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The Washington times., 1930-01-04
WHAT THE WINDS SANG
Rn Herbert KanfntaIl-

Asst night the winds sang TO you They croonsh at Ne
windows and called down the chimnsyA sObbng the Oldest
music in the wOrldwistu and eee largos Of the usdOBs
and the never-can-be-again.
There aren't words with which to phrase the burden Of
their melodies at sound Of which old wounds dulled with the
chill Of time ache open and voices Wonderland seek
the why and the wherefore things that sasd yestsrday
and make the best in you blush for the worst Of you
only pass were reparae and wantOn steps might be re-
traced and bruised could be picked from the cutters
whers hcughleness tossed them TO be ceansed Of their
soill
But ii isn't 50 much what you did that hurts; Ii nt the
reckless impulses Of the mediated wrongsbut what you
neglected.
There are flowers that have whered these many, many
years in the gardens Of memory.
There sweet clean visions Of youth which your thoughts
have long since ceased 10 haunt.
There lonely mounds in quiet acres marked by rain
stained slabs around which grass grows wild and weeds have
found root
And the winds trying to tell yOu-tyng to say that
there still hme-time to remember
Not with ostentation and cheap parade Of pride Real
monuments can't be built Of stone.
Memorials Of painted glass tablets to vanity from
which strangers may learn the lavshness the depth Of
your emotion.
you would build windows to memory set them up
within impoverished soul gofy love that passed beyond
woman Is lying in bald bare room, rocked with
fever tonbeween need and serespect shuddeng for fear
that she must yet knock at the gates Of charity
There's bed in wholesome sunswept hospital which
Memory might send her in token Of devotion another
influence makes you pause in the blind grind Of
money making long enough to place shaft Of gratitude in
strangers heart and to rear it there in her
boy viii shiver in the early cold this morning and perhaps
trudge through slush while you lie snug between blankets
wee bit Of adone of fortunes epchildrenone Of the
pabe cogs in the wheels that turn to help your leisure
There brother in the long ago-ust about his age
And when the light died out Of those bonny eyes and he
went Y > -
But what's the trying to bring all this back to you?
The winds have sung it until they a-weary They've
grown tired pleading your window you never heard
them and never will.
You wept for q day and you yearned for week.
Then back into the whirling swiriing pleasure glad profit
fn4o
back selfish rvingback to SNUG content back to gross
and bunting indulgence
Meanwhile the mound stays hidden under the ragged
And the shaft beneath the expresses grows thicker
with
Oh well you just keep forgetting wish that the in
fernal wind would stop rattlng the shutters
tcopyright 1922 By the Kanfma
The Washington times., 1930-01-04

j past, the standards by which
she judged any new neighbor.
So, bitterly. she condemns this
newest, largest neighbor as cold.
callous, heartIess and deter
mines to fight the battle
alone"
You know the rest of the
story. You've seen them fight
ing that battle, growing more
bitter, suspicious and reSentful.
every day. Gradually, in time,
getting Q grim satisfaction out
of their own hate q per-
verted pride out Of their own
paint.
AND ALL THE TIME THEY
THINK THEY'RE SETTING
UP A FINE, BRAVE RECORD
FOR THEIR CHILDREN TO
FOLLOW.
Poor, tangled spirits /"
they couldn't set q worse. It
isn't wise to stop expecting
kindness " nor brave to
armor oneself against humanity.
We are all a part Of each other
and we cannot exist, normally.
without each other. The life
that cuts itself off from other
lives, decays as surely as q limb
that is cut off from a body.
But suppose people won't
help?
People viii help If you give
them a chance, partner. But
you've got to use both sense and
patience in dealing with them.
You can't expect the same lei
surely, personal attention on
Broadway that you received
across the back fence down
home. And It's plain, poisonous
egotism to expect people TO
climb over barriers Of suspicion
and resentment to get at you
and your trouble. But, If YOU
don't set up . lot Of unreason-
able demands, you can always
bank on human kindness,
Leave the hearts door open
and love will find you. Shut
that door and life will stagnate
in you.
And the child suffers even
worse than the adult when love
is shut out. To such a child the
world becomes q jungle beset
by foes. He enters 1t abristle,
suspecting every person he en-
counters. Nothing a mother
may ever give her child can
compensate for the harm she
does him If she makes him live
with hate.
The Washington times., 1930-01-04
Universe Of Stars
By Archibald Henderson, Phi. D., LII. d.

