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Evening star., 1926-02-09
FinanCiers Give Views.

Wall Street fnanciers in "a sym
postum have expressed opinions &S
10 the value of large mergers.
Francis Fl. Sisson, vice president Of
the Guaranty Trust Co. said:
The American people are sradu-
ally learning that. so far as harm
ful practices are concerned. the size
OF concern has no relation to its
business ethics. 1t would be much
easier to watch a few big business
men than thousands of small dealers" "
Clarence Dillon, of Dillon. Read &
Co. said that in big operations ma
chineike impersonal administration
must be prevented.
George l.. Roberts. vice president
of the National City Bank, said:
We have clung too long to the
economic absurdity that large cor
porationS are bad for the community
just because they are large"
Evening star., 1926-02-09
CHARGE D'AFFAlRES
TO REPLACE BIBESCO
Radu Traian Djuvara Named to
Take Over Washington
Legation.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST. Rumania. February
Q (P).-The official Gazette yesterday
published the announcement OF the
appointment of Radu Traian Djuvara
As charge d'affafres at Washington. TO
succeed Prince Bibesco. Rumanian
Minister. recently recalled.
M. Djuvara was formerly attached
TO the Ruma nian legation at London
Evening star., 1926-02-09
Rites for G.. E. Killeen.

Funeral services for George E. Kill
leen, 55 years old. clerk In the Palace
Market, who was found dead in his
room at his residence, 1916 Wisconsin
avenue. yesterday morning, will be
conducted at Holy Trinity Catholic
Church tomorrow morning at 9:15
o'clock. Interment will be in Mount
Olivet Cemetery.
Evening star., 1926-02-09
WALL STREET HIT
BY BAKING PROBE
Food Stock Market Uneasy
as Result of Suit-0ne
Merger Called Off.

-@@SSN'ANN'
NEW YORK, February 9.-One
food corporation merger has fallen
through and Wall Street has had an
uneasy market in food stocks today
as an aftermath of a Federal anti
trust suit filed yesterday in Balti-
more against the proposed $2,000,000,-
600 Ward Food Products Corporation.
Ward Baking b stock. considered
hy Wall Street the chief speculative
stock of the enterprise, tumbled from
1875 to low of 66l2. There was a
rally to 6914 before the close.
Merger Plans Gff.
Negotiations for Il $140, 600 900 con-
solidation of the Postum Cereal and
california companies were halted
bruptly after $1S5 Il share had been
offered for controlling Interest,". 1t
was considered certain Saturday that
the merger would so through. but 1t
was announced yesterday that the ne
gotiators We're not willing to buy or
sell into a Government investigation.
California stock broke 22i, points
10 1922. and Postum g points after
the announcement.
The Federal Trade commissions
New York hearing on the proposed
merger was abruptly adjourned dur
ing the testimony of George &. Bar
ber. chairman of the Continental
Baking Corporation. Mr. Barber OBJ
iected to making public 1928 sales
figures of the corporation, which Is
one of those IL the proposed merger
i'll The Ward Food Products Corpora
fion. He expressed Willingness to
give the figures privately today TO
the commission.
The Continental has 103 bakeries in
81 cities
The Washington times., 1926-04-08
A Terrible Example
Young Men Lured B.; Glamour of Crime Should
Count Ten

Gerald Chapman sinister power for evil while he lived in
death may prove to be influence for good
The of Chapman execution carried to city
and hamlet in the country by telegraph 1t horrible
story wires carried and its details told simply
appase the mobidy Of the people and listened ghoush
then haven't travelled very far road toward perfect
civilization.
carried than the story of the hanging
of notorious criminal They carried forCe lesson the
boys the country lesson that parents teachers and pastors
sometimes not able impress young mndthat there
nothing rosy romantic in the life Of criminal that
Justice matter how slow eventually rumphs that right
is memorable and will collect its debts.
few days New York shocked by the story of two
boys still in their early teens who confessed murder and
robbery Deeds of Chapman and other spectacular
breakers had fired the of these boys They
easy money glory romance and adventure in life of crime
Did the great Chapman himself the age 16?
Chapman hadn't been hanged when these two boys shot
their man" He still a hero of the underworld
But there nothing heroic about him We hope that
young boys everywhere who have looked crime through
of romance have to realize what pitab figure
Chapman at the end.
the story Of his death deter boy from following
in his footsteps, then will give Chapman white mark
his black record.
The Washington times., 1926-04-08
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL

