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The Washington times., 1928-02-20

During the war You read about tanks -caterpillar
introduced United Etates for agriculture
then covered with and used for killing men
The British were first to use the tanks Germans
amazed and Mortified they the steel monsters
barbedwire entanglements though they not there
crossing bitches. climbing trenches.
Each hidden inside Of its steel protecting
carried quick firing machine guns Men from within
hurled exploding hand grenades ahead Of them.
will see this picture proves whole regiments
Of tanks taking the place Of the oldfashiOned cavalry
regiments
One Of these tanks could plough its way through ten
thousand cavaymen and their horses easily IS knife
cutting through cheese.
Tanks are now made big they IN the
carry heavy guns and drag other heavy guns behind
them.
walls say nothing Of barbedwre establishments
cannot stop them.
odashoned with soldiers mounted 81 horses would
have no chance against caterpillar monsters Of steel with
armor plate one machine like this might have changed the
result Of Battle Of Waterloo and sent Napoleon 70 rule
England instead Of sending him to the dreay little island q
ISt. Helena.
However invent thing for attack and another for
defense.
The giant tank against which foot and horseback
are helpless will be- in its turn helpless against ATTACK
FROM THE AIR.
Half dozen air men, flying light machines that 90 two
hundred miles hour and faster could with their bombs
soon put action whole army Of these caterars
fer with his bombs appears TO be the last Wor Inc
only thing will destroy him. and perhaps that will come
would be wireless annhating objects at distance
by sending electricity through the air without wires
The Washington times., 1928-02-20
The Parking Change in Wide
Thirteenth Street

The Merchants and Manufacturers Association well within
its rights in persistenty obectng to the parking change in
wide and beautiful Thirteenth Street
The merchants of that street. led by Ross Andrews whose
devotion to city been questioned pioneer
leaders in widen streets Of Washington that
traffic and parking might be benefited
Il was through efforts of these leaders in business and
in civic advancement that Thirteenth Street widened
some years ago. The improvement cost these much
money because under our laws they had pay the bill
sefishness did not motives Of these They
Thirteenth Street be attractive but they recognized
that congestion traffic and parking inevitable and that
the way aid in solving this problem far as that
street was concerned, to widen it to the limit
The Washington must be kept free to reasonably
rapid traffic flow true but the time parking
conditions not be restricted any than absolutely
necessary The people of Washington must in all d.
recons machines but they not be shorn of the
rights belong them of parking to attend to business
Abolition angle parking Thirteenth Street has not
aided parking facilities It has restricted them is not
helpful to business
Had the merchants Of Thirteenth Street known that they
would be hampered they could have successfully objected
to the widening Of that street. the cost of which not
borne by taxpayers generally but solely by them.
The bugaboo Of closing all the congested portion Of down
town Washington to parking again brought up That may
have day. but it necessary in the
future.
Numerous Cities with narrow Streets have to eliminate
parking in congeed business sections but the streets of
Washington too wide for this
The bus lines and street lines would ask for nothing
better than elimination Of parking in downtown Washington
It would be peaches and for them Much Of the talk
to doing away with parking from these
which exercise wider influence municipal officials than
should be the
Representative Robert G. Simmons Of Nebraska head Of
the House subcommittee which frames the annual District
Appropriation BILL takes lusty whack at the withdrawal
of parking space from the public.
he sought parking Fourteenth Street, the
Tvo Theater Everywhere he drove he found parking de-
MED Finally he turned into space just off Fourteenth
Street that looked safe and drove in Two signs confronted
him, telling him that it hospital entrance and
couldn't park. he discovered that it and dog
hospital
His view s Tt to that human being should
have the same privileges in this city cat and dog
The Washington times., 1928-02-20

that every nice woman in the
country would be against the
plan. Not SO! Many of them
sincerely endorse it. Here's a
fragment from one amazing let
ter
II envy Mrs. Burnham. Miss
Robinson. l wouldn't want 10 do
without my husband all the time.
] love him and / know our chill
dren need his companionship as
they grow up. But r do think
that 1t would be much better
IL mothers could be unhampered
by husbands and homework dur
ing the prenatal period.
Il have had three children my
self and / believe that before
children are born a mother should
make her life as interesting and
happy as possible. l do not mean
that she should be lazy-or just
fly around amusing herself. She
should have plenty of time for
books and music and art If she
likes that sort of thing-take up
some interesting professional
work-travel-even go into bust
ness if that is her bent. In short,
she should do the things that
bring out the best in her and de-
velop character and intelligence.
Il am sure that children would
be better born if mothers could
live like that before their birth.
/ also think that marriages would
last longer If husbands and wives
lived apart during that period,
meeting only as friends.
"REMEMBER. THAT is Ma
TURE'S WAY. l DO NOT SUG:
The Washington times., 1928-02-20
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. C. A. L. Reed

