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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-07-06

are breeders Of laziYtess and cow
ardice, smugness and intolerance.
Their very comfort and protection
Is a menace to the young life
within them, once childhood is
passed.
HOME MAY BE A HEAVENLY
HAVEN WHILE YOU'RE A
YOUNGSTER. BUT, SAVE FOR
OCCASIONAL VISITS, ALMOST
ANY OTHER PLACE IS BETTER
FOR you AFTER YOU'RE
TWENTY.
The distress and indignation
which parents feel at the thought
of their children leaving home
isn't love-although they honestly
think it is. 1t is selifishness-one
of the veil products Of an artificial
way of living. A sparrow has
healthier attitude toward it's young
than such parents--it boosts them
out of the nest when the time has
come to fly.
AS for inconsistencies, instead of
scorning it as we would any other
form Of cowardice. we have made
a virtue of it. Fine natures are
expected to be homesick as they
are expected to be patriotic or
honest or pure. Homesick hui
mans always get q sympathetic
hand from bystanders. They
shouldn't. An indulgence in home
sickness, save to q moderate de-
gree, is as silly and selfish as an
indulgence in any other childish
hangover.
MOVE FROM FIFTY-SEVENTH
TO ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY
FIFTH STREET WITHOUT "DY-
ING FROM Inconsistencies"
ISN'T A SUFFERING SOUL
SHE'S A GREAT BIG CRY BABY
AND A HOME THAT
CRAMPS HUMAN DEVELOP
MENT ISN'T SWEET, IT'S SEP
TIC.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-07-06
ONCE-OVERS

ION Saving
XKTHEN you look back over the
w years you bring to mind the
time when you contemplated as
Stunning financial obligations that
would have made 1t necessary for
you to save a certain definite
sum each week.
You hesitated, afraid you might
not be able to meet the pay
ments regularly and enjoy GER
tain amusements, you would not
give up.
Now you regret your lack Of
AS You look forward 10 or Is
years you are quite concerned
wondering how you will meet
possible disaster.
Even now you know OF ways
you might follow and annual
savings you might make that
would go a good way toward as
surfing you of q. sufficient amount
to carry you through what would
be the natural span OF life.
But now your worry is whether
you can continue to make the
income sufficient to meet Install
ments even unwillingly giving up
the frilIs to meet conditions.
If YOU live 10 years hence you
will regret that you did not as
sumo the obligations that would
help you meet future contingen-
cies with less worry, so you
would better wake up before it is
too late and take advantage OF
some Of the opportunities pre-
sented 70 you. -
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WISE SAYINGS

To convince a poor voter by the
common argument of promised re-
forms is merely to corrupt him
with DEMONSTRATING.
The historian is prophet with
his face turned backwards.LVan
SchiegeL
Is not young mother one Of
the sweetest sights which life
shows us?-Thackeray.
The world rewards the appear
ance of merit oftener than merit
itself.-Le Rochefoucauld.
There is a time when it is Ger.
tainly better to make loss in
stead Of a gain.
To the timid and hesitating
everything = impossible because
1t seems so.--Scott.
Even man should measure him.
self by his own observation-disclosures
There is no vulture like des.
pair -Lansdowne.
Accent is the soul Of language;
It gives the feeling ana truth Of
-AooAse
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-07-06
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
by DR.. Louis e. Bisch-I


