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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-21

as it was in the time Of the first
empire of Augustus"
The Theater of Marcellus is one
of the monuments especially men,
toned in Mussolini's decree and
the work of restoration will begin
around this famous structure. This
building still attests the integrity
of the old Roman builders, both in
design, material and workmanship.
But it ha9 fallen upon especially
evil days in modern times.
The boxes from which the old
Roman grandees watched the
games, now are improvised into
habitations for a swarm of riff-raff.
These slun1s will be abolished,
homes for the present dwellers be-
ing found elsewhere, SO that the
theater-one of the noblest Roman
monuments-can be restored to its
ancient dignity.
Mussolini's vision Of restoration
is indeed great-greater by far than
the present financial resources Of
the country Rather less tnan
81, 900 900 is in hand for immcdi.
o tie use But the plan is to provide
continuing appropriations SO that
the work now being undertaken
may not halt until Rome is again
the architectural marvel of the
whole world.
ROME, April 21.-A request that
a psychiatric expert be appointed to
~ ~ tina IJnr
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-21
.usso1ini Begins on
Restoring of Rome
Photo by international
By GUGLIELMO EMANUEL
HuAnnr.nAan-nA

ROME, April 21Wth magnificence of gesture worthy
of grand IDEAL Premier Mussoin today inaugurated his
long eraed program for the restoration of the Eternal
City to the grandeur which Rome in the golden days
of Augustus
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-21

To retain permanent creases in
trousers an inventor has patented
a reinforcement that is effective
without being too stiff to interfere
with walking.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-21
SOUTH SEA VERSION

BObbed hair is the only
way in which the Amer
lean flapper is initiated in
the South Sea Islands, it
being too hot there for
the knee skirt and rolled
stockings.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-21

Of New Zealand's 81 electric
generating stations 81 are operated
by water power.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-21

ROME, April 21.-A request that
psychiatric expert be appointed to
examine the mentality of the Hon.
Violet Gibson, who early this month
attempted to assassinate Premier
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-26
Noted Astronomer and Writer on
Scientific Topics Of Popular
Tnfovsaaf

Noted Astronomer and Writer on
Scientific Topics Of Popular
Interest
0OME of my correspondents
- have been urging me to take
UP again the subject of popular
astronomical clubs. Each says he
would be glad to become a mem
Der of such a club--but they live
as far apart as California, New
York and Maine.
Evidently, then, 1t Is a widely
might be established in many
places. Those who think that
they are alone in wishing for
such a thing may find on inquiry
among their neighbors that they
have unsupported allies right at
hand.
what is grander or more uplift-
ing and inspiring than an ac-
quaintance with the stars?
There they are, those other
suns, millions of them; and with
them our sun-flagship to it's
squadron Of worlds-goes sweep
ing toward the great Dragon of
the North" the apparent goal OF
the recently discovered flight of
the entire (ialactic System through
the ether of space, travelling at
the amazing speed of 200 kilo-
meters per second! What has
this little earth worthy to draw
us away from these immensities?
And all around are our earths
sister planets, keeping step with
her and with the sun, while close
at hand is the circling moon, that
Adam and Eve watched in the
golden evenings of Paradise, be-
fore the nations were. Then, at
times, come the wandering comets
with flaming trains challenging
science, and the meteors streak
ing the sky like fiery rain, and
the bodies bursting like giant
bombs.
Star Clubs
And there are the constella-
and the waning popularity of
wedding rings?
Oh, wake up! The modern
woman maTries for somebody to
SHARE things with; for some
body to DO things for; for some
body to LIVE for and work be.
side and play with. She marries
for a partner!
And, when you have peeled off
all the camouflage, and the pre-
tense, and the mid Victorian non
sense, and the modern hard
boiled philosophy, there is just
one definite reason for living
and that is for the love of q
man or the love of woman!
And the reason why a girl
wants to marry more than a man
does, is because she is WISE.
and knows what life is for
while he is a COOP" and doesn't
know what it's all about!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-26
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
~ D.. FRANK CRANE
Tninted MOgaeN

