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The Washington times., 1930-02-13
HeShOwed EN- the Nickel Trick
RN Herbert KaMfll1aII

yvYHEN WoolWcrth took his collection Of nicksIs and
w dimes 10 the very lip Of Wall Street and piled them
higher than STANDARD Oil cans and Singer sewing mashinss
he buiIded better than he knew.
That ordy structure towering 20 far above the previously
outstanding peaks Of Manhattan ine was strangely dsa
tined to reyoIutonize nation . investment outlook
It's unacceptable presence cast daily shadow upon the
markets imagination compelled constant not
but suggest e the money Ssg.ns nssso ngopSs pson mnr
and navgationhat they had been overlooking some very
good BETS BY excluding from their intrusive ambitions those
obscure Of trade and commerce where the nDe
sixpence outriyals the guinea pig il feCnndity
Thenadays finance wasn't cOnsorting with penny profits
Il hadn't yet sensed the hmitlsss dsbuye power cf "a
The aggregate earnings d wdeyccnsumed minor wares
and popular brands weren't psrceptibe 70 tradition lted
counting houses. Ssss
Fnance carried no small change in is Nineteenth Century
calculations.
Consequently promotion failed to note how coffee ubsti
tutes and trick cereals yeast cakes and baking powders
chewing gums and chain ts turning mces 70 muckes
at breameck speed and developing enterprises
without the advice Of the professional underwater
Then Mr. WOolworth brought word from Ak The
tion of the Wooworh Building was both monumental and
epochal gesture.
One may even consider it an evangelical movement
It came preach less sales capacity in properly
plotted five and productto demonstrate the
ing nurtye value that the balance sheet may derive from
chicken eedto reveal gospel to banking conservatism
TO fiscal snobbishne Of its contempt for retail opera
ton and place fresh gods in the Stock Exchange Pantheon
Thirty years ago ticker tape apt to welcome soap
and coffee as the Duchess Of WhoOzis viii likely invite fish
monger to her next dinner dance.
Haf the securities now dearest to the heart Of speculation
weren't even sconscous during the elder Mogans regime
or the Hartman
Neither Widener Elns drew perfume dividend
nor shared soup melon
James Keene promcuous operations ranged exclusively
from transportation to the big commodity trusts and the
utility units
The main why few spectacular fortunes formerly
emerged from Midas Lane because the bulls and bears
were restricted to such limited choice Of pastures and
couldn't sufficiently diversity their hunger for manpulatve
issues.
Nothing clearer illustrates the changed attitude of the
trader than the eagerness with which confirmation Of the
latest dairy merger Is awaited.
little while ago. anybody with proposition for Wall
Street participate cheese expansion such
the Kraft Phenx Corporation engineering, would
have been referred to the comic columnis advised by the
office boy to quit joking and take the plot to Weber and
Fields
Copyright BY Mirror
The Washington times., 1930-02-13
King of Astronomers
By Archibald Henderson, Ph. D., LII. d.

TTYCHO BRAHE has been
! aptly termed "a king among
astronomers" He dwelt upon
an island. in position of Splen-
did isolation. with corps Of
assistants like q royal retinue
to obey his scientific commands.
If he needed particular sort
of apparatus, he invented it.
and had it constructed by his
assistants under his direction.
For a few months the great
Kepler was associated with him,
and he has left on record the
statement that "tlne restoration
Of astronomy by that phoenix
Of astronomers, TycIo. was first
conceived and determined on In
the -ear 1854" M
Tycho wrote a number OF
books, and these he had printed
upon his own printing press.
Although he took much interest
in alchemy. astrology and the
casting of horoscopes, In all of
which he was adept, he really
laid the foundations Of modern
astronomy by making the most
accurate observations which the
instruments of the time af-
forded, and employing the re-
suits as the basis Of genuine
scientific research.
TychO Drahe was born Of d
noble family at KnudStrup, In
g province Of Denmark, on De.
cember IA. 1916. He was reared
by an uncle, who intended to
devote him to q political career.
But Tycho became fascinated
by an eclipse Of the sun, when
he was only II years Of age
being aStonished by the fact
that mathematical knowledge
could predict the precise mo-
ment Of the eclipse. Under
many difficulties, the lad
studied the skies, the planets
and the conStel.a ations, and in
TWO years haQ, IL has been said,
arrived at farreaching conclu.
sions which were soon to revo-
lutionize the science" He re-
ceived g superb education,
studying at the Universities Of
Copenhagen, Leipzig, Witten-
burg and Rostock.
After the death Of his father
in 1871, Tycho settled near
Helsingborg, and for q time de-
voted himself to alchemy. On
November IL, 1872. he observed
an excessively brilliant star in
the constellation Cassiopea
This discovery was regarded by
Tycho and his contemporaries
as one Of capital Importance.
It had the effect Of finally
orienting Tycho in his artron-
omical career. from which
thenceforth he never deviated.
ne published a book about this
brilliant new star. under the
title "De Nova Stella" From
the variations In its brightness,
The Washington times., 1930-02-13

