davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times., 1930-08-26

was lacking in ambition in the
ordinary sense: sought no
honors or rewards or public
recognition. He was quite lack
ing in jealousy of other inveSti-
gators and was indifferent to
establishing priority for his own
researches. Yet he was, un-
Willingly, the cause of provok.
ing one of the most vigorous
controversies in the history of
science.
Cavendish is remembered for
making an accurate measure
ment of the weight of the earth
by means Of a very simple ap-
paratus. and anticipated by
considerably more than a cen.
tury the discovery of one of the
rare gases, aragon, which he
weighed with striking accuracy.
considering the imperfection of
the instruments at his disposal.
CaVendiSh'S epochal discovery
Of the composition of water in
augurated a new era in chem
ical research. Earlier expert
ments by John Warltire and
Pierre Joseph Macquer Sug-
gested to Cavendish the notion
of combining oxygen and hy-
drogen, not then known by
those names, to form water. In
January, 1874. he read his me-
moir on Experiments on Air"
before the Royal Society of
England. He informed them:
Water consists of diphlogesti-
Gated air united with phlogis-
ton" In current chemical par.
lance this meant that water is
a compound of two gases, two
volumes Of hydrogen to one of
oxygen. BY the most elaborate
experiments and accurate meas
urements he completely demon
stated the truth of his great
discovery. He left a large sum
to science. and the great physi-
cal laboratory at Cambridge
University bears his name.
The Washington times., 1930-08-26

Success is a mysterious thing.
All of us try for it. Most Of
us fail. Why? Look into the
lives of successful men for the
answer. How did they get that
way?
was it because they were
particularly clever in picking
their careers? Did they always
know what they wanted and
60 right after it? Not neces-
sarily. Most of them muddled
around for years, just as you
are doing.
Was it because they we're
highly talented or intelligent?
Hardly. Many successful" men
are prize boobs.
Was it because they worked
hard? Millions of men have
worked hard and got nothing
in return but a lot of grief.
Was it because they were
lucky? No-luck helps. But
luck's little good to man un-
less he has something to back
it.
Was it because they we're
good? Behold, the wicked
flourish quite as much, if not
more, than the righteous!
No.: none of these things will.
in themselves, make a man
successful. He must have
something ore something
more potent than luck, more
powerful than intelligence,
more persuasive than hard
labor. He must have some
thing, both subtle and irrasis-
tible, which will surge within
him, regardless of his condi-
tion or circumstance. WHICH
WILL BREAK THROUGH HIS
OWN RESISTANCE AND THE
RESISTANCE OF OTHER
MEN. And there is only me
quality which will do that. No
one knows its source or ma
ture, but we call it FAITH.
Now Faith is a mysterious
thing. It is not conceit. It is
not confidence. It is more
than these. Faith" said st.
Paul, els the substance Of
things hoped for, the evi-
dence Of things not SEEN" So
the man who has faith banks
on the things he hopes for,
bets on the things not seen
and believes that the mysteri-
Gus force within himself can
accomplish all those things for
him
The Washington times., 1930-08-26
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Louis E. Bisch-

Jacksonian epilepsy is a spe-
cial variety of epilepsy first de-
scribed by Hughlings Jackson
in 1861.
1t must not be confounded
with so-called essential or
regular epilepsy nor again with
so-called psychic or hystero-epi-
lepsy.
In essential epilepsy there is
usually a warning, some sensa-
ton as in the stomach or a
feeling of slight vertigo Or
Eumbness of the hands, arms
or legs, etc.
Then there sometimes fol
low a piercing cry, unconscious
ness, falling to the ground,
general rigidity of the body,
convulsionS and a regaining of
Inconsistencies and sleep.
This is the typical grand NAL
attack Of essential epilepsy.
There also may be petit NAL
or little sickness" attacks
characterized by a transient loss
of consciousness.
In hysteroepilepSy the symp-
toms may resemble essential
epilepsy but the . condition is
not so serious because it is
due to a functional nervous
disorder which often can be
cured.
The cause of essential cpl
lepsy is not known.
It would seem that it may
be different in different indi-
viduals. It is questionable
whether cases can be cured, al
though under proper treatment
improvement can almost always
be effected.
In JackSonian epilepsy one
is dealing again with a disorder
different from the essential
forms and the psychic ones.
The Washington times., 1930-08-26