era1 rule, the stars do not cI.
ceed ten times the suns weight.
A very wide variation occurs
In the luminosity of the stars.
The most luminous star known,
S, Qonadus, has $40 ,n00. times
the luminosity of the sun, It
is $4,000, ,O00, 900 times as lllrni-
nous as the fatntest known
star, Wolf 359.
AS Jeans says: 81
II the sun suddenly started
to emit as much light and heat
as S .Donadus, the temperature
of the earth and everything on
1t would run up to about 1000
degrees, so that both we and
the solid earth would disappear
into q cloud of vapor. On the
other hand. If the SUMS ennis
sion Of light and heat were
suddenly to sink to that of
Wolf $50, people at the earth's
equator would find that their
new sun only gave as much
light and heat at midday as q
coal fire a mile away; we should
all be frozen solid, while the
earth's atmosphere would sur
round us in the form Of an
ocean Of liquid air."
There Is also o very wide
range In surface radiation and
temperature. The two constitu-
ents Of ,Plaskett's star have
more than rs and IS times the
suns weight. respectively; but
this star Is credited with a tenn
perature of $4,000 degrees-or
about five times that Of the
sun. At the other extreme,
stellar temperatures ranging
down to about $500 degrees are
comparatively common. The sur
face temperature of q certain
type Of stars. known as long
period variables, ranges as low
as 1850 degrees, which Is only
slightly above the temperature
Of an ordinary coal fire.
The Washington times., 1930-01-04
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

Speak always according to
your conscience, but do it in
terms Of good nature and mod
esty and sincerity.
-Aurelius.
Law is the science In which
the greatest powers Of the un-
derstanding are applied to the
greatest number Of facts.
johnson.
The truest characters Of igno-
rance
Are vanity and pride and ar
rogance. Butler.
Praise was originally q pen.
siou paid BY the wurld-SWtft.
The Washington times., 1930-01-04
LISTEN WORLD!
Expect Kindness!
By Elsie Robinson

CHE thinks she Is waging q
~ great fight for her boy. Yet,
poor soul, If she were feeding
him daily doses Of poison she
couldn't be doing . greater
harm.
Three years ago her husband
was killed and she and her
9-year-old son were left penni-
less.
we soon discovered" she
writes, that our friends were
only fair weather ones, so I
made up my mind to fight the
battle Of life alone, without de
pending on anyone. At present
I'm working from 7::3O q. m. to
10 p. m. every day, including
Sundays, running q store. AND
THE ONLY PLACE I'VE
LOOKED FOR SYMPATHY
WAS IN THE DICTIONARY. /
try to be father as well as
mother to my boy. He's too
little yet to know what it's all
about. Some day he may be
able to remember his mother
WHO GAVE. ALL AND EX.
PECTED NOTHING"
Can't you see the picture?
!" such 8 pitifully common
one. Suddenly, into a guarded
life, the shock Of death, the
nightmare of poverty. Then the
brave determination to go on
alone and the gallant entry
into that working world of
which she knows SO little. And
then, swiftly = > disillusion-
rllent!
No man can possibly under
stand what that effort and dis
ilIusionment means to q woman
who has never worked before
and who must face life, without
training. to support her child.
10 8 man the worlds iYnper.
sonality is q normal and ex-
pected thing. But. to such q
woman : and there are
thousands Of them in these
chaotic days that i'm
personality is a monstrous, indi.
vidual affront.
At home she mattered so
much now she doesn't
matter at all! At home there
was some one who cared. Now
nobody cares. She has had no
experience by which she may
understand this alien attitude.
She can only use the standards
by which she has lived in the
The Washington times., 1930-01-04

