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The Washington times., 1930-06-18

To the layman insanity is
some mysterious and battling
disease that pounces upon peo-
pie unawares before they have
a chance to fight it.
To the majority insanity
means that the individual suf-
fering from it must be shut up
in an asylum for life.
p All this, however, is not true.
Insanity, to be sure, is a Seri-
out mental state, but there is
hope, nevertheless. Insanity does
not creep on so insidiously as is
imagined.
Secondly, most cases are
either durable or improbable.
Thirdly, insanity is largely
preNentable.
The United States has a pop
ulation of over one hundred
million. The insane portion Of
this population numbers about
three hundred thousand.
The economic loss is, OF
course, enormous-about two
hundred million dollars each
year; yet the probability Of any
one going insane is, relatively
speaking, small.
Besides, of the patients dis
charged from SO State hospitals
during 1920 a third left the
asylums recovered, about one
half were sent home as i'm
proved, Is per cent remained
unimproved and about S per
cent were diagnosed as not IN,
sane.
"PsychoSis" and its plural,
"psychoses," are the terms that
should be used instead Of in
sanity.
Insanity is a legal and not a
medical term.
It signifies that a person is
deranged mentally to such o
degree that he is irresponsible
for his acts and that he must
be watched and safeguarded
either at home or in an insti.
tuition.
The Washington times., 1930-06-18
writers and Business Men

Writers and Business Men
Often the money maker finds
it necessary to go to q writer
when he is called upon to
make a speech or get out some
article for a trade paper.
The financier is surprised
at the ability the writer shows
in preparing such an article.
His next thought is one Of
surprise that q man with brains
enough to write so well should
not be able to make more Of
a salary than he commands. He
thinks he should be able to
accumulate considerable prop
erty.
writer friend and figures what
The Washington times., 1930-06-18
Hearst Papers Advocate

/. peace and Gntity with all nations; entdngimg
alliances With none," as advocated By George
WGshD9eton.
2. Proportional representation IN the United States
Senate, no State to haze less than t1Uo Senator's.
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
portionment in the House of Representatives.
3. A separate Department of the Army, of the Many
and of the Air Forces, all united under Secretary
of National Defense.
4. Federr action to the limit of Federal po1ers to
abolish GiterGcy in the United States under q
Secretary of Education.
S. Election of Congress in NoUrmber Installation
OF The President first of January nert after
on the first of January foIlot0ing. Inauguration
November election.
The Washington times., 1930-06-18
DO YOU KNOW THAT

An engineer in Germany
claims to have invented a type
writer which can write up to
1000 words q minute.
Electrical milking machines
are auto matically timed, as to
the milking strokes, by the
pulsation Of the cows heart.
The Washington times., 1930-06-18
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

II wrong our hearts, our
heads are right in vain.
Young.
Labor Is in no way disgrace
ful. -Hesiod.
The cruelest lies are often
told In silence. Stevenson
The Washington times., 1930-06-18

Gasoline Of high grade and
several byproducts are to be OBJ
tanned from Ignite at a plant in
Colorado.
For carrying valuables In pub
lie places, q box has been invent
ed into which a persons hand Is
locked to foil thieves,
The Washington times., 1930-06-18

Whether they give c. refuse,
it delights women equally to
have been asked. Ovid.
Houses are built to live in
and not to look in. Bacon.
Truth is that which 8 man
troweth. EockA
The Washington times., 1930-06-18
KNOWLEDGE TEST

Match correctly
l. OBJECT Grafton
2. Acumen T1en1r
3. Harangue Beside
4. Novice DiScerpmsnt
5. Contiguous TWO
Do you know:
what s the line
THE heavens declare the glory Of God"?
Z. What city is Bay?
8. What is the science Of the weather called?
8. What Lady Macbeth doing when she betrayed .
secret?
10. Who was the War Of 1912 between?
Fill blank:
IA The hero of the "Idyls Of the King" is
IL. Hans -- is best known for his fairy tales.
IS. is the largest town in Africa.
15 The hand is used to measure -s height.
(Answsrs Masazine Pase)
The Washington times., 1930-06-18

We escape into Yesterday
into the pride and the pleasure,
The Washington times., 1930-06-18
LISTEN WORLD!

for an escape-and find amaz- 4
ing ones.
The Washington times., 1930-10-06
Heavy Demands Upon
Charities This Winter
Are Relief Agencies Prepared to Handle Situationf

