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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-10
Free Text Books and Supplies
For High School Students

The Board of Education Is seek legislation that will fur
nh textbooks and supplies free to high school students in the
public schools of Washington.
The District Commissioners and Congress should and doubt
will favor the proposition Public schools should be free to
ambitious boy girl from the first grade to the finish
in the high school, This America the land Of opportunity
for the young and Washington the Capital City Of this
wonderful nation.
Congress should make this city model for all Others in the
advantages offered the young in public schools Our egisla
tive body in the last few years has shown generous at
tude in all school matters and inclination leave nothing
undone that will fit Washington schools for exceptionally
effective work.
But for thing the right process would be to compel
payment for books and supplies by parents Of students able
do so and furnish them free where the parents were not
financially prepared to assume this burden
This thing is the humiliation involved to children who
would have to ask for books and supplies free would
the drawing Of social lines that would reflect upon
poor but worthy, pupils.
tuition in schools the results hurtfu Here and
throughout the United States what known as public
schools denominated free schools They were free to
those unable to pay Tuition required of those who
could Unfortunate lines were thus drawn among pupils
with bitter feeling.
Gradually the word public was substituted for free
and humatng features Oblteraed all tuition finally be-
coming free"
Here Washington thousands Of bright boys and girls are
taken from public schools at the conclusion their graded
school work because the parents able meet the
costs Of books and supplies along with the increasing costs
Of dress.
Of this large number goody proportion would continue
through the high schools books and supplies were without
cost In the Of the parents think necessary to
put their children to work to supplement the family income
and the cost Of books is not the Of their leaving school
The doors Of public schools should not be even partially
books and supplies would surely wider the doors Of
high schools
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-10
Life After Death
BY DIR. Frank Crane

GENTLEMAN writes letter. which quotations
a as follows
"The other day my wife died She years old She
was martyr to her duties and to her children
~ of marriage hard work this wonderful wife
and wonderful mother who complained taken from
could have enjoyed the her children while preparing
herself for old age.
In two days she gone My duty the children will
keep going the for something
that shall keep going myself
would like If happenings
and furthermore that the deceased happy in another life
Please hear the of spiritual man left in the middle of life
49, deprived Of the only faithful companion and
with nine children, from Is 2 have the feeling that
other enter life.
need number of thoughts that shall satisfy mentally
and emoony that everything is for the best and certainty
to the life after DEATH"
certainty matter
that must be taken faith and hope.
OF it we have a reasonable hope.
Those who live the higher @ that above the ANIMAL all have
feeling of another life.
it, Christ IF it would have told
you"
patriotism, seacrce and devotion reach out into
other life. In this life they often thwarted.
What the Amightys taking this
No knows But the point of
is assuming that he had good Nothing
be gained by giving up.
believe the high purposes devoted life Of the de-
ceased shall ourselves participate in them.
she cannot but be grated to that we are living
ideals.
memory this mother has memory but that
will continue to inspire and bless her children
husband
Copyright
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-10
Can You Play?

Watch youngster, really young youngster who is not
yet tainted with ophsticaon He Cor she) can have more
honeso goodness fun in afternoon for nothing than you
grownup person. in year at the cost Of vast
pains and expense
For the kid still knows how to pay-and the average adult
has forgotten Making living earnest strenuous bust
ness though may be fun Also spots there's no zest
left you're gravely out Of luck.
But the getting clear away from the closely world and
just forgetting yourself in enjoyment-we begin to lose
that faculty before get of knicerbocers
middies, and start growing prim and serious
Which is bad business The hopeful part this If you
have forgotten how to play and realize it, you don't have
to stay that way You learn again will take trouble
but anybody wants to feel something Of the
carefree pleasure that children have he CAN'T he truly
wants to, and viii try.
Better want TO- and try Age sneaks up the person who
has forgotten how to play
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-10
True to Duty

