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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-05
Retirement of Men and Women
at 90 Years of Age

President Coolidge does believe that in
the should be retired auunities at 60
years age He believes that many men and women desire
continue that and likewise believes that many
do their best work after reaching threescore years.
This typical of the Presidents sense The Pres
dents own father working theoretically at 30 years OF
age and wouldn't been satisfied with an inactive e
In most work there wisdom in compulsory
retirement so years of Voluntary retirement might be
permitted that under certain conditions In Govern
ent service which requires hard physical work in the
handling of heavy sacks of mail by railway mail clerks re-
tirement at go So years of age may be advisable
The majority of workers do mental work and
at so they ought their BEST if organicay sound
Their experience and knowledge should be far more useful to
the Government at that than the majority OF young men
physically sick of to be excepted
physically sound should be permitted to retire
they have served 80 or more years
In of prolonged life the woman
does not wish to get out of the at so years OF
Their work keeps them satisfied and In good condition With
ont work they would probably decay far more quickly
Some of the worlds greatest mental have been
recorded go years of life The customary American view
point that person begins be old and virtually useless after
passing so at complete variance with the viewpoint of
Japan which has respects made the greatest strides
all nations in the last 100 years The elder statesmen
of Japan dominate that country which has under their super
vision taken high place in world affairs and continues to
hold that place despite unusual handicaps
retirement legislation before Congress the cost in
with retremen at so SO years the retirement
ages placed at 65 70 the less for the that
the number of retirements is fewer.
Government well and safely afford to encourage it's
and wiser and to remain in its service until
20 age physically fit The experience they have
acquired often invaluable It the older employees who
train the young and and fit them for their duties
We have habit of giving all the credit for successful
executive administration the heads Of departments and b
know that these heads matter how brainy
they be- could do little without the subordnaes who
intimately familiar with Government work. regulations and
laws THE behind the guns just important in
civil administration he is in activities little so
civil affairs he knows things that his chiefs do not
know.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-05
DON'T Go Bareheaded
It's Foolish Fancy, Injurious to the Health

Young and women have developed the FOOLISH idea
that it is smart go bareheaded, and the MISTAKEN
idea that to hat good for the health makes the hair
grow etc.
SUMMER months when the sunlight strong and the actnc
rays most powerful, it is POSITIVELY DANGEROUS
young people would read which they won't scientific
book about the effect of sunlight upon white tropical
countries they would learn that the head should not be left
covered out of doors, in ANY country
Scientists agreed that the greatest curative
the world SUNLIGHT Children and adults should take
baths The of the suns rays attacks and destroys the
human system in making the too fat thinner the
too thin fatter, and ALL healthier.
But sunlight pouring the actnic rays upon the brain is
extremely dangerous and harmful
Going bareheaded harmful for children and especially
dangerous for those with fair hair and compilations.
The for this that black hair exclude
dangerous acnic rays. But it cannot exclude them EN-
TIRELY.
have developed the extremely thick oily black hair
the black skin that protects them from the actc But
the Africans with their thick black hair allow the hair
grow long and pile the head mixed with talow
other heavy grease protection against sunlight.
Fathers and mothers should discourage their children
the foolish dangerous habit of going without hats The acnc
rays lombard the skull with of microscopic shrapne
penetrating to the BRAIN and inuring the brain tissues
when there is result VISIBLE there often great
harm done.
Out of doors in the sunlight WEAR YOUR HAT The hat
should not off until the goes get your
Spring hat good appearance OUTSIDE head in
spires confidence INSIDE the head
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-05

