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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-02-24

water something perhaps like melted lead Rivers of
would soon vanish in steam in the intense heat
And the cold side any waters that probably
frozen into ice many miles thick 49,.
We ought to be very grateful that live this earth
with its mild Summers and mild Winters turning all sides
toward the suns light and warmth.
But could imagine very interesting life this cold
hot Mercury could adapt ourselves to conditions there
Young people might like to live the hot side and enjoy
themselves.
Older people might prefer dark cold side to spend their
last years studying the outside universe with perpetual night
TO provide uninterrupted astronomical studies.
By and by suns heat will vanish in millions of millions
of years.
Our earth with Mercury and all the other planets will then
be cold and ifeess. .; !,
But doubtless everything is arranged for the best we
shall be well taken elsewhere when that time comes
well taken care of.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-02-24
LISTEN WORLD!
A New Hope
BY Elsie Robinson

surfaces. pale. clear colors,
strong and light as steel, faint
blue. dawn pink, lavender,
gray, strong planes Of plaster
and stone, cleaning. revolving
:. framed in crystal
framed in jet.
Strong planes, straight lines,
clean angles
People didn't build like that
so years ago. They built fuSsy,
fumbling buildings. They
thought fussy, funk ing
thoughts. They lived fusSy,
fumbling lives.
Then came the war, crashing
into the fuSsing like dynamite
. eating into the fumbling
like acid stripping thought
-. stripping action leav-
ing men naked, to start all over
again. Leaving men hating the
old fussing and fumbling {.
wanting something stronger
e. drawer more honest.
Leaving men with a new hope.
Now men are trying to put
that hope into action into
writing into music E.
into education into bust
ness .. into building into
strong, simple, ruthlessly honest
building into stark beauty
that will have no compromise.
Not easy to get used to these
things =.
And even harder to get used
to the hope that lies behind
them the hope of honesty
{. the hunger for simplicity.
Nothing harder to live again
than an honest. simple life
-. q life of strong, plain sur
faces clean color I'M
compromising angles. But we're
reaching toward it at last. Lit
tie cluttered buildings are go
ing out little, cluttered
lives are going out E. at the end
Of the long vista the new hope
rises cleaning .translu-
cent piling up and up
into the light!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-02-24
An Unfortunate Crisis in
Retirement Legislation
The Victims Are Aged Men and Women Who Deserve
And Should Have Just Annuities

unfortunate is the situation that has been reached
4VA as to liberalization of retirement annue for civil
ice employees
And the victims of this new legislative eup will be aged
and who have been loyal to their Government
long years and are the shutdown Of their lives in need
of Just and fair financial treatment.
Instead Of that view prevailing the anxiety to be
wholly the injustice to high paid workers in large de-
auctions from their salaries for which they will get
turns of consequence in annuites
consideration given to the good fortune Of these
pyes being able to salaries far above the average
of workers for the Government and to the ill fortune Of
thousands of old people who for downright necessities
every additional dollar in annuity they entitled to.
That the Dale bill does work injustice employees who
have risen to good positions and high salaries ndpube
The Presidents comments that phase of the problem
yet there is not much legislation that does do
injustice in way or in some manner
The outstanding injustice Of the situation the measy
annuities being paid the old Their urgent necessities
should ahead of everything else The wrong being
done to higher saared employees be corrected later
It should be corrected
The Presidents opposition to the Dale bill is serious His
statement virtually threatens veto.
Yet the President may not have weighed the that the
Dale BILL if should become law not permanent It
be changed the he desires within another year without
anybody being seriously hurt in that time.
The logical and just thing is the passage of the
Dale bill and its 0pPrOOa! by the President uUith the
announcement that he does consider it svh0t
modern retirement legislation should be and that he
Ui in Congress for later passage of the pro-
visions of the Lehlbach bill.
That W0uld be happy and righteous solution Of
the problem, because all injustices of the Dale bill
could be cleared in Legislation deliberately and
fully framed.
That, too, DOuld human Justice to annui-
tants NOW and the elimination Of injustices to
others later
Possibly appeal the President to permit this solution
would be sanctioned by him. with the clear understanding that
all civil service organizations will agree to the Presidents
plans for more scientific retirement laws.
appeal does not the Presidents objections
then the sensible wise thing for workers withdraw
and urge prompt passage of the Lehbach bill
by the House acceptance by the Senate thereby
ing the Presidents wishes
President Cooldges objections to the Dale bill that
it would cost little money than the
existing law Mr.. Hoover admits that the Lehbach bill will
! cost the Government more than the Dale bill
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-02-24

