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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-09
Congress Inclined to Regulate
Fakirs and Fake Institutions

CONGRESS is showing q Commendable disposition to
- regulate and control fakrs fake institutions, and
scrpulous practitioners the healing arts in Washington
If It succeeds in applying legislative remedies to bad
situation It viii have done much to prevent fraudulent
practices that take from unsuspecng Washington people
especially women many thousands Of dollars each year
The most advanced piece Of legislation that to abolish
diploma factories mushroom institutions which sell
sdipOnas and 'degrees alleged educational and
healing institutions pieces Of paper that deceiyng and
harmful to the public
rake universities and colleges turning degrees and
dinomas almost overnight will business if the bill
passed by the Senate law After that institution
couId confer degrees unless approved by the Board Of
Education and unless it meets certain requirements
Senator Copelands bill to regulate healing arts in this city
4 ao meeting with support through agreement the part
81 reputable men with the professions Of medicine
and healing and who fully understand the necessity Of
projecting the public against practitioners claiming to be
raduates Of healing institutions some OF which turn out
full-fledged doctors IN few months or less.
r tba oneland bill should become law there would be
created commission to examine applicants for the practice
Of drugless healing
Such law badly needed i il be enacted in language
that " not unustly reflect discriminate against
professions possessing merit and against Of good
repute. -. n.+r;c+ nut,
Association have had to fight years against fars in those
professions Dental Association found i difficult TO
prevent rraduates Of dental institutions Of the hurry
character from practcng dentistry here, taking the public
with alleged new methods
Congress has had before for years blue sky law bills
"a stop the sales fraudulent stocks bonds etc. in the
District but has been able to agree upon bill That
wUaId bring the desired results.
No congressional campaign against fars IN washington
win be successful until the suckes protected against
fake oil and other stocks This city still paradise Tor
concerns Of this kind and they rob thoughtess men and
women right and left taking large Of money which
would be invested in legitimate securities homes etc,
deposited in banks.
Because Of the lack Of protective laws these fake concerns
revs il the sale Of fraudulent paper and It practically
impossible to reach the fragrant cases under existing
District laws
ong to obtain passage the right sort Of law
but Congress has appeared Indifferent to the deplorabe
conditions.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-09
WATCHING JOAN OF ARC BURN
Eyerybody ii France Car Act

THE French have talent Of many kinds and prove many
ways
They proved their IN way at Verdm when they
said They SHALL NOT pass, and they DID NOT pass
They showed when they produced Charemagne Bayard
Duquescln Pasteur Micheet Jean Bart Charles Fourier
whose genius and great intellect will be remembered thousands
of years hence
The French possess above all other races excepting possibly
the Italian, INNATE ability to portray emotion.
This picture shows few actors making the crowd
a French moving picture Of the life Of Joan Of Arc
The faces watching poor Joan she stands against the
stake, her eyes turned upward being burned alive.
thrdrate actor in France would be firstrate actor
How often would you find faces take the places
of those this picture? Not often Ask any good movie
director.
The face Of the woman on the left expresses anguish
sympathy pure and simple The earnest face the right
shows intellectual comprehension and resignation
Deep the of the French peasants who knew that
had saved France from England when they her
burned alive by conspiracy of English and French the
nstigation of FrenChmen forever accrsed Many soldiers
needed to keep the peasants from rushing the fire to
Joan.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-09
By ELSIE ROBINSON

told me I'd surely lose him IL
/ showed him how / felt, but
] adored him so couldn't help
it. Now / see they were right.
1T doesn't pay to show you love
man. You've got to keep them
guessing"
That is a typical bridal wall.
1t is also the profound conviction
of countless other ladies who
aren't brides. You've got to
keep him guessing!" Behind that
sneering idiom loom the fear and
ignorance and suspicion which
have divided the sexes since time
immemorial. Once there may
have been an excuse for such sus-
picion. There is no longer an ex-
cuse.
you've got to keep them
guessing" is piffle. Poisonous
piffle. Men are not cruel, crafty
brutes, who must be tricRed and
teased lest they break a woman's
heart. Men desire and appreciate
love as deeply as women. Men
are as tender as women and as
loyal. They do not tire of joy.
full, generous. stimulating love.
But they do tire of languid lolly.-
popish lallygagging.
They tire, not because they are
ungrateful. but because they in
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-09
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
-By DE-. 9. a. .. Reed

