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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-11
HERE STANDS THE ROBOT"

FIRST men IMAGINE thing pretend that it real write
poems about it. Later they actually create it
Virgil Of Daeda1u flying from Crete safety and
of his falling to death when the melted his
waxen wings.
Thousands Of little American boys learned poem about
Darius Green, who tried to fly and failed
Millions older Americans who should known better
laughed when Langley first and then the Wright Brothers.
began serious work what is the modern airplane.
Now the world flies.
Mary Shelley wife of the great poet wrote the story
Frankenstein Of artificial monster made in the
image Of The story brilliantly told perhaps with
little help from the 1ady husband although the ardent
feminist would resent that suggestion, told Of monsrcus
artificial created by human intelligence and pursuing its
own creator.
That stage of fiction is past and men actually
creating the so-called robot machine NOT INTELLI
GENT, or COURSE FOR THAT WILL NEVER BE GRE
ATED but machine able do many things that only men
have done hitherto
Government mechanical machine that, being
called the telephone questions the height
of in other questionable questions
arranged of course advance with the depending
on the actual conditions
Here you see picture of the mechanical man manufactured
in England, in Surrey.
This chair certain question:
shake hands, tell the time and sit down when told to do
This not creature worry labor unions make the
ditch digger subway dread Of his job
But the other hand it is thing to be laughed at
nor is it thing to be hated feared.
Men should welcome any invention that does away with
brutal firing labor.
INTELLIGENCE will never be created artifically.
Work requiring intelligence initiative and DECISION viii
be done by any but human beings of human
mothers.
And these mechanical Creatures able to do hard onoo
nous work. hovels do the digging in place Of
men, should be welcomed by the workers.
The only work that human beings do intelligent
work demanding the qualities of human being.
The foolish laughed at the flying machine others that
foolish will laugh at this robot
will welcome the possibility of greater mechanical
efficiency greater for real beings greater
powers of production
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-11
Political Activities of Civil
Service Employees

@IvIL SERVICE employees may be swept off their feet
~ by defiant utterance the subject OF tner rgn'
indulge political fights and the freedom OIL sPeeCn
guaranteed them and all others under Constitution
They may be disposed rebel old rules ana
of the Civil Service Commission forbiddlng UNDUE pocal
activities but they should forget that the
purpose of these really PROTECTION OF employees IN
holding their positions.
II has not been so long since the spois method oil
amendments to Government positions prevailed Men ana
were unsafe in their places Each in national
administrations brought with it wholesale dismlssas OF
employees whose political affiliations opposed to the party
In power Between dsmissals were frequent
Changes were made other than to POSITIONS 10
supporters of in power Senator'S representatives
national committeeman charmen and others OF influence
asked for clersps departments and got them without
much trouble.
The idea of civil service end the evils Of the spos
sve to give security employees who faithfully
attended to their duties. It is the proper idea
nimicaI to would be offensive political activities
Ultimately such activities extensive the part OF civil
service employees would break down civil service and bring
back the spols game
There has never been objection to civil service workers
voting as they desire expressing their preferences in
open to privately contributing funds Inc
objections are to offensive activities such the distribution
of campaign literature and emblems taking active part in
political meetings rallies organizations making addresses
partisan efforts at the polls soliciting funds and votes and
marked Identification with any political movement.
made that ngn 0f11c1aR OF ne
ton in power do this and nterfrred with There
no penalty for their doing So that of losing their
positions party is defeated This penalty they take
chances of mourning and often do incur.
Civil service employees surely do not want to be subjected
penalty they want to take such chances then they
should be willing waive the protection of civil service laws
The principles civil service not observed fully
as they be- and political and personal favortlsm st
prevail in the Government service but not to the extent OF
causing dismssals from positions or of appointments on
political basis
workers vitality interested in supporting the
principles of civil service from top bottom these
principles i've then civil service employees will willingly
observe regulations intended protect them and to avoid
severe criticism.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-11
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
.By DE-. Brice Belden


