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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
Berlin Adopts Efficiency of America
But Refuses to Halt Afternoon Maps

ping crowds, luxurious window displays
gowns, hats, jewelry. shoes, perfumes
photographs and automobiles. The cars
are displayed just like in New York
Here is the new model of Ford, rotat-
ing Further down the Buick (say
Bouick), then Chrysler (say Krisler).
etc.
In the evening tremendous scintillat-
ing electric signs. Movies. The best
choice of Broadway productions inter-
mingled with Ufa. Dancing halls with
Jazz bands (say Yatz). Syncopators.
Silver saxophones and moaning. Tap
dancers. And girls! New York
revues outdone.
Girls Are Slender.
Yes. girls. The slender line In gen.
eral. "Forty-two" was the usual nor
NAL size for Berlin's women. No more.
Sport and dancing. Dancing and sport
have worked marvels with weightv
daughters and voluminous wives. Much
to the disappointment of the husbands
:. SO we hear.
Traffic lights. Just like in New York.
But not quite The whole avenue is net
paralyzed at once. The signals spread
gradually along the street, changing
internationally. 1t is possible sometimes
to ride for a long stretch without being
held up. The traffic somehow takes
care of itself.
Traffic cops. Just like in New York
But not quite. They lack grace. With
tenderness did think back to our
smart policemen. that will sometimes
swing around with the ease of con-
testant in the Olympic games. Such
nonchalance in the movement of their
shoulders, arms and wrists as they sig
nal go" "Nize" New York cops! HUI
man, too. Can they swear? And the
emphasis, the expression! . Where
do you think you are goin'?" Not
a Berlin policeman. He is an auto
maton Hand UP, hand down, hand to
the side; straight. stiff, drilled.
Three things the Berliner wants to
| know about us:
/. Is the dollar everything?
2. Do you get dizzy living in sky
scraper?
3. Is 1t true that in New York hus-
bands have notlSng to say? That the
women are modern go ITS and exer-
| else sovereign authority?
Isn't there at least league of hus.
| (Copyright, 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
A Man Asks, "What Is Your
FavOrite BOOk?"
BY BRUCE BARTON.

the wisest man in the world, and
discovered-what?
In much wisdom is much
grief:
And he that inereaseth knowl-
edge
Increaseth sorrow.
From wisdom he turned to
mirth, only to find, as an end
Of living, that "this also is
vanity"
He sought to give his heart
unto wine, and "to lay hold on
folly; and in this too there was
no satisfaction.
Perhaps, then, he said to him
self, perhaps work is the one
thing worth while. To achieve
something great--to leave
monument for posterity to won
der at.
made me great works;
builded me houses; | planted me
vineyards: -.
Then | look on all the works
that my hands had wrought, and
on the labor that had labored
to do: and, behold, all was
vanity and vexation of spirit,
and there was no profit under
the sun.
Wisdom, mirth, work, fame
But none of them satisfied
Solomon.
What, then, is the answer to
the riddle? What will satisfy
the soul Of man? What will
make his life seem to have been
worth while when he comes to
give it up?
The answer is in the great last
chapter, which begins:
Remember now thy Creator
In the days Of thy youth,
While the evil days come not,
Nor the years draw nigh,
When thou shalt say,
] have no pleasure in them.
To live straight and simply;
to do a little kindness as one
moves along; to love useful
work; to raise worthy family;
and to leave the world a little
better than you found ito do
ones daily duty in simple rever-
enee-this is the final answer.
/, 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
BY CLAIRE HOLT.

