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The Washington times., 1930-04-15
Court Appeals From Decisions
of P. u. Commission

MOTHER sharp hitch in street railway merger legislation
Congress threatens to leave this Cys transit entae
ens in better shape than they have been for many
This time the fight that would take away
from local courts Of their power veto decisions Of the
Public Utilities Commission which considers itself just
''rubber stamp" with the courts superpcwer.
The hagglng the wording Of the BILL regarded by
the street railways attempt to deprive the in some cir
cusances appeal to the courts which they have made
copous use Of in past years
The Public Utilities Commission should have much
power than it now has, but whether Congress could egt
ately give power that in grave matters OF rates and Valu
ations would make its conclusions final is doubtful
This is particularly in decisions that might involve
scation for easy for public utilities to claim confisca
on in every decision that does not suit their fancy All i'm
uorant decisions of the u G. touch finances and
reasonable or unreasonable returns
The transit interests of Washington not SO eager for
merger as they year ago. just merger bill now
might interfere with their court plans grab off increased
car fares possible They are now pleading OelOr
the courts the same old ng-CONF1SCAT1ON
the local uphold the street railway pleas for higher
ear fares between and the next session OF Congress the
transit chiefs will then be glad to have merger egstion
What they want FIRST is increased fares
The Washington times., 1930-04-15
Old Two Toes
He Refused to Be Civilized

OLD TWO TOES timber wolf who ranged for 10 years in
the wds Of Gross county Arkansas is prisoner at as
It sheriff. prosecuting attorney and several OF the
bloodhounds in the South to get him. Now he VIII spend
the rest Of his days nglOrOus captivity in the Memphis
(Tenn)
sad comedown this last great survivor Of the long line
Of savage vamts that rOamed free as air through
prmeval forest and plain.
Two Toes oddly enough was named because ne had but
two toes He left the Others at various times in traps But
thus crippled he killed hundreds sheep cattle and even full
grown bulls
He was in the words of the Gross county yeOmany con-
sidable Of a wof.' = -. -
Two Toes slaughtered IA goats and the sovereign state Of
Arkansas rose its wrath warrant was sworn out Ior nm
dead or alive After grueng pursuit the forces q Ine w
finally him into hollow log ana spread ne arOn" 0
end. Then, and only then, did he surrender
like minor NAPOLEON at modern st. Helena Two Toes
will now look through the bars Of his cage at
public One imagine that ne w survey
the scene with irony. Civilization conquered nm ue
but he led dance for 10 long he could Justly ca
to have fought raanty against standardized mechanical
age whose watchwords are safety and the
duness and stupidity ALSO compared with the spacious 1On
tier days when were men and wolves were "OlVeS'
The Washington times., 1930-04-15

That becomes the dreadful
tempo of our lives. The same
old jobs, the same old thoughts.
the same old problems, day
after day - day after day.
Never a change-never a new
adventure. Only the same
dreary THUD-THUD-THUD
-graying our flesh, crushing
our hope, ravelling our pride
until we go crawling, like con-
victs, penned in invisible gran
ite.
And yet-we could be free, if
we wanted to be. No matter
how handicapped. no matter
how ignorant, life may be an
adventure, IF WE'LL HAVE 1T
SO.
There's Jules, in New Orleans,
who makes a great adventure
out of cooking one little fish.
There's a one-armed flower
vender, at a corner Of Grant
Avenue in San Francisco. who
gives you romance, with a ten
cent bunch of violetS.
There's a blind beauty opera
tor in Sonora, who lives rain
bows.
There's a little, crippled boot
black down by Brooklyn Bridge,
to whom life is just one glo-
rious Big Bang after another.
Life's an adventure to them
because they make it so. But
for thousands Of others, it's
lutte mill. We, too, could have
adventure-but we don't want
to take a chance or pay the
price. Always some shackle
binds us-shackles of fear, or
laziness, or self-pity, or habit,
or sentimentality, or self indul-
gence. So life goes on, in a mad
dening THUD-THUD-THUD
crushing out our pride and
ambition-turning us into ro-
bots
WE WHO WE'RE MEANT
TO BE THE WILD, RECK-
LESS GYPSIES OF GOD!
The Washington times., 1930-04-15

