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The Washington times., 1929-02-27
Telephone Company AS Aid to
Law Breakers

OUR local telephone company is revealed an
~ whiting aid law breakers especially booeggers and
hand book makers but declines off service unless there
is proof that it is serving people of this stripe
This simply another revelation before the Gibson SUBJ
committee of the House which will probably find remedy
in law otherwise though the telephone company is i'm
portant medium of communication between patrons and
owners of law breaking establishments
The telephone company gives connections large numbers
of people who do not want their listed in telephone h
recoes Some Of them do not be bothered by the
of humanity Others do not for the annoy
Their phone numbers known only to selected few
Booegges hand book makers and other law volators
following this practice in instances having half
dozen lines running into their establishments.
The telephone company, public utility deny
service applicants any than street company
could eject booegger but the street service open
affair with secrecy about it. The telephone company
fuses disclose to policemen other law agencies the
of unlisted subscribers that would subject them
to court action.
The company is not detective and does not keep
track of its unlisted subscribers Applicants
for service do not disclose their business.
So what's going be done about it? the telephone
pany positively knew is serving law violaors would
be subject to prosecution charges Of couon but it
definitely know this be subject court action it refuses
service How is is aiding law breakers unless
the Police Department furnish undenable proof In
specific instances?
STILL there ought be arrangement that reduces the
opportunities of criminals for using public utility to
mote unlawful activities.
The Washington times., 1929-02-27
SOME DUBIOUS DANES
.Ru Herbert Kaufman.

PROMINENT Manhattan illustrator doesn care to be
minded of the he pot boiled Old Masters In Boue
St. Jacques attic while paying his way through Julien
Those were the days when Bernard Naudin was chpng
Provencal songs in converted stable and pouring since
abandoned ambition Of the French KeVom
Ition
of students then now fed the wolf with such
scraps opportunity tossed them And then now oppo
tunty usually tossed them commissions spurious paintings
There sixty thousand fake corots at arge-and lot
of 'em in American possession.
you Murllo, ten chances to one 1t isn't rea.
Most of the works imputed to medieval artists are tainted
with suspicion-or restoration. .
Italy is annually secured for sixteenth and seveneentn
century daubs the fabric of which scraped ana u1eo
by counerfeer adept all the color secrets and varnn
formulas of the periods and schools they mimic
Experienced coecto-and collectors learn only from ex
perience-never buy except through responsible firms ana
under their guarantees
| And these experts aren't infalible
The Dossena sculptures which passed the scrutiny OF mn
curatos everywhere suggest how more cherished
marbles may be the product of rogue chisels.
Present vercation methods, including the Xray weren't
existent when the Metropolitan the Louvre and the Tate were
first stocked.
blunderbusses daily shooting rmhOles into Dutch
Belgian oak signify anything considerable percentage
of early furniture wearing roots short while
back
Sir Joseph Duveen professional skepticism the a
tude of born cync but the fruit of many and bitter en-
counters with forgery.
The omniscient Dr. Bode recollection clear,
stamped with authenticity bust Of apparent Renaissance
origin It might yet be hobnobbing with immortalities,
Bayswater modeer hadn't blurted the imposture.
The cachet OF Lao long supreme arbter on Gothic sur
vvas lost its droit de derner c when scandal revealed
that the house not above dabbling in falsities
The eer that rang through Europe when Levanne gold
smith confessed the authorship of certain Christian
crowns, is still quaking newspaper files
Putting it mildly fifty cent of Arts dearest treasures
of doubtful extraction and inaccurate atrbuton.
Phidia is credited with satuary he Rubens
robbed Peters glory pay Pauls ndugences by signing
of apprentice portraits And Blaelock didn't
touch brush to thousand landscapes bearing his signature
LA Belle Ferroniere not the only ustriOus dame in
search of birth certificate. The Mona Lisa and Gains
borough ducheses have been confused with bastard sisters
too.
fool and his money partedwhen they begin to
banker for painted ladies.
tcopyriehL by the psiy Herbet kaufmanl
The Washington times., 1929-02-27
WAVES IN ETHER
BY Garrett P. Serviss-