I'VE shall take everything that Ia
good from America. But, oh, we will
know how to leave of the bad that
goes with it." That is what the Ber-
liner says. Confidently.
Yes, they want to be efficient. Econ
cmy. Mechanization. But no rush. To
dispenses with an afternoon nap for the
sake of business-not they.
This Is the general attitude: I would
love to go to New York, see things. It
must be monstrously wonderful. But I
am positive / would not care to stay
there. 'Zu toll''-to wild.
The tempo tempo"-it would kill
me.
All things that hail from America
have for the Berliner an alluring
glamor. Soap cakes selling here
"three-for- twenty-five" are there an
exclusive importation" Sport clothing
is smartest when American. Every
body wears a "pulover" (pull-over
sweater.
An enterprising company has opened
an American lunchroom on Kurfurst-
endamm-a combination Of "Childs',"
with a soda fountain. 1t is exclusive
and high-brow. There are crowds at
the windows watching the mysterious
proceedings at the fountain; these
shining nickel-plated drums, this array
of faucets with unknown liquids, these
strange juggling movements OF the dis
pensers; hocus-pocus, one, two, three
three faucets tapped; the high glass
inserted under strange turning de-
vice; hocuS-pocus again-and drink
is served. These American waysi The
taste must be crazy.
No Rush at Fountain.
But there is no rush at the soda
fountain. Why rush? One can read a
newspaper sitting even on so high a
sUool-if one must. One can
indulge in a nice political squabble-
these dangling feet help one think. AT
hour or two at soda fountain passes
quickly.
Then these checks to be punched. A
matter of meditation. And II some.
thing more is ordered--after the ticket
has been punched already-what then!
Let us see. We could take, for ex.
ample, ''peenaple soda" What couid
The place is filled to capacity, par.
ticularly after theater hours. But wot
to the waitress that will dare 10 swisf
the crumbs to emphatically into thu
laps of the couple that have beer
spooning in a corner for the last tw'
hours. Shifts? What an ideal!
One goes to a restaurant to spend al
evening-doesn't one?
Kurfurstendamm is Berlins Broad
way. Also Fifth avenue. A tree-line'
double boulevard with a shady fors
track In the middle, On each side !
4ths hustle Of street cars, buses, shop
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17

~ COURSE, no man
wants the same book for
every mood, any more
~ than he wants the same
food for every meal or the same
medicine for every disease.
But the book to which ! come
back again and again was writ
ten several hundred years ago.
It is called EceIesiastes; you
will find it about the middle OF
the Bible. Frederick the Great
called it the "Book Of Kings"
and said every monarch should
reread it constantly.
He should have said every
man; for every man is the
monarch of his own life. And
this is the book Of life, written
by a king who had everything
that life can give. 1t is the
answer to the eternal question:
whats the use?"
What profit hath a man Of all
his labor
Which he taketh under the sun?
One generation passeth away,
And another generation eometh:
But the earth abideth for
ever.
All the rivers run into the sea;
Vet the sea is not full:
Unto the place from whence
the rivers come,
Thither they return again.
The eye is not satisfied with
seeing,
Nor the ear filled with hearing.
The thing that hath been,
II is that which shall be;
And that which is done
Is that which shall be done:
And there is no new thing under
the sun.
In other words, life is not just
. one thing after another. II is
the same thing again and again.
Get up, worry and work; eat,
lie down, sleep. What's the use
Of il all?
The man who is never tempted
to ask that question has no
imagination.
Solomon, the writer, deter
mined to find out what is worth
while in life.
ls wisdom the thing greatly to
be desired? He made himself
tCopyrit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17

TIME earth-bound spirit of Theo-
phraStus Bombostus Won Par
acelsus got rough deal at the
i hands Of the last Congress-
AS the result of two District
bills passed at the end of the session
after a two-year fight, the prince of
charlatans and his twentieth century
disciples find their activities greatly re-
stricted in the National Capital. The
two fields in which they have been eS-
pecially active here. medicine and edu-
cation, are closed to them in the future
by the medical practice act and the
diploma mill bill.
For years Washington has been an
open field for practitioners of unortho-
dox healing arts. Physicians and dem
lists were required to meet standard edu-
cational requirements and pass rigid
professional examinations before they
were permitted to practice. Chiroprac-
tors, naturopaths, napropaths, phySio-
therapists, astro- Psychologists, psyche
therapists and the followers Of hum
bred other schools had simply to hang
out their shingles. There were no edu-
cational requirements. No examinations
were given. Consequently, men and
women barely able to read, holders Of
degrees from diploma mills OF all sorts,
established offices and set out to treat
human illness. They were, OF course.
barred from writing prescriptions or
from performing surgical operations in
which the peripheral surface OF the
body actually was penetrated. These
restrictions, in practice, were not SO
great as they might seem.
Without doubt, most of these schools
contained honest men and women, con-
IF methods
and with apparently remarkable cures
to their credit. For such individuals the
competition of the charlatans was even
more serious than for the regular physi-
clans. They found themselves tarred
| with the same stick as the rankest
ignoramuses.
i Condition Long Recognized.
This condition in Washington long
| had been recognized both by the Medi-
| cal Society of the District of Columbia
and by the American Medical Associa-
/ ton. It was difficult, however, to frame
appropriate legislation which would be
| fair to everybody. Medical doctors at
| tempting to prescribe standard require
ments for chiropractors naturally would
be accused of prejudices and lack of un-
derstanding. On the other hand, physl-
CldIlS COulU IlOt SuUIIiIt W HAVING ACP-
resentatives of the unorthodox healing
arts on a common medical examining
board which would pass upon the
qualifications of the followers Of Galen.
The proposal that separate boards be
created to license each school, 1t was
felt, would serve no good purpose since
the charlatans would be ina position to
demand places on such boards.
The divergent points of view Of va
rious schools of healing cannot be rec
onciled and the patient must be the
judge as to the practitioner he pat
ronizes. There was, however, common
ground upon which the honest prac-
| titioners of all schools were substan-
| TALLY in agreement. All admitted that
the person proposing to treat the hu-
man body should have a basic knowl-
edge of the sciences effecting the body
physiology, anatomy, chemistry,
physics, etc. Hence it was possible to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
The Story the Week Has Told

