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The Washington times., 1929-04-27
ALEX QUIT TOO SOON
w Herbert KaufmdE

OUR fathers grandfather heard bis father pine for the
good old days" So did Methuselah.
hundred years ago several New England editors hrewdy
discovered that America could accommodate any
enterprises.
The Nineteenth Century died convinced that the choice
ners on Success Street all bought and occupied
And now you're at It,
There aren't any permanent monopoes-capita and cum
ming can't corner the brain market
Wit always finds the weak heel Of power The history Of
men and nations written three chapters Triumph Com
placency and Demotion.
The next idea regularly thrashes the last one
Dynastes pass and empires fall; Babylons vanish and
ROmes rise SPANS POrtugalS sradde the world and
promptly topple because they're Outfought but out
thought.
So don't worry about the permanence of any local Colossus
bright young eventually upset and replace em ALL
No real purpose lacked for root room opportunity
won't be fenced off
Fortune is muchly mental attitude Look at problem
from fresh angle and you'll of wealth
we'll
| Men think themselves rich-and, adversely, poor.
| There always quicker and thriftier method.
Whatever has been done is worth less than the things
still unaccomplished
The pilng landmarks of McKinleys day aren't visible
block covering cloud-scrapers have erased them
Thus each generation revises skylines and play limits
bigger SCALE The games open-stt in.
remember that the best cards. not the largest stacks
| Bet your vision against their chips Hartman did
Croakers will jeer, you born too late for whop
ping winning
Frederick Brown and Benjamin Winter exmmigrans with
title deeds the prime porerhouse cuts of Fifth Avenue
in their Safes informed when they landed here with
nothing but aspiration and creduly in their pockets.
Like remarks made to the young recent pedder
in control Of Manhatan most important coal and ice
panies.
The chanciest day the calendar is Tomorrow
Alexander didn't believe it and the conviction broke his
heart.
he sought everywhere for additional worlds conquer
except in his brain.
Had he peered there, he could have found domains to
give, his omnivorous ambition, indigestion.
Copyrgh
The Washington times., 1929-04-27
MACHINE BEAUTY
BY Garrett P. Serviss

eosmestcs in any FORM sense The beauty
and than Motion beautiful itself
suggests action and perhaps that the secret of the
discovered By analysis that any curve circle an eipse
spaconceal. the continued action Of force moving
inertia but force constantly drawing the body aside and
eating pndes and Of driving rods and the
rhyica swinging OF levers and the hundred cadences Of
harmony that many fascinating the finest
music If there symphony color than sound,
sasrs Il the sheet than s ear
machine a n Sso displayed to the Public
details machine when stands still Only
out and inspect them but when the machine goes what
breeze Of interest spreads through the watching thong Al that
~hn t was still but now It IS covered with the glory
Speaking Of the wonderful progress Of agricultural machinery
Kansas for only three cut hesh and deliver for
sf @1 hst of this
machinery he work of the presenday hand is less arduous
irresistible charm Of the machine Stand operator Of
almost that Of the inventor Of the machine
that good workman often truly loves his machine and tools They
any object in nature animate or inanmaee
happened stand minutes day before large
press in full operation Camping out swiftly printed sheet
pushing them with the speed of waterfall tall upon the iron
thrilled with the flash of running the sheen Of whrrng
hands Of the great metallic Brareas
the hungry public But what most impressed me
the interest watching crowd displayed the spectacle
Plainly they sesd with pride not in aensey S but in the
worker and felt it, glory oversPreadng them
and more Those look upon them with nmca minds and
weak opposition to their coming make dreadful mistake
evsd from labor their brains have better chance play
The @ and faster the p bans the
spread knowledge and just dealings among all men,
The Washington times., 1929-04-27

