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The Washington times., 1926-01-05
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OF
The Texas Wild Cat Alter
Washington Street Railways
By BILL PRICE

81
Representative TOM BLANTON red hot after the street
railways Of Washington but he won't get far.
He wants to why they compelled to adhere
to their charter authorization of scent fares in the District
The charters Of all these railways restrict the fares to cents
In cash; six tickets for quarter
Despite limitations the street railways charge
Scent They allowed to do this under the
public utilities law which authorizes reasonable returns
property valuations.
Representative Tom thinks that the acts Of Congress grant
ing the charters should just
ing the utilities So he proposes repeal
charters of the railway companies the face Of plain viola
ton Of the law
Representative Tom oesn know the power of corporations
though doesn't realize that although the votsless people
Washington influence in Congress or elsewhere
railway interests have much Influence that Congress
isn't going to repeal any charters he doesn't realize that if
Congress did such an unheard Of thing that the companies
would promptly go courts all the precedents which
favor protect the invested dollar against the rights
public The courts would sit Congress.
One effect Of Mr. Banons rumpus may push along
the merger efforts of the nanciers holding the whip
hand in the Washington transportation field The Public
Utilities Commission favors the merger and perfectly wiling
to the Texas wild stir things nightly may force
the hand of the North American Company which
much Of of the railway companies and all of
stock Of the largest bus line When everything ripe for
merger this company viii bring it about Many gentlemen
the inside win feather their pockets heavily under the
guise working for the people Of Washington The
riding public viii pay for the fat profits afterward
Representative Tom il he digs deep after facts
but lets him get to the inside Of what being prepared
way merger and into what viii eventually be pulled
off
The Representatives correspondence with the District Com
missoners plainly shows that the Commissioners members
the Public Utilities Commission positively unable to
keep up with utilities work The Representative finds that
is office secretary who acts both embamer and
funeral director for his bills trying to force compliance with
charter provisions.
The correspondence ought to convince every member Of the
and Senate District Committees that there should be
dependent the District Commissioners and above ALL
welpaid PEOPLES COUNSEL who will attempt protect
and uphold the interests Of the public
street-car merger in the District WAS advisable for
years Whether TT rs NOW advisable is another question
had been done before manipulating interests control of
things time when it would have been beneficial to
the public the railway companies would have gone far
toward solving inequitable conditions here
The Washington times., 1926-01-05
BY ELSIE ROBINSON

for Saturdays and is adding to
that bank account. The garage
man says the kid Is a "wiz" with
his hands, and the most reliable
worker he has ever had around
the place.
No, this isn't a journalistic fairy
tale. 1t is the true story Of a
Modern Bad Boy. This Bad Boy
wasn't bad because he was born
with evil instincts. He was bad
because we had made him bad.
We had taken away his play.
grounds and adventures. We had
robbed him of the chance to
make things with his hands,"
We mad made him a parasite on
our ruthless, n4Aterialistic pro.
gram.
He did nothing and had Moth
ing he could be proud of. And
he was chock full of creative in
stincts for which there was no
normal outlet.
So he made an outlet. He
swiped automobiles and money.
He didn't care what happened to
MIN because he didn't mean any
thing to himself.
But the day he was put ION
his own" he began to mean some
thing TO himself. He acquired
value in his own eyes. He ha6
someone to work for. He became
proud and ambitious, honest and
reliable because all these attri-
butes had suddenly acquired
meaning and aim.
He became good boy the day
he became a proud boy.
He learned how to walk when
they let him stand alone.
Think about that.
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NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland
The Unsentimental Sex
VKToMAN is the weaker vessel
w filled with sentiment!