WHATEVER happens to- dis
w turb or upset you, whether
It be financial in character, an
affair of the heart, a domestic
situation, a thwarted desire, a
failure in ambition-all may
be boiled down and Summar-
lied in the word worry.
There are, therefore. hun
dredS of kinds Of worry.
There is, however, only one
sane, sensible and scientific
method Of conquering your
worry.
Time was, when a person
worried and consulted q physi-
clan, that he was told to take
a trip, have q change Of scene,
and forget it. That time was
not SO long ago. We hear it
still, in fact, but not so COM
monty.
The old belief held that new
sights, different people and a
diStracting environment would
quickly restore a haraSsed mind
to normalcy. A great deal Of
emphasis was likewise placed
upon will power. Just push it
out Of your thoughts as though
your worry did not exiSt"-or
words to that effect-were not
unusual prescriptions. And II
The Washington times., 1930-04-15
Listen World
Thud--Thud-Thud
BY Elsie Robinson.

THERE'S a dreadful scene
= in the play, "The Criminal
Code" From your pleasant,
cushioned seat in the orches-
ira, you look into that tomb
of the living dead-the peni-
tentiary. Gray wallS-gray air
gray flesh, that once was
bright with hope-and a Gray
Sound that is at first tire
some but presently grows mon
Strous-madd dening!
THUD-THUD-THUD
over and over THTJD-
THUD - THUD. A grim and
hopeless sound-hopelesS as the
sound Of clods falling on a
coffin-the sound Of the jute
mill, falling on dead hearts.
Ask a convict what he breads
most during his rap" and
he'll tell you, without heSita-
tion-the jute mill. There's
something about it-that ra5p-
ing routine, that mercileSs
monotony - that pounds the
manhood out of the desperate
wretcheS that serve it. Under
that THUD-THUD-THUD-
hope skaters and pride ravels
into bloody strings.
Men can stand hard labor,
abuse, danger and strain, but
they cannot for long, endure
monotony. Life was not meant
to be a tread mill. It was
meant to be an adventure. A
dangerous, painful adventure,
perhaps, but with a challenge
and a chance, and always q
new turning to the trail. There
is no greater cruelty than to
condemn a man, endlesSly, to
a jute mill. AND YET MANY
OF US, WHO ARE LEGALLY
FREE, CONDEMN OURSEL YES
TO THAT TORTURE.
Our heads are not shaved, we
do not wear stripes, but we too
serve in a jute mill and slowly
go mad under its monotony.
THUD-THUD-THUD
The Washington times., 1930-04-15
Secrets of Health
BY DR.. Louis E. Bisch-

you lived at sea level, a vaca-
ton in the mountains might be
suggested, or an ocean voyage.
The person with a real worry
has tried to forget it. He has
already tried to exert his will
power! The mind automatical-
ly takes care of that in any
case. Therefore admoniShing
him to do what he has been
trying to accomplish by himself,
for hours and days and nights,
merely adds to hts panic all the
more. After a while not only
does he have his worries to bat
tie with, he also becomes con-
vinced that he's not as strong
or virile as other people. Tim
idity, shame and sek-accuSation
are heaped upon him, and his
m ntal burden - instead Of
being leSSened-becomeS greater
and even more uncomfortable.
No! Nowadays the wise
physician, with an insight into
the workings Of his patients
mind, adopts entirely opposite
tactics. He tells Mr.. x, or
Miss Y, or Mrs. T., to take
their worries in hand-not to
be panicky-and, if necessary.
to take them by the neck and
throttle them.
The Washington times., 1930-04-15
ONCE-OVERS

