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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-22
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
By DR.. FRANK CRANE
Anerica,s Great StQae FIace

NYATIONS like curved mirrors, reflect il magnified
proportions the character Of the heroes they deaze
with which every schooboy is familiar tells Of child who
lived IN the valley under titanic figure carved Oy nature
upon the side of mountain.
resembled human cOuntenance and was known a the
Great Stone Face
THE how crew up III the valley all his life under the IN
Thence of the form the mountanslde In ms OLD age y
wa recognized that lie had grown to be the exact counter
part Of the face among the crags.
Great men nation past whom the czen are taugns
reverence the great stone faces Of tnas nalon
Their characters tend to become enlarged g national
dimensions.
Whether imaginary real such characters are potent
Ii has pointed that Ulysses the wandering color
full hero of the Odyssey the great stone lace lnat
nodded and shaped the characters Of the Greeks
Napoleon France, Bismarck and FTederlck tne dreat
ia Germany Augustus and Caesar Italy have been great
stone that have left their impress upon tne nauonal
characteristics Of their people.
Often the hero reflects as well as mous Inc Iype q
heroes chosen and the characteristics emphasized Tell the
ideals Of the nation which does the revering.
1t IS well people when their heroes are strong noble
men when the characteristics emphasized are simple and
fundamental
ing character Of the people Of America e George
Pew ii history have offered better characters for
imitation BY young nation fighting its way through the
hardships of the wilderness 70 the Gay OL
Hs was the character Of the who doggedy hoes Y
the end OF the whom hardshps IND the ring oh
true steel
II was the character sincere, uncompromIs
ing purposeful There something cragIke elemental ~
his unfnching fidelity to the cause OF ms country
cte If the cortier neither that of the American people
It direct steady tenacious SO has been tnat q me
people.
1t win be we'll for the nation if in this day when we have
character still reflects those elements OF strength emDooeo
IN this Great Stone Face OF our past
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II can't understand it,! cries
Esther's mother. II brought her
up so carefully, shielded her,
sheltered her-did everything q
mother could do. She never went
with boys. / never let her so
around and be silly the way
girls do.
Why she even met him at
church social. / don't know how
he ever got there, but it seems
he came with somebody else. and
he singled Esther out. and she
began meeting him in secret:
Oh how she has disappointed me!
To think she never told me, and
then to go off and be married
like that. I can't understand 1t!
Well, can understand it. Els
theirs mother wouldn't let her
entertain her boy friends at
home, so she entertained them
elsewhere. If she had confessed
her first meeting with this lad
she met at the church social,
Mrs. Norton would have told her
she was a very silly young girl,
and it. was too bad If she was
going to be boystruck and foolish
like Kitty, across the street, ana
she never expected that OF HER
daughter!
So. to avoid trouble. Esther met
Clarence in secret. There's some
hing exciting and mysterious
about the boy your mother won't
let you entertain at home. The
Romeo-and-Juliet situation all over
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TUG ON MOON
By Garrett P. Seryiss

cause 1t fails to take account of
the revolution around the sun.
What the illustration shows, how
ever, is only the situation of the
earth and moon together around
the sun, attach the two to an
elastic cord, one end OF which
you hold in your hand while the
other end is free.
Then swing the cord around
like a sling. Your hand will rep
resent the sun. The faster you
make the earth and moon re-
volve with the cord the more the
latter will stretch. But, just as
happens when the cord is firmly
attached at the farther end from
the sun, we may regard the
separation between the moon and
the earth as proportional to- the
difference between and pull upon
the moon and the simultaneous
pull upon the earth.
The interplay of the attractions
Of the sun and the earth upon
the .circling moon Is intensely in
teresting, but it would require
more space than I have at COM
mand to describe it. The writer's
of some of the old textbooks on
astronomy seem to have put more
godspeed into their methods of in
struction than many of their sue
cessors, If you can get hold OF
good old Elias LOOMS Treatise
on Astronomy" you will see how
neatly he illuminated this subject.
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Salesrnanship
In Monaco