Half the H1eartaches and love
mix-ups in this world are caused
by woman's tendency to Judge
mans sentiments and emotions
by her own.
She is forever exaggerating
mans sentimentality, idealizing
his motives, and crediting him
with a lot of beautiful, hidden
impulses that aren't there"
II he happens to drop around,
two evenings in succession, she
Jumps Immediately at the thrill
ing conclusion that it is because
he can't live for twenty-four
hours without seeing her!
Whereas, it may be simply be-
cause the girl in the next block
happened to be "out" when nc
called.
If he signs twice in an evening,
she promptly suspects that he Is
hiding a secret Observation-Disclosures
it may be only the result or
heavy dinner and a tight waist
coat.
II he doesn't show up for
week. she lies awake nights, won.
dering what has happened" or
what she could have said to
hurt" him-whereas probably
nothing has happened but a few
nice parties or a new blonde in
town, and she couldn't hurt
him unless she hit him with
mallet.
A woman pours hcs sentiment
over everything, just az she pours
maple syrup over a waffle, or
chocolate syrup over a sundae.
But. when she let's it slop over
and glorify a mans most casual
act or kiss she is riding for
bad fall and a smashed vanity.
Nine.tenths of the time a man
doesn't mean ANYTHING! And
whatever he happens 10 do, is
done on an impulse arising from
the state of his digestion, the
state of his pockeiDook, or the
state of his mood. T4Ie GIRL IL
just the innocent bystanderI
Men are not naturally senti-
mental; and a little act or word
that means worlds" to a woman
doesn't mean thing to them. TO
paraphrase a popular book, "A
kiss is a. kiss; you take 1t, A girl
is a girl: you call on her. An
evening is an evening; you amuse
yourselfi'
When a man feels any senti-
ment, he is 80 surprised and en-
barrassed that he blurts 1t right
out. He doesn't SAY It with
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ing you could see the cops STOP
ping at the Peterson house to
ask about Oscar. And he'd been
a, ward of the Juvenile Court for
goodness knows how long. A
thoroughly Bad Egg, that's what
Oscar was. And yet, in the face
of all that, his folks were letting
him have a. bank account and
build car!
The Peterso themselves
weren't sure that it wasn't crazy
stunt. When Pa Peterson first
heard of the idea he raised the
roof. But the doctor insisted that
they try it out. He was one of
those new-fangled doctors that
study your mild and find out why
you're acting goofy. Mrs. Peter
sons sister called him ''psychia-
trist." She was sure he could
help Oscar 1t they only would
give him a chance.
And after taking a lot of tests,
that's what the doctor advised.
Put him on his own for a
WHILE said the doctor. stop
treating him as a bad boy and
begin to treat him as a. respon.
sible man. He's crazy about auto
mobiles. All right. Let him go
round to the junk dealers and
buy lot of parts and build an
automobile for himself. Give him
room in the basement and let
him ask the other youngsters in.
And you say he's been stealing
your money and throwing it
away? Very well. Give him a
bank account Of his own and
see how he uses It,"
Pa swore he'd never heard of
anything so good in his life and
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TIHE neighbors
III thought I h o
Petersons W e r e
crazy when they
gave young Oscar
a bank account
and let him start
to build an auto
mobile in the
basement.
My land! Hadn't
that kid been
into e n o u g h
scrapes d ur ! ng
the last three
years without en-
downing him so he
could raise more
Cain? Was 1t
three automobiles
he'd swiped, or
four? And how
many times had
he stolen money
from his mother
and dad? Why.
1nk anu warn.
The Washington times., 1926-01-05
Who Speaks Fir,ste
TWENTY
YEARS AGO
BY William Moore.

Al group OF animal lovers met
at the Cairo Hotel to discuss plans
for the foundation of an animal
dispensary. The Humane Educa.
ton Society's rest farm at Po-
tomac, Md, is the direct out
growth OF the movement.
Walter Wellman, who later lost
his life ins an attempt to cross
the Atlantic in an airship. was
assigned by his newspaper, the
Chicago Record. Herald, to SET
forth on an aerial trip to the
North Pola.
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LISTEN, WORLD!

9 en- Ma was
doubtful. But at
last they decided
to try 1t.
That was four
months ago.
Today t h ere
isn't a steadier
young man on
the street than
Oscar Peterson!
There hasn't been
a single rumpus
I'm those four
m o n t h 8. III @
naSn I SW1p0Q an
automobile, nor
lied, nor played
hockey nor taken
any money from
the family store.
He has not
only built an au-
tomobile for him
self, but he has
gotten a job in
the norTaaP on rn 0o
The Washington times., 1926-01-05

When a man puts on q charac-
ter he is a stranger to. there's as
much difference between what he
appears and what he is really in
himself as here is between = vizor
and face.
-.La Bruyera
The Washington times., 1926-01-05

