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The Lambertville record., 1926-09-16
Bird Widotus Don't Mourn

In bird world. widowhood does not
for long interfere with the rearing of
family. William Lyon, president OF
the Inland Bird Banding association,
saw the mate of a wren killed. Twen-
ty minutes after its death. Mrs. Wren
returned to her nest with new mate
-cappers Weekly.
The Lambertville record., 1926-09-16
Metal Base of Red Fire

The base of the red fire produced
by skyrockets, railroad flares and ro-
man candles Is a metal called stro-
mum, which Is yellowish in color.
promising deposit of this metal was
recently found in Nevada.
The Lambertville record., 1926-09-16

Don't get mean and euss because
you cant find your slippers In the
morning. Slippers never are where
you put 'em last night And, besides,
maybe YOU didn't put EN- there.-Farm
md Flreside
The Lambertville record., 1926-09-16
Uncle Eben

Religion" said Uncle Ehen, rs
great comfort. until you Begins to ar
que about il wifi de neighbors."-
Washington Star.
The Lambertville record., 1926-09-16
Put Up Good Fight

Sir Richard Grenville, vice admiral
of a British fleet, surprised off the
Azores by Spanish squadron, tried
to pass through the enemy and main
talned a 15-hours' and-to-hand fight
before he surrendered
The Lambertville record., 1926-09-16
Perseverance, Wins

It's the way man sticks to thing
that marks him as Il success or fail
ure. Many n fellow has won out at
the eleventh hour just because he
wouldn't let go. Don't be quitter.-
Harrington.
The Lambertville record., 1926-09-16
Anger Well Defined

If anger proceeds from great
cause, 1t turns to fury; if from a small
cause, 1t is peevishness; and 50 1t is
always either terrible or ridiculous
Jeremy Taylor.
The Lambertville record., 1926-09-16
MANY War Memorials

The number OF memorials erected in
the United Kingdom and on various
battlehelds in memory of those who
fell in the World war is computed at
over 5000.
The Lambertville record., 1926-09-16
MEXICO Cityls Subsurface

AS the ground on which the City of
Mexico stands was once the bed of a
lake II is not considered safe TO build
skyscrapers in that city. The highest
building there Is seven stories.
The Lambertville record., 1926-09-16
Near Enough to Bite You

'You can find the hest paying gold
mine In the world If you go after II
hard enough" says Forbes Magazine.
'It is just above your neck"
The Lambertville record., 1926-09-16
We'd Recognize Ii

Were | to paint picture called
american Life" 1t would be a woman
with much jewelry and a business man
In the background Max Nordau.
The Lambertville record., 1926-09-16
All Have Their Place

Despise not any man, and do not
spurn anything for there Is no man
that has not his hour, nor is there
anything that has not its place.-Rab-
bi Ben Air
The Lambertville record., 1926-09-16
NimbIeuess Wins Prize

Haste and rashness are storms and
tempests, breaking and wrecking bust
ness; but nimbleness is II full, fair
wind blowing 1t with speed to haven.
-Euller
The Lambertville record., 1926-09-16
Sable PHILOSOPHER

Ef some folks had been der ter give
Instructions when de worP was In de
maxim, there'd be no llvln' In it to
day.-Atlanta Constitution.
The Lambertville record., 1926-09-16
America Uses Much Timber

North America. with one-twelfth of
the worlds people uses about one half
of all the timber consumed in the
world
The Lambertville record., 1926-09-16
Britishers, Tea

More than million pounds OF tea
are required to supply the daily drink
OF the people of Great Brltain.
The Lambertville record., 1926-09-16
Horp Times Change

In the long ago Sunday was day
to think about the hereafter. not
day TO get there. -Duluth Herald.
The Lambertville record., 1926-09-16
First "a Hours of Life
Baby's Hardest Time
BY MARIE K. JOHNSON

Undernourishment is one Of the
most common Of the causes of infant
The Lambertville record., 1926-09-16
Surely a Lifetime PET

It is said that the whale lives TO be
about 400 years old. People who dis
like the idea of parting with a pet
should procure young whale.
The Washington times., 1926-04-09
Consolidation of Government
Personnel Agencies

