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The Washington times., 1929-06-06
LISTEN WORLD!
Motors Us. Marriage
By Elsie Robinson

was waiting around In the
sheriff's office when a bunch of
girls came in to fill out applica-
tions for driving licenses.
They were lovely-all between
Is and 20-charming as flowers in
their bright sports clothes. Warm,
eager, they were ready not only for
licenses but for love and life. Ro-
nance lay on them like pollen. In
a year or two they would be wives
and mothers.
The officer handed them their
questionnaires. They bent over
the long lists giggling, their young
faces gradually SOLDERING as they
puzzled over the difficult ques-
tions. Automobile driving is tricky
business. Even youth and beauty
must qualify for that dangerous
task.
These youngsters had qualified.
They had worked for days learn
ing how to handle shifts and
brakes. They had read up on end
less questions in order to prove to
the State their fitness for driving.
BUT HOW ABOUT THAT IN
FINITELY MORE s ERIOU S
POSITION THEY WOULD SOON
ASSUME-THE POSITION OF
WIFEHOOD AND OTHER
HOOD? 1t had taken them weeks
Of work and study to get their
motor lieenses-BUT IT WOULD
HARDLY TAKE FIVE MINUTES
TO GET THEIR MARRIAGE
LICENSES!
All sorts of questions about their
ability to handle motors but never
a question about their fitness for
founding homes or bearing babies!
1t lawful for license plates to
be obscured?" ran the question.
naire.
But no one would say word,
when they came to marry. about
the ignorance which might be OBJ
scured.
Plenty Of queries about their
ability to control shifts and brakes
but they would never be asked
The Washington times., 1929-06-06

} to prove that they could control
the shifts and brakes on their own
dispositions
They would, after marriage,
have the nations most sacred
treasures in their keeping-its
homes and its children. But not
an hours preparation for that
task would ever be required OF
them. They would not need TO
know thing about domestic
science and hygiene, nursing or
baby tending.
They could not only be ignorant
but they could actually he simple
minded and the license would still
be issued, provided they Were of
legal age or had the parents
consent.
They were required to know
the penalty for reckless driving
or driving under the influence
of intoxicating liquors or drugs.
But there would be no penalty
attached If they entered marriage
with ailing bodies and spread
their ailments to their mates and
children. Nor, in most Of our
states, "Oulu ulNO1C6 pC dHO"Su
on that score.
OF the technique of child-bear.
ing they might not know a word
AND ANY ONE WHO TRIED
TO SEND THEM INSTRUC-
TIONS THROUGH THE MAILS
WOULD BE PROMPTLY JAILED
FOR ISSUING OBSCENE MAT
TER
BUT THEY COULDN'T GET
A CHAUFFEUR'S LICENSE UN-
LESS THEY KNEW HOW MUCH
SPEED WAS ALLOWED ON
SOLID TIRES WHEN GROSS
LOAD IS 5000 POUNDS AND
NOT MORE THAN 1900
POUNDS.
Yet we got all het up when
Miss Mayo wrote a booS about
the crude and ignorant marriage
, practices of Mother India. And
Immediately wanted to send some
efficiency experts over there to
ten them how 1t should be- done!
The Washington times., 1929-06-06

more than 20,0OO,OOO investors
are disregarded by the Reserve
Board.
If there comes q time in this
country of ours when some gov
ernmentally constituted board
can determine what sort of in
vestments our citizens must
make, then / state we are headed
for a real curtailment of our
liberties, Do they, wish to
bring on "a state of anarchy or
panic? Keep up your splendid
defense of the American citi-
zen's right to invest his saw
ings in his country's industries,
and continue to denounce the
power that can charge illegal
interest rates under the guise
of a Governmental agency.
Very truly yours,
A. G. B.
The Washington times., 1929-06-06
Women to Control Congress

TN another twenty-five years. says Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCor
mick, Congresswoman from Illinois, will control the
House Representatives and become important
the Senate.
It will all about because of the vast interests
of the country taking in politics. in the nations finances
and in legislation for the good of mankind.
In twenty-five years may have national representa-
ion in Senate House and Electoral College and the Dis
ricts first Senator's and Representatives may be
they interests will be fully well safeguarded as
men elected to these positions.
There will be something doing in social precedentS too
when The first Speaker Of the House Is elected
The Washington times., 1929-06-06
MEDTTATIONS
OF A WIFE
By Helen Rowland :