THHE food poisoning most people
4 know about IL the so-cailed
''ptomaine" poisoning which seems
to be synonymous with poisoning
from fish and shellfish.
As a matter Of fact, poisoning
of the system from any kind OF
food can be so designated. The
word ptomaine really means a
chemical substance produced when
food goes bad and putrifies.
We may become poisoned by
food, however, not because the
food has deteriorated and. there
fore has produced substances
within itself which are dangerous
for human consumption but be-
cause a food may contain disease
germs. In this latter class are
water or lettuce or celery contami.
mated by the typhoid germ, or milk
by the tuberculosis bacillus, etc.
Then again, an animal may feed
on plants which are infected with
poisonous fungi and these may
cause poisoning in the human be.
ing although, actually, the meat
of the animal may itself be whole
some.
Furthermore, perfectly good
food may be exposed to flies and
insects and the eggs and contami.
nations of these may be what
poisons the consumer.
Lastly, certain foods, like poison
Gus mushrooms, are themselves
sources of danger to persons eat
ing them.
As regards fish poisoning, most
cases are due to improper icing,
the fish being kept too long, and
to bacterial growth. There are
fish, on the other hand, which are
poisonous even when eaten fresh.
Sometimes this is due to certain
glands of the fish.
OF course Holsters and crabs,
oysters and CLAIMS, may cause poi,
soning and one of the most dem
gerous Of shellfish may be- the
mussel.
Milk, especially in the summer
when 1t may upset infants more
readily than in the winter, may
cause poisoning. And, of course,
various products made from milk
may do the same damage.
Ice cream, despite the fact that
1t is cold, may quickly mount in
the number OF bacteria it con-
tains, even in a few hours. Since
such huge quantities are con.
sumed daily in the United States
we must nota be careless about
where our ice cream comes from,
the condition that surrounds its
manufacture and how old 1t is.
Meat can become highly dan
gerous to health If not properly
iced and handled or If the animals
themselves were diseased.
Pork is not an uncommon Of
fender, especially pork-pie and
sausages. Less frequently there
is poisoning from veal and beef.
Mutton seems to be an espe-
cially safe food.
Potatoes may even cause poi.
soning due to a poison called
''solanin," which is present in
small amounts in all potatoes but
may at times be abnormally in
creased.
The grains, like meal, contain.
mated by the fungus ''ergot,"
may become poisonous.
The symptoms of food poison
are those of stomach upset, pain,
vomiting and prostration, with
possible profound effects on the
nervous system. Such symptoms
may be mild or severe.
In all cases a large dose OF
salts is indicated and maybe pump
ing out of the stomach.
Food poisoning may prove IA
tai, therefore a physician should
- called - seop e. possible
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-07-06
LISTEN WORLD!
Debunking Home Sweet Home
By Elsie Robinson

r KNEW a woman who moved
L from Ftfty.seventh Street, New
York, to One Hundred and Sixty
fifth Street and nearly died from
inconsistencies"
Instead OF greeting such q
chicken-livered exhibition with the
smokers and shoots it deserved,
her friends promptly rallied round
and said how terrible it must be
for poor dear Mae to leave the
street where she'd been born and
"go way off. where she didn't
know a soul"
know another woman who has
wrecked the lives of two daughters
and a son by insisting that they
stay in the Dear Old Home with
Momma and Poppa. In their early
twenties these young people were
all anxious to branch out for them
selves, but every time they sug-
gested going Momma threw a
fit and made them feel that they
were making the mistake of their
lives II they left the maternal roof.
Their natural timidity, coupled
with her yelps, did the trick. The
three Of them are now well in their
thirties and have about as much
initiative left as a bunch of old
tooth brushes.
Is this mother criticized because
Of her selfishness? l should say
not! She is both envied and
praised for her feat in keeping
the family together"
HOME, SWEET HOME"-
WHAT ATROCITIES HAVE
BEEN COMMITTED IN THY
NAME!
If there's any institution that
needs a lot of debunking it's
Home Sweet Home.
Some homes ARE sweet. Some
homes ARE centers Of healthy,
happy life. But countless homes
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-07-06

VVYAEHINGTONS eftturn traffic regulation not salts
factory everybody but the good of this city has
helped by the widely advertised OF traffic
chaos here by the Automobile Association in
nual session at Buffalo
This strong censure of local conditions according spe
cia dispatch in afternoon Washington paper unani
ously confirmed by all delegates to the A. including
the THREE DELEGATES FROM THIS CITY.
In that Dispatch in the paper declared
that thousands tourists avoiding Washington
nualy because of what termed THE WORST TRAFFIC
NIGHTMARE IN AMERICA
cOncurred in by Washngtons three delegates this is
notable advertisement-To KEEP AWAY FROM WASHING
TONust about the possible advertisement to be had
Ordinarily the attitude of Washington delegates under such
circumstances would have been downright refusal to
cur in such Indictment and defense Of this city.
Assistant Traffic Director Elrdge offers make wager
that single tourist has declined to Washington
because Of traffic regulations here and he much nearer
right than those who hold Washington up the nation as
TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE.
These press dispatches as traffic conditions here went
over the country because Warrington for reason
singled out for this attack
The terms chaos and nightmare a. applied to the left
lacking in truth The Indictment may do Washington
siderable HARM and those who promoted will not get the
thanks of trade and civic bodies here.
There has been any chaos IN traffic conditions in
Washington This city is free from traffic chaos than
any other American municipality.
Our left regulation is irritating but most traffic
laws are irritating drivers In fact all laws now seem to
irritate lawdefying people,
Some poor politics played in taking this matter 10 the
American Automobile Association, public sentiment here
arrayd against the lehand turn It will be changed
We in this city, but do have way Of con-
centrang public opinion until is recognized by local Off
Gals.
Our traffic shortcomings should and be corrected by
people, Nothing earth to be gained by going 70
q
undesirable to visit by tourists merely because regu
tion that is not approved by some people.
Traffic in this city with regularity every day
may not just want it to No traffic regu-
aton peases everybody traffic weaknesses will be
rected by local officials and they will KNOCK Wishing
ton in doing il either. ~,-l...a.ul1.-..l
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Papers Advocate:

|. An agreement of Egish-spedking peoples to pre-
serve peace among themselves and to promote the
peace Of the eO0rd.
Proportional representation in the United States
Senate, no State to haze less than tao Senator's
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
Y porttonn1ent IN the House of Representatives
3. separate Department of the Army Of the Macy
and OF the Air Forces, all united under Secretary
of National Defense.
l. Federal action to the limit of Federal posoers to
abolish iterdcy IN the United States under Score
tGry of Education !.
5. Election of Congress IN November Installation on
the first of January foltowng. Inauguration of the
President first Of January nert after November
election.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-07-06
THREE-MINUTE JOURNEYS
BY Temple Manning

WiHERE are but three Mohamme-
u dan temples in all of China.
One of these, the sacred Bottle
ef Cathay, is extremely interest
Ing. It As as it's name implies,
built in the shape Of a bottle. Very
few non-Mohammedans have ever
been vouchsafed the honor of be-
ing permitted to view its interior,
but we have 1t from one of the
privileged that It is indeed re-
markable place.
The walls are decorated with
frescoes illustrating the Moham-
rnedan traditions, the ceilings are
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-07-06

beautifully decorated, while great
carved columns support the floors.
A wealth of jewels ornament the
temple.
But 1t Is the exterior of the
structure that is chiefly remark
able. Quite aside from the odd
shape of the building, its work.
manship Is indeed exquisite. Mar
velous carvings, reliefs and
statues adorn the walls. Many of
these are painted in vivid colors,
others are grotesquely formed,
many are bizarre. Certainly all
are interesting.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-07-06

1t is getting so that a woman
feels as though she had forgotten
something when she lets two
seasons go by without being d.
Vorced or remarked.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-07-06
Hurting Washington To Get At
Traffic BugabOO

VV7ASH1NGTONs efturn traffic regulation not salts
factory everybody but the good name of this city has
been helped by the widely advertised of traffic
chaos here by the American Automobile Association in
nual session at Buffalo.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-07-06
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland.

NTo table ever ''groaned" under a
IN modern womar's diet. It's
her husband who does the groan'
ing.
Somehow the husband Of
lady celebrity so often looks as
though she had picked him out
during q bargain rush and ordered
him sent home without taking
him out to see how he looked in
the daylight.
When life, love and transpor-
tation were slower, we all GOT
there, just, the same" and man.
aged to stay where we got
great deal longer, whether it
was at home or in love or married.
There is nothing that seems
to rest a man so much as lolling
on the piazza and watching the
weeds grow in the garden and
the hedge waiting patiently to
be trimmed.
II Is getting SO LnAL WOHldH
feels as though she had forgotten
something when she lets two
seasons go by without being d.
Vorced or remarked.
1t isn't until quite q while after
the honeymoon that She discovers
that his firm, strong character"
! is just pig -headedness, and He
discovers that her childish cum
ming little ways are just empty
headedness."
The American Idea: Giving your
children everything on earth they
want-then wondering why they
have no ambition.
Everything is being made easy
these days; even the lowly hot
dogs" come all peeled. But,
frankfurter without a skin must
have about as much kick as q
first kiss without q struggle.
When girl il just q useless
ornament, with nothing but a
vacuum under her marcel wave,
she is not fit for anything on
earth. in the average mans
opinion-except to be somebody's
"helpmate."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-07-06
Better Days in Mexico
Hope of Reconciliation.