Half the heartactes and love
mix-ups in this world are caused
by a woman's tendency to Judge a
mans sentiments and emotions
by her own.
The Washington times., 1926-01-05

early Saxon chief is known to history .Aethered
~ the Unready'
At decisive hattie he rushed into conflict before
The Washington times., 1926-01-05

If he signs twice in an evening,
she promptly suspects that he Is
hiding a secret passion-whereas,
it may be only the result or a
heavy dinner and a tight waist
coat
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flowers" or with stunts or with
subtttles--he says 1t with WORDS.
But girls will go right on court.
ing heartaches, until they dis.
cover that a man Is a perfectly
literal, simple.minded creature,
with no complexes, no deep
underlying nature" no subtle
The Washington times., 1926-01-05

When man feels any senti-
ment, he is 80 surprised and EN-
harrassed that he blurts 1t right
out. He doesn't SAY It with
The Washington times., 1926-01-05
SAYINGS OF WISE MEN

The hand that follows intellect
can achieve.
He Is the freeman whom the
truth makes tree.
And all are slaves besides.
nxpas \
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HOW MANY
USHERS
Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman-l

How Many Ushers at 3 Wedding!
NEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ A and B are both .contem-
plating marriage. A claims that
1t Is proper to have eight ushers.
wearing tuxedos and gray soft
hats, at q formal evening we'd
ding, without bridesmaids.
b claims she never heard Of
q wedding OF this kind. VIII you
kindly settle this controversy?
Answer-It is proper to have
eight ushers at a wedding IL the
wedding Is OF the size and for
mality to warrant that number.
The correct attire for the
ushers,, as for every other gen.
tleman at an evening wedding, Is
evening clothes-that Is, full
dress. Tuxedo suits are only an
informal substitute, and not cor.
rect.
1t is perfectly correct to have
eight ushers and no bridesmaids,
If the couple wish. Often the
bride does not wish any attend
ants, or perhaps she wishes to
have only a maid or a matron Of
honor. But there are so many
guests asked for the wedding that
it is necessary to have eight
ushers. Therefore, as A sug.
gests, there are eight ushers and
no bridesmaids. The ushers walk
together, two by two, first, in the
professional. Then, in the recess
sional, they still walk together,
two by two, last. But they should
wear evening clothes, not tuxedos.
Who Speaks First?
NEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ Which is proprietor lady
or a gentleman to speak first
when meeting each other on the
street? E. NJ.
A lady Is given the privilege of
acknowledging acquaintance with
"a gentleman. Therefore, he waits
FOR her to speak or to bow when
they meet.
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motives. and mighty few emo
tions

Men and women will never un-
derstand each other until a MAN
stops saying twice as much as he
meaTls-and woman stops think.
ing that he MEANS twice az
much as he says!
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

