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The Washington times., 1929-03-27
Airport for Washington of Not
Less Than 500 Acres

ACTS being brought show that many American cities
made bad mistakes when establishing airports in not
providing sufficient acreage
Warning conveyed to Washington that should not
make the same mistake in airport
would course be foolish select an airport site
for Washington that will be cramped space to meet
rapid developments in aviation
Nobody tell how great may be the expansion in
nautics how vast the requirements in terminals The
experience Of cities indicates that poor judgment
used in attempting to look ahead
probably fortunate from many standpoin that Con-
did not pass the bill at the last session favorng the
Gravelly Point site the Potomac Gravelly
Point be available but because Congress will
much valuable information when again takes up this
problem That information might dictate other SITE
Air experts are almost unanimous for Gravelly Point.
Investigations have brought advice from managers of up
flying fields and from great avators that model
airport for Washington should have than 500 acres
and that it would be best to have than that.
The experiences of other cities should be invaluable to
Washington, the most visited city America The Atlantic
seaboard will be followed by immense flying
chimes years With development of both pleas
and commercial flying this city will become important
stopping place
Model apOrs large American cities have cost much and
are not profitable Civic pride has been back Of the estab
hment OF these places Information however is that they
expected to become profitable their business
The joint Congressional committee named to study the
local airport situation will shortly begin hearings unless
plans changed These hearings will yield facts Of interest
and value.
The proposed airport here will something more than
strictly municipal institution catering only local and
sien business Government departments and
vitality concerned The which Government would
use local airport to be brought before the committee
departments and bureaus have been asked
indicate the extent of their present and prospective
Governmental requirements will be factor in the decision
Congress division of the of the local airport be-
tween the Federal and District Governments
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan author of the resolution
creating the Congressional committee inclined to believe
that the Federal Government may be greater Of
airport than is generally believed and that the Government
should share most literally in the project -.
The Washington times., 1929-03-27
THE REAL FRANZ Halls RESTORED AS PAINTED
..-- ORIGINALLY. .-.,.. -.

This beyond question genuine Franz Halls well
known After the Xray had revealed the fact that the picture
had been mpeed with the paint that had been added to the
original carefully removed and there revealed we'll
known Franz Halls supposed to have been lost for many
It Halls portrait of Verdonck, the JOKER holding
his hand the awbone of ass and smiling cheerfuIy.
The picture painted $780, and intended by Franz
Halls joke of his friends More than hundred
years later somebody got it and thought could be improved
by painting out the awbone substituting glass; and adding
cap. -. .>
Now restored 70 its original condition. the picture worth
thousands than the altered painting.
It takes REAL expert to be an expert on old pictures
And it is pity by the way, that with money
able to encourage do not interest themselves in the
of MODERN artists.
No swndling, grating or fakes in that line
The Washington times., 1929-03-27
LISTEN WORLD!
Slumps
By Elsie Robinson

of human energy. And when 1t
fell, most people fell with it.
But not all
Some people went steadily
through life, continuously con-
structive, triumphant over slumps.
I studied their method. 1t was
simple. Even a temperamental
writer could use it, provided she
was willing to do so.
THEY WENT RIGHT ON PER-
FORMING.
They did not perform with their
usual speed or brilliance. They
had no gusto for performance.
They became for the time, quite
dull. automatic machines. But
they performed just the same.
And when they came out Of their
slump they had a solid volume of
work to their credit and they
were not hampered, as l was. by
a clamor and confusion Of un'
finished chores.
Also-and this was most strik-
ing d1scoVery--they came out OF
their slump even sooner If they
went on working. Inactivity. in.
stead Of shortening slumps, actu.
ally prolonged them.
All OF which was not an entirely
pleasing discovery. 1t showed me
a way to add TO the efficiency of
my life. but it also robbed me of
a cherished alibi for petting my
self along and indulging in tam
trums. However, / decided that
If a stevedore could manage his
slump, Id better get busy and
manage mine. So now do.
When a slump comes now. I
keep plugging along. The ideas
and words may cease to gush and
sparkle-but / put them down.
anyway. And when at last the
tide does turn, have achieved
something upon which can
build. / know now that when I
surrender to a slump it isn't be-
cause I'm a Great Soul caught in
the throes of destiny. It's because
I'm plain lazy. There's plenty I
can do. even IL am a Great
Soul slumping. And I deserve a
swift kick il I don't do it.
The Washington times., 1929-03-27

