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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-11-27
MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY
Copyright, 1926
BY James j. Montague

Supply and Demand
One finds much reason for despair
AS on the daily news he ponders;
Life seems lop-sided and unfair.
For instance, take the case of con-
- doris.
These birds, the ugliest fowls on
earth
Their necks are bare above their
collars
Lay eggs whose estimated worth
Is something like thousand dollars.
But do they lay them often? No!
For some unguessed and occult rea-
son
The foolish creatures have to show
About one egg per pair season.
No value have the eggs of flies,
And yet flies ply their task sin
cerely,
And pile them up in vast supplies,
A million billion of them yearly.
If each of these were worth cent
I'd start fly farm in minute,
And soon be wealthy and content,
Because there would be millions in 1t
But If to such a Job set
My thoughts and my unflagginl
labors,
know that I should only get
The excavations of my neighbors.
But such is life! When things ar
| rare,
1 And there is no one to supply them,
Come men in throngs from everywher
And eagerly attempt to buy them.
But when, like fly eggs, all around
In every yard the makers store then
Nobody ever can be found
y To make the smallest offer for then
Thus all my dreams of riches fade
Beyond the rainbow's rim out yondel
Too bad the fly cannot be made
TO teach her system to the condor
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-11-27
MANS DEPARTMENT

" II II " II X Il II II
There is one place in the world
where woman openly and frankly
dominates man. This Is In the mysteri-
GUS Hoggar, high plateau in the
heart Of the Sahara Desert.
AS frequently brought out In this de-
partment, the entire world is ruled by
the female sex, while the male thinks
he is doing things. 1t is wonderful
how woman In her artful way creates
this Illusion in the breast OF every
man. She pirates much about the
weaker sex, while she insidiously puts
over her program and directs the af-
fairs of the Nation as well as the
home.
But In Tazerouk Hoggar, Southern
Algeria, dominates beyond the ques-
ton of doubt and admits It.
The report goes on to relate:
"she marries whom she pleases She
controls her property. She may live
apart from her husband without being
called upon for reason. Her chill
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-11-27
Through a
WOlnlaIl's Eyes
bv Joan Nescsos
ON HOW TO HELP
bv Joan Nesefos

A WOMAN who gives much of her
n time us well as money to charl-
ties and social work was telling
group of friends something of how the
other side lives.
After wringlng their hearts with
pictures of want and need and misery
which are the daily fare of the So
cial worker, my friend said she would
tell us funny story.
81 had a CALL" she said, ito visit
a family where the children could not
go to school because they had no
shoes. Since 1t is our policy to give
relief first and investigate afterwards,
we Immediately sent for the two boys
in the family, two complete outfits
of shoes, socks, underwear and little
suits with button-on blouses.
"When visited the family found,
while it was true that there had been
considerable illness in the family, the
father having just been released from
the hospital, that they occupied
very Observation-Disclosures five-room
apartment without any signs of need.
II asked the mother if the package
of clothes sent them had proved of
assistance, and she replied that the
shoes and socks for the boys were too
large.
Every WE'LL said I, If you will
wrap them up and give them to me, l
shall be very glad to have the smaller
| size sent to you at once
"'And the underwear she added,
is too long
let me have that, too," said,
"and shall send you shorter pieces
tomorrow"
"'And you know, little Jimmie
doesn't like the kind Of suits you sent
with the butt8n-on blouses. He likes
the kind that don't button. So would
YOU mind taking them back and ex-
changing them, too? And while you're
at 1t, he likes the Peter Pan kind of
collar"
The blouses were not exchanged,
my friend told us.
! "But I'm surprised that you didn't
Just drop Them" said woman in
the group who was listening to the
story. people who are SO unappre-
ciative and ungrateful don't deserve
to be helped"
/ A humorous and understanding
smile played about the eyes of the
woman whose life was one Of service
and helpfulness.
IF we were to limit our charity
only to those who properly appreci.
ated, the vitality Of our work would
be lost. We measure our help only
by the need. We give with thought
not of gratitude, but Of the need in
volved."
That spirit would mean muclr tc
many people outside the lanes Of or
ganized charity. Many problems II
families, many questions of right ant
conscience and being satisfied will
ones self would be helped by tina
principle of measuring help "only b!
, the need"
"a. 1880. Bell syndicatc.)
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-11-27
REAL PROGRESS.

