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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-01

You sons and daughters who have left nome should not
forget that Dad and Mother get homeslok Tor you
You may think that because they 1--we IN small Town
and know and friends that they don't
miss you much. :,
But friends nor relatives take place with your
parents. - 80 -
IF YOU are distance from home, might run
down Sunday afternoons Many time when you might
60 you choose go elsewhere.
Never Sunday passes that Dad and Mother don tnnk
and talk of you.
Never Sunday that they do not hope against hope that
you will come
hearts.
You don t know how much longer you will have father
and mother to whom you go home in ropbte or IN JOY
Don't wake up the loss when is too late to put any
more brightness into their lives
If too far away go often, how about letter
instead of visit at least a week?
may feel that your life uneventfu and the things
you would write about would be interesting to them
but the scratch of pen from the boy girl they love
much is precious in itself.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-01
Not to Liberalize Retirement
Annuities Will Be a
Rank Injustice

Failure to increase civil service retirement annuities this
session Of Congress win be garng injustice and cannot be
excused inaccurate ground OF saving few dollars to
the Treasury Of the United States.
The people of country do want but they do
not want the expense Of injustice to worthy men and
women who served their nation for life civil service
positions and being retired annuiies that too small
to keep bodies and together without dependence
others.
There has been peculiar maneuvering this retire
ent legislation every step of which has worked against the
passage of any law There have been all varieties Of time
killing manipulation of figures BY acuares and ex
has been done mudde the whole affair and disgust friends
Of the IN Congress so that they will lay down on
the job.
increase annuity from $720 to $1,000
there the slightest possibility that Treasury itself will
called upon years at all to put up single dollar
belonging the taxpayers Of the country And yet there is
constantly paraded the familiar bunk about economy
Uncle Sam technically pays the annuites Of retired en-
fund and the obligations attaching thereto Actually
ever the annues have been paid by employees Of the Govern
ment out Of their own pockets through payday deductions
paid the annuities but today there is in the retirement
fund close to $5O,oO0O0O in surplus
been contemplated that the annuities
the deductions from pay envelopes would be in
creased from 2 cent at present 70 80 per cent
what reputed to be the Administration retirement
plan worked by Lord adopted by the
dent would increase the maximum annuity from $720
senator stansd points out that this would increase the
employees contribution 20 per cent year and raise the
total payments to retired workers by SO per What
huge surplus that still exists and which would
payments for without the taxpayers
the country putting up cent?
The painful truth is that many Government officials who
are opposed annues under the present system deliberately
work the economy racket to prevent anything being done
would be nothing than just and right the Govern
en did have contribute fair proportion of the retirement
fund The United today the only big Government
on earth that DOES NOT retire its employees largely at its
expense
average annuity under the existing law $40
ally many of beneficaries receiving low $40 per
month This poverty and suffering Even the highest
annuities skating along the edge Of actual want
American understood this matter thoroughly they
would be unanimous in favor Of better retirement pay and
would be Disguised that economy pleas should block the
to the correction. of wrong.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-01

What he admired
in her was her
pure, unsophisti-
Gated nature. He
has within him
self something of
tn at unsophisti-
Gated streak, and
therefore admires
it. And in his
contract he said
that the contract
would end unless
the lady remain
e
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-01
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
~ Dr.. FRANK CRANE
The Ultimate Resource