1t so continues. Student disorders also
are continuing Similar conditions are
vaguely reported from Seville. Granada,
Barcelona and other university centers,
and apparently a good many of the
youngsters are In quod. Quite plausi-
bly, the government attributes the trou-
BILE to vicious agitation from outside the
student bodies. One awaits more exact
information concerning what may prove
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
Finds Watch Lost in War.

Offered a silver watch by watch re-
pairer, who told him 1t had been left for
repair more than two years before and
had never been called for. an English
ex-service man bought it. Inspecting it
later he found an inscription inside the
case which showed that the timepiece
was the one he had lost in France in
1917. g
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17

the nonce. Gandhi was released on
bond.
SPAIN.-On March IL Madrid police
fred into a mob of students of the Uni
versity of Madrid. who we're demon
strating riotously against the dictator
ship, dangerously wounding two. Fol-
lowing upon a strike of about half the
students, the university was closed, and
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Continued on Fifth Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
BY ANNE HARD.

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ing features are beautiful brown
The Washington times., 1929-09-12
Maryland May Play
Navy on Grid in 1890

The football teams of Maryland
University and the United States
Naval Academy very likely win
meet in the Baltimore stadium in
1880. Whether Maryland will take
the place on Navy's schedule that
Georgetown occupies this year IS
problematical, although both the
Hilltoppers and the Old Liners may
be met next year by Navy. How.
ever, it is believed that Maryland
has the inside track for a game
next year should only one OF the
two teams be met.
The move to have Maryland on
the Navy schedule is said to
emanate from sentiment among
state leaders to have the two lead
ing institutions Of Maryland meet
on the gridiron.
The Washington times., 1929-09-12
Martinsburg Nine Leads
In TituIar Play-Off

HAGERSTOWN, Md. Sept. 12.--
Martinsburg took the lead in the
series for the Blue Ridge League
championship here yesterday by
winning the third game of the
pIay-off by the lopsided score of
II to S. The Macks have now
won two and lost one with the
fourth game scheduled at Martins
burg today.
AL Jones started his second game
of the series and went the route, it
being the third time he has faced
the Hubs in the series. dropping
the opening counter and finishing
up the second to get credit for a
win and yesterdays victory makes
II two for him.
The Washington times., 1929-09-12
THOMAS ON
HILL FOR
TODAY
By Bob Thayer

