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The Washington times., 1929-12-13
ONCE-OVERS

Do you make promises easily
and as easily break them?
You find it hard to refuse. 1t
takes O stronger backbone than
yours to say NO. You want
to appear to be a good fellow
And you think for the moment
that you might be able to do as
you say.
At least you want to please
And you wonder why you
seem to have SO many enemies,
When you figure it out you
may find too many times when
you have said Yes and then
flunked out Of it. Possibly it is
because you are mentally too
lazy to figure out OF the diff
cultieS In which you find your
self, due to your promises
You don't want to argue in
order to accomplish anything.
You can't control yourself II
anyone opposes you.
You would sideStep rather
than settle q question which
involves explanation or argu.
ment.
Such person commands lit
tie respect.
You are a meek, weak, yes
person whose promise Is worth
less and only YOU yourself can
affect a chanEe. .
The Washington times., 1929-12-13
TOO MANY BONES TO GNAW
By Herbert Kaufmal

THERE'S no chance for mental cudebswsrs us~~azs-
Events CrOwdng fast each others hsss Hus
delay nger andwait thinkers be sdstracksd s
doit-now right of way.
Chess players required decide their uil
time limits Prompt decision is the E-s Hus
the essential qualification for in every mPoni
tion of politics. business and progress, too
you take too long to digest the import e chruE1E
trends don't expect to wear shoulder straps in any 1
ton.
The world machine is whirrng breansek SD Wsua
many problems, and they irssIatsd. -. tuw
poke reflection handicaps action and sheets ss
But the shrewdest and resourcsful brzs b.
wiIdered by the number and variety Of qusstous fSg
$500 lion and international concord for RnEwg1-@
NUSBsgsed agreement.
Before Congress resume its interrupted couz
tion Of the oYendue tariff BILL Mr.. MELONS prOPosd h&
and sixty million tax cut is presented for immediate 49,
despite the fact that millions of citizens have esHtsd t-
hopes on drastic reduction earned incomes and ~ =
force of numbers entitled conscientious hsari-g
the subject.
Senators, with only "a hours day at their dizpoal
study the contending claims of high protection and oS a
ule advocates are without warning urged BY Owen D. NE
to permit general communications mOnOpOy-not ouy 49,
lutte control Of wire and cable services but exclusive n
exploit the still unestimated Of radio 49,
The American Newspaper Publishers Association meeting
protest against arbitrary on
raises in advertising and subscription rates increase em
living and inevitably lead to the suspension Of sal
weekies and daies-aso promises to invoke the Offices e NJ
Administrator to deIeat the profiteerng plans Of pup
produces coalition S~~~~~
President Hoover the CONSERVATION of many Of h
,uppoers elects this kaleidoscope hour order the I
ing of THE World Court protocol thereby setting up anohG
scis16 party already rent with policy dissensons
On top of ALL China not only in with the sovsz
again exhibits utter ncapacy to handle her domestic afs
stages revolt within revolt allows pirate bands 70 ss
foreign shipping and compels the dispatch Of Amscl
fleet preserve the lives and property rights Of
tionals there
Nor film automobile industries without forgz
quandries Overseas competition is in process Of eRbsnx
ban upon American And the former French mn
Of education and high rises declare that thsa
productions and motion pictures serious H-nacs s
Gallo culture"
And one days news osses all these bones Of eOntsnaa
be gnawed upon and have their extracted By
intelligence, in overnight news-break. Whew
by the Mirror Inc
The Washington times., 1929-12-13
LISTEN WORLD!
Why Is Beauty?
By Elsie Robinson