VoUR enterprise, whatever it
4 may be, If it involves the
services of others. depends upon
their health and consequent eff.
cheney.
Your income, the very bread
and butter of yourself and your
family, if you are an employe.
must depend upon precisely the
same conditions.
Sickness records in industry are
becoming Of increasing interest.
Many firms now have we'll
stated and well-equipped medical
department, and they naturally
want to find out how 1t works.
1t is disconcerting to find most
remarkable differences between
different firms; in some the cost
Of the sick ward goes up and up.
The sickness absenteeism goes up
with it, In others the reverse
seems to occur. 1t may be that
going early disease is discovered
that might otherwise progress
until the employee is totally dis
abled. 1t may be that in some
instances slack employees take
advantage of an inexperienced or
oyer-cautious medical officer.
In this investigation into the
problems of few special firms a
~ Oh 80
found, varying from two days to
eighteen days of sick leave per
worker per annum. The seasonal
variations were the same through.
out the whole series, however,
from the beginning of March to
the end of August there was a
steady decrease and thereafter a
gradual increase in the sickness
rates. This variation Is true alike
of clerical, factory and workshop
employees, engineers, transport
workers and cleaners.
The workroof staff, however,
had on the whole distinctly less
sickness than the clerical staff.
This IS interesting in view of the
popular assertion that the factory
and workroom make greater de-
MAIDS on the physique, while
the office demands more intelH-
gence, so that the strong children
go to the factory and the less
robust to the office. AS a matter
of fact this is not quite true.
Much factory work is quite light
and requires a high degree of in
telligence. 1t may be that the
clerical work attracts those who
are trying to be genteel and who
are therefore having a mental
conflict about their work, and
that this conflict predisposes
them to sickness.
There may also be more soul
satisfaction in producing some
definite object as the result of
ones work than in recording the
work of others, so that the fac
tory worker is at heart a more
contented person than the clerk.
Moreover the shop assistant is
in constant contact with that in
definable and infinitely variable
quantity-anothef-
Machines have moods, but not
as badly as some human beings,
and statesmen may find that this
constant adaptation, to an almost
limit!ess range of variation in
customers, may be a considerable
strain, again expressed in ILL
ness. The border line between
sickness and health Is a narrow
one, and there may be some re-
lation between . breakdown and
aetnx ted In :
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-11
LISTEN, WORLD!
/ HAVE MY FACE LIFTED
By Elsie Robinson

There are a good many ways of
going at it--but they're all hard.
Generally l start by looking up
the people who ] know will dis
agree with me. And letting them
disagree. / trot out my pet
notions and let my friends and
relations tramp on them. AS
tramping on pet notions is the
best thing friends and relations
generally like to do. / get lot OF
cooperation.
take up some new work
something that will make me
hustle for fresh ideas. / break up
my old programme. / try to root
out all the old, easy, flattering
habits that have been making
me soft.
Gradually / get back into shape
again, lust Is an athlete gets back
into training. / find that my
attitude is flexible once more
can think with a. wallop. The
lard is melting away from my
brain. There's a new glow of
sympathy and understanding in
nv imagination. The Fuckers and
wrinkles of intolerance and con.
ceit have smoothed out a bit.
OF course, they never disappear
entirely. I always retain my
share of human cussedness. But
| am able to make fresh start
now and then--and that's some
thing.
| think that goes for most of
us. We start out with a fairly
good set of ideas and habits and
think they will last our life out.
But they won't. They so soft on
us-iust as sagging muscles go
soft on us. We develop a lot of
surplus fat and slack. We need
to have our mental faces lifted
every so often if we want to
keep up with the parade.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-11
DO YOU KNOW THAT

The latest contribution of sci
ence to the art of whaling is the
shooting of harpoons several
hundred feet by special guns.
New Zealand exports about S.
000, 900 frozen rabbits and S,00O,-
900 RABBIT pelts annually.
Ice cream, frosted chocolates,
walnut sundaes, etc, are now
taking the place of wines in
France.
One thousand suits OF clothes
were sent to poor voters In
Nicara qua. The purpose Is to
allow them to make a presentable
-anpsaranss at SAA canainS zsSts~
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-11

