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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-26
A Convincing Plea for Suffrage
For District People

Citizens Washington in their renewed plea to the House
Judiciary Committee the right to vote in national elections
and the right to have representatives in both Houses OF
Congress made most convincing and orcetul
which should bear fruit
The House committee will hold further hearings and Will
listen both proponents and opponents of suffrage
The Dyer resolution the before the committee It
provides for submission to the States Of constitutional
amendment authorizing national suffrage Tor District
citizens
The question of ocal" suffrage not involved in this
particular That is covered in other bills before
Congress There conflict between the advocates Of
national suffrage and Of suffrage in local affairs
great growth sentiment for local suffrage due to
The feeling that Congress- least the Senate Will not give
favorable consideration national representation and that
It probably would be favorable to local suffrage
Those who local suffrage will not oppose the Dyer
resolution or should They should aid and hope
for It's passage it should fall then they viii have their
opportunity of pressing for local suffrage
Just why the Senate should oppose national suffrage here
Is beyond understanding It has long been understood that
influential Senators bitter comparatively small
populations being represented in that body by TWO
while States of large population are permitted only TWO
Senator's.
Nevada and other States with fewer people
than the District of Columbia have two Senator's EACH The
population Of New York State alone greater than fourteen
small States put together.
This situation merely goes show that the Constitution
should be amended so that may Senators
proportion population State have less than two.
So far as District people concerned they would be
satisfied with ONE Senator. They and badly need
representation in Congress to protect and safeguard their
interests.
The proposed constitutional amendment to District
suffrage may worded leave Congress the right to
provide for Senator thus appeasng the opposition in the
Senate.
Surely the District is entitled Senator States
population less than the District have fourteen Senator'S
Washngton population is larger than that of Nevada
Wyoming Arizona Vermont New Mexico Delaware Idaho
Giving the District representation in Congress and the right
for President and Vice President would in
change the form of the District take away the
It simply gives 100000 good American citizens official
spokesman in Congress.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-26
This Smaller World

Look newspaper of hundred years ago and You viii
read quaint items about doings the st brought
by fast sailing ship. The things history Tor weeks
before people in America knew of them.
Look at newspaper of only twenty years back You will
read news of distant occurrences, but abbreviated
Look at newspaper of today. No matter where some
interesting thing is taking place. you will complete
extended account And there will be pictures by aplane
or telephone.
Nowadays "story''as newspaper call its story
corner in Cuba California
or Rome The event will be chronced with all the detail its
Importance warrants
Improved cheaper communication has made the change
Telephone telegraph and radio flash the fast thought
over seas and continents Thousands of miles make
difference.
Perfected means communication have pulled the whole
world closer together That's thought to be sure
you consider what must participation by
people everywhere the affairs of people everywhere ese7
Washngtons sympathy goes out to Mississippi Valley
devastated by floods Paris and London join the excitement
Angeles sensational murder SO it goes
attention longer conferred frequently petty
happenings of our small community. We know what
people great distances doing and thinking and talking
about How all fail to understand better?
A smaller woodland world better informed and
tolerant about the other fellow actually away yet really
next door That's the immensely important development Of
modern times reflected bafoa yon every day in the newpapA
It ID worth pondering9
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-26
CHINESE WOMEN PRAYING FOR MALE CHILDREN
They SIN Receive DONATION