beauty, DR.. RogerS?" ] asked.
What makes any of us want
beauty? If we're just bodies,
without souls, as some scientists
think, why aren't we satisfied
with eating and loving and
fighting? Why should a lazy,
stupid savage go to the infinite
pains Of carving that. hlubber
bowl, setting teeth in the jaws
and mother-of pearl in the
eyes? Where, in the program
of evolution, did the need for
beauty arise +" and how can
you explain it in terms of
biology?"
You can't" he said simply.
There are things science can't
answer. I suppose that when
life comes to a certain point, 1t
isn't enough to be an animal
and satisfy the needs of an
animal -" it begins then,
perhaps, to approach God"
AN APPROACH TO, GOD
A FUMBLING TOWARD
GOD - was that the mean
ing of that lovely line that ran
along the edge of a cruel knife
AaIad the rim of a bowl of clay?
From shapeless slime to q
with a skull = from q
helpless hunger to a hunger
that had hands and a scheme
that's the trail Of eyolu.
ton, q plain trail made by
hunger and fear. But then, at
a point something happens.
Something more than hunger
happens. 4 BEAUTY HAPPENS.
DOES TEIE TRAIL SWERVE
THEN FRCM THE DARKNESS
OF THE BRUTE AND BEGIN
A DELIBERATE APPROACH
TO GOD? AND DOES EACH
ATTEMPT AT nEAUTY BRING
US NEARER To GOD?
looked at the skull in my
hands. The brain had rotted
the hands 1t directed were
dead its brutal clanor
was stilled. But there had
been Something whiAh had
risen like a prayer aboee that
clamor and left its mask on
blade and bowl. Where was
that Something now? life
had not silenced it COLD
death destroy III? WHERE D1g1
1T FARE, ON IT'S ENDLESS.
APPROACH TO GOD?
The Washington times., 1929-12-13
That Stanton Park Death Trap
Street Railway and City Authorities Can Eliminate
Without Great Cost.
THE Stanton Park Citizens Association 10

HE Stanton Park Citizens Association long sgo toEsss3
traffic disasters the north side Of the park but -
peals for elimination of the dangers have been in vain
The untimey death Of Policeman Kaylor shows clearly ta
this death trap should be gotten rid Of The Commoms
the Public Utilities Commission and the Washington Railway
and Electric Company cannot ignore the constant dangers
presented there.
Street east the north side Of the square W
bound traffic Maryland Avenue has face the
going cars It great wonder that deaths and easuals
of most serious have occurred there before T
are certain to again
The plan proposed by the Stanton Park Association -
remedy situation is that the street east
Street and by Street. and then around the n
side of the park to Massachusetts Avenue.
Cars on what known the Thirteenth and strss,s
line now 20 east on Massachusetts Avenue TO Stanton P
thence around the north side of the park into Street T
plan merely involves the shifting Of east and west bound
50 that cars running the north side of Stanton PARK wa
run with automobile traffic
This it seems could be arranged without great cost Co hs
railway company.
There are similar danger spots in Washington and Etss
railway officials and city authorities must not ook hgy
upon appeals of citizens for elimination.
The Washington times., 1929-12-13
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Louis e. Bisch-

NOV that Christmas will
= soon be here parents and
all those who contemplate max
ing presents to children should
think of the possible harm
that may come from giving
them inappropriate toys.
Children need toys as much
as they need food.
And Christmas is a most ap-
propriate time to give them
such pleasures.
But it is not elaborate or ex-
pensive toys, mind you, but
something that will hold their
interest which affords the chill
dren the greatest joys.
A few oddly-shaped stones or
a curved stick give children as
much pleasure-often more
than a complicated piece Of toy
mechanism.
It's the Imagination that the
child adds to the toy, and not
the toy itself, that gives the
pleasure.
What should particularly be
stressed about toys, however, Is
the avoidance of those that may
do injuryl Each year children
are killed or MANNED because
Of dangerous toys! Boys have
shot each other to death at
play. Children have been
strangled while using the lasso
in a game Of Indians or COW
boys.
We do not wish to rob our
children Of virility, to be sure.
We do not want to make our
boys fearful little sissy types
either, But under the mistaken
idea that dangerous toys de-
velop the instinct of self-preser-
vation and pugnacity, we can
go far afield in the latitude
given play and create a constant
menace to childhood's health
lest activities.
And the fact Is that children
get about as much fun imagin-
ing a piece of wood is a bat
tleax or a sword. as they would
II they had an actual battleax
AOr sword.
When an aroused public
gAadually brought pressure to
be&r in forbidding by law the
saleof fireworks for the Fourth
Of July celebrations sentimen-
talistSs felt an injustice had
been dane. But children man.
age SOMEHOW to enjoy this holi-
day withaut pistols, cannons
and sky rockets.
How oftena parent has really
stinted on other things in order
to buy his boS or girl a costly
toy such as. letus say, a small
automobile, only to find that
after a few days Me child has
set aside the auto AID has tried
to make one like Is out Of a
soap box and = paia of baby
Carria ge wheels.
The Washington times., 1929-12-13

