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The Washington times., 1929-02-06
MEDITATIONS
OF A WIFE
: BY Helen Rowland.
When Man Gets Big Surprise
A MAN is always being sur
"A prised" by a woman.

~ MAN - 0ANo$S
"A prised" by a woman.
He is surprised when he finds
himself engaged to ner, surprised
when he discovers that she has;
married him, and helplessiy
astonished when she finds him
out. But he is positively DUMB
FOUNDED when she keeps her
promise-and leaves him all alone
in the world!
A woman's talk rolls right
off a mans consciousness like
rain off the roof That is why
he is always amazed and hurt
when she ACTS.
The hardest thing in the world
for a man TO realize is that
woman really means it, when she
SAYS she is through" He just
can't BELIEVE that any woman
would actually leave him to clean
his own brushes, pick up his own
paiamas. or sign his own letters.
as long as she merely threatens
No matter how much notice
his wife or his stenographer may
give him. he never actually taxes
her seriously until he wakes up
some morning and finds a note
pinned TO his wifes empty pillow
or his stenographer's desk
closed and her sweater gone from
the back of her chair.
As long as a man can prevail
upon a woman to change her
mind once more, he goes bliss
fully and peacefully on, in the
sweet child.like confidence that 1t
was all Just chatter Or her
nerves.
His stenographer might give
him daily ''notice" for two years,
instead of mere two weeks, yet
he wouldn't think of starting 10
hunt for another until she was
ready to put on her hat.
His wife may give him warn
ing" every other day. that she
lis not going to stand It another
"a hours" vet he won't try to
find out where she keeps the
apirin or the can-opener, until
her baggage leaves the house.
And even after he has seen his
wife's trunks go out of the door,
or has watched his stenographer
close her desk and walk out with
battle in her eye--he still listens
for her returning footsteps in the
fond belief that she will walk
right back in again.
The truth is that no man can
understand how a woman who
has once loved him or worked for
him, can ever STOP loving him
or working for him, no matter
WHAT he may do to dishearten
her or torment her or worry her.
And he is never in the least
surprised, when the woman who
has cleft him forever" calls him
mp next morning, and tells him
that she is taking the next train
back!
The Washington times., 1929-02-06
LISTEN WORLD!
System Isn't Everything
By Elsie Robinson

TEMATIC. BIT IT TAKES A
LOT MORE THAN THAT - TO
LAND A HUMAN.
We make great mistake when
we teach our youngsters that
promptness and regularity and
order and similar mechanical Vir-
tues are the vital requirements in
work.
We hold out false hopes when
we tell them that if they are sut-
ficiently systematic and industri-
Gus they win land in the million
aire class.
You can he as Industrious az a
pup with its first flea and still
never amass q thousand dollars,
still less a million.
Spunk has system backed off
the map as a working virtue
Initiative - imagination - they
are the great assets
An ability to stand punishment
An eagerness to accept respon-
sihility--
A flair for adventure
These things should be encour-
aged in young people who are
about to 60 out into life.
Use system as a tool-but only
as a tool.
AN. OUNCE OF ORIGINALITY,
is WORTH A TON OF ORDER.
The Washington times., 1929-02-06
New Rule
Old Drinking

HE House of Commons excited because Miss Susan Law
renee, Labor NJ P speak without hat shouted
"Hatl Hat!"
Miss Lawrence took piece of paper and held her
head to represent hat
The House of Commons present SOBER always
In the good old Tory days. drinking too much the rule
and to speak with their hats when against
the rule So it decided keep their hats Pitt
his hat in the Speakers presence when it against the
rules Asked rs the honorable gentleman of the
presence of the Speaker? Pitt replied that he sorry
say he was aware of the presence of two Speakers.
The Washington times., 1929-02-06

OINCE I was old enough to
~ sample the varnish on the
kitchen chairs l have heard of
the value of SYSTEM.
System was the Big Idea, the
Royal Flush, the Vital Nitamine
in the successful career--so they
told me.
With System the world was
mine-without it / might as well
be a Paleozoic squid.
Which is all very true. provided
YOU were born With a pigeon-hole
mind and the disposition of a nSce-
ly oiled eggbeater.
/ wasn't.
So, for the comfort of those who
are similarly afflicted. / write this
protest against our blind worship
of system. / am we'll aware that
it is against the spirit Of the
times and gives the lie to about
S76, 9S7,777 ,9S7 volumes on How
to Succeed" Nevertheless, he
the consequences what they may,
l am going to spill the beans.
System is a nice little help for a
busy life. hut it is only a help.
You can have all the system
there is in the world. and, lacking
other qualities. it won't get you
anywhere.
A CARD FILE CAN BE sYs-
The Washington times., 1929-02-06
Consider the Preachers
And Their Hard Work.

