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The Washington times., 1926-07-01
Weaknesses of the Washington
Police Force

Major Hese superintendent of police bit too quick
warning members of the Washington police force that ne
will drastic against officers who violate the rights
of citizens by beating up those under arrest entering homes
without due process of law shooting ndiscrmnatey and
otherwise conducting themselves in manner to lose pubic
respect and confidence.
Unnecessary wanon severity by policemen invading
homes and making searches without due authority the free
of pistols punishable under District statutes and police
regu' atoms
Is high commanding officers OF the police force
onld thoroughly subordinates in the
Of arrests searches seizures etc. also impress them
Nor Eeases statement function Of policemen is to
protect and defend society well as to secure obedience
to the laws.
Many happenings involving Washington policemen
increasing the good win of the public, and this
highly essential TO efficient work by the police department
is quite evident that Major Hesse will have to do some
house cleaning in the department.
The civil system selecting members of the Wash
on police force is responsible of the
Of the force This evident for long time and the
District Commissioners should ask Congress for change
The Washington police force should be made up largely Of
qualifications but recommended in such way to vouch
for their moral characters intelligence and uprghness
The pre-war force model It was composed Of
local nearby we'll youched for by people known to
the department Large numbers Of them were former soldiers
Of the regular army
Civil service examinations held far away from Washing
ton cannot possibly bring out many of the qualities or traits
Under the present methods police force recruited
from all parts of the country and comparatively little Is
OF the material DOuuu 20 INTO the
police basket that way
The pay Of washington policemen is sufficient to attract
g0Sa a h 3 s 1 q ns'f 70
without civil service examination should be allowed That
would often bring desirable material to the
thoroughly qualified and fully acquainted with local people
and conditions.
The President has the authority put competent people
Into the civil service by executive order without examination
The District Commissioners should have the privilege as
TO the Washington police and fire departments In that way
would get more policemen who know Washington and are
known to Washington people
The Washington times., 1926-07-01
Loss of Faith in Fenning, and
the Traffic Bill

Because Senator Dill Washington has lost confidence in
Commissioner Feng and doesn't want to give that official
any power than at present he blocks the passage Of
important local traffic law in the Senate.
The weaknesses and shortcomings Of the existing traffic law
manifest that the feeling to Commissioner Fennng
should not be allowed to stop the passage Of the law
The people Of Washington should not be punished account
any The traffic bill before the Senate has the
backing Of the whole Board of Commissioners of the District
of the Citizens Advisory Council and Of public sentiment
generally
Unless the law passed there viii be chaos the issue Of
operator permits loss Of much failure provide for
extension Of the signal lighting system lack of authority
woke the permits Of dangerous drivers and inability to impose
quick and punishment for classes Of drivers who daily
imperiI the lives Of Washington people
Lack Of faith in Commissioner Fennng going prove
severe handicap to the District in Congress and elsewereS
There moral side Commissioner Jennings that
committee of Congress well pass upon and it Is the moral
considerations involved that have destroyed the usefulness of
this official
For the sake of harmony and satisfactory relations between
Congress and the people of the District Of Columbia Mr. Fen
ming should resign So long he remains in public office the
PROPHECY Of his doing will be questioned in Congress and
there viii be i'll feeling and bitterness that will bode good
Tor this city.
The Washington times., 1926-07-01
By Garrett P. SerYiss.

So, too, the historical special
lists made q target Of HerOdOtus,
until 1t began to appear in spite
Of them that Herodotus knew re-
markably well what he was talk
ing about, and was able to aps
preciate legend for the sub
stantial and inspirationai truth
that was behind 1t.
And therein lies the immense
value Of the many noble legends
pertaining to American history.
To deprive the youth Of the coun-
try OF its patriotic legends Is
like depriving children OF Santa
Claus. The child spirit Of any
Christian community is darkened
when the Santa Claus story is
banished. Yet that Is confessedly
pure invention, while the his
torical legends have truth for
q basis; in no case Is any I'M
portant patriotic legend a pure
invention. It may be heightened
in the telling, it may gather ex-
traneous details in the course OF
many re-tellings, but at heart
it is true. If in some cases 1t
does not tell with exactness what
some patriotic hero or heroine
did, it tells what he or she wished
or tried to do, or what their fel-
low countrymen desired and ex-
pected to be done-and is not
that history, too? Traditions are
formed out of the atmosphere
of the times to which they relate,
and grow from the hearts of the
people concerned and are there
fore as human documents as are
meagre, unspiritual records of
bare facts, which, be it sremem-
bered, are never the whole facts
and nothing but the facts.
The absolute and complete
truth about no event can be OBJ
tanned. That is one Of the first
things that the lawyer, the judge
and the journalist learn from
active life. The truest things
known to man are the product
of the human spirit brooding
upon the events and tendencies
of the world. and such find their
most effective expression in the
legends and traditions of races
and nations.
The Washington times., 1926-07-01


