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The Washington times., 1930-09-20
Abusing DC. Policemen Will
Cost Something

The new Police Department rule that policemen must be
courteous to the public ndulgng in abuse followed
by announcement from Corporation Counsel Bride that the
public must not get abusive policemen in traffic matters
Those who forget the dignity Of the law when traffic tickets
their way will instead Of being allowed to forfeit col
lateral be compelled to to Police Court for trial. costing
both time and money.
Courtesy often mistaken for weakness mpotency and
folks have reached the conclusion that
high police authorities going require Chesereldan
and methods among policemen they may sass the
blue coat boys with impunity Well just try It and
Talking back traffic officer, in the form Of explana
tion or mild objection, is thing Abuse is another
Policemen engaged in the performance Of their duties
These duties do not include bawlng out citizens The
citizen has right to 'bawl out policemen
When you get ticket that will you only So at police
station and the policeman has been polite shut your mouth
and put up the collateral the policeman has been ugly to
begin with and you talk back to him. there
the courts. i'll
The chief trouble about Mr. Brides position is that may
encourage policemen to get rough with citizens who
have merely tried to justify themselves The plain truth is
that Mr. Bride merely intends to protect policemen from foul
abusehat kind which American citizen especially
officer should have to take.
The Washington times., 1930-09-20
MAY KING TAKES A FALL.

The most difficult and dangerous eepechase in the
world Liverpool in England where the Grand National
steepechase is run once year.
TO win that the greatest honor for horse and rider
Men will train for years to him ready for the great
effort.
This picture shows what the jumps are, and what power
horse very long course taking such
jumps at fast gallop.
The great rarely by young horse 1t is more
apt to be won by eight nine years DID, older It
was won recently by twelve years DID, owned by
young American, Mr.. Sanford
raced in their babyhood at two DID,
are usually not fit for the Grand National test
This picture shows the May King ridden by British
jockey George G. Goswe falling the hedge at Bechers
Brook worst Jump in the Grand National course.
It is unusual to half dozen horses fall after
another this obstacle Sometimes out of thirty more
horses that start in the only two three able to
finish.
This picture shows what magnificent physical machine
well-bred well-trained racehorse is.
Il also shows what pitifu pathetic thing human being
s when instead Of doing something for himself creating
thing working something he guesses like fool the
ability beat another and hands his money to
happens the bookmaker will win and the fool that bets
will lose.
May King sustained this fall without serious injury and
did the jockey.
But Of the men that gamble the raceack few escape
without serious injury.
They do not Their necks their legs but their AM
BITTON broken by disappointment and their future marred
by the fact energy time and thought that should be
devoted to something worth while go to waste
The Washington times., 1930-09-20
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson

And it will be utterly foolish to
bring into your life any ar
rangement which doesn't fit
that fixed pattern.
DOES THIS NEW LOVE
FIT THAT FIXED PATTERN?
You are, of course. tremen-
dously excited and thrilled by
it just now. But try and study
it calmly. Does this new feeling
flow easily with the old, eStab-
lished feelings? Does 1t seem
"a natural? Does it quietly,
happily enlarge your present
life and program? Do you
feel at. home in it? If so, it is
probably real and right and you
can safely take a chance on it.
Or does it throw all your
present life aSkew? Does it de
mand strange adjustments
which are foreign to your es-
tablished nature? Does it re-
auire that you become a gad-
about when you have always
been stay-at-home? Does it ex-
pect you to be excitable, disor-
derly, eccentric, when you have
always been calm, orderly. con-
ventionaI, or vice-verSa?
Above all, WHY DO YOU
WANT THIS LOVE? Do you
want it because it fits in with
your normal desires and ambi-
tions, Or because, in its intoxi-
cation or power you think YOU
can find an escape from your
old WEAKNESS and worry? IF
so. BEWARE OF 1T!
For though it may amuse
YOU to adjust yourself now, 1t
will shortly irritate you. And
though this strangeness may
thrill YOU now. it will shortly
bore and bother you. And
though you may seem to find
an escape now, you VIII very
soon see that no one life can
escape into another life.
If you have the honesty,
courage and common sense, you
can test love by these ques-
tions. And if your love clicks
with your hfe-go ahead. But
If YOU find that 1t doesn't
if you find yourself
making excuses and explana-
t;n,as IN order to Justify it
LOOK OUT! For II
that is the case. what you're
suffering from isn't love at all,
psrtncr. It's just . dose OF
emotional hives.
,co,v,,zbt 1889. by King Features
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The Washington times., 1930-09-20
Probability and Certainty
BIZ Archibald Henderson