The easiest thing to do was to sail AS
OTHERS had sailed, steering your ship as they
had steered.
Christopher Columbus didn't think so. That's
why the United States was discovered and why
we are living here, most of us making deep new
ruts for ourselves of the kind that he left behind
him in Europe.
It is because he left the rut of old navigation,
struck out westward across the Atlantic paying
no attention to those that said, "You will fall
over the edge and be lost" that Columbus's
name lives.
Then skipping four hundred and odd years
we come to our own Thomas A. Edison, still
living and working. He was one of thousands of
boys ticking away at telegraph instruments. You
know the story well. They were all ticking the
same way, all making their little pay all working
in rut. They stayed in the rut because they let
THEIR THOUGHTS stay there
Edison, with big forehead and light blue eyes,
got hold of the top, climbed out of the rut, by
asking himself some questions including this
question: "since electricity can go faster than
the mind can understand, why can't we send
MORE THAN ONE MESSAGE at time over
one wire?" Being out of the rut, thinking for
himself, he carried out the thought HE rs
EDISON The other men stayed at their tickers
died at them, and were buried in the rut in which
they had lived.
Millions of guns were made and used, men
put in the powder, the shot and the wadding
down through the top of the gun barrel Some
body came along, made gun with barrel that
could be opened at the other end and put in a
cartridge. That was the breechloader. Another
man had got out OF the rut and had made
fortune.
For hundred thousand years millions of
human beings had made needles, sharp at one
end, and at the other end the eye of the needle
to carry the thread, or the leather thong. Pa,
tiently the women put the needle into the skin
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or CLOTH pulled it all the way through and put 1t
in again For tens of centuries, all sewing was
done in that rough way. Then came man who
got out of the rut and developed an idea.
He put the eye of the needle in the same end
WITH the point of the needle. Then it wasn't
necessary to put the needle all the way through
the sewing.
That gave the world the sewing machine, and
took millions of women instantaneously out of
the rut of sewing by hand.
What EVERYBODY can do attracts no atten
tion and is poorly paid. What everybody can do,
EVERYBODY rs DOING. And all going in the
same line make the rut deeper
BY the time they are middle-aged, they are
sunk into it so DEEP that it seems perfectly
natural, the only way to live.
They see the two walls of the rut on either
side of them, and along they CO. never thinking of
escape, never thinking of striking out for them
selves, until they settle down in a last rut some
what deeper, IN THE GRAVEYARD
The foolish young man will say, "Thats So
I'll QUIT this job get something better, some
thing more worthy of me, RIGHT AWAY"
That young man is in one of the worst ruts
Of all the "change your job every little while rut'
The rut isn't in your JOB, and it isn't in rut
in the road, it's the rut IN THE BRAIN.
The big houses and the big fortunes that you
see around you were made by men that got out of
ruts beginning with the rut of poverty, which is
the deepest, and made of themselves and their
work something apart, without necessarily aban-
doning the job in hand.
name that will be remembered as long as
the earth lasts is that of Newton, who discovered
and formulated the law of graVitation. He didn't
give up his job, at a small salary, working in the
government employ in order to achieve the mar
vels of mathematical genius that make all other
mathematicians of all time seem like children.
Henry Ford didn't have to stop making living out in
Detroit when he was working at his first automobile He
kept right the work that supported him But he got
his brain out Of ru he made his and he made RUN
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cave man ancestors followed along.
THINKING and WALKING in the tracks
rut, is the "easest way" And the EASIEST
way is the way that leads to no particular
success, nothing worth while.
We have ruts in our methods of speech,
hence the use of slang, millions using the same
word for dozen or more meanings, or one single
exclamation like ''Fine!" or Gee" or Tough"
to cover about all the possible situations in life
Of all the ruts, the worst is the THINKING
rut, in which mems MINDS travel, one behind
the other in the same direction, like sheep fol
lowing the leader.
In offices, from the head of the business down
to the office boy, you find minds running IN
rut.
In colleges from the head of the college down
to the freshman, is the same thing, rut of think
ing for ninety per cent.
Business letters read alike, and editorials,
too for that matter and public speeches, political
platforms In every line the ruts criss cross, like
the paths of field mice in grass, or the burrows
of the moles below the grass.
In good man ambition, in the second -rater
vanity, abhor the ruts. Ambition or vanity
makes men ask "How can get OUT of the rut,
which is getting deeper and deeper as I go
farther into life?"
Chow can I escape from the mob BE SOME
BoDY?"
This picture shows the answer And the
young man walking off to make path for him
self tells the only way in which the thing can
be done.
HE CLIMBED OUT, AND THAT'S WHAT
EVERYBODY HAS GOT TO DO THAT
WANTS TO LEAVE THE RUT AND MAKE
"A NEW PATH IN NEW DIRECTION
WORTH WHILE
Everything vital that you have read about
the lives of great and useful men has had to do
with an escape from the rut of thinking, or
working or both.
Millions of men had sailed the seas, going out
through the Straits of Gibraltar and around the
Cape of Good Hope. Once they learned that
way, they followed in the beaten track
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And after he had proved that he could MAKE an
automobile he didn get in the automobile makers ru He
got ideas He decided that the way succeed to
make that ten million people could And he has
actually sold TEN MILLION CARS
Other automobile makers had the chance and
many had better chances They got into the rut called
CHARGE ALL YOU CAN, BE SATISFIED WITH
SMALL PRODUCTION" They out of business, their
names forgotten long ago, Ford goes ahead. IS
We do actually climb of the rut with hands and
feet. We climb out WITH OUR BRAINS. We THINK
ourselves out of the rut Men THINK themselves Of
poverty out of obscuy of the horrible routine that
makes life long, dreary BORE and old age the slow flicker
ing out of man that never really got started FIRST the
thought then action. =
Do you to get the deep ru to be something
worth while have that others have heard off It
isn't much of ambition but it's better than The
real ambition of course the desire TO DO SOMETHING
WORTH WHILE FOR OTHERS, whether the world knows
it or not
But even a small ambition is better than none
you have it. then THINK. DOM criticize your boss
criticize YOURSELF.
Don't say the job you hold is unworthy of you Have
brains enough realize that thus far YOU haven't proved
yourself worthy of better job perhaps not even worthy Of
the you We got.
When man comes home with big string of fish, it's
because he knows how to CATCH fish Men that succeed
learn to deprive themselves of of the things that others
pleased call necessities That's the beginning Of
Get some money ahead, matter HOW little Be
able to say to yourself, If really had good idea in
which had absolute confidence have arranged matters
that without risk to myself to Others take six
months for experiment"
But don't be in too great hurry to imagine that you
HAVE got the right idea
Don't for instance, mistake gambling impulse for
fine inspiration of genius.
The full development of oak tree of idea takes
time and patience.
The first and really important thing is to be that
you ale on the way UP AND OUT OF THE RUT, and not
grinding along deeper down INTO THE RUT.
Will H. Hays the boss of the movies, says quite often
1T not much the LENGTH of the step the DIREC-
TON There is no better saying for young men.
If you are going in the right DIRECTION you can af-
ford to take short steps. THEY WILL GET YOU THERE
If you take LONG steps toward and useful
ness much the better But you headed in the
right DIRECTION all that necessary is to keep going
YOU WILL ARRIVE
MAKE SELF CRITICISM YOUR CONSTANT HABIT
If you had automobile that WASH running well you
would examine the engine, you would CRITICIZE the
machinery, the oiling at least YOU WOULD BLAME THE
AUTOMOBILE
YOU the automobile in which YOU must ride to
you not going in that direction going
slowly, BLAME YOURSELF, not the outside world exam
inc and CRITICIZE yourself.
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We Lire Traye York THINK and Die IN RU7S For Most of Us the M
Gets Deeper Life Progresses.
Finally Along About Middle Age We Are So Deep in the R Mnay
Walls the ut Either Side Walls the Whole
World.
from the Averag2" Asks the Aab
The 4nuer U.s. GET OF THE RUT As This Picture Well Sho
L o and CLIMB
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

