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The Washington times., 1926-05-27
ThIrtY Beach Excursicns

Thirty excursions to Chesapeake
Beach this summer already have
been booked. The Business High
School Alumni Association will start
the ball rolling on June 5. and 50.
Patrick's Catholic Parish will follow
with an outing on June Il.
The Washington times., 1926-05-27
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The Washington times., 1926-08-20
Dilemma of the Commissioners
AS to School Sites

che school site situation Commissioners find themselves
an is unfortunate for the good of the District in Con-
The Commissioners doubtless recognize this In striving
to the difficulties without having to go to Congress
for solution. A. -;
nnrtant school for the next few years In making
for the purchase OF Sites Congress provoeo
that the purchase should not be above 70 per cent OF
raant alleged extorton and yrocketing Of values and
was srwd scheme the real estate assessments OF the
District Government following frequent charges in Congress
that there is under assessment here.
Properties in the District presumably assessed at 1u
vae that is approxmang the prices they would bring IN
private sales The District Assessor has heretofore partly
convinced Congress that his quite close to
sales prices there many statesmen who continue TO
harp low assessments and what they Term low TAX
here r
That the Commissioners unable to purchase schoo
within the % per cent limitation is going to AFFORD
enemies of the District in Congress the best opportunity tney
have had for further attacks and outbursts.
The District Government has the right to condemn the
properties desired but the experience Of the past has been
that condemnation uries usually sympatnze with properly
owners and nothing gained by these proceedings over
Property owners undenaby right fix their
prices on what they but the community as whole may
suffer from the situation existing.
Our efforts have been bent toward convincing Con-
rress that our property and rates have
reached the maximum for the present and that Congress
should increase the Federal Governments contributions TO
the annual District appropriation bills The effect of the
existing situation will be to sten the attitude OF enemies OF
the District Congress They will demand that property
be hoed that local revenues may be IN
creased to meet yearly increasing municipal needs
The plan to place the negotiations for purchase of school
grounds in the hands of the Tax Assessor may be intended
weapon the Assessor in future chickering's with property
enabling him to boost on certain
as SOP to Congress It will be decidedly unfair for Con-
gress attempt force cWde increases in assessments
or taxes as community punishment for the acts of few
property who are at least within their legal rights
The Washington times., 1926-08-20
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
Rr Dr.. FRANK oRANE
Progress

MR. FORD in recent article, tells what he Is dong
K to make airpanes safe and cheap as motor car
49, This economic necessity is being used Tor the PEI
lection of this vehicle of travel
This much better than government subsidy @ support
It is better any industry to grow naturally ana e
grow commercially by the law of supply and demand than
attempt to force its progress by government aid
Ford said he is looking for two thngsabity TO accom-
pish the miles per horsepower and the aDy 70
stay in the air the most hours per day. sJ
If lie these things he will make the alrplae reable
useful and capital will be attracted TO is manu-
facure
First he wants real airplane engine, air cooled ana
without electric ignition, if possible.
Second he wants absolutely dependable navigation 4
paratus.
He IS working on these points and is only matter Of
time until he succeeds
He commenced making arplanes in April 1925 50 he has
than year of experience with alketai paes
During this time the planes have been flying daily except
Sunday hundred and sixty miles to Chicago and RETURN
and hundred and twenyseyen miles TO Cleveland and
return
Not single accident has occurred this service began
and the planes ordinarily arrive on time.
This must be modified however, BY the TACT
that kirkpatrick, aviator OF the machines
was killed in forced landing in the outskirts OF Chicago
during storm on May Is 1926.
Experiments have shown thus far the cost Of trans
portaton be brought we'll within commercial limits and
the service can be made speedy and reliable.
Vixen is demonstrated that the arplane IS commercially
useful will be rapidly developed and be easily converted
into an instrument Of defense in case it is needed
Copyright The Mcciure Newspaper Syndicate
The Washington times., 1926-08-20
NAUTICAL MILES.
By Garrett P. Serviss