Among Chinese in country, fathers want sons TO
be like them women please their husbands pray for
sons and disappointed when daughters arrive
That's particularly foolish in the fathers for Gallon
proves in his great study Of heredy it is the daughter not
the that inherts the fathers best qualities.
Now few thousand miles West the Pacific
to China daughter problem really serious
Not long since surplus Chinese girl babies thrown
into the rivers at BIRTH the quickest Of getting rid Of
them.
The Russians influential and active in China have been
preaching atheism there but have at all discouraged belief
in the big idols you in the background Of this
picture called the Father and Mother gods.
The little dolls are given as sort Of hint give you
those Chinese gods for children Those that expect baby
pray that it may be boy not girl
The Father and Mother" idols straight ahead as
stupid and mpotent lump matter But poor Chinese
mothers don't know it. Perhaps their pfu belief gives them
comfort at least for a while
What they think of the Father and Mother gods whe
little girl arrives after all their praying is well left
unwritten.
Luckily human race Nature not allowed human
beings to control the of children either by prayer OF
science The balance kept right few girls than boys
than
the supply of girls had been seriously diminished the
human would have melted away It needed all the
mothers and all the babies to make for the effects Of war
plague and famine.
Even in Christian countries pifu prayers for children a
often heard and strange sacrifices made obtain them
In Spanish church mothers would crawl from the
front door to the altar hands and knees praying
The idea that Divine Power above requires and enjoys
Sacr1tlceS the mind.
mind of Abraham when he ready to sacrifice his to
obey the Divine command, and it has never died out.
But these two Chinese idols of whatever and
there is nothing rreverent they pagan gods saying
is shame for those poor Chinese their
prayers and their gifts upon them.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-26
LAW OF REVENGE
BY DR.. Frank Crane

gTyHE other day had wronged
her daughter.
The jury the grand jury and the
district attorney declined to prosecute.
The murder charge dismissed the officials evidently holding
that would be impossible jury that would find the
woman guilty
It hard condemn this think that the
man. the circumstances alleged about what
ing to him.
We would all have done about the thing in
the womans place
At the time,
Woman's is less
She took the hands, Judge
jury and execuione and inflicted the death penalty
trary to all notions of justice.
The victim entitled his should have been
allowed plead his defense defense to be
made and he entitled the Judgment peers
Such res have not proved themselves
KIND OF oense and the probabilities that it would
hard with the cuprit
The trouble with the world the tendency all have at
times to take the law into hands Nations being
ents and the constant of Not until of
whatever character subject arbitration
interested party will
The thing is life
individuals should not be allowed
man should be equipped to take human life
as by society and until the accused has
chance to defend himself
Policemen exist because have all oares
TO the courts and not to enforce
Of ~ N0
This is the essence of civilization.
OF
snned quite MUCH for she struck the
society which implies that shall right his
but shall leave that matter disinterested
Copyright Mcclure dicate)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-26
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. C. A. L. Reed

VOU hardly ever hear the term
i ''neurotic" used except as q
reproach. So and so is ''hope-
lessly neurotic," and therefore
does not count, someone says. The
next person is liable to say:
Someone else is 'hysterical' and
so ought to be treated severely,
like naughty child" And so it
goes. But what you do not hear
is the rational attitude: $50 and
so is neurotic and no wonder, con-
sidering what a bad time he or
she has had, and what can we
do to help?" The neurotic per.
son has a ''neurosis'' and the
hysterical persons has "hysteria. u
AL hysterical persons have a
neurosis, but all neurotics are not
Mysteries, hysteria being a lack
Of control over the emotions often
associated with convulsive move
ments OF the body.
A neurosiS is always the effect
of some cause.
A neurotic person is one whose
character, the way he feels about
things. has been badly formed for
the society in which he has to
live. The fault is almost entirely
his parents or that of whoever
has brought him up. His out
look is comparatively infantile,
his mental growth has been ar
rested at some stage and he can
ont NIT t@kN To-
which he lives. There are many
kinds of neurosis, but by a neu-
rotic we generally mean hysteri-
cal or an anxiety type.
The next time we say of a
neurottc person, How trying so
and so is" let us pull ourselves
up and see if we cannot say,
How so and so is tryingr
The commonest and most tragic
mistake that people make about
neurotics is to conclude that, be-
cause they are ineffective in many
social ways. they are lazy and do
not try. AS a rule, the neurotic
puts in a great deal more work
than the normal person. 1t is
true that the larger part of the
work Is wrongly directed, but he
Is striving to make something of
himself and it is our business to
try to divert his energies into a
more useful channel. The truth
is that he deserves our real SYM.
pathy, for he is struggling with a
real illness.
Now, we cannot help a neurotic
by nursing him any more than we
can by being angry or impatient
with him. We cannot save him
from the task of internal self.
adjustment and conflict. What we
can do is ito give him something
stable to adjust to. Perhaps the
first question we should settle for
ourselves is whether we really
want to help neurotic. If we do
not, then let us clear right out of
his life and not add to his troubles.
If, however, we wish to help him,
especially if we have to live with
him, then he Is a problem to us
which we must solve. The only
way to solve it is to help. Having
decided that we are going to help,
how are we going to do it? There
is only one answer - begin at
home. We must first master our
own neuroses. of which we are
hound to have plenty We may
thus present our neurotic friend
with a personality that Is approx
mately normal.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-26
LISTEN, WORLD!
Whose Job Is It,?
By ELSIE ROBINSON