EN- have taken naturally to ruts,
to the beaten paths, getting
deeper and deeper ever since the
earliest days. The big mammoth
marked out a track through the
wilderness. The smaller animals,
including our feeble, frightened
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-21

John Royce is one of the newer
amateur entertainers who will be
presented as a black face end-man
in the sixth annual Legion Minstrels
at Augusta City Hall, next Tuesday
evening, when the James Fitzgerald
post, American Legion will stage
their annual entertainment and
Grand Ball. Jerry Carey is convinc.
ed that John will be one Of the big
scoring individuals of his poppy
show. and has given him a song
number that will probably be one
of the four-encores kind.
The management of the show as
sures a satisfactory handling of the
reserved seat sale and exchange at
City Hall tomorrow evening at Z
o'clock. The Legion Minstrels man.
agement has from their several years
experience in the local amusement
field devised splendid system of
handling the reservations.
There will be one large ticket
booth with four windows, placed on
the auditorium floor. All reserved
seat tickets will be handled within
the one booth and will be accessible
to the young men on duty at each
of the four wickets. There will be
iio uIdWinS LOT places, lOur lines
will start simultaneously at o'clock,
and as has been the experience in
previous years the entire sale will
probably be handled within an hour.
Rows A to n in the orchestra are
reserved, as are the first two rows
in the side balconies and the first
three rows of the center balcony.
Commander Reuel B. Soule. general
chairman of the Legion Minstrels.
further warned the public last eve
ming, that the advance or general
admission tickets with the printed
serial numbers on the reverse are
, the only tickets which will be hon.
ored for admission or exchange foc
reserved seats.-Adv.