YRyIE regents Of the University Of Wisconsin some time
ago decided that gifts be received b. the institution
from educational endOwments
There Il evidently fear that such IN some way
compromises academic freedom.
The alumni Of the institution recently expressed an opinion
disagreeng with the regents
1T ii hard to see the argument Tor tainted money
This il especially ii matters Cf education What
to do with the money he has accumulated BY fair means
or foul better than consecrae to educaon9 Education
remains the chief beneficiary Of big business
On the whole the best investment man can make with
his money put into young life and to secure the
training Of young people.
Mr. Rockefeller III said have given more than thirty
eight million dollars the Chicago University, and Az -
claimed institution not subsidized IL degree
However John D. Rockefeller made his money, It Is
fact doing good with than almost man
in the world today He maintaining education Graduating
disease every assisting human progress There
no his money has attempted to stife Tree
investigation as the legislature did il Tennessee.
There ii objection endowmens that establish and
petuate UNCONVENTIONAL ideas certain fixed opinions but
there can hardly be any objection to endowment which
eyentuates IN freedom of thought and investigation.
1t Is difficult any event for who IS leaving lot
of money decide wisely what to do with IT, The best
and safest the whole is to endoW education IA
way 81 other and condemn the gifts of the rich when
those gifts accompanied BY restrictions IS to inyes
CATION to be unwise.
The talk about the perpetuatOn Of traditional ideas ana
the lettering of youth by capital is largely bunkum
II viii found that wealthy donors make less stpuatons
in their endoWments than do civic bodies
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-26
Let the Child BE a Child
And the Man VIII BE a Man

vervtinr eats and grows what 1t eats from one OF
the billions separate cells in your body TO the imagination
him. -
OF all hungry things the Chids imagination is hungrest
Ara II von want to develop right kind of the child
must have for its brain the food that it wants.
EVEN oroun-up human beings forever telling them
selves fairy stories what they will be might be- Or
with other fairy Stories excusng mistakes ana failures
The chds body before birth goes through all the stages
Of animal development from the single cell 10 the fuy de-
veloped young human. -
NE chds mind after birth passes through all the differ
emit phases that marked the mind of in his progress
from savagery up.
The savage likes fishing and hunting and animals and
strange stories-facts tire and bore him.
It is the same with the little boy for his mind going
through savage state in slow evolution just as his body
through all the various forms and phases before ne was
born.
Imagination force in your brain, just physical
strength is another force in your muscles
You let your child play run, fly his kite, roll hoop
knowing that the strength thus created and stored up In his
body will be used for serious work later on.
You do put your child mans work. but let childish
play develop him What do for his BODY do also for his
MIND Let that mind play let it feed the fairy stories and
wild Vaccinations Teach the child gradually and kindly the
value accuracy do show stupid severity magnify
ing the Importance Of childish alsehood which only ag
nation running riot
brutal father, heavy stick well applied would have
killed imagination in Shakespeare.
And when he his first job London holding horses for
outside of the theate would have stuck his job
and held errands until he diedinstead of
ating the literature of the modern world.
Where you find with outlook little hope pros
poets, you find usually head plus treatment
based stupid idea that the child should act like
Remember that is natural for children tell alsehoods
to take what is not their own exaggeratea savages do
1t all their lives. Children do it instnctivey.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-26
Boulder Dam Project Should
Go Through Congress
BY BILL PRICE

