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The Washington times., 1927-03-29
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
InUestinQ YOur Women
RY DR. FRANK GRAM

a aNDREW w MELLON, Secretary Of the Treasury has
"a given eleven maxims for American investors.
Each year hundreds Of millions lost investors
because they do follow the suggestions
which Mr.. Mellon lists.
Few people become wealthy by saving alone It is
through wise and udcious investment that financial indie
pendence is arrived at.
Much emphasis in the past has been put upon saving
than upon learning how invest These eleven cautions
eleven lighthouses marking the most dangerous shoals
in the sea of investment:
l. Don t buy stock in mines you know nothing about
q Don't trifle with oil wells unless you rich and
afford to lose
g. Be wary Of stock-seing schemes involving rights to
inventions. "A patent may be only right to law
suit
If you buy property buy something close at home that
you see.
Look out for companies that going to sell by
mail
to investors should be carefully Investigated.
them.
Beware of special inducements such stock bonuses
They frequently traps.
g. Dscredit tips the stock market that straight
from the inside. II they really good, you'll be
let in
TO- Don't speculate buy stocks margin.
IL. Don't put your money into another mans dreams
Someone has said that saving habit but investing
art However, it is art that be learned if
will and accept the advice Of those who
perieneed.
As groundwork in the Of investing better eleven
suggestions be found than these offered by the Scre
tary of the Treasury.
ecopyriEhG 1921 syndicats)
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OLD CHINA
By Garrett P. Serviss

WHAT a vision it is to see
w China the Old, China the
dreamland of Marco Polo, China
of the Great Wall, China of the
Flying Horse and the Beautiful
Princess, Chinaa the home of Con-
fucius, the kingdom and empire of
Jenghis Kahn and Kublai Khan,
who spread the Mongol conQuests
almost to the heart of Europe
and shook Christendom with the
fear of extinction. China, the
only nation whose historic imagi.
nation ever dared to claim that it
had always existed, coeval with
the earth like the sea and the
mountains-what vision to see
this China afrighting the modern
world, and calling Western fleets
and armies to her shores like
nervous hunters surrounding a.
jungle containing q maddened
tiger!
China rises over the horizon like
q huge Redeemed moon, reflect.
ing the psychology Of the West.
ern world. 1t could perhaps not
have been otherwise, but we our
selves have spread that light, so
ominous in it's reflection. We set
our candle on a hilltop and To-
cused its beam upon China. We
began with her religion, with
which we had no sympathy. We
pestered her concerning her super.
Nstitions, about which we knew
very little. Only a few days ago
q confiding lady showed me some
Chinese idols" that a mission.
airy had given her, edifying ex-
hibits for Sunday schools. They
were simply small bric-a-brac ar.
ticles de virtu, for the Chinese
during long centuries have ex-
celled in taste for such expires.
sions of the playful ina gination.
That some of these toys recall
popular legends in no way war.
rants dominating them idols. AS
well call a jack.in-the-box pagan
god.
Learned Our Ideas
Our candle on a hill next began
to attract Oriental students with
awakened curiosity to our schools.
They found here something else
than religious doctrine, something
which they, at least, could see was
inconsistent with the religion that
we urged upon others. They
learned our ideas OF government,
of society, of fashions. Above all,
they found us masters of natural
forces which they had never
dreamed Of subjecting to their will.
Going back filled with these novel
ideas, some Of them undertook the
reform Of their own people along
Western lines. They had an influ.
ence which the missionaries never
had and never could have had;
they started a revolution. China
became a republic. China began
to use railroads and electric lights,
and to dream Of mighty industries
in the place of small arts; to think
less Of Confucius and more of
Mammon.
But how deep do these things
go? How much root have they
got among China's hundreds OF
millions2 A spark cannot become
. conflasration unless inflam-
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NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
: By Xix
BY Helen Rowland
On tIne slender Passion

