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The Washington times., 1928-08-03

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The modern wife may help bring
home bacon and bear half the
household expenses, but where
will any woman find man who
will do half the marketing, half
the planning and half the worry
ing when the cook is late?
she may cheerfully pay half the
bills for the imported china. the
drawing room curtains, and the
table linen-but what man ever
lay awake nights figuring out
how to place the furniture. or In
sisted on ironing the embroidered
doilies with his own fair hands?
When a man actually taxes care
of his OWN clothes, counts his
own laundry, and picks up his
own shoes. half the neighbors APP
pIaud him as a World-wonder, and
the other half secretly despise
him as a "henpecked husband.
He. himself, feels that he Is
something between martyr and
a molIycodd1e. He doesn't know
whether he should be wearing a
halo, a gold medal or fools cap.
A normal man never asks,
Have you seen my hat2' He
asks, "Where'd you PUT My
hat?"
He doesn't inquire thoughtfully,
What shall we have for dinner
today" He demands, royalty,
well, what've we GOT for din
ner2''
He never suggests sweetlys
Come, lets put up the new cur
tains, dear
He groans. Have / GOTTA put
up those curtains"
The Washington times., 1928-08-03

steam is little known to Albania.
Gasoline fumes have hardly yet
begun to pollute the air.
Albania. land of the Eagle. long
under the tyrannical sway of the
Turk. is now free to take its place
among the nations of the world.
Where bronzed girls with yelled
countenances Carried stone jars to
the cool mountain stream to be
filled and hand.hewn forked
ploughs made shallow burrows in
the rich soil. modern water sys-
TENS and up-to-date tractors are
being introduced. Albania will
aeon Join the Western world In
economic development.
The Washington times., 1928-08-03
THREE-MINUTE JOURNEYS
y Temple Manning.

NIRANA is the capital Of a very
i small but interesting country.
Albania. Here, five hours travel
across the Adriatic Sea from the
neei OF Italy, one may find ro-
nance. Amid cluster of white
washed huts with lowered walls
and cobble-stoned payements. tall
mountaineers armed with silver
ornamented pistols and knives
strut proudly through the crowded
bazaars. From tile ininarets Of
the mosques come the musical
voices OF the muezzins call at
sunset. In the market places, as
IN the fields, the peasants fall to
their knees facing the East to
give their prayers to Allah. their
- smoke mars the horfzon. far
The Washington times., 1928-08-03
The Archbishop Goes
THE Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. ~
I've Flrst Time 81 Reeord.

THE Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Randall Davidson.
primats 81 al England resigns his high office No
British primae did that before The king accepts
Reverend Cosmo Gordon Long Archbishop York
becomes primate.
The rejection Of his revised prayerbook BY the Commons
supposed have caused the Archbish0p resignation
The book not changed much only few words here
and there But the low church crowd really rule England
They thought the prayerbook getting
Catholicism its rejection
Is possible that the aged Archbishop believes that TIE
Ruler Of million globes each million times bigger than
really what feeble words ii pitifu
petitions?
The Washington times., 1928-08-03
Two and Three Cars tOa Family
That Will Come With More Prosperity, and Soon

HIS country has, running 100000 automobiles and
Any bird that might have wings preferred to be hop
toad would be foolish And the Of il that 100000
American individuals and corporations have than
to family.
Horses eat when not used Automobiles do NOT. Two
with grown children that will be the rule bird needs
wings The nation cars $780,
900 new cars year, each car lasts five years
The Washington times., 1928-08-03
just a Glance Of Sunlight
The Farmer Would Like Such Clean.

HERE little CLEAN of sunshine for deserving rail
roads The Interstate Commerce Commission says the
Government pay them $1500OOOO year carry
ing mails and must refund to the railroads
for having paid the roads too little since 1925.
Railroads that the mail must know how Moses and
his friends felt when the began fall they
first mcuhfu Of it. Sixty million dollars O mamma
not thing to
The farmer he reads about that viii probably wish
his farm railroad at least that the farmers organ
cations knew how to like railroads get money
railroads do
The Washington times., 1928-08-03

When he wants to sleep late
on Sunday mornings. it's HIS
house, but when the furnace
won't work, it's why do you
keep YOUR house so cold?"
Man has escaped all these soul
narrowing. little domestic respon-
sibiIities ever since Eve furnished
the first meal. And he will never
he so stupid as to take them on
himself voluntarily!
And even when one of them
DOES try it, he usually makes
such muddle OF IT that woman
Is only too glad to hand him his
hat and his golf clubs and tell
him to run out and play" while
she straightens things out.
The Washington times., 1928-08-03
!. Wise Britain
Better to Feed Than to Fight Men.

