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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-20
We Live Longer
Disease Is Gradually Conquered

Dr. Haven Emerson professor of public health Columbia
University says mans length Of life has nearly doubled since
the year 1900 which than doubling the value Of
oil human life.
Deaths from tuberculosis and infant mortality have been
duced by Is per cent in that period In New Yorks founding
asyum practically all the babies died before Nathan Straus
forced the Of pasteurized milk
Typhoid and dphheria will be wiped out entirely and
yellow fever malaria yphu cholera and smallpox have
shed But diseases the increase Cancer holds
fourth place. killing 99 of 1000 that die Quacks advertise
that increase the death rate There is known for
except the surgeons knife and raum under favorable
conditions But better health stronger blood supply and
cheerfulness help and sometimes conquer.
Show any strange growth to DOCTOR tell him Of any deep
seated pain.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-20
OVER THE CHANNEL AT DAWN

This picture shows flying planes above the white cliffs
Of Dover where the English Channel washes the shore of
England
One Of the planes in the picture Is British Royal Air Mail
boat the other French passenger apane They pass
dawn far above the earth
This picture is from an interesting book flying called
The Wonder Book on Aircraft edited by Harry Goldng
which gives full account Of flying from the beginning
In England France and especially in Germany flying is
completely organized railroad travel with regular time
tables and flying passengers by the tens Of thousands
This country invented the flying machine but doesn't
able do much in the way Of flying Perhaps with the
inspiration of Lndbergh and the others will in time
Meanwhile, Europe DOES IT. war should come we
might realize sorrow, that doesn't pay for the mod
ern RICHEST nation to lack the modern WEAPON.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-20

early sign Of cataract. Floating
bodies are not usually serious, but
II they are persistent the patient
should seek advice.
An elderly person sometimes
finds out suddenly that he can
read without his glasses and is
inclined to be pleased with him
self. This apparent gain in
strength is not, however, all to
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-20

the good, as it means that the
lens has become swollen and has
shortened the FOCUS at the ex-
pense of the long sight. 1t is
often the first sign of cataract,
and sometimes diabetes.
So when you find your sight
varying from the normal, look
upon it as a kindly danger signal
and take the hint
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-20
ONCE-OVERS


DO Right and Fear Not"
Isn't it fact that your associates create in YOU
desire to do something of rsque nature?
Somehow the principles which
OF most lose their power control you
you are with these certain other persons.
Perhaps have had experiences that would astonsh
highly
You really meant to do just right the influence
persons made it easy to overstep.
You cannot explain this feeling O. recklessness.
Because rather enjoyed it made little effort control
yourself and have done and still doing the
grettable things.
1t not set determination thing
ease with which you led that is appalling.
why don't keep from those who inspire
with daring to do things you know right?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-20
LISTEN, WORLD!

seemed to move
and grow tall,
to even float a
little above the
earth. And, as
they rose, they
broke into color
like a s on &.
T h e ir gullies
brimmed w 1 t h
shadows blue as
W in e. T h cir
crests were fam
ing topaz on the
sunset sea. Hot
floods of rose
a nd copper
drenched their
s | o p e g; their
cliffs were SWIM
ming in an am
Der foam.
Then the night
came. The scar
let deepened into
amethyst a n d
indigo The tall
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-20
IT WILL lift up
I'm Inc ey eS

I'm | n e ey es
unto the hills
from W h e n C e
C o m Q tn m y
help"
Psalms 1871.
/ lived once in
a desert country.
B G fore the
memory of man
a great sea had
Gov ere d that
space, but now
1t lay flat and
desolate.
1t was neither
quiet nor empty
where I lived.
We were work
ing a mine and
men swarmed up
and down the
shafts and over
the dumps. The
p u m p S a n d
hoist.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-20
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland
Nonstop Flights
THIS is the day of the nonstop
il Highland not all of them
are headed for Paris or Berlin!