Take my husband and me, for
example. We have been married
two years. He Is Is, I'm 23.
When we were married he was
only earning $3.50 a month and
he wasn't sure Of keeping his job.
/ was earning $125. We were
crazy in love with each other but
we didn't dare try to live on his
salary, so, of course, l had to
keep on working.
Well, in a way our marriage has
been a success. We have a COM
Portable little apartment. a small
car and we are saving money to-
ward our own home. / make my
own clothes and he is careful too,
and I guess we get aIong as well
as most young folks. But here's
the difficulty. He works eight
hours day and comes home tired.
But so do I, and he doesn't seem
to realize that. When he comes
home he expects to SIT down and
take things easy or fool around
the car and leave the homework
up to me, the way men have al
ways done. But ia like to rest
or fool with the car !ust as much
as he.
OF COURSE, IT ASK HIM TO
HELP Me HE'LL Do II BUT
THINKS HE'S DOING ME- A
FAVOR. ONCE WHEN / ASKED
HIM TO COUNT THE LAUNDRY
HE GOT MAD AND SAIL THAT
WAS A WOMAN'S WORK. BUT
/ DON'T SEE 1T THAT WAY AT
ALL. WHY is HOUSEWORK A
WOMAN'S JOB ANY MORE
THAN A MAN S WHEN
THEY'RE BOTH WORKING?
I'd like to see a public discus
sion of this, Miss Robinson.
guess in the Majority of modern
marriages both the young people
work and this homework Ques-
ton is sure hard problem.
ELLA SMITH.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-26

XNHOSE job is it to wash the
w dishes? Pick up the laundry?
Order the new screen for the
kitchen door?
Silly questions? Not so silly
young working couples. The hap
piness of those young couples, the
harmony and permanence of their
homes, depends on the answer to
these modern questions. AND
AS YET THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY HASN'T ANSWERED.
/ wonder what the answer will
eventually be to Elias letter and
the huge problem which looms
behind it? What is YOUR an
swer? I'd like to know.
Dear Miss Robinson:
I read an article by o. o. Nc
Intyre which interested me very
much. He told me about the
craze for $3.50 marriages in New
York, and spoke Of famous mar
rfed couples like Hendrick Van
Loon and Frances Goodrich, and
Fanny Hurst and her husband,
who live apart and only see each
also mentioned other professional
people who have separate careers
and whose salaries must run into
big money. He says the $3.50
marriage works with them.
Well, maybe it does, Miss Rob
inson, but how about the count.
less young couples who have So
so marriages. who are not in the
professional class and whose sal
aries do not run into big money?
They're not doing it because it
is fashionable or sensational or
because it suits their artistic tenn
peraments. They're doing it be-
cause they have to-because they
can't be married at all unless
they both work. Believe me, it
isn't so easy for them and it
certainly makes some queer situa-
lions.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-26

Surely this is sign of the
times!
But why all this talk of arma-
ment, defense and conquest? Men
do not prepare for war unless
they fear the enemy.
1t sounds like the whistling of
small boy in the dark. 1t
sounds like somebody singing as
he passes a graveyard. It sounds
like the wailing of the infant
when he sees his toys about to be
snatched away from him.
But who can blame poor. be-
wildered man? Not 1, bless his
fluttering heart!
He sees his sceptre torn from
his bleeding hands! He sees his
aura of intellectual and physical
superiority dissolving about him.
He sees all his dearest and
long cherished privileges and hon
ors being grabbed and enjoyed by
women.
He sees the flapper wearing his
knickers. putting his cigarettes.
holding down his jobs, carrying
his latch-key and taking the slang
out of his mouth.
He sees women sharing - his
games, swimming the channel,
flying the Atlantic and stealing
his stuff on every side.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-26
ONCE-OVERS
By J. ]. MUNDY

