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The Washington times., 1930-07-28
Still Opportunities
For Those Who Make Them.

Never doubt that this is the land Of oppounitor those
who MAKE their opportunities.
Consider for example the of the late James ].
McCabe, of Brooklyn
Mr. McCabe left faherles and motheress at the age
of He went work printers devil when he was H.
He became cOmpostor prOOfreader and bOokkeeper He
studied music in his spare time and at ID organst and
choirater of Roman Catholic church in Long Island City
At 25 he was teacher in the public schools He also
studied mathematics his spare time becoming teacher Of
that subject Manual Training High School Then ne was
promoted principal and district superintendent retiring AZ
the age of 65
Meanwhile his spare timeMr McCabe has been teach
ing himself art having carried pad pencil and sketchbock
with him for the preceding 26 years He went TO Paris TO
live year had two Of his paintings exhibited
in the Paris Spring Salon.
We forgot to mention that-also in his spare te-Mr.
Mcabe composed Masses vespers and musical comedies and
dashed off new musical setting to the words Of Amsrca
which was adopted by hundreds of public schools throughout
the country and which sold than 100000 copies
Quite showing for printer devil Educator musician,
artist and an outstanding in all three rOlegas well
as husband father and friend deeply mourned hy all who
Like everybody ese Mr. McCabe had time but unlike
most of u.s. he used it UNSPARINGLY.
That makes him worth writing about.
The Washington times., 1930-07-28
Hunting Traffic Weaknesses
In Washington

Congress when again. ought to be well supplied
with material bearing upon traffic weaknesses in Washington
End then that body will wreste with problems that nobody
ever seems able to settle the satisfaction Of anybody else
The House District Committee adopted resolution before
adourning calling upon the Corporation Counsel of the
District to prepare revision Of the traffic code The
tee seemed feel that there should be wholesale
vision of the entire code.
Corporation Counsel Bride is record believing that
our traffic laws should be revised after study Of the traffic
laws and regulations of other cities He would like to
clearing up the divided responsibility Of various officials
and agencies engaged in traffic control
Commissioner Crosby is not satisfied with the traffic situa
ton and recently named Traffic Advisory Council to study
conditions and make recommendations to him.
The Automobile Parking Committee under the guidance Of
the Park and Planning Commission has just come forward
with proposed solutions of several problems of them
quite drastic in their nature
Congress will get the bulk of the recommendations and
will then its studies The District Commissioners
are empowered make changes in regulations but they
not change existing laws.
There isn't anybody who does not know how correct
traffic troubles There is ahead great opportunity
to unload traffic ideas and thoughts. Get ready
The Washington times., 1930-07-28
Fine Highways Are Developing
Southern Maryland

Opening of link in the highway system Of Southern
Maryland gives additional accessibility to the large number
of Neutrality-suspicious. and others who find enjoyment in trips
into that famous region of salt waters fish, oysters ducks
and terrapin
Along Chesapeake Bay Potomac River and various trbu
tary waters have sprung up many communities of city
people, haing from Washington Baltimore Richmond and
other points and they with thousands of transient visitors
contribute much to the prosperity of the region
Maryland authorities long sensing the Importance Of
highways in this commercial and pleasure resort development
Southern Maryland have put in many miles Of fine roads
that travelling might be made easy and comfortable with
quick for tourists and business and from the big
cities.
The highway link considerably shortens the distance be-
Washington and soomons Island Chesapeake Beach
and other bay and river resorts.
The vicinity Of Soomons Island threatened to become
center Of shipping and business Just beyond
that socaed small island is Drum Point with waters deep
enough accommodate the largest ships that float project
that made headway called for branch of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Drum Point and the building Of accommodations
for shipping The scheme throttled is claimed by
Baltimore business interests opposed to competition
Drum Point gets its from the occasional presence
there of schools of large black drum fish, much sought by
fishermen
The Washington times., 1930-07-28
Listen, World!
BY Elsie Robinson

