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The Washington times., 1927-02-08
DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
NOt AN KnOWLedge Is Power
By DR.. FRANK CRANE
r N0WLEDGE IS power-sometimes.

KNOWLEDGE is power--sometmes.
IA 1t is power only when it is practical knowledge {
The acquisition Of facts and information NAV
make informed but unless those facts apply to ha%
he undertakes they do not increase his power.
You may learn all the intimate facts about all the KingR
of England without helping apprecaby in the cement
business. 4
may make easier to live with yourself, but win no
increase your power
Barrie has play about yacht full of educated peopla
which goes aground upon unnhabited island
The only who knows what to do is the uneducated
butler
He builds shelter and hunts for food while the others
stand helpless What little education he had of 4
practical that applied the needs Of the moment
He had power because his knowledge applied there In
drawngoom conversation the others would have had powe1
because their knowledge fitted the needs of that situation
Those who speak Of the failure Of education make the mis-
take of thinking that power the only end of knowledge
knowledge is of three kinds
There is knowledge that gives power knowledge that
gives culture; knowledge that gives wisdom.
knowledge is like the food take into systems Part
Of this food goes make flesh part omake blood and part
goes to make the structure of bones.
So only part of knowledge goes to make power Some
without any broad education attain positions of great
emnence the range of their information is
all practical and applicable to their work.
Another part of knowledge feeds culture 1t gives inter-
ideas and appropriations that make lives more
enjoyable and full
And another part Of knowledge gives wisdom It builds
seconrol and understanding may be powerful like
Alexander the Great cultured like Oscar Wilde, and
know not the meaning Of wisdom.
And Duran using the popular adage loosely Says
knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty
Copyright 1871, by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
EARTH'S WEIGHT
By Garrett P. Serviss

weight is not q constant" in the
mathematical sense. The weight
OF the same body varies with the
circumstances of locality. The
weight OF bodies varies even on
the earth's surface, because the
earth Is not a perfect globe. and
some parts of its surface are
nearer the center Of gravity than
other parts. (The centrifugal
force of the eafth's rotation also
alters the effective weight OF
bodies according TO their location
on the globel At the poles,
body weighs more than at the
Equator, though there is no
change of mass.
In order, actually, to weigh a
body OF the same mass as the
earth We would have to condense
it and contract it to manageable
dimensions. Suppose that the
whole mass of the earth could be
compressed into a ball a yard in
diameter. Then we can at least
imagine that it could be weighed
at sea level on the earth, and, If
so, we know that its weight would
be six sextillions of tons. But If
removed from the earth some
thousands of miles, its weight
would be largely diminished.
Weight Would Vary
But. suppose we should weigh
It by the attraction of some other
heavenly body. It's weight then
would depend upon the gravita.
tional force of that other body.
On the moon 1t would weigh only
enc sextillion tons. instead Of
six. Indeed, the earth being so
times as massive as the moon, the
little condensed earth-ball, only q
yard in diameter would hold the
moon more than 1000 miles in
diameter, instead of the moon
holding the puny earth. It would
be like a tiny ant carrying a
huge puff ball.
Put the earth-ball on Jupiter
and its weight would be increased
to about is sextillion tons. On
the sun it would become 165 sex
tillions. And placed on that in
credibly dense companion star of
Sirius, one cubic inch of whose
substance is reckoned at a toms
weight, the earth-ball would weigh
about two million sextillions of
tons! though its mass would not
be in the slightest degree altered.
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mother aside and informed her, in
a blood-curdling whisper, THAT
THE BABY'S NOSE WAS
MADE OF WAXmi Mama Such
promptly tainted and there was d
dreadful TODD.
Pape Such at first pooh-pooheH
the idea but when they examined
the small child's nose they could
no longer doubt the dreadful fact.
For, as you win know IL you have
ever inspected the nose Of any
little new human person. it was
entirely lacking in all respectable
nose-like properties and was i'm
deed OF the formless. white soft
ness OF WAX!
From that day on Sammy waa
shielded as BELTS one whose cens
trail features were made of 50
frail and perishable a substance
as wax. No diamond or ruby was
ever tended more carefully than
was Sammy's nose. He was never
taken into the strong sunlight
he was never allowed to sit toe
near the fire. He could not play
the rough games which older lit
tie boys played, nor could he do
the tiresome chores which they
performed.
Poor little Sam" says the stcr-yh
from his earliest days grew up ii
the belief that there was sornee
thing amiss with him; that he had
been somehow set apart by III
fortune from all other small creae
lures OF his age"
Which was, of course, very sad.
But nevertheless, 1t had its come
pensations for it made Samuel ex,
empt from many difficult tasks
and trying responsibilities. Until
at last there arrived an amazing
day when Sam discovered that
HIS NOSE WASN'T MADE ON
WAX AFTER ALL BUT WAS.
IN FACT. EXACTLY LIKE ALI,
OTHER NOSES, And if You've
lived long life under the com.
Portable delusion that YOU were
different" from everyone eIsa
you can imagine how exasperats
ing such discovery might be.
This Is the story. It has 4 Won.
derful moral in it for High Struna
People. And Sensitive People
and Timid People-and all other
folks with WAX NOSES which
they are carefully cherishinR.
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
By ELSIE ROBINSON

