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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-08
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. C. A. L. Reed

VOU have a duty, not only to
i yourself, but your family and
your country. in the great prob
lem of race culture, a duty that
only you yourself can perform.
To begin with, the intelligent
rearing of the human race.
though very difficult, should he
within human capacity. and.
capable. ultimately, of being
guided by scientific thought.
The subject of race culture is
generally divided into the twin
aspects of heredity and environ.
ment. In the past much atten.
ton has been given to the natu.
raj laws of heredity and of eu.
genics. Many thoughtful people
have proposed thus to improve
the race by mating parents of
good physique and mentality and
by compelling others to abstain
from reproduction.
Now it is true that many bad
qualities are inherited, such, for
example, as mental deficiency.
But defects in the parents domi-
nate and modify the environment
OF the home. So it is possible
that many factors often regarded
as hereditary are really not in
born but environmental.
In plants and other low forms
OF life subjected to privation and
adversely the reproduction capac-
lty is the last to suffer. The
whole organism strains to pro.
duce seed, and produces 1t at the
expense of root and leaf. The seed
is relatively unchanged and, given
proper soil, comes to full frul.
ton.
This leads us to believe that, in
spite OF popular prejudice, en-.
vironment is much more impor-
tant than heredity. In really both
are equally important. The soil
Is the matter of the road urgent
Importance to the seed.
Now science. no matter how en-
lightened. may explain but can
never modify heredity. Remote
inheritance is past and unchange-
able. Its consequences can be
modified only by environmental
influences. 1t is not expected by
either set Of influences to achieve
either the perfect man or the per-
feet woman. That which we may
intelligently strive for is the most
highly evolved specimen of each.
and when they are found let them
multiply their kind. s Even then
recessive trails cropping out in the
offspring may defeat hope. II not
expectation. In this way, however.
good for the race must come out
Of the future. We cannot sift 1t
from the failures of the past. But,
given knowledge. we can at any
rate improve environment.
What, then, is a suitable soil
the most favorable environment?
One that renders possible the de-
velopment OF every faculty and
permits the child to come to full
fruition. What, however, is the
greatest difficulty in the way of
science? The facile power of the
child TO adapt to a bad environ
ment. Therefore in the interest of
your child watch its environment.
Many poor parents who cannot
afford butter for their children
and bring them to the hospital
with ricketts, refuse assistance, say.
ing they are quite able to manage
on their weekly earnings. The
fact that the child has to come to
the hospital At all II = denial Of
their ability 10 manage. ThAw
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-08

Why Men Come Home
G6XXTHY girls leave home" has
w never been such a battling
question as why men COME
HOME. And keep right on COM
ing home, day after day and year
after year!
What is It that keeps the
average tame husband moving
like shuttle between his wife
and his stenographer-and back
to his wife?
Well. most of them come home
from force of habit. 1t becomes a
purely mechanical process. and
relieves a man of the mental
exertion of thinking Of something
ELSE to do.
Lots of men come home be-
cause, at the end of a hard day at
the office they are too TIRED
to go anywhere else. Home is
the logical place in which to re.
lax and "be yourself" 1t is the
only place where a man can take
off his manners with his office
coat and be as grouchy, as nerv-
Gus or as irritable as he feels. 1t
wheeling to persuade a really
tired business man" to take his
mental and physical fatigue any
where BUT home!
ALL men come home when
they are ailing or feeling seedy.
l. a.. -
ried mans life when home looks
to him more like a goal, than a
gaol, and when he can't get there
quickly enough.
When a man Is sick, the only
thing on earth he is interested
in is his Symptoms. and hurry
ing to a place where he can curl
down amongst the pillows and
have somebody hold his hand,
take his temperature, and help
him feel sorry for himself.
Some men check in at the same
old stand, pretty regularly, for
self-protection.
There Is no safeguard like a
wife to defend a man against the
opportunities of other women. A
bachelor has no excuse; but the
man who can say, There, there.
little girl! The wife is expecting
me home" has an iron.clad, tear
proof alibi, which keeps him from
constantly being misunderstood"
A few men come home out of
curiosity-to see what the WIFE
is doing. To the average man,
the great mystery of life is what
a. woman does with her time all
day." And, il man happens to
be of jealous disposition, his
wife's life struggle is not to keep
him coming home, but to keep
him from hanging around the
house all day.
OF course, there will be some
cynical wives, who will be amazed
to learn that there ARE any
husbands who DO come home,
every evening.
But, you'd be surprised! The
world is full of : them! Dear.
patient, plodding, harness.broken
husbands, who would as soon
think of committing hari-kari or
of wearing their coats wrong side.
out as Of not going straight home
from the office. Try and STOP
Nheml
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-08

