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The Washington times., 1927-05-12
DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
The Moral Of the MOuies
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

ON the first night: a hero comes treading upon the
u clouds to the dwelling Of his betrothed.
At the gate he stops. Upon the window-bind he has
seen two shadows locked fond embrace One shadow be-
longs to the heroine the other to unknown male.
Does ne and find who the mysterious stranger
Isl Not he Instead he punges into the darkness drinking
from long black bottle and telling the world that frayg
is woman
male shadow belonged the herones long lost brother
And all is we'll
On the second night The athletic father forbds him
to play football The coed heroine the asks him
why he not out for the team He hangs his head and just
says he isn't playing that year. Complications for several
reels Then the simple fact and all is cleared
On the third night the heroine has just said yes to the
hero the discounted villain steals letter from the heroine
to girl friend He shows the signature Lovingly,
Helen to the hero, telling him the letter sent to
himself.
What happens the hero examine the letter or 60 to
the girl for explanation Not that huckeberry He sails
at dawn for Hong Kong the Argentine Them finding
the villains perdy he ruhes home to hear the explanation
he should have sought back several thousand feet Of film
every character IN movie gave the others chance
to explain there would be few mixups and few movies
It is the tonguetied that thicken the plot
When movie not satisfied unless there is
mix-up Of In lives we are just as well
satisfied if they are left out.
So the moral of the movies get the facts give others
chancs to explain go to the person himself for explana
ton.
Most lovers quarres because they do not wait for
full explanation. Most hurt feelings arise from jumping
conclusions about what others think of Most nsuted
people, most unhappy young people and uncomfortable old
people, owe their wounded feelings to similar
Having slow BRAIN when it arriving at con-
c1sons that others unfahfu deceptive twofaced
great aid to peace of mind.
An that is too-we attuned to catching hidden mean
ngs and subtle Sights much of the real of life
Copyright 1897 Mcclure Newspaper syndicate
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SHOULD THEY
| BE SLAIN?

Editor, The Washington Times:
TT WAS good to read the ar.
ticle submitted to your column
recently by Mrs. C. Robinson
Browne in regard to the electro
cution of the three boys con.
nected with the Leo X. Busch
murder, and it is gratifying 10
know so many people admire and
believe in her view point.
Does Justice demand that these
boys two of whom are in their
teens and one OF whom is mem
tally DEFICIENT be electrocuted for
an act which was unpremedi-
tated? Does justice demand that
mere boy, ignorant, poor, un-
schooled, the product OF bad
company, and having the brain
OF a child, be- sent to death for
an act done on the impulse If
the moment and after he had
first been wounded2 IL this be
justice, then why did Leopold
and Loeb and Croerkin, who were
claimed to be mentally deficient,
be excused form death for crimes
premeditated and far more helm
Gus than the Busch murder?
They were college students while
Moreno could only go as far as
the third grade.
Moreno, Proctor and Eagles do
deserve TO be punished, l grant,
but il II not fair to give them
more consideration end pity than
the Snyder.Gray murderers who
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BOOK LEARNING
By Garrett P. Serviss

scientific method which GER
tainly deserves the laudatIon but
does not deserve to be held up
to public view az an infant
prodigy, something utterly un-
known TO the human mind until
its sudden appearance in these
marvellous modern times!
Common sense and experience
unite In telling us that the
teacher, whether handing an
infant class or bracing up the
mentality Of the fans and heroes
Of the college stadiunns, has much
as he or she can reasonably do
in imparting knowledge and the
taste for knowledge without at
the same time discovering or
creating new knowledge. The
teacher who has q genius for
research will do best to quit
teaching and go to researching.
No man. can obey two masters.
Keep the research institutions
separate from the teaching In
situations. Let the one produce
the new facts and theories and
the other teach them after they
are ripe for teaching. True and
tested knowledge is gold, but
there is no call on that account
for all the world to become
washers and diggers of crude gold.
Minted gold Is what the majority
of mankind has need for. And
that il secondhand well-worn
and thoroughly ustworthy
knowledge, such al the teacher IL
expected to hand out.
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Anybody Can Run
It Takes Trained Man to Fight EFFICIENTLY.