TEWsPAPERs the fact that President Coolidge
has worked hard in 1925 writing 90 public speeches
and messages to Congress
Much concentrated thought went into those speeches and
messages. The President is worker.
But think of the poor clergyman writes So
every year. the congregation expecting something and
brilliant every tme and paying him usually barely much
as it costs to keep him alive.
And pity the poor editor who must write something every
day
Or perhaps you think he deserves pity
The Washington times., 1929-02-06
Hearst Papers Advocate:

1. An agreement OF Enghsh-speaktng peoples to pre-
serue peace among themselves and to promote the
peace of the t0Orld
Proportional representation in the United States
Senate, no State to haze less than tao Senator's
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
portionDaent IN the House OF Representatives.
g. A separate Department OF the Army, of the Macy
and OF the Air Forces, all united under Secretary
of National Defense
A. Federal action to the limit of Federal poUerS to
abolish iteracy in the United States under Secre-
tary of Education.
g. Election of Congress IN NoUember Installation on
the 1st of January foLL0wing. Inauguration of the
President 1st of January neat after November
election.
The Washington times., 1929-02-06
Foolish Zogu
Never Disturb Mohammed.

LING zOGU sef-established ruler of Albania tells his
II Mohammedan subjects that Sunday hereafter, will be
their holy day of rest Mohammed selected Friday. Zogu
wants to turn Christian and be In right with Musson and
other Western neighbors. He wanted to marry
italian Princess
Zogu might be warned by the fate of another King,
Amanuah of Afghanstan He ordered wells for
European clothing for everybody They drove him out and
his brother, Inyatulah, after him.
Mohammedans do not mind being taxed killed but you
must not interfere with Mohammed.
The Washington times., 1929-02-06

It would have been fortunate thing for the nations of
Europe they in 1914 could have initiated the taken
by Chile and the Argentines twelve years earlier.
Arbitration and fine statue of "The Prince of Peace
erected each of the great national boundaries would
been better than ten million killed in war; eight million
killed by influenza born of the war; hundred and fifty
billions of dollars quandered hundreds of thousands of chill
den and half starved and international hatred bitterly
Increased.
The Washington times., 1929-02-06
Distinctive Markings For D. c.
Automobile Tags
FFICIA excuses that District automobile tags for 1880

FFICIA excuses that District automobile tags for 1880
~ can not include distinctive marking because that
would make them too large will not be well received.
District officials should begin now to get up an attractive
automobile owners travel
Tags of 1890 should carry corner picture of the
of the Capitol in color with letters and numerals in
another The extra Of increased size tag will not be
large enough cripple the city financially and room be
all machines for tags slightly larger than those IN
This years tags of benefit to Washington Dist.
of Columbia 1929 not discernib unless parked
or moving slowly.
little advertising of this great city will not be out OF
place in and thereafter Let's have distinctive Tags in
the future.
The Washington times., 1929-02-06
The knowledge Test for
Readers Of The Times

Fill each blank:
/. "Alce in --" is by Lewis Carroll.
2 BLEAK --" is by Charles Dickens.
L. Diana the -' is by George Meredith
5. "The Duchess of -" is by Hugh Walpole. y
Do you know:
6. Who wrote "The Wisdom Tooth?
7. What happened in the Black Hole of Calcutta?
8. What is ieremiad?
g. Who said The course did smooth
10. How did Torreceli gain fame?
Match correctly:
IL. Contagious diseases Is disinfection by gases.
IL. Fumigaton. Is the science of the weather.
lachrymaI vocal cords
Ia. The larynx Are caused by germs.
Is. Meteorology. Secrete tears to wash the eyebals
Answers on Fiction Page
The Washington times., 1929-02-06

For never anything can be amiss
When simpleness and duty ten
der it. Shakespeare.
Tt is the cause and not the
death, that makes the martyr.
Napoleon.
Simplicity is an exact medium
between too little and too much
Reynolds.
Genius is the introduction Of a
: new elsment into the intellectual
uriverse.-Wordsworth.
The Washington times., 1929-02-06
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