The annual report the joint committee OF the various
war veterans organizations in the District makes clear and
strong for the consolidation into one bureau
independent bureaus now handling personnel mat
tiers in the Government civil service
The hpreaus are the Civil Service Commission the Bureau
of Efficiency the Personnel Classification Board and the
Employees Compensation Commission
ALI of these offices charged with administration Of
matters under existing and regulations pertaining
preferences in the civil service for veterans casicaons
efficiency ratings compensation etc. ana the committee went
want control and and end
alleged evasion of responsibilities They state as their firm
conviction that there will be complaints and nustices
long as responsibility for personnel matters divided
among existing agencies
The existence of four separate bureaus pointed to
evidence of watefuness nefcency and duplication the
rart of the Government Logic and call for
consolidation not only for the good Of the Government but
for welfare of civil service employees whose interests
The Joint committee charges that these four agencies
forming personnel functions of kind another at
times disagreement at others IN compeClon ana even In
actual opposition
It is maintained that record instead of four sets Of
records should be maintained Of employees and that there
would be efficient administration one set OF employees
kept these records instead Of four.
The committee absolutely in the right in saying that
there should be complete record of each empoye from
the moment he enters service until he is
retired for longevity disability in line Of duty.
The Civil Service Commission which first examines and
certfes prospective civil employees for initial appointment is
recommended as proper handle all the person
mel phases of employees but this recommendation
made it stated without personal bias or prejudice to
the other bureaus.
II IS undenably reflection intelligent Governmental
administration should continue be four
personnel agencies most of the time conflict and often
nassing the buck personnel questions that could be
easily attended to if there was one office
Congress- however responsible for this situation It
created these agencies when ought to know the value Of
consolidation any undertaking business Congress lets
the thing drift along because Of individual Congressional
head Of bureau The personal phases outweigh the best
interests Of the Government
The Washington times., 1926-04-09

A FIRST rate mathematician
"A in an excellent little book
on the fundamental principles Of
mathematics, makes this remark:
J at is a profoundly erroneous
truism, repeated by all copy
books and by eminent people
when they are making speeches,
that we should cultivate the
habit of thinking Of what we are
doing. The precise opposite is
the case. Civilization advances
by extending the number Of i'm
portant operations which we can
perform without thinking about
them"
This remark Is capital exam
pie OF the erroneous truisms' to
which even a mathematician may
be led If he applies his reasoning
to data invented in his own head
What the maker of the remark,
no doubt had in mind, is the
psychological doctrine OF habit"
as a bracer for the will and a
saver Of energy. The excellence
of this any one will clearly APP
preciate upon reading William
James utterances on the sub
ject. But that is not at all what
eminent people" mean when
they are making speeches"
The psychological rule is based
upon the preliminary assumption
that the things which are to be
done by force of habit, and there
by more quickly, easily, and eff
fectively done, are right and
reason of which have been
thought out and established be-
forehand. Now, it is just this
thinking out and weighing in ad-
vance sthat the eminent moralists,
whom the mathematician in ques-
ton satirizes, have in mind in
giving their excellent advice to
think Of what you are doing"
1t is not the WAY of doing
that they are talking about but
the EFFECT of. the doing. This
is so obvious that it seems as
tonishing that any occasion should
arise for pointing it out. Me-
chanical habit may take care OF
the way, but only examination
and reflection can determine the
character Of the effect. A man
may acquire by habitual prac-
tice the ability to handle an axe
so perfectly, without thinking
how to direct 1t, that each success
sive blow will fall at the same
spot: but, he must first be sure
that it is a wooden log and not
an iron beam that he is striking
at. He must also be awake to
any change in the object struck
at, esle he may chop off his foot.
Indeed, habit Is only a mechani-
cal excellence, and psychologists
seem sometimes to overpress It.
1t Is no wonder that the Duke
of Wellington, when someone
quoted in his presence the old
saying, Habit Is a. second ma
ture," exclaimed: "A second ma
ture! 1t is ten times nature"
That is the view of an army
commander who wishes his sol
The Washington times., 1926-04-09
FORCE OF HABIT
By Garrett P. SerViss

diers not to think OF what they
are doing, but to do, at once and
mechanically, what they are told
to do.
Makes Good Armies
Habit unquestionably makes good
armies, but are they the highest
product OF humanity's efforts,
and is it altogether true that
Civilization advances by evtend-
ing the number of important
operations which we can per-
form without thinking about
them" q
What the mathematician who
made that assertion was writing
about was mathematical symbols,
and he was showing how "by the
aid of symbolism we can make
transitions in reasoning almost
mechanically by the eye, which
otherwise would call into play the
higher faculties of the BRAIN
Quite true, and In this way
mathematics has formed a Ian
guage for itself; a language of
enormous practical importance,
but which in some of it's most
recent developments has led GER
tain mathematicians deep into the
fourth dimension" and space
time." where it's hieroglyphics as
sert things which good sense,
resting on universal human ex-
perience, cannot yet translate.
Habit can only perfect a ma
chine: it cannot invent one; and
1t cannot lead the van Of prog
ress. And machines no more
than armies are the highest pro-
duct Of mans genius.
The Washington times., 1926-04-09
INDIAN TYPES
IN TIBET