On the Slender Passion
THE average mans heart is so
i small, these days, that a
girl has to keep on a strict reduc-
ing diet in order to squeeze her
way into it.
Alas, widowers don't last long!
There is always some sweet.
sympathetic woman close at hand,
to convince them that they need
coddling. and can never get used
to the horrors Of patching it"
again.
When love affair begins to
die. it is more merciful to end it
with q swift, clean. surgical stroke
than to try to be 'chivalrous" and
run the knife in by inches.
There is not much emotional
appeal about a girl who can
stand alone. and never feels the
need of mans .coat.lapel to
cry on.
The love" that most wives
have to be satisfied with Is what
is left of a mans emotions, after
he has finished expanding them
an his work. his golf. his food and
his temptations"
When girl refuses to let a
man pet her. he is never discon-
certed. He is merely astonished
that she should be so blind to her
own wonderful LUCK!
Getting married and serving on
a jury are two things that every
man optimistically feels that HE
can always keep out Of" no
matter how many other men have
been caught.
There are some men who mag
Inc that '.petting" is LOVE. But
then. there are some men who
fancy that sandwich and a glass
OF buttermilk constitute a MEAL!
y y X
A woman never makes a. mis-
take in the love-game until she
stops following her instinct and
begins listening to her reason.
In every marriage there is
always one tback.seat driver"
who leans comfortably against the
cushions and tells the nerve
wracked worker lust how to do
things"
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ONCE-OVERS
BY J. j. MUNDY
Keep Moving

Sometimes you become discouraged because you think YOU
not a
You to accomplish little while other men do 50
much
But failure is not necessarily indicated because you have
not done big things.
Perhaps you have done well anyone could situated
you
1t is poor plan to lose confidence in ones SELF
Lost confidence hope Of improvement
AS long as you to improve and keep at it. little
by little you advance.
Advancement progressive don't give up keep trying
Think and believe that you do better and you will
Acceptance of failure causes stagnation.
As long you keep your and your eye the top
you your way to the top
Don't anything less than the top and you will advance
1t il not your job to measure your success.
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On With the Dance!

Young Roger Wolfe Kahn is planning to extend his chain
Of orchestras over the entire country.
This hanorchesra idea is indicative of the vast Importance
dancing has in national e We nation of dancers
and probably spass other countries in the number Of
miles dance every year the of automobing
we do.
In every zeabe town in this country can now enjoy
music which is par with the best standards.
Dancing is the greatest single factor Of social e In
every village town. city they do the Black Bottom Charles
foxrot with much gusto and snap Broadway
Abroad only finds good dance music few places in
Of the larger cities Americans compose most
Of the dancers Among Europeans themselves comparatively
little dancing is DONE and most Of that countryside folk
dancing the order Of square and barn dancesfor
which Henry Ford has such fondness
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Worth While

New York is to have 100000 cancer hospital
It will be devoted exclusively to this disease and will be the
largest and best equipped institution of it's kind in the world
Treatment will be given free to all who suffer from this
battling malady and who without means
Establishing and endowing hospitals is the worthy
way which the wealthy leave their money or to which
they may devote their surplus funds while living Colleges
libraries charities museums and scientific expeditions and
other enterprises devoted the betterment Of humanity
all very well in their way but restore people good health
enable them to live without pain you do good than
helping their minds morals.
Fix the body the intellect and soul will
selves happy mind was housed in diseased frame
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young lives represent!
Something ought to be done
about these Courses in Journal
ism, il it be only the passing Of
a law which will force the in
structors to tell the truth.
For the last ten years such
courses have been springirig up
like mushrooms in our High
Schools and Colleges. And all
courses are crammed with eager
students. The writing career,
especially newspaper writing, is
intensely alluring to modern
youngsters. To their ardent
imaginations it appears to have
all the desirable perquisites of goth
century life-speed, color, excite
ment, profit and large publicity.
Nor do the courses in Journalism
dispel this illusion. They are
usually conducted by gentlemen
and ladies who have failed to
make the literary grade them
selves but who naturally do not
mention this fact. Since their
own pockets are served by inspir-
ing enthusiasm, they dwell in
glowing terms upon the romance
and rewards of the Fourth Estate.
What happens?
This happens. Inceasing mobs
of visionary youngsters enroll an
nually in writing courses to which
they devote four or eight years
Of their own time and their par
ents' money. They set about
learning writing. as they would
learn the mixing OF concrete.
They read certain books. learn
certain formulas and compose a
number Of painfully fabricated
articles and stories which follow
those formulas. Their instructors
encourage them-their relatives
applaud them-once in a while a
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A Wise Public

The hghat bunch with their great ineects may rave on
about the low Of the mutudes who patronize moving
pictures But the common people know what they want
and the movies giving it to them
Lincoln said that The Lord must have loved the
mon people because he made so many of them
The mind Of the representing it does the copos-
tie intelligence Of millions Of individuals through the
centuries is wiser in the essentials Of life than any possible
group Of brilliant" inteIectuals.
Moving pictures the greatest educatve influence
America today They do bring joy and contentment
to our nation than any other instrumentality.
True certain improvements yet to be made from
artistic and aesthetic point Of view But al these things work
themselves out in time
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HITS GEORGIA
LEGISLATOR