CHOULD Latin be driven from
~ the schools? 1t appears that
question has been raised again in
Brooklyn by a successful manufac-
turer of elevators, who makes pub
lie a letter that he has addressed to
the Board of Education Of that
huge borough Of Greater New
York.
There are three reasons" says
this gentleman, why Latin should
not be taught in the schools. One
is, it wastes time that should be
given to the study Of English and
Of other useful subjects. Another
is, the study Of Latin mars the use
Of English. Another is, the study
Of Latin dulls the minds of the
children"
These are specific charges. How
true are they? No statistics are
offered in support of them. The
first. to ne sure, Is rather a matter
of opinion, Latin being cOntrasted
with useful" subjects. Later on
the objector reveals what his idea
of the inutility of Latin is. Attack
ing the claim that the study Of
Latin helps to develop the mental
powers. he likens 1t to an ante
quated lathe that an apprentice is
required to spend time working
with when he might be using a
modern type Of lathe.
Akin to History
But nobody ever thought of
studying Latin for the purpose Of
putting it to the uses OF modern
English, which, Of course, 1t could
not possibly serve as we'll as Eng
hsh itself. 1t is just because Latin
is an ancient language, and a now
antequated instrument of thought,
which nevertheless was suited to
its time that it is studied today
1t is study akin to history. Latin
was the language of what is still.
in many ways, the most masterful
and most instructive civilization
that the world has yet known.
To be sure, 1t Ia not q language
suitable for everybody to study;
it ought not to be forced and, as
far AS ! know. is not forced upon
any pupil against his will or
against the will Of his parents.
But there are, hope and be-
hev", enough enlightened persons
who appreciate the real impor-
lance Of Latin. to prevent it's
being thrown out entirely from
the schools.
Let 1t be an optional subject,
but not a prescribed one. The
idea that our youth have no time
to be instructed in anything ex.
cept the most mental forms of
learning is dangerous to the high
est interests of our race and our
time.
MARS English?
Then, take the gentleman's sec
ond reason" why Latin should
not be taught In the schools. "Tt
mars the use OF English" says
het What can he mean by that?
Perhaps DIR. Samuel johnson
knew Latin a little well, so
that he did mar" some Of his
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-05
A PICTURE OF
MOROCCO

Al LINE OF camels sways through
"A tl1ynIe-scented streets. Their
bells murmur of deserts and their
loads are wrapped in carpets hand
woven in the women's tents. Be
hind them a troop of small boys
follow a donkey whose striped sad
dIebags are so swollen with golden
fruit that (''Allah is generous!l
some Will surely overflow A
shapeless thing slips by with a
guardian serving woman. whose
chances enwrap her mistress as
discreetly as the muffling folds OF
finest white wool. Here is a very
grand lady, for the amber eyes are
lowered. the long. henna-stained
fingers hidden. and only the tinl<le
of jeweled anklets, the embroidery
on the red slippers, childishly,
small. scent as elusive as time.
show a descendant of the great.
There are horsemen in white
robes with impossibly curvetting
steads, story-tCllers with voices as
magic as their ancient tales. the
Thousand and One Nights. There
are snake charmers, jugglers who
swallow swords and divide a hen
into a half dozen fluffy and quite
unsurpassed chickens. From the
Place de France many-cylindered,
balloon-Lired cars glide out to the
roads that lead to a sunlit pageant
of legend and romance, Of chival-
rous endeavor, of old glamorous
hopes, frustrated or achieved. On
the edge Of the uplands is the
tower OF Hassan, most faithful Of
lovers. who shut himself into a
solitary chamber. as near heaven
as the builders of that age could
achieve, for Is years until he was
too good Moslem to insure by
violence allowed him to rejoin his
beloved.
A curious, delicious falry-talG
country is Morocco. Here every
age and creed has left its mark.
1t has bred warriors and dream
ers-sultans and saints have arisen
to build It's palaces and slender
emerald minarets-Rosita Forbes
in The Mentor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-05
LATIN IN SCHOOL.
By Garrett P. Seryiss

English with 'sesquipdalian"
words. Nevertheless no scholar
is fnsensible to the general SPLEEN
dor Of diction that Johnson de-
rived largely from his intimate
acquaintance with the great
tongue Of the Romans. And
there is no writer or speaker OF
English today to whom even a
little knowledge OF Latin Is not as
a pure fountain Of expression.
Only an English word of Latin
origin can describe the third
reason 1t il Supplying. The
study OF Latin, says the gentle
man, "dulls the minds of the chill
dren"
What really dulls minds. 10
blind, narrow prejudice. Read and
weigh these further quotations
from the same source:
The sole purpose of keeping
the dead languages in the schools
is to make jobs for professors as
useless and as antiQuated as the
dead languages they teach" And:
THE parents allow the peda-
gogues to keep Latin the schools
simply because the parents are
mi5Ied by them as to the harm.
fulness of Latin as a study for
school children"
am not a I4atinist; I know
far less Latin than 1 wish I knew,
but. while l believe that the de-
motion Of the old tradition that
Latin and Greek were the cream
of all learning demolition in
which my own alma mater, Cor
nell University, took the lead
was a triumph for the best in
terests of education, yet / feel
that the absolute Punishment of
either or both Of the old class
les" from modern schools would
be a great mistake and a great
misfortune. I do not want to see
the world fall utterly under the
control of commercialism.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-05
BY ELSIE ROBINSON