n this dcy of radio sOondes certain there
tso freely confess that is too deep for ee s" SS"
yHE "depth" is deceptive like that of eehaded pool Of
water which may bottomess although in reality but
few inches Deep Nothing is ncomprehensible science
YOU keep metaphysics away The greatest of all decepons
that f the who anybody understands what
he talking There be the subinest truth on the
his speculaon but it trout that ne cannot land on
this side Of Jordan.
PHYSICAL science itself has make assumptions which it
cannot verify except the key to fit the lock- At the
bottom of the radiation theory holding science
it's hug conception that lately has taken two opposite Shapes
In one the Oldest pictures the universe containing medium
called the ether Of which is r d Th Sea e
It is no difficult understand such unduatiOns or waves waves
% may % t Be DGsa% pnsBs Ba
Io ov Is 'S bop e Ourselves with It. simply
the arise .H in .ss ad Of " y.ca anResS %
Their great @ sons g other Ss sGss We may
ehesve turning lamp BY causing shock eeere IN ae
ether BY Tbs cISprs cS%ays an in general from
come come td from 9e sea Hu 'DSns as
fs ciharaetestic teri difference distinguishes the various
forms OF hs Il IsVt Is the same with although
q ssss donessd 9 The
to both the Of vibration from given IRE e
TO waves s b which effect light
'SSs' 80 iFe9i 81 as. ii sec
several O1es Of ARE and
waves
They many times slower and there
instead
e onoes lght-waves 50O00th part of
inch the longest wireless ertzan) miles in
length and the many although there shorter
Hertzian wireless less than inch in length
On the other gwaves the frequency increases and
the waveengh until in the recently discovered comc
undulations reaching thousand billions
second Between these light gamut the Xrays which
are frequency still much slower than the
ray And all these infinitely varied apparently
d through space the velocity identical with
the velocity of light.
mechanical management of the Heran waves in radio
e cannot be discussed here The important thing remember
frequency being able them
mysterious than the ability of start sound calcu
lated to fill HE soul with delight.
The Washington times., 1929-02-27
How Slow a Thing Is Man
And What Wonderful Machine He Carries Around
in His Head

Ill our readers especially fathers Of promising boys will
a be interested in the following paragraphs written by
Crook eighteen years DID, junior in the University of Texas
The young did not write these paragraphs for publ
cation idea they be published But here they
are and well worth publishing, because they PROMOTE
THOUGHT.
"HOD sIOuO is man! All Of his servants are much
faster than he himself
"We GUnlk, run, and then see, When
ride in automobile, hOO sLOW We GOere.
"We reUel in the speed Of the automobile, and a
GUhirr overhead reminds that merely cr0Ol
ing compared to the Girship abOVe.
"Yet that airship could easily be oVert0ken by
bullet, and that bullet is snail compared to the
speed Of radio WGOe.
"This radio UaUc, force of nature controlled by
man, approaches the speed Of natures greatest
bOOn-light.
"EOen these are creeping things compared to the
electrOnic and atomic motions OF the foundation Of
matter. viii eUer harness these as he has, in
measure, the radio uOrOcs?
"Yct man knosUs about all these, shouting the
greatness Of his mind But eOen his mind is slO'0.
"He has realized this and has made machines to DO
much Of his thinking for him in much faster and
more accurate manner.
"The greatest mathematician cannot be compared
to an adding machine, handwriting cx-
pert Dre legibv swiftly tvpst t0tth the
aid Of a typeWriter
The father Of the young man who the above para
graphs weown lawyer, head Of the Texas Bar Associa
on will agree with the editor that there much to be said
on the side of Man, against machinery.
Railroad train automobile and flying machine excel in
sueed But MAN CREATES THEM Somewhere in the dark
corex or top SOIL that the cold gray brain sub
stance in some particle Of brain matter perhaps smaller than
the head Of pin everything worth while is created
The adding machine can do what the mind of cannot
DO But the mind Of created the adding machine and
will continue creating things infinitely more wonderful
# you could look down at ant crawling near your feet
and know that tiny creature had measured YOUR weight
and could study continents the would
s.What marvellous creature" The looks down
little human ants fastened this earth by the power of grav
tation And seeing U.S. creatures that ARE ABLE
weigh the sum- to it, creatures that not only measure
the distance to sum- but distances between this
earth and the fixed stars and reaching out the ocean
Of space photograph and study other universes million light
years away
The Washington times., 1929-02-27

