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The Washington times., 1929-04-15
BEGGARS ON HORSEBACK
In Herbert Kaufman

1REEK philosophy from which inherit practically all
NJ we know about human nature, observed that men, mad
with power, invariably destroy themselves AL o. history
verfies that truth
Wherever authority has turned shyock and exacted the
last pound Of flesh from the civil body revolt has answered
extremity Those who hope to serve must stick TO
moderate courses
Popular government is pledged rule paternay and with
due respect for individual rights
When its processes oppressive inoleraby autocrac
loses democratic character and becomes ohgarchy
under class group control
Congress through blind and crngng obedience TO the die
tate of prohibition fanatics invites the suspicion Of 80 pam
derng to special Enthusiastically betaying Constu-
tional obligation preserve its independence and the
birthrigfts placed under it's legislative protection.
BY legally exaggratng msdemeanors into flones and i'm
posing penalties dsproporonate to the ofnse the House
and Senate have put such bithrights in jeopardy.
They have the Voead Act and its amendments
with opportunities for official coercion and Federal brutality
''abhorrent TO every instinct Of Liberty"
They have recreany failed by statute to limit or discipline
the method of enforcement.
Consequently, there is freedom left land or sea-
Private yachts arbitrarily bombarded and autOmob
going about their business halted under rifle fire.
Homes illegally invaded, slain and American
citizens dragged from bed and driven sick and hahad 70
death
The silence prohibition leaders upon the situation leaves
the country alternative but to believe that their sypaes
are with any Cossack to end the making Of wine the
brewing of beer or the sale of liquor
These United States appalled, by the openly avowed amb
ton Of prominent zealot to restore life for pint laws and
increase the rgors Of Act wondering whether
alcohol or reckless political power the dangerous
source of drunkenness.
The AntSaloon League intoxicated with success would
have think when speaks that listening to ow
Master Voice
The Beggar Horseback VIGOROUSLY rides with bloody
spur-and to fall
Incorporate morality just obnoxious nation the
immoralities Of intemperance
VOseadm holds its purpose and insists upon robbing
families Of support turning children into charges upon the
charities and changing useful respected citizens into felons
by incng compulsory and proraced imprisonment for the
mere possession Of hip flask then might just well
enforcement appropriations collect the excise taxes and
let John Barleycorn graduate criminals.
Copyright 1879 By the Daily Mirror
The Washington times., 1929-04-15
Annual Festival for This City

WASHINGTON the most beautiful city the world the
w attractive spot to the people Of the United States
does than any other city to bring here its millions Of
admirers.
Our people are accustomed thinking that the Nations
citizens will here anyway that they have seriously
attempted nauguae great annual events to draw visitors
The matter finally receiving attention, however following
suggestions of this newspaper The idea obtaining favor
is the holding of annual cherry blossom fete
Business others who advocating an Cele.
braton doing the right thing and before interest de-
ctywide movement should get under Roadway to
insure festival of kind All of people and all Of
trade and civic bodies should be brought together that
success may be assured
Cherry Blossom time in Washington beautiful but there
other of the that would just suitable
In May and June trees are in full foliage flower gar
dens in bloom and all nature smiles kindly this mag
nificent city.
We want the Nation to Washington when it is most
pleasing although is panorama of delight at all times
Little Winchester Va about to hold its annual Apple
Blossom Festival Last year 10000 visitors went there This
year the number will probably reach $4,000 How many vs
tors would here for great annual sven9 Probably
100000.
The Washington times., 1929-04-15
LISTEN WORLD!

By Elsie Robinson

I'm different. I'm so sensitive.
Things hurt me worse than they
do Ellen. And / can't throw them
off so easy. I'm not as well, either.
I get tired SO quick. And I can't
mix with people the way she does.
People don't understand me. They
don't try to-"
On and on Martha goes with her
endless chain of complaints and
excuses. But she alone is to
blame.
SHE HAS NEVER LEARNED
HOW TO FACE LIFE--HOW
TO FEEL ABOUT LIFE-AND,
AS A CONSEQUENCE, SHE rs
GETTING NOTHING BUT MIS-
cry OUT OF LIFE. When she
changes her own attitude, life will
become an entirely different affair.
That is true of all of us.
We cannot always command the
circumstances of our lives, but we
can always command our own at
titude toward those circumstances
And by commanding our own atti-
tude we can determine our happi-
ness or our unhappiness.
The worst calamity in the world
can't lick you if you have the right
attitude.
And the most trivial happening
will make you take the count If
you haven't.
Attitude-that's the greatest de-
termining factor for veal or wee
ia human behavior.
We spend too much time in
teaching children how to do
things
And far too little in teaching
them how to feel about things.
It's futile to teach a child how
to use a hammer, a pen or a brush,
unless you first teach him how to
use himself. How to handle his
own attitude. -
For his attitude is the tool by
which he will carve out his des-
tiny.
The Washington times., 1929-04-15
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Louis e. Bisch-

