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The Washington times., 1926-04-13

her shoulder. She thinks I'm
going to disagree with, her and
fight back. I'm not.
I don't deny than newspapers
print rot" And / frankly de-
plore the fact that fifteen-year
old girls should come in contact
with such scandal. Nevertheless
/ think the lady has the wrong
slant. So I'm going to give a
friendly answer not only to her
letter, but to the scores of sim
liar letters which pour in to
every editorial desk.
Do newspapers print rot?
They do.
But how can they help it?
A newspaper is a public carrier
of news just as q train is a
public carrier of people.
A train doesn't carry only nice,
respectable people-people whom
the railroad commission would
admit into their homes. A
train carries all sorts OF people.
Bad people, sick people, lazy
critters, malicious schemers,
thugs and degenerates. A rail-
road could not refuse to carry
all sorts of people. It's char
ter is based on the understand
ing that it viii carry all sorts
of people. Obviously the people
who run railroads know that such
people do much harm in their
journeyings about. Nevertheless
they must assist them to journey
If they pay the price.
The same rules that govern rail-
roads govern newspapers.
A newspaper carries all sorts
of news, just as train carries
all sorts of people. 1t doesn't
merely carry nice, clean, respec-
table news, such as the decent
editor and respectable writer's on
that paper would prefer to write
and read. It carries reports of
all things that happen in our
busy world. Many of those things
sicken and anger the people who
must write about them. But they
can't refuse to write for that rea-
son. They must do what the news
paper has promised to do--they
must give the people NEWS.
You may not consider divorce
scandals or murder details fit
news" to go into YOUR home.
but thousands of other people do
consider them fit news. Thou
sands of other people want to
read about that scandal or hear
those details. And. as a public
carrier, the newspaper must con.
vey trash as we'll as valuable in
formation. It has no choice.
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ONE of the oldest and most
" honorable institutions Of Great
Britain, the Royal Society, the
rest of whose name. for I'm
proving Natural knowledge" In
dicates the aim Of it's founders.
is reported to be in danger OF
turning Sir Oliver Lodge out of
it's doors because he believes in
"spiritualism" and communica-
ton between the living and the
dead.
That would be an act Of folly,
that would smirch the reputation
OF one of the greatest of the
worlds scientific associations. 1t
would be an exhibition of in
tolerance at which the opponents
of science-and let us not forget
that it has very bitter opponents
would be entitled to point the
finger of scorn."
l do not at all believe in
"spiritualism." | think that Sir
Oliver Lodge Is mistaken when
he supposes that he receives
messages from dead persons, or
conVerses with them or sees their
forms. I feel both surprise and
regret that a man of his great
scientific abilities should sub
scribe to such a creed. But |
do not think that in doing so
he causes any harm to the Royal
Society or to the cause of sci
The Washington times., 1926-04-13
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland

Trousers
THERE is nothing else in the
Il world which man takes so
seriously as his TROUSERS!
Yet. looking at a pair Of trous-
ers, purely accidentally, it is
difficult to see how he CAN take
them seriously.
Whoever invented trousers had
either a keen sense of humor or
a misguided urge to make the
world safe for modesty.
Modesty is a beautiful thing
but, after all, the average man
could safely display his calves
without being TOO much of a
temptation to the women.
Even golfknickers, which are
the most picturesque. becoming
and comfortable thing a man can
wear. have not entirely under
mined woman's morale.
Apparently, a mans whole life
is centered around his trousers.
The proudest moment Of his ex-
istence is that in which he puts
on his first long trousers! And,
next to that, his greatest thrill is
his first pair OF white flannel
trousers.
Tell a man that the country
Is going to the dogs or that he
is getting bald. and he will re-
main unperturbed-but tell him
that his trousers are slipping. and
il is as though the world were
Keeling from under him!
You may rub powder into
mans coat lapel or rain tears
down his waist coat; but beware
how YOU trifle with the integrity
of his white flannel trousers. A
single spot upon them will blot
out all Iife's brightness for him.
The greatest crime that a bride
can commit is to hang her hus.
bands trousers upside-down across
the chair. That is the unpardon-
able indignity which makes him
wonder for the first time why he
ever married her.
Trousers are like typeWT1ters
and automobiles. Some great
genius is always inventing a new
Improvement" to make them
harder to understand. Never, un.
til a woman tries to put a new
pocket in her husbands trousers,
does she suspect all their secret
combinations and mysteries.
Tbore ara uoore belts tabs
bands. straps, buttons and In.
genious devices on mans
trousers than there are breakable
amendments to the Constitution.
Their initial cost is comparatively
little-but their upkeep is simply
tremendous.
When men wore petticoats. they
had more time to make love and
write poetry. Look at Solomon,
who wrote the worlds greatest
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Mr.. Vanderbilt Returns
He Has Done Useful Work. He Might Do Work Much
More Important
The ONLY THING THAT MAKES WEALTH USEFUL Il
IMAGINATION. :