0F 12O0000O workers in Britain 1S2OOOO work
~ Some Of the nonworking class taste
for work after the experience the majority
deserving workers Britain wisely that these idle get
enough to live, taxes supplying enough.
Pauperizng You may call III But Britain knows
paupeSng less dangerous than revolution 100000 des
perate men could make trouhle.
The Washington times., 1928-08-03
MEDITATIONS
OF a WIFE
BY Helen Rowland.
The Imniovable Sex

Tie Imn1OYaDEe Sex
LIVERY now ana then, some
~ man rises up ii court and
protests violently that his wife.
makes him wash the dishes, for
which indignity he demands 4 di.
vorce.
All Of which. goes 70 prove that
the beautiful theory of the fifty
fifty marriage does not work ex-
cept in the imagination. It is
still just 3 sweet dream!
The Washington times., 1928-08-03
The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times
FIJI each blank :

Fill each blank:
i. Food Administrator in
during
2. If salt IS added to water, it will boil temper
Linen the white bark layer of the plant.
Il Air is q mixture Of number of
5. Joseph Priesty usually regarded
yso you
s. What is q mooncaf?
Il How Is distilled obtained?
of q and steady of
indicate?
happens to swee Flowed to
On what great problem did the bred
bearing
Match correctly:
IL. Ravenna commercial center of Asia
Is. Seattle Contains the
IA. Calcutta Active
Toronto One Of the cities Coast
kAnsWerS On Fiction Page)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-29
A Curious Misnomer.

Members of the Iowa Thomas Circle
Citizens Association are undoubtedly
correct in their idea that the name of
the first-named park should be changed
to Logan Circle. Their announced cam
paign, to be prosecuted by a special
committee appointed at their last meet
ing, is praiseworthy and should attain
an early success.
Practically every other circle and
square in the District. it is pointed out,
which contains statue is called by the
name of the subject of that statue, or
of one of several statues. Others which
do not possess such pieces of sculpture
are designated by the name of some out
standing American. Just why the circle
at the intersection of Rhode Island ave-
nue. and Vermont avenue is called Iowa
Circle has puzzled many a Washing
tonian, not to mention many a tourist
1t is said to have been named originally
for visitor from that State.
Whatever the reason may have been,
it is no good now, provided it ever was.
The circle contains the heroic likeness
of notable military and civil servant of
the Republic. native and citizen of
illinois, Iowa avenue is far away. Logan
Circle and no other is the proper desig-
nation OF this space. The sooner such
occasional Inconsistencies in District
and there remain a few,
are mopped up the better.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-29

crease their wagers as time passes, with
the desperate determination of the gam
bier to recover in one stroke all that has
been lost and something more.
Perhaps no prosecutions and punish
ments can ever completely cure this
evil, for the gambling instinct is strong,
and while it prevails there is always
overweening temptation to set up
schemes that allure the bettors and al
ways leave margin of profit for the
promoters. The gamble on the part of
the managers of these schemes is with
the law, not with the chances of the
lottery, for they are sure to win heavily
with every drawing" 1t behooves the
police, therefore, to reduce their margin
of security by persistent watchfulness
and repeated raids, and thus to do
whatever is possible to protect the fool
ish folks from loss through their credu-
lous cupidity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-29
UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today.