The Spirit OF New York
New York--the City of Eternal
Youth!
Where a woman is as flapperish
at 40 as at 20 and a man is
as COLLEGIATE" at AZ as at II.
Where there Is always a rosy
tomorrow" but there are no yes
terdays. Where a man can al
ways come back" but can never
turn back"
Where lovers can cross Fifth
Avenue with their arms around
each other, and highwaymen can
hold up shop In broad daylight,
and nobody turns around to look.
Where a man may lose his
teeth. his job, his wife or his
fortune-but never loses his opti-
mism. his jauntiness, his en-
thusiasm or his POSE.
Where a woman's hair may
turn white or yellow or red with
the fashions, but her eye never
loses it's CLINT, her cheek its bright
ness. or her figure is fashionable
slenderness.
Where every man hides his
heartaches under a de bonair smile,
his poverty under a well-tailorsd
coat, his rheumatism under
swagger-and pitches his skeletons
down the elevator shaft.
Where sin Is so expensive and
virtue so easy that the native
New Yorker would never know the
addresses of the night clubs II
his friends from Main Street did
not come to town occasionally and
drag him out for big wfoopee.
Where a man will cheerfully
admit his family scandals, but
will never tell you his troubles
or his failures.
Where everybody you meet Is
always Just, about to put over
the Biggest Thing of his life!
Where a man may be down"
but he Is never "out." Where he
may be disappointed but is never
disillusioned! For you never can
tell by the cocky" poker-smile on
his face whether he has just
found his dream Or just met his
Waterloo.
Where a man may live beauu-
fully or sordidIy, cheapIy or ex-
pensively. wisely or foolishly-but
he must KEEP STEP with the
procession or drop out Of the
parade.
For the only faux pas Is to
admit that you are sunk--and the
only crime is to be a back
number" j
That is the Spirit of New York
the spirit of youth, optimism,
audacity and pluck. The gallant
sporting spirit!
When Ponce de Leon sought
the magic fountain, what a pity
nobody directed him to Fifth
Avenue or Broadway, where 1t
bubbles and sparkles as brilliantly
as the paste diamonds, the incan-
descents and the eyes Of the
women!
The Washington times., 1929-06-06
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Louis e. Bisch-

Influenza and la grippe are prob
ably not exactly identical affec'
tions, although these two forms
are often used interchangeahly.
However, giving the condition
two rather interchangeable names
does not mean that We know so
much about it. Indeed t,-ere is
much that still remains a mystery
about this disease that lays low so
many tn ,usands of individuals.
During the great war more in
dividuals died of the FLU" as the
condition was commonly called,
than by bullets.
Epidemies that have practically
swept around the world have been
known since the sixteenth century.
There was one that seems to
have started In May of 1889 in
Buchara. BY September 1t had
reached Moscow. BY October 1t
had travelled TO Leningrad, then
called st, Petersburg. The follow
ing month ii had spread to Ber-
lin. In December it hit London.
A few weeks later it had got into
New York. And by the end of the
year after, it's onset influenza ap-
peared in nearly every country of
the world!
AS stated above, it Is very doubt
ful whether influenza of the cpl
demic variety is the same disease
as the ordinary influenza cold or
what is usually called the grippe
and which Is always more or less
inlevidence almost everywhere.
D.. Peiffer. in 1892, found
germ in the secretions of the nose
and upper Air passages of influ-
enza patients which seems to be
the cause of true influenza.
At any rate, the flu, whether OF
the epidemic variety or the grippe,
which might be looked upon as a
pseudo-fnfluenza. may show many
manifestations and may be a very
serious affection.
In true influenza the patient is
likely to feel tired and slightly In.
disposed few days before the real
symptoms appear.
Then, as a rule, the nose and
respiratory tract are attacked.
There may be running nose, like a
typical "cold in the head" The
fever rises. Deliriunl may be
present.
But most characteristic of all
is the extreme weakness and gen.
eral prostration which the patient
experiences and which, strange to
say, may persist for several weeks
after the acute symptoms have
subsided.
Pneumonia is the outstanding
and dangerous complication of
influenza. 1t is frequently fatal.
Another curious thing about in
fluenza is that it may attack
almost any part of the nervous
system.
Severe headaches are not un-
common. Sometimes the germs
get into the brain TISSUES, causing
inflammation-so called menin'
gifts. Even paralysis of the limbs
may result.
The heart may also be affected
In a flu attack. Death has re.
suited from weakening of the
heart muscle.
Influenza should not be looked
upon as of little account.
Even when an epidemic does
not exist. when perhaps the case
is one of ordinary grippe, every
care should be exercised.
All patients should be put to
bed at once at the first sign of
the disease and a physician
called.
The practice ~ belittIing the
disease and looking upon IL
merely as a severe cold 10 70 b
aan-aEn-.
The Washington times., 1929-06-06