A THOUGH the heart beat il
"A something everybody thinks
about at times. or wonders about,
or even worries about, few per-
sons, unless they have studied
physiology, understand just how
the heart works.
The heart is made UP Of mus-
cular tissue. This muscle il not
like that of the biceps in the arm,
for instance 1t is not so-called
striped or voluntary muscle. Nor
Is 1t of the unstriped or involun-
tary type. like the walls Of the
blood vessels or the intestines.
Heart muscle Is a kind Of mus
Gle peculiar to itself alone.
For example, heart muscle can
not contract a little. only part
ways as it were. When it con-
tracts at all it contracts to its
maximum ability. It is all or
nothing with the heart.
Furthermore. contractions OF
the heart are rhythnical. One
contraction follows another in
regular order provided no abnor-
mality Of the heart exists.
Third, these contractions are au-
tomato. That is, they occur be-
cause of some peculiar ability
which this muscular tissue pos
sesses. The contraetions are not
dependent upon nerves or upon
the blood which flows through its
chambers.
Proof that the heart does not
depend upon the nervous system
for its contractile property is the
fact that the heart will continue
to beat for some time after its
removal from the body.
The character of the beat, how.
ever, is regulated by two sets Of
nerves.
One set known as the vagus or
penumogastric nerves runs down
from the base of the brain. These
nerves also run to the lungs and
digestive organs.
The pneumogastric nerves slow
the action Of the heart.
The other set Of nerves come
from the so-called sympathetic
nervous system which is in front
OF the spine.
These nerves increase the ra-
pidity of the heart and the force
of the beat.
This explains why nervous peo-
pie suffer rapid heart and loud
heart. In effect, it is palpitation
of the heart.
The sympathetic nervous sys.
tenn, you see, responds directly
to all emotional states such as
fear, joy, sadness, excitement. etc.
The sounds of the heart resem-
biz the word 'Iubb-dup."
The first sound, or ''lubb," is
a rather long and booming sound.
The second sound, or dup" is
short, sudden and sharp.
These sounds are produced by
the contraction of the heart and
the closing Of certain valves as
the blood is forced around from
one chamber to another.
These sounds, which physicians
recognize as meaning certain kinds
of leaks" in the heart, are com.
monty spoken Of as heart ''mur-
murs."
The trained ear OF the doctor
can tell from these altered sounds
which valves are not closing
tightly.
The Washington times., 1929-04-15

(WHICH has the greatest in
w fluence on the success or
failure of a human life
Money? Talent: Position? Pull?
Appearance?
None of these.
A MANS OWN ATTITUDE
TOWARD LIFE HAS THE
GREATEST INFLUENCE ON
HIS SUCCESS OR FAILURE.
I'm thinking of two young mar
ried women Of my acquaintance
Ellen and Martha.
They are about the same age
and in practically the same cir
cumstances. They're equally
pretty-equally healthy. Each
one has a child and kindly, hard
working husband. Their lives
might be said to run in the
same pattern--yet they are get
ting entirely different returns
from those lives.
pride and pleasure.
Martha is getting dissatisfac.
ton, resentment. self-pity.
They are getting different re"
turns from life not because their
circumstances differ but because
their individual attitudes differ.
They are facing the same life but
they are facing it in different
ways.
And each enc gets what she IL
looking for.
Ellen gets food for her interest
Martha gets fuel for her sus-
picion-
Ellen's life is a success-Mar-
tha's life is a failure. Yet Mar
tha's own attitude is entirely re-
sponsible for this.
But this Martha would indig.
nantly deny.
ELLEN has all the luck" she
says. "She has one OF those
happy-go-lucly natures and every
thing seems to come her way. But
The Washington times., 1929-04-15
Hearst Papers Advocate:

|. An agreement OF Engtsh-speahsng peoples to pre-
seTVe peace among themselves and to promote the
peace of the U0rld.
2. Proportional representation the United States
Senate no State to haze less than taVo Senator's.
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
p0TtionHnent IN the House of Representatives.
3. separate Department of the Army of the Many
and Of the Air Forces all united under Secretary
of National Defense
Federal action to the limit of Federal poavers to
abolish aterGcy in the United States under Score
tGry of Education.
s. Election of Congress IN November Installation ON
the LIST of January follo0ing. Inauguration of the
President 1st of January ne1t after November
election.
The Washington times., 1929-04-15
Why Europe Laughs
They Lend Us OUR Money.

