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The Washington times., 1927-07-12
ANNIVERSARIES
BY DR.. Frank Crane

IN HE Italo- Hibernan poet Tomascheh has written:
il Il think that the historian earth
Is the who recorded the day Of ones BIRTH"
life has not been particularly happy lucky why should
people observe the anniversary of your birthday?
Some people make much birthdays and newspapers
give list of the birthdays of prominent day, but
there two opinions about that.
Young ladies of certain set birthday and stick to it.
They twenty-five instance until they reach thtyve,
and then they begin to go back.
good plan you begin to certain
age and keep it. Why get any older?
AS for would prefer to celebrate anniversaries other
than my birthday
would like to recall the first time fell in love- could,
the first view Of the sea- the first revelation of moonlight
starlight
The first good view of would be also worth
bering, orchard in full bloom
The first good investment made the first examination
successfully passed, the first time escaped merted
ishment.
remember the first day converted to Wagner.
the first time that the full appreciation Of the old masters
These are epochs in existence divine engagements to
the house Of life, and commendable well commemorate
going for celebrating, these might be worthy
celebrations But just to record that have lived
years-of what good is that?
Life pleasant thing perhaps good to see the sun
and to function otherwise and would willingly give
all up But very much Of the time glad
born Perhaps ought to be- but the mugubs too
busy with of and life hardly successful enough
for us to celebrate continuously.
It complimentary for friends to say that they
glad born and they hope will live thousand
but sometimes question whether they really it.
Some have reached the declining years.
certain forms of food put before must also refuse
because the doctor says
calling those of the We would render ourselves public
by continually rehearsing caams Let forget
forget It look forward to the future That may be better and
again not be- but at least it has the advantage Of
untried and justified in looking forward to it hope
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The Washington times., 1927-07-12
NEUROTIC AMERICA

IS 4 MERIcA is Gods own coun-
"A try" writes Prof. William
McDougall, the English psychol.
ogist, who recently gave up his
chair at Harvard to move on to
Duke University.
That, for an Englishman, Is a
large admission!
But Prof. McDougall hastily quail
flies his startling admission by add.
ing that 'the crime rate in general
and the homicide rate in particular
are monstrously high" And this,
he suggests, is extremely odd. Most
people think that crime is due to
poverty or unemployment or lack
of education. Yet here is the rich
est country now in existence, and
certainly the most educated, going
in for crime to beat the band. It
takes a psychologist to answer, and
Prof. McDougall, being a psychol-
ogist, obligingly answers.
The answer is--nerves, American
nerves! Dreadful things! Most of
us have 'em. Or, as Prof. McDou.
gall more dignifiedly puts it:
* rising tide of neurosis has
run parallel with the rising tide
of crime. No statistical evidence
is available, but there is ground
for believing that America far
exceeds all other countries in this
respect also; perhaps not so
greatly as in respect Of crime, but
still very greatly. Neurasthenia
was discovered in America and has
often been called the Amer an
disease. And in the Great War
the incidence of neurotic troubles
in the American Army in proper.
ton to the length Of its service In
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the field seems to have been ex.
tremely high. This high FIRE.
quency of neurotic disorder, seems
to be another, symptom arising
from just that social condition,
which, as / have suggested, IL
responsible for the rising tide of
crime. Neurosis in all its forms
is the consequence Of moral con.
flict; it expresses a lack of har.
mony and integration of the forces
of character, the impulses of the
human heart.
Nothing tends so strongly to
promote harmony and integration
of character as clear-cut moral
tradition brought to bear on each
man with all the force Of unan-
imous community sentiment and
unquestioned community sane.
tions. Under such conditions each
man knows what is right and
what is wrong Tor believes he
does) and acts accordingly.
But where traditions are
diverse and weakened, where
communities are shifting and
shapeless, and where each mans
place in his community ID unde.
fined and temporary, there men
are thrown back on themselves
and are perpetually called upon
to make moral decisions; and, in
the absence Of clear guidance
and sanction from community
opinion, this is too great a task
Tor most OF us. The decisions
are never made; and. in the
moral sense, such men live from
hand to mouth. Thus they be.
come the seat of unresolved
moral conflicts, which in 10 many
cases result in neurotic Disorder
The Washington times., 1927-07-12
The GREYHOUND STILL ENJOYS HIS SPORT