Every little while I have my
face lifted.
No, I do not go to a plastic
surgeon. My original corduroy
contours are still intact. refer
to quite another kind of lift
A mental face lifting. Every
little while have my mental face
lifted.
I'll be jogging along comforta-
bly,, taking life easy. Then sud
denly some day III realize that
there's something wrong. Things
will begin to get my goat. Ill
find myself getting cranky and
intolerant. I'll begin to talk about
the Good Old Times and knock
new tangled ideas" I'll catch
myself looking back and wallow.
ing in a lot of old grief. I'll get
edgy II anyone suggests doing
anything new. I'll find that I'm
suspicious and resentful of new
ideas.
In short, I'll realize that I've
been getting set in my ways and
it's time to have my face lifted
again, for the old map has
slumped. Slumped into Fuckers
of intolerance, flabby folds OF
laZiness. mean little Jumps of con-
ceit. My mental muscles have
grown soft or stringy They're
making me unfit for the brisk
business of living. l need to take
up the slack.
So | have my mental face lifted.
But that's a lot harder job than
going to plastic surgeon. Al
most any good beauty tailor can
take seam in your phsiognomy,
but you're the only specialist who
can take a reef in your spirit and
tighten up your saRging attitude.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-11

The tallest commercial building
In England, a. History structure,
is planned for Manchester by a
cotton manufacturing firm.
Tea drinking is universal in
China. The wealthy have theirs
In private gardens, while the
cool1e gets his from street
Vender for a copper a cup.
Inc average man in France is
smoking more each year and
drinking less. Last year the con-
sumption Of tobacco reached Ill.
100000 pounds, about 5000 900
pounds more than in Great
Britain, WHICH has the sarus
snnnulakioM.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-11

One of the signs of mediocrity
of mind is the habit of always
telling stories. La Bruyere.
The use of travelling is to regu-
late imagination by reality, and,
instead of thinking how many
1hlngs may be, to see them as
'hey are. johnson.
lie that had never seen a river
imagined the first he met to be
the sea; and the greatest things
that have fallen within our knowl-
edge We conclude the extremes
that nature makes Of the kind
--Montaigne.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-11
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

Hazard not your wealth on a
poor mans advice. Manuel.
A lie which is half truth is
ever the blacklist of lies.
-Tennyson.
Forewarned, forearmed; to be
prepared is half the victory.
-CerVantes.
Humility is to make a right es-
innate of ones self. It is no HUI
mility for a man to think less of
himself than he ought, though it
might rather puzzle him to do
that. -Spurgeon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-11

A good friend is like a good
tooth, impossible to replace-but
once a friend and a tooth go bad
and start hurting YOU the wisest
thing to do is to have 'em OUT"
Many a woman Is happy ana
doesn't know it because the man
she thought that she could never
live without married the other
girl.
Better marry and be poor
mans chum than stay single and
be rich mans office fixture.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-11
The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

Do you know:
/. is longitude?
city ancient the of
Apollo?
8. In what city of Italy is the famous Pitt Palace?
4. How degrees in a circle?
When called Phlistne, what
6. What is a semaphore?
4. How many time belts there States?
Fill each blank:
/ 8 The chief of Italy is -.
r. 81 the Egyptian King who built the Great
Pyramid.
r. TO- The - is the important river Scotland.
Match correctly:
11Fontainebleau Birthplace
IL. Bethlehem Where Napoleon signed his abdication
13. Deppe Capitol of Wyoming
IA Cheyenne Where Lee to Grant
Is. Appomattox Court watering ace of France
HOUSE.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-11
ONCE-OVERS
BY ]. J. Mundy
Are You Ashamed of Friend Wife,

Are You Ashamed of Friend Wife,?
As successful line, that vour wife
haps, has advanced fast you have.
Yout thank fit
friends and acquaintance
business associations.
You compare your wife those you in social way
wife graceful
these women at public functions otherwise
You forget with seemingly adequate
long have
up they sufficiently educated their
insisted that wife her
home lie.
pay an you the
heah of family, perhaps.
duties and domestic
home subject how
put before opportunities to meet people gracious
your ashamed of the
sunk individuality that you might make marx
in tbs world -. - -
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-11