The Price Of Sunshine

AT would YOU think Of business house employing
do nothing but look pleasantf
saw such one the other DAY. y "ae & - 1
Inn Hotel at Riverside, Calf A.4,.n e !.
This is remarkable institution and comOlnaslOn Z.
winter home for tourists and museum. lnel0 z - q
collection of all sorts Of curOslties o. olo 80 -
the coast. =
nl Miller who runs the place. has made success q
HE ter;se and entitled called shrewd business
man He has redeemed this spot from the desert ana
blossom like the The Easter morning service cn
he on Mt Roubdoux attracts from 1en 2
twenty thousand people every year.
His hotel is almost always full
The citizens have erected monument to INN curing NJ
lifetime in honor Of his great civic services when -
nnnsnal distinction Most communities wait TIL man z
dead to do him reverence.
don't think therefore, Miller would be guilty Of
d ANYTHING that does not pay And the fact that ne
has woman whose sole business is to stand around the
lobby Of the be nice to people, must nave some
commercial basis.
II has The inn keeper realizes that principal thing
that attracts people to place Of business the TACT that
they are pleased it. They drawn quite e much
bv the warmth of the and BY its atmosphere Of
frendnes as they BY the ham and eggs and
the comfortable beds
Business discovering that shall not I've BY bread
alone This is the he not only wants cake but
he wants smile.
and full of world WEAKNESS. Having no occupation 70
engage them they spend most Of time telling about
their diseases and complaints They apt to sag and
get each Others To employ therefore, regular
cheererup becomes a paying investment
Most Of better off and better IN our
business if recognized the cash value OF cheerfuness
People like to business with cheerful and IN an
atmosphere Of cheer.
Cheer oosens the Cheer attracts people
flame attracts moths you people beat down
the pathway to the house where sell your ratraps
is good plan light the candle of cheer and set it in
your window.
There is certainly cash value in smiles
One reason perhaps why this manages to keep
always because she goes by the euphonous
Crane though forced confess she is connection
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tifying said lust by showing up
certain of the ilk in print.
He exposes one swindle in par
ticuIar, which has recently as
sumed national scope. Maybe you
were caught in 1t, Mamie. Read
the details and see If they sound
familiar.
This particular fraud he calls
1.-THE Endless Chain Silk Stock
ing Swindle." The favorite field
for operation was in large office
buildings where hundreds of girls
are employed in stenographic and
clerical positions. So alluring
was it that it swept in regular
epidemic throughout the country,
disrupting whole office forces as
1t went.
do You Want SO Worth Of
Silk Hosiery for $1?" ran the bait.
Naturally every female who
read it bit Mr.. Kunzie describes
the resultant program.
lone girl, let us say, answers
the advertisement. she receives
full details of the proposition. She
RENTS 81 and in return receives,
not the silk stockings, but three
coupons, which she in turn must
sell for 81 each. If she succeeds,
and RENTS the money, thus
making 81 altogether, she is still
held up on her merchandise, for
her contract plainly states that
the stockings will not be delivered
until each one Of the four in
cluded in her unit of the endless
chain has completed her contract.
by simple computations it was
found that by the time this chain
had been extended to the tenth
group, it would involve 1883 peo-
pie, each one agreeing to pay the
hosiery firm IS. one direct and
two through resale of two cou-
pons, or $59.049. while the
fifteenth group would have multi
piled the number of 4,34S.969 peo-
pie, agreeing to pay the sum of
$15,34S,907!
"The result is. of course. that
hardly any Of the hosiery sales,
women can complete their con.
The Washington times., 1926-04-08

