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The Washington times., 1927-09-15
Why Millionaires Work

What English reporters asked Charles B. Flint is the
reason rich men keep png up money when they already
have millions?
The 77year-old New York capitalist replied:
eft is pure green greed Ambition and power certainly
play part in keeping him keen but greed and greed alone
Il Tie reason for mans wanting to swell his wad million
after million"
There's one Of those bruay downright statements that lend
themselves striking headlines, and it's interesting,
whether true not
But Mr. Tnts offhand explanation of millionaire industry
IL probably about 98 per cent wrong like most offhand
oons Sc complex matters besides being uncompmentary
rs some of our most eminent citizens.
OF course, rich men are fond Of money. Who isn't?
Greed may make msers Il doesn't make milicnaires.
Greed boards money for gold sake is impossible for
creed to turn money loose to work. iser incapable Of
taking chances with his beloved dollars
It is greed that piles up wealth plenty Of have the
angs Of monaires The person who doesn't yearn more
cr less strongly for money Is rarity But it doesn't work
that way
Some make money because they have gift for it.
Mr. Flint said that too in his interview They possess
combination Of farghtedness shrewdness and courage
ahng them comparatively small stake into fortune
and one fortune into another
That's talent geniusthe sort Of thing differently
applied, that novelist has, engineer.
The novelist enjoys writing novels and the engineer enjoys
building bridges By the token the millionaire enjoys
making money.
And with all respect to Mr. Fnts harsh dictum the rich
man keeps amassng wealth because he rather do that
than anything else in the world
The Washington times., 1927-09-15
The Ambitious Park Site
Program for the District

We have the interesting suggestion Congress
asked to advance to the District $1o0oo0oO for park Sites
payable at the rate Of 100000 year.
The matter Of appropriations for securing sites for future
parks viii receive much attention at the session Of Con-
gre That body going get quite bit of local and other
opinion the subject.
The Fine Arts Commission and the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission have ambitious programs for future
parks for the District This program and sensible at
least in the desire to acquire lands before the values adj
vance and become almost prohibitve in years
Some provision should be made by Congress for the pur
chase of park Sites if be done in fairness to the tax
payers the District whose tax burdens becoming heavier
every year.
approve any recommendations which would add 100000
each year for park sites the financial burdens of the Dis
trict matter how desirable it may be to sites
District people who this month paying their tax bills
have nothing be thankful for Despite slightly lower tax
rate the bills thousands cases. higher than they
last year under higher tax rate This due to in
creased of properties notably unmproved prop
critics. wanted for school ses playground sites and
park sites.
The assessments some properties have almost been
doubled, imposing extra heavy tax burdens.
With the constantly increasing needs District Govern
en is virtually that in the fiscal year the
rate will higher Then in the fiscal year after that higher
assessments viii again be made.
District taxpayers are caught between the processes
increased property assessments and increased tax rates
the Federal Government persists in limiting its yearly
Wconrbuon District expenses at $90000O refusing
increase in the lump the necessities Of the District
grow there going to be strong public opposition to heavy
appropriations for public improvements except those absolutely
necessary to municipal upkeep and progress
The park program will suffer, beyond doubt and this
should be the Congress would do the right thing
financially by the District
Congress indicated that it doesn't how much money
The District spends if it supplies the money beyond the $90
900 Il probably wouldn't object to increasing annual ex
penses by 100000 for park sites Washington people de-
and it, but there isn't going to be any such demand under
Maxi Making Washington THE CITY OF THE WORLD is ma
ona DESIRE doing this almost wholly at the expense Of
District taxpayers is anything but fair equitable
The Washington times., 1927-09-15
OUR SCHOOLS
CopZright. 1927. Neg YORK
R.siutss zsaai1 D. ISC :. Fsssul HStn... 4
BY DR.. Frank Crane