Your Attitude Toward Charity
BECAUSE you have no chill
- dren do you feel that you
have no interest in undertakings
for the benefit Of children.
Have you Schooled yourself
to think that charitable under
takings in your town or village
have no claim on your purse
strings?
Because you have provided
enough for your old age by your
own efforts, do you think that
it is not up to you to aid those
who are less fortunate?
Do you belong to the class
that believes that everyone who
finds himself or herself unfor-
titled in unproductive years
must have been q Spendthrift,
The Washington times., 1930-04-15
Discovery of Uranus
BIZ Archibald Henderson

came within the field Of view Of
his telescope: he actually saw
this strange, new object. The in
Strument he was using was a
seven-foot Newtonian telescope,
Of six and one-quarter inches
aperture, with q magnifying
power Of 227. So delighted was
Herschel with this effective tele-
scope that he said Of it: For
diStinctnesS Of vision this inStru-
ment is perhaps equal to any
that was ever made"
FTER observing the new
"A stellar object for a while
he found q slow motion and at
first came to the conclusion that
it was probably q comet. He re-
ported the discovery Of the OBJ
ject, as q comet, to MaSkelyne.
After q few months the Rus
sian astronomer Lexel diScov-
cred that the new body did not
vary its distance as a comet
would and so concluded that the
object must be a planet.
This matter was finally set
tied in the affirmative on No
vember z, 1882.
THE problem of naming it was
l. one Of some difficulty. Her
Schel, the diScoverer, wished to
name it "Georgium Sidus," in
honor Of his patron, the then
reigning monarch Of England,
George III.
Lalande wished to honor Her
Schel by naming the planet for
him, and it was so called for
half q century, until it was
finally given the name Uranus,
which it still bears. Delambre
constructed the orbit of The
new planet. HerSchel continued
to study it, and discovered two
satellites which belonged to IL
In 1851 LaSSell discovered the
two inner moons Of Uranus.
It's satellites revolve in a retro
grade motion to Uranus which.
following the habit Of major
planets, rotateS on its axis every
10 hours.
The Washington times., 1930-04-15
The Marry-GO-ROund
.By Helen Rowland

NOW A0AAU
hips down-and dances all eve
ming to keep his blood-pressure
up. Brother sticks back his
hair with scented brilliantine
and takes his moustache ser1-
ouSly.
And every man seems OBJ
sessed with the Shuddering fear
of growing old.
What's it all about, anyway?
A woman MUST be good to
look at in order to get any.
thing worth while out Of life
but why does q man need to
bother about those things?
Nobody ever asks of a man:
els he young?" but "Is he
successful"
Youth and charm are not
matters Of years but matters
of temperament.
Some men are old at 40-and
others are young at 60.
And those who possess the
talisman Of eternal youth are
those who have preserved a
PETER PAN HEART-a heart
full of hope and faith and
ideals and enthusiaSmS.
A man is NEVER old until he
loses faith in himself and his
illusions about love and wo-
men.
Then, indeed, is a man paSse
and no beauty doctor can
help him!
A mans beauty was never
more than two per cent Of mis-
charm, anyway-So, why should
he get excited about it?
Is it not ART, but HEART,
that keeps us young, forever?
The Washington times., 1930-04-15
BrOOkhart for Lehlbach Bill

UPPoRT for the Lehlbach retirement bill from Senator
Brooart is Just another favorable factor for final settle
ent Of the differences between House and Senate just
retirement legislation.
The Senate has been practically unanimous in the past in
enacng liberal retirement laws It has done this IN tne laC
Of known opposition from the White House. justice ana
human decency both appeal to that great body .
Resentment of White House interference may have IN
fnenced the Senate coneree but these conferees Will
realize that Justice will be served by blocking passage OF
the Lehbach BILL surely helpful to faithful
employees who have retired and will soon retire
laws Herbert Hoover favors liberalization but wants It
equitable and scientific That is not dctatcraL 1t MS
right.
The Washington times., 1930-04-15

