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The Washington times., 1930-03-26
Historic Ford Theater AS a
National Lincoln Museum

NCOLN was too great too important in the worst
IL crisis this country faced for the nation fail pre-
everything about him of historical interest in perma
nent national institution.
Being of that opinion patriotic and historical organizations
behind bill introduced in the House by Representative
Beck to establish National Lincoln Museum in the old Ford
Theater, where Lincoln shot by Booth
Under the terms of the this building would
transferred from the Secretary of War to the Director of
Public Buildings and Parks who is directed to make
alterations and repairs necessary permit
l. AS museum and library for Lincoln relics and other
articles of national and patriotic interest pertaining to the
Civil War;
AS permanent repository for the Odroyd collection of
Lincoln relics, owned by the United States
8. To provide for the official use of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion Grand Army the Republic
Sons of Veterans and such other societies especially
memorate the Federal participation in the Civil War
An appropriation of 100000 is authorized for expenses
with promise of annual appropriations for main
tenanCe.
The establishment is to be known the National Lincoln
Museum and Veterans Headquarters and authorized
cept gifts and articles appropriate to its mission
The bill should pass Congress without single vote of op
position
The Washington times., 1930-03-26
The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

Fill each blank
l. William Tell helped free his country from
2 The tower of in Italy from the perpen
dicular
B. Herbert Hoover is the President of the United
States
l. hornet is large
5. He maketh me to lie down in green -."
What is the first name:
8. 6.-- Arnold
7.- Grant.
8.-W Wilson,
g. - Shakespeare.
H. Young.
Do you know:
H. What is the the gland that secretes tears?
r. Who is the Secretary of Agriculture?
13. Who said:
Never the time the place
AND the loved all together?
GAnswers IN Magazine Pagsl '''~.
The Washington times., 1930-03-26
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
Rhine of the Ancient Mariner.
BY DR.. Louis e. Bisch-

IF you find yourself discon-
l. tented. do not be diSmayed.
Remember that if everything
always went easily and smooth
ly that you would very likely
become soft and flabby.
Remember that if you always
had your own way. You would
soon become bored 70 extinction.
Nothing would excite your
curiosity.
Nothing would spur you on.
Think of these things when
you are blue and depressed.
If everything were easy of
attainment there wouldn't be
much fun in trying to accom-
plish big things.
After a time we might even
stop wishing.
More important still, that
soul-SatiSfying feeling one gets
when a task is well done or
when ones efforts have finally
been crowned with success
would never be yours to enjoy.
Discomfort really helps to
spur us on.
Great discoveries and inven-
tiOnS have been caused by it.
1t is said that if one wants
to develop a strong muscular
system the best thing to do is
to push against something that
won't bulge even if one pushes
with all ones might.
In the same way if you want
to develop brain power tackle
problems that defy solution.
Dissatisfaction is the realiza-
ton that We have failed, while
at the same time something
within prompts that we could
and should succeed.
Discomfort really means that
we know we can make good.
I am not advocating discon-
tent, mind you.
But it hits us all once in a
while and we must not let it
oVerWhelm us.
No one can expect his or her
life to run smoothly always.
There are hazards and rough
places for everybody, men and
women. young and old, for
children. too.
1t is not the thing itself, but
our attitude towards it that
really counts.
Let the disappointments Of
life merely be the means of
squirting us on with renewed
vigor and energy.
There is only one way any
way, and that way is to fight
and to fight in the saddle.
Let encouragement make us
strong.
Then we will never fear it.
Let failure through the les
sons of experience point the
road to success.
Turn discomfort and all the
others into assets
The Washington times., 1930-03-26
A BEHOLDER OF MIRACLES
.Bu Herbert Kaufman.

