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Evening star., 1927-07-21
CHAPTER X.
Helen and Nan.

Helen Sheridan had been very much
disappointed in Mans decision TO mar
ry a poor artist. Helen for the most
part was bored with life. She was
30 and her husband WAS 50 and they
had plenty of money, enough so that
her household machinery ran smooth
Evening star., 1927-07-21
DIARY OF A
e NEW FATHER
BY BOB DICKSON.

Wednesday night.
Well. I gave my book review before
Joan's culture clubs first meeting last
night. but I will never know If it was
any good, on account of you are not
supposed to brag about what you do
yourself, and Joan is my wife and
that disqualifies her. and the rest of
the gang was too dumb to suspect
what it. was about, even.
The culture club. is made up of the
members Of our bridge club and two
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7 I dKlhg DullHys IIUSe
print. With the growing
Importance of the fur-bear-
ing rabbit industry in
Southern California, this
nose-print and footprint
identification system is be-
ing used to protect owners
from theft and loss of val
\ liable breeding stock.
q Wide World Photos.
y i
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16

A blaze of blossoms. One of the
most beautiful of the 800 floats in
the annual New Year day tourna-
ment of roses parade at Pasadena.
Calf. Thousands of roses and
other blooms were used to decorate
A. aa.4. g Wide World Photos.
The Washington times., 1927-01-28
THIS PICTURES THE CITY OF TOLEDO'S FIGHT AGAINST
DANGEROUS RAT PLAGUE

The city Of Toledo Ohio puzzled by the number Of
dops that went mad then discovered that the germ Of rabies
that causes madness carried by rats Rats bit dogs in
their death struggles The dog got rabies and it to other
dogs.
Now Toledo having killed the dogs proposes to get rid Of
the rats and has begun systematic fight against them
The Toledo NeUs Bee prints the picture above to illustrate
the rat danger Unfortunately rats small and therefore,
treated by human beings with unwise contempt
IF rats big dinosaurs as big as buffaloes
or wolves they wouldn't last long, would get rid Of them
Men have killed off their big enemies, wolves BEARS red
Indians But the little animals-rats mice, the mcrobe
famly-trivs defy and cost millions Of lives every year.
The most important from the Mellon In
gtitute Of Industrial Research at Pittsburgh.
scientists constantly work in the public interest One Of
rats ten effective than anything thus far
It particular preparation Of arsenic described
sarsenious oxide in colloida state"
Rats Of all knds-brown, black white and grayeat this
poison with delight but the delight doesn't LAST. In eleven
minutes half hour after they eat they die and gives
them such pain that they run away, out Of doors.
is to be hoped that Secretary Mellon will make easy
for all househoders and especially for farmers to get this
poison at low price.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has done wonders the
finances Of the United States in order wipng off many
billions in debt since he took charge of the Treasury
But the institute which bears his name could show the
whole world how to get rid of rats and mice forever
service would be worth to the human more than ten
times all the debts Of all the nations earth and they owe
at least two hundred thousand millions of dollars
The Washington times., 1927-01-28
DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
By 7. E. Powers
The Rise of the SmOck
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

VHE characteristic dress of the artist the painters and
sculpture men. has always been the smock, that is
loose cotton garment which is everything.
Now out of the artists studio the smock has into
every other department Of m and its increased recently
has been significant
The employment Of the smock solves great many prob
lems
The smock is not necessarily drab and dull but may be
colored in any way and give full employment to ones
artistic sense
1t may be made very attractive
is useful in the school The question of uniforms
for school children that has been often urgently pre-
sented The Smock solves this question Uniforms could be
kept In the school and donned by the children when
they appear 1t would thus keep all their other clothes
clean, at the time giving them pleasing personal
appearance.
The smock is better than the apron in the Kitchen as
covers all the clothes and easily taken and off, and
the housewife may quickly throw her other clothes
them from dirt, and be ready any time by
doffng the smock to make presentable appearance to
company.
In offices the smock has made great incursions
The Milwaukee Trade School for girls smocks in
sewing classes.
The students of Downer College have adopted the mode
for classroom
In the junior continuation schools of Dayton, Ohio they
used very largely
Girls working in department stores and hotels mani
cursts and hairdressers find them convenient.
The Of the smock has not been confined to
Men are making use Of the garment more and more
Of course always held sway in the artist ateer but
it is in in chemical laboratories factories Offices
newspaper composing rooms and telegraph
Its utility should not be overemphaszed, for it be
made smart Its aracveness offers unlimited POSSIBLE
ties.
The smock combines and comfort with economy,
iceability and style.
In one office the boss wife used and recommended it.
and it became universally adopted by the help.
On of its artistic associations, it well
recommended and nobody should be ashamed to it.
G. W. Staffler in Commerce and Finance, gives many
coDar Iss
The Washington times., 1927-01-28
Hazardous Duties of Underpaid
D. c. Prison Guards