Seven important Western and Southwestern States
terested in the Colorado River and every Of them will
profit by development Competent engineers from Score
tay down. estimate the annual waste at millions of
dollars and the water unlike coal and OIL gone the
gone No power be developed
be raised from the waters going embarrassed to the
Gulf of California the primary why
the legislation pending in Congress and having the in
dorsemen Of members of the Cabinet should be enacted with
out further delay.
There is humanitarian reason also Sixty thousand people
and $100OOOOO0 property below level annually sub
ecsd the treacherous flood waters of this stream The
river carries tremendous silt deposits and its bed is elevated
year Silt levees at present keeping the water
off the Imperial and Coachel Valleys in California and they
must also raised foot each year. but end will come
some time-possibly this year.
The Republican Democratic platforms two
Endorsed such legislation President Coolidge has repeatedly
referred IL being Secretaries Hoover and
Work have specially energetic and the bill now before
Congress embodies their recommendations
The affords the only by which the upper States
Of Colorado Utah. Wyoming and New Mexico can secure pro-
lection for their rights because it. in effect
es the Colorado River compact by six of the States inter
estsd this great watershed The bill does not add penny
70 the taxes Of any Eastern Central MdWestern
Iunss The 900 bond necessary win be repaid
the Government within years from the sale OF
hydroecc power and water for irrigation and domestic
The legislation means the construction the Boulder
thereby creating great storage reservoir that VIII equate the
flow Of the stream relieve the flood It provides
for million horsepower hydro electric plant and market Tor
that power already assured It provides for an all
canal which win serve the dual purpose OF making Imperial
tln1e
medium by which the stored water can be used in the United
States Of having that valuable asset go to foreign
country where would be quickly captured that nearly
100000 Of land be reclaimed % produce crops
competitive to those within the United States
Americas duty and obligation to her own citizens should
avx he Congress should overlook
opuortuni for service useful and valuable this Boulder
Dam project promises to be.
h All these facts in mind it is absurd to hint that the
Is merely making gesture for political effect
n holding the bright Of hope that the bill VIII De
~ This session The people of the regions affected have
fa IN the sincerity Of the Administration and know that
M the to press this legislation through Congress before
adjournment
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-26
KNOW THE STARS
By Garrett P. SerViss

; tons, antedating history, star.
pictures Of the earliest human
dreams; and there the stars.with-
names, the notables Of the firma-
ment, awe-inspiring in their daz,
fling light that trillions OF miles
cannot extinguish. And what
names! Aldebaran, Sirius. Spica,
Affair, Benetnasch, Zuben-el-gen-
ubi, Alcor, Rigel, Betelguese, An
tares. Vega, Capella, Mizar.
What are the short-lived titles OF
kings, emperors and conQuerors
to these? Yet men have be-
slowed them. Who can guess
what the beings who bask in the
life-giving rays of Sirius name
him?
Why should there not be as
Economical clubs. or star clubs,
as we'll as card clubs and golf
clubs and a hundred other kinds
of clubs? 1t would be easy to
have one in any community
and what an advantage and what
an honor! 1t is only necessary
for some person to qualify for
leader by learning the elements
of astronomy and making &C
HudIHldIltG WITH Tic B6OEIdDIly
of the heavens" I
No special organization would
be necessary. There could be
club telescope, not a very costly
instrument, or several members
could have telescopes. There
could be opera glasses, binocu-
lars, pocket telescopes, even
small spectroscopes. There could
be library gradually accumu-
lated and astronomical periodicals
subscribed for. It would be
center OF intellectual culture with
out hypocrisy or vanity.
Comet Evenings
Now and then a new comet
comes along; sometimes big
one. Then there could be comet
evenings" for viewing the wan
derer and discussing 1t. There
are certain seasons when meteors
are particularly abundant, when.
in fact, they appear in showers
so there could be meteor
evenings"
The wondrous phenomenon OF
the Zodiacal Light is best seen
at particular seasons in spring
and tall; so, evenings Tor the
Light. The double stars and the
colored doubles would call for
much attention in the seasons Of
fair weather. The "inconstant
moon that monthly changes in her
circled orb" would demand many
evenings of pleasure and inStruc-
ton at the telescope.
There would be mornings and
afternoons with sunspOts, and
Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Venus.
Mercury would each set forth d
feast for the eye and the mind
when it came into a favorable
position for, observation
Many would acknowledge with
gratitude that the joining of such
a club had been an event Of last
ing import in their lives. Such
clubs already exist.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-26
MILITARY
TRAINING

