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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-01
Takes Speed to Be a Yank

A Frenchman was relating his ex-
periences of studying the English Ian
guage. "When I discovered that if I
was quick 1 was fast" he said, "and
that if I were tied 1 was fast, if 1
spent too freely 1 was fast, and that
not to eat was too fast, I was dis
couraged. But when came across the
sentence, The first one won a one
dollar prize I gave up trying to learn
English Pullman News.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-01

Not To Be Trusted
The editor in charge of the personal
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-01

Primary Returns
Moses (applying alone): All wants
to get me marriage license.
Clerk: Where is the bride-elect?
Moses: What yo all mean, BRIDE
elect? Dey weren't no lection; the
lady done appoint herself to the
office at nah own pussonel request!
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-01

Here's a problem in matrimonial
atics. If people separate by divorce
and then remarry, was the first mar
riage trial marriage or was the di-
vorce a trial divorce?
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-01

Lordsburg is just now boasting new
1,50O gallons of water per hour. Fine,
well in the cemetery that will produce
but who, in the cemetery, wants to
drink water?
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-01

He's Numerous, Too
OF all the motor morons
The worst is that poor brother
Who toots for you to move over
While your car is passing another
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-24
Free Text Books and Supplies
In Our Public Schools

WHEN our public schools open for another scnoo yea
w provision should have been made by congress ior s
a.. hooks and supplies to all pupils in the school system
nnbic schools are outstanding for their educa-
n advantages to the young free text books and school
supplies are part of the system
The tarm free school" public school, is mlsnomer
when pupils are compelled to pay for books
In this city text supplied to pupils through the
eighth grade The junior high schools three years.
Books are free for first year. must be paid for in the
last two. In high SCHOOLS all text DOCKS ah" S"PPe
must be paid for. -
This works hardship upon bright and worthy children Of
poor parents Thousands of boys and girls kept out
Junior high senior high schools because the cost OF BOOKS
and supplies becomes a burden parents cannot bear
d o - schools many # them until their children
had graduated from high schools and become far more eo
to cope with LIES struggles than compelled 10 ABANDON
their education at the conclusion of the free books stage
The struggle here is to Washngton public schools
model for the nation Congress is willing; the public is
willing but something always to block the way
will not be possible to make our schools model so long
"a helpful advantages denied our children
It has been estimated that the cost Of textbooks and
supplies throughout the Washington school system would be
approximately $250OO0 the first year After that the cost
would be $4,000 to 100000 nasmuch the life
OF school books average four years.
There are many children Washngtons high schools today
waiting for tho books they need Local bookdeaers
unable to correctly estimate advance purchases They do not
want become oversoCked they understocked,
frequently happens pupils must wait until their books are
This undesirable condition harmful to the progress
pupils need not happen under public purchase and free
distribution.
The purchase Of textbooks and supplies by the District and
their sale direct pupils would considerable
money in fact much money but that would not be in lire
with the principles that should prevail in public school
system Every possible educational advantage should be
FREE to young Washingtonians.
In the purchase and resale secondhand books there
would be saving if handled by District agency but
the same principle would be violated.
This schooLbook problem is of such Importance that
Congress should hand in positive dregardng
the usual arguments District Federal financing The
NEXT District appropriation should provide money the
purchase Of books supplies thereby eliminating serious
drawback schools becoming outstanding in the facilities
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-24
THE IMPOSSIBLE
BY DIR. Frank Crane.

