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The Washington times., 1927-04-21

81.7 per cent receive less than
$50 per week.
1873 per cent receive $50 or
more.
In the December % issue of
1.-THE Nation" these figures are
shown with the following state
ment:
Various morals suggest them.
selves; the reader may pick his
own. We are content merely to
compare the returns OF these
white collar employees, generally
unorganized. with the earnings of
824,313 union workers in the
United States, employed in build
ing trades, in printing and pub.
fishing, in baking, on street rail-
ways, in laundries, and as team
sters, chauffeurs or longshore-
men. These earnings, as given
Labor for the year ended with
last June. averaged $52.12 for a
fuIItime week. There's the an
swer. Can any bright boy guess
why?"
Think that over IL you're won.
dering whether you'll work in the
autOmoblle off1ce or In the fac
tory.
''But suppose a fellow has a
definite talent for medical work
or law or engineering or some
thing like THAR" asks Jim.
Well, that may make a diff
ference. Jim. And again, it may
not. 1t altogether depends on
the tensile strength of the talent.
But remember--very few humans
have a definite talent for any
thing, We can learn a few tech
meal tricks, as parrots learn to
crack nuts. But fundamentally,
we're nearly all good ditch dig.
gers.
And between SO per day for
sitting on stool and estimating
bitches, and SIS a day for rolling
up my sleeves and digging one,
I'd choose the good old shovel
every time.
The Washington times., 1927-04-21
By ELSIE ROBINSON

"HuhI' says Arnold. There's
nothing to that college stuff I'M
less you're going to be doctor
or a lawyer or something like
that. The average kid that gets
B. A. degree never does any
thing with it. Just takes some
white collar job"
well. that's better than push.
ing a hand truck" says Jim.
ANY time it isl" says Arnold.
''Lookit old man Roberts, down at
Dads office. And Bill Fleet, m
Lootie Ingels, m Fred Thurston.
They all have college degrees, or
at any rate a year or two at
college. They're the regular white
collar kids and what do they get
out of it? Just about car fare.
But there's Joe Elliot. who quit
Hi in his sophomore year and
went into his fathers garage.
Remember how you called Joe a
dumbbell to throw up a chance of
a good education? Well, that kids
making five hundred bucks a
month out of his lii ole job,
without half trying. Believe me,
I'm going to take tip from
Bill. No white collar job for me.
I'm going to climb into a pair of
overalls and make mine, while
you white collar kids are wonder.
ing where your next meal is com.
ing fromv'
The white collar argument is
going on in good many homes
at this time of the year. And
although Jim smiles in a superior
manner at Arnold's low-brow am.
billions, the figures on the slate
seem to vote for Arnold.
In 1925 the Massachusetts, De.
partment of Labor and Industry
made a survey of 1915 establish.
ments in Representatives districts
Of the State. 1t wanted to find
our whether the white collar boys
were getting a better deal out of
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LISTEN, WORLD!

THE Allen
Il twins, Jim
and Arnold, are
having a great
a r g u no e n t.
Il h e VI b OF h
graduate from
Hi next June
and Dad has
left it up to
t h m whether
they'll go to col
lege or not.
Neither one OF
the boys has a
talent along any
particular line.
But Jim's strong
for college.
''It gives you
a. standing" he
says, even if
you don't go
into any profess
sion. Helps you
get ahead in
The Washington times., 1927-04-21

ence of the moon is unquestion-
ably great. The charm of moon
light is one of the outstanding ex-
periences of life on this globe.
There are few natures so coarse
that they do not feel it. The de-
ceptions that 1t produces often
have a magical effect upon the
mind.
A little while ago, in re-reading
Dickens's story of Martin Chuz-
zlcwit." came upon this. in a
rollicking description of a night
ride by stage-coach:
See the bright mooni High up
before We know 1t; making the
earth reflect the objects on its
breast like water. Hedges, trees,
low cottages, church steeples,
young slips, have all grown vain
upon the sudden, and mean to con-
template their own fair images till
morning"
Shadows Like SilhOuetteS
This is a flash of the genius Of
observation in Dickens, for it is
true that on bright moonlight
iAbiI "hCu tiC SEdSS IL a uIliG
dewy, the shadows of objects do
sometimes resemble their silhou-
cites reflected from still water.
Indeed, there is whole unwritten
literature in moonlight shadows.
Years ago some one wrote a story
called The Inn of the Silver
Moon" have forgotten the
story, but the name shines in my
memory like the enchanted moon
herself.
l am minded to go back to the
question of the more direct,
though still occult, influence Of
moonlight on physical things by
happening upon a passage in an
old book by Robert Nude, called
"A Popular Guide to the Observa.
ton of Nature" Speaking OF the
influences of the moonbeams he
says:
Every housewife knows how
nicely her linen is whitened il she
can leave 1t out during the moon
light, and many know that mus
Inns, which the sun would render
yellow or brown, can be preserved
as white as snow il dried by the
light of the moon" what a pity
that tho farm wife's secret is not
known in the chemicalized laun.
dries of today.) EVERY farmer,
too" goes ON Nude, "that takes
notice must have observed how
very rapidly the moonlight not
merely whitens, but actually ma.
lures and ripens his corn. IN IE*t
respect one fine moonlight night
is equal to at least two days of
sunshine"
Is all that Imagination, or coin
cidence, or what?
The Washington times., 1927-04-21
STRANGE CUSTOMS IN JAIPUR

