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The Washington times., 1926-02-18

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II Won haven't seen the Masked
Players at Loew's Palace Theater
Hurry! Action is money!
Eight famous Metro-G oldwyn-
Mayer players, the fourth group
in this Identification and slogan
contest conducted by The Times
are to be seen, wearing masks,
at Loew's Palace. See them,
identity them, as you're sure to
know tlnem-and write fitting
slogans for them on the coupon
to be clipped from this news
paper.
The players this week ought to
be easy. There have been plenty
Of clews published. However, here
are a few more.
One is a frozen-faced comedian
who appeared in The Navigator. /"
Another is q little girl with an
Irish name whose first name is
famous for a song about girl
who lived in an alley. Her last
names Irish.
There's an actor whose first
name is the same as the last
name of a famous President
and who played in Lights Of Old
Broadway" There is a statues
que beauty who played "Iras," in.
Ben Hur." and whose first name
is that of famous old California
mission.
Try them-h you haven't seen
them yet. Times money today.
In addition to the first prize of
$500, the following awards will be
made:
Beautiful brown fox scarf from
The Washington times., 1926-02-18
PAYDAYNEAR FOR GOOD
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Yon1 have to hurry help cut the big melon
es are the three big Masked Players Contest
which for month has the talk Of the town. The last group
now nearing its and then all chance W1 be gone 20
The Washington times., 1926-02-18
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matter. If these warrants are declared
imperative 1t is in order to question
why the case was so slackly prepared.
Are the police not conversant with
the requirements of the law? 1t must
be assumed that there is a genuine
wish to break up these nefarious
joints. They are notorious. They are
ffagrantly run in defiance of the law
Their location is known to great num-
bers of people. Some of them are so
obvious that the headquarters detec.
tive or even the patrolman can spot
them in passing on the street
1t may be that the court will hold
that the warrants were adequate and
order the cases to trial. But the tech.
nicality remains as possible ground
for appeal and delay. just the course
that has been followed so often in the
past of blocking proceedings.
In pursuing the cleanup program
the Police Department should be
scrupulously careful to avoid afford.
ing any ground whatever for tech.
nical evasion of prompt trial and,
upon conviction, punishment that will
discourage further operations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-04
Suzanne q Professional.

Announcement that Suzanne Len
glen has turned professional interests
tennis followers in this country. She
has signed a contract with an Amer
lean promoter for tour In the United
States at a guarantee which is under
stood to be 100000, and arrangements
are now being made for series of
matches this Summer. Explanations
are not yet forthcoming as to the
plan. There are no professional
woman tennis players in the United
States, and few man players, Of that
class. The question of present in
terest Is whether any of the woman
amateurs Of America will agree to
meet Mile: Suzanne for her own profit,
when they have small chance of de-
feating her. She Is not particularly
popular: Her exhibitions of tempera-
ment on the courts. as elsewhere,
have somewhat lessened her prestige.
She is, withal, a marvellous tennis
player. Perhaps she is the best woman
performer at the net in the world.
If somebody could be found to play
against her who would offer her an
opportunity to show her skill at its
best there would be heavy public
patronage to justify the present ven
ture. But in tennis much depends
upon the skill of the opponent A
contestant without an adequate serv-
ice or ability to defend could not give
the expert a chance to do her best.
However this enterprise may turn
out. Suzanne has at any rate taken
the step which removes her from all
future consideration as an amateur.
and probably puts an end to series
of unpleasant happenings on the
courts.
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Teohnicalities and Gambling.

Technicalities have already inter-
vened in the proceedings against
those who were arrested the other
day in the course of a series of raids
against the gambling establishments
in this city The legality of the war
rant issued for the arrest of one Of
the persons taken into custody has
been challenged, and If the point raised
against it is sustained 1t will probably
be advanced in behalf of all the other
defendants, thereby multiplying the
whole procedure. The motion for dis
missal asserts that the warrant was
predicated on an affidavit which failed
to state facts constituting probable
cause for its issuance, and also that it
was not sworn to by the superin-
tendent of police or before the presid-
ing Judge as the text states. In other
words, it is claimed, the fundamental
basis for the raid was faulty.
These raids We're carefully planned
and were carried out with skill Every
establishment named on the list of
accusations was taken by surprise
Evidently preparations had been care
fully made for the operation And yet
there was, according to the motion
made In defense, a lapse which may
render 1t wholly ineffective.
The public will keenly watch this
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Aviation Progress.