In the old days man could walk out Of his front door,
usket in hand and be soldier Paul Revere could wake
people Of their Sleep and they found powder
and bullets they ready to meet the British Even then
perhaps George Washington often compelled retreat
may have wished he had few American "regulars'
The big war has shown that men to fight well must be
TRAINED
perfectly comfortable with barbed wire front Of him.
non roaring behind him. bayone pointed at his stomach and
poison gas stealing up his nostrls.
No matter how you are that combination makes you
little nervous least quite dashing or daring
you would be usually
You cant tell what day you will be expected meet that
combination The last time only those encountered
were abroad and happened to be put into the
The next time this continues to be an unprotected
lion with no fighting air fleet that unpleasant poison gas
It highly important therefore that the citizen be pre-
pared that hs know how bayonet how climb
Of trench how handle his automatic his hand gre
nades with skill and speed.
The fraction Of second makes good deal Of difference
when the question is, Which bayonet shall stick its
first7
THE CITIZENS MILITARY TRAINING CAMPS GIVE
YOUNG AMERICANS CHANGE TO ACQUIRE KNoWL-
EDGE THAT SOLDIERS MUST HAVE, IT THEY WANT TO
COME BACK AND TELL ABOUT IT.
you want information about the training camps address
your letter to the Secretary Of War Washington He
win that the information is sent to you Those
Welcome young men, give them the military training and
The cost is met by the taxpayers, who don't complain,
since they happen be the individuals most interested in
keeping this country out Of trouble
They haze something to protect in the nay Of property
The training camp teaches you to be soldier and to fight
FOR your country if you have to-
Il is better to know how FIGHT than know how to
RUN which people know by instinct In modern running
doesn't do any good You find yourself in rough country
bullets and poison gas faster than you cam and shells
filled with shrapnel explode anywhere And when conscrp
ton comes the gentleman who thinks he doesn't approve Of
war finds he hasn't any choice in the matter.
However luckily the average young American WANTS to
do his share, wants to do it WELL and glad have any
information that viii help him to do his duty and prove his
courage
In addition to making werained soldiers OF young men,
the training camps build up health good habits punctu
atty discipline, obedience to orders.
REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE NEVER FIT TO GIVE
ORDERS UNTIL YOU FIRST LEARN HOW TO TAKE
ORDERS ff
Find out about the Military Training Camps
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NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland
RHYME AND REASON
The Road to Yesterday

