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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-24
Question Of Power Is Incidental
Iii Boulder Dam Bill

The House Rules Committee in finally agreeing to let
Colorado River control Legislation vote in the Lower
Chamber Of Congress, prevents . national scandal
II is universally admitted that the Swing johnson bill will
pass the Senate and the House Of Representatives
get chance to vote on it
It would have been scandal the private electric power
interests proved themselves able prevent both Senate and
House from voting unsatisfactory to these in
terests
The power people against the Swing johnson bill Repre-
aenatiye Hayden Of Arizona against it. Representative
Leatherwood Of Utah is against 1T
Who il for it9
President Coolidge Secretary Work Secretary Hoover the
House Irrigation Committee five Of the seven Colorado River
States the united opinion Of the engineering profession and
$4,000 inhabitants Of Imperial Valley yearly threatened
with destruction BY flood.
The House in deciding this question will remember that
power is only an incident in this bill
The project originated with the farmers Of Imperial Valley
who raised the money investigate site to store flood
waters. They found Boulder Canyon
The high dam needed to intercept flood and silt yield
Elk hundred thousand horsepower Los Angeles and other
Western cities and corporations stand ready to buy this
at price that will pay for the dam and reservoir taking
that cost off the farmers or the Government.
The power controversy arises because the bill gives the
Secretary Of Interior the option of building and operating the
power plant leasing the power rights private corpora
on The power interests say the Government shall not have
the option to build and operate itself.
That option was not put into the bill BY its authors
Inserted at the request Of Secretary Work of the
etaunchest foes Of Government operation.
He said he needed the right to build and operate for
club in dealing with private lesees make they paid
she Government the full value Of the power rights they
ceived
There doubt Secretary Works word Judging
from his record there every believe he will
TO Government operation only as last resort.
Of course would be agreeable for the power
pans the bill did not give Secretary Work this means Of
protecting the public interest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-24
international Suppression OF the
Manufacture and Sale of
Narcotics

The United States long desired to bring about an
national agreement for the rigid suppression Of the
facure end sale Of habit forming drugs The position Of this
country is admitted by all civilized nations to be and
IN the interest Of civilization and humanity.
Years ago. of The Hague conferences international
agreement reached for the suppression Of prepared opium
better known as smoking opium which constitutes 80 per
cent Of the worlds opium production has been
forced because five great companies Europe principally
England DERIVE IMMENSE REVENUES from trade in this
humanity wrecking drug and its derivatives
In 1926 another international conference was held
Geneva Foryone nations represented The American
delegation headed by Representative Porter chairman Of
fight there for effective international agreement to limit
the production and sale Of opium and other narcotics strictly
to medicinal and scientific uses
One effect Of this conference stir up the conscience
bf the nations of the world and world sentiment
that may eventually lead successful international results
Standing boldly in the way Of international suppressive
measures however the huge European that make
billions of dollars out of wrecng human beings the world
Heron the dangerous Of all derivatives from opium is
manufactured in Europe much of it in Switzerland It
struggled into this country and into other countries helping
to make European millonaires.
Representative Porter put through Congress several years
ago bill which prohibits the manufacture of heroin in this
country and little Of that terrible drug made here
Mussonis representative at the Geneva Opium Conferece
has suggested another international conference on the
subject to be held in this country time in the near
future Mussoni deeply interested in suppressng the
manufacture sale Of deahdeang drugs
IN his nation and sympathzes with the attitude Of the
United States.
When we understand that boVs and girls in this country
are every day increasing the huge number of drug adcts in
this nation for other than that European capitalists
may continue to make fortunes ont of human misery and
depravy forced to feel that civilization is making
little Roadway in what supposed to be the civilized
Of all nations.
THE INFLUENCE OF MONEY INVESTED IN COM.
MERCIAL COMPANIES ENGAGED in DEBAUCHNG THE
WORLD IS GREATER THAN ALL CONSIDERATIONS OF
DECENCY. HUMAN ADVANCEMENT, OR HUMAN BET.
TERMENT.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-24