YOU, like the rest Of US, are
subject to the great vice Of
American life, which il stress.
We seem to have lost the virtues
OF leisure and repose. When we
are not heels over head in affairs
we go head over heels In sport"
and call it rest. Never leisure,
never repose, never thought, never
quiet, intelligent conversation. !
was interested the other day in
a Characteristic remark by George
Bernard Shaw, who states that
his recreation is everything but
sport"
Now, long sustained, stressful
occupation and still more stressful
sport are both exhausting. This
is less true just in proportion as
such occupation and such sport
are broken into by reposeful
recreation--p unce "recrea-
+. tion"-and you win get the idea
of the body and with the cultiva-
ton OF the aesthetic side of life.
This combination Of occupation,
sport, recreation and the aesthetic
tends to maintain the normal
equilibrium of what we call men,
tai function. When this equili-
brium liz maintained we expert
ence a minimum of mental and
nervous fatigue, or exhaustion
or weakness, that the doctors call
psychasthenIa, or neurasthenia,
according to the predominance, re-
spectively, of mental and nervous.
symptoms.
1t is true that mental and ner-
Vous states cannot be entirely
separated. Where one exists there
Is always more or less distrub-
ance of the other. Either condi-
ton, however, indicates a ner-
vous disorder, due to the stress OF
life, which is more liable to APP
pear in people of certain tenn
permanent. The same conditions
would produce in other people an
anxiety neurosis, or one of the
hysterical manifestations. Yet
another name for psychasthenia
is 1.-The compulsion state" for It's
principle characteristic is that the
sufferer finds his free will over
come by compulsions that arise
from within, so that he is forced
to perform acts which have no
purpose in his life and which he
does not wish to perform.
1t occurs among men and
women of considerable and some-
times of great intellectual power,
and often destroys their happi-
ness and their social utility. AS
far as it is possible to generallze,
it is commonest among people
whose strong point is thinking
rather than feeling, and whose
bent is toward introspection rather
than occupation with everyday
life.
Mental symptoms are compul-
sions to perform meaningless acts
accompanied by phobias or IRA
tional fear of what may happen
il the compulsions are defied;
doubts which occur on the most
trivial provocation and tenden-
cies to impulsive behavior. The
physical symptoms are tics, or
meaningless witches; movements
or fussy little actions.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-09
A HIDEOUS SACRIFICE

water. Then the witnesses OF the
ridiculous sacrifice rushed to the
waters edge to throw after her
showers OF jewels, pieces of pot
terry, carved wood and other treas
ures in an effort to appease the
gods they would propitiate. Peo-
pie came from all over the coun-
try to take part in the sacrifice,
and all manner Of precious things
were found in the bottom Of the
well to attest this.
And the rulers of the city,
realizing that their yearly sacri-
flee was a drawing card to those
who might visit their city, gave
the we'll a splendid stage setting.
A stone causeway, some 80 feet
broad and 20 feet high. connected
the nearby temple with the pool.
Other temples were erected In the
neighborhood, and near the edge
of the pool itself lovely shrine
was built, where the last rite
were held for the Itza maiden.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-09

or a week or even a month OF
this is delightful to a normal
male. But perpetual perform
ance makes him long to bite
large, splintery hunks out Of the
furniture. We. win love by be-
ing interesting. exciting, amusing,
inspiring personalities.
WE WIN LOVE WHEN WE
LIVE AND HELP OUR PART
NERS TO LIVE.
We lose love when we cease to
he personalities and become lot
of romantic bric-a-brac.
WE LOSE LOVE WHEN WE
STOP LIVING AND HINDER
AND CLOG OUR PARTNERS
LIFE.
Time was when a wife could
get by by being some males bet.
ter half. But she has TO be a
complete four quarters woman
now as well as a wife, or she's
out of luck.
If you want to hold your hus-
band or wife, LIVE! Live as col
orfully and generously as you pos.
sibly can. Then you won't have
to worry about holding love. For
love will leap to you as iron
leaps to a magnet, longing to
share the joy and power which
you radiate.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-09

TN 1924 the Carnegie Institution
i started excavations on the
Peninsula of Yucatan, in Central
America. Perhaps the most in.
teresting discoveries made at this
time were in the ancient city of
Chichen liza. In former days
this, was a prosperous and com
paratively enlightened city.
But their enlightenment did not
cover their religion. For, on the
outskirts of the city was found a
deserted well, nearly 200 feet in
diameter and about 20 feet deep.
This well, the Cenote of Sacrifice,
was the spot where every year a
beautiful maiden was sacrificed.
Professions of priests led a
flower bedecked maiden down the
Sacred Way" followed by the
half-crazed people of the town,
At the sacred pool mad rites were
performed. after which, in a
frenzy, the victim was pushed
OVER ths edge of the we'll into the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-09
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
By Helen Rowland
The Monday Roast


