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The Washington times., 1929-01-28
We Have Tanks
/ CATERPILLAR tractor, squipped with heavy guns
WY Bother With Cayalry !

CATERPILLAR tractor equipped with heavy guns fight
ing men inside Of it, protected BY thick armor Of
hs most powerful and fearful weapons Of modern
The tank an American invention developed here years
60 utilized BY Europe the great 60 almost any
Fhere.
II can cross streams climb hills crawl rocks travelling
afely where horses cannot 60,
Such tank this could plough its way cruelty remorse
ssy through thousand hundred thousand cavalry
nounted men and horses Of the old kind
This tank viii keep going long its fuel lasts horses
md their riders could do more against It than flies could
10 against cavalry horses.
Having this weapon why does this country continue to
pend money cavalry and that ride little horses offer
me good targets machine guns and bombs from the air
o putty before the attack Of the fighting tank? The
answer is simple
Ii takes men long time change long time to adjust
themselves to new conditions.
When they first made automobiles they put dashboards
n the 'front.' although there no horses to kick mua
against the dashboard.
When they first had steamboats, they put sails them
because they said What shall do in steam gave out
ot course we MUST have sails "
Now they the arpIane machine costing fifty thou
sand dollars able to destroy with bomb $6000O000
battleship but they still build battleshps.
And having these tanks, they still equip and maintain
aavalry regiments
And having airplanes in the air. they win for while at
continue send infantry crawling along the ground
like caterpilars.
few gas bombs able to kill everything within square
nile Of where they land would Of end the in
Rantry nonsense.
Nothing else win end it
SKULLS are thick HABIT is strong, military and naval
Nodos are many Of them too old to think
some of them interested in the battleshp building
So the public spends hundreds Of millions unnecessarily
The Washington times., 1929-01-28
Prudent Investment AS Basis
For Utilities Valuations

TT is proposed BY Senator Blaine make prudent invest
ment the Of utilities valuations in the District Of
Columbia Public Utilities Commission would be directed
70 make all valuations on that the basis Of de-
cison the United States Supreme Court over period q
many years.
The Wisconsin Senator wishes to make prudent invest
ment law the District BY amending the agres
msnt favored by the Senate District Committee
II added to the merger agreement and passed by Con-
gress 1t would be accepted BY utilities It i
added to the agreement By the District Committee,
offered amendment the floor Of the Senate
and used there to prevent merger
Prudent investment has strong appeal to the average
citizen who knows enough Of public utilities valuations 70
understand that would eliminate from them
pure water heavy costs for promotion and many
items that simply fantastical would upheld By the
courts, save the public huge sums iii charges
So far, however the United States supreme Court has
basis for valuations and unless modies its views il
important pending before IL reproduction will
sinue 70 be the basis Of valuations IN this country
Senator Blaine amendment would Be- declared null and
the first valuation made Oh that principle would 90 10 the
courts which would declare that Supreme Court decisions Of
reproduction cost must guide
The Supreme Court decided more than twenty five years
ago that cost cf reproduction the chief element il vaua
ton II the Indianapolis water case recently il held to
the same position
Six years ago ii telephone case tie CONT fooed te
reproduction idea but Justices Holmes and Brandes dsnssd
most interesting opinion Justice Brandeis held tat The
principle permits Of deluson speculation and imposition
the public.
Il was plain 10 the two dissenting justices that il bs -
production cost theory there theoretical claims 81
AL kinds with the addition Of intangible elements difficult Is
measure, al used to unfairly boost values
Justice Brandes At that time disposed favor the po;
ces Of Massaohusets honestly ana prudent IL
vested must under normal conditions Be taken ~ ts ~
trolling factor II fixing the basis for computing fair ana
reasonable rates ~
The Interstate Commerce Commission condemns ta d.t,
of current reproduction cost and actual eRitiae
investment the true basis Of valuation views are to be
considered By the Supreme Court.
The Washington times., 1929-01-28
The wind Of a Meteor
By Garrett z. Seryiss