Ell Newcomb chairman of penal institutions Of the Board
of Public Welfare Of the District writes The Times
pienting this newspaper its editorial few days ago
calling attention to the utterly inadequate pay of District
prison guards.
Mr. Newcomb since his appointment member Of the
Board Of Public Welfare has been working diligently i'm
prove the pay and conditions Of employees in the District Jail
and other District penal institutions He is seeking
prison guards reClased that they may be paid bet
ter salaries than $11So per year.
Mr.. Newcomb. says in his letter:
Stew people the duties performed
days week. without the privilege of enjoying Sunday
per month
"Just think of a man working for such salary out
of which provide for his family and buy his
fopm'
Why prison guards in District institutions are put on
minimum salary Of $1180 per year. given days off, and
compelled to buy their uniforms rather inexpcab in view
Of the pay Of prison guards throughout the country
The guards in the Cook County Ill., jail paid 81 908
annually; in the Leavenworth Atlanta and Moundsve w.
V prisons average Of about $40 annually, the salaries
ranging from 81, 300 to $3.50.
Los Angeles Calf pays its prison guards $2040 the Buf
falo N r. county Jail pays $780, and the lowest pay in any
Of the large institutions $780, in the jefferson County,
KY, jail, Louisville
The District prison guards are efficient trustworthy
and Redistribution of their salaries should be arranged It
within the power Of Redistribution officials Federal and
District to do this The justice Of their doing is not to be
questioned.
The Washington times., 1927-01-28
By ELSIE ROBINSON

or so; or it so appears to me at
present.
when another asserted some
thing that / thought an error
deny'd myself the pleasure Of
contradicting him abruptly, and
Of showing Immediately some
absurdity in his proposition; and
in answering began by observ-
ing that in certain cases or
circumstances his opinion would
be right, but in the present case
there appear'd or seem'd to me
some difference, etc.
II soon found the advantage Of
this change in my manner; the
conversations I engaged in went on
more pleasantly. The modest way
in which I proposal my opinions
procur'd them a reader reception
and less contradiction; had less
modification when I was found
to be in the wrong and I more
easily prevail'd with others to
give up their mistakes and Join
with me when happened to be
right"
Benjamin Franklin has been
called ''the first civilized Amer.
ican." / wonder if his con-
troversial attitude isn't the very
highest proof Of his civiliza-
ton?
How much Of proof of YOUR
civilization Is YOUR. controversial
attitude?
I'd hate to be judged by mine!
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tonsils but / do manage to sneak
in a few facts that make his
statement look like a plugged
nickel.
This habit has, however, one
drawback.
1t isn't always my opponent
that looks like the plugged nickel
when the smoke has lifted from
the argument.
Sometimes it's liz Elsie herself!
For unfortunately, contradiction
is a boomerang and often returns
to the sender, with a mean wal
lop.
Even IL your facts are right,
you may get yourself in wrong.
For there's no act in the human,
program that reaps more dislike
and actual hate than the habit
OF contradiction.
I have discovered this fact to
my sorrow. And I note with
pleasure that I'm not the first
one to learn this narrowing les
son. I have illustr1ous predeces-
sors. For example, Mr.. Benjamin
Franklin.
Benjamin Franklin wrote an
autobiography. 1t is, perhaps, as
frank and complete a statement
as ever human gentleman COM
piled. If Ben had any enemies
who hoped to profit by blackmail,
that book foiled them completely.
For he certainly shot the words!
And this ID Whist he says about
The Washington times., 1927-01-28

may have gone on for 10000
years without using up more than
/ per cent of the suns total mass.
The sun has reduced itself to
the condition Of a dwarf star"
About 1000. 200, 900 years ago 1t
was a giant" of the IN" class.
Its present dwarf condition is not
due only to its loss OF matter by
transformation into radiant en-.
ergy, but also to its contraction
from an exceedingly expanded
state. In the future it will con-
tlnue to lose in mass and iumlnos-
ity until it disappears. though this
disappearance will probably mean
not the humiliation of all its mat
ter, but the end of the process OF
transformation Of atoms into ra-
diant energy.
The strange suggestion has been
made that the radium on the
earth represents a last vestige of
the more easily transformable
types of matter that abound in
the beginning OF a stars career,
and progressively disappear by
transformation into energy.
The Washington times., 1927-01-28
SUN AND LIFE