NIEWsPAPERs printed columns about Leonardo Da vinc
picture Ga Belle Ferroniere and expert testimony
given by Sir Joseph Duveen.
Sir Joseph probably the worlds best known dealer
happened to condemn poor copy picture owned in Kan
pas City, said by its owner be the original Leonardo
Sir Joseph Duveen asserted do other critics. that Leo
pardos original picture actually in the Louvre Gallery in
Paris,
The two pictures on this page show how difficult it is to
BE certain about old pictures.
At the top is painting for many years known 1.-THE
TOPPER It showed with red cap and cheerful
preston, holding wine glass in his hand
Some critics said it not genuine Franz Halls. They
partly right. Then expert suggested that
picture painted in part.
there revealed the original genuine Franz Halls picture
as you it in the lower picture in this column.
The Washington times., 1929-03-27
LIVERY so often I slump.

LIVERY so often slump.
IL Go blah.
Not actually scik, not even
tired, but as empty of ideas and
energy as a busted balloon.
When l first began to expert
ence these slumps, I decided that
they were part of my mysterious
equipment as a writer. They
bothered me, but 1 was a little
proud of them, too. / thought it
made me unusual to have them,
and | wasn't ashamed when I sur.
rendered to them, as l invariably
did.
Whenever slump came,
threw up my hands and didn't
even try to do anything until the
spell had passed. AS a conse-
quence, l always emerged from
the slump with lot of unfinished
work and bad temper. I'd have
barely caught up with the work
by the time another slump ar.
rived. AS a consequence. l wasted
great spaces of life in having
slumps, and getting over them
Then, gradually, began to get
wise. I perceived with much re,
luctance that there was nothing
unusual or distinctive in slumps.
had no monopoly on them as a
writer. Everyone had slumps.
Even people who are commonly
supposed to possess no nerves or
temperament had slumps. Steve
dores had them, bakers had them,
plumbers. ditch diGgers, riveters,
muckers-all had 'em. And until
they learned tn manage them,
they wasted gobs Of their lives,
just as l was wasting gobs of my
life.
1t was plain that more life was
actually wasted through slumps
than through sickness or accident.
And there seemed to be no way
to prevent them. Sometimes, of
course, they came from indiges-
tion or weariness, but, even with
these handicaps removed, people
slumped. There seemed to be
natural rise and fall in the tide
The Washington times., 1929-03-27
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Louis E. Bisch-


THERE are all sorts Of gem
4 fuses, real ones and fake
ones. and they come in many
varieties.
There are persons living who
are credited with being geniuses
yet who are not. There are also
those in whom genius is un-
suspected, yet who possess the
cardinal mental traits that would
entitle them to such a distinction.
The reason why mental achieve
ment is often confused with
genius Is because talent is mis-
taken for the real thing.
Talent may produce the un-
usual.
Talent may accomplish things
in a new and novel way.
But talent always follows lines
already laid down. 1t may push
ahead further than ever before.
But always it is along paths al
ready discovered.
Genius, on the other hand, has
no precedent.
1t is distinctly and absolutely
original.
Genius always strikes out for
itself along new and unexplored
ways. Genius blazes an opening
through the unknown!
Whereas talent is usually a bit
timid. What impresses one about
the work of genius is the daring.
Genius is bold. 1t sparkles,
flashes and flares!
In fact, genius scorns processes
of thinking that follow the reg.
ular and beaten path.
Genius reaches a solution or
creates something new through
mental mechanisms that take
short cuts. Talent builds by a
laborious step-by-step method in
contrast to genius, which jumps
across wide spaces and arrives at
results that are startling and
striking.
A man or woman Of talent can
tell you how his particular
achievement was accomplished.
A genius never can. He arrives
at a certain place in imaginative
thinking and he scarcely knows
why or how it was done.
Imagination, of course, is the
outstanding characteristic of
genius. Often this imagination is
so forWard-looking that the genera.
ton in which the genius lives looks
upon it as bizarre, fantastic, if not
deliberately insane.
Had Einstein lived a century or
two ago, it is more than likely
that his relatively theories would
have been looked upon as the
product Of a deranged mind.
Luckily, this day and age Is so
used to the new and startling that
his tremendous contribution is ap.
preciated.
Einstein, to be sure, is a genius.
His astronomical and mathemati.
cal formulae are pure theory, pure
imagination.
His latest theories, however,
still remain to be proved. And
the probability is that the scien.
lists who discover ways of proving
Einstein's colossal mental produc-
tions will be men of exceptional
talent rather than men of genius.
In other words, they will apply
what he discovered.
The line between talent and
genius is not always clear or
cleancut. The two overlap.
Nevertheless. there is a peculiar
and distinctive quality about
genius that talent lacks.
Genius is itself alone.
True genius is rare. Often, un-
fortunately, it does not have an
opportunity to be heard. The very
nature of genius is such that it
ehrinks from the ordinary ways
Of the world.
Genius is shrinking, seclusiv0
And sst-suttieisnt.
The Washington times., 1929-03-27
WISE SAYINGS