IN the Western World the sim.
n pie band Of platinum or gold
worn on the third finger of the
left hand is the symbol of mar
riage. However, the women Of
Jaipur, a city in India, proclaim
their married state to the world
by means of a nose ring. This
ring is adorned with three Jewels,
ruby between two pearls being
the favorite, as IL signifies the
heart between two guardians of
purity. To US this seems q bar
barous custom, but q poor woman
will scrape and save until she is
able to purchase the jewels.
Sometimes she is able to get only
the two pearls. These she leaves
to her daughter, who, after saving
in her turn, will be able to add
the ruby.
The woman of Jaipur is, indeed,
q colorful creature. No smartly
tailored suit for her! Let me de.
scribe for you a typical costume:
A long. very full. pleated circular
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skirt of deep red comes first. A
sari, or upper drapery, covers the
head and waist. This is of silk
and is spangled with turquoise,
green and gold. Earrings caught
with strings Of pearls, with tassels
of pearls falling to her shoulders,
stud her ears. "She has rings on
her fingers and bells on her toes"
or, If not the bells, many more
rings. She wears sometimes as
many as 20 bracelets of gold and
silver on her arms, not to men
ton countless necklaces and ank-
let's. 1t has been said that for
one Jeweler in America there are
ten in India.
The jewels Of these women are
left to their daughters, just as is
the nose ring. The latter being in
the family, the daughter begins
10 save for her earrings. Incl
dentally, East Indians believe that
flowers are the natural ornament
OF the female sex. thus their name
Tor earring, translated, means ear
flower,
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noes moonlight have any ef-
~ feet on Vegetation? Does it
eat up clouds? Does it make any
difference whether timber Is cut
in the full or the dark of the
moon, or hair in its waxing or its
waning? One reader says a bar
Ger told him Le would lose his
hair if he had it cut after the
full of the moon, but that fire.
quent cutting between new and
full moon would make it grow!
A farmer writes that he always
plants by the moon" and never
knew it to fail" What does sci
ence say about such things?
Science is not very voluble on
the subject, thinks but little of it,
deems, upon the whole, that 1t is
all "moonshine" Most scientific
men call it pure superstition; a
a few are more lenient. One
astronomer, whom / always re-
Vered, Prof. Charles A. Young.
said of the current beliefs about
the controlling effect of the moon
on the weather and the various
conditions of life:
1T is quite certain that If the
The Washington times., 1927-04-21
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
Helen Rowland
Believe Me, or Not

Believe Me, or Not
TINE average mans heart, like a
i popular singers program, is
always subject to change with
ont notice"
Most of us are committing sui
eide these days, by overstraining
the heart, in the attempt to get
more thrills out Of life than there
are in it..
At this time of year, a cautious
man always prays that his COM
mon sense will work" like para
chute and save him at the last
moment from falling FATALLY
in love.
After a man has been around
the house all day Sunday, the
graveyard quiet of Monday MORN
ing is apt to make the average
wife so nervous that she has to
turn on the radio. the photograph,
and the vacuum-cleaner, just to
make things seem mat raj"
Before marriage, a. lover eyes
are filled with star.dust: but the
glitter you see in them after mar
riage is more apt to be wander.
lust.
"'The prices of mother-of-pearl
shells have dropped so low that
that diving has been restricted in
order to raise the valuep All. yes,
the plentiful supply of ANY
THING lessons the demand and
lowers the value-whether it's
pearls, diamonds, or woman's
kisses! But you can't make a
sophisticated girl believe simple
little thing like that!
There are two kinds of mascu-
line love-making: the kind that
kindles your imagination--and the
kind that leaves you without any
imagination.
Never trust the lover who has
to put his date with you down in
a little booki His heart Is prob
ably just one long list of telephone
numbers!
Now. as always. Just once
morew Is the devils best argu-
aSuI.
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MOONLIGHT