The ONLY THING THAT MAKES WEALTH USEFUL Is
without imagination rich goes through life Like Al
horse dog with kind supplying its wants The
for his owner That takes care him nothing
But wealth PLUS IMAGINATION do anything.
The ROcefeers John D. Senior and Junior have magna-
to fight disease and have given literally hundreds Of millions
to education and to science.
King Fuad the First of Egypt that the of the old
Nile land may be properly housed and md cared for
lions established magnificent university.
Mrs Phoebe Hearst combined great fortune with magma
Mr. Garter who discovered Tut-Ankh-Amens tomb was
by Hearst her direction he there made
excavations and collections that she the university at
Berkeley.
The Jacques Occur Of the old days
poured his fortune protect his
native land he got poor reward often happens when
you put your trust in princes.
Mr. Vanderbilt shows imagination in the large
fortune inherited from his father built up originally by
Cornelius Vanderbilt. his great grandfather
Mr. Vanderbilt just returned in his yacht from the Gala
ploraton collecting strange animals fishes and other creatures
many heretofore unknown to science
Among other things Mr.. vanderbs expedition captured
and little known dwarf sharks than six
inches long.
Mr. Vanderbilt doubtless he
that swimming around from the deep pools in Wall
Street. after he and his brother and sister had inherited his
What other things might young Mr. Vanderbilt and other
young that inherit great fortunes do they developed
from their fortunes all the power that is in them.
Money is frozen thought and labor Men that work day
after day spend PART of what they produce for their
living The balance goes profit" to build up great
fortune for Rockefelers Vanderblts Gouds Astor
As human intelligence and labor that money
created it, human intelligence and labor be taken out
of that to be set free in useful work. directed by
imagination.
Mr. Vanderblts reatgrandfather had imagination and
intelligence enough that the stage coach thing
the past that the steam railroad the thing of
He went into the railroad business. That's why this Mr.
Vanderbilt has big yacht.
This Mr. Vanderbilt of the first to appreciate
the automobile His white Ghost raced Long
Island with him at the wheel when he boy.
With part of his fortune, plus his greatgrandfather
imagination he might do with the flying machine what his
cestor did with railroads. PERHAPS HE WILL.
W. K. Vanderbilt and his brother Harold, intelligent
But both like other of the rich start life with
q terrific handicap
Putting thousand pounds the back of young race
horse wouldn't be bad loading the weight of fifty
Allien dollars on the ambition Of young
The Washington times., 1926-04-13
1926 Ananias

IBID I ever lie to promote prohi-
IL bition? Decidedly, yes. / have
told enough lies "for the cause"
to make Ananias ashamed of him.
self. The lies that 1 have told
would fill a big book.
Butt have never lied to any
of my associates and l have never
lied to the public. l have told to
sinners a thousand lies for the
purpose Of decoying them into
telling the truth.
| am not seeking to defend this;
only to state the fact that my
conscience does no annoy me for
it and to insist that I would do
it again if the occasion arose.
William f. c'Pussyfoot'O John.
son, in Hearsts international.
COSMOPOLITAN
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prefer the interests of mankind
to any narrow interest of their
down. Woodrow Wilson.
But blind to former as to future
fate,
What mortal knows his pre-exist.
ent state? pope.
No time to break jests when
the heartstrings are about to be
broken. Fuller. /
To accept q favor is to sell
ones own freedom. --Syrus.
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SAYINGS OF WISE MEN

WHAT a heavy burden. The
w lofty pine is oftenest
shaken by the winds; high towers
fall with a heavier crash: and
the lightning strikes the highest
mountain. Horace.
He who allows himself to be
insulted. deserves to be so; and
insolence, if unpublished. in
creaseS. -COrnellle.
Only free peoples can hold
their purpose and their honor
steady to a common end, and
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MI -, wants n11n.i to
no w W h y
news p a p d r .
print rot ]"
Last mig h t
she caught her
IL teen-y ear-old
girl reading the
details Of that
sslo we n e s t.
scandal and she
thin ks its
about time this
sort of thing
. h o uld stop.
Somebody ought
to enter a pro
test against the
sort of filth
n . W apapers
5 e n d / n t o
homes. /"
MRS. EIkins
writes as If she
had a chip OH
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One Bad Point