TNRY one of the Monte Carlo
Il shops. 1t doesn't matter
whether you want an out-sized
collar, bone stud, or q pearl
necklace, your greeting will be
the same. You will be made to
feel that tris particular shop was
built that you might enter it upon,
your more or less ridiculous quest,
that monsieur or madame had
lived through dreary years wait
ing for the pleasure of this visit
of yours. and that If they hadn't
the out-siZed collar or the bone
stud. or if you couldn't afford the
pearl necklace, Che whole thing
had become a tremendous joke
and that their momentary unhap
piness at being unable to serve
you was more than atoned for by
their intense delight at having
been privileged to listen to your
absurd demand. And, to be Sc
rious, the shopkeepers of Monte
Carlo know their business. Just
as most of the stories written Of
the day by day tragedies and the
reckless gambling of the place are
terribly exaggerated. so are all the
stories of high prices and general
extravaganza. You can live in
Monte Carlo for considerably less
money than you can live in Lon
don, and you can buy here all the
ordinary luXuries of life, such as
Bond Street provides. at slightly
lower cost. Shirts, by-the.by, are
cheaper and better.-E. Phillips
Oppenheim. in McNaught'S Month.
ly for March.
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A READER In CALIFORNIA; asks
"A for some kind OF expert
mental model by which he may
be able to represent to himself
the inability of the sun to pun
the moon away from the earth.
as he is not fully satisfied with
the verbal explanation which
gave in a recent article.
am very willing to help. as
far as can, In getting around
the mathematical difficulties that
hedge every subject Of which the
famous problem of three bodies"
constitutes the basis. and so
offer the following experimental
illustration, not, be 1t noted, as a
real solution, but only as a par
tial analogy that may serve TO
clarity the statement that the
sun is unable to take the moon
away because he has to take the
earth along with it, the separat-
ing force that he is able to exer-
else being measured only by the
difference between his attraction
at the moon and his attraction at
the same time on the earth.
Let us represent the suns CRAWL
tation by rubber cord. I'M
moyably attached at one end while
the sun pulls upon it from the
other end, as shown by the arrow
noints. Let the earth and the
moon be fastened upon the cord'
not far apart.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-22
ONCE-OVERS

What do get rid of the recollection of thought
less needless action of which much ashamed -
This question is asked by who is tortured by the
memory of unpleasant experience.
Most of have experiences which of regret
these experiences profitable to the extent of block
ing repetition of them they have served good purpose
An infracon of any law of nature principle Of
atty honor bound to leave scar but it results in
checking serious violations good may out of it
To the person who has reformed the who is set
in resolution to make life exemparyhere should be
constant regrets
of peace and beauty 1t is sensible thing to do.
With the decision make amends there should be q
generous feeling of beray in good deeds Through the
simple acts of kindness Others the bitterness Of the
past can be forgotten.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-22
BY ELSIE ROBINSON
THE SLY

stir It would make. How surprised
everybody would be. What, Es-
ther Norton bride? She eloped
with that new young man. Mr..
Swenson. that was assisting 81
the drug store! Just think a
beautiful young girl, sacrificing
her good home. and giving M all
her school friends and every.
thing. to marry the man shs
loved!
It's a picture few young girls
can resist. Only the cruelty OF
county clerks, who demand cash
for marriage licenses, prevents
more of that sort OF elopement.
And the worst OF It is It's 50
unnecessary. If Mrs. Norton had
Used her God-given sense, and
realized that Esther was q normal
young human. with all the nor
NAL young humans desire for
fun" she'd have let her fill the
home with young folks. and ten
chances to one Clarence would
nave been overlooked In the shut
fle. Even II he did single her
out. and become a steady caller
he wouldn't have looked so ro-
mantle in the familiar light Of
the parlor bridge lamp.
dunno what it is, but there's
something about home that makes
it easier for us to Judge our
friends and see them as they really
are. Parents ought to think of
hat. and protect" their children
accordingly.
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Now, starting from the upper
line of the figure as a basis, let
the pull of the sun he increased,
as indicated in the second line by
the lengthening Of the cord. The
cord will stretch between the
moon and the earth, and they
will be separted; but the separa-
ton will be very slight because
the stretching of the cord back or
the earth will be nearly the same
in amount as between the earth
and the moon. In the third line
where the pull has again In
creased, we see that similar er-
feet results; there is slight sep
aration, but still the earth FOL
lows the moon and the tie be"
tween them is unbroken.
In the fourth line the pull is
supposed to have increased TO
such a degree that the difference
between the amount OF the sun s.
attraction upon the moon and its
attraction upon the earth exceeds
the attraction between the earth
and the moon, Whereupon the
cord breaks and the moon is set
free from the efrth. Strictly
speaking. the elastic cord would
not behave exactly that way.
But some reader may think
that the Illustration does not rep
resent the way the sun pulls the
earth and the moor, anyhow, be-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-22
In Defense