plying it's length at the equator
(Which Is known TO be sixty
nautical miles, by the cosine of
the latitude. With the diagram
permit me to introduce Monsieur
Sine and his heIpmeet, Madame
Cosine. The little perpendicular
line dropping from the point
marked 20 degrees to the point
"a" on the equator Is the sine
of the angle of 90 degrees, which
measures the angular distance of
the parallel of 20 degrees latitude
from the equator; and the part OF
the equator intercepted between
the point "a" and the center &C.
is the cosine of the same angle.
SO the perpendicular dropped
from 40 degrees to "b" is the
sine, and the line from "b" to
&c" is the cosine of 40 degrees
latitude.
A similar explanation follows
in the case of the latitude so de.
grees, whose cosine is &C.
Observe the general rule that,
as the sines increase the cosines
decrease. At the equator the
sine disappears and the cosine be-
comes equal to radius; at the
pole sine becomes equal to radius.
Now, as a moments thought
will show you, the cosine of the
angle representing any latitude
may be taken as the radius Aof
circle drawn round the earth at
that latitude. in a plane at right
angles to the earth's axis. At
the equator the cosine (radius)
OF the latitude attains its max
imum: at 20 degrees IT Is a little
shorter; at 40 degrees consider
ably shorter: at 60 degrees it is
only half as great as at the
equator.
But the circumference Of every
circle equals twice its radius null
tiplied by the number called "pi,"
which never changes its value,
being always about STAG; &C.
cordingly the distance around the
earth in any latitude whatever
must be proportional to the radius
at that latitude, or which is The
same thing, to the cosine Of the
angle OF the latitude. And what
is true Of the entire circumfer-
ence is true of any given part
or 1t, such as single degree.
Now, We have seen that the
length of a degree on the eGuato"
is 60 nautical miles; then what,
by the rule, must it be at 20
north latitude? From trigo.
nometrical table we find that thu
cosine of 20 degrees is the dec:.
NAL fraction 0.93969. and multiply
ing so by this we get 56.3S nau-
tical miles for the length of a
degrees OF longitude at 20 de
grees latitude. The cosine OF 40
degrees Is O766. which gives 1875
miles for latitude 40 degrees. For
60 degrees the cosine is O.9, AMI
that gives 30 miles for the length
of longitude degree at 60 degrees
latitude. TO change these INTO
ordinary miles multiply by l'loI'
594.
The Washington times., 1926-08-20

tsYet outside this pacifist line he
seems like Good Egg. Maybe
If you'd write something against
it he'd get on to himself. for he
reads your stuff. Knock that
other cheek theory. won't. you?
That's what he banks on, but
tell him no regular guy would
fall for such line"
Yes, Al. l used to feel that way
about that, ''other cheek text,
too. Remember how it goes
Love your enemies, do good to
them that hate you. Bless them
that curse you and pray for them
Z which despftefully use YOU. And
unto him that smiteth thee on the
one cheek offer the other also and
him that taketh away thy cloak
forbid not to take thy coat also.
Doesn't sound much like red
blooded advice, does it? Might
have been all very we'll for
Hebrew visionary, but for a two
listed Notwithstanding doing.
That's the way / felt too, Al.
But /. don't feel that way any
more.
Il We IENeO quite Iul SAiS0 =
first snorted my contempt of that
passage. I've had my cheek smit'
ten many times and my cloak
taken. And I've tried various
methods of rebuttal, most of them
extremely violent. For / wasn't
going to let anyone affront my
pride and get by with it--no
stree.
But, have come to realize that
my methods didn't work. They
didn't protect my pride for shucks.
There's only one plan for the
proud person and that plan is to
TURN THE OTHER CHEEK.
You see it's this way. AL.
There are all kinds of pride.
There's the pride of monkey
over the length of his tail.
There's the pride of baby over
a mud pie.
There's the pride of some men
over things that are sillier and
dirtier than babies mud pies.
Pride of money, pride of clothes,
Pride of place-pride of fame
that passes like A wsp of smoke
Little, brittle prides that break
SO easily.
And then there's that marvel
The Washington times., 1926-08-20
By ELSIE ROBINSON