Gloomy predictions unusually heavy demands
upon organized unorganized charities in Washington during
the coming winter.
Unemployment may not be extensive than it year
ago. but the savings Of many good people have become
hausted their credit facilities restricted than before
and appeals for relief certain to be larger than in many
years
It is probably serious situation that must be facsby the
community relief agencies and by all generously inclined
citizens. .@s ~..s
The Community Chest at the beginning of this year wisely
foesaw the need for larger funds than the past year Al
though public subscriptions above those of the previous
year. they did the goal set by the chest Payments Of
subscriptions tagging Failure Of any considerable portion
Of subscribers to meet their promises will be reflected in de-
creased apporonmen Of funds social agencies that will need
every dollar they asked for-and more.
Charity organizations fed by the Community Chest have al
ready encountered unusual demands AS best they could they
have furnished relief The cold Of winter is ahead The needy
must have heat well food and clothing Women and chill
dren will be the chief sufferers unless their actual requirements
be met It will not be question Of temporary help
for several days at time as in the summer.
Unemployment among heads Of families is douby distress
ing in the gors Of winter Human beings without resources
work helpless than at other tmes.e
The actual facts will be known only by check up and
then the full story not be brought out because there
thousands Of worthy people, heretofore disappearing
who will dislike to make appeals for public help
The Washington times., 1930-10-06

early part Of the eighteenth
century.
The Vitalists Of that period,
says Woodruff in THE Origin
Of Life" assumed that an all
controlling, unknown and un-
movable, mystical, hyper-me-
chanical force was responsible
for all living processes. Such
mystical theory can find no
standing in such a form today,
as it runs counter to the funda-
mental principles of science.
But even today there are vital
lists who hold that life phe-
nomena are In part at least
the resultant of manifestations
Of matter and energy which
transcend and differ intrinSi-
cally in kind from those dis
played in the inorganic world.
There is another theory.
known as the coSmozoa theory,
which merely succeeds in
thrusting the solution of the
problem step further back. It
transfers the origin Of life to a
conveniently inaccessible cor.
ner Of the universe where it's
solution is impossible" There
are great difficulties in any
theory which maintains that
life has never arisen de novo on
the earth. but has been trans
ported hither from elsewhere
in the universe. There is no en-
pirical foundation for the two
basic features of this theory,
namely that life exists else
where in the universe and can
be maintained during the inter
stellar voyage.
Phlueger has advanced the
theory that life had its origin
in cyanogen, which, with its
compounds, arises only in an
incandescent heat.
The Washington times., 1930-10-06
Listen, World!
BY Elsie Robinson

laziness P. the snap Of in
tolerance the giggle and
gaggle and guggle of foolishness.
These are the noises that
really drown out God
and the Voices of beauty and
Be BE STILL AND KNOW
THAT /. AM GOD!
Whatever your need. if you
would find q solution. BE
STILL! 49,,
Stop chattering and arguing
and making alibis. stop com
planning and questioning and
showing off! Stop shouting
YOUR opinions; YOUR preju-
,diceS, YOUR desires! s,-t
BE STILL!
LET THE NOISE BE
HUSHED WITHIN YOU. BIT
BY BTT-LET THE DIN DIE
AWAY UNTIL YOUR SPIRIT
rs EMPTY. READY TO BE
FILLED VI. WAITING TO BE
FILLED. GF
And then softly, gently. the
Voice will come.
From all sides 1t will conce-
From everything you bei,cld
and everything you experience
That Voice which runs like
one long chord through all
things and all life. through
laughter and tears and sunsets
and ships, through ploughed
fields and budding trees and
men bending over benches.
through child-bedS and graves
and wedding feasts' and labor
conferences, through books and
hammers and aeroplanes and
leaves Of new-made bread,
through roses and heaped fruits
and moonlight and sweat
From all sides the Voice viii
colae-- :"
ouieting your confusion. COM
forting your pain, answering
your ignorance--
whisneyjng: Il COME.
BE NOT AFRAID -. 3 e
Still. AND KNOW THAT I
AM GOD" -.. -.-..
Copyright 1880 by King Features
SyadasatS 4A@b
The Washington times., 1930-10-06
Districts Big Budgets

Senator King Of Utah believes the Districts annual budgets
reaching unnecessarily huge and suggests economies
thought that will receive careful attention from District Off
Cals
There has been tremendous climb in District expenditures in
the last 10 years and the future should be official effort
to prevent heavy increases proporoned to the past
That there be increases in municipal expenditures in
coming evident anybody but these increases should
The Congress that exacng about withholding just fiscal
contributions to the District should be just careful about pro-
tecng the pockebook Of District taxpayers from mounting
tax burdens,
The Washington times., 1930-10-06
Calls Upon 'Antis" to
Bolt Montgomery Ticket