de George Washington and the
~ late discussion on his use of
language, l find in Meade's "Old
Churches. Ministers and Families
of Virginia" p. 494, the testimony
Of Robert Lewis, Of Fredericks-
burg, and Lawrence Lewis, of
Woodlawn, two gentlemen as COM
petent to know the private habits
of Washington as any others in
the land. They were nephews of
General Washington. The former
lived in the family of Washing
ton for some time as private sec
rotary; the latter was his near
neighbor, both of them men of
the highest character, and both
declared "they had never heard
an oath from the lips of their
uncle"
To this, the added testimony of
General Porterfield, p. 492, should
forever close Iibeious mouthS--or
compel their closure!
b. LOUDUN.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-22
WHEN COUPLE
GOTOTHEATER|
Mrs. COrneius Beeckman.
AEAR MRS. BEEcKMAN:

NEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
- When with young man
how should a young lady enter
a theater?
2. When a lady goes to res
taurant with a gentleman, is it
not proper for the lady to select
any table she desires?
8. When q young man offers to
take lady home after a party
and the lady accepts, Is 1t proper
for the lady to mention the way
she wishes to go home by having
the gentleman call a taxicab, or
should the young man take her
home as he chooses?
A READER.
WHEN the couple enter the
W theater, the lady stands
aside to wait for the gentleman
to open the door for her. To a
gentleman 1t is very chagrining
FOR a lady not to wait until he
opens a door. Then. III he has to
go to the ticket window to buy
the tickets. or to exchange the
ticket order for tickets, the lady
stands away from the line-if she
Doesn't want to get black looks"
from all the people in the line!
Either sequence of going down
the aisle is correct. That is. It
is correct for the gentleman to
go first. and it is Just as correct
for the lady to go first. And there
is much to be said on both sides.
Each gentleman decides for him
self which order he himself pre-
fers, and the lady must be alert
10 find out which is his habit
Most gentlemen stand aside to
allow the lady to precede, because
1t is usually correct for the lady
to precede. However, some gen
tlemen maintain that if they go
down the aisle first. they are of
more service to the lady. which is
The whole point That is, they
,hen can see that tho usher finds
the right seats, they can stand at
the head Of the row, and they can
therefore be in position to help
the lady into the row in which
are their seats.
2. Not exactly. OF course there
is no reason really why she
shouldn't. but. If her host is of
the "masterful' kind and I hope
he is-he will see that they are
given the most desirable to be
had
3. / think that you are a very
advanced" young lady. No.
Reader, you will have to depend
on your companions choice OF
transportation. You see, he is the
host. and so this question is to
be decided by him.
Rules for Visiting Cards
engraved-never printed.
2. On a visiting card there
should be no authorizations. except
The necessary one like Mr.. and
Mrs.
3. The title should always be
used-Mrs.. Miss or Mr..
4. 1t is correct to have the
address in the lower right corner
engraved in letters smaller than
those used in the name. (This
IS correct, but not necessarily
5. 1t is not correct to have the
telephone number engraved on a
visiting card.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-22

TySTHER NOR
III 4 ON ran
away from home
the OF h er day.
Esther is Is, and
the young man
she ran away
with Is ~, so
there's nothing to
be done about 1t.
E sther is q
lovely girl. tai
ented and charm
ing. And the boy
iswell not very
pro missing. An
ane m &c looking
youth with mar
row s h o ulders
and extra wide
pants whose
only talent seems
to be pool. Ger
tainly not the
type one would
expect Esther to
oaro For
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LISTEN, WORLD!

