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The Washington times., 1931-01-21
Listen, World!
Elsie Robinson

she doing everything possible
to please him? Then why
wasn't he satisfied? Why was
he so cold? When she cried
and reproached him, his indif-
ference turned to dislike. He
had a queer, bitter feeling of
resentment, as though she'd
failed him-cheated him.
She had!
He married her because she
was one thing. She turned out
to be quite another. He mar
ried her because she was Her
self-a different self with
strange, aIluring qualities. Be
ing another, different self she
brought new interests and con-
flicts and adventures into his
life and enlarged it.
And now she is no longer her
self. She is only tiresome
repetition of himself. He
doesn't want an echo or a
shadow.
No Adventure There
He wants an adventure. But
she has deserted herself. She is
no longer an adventure Tor
herself. And so she is no long
er an adventure for him.
That's why many marriages
fail. That's also why many
individual lives fail.
Why are some people popu-
lar and powerful? That's why.
They are different. And they
, treasure and develop that diff
ferentness. They keep them
selves an adventure. And they
stimulate and enlarge other
lives because they are an ad-
venture.
Why are some of the most
conscientious, hard working peo-
pie ignored? That's also why.
They give nothing new to life
because they do not try to be
anything new. They are moth
ing in themselves and so they
mean nothing to the other fel-
low. Be yourself. That's your
most important duty to your
self and the race.
Copyright, 1881, King Features,
Syndicate, 1nc0
The Washington times., 1931-01-21

Francis Galton, Darwin's
cousin, was an ingenious IN
ventor and industrious sclen-
lists. He had an extraordinarily
acouisitive mind. filled with
speculations of various sorts.
He enjoyed striking out along
untried and untrodden paths,
and applying scientific prlncl
pies to subjects which hitherto
had not been subjected to
scientific discipline. He was
actuated by humanitarian prln-
ciples in much of his scientific
work, aiming directly at the
Improvement of the quality OF
the human race.
Cation was one of the great
pioneers in tracing the inher1,
tance Of physical and mental
qualities in mankind. He is
the founder of the important
new science, eugenics, giving
that name to the study of the
Unborn transmissible qualities
of mankind and the applica-
ton of the knowledge so OBJ
tanned to the welfare OF the
human race.
Science Made Great Strides
This science, in which Cation
was in measure anticipated
nv the Belgian astronomer
Ouetelet, has made great ad-
vances in recent years, being
particularly advanced by the
biom etrician Karl Pearson and
his colleagues in London: Fol
lowing Quetelet and Cation
Pearson and his associates have
ingeniously and widely applied
the theory of probability with
it's statistical law OF error 10
human variation.
Francis Galton ca me OF
Quaker ancestry, being born
near Birmingham, England,
February 16, 1922. Although
he was a student at the Bir-
mingham General Hospital, he
never settled down to medical
practice, being endowed wit n
ample means to crafty his de-
sires for travel and studies in
general science.
Was Cambridge Graduate
He studied at Kings College,
The Washington times., 1931-01-21
The Father of EugenicS
Rv Archibald Henderson, Ph.D., DEL, LID,
Famous Scientific Authority

London; was graduated at Trim
ity College, Cambridge, in 1874.
and afterwards explored the
White Nile and Damaraland.
The exploration won for him
the gold medal of the Royal
Geographical Society; and MS
book, The Art of Travel" ," was
widely popular.
Shortly after becoming con-
nected with the British Assocla-
ton for the Advancement OF
Science, he threw himself
whole-heartedly into scientific
work. He became absorbed IN
the study of meteorology, and
decisively left his mark upon
that science.
In addition to charting the
weather on a substantial scale,
he standardized the SeXtant, in
vented an apparatus for testing
clinical thermometers. still wide
ly used, and suggested ana
established the rating or
WdGCI1SS anu CIlI IOA1OIA4COCAo
Cations great studies were
made in connection with the in
heritance of talent, which he
demonstrated as early as 1865.
His Hereditary Genius" pub
lished in 1869, was a notable
contribution to the study of the
inheritance of mental qualities
in mankind.
Cations Scientific Works
These studies found express
sion in other well-known works
of his: english Men Of
Science" Human Faculty" and
Natural Inheritance" He in
itiated the public interest in
eugenicS, which is now wide
spread. AS Damper-Whetham
says, the broad results of Gal
tons researches are certain
and unmistakable.
Since Cations time it has
become recognized that the in
fluence of environment on man
has been greatly overestimated,
that education can but bring
into prominence characters al
ready in being, and that the
biological qualities of a race
can only be improved by favor
ing the better strains.
Copyright. 1891, International
Features Service. Inc)
The Washington times., 1931-01-21