A very great part OF the mis-
chiefs that vex this world arise
from words.-Burke.
Politeness is to goodness what
words are to thought, ,-Joubert.
Choose an author as you choose
a friend.-Dillon.
The vow that binds too strictly
snaps itself .-Tennyson
What you do not want IL dear
at q farthtnG. -csto.
The Washington times., 1929-02-06

Sooner shall these mountains crumbe into dust
| than Argentines and Chileans break the peace to
which they have pledged themselves at the feet
of Christ the Redeemer.
The Washington times., 1929-02-06
Do You Know

A commission has been created
in Mexico to work out plans to
preserve Mexico City as an in
dividual city, different from other
capitals.
Weddings in Scotland's famous
Gretna Green during 1928 have
exceeded the annual record OF the
last 400 years.
The Washington times., 1929-02-06

As long as man can prevail
upon a woman to change her
mind once more, he goes bliss
fully and peacefully on, in the
sweet child-like confidence that 1t
was all Just chatter" Or 'her
y,aryas"'
The Washington times., 1929-02-06

NoU can't behold the butterfly in the cat
l Judge the frog from the tadpole.
The Washington times., 1929-06-06
8 WILL SELECT
EDISON BOY

ANNAPOLIS, June 6.-Dr, Henry
M. Fitzhugh, president of the State
Board of Education; w. Lee Rawls,
president of the board of school
commissioners of Baltin ore, and
George r. Calls, jr., of Baltimore.
were appointed yesterday by Cover
nor Ritchie to select the Maryland
youth who will compete for the
Thomas A. Edison scholarship.
Edison has asked each State and
the District of Columbia to select
a boy in the genius class.
The 40 youths will go to Edison's 8
laboratory at Orange, N. j., about
August /. There the inventor, after
he has put to them a question.
naire, will pick one of them and
send him to college.
Edison hopes that by this method
he will some day be able to allow
the boy chosen to carry on his
work at Orange.
DR.. Fitzhugh will devote most OF
his activities in attempting to pick
possible candidates for Maryland
from the county schools. Rawls
will do the same thing in the public
schools in the city, and Calls will
devote his activities to the pupils
of the private and parochial schools.
The Washington times., 1929-06-06
.STIMSON To AID
FOSSIL HUNT

Secretary of State Stimson, has
stepped into the dispute between the
Chinese Nationalist government and
Roy Chapman Andrews regarding
the latter's desire to obtain addi-
tional fossils and other things of
ancient time from the deserts of
central Asia, IL and when they are
found. Andrews is now in China.
The Secretary of State took up
the matter yesterday following re-
ceipt of dispatch from Minister
MacMurray. He went into con-
ference with c. c. WI, Chinese min.
lister.
The Chinese demand that An.
drews take Chinese officials with
him on the expedition for training
for future explorations by the
Chinese government, it is said. An.
drews, it is understood, does not
wish to do this.
The Washington times., 1929-06-06
Pullman Car Porters
viii Get Increase
In Salaries

CHICAGO, June 6 Q.N.S0.-
George. the porter's "yassuh"
seemed heartier today; he stepped
a little liveller, piled the broom a
bit more briskly and exposed
few extra teeth when he smiled.
Announcement by the Pullman
Company OF IS a month wage
increase was the reason.
Twelve thousand porters and
maids are affected June l.
The pay hike was the result
of three years of agitation.
The Washington times., 1929-06-06
GOOD MEMORY
SAVES CAR

A colored youth was held for In
vestlgation at the First precinct to.
day as a result of the ingenuity OF
Jack Rowles, a tourist guide.
Rowles was leaving the Bureau OF
Engraving and Printing when he
heard a man tell of the theft Of his
automobile. The guide remembered
the number.
Several hours later Ro"les saw
the stolen machine on the road to
Mt. Vernon. He notified police. The
car was returned to George Fl.
Heaven. of Altoona, Pa a visitor
in Washington.
Police arrested the driver, James
Washington, colored, 10, of the zoo
block of First st. s. w. The pris.
oner told Frank, Allisood. a head.
quarters detective. two men had
asked him to drive the ca.
The Washington times., 1929-06-06
EX.IuDGE WEDS