and as such not deserving Of
help?
Perhaps you were fortunate
and had parents who gave you
a good education and put you
on your feet financially. At any
rate, they endowed you with
brains and gave you the upward
boost.
Those who have not been so
favored are not necessarily i'm
provident.
And if they are lacking in the
money you think should be
theirs at their age it may be
due to small wages and misfor-
tune, not to any fault Of their
own.
You may have had better op-
portunities to make progress
and prosper and it is your duty
to do your utmost to help those
less fortunate.
The Washington times., 1930-04-15

why Must Men Be Young and
Beautiful?
IN the old days.. a man. was
i "aS young as he felt"-and
let it 60 at that. While the
women were banting, rolling,
taking mud baths, and rushing
around frantically, from hair
dressers to- beauty surgeons,
man sat at home and grew COM
fortably fat, bald and middle
aged.
He considered it unmanly to
put pomade on his hair, and re-
fused even to deny himself a
baked potato in the interest Of
his waistline. It never occurred
to him that a bald spot and a
little enbonpoint could mar his
fatal fascination.
But, now, every other man
you meet Is on a diet tor. his
figure, and has a recipe or a
theory for staying young for
ever. He seems to think that a
man is no younger than his
weakest tooth or his faintest
wrinkle, and that when his
beauty fades his life will be
over.
You can't go into a beauty
parlor without meeting a man
coming out, all pink and white
and marcelled and pomaded and
manicured.
You have to wait at the bar
ber's for your shingle half an
hour, while some fair young
man has a mud facial or a POM
padour wave.
When you can't find your
eyebrow pencil, your tweezers,
or your sunburn lotion, you
know that Father or Brother
has been using them.
Dad golfs all day to keep his
The Washington times., 1930-04-15
THE United States and I
Great Britain, enabled by

THE united StaCeS ana
Great Britain, enabled by
o common tongue to
reach common understandings,
and Japan, which thinks dip
lomatically with an Anglo
Saxon mind, are able to con-
vince each other that they
hold no marked cards up the
sleeve and agree to dull their
naval spurs.
But Chanticleer, arrogant,
suspicious and cocky to the last,
refuses to shorten gaffs.
Consequently, three-power
limitation leaves the Continent
stewing in it's old brothS Of
jealousy and Chauvinism.
French and Italian hopes Of
lighter budgets and reduced
taxes are thus indefinitely re-
buffed.
President Hoover may bring
home a fitch of Triangle"
bacon instead Of the Five
star" brand which he ordered,
but that's the sort which best
suits our political digestion. It
isn't infected with the trichina
of foreign ENHANCEMENT or Gal
lie cholera, and it carries no
embarrassing guarantees on
the label.
The respective signators OF
the projected treaty conserve in.
dependence of future action and
continue to paddle their own
war canoes.
THE three nations simply
l. decide to quit regardless
battleship and cruiser competi-
ton and retain stipulated rela-
tivities Of maritime strength.
Ramsay Macdonald saves the
Empire a hundred and twenty
five millions-the Hoover Ad-
ministration will soon be able to
apply at least that amount to
income tax relief, and the
Mikado's folk, manfully strug-
cling under fiscal burdens, which
national productivity never
could afford, can divert the sal
wage to industrial and educa-
tional expansion.
We have notified France that
our mind is still set in the
frame of Neutrality-suspicious.
the Old World cannot slap wild
deuce mortgages upon this coun-
The Washington times., 1930-04-15