moon has any influence at all OF
the sort imagined it il extremely
slight. so slight that 1t has not yet
been demonstrated, though numer
Gus investigations have been made
expressly for the purpose of de-
tecting it. 1t is not certain. for
instance. whether it is warmer or
not, or less cloudy or not, at the
time of full moon"
1t may be added that the moon
The Washington times., 1927-04-21
DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
Copyright. 1927. New York
Evening Journal. Inc,
Registered o. 3 Patent Office.
George Washington

1.-TWO steamroller biographies have recently appeared
which dedicated to the purpose of dwelling down
rfal tho Fat NJ Dun
The Washington times., 1927-04-21
BY Garrett P. Serviss

doubt, think that to say that, is
To say all. or to admit all. For
electricity and magnetism are 10
them words of such unlimited
power that where they are spoken
they clear the road for anything
that the imagination may choose
to conceive.
From another point of view
that of human moods--the influ.
The Washington times., 1927-04-21
WISE SAYINGS

He that wrestIes with us
strengthens our nerves and sharp
ems our skill. Our antagonist is
our helper. Burke
Unbelief is blind. Milton
Evil beginning hours may end in
good. Beaumont and Fletcher
Every one is as God has made
him and oftentimes a great deal
worse. --Cervantes
knowledge is proud that he has
learn'd so much;
Wisdom Is humble that he knows
no more. --Cowper
God and Nature met IN light.
-TennysoH
The Washington times., 1927-04-21

life than their
overall brothers.
1t disc o vered
this concerning
the wages paid
IN ale offic e
workers:
ga per cent
re eel yes less
than SIG per
week.
1871 per cent
re C e ! We s less
than $40 per
week.
25.4 per cent
rec Ell yes less
than $25 per
week.
40.1 per cent
re c e j v e g less
than $50 per
week.
67.S per cent
rec Ell We s less
than $40 per
week.
The Washington times., 1927-04-21
Wise Britain
She Knows

Britain cut in ornaments suggests building smaller
cruisers bigger than 1900 5000 tons each That
wisdom Britain must have cruisers to protect her
aoat She knows that batteshps of date that the
smaller the cruiser the better it is harder for the flying
machine hit with his bomb that could destroy fifty
million dollar bateshp at cost of less than thousand
dollars.
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GAINS
IN OIL TRIAL
Continued from First Paee)

Continued from First Page)
timony given the Walsh committee
on October 20. 1898. On this oc-
casion, tho justice held, Sinclair
was neither subpoenaed nor sworn,
and. therefore, not a witness under
the meaning OF the statute.
Exchange Of Letters
Next came an exchange OF letters
between Fall and Joseph w. Clark.
LeadviIle, Colo, oil man. Clark had
asked for information about possible
leases in the naval oil reserves. Fall
replied giving information about the
California reserve, but none at all
about Teapot Dome.
Then Roberts read an exchange
of kilograms between Assistant Sec.
rotary Efnney and Peter @. Nice.
These came a week after Sinclair
had gotten the lease. Nice wanted
to make proposition on the Dome.
not knowing Sinclair had II. Fin.
ney replied that "a general policy
had been worked out relative to
the reserve but he was mot In a
position to give 1t out.
This completed the Governments
presentation of evidence designed
TO show that FAN concealed his
negotiations with Sinclair and ne.
gotiated the Teapot Dome lease un.
der the greatest possible secrecy.
Roberts then plunged to the task
OF convincing the jury that Fall &C.
cepted quarter million dollar bribe
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Plan Special Service
For District MasOi1s

Divine service for all Masons Of
the District of Columbia win be
read by the Rev. DIR. John G.
Palmer, at the Washington Heights
Presbyterian Church. Kalorama
Road. east OF Columbia Road, at
8 o'clock on the night Of oceober
30, It was announced today.
Club members OF various Masonic
organizations viii assemble at 1850
o'clock near the west entrance to
Temple Heights on Connecticut
Avenue and will. march to the
church, escorted by Brightwood
Conmandery, No. s. Knight TEN.
plars. The Shrine will furnish the
music.
The Grand Master Of Masons
of the District ana other Masonic
disnitaries have been invited as
well as all club officers and mem
bers. In the event OF inclenent
weather, organizations will proceed
directly to the church.
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PROBE
COUNCIL ROW