CUMBERLAND, Md, June O.
The marriage Of William. Concannon
Walsh, former chief judge of the
Fourth judicial circuit of Maryland
and former member of the State
Court of Appeals, and Miss Sarah
Elizabeth Nee was announced last
night tire brides father, James A.
Nee. II 1Ssceremonoy was performed
at St. Feter's Catholic Church, Han
cock, last Saturday, by the Rev. DR..
William E. Kelly,
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Mrs. MOIIie r. Martin
Dies in Martinsburl

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, June 6.
Mrs. Mollie E. Martin, widow OF
Robert Martin, well known former
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad conduc.
tor, died at her home here from
heat trouble.
Mrs. Martin was born in this city
IA years ago and spent her life here.
She is survived by three children.
The Washington times., 1929-06-06
Hagerstown License
XlOlatOrs Are Warned

HAGERSTOWN, Nd, June g.
Sharp warning has been given 400
merchants and traders in Washing
ton county who have failed to obtain
licenses for the present year.
Licenses were due May 1, and on
June 1. under the new State law, 10
per cent of the total amount of the
license is added to the fee. An addi-
tional 1Ot per cent will be added
July /,
The Washington times., 1929-06-06
mo. YOUTH is HELD

HAGERSTOWN, Nd, June s.
Albert Moore, 1S, charged with
breaking into the home of r. Bruce
Carson, a jewelry merchant, was
held for the action of the Novem'
Der grand jury by Justice John H.
Bitner. Moore's bond was fixed
at $1,000, in default of which he
was committed to Jail.
The Washington times., 1929-06-06
Secretary to Ritchie
Leaves for New Work

ANNAPOLIS, June 6.-kenneth
M. Burns, who for the last six
years has been Governor Ritchie's
executive secretary, leaves the GOV.
ernor's staff today. He has ac-
cepted position as field secretary
to the Bankers Association OF
Michigan.
Burns will take up his new duties
next Monday. His offices will be
in Detroit.
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All Hard Boiled

Once again those who believe that the way
to protect society is TO be harsh, vindictive and
hard boiled, no matter what the Constitution
may suggest as to the purpose of the penal
code, viii again feel easy.
Criticism of the parole Of two prisoners got
results. Once again the Governor is hard
boled-or thin skinned
Relatives and friends who pleaded for some
sort of lenency for prisoners at Michigan City
were turned away with only the echo of next
case" in their ears.
The warden of the prison barred repre-
sentative Of one press association from the
meeting. This was the penalty for the accu-
racy and courage of that young man in sending
out story Of riot inside the prison in which
one prisoner was killed. The warden does not
like TO read about killings inside his prison.
The Punishment of this reporter was quite
logical under the hard boiled policy. Suppress
sion Of news is necessary factor. For riots
are the inevitable reaction of hopeless men to
difficult surroundings. And the warden has had
considerable experience in suppressing report
ers He stood guard over Stephenson when
state senators were trying ret that notorious
prisoner to reveal the secrets of his black boxes.
If further evidence is needed to defend the
state authorities from any charge of being at
all sympathetic or sentimental, it may be
membered that Daisy Sullivan, the 18year-old
Bloomfield girl who forged a check for $3.50 to
buy few bananas when she was hungry, is in
the women S penitentiary, doomed to serve APP
parently, the full term Of her sentence of from
two to ten years.
True, no one cares particularly about this
girl She never had chance, so why ahould
she have one after she had done so terrible
thing as to forge check for 50 great a sum as
$26Ol
Of course in nearby counties, juries dis
agree when bankers forge checks for thousands
and escape jails The state gives exactly the
same sentence to those bankers who I'M
fortunate as not to hang the juries
But Daisy is inside the prison. Every day,
in all probability, she is becoming more and
more hard boiled. In time she ought to become
hard enough as to merit promotion to some
position of trust, or to greater crimes
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not required to have work started before next sum-
mer.
Conditions ceased to be normal when Premier Mac
Donald announced the suspension of work on two
British cruisers and other warcraft. The President
took advantage Of this fact to delay our contemplated
construction Of course 1t is probable that the Presi-
dent hopes he may never have to build these cruisers
at all
1t doubtless occurs to him that it is cheaper to
fran from building s5oOOoOOO worth of cruisers than
it is to build them and scrap them afterward.
Congress will be meeting again before expiration
of the time within which this work must start If it
feels the President is defying its wishes, it can
straighten him ott-make him get to work building
battleships But we doubt that congress will feel that
way.
Congress passed the present cruiser bill in spasm
of fear and suspicion There little in the situa
ton between this country and Great Britain to allay
this distrust the prospect that the pacihst labor
party might be swept into power at the spring cleo
ton.
Congress was not in a mood to rely on this pros
pect. Now however, 1t has become reality. Men who
want peace and plenty of in control in England
Their leader lays the first sacrifical battleshps on
the altar of peace.
Surely there is no affont to congress in the quick
response of the President After ALL his action merely
means holding up the expenditure of the peoples
money until the effect of the British action can be
examined
And it is not too much to hope that before the COM
ing congress adjourns so much progress will have been
made toward general armament reduction that con-
SIS will be prepared to relieve the President of the
necessity of ever building this particular group Of
cruisers.
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Sn1oot on the Defensive