TF1E Illinois elections also
= sound warning that we
don't intend to enter the
League of Nations or any of its
subsidiary traps.
And that shrewd augur and
wrath-cloud reader. Senator Wat
son, of Indiana, loses no time
in so interpreting the signifi-
canoe of the Mccormick land
slide, which dares the Republi.
can party to press the World
Court issue.
The New York assembly like.
wise indulges in a little hand.
writing on the wall, by endorS-
ing the CULVER Bill, which
proposes a constitutional con-
vention to repeal the Eight
eenth Amendment.
Bishop Cannon and DR.. Will
son may laugh the gesture to
scorn, but even though the
proposition Is fated to die a.
bofning, its ghost will stalk the
land and haunt legislatures un-
til prohibition mitigateS present
seventies of enforcement or in.
cites reputation.
The Jones Act must yield its
claws to popular demand, de-
spite Attorney General Mitch
ellis academic views to the con-
trary.
MIR. WICKERSHAM, after a
AVA year of lingering the COM
munity pulse, realizes that the
fevers and fervors Of reform
are mounting, and speaks with
the authority Of a dispassionate
survey, when he recommends
antidotal action from a revised
Federal code, with punishmentS
proportionate to Volstead viola
tions.
Meanwhile, the Digest poll
daily measures the growth Of
national revulSion against Anti
Saloon League dictation and
clerical power behind the
throne Of Democracy.
Prohibition is manifeStly in
no immediate peril of repeal,
but its revocation is certain,
if it does not soon dissolve
partnership with intolerance
and heed the counSels of mod
Grafton.
You can lead the American
people to water, but you can't
force it down their throatS.
Copyright 1890 by the Daily Mirror.
Inc. and Herbert kaufman
The Washington times., 1930-04-15

UVHE recent epochal discovery
of q new, the ninth, major
- planet, which is to be
known for the present as the
trans-Neptunian planet. is now
arousing curiosity as to the
earlier discovery Of planets.
The first planet to be diScov-
cred in modern times Is the
planet to which the name Ur-
anus was given by the German
astronomer Bode.
The discovery Of the planet
Uranus was revolutionary in q
number Of respects. Until its
discovery, the original dimen-
sions Of the boundaries Of the
solar system were quite re-
stricted. Saturn, a huge planet
some $4,000 miles in diameter,
swung around in an orbit.
obedient to the great law Of
universal gravitation, at a dis
tance of 886, 100, 900 miles from
the sun.
UTHEN the orbit Of Uranus
'" was computed it was found
that Uranus was 1882, 100000
miles away from the sun. The
discovery more than doubled
the dimensions, as originally
known as the solar system.
Sir william HerSchel, known
to fame as the pioneer Of mod
ern descriptive astronomy, holds
unchallenged the title Of dis
coverer Of Uranus.
Born In Hanover In 1888, he
was by profession not an as
tronomer but a musician with
a modest competence. In his
leisure time he devoted much
attention to making reflecting
telescopes. He kept making
larger and ever larger inStru-
mentS, with the ambition Of dis
covering new secrets in the
heavens hitherto unknown to
science.
On March IS, 1881, he noted
a small stellar object Of remark
able appearance which appeared
to be a star Of sensible disc. 1t
The Washington times., 1930-04-15
Hearst Papers Advocate

l. An agreement OF EngttSh-SpeGtGg peoples to pre-
serve peace among themselves and to promote the
peace of the Uorld.
e Proportional representation in the United States
Senate, no State to haze less than taUo Senator's
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
portionment in the House of Representatives.
g. A separate Department of the Army, of the NGvy
of National Defense
a. Federal action to the limit of Federal powers to
abolish lLtterGcy in the United States under a
Secretary of Education.
S. Election of Congress in November. Installation
on the first OF January fouoDtng. inauguration
of the President first of January neat after
November election.
The Washington times., 1930-04-15
Forty Years in Bed
Long Enough, 1t Would Seem.

THE town of Upton Iowa. the death Of MRS
/ Mary wckham seventy-fiv years old Mrs WicknamS
chief claim fame is that she went to bed in nui lOr
years ago and got up again.
Nobody knows why Mrs Wickham took this singular
method of showing her dsplease why she was dis
pleased It mystery that may be cleared up when her
will is probated has it that her husband long since
dead refused to give her certain property and that she took
to her bed to annoy MIN.
Whatever the reason, you must admire her 1mness OIL
spirit Il is an example AL might profitably follow
though perhaps not in the manner Mrs Wlckham
mistake in confusing the motto EXCELSIOR Win
''Ostermoor'
The Washington times., 1930-04-15
IN THE AMERICAN TRADITION = By Herbert Kaufman

| youth and wealth And the realize that the better chance
earlier statesmen and Of reciprocal
button hunting hles fidences and admations.
The Washington times., 1930-04-15
KNOWLEDGE TEST

