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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-06-10
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
Helen Rowland
What Chance to Be Good?

w AAV SA1AS&AGS w ~
Did you ever try to be good and
noble and thrifty-in a Big City?
Did you ever wake up with a
touch of conscience or indiges'
ton or a duty-complex or some
thing, and decide that you were
going to follow the diet the doc
tor laid down for you. last fall?
Plain boiled rice, green vegeta-
bles, cream of celery soup, baked
potatoes--no sauces, nothing rich,
nothing fried. Try to DO it!
I mean try to do it, If you are
a bachelor or a business girl, and
have to live in a bachelor flat
and eat in hotels and restau-
rants.
Start right out by ordering
plain boiled rice. Can you get
it? You cannot! You can get
rice with creole sauce, of course.
or curried rice with shrimps, or
a rice compete covered with goo,
or rice pudding. But plain boiled
rice? Perish the thought!
Skip the rice and try the soups.
But there ISN'T any cream OF
celery soup to-day" There never
is! There's chicken okra soup,
mock turtle, mulligatawny, to-
mato bouillon, mushroom soup,
iced consomme-57 varieties of
soup, but not drop of cream OF
celery!
But surely you can get potatoes.
Good old potatoes. Yes, you can!
You can get potatoes French fried,
shoe-string potatoes, hashed brown
potatoes, potatoes O'Brien, or au
gratin, or O'Flaherty or-oh. any
thing, except au naturelle! A good
hotel chef can TORTURE a per.
fectIy innocent potato until it looks
like nothing decent. That's his
cart!
Oh, well, what's the use? You
might as well die happy, II you've
got to die! So you give up, and
order a nice thick, red, juicy steak,
with mushroom sauce, and tor
tured potatoes, and prepare to suf-
fer.
Or perhaps you decide to take
that hundred dollars you've saved
and start a bank account and be
thrifty. You feel just like John D.
when you enter the bank-and like
John Doe, when you come out.
BY the time you have tried to hand
your money to one man and then
another and another and another,
you've forgotten your middle name.
But they want to KNOW your
middle name; also your exact age,
your past performances, your COM
plexes, what kind of dye you use
on your hair, whether you borrow
your husbands knickerbockers,
and whether your father slept in
pajamas or preferred an old-fash-
toned nightie.
And when it's all over and you
proudly show them your precious
hundred dollars they don't TAKE
IL because IL ASH u liiouSahU'
Or maybe you make up your
mind to give up flirting. Men
distract you from your work.
You're going to be SERIOUS. And
sensible!
And just at that moment you
meet the handsomest man you
ever met in your life, and he tells
you that your eyes-oh. well.
what's the use Of trying to be
good? Just as your cup of virtue
is full somebody always joys your
elboWl I-I-I-t-
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SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DIR. Louis E. Bisch-.

Many persons are bothered
really haunted one might say
by uncomfortable impulses that
they cannot fight down. These
ideas we speak of in psychology
as obsessions.
An obsession Is an idea that
keeps popping into the mind de-
spite everything you may do to
keep it out. Furthermore. the OBJ
session that so persistently OBJ
trudes itself is some thing that
you know is foolish, nevertheless
you cannot help it. This factor
of the conscious recognition of
the absurdity of the mental tor
ment Is the saving grace that
distinguishes an obsession from
delusional and other insane fam
cies.
The person who is insane may
be haunted with doubts, fears or
whatever, in much the same way
that the obsessed individual is.
But the insane person absolutely
and thoroughly believes in these
fantastic ideas. He often acts in
accordance with them. He does
not realize they are foolish or
preposterous and no amount of
argument or proof can ever con-
vince. him to the contrary.
Nearly every person has obses-
sions of one type or another.
Sometimes the are mild. some
times severe.
IL they torment so much as to
cause great worry or depression
or loss Of sleep, or they keep
pushing their way into the stream
of thought so persistently and
frequently that the individual
scarcely can think Of anything
else, then, and then only. as q
rule, does the sufferer seek help
from a physician.
~ COHlLIlOn anu neLAhASSS AOA
Of obsession is the habit Of some
women to look under the bed be
fore retiring.
Such a woman realizes how
foolish this nightly ritual is, new
ertheless she would feel very I'M
comfortable or perhaps have q
sleepless night If she did not give
way to the obsessing idea.
Another common obsession is to
lock the door by turning the key
in the lock and then trying the
doorknob as well. There are hun
dreds Of obsessions like that.
The more severe obsessions
often have to do with the per-
Torrance of certain acts in q Ger.
tain prescribed way.
One person may not feel COM
Portable, for instance, unless he
puts on and takes off his coat
three times or twice or perhaps
half dozen times.
Another has an obsession Of
being particularly susceptible to
germs and therefore he washes
and re-washes his hands many
times before feeling satisfied that
they are clean.
The cause for obsessions lies in
the unconscious mind.
The obsession is merely a sign
or a symbol of some disturbance
there.
The modern methods Of mental
analysis can be applied to obses.
sions and with astounding success.
What is necessary is to find
their unconscious equiva Tents,
make them conscious and explain
them. Then they fade to nothing.
ness and the ObsessiOn L. gone
forever ..I-I---LAHMa&
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The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