THESE incredible new build
= ings. soaring like dream
cliffs above the small, dark
clutter Of the streets .. have
you thought about them?
Have you thought what they
mean in human history
in YOUR history? They are
more than a new idea in archi-
tecture-they're a new idea in
life. Something has happened
something that is bound
to affect YOU, as well as all
other men. Unless you under.
stand what has happened, and
are willing to happen with it,
you're apt to be out Of luck,
stranger.
There's that new store Of
Bullock's on Wiltshire Boule-
ward, in Los Angeles
seen 1t? You'll not forget it
easily. if you have. Riding up
the boulevard, you see it tax
ing-off at the end Of the long
vista .piling Itself up into
the air like a fountain
pouring and piling and mount
ing upon its own substance un-
til it hangs cleaning, translu-
cent, caught in the blue, arch
ing sunlight.
The long, lovely uprush Of
it! The terrible simplicity of
it, simple as earth and air
and fire are simple-as though
a thought had suddenly been
caught in stone and cement,
without the touch of hands.
Inside. that same tremendous
simplicity. No curves. No
fumbling joints or prettied an
giles. Flat surfaces stark
angles planes. Like walk
ing in a diamond. Even the
wide, bright, uncluttered air
seems faceted. Flat surfaces
unfolding meeting each
other delicately but without
compromise opening out
and out into wide corridors
=. angled vaults flat
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-02-24
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
By DR.. Louis z. Bisch-

UyE all use water and we drink
w it. It is the water which we
take with our food that helps to
change and dissolve the solid
portions so that they-ma be as
simulated by the body tissues.
Health depends a great deal
upon the supply of water, its
quantity and its purity.
Water, of course, is a chemical
compound. 1t is made up of two
atoms Of hydrogen and one Of
oxygen.
When absolutely pure it is col
orleSs and taSteleSS.
The average person uses about
Is gallons of water a day. This
includes water for drinking.
cooking, baths, laundry, house
hold uses, etc.
The average male adult con-
sumes from so to so ounces Of
water each day. This does not
include the water content of the
food he takes in, which is con-
siderable.
Women and children drink
less water than men. During
warm weather we consume. Of
course, more water than dr ng
the cold months.
Contrary to popular NJ ion
rain water is not necessarily
pure. It's purity depends upon
the atmosphere through which
it passes. To get rain water as
pure as possible do not collect
the beginning of the rainfall.
When rain water is collected
near the sea it is found to
contain SulphateS and chlof1deS
which have come from the sea
itself. Such water. however. is
very soft because free from
lime and magnesia.
A reservoir for water storage
should be built on high ground
and covered. Ventilation is i'm
portant also. And most impor-
tant is regular cleansing of the
reservoir after all the water has
been drained out.
Pipes which bring the water
into a house are made Of lead,
wrought iron and galvanized
iron. It Is safest not to use
lead pipes where there is eny
doubt about the water having
a chemical action on the lead.
Soft waters, for instances,
may act on lead, forming an
oxide of lead which is again
dissolved. For soft water, SER
vice pipes can be made of COM
position. for instance, such as
an amalgam of lead and tin.
= Upland surface water and
stored rain water. although
fairly palatable, should always
be tested for purity first.
River water is suspicious. In
rivers in which sewage is dis
posed such water is dangerous
to health and sometimes to
life. jas
Artesian well water may vary
a great deal. Often it contains
sodium chloride and carbonate
in excess and some free am
monia.
Impure drinking water may
contain typhoid germs, cholera,
and others. Often it causes
dysentery. Malaria may de-
velop that way.
Many intestinal worms may
enter the stomach through
drinking water.
Always be sure Of your water
3 s,,nn1sa
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-02-24
THE MARRY
GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland.
Professional FIatterers