blood to stimulate his fighting courage wasn't much Of
anyhow.
And all the United States this form Of cruelty
STOPPED. -
Pigeon shooters just happy, their Workmanship
Just well developed shooting, they do now clay
pigeons In other part of the world gentlemen still enjoy
killing the live birds. But that will gradually die
Cruelty is deep in the human race as it is in all the
carnivorous animals this earth.
In the beginning each animal that depended for
its life ability to kill other animals From this cruelty
developed you in the cat playing with mouse tortur
ing before killing it. in wild Indian toruring his prisoner
before splitting his skull or in former times religion itself
condemnng those who did agree with ortures ncon
Cevably horrible than any red Indian imagined
Cruelty however, dies out slowly public education and
sense of justice drive it out.
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egotlsm. didn't mean to be
conceited. I wasn't getting any
fun out of 1t! 1 felt that I had
been, in some way, shut out from
the common life and I was UNI
happy and lonely because of it.
l used to envy other people
poignantly. They seemed SO plain
to understand. Their joys and
fears were SO simple and reason
able. Life must be easy for
them. They were like everyone
else and everyone else was able
to rejoice with them in their
joys, or comfort them in their
sorrow.
But no one could ever really
comfort me or rejoice with me
or understand me because / was
different.
Or so thought.
And then, suddenly, I was all
mixed up with life and people,
and I became too busy to think
much about myself and too
crowded to be able to keep to
myself. Sickness, anxiety, pow
erty. sin. disgrace and the pant.
ing necessity of getting three
meals day, they all fell on me
at once, and in my extremity
began grabbing at anyone who
came along and asking for help.
Or. perhaps, giving help myself.
l remember the old miner on
the Mother Lode who first taught
me to wear wooden socks under
my mining boots, to ease my
feet. was green at til hadn't
thought of wearing thick, wooden
socks in a ia sun-and my feet
were a mess with callouses and
The Washington times., 1927-07-12
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
By DR.. C. A. L. Reed
A RE you Industrious?
"A That would be a virtue.
A.. 1,o,, o,,ar ,y5,,zty.;o,,.1