Pointing for fifth place, a
position now occupied by the
Detroit Tigers, Walter John
sons Washington Griffmen
will be battling determinedly
when they enter the second
game of their series with the
Cleveland Indians today.
The Griffs slipped within frac-
tional shadow of a tie with the
Jungle Cats yesterday when they
stopped the Tribe in the first of q
four game set. to 2.
Since the Tigers were taking an
extra inning fall before the Boston
Red sox at the same time the
| Washington Club scared to a 1856
| percentage and today is barely
shaded by the Bengals who boast
| .4592 standing.
| The Indians win be no less
eager to score today, however.
By skidding yesterday their
| third place lead over the st.
Louis Browns was cut to one
| full game and they will be
bearing down with their best to
| regain this lost ground when
the shooting starts.
| Myles Thomas, washington's
diminutive speed specialist, Is the
| nominee for the mound Job in this
| instance while Walter Miller,
! Peckinpaugh's talented left-hander,
/ will be his adversary.
| Thomas has been stacking up
favorably with the American
| Leagues best of late and should
| be able to extend Cleveland's king
/ pin portsider, ranked by many al
| the American Leagues premier
southside thrower.
| Despite slender build Miller has
| worlds of stuff on every pitch and
with it splendid control-the most
important requisite in the makeup
of any pitcher.
Yesterdays win over the
Tribesmen was credited Fred
! Marberry, WashingtOn's out
standing mOundsman. Setting
/ down the Indians with only five
stingy hits Fred was never men.
aeed save In two heats, the Sec
/ Ond and seventh.
The early inning battling was
tight and interesting with Willis
HudIin and the Indians twice com.
ing from behind to. go into a tie.
Washington stepped ahead with
a run in the first after two had
died Goslin walked and took
! second when Myer singled off Hud-
| Inns left leg. West followed up
with a shot to center. scoring
| Goslin.
This margin was erased in the
second when Peckinpaugh's men
rallied to knot the count at one
all. Consecutive singles by Falk
and Joe Sewell along with Hodapp'A
force-out completed this gesture.
GosIin's triple and Myers
single-sh0t again sent the resi-
dents into the lead in the third.
/ but doe Cr0nin's error on FaIk's
| grOunder, Joe SeWeIl's double
| and q fieldeF's choice locked IL
| up once more in the sixth.
The Griffmen then waltzed ahead
to stay with three runs in the
seventh West beat out an In
field single and advanced to Sec
ond on an out. Cronin was inten-
tionally walked. Hayes replied to
this indignity with a single over
Joe Seweu and made second while
both runners scored after which
Marberry knitted a single to center
registering Hayes with the final
score.
The Washington times., 1929-09-12
Lutheran Duckpinners
Open Season Tuesday

The Lutheran Bowling League viii
begin operations Tuesday at the
Arcadia. The following teams will
compete: Georgetown No. l, George
town No. 2, Christ, Grace, Incarna'
ton, Luther Place, Reformation,
st. Johns No. /. ST. Johns No. 2.
st. Marks, ST. Matthews, Takoma
No. and DO. 8, Trinity and Zion.
The Washington times., 1929-09-12
Fight Flashes

At New York-Georgie Levine,
Brownsville, and Floyd Herbert,
Newark, fought 10 rounds to a
draw at Dexter Park. Marty Roth,
won six-round decision
over Billy Humphries, Woodhaven.
The Washington times., 1929-09-12
SCHMID IS HEAD

w. E. Schmid was elected presi-
dent Of the reorganized Nautical
Duckpin League at a recent meet
ing. other officers of. the league
are c. J. Wetzel, vice president, and
A. w. Bryan, treasurer
and official scorer. The league will
begin Wednesday, September rs.
The Washington times., 1929-09-12
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Yesterdays RESULTS
New York. 2-10: Pittsburgh, Is.
Chicago, s; Philadelphia, 2.
Cincinnati, 4; Brooklyn, 2.
st. Louis, III; Boston, Al.
TODAY's GAMES
Boston at sc. LOuis.
Brooklyn at Cincinnati.
PhiladelphIa at Chicago.
New York at Pittsburgh.
The Washington times., 1929-09-12
NTRACT 7
OF | YEAR
LIKELY
BY Davis J. walsh

NEW YORK, Sept. 12.-In
view of the fact that the boy
friend, Mr.. B. Ruth, is having
some trouble today in deciding
how much less than 100000
he will be willing to accept
next year, it occurs to me
that / can be helpful by men
tioning that Dazzy Vance,
Paul Waner and Lou Gehrig
are said to be on the market
at the end of the season.
This reporte is cited only because
! wish to aid Mr.. Ruth in reaching
q decision. The three men named
got all they could out OF baseball
last spring. and baseball has been
trying to get something out Of them
ever since.
Vance got $2s 900 from the Dodg'
ers and has been worth somewhat
In excess of $2,500. Waner INDUCED
himself in family strike in COM
pany with brother Lloyd, both
finally signing at compromise
figure. Paul got more money than
his brother and proceeded to play
much less baseball. Gehrig got
$25,000 and on occasions has played
better at Columbia University. Base
ball, therefore. Is in no mood to
meet demands. no matter who makes
them.
To do Mr.. Ruth Justice, It
nIMst be admitted that the size
of his pay check has had no
visible effect on his ban play.
ing. He hasn't had even the
suggestion of q bad year since
1925, and. In some respects. the
present year is his greatest.
Also, 1t may be said that Mr..
Ruth never has set 100000 as his
arguing point for 1880. He merely
said that he would like to get
500, 900, thereby distinguishing him
self from those VINO wouldn't like
to get 1t. He probably will wind
UP by acception $1,000 more than
the Yankees originally were will
Ing to pay him, which won't be too
much, whatever it is.
Mr.. Ruth is an old man now and
It won't be long before kind hands
bear him tenderly away from the
scene. But. as he goes, the struc-
ture OF a marvellous career is rear
ing itself higher and higher by the
day. This gent is the greatest of
them all and he is proving it more
than ever this year by stalking
everybody in the home run derby
to five weeks start and then lead
ing them home in a gallop. Con.
tinuing his current pace Mr.. Ruth
will hit at least so home runs this
year, a total that compares favor"
ably with his 54 of 1920, his So of
q year or SO later and his so of
1897.
These records were made when
Mr.. Ruth was younger and faster
and sillier. He has gone back a
whole lot; he isn't even as silly as
he used to be. But life has it's
compensations. We lose some things
we don't want and save others
that are indispensable.
MIR. Ruth isn't as fast going
down to first base or going out
the front door of an evening,
but he still has his eyesight,
and. with this great asset, goes
rs fine q spirit as ever has been
seen on the ball field.
It may be taken for granted that,
whatever the 1880 contract calls for,
Mr.. Ruth will deserve what he
gets. Personally. however, I feel
that justice would he better served
If he gets what he deserves.
The Washington times., 1929-09-12
FIRST OPEN AIR BOUT

