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The Washington times., 1930-04-02
Legality Of Crosby Nomination
Can Be Fully Tested
avenues Of Presentation to Courts Are .Open.

E confirmation Of General Crosby need not and does
settle the matter Of his eligibility and is assumed that
local organizations and citizens will not their fight until
they have gone to the courts
In the Of Frizze Newman involving the bona fde
citizenship Of Newman nominated be District Commissioner
quo warranto proceedings brought in the District su
prsme Court held that in such proceedings citizen
had no legal standing
is the opinion Of Of the abet lawyers Washing
ton however that General Crosby would be held ineligible in
injunction proceedings against the Secretary Of the Treasury
to prevent the payment Of his salary Any taxpayer
Of axpayerA would have legal standing in such proceed
There court decisions sustaining this right of taxpayers
and they should bsooked nto with view to carrying this
eligibility problem to its logical end This may have been
done As protection against legal squabbes the future
the courts should pass on the Crosby question.
The Washington times., 1930-04-02
Listen World
BY Elsie Robinson
They're Out Of Luck!

ings, the increasingly dull mo-
notony of their preening. posing,
pattering evenings. They feel
tired of compliments, Of risque
stories, of all the expensive
unreality in which they fit, as
dolls into a display.
They want to be taken Sc
riously. Nobody takes them
seriously. Even their husbands.
when at last they marry. will
not take them seriously for
long. They know a great deal
about husbands, these little
girls with helpless, tinted hands
and bored, shadowed eyeS-a
cynical great deal. They know
that, though most rich huS-
bends give their wives fine
establishments, a name and the
outward show Of love and
loyalty, they almost certainly
give their comradeship and
confidence to some other girl.
Some quick. capable young
person who. sits at a desk
some cool, competent woman
who tabulates and directs their
affairs-somebody who is real
somebody who is part Of real
life.
And what have they. little
painted dolls in a gilded show,
to offer against competition
like that?
The world has turned topsy-
turvy. Once it had a place for
them. Once the useless, beau
tiful ladies held the highest
places of all. But now the
girl who works sits on a
throne.
I'm sorry for the rich little
girls who haven't jobs. They're
out Of luck in 1880.
The Washington times., 1930-04-02

I'm sorry for the little girls
4 VINO haven't Jobs these days
who don't need to work.
see many of them, going
around the country hun.
dreds Of them, so alike you can
hardly tell one from the other.
Delicate, boneless young crea-
lures, with fluttering, tinted
hands, waVering knees and the
flat, unaccented chatter of spar
rows. They look like nothing
human. Neither animal, vege-
table or mineral. Just beautiful
syntheticS. One walks through
bevieS Of them, lolling in lob
bies, ringed about lunch tables,
floating languidly, on gilded
heels. in a Spindrift Of tulle,
down theater aiSles.
I'm sorry for them. They're
so out Of 1t.
That other mob of girls, Ca
pable working girls. with alert
eyes and brisk geStures-they're
the lucky ones. They have the
excited, important look of sol
dirs on the march. They bear
the mark of being with men,
Of working with men. Their
lives click with a vivid STAG
cato. They are doing some
thing. They are getting some
where. They ARE somebody.
The girls who don't work,
look at them enviously. Their
insolent helpleSSness becomes
mere clumsiness before that air
Of brisk Importance. They, too,
want to be important. They
feel that they are missing some
thing-something tremendously
colorful and exciting.
Suddenly they hate their
gilded heels, their sleepy morn-
The Washington times., 1930-04-02

AT about a hundred points
"A in the heavens great masses
of stars have huddled together
in groups. like partridges hiding
together from the hunter. These
masses of luminous matter have
been given the name of globu-
lar clusters. Shapley has told us
much that is new about these
strange bodies. There is much
yet to be learned about them.
After hundreds of millions of
years a vast mass of stars set
ties down, so to speak, and de-
eide to remain in a fairly steady
state. If the individual stars
originally moved in erratic or
bits, they gradually settle down
into a state of reasonably steady
motion.
Suppose, however, the system
as a whole has no rotation at
ell. Then refined calculation
shows that there is only one
possible ARRANGEMENT. The stars
must accumulate together IN
the form Of q globe. Symmetri-
cal in all directions. ~.
This is the type to which the
globular clusters approximate
Perhaps the system possesses
some other slightly perturbing
influences, for the majority OF
the globular clusters have been
found by Shapley to be not alb
solutely spherical in shape.
If q star system as a whole is
endowed with rotation, all Of
the shapes which it takes are
similar to that of our galaxy-a
flattened, symmetrical disk, like
q round, flat biscuit or a watch.
Observations on the great
nebulae show that the stars
in it have .congregated into
punches or clusters. It is not
improbable that the globular
clusters may be punches of stars
Of this general type, which
have remained undisturbed by
other groups of stars and so
have assumed the globular form
as the result of the mutual at
fractions of their component
stars.
It is an observable fact that
the globular clusters look very
much alike, differing only in
apparent size. But when we,
take into account their reSpec-
tive distances from us. we dis
cover the extraordinary fact
that all the hundred or so
The Washington times., 1930-04-02
Secrets of Health
BY DIR. Louis E. Bisch.