RE you Industrious?
"A That would be virtue.
Are you over-industrious?
Are you a aIl-work-and.no-play
person?
If so you are INDUCING In the
vice OF industry favorite Amer
lean indulgence. If so you are
as much a dullard as was ever
the historical Jack in the days of
Poor Richard.
overworked labor in the old
days Of unorganized labor was al
ways relatively inefficient labor.
The man who never goes from
the rnonotony of labor to the re-
freshment of leisure generally
never goes or gets anywhere.
The child who is forced to labor
long hours during it's growing
years generally never grows into
high efficiency, but is more liable
than not to revolt against the
tyranny by seeking refuge in
crime.
The health aud consequent well
fare and happiness of a commu.
nifty is generally relative to the
energy 1t conserves through
abundant well-spent leisure.
There Is natural law-the natu-
raj law of human life-underlying
these and all other self-evident
truths. And natural law can never
be violated, whether by an indi-
vidual or a community, without
mourning the penalty in exact
proportion to the violation.
1t was these facts that led
that most excellent organization,
the Playground and Recreation
Association Of America, at its last
national congress, to discuss the
problem of the added hours for
recreation afforded by the present
eight-hour work-day and by the
promise Of a forty-four week
which organized labor recently set
as a goal.
Though agreed that this in
creased leisure time, unless con-
structively occupied, may be a
menace rather than blessing, the
congress viewed the situation
with optimism. Typical programs
Of public recreation which were re-
viewed at the convention indi.
Gated that in TAB cities q solution
Is in process through play spaces
and recreation leadership provided
by the community. Twenty years
ago the public recreation move.
ment in the United States meant
little more than the children s
Fairgrounds which had been
adoped by forty-one cities. Now
its has expanded to include ath.
letics, social recreation, music, art,
drama and handcrafts for adults.
Camping, nature study and out.
door life are more and more pro-
NOTED by municipal departments of
recreation.
The congress very properly
gave much time to the considera.
ton of leisure in its relation to
the fundamental institutions of
life--the home. the church, bust.
ness, labor, education and govern
ment. In several sessions, the
need of educating both children
and adults for a satisfying use
OF their spare time was stressed.
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reputable-sat and cried over II
Love Lassie"-
Cried TOGETHER.
Starved TOGETHER.
And hit a $4,000 pocket with
the first drilling we did the next
morning TOGETHER!
That $4,000 looked good to the
men-but, as for me, / had
found something better than that.
had found that word ''to-
gether." Fate had dumped me
headlong into life, and in that
process I had found that wasn't
different, after all. was Just
like everyone else. The same
things made me mad or glad
hopeful or desperate-siIly or
wise. And the joy of it was like
being set free.
/ have found since that most
folks are like that, at some
time or other. They feel that
they're set apart-that no one
can comfort them or understand
me. But what worked for me
will work for them, if they'll try
it.
Stop sitting on the side line,
Pal. Jump in and start sharing.
Tell the fellow next you what
you're feeling-tell him what
you're needing-and you'll find
to your amazement that he's feel.
ing and needing just what you
are.
For experience is all of piece.
1t all comes out Of the same
baking. Yours isn't angel cake
and his brown bread. It's all
brown bread. Share your brown
bread!
The Washington times., 1927-07-12
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
Mans "PIace"
BY Helen Rowland

Mans "PIace"
NEARLY every man has the an
IN nual illusion that he will enjoy
spending his vacation "at home,
pqttering around his house, this
year."
When a woman sees signs OF
this urge" taking form in her
husbands mind, she shows him
all the alluring advertisements of
summer resorts and tries by every
subtle means to turn his thoughts
to travel.
For the only man who Is vel
come in any house three times a
day is the POSTWAR!
Any other man is either a tor.
ment, a dead weight or a nuts.
ance. You are either stumbling
over him or walking around him,
finding things for him, picking
them up after MIN, or FEEDING
him.
A husband around the house for
two whole weeks is like humble.
bee in a closed car: he seems to
FILL the whole place! No matter
how you try to dodge him, you
simply can't escape him. And
from the moment he begins his
aria under the shower until his
last groan of relaxation when he
falls asleep at night, he makes
noise enough to keep you con.
stantly aware of his presence.
Or IL he happens to be OF the
quiet and humble variety, he g
like a footstool that you are con-
stantly stumbling over-always in
the WAY.
Just as you think you've gotten
him comfortably and permanently
settled in one corner, you find.
him out in the middle Of the
room, or the garage or the gar
den, ASKING for something.
The whole regular routine and
business of the household has to
be suspended while dad" takes
his vacation. No one can act
AobuA ally u11IA - AuS 6OAS SSsSAN
to the office.
And there is always the haunt.
ing knowledge that he will dis
+ cover what a cinch" you have
at home, how "extravagantly and
carelessly" you run the house
hold, how you lee the servants
walk all over you" and that he
will try to act as efficiency ex-
pert and Introduce a little re-
gime" into your housekeeping.
A woman's place may be in the
home, but a. mans place Is down.
town, at his OFFICE DESK,
where he can't ask where the
garden shears are. why the gaso.
line gave out, what has become
of the victrola needles, who hid
the monkey wrench, and what hap.
pened to the porch awning any
way!
The only thing for a wife to do
when her husband begins talking
vaguely of spending his vacation
at home this year" is to go
straight to see the family doctor
and convince him that her poor
overworked darling needs .
CHANGEl1
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m HE Italo- Hibernian poet TOmascheli, has writ
II think that the meanest historian on ear
The Washington times., 1927-07-12
LISTEN, WORLD!
By ELSIE ROBINSON