~ claiming that accept it would place him under
49, embarrassing obligations
Notwithstanding the Of that this il mere
publicity stunt there is good deal 10 be said for Mr.
Lewis position
Entire freedom on the part Of writer gns fatuus
It ofthewisp which, if he follows, vii bring him to
the ditch.
There are two kinds Of masters he may have
kind is the public at large It's Of expressing
this mastery is the buying Of his books.
The other form Of control Of him consists IN the giving OF
prizes bestoWng awards the election to membership
of various bodies, and things of this kind
is the public that the safest and best master It Is the
mucabused wage system that is the best form OF rule BY
which the public governs
the people like thing they viii buy it, i they do not
like it they will not buy it.
S Like Wilson-that's all.
There many who in their contempt for the public and
in despsng the Of men, insist upon writing
what they please. The public has OF dealing
with these people, 1t simply does not buy his writings
This may sordd and unworthy method OF con-
trolling the writing man. but in the long it is the most
just.
Shakespeare in his preemnence because of the YER
dict Of any society the award Of prizes the approval
of any elect body but simply because the public likes him.
That public has passed favoraby upon the merits of
Goethe Dante and Victor Hugo They have been elected
their posts as leaders of world literature the worlds
choice
No matter what an elected clique decide and mat
ter what those charge of endowment fund think,
the permanently approved by his fellows that
by the people read him. selected for his PEDESTAL
Copyright. by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
The Washington times., 1926-07-01
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland

Mixed Grill
II Owe turns a wonan's past
IL into a shadoW-and her future
into rainbow.
The only time some women can
get a man or car going" to suit
them is when they get good and
mad-and don't care WHAT hap
pens. r.:.,
In most things, a dog Is far
wiser than a man. For instance,
g. dog loves you because you love
him-but a man usually loves you
because you don't.
The surest way to bring the
wrong man and the wrong woman
together is by trying to keep them
apart. ...
You can always tell by their eX.
press4ons, whether it's a nice, po-
lite, patient salesman who Is teach
ing a woman to drive-or just her
husband. .'....s''
A mems heart is like a sponge,
always soaked with emotions and
sentiments, of which he can
squeeze a little bit out Of every
pretty woman.
No woman can ever get used to
the sudden shock Of q man or
car back firing" when, as far as
she can see. she didn't do q thing
in the world" to cause it.
A man doesn't "get married"
He gradually becomes married,
by degrees, just as he becomes
bald or middle-aged or tipsy or
rich. A happy marriage is not
made in heaven" 1t is evolved or
developed, Ike a good habit or the
rheumatism.
Among a woman's suppressed
desires" the most intense and
burning one Is the desire to let a
man know that she's suppress.
ing" something.
A girls thoughts always run to
nnarriage-but a mans just limp
along. until they are roped, thrown
and dragged there.
The Washington times., 1926-07-01

n oMEWHERE recently I have
~ read in connection with the
problem Of preserving American
history from being "debunked,"
/. &, deprived Of patriotic senti-
ment, an admonition to preserve
the legends" Taken in a rea-
sonable sense that is excellent
advice. Patriotic legends are the
mothers milk OF nations. Only
those who would destroy all ma
tons in the vain pursuit Of an
impossible cosmopolitanism desire
the utter eradication OF the
legendary element from history.
1t is only through the jostling
of independent nations, attended
occasionally by violent clash,
that the current Of human pro-
gress is kept going. Complete
cosmopolitanism would mean
stagnation and final degeneration.
We are not all alike and we
cannot make ourselves all alike.
The. Lord introduced plurality OF
ideas and ideals into the world
when he saw that 1t was not
good that man should be alone. /"
The Washington times., 1926-07-01
SURE, LET EN-
ATTEND
!-Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman
NEAR MRS. BEEcKMAN:

NEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ VIII you please advise
whether it is proper for young
man to attend a ''linen shower
A MALE READER.
wish that could answer your
question most directly and defi-
nitely. But as a matter of fact,
there are no rules of etiquette
that govern showers. In giving
a shower, a hostess uses the
forms that are the best forms
for giving parties of all other
kinds. Now some hostesses think
that the beaux should not be in
vited to showers, and other
hostesses invite 'em. If they are
invited I see no reason why they
should not go, if they wish to.
NEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ We are having many heated
arguments as to whether one
eats or drinks soup. 1t has gone
so far thar we are betting on 1t
now!
say soup is ''eaten' and every
one is against me, saying soup is
not eaten, but is in the same
class with any other liquid. Which
Is right? e.
seats soup, except in the case
of bouillon, when 1t is served in
houillon cups. Then. after the
first two or three sips, one
drinks" the bouillon.
The Washington times., 1926-07-01