BECAUSE WE'RE TOO LAZY
AND CoWARDLY TO FACE
THE TRUTH.
It takes q lot Of nerve and
gumption to face facts and act
on them. It raises Cain with
comfortable routines and ex.
poses US to ridicule and perse-
cution. Truth seekers are re-
formers are not given q hand
of applause. They are given
a sock in the jaw. There is
no act more unpopular than
disturbing the Status Quo. So,
we go muddling along. selling
our heritagees for . mess Of
candy hearts that buy us moth.
ing but q stomach ache.
We didn't start 1t, Of course.
SentimentalIy started when the
first man scooted into his cave
and pulled the hole IN after
him and then alihied by
saying that he did It to pro.
tect the Sanctity Of the home.
Ever since then the human
race has been inventing pretty
excuses to duck reality and
camouflage cowardice and lazi-
ness.
Most Of us know that
but It would be such q whale
of a job to change! So we
agree not to cali the other fel-
lows bluff IL he won't CaIl
ours. And the muddle goes
meSsily on.
Real sentiment that's
different. Real sentiment is
homage paid to beautiful and
noble ideals. It Is, paid with
mind and heart and backbone.
BUT SENTIAEEHTTALTTY.
HIGH CONDONES ANY
KIND OF PERFO FORMANCE, rs
NOT HONEST HOMAGE. IT'S
AN EMOTIONAL HICCOUGH.
THE RESULT OF FAT
KNEES AND A WUTTERY
DIAPHRAGM.
The Washington times., 1930-02-13
LISTEN WORLD!
THE GREATEST MENACE
By Elsie Robinson

TNHE greatest menace to civil.
4 zation isn't war or disease
it's SENTnGENTALITY
OUR HABIT OF SUGAR
COATING FACTS SO WE
WON'T SEE THEIR WARTS
AND RIBS.
There are dozens Of instances.
Home Sweet Home. America
First. The Sacred Bonds Of
Friendship. The Glory Of War.
Respect for the Aged. The
Beauty of Innocence. The Dear
Old Days.
Listen lovely, don't they2
And from childhood we're
taught to venerate these ancient
hunks of hooey. But what's
the real truth about them?
Is home always sweet? No,
its frequently pain IN the
neck.
Is America always first? No,
in many important matters it
isn't even d poor tenth.
Are the bonds Of friendship
always sacred2 Anything Butt
Is war glorious? It is not.
It is the utterly beastly tool Of
greed and coInmercialiSm.
Are the aged always worthy
Of respect? Far from It. They
frequently deserve q severe baWl
ing out and society would be
healthier II they got it.
Is innocence beautiful? Yes,
in q baby. After that, it's q
risk and q nuisance.
Were the old days dear? Oc.
casionally. Usually they were q
mess from which we are lucky
to have escaped.
Hokum-h ooey-b y-bunkum-blah
: that's what most Of these
venerable traditions really are.
Then why do we promote and
perpetuate them and let them
gum up our lives?
The Washington times., 1930-02-13
Hearst Papers Advocate

1. An agreement of Engksh-speakng peoples to pre-
serVe peace among themselves and to promote the
Is. peace of the Uorld.
n Proportional representation IN the United States
Senate, State to haze less than tco Senator's
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
poytionntent IN the House of Representations,
8. separate Department oflthe Army, of the Navy
and of the Ar Forces al united under d Secretary
of National Defense.
a Federal action to the limit Of Federal poaOers to
abolish ahterGcy IN The United States under
Secretary of Education.
5. Election of Congress in NoUember. Installation
Of the President first of January peTt after
If November election.
The Washington times., 1930-02-13

