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The Washington times., 1926-11-02
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
The Kindness Of Crooks
By Dr.. TRANK CRANE

OLD gentleman in the West tells Of seeing Lincoln
He little boy running errands for the actors
at the Ford Theater in Washington in 1866.
Upon the WHOLE his recollection Of what occurred that
April night is merely repetition Of details which
familiar to all.
But at point he gives the story original twist which
presents angle Of the character Of the assassin,
Booth.
hahour before he rushed from the dress circle with
his smoking revolver he had patted the boy the head
said few kindly words him and given him money buy
top.
This but instance of where social menace and
personal kindness contained in the nature.
Jesse James, the outlaw who terrorized the West
Charles the First of the most despicable Of English
own children
crooked political boss who Middle Western town
for years with accompanying saurnala Of graft and vice
was known to the and destitute OF the city as their
] best friend.
He doctor, and day night, storm heat, he
could be depended to respond to the call OF the most
impoverished family in distress
While he lining his pockets with graft he was known
to scores as human personification Of kindness.
man who sent to the pententary for said he
burned packing houses where horse meat packed be-
Of his love of horses.
Many criminal has been kind animals to children to
the sick and the aged
This does excuse his crimes But it makes him
sinhuman It shows the spark Of human feeling which
complete deprayiy extnguishes.
Copyright 1875. Mcclure syndicate
The Washington times., 1926-11-02
NEURASTHENIA
By Garrett p. SerViss

n ATELY. in an article on st.
- Francis, / remarked that no
doubt his miracles were the re.
suit of mental suggestion, and that
science is still trying to explain
the workings Of mental sugges.
ton.
One never can guess what far.
fetched misintefpretation some.
body may find for words Of his
whose meaning seemed lucid
enough when he wrote them. In
this case a kindly reader re-
proaches me for having, as he
thinks, least reflection on the
value OF mental suggestion. /
certainly do not read by statment
that way. But, let it pass, for
what my correspondent presents
as the facts of his own experience
is far more interesting than any
discussion of words. / believe,
too, that it may be useful as a
moral and mental tonic.
Starting out with the statement
that mental suggestion is the key
to the accomplishment of the SEEM
ingly impossible, Here's my
SLOEys says ne
His Trials
at was a victim Of poor train
ing as child. The results were
that 1 became neurasthenic and
recluse; avoided people and social
obligations. My health failed.
Recently I suffered a nervous
breakdown. I was skeptical about
suggestion, having read about it
somewhere. 1t was as false and
mythical to me as Santa Claus.
All was darkness and misery. And
then l came upon a book, a found
book, which / had laid aside for
months and never looked at it.
Its subject is Health and Happi"
ness and it deals with religious
therapeutics and right living.
ignoring the religious part, the
PSYCHOLOGY has made a changed
man of me. Why, I've done things
that / wouldn't have dared even
to think of doing three months
ago. And my hopes for the future
idle day dreams. I'm putting hard
WOIh dIlN Plus
thought, into my efforts to realize
all my hopes and desires; into the
realization Of all my dreams. And
I'm 100 per cent healthier, having
cured my completes and banished
negative thought.
II accomplish this through
auto-suggestion and faith not only
in my ability, but in the power
Of auto-suggestion to help me to
get what l want, such as health,
wealth, success and happiness,
that will last as long as 1 think
right and apply suggestion, and
it doesn't cost me a cent. All /
do is to use my brains to judge
what Is good for me and what
isn't. 1 can't fail. and If failure
should come through some un-
foreseen accident, does it mean
that / should throw up the sponge
and wall about my hard luck? The
thing to do is to get right up
at least once-and-a-half before
marrying girl, If he could peep
into her hat boxes and see all
the skeletons there.
And, for a woman who has a
DOUBLE hat-AND. shoe complex,
there is no hope! Her husband IL
as good as bankrupt before he
reaches the aItarI
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and start building again through
positive thought"
HAfnsnnA nAs....

