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The Washington times., 1929-02-05
RUSSIAN ADULTS LEARNING TO READ

THIS picture would have surprised the late Gear and his
predecessors Their idea that the LESS the ordinary
man knew the easier it was to govern him.
And that good idea for the Czars.
Fortunately for the Russian people is NOT the idea of
shat 'Boshevk' Government which American Gov
ernment objects so violently.
Russia as you in this picture is teaching all
Russians read and write and education is compulsory
merely children but fathers and mothers are taught
Here you see picking out letters spelling painfully
BUT THEY ARE LEARNING.
One of the sayings is Give light and the people will
find their way"
The light is IN BOOKS. knowledge is there, power to
Ehink, and decide for yourself
Teaching the 120000000 Russian people to read opening
up the treasures of the libraries supplying food for minds
that have been starved for centuries sets good example
And in teaching the people to read Ruas Soviet Govern
fnent establishes itself firm foundation.
The Government of Russia may not suit u.s. But suits
The RUSSIANS, apparently.
It lifts them from ignorance into the light OF knowledge
And to the miserable peasants that the slaves OF SELF
Sndugen often drunk and worthless Russian nobes 1t mas
rven ownership of the land which they were born land
IN which they work which they give all OF It's value
Once they were slaves on the land, now they OWN It,
Whatever our country may think Of Russias Government
however much might like to CHANGE that government
will find Russa's people objectng to change
"Gve light and the people will find their own way.
GIVE LAND, AND THE PEOPLE WILL NOT FokGhI
IT.
The Washington times., 1929-02-05
LISTEN WORLD!
| Get Stack on Myself
By Elsie Robinson

If the Devil invented bureau
drawers just for me!
I bust out into big, wet tears
because someone did me dirt
when / was going on s.
And when / can't cry any
more over that / get to thinking
how lonely and miserable I'm
going to be when I'm so and all
my false friends have deserted
me.
In short. / get sore at every
thing under the blue heaven and
with each second l sink deeper
into the mire.
But l thought you were talk
ing about being stuck on your
SELF" you say. That's self
pity-that isn't being stuck on
yourself"
Yes 1t is. dearie!
Self.pity is the most cussed
and complete form Of being
stuck on yourself.
It doesn't matter whether you're
making whoopee over yourself
Or weeping over yourself
In either case you're concen..
trating on your SELF and let
ting the rest OF the world go.
(. hang.
And perhaps If that fact were
more generally understood, a. lot
of these self-pity artists would
be eliminated.
For what self-pity'ers need is
not sympathy or comfort or as
sistance.
What they need is a good
swift kick.
know. For that's what
need right now.
The Washington times., 1929-02-05
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Louis z. Bisch-

Influenza is one Of those con-
ditions which spread from one
person to another with alarm
ing rapidity and. before one is
aware of it, assumes the proper
tions of an epidemic.
AS these lines are written it
is reported that approximately a
million cases of influenza exist
in the United States. Luckily, in
this epidemic the tendency Of the
organisms Is not to affect the
lungs, leading to that dread COM
plication, pneumonia. The ma.
iority of the cases have not had
serious complications and the dis
ease has been more or less con.
fined to the nose, throat and up.
per air passages.
But one can never be absolutely
certain what influenza is going
to do. And, of course, the rea-
son is that we do not yet know
exactly what the cause may be.
Apparently different types of
germs may cause influenza.
The diagnosis of influenza often
depends a great deal upon the
point Of view Of the physician in
charge of the case. In other
words, whereas one physician may
call running of the nose and
sneezing AMI cough a mere "colds =
another calls it an attack OF
'flu." To be on the safe side,
however, 1t is best to look upon
all epidemics of colds as true in.
fluenza and then take proper pre-.
cautions against 1t.
Since influenza undoubtedly is
transmitted from one person to
another, it would be logical to
quarantine all cases, but this
seems to be impossible, especially
since in many epidemics the NOR
tality is low and the number OF
persons affected Is very large.
Nevertheless it has happened fre-
quently that factories have had to
be closed and industries and COM
merce have been injured because
of the lack Of quarantine.
At any rate, the individual him.
self should try to protect others
as much as possible. All dis
charges from the nose and all
material that is expectorated
should be burned. Contact with
other individuals should be avoid.
Ell as much as possible. During
the course of the disease it is
best for the patient to stay at
home and in bed.
1t must be borne in mind that
hA hos ~ 1f
even in the same individual, and
therefore the patient should be
careful that he takes no chances.
At least two days in bed is none
too long even in conditions where
there is no real fever. In cases
where the fever runs high the
individual should not get out of
bed until the evening temperature
is below 100 degrees. neither
should he feel safe in going tut
of doors, even If all other symp-
toms have disappeared, until an
evening temperature has remained
below 100 degrees for two days.
During the course of the disease
the diet should be liquid If the
temperature is around 102 degrees
or more. Otherwise soft diet is
indicated.
Special attention should be given
to the bowels. These should ,
kept open by all means with
cathartics that are not too drastic
and therefore not too weakening
in their effects.
Various medicinal remedies have
been suggested and are used for
the flu. 1t should be emphasized,
however, that there Is no special
specific drug for the condition;
in other words, no drug exists
which cures influenza and nothing
else.
The Washington times., 1929-02-05