Tycho predicted extraordinary
consequences: WARS, SeiitionS,
captivity. and death Of princes
and destruction Of cities, to-
gether with dryneSS and fiery
meteors in the air, peStilenCe
and venomouS SnakeSl" ALI this
was only nonsense. a phase Of
the astrological mania for proph-
esying dire happenings in q dis
tIlrbed and troubled world. But
this bright star had another
mission. For as Kepler truly
said: IF that star did nothing
else, at least it announced and
produced 3 great astronomer" ."
The observations which Tycho
n4ade on q brilliant comet in
1877 were important, especially
II view Of his surnise that its
orbit might be Oval-thus fore
sl1adoWing one Of Kepler'S great
discoveries. He was never viii
ing to accept the PtoIemaic
theory, detecting certain un-
avoidable weaknesses ii it.
According TO the theory which
he devised. ''the earth is the
center Of the universe, and the
center Of the orbits Of the
moon and the sun, as well as
OF the sphere Of the fixed stars.
which latter reVolYes round it
/. IN "a hours, carrying ali the
planets with It. The sun Is the
center Of the orbits of the five
planets, Of which Mercury and
Venus move in orbits whose
radii are smaller than that Of
the solar orbit. while the orbits
Of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn en-
circle the earth From 4 unath-
ennatical standpoint this was
really identical with Tie sys.
tenn Of COpernicus, which Tycho
obStinately refused to accent.
Tycho Brahe win always IS
remembered as remarkai1le
handler and inventor sc ingtru-
n1elts Of observation. and 4
superb observer. AS i I,rac.
tical astronomer" |" saws Brew.
ster, Tycho has not beer. slir-
passed BY any observer 81
ancient or modern times T
The Washington times., 1930-02-13
THE MARRY
GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland.
Why PsychOanalysts Keep
Motor Cars

Why Psychoanalysts Keep
Motor Cars
TUE success Of q psychoanalySt
= as Of an M. D., depends
largely on his ability to start q
woman talking about herself.
and then to sit and listen until
she gets the last complex or
complaint out Of her system.
Lots Of good physicians and
pSychiatrists have bought I'M
ported cars and duplex apart
ments on the strength Of this
bit Of knowledge Of feminine
psychology. And, heaven knows,
they have EARNED THEM!
A woman simply MUST have
somebody to whom she can talk
about herself! There is no men,
tai medicine like telling some.
body how you sufferl It is far
more soothing than Q nerve
tonic, and far more stimulating
than radium. gland pills or
blood transfusionl
Any woman who can afford
both a doctor and a psyche
analyst should not have to
worry about her blood pressure
or her henloglob She should
be perfectly happy, free from
inhibitionS and filled with
sweetness and light.
Any husband who can afford
to pay these specialists to listen
to his wife'S symptoms and
soul problems by the hour.
should have a peaceful home
life, a good golf stroke and a
free mind for his business.
Many a long-Suffering mans
health and nerves have been
restored simply by sending his
wife to a pSychoanalySt for
treatment. A good psyche
analyst is pretty expensive; but
it's WORTH fifteen or twenty
or fifty dollars an hour to b.
married woman, to have some
body LISTEN to her, and ac-
tually urge her to "tell him
more! " S
That is probably why there
always comes a stage In the
treatment when q young psyche
analyst has to warn his felmi-
nine patient not to fall in love
with him. Pity is akin to love,
and self-pity is loves first
cousin!
AS q repository for woman's
symptoms and sufferings, the
average husband is less than
nothing. He is q wet Blanket.
He has no SOUL! From the
day he n1arrieg, q mans spirit
ual nature begins to bury It.
self under his business worries,
his digestion, his neuritis or
his golf complex.
The minute you begin telling
him how your head or your
heart or your conscience Is
hurting you, he runs for the
aspirin or the smelling salts.
Or else he suddenly recollects
g business appointment and
daShes out to the club. Or
calls up the doctorI The sly
dngl
The Washington times., 1930-02-13
The Corner Cop
He's Human.

HE policeman job would be easier parents would help
How often have you heard them say to children: IF
you don't behave I'll tell that policeman there He'll
get you" ..@
That old household gag has been worked Of
youngsters, and we work it il we have any
effective but it poor propaganda for the police
The cop the is human under all those brass but
tons he would rather the kids his beat grow up right
than wrong But he can't help much children taught
from infancy to look at him their natural enemy.
Think that over next time it comes up.
The Washington times., 1930-02-13
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
by Dr.. Louis e. Bisch.