THE "kata" Thermometer, the
i new instrument devised to
determine the state of ventilation,
is capable of wide range of use.
fulness. In the house of Professor
Hill it has shown a number of
very important conditions inn
portant because they have a life
and health relationship to human
well-being.
The "kata" thermometer shows
clearly that public vehicles are in
some cases ventilated so badly
that the reading is as low as 4,
figure at which visible sweating
takes place. Even where stand
ard "kata" figures are obtained
the ventilation needs improvement
If free infection by "droplets" is
to be reduced. The public is
strongly advised TO wear such
clothing that folks can travel on
the open tops OF street vehicles
and by the open windows of
trains. The floor should be gently
heated, so the feet are kept warm.
Roof ventilators in railway cars
can be arranged so as to get fair
ventilation when the car Is NOV
ing, but fail to do their work
when it is stationary. Extract
fans are then necessary to main
tain ventilation.
The "kata" thermometer has
shown that where there are many
tunnels, and when street cars
spend a good deal of time in ga
RACES, the air in the vehicles gets
contaminated with carbon monox-
ide. This is dangerous fact, be-
cause carbon monoxide is a life
taking poison. 1t has far greater
affinity for the red material in
the blood than has oxygen. 1t
follows from This that il the red
cells find it in the air of the
lungs they fill themselves up with
it and neglect the oxygen. When
it reaches the TISSUES, however.
it is useless for their. purposes.
and so the body cannot function
properly, and the individual dies
from lack of oxygen. Even after
resuscitation from severe poison
ing. there may be permanent after
effects, or delayed death, from de-
generation of the heart muscle
and other important parts de-
prived for too long of the oxygen
on which they live.
The danger of running a cars
engine in a closed garage has
been pointed out many times, and
is fairly we'll known. People for
get. however, that II a line of
traffic Is held up under long
bridge or in tunnel the condi-
tions may become very like those
of closed garage. Engines should
be cut off at once in such street
jams. Even without the tunnel
the percentage of carbon monox.
ide in a street block may rise to
OF or .02 and the blood of traffic
controllers has been found to
contain 20 per cent Of it's red ma
terial combined with carbon mon.
oxide instead OF oxygen.
Even il carbon monoxide-the
poison, death-dealing gas-is not
being formed, the increased per-
centage of carbon dioxide, a non
poisonous but inert gas. may do
much harm to health. In ordinary
rooms, however, this is not likely
to become serious. since there are
so many chinks and crannies that
air gets in without being felt.
When all visible chinks in a room
are closed, some 10000 cubic feet
of air continue 10 pass up the
chimney every hour if the fire is
burntn".
The Washington times., 1928-02-20
BY ELSIE ROBINSON

) lowing this very plan. She and
her husband are about to have
their first child. They are not
wealthy-he is an artist. she is
a writer. They both wished to
give their child every possible
chance so they have agreed to
live apart these waiting months.
They say that the plan has
been a great success. The wffe
is in glowing health. She has
taken up a new line of work
recently and succeeded as she
has never done before. The
husband seems equally contented.
They claim that they have
escaped the anxiety, peevishness
and boredom which usually ac-
companies these months, and
enjoy each other better than ever
when they do meet.
Put suppose you had other
babies?" / asked.
WED follow the same plan,"
my friend answers.
The other children would be
put into nurseries and schools
which would be much better for.
everyone concerned and my hus-
band would vacation as he's
doing now. It's the only way"
l wonder. l also wonder how
she'd manage If she were not
able to earn her own living-or
If her husband did not happen
to approve of the scheme.
What do YOU think? I'd like
to know.
The Washington times., 1928-02-20
MODIFYING
WEDLOCK

