The Old Fashioned
Home wasn't the Arcadia the
ronanticists would have us be-
lieve. 1t harbored an incalculaoie
amount of meanness, injustice
and stupidity.
The place to find the actual
standing of the Old Fashioned
Home is not In the poetry books,
but in the law books of a nation
The law books OF this particular
nation reveal that for much or
the time the wife's status in the
home was just about on a par
with the bossy cows. And not
always as good AS for the chill
dren, Papa could dispose of them
as so much pig iron. if he so
willed Which he frequently so
willed.
Such power on Papa's part
did not always give rise to actual
cruelty. The normal human finds
scant pleasure in beating, starv-
ing or abusing his kind. But he
is extremely careless about the
mental cruelty he inflicts, unless
restrained by the strong arm of
the law. And the mental cruelty
inflicted upon women, prior to
the advent of feminine jobs, was
appalling.
A woman's unborn child was
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-08

Noted Astronomer and Writer or
Scientific Topics Of Popular
Interest.
las an interested reader OF
your articles may / ask: II the
sun itself travels in space what
power or force greater than it.
self keeps it from going off
in a straight line? Is its orbit
a circle or ellipse similar to
our earth's? What time does
it take the sun to complete it's
orbit? What is Its speed in its
orbit? Has it motion on it's
axis similar to our earth's dur
nal motion? - T. j. M, New
York"
VOU are walking on the steep
u shelving shore of a mathe-
NAUTICAL lake that is black with
depth, and if you slip in Einstein
himself may be unable to help
you. Under the Newtonian law
of gravitation it is easy to see, in
the first place. that all the stars
Jour sun being one, and not a
very big one), must have some
attraction upon one another, and
in the second place. that the
general effect produced by the
combined attractions of the whole
system Of stars must set them all
in motion. Here we can perceive
a reason why the sun and his
fellow stars are found to be
moving among one another. We
may also draw the general con-
clusion that the motion Of any
individual, as for instance the
sun, Is not truly in a straight
line: it must be curve of some
form.
The attraction between any
two stars, at the existing dis
lance between them, is very
slight. Thus the effect of the
suns attraction upon it's nearest
neighbor, Alpha Centauri. only
suffices, according to Edding-
TOMS calculation. to impart to
that star. in the course of a
whole year, a velocity of one
centimeter per hour. But the
effect of the general attraction
of the whole stellar system IS
considerably greater, and the
same astronomer has calculated
that, with certain assumptions
as TO the radius of the systems
and the density Of the stars
within it, the sun and other stars
of similar age may, under the
influence Of the general attrac-
ton, have made many circuits III
orbits of q mean period oil some
900, 000, 900 years.
COnjectural
This, however is all conJectu'
raj, for we have not enough
clearly ascertained facts FOR
definite analysis. The complica-
ton of relative motions with
which astronomers have to deal
in making an approximate de-
termination of the suns motion
is enormous. Imagine fleet
whose individual ships are NOV
ing at various speeds in many
different directions with no shore
or other fixed landmarks in sight,
and suppose that being placed on
one of these ships you are re-
quired to determine the particu-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-08
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
by Helen Rowland
On Husbands-And Things
Like That

On Husbands-And Things
Like That
HUSBANDS are like buttons
III always either I'm s n g,
tearing loose" or getting en-
tangled in something.
The greatest proof of woman's
superior power of endurance is
probably that for centuries she
has been able to marry and live
with anything as nerve-wracking
as the average man.
Losing ones husband suddenly.
says the Paris divorce, is like
having the water turned off
without notice. You never real
lied in how many little ways you
depended on themi
You can always tell by the
alacrity or reluctance with which
a man hangs up the telephone
receiver whether he has been
talking to his wife or to "an-
other little woman Of his ac-
Quaintance.
Perhaps little George Washing
tons admission that he cut down
the cherry tree was, like the
average mans admission of his
sins, more of boast than con
fession.
Almost any man could have his
wife jumping through hoops II
he would use half the petting,
patience and responsiveness on
her that he lavishes on a bud
ding mustache.
After ten years Of marriage g.
woman's hearts reacts like a
punching bag 10 a mans criti-
cism-but there never comes a
time when his flattery can't make
a dent in it.
metimes a mans love-making.
like Il fancy Valentine. is so
elaborate and full of frills that
the real sentiment is entirely
lost.
OF COURSE, married men are
more interesting than bachelors.
Diamonds receive their brillia ncy
by grinding them on one another
and so do human minds!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-08
TRAVELS OF SUN
By Garrett P. Serviss