YsHE shaking. mistaken for earthquake that vas caused
by great which shot The States ct Georgia
month, vivid reminder OF the immense
impaired like the earth by the gravaton Of the sun
enter the atmosphere from various directions the dr
that of thp
the to about 40 miles per second
on the average ii is about g miles
This, Prof Charles Oliver recently appointed afecor q
the Flower Observatory Pennsylvania University remarks,
0 times the speed shell A cannon, and must
window elass crack plaster walls produce the impression
that the earth itself is vibrating in real earthquake This
what happened when tns recent meteor passea 0ssr ne
apposed that it was ground that had been shaken.
Great this kind often explode with violence exceed
ing the explosion Of the heaviest shells and these
send out Of corresponding power
Year before last voey such celestial proeces
passed Siberia and the reports since received
wide regions practically leveed BY them
This without historic precedent though in rsmoter times
eteoric fails Of even greater destrucvees have
III Canyon Diablo.
huge cratere hole together with the nature Of the
aterias contained in and the in which the strata o
that fell must have been and moving
velocity that rendered capable Of shaking wide region
human occupation appears certain that traditions Of tr
would have been handed down among the
Indian tribes but nothing ct the KIND has been found e that
Inhabitants Of that part Of the country when the great meteor
plunged out Of space
What these bodies and whence do they come?
About a that SCIENCE yet say Is that they consist most
Little nickel and few other metals This composition
- Of the density Of the substances puzng
has doubt bearing the question Of origin It would
greater such planets The has also been held
that they have been shot out Of the
origin outside the system They offer the
most fascinating Of the unsoled problems Of astronomy
The Washington times., 1929-01-28

IL there's anything dread it's
womanly woman.
One of those James who's A.
ways taking refuge behind the
fact that she's She.
I've accustomed myself to the.
proximity Of rattlesnakes.
I've argued with mountain lions
and wrangled with coyotes.
And I'm familiar with So other
varieties or violent death.
But nothing strikes such terror
to my heart as q Womanly
Woman. Believe me, partner.
when / see one Of that creed ooz.
ing my way there's nothing left
To my expression but the whites
OF my eyes.
Most beasts Of prey carry their
weapons Of otfense In plain view.
: You know rattlesnake's sweet
and simple purpose when he
opens his mouth and begins 10
wag his tail and you act accord
ingly. But do you know a
Womanly Wonaan's purpose when
she opens her nnOuthg Not on
your life you don't. And whats s
more, you'd better not linger t0
find out II you're going to pur.
sue happiness. son, do It some
where else and do it quick. 9th.
erwise you're cooked.
Against woman. Is such, I have
nothing ait all. I'm one Of them
myself. We are no worse--and no
betterthan men. We are neither
wiser nor stupider, than the other
half OF humanity. And when
women accept that fact ana pro.
coed to SET busy with their regu.
lar jobs they deserve all the
iIonors due to any worthy citizen.
But unfortunately there are still
large numbers Of females who win
not regard themselves as ordinary
mortals and always demand spe.
cial consideration and exemptions
on the ground that they have
peculiar intuitipns, sensibilifies
snd refinenents unknown to Mere
The Washington times., 1929-01-28
LISTEN WORLD!
She Isn't tke Weaker Sex
BY Elsie Robinson

!, Males. which high class graft
they call Being Wornanly--alld
how some girls do work on that
Job,
The plain truth Is that women
can stand the racket exactly as
well as men. They aren't q particle
more delicate or de luxe physi-
cally. mentally or morally. lns
deed. ii either sex has the breaks,
the ladies would seem to have
them physically.
DR.. Dorsey In his splendid new
book HOWS AND WHY'S OF
HUMAN BEHAVIOR. says:
Equally significant is the evil
denee that among so.called savage
peoples woman is not the weaker
nut the stronger. more vigorous
sex. She lives longer and can en-
dure more. More boys are born
than girls. vet an adult census
shows more women than men.
This holds good. as far az is
known, throughout the human
1--WE deliberately coddle women
and make 1t practically innpos
sible for them 10 Be as rugged
as boys: they actually become the
weaker sex; and then We eau
them the weaker sex. Blt nothing
that We can find In higher AMI.
mails OF in the human race gives
us grounds for inferring that the
female h naturally weaker or In
ferior. on the contrary. the fact
that nature put the larger bur
den on her Ii evidence that nature
fitted her to bear It.
Which Is great truth and thou.
sands OF splendid, modern women
are proud OF It. But the Wonlanly
Woman still persists. drat her.
and I'm hereby exposing her In
seven simple snorts.
ANY WOMAN WHO DOESN'T
ACT REGULAR, AMT.
III, after the warning YOU still
allow one Of them to get bY with
murder. your blood BE on your
own head. brother.
The Washington times., 1929-01-28
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
-By Or. Louis %. Bisch.