And, of course, that's the Only
pride that really counts.
You can't unless you're mon.
kew. be proud of the length Of
tailor of a pocket book or
fur coat or any such trivial mat
ter. You can't unless you
child be proud of mud pies.
There's only one thing yon CAN
be proud of, il you're an inteAl'
gent, sensitive person. and that y
YOUR TRUE SELF.
And il you've really become
proud OF your Self you are going
to hold that Self high above
cheap distractions and disturb
ances.
So now we come to that cheek
slapping business.
Suppose you have come to love
and rejoice in that secret sell
which rises in your life like
tail white tower. And then some
body slaps your cheek. or steals
your cloak, or tells a vicious story
about you or does you IN
business deal
Are you going to forget your
pride and dignity and rush into
brawl because some lesser spirit
has affronted you? Are YOU
going to act as If yeur life could
be wrecked by a slap or the
theft of a cloak. or a bit q
gossip or the loss of a few dol
lars? Are you going to throw
open the doors of your tall citadel
and let hate and stupidity ana
fear come swarming in simply
because someone has slapped your
cheek?
Or are you going to stand
staunch and serene and say--"Go
on and gossip. If that is the
measure of your soul. Go on and
steal and slap and see il ! care.
You're fooling yourself IL you
think that such viciousness and
vulgarity can wreck my life. 4
have something more valuable to
defend than cheek or cloak
or a purse. And just to prove
there's the other cheek. What's
a cheek, anyway"
Which would you do?
Which is the act OF the PROUD
man?
tCopyriEht. 1895. by King
Features Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1926-08-20

You remember old picture of the fat beer drnker and
the little dog fat gentleman his stomach sticking out
about yard is looking all around saying Dogge dogge
where is that-dog?" And all the while the little dog is sit
ting hind legs out of sight under the fat mans stomach
That popular picture in the days Of light beer and
plenty of it. '>s.
This by Robert Carr in the Bridgeport Post is the
picture of today
grown big powerful that can't SEE the
supposed to lock it up in jail
The old beer drinker asked where is that-dog? The
modern bootlegger asks Where IS that cop prohibition
officer?"
When bootleg sees the officer sometimes it SHOOTS him.
sometimes it DEFIES him. quite often it BUYS HIM
This excellent picture Of bootleggng and prohibition as
really recommended to the attention of those who
think that law be enforced when workngmen DISLIKE
it. and rich men DESPISE it.
The Washington times., 1926-08-20
Another World Wonder

Brothers have made gigantic step into the future
Of the motion picture by sponsoring the Vitaphone.
Vtaphone is the invention that brings the motion picture
m You hear the marve of symphony orchestra
while you the musicians play you Martinelh
acting of his famous operate roles and hear his glorious
voice.
Vitaphone has put the breath of life into the puppets
the to be the greatest advance films
made since the genius of Zuko Griffith and others guided
the Of the nckelodeon into it's presenday
The Warner Brothers have earned their niche the
HISTORY Of moyiedom.
The Washington times., 1926-08-20
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland
His Wife's Vacation


WHAT wonderful time man
w could have. during his wife's
summer vacation. If it weren't
for her weekly letter-and the at.
tached QUESTIONABLE!
But, alas, just as his cup OF
joy seems to be full, she JogGles
his elbow, with the reminder that
she's coming home soon"-and
all all the bliss gets spilled.
Still, while it lasts, it is a string
of golden moments and simple
joys.
There's the morning bath, with
nobody to tell him to pick up
the towels and hang up the bath.
mat''-and nobody to rap on the
door and ask him to stop sing
ing and turn off the water
minute. she wants to SAY some
thing"
There are his shaving tools
lying spread out. just where he
left them, with nobody TO disturb
them or remind him that they re
in the way.
There are three pairs of his
pajamas hanging wherever he
threw them, and nobody to hide
them in the closet or confiscate
them for the laundry.
There are his shoes under the
hed-ALL of them-with nobod"
to pair them off or whisk them
away into a dark impenetrable
corner.
There are the weeks news
papers, living around almost any
where.-and nobody to stop MIN
from throwing his ashes on them,
or To stoop down and pick them
up with the virtuous air OF
martyr and the dumb reproach Of
q dog.
There ia the electric fan STILL
GOING when he wakes up in the
morning, and nobody to take all
the pep out OF it's comforting
breeze with crushing remarks on
his Extravaganza
There is the storm in the night.
with nobody to make him get up
and close all the windows or let
the cat in.
And there is the screen door
wide open all day, and nobody
to reproach him for letting in the
flies.
There is the dust on the piano
and nobody to forbid him TO
throw his hat and drape his wet
raincoat across 1t.
And there are all his cropes
and his wifes friends feeling
sorry for him." and inNitng
him 10 dinner and "coddling"
him over the week.ends-and no.
The Washington times., 1926-08-20
SAYINGS OF WISE MEN