Probability, the likelihood Of
a certain event happening,
gives a fascination and adds an
excitement to every phase of
human life. Every man or
woman, at some time or other,
plays his lunches. Something
within seems to tell us that a
certain event will surely occur:
a horse will win a race, a card
drawn from a deck will win a
bet, even that a certain formula
will give a desired result.
Napoleon had a firm belief
in his star. BY that star he
meant not luck but fate. not
chance but destiny.
Games Of chance, Of what
ever nation, have their exist
ence and maintain their sup
port through this strange delu.
sion Of the human mind. Many
people have a vivid sense Of
their own power on luck or
good fortune: and such persons
have only a very imperfect
sense of actuality.
Games Of chance seem to be
invented for them, rather than
that they are instruments for
chance.
The gambler thinks Of him
self as the pivot about which
the wheel Of fortune revolves.
He Is ego-centric, mystical, self
deluded. This explains the ex-
istence and continued prosper
ity Of q great gambling resort
like Monte Carlo.
1t Is not difficult to see how
such Q resort is maintained. At
roulette the stalls are numbered
from zero to SO inclusive. When
ever zero appears, the bank
takes half the stake: and this
gains, Of course, one-half in 81,
or 1.35 per cent on the even
chances.
IF the gambler bets on q num-
Der and wins, the bank pays him
35 times his stake instead Of SO
times, and thus wins on the
average one stake In 81, or 2.7
per cent from the numbers.
Il is obvious that the gain Of
the bank, In the long run, must
average more than 2 per cent.
Counting the establishments
The Washington times., 1930-09-20

gains at Trente-et- -Quarante, a
game played with six packs of
cards, it has been compiled that
the gains, all told, cannot fall
much below 2.5 per cent.
We have all heard, If only
through a song widely popular
of the Man Who Broke the
Bank at Monte Carlo" In a
sense, this Is an event which
happens not with extreme infre-
quency. This does not mean
that the gambler breaks the
gambling establishment, but
only one Of the 81 tables con-
stantly in use.
As Norwood Young says In
Fortuna: If a gambler puts the
maximum on a number and on
all its connections, and also on
the appropriate even chances,
he stands to win a large sum
when the number appears. II
such an event occurs several
times, the tables money will
be exhausted.
I have seen II appear three
times in succession when the
stakes placed upon 1t and its
combinations, by a single gam
bier. were on each occasion the
maximum. The profit was very
large.
We hear much Of systems for
breaking the bank. Thousands
Of such systems have been in
vented, and many people buy
the alleged systems" for a
consideration. But Of course
there is no such system, nor
will such a system ever be In
vented, one believes.
If there were such a system,
it would be exploited by the
inventor, who would quickly
amass a colossal fortune.
It is futile to make a record
Of each coup, and attempt to
generalize from such results.
A system, built up in this way,
would be of no more value
than one invented by person
who knew the result Of not a
The past cannot control, or
even affect, the future.
single throw.
(Copyright. 1880. International
Feature Service, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1930-09-20
A Plan for Eliminating
Debt from the World

EdttOf, 1tnteS:
I am glad to find signs Of
life on the part Of other
money cranks" besides myself.
w. E. Ryan, in your columns.
reviveS the old "free silver"
idea. More power to him,
although this plan has long been
outdated. It is superseded by q
much more logical and de-
fensible one, namely, "land
money"
The ''free silver" philosophy
was always very vague. 1t no
doubt owed its astonishing pop
ularity to the fact that, next to
gold, silver is idolized most.
w. J. Bryan, w. H. ("Coin~
Harvey, who still breaches
monetary reform from the vii.
derness at Monte Ne, Ark, and
their followers didn't concern
themselves unduly with the dis
coveries Of James Holden, right
fully called the "firSt monetary
scientist" Holden, who died
here in. Washington in 1925,
unknown and unhonored - a
thinker far ahead Of his time
exhausted the whole field OF
monetary science and ethics.
He arrived at many shattering
conclusionS-moSt of them quite
unwelcome to those who wor-
ship the same old idols Of silver
and gold that have DESTROYED
every civilized" nation in the
history Of the worldl
Since "debt" is a wholly
false factor Of civilization, any
system Of human salvation that
doesn't undertake to minimize
or eliminate it isn't worth the
least consideration.
Bank credit. or bank debt, as
It should be called, is seemingly
the hidden cause Of about all
our public ills! And it can be
offset. or drowned" In only
one way, by arbitrarily creating
enough new legal tender
primary, representative, paper
The Washington times., 1930-09-20
Papers Advocate