you must have something IN your life that does not
depend upon anybody else.
Il YOU would have your happiness secure, the root
Of it must be within yourself
This Is not doctrine Of sefshness, but o.
mich Of happiness is necessarily bound with other
people il is the result Of human relationships Com
panonship that which tempeTs laughter ano "o1s
and ! the essence itself Of love.
Very many Of get beyond tins range g 1Oy.
We are incapable Of any pleasure that = n0s
We shudder at solitude We flee ourseR e the prince q
boredom
But those who would be secure against the SHOCKS q
existence would they rooted deep enough e
withstand the blasts time and circumstance must Os
cover themselves $50. 80 ....la
They must have some ultimate that the world
cannot touch 8. q S..
Some people find this in their vocation Some 70 Iner
ayocaton Some discover in the fruits Of their lmagna
ton. Some find it in religion
One thing The strong soul the nero Ior WON
nothing is tragic the wepoised life which no untoWaTo
event can thrust panic is that one who mas earneu
that the deepest supplies upon which the soul Iee0s
most nexhausble and wholesome supplies are those 1nae
lie within himself.
In the scorn Of the world in isolation, contempt and
hunger he can turn fate with smile and say, nave
meat to eat that We know not Of.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-01
THE TIDE GAME
By Garrett P. Seryiss

the tide-raising force correspond
with the inverse cube of the dis
lance, so that when the moon is
Gin perigee," or nearest the
earth, it's tide-raising power is to
the same power when the moon
is Gin appgee." or farthest from
the earth, about as seven to five.
Farmers Job Hard
Now, the apogee and perigee
of the moon may correspond with
any of her changing phases
new" "full' or either quarter"
so you see that the farmer who
plants "by the moon" has a far
more complicated job to figure
out what the results are going to
be Gf the tidal action has any
thing to do with them than the
baseball fan has to coordinate
the various points Of the players
score.
1t Is not the phases of the
moon that determine her chang
ing tide-raising force, but her
variations of distance. How far
these two things may be apart
is illustrated by the following
facts. In May, this year, the
moon is new" on the 18th, full
on the 9th: in ''perigee" on the
7th, in "apogee" on the 18th.
When perigee occurs at either
new or full moon, the high tides
are higher; but when apogee
occurs at the same phases the high
tides are lowered.
No one can say positively that
the moon has no influence what.
ever on the conditions Of vege-
table life on the earth; but il it
has any it probably is indirect,
as through atmospheric influ-
ences, and any association with
the phases of the moon is only
apparent, or incidental. The
changes of distance are chiefly
to be considered, and these, as
we have seen, are not linked to
the phases.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-01
BY ELSIE ROBINSON

ness about the prohibition law
and no one should be allowed 70
question it,
Thus on an on, far into five
pages OF red-hot langWidge.
Large numbers of indignant
citizens feel just as Edward g.
feels about that ballot. They in
sist that God had welded the
Volstead Act to the Constitution
and that no man should put them
asunder. They do not believe
that We have right to Juggle
with the moral code. Their In
dignation extends to other prob
lens besides that of prohibition.
The blanket amendment" which
would give women equal stand
in with men in all our States
the various movements to give
protection to the illegitimate child
and his mother-the community
property law which would so
greatly change the wife's status
in marriage-the simpler and
more universal divorce laws--the
easier Sunday laws-au such leg
islation upsets tradition and im-
perils smugness and is therefore
held to be an evil by the puri-
tanical element in our society.
Its bad to even discuss such
things ~ they cry. 1T puts no
tions into peoples heads makes
them think that black is white
actually encourages law break
ing"
And therein lies the crux OF the
situation.
Wen never get new and better
laws in this country until we
break some of the old ones.
The moral code Of the country
isn't welded in heaven and In
stalled in nation like so much
fancy plumbing. It is created by
the people and constantly changed
to suit their needs. If the people
wish to add to their moral code
they have right to do so. II
they wish to amend or modify 1t
they also have right to do so.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-01
SAYINGS OF
MRS. SOLOMON
BY Helen Rowland
why Men Are Lonely