Editor, The Washington Times:
TN reference. to an article in
! The Washington Times will
say that I am from the State Of
Georgia and il / am not mistaken
Representative Landlord was not
sent here to criticize the people Of
this city. He was sent here to
take care the peoples business in
Georgia, and If he will do that he
will have a plenty to do.
must say that the morale Of
the people here is quite a bit bet
ter than in Savannah, Macon, or
Augusta, for I was in all three
OF these places last summer, and
I did not have to, look very far
to see the difference. But Mr..
Landlord win not try to reform
the people down there for they
will tell him to mind his own bust
ness, yet he will try to reform
the people here, and leave his reg
ular business to care for itself.
Representatives of Mr.. Landlords
kind only embarrass the people
from Georgia, and It looks like
a, he would act as some others do.
". W. BARROW.
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mable material exists all around
and in contact, nor unless it is in
state inviting ignition. Often
fire will not spread because the
materials that it might feed upon
are too dense, too packed and i'm.
penetrable. The real China, the
China behind the wall, the China
Of the myriads, covers perhaps
half as much ground as the
United States. But it contains,
as some recent estimates reaf-
firm, at least four hundred mil.
lion inhabitants. or about four
times our population compressed
upon half our space, making the
average density eight times as
great as 1t is with US.
Thickly Populated
There are regions in China out.
side the cities containing six or
seven hundred people to every
square mile, or one person to
every acre. Picture yourself driv-
ing through country as thickly
inhabited as that. An acre of
ground makes a plot a little more
than 200 feet square.
Revolutionary ideas-ideas that
upset popular beliefs, customs and
conventions that have endured I'M
challenged for thousands of years
when touched like a torch to
such a mass may be expected to
produce either one of two effects
either tremendous explosive
wave, expanding with the rapidity
Of sheet lightning, or a dull fizzle
and little black smoke. There
is, however, a third possibility,
the most to be desired OF all--the
mass may slowly take fire and
heat and burn at last with a
clear flame. That is what the
watching world ought to pray for,
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QUESTIONSOF
ETIQUETTE
Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman-I
Drinking Bouillon
MRS. BEECKMAN:


NEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ A says that enc should drink
tomato bouillon when it is served
in a cup. B says that it should be
eaten with spoon. Which is cor
rect?
2. A says that green peas should
be eaten with a fork when they
are served with your food, but in
a separate dish. B says that they
should be eaten with a spoon.
8! A says that club sandwich
should be eaten in the hands.
B says that one should use ones
knife and fork. j. K.
How one eats any soup served
in cup depends really on the
consistency Of the soup. Usually
the soup that is served in cup
is thin soup, and then. with our
bouillon spoon or tea spoon, we
test the heat of the soup by taking
a few sips of it. Then we can
drink it. But If the tomato bouil-
lon is thick it is better to eat
it with spoon.
2. A is correct. Peas should be
eaten with a fork. Usually nova
days they are not served with
liquid, and so they are dry enough
to eat with a fork. OF course it is
not a criminal offense to eat them
with spoon, il there is with
them a juice for which you pine.
But, in the usual way that peas
are now served, 1t is rather the
sign Of yokel TO eat them with a
spoon.
8. B is here overwhelmingly cor
rect. A club sandwich is too mas
sive structure, even the smallest
of 'em. and too messy. to be eaten
in the fingers. One needs both a
knife and fork, poise land a silent
prayer that the eating of this
difficult sandwich may be accom-
plished with grace and satisfac-
ton!
NEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ l am calling upon you to
help me in settling a difference
with a friend, as we have agreed
to abide by your decision. We
win call the girl Mary Smith.
/. IL she marries a man by
the name Of John Blake, how
would you address an envelope
to her?
2. If she divorces John Blake
and marries Tom Small, how
would the envelope be addressed
then? A READER.
An envelope would be addressed
to her as:
Mrs. John Blake
This is her formal name, and her
formal name should always be
used for the address on an en-.
velope.
Q. She would then be Mrs.
Thomas Small, and an envelope
sent to her would be so addressed.
When she becomes Mrs. Thomas
Small all forms of the Nra. John
Blake are dropped.
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WISESAYINGS