IN far away Tibet, 5000 miles
distant from the nearest
point of the American continent,
there exist true American Indian
types.
This conclusion, which throws
such important light on the ques-
ton OF the origin Of the Amer
lean Indian, is one of the pro-
foundly significant fruits Of a
remarkable journey of $4,000
miles, covering half the globe
and occupying seven months,
which DIR. Ales Hrdlicka made
under the joint auspices of the
Buffalo Society of Natural
account OF which now appears
in the annual exploration PAM
phlet of the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition.
DR.. Hrdlicka. who is curator
of physical anthropology In the
u. s. National Museum. and who
recently published a description
of the new type of white Amer
lean, undertook the journey to
survey what has been and what
is being done in the study Of
ancient man and of the fossil
apes in France, in India, in Cey-
lon, Java, Australia and South
Africa. Such a world survey Of
the position Of physical anthrop!
ology is perhaps unique, and it
produced results of great sig
nificance.
OF the types found in Tibet
land elsewhere in eastern Asia),
DR.. Hrdlicka says that they ere
so true to that of the American
Indian that It they were trans
planted into America nobody
could possibly take them for any,
thing but Indian. Men, women
and children resemble the Amer
lean aborigines in behavior, in
dress and even in the intonations
of their languages. The import
ance of the light his discovery
throws on the origin of the ma
tive Americans Is obvious.
The Washington times., 1926-04-09
ONCE-OVERS

There was time in your life when you needed money
badly.
looked down your list of supposed friends could
find to whom you felt you could go with your
story and ask for help.
Or perhaps have had the experience that others
have habitat of going supposed friends for help and
being faced with question what security you could
give for money loaned.
That question of security between friends rather shocked
you.
They wanted security you could produce and then you
told OF the enterprises in which they
gagged which took all their capital.
And you thought of other times when you sailing
along easily of these people had told of
how they always kept a little money ahead.
If the tables turned would you do that for
friend?
If so, what friend7
The Washington times., 1926-04-09

he dtdn nave to O9Ienu very
hard. either Prisons weren't
corrective institutions z They
were frankly places OF most hid
eous punishment. The men who
entered their dark walls, hale and
hearty, came out naggard, half
rotten husks. This was eminent
~ satisfactory TO those who be
lieved in the vengeance business.
Unfortunately they also came out
adopts at every sort of degen-
eracy and crime. This wasn't
quite as satisfactory
It almost made It seem as IL
this vengeance business might
prove a boomerang and that 1t
might be better to leave 1t to the
Lord after all.
However, vengeance was a lot
Of fun and we hated to give 1t
up. 1t took many hard knocks
to convince us that it was poor
economy to turn men out of
prison worse than they went in.
In fact, many of US aren't con-
WINGED yet. But, In general, the
feeling is spreading that it does
not pay to turn humans into
hyenas.
So the Black Hole and the
Straight Jacket have gone, and
New Idea has come in their
place. -
That New Idea is education.
Bad men are nearly always
poor and stupid men. As boys
they had trouble at home, failed
at school, didn't make good on
the job. Then, like the ignorant
savages they were, they turned
to the easy way of getting
money. And the easy way led to
Jail.
Obviously 1t is impossible to
keep all Of our criminals in Jail
indefinitely. 1t has become equal
ly obvious that it is most dan
gerous folly to turn them out. OF
Jail as stupid and vicious as when
they entered. So the prison has
now become what it always
should have been-an adult school
and workshop.
Will such education make all
released prisoners brilliant, law
abiding successesa BY no means.
Education doesn't make all men
outside prison walls brilliant, law
abiding successes. Why then
should it work miracles with men
who are heavily handicapped by
The Washington times., 1926-04-09
MEDITATIONSi
OF A WIFE
By Helen Rowland
These Modern Lovers