on myself.
Not that / ever exactly hate
myself, but there are periods
when I am particularly gummed
up with Elsie.
Now, there are people who can
get a lot of kick out OF being
stuck on themselves. They think
what great guys they are and
what wonderful things they have
done, and they go around broad
casting their findings. TIL may
be pests to everyone else. but
they certainly enjoy themselves.
IL you can get stuck on your
self like that you're playing in
luck, but such Is not my tor
tunate habit.
When get stuck on myself it's
on the reverse.
l spend all my time thinking
about myself, to be sure. but in
stead of thinking what a hum.
dinger l am I think what a flop
I've turned out to be, and how
God and the whole human race
are picking on me.
Instead Of being glad about
myself spend hours and hours
being sorry for myself
And it doesn't need any great
personal tragedy to start me going.
When / decide to throw q liz
spell of melancholia any old
gloom viii do. The darndest
trifles.
/ get sorry because I ought to
go to the dentist and haven't, just
as il / had the only tooth on
earth!
got sorry because my bu-
reau drawers aren't tidy, as
The Washington times., 1929-02-05
Hearst Papers Advocate:

l. An agreement OF Engl,sh-speatng peoples to pre-
serpe peace among themselves and to promote the
peace Of the sOorld
2 Proportional representation in the United States
Senate, State to haze less than taOO Senator's
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
poTttOnnsent IN the House of Representatives.
8. A separate Department of the Army of the Macy
and of the Air Forces, all united under Secretary
of National Defense.
A. Federal action to the limit of Federal poDers to
abolish iteracy in the United States under Secre-
tGry Of Education
S. Election of Congress in November. Installation on
the 1st of January folLot0tng. Inauguration OF the
President 1st of January neat after November
election.
The Washington times., 1929-02-05
DO YOU KNOW THAT

Among the by-products from cot
ton by modern chemistry are bill.
lard balls, high explosives. sur
gical dressings. artificial leather,
sausage coverings. roofing, floor
coverings, lacquers, varnishes,
Photographic films, and toilet ar.
ticles, All of these are from
part of the product known as
linters. Other products are the
fats or tallows produced by hy-
drogination of cottonseed oil.
The Washington times., 1929-02-05
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

Doth not the appetite alter? A
man loves the meat in his youth
that he cannot endure in his age.
Shakespeare.
1t is with marriage as with
cages; the birds without despair
to get in, and those within de
spair to get out.-Montaigne.
In every epoch of the world,
the great event, parent of all
others. is 1t not the arrival of a
Thinker in the world Carlyle.
The Washington times., 1929-02-05
The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

Do you know:
Who said, misery acquants with strange bedfeOws!
2. Who wrote, "The Admirable Crchton?"
g. What do plants lungs?
a. In what line did Christopher Wren gain fame!
s. Who painted "The Night Watch?" #
s. How many miles in a knot?
z How did James Watt gain fame?
Match correctly:
g. Anna Duncan Actor
g. Alfred Lunt Cartoonist
TO- Charles Hanson Towne Contrato
H. Rube Goldberg Editor
12 Sophie Brasau
Complete these quotations:
1S "A little - is dangerous thlng'-Pope
IA "As for man, his days are grass as - OF the
field he fouisheth Bible
l5. Never the time and the
And the loved all together.-Browning.
Answers on Fiction Page
The Washington times., 1929-02-05

A successful escape from Devils
Island colony, off fthe coast Of
Venezuela, has been accomplished
for the third time in history by
one Of the most notorious French
convicts. The prisoner is DR..
Pierre Bougrat, once prominent
Marseille physician. sentenced for
life the penal colony in French
Guiana for the murder Of a bank
collector.
The Washington times., 1929-02-05