1t would be a great pity and an
equally great misfortune If science
should begin to invite the reproach
of intolerance. There is just the
shadow of a suspicion that it's i'm
mense specialization may eventu.
ally tend In that direction. If the
American Association for the Ad-
Vancement of Atheism should find
members4Among the ranks of scien-
lists 1t Is safe to predict that they
Will come from the most extreme
specialists. The inhabitants Of "A
deep hole may see one star in the
sky, but the hea Vens are concealed
from him.
Broad, connected studies in sci.
ence. II they lead to no proof of the
existence of a spiritual element in
man and in the universe, also fail
utterly to furnish disfroof of such
existence. The reason is because
they do not stand on the same
plane with what we call the spirit
ual.
There appear to be minds which
cannot conceive the existence of
spirit as Contrasted with matter.
just as there are eyes unable to
perceive certain waves of light. 70
such minds Oliver Lodges asser.
ton that there are spiritual beings
far superior to ourselves in the
universe, and even in this world.
seems nonsense; while to others it
appears self-evident, without any
regard to the peculiar doctrines of
''spirituaIism."
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LISTEN WORLD!

"B ut surely
there's no law
against q news
paper not print
ing such disgust
ing 3 stories"
cries Mrs. Elk
ms. "It really
ISN'T like q
railroad for q
railroad has no
6 h o ice in the
matter and q
newspaper has
Now and then
there Is O. news
paper that r.
fuses to print
such m after.
Then why don't
ALL newspapers
refuse 2"
You're rig h
there Is no ac-
tual legal statute
which makes .
uawaDauer print
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Would Harm Science

/ believe that In driving out
for such a reason, man who,
during a long generation, has
been one OF its most conspicuous,
active, and useful members, the
society would harm itself and
harm the cause of science, while
doing nothing whatever toward
enl1ghtening the public mind OH
the real nature of "spiritualism''
and the claims made in it's be-
half. On the contrary, 1t would
strengthen the support Of the
spiritualistic cult, for the most
dangerous ally that any cause
can admit into its camp is preju-
dice.
If the Royal Society had turned
women to hide behind his skirts!
He had no trousers to absorb and
distract him! 1t was easy to
love Solomon, in all his glory.
But what proves the power and
beauty of Woman's love Is her
ability to love man in Oxford
Bags.
There is one bright hope, how.
ever. Now that women, them
a fad. they are beginning to look
positively effeminate! And, the
first thing we know. man will
either invent some more rational
garment-or go back to petticoats!
The Washington times., 1926-05-04
FLOW Of BLOOD.
MEASURED

ATLANTIC CITY. May "A
perfected method FOR measuring
the speed of the flow of blood in
body without letting any Of the
blood. was announced here at the
opening session OF the eighteenth
annual convention of the American
Society for Clinical Investigation
DIR. Herman GIumgart and DIR.
Soma Weiss. of the Thorndyke
laboratories OF the Boston City
Hospital made the announcement.
The specialists have spent two
years experimenting on one an
other and on other persons.
The method is tne injection of
an active radium deposit into the
left arm. and the watching, with
an electroscope, for the carnations
The Washington times., 1926-05-04
ID. c. SOPRANO 5
DEBUT GOOD
By JESSIE mcbride

Henriette LeMenager made q
highly successful recital debut last
evening in the Willard ballroom.
This soprano Of washington, who is
pupil of Myron Whitney, has been
progressing steadily since, two
years ago, we heard her in one of
Rollin Bonds light operas with the
"washingtonians'' and thought that
surely a stage career awaited her.
Today, she comes with grand
opera possibilities into which she
not alone puts charm of voice that
has yet hidden powers in it, but
also charm of personality and that
delightful thing esprit" thats IS
born, not made.
She sang the Gounod King Of
Thule" and the Jewel Song, CIV.
ing the entire Faust scene, in the
music, and disclosed such loneliness
In voice, the rare overtones that
mean bloom and youth, and also
such finesse in phrase that 1t quite
forecast her as Marguerite or
Mimi, or any of the younger roles.
There was also real style in her
Donaudy "Spirate pur spirateD and
a charming legato and mellowness
in her Chuck. But this little lady,
with beauty and viyacity, is essen.
tally fitted for humor and the
legitimate light opera field. she
sings the modern, however, with
such nicely of appreciation in IN
donation that her Debussy was real
ly gratifying, her huge Hymn to-
the sun by Georges decided sur
prise for sustained force and com.
manding power, though still in the
bud.
She sang a Schumann and
Grieg that were too mature for her.
She caught rare quality Of olden
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type with ultra cadence in the
winter Watts Little Shepherds
Song" that SAL her musiciansfip
has a keen instructive quality.
Five encores were demanded. She
gave real pleasure.
And George Wilson at the piano
gave the support that this rare ac-
companist always does. Durward
Bowersox. violinist. assisted with
several solos in which an ornamen-
tai technique was effective, though
it comes dangerously near to over
shadowing the real music.
The Washington times., 1926-05-04
'NOATED CASTLE
HAS Ghost
n international news Service

