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The Washington times., 1929-12-14
Unlighted Portables Menace to
School Children's Eyes

LAIR samples Of dark winter days in Washington
Thursday and yesterday. They samples too, Of
what these kind Of days do to the eyes Of Washington school
children in unlighted portable school buildings.
In one Of these miserable makeshfs and doubt In many
Others children unable read their text books Thurs
day afternoon dark when the time to dismiss
pupils that teacher had flashlights aid in locating
hats and coats.
Public and private buildings well lighted with cleo
hicity during these dark hours
children whose should be protected to the
most yet made that these buildings not be
lighted owing fire department regulations because they
are temporary. 4,
There Is much shifting Of responsibility for school Affairs
but this matter the facts be asceained beyond question
Representative Simmons Of the House Committee ApprO-
prations Is earnest honest friend Of District schools He
knows the subject in every detail He may not be in agree
ent with other officials responsibility for backwardness
u school construction but he sincere and well meaning
Mr. simmons going into this question Of lighting in port
able buildings serious damage to chdren eyes, and failure
TO get full school benefits cloudy dark days This news
paper perfectly willing to leave the question in the hands of
Mr.. Simmons.
The Washington times., 1929-12-14

If one clause in the Constitution could be changed,
another could be changed Why should Senators from
the North West South everywhere outside Of Pennsyl
vania have right to say to the people of Pennsylvania
"You can't send this Senator to represent your State
because we don't like him. He can't come in. Send
us another that we DO like"
The people by Constitutional Amendment # neces-
sary should change the rules making THEIR approval
sufficient to give his seat in the Senate without
asking permission of Senators from other States
Representation in the Senate is not luxury it is the
RIGHT of each State.
Each State has a right to two men in the Senate
protecting the States interests.
A system that makes it possible to substitute as
Senator lobbyist in place of man elected by the
people is bad system
TT OUGHT TO BE CHANGED.
State should not be deprived Of the right to select
it's own representatives either to the Senate or the
House of Representatives.
Election in accordance with the law should be suf
fcent to guarantee seat The Senate House should
have nothing to say about it, unless iegaties in the
election can be proved
And in that it should be fought out in the
courts, not in the light of Senatorial prejudices
The Washington times., 1929-12-14

MIND AS SURELY AS YOU
CAN SHUT Al DOOR. AND
YOU SHOULD SHUT YOUR
MIND TO MANY THOUGHTS
WHICH YOU NOW ALLOW
TO ENTER.
Take q cross section Of the
thoughts which are filling your
mind at present. Look them
over honestly, courageously.
Decide which thoughts are do
ing YOU good ]. which aren't.
That will be hard. for some Of
our most destructive thoughts
had 3 noble beginning. The
grief over a dead child. these
thoughts were sacred at their
source. BUT THEY CAN CLOG
LIFE. /. THEY CAN WASTE
AND DEMORALIZE YOU.
AS SURELY AS THE MOST
EVIL SPECULATION.
Put them away from you.
Deny them entrance. say
THEY SHALL NOT PASSi"
Then stick to itl
The Washington times., 1929-12-14
WINNERS AND WINNERS
By Herbert kaufman.