TYR JOHN F. NoFFsNGER, Of Washington, has prepared
4 some interesting statistics in regard to schooling.
have often been asked by young and young
whether it school and college. They
get into business could make good schooling
looks to them like waste of time.
Dr. NOsngers investigations however show that schooling
matter of dollars and figures
that who has reached the Of so
Just $4,000 by not going to college
Inc unframed man makes an average Of the high
age yearly salary of $4,000
Thus those who look at life from the right perspective
anxious 70 DO the best for themselves the whole reminded
that the years spent In college not wasted.
unframed begins
college man. He IS anxious to make
OF the hare and the tortoise
takes him he gets emolumens we'll
to nothing Of the satisfaction.
The unframed reached his productivity his twen
the high school in middle life But the college
get to the zenith of his powers until he is old.
Looking at life therefore the long and
which is the only sensible anybody anything
the spent in schooling well invested
In the Of civilization there class Of
This is the age Of machinery and the who handle
machine and direct its abors advantage over
who has only his hands.
Let the boy girl therefore think twice before giving m school,
AZ rule there Is nothing better to do with the between
10 and 70 than to them school, Schools
getting better all the time.
Copyright 1927. Mcclure Newspaper syndcsts
The Washington times., 1927-09-15
By ELSIE ROBINSON

tempers, and have never heard
It mentioned. So many Of those
teachers weren't clean. OF course.
all women wore hideous, unsanl-
tary clothes in. those days. so
they shouldn't be blamed for
that. But there were dainty
women then as well as now, vet
you would hardly ever find one
In q school room. suppose
those teachers, being discouraged
and disappointed, didn't care
much how they looked, but 1t
certainly was an awful example
to set young girls.
thought Of that the other
day when they were criticizing
that pretty little teacher and
got right up and told them about
the draggled skirts and the dirty
old rats and switches and the
general sloppiness and peevish-
ness. i said that / thought the
very first thing q teacher should
teach should be q love Of cleanli-
ness and happiness and pride
in ones own body. Maybe good
grooming does cost a little more
than one dirty wooden dress that
Is worn for three months, but /
bet It adds a whole lot more to
life, in the long run.
CLARA B.
The Washington times., 1927-09-15

Lear MISS ROBINSON:
We had 4 discussion at our
Parent-Teache meeting the
other day that may interest some
Of your readers. Some one nen-
toned a young teacher who was
married this summer. She was
very popular with her pupils but
some of the mothers criticized
her severely. They thought she
set q bad example to growing
girls. She was very pretty and
jolly and she certainly must have
spent . lot OF money on her
looks. She wore different
wash dress every other day, and
silk stockings and makeup, and
she was always marcelled and
manicured.
One Of the boys told his mother
that Miss Blank was q snappy
number, and that surely scam
dalized her. She said no young.
ster would have dreamed OF cali
ing his teacher d snappy num-
Der when she was a girl. I'll say
they wouldn't! As / look back
over the teachers had / can
honestly say they were all about
q million miles from being snappy.
They were good women and may.
be some Of them knew q lot, but
they certainly weren't anything
like these jolly, pretty, friendly
The Washington times., 1927-09-15

And as time goes along ana Won
get to know her better vou
rather swing round to the opinion
that she doesn't mean ii. Ana
then you feel somewhat resentful.
for, after all, nobody likes "a ll1eet
mask. And then all her sort
words ran flat and ali her
Establishments are as empty afr.
What we admire IN Others more.
prehaps, than any quality il sin.
cerity. Even If It isn't ALWAYS
quite agreeable we like it because
It Is open and aboveboard ana wa
never can take away from Il the
uncomfortable sense Of having
been defrauded.
Let those flatter who fAay. v
said Thomas jefferson. ssTt a not
an American art. TO give praise
where it Is not due might Be wei
from the venal, but would nj -.
seem those who are asserting the
rights OF human nature. Thev
know and will, therefore. say that
kings are the servants. NOT the
proprietors, Of the people,
No. flattery Is not an American
art, nor does It accord with the
fine, frank spirit of Americans.
The Washington times., 1927-09-15
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
by de. G. A. q. Reed