The of Leondas appears in the days news and some
Of US whose school pretty far back may have
awhile in our mental attics to turn up who he
What occasioned the item bequest by Camden
to raise in his native Greece to the hero
Thermopyae who still merits honoring though his deed
centuries old.
It's great story and inspiring read again. that tale Of
Leondas and his handful Of brave soldiers who opposed the
hosts Of the Persian King Xerxes and died the last man
fighting in forlorn cause, because it their duty
The Camden admirers legacy will advertise Leondas in the
little Greek town Of Sparta which fitting enough But the
monument would do more good in Washington where millions
could see it. 1850
Duty suggests something unpleasant something we do
because have to- reminder that in the long ago lived
man who cared enough about his duty die for nd made
his name mmortal-might be good for us.
Loyalty to duty may be not only hardbut glorious That
what we need to remember.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-10
LISTEN, WORLD!
IPray
our FATHER WHICH ART Make me
By ELSIE ROBINSON

Make me feel close to them and
tender to their need. And make
me see that all our life is bread
that sin and death and love and
suffering and birth and everything
that has been or will be is nodded
into bread within your hand)
AND FORGIVE US OUR
DEBTS AS WE FORGIVE OUR
DEBTORS.
(But as I make that plea. help
me to realize the full terror of
its answering. Force me to see,
how l make my own Judgment
by the judgment / mete out to
other men. Make me to see that
my own growth and safety lie in
tolerance-that love Is not a
gracious gift which bestow, for
which my brothers should be
grateful unto me. But love is
held for all men as a common
store, and as I take it, / should
also give. For if my brother
starves, also die.)
AND LEAD us NOT INTO
TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER
, US FROM EVIL:
VCnletly from ali the evil IN my
self, deliver me. From the con-
ceit, the cowardice, the greed and
the silly pride of place. the envy
and the eating sore of hate-from
all these things, Great Source of
Healthy Life. deliver me!
From all the things that mask
as virtues in my life, but keep
me from the fullness of your
plan, deliver me. Make me re-
member that though l may fool
other men, or even fool myself,
cannot fool you. For you are
Life, and Life viii not be tricked.
The hidden weakness in me will
some day collapse. The secret evil
surely Yields q chain and must
drag 1t till I win release.
And so at last humble my fool.
ish head and make me see that
YOU are all that counts-that I
am nothing IL I do not share your
Life-that nothing shines in me
unless you light the flame.)
FOR THINE is THE KING
DOM AND THE POWER AND
THE GLORY FOREVER. GOD!
And I am but your little, stupid
child. AMEN.
Copyright 1927. King Features
Syndicate. Incl
Reprinted by request)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-10
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. C. A. L. Reed

VoUR child may have bad sight.
\ II SO, it has a distinct handicap
In school. II the defect is not cor
rected-as it may be in the ma.
jority Of instances by carefully ad-
justed glasses-the child must In
evitably become the victim of head
aches, nervousness and failure in
class standing.
Normal children have had their
education cared for since the early
colonial days. Every State now
makes some provision for blind
children, usually a very good one.
The child who is neither normal
nor blind, however, often falls be-
tween two stools. The very name
by which they are known--"se semi.
blinds handicap in itself, but
there are no other phrases which
properly describe them. The ar.
rangements for teaching them are
still very far behind the educa.
tiOnal facilities open to othe-~ Amer
lean children. Nevertheless, we are
informed by Rose Kyle Hoskins
Nations HEALTHY that. since the
problem was first attacked in 1918,
22O classes have been started for
the teaching of this particular
class of children. Although the de.
cut "a H. 1Snn
been slow, because Of the dearth
Of trained workers and the lack Of
equipment, the experimental stage
is past, and sightseeing classes
will soon be a part OF every eff.
cient school system.
Now 1t seems that the numbers
which require special classes-a
number to which your child may
belong-are about one child in
every 500. 1t has been found that
they vary with the local santa.
ton and the efficiency Of the
school medical inspection.
The types Of eye diseases In
these classes are two. In the first
group come congenital cataracts,
cataracts at birth-astigmatism,
difficulties in focusing and opaci.
ties of the cornea, spots on the
front of the eyeball.
In the second group are the
gradually increasing difficulties
which accompany myopia, or ex.
IRENE short sight. The trouble
is that children with poor sight
do not attend a special class, but
belong to the regular grade room,
for all oral lessons and everything
that does not require reading and
writing. For work involving the
use of the eyes-especially eye
strain, however. they meet in a
classroom and lighting conditions
of which are as near the ideal as
possible. They prepare their work
with the assistance Of large type
books, big broad chalks and a
teacher trained to assist them &C.
cording to their Individual needs.
Naturally, no teacher can deal
with more than very few such
pupils at time.
Each child is regularly ex-
amined by an oculist. He ad.
vises the teacher on what work
is most suitable. He determines
when the glasses should be worn
ana when the child should be re.
examined. This close check.up is
essential, because children do not
treat their glasses with the re-
spect that grown-ups do. They
are quite apt to. carry them in
the hip pocket along Hith mAFblse
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-10
The knowledge Test For
Readers of The Times
Res. U. :. Pat. OF.

