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The Washington times., 1929-08-02
What Is the Future of Women
In Politics?
Will Congress Contain Many Women in Years to Comet
Your Opinion Is as Good Anybody's.

TOR some nexpicable pessmstic view sweeping
the country the future Of women in politics. espe
cay candidates for high offices like Senator Representa-
tive and Governor
Women who do aspire political prefermen apparently
Congress their aim and Washington people, nearly
them political partisans, though voeless always
in the personnel Of that great legislative body
which is also the town council Of this Federal City.
Representative Pearl odied Arkansas who succeeded
her husband Congress- will again seek the position
occupies She thinks this Government should be
government and will continue such She thinks men are
probably better fitted to attend the Nations business than
women.
The female author of The Woman of It." novel on
American politics. gloOmy pessimistic about trying
to cope with in major political battles Few women
thinks the author shrewd enough play dirty politics
with men, Besides their ideals higher and cleaner than
men.
Representative Ruth Hanna Mccormick who may be the
Senator from Illinois is enthusiast over the remark
able of in public life and believes that in
twenty-five years females may control the House of Repre-
sentatves.
Owen daughters Of two of the couny greatest prac
cal politicians of past years and really know something of
the political game.
Your guess good anybodys as to what will be the
future of in politics Nobody deny that the
active women voters and the more women elected
high positions the cleaner the political game will become
The mire of the game is dheartenng to both and
should be elected to political offices and the kind Of service
they should render to the public.
There is reason why majority of should continue
sanction foul political and organizations and the
graft and corruption that go with them Continued activities
of politics may elevate the views men and
away from those leaders and organizations that
do not stand for righteous public service
Women had little experience and training in politics
and officehoding but they will get this experience Their
increased participation in politics will be for the good Of
the country.
Women may control the House of Representatives
the Senate but their representation in those bodies will
increase with political cleanliness.
The Washington times., 1929-08-02
AnticipatiOns of Relatively
By Archibald Henderson

lated in Hanover. using the peaks
Inselberg, Broken, and Hoher
Hagen, in the effort to discover a
deviation of the sum of the angles
of large triangle from two right
angles, and thus to decide between
Euclidean and non-Euclidean ge-
Ometry, in regard to validity in
space,
Today, according to the theory
of Lorentz and Fitzgerald, a NOV
ing rod, of any material whatso-
ever, is supposed to contract a
fixed percentage of it's length,
when it is moving with a certain
definite velocity in the direction
Of its length. Is this unreason.
able? Eddington says: '"The scien-
title rod is a swarm Of electrical
particles rushing about and widely
separated from one another. The
marvel is that such swarm
should tend to preserve any
definite extension. BY setting in
motion the rod with all the
little electric charges contained in
it, we introduce new magnetic
forces between the particles.
~AO0Lly lAC VI 1SIudI UdldIIC6 Is up
set, and the average spacing be-
tween the particles must alter
until a new balance is found. And
so the extension of the swarm
of .particles-the length of the
rod-alters.
This is the view of the new
electromagnetic and molecular
physics. Half a century ago, this
remarkable anticipation of the
theories of Lorentz and FitsGeraM
was advanced by the brilliant
English mathematician, Clifford.
in his Common Dense of the Exact
Sciences: Because a solid figure
appears to us to retain the same
shape when it is moved about in
the portion of space with which
We are acquainted, 1t does not
follow that the figure really does
retain its shape. The change of
shape may be either imperceptible
for those distances through which
we are able to move the figure, or
If they do take place we may
attribute them to physical causes
to heat, light or magnetism
which may possibly be mere
names for variations in the curva.
ture Of our space"
The Washington times., 1929-08-02
LISTEN WORLD!
/ Break New Soil
By Elsie Robinson