MAYHEM Bishop Mcintyre stood the Canadian bank d
Niagara Falls he said that everything in the universe
seemed to be going down. Yet closer scrutiny rs-
veaed the little steamer Maid of the Mist going up.
Pessmss tell that everything and everybody i going
to the dogs.
We have the authority Of the reass and the gloomy
philosophers that things getting and Yet
somehow the world struggling upward.
It has made much Improvement I'M the last eighteen hum
dred and it is liable to make in the next
few years
The stream Of traffic Broadway ceaseess but
sonaly policeman raises his hand and the traffic stops
while he leads little child old in safety from
curb to curb.
The newspapers filled with accounts Of murders and
all sorts of crimes until that the country afflicted
with crime wave, but every in while you hear of
kind deed done by somebody who is all afflicted with
crime motives
Doubtless there many kind deeds recorded all
through the world. Many hearts going up stream.
It is pretty hard them times and the struggle
pretty severe but taking all in all the company Of those who
struggling to make the world better considerable and
they have the cosmic laws in their favor
Whoever does what right may be peculiar but he be-
longs to long line Of benecent forebears He may know
that his labor is not wasted.
For there always number of people who are going
up stream just there many people who laying
down their and going with the stream toward the
deadly water falls Of disaster.
There something the human breast that inclnes
to struggle to push onward and upward Notwithstanding
that the stream of things to bear them down.
Copyright 1921 by
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-24

stars Is ascertained by what is
called the spectroscopic method,
or Adams method, one OF the
most remarkable inventions of
modern astronomy. 1t Is based
upon the discovery that the rela-
tive intensity of certain lines In
the spectra of stars is proportional
TO the absolute luminosity or the
absolute magnitude of the stars.
1t matters not, then, how minute
the parallax of q star may be.
If only its spectrum can be photo
graphed, for the spectrum de-
termines its absolute magnitude.
and when that is known the dis.
lance is likewise known by the
ratio between the absolute magni.
tude as revealed by its spectrum
and its apparent magnitude shown
in the telescope.
This is simple consequence OF
the fact that the apparent lumi.
Mostly of a star varies inversely as
the square of it's distance. Thus
the sun, whose apparent luminos-
tty is $4,000 million times that of
star like Affair. If placed 283, 900
times as far away as it now is
would look no brighter than Affair,
and put far enough away would
even disappear from sight. But
as long as we know what the lumi.
Mostly Of the sun was at any one
given distance we could always
infer its distance from it's appar.
emit luminosity, wherever it might
be.
1t is this method of calculating
star distances, added by others
somewhat similar, that has led 20
the recent enormous expansion Of
our ideas Of the dimensions of
the starry universe, ideas based
not on mere guesswork, but for
titled by verifiable facts. The
measured parallaxes stop with
stars two or three hundred Light.
years distant, while the spectre.
scopic method carries us on into
depths of space which a few years
ago seemed hopelessly unfathom.
able, regions from which swift.
winged light can reach us only
after a continuous flight enduring
hundreds of thousands or even
millions Of years!
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worse is the thought that they can
double their number every twenty
or thirty minutes!
The fly spits out a mass of
saliva on the solid food which
possesses the power of dissolving
it, then after 1t has had time to
act, sucks it up again through
the tubes in the pads!
Somebody innocsntly asks, What
II the fly only stays on the food
long enough to spit on it and then
It IS scared away?" Another thing
to take the Joy out of eating. But
we must not blame the microscope
because it reveals these facts to
US.
And so we might 60 on. Every.
thing in Nature-animal, vege.
table. minerals potential prob
lem for the microscope and can be
studied to advantage. The many
things we do not yet know far
outweigh the few we do, and the
microscope is one Of the agencies
which will in the future unlock
many fast-closed doors.
To speed that time we can only
hope that every student and lover
OF Nature will become enthused
with a desire to possess a nisro-
scope and contribute somsthinR
toward spanning the gap sim seps,
sAhng ~ 8A ~ NAhnswn.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-24
ONCE-OVERS
Don't Expect All-Round Geniuses
BY ]. ]. MuNDY

along lines and their apparent lack of ability in other
ways.
You cannot understand why they should be so bright IN
way and perhaps dull in other ways.
In your you to grasp workable idea Of
many things and being practical you have been able to do
well all that you have undertaken
But you expect much when you think that the person
who particularly gifted in way should be proficient
In many ways
You may be familiar with the working plans of one who
stands out in certain sphere and you interested with the
of his work.
He makes so little apparent effort you think he would do
well in most anything he would undertake if he would make
the necessary effort
This world evens up-keeps balance-and by the same
law when you find genius in certain line you cannot
expect to find that person unusually fine all around.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-24
NEGOTIATIONS
OF "A WIFE
Unripened Marriapes
BY Helan Rowland