A CORRESPONDENT in Miami Fa suffering neither from
the handicaps of iteracy physical disability thinks
lit disgrace to humanity that who willing to work.
add their many other fears the fear of poverty
1T quite obvious he continues in part that the multi
tude viii remain just as they
Why attempt this worldwide condition by
advocating more just distribution of wealth and the de-
veopment Of natural talents instead Of forcing to work
at something Just to keep body and soul together?
Helen Keller for one might the gentleman the
Of developing natural talents and contrast her
abysmal poverty with his auent estate She could show him
the bricks she has made without the saws Of sight, speech
hearing and suggest that people who aren't deaf dumb and
blind sorry picture when they protest Of lack Of
opportunity to develop talents while she with 40 per cent
of normal operating capital has qualified for university de-
Her views the relative merits Of swedenborgs doctrines
Baais indicate that doggedne make hay without
sunshine leave every gutter and squear
earth without valid albi for failure to perform.
The gentleman also bames society for the crime Of permit
ting some to have millions while others have merely grouches
Anayzing the higher brackets Of the nations income tax
payments one discovers practically every
contemporary began life with bare hands negligible schooling
and consuonay issued license to far as he pleased
For example the founder of the A. ri chain hadn't
single advantage any other grocers clerk Of his time
But he hadn't froriy complex and because he
wasn't dog in the manger the little shop in which he in-
vested few years modest savings has expanded into ys
tenn with 900 branches and annual sales Of billion dollars
Dasa n. ~ g 81 J @
migrant unable to speak word Of English friendless wa
alien assuredly had prospects this critic Of
Nor had Marshall FIELD nor Adam Gimbel nor John Wana.
maker They simply tried harder used the wits that God gave
them and served confidence instead Of envy.
The Chryser factories and skyscrape erected with
daylaborer tools Henry Ford hadn't helping hand but
his own.
Julius Rosenwads father may have been putOaic enough
to own and buggy but O. Penney folk couldn't af
nplate the spoon which his ambitions teethed
And democracy requires further exhibits to vndicae its
mpartiaity Herbert Hoover quondam orphan des
tute Of influence assets and apparent upon
his own at the age OF 1Otees from the White
America still keeps faith with the tradition that
wholesouled effort shall be prejudiced by initial peny
obscurity deprivation.
'Go to the ant thou sluggard Your Indictment Is dis
missed for lack Of supporting evidence.
Nothing holding you down except warped attitude Of
mind You re looking for chance but the privilege
Of shaking the plum trees that other have planted and
cultivated.
Nobody with tin cup in his brain Is seriously bent upon
bettering his circumstances
Herbert
The Washington times., 1929-12-14
RECENT incident in politics makes the people
do some hard thinking

RECENT incident In politics makes the people
~ do some hard thinking.
Mr.. Ware was elected Senator from Pennsyl-
vania There is no doubt about THAT. He got the !.
votes and the people of Pennsylvania in casting their
votes indicated that they wanted him in the Senate
That election in Pennsylvania political race
and also good deal of MONEY race.
It was shown that Mr.. Ware spent than 100000
In the course Of his campaign.
It was also shown that his competitors, defeated,
SPENT MORE THAN HE DID
His money and that of his friends and supporters was
not spent to buy votes but to promote an energetic
political campaign with advertising, crcularzng send
ing out letters, etc.
There may have been direct use Of money among
voters but little any the part of any candidate
Political business is not done in that way at present
In big industrial cities do not walk to the polls get
So and vote accordingly.
ORGANIZATIONS control votes, political leaders
have their employees taken of" the public pay
rolls The employees have families and great voting
organization is built up.
Senator Ware was ELECTED SENATOR by those
that have the legal right to vote in the State OF
Pennsylvania
The Washington times., 1929-12-14

A NOBLE phrase came out
n Of the late war THEY
SHALL NOT PAESl"
That phrase lifted men out Of
decentralization, tightened their
strength, shot them through to
victory.
1t can do the same for you.
Your life is as truly a battle
field as war Verdun, but you
face infinitely more dangerous
foes than the Allies ever faced.
Their foes were men and bullets
and gas. Deadly as was that
combination, it cannot compare
with the viciousness Of your
enemy THE ENEMY OF
YOUR OWN THOUGHTS.
Z The most malicious thing you
will ever have to face in life
lies within you in your own
mind, in the thoughts you
allow TO enter and generate in
your own mind. You don't
like 10 acknowledge that You
like to blame your bad luck on
The Washington times., 1929-12-14

When he reached Washington the Senate said "You
can't have your seat, we don't like you we don't like
the way you were elected"
Perhaps the Senate's judgment was sound. This is
not written in defense of MIR. Ware. He may be
combination of everything undesirable, BUT THE
PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA ELECTED HIM
The question is What right hare Senators merely because
they don't like to exclude from Congress representative
that the UOtes of State send to Washington not By cOpu
sion wholesale bribery, BUT OF THEIR OWN FREE
WILL?
If you ask how happens that Senator elected by
the people be thrown out, without giving
PARTICULAR reason, or ANY reason, by Senators
from other States the is the Senate is the final
Judge of it's own membership"
And the reply to that is that the Constitution well
the Senate belongs to the people of the United States
NOT to gentlemen that the people elect
The Constitution decreed in the beginning that
Senators be elected by the Legislatures The idea was
that especially intellectual personages in the Legislature
would be able to pick out superior Senators better than
the common people.
The people, discovering that with money could
buy Legislature the boss that owned it and elect
himself to the Senate decided that they would change
that and have Senators elected directly by the people,
That was done.
The Washington times., 1929-12-14
Hearst Papers Advocate