stings my hot body. The granite
sand is rough beneath my feet. 1t
is not like the soft bath in my city
tub. 1t is a harsh, icy dip that
cleans me all through.
Small brown beetles share my
pool, and very gay little green
frogs. Elder blossoms float in the
shadows. Once a thin green snake
slid across the water, circling me,
lifting a head delicate as jewel.
/ stand on 2 rock and dry my
self with a rough towel. A weary
peace corles over me. / put on a
clean shirt and eat my supper.
Then / go Up on a hill and sit
down and watch the light fade.
The hill is on the rim of a
deep bowl of valley. The shadows
gather in the valley. Purple shad-
ows, like the juice of freshly broken
grapes-they gather and rise and
brim like wine in a great cup. They
brim and overflow and slowly the
light in the sky is blotted out
1t is night
And the stars float, like elder
blossoms, on the wine Of night.
l sit alone. Ny nearest neigh
bor is miles away. The night
floods over me and, looking up,
1 see the floating stars. An owl
swooshes through the branches
of a pine. A cricket shrills. Far
off a coyote sets up his yammer'
ing bark. The echoes yelp and
answer like a pack.
o1onn-on1 nrnCnnfIJ |
feel God.
1 do not know what God Is.
l do not know what l, myself,
am.
Nor have 1 any understanding
of this riddle men call life.
But, waiting in the darkness,
I feel God.
feel His urging moving
through the trees. feel His
purpose, working in the earth.
And 1 am part of His urging
and His purpose. The Thing
that moves that oak trees sap
moves my own blood. The pro.
gram that resolved those leaves
to dust and soon again will
quicken them to grass, will pres.
entity resolve me into dust and
quicken me, perhaps, to some
new life.
l cannot think what that new
life may be. Just now / do not
care. 1 only know the night is
still-the Presence near. And 1
have served my time with one
more day.
l sleep.
The Washington times., 1929-08-02

TN working very hard these
l. days, clearing forty acres of
raw mountain land, turning it
into a camp for babies and
invalids in memory of my boy.
Great job! Blazing trails,
building shacks, laying roads,
making a dam and. of course,
writing between times. I'm
swinging picks, axes, crowbars,
ploughshares, frying pans, type
writer's and drawing pens from
daylight to dark. It's hotter than
blazes. We sweat like plough
horses. I wear a ragged pair of
linen knickerbockers. a faded
shirt, sneakers-that's all.
l eat beans, mountain bacon
and corn bread-three times
day. At dawn the smell of the
coffee is mixed with the sharp,
sweet scent of pines and the
smoke from the fire goes up in
straight, blue line through the
reddish trunks.
I do my writing under a tree
with the woodpeckers tapping the
bark above me and the quail
scuttling almost over my feet.
Squirrels stop and watch my
machine like curious children,
their heads a little on one side.
Now and then a deer comes
stepping lightly through the
chaparral and stops to look at
me. Its eyes are clear and brown
as a mountain pool with some
thing living in it's depths. Quiet
eyes that have never yet known
fear.
All day I smell the earth. 1t
is not dead, meaningless soil like
city dirt. 1t still retains the
fragrance and meaning of that
which made 1.-THE spirit of oak
leaves and manzanfta blossoms,
pine needles, acorn and wild
grapes. There is something very
living about this soil. One feels
that it is only resting between
jobs, that presently it will
quicken again into some new
form of life.
BY night / am dog tired. / am
covered with dust. The sweat has
ploughed runnels through tiny
hair is coppery with it. I go down
to a pool I have found in the creek.
1t is a, deep, secret pool entirely
ringed about with oak and willow
and alder. The grape vines have
woven a screen from limb to limb,
making cool. green cavern shot
through with flecks of golden light.
I take off my dusty clothes and
step into the pool. The cold water
The Washington times., 1929-08-02
Mussolini Annoys the Vatican
A Prussian Protest.

THE Prussan Diet approves treaty between Prussia and
the Vatican regardless Of objections by Communists The
agreement puates that in the appointment of bishops the
Prussian chapter will submit list of to the Pope who
will select three of them
The chapter will then appoint one Of the three.
The Catholic Church acquisition of real estate
from the State and will take instead 100000 marks
year. about $6720oO instead of $43200o hitherto paid
book published by Mussolin containing speeches the
agreement restoring in part the Popes temporal
power will probably be put the Index Prohbitorum Books
on the Index may not be read by Catholics
In speech Mussoin suggests that Christianity might
have amounted to much had not migrated from its birth
place. in Asia to Italy where gained strength and full de-
velopment.
Musson also emphasizes in not pleasing to the
Vatican the supremacy of his ussolnis) Italian Govern
all other powers in ITALY, the Catholic Church and
education included
The Washington times., 1929-08-02
ON TO BABELl
-Bu Herbert Knufmnll.