TIME notifications that are now
L taking place in the form of
marriage have been rendered
possible by a new attitude toward
the whole subject of sex. The
tabu on sex which had been
handed down from medieval days
and indeed had it's origin in the
ideas of primitive savagery-has
been broken. Those whose
memories extend thirty years back
can recall how at that time it
was almost impossible for the
young, whether boy or girl, to
obtain any reliable information
on questions of sex from parents
or teachers, or to find any book
(unless we except the Bible which
satisfied their natural curiosity.
The only available sources of in.
formation supplied what was
more misleading than no knowl.
edge at all.
Today the situation has totally
changed. The young of today
are calm in the presence of life
because they are no longer tor
mented by its embarrassing
mysteries -Havelock Ellis in The
Forum Magazine.
The Washington times., 1928-02-20

TH A T E u :
= genie Baby
has s t a r t e d
strange specula-
ton.
OF course,
ou' We read
about widowed
Mrs. Burnham
who longed for
a child but did
not wish to re-
marry, so had a
baby "by ar
+ a n 6 e m e n t, +"
then sent the
eugenically Sc
lected father on
his way. Where
upon a storm
of di sc u ssion
swept the coun-
try.
S o m e t h i ng
strange about
that discussion
49, you'd think
The Washington times., 1928-02-20
ONCE-OVERS

If You Do You're Scandal-mOnger
you listen to them.
times when don't want to listen they to
Perhaps person talked good friend merely
acquaintance.
What do do about it?
Go and pedde of adding that cannot
it you do not believe it, but you tell it, don't you
the to whom the bit of gossip tells the
and adds well nfomants the morse
If the rumor includes girl married person. "
interest for in all probability
You cannot rest till have told
You would object to being called scandalmonger
But haven't been responsible for the circulation Of many
evil friends?
These told tWice alike N
They they spread; don assist in their cr"on
The Washington times., 1928-02-20

1t is some relief to weep; grief
is satisfied and carried off by
tears. Ovid.
The visible world is but man
turned inside out, that he may be
revealed to himself.
Henry James.
The silly when deceived exclaim
loudly; the fool complains; the
honest man walks away and is
silent. La Noue.
Our country! In her intercourse
with foreign nations, may she al
ways be in the right; but our
country, right or wrong.-Decatur
The procrastinating man is ever
struggling with ruin.-Hesiod.
The Washington times., 1928-02-20
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

Consequences are IMPLYING. Our
deeds carry their terrible conse-
quences quite apart from any fluc-
tuations that went before-conse-
quences that are hardly ever con-
fined to ourselVes.-George Eliot.
Hope is loves staff.-Shake-
speare.
He who does not make his
word rather serve to conceal
than discover the sense of his
heart deserves to have it pulled
out like a traitors and shown
publicly to the rabble. Butler.
The law Is the last result OF
human wisdom acting upon hui
man experience for the benefit
of the public. johnson.
The Washington times., 1928-02-20

GEST TIL A r
M A r r I A G E
SHOULD FOL-
Low NATURE
IN E " E r Y.
THING, BUT I
c z r r A INLY
II II / " K IT
S HO L Id IN
r H / S r. e
SPECT."
T h e woman
who wrote that
letter is not a
freak" or a
raical. She Is
a good, steady.
sensible Ameri-
can wife. re-
spected by her
n e / & h b o r 8 +.
adOred by her
family. Yet such
is her sincere
belief. .
One OF my
friends is fol-
The Washington times., 1928-02-20
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland

These De-Natured Modern Lovers
A MAN used to tell a girl that
N he loved her, before trying
to kiss her. Now he takes the
precaution to assure her that he
DOESN'T love her, before con
senting" TO kiss her.
In order TO survive what the
modern youth calls his love max
ing, girls lipstick must be kiss.
proof, her emotions shock proof,
and her vanity bullet-proof.
According, to debutante, the
only way girl can get man TO
rush her these days is to send
her fathers car for him. meet him
at the door and tie him to the
divan.
Most of the laws that maize
marriage look so binding, are the
"unwritten laws" that are never
mentioned in the contract.
There is nothing absolute about
love. What is love" to a college
boy would seem like burlesque to
a polished philander, and what is
love to a poet would seem like
paranoia to a hard-boiled bust
ness man.
In every model husband. there
turks somewhere dead Don
Juan. whose wrath steals back to
haunt him with the coming OF
the new spring moon.
The only thing more striking
about this unromantic age. than
the average mans casual, YOU
may-kiss-me" attitude, is the beau
tiful humility with which the
average girl accepts it.
The trouble with the average
marriage is that it contains TOO
many Chimes" and too few
Thank yous."
Distance may lend enchantment
but propinquity gets the man.
The Washington times., 1928-02-20
Pine Writing
AVOID It As You Would Any Mental Disease

