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Smyrna times., 1926-10-20

The Parent Teacher Association of
Massey, Nd, has elected these offic-
ers: President, Mrs. E. Thomas Mas
sey; vice-president, Mrs.Acca V.Crew;
secretary, Miss Clara Palmer, and
treasurer, Mrs. Dudley Everett.
Smyrna times., 1926-10-20
I'M 1pFNFD FOR BRIDGE
|aNIRIET NILNIAdIOA
o,,pANY SUBMITS ES-
|!,S 20 Issl '2ss,llo 10 FOR CONTRACT
100000 Highway De.
III Cost - So' Receives Proposals
bnni .s,. Al Neck Road Building

u CaS' ,lsO ri receives Proposals
t1eaI 1s,a,s's 81 Neck Road Building
u. Highway Department op-
D. SFa's e DSver Wednesday after
! ld' .a@o :, contracts, including the
y f'r wv far the proposed new
trI.ls Ta-Sst street bridge across the
.l.a Hai1s, rirsr, sr, in wilmington and and
'i;n'as aassrstructiOn Of Vance's Neck
= distance Of about two miles,
blsSs. .as.t,,re. South Market street
SI1s,IA cs-I 4. Camp, Philadelphia,
.t.1' Andrew ONeil, Chestnut
" ~ ;585,6l8; Mclean &C cOntgset- tess
i,rnsny, trr Baltimore, Md, 1885,
ISpre'' 1rgTe Contracting Company,
EI.,drrt, T,S Pa, s22s, ,44O.
s...s Neck Road, in New Castle
Sballcross Brothers, Middle
4 rss45; Smyrna Cement Pro
S,n,nanv. stn1 Smyrna, $19,64O; R.
l..'on U.r Company, Wilmington,
". % George and Lynch, Dover,
,s;aO. ". W. Truitt, Lincoln,
&n.
Sussex Ask for Road
,sscatiOn from Sussex county
..si III before the Commission ask
irs road about a mile and one
nom SeIbyville to Gumboro, and
In on to Lewes' Cross Roads.
r. an the request was deferred.
I, Understood the department will
u award the contract for the
[,+,.,lre Of the South Market
n b1dge, Wilmington, SO that the
| N the new bridge, bids for
N viii be received next month,
/, \ started when the weather
IL in the spring.
Total Cost of Bridge
\ totsl cost Of the structure is
Ettd at about S50,0000, includ-
IL temporary span to provide for
the stream while the new
n Is being built. The temporary
|Erg will be provided by turning
present structure diagonally
H. the river. Temporary ap-
|ldss Will be built for the turned
En Just east Of the present ap-
|aes on the north bank.
new bridge will be Of the double
Ebasule type, similar to the River
|n bridge, but on a more elaborate
SUBSTANTIAL scale. 1t will be OPP
|si by electricity and will be 38
ID width as to the roadway, and
contain sidewalks six feet wide
|sthe side. The State Highway
|hrment is to pay two-thirds and
aunty one-third Of the cost Of the
r4crs and approaches.
hEssent drawbridge has been in
EEa about go years.
The Washington times., 1926-03-18

~ Tot in reality but beheading his wooden image AZ
IN one time wooden image some seven feet high
adorned the structure Of 1.-THE Constitution while
it was in Charleston Bay.
Od Hickory had number of severe critics as well q
admirers in Boston The statue up 1884 About
month after certain Captain Dewey, reported to pc the
daredevil of Boston, succeeded, the night Of July 10
eudng the guard board the ship and evrng the head
from the body of the jackson figure
head Of the figure wandered about the country 70
Deweys possession and time was shown TO Old
Hickory himself the White House. This audacous
gesture rather appealed Jackson, who had sense OF
humor and a flare of his for daredevltry
The image finally restored to its proper place and All
that is left to the incident deep crack that runs
around Few people the history Of that
crack
image once sold the proprietor Of resort on
Lake Mascupic not far from Boston. Henry Ford bld
$4,000 for it. but did get it. From this can be seen
what value it has atinque.
Following the publication Of Oliver Wendell Holmes
welknown poem Old nonsdes, there was countrywide
movement to preserve 1.-The Constitution, and only lew
weeks ago another drive for that same purpose
which eliminated in the ceremony OF rechrIstenng the
vessel.
book recently published called Old Hickorys Prison
err presents him very human figure not only an
intrepid commander and interesting and
understanding friend.
Too much be done to make the great figures OF
American history human to us.
The Washington times., 1926-03-18
Intolerances of Sunday Blue
Law Advocates