The Road to Yesterday
/ called my Old Love back to me.
He came without delay
But, oh bid you, never take
The Road to Yesterday!
/ called my Old Love back to me!
But was his kiss the same?
Or in his eyes the old delight?
Or in my heart the flame?
We searched so long, we went
SO far
Alas, we lost the way!
My Love and !, we could not
FIND
The Road to Yesterday!
ITO most men, serving as ''best
Il man" at a wedding is as
painful as serving on a jury; they
tremble at the fear Of condemning
an innocent man!
Some men are as completely
domesticated, after a few weeks
of marriage, as any other house
hold pet; others can never be
home.broken, no matter how long
or how often they are married.
When woman closes her eyes,
a man merely suspects that she is
bored or weary; but when she
closes her MOUTH, Ne knows
that she's "wise"-and the game
Ii up!
This is the "open season" for
trout and hachelors-when fish
and men grow careless, adven.
turous and sportive.
Woman-Stuff
Men win make you suffer:
Men will make you sigh!
Youth believe each buffer,
And every alibi,
You'll pretend to trust them,
When you know they lie!
You can live without them?
Well-my dear-just TRY!
You are just woman
So, alas, am /!
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NNHE prohibitionists in their emo
\ tional attempt to promote a
great reform rushed too fast and
too far. and the leaders of the
research" drive appear to be In
danger Of making the same mis-.
take.
True research, inspired by a
strong desire for increase of
knowledge, backed by decided
gifts and guided by good sense
and experience. is the life OF
science and the mightiest instrn.
nent for the advance OF man
kind - nobody can doubt that.
Neither, however, can ANYBODY
doubt the soundness of the Greek
proyerb, Nothing too much" or
No excessr
In their zeal for the introduce
ton of active research ALONGSIDE
OF teaching In the schools, these
enthusiastic reformers would re-
place the teacher by the research
worker. or at least by half-and-
half; that is. a half-teacher-half
researcher. Like all propagan-
dists, they seek first to disparage
what they would destroy. The
hack" teacher - the man or
woman whom we have all revered
and loved for noble powers and
qualities, and who guided us to
what man had already learned, as
we'll as showed us the roads lead.
Ing to further knowledge--is held
up for derisfon as only a dealer
in secondhand" knowledge. who
relies on books for information.
But pray, > where do they
imagine the world would be with
out secondhand knowledge and
without book learning? What
proportion of anyone's knowledge
can be first-hand? How much
first-hand information do the re.
searchers themselves possess. out
side the narrow limits OF their
own specialists? How could they
have got their own start without
the study of books and the in.
struction impaired by teachers?
And what does any knowledge
become the moment It is absorbed
into other minds? When the re-
SN1lASAASA uC9NkApEb III GREAT LGCn-
nical detail land often with pro-
found general obscurityl the re-
suits Of his labors. what il he
doing but piling up higher the
huge mass Of secondhand lnowl-
edge. with something more for
somebody to learn and for sorle-
body to teach--in case II appears
worth teaching or holds good long
enough to be taught2
The promoters Of the research
IN education idea aim at nothing
less than d revolution OF educa.
tional methods, and they fix their
eyes not only upon the universi-
ties and colleges but from the,
lower schools also. They belittle
the teacher In favor of the
researcher. They would create q,
kind OF educational caste, ticketed
by the hallmark Of the 'sPh. ID.
degree, which denotes that the
bearer has undergone special
form Of training that IL considered
TO be the peculiar Possession az
the research worker, oblivious Of
the fact that there ie essentially
nothing new In this beIauded
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harked back to the disciplined
cadences of 1880 youth-the good
old days when children were
supposed to be seen but not
heard" and found nothing but
innpudent arrogance and lawless-
ness in this audacious new voice?
Then this book was meant for
you.
Here is the song Of the new
world-a world where young
people are working and carrying
responsibilities of which their
elders never dreamed. We see
the blunders they make-we hear
the noisy diseord of their swift
advance and the crash of the old
traditions going down before them
but what lies behind all this
noise and buster?
This is what lies behind IT.
Read sixteen-year-old Edith
Qpinn's poem.
SIXTEEN
What does life hold in store for
me.
Poised on the brink OF soon.to.be?
What shore, mine, in eternity?
I ask the graybeards, but they
pirate
OF some vague goddess they call
Fate;
But am young, and cannot wait.
And so, am impatient grown
A fig for Fate! l shall shape my
own,
For the Worlds ahead, and !
stand alone.
Edith Quinn (age 16l.
have never met Edith. but il
she's like the rest of our sixteen
year-olds, she's probably a ram.
functions handful. Cock-sure Of
self. Given to telling her elders
B. ~ 4 <
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By ELSIE ROBINSON

