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The Washington times., 1927-05-21
DR.. FRANK CRANES.
DAILY EDITORIAL
PLaHgrOunds
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

nDRING 1898 in the United States 1900 people were
IL killed in automobile accidents.
Four hundred and twenty-five thousand and more
injured.
Automobiles killed average of forty-six people
day during 1923.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company states that
nearly times many of their pocyhoders in each
100000 killed in 1923 in 1911.
Many Of those who killed were children.
We live for children and first should be
to protect them
city not only place to do business and place in
which to live, but it place in which children to
grow up
We want them and want them beside and children must
have place to play
1t therefore, necessary for child to have play
ground it is for his father to have office his mother
to lave the home.
there is lawn
plan new subdivisions to make arrangement for Fairgrounds
at suitable intervals.
1t is very difficult to arrange for Fairgrounds in old
portions of the city where property is all taken up but it
ehorld be done whether it is difficult or not
Statistics show that in Cleveland where they have high
pedestrian fatality rate less than 80 per of the victims
children The city has 70 supervised Fairgrounds
Toledo, which has u Fairgrounds plotted spot map
showed only 80 child automobile fatalities during the three
years. 1922 to 1924
Richmond has many Fairgrounds and the child automobile
fatalities less than % per of the total number
which pedestrians involved.
Besides urging those who have charge Of subdivisions
hav suitable Fairgrounds efforts should be made to give
children place to play the congesed portions Of
the city The children are here We living for their
fit and every should be taken to protect them
Copyright 1897 Mcclure Newspaper syndcate)
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A Dreadful Warning to Fathers
and Mothers


dreadful death Of little 12year old girl Yetta Abramo-
WITT, Of New York, should be warning to parents
yninder Of their RESPONSIBILITY
TEACH YOUR YOUNG CHILDREN NOT TO TALK OR
GO WITH STRANGERS Strangers have business talking
with children they do not know.
Such acquaintance always unnecessary often dangerous
WARN YOUR CHILDREN.
The poor unfortunately do for their children all
that they would like to do, BUT THEY CAN ADVISE
THEM.
While your children little WARN them to stay with
those that they know not to let themselves be led away
strangers not to speak with strangers in moving picture
houses elsewhere.
REPETITION, constantly repeating the same warning will
impress the child s mind
It is not necessary to fill the child with FEAR
70 talk Of the horrible death of this unfortunate Abramowtz
child TO do would be wicked frightening children means
dwarfing their minds Children told that is wrong
disobedient and bad manners to go with strangers
Teach them that the stranger that speaks them or in
ytes them to go and buy candy, is impoe one to be
avoided.
The Washington times., 1927-05-21
COAL QUESTION
By Garrett P. Serviss

WTHAT an amazing spectacle
w some parts Of the earth
must have presented when the
coal beds were formed, If the
transport theory" of their origin
is correct!
Some biologists think that the
coal beds were laid down ION
the spot" by the accumulation in
sunken areas Of vegetable de-
posits, as occurs today on a
small scale in places where peat
boys exist. But the better opin.
ion appears to be that the mate
rial subsequently changed into
coal, was brought together in low
lands by tremendous floods which
swept down from the higher
lands and the mountains bring.
Ing enormous masses of trees and
underground, sufficient in guam.
tity to bury great areas Under
hundreds Of thousands of feet
of tangled trunks, branches and
crushed foliage. Covered up by
later deposits of mud and sand,
likewise brought by water and
which eventually became rock.
the vast beds have slowly turned
into coal.
The latest, and perhaps the
greatest scenes of this kind &C.
Cured in the Tertiary Age-a
dramatic prologue to the entry of
man upon the terrestrial stage,
and to see how intimate their con.
nection was with the future ca.
reer Of the coming master of the
earth we have only to reflect on
the part that the coal beds have
played in the development of mod
ern, scientific civilization. The
time may come when we shall be
compelled to do without coal. hav.
ing exhausted the mines, but
when that time arrives we shall
either behold the end of our civili-
cation or we shall have mastered
another source of mechanic en-.
ergy OF equal or greater extent
and potency.
These facts again emphasize
the immense Importance and alb.
solute necessity of water in the
life history of the world. It not
only supplies the largest constitu-
ent of living organism, but it
gives a kind of life circulation
to the earth itself. Expanded by
The Washington times., 1927-05-21
Fine Tribute to DR.. Morgan