Do normal women always
want babies? And is a woman
queer" who doeSn't?/
They don't and she isn't, ac-
cording to a lady named Caro-
line M, who frankly states
she'll have no babies on her
budget.
Dear Miss Robinson:
From time to time you write
an article glorifying mother
hood and implying that there's
something queer about any
woman who doesn't want chill
dren. / resent this, for con-
slider myself perfectly normal
and I certainly don't want chill
dren.
For the past four years I
have filled a position which
keeps me perfectly contented.
It is interesting and important
work and I think it is exactly
as creative, for me, as mother
hood would be- OF course
hope to marry, some day, but
shall never marry unless my
husband agrees that we shall
have no children.
I think it is as unreasonable
to expect all women to want
children as it is to expect all
men to want to be lawyers or
doctors. A woman has as much
right to pick her career as a
man. You wouldn't brand a
man as abnormal If he pre-.
ferred to be an engineer in
stead Of a dentist. Then why
brand women because they
don't all want to follow the
same profession?
CAROLINE M.
But motherhood is not a pro.
feSSion, Caroline. And the de-
sire 20 have a baby is quite
different from the desire to be
an engineer. Motherhood isn't
q matter Of mental determine
ton. It's a matter of physical
hunger-of physical equipment.
All men weren't fitted by ma
ture to be dentists. But all
normal women were fitted by
nature to be mothers. And
q normal woman wants her
baby as naturally as a normal
man wants his food.
It is true that no one would
consider a man queer who
denied an interest in q GER
tain profession. But he'd GER
tainly be voted crazy II he de-
MED an interest in food and
water. And. In like manner,
people consider q woman queer
whN doesn't want children.
The Washington times., 1930-07-28
THIS PICTURE ILLUSTRATES THE DIFFERENCE Be
TWEEN THIS COUNTRY AND EUROPE

There is in very small picture published by TenlesOaF
and printed queer Esperanto language lesson for
Americans and great cause for thanldulnesS.
On side you Europe engaged race with Uncle
Sam.
The race is for the industrial supremacy Of the world
Uncle SAM with his forty-eight States, nations all
united runs q smooth path.
Europe is divided into many countries with customs bar
riers not only between the different nations but actually be-
tween the city and country regions within the same country
Many languages overwhelming State debts complicated pass
port regulations other nusanCes hamper business
If the United States were established European basis
you would have get passport to go from New York to
New Jersey another go from New Jersey to Pennsylvania
another for every of the fOrty-eight States.
If you went New York Chicago you would find the
people speaking language you did not understand And
the Chicago going Palm Beach Seattle or San
Francisco would have take three separate languages with
him.
Here we have real "free trade" Our fOrtyegh States
trade freely among themselves They all speak the same Ian
ruape. They have the method of doing business
No wonder BRAND intelligent French statesman seeks to
establish United States of Europe
But his is an uphill task He will not live to see the thing
accomplished will his children, nor his greagreatgrand
children.
In Russia alone there are forty different languages
There are hareds based religion race prejudice
There hatreds of the vest kinds based on superstition
and tradition.
This picture should fill with gratitude the heart Of
American helping him realize what is that gives US our
prosperity and that the development Of national
life along lines Of harmony and increasing frendness 30
certain
The Washington times., 1930-07-28
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Louis E. Bisch-

by Dro LOUIS II. blScn-
Every home should have q
first-aid kit and in every auto
mobile one should be carried.
When going to camp or when
on vacation In the woods
where a druggist or doctor Is
not readily available such a
kit is likewise a wise precau-
ton to have in the grip.
Various kinds of emergency kits
can be bought cheaply. In gen.
eral such a box should contain
the following:
One ounce bottle Of flexible
collodion.
One two ounce bottle Of aro-
matte spirits of ammonia.
One ounce bottle Of aspirin
tablets.
One ounce bottle Of iodine.
One ounce bottle Of arlstol or
other busting" powder.
One three-ounce bottle sat
urated solution of boric acid.
One ounce bottle spirits OF
peppermint.
One tube of ichthyol oint-
ment.
One tube of zinc ointment.
Six sterile gauze bandages,
two inches wide.
Six muslin bandages, three
inches wide.
One package of sterile absorb
, ent cotton.
One package Of sterile gauze.
One roll adhesive plaster, two
inches wide.
Two dozen large safety pins,
One pair of surgical scissors.
The above may seem like a
formidable list, but none of
the items could safely. be dis
pensed with.
In an accident or injury the
bandages are essential. For
burns and wounds, the oint-
mentS are required. A duStinR
powder Is desirable to dry up a
wound. The boric acid solution
can be used for cleaning a
wound, also in drop doses for
eye inflammationS.
Aspirin is good for pain, of
course. When dissolved in water
it makes a good gargle for
sore throatS.
Aromatic spirits Of ammonia
is good for fainting, dizziness
and weakness, even when held
under the nose.
When q person faintS or Is
unconscious from an injury give
him d little time to recover. II
this is prolonged lower the
head and sprinkle cold water
on the face.
In conclusion let me add it
would be an excellent thing
for every man, woman, boy or
girl to buy, keep and read a
book which treats Of hrst-aid
measures
The Washington times., 1930-07-28