THERE is hope of better understanding between the
Church and the Government in Mexico
In pastoral letter to the Mexican Catholic Bishops Arch
bishop Lcpoldo Luiz Floros Papal Delegates urging
encs TO law says We caution both priests and aymen
follow dy and dociely the instructions which the Episco
pate will issue to attain this end -
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-01-31

Thursday evening, Mothers and
Daughters Night. Special songs
by the ladies.
Friday evening, Young Peoples
Night. College and high school
students and all other young peo-
pie.
Some of Miller's sayings:
Every merchant in town should
want sure enough revival meet
ing because you'd get some bills
paid that you never thought of
collecting.
ct don't believe in debating con-
troversal themes that don't mean
anything to our souls salvation.
"You can't any more be honest
and rob God than you can rob
your groceryman and be honest.
"There is an old adage that q
woman can either make or damn
man. don't believe it,, for have
seen some old reprobates that nc
woman could straighten out.
"My friend Jesus thought as
much of the prodigal girl as he die
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I. + = r r = = = + = + E I: :
= Letters from the People :
= !. = > > i + + I. + I. + + +
Dear Rabbi:

iDear Haipii.
ia eva read fairy tales? | have
one peculiar failing among the US
ual human gamut-a love of fairy
tales. / enjoy wandering in the
gfamorors Land of Make-Be-
lieve," take stark pleasure in prob
ing into the world of Things as
they Might Have Been" 1t is a
great place, Ralph, hidden from the
world-blinded eyes of most of us.
Yes, blotted out of Consciousness by
conceit, vanity, jealousy, and, If
you will pardon my bluntness, by
destructive shortsightedness. Come
with me tonight, Ralph, for trip
into this land of ''Make-Believe.'
Snap off the lights, as the sub
dued glow of the open fire place
is all we need when dreaming.
Watch those Pickering, CULVER
ing tongues of flame, Ralph, twist
ing, rising, writhing, disappearing
merging into-Ah, yes;
wide country road. Not too shady
but smooth and glistening white
stretching away to blend with tn,
mirage that wells the distant foot
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Weather Forecasts to
Be Available Daily

Through the efforts of Congress
man, John w. Summers, arrange
ments have been made with the
United States weather bureau TO
furnish this district with daily
forecasts. These forecasts are re-
ceived each morning, by wire, from
the u. S. Weather Bureau. POST
master G. H. Shanafelt is posting
them in the lobby of the Post Or
flee. Through the courtesy of Man
ager A. T. Brown of the local tel
ephone company, these forecasts
are available to any one who de-
sires them by calling up central.
1t is thought that they will be OF
especial value to sheepmen during
the Landing season and later, dur
inf the frost season, to fruit grow
erS.
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hills; and thanked on either side
by wide, cleaning alfalfa fields,
corn in marshalled rows, glisten-
ing and scintillating as only corn
can where every condition of the
growth is under control. And here
and there an orchard, trim and or
Derby; and pastures with good live
stock literally knee deep in clover.
And ever and anon well kept, mod
ern homes, not necessarily elabor-
ate, good barns and outbuildings.
Sleek horses, yes, and cleaning
.siron horses" pulling real mach
inery. 1t has always been a hobby
! of mine, this pulling levers rather
than chasing "foot-burners," seems
! more conducive of long life. Then
other roads like the first, crossing
/ and conforming, bearing on their
glistening surfaces bright, flashy
motors, of which none need be
ashamed, going to town for-well
| like as not, 'just for fun" Ano
what a town! No second story
false fronts here, but real build
ings of stone and brick. Splendit
schools, churches, a bank or two
!, warehouses and railroad stations
the Open Sesame, not to greene
fields, but merely to "other places.
CRASH! darn that backlog
: spoiled our reverie, but never mind
we can consider this part of tn
picture without stretching the i'm
agination so much.
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MILLER CONDUCTS
SPECIAL SERVICES
Evangelist from Nashville Leads
Revival at First Methodist
Church in Kennewick