Industry. economy, honesty and
kindness from a quartet of Vir-
tues that will never be improved
upon. Oliver.
Youth is confident. manhood
wary and old age confident again.
-Tupper.
You believe that easily which
you hope for earnestly.
Terence.
Every mans life is a fairytale
written by Gods fingers.
Anderson.
Nothing deters a good man
from what is right. Seneca.
If we had paid no more atten-
tion to our plants than We have
tn our children we would now BE-
living in a jungle of weeds.
Burbank.
The Washington times., 1929-03-27
The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

Match correctly
1. CeciIe -Chamnade English sculptor
2. Josef Hofmann Opera prima donna
8. Rosa Ponselle French composer
4. Jacob Epstein American negro dancer
s. Josephine Baker Pianist famous since he was 10
Fill each blank:
6. President - first occupied the White House.
7-s wife turned into pillar of salt.
g. A dick is slang for a-
g. The meat of a calf is called -.
10. Hominy is made from .
Do know:
II. Who is the Vice President of the United States?
r. In the what by the slang phrase havai?
49, What President the Lewis and Clark expedition
to the Northwest!
H. What given the job Of loading and unloading ships?
Is Who is the Secretary of the Navy?
Answers on Magazine Page
The Washington times., 1929-03-27
SAYINGS OF
MRS. SOLOMON
BY Helen Rowland
Husbands-BefOre and After
Taking

Husbands-BefOr and After
Taking
nINING in public with your d.
~ vorced husband is the latest
fad in London. Well-why not?
Just because you are tired OF
eating breakfast opposite a man
every morning, is no reason why
you should not enjoy eating din.
ner with him, occasionally.
A girl who wants to be popular
should take her Zine" from a
good French waiter. That subtle
way of making a man feel SUI
perior, and that you are just
hanging on his next word Is so per
cent Of the game!
The only authentic Scotch joke
Is the one your husband brings
home in bottle, with a gilt pre-
war" label and turpentine taste.
Many a woman never knows
what a splendid English vocabu.
larry her husband possesses, until
she drags him out to a dinner
party and hears him chatting
brilliantly with a lot of other
women.
A popular bachelor Is usually a
man with every sort of complex
except the inferiority kind.
A certain group Of male uni
versity students have frankly an
nounced that they intend to marry
for money. Who wants to buy
nice, fresh boy? Ladies'! Ladies'!
Here is your chance to doll up
your parlor with the cheapest
decoration on sale!
After marriage. most women
seem to think that if they eat
enough spinach and cut out pota-
toes, they will never need to worry
about their sex appeal.
"Henpecked husbands live longer
than other men," says a London
physician. OF course they do!
Every man needs a back seat
driver to make him keep his eye
on the road, his hand on the
wheel, his foot on the brake and
his mind off the other women.
Girls take such awful chances
in matrimony! But, dear me,
that's the only kind they get these
days!
The Washington times., 1929-03-27
DO YOU KNOW THAT

Thomas A. Edison, at the age Of
"a, was granted his first patent.
Since that time he has more than
1000 inventions to his credit. The
range Of his experiments has been
great enough to have included such
diverse subjects as airplanes. elec'
tric railways, cement houses and
the magnetic separation of low.
grade ores.
The Washington times., 1929-03-27