Dr. William Gerry Morgan, noted physician of this city
knd with international reputation for his in the
medical field within four votes Of being elected president
of the American Medical Association the great organization
which has been holding its annual convention here.
This tribute to Dr. Morgan by the medical profession Of the
United States will be appreciated by Washngonan who hold
him in the highest esteem citizen and leader in med
cal science
The Medical Society Of Washington unanimous in pre-
senting DR.. MOrgans Though he defeated the
deep regard for him by the nations greatest physicians and
surgeons j. most pleasing to his friends.
has been pleasure for Washington to entertain the
distinguished and Of medicine the nation
has really been notable gathering of eminent
and able practitioners devoted the healing SICK the
betterment Of health and the prolongation of iife
Washington is proud Of them The nation proud Of them
The Washington times., 1927-05-21
Immoral Books Not Wanted
The United States Should Set Good Example

Shipments Of ''The Decameron' and the unexpurrated
edition of THE Arabian Nights held up at the Custom
House by order of the Treasury Department ground
that the books grossly obscene"
They ARE grossly obscene and should not be admitted
Those whose feelings hurt by Treasury order can
the books in Europe
professor Of Columbia College is said to object to the
Governments action the ground that the indecent books
mentioned classics"
The professor who defends classical ndecency certainly
would not recommend either Of those books for general read
especially among children young college boys and girls
The fact that fine language is used to spread ndecency
does not make any acceptable than use Of
fine workmanship in burglary safe blowing would recon-
mend those efforts
ndecency is INDECENT in classical vulgar language
And is to be regretted that the Custom has even
temporarily rescinded its decision and allowed the books
to pass
The Washington times., 1927-05-21

} solar heat, 1t rises In an aerial
form from the surface of the
steaming oceans, and then re-
condensed by the cold Of sur.
rounding space it pours down
from the mountains and the
highlands, becoming the might.
est of all agents Of transporta-
ton, sculpturing the face of the
globe and bringing about changes
of level that, in the course of
geologic ages, replace land by
sea or sea by land.
Professor E. C. Jeffrey, OF
Harvard, writing in Science"
about "Conifers and the Coal
Question" brings together inter.
esting evidences in support of the
transport theory Of the origin of
the coal beds, and shows how the
Sequoias, so famous for the giant
forms that they assume in our
western big trees" and red.
woods" have supplied material for
coal beds in Europe as we'll as
in America, and that many OF the
supposed "taxodiums" IA swamp
wood found in German coal fields
and hitherto held to offer proof
Of the ION the spot" or in stu,
theory Of the origin of coal, are
in reality Sequoias. These are
mountain trees" and never found
growing in swamps, so that they
must have been transported to
the places where the coal fields
are now found.
Not only are Tertiary Goals in
general in the Northern hemis.
phere ITO be regarded as the re-
suit Of water transport and
aqueous sedimentation," but evi.
dence of similar origin is found in
the coal deposits of the Southern
hemisphere. Professor Jeffrey
tells of the examination of the re-
markable brown coal deposits in
Victoria, Australia, which are
plainly of water transport origin.
These deposits are in places
nearly eight hundred feet thick
and in the open workings which
are at present being operated are
of a depth of nearly two hundred
feet. In one OF these are prodigi.
Gus quantities of generally ad.
mirably preserved tree trunks,
which in many instances have
not undergone even the slightest
compression.
The Washington times., 1927-05-21
GHeReS OoUR
lN6ULATIOh!
By ELSIE ROBINSON

refuse to remedy that lack. In
stead they take a perverted pride
in their condition. They protest
that they are sensitive" or high
strung" and they look with evident
scorn upon cheerful, practical
people who do not take life on
the raw.
Why should they, with their
rare talent, make such ignoble con-
cession to the drab demands of
life?
Why should they smirk and
pretend and restrain themselves?
So they rationalize and glorify
their edginess.
And all the while, their force
and talent go to seed.
The world passes them by,
For the plain truth is that
lacking the insulation of sense
and humor and courteous restraint
the greatest genius becomes
nothing but q common nest and
the world soon tickets him with
q Hands OFF, sign,
The Washington times., 1927-05-21

power is going to waste because
he isn't insulated. Which is a
lamentably common fault in these
high pressure days.
We devise ways of making lives
more powerful, but power is
wasted-is indeed actually danger
ous-unless it is properly insu.
lated.
Look at the cord on your cleo
trio light.
Power goes through that cord.
power which is of rare service to
human life. But that power
wouldn't be of service unless the
wire which transmitted it were
insulated bv that woven covering.
It would, instead, be a constant
menace to life and property.
And that is what's the matter
with many high voltage people.
They have power and intelli-
gence but they lack the necessary
insulation Of humor and common
sense to protect themselves and
others against friction. So they
The Washington times., 1927-05-21
By J. ]. MUNDY
Don't Garry a Grudge


