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The Washington times., 1929-05-29
LISTEN WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson
An Act Of Faith

TN deep in catalogues these days.
i Blissfully planning larkspur
borders, mixed with snapdragons.
Great flaming beds OF Zinias, pc
tunias and stocks. And gay,
sweet mats Of pansies edged with
candytuft.
/ think in rainbows-
Sometimes across the rainbows,
ghosts pass in tip-toe file.
the shy sweet ghosts OF women
who made gardens in the past.
Not city gardens filled with
friendly sounds, but lonely gar
dens where few people came
GARDENS THAT WERE NOT
MERELY SOMETHING FOR THE
EYE TO SEE, BUT WE'RE 4
LIVING, FRUITING ACT OF
FAITH
FAITH IN ALL THAT A
HOME MIGHT MEAN TO MEN,
HOWEVER POOR.
Gardens by mountain cabins on
the mother lode-built on a craig,
neighbored by wind and storm.
Musk roses, covering q rotting
wall, slipped from a plant that
grew back home" in old Yer
mont. Or close pinks that grand.
mother brought from Maine when
she and grandpa Joined the rush
OF '49.
Gardens by dug-outs on
Nebraska plains. The awful lone
Illness of that vast, rolling land:
And yet a woman challenged it
with marigolds!
The Washington times., 1929-05-29

No garden by that Utah desert
shack. Just one geranium bloom
: ing in a can. But that bright
blossom symboIized a home and
its crude planting was q sacra.
ment.
The garden on q Texas cattle
ranch--a row of hollyhocks around
a branding pen, their blossoms
spiked against a thousand miles
of sky. Yet, by SO much was
beauty kept alive.
The seed of beauty-when, l
wonder. was it first acquired?
When did our shanbling fathers
first desire something more than
food? When did the first rough
cave become a home?
When some wild mother planted
flowers by her door, wood violets
beside a heap Of half-gnawed
bones.
Since then it has come down
from hand to hand, that seed of
beauty which changed brutes to
men.
And where the women Of the
race have gone. they've planted
beauty az an act Of faith
A challenge
And a comfort
And a sign to God
A SIGN THAT MAN COULD
PIT HIMSELF AGAINST
EARTH'S NIGHT
AND BUILD A HOME WITH
IN THE SHADOW OF DEATHS
NIGHT.
The Washington times., 1929-05-29
The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

Pick the that best fits:
l. An American who novel influential in Il
Civil War period.
:, An American writer who painter.
g. A writer whose home called "Sunyside,"
e. Author of "The Red Badge Of Courage
"a poet who wrote life of Keats.
(Frankln Stowe Crane Lowell, Irvng)
Do you know:
In what book Roderick Dhu important character?
7. What poet wrote ...... i. IS
Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawn is breaking?
g. What is Longchamps?
g. In what State is Mt Washington
TO- What is tattooing?
Fill each blank
H. The type Of insurance policy for which receives fa
value in cash at the end of given period Is called
L. The cornea is part of the
- The Amazon River is in ---
Il Bangkok is d city in
10 Mt Greylock is in
Answers Magazine Page
The Washington times., 1929-05-29
THREE-MINUTE JOURNEYS
BY Temple Manning

the tourist making his first visit
to a Polynesian land. Among
the Bets1nisaraka one of the
island tribes, even the most dis
tantr relatives may not wed.
Among the zafisoro, the custom
is the same, genealogical records
being examined to make sure that
not even tenth cousins are mar
ried.
Hova parents choose the bride
for their son, while among the
Sakalava and Tairnoro, the young
man chooses his wife himself
and wins her more In the Euro
pean fashion. Divorce is extreme
" simple. The husband has merely
to- acquaint his wife with the fact
that he no longer needs her com.
partnership. and the affair is set.
tied. E@.
Burial customs are equally va:
ried. Some tribes inter the corpse
Immediately after death. others
wait until 1t is very much decom.
posed. Nearly all the tribes bury
their dead. If at all possible. and
a body often is carried consider
able distance to insure this re-
suit.
The Washington times., 1929-05-29
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
.Ry Helen Rowland