TN doing what we ought we de-
Il serve no praise, because it is
our duty.-St. Augustine.
He that invents a machine aug
ments the power Of a man and
the well.being Of mankind.
Henry Ward Beecher.
God Is the perfect poet,
Who in His person acts His own,
creations.
Robert Browning.
The hand that follows intellect
can achieve.-Michael Angelo.
Where you have friends you
should not so to inns.
-GeorsS EaOG
The Washington times., 1927-03-29
By ELSIE ROBINSON


You can make plumbers, butch
ers, farmers or foresters-or even
dentists, lawyers and doctors Of
a sort. BUT you can't make writ
ers. You can learn certain
technical tricks of form and ex-
preston but to achieve any real
or lasting success in any field
Of writing you must have q
writer's eyes, a writer's pulse,
a writer's nose. The need and
lust for writing must be born in
you as duskiness Is born in q
brunette and blondeness in a
blonde. You can't acquire 1t by
any literary rinse or bleach.
Synthetic genius never lasts. 1t
may achieve a flash.in-the.pan sue
cess but the light soon flickers out.
The second reason why most
graduates from journalism
Courses are foredoomed to fail.
ure Is because newspaper stats
are so limited that they can only
accommodate very small mum.
Der Of even talented or ex-
perienced people. No industry in
the world is operated with so few
workers in comparison with the
size Of the output. A managing
editor, city editor or two, few
re-write men and reporters
there's the list. No stenographers
are employed apprentices are
hired. There Is no room for
beginners save in the small coun-
try papers, and seldom there.
And for every vacancy on the
staff Of a city paper there are
fifty veteran applicants.
There's the bare truth concern
ing the possibilities Of Journalism
as career for the average boy
or girl. And the instructor who
doesn't tell his students that
truth is q cruel cheat.
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LISTEN, WORLD!
IN the last
w day ~ Inne

IN the last
" day Of June
I'm going to
lock my office
and spend at
least six weeks
in the coal eel
lar.
I'm going to
do this because,
d u rim g that
time, the an
nual crop OF
graduates from
"Jou rn alism
Courses" W i'll
begin to look
for a lob.
Now, it isn't
the bother Of
such invasion
that / mind
it's the pity Of
it! The tragedy
OF wasted energy
a n d ambition
which h e 81
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magazine 40.
cepts one OF
t h cir efforts.
T h Q v then
graduate feel
ing sure that
they will step
directly into q
remuner a tive
position on .
newspaper or
magazine.
The truth 10
that not one In
m any t h ou-
sands has fho
gh ost Of q
chance Of OBJ
tanning employ
ment, much less
of ACHE vim 8
success.
w by? Two
reasons.
First-because
y o u C a mt
sduaaEaSS uyrffara
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ARTS CLUB TO
FEATURE
DINNERS
Program Embraces Va,
riety of Subjects; a
Musical Evening

Under the new schedule of
activities at the Arts Club, only
Informal festivities will be held
during the next two months. The
feature of the summer season will
be the Thursday evening club din.
ners, with guests of the organi.
cation as speakers.
During July, speakers viii in
clude l.. B. Aldrich, of the Smith.
sonian Institution. who will speak
on The Starry Sky" July Z; Major
A. =. Foote. of the Department of
Commerce, who will speak on
What Secretary Hoover is Doing
to Help Industries" July Il. and
William Partridge on "Reminis-
cences of Famous Architects. July
2S. July 81, under the direction of
Paul Bleyden, "a Midsummer
Nights Frolic in Japan" an oper-
eta in one act, will be given,
words and music Of which are by
Edward E. Muth.
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LOVELY SONGS BY YOUNG
PEOPLE UNDER NINETEEN