The House hearings proposed Sunday blue laws for the
District of Columbia bring forward strange samples OF re-
ou and the frvent desire OF radical
to impose others their notions of what people should De
compelled to do on Sundays
Senators Representatives have before them every da
no examples deliberate violation of laws designed to
control personal and rights that there can be little
thought that endeavor saddle upon District people
laws which will not be observed and which will be numbered
among others that making law breakers instead OF law
observers
The statute every State and city in the Union are
cuttered with deadletter that totally ignored
In where they dug up to suit the whm
Of bgots they merely to ince the public ana TO Dg
bitter contention and i'll feeling.
people be compelled by law to accept religious
teachings theories ceeds that the basis OF all these
Sunday blue laws You cannot legate religious dogmas or
thoughts people and when you try simply add to
growing list violaors and the widespread spirit
country.
Emprors kings have been able to impose their
religious views upon their subjects Men and these
days think themselves and set of laws will prevent
their thinking acting they believe to be right
The last place earth to attempt to FORCE religious
ideas upon people is in this republic and the most dis
tngushed leaders of religious creeds know it, Washington
Of all places the wrong spot to attempt to egae bgoes
The wsest thing the House committee do is to close
these hearings They bring out nothing informative help
full They merely stir up iscord and trouble and give op
porunty theorists and creedts publicly propagate their
views.
Washington comparatively clean city and the time
when it is otherwise have municipal authorities
with power to make changes. Existing laws already
enough give full control local officials
The Washington times., 1926-03-18
WHY WE REVOLVE
By Garrett p. Serviss

a primary element in the dy-
namics of the system.
Without undertaking to say
just how the rotation began, we
may recall that absolute rest is
a thing unknown; motion is uni
versal. That a great contracting
mass, whose particles were all
being drawn toward the center
by their mutual attraction. which
the temperature was changing
with the density, should begin to
rotate one way or the other seems
an inevitable conclusion.
Rotate i'm Same Direction
When the mass had separated
into a series of rings surrounding
a denser center, all continued to
rotate in the original direction
which was common to the entire
system. When the eings were
shaped into globular planets these
kept on turning about the center
as they had done before.
And that is what we see today:
tho planets all travel around the
sun in one direction. which is the
same in which their satellites turn
around them, and the huge globe
of the sun itself continues to turn
on its axis in that same direction.
Also, all of the planets, except
the two which are the farthest
from the sun, rotate on their axes
in the same direction in which
they travel around the sun in
which their satellites travel around
them, and in which the sun itself
rntQfagF &c toir rntotfnF, -
planets to which YOU specially
refer. If there were no exceptions
the conclusion would seem ire
sistible that the rotations of the
planets were survivals from the
original rotation of the parental
mass.
Backward Direction
But the exceptions are peculiar
in that they seem to depend
upon distance from the sun. Out
as far as Saturn no planet fails
to follow the common direction
of axial rotation. Uranus, which
is farther beyond Saturn than
Saturn is from the sun, appears
to rotate nearly at a right angle
to the common plane of the solar
system.
And Neptune, the farthest
known planet, which is over a
thousand million miles beyond
Uranus, appears to rotate in a
backward direction. / say ZAP
pears in these two cases because
what we really observe is the
direction of revolution of the
. satellites the surfaces of those
planets being too impertectly
visible to reveal their rotation.
Also there are three very small
satellites and very distant be-
longing to Jupiter and Saturn.
which revolve around their planets
in a retrograde direction. But
all of these exceptions may DC
mathematically accounted for, so
that they do not really Upset the
Eule.
The Washington times., 1926-03-18
BY ELSIE ROBINSON