Editor Washington Times:
60 much is being said and done
- just now relating to education,
manual training, ETC., I would
like to add my bit, having en-
gagged i'm school work in Porto
Rico after the Spanish American
war. Agriculture is that -coun-
try's means of living and is an
important factor in our own coun-
try.
George Washington was an
ideal farmer. He made plans of
all his fields and kept close ac-
count of expenditures and in
come. But he started out as a
boy scout. He drilled his class
mates with corn stalks for want
of better equipment.
While his desire was to go to
sea, he became a man among
men on land, and farmed the
land, too. Soldiers as well as
scouts have to be fed.
If being a good scout makes a
good soldier, and agriculturist a
stateman and President of the
United States, too much cannot
be said in favor of early military
training, as scouts, guardsmen,
and soldiers, and were these
traits of Washington better un-
derstood and taught in our
schools today we no doubt would
have better students.
JOHN C. HUFF.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-26
ASKING MEN
TO DANCE
Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman-
nEAR MRS. BEEcKMAN;

nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
- A club of which am a
member plans to hold an infor-
NAL dance, and each girl must
ask a man friend
Just how should word the
invitation and how many weeks
before the dance should the in
vitation be extended?
A READER.
About two weeks before the
dance land before. il your man
is extremely popular) write on
your very best letter paper a note
something like this:
Dear Bob:
Our club is to give a dance on
Friday evening, February the
twentieth, and each girl has
the privilege OF inviting a man
guest l should very much like
to have you come as my guest.
Are you free on that evening, and
would you like to come? l shall
be delighted if you can come.
1.-THE dance is to be informal,
and will be held in Goodfloor Hall.
1t is to begin about 10 o'clock.
Now / think that you have all
the information-so do come.
"Friendliest greetings to you
and high aaticipations for the
twentieth. Most sincerely yours,
HELENA LEE"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-26
BY ELSIE ROBINSON

We think of those aborigines as
savages. We speak with contempt
of their ignorance and rough
treatment OF their women. While
doing so, we point with pride
to the gallant treatment accorded
American women by their men.
and the ease and comfort which
attends our women's lives.
But we neglect to mention that
divorce and dissatisfaction with
marriage seems to be increasing
I'm direct proportion to the m
crease I'm ease and comfort.
And we entirely ignore the fact
that the abOrigine tribe knew
practically no divorce. NOR DE-
SIRE FOR DIVORCE.
Was this because the Indian
buck owned his wife and would
not permit her to rebel? no,
for no power had ever been
devised which would keep hui
desired to rebel.
It was because the aborigine
plan of marriage was agreeable
to the aborigine ladies. They
might have little or no interest
in their respective bucks, but
there was much more to marriage
in those days than the acquiring
of a husband.
Marriage to an aborigine girl
didn't mean romance. Marriage
meant the entrance into richer,
more interesting life. That life
was more like fascinating club
life than marriage, as we now
conceive it. It was a club life
and homework was community
service.
Charming young Minnehaha did
not depart with her Hiawatha to
a three-room, light housekeeping
apartment Immediately after the
nuptials nor even to an eight
room bungalow on the install
ment plan. She entered the mar
ried woman'S club and she did
her housekeeping, both light and
heavy, right there i'm front Of the
tepees with all the other ladies
looking on and helping.
Married life was a continual
convention in those primitive but
wise days. Foolish indeed would
be the woman that turned her
hack on such a source OF enter
tainment.
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: have ever Deem d q.
Much Of the work - now
done by institutions. the MAJ
keting is performed over the Iels-
phone. There il no gay gatneIlIlg
in front Of the tepees- no saVlns
leayen OF sociability In the work,
There are distractions aplenty TOT
the modern woman, but she muss
leave her home to find them. AND
the home seems to be putting up
failing fight against the c0un-
ter charm OF those attractions.
What's the answer
The answer is that we must 80
hack to the tepees-in spirit u
not in form. The denatured home
has failed. If our homes are 20
PERSIST we must make them CEN
ters OF interest once more. or we
must devise some plan for home
service which will make marriage
an alluring proposition for free
women.
There's an experiment along
these lines under way in Chicago.
It is the University OF Chicago
Cooperative Nursery School. In
form 1t is intensely modern and
scientific--ln spirit it harlxs back
to that sunny circle in front OF
the deer skin .tepees. The No
vember Is issues of the Survey
tells about 1t. It was formed nine
years ago by a group Of faculty
wives and alumnae. It is. as the
name implied. cooperative. each
mother serving a weekly half day
at the work. under trained direc-
tors and instructors. 1t is not
merely a parking place for babies.
but an education center for chill
dren Of the pre-school age.
It is infinitely more than that
for mothers. It is g revitalizing
agent in what has been for too
long a dreary. solitary job.
Every community could have a
Cooperative Nursery School 1t
might not be at first as scien-
tific as the University of Chicago
Nursery-but any scheme for
such cooperation would be q
good scheme. 1t would put new
interest and pride into the lonely,
dull, uninspiring business which
we now call housekeeping.
Heaven knows we need it!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-26
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
Helen Rowland
why Girls Want to Marry

