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The Washington times., 1930-04-12
Mayl Named AS National Child
Health Day
Hungry, Sick Children in Our Public Schools

THE proclamation Of President Hoover setting aside May
National Child Health Day, for coordinating in-
terest the health American children should be the be-
ginning Of intensified unceasng national and local efforts
ito make this problem foremost In national programs
The President reeates what Hearst newspapers under the
tireless advocacy Of Mr. and Mrs William Hearst have
long gedhat the fundamental asset Of this nation It's
children.
Their health their education their development to patriotic
manhood and womanhocd superior TO virtually al otner
national matters yet this nation has gavey overlooked
this fact putting national and international subjects OF pot
cal nature to the front
There will have to be more substantial things than talk
this nation is reach the point where the good health of its
children truly first where well bodies insure active
minds and satisfactory progress through schools and into use
full clean adult lne
Statesmen and politicians well parents should receive
education this subject on May and at all other periods
because it is the States counes cities and Of the
ton that must make complete provisions for child health
and education.
This city should be model for every community in the
United States in health and happiness children yet the
serious charge is made in the Congress Of the United States in
joint resolution introduced by Representative Dicstein
that 81 per cent Of Wasngtons public school pupils
physical ailments and that at least $4,000 ARE UNDER
We all know that agencies Of the Community Chest look
after thousands of these children trying that they
have that nourishment necessary to good health.
We all know that there restricted medical staf for
examination eyes, teeth that handicap our
juveniles And when these examinations made reveal
conditions that cali for immediate correction what happens?
What's the Of clear recognition Of the fact that the
fundamental asset Of the nation is it's children when in
told instances these little Ones hungry and in poor health
get less attention than pet parrots and canares?
Washngton public schools have received much considera
from Congress and all local agencies In material matters
conditions have been betered and the way still
greater beerment In few years will have sufficient
school buildings to seat each child and to give each child
full measure Of education.
With these things the way the outstanding problem for
Congress and for every good citizen definite steps
teeng that child in school hungry and that they
suffering from serious physical defects that be
remedied especially in eyes, teeth tonsils and hearing
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some Flippant Fluff breezes by,
with a bunch Of Boy Friends
in tow. Listen to the SncrtS,
snaps, SneerS, snarls and sniffleS.
Now I ask you
Is that a. defense Of right.
eousneSs of a celebration over
virtue OR rs 1T JUST
A BLAST OF PURE ENVYP
If you want loyal. generous,
tolerant, understanding, jolly
Regular Guy for a friend, do
you seek out some Pillar of So
ciety with an unblemished rec
ord? Well. maybe YOU do.
stranger, but believe me, ]
DON'T. I've learned better
When want q Side-kick like
that, ! pick me a good, hard
working gambler or hi.jacker
or hobo or other general waStral.
Not that ! admire vice-but it's
generally whole lot easier to
get along wit han virtue. For
sinners seem to have gotten it
du Oub "a CA1CI1 Sy0JCAAlo' 4lCS VIC
tried everything once They
know what it's all about
They've had their conceit and
their contrarineSs kicked out of
them along with their curiosity
and now they're willing to settle
down and take things easy and
give everyone the benefit of the
doubt
But Model Citizens are apt
to be awfully picky. They've
got q lot Of righteousness but
none Of it seems to be doing
them any good. Maybe they're
glad they resisted temptation,
but they don't look it. THEY
LOOK MORE AS IF THEY
HAD AN INGROWING CASE
OF SOUR GRAPES AND WERE
JUST WAITING FOR AN OP
PORTUNTTY TO GET EVEN
ON THE TOUGH, ROUGH
GUYS WHO TOOK THE
CHANCES THEY PASSED UP.
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merely an automatic little for.
mality-just a part of the eve
n1ng's program, like settling the
check, tipping the waiter, or
dipping your finger.tipS into the
finger bowls. (Ho-hum!) The
kiss in the car has been reduced
from a thrilling adventure to q
tiresome custom.
Just when, where or how men
got the idea that a girl is flat
tered or thrilled by these casual
maulingS it is hard to discover.
For. nothing hurts a normal
woman'S vanity worse than be-
ing taken casually.
Nothing BORES a woman so
much as an automatic, de.
natured kiss!
When petting was a novelty
there may have been some slight
charm Of adventure or surprise
in it. But there is no kick in a
kiss which is as confidently ex
pected as the cranberry sauce
with the turkey or the bills on
the first of the month. and
which contains about as much
sentiment as a postcard from
Florida.
Both girls and men assure me
that they are bored to tears with
this "old Spanish custom" Yet
every man thinks that a girl Ex-
PECTS him to kiss her; and
every girl seems to think that q
man expects HER to expect"
him to kiss her. And neither
has the courage to defy the
formula.
A kiSSleSs world would be as
flat as an egg without salt; but
a kiss without meaning or senti-
ment is just the salt without the
egg!
The Washington times., 1930-04-12
Good Will Of District to New
Commissioners
OUR two new Commissioners win have the good will Of the
people Of this city despite the fight made to uphold