teries of life, our deepest human
knowledge is but so much seal
Hoped shelf paper. The sooner we
realize and confess that, the
sooner we shall arrive at the be-
ginning of true wisdom.
EXCEPT YE BECOME AS J
LITTLE CHILD" You know
the rest.
It's long way back to child.
hood again-it's hard to put aside
our pride and pomp and pretencs
humble pie makes bitter eating.
But it's glorious to stand up at
last, naked and simple again,
and say
I'm READY. GOD. TO MAKE
A FRESH START.
HERE WAITS YOUR FOOL"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-08

you're a fool. Come right out in
the open and confess cheerfully
that you're no Solomon. Say
you don't know and stick to it.
This scheme has several adven.
tages.
In the first place, 1t eliminates
the possibility of much embarrass.
ment. The audience already knows
that you're little better than a
moron--and il they don't. they'll
shortly discover it. BY frankly
acknowledging the fact, you fore
stall their humiliating comment.
Second-There's a subtle fiat
terry in confessinE that you're q.
moron. 1t confirms the other
follows suspicion that he knows
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-08
ENJOYING THE KILL

he will be admired for his shot and good workmanship
The stag that grew and lived in deer forests that includes
million of Scotch acres is dead The head and horns will be
nailed up somewhere, the body eaten.
The EATING part is all right Providence has arranged for
creatures since Eve ate the apple in the Garden Of
Eden to live upon each other.
But what call sportsmanshp" killing things for fun
will not be considered "an right" for ever.
In days to killing for pleasure will be considered
inhuman an unpleasant survival Of old days. when had
- kill something TO keep himself alive.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-08
r " p 20 s K
a

r s u p p o s K
i e v e ry o lie
wants to be
popular. A n d,
.ju d & in & from
the ads, we're
willing to pa Y
important money
to anyone who
will tell us how
to achieve that
result.
l have discov.
cred a way and
I will hand 1t
on without tax.
ing you a cent.
But II wonder
IL you'll have
nerve enough to
follow it?
The best way
I know Of max
ing you r 5 elf
solid with other
humans is to &C.
knowledge that
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-08
LISTEN, WORLD!
By ELSIE ROBINSON
. q q q q

more than you
d ga n d he'll
be a C C o rdingly
graf e ul and
friendly.
Third--It let's
you out of a lot
of trouble. If
you're a fool no
one can blame
you nohow for
nothing. A | so.
you don't have
to maintain a
front. Which liz
: a large relief in
these pretentious
days.
Lastly, it has
t h e inestimable
value of being
the truth. You
ARE a Sool. So
am 1. So are
we all. In COM
parison to the
llnfath0nnad naVS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-08
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland
Why Men Come Home

Why Men Come Home
GSXXTHY girls leave home" has
w never been such a battling
question as why men COME
HOME. And keep right on COM
ing home, day after day and year
after year!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-08

have adapted themselves to an i'm.
poverished condition and have
ceased TO be aware of 1t. So it is
with other essentials of life besides
butter, and some of them more
easy to obtain. An atmosphere of
contented Ignorance Is a barren
field tor the growth of a child's
intelligence.
Similarly, adapts ton To over.
luxurious conditions brings that
trio " curses-torpor, fat and
boredom. These are born Of the
habit OF foregoing the pleasures Of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-08
ONCE-OVERS
BY ]. ]. MUNDY
LIVE WITHIN YOUR INCOME