NHF1E average man and woman
i seldom take time really to
think.
We are so engroSsed with
our daily routine activities. we
are so taken up with absorb
ing information that we fail
to make the best use Of our
own knowledge and seldom, II
ever. contribute anything our
selves.
Stop and think, and you viii
be surprised to discover how
much you are swayed. not by
your own inherent thoughts
and feelings, but by the
thoughts and feelings of
others.
How often, for example, do
you thoroughly digest what
you read?
How often do you take the
trouble to eyaluate, by a little
extra thinking. the statements
you hear the other fellow
make?
We are altogether too prone
to accept, without further ado,
almost everything we read and
hear. and for no better rea-
son than that we are rushed
and do not want to bother.
Yet everything that we take
into our minds in this llncriti-
cal fashion is stored away-the
bad together with the good
and 1t becomes part and parcel
OF our mental makeup.
Bear in mind that everything
that Is stored up in your mind
directly or indirectly influences
you.
The mind absorbs every
thing like q sponge. We must
try, therefore, to review, criti-
cize,, and rearrange what goes
into our minds. That is the
only way we can make our
thinking clear and profitable.
There is q lot Of muddle-
headedneSs II the world.
There is much confusion Of
thinking.
Most Of It comes Of the fail.
ure to be critical Of what goes
into the mind.
Instead Of q systematic, or.
derly mind, too many people
allow their ideas to get mixed
up and contradictory. There
fore, take the time each day
really to Think
Get off by yourself and care
fully weigh and consider all the
impressions you can recall.
Don't make what you read
and hear q part Of your own
thinking until you have first
gone over it very carefully.
Don't believe anything that
you haven't first proved to
your own satisfaction.
Improve yourself by real
thinking.
II you think clearly. you win
act clearly.
Acting clearly means force
and power.
TO be able to think properly
may be the greatest moment
in an emergency.
You must keep at Ii: you
must be watchful each and
every day. If you neglect the
engine Of your automobile you
know what happens to its
efficiency.
Right thinking likewise makes
yOlr mind more effectiXe.
The Washington times., 1930-02-13
WISE SAYINGS

Histories are as perfect As
the historian Is wise aSld q
gifted with an eye and 3 soul.
Carlyle.
Though ambition Ii itself Is
2 vice, vet It Is the parent 81
virtues. Quintilian.
The conscious utterance Of
thought by speech or action to
any end. Is art Emerson.
That is q good book which il
opened with expectation and
closed with profit Aicott
The Washington times., 1930-02-13

g. What is tapoca?
T. Who invented gunpowder?
g. Where is sulphur found?
g. How many gallons in q hogshead?
TO- What Is the lightest gas after hydrogen2
IL. What Is forgery?
H. What river is sacred to the Hindoos?
Is What nation first settled New York;
H. Who taught Alexander the Great2
1b What battleship was destroyed in Havana harbcrP
tAnswms en- EIsiIn PagsS
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-08-21
Corrects Line of Poe
on Statue, Is Jailed

altimore.-Incensed by a super
lluous letter carved upon the Poe me.
mortal statue in a park here, Edmond
Fontaine, plant pathologist, recently
carried out recently published
threat that he would clip OFF the
plural 50 In the carved script from
Poe's "Raven,n Dreaming dreams no
mortals ever dared to dream before"
Thus read the inscription on the
face of the monument while accepted
editions of Poe's works have the word
mortal" instead of the plural form.
Fontaine is under arrest.
Asserting that the erasure made the
Vine perfect and that there was no
DETACHMENT Of the monument because
the letter was at the end of n line.
Fontaine said: police say had no
business to do 1t, which is true, but
art and poetry cannot bear up under
the strain Of seven years waiting to
have that error corrected. Poe him
self would suffer agonles over such
neglect by the Baltimore public"
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-08-21
WHAT TO DO FOR BLEEDING

In these days Of outings, accidents
tmany preventable) are frequent and
knowledge of what to do in emergen-
cies often saves a life.
A few simple donts, that can easily
be remembered, are given by the Public
Health League of Washington.
l. Don't disturb blood clot.
Blood clots are Natures weapons to
stop bleeding, consequently they must
not be rubbed away.
2. Don't forget that squirting means
a cut artery.
Bleeding from an artery can only be
stopped by pressure. In most cases
this can be done with the ball Of the
thumb directly against the bleeding
point itself. Keep up this pressure
until the doctor ties the artery.
O. Don't use tourniouet except where
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-08-21

not fnttening
Their contention Ia that American
womnnhood, and manhood, too, for
that matter. does not want TO get fat,
And, Judging by up-to-date styles and
up-to-date figures It issobyious that
they are right.
The central fact, however, Is that
they have actually oil got together and
they are going to stay together and
are going to spend large sum of
money to properly educate the public
regarding the uses of their products.
There are other important industries
In the State Of Washington, many OF
whom are fighting each other and
getting nowhere. WWe haven't yet
seen tho result of this milk combine
but we will hazard guess that other
industries Will be In u position Ia
learn an excellent lesson from them
a year from today.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-08-21
DRAFT HORSE SHOW WILL
BE FEATURE