vacious ladies who claim they
need a lot of jazz scenery, in
GLIDING a couple OF itinerant
males, to satisfy their high brain
pressure Whereupon Mr.. SYM
ington gets considerably peeved
and claims the lady is acting con-
trary to her contract.
Nay. nayv' says Mr.. Steuer,
You're all wrong. Tt isn't what
you're thinking at all. The lady
is merely progressive. They al
ways act like that when they
get progressive"
Then he goes on to state in a
nice, grammatical brief:
''Women's rights have grown
and their political franchise is
only part of their franchise to
other privileges and prerogatives.
Cocktail parties mot only before.
but even more often. since the
advent of prohibition) are given
almost daily in social circles like
those in which both plaintiff and
defendant lived and moved. So
called petting parties are no
longer a badge of meretriciousness
or cause for social ostracism.
Paint and powder now are re-
garded as proper embellishments
to feminine pulchritude. Smoking
and dancing in public are now au
fait in that class of society. and
others as well. Daringly short
skirts. now the order of the day,
demonstrate how far feminln1ty
has gone, if not progressed be-
yond the days of our forebears.
THAT which not so long ago
would cause society to treat her
as an outcast, is now widely &C
cepted as entirely conventional
perfectly permissible, and not at
all improper or a violation OF
marital duties or obligations.
All of which must have cheered
Mrs. Steuer a lot, if there hap
pens to be a Mrs. Steuer. But
it hasn't cheered several thousand
club ladies and other mamas IN
this country who have arise tos
vigorously deny this slur on MOO
ern Womanhood.
"T'ain't so!i they cry, in vlgor.
Gus type. These idle, frivolous
The Washington times., 1926-03-18
TIMES DO
CHANGE

TIME producer of any commod-
itv who is not alert ana fails
to keep on his toes" in watching
the evolutions now going on in
industry is sure to have q shock
one of these days, says the De-
partrnent of Manufacture, of the
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States.
With the passing of the horse
as a factor in transportation went
the bulk of the carriage, buggy,
wagon, and similar vehicle trade.
Also harness. saddlery, whips,
horseshoes, etc.
The abolition of the saloon re-
duced greatly the volume of bill
lard and pool tables, fixtures, re-
frigerators and other accessories.
Electric refrigeration calls for
radical changes in production of
household and commercial refrig
GRAFTON, soda fountain equipment
In the chemical field equally
radical changes are going on
through the use of synthetic sub
stitutes for dyes. oils, silk, wool,
etc.
Artificial leather is now used
in volume equivalent to more than
four times the cattle hides pro-
duced. These are but typical of
what the mind of man is creating
to meet human needs, but it is
shaking whole industries and com
polling readjustments TO protect
investments. Again the old say
ing, Eternal vigilance" iS
timely warning.
The Washington times., 1926-03-18
Noted Astronomer and Writer IN.
Scientific Topics of Popular
Interest

Noted Astronomer and Writer On
Scientific Topics of Popular
Interest
"A friend and / discussed for
three hours the question, why
the planets turn over, or what
law compels them to revolVe
around a common center. He
claimed ii was the first start
the body got, but this was not
the law of gravitation. After
three hours told him there
was only one way to find out,
and that was to write to you.
wv. E., Lowell Mass
THANK you, but you pay me a
Il thousand-fold too much honor.
However, since they who may
legitimately consider that they
understand the subject better than
/ do, probably would not answer
your question at all. l will see il
l can help you a little.
In the first place, you must
understand that nobody really
knows just how the planets got
to turning over" that Is, ro-
tatin2 CT their axis. 1t is matter
of conjecture and theory. The
books on astronomy almost in
variably leave the subject alone.
They avoid stirring up muddy
water.
They simply state what is
known from observation, namely,
that all of the planets do rotate
at the same time that they re-
volve around the sun, which is
the common center of revolution
FOR all Of them. AS to what set
them turning, your friends idea
that it was the first start they
got" is not much more indefinite
than some of, the more learned
suggestions.
Absolute Rest Unknown
When Laplace's famous story
Of the origin of the solar system
was in universal good standing,
the matter looked more simple;
but in recent years that theory
has been alternately knocked over
and set up again. and then once
more knocked over, and partially
restored. until it bears some re-
semblance to Mr.. Punch after
being bludgeoned by Nine. Judy.
The most convincing feature Of
the Laplace theory, as usually
presented, was that It gave a sat
isfactory explanation of the evil
dent unity of origin of the sun
and his planets. None of the
later theories is philosophically
so satisfactory.
In a few words, Laplace said
that the solar system had been
formed by the condensation and
transformation of a nebulous
mass, whose nucleus became the
sun. AS 1t contracted it let off
successive rings which later broke
up and were shaped into the
planets. The whole mass at the
start rotated on an axis running
through the nucleus (the SUM.
Here you, see the rotation feature
introduced at the very start, as
The Washington times., 1926-03-18
One-Man Street Cars