Have you assumed obligations than way
clear to meet?
Instead facing conditions brought about by yourself
blaming other of family for what they spend
and also your for not paying more wages
object living and will not admit that
predcament comes not the rise living
from high uxuries which won't deny yourself
the that good business would indicate would
not be worried financial demands you can't meet
Your vanity has your judgment
Your unchecked desire enjoy comforts and convenlences
beyond what your will permit has been your undong
The you down to the plane which permits you to
your obligations and allows to save the sooner you
will get real comfort out of life.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-08

functioning in favor OF comfort.
Deficiency in the soil means
stunted growth and great effort
to reproduce under conditions un-
fit for tbs growth of the next gen.
eration--a national disaster in
eugenics. Over-richness or lack OF
balance in the environment brings
seedless fruit--a personal. eco.
nomic and aesthetic disaster.
You sec, this il a biz problem,
and you have your part to do In
solving Il.
ilityt
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-08

Man-whose heaven-erected face
The smiles Of love adorn--
Mans inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands
mourn! Burns.
Content thysek to be obscurely
good. Addison.
Who knows nothing base. fears
nothing known.-Owen Meredith.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-08
TAKING AIM WITH HIS H1GH-PowERED RIFLE

you leopard crouching limb waiting and
measuring the distance to pounce defenceess antelope
your sympathy would be with the antelope not with the
powerful beast eager to drink its blood
In these two pictures first sportsman using
oil his skill to kill the stag far away the Scottish highlands
In the second picture the gentleman crouch
Ing beside the dead stag delighted with his work He has had
good exercise in the deer forest and will have wonderful
appetite and thirst when he returns for dinner
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-08
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

Weep not that the world changes
did it keep
A stable, changeless state, It were
cause, indeed, to weep
Bryant.
Earth changes. but thy soul
and God stand sure. Browning,
For fools admire. out men Of
sense approve.-Pope.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-08

TROM the time few short years ago when SC
II observed certain pools and streams to the pre-
- petroleum business has made enormous strides.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-08
The knowledge Test For
Readers of The Times
Fill each blank:

DO
z On what river is st. Louis located.
8 OF what vegetable is glucose a product
y What Is most paper from
TO- Where is the Cobb Desert?
IL. What color is indigo?
IL What is Injunction?
13 What is emery?
One correctly completes question Choose it:
Ia The of Elias Howe connected with the invention az
the phonograph-sewing machine-camera-arc light
Is The Sstne Madonna painted by ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Raphael-Murilo.
49, The Beautiful Blue Danube bv
Observation-Disclosures.
See Magazine Page for Answers
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-01
wonderful fellow I had as a,

air Oh DraVa0O JnaC, ne mao. In
VESTED EIGHT HUNDRED
DOLLARS, OF THE FIRMS
MONEY IN A. GAMBLING
JOINT LOCATED NEAR SEW
ENTH AND HENNEPIN and
coolly told me that unless I
kept him as a partner, would
lose my half of that sum.
Friends. it was worth four
hundred dollars to me to know
that / had a double-crossing
skunk as a partner. I sold for
twenty-five per cent of what
the paper was actually worth,
told Bevans to go to - with
that four hundred dollars and
walked out.
I,HAVE NOT BEEN CON-
NECTED IN ANY WAY, OR
MANNER, WITH THE TWIN
CITY REPORTER SIN C E
1919.
Guilford severed all connec-
tons with it in 1915 and: l in
1919, yet:
Not a month has passed
since those dates that each of
us have not been tainted with
our connection with the black
mailing, gambling-protecting
rag AND WE ARE TIRED OF
1T.
We are not gunner; we are
not, blackmailers; we are not.
thugs. We have tried to live
down our former connection
with the Twin City Reporter
andswe have found it an inn
possible task, for as long as
that. sheet. continues to exist,
just that long will Minneapolis
citizens be- exposed to black
mail; just that long will Min
neapolis regulations be black
ened; just that long WILL
PROTECTED G. A M B Ii N G
FLOURISH IN MINNEAPO-
LIS, and just that long. will Mr..
Guilford and myself be ostra-
cised, AND OUR NAMES BE
USED BY THE GANG IN ITS
BLACKMAIL1NG ACTIV-
tiles.
In another part of this issue
you will find an article written
by Mr.. Guilford on Friday af-
ternoon before he was shot. In
it he tells of the gambling joint
at 818 Hennepin avenue. The
daily papers tell you that the
police have no knowledge of a
gambling place at that num-
Der.
When the same coterie of
gamblers were operating at
2O8 18th Avenue South, they,
as Guilford tells you in his arti-
Gle, ROBBED A BANK THIEF
think of it: A PACK OF
THIEVES ROBBING A, BOY
WHO HAD STOLEN, FROM
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-01
Possibly