Match correctly:
!. Ausable Chasm Illinois
2. Bloomington Rhode Island
8. Ypres. Capri
4. Brown University Belgium
5. Blue Grotto New York
Do you know:
6. What poet said:
"Oh, for boyhoods time of June
Crowdng years in one brief moon?"
z. Where is Jena?
8. Who wrote SIN Abraham's Bosom?"
9. Why is the of Samuel Langley famous
TO- What is given the device for inducing artificial
respiration?
IL. What is anchovy?
IL. What do all planets revolve around?
13. What is the modern Cathay?
ID. Where is Lehigh University?
Is. About what is the speed of sound?
Answers on Magazine Page
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The only way to regenerate the
world is to do the duty which
lies nearest US, and not hunt for
grand, far-fetched ones for our.
selves. kingsley.
There are two literary mall
adies-writer's cramp and swelled
head. The worst of writer's
cramp is that it is never cured;
the worst Of swellei head it never
killa~ksEnaham.
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"A cHEERFuL OLD BUDDHIST MONK WITH Els ROSARY

FHE cheerful old Monaghan gentleman above monk in
z the Buddhist Temple Of Ten Thousand Generations
He represents the ancient Buddhist religion much older
man Christianity which puzzled deeply the good Christian
gathers that penetrated Thbet and other Eastern countries
long ago.
They were amazed to find monasteries and monks
eres with thousands nuns prayer books rosaries and
Other amazing resemblances to the Christian religion.
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WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

Plain truth will influence half a
score men at most in a nation. or
an age, while mystery viii lead
millions by the nose. st. John
Proverbs, like the sacred book
of each nation, are the sanctuary
OF the institutions.-Emerson.
A mere COPPER Of nature cam
not produce anything great
ReYnoldA
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-08-31

children arc permitted to eat at the
table. I've seen some ~atrocious things
lately and I feel that it is time to
speak.
When a meal is announced, and it
should be announced quietly, not by
shrieking and cat calls, every child
should make a bee line to get his hands
washed, for I suppose it is asking too
much of human nature at eight or
10 to have that function attended to
before meal time.
Beginning His Lesson
That done, each should come
promptly into the dining room. sit
down without scraping, dragging, or
fitting his chair. unfold his napkin
part way and lay it smooth and
double straight across his lap, then
pull his chair close to the table. A
little child may a bib, but I'd
start early to get him away from 1t.
AS soon as he is old enough to handle
a spoon without turning 1t owe and
can straightway find his mouth. I'd
show him about bending over a little
| when he takes a bite so he won't spill
| food on his clothes.
Forks are placed when the table Is
set, at the left Of the plate. Knives
and spoons at the right. Water glass
at the right above plate. Butter plate
| at left.
When a child takes a drink, make
him replace the water glass where 1t
belongs. And teach him to lay his
bread on the butter plate-not on the
table cloth. If butter plates are not
used, he must lay the bread on hi
plate.
He should never lift a whole slice,
nor half slice, of bread to his mouth
Bread should be broken before It Il
| spread. Small pieces only should be
picked up and eaten.
If q child Is small and his mother
does the spreading, she can leave al
the pieces-spread-on his plate. But
an older child should spread one
ptece ct . time Is It Is eaten. L
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-08-31
By RODNEY
(NEA Service WRITER

