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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-11
The Electric Wizard
By Archibald Henderson

any successful system Of electri.
cal lighting. He set before him
self the following goal: to invent
a lamp Of comparatively high
resistance, requiring only a small
quantity Of current, and with a
burner having a small radiating
surface.
Carbon was the indispensable
element of success. So he ex-
perimented with innumerable SUBJ
stances, from strips Of carbon to
pieces of carbonized tissue-paper,
burned in the open air and also
In vacuum. He discovered after
a time that he must have q
vacuum far more complete than
any he had hitherto been able to
secure. After making experiment
after experiment, he finally sue
ceeded in producing a vacuum up
to one-millionth part of atmos-
phere. The maintaining of such
a high vacuum was rendered DOS
sible only by Edison's invention
of one-piece, all-glass globe,
Theoretically sealed during it's
manufacture into a lamp. Thus
one part OF this problem was
solved. After trying platinum
and iridium for filaments, he
finally returned to carbon once
more.
ION October 81, 1879" says
Meadowcroft, after many patient
trials. he carbonized a piece of
cotton sewing-thread bent into a
loop or horseshoe form and had
it sealed into a glass globe from
which he exhausted the air until
q vacuum up to one-millionth part
or an atmosphere was produced.
This lamp, when put on the cir
cult, lighted up brightly to in
candescence and maintained its
integrity Tor over 40 hours, and,
10! The practical incandescent
lamp was born. The impossible,
so-called. had been attained: sub
division OF the electric current
was made practicable: the goal
had been reached, and one OF the
greatest feats Of the century was
completed"
The principle was established.
But Edison needed q bulb that
would last q thousand hours. In
the effort to find the right sub
stances and expended a hundred
thousand dollars. Millions Of Edi.
son lamps were made with Jana
nese bamboo filaments, like the
binding Of a palm.leaf fan.
Finally the practical solution
proved to be an artificial fila.
ment. which has gradually super.
seeded the bamboo In the nlanufac-
ture Of lamps.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-11
LISTEN WORLD!

A Wise Woman

CIDNEY WEBB, famous Eng
~ lishman, has been made Baron
Passfield and will take his place
in the house Of lords.
BUT HIS WIFE HAS AN
NOUNCED THAT SHE WILL
NOT BE CALLED LADY PASS
FIELD BUT WILL REMAIN
BEATRICE WEBB.
For years Sidney and Beatrice
Webb have been brilliant work
ers in the British Labor party.
The name Beatrice webb came
to stand for a remarkable person
atty. The woman who bears that
name knows the value of that in
dividuality-she realizes that she
would be sacrificing something
which is vital and valuable to
them both il she merged that name
with her husbands new title. So
she insists on BEING HERSELF.
She's a wise woman. Few of
us would have the courage to
follow her example. II we had the
chance to be "ladied" we'd probably
leap at it, in spite Of our American
democracy. Moreover, sentimen-
tality would urge US to share our
huband's name.
BUT ATRICE WEBB'S
INDEPENDENCE IS MUCH
WISER AND MORE HELPFUL
TO MARRIAGE THAN SUCH
SENTIMENTALITY.
Time was when wives won and
held their places by being Rubber
Stamps to their lords and masters.
But those times have passed. With
the advent Of women in industry,
Carrie came out of the kitchen
with q bang, took her place in the
office and Became Herself.
Men viewed this phenomenon
at first with suspicion and alarm.
1t was extremely Irritating to male
complacency. But presently it be-
came interesting, amusing, actu.
ally alluring. For here was some.
thing with a personality of its
own-something that didn't be.
come tiresome reflection of ones
self-something that STAYED pro.
voking, mysterious, delightful and.
above all, DIFFERENT-som
thing, in short. that made the old.
fashioned yes-wife look like a
dented derby.
Men grew used to it--liked IT.
forthwith began to demand Soma.
thing like that around the home.
There are still men who prefer
Rubber Stamps-whose male ego.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-11