Why Men Are LOnely
VTERILY, verify, all the ways
' of a man are reasonable in
his owS eyes. But the way of a
man that seeketh, mate, who
can fathom it?
Alas. wherefore doth a man
with a jazz heart choose always
a woman with a Chopin soul, to
listen to Life's Symphony with
him?
And why will a worshipper of
the philosophers choose woman
to sit through LIES Big Show
beside him?
Wherefore will worshipper OF
the philosophers choose woman
who understandeth only the
''funnies," to read Life's Book
with him?
And why will a man, with a
low-comedy complex and vaude-
vile vision, choose woman
with an Opera passion and an
Ibsen urge, to share Life's Drama
with him?
Go to. Wherefore doth a man,
with a weakness for red neckties,
red wine and race-tracks, yearn
always for woman with an
"over-soul," a New England con-
science and a Puritan Backbone,
to play Life's Game with him!
And why doth a man, with a
hiker's spirit, a hunters heart
and a camping complex; seeketh
always a woman with a drawing
room ennui, a French-heel habit
and a Beauty Parlor face, to do
Life's Marathon with him!
Wherefore will a man, with a
red-flannel background, ham
dLlu-CS6 LOSIG ouNAo q AOuATSpCdhCA
voice; choose woman with a
hermit's, shyness, a sensitive ear
and a sonata soul, to tune in on
Life's Radio with him?
And why will man, with a
purple past, a susceptible heart
and a going-foot, seek always a
woman with a baby-blue back
ground, a one-man complex and
a broom horizon, to share
LIES vicissitudes with him?
For, whether life be a game or
a business, man chooseth his
own partner therein!
Yet, behold, when he hath, thus
defied Nature and sought his own
Punishment, every man holdeth
Heaven and the Woman to blame
for his loneliness"
And whether he chooseth a
playmate, a soul.mate. q yoke
mate or check.mate, nfery man
wonderful. in his hearty WHY he
is misunderstood
S9EfI3A1
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-01

dve-,s, sd he made s,r..sa contr.ct and unsophisti
Gated"
Sophisticated and unsophisticated of course come
from Greek word meaning WISDOM To be sophisticated
HAVE wisdom to be unsophisticaed NOT have
What Mr. Goldwyn doubtless meant that this young
woman while she might have wisdom of CERTAIN kind
must be TOO WISE She mustn't lose that faraway
girlish look Let all hope that she will NOT
how you remain unsophisticated how you
main UNMoDERNZED in these modern sophisticated times?
Parties late dancing is constant smulants mild
mild what they Screen work exhaust
ling the glare hard your and your
classification.
takes an innocent mind like that of Mr. Goldwyn to
imagine that contract hold back the effect years
S innumetabIe jazz bands and parties.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-01

A KINDLY reader in New
"A London, Ohio, who has been
making some experiments re-
lating to the age-long belief that
the phases of the moon affect
the fate of crops, according TO
the time of their planting, and
has been perplexed by apparent
combinations of that belief, asks:
"If the moon does cause the
tides. as it is said, is it barely
possible that 1t has an effect on
crops when planted in its varl-
:. Gus phasesY
Let us glance at the known
facts of the situation. The moon
and the sun together cause the
tides, but the moon, because OF
her much greater nearness, ls
between two and three times Is
efficient a player as the sun IN
this interesting game OF trouo-
ling the earth's uneasy oceans,
so that ordinarily she gets the
whole credit.
In truth the moon is continual
" changing her position in the
celestial field, like a runner max
ing his successive bases, and so
at times she and the sun play
AT cross purposes. But at two
opposite pha$es, new moon"
and full MOON" they play into
each others hands.
Thus at new moon" she and
the sun pull together, hauling
the same way upon the earth,
and then the oceans are most
distorted and swell to the high.
est tides. And at full moon,"
the earth being between them,
the two tormentors haul the
oceans in opposite directions at
the same time, so that then
again the tides are highest.
But at the quarter" phases,
which occur half way between
new and "full," the moons
position is at a right angle to
the sun as seen from the earth,
so that she pulls crosswise while
he pulls lengthwise.
Gods Get Laugh
At such a time the overlook.
ing gods, if they retain the
Olynpiah habit of amusing them
selves with the embarrassments
of. the earth. and it's inhabitants,
may laugh at the sport of the
tides being drawn two ways at
once. like a horse pulled ahead
by halter and aside by the
rein. The consequence of this
crossplay is that the tides are
lowest at the quarters.
But the complications of the
luni-solar tide-game are not all
stated yet. The moons path
around the earth is not circular
but elliptical. SO that her dis.
lance from the earth is continual
ly changing, now increasing and
now diminishing. This intro
duces a law of the game which
depends upon the nature of grav
itation. The force of the moons
pull varies inversely as the square
of her distance.
This Inverse square law" like
A legal maxim, is to be learned
by heart, and taken on trust If
you don't understand 1t. But It il
again complicated, In this case,
by a modification of the law
which makes the variation Of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-01
WISE SAYINGS