You have probably at some
! time done something or said
something that you not only have
wished to forget, but that you
have forced yourself to forget.
1t probably has stayed forgotten
until you have read the preced-
ing line when you have thought
moment and said:
Eyes that's so. There's that
mess I got into down at Smith
ems. I forced myself to forget
1t and all about it-and it stayed
forgotten-until nowdarn that
DR.. Reed"
So vixen We viii to forget and
do forget We don't entirely for
get in the sense Of suppressing
all knowledge Of the thing willed
to be forgotten. We simply rc-
press It. That Is to say we push
it back into q pigeon hole OF
our unconscious mind. We for
got the whole thing In order to
make sure that the specific thing
we hate Is repressed safely and
beyond accidental recall. This
constellation Of repressed idea is
called 4 complex. and when we
have an experience which is so
painful to our pride that we do
not wish to remember It. we re-
press the whole complex com
nected with it into the uncon-
scious part Of our minds.
Now we have repressed the
ideas, but we cannot repress the
feeling which belongs to them.
We can forget the things that
have caused us shame or fear,
but cannot get rid OF the shame
or fear themselves. So we tack
them to other parts Of our ex-
perience and deceive ourselves
into thinking that they belong
there.
that she Is constantly blushing.
She is shy, she used not to be,
but now she bushes on the
slightest provocation, until she
begins to think that everybody
Is looking at her and thinking
about her all the time. Here, OBJ
yiously, is a generalized shame
effect, q feeling Of shame which
attaches itself to the ordinary
experiences of life without any
justification at all. Now 1t is
no use telling the girl that she
has nothing to be ashamed Of.
She has heard that before. The
only thing which would help her
at all would be to get at the real
cause Of the troubIe--tlle idea
she has repressed. Psychologists
know this condition by the name
Of ''transference OF the effect"
The process, Crichton Miller ex-
plains, is little like the sinking
OF an oil tanker. A ship at sea
comes to great patch OF oil,
and the ordinary passenger
simply says, "Oh, how funny"
The skilled old navigator says,
Hello, tanker has sunk here"
because nothing else would ex-
plain all that oil on the surface.
Similarly, in psychology, abnor-
NAL behavior, shame, anxiety
and other emotions which sway
the patient without any apparent
cause. Compulsive ideas with
no basis in reality--alI these are
oil on the surface to the exper-
fenced psychologist, showing a
repressed set Of ideas and e bad
distortion Of the mind.
The Washington times., 1927-09-15
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
Trivial, But True
By Helen Rowland.

IF you could secure an annul-
! ment OF your marriage. on the
grounds that you were not in a
responsible or normal state Of
mind at the time, most men would
be carefree bachelors tomorrow.
Nature has her little way Of
spreading things around equally.
by making the most fascinating
men marry the most nondescript
women. the best men marry the
most worthless women, and the
brainiest men marry the dumb.
bells.
The average man regards his
wife as q property man" who
should be able to produce any
thing from his silk hat to q can
opener, at a moments notice, and
Is to blame for losing an the
things he hides from himself.
TO man, the charm and essence
Of q summer romance are not se-
curity but novelty, not surety
but immunity, not continuity but
elasticity.
There are four things which are
not possible and cannot exist: an
egg which is half good, woman
who is slightly married, q man
who Is almost honest. and s lover
who Is partly faithful.
TO q woman, the approval and
admiration OF men Il sustenance
and wine, but to q man the adj
miration Of women Ii only q little
relish, and their approval fore
gone conclusion.
It Il variety and uncertainty
that make the weather or
woman interesting; there wouldn't
be much kick In life IL both of
them were nonotonously pleasant
All Of the time.
Being married to q woman il
about as thrilling to the average
man as reading q daily chapter
in q novel Of which he knows the
whole plot.
When a man goes about with a
fatuous grin, declaring that Its
a pretty good old worldv it's a
sign that he has either just gotten
into q brand.neW love affair or
just escaped from an old one.
To some men, marriage is
mostly a state OF chronic, in.
termittent or acute irritation.
Business, blondes and baseball are
the counter-irritants.
The Washington times., 1927-09-15
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