These Modern Lovers
MAN will never lose his opti-
Iv1 mism, so long as every girl
believes that he never really
loved any of the others"
When a man has lived long
enough to appreciate the impor-
lance and value of a woman's
love, alas. he is usually too old
to inspire it.
When young man tells you,
cynically, that he has no interest
in any woman on earth, you may
not say it-but you know what
you think, just the same.
IL there were only one man and
two women in the world, the man
would marry the brunette, and
spend the rest of his life trying
to flirt with the blonde.
Love, nowadays. is like the
spring weather, neither warm nor
cold, nor distinguish awfully
changeable.
OF course, a woman always
knows that a man loves her, long
before HE discovers it; but that
doesn't prevent her from yearn-
ing for a little articulate reassur-
ance, now and then, instead of
mere dumb show
Why do most men want to pet?
Well, half the time because they
haven't the brains to think OF
anything else to do, and the other
half because the girl hasn't the
brains to understand anything
else.
The heart Of woman is a sc
cret sanctuary, where she is con-
stantly burning incense and can
dies before idols of clay.
Kisses used to be given, stolen,
or exchanged: now they just
happen" and you hardly notice it.
Many a beautiful romance ends
its life as a breach Of promise
suit.
The Washington times., 1926-04-09
Nv ELSIE ROBINSO ON

only giving courses OF instruction
m manual training. and the
grammar and high school gFadee
within prison walls, but many
prisoners are also taking extern
sion courses from the various
universities and making brilliant
records in the same. The follow
ing renprt is taken from an nd
dress on university Work IN
Prisons by Mr.. Barley CTum.
one OF the instructors. II refers
TO the work being done BY the
University OF California. - foi-
lows:
..Six prisoners at San Quentin
are making q detailed study Of
income tar law. Others are
studying drawing, philosophy.
Journalism, history, French Latin,
music, and, yes biology.
"The desires and longings Of
the prisoners and their ambitions
are expressed in the essays SUD
mitted by them. Their reactions
to prison life serve to invest their
work with real interest. Strange
subjects strange to us who are
taught. to think Of the inmates
OF Or1S00S as 0u1s plO801u8 IucA
often appear. Prisoner No. 1854.
for example. writes Of the Law
OF Biogenesis,' and his papers re-
ceive the commentator Of his
instructors. Some Of the men In
prison write long religious
diatribes. They quote the Bible
voluminously. Some are even adj
vocates of stringent blue laws.
One prisoner. indeed. traces all
the evils of man to the smoking
of cigarettes. Many of the pris-
oners tell of the prison, but there
are others who ere extremely
sensitive and dislike any men
ton of the fact that they are
confined. Some OF the prisoners
write OF things which seem out
of keeping with prison life. For
example, prisoner No. S41e. who
may be confined for grand larceny
states.
Material possessions on q
grand scale, as q rule connote a
lack Of that enduring prosperity
which signifies character
Which is a far cry from the
shrek of a tortured man in a
strait jacket, isn't it?
The Washington times., 1926-04-09
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
BE Yourself
COMMON slapg phrase now is & BE yourself
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think that you deceive them AZ long g. 49,. 80 Lt
are genuine and real they know how to deal VIII nsu 49,
when they are convinced that are endeayorlns 1900
come them by trying to borrow words q achOns . =
from someone else, they do not like It
So they tell you to be yourself. -. So 49,
f course We canot express All emotions or Ieei
ings perfectly There certain amount @ ~
CURED BY ordinary decency but at least those $3.50
We express should be a
not those we think should have l....o
rood many people are sorry for themselves ncs pscase
of the hard time they have but because of tne IT, $3.50
other people think they ought 70 be having y 7
far preacher 81 an actor such one "
he is working when everybody says fna1 = = -
would honestly look at himself and consult hs oWn
alone he would realize that heis not working naIu s.
selfpity arises from sort Of borrowed no1ion = 80
selves. To.,,ss
Oliver Wendell Holmes said that there were sesera gon'
II one personthe John Isl the man Jonn snAAs ~
and the man John other people think ne Isl
everyone Of lis could distinguish between tne ~ Ws
are and the man other people think Wouu do nucn
to facilitate our getting along with each other
The Washington times., 1926-04-09
WISE SAYINGS