Doesn't need to be told. I'll
wager that divers irate citizens
have called him a 'tconceited
young puppy more than once.
But listen
/ DO NOT ASK THEE, GOD.
I do not ask Thee. God, my steps
to guide
Along the path Of life. and show
the way,
or lead me back il should go
astray.
I ask Thee not to travel at my
side.
To shield me from temptation or
abide
With me and grant me strength
in trouble.
Nay,
Permit me rather. God. only
pray,
To i've this life myself. and to
decide,
Myself whatever turns I'll take;
to face
Each crisis as can. All, let
me use
This life, Thy gift to me, the
way / choose.
And when my years are over, and
place
1t at Thy feet again, then state
Thy will,
Then Judge il / have used it well
or ill!
Erik Barnouw (age 16l.
Yes, they even make bargains
with God! But there's truer
religion in that fearless covenant.
ing with Life than there was in a
thousand Stacking creeds. And,
believe me, World. for all the
imprudence and conceit, our head
strong little Ediths and Eriks Of
today are the finest. fightingest
bunch Of youngsters that we
humans ever Matched!
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WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

When we see the iishonor nf
q thing, then it Is time 10
rcnounce it.-PlutarcAs.
All. az they say. that glitters Is
not gold. Dryden.
Many men resemble glass
smooth, polished and dull SO long
as unbroken; then sharp
splinter pricks.-Richter.
BE prudent and il you hear
some insult or some threat--havs
appearance OF not hearing 1t.
Sand.
a sorrows crown OF sorrow i8
remembering happier things.
--Danta
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LISTEN, WORLD!

WQ INGING
- z o u t h.
isn't it a lovely
name?
The books AZ
lovely as the
name. 1t is an
anthology o (
c h 1 | d r 9 ms
poe m $, edited
b v M a b e ]
Mountsier, pub
lished by Harp
err and Broth
ers. The chill
dren range in
age from four
10 eighteen.
Through these
verses runs the
fresh, clear call
OF NJ o d 9 n n
Youth.
Has that call
jarre d upon
you sometimes?
III a v e you
The Washington times., 1927-05-12

where they
can head In.
And yet
Here is the
beautiful, fam
ing confidence
that underlies
that inpudent
young cock-sure-
n e SIS. Five
years from now
Edith viii prob
ably be a wife
and mother. If
she can keep
that flame tall
and clear, Edith
WIFI be the best
kind OF q wife
and mother that
the world has
ever seen.
Then there's
Erik
He's another
sixteen-year-old.
Sure Of himself,
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QUESTIONS OF
ETIQUETTE
LBy Cornelius Beeckman-
No Engagement Gifts
DEAR MRS. REECKMAN.

-r.r 80 nr.r.~,.-
r1<An %ANo' l'H4n'NfAHaAN'
~ We have quite a problem
befora us--and r am nos;t,,a
lioih feauias your column dalIy'
that you will help us as you
have SO greatly helped others.
A friend of odrs Is about to
become engaged, and for the i'm.
mediate families thew are havino.
a private announcement and sup.
per. For the intimate friends Of
the bride-and- groom-to-be they are
just sending out announcements
a week after the family affair.
Will you please tell me if either
of these announcements calls for
engagement presents? M.
1t is not at all necessary or
engagement nresants Thew ara
not so much done" as are wed.
ding presents. Often relatives 1T
the couple and close friends give
engagement presents, but even
these are not, by all means, al
ways gwen. IL really only de-
ponds on ones choice: II one
wishes to give present, one
does, and II one doesn't much
care to give present. one
shouldn't. All OF which ! realize
isn't very helpfn, put It fs q
question on Wnlch an outsider
really cannot pass Judgment or
suggestions, Tor Il Is such a per
ents.
i NoMauays one.s ,prsssnL DS sa;sa.
nras y 1870 4ha+ up - oiua ercasa
, r,aant 1.a,.Asa,,+s ~ - +o1 800
strain e M. n,os 81 IL III N n,ost
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Wedding Attendants
nrAp MpS prErvLy1AN.
~ $3.50 49,. .,,..-s . J. ..,a,s,.,..
We ars navlhs "euuiis
~ our cnurch parish some tifne
n May, ana my nance Is asked
20 oe me PEST man at s. tn ls.. We =.
n1ng. ! nave not peen asked 70
The Washington times., 1927-05-12
DISTINCTIVE
ODOR