THE Tower Of Babel headquarters Of blood-feuds in
sularity international dsrust and diplomatic dupicity
is crumbing under the blows of tiny electric spark Radio
is wrecking it.
As the century ends so will the confusion Of tongues
Wireless its full bag Of tricks in ploygOt
world
Civilization have speech before Seven
Races may hope unite in peace purpose and progress
And wireless stands ready to underwrte that contract
Lee DeFores hardly realized that he designing death
trap for war and ignorance when he produced the first talk
ing lamp
Enlightenment and violence cannot astngy breathe the
same air.
Peoples will not resort to and reckless destruction
when they hourly grdle the globe with and views
knowledge and exchange information without
torting translations and interpreters.
Sinister politics and treacherous demagogy doomed
extinction by teevision and the loud speaker.
AS soon as all ears are privileged to gather the truths at
the primary sources-and when all men may synchronousy
witness important happenings and estimate distant conditions
with their eyes, the opportunity msead deceive
them into castpaw plays will pass
Had receiving sets been as numerous throughout France
staef the air could then have been made clearing
of misunderstandngs-f standardized language had
abled European folk to in daily
supreme holocaust might have been avoided
Discord rules solely through dvision-by setting
against class and keeping muttudes in the bindfods Of o
tion and prejudice.
The magic of radio loosenn these bandages and re-
veaing that Adamson is pretty like another
reasonable going neghbory of person. mainly in
erested in mnding his business and providing
Portable living for the family
hrewdness rckey and fair faith prevails Cape Town and
Cape Horn
The savage full of unsupported mer-a sound but
trained thinker with qualities the intellectual may well
emulate.
And the white mans medicine closer acquaintance
becomes perfectly explcabe phenomena which Jungle
trbesman may learn to command.
Marconi opened the doors of schoolroom from which
Chnanan Zulu and Nordic-peasant nomad and bushman-
will eventually graduate with identical comprehensons.
The system is ready the foundations laid-ime and
commerce will gradually complete the structure.
Meanwhile Geneva instead Of wasting precious energy
premature reformation of human nature had best
its attention its wedge and
experts to determine what particular dction coming gen.
erations shall exclusively adopt.
Then watch broadcastng clean up the that Babel
started!
The Washington times., 1929-08-02
Conversational MOnOpOlists"

Conversational MOnOpOlists"
VOU may not be popular be.
4 cause you monopolize too
much of the conversation while
you are in the society of other
people.
You may be entertaining and
there may be many subjects on
which you have considerable in.
formation.
This being true, others have
topics as dear to them in which
they are absorbingly interested
and of which they would like to
talk.
1t matters not how much YOU
have that is entertaining and
enlightening, the other fellow
wants + chance to say some.
N~SA~@S
The Washington times., 1929-08-02
ONCE-OVERS

His conversation may not be
particularly favored by you;
perhaps what you have to say is
not of special interest to him.
Most people are prone to at
tach too much Importance to
their projects that especially ap-
peal to them.
Nevertheless to force them
upon others is boresome.
While you may think they
should be glad to learn some
thing, your own opinions may
be all wrong.
often the life of the party"
is a decided bore.
Learn more, talk little and
listen much is pretty good
plan.
You will find it profitable.
And people will appreciate you
10 a greater extent ...
The Washington times., 1929-08-02

NO great discovery in science
~ is ever isolated. 1t is bound
by invisible cords with what has
gone before. Pure science is con-
stantly bringing to light discoveries
which are apparently useless"
At the time these discoveries are
made, there is no obvious
practical application ready to
hand. The discoveries are made
in~the orderly course of the pur-
suit OF truth, and not for any
Immediately practical end. Sooner
or later, a practical use of theory
will be discovered. This is the
complete justification of all re-
search in pure science. We never
know when pure science will
become "applied" science.
Research workers in pure
science often express a SORT of
contempt for applied scIence. On
one occasion, so the story goes,
after completing a highly theo-
retical piece of research the Eng
lish mathematician, H. j. S.!
Smith, exclaimed: Thank God,
there is something which can
never by any possibility have a
practical application How
could he know this? How could
any one prophecy this? They
certainly could not foresee that
the discovery would never have a
practical application.
" No thought of future applica-
ton in a practical way inspired
Bolyai and Lobatchewsky, presum-
ably, when they were developing
the non -Euclidean geometries as
sociated with their names. Prob
ably, little thought of practical
usefulness filled the minds of
Klein and Newcomb when they
were evolving their notions OF
elliptical and spherical space.
Little did Ricci and Levi-Civita,
we infer, as they were unfolding
It, dream of the extraordinary
role in a new mechanics their
theory of the absolute differential
calculus was so soon to play.
Einstein, the maker of a new
physics and a new cosmogony,
had his anticipators and forerun'
ners. We think first of Gauss,
Riemann, HelmhOltz. and Clifford.
Despite his dread ef the "outcry
% TIA 1nAOtianAs: 4SanMa triang1-
The Washington times., 1929-08-02
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Louis e. Bisch-