Why does any man think that
a woman who doesn't love him
before marriage can learn to
love him" afterward merely by
hanging up his clothes. counting
his laundry. sewing the buttons
on his plus-fours, and listening to
his early morning song in the
shower? But, shush! The funny
thing is that she sometimes does!
The modern girl spends less
time getting the tangles out or
her hair than her mother did
hut the tangles she has to
straighten out of her life. after
a few wild, free years. are far
more painful and irksome.
Funny, You see hundreds OF
statues to famous. prominent and
successful men in Washington,
but not one of the originals, as
far as we can ascertain, ever
owned a red sport car or prided
himself on his technique in a
rumble seat.
Apparently, it Is just az safe to
pick out a husband by counting
the buttons on his coat, Genie
meenie- ninie.mo," as by all the
eugenlc tests-just as safe TO
blindfold yourself and choose with
your heart as to keep your eyes
wide open and choose with your
Judgment.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-11
MECHANICAL
MOTORMAN

According to the opinion of
Roy J. Wensley, inventor of the
televox. street cars Of the future
will be operated by a mechani.
cal man fashioned of copper
veins, porcelain bones and tnsu-
lated wire nervous system, and
Esen1lun -tHhek ter vital aAxgana. :
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-11
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland.
OId.fashioned-But TRUE

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES True
WHEN a pair of perfectly good
w takers and poor listeners de-
eide to get married. the nearest
divorce lawyer can afford to order
his wife to a new sport car.
This modernistic furniture would
be all right, if you only knew
which piece to sit on and which
to put on the mantelpiece.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-13
A B C Powers Act

DU O3ttteU ITGSS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-The
A B c powers-Argentina, Brazil
and Chile-have initiated negoti-
ations seeking to avert war between
Bolivia and Paraguay, according to
information reaching delegates at
the Inter-American Cancellation
conference here today.
This revelation followed an
nouncement that Paraguay had
brought officially to the attention
of the state department and the
conference charges that Bolivia is
maSSing troops and munitions on
the Paraguayan frontier
The notes suggested that this
alleged concentration made war be-
tween the two South American
countries more imminent.
Despite this ominous note of ten
sion, Secretary of State Kellogg
chairman of the conference, held
today that the Paraguayan-Bo Bolivian
situation is less acute. He an
nounced that he had been informed
that Argentina would not object to
any action which might be taken by
the American conference to
prevent war.
Bolivian minister Diez de Medina
told the United Press massing of
troops would be natural and pure
ly defensive measure against fur
Their possible attacks from Para
quay.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-13
Groceries Stolen From Store

Nathan Burnett, 1902 West Nc
Carly street, reported to police that
burglars kicked a panel out Of a
rear door of his grocery and stole
500 worth of groceries, candy and
tobacco. They also took 40 cents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-13

"For years woke up every morning feeling as if
somebody had been beating me. When tried to get
up, stabbing pains would shoot across my back and
had to drop back down. Mani Mani didn't know
which way to turn, or what to do. When I would
finally get dressed, and down to work, every time
would stoop had to catch my back and brace myself
70 keep from falling
II was treated for my kidneys, took baths
grabbed at every suggestion for relief, like drown
ing man clutching straw. But finally got hold of
this new medicine called husky and it fixed me up
and in hurry. It sure is a wonderful medicine.
feel fine all the time now, and get around like did
when was boy
A weak back, with pains shooting through it wnen
you try to it. is just another sign that chronic
acidity has overloaded your system and the acid
poisons are not being carried off.
Chronic acidity and gas rob your blood of the red
corpuscles it must have plenty of to keep it from
getting thin and watery. Your muscles and nerves
get no strengthening nourishment. That's what
keeps you skinny, tired all the time with pain rack
ing your body Nobody can work in such shaky
condition.
When you take Husky, you sweeten your stomach
stimulate your kidneys and bowels and the food you
eat supplies the blood with the necessary red cor
puscles to bring up solid flesh your bones. Your
strength comes back, your nerves are steady and
you can stand most anything without giving out
AL druggists recommend husky.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-13
BUREAUS
ASK U. S. RULE
ON MARKETING
Federation Also Seeks Tax
and Import Policy by
Government.
BIZ united Press