nUR two Commissioners win have the good will Of the
~ people of this city despite the fight made to uphold
cherished principle
There shameful and cowardly sacrifice Of this home
rule principle the part of many who had in past years.
shouted loudly for it, The shouting all done when
no great political power opposed.
The vote in the Senate showed that the three abe cons
tonal lawyers in that body supported those who stood by
the The strong vote there will have significant i'm
portance in the future
At time there opposition the personality Of Com
missioner Crosby and that removes any sting.
Washington people will not only be open minded but will
encourage the city rulers to follow policies that will
best for all the people and for this cty magnificent future
General Crosby will have opportunity to show how much
smpathzes with the helpless plight Of Washington citizens
and their desire to have greater share their affairs
After all the ambition Of Washington people to see
their beloved city in greatness and beauty That is
quesonaby the feeling of both officials who deserve
unpreudced public support at the beginning Of their duties
afterward, too, if they make good.
The future win tell what the judgment Of people will
but that judgment must be based truth facts prnc
pies; not on prejudices or hastily formed conclusions
The Washington times., 1930-04-12
Listen World
Why Are the Pious PeeUed!
BY Elsie Robinson

7 DO not admire Bad Pasts-
I nor advocate them - but
they certainly seem to have
their points.
Perhaps you've noticed it
yourself - theoretically, people
with blemished records should
be miserable. haunted creatures,
at odds with life and their
neighborS regular kill joys.
And the Shining Examples
should be chuck full Of peace
and happiness and good will
toward their fellow men. But
usually it works out just the
other way!
THE BAD. HOMBRES ARE
GENIAL AND GENEROUS
AND THE MODEL CITIZENS
SEEM TO CARRY A CHRONIC
PEEVE!
Instead Of radiating conf
dence and brotherly love, they're
generally on the snoop io1
naughtiness and as full Of suS-
picion and intolerance as a
pup is of fleas. Instead of
sitting in wrapt contemplation
Of righteousness. they're always
trying to dig up some new dirt!
If I didn't know their hearts
were humming with hoZannas,
I'd suspect they were suffer
ing from a lot Of stifled de-
sires and unsatisfied curiosities
and were taking out their crouch
on every sinner that came
along.
For example, observe these
Immaculate Old Ladies (of
both Sexes) who have never
departed from the path of
rectitude by even the teeniest.
weenieSt bit Of a skid-Woulln't
you think they'd be all If a
glow over the fact, fairly beam.
ing to think Of the tempta-
tions they've passed upP But
instead, just watch them when
The Washington times., 1930-04-12
Science and Genius
By Archibald Henderson