You not lost to your good impulses it. following
morning dispute in your home thoughts change and
you feel sorry and ashamed of your part in the quarrel
Relief comes you decide to make amends unor
your return at night and in future your emotions
better.
How mean. and disagreeabe you feel when you nurse
crouch all day and then carry it home with you'll
To crouch takes the brightness out of your dav
and know that there will not be any pleasant antcn
ton OF your return you take your ugly mood back home
again.
Unpleasant things up in the happiest of homes
Why remember them all day long?
Why carry them for days. till the family dread your ar
rival? =
Allowing these melanchoc moods and perverse periods to
gain sway robs Of much happiness and invades your
hours for repose.
You don't sleep well when you are cherishing mean
thoughts.
But you overlook the disappoinmens Of the day be-
fore and forgive and forget and are forgiven doen il
take lead off your shoulders
The Washington times., 1927-05-21
ONE WAY TO
REDUCE

THERE is a lot of difference
Il between ordinary golf and
playing in a tournament, points
out Bobby Jones, worlds cham
pion amateur player, in an article
in this weeks Liberty. This diff
ference, he explains, is due to the
nervous strain. which is very
exhausting.
II lost eighteen pounds in the
National Amateur Championship
competition at Oalmont, Penn.
sylvania. in 1919" Jones writes
by way of example. "This may
be news to those persons who
still fancy golf is an easy, old
mans game that takes nothing
out of you. / always lose from
ten to fifteen pounds in a cham.
pionship of three or six days
duration. It can't be the physical
strain. I can play thirty-six holes
of golf every day for two weeks
and weigh the same at the end.
In q championship the fire seems
to be hotter"
The Washington times., 1927-05-21
SAYINGS OF
MRS.SOLOMON
BY Helen Rowland
why Men Don't Marry

why Men DOn't Marry
A LAS, alas, my Daughter. how
"A are the mighty fallen and the
naughty laid low!
For, behold, an Husband was
once the Lord of a woman's heart
and the height of a damsel's aspi-
ration. Yea, he was the Rescuing
Angel who delivered her from the
curse OF spinsterhood, and led her
into the House of Bondage!
For Him did she rush the break.
fast-and then keep it waiting!
Unto Him did she offer up the
palm and the morning newspaper!
His tastes were her tastes, his
wishes her wishes, his politics her
politics, and his word her law!
But, 10, it hath come to pass that
an Husband is but the target
wherein a woman practiseth her
Workmanship, the Background for
her career, and her stepping stone
to freedom and eternal alimony!
Yea, he is the Poor Worm that
produceth her silken hosiery, and
the dumb creature that furnisheth
her sables.
He is the Cash.register that re-
spondeth to her every tap!
He is the Delicatessen's Darling
and the Restaurant Keepers De-
light! He is the Safety-pin Makers
little gold mine!
He is the Mighty Power behind
the wheel Of the car, and the Great
Force that runneth the lawn.
mower and the vacuum-cleaner.
He. is somebody to wash the
DOG!
He is the accomplishing crea.
ture for whom she cooketh with a
can.opener and unto whom she
may offer Chicken patties" made
of the leftover veal, and the Mon.
day hash composed of the Sunday
baked-meats.
He Is the One that payeth for
all her new garments, but upon
whom she chooseth to wear out all
her old clothes, and to inflict her
headaches.
He is the Simple Soul unto whom
she sendeth letters inscribed upon
. stray sheets of paper or the back
of an old laundry bill.
He is the stumbling block that
is always under foot upon cleaning
days, and the combination butler
and table-decoration at her dinner
parties.
He is the drawer Of checks and
the settler Of charge accounts; the
bearer Of luggage and the packer
of trunks; the buyer of tickets and
the caller of taxicabs. Yea verify,
he Is the family Goat!
Then, let his works praise him
and give him the fruit of his Ia.
bors; which is box Of bad cigars
at Christmas. a cheap necktie
upon his birthday. and the tough
end OF the steak, at all times!
EE4zA&4,
The Washington times., 1927-05-21
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN


The blush is beautiful, but it is
sometimes inconvenient.--G
Much might be said on both
sides.-Adoison.
Charity weL directed should be.
gin at home.-Montluc.
1t Is by presence Of mind in un.
tried emergencies tnat the native
metal of a man is tanted.-Lowell,
The beginnings of all things are
small.-Cicero.
knowledge is the parent Of
love; wisdom. love ITSELF. C.
eHd ~ W. HarOs
The Washington times., 1927-05-21

Every one is the son Of his own
works.-Cervantes.
Excellence, when concealed, diff.
fers but little from buried worth.
lessness. THorace.
The pen is the tongue Of the
mind.-Cervantes.
The perfection Of art Is to con.
ceal art. -Quintilian.
A decent holiness ever meets
with friends.-Pope.
Be not the first by whom the
new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old
ssiaes-PePes
The Washington times., 1927-05-21
LISTEN, WORLD!

r HAVE a bril-
i liant youn g
friend n a m e d
Leroy.
He is handsome
and versatile. He
has a marked
talent for writing
and unusual force
and d determination.
In addition to this
he has received
lar g g o b s o 1
choice education,
most of which
have stuck.
From which you
would gather that
Leroy il a valu-
able citizen and
that the world is
his, for the TAX
ing.
ou' gather
wrong.
Leroy's life Is a
foilvVPA and hil
The Washington times., 1927-05-21
QUESTIONS OF
ETIQUETTE
LBy Cornelius Beeckman-
Arriving Fer Dinner
nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:

Arriving Fer Dinner
nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ / want to ask you two ques.
tions about arriving for dinner.
l.. When. for instance, the din
ned hour is set for 1880, when
should one arrive?
2. II one, for any reason (un-
avoidable Of course) is late, how
long does good form require that
the hostess should wait? Thank
you. DINER-OUT.
EoR a 7:30 dinner we should
II arrive between 7:2O and 7:25.
1t used to be the rule that we
should arrive "15 minutes before
the hour set for the dinner" but
with the concentrating of most
other facts of modern hurried ex-
istence this five minutes too long
has been chopped off," Now the
hostess doesn't really want her
guests to arrive quite so much
ahead of time.
2. Goor form demands that a
hostess need wait only 20 minutes
for late guest. After that she
USSluS UIHHGT Without uIkus
Important DOnt's
NEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
IL 1. Is it proper for a boy
friend to arrange the next meet
ing?
2. Is It proper for girl to tele.
phone a boy friend on purpose to
make an engagement?
8. Is it a girls place to ask q
boy friend to go home with her?
4. Should girl speak first to a
boy friend? V. v.
IVES; that is,the males privilege!
i 2. No! MOI No! Nothing would
so disgust a boy who has breeding
and manners than to have a girl
call him for the evident purpose
Of making an engagement with
him.
8. No.
4. Yes.
The Washington times., 1927-05-21

why MeU OOH MARRY
A LAS, alas, my Daughter. how
"A are the mighty fallen and the
naughty laid low!
The Washington times., 1927-05-21

become as irritat-
ing and destruc-
tiv e a s live
wires" Instead
o t transmitting
the force which is
in them, the v
sting and shock
those who come
in contact with
them, and are
naturally avoided.
Such is Leroy's
predicament, and
that is why his
life is b cling
wasted in spite
Of his splendid
endowment,
But surely it's
easy to see and
remedy a lack
like that?
You'd think so.
7 e t, strangely
enough. NEST I'M
insulated naonIa
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does know they are as oapab'e AZ
men. She admits some phas 5 =
criminal Investigation are bes
to men,
Proud of the efficient way IA
which her office assists police
partments in checking up on cviif.
inals who are arrested in the s
pire State. Miss Parsons says
Quite often criminals with
ords in other states try to caVaf
up their delinquencies and eve
severe punishments waiting fs
Them as second third and Zen i
offenders. But our check up nassl-
" reveals their history"
Miss Parsons fayors uniy
finger printing This practise.
believes, would make it easy .
identify anybody anywhere. ~n
possibility OF mistaken idenf
she explains, IS only one in st
trilIions.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-08-19
TWO FACTIONS
POLICE DEPT.
IN GUN DUEL
Two Officers Are Kille d
and Two Surrender to
Authorities