Reg U. : Pat or
Match correctly:
]. Penguin Island Robert Browning
g. The Importance of Being Earnest George Eliot
Adam Bede CLYDE Fitch
4. The Ring and the Book Anatole France
S. The Girl with the Green Eyes Oscar wilde
Who said:
6 1.-THE die is cast"
z. "1My voices truly from heaven
g. "Put your trust in God but keep your powder dry"
g. "Thy need is greater than mne"
TO- II have not yet begun fight"
H. II fight it all
r. millions for defense, but not cent for tribute"
Do you know:
What are monsoons?
Ia What is another for the white race?
Is Who wrote 1.-THE Last Rose Summer?
L. What is another uncoined gold or silver
IL What river is the dividing line between Washington and
Oregon?
See Magazine Page for Answers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-10

our FATHER WHICH ART
" IN HEAVEN:
CNot in some distant heaven
made of gold. garnished with
beryl, pearl and ehrysolite, but in
that ever-present heaven which
the poorest heart may help you
build. That paradise where kind
ness spreads out like a cool, green
tree and purity's a spring for
soiled, hot hands-where courage
Is a wine for fainting hearts and
peae star above the dusty hills.l
HALLOWED BE THY NAME:
mot hallowed by my word OF
mouth alone, by outward cere.
.mony in some public place or by
the mean and private auditing Of
my fine deeds. But hallowed by
my honest effort - make good. to
do the decent thing for its own
sake, and not because there's
profit in the deed. For only by
such effort can really grow and
IN my growing make a holy thing
of life.)
THY KINGDOM COME THY
WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS
1T is IN HEAVEN:
Thy will be done in this earth
which is this bundle of greedy,
lazy. fear-ridden bone and meat.
Seed your great purpose in my
rallow flesh. Water it with the
lashing fury of your storms. Let
me prove worthy to endure the
pain OF growth. Stop not when
cry out against the loneliness and
hurt. Nerve me to die that I may
i've again. Make my heart break,
as breaks a bursting seed. Help
me to thrust my roots deep into
stony soil, and push my blind face
upward through the night. Help
me to LIVE and work life's win
In mel
GIVE US THIS DAY OUR
DAILY BREAD:
mot bread that's baked from
meal nor all those other things
which are as bread to the small,
greedy eyes of childish men. But
that deep sense of contact with
your plan which Is the only bread
Tor hungry, puzzled souls. That
Keeling that there is a reason for it
ail-that all / do and suffer has
some aim.
And as ! break that bread help
me to see that others break 1t too.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-10