= Washington, Aug. 3l.-The biggest
senate investigation of all time, ii it
ever gets going full steam, will be n
combined inquiry into the power
trust" and the radio trust
The resources Of these So-called big
trusts are at least s12 .0O0, 900 900.
Under the Couzens resolution,
passed at the last session. the senate
Interstate commerce committee is ds-
lacted to investigate the relationship
existing between the different kinds
OF communication service used in in
terstatc and foreign commerce, in
Guiding radio, telephone, telegraph,
and all kinds of wireless and cable
,ervice so used, and transmission OF
power by wire or wireless
1t is also directed to investigate
connections. relationships. ownership
and control. stock ownership and
trade practices and activities OF cor
porations and persons engaged II
communications services.
A Lot Can Happen
This resolution is pretty f~ar-rcach-
ing, and some persons think 1T Is
loaded with dynamite. One Of the
magazines of the electric power III
dustry recently had an editorial rails
Ing the question how the industry ever
let such a resolution pass, and adj
mitted that, as compared with tho
Couzens resolution. the Walsh public
utilities resolution was only a summe:
zephyr. Yet it will be recalled thai
in the Walsh resolution fight the SEN
ate galleries and Railways were crowd
ed with the power people until theJ
finally succeeded in shunting the pro
posed investigation to the fedora
trade commission. The fact seems t
be that the power lobby was caught
mapping when the Couzens resolutloi
went through late in the session.
At the time the Walsh resolutlot
was introduced Senator Watson o.
Indiana was chairman OF the inter
state commerce committee, 2 con
servative who seldom if ever ha'
given the more powerful interests an
trouble. Now the chairman Is S2nat0i
Jim Couzens of Michigan. who IS no
toriously independent Of outside II
fluences. Among the other member.
are such independents as Howell o
Nebraska. Brookhart Of Iowa. Dill o
WASHINGTON, and Wheeler Of Mon
tana.
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l. 4, WASHINGTON

Just how deeply this committee will
probe cannot yet be predicted. u II
supporters of the Couzens resolution
outside the senate have their way 1t
will 90 very deep indeed.
First there is the power angle. De-
spite the vigorous investigating Tao
tics of the federal trade commission
there are still plenty Of senators who
would like to 60 after the power
trust in one of their own lnVcStlga.
tons.
Outsiders Arc Interested
Second. there's the radio trust.
independent radio concerns, organ
lied in the Radio Protective assocla-
ton, arc all primed TO go after the
combination of the Radio corporation,
General Electric, American Telephone
and Telegraph, Westinghouse.
United Fruit companies. on the ailc-
CATION that they have formed monop-
olies through illegal use OF patents
This combination has undertaken
ia monopolizc radio communication
radio broadcasting and radio manu-
featuring under the pretcnse OF pro-
lection by patents" says Senate LII
father of the radio law. VINO charges
that both the Clayton and Sherman
ANTITRUST laws are being violated.
Oswald +. Schuette, executive SEC
rotary of the Radio Protective asSocl-
alton. has charged before a senat"
committee that the observation-disclosures
combination has inundated the prlll-
cipal radio manufacturers into pavlnI
II, per ccnt Of their gross safes IN
come 10 the trust and that n m
,inidating power Is based on tne
power of five billion dollars rather
than on patent rights.
Charge Abuse Of Patents
He alleges that the Radio corpora
! ton patents are antedated by patents
owned by tho navy department. Which
has been completely negligent TO us
rights, to the great expense OF al
radio manufacturers outside the
trust" including the very largest
cncs-and the radio public. when
eventually pays the ~ per cent tax
! A Canadian court has upheld the pri-
oritv Of the navy patents. Contcndlns
that the pooling of patents by the
combining corporations is illegal. he
cites the recent decision OF the united
States district court III Chicago mold
inc illegal the pooling CT o~il-cracKing
patents by the Standard Oil Com
paujes of Indiana. New York and New
Jersey and 40 other oil companies.
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6M! NtW'STORK1 !;