TUE latest form of snobbisR APP
a. peal in business, according
to Nations Business Magazine, is
applying the limited book. edition
idea to perfumes.
In Paris they now have per-.
fumes limited to 100 bottles Of
d certain scent and d fashionable
woman by paying few hundred
francs extra may have the salts
faction OF knowing that only a
select few may smell as she
does.
seem to be getting much pub.
hcity, attention, concern and SYM
pathy, If one is to Judge from
what one reads through the me.
dunn Of the press? Are not
their mothers just as distressed
and heart-broken at the thought
OF death to their young boys?
Everyone firmly believes i'm
punishment for wrong doing but
everyone also believes in Justice
and in justice for all.
Again ] ask. IL this justiceT
(AGissl MARY HART.
The Washington times., 1927-05-12
MO sadder proof can be given
IN by man OF his own little
ness than disbelief In great
men.-CarlyIe.

Follow UP advantages.
Napoleon.
Next to love, sympathy Is the
divinest passion of the human
heart. Burke.
He who purposes to he an
author should first be a student.
Dryden. .
Honor Is purchases. by deeds we
do; honor II not won until some
honorable deed Is done. Y
--MmFiowe.
, 1927-10-31

authorities on certain shipments belong
ing to the Mexican Government.
New York.-TwO men of a crew of ff-
teen were seriously burned when fire
caused by an explosion started in an oil
barge anchored in lower New York.
Denver. Eight thousand four hundred
pounds Of pistol ammunition have been
stolen from the state rifle range possibly
in connection with the mine strike.
Philadelphia. The u. S.. gun boat
Scorpion after twenty five years of SER
vice was mustered out of commission IN
connection with Navy Day ceremonies at
the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
Washington. Admiral Macruder must
look elsewhere than to the White House
for assistance in his disagreement with
theRNavy Department which originated
in criticism of Naval administration and
has resulted in his removal as command
ant at Philadelphia, Coolidge has refus-
ed approval Of an application for revoca-
tion of the order detaching hun from
duty, Secretary Wilbur announced.
Pensacola.-IWo naval officers were in
stantly killed today when their scout
planes collided in mid air and fell one
thousand feet in the heart CT the city.
Rio lie Janeiro.-Lates estimates of
the nun Der who persisted in the sinking
Of the Italian steamer Princesa Mafalda
placed the victims at three hundred and
fifteen.
Weather report from San Juan, OctO-
Der 70. 1927.
Apparently a slight barometer depres-
sion has developed over the WindWard
Island but all stations report slight winds.
, 1927-10-31
KILOGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.

Halifax, MS, October, 27th.-HaIIfax
is to have a service to the West Indies
second to none on this side Of the Allan
tic, according to the Specifications Of the
new ships now building for Tie Canadian
National West IndiesJ Steamships, Ltd.
These specifications indicate that the
ships wiA be of the highest class, provid-
ing the highest standard of service and
will be such as to strikingly pOpBlarlZe
the Canadian route. The ships are so de-
signed that they not only carry out the
requirement of the service as set forth
in the Canadian West Indies treaty.
but fulfil the ambition of Sir Henry
Thornton and officials of the Canadian
National Railways to provide a line
of ships for this trace that will be
of the most practical use for the trade
and a pride to all Canadians. The
service will be inaugurated by the
the creation of the Canadian National
West Indies Steamships. Limited. This
intimates that the Canada West Indies
service will be entirely separate from
the Canadian Government Merchant Ma
rine.
New York. Oct. 18th. The raw sugar
market was quiet again. No sales were
reported. There we've offerings at last.
, 1927-10-31
u. S. NAVAL RADIO STATION
OCTOBER 18th, 1927.
(COuTtesY or the Associated Press

London. Continuing his disarmament
campo gn Viscount Cecil during a lecture
said that naval expenditures had increas-
ed as compared with nineteen thirteen
by France by fifty per cent, by Italy by
forty per cent. by Germany by sixtyfve
percent. Great Britain has remained the
same and by the United States by TWEEN
ty five per cent more than before the war.
Seattle:-Prince William Of Sweden was
made chief long eagle by the Quillyaute
Indians.
Mexico City. President Gales has
cancelled his decree f%orbidding govern
ment departments to make purchases
from the United States as a reprisal to
the embargo established by the American
, 1927-10-31
So. Thomas News.