BE-1929!
BF-NOW!
Snap out Of the old family pho
tograph aIubum and get into the
game.
Face the world that's around
you today
A buzzing, blazing. booming,
hlaring world filled with automo-
biles and aeroplanes, radios and
long-distance phones
A snappier. leaner world. with
most of it's illusions knocked out
by the war-a world that has
wiped it's chin and squared its jaw
and given the ha-ha to a lot of
old sentimental hooey-
A world in which people have
to keep going or get left
And in which youth is assailed
by lavish luxury and high pow.
cred whoopee from every side.
Wicked? Shocking? Hard
hearted? Maybe. That has been
said of every age. But whether
it's good or whether it's bad
IT'S YOUR AGE. AND YOU'RE
LIVING IN IT RIGHT NOW. so
BE YOUR AGE!
Stop wheezing about some i'm
possible Utopia which you think
ought to come
Stop whining back to the times
when you had 25 cents week
spending money and the only
social events were the annual
Sunday school picnic and Christ
mas tree-and perhaps a patent
medicine show -
Wake up and realize that you're
in world where 1S-year-old
youngsters are earning SIS a
week, and are aIlured by any one
of thousand amusements every
night.
TUNE INTO THE NEW WAVE
LENGTH, BUDDY!
SNAP INTO THE NEW
TEMPO!
STOP BEING AS OLD AS
YOUR MEMORIES.
BE AS YOUNG AS YOUR OP.
PORTUNITIES!
BE 1929!
BE YOUR AGEi
The Washington times., 1929-02-27
The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

Do you know:
In the battle of Gettysburg?
Rome what given professional fighters
who fought n the the people?
g. What President served in office but month?
a. What fables?
Who administers oath of office to the President?
the Betsy Ross where the first flag
made?
What amendment has to do with income taxes?
Match opposites:
g. Harmful Vigor
Penurv
TO- Disourteous Wealth
H. Infirmty Beneficial
Private Polite
Complete these quotations.
49, "As YOU --- Y'are like reap "--Buter
IA "By their shall know them."-Bible.
Is "John Browns body lies mouldring in the grave
His - marching on."-Bishop
q Fiction Page
The Washington times., 1929-02-27
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Louis E.. Bisch-

nICkETS is net a bone disease
IN as so many mothers think.
Ricketts, is a disease of nutrition
in which changes in the bones
take place.
To emphasize this point is really
necessary. Mothers are apt to
think that the bones must be
treated, at the same time over
looking the real cause, the diet.
Unless the diet IS corrected rickets
remains uncured.
Rickets is also known as ra-
chitis.
1t is specially prevalent in chill
dren between the ages of six
months and two years.
The symptoms and signs that
reveal the presence of rickets.
are, unfortunately. slow and in.
sidious in development. That Is,
mothers are not likely to discover
that something is wrong with
the child until the disease has
advanced considerably and been
present for several weeks or
months.
A very early change in the
child who Is developing rickets is
sweating of the head.
The same may be said OF un.
usual restlessness and tossing
about at night in an otherwise
fairly quiet sleeper.
Constipation is another early
sign and is a feature of the dis
ease throughout its course.
One may say. In fact. that II
sweating of the head. restlessness
and constipation persist, ricIets
should always be suspected.
A very curious hone change
takes place fairly early in rickets
which is often spoken of as the
"rachitic rosary This is a kind
of heading of the ribs, growing
OF small knobs or nodules at the
places where the bony part OF
the rib joins with the softer
cartilage. To use ones imagina-
ton a little, a line of these on
each side in the front OF the
chest looks like a string OF beads
or a rosary.
In ricketts,, also. the head be-
comes large and square-looking.
The top is flat and the forehead
looks very prominent.
Among other bone deformities
that may occur in ricketts, how
leggedness may be mentioned.
Occasionally. however, a so-called
"knock-knee" condition results.
Children with ricketts, are very
nervous and irritable. Muscular
spasms may occur. Definite con-
vulsions are quite common.
Anemia is almost always
present.
Rickets, of and by itself. IS
not a fatal disease, but it does
predispose to other infant dis
eases since it devitalizes the entire
system.
The cure of ricketts, is a ques-
tion of weeks and months.
As mentioned in the beginning
il is the diet which is at fault
and usually. also. the general
hygiene of the patient.
The trouble is that fat is lack
ing in the food in particular and,
to a lesser degree, protein also.
A fat baby, therefore, one who
is getting more than enough of
carbohydrates (st tarches and
sugars) may develop rickets. 1t
may also occur, and for the same
reasons, in infants who are breast
fed too long.
In correcting the diet a physi-
clan knows best how to fit it to
individual requirements but, gen.
orally speaking, such foods as
milk and cream, eggs, red meats
and fresh fruits are to be stress.
ed, as these abound in the fats
and proteins which the rachitic
child needs. ~
The Washington times., 1929-02-27
Hearst Papers Advocate:

l. An agreement of English-speaking peoples to pre-
serve peace among themselves and to promote the
peace of the scorld
2 PROPORTIONAL representation IN the United States
Senate, no State to haze less than taDo Senator's
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
portionn,ent IN the House of Representatives.
8. 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 poaCers to
abolish dtteracy IN the United States aeder Secre
tdry of Education.
s. Election of Congress in NoUember Installation OH
the 1st of January follo,Oing Inauguration Of thu
President 1st of January neat after NoUembs'
election.
The Washington times., 1929-02-27
LISTEN WORLD!
Aw, Be Your Age!
By Elsie Robinson

MRS. ALLEN Is mad because
lN1 her 15.year.old boy, Dan, was
impudent to her. She was lectur-
ing him-telling him how differ
emily she had behaved to her
parents when she was Is. He
wiggIed and scuffed and picked
his warts-you know how 15-year-
old boys do-and then suddenly
broke out with this
Jaw, BE YOUR AGE, MAJ
So now Mrs. Allen is mad and
wants me to write a mean article
about disrespectful children.
! shall do nothing of the sort
I'm all for Dan. / admit he was
impertinent. But he was extremely
pertinent. His remarks were right
10 the point. They were exactly
what his silly mother needs. They
hygiene.
Jaw. BE YOUR AGEr' All of
us should be told that at frequent
intervals, particularly when we
begin to talk about the Dear Old
Days.
What is your age any way-a5
~-46-57?
No, it isn't.
YOU'RE EXACTLY 1929.
YOU'RE AS OLD AS THE
SECOND OF TIME YOU ARE
LIVING IN-AND AS YOUNG.
And you're living-NOW!
You're not living back in those
romantic days, mama, when they
used to say you looked exactly
like a Gibson Girl
Nor are you functioning. papa,
in that proud era when you were
busting bicycle records in Green
vile. Ohio.
This world has hoped % years
ahead into space since those pas
toral days and. thrown about
billion duck fits. It's an entirely
new world with an entirely new
set of ideas, customs. institutions
and problems. And if you're try
ing to measure up your life, or
your chfldren's lives by the world
you inhabited in 1903 you're GER
tainly out of luck. And some
body should bawl: law, BE
YOUR AGEr'
The Washington times., 1929-02-27

II Men Become Ie.COnsciOWs
FTHHE average man will need only
u IL hats, eight overcoats and
20 suits of clothes this season, in
order to be properly dressed.
This announcement of the style
promoters has come with great
shock to a lot of unsuspecting
he-men. But the blow to the men
Is as nothing, beside the speech
less amazement with which it has
struck their wives.
Any woman who has had to
bully, nag, coax and threaten her
darling into his ONE suit of eVe-
ming clothes and his one clean
boiled shirt, twice a year, ever
since they were married, will
probably faint at the news.
The big struggle OF the average
woman's life is to lure, coerce,
hector, shame or browbeat her
husband into buying new suit
of clothes, now and then.
His unfailing answer to all her
pleadings and arguments is "whas-
samatter with the one / got?"
Persuading him to throw away
an old hat or discard a faded pair
of knickers takes all her strength,
tact and fineness. And even then
she often has to work on his SEN
timent, by recalling how beauti-
fully groomed he always was dur
ing their courtship days and ask
ing him il he doesn't love her
any more.
The real germ of many a divorce
has been the moth-eaten college
sweater or the mouldy pair of hunt
ing boots which a heartless wife
has surreptitiously sent to the
starving heathens.
AS for inducing a man to keep
two dinner coats or two evening
suits on hand-ha ha! He would
as soon think of keeping a harem!
Two motor cars? Yes. Two wives?
Perhaps. But never more than one
collar button, one clean evening
shirt and one ''sarcophagus' at
time!
Besides, will the NJ Merchan
Tailors kindly tell Father how he
is going to hang his 20 suits OF
clothes on the one hook he has
always been allowed in Mothers
clothes closet? Or where he will
squeeze in his 12 hats among the
"a chapeaux on Mothers hat shelf?
And if he becomes clothes-con-
scious and buys himself eight new
Overcoats to replace the faded,
fringed one he has been wearing
for the last three winters, where
will the money come from for
Mothers ermine evening wrap?
Once men may have had the
time to enjoy dolling up in bro
caded coats, lace rdffles, silk stock
ings and silver-buckled shoes. But
time is money, nowada9 - and
gasoline and golf! And there is no
glamor about cast.iron derby hat
and a pair of tweed trousers!
Alas, nay. You can lead mod.
ern man to frilled pajlnas and
lavender crsvats and white satin
evening cIothes-but you can't
make him WEAR 'em!
Not if he's married-and you're
his own wife!
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-24