again. You take
another look at
him. How q / a
You ever think he
was uninkeresting
at the 81
Why. he's almost
handsome. III b
different from the
h era he -!
How cut of from
the bread-and-but
ter world where
the family live
HI D w wonderful
love Is. What q
marvellous thing
II would be to
give up every-
thing for love.
10 defy the fam
lily and every
thing. And marry
your secret lover.
ana live happily
ever after!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-22
| NEGOTIATIONS
OF "A WIFE

ROWland-

Sons of Adam
nNE of the strange but happy
" delusions, under which a
woman still labors. is that she
can hold a man by tying him TO
her.
Every brilliant. clever woman
prays that her daughter may be
born beautiful. and dumb SO
that she will be loved, and never
bored, by men.
The "cave-man" pose rlay thrill
an unsophistical fiapper--but that
tender, protecting, Let me-take-
e-of-you-little-girl" manner is
a skeleton key that will fit every
woman's heart.
No matter how threLdbare
woman's love may have worn,
man never despairs that he can
patch 1t up, somehow and make
1t stand a little more strain.
OF course, a man should stop
flirting before a girl fails in love
but how can he, Wien the
average girl falls in love before
he begins?
Tether a man and he'll pull Ike
mad at the rope; cut him loose
and he'll Immediately come
around and beg you to tie an
other knot in 1t.
Somehow, when a married man
takes a little sentimental detour.
he always manages to have A
dotted line behind him, by which
he mad tip-toe back home, whom
the gas gives out.
The only time a man can be
SURE that his wife won't try to
drive from the back seat is when
she's riding in her hearse.
A dead man has been restored
to life by massaging his heart
but dead love, alas, has never
been so resuscitated.
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A~ ELASTIC coS0 REPRESENTS
TVS PULL ON the NOON AND the
LEARTh -Wt4eN rye INDIFFERENCE
or THE Gull on TIE MOON AND O"
RE EARTH, EXCEEDS THE FORCE
or TIVE PULL 0ETWEEh1 THEM TF'E
NOON IS TORN AWAY 49,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-22

Tether a man and he'll pull Ike
mad at the rope; cut him loose
and he'll Immediately come
around and beg you to tie an
other knot in it.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-22

OF course, a man should stop
flirting before a girl fails in love
but how can he, Wien the
average girl falls in love before
he begins?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-22

The only time man can be
SURE that his wife won't try to
drive from the back seat is when
she's riding in her hearse.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-22

A dead man has been restored
to life by massaging his heart
but dead love, alas, has never
been so resuscitated.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-22

No matter how threLdbare a
woman's love may have worn, a
man never despairs that he can
patch 1t up, somehow and make
Ii stand a little more strain.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-22

Every brilliant, clever woman
prays that her daughter may be
born beautiful. and dumb"--so
that she will be loved, and never
bored, by men.
The Winslow mail., 1926-04-30
OITEM
IN DEFICIENCY
BILL FOR DAM

The second deficiency bill now
being framed by the appropriations
committee of the house of repre-
sentatives will carry an item for
$45O,000 for construction work on
the Coolidge dam at San Carlos on
the ella river, according to private
dispatches received from Washing
ton. The $450,0O0 is the sum
sought for in the amendment to
the department of the interior ap-
preparation bill. The amendment
was approved by the director OF
the bureau of the budget and ap-
proved by the senate but eliminat-
ed in conference. The sum asked
in the amendment was eliminated
without protest after the senator
from Arizona had been given as
surances by Senator Smoot, chair
man of the conferees, that the item
would be included in the deficiency
bill.
The Winslow mail., 1926-04-30

the mass of the meteor should have
been approximately at a low esti-
mate, five millions of tons, mostly
iron. Eight per cent, however,
would be nickel and in each ton,
by analysis, the average amount Of
about siX-tenths of an ounce of
platinum and iridium exists. This
would give about 100000 ounces
of platinOiridium."
Placing no value on the iron, the
nickel, platinum and iridium would
The Winslow mail., 1926-04-30