TITLE spectators that have imaginary profits and
- themselves wiped will be interested this picture
the money situation.
Gigantic lent in Wall Street TO- is 90
cent by FOREIGN lenders.
Thus Of the billions that this country lent Europe
at low interest rates much Of which will get back
now lent here in Wall Street at usurious rates.
That foreigners THAT able money
their markets at 4 per cent and less smile the
queer things Americans do We're easy mark people
The Washington times., 1929-04-15

That soulful look in a mans
eyes, when he gazes at you, may
mean that he thinks you wonder
ful-or it may mean merely that he
has Just thought of something
wonderful about HIMSELF.
The Washington times., 1929-04-15
These MOrtals
What Fools They Be.

American citizen went to his regular booegger and
bought "a of rye guaranteed" BE took two small
drinks, suffered all night.
Then he sent sample of the whskey' to his regular
chemist The chemist sent him analysis saying Keep
away from this stuff, it's deadly"
The booggers customer fortunately had taken enough
to kill million Americans run such risk daily Why?
What's the use? Do they NEED wood alcoholic
The Washington times., 1929-04-15
ONCE-OVERS
Do You Conserve Timer.

Physical development should be
Systematically planned.
Mental work of some sort is
safeguard against early old age.
Those who do physical work or
play without study or brain exer-
else regularly, and slowly and
steadily increasing the mental ex-
ercise, grow old a great deal faster
than the brain worker.
So making your feet and your
tongue go fast during spare time
is not the best way to have good
time, after all.
Mental advancement for the
hard physical workers, and physi-
cal exercise for the one who
studies or does head work as a
steady job, should be the first
thought in planning spare time.
The Washington times., 1929-04-15
The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

Do you know:
What mayor Of Buffalo became President of the United
States?
2. Who is called the Bard Of Avon?
Who famous for advocating the retention of maiden
by married women?
Whose synonymous with that of liar?
5. Who .Jane Eyre?
Up to 1861 what were safest best Of
artificial light?
Match correctly: - - =
g. Charles Dickens Crossing the Bar
y Clyde Fitch Spell of the Yukon
10. Robert Service OTr Mutual Friend
IL Alfred Tennyson Highland Mary
IL. Robert Burns Reau Rrummei
Complete these titles
49, "Abou Ben -" by Hunt
Il THE Concord -" bv Emerson.
4 THE Deacon's IS" BY Holmes.
Answers on Magazine Page
The Washington times., 1929-04-15
TO You ever budget your spare

TO You ever budget your spare
~ time?
You think that is silly. do you?
Free time" is just not busy
time" to you, perhaps, and you
never plan how to spend it but
take whatever comes.
Do you have so many social
functions that it crowds your
leisure?
And then you are tired when it
comes to your daily work sehed-
1lie.
Isn't this your case nearly every
weekend?
Why, don't you plan your spare
time to make some sort Of ad-
Varcement?
Health should come first, of
course.
The Washington times., 1929-04-15
SAYINGS Of
MRS. SOLOMON
BY Helen Rowland
UToMAN is, somehow, always
w misunderstanding" man.

WoMAN is, somehow, always
w misunderstanding" man.
She Is always either crediting
him with something or blaming
him for something that he never
even thought of doing. Always
reading some subtle meaning in his
glance or his words that he never
even dreamed of putting there.
She is constantly interpreting
or misinterpreting his little ways
or his carleess little acts, or his
most casual remarks. No wonder
bachelors are so CAREFUL. And
married men are so nervous!
That soulful look in a mans
eyes, when he gazes at you, may
mean that he thinks you wonder
ful--or it may mean merely that he
has just thought of something
wonderful about HIMSELF.
That longing glance he casts
your way may mean that he is
longing to take you in his arms
only that he is secretly longing
for his dinner or for cocktail or
for the company to go home.
vx,, -. ..vs.,,s,. e,r<i.,A e,iet1 mo ~
be a sigh of love--or 1t may be
only sigh Of well-being. Or a
sigh Of boredom.
That ring on the telephone may
signify that he is dying to see
you; or 1t may be just an after
thought which came to him when
he had rung up several other
girls and failed to get them.
Those flowers may be his way
of Saying it, subtly and grace
fully-or just a polite expression
of his appreciation of your hos
pitality, or bid for an invita-
ton to your next party. Or a
pretty little gesture for dramatic
effect.
That long, intimate ''confes-
sion" of his hopes and dreams and
ideals may be a sacred confidence
or it may be only sign that
he is yearning to talk about him
self. A woman always suspects a
man of meaning twice as much
as he says whereas he usually
means only half of what he says.
Woman is the weaker vessel,
just stopping over with sentiment.
She is always crediting a man
with. emotions that he never felt
and intentions that he never had.
Even when he beats her, she
thinks it's because he cloves
her So"
Alas, when a woman looks into
a mans eyes she sees her own
thoughts and emotions mirrored
there: and she is always kidding
herself and jollying herself and
fooling herself.
Who said men were deceivers
ever? They don't HAVE to be
deceivers. They can just act
perfectly natural-and the woman
will deceive herself!
The Washington times., 1929-04-13
ne COwZ Returns, Also NeW Mystery Thriller
JOY
TELLS HOW
IT'S DONE