To the EdttoT:
Dear Sir: Tens of thousands
of people like myself have in
vested conservatively in our
country's best securities. Why
all this propaganda that prices
are too high and ''the bottom is
going to fall OUT" etc.? It only
goes to scare, not ths specula-
tors, but good, hard-Working
citizens. They sell their good
securities, only later to see that
the securities which they sold
have greatly advanced in mar
ket value. This sort of thing
has been going on now for sew
eral months, thanks to the "best
minds" of the Federal Reserve
Board. Do they want to bring
on a panic2 Mr.. Hoover is
'tpuIling a Coolidge" in remain
ing silent while the rights of
The Washington times., 1929-06-06
Hearst Papers Advocate:

l. An agreement OF Enghsh-speGtang peoples to pre-
ser0e peace among themselves and to promote the
peace of the tOOrd.
q Proportional representation in the United States
- Senate, State to haze less than t0o Senator's
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
portionnent in the House of Representatives.
g. separate Department of the Army, of the NGVy
and of the AR Forces, all united under Secretary
of National Defense
T. Federal action to the limit of Federal powers to
abolish AterGcy IN the United States under Secre-
tdTy of Education.
s. Election Of Congress IN November Installation on
the 1st of January follOeOng. Inauguration of the
= President Isl of January mert after November
The Washington times., 1929-06-06
One Investor, Annoyed
There Are Millions Like Him.

N wANY who have permitted themselves to make invest
in American industrial and other securities with
4' out first obtaining permission from the members Of the
Federal Reervs Board will be interested in extracts printed
below from letter written by one Of our readers.
The Federal Reserve Board established it SUP
Posed maintain and equaze credit and especially to
avoid panic.
By whose order and for whose speculative profit not
known but for mysterious and probably EXCELLENT
reason that Federal Reserve Board has been transformed into
club spectators tell them when they and may
buy and in general to aen out the prices Of securities
that SOMEBODY for SOME thinks too high
letter from reader Mr. A. b. of Los Angeles, will
strike a sympathetic note in many minds:
The Washington times., 1929-06-06
The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

Do you know: $3.50
l. What poet said, "Trust howeer pleasant" -
2. On what river is Hartford?
g. Why is the name of Left Erikson important?
4. In what State is Mobile? u
5. What is tanager?
g. What the branches of Federal Government?
T. Where is the volcano Mauna Loa?
Fill each blank in each title:
3. The Luck of Camp" Harte
g. The - in Armor," Longfelow.
TO- when We We're Very -" Milne.
II. "A -- the Styx" Bangs
~ THE -- Letter" Poe.
IS. "The Piper of Hameln," Browning.
ID. Charge of the -- Brigade" Tennyson.
Is. Barbara -" Whittier.
Answers on Fiction Page
The Washington times., 1929-06-06
DO YOU KNOW THAT

John C. Burkholder, chief engi-
neer of the telegraph and telephone
department Of the Canadian Ma
tional Railways and inventor OF
the two-way telephone converse.
ton from moving trains. Is only s2
years of aga
The Washington times., 1929-06-06

A plan is being worked out in
Germany for the operation of one
clock for use throughout the world.
IT would he located at some cen.
tral point from which constant
wireless messages would broadcast
the correct time,
The Washington times., 1929-06-06
WISE SAYINGS.

Our high respect for a well.read
man Is praise enough Cor litera-
ture.-Emerson.
Let those who have deserved
their punishment bear 1t patiently.
ovid.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-01-26
WILL CELEBRATE
LONG DISTANCE
PHONE LINE

Long distance telephone service
is being installed by engineers OF
the Bell Telephone System and
will be available by Monday even
ing, is the announcement made by
the Consolidated Power and Tele-
phone Company.
1t has been found that the tele-
graph wires can furnish the service
satisfactorily, and the work Of COM
pleting the hook-up Is being rapid
ly accomplished.
A special circuit Is being con-
nected with the Chamber of Com
merce offices and 1t Is expected
that there will be celebration OF
the opening of long distance SER
vice, though no definite plans have
been announced.
1t is probable that Mayor j. F.
Hesse, and DR.. Roy w. Martin,
president Of the Chamber Of Com
merce, will be the first to greet
the outside world over the tele-
phone.
Manager Sam Lawson, who is in
Los Angeles at present, and other
officers Of the company are receiv-
ing many congratulations on their
prompt action in obtaining long
distance service.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-01-26