SAT In a small, shadowy
4 room the other day with
skull in my hands. And, as ]
talked to the sman who owned
the skull, the shadows seemed
to come alive and draw close
and listen as chill
dren win draw close and lis
ten when one Is talking about
them.
The man was DR.. David b.
Rogers, curator of the Natural
History Museum, OF Santa Bar
bara, Calf. The skull had be-
longed to another mana
savage who had lived thousands
of years ago In that same place.
All about me were the tools and
possessions which that man, and
his fellow Savages, had left be
hind them. Hunting knives and
arrows, stone bowls for grinding
acorns, wooden bowls for hold
ing blubber fat. baskets for
seeds, dishes of red clay. WOODEN
sleeping mats. ALI those things
which men made to serve their
lives when the world was young.
Easy to see how most of these
things had happened. Crude
things to serve crude needs
the need for food the need
for safety. But there was some
thing else which wasn't so easy
/ to explain the mark Of an
other, subtler need : ! that.
seemed to have no place In
stupid, savage lives
ON ALL THOSE CRUDE
CREATIONS THERE WAS
DECORATION. Sometimes
simple, waving line some
times an intricate, symbolic
pattern. Never necessary, mind
you. Never practically serving
hunger or hate or fear. Some
thing lovely, that had nothing
to do with food or murder :
WHY WAS 1T THERE? The
blade and the dish were obvious
enough. Given supple fingers,
any brute might have made
them to serve identical needs.
BUT WHY WAS THE
BEAUTY?
/ looked down at the skull In
my hands. What had stirred
once in that darkened bowl?
What bright, alien impulse had
disturbed its brutal desires?
What made him want
The Washington times., 1929-12-13

"A master wireless clock, ca.
! pable of controlling watches by
wireless, has been invented in
Russia.
A building material that re-
seInbles marble is being made
at New Orleans. La, from river
and lake sand.
A time switch has been in
vented which can be set to
turn on a parking lamp at any
desired hour TO save motorists
trouble.
The Washington times., 1929-12-13
Protection of Pedestrians

~NE of our citizens associations urges Law 70 rSEuzts
~ pedestrian traffic and to give greater prOeetion s
trans
No consr We suggestion is made to hOw tins mag -
brought abo and ii viii take several profound minds ds
it without u etting existing regulations
Our traffic authorites for long time been lszw
toward regulations to arrest pedestrians who Do wn
with the lights at light controlled intersections nv
Trained from this when became clear that PsdssEus
to cross with the green lights liable 20 be e.
any moment by automobilists turning 70 the right
Efforts in American cities to regulate Pedssta1l -
not been successful except at street crossings eo1t II
traffic officers.
In this city pedestrians have the worst q thi1gl
attempt to cross streets between ntsssctons 49, ~
run down. If they try AZ light oontroled
they have a chance but far from safe II 49, -
cross where cops contro' the signs 10 turrs1 - -.
the middle Of the ard thsv muEt Ets1d - - -
The Washington times., 1929-12-13
THE MARRY
GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland
We Moderns

We MOderns
A WOMAN doesn't seem to
"A think it's a party, these
days, unless she can manage to
get everybody talking about
something vitality interesting
and then turn on the radio
loud enough to drown them out.
A man doesn't give his wife
a new fur coat for Christmas
in order to keep her warm,
dear heart-he gives it to her In
order to keep her QUIET.
In these days. q bigamist Is
merely a man who attempts
to save time by trying out two
wives concurrently, instead Of
trying them out consecutiyely.
All the worlds beautiful
DREAMS seem to be going
blah, at once! The dream that
the speculator could clean up
a fortune in Wall Street: that
prohibition would produce q
new generation that would mot
know the taste of alcohol"
and that femiliisn1 would make
women too sensible ever to go
back to corsets!
Deferring the honeymoon trip
until you can afford 1t is the
modern practical custom. but in
these progressive times a belated
honeymoon is apt to run right
into the divorce.
A machine has been invented
which hands you a collar button
when you drop in a penny. And
now If they can invent one that
viii count the laundry and get
UP and turn on the steam heat,
no man will think that he needs
a wife.
The Washington times., 1929-12-13
DO YOU KNOW THAT

Ethylene gas was used sue
cessfully as an anesthetic to
put plants and animals to sleep
in a laboratory in Los Angeles,
Calf.
According to records, large
proportion of the outstanding
scientific advances in the
United States have been made
by very Young men.
An average OF about 100 pat
ents is Issued daily by the Pat.
ent Office in Washington.
The Washington times., 1929-12-13
Her VOL 'Of ReeOnstrlction.

four pictures printed to emphasize the recupera
tive powers Of the people of France
The war fought French SOIL The French villages
nd cities millions Of French lives were destroyed
The French the Germans and the British lost many lives
Bnt German and British soil were not invaded.
After this war after many other wars, the French
The Washington times., 1929-12-13