TNHE genius. the neurotic. and
4 the person who il psychotic
twho will eventually develop an
insanity ali start the same.
Thar il. each of the three types
Of personality sees the world aif.
ferentsy. although the final result
Is not identical In each case.
1t must Be borne in mind that
We are not born intellectually and
emotionally equal. That II. our
ability to develop and the possi-
blIities Of development vary. and
often greatly. one person from an.
other.
The average individual, however.
no matter what his developlnenfal
potentials may be. does not vary
sufficiently from the majority or
the population to make him feel
that he Is very different from the
rest. In consequence. such q per.
son harmonizea readily with the
world. He fits In easily with its
ideas. He swirns along with the
tide. as 1t were, without any spe-
cial effort.
But the genius, the neurotic
and the psyehotic soon find that
they are at odds with the world.
with its people, or with social
manners and customs, or with:
moral standards or with something
else.
They think Inherently from the
rest.
They feel differently from the
rest.
cften they act differently from
4 the rest.
Now the neurotic. appreciafing
this differences. begins 70 worry
about it.
He begins 10 wonder why he
does not like this OF that, why he
doesn't think like the others mo
At one and the same time he be-
gins to worry about it.
That explains the nenrotic' tens
dency 10 aeIE-accusation feelings
81 laYawOrthiness iEferinrlty ideas.
They are not always like that, Of
course. some times the neurotic
Is proud Of his difference.
But always the neurotic tries
everything be can to mould him
self after the average world pat.
tern. And because ne does not
succeed he suffers.
The genius, although likewise
noting his differences. puts his OLE
ferences into play, . novel,
painting, d piece Of sculpture. or
he applies his different viewpoint
To invention, the building Of big
business or exploration. This
makes him happy ami adjusted.
The psychotic, on the other
hand. notes his differences and
comes TO the conclusion that be is
right and the world at large e
wrong
Hence hisl delusions, often Of
grandeur; bis hearing Of voices.
his ideas Of persecution, and,
finally, hts ailti-social attitude,
which rnakes him more or less Of
a menace to society and which
finally demands his asylum incar-
ceration.
The neurotic, you see, Is really
the most upset.
The genius il only upset be-
cause ne cannot, to his own mind,
satisfactorily express himself in \
work Of art or unusual achieve.
ment.
The psychotic actually is the
best adjusted of all three. He
saws: AI'm right. Everybody else
! is wrong.
This psychological explanation
OF the mental mechanism in
volved may help TO clear puzzling
conceptions about the three CON
ditionss
The Washington times., 1929-01-28
MEDITATIONS
OF A WIFE
: By Helen Rowland
Delendlng J AIodern GirI

Defending Modern Girl
n AM beginning to think that the
/ American girl is being highly
misrepresented
I have never yet seen girl
who dressed as weirdly as q John
Held flapper or who did her hair
in Wet.mop effect. Neither have
/ ever met one who was SO snap
piIy rowdy as the wise.cracking
damsels III the college magazines.
Perhaps should travel more.
II there are any girls who loil
around on mems laps In drawing
rooms at teas and parties. and
dance on pianos juggling cock
tail shakers, like those IN the
erotic magazines, I've missed find.
ing thennan the loss Is all
mine.
IL anv modern American girl
Is as hard boiled and utterly color
less AZ the stony-eyed heroines Of
most popular novels, she has
escaped my eagle eye or else ! I'VE.
been terribly dereived.
IN short, i arm beginning to
suspect that this picture Of the
ginsdrinking. gold.digging. wise
cracking. non-Enarr modern
girl ii i fiction of mans iraagi
nation.
III man can only convince
himself that all women are
rowdy. cold -blocded and shallow.
he has a wonderful alihi for
keeping out of marriage and
keeping all his time and money
for himself.
Certainly nobody could expect
any fair young man III posses.
sion OF all his faculties To risk
himself alone after dark, with
any of the little hard boiled FOUR
flushers in the comic strips or
the funny magazines
But All these are WRONG. The
great fault Of the modern Amer
ican girl, today. Is not that she
Is too hard boiled but that she
Is too soft boiled. She Is TOO
KIND!
Az long AS she continues to
make life one long, sweet song
for the average man, naturally
he il not going to exchange Il
for = lullaby.
Az long aa he can call her tlp
on ten minutes notice and break
the news that he Is going to be-
stow his society on her for the
evening. why should ne give her
twenty-four hours to think 1t
over? As long as ne can announce
where he Is going to take her
and receive polite gurgles of joy.
why should he consult her taste
in the matter?
What makes the men so con.
ceited?" asks a writer
The women. darling. the
The Washington times., 1929-01-28
Why the Noise---
Do White Men Need tt