A committee from the Federation
Of Citizens Associations is investi.
eating the complaints against the
Citizens Advisory Council. which
were filed with the District Com.
miasioners recently by local trade
bodies and the District Bar AssUcia.
ton.
The committee, which was ap.
pointed by James G. Yaden, presi-
dent OF the federation, Is composed
of Clayton E. Emig. Hugh NJ.
Frampton, and Charles l. Stangle.
1t will report back to the meeting
of the federation, November s.
Yaden's committee is now investi
eating whether the presidents Of
the organizations were authorized to
attack the council. or whether 1t
was done on their own initiative.
The complaints were made by a
delegation of officers f;om the
trade bodies headed by f. C..
Graham, president Of the Board Of
Trade,
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SALE.
FORBIJ5H
CLUE
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moments before a woman answer.
! Ing Mrs. Forbush's description
! walking along that road. BY the
! time she had notified the police
/ tn woman had disappeared. and
) when Headquarters Detective Ser.
( Seant Jet and six of his men
Z keached the scene in the depart.
ia1ent's high-powered automobile,
Ehey found no trace.
Mrs. Florence Killgour, 1905 Eff
bAenth st. N. W., reported that last
Sunday woman who might have
been the missing upstate New
Yorker, came to the apartment
house at that address about mid
might and wanted accommodations
Tor the night.
She was unable to accommodate
&he woman, and others in the build.
ing likewise failed to take her in.
When interviewed today all those
approached save description that
paused police to place little
credence In it being Mrs. Forbush.
Posses today also continued their
search OF nearby Maryland ind
Virginia, visiting Seat Pleasant at
Rhe District line in Maryland and
bombing Arlington county in quest
pf clues.
Police said that as the days go
BY the number of clues offered are
Hwindling.
On the occasions of her two for.
h1er disappearance, Mrs. Forbush
concealed herself in the woods be.
cause she felt she was unworthy
and "had to be alone"
1t has been learned. however
shat just before leaving for Wash
ington with her husband on their
way to Florida, Mrs. Forbush told
q close personal friend she i1ii not
want to take the trip ana would
''get q job" IL forced to leave hel
children. @
The intensive search Of nearby
woods, however, will not be given
up. Rev. Mr.. Forbush ana his
brother Bliss Forbush. started to.
ward Baltimore this morning and
will swing In q wide half circle back
10 the Potomac River. inquiring at
MI houses along the way.
Another group win search through
the woods around Anacostia where
the first report that she had been
seen originated.
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AD MEN To HOLD
ELECTIONS

A radical departure in the ad-
ministrationsof affairs Of the Amer
lean Association Of Advertising
Agencies through their New York
office today was recommended by
the executive committee to the
eleventh annual convention which
closes its sessions today in the
Mayflower Hotel,
A vote will he taken by the as
sociation late this afternoon and it
is predicted that tthe plan of the
committee as well as its slate for
full-time and volunteer officers, will
60 through.
According to the plan recon-
mended. the president from, now on
will he on a salary basis and will
devote his full time to the work
OF the association.
1t is understood that John Ben
son, president of Benson. Gamble,
Johnson and Read of Chicago, is
(slated for the presidency. II
elected, Mr.. Benson will Immediately
IAlove to New York and enter on
his new duties. James O'Shaugil.
missy is slated for reelection as
executive secretary as is the treas
uf6r, E. Dewitt Hill Of the III. K.
McAann Company in New York.
The committee also recommended
the tAreation Of the position Of chair
man t1f the board, which will be q
non.ssgaried .position. II. X. Nc
Cam asiof the New York agency
which 11ears his name is slated for
this post. Henry T. EwaId OF the
Campbeh Ewald Company of De-
troit probably will No elected.
Under Abe plan recommended by
the, comneltt the full time pres
ident willy be elected for a four
year termA Washington is the
permanent Aconvention city Of the
association.
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URGED FOR U. S. POST

[ Appointment OF Prof. John q.
Pollard Of williamsburg, Va, to the
Wederal Trade Commission was
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Don't miss JudsOn C. Welt.
\ ver's article on WHAT WILL
SyHE HARNE SSING OF
GREAT FALLS DO FOR
WASHINGTON" Story ap-
peAss' Sunday In The Wash-
inKAm Herald.
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recommended to President Coolidge
today by Senators Glass ana Swan.
son of Virginia.
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NURSE GUI[TYIN
ND. Staying