TIHE world is a comedy to those
who think, tragedy to those
who feel.-Walpole. "
Know how sublime thing it
is to suffer and be strong Long
fellow.
No man can be providert Of
his time who is not prudent in
the choice of his company
lor.
What makes life dreary is the
want of motive Eliot.
We aim above the mark to hit
the mark.-Emerson.
A house Is no home unless it
contains food and fire for the
mind as we'll as for the body.
--Ossoli.
On their own merits modest men
are dumb-Coleman.
There Is always room at the
top.--Webster.
Truth does not need the aid of
miracles. -Ingersoll
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-01

- r. !; NE make 4 mistake in our
legislation we are going TO surfer
far that mistake just as we
suffer if we make mistake N
arr personal morals. BY tha1
very suffering we arrive az new
knowledge.
And that right to make foOl
Of himself and endure the conse
uuences is the most essential ana
sacred right OF free man.
1t Is the fundamental law q
growthI
It IS the very essence Of the
ideal Of democracy.
Any nation which denies its
!. citizens the right to make fools
OF themselves, II they so Wlsn'
and profit by the experience Is
headed straight for annihilation.
A country bothered by drunken
men may be deplorable sight.
but q country filled with shackled
men who have no voice in decid-
ing whether they'll stay drunk or
sober, is infinitely mere tragic.
For at best only few Of us VIII
be paralyzed by drink. But II the
reformers had their way, wed
ali be paralyzed by bigotitis.
That's why it's good thing to
take q straw ballot on the LIQUOR
question.
1t may arouse discomfort ana
rebellion. That discomfort may
result in another experiment
which may be even more disturb
ing than the present wet and dry
situation. But II we want dis
turbanoes we have . right to them.
And the day we stop making dis
turbapces and running risks with
ourselves we're done for.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-01
HER LETTER
OF GRIEF
LMrs. CorneIius Beeckman-

NEAR MRS. BEECKMAN: -.
have been expecting a
letter from friend who is living
now in another city, but a few
days ago / heard that her sister
is i'll. She is getting better now.
but for. a time her life was in
danger.
Do you think it is proper for
me to write her note now con-
corning her sister, even before I
receive her letter? If so, what
can / say and how can say it?
A READER.
Yes, by all means write the let
ter, which undoubtedly will
1t is at such Swallowed times as
this that we need the kind and
cheering words of our friends.
And you certainly should not
stand upon the ceremony of wait
ing for her to write first. She
probably is very busy and very
tired after this strain Of caring
for her sister, and she would ap-
preciate your thoughtfulness in
not waiting for her to do one
more thing.
The Biblical statement, "Out of
the fullneSs of the heart the
mouth Speaketh"-is good rule
to. take for letters Of this kind,
dear Reader So write from your
heart, and tell her Of your SYM
pathy for her and her sister.
of your appreciation Of the suf-
fering that both have been
through; and of your great relief
and happiness at the news that
her sister is now on the road to
recovery.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-01