r ONCE heard Henry Ward
i Beecher preach a wonderful
sermon on the sun as q SYM
Dol Of the unrestricted outpouring
of divine influence upon all crea-
lures. The great pulpit orator was
at his best with such subject,
and his imagination drew an over
whelming picture of the marvel
GUS prodigality of the mighty orb,
in the endless flood of whose
spreading rays the earth and all
the planets were but specks OF
dust.
At that time science supposed
that the radiant energy Of the
sun was maintained by the heat
developed through the gradual
contraction of it's gaseous globe
by the internal gravitational pres
sure OF SO enormous a mass. It
was predicted that in a few
million years-Simon Newcomb
said about five millionaire sun
would become so dense that it's
end as a giver of light and heat
would be at hand.
What Happens to Rays?
Inasmuch as only about one
two-thousand millionith of the
suns radiation hits the earth, and
less than one hundred.millaonth
is stopped by all the planets Of
the solar system taken together,
it has always been question
what becomes o fthe rays that
miss the earth and touch no other
planet whatever.
Being unwilling to admit that
mans Importance can be meas
The Washington times., 1927-01-28
By Garrett P. Serviss

the suns radiation. Instead of
arising from gravitational con.
traction, according to present the
cries, the suns rays are produced
by the ANNIHILATION OF THE
SUBSTANCE OF THE SUN IT.
SELF. We may say that they
represent solar matter transform
ed into radiant energy.
Dream Realized
So, what has only been dreamed
of as a possibility on the earth
has. apparently. been realized in
the very different condition OF
things existing in the sun, and
the atoms are there continually
transformed into a form of energy
which Is continuously radiated
away from the sun at the rate of
a 100, 000.horsepower for every
square yard Of the suns surface.
Jeans calculates that the trans.
formation Of the suns mass into
energy takes place at the rate Of
100000 tons per second. He also
shows that this transformation
The Washington times., 1927-01-28
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE.
BY Helen Rowland
These Modern Men

These Modern Men
WHEN man "awakens a
w woman's love-" little does
he dream that she is probably
going to suffer from sentimental
insomnia for the rest of her life.
No matter how many wild oats
a man may have sown, he is always
ready and eager to scatter a few
more when the spring planting
time comes around.
The modern girl seems to have
concluded that the only way to
take men, is as you take street
cars and taxicabs. If you lose one,
don't break your heart-just re-
member that another will come
along soon.
When a girl asks WHY do you
love me?" it's awfully hard for a
man to say, "Oh just because the
cocktails were good, and there's
a new moon, and nobody more at
tractive around, and I've nothing
else to do!'-but nine times out Of
ten, that's the answer.
After a woman has reminded her
husband of how much he loves"
her. every day, for a few years,
she begins to look up to him just
like the National Debt.
! Yes, Gloria, you may success
fully ''fill a niche" in mans
life-but alas, the average mans
life is like a catacomb, so FULL
of nitches that the displacement
OF any one woman Is scarcely
noticeable.
II Diogenes needed lantern to
help him to look for an honest
man, he probably would have re.
quired all the lights in the Metro
politan Opera House in order to
lind an honestly unselfish one.
After man has spent all eve
ming, until after midnight. telling
a girl how sweet and adorable and
wonderful she is, he never can I'M
derstand why his failure to call
her UP and repeat it all, again,
next morning, should wound her
vanity and hurt her feelings. But
that's the way girls are!
This 10 the crucial moment, when
a woman watches her husband
furtively to see If the cravat or
the 'house-coat She gave him for
Christmas IL going to."take."
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ured in any sense by so minute
a fraction as one two-thousand-
millionth. some persons have pre-
ferred to assume that the sun
emits no radiation except directly
toward the earth and the other
planets. moons, ETC., invest inter-
vening space being left rayless.
That might save the sun from
the charge Of prodigaIity, but it
would necessitate a revolution in
the theory Of radiant energy. The
simplest and most logical conclu-
sion is that ''prodigality" being a
purely human conception, based
upon the narrow limitations of
our knowledge, the solar rays
which miss the planets and go on
to join the starlight in surround.
ing space can no more be "wast-
ed" than those that stop to keep
life astir on the earth.
But the recent discoveries about
the complex constitution Of atoms
have resulted in a complete over
throw Of former ideas concerning
The Washington times., 1927-01-28
QUESTIONS OF
ETIQUETTE
MRS. Cornelius Beeckman.
WeIl.Chosen Greetings


nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ We are going to give a sur.
prise party for a girl in our club.
l. Will you kindly tell me how
should receive the guests until
she comes?
2. Would it be proper to dance
bit before she arrives?
8. Where should the hostess sit.
and where should sit? Il am the
president)
4. We are going to give her
gift. as it is her birthday. Should
give 1t to her or place, it near
her plate? TED.
AS the president of the club, YOU
should stand with the hostess at
the entrance of the room in which
the guests are to be received and
greet every guest with a hand.
shake and few well-chosen
words" of greeting. Something
like this, perhaps: GOOD eve.
ming, Marie. am glad that you
could come" or How do you do.
Bob? It's so nice to see you
again" or how long it is since you
have seen the guest to whom you
are speaking, or something that
will set the light conversational
ball rolling. Try not to say the
same thing to every guest, and try
to say the perfect thing for that
person. In this lies one OF the
great. pathways Of success in hos.
pitality.
2. Yes. This Ii always a good
way to keep q group Of people In
good humori
8. The hostess should sit at the
head of the table, with the girl
for whom the party Is given on
her right and with you, as the
president Of the club, on her left.
A. / suggest that YOU place the
gift at her place, so that it will
have the appearance of a favor
when she takes her place at the
table.
The Washington times., 1927-01-28
LISTEN, WORLD!

his tendency to
contradict, and
how he scotched
it.
ST made it a
rule to forbear
all direct con-
tradiction to the
sentiments of
others, and all
positive asser-
lions Of my
own. / even
forbade myself
the use of every
word OF express
sion in the
language that
imported a fix'd
opinion, such as
certainly. un-
doubtedly, ETC.,
and I adopted,
instead Of them
I apprehend, or
I imagine a
AInA A.
The Washington times., 1927-01-28
! SAYINGS OF WISE MEN

Variety is the mother Of en-.
joyment. -Disraeli.
Words may be false and full Of
art;
Signs are the natural language
of the heart.
T. Shadwell.
Wisdom Is to the soul what
health IL to the body.-La Roche
faucauld.
The society exists for the bene.
The Washington times., 1927-01-28
Won't Be Long Now
January is on its last legs As they say down East;

January is on its last legs As they say down East
February short month;
March bLoWS Gs0Gg-
Then come herring
Spring. with its call Of the outdoors will breeze in almost
before know it, Summer its heels.
Not much time left for all those things intended to do
this Wintethe books going to read the studying
planned to get through; the money meant to save
Bright Skies sunshine green countryside sparkling
play hob with good resolutions Winter the period for
putting in the ticks at getting ahead Of the job-of work
self improvement. 49,
There's still little Winter to make the most Of
The Washington times., 1927-01-28
no you like
~ to contra

49, ~ VII ~ -
dict?
/ do.
OF cours =
you're not sup
posed to admit
a private vice
like that but
this is an age
of frank comics.
sion, so here
goes mine.
1 like to con-
tradict. Notn-
ing pleases me
better tn an to
crash into a
conve r s alton
and tell my op
ponent that he's
wrong. Natural
ly I camouflage
my malicious
joy. / don't
pound the desk
- %,,Sa~ las-
The Washington times., 1927-01-28

fit Of its members: not the mem.
bers for the benefit of the so.
ciety.-Herbert Spencer.
On earth I confess an itch for
the praise Of fools-that's vanity.
Speech is of time. silence is OF
eternity.--CarlyIe.
Generally speaking, there is
more wit than talent in this
world.-De Ravarol.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-09-07
THREE filters
WIRELESS sos
EARLY MORNING
Plane Bound from America
to Rome in Tragedy
on Atlantic
DISTRESS CALL SENDS
STEAMERS TO GIVE AID
One Vessel Arrives at Die
aster Area-No Trace
of Plane Found