THEORETICALLY speaking, q
1 modern couple are happily
married as long as they keep
track OF each Others telephone
numbers.
Never try to make over" your
last years romance. These
spring love affairs are SO flimsy
that they soon lose all their color
and become positively moth-eaten
from season to season.
Women start settling down"
right after the honeymoon; but
the average wife has to wait
for neuritis. govt or rheumatism
to slow down her husbands
tempo and keep him from hob
bling off the straight and mar
row path.
The divorce lawyers will go
right on flollrishing just as long
40 men ana women continue to
look upon the wedding ceremony
AZ a sleight .of-hand performance,
which will turn a butterfly into
grub and transform wild
rambler into clinging vine.
A woman is not absolutely safe.
sane and middle-aged until she
ceases TO ask the druggist whether
the npstick is kissproof or not.
One comforting thing about
comma ionate marriage will be
that the wedding presents. won't
have to be "solid,p but just lightly
plated and guaranteed to last for
four or five years.
Many a man thinks that he has
remained a bachelor "by choice"
when it is merely by the grace
of heaven that no woman has set
her mind on him sufficiently to
throw the halter over his neck
and back him into the shafts.
Fairy tales: Once upon a time
there was a good.looking youth
with nice. sleek hair, who did not
think that any girl was awfulIy
lucky-to have him make fuss
over her--for week or two.
The kind of tonic every woman
needs in spring is not so much
iron and strychnine for her nerves
as nice fresh stimulating ro-
nance to tone up her vanity.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-09
THE FAMILY
TREE

A very 'trict family system
still exists in Korea, and each
house has in its possession it's
own genealogy, in which all the
branches and subbranches for
more than 10 generations are writ.
ten. Relatives to the seventh
cousin of the direct line are in
cluded in that family, and the
head of this huge family is in
charge of all the ceremonies and
festivals of the family, as we'll as
being the sole executor Of all the
family property. But not an
item of this property can he
used or expended without the an.
prevail of the family group.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-09
ONCE-OVERS
By ]. ]. MUNDY
Be Slow in Offering Harsh Criticism

BY J. J. MUNDY
SIow in offering Harsh Criticism
You haven't sympathy for the VINO Yields temptation
You feel that he his fall u.s. therefore, less TO be re-
GREETED.
overtakes strong and important cog in the bust
ness world Won feel sorry hut for who tempted falls
have nothing.
You ought to be charitable.
Haven't there been times in your life when
giving the desire do someg against your con-
What kept you from yielding? -. -:
Was advice you hao oee
the thought of disgrace family!
environment enjoyed
counsel of parents family of which you were proud would
Can you imagine the position of the weak and easily influenced
one? -
If you cannot you harsh in your criticism
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-09
GIVE DONE

GIVE DONE
i the dumb
est thing a
woman could do
I've let him
see how much
! love him
erie s Betty. /"
And now he's
beginning to act
as IL he didn't
care a thing
about me. He
seems so bored
and sometimes
he a c t u al ly
snaps at me
when / ask him
il he loves me.
IF I'D only
not let him see
how crazy /
am about him!
All my women
friends warned
me before / was
married. They
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-09
rHE KARoLEwNA SISTERS. SOME SISTERS
Can You Match These Twof

THESE young ladies from Russia dancingsin Berlin
review are offered discriminating public quite
WORTH WHILE Nobody knows what wealth there = n
Russia oil without end practically the worlds entire sup
ply Of platinum interesting political IDEAS and, MOST
important beautiful and intelligent
Human beings with brains make the world worth while
Intelligent and beautiful women make the that
worth while.
clarifying girls Here are couple keep him awake at
night wondering where he will find their equals
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-09
LISTEN, WORLD

stinctively real
lie that such a
performance is
not proof Of love
lit Is merely a
proof of a slug
gish lnnagina-
ton and a soft
spine. T h e y
are not only
bored---ti1ey are
resentfui. They
feel G n q a 7 2 u.
They wanted a
live wire and
they got a Can
dy Heart!
Unfortunately,
m q n y young
women k n o w
but one form of
love. They cling
and cuddle and
COO, and coo and
cuddle and cling
and that let's
them out. A day
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-09
The knowledge Test For
Readers of The Times