woman of So. Just what papa
was doing when his minor son
committed this act the record
does not state. However, the
father now claims that the effort
to live with and support the
woman brought the boy to such
a pass that he passed the bad
checks which caused his arrest.
The argument so convinced the
Judge that the boy husband was
given a shorter sentence
Will the first young mans ro-
nance. a.betted by his father, end
a. disastrously as the one which
threatened to have prison-stripe
complications?
we hate to blight honeymoon
with gloomy forecasts. but we're
willing to bet our last winters
umbrella against your new spring
bonnet that 1t does!
May and December matings
are abnormal at best. and nearly
always unhappy. And when
December happens to be a lady
and May a mister. you might just
as we'll prepare to duck the
storm. You might survive the
two well-known risks of sassing a
policeman or kicking a bull dog.
but there isn't even a margin OF
chance left when sonny marrteS
a grandma.
or course, there are males who
don't want a wife at all, but who
crave a nice affectionate COVER
ness all their lives. Just as there
are males who like to make the
mayonnaise dressing or do en-
broidery or use perfumed salts in
their bath water. But we're not
discussing such mishaps on the
part Of Mama Nature. Were
talking about regular He Men.
albeit rather raw ones. Nothing
more disastrous could happen TO
a normal boy than to marry
woman several years older than
himself
But girls constantly marry
men who are from five to ten
years older than themselves and
are perfectly happy"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-05

selves without too great difIicul-
ties TO the home program. But
the boy OF 20 Is unfit for mar
rage. He's emotionally unstable.
He isn't sure OF himself. Hes
ant to crunnble or grow peevish
under responsibility Nor is u
his fault. Modern marriage IL
too big a job for a boy OF 20 TO
tackle. He should live at least
five years more before he's ripe
enough for the task. And even
then marriage win not have the
binding lure for him that II has
for the girl. Hell want to BE-
married-in order to get the girl.
But he won't want to be mar
ried in order to be married.
Marriage Is . woman's game.
not q mans.
A woman must work twice -
hard to keep a husband happy In
marriage as man must work TO
keep a wife. She must make him
feel that both her companionship
and the marital state add ma
terially to the value OF his life.
She must impress her need of
in a, hundred subtle ways. and
ing her respect for him. And
she must always make him feel
that he has triumphed over his
whole sex by winning her.
She must do this because she's
really putting something over on
him that Nature never intended
should be put over-she's making
a married man out of a naisoga-
mist male.
She can only do all this IL she,
herself, really enjoys the same
things that he enjoys-if she
thinks from the same age angle
and il she's still young enough to
excite his interest and stimulate
his pride.
But IL she has outlived his In
terest. and by her own experience
makes his appear trivial, how
much of a chance do you think
she has?
Notta chance!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-05

IF YOU had an
Iii 1S-year-old boy,
would you give
YOUR consent to
his marriage to a
widow Of 43?
An Oregon man
did exactly that
the other day
and then acted as
best man when
his son married
the lady In ques.
ton.
And on the
same day another
boy was saved
from a long peni-
tertiary sentence,
and given a years
term instead, be-
cause his father
testified that the
boy, 20, had been
made morally ir-
responsible by his
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-05
FORMIDABLE
DRAGON