BY J. J. MUNDY
Why Work Is Our Greatest Blessing
1t for pity yourself work; and
with work, life is such struggle
a law-abiding citizen.
If not busy all the time would you get into
which might lead to a bad
What would time had enough to
support without any effort o your part?
Think of some of the things you believe you would do.
Would not many of them be of a discredtable nature?
And how bored would be without occupation
would be looking for the things that would give the most
"kck"
And what they?
Nothing beneficial elevang, you like idlers.
Perhaps the greatest blessing have is
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-26
The knowledge Test For
Readers of The Times

Complete these quotations.
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z For men may come and may CO.
auB put go on -- -Tennyson.
hes under the -, fast asleep
4. Come little -" said The wind dav
Come the meadow me and play"
George Cooper.
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Mark true false.
Liege is in France
z. Nassau is the capital of the Bahama Islands
8. The Red Sea is between Arabia and Australia
2. Trenton the Potomac
10. Yokohama is in
IL. The capital of Maryland is Annapolis
Match correctly.
II AIS Well that Ends Well. Oliver Wendell Ho
ID. The Dunciad William Thackerav
L. Clarlssa Harlowe Shakespeare.
To- henry Esmond Alexander
10. Elsie venner Samuel Richardson --.--
~ eee Magazine Page for Answers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-26

He sees farther than THAT! He
sees himself in some not distant
day, being kissed against his
will and married without his con-
sent.
He sees himself being forced to
pick up his own clothes, find his
own collar button. boil his own
eggs, burn his own toast and
take care of his own morals!
He sees the lady who once spent
her whole Lite holding her halo
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-26

on with one hand and tying her
kitchen apron strings with the
other, now using both hands to
RUN him!
He sees his world being turned
topsy-turVey-and it's making him
Dizzy But. hush! sad heart.
and cease reptning. Woman has
lust been Let out Of the coop,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-26

and is enjoying the Tapping of
her own wings! THAT'S all!
Just give her time-and she'll
come back to ,roost. Or I'm no
prophet.
For, after all. woman's Big
Game la the LOVE-GAME; and it
takes ali her time, energy. brains
land both hands to play 1t!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-26
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland

Give Her Enough Rope
A RE men beginning to be
IA AFRAID of women?
Are they beginning to wake up
to the fact that women now have
as many rights, more privileges
and almost as many pockets as
any man?
Every now and then comes a
letter from some young man,
vowing that he will "never, never
marry and thereby put himself
in a woman's power. Or a letter
protesting that women are 1.-The
bunk" and advocating woman
beating as an art"
The Washington times., 1928-02-08
RUBBED
EXPECTED

ssThe prizes IS rubber has been
going up Tor some time. and indi.
catiprss are that It win continue u
~ 81. comments william OsryeiI,
president of the General Tire and
Rubber Company. short time
ago Il was III the low thirties =
pound. More recently II passed the
Accent mark, ana signs are that
the stiffening Of the market viii 80
on indefinitely.
We recss Ve hosts Of Inquiries
as to the cause: the extent "a which
It may continue, and most important
.Of all, whether tire prices are
likely to be affected.
III iii difficult cf course. to pre-.
dict accurately where the price 81
rubber may land Il the present
trend Is complicated b. speculation.
al was the case two years ago,
when rubber went over $3.50 q
pound. It Is freely predicted, how
ever, III welI.infornaed circles, that
the price viii soon reach and pass
half dollar 3 pound. even without
The Washington times., 1928-02-08
OUTLOOK
FOR 1928