THERE is a great race on to-
L day. It is the Marathon
of the twentieth century. The
future Of the race depends
upon it.
This great sporting event has
been termed by H. G. Wells a
race between education and
chaos.
Is this an exaggeration? Let
us see what Nicholas Murray
Butler, president of Columbus
University, has to say on this
point.
DUTLER points out the diSaS-
ID trous results of the educa-
tional experiment - one phase
of the crucial race between
chaos and civilization. He gave
it as his mature conviction as
an educator that "the extensive
and intensive study Of natural
science, now carried on over
more than a full generation,
has made no impression what
ever upon the public mind"
Are we going to be able to
meet effectively and cope sue
ceSSfully with the mighty prob
lens Of tomorrow. Not unless
we produce scientists able to
master and control the mechan-
iSmS Of q machine age.
Only the other day Professor
Seligman, Of Columbia, declared
that we must revise our entire
conception Of the academic and
scientific life.
THE prizes that enter the
financial and business world
must in some way be made pos
sible fer the thinker"
0MINOUS, indeed, is Selig-
W mans forecast Of the future:
We no longer have the con-
ditionS which, created the great
scientists of old. We cannot
look forward to an Adam Smith
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in the local sciences, or to q
Pasteur in the natural sciences.
The herd of a great scientific
institute asserted the other day
that he did not have a single
first class mind among his
younger associates; and in the
social sciences it has long be-
come a by-word that the most
brilliant intellects are drafted
off into business and the pro-
feSSionS.
This is an ominouS situation.
It explains the fact why we
have such remarkable captains
Of industry at preset, but it is
full Of menace for the future,
for industry itself depends in
the last instance upon the dis
coveries Of the great scientists;
and II we have no great Scien-
lists we shall have in the long
: run no great industries.
In former time we had q
fairly satisfactory situation, for
what the thinker needs above
all is serenity Of mind and the
chance for protracted and un-
disturbed thought. At the pres
ent time these conditions have
disappeared and especially in
this country are they absent.
-
EOR in this country we have
L to fight not only against
the consequences Of the price
revolution which has been TAX
ing place all over the world,
and which only tends to &C
centuate the disparity between
the remuneration Of those who
amuse us and those who in
struct us, but we have in addi.
ton the unstable condition of
American life with the per.
petual worries, the continual
uncertainties and the constant
extremes.
Seligman is right.
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so rare in nature that the small
amounts of it hitherto procur-
able sold for it's weight In
precious metals, suddenly de-
'clares omnipreSence in straw
and chaff and farm litter.
Big scale production viii
manifestly deliver this new
sweet at mere fraction of the
expense at which it is now
teaSed from throw-aways. And
we can now buy it at five cents
per pound.
XyloSe is a short cut to acetic
acid. There isn't a pound of
fat in ton of it, as diabetes
and lettuce-sandwich eaters will
be delighted to know.
TNHE fsr-flung imaginations
- that dared to prophesy a
day when we'd cultivate frank.
furter bushes and croquette
plants, have the last laugh on
the an't-be-donerS, too.
That supreme benefactor Of
humanity, cotton, with a little
help from science, stands ready
to provide succulent and nour.
iShing meal, which can be
blended with beef, mutton.
pork and chicken without tat
Ting its presence to the taste.
Man need never go hungry
while there's a head on his
shoulders.
The keys to all Of Natures
spare larderS are hanging from
our hair roots. Wherever dearth
prowls and famine gnaws skin
and bones, folk aren't search.
ing their brain cells for reserve
food supplies.
Their are no insoluble prob
lens to efficient imagination.
Disease, poverty, stupidity, con-
fusion and decay can't gain
ground while we are thinking
hard enough to survive.
There aren't any leaks, loose
screws, or penuries for which
intelligence won't furnish the
necessary monkey-wrench, plug
or remedy.
If today can't identify them,
tomorrow will.
. Copyright, 1880. by the Daily Mirror,
Inc, and Herbert Kaufman)
The Washington times., 1930-04-12
ONCE-OVERS

When you prevent your old
business friend from doing his
work for any considerable
length of time he usually has to
catch up by putting in extra
hours of service.
Now while you think your
friend in the rural districts
should entertain you, what do
you do when he calls on you in
the big city?
After a few words Of greeting
you make it evident that you
wish him to depart.
You are unwilling to give UP
any Of your leisure to him be.
cause your city friends are now
more attractive to you.
You would be following the
Golden Rule more closely If you
should give your rural friends
a square deal.
The Washington times., 1930-04-12
EXCELSIOR!
A NEW sort Of robot has
"A just made its bow, at the

A NEW sort Of robot has
"A just made its bow, at the
convention which twenty
thousand American chemists
are attending in Atlanta.
It popped out Of q brewers
vat to supplant heat and ma
chinery as extractors Of veget-
able fats.
Industry's latest hired man
asks no wages, requires no
housing accommodations, me-
chanical upkeep, motor fuels
or installation costs.
Experiments show that the
same tiny creatures which trans
form barley into liquid malt,
will CLEAN every drop of oil from
a coconut within six hours, and
extract the oleaginouS con-
tent Of seeds, nuts or. what
have you, at the same speed
and price.
Build another monument to
PaSteur. who revealed the inde-
terminable worlds Of demons
and good fairies to whose works
we respectively owe abundance
and mortality.
The silk worm may also
make up its mind to look for
other employment. There's an
other old and faithful servant
about to receive a pink slip
from the cashier.
WE can get SO many more
" goods for so much less
money from cornstalks, cotton
lint and forest growths, that
the balance sheet can't much
longer retain the cocoon on the
payroll.
The rate at which chemistry
Is turning celluloSe into stock
ings, gowns and drapery mate
rials, is indicated by a four
hundred per cent increase in
"glos" output during the past
twelve months alone.
And now Atlanta warns the
sheep interests that the future
will grow its wool in test-tubes
and develop it from the same
bases that, hold silk equivalents.
And that isn't all the good
news by a long sight.
The Washington times., 1930-04-12
The Marry-GO-ROund
BY Helen Rowland.
Why Is a Gigolo?