NVdIS is a memorable year In one
IL particular respect. Just so
years ago, to be precise, on Octo-
Der 81, 1S79-a new light came
into the world. 1t seems like a
very small thing-a piece Of car
bombed cotton thread sealed up
inside a little glass bulb from
which the air had been exhausted.
But the turning on of the current
into that little bulb inaugurated a
new era--a new era of living and
in industry-the era of electricity.
Edison is an inventor with
fundamentally practical mind. He
takes no interest in scientific ex-
periments merely because they are
experiments or because they are
scientific. His most characteristic
trait, which we like to think of as
typically American, is practically.
He is not interested in scientific
experiments, however interesting,
if they ''get you nowhere
Andrew w. Mellow has said of
Edison: His goal always has been
some useful objective. Rarely has
he wasted his energies. Having
carefully determined what needed
to be accomplished. he has gone
ahead with the unerring instinct
of a seeker after truth. with an
indomitable spirit for accurate re-
search, with an infinite capacity
for taking pains. Temporary fail
ure has only spurred him to re-
newed activity. Few men have
ever possessed to such striking
degree the practical, driving force
OF the doer. In the record OF his
inventions and improvements rests
the unimpeachable testimony that
he has brought things to pass"
The impressive story Of Edison's
invention of the incandescent light
bulb and the subdivision of the
electric current has wonderful
lesson for every inventor and
every worker in scientific re-
search. Various inventors had
worked on different types of
lamps lighted by electricity. But
they were all, 1t seems. working
on the individual lamp, not on a
general system of electrical illu-
mination. They experimental on
lamps using short carbon rods or
strips for burners, which unfortu.
nately required disproportion-
ately large quantity Of current.
Edison, with his intensely
practical mind, soon realized that
his predecessors were working in
the wrong direction. So he boldly
turned around and faced the
other way. He saw the cost of
conductors must be very low for
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-11
If You Marry a Beauty Queen
Be Cautious, and Faithful.

TT you marry beauty queen her as beauty queen
should be treated.
The Mexican General Noises Vidal married Sonora Teresa
de- Landa crowned Miss Mexico in 1928 at the Galveston
beauty contest.
sH Mexico" found that her husband had been married
Before took his army pistol and shot him. then lying his
eorpse Cred II loved him dearly She's in jail to be tried
8g murder.
Yoa can't win beauty prize without having some tenn
paEament especially in Mexico.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-11
ONCE-OVERS

ISN'T it a fact that you think
i you have not had a fair
chance in the world? You look
back to your school days and
you can pick out those who have
surpassed you in achievement,
Their prospects were no
brighter than yours at the time.
They were no brighter than
you in class, If you could learn
on the run.
Then there were the "dis.
gers" those who would pIod
through their lessons, studvirS
consistently and faithfully.
They did not fit in with thu
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-11

social life of the school, made
up largely of those who avoided
the hard and serious and tried
to get through with as little effort
as possible.
You belonged to the social
spirit and that social spirit you
have carried with you from your
school days.
It is not so pronounced now
because you have more sense,
but it's there.
You are still averse to giving
up your leisure for anything
except what viii bring you
pleasure II
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-11
The Educated Vote
Not So Numerous.

vHE American Church Monthly" edited by DR.. seden
Peabody Dsany has said that the ignorant should not
vote because IAN ignorant and prejudiced with his
prejudcted vote probably does harm than good"
only votes cast by those really educated the total
vote would be small.
The ignorant at least knows whether he WE'LL off
or HARD up, employed or out Of work. WELL paid or
BADLY paid He votes accordingly And that about the
EVeFage Of intelligence in voting
Ask hundred men, not farmers, in any city what the
McNary Haugen bill means or few questions about the
tariff and how much real information you will get Not
MUCH.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-11
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

Curiosity IL only vanity. Most
often we only wish to know in
order to talk about it.-Pascal.
The best way to keep good acts
In memory is to refresh them
with new.-Cato.
Nature has lent us life at IN
terest, like money, and has fixed
no day for its payment. Gray.
Patience is a flower that grows
not in everyone's garden.
-Proverh.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-11