This does not
imply that by 9
vote W e 9 q n
m q X . TO n 3
right or make
right wrong. Be
hind our change
able moral code
b w ers an un-
clnangeabIe spiri
tual code which
IL the Living Law.
We but dinlly
receive that
greater code ana
grievOusly ulisin.
terpret ii. But
We can only ar
rive 1t d greater
comprehension Of
NJ making ex.
periTlents BY dar
ing ventures and
taking risks. And
this We do, in g
nationa wa Y,
through our legas-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-01
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4 n

"nWARD il
i = : i 8 q,
- /. - asIaarned.
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-01
Could Time Ever Spoil Her?
1ould She Ever Become Sophisticated"

Mr. Kearns his fighting contract with Dempsey, said Mr.
Dempsey mustn't get married-Dempsey DID get married
Those that made lecture contract with Colonel Mitchell
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-01

the a1rma11, said he
muslin t talk to
newspapers - but
he probably will
talk to them.
Now, Mr.. Gold
wyn, to whom pub.
licity is painful,
but who must adj
vertise because he
is in business, tells
about a contract
he made with this
charming sixteen
year-old girl, Miss
Lois Moran.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-01

NEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ /. Is it proper to invite the
parents of the wedding attendants
to the reception at the brides
home. after the ceremony?
2. Should the best man walk
out of the church with the matron
Of honor or. should he pay the
pastor and get the groonl's coat,
and hat? II. NJ. s
Yes. Courtesy demands that
they be invited. And Of course
it is natural that invitations
should. be. sent to them since if
the bride knows the daughter,
and the groom knows the son
well enough to invite them to be
attendants, naturally they will
know the families of their at
tendants well enough to invite
them to the reception. The fami-
lies would, l should think, feel
very much sighted if they were
not invited.
In the best-planned weddings
the best man does not take part
in the occasional. He waits at
the front of the church, and when
the occasional has started, he
goes to the Vestry room or the
room at the front of the church
where he and the groom have
waited before the ceremony,
gives the fee to the clergyman,
and as you say, collects the
groom's hat and coat to take to
him at the cab at the front of
the church
, 1926-10-27
PAINT CREEK
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Mrs. Alvin Bosley took dinner at
the Wild Rose ranch on Monday,
and Mrs. w. G. Brough accompan-
led her to Clark in the afternoon.
Art Braten of Russell creek came
out on Monday, returning Thursday
with a load of supplies for the win
ter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Murphy and
Col. Wright of Powell were over
looking over the road and election
eering on Wednesday eating dinner
with the Brough family on the Wild
Rose ranch.
Alvin Bosley started for the
mountains to round up and bring
his cattle out for the winter.
Mrs. Reigle and nephew, Lonnie
Enochs. OF Cody called on Mrs.
Brough enroute to the H. O'Donnell
ranch to see her nephew, SiIvy Nell
son, on Tuesday.
Fred Schmidt made a business
trip to Belfry on Wednesday.
G. NJ. Schnitker took a load of
fine potatoes to Clark on Wednes-
day for which he received a fair
price.
Glenn Brough and friends of Bel
fry called on home folks Thursday,
leaving Carol to spend the week
end with his aunt and family, Mrs.
f. S. Brough, at the Wild Rose
ranch.
Miss Ashley, our school ma'am
dismissed school Wednesday noon
to go to Cody to see her folks de-
part for California, resuming her
%recites on Friday morning.
Clyde Brough, being on the sick
list, did not attend school on Fri
day.
Sidney Wilson took dinner at the
Wild Rose ranch on Friday. We
understand he and George McCuen
have purchased Grandmother Will
sons place on Little Rookie and
are going to ranch on a small scale
next summer. Here's wishing them
success.
The Republican rally at the Ben
nett schoolhouse on the 23rd was
a success and all enjoyed a good
time and supper.
Quite a number took dinner at
the Wild Rose ranch on Sunday:
Jack Cameron of Sunlight, Mr.. and
Mrs. Glenn Brough of Belfry, Shorty
Blouser and Smith Murray of Cody,
buying horses in this vicinity the
past few days. and Fred Schmidt.