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, Dec. 13-ResolutionS
dealing with a national policy for
agriculture, federal and state taxa
ton, importation of sugar and CO.
operative marketing were adopted
by the American Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton in the closing session of its
tenth annual meeting here.
A resolution covering a national
policy for agriculture asserted con-
troll of agricultural SURPRISES is the
dominant economic question facing
the nation.
The resolution cited the belief Of
the organization that the two major
legislative problems of surplus con-
troll and agricultural tariffs should
be considered by a special session
OF congress promised by President
Elect Hoover.
The federation urged that the
situation regarding entry of sugar
into the United States be brought
to the attention of congress with
the proposal to place a limit on freq
entry from the Philippines and
guarantee reasonable protection to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-13
BUSH ATTACKS
MANY CHANGES
IN TEXTBOOK
Lieutenant Governor Elect
Thinks Schools Bow
to WhimS.

''What business has an 8-year-
old boy Juggling twelve textbooks
to school?"
This sentence was the final Of
the convention of the Indiana State
Association of Township Trustees
and the keynote of the morning
session at the Claypool today.
The remark was made by Trustee
Orville T. Giltner, Huntington
county, in commentator of
speech by Edgar D. Bush, Lieuten-
ant Governor ELECT, in which Bush
had pleaded for lessening of the
number of textbooks, simplif1cation
of texts, and abandonment of the
idea that textbooks must be changed
every time some professor has a
new educational whim.
The trustees adopted legiSla-
tive program advocated in resolu-
lions prepared by the legislative
committee.
The principal legislation favored:
/. Prevention of textbook changes
every i've years unless IL IS proven
the text is obsolete.
2. Repeal of the teacher tenure
law.
8. Abolition of township inst1-
tutes and permission for counties
to hire school supervisors to provide
inspiration and instruction for
teachers under certain limits.
4. Make the budget law apply to
city schools as it does to township
schools.
S. Increase in training require
ment of elementary teachers to
minimum of thirty-six weeks, with
requirement that teachers continue
to take eight weeks year until
seventy-two weeks are completed.
6. Reduce the burdensome num-
Der of funds trustees are required
to handle.
Otto K. Jensen of Arcadia was
reelected president. Edward Hoff-
man of Brazil was reelected secre-
tary-treasurer and George L. Haw-
kins of Muncie was elected vice.
president.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-13
BOLIVIA WANTS
SATISFACTION;
FARLEY LATER
A B C Powers Take Steps to
Avert War in South
America.
RN United Prcss

BIZ United Press
LA PAz, Bolivia, Dec. 13.-Bo-
livia demanded satisfaction" from
Paraguay in note today answering
Secretary Kellogg's invitation to
have the Pan-American conference
mediate the Paraguayan- Bolivian
boundary crisis.
The Bolivian note, which was
signed by President Siles and For
eign Minister Palacios, said that
after the satisfaction" Bolivia
would be ready to follow along the
lines of international mediation
policy.
The note said that Bolivia con-
sidered that Paraguay had at
tackled Bolivian dignity and sover-
eighty by military force in sud-
den and unexpected aggression.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-13
AID ORPHANS FUND
5000 Expected to Attend
K. of C. Concert.

More than 5000 persons are ex-
pected at the sixth annual Old
Melodies concert to be given at 8;15
Sunday night in the knights of
Columbus auditorium, Thirteenth
and Delaware streets. The concerts
are given for the benefit of the Or
phans' Christmas fund.
The Orphans Christmas fund
committee, Harry Calland chair
man, has selected a notable group
of Indianapolis singers and must
clans to take part in the revival of
cld-time melodies. Many of the
leading church soloistS of the city
and some of the outstanding must
cal clubs will be heard.
The Edward LaShelle choral club
and the Edison quartet, both popuar
radio groups, and the Ruick en-
semble, will be special features.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-13

the domestic sugar industry, and
that the tariff rate against all for
eign sugar be increased"
Regarding the tariff, a resolution
was adopted which calls for ade-
quate duty on foreign grown farm
commodities ito permit farmers of
this country to enjoy that profit
which guarantees the American
standard of living"