NONSTOP FIlRntS
THlS is the day of the nonstop
i Highland not all of them
are headed for Paris or Berlin!
Every boy. just out of college,
seems to be looking for nonstop
flight to fortune. He does not
want to take the time to earn
money. His bright idea is to
GET money-and get it quickly.
It IL a terrible shock to him,
when he discovers that there is
no Royal Road to lucre and limou-
sines, and that there is a little
hard work attached to a fifteen
thousand dollar salary. He had
fancied that being a Big Financier
meant merely pressing a button
at the side of his desk.
And every girl appears to be
looking for a nonstop flight to
what she fondly fancies is life"
or 'love" or "self.expression."
She imagines that by grasping at
the first romance that comes her
way and falling into the first
pair of outstretched masculine
arms. she has found Love-" with
a capital IL"
But love is not a flower which
blossoms over night. 1t is some
thing which must first be planted
in the heart. and its roots of
friendship. understanding and ten.
derness are real and deep. Sex
and sentiment and romance and
passion are merely its blossoms.
which unfold after a slow and
normal growth.
Lindbergh and Chamberlin did
not make their startling trans
oceanic nonstop flights the first
time they stepped into an air.
plaine. 1t was only after years
of hard labor, practice and danger,
that they attempted the great
feat. They paid the price in
advance for all the honor and
glory they attained.
Everything worth while and
everything worth having in this
world, comes by slow growth,
even though it may look like a
miracle or a fairy gift dropped
out of the clouds.
Nobody LEAPS into lasting
fame. You walk there over red
hot Goals, and often by long
detours.
The writer whose book makes
a brilliant hit" has lived and
suffered and drudged before he
produced the perfect thing.
The society leader who Yields
the sceptre, has often mounted
the social ladder on bllsteriag
rungs.
The Man Higher Up has served
his time at every mental job IN
the office, before he learned to
"pIay the game" with power and
skill.
And the lovers who attain che
Real Thing have known their
heartaches and sacrifices before
they have learned to under
stand" The heart must be RIPE
for love, before it can grasp and
hold the love worth holding.
We pay the PRICE for every
thlng-and most of 90 paR Il In
advance,
Evening star., 1927-12-30
Sound Financing.

Ill-adviSed tampering with Govern
Secretary Mellon. in his letter to Sena-
tor Smoot, chairman of the Senate
finance committee, concurring III the
plan of Republican leaders of the Sem
ate to postpone passage Of the tax re-
Gaction bill until after March Is. clear
y demonstrates the unwisdom of flying
In the face Of Government estimates of
expenditure and revenue when the re-
suit may bring a deficit.
The House Of Representatives has put
through a tax-reduction bill which
would lop $500, 600, 900 off the revenues
Of the Government. Mr.. Mellon has
urged that tax reduction should not ex-
ceed S225, 900, 600. He feels, and has made
it quite plain in his letter to Senator
Smoot, that the passage Of the House
bill as it stands would be unwise and
might lead to an embarrassing situa-
ton which would demand an increase
in the tax rates later. An increase in
tax rates in peace times would be
harmful to business and discouraging
to the individual.
BY postponing action on the tax bin
until after March Is. the Senate will
be IN position to know what the in
come tax returns for the year 1927 are.
II will be in better position to know.
too, what the expenditures Of the Gov
ernment in the fiscal year 1929 are to
be. BY that time many. II not all. OF
the annual supply bills of the Govern
ment will have been passed. BY that
time Congress will have whipped into
shape legislation for flood relief and
flood prevention. The Government will
be in position TO say whether the esti-
mate of s252. 900. 900 surplus for the
fiscal year 1929 Is too great or too
small.
From an administrative point OF view.
Mr.. Mellon says, there is no reason why
the tax bill should not be delayed until
after March Is. Adjustments OF taxa
ton under new rates can easily be
made after the returns and the March
Is payments are in the hands OF the
Treasury Department. he asserts II
that be the case, the arguments in favor
OF postponement seem TO be unanswer-
able. The advocates OF greater tax re-
duction than that declared to be safe
by the Secretary Of the Treasury. with
his present knowledge of Government
finances. viii be in q position to know,
along with the rest OF the country.
after March IS. whether they will be
driving the Government toward q def
icit by continuing TO insist upon a
greater pairing Of the revenues
Evening star., 1927-12-30
Athletics and Long Life.