no a reasonable creature. that
alone is insupportable which is
unreasonable: but everything rea-
sonable may be supported.
-Epictetus.
He who has truth at his heart
need never fear the want of per-
suasion on his tongue.
-Ruskin.
We are never so happy or SO
unhappy as we suppose.
La Rochefoucauld.
1t belongs To human nature To
hate those you have injured.
-Tacittls.
What Is we'll done is done
soon enough. -Du Bartas.
The Washington times., 1926-08-20

Title and ancestry render .
good name more illuStrious. but
an i'll more contemplate. go
Addison.
An appearance Of delicacy. and
even ''of fragility. is almost es,
sential to beauty. Burke.
A speculative despair is i'm.
pardonable. where it is our duty
to act. Burke.
Prudence and good breeding
are in all stations necessary.
Locke.
No liberal man would impfte
a charSe Of unsteadiness 10 an
other for having changed his
opinion. --Cicero.
The Washington times., 1926-08-20

nMR FORD, in recent article tells what he = doms
MI to make arpanes as safe and cheap as motor cars
49, This economic necessity being used for the pes
The Washington times., 1926-08-20
LISTEN, WORLD!

Gus pride Wlticli
makes life al
over for us IL
once We glimpse
that pride III
the firrnness and
strength a h 4
dignity az our
own spirits.
This pride has
nothing to 10
with conceit. It
is as far re-
moved from ~
ceit as q star
is removed from
a glow worm.
It is. in truth,
a STAR star
set high IN the
black night 81
human ignor
ance.
We rise A.
We grope toward
greater strength
.,skI.fx, s,4rraoI Eaa
The Washington times., 1926-08-20

HHERE d a Tel.
u low in AIS
office who is a
ipacifist.
He SAYS so
himself. Doesn' I
: believe in fight
in &. @ U o I e 8
that Bible quota.
ton about turn.
ing the other
cheek. j u st
smiles W h e n
they razz him.
T o m a k e 1t
worse, he's a big
husky who could
handle any two
of them with
one arm tied.
"B ut there
, must be some
thing v clio W
about him or
he wouldn't act
the way he
The Washington times., 1926-08-20
DEAR MRS. BEECkMAN:

AEAk MR0. bLESnM AN
II Please tell me if it is proper
to eat my salad after the soup or
after the first course?
2. What is the proper way to
.'devour" club sandwich? Some
times | am almost tempted to grip
it in my fists. NJ. ID.
the salad, if it is eaten as a
course is eaten after the roast
course. If it is not eaten as Il
course, YOU eat it when you wish
to. usually with the roast course.
,. "Devo:;ss" is the word for the
way most people eat club sand
wich. But | am not in sympathy
with your statement that you are
tempted to grip it in your lists,
for l think that this caVeman
method of eating one OF these
skyscra erps is the most difficult
one of all The temptation that
one should obey is the urge to use
your knife and fork, instead of
YOUR fingers. CTt small piece
at a time. and concentrate on pa
thence ane leisure.
Mrs. Reeckman will gladly
answer questions on etiquette
submitted by readerSl
The Washington times., 1926-08-20
A WEEK-E
VISIT
mrs. Cornelius Beeckman

DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
r HAVE "boy friend" who is
Il not living in town at present
1t would be proper for him. or
rather his parents. to invite me
to their home for few weeks.
would it not? No. We are no;
+ engaged. He Is almost 90 and ]
am 10.
2. If it is proper for me to
accept this invitation is he to pay
my railroad fare?
3. If a girl invites a young
man he pays his own fare. does
he not?
4. When sitting at a table
does the gentleman sit to the
girls right or left? When sit
ting on a lounge, or each sit.
ting on separate chairs near each
other, where does the gentleman
sit-left or right?
WANT. TO DO RIGHT"
Answer:
1t Is correct for the mother Of
the ~young man to invite you
in their home. Such friendly hos,
pitality is correct whether or not
you are engaged.
2. No. The railway fare has
nothing to do with the visit, and
the girl should pay her own fare
if she comes alone.
3. Yes,
4. The rule of etiquette is 1.-The
lady on the right OF the gentle
man" Although this is by no
means always maintained it Is
we'll for gentlemen TO remember
this.
The Washington times., 1926-08-20

WVoUR articles are an edu,
i cation In themselves, and
I have been making a collection
of them for several years and
have had occasion to apply the
knowledge have sgained. | now
ask you to write about the
changes of distance Of longitude.
At the equator there must be
greater distance between longi-
tudes than, say, at so degrees
north, Are there any rules by
which one can measure the width
in miles between the longitudes
shown on the map? Or Is one
degree everywhere the same num-
Der of miles?-Amateur NaVi'
gator, New York"
A degree of longitude at the
equator is 60 miles long; at the
poles it's length is Zero; be-
tween the poles and the equator
the length varies with the latl-
tude. The miles here mentioned
are nautical miles" i. e., the
sailors miles, which are called
KNOTS" The mile that we or
dinarily use is the geographical
mile" which is $3.50 feet long.
while the length of the nauticai
mile is equivalent to one minute
of arc in angular measure; SO
that since there are 21,6OO MIN
utes of arc in a complete cir
- conference, the distance around
the earth at the equator is IL
500 nautical miles. We call It,
in round numbers, $4,000 ordinary
miles. The length Of a single
degree of longitude on the equator
is little over 60 ordinary miles
"Sine and COsine."
Now. If you wish to use the
rule for calculating the length
Of a degree of longitude any
where between the equator ana
a "cosine" is; in other words,
you must learn a little trlso'
nometry. 1t is as easy as roll
ing off log.
The rule says that the length
OF degree OF longitude In any
latitude may he found by multi
body to core plain of his being late
for meals or not relishing the
stew.
And there is the dog to greet
him at two A. NJ, with real re-
ioicing in his bark, and nobody TO
ask him where he has BEEN
all this time" or to lie awake
and get a headache listening for
his latch-key
Oh YES, there is EVERYTHING
to make a man comfortable, care.
free and supremcly happy! Ana
Observation-Disclosures is the
WIFE," Back again-just as she
threatened! And his Golden Days
are over, All me-
Copyright. 1926. by King
Features Syndicate, lnc.I
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-18
Governor Will Speak
Today in Interest of
Bay State Senator
Will Be Main Speaker at Copley
Plaza Hotel Luncheon Under
Auspices of Women's Repub-
lican Club-To Speak On
Greater Economy Among
State Governments Along
Line Coolidge POlicies-TO
Convey Message of Govern
Or'S Conference

Governor Ralph o. Brewster will
be the guest of honor and principal
speaker at a luncheon given by the
Women's Republican Club of Massa-
at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston.
The gathering, which is being held
in the interests of the Butler sena-
torial candidacy, will be one of the
most important Republican rallies Of
the year. Senator William NJ. Butler,
who was President Coolidge's cam
paign manager at the 1ast presiden-
tial election, is q candidate for re-
election in Massachusetts, November
Besides Senator Butler and Cover
nor Brewster, Governor Alvin L.
Fuller of Massachusetts and Mayor
Malcolm Nichols of Boston and many
others prominent in Massachusetts
Republican circles will be present
and will speak briefly. Governor
Brewster will speak on ways and
means of obtaining greater economy
among the State governments along
the line of the Coolidge policies and
will bring q message to the people of
Massachusetts from the United
States Governors Conference of
which he has twice been elected
president. The Governor will leave
Augusta at 420 A. NJ, today return
ing at p. NJ.