H1oUNG ladies yearning for pearl necklace diamond
tiara and possible large diamond marquise ring to
show that they engaged to live one will smile at this
dark skinned beauty from warm Africa.
But they need NOT smile She her necklaces and
bracelets made of iron and copper her whole fortune reps
sented in her supply of what call the baser metals
Iron and copper not base in Africa small piece Of
iron may be worth to African than piles Of gold to
rich American.
For instance small piece Of iron made into sharp point
attached to the end Of stick in the hands of brave man
will keep off 1ion the king Of beasts being coward and
not liking the feel Of cold steel
You may in Africa sturdy boys in their teens watching
protecting herds Of CATTLE the lookout for lions their
only weapon sharp piece of iron fastened to long stalk
Also when this African young lady appears in society
with hoops Of iron and copper around her neck and bands Of
iron around her arms wrists and ankles she knows that she
enticng because Of her wealth as well as her beauty
Everything Is comparative sharp flint important
70 your ancestor Of 100000 years ago high powered auO
mobile is to you NOW.
The Washington times., 1929-04-27
Transit Tunnels Under Potomac
And Under Our Streets

TRANSIT tubes under the Potomac River between Wash
ington and Virginia will be necessity before great
many years. will underground tunnels for street and
bus traffic for this city.
Rapid growth Of Washington with increasing traffic
gestion will compel this solution Surface traffic. when
Washington passes million people, will be perfect jam in
downtown Washington.
1.-THE dream" of engineer is he thinks approaching
realization It is eliminate the railroad bridge and tracks
southwest Washington and to send trains and from the
South across the in tubes In place of the railroad
bridge would built another to aid in surface traffic
Instead of engines turning out smoke and cinders
the plan calls for electric engines trains to and from
Alexandra.
The cost of tunnel projects under water ground
excessive and they become realities only when communities
outprow their and must divert traffic below the
face
Washingtons traffic conditions better than most cities
because of our wide Streets but these beautiful streets will
be inadequate years the future traffic were
largely local the time for tubes would be far away but this
cy visited each year by hundreds Of thousands of American
travellers increasing traffic difficulties.
The Washington times., 1929-04-27
Senator Caraway's Fiye-Cent
Car Fare Bill

THE old fve-cent fare joke for the District Of
Columbia has been introduced in Congress.
Its author Senator caraway has put it into the Legislative
hoppers where will do hopping whatever but sink to
the bottom and remain there
Charters granted by Congress to the street railway lines
of Washington limit fares in the District to five cents
lin cash six tickets for twenty-five cents notwithstanding
this legislative limitation fares raised here and
will be raised again. unless Senator Caraway enlist
enough support Congress to put stop to further In
Icreases.
This fvecent charter fare Of Congress repealed
unless repeal involved in the creation of the Public
Utilities Commission which given the right to regulate
fares within the District That the Commission has regulated
them upward is matter of history.
What motive Senator Caraway has for regularly introducing
this fvecent fare bill not apparent He ought to know
he not get Congress to pass such bill ne were
Ito introduce bill requiring legal test to be made as to
whether Congress delegated to the Public Ulnes
Commission to kill the original fare ne M At &C
distressing, though probably futile, test.
The Washington times., 1929-04-27
LISTEN WORLD!
Your Sin will Find YOu Out!
By Elsie Robinson

r WAS talking with girl in the
II Woman's Prison the other day.
She is serving a sentence for
forgery.
Her sulky, pretty face was
stained with tears of self-pity.
"They don't know how a girl is
tempted, she sobbed.
She was wrong. l do know how
girls are tempted. I've been
tempted a lot myself, and / have
learned some huniliating facts
about those temptations.
Like this young girl. 1. too, used
to blame temptation on society or
God. don't any more.
I KNOW THAT WE MAKE
OUR OWN TEMPTATIONS.
Temptations don't just happen.
THEY RIPEN. THEY RIPEN
THEY RTPEN WITHIN Us
FROM THE SEED OF OUR
OWN GREED, VANITY, COW
ARDICE, MALICE, LAZINESS
AND LUST.
They ripened in that girl from
the seed of her own vanity.
She loved her pretty face and
body. She yearned for fitting
clothes to frame that face and
body. She coveted every charm
ing thing she saw. She wrapped
her Imagination about it-made it
her own.
If you BEGIN WRAPPING
YOUR IMAGINATION AROUND
THINGS IT'S USUALLY ONLY
A LITTLE WHILE BEFORE
YOU WRAP YOUR HANDS
AROUND THEM.
Soon the girl found a way to
wrap her hands around the things
she coveted. She forged a small
check--and took home a hat. An
other check brought a beaded bag.
She grew holder. A dress came
next.
Now she's in the penitentiary
serving a sentence, being sorry for
herself and blaming society for
her temptation.
She thinks society placed that
temptation in a showcase before
her.
The Washington times., 1929-04-27