The plan is simple. You receive
a package containing a dollars
worth of Christmas cards, or
fancy pencils or handkerchiefs or
other merchandise. The mer.
chandise is of good quality and
ample amount. You might have
jumped at a chance to pay q
dollar for it If you had seen it
in a store. But you didn't see
it in a store. A bow-legged, very
weary postman delivered it to
your door-as thousands Of other
B. l.. V. w. postmen deliver it
at other doors, without getting a
raise of salary for doing the same.
You open the package. You are
informed of the value of the con-
tents and told that they are sent
to you ION your honor" II you
like them you are to keep them
and return a dollar to the sender.
If you don't like them you, being
an honorable citizen, will of
course, return them. The return
postage being on you. Like the
delivery was on the postman.
If you have perchance the
worlds worst memory and forget
to return them, as 1 did once.
you become the recipient Of q
chain Of dunning letters which
would do justice to the Black
Hand Society.
Wherefore l raise this yelp. II
manufacturers of Christmas cards,
handkerchiefs, and other hard
ware, want to run business Wa
don't they take out a dog license,
buy floral Success" horseshoe
and hop to It? Why start bust
ness on my sense Of honor and
my postage stamps? To say
nothing of the postman's bow
legs.
What's more-if the Govern
ment doesn't do something. about
it, I hereby serve warning. The
next guy that banks on my sense
of honor is going to set stung.
That is, If like the handker~
chiefs.
The Washington times., 1926-04-08
By Garrett P. Serviss

To hydrogen, the lightest ele.
nent, was assigned the atomic
number, or species number, 1, for
it has only a single revolving
electron; then came helium with
the number 2, meaning that two
electrons circulate around the
nucleus of its atom. Carbon, the
element that crystallizes into dia-
mond, was found to have s cleo
irons, oxygen 8, iron 26, gold 70,
and uranium at the end OF the
list, 90, its number corresponding
with the total number OF the
elements.
But when the list of already
known elements was completed,
each separated from it's nearest
neighbors by a single unit, 1t
was found that there remained q
few unoccupied numbers, which
fitted the foot of no known chem
ical Cinderella. Until three years
ago there were six of these un-
claimed inches, viz, the numbers
40, 81, u, Is, IS and 81. But in
1928, number 70 was filled with
an element named hafnium, and
in 1925 number 43 found its miss
ing affinity in an element that
was named masurium and num-
Der IS by one named rhenium or
bohemium. And now we have
number 81 taken up by illinium.
Physicists do not all feel sure
at present that the number of
elements is actually limited to 80,
although nobody goes. so far as to
think that there can be more
than two or three beyond the
present supposed limit. These,
If they exist, must be elements
heavier than uranium 90. 1t is
these very heavy elements that
have the property of auto-destruc-
ton through radio-activity.
When an element changes the
number Of its electrons, through
loss or gain, q corresponding
change takes place in the physical
and chemical character of the
substance Of which that element
is the base, and this is the secret
of modern scientific alchemy,
which has revived in a new form
the old search for a way to turn
base metal into gold.
The Washington times., 1926-04-08
Home Care for Dependent
District Children

This newspaper long and consistently urged mother
pension law the District of Columbia that dependent chill
may when possible be reared under home care and in
fluences
The Times has consistently urged that unmportant
differences of opinion Congress and elsewhere should not be
permitted to passage this session OF home care
legislation again urges that all advocates of this humane
legislation chickering's and join in getting favorable
action.
If House and Senate leaders right the legislative
situation Congress adjourn in four five weeks There
is not much time view of the legislative congestion that
always takes place toward the end of session.
The House passed 1862 and that together
introduced for mothers pensions in the District
10 before the Senate District Committee.
The House bill contains vital thing of home for
dependent little differs from other only in
that il puts the administration hands Of
Mothers consist Of five members to be appointed
by the District Commissioners all of these members to be bona
fde residents of the District.
Other propositions the Senate committee would put
the financial aid authorized the hands Of the Public Welfare
Board newly board which will control charitable
and correctional institutions in the District
Those who favor the Mothers Aid Board put forward the
strong the Of dependent children through pub
lie aid should be cased with charitable correctional
matters They point experience elsewhere has been
against such classification Many mothers with dependent
little ones would hesitate apply for aid under these cir
cumsances The fact that misfortune has come to mothers
and their little their senstveness put
them in the category of mendicants wrong-doers.
bill is well advanced. It is half way through the
legislative mill That largely in its favor It's approval by
the committee early date thus giving it good
place on the Calendar should insure satisfactory
mothers pension law at this session.
Humany's cali greater than small differences ad
mnsration The House bill puts the administration wholly
hands of District people The members of the board
will receive no compensation The of administration
should be greater in the Mothers Aid Board than in the
Public Welfare Board In favor of the former too the
that would devote itself exclusively to the business Of look
ing mothers and their little basis of the posi-
fived of of charity.
The board win perform another useful duty toward mothers
and little by taking legal steps to compel the fathers Of
children If living to provide support for their children
Its functions viii also include Investigations to whether
mothers the proper persons to have custody of children
and whether the homes satisfactory for the rearing and
training of little
The details of this important work fully enough for
organization without being complicated with other
lines of public welfare work.
The Washington times., 1926-04-08
SLEEPING IN
MID-AIR

