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The Washington times., 1930-11-26
The Marry-GO-ROund
By Helen Rowland

The average mans respect
for woman'S intelligence is
manifested in the fact that,
even in this enlightened day,
women's hats are priced. $4.90:
whereas, a five-dollar hat in a
mans shop costs exactly five
dollarS-and no foolingl
Drinks used to be diluted
with romance and sentiment,
in the good old days. But now
we take them both straight"
and wonder why they leave us
with such a headache.
An ideal wife, according to a
mans notion, is o comforting,
understanding woman, to whom
he can turn for solace or pro-
lection, when "the other won-
an" is beginning to "get on his
nerves."
And old-fashioned girl is one
who bursts into tears instead
Of into profanity when her
shoulder,strap breaks, her car
balks, or Q man makes her
furious.
GceSyrisht lssO. by. King Features
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The Washington times., 1930-11-26
Roadside Stands in Bay State

When the Maryland legislature meets it will undoubtedly
consider improve the roadside stands Of
all kinds many most unsghty and menaces to health
In 1882 with the George Washington celebration centerng
in this city Americans by thousands viii Maryland roads
pleasing them to Maryland under inviting circu
stances
The Department Of Agriculture of Massachusetts, adopting
interesting policy for roadside stands in that State selling
local products Of good quality including vegetables and fruits
grown near the stands Neat and attractive stands will be
allowed display State insignia their signs and will sub
NIT to official inspections.
The Washington times., 1930-11-26
ONCE-OVERS
Money Isn't Everything


You may feel that you can be
little good in the world because
you have not much money.
Why is it that you associate
helpfulness and money when
you consider whether you
might not help some other per.
son?
Money is not needed so often
as kinds words, friendly sugges-
tions and a genuine interest in
the welfare Of the recipient.
Certainly you are not too
poor to offer this kind Of help.
Sympathy with those who
have q hard time to adjust
themselves to a load is one Of
the finest things you can lend.
CHEEKY words and thoughtful
deeds when At comes to the i'll
and afflicted make an other.
wise unendurable day seem
shorter.
But you don't like to make
personal effort and unselfish
attention is not in your line, so
you prefer to gauge your use
to the word from the financial
end of the proposition.
You never aid others when it
entails work or self-denial and
your friends are beginning to
find this out.
They don't want your money,
they want to find your heart on
the right side when they are
heavy laden, and If you have
the right spirit you win forget
your own pleasure and give Of
SQu6o4k. "a.
The Washington times., 1930-11-26
Day of Real ThankfulneSs

In tomorrow observance of thanksgiving Day Washing
ton people have every to be genuinely thankful
There distress and need here but does not reach the
proportions of other cities will be cared for in generous
manner too, if the known.
There is unemployment here than in other cities Of
similar and public and private agencies struggling
hard to better conditions. They succeeding
Those who have work better off than year ago. be-
cause prices are lower and their money goes further
We should be grateful that conditions such that
going be able to help the unfortunate filling our
hearts with joy and content Let that purpose be aim
until conditions return to normal ~ >
The Washington times., 1930-11-26

Are you saying that you
haven't any reason to be thank
full today? You have always one
reason for supreme thankful
ness. That reason is YOUR
SELF.
II you can't be thankful for
anything else, BE THANKFUL
FOR YOURSELF.
Yes, I know, you may not be
Gods greatest gift to humanity.
BUT YOU'RE GODS GREAT
EST GIFT TO YOURSELF.
You are your own best bet.
Your own biggest opportunity.
And you have, within you. the
power to build heaven for your
self. Or 81 varieties Of hell.
Perhaps you've found life a
pretty futile affair this last
year. You wanted a chance.
You couldn't get it. You longed
for adventures. There weren't
any Everyone else had all the
luck. What was the use Of liv-
ing.
The Wrong Place
Trouble with you was-YOU
WERE. LOOKING FOR LIFE
IN THE WRONG PLACE. Life
isn't to be found OUTSIDE you.
It is to be found INSIDE you.
There, inside you, is your
CHANCE and your LUCK.
YOU'RE A GOLD MINE, BUT
YOU DON'T KNOW TT!
IF YOU'LL BACK YOUR
SELF, AS YOU WOULD ANY
OTHER BUSINESS PROPOSI.
TTON, NOTHING CAN STOP
YOU.
What do I mean by "back-
ing" yourself? BELIEVING IN
YOURSELF AND ACTING AS
IF YOU BELIEVED. Stop be-
ing sorry for yourself. Stop ap-
preaching life with q sneer and
yourself with a sob. Stop sus-
The Washington times., 1930-11-26
A NEW AUTOMOBILE TYPE.