Today the American citizen, sitting
in his home or office, can in a few
minutes and at reasonable cost be
connected by telephone with person
in any one of 20 foreign countries.
We have contacts with 81 per cent
of all telephones in existence, and
transatlantic telephony increased from
$500 calls in 1927, to 10000 in 1929.
Americas great, privately owned tele-
phone industry is doing an invaluable
work in bringing the peoples of the
world closer together.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-11-27

energetic measures are being taken by
the authorities to control it. Dis
spensarles and sanatoria are being de-
vcloped as rapidly as possible but II is
admitted that through education in
Yugo slavia as in America lies the
hope of ultimate success
MIS- Buchanan wrote from Florence
Italy She is expected to return soon
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-11-27

There should be no food shortage
this winter, for the patriots seeking
public office have handed out enough
boloney to feed the multitudes in
definitely.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-11-27

The nearsighted woman who saw an
Austin car and then set mouse-trap
was probably farsighted after all
Thaddeus Breton, Keansburg, N. j.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-11-27
HERE'S A HOT ONE.

A colored minister in a southern
church decided to improve his Sunday
services with the addition Of vested
choir. He gathered dozen and a
half young folks together and soon
had them well trained.
The first Sunday when the choir
had marched in singing the process
sional he noticed something was lack
ing Leaning over the pulpit, he
chanted in tune with the hymn:
What have you done with the
incense pot?'
Left it in the aisle, it was toe
damned hot" chanted back the choir
boy with great presence of mind.
The Washington times., 1930-06-06
CURIOUS FUNERAL ORNAMENTS.

The Buddhsts of Burma Thbet and elsewhere the
lives and the their monks most seriously Those
monks represent Buddha EARTH hold the keys to the Bud
dh fate here and hereafter they revered while they
ve treated with great consideration when they die
picture above shows of the Itinerary used at
the cremation of Buddhist monk The Burman gentlemen
below indicate the gigantic size of the curious creatures
built up of light material on the funeral car
Just what they MEAN is not told lady, strangely
dressed appears to be treating her gentleman in compl-
mentary fashion.
Perhaps the lady angel from far away to escort
the dead Buddhist to his reward.
However that have ornament at funeral
is considered great Burma reserved for i'm
portant personages, including Buddhist monks
The structure in the background shows tall canopy under
which the of the dead cremated The canopy
burned with him. The ashes gathered together and
buried Buddhist temple
Sometimes you told the ashes of the monk pousy
collected pounded fine dust mixed into sort Of cement
and modelled into image of the Buddha sitting cross
legged, in deep contemplation
That idea to have occurred to our part OF the
world heard of Democrat cremated having his
pounded to paste and made into model of the head Of
Thomas Jefferson Republican doing the for Abra
ham Lincoln.
Strange mems ideas of death.
We like, usually elaborate funeral with many
possible. We like fine grave, preferably
hill with good view although you nothing from the
grave.
We like expensive coffns and monuments.
Our leading gunner like coffins of solid silver and
five thousand dollars worth of flowers grace the
! occasion, when they bumped Off.
Many has skimped and saved all her life that she
might have fine funeral arranging to spend the money at
time when she could neither see nor enjoy the spending Prob
ablv she enjoyed thinking about it. :
Whatever makes us happy is good for us.
Some will you cold boodedly that the human body
is worth far its actual materials concerned consider
ablv less than dollar.
Men spend good deal of their lives thinking the
final disposition of the few cents worth of corpse
They think about that, often, than they about
mnroving the mind and soul that live in the body.
Many go through life without thinking very much about
what going to happen to that life of the body when the
body dies
The Washington times., 1930-06-06
Greater Washington Population
May Be Determined