The Public Utilities Commission inclined toward ulti
mate shutting down street in this city and
it should follow that policy until these eliminated
This type Of Of the many concessions to the
local street railways by the Public Utilities Commission
effort money the companies Like other efforts Of
These cars unquestionaby slowed
fc veicular traffic They possible examples
Of NOT SERVING THE PUBLIC PROPERLY.
way for companies in the District
passengers build up their is improve
Of service in every possible way The public going
the most satisfactory methods Of transportation it
find The street has served other purpose in
this city than reduce the of the railways
The Washington times., 1926-03-18

are the clOlC0 L1OWSA -
Emancipation.
the vicious development OF
riotous regime. -
brand Of nit-wits that we've had
rvifh us since the first sewing
circle. and that Wen continue 20
have with us for some time 20
come. -,,1,.
women lust as there have al
WAYS been silly men. Their out
ward manifestation have OIL
fered lust as the customs OF the
ages in which they lived have on
fered. but their innards have al
ways been the same.
You can blast your husbands
honor and wreck his pride just
as effectively by peeving about
him at the weekly meeting OF
the Presbyterian Ladies Aid OF
naeeing at him across the DUCK
wheats as you can by promenaDo-
ing down Peacock Lane with
some Total Blank In Oxford bags
You can be just as mucn
menace to human society WITH
nothing but laundry soap on your
face. ana a ICQ A4dAAIASA
suit covering every inch OF your
surface, as you can with the
whole drug store smeared on your
map and nothing between you and
the climate but six bits worth OF
chiffon.
And you can be just as in
decently immodest, wand probably
do more real harm, by retailing
sooty gossip over the back fence
to your fellow members OF the
Parent Teachers Association as
Won can by parading half-naked
under the bright lights.
Emancipation" hasn't changed
wonen-it has merely showed
them up. There were as many
Poor Bets amongst the ladies OF
1926 as in 1926, only now they
have more opportunities to strut
their stuff. And there will con
tinue to be as many silly, mali
cious. wasteful, idle women until
we realize that it's the inner mo
tive that counts, and not the
outward gesture.
The Washington times., 1926-03-18
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
Helen Rowland
And stu We Love Them

And Still We Love Them
COMBINES, a man doesn I
~ realize that he has actually
proposed to a girl until he sees
the proof of it in black and white,
on his wedding invitations.
A man never really understands
a woman, because he always looks
at her either through the ven
of illusion, the incense Of romance,
the mists of misunderstanding, or
the fog of disenchantment,
A man will gallantly dust off
girls slippers with his fresh hand
kerchief, before marriage - and
then act sore and indignant if
she uses the same handkerchief
to wipe off her lips. after mar
riage.
After a man has been becalmed
in the harbor of marriage for
few years, the breeze Of almost
any woman's flattery can stir the
sails of his imagination, and start
him Juggling at the anchor
What boy of eighteen fancies
is "love" is only the growing
pains" of the heart. What a
man of fifty calls Glove Is mere
ly emotional rheumatism. But the
twinges are just as acute.
Love is like a fire. No matter
how many years you have spent
telling yourself how calm and self
contained you will act when 1t
happens, you almost lose your
head and do something utterly
foolish.
No man asks girl to name
the day" any more. He merely
pleads guilty to being a fool about
her, and then waits for her to
pass sentence. and tell him when
he shall begin serving time.
Before marriage a man looks
into a girls eyes to see if his love
is registering. After marriage he
looks into them 10 see If she sus-
poets that he hasn't shaved.
The average man is just about
as good as a woman insists that
he shall be-and just about as
bad as she will LET him be.
The Washington times., 1926-03-18
SAYINGS OF WISE MEN


Enthusiasm is that temper or
the mind in which the magma
ton has got the better of the
judgment. -Warourtoh'
Let him that hath done the
good office conceal it: let him
that hath received it disclose Il.
Seneca.
Learning without thought 10
labor lost; thought without learn.
ing is perilous. -Confucius.
The ideal social state is not
that in which each gets an
equal amount of wealth, but
in which each gets in proper
ton to his contribution to the
general stock. Henry George.
The world is like board with
holes in it. and the square men
have got into the round holes.
Smith.
Danger comesNthe sooner when
it is despised. -Syrus.
That load becomes light which
is cheerfully borns-0Ni&
The Washington times., 1926-03-18

Note the four girls the photograph Three of them
laughing The third from the left is JUST LOOK
ING AT Us.
These four girls from the University of Southern California
tired of the beaux that calling them They
veised for beaux Whereupon many smart young
calling them and attempted to kid them along
Note girls ALI but laughing laughing
men who came to have fun with them.
The fourth girl doesn't take the trouble to laugh
She wiser sisters and MUCH than the men
who came to have fun with her.
Nobody is going ''kid the girls in this picture And
nobody going to put it over the third girl from the
left to any great extent
Or any of the other Girls terribly silly at
times But no girl is capable of looking silly the man
that tries to impress her.
The Washington times., 1926-03-18