Editor, Times:
Recently there appeared, IN
your columns Q. letter from one
writing under the guiSe Of a
Democrat, who signed himself
as Of the Wilson, Rdtchie per-
suasion. The letter in question
denotes plainly what becomes
Of q biological experiment In
eugenics. The Wilson brand
Of Democracy noted mostly for
the plain horse sense contained,
when crossed with the asinine
variety Of Governor Ritchie
has produced this example Of
hybrid, who n1ulishly declares,
"See what this great political
syndicate has given u.s."
Similar paeans of praise were
sung to the greatness Of the
Tweed and Croker dynastieS
when at the height of their
power.
History, however, records that
these politicians were busy doing
great good for themselves under
the guise of carrying on a pro-
gram of public improvement.
If there can be found enough
voters in Montgomery county
in November, who believe that
the unlimited issuance Of bonds
for perishable public improve
ments is a blessing, the Lee
machine will again start up
the printing presses, and there
will be bonds for all and taxes
to suit the most rabid.
The black and tan banner
of the Lee horde, which in
the past has kept a Republican.
Congressman in office, and
knitted at the general election
every candidate they could not
dispose of in. the. primaries, is
now being vigorously waved in
an effort to induce the return
of the "antis" to help out
The anti-part which only a
few short weeks ago was .re-
ferred to in speeches by the Lee,
The Washington times., 1930-10-06
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DIR. Louis E. Bisch

Every now and then we be-
come upset about the spread OF
crime, Usually this is after
some specially atrocious crime
has been committed.
It is well known that insanity
may lead to crime. 1t is also
generally known that feeble
mindedness may lead to crime.
But there is a peculiar
mental state that is neither in
sanity nor feeble-minde SIS,
yet is probably the greatest
causative agent in the produc-
ton of crime.
This condition is called CON
stitutional pSychopathia state"
Persons suffering from con-
stitutional psychopathy may be
of average intellectual powers.
Sometimes, indeed, they possess
intelligence far above the aver
age.
The salient defect in all these
cases is in the emotional sphere.
To summarize their peculiar
ity in q definition one might
say that they are individuals
upon whom an ordinary Stimu-
luS has an extraordinary effect.
In other words, whereas, 9
person with q normal emotional
makeup will respond with glad.
ness or sadness to q happening
or piece of news that should
make him glad or sad, a psy-
chopath may respond in an op-'
poSite way or display no feel
ing whatsoever.
The same holds true for
other emotions such as pity.
kindness, love OF such abstract
emotional concepts ss justice,
mercy, charity, patriotism.
The Washington times., 1930-10-06

There are, in the Bible, GER
tain eight words Of great wis
dom-"BE STILL AND KNOW
THAT AM GOD"
Those words were written by
King David for the ancient He
breWs. But we modern Amer
leans have an even greater
need of them, for our lives are
filled with a clamor and con-
fusion which that old world
never knew. A million alnuse-
mentS a million occupa-
tions a million distrac-
tiollS.
YET, STILL, LIKE MOSES
AND ABRAHAM, DAVID AND
SOLOMON, WE NEED TO
HEAR THE STILL, SMALL
VOICEAOF GOD.
!. We may not call it God.
We may call it Beauty
or Wisdom
But, whatever we name it,
each one Of us has a need of
1t :. each heart has a cry
which the harsh shout of the
world can never answer
each bewildered brain listens
for a Voice which alone can
bring comfort and peace and
strength.
But we will never hear that
Voice unless we shut out the
noise.
Not merely the noise of the
world. The noise of the world
is oppressive, but a man may.
still hear God in spite of the
racket Of street cars, the roar
Of automobiles, the bang and
blatter and shrek and toot
Of city streets. But there is
a certain other noise which viii
shut out the Voice more COM,
pletely than walls Of steel
AND THAT rs THE NOISE
WITHIN OURSELVES.
The bleat of our self.pity
the. hiss of envy
the bray Of conceit the
below Of hate the whirn-
per OF lear the Snarl OF
peeVisnnesS. the humble Of
suspAion the snore Of
The Washington times., 1930-10-06
Hearst Papers Advocate