Excellence when concealed diff
fers but little from buried worth
lessness. Horace.
Whatever brushes mans indf-
Viduality is despotism, by what.
ever name it may be called.-Hill.
There il no duty we so much
underrate as the duty of being
happy.-Stevenson.
Much memory. or mertorv Of
many thinss. Is called expert.
ence. '-Hobbes.
The Washington times., 1929-12-23
VICER0Y
BOMBED

DELHI, India, Dec. 20 n.N.S1.
Lord Irwin. vicercy Of India, had
narrow escape from death TO-
day when 8 would-be assassin
threw a bomb which wrecked q
car Of the train upon which the
viceroy was returning here.
The bomb destroyed the restau-
rant car Just two compartments
ahead Of the yiceregal comparts
ment. A train attendant was
injured. The outrage occurred
as the trse1 was nearing the New
Delhi stft on.
The bombing increased the
tenN atmosphere iy1 this section
on the eve Of the Indian national
congress in Lahore.
Lord Twins purpose in coming
here today was to occupy the new
viceregal residence and receive
the extremist leaders. Nahatnla
Gandhi, Pundit, Motilal and
Nehru, In order to exchange
views on midas political future
with them.
Lahore Is heavily policed TO
prevent disorderly outbreaks.
Feeling Is running high there be
tween SiIEns and Hindus as
sembled for the national con-
greSS.
The Washington times., 1929-12-23
Infantry Officers
Are Honor Guests Of
Gen. and Mrs. Fnqua

Mai. Gen. stephen D. Fuqua,
Chief Of Infantry. and Mrs.
Fuoua entertained st tea yes.
terday afternoon from 5 until
4 O'Clock In honor Of the off
GERS Of the infantry and their
wives.
They were assisted in re
ceiving by Col. Reynolds Burt,
president Of the Infantry As.
ISOLATION. and Mrs. Burt, and
Miss jeanette Fuqua.
Alternating at the tea table
were 11rs. Sidney Clonan, Mrs.
Herbert o. williams. Mrs. Frank
Keefer, Miss Katherine Judge,
Mrs. Edward Croft. Mrs. John
L. dewitt, Mrs. Alonzo Gasser
and Mrs. Charles Humphrey.
Major General and Mrs. Flu
qua and Miss FuQua win spend
Christmas at West Point. re-
turning to washington later In
the week.
Tea Today
Mrs. Rutherford B. Lank. jr..
wife Of Constructor L,ank OF
the United states Coast Guard.
is entertaining ut tea today in
the Pan American room Of the
Mayflower in compliment to
her mother, Mrs. j. NJ. Peters.
Of New York city. and her hus-
bands mother. Mrs IN, b. LaIlk.
SRI, Of washington.
Mrs. Lark win be assisted
at the tea. table by Mrs. Fred
erick c. Billiard. wife Of Rear
Admiral Billiard Of the q. s.
Coast Guard. and Q group Of
wives Of other members of the
Coast Guard service. including
Mrs. n. b. Adams. Mrs. Norman
B. Hall, Mrs. 5. A. Hunnewell
and Mrs. G. w. Cairnes!
Miss Julia Wheeler Harris, Of
Bryn Mawr, is visiting her
parents, Senator and Mrs. viii
liam J.. Harris.
MsA
PatrOnesses
Among the patronesses for
the Harvard instrumental Clubs
Concert, which win he given il
the garden room Of the May
flower Hotel, on Monday eve
ming. December 80, will be Mrs.
Charles Francis Adams Mrs.
Charles e. Hughes, jr., Mrs.
Copley An1ory. Mrs. Frederic
Atherton, Mrs. Robert Low
Bacon, Mrs. Perry BelmoHAt,
Mrs. William n, Castle, Mrs.
Dwight Davis, Mrs. Frederick 4.
Delano, Mrs. Charles w. Elliot,
Mrs. Franklin Ellis. Mrs. Hamil-
ton Fish. Mrs. Ralph w. Hal
lett, Mrs. Charles s. EfamIin,
Mrs. Hennen Jennings, Mrs.
jennings Hackett, Mrs. Walter
+. Mccoy, Mrs. Dallas ID. T.. Nc
Grew. Mrs. y. G. MurdOck. Mrs.
Henry B. Spencer, Mrs. Charles
T. Tittlnan, Mrs. Walter Tuck.
ermaIl, Mrs. Charles Warren
and Mrs. Myron w. Whitney.
The Washington times., 1929-12-23
Jackson White
WEEDS f. j. Schniderhan