More than rs of the finest draft
horses ever seen at western agricul-
tural and Industrial exhibition will be
displayed at the Western Washington
Fair at Puyallup from Sept. Is to 81,
1t is estimated that the draft horses
with, harness and equipment to be used
IN the six-horse driving contests will
reach a valuation of nearly 100000.
The new draft horse barn, tenth
of mile long, was recently completed.
II joins the new south entrance gate
to the Fair and was part of the 1880
expansion program of the Fair Asso-
citation.
Indication are that the draft horses
to be exhibited at ruyallup will be the
pick Of the Northwest. A. E. Bartel,
superintendent Of the draft horse de-
partment. recently toured Oregon and
Washington and reports that the best
known owners aid breeders will make
displays.
Among the breeders will be A. c,
Ruby, Of Portland, with Is head Of
Percherons and d. F. Burge, of Albany
Oregon, with is Percherons. The
Carnation Farm will send ten head
Of Percherons and vii feature an g.
horse hitch. A. schab, of Shaw, Ore
gon, is sending 10 head OF Belgians
and Harvey White, veteran breeder OF
Clydesdales, of Latah, is sending 16
head of fine animals to Puyallup
The Meadowsweet Diaries will feature
"a classy six-horse hitch of Percherons
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-08-21

OF this important agricultural group, a
solid organization, known as the
Washington Dairy Products Bureau,
and incorporated under the State Laws
of Washington, has been formed.
They have selected one of the lead
ing advertising agencies of the Pacific
Coast TO handle their copy, most Of
which will be placed in newspapers,
with radio tie-ins. The farmers, the
manufacturers, the jobbers, the whole-
salers, the retailers--in fact the entire
group that brings milk and its pro-
ducts from the farm to the home has
taken its coats off and is down to
work.
They have brand new idea that has
been conclusively proven by physicians
and dieticians This new idea is that
milk and milk products are extremely
nealthful and strength building, but
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-08-21
LOVE PIRACY oman"
EXPOSED AS WOMAN
Wed Girl When Her Broth
er Backed Down.

Minneapolis, Mnn.--For "a yenrs
Eva Mary Hotnling lived us II man be-
cause she could get better Jobs and
earn more money. She even married
girl to save the family honor when
her brother fled to avoid responsibility.
And now she has been named MS the
man" who stole n married woman's
affections
The suit was fled In the shape of
divorce complaint by Edward s.
Halstad, prominent and well-to.do
jeweler, against Mrs. Mnunena Hal
tad, who, he charges, treated him
"cruelly and inhumanly' after she met
Donald Hotullng," which is the name
under which Eva Mary has gone for
almost quarter of century.
Secret Is Barred.
Hulstad's Amusement when he
learned that his supposed rival was
woman--a fact that reached the
authorities because some one close to
Mrs. Halstad babbled--may be mag
ined. He md his wife have been
estranged for some time rs result,
she said, Of threats which he made
against her life.
When she sued for divorce he retail
eted by naming the supposed man who
had been frequent visitor ut hie
home and whose friendllness with his
wife he believed to be due to a clan
destine love affair between them.
Miss Hotaling, admitting she was
the Donald" named in the jewelers.
complaint, expressed regret that she
had been found out and her sex re-
yealed.
Il was Just sixteen when l first
donned male attire" she said. ut was
not done as lark, but as the result
of deliberate plan when, seeking
work, discovered that 1t was very
hard for girl to get decent job
Mt living wages"
Saves Brothers Name.
To detectives she said that when
her brother, Donald, refused to marry
a girl who was in trouble through
him, she took his place and led her to
the altar. For seven years they lived
together she said, and not even the
girls own family knew the truth until
she died in 1923.
After nm investigation the authorl-
ties held that IL Eva Mary chose to
wear trousers and call herself Donald
there was nothing that could be done
about it legally and she was permitted
to so about her affairs.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-08-21
DAIRY PRODUCTS BUREAU HAS
BEEN FORMED

Sixty thousand Washington dairymen
can't be wrongl This number of pro-
ducing dairymen of the state have
seen fit to band together in a common
cause of advertising the products that
result from milk. With them in their
organization are the manufacturers,
jobbers, wholesalers and retailers OF
the state.
The general idea is to create more
sales for all manner Of dairy products.
Heretofore there has been cross COM
petition between ice cream manufactur-
ers milk producers, butter manufacture
ers, and cheese producers, with the re-
suit that the public has become some-
what befuddled
After years of effort by the leaders