The first is overShadowed
and promptly forgotten!
The body polite reacts in
much the same way as a single
mind. All of us tend to live
too much in the present, fail
ing to profit by the experiences
of the past!
Our attitude Of merely at
tending with hectic emotional
ism to startling abnormal be-
havior only when it occurs will
some day react like a boom
erang-as it has already to
some degree-and to our un-
doing.
Medical men are rapidly de-
veloping a new principle in the
treatment Of disease.
No longer are they content
to wait until disease knocks at
the door before attacking it.
They deliberately take pre-.
cautions that 1t never shall ap-
pear.
The presence. as free agents
in any community, of distinctly
abnormal individuals is con.
slant potential menace to our
peace, prosperity, property and
lives.
Most of the pronounced in.
sane cases are known and are
being supervised-st least in q
measure,
The Washington times., 1930-04-02

a cold shock, to find herself
tied to nothing but Human
Being!
And the more Of an idealist
she is the worse mess she
makes Of marriage-and the
oftener she makes it.
Every time one ideal" fades
or shrinkS in the cold North
light of matrimony. she finds
another-and imagines that she
has matched the glorified pat
tern of her dreams, at last.
Then she discovers that she
has merely exchanged one set
of troubles and diSappoint-
mentS for another set.
She divorces a Dobbin who
bores her to death-and mar
ries a Don Juan who worries
her to death. She frees her.
self from a lump Of protoplaSm
ana ties nerSeu TO lump Oh
egotiSrn.
She detaches a tightwad with
glue in his pocketS-and at
taches Spendthrift with holes
in his pockets. She exchanges
a 20-year-old for a 40-year.old
and finds that she still has
an infant" on her hands.
And the astonishing thing
is that no matter how many
men she hac tried and found
wanting or married and
wrecked-she never fails to
find a lot more men eager and
willing to go to the operating
table and serve as another
experiment"
The Washington times., 1930-04-02
ONCE-OVERS

we associate with a careless
speaking group of good people
but carelessly illiterate, not
necessarily so.
You enjoy listening to a per-
son who speaks good English.
Most of the words used by
such a one are familiar to you
but you seldom utilize your
knowledge to express your
thoughts.
You are careless of speech in
your home where it is most
detrimental in effect.
Young folk cannot be ex-
pected to be careful in word
choosing. in employing words
that express the exact shade of
meaning intended in carefully
constructed sentences unless
they become accustomed to
hearing correct English At
home
The Washington times., 1930-04-02
GlObular Clusters
By Archibald Henderson, Ph. d., D. C. L., LII. D.

globular clusters are the same
size. and virtually identical OBJ
jectS!
Recent studies by Shapley
have revealed the distances Of
these beautiful objects from us.
The nearest globular cluster Is
about $4,000 light-years distant,
the farthest about ten times as
remote.
This investigation indicates
the powerful method of the
period-luminoSity law. In all
of these globular clusters there
are plenty of Cepheid variables
or notwithstanding stars.
The period of fluctuation en-
abled Shapley to determine the
distance of the globular clus-
ter from us.
Any attempt to determine
such distances by the parallac-
tic method is a hopeless fail
ure. For example, the paral-
Tactic orbit of a star in the
remoteSt of the globular clus-
terS is about the size of a pin
head held at a distance of
1000 miles! No telescope now
built could measure so tiny
Nan orbit. 1t could not even
detect it!
How far away is the remot-
est globular cluster-stated in
terms that we can understand?
We can grasp the idea of the
distance if we say that the
light by which we see the clus-
ter has been coming to us ever
since primeval man first ap-
peared on earth. y
If we were to travel millions
upon millions of miles, in
space and then viewed the ga
Tactic plane of the Milky Way
full on" we should see that
all the globular clusters, save
one, fall within a circle of
about 125,00o light-years' radius,
having its center at about 50,-
900 light-years from the sun.
It now appears probable that
the region Of space mapped
out by these globular clusters
approximately comedies with
that Of the galactic system it.
self.
The center of the galactic
system itself as determined by
Shapley, heS somewhere in a
star cloud in the consultations
OF Scorpio and Ophiuchus,
about $1,000 light-years from
the sun
The Washington times., 1930-04-02