~ EMOCRACY controlled by public opinion, are
make public All of these things
- hostile cold the prohibition amendment.
the Not leading
that know of urged this amendment Most of
them opposed it. sneered at it. They do yet
They it.
Gompers worked hard opposing it.
inteligena all literature No high Of
favored it, popular book championd it. AS
they against it.
The churches the Roman Catholic Epscopaan
not particularly champion it.
The stage, for the most part rdculed it.
political Importance declared They all
it much possible.
leading politicians advocated it.
popular derided it.
y Yet impossible happened.
The amendment carried by the majority of repre-
ratified by sufficient number State
legislatures quickly with than
the Constitution has been through
- What is the answer?
many thousands political speakers
know politics.
preachers throughout the United States
politics except oppose liquor. Thousands churches
politically only direction They know that their
enemy liquor and they could be depended work it,
thing, railroad
life factories other
knew that liquor impaired their efficiency and limited their
profits.
Therefore by sort of ubteanean popular
prohibition amendment when
impossible.
enough almost succeeding body
was drer than the first
today the prohibition amendment expresses popular
in spteo of almoste ever hat osed
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-24
THIS SHIP WILL GO AGAINST THE ENEMY GUIDED By
RADIO, WITH NOT A LIVING SOUL ON BOARD
: HE Allies by the Versailles Treaty fol

THE Allies by the Versailles Treaty forbid Germany Ia
maintain big army, great navy fleet of fighting
airpIanes.
But you cannot forbid THINKING you do forbid it,
it makes difference
The Germans THINK and lead arplane build
ing They must build FIGHTING ships but in hours
they transform commercial ship into fighting ship
Treaty makers forgot that.
This picture shows the results German thinking
ship Of war formerly the battleshp zahringen and
among fighting ships is what the mechanical robot
man is among
No human being is this ship it follows straight
course any that those controlling may desire
seered by radio from sister ship that keep at safe
distance while controlling this ship Of mystery and death,
through impulses received by anennae the mast Of the ship
with crew.
A submarine following with its periscope above water,
could direct this big batteshp sending it fleet Of
enemy ships into harbor, wherever might be needed
send out its torpedoe discharge its gunsa by radio
Another would of human beings
scale gigantic be absolutely unthnkable.
Peace would be simple agreement by nations to
settling quarres by numbering each other have
agreed to cease settling quarres by fighting duels
Men gave up fighting duels when guns Duellng
too dangerous when of could longer
protect the nobeman against miserable
peasant standing on the ground.
War has become dangerous that little country like
Switzerland sending out its aplanes could destroy both
London and Paris in the day. just the meanet se
could kill the proudest noble Europe day after powder
and bullets into
Possibly the fact that become more dangerous
that nations have become richer that great countries like
Great Britain and America possess already all they need
all they CAN DIGEST will bring least until
giant with will more powerful than the will nations,
some super Napoleon arrives to change conditions
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-24
LISTEN, WORLD!
A Boys Letter
By Elsie Robinson

he believes he is playing losing
hand he wants to die.
1--WE played everything" he
says. I'm about ready to turn
In my chips
He's not quite nineteen, Elsie.
Please won't you give this boy a
little advice. Because Elsie, this
boy just happens to be me.
VAGABOND.
Dear buddy, of course / under
stand. For / was that way my
self when / was nineteen and so
was every other person who's
worth a boot.
There's nothing abnormal or
unnatural about your condition.
It's quite right that you should
feel all full of pinwheels and
Roman candles and big wet tears
about yourself at your age. It'S
as natural as shedding teeth or
sprouting whiskers. Scientists
call it adolescence-which is
dull name for a wonderful expert
ence.
I know it doesn't seem wonder.
full to you. Life just now seems
full of pain and confusion and
Charley Horses. But it is won
derful confusion. for you are
emerging from youth into man
hood and you are filled with, great
dreams and splendid rebellions.
Even the laziness and resentment
are a natural part of the process
for they are the scum on top OF
a healthy ferment.
So hang on Buddy. Talk about
turning in your chips if it gives
YOU any pleasure las of course 1t
does) but don't take your talk
seriously. Just hang onto this
advice.
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.
BELIEVE IN THE FINE
THINGS IN YOURSELF AND
FIGHT FOR THEM.
Try to believe in the rest of
the world, too. Try to adapt
your beliefs sensibly to other be.
liefs. But don't mind If people
laugh at you or tell you you're
goofy. Believe in yourself, and in
the life you're going to lead. Be.
lieve that it's all worth while no
matter how much it costs, and
plan to live it gayly, CALAMITY
and generously.
/. Love beauty. Seek truth. Fol.
low the great trails And here's
one whose heart will follow them
with you.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-24
HERE'S a letter from a 19-year-