It will be most interesting the director of the Census
Bureau able arrive at the population of Greater Wash
ington including territory in Virginia and Maryland which is
for practical purposes, part of this great city
Many American cities to boost their population figures
sorted all of schemes of taking in suburban regions
even though those regions retained their political identities
and their police powers The practice has resulted in bitter
rivalries and bitter comments
Washngtons corporate limits we'll defined They will
always remain the but there getting away from
plain fact that social and other purposes there
than $4,000 people close around the District line who
practically Washingtonians.
This city cannot under boosting tactics legally include these
people in its population many other cities have done and
doing but they belong here and do of their business
here. The majority of the workers work here.
The interests of these Maryland and Virginia people
akin to those of the District that they have park and planning
commissions to cooperate with the Park and Planning Com
mission of the District in city extensions and development that
will be uniform in nature the united aim being Greater
Washington in and actuality, if not legally
The Washington times., 1930-06-06
Theaters Can Not Be Run By
Legislative Plans

Representative Michaeson has his way it will be unlaw
full the District of Columbia for any theater permit ad
mission of in of the number of therein
to allow persons to sit stand in asles pasageway stair
ways, exits any space
Penalties for dobyng the proposed law would be fines
imprisonment BOTH for theater operators
The theater public will oppose such law because it will
suit in higher prices
Business will resent the proposal unwarranted in
reference with business and Congress we'll informed
the opinions of business this subject Less Govern
country
To out the heaer business for annoying regulation
Is somewhat peculiar Mr. Michaeson might just we'll
pose do the thing for ball parks and other places Of
exhibition limit street and buses to passengers able to
obtain seats business houses big bargain sales to
have clerk hand wait upon each customer without
delay, and stop overcrowding of automobiles and boats
Even though Washington experimental field for lega
tive fads Mhaeson ought not get far Congress-
The Washington times., 1930-06-06
Secrets of Health
BY DR.. Louis E. Bisch

with surprising rapidity they go
to pieces!
Take a strong and powerful
man. put him to bed for a
couple of weeks. and at the end
of that time he will be so weak
he will scarcely be able to stand.
His muscles are already dete-
riorating.
If you could stop a brain from
working for any appreciable
length Of time prompt and
deleterious effects would also
be noted.
OF course, you cannot COM
pei the brain to cease function
ing like you can muscle.
Nevertheless, many people do
let their minds slow up with
results that are disastrous.
1t is common knowledge that
if a man retires after years Of
active business. he soon grows
decrepit and often dies before
his time.
The marked enfeeblement OF
faculties that follows is not
due to the giving up Of a par
ticular kind Of mind or body
activity. 1t is due to the fact
that he does not exercise his
mind and body as vigorously
as before.
When people retire they
should not stop working-they
should work at something else.
If an athlete gives up train
ing and adopts a sedentary
life, he becomes muscle-bound!
If an active mental worker
ceases to activate his mind he
becomes mind-bound!
Excessive work, is, Of course,
bad.
But don't grumble because
you have to work at all!
If you were not working at
your present job you would
have to work at something else,
otherwise you would soon
break up!
The Washington times., 1930-06-06

The term work" carries with
it, generally speaking, a dis
agreeable Connotation.
1t usually brings to mind
some kind of routine labor,
mental or physical, which we
do not relish doing, but which
we have to do to earn a living.
True 1t is that in this COM
plex civilization of ours we
work for money. and money
provides us with necessities
and some luXuries and COM
forts.
Nevertheless, work should be
viewed from another and more
fundamental aspect.
Never should We forget the
physiological necessity for work!
Work is as necessary to hu-
man beings as food! Without
work the human organism de-
teriorateS!
Every organ in the body
works. That is, the liver, the
kidneys, the heart, the lungs,
the brain-all have work to
perform. The work of these
vital organs is invisible. We do
not see it. We only come to
realize that they do perform a
certain kind of work when
their work goes wrong-that is,
when the organ gets sick.
Visible work is the kind of
work we usually think about.
It's the output of Drawn and
brain as measured by con-
structive activity. That is what
work means in the ordinary
sense.
Now if any of the vital
organs ceased to work-that is,
stopped functioning-that organ
would die Immediately. If it
did not work at maximum eff
cheney it would deteriorate-in
other words, die slowly.
The same holds true of the
organs performing visible work.
Hinder them from working and
The Washington times., 1930-06-06
Comet or Planet?
BY Archibald Henderson