Every motor vehicle passing
Shrough the Holland Tunnel, be-
meath the Hudson River, is regis.
tered at the exits by an electric
traffic checker. The device works
"a hours a day, never missing the
count, which is recorded instantly
upon dial IN the offices Of the
tunnel commission in New York
CITY,
Seward daily gateway., 1929-04-24
FARM RELIEF BILL
 IN FIRST PLACE:
 SENATE PROGRAM
HOST OF PROPOSALS FACE A DOUBTFUL FUTURE BE-
 FORE THE SENATE

WASHINGTON, April 24, (P)-- Immigration, prohibition, flood re- lief and a host of other proposals, pushed before the, senate in the early days of the extra session, settled behind a restricted pro- gram and face doubtful fu- ture.
 Senator HefIin of Alabama show ed the senate that his plan for a restricted session. was applica- ble for legislation and not for de- bate He held the floor two hours appealing for the adoption of the resolution condemning the treat ment accorded him at Brockton, Mass, where he made a Ku Klux Klan speech.
 The farm bill got start when the resolution was put aside and reached an amendment made by the house.
 The farm relief bill is now in first place on the administration program in the senate. How long the debate will run is problematical. The administra- tive bills of the 1880 census and the reapportionment of the house, await consideration.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-04-24
INCONSISTENCIES

Recent dispatches detailed the work of the Alaska Game Commission with respect to planting exotic ami mals in Alaska such buffalo, deer and elk along with transplanting mountain sheep, etc:
 But what about the steady encroachment upon the rights of resident Alaskans with arbitrary and unwork able rules such might fit old state but which have place in Alaska? What about adopting the attitude that every trapping fur dealing in it has larceny in his heart and under this assumption and it's application, is rapidly creating bootleggng situation equal to that characteriznz liquor?
 Like the of liquor the man who is compelled to turn to the trap line for living considers lifting illegal fur not moral offense, but has the added argument that necessity knows law For that such rules closing the certain furs while others may be taken defeating the primary purpose of conseva
 on In taking fur of every variety the trapper spreads his activities wide area taking of each When restricted two varieties he traps intensvey hence what is claimed to be decation of certain furs may be traced to this When man IS compelled to confine himself to two varieties he will exert himself to take many as possible
 From time to time individuals come in with stories of abuses of the privilege of beaver trapping. When traced these rumors are like the legend of the Three Black Crows" is hearsay and generally circulated by someone who is not and will not trap, owners of fur farms and others jealous when they hear of some in dust1ious citizen coming in with something than his grubstake for his sacrifices and hardship
Seward daily gateway., 1929-04-24
TO LEAVE ON HOLIDAY

MEXICO CITY, April 24, P)- Ambassador Morrow and his fam fly are soon going to leave for a holiday at their home in New Jer- sey, it. is reported. It is believed Miss Anne Morrow will be married to Colonel Lindbergh while t h e family is north.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-04-24
ODD FELLOWS PARTY

The Odd Fellows anniversary party will be given Friday evening, April 26, at o'clock to Odd Eel lows and Rebekahs and their fam lilies. Visiting Odd Fellows and Re- bekahs are cordially invited.
 Committee
Seward daily gateway., 1929-04-24

At SchalIerer's Alaska Shop hear the Brunswick and Columbia records Avalon Town, Glad Rag Doll and Wedding of the Painted Doll.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-04-24

There will be a northbound pas senger train out of Seward in the morning, according to the local report.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-04-24

New Orleans judge assessed a fine of five cents against prisoner who had only dime Another varia- tion of the new five e-and-ten" law.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-04-24

BAKED SPARERIBS and sweet potatoes, and salad, for soc, is tomorrow's special at Union Cafe
Seward daily gateway., 1929-04-24

CLEANLINESS, ana the best of meats our motto. Fry -Bruhn's.
Hyder weekly herald., 1929-05-11
GOOD INTENTIONS