blisters. Those
socks. and the
grease he rub
bed into my
b o o t s, opened
something be-
tween us. We
had a wonder
full hour talking
things over
And there was
that dead night
in the middle
of winter-with
the hungry CO.
votes yamner-
ing on the hill
and nothing in
camp but tea
and sour dough,
when Bill put a
H AIRY Lauder
record on the
busted phono-
graph and the
crew of us
dirty, broke, dis
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T USED to feel
Il so shut out
from the rest OF
the world.
1 was really
shy and afraid
of people, though
few suspected it
because I blus-
tered and laugh
ed
And I was self
conferred, too, in
q pllAuI, his.
cradle way.
/ thought I
was different"
from every one
else.
I was sure
that I felt things
that other peo-
pie didn't feel.
OF course, that
was e g tbs m.
But / didn't
know it was
The Washington times., 1927-07-12
The Old Story

Lord Beaverbrook is back. Handcuffed this time many
gulble will be glad learn For months possibly
years Robert Whman has been playing the old marriage
but gimme jewels game and has gotten away with it.
have number of other suave gentlemen of parts.
It is funny thing to hardheaded people that there can
be hearted individuals who will fall for the dapper games
Of these delightfully."- crooked genemen who live by their
wits and thar ability to think fast
The Washington times., 1927-07-12
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

LIE is not so short but that
~ there is always time enough
for courtesy. Emerson.
A picture is a poem without
words. Horace.
From labor there shall come
forth rest.-Longfellow.
Our knowledge Is the amassed
thought and experience Of innu.
merable mindss-Emersons
The Washington times., 1927-07-12

Doubt INDUCED soon becomes
doubt realized.-F. r. Havergal.
In life there are meetings which
seem
Like fate. Owen Meredith,
1t Is not a merit to tolerate, but
rather a crime to be intolerant.
Shelley.
Whatever IL popular deserves
attention. --Macktntogh.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-12
Watch Out
For Oriental
Rug Statesmen
House To House Canyassers
Claim They Are English
Sailors
HAVE NO PER-
MISSION TO SELL
Rugs Imported From New
York City-Have Worked
All Through This Section
Without License

Working without any permits
sion from the city, and acting upon
Misrepresentation throughout, a
clever gang of Oriental" rug
statesmen are working this vicinity.
Their method is simple and their
story is plausible, but when their
rugs begin to fade people may
begin to wonder.
Dressed as English sailors, two
men represent themselves as
being stationed at Hampton Roads,
and they walk the streets with a
bundle of rugs on their backs.
They approach a house, and they
only pick the biggest and best
houses, and they tell their pros
pective customer something like
this:
"Me and my mate here has got
some valuable rugs and skins that
we picked up in the Orient that
stationed at Hampton Roads, and
we're being transferred to Halifax
and we have to pay big duty on
them to take them across the
border with us. They are the real
stuff, because we bought them our
selves in the Orient and you can
have them at practically your own
price"
The Old Army Game.
It's the old army game with a
new hitch to it. The . men are
travelling in car with an Ohio
license on it, and they park the
car out of sight before working
street.
The "OrientaP' Rugs are shipped
CO. d. to them at various towns
in which they work. and they sci.
them at huge profit They are
probably manufactured in New
York City or the vicinity.
~ Have Nc License
The English Sailors" have no
license to peddle goods in Pleasant
vile. and are working in direct
discord with the law. On Monday,
they are known to have been
operating in West Atlantic City,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-12
WEsTsipE NEWS