IT is by means Of the sense of
l. touch that we gain knowledge
as to the size, shape and texture
of bodies.
This is brought about through
delicate little nerve organs, called
"tactile corpuscles," which are to
be found all over the body in the
skin and mucous membrane. like
the lining Of the mouth.
Touch sensibility is most marked
at birth, particularly in the mouth
area.
The reason for this is plain.
Were the infant not more sensi-
tive to mouth touching than to
any other stimulus it would not
naturally take to sucking, and
therefore it's life for want of nu-
triton, would be endangered.
This touch feeling also gives
pleasure and that is why children
for several years will almost with
out thinking place all sorts of
things into the mouth. That this
instructive reaction plays an i'm
portant part in children acquiring
infections via the mouth there can
be no question.
The tactile or touch corpuscles
referred to above are oblong in
shape and measure about 1-2S0th
of an inch in length and about
1-300th of an inch in breadth.
The touch sense may be subdl-
vided into the touch sense proper,
the sense of pressure, and the
sense of temperature.
Whenever any stimulus that or
dinarily would be perceived by
touch sensibility is too strong,
especially when it may do injury
to the skin or body, then pain is
felt.
The more touch corpuscles there
are in any particular part of the
body the more acute is the sense
of touch. The hands are such
parts.
If the outermost layer of skin
is very thick then the touch cor
puscles are more covered and the
sense of touch is diminished. The
same holds true for calloused
portions like certain parts of the
hands and feet.
Plays and pictures dealing with
crook themes often show the
would.be safe cracker sandpaper-
ing the ends of the fingers. Such
a procedure would make the outer
skin thinner, bring the touch
corpuscles nearer the surface, and
improve the touch sense.
The perception of weight in
the hand or anywhere is a kind
Of touch. The harder an object
presses against the touch cor
puscles the greater is the weight
noted by the nerves and the brain.
Then there are tiny organs of
the touch corpuscles variety which
distinguish between hot and cold
tions telegraph the message to the
brain.
We often also speak of a
muscular sense" In other words,
when we want to lift something
we know by means of this sense
how much muscular force to exert.
The tactile corpuscles for this
sensation are situated in the ten
dons of the muscles and between
the finer fibers of the muscles.
Regarding the persistence of the
desire to continue stimulation of
the very delicate touch sensibility
of the mouth it may be said that
smoking indicates such persistence,
likewise gum chewing, biting or
sucking pencils and penholders.
biting the lips, finger sucking in
children. etc.
We are not all equally sensi-
tive to touch and some parts
of the body are much more sen.
sitive than otheras 4 ....
The Washington times., 1929-08-02
DO YOU KNOW
THAT

A scientific society in Sweden
has set aside fund for study of
the influence of the Gulf Stream
on weather conditions.
Sun rays most health giving
have a wave length of from 2S0
to 32O millionth part of meter
and are invisible to the eye.
The average compression ratio
for Diesel engines is at least 13 to
l. while for the average automobile
it is about to !.
A new type of tennis racquet
has been designed on which the
strings can be loosened or tight.
ened by turning a small handle at
the base.
Small hot-water pipes, buried in
walls. ceilings and floors Of the
new British Embassy, in Washing
ton, will furnish novel heating
system.
AAir liners driven by steam and
carrying 1000 passengers are
foretOld bE French scientists
The Washington times., 1929-08-02
SAYINGS OF
MRS. SOLOMON
BY Helen Rowland.
Trifles, Light As Summer Love