Perseverance, and love Of her
profession have been the prime
factors in placing Leatrice JOY,
who Is now appearing in Fox
Films strong Boy" showing this
week at the Fox Theater, In the
positIon she now holds in the
motion picture Industry. She has
always had ? passion for motion
pictures, and her several stage
appearances have been merely In
cidenta1 in her progress toward
the goal Of her ambition.
During Miss joys childhood,
the spacious attic OF her New
orleans home provided her with
q stage, props and dressing room.
It was here most of her playtime
was spent. Old, forgotten, Mardi
Gras costumes were brought to
light. and with the gleeful CO.
operation of neigrborhood young
sters she started then and there
on the road to dramatic success.
Even as a child her exceptional
dramatic talent was much in evi.
dence. and her portrayal of parts
in New Orleans theaters. or OF
characters she discovered in the
course Of her extensive reading.
amused her mother, who was al.
ways encouraged by her daugh.
ter's childish desire for acting.
A little known motion picture
company decided to center produc-
tion in New Orleans and adver-
tised for an actress. Miss Joy.
then little more than a child, re-
sponded and was selected IN spite
Of the fact that scores of other
potential Sarah Bernhardts were
given auditors
Her next attempt was more sue
cegsful. She was given leading
role by Gcldwyn. and carried her
part so well that she played sew
eral good. roles. It was one Of
these pictures which attracted
the attention of Cecil B. DeMille.
The Washington times., 1929-04-13
FAMED OPERA
STARS HERE
NEXT WEEK

The curtain rises on the far
famed Metropolitan opera in WASH
ington on Wednesday of next week.
Nothing can rival the truly bril-
liant scene Of grand opera and its
social spiendor. The National Capit
tai il to be zen fete" for three
days. One might call the occasion
q festival They do in European
centers, where such rare casts az
Signor Gatti-CaEazza is sending us
would bring Americans far over
seas to hear singers, orchestra, the
huge drama that lies behind this
emotional art expression.
''Manon," with gay lifting dance
music, the fam aus gavotte, and
most graceful of tender love songs,
opens the season on Wednesday
evening at 8 at Polls Theater,
Not in any opera does, the flower
Of love.at. .first-sight-without the
aid OF love potion blossom so
suddenly as here. Fine raptures
bring fine arias, anu this hasty
love leads to an elopement and the
lovers are off to gay Paris and gay
scenes in 'aris.
Two short operas ciammed full
of lurid, tempestuous, music that
needs all OF Mr.. Gatti- -Casazza's
re artists give 1t utterance;
make up the double bill for Thurs.
day evening. IT should be Stun
ningly sung, while over all the
orchestra brings riches that are all
most as potent as the voices9
"Cavalleria RusticanA' and "Pagh!
ucci'' hold wealth Of song, both
of them. 1T Is the very warp and
woof of grand opera.
Verdi's masterpiece FAidaR
closes the too brief season given at
the Saturday Matinee Regally
sdmptuous, the Met" Fgives this
opera a rare setting to add to the
glory OF the voices, the wealth OF
the orchestra. Aida" is called one
of the finest books" ever written
for an operate composer 1T has
1r its setting the Court OF the
Pharaohs at a time when Egypt
was at constant strife with her
neighbor, Ethiopia.
The Metropolitan opera season
In Washington promises to be.
huge artistic success and a brill
liant social event. Tickets for the
operas are now on sale at Mrs,
Wilson. .Greene's concert bureau in
Droop's. Gsa
The Washington times., 1929-04-13
Virginia Thomas, of
Atlanta, HELPS Clara