aA1l my life have been struck
BY three outstanding factors that
seem to be characteristic Of sue.
cessful executives, says Leon Ger
man, vice president of the Peerless
Motor Car Corporation. These
characteristics are clear thinking.
hard work and an unbeatable atti-
tude toward business and life.
"To me, says Mr.. German, these
are the prime essentials for success
as an individual or as d business.
Every fall, certain men begin
to look ahead with dread and to
wonder about business for the next
year. It's remarkable thing, that
almost every year. as we get into
the early months. those gloom
clouds evaporate and the spirit Of
optimism prevails. It Is this en-
yiable belief in good business that
has made America outstanding as
81 nation OF commerce and industry.
mo matter what business man
may be In, he Is going to find some
rough going. Everything cant be
one long round Of cheer. The auto
mobile business Is no exception.
Yet, here. too. these companies that
have carried on, and those execu.
lives that have won success, have
done so because they have worked
hard, and because they have coupled
with this hard work. real belief
In themselves and In their company.
and III their product.
1928 will be good year, ! be-
Iieve. 1T will be q good year be-
cause American business men are
fighters. They are workers. They
are thinkers. The newspapers
already are flooded with reams Of
statistics proving that business will
be GOOD. It is this belief that in
spires confidence and hegets btsi-
ness volume.
In spite Of the fact that this
sis 3 Presidential election year.
don't look for b downward curve In
automobile sales. On the other
hand, I am convinced that we viii
see new records made in automobile
production and an even greater
prosperity for men engaged IN the
business of selling cars.
Further than that, see q buy
ing power In this country Of ours
that viii closely parallel the output
Of our factories in 1928. There viii
be more men working and wages
generally. believe, win stay at
.their present point. and may 60 even.
higher.
Europe, too, has awakened to
the value Of American -built cars.
Demand for cars for export has
increased materially II the last
year. Peerless export business has
grown 800 per cent since january,
1927.
am confident, now, that the
little downward swing business ex-
perienced last fall IS over, that we
have started on an upward swing
that means the greatest prosperity
America has ever experienced"
The Washington times., 1928-02-08
Poles til 30 IN
GEORGIA AIE

EIimlnation IL the center poles d
Georges Avenues from New Hmn
shire Avenue to Military Road
Northwest win BE- the next imp0r
tant step toward making that street
safe. Il was announced by Il ".
Fisher, executive secretary Of the
Public Utilities Commission
Fisher called the attention 81 TIE
commission 10 the fact that fhG
poles on Georgia Avenue are old
and unsafe. and the commission re
affirmed it, policy ngainst the res
newaI 81 center poles.
Another aveuue soon 10 come IN.
der the program Of center pole climbs
nation IL Wisconsin Avenue from
River Road 10 the District Line
Michigan Avenue IL Broollafd
win not have its poles moved untlt
Congress makes an appropriation
for paving the avenue.
The greatest expense connected
with the moving Of the poles f1il4
on the Potomac Electric Power
Company
The Washington times., 1928-02-08
OLD GLORY COUNCIL

a Joint dance viii Be given by
Old Glory Council. No. II. and
Eagle Council. No. "a, Daughtres OF
America, February IA in Oysters
Hall, Twenty-sixth Street and Penn.
sylvania Avenue Northwest. Mrs.
Mildred Rock will be in charge.
The Washington times., 1928-02-08
SPRING S HACK Is

The annoying features Of spring
gllaclxles that are too loose FREE
quentIy are replaced BY the annoy
ing features of sl1aclxles thar are
too tight. When the elaaclxIes are
frightened care should be taken 70
sec they are free enough to permit
easy spring action
The Washington times., 1928-02-08
urrier Black lacked
And Robbed Of SIS, 900.

NEW York, Feb S.-Louis III.
tnppaport, SIS, q furrier, was black
BACKED and robbed Of SIS, 900 by two
unmen III his office last night. he
t0AA police today. The bandits
leMNAnad.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-20
ALLISON GOES
EAST MONDAY
Promoter Intere d
In Pro-
ject Leaves

r. J. Allison, Tulsa promoter and
oil man, interested in putting ove
q million dollar race track and casino
in Matamoros, left Monday night for
the East. following n brief visit here.
during the course or which TIE con
ferred with local business men with
reference to his project
lie was accompanied by II ". WA
Guerra, or Laredo. who IN interested
IN the project and who was present
at nan OF the conferences. w. u.
Tobey. of Orlando. Fla, and New
York. who also came here with the
party. remained in Brownsville to
look after interests in connection
with the proposed deal.
No announcement regarding imme-
date plans. or statement as to the
progress Of the deal was made BY
Mr.. Allison. but he declared he
would return in about 10 days. nc
which time he hoped 10 have "a
statement 60 make.
John J. Lyons. who Is also inter
ested In the venture. il In New York,
Mr.. Allison said.