A mans body and his mind,
with the utmost reverence to
both ! speak it, are exactly like
a Jerkin and a Jenkins lining
rumple one, you rumple the other.
-Sterne.
100 many undertakings are
IKE pumpkins in water; some bob
up while you bob the others
Chinese Proverb.
AT times truth may not seem
probable.-Boileau.
The Washington times., 1929-02-05

Every Man Has His Pet Economy
You never can tell what secret
economy man cherishes down at
the bottom of his heart--nor just
why or when a fit of frugality
may strike him.
But you may be practically sure
that it is something utterly trivial
and useless-just sweet hyacinth
with which he feeds his spend.
thrift soul!
You can't judge mans gen.
erosity by the size of his dinner
check or by his tip to the waiter,
any more than you can judge a
woman's age by the color of her
hair or the number OF candles on
her birthday cake.
Many a man who spends more
than half his salary on gasoline,
tires and garage bills, will snoop
in the ice-box and groan bitterly
at the sight of a wasted dill
pickle or a forgotten sardine.
Many a man who cannot pass
a beggar without dropping some
thing into his hat, and would give
away his last pair OF shoes, win
drive hard bargain with his
charwoman and beat his laundress
down.
A man who could not think Of
offering his friends anything less
than 5O.cent cigar, will sneak
out and light his own with candle
or a piece of paper, just to save q
match.
A man may bring his wife home
pearl necklace or diamond link.
bracelet tonight = and tomorrow
night rage around the house like a
wounded animal because she hap.
pens to leave the hall light burn.
ing, and 20 cents worth of elec-
trieity has been wasted"
A man may be so open-handed
with his money that all the graft.
ers in town have him on their list
of "sure tips s''-and yet be tighter
with his own wine cellar than a
new shoe ard closer with his wife
than a secret conference.
A man who buys French dinners
for half of Broadway and casts
pearls before gold.diggers, may Sc
cretly save sigar-store coupons and
old-bottle corks and pinch on post
age stamps.
The hardest task of wife's life
Is to get her husband to let her
throw away his old neckties and
frayed sweaters-yet he may re-
fuse to wear a pair of socks that
have been DARNED, however
neatly. or to eat a warmed-over
roast.
No doubt, even Nero's wife found
a lot of old broken violin strings,
dried laureI.wreaths and frazzled
togas, hidden among his jewels
and royal robes, after he died-lne-
mentoes of his thrifty moments.
The average man is a natural.
born spender and waster. But
every ian has his secret economy,
which gives him a thrill of virtue
and justifies him in his own eyes
for all his other follies and prodi.
galities.
The Washington times., 1929-02-05

You can't judge a mans gen.
erosity by the size of his dinner
check or by his tip to the waiter,
any more than you can judge a
woman's age by the color of her
hair or the number OF candles on
her birthday cake.
The Washington times., 1929-02-05

Many a man who spends more
than half his salary on gasoline,
tires and garage bills, will snoop
in the ice-box and groan bitterly
at the sight of a wasted dill
pickle or forgotten sardine.
The Washington times., 1929-02-05

Many a man who cannot pass
a beggar without dropping some
thing into his hat. and would give
away his last pair of shoes, win
drive a hard bargain with his
eharwoman and beat his laundress
down.
The Washington times., 1929-02-05

A man who could not think Of
offering his friends anything less
than a 50.cent cigar, will sneak
out and light his own with a candle
or a piece of paper, just to save a
match.
The Washington times., 1929-02-05
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland.

Every Man Has His Pet Economy
You never can tell what secret
economy a man cherishes down at
the bottom of his heart--nor just
why or when a fit of frugality
NAV strike him.
The Washington times., 1929-02-05

But you may be practically sure
that it is something utterly trivial
and useless-just sweet hyacinth
with which he feeds his spend.
thrift soul!
The Washington times., 1929-02-05

Every now and then get stuck IL the Devil invented
New Britain herald., 1929-04-19
'WHOOPEF MADE
 IN OLDEN TIMES
BloadWay's Modern Term Found
 to Be Ancient Word