The Georgia invasion of Cali.
fornia is still continuing. but the
most recent victory was femi.
nine one.
Virginia Thomas, whose home
town is Atlanta, Ga. was chosen
as the eighth girl for Clara Bows
gang" In her al1-talking pictures
"The Wild Party now on the
Earle screen.
Miss Thomas, who was recently
with the Marian Morgan dancers.
attended the Westlake School for
Girls in Los Angeles and the
Washington Seminary in the
East. She has played in numer.
ous motion pictures in the past
year, usually as a dancer.
She has gay and peppy
school girl role in THE Wild
Party" and her scintillating
Southern beauty greatly enhances
supporting cast
The Washington times., 1929-04-13
NOVARRO BOY
IN A NAVY
SETTING
o,lt your uniforms"

Fade out your uniforms"
.Take the shine off your boots, !"
"when in doubt--appIy cylinder
OH"
These were the cardinal rules
for Ramon Novarro's wardrobe
when he arrived at North Island,
Pacific Coast naval aviation sta
ton, to play the navy aviator in
"The Flying Fleet, his new
sound synchronized picture, for
Metro-G Goldwyn-Mayer. which Is
now playing at Loew's Palace.
Gone were the gorgeous uni.
forms and spotless attire OF many
OF Ramon's most romantic roles.
The first thing he found out was
that the unwritten rules of the
service wouldn't allow them. He
said afterwards:
when naval aviators get new
flying uniforms, they carefully
have them laundered several
times, or until the seams show
white. New boots are oiled to
take .tha shinc off them. The
reason, of course, is that one gets
an oil vapor bath in a plane some
times and so shiny boots and
pressed new uniforms are frowned
upon 50 that the service garb
won't look conspicuous.
Novarro plays naval aviator
in a sensational series of sky
adventures. staged with the aid
OF naval ayiators and filmed from
the skies by camera planes.
George Hill, director Of Tell 1t
to the Marines" and "The Cos
Sacks directed the new film. with
a notable cast that includes Anita
Page, Gardner James, Ralph
Graves, Sumner Getchell, Edward
Nugent, Alfred Allen, and others
of note.
Air evolutions with as many as
two hundred naval planes in the
clouds at once, a parachute leap
from a blazing seaplane, the
wrecking of plane at sea and
thrills on the airplane carrier
Saratoga are among the dramatic
highlfghts in the new picture
which is said to set a new record
for filmed air thrills. It includes
also a closeup of Novarro's fly
ing training that Is a course In
aviation. conducted by navy ex--
perts, via the screen.
The Washington times., 1929-04-13

Francesca Z da Rimini has al.
ways been on my list, along with
Juliet and Melisande. At last
the some day has come for
francesca
Juliet was played by Miss Cowi
five years ago. The following
season she appeared in "Pelleas
and Melisande" in New York.
Last spring she gave severh spes
cial matinee performances ] OF
Francesca, and this season defi'
nitely adds to her classic roper.
tory another historic role.
What makes a role a great
role?" Miss Cowl was asked.
The literary quality of the
text, the dramatic force OF the
plot and-and the basic truth .of,
the theme she explained. 'The
story OF Paolo and Francesca ia
one of the fundamental love
stories of the world. There are
literally hundreds of versions.
Dante wrote 1t first In the In.
ferho,' and since then it has been
re.told again and again. Painters
and musicians, as well as drama.
lists, have been inspired by the
innocent beauty of this thirteenth
century daughter of Fate. In the
galleries of Europe are many
paintings of her; the most famous
are by Watts, Cabanel, and In
gres. Tchaikowsky has paid tri.
butte to Francesca in his great
symphonic poem. And the stage,
In our own twentieth century,
has seen at least 10 dramatic ver'
sions of her story"
Duse. Miss CowI recalled, in.
cluded in her American repertory
tour in 1902. Francesca play
written for her by d'Annunzio.
Sarah Bernhardt played a version
made for her by Il. Marion CraW-
ford. The Francesca da Rimini, ;"
written by I'll. G. Boxer, was first
played in 1873 by Lawrence Bar
rett with Marie Wainwright in
the Francesca role, and Otis Skin
ner as PaoIo. This version was
revived in 1901 by Mr.. Skinner.
The Stephen Phillips version.
which Miss Cowl is using, is tin-
, doubtedly the most widely known,
having now taken it's place as one
of the classics Of English litera.
ture on account of the poetic
beauty Of the text. "Paolo and
Francisco" was first produced in
! London In 1902. Its last presen.
station In America was in 1905 by
III. B. Irving and Dorothea Baird.