Aviation holds a large place in
world thought and there are thrills in
following the advance that air travel
is making. In Germany hydroplanes
are building for regular passenger
traffic between Europe and North
Africa. African countries along the
Mediterranean and countries in Eu-
rope as far north as the Channel and
the Baltic are to be brought within a
few hours travel of each other. The
planes now building are to carry
twenty persons, passengers and crew
few days ago the chief research
engineer of one of the large industrial
corporations of America advanced the
proposal of passenger air travel be-
tween America and Europe with the
aid of floating landing platforms an
chored along the course. The plan
was shown to shipbuilders. architects
and aviation engineers, who, 1t is re-
ported, were impressed. The model
of a seadrome was shown in water
rough enough to toss a ship. and the
deck of the anchored structure was
steady enough for planes to land on.
rest and take off.
Aviation above the land is growing,
and flying is becoming SO nearly COM
monplace that many persons do not
seem to follow the advance made in
this country in air mail carriage and
intercity air traffic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-04
The Lake Denmark Disaster.

Public expectation in the matter is
fully met by the report of the naval
court of inquiry which has investi-
gated the explosion at Lake Dem
mark, N. j., which caused the de.
struction of the arsenal and magazine
located there and the death of a large
number of people. The court finds
that the disaster was caused by a
stroke of lightning, which ignited one
of the magazines, the fire spreading
thence to others owing to the expo.
sion of shells. 1t was an unavoidable
accident in the conditions that ex-
listed at the arsenal
In it's detailed findings the court
holds that the establishment at Lake
Denmark was within an area in
which electric storms occur with more
than average severity: that light
ming constitutes a serious menace to
surface buildings storing explosives,
which cannot be made immune; that
the area occupied in New Jersey is
too small ana too near 1nhaD1ted land
for safety; that varying types of ex-
plosiyes should be segregated, mas
much as they act differently in. differ
ent containers; that provision should
be made for two ammunition depots,
one to be located within a. radius of
1000 miles of the Pacific coast, and
the other near the Eastern seaboard.
At the time of the disaster 1t was
pointed out that If the magazines had
been buried there would have been
no explosion. This conclusion Is in
dictated, though not explicitly ex-
pressed, in the courts second .'opin-
ion";; that there is at present no well
tried out, generally approved system
which can adequately guarantee the
Iprotection Of a SURFACE building
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-04
States and Self-Government.

President Coolidge has called halt
again to Capitalization of power in
the Federal Government and to dis.
regard of the responsibilities and
duties of the individual States. In
his address over the radio yesterday
on the occasion of the celebration of
the fiftieth anniversary of Colorado's
admission to the Union as a State,
the President said:
THE Nation is inclined to. disre.
gard altogether too much both the
functions and the duties OF the States.
They are much more than subdi-
visions of the Federal Government.
They are also endowed with SOW
ereignty in their own right"
No man in the United States is
better able TO judge of the tendency
toward Capitalization of the power
OF government in Washington. Dur
ing the three years he has been in
the White House and the two wears
and half which Mr.. Coolidge served
as President of the Senate he has
seen request after request made by
influential citizens and groups of citi-
zenS that the Federal Government
intervene in affairs that are primarily
the business of the individual State.
1t is a favorite method of organized
mlnorlties to win their way. 1t has
become common practice to come
wailing to the President or to the
Congress for aid in matters with
which the States themselves should
be robust enough to deal. AS the
President yesterday pointed out, the
States have full powers-in fact.
nave reserved to themselves powers
which they did not confer upon the
Federal Government when they adopt-
ed the Constitution.
Local self-government has been the
key to progress in this country since
the days of the Pilgrim fathers and
the pioneers. Americans were forced
to stand upon their own feet.
Indifference to local responsibilities
and duties, if persisted in, will go
further to undermine the great Re-
public than any other single factor.
Such disregard of local responsible.
ties and Capitalization of power
make invariably for bureaucracy, cor.
ruption. domination by the few.
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against lightning, and that lightning.
therefore, remains a serious menace
to surface buildings containing explo-
sives." The conclusion is plain that
the line of real safety lies in the
storage of high explosives in concrete
structures below the surface of the
ground. These. of course. would cost
more than surface buildings. The
loss at Lake Denmark is estimated by
the naval court at $47,000,000. For
that amount subsurface magazines
sufficient to accommodate both Army
and Navy could be constructed.
In respect to the behavior of the
personnel at the scene of the dis
aster. the court has nothing but the
highest praise. Every man did his
duty and some did more. Indeed. the
court goes so far as to recommend
that all magazine personnel be in
structed to avoid fighting heavy fires
in high explosive magazines.
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WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