arrive at definite astronomical
knowledge concerning it.
The new object is thought to
be of the fifteenth magnitude
and it is Judged by Sturm, of
Berlin, to be a planet because
of its slow movement.
Recent calculations indicate
that it was nearest sun and
earth in 1900. At that time it
was about 1850. 0.0OO.0 miles
from the sun. It has a very
elongated oval orbit. and will
eventually recede to a distance
of 38.502 100000 miles from the
sun. These are the figures ar
rived at by DIR. John jackson,
of the Greenwich Observatory.
DR.. William D. Macmillan,
professor of mathematical as
tronomy" at the University Of
Chicago, now advances the view.
after careful computation and
drafting Of the orbit of the new
body. that it is not a planet
but a comet. jackson says the
new body has the brightness
and clear definiation of a
planet but the erratic orbit If
a comet.
From the meager data now
available, the orbit has been
plotted by Macmillan and
Bartky. Within a few yeavs
it will pass out of sight and
will not be visible again until
the century 5000 A. (Which
differs from JackSon's figure
by two centuries.
II will not reach aphelion. or
far.hest point. from the sun.
until BAGS A. D.. when It win
start upon its return Journey.
The Washington times., 1930-06-06
.ONCE-OVERS

should exercise good Judgment
and be guided accordingly, can
you make a logical excuse for
continuing to do the things
that will cause you to blush
in future years when you think
of them?
1t is a good thing to take
stock of the inner self occasion
ally.
Unless we do, we may not
realize how far from the path
we are Straying.
There are so many little ways
of committing infractions of the
laws of society and moral ethics
and injuring our moral stand
ing that it is easy to get to an
advance stage of lawlessneSs
without comprehending the ex-
tent of the damage.
Listen when something tells
you are not going in the right
direction.
The Washington times., 1930-06-06
By Elsie Robinson

whir te mind will not receive.
Bar c''nnies-solitary cells
" :. ior The first two years.
eac!. 1nrict must serve his
time .lair, : to the wall. No
ligh' No ~ Food which a
dog ould refuse. No sound.
Or. If one spoke, the whipping
post or terrible iron necklet.
Two y"ars of hat!
Feeling sick! Burning with
abor,i' .tion Of a country which
could "rmlt such horror? Wish
you CO.. / yell your anger to the
world? DOM speak too fast.
Save E frw of your yells for Dan
nenora. Your Dannemora, My
Dannemol
That cor rct ship operated
100 years ago. Things we're
pretty rough then everywhere.
England wouldn't tolerate a
shame like that today. But Dan
nemora-our Dannemora-is op-
Grating now. Operating with
your consent and mine.
There are black holes in Dan
nemora as terrible as any in that
convict ship. Last fall there was
a prison riot in Auburn. Since
that time the leaders of the riot
have been in solitary" in Dan
nemora. What does solitary"
mean? 1t means a pitch black
hole, four feet wide, six feet 10
inches high, with no air save
that which comes through a
tiny grating. 1t means the
freezing cold of a 35-degree win
ter climate. It means eyes going
blind from darkness, throats
going dumb from lack of words,
brains going mad from constant
solitude. And-thingS that are
worse. There are whips in Dan
nemora too. And StraitjaCkets.
Some of this officials deny.
What chance have hundreds of
prisoners against officials de-
nial? But even they cannot deny
the size of those cells-the dark
neSS-the Soiitude-and the fact
that men have been confined
for months under such appall-
ing conditions.
The scab of England's shame
lies cleanSed and emptied in
Washington Harbor now. But
our shame spreads from Cape
Cod to the Golden Gate.
The Washington times., 1930-06-06
The Marry-GO-ROund
BY Helen Rowland.

"brighten his life" when ALL
the women are trying so desper-
ately to make it one long sum-
mer holiday with the sunshine
of their smiles?
Why should a man who IS IN.
vlted out to dinner six times a
week long to pay for any one
woman's dinner every day in
the week?
Why should a man who is
wakened, every morning, by a
different girls voice over the
telephone contract to let any
one girl wake him up every
morning-and send him to
work?
Why should a man who can
loll around on a different girls
piazza every evening and be
petted and waited on, yearn for
the privilege of sitting around
the SAME house, every evening,
to be told to go out. and NOV
the lawn or run down and bank
the furnace?
Why should a man, for whose
attention so many women are
frankly and unblushingly strug-
Cling, not feel that it would be
"cruel" for him to waste ALL
of his kisses and affections on
any one woman?
True, he will find out WHY,
some day-kut then, it may be
too late. A man can always
marry-but marrying, after 40.
is about as thrilling as receiving
a belated' Christmas card in
January.
True, there are always good
fish in the sea-but why wait
until the bait has grown stale?
Still, the surprising thing is
not that so many men shy at
marriage, these days, but that
so many of them DO marry.
1t must be love, the carrot!"
(CopyriEht. 1880, King Features
Syndicate, lnc.D
The Washington times., 1930-06-06