Match correctly:
i. Cleveland Leading New England
2 BIO de Janerio County famous for its pyramids
Boston Lake port in Ohio
A. Egypt Scandinavian
B. Norway Capital of Brazil.
Do you know:
6. How does a
81 2. Why would life be impossible in moon?
8. Why does boiled water taste flat?
How much later the average does the moon rise
each day? - S -0
TO- What does mariners
H. What is the boiling point of water at level?
In what line did each of the following gain fame?
H. RoaId Amundsen
H. Alexander Graham Bell
H. Paul Gustave Dore
15 Johann Gutenberg.
16 Alexis Carrel
See Magazine Page Answers
Evening star., 1928-04-24
OPENING ATTRACTIONS IN WASHINGTON
THEATERS
THEATERS

rewarded Miss O'Neil and the support
ing company.
The added feature Of the evening was
odali Careno. the well known grand
opera dramatic soprano, who carried
everything before her. Miss Careno
was In a gracious mood last night and
in addition to her regular program
gave two encore numbers. Marjorie
Scott. at the piano. gave artistic assist
ance.
A trio Of clowns, under the title of
Jim Jam JemS" opened the program.
Their antics were funny and their ac-
robatics clever. A good dancing number
followed, when Grace Edlec and a half
dozen pretty misses displayed some ar
tistic dancing Miss Elders imitation
of Eddie Leonard scored we'll One of
those surprise acts turned up in THE
Monologist," when one man in the au-
dience. another in the orchestra, one
in box and lady. also in a box.
helped out with repartee, Their al
lotted 20 minutes went by with speed
and laughter. Payne and Hilliard pre-
sented a good act that embraced bright
talk and taking dances
The movie picture at the start and
close of the show, entitled Alias the
Lone Wolf" proved unusually inter-
eSting. II was crowded with exciting
periods Splendidly interpreted by Bert
I.ytell, Lois Wilson and a good support
ing company.
The regular screen features with a
taking organ solo by Irene Juno, COM
pieted the bill
Evening star., 1928-04-24
NATIONAI,---.ssrorrx."

''Pcrgy," Theater Guild production.
In three acts and nine scenes, by Dor
cthy and Du Bose Hayward, opened
q weeks engagement at the National
Theater last night.
"Porgy" is folk play.
It's scenes are brief revelations of
some Of the phases of life and OF folk
lore among group of South Carolina
negroes Many of these scenes stand
alone, complete within themselves. But
ell are connected by the thread of
story that is taken up with dramatic
s0doenneSS in the first act and which
is dropped--not ended--in the third
act. From this thread there are others
which branch of into nowhere. and
others which come from nowhere, Join
the fabric and are carried along with
IT, Some Of them are tragic, some of
them are comic. "Porgy' does not set
out to tell tale. but only TO life the
curtain for a brief time upon Catfish
Row" negro settlement on CharleSton'S
water front. There one sees cross
section OF life revealed with exquisite
understanding and accuracy by one
who knows his subject.
Mr.. HaywarCiS book. from which the
play takes its name. was recognized as
q rare and beautiful word picture, II
has gained, rather than lost. in its
usamatisation. 1t touches lightly and
delicately. but with sympathetic ac-
curecy. some of those racial character
iSticS that become grotesQue and dis
torted in less skilled hands
The cast of "porgy' has been chosen,
out TO tell a tale, but only TO lift the
for the most part, from a group of COL
cred men and women whose zeSt for
and understanding Of the business in
hand account for its great success. The
picture might fail TO register complete
II If this were not so. This large group
OF actors puts a sparkle and fire into
che action which carries 1t along with
out pause. Their singing alone is one
Of the remarkable points Of remark
able play. The theatergoer will travel
past the box Office to his seat for many
day without finding the reward which
awaits him IN the second scene OF the
frst act, where the men and women
OF Catfish Row" are gathered in the
bare room of Serena Robbins holding
their mystic wake over the body of her
murdered husband. The Swaying bod
les. the rhythmic chants, the Subdued
lights and the tenseness Of high-Strung
enlotionalism serve, somehow. TO lay life
bare-to carry one far. far back 10 the
very beginning of things. The enaction
Of that scene and its settings are as
fine as anything that one will flnd upon
tie stage.
There is a story in 'Porgy." of course.
bat IL is not undertaken to reten 1t here.
III fact. 1t loses its significance in the
light of "Porgy" as whole. for ''Porgy,"
primarily, is picture and not story.
OF the fine cast assembled for this
play, the names OF Frank Wilson, as
porgy: Jack Garter, as Crown: Evelyn
E1lis, as Crowns BeSs: Wesley Hill, as
Jake. captain of the fishing fleet;
Cfeorgette Harvey as Maria and Rose
ATacClendon. as Serena, might be singled
out as representing those to whom the
most dificult parts have been assigned.
and who adequately fulfill @heir tasks.
flut in no point is the cast weak. In
no spot does 1t fail
Evening star., 1928-04-24