Unripened Marriages
NEVER. in the history of the
IN Western World, were there so
many youthful marriages. callow
romances. and infantile elopments
as there are today.
Life" for a girl, used to begin
with her first real grown-up love
affair. Now, it begins in her
bassinet.
As soon as a baby girl cuts her
four front teeth, she wants a bite
of the forbidden apple-and by the
time she is tall enough to reach the
ink bottle she is writing her
memoirs"
The first word she says Is
"Gimmer' the second is "Lenme'--
and the third is Let's get mar
ried!'
At II. she Is standing with un.
reluctant feet, where wedlock and
alimony meet. At Is. she is a
sophisticated woman of the world;
at 20, she is getting blase: and at
%, she is beginning to feel posi-
lively senile.
The wedding ring isn't carried to
the altar on a white satin heart
any more; it is carried in the baby
carriage, along with the rattle.
A modern girl cuts her eye-teeth
on her wedding ring, and uses her
divorce certificates for curl-papers.
You send your little 9-year-old to
the corner for pound Of animal
crackers and bar Of chocolate
and behold. she comes back with
box of rouge, a copy of Flaming
Youth" and whole new set of
ideas on self-expression and sex.
appeal.
Most of these youthful marriages
don't last until the installment
man gets around, and scarcely one
holds out until the trousseau IS
worn out.
But what can you expect of a
marriage based on half-baled emo.
tons and unripened minds. except
a bad case of sentimental indiges.
ton?
Little green hearts cannot know
what love is!
Life and love and experience,
like all things else. must ripen
slowly and naturally to be sweet
and rich and satisfying-and to
have the genuine flavor.
The tragedy Of the so-called
younger generation is that it is
never YOUNGl 1t does not take
time to be young-it is so afraid 1t
will MISS somethingl
1t does not take the time for the
long. long thoughts of youth. !"
the time to dream about life. to
build air castles. and grow ambi.
tons. and find few sweet, high,
iieart-filling aspirations!
But these youthful marriages are
not cute or clever or amusing-and
those who play with the divine fire
always get burned fingers. and
come out singed. charred. or
Scared for life!
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THROUGH MAGIC GLASS
pERHAPs most OF all, the micro.

DERHAPs most OF all. the micro.
= scope has demonstrated It's
value in the study Of the tissues
Of the body in health and sickness,
and in discovering to us the bac.
terra as the causative agent In
many diseases.
Not all germs are dangerous.
some are even of great benefit to
US. writes Roy NJ. Allen in Ma.
ture Magazine of Washington,
others again are the cause of
minor ills. Among these last are
those that insist on taking up
their abode in our mouths and
sooner or later causing US to
make a date with the dentist.
suppose We take little scrapfng
from tooth and smear it on a
slide. Then when it is properly
fixed and stained for the bacteria
are colorless and could not other.
wise be seenl, we turn the highest
power we have on them.
Small indeed. but what diversity
OF form. round and elongated,
crooked and straight. small and
very small, all are present in
countless confusion.
And to think that each one Of
them has but one purpose IN life,
living at your expense. And Gtill
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they permit her to marry. She
sent her one lover away six
years ago. So there stays Mil
bred, harassed, starved for health
doing her duty"-while her
life staghates.
But it's all for the best" she
says. 80 try to be patient and
stand IT."
There's a familiar sound to that
yeep. 1t has been. for untold
ages. the favorite alibi OF large
numbers of our citizens. But.
there isn't to date one shred of
evidence to show that their worm
like attitude is justified.
Everything ISN'T for the Lest.
A great deal that happens to
us and to our world Is most de.
cidedly for the worst. And it's
an insult to God of love and
decency and healthy growth to
try and pass the buck to Him by
saying that He has willed such
denominations.
What sort of God would make
little children work in cotton
mills? Or kill young boys in
war? Or coop human beings in
city slums? Or make young girls
work to support themselves on
SIS a week? Or murder men in
electric chairs? Or force the
simple-minded and diseased to
mate and breed? or commit any
one of thousands of other atroci-
ties which are accepted as part
Of civilized" program?
There's nothing decent or de-
sirable about these things.
They're not the act of God.
They're the acts Of cruel, greedy,
selfish. ignorant. lazy, cowardly
human beings.
Nor is there anything decent or
desirable in the private tangles
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-24
STAR DISTANCE
By Garrett P. Serviss