TT is not the revolution that
destroys the machinery - 1t
is the friction.-Beecher.
We do not count mans years
until he has nothing else TO
count.-Emerspn
There is only one place where
a man may be nobly thoughtless
his death-bed. No thinking
should ever be left to be done
there.-Ruskin.
Sorrow concealed, like an oven
stoppd,
Doth burn the heart to cinders'
Shakespeare.
Wit Is the salt of converse
ton, not the food.-Hazlitt.
Be silent or say something bet
ter than silence. agoras.
The Washington times., 1926-07-01


Yes, you've always felt that
BookWorms were one of the
higher biological developments
and that you, yourself, were prob.
ably in the fisnworm class. But
here's where you get a lot of
consolation. For Jeanne, who
has been a bool1worm herself,
says that they are not so much.
Dear Elsie:
Wont you say word of
warning to the people who think
that books are everything in life
the men and women, boys and
girls who have buried themselves
in books, until the real world
has lost all its meaning for
them, and they for the world.
'"I was one of them, Elsie.
with all the drama OF the
world at work around me, with
people living and dying and max
ing history under my eyes,
cared for nothing but books.
People were-jUst faces. Many
of them hideous. and nearly all
annoying to my dreams. They
Just didn't register.
probably 1 didn't register with
them, either. ] was no use to
anyone but myself, and not even
that.
What brought me out of it
was the dramatic circumstances
surrounding the death of very
dear friend. For the first time /
saw that people were books, and
that the only real books were
about real people-like Roman
RolIand's dear Jean Christophe.
ELSIE, those old sayings are
very true-'books in the running
brooks and sermons in stones
and the other one, the proper
study Of mankind IL man!
The Washington times., 1926-07-01

la.a-wst refuge Of q scoundrel"
his sarcasm cut deep beneath the
skin OF those who would make
love OF country q mere pretext
in selfish politics. What one
loves, one exalts.
There was once a school or
historians who demolished, or
imagined that they did, the whole
legendary story Of Rome. They
strove to laugh down Livy and
the other ancient historians and
chroniclers, who lived thousands
Of years nearer the events than
they did. And what had they to
offer in exchange? Only, as a
great modern historian has adj
mitted, ''cIever inductions and
subtle arguments"
The Washington times., 1926-07-01
PATRIOTISM

and taking one OF Adams ribs
out OF it made Eve. Modern biol
ogists ridicule this kind Of gen
esis but know nothing about it,
for they are not living in the Gar
den OF Eden.
There has been no second
Eden In the world since the first
was closed and barred, and from
the time when the angel with the
flaming sword was stationed at
the shut gate men have learned
that the only safe refuge In this
life is country that one can call
his own. The typical outcast is
the man without country.
When Roscoe Conkling drawled
out that patriotism was the
The Washington times., 1926-07-01
SAYINGS OF WISE MEN

An orator without judgment is
horse without a bride.
Theophrastus.
An acre of performance Ii
worth a whole world Of promise.
Howell.
Like a postage-stamp, mans
value depends on his ability to
stick to thing until he ats
there.-C hamberlain
Men should not talk to please
themselves, but those that hear
them.-Steele.
Let the great book Of the world
be your principal study.
Chamberlain.
The ass carries heavy loadsi
he won't do step without them.
The Washington times., 1926-07-01
By ELSIE ROBINSON

a DEFENSE. We have found life
difficult or distasteful. We have
grown weary Of puzzling over our
selves and over other people.
We are afraid to face conflict AMI
responsibility. We want to get
away from ito creep into hid
ing place where the din and pres
sure will not distress us.
So we creep away.
Into books.
We shake off the irritating dust
of Reality and wrap ourselves with
in the glow and sparkle Of I'm
reality. We, who were, not brave
enough to face life, experience vi
carious heroism as we follow some
lima ginary adventure through the
chapters Of story. We who were
dull, become brilliant. We who
were drab become magnetic. We
who were soiled become pure. And
the only effort required Is the
turning Of a page! In short we
drug ourcolves with thoughts.
Reading like that doesn't en-
rich life, even though the reading
may include the wisest books on
earth. Reading like that Is cow
ardly escape from life and brands
the reader as really a spineless
thing. Yet the reading of worth
while books can enrich ones life.
The Iusty low-brow, who never
reads anything but the sporting
page, and gets his human contacts
down in the iron foundry or the
freight yard, lives a more vital
life than the poor husk who draws
all his energy from the printed
page.
For something revolves within
the skull of the low.brow-some-
thing that has a warm. personal
application to actual experience
But the bookworm's skull Is only
a filter for the thoughts OF other
man.
The Washington times., 1926-07-01
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
mr.. ~ - - s., Kx1r.s41 -. sssS
The Freedom of q Writer
BY DR.. FRANK CRANE