WILLIAMSON, w. Va, Aug.
19.-Two factions of the Will
hanson Police Department met
in the street early this morning
and a gun battle ensued during
which two officers were killed.
The victims were ID. w. Deerfield
and Harvey Mcclure. julius Law
son and James Kirkpatrick sur
rended to the County authorities
and were placed in jail.
The strife in the Police De-
partment has existed for some
time. One force claimed to be
regulars and the others were
known as the deposed force. The
latter continued, however, to per-
form duty.
Deerfield and Mcclure were
members of the deposed faction.
They attempted to tag a milk
truck for not displaying a light
and Lawson and Kirkpatrick,
regulars, prevented the action. An
arugment ensued and the pistol
fight followed.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-08-19
EXCEPTIONS IN
RADICAL CASE
ARE E0vERRULED
Massachusetts Suprem e
Court Makes Decision
Judges Sustained

BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 10.
The full bench of the Mas
sachusetts Supreme Court has
overruled exceptions by the
Saceo-Vanzetti Defense Coun-
sci to decision by Justice San
derson, of the Supreme Court,
and by Judge Thayer of the
Superior Court.
Justice Sanderson refused to
grant a writ of error.
Judge Thayer refused to grant
a new trial and revocation of the
sentence and stay of execution
The decision of the full bench
of the Supreme Court upheld the
ruling of Judge Thayer that the
motion for a new trial came too
late and because sentence has
been pronounced.
The Supreme Court decision
said neither Judge nor Associates
had jurisdiction to entertain re-
vocation OF sentence and that the
statutes are clear.
Issuance of a writ of error in
capital case rests in the sound
judicial discretion of single
Justice.
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BERLIN, Aug. 19.-The expert
in politics, business or society
constitutes one of the greatest
banes of humanity, believes Prip-
cess Mechthilde Lichnowsky, wife
of Germany's last imperial am
bassador to Great Britain.
So convinced is the princess
that life woald be quite tolerable
except for the "ever-present spe-
cialist," that she has written a
book, entitled, Combating the
Expert"
Princess Lichnowsky has taken
up the cudgels on behalf of the
humble citizen. She tries to show
that the horse sense of the un-
sophisticated layman often hits the
mark far better than does the
academic opinion of the profes-
sional."
The princess. who will lecture
in the United States next year, is
a conspicuous figure in the inter
national social and diplomatic set.
She first achieved literary promi.
nence with travel book. Gods
Kings and Beasts in Egypt" Re-
Gently she published book of
humorous verse, "Half and Half. !"
for which she made her own draw
ings.
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WOMEN COMPILE STATE RECORDS
or UNDERW ORLD WHO'S WHCv

ALBANY, N. Y. Aug. 10. Wo-
men are proving able assistants
to the Sherlock Holmes of New
York State.
The Bureau of Criminal Ident.
fication of the New York State
Department of Correction IS imam
ned" by women. and a woman IS
chief of the bureau. Miss Clara
l.. Parsons, head of the bureau
since 1914. was at one time a
clerk in the same department
Under her supervision. women's
hands keep classified more than
100000 cards that tell all there
is TO know about the Who's
Who" of the underworld. and here
women's eyes look through micro
scopes at the prints fingers make
on clean paper
Miss Parsons does not know
why the bureau relies entirely on
women to do its work, but she
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-08-19

LEGION AGAIN EATS DOUCHNUTS
MADE IN PARIS BY ssLASSIES''

NEW YORK, Aug 19.-The se.,-
ond invasion of France by the
A. F. E. will again include a quota
of Salvation Army 'lassies."
Commander Evangeline Booth.
the only woman invited to address
the convention of the Legion in
Paris this summer. will take with
her 30 of her war-workers. They
win assist in reconstructing war
time huts for the benefit of the
legion, where they will again as
sumo their role of "doughnut
girls
Two of the distribution centers
for doughnuts and coffee will De
in Paris. Others will be located
at Chateau Thierry. Belleau Wood
st. Mihiel, Verdun, the Argonne
and the Marne.
in these huts the daily scenes
of 1917-191S will be reenaeted. :"
said Commander Booth. "but in
more peaceful surroundings. The
humble doughnut will again be u
symbol of the Salvation Armys
contribution to the morale of our
boys"
Commander Booth tells how the
wartime doughnut was created by
the girls to cheer the soldiers dur
ing a period of SO days rain at
Monitors.
THE kitchen tent had blowi
down, and the 'lassies' had y
stand in the rain to make the
dough- she relates. "An empty
grapejuiee bottle was used as 4
rolling pin. and a loose inner tube
of a percolator made the holes.
over a wood fire the girls fried