IONDON May American
visitors to England on the look.
out for moated-granges and haunt.
ed ancient feudal houses should so
ia the picturesque Norfolk village
az ScoIe, where they will find In
the White Hat Inn there the inn
Of their dreams-an Elizabethan
mansion, with oak beams and brick
work, complete with ghost cheap.
The ghost, Il vouched for by
MRS. Anne Devereaux, the man
8 peress. who has had to vacate her
room after she stood the ghostIy
yisitations for five nights.
The apparation takes the form
OF a wl1ite-robed woman, who al
ways carries light with her.
The Washington times., 1926-05-04
COST Of ROADS
HAS DROPPED

CHICAGO, Ill, May I. American
engineers can construct enduring
roads for one.twentieth OF what Il
cost the highway builders Of an.
Gent Egypt and Rome. according
to & bulletin Of the American Re.
search Foundation.
'Cheops, builder Of the Great
Pyramid and father Of road max.
.ing. who reigned 5000 year ago,
says the bulletin, employed 1O0,.
900 Of his subjects for ten years
under the blazing African sun TO
construct road from the quarries
to the site OF his pyramid, 80 that
great blocks Of stone might be
moved. The cost Of this work was
incalculable.
.aThe Appian Way. built by APP
The Washington times., 1926-05-04

to arrive at the right arm after
having passed through the heart
and lungs.
IN a normal person, the doctors
said, this passage takes from is
to 20 seconds. 81
In diseased person it takes
anywhere from As to so seconds.
It is non-poisonous and has no
physiological effect.
The Washington times., 1926-05-04
Motorists Warned
to Test Lights
aTeaf Yollr IIeadliglts. 2

This warning was issued to
Washington motorists today by
Director Of Traffic Eldridget'
Assistant Director NIOller and
Inspector Brown. Of the Traf-
fic Bureau:
Not enough drivers are tax.
ing advantage of the headlight
testing stations at 1903 + st.
N. W., where free adjustments
are made by a. mechanic on
duty from o'clock p. m. uIa.
I'll midnight, officials said.
The Washington times., 1926-05-04
Blonde Kid, Gray Kid, Dull Kid,
Blonde Satin, Black Satin. Patent
Leather, Calfskin

The greatest shoe values the Basement
has ever offered-2.2OO pairs of shoes in
the seasons smartest patterns, marked
at this extremely low price for tomorrow
only. You'll have to see the merchandise
to realize the true values. All styles, all
heels. Sizes to s, in most every style.
The Washington times., 1926-05-04
BRIDE TAKES POISON
AFTER ROW WITH MATE

pHTLADELPHIA, May Love
at first sight. d few hours wooing
and then wedding bells; realization
IN 4 few days, separation in three
weeks: poison and q hospital bed
That. Iii brief, Is the experience u
Mrs. Frances Jeffries. 2 of Georges
Lane. wynncfield. She Is II 9 critl-
cal condition In the Hahnelnann Hos.
pitai. suffering from the effects 0f
poison she swallowed upon ths
threshold Of her husbands domicile
She was from small town ~
Oklahoma. He. WfIfred Jetfries, ~,
4 non.corlnissione officer IN the
flying service Of the Canadian forces
overseas during the World War, was
nom an interior province Of Canada.
The Washington times., 1926-05-04

MO matter where it is, how bad
IN it hurts, how long you've
had it, or what kind of corn it is,
@Gets-It" will stop the pain in 5
seconds. All pain goes at touch.
Then the corn shrinks up and goes
away altogether. You walk, dance,
wear tight shoes all you want. For
your own sake try "Gets-It." At
druggists. Costs only a few cents
for several months supply.
The Washington times., 1926-05-04

ni,,a CIaudius III $50 b. q, would
cOet 500 100000 to duplicate today,
Ecientists estimate, or an average
81 $500, 900 mile. This highway
sc 36O miles "A & solid strip Of stone
and mortar three feet deep.
!" America builds n1Ore miles q
highway In q single day than the
The Washington times., 1926-05-04