New York, April 19 P,-Whatever ''whoopee' may mean to Broadway and the song writers and college boys. the word is not new. and seems therefore to be news.
 Dr. Frank H. Nizetelley, leXicog rapher, told the Associated Press today that the 1929 whoopee Was not unlike the whoopee of almost five centuries ago-in spelling, pro- nunciation or definition. Broadway applies the term 10 fes- tirities where the lid is lifted, and the word has come to designate al most anything in the way of gay ac- tiVity of the day, but listed to q line Of Marco play. l450:
 Hay doog, Hay whoopce, Whoo. Go youur wey lychtIy.'
 Shakespeare catled it "hoopc" and Ben Johnson about 300 years ago wrote in his "Masque Gypsies of the ballet of the whoopee barnibie." :"
 In the Virgin Martyr" of 1903 there appears the line:
 Whisper, nay. lady, for my part. I'll cry whoope."
 There are other authorities that the word is an antique. Sanskrit. for instance has il "upe.''
 Despite it's hoary age, however, the word has not yet qualified for the dictionary, but if it becomes popular enough it may win such distinction. just as flapper. high brow. lowhrow and others came to be recognized.
New Britain herald., 1929-04-19
FOUR SUITS FOR S2,S00 RESULT OF AUTO CRASH
Salvatore CrsO Blamed for Injuries Suffered by Plaintiffs on
 Rurritt Street.

Four separate actions aggregatins s2,SO0 were brought today against Salvatore Urso by Konstanty and Frank Fedorowicz and John kraw. czyk and Peter Zapatka by his moth CT. Mary Zapatka, through Attor- ney M. F. Stempien, claiming dam ages for personal injuries and pro- perty damage resulting from an au- tomobile accident
 According to the complaint, Frank FedoroWicz was driving a car owned by konstanty on May 25, 1928, with John krawczyk and Peter Zapatka as passenger. He was proceeding in a southerly direction on Burritt street, at about 10 o'clock in the evening, when a machine owned and operated by the defendant came from the opposite direction diagonal ly and crashed into the car occupied by the plaintiffs, it is claimed. As d result of the accident. which, ac- cording to allegations. was caused by sheer negligence on the part of the defendant to keep a proper look out for other machines and failure 10 travel at a reasonable rate. the plaintiffs car was damaged consid- crably, while the passengers receiv- cd various injuries.
 It is further stated that all plain tiffs were taken immediately 10 the hospital where examination revealed confusion of the brain and injury to the nose, face. legs and body of Frank Fedorowicz, some of Whicn proved permanent: contusions and abrasions on the face. legs and body of John krawczyk, and injury to the legs and body of Peter Zapatka The plaintiff Konstanty FedoroWIcz claims $500 damages for injury to his car, while the injured parties claim $500 each. Papers were serv- ed by Deputy Sheriff Matthew Pap ciak.
New Britain herald., 1929-04-19

Mlchelsen's time was hours, " minutes, 22 1-5 seconds. only few seconds slower than the course es- tablished last year by the veteran Clarence De Mar.
 De Mar in Ninth Place
 Other leaders finished in the fol- lowing order: Jack Lamb, Dorches- ter club. 2:39:25; William Taylor. sydney Mines. N, S.. 2:4o:05: c. Guotsalainen. North Branch Y. NJ. C. A.. Montreal, 2:41:o6: Ronald O'Toole. St. Johns, N. F.. 243;07.
 Clarence De Mar, ihe Melrose Sunday school teacher who has won the event six times, limped in Ill ninth place, his time being hours. 43 minutes, 47 seconds. He had complained of leg trouble and failing stamina and had predicted that he would not win this year.
New Britain herald., 1929-04-19
STILL PESSIMIST|C
 OVER THEV|SI0N
Costs Must Be Cut Tremendously
 to Make It Practical
By NEA Service.

by NEA SefNlCe.
 New York, April 19-Television may be just around the corner. but that corner is quite long way of If the word of M. B. Sleeper, noted radio engineer of this city, is ac. Cepted.
 Sleeper recently outlined the diff faculties facing this new radio art ir in issue of QS'r, the radio amateurs magazine. He pointed out that the A. T. & T., which has been develop ing television apparatus. can build a receiver for the work of showing good pictures a foot square.
 "1he only hitch being that the cost accounting department has put price of 31,000,000 on these receiv- ers.' he adds sardonically.
 And if that were built and bought 1t would not be the finished product We hope to have when television &C., tually becomes popular. For it would be handicapped by the scanning disc, which is another costly propsition, let alone it's mechanical limitations.
 Sleeper points out that the pres ent 4S-hole scanning disc is much too inadequate for the large repro auctions of extensive scenes We would expect. To satisfy us the scanning disc would have to have at least 800 holes and drilling holes in scanning discs is another costly matter.
 ''The scanning disc" he con- cludes, must be eliminated. It must be replaced by some inexpensive method adapted to high speed pro- duction. Having found this new means-which no one has so far there are electrical problems to con- sider."
 One of these problems is that of the modulating frequency on which a television scene may be trans mitted. For good reproduction. he believes. it would have to be band of about $500 kilocycles width. as against our present width of 10 ktlo- cycles for sound broadcasting. In order to accommodate such a wide band. therefore. it might be best to broadcast television on a frequency of 3,0o0,000 kilocycles, or one- tenth of a meter. which is another almost impossible feat.
 This is an extreme opinion of the difficulties faced by teievision en- gineers, but it is the serious consid- eration of a highly respected radio engineer. In addition. Sleeper points to the difficulty of synchronization between transmitter and receiver and of distortion at comparatively low frequencies.
New Britain herald., 1929-04-19
CAMb0D|AN RUINS
 MUCH LIKE MAYAN
SimilaridS Beyond Coincidence,
 British Scientist Says