Fields that were full Of shell holes smooth the plow
and the harrow have done their work.
Where dying and groanng crops growing
Let hope that the intelligence of the great people Of
Europe viii be- sufficient to keep these fields fertile pre-
vent, hereafter. the murder crop Of war.
The Washington times., 1929-12-13
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

The sight of a drunkard is a
better sermon against that vice
than the best that was ever
preached upon that subject
a.. .-.... Ia. --SMVillm.
The Washington times., 1929-12-13

when two start into the world
ether, he that Is behind, un-
is mind proves generous.
displeased with the
f--Collter.
The Washington times., 1929-12-13
N THE KnI1yG TIME NEAR RHEIMS

Perchero horses his four oxen he be careful for he
turns Shells not yet exploded and dangerous
And occasionally he turns up rolls of barbed wre used for
entanglements
But THE FRENCH HAVE DONE THEIR WORK.
The border vidette., 1929-07-27
LAW AND CUSTOM

Laws that are in opposition to
the customs OF . people can
never be successful.
Anti-pistol laws, advocated as
Q solution Of the crime problem.
are q good example Of Q mistaken
kind of legislation.
In New York. with it's severe
Sullivan Act. possession OF q
pistol or revolver without IL
cense, is q felony. Yet gang
shootings, murders and armed
violence are common. The un.
derworld has never been dis.
armed but a multitude Of law.
abiding citizens who possess
guns for pleasure and protec-
tion, have been made theoretical
criminals.
The Constitution of the United
States guarantees the right to
own arms. II has become, thru
century and q half. q custom
of our people.
A thug or second-story man
who breaks basic laws daily in
pursuit of his profession" is
not to be deferred by anti-pistol
legislation.
Useless and impractical laws
have multiplied and with them
has grown a burden of red tape
aud technicalities that have
clouded justice. Sentimetalists
would turn the most vicious
criminals loose to prey again on
society.
Law. to succeed, must be in
complete accord with the Gus.
toms of q nation. Legislation
which fails to recognize this fact
will fail in preventing, punish.
ing or repressing crime.
The border vidette., 1929-07-27

Holbrook - Proposed paving
and courthouse improvements
plans being made.
Yuma-Building permits for
first six months of 1929 exceeded
those Of previous year by $780,.
0OO.-City Engineer K. Sawyer.
Representatives of New Mex
leo and Arizona will confer on
Gila River project in Phoenix
July 90.
Yuma county receives $l9.532
school fund.
The border vidette., 1929-07-27
DELINQUENT TAXES
Santa Cruz Patagonian)

(Santa Cruz PataGonian)
The following is q list of taxes
due and unpaid as shown by the
records of the County Treas
urer's Office in Santa Cruz coun-
|ty, Arizona:
From the year 1918, to 1929
the total delinquinces is $178,.
700. 43.
The above amounts are taken
from records of the Treasurer's
Office now being compiled for the
purpose OF complying with the
new tax laws blouse Bill No.
127) passed by the last legisla-
ture and now in force and effect.
The amounts set forth are upon
real estate and improvements all
of which will be listed. advertise
ed and tax certificstes sold upon
the same during the month OF
September 1929, under q ruling
of the Attorney General of the
State Of Arizona as follows, viz:
THE first sales OF prop.
erty for delinquent taxes un-
der the provisions Of House
Bill No. 1917 will include all
property on which taxes are
delinquent, although the
taxes are more than FIVE
years delinquent"
Persons owing delinquent tax.
es should visit the Treasurer's
Office and adjust the same at
their earliest convenience in
order to avoid the extra penal
ties that will attach should their
property 60 to q sale. @
The provisions ss set forth in
the law are mandatory upon the
Treasurer with heavy penalties
for noncompliance; it is the in
tention of the Treasurer of Santa
Cruz county to comply strictly
with the law in all cases without
exception.
The Treasurer's Office has not.
ed many cases of delinquent tax
in which the properties have
been transferred and in many
cases we are of the opinion that
present owners are unaware OF
the States lien against their
property. Persons not having
clear abstracts of their proper.
ties will avoid future trouble by
making a check Of same, before
they go to sale.
The border vidette., 1929-07-27
CITY BUDGET
FOR THE YEAR 1929-193O

NorIcE Is HEREBY GIVEN that at meeting of the
Board Of Aldermen OF the City Of Nogaes Santa Cruz
County Arizona held the 9th day of July 1929 esti-
mates made Of the amount required for each item Of
necessary expenditures for City purposes for the ensuing
year, together with estimates of expenditures for the pre-
cedng year. and receipts from other than from
taxation said estimates being as follows:
The border vidette., 1929-07-27