A MORE extraordinary crea-.
IA ture than the Naosaur has
never lived.
He was a reptile, Of about the
size of large dog. and throve a
few million years ago.
The most remarkable feature Of
this remarkable animal is the
enormous growth of the spines
which project from the vertebrate
of the back. Never before or
since have spines been seen such
as Naosaur succeeded in develop
ing. During life they supported
a fold of skin after the fashion
of the fin of fish. But this Is
not all, for, from base to tip.
these spines developed smaller
spines at right angles to the main
shaft. like hat pegs.
Another striking feature OF this
strange animal was its head,
whereof the jaws were armed
with most formidable teeth.
Copyright. 1925. by King Features
Syndicate, Tnc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-05
MEDITATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland
what Women Think About

What Women Think About
MOST girls, these days, pick
IV1 out a husband as carelessly
as though he were being sent up
on approval. instead Of for keeps.
A woman likes to offer q man
1.-The book OF her life; but a man
offers a woman only excerpts"
from his. and these are carefully
expurgated.
Two times when a man feels
"only a little lower than the
angels" are when he has just
paid for his w1fe's spring outfit,
and when he has stayed home
from his Sunday morning golf In
order to wash the car.
The only way the average wo-
man can ever discover how much
her husband thinks Of her is to
come back and read it on her
tombstone.
Some husbands are so hard
boiled, others are too soft-boiled-
but most Of them are just over
coddled.
One of the most pathetic sights
of the day 10 that Of a simple
father and mother in the forties,
trying to be chummy little pals
with a bored, sophisticated son
and daughter in the twenties.
Alas. women still continue TO
marry the wrong man, and men
still continue to fall for the wrong
woman! But what would the play
wriehts and scenario writer's do
il they ever got wise to them
selves and stopped It?
OF course. Opportunity is pic
tured as a woman. The same OPP
portunities have made a hero OF
one man and awful fools of a lot
Of others.
A woman starts out in life to
search for an ideAl--and ends by
marrying what she can get. A
man starts out by marrying some
passing fancy-and spends the
rest of his life searching for his
ideal.
The most useless thing on earth
is TO tell a woman that 1t Is use
less to worry about a man.
(Copyright. 1926. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-05
MARTYR TO
YOUNG

MOST of us may have seen
4V1 mussel scales attached to
apple twigs during the winter
months, but few of US know that
these scales are really insects.
The most remarkable thing
about these minute creatures Is
that the female is a martyr to
the cause of replenishing the
species. AS soon as she deposits
the eggs she shrivels up and
dies, while the male lives on and
eventually ventures from the
scale In respondent glory as a
minute "fly" with long antonnae
and well-developed wingA
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-05

He that has light within his own
clear breast
May sit i tn center and enjoy
bright day;
But he that hides q dark soul
and foul thoughts
Benighted walks under the mid
day sun. Milton.
Hunger ia the best sauce in
the world .-CerVantes.
Men have less lively percep-
ton Of good than evil.-Livv.
good things il hurtful.--Syrus.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-05
SAYINGS OF WISE MEN

Shame arises from the fear of
men, conscience from the fear OF
qod.-Johnson.
a grateful mind
BY owing owes not, but still
pays, at once
Indebted and discharge .--Milton.
We have been taught to regard
a representative of the people as
sentinel on the wateh-tower OF
liberty Webster.
From labor health, from health
cOntentment springs; contentment
Opes the source Of every joy
Beattie
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-05
LISTEN WORLD!

That's quite m.
other story. A
girl Of 1s or 20
and 8 boy Of the
same age are
vastly different.
The girl il alrea dy
much older than
the boy. She is
not older in intel
lecturaI po W er,
but she's ia r
older In 'sabe-
She knows her
self an d b . r
world better. A
girl natures much
sooner than q
boy. Her per-
sonaIity - . I .
sooner.
Most girls are
ready for mar
Rage at 20. They
are eager TO have
h o m 9 =. Tney
uat them.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-05
DUCK-BILLED
DINOSAUR

THAT the Land Dragons or
i Dinosaurs have ceased to be
is. perhaps, something to be
thankful for; since they would
have occasioned something more
than a mere diversion IL encoun-
tered when bathing or boating.
The most remarkable feature Of
this strange beast was its head.
All the later Dinosaurs displayed
a tendency to lose their teeth. re-
placing them with horny plates
forming a beak. The duck billed
Dinosaur had over 2 900 teeth on
the upper jaw alNnA
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-05
The Stolen Husband

has sued another for stealing husband
She wants money for something she had She seeks
to cash in Romance She hopes Judge will adjust her
love.
A Judge do it,
Judge give her damages he make her husband
back to her But he can't him love her again
The powers of judges limited
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-05
1t Cannot Be Done