WAR DEPARTMENT order says that hereafter General
Pershing when he appears officially in public shall have
nineteengun salute just though he field marshal
III foreign army Until the Army has only fired seven
4een guns for him The change must be gratifying Think
O having fired nineteen times your mere appear
ance
WHY not make ninety-nne times 900? Pershng is
fine General There little African potentates that have
runs fired 500 times ii their hcnor and about nothing IN
particular.
The Washington times., 1929-01-28
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

Persevering mediocrity Is much
more respectable and unspeakably
more useful than talented incon.
sistency. Hamilton.
Some people have 4 perfect
genius for doing nothing. and do
ing it assiduously.
Halliburton.
The true work OF art is but q
shadow OF the divine perfection.
Michelangelo.
Since that cannot Be done
which you wish, wish what can
be done.-Terence.
The Washington times., 1929-01-28
To Help the Farmers
Tax Someone Else

TEW YORK considers the proposition to help farmers BY
taxing gasoline using the money To build county roads
Good roads help the farmers They would be built at the
expense Of gasoline in cities and elsewhere instead Of
being paid for BY taxes farms.
The suggestion viii suit farmers and Will not please 90
well city dWellers that gasoline.
Tie way 10 help Is to systematze and intensity
farming as other industries have been systematzed
The Washington times., 1929-01-28

Their power Is hatred ana their
life is wretched who prefer that
they should be feared rather than
loved. Cornelius Neno~
For one man who sincerelv
pities our misfortunes. there are
a thousand who sincerely hate
our success Cotton.
Truth lies within little AID
certain compass, but error Il i'm.
mense. BoIingbrok
Proverbs are short sentences.
drawn from long experience.
Cervantes.
The Washington times., 1929-01-28
IRA VEL TN
AFRICA

South Africa now has modern
cities and railway systems where
one may travel in comfort and
even luxury through the vast
territory. The greatest gold mines
Of the world are there. with about
55 per cent of the worlds annual
gold output. Kimberley IS Ia.
nous for its diamond mines.
which produce SIS per cent Of the
worlds annual output ce dia.
monds.
The Washington times., 1929-01-28

IL man can only convince
himself that All women are
rowdy. cold -blooded and shallow.
he has a wonderful alihi for
keeping out of marriage and
keeping all his time and money
for himself.
The Washington times., 1929-01-28

Because OF the growing popu-
Iaritv OF foreign foods. the eating
habits Of the inhabitants Of China
have been rapidly changing dur.
ing the past two OF three years.
The Washington times., 1929-01-28
The knowledge Test for
Readers Of The Times

Fill each blank:
II New York was once called @
g Mr. Hardcaste is 4 character is GoIdsmith's ---.
2 Petrarch wrote sonnets to s--.
4 4 The Azores in the ---- Ocean.
S Australia is the largest in the world.
Match correctly
s. New Haven Home II Ralph Waldo Emerson
q Boston Casco Bay.
Concord. Yale University.
g Portland. McGll University.
10 Montreal Faneul Hail.
Do you know
IL Who is considered the inventor OF etching
Z Mnat one word expresses chewing the food -
~ Who commanded the first negro regiment Of the Civil WAR;
a Mnat the southernmost city in the United states
70 Who wrote peter Pam?
Answers on Fiction Page
The Washington times., 1929-01-28
DO YOU KNOW THAT

Salt mining is the oldast a..
dustry in Poland.
Es1ipaos In Greenland have po
set tiIns tor sleeping.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-29
BABE HERMAN IN
 LEAD IN HITTING
Brooklyn Batterine Ram Pushes
 His Way to the Top

New York. June 29 LP - Babe Herman, the Brooklyn battering ram. pushed his way to the top of the standing in the National league batting race in the week ending last Wednesday. according to averages made public today. Herman owns a mark of 1882 for 5S games. two points above Frank O'Doul. the Philadelphia outfelder, who showed the way for many weeks.
 A good share of the laurel wreath rests with Melvin Ott of the Giants. The Louisiana boy leads in runs scored with 64, in home runs with 21 and in runs batted in with 77. Bill Terry of New York heads the list in total hits with 99. while Chick Hafey of St. Louis shows the way in doubles with 21. Lloyd Waier leads with II triples. while Kiki Cuyler of Chicago holds base stealing honors with 20.
 Other leading regular batsmen, following the two top men. are: Terry. New York. 371; Roush. New York. .3S4; Frisch, St. Louis. 362; Stephenson, Chicago. .35S: Hafey, St. Louis, .s54: Traynor. Pittsburgh, .34s; Ott. New York. .34S and. Cuy- Ter. Chicago, .347.
 Burletgh Grimes. with II vic- tories and one defeat for .s17, still leads the pitchers in games won and lost. The big spitballer's 12s in- nings of work also qualities him for the top. Guy Bush of Chicago is second in winning. with seven and one for .S75, and Sylvester Johnson of St. Louis third with six and one for .s57. Johnny Morrison. the re. juvenated curve ball shark. fs the nominal league leader with four vic tories and no defeats. but cannot yet be classed as a regular.
 Three clubs are at or above 300 in team batting. Philadelphia leads with .3lO; New York Is next with .303, and Pittsburgh Is third with soc even. The Cubs lead in fielding with .975. two points more than the Giants can show.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-29
F0XX CONTINUES
 HIS WILD STREAK
Pitching Offers of Yankees and Red SoX No Obstacle