lars of its motion simply by OBJ
servations of the mingled real and
apparent motions of the others.
Your dilemma would resemble
that of the astronomer, for he.
too, has no fixed standard of
reference-unless he can find 1t
in the ether.
The present estimate of he
suns motion makes it about II
miles per second in a. direction
roughly, but by no means ex-
actly, indicated by the brighC
star Vega, which may be seen
rising In the northeast with
! sparkling brilliance about mid
night at this time Of the year.
Two little stars making tri-
angle with Vega will identify It
II you are in doubt. Remember
that we are going along with
the sun.
Sun ROtates
But a new feature has recently
been added by the discovery by
Professor Dayton G. Miller OF
apparent evidence that the entire
system of stars called the Galac
tic, or Milky Way, system is
moving toward a point in the
constellation Draco, some 25 de
grees north-northwest of Vega,
and near the pole of the ecliptic.
This motion appears to be
about ten times as swift as the
suns motion toward Vega, or 100
miles per second, and IL con-
firmed 1t may be interpreted as
proving that the universe con-
TENS, or subsidiary universes,
which are flying through space
like clouds.
If graVitationally connected, the
force of attraction between them
must be reduced to an all but
infinitesimal amount, acquiring
prodigious lapses OF time to pro-
duce perceptible effects. What
the Einstein theoretical substitute
for gracitational attraction may
make Of this remains to be seen.
AS TO the suns rotation. the
answer is: Yes, it does rotate,
but not as solid globe like the
earth. It's rotation is swifter
near its equator than toward it's
poles. At the equator it's surface
makes one turn In about 25 days;
in high ATTITUDES on either side
of the equator the period Is 27
or 28 days. You can detect the
solar rotation by keeping watch
for at least month on large
sunspots, which sometimes last
during several rotations.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-08
1t Can't Be Done

The young assistant comptroller of Fifth Avenue store
who has gone Sing the theft 900 from his
employers$0000 of which he lost in dice gaes-w have
time think of his folly he talks men there he
will find out that stealing and gambling seldom pay
Frequently read of the confession some young man
who stole money to gamble either the tables in Wall
Street These pungers' rarely win. they lucky at
first they keep at the game until they have lost all
EPen the money they were going to put back not
liable and exposure and prison follow
professional gamblers will tell you the percentage
against you any game of chance Police will prove
that the percentage also is against you in crime
How foolish then to buck game where the percentage
against you is doubled.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-08
Rebellion Means Progress
The Interesting Executioner

Public executoners interesting perhaps the wise
realize that only the of God has saved
Intimate acquaintance with such gentlemen.
William Christopher Patterson dies aged eightyfour killing
ftfour men and women by the rope and electric chair
He had the honor of killing the first ever died
IN the electric chair Asked whether
executed old Patterson replied 1T good law of life to
mind your own business not employed at Auburn
Prison judge
Another and better law Of life is to be your Judge and
refuse do what know ought not do world
progress due to that have refused to submit
accepted order of things from the earliest rebel against
ancient trant to the that signed the Declaration
Independence.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-08
nUR friend w
r Ra m . 9 y

has BEEN Wort
ing for some time
ever this bust
ness OF Married
Ladies working
and he feels that
he has at last
found an argu-
rnert which VIII
he q X. o. on
the whole PROPOSE
ton.
BEFORE OUR
w ON r N EN-
r e r e d TIL p
CONNIE r CT L
WORLD ON A
PAR w / r III
MEN" says he,
WE HAD FEW
DIVORCES, BUT
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-08

70 FORM Of charity Is more worthy thah mat q II
visiting nurses.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-08
SAYINGS OF WISE MEN