Is Man Really Essential?
rs man essential to a woman's
l. happiness?
A lot of complacent young
Lotharios would be slightly
shocked if they knew how many
girls Of the younger set write me.
protesting that he is NOT.
But, from where / stand, it
looks as though a man is as
necessary to woman's happi-
ness as a woman is to a mans
happiness.
There are just two things
which we can't live WITHOUT in
this world-food and love. We
might get along without clothes
and we are doing our best to
prove it. We might even exist
without money, If we were will
ing to plant and dig our own
potatoes-and somebody would
lend us a garden,
But FOOD we must have-and
something to LOVE. And a man
seems to me more logical and
satisfying to love than q
Pekinese or a French doll.
It Is true that there are some
men and women who were NOT
intended to marry, and are not
cut out for marriage. No matter
, how often they go to the altar.
it never 'takes.''
These are mostly writer's, paint.
ers and musicians-the people
who are CREATING something
alone.
Yet it is a wen-known fact that
no writer, painter or musician
ever does his best work until he
has found and known love. And
most Of these do their most in
spired work while they are IN
LOVE.
A man or a woman is happy
only when he or she Ia creating
something. We are all born
CREATORS, whether we like it or
not. That is the deepest and
foremost urge of our nature: and
it win OUT from the day when we
begin building houses with blocks
to the day when we begin plan
ming our tonnbstones and mauso.
leums.
And most things are built and
created for love, with love and
by love.
There is not much thrill in
building a home all by your
self. A home, a family and
love-nest must be built WITH
somebody.
What is the incentive to make
a lot of money, or to own lot
of houses, and automobiles, and
yachts, unless there is somebody
to share them with you?
What Is the thrill in making
career, in doing big things in the
world, If there is nobody who
matters to say %s'Hear! Heart
Nobody to glory in your success
and pin medals on you?
He travels fastest, who trav.
els alone" said Kipling. But
where is, he GOING and what is
his HURRY? And when he gets
there, what Goes it matter?
1t Is true that some of our
most successful men and women
have managed to get along COM
fortably. perhaps, without love.
Love isn't all there is to life.
II h only the carbureterl
The Washington times., 1929-05-29
Stand by WashingtOn's Team
America
w real tough luck. ]

vv7AsHINGTONs American League baseball team is having
w real tough luck" Every good sport knows this to
be true.
The team has beaten many games by just run
That ism t getting the breaks, by any means.
This is the time when baseball fans should stick to the
team and give the players all possible encouragement he
poor snort who finds fault harps players when
things are going badly The bravest fighting heart in the
world finds difficult make good in the face Of criticism
and jeering.
way to iron weak spots They anxious than
fans to have winning team. Give them your backing
Depend uon them correct weaknesses exist but give
than timakO do no. Don't be knOcksr. Be booster.
The Washington times., 1929-05-29

NOWHERE will the traveller
IN find more curious customs
and beliefs than among the
Malagasy peoples Of Madagascar,
that great island off the south.
east coast of Africa.
Inhabited by tribes sprung from
Polynesian stock, this strange land
is a hot-bed of superstition and
black magic. Before any under.
taking of importance is begun, the
native consults a diviner, who
reads the fates by working what
is called "silSidy vintana." This
divination Is affected by arrang-
ing beans or seeds on mat in
different numbers and geometrical
formations, and after q consider
able amount Of complicated mum
bo-junbo, the seer declares the
moment either lucky or unlucky
kOr the enterprise.
The sorcerer or medicine.man is
q most important person in a
Malagasy village. His frequent
lack OF success as a healer seems
TO have no depreciatory effect on
the esteem in which he is held.
Marriage AMI funeral customs
IN Madagascar always faseinats
The Washington times., 1929-05-29
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Louis e. Bisch-

LIZ A0NA5 40
OWEN three or more persons
VI Witnessing an accident or any
other occurrence, have them write
out or tell what they saw 10 min
utes later and you will have three
or more distinctly different re-
ports.
In other words. you cannot
nobody can-describe in detail or
absolute accuracy what you have
beheld with your own eyes.
The same holds true in report
ing afterwards on an experience
of ary one of the senses.
1t used to be said-and stin Is
that seeing is believing. But the
truth Is that your eyes may de-
ceive you.
Frequently you only see what
Won want to see. OF you only
hear what you want to hear.
If you are a tender-heated per-
son and witness an automobile
accident your tendencies win In
evitably influence what your eyes
record on the brain and how you
recall that experience.
II you happen to be very par
ticular about the rights Of pedes'
TRANS as against those Of motor
lists the recollection Of the acct
dent will be colored by your own
convictions.
In the last analysis, 1t is an
utter impossibility to relate after
wards what you saw or heard be-
cause your memory cannot retain
the events In the exact sequence
IN which they happened.
Then, what you do, in order to
make a logical STORY, is to fill in
the memory gap, with the result
that you invent a story tnat
never was!
This is. of course, an exaggera'
ton. Nevertheless. in the main
it IL true.
The same psychological mechan.
ism explains why gossip IL never
reliable. As the bit OF gossip
travels from one to another, more
and more details are dropped out
Inadvertently, to be sure--and In
their place plausible filters are
added. BY the time the news
reaches the fifth person it bears
but slight resemblance to the orig
inal.
The reports OF witnesses In a
court room are open to the same
criticism. A witness under oath
wants to tell the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth.
But he can't! It's impossible de-
spite the very best of intentions.
The mental mechanism involved
In the instances / have cited
above, as well as in others like
them Is known as Retrospective
Justification OF memory" In
other words, we falsify, we invent,
when we cannot accurately re-
member.
And the best Of 1t ls-perhaps
OAo 6AVNA0 S4y tuO WOA5S Va AZ As
since 1t may lead to pernicious re-
sults-that the individual who
falsifies does not realize what he
is doing!
DO not, therefore, be too cock.
sure about what you have seen or
heard.
Don't forget that the mind may
trick you into believing some.
thing which was not.
Especially do we forget minor
details.
And always il our unintentional
Justification colored and some
what motivated By what We want
10 believe We saw eE heard.
The Washington times., 1929-05-29
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