CUMBERLAND, Nd, Oct. ~
A verdict of second degree murder
was returned by jury here today
against Mabel Swan, q Baltimore
nurse, who was accused OF killing
her landlord, David Mosser.
Miss Swan declared she killed
Swan in self defense after he had
entered her cabin with brick in
his hand. -
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FROG

Put the Leap into Frog by Ladder
gramming down the rungs a step At
a time. changing single letter only
with each downward move. Remem.
Der that only words In good dictionary
standing which ere useful or familiar
may be used One way Of doing II
will be shown tomorrow. Solution Ol
Broom Stick: /. Broom: :, Brook
3, Brock; 4, Block; 5. SIOck: 8. Stock
Z, Stick.
(Copyrikht by Public LedEer)
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COOlidge Not Incliiled
To Take I'm Pn0iIism

President Coolidge is not likely
tb accept the advice of ''Philadel-
phia Jack" O'Brien, once a leading
heavyweight pugilist, that he take
up boxing for physical exercise.
The health of the President is
said to be excellent, despite rumors
to the contrary, and he has no
fear of developing larger waist.
line.
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CrackslnaN Blast
Safe Get SIG. 900

SAN FRANCSxSCo, Oct. 27.--Blast.
ing open a wait safe OF the Gem
JeweIry Company with nitroglycer.
inc here today, cracksmen looted
the place of jAwelry valued at
$4,000.
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LAUREL ENTRIES

FIRST RACE-Two1ye ar-olds; claim
ng; purse, $l,300; Aurlongs.
The Washington times., 1927-02-10

Swedish interests have obtained q
36-year concession Tor the instalia-
ton and operation Of q telephone
system IN Smyrna, Turkey, and the
surrounding district.
The Washington times., 1927-02-10
Screens On Elevated
Asked to End Suicides

NEW YORK, Feb. 10. Reiterating
their demand for screens on the high
station platforms OF the 81" the
Harlem Luncheon Association in.
structed its secretary, Matthew J..
Elder, to write another letter to
Frank Hedley, president OF the In
terborough.
"I'll take pains to make the letter
strong, all right" Mr.. Elder explained
after the meeting. I'VE don't want
to see the I. r. T. continually placed
in the position Of encouraging sui.
eide. Eleven persons have leaped off
that structure in the last year. not
only killing themselves but en-
dangering the lives of pedestrians
and bus riders below"
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10000 ATTEND
POWER SHOW

CHICAGO. Feb. 10.--Mcre than
$4,000 executives. engineers and
other members Of the profession
win attend the opening Of the sec.
ohd, annual Midweetern Engineer.
ing and Power Exposition on Feb
ruary 10.
Samuel insult, Jr., president OF
the Midland Utilities Company and
other notabIes OF the power field
are among the headline speakers
scheduled for the four day session.
An exposition with more than
81, 900. 900 in power machinery and
appliances from $50 manufacturing
companies IL one Of the features
Of the meeting.
The conference Is sponsored by
the American Society Of Mechani.
cal Engineers, American Institute
OF Mining Engineers, National Elec.
trio Light Association, Western
Society Of Engineers, National
Safety Council and the American
Institute Of Electrical Engineers.
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Fear Of 10 Is d Myth,
Say HayerfOrd Alumni

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 10.4-None
Of the men who dined at the Haver.
ford Alumni banquet has fallen
dead, been sued or lost money In
Wall Street. And that despite the
fact now revealed that at the dinner
10 sat at the speakers table, and
there were IS tables Of IL persons
each and Is tables Of eight each.
Conveniences OF seating outweigh.
ed any superstitious fears In max.
ing arrangements for the dinner,
which was held at the Penn Ath.
letic Club, and at which Justice
schaefer, OF the state Supreme
Court, and Frank r. Kent, Balti.
more newspaper man, spoke.
The Washington times., 1927-02-10

the West Of Scotland who are wait.
ing enigrant visas for the United
States-that Is, IL they could get
their passports Immediately.
The American consul general In
Glasgow has q list OF $4,000 per.
sons awaiting visas.
This phenomenal demand for emf.
grafton IL creating 8 grave problem
locally, for It Is feared that when
industry revives there will be q
shortage Of skilled workers and good
artisans in this part of the world.
The Washington times., 1927-02-10

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