Montana, Oregon and Washington.
In explaining the new enterprise
and its relationship to Las Vegas,
DR.. Martin said:
Principally due to the author
ization of the construction Of
Boulder Dam, public attention has
been called to Las Vegas in q
degree heretofore undreamed of
and undoubtedly many, many
thousands Of new people viii come
to this city and make their homes
here. Las Vegas has remarkably
favorable strategic location. Its
agricultural back-country viii rap
idly increase. It will have cheap
power and industries win flourish.
Business will grow and afford en-
ployment to great numbers of men.
Population will increase rapidly.
Plan Reliable
These things require the build
ing of office structures, store build
ings, church and fraternal build
ings, hotels, apartment houses,
factories, and great numbers of
homes, all Of which calls for fin
ancing," DR.. Martin continued.
ut is an acknowledged fact that
building-loan financing is the most
conservative shd reliable form of
financing for the Improvement of
real estate. This phase OF business
activity has been in effect in the
United States for SO years and
during that entire time the total
losses from all causes nave aggre
gated only nine one-thousandthS of
one per cent. Our purpose is to af-
ford this type Of financing to Las
Vegas and through the hignly ac-
vanced and perfected plans con-
trolled by the System Service Cor
poration, we believe that we can
offer this class of financing on the
most economical basis that ever
has been available"
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-01-26
B.Y.PU. EVENT
MOST ENJOYABLE

The Baptist Young Peoples Un-
ion held supper and social last
evening in the recreation room at
the church, which proved a most
enjoyable occasion.
After a delicious supper at seven
o'clock, a delightful musical prog
ram was presented consisting OF
the following numbers:
Violin solo, Miss Dorothy Buick,
accompanied by Miss Frances
Martin.
Piano solo, Miss Evelyn White.
Piano solo, Miss Elaine Martin.
Song, by Choir.
This was followed by a short
prayer offered by Roy Henry Bar
rett, State Secretary of the Ne
vada-Sierra Baptist Convention,
and a short address by Bob Man
ming, president of the local B. Y.
P. u, touching on the work Of the
organization.
An hour of games and merry
making followed, and the party
broke up at late hour.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-01-26
MILLION DOLLAR
CEMENT PLANT
IS PLAN N Ed

The Age has received informa :
ton which seems authentic to the
effect that million dollar cement
pant will he constructed by the
Nevada Lime 81 Rock Products Co.,
in connection with their present
plant at Sloan in this county.
Engineers and chemists employ
ed by the company have made ex-
haustie tests of the material
available at the company'S quarrieS
and have pronounced it suitable.
The great en5e Prise is planned
with the idea of furnishing a large
amount of the cement to be used
in building the Boulder Canyon
dam and for general construction
use throughout the state.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-01-26
WESTERN UNION
OFFICE TO BE
MOST MODERN

E. G. Vanderbilt, district super
intendent and F. B. Hibbard, head
of the plant department OF the
Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, have completed arrange
ments tor giving Las Vegas the
most modern and best equipped
downtown office on the system.
They have entered into ten
year lease fol the entire ground
floor of a two story reinforced
concrete building to be constructed
by w. G. Morse, owner Of the
property, ON Fremont street be-
tween First and Second streets.
Work on the new building will be
begun April l, on expiration Of the
present 'easC ard the building will
be ready for occupancy July l.
The new office will house the
entire local activities of the West
ern Union. II will be provided with
entirely new equipment fol- the
operation of the repeater station
on a high speed circuit, Las Vegas
being the only repeater station be-
tween Salt Lake and Les Angeles,
and will be the most modern re-
peater station on the Western Un-
ion system.
Among the items Of equip.ue IL
will be automatic repeaters. mot
or generator plant and an emer-
gency gas engine equipment to OPP
crate in case of anv interruption
un the local power lines.
Twenty-four hour service will be
available to tne public. The plant
will require the attention of a
manager. three repeater attendants
and operators, clerks and an ample
force of uniformed messengers.
Mr.. Vanderbilt, in an interview
with the Age said:
ON previous visits have made
a careful study of the situation
and found that the establishment
of the office was needed by Las
Vegas particularly in view of the
large development that mus. come
incidental to the building of the
Boulder dam.
Il have watched the growth of
Las Vegas for IS years and think
there is a great future in store
for you.
You might add that all COM
filed in the new office
vii be handled through the high
speed automatic equipment which
is rapidly taking the place of the
Morse system of sending by dots
and daShes by hand"
Incidentally Mr.. Vanderbilt paid
a high tribute to the fidelity and
ability Of Mr.. w. B. Mundy, for
many years in charge of the
company's business here. Also he
complimented the Age on the good
seed sown by its editorials last
sumner which resulted in bringing
the situation to the attention of
the officials and the action which
hec ompany is now taking.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-01-26
A. D. FERRON Is
CALLED BY DEATH