groups in an industry coop
Grating on a special research
job. private laboratories main
tanned by individual manufac-
turing companies, and COM
mercial laboratories which may
be called INTO consultation for
special work. A reliable esti-
mate places the annual expen-
diture for such research at
5000, ,000, 900.
It should prove stimulating
to the general public, in this
astounding age of steam, coal,
oil, electricity, machines and
power, to realize the magnitude
Of the efforts now going for
ward, under competent guild
ance and with adequate finan-
cial support, for wrestling from
nature the secrets which will
prove useful to mankind.
In the great Bell Telephone
laboratories in New York city,
for example, 5000 persons are
employed and $4,000, 900 ex.
pended annually.
Then there are the two great
Federal bureaus, expending sew
eral millions of dollars each an
nually, the United States Bu-
reau OF Standards and the
United States Bureau of Mines.
1t would take volumes to de-
scribe the scientific and re-
search work supported by the
five great American founda-
tions: the Rockefeller Founda-
ton, Carnegie Institution, Ma
tional Research Council, Mellon
Institute and Engineering
Foundation.
Many millions Of dollars are
expended annually for research
In colleges and universities.
and by progressive trade asso!
Citations.
The Washington times., 1930-07-28
KNOWLEDGE
TEST

Do you know:
/. Who is the Secretary Of
Labor?
q. When is the Worlds Fair
to be held in Chicago?
8. Where Is Mt. Whitney?
4. What is the smallest State
in the Union?
5. What famous editor said:
go West, young man?
6. Who won the British open
golf championship this year?
Z. Who was Rasputin?
8. Whose adventures suggest
ed Robinson Crusoe"?
9. Who has carried the Ameri-
can flag further south than
it has ever gone before?
10. Who is the woman Repre-
sentative from Illinois?
Match correctly:
IL. Sage
To travel
IL. Melancholy
A luxurious eater
13. Effervesce
A granulated starch
II. Gourmand
TO bubble and foam
Is. Peregrinate
Detection
(An9MsEa On Magazine Rssal
The Washington times., 1930-07-28
''BANZAI"
For Our Billion Dollar Bargain

THE Senate will ray the naval treaty, obedient unto its
masters voice. and Americans will then have opportunity
to discover what they bought for billion dollars
Not many will advantage Of the opportunity but those
that do will be surprised q,
They will find:
THAT they have NOT bought parity with anybody.
2-That they NOT bought the kind Of navy we need
but the kind that England and Japan say shall have
S-That they have handed the Philippine Islands to Japan
on a silver platter, and Ia
That they trade with China unless Japan permits
The last two items worth several billions and VIII
be worth several more billions in year two,
So we shall pay billion dollars for the privilege Of giving
them up if our japanese friends so desire
great bargain You should thank the Senate for buying
it for you.
And you might give three rousihg cheerbu perhaps on
second thought II would be more fitting 70 shout banzaA
The Washington times., 1930-07-28
Scientific Research
By Archibald Henderson, Ph.D., DC.L., LID.
Famous Scientific Authority