Your article Wonderland of
the Sky" was very inspiring
to me and has caused me to do
some valuable thinking. 1t would
make the stupendous facts as
to the size Of the universe seem
more real to me IL / could know
the exact size of the angle being
measured to make these calcula.
tions. understand that the
nearest star makes only rs sec
onds Of arc with the eartl1's
orbit; what would stars ten mil
lion light years away show?
r. j. DANIELSON, Chicago.
TUE parallax Of the nearest
i star, Alpha Centauri, is not
. IS seconds. but 75.100 of one Sec
ond. That corresponds to a dis.
lance of a little more than four
and one-third light-years. IL the
parallax were rs seconds, the dis.
lance would be but small Dart
of a light-year.
The rule is that the distance in
light years equals the quotient of
1926 divided by the paralIax in sec.
onds. The reason of this Is that
a parallax of one second CORE.
spends to a distance of 3.26 light.
years. This distance in modern
astronomy Is called a parsec, and
1t is the most logical unit for
measuring star distances, though
the light.year is more popular be.
cause it makes a special appeal to
the imagination-the distance that
light. speeding at the rate of 1885,
900 miles per second, travels in
year.
BY applying the rule given
above you will perceive that a
star 10000 900 light.years away
would have parallax excessively
small. Transforming the equation
we have: Parallax EQUALS 3.26
divided by light-years. A star
S.26 ight-years away would have
a parallax of only a hundredth
OF a second, which is already too
small to be surely measured.
Evidently, then this method Of
measurement does not apply to
stars thousands or millions of
hght-years distant.
The distance Of these remote
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-24
BY ELSIE ROBINSON

all for the best!" she chalks up
another smudge against her rec
ord.
But surely there are things
sent us which neither one man
like accidents, death, misfortune
which we couldn't have foreseen.
Doesn't fate send those things
and aren't they for the best?
Yes, such things come. And
whether they're part of fate's
plan or part OF our own mud
ding. l don't know. But l DO
know that there's no benefit In
such things unless, by your own
spunk and sanity, you wrest the
benefit from them.
You aren't going to grow re-
wards in heaven and a hallowed
character on earth just because
your bank husts and the house
burns down and you get harden.
ing of the arteries and little
Willie dies, Gods ways are mys-
FERROUS. but it's a cinch he isn't
busting banks and burning houses
and killing children just to put a
varnsh on your immortal soul.
The only way you'll get any
profit out of these calarnitfes In
by FIGHTING FOR TT. Stand.
ing up on your hind legs. doub-
ling the good old fist and wading
into the scrap. Making good in
spite of the misery gnawing at
your heart and the whine fumblinr
in your throat. Proving you're q
regular guy even though you're
seeing stars. If you can do that
you'll win the game though the
cards are stacked against you.
But you'll never win it by sitting
on your shape and kissing the
club that wallops you.
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LISTEN, WORLD!