1856 when Andrew Mellon arrived Pittsburgh the now
greatest smhy earth annually forging five million
dollars worth Of iron products on her anvis
The city had hardware establishments ana us SIX
abrcatng plants delivering half the s1ee"ork uSeo
in the UAited States.
the center the worlds petroleum trade Pittsburgh was
then selling almost five thousand barrels OF oil per year. Her
prosperous window glass manufacturers were fast
monopozng continental trade with hundred thousand dollar
Fifteen thousand were employed by her various in
dustries
At that tine Commodore Perry negotiating CONNER
treaty with the prisoner Mkado of Japan whose empire
didn't contain steam engine government school, metal pow
accurate map derrick or power press.
In 1856 folk still wondering the French hadn horn
swaggled us in Louisiana Purchase And backwoods
Illinois LAWYER named Lincoln had just begun attract East
by radical and audacous preensions
When Mr. Mellon learned to spell there were no such words
choroorm anttoxn bacteroogy or dynamo aeropne
rapid transit subway telephone phonograph elevator
skyscraper radio motion picture automobile submarine
hydroelecr ncandescent light auminum-even in the
dictionary.
The first rail west Chicago hadn't been laid Omaha
teepee site; Seattle, empty mud-flat Los Angeles
Mexican shacktown, and Denver, rattesnake
combined fortunes of all the monares in the United
tatesncluding John Jacob Astors, Commodore Wander
bits George Peabodys Stephen Girard ddnt total
half billion dollars.
And an entire decade of transactions the New York
Stock Exchange wouldn't equal single present weeks deal
mgs
Mr. Mellon remembers how Phiadephia's elegant MERGERS
linen dapers neered contemptuousy mention of the
omnibus stores of the prairie States Marshall
Fields, John Wanamakers, Gimbes and the May Company
descend.
Anybody who has personally witnessed the inclusive develop
of transportation and communication systems the
rise of the United States Steel Corporation from Scotch
runts crimpngs to multi billion enterprse-who the
transformation of Western wilderness into orchards grange
ranches and universal arders must feel confident that
circumstance long ntmidae halt progress
prosperity.
Experience has taught Mr. Mellon expect occasional
bark splitting pain. Every fresh surge forward in
nomc history preceded by readusment twnges
If didn't periodically prune back for healthier growth
wouldn root soundy.
Panics and depressions corrective agents compel
to diagnose social and commercial provide anti
dotes against their recurrence.
The loose practices and reckless financial habits
Black Fridays Great Northern sashes and 1929 colapes
varaby clear the future distributions of wealth
and greater opportunities for capital energy
That's the message which Mr.. Melons brthday-and the
robins-bring
The Washington times., 1930-03-26

STUDY of these two famous skaters fills you with admi-
"A ration of the human BODY and its possibilities.
The young woman, perfectly at home foot, in
position that impossible slippery ce is Miss Sonia
Henie, 17year old Norwegian girl who has the
figure skating championship of the world four times.
The man, far back body forward looking though
he surely fail face down. is A. G. Grafstrom who
the worlds figure skating championship for in Vienna
last year.
What remarkable thing, that walk two feet AT
ALL.
for decevng Eve rolling along the ground with his belly
for foot the centipede with hundred feet up the
quadruped, with four feet like table.
Man, according to evoutions gradually his hind
feet for various reasons.
He wanted to look the tall grass to see where his
enemy was so he kept up his hind legs to watch.
He migrated from low lands, the water uphill at
The Washington times., 1930-03-26
Big Business Looks Ahead

TT HE Potomac Electric Power Company is to erect
$110OO0O building the northeast corner of Tenth and
Streets Northwest to be used in place its structure on
Fourteenth Street. to be turned the Government
plans provide that the basement shall be devoted to
parking for the employees of the company thereby
that business looks ahead It will cost money to do
this but there will be much saving of time and of empera.
ments. Time saved is money made.
The United States Government is erecting new buildings
costing many millions of dollars part of the city already
badly congested with automobile traffic plans give com
paravey little attention the tremendous parking difficult
ties that will arise when all these buildings occupied
In ways the Governments plans will restrict both
traffic flow and parking through the closing of streets
Government indifference to this parking situation
change business of the Government the convenience of
its employees, and public interests will suffer.
The Washington times., 1930-03-26
THE MARRY
GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