Young singers. none of them over
10. were heard in the Junior Re-
cital" of the Beatrice Seymour Good
win Studio recently, giving a pro-
gram of very beautiful songs.
Mildred Snyder sang "Slumber
Boat" and Under the Rose" of
Fischer: Barrett Fuchs sang Verdi
aria and Schubert's dramatic WAN
derer::" Helen Harter gave songs of
Finden and CAN'T; Robert Fuchs
sang Giordanis lovely Caro- Mic
Ben" and "Yester-year, by Balm
bridge Crist.
Matha Chambers gave two groups
Of songs. among them being Hensch-
els "spinningwheel Song" Trees"
of Rasbach, Lieurance and LaForge;
George Watson sang "Tally-Ho'' of
Leon, and Sylvia" of Obey Speaks;
and aBrrett Fuchs closed the pro-
gram with a second group of songs.
Allen Watson was the accompanist.
We need to remind ourselves of
Washington's music for the sum-
mer.
Tuesdays outdoor band concert
consists of a special program by
the United States Navy Band. at
the Sylvan Theater. at 1880 when
Lieutenant Benter will include the
"Rienzi'' overture from Wagner's
early marital opera of that name;
selections from the most famous
scenes of Nerdi's grand opera
Aida: the finale from LISTS sym.
phonic poem "Mazeppa"; four of
Friml's delectable shorter bits;
and several other compositions.
On Wednesday the Army Band
plays at the Sylvan Theater at
1870. This, we should remember.
is the representative band Of the
entire United tates Army. William
j. Stannard is leader, Thomas F.
Darcy, second leader.
The Army Band opens its pro-
gram with a tribute to the United
States Navy Bands leader, by play
ing Benter's march "Our Navy"
They will give a Massenet suite
Picturesque Scenes" with its
French March, it's "Scene de Bal
let" "The Angelus" and "Fete 30.
heme"; selections from 1.-THE Bat"
by that famous waltz king Johann
Strauss; a Northern Rhapsody" by
Homer, dedicated to the Daughters
OF the American Revolution; selec-
tons from Friml's charming "Ka.
tinka'; and a John Philip sousa
suite including THE King OF
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w EDDING OF
INTEREST TN
CAPITAL,
DR.. Stransky Married
in England to
American Girl

A wedding of more than usual
interest took place June 20 in
Plymouth, England, when Miss
Anne Gray Henry, daughter Of
Rev. John Bronaugh Henry and
Mrs. Henry, of East Falls Church.
Va, became the bride of DR.. Payel
Stransky of Czechoslovakia. Min
lister of Foreign Affairs at Prague
and formerly First Secretary OF
the Czechoslovakian Legation in
Washington. The ceremony was
performed in the Greenbank
Church.
The bride wore a white gown
trimmed with rare old Czecho.
slovakian embroidery, a coat to
correspond, also trimmed with the
embroidery, and a white close.
fitting hat.
The bride is a descendant OF
Colonial settlers of Virginia and
Maryland. On her fathers side
she is descended from Thomas
Stone, signer of the Declaration
of Independence; Patrick Henry
and Gen. William Washington,
uncle of George Washington, and
on her mothers side, Alexander
Hamilton and David Holmes, first
governor of Mississippi. She is a
granddaughter of Mr.. Province
Mccormick of Berryville, Va.
DR.. Stransky is a descendant OF
Pavel Stransky, fourteenth century
Czech historian, and a long line OF
men and women prominent in his.
tory of that country.
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OUR FAMOUS ORCHESTRAL
FESTIVAL IN HOLLYWOOD

Making the United States famous
summer land for 1.-THE Orchestra, -
has been delegated to Hollywood,
the home Of that other great recre-
alton, "the movies
The Hollywood Bowl concerts begin
this week and continue until Au-
gust 81.
Americas most famous home of
symphony music" is the way they
designate the great Hollywood Bowl,
that seats 10000 people. The fame
of the bowl has been built to such a
point that the foremost orchestral
conductors Of the world now feel it
the highest honor in music to con.
duct there.
The conductors for this season
are:
Alfred Hertz, originally from
Frankfort, Germany, and later con.
ductor of the San Francisco Sym
phony Orchestra.
Bruno Walter, conductor of the
Berlin Municipal and the Berlin
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son. William Dewitt Mitchell, jr
who is a student at the Harvard
Law School. Early in August the
Solicitor General and Mrs. Mitchell
and their family will go to Hyan-
nisport. Me-. for the remainder Of
the summer.
Rear Admiral William 3. Caper-
ton, retired, and Mrs. Caperton VII
return from Europe July % and will
be at the interchangeable at New
port, for the summer.
Lieut.. Col. Francis Amory Pope,
Corps of Engineers, L. S. A., and
Mrs. Pope, who have been at the
Willard for the past week, left
today for New England. where they
will pass several weeks along the
coast.
X Il
Mrs. Frank A D. Hancock, of
Washington, is at the Hotel Cha
than. New York. with Miss Eleanor
Hancock and A. D. Hancock.