an elocutlon teacher and a mu.
sic teacher. With an inheritance
like that. Edna was bound to be
different from other people. That's
why she went to pieces SO easily
said Mother. She was ever so
sympathetic whenever Edna had
one of her nervous spells.
Poppa. however, wasn't so tact
full. He was frequently heard to
remark that all that kid needed
was a darned good walloping.
From which you can gather what
a Coarse, Low Brute Poppa was.
Mother often wondered why she
had married him.
As the years went on, Edna
needed all the sympathy and un.
derstanding Mother could give her
for, alas. so many people gave
her none at all. They actually
said she could control herself IL
she wanted to-" As If anyone
could control a dreadful thing like
Nervousness which they had in.
herited from goodness knows how
many ancestors! But people didn't
stop to think about Edna's highly
temperamental family tree Il They
just said she was "ornery" and
treated her as rudely as possible.
The little girls at school laughed
at her and called her "cry baby"
The little boys made faces at her
and said she was a stuck-up tattle.
tale. And after she had gradu.
ated from High and went to work
In Wilson's Confectionery, old
man Wilson fired her because he
said she was too lazy to earn her
salt. Mother had a lot of ex-
planning to do before she could
make people understand that the
Poor Dear Child was simply sick
from nervousness"
Explanations. however. didn't
succeed in holding Edna's hus
band, after she married. He
stood Edna's spells" and then
suddenly decamped for parts un-
known. And Edna had a very
noisy and prolonged case of Nerv.
Gus Prostitution. So now, at IS.
Edna Is the most miserable
woman of my acquaintance. And
though she won't like ity / think
she needs to hear about Samuel
Such and his Wax Nose.
Samuel Such was the hero ola
short but every pithy tale by
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
CARNIVAL AT NICE