The first open air boxing con.
test in New York State was held
at Tuckahoe 80 years ago. Terry
McGovern and Pedlar Palmer. the
British featherweight champion,
were the principals.
The Washington times., 1929-09-12
G. u Refuses to Scrimmage
With Penn Eleuen
By Kirk Miller
Timaa annrka Editor

OCEAN CITY, n. j. Sept. 12-Georgetown University has
refused point blank crmmage with the University of Penn
svana stationed 80 miles their training Cape
The Washington times., 1929-09-12

his team with the viewpoint OF a
coach and its seyerest critic to the
observers on the side lines much of
the raggedness OF which Little
spoke was not observable.
I'VE have lot OF good plays,
and you fellows know it." con-
tinued Lou, "but you did not
execute them at all smoothly. The
Temple went through our front
line time after time with com.
paratively ordinary line plays and
rushes. Plays which a high school
team should have been able to
anticipate and stop"
Little also took occasion to
praise two individuals on his
team whose work in the Temple
Scrlmmage was gratifying.
They are Bill Maczees and
Johnny Hudak, halfback and
fuilbacE.
The coach also spoke highly priv
ately OF the showing at quarter
back of Emil Bozek the younger
brother of Gonzaga John Bozek.
Little believes the younger Bozek
has the makings OF a great field
general and the future practice will
see such quarters as Joe Gardner,
Johnny Scalzi and Ed Leary fight
ing Bozek hard for the signal
calling job.
The Washington times., 1929-09-12

Virginia Van VIE, Chicago, turned
in the best score of yesterdays
eighteen holes, 79. Miss Orcutt's
so was next best for the round.
Mrs. Gregg Lifur, of Los Angeles,
who was runner-up in the Western
championship at Cleveland, shared
second best card honors for the
day with Mrs. Mida and Miss
Hicks, matching their S3s.
The Washington times., 1929-09-12
.TODAYS
STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE

YESTERDAYS RESULTS
WASHINGTON, s; Cleveland, 2.
Boston, 8; Detroit, Z. 10 inninEs.)
Philadelphia, 4; Chicago, 4.
81. Louis, s; New York. 0.
TODAY's GAMES
Cleveland Mt WASHINGTON.
st. Louis at New York.
Detroit 1T Boston.
Chicago Rt Philadelphia.
The Washington times., 1929-09-12
winner
RAB|D FAN

The old Latin proverb 'Tenax
propositi'' has proven the banner
which has made George A Porter,
of 320S Cleveland Ave. n. W., one
OF the winners of the trips to the
World Series offered by The Times
to victors in the 1929 Babe Ruth
All-American team contest.
Porter has been sending In teams
ever since the contest was in.
augurated and ne never has
captured a prize until this year.
But what a prize he won. He will
see every game of the baseball
classic which will undoubtedly be
played between the Cubs and the
Athletics.
The Washington times., 1929-09-12
G:ack Of Hair
IS 50
Unnecessary

Fifteen years ago the man
who found himself becoming
bald was helpless to prevent
i. He tried a lot of highly
perfumed, so-calIed tonics
which usually did more
harm than good
Today badness is treated
in a sensible, scientific way
by The Thomas, scalp ex-
perts who have made it a
life study. Only a specialist
who understands, who is
qualified to distinguish abb
normal scalp troubles and
scalp disorders can give you