and start building again through
positive thought"
Direct Action
1t is interesting to note that
the writer OF what I have quoted,
while ignoring the religious part"
of the book to the reading of
which he ascribes the impulse
that changed his outlook on life,
found its value to lie in its psy-
chology, /. e, in its teaching of
direct action through ones own
mind. Religion in itself neither
brings nor prevents success in
life. Yet right thinking cannot
be immoral thinking, because the
latter is offensive to man as well
as to Deity.
Faith" in that mysterious, or
unexplained sense in which the
founder of the Christion religion
several times spoke Of it, and
which, judged by the examples
that he suggested OF its effects,
was not a purely religious mat
ter flor example see st. Mark,
chapter IL, verse 23), may be the
basis OF "auto-suggestion." Yet,
while to Danish disease, or to be-
come a Millionaire, by the aid OF
positive thought" may no longer
be regarded as miraculous, to
tumble a mountain into the sea
by word of command, or to jump
over the moon by virtue of inten-
sified volition-such things are
still secrets to scientific phychol-
ogy.
The Washington times., 1926-11-02
BEAUTY SHOP
TIPPING

TIPS should be taboo in barber
N shops, according to Joseph
Byrne, director of the Barber
Supply Dealers Association. in
an address before the convention
of the association in Chicago.
Constant tipping in barber
shops and beauty parlors makes
servants out of professional
people," said Mr.. Byrne. Bar.
bers and beauty shop operators
are tonsorial artists with a Gre
alive touch, and are following a
profession just as an actress or
an opera singer. One would not
think of witnessing a theatrical
performance and before leaving
the theater pass around a hat for
a collection to be presented to
the professional. Yet, practically
every man or woman who enters
a barber shop or a beauty parlor
puts a professional operator on
a mental basis by offering a tip
for services that please.
Tipping also causes the Gus.
toner to pay an unlawful tax on
services. When a man gets a
shave he usually tips the barber
a dime. When he gets a haircut
he deprives himself of a 15.cent
cigar, and when he has a clasmlc
face pack to make his face youth
full, he parts with the sum of a
quarter. The tax is undoubtedly
a burden on the business.
Patrons of beauty shops are
even more liberal in tipping than
barber shop patrons. If a differ
ent operator renders each service
as q shampoo, wave, manicure,
and facial. milady feels her purse
.flattened to the extent of dollar
before she gets cut Of the place."
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BY ELSIE ROBINSON

ifies her as sunskiIIed labor. Z
Which presents ticlkiish stu
alton. For we must have babies,
and we must make young woTn-
en- willing and cit to become the
mothers Of those babies. But
when thousand other careers
spread their alluring and flater-
ing offer before Milady's eyes.
how are you going to sell the idea
Of motherhood to her?
Vassar College thinks Il has
found q. way. It has esta blished
d Division OF Euthenics for the
study of parenthood and the
family. This program includes
courses in nutrition. sanitation,
Psychology and economies. The
new euthenics building viii house
a laboratory for child study, In
GLIDING q 24-hour-a-day nursery
for babies and d nursery school
for children OF present school
age. This is done so that "stu.
dents Of child psychology and
hygiene may have at least as
good an opportunity for. direct
contact with children as they
would be expected .to have with
the material studied in zoology
and botany
So at hast we're beginning to
give the great career of mother
hood fitting recognition. Which
viii prove blessing for ambi-
tious women, and even more Of
blessing for helpless little
babies. We need to go still
further, however. The majority of
our mothers do not enter college.
At best they receive high school
training. Our high schools
should give courses practically
identical with tEeon now Of
fered by Vassar. SWhen we do
this wen have made at least a
start in our boosted civilization. .
The Washington times., 1926-11-02
Wife With Wits

In fashionable Paris strengthening whiskered
man who beat upon bass drum in front Of apartment
house attracted crowd At last couple appeared at
window.
The drummer stopped drumming tore off the whiskers
long hair streamed in the breeze.
Look at Them, she cried. "see the pretty husband II
have!'
The court admonished the wife for masquerang but
graduated her going after her with drum
instead of pistol
American women, under like circumstances run horse
whips acid and They would get good results with
less lbulation by using their heads like the ingenious
Parsenne.
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For what avails food for a man
il you have no man to feed?
So when you boil all jobs down,
the one most important. job is
MAKING AND REARING THE
MAN.
Yet oddly enough, there's no.
job more in disfavor IN this 10th
century. Books ana magazines
unite in chorus of protest
against the ''handicaps of the
domestic life for an intelligent
woman" When not counselling
the Intelligent Woman to jump
the job entirely they advise her
to farm out both youngsters and
domestic chores and express
herself on higher cultural planes.
This attitude may be partly due
to the fact that child care has
received no educational recogni-
ton as an art or career. Some
attention has been devoted to do
nestle science, but to judge from
our college curricula, baby tend.
ing was right in the same class
with chimney sweeping or hog
calling or the game of tiddly-
winks.
This neglect to recognize the
dignity and graviety of Ilother-
hood has resulted in appalling ig-
norance. The proper care OF a
child is an extremely complicated,
delicate and difficult task. It
cannot be done properly by a
careless, ignorant woman. Con-
trary to the general tradition
God does not equip human
mothers with a mysterious ''in-
stinct" which enables them to
rear their children wisely. In
stinct may prompt a cat to lick.
nurse or cuff her kittens, but
such crude treatment does not
suffice for the human young.
Yet, because of their lack OF in
struction, mothers have been able
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| NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland


The Hat-and-ShOe Complex
HAVE you hat-complex or a
shoe-conplex?
A man may have goid-complex,
a girI-complex, money-complex.
a duty-complex, or a jazz-complex
oh, any one of hundred COM
plexes!
But, every woman is obsessed
with a hat-compIex, or a/shoe-
complex!
A woman with a hat-complex
can no more pass a millinery shop
than a confirmed drunkard can
pass a "speak-easy:''
There is something about the
very sight of a window full OF
HATS that goes to her head like
a cocktail. and makes her dizzy,
foolish, and flighty. She is no
longer a responsible human being!
She doesn't buy a hat because
she wants it or needs it-she
buys it lust because. She buys
the hat first, and then thinks up
the reason, for it, .afterward-
just as a man does what amuses
him first, and then finds a. good
excuse" for doing it afterward.
And, she can find as many per-
feet good reasons for adding
a. new hat to her collection as a
man can find for taking a drink.
She buys a new hat when she's
feeling low and dispirited, to pep
her up'-and she buys a hat,
when she's feeling gay and ex-
cited, to calm her nerves"
When she has had her salary
raised she rushes out and buys a
hat lust to celebrate.
And, when she loses her job,
she rushes out and buys a hat
to "give her new confidence" and
help her get another job.
When her heart is breaking
over a lost or wandering lover,
she buys a new hat to bolster up
her vanity, and catch the threads
of her self-esteem together.
And when her head is whirling
over the conquest Of a brand
new man, she buys another hat
to charm his eye, and make the
conquest permanent.
She is just HAT-TOPER,. and
she has as many alibis as any
other topper!
She may cheerfully wear sleaZy
underwear, a last years dress,
and a moth-eaten fur coat-but
her HAT must be the very last
word! And, she must have a
whole closet full of them!
The only difference between a
woman with a hat-complex and
a woman with the shoe-cOmplex,
is that, when they look into the
mirror, one sees nothing but her
face, and the other sees nothing
but her feet and legs.
A mans vanity may be concen-
trated on his waistcoats, his era
watts or his shoulders-but a
woman's vanity always goes
either to her head or to her
feet. Many a man would think
The Washington times., 1926-11-02
ONCE-OVERS
BY ). J. MUNDY
How Do You Use Your Time On the Train?

You cannot understand the who deeply inter-
ested in their jobs that they always give their work first
consideration.
You give complete attention to your work during work
periods but you dismiss it entirely when away from business
To certain extent this commendable rule to follow
You get thorough relaxation If rid yourself
of all the resome details in mind and deed but how
you progress and raise the standard and quality of
production you forget entirely your leisure moments?
Suppose you commuter spending several hours
day between office and home.
This affords you lots Of time to think and plan you but
knew it.
What about that something you think might make you
small fortune you could perfect plans and have them
patented copyrighted9
time to during the long commuters
trip.
Youneed extra money then make these quiet hours count
for you Y
DONE waste precious hours,
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nEAR MRS. BEEcKMAN:

i
~ / received an invitation to
a wedding which is to be cele.
brated at the home of the bride.
The young lady and her parents
are only acquaintance. 1t is
over two years since I saw them
and I never wanted them as
friends. I don't care to attend
the wedding. What shall I do?
Your good advice will be APP
preciated. A. READER.
There is no reason why you
should attend the wedding, since
you do not wish to. If the invi-
tation was a formal one, write
your regret in the formal manner,
that is, in the third person: If
the invitation was in the form of
a note, write your regrets in the
form OF a note. At all events
take the attitude of appreciation
of the invitation, even If you do
not accept it. These people
probably meant to be kind and
friendly in sending you the in
vitation.
MY DEAR MRS, BEECKMAN:
AVA ~ Is 1t proper to send we'd
ding announcements to the i'm
mediate family of the bride and
groom?
(2) What color should the bride.
groom weau?... BOSTON.
That depends. If there has been
a wedding for which invitations
have been issued, you would not
send announcements. That is. an
nouncements are sent only to
those to whom invitations were
sent out. And they are sent to the
families OF the bride and groom.
(2t That also depends. What
kind of attire is he wearing? He
wears the tie appropriate to the
kind of suit he is wearing: a dark
silk 'four-in-hand with a conserva.
tive pattern for formal morning
clothes or business suit, and, of
course, the white bow tie for for
NAL evening clothes.
The Washington times., 1926-11-02