Mr.: Cinderella" Browning is old
He likes young girls.
He tried to adopt Mary Spas He didn't quite get away
with it, But ne not to be stopped He is engaged
to another young girl
He doesn't talk adoption this time He talks marriage
Can you imagine man of go and trying to make
girl Of 10 or under happy?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-05

- ENERAII PRIMO DE RIVERA, Dictator @ RDpaIn 80
within 90 wears every great nation, including america
~ either will be governed by dictatorship Or VIII nave
Evening star., 1926-12-08

Yesterdays announcement, issued
by Mrs. A. III. Reeve, president of the
National Congress of Parents ana
Teachers, said:
cat the meeting Of the North Caro-
lima Department of the American Le-
gion a statement was made that the
publications of the National Congress
of Parents and Teachers are 'tinged
with red and that the organization
is creating yellow citizenship, and
tat It is sending into schools and
colleges speakers whose addresses are
'pacifistic' and subversive of patriot
ism and good citizenship.
This statement Is absolutely and
entirely false and cannot be substan-
tiated by any evidence whatever.
"The National Congress of Parents
and Teachers, an organization num-
bering more than 100000, with
branches in every State in the Union,
is concerned with all problems that
relate to the welfare of the child in
home, school and community. The
principles which guide the organiza-
ton are the embodiment of social
service, civic virtue and patriotism;
it is cooperative, non-political, non
sectarian, non-commercial organ1Za-
ton of men and women working to
produce American citizens who shall
be strong in body, alert in mind and
sound in character, capable OF per-
petuating the best which has been
developed in our national life."
Evening star., 1926-12-08

officials Of the Rochester company
became concerned why they had not
been paid for the signs. which had
been shipped here.
L. j. Sorenson, superintendent of
signs for the street department, said
Green came to him a year ago and
tried to get an order. but that there
were no funds available for purchases.
Later j. Normoyle. secretary to the
street superintendent, was asked by
Green for a letterhead of the depart
ment. The -letterhead was refused
Somewhere he acquired one, at
taches of the department declared.
for his company soon afterward
received a substantial order purport-
Evening star., 1926-12-08

ing to come from the street depart
ment and written on the department
letterhead above a fictitious name.
The company sent a shipment of
signs to the street department last
June. simultaneously Green appeared
according to Sorenson and said the
consignment was intended for Mil
waukee. but that he was storing it
here temporarily. Two other con-
signments arrived and the street de-
partment. assuming that the same
mistake had been made, directed them
to the warehouse.
Green, Sorenson believes. carried on
the operations by having printed fic-
Evening star., 1926-12-08
Drop Dry Charges
After Home Brew
Decision by Court

United States Attorney Gordon
yesterday dismissed a charge of
violating the national prohibition
act against Roy Edelin and Kath-
crime s. Lane, which has been
pending since November. 1924.
This is the case in which Attor-
noy Harry S. Grant secured a
nua shing of a search warrant with
a sion by Chief Justice Mccoy
that the home brewer" was pro-
tected from interference of police
and p 'libitiQn agents as long as
no sale was made of intoxicants in
his home.
What he made for his own con-
sumption the court held to be ex-
empt from seizure under a search
warrant.
Evening star., 1926-12-08
CITY LOSES NOTHING
IN SIGN FRAUD CASE
$500 Unauthorized Order Net.
ted Salesman $4,000, Of
flcials Declare.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December S.-City en-
ployes had no part in a swindle which
brought to Chicago's department of
streets $129, 900 worth of signs which
it did not order and earned sales
man $4,000 in advance commissions
on the fictitious consignment, 1t was
asserted yesterday after an investiga-
ton of an order by salesman named
Green, employed by the Rochester
Signal Company Of Rochester, N. Y.
1t was declared that the city had not
lost by it.
The fraud was revealed when