Statistics compiled by the Metropoli-
tan Life Insurance Co. show that
college athletes have a better prospect
of long life than the average man.
This is interesting, in view Of the fact
that much emphasis was placed. some
years ago on the danger OF the So
called athletes heart" OVERRIDING.
whether in foot ball, base ball or track,
or studies, is not to be commended.
One Of the happy features Of modern
educational life is that older heads have
banded together to take the danger out
of athletics, and to direct the healthy
Young men and women in our educa-
tional institutions in the proper use OF
the various games.
The statistics. as presented to the
convention Of the American Student
Health Association. showed that college
base ball players have the highest death
rate and foot ball players the lowest.
There would seem to be no particular
reason why this should be the case. un-
less IL Is tIldI btSc udII 10 CuiltiIluCu
over longer stretch OF months. The
danger Of athletics. in the life following
student days, is that. in the average
business. the muscular system docs not
receive the amount Of work to which
il has been accustomed. The former
athlete who will keep this in mind will
have better chance Of living long. evi-
IDENTIFY, than the man who sat in the
grandstand. Most persons always have
felt that this must be true. else our sys-
tenn OF athletics was in error. and such
compilations will bring cheer to them
and encourage them to elaborate. not
minimize. those courses Of physical in
struction which bring the entire stu
dent bodies OF institutions OF higher
education into nlay
Evening star., 1927-12-30

ing cca.-ac. which S..l has several
Years 20 ggl1. there viii Be no such
agreement. Good faith IS well as
Spo<tS;I,alShsp should have made An
napollS keep the agreement, however ic
may have fer aooC. West Point PLAYING
on its team men who were cider aid
of more extended experience u -
game"
II view Q: the fact that yosrS -en
are admitted 70 weSs Point between
s2le ages % y and - and 20 Ar.ra2oisS,
between - and -. the Nashville
Banner suggests: As natural result.
many more c< the youngsters wAc enter
West Point have had experience u a;h-
lsE2cS Sc colleges than Is the case ii.
Annapolis. For . concrete eNS--le.
'1e-s may Be taSes, Wilson cs tbs sea-
So2s StrcCs Army team. who c1syeci
three years of toot ball 81 PENNSYLVANIA
STATE before solng 10 the Military
Academy The state q az
tai-s oifers su the ingredients needed
Io~ The production o. a. iG.22SSs. and
that IS llaS- what we seem ~ have
Yes the Kansas City Scs-.sa. se@S
tn&t ;hsTe rnlsSs oe = way cus - the
difficulty. y. ossxHt Vcs % require a
law Tor the two institutions - Sss to
Eet9sr." SAYS gcs Journal. ~~esse
i1t13rs s>EAt10S men. WHO are ~ sicSNfS
the 0at!oaS so0c- OF land Sas S~S as
clI.ceyS ard gentlemen. SA<SssG need
nothing but thS prozsStIrxS u geeiy
cw0 sense Of fairness ~ reach a. asSs.t
cSo., understanding. Les - s.ays cSses
among cSl- s(sti2rS wS= S<sSS a.sS sea
dogs. They Sssot.lS rssvcr ca~S =. sseA
other around the Ac<sss ss-eS>
Evening star., 1927-12-30
would be as good as ever for the warm.
weather sport.

would be as good as ever for the warm
weather sport.
In more northerly places these con-
veniences for public skating can be
more readily provided than here, ow-
ing to the longer prevalence Of freez-
ing weather. In Washington the al
formations of severe cold and compare
tive warmth occur in short order and
1t is seldom that the ice holds good for
as long as week at a time. Owing to
that condition It Is the more neces-
sary to provide all possible facilities,
in circumstances to prevent fatal acci-
dents
The tendency of the young people
to go skating" whenever the tempera-
ture drops below the freezing point is
not to be controlled by mere warnings.
Parents are naturally kept in a state
OF keen anxiety on this score every
Winter. as theii children fare forth
with their skates seeking frozen sur
faces. 1t is impossible for the authori-
ties to break up the ice on ponds and
streams that will not bear human
weight, as precaution against dam
gerous ventures. The Star gives ade-
uuate notice of the condition Of the
ice and informs all skaters whenever
the skating surfaces are safely strong
In the absence Of such notification it
is dangerous for any to venture on the
ice
The flooding Of the tennis courts
may be a feasible method 1t is as
suredly worthy of consideration and
trial.
Evening star., 1927-12-30
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