|. peace and Gnsity Nth all nations; entGnghng
dLidetces Witb none" as ADVOCATED By George
Washington.
2. Proportional representation IN the United States
Senate no State to haze less than tsVo Senator's.
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
portionment in the House of Representatives.
3. separate Department Of the Army, of the Navy
and Of the Air Forces, all united under Secre-
tdry OF National Defense.
A. Federal action to the limit Of Federal poVers to
abolish dkterGcy IN the United States under a
Secretary Of Education.
s. Installation Of the President on the first Of Jan
aGry folIOsOing November election.
g. SeIectiVe immigration to admit only those ssted
for American citizensAip.
=. Deportation Of undesirable aliens.
8 comuEa publicity for income taxss,
The Washington times., 1930-09-20

"Am / in love?"
Some day you'll ask yourself
that question. Perhaps you have
already asked it and have
been wondering ever since why
you guessed the answer wrong!
But how can one know?"
you say. is there any way to
guess the answer right?"
Yes, there is. 1t is possible
to know if you're really in love
or just dizzy. 1t is also possi-
BILE to know whether your
love" will be lasting and salts
tory-whether you and the
loved one will be real partners.
Nor need you buy a love phil
ter to solve these mysteries.
For they aren't mysteries
they are as simple as seed time
and harvest, and any man can
find the answer if he has
honesty and common sense, and
enough courage not to kid him
self.
How can you know if love is
REAL. TEST IT BY YOUR
ORDINARY LIFE. For remem-
ber, love is not a miraculous
seizure, set apart from all
common experience. It Is
simply a part of life. It is
your hungry spirit and your
lonely body crying out for more
life-for someone to complete
your life.
But no love can be helpful
and no person can help YOU
complete your life unless that
love and that person fit the pat
tern of life which you have
already made. So, If you wish
to test love, don't try to analyze
your new ecstasy-look rather
at the old pattern,
For 20 or 80 years you have
been making that pattern.
Your career may not have been
all you desired, but, in the
main, YOU expressed yourself
and did what you wished. You
developed certain likes and dis.
likes, certain habits and no.
tlons, You arranged to live life
at a certain pace. You adopted
certain methods. And with each
year you've grown more set in
your attitudes and wayS,
Now, If you've lived that way
Tor third Of your life. it's
dollars. to doughnuts you'll live
that way until the end. Your
work and environment NAV
chanse, but you. yourself. win
rem p essentially the same.
The Washington times., 1930-09-20

certificate tokens, preferably
issued against improved real
estate-to make borrowing and
interest paying obsolete!
For who would borrow when
he finds it quite feasible to
OWN all the money needed to
carry on business?
Here is a tremendous, epochal
idea-a veritable reVelation--a
doctrine impossible to refute-
yet hard for those to grasp who
have unbluShingly and unre-
flectingly swallowed all the cur
rent financial lore-unSpeak-
able bunk curiously favorable
to a condition which permits
ten billion dollars a year to be
MIXED out of the stalwartS
who do ALL the thinking, toll
ing and producing!
The Washington times., 1930-09-20
Dixie
For a National Anthemi

America troubles national anthem yet settled
The Star Spanged Banner has official sanction and is
good anthem. It is however, hard to sing
y Country Ts of Thee did duty for many years in the
schools but its the that Of God Save the
King g'-Britan's national air.
MARYLAND MY Maryland suggested by loyal resi-
dents of Baltimore only Of the United States adopt
formally however the Philippine Islands where the words
have been altered to suit the aspirations of little
brothers.
"John Browns Body" Marching Through Georgia and
The Battle Hymn Of the Republic obviously won't do south
of Mason and Dixon's line
Madetcorder anthems have apenty but has yet
caught the public fancy.
Perhaps aDixie'' would fill the BILL We dont know At
least it is truly national composition written the North
sung in the South and popular everywhere.
The Washington times., 1930-09-20
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
by DR.. Louis E. Bisch-