T ULLED by the ceaseless drone
IL of the motors and by the fact
that landmarks ia" below pass
from view so slowly that there is
little sensation of speed. it Is now
found that many aerial passen-
gers fall asleep between London
and the Continent.
To provide greater comfort
for these travellers who are in the
habit of taking a nap while in
mid air, Imperial Anyways have
Just designed new type Of arm
chair. sofa, which is to form part
of the saloon equipment of giant
Handley- Page Napier air expresses
now in construction.
Luxuriously upholstered, the
new seats have a high sloping
back. and are fitted with softly
padded head rests, to pillow the
head Of the traveller as he leans
back.
The Washington times., 1926-04-08
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland

Too Much Advice SpOils the
Marriage
NEXT to the people who can
IN tell you how to cure a cold,
the greatest aggregation Of altru-
lists in the world consists Of the
people who can tell you how-to-
Observation-Disclosures.
The moment a girl announces
her engagement, the priceless ad.
vice begins to flow in.
Here are a dozen of the most
popular prescriptions.
Start right. Take the whip
hand at the altar, or you'll never
get 1t, When a girl marries, she
has to choose between sitting at
the foot Of throne and stand
ing on a doormat.
Use tact. Never let your hus.
band know that you can rule
him. A man, like a horse. has
to be backed into the shafts. be-
fore he can be driven.
Tell your husband everything.
Never let him suspect you Of de-
ceiving him or he'll never trust
you again.
Never tell your husband any
thing. Nothing charms a man
like a little mystery; and what
he doesn't know won't worry
him.
Flatter your husband. Feed
him plenty of applesauce. Fill
him full Of Observation-Disclosures
what spills over is yours!
Don't flatter your husband or
he'll soon begin to wonder why
such a combination OF brains and
beauty should waste all OF him
self on a simple little thing like
you.
Remember that you are your
husbands guide, philosopher and
friend. Also. the keeper OF his
conscience and the guardian OF
his morals. Your mission In life
is to hold onto your ideals with
one hand-and onto him with the
other.
Don't try to reform" your
husband. A man does not marry
in order to acquire a keeper"
and a life-critic. but in order to
acquire an admirer. Cut out the
missionary work. No man loves
his guardian.
Never go away for a summer
vacation and leave your husband
lying around loose. where the
blondes, the loVe.moths and the
love pirates can get him.
An ounce OF matrimonial vaca-
ton Is better than a pound of
divorce, my dear. A little sum-
mer parting has held many a
couple together.
Try to join In all your hus.
bands amusementS, pastimeS and
The Washington times., 1926-04-08

so ran the OlQ
refrain. But it's
a cinch he had
nothing on some
Of the Yankee
traders.
Mr.. Kunzie. H.
nancial writer for
the San Fran
cisco Call has
been telling about
some OF those
traders. Mr.. Kun
zie knows his
[ r q q ! n 8 WOrIu
from A to lizard
and has a hearty
admiration for
t h e respectable
members of the
tongs. But he
has a. positive
blood lust for the
swindlers a n d
fakirs, and, MUIR
der being messy,
AAA ~~A
The Washington times., 1926-04-08
A Sensible Move

Every member of the Naval Academy class which will be
graduated in June will have received instructions aviation
before leaving the institution. This will be the first class
the course
Persons who have the best interests of the nation
will be cheered by this BY the time the midshipmen
admiras there won't be huge fleets of moving ships
carrying guns, there today.
odtime naval officers tell you the batteship will always
be the backbone of the fleet and that the navy with the most
ships viii control the Progressive young officers how
look into the future and the cumbersome surface
ships driven off the by air fleets moving at $50 miles
hour and dropping bombs that weigh ton
The Navy wise to start training its officers in
decided high up in the sky out of the range Of
guns.
The Washington times., 1926-04-08
PROHIBITION
"SAFE"?