N mR sISCLAIR LEWIS has refused the Pulitzer prize
W claiming that to accept it would place him under
49, embarrassing obligations.
The Washington times., 1926-07-01

Faces are very
interesting to mo
now. Even faces /
used to hate. 1t
helps me to watch
them in the street.
And perhaps, now,
/ can help them
too. / hope so.
JEANNE"
SET h o s e people
have buried them.
selves in books
until the r e a i
world has lost its
meaning for them
and they for the
w orld" - a n d
there's big truth
In that sentence
of Jeanne's. For
many Of us read
ing is not merely
an amusing or an
e dtfytn g re c.
reation-it Is a
WAY OUT. It is
The Washington times., 1926-07-01
Compulsory Vacations
They Date Far Back

The Rev. DR.. s. Edward Young says vacations do so
much good they should be made compulsory by law that
would compel employees for vacation and employers
let them go.
That law made long ago in the Garden of Eden The
Lord after six days work. rested the seventh day. and
ordered day every forever Thanks
that railing nearly all of have nearly yto days
ton in the year at least
The Rev Dr. Young says God in His great out doors
waits touch the noblest in u.s. The moral of that u.s.
Get AN AUTOMOBILE and go out and SEE what the
great out of doors is like"
The Washington times., 1926-07-01
TIHE BOOK.
WORM

HNHE B 90 K.
i WORM
We've always
thought that was
a title OF distinc-
ton, haven't we?
The Bookworms
themselves have
been particularly
sure Of the fact.
They've 10 k e d
down with a con-
descending squint
on the common,
u n 9 Mig h tened
herd VINO READ
nothing but the
sporting section
and the funnies.
And they made
you feel like a
telephone stu g
w h e n e v er you
blundered in t o
one of their high
no w converse
The Washington times., 1926-07-01
Sins of the Mind
Not So Bad

President Hbben Princeton tells his young gentlemen
the the mind dangerous sinful actions
fortunately that the exaggerated statement of lofty
jntslect We inherit animal impulses that constantly
buspg forth in the mind in spite Of mental inhibition.
At first learn restrain ACTIONS, much later
learn restrain THOUGHTS, ana very much later
learn to control dreams
Men wantedo their neghbors and thought about il
Often long after they had actually stopped EATING them
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-26


Greenway will
will succeeded
He had recently position
corporation which accomplished
impossible
from the of his
great
in built Ajo in the wilder
plans lmy other
the vision of all the
ac the quality of doing big
all Arizona take his place
We politicians, large and SMALL
this had given such
promise OF accomplishment for the state.
Of
Ito speak: of his OF
century ago later That fresh
the but of the country large
Personally General
m was alike to all contact captains
mining camps and the men working enjoyed the
comradeship Of Greenway.
The affection with which striking
sent on the occasion district when
for dozen
and to act surely and conceived by him
promptly met whether enterprise
act of hepuness
That was quality by in the "Rough
Riders Grenwy association that organization
resulted of the most loyal friendships ever formed
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-26
RUSSIAN EMBROGLIO.

getting modi
of
followed
marshal ride
privilege Russian foreign min
released
the nations
efforts settlement with
Chang TsoLm is
1924 dealing with
railway railway
military authority
Chinese military cheftans under leadership of the
the
selling tickets collecting the
money operating the road for their benefit
the specified being
evidently the Rus
against
trying
between
Naturally
doi
military understood from
troops the Manchurian border.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-26
DEVELOPING INSuLIN.

with interest of the
pharmacoogy in Johns
Hopkins chemically crystal
much to the
treatment of the dread diabetes Diabetes marked
emaciaton
DEATH especially after had
developed to certain
successful warding off
the Chicago
1nstiute of medicine during delivery Inun
pigs
with which it mixed had
nsun crystals
the greatest Importance
synhecaly produce in Discovery Of
crystal Abel has been considered
exact analysis of the
OF
regarded
with thankfulness
phenomena experimental
method discover
that
the investigation generic
research
research the
to IDENTIFY
intensive investigations specific lines which
practical
that defines ethic well
investigation other
prdes worldly priest
Abe's combination
while he his
practical o
nevertheless the
humanity.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-26
IN MENIORIAM.
miami Silver Belt).

Arizona has distinguished citizens in the death
General yesterday in New York following an op
famiarly known was man Oh
aniue He made brilliant records several
fields
Geenway in wars he was one OF the greatest
which the world has produced ne was
engineer; ne was
~ nqor who developed for the
treatment Of ores which wealth the copper pro
cne states and his stockholders He was
n factor in the despite his important connexions VII"
progressive tendencies
lack Greenway was Arizona His place will
long untitled
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-26
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