WHATS the
most ina.
portant job on
earth?
u n cheering
Are h 4 tecture2
The making OF
cloth TIL 8
baking Of bread2
Politics. Law
nlaking2 School
teaching?
All Of these
things are eK-
trenlely import
ant for all OF
he m touc h
m an - vital
need for food
an d clothes
h d u sing and
ira transportation,
education and
legislation. But
there still re-
mains one more
irnuOrtanf iOb.
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INDIVIDUAL
CARDS
Mrs. Cornelius BeecEman

NEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
- When sending wedding in.
vitations. do you address the in
vitation to "Mr. and Mrs. y. C.
Clark and family?" or do you send
a separate invitation to q daughter
of the family, who is an especial
friend, such as Miss Mary Clark 2"
2. When should church invita-
tions be sent out?
ANXIOUS.
TT is not correct to address in
j vitations to Mr.. and Mrs.
and family" Send one invitation
to Mr.. and Mrs. and Il sepa-
rate invitation to every member Of
the family who is of an age to be
included in formal invitations. IT
this is too much Of a strain on
your budgeting, send one to THE
Misses Clark" which will include
the daughters of the family, and
one to 1.-THE Messrs. Clark, which
will include the sons.
2. Invitations to wedding are
sent out about three weeks before
the date set.
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f Ut " u :. 4 r
to do little more
for their chill
dren. The price
we have paid
for such ign0-
rance ig appall-
ing
That IL the
first result of
our educa lOna
attitude t0Na fu
motherhood. The
The Washington times., 1926-11-02
WISE SAYINGS

Suffering well borne is better
than suffering removed. No flow
err can bloom in paradise which Is
not transplanted from Gethsemane
-Beecher,
The Lambertville record., 1926-06-03
EDITORIALS
WHY NOT GO TO THE ROOT OF THE EvILg

/ understand there is a state law that demands
automobss to pull to the curb when they hear fire
alarm, and remain there until fire engines pass.
But when fire breaks out around this
ity there is frantic rush by available to be
the first at the fire." Not only that but of these
drivers break additional law when they the fire
apparatus to scenes of fire.
Some of these drivers justified-they
bers of fire companies and respond to alarms But
most of the absolutely inexcusable
Recently three killed in Pennsylvania
WIN the driver of private racing them and
hogging the road The fire engine faster than the
car, and in trying to pass the margin of
road the engine turned in the ditch Indirectly
that motost is guilty of the murder of those three
Instead of officials demanding slower speed of
fire apparatus they should enforce the law against ir
responsible drivers who hog the road and to
fires. They the who endangering life and
property, and they should be punished for it.
The Lambertville record., 1926-06-03

"An All gadders i'm up in nah arms an takes i'm
or Mssus. An she kneel down still cryin soft like,
an All show 'er de Bible An she look at is han an
she dat de prntin' backwards. An she reach
up an git mirror an hoP hit afore de han, an dis
is whut she read out ter "He dat beleveth in me,
tho he daid, yet shell he lve! Yassuh!
Faith, Breddren an sistren! Faith ter move noun
The Lambertville record., 1926-06-03

tainsi Dat boy couldn't read Bible in de dark so de
good Lawd done print de Word is han wen e reach
in is pocket fer de book An wen or Missus read dat
she stop cryin Yassuhi She stop cryin, Beddren an
sistreni Cause de Lawd done to er dat er boy gone
ter hebben an still livin' tho de body done
daid."
The Lambertville record., 1926-06-03
SMILIN' THU
BY GORDON COOPER

(Repoducton by the authO
Imperial Valley press., 1926-02-11
WINTER WEATHER
STILL CONTINUES:
FIFTEEN PERISH
Nv United Press Leased Wire