TIE who civilly shows the way
H to one who has missed it
is one who has lighted another's
lamp from his own lamp; it none
the less gives light to himself
when it burns for the other
Ennius.
Can one desire too much OF
good thing
An honest heart possesses
kingdon1.-Seneca.
The house of everyone is to
him as his castle and fortress.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-08
LISTEN, WORLD!

rarely willed
away from her
BY 3 fiendish
father although
the law ! allowed
IA I'll ers such
rights In certain
Of ou r States
But her pride
and self respect
vi ere ruthIe
stripped from her
and all her per
sonal dreams and
ambitions crush
ed, She might
labor at her
lords side for
fifty years. but
on the day Of
their Golden An
niversary she did
not have a legal
right to claim as
her own any stick
or silver OF Friend
husbands posses
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-08
JUST TWENTY
| YEARS AGO
BY William Moore

Congressman Owsley Stanley
stirred the ire of illuminated
Kentucky ladies when he de-
clared-humorously, OF course
that he would not lift finger to
help a red-haired woman If her
husband was beating her. South
ern chivaIry-bahv' was the com.
ment Of the angered ed-heads.
William K. Vanderbilt, jr.. was
mobbed by a crowd OF Italians
when the American millionaire
ran down a child with his devil
wagon" at Florence.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-08

as we'll for his defense against
injury and violence, as for his
repose.-Coke
Idleness is emptiness: the tree
in which the sap is stagnant re-
mains fruitless.-Hosea Ballou.
Ignorance never settles a cues
ton.
Imagination rules the world
Napoleon.
Novelties please less than they
Representations
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-08
SAP AND SALT
BY Bert Moses

Sense without education Is bet.
ter than education without sense.
What the world needs is more
quality and not so much quantity.
1t is taking long chance to
make yourself miserable in this
world to attain happiness in the
next
Evening star., 1926-03-24
KIRBY SENTENCED
FOR MAIL FRAUDS
Gets Seven and Half Years
and 81, 900 Fine-AppeaI
Motion Is Denied.
By the Associated Press.


CLEVELAND, March 24.-Josiah
Kirby, former president Of the Cleve-
land Discount Co., today was sem
fenced to seven and one-half years in
Federal penitentiary at Atlanta and
fined 81 600 by Federal Judge John NJ.
Killits on charges of using the mails
to defraud.
The actual sentence aggregated 81
years, but stipulations that separate
sentences passed by Judge killits for
various of the Ia counts in the indict
ment, run concurrently, reduced the
time he must serve.
sThe sentence was imposed after
Judge killits overruled motion for
a new trial. Kirby was granted a stay
of execution until June IA, when he
faces trial on Jury fixing" charges
on which he was indicted by the
Federal grand jury. To these he
pleaded not guilty Immediately after
his sentence on the mail fraud charge
Kirby was given his freedom for
the first time in eight weeks on bond
of $35 900. He has been held a
prisoner since his conviction January
80 pending investigation of the jury
fixing charges growing out of his
Federal court trials.
Evening star., 1926-03-24
STOCKTON PRAISED
AT G. v. i. SERVICES
Picture of Former President,
Who Saved University,
Is Presented.

Close friends and associates of the
late Rear Admiral Charles Herbert
Stockton. president of George Wash
ington University from 1910 to 1918.
lauded his service to the university
yesterday afternoon at the ceremony
incident to the unveiling and presen-
tation of a life-siZe portrait of Ad-
miral Stockton, which was held in the
assembly room of Stockton Hall, the
new law school building
The portrait was the work of Rich
ara ). Meryman, Washington art
list, and was provided through pri-
vate donations of friends of Admiral
with him at the university and in the
Navy. The ceremony was attended
by about 400 persons.
The story of how Admiral Stockton
rescued the university from financial
stress and placed it upon a firm
basis. doubling its enrolment in his
period of service there, was recounted
by Dean William Allen Wilbur, who
presented the portrait to the univer-
sity.
There are crises in the history of
institutions that demand not only wise
counsel, but also Il full measure of
personal QeNOtlOn ana SdcrlllCe, ne
said. 1T was such a crisis in George
Washington University Vhen Admiral
Stockton accepted the presidency. lie
laid 1t down as a principle that the eX-
penses must be Kept within the re-
ceipts, himself leading in the sacrifice
this entailed. and held the university
to it.
His own quiet confidence restored
the shaken morale throughout the uni
versity and inspired new confidence
and hope. He and Mrs. Stockton to-
gether entered into university affairs
Of faculty and student interests with
genuine affectionate concern, and they
created a new esprit de corps in the
university. This was followed by at
tending indications of increasing pros
perity. When he became president in
1910 there We're 1900 students. when
he resigned the presidency in 1918
there were 2.400 students.
''In a stormy time Rear Admiral
Charles Herbert Stockton was d
strong, stul man the Navy gave to us.
He Is enshrined in the affections OF
living men and women"
The portrait was received by Dean
William Van Week of the law school.
Evening star., 1926-03-24