"ERES a letter from 15-yeaf.
II old boy.
1t Is an actual letter from A real
boy printed exactly as it was re-
ceived. But it might be a letter
from any 19-year-old boy. 1t
might, indeed, be a letter from
the boy you were at 10, Dan.
So I'm asking you to be friendly
as you read it, for the sake of
all the dear, troubled youngsters
of 10 who are needing boost
today.
Dear Elsie Robinson:
Have you a few consolation
words for boy who's hell bent
for destruction? l tell you he's
lost the spark Of ambition-just
merely drifting along believing
that his father (who was an ut
most failure) is partly to blame
for his present state.
A few years back when in high
school he was full of hopes. cher.
ished the thoughts of success.
loved everything on Gods green
earth. He'd smile and laugh at
life and say you can't lick me-"
But now everything is different.
The studies he put in to be a
writer. a newspaper man. were
blasted. He had to go out and
look for job with no pull what
ever from any source From
day to day he went from one
place to another, only to be told
that everything was filled.
Finally, through an act of des-
peration, he left the town think
ing it was curse that followed
him. Without a word to his
mother or brothers he left, and
he carried with him q cents, all
the money he possessed in this
world. Five days later he came
back home, broken and spent,
hungry, dirty and none the wiser
for his foolish experience. He had
in his eye the look of a mailman
the look of hatred, the kind
that makes terrible fighting
fiends Of gentle hearts.
He waited for his silver lining
to appear but it never came.
Things went from bad to worse.
Even till now he has never broken
the law of God or man. He lives
like a hermit-friends or gangs
he cares not for.
The only fault is he has become
terribly lazy and now if he were
to be offered a good office job |
fear he would never make good.
His heart is restless and because
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-24
One Building to a City

The Future Will See It.

HE old days when the Tower Babel rose about half
far New Yorks Metropolitan Life tower and Jacob
dreamed about ladder reaching heaven with angels going
up would be hear of the seventyfive
story building that Chicago plans Illinois Central
tracks
1,000room hotel will be part building devoted to
wearing apparel The cost will for
fifteen stories higher than business building earth
That's step toward the REALLY tall buildings on which
flying machines will day land their passenger-one build
ing to city city to particular industry populations
living on hilops not more than few hundred miles away
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-24

Does hurried anxious spirit predominant when YOU start
vacation? -
In automobile trip course which means
stiff run to keep with planned
And then do through
making time and avoiding accidents you upon seeing
beauties
When you reach home from such trip wonder why
rested
1t should not be difficult to explain after-effect
Driving all day at fast min
system.
You physically tired the
impetus of covering ground
1t until home comes over YOU the
that through.
real vacation has far goals each day. but permits
places of when
we-mapped route casual progress, digest
the ideas presented. and home q person.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-24
THREE-MINUTE JOURNEYS
BY Temple Manning

A LTHOUGH most of the people
Al in the Philippine Islands have
been civilized, and have adopted
the customs and religion of Chris
tianltY, still, way up in the last
ness of the mountains. and IN the
more remote portions of the coIn-
try, where Western messengers
have not yet penetrated, is A race
of people who are nothing more
than Aborigines. They still wear
little or no clothing and feed en-
dog meat.
The Benton Igorrotes make their
homes high in the mountains
among the chatter of monkeys
and parrots. They raise pigs and
dogs. coming down to market DIT
intervals with their stock to be
sold for food. 1t Is an amusing
sight to see the Igorrotes coming
down into the towns with their
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-24

dogs tied to the end of long
stick to prevent their swapping.
They keep their pigs just out.
side their huts in long shallcw
pits. and raising them and the
dogs seems to be practically their
only occupation.
The men are never seen without
sharp-pointed axheads and long
spears. 1t is said that some of
them still carry on the practice
of head -hunting. 1t may be for
this reason that many of the saw
ages make their homes high in
the trees. Indeed, even their
huts, built on the sides of the
hills, are so nearly the color of
the surrounding country, that
they are difficult to detect. 1t is
possible to pass the whole villages
without noticing them at all.
Thus it is that the savage mind
finds way to protect itself.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-24
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Brice BeIden-