/. peace and gnpity with all nations; entGngtng
alliances Vith none" advocated By George Wash
ington.
g Proportional representation in the United States
Senate, no state to haze less than taOo Senator's
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
portionment in the House of Representatives.
g. A separate Department of the Ar,ny of the Macy
and of the Air Forces all united under Secre
tGry of National Defense.
a. Federal action to the limit of Federal poUers to
abolish iliterGcy IN the United States under
Secretary of Education.
5. Installation of the President the first of jan
MGry folloOing November election.
6. SelectVe immigration to admit only those suited
for American citizenship
z. Deportation of undesirable aliens
8. COmpIets publicity for income tGres.
The Washington times., 1930-10-06

it was offensive to the negro
voters and had to comply be-
fore an o. K. was given.
In the minds of all people
who are not biased in their
opinions, that one incident
would not make this a happier
city for any one. On the other
hand it would make Chicago
q bit more considerate Of their
colored citizens feelings.
While this may not have
been the intention Of the pro-
ducerS, it could be considered
a delicate subject. that is, from
the negro viewpoint. In come.
dies they are all funny, no
matter how made up, regardless
of race; but there are a few
names which would spoil The
entire picture for any group
of people.
A good example Of what !
mean can be found in Amos
n Andy over the radio. They
are not offensive unless they
want to be offended. have
seen a few Of AL Jolson's pic
lures and have no complaint
to make. ! have seen them
here and have seen them and
other pictures and actors and
actresses here and in Chicago.
The colored people as whole
enjoy them.
CONSTANT READER.
The Washington times., 1930-10-06

not that monarch's way TO see
his own faults. It it had been
he would have been a better
ruler.
AS it was, he was ill-fitted to
the welding of the sceptet. He
was more the dilettante in
scholarship than a sovereign.
Government held only a part
of his interest. His study was
directed to books rather than
to problems of rulership. And
being given to jest, he often
fell into the bad practice OF
treating serious matters affect
ing the "states as inviting sub
jectS for humor.
While King James was not
viciously bad, he failed to real
ize the high obligations that
should go with sovereignty and
frequently sacrificed conSidera-
tions of right and justice to
whimsical fancies and out-of-
place joviality.
And especially offensive to
principles OF good government
was the Kings practiced ia
voritiSm. In the Indulgence or
this royal weakness James
showered favors on the Duke
of Buckingham and elevated
him in position until that
nobleman virtually became the
ruler of England-and this is
the cheapening Of royalty.
James the First of England
(also James the Sixth of Scot
land, the son of Mary Queen
of Scots. was born in Edin-
burgh, June 10, 1866.
He was crowned King OF
Scotland and placed under a
regency in 1867 and in 1903 he
became King of England. He
died March q, 1875.
A notable entry in his reign
was the translation Of the
Bible.
George Villiers, Duke OF
Buckingham. was born in Lei
'cestershire, August 20, 1892.
He was asSassinated by John
FELTON, and died at PortSmouth,
August %. 1873.
The Washington times., 1930-10-06
BiOgenesis
By Archibald Henderson

When francesca Redi, in the
seventeenth century, and Spal-
lanzani, in the eighteenth CEN.
tury, demonstrated the fallacy
of spontaneous generation, they
laid the foundations for Pas
tellr and the modern school Of
biOchemiStS. So far as human
observation and experimental
tion 60, no form of life arises
today except from pre-existing
lffe.-
There is no reason for doubt
ing that life, as shown by the
paleontol illogical record, has been
present on the earth without
interruption for an indefinite
period, estimated at some hun
dreds Of millions of years. The
questions which naturally arise
are: -
How did life get here, if not
transported to this planet from
some other part Of the uni
verse?
II life was not thus trans
ported, how did life arise spon.
taneouSly from ron-living mat
ter, at some time in the past,
as a natural result of the evo-
luton Of the earth and its
elements?
Various theories regarding
the origin of life have been
advanced in comparatively re-
cent years. None of these
theories purport to be final
solutions of the problem, but
rather are tentative moves to-
ward a formulation of hypo-
thetical conditions which might
logically have given rise to the
genesis Of vitality.
The theory known as vitaliSm
has its origin in the remote
past. But it did not receive
adequate formulation until the
The Washington times., 1930-10-06
Some Prohibition Paragraphs
U. S., Mexico,a Etc.