custom Is for the host 10 beStow some
elaborate token Of esteem upon his ex-
alted guest. King George and Queen
Mary presented the President and Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson with some distinguish
ed gifts in 1918, as did their royal COL
leagues in Rome and Brussels, II Pres
ident Coolidge could pick his own pres
ent at the hands OF President Machado
In Cuba next month. it's an easy guess
what IL would be.-'a box OF Havana
cigars Not everybody knows that
Cal" Is q habitual smoker. He con-
fines himself almost exclusively TO
cigars. A brace OF them can frequently
be seen protrudng from the breast
pocket Of his coat as he sits at his desk
in the White House offices. Three or
four stogies a day are about the Presi-
dents limit. He uses long holder.
After meals and after the afternoons
work are his iavorite smoking times.
The other day one OF the eminent
leaders of certain great party was
asked 20 engage In debate by radio
with an equally outstanding spokesman
of the opposing party. The idea was
that they should discuss the issues thai
divide the Republican and Democratic
parties. He declared there aren't any,
Washington early In the new year
will have political weekly periodical,
called Politics" II has been founded
and will be edited by Harry N. Price,
for many years Well known political
reporter In the National Capital. He
says that Politics will be strictly inde-
pendent and non-partisan. and tackle
the men and matters OF 1928 wholly
on the basis OF their merits and demer-
ITS. Price was one OF President Hard
lngs newspaper favorites. and during
the Ohioan's regime Price was frequent
ly an administration mouthpiece. He
enioys nation-w acquaintance
among politicians of both parties.
There Is O steadily mounting under
current OF Democratic sentiment IN
favor OF the nomination OF Owen -,
Young Of New York for the presidency,
He is particularly strong in certain
Southern sections resoluteiy opposed To
AL Smith, Young himself Is an enthu
siastic supporter OF Gov, Smith~~a cir"
c,imstance which suggests that the lat
ter. in certain contingencies. might ac-
crpt the electric industry magnate as a
compromise candidate for 1923 Some
authorities have always said that Owen
Young was the real author of the
Dawes plan for payment of German
reparations, lie aud Dawes are bosom
friends. Pipes and rare books are pas
sions they share In common, Halt the
time Young Is a business captain in
lower broadway. and the rest ot the
time he's u farmer on his ancestral es-
tate IN northern New York, There he
recently restored. in modern style. the
little red schoolhotse he attended as a
lad
tConvfteh, iasTl
Evening star., 1927-12-30

should be no interference with traffic
because Of them. but the old motto,
Give an inch and take a mile" seems
to have been adopted by the hackers.
Just why the police allow this situa-
ton to exist is matter for conjecture
1t is such palpable violation of hack
ing regulations that 1t would seem i'm
possible that the department was not
fully cognizant Of 1t. 1t looks very
much as If the motoring public must
turn over It's rights on the public streets
to privately owned concerns, and that
bus lines, street car lines and taxicab
companies would have undisputed sway
in the traffic management of the city.
Evening star., 1927-12-30
PHILOSOPHERS
GLENN FRANK