IN HE fool theory that men
appreciably lost mental
and physical vigor as
they enter the fifties will please
note that George F. Baker is
doing business as usual" on
on his ninetieth birthday-and
with no apparent loss Of hair
or anything under it.
The field on the other side
of DR.. Osler's ridiculous dead.
line is just as fertile as the
first half century of life.
Germany's two greatest Field
Marshals, Won Moltke and Hin
denburg, didn't show best lines
of goods until they were past
three-score-and-ten.
No one has yet observed any
body creaks or rattling bolts
in the nonagenarian decisions
of Supreme Court Justice
Holmes. And the brainpan of
Thomas Edison is sizzling as
hot with original ideas as when
first fired by inspiration.
THE increasing weight Of re-
= Sponsibilities has neither
bent Mr.. Bakers back nor judg-
ment. He remains active cap
tain Of one Of the mightiest
banks and private fortunes in
the world. His eye-sight may be
failing, but the panic of 80
disclosed an undimmed finan-
cial vision.
Aphorism and experience con-
cur in the opinion that it re-
quires a more alert wit 10 re-
tain wealth than create it.
But the popular presumption
that money is self-perpetuating
force, and will indefinitely re-
produce in kind, without the
same cultivating energy that
earned it, isn't so.
Shrewdness, vigilance and veri-
tication of fact are the only
locks to hold property intact
from the thieving fingers Of
dissipation and mismanage-
ment.
The Washington times., 1930-04-02
ANTIDOTE FOR DOTAGE :: By Herbert Kaufman

And the secret Of their con-
tinuing affluence Is revealed by
the presence of family mem
hers in the executive personnel
or directorShipS Of every cor
poration in which their funds
are heavily invested.
Thorough jobs are never
done by proxy. Stick to your
knitting as long as you can
hold the needles. Hired fingers
inevitably drop some stitches.
Fundamental training and
hard sense are not easily en-
tailed.
Paul Morton. when president
Of the Santa Fe, changed his
mind about the qualifications
of a possible successor. after a
certain inspection tour with
that promising young man.
THEY were riding throug h
Kansas during a late spring
snow storm. Morton pointed to
the blanketed fields and asked
his companion what he saw out
there. So
The other official answered,
"I see snow"
"I see unexpected moisture
and the probability Of bumper
grain crops" said Morton.
Most of us never look below
the surface and consequently
can't estimate what's likely to
happen.
Mr.. Baker is also a student
Of storms and root action.
His thoughts are full Of cause
and effect, instead Of retro
Spect. He stays fit by exercis-
ing with a drum-major'S baton,
while thousands Of his juniors
prematurely wither on the side
lines Of action.
Ponce de Leon went off on the
wrong scent; had he searched
himself. he would have diScov-
cred the Fountain of Youth
bubbling above his neck-ruff.
The antidote FOR dotage lies
in keeping everlastingly at it,"
Copyright, 1890, by the Daily Mirror
The Washington times., 1930-04-02
The Marry-GO-ROund
BY Helen Rowland
Much-Married Women

Much-Married Women
SSGETTING married is the
u easiesL thing in the world"
declares a young divorcee Of
Omaha, who has just succeeded
In detaching her fifth hns.
band.
Well, so is getting a spring
cold or getting in jail-but why
go on DOING it?
The blessings of this world
are very unfairly divided-par.
ticularly the husbands. One
woman has five or six divorce
DEGREES with which to brighten
up her drawing room walls,
while another woman hasn't
even an old marriage certifi-
cate to hang over her kitchen
sink! That's life! -
I. Yet, after all, the woman
with the marrying habit may
not be so much Of a VarietiSt
as she is an idealiSt. Not so
much of a temperamentalist as
she Is an optimiSt.
Every woman has a deep
conviction down at the bottom
Of her soul that she will, some
day, somewhere find the man
Of her dreams! Given a high
ideal and bad Judgment, she
will go right on hopefully
seeking him from the nursery
to the grave. 49,"
The Paragon she is seeking
doesn't inhabit the flesh and
golf knickerS. So, she is con-
tinually marrying her ideal"
and then waking UP with
The Washington times., 1930-04-02