For he that once is good is ever
great. Ben johnson.
The chains Of habit are gen.
orally too small to be felt until
they are too strong to be broken.
johnson.
win hearts and you have all
mems hands and purses. Bur-
leigh.
It Is motive alone that gives
character to the actions Of men,
Bruyere.
What the fool does in the end
the wise man does In the be-
ginning Maxim.
There never was . person who
did anything worth doing that
did not receive more than he
gaves-H. w. Beecher.
The Washington times., 1927-09-15
FLATTERING FRIENDS
BY Lucy Lowell

ctHE'S been with us again--the
" flatterer. Everyone calls
her that. Some . bit wonders
ingly, others with more than .
little contempt.
For she works so hard at the
oily art Of Establishment. SO
much too hard, dripping soft
words and softer glanees,
never missing "a chance
to say the honeyed thing.
And even in the first half hour
of her acquaintance you ask
yourself, Can she mean all that?
And IL she does, what Is she
like, anyway?
Has she no disIikes, prefer.
ences, differences OF opinion, Ger.
tain little hardnesses that are
rocks Of character? Why should
she be so overly pleased with
everything?
And IL she doesn't mean e."
your thought goes on, Why, then,
1t isn't the woman herself you
see before you, but a mask she
has made up to wear. And
there must be something dis
agreeable she wishes to hide IL
she wears mask"
The Washington times., 1927-09-15
Yes, Time Cures

Remember the Germany Of ten years back: bitter en-
baed country expanding every last shred Of energy toward
the winning Of q victory that was not to be.
Remember the Germany Of six years back: q
hungry, desperate people engaged in uphill struggle
against economic and political shpwreCk the mark dollar
TO the bushel; poverty and wretChednes everywhere
And just the other day Mayor Walker leaving Germany
eaid
"A smiling land Of smiling people, happy prosperous
thrifty, industrious with great future before them
"a nation that pulled itself up by its bootstrapsl
The Washington times., 1927-09-15

The honors of genius are eternal.
Propertius.
Strengthen me by sympathizing
with my strength, not my weak.
ness. Alcott.
Systems exercise the mind, but
faith enlightens and guides 1t.
--Voltaire.
Nothing Is more simple than
greatness; indeed, to be simple is
to be great. Emerson.
Detested sport that owes its
pleasures to another's pain.
--Cowper.
Who liz the happiest Of men? He
who values the merits of Others.
And In their pleasure takes jOy.
even though 'twers his own.
Goethe.
The Washington times., 1927-09-15
PulpwOod

NNHE Department of Commerce
announces the total consunp-
ton of puIpwood in 1926
amounted to 6,766,007 cords, re.
ported by ga mills. as against
6,0SS,S21 cords, reported by 234
mills for 1925. an increase of IL
per cent. The total production
of wood pulp in 1926 was 1894.
f66 tons, an increase of 1913 per
cent as compared with 3,952,217
tons for the previous year. The
leading States In this industry
are Maine, Wisconsin, and New
York -
The Washington times., 1927-09-15
Fewer Suicides

Heartenng contained in recent statement Of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company which denies the
existence of youthful suicidal wave"
The companys statistics show that not only suicide in the
United States steadily decreasing but that the marked
falling off in the age group from ten to nineteen years
That boys and girls whole less inclined toward
porhdity than eyer they were s good % know
The Washington times., 1927-09-15
DO YOU KNOW THAT

Kitchen cars with cafeteria
service are now being used on
weekend vacation trains in Ba.
varia. Germany.
Every second person In France
has savings account, the aver.
age size being $40,
The Washington times., 1927-09-15

girls we have
today.
They were a
sour, disap-
pointed lot for
the most part,
for 1t was con-
sidered a per-
sonal disgrace
to be an old
maid In those
days, and they
took it out on
the children. If
any working
woman INDUCED
in the tantrun1s
and blues now.
adays that our
teachers did,
she'd be fired
quick.
But there was
something else,
that L think
was even worse
than THAR. had
The Washington times., 1927-09-15
LISTEN, WORLD!
THIS letter
Il will interest

THIS letter
Il will interest
you. particu-
larly IL you
went to school
back in the
'9Os. Do you
remember the
teachers gu
had then? We
read a lot about
those teachers
and their ster-
ling qualities,
In d m a nv,
many people
think they had
it all over the
modern variety.
But now and
then history
loosens up on a.
few SIC crets
which are not
so good. As
witness Clara
B's letter.
The Washington times., 1927-09-15