Fill each blank:
The planet most likely to be inhabited thought
q Solomon's reputation chiefly for his
s. colony settled mainly
of the green cooring matter in plants is
The Washington times., 1930-04-15

5. meter is about -- feet.
Match correctly:
6. George Bancroft Founder of Ri
z. Mark Hopkins Author
3. Elias Howe Sculptor.
8. Augustus st. Gaudens Inventor
10. Roger Williams Educator.
Do you know:
IL. What makes shooting stars" hot?
IL. What are men who predict weather called?
13. From what animal is ham obtained?
IA. Who wrote poem beginning:
The little toy dog is covered with dust"2
Is. What planet has many rings?
LAAsWsrs sa Masaxins Pags)
The Washington times., 1930-04-15

Founder of Rhode Island.
Author.
Sculptor.
Inventor.
Educator.
La gaceta., 1930-07-11
NOTICIAS DE
INTERES LOCAL.

Seis concejaleS estaban a
noche en- la saia de sesiones del
ayuntamiento cuando ell presi-
dente Tom Henderson llam6 a
session. No habia quorum. Los
concejaleS, que trataban de "a
probar anoche miSmo los pre-
supuestos, sin aumentar las
contribuciones, no Sc desani =
maron.
Puestos en- contacto con ell
jefe de policia establecieron
vigilancia cerca de los domicl-
lios de los cinco concejales que
Sc saba habian hecho ell pro-
p6sito de no concurrir a la Sc
sion para evitar que ell presu-
puesto fuera aprobado.
Puestos los policias en- ace
cho parecia que no Sc iba a
conseguir la finalidad busca-
da, cuando Nick Nuccio lego
a su domicilio y bien custodia-
do tuvo que if al ayuntamientc
e integrar ell quorum. Nj Thorn
son, nj Breach, nj Emerson N
Pacheco habian podido ser en-.
contrados.
Integrado ell quorum POI
Nucci0, a quien recibi6 una de
legaci6n compuesta por Rosen,
thai, Epps y Campbell, Sc a
prob6 ell nuevo presupuesto sin
ell aumento de las contribucio-
mes.
Para impedir ell aumento de
las contribuciones sc elimina :
ron las obras publicas proyec-
tadas.
Entire los espectadores, cuan
do Sc aprob6 ell presupuesto,
estaban ell alcalde Mckay, e
iefe de policia y ell jefe de de
tectives.
Nuccio vote en- contra dicier
do que su distrito necesitaba
mejoras, particularmente las
alcantarillas para impedir la
inundaci6n de varias GALES.
La gaceta., 1930-07-11

lamentamos de los agricultores
que impetran ayuda gimiendo
sobre las acumulaciones de gra-
nos V cereales no vendidos en'
tran en- contraste singular con
la vision de los paises que no
encuenuran en- ell suelo pr0plo
alimentos suficientes para ali
War su hambre.
La filantropia norte-amerl-
cana insensible a la tragedia;
pues va ha con!ribuido con SUI
mas enormes al socorro de la
poblaci6n que en- Asia Sc niue
re de hambre. Pero aun la fl
lantropia Sc We embarazada en-
este case. GPor que?
Els materia de lugares comu-
mes ell que ell mundo Sc ha en-
pequenecido y standardlzado a
la presente. NADIA mas inexacto
V nj mas superficial. Russia, Chi
ma, y los paises legendarios del
| centric del continente amarillo
contemplan la repesicion de es-
cenas que nos recuerdan la pre-
historic del genera humane. lie
nemos, ciertamente, navaJas Gle
afeitar marca Gillette y ropa in
erior B. V. D. Y fonografos
que llegan hasta los mas reno
, tos angulos del mundo. Pero no
i tenemos fuerza de industrial, "a
cumulaci6n de riqueza o parte
hacendista que pueda transfer
J mar la vida del legendario "pas