NEW YORK. Feb. 1l.-W inter
weather, hardening snow deposits
with thick crusts, continued along
the Atlantic seab0ard today.
Temperatures dropped far below
freezing but north winds were di-
minishing and the weather bureau
held hope that the Thermometers
would rise tomorrow. Snow fell in
only few isolated sections.
The thermometer here got down
to six degrees during the night.
Upward of Is lives were snuffed
out in yesterdays blizzard. Low
temperatures here sheeted the side
walks. with ice and the unprecedent-
ed force of 24,000 city and electric
railway employees found themselves
facino mountainous task III clear
ing streets for business.
Probably the most serious traffic
paralysis SINCE 1886 has been pre-
cipitated. City's $2,000,000 appro-
priation for storm clearance will be
wiped out by the blizzard. One mil
lion went last week and yesterday s
fall was larger than the previous
one.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-02-11
URGE PAVING. OF
MOUNTAIN GRADE
BEFORE SUMMER

With the hope of stimulating ac-
tion by the California highway com
mission i'll the matter of paving
Mountain Springs grade, the direc-
tors of the FL Centre Chamber of
Commerce at their meeting last
night, instructed Secretary Car,
michael to address letter to the
commission asking that this prop
osition be given immediate atten-
tion.
The work of eliminating danger
Gus curves and grading parts of the
highway, which is now in progress.
will be completed within the next
month. it was pointed out at the
meeting that if bids for paving are
called for Immediately, and con.
tract let within the next month or
six weeks, the paving work could
be completed before the approach
of hot weather.
This would give the people of In
perial Valley paved highway up
the grade to accommodate the heavy
traffic which passes in and out of
the valley every week end during
the summer. The commission has
previously declared its intention of
including the Mountain Springs
grade highway in the 1926 paving
program, and the directors of the
chamber believe the Importance of
the work entities it to receive
prompt action.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-02-11
FATHERS LETTER
ASKS GOVERNMENT
TOAVENCE WRONG
Girls Affidavits Made
Public Today Describe
Outrages at Tijuana.
BY United Press Leased WIZ

BY United Press Leased Wire
SAN DIEGO, Calf, Feb. 11-Just
before Thomas M. Peteet his wife
and their two daughters lay down to
die, suicides by asphyxiat4on, Peteet
w.ote a brief farewell letter to a
friend who had spent the evening
with the family, taking their depo-
5lticns CT happenings at Tijuana.
I his was mailed late Friday night
together with affidavits made by
the girls. It was not received by
Captain J. M. Adams On, to whom it
was addressed, until Monday morn
ing. The fathers letter read:
Dear Captain:
am sorry, but myself and family
are of best southern blood. Death
was always preferred to dishonor to
our women. We are wiping 1t out
tonight Push this case and IT you
can have the government avenge
our wrongs, we will appreciate it
where we 90, maybe. We thank you
for YOUR efforts.-T. Nj. Peteet, wife
and daughters.
Tells of Meeting Chief
The deposition left by Audrey Pc
teet, 10 years old, stated she was
drinking i'll a Tijuana saloon with
her tatner and sister when the chief
of police was introduced to her.
Later she danced with the chief and
had several drinks with him. Before
getting the last drink, the letter
SAYS, the girl heard the chief. say
something to the bartender that she
did not understand. After drinking
it she remembered nothing for sew
was only partially dressed. She de
cared she had been wronged by the
chief.
- Clyde Peteet' S deposition substan-
tiates her sisters story relative to
the appearance of the chief of police
and the latter's request for a dance
after he had been introduced by
the bartender.
Describes Abduction
The deposition declares the chief
and the bartender ordered drinks,
and after drinking a short time the
girl remembered nothing further
until she found herself riding in Il
ear with a man named Louie who
had his hand over her mouth.
The girl swOre she was taken to
a room in hotel and was outraged.
Some time later her father and a
policeman found her at the hotel
and took her away, reporting the
matter to Inspector MarBley at the
Tijuana border.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-02-11
Bar NObleWOman
From Entering
the United States
Ny Unified Press LeRsed Wire

NEW YORK. Feb. II. - Vera
Countess Cathcart, was today eN-
cluded from America after spe-
cial inquiry had been held at ti!ls
Island immigration station.
She was held at the island await
ING deportation while her friend,
Mrs. Gordon Carr, s;sterin-law of
Lady Carnarvan. procecocd 10
Washington to intervene with See
retarv of Labor Davis on her be
half.
In England only one ground per.
mits OF Il divorce and the Earl ot
Cathart won n decree after the
countess had been companion OF
the Earl Of Craven on an African
hunting trip.
Commissioner Curran Of Ellis Is
land announced after the private
hearing that the English woman
had been excluded befaus" she
admitted committing IA crime involN'
ing moral turpitude. This "tur-
pitudc,' was involved in her un-
conventionaisptrip to Africa it is
claimed.