Carefully prepared figures show that number deaths
from alcoholism gradually increasing Crhoss of the liver
which progresses rapidly under the influence of bad whey
s included among alcoholic death causes.
The actual AMOUNT Of liquor drunk perhaps than it
was because drink costs five times much as It did before
prohibition ITO discourage vice, make it, expensive But
the poisonous violently intoxicating character Of bootleg
whskey makes quart as deadly as five
Some probitiOnss may find comfort in the thought that
those foolish enough kill themselves with bootleg liquor are
not worth much anyhow and the they are gathered to
their alcoholic fathers the better But that not very human
vew
We might learn lesson from Pores Gill; the Mexican Pre
dent who initiates wise Thomas jefferson on proniDon
his temperance campaign President Gil sought to abolish
pulque poisonous drink consumed by millions OF Mexlcans
and sometimes given infants places where milk cannot
be had.
The plant from which pulque grows wild and is
also cultivated on million Of land employs 1OOOOOO
people 10 per cent of Mexicos population
Puloue makes its addcs boodthirsy and dangerous but
fortunately for Mexico isn't nearly 50 strong as whskey
Thomas Jefferson wanted to abolish whisey He said it
killed half the people in country and ruined their families
He light wines and beer as substitutes for
whiskey
Of Jefferson may return
Prohibition is trial to President Hoover, who thought he
was being elected President of the United sstes and
nchef Of great country and learned tnat ne was rea
elected to be a prohibition policeman.
trial. too Americans who cant get what the
drink and others that DO get what they ought NoE
trial to that deplOre the crime wave the many
murders, hold-ups, ETC.
Our prohibition is financial blessing to our Canadian
friends and profitable to many this side of the border It is
stated in washington that PROHIBITION AGENTS the
Canadian line get 100000 year in graft.
Ninety cent Canadian liquor exported across our
border The Canadians get $300OO0 for and in
taxes The profit of booeggers about S6OOOOOOo
not easy control human beings regards their eat
ing and drinking Everybody knows how difficult is to en-
force prohibition
Owners popular restaurants numerous throughout the
country decided that meat wasn't good food for the
race Beef mutton etc. eliminated from the restaurants
bill Of fare of business caused the restaurants sales TO
ron and resulted in the restoration the meat The people
want what they WANT and like to decide such questions 1or
themselves.
In our speaeasy places for wcrmen are worse tnan
they were in the old days of the wde-open saloon
The number of speakeasies today New York is double
what the number Of saloons ever was
In Newark for instance who had been sober ndlng
his place surrounded by speakeases and being 20
in ust for chat found himself drunkard Wnen ne
tried to stop and promised his wife that he would stop agents
Of the speakeasies called upon him. and treated n Tree
his own house That took him and his wages back TO ne
speakeaSv.
The Washington times., 1930-10-06

Thus did the Scotch born
King of England land Scot
land), James the First, jestingly
fling at his favorite, George
Villiers, the Duke of Bucking-
ham, a bit of wisdom that was
destined to become a lasting
proverb.
The incident occurred in a re-
ceiving room Of the royal palace.
The Kings favorite had brought
to his sovereign complaint that
a London mob had broken his
glass windows tglass SO used be-
ing then q luxury. This. it
seemed, touched and provoked
the Scotch humor Of the King
and he cornforted the incensed
duke with the words 'Steenie,
steenie (that term of address
being used because Of a fan
cied resemblance to st. Ste
phen), those who live in glass
houses should be careful how
they fling stones"
The obvious point of the royal
Jest was that one who occupied
a vulnerable position Gas being
figuratively or actually, domi-
ciled, like the duke. behind
glass windows) should be care
full how he figuratively threw
stoneS-lest those who we.s 3 the
targets Tin this case the people
Of the mob enraged by the ia.
vorite's monopolieS and reused
to wrath by his arrogance) "get
back at him" by actually as well
as figuratively smashing his
glass barriers. And comparison
Of Buckingham's monopolies and
arrogance to fling stones" in
the Kings jest, was not so far
off,
True, king James himself
was really to- blame for all this.
For he it was who had heaped
upon the Duke Of Buckingham
the deteSted monopolies that
had enraged the people and the
great honorS that had caused
the recipients. vanity. to puff
up and breed arrogance to their
further infuriation. But 1t was
The Washington times., 1930-10-06

wise, should organize to deal
with this matter. All the house
wives who can bake at home
should purchase flour at a great
saving and bake their own
bread.
Great injustice is being done
in Washington by not reducing
the price Of bread in conformity
with the price Of flour.
RAYMOND C. SCHAFFER.