WHEN a girl goes south in
w winter and north in sum-
mer. it is not so much ior a
change of climate as for a
change of heart-interest.
Love is like SeasickneSS. The
moment the effects wear off, a
woman forgets all that she has
suffered. and is keen to plunge
right into another adventure
on the stormy waters of emo
ton.
The modern woman is get
ting to. be like a fashionable
resort hotel-awfully strong on
scenery. but awfully weak on
cooking.
Before marriage, a man lays
his heart, ETC., at a woman'S
feet and parks his car at her
door; after marriage, he lays
his troubles at her feet and
most of his sins at her door.
Funny, how the average man
will cheerfully let a woman
choose his religion, his friends,
his diet and his amuSements
for him, if she will only give
him his own sweet way with
his cravats, his cigars and his
shoes.
Wonder if man ever suspects
how much practice it requires
for a girl to return his kisses
with all the heSitancy of an
amateur, all the delicacy of a
lady, and all the enthusiasm
of an expert.
The reason why platonic
friendship so seldom lives long
enough to ripen is because most
men kill it at the roots, by try
ing to Burbank it with a little
cheap petting.
When her husband forgetS
the good-by morning kiss, a
bride is heart-broken; but q
seasoned wife feels that the
day has started with sweetness
and light, if he just goes out
without banging the front door
wrathfully behind him.
Even love is far brighter when
jellewed with consistency.
The Washington times., 1930-03-26

M + M B E r the Mother
Goose rhyme of the little,
old lady who went to market
to sell her eggs but fell asleep
on the Kings Highway? And
how, while she slept, the ped
dler named Stout, cut off her
petticoats all round about" so
that when she woke, the little
old lady cried out in horror
and surprise-"THIS IS NONE
OF T."
Seemed just a funny rhyme
when you heard it as a little
lad, didn't it? But how real it
has become with the years.
How often you, too, have cried,
facing the consequences of
some stupid lapse-"THIS IS
NONE OF r."
"All Of us setting out to mar
ket to sell our eggs. Heads
filled with dreams, hearts warm
with hope, all of us meaning
to do our best. Honestly mean
ing to do our best. And then
Suddenly-just why we never
can tell-we begin to ease up.
And before we know it, we're
trapped like the little old
woman. Something in us goes
to Sleep-our brain-or our
conscience. We forget all our
fine plans. We. forget the job
we had set ourselves to do and,
in a sort of nightmare, we
commit some foolishness, some
dishonesty, some cruelty, some
thing We would never have
The Washington times., 1930-03-26
LISTEN WORLD!
"TMs Is None of II"
By Elsie Robinson

done in our normal moments.
Then, waking from our lapse.
we find ourselves Shorn and
shamed and Surely, sure
ly, this is none of Il"
Il couldn't have done this
dreadful thing. Why. I've never
wanted to do wrong thing in
my whole life. I've always
wanted to do right. I've always
meant to be honest and kind
and clean. Truly I have. And
1 haven't the least idea how
blundered into this miShap. I
hate it all as much as you do!
Won't you try to understand
and believe? Won't you for
give?"
How often YOU'VE said that!
And how indignant you've felt
when people DIDN'T under
stand when they insisted
that you blundered deliberately!
But aren't there times when
YOU won't understand? Those
thousands of sinners and fools
whom you constantly criticize
and condemn, have you ever
realized that they too are cry
ing pitifully-"S U RELY,
TRULY, THIS IS NONE OF Il"
We all mean so well, yet blum
der so stupidity. We all start out
with such fine eggs in our bas-
kets-and end in a ragged,
spattery muddle! And how
charitable we are to ourselves
when this happens. How easy it
is for us to realize that WE
didn't mean to go wrong. But
when it comes to the other fel-
loW-THAT'S DIFFERENT!
The Washington times., 1930-03-26
WISE SAYINGS

Have patience and endure;
this unhappineSs will one day
be beneficial. Ovid.
He made all countries where
he came his own. Dryden.
Inject a few raiSinS of con-
verSation into the taSteleSs
dough of existence.
. .r .,. %. Henry.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-04-23

be released immediately from the
cells.
Guards Little and Baldwin, ac
eording to the warden, found them
selves inside the from: door of the
cell block, and ran to the guard
house to get the keys to unlock the
inside bars to the cell tiers. They
allegedly were forced to take the
keys over the protest of Captain
McCoddington, in charge of the
guardhouse.
At. the cell block, Thomas related,
the two guards were met by Guard
Watkinson, who told them they
couldn't unlock the tiers.
Denies Statement
Watkinson denied son his hon
orr that he said II don't give a
damn if they all die He was
ordered by Captain John Hall, an
other guard officer, not to unlock
the tiers, he said.
/ Finally he unlocked the tiers over
Hall's alleged protest. he said, and
the rescue work began. 1t was
/ necessary to unlock each cell sepa-
rately and there are six tiers of
cells in each corridor. The entire
block housed 500 prisoners.
J Only few of the cells had been
unlocked when Little and Baldwin
collapsed. Convicts seized the
axes and sledges and smashed the
cell locks, but the flames and smoke
had already done their work and
the cells contained only blackened
bodies of dying men.
That picture of the disaster may
be revised as further testimony is
taken. So far each witness has
told different story.
! The actual cause of the fire re-
mained a mystery. Some witnesses
said they smelled oil turning and
: that the thick smoke came from
some incendiary material. Others,
including Schooley, claimed the
smoke was only that of burning
! wood. Schooley believes the flames
started from a short circuited light
wire.
/! Another convict. William Robert
Noel of Cleveland. serving life for
murder, testified last night that he
heard sharp report, as if shot
! had been fired. in the cell block
under construction. He ran inside,
he said, and saw an electric light
cable under the roof grow red hot
and ignite the rafters.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-04-23
SCHOOLS PLAN
fine PROGRAM
FRIDAY NIGHT