suppress xOurSelI!
CIMPLE vamping is not taught
- in the schools and colleges
yet. But nearly every girl is tax.
ing 1t up as a slde-line.
Not all of us. as I have said.
can be born with real "TT":: but
there is sort of. synthetic 1T"
which is almost as convincing as
the best quality of synthetic
pearls.
The first requisite for synthetic
1T" is-You've guessed 1t!
Sweet INDIFFERENCE. A
woman is always most interesting
to man when she Is interested
in something or somebody ELSE
and only mildly interested in
himself.
Sweet Indifference does not
mean being cold, cynical and
acrid. That is being a "pruna."
We can always be most polite,
charming and amiable to people
to whom we are indifferent. Why
not to the people we love?
Leap Year is coming, and Of
course every girl will have the
right to propose. She always has
the right" to propose. She also
has the right to go fishing with
a shot.gun-but she won't catch
anything.
Every woman is a love- seeker
and every man is a love-dodger.
But most men are guileless crea.
lures, who still optimistically be.
lieve that they will some day,
somewhere find woman who has
to be chased and captured, pur.
sued and conquered.
Il you can manage to give
man the sweet illusion that he Is
pursuing you, you will at least
get the first good break in the
game.
All you have to do, is to tie
your hands behind your back to
keep from writing him letters,
and to tear the telephone off the
wall to keep from calling him UP.
The hardest thing on earth for
any woman to do, is to be abso-
lutely neutral in the loye.game
She always feels, somehow, that
she must DO something, SAY
something. START something.
Most girls would be more success.
full in love, IL they could be
roped. tied and gagged the mo-
ment they feel a little sentiment
for any man bubbling up in them.
ut" is based on unselfcon-
seriousness; and no girl can be
unselfconscious. who is secretly
"emoting' over a man, and los.
Ing her beauty sleep, dreaming
about him. Let George do the
dreaming.
It Is awfully hard, I know. TO
sit back and wait for the love.
idea to penetrate the thick layers
Of resistance that cover the mas
culine mind. But 'swatchful
waiting" is woman's winning
card; and the first step in The
conquest of man Is SELF.con.
quest.
In love as in dancing, always
let the man do the leading"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-10
ONCE-OVERS
BY T.. ]. MUNDY
WHO'S TO BLAME?

Have affairs reached in home where argu
ments start all too easily?
Are Disbursements becoming too frequent?
you too to challenge statements which in the you
would have let 60 by? -
Car You analyze just how this has come about?
Is 1t that have reached point where you opinion
TO prevail in all matters? -
II member OF family dares to differ with
become aroused and reach the anger point?
Are you unwilling to have authority questioned?
10 you demand the final word want what
sometimes when have found you mistaken you
still stuck to your position, didn't you? -
Did gain for the YOUR family?
used to be. - 80 = - :. -RPs =" -
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-10
BOlsheyism or Cars
Force Rules.

Five thousand killed by Soviet troops suppressing the
Ukraine rebellion Peasants along the Dniester River which
separates Russian from Rumanian territory rebeed when
tax collectors appeared bringing troops that robbed the
But rebellion did them little good under Bolshevim as
away in blood and things peaceful for the present.
Bolshevism Czarsm the mouk must obey orders work
sweat and pay taxes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-10
A Bible fol. Balabus
May Those Savages Appreciate e

The Rev O. Vinson has spent five years transanr the
Bible INTO the language Of the Baabu one Of the biggest
tribes in Central Africa.
May the Reverend gentleman not live hear any Balabu
say ne does not believe the whale swallowed Jonah or does
not see now Joshua could stop the and proong the day.
.nce not the sun that does the moving Such ingraude
Is seen in more civilized lands.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-10
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
Suppress Yourself!
By Helen Rowland.

Suppress Yourself!
0IMPLE Vamping is not taught
~ in the schools and colleges
yet. But nearly every girl is TAX.
ing 1t up as a side-line.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-10

on the eye. No mother, nor even
teacher. can really exercise q
supervision minute enough 70
cover accidents Of this kind.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-10

and nails, and every scratch on
the glass means an improper re-
fraction. The slip Of tense in
The frame. means q great strain
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31
MORE RAIN IN D. c.
|SFORECAST TODAY
Temperature TumbIes to So
When Sudden Shower
Drenches City.