buy precisely the same COM
modities in the market as the
grimy dollars of the laborer?
And then, where is thy victory,
o Machine, unless you can de-
liver us from that onerous hard
work? And where is your vic
tory, Mr.. Machine Maker from
Dearborn, Mich.
At one time Ford almost
grasped the profound CD idea
that those ten billion dollars Of
unearned money mentioned
above might have some remote
bearing Vpon the troubles of our
citizenry! The notion, albeit,
seemed to be too strenuous for
the standardized brain of the
machinery sage. He took the
question to that other oracle,
Edison, and they must have dis
cussed it with the women folks,
for they soon concluded to talk
about money itself as just a
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Flower. But why are whole
pages of publicity given to men
Of this type when nothing ever
eventuates but their own
further enrichment? How long
must we continue to be so gold
struck that every hebetudinous
utterance of a two-legged money
bag must be published and
eagerly devoured.
May I protest strongly that
my own purpose in reading such
infinite bosh is just to laugh
at it and criticise it! Finally,
how long will we prefer pussy
footing stand -pativeness to hard
and fast logic or the irrefut-
able pearls of wisdom of true
prophets?
FRANKL--I HOPKINS.
The Washington times., 1930-08-26
Hits Publicity Given
To Henry Ford

Editor, Times:
Henry Ford, in a New York
World interview, states that he
knew all along our recent social
condition was not one Of real
prosperity. He says it was a
diseased condition and now we
are recovering!
It would be interesting to have
him get more specific. as to
Just how and why we are re-
covering. Has any particular
civic medicine been given us to
make us we'll? Perhaps he is
confusing social distempers with
personal ones, for it is taught
by physical culturists that per-
sonaI diseases are a boon OF
nature-curative and health
restoring-rather than just dis
agreeable experiences which
never should have happened!
It would be apropoS to learn
1IO1I1 I41C HAFFCA 4O"CA "AANNA~~A
the present period Of wellness
or hard work. is supposed
to throw us all into spasms OF
delight.
The same old question keeps
harassing us, however: When
do we eat?" Or, in other words,
when are we going to be
happy?" Are hard work and
plenty of worry any better,
after all, than the romance and
glamour Of speculative finance?
Isn't it quite as sensible to live
without working as to work
without living? And is Ford
exactly truthful when he says
that no material satisfactions
can come without hard work?
How about the annual ten bill
lion of interest money in the
United States alone for which
no work-at least. hard works
performed? Doesn't this money
The Washington times., 1930-08-26
Group Water Supplies
What Bohemia Does Is Possible Near Washington

Rapid growth of communities in nearby Virginia and
Maryland brings increasing desire for and
facilities These available in much Of the territory
closely adjoining the District Other areas however seek
these convenences
In Bohemia there is grouping of townships and villages
br the construction of joint water supplies possible
it is best to lnkup large communities with small
and the rural sections.
These group water projects in Bohemia numbering about
sixty agricultural country in the MAN. yet they have
been successful.
The Washington times., 1930-08-26
A Great Scientist
By Archibald Henderson

A name immortal in the his
tory of science, for his Scien-
tific methodology and for his
great discovery Of the compost
ton Of air, is that Of Henry
Cavendish. He was left a great
fortune by an uncle, but he
cared little or nothing for it,
except as a means to enable
him to prosecute his scientific
researches.
Cavendish has been accu-
rately termed ''the most wealthy
Of learned men and the most
learned Of wealthy men," He
was shy and eccentric, an in
veterate woman hater, taciturn
to an incredible degree and in
terested solely in his scientific
experiments. His biographer de-
scribes him as "a wonderful
piece Of intellectual clockwork,
and as he lived by rule he died
by it, predicting his death as if
1t were an eclipse Of a great
1uminary.
Henry Cavendish, the son Of
Lord Charles CavendiSh and
the grandson o. the second
Duke Of Devonshire, was born
at Nice, October 10, 1881. Al
though he remained three years
at Peterhouse College, Cam
bridge, he did not take a de-
gree there. With no social
graces and the habits of a re-
cluse, he turned his residence
into a scientific workshop.
The drawing room was trans
formed into a laboratory, an
other room into a forge, and
the upper apartments into an
astronomical observatory.
The conspicuous fetaure of
Cavendish's scientific method
was accurate measurement. End
lessly patient, he was quite
ready to repeat his experiments
in varying forms until the de-
sired results were obtained-no
matter how long it took. He
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thing of no consequence what
ever. There is nothing new in
this attitude, as we all know.
MillionaireS and their wives long
ago found it wise and safe to
have no promiScuouS converse
tions about money except to
refer to it as of no Importance.
Those who have corraled far
more than they need for neces-
sites can afford to take such
an attitude. But they can be
jerked up short by a request for
a trifling loan, or by the hypo-
thetical suggestion Of giving or
throwing away all the vulgar
and useless medium Of ex-
change they have on hand or
can liquidate from other prop
erty! If money itself is a mere
nothing, why does Mr.. Ford
use it at all? Why does he con-
descend to bother with it?
So much for the Flivver
The Washington times., 1930-08-26
DO YOU KNOW
THAT