there was a grim suggestive
ness about those cold stone
walls, that. chilled his ardor and
dampened his enthusiasm even
when the game was "going
good"
These two men dominated
the gambling situation in Min
neapolis only and solely be-
cause of their ownership Of the
Twin City Reporter.
With them in the gambling
house at 818 was Nose Bar
nett, an underworld character
who previous to his connection
with Bevans and Morgan was
reputed to be. square shoot
err in the gambling game.
How the precious pair succeed
ed in inveigling big Moe" into
entering into any partnership
with them will forever be a.
mystery.
Associated with this trio was
'Red" Clare, said to be the
best crap game operator in the
Northwest. / have now ac-
counted for four of the princi-
pal owners of the gambling
joint at 818 Hennepin Avenue.
Morgan and Bevans held the
reins because of their owner
ship. of the Twin City Reporter.
It was in their power at any
and all times to "break the
game" by exposing it through
the columns of their paper,
but: THEY HELD THE RE-
PORTER OVER THE HEADS
OF POLICE OFFICIALS Elk
ACTLY AS THEY USED IT
TO INTIMIDATE THEIR CO.
PARTNERS IN THE GAM
BLING FIELD - JUST AS
THEY USED 1T TO BLACK
ALL UNFORTUNATES
WHO HAD STUMBLED AND,
FELL OVER THE MORAL
CODE"
Bear this in mind:
Our attack last week was
aimed at but two targets: The
gambling syndicate operating:
openly at SlS Hennepin Ave-
nue. and the Twin City Report
er, BOTH OWNED IN WHOLE
OR IN PART BY j. D. BEV-
ANS AND ED MORGAN, EDI-
TOR AND OWNERS OF THE
TWIN CITY REPORTER.
l have refrained from men.
tioning the fourth beneficiary
of the gambling joint. THE
WINNINGS. WERE SPLIT
-FOUR WAYS" l shall leave
the fourth bucko out of the pic
ture for a time, trusting to the
impending Grand Jury investi-
CATION to smoke that individual
out of his hole.
Guilford was shot deliber-
ately and as the climax to a:
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-01
Saturday, Oct, 1, 1927

"Trib 2" You birds get such a
kick out of recommending
Guilford- and myself with the
Twin, City Reporter that per-
haps you will be able to get a
giggle out of the Reporter own
er's former connection with
your great moral journal"
Ell?
/ did not know at that time,
that Bevanss had been dis
charged by Guilford because
he had been caught red-hand-
ed making a shake" in other
words. Matchmaking some poor
devil.
Guilford had one child, a
boy just of school age. The boy
was cruelty twitted by his play
mates because of his fathers
connection with the Reporter.
Clip announced to me late
that summer that he was go
ing to get out of the sheet if he
had to give it away.
l was strange to the city. l
made Guilford an offer for the
paper providing could induce
Bevans to take a half interest.
"Gil" advised me that if / did,
to watch Jack" but didn't tell
me from what angle! On Jan
uary 1st, 1917, Guilford step
ped out of the Twin City Re-
porter office AND HAS
NEVER BEEN CONNECTED
WITH 1T IN ANY WAY OR
MANN SINCE THAT
DATE.
Never physically strong, l
had to devote all my time and
energy to the editorial end Of
the paper. I knew nothing of
what was going on outside and
but little of what went on in
the office for l did practically
all my writing at home.
For about a year things went
along smoothly. l heard moth
ing that aroused my suspicious.
One cannot be eternally spying
on ones friends and every man
who has a partner naturally
has a great confidence in that
partner-until he has learned
in the bitter school of expert
ence of that "pard's" treach-
cry.
In 1919 rumors reached me
that set me thinking. When
finally a tale came to me of
Bevans' shakes" / told him
bluntly that if that came to me
again, he or / would get out of
the paper. Later on in that
year q do not recall the exact
monthly, a grand crash came.
He and one of the men en-
ployes undertook to shake
down. a prominent woman for
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-01
OWN. MONEY LOST AT
THEIR FIXED" GAMEi,