BECAUSE of a manner of
~ speech which you have
adopted, has your vocabulary
diminished to such an extent
that you have lost the use Of
scores of words which at one
time we're, at your command?
Often you hesitate even in
ordinary conversation and fire.
quently change the construc
ton of a sentence because you
cannot bring to mind the word
you need to complete it cor
rectly.
1t is easy to get lazy in
speech.
To use a slang phrase to save
time and effort required to ex
press a thought more beautl
fully is a fault that many Of
Us seem to cling to. Perhaps
The Washington times., 1930-04-02

Players who retire from big
games, and relinquish stacks
and seas to substitutes, always
ltsk their chips.
The heirs of going concerns
are apt TO subject their assets
to speculative risk and gambling
chances.
The Washington times., 1930-04-02
WORDS FROM LIPS OF, WISE MEN

He who has the greatest
power should use 1t lightly.
Seneca.
Weakness on both sides is.
= o. we know, the motto Of all
Quarrels. -Voltaire.
The Washington times., 1930-04-02

One hair Of a woman can
draw more than a hundred pair
of oxen. Howell.
The poor, trying TO initiate
the powerful, perish.
-Phaedrls.
The Washington times., 1930-04-02

Which explains why so many
of our rich mems sons wind up
in grandfather's shirt sleeves.
THE VanderbiltS and AStors
l. are such exceptions to that
general rule that their unaver-
age example all the more con-
firms it.
The Washington times., 1930-04-02

Tiger! Tiger! burning bright,
In the forest Of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful SYM
metry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the
fire?
And what shoulder, and what
art,
Could twist the sinews Of thy
heart?
And when thy heart began to
beat,
What dread hand and what
dread feet?
The Washington times., 1930-04-02
KNOWLEDGE TEST

each bIahK:
/. received the Ten Commandments on Sinai.
is called the Bard of Avon
3. Charles wrote Our Mutual Friend"
4. AlabaSter is -- stone used for ornament
s. polu the nickname for a- soldier.
6. birdie is golf Is
.. used the slogan the strenuous lfe"
e. named Taft Chief Justice Of the Supreme
Court
g. the founder Of the Mormon Church.
TO- "I would rather he than President"
Match correctly
II. Warik@
H. Tepid Moan
13. Verify Stockings
IA. Martial Confirm
Is. Hosiery LMkevArm
ANSWERS On FIctiOs Page,
The Washington times., 1930-04-02

Wnak the nAmm6Fs Wndt GHS
chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread
grasp
Dare its deadly terrOrS clasp?
When the stars threw down
their spears,
And watered heavens with their
tears,
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the Lamb,
make thee?
Tiger! Tiger! burning bright,
In the forest of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful sym
metry?
The Washington times., 1930-04-02
And a Wonderful Poem

This tiger captured full grown in Sumara and taken to
l. the London Zoo has been tanned, never lost
particle Jungle rage and ferOcy since the day it first
found itself captive.
The great beast here with fatened as in prep
aration for fight
Animals fighting hold the down because they
first and most easily, bitten off.
may angry horse lay its flat on its neck
when about to bite.
This beast represents tribe that first among the animals
of the earth in savagery and fighting power.
tiger will kill lion bigger and heavier than itself
tiger enormously powerful fore legs and jaws that
shut do not let 60
About such this William Blake his famous
that admirably describe the might of the
tiger and ask by what power that striped beast burn
ing bright created.
It is poem that everybody should know.
THE TIGER
Evening star., 1930-04-04

monogram Of King James II Of Eng
land"
Another rare piece included in Mai.
Evening star., 1930-04-04

Clark's collection is q gun made by
Alexander Forsythe Of Belhelvie, Scot
land, who, In 1908, invented the per-
cussion system. The gun, which is Of
the famous inventors first patent, is
the only known one Of its kind in exist
ence. A puritanical old piece which
stands next to an elaborately decorated
gun made at st. Etienne, France, for a
French nobleman, is an arquebuS, which
came over with the Pilgrim fathers
either on the Mayflower or the Anne.
One of the most beautiful fowling
pieces in the armory on Cathedral
avenue was carelessly picked up by the
major, who laughed as he gave its
history. This is q German arquebus," ="
he explained, sent to me by friend
who had picked 1t up in an old castle
on the Rhine. 1t was in bad condition
when it came to me, but was de-
lighted, when had cleaned 1t up, to
find what q beautiful old piece it was.
My delight, however, turned to dis
appointment when, upon taking the gun
apart, I discovered 1t had been put
together with machine screws.
The gun was a fake, made specially to
fool antique collectors, and had it not
Evening star., 1930-04-04
POSSESSES RARE
GUN COLLECTION
Maj. Clark Has FoWling Piece
Bearing Monogram of
James II.
BY GRETCHEN S. SMITH.