There can be no great smoke
arise. but there must be some
fire.-Lyly.
The infant, on first opening
his eyes, ought to see his coun-
try. and to the hour of his death
never lose sight of it.-Roussea"'
The idol Of today pushes the
hero of yesterday out OF our
recollection, and will in turn be
supplanted by his successor OF
tomorrow. ashington Irving.
1t has been more wittlly IMAM
charitably said that hell Is
paved with good intentions; they
have their place in heaven, too.
-Southey.
That man lives happy and In
command of himself. who from
day to day can say / have lived.
Whether clouds obscure, or the
sun Eliminates the following day,
that which is past is beyond re-
call. Horace
Dignity increases more easily
than it begins. Seneca.
The Washington times., 1926-03-18
WEARING HATS
| AT BRIDGE
MRS. Cornelius Beeckman-
nEAR MRS. 'BEECKMAN:

nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ At o'clock luncheon
and bridge in private home, is
it proper for the guests to wear
their hats all afternoon?
MRS. l.. E. r.
IVES, this is customary. But if
i a lady does not wish to do
this there is no reason why she
should not explain the reason to
her hostess and take off mel hat.
nEAR MRS. EEECKMAN:
~ have been very much per-
picked about the subject of ice
skating. Is it proper for the
girl to ask the boy to skate with
her or does she wait for the boy
to ask her?
AN ICE SKATER.
THE etiquette in ice skating is
l. the same as that in dancing.
That is. a girl waits for man
to ask her if she will skate with
him, just as she waits for a man
to ask her if she will dance with
him. This is the age-old privt-
lege that is granted the male
of the species"
Mrs. Beeck1nan will be glad to
answer. questions on etiquette
submitted by readers.)
The Washington times., 1926-03-18
ONCE-OVERS
HEATED ARGUMENTS

Often you cannot control yourself when you
angry you do stand up for your rights
Rather chance the serious things you might
anger you going through life minus your just due in
the end will have attained the position you covet
You look in wonder at who become so angry
without exchanging blows.
feel that you would not keep hands off,
similar circumstances.
You bring mind occasions when you have allowed
your temper you and the only thing you could
think of was to the who provoked rage
By keeping cool and full possession of himself he
able to make you say things that decidedly detr
mental to your
You say that when you become angry you don't care
what you do
Heated arguments bound to occur, but always
member whom the gods would destroy, they first make
mao" --
The Washington times., 1926-03-18

noEs the 1926
Model of Miss
us re quire a.
un ge Lizard
for her amuse-
lnent?
Does she need
cocktails, petting
parties, $ h or
skirts to express
her abundant per-
sonality? A n d
does she thereby
express her vast
superiority ov er
grandma2
Mr.. Max Steuer
thinks she does.
He said so, right
our loud in court,
in defense Of his
client, Mrs. Sym
ingfon, w h o s e
husband is suing
her for divorce.
Mrs. Syn1ington is
ono nf fhoua VII
The Washington times., 1926-03-18
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
RoI,oo1yi,,rr !, President
az DR. FRANK CRANE
Beheodinq q PresideYl

- TOT in reality but beheading his wooden image 2
III one time 4 wooden image some seven feet big
adorned the structure Of 1.-THE Constitution" viii
The Washington times., 1926-03-18
LISTEN, WORLD!

women with their
cocktails "a n d
SIN o K 8 . an d
lounge lizard ap
penda ges are not
advanced samples
of our sex.
They're the vici-
Gus d development
of q Jazz age. We
never had any
thing like this be
fore and, good
knows, we never
" ant anything
like 1t again.
So now that
both sides have
had their SAY
I'm 6 oing to
crash IN with my
little anvil chorus
i think they re
both wrong.
L do not be
lieve that these
Frivolous Fannies
|, - "Ana0n q
The Washington times., 1926-03-18
SAP AND SALT
BY Bert Moses

Bad luck usually picks out a vic
tim who already has a big stock
of it on hand.
Old maids and law
are mighty fine folks, in spite
of all that is said about them.
Vanity is a stubborn thing, but
an attack of weeping eczema will
materially modify it's voltage.
Hez Heck says: lit seems like
a Teller who is short on intelli-
gence puts in most O. his time
advertising the fact"