Pershing's army, after a three-day
struggle through mile after mile of
seemingly insuperable barriers, consti-
tuting the Germans formidable de-
lenses of masonry, steel, wire and pit
falls, is fighting on in the rain to the
fourth and last line of the defenses,
known as kriemhilde-Stel Our men
cut through defenses that had stood
for four years. 1t is a task
for brave hearts, as our men cut through
a wire zone two and a half miles deep.
with its maze of trenches, concrete and
traps. with German machine guns and
shippers picking them off as they ad-
vance. London officials call
this past week "the most amazing
week" Of the war. Total number of
prisoners captured by allies probably
exceeds 100000, half of them taken in
Palestine. The French smash
on toward Laon, push on in Champagne,
and against heavy resistance they gain
west of the Argonne toward Vouziers
and thrust north of La Fere.
Advance of King Albert's forces in Flan-
derS continues unchecked as DiXmude
is taken and five other towns are over
run. In great new often
Sive north of st. Quentin the forces
under Marshal Haig, including Ameri-
cans, make a notable advance. Many
towns fall in a 30-mile attack, and the
British are now at the edge of Cam
brai Three hundred and
seventy-seven casualties on today's list
bring the grand total for American
forces to 95,943 since we entered the
war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-29
The Old Lottery Game.

Raids conducted in this city yesterday
resulted in several arrests on a charge
OF conducting a lottery which. it is al
legged has f1ourished here for some time
and which has netted its promoters
large sum of money In the trial of the
cases developing from this action it may
be expected that light will be thrown
upon the latest manifestation of the
disposition Of a certain element in the
population to gamble on uncertainties.
This lottery, as described, is merely
variation-and not entirely new at that
of former methods of separating the
easy-money fraternity from their cash
1t is like the old policy game, in that
it IS worked on the basis of combina-
tions of numerals. 1t is an evolution of
the now outlawed and abandoned form
OF straight lottery, in which few num-
bers we're taken by chance from a re-
ceptacle containing thousands, these
being the winners on a descending scale
of reward.
In the game of Numbers" as it is
styled, the winner is the one who selects
three figures in the right order. CORE
spending to the daily reports of bank
clearances and balances. The chances
against winning are computed to be
one thousand to one, while the rate of
reward for a correct guessing averages
six hundred to one. Thus there is a per-
centage of at least four hundred out of
a thousand in favor of the bank" or
operator Of the lottery Bets are taken
as low as one cent.
Great mischief has been done in the
past by these lotteries and number gam
bles in this city. They are insidiously
promoted, with the temptation of big
winnings held out to the players, who
become addicted to the practice, sus-
tanned throughout repeated losses by the
everlasting hope of recouping and WIN
ming big profits. They are prone to in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-29

the last session the commission has
power to acquire all of the lands within
the triangle not already owned by the
United States. The actual ownership
at present consists of the five square
site" at the western end of the triangle
on which is to be located the Com
merce Department Building, with a
Dark setting on the north; the two
square site between Tenth and Twelfth
streets, on which the Internal Revenue
Building is now being erected; the Post
Office Department square, occupied for
many years, and the site on which now
stands the Center Market In addition
there is the square occupied by the
Southern Railway office, for the pur-
chase of which arrangements have been
made, and Immediately to the west is
the District Building. The land now
proposed for early acquisition COM
prises the four squares bounded by
Twelfth, Thirteenth and B streets and
Pennsylvania avenue. On this site will
be erected the independent Office build
ings. In addition to this area the COM
mission will shortly proceed to secure
the site set apart for the Archives
Building, bounded by Ninth. Tenth and
B streets and Pennsylvania avenue.
This great building program is progress
sing steadily and consistently and at
rate to promise completion within a
decade if appropriations are continued
as rapidly as the purchase of land and
progress of construction permit. The
of Washington. after
many years of waiting. is in process.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-29

gether new paths in airplane design
paths already presaged by the hell
copter. not only reducing the danger of
helicopter flying, but also lessening the
risks now involved in taking off and
alighting with the best standard mod
els of heavier-than-ai machines"
Xxx X
The mishap which came two days
after the successful flight, in the judg-
ment of the Newark Evening News, in
no wise took away from the significance
Of the earlier accomplishment" and
that paper draws the conclusion: LAS
cities are hurrying to build aviation
fields, realizing the necessity of keep
ing pace with this amazing new means
or communication, a development ap-
pears which may render these fields, in
their present sprawling FORM unneces-
sary. That long, running start, which
is now required in order to give plane
sufficient momentum to take the air,
IS one OF the most serious handicaps of
present-day flying. Granting the auto
gyro proves its practicability in future
tests, it may mean the realization of
the vision of planes rising from and
descending on the roofs of buildings
and spaces no larger than a city build
ing lot. With this new facility, there
would nave been taken another wide
and spectacular step in aviation"
The golden age of flying is at
hand!' eXclaims the Providence Bulle-
TIN, and the Allentown Call sees "a de-
Velopment which promises to be
epochal." The Dayton Daily News sug-
gestS: Flat rooftops, when the aerial
age daWnS in earnest, could readily be
converted into miniature airports for
craft like the autogyro. With possibil-
ity OF the breakage. which caused the
recent accident, removed, the autogyro
would be foolproof and almost acct
dentproof." The New York Times
holds that ''for general use the auto
gyro promises to be a rival of the air
plane"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-29
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