Chicago, June e9 P-The pitch ing offers by the Yankees and Red Sox during the last week looked just like any other pitching to Jimmy Foxx of the Philadelphia Athletics, and he continued to set the Ameri- can league standard with a mark of .%05, unofficial averages, including games of Wednesday, reveal.
 Connie Mack's first baseman added nine points to his average to bound back into the 400 class, and to ahead of Bob Fothergill, Tiger outtielder. who slipped from .40s to 1893. Foxx has topped the bats- men playing regularly in his circuit for the last five weeks. Among the other reasons why the Athletics were at the top of the heap were Al simmons, Mickey Cochrane and Bing Miller. all batting in the first 10. The leaders besides Foxx and Fothergill were: Simmons. Phila- delphia. .3sO; Lazzeri. New York. .374; Manush. St. Louis. .S72; Coch- rane, Philadelphia, .371; Fonseca' Cleveland. 1858; Miller. Philadelphia. .35t; Combs. New York. .3b4; Geh- ringer. Detroit. 1852.
 Al a team the Athletics lost three points in batting, but remained out in front with an average of .316. De- troit stuck in second place with .S06. The Athletics had collected a total of 424 runs during the season, while restricting all opponents to 239.
 Bob Grove southpawed himself to another pair of victories during the week and raised his mark to 12 wins and one defeat. Behind him were George Uhle. Detroit; Vic Sorrell. Detroit and Rube Walberg. Athletics. who each had records of 10 tri- umps and three setbacks. Although not able to work in turn Eddie Rom- mel, another of Connie Mack's hurl- CTS, had collected six victories with out suffering defeat. Grove was far in front in strikeouts with S3.
 The house of Mack also was on top in team fielding, although forced to share first place with the Yankees, with a mark of .976. Cleve- land, ranking as the poorest fielding team in the circuit, continued to show the way in double plays. hav- ing performed the double ceremony. 73 times.
 Other leaders-runs batted in, Simmons. Philadelphia. 79; home runs. Gehris. New York. 20; triples, Manush, St. Louis. &: doubles, R. Johnson. Detroit. 25: stolen bases, Miller. Philadelphia and GehrinEer. Detroit, Il; runs, Gehringer, Detroit. 65.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-29
NEW SlcLF.PHOTOG

New Haven, Conn.,, June 29-Lu- ther G. Simpian announces the nl- vention of a self -photographing ma chine at Yale University which will do excelen portrait work. The sub feet seats himself, starts the ma chine in motion and before the print is finished he sees a proof. If he likes it. he allows it to continue through the process. If not, he sits for another.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-29

New York, June 29 R-Argen- tina. without heavyweight threat since the days of Luis Firpo. is banking on Victoria Campolo to swat his way to the top.
 Campolo is not the colorful fight CT that Firpo was, but he has the build and the courage, say fellow countrymen who greeted him in New York.
 He is 26 years old. is six feet. seven inches tall, and weighs 23O pounds.
 Victoria was rushed to America after he had stopped Roberto Ro- berti. the Italian giant. in five rounds.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-29
EASES THE BUMPS

London, June PA recen, bumper designed here takes all thu bumps and much of the hazard out of driving an automobile. It is an all rubber bumper. fitted into two movable iron jaws. On striking an object the jaws open. absorbing -ns shock and preventing injury. A car tested ran into a tree head-on with out injury.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-29
HIS ARDOR CHANGED

Milwaukee. June 29-Joseph Bichl came to this country and wrote fervent love letters to the girl he left behind, Cecelia Thalmeier. Finally he wrote Cecelia in Ger many and told her 10 come to American and marry. Cecelia ar- rived only to find that he had mar ried another. She sued in court and tried to get transportation back 10 Germany.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-29

elry store which is eiossd. aA1 '. H. Enocii, whose place was steoeAed few days ago but who has Ae14 conducting his business h the Ne8 ence Of representative of Ato creditors. Perkins compsny will ~ meeting cn July 10.