THE reason some children dont
4 eat their oatmeal without urg-
ing is that they're not given the
right kind.
There is a great difference in the
flavor of oats. And flavor. above
al things, is needed to win child's
appetite.
Quaker Oats has unique flavor;
: rich and toasty flavor you'll find
Ii no other brand. That is why mill
lioas will accept no other kind.
Quaker milling, too, retains much
Of the bulk" of oats-which makes
laxatives less often needed. Protein,
carbohydrates, minerals. vitannines
and this "bu1k" make Quaker Oats
"a excellent food balance.
Today, get Quick Quaker Cooks
ii 8 to 5 minutes), or regular Quaker
Oats as you have always knoWn
them. Grocers have both kinds.
The Washington times., 1926-05-04
THE PRESIDENTS
ENGAGEMENTS

$50 a. m.-Meeting Of the
Arlington Memorial Bridge
Commission.
1890 a. NC Cabinet.
IL nOoT-WasIIingtOn CORE
SpOndents.
1875 D. m.-Harry T. Hall
and party.
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'"GETS:lr:
POSLAM BEGINS
TO HEAL YOUR
SKIN AT ONCE

You don't have to guess whether
PosIam is doing you good. You
KNOW it is because the very first
appIication stops all the itching and
your tortured skin feels cool and
comfortable at last. 'Poslam is so
concentrated that single box will
often heal the stubbornest eruption.
At all druggists, soc.
- write for special test box
P0sLAM CO.
243 west 4zth Street
~ New York Cfty
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On the Job

On the JOD
HE ran past the traffic sign
at Wisconsin Avenue and NJ
Street, your honor, and showed
me his permit, but when he
couldn't produce a registration
card 1 played him for driving a
stolen car, and locked him up.
The owner lives out in Maryland,
and I got him on the phone"
Whats he doing with -. C..
tags If he lives in Maryland"
II don't know, your honor"
What's it cost to get Maryland
tags for that carr"
Seven dollars and a half"
He saves $3.50 by registering
here.
HE got a District man to take
out the tags for him, and when
I looked that man up, It was the
defendant. He was William Br own
when he got the tags, and John
Smith when he got the Dermtt.
/ don't know which he Is norin-
ally
The court: Did you come by
that permit honestly, boy?
yes, sir-I won it fair and
square In a crap game.
Fifteen days straight. You
should go after the owner, officer.
I'VE can't get him while he's
in Maryland. your honor, but
we're holding the car over at Nd.
z. and he's got to make affidavit
that he owns it before we deliver
it to him. Then we'll have some
thing to go on:
Note: Private w. D. Ballenger,
assigned to the traffic bureau.
unraveIed this case. and we think
he ought to have credit for being
on the job. Ordinarily the defen-
dant would have forfeited five
dollars for not showing registra-
ton card, and what would have
ended it. But by investigating the
man and bringing him into court,
Ballenger uncovered the fake per-
nit and the fraudulent reg1stra-
ton. Hand it to him.
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InnOcuous Responsibility

Representative Denison seems
to feel that IL Congress has ex-
elusive jurisdiction over the Dis
trict Government,N Congress
should likewise have exclusive re-
sponsibility for the District Gov
eminent, and that's fair enough
only who is ConSreas responsible
to?
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With the
|,Alibi Artists
IA Cross Section of the
] Daily Grind in Judge
Hits Court
Read EN- and Weep
BY DONALD McDOUGAL
By DONALD ArcDOUGAL
Ouija Board Government

Ou11a board UOVefnmSnb
Represents tfye Denison, Illinois,
came irif1 Traffic. Court-volun-
tariIy-yesferday morning. just
to look around. He has very un-
usual ideas, for a Representative.
He thinks that as Congress ex-
ercises exclusive legislation in the
District, Representatives should
know something about what's
going on here.
That idea was 50 revolutionary.
so at VARIANCE with. the general
attitude of Washington City
Council for the last so years,
that we dropped our pencil, we
were so startled, and must rely
on our memory for what else he
said.
The District has more motor
vehicles registered than any one
of ten States, he told US, and
the smallest Of these States has
five or six courts, at least, where
traffic. cases can be tried, while
the District has only one, and
that not much larger than
third-rate shoe-shine parlor-and
doing a business Of a quarter OF
a million dollars a year.
Mr.. Denison is going to organize
an unofficial junket for a tour
through Police Court within the
next week or two, so the District
legislators can get an idea OF
some of the things they're legis-
lating about. That strikes us as
a lot better way than the trance
method they've apparently been
following the last half-century.
There's so many things the
spirits don't tell about.
We hope it's a good, hot day
when the junket gets around
there-not that we wish the
party any hard luck, but just 50
they'll know what it's like with
a hundred people and a hundred
degrees Of mercury in the Ma
tional Capitals bonneville Traffic
Court