efficient production of household equip
ment. foodstuffs and other goods and
services used in the home.
O. Into what classes are the world
possessions Of Great Britain divided
w. E. M.
A. They are divided into dominions.
colonies and dependencies.
@. How much wealth do the negroes
of the United States possess?-S. w.
A. The wealth or property of negroes
is estimated at about 50. 900 900 600 The
increase in negro wealth has been more
than S50000,000 annually for the past
several years.
O. What was Queen Vlctoria's nick
name among her relatives?-R. D.
A. In the bosom of her family. Queen
Victoria was known as Ganny-Gan.
@. How was mail transported In
colonial days?-A. T.
A. In the English colonies in America
before 1889 such postal facilities as ex-
listed were supplied by private enter
prise In 1899 the General Court Of
Massachusetts took the first step to-
ward the establishment OF a Govern
ment postal system. In Virginia each
planter was required to convey the dis
patches, as they arrived, to the next
plantation. and so on. In 1872 the
government of New York established
monthly mail to Boston, and this prac-
tice was followed in other colonies.
Benjamin Franklin was identified with
the early interests of the colonial post
Office. In 1887 he was appointed post
master of Philadelphia. In 1883 the
delivery of letters by penny post was
begun. In ITS the colonies combined
to establish their own post Office and
to pay the necessary officials. The
Continental Congress appointed a COM
mittee to devise a postal system which
went into effect July rs. IT'S. Benjamin
Franklin was unanimously appointed
Postmaster General.
@. Was San Francisco under martial
law at the time of the fire in 1862
P. D.
A. During the earthquake and fire in
San Francisco, April, 1906, the city was
placed under military control with Gen.
Funston in command, acting in con-
junction with the city authorities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-29

There is no other agency in the world
that can answer as many legitimate
questions as our free Information Blu
reau in Washington, D. c. This highly
organized institution has been built up
and is under the personal direction OF
Frederic j. Haskin. BY keeping in con-
slant touch with Federal bureaus ana
other educational enterprises 1t is In
position to pass on to you authoritative
information of the highest order. Sub
NIT your queries to the staff OF experts
whose services are put at your free DIS
poSal. There is no charge except
cents in coin or stamps for return post
age. Address The Evening Star 1nfor-
nation Bureau. Frederic j. Haskln, dl-
rector, Washington, d. C.
@. Did any States pass laws in 1927
against the teaching of evolution III the
Schools?-L. r.
A. No legislative action was taken.
In the Arkansas Legislature such a
measure passed the House, but was
tabled without action by the Senate. A
similar measure was killed in committee
in the New Hampshire Legislature. In
Tennessee the Supreme Court upheld
the 3onstitutionality OF the anti-evolu-
ton law.
@. How many students attend the
University of Hamburg?-D. N.
A. 1t has about 1000 students.
@. How was the money raised for the
building of the National Academy Of
Sciences?--C. v.
A. The Carnegie Corporation of New
York made a gift of S5,000000 for the
erecting and maintaining of building
in Washington for the housing of the
academy and the National Research
Council.
@. How many counties formed the
Irish Free State?-R. w. G.
A. The 26 Southern counties were
erected into the Irish Free State. and
the Northern counties were conSti-
tuted the government Of Northern
Ireland.
@. When was the United States
Bureau of Home Economics estab-
liShed?-C. r.
A. 1t was established in 1923. It fills
a dual role Its findings are valuable
to those who are interested in intelligent
consumption and to those interested IN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-29
Smith on the Stump.