There is nothing quite so tragic, and also intolerable, as misdirected sincerity of pur- pose. The poorest excuse imag- inable that can be offered as a defense in cases wherein peo- pie have done irreparable wrongs to others is to say that they did so with the best of in- tentions. What of it? Is the wrong rendered any less harm full or the injury any less by reason of the good intentions? Did Hell's chief paving mater ial help things in the slightest degree. If one person kills an- otehr accidently, isn't the vic tim just as thoroughly dead as he would have been had the slayer murdered in cold blood? |?
 It is time to have done with good intentions when used as alibies for misdeeds.
Hyder weekly herald., 1929-05-11
FREE PUBLICITY

The Herald, like other news papers the world over, is often the victim of artful attempts to obtain space for the introduct- ion of various schemes for pri- vate gain or the moulding of public opinion toward put ting over" some sinister plot.
 Some bureau or syndicate or manufacturer will hit upon a happy idea, and some clever fellow will tell him just how he can work the newspapers for all the stuff" needed: where upon the expert is engaged or. the advice is taken without the aid of the expert. He makes good at getting the stuff out but publishers are too keen to allow the grating game to go too far.
 Invariably when the scheme IS found out in time and the matter is refused, a threat is made that the story will be given to another paper. The blot works occasionally when competition is keen, but not al- ways, and in the long run the 'chemer usually loses out be- .ause never again can the pap 1T be approached in the same way by the same schemer.
 The fact must be considered, slso that unless citizens can ,e depended upon to furnish heir local journal with real lews stories. they cannot ex- 'ect to get away with spas nodic attempts to put over 'ropagande. The editor is usu-
 lily a hard man to fool in such matters.
Hyder weekly herald., 1929-05-11
THE MONTH OF BEAUTY

With the coming of May, there comes one of the pretti- est and most pleasant months of the year. Winter has gone in the temperate zone, the sud- den showers of April are past, the heat of summer has not yet come and vegetation prepares to spread with lavish hand it's beauty all about us, Even up at far-away Nome and along the mighty Yukon little flow CTS appear and the grass shows green in spots beside the ling ering snow banks on the hill- sides.
 The origins of the names of most of the months are easy to trace. But not so May. It is gen. orally agreed that it was named for Maia, the Roman goddess of spring, but there is also a theory that May is the abbreviated form of Majores and that the month was SC called because it was held sac. red to older men, as June was dedicated to juniores, or young men.
 Originally, May was the third month, but became fifth when the Romans placed January
Hyder weekly herald., 1929-05-11
SOME THINGS TO
 THINK OVER.

The merchant who says he will wait until business gets better before he advertises for. gets that it wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.
 Quite often we find that the fellow who "don't believe in advertising nohow" is the one who complains the hardest that the mail order houses are talk ing the business out of town.
 And it never occurred to him that the mail order house had spent about fifty cents in ad- vertising to get it's first order from the customer.
 The man who refuses to ad- vertise because of his claim that people don't read the newspaper, is usually about the first one to call the editors attention to an error at the bottom of a column on the last page.
 Also it is usually the fellow who doesn't advertise who can tell you that newspaper adver- Using doesn't pay. Reminds us of an old maid back in our old home town who could tell ev- cry mother in the town just how the children should be raised.
 Which reminds us of the old and very often truthful rhyme There was a man in our town i; And he was wondrous wise i; He swore by all the gods above
 He would not advertise r But one day he did break this
 rule, and thareby hangs a
 tale.
 The ad. was set in real small
 type and headed Sheriff's Sale.
Hyder weekly herald., 1929-05-11
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER

and February at the beginning of the year. It always has had S1 days. Its special flower is the hawthorne and it's gem is the emerald. Since the earliest times. the first of May has been marked by outdoor festivals and children have danced about the Maypole for hun dreds of years. It is peculiar, however, that May is marked by few important historical an- niversaries, compared to other months, and few holidays.
Hyder weekly herald., 1929-05-11

The young bride had come out second best in her first en- counter with cookbook and gas range. Mother" she sobbed over the telephone, T cannot understand it The recipe says, plainly bring to boil on brisk fire, stirring for two minutes Then beat it for ten minutes and when I came back again it was burned to a crisp"
Hyder weekly herald., 1929-05-11

as ordered?"
 Defendant-"I can't start un- til week after next, Judge. You see, there are still two install ments due on the engagement ring. Life.