Weather conditions affect
most of us more than we are
apt to realize.
When it is cloudy or when it
rains we are likely to be in
dolent, gloomy and detected.
On the contrary, when the
sun shines we are likely to be
active, glad and light-hearted.
There is a reason for all this,
Of course.
In dismal weather, for ia
stance. the sky is overcast and
familiar objects, that usually
are clear and distinct, are now
blurred. shaded and indiStinct.
This annoyS us.
Not being able to see clearly,
we have a feeling Of being shut
in and compressed.
Our vision and hence our
thoughts become limited.
Our life, indeed, becomes re-
Stricted.
Another factor in making us
"blue" is the atmosphere which,
in bad weather, is Surcharged
with moisture.
This hinders the pores of the
skin from breathing as freely
as we were accustomed to. IT
produces feeling of being Ill
at ease. 1t makes us restless,
; SvS.ncc apael firIornf1y
All of which body sensations
in turn influence the mind and
make worse the mental images
received through vision.
In bright. crisp weather
everything, Of course, is the
opposite.
Clear weather, being more
usual. is the natural state.
Pronounced cloudy, weather.
sufficient to dim Jhe land
scape. Is unusual bA Gompari-
son.
The Washington times., 1930-09-20
Our School Boy Patrols

Our school boy patrols about to begin their worthwhile
duties guardians Of the safety of public school children
These manly sensible boys deserve public good will and support
IN their efforts at protection, and they will get it,
These boy patrols may not have official authority but they
do have the moral backing Of traffic officers and responsible
automobile drivers They perform their duties with dignity
Judgment and fairness
School boy patrols Of much assistance traffic officers
in most cities Of the country Traffic authorities In many places
aid them by educational campaigns in the schools including
moving pictures which make the best impression children
In schools too much not be done educate pupils
the dangers of traffic and to constant in crossing STREETS
The Washington times., 1930-09-20

This interesting.milking pro
cess is undeniably the specific,
one and only, root cause Of un-
employment and all other social
evils. And 1t viii continue to
be so until the end Of time,
unless we begin to challenge
the credentials Of bankers and
financiers, so-called, as the only
mentors, prophets and saviors
Of the human racel
Are Americans afraid Of the
truth? / do not think so. Then
why not face the future
bravely and hew to the line on
this. question? Why bury our
heads in the sand and live only
in the past of woozy fiscal
superstitiOns and prejudices?
What on earth is to be gained
by postponing the day Of reck-
The Washington times., 1930-09-20
DO YOU KNOW THAT


The French government is
sending scientists into Africa
to study the possibilities of irri-
eating the Sahara Desert. 1t
is hoped that enough water lies
beneath the sand that would
turn the desert into the richest
granary in the world, with two
wheat crops q year.
Inventors are at work on an
instrument that will, by means
of radio, blend the light in a
room or theater with the music
that is being radiocastA This Is
to be accomplished through the
use Of four "shades"-red, blue.
green and clear.
The Washington times., 1930-09-20

To counteract the spread Of
banditry, police chiefs in
Brighton, England, have de
veloped the idea of making
each policeman a sort OF travel
ing wireless set--in other words,
Of equipping them with breast
pocket receiving sets so that
a towns whole police force
could receive instructions from
headquarters simultaneously.
Gluconic acid is a recently
developed fluid whose price
was recently reduced from 500
to SOC a pound through chem
ical research and a cheapened
production process.
The Washington times., 1930-09-20
Supply and Demand
One Law That Always Works.

The selling books last month not fiction
biography history They four volumes the gentle
art of cocktail making.
These works were widely advertised-n fact two
three were not advertised all One buyer would tell his
friends about them and the friends would betake themselves
to the and get copies The word
passed around, and sales doomed.
When there is demand, there will be supply.
Adam Smith learned economist pointed that out two hun
dred years ago.
Prohibtionists might Smith from the Shelves
run over the pages again. learn something
The Washington times., 1930-09-20

oning? The naked truth about
our crazy gilt fisc, the gold
standard, can hurt no one but
scoundrelS. And why should
real men make 1t easy for
scoundrelS instead of for well
meaning, industrious, average
persons who are now penalized
so per cent of their rightfuI
earnings through the malignant
operation of a money system
that they have, forsooth, never
been even allowed to under
stand.
FRANLIN HOPKINS.
The Washington times., 1930-09-20
KNOWLEDGE
TEST