Cheese of all colors and
flavors is becoming increasing
ly popular in Sweden, the con-
SUMPTION having gone up a.
100000 pounds in the last five
years.
Static in the hands Of Scien-
fists is proving a valuable aid in
locating storms at sea, in fore
casting forest fires and warning
AEistorA
The Washington times., 1930-08-26
Hearst Papers Advocate

l. "PeGce and Gmity aOith all nations; entangtng
alliances Wtth mone," as ADVOCATED By George
Washington
e Proportional representation in the United States
Senate, no State to haze less than t10o Senator's
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
portiomment IN the House of Representatives.
3. separate Department of the Armay of the Novy
and of the Air Forces, all united Wnder a Secre-
tGry of National Defense.
4. Federal action to the limit of Federal powers to
abolish ilkterGcy in the United States under
Secretary of Education
S. Installation of the President on the first of JAM
WGry following November election.
8. Selective immigration to admit only those suiteo
for American citizenship
2. Deportation of undesirable aliens.
8. Complete publicity for income tGxes.
The Washington times., 1930-08-26
KILLING LOCUSTS WITH FLAME
THROWERS."

The IMPORTANT fight of how must be for years
to come is the fight against insect life.
If insects got the upper hand they could easily wipe vege
tation from the earth and make human life impossible
The ants alone if unrestraned could wipe out whole
The termes $50 called white ants that fortunately cannot
live cold country might suddenly become greater men,
ace to the nations Of warm climates than any possible wan
The Washington times., 1930-08-26
KNOWLEDGE
TEST

Fill each blank:
/. Salome asked Herod for a
reward of for her
dancing.
2. Saltpetre is used in --.
8. A tandem bicycle is one
with seats for -.
4. Brittany is in the
part of France.
5. Alpha and omega mean
6. The part sung by the low
est female voice is called
Z. Indian meal is ground
8. Kohl-rabi is a variety of
9. Laudanum is a tincture Of
10. Nectar is any delicious
Match correctly:
II. decrease
approval
IL. happiness
characteristic
13. emblem
dwindle.
Il. feature
prototype
IS. appreciation
felicity
ANSWERS 90 1EasaHnA Pagel
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- o III e u d
when men are
civilized t h e y
probably W i ! |
use these mod
ern m e t h o d s
of ware f a re"
against insects
and other pests
only,
They develop
the new meth
ods of killing,
at first, by
using them on
each other,
No { j q h {
against locusts
or poiso n us
snakes was ever
as deadly, saw.
age or full Of.
hatred as the
recent fighting
of man against
m a n in the
great war.
A
The Washington times., 1930-08-26

Who despises all displeases
all. -Abertano.
Words pay no debts.
Shakespeare.
The Washington times., 1930-08-26
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