Gov. Smith is winding up his first
campaign tour tonight with an address
in Milwaukee. He has made his appeal
to the States of the West. 1t is per-
haps entirely too early to estimate cor
rectly the effect of this trip But there
is not the slightest doubt in any ones
mind that Gov. Smith received warm
welcome in the States which he visited
and that great crowds came to see and
hear him. 1t would be a foolish pol
itician who predicted that all the voters
who go to see and hear a candidate for
President will step into the voting
booths on election day and cast their
ballots for him. Certainly Gov. Smith.
veteran campaigner, would make no
such claim.
But whether the crowds that heard
Smith, in person and over the radio,
during his Western trip vote for him
or not, they have been afforded an
opportunity to judge for themselves the
character and kind of man the Demo-
cratic party has put forward for the
presidency this year. To all that great
territory lying west of the Mississippi
and in the valley. Smith has been little
more than name, connected with the
Sidewalks of New York" and a re-
markable success in his campaigns in
the Empire State. For Gov Smith dur
ing his long tenure of Office in New
York has not been a great traveller, but
a stay-at-home governor, attending to
his job
The New York Governor has spoken
of many subjects and issues in his
Western trip now ending. He has
opened an aggressive drive against the
Republicans on the farm problem and
it is probable that what he has had to
say on that issue will make or
fail to make him in the West. He has
defended himself against the whisper
ing campaign" which he says has been
directed against him on account of his
church affiliation and his known wet
views. He has sought to give the peo-
pie of the West the same kind of pic
ture of himself which the voters of New
York have had. In large measure he
has succeeded.
Reports of the Smith progress through
the West have indicated real en-
thusiaSm among many of the people
who saw and heard the governor. He
is virlle, picturesque figure, per-
sonality which cannot fail to impress.
In measure, the Democratic nominee
for President was compelled to go CAM
paigning, and the judgment of his party
managers was that he must be sold
to the bigger electorate of the country
as he has been sold to the electorate OF
his own State. A front porch" cam
paign would not do in the case of Gov
Smith. Before election day he will
make several more campaign trips, an
other into the Middle West, and trips
to the South and the East. Whatever
the result in November, the country will
have seen Gov. Smith in his fighting
clothes, battling as he has so often in
the past in his New York campaigns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-29
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHnANDER JOHNSON
Old Home Town,

Old Home Town.
And still / love my old Home Town
The streets I now look up and down,
And scrutinize the buildings high
Which do not let me see the sky.
Where once beneath a tree we met
And whispered words remembered yet,
A big Gas Station. night and day,
Serves customers with grand display.
Where bosses came with gentle grace,
Big motors crowd the parking space.
1 feel regrets that none can blame.
The old Home Town is not the same.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-29
Public Building Progress.

Authorization by the Public Buildings
Commission of steps to acquire title to
four of the squares within the Mall
Avenue triangle for construction pur-
poses carries this process Of Govern
ment building provision forward in
practical and satisfactory Nnanner,
Under the act of Congress nAsed at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-29
Orator Among Friends.

OTdtUF AMONG FFIendS.
why didn't you reply to the gentle
man who heckled you?"
Il didn't have time" answered Sem
ator Sorghum. He was gently, but
firmly, led from the hall with such
rapidity that he wouldn't have been
able to hear me-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-29

1t was shown by dear Mrs. Malaprop
that slight misuse of language does
not prevent heart from being in it's
right place. No campaign speaker be-
fore the plain people is likely to suffer
seriously from meticulous efforts ito
cast aspersions on his parts of speech"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-29

Siberian Railways? Must we always
send our children back into the past to
learn how bad and how good men were
in times not like ours? Business is
here. and here to stay. And, thank
heaven. it has no such tales of woe to
put into verse. drama. history and essay
as one fIN on every page of the
chronicles bTwar. politics and religion!"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-29

The present campaign begins to look
like fine fight and it would not be
surprising if Tex Richard felt some
disappointment because he was not per-
mittcd to figure in some way as a
promoter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-29

His address to the Republican con-
vention in Massachusetts will reveal
President Coolidge As man no less
positive in what he does choose than
in what he does not.