that the Senator had won.
Farm Relief is Basis.
Senator Norbeck, at his home at
Redtield. said he had won "a great
victory
His headquarters here issued a
statement stating that the Senator
attributed his victory to the realiza-
tion of the business men and farmers
alike that agriculture Is the single in
dustry on which our welfare depends
and that they are looking to Congdess
time oppreSses the farming industry"
Senator Norbeck was the first
native Of this State to become its
governor and the first South Dakota
born man to represent the State in the
United States Senate. He served
four years as governor and went to
the Senate In 1920. Before entering
politics he was we'll driller
Gov. Gunderson held a comfortable
lead over his opponent, c, f. Coyne OF
Fort Pierre. Neither would make a
sta atement.
Mr.. Gunderson was elected lieutenant
governor in 1920 and became governor
in 1924. Mr.. COyne has been secretary
of State.
The few hundred votes cast in the only
Democratic contest, that for governor,
showed marked lack Of party interest.
w. J. Bulow of Beresford led r. o.
Richards of Huron for the guberna-
torial nomination. The election is
November ..
Evening star., 1926-03-24
REFERENDUM STILL
HOPE AT ALBANY
Four More G. 0. P. Votes in
Sight Following Defeat
of Yesterday.

BY the Associated Press.
ALBANY, y. Y, March 24.--Advo
Gates of a State referendum on the
question Of asking Congress to modi-
fy the Eolstead act claim they can
muster enough votes in the lower
body Of the Legislature to turn a de
feat of yesterday into victory.
A referendum proposal yesterday
was supported by SO Democrats and
IA Republicans short Of the rs nee
essary. Minority Leader Maurice
Block, however. asserts that four
more Republican votes are In sight,
which would insure victory IL the pro-
posal were resubmitted and other
votes remained unchanged.
Drys in the lower house are wor-
ried by continued failure of a com.
mittee to report out State enforce
ment bill. which was defeated. 81 to
"A. in the Senate Monday night.
Somewhat the opposite situation eX-
lists in the Senate judiciary commit
tee over the referendum measure
which was killed there once by vote
Of ! to ;. Reconsideration is being
sought.
While the assembly was defeating
the referendum proposal yesterday II
buried a resolution to petition Con
gress for q constitutional convention
to repeal the eighteenth amendment.
Evening star., 1926-03-24

An address on the life of Admiral
Stockton also was made by Rear
Admiral Edward Fl. Campbell, judge
advocate general Of the Navy.
n. Landon Burchell was chairman
of the committee which planned the
memorial portrait. which included
representatives Of the Navy. the uni
versity. the vestry of the St. Johns
Episcopal Church, the Loyal Legion,
the Order of Washington and other
civic and patriotic organizations with
which Admiral Stockton was associat-
ed. The committee on the portrait was
DR.. Douglas Putnam Birnie, Admiral
Willard II. BrownSon and Dean VIII
bur. Others who aided were John
d. Larner, president of the board
of trustees of the university; Arch
ibald Hopkins. member Of the board;
Walter Stilson Hutchins. Nicholas
Luquer, Maj. Ord Preston. Capt.
+. p. b. Sands of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion; Col Robert
NJ. Thompson. and Vernon H.
Brewster, secretary Of the alumni as
ISOLATION
Evening star., 1926-03-24
Pi geOn Uses Auto
For 4O-Mile Trip,
Navy Report Says
By the Associated Press.