TSFIE extraordinary range in
values among the stars, in
size, weight, density, luminosity,
radiation and other respects, sf-
fords us one. Of the best pos.
sible proofs that this is indeed
- universe III. which we live.
AS Jeans says, In his "The Uni
verse Around U.s." We can tell
d sensational story by contrast.
ing extremes. The following
Illustrations, which he fur
nisheS, are indeed staggering.
~, The star known as Wolf $50
Is the faintest, star yet discov-
cred. This red star er1itS only
about one fifty:thousandth Of
the light of the. sun.
Z The star Sirius A, commonly
called the Dog, Star, appears as
the brightest star in the sky.
Its surface temperature Is
nearly twice that. of the sun;
and its luminosity is about 26
times that of the sun. &
It's connpanion star, Sirius 3;
is very faint, emitting only one
ten-thousandth part as much
light as Sirius A.. This is a
very remarkable star; for the
average density ,Of matter ia
Sirius b is about $4,000 times
that Of water. The average
cubic inch contains nearly 4
ton or matter. IT'S size relative
to Sirius A is about as a small
pinhead is to the size Of q half.
dollar.
The star Of smallest known
weight, the fainter component
An the system known as Kruger
so, has a fifth Of the suns
weight. The quadruple system
20 CAMS Majors to all appear
ances weighs $40 times as mucn
as the sun. But this is very ex-
ceptional. In fact. stars which
weigh even three times as much
as the sun are rare. As q gen
The Washington times., 1930-01-04

y Il
Some men are so covetous
as If they we're to live forever;
and others so profouse, as If
they were to die the next mo-
ment. Aristotle.
Recreation Is intended to the
mind as whetting is to the
scythe to sharpen the edge Of
1t, which otherwise would grow
dull and blunt. --Han.
Men have less. lively percep-
ton of good than ct evil.
--Livy..
Rich or poor?, powerful or
weak. every citizen idle is q
rogue. -Rousseau.
The Washington times., 1930-01-04
Wonderful Vigor
But Too Cold, Is TOO Cold.

Jerusalem 70 years ago. parents Of Nathan wsman told
him that boy should battle in cold water every day out
Of doors
Now aged "a and rabbi in the United States he reme
bers early teaching and goes bathing in the cold Of
Atlantic Ocean at Ccney Island before o'clock every
ing fire newspapers on the beach keeps him while
dressing
Two eggs with milk after his swim and going to bed
p. m keep him in marvellous health. However Nathan
Weissman viii live longer he will forget the early teaching
and drop the ice-cod baths.
The Washington times., 1930-01-04
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
.By DE-. Louls 3. Risch-

IF the mother has found that
It is impossible to feed her
baby and modified cows milk
must be resorted to she must
realize that the times Of feed
ing and the amounts given at
each feeding are as important
as the formulas she has learned
to make under the direction Of
the physician.
In milk formulas lime water
must be added to make the
cows milk properly alkaline
like mothers milk, for cows
milk Is slightly acid. Sugar Of
milk must also be added.
To Prepare Milk for Different
The Washington times., 1930-01-04
DO YOU KNOW
THAT

RiclSshas are giving way to
taxis In Japan.
The poulation Of italy has
increased by 2.O16,0O0 in the
last six years.
Taxi fares are doubled at
night In Paris, France.
Munich still ranks first
among beer nanufacturir1g
cities Of Germany, supplying
one-seventh Of the nations de-
mand.
The Washington times., 1930-01-04

A mans notion Of an ideal
love-affair is one that he had
lots Of difficulty getting into,
and no trouble getting out Of.
The Washington times., 1930-01-04
J OF FeedInge

The way to tell whether the
breast milk or cows milk for.
mula Is agreeing with the child
or not Is to watch the digestion
and the child's weight increase.
On the first day every In
FAINT loses weight. This may
amount to 8 half or three-quar-
ters Of q pound or more.
The loss In. weight on the
second day is less, about q half
to q third less. The lowest
point Of weight loss Is at the
beginning of the third day.
After the third day the nor.
mally developing child gains
weight steadily. The total mi
tial loss generally amounts to
about II per cent Of tha hedy
weight.
The Washington times., 1930-01-04

During the first days Of life,
when the baby is put to the
breast, it should be allowed to
nurse from 8 to 12 minutes.
During the first day the child
should never be given cows
milk. But two teaspoonfuls OF
sugar Of milk solution can and
should be given II the infant
seems thirsty.
Amount Of Food and Number
The Washington times., 1930-01-04
THE MARRY
GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland
Tho Daily Roast