Here is sample of the latest automobile with engine
than body It is built in England where they make their auto
mobiles by hand slowly and try all kinds Of new things
They have excellent idea in this automobile of great
power speed and that is ROOF OF GLASS, that will
not shate all the rest Of the glass being Of the same kind
The ordinary closed shuts in the driver and passengers
and shuts OUT the beauty Of sky and clouds
in closed travelling through beautiful country
like walking in magnificent cathedral with his
umbrella up.
In this type Of you look through the glass roof
shine down you.
Our grandchildren will 60 in their automobiles from two to
three hundred miles hour along roads unobstruced with
speed limit, at least five hundred feet wide.
In the air they will go five hundred miles hour and
faster.
Let hope their errands will be worthy their speed
The Washington times., 1930-11-26
A Giant of Science
By Archibald Henderson

Among the men, only eight
in. number, pronounced by Ber-
nard Shaw to be makers Of
universes, stands the name Of
ClaudiuS Ptolemy. Although
this figure elmerges from the
miStS Of antiquity as one Of
the pre-eminent masters in as
Economical science, almost moth
ing is known either Of his life
or career. It is known that he
was q native Of Alexandria,
but. the year of his birth is
unknown. He was certainly
making astronomical obServa:
tions as early as 127 A. D.;
and he was in the full tide OF
his fame about the year $50.
Just three centuries earlier, or
about $50 B. c., flouriShed Hip
parchuS, upon whose work Ptol-
emy based his own remarkable
system. It was a triumph OF
mathematical ingenuity: and
the skill with which this COM
plex system Of epicycleS and
eccentrics was worked out re-
mains q source Of amazement,
even TT the present day.
The Ptolemaic theory assumes
the immobility Of the earth, the
revolution Of the sun around
the earth, and the daily rota-,
tion Of the whole universe
around the earth as q center.
1t was assumed that a planet
moved in q circle around an
imaginary point, while this
imaginary point described q
circle around the earth. Ptolemy
Ns0NiA GtaHR e @icycles; and
The Washington times., 1930-11-26

it is necessary to know what. an
epicycle is. Suppose a motorist
picks up q nail in the tire Of
his automobile. The head of
the nail stuck In the tire
traverSes or describes In space
q curve as the automobile
travels along. This curve de.
scribed by the naiLhead is
called an epicycle. If you
imagine the automobile travel
ing around q huge circle, the
nail-head describes the kind of
epicycle used by Ptolemy in
his work.
A simple mechanical con-
trivance win give q good idea
of the sort Of mathematical
figure Ptolemy used in his
astronomical system. Imagine
two arms fixed to one an
other, each swinging freely.
The circular motion of the
first arm carries the second
arm around with it: and all
the while, the second arm des.
cribes q circular motion on its
own account. The figure de-
scribed in space by the end of
the second arm Is called an
epicycle or epicycloid. It is Of
the same general form as the
apparent motions of the planets
across the heavens. In mod
ern times, the motion Of the
bodies in the solar s',stem were
calculated from the sun taken
as center, which greatly simpli-
fled the mathematical problems
inyolYsd =.
The Washington times., 1930-11-26
Christmas Bonuses
Why Wait Until Christmas'

Many firms will give Christmas bonuses to- employees this
year, usual In the aggregate these will amount to
hundreds of thousands of dollars Why not give them NOW
in ample time to be used for Christmas shopping instead Of
waiting until December Oath 25th?
Employees would be fully appreciative-n fact
And the money would be distinct boom to- business
Early shopping is urged at every Christmas It is kind
ness clerks and salespeope and is help
Postofce which already is renewing It's appeal
to the public to mail Christmas parcels promptly
Early shopping is difficult however for those without
money to shop
The bonuses would help many to solve this problem Bust
ness houses contribute business revival by making them
available now, when they most needed
The Washington times., 1930-11-26