CONGRESS will not touch pro-
~ hibition-the majority for it
in both Houses of the present
Congress is greater than ever.
The opponents of prohibition
now have entered upon what
might be called the "defeatist"
stage of their campaign-an eff
fort to convince the people that
prohibition has failed utterly.
can never be enforced, and should
be repealed.-Allan L. Benson
in April Good Housekeeping.
The Washington times., 1926-04-08


Mamie?
While it's the
fashion for writ
ers to indulge in
blood usts in
newspaper col
uns, / think I'll
satisfy one Of my
own. The fol-
lowing scheme -
perhaps n o {
fraudulent, but
I've a bunch it
violates the Fish
and Game Law,
or the Mann Act
or s o m . t hi n g.
Moreover it has
assumed 3 u c b
proportions with.
in the last few
years that it has
become an out.
rageous nuisance
in almost every
$3.50 r.nnrw.%kay
The Washington times., 1926-04-08
LISTEN WORLD!
By ELSIE ROBINSON

66EHoR ways that are dark
II And tricks that are strange,
The heather Chinese Is peculiar"
The Washington times., 1926-04-08
QUESTION OF
DESIRE
BY Mrs. Beeckman-

nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ Is 1t proper to wear a ring
with an onyx setting on the ring
finger? Or should it be worn on
the little finger? j. B. o.
This is just a question of per-
sonal taste. a
The Washington times., 1926-04-08

DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ Is it proper for a girl to
write short note of thanks
to a young man with whom she
is not corresponding, upon re-
ceiving a card of greeting from
him? j. s.
Wa
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interests. Never let him learn to
take his pleasures with others.
For the love of liberty, let your
husband take his amusements in
his own way and with his own
friends. Don't chain him to your
side, or he'll soon get a blonde
and a file-and break the 0nain!
Twelve good rules! Six of one
and half a dozen of the other!
And sere is the thirteenth!
Take NOBODY'S advice! Make
your mistakes in your own way.
Nobody can tell you how to be
happy!
The Washington times., 1926-04-08

tracts. and therefore receive no
goods, but lose the money In.
vested"
The Washington times., 1926-04-08

nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ /. When making a night
journey on a boat. is 1t permits
sible to remove ones hat as well
as ones coat and sit in the salon
without wearing either? / have
seen ladies without hat or coat,
but 1t seems to me that more
hats were worn than not.
Q. Is the enclosed sheet of
paper quite proper for the writ
ing Of business correspondence?
MRS. P. B. n.
/. 1t is far better form and better
taste for q lady to wear her hat
in. the salon of the boat. And,
If it Is not too warm. 1t is better
for her to wear her coat also.
2. Yes. And for business notes
too, 1t is most convenient to have
paper of this kind printed with
your name and address on the
top of the sheet and on the flap
of the envelope. For this you
should use your title (Mrs.) and
have your name and address
printed without authorizations.
The Washington times., 1926-04-08

MANY persons reading Of the
Vk recent discovery at the Uni
versity of Illinois, by Prof. B. s.
Hopkins, Of a new, or missing"
chemical element, which has been
named "illinium" in honor OF the
State OF Illinois, seem to think
that there may be any number OF
elements still to be discovered,
Just as there may be any number
Of stars as yet unseen by human
eyes.
In truth, however, according to
chemical science, there remain
only two more elements to be
found, and even these are known
in a certain sense since the places
where they must stand in the
ranks Of elemental matter have
been ascertained while the num-
Der Of electrons that circle around
the nucled Of their atoms has been
determined. This recalls in some
ways the discovery by astgOno-
mers through mathematical calcu-
lations of the existence and the
position in the heavens of certain
planets and stars before they have
been actually seen with tele-
scopes.
81 Negative ElectrOns
Long before illinium was found.
or isolated" /. g., separated from
other substances so as to reveal
it's individual appearance and
characteristics, chemists and physi-
cists knew that it's positively
charged nucleus must have 81
negative electrons revolving
around it. Indeed it was called
missing element 61," just as
the two still undiscovered are
called elements "85" and "87."
These tell-tale atomic numbers"
We're first studied by the young
English physicist. Moseley, shortly
before he was killed in the world
war. They furnished a surer way
Of distinguishing the elements Of
matter than any that had been
known before. Their discovery
was due to the revelatory power
Of X-rays when employed in spec
troscopic examination. Moseley
found that all the known ele-
mentS when thus examined fell
into regular order, depending
upon the number of electrons cir
culating in their atoms. There
was also found reason for believ-
ing that there could not be more
than 90 separate elements in all.