ever to have undertaken any real
work.
Meanwhile the crowd of elrlifs
grows. 1t fills the sidewalk and slowly
begins to pour down the alley to the
stage.
Just behind the alley fence a crew
of riveters work or a new skyscraper.
lii the hot sun dredsas take dirt from
a gaping hole. Fat mothers stand
reading the tabloid papers while
daughters GO timidly by the hard
boiled gatekeoper.
TWO pretty girls park their babies
in a nearby hotel lobby. BY ! o'clock
the crowd has grown to o than a
hundred. and by 2 it has sWelled TO
something like 500, And only IS girls
desired. Figure your OWN percentages.
~ X y
Inside, the theatre is dismal as a
mausoleuln. The seats are covered
with an acre of canvas. The lights are
dimmed. Only the stage glitters. The
stage is cluttered with last years
ecenerv. and the seemingly bored and
DIdSF HIIllCn pGlh OITNllAotiNNN o' "a"
trunks and saW-horscs. A few DOW 10
The managerial forces sitting IN a
front row. They have had jobs last
seasnn-and with the same concern.
They think they will get the breaks
because of past experience.
You can pick the newcomers a block
away They have a freshness not to
be found in the regulars They lack
assurance and they have made too
great an effort to look their prettlest
Some are pathetically ordinary in ap-
pearance. One wonders how they ever
summoned nerve to appear at all
They mill about the stage nervously
Silence falls over the crowd. The game
/ of selection has begun! A voice from
the pit orders everyone to stand ir
lines that reach across the stage.
Will the little lady on the right
and you III the middle, and you =.
step out?' The rest will walk back
into the street. Another chance i
gone! GILBERT SWAN.
Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.)
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New York. Aug. 3l.-There's a fla
yor of "old home week in the side
walk seen that preface the hectic
business of selecting a Broadway
chorus.
When the cali Is sounded up and
down the Main Stem pretty maids
hesitate over their cafeteria tray,
look wistfully up from their type
writer's. and think up excuses that can
get them away from the ribbon coun-
ter for a few hours. Meanwhile tho
cid brigade" takes a final peep in the
family mirror, takes a final glance at
its best hosiery. daubs an expert GU
pid's bow of lipstick along the mouth
line. and goes forth looking for a Job,
Within an hour thereafter n OF
Eroadway's Strangest sights Is to be
seen-strange5t, and IN a Way most
heartbreaking. for the onlcoker knows
that only a faint percentage Of those
who gather will remain.
-
The "old home week atmosphere
steps in as the would-be chorlnes be-
sin to arrive.
lilo, Ruth lilo there. Mary
''Where va been this sumner
where va been yerself?' Well, ii
there amt Gertie -.
so It goes. Hasty kisses upon thu
cheek. Or a friendly handshake. Sons
have trouped together across tht
country. Some have played the same
shows together in New York. Some
have yet to make a production. NoN
and then a swanky lass steps out o.
. taxicab or a ritzy private car, ane
al the rest arch their eyebrows.
A solitary stranger comes timidly ~
and looks down the darkened alleyWa.
marked stage Entrance" In the al
leyway are parked a hundred or mor'
Of the boys" They are all looking 70
jobs as chorus men. Their greetings, j
any, are something else again. A few
handsome youngsters look strangel
out Of place. And a few hard-boiled
seedy-looking youths seem even NOR
strangely misplaced. One wonder
what all these young men do wheI
not looking for chorus jobs. Few seer
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Now about holding . fork. I wish
I could write this In electric lights
and hang it up in the middle Of the
street.
It's q dead give-away Of breeding
in old, young. and medium, II q per-
son holds 2 fork like q club, Or .
hammer. or q pitchfork. There Is only
one proper way to hold Q fork. and
I'd teach the children that ~ reli-
giously as I'd teach them to wash
their faces.
In cutting, the fork should be held
in the LETT hand. prongs turning d.
rectly down, and the f~orefinser held
Straight down The back q the fork
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Mesdames Hill and
Lifur Reach ! n

Cleveland. O., Aug. 3l.-R1-Mrs. O..
s. Hill Of Kansas City and Mrs. Gregg
Lifur Of Los Angeles swept into the
finals Of the western women's golf
championship Friday, the former de-
feating Miss Peggy Wattles Of Buff
falo, throe and two. Mrs. Lifur de-
leating her hometown rival, Kath-
lecn Wright, one up.
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lengthwise, pointer fashion. The
back Of the hand must be up.
When = bite Is cut off, the fork Is,
changed to the right hand. turned
with prongs up. and the food lifted
on 1t to the mouth.
When the knife and fork are not In
3 they are laid side BY side close
together across the plate. never with
the handle resting on the tablecloth.
These rules don't change.
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neer, died here Friday morning. He
had been III since last fall and six
weeks ago suffered several paralytlc
strokes. He leaves his widow and
five children. Funeral arrangements
have not been completed.
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YOUR