balance today a. voters expressed their
opinion on the Davis charter amend
ment.
The amendment. sponsored by Harry
l.. Davis, former governor and mayor
would substitute the city managership
form by returning to elective mayors
In the Fall of 1929.
Should the amendment be given an
adverse vote today 1t was expected, any
further attempts to do away with the
present form would be blocked. An
amendment that would have accom-
plished the same result was defeated
last Fall. but the amendment on to-
days ballots was claimed by Davis
workers to have done away with OBJ
iectionable features.
Evening star., 1928-04-24
KEITHS-Nance O'NeiI.

Nance O'Eeil has a strong hold on
ratrons Of vaudeville. Her friends
crowded Ketth's last night, where she
81 "headlining' in a condensed version
Of The Lily" q melodrama taken from
the French and introduced as vehicle
for Nance ONeil by David Belasco. II
Is crowded with tense lines, all Of which
were finely interpreted. Miss O'Neil
practically keeps herself in the back
ground until the last few minutes of the
play and then bursts forth with splen-
did release OF suppressed passion. The
supporting company. especially Alfred
Hickman as the father, was uniformly
good MIR. Hickman made the con-
6ensation. He selected the telling lines
with true artistic instinct. crovding
much into little Many curtain calls
Evening star., 1928-04-24

seem to be rather difficult for college
students although to one OF them, at
least, 1t proved simple.
Written with the broadness char
acteristic of European authors, the
play as Il came from the pen OF the
scandinavian satirist had to undergo
several rather serious amputations by
the college censor before its production,
which naturally did not simplify the
problem. 1t has been played only once
before in this country. then as ve-
hicle for Eva La Gallienne.
Frank Westbrook as Frederick Ha~
mann--one of those lads who would be
nicknamed "Freda." is real find Tor
some comedy director He played MS
Evening star., 1928-04-24

part with naive finesse which was de-
licious.
Then there is Gerhard Konik. the
caricaturist with poets soul. which
was interpreted by M Melville Tender
with some skill after he overcame his
first elf-consciousness. Margaret Maize,
as Maria, and Marion Campbell, as the
Hon. Mrs. kluver. were effective In
their less important roles.
The story is not easy to tell for II
Is not so much a story as demonstra-
ton that behind the simple 2 times .
of life there is an added unit to be
reckoned with---and In mans life, that
extra digit is often woman's will in
spired sometimes by love or ambition
Evening star., 1928-04-24
for him--sometimes by thought of self

for him-~-sometimes by thought OF self
alone.
group of characters are introduced
differing widely in temperament. but
all moving unconsciously to the solu-
ton of the common problem.
The theme revolves primarily around
the life of young writer. who is jailed
for his persistence in picturing people
"as they are: his wife, who has left
him because he mocks at life. and
Otella, the sort OF girl who has inspired
his philosophy. Harry N. Clayton. jr.,
plays Paul Abel. the author; Mary K.
Crawley is Esther, his wife. and Nell
M Childs plays Otella Lustig. the young
lady o. loves
Musical numbers we're supplied te-
Evening star., 1928-04-24
wARDMAN PARK THEATER-

Summing up the bit of higher mathe-
matics involved in Gustav Wied's satiri-
cal comedy "2X2-5." which opened
night at the Wardman Park Theater
with members Of the Dramatic Asso-
citation of George Washington Univer-
Evening star., 1928-04-24
CLEVELAND TO DECIDE
ON CITY MANAGEMENT
Voters Today Express Opinion on
Davis Charter Amendment, Pro-
posing Elective Mayors.

BY tho Associated Press.
CLEVELAND. April 24.--Continu-
ance of the city managership form of
government in Cleveland hung In the