of financial reward, the further ex-
ploration of the crater will certain
ly be of great scientific value, for
it will afford evidence which can
not be disregarded as the manner
in which our solar system has been
built up. 1t will go far toward
proving the most modern theory of
how heavenly bodies have been de-
stroyed and how new ones are built
up out of fragments floating in
space for aeons of time"
The Winslow mail., 1926-04-30

have value of not far from $95
per ton, and if we place the weight
at the lowest estimate, 100000
tons, the total value begins to be
rather staggering. Professor
Thompson calculated the weight at
not less than 100000 tons, and if
his figures are correct, the values
would rise to sums that sound like
our war debts.
A recent letter from Mr.. Barrin-
ger says: Aside from all prospect
The Winslow mail., 1926-04-30
ORATORIAL CONTEST STUDENT
SELECTED FROM FLAGSTAFF

FLAGSTAFF - Joe Herman OF
Los Angeles, a student at the
Northern Arizona Teachers College
here was selected to represent the
college at Tucson in the intercolle-
giate peace oratorical contest. The
contest will be held May D.
Blythe: Construction OF bridge
over Colorado river proposed.
Ajo: Ajo Arizona Copper COM
pany resumes drilling at Hlchl1n
property.
The Winslow mail., 1926-04-30
Coolidge Man Ends His
Life With Shotgun

FLORENCE-D -Despondent over i'll
health and financial conditions, G.
o. Seagoe, 50, prominent farmer
of Coolidge, committed suicide
last week by exploding a double
barreled shotgun in his mouth. The
shot tore off the left side of his
head.
The Winslow mail., 1926-04-30

Florence: New power lines be-
ing built by Electrical District No.
2, to serve farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-01
THE BRITISH COAL STRIKERS SEND
DELEGATION TO TOUR UNITED STATES
ESPECIAL to The Daily wOrker)

LONDON July 3o-A delegation from the Miners Fedora
of Great Britain will sail Saturday to the United States
appeal unions for funds and support the
fight British miners against lower wages and the longer
day. is made by A. Cook, secretary
of the federation.
delegation which will arrive the Berengaria will
the United States under the auspices
guests Workers America
lean Federation of Labor.
executive committee of the British miners union
preparation for the conference of delegates yesterday and
the reports from all the mining districts the
try shown that there a uniform determination
nue the struggle against the attempt break the
strike by its passage Of the longer work day The
ing resolue this in spite of their suffering long
struggle since May l.
With this in mind the executive committee passed
recommending the delegate today
that the union refuse consider any proposals carrying
the day. but only allow
the bosses the question of wages
The executive also advised the delegate
the proposals for settlement formulated recently
II is learned that Tile and Ellen VIII
knson together with representatives
Federation, make up the delegation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-01
WHAT THE SLUSH FUND
INVESTIGATION HAS
REVEALED TO DATE

What the slush fund investigation
into corruption during the Illinois
primaries has accomplished SO far,
can be summed up as follows:
!. That the gigantic sum Of ST.
100000 was spent by Senators Me-
kinley and Frank L. Smith, for the
G. o. p. nomination.
2. That Mckinley, public utilities
nagnate spend almost half million
out of his own pocket in his futile
effort to win the nomination.
That Samuel insult, muIti-mlIllon-
aire utility baron, contributed almost
100000 to the campaign funds Of
Mckinley and Smith, republicans,
and George E. Brennan, democrat.
q. That working alliance exists
in Cook county between the Barrett
Grove faction Of the republican
party and the democrat party under
Brennan.
5. That republican leader In
Western Illinois paid $4,000 to an
influential leader Of foreign-born
citizens in return for the endorse
ment Of Frank L. Smith.
6. That Palmer Anderson, United
States marshall for Chicago, en-
gagged the Mcoueeny detective aeen-
ey to supply him with special deputy
marshalls for use at the polls on
primary day at the request Of the
Deneen group.