Fate holds the strings. and men
like children move.
But as they're led; success IL from
above.
-Lansdowne.
For never can true reconcilement
grow,
Where wounds Of deadly hate have
pierced so deep. Milton.
While strength. ana years per-
NIT, endure labor: soon bent o1d
age will some with silent foot
--Ovid.
The Washington times., 1929-05-29

Progress has not followed a
straight ascending line, but a
spiral with rhythms of progress
and retroGresSicn of evolution
and dissolution. Goethe.
How comes it to pass. then,
that we appear such towards in
reasoning, and are so afraid to
stand the test of ridicule?
-Shaftesbury.
People that make puns are like
the wanton boys that put coppers
on the railroad traeks.-IIolmes.
The Washington times., 1929-05-29

Background for all: Bootleg liquor dancing gambling
night life Of hdeous kind in less secluded road
house beyond the District Line in Prince Georges county
The Washington times., 1929-05-29
A Friendly King
Britain Has Things to Learn.

HE King his speech read the House Of Lords has friendly
words for peace suggestions The general British
feeling that should attend business combining
activities to lending money when its needed and allowing
Britain to regulate ornaments in accordance with British
needs and spending power. s.s. s4esf@ !
Our British cousins have not learned to take this country
seriously. That viii come later.
The Washington times., 1929-05-29

Is Man Really Essential?
rs a man essential to woman's
l. happiness?
The Washington times., 1929-05-29
Again the OminOus Word
Gang in ROadhOuse Shooting

MOTHER road house shooting and again the ominous
"A word gang used by reporters
The victim according to news stories refused to say
The Washington times., 1929-05-29

The victim according stories refused to say any
thing when told he might die Grim SILENT vndcve, he WILL
ganger settle in his way. Gangster invoke
the Law, which they despise
Background for it ALL Bootleg liquor dancing gambling
night life Of hideous kind, in less secluded road
house beyond the District Line in Prince Georges county
Clearing up the tragedy ever cleared is with the
law officers of the Maryland county aided by Washington
police whose business is to keep in close touch with what
there Of gangser life and activities in around this city
Well may Washington policemen take deep interest II
these affairs and be prepared for Of hemprpared
keep these night birds Of evils and crimes the an6
under observation. is not the kind of life here
The time combat crime combinations is when they first
begin manifest themselves To wait until there oganiEa
on with shrewd gang leaders directing operations is give
a foothold that Is hard to break loose.
Public sentiment in Prince Georges county will force Law
officers apply themselves to the limit in eradcatng etab
sments that receive these bad elements of humanity with
open That county Of respectable citizens who do
approve the things that go at road houses
The new the county governing road houses goes
effect June The county commissioners issue licenses
for these places and viii have the to revoke licenses
county prosecutor and county law officers should
pete the job of regulation and control
This regulation and control not prevent gang hoong
but viii prevent dsorderly gatherings in which
brought under the influences Of criminals and
become part Of that gang life which narcotic
bootleg degradation and practically every phase Of crime
Evening star., 1929-11-15
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-27
CREW OF ZEPPELIN
GIVEN RADIO GIFT