PROFESSIONAL klattefefS
COME day, when I am old and
~ dull and tiresome, I am
going to hire a professional
listener. Or a professional flat
terer!
YOU know what I mean.
Somebody to laugh at my
jokes, applaud my epigrams,
and listen to my complaints.
my symptoms and my servant
terer!
Somebody to tell me how
wonderful I am, how brilliant
am, how becoming my hats
are and how young I look. at
least once a day. Somebody
to keep my inferiority COM
pick down to zero and my self
esteem up to par.
Why not? We pay people to
cater to our palates and our
appetiteS, to give us medicine
and massage: to tailor us and
dress us and make us beautiful.
And then we go around, pathet-
ically begging aims and gratu-
tiles, when it comes to food for
our SOULS or a tonic for our
ego! =
Those old kings and queens
had the right idea. They PAID
courtierS to listen 10 them and
professional flatterers and "fa-
vorites" to nourish their vanity
and Self-complacency--to help
them bluff themselves!
If a psychoanalyst gets a lot
of money for telling you what's
the MATTER with you. a
skilled flatterer with a large
and flowery vocabulary ought
to get twice as much for tell
ing you that there's nothing
the matter with you. Finding
your inferlority complex is not
such a trick-it's CURING 1t,
that counts.
OF course, husbands and
wives apd loving friends are
supposed to be your natural
boosters and admirers. But
they are usually so busy trying
to improve" you or reform
you or telling you things "for
your own good" that they
don't find time to spread the
applesauce. And they are so
afraid Of making you conceited!
Besides, husbands flattery
or a wife's applause. somehow,
lacks the professional touch.
It is so apt to come wrapped
in a lot of wholesome ad-
vice." that takes away all the
kick. Where's the thrill in
being told that you have a
wonderful mind, If you'd only
concentrate it on something
worth while?" Or in being told
that you make delicious waffles,
when you are longing to hear
that you have alluring eyes?
That's where the gigolo and
"office vamp" shine by COM
parison. EVERYBODY needs a
cheer-leader! Everybody needs
somebody to keep up his cour-
age and self -confidence-to keep
him in love with himself And
what love spills over, goes to
the cheer-leader.
There ought to be a pre-
paratory school for husbands
and wives, with a special course
IN flattery.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-02-24
Hearst Papers Advocate

I. An agreement of Egishspeaking peoples to pre-
serve peace among themselves and to promote the
peace Of the t0orld. 80. ~....'
2. Proportional representation in the United States
Senate, no State to haze less than tao Senator's
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
porttonnsent IN the House of Representatives.
3. separate Department of the Army, of the Navu
and of the Air Forces all united under Secretary
of National Defense.
4. Federal action to the limit of Federal POWERS to
abolish akteracy in the United States under
Secretary of Education.
5. Election of Congress in November Installation
on the first of January follo,Oing Inauguration
of the President first Of January neat after
November election.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-02-24
DO YOU KNOW THAT

A paper boat has been in
vented in Germany that is
claimed to be both, lighter and
stronger than wooden ones of
the same size.
Scientists have discovered an
extract made from watermelon
seeds which has proved it's USE
fulness In relieving many cases
Of high blood pressure.
An electric lamp to be worn
On a hat has been designed
to protect people from vehicles
at night.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-02-24

Experiments are being carried
out in England for the perfec-
ton of sound-proof houses, of
fices, factories, hospitals, and
even moving vehicles.
Government scientists have
estimated that more than 513,-
100000 tons of soil are washed
into the oceans by rivers in the
United States each year.
Chemists in England have
produced new motor fuel that
is cheaper than gasoline from
a low grade coal.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-02-24
The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

Fill each blank
l. Nova Scotia called
a. discovered Florida.
3. Terra firma
4. George Dewey q hero of the War.
5. discovered the Hawaiian Islands.
8. - is the MosIen Supreme Being
Z. The Alhambra is in
3. Glaciers
- the first English Catholic settlement in
America
10. An avalanche is
Do you know:
IL. What were Chrst's dying words?
IL. Who wrote "Home, Sweet Home?
IS. What is celluloid?
IA. Where is Mt. Etna?
Is. What Is cremation2
~ AAAswsls % Fiction PaOsl ~.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-30
AFRICAN EXPLORER
WILL GIVE LECTURE
Illustrated Talk to Be Presented
for Benefit of Auxiliary of
St. Johns Church.