She does not realize that the
temptation lay within her own
heart. She herself wrought it for
her own undoing. She wrought it
by thousands of little mental Jug
gIings with her. own honor-excit-
ing. illicit, speculations--
Generally speaking, we are
what we want to be. Our destinies
are not thrust upon US. We create
them within us. We truly make
our own heavens and hells.
YOUR SINS WILL FIND YOU
OUT is the truest and most
tragic of all sayings. .
You may have that sin so deeply
hidden that you, yourself. can
hardly remember it. You may only
revert to it In rare moments OF
self-indulgenee when you sneak
away into the darkness and play
with the thought of it furtively.
Then you may face society again,
clear-eyed. proud of your probity.
But make no mistake. That sin
will not forget you, try as you
may to forget it. AS long as you
keep it alive by secret indulgence,
it will thrive and grow until some
day it betrays you before the
world. It will leap into terrible,
monstrous life and you. who were
trusted and respected, will be re-
veaIed a thief. a murderer. liar,
a coward, a libertine.
HOWEVER SIN A LII I II e
THING YOU HAVE FONDLED
IN THE DARKNESS. 1T WILL
SOME DAY GROW GREAT
ENOUGH TO OVERWHELM
you IN THE LIGHT.
Nor is it only our secret sin
which betrays us. Often it is our
secret softness or Stiffness or
weakness.
Our unfortunate marriages, our
unfortunate business deals, our
failures and Illustrations are all
directly traceable to some tendency
within ourselves. Some tendency
which we have probably dignified
with a fine name.
The Washington times., 1929-04-27
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
by DR.. Louis E. Bisch

by DR.. Louis E. Bisch-
TT is we'll known fact that oppo-
4 site sexes tend to attract. while
the same sexes tend to repel each
other.
This occurs irrespective Of age
or relationship.
You are probably familiar with
the we'll known Oedipus story by
Sophocles, which tells how Oedipus
slew his faith :. and married his
own mother.
The fable is used to show the
overpowering love that exists be-
tween mother and son.
Naturally, a similar mechanism
Ia to be found in the relationship
between father and daughter.
Sometimes it is referred to as
the Electra complex, although the
term Oedipus complex may also
correctly be employed n regard
to it.
One story concerning Electra
has it that she contrived with her
brother to slay their own mother
because the latter was unfaithful
to the father. Here, aa1in, the
daughter love for the father at
the expense, il necessary, OF the
mother Is accentuated.
All women possess Electra com
plexes to great or less degree,
Just as men do oedipus completes.
That does not imply that every
daughter viii. sacrifice her mother
for love. or for any other motive.
There are such cases. of course,
but by far and large it means
simply that a girls affection for
the opposite sex is stronger than
that for the same sex, and the
love for her father--he being the
first male she knows--is certain
to have q dominating influenc"
throughout her life.
Occasionally daughters are 1eal-
Gus of their mothers. and mothers
of their daughters.
If that is so, it il the Electra
complex behind 1t all.
The reason the term complex
. il tagged on is because this an
tagonism or rivalry, or whatever
you wish to call it, operates in
an unconscious way. That Is,
women do not realize just why
they feel that way.
In the Electra complex mechan-
isms we get the same sort OF trt-
angle so familiar to the modern
stage.
In social drama it is always the
problem and conflict that arises
between three persons-usually
husband, wife and a third beloved
object, whether q man or woman
q lover or mistress.
In the so-called, family no.
NANCE" which sometimes becomes
family drama and family tragedy,
the conrnct, il any. arises between
father, mother, and daughter or
between father, mother and son.
1t is said that girls with a
strong Electra complex-that is, a
strong father affection-will tend
to fall in love with men who
somewhat resemble the father
concept which they have had
stored up in their minds since
babyhood.
This, in effect, is an explana'
ton of love.
At any rate, it often helps to
explain so-called 'flove at first
sight and the unusual attractions
and destinations that so often
spring into being with apparently
mo rhyme or reason" behind
them.
In all cases where the family
has difficulty with a willful
daughter the possibilities Of the
Electra complex should be thought
OF.
Often this makes SVerythlnG
understandable.
The Washington times., 1929-04-27
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland


TINE four cornerstones Of mar
riage are mutuel trust, under
standing, tenderness, and self
There are no bargain days" for
wouId-be profiteers in domestic
happiness. Marriage is a large
order, the price of love Is a
standard price, and there's no
cheating Fate, the bill collector.
Marriage is a jealous deity, who
SAYS, 'HThou shalt have no other
idols before Me-" Yet, most Of
US enter the temple of matri-
mony. unconsciously carrying our
"other idols" with us-our vanity,
our ambition, our self-love.
We SAY that we marry for
better or for worse"-but. alas,
most of us marry just for in
stance
For a passing fancy, for an
escape from the loneliness of
bachelorhood or spinsterhood or
widowhood-for a change from a
job. for a home, for a romantic
adventure-for almost anything,
except the things to which we
promise allegiance at the altar.
And most husbands and wives
are unfaithful--not to each other.
but to the great MARRIAGE
IT. ifaA1ff
A wife is unfaithful to marriage
when she puts her own whims
and caprices before her husbands
love.
When she sacrifices her hus-
bands strength and peace of mind
on the altar of her social ambi-
tions: when she backs a tired.
overworked man into evening
clothes and drags him around to
dinner parties and trotteries, for
her own Qualification.
When she makes a fetch OF her
vanity. and dedicates her soul to
the worship of clothes.
When she loves her own ease
and her own good times better
than she loves her husbands com
fort and his digestion.
When she gives her life to an
art or to success, and to the max.
ing of books, or pictures, or
money. rather than to the making
of happiness.
And a husband is unfaithful to
marriage when he makes a god or
BUSINESS!
When he loves making money
better than making love.
When he loves his golf better
than he loves bis wife's company
When he loves his club better
than he loves his home.
When he loves his amusements.
his grouches. his digestion, and
his personal indulgences better
than his wife's happiness.
1t Is all very chic ana smart TO
chatter about personal liberty"
and the preservation of the in
dividuality" in marriage.
But these are the rewards Of
single blessedness.
When you MARRY, you lay
down your freedom. take off the
armor of your individuality, and
hand over your personal liberty.
: And your reward is LovE-and
love, alone.
But 'lovs is snoushr"
The Washington times., 1929-04-27
The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

Do you know:
What is the Arabic name for the Supreme Being?
Who called "Good Queen Bess"?
What early philosopher is said have lived in tub!
In what book by Dickens is the character Fagin?
What is meant by genre painting? -
Who is the shrew Shakespeares Tanning the ShreW
Z. What does the Roman stand for?
What the sin of Lady Macbeth?
9. What hacyon days?
10. What does the laconic
Complete these titles:
H. "Horatius at the ," by Macauay.
y y " Little o O. pIS - ), :" by Riley
T. rGunga -," by Kiplng.
10 Prisoners of -," BY Byron.
Answers Fiction Page
The Washington times., 1929-04-27
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

An enlightened mind is not
hoodwinked; it is not shut up In a
gloomy prison till 1t thinks the
walls of its own dungeon the lin.
its of the universe, and the reach
OF its own chain, the outer verge Of
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The Washington times., 1929-04-27

4ssaliaTlSz. has no fewer than four
4.aeal systsnls for its 100000 in
hahita hts, The Russian code holds
good IN central Lithuania; farther
FoIth. the code Napoleon is the
rule. Baltic rliis governs the north
and German law the Mcneil terri
tory. A unification system is be-
Ing planned.
The Washington times., 1929-04-27
DO YOU KNOW THAT

Eight-eight government indus
trial plants in Soviet Russia have
approved Of seyen-hour workday
The list includes salt, iron and coal
mines. chemical plants, oil refiner'
les, textile factories, sawmills. rail-
way shops. electric plants and
printing and engraving establish
unentR.
The Washington times., 1929-04-27

You cannot force the growth OF
human life and civilization any
more than you can force these
slow.moving trees. That is the
economy of Almighty God tnat
all good growth In slow growtn'
-Caynor.
The Alaska fisherman., 1929-10-15
THE RATHER OF PUBLgC PoAICY