Forty Majestic Radio sets were
presented on August 10Th 10 the
gallant crew of the Graf Zeppelin
by w. c. Grunow, Vice President
OF the Grigsby- Grunow Company
OF Chicago, in recognition of their
valor IN completing the epochal
round-the-world tour. The presen-
tatlon was made at the u. S. Gov
eminent hangar at Lakehurst, N.
D., and great excitement prevailed
among the members of the crew
OF the great air liner when two
huge trucks rolled up to the hangar
loaded with forty latest model Am
erlcan made receivers.
Naturally the officers and men
OF the Graf were overjoyed at the
splendid tribute paid them by Mr..
Grunow and delighted to know that
they were to have for their homes
IN Germany, Majestic Radios iden-
tical with that in the home of their
wonderful commander, DIR. Hugo
Eckner.
On account of the great weight
of these receivers, it was decided
to ship them by boat, and the
Hamburg-American Line very gra-
ciOusly offered to transport the
entire shipment to Freidrichshafen
Germany, without charge.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-27
PENNEY CO. SALES
SHOW BIG INCREASE

Gross sales of the J. C. Penney
Co. for August totaled $16,491 ,439,-
Oh, as compared with gross sales
for August, 1913, of $12,877,110.34,
an increase of $3,614,328.67, OF
28.07 per cent.
Cumulative gross sales of this
organization for the first eight
months of this year, up to and in
Guiding August 81, 1929, were
$114,134,146.59, as compared with
cumulative gross sales for the cor
responding period in 1928 of $685.
365, 277.17. This represents a gain
of $17,768, 869.42, or 1914 per cent,
for the first eight months of 1929
over the same period in 1928.
Commenting on the favorable
sales report, Earl G. Sans, pres
ident of the company, said:
"Not only have the sales of our
organization exceeded the quota
set for the month, but they have
shown the largest per cent gain
of any month this year. This in
creasing gain leads us to anticipate
unusually good fall business"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-27
Real Estate Transfers

First Minneapolis t. Co. to An
.58. oO' -" ~
NlelS julius Knudsen ct ux to
I, nS E E5dvig Rasmussen, 81, E1a,
Ole Olsen Hippo to George A.
Morey, 81, lot 10, block 1, Davis
End add, Plentywood.
George A. Morey ct ux to Olga
M. Morey, 81, lot 10, block 1, Dav-
is End add, Plentywood.
Lille May Mikkelsen to Chris
1851.
U: S. to Mary Brien Azure, pat
ent, N12 SWA, lots A, 5, of 1852
Treasurer to Arthur L. Netcher,
SPILL, VIZ NW14, SEA NWA
NEA SWA, 1O-35-56.
Sheridan County to Leland Kit
zenberg, $250.O0, lot IL, block 10,
original Plentywood.
Treasurer to Sheridan County
$252.06, SWA, 31-34-54.
Treasurer to Sheridan County
$263.56, NW14, 24-34-54.
F. D. Morck etux to Peder Lee
$1.0O, lot 1, block z, Antelope.
Treasurer to Sheridan County
405.05, SWA, 26-34-54.
Treasurer to Sheridan County
$156.75, NWA, 20-34-54.
Treasurer to Sheridan county
$21.79, l acre tract NWA SWA
18-34-54.
Treasurer to Sheridan County
$291.63, E1A NWA, 8-34-54.
Treasurer to Sheridan County
$226.61, NEA NWA, 10-34-54.
Treasurer to Sheridan County
$496.56, SEA SEA, 4-S4-54.
Treasurer to Sheridan County
$945.17, S1s SWA, S1s SEA, 10
34-54.
Treasurer to Sheridan County
$309.45, NWA, 15-34-54.
Treasurer to Sheridan County
$441.13, SWA, 11-34-54.
Treasurer to Sheridan County
S967.98, VIZ NEH, NJ NWA
SWH NW14, NW14 SWA, 20, Ell
SWH, 20-34-54.
Grace M. Cook etvir to Lawr
ence A. Murphy. S1.00, SEA SV
Il, 27, NWH. SWA NEA, NWH
SCI, NEH SWA, 34-35-53.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-27