idea was given credit for the decision
of the Post Office Department to
henceforth pay the employees in the
larger post offices of this country by
check instead of in cash, as has been
the custom heretofore. Pay checks
replace the old-time pay envelopes on
July Is and the efficiency experts
have figured out that Uncle Sam s
savings on this score will make tidy
sum. Now comes Gen. Bartlett.
the first assistant of the Post Office
Department, and the sponsor of the
new plan, and offers quite a different
and more compelling reason for the in
noyation:
I'VE are not adopting the pay
check system in the interests of
economy" says the general. Il
doubt If it will save very much.
But it is in the interest of safety.
On pay days at the New York post
Office we have had to handle more
than a million dollars in currency.
We have occasionally lost some
by robbery, but, what is more i'm
portant, our employees who handle
the money are constantly exposed
to the danger of being shot by pay
roll bandits. In using checks in.
stead of cash we are falling In line
with the general practice in bust
ness and industry. Most large cor.
porations pay their employees by
check. The city of New York pays
10000 employees weekly in this
fashion,
** Y
Sixteen of Americas most eligible
bachelors, some sixteen years ago,
founded a club in Washington. A
club without a name, a club which
lost every member, for marriage for
feited membership, and all have mar
ried. But the doors of No. I'LL H
street, an unassuming brownstone
house near the Metropolitan Club,
still swing open for the accom-
mediation of the ex-members and their
guests and friends, and inside, the
lavish appointments and the perfect
servttors are as of old. No club ever
boosted more distinguished member
ship, though none ever did less boast
ing or, in fact, less of any kind of
talking about itself who's Who"
and the Social Register carry the
name of every member, but never a
line about I'LL which was the only
designation the proud sixteen ever
gave to their organization. This Is
SAAS SAND AOs9SOA'5 wi. EoIGEWOOO "A,
Cheney, military aide to President
Coolidge; Maj Gen. Frank r. Mccoy
of the Regular Army staff; Col. James
A. Logan, jr., American observer at
Geneva; Benjamin Strong, president
of the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York; William Phillips of Boston,
United States Minister to Belgium.
Elliot Fl. Goodwin of Boston, secre.
tary of the United States Chamber of
Commerce; Andrew j. Peters, Boston
lawyer and former mayor; James F..
Curtis, another Boston lawyer: Hugh
Gibson, United States Minister to
Switzerland: Maj. Gen. Clarence vii.
liams, chief Of the Ordnance Depart.
ment; Basil Miles, secretary of the
international Chamber of Commerce
at Paris; Henry p. Fletcher, Ambas.
sador to Italy; Eliot Wadsworth.
former Assistant Secretary of, the
Treasury; Leland Harrison of New
York; Frederick Sterling, counselor
to the American Embassy at London:
and Willard Straight, American diplo.
mat, who died in 1918.
tCopyright. 1890
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his rather long nose into the school,
anyway.
| He had an office in another school
| building many blocks away, and why
didn't he stay over there, huh? A
| fellow never could tell when "Old Man
Holmes" was likely to put in appear
ance
How disagreeable, for instance, to
be engaged in hot set Of tennis, and
suddenly to hear some one pipe up,
Here comes Old Man Holmes" 1t
took bold boy, indeed, to stare the
supervising principal in the face, and
go on serving.
He might recognize you, No fellow
could ever tell who Old Man Holmes
might or might not recognize. As
Mr.. Thomas Tomkins years later real
| lied, Prof Holmes had too much on
| his mind to recognize one small boy
out of the hundreds under his juris
diction--but how was Tommy Tom
kins, IL years old, to know that?
| X X X
| Tommy was the young gentleman
| who pulled piece of Juvenile sar-
casm on learned legal light. who has
since become a distinguished member
| of the legal division of the United
| States Army.
We will call the gentleman Mr..
| Smith, for short. An enthusiastic
tennis player himself. Mr.. Smith
| liked to see the youngsters play, too,
and helped them in every way pos
sible.
Near his home was court that was
not in very good condition, so he in.
weighed some Of the boys of the neigh
borhood to help him put it into shape.
1t was not clay court, but had a
surface composed of ordinary dirt,
hard packed, but given to throwing
up gravel.
Now any tennis player knows that
there is nothing more disconcerting
on a court than gravel. A small Dit
of stone no larger than a pea can
cause a tennis ball to do some queer
things.
Mr.. Smith was careful to instruct
the boys to pick up every day the
merest fragments of rock. Tommy
and his pals did what they thought
was a good job. Boys are never over
careful about such things.
Mr.. Smith would march in, inspect
the court, and point out several small
stones still lying on the court. To
Tommy the court looked clean, to Mr..
Smith 1t held possibilities for trick
balls.
Finally the thing got to be more
IMAM tommy CUuiu
ingly, he possessed himself of a small
magnifying glass, and hied himself
over to the court. He did not have
long to walt.
Here came Mr.. Smith, ready for
his evening inspection. The other
boys, apprised of the plot, stood at,
attention.
When Smith came on the court,
Tommy dropped to his knees. lowered
the glass to within an inch or so OF
the ground, and gravely began TO
peer through it.
Inch by inch he inspected the
court, crawling along, much to the
amazement of the innocent Mr..
Smith.
Tommy" he inquired at last,
what are you doing?"
'Lookin' for rocks" replied Tommy,
i'm Disguised tone.
His remark and actions struck the
funny bone" of the distinguished
member of the bar, who burst into
laughter, in which he was Joined by
the boys Tommy, seeing that his pur-
pose had been achieved, solemnly put
mp his glass.
Nothing more was said about peb.
oles on that court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-04