Why Is q Gigolo?
WHEN a popular New York
actress admits that she had
70 hire a young man to escort
her about to theaters and night
clubs, in order to avoid be.
ing mauled in taxicabs, it
throws q brand-new light on
the gigolo.
Up to now, there has always
seemed to be q reason for
everything-even red hats, white
spats and confirmed bachelors
except a GIGOLO!
But, after all, he may be a
blessing in disguise. His real
mission may be not TO make
love to neglected women and
save them from boredom, but
TO protect attractive women
from the boredom of being
made love to.
TO a Tired Business Woman
It might be real economy to
employ q paid escort, who will
take her where she wants to
90, bring her home in time for
her beauty sleep and treat her
henna-tinted hairs with respect
{ The saving in hairdresser's
bills alone would be something
II every dollar taxicab trip
entitleS a man to wreck your
.two-dollar marcel and twenty
dollars worth Of orchids.
Some men appear to feel
that it would be a breach Of
courtesy, or at least a blow to
q woman'S vanity. if they did
not TRY to kiss her at least
once, on the way home.
The tender caress, that was
once equivalent to a proposal
Of marriage, has now become
The Washington times., 1930-04-12
Secrets of Health
BY DR.. Louis e. Bisch-

IT is an astonishing fact when
! you come to think of it that
the human being is able to
keep his body heat at 98.6, de-
grees Fahrenheit no matter
what kind of climate he hap.
pens to be in. -
To maintain such an even
temperature presuppoSes, Of
course. that he be in good
health. Occasionally, of course,
even good health cannot resist
extremes Of heat and cold. Peo.
pie have been know to freeze
to death and heat prostration
is not so very uncommon after
all.
What controls the reactions
Of the body to changes in tenn
perature Is a most complicated
and marvellous nerve structure
known as the Distinguishing
mechanism in the lower part
Of the brain, known as the
Snedulla oblongata.
Heat within the body Is pro
duced by the chemical changes
taking place In the various or.
gans and tissues q part of
their normal functioning. the
oxidation Of food products,
contraction Of the muscles, etc.
Heat is also lost continuously
from the body. Eighty-eight
per cent is lost from the skin
surfacey Nine per cent is lost
In the process Of warming the
nir ,breathed in. Three per cent
Is lost BY warming the excreta
Of the body.
When the body is exposed to
The Washington times., 1930-04-12

cold, the blood vessels in the
skin contract. This means that
less blood goes to the skin to
be cooled. -
When the body is exposed to
heat, the skin blood vessels di.
late and a greater volume Of
blood appears in them, thus
allowing the blood to cool as
well as the entire body.
When We exercise and con.
tract our muscles more heat
within the body is produced
and yet the general temperature
OF the body does not rise. This
is because exercise makes the
blood circulate In the blood
vessels at a faster rate. Further.
more, during exercise the yes.
sells dilate and the sweat. glands
become more active and pro
fuse perspiration results. The
rate Of respiration also In
creaSeS.
Generally speaking, the effect
Of the SUMS rays is most bene
ficial to the body. Sun lamps
that is, artificial sunIight-are,
therefore, coming more and
more in vogue not only for pur.
poses Of general stimulation,
! but also for the treatment Of
certain diseased states.
The question Of the proper
climate is usually an important
one for persons chronically i'll.
Generally speaking, warm and
hot climates are not beneficial
for abdominal complaints nor
temperate and cold climates for
chest disorders.
The Washington times., 1930-04-12
When You Visit Country
Friends