Fill each blank:
/. The term resume" means
2. Czecho-S -Slovakia was for
merly part of
5. The joint between the foot
and leg is called the -.
4. An exodus is any large
S. A hogshead is a large cask
containing about gallons.
6. The chief constituent OF
menthol Is ----s l q
Z. Othello married
8. The sensitive membrane OF
the is the retina.
9. z is the League OF
Nations headquarters.
10. The Antarctic relates to
the regions of the Pole.
Match correctly:
IL. equivalent
IL. equivalent
amuSe
IL. justify ~
demoliSh
13. destroy
identical.
IA. entertain
wise
IS. sapient
vindicate
GAnswera cn Ngs-sysne Pssei
The Washington times., 1930-09-20
Marines Did Stone Work
At the Hoover Camp

940A 14iCS 04U 0tOuG WOkh
At the Hoover Camp
Editor, Times:
We, the United States Marines
wish to correct a misstatemenO
appearing in The Washington
Times, September, Is, 1880, in
regards to stone mason's work
done at the Presidents Camp
Camp Rapidan).
There has been no stone work
done at the Presidents camp
that any Marine knows of, ex-
cept by Marines.
If the Gray family has done
any stone work at the Presi-
dents camp at all. it is virtually
unknown TO Marines. We claim
the credit. if there is any.
JAMES B. DEEPEN.
Corporal U. S. Marines,
Camp Rapidan.
New Britain herald., 1930-05-29
FLINIBILTUY CONSTJTJTiONALITN

The tariff wends it's weary way, aided and abetted by attempts at more flexbility. When one investi- gates Vice President Curtis's recent refusal to accept the conference re. port which wrote new language in the bill providing for complete con- trol over flexbility by the Tariff Commission he appears 10 have been actuated solely by the thought that the conferees had exceeded their authority. The question Of con- stitutionality was involved as much in permitting the c9nferees from both houses or Congress to write important lines in bill as in tho effect Of the lines themselves.
 Yet an analysis of existing supreme Court opinions on the dele gation of authority by Congress does not convince us that delegation O authority on the tariff to a commis-
New Britain herald., 1930-05-29

Mayor Quigley is inclined to take the stand that the state itself, if it orders work done, to pay for the experimenting" He has called the Berlin system an experiment which has cost heavily.
 There happen to be numerous cities in the United States which have been confronted with smilar problems. and it is logical to assume that plenty of experimenting has already been done elsewhere. It seems 10 us that little investigation into the experiences of other such cities would bring forth much valu- able information if the city is to be serious about improving it's sewage plant
 If there has got to be a show down between the city and state on the sewage business it might as well come during the Quisley administra- ton. Mayor Quigley claims to be quite an expert on sewage matters; perhaps the state also has experts. Such experts at issue should he abl: { 0 settle the matter to the satisfac ton Of all the public.
New Britain herald., 1930-05-29
Feast of Ascension Is
 Celebrated by Churches

Rome. May @9 tP-The Feast Of Ascension, commcmorating Christ's rising up 10 heaven. as told in tho 18th chapter Of St Mark. was cele- hrated today in all the Roman churches with services of rejoicing.
 From St. Peters 10 the loWliest surban chapcls white-yestmented clergy sang or said the mass Of the day. in the presence Of great con- gregations. Ascension day is a pub tic holiday in Italy. so the laity was not kept away by work.
 In accordance with the wishes Of Pope Plus. the sermons preached stressed, the teaching mission Of the church. the text generally used being that of the days gospel; Co ye into the whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature"
 At twilight. vespers were sung in the principal basllicas.
New Britain herald., 1930-05-29
DOING SOMETHING C '
ABOUT IT

The city is faced with peculiar situation in connection with it's sew age disposal system in Berlin. For years fl mas settled with various residents Of Berlin regarding d. legged damages done 10 land At the present moment however, it has q legal battle on its hands over dam- ages and If the city loses it may turn out 10 be costly precedent.
 But that is only one phase of the situation. The other phase is that the state has ordered the city to do something" about improving it's system and the city is expected to so into action about providing such an improvement
 Nobody knows what the state is likely to do- o-sbout the matter and nobody seems 10 know what will occur if the state loses patience, i There is a concensus Of opinion, however that the state has the pow CT under various laws, 10 force ac. tion Of some kind.
 The best thing, we believe, is 10 engage in some preliminary work, such as engineering, so as to con- vince the state that the city is mak | ing bona fide effort 10 do at least something nobody knows exact lS what-in connection with the sewage plant.