Honolulu, April 1s (UP)-Resem- blances in the architecture of the old Cambadion civilization and those of the ancient Maya cities of Yuca- tan and Central America are be- yond possible coincidence, in the opinion of Dr. Thomas Gam. of Belize, British Honduras.
 Dr. Gam, a famous Maya arch eologist. stopped in Honolulu after visiting many ruins in the far east, on a mission for the London Daily Mail.
 T am convinced that travellers from Asia. probably from 1ndo- China, followed the equatorial cur rent to Central America some time in the first centuries of the Chris tian era and left their marks on the Maya civilization" Dr. Gam said.
 Probably they touched at the Carolnas on the way. for the mega lithic ruins there are strikingly similar to those of Tylum in Yuca- tan"
 On his present journey Dr. Gam visited the ruins of Angkor in Cam bodia. AnuradhapuYe and Polonar- hua in Cevlon. o"s p"robudur in Java. The resemblance to Maya cities he found chiefly in Cambodia.
 Dr. Gam said he would probably be criticized by fellow scientists for his theory, but he cited a mum. ber of cases to substantiate his con- tention.
 CamhOdian Ruins Larger
 "1f you were to stand in the ruins of Angkor," he said, you might think you were in & Maya city. The chief difference is that the Cambodian ruins are larger. The structures of both are built on immense pyramids. stone- faced. with long stone stairways The roofs in both cases use the Maya arch cantilever structure with out keystone. which limits the width of the chambers. Both built immense superstructures of ma sorry, which gives the buildings their impressiveness. The sculp- tured lintels are much the same. though there is no resemblance to the hieroglyphs. The Maya system of writing was we'll developed by the time the Asiatic travellers had arrived. and I suppose the Mayas, conservative people. saw no req son to change it.
 Furthermore. both Cambodians and Mayas worshipped the snake. In Cambodia it was the seven- head ed snake, Naga. In Yucatan it was the plumed serpent, kukulcan. But the two are carved on the col umns in the same position, with head erect. tongue protruding. and tail erect at the top of the pillars.
 ''In Borobudur. Java. saw carved Buddha on a wall. sitting on throne supported by lions. On one side is suppliant bearing To- tus. on the other suppliant bear ing inccnses.
 "A figure which corresponds to this in al; essential pictures may be seen on the sculptures of the Maya later empire Yucatan."
New Britain herald., 1929-04-19

600 or over to be voted upon at election time.
 The executive committee meeting this afternoon will bring out a fla vora ble report for the New Britain charter amendments with the eX- ception of the two. The g per cent back tax penalty is opposed by State Tax Commissioner William H. Rlod- gett, and the other amendment of the s50.ooo voting requirement savers to some of the committee as having a highly political flavor. In the opinion of the legislat tors the measure is aimed squareiy and fair ly at the school board of New Brit ain. in support Of which they point at the recent fight over the addition 10 th" high school. the funds Of which were passed over Mayor An gelo M. Paonessa' veto
New Britain herald., 1929-04-19
LEAVE FOR POLAND
Four New Britain Residents Start for Poznan to Attend Information al Exposition in That City.

The first contingent of local Poles left today for PoZnan, Poland, to attend the international exposition. The party included four persons, all of whom left with the special party
 : of members of the Polish Nationai Falcon Alliance on the liner He de France" from New York. Those m the party were Andrew and Marcela Adamowicz of 167 Grove street Alexander Lingo of S3 Thornlley street and Frank Lezon Of 24 Car mody street. While attending the exposition they wilt also take leave to visit other parts of Poland and will return in June.