Continued on Page Two)
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-18
Best Tree Planting :
= To Be Demonstrated
To Mckenzie Group

Watford City, N. Dak,. April IA
shelterbelt and tree planting demon
stration will be conducted at the farm
Of Arthur Nelson, five miles north Of
schafer. Wednesday. May !. at .
q. m.
This announcement was made by
H. J. siemens, Mckenzie county agri-
cultural agent.
All farmers in Mckenzie county
who plan to plant trees this spring
are urged to attend the demonstra-
ton and familiarize themselves with
the best methods Of planting.
The demonstration will be conduct.
ed by Lewis Mathews. field agent In
horticulture, Mr.. Nelson and Siemens.
Farmers in The county who viii
plant q cooperative shelterbe]t this
year are N. ]. Peterson and A. Loft
l1us, Wattord City; A. Brandt and M.
L. Holey, Arnegard: w. Ceynar and
A. N. Nelson. Keene: p. F.. Doyle and
A. o. Thompson. Charlson; Q. Peter
son, Cathmere; A. G. Nelson, Schafer:
r. Q. Signalness, Berg; and G. F.
Wells, Fairview.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-18
State HAS $4,000
SHEEP ON ITS FARMS
These Are an Elghty-fifth Of
47,t71. 900 Head IN Entire
.. s., Says y. s. 4. D.

An increase or decrease In the
number Of sheep Of North Dakota
would make little difference to the
industry as = whole in the United
States according to Prof. .. ]. Girls
void. Of the animal husbAndry de-
partment. North Dakota Agricultur-
al college. He bases his opinion OIL
the fact that North Dakota has only
Approximately one eighty filth Of the
sheep in the country.
There were 1900 head Of sheep
In the state Jan. !, 1929. and l7,17l,-
600 head In the United States, ac-
cording to the United States depart
ment Of agriculture figures.
Recent figures quoted from the u.
s. .. A. indicate that the pounds OF
world wool have increased in 1926
over the previous year. The world
wool production for 1923 has been
estimated at 1851 .720, 900 pounds, and
3,4O1 $4,000 pounds for 1927. In
l900-13 the average world wool pro-
duction was 3,l37, ,400, 900 pounds.
A recent statment sent to the press
gave the world wool production as q
decrease from 1921, At. 600 pounds in
1918 to 2.830, $50 900 pounds in 1924.
The statement mentioned that this
was about 90 per cent decrease Of the
annual production before the war. It
should have been IL per cent instead
Of 80.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-18
Christian Endeavor Hosts of N D. to Gather in Bismarck April 26

state, said Breitwieser. have Ill been
met by the university here. and rec
ognition Of them has followed . two
year effort to increase the facilities
available.
California requires all teachers In
high schools to hold masters degrees
granted from schools listed among
accredited American universities.
Four teachers must have been en-
ploycd in the academic college. and
4 definite department or school Of
education must have been incorpor-
ated in the university. say California
regulations. 4
North Dakota graduates Will b
aided BY this recognition from the
California board, points out Breit-
wieser. It indicates. he said, that
rapidly increasing facilities at the
state university here will be given
further recognition by ranking
schools throughout the country.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-18
Mckenzie County to
Conduct Bull Sales

Watford City, N. Oak, April 18.-A
carload Of bulls consisting largely Of
milking 6horthorns ranging IN age
from Il to 18 months will be offered
for sale ut Watford City and Alexan-
der Tuesday and Wednesday. April
% and -, respectively.
Farmers In the districts Of the two
cities who have bulls for sale are
urged to bring their animals to the
two cities on those days. where they
may offer them for sale at their own
prices.
A representative Of the Agriculture
al Credit Corporation will travel with
the train In order to arrange credit
for farmers who wish to make pur-
chases.
Local arrangements are being made
by H. ]. siemens. Mckenzie county
agricultural agent.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-18
Siemens Addresses
Grassy Butte Body

Grassy Butte, N. Dak., April 18-
Outlining the benefits of the crops
standardization project, the cattle tu-
berculosis test, and tree shelterbelt
demonstrations, n. j. Siemens, Nc
kenzie county agricultural agent,
addressed the Grassy Butte local of
the Farmers Union at a recent meet
ing.
Forty members were present, and
President Hoerauf presided at the
session. Oscar johnson was accepted
as new member of the organization.
Following the talk, the organiza-
ton conducted donation sale which
netted the treasury $50, according to
w. H. Nickel, secretary. A luncheon
was served after the program, pro-
ceeds Of which also went to the trea-
sury Of the group.