lady in sad predicament and truly out Of luck,
cowboys put it, thus in acotch newspapers novel;
q wndbOwn control With low
reatu On
iresisbly. until
IN Not tense
blank entirely helpless
sucking Pitessy held IN his spell
sublectOn until length
they fafaway which dd NOT
broke whinperingY
domino TIM pOWe hDs
That is what people, including presumably the writer
of the quotation would call fine writing Il Is attempt
make WORDS take the place Of IDEAS and make eaggra
tion take the place Of truth.
Avoid such writing you write avoid such talking when
talk and avoid such methods prepare advertising
Everybody writes talks prepares advertising Many Of
us do all three.
The FINEST writing is the SIMPLEST writing. The most
famous passage the English language perhaps made
Of ten words, all very simple
ITO be or not to be; that is the question"
You couldn't make that MUCH simpler
Another famous line by Shakespeare at the end OF
Hamlets tragedy. THE rest is silence"
That is powerful because it tells all that is needed COM
peng him who reads hears the words to think and feel
ON HIS OWN ACCOUNT
Fine writing of different inferior kind you will find in
Coeridge's Ancient Mariner
Powerful good writing you will find in hundred writer's
you will notice that all of them write simply and in no
try to do fine writing
That which is truly fine comes of itself.
The Washington times., 1928-02-20
q ROW on -TANkg. IN BRIrAIN,g .MEcHANIzED ToRcE.

During the war you read about tanks -caterpillal
first introduced the United Etates for agriculture
then covered with armor and used for killing men.
The Washington times., 1928-02-20

Most of the laws that mate
marriage look so binding, are the
"unwritten laws that are never
mentioned in the contract.
The Washington times., 1928-02-20

lady in sad predicament and truly out Of luck "
cowboys put it, described in Scotch newspaper novel;
The Washington times., 1928-02-20

In order TO survive what the
modern youth calls his love max
ing, a girls lipstick must be kiss.
proof, her emotions shock proof,
and her vanity bullet-proof.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-09-19
grand JURY TO ACT
ON fRATRICIDE Case
Summoned to Meet Sen.
tember Is on Weiss
Fratricide

The grand jury will be sum-
moned Tuesday, September 25, to
hear the information against Sam
uel Weiss OF this city, in superior
court. the charge being murder.
Weiss is under constant guard al
Hartford county Jail awaiting trail
as the result OF the death of his
brother. John Weiss. and two
friends, John Stehr and Stein, who
drank home brew in which Samuel
Weiss is alleged to have put cyan
ide. a deadly poison.
in the event of an indictment. ar
rangement will be made for trial
by jury, Attorney McDonough hav-
ing announced that he will choose
it rather than a trial by judges.
The local police will testify before
the grand jury and it is expected
that Mrs. Katherine Weiss. widow
of the victim and admitted para
mour of the alleged murdered,
will testify for the state. She is at
Hartford county Jail on the techni-
cal charge Of breach of the peace
and Attorney Cornelius J. Danaher
of Meriden has been retained to re-
present her interests. The police
having been unable to fasten COM
plicity in the crime upon her. it is
probable that the technical charge
will not be pressed.
At the opening of the September
term of superior court for Hart
ford county yesterday. 60 cases
were put to plea before Judge Allen
l.. Brown, among them being the
following from New Britain Hans
L. Christopher. violation of the
motor vehicle law in West Hartford
guilty; Adolph Mankus. theft of au-
tcmobile of T. p. McAuliffe, guilty;
William Frazer and Walter Ferry,
intoxication. guilty: Mrs. Stanley
Trazaska, violation of the liquor
law. guilty: Efrem Noveck, liquor
law violation, not guilty.
Ferry and Frazer have been in
Jail for the past few months, hav-
ing been bound over. the former on
the charge of taking an automobile
without permission Of the owner,
and the latter on charges of driv-
ing while under the influence of Ii
quor. taking an automobile without
permission Of the owner. and driving
without an operators license. but
the charges were reduced by the
states attorneys office.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-09-19
Detective QUIzzED
FOR TRACKING MAN
Sleuth COnyinces Police He
Is on Legitimate
Errand