Beginning Tuesday, tf47
Pleasantville Press will open a
new department under the head
ing, Westside News. This de-
partment will publish the news
pertaining to the affairs and in
terests of the colored population
of Pleasantville. This is made
possible drought the kindly
sympathy and cooperation of the
pastors of the colored churches,
Rev. F. Havis Davis, of Mt. Zion
Baptist church, Rev. l.. S. Perry.
of Asbury M. f. church and Rev.
J. l. Thornton, of Mt. Pleasant
Baptist church.
The Westside News Bureau,
phone Pleasantville G12-R, with
Rev. F. II. Davis in charge will
be headquarters for the hand
ling of this news. In this WORK
Rev. Davis is receiving the CO.
operation and support of Rev.
Thornton and Rev. Perry.
The Pleasantville Press
offered a cash prize to the per-
son or organization which sug-
gested the most acceptable name
for this department. Some ten
or fifteen people suggested
Westside News, and this Mas
been decided upon. Owing to
the large number, however, who
suggested the name, it was not
feasible to divide the cash prize,
so The Pleasantville Press is
going to give a prize of three
months subscription to each of
these people, the aggregate of
which will amount to much more
than the original cash prize
offered
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-12

Any family can get together on
the proposition that an automobile
is necessity.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-12

Diner Ito waiter1 what's
the idea of this needle in my soup?
Waiter-Sorry. sir. typographical
error; it should be noodle.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-12

while on Tuesday they were work
ing Adams avenue. They could not
be found on Wednesday,, although
two C. o. D. packages, one for
$500 and one for 500 from New
York were expected for them.
They also have two women
working in cooperation with them
selling fur coats and rugs. Watch
out for this gang, and any infor-
nation about them, if they are
still in Pleasantville, would be ap-
preciated by police headquarters.
Freddy-"We'll celebrate the 4th
Ct July right! Let's get the liquor
first, and then go TO the black bot
tom contest at Harry's. Life.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01

in the office that the little metal
money boxes on the electric cables run
up to, has been in the store for eight
years. Nearly every department Of
the store is connected by the cables
with her office and almost every pur-
chase is recorded on the little account
slips coming in to her in. the little
cash cars
Miss Kathryn Cansler, another grad
uate of the Douglas schools, holds the
position of secretary to the manager
of the store. The managers office is
a point of vantage in the store and
when Miss Cansler is not busy writing
letters or filing papers or taking die
tation, she can look out from her desk
across the entire main floor of the
store and see the thousands of people
coming in to shop, and the clerks hur-
rying about wrapping bundles and
showing goods.
Jennie Mann is also member or
the office force and works in the main
office, where there is great array of
bookkeeper's tools, adding machines
typewriters and documents.
Continued on Page Four)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01
DOUGLAS DAILY DISPATCH SUNDAY MORNING. MAY l. 1921:

Moore Florence Austin and j. II. Went
worth, Jr. They all smile and they all
give good service to the customers.
Eats Figures.
j. H. wentworth, Sr., also works for
the p. ID. He is an accountant Mr.
wentworth did not tell the interview
er what he was good at when he went
to school, but can guess that he got
fine marks in arithmetic The aver
age boy cannot understand how he is
going to use the multiplication tables
in after life very much, but here is a
man who has made his life work out
of those tables and some Of the other
things that stump the school boy.
wentworth has been in the south
west, Arizona and Sonora, for the past
IL years and worked for seven years
for the Moctezuma Copper company.
He has been accountant for the 2. d.
for nearly three years and takes real
pride in his profession.
Miss Helen Dales is another member
of the office force of the store. She
is the invoice clerk and has keen
knowledge of bookkeeping and the fine
systems that go toward the keeping OIL
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01

accounts of a big business in an ex
act and efficient manner. Miss Dales
has been with the store for nearly 10
years.
This store has a complete telephone
service from one department to an
other and it is all connected through
a switchboard the same as is the Doug
las city system, only on a smaller scale.
Jean Jones is the hello girl" for the
p ID. she has an interesting job and
is in a position to do much toward
keeping the big machine running
smoothly by getting calls through from
one part of the store to another and in
from the outside without confusion or
waste of time.
Native Daughter.
Miss Helen Sperry, graduate of the
Douglas schools, and one of the as
sistants in the offices of the store, has
the unique distinction of being the
only native daughter" in the offices,
and, as far as could be learned Thurs
day. the only one in the entire store.
She was born in this city
Miss Marie vasquez, the lady who
has charge of the little cashiers cage