A LMoST every country has its
"A season Of merry.making or
carnival. The United States has
its Mardi Gras down in New Or.
leans and its flower carnivals in
Texas and California. They are
all picturesque and beautiful, but
none attracts the widespread in.
terest OF the carnival at Nice,
which Is held every February.
Travellers from all over the world
gather for the event, ana as no
expense is spared, the sights are
we'll worth seeing.
King Carnival himself, opens the
events. He is a grotesque papier
mache monster. seated, 4 q rule,
on a fabulous beast (half horse
half wild animal. with enormous
wings. His first appearance is
on the first night of the carnival.
He il seen again the next two
days, and on the last night he IL
carried through the town In q
torchlight procession, and after
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NIHE United States Bureau of
i Standards, which all inquisi-
tive citizens ought to visit in
order to get a glimpse at what
accuracy Of measurement means.
has bar tipped with gold balls.
suspended in vacuum by a fill
ment of tungsten. with which
they can measure forces in terms
of millionths Of a grain. What
they are especially driving at Is a
more refined determination Of the
''weirht of the earth" according
to the popular conception. though
the experimenters call it determin-
ing the earth's mass. or. It's den.
sity.
Now for all except the elite in
science. IT is enough to know that
the earth weighs. in round num-
bers. six sextillions OF tons. Six
sextillions are six thousand mil.
lions multiplied by million times
a million.
draws" Itself
But. how. or in what sense. does
the earth weigh that immense
number of tons? When we
weigh" anything we do SO by
ascertaining the force with which
the earth draws it: but how can
the earth draw itself and thus
give itself weight? You would
say that a man might as well try
to lift himself by pulling up on
his bootstraps as to weigh the
earth by the eartl1's own attraction.
Nevertheless. it can be done by
virtue of the fact that the attrac-
ton of gravitation Is proportional
to the mass or quantity of mass
units concerned. as well as to the
distance between the attracting
bodies. BY seeing how much
attraction is exerted upon the sus-
pended gold balls by q nearby
mass Of matter of known weight.
and then comparing this weight
with the attraction that the whole
earth exerts upon the balls. q. e.,
with their weightl the mass Of the
earth can be deduced.
Earth's Attraction
The same data reveal the weight
that the earth's attraction would
impart to body of the earth's
mass lying upon its surface. This.
then. is what Is meant by the
earth's weight" measured in
terms OF its own gravitation.
Everybody should know that
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this last triumphal appearances, he
Is burned at the stake.
But the King is not the only
amusing sight. Almost every one
in Nice dresses up" Clowns and
harlequins, Spanish dancers and
Japanese geisha maidens, dance
together in the streets. And the
professions! The imagination of
the French Is taxed to its utmost,
and the weirdest apparitions are
the result. What the French
can't thin'> OF in the way Of great
ears topping the roofs. mounted
groups and ludicrous figures" says
one writer, leaves little to be
desired mounted groups
impersonating anything from
knightly tourney to a set of chess.
men, ludicrous figures of carrots.
cocottes. Catherinettes, and mono.
cled nnen-about-town.'' =
These and many more parade. the
streets at intervals.
And the air Is white with con-
teth, but not the confetti to which
The Washington times., 1927-02-08

We are accustomed. This is an in
sldious stuff made of plaster and
about the size Of comnlon shot,
although quite light. This stuff
turns to chalk at an impact. and
unless the unwary be most fortu-
nate, he will arrive home looking
Ike a clown, with q possible cut
here and there, IL the confetti
thrower were too close or strong.
As q protection, therefore, the mi.
tiated wear wire masks and wrap
themselves in coats taking care
that their hair and ears are well.
covered. Despite the confetti, how
ever, visitors enjoy, themselves to
the utmost, forgetting their trou.
bles and inhihitions. in the happy,
care-free atmosphere Of the town.
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
A Poor Bible Reader
Might Make a Good Citizen.

An Italian boy age seventeen whose father American
citizen turned away from the United States because he
couldn't read fuenty this from the Old Testament:
"Behold, he traveleth with inquity, and hath
ceived mischief and brought forth falsehood He
pit and dgged it, and hath fallen into the ditch which he
made 4.
Lncons mother could have read that verse; either
she was useful
What need in this country is intelligent willing workers.
not expert Bible readers. That later.
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
LISTEN, WORLD!
THDNA has been
II telling me

THDNA has been
u telling me
how nervous she
is. It's a ter
rible affliction.
nervousness like
that. According
to Edna it has
simply blighted
her life.
1t began when
she was a little
teeny, weeny bit
of q girl and
used to go all
to pieces over
the least little
t h in e." Her
mother told her
she took after
her side of the
IA m ily-t h ey
were all so
h lE h strung.
There's been an
actor in moth.
er's family and
The Washington times., 1927-02-08