NEW YORK, Sept IA wir~-
less SOS" from the monoplsna
Old Glory sent out during the
early morning hours of darkness
today when she apparently was
some 500 miles east of the north
east tip of Newfoundland, on the
trip from Old Orchard, N. Y. II
Rome, ,sent liners and warsh ps
racing to her assistance.
The cry for help was picked
up by several ships and relayed
by the Radio Corporation of Am
erica. The cry was sent out at
$3.50 O'Clock Greenwich time.
No Details
Beyond the fact that the crew
of three adventurous aviators arc
in the grip of some tragedy over
the traekless wastes of water. no
details were given.
Within few minutes of TIL,
receipt of the SOS" several
ships We're obeying the immut-
able law OF the seas and rush ng
full steam towards the estimat a
position.
The liner Pennsylvania. west
bound, appeared to be nearer
than any other ship. The steam
er was S3 miles away at the
time.
A collapsible rubber lifebost.
emergency pump valve in the
gasoline tanks, supply of flares
and rockets, Is cited by await On
officials as basis for belief the
occupants of the plane have a
chance of saving themselves IL
they were forced down.
One Boat at Scene
The Pennsylvania later report-
ed reaching the position wher,
Old Glory was thought to have
gone down and searched a 30
mile area without results.
Capt. Bone said he was pro-
ceeding further with the search.
Capt. Bone reported to the Cum
ard Line: Have searched an area
of 80 miles without results. pro-
ceeding to point in which ar
plane was sighted by steamer
California Have advised all
ships"
The message was timed at $50
Eastern Standard time but was
not received until 11;43 O'Clock.
Sighted Last Night
The California sent a message
at 1857 o'clock last night say
ing she sighted the plane $50
miles east of Cape Race with
everything appearing all right.
Those aboard Old Glory ar,
Lloyd Bertaud and James Dewitt
Hill, co-pilots, and Phil Payne.
representative of William Ram
dolph Hearst. who is sponsor ng
the flight.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-09-07
FAIR BOOTHS
DISPOSED or

Practically all of the sale and
exhibit booths in the new fair
building have been sold for the
four days of the sixth annual far
Of the Southeastern Alaska Fair
Association, September 2S, 20, 80
and October l, according to J. II.
Hart, manager.
In fact the booths are in such
demand, with more requests com.
ing in every day, that Manager
Hart is trying to make arrange
ments for extra temporary booths
to be erected to accommodate a
greater number of exhibits.
Agents are being appointed in
towns of the First Division, to
arrange the various exhibits and
take entire charge of them, Mr..
Hart said The Sitka exhibits will
be brought over on one of the
ranger boats, through the COURTESY
of the Forestry Service.
DIR. II. w. Alberts will have
charge of the exhibit from the
experimental station at Sitka, and
will probably give several short
talks on gardening while he is
here.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-09-07
THREE SLAIN,
REALTY DEAL

NEW YORK, Sept. 7.-Charles
Berstein, sought in connection
with a triple killing in a real
estate office. surrendered late last
night to the police. A real es-
tate deal that went awry, ended
in the death yesterday afternoon
of Victor I. Steinberg, Charles
Herskowitz and Henry c. Cohen.
Robert McGroaty received a
fractured skull when Steinberg' s
falling body from the ninth floor,
hit him on the head. He died
this morning.
Confusion reigned in the street
where thousands of persons were
passing.
Bernstein is alleged to have
killed the trio during real es-
tate deal argument. 1t is be-
lieved that Steinberg fell out of
the window in attempting to es-
cape from the room after injured
by a bullet in the head.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-09-07
ANOTHER HOP
is ATTEMPT
over ATLANTIC
Plane Sir John CARING
Takes OFF for Flight
to England

HARBoR GRACE, Sept r.
The plane Sir John CARING,
bound from London, Ontario, to
London, England. with Capt. Ter
ry and Lieut.. Metcalf aboard,
hoped off from the airport here
at 1853 o'clock this morning,
following complete overhaul
ing yesterday in which minor
repairs were made
The Sir John CARING took the
air in good shape. II the await
ors reach London safely, they
will receive $4,000 prize.
The fliers of the Sir John Carl
ing were not informed of the
Old Glory's SOS" when it took
off but local authorities inserted
a memorandum describing the de-
tails and location in the fliers'
map case where it will be found
when they start using their
charts.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-09-07
PETTIT'S TIME IN
ALASKA EXTENDED

Lieut.. Frank A. Petit, of tie
Alaska Road Commission, is in
Juneau from Wrangell Narrows on
his way to Lynn Canal points.
Iie will return to Wrangell Mar
RI VS. within few days.
His time in Alaska. which was
to have expired September 2S,
has been extended for six months
Lieut.. John Noyes left this AZ
ternoon for Haines on the Yakobi
on official road work business
for the Alaska Road Commission
and will return to Juneau Sunday
or Monday.