Tho Daily Roast
Never strike q woman. Just
tell her. frankly how you think
she looks in the new long
skirts!
It isn't the lies which people
tell about . woman that worry
her-it's the narrowing fear
that somebody may some day
tell the truth about her.
A mans notion Of an ideal
loye-affair Is one that he had
lots Of difficulty getting into,
and no trouble getting out Of.
One reason why the modern
mans love-making lacks sparkle
is because his sentiments have
been uncorked so early and so
often. that they have lost all
their original effervescence.
Never waste your time trying
to win back lost love. You can
win q man back to duty, honor
or reSpectabilitf perhapS-but
never to love; once the spell
has beer broken.
The average mans love-mak-
ing, like q cats purring, simply
signifies that he has had good
dinner, Is deliciously colnforta-
bic, and that you happen to be
soothing his vanity the right
way.
There are four things In
which no man since Adam has
shown the slightest originality
Ibis clothes, his sins, his alibis
and his love-making.
9
Sometimes the dullest fate
on earth, to q man, is to be
married to q woman who is so
fascinating. that he can't even
enjoy flirting with other women,
1t is never impossible to flat
ter a man: even the hideous
Caliball would have flushed
with pleasure If some little
nymph had colnpIimented him
on his Individuality"
A woman can arouse a mans
interest, by appealing to his
curiosity, his imagination, his
vanity or his sensesbut never
by appealing to his common
sense tsS
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should have stayed In New York, where
everything is made Of steel and con-
crete and where there are electric lights
on all the street corners"
The stations wants had been at
tended to with the same conscientious
thoroughness that had been given the
ponies, but neither hay nor oats had
been touched. Even the pail of drink
ing water, usually the first thing to be
emptied, was just as Otto had left it
full to the brim.
Miss West took lump Of sugar from
the pocket of her sweater and held 1t
out inyiting condolences.
Whats the matter, boy? What
makes you so restleSs?"
The Killer shifted the sugar, but
made no attempt to take 1t. AS though
he wished to tell her something, the
stallion whinned and paved the ground
And now came the question she had
been dreading. How get back to the
house, how cross those so yards of I'M
moved lawn, without making an idiot
of oneself by running from every
shadow?
She got as far as the door, only to
go back, glad of an excuse to pick up
a halter that had been left lying on
the floor.
The halter took her into the harness
room, where she saw that the trap
door which led into the cellar of the
barn had been opened, and left open.
Without a second hesitation she
walked over and looked down into the
hole. It was as black q pit as ever
greeted the eye of a wouldbe adven-
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turer. but she decided to see what lay
at the bottom of it.
At first glance the cellar seemed to
hold nothing but the ordinary trash
discarded by five generations of pio-
neers-worn-out farming implements
bottles and jam jars, old barrels pack
ing cases, both large and small. The
girl had turned to retrace her steps
to the floor above when the light from
her torch opened up the space behind
an archway and she saw, sharply out
lined against the whitewaShed wall. a
long black box. 1t rested on two of the
smaller packing cases which had been
purposely laid over on their sides to
serve as supports.
Familiar but always dread object
a coffin!
For the first time in her life Annassa
West knew what it felt like to have the
hair rise on her head. But after a
moment. with small, hesitating steps
she began to pick her. way across the
Uttered floor. Halfway she paused. The
lid of the mahogany box had been
pushed back. Inside was, not the heap
of bones one might have expected to
find, but neatly folded wedding out
fit-a white silk dress, yellowed by age,
rotted and stained in places, but still in
tact; q wreath of what once had been
wax orange blossoms; long white kid
gloves and a pair of satin slippers. de-
signed for small. high-arched feet
everything, in fact, that a fashionable
bride of the late COS might have chosen
for her trousseau.
Miss West said: "Phew!" and sat
down on the side Of an overturned
flour barrel.
She felt she needed smoke before
attempting the climb to the upper story
On investigation the capacious sweater
pocket was found to contain package
of cigarettes and one solitary match.
Who could have brought that coffin
down here, and why? Had 1t come
from the freshly dug grave in the bury
ing ground, or was it just made ready
to go into 1t? And would the CHASTITY
out the body of a bride to wear the
veil and orange blossoms the box con-
tanned? Miss West shivered as though
an icy hand had been laid between her
shoulder blades.
The match with which the cigarette
had been lighted had disclosed a foot
sticking out from behind one of the
packing cases. 1t was q particularly
inert foot, in q thick, heavy-Soled shoe.
"Otto!" she cried, darting around the
coffin and its improvised pedestals.
lotto, what are you doing Obi"
In pool of blood which had spread
until 1t seemed to cover all one corner
of the floor lay the body Of the Ger
man. boy. His head had been beaten
almost to pulp.
Continued in TomorroW's Starr
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Bureau which says that the Chief OF
Finance of the Army has reported an
unusual number of suspensions appear
ing In accounts OF United States Army
nnance officers charged with the paw
ment to the National Guard of arn1ory
drill pay, where officers and enlisted
men were credited with being actually
present at an armory drill held by the
organization just prior to its departure
from its home station for field training
where, In fact, such officers and en-
listed men were at the time on a Fed
eral pay status with the advance de-
tachment at the camp.
In order to eliminate such suspen-
sions in the future, oficers are
informed, it is requested that the fol-
lowing instructions be brought to the
attention of all organization COM
manders and others charged with the
preparation, certification or approval
of pay rolls:
When an individual has been de-
tached from his organization and is in
Federal pay status during any part
OF the period covered by the pay roll,
the inclusive dates Of such services will
be shown opposite the name of the in
dividual concerned. This is applica-
BILE. the department says, to duty at
schools OF instruction, small arms COM
petition, service schools with the Reg
ular Army and especially to duty at
training camps as members of the adj
vance detachment, camp supply detach-
ment or the rear detachment.
Inspection reports of staff officers,
says a letter from the Secretary of
War; indicate that there are serious
lapSes in the wearing of the uniform
and probably in the application of uni
form regulations and that it is not I'M
common practice and appears to be
prevalent in some commands to take
the wire out of caps.
In view of this comment, members
Of the local militia have been informed.
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Restaurant Men in London Post
Theater Curtain Time Notices.
. LONDON (N.A.N.A.).- Actors and
managers alike have despaired of ever
curing the public of its unpunctuality In
arriving at the theater and it remains
for restaurant proprietors to see what
can, be. done in the matter.
An enterprising restauranteur, in New
Burlington street has hit upon device
which will, he hopes, enable theater-
goers to arrive on time. In the grill
room is notice board headed, in large
letters, Don't be late for the theater. T"
1t gives the name of every theater, the
time the curtain rises, and the time
diners should leave the restaurant to
insure their being in their seats before
the play begins.
Further, If diners viii tell the waiter
which theater they are visiting, he will
see to it that their dinner Is served To
suit the time allowed and that their
car or taxi is In readiness ut precisely
the right moment.
(Copyrisht, 1880, by North American News
paper Alliance.l
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District National Guard