Trifles, Light AS Summer Love
Now that a divorce has become
almost as prevalent as vacuum
cleaners, and you can find at least
one in every family, it is no longer
a disgrace. Alas, it is not even a
distinction.
When a girl feels cold. these
days, she merely dusts little more
sun-tan powder on her back, puts
on an extra coat-of lip rouge
and the glow of vanity warns her
clear down to her toes.
Nearly twenty million pairs of
cotton stockings were sold in this
country last year. But, dear me!
There CAN'T be that many great.
t-grandmothers still living!
No woman can help a man to
live down his past by constantly
digging it up and delivering ser.
mon over it.
It will cost you only 40, cents to
get married in some parts of the
State of Iowa; but it will cost you
just as much to get Unmarried
there as anywhere else.
A man never makes up his mind
to marry: because, as long as his
mind is in state where 1t can be
''made up" he never permits the
thought of marrying to enter it.
A woman has passed the dan
gerous age" when her overwhelm-
ing desire for masculine admira-
tion has subsided into a beautiful
Indifference to a good-natured mis-
trust of all masculine flattery.
And yet - what woma ever
yearned to reach that beatific
state?
When a man choose wife as he
does a hat, for her style. shape and
snappiness, it is scarcely a week
before he begins wishing he could
rush right back and exchange her
for something more comfortable
and substantial.
Companionate marriage was a
beautifully planned scheme by
which a man could trade in the old
wife for a later model without
going on with the upkeep of the
old one. Yet, it took some women
quite a while to figure that out
before it flopped.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1929-03-11

this conNal"sccnt period. The par
onts have a tendency to spoil it 10y
giving it all sor, CT toys to play
with and delicaciss to cat.
Visitors are permitted and with
them comes excessive excitement.
For the adult visitors. as is ompha-
sized by S. A. Cohen. the child IS
asked 10 perform its special tricks
in the way Of poetry. recitation or
Other accomplishments.
Thus the period Of conlalcsccuc"
is - many instances such that the
child is not given opportunity to
mako a complete recovery and SUI
fers d relapse.
The most important step in the
treatment of a conNaI"sccni child Is
rest. Such rest means mental AS
well as physical relaxation with i
minimum expenditure Of cp"rry.
Besides the sleep that it HAS at
night. it should hay" ono hour in
every three during the day.
The intervals may be occupied
cardboard games or other light
rccreations. II the weather is fine.
the child may hay" an hour ont
doors in an armchair and receive
occassr.l doses Of sunlight
The diet must not be such as Will
load a special burden on the dg"s-
tive organs. but SHOULD include &c
reals and other foods which Will
aid energy and provid" fuel for
tissue. A warm bath should be
given daily and the child permitt"l
10 rest after the bath.
IT is partie ularly important that
the child be kept from possihl"
chill. On the other hand. the dan
ger OF overclothing is great sine"
its causes perspiration and weaken
ing.
The slightest sign OF fatigue. loss
Of appetite. or irrita bility should b"
the occasion for more rest and
carcful ate ntioN
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1929-03-11
Talks 1o&22
- Parents
THE HAI;JI or EAjItI:L

BY Alice Judson Pcale =.
No child should be allowed 70 fail
continuously. for constant failure
breeds the habit OF failure.
When the school child brings
home series OF bad reports when
parents and teachers unite in con
demning his class work. his hon'
work. his behavior. when there is
not one bright spot on his horizon.
things are bound to go from lad to
worse. He comes TO think Of him
self as a good for nothing and every
fresh experience is sure to bear ost
bis estimate of himself He be-
comes sunk in hopeless interiori>
which blighis every effort in the
right direction.
When, therefore. the childs be-
haNior is such as to bring him into
disapproyal on all sides, it is es-
pecially important that he should
succeed and for which he may be
praised. He must be helped 10 excel
i'll something. in order that he may
build the self confidence which will
enabIc him to attack the situations
which are difficult for him.
The boy. who fails in his class
work should perhaps have his cur
ricu]um broad en"d to include manu-
al training. art or dramatics. If his
conduct at home Is unsatisfactory j.
may help to permit him to join club
activities in which he will be helped
TO learn some of the lessons of social
existence which frequently are SO
fard to acquire at home.
For just a. failure breeds failure
so success breeds success. When he
has found something which he
does well. which brings him approx
al and recognition, he is far more
likely &c attack with good spirit the
things that are hard for him. In
checking the habit Of failure it is
Wise to bear in mind that an Ounc,
Of praise is worth a pound of dis
approval