Several Of the rural schools have
e mPleted their plans fol their nun,
/ ners in the program 10 be given at
! the High school Friday night III
connection with Public schools
week. Acacia school is presenting
tAree short numbers the first being
a Spanish song and dance, "Black
! Tango by Ermila and Lucia
Meza; the second number is "Irish
Lilt' by Lois Mcconnell and Hele-.
la Vinfriedo: and the third is a
song. Los Chulos Ojos' by Lupe
Gotta. The captain chosen from the
pupils at Acacia is Edith Tucker,
and in ease her school is one of the
| winners in the picture contest the
prize will be presented 10 her at
Tie Friday evening entertainment.
At the Silsbee school Pearl Bald
trs is the captain. and they will pre-
sent a Swiss song by Gertrude and
Ida katriner, Elm and West Side.
being very small schools will not be
able to furnish a number for the
program, however, they are enthu-
.ermined to win a picture. The cap
tain at Elm is Evelyn RoSenbaum,
and at Westside the captain Is to be
selected by merits so that no rep
lesentative is as yet definitely chos-
en-.
The McCabe school has presented
the name of Stanley Lydiek as its
captain and in the program the
girls Clee club will sing ''The Land
called Dreamland' and 1.-The Plack-
bird Heber school viii be repre-
sented by Hershel Marsh and their
eighth grade will sing My Mann
my's Twilight Lullaby.' Mt. Sig
hal school will have their orchestra
resent and will favor the audience
with several numbers. The captain
Is Floy Taylor.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-04-23
Board To Employ
Capital Attorney

BY unanimous vote the board
of directors of the Imperial Irri-
cation District at their meeting yes
terday, Harry Slattery of Washing
ton, d. c., was employed to repre-
sent the district in the nations cap
ital at salary of $3.50 per month.
Slattery has been active in organ
ization operations for municipal
ownership in the capital for some
time past. Most of yesterdays meet
ing was given over to the considera.
ton of routine matters.
Today the entire board with their
visited the intake at Am
Grade and inspected the levces and
liant equipment. The whole day was
spent in this inspection.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-04-23

the. valley. the young couple having
slipped away to Yuma 4 week ago
today where they were quietly mar
RED
Smith is employed at the local Of
fee of the Automobile Club of
Southern California and Mrs. Smith
IS nurse at the Fl Centre hospital
They are at home to their friends
at e92 Olive avenue.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-04-23
Local Resident
Weds In Yuma

News CT the marriage of Miss
Helen Strode If Erawley and Rich
ard T. SMITH OF this city comes a.
surprise IL their many friends in
Imperial Valley press., 1930-04-23

G. :. Howard Anderson, Shasta
County. has skunk farm from
which he has sold many pelts: At
present he has SO animals, all decd
orized.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-04-23

The Southern Pacific has furnish
ed the farm advisor Of Butte Coun-
ty with oil with which to combat
puneture vine alongside the right of
way, y
Imperial Valley press., 1930-04-23

New under the naval
sung the London The
United States has large cruisers than Britain fewer of
The smaller The
does affect baeships classified Washing
conference with is for the United States
Left right Secretary of State Henry Stmson United Saes
Premier Ramsay Macdonald
Imperial Valley press., 1930-04-23
BASEBALL RESULTS
American

American
Washington Boston, postponed,
cold.
Chicago at Cleveland, postponed,
cold weather.
Philadelphia New York. post
poned, cold weather.
At Pittsburgh
Cincinnati 100
Pittsburgh ....,-.10
Game called snow storm
Rixey and Sukefortb. French
and Hargreaves.
National
AT Boston
ne" ioiADos'on' postponed, cold.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-04-23
National