Commends Stan1 Favoring
County Change o! Govt.
Editor Times:
AS a resident Of Arlington
county please accept my sin
cere appreciation for your edi-
torial of November II deal
ing with the change in form
of government of darlington
county.
Your pointed references to
modern requirements of county
government and the type Of
executives to direct same
should not only be Of great
interest to the thinking peo-
pie Of Arlington county but
should serve to still further
enlighten them on the reSpon.
sibility of citizenship.
JOHN A. PETTY.
The Washington times., 1930-11-26

terest for the general reader.
especially for our public school
teachers, but Mr.. James fails
to give Eliot adequate credit
for his grand broad views on
education for democracy.
He thinks of him too much
as an expert on higher educa-
ton. OF course, Eliot was this
but q great deal more. He
was much more than q high
brow. Every child in the land
will get inspiration from him
Eliot was president of the
National Education Association
which exists ito improve the
public schools" and the school
The Washington times., 1930-11-26

teachers know how near this
was to his heart. He said:
"There Is only one way Of
teaching young men to gov
ern themselves, namely by
letting them try"
He also said:
"The real object In educa-
tiOn, 80 far rs the develop
ment Of character Is con-
cerned, IL to cultivate In the
child Q capacity for self.
control or self-gOvernment.
not . habit Of submission to
an overwhelming, arbitrary.
external power, bat . habit
Of Obeying the dictates OF
The Washington times., 1930-11-26

In this machine Captain Frank Hawks American champion
speed flier goes over 200 miles per hour.
It is queer looking vehicle but MAKES and BREAKS
records thanks It's engine and above ALL thanks TO the
engine at work in the brain Of Captain Hawks.
Who would have thought, few years ago. that man
would actually fly in machine like this from the Pacific to
the Atlantic Ocean in twelve hours?
Who tell what the high speed ships Of the future will
be like?
And for that matter who tell what automobiles also
capable Of hundred miles hour already viii be like In
years to come with special roads, and speed lms7
The Washington times., 1930-11-26
WISE MEN

The virtue Of parents is q
great dowry. Horace.
Our patience will achieve
more than our force.
Burke.
If wisdom were offered to
me on condition that I should
keep 1t close and not commu
nicate it, ] should refuse the
gift. Seneca.
Lawyers are always more
ready to get o man into troll-
bles than out Of them.
as' Goldsmith.
Beware Of desperate steps.
The darkest day,
Live till tomorrow, will have
passed away. Cowper.
Liberty is not in any form
of government. It is in the
heart Of the free man; he car
ries 1t with him everywhere.
Rousseau.
TheEmore we study, the more
we discover our ignorance.
Shelley
1t is easy in the world to
live after the worlds opinions;
1t is. easy in solitude to live
after our own: but the Great
Man Is he who in the midst
Of the crowd keeps with perfect
sweetness the independence Of
Oolit -eEs ii.
The Washington times., 1930-11-26

The Sweet and LOw.DOwn
Wedding-rings are very much
wider this season-wider and
fewer. In fact, they are be-
coming so rare that q woman
wants one big enough. to
SHOW.
A woman has reached the
age Of discretion when she be-
gins to believe the worst that
her looking-glass tells her, and
gives up her lipstick: a man,
when he believes the worst
that his doctor tells him, ana
gives UP whoopee parties.
Some husbands are almost as
hard to bear with when they
are trying to be good and
noble" as when they are peeV-
ash and natural.
At is. every girl believes
secretly that she was "just made
for love-" Later she discovers,
TO her -chagrin. that she was
Just made for stenography,
laanicuring--or darning socks
NJ IehiRg dtGhes.
The Washington times., 1930-11-26
Letters to the Editor From Readers Of The Times

honor and duty, as enforced
by active will-pOwer within
the child.
Student seR-gOvernment
enforces positive activity; 1t
appeals steadily to motives
in the boys which will serve
them when they become
men; and it is constantly
trying to develop in the boy
ish community the capacity
OF self. government"
Very truly yours,
SOPHIE POLLACK,
Secretary Self Government
Committee. New York City
The Washington times., 1930-11-26
TIMES KNOWLEDGE TEST

Do you know
/. With what country do
you connect Guy Fawkes?
2. Where is De Soto buried?
8. Who convened Barebone's
Parliament in England?
4. What was the unfinished
novel of Joseph Conrad?
s.. What is the color Of ala
baster?
Fill each blank
8. The first president of the
American Red Cross Society
Z. The first president Of the
German Hepuhlic was -
The Washington times., 1930-11-26
Hearst Papers ADVOCATE