The inventor who finds out
things which have not been
known before and puts them to
practical use for mans benefit
and development is the most
useful member of society. Judged
from a material standpoint.
! The inventor is really a leader,
a man who goes on before.
To succeed, he must be en-
dowed with imagination,
patience, ingenuity, independ-
ence, and courage. He must not
be diSmayed because some
authority has said that such
and such a thing is impossible.
Inventors are nowadays al
most daily doing things which
authorities have said could
not be done. The world today
is briStling with successful in
ventions put to scientific and
commercial uses, which had
been pronounced impossible.
A vast amount of research,
much of it haphazard, useless or
repetitive, is being conducted in
the laboratories of colleges and
universities. Besides this, there
is a positively colossal amount
of industrial research being
carried on in the leading coun-
tries of the world, notably in
the United States, England,
Germany, and Japan.
In the United States alone,
there are approximately one
thousand organizations for in
dustrial research.
As pointed out by the late
Admiral Elmer A. Sperry, the
famous inventor, in Toward
Civilization, these organizations
include the Government bu-
reauS, educational institutions
supported by endownents,
trade associations, special
The Washington times., 1930-07-28

It's probably lucky for the
child and society in general il
she does deny 1t, for unwilling
motherhood has doubtful value.
But the fact remains that the
woman who doesn't want babies
is as abnormal as the woman
without toes or ears.
She may, I admit, put on
a very adequate performance
as a substitute for mother.
hood. She may camouflage her
cowardice and laziness and self
ishness with a thousand fine
sounding alibis and much note
worthy action. But nothing,
to my notion, can keep the
deliberately childlesS woman
from being a flat tire.
Personally I would rather be
even a fourth-rate mother than
have the greatest career that
ever hogged a spotlight.
However. as said, that's
lust my notion. And you're
at liberty to mail a red-hot
argument agin it. by return
mail.
The Washington times., 1930-07-28

comparatively free from such
silly contests" and it is to be
regretted that at last they are
making their appearance kere.
If these people are so anxious TO
find some way Of passing away
the time they might look for a
job Of real, "honest-to-good-
ness" work. Any kind Of work
would be more laudable than sit
ting on the limb of a tree and
making q public spectacle Of
oneself.
Lastly. what is the object of
this meaningless performance?
What do the contestants expect
to prove, and what will be the
value of it after it Is proved?
B. SCHWARZ.
The Washington times., 1930-07-28

This Druggist Charged With
An Act Of Inhumanity
Editor, Times:
I realize that it takes all
kinds Of people to make UP this
world, yet after living in Wash
ington for IL years, I saw the
smallest man / ever expect to
see. The proprietor of a drug
store on Connecticut Avenue
refused to let the clerk at his
soda fountain give y drink Of
water to two little boys, 2-year-
old boys, on Saturday after
noon, one Of the hottest days
on record.
I cannot imagine a person
refusing to give a drink to his
The Washington times., 1930-07-28

On Tree-Sitting' Craze
Editor. Times:
Recent stories in the newspa.
pers Of Washington indicate
that the "tree-sitting'' craze,
already rampant in some sec
tions of the country, has hit the
Capital.
The question is, what is the
object of this form of "contest?"
Certainly, it seems that some
better form of proving endur-
ance, superiority or whatever it
is the contestants wish to prove,
could be found. It savorS of a
reversion to our anthropoid an
cestors to see human beings
perch on the limb Of q tree and
simply sit there until they have
won out some other person en-.
gagged in the same sport" If
the contestants would chatter
a littleas perhaps they do
the resemblance to q monkey
would be perfect.
Only a day or so ago the pa
pers carried a story of q woman,
the mother of children, who
was engaged in this asinine per-
Torrance. and another Story
told of two other women who
were trying the same fool stunt.
1t would seem that this sport is
foolish enough for children, who
might at least keep out Of mis-
chief in this way. But for grown
people to climb into trees and
sit on the limbs and grin day
in and day out-welI, it just
goes to prove that Darwin was
not "all wet"
The Capital 80 far has been
The Washington times., 1930-07-28

worst enemy, let alone to ba-
bies. His excuse is that there
used to be so many children
line up that customers could
not get in. At no time had
anyone ever asked for a drink
for the boys without first max
ing q purchase.
Have you ever heard Of any
one so small?
JANE BAILEY.
The Washington times., 1930-07-28
Commends How for Leaving
Fortune to Hoboes