There is no such thing as q
"disillusioned woman"
Her indestructible illusions are
Gods greatest gift to Womsr!
A woman may lose her back
teeth. her figure, her last friend
and her last lover. But her illu-
sions are like gray hairs: when
one is pulled out by the roots.
nine others appear to take its,
place.
When the dentist is extracting
her last tooth. she will come from
under the anaesthetic raving
about her First love"
No matter how many times love
has failed her. she will always
believe that the next love- is
going to be the perfect lifelong
Romance.
No matter how MANY men have
lied to her she will ALWAYS
brighten up hopefully when the
next man begins telling her how
beautiful she is-or how wonder
full HE is.
When her "tomorrows" have
ceased to promise anything, she
will look back on her ''yester.
days" glorified through a mist of
golden illusions.
No matter how often a man
may break his word to her. she
will still listen to his next glow
ing promise. and believe that HIS
Intentions are good and noble"
Woman is the eternal 1dealist.
forever looking at life through a
rose-coIored veil.
To her, everything she loves Is
beautiful; the weak, selfish man.
the hayward child, the NANCY pet
dog-even the fading face or the
triple chin she sees in the looking.
glass.
No matter how plain and unpre-
possessing girl may be, she never
gives up the hope that some man
may love her enough to THINK
her beautiful.
And no matter how old and
withered she may be, she never
relinquishes the glorious faith that
a new face.crean or a new beauty
doctor may make her young and
lovely again.
Half the great business enter
prises in the world are built on
woman's undying illusions.
Her belief that silk stockings
will make piano.legs alluring! Her
faith that powder and paint will
turn a bag into a houri: that
beauty treatments will bestow
beauty; and that perfumes and
/ furs and diamonds will transform
Plain Jane into Queen of Hearts!
THE next man, the next love.
affair, the next servant, the next
hatS the next frock will always be
the Perfect One!
A man has only three or foul
. illusions to begin with--andf he in.
tiers each one, as it dies. in a
sealed sepulchre and never tries
to revive it.
But woman's illusions never
die until whole new set of them
has been born.
And you never can be sure that
her LAST Illusion Is dead until
Won Law q wreath of inannrtellns
on her coffinl
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
QUESTIONSOF
ETIQUETTE

Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman-
A Senior Prom
nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ What would be most cor

A Senior Prom
nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ What would be most cor
rect to wear at an informal senior
prom?
2. l 20 to a girls school so 1
shall have to invite an escort.
How shall arrange about the
tickets? How should l word the
note of invitation?
,. Is the paper upon which this.
letter is written correct, and is the
letter itself In good fern?
A READER.
For a school girl to wear to a
senior prom, a light colored dress
of some soft material like chiffon,
soft crepe or georgette is APP
propriate. The dress would be
sleeveless or might have a tiny
shoulder sleeve, or even sleeves
formed by a wide band of the ma
terial from the neck to part way
down the arms. Flesh color is
becoming to most girls-and so is
apricot-but OF course any other
light color that is becoming is
right. How would you like a
lowered chiffon?
2. You, since you are the host
ess, should arrange to get the
tickets, and you should in some
way convey to your escort that
you have gotten teh tickets. Your
note of invitation should read
something like this:
Dear Bob:
The senior class in our school
is giving prom in February,
the 26th, In the auditorium Of the
school, and should very much
like to have you go with me to
the dance. II you are disengaEed
on that evening and would like
to go. viii you let me know If
you can go, and II you can 1
will send the tickets to you for
safe-keeping.
Best wishes to you and friend
lest greetings for the new year.
Yours most sincerely,
). Your letter paper il very
good-dignified, of a fine white,
and in excellent proportion to
your handwriting.
Your letter form, too. is care.
full and artistic.looking. Congrat-
ulations! Your letter would look
even better If you would use no
authorizations on, the envelope or
in the heading. Authorizations
always indicate haste, and haste
Is not socially good form. Also,
in the complimentary close. there
should be the word yours; that
is, It should be Sincerely yours
or Very sincerely yours
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
SAYINGS OF WISE MEN

Our sympathy Is cold to the re-
lation Of distant misery.
Edward Gibbon.
Love is ever the beginning of
knowledge as fire is of light.
Carlyle.
Nature Is a mutable cloud which
Is always and never the same.
Emerson.
Most people would succeed in
small things If they were not
troubled with great ambitions.
-Longfellow.
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
Turning Worms