Plymouth dealer IN Tyler, Texas, was
made with car taken from the deal
cr's showroom floor for the purpose.
1t was observed by Il group of city
officials and competent observers
Who have made complete sworn aft
davits Oh every detail Of the run.
During the run, the car traversed
the streets OF Tyler and on occasions
made trips to nearby cities and
towns. Gasoline, oil and water were
added while the car was in motion
and, what was even more difficult,
;ircs were changed several times due
to puncturcs while the car Travelled
onward in it's dctcrmind ffort 10
break the worlds endurance record
for automobiles.
"Not only is the length Of the run
in both hours and miles Il remark
able feat" commented \ vaEDorZee,
Plymouth general sales manager,
'but the economy with which the
car operated during this grucIing
test is worthy Of note.
"For the entire run of l,4l9
miles, the record breaking Plymouth
used only 59s gallons of gasoline
AN average of 1909 miles per gal
lon. 1t consumed only 10 IL gallons
Of Gil"
The rules OF the endurance run
provided that should the wheels of
the car or the engine stop at any
time and for any reason, the test
would automatically come to a halt
Gasoline was added from It pump
mounted on a truck which would
pull up alongside the Plymouth and
proceed at the same rate of speed
at which the Plymouth was going
while the fuel was being transferred.
Oil was added by one of the atteu-
dents living ON the fender and pour
ing il into the oil reservoir while
the ear continued ON its way. The
changing of tires was the most diff
ficult task that had to be accom-
plishcd in order that the ear might
not cease moving forward. When
ever flat tire occurred, a movable
jack on wheels was pushed under
the wheel Of the car, the car jack
Cd up and the tire was changed by
attendants as they ran along by its
side.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-24
SCREEN STAR ON
STAND IN TRIAL
FOR TAX FRAUDS

Los ANGELES, Oct. 24. UR)-
The screen colony had another bad
day in the court stoday.
The most impo.tan. case brought
Dorothy Macka;Il, English star, back
to the witness stand for further
cross examination at ,hg fraud trial
Of Marjorie Ber2as Hollywood tax
expert.
Miss MacEain iu ,hc face Of a
bitter griliug, continued to main
tain that Mis-, 3crgar cdy,a.d her
to make faIso llsGngs in income 1c-
turns.
"Pleasc let me tell my story in
my own way" Mis- Mgckaiil said
impa:icntIy when ;hc defense attor-
npys we're trying 20 direct her ex-
animation.
The court bror. in to aid the
screen actress, arl She told her story
in her Gown way"
She said that on the advice of
Miss Berger she listed salaries of
lmaginery business managers and
secretaries
She was 10 b" followed to TIE
stand by William llaiHcs.
Considerable mystery developed to-
day around q divorce suit against
Wheeler Galmau. veteran stage and
screen actor, and the former hu5-
hand Of Priscilla Ncan, also of the
films
While attorneys claimed they
filed the suit fer Mrs. Virginia ".
0akmar, q woman "ho claimed to be
Mrs. Oatman denied knowledge Of
it in telephone conversation.
THE action charged desertion on
0ahman's part. The couple married
il September, 1927 and separated
or year later.
Oakman Wa, divorced by Miss
Dean in Reno, Nevada. in 1920
VIXEN she contcudcd that her per
sonalitH did not adapt itself to a
husband.
The states cas- against officials
of tie Cinema Schools, Inc, accused
Of petty theft in the conduct Of a
training which was to develop mo-
tlea picture artors. WAS closed with
the testimony "t Betty Bronson.
Miss Bronson denied That she had