that hole at. zOS llth avenue
South, they didn't raid it: at
all! THEY RAIDED TWO
DOORS, AWAY and the big
game never closed for a mo-
ment, not even while the police
We're raidings the "joint" one
hundred feet distant!
I have been out of the city
for four years, yet the second
visit l made downtown after
my return l was informed that
the "big game" would open at
818. Hennepin on the following
Thursday night and / ask you
in all fairness, if a semi-stran-
ger can locate the "big game"
within two hours after he visits
the downtown section and have
the information given him
WITHIN TWO DOORS OF
POLICE HEADQUARTERS,
isn't it evident, painfully plain,
that the police DID know of
the grand opening? If you
deny or alibi for sthem, won't
you be fair enough to admit
that if they didn't know that
they aren't fit to have charge
Of a police department?
Shortly after l had broken
with Bevans in 1919, he made
some connection with Ed Nor
gan, the present and ostensible
owner of the Reporter. Nor
gan never was a writer, a
newspaper man, but he is re-
puted to be a tough egg' well
connected with the underworld
and ''the best business man
ager the Reporter ever had"
Jack Bevans and Ed Morgan
own the Twin City Reporter.
Today Ed Morgan is under an
indictment for blackmail. Bev-
ans has ALWAYS had a "fall
guy" in any and all his opera
tons.
He owned a roadhouse on
the. shore of Mile Laos lake
for several years which he op-
Grated with the wild abandon
of old saloon days. He made a
small fortune at that place, all
the time keeping in close con-
tact with Ed Morgan, who
looked after the business"
end, of the Reporter and their
amalgamated interests in the
gambling joint.
The Reporter was held as a
club over officials. Every
morning Ed Morgan could be
seen stalking into police head
quarters with the pomposity
and arrogance of a Duke. His
swagger was not assumed. He
was. the "big boy He was a
part owner of the gambling
joint, first at 2OS 18th Avenue
South and later at 818 Henne-
,a;.a Axxo.aIn
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-02-01
TWOCreat
improvements
The New West Atlantic City.
Albany Avenue Boulevard
Bridge Is One
TACONY-PALMYRA
BRIDGE is THE OTHER

Motorists are watching with keen
concern the progress of two i'm
provements that will affect their
comfort. One, near at hand. is the
new West Atlantic City-Albany ave
nuc bridge, and the other looms a.
no far distant day, when the Leg
islatures of this State and Penn
sylvania discuss the construction OF
bridge to supplement the Camden
structure. It's location is suggested
at Palmyra and Tacony.
When summer motorists shed
their overcoats and wraps, a mod
ern structure will probably greet
them at this city's entrance. Work
has begun to transform the OLD
bottle-necked bridge into an up-to
date span that will be both an or
nament and a genuine utility.
The proposed bridge at Palmyra
connecting as it would with the
Lincoln Highway in Philadelphia
would avoid much of the congestion
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-02-01
West Atlantic City Is
Not A Future Promise
Splendid Accomplishments Greet the Visitor and nnumerab
Appealing Features Create Home Owning Desire
investment Profits

perience in the Atlantic City
Metropolitan District and have met
all classes OF buyers, including
those who buy lots for quick turn
over and immediate profit those
who tre satisfied to take a little
longer for their investments to re-
turn a certain profit, and those who
are seeking homes III restricted
and happy surroundings.
4 do not sell with the idea that
people. VIII make q fortune over
night | confideatly believe that
anyone VINO buys In West Atlantic
city win make % per cent on their
original investment in two years.
Some tell me they think the
price of home sites in West
Atlantic City is high. But we all
know that prices bring quality.
You cannot get something for
nothing. II you pay the price you
get a good article anywhere and
this is especially true of the de
yelopmeats with which Benjamin
r. Fox has been so successful"