RepettionS of last nights brief rain
and wind storm, which dashed the
thermometer down to GS degrees as
compared with 90 degrees which it
registered at 3 o'clock in the after
noon, are likely today. the Weather
Bureau announced last night.
showers today" reads the official
forecast, and possibly tomorrow. Not
much change in temperature"
Little damage resulted from last
nights rainstorm. the police re-
ported. Electric lights in the neigh
pOrhood OF Mount Pleasant and
kenyon streets were put out when "A
feeder from a substation became sub
merged and short circuited. This
damage was repaired in a short time
and service restored There were no
fallen trees or serious damage to
property.
Yesterdays heat, according to the
Weather Bureau, was not oppressive
and it was not until afternoon that
the thermometer registered above 80
degrees. At am. 1t was IS degrees,
at 10 o'clock 78 degrees and at pm,
50 degrees. When the storm broke at
s O'Clock the temperature was SO de-
grees. but after the rain and wind
period the temperature fell to 6S
degrees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31
FLYERS DIE IN LEAP
FROM BLAZING PLANE
Two, Trapped In Craft, jump With
out Parachutes as Clothes
Catch Fire.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 30.-Trapped In
blazing monoplane 200 feet above the
ground. a flying instructor and stu
dent aviator were killed tonight When
they jumped from the ship to escape
the fire.
The blazing plane crashed. a twist
ed mass Of wreckage, in Oak Lawn,
suburb, beside the bodies of its vic
Tins before the Mortified gaze or
score of the villages residents.
The bodies were identified as
George Zabriski, IS, instructor, and
James Rose, 80, student, both OF
Chicago. by Nimmo Black, head OF
the Aviation Service & Transport
Corporation, which employed Ia
briski.
Residents of Oak Lawn said they
saw a puff of smoke and heard a loud
explosion when the plane was at an
altitude Of about 500 feet. The pilot
apparently made desperate effort 10
effect quick landing and headed It's
nose down as the ship burst into
flames. When about 200 feet rom
the ground one of the men. his clothes
ablaZe. leaped to his death, ana
moment later the second occupant, q
human torch, jumped from the cock
pit. Neither carried parachute. Inc
crash was the second here this week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31
DALLAS-H0NGKONG
FLIGHT APPROVED
Contest Open to All Licensed Pilots
of International Aero.
nautic Federation.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DALLAS, Tex, July 30.-The office
OF w. E. Easterwood. donor of the
$4,000 prize for the Dallas ongkong
air flight, announced today that it had
been advised that changes in the con.
ditions had been approved by the Ma
tional Aeronautical Association, and
the contest will be open to all licensed
pilots OF the Federation Aeronautique
International.
The approval was from Carl Schory
OF Washington, secretary of the ma.
tional organization.
All entrants in the fight, including
those who previously have entered.
must pass official examination of both
the national and international bodies
and comply with their requirements.
All hop.offs and stops will be under
supervision of the national associa
ton. The winner, before he may re-
ceive the $4,000 prize, must have the
approval and order of the National
Aeronautical Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31
BALDWIN NOT PLANNING VISIT
Possibility of Meeting Coolidge Re
mote, He Declares.

QUEBEC, Quebec. July 30 (R.-
Stanley Baldwin, prime minister OF
Great Britain, reaching Canada today
for a fortnight's visit, said that if the
conference fails at
Geneva he was sure it would not be
through the fault Of England's repre-
sentatives.
The premier declared that, while he
was intimately in touch with the Sit
uation at Geneva before he left Lon
don, his week at sea had placed him
out of touch and he could not discuss
possibilities Of the conference in other
than the most general terms.
Mr.. Baldwin said he had heard
nothing Of a proposal that he meet
President Coolidge while he Is in Can
ada and suggested that such a pos
sibility was very remote.
His visit Of a fortnight will include
visits to all parts Of the Dominion eX-
ccpt British Columbia. He expressed
his infinite regret" that his tour
could not include that section.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31
RIDICULE OF CLERGY
j. BANNED FROM FILMS
Sneers at Dry Law and Profanity
- Also crowned Upon
= = by Producers.
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, July 30
Profanity, ridicule Of the clergy and
all sneers at the Federal Constitution,
particularly the prohibition amend.
ment, have been banned from films
produced by members of the Associa.
ton Of Motion Picture Producers, Inc.
A resolution to that end was passed
last June s by 20 motion picture pro.
ducing units, comprising the full mem
bership OF the association, but an
nouncement Of the action was with
held until today.
Fred w. Beetson, secretary OF the
association, confirmed a report by DR..
G. c. Mclean, father of Douglas Nc
Lean, screen actor, who is chairman
OF the stage and screen committee of
the United Church BrotherhOods of
Los Angeles, that the resolution had
been passed.
The producers further pledged them.
selves to omit all improper billboard
advertising from publicity programs
The 20 units adopting tha resolution
include virtually all the large studios
In southern California.