6GnEATH loves q shining
~ mark" like most savings
will not stand close scrutiny. The
idea comes from the fact that
when death does hit a shining
mark everybody gives attention
to 1t, while hundreds OF obscure
people go unnoticed to their last
resting place.
What is true of death il true Of
disease. which may or may not
cause death. 1t is especially true
of influenza, which causes both
disability and death and which.
latterly, and especially by Homer
U.ondon Lancet, has been charged
with making genius a special
mark for its devastation.
1t is true that recent years
have focused attention upon the
special damage inflicted nv in.
fluenza upon the nervous system.
An investigation has recently
been made in Great Britain to
try to form an estimate OF the
damage done to the brains OF
the nation The effect OF In
fluenza was studied in series OF
age groups. 1t at once appeared
that the Influenza years" operate
most seriously in the age 20-25
group, although they have an
effect at every age. 1t also ap-
peared that the Influenza group
of epidemics leave their imoress
to a quite excessive extent upon
men of marked ability as compared
with the population as a whsle.
In bygone> times 1t was almost
a commonplace that sweat, Influ-
enza and volatile typhus-the
names given to different mani.
festations of what we now cal
people of the court and the
noblisse, in contradistinct' to
other. epidemics which particularly
attacked the poor, the BADLY
housed and the i'll nourished. One
reason for this excessive class in
cidence may have been that
those who used their heads were
more liable to suffer than those
who used their hands.
We must, in fact, be prepared to
accept the conclusion that the
widespread prevalence Of influenza
during the last two and half cen"
turtles have levied an especially
heavy toll upon men or marked
ability, and in some conspicuous
instances the facts are on record
that the influenZas of past times
again and again attacked notable
men and women. Chopin, Sterne.
Swift, Jane Welsh. Carlyle and
William James are instances.
Other remarkable lives were alb
ruptly terminated by the same
malign influence. e. g., Shake
speare and Cromwell.
The whole future of civilization
may therefore depend in a very
special measure on the way we at
tack our influenza problem. We
can, in the light of history. view
the present prevalence of cpl
demic disorders of the nervous sys-
tem-encephalitis, lethargica, cere-
bro-spinal fever and so on-as an
expression of the downward curve.
the trailers, Of the great influ.
enaal epidemic of 1918.
There is a tendency for men or
genius not to be born during years
of influenza prevalence. This may
merely reflect the increase of mis-.
carriages and stil births, or may
indicate some damage to the brains
of the infants who survive. The
intellectual climate" OF today de.
mands a passionate interest in gen.
eral principles az well as in stub
born facts. AS Martineau pointed
out. IF you have the wrong instru.
ments the object OF your search
will eluds YOU" .-1-----.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-24

Most modern young couples
seem to be looking for a "get.di-
vorced-quick scheme'-something
guaranteed to save them the
boredom of Serving time" at the
life-sentence of matrimony.
In the average wife's opinion.
there ought to be some way to
vaccinate a husband against Of
flee vamps-and every bona fide
blonde should wear a bell around
her neck.
After a few years of marriage,
it takes an alarm to arouse
husbands imagination or awaken
his curiosity-usually the flash OF
rivalry in another mans eyes.
Ever since Adam complimented
Ewes first fig-leaf creation
woman has longed to have her
clothes admired: and the average
husbands =" Starlight. / guess,
has fallen like sandbags on her
vanity.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-24

1t is easy enough to quicken
a mans pulse, these petting days;
but now as always, you have to
raise love from the lower plane
to high altitude before his
HEART is affected.
MANY mans romantic enthusi-
asm for a clever woman has been
punctured by the stab of her
pointed wit.
One swallow doesn't make
summer-but one kiss from the
right man, at the right moment.
will make it lot brighter-for
any girl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-24
The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