The majority members Of the senate finance COM
nittee behind closed doors whipping the Hawley-
soot tariff bill into form for presentation next month
on the floor The coalition of progressive Republican
and Democratic senators opposed to the prospective
high rates meantime is beginning to function effec
lively.
The Democrats, through the newly established
headquarters Of their national committee in the cap
ital almost daily are issuing broadsides against diff
ferent features of the bill.
Evidence of the effect Of this onslaught is to be seen
in the statement of the usually calm chairman of the
finance committee Senator Smoot, in which he
charges that "a deliberate campaign of isrepresenta-
ton" is being carried on The Utah senator is on the
defensive.
It may be that snoot was aroused by the latest
attack circulated by the Democrats, which from
Senator Borah Borah was one OF President Hoover's
most ardent supporters and was insstent special
session of congress Yet his public expressions be-
ing used by the Democrats to assa the tariff which
hts own party writing The of Borah serves to
emphasize the differences Of opinion among Repub
Hcans.
Borah has directed his attack at one of the worst
provisions Of the tariff bill that which vastly would
increase the powers of the President to raise lower
duties.
Under the Fordney-NcCunber bill now operative
President can raise or lower duties to equaze' the
costs Of production Of goods here and abroad But this
equalization is supposed to be made scientifically and
accurately after thorough study by the tariff COM
mission.
The new bill would enlarge the Presidents powers
50 that he could adjust rates to equalize costs OF
competition" in this and foreign countries on informa-
ton furnished by a recognized tariff commission
which would no longer be nonpartisan.
I'VE are delegating the full taxing power to the
executive" Borah declares In my opinion, the
present proposal in utter violation Of the Constitu-
ton Absolute bureaucracy to result the trend
is not checked"
Obviously. "equalizng competitive conditions is
vague process, not mathematical operation.
Borah's position has wide support. The point ne
makes can not be answered by mere generalities from
Sroot.
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INCOME tax figures recently set
Il North Carolina down as second
among all the states in its prosper
ity, and yet in Gastonia, mill
worker may toll through a long week
Of twelve-hour days and receive SO
as her pay.
This, to be sure, is a little below
the scale. 1t was a widow with
five children who got the SO, and
perhaps her necessity enabled the
mill bosses to take advantage Of her
position
Here and there some woman may
earn as much as SIS, but that's the
top. At that point she can look for
ward only to the grind from dawn
to dusk and quick dismissal when
she can no longer follow the pace
set by the looms.
The newspapers of America have
not given much sympathy to the
workers who are conducting a fierce
and bitter strike which has led to
bloodshed. Sympathy is withheld
because this is a communistic walk
out.
Communists organized the shops
and the funds which keep the men
and women alive in their tent col
ony come for the most part from
believers in the soviet system.
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IT SEEMS TO ME By HB B1oTS

least they had for their material
the most unmixed native stock to
be found anywhere in the country.
The bosses told the workers in the
mill that the organizers had no de-
sire save to make trouble.
It seems to me that when any
group of workers is caught in such
an economic trap as in Gastonia,
there is already trouble. There was
no Eden which the communists
disrupted.
I asked Mrs. Crawford what life
was like outside the long factory
hours and she looked at me in some
wonder when I spoke of motion pic
lures and calls at my neighbor' S
house.
Quite patiently she explained that
it was necessary for her to get up
at 4 o'clock to cook breakfast for
the children. Breakfast would be
in the more prosperous homes bis
cults, black coffee and some sort OF
meat which she called "fat back. "
Promptly at 6 o'clock she went to
the mill. And when another 6
O'Clock. came around she returned
to get the dinner and clean the
house. And after that she admit
ted that she felt little tired. No,
she was not much for the movies
or social calls.