On the waters of the
Potomac sprawls a ship like a
yellow scab.
1t is a scab-this ancient
ship so ironically named Sue
cess" "a scab on one of the
foulest sores IN human history.
For Sc years-between 1902 and
1868-the Success served as
convict carrier and floating
prison between England and
Australia. Men, women and lit
tie children were crowded to-
gether in that hell hole to serve,
at the least. sentences of seven
years. Sentences for what? For
offenses that would hardly be
noticed now. Hungry little boys
imprisoned for seven years be-
cause they had stolen a pork
pie! Girls mprisone d, leg
ironed, at the mercy of guards,
for taking handkerchiefS!
The waters of the Potomac
are very calm, but if you can
explore the decks of that ship
without growing i'll you're
tougher man that I, stranger.
Stark and black against the
lovely Washington sky rises the
flogging frame. 1t was not al
ways black. Nearly always in
those days it rose scarlet from
a pool of blood. Fifteen and
sixteen-year-old girls and boys
sick old men-delicate women
were stripped and strapped to
that frame and flogged. Then
dipped into vatS of salt 'vaLer
and bed with harsh
brushes to "cure them" Many
found merciful death in that
vat.
There are the cat-o'-nine-
tails that wrought that death
thongs of rawhide bound with
brass wire and tipped with pei
lets of lead. There are the
branding irons, with which
every convict hand, however
young, was branded. There are
the straitjackets and 57-pound
leg iron.
Below deck horror on horror.
Rat holes in which five and six
men were crowded together--to
rot. An awful barred place at
the stern, which the guards
The Washington times., 1930-06-06

Love is the carrot" remarks
Con1ngsby Dawson. "by which
man, the donkey. is induced to
forsake the field for the stable"
This sounds like only
cynical eplgram; but. it is
rapidly becoming the secret at
titude of most men of today to-
. ward marriage. And, there's a
reason!
After all who should man
who lives in California go to
Florida for a change? Why
SHOULD a man marry, so long
as women put a premium on
bachelorhood?
Of course. every man ought
to marry. There is nobody on
earth-not even a spinSter-
quite so lonely and disillusioned
as an old bachelor when the
wine Of life is on the lees.
But no gay YOUNG bachelor
can look far enough ahead to
see the morning after headache
or the heartache of the lonely
years. He sees only that life
for him is one long glorious
love-feast. whoopee-and-petting
party, with a constant change of
partners long as he can
dodge marriage. That is why
he keeps his fingers crossed.
Why should he concentrate
his heart, his time, his money
and his kisses on any ONE wo-
man, so long as he is encour-
aged to broadcast them?
It may have been different in
the old days, when there were
no de luxe bachelor apartments,
with valet-and-maid service, no
petting parties. and no really de-
sirable girl could be kissed with
out effort.
But-NOW! Why should a
man choose any one woman to
The Washington times., 1930-06-06
KNOWLEDGE TEST

Do know
What salary does a member of Congress receive?
the of the road for vehicles England
g. Who the strong man of Turkey?
What hobo poet" appointed poet laureate?
s. How did they kill people in the French Revolution?
g. given the reduction of the human
body to ashes by fire?
T. Who said:
The burnt child breads the tre?"
g. Who is Secretary State of the United States?
g. the Governor of Porto Rico?
TO- Where George Washington when he had smallpox?
Fill each blank:
of the walrus composed of.........
H. The kangaroo carries its young in
49, the leader of the first expedition oveand
to the Pacific.
is Secretary of Labor
Is ........ used by States for execution Of
criminals than other form Of nflcing the death
penalty.
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