Il Honest friendship NTH all nations eNtaH0hg alliances
NTH none."-GeOrCe WGshtBgton-
Proportional representation the United States Senate
state to haze less Senators Legislation to enforce
prompt constitutional reGpporonHent IN the House Of
I Representatives.
SepGrate departments the Ay OF the Macy and Of the
All Forces al united Secretary OF National Deese
Federal action to the limit OF Federal poUers to abolish
tliteTGcv under Secretary of Education.
Installation of the the first OF January folor
ing the November election.
Seectue immigration admit only those suited for Aeft
cdn citizenship and American needs
y Deportation OF undesirable aliens and extension OF citizen
ship period to 10 pears, %s
g. Complete publicity for to prevent big tar
dodgers from escaping tGEGtion.
O. Modification Of VolsteGd act to permit light Dnes and
beers under Federal regulation /%-
The Washington times., 1930-11-26

8. Lady Mary intro
duced to western Europe the
practice Of incubation for
smallpox.
8. The spineless cactus Is an
achievement of -.
10. The Panama Canal was
begun in 1861 and was COM
pleted in .
Match correctly
IL. comfort routine
IL. commence desolate
13. forlorn solace
Il. single begin
IS. timid sole
kAnsweuH an lEagaxine page!a
The Washington times., 1930-11-26

Self Government for
Young Students
Editor Times:
Henry James book on the
late President Eliot, Of Har-
ward should have intense in
The Washington times., 1930-11-26
Friend of Unemployed
Gives His Views
rdi4n.. n,;.noa.

GSUttOg HtCCs
AS q friend Of the unenl-
ployed and of labor in general.
I have given conSid era Bile
thought to the deplorable con-
dition Of affairs at present con-
fronting our country. While
President Hoover and his able
commission viii no doubt give
3 good account Of themselves
and are to be commended for
their efforts In ameliorating
the situation, there Is one
remedy that has occurred to me,
which If put in effect will do
much toward helping the good
work along.
1t H. this! Instead Of having
married women on their pay.
rolls, let the stores, banks. Of
fices, and factories throughout
the nation, dispense with their
services and employ others in
their places. The married wom-
ans, sphere is pre-eminently the
home, and let her shine in 1t,
a comfort and a blessing to he's
husband and children, who eS-
pecia1ly in this age, need her
tender miniStrationS and loving
counsel. In the District of
Columbia there is q large per
centage Of this class among the
wage-earners, and they are tax
ing the bread out Of many a
hungry mouth by continuing in
such employment.-R. H. B. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
OVER PAR, CHICAGO
BONDS END SPELL
Financial Difficulties Follow
lowing Vast improvements
Clearing Up.
BY LEO J. RYAN.

CHICAGO, August 16.-Herculean
improvement projects. upon which hun
| dreds of millions of dollars were spent,
and herculean complaints about suuan-
dering money have been the back
ground of the IL years during which
Chicagos bonds have .1ever sold above
par.
The spell was broken when Halsey
Stuart 81 Co. bought $7.000.000 worth
of the city's bonds for $7,022, $50, and
today the city fiscal fathers were point
ing with pride to the horizon of H.
nancial peace.
Projects Materializing.
The millions were poured, at least a
large part of them, into projects which
gradually are materialiZing as the Chi.
cago plan. These include new parked
lake front for 20 miles, the conversion
of the old South Water street of his
toric squalor into the classic double-
decker Wacker drive, the chiseling out
of a new channel for a portion of the
Chicago River that had a kink In It,.
and the outer drive system Of fast au-
tomobile speedways along the lake.
Many long streets were widened. nu-
merous bridges erected and the Navy
pier was built a mile out into the lake.
Also included are the sites of the
majestic new home of the Field Mu-
scum and the famous Soldiers Field,
where Tunney and Dempsey battled the
battle Of the century in the rain.
The unfortunate furry caused by
tax delays is all over" proclaimed
George K. Schmidt, city. controller, to-
day. "Once more Chicago sees day
light ahead in its finances"
Treasury Finally Ran Dry.
After almost continuous complaints
from one local source or another over
period of years that the city spent
money like a drunken sailor, the city
financial situation reached its climax
last Winter when. with no taxes col
lected for two years, the treasury ran
so completely dry that there was no
money to pay teachers, policemen and
thousands OF other public servants at
Christmas time. Banks and financial
houses refused to buy any more tax an
ticipation warrants on which ready
money could be raised.
The situation was finally met, in des-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
Tong Oil From Many Sources.