The rarest pieces found in the COL
lection of antiquarians are frequently
picked up accidentally, Maj. Jerome
Clark Of 22l4 Cathedral avenue, a con-
noiSSeur of antiques In general and of
old guns and fcwling pieces in par
ticular. is convinced. Maj. Clark has
oftentimes been called upon by mu-
scum authorities and experts to aid in
the identification of rare pieces.
At his home on Cathedral avenue,
Maj. Clark has a veritable armory Of
old guns and fowling pieces, among
which is included fowling piece and
powder flask Of the period OF 1885,
which the major has discovered was
Charles II, and which bears the per-
sonal monogram of James II Of Eng
land
The manner in which Maj Clark ac-
Quired the gun is proof of his conten-
tion that the Iarest pieces are acquired
through accident.
"a short time ago." he said, II
noticed that the collection Of the Duke
Of Argyll was to be sold in London. I
hastily wrote to a friend Of mine in
London, who was a dealer, and asked
him to see If he could purchase for me
at this sale sporting gun made as
early as the latter part of the seven
teenth century. In due course of time,
received a parcel through the customs,
which contained very good specimen
of q fowling piece of the period Of 1855
The bill for the gun and the powder
flask was G1. I paid no attention to
the piece for some days. but finally con-
cluded to clean it up. Imagine my sur
prise on cleaning the dirt off the lock
and stock to find that 1t was made by
John Cousens, who was gunmaker to
Evening star., 1930-04-04

been for the screws it might easily have
passed as q rare antique"
One Of the most remarkable antiques
discovered through chance by Maj.
Clark IN an auction house in Wash
ington is now in the British Museum.
This was q tea caddy," said the
major, land I spotted 1t on top Of an
old bureau with some furniture which
was to be auctioned the next day. The
caddy was made of tortoise shell, with
two compartments, and I asked my
friend If he would bid on it for me, as
was too busy to attend the sale.
never looked at it closely and had no
idea Of its value. My friend attended
the sale, but for some reason did not
bid, as think he was thoroughly con-
vinced that the small amount was
bidding was more than it was worth.
Well, it was sold to a man who wrapped
it up in a newspaper and took 1t home,
innocent of what he had purchased.
That night he unwrapped it and found
it had silver plate on top, hlackened
with age. A little silver polish which
he applied brought to light the inscrip-
ton. To my dear friend Lady Hamil-
ton-August, 1803-Nelson.' The man
who was so fortunate was an artist
Evening star., 1930-04-04
HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS
GIVE MYSTERY PLAY
THE Thirteenth Chair" Presented
as Spring Production Of
Business Students.

The Washington Business High School
presented as its Spring play Bayard
Vieller's famous mystery play, ''The
Thirteenth Chair" last night before an
audience that crowded the large audi
torium to its limit.
Although "The Thirteenth Chair" has
been done time and again since its first
presentation many years ago, as con-
ceived last night by these youthful
thespians 1t still seemed to hold the
power to frighten and the command of
more than respectful attention.
The characters grouped around Ro-
Evening star., 1930-04-04

sale LAGRANGE when she pretended to
invoke the mysterious powers that be
were characters etched by a comnetent
cast. The old lady herself before who.S
eyes, blinded by darkness, the knife de-
scended, was acted with skill by Bella
Shapiro, and the none too wiIy rim
Donohue, under the supervision Of.
Joseph Weitz, emerged as a belieyable If
somewhat youthful, inspector. Others
In the cast who distinguished them
selves were Evelyn Heffner, Charlotte
iSalowyn, Dorothy Jones, Eleanor Col
Inns, Audrey Shreve, Dorothy FIahertv
Harold Kotzin and Harold FarrinUton1'
Evening star., 1930-04-04

and one who appreciated what he had
found have since been told that the
caddy was sent or sold to the British
Museum"
1T has been my experience for many
biggest finds are picked up at the small
est prices, but the trouble is, they come
too far apart to suit an enthusiast"
Evening star., 1930-04-04

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