the same organization for duty, was
announced by brigade headquarters.
The following of Company D, 121st
Engineers, have been ordered dropped
as deserters as of the dates noted after
their respective names, they having
| failed to report for drill on or after that
time ana all efforts to locate them hav-
ing failed: Pvt. Albert r. Goodwin,
July 2, 1929; Pvt. James N. Fox, June
Is, 1929, and Pvt Carl P. Thomas Feb
ruary %, 1880.
The following have been ordered
transferred from the active to the Re-
serve list of the Headquarters and Serv-
ice Company 121st Engineers: Pvts.
Peter j. Lotus and Bernard j. Cassassa.
The following members of the goth
Division, Military Police Company,
whose three-year enlistments will expire
during the field training encampment
of their organization, have been ordered
honorably discharged to enable them to
re-enl1st prior to the beginning of the
encampment of their organization:
Sergt. Bernard F. Darnall, Corp. Rich
ard N. Corcoran and Pvt (First Glass;
Irving H. Mcconnell.
Pvt. John L. Wright. 2sth Division
Military Police Company, has been
ordered honorably discharged on rec
ommendation of the company COM
mander.
Pvt. Edward B. Mcconnell has been
ordered transferred from the reserve to
the active list of Battery B, 260th Coast
Artillery.
The local brigade headquarters has
been informed that the local Coast
Artillery unit will be permitted to send
two battery officers to the Coast Artil-
lery School at Fort Monroe, Va, for the
class which will be held from Septem-
Der 6 to october 81, next.
The commanding officer of the local
Coast Artillery has been instructed to
recommend two officers of his command
to take the course. Applications must
be on file with the militia bureau at
least one month before the course be-
gins.
Changes have been announced in the
assignment of regular officers and men
attached to the local Guard to Summer
training camps. Mai. Frank G. Scofield
Coast Artillery Corps, will go to Fort
Monroe Va, from July IS to August Is,
prior to the time that the local unit will
take its training there. He also will 60
to Bethany Beach, Del, from August
II to 81.
Technical Sergts. Charles F. Buck
and John Waldron also have been
ordered to Fort Monroe from July 25
to August Is.
Attention of local Guard officers has
been called TO letter from the Militia