A. j. Curtin, Pinkerton de-
tective, was taken to the police sta
ton yesterday afternoon by Ser
geant P. J. O'Mara and detained for
an explanation of his reason for
shadowing J. T. Foster of Nepaug
street. Hartford, throughout the
morning and afternoon. The SER
geant also brought Frank x. Chabot
Of ass Maple street, Hartford, to the
station, Chabot being. taxi driver
hired by Curtin to drive him be-
hind Fosters car.
According to Curtin, he was as
signed to trail Foster, who is a
salesman for John Wyeth and Bro
thers of Philadelphia, Pa, man.
ufacturers of prescription drugs
Foster reported to Officer Clarence
Lanpher that he had observed the
automobile with an 20" marker de-
noting that it was for hire. from the
time he left his home in the morning
Officer Lanpher nc flied Sergeant
bout the city and observed that they
were followed. TIL. j, stopped at a
drug store on Stanley street, an
other at East and Dwight another
on South Main street and finally
enc on Broad street. and each time
the 20" marker car was right be-
hind them, stopping a short dis
tance away and taking up the trail
when they left.
Foster was nonplussed. not know
ing whether he was 10 be waylaid or
what the purpose OF the trailing was.
Sergeant O'Mara satisfied himself
after hts interview with the Pinker-
ton man and his chauffer that
they were on a legitimate mission
and allowed both to go. Foster said
he knew no reason why the detec-
tive should have been put on his
trail; but the police gathered from
Curtln's explanation that the sales
mans employers were keeping a
check on his NOV vementA
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-09-19
Hoover Is Urged to
Campaign in Texas

Washington. Sept. 19 R-An au-
peal to Herbert Hoover to carry his
campaign to Texas was made today
by Thomas b. Love, former demo-
cratic national committeeman for
that state, and a delegation Of Tex
as democrats who called on the re-
publican presidential candidate at
his headquarters.
I'VE assured him that Texas Is a
doubtful state and that he could
carry it if he would make a speech
there" said Love, who spoke for the
visitors. None OF us ever has vot-
ed for any presidential candidate
other than a democratic one before.
The Texas democrats are In open
revolt against Al Smith. We still
are democrats, but are for Hoovsr." :"
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-09-19
Charge ELECTIONS
ARE PR0STITUIED
Senate Committee Hears Testi-
mony Regarding Yare
MANY ARGUMENTS OCCUR
Within Pittsburgh Republican Or
ganization Cause Of Violent
Wrangling in Washington Hearing

Washington. Sept. 19 pa
charge that small group within the
Pittsburgh republican organization
regularly prostitutes elections. made
today before the senate committee
considering the right of William S.
Ware Of Pennsylvania to his seat in
the senate. precipitated violent argu-
ment and recrimination from the
attorneys engaged.
c. c. McGovern. chairman of the
Pittsburgh registration commission
under the Pinchot administration,
made the statement, answering
questions for counsel for William B.
Wilson. democrat. who is contesting
Wares seat.
Allowed to Testify
McGovern was allowed to testify.
in substantiation of his charge that
in the 1927 county primary election
about 200 election officials had been
convicted of wrongful acts in ham
ding the ballots. Chairman Water
man ruling that though this election
was year after the Ware election
the Wilson forces were entitled to
show--if they could-''a continuing
conspiracy to defraud in elections" !"
Rowland B. Mahany. asked if it
was not true that the republican or
ganization had~defehded the con-
victed election officiaia and further
II "CharIes 3. Pritchard, an attor-
ney for Mr.. Ware now here was not
a lawyer In the case"
That's vile insinuation, made
for spite in the endeavor to accuse
wrongfully the Pittsburgh republ,-
can organization" Pritchard cried.
leaving his seat at the table.
McGovern was turned over to Ed
ward Kelly, chief of the Ware coun-
sci for cross-examination and for
some moments the colloguy threat
ened to get the investigation into a
(COntinued on Page 15)
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-09-19
Tear Gas Bombs ROut
Striking Prisoners

Baltimore, Sept. 10 R)-Tear gas
bombs were used today to quell
striking prisoners about 200 in
number in Maryland penitentiary
who again broke out in revolt, bar
ricading themselves in their cells
with chains stripped from their cots
and hurting bottles and chair legs
at Warden Patrick Brady and
guards.
Gas bombs were turned on recall
cltrant prisoners at one end of the
west colonnade. The gas subdued
the rioters in that section quickly
and the same treatment will be Civ
en- the others it they refuse to break
their barricades