AT Boston
New York-Boston, postponed, cold.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-04-23
Probe OF Prison
Disaster Starts

Continued from Page y
New Britain herald., 1930-08-30

ventures than several of them.
 We should think of a childs play
 thing as furnishing him with d 1 starting point for his activities. They should stimulate his irfagina-
 ton. tax his skill and ingenuity ani l lead him to invent all sorts of diff ferent games
 1 The possession Of many and elab- crate toys leaves nothing for the l child to supply. They tend to make ] him passive and bored. Instead Of
 using his toys for his own purposes, ! fte expects them to entertain him. 1 Thus the many toys which per4 meant to give him pleasure serve only to impoverish his play. The child who has too many toys IS overcome by their mere quantity and confusion. He cannot treasure and keep them in order as ne should. He does not love them in- dividually, and he tends to become destructivef careless and wasteful.
 A child should have enough toys to stimulate him to varieties Of play. They should be carefully selected with reference to different activities which they may stimulate.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-30
Loves Reawakening The Story of Wife's Triumph Over Jealousy
 By ADELE GARRISON

all loved so dearly that I felt almost any sacrifice-or any ruse-was jus tifiable in plishing the result desired.
 l knew now what I meant to dc about my own flowers, felt serenely confident-perhaps too much ao-of ! DiCky's reaction to the talk with him which I meant to have, but had grave misgivings concerning my 1 coming interview with Noel. The ! boy had been hurt so terribly by his l fathers cruelty that talking to him about it was like probing q wound. But 1t was q task which must be faced, and when l was all ready for luncheon I went into the living room and dismissed Mary under the pra- text of wishing her 10 change her gown for luncheon. It was but a fiimsy pretense, but Mary acted upon it with alacrity, and I sat down opposite Noel with the feeling that l was lntruding crassly upon the boys sensitive feelings,
 Noel" I said, T am gong to ask you q personal favor but Iwarn you that it will be a hard thing for you to grant"
 He bent toward me and, lifting my hand. put it to his lips with charming Old World gesture.
 Dear lady" he said fervently. T owe you too much not to honor any request of yours. Without your divine kindness in my-trouble- I do not know what would have hap pened 10 me. Whatever you ask of me l am only too eager to grant"
 Noel in Revolt
 T ought not to take advantage Of that. Noel" I said but I must. And I want yo uto believe that l have looked at the matter from all sides and considered your own viewpoint very strongly before making the re- quest. IL is because I believe that there is no use harboring resent ment against man only partly sane that 1 am asking you not to object to Mary's wearing your fathers flowers tonight"
 He half sprang from his seat with a passionate No. no'' then sank back again while his eyes looked en- treatinsly into mine. If l had con- suited my heart instead Of my req son I should have told him he was perfectly right in his resentment. h his place I should have felt like snatching the flowers sent to Mary and throwing them back into his ia ther's face.
 I faced his steady gaze. feeling as if I were on trial. And then he said surprising thing
 Are you going 10 wear my ia ther's flowers toniEht?" he asked.
 Continued Tuesday
 Copyright, 1930. by Newspaper
 Feature Service Inc
New Britain herald., 1930-08-30

New York, Aug. 90. (P-Parents who had their doubts when Joe and Susie came home from college with the Charleston may feel better about the higher learning this fall
 The Dancing Masters of America who ought to know-say Joe and Susie College are going to be docile in the ballroom as soon as they learn the new dances.
 The new clothes have done it. according to Thomas M. Sheehy, president of the dance teachers.
 You can't kick your feet in all directions without kicking a girls skirt full of holes"
 So the dancing masters look for the waltz to glide into q comeback.
 The feet aren't important now" says Edna Rothard Passapae. New ark, N. J., dancing teacher whose Dream" waltz won first place at the dancing masters convention as the one they'll push. You cant see thenl.'
 Here are the steps for the Dream:
 First run three. then waltz for ward. do 8, left waltz turn. then two steps through crossing feet; then waltz, ltep forward, swing foot for ward, then twinkle (two steps back to stop with heels together).
 Waltz forword, then pivot. draw ing foot behind. Repeat that to complete turn.
 Then do a wave waltz" svaying entire body in line-not just the hips.