DR. James w. Inches Of Detroit,
Mich, famous African explorer and big
game hunter. will give an illustrated
lecture, From Cape to Cairo" for the
benefit of the Woman's Auxiliary of st.
Johns Church. Lafayette Square, to-
morrow evening at $3.50 o'clock in the
ball room Of the Shoreham Hotel.
For the last 10 years DR.. Inches, re-
tired from the practice Of medicine, has
been exploring little-known sections of
Africa. He has conducted three special
expeditions to the continent and has
lectured extensively on his experiences.
One OF these, resulting in shipwreck
while homeward bound last year, nearly
cost him his life.
Forced to take to the lifeboats, pas
sengers and crew lost nearly all their
possessions. DR.. Inches took with him
only one thing, tube containing 5000
feet OF motion picture film. 1t is this
film, showing his experiences and dis
coveries on the long trek from the
Cape to Cairo, that the explorer will
show in connection with his lecture to-
morrow evening.
The lecture will be given under the
auspices Of the Woman's Auxiliary, with
Mrs. James E. Freeman, wife of Bishop
Freeman, heading the list of patron
esses The other patronesses include
Mrs. Mackay-Smith, Mrs. Taft, Mrs.
David A. Reed, Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock,
Mrs. George B. Mcclellan, Miss Hege-
man, Mrs. Robert Johnston, Mrs
Thomas F. Bayard, Miss Boardman,
Mrs. Hennen Jennings, Mrs. Charles H
Woodruff, Mrs. Montgomery Blair and
Mrs. Duncan Phillips.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-30
c. OFC MEMBERSHIP
PLEA BROADCAST
Committee Chairman Outlines
Five-Year Organization
Program.

An appeal for new members for the
Washington Chamber Of Commerce, to
assist in carrying out the organizations
new f1ve-year program for building up
Of the National Capital, was made by
A. Ewaldsen, chairman of the Chamber
Membership Committee, in a radio ad-
dress last night from station WMAL.
The leading feature of the program,
Mr.. Ewaldsen said is drive to obtain
the right of representation in Congress
for the District citizens and fair set
tlement of the fiscal relationship is
sue between the Federal and District
governments.
The program also calls for the support
of legislation for improvement of
schools, parks, libraries, streets, bridges,
public health facilities, hospitals; CAPT.
talization of the Capitals advantages
as a tourist and convention center;
creation Of more local employment OPP
portunities; better means of regulating
trafic, improvement of streets and
bridges, modernization of the port Of
Washington, extension of atrnaail, pas
senger and express service, and CO.
operation with local wholesale and retail
business through advertising and ex-
tension Of the local trade area, Mr..
EwaldSen said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-30
BOLIVAR'S MEMORY
TO BE HONORED HERE
Exercises Planned at Georgetown
University on Tooth Anniversary
of Soldiers Death.

Observance of the Tooth anniversary
of the death of Gen. Simon Bolivar,
liberator of Spanish South America,
which occurred December IT, 1880, will
be made a special occasion at George
town University.
Academic exercises will be held in
CASTOR Hall on the evening of the an
niversary, President w. Coleman Nevis,
S. j., announced yesterday, at which
join with Georgetown in paying honor
to one of the greatest defenders Of lib
erty history has known.
Two men prominently identified with
the promotion of friendly relations be-
tween the Americas, DR.. Esteban Gil
Borges, assistant director of the Pan
American Union, and DR.. James Brown
Scott, secretary of the Carnegie Endow-
ment for International Peace. will be
the principal speakers. Dr. Scott also
Is professor of international law and
foreign relations of the United States
at the Georgetown School Of Foreign
Service.
DR.. Nevis and the directors Of
Georgetown University will hold a re-
ception after the. ceremonies. Among
the guests Of honor will be the ENJOYS
of what are known as the Bolivarian
countries, Peru, Panama, Bolivia, ECU
ador Venezuela and Colombia, who owe
their independence from Spain to the
great soldier-stateSman. Bolivar was
born in Caracas, Venezuela, on July "a,
1888, and died at the age Of At, near
Santa Marta, in which Is now the Re-
public Of Colombia. He is invested with
the title Of Liberator by the Congresses
Of all the Bolivarian countries, where
his memory is revered similar to that
of George Washington in this country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-30
STUDLEY ABSENCE
INQUIRY IS DROPPED
Wealthy Capital Man Found
to Have Registered at
Boston Hotel.