Unless you have an intimate acuuaint-
ance with the manufacture of paint YOU
will never have heard much about
Tong oil. For many years the source OF
supply has been China, where the oil
was extracted from the Tong tree BY
very primitive methods and shipped
about the world to be used in the man
ufacture of paint. During the war there
was a great and sudden demand for 1t
from all quarters. It was required for
the treatment of airplane wings to pre-
vent them from becoming waterlogged.
China could not meet the demand, and
thousands of acres of oil-produciug
trees were laid down in America. Since
then America has had practically a
monopoly of the worlds supply and has
been producing $4,000 tons annually.
Realizing the enormous Importance of
the industry, the authorities at Kew
began some years ago to raise Tong
trees and to experiment with them. It
has now been found that they grow
readily in New Zealand, Australia, India
and Africa. Big plantations have been
made in these countries, and within a
few years it is hoped yhey will be able
to provide all the Tong oil that is re-
quired in Great Britain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17

peration, by the formation OF Special
Citizens Committee, headed by Silas
Strawn, internationally known attor-
ney. A special session of the Legisla-
ture was called during the Spring to
enact several items of fiscal reform
legislation which the committee recon-
mended.
A tax assessment revision which had
been under way for two years was COM
pleted and taxes, unpaid since 1928,
began to flow into the treasury in July.
with the collection of the 1928 taxes
theoretically completed on July 10
members Of the Citizens Committee
announced that more than $100, 600, 900
of the city's total debt of $3.50, 600, 900,
exclusive Of bond issues, could be re-
tired Immediately.
Five-Year Payments Planned.
In anticipation of regular tax pay
ments from then on a flve-year pay
ment plan was outlined under which
the last of these debts was to be paid
by May /. 1895.
The 100000 bond issue sold yes
terday was authorized by the special
session of the Legislature to pay old
city debts. The per capita bonded debt
of Chicago is comparatively small under
statutes Of limitation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17

BY the Associated Press
MOSCOW, August 16.-A modest,
self-effacing mother directs the spend.
ing of nearly two billion dollars annually
for Soviet Russia.
And she still can make all her own
clothes and do her own cooking!
Barbara Nikolaevna YakovleVa holds
one of the worlds biggest jobs. She i:
Russia's commisar of finance, pos,
comparable to that of Andrew w. Mel
lon, Secretary of the United States
Treasury.
Salary Is Small.
Her salary is $50 a month"; tenth
of Mellon's-although millions of rubles
pass through her hands daily
She is the only woman member of the
Soviet cabinet and only one other ma
ton, England, has a woman cabinet
member.
Once an obscure revolutionist, hunted
by the Cars secret police, Nine Yalov-
leva watches expenditures of the gov
eminent with the shrewd eye of a care
full housewife. In her vast financial
household she employs $4,000 men and
1000 women.
She, herself, tolls 16 to Is hours a
day. Sundays and holidays included.
She lives in small. 5-room fiat near
a workers settlement with her aged
parents and her two children.
StilI Can Scrub Floors.
Her husband, also a revolutionary, is
experimenting construct of a big
factory at Saratov, on the Volga.
Years of privation and hardship
taught Nine. Yakovleva to be intensely
practical.
That is why she does not conceal the
fact that she can still scrub floors. wash
clothes, make all her own dresses and
do her own cooking.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
SOVIET WOMAN OFFICIAL DIRECTS
SPENDING OF 2 BILLION A YEAR
Finance Commissar Has Job Comparable to
Mellon s-Only Member of Sex In Cab
met Makes Only $3.50 Month.

She wears no jewelry or other EN-
bellishment and does not believe In
short skirts. lipsticks. face powder OF
expensive dress and lingerie. Her ha-
bitual garb is plain, inexpensive white
shirtwaist with black skirt and Isle
stockings.
Looks Mothers Part.
To your correspondent she looked the
part of a good mother a woman OF
quiet demeanor, neatnesS and great
charm. She is As, fair, with blue eyes
chestnut hair and soft, even voice
Her only hobbies are mathematics
ter's degree in higher mathematics and
is an excellent pianist. She sometimes
finds time to go to the theater, the
ballet or concert.
Her present high post was won by
the hardest toll and unremitting serv-
ice to the revolution.
Five times she was exiled or impris-
oned by the Czarist regime, spending
years in Siberia.
She knew and worked with Lenin and
Trotsky.
Shy About Self.
She is shy about herself, extremely
reluctant to . discuss her own life,
achievements or talents, insisting 1t Is
the system, not the individual, that
counts.
"Our government gives every one an
equal chance for success" she said.
"I must not be regarded as an excep-
tional case. All women in the Soviet
Union are given the same opportunity.
Many other women besides myself hold
important executive positions. Several
are presidents of regional governments.
within a few years We probably
shall have hundreds of women in high
administrative posts" ~