DOET'S should be law-givers;
i that is, the boldest lyric in
spiration should not chide and in
suit, but should announce and
lead the civil code, and the days
work.-Emerson.
A truly American sentiment
recognizes the dignity of labor
and the fact that honor lies in
honest toil.-Cleveland.
The physician heals Nature
makes well-Aristotle.
What cannot be removed be-
comes lighter through patience
Horace.
1t is folly to put the plow in
front of the oXen.-Rabelais.
No one will be more profound
ly sad than he who laughs too
much.-Richter.
Whom they have injured they
also hate.-Seneca.
We Judge ourselves by what we
feel capable Of doing, while others
judge JUS by what we have already
done.-Longfellow.
Because all the sick do not re-
cover, therefore medicine 10 not
an art.-Cicero.
The Washington times., 1926-04-09
Asking Too Much
Bootlegging Could Be Stopped

Congressman Guardia tells the House of Representatives
that booeggng carried by employees Of the Prohibition
Department and jacng by employees Of the Department of
Justice
He all Of that stopped.
He wants GOOD DEAL. Concerning prohibition the
country has just learned two tngss that you can't tell
what viii happen under prohibition until DOES happen and
second that, when it DOES happen you can't STOP it,
Criminals and have found that there
hundreds of millions of profit in the prohibition laws The
profit has increased the number Of criminals and of easy
sciences The be classes patronize the booeggers and
protect them.
You might make the Constitution respectable at least
feared you jailed the bootleggers CUSTOMER well
the bootlegger but of that would be going little
TOO far. It would be taking prohibition seriously.
The Washington times., 1926-04-09
SEA GROWS
SAFER

NOR the three years from 1922
to 1924 the number of ships
posted missing at Lloyd's aver
aged 20; last year there were
only 10. 1t is believed that this
is due to the law which requires
all ships of 1900 tons gross to
carry wireless.
OF the 10 ships missing last
year all but one were without
wireless; one, lost on the voyage
to Amsterdam, was 1850 tons.
II it had had wireless it would
almost certainly have been saved.
No doubt the law will soon be
altered to include smaller vessels
All large vessels are now equip
ped with wireless and the loss
of passenger liners is now reck-
oned one Of the imposstbiltties OF
the sea.
The Washington times., 1926-04-09
BLACKFEET
REGALIA

THE full dancing regalia of
Il the typical Blackfoot dancer
of the Glacier National Park
reservation. Montana, presents a
spectacle of bear skin and
breech cloth"
The judges cannot pin medals"
on the champions breast so they
just hang beads upon his neck
as a mark of distinction. The
tribal dance held once a year is
competitive elimination event
and the honor bead-string is
placed on the winners neck with
impressive ceremony.
The Washington times., 1926-04-09
A New Thrill

committee of Kansas City business in full page
newspaper advertisement urged flaming youth to try
new thrill on Easter Sunday by attending church.
Not bad idea, at that if it bit spectacular
The most thrilling and dramatic week in the life of Christ
came to close with the Resurrection the miracle that makes
Easter significant throughout the world.
young man young woman in search of thrills surely
could find them in the story of Holy Week And other thrills
can be found in every week Of chs thirty earth
Which is the the Bible is " the 'best seller
the world after being the booksaIs for 1000 years
The Washington times., 1926-04-09
If Russia Buys?
That Would Be Different

Russia expected to buy many American locomotives and
for REAL CASH vanishing rubles If this happens
best financial minds will look kindly upon the bright red
Bolshevists. Business is VERY softening.
Trade with Russia9 OF COURSE we with Russia.
eve trade with cannbals they have anything sell
buy said Lord Beaverbrook when he
Russia proves that she has REAL MONEY buy goods
she will learn that still depore her erontery governing
herself to suit herself But shall depore it less noy and
find to sell her many bills of goods she will buy.
The Washington times., 1926-04-09
Free Speech

The British Government has set aside additional space
Hyde Park for soap box orators Most these
tate against the British Government many of them preaching
Communism.
England doesn't want Communism than America
does but the British wise enough they
stop people from thinking and vocng their thoughts
also wise enough to realize that frank discussion Is the
Nntdote for dangerous theories
The Washington times., 1926-04-09
LISTEN WORLD!

had mental and
pllyslc inheri
lance or acquired
Education does,
however, serve 10
protest society
as well as the
mar. himself, by
developing con-
structive intelli
gence iii the pTis-
oncl We have
been amazed to
find how much
Is -.
cons rltctiye In
telligence til re n
In our prisoner
In fact. II be-
comes incr ms
IL apparent that
som 8 or oar
brig htest brains
ara on this wrong
side of the prison
wall!