We understand that everything is in
readiness for the inter-island races to be
held on St. Croix Race Track the com
1ng Christmas season, between horses
from here against those Of ST. Croix.
The horses which are already entered
here as the probable contesting ones,
are to date: Nightshade, Beatty and
Teaser. Several others are expected
shortly from the United States to take
part 10 the races, we have been advised.
The Emancipation, 22id Oct.
, 1927-10-31
LOCAL

Owing to the incIemency of the
weather it having rained all afternoon
and continued stormy until late, the reel
tai by the Navy Band to be given in the
bandstand last night was postponed. In
the present issue there will be found the
schedule on which the band will make ap,
pearancts.
, 1927-10-31
Marine Barracks, Christiansted,
st. Croix, Virgin Islands, u. S.
20 October 1927.

The following schedule of concerts to.
be given by the U. S. Navy Band, for
period October % to November 5, 1927,
has been arranged:
Saturday Oct. 20 $50 p. m. Christiansted
Sunday Oct. 80 900 p. m. Cbristiansted
wharf.
Monday Oct, 81 2.30 p. m. Peters Farm
Hospital.
. $50 D.. m. LeperC Colony.
Tuesday Nov. l $50 p. m. Christiansted
wharf.
Wednes. Nov. 2 $50 p. m. Cbristiansted
wharf.
Thursday Nov. 3 $50 p. m. Kings Hill
Poor Farm.
800 p. m. F~rederiksted.
Friday Nov. $50 p. m. Christiansted
wharf.
Saturday Nov. 5 No concert.
Morning Colors and short concert daily.
except Sunday. at 500 a. m. at Govern
ment House followed by short concert at
Marine Barracks.
TT. G. HUNTER JR.,
Captain, US. Marine Corps.
, 1927-10-31

Passengers by s. S. catherine" Oct.
10Th and Both. From San Juan, P. R.,
Albert Garcia and Lewis Garcia. From
st, Thomas. -Comdr. w. Laub, Laub
R. Andersen. Maud Atkins. Ettyn Qhom.
as, Edna Woods, EIveda Anderson.
May Brucks and Matilda league. For
St. Thomas. --Comdr. w. Laub, Lieut..
r. A. Andersen, Maud Ackin, NathiIda
league, Mary Burke. Edna Woods, Eth
Ign Thomas and Elvida Andersen. For
San Juan Alberto Garcia and Luis Gar
cia.
, 1927-10-31

112 lines of rain was measured at the
Fort here this morning, % lines at Fred
eriksted and Is lines at Kingshill.
, 1927-10-31

1T is hereby made known that from
I this date the power Of Attorney
intact for Mr.. GEORGE B. FLEMING,
Estate "H0gensborg", is vested in
his wife, Mrs. IDA FLEMING.
Estate "H0gensborg''
Frederiksted, St. Croix, V.L.U.S.A.
October 9th, 1927.
, 1927-10-31

Due to the rain the c%arousel could not
be entirely set up and started yesterday.
The S. s. Dominica from the Leeward
Islands is due in St. Croix for New York
on Friday November 4th. It is advised
that a directs dispatch Of mail will be
closed on the 3rd parcels as we'll as first
class matter being accepted.
Remember the continuation of the thrill
ling Fox serial Bride IS" in the Chris
tiansted Theatre tonight also the won
derful news reels.