In Calcutta, there is Z temple
to Kali. the Hindu goddess. in
which more than 100 goats are
killed daily.
Natives Of Africa who kin a
lion wear the tail "a 4 much
valued prtzas {,
The Washington times., 1927-09-15

To q man, the charm and essence
Of q summer romance are not Sc
curity but novelty, not surety
but immunity, not continuity but
elasticity.
The Washington times., 1927-09-15

There are four things which are
not possible and cannot exist: an
egg which is half good, woman
who Is slightly married, a man
who Is almost honest, and s lover
who Is partly faithful.
The Washington times., 1927-09-15

The average man regards his
wife as q property man." who
should be able to produce any
thing from his silk hat to a cam
opener, at a moments notice, and
Is to blame for losing all the
things he hides from himself.
Evening star., 1927-05-22
THE SUNDAY STAR WASHINGTON D c. NAY % 1g27-pARr .

ington and the place which DIR. Castro
filled SO acceptably on. the governing
board of the Pan.American Union is
temporarily occupied by DR.. Leonila
Montalvo. consul in New York City,
who makes the trip whenever DR..
Rowe calls a full meeting of the board
The Salvadorean republic has recently
been honored in it's foremost interna-
tional lawyer, DR.. Salvador Castro
Ramirez being appointed correspond.
ing member OF the Secretariat of the
League of Nations. The republic de.
sires to become a permanent member
of the League and the departure of
DR.. Ramirez from the foreign office
In San Salvador to Geneva caused ii
general movement of promotions
which has resulted in the transfer of
DR.. Castro.
Senor Miguel Cruchaga Tocornal
Amhas ssador from Chile. created def.
uite precedent when he took note of
tho fact that the reason certain youth
ful cotton planters from the Panhandle
OF Texas attained high rating and
several substantial cash prizes Tor
their crops. was the liberal Ise Of
Chilean nitrate OF soda. When these
ambitious young Texans came to
Washington to receive their reward ~
the Agricultural Department. because
they had grown 2ia bales Of cotton on
ono acre OF land. "A greater Yield than
could be shown by any other members
Evening star., 1927-05-22

of the Boys and Girls All agricultural
clubs, the Chilean Ambassador was on
hand to lend his voice in celebrating
their victory. All accounts of the
Texas victory acclaimed the Chilean
nitrate and the envoy from that coun-
try ascertained the number to receive
prizes and their names and after Sec
retary Jardine had praised and re.
warded them. the diplomat bestowed
ON each a gold watch. Not only this.
but the cotton planters were asked to
the embassy In the afternoon and were
entertained after the usual fashion
and with music and a cordial address.
DIR. .Cruchaga read of this approaching
event in the press and no doubt he will
keep other ENJOYS on the alert for
similar events where the importation
of the products of their country have
been substantially vindicated. The
Secretary Of Agriculture made 1t clear
that these Jealous young cotton plant
ers made their crops pay in the face
Of the existing depression for all cot
ton. whether raw and manufactured.
because by superlative methods OF
cultivation and fertilization they pro
duced more abundant and excellent
fabric than their rivals. which Is natu-
rally n powerful vindication OF con
tinuing the use Of Chilean ntrates.
-~-------~
Aristotle was called the pope OF
Evening star., 1927-05-22

spending the time with the former
Pansy Laneham. sister of Mrs. Paven.
stedt. whose marriage ID Count Ray
mOnd de Faramond Farajole was a
brilliant social event of 1908. The
count is now. with many honors, re-
tired from the active ranks In the
French navy and Is living on his fam
lily estates in Languedoc.
DR.. Hector David Castro. who, except
for brief intervals. has been charge
d'affaires of FL Salvador since 1922.
was recalled by his government few
weeks ago and will soon enter on his
duties as assistant secretary of foreign
relations and of justice. OF dis
tinguished lineage In the only republic
of Central America which lies wholly
on the Pacific. DIR. Castro had already
attained distinction in his career and
is the author of several treaties on
legal problems in relation to interna-
tional commerce. He and Sonora
Castro and their interesting children
made n niche of their own in general
society as well as in the group of
representatives of their section of the
Americas. For the nonce Ell Salvador
Is without a representative in Wash.