WINCHESTER, va, Dec. a..
The rectory Of the Roman Catlio-
lie Cathedral Of Harrisburg, Pa.
was the scene Of a quiet wedding
when Mr., Myrtle Jackson White,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Cass jackson, Of Mcdowell
county, w. va, became the bride
Of Felix j. schniderhans, for some
years prominent resident Of Win
chester, Va. The bride and bride
groom viii make their home in
Martinsburg, w. Va, after Jant-
airy Is.
The Washington times., 1929-12-23
Old Infantry Company
Asked to Inaugural

WINCHESTER, Va. Dec. 23.-
Company /, Ileth Infantry, Wiz
giflia National Guard. has tenta.
lively accepted an invitation re-
ceived from the office Of the adtit
tant general at Richmond to take
part IA the inauguration Of Gov
errlor.elect John Garland Poll
ard, at Richmond. January -.
Company / IS one Of the old.
est military organizations in the
state. Members have recently
been issued the new regulation
uniform.
The Washington times., 1929-12-23
Kitchen Worker Burned
RY Water From Kettle

Joseph Grant. IS, yesterday was
severely scalded on his arms
when he tipped over . kettle Of
boiling water while working In
the kitchen Of restaurant In the
200 block Of F'our-and-a-fzalf St..
s. w. He was treated ct Emels
gency Hospital.
The Washington times., 1929-12-23

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Kippy Kit Outfits. brush and shoe pol;sher. .$I.OO
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-09
TEXASBANDIT
MAKES ESCAPE
Bells Bank Robbed Of $500
By Lone Man Who Heads
Toward Denison

DENISON, Tex, April 9.-P)-
After an all-night search of the
wooded section on Choctaw Creek,
near here, officers had failed to
find any trace of a man who yes
terday robbed a bank at Bells OF
500, and fled as a motor bus pass
enger after wrecking his own auto
mobile. The robber was said to
have jumped from the bus and dis
appeared into the Choctaw bottoms
as the vehicle approached Denison.
Z Officers continued today to guard
all bridges and roads in the vicinity
of the creek, which has been at
flood stage after recent heavy rains,
in the hope the man may still be
hiding in the underbruSh.
Only two employees, Paul Wilson,
teller, and Joe Hughes, cashier,
were in the institution, the state
bank of Bells, when the robber en-
tered. They were forced into the
banks vault, and later were liber-
alter by pasersby who heard their
cries.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-09
LONG TRIAL
TOBER RESUMED
Testimony on Second of 10
Counts To Be Taken;
Governor Fighting

BATON ROUGE, La, April g.
up After a weekend recess
Louisiana'S house of representatives,
which turned Governor Huey r..
Long over to the senate for trial,
Will reconvene tonight to take up
additional charges of impeachment.
The committee OF the whole will
resume taking Of testimony~ep the
second of nineteen counts - GRIM
inal and petty official --genseS
charged against the governor.
The first Indictment sent late
Saturday to the senate charged the
Louisiana executive with intimidat-
ing G. P. Manship, Baton Rouge
publisher, because of editorial at
tacks in his newspapers against
passage at the special session of the
proposed tax on oil refineries.
The senate will reconvene Thurs
day with Chief Justice Charles a.
O'Niell of the state supreme court
presiding. to decide on procedure,
set a date for the trial and await
further action from the house on
additional counts.
James j. Bailey, secretary of the
senate, expressed opinion that I'M
less certain epithets in the testi-
mony attributed to Governor Long
were deleted from the record, the
journal of the house could not be
sent through the mails.
"A weekend Of recreation and
conferences with his lieutenants to
regain his shattered lines Of battle
refreshed the defendant governor
for a new counter attack.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-09
, MOnE \
HSlDEaGH1S
AT III CAPITOL