Do you naturally think in terms of
units. tens or hundreds? There are
these various types of minds. 1t Is
difficult for the unit man to think in
terms of tens or the hundred man TO
think in terms of units. We all know
men whose natural financial measure
Is one dollar: others whose unit Is one
hundred dollars, one thousand dollars,
one million dollars. The latter are
the ones who have built the transcon-
tinental railroads, developed the steel
industry, operated the mines and oil
wells.
We have great traffic problem in
America today. 1t will never be
solved by the man with the unit mind
He thinks of a street as a glorified
cowpath. 1t must be a one-level street
for the man with a unit mind.
But the future city street in Amer
lea is to have at least four levels.
There will be the underground level
where subway trains bring into the
business section the mass of the peo-
pie. The second level will be the pc
destrian level. and above this will be
two one-way streets, on one of which
the automobile traffic will flow north
or east and on the other south or
west.
AS the street levels multiply bust
ness buildings will be better utilized.
Instead of one row of shop windows
and ground floors there will be four.
"Ah, but how dark ii will be-" you say.
Not as long as electric light plants are
running Most of the great city stores
use artificial light all day now. Why
not use it in the streets as we'll? After
all, we don't seek sunlight and daisies
in the shopping district.
all ,dxyi nm f1rr
for multi-level streets. Routes of
circulation" are to be secured by dou-
ble-decking.
Perhaps in future years we will
have as many street levels as our sky
scrapers have stories. America has
many men with hundred mindA
fCopsright fp20.l'
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century ago by sufferers from tuber-
culosis who believed living in the cave
would cure them. Another story Is 20
the effect that miners who took salt
peter from the cave for powder maxi
ing during the war of 1912 built the
houses, but while such mining did
take place 1t is probable the miners
lived outside the cave. The fallacy Of
the underground cure theory for tu-
berculosis was soon demonstrated, and
some of the stone huts remain I'M
finished.
@. Who was the first layrnan TO
be appointed chancellor in England
T. G. d.
Thomas More succeeded him. The
latter was the first layman to enjoy
this honor.
@. Are people more apt to be over
come by heat on a dry day or on a
damp day?-C. H. NJ.
A. At the same temperature moist
air is more productive of heat prostra-
ton than is dry air.
@. What is a blind advertise
ment"?-C. NJ.
A. In most cases this variety of
advertisement discloSes neither the
name of the firm advertising nor
much of the nature of it's business.
O. Why is the Committee of Forty.
eight so called?-A. c. NJ.
A. 1t is composed of representa-
tives from the forty-eight States, and
from this derives it's name.
@. What is the depth of the drain
age canal at Chicago. and how much
water flows through ITO. b.
A. The following are the dimen-
sions of the Chicago drainage and
ship canal: Total length, $3.50 miles;
canal length, 32.35 miles; width, 226
feet; depth, % feet. Flow through
the drainage canal at Chicago is gov
erned by a permit issued by the War
Department March 8. 1925. 1t limits
the flow mot to exceed an annual
average of $500 cubic feet per second.
the instantaneous maximum not to
exceed 1000 cubic feet per second"
Q. Is it correct to use both mfr"
and "Jr." with a mans name?-A. l..
A. The fact that the title "Jr." Is
used as a mans name in no way af
fects the title Mr." 1t must also be
used.
Did you eUer torite a letter to
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