''T just couldn't
4 bear my life
II ! didn't know
that everything
was for the
best, F" signs Mil
dred.
Most Of us
would call Mil,
dred's life a
total loss. She's
q olorle Sc.
crushed woman
OF 20, miserably
unhappy in the
10 o m y home
which Is donai-
mated by a sick
ly. s hire W j s h
mother and a
weak. complain.
ing father. They
have very little
money. but they
will not allow
Mildred to go to
work. Nor will
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-24
Only One Year Alimony?
Does He Want to Discourage Marriagei

One learned legislator Frederick L. Hackenburg suggests
law that would keep ladies from getting any amony from
their husbands for than year after the divorce he
would make exception in favor Of mothers with children TO
take care of and old ewves with poor prospects in the
matrimonial market he thinks the amony and divorce evils
menace to public morals The oneyear anony ONLY law
certainly would compel divorced woman to look about
getiCaly for No. No. TO- But would it not make men
little careless about marying2
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-24

into which we
allow our lives
to drift. Nil
dred, for U-
ample. mt
done her duty
and earned q
martyrs crown
by letting mama
and papa mo-
n op ize and
waste her life.
She has acted
like a badly
bent fish worm
and gotten ex-
actly what she
deserved. God
didn't spoil Mil
dred's c are e r.
She spoiled 1t
herself by her
o W n spineless-
ness and cow
a r die e. and
every time she
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-24
The Pet Dog
nEAR MRS, BEECKMAN:

~ My wife and 1 have ve'y
few disagreements. But one thing
she allows threatens to assume
tragic proportions. She insists
upon allowing her dog to be in the
dining room during meaIs-indeed,
often she feeds him pieces of meat
from her plate.
To me this is digusting, so much
so that / really find it difficult to
eat my dinner. / may be "fussy,"
but to me it is a question Of cleanli-
ness and-well, just decency.
/ have talked it over with my
wife. who is thoroughly out of
sympathy with my point of view,
but who now grants that she will
accept your Judgment on the ques.
ton. Do give me YOUR unbiased
Judgment. D. A. r.
l couldn' t possibly give you any
thing but an unbiased Judgment on
this question Of dogs at table or in
the dining room. To me 1t is ut.
terly disgusting. As you say. it
Is a question Of decency. of cleanli-
ness. and certainly a regard of
other peoples feelings.
Nobody who objects to having
dog-or cat--in a dining room
during a meal Is "fussy;" he sim
ply has taste, sensitiveness to
what should be and what shouldn't
be.
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Perfect Black Ink
MRS pEECUMAAT

: UAN3AAh MIND LS4lIAN1AN4EIxA4Ns
~ Is green ink good form2
Fl. M.
No. 1t is an atCociously bad
form. And so is purple ink and
all the outlandish colors. of ink.
As a matter Of fact the best
color in ink is black, although
dark blue is acceptable. have
lately come across a perfect
black ink, and If you will write
me shall be glad to send you
the name. Black ink, think.
gives distinction to a letter
that no other ink gives. 1t il
especially effective with con.
sentative white e light gray
stattonorys
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-24
WISESAYINGS

A page digested is better than
a volume hurriedly read.
--Macaulay.
What ycu dislike - another
take eare u correct in yourself.
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QUESTIONS OF
ETIQUETTE
MRS. Cornelius Beeckman-
The welding TIE

AAO WCuuAlk HE
nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ Would you kindly inform
me If it is correct to wear
white tie with a blue business
suit at an informal wedding?
If not, would you please ad.
wise me what kind of tie to wear?
II. N.
While it is not exactly incor-
rect to wear a white tie with
business suit, most men give the
impression when they wear
white tie with such informal at
tire of being "all dressed up
and no especially appropriate
place to go! If by wearing 4
white tie you are trying to look
more "wedding-y." then do let
all your guardian angels rush in
and save you from it.
A business suit is, Of course,
worn only to the most informal
kind OF wedding-where there
are. say. only a few guests, and
the bride and groom dress in.
formally. and the couple plan to
go at once to the train. And
when a man does wear a business
suit to wedding he should wear
the tie that is most appropriate
to a business suit at any other
occasion and one that is most
becoming to him. To my 'mere
woman" taste there is no tie
that Is so universally becoming
to mel and so appropriate In
general for wearing with bust.
ness suit as a four-in-hand with
a dark blue background and
softened stripe-single or in
groups-as the design.
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DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
Up Stream
By DR.. FRANK CRANE

vKTHEN Bishop Mcintyre stood on the Canadian bank .
wv Niagara Falls he said that everything IN the unvers