|. An agreement of Enghsh-speakng peoples to pre-
serVe pedta among themselves and to promote the
peace Of the pOOrId.
q Proportional representation the United States
Senate, no State to haze Tess than tho Senator's.
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
portionHeeat IN the House of Representatives.
8. separate Department Of the Army, Of the Navy.
and OF the Air Forces, all united under Secretary
OF NGttdh6I Defense.
A. Federal action to the limit Of Federal pos0ers to
abolish iGterGcy IN the United States under Secre
tGYy Of Education.
s. Election OF Congress In NoUember. Installation on
the first of January foHoWng. Inauguration of the
President first of January nert after November
election.
The Washington times., 1929-12-14
Mail Them Now
Christmas Il Coming.

DosTlEAsTER Mooney urges You TO do your Christmas
shopping now, and equally important, to MAIL your
Christmas cards and parcels you buy them.
Christmas falls Wednesday The Postcffice win be
Diosed on that day and the Sunday preceding.
Put yOur gifts In the mail promptly That viii insure de-
very in time and viii tighten the burden Of thousands Of
postal clerks whom this long hours Of
hausting labor.
Don't delay Wrap carefully, address plainly stamp suf
ciently-and mail
The Washington times., 1929-12-14

Perhaps not. BUT YOU.
CAN HELP WHAT YOU
THINK.
You have as much ability to
decide what you viii think as
you have to decide what you
win eat or wear or do.
You can definitely say''I
WILL think this. Il WILL
NOT think thatl" And having
said this, you can do it. That
power, to control thought is as
truly given TO you as the power
to open or shut your mouth, sit
or stand, run or walk.
YOU CAN SHUT YOUR
The Washington times., 1929-12-14

outward circumstances. But
actually the cause for most oS
your grief lies within yourself,
lies In the thoughts you feed
yourself.
Cowardly thoughts, conceited
thoughts, suspicious, YindictiYe,
hateful thoughts; thoughts Of
vain grief and vain remorse,
jealous and envious thoughts,
Self-pitying thoughts. and, above
all. SELFEXCUSING thoughts
these are the real forces
which undermine and frus-
trate your life.
"But I can't help thinking" /"
you say.
The Washington times., 1929-12-14
DO YOU KNOW THAT

The Welding Of Princess
Marie Jose Of Belgium, and
Crown Prince Humbert, Of
Italy, is set for January 3, the
birthday Of Queen Elena, Of
Italy.
Modern six.inch antiaircraft
artillery guns have a range up
to as high as $1,000 feet.
The Washington times., 1929-12-14

Argentina has become the
worlds largest grain exporter,
ranking first in the exports Of
corn and flaxseed, and third in
wheat,
Peddlers Of religious objects
and postcards and miscellan.
eous souvenirs are to be barred
In Vatican City, Italy.
The Washington times., 1929-12-14

No society can surely be
flourishing and happy Of which
the far greater part of the
members are poor and nnlser-
able. smith.
The Washington times., 1929-12-14
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

There is something IN the
heart OF everything, If we can
reach IL, that VIC shall rot be
inclined to laugh at.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-21

gest that all was not well. "Hullo,
guv'nor."
"Hows everything at Blandings?"
Lord Ellsworth was not the man TO
exhibit the vultures gnawing at his
heart to a blabber like the Honorable
Freddie. He replied, though it hurt him
to do so, that everything was excellent.
Good OH" said Freddie. "Is the old
Gosshouse full up at the moment?"
If" replied his lordShip, you are
abiding to. BlandingS Castle, there is
nobody at present staying here, except
myself and Gertrude. "Why?" he add
ed, in quick alarm. Were you think
ing of coming down?"
"Oh, no." cried his son. with equal
horror. 81 mean to say, I'd love to, but
just now I'm too busy with Dog-Joy."
Who is Popjoy?"
"Popjoy? Popjoy? Oh-ah, yes. He's
pal Of mine and, as you've plenty OF
room, want you to put him up for
bit. Nice chap. You'll like him. Right
no, then, I'll ship him of on the three
fifteen"
Lord Ellsworth had just recovered
enough breath for the delivery Of a
blistering refusal to have any friend OF
Freddie's within SO miles of the place,
when the other spoke again.
Hell be company for Gertrude"
And at these words a remarkable
change came over Lord Ellsworth. His
face UNFINISHED itself. The basilisk glare
died out Of his eyes.
BLESS my soul! That's true" he ex-
claimed. That's certainly true. So he
will. The three fifteen, did you say?
will send the car to Market Blandings
to meet it,"
Company for Gertrude? A pleasing
thought. Somebody to take Gertrude of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-21
MINING HEROES NAMED