Musical comedy through the
world can have its daring dancers
and soothing syncopation, but it is
doubtful if any show has ever pro-
duced a more glorious galaxy of
beautiful chorus girls than are to
be seen in Metro-G Mayors
all-talking, singing and dancing
picture, THE Broadway Melody"
now playing at the Capitol theater.
A bevy of sixty beautiful sirens
weaving to and fro to the rhyth-
mic strains Of specially written
musical numbers will be seen and
heard in one sequence, photograph
ed in Technicolor, while the revue
proper displays a troupe of spe-
cialty dancers who display for the
first time the Tampa STEP" ere
ated by the well-known George
Cunningham, originator Of "off
beat" rhythm in stage dancing.
Anita Page and Bessie Love ap-
pear as sisters in a cleverly COM
posed sister act" which is a COM
plete flop when given a tryout at
dress rehearsal. Charles King, cele-
brated Broadway baritone and mu-
steal comedy star, is seen in the
male lead as a small town song
ambulance man. who eventually
falls in love with the younger
sister
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-09
END
OF RANK ROW
Sir Esme Howard Leads Dis.
cussion of Question In
2-Hour Farley

WASHINGTON, April 9.-(P)-
Prospects of an early settlement Of
the capitals social upheaval over
the rank of Mrs. Edward Everett
Gam. sister and official hostess of
Vice-President Dawes, as a guest at
official functions, were seen today
in the decision of the diplomatic
corps to ask Secretary StimSon for
a definite ruling.
The diplomats discussed the
problem for two hours last night
at a meeting called by Sir Esme
Howard, the British ambassador, as
dean of the corps. They agreed
that, in view of the protest by
Vice-President Curtis against the
ruling issued by former Secretary
Kellogg placing Mrs. Cams social
rank below that of the wives of
diplomats-and. incidentally, the
wives Of cabinet members and SEN
ators-Sr Esme should take up the
matter with the new secretary.
Because Of the large number Of
social functions planned before the
vacation season begins, it was
thought a definite ruling was
more desirable than efforts to avoid
embarrassment by arranging guest
lists so they would not include both
diplomats and the vice president.
Such a course, it was felt, might
have little or no effect except to
add one more complication to the
already extremely complex prob
lem of social rank in Washington,
especially in view of the claims Of
the chief justice and speaker of the
house of representatives to SOCIAL
rank equal to that Of diplomats.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-09
GERMANS WIN
TACT SKIRMISH
Allies Seek More Now Than
At End Of War, Schacht
Learns In Maneuver

PARIS. April ~9.-(P)-Germans
have secured. a tactical advantage
in maneuvers attending the con-
ference of experts on reparations
which delegates of the allied ma
tions today were trying to over
come.
The advantage was an outgrowth
of questioning by DR.. Hjalmar
Schacht, president of the Reichs-
bank recently of the allied dele
gates as to expected size and total
of reparations disbursements
sought by their countries.
These figures, once obtained,
staggered the Germans, who found
them not only far in excess of what
they were willing to offer-albeit
they had never made any definite
offer-but considerably in excess of
the $500, 000, 900 marks ($625, 0O0,-
O00) annuitieS specified in the
Dawes plan. 1t was because OF
allied recognition of the burden
someness of the Dawes plan annui-
ties-or a purported willingness to
be 'shown-that the conference was
called.
The unreasonableness Of the sit
uation was apparent at once to both
the allied delegates and to the
Germans who were placed in a posi-
ton in which they could accuse
the allied nations of seeking even
more from them than at the end
of the war.
Today the allied delegates
counter move took the form Of
private meetings to see if each ma
ton could not SO slash its claims
as to reduce materially the total
as they we're given to DR.. Schacht.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-09
BOY N TO VISIT
FATHER THIS SUMMER

BUCHAREST, Rumania, April 9.
@[P)-There were reports in reliable
circles today that King Michael
would go to Bled, Jugo-Slavia, sum-
me- home of King Alexander, in
July to meet his father, Carol who
is residing in France. Recently he
was reconciled with his mother,
Queen Marie.
Princes Mother Helen will not
accompany Michael. She has been
formally divorced from Carol and
has never forgiven him for his de-
sertion and destruction of her
chances of becoming queen of Ru-
mania.