B01tn
~A~ SAvcaJna

When children get Older and get
out into the world, people won't judge
them 90 much by their clothes as by
their manners. At least. the right
kind q people won't. AS far as that
600, they will judge them by their
manners when they're little, too.
Now, this is not going to be a dis
sertation on door-banging and foot
wiptng, nor . chapter on bowling and
handing milady q chair. 1t is going
10 Be . long loud howl about the way
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1Sk GET DEGREES

Valley City. N. D., Aug. 31.-Re
One hundred eighty-five students re-
ceived degrees at the Valley City
state Teachers college graduation
exe9cises hare Friday.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-08-31

More than 60 Per cent 81 the 100000
annual cases Of diphtheria Ia this
country occur between the ass1 q ono
and five yeas1.
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USER
GETS 4 YEARS

The heaviest sentence yet pro
nounced in the District Of Co
lumbis for violation Of the smoke
screen law was imposed on James
Lane, colored, today by Justice
Peyton Gordon who sentenced
him to four years in prison.
Lane was, in In automobile
with a companion last June is
when it ran past a red light at
Rhode Island Avenue and Fourth
Street Northeast, and collided
with another machine, tnjuring
two persons.
Lanes companion, who was
driving, escaped, but Lane was
captured by Policeman Craig l..
Smith Of the Twelfth precinct,
and charged with possession OF a
smoke screen device which was
found on the automobile.
Assistant District Attorney Wal
ter M. Shea conducted the
prosecution.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-11-19
A. & P. Managers Hold
Benefit Dance Tonight

The annual banquet and dance
of the A 81 P Managers Benefit
Association will be held at the
Mayflower Hotel tonight at 0
O'Clock. AS is customary, 1t will
be a more or less closed social
function, being confined to the
A g. P store managers and their
families.
It is expected that o. c.
Adams, president Of the southern
division of the Great Atlantic
and Pacific Tea Company; w. s.
Hillyer, the company's headquar-
tiers Managers Benefit Associa-
ton representative; T. H. Car
aker, the Divisional Managers
Benefit Association representa-
tive, and s. w. link, local di-
rector Of the A & P will be
present and address the gather
ing.
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Indy X-RAYED
FOR PAINS
ENGLEwooD, N. j., Nov. 10

ENGLEwOOD, N. j., Nov. 10.
U.N.S0.-Mystery which sur
rounded reports that Col. Charles
A. Lindberg had been treated for
an injury to his right shoulder
was solved today with the revela-
ton that he underwent an X-ray
examination at the Englewood
hospital Sunday because OF re-
curing sharp pains in the nam
Der.
The Colonel gave the impress
sion, it was said, that the pains
resulted from the dislocation Of
the shoulder he suffered Febru-
airy 28 last at Valbuena aero
drome, Mexico City, when his
plane made a hazardous landing.
The pictures will be ready to-
morrow for the view of Col. Lind
berg and DR.. Walter Philips, OF
Englewood, who attended him.
Col. Mndbergh spent last night
In New York with his wife, the
former Anne Morrow, and showed
no sign of being indisposed.
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FACTORY IN MOSCOW

MOSCOW, Nov. IL uNSo-
Three officials Of the Gillette
Safety Razor Company Of Boston,
w. j. Mccarthy, c. s.. Grey and
Ivan Gaskin today conferred with
Soviet authorities who are aiding
them in their investigation Of the
possibilities Of establishing q fac
tory in Russia.
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ris made a getaway from the rear
of the house.
Morris was q fugitive until
Wednesday when the deputy,
learning that he had returned to
his home and determining to take
no chances this time dashed into
the house and slipped the hand
cuffs on Morris while he was still
in bed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-11-19
WILL EETE HUSBANDS

LYON VILLAGE, Va. Nov. 10.
Tomorrow night the Woman's
Club Of Lyon village win enter
tain their husbands at n bridge
party at the home OF Mr.. ard
Mrs. clyde Leighty.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-11-19

When Morris and Henry Dugan'
were caught operating a still by
Deputy Lucas last May, Morris
prevailed upon the officers to al.
low him to 60 home and change
into his good clothes" The Of
ficer accompanied him to the
front door Of his home which,
was slammed in his face IS Nor
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-11-19
Fugitive Still Gunner
Caught Mapping

HARRISoNBURG, Va, Nov. 19,-Eis Norris Of the Blue
Ridge foothills Port Republic, not given chance
change his clothes when he captured at his home by
Deputy Sheriff W. e, Lucas, Of Elkton Instead he was
brought directly Harronburg and in less than six
had received pententiary term for operating still