The Navy's pet pigeon story
about a carrier bird that went
A. w. o. l.. from a Canal Zone sta
ton for a year and then returned
to duty was capped today in an Of
fetal report from San Diego of an
aerial messenger which stole a 40
mile automobile ride to deliver it's
message.
The San Diego pigeon arrived at
the Navy station there perched on
a motor car driven by Mrs. Evelyn
Johnson of San Diego. who said It
had boarded the machine at Ocean
side. 40 miles away. 1t promptly
took up its residence in the quar-
ters Of the officer of the day. drew
rations, rested bit and then took
the air to make it's home port at
the nearby naval aviation station
under its own power. The bird had
been released presumably from a
plane with a message addressed to
the aviation station.
Evening star., 1926-03-24
ITALIANS READ LITTLE.

ROME, March "a CR.-Italians read
less than the citizens Of the other
great nations Of the world, it has been
found by a committee of distinguished
scholars, attemptin,3 to create inter
est in the work of young Italian au-
thors.
Rome, with a population Of nearly
900. 900, has hardly a dozen important
bookshops. and these are largely de-
voted to the classics, technical and
political books.
Evening star., 1926-03-24
u. S. Asked to Pay
Falsely Arrested
MissOurian $2,5OO

Congress is asked to pay $500
compensation to a Missourian who
spent five months in Jail just be-
cause his name happened to coin
eide with that of another man who
previously had run afoul of the
prohibition law.
The name that caused the trouble
IVES w. w. Ford. Ford No. was
arrested and forfeited his bond Of
$4,000. A year and a half later
Ford No. was taken in by an
officer who didn't understand all
the facts. But No. 2 could neither
make bond nor convince the au-
thorities of their mistake, so he
stayed in.
Representative Halves. Democrat,
Missouri, has introduced a bill that
would entitle Ford No. 2 to
check for $4,000 from the United
States Treasury.
Evening star., 1926-03-24
WHITE RUSSIANS
HELP HOLD TIENTSIN
Accompany Shantung Troops and
Manchurians as National
Army Is Routed.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TIENTSIN. March o4.-Russian
cavalry accompanied two train loads
Of Shantung troops that arrived here
yesterday in pursuit Of the retreating
Kuominchun (natiOnaD army troop
of the Peking government. The
trains which came from the south
were operated by crews from White
Russia. Other trains containing
Marshal Chang Tso-Lin's Manchurian
troops arrived from Tongshang. and
Tientsin is now in the hands OF those
who oppose the government.
officers of the Feng Tien army,
from Manchuria. protected by an
armed bodyguard, left their train at
East Station in an attempt to enter
the city through the Italian con-
cession. despite a warning that they
would not be allowed to pass while
armed.
Evening star., 1926-03-24
Local Officers Transferred.

Army officers stationed in this city
have been assigned to duty at other
stations as follows: Lieut.. Coils
Howard S. Miller and Claudius NJ
Seaman, War Department General
Staff. to Fort Winfield Scott, Calf.
and Fort Hancock, N. J. respectively
Mai. Edgar E. Hume. Medical Corps
Surgeon Generals Office. to Fort
Benning, Ca; Lieut.. Col. Frederick L.
Dengler, War Department General
Staff, to San Francisco; and Capt.
Frank U. Greer, Infantry, District of
Washington, to the Panama Canal
Zone.
Evening star., 1926-03-24
EX-COLLEGE HEAD DIES.
DR.. John A. Kern Was Once on

DALLIS Tex. March "a @.-Dr.
John A. Kern. 70, formally a member
Of the faculty of Vanderbilt Uni
versity at Nashville, Tenn, died to-
day at the home of his son. Dean
Paul B. Kern of Southern Methodist
University The body will be sent to
Winchester. Va, for burial
DIR. Kern formerly was president
Of Randolph Macon College, Ash.
land, Va.
Evening star., 1926-03-24
Movie Fills Room
With Catalogues in
Buy-at-Home Drive
By the Associated Press.

YALE, Okla. March 24.-En-
couraging a "buy-at-home" cam
paign q local motion picture thea
ter has accumulated room full
of mail order catalogs.
The management offered q free
admission in exchange for a cata-P
logue and 625 were brought In by
patrons within a week. This
city's population is less than 2.100.