into the hell of fire on the surface. The
rescued men dashed out and, with Bel
lah, made their way to safety just before
the headframe, with roar and great
cloud of smoke, collapsed and fell down
into the shaft.
1t Is not always, however, that the
courage of the rescuer ends SO happily.
Take the case of Zeno Daley, an Apache
Indian, employed at the Magma Cop
per Co.'S mine at Superior, Ariz. A
fire broke out in No. shaft on NO
yember "a, 1927, entrapping 49 men
underground Daley sought to 60 to
their rescue. Frantic efforts to signal
the men brought no response.
Something had to be done, and Daley
tried to the best of his ability to do it.
He offered to go below, down into that
column of smoke and fire, to see If any
way remained to bring the 49 to the sur
face. His offer, was accepted in des-
paration, although it seemed hopeless.
He entered the cage and gave the signal
to lower him.
Poor Daley never came back. On
the way down the cable parted, burn"
ed to the point where it no longer
could support the weight Of the cage.
At the bottom of the shaft Daley paid
the supreme sacrifice. His heroism
brought poSthumous award OF gold
medal and his name is written on
the rolls Of heroes who gave their all.
Less spectacular but just as courage
GUS was the attempt of John Stubble-
field, David Keener and Louis Thomp-
son to rescue Michale Mccain. fire
boss at the Usage No. coal mine IN
Krebs, Okla. A fire had been burn
ing for three days In the mine and
Mccain went in for an exploration to
determine the extent Of the damage
and what steps should be taken TO
make the mine safe for the resumption
Of work McCann, however, had gone
in too soon, and he collapsed from the
effects of the gases that filled the mine.
When he failed to return, the three,
knowing their danger, went In TO ma
the FIRE boss. They found him and
started out, but failed to make It and
they, too, fell unconscious. Emile Du
Pree, who already holds the gold medal
for life saving, organized second res
cue party and they, with q far less
hazardous task, managed to bring al
four to the fresh air and revive them:
Thompson, like Du Pree, already mao
received the gold medal, but the otner
two, Stubblefield and Keensr, MAD
never attained the coveted trophy. The
association deemed their act worthy o.
recognition and added their names 70
the list ct the hereiei
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-21
COMPANY FOR GERTRUDE
the Matter Freddie Yielded No One and
This Was His Great Opportunity.
ByP G. Wodehouse

record straight, and yet he cannot take
any one particular moment OF time,
pin 1t down for the scrutiny Of poSterity
and say, This was the moment when
Lord Ellsworth, for the first time,
found himself wishing that his guest
would tumble out OF an upper window
and break his neck"
To his lordship it seemed that this
had been from the beginning his con-
slant day dream, but such was not the
case. When, on the second morning
of the others visit, the luncheon gong
had found them chatting in the library
and the young man, bounding up, had
extended hand like ham and, plac-
ing it beneath his hosts arm, gently
helped him to rise, Lord Ellsworth had
been distinctly pleased by the courteous
attention.
But, when the fellow did the same
thing day after day. night after night,
every time he caught him sitting; when
he offered him an arm to help him
across floors; when he assisted him
upstairs. along corridors, down paths,
out of rooms and into raincoats, when
he came galloping out of the house
laden down with rugs, muffiers, hats
and, on one occasion, blasted reSpi-
rator-Why, then, Lord Ellsworth re-
belled. He was q tough old gentleman
and, like most tough old gentlemen,
did not enjoy having his juniors look
upon him as something pathetically
helpless that crawled the earth waiting
for the end.
It had been bad enough when Ger
trude was being the little mother. This
was infinitely worse.
And then, on top Of all this. there
occurred the episode of the stepladder.
The Hon. Freddie Threepwood, who
had decided to run down and see
how matters were developing, learned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-21