IL per cent loan on bonded ware
house receipts at interior elevators
and terminals heretofore in effect
and secured through the Interme-
date Credit bank of st. Paul, and
allows the Wheat Growers associ-
alton to loan an additional 10 cents
a bushel to farmers to be used to
meet their necessary obligations"
Mr.. Duis said.
approval of the loan to our as
ISOLATION means that the farm
board has actually started to func-
ton along the lines for which it
was established, that is to make
additional loans over those secured
from the intermediate Credit
Banks and also to make loans to
cooperative associations for term
inal facilities so they may hold
grain and market it in a more or
derby way. The board is now also
considering the terminal loans.
Board Works Fast.
w H1lS LuO10 VI 1SSS lupdIl6nC6
has been manifest for some time
past over the apparent slowness of
the board in getting started, l feel
that the board has gone about as
fast as it could have done, consi6-
ering that it had to set up its own
machinery and make necessary
preparations.
"The North Dakota Montana
Wheat Growers association as an
organization is very much pleased
with the approval of the loan.
"Now that the farm board is
advancing additional money we OBJ
serve that private grain interests
are also starting to make more
liberal advances to farmers. We
believe that the boards action will
have a favorable effect also on
commercial banks in making loans
to farmers.
"The First National bank of
Grand Forks has been made the
official custodian for the farm
board and our transactions for the
auxiliary loan will be made through
them.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-27
PLATFORM SPEAKER
FOUND HIMSELF IN
STATE OF CONFUSION

Shelbyville, Indiana, Sept. IL
The prize absent-minded
stunt has been pulled off by
Julian Arnold, a noted Chau-
tauqua lecturer.
Arnold walked into the Daily
Republican office here and
asked Miss LA Harding:
Gan you tell me what time
L am to speak at the Chautau-
qua here this afternOOn?"
"Why-Our Chautauqua pro-
grams don't start until tOmOr-
: row afternoon" stammered
out Miss Harding in surprise.
The stranger looked puzzled.
That's funny" he said pull
ing a paper Out of his pocket.
my schedule says positively
Shelbyville this afternoon"
y Miss Harding looked at the
schedule and saw it said Shell
byville sure enough but
= Shelbyville, Ill!
you're in the wrong state,
that's ALL" she explained.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-27
CLERK AND RE-
CORDER LEAVE FOR WEST

Froid.-Mr. and Mrs. w. ]. Har-
die and daughter Iris, and son-in-
law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs
Julius Welzenbach, started Thurs
day by cars for Sequim, Washing
ton, where they will make their
home. The change was necessitat-
ed by the condition of Mrs. Har-
dies health. julius drove a truck
loaded with some of their person
al effects. Mr.. and Mrs. Hardie
have a son residing near Port An
gelus, which is near Sequim. Their
many friends are sorry to lose
these fine people. Mr.. Hardie still
has his farm near Froid and ex.
poets to return occasionally.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-27
NOBLE POLE GOES
TO Pen; IS ROLLED

New York, Sept. 24.-Count AL
bert Sichofsky, Polish adventurer,
secured a writ of habeas in ali
effort to get released from Ellis
Island so that he might return to
California and prosecute claims
for more than 100000 stolen from
him he alleges during his nine year
stay in prisons there. The sport
ing nobleman blames prison au-
thorities for his alleged losses.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-27
WHO SAYS JOBS
ARE SCARCE?

Good positions are always open
to students of Dakota Business Col
lege, Fargo. Two recently began as
office managers and accountants on
their graduation day, Ethel Flatner
going to IsenSee Motor Co.; M. R..
Weberto Crescent Milk Co. Moor
head. Regina Bohn was promptly
placed with City Attorney Murphy.
Elsie Thomas went to the Havre
Mont. BroadcaSting Station.
Follow the Successful" Take
ACTUAL BUSINESS training
copyrighted = understandable else
where). Fall term Oct. II. Finish
at busy season. Write F. L. Wat
kins, Pres, 800 Front St., Fargo.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-27
BANKER WILL NOT
TRY TORAISE BONDS

Cheyenne, Wyo.-Definite an
nouncement that C. D. Waggoner,
Telluride, Colo, banker, facing a
federal Indictment returned today
in New York by a grand jury in
connection with his alleged duping
of six metropolitan banks of half
million dollars, would make no eff
fort in Cheyenne to furnish $780,
900 bond, was made here today by
Samuel D. Crump, he bankers at
torney, prior to his departure for
Denver.
Crump added that Waggoner
would not attempt to make bond
if removed to New York, providing
an early trial could be arranged.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-27
FRIGDARE CORP.
GETS NAVY JOB

Dayton, Ohio, Sept. 25.-The U.
S. Navy has placed a, contract with
Frigidaire Corporation for $4,000
worth of electric refrigerating
equipment to be installed during
the present year. The first install
ations under this order have al
ready been made on the U. S. Tex
as, where two electrically cooled
storage boxes of eighteen cubic
feet capacity and one of nine Gu
bic feet have been placed in oper-
alton.
A considerable amount of Frigi-
daire equipment is being used by
the Coast Guard and on destroyers.
On the latter type of vessels it is
connected with powder magazines
to prevent deterioration of ammu-
milton in tropical service.