Evangelist L. j. Miller of Nash
vile, Tennessee is conducting a
stirring revival at the Methodist
church and each night reveals new
interest on the part of the people"
Rev. F. N. Morton said yesterday. |
"Dr. Miller is the type of man
that holds the attention of young |
and old and presents the gospel
with enough zeal, humor and COM
mon sense that none find it tire
some at any time. He has religion
but it is the. kind that sends him
to his work with a smile and his
good common sense enables him to
present the gospel so that it ap-
peals to people of all ages.
Gas a result of his work last
year, over twelve hundred people
united with the churches where
services were held and when you
consider that this means an aver
age of one hundred a month II is
a remarkable record.
CDR. Miller spoke to the hlgn
school Wednesday morning ana
presented vital truths with such a
mixture of wit and humor that ne
held the closest attention OF every
student"
/ The program for next week is
| as follows:
Sunday, February 8, 1929. 10 a.
m. Address to Sunday school. IL
a. M, sermon: "The Price OF
Soul.' 1880 pm. aWill There be
Final Judgment"
Monday, 7:30 pm, Offlclars
Night. Board of Stewards, trustees
and Sunday school workers and all
officers of the church organiza-
tions.
| Tuesday evening, 1880. Fathers
and Sons Night. Fathers and sons
sitting together if possible.
| Wednesday evening, Business
Mems Night. Commercial Club
members of fraternities.
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Oh, if Kennewick was only one
half that fine! Don't you know,
Ralph, that we farmers are just |
human, plain everyday Americans, i
vintage of 1929. 1t we were only
able we would sure do things, moth
ing could be too good for us. The
only reason we ride in Fords is be-
cause our bank balances won't
stand for the Rolls Royce strain.
The only reason we wear SIR II
Co. tailored to models" is be-
cause they sell four suits for the
price of one customed-tailored. The
next time you pass a Id model
Ford on the road or notice a farm
ers "Shack" nestled amidst scenes
of squalor, don't turn up your nose
and accuse him of being shiftless,
nine times out of ten you will be
wrong. Nine times out of ten it is
simply because he is operating un-
der impossible conditions. Con-
ditions that would ride you, your
self, hard indeed if you came thru
any better than that farmer.
| And if things could be so rede-
signed, wouldn't Kennewick fused
synIbolically) have a heck of a time
helping us do things. I'll tell the
world! 1t would surely be scand-
alous-even the church carpet
i wouldn't have to last more than
one season and you could wire
j Kabul for the latest in Oriental
. tapestries. If only the urban pop
ulation of this mighty country
could visualize the true meaning
of agricultural prosperity Oh!
that their world-blinded eyes could
be opened. Snap them open, Kid.
] Compare the everyday drab real
| ity with our dream picture. 1t alb
solutely staggers the imagination
to visualize the result of contin-
/ GUS good crops at only fair prices.
! Think of the lumber and cement
we would use, the hardware, ma
chinery, the labor. And we would
have improved live stock with it's
added incentive for better care and
attention.; more stock feed, more
fertilizers and bigger, finer fair.
Yes and the new furniture, motor
cars, radios, silks and satins, the
French coneys, and various other
"do-dads" demanded by vanity and
obtained as a prerequisite of sta
ton" front" if you please.
Now, Ralph, Pm not begging
favors. I'm Old Man Opportunity
| (who usually knocks with his fin
ger nails on or about Dead Mans
watch) welding a spike hammer,
(R. R. pattern) on the front stoop.
Take my tip, Old Top, and get be-
hind Kennewick Valley with words,
| deeds, and your pocket books, for
in so far as We cast bread on the
waters so shall it come back as a
Club sandwich. Kennewick can only
realize it's destiny through the con-
certed action Of every available
agency. make bold to assert that
this valley will face, during the
next five years, the greatest crisis
of its history. Some of our prob
lens have been solved, lacking only
universal application. Some prob
lens can be solved through coop
erative marketing, while others
loom darkly, forbidding, challeng-
ing the ingenuity of all of us.
Now, altogether, push! And
should times come when the game
seems not worth the candle, just
remember, cts all for Kennewick
valley" symbolizing as that does,
the hopes, plans, ambitions, tribu-
lations and ultimate happiness of
every man, woman and child in our
mighty commonwealth.
Au revoir (but not goodbye)
GEO. E. SELLICK
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of the prodigal son. We don't do
that today"