Washington police yesterday dropped
their investigation into the strange
of william L. Studley,
wealthy Capital man, convinced that
foul play does not figure in his failure
to return to his home at 1902 Eight
zenith street after attending the Yale
Harvard foot ball game at New Haven
eight days ago.
Boston police reported yesterday that
the missing man registered at the Ritz
Carlton Hotel there last Sunday night
and checked out the following morn
ing without informing any one as to
his destination.
UnaccOmpanied in Boston.
Studley was unaccompanied, accord
ing to telegram received by Inspector
William S. Shelby, chief of detectives,
from James McDevitt, deputy super
ntendent Of Boston police. The in
quiry instituted here at the request
of relatives was instantly dropped as
a result of this information.
Studley entered the Boston hotel 10
hours after he had telegraphed his wife
from New York City that he was catch
ing the noon train from New York and
would reach Washington at sos pm.
Neither Mrs. Studley nor the missing
mans attorney, Arthur HELEN, could
be reached yesterday. 1t was said at
the Studley home that Mrs. Studley's
had forbidden her to use
the telephone or discuss her husbands
fearing that she might
developed nervous breakdown while
HELEN is out of the city.
Employees at Hellens law Offices in
the Colorado Building said that the
attorney left Washington several days
ago, presumably to work on the Studley
case.
Check Reveals Whereabouts.
A check which Studley cashed at the
Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boston Sunday
night, and which subsequently was
honored at his local bank, led to the
discovery that the missing man had
gone to Boston instead of coming on
to Washington Sunday.
Studley. who Is Al years old, came
here with his wife from Providence,
r. l., several years ago. They have a
young daughter The husband man.
ages property left him from his fathers
estate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-30
SAVINGS PAYMENTS
TO SPEED SHOPPING
$4,000 Westinghouse to
Be Paid $500, 900 Within
Next Few Days.

The early Christmas shopping cam
paign. inaugurated by Washington mer-
chants was given an impetus with the
announcement that mail carriers will
bring to $4,000 Washingtonians within
the next few days checks for Christmas
savings amounting to $7.500,000.
This is the largest amount of Christ
mas savings and the greatest number
OF depositors In these savings clubs in
the history of Washington, and in keep
ing with the shop-early movement,
checks are being distributed earlier than
in former years when the funds were
released December is.
In the opinion of Edward D. Shaw,
secretary of the Merchants and Manu-
facturers' Association, the early distri-
button of this large fund augurs well
for the public, individually and collec-
lively, by enabling the Christmas shop
per to do his buying well ahead of the
last-minute congestion.
Figures obtained by the association
from local banks show that one out of
every five persons in Washington will
receive a Christmas savings check.
Washington leads the country on the
proportional number and total amount
OF depositors, Mr.. Shaw points out.
The statistics show that in 1924 the
amount Of Christmas savings for as, 900
depositors totaled $3000,0OO. This year
there are 92,197 depositors and the
amount is $7,500,233. The deposits
average $91.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-30
DELINQUENT TAXES
TO Be ADVERTISED
Realty Owners Crowd in Dis
triCt Building to Pay at
Last Minute.

Owners Of real estate crowded to the
District Building yesterday to avoid
having their properties advertised as
delinquent in tax payments. The ad-
vertisements will be published in local
papers December and IL, and the
auction sale of tax titles will be held
at the District Building January to ID.
After the sale of tax title, the de-
linquent taxpayer is given two years in
which to pay up his taxes, with inter-
est penalties and costs of the sale. If
he has not paid within two years, then
at the end Of that time the purchaser
of the tax title is given a certificate,
which, when recorded, becomes a cloud
upon the title to the realty, which can
be removed only by bargaining with
the holder of the certificate.
Although property is advertised, the
tax may be paid at any time before the
sale and such properties will be stricken
from the list offered for sale. The auc-
ton takes place in the office Of the col
lector Of taxes, on the first floor Of the
building.