Friends OF Ted and w. E. Ferron
will be grieved to learn OF the
sudden death in Los Angeles yes
terday Of their father. A. d. Fer
ron, IS who died following a stroke
Of paralysis.
It was onyl six weeks ago that
Mr.. Ferron'S wife passed away and
it is believed that grief over her
loss brought on the attack which
ended in his demise.
Ted Ferron left last night for
Los Angeles where he will make
arrangements for his fathers S
funeral Bill Ferron will leave TO-
morrow night to attend the last
rites.
Besides Ted and Bill, Mr.. Ferron
leaves two sons, r. D. Ferron, who
is In South America, and F. G.
Ferron Of Roosevelt, Utah. A
daughter, Mrs. N. Dickerman lives
in Berkeley, California.
The Age extends to Ted and
Bill. their brothers and sister ltS
heartfelt sympathy.
A. p. Ferron was born in New
York state in 1845, and in 1863
went to California, going over the
Nicaragua Peninsula. He started
home by the overland route, aud
after getting as far as Salt Lake
City was stranded there.
Surveyors were very scarce IN
Utah, and MIR. Ferron soon made
a deal with Brigham Young tor
the surveying of Salt Lake City.
Later he went east to Washington
and received the appointment OF
U. S. Mineral Surveyor for the
State of Utah, which office he re-
tanned for 20 years.
Although a Gentle, Mr.. Ferron
lived in harmony with the Mormon
settlers, a friend of Brigham Young
and was closely identified with the
upbuilding of Salt Lake City and
the State Of Utah.
For the past twelve or fifteen
years the Ferrons have made their
home in Los Angeles.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-01-26

Representative of the Interna-
tional Newsreel as well as other
press photographers from Los An
geles and San Francisco Will
shoot" the signing event.
Mark Kelly, noted Pacific coast
sports writer will report the sign
ing of the contender in the Hearst
papers throughout the country.
Kelly is sports editor for the Los
Angeles Examiner.
Training Camp
II a training camp is defini ely
chosen the fighter and the promot-
er will pose for pictures at the site
and will Immediately arrange fer
the elaborate preparations %.
Wcl Id famous sports writer's and
I'Ts apel men wh.s are always II
constant attendance upon fighters
ol any championship match.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-01-26
DR.. Martin Heads New
Local Finance Company
100000 RESERVE FUND WILL GUARANTEE PUR-
cHAsERs OF LAS VEGAS CERTIFICATES

A million dollar building and
loan association with 100000
guarantee reserve fund will
omen for business In Las Vegas
Monday morning with DIR. Roy
w. Martin as president and
chairman of the Board of Di-
rcct0rs. The name of the new
concern is the Security Build
ing-Loan Association.
Other officers of the assOci-
alton are DIR. F. M. Ferguson,
First Vice-PreSident; A. J.
Tompkins, Second Vice-PreSi-
dent; Z. A. FerrOn, Treasurer,
and r. b. Griffith, Secretary.
The offices will be located in
the Delkin building.
$1,OOO,OOO Capital
The association is incorporated
under the laws of the state of Ne
vada and has a capitalization of
81 100000 and behind this guaranty
resources Of 100000. The associ-
alton is being serviced by the Sys-
tenn Service Corporation, a Della
ware organization, which controls
and protected plans of
which, it claims, enables
associations to oper-
ate with degree Of economy here
tofore unapproached and conse-
quently with a much higher ratio
Of profits.
Reserve Protection
The Security Building-Loan As
ISOLATION is q member of the Am
erican Reserve System, Inc, First
Division, an organization formed to
serve as a reserve for building
loan associations in the states of
Nevada, California, Arizona, Idaho,
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-01-26
MOVIE DRAWS
LARGE CROWD

The filming Of the picture deal
ing with the fight for the passage
of Boulder Dam legislation which
has been under way for the past
two weeks drew a crowd in Las
Vegas shortly after noon today.
Streets scenes were taken on the
corner of Fremont and Second
streets, and the crowd entered in
to the spirit Of the occasion and
furnished a satisfactory mob as
scenes depicting the boom we're
.ilmed.
Mrs. A. w. Ham and z. + Wick
man. who are taking the principal
parts are entitled to much cerdlt
Tort he unself'shress which they
haev displayed in donating t.?e1:
time and efforts towards the conf
pletion of the film.