THE heroism of the battlefield and
L the stormy wave; the fortitude of
the pioneer of the frozen North; the
courage of the airman making his
perilous flights over seemingly endless
stretches of water in land plane or
over rugged mountains where no air
ship could land in safety; the thrilling
rescue by the fireman, the pollcemans
battle to the death with the gangsters-
all these have been sung by the poet
or painted in glowing colors by the
writer's of romantic prose, and fiction.
Yet the spectacular featS which have
been heralded far and wide are ranked
alongside little daily incidents in which
man CANDLES with his life that other
men in danger may live-acts Of hero
ism even in the griny, black depths OF
the coal and metal mines, where only a
handful may know OF these glorious
deeds.
That the Nation may be informed
about these heretofore unsung heroes OF
the Nations great mineral industries,
the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Associa-
ton has established series OF medals
and diplomas to be issued to recognize
life-saving activities of the men who
dig that the rest of the land may be
warm and that the hungry mouths OF
the smelling furnaces and the steel
mills may be satisfied.
The Joseph A. Holmes Safety Asso-
citation was named in honor OF the first
director of the United States Bureau OF
Mines. Department of Commerce. and
works in close conjunction with the
bureau. A meeting of the officials OF
the association was recently held here,
at which medals and diplomas were
awarded to a number of miners and
mine officials. Many of the citations
which accompanied the rewards contain
all the plot that is needed for many
.hriller. It might be added in passing
that large proportion OF the rewards
went to Indians and Mexicans In the
mines of Arizona.
An outstanding incident and one that
brought gold medals to an Indian. E. J:
Pellah, and Michael Marchello occurred
at Teejon copper mine in Gleeson, Ariz.
Bellah had the highly important post
of hoistman. It is not every man who
can turn a lever who can also run a
hoist. It is job that calls for much
precision, one that requires, when the
need arises, that the operator drop his
cage like a bullet to the bottom of the
shaft, vet ease OF the speed without
damage to the cage or injury to the
occupants, and bring 1t safely to halt
iust at the bottom Of the shaft. SINH
iarly, he must bring It to the surface
like rocket, but a rocket that comes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-21

and Rupert stood there for bit, sort
of talking, and then he suddenly re-
membered and told Uncle Clarence that
you had just phoned that you were
coming down, and think Uncle Clar-
ence must have got touch of cramp,
because he gave groan and sort Of
uuivered all over. This made the steps
wobbIe, of course, so Rupert dashed for
ward to steady them, and he doesn't
know how it happened, but they sud-
denly seemed to sort of shut up like a
pair Of scissors, and the next thing
we knew Uncle Clarence was sitting on
the grass, not seeming to like it much.
He had ricked his ankle a bit and
shaken himself up a bit, and altogether
he wasn't fearfully sunny. Rupert may
have lost ground little"
Freddie pondered with knit brows.
Its such a pity 1t should have hap
pened. One of the county tax collectors
here has just been told by the doctor
that he's got to retire. If only Rupert
could have had that, we could have got
married. However, he's bought Uncle
Clarence some lotion"
Freddie started. 'Lotion?"
For his ankle"
"He couldn't have done better" said
Freddie warmly. Apart from showing
the contrite heart, he has given the
gov'nor medicine and medicine to the
CUR nor is what catnip Is to the cat.
Above all things, he dearly loves anna
teur doctoring."
X
TN predicting that Lord Ellsworth
would appreciate the gift of lotion,
Freddie had spoken with an unerring
knowledge of his fathers character. The
master of Blandings was one of those
fluffy-minded old gentlemen who are
happiest when experimenting with
strange drugs. In a less censorious age
he would have been Borgia. It was
not until he had retired to bed that he
discovered the paper-wrapped bottle on
the table by his side. Then he remem-
bered that Popjoy had mumbled some
thing at dinner about buying him some
thing for his injured ankle. He exam
ined the contents of the bottle with
satisfaction. The liquid was q dingy
gray. The name on the label-Blake's
Balsam-was new to him.
His ankle had long since ceased to
pain him, and to some men this might
have seemed an argument against
smearing it with balsam; but not to
Lord Ellsworth. He decanted liberal
dose into the palm of his hand. It had
q strong, robust, bracing smell. He spent