Every great epoch OF progress has
gone through three stages:
First, the destruction Of false ideas.
At any given moment the ground Is
cluttered with mass of false or obso-
lete ideas. This fact becomes espe-
cially important in the march OF social
progress because the average man Is
always from 20 years to generation
behind the soundest thought of his
time, except in the field of his speciality.
Second. the cropping search for new
and better ideas.
There is always an intellectually ac-
tive minority at work on the issues OF
individual and social. This
minority throws up a medley Of ideas
some mere guesses, some magnifi-
cent gains. The wheat must be sep
arated from the chaff.
Third. the preaching OF the valid
new ideas.
The inertia Of the social mass and
of the individual mind is great. A
thousand vested interests cry out
against all change. Evangelism must
follow exploration or the work Of the
of the curious minded.
for three distinct social servants:
First, the crusading critic.
1t is hard to be hospitable to the
muckraker: but the muckrakers mis-
sion is eternal. If it be true that the
average man is always from 20 years
to a generation behind the best thought
Of his time, clearly he needs gadflies
to sting him into aWareness OF what is
going on. Every organization needs a
faw gadflies who are a nuisance to the
administration. They are unlovely
fellows, these muckrakers, but We need
them. Socrates would have been the
bane of modern college dean, but
any college could well afford to board
and bed Socrates.
Second. the responsible philosopher.
The philosopher is never popular
figure, because he rarely shares our
sharp dogmatic partisanships, buC
without him we swing from blind re-
action to brutal revolution. We must
learn to tolerate men who can see be-
tween and beyond our bitter campaign
fights.
Third, the preacher.
The temptation of the scholar is TO
keep the new truth he finds stacked
in the warehouse 1t shocks his
sense OF scholarly dignity to see his
discoveries hawked in the marketplace
by the popularZer. But the social use
fulness OF scholarship depends upon
its translation into the common tongue.
We must both breed and bear with
all three OF these servants OF progress.
Copyright. Mcclure Newspaper syndicate)
Evening star., 1927-12-30
Privilege Abusers.

The police evidently are not greatly
concerned In compelling users OF public
hack stands 10 conform To the reguia-
tons. At least there has been no ap-
preciabie improvement In conditions
since The Star called attention TO the
overflow Of taxicabs at practically
every stand, with the consequent snarl
OF traffic and the loss OF parking spaces
for the owners Of passenger automo~
biles. Today, In the morning rush
hour, there was a solid bank OF two
lines Of taxicabs parked abreast from
Twentieth street 10 Dupont Circle on
Massachusetts avenue. some OF the cars
being headed into the street and re-
dlcing the width Of this art%rlal high
way by nearly twenty feet. Traffic at
this point is very much congested dur
conveyance Of streets at the circle, and
an almost impossible situation is ere-
ated when the public carriers encroach
on street space.
Inc HhgIDNfT T1DtEi tisLE hbhttu E an
other instance Of abuse of the privi-
leges granted hackers by the commis-
sioners Sometimes two and three deep,
Iutt!ng tar out into the street and
blocking traffic almost altogether be-
cause of the car platform In front Of
the hotel. these drivers bring about
congestion on one Of the widest and
busiest arteries In the city Not only
DO they park Two and three abreast. but
If there Ia no policeman In sight they
usurp public parking spaces outside of
the hack stand. and when questioned
as 10 this practice are ugly and dis
courteous.
These are two of the danger points
of the osty which are created solely by
the abuse ~ privileges, Hack stands
are designated and the number of cars
10 be contained is plainly specified
| Yet there is seldom Il time when there
are not more ears on stand than
| regulations permit, or taxieabs crilis~
| ing around on the outskirts, their dry-
ers looking for opportunities 10 squeeze
| in Boil. tie Dupont Circle aud the
Mayflowsr stands are lsrse and are stu
alsd ~ Wlas th0T0pgAtarss and IheIs
Evening star., 1927-12-30
UNITED STATES
IN WORLD WAR

The ban ON disclosing the identity oi
troops in the rershing e<peditionarS
forces III Europe Is removed ~ new and
revised regulations issued tonight. III be-
come effective January |, De
lartment of Justice announces tant iS
has set aside February I Tor registfa~
ton of the half million unnatugalisel
Germans In the United States as
means ot minim!eing the danger trom
enemy synspathlecrs III the OniSrd
STATES Al, males ever IL must supply
four phatogtaphS and have then tu,avF~
pyinta rrcuftied Review NJ NAY
for 1917 shows balances III taSor N
France. with three htg olgens,NeS IN her
credit ami no noteworthy defeat tief~
man accession W strength due Ia the
Russian COLLAPSE Is reroknssed as bound
tn have considerable bearing M tutslre
operations In heavy fishnng
south ot camhrai, the Germans nieive
the british lnes and gain INV Saiishts
In an attack cn s~Msle ftunt,
Marcani Is appointed Italian hish ga4Ms
missioner 20 the United States,