why Girls Want to Marry
NOBODY seems to understand
IN why girl wants to marry
In these days of fine jobs, fat
feminine salaries and complete
feminine freedom.
Everybody seems to think that
a spinster is unbalanced, when
she exchanges a big pay enve-
lope, with union hours, imported.
hats and all holidays off, for a
life job catering to a. mans ap-
petite. moods and grouches saw.
ing his pennies, and waiting for
him to come home, evenings.
And yet-miracle of miracles!
girls go right on WANTING
to marry.
Why? Oh. there's reason"
"a sound, authentic reasoni
True, the average girl may
work twice as hard over a gas
range. after marriage, as she
worked over mahogany desk,
before marriage.
But, how much more fun and
joy and excitement there is in
work-any kind OF work!-when
you're doing it FOR somebody,
than when you're doing 1t just
for a soul-less pay-envelope!
True. she may have to wear
bargain counter hats, instead OF
the smart imports of her halcyon
DAYS of freedom" But what
thrill is there in an import
unless you're wearing it for
Somebody-unIess there's Some
body to feel proud of you in 1t?
True, her little kitchenette
apartment may not be as com
Portable and handsome as the
mahogany-furnished office she
worked in; and the little home
dinner may not include alligator
pear salad and fancy ices, like
those the boys used to buy her,
in the old days.
But, there's somebody there, to
SHARE the apartment, and APP
preciate the dinner-and it's their
own little place, and their own
little table! And, somehow, 1t all
has a meaning and a beauty and
q significance that no fat pay
envelope. and no jazz palace, and
no synthetic love can have.
And the meaning ts-COM-
PANIONSHIP!
Do you really think, that any
normal girl marries. just Ito be
supported-just for a meal
ticket"-in these days of easy
jobs and high wages?
Do you really think she mar
ries for kisses. in these days Of
petting parties? Or in order to
get "Mrs." on her name in these
days Of the Lucy Stone League,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-26

A USURPER always distrusts
the whole world.-Alfieri.
It Is tormenting to fear what
you cannot overcome.-Ausonio
Too great haste leads us to
error.-Moliere.
Extremes meet. and there is no
better example than the haught-
ness Of humility.-Emerson.
The happiness of the wicked
flows away as a, torrent.-RaAine
Whatever is, is in it's causes
just.-Dryden.
The whole concord of this world
consists In discords.-Seneca.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-26
SAYINGS OF WISE MEN

The rose and the thorn, the
treasure and dragon. joy and sor-
row. all mingle into one.-Saadi.
To act the part OF a true friend
requires more conscientious feel
ing than to fill with credit and
complacency any other station or
capacity in social life.-Ellis.
Despair is a great incentive 70
honorable death.--Rufus.
Freedom exists only where the
people take care of the govern
ment.--Wo Woodrow Wilson.
One ungrateful man does an IN
jury to all who are in suffering.
Syrus.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-26

MyH e r. r W as
laughter in
rnnf OF the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-26

- ~ - "
tepees. In the
un ny, open
spaces the suuaws
ere gathered
S o m e Of them
bent over stone
troughs, grinding
the corn meal
Some busted them
selves with bias
ket w e a v n s..
others sewed on
m occ a sin . Or
nended doe skin
shirts. But all
laughed and gcs-
siped together
rafsin g t h e fr
voices above the
clan1or and shout
ing OF the chill
dren.
Such was the
housekeeping Of
= s.s-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-26

And there are the constella-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-26

which explains
why the Indian
woman stuck To
maria &c despite
its hardships.
And likewise ex
plains why the
American woman
IS dissat istied
with maria ges
despite its mani
fold comforts.
Human atur0
Ii the same
whether the skin
BE bronze or
white. The hui
nan animal IL