For he was great ere fortune
made him so. Dryden.
- Life is long if you know how
to use it. Seneca.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22

broadcast? The Telegram
is series tenth which
GILBERT
right YorkT
REHlND the heavy paneed door dozen men, some
bespated all dressed a la mode to the avenue, grouped
their chairs about massive mahogany table.
Shall we make 1t per cent?" asked one.
The chairman, owls ruddy from the mornings razor,
scans the faces of his colleagues.
Check and double-check ne says and it is ordered
The directors of the BehemOth Steel Conc0rpoated,"
writes his pad-have declared the semannual dvi
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22

appeal, though not universal, is GER
tainly fundamental.
Fundamental? Stroll past any
radio shop from the Battery to
Harlem, or any other comparable
district in any other of the ma
TONS towns and cities when the
boys are doing their act.
Crowds Hear Them
Crowds, the ganut of the social
expression, stand for the fifteen
minutes as though at some national
service. Uninteresting in the "ology'
explanation Of the scholars, they
hang, drawn to the dialog, handy
ing it. among them, a world series"
exemplif1cation of interest that they
can not define, and wouldn't if they
could.
Even the boys themselves lack a
complete answer. Nor do they seek
any. Content, they continue the cpl
sodes with an assurance that has
its foundation in the inherent sure
ness of their characterizations; re-
productions that Ego over" with no
need of analysis.
Lets talk about golf" said Cor
rell, cor how about rubber of
bridge?" Shop talk was banned for
more intimate discussions.
What are their intimacies?
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superior" he said. After having
touched upon troubles and stu
ations common to many listeners it
reduces these situations to comedy,
thus elevating the listeners to the
superiority for which they yearn.
"They take interests common to
a large group, reduce them to COM
edy form, and by plays on words
and the use of catch phrases and
their repetitions of these phrases
make them and themselves popu-
lar"
1.-THE psychology of Amos n
Andy is exactly the same as the
psychology of a successful comic
strip or an 'Abie's Irish Rose" he
resumed. "It is common with the
attitude, the judgment and the SEN
timent of the great mass"
Taken Individually
However, mass psychology. accord
ing to DR.. Vile, does not enter into,
is not a factor in, their success.
1T is not as though their comedy
was presented to crowd Of per-
sons" DR.. Vile explained. ut Is
taken individually. in the home. OF
course, much of their reputation is
spread by word of mouth. But the
basic psychologist appeal of their act
is fundamentally the manner of its
presentation.
Here is a scholars confession, adj
miration and explanation:
Professor Thomas o. Mabbott of
the English department of Hunter
college, admitted that at first 1
kept my admiration for Amos n
Andy more or less secret"
Wouldn't Tell Friends
Even his best friends he wouldn't
tell.
LAS a college professor" he con-
tinued. at thought there might be
some criticism Of my interest.
However I have found that the
matter of their success is of such
fundamental Importance, and that it
is really an important art, that
am quite willing to comment on the
subject.
L am beginning to understand
the reason for the interest of promi-
nent persons in the broadcasting of
Amos n Andy. These include an
important magistrate of a very great
city, whom 1 shall not name.
Il have questioned my students
about it, and have found only one
in ten who dismiSSes their act as
bosh. The rest are delighted with
the program. I am pleased to say
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22
TELLS WAR TALE OF
RUSSIAN AMAZONS
History of Women Fighters Hailed
for Stark Realism.

History of Women Fighters Hailed
for Stark Realism.
BIZ United Press
MOSCOW, April 22.-The first
inside account of the won1ens Death
Battalion which fought with the
Russian forces against the Germans
just has been published here.
In startlingly frank narrative
Tatiana Dubinskaya, who joined the
battalion when she was only 16
years old, has recounted her per-
Sonal experiences. "In the Trenches -
as her novel is called here, is be-
ing compared to Remarque'S "All
Quiet on the Western Front" for its
stark realism.
The novel, it is reported, al
ready has been acquired by an
American publisher for early publ
cation in English. Unless it is re-
vised in translation, it probably will
have some difficulty passing the CEN
Sorship guards.
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myself that 1 find the act steadily
improving.
Present Real Life
"They continue to present life as
it really is. One of their most i'm
portant assets is that there is not a
continual daily climax. 1t is a mis-
taken belief that radio series
needs daily climax. Life isn't like
that.
In our ordinary run Of events we
don't have a climax every half
hour. Amos n Andy have hit on
something so fundamental that they
are we'll worth a scientific, analyt-
ical study.
+ ST believe that the two boys have
hit on radio art form. 1t borrowS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22

something from sentimental comedy
on the stage, something from the
old blackface teams in vaudeville
and a great deal from the modern
comic strip.
But it is none Of those things
completely, and wisecracks and sit
uations-in the technical sense
must be used, if at all, only spar
ingly.
"They hold the mirror up to ma
ture' with the fidelity Of a novelist,
although light in touch and tone.
And they live supremacy. In what
other art form can one use real con-
versation?
The Russians occasionally do 1t,
of course, in tragic novels. The boys
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22