"The fishing methods cznployed in Esritisl, Co., Iun7bia offer constant temptation to transport fish toe great distances. lzl American waters the majority of the fish taken i,, traps. They caught i'm large quantities at a time, and transported quickly to adjacent plants and pro ccssed while in the freshest possible condition, nsuring frst-quality product * * Let com pare tE2is with coz2aaiszoll In British Colann bia waters, with the excepiof, oi isolated case, the fish are 100 per cent taken in gill nets and scines Ma
 "Let 1t be quite understood that am not ad- vocating either tlae universal OF even greatly tended of traps in Britis, Columbia. 1t is true that traps could be used to advantage in certain locations along coast, but it is the attitude of fshermen in which they have the support of tho government THAT THE ADOPTION OF THIS METHOD IS CONTRARY TO PUBLIC POL1CY."
 From Speech by Richard }. Gesse, manager of the British Columbia Packers, Ltl printed in the Pacific Fisher,nan page IT, September issue.
 Editor Note:--Please note the 10O per cent catch by movable gear, and that it has the sup port of the government. This explains the fact that they, with less than one-t1ird the pack of Alaska have independent and resident fish ermen than Alaska has.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-14
Lloyd George Livened
Campaign in Britain

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
1t has been Lloyd George who put
the vim, vigor and vinegar into the Brit
ish campaign with his plan to meet the
unemployment situation. When the
canvass opened, 1t lokoed like routine
debate between the Tories and the
Laborites with the Liberal party play
ing the role of the innocent bystander.
The Liberals have turned out to be
anything but bystanders and their dear
est enemy wouldn't concede vestige
Of innocence. BY what magic has the
astute little Welshman galvanized his
supposedly moribund party into life and
set the British electorate by the ears?
What Is his plan to meet the harrow
ing problem of the voorhees,?
The main feature of the Lloyd George
prescription Is to spend SIPS ZOO, 900 for
great system of roads and cognate
public improvements. Such system,
when completed, would be, the Liberals
contend. valuable instrument of ma
tional prosperity. The plan from their
point of view Is not merely the spend
ing of money to give temporary en-
ployment 10 the workers, but the pro-
viding of adequate transport facilities
essential to the industrial life and
growth of Great Britain.
In addition to the tremendous real
improvement. Lloyd George proposes
extension of housing projects under
government subsidy, intensive Develop
ment of the government-owned teie-
phone system and of the electrical re-
sources of Great Britain, and extensive
land reclamation projects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-14
Reduced Fares Seen
Great Boon to Poor
To, the Editor of The s.ax;

To the Editor of The StaS:
Please let me express my appreciation
of the splendid story in your Saturday
edition on reduced fares for school
children. Such space devoted to the
story shows the importance you attach
to a subject near to the hearts of thou
sands of your readers. AS we all know,
q reduction in street car fares for chill
dren would prove exceedingly beneficial
to so many poor parents unable now to
defray the adult fare demanded for
children going to and fro.
The desire to educate little ones
properly causes many parents to make
sacrifices. Personally, I know one
woman who, unable to send her chill
dren to school on the cars, purchased
an old automobile, of pre-war vintage,
and with this as a conveyance she takes
her five children to school each day.
1T means that she must, perforce,
neglect some household duties at certain
hours. But she gets the children to
school-her own way of reducing the
fare. Cases like this are innumerable.
washington is the only city in the
United States, to my knowledge, which
charges more than scent fare for
compiled for me by an authority, charge
only from S cents down to cents.
Some day, I am sure, there will be JUS
tice done the school children and their
parents In the Nations Capital. The
best sign pointing toward this boon Is
the attention accorded the subject by
one of the outstanding newspapers OF
the city, The Star.
Repayment will come to you in the
united gratitude of the younger genera
ton enjoying the supreme privilege OF
attaining education without draining
the family finances.
JOHN ]. NOONAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-14

to be beyond the means Of the ordinary
self-taxing city. then the Government
should participate literally in meeting
this additional cost.
The Star has heartily approved Mr..
Simmons announced intention to secure
payment to the District of five million
dollars for It's legal and equitable rights
In the present District building. The
Star still approves this wise and liberal
suggestion tending to correct In part the
inequities of the transaction. And The
Star will applaud with even greater
vigor and enthusiasm when in response
to MFR. Simmons influential advocacy
Congress shall enact into law Mr.. Sim
mons recommendation.