When You Visit Country
Friends
WHEN you go back to the
w old home town you don't
hesitate to call on your former
friends at their places Of busi'
ness.
You give no attention to the
time you make them lose. In
fact you are annoyed If they do
not show you the courtesies you
expect.
You would not think Of en-
croaching upon the time Of city
friends in their business haunts.
It is true that in smaller
places work is done with less
speed.
But practically everyone in
the small town has more than
one line of work to perform and
this requires In all more time
more hours than your JOB.
The Washington times., 1930-04-12
Hearst Papers Advocate

l. An agreement OF Emgtssh-speGtsng peoples to pre-
serve peace among themselves and to promote the
peace of the World.
2 Proportional representation TN the United States
Senate, no State to hGVe less than taOO Senator's
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
portionment in the House of Representatives
g. A separate Department of the Army, Of the NGvy
and of the Air Forces, all united under Secretarv
of National Defense.
a. Federal action to the limit of Federal poaoers to
abolish dHteracy in the United States under a
Secretary of Education.
S. Election of Congress in November Installation
on the first of January following. Inauguration
of the President first of January neat after
November election.
The Washington times., 1930-04-12
KNOWLEDGE TEST

Do you know:
l. Who was President the United States during the
World
g. Who England's greatest writer Of plays?
many stars you on a clear night with
the unaded eye? .&,.
To what Of heavenly bodies the sun beongP
What speech begins with: FOurscore seven years
ago"?,
Match correctly;
g. Daniel Webster Preacher
T. Robert Fulton Sailor
g. Jonathan Edwards Statesman
81 David Farragut Phlanthronist
10 Peter Cooper Inventor
Fill each blank
IL. The - of planet is called its orbit
IL PreSentday usually contain alcohol or mercury
l3 hogram is about - pounds.
II Cinnabar an important ore Of
15 Administer q variety Of
lAswsrp Magazine PSrsS
The Washington times., 1930-04-12
Closing of Center Market

Government Slow in Its Building Plans

6LosING Center Market July is unnecessary inter-
~ ference with business and with public convenience
The Government progerbiay slow its building plans
and the present facts do not indicate that preliminary work
to erect Department of Justice building there can begin be-
fore late next fall In all probability nothing be done on
the site before next spring -
The Government ITSELF the owner of Center Market will
lose revenues day it shut down. and it would
feasible and right that business establishments there be
lowed TO continue operations until within few weeks of the
Sne when there doubt all plans being ready to 90
anead with tearing down processes for the new building
The Washington times., 1930-04-12
By Herbert Kaufman

ing to be taken from practically
every byproduct Of agriculture.
Xylose, which was apparently
The Washington times., 1930-04-12

Sugar. like gold, is where
you choose to look for it. And
we are told that it's wait
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-22
VG91S Oc|amAe&'ar:
az III
Always Complaining.

There are at least -four mistakes In the above picture. They may per-
tain to grammar. history. etiquette. drawing or whatnot. See II you can
find them. Then lock Ell the scrambled word below-and unscrambe Il.
ry switching the letters around. Grade yourself 20 for each Of the mis-
you find. and 20 for the word if you unscrambie it.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-22
CORRECTIONS

I. Robert Fulton. not Ell Whitney. built the first steamboat. : The
name OF the first steamboat was the Clerm2nt, not the Constitution. g.
The Ciernont had no wireless aerial a The boat was N side wheeler and
the side wheel In missing. 5. The scrambled word s PLAINTIFF.
La gaceta., 1930-10-31
CRUPOS REBELDES QUIE'
rem A TAvORA COMO


Rio de Janeiro, Oct. 31.-El
hombre fuerte de la situaci6n
parece serlo en- estos momen-
tos Ell captain Juan Tavora,
joven Official jefe de los insur-
gentes en- los estados del Nor
tie.
Tavora cree que ell Brasil
ha menester de una Dictadu-
ra. Ell Sc muestra a favor de la
ab0lici6n del congreso y que la
republica sea puesta baJo la
mano fuerte de I'm hombre has
ia que las imprescindibles re-
formas Sc hayan realizado.
Ell primer contingente de los
gauchos soldados de Rio Gran
de Do Sui, arrib6 hoy a la ca
pital.
De un momento a otro lie :
CARA ell Sr. Gertulio Vargas,
"7oidente provisional.
La gaceta., 1930-10-31
CITAClON

De orden del Presidente de
esta Union de Dependencies del
ramo del tabaco cito a los MEM
bros de la misma para la Junta
General que tendra lugar ell Do
mingo 2 de Noviembre, a la una
de la tarde, en- ell local de costum
ore. Los asuntos a tratar son de
importancia para todos los De-
pendientes Y solo a ellos incum-
be asistir a esta junta que es Elk
traordinaria, donde Sc legislan
7 Sc .ratan los asuntos electives.
Tampa, Oct. 80, 1880.
j. Ruiz,
Secretario.