Do you know:
city the Declaration of Independence adopted?
Who the only President to
3. What is peat?
by Nathaniel Hawthorne tells story of Hester
Prynne?
5. Why the Tai Mahal built?
6. What is castor oil made from?
Z What poet wrote "A thing of beauty JOY forever?
Fill each blank.
g. The battleshp - blown up in Havana harbor in
leaves the white for silku
TO- A poinar6 a slender ~
H. - the bravest of the Greeks war against
Troy. e
IL SThe Bohemian Girl" popular opera composad
Complete each quotation.
Is. He jests that felt wound "-Shakespeare
IA "What therefore God hath together let not man
asunder."-Bible. ~ NV ''""
Is. "We, this is the o a perfect
Near the end of journey too."-Jacobs- Bond.
Answers Fiction Page
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-24
NOW IT'S THE
CYCLEPLANE

DR.. F. w. Gerhardt, an aero
nautical expert of Dayton, Ohio. Is
the inventor OF "cycseriane,"
which is kept in the air by foot
power after it has been given a
flying start by a truck. He has
been working three years to per-
feet the model.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-24
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

Employment and hardships pre-
vent melancholy.-Joh
He is a fool who looks at the
fruit on lofty trees, but does not
measure their hstgRL --Rntns. -
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-24
IRRIGATION IN
MEXICO

Mexico is planning an extensive
project for adding thousands OF
acres of land in the western part
of the country. An irrigation ca
nal from Tesla to Hustabampo.
Mayo Valley, will cost 100000
and irrigate and drain large
areas,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-24
MEDITATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland
We MofIerns

We MOdernS
+ OVE-MAKING, like playing the
~ violin, requires lot of tech.
nique, long practice and real in
SEPARATION. And, even then. a man
must have an early start in order
to be an expert.
Sometimes a girl feels that it's
almost shame to take a man
who can stake a tent, reef a sail
and ride a mettlesome hunter.
and pin him down to running
lawn mower. stocking a furnace
and walking the baby.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-24

The voice is nothing hut, beaten
air. Seneca.
The man who fears nothing is
NO less powerful than he who is
feared by. every one. -Schil!sr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23
Fur Luxury and Economy
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Regularly $I35 to $50

Outstanding features such as the
new "Jolnny" collars and heavily en-
broidered cuffs of unusual shape and
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teresting, as in the mode illustrated,
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-14

which followed an informal meeting
Yesterday Or. Work said the real fight
would be waged in the Southern States,
where he said Hoover sentiment was
cutting into the Democratic organiza-
ton.
There is no question that the South
is on fire." said Chairman Work. what
our opponents can do to extinguish that
fire is prohlematical II Is moral IS
sue with them and the South is moral.
Senator George II. Moses of New
Hampshire. who notified Hoover sat
urCiay of his nomination, spoke at the
conference yesterday OF the reserve
strength" of the Republicans III some
States.
We have tremendous Republican re-
serves in the East which We can can
out in presidential race and We intend
70 do SO, since we know we have a
battle ahead" said Senator Moses The
Democrats know they must carry fiVe
Of The big Eastern States which Gov.
Smith is calling debatable ground We
intend 80 remove these States from the
dcbatable column"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-14
ALABAMANS URGED
TO DEFEAT SMITH
Foes, at Meeting, Say Governor
Stands for Racial
Equality,

BY the Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. August IA
Resolutions asking that Democrats OF
Alabama vote against Gov. Shnth'
Democratic presidential nominee. TO
preserve white supremacy in the south,
were adopted at an anti-Smlth meet
ing here last night.
The resolution said that newspapers
are irving ito mislead the Democrats
of Alabama to vote for one whose re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-14

cord Is or stands for racial equality,
No man believing as Smith does re-
garding the liquor laws and the negro
need expect the vote of Alabama. "
They declared also that the purpose OF
the Alabama conference of anti-Smith
Democrats is the eternal elimination
Of AlfreA E. Smith"
DR. A. J. Barton. one of the leaders
in the movement against Smith, de-
clared IN an address that the New
York Governor is now on the defensive.
E. NJ Elliott is treasurer of the body
and Hugh Lock, Birmingham, perma-
nept chairman.