Here are a few of the con-
tributions Amos n Andy have
made to the great American
vulgate:
Use requested.
Check and double check
Amt dat sumpin?
Don mess wild dat.
Sho, Sho.
Is I blue?
Avail, awah, awah.
Propolition.
INCORPORATED.
RecuSSing.
UnlaX.
I amt gonna do it.
Sitchiation.
Resin my brain.
Das bad, amt it?
ReSider.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-01
WLW (7OO) Cincinnati
SATURDAY

An.
6.30-Morning exercises.
6.s5-Jollv Bill and Jane (NBCl.
7.00-Ouaker Crackels man (NBCl.
7.l5-Lux CNBCl.
T.50-Organ-
P.n0-Croslev homemakers.
a.00-Orean and Soloist.
9.30-Iive stock reports.
9.40-Garden Clinic.
1o.00-Orpheus trp.
10 .3o-Doodle seekers.
10-4S-River reports.
1o.55-Time signals.
II .00-OrEan concert
IL .2o-Orchestra az Hotel Gibson.
1f.5O-Live stock reports.
IL unconditional Farm and Home hour
(NBCl.
PM
i2:3o-Revstone Chronicle ONBCl.
I2.45-Town and country.
1.O0-Classic Gems (NBCl-
I.3o-Chicago Serensde fNBCls
7.on-Merrvmakers fNBCl.
s.oO-Croslev Dealers matinee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-01
FEDERAL DRY
/ WAR WILL aim
AT BIG SHOTS
WoOdcock Tells Forces to
Ignore Small Fry in
New Drive.
BY CECIL OWEN
United Press stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON. Aug. 1.-Prohil
bition enforcement entered today
upon what generally is regarded as
the supreme effort 70 obtain effec-
tive obedience to the Volstead law.
Upon the outcome, it is said in
informed quarters. will depend the
attitude of the administration on
the question Of modification of en-
1orcement legislation.
After a two-day conference here
with the new prohibition director
Amos w. w. Woodcock, the twelve
federal administrators are return
ing to their home districts to put
into effect the new policies outlined
to them.
Chief among these is the admin
istration's determination henceforth
to marshal its forces against the
larger violators, the big shot
racketeers," some of whom are said
to have annual incomes running into
the millions.
This was emphasized anew today
by Woodcock in addressing the
twelve chiefs of the special agents,
a force of 200 trained detectives
who report directly to headquar-
tiers here.
These men, the prohibition di-
rector said, are to be assigned to
breaking up large-scale bootlegging
rings.
Woodcock's next problem is to
find two expert educators to in
struct twenty-four picked men who
are to become teachers of the dry
agents in local schools to be set up
in each district. The National Edu-
cational Association has been asked
to help in selecting the men:
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FRIDAY
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wlGAo Cs7ol. ChicaRo-Pianist: concert or
chestra.
MIC system-scores: Fickard family to
$50 P. M
columbia--U. s.. Army band to WFBM.
WBBM l77ol, Chicago-Aaronsons orenes-
WIS ts7ol. Chicago-Male chorus; orches-
ira.
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NBC system--Nstural bridge program to
WIZ. KDKA. WLw.
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columbis-Trus story 4sshour to wABc.
wsM e77io,. chicaso-Prosram of all ma
wG e;HHs i72o,. chicago-Features
Wis CS7Ol. Chicago-sOngs: minstrel
1870 P. M
wBBM (77oI. Cicago-conterville band.
WENR (870i. Chicago-Farm program
Xxi KDKA. KYw. WAS WV.
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columbia-CoIumbia Male chorus to
WABC. WKRC. WMAQ.
wBBM. t77ol. acknowledgements Com
manders.
wENR (s7o). chicago-Musical travelogue
NBC System-Armstrong Quakers to WIZ.
KYW. WLW. WHAS.
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$3.50 p. M
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WBBM C77Ol. Chicago musicale
WTAM fI07ol. Cleveland-Friday frollcs-
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