Maybe organization sponsored by three husbands jailed
in Brooklyn for failure to pay aimony won't get anywhere
But it is straw that shows the way the wind blows
THE Amony Players Protective Association is designed
unite common defense the exhusbands of the 100000
svindicive wives in New York State
Certainly something going to happen or later to
the growing trade of gold digging by the matrimonial method
Predatory wives becoming scandal and menaceas
witness plenty Of grng examples aired before disguised
public
The Washington times., 1927-02-08

Walter de h
Mare. w h en-
Sam was a tiny
baby his dotin9
IA t h err and
mother gave him
q W on d e ul
christening party
and invited the
friends and rela.
tives. But un.
fortunately they
forgot to invite
wicked old greata
aunt Keren-Haps
puch and that'a
where the trouG
BILE began.
The malicious
old lady came
a n y ay ana
made things a.
disa a.
possible. As a
final bit Of
spleen, she took
vay q Co. - rvgA
The Washington times., 1927-02-08

Ignorance never settles . queaa
ton. Disraeli.
Fear that makes faith may
break faith. --Swinborne.
say the word Is lovely,
And that loneliness is enough.
Buchanan.
To bear lie to conquer our fate.
Campbell.
Small habits we'll pursued betirnes
May reach the dignity Of crinss..
Hannah More.
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
Vanderbilts---
Please Fly

William n. Vanderbilt descendant Of the old Commodore,
wants to operate buses between Boston and New York
Some young Vanderbilt Of this generation, w K, his
brother Harold should go farther and start passenger
machines above New York Central tracks from New York to
Chicago and beyond. William Vanderbilt jr the first
to establish flying line in America but unfortunate
cident stopped the enterprise He ought to revive it. and
possible get General Mitchell to manage the company
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
Taking the Air

Italy starts intensive building of aiplanes By spring
1t is expected that 1900 machines will be ready to fly
Museums sound and sensible defense plan is to pounce
from the sky on an enemy the moment is declared
literally getting the drop on the foe.
ANY nation that wants to pick a quarrel with Italy is
going to think twice before it invites visit from that host
Of demon aviators Mussolni is training.
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
"They Are Barred"
SUPPOSE Someone Disc Said It

The Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
Methodist Church maintaining active representatives
the Capitol that Governor Smith, of New York.
Richie of Maryland and Senator Reed Of Missouri
are barred as presidential candidates in 1928
Every organization and individual speaking for itself
himself, may bar anybody for the Presidency.
But what would good MehOdists say Catholic organiza
ton should publish list of presidential neligbles?
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
The Spoon Scores

AaHO NpVUA bCUICS
DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ Should a fruit cocktail
be served with cocktail fork or
spoon? P. b.
A fruit cocktail Is served with
spoon. Usually as an accom-.
paniment of the diced fruit there
Is some delicious juice and this.
OF course, needs a spoon.
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
|. NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helm Rowland

WOman's Greatest Gift
There is no such thing as a
"disillusioned woman"
Her indestructible illusions are
Gods greatest gift to Woms.,!
The Washington times., 1927-02-08

No matter how plain and unpre-
possessing a girl may be, she never
gives up the hope that some man
may love her enough to THINK
her beautiful.
The Washington times., 1927-02-08

To her, everything she loves is
beautiful; the weak, selfish man,
the hayward child, the NANCY pet
dog-even the fading face or the
triple chin she sees in the looking.
glass.
The Bozeman courier., 1927-10-07

he said. 'The Northwest Mounted Po-
lice had their supplies shipped to there
and then taken by pack train over into
Canada 1t was a good news town and
the Fort Benton River Press, the first I
ever worked on, is stin in the news
game"
Going to Helena in the spring Of 1888,
he Joined the staff Of the Montana Daily
Journal, organized by Russell B. Har-
risOn, son of President Harrison, but
transferred to the Helena Independent
when the Harrison administration was
defeated. He later went to the Montana
Record, the Billings Gazette and then to
the Anaconda Standard in the early part
Of the present century. He was with the
Standard until the spring OF 1928, when
he left to assume a position as Pacific
coast representative of the p Blakiston's
Son and company, book publishers, with
headquarters in Seattle