Commends How for Leaving
Fortune to Hoboes
Editor. Times:
We learned by a story in
your paper Of the death Of
James Eads How, the mil
lionaire wanderer and good
fellow to all tramps, who left
his immense fortune to the
betterment Of tramphood and
all concerned with the rail
walkers union.
How was cremated and his
ashes were mailed back to The
city of his betters, st. Louis.
1t, was in that city that How's
grandfather built a bridge and
I understand that jeff Davis,
the present king of the hoboeS,
and his association Of timer
ants are planning to erect a
statue in honor Of the mil
lionaire hobo" at the entrance
to the bridge. This will be a
noble act. How was an out
standing figure in the realms
of his companions.
We have learned that a holi-
day of 80 days. is to be declared
in commemoration of How dur
ing which time the U. s. club
of itinerants will mourn the
death of the famed hobo and
stop for q time the straining
of canned heat" the national
beverage of the wanderer. Per-
haps doing this will establish
precedent terminating in the
annual celebration of the death
OF James Eads How and each
year a holiday will be declared
over the country among the
wanderers Of the world in the
honor of their dearest friend.
C.. r.
The Washington times., 1930-07-28
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

'Tis not enough to help the
feeble up.
But to support him after.
Shakespeare
The greater man, the greater
courtesy. -Tennyson.
The Washington times., 1930-07-28

Every war is o national calam-
dty whether victorious or not.
Won Moltke.
No book Of great and estab-
nshed reputation is read till it
is read at least twice, Bennett.
The Washington times., 1930-07-28

Hard Knocks showered
On "Tree-sitting" Craze
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-15
SOUTHEAST ALASKA FOR THE
 RAILROAD.

MT Rasmusons urge that the people of South Alaska contribute their influence to the cause of the Alaska Railroad which is being investigated will meet hearty response Southeast Alaska engaged freely and intellgenty in the fight for the Alaska Railroad and she is still for it.
 The railroad was built to recompense Alaska in part for the disaster of the withdrawals of public lands and other resources from private appropria- tion and development At the time the railroad bill was passed, seventeen years ago. it explained that if had not been for the application of exag gerated conservation to the Territory private enter prise would have built railroads into the Interior. The Government, having deprived the people of the benefits that would from private capital really obligated itself to contribute the railroad to the development of the Territory.
 There not single reason advanced for building the road when it authorized that does not apply with equal force in favor of it's continued operation.
 Alaska stands united today for the Alaska Rail- road it stood in 1913.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-15
NOTICE OF SALE

Notice is hereby given that I, as mortgagee in that certain mortgage dated September 4, 1928, on the gas. Apex No l, Official No. PA, IA, in which mortgage the Ad- miralty Island Coal Company IS mortgagor, have taken possession of said gas. Apex No. l, and that I shall sell said vessel, together with her masts, bowsprit, boats, anchors, cables, chains, rigging, tackle, ap- parel, furniture and all other nec- esSaries thereunto appertaining and belonging, at public sale to the highest and best bidder, for cash at Douglas, Alaska, on August l3 1880, at one O'Clock pm. Notice Is also given that the Admiralty Island Coal Company has a right to bid on said vessel, her tackle etc, at said sale, and that I here by reserve the right to bid on my own behalf at said sale for saic vessel, her tackle, etc.
 F. A. J. GALLWAS.
 First publication, Aug. ', 1880.
 Last publication, Aug. Is, 193O
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-15
ALASKA NEEDS AIR MAIL AND CONTINUOUS COMMUNICATION.

The petition of the Chamber of Commerce in support of the efforts of the Alaska Washington Air ways of Southeast Alaska and the Alaskan Airways of Fairbanks to get the Government to provide the money for air mail service ought to meet with immediate favorable response. It is said the terms of the appropriation for air mails would make 1t possible for the Alaska Washington Airways to give a regular air mail service between Juneau and Seattle if authorities in Washington would sanction the necessary expenditure It would also enable the Alaskan Airways to better supply the Interior. Air mail service would vastly aid the transaction of business in the North and contribute to develop ment.
 Likewise laudable is the Chambers effort to secure 24-hour cable and radio service The cable to Alaska ought not only to be open 24 hours a day but it ought to be open seven days week for 52 weeks in the year That would require a larger force, of course, for the employees ought all to have at least day week off But the continuous service is one of the needs of the times and is particularly emphasized by the growing air ways business.