It's just another one of those
letters. Hundreds of them a
week. He isn't interested in her
any more. How can he treat
her so when she's been a good
wife for 8 years? Never
had a thought outside her
home and husband" Always
been there when he wanted
her. Never. argued or nagged.
Lived only for him. Hasn't
even tried to have a life of her
own.
And there, if she but knew
it, is the secret of his indif-
ference. She was an adventure
when he courted her. She was
new and mysterious and un-
expected. He wasn't sure of
her. He didn't know what she'd
do next. She had a life of her
own, then-a personality of
her own. And so, because she
was outside him, because she
had strange qualities, she tan
talized and stimulated him.
She really enlarged his life
and he coveteed her because
she did.
OF course, he didn't realize
that that was why he coveted
her. He just called it love"
Like most of us, he knew moth
ing of the real nature of love.
But that was the real secret of
her allure and power-she was
different-herself was she.
Loses Self In Love
Then she married him and
stopped being herself. She
stopped trying to think diff
ferently, act differently. She
bent all her energies to being
a part of him-to doing things
the way he liked them, to be-
coming his shadow, his echo.
What happened? You know
what happened. 1t always hap
pens.
Little by little the mystery
dropped from her and the
charm faded. She became IA
mtliar, common-tiresome. He
was bored and showed it. She
couldn't understand. Wasn't
The Washington times., 1931-01-21
Low Paid Workers for u. S.
In Washington

There approximately $4,000 workers for the Govern
in Washington and of these there 1000 receiving
$1100 year less 1926 get $132O less and 736,
ST. 440 less.
is these workers who would be chiefly benefited by
the carrying out in appropriation bills provisions of existing
laws promising fair adjustment of low salaries.
The bulk of Government workers paid fairly good
salaries but there entirely too many who do not receive
living wages
Standards of wages in America be maintained and
contentment and happiness assured long Congress de-
lays setting example to employers of labor throughout the
nation
The peoples Government the peoples representatives in
Congress fail to understand present economic and social
dons when they attempt withhold from the Governments
low paid workers the small increases in salaries that were
provided for them by The House Appropriations Com
mttee would ignore this law; ignore the Presidents
mendaons and the recommendations of the Budget Bureau
The Washington times., 1931-01-21
WISE MEN

knowledge is proud that he has
learned so much.
Wisdom is humble that he
knows no more. -Cowper.
A man never shows his own
character so plainly as by his
manner of portraying anothers.
Richter.
An army of stays, led by a
lion would be more formidable
than an army of lions led by a
stag. Cicero.
There is probably no hell for
authors in the next world-they
suffer so much from critics and
publishers in this. -Bovee.
If time is precious, no book
that will not improve by re-
peated readings deserves to be
read at all. Carlyle.
It makes me very angry in
deed to be in the wrong when
I am right. -Mol1ere.
Truth forever on the Scaffold,
wrong forever on the throne.
Lowell.
Injustice is no less than high
treason against heaven.
-Aurelius.
The Washington times., 1931-01-21

arate careers and separate
friends and separate towels
and brushes and amusementS,
and meet only for romantic
little evenings together, or on
Tuesdays, Fridays and holidays.
And there is the fashionable
marriage, in which one Of you
goes to Paris or Palm Beach
for the winters, and the other
spends the summers in the
Maine woods or the Swiss Alps;
ard you are considered happily
married as long as you ex-
change postcards and meet be-
tween seasons, occasionally. The
midget marriage!
And there are many more
kinds of marriages. Marriages
of convenience, Soul-mate mar
riageS, ambitious marriages, sim
plified marriages, aviation mar
riages, literary marriageS-So
many kinds, that, if you can't
fit yourself into one of them,
you must be a terrible MISFIT!
Marriage is no longer the
hard and fast mold into which
you must pour yourself, like
filling into a pie-crust. There
is nothing SET about it. It has
been trimmed down and soft.
ened and cut over, until it is
as elastic as felt hat and just
as easy to adjust to your own
special style.
Why then all this hue and
cry about "companionate mar
riage"? Just another little
"dee-vice," to distract your at.
tention from the main idea,
and send you skidding before
you are fairly started.
The Washington times., 1931-01-21
ONCE-OVERS
Be Yourself!


Isn't it a fact that you fear
to appear as good as you really
are, lest you be ridiculed?
At times you feel bit senti-
mental and sympathetic, but
give no indication of the fact
because you don't want to seem
weak and mushy.
Many times you have been
inclined to break through your
hard veneer and act like a
human being in a normal state.
But you restrained yourself
in your usual cold, unfeeling
manner.
Somehow you have gained
the impression that superior
persons are indifferent to the
general affairs of life-to
obvious things.
You think you should not
seem interested in small mat
terS.
Things that arouse others to
enthusiasm you do not consider
worthy of your attention.
You have invented a certain
character and are assuming
what you think to be its inter
probation.
Consequently you never are
really natural.
You are living a character
foreign to your own disposition.
You may make friends who
admire your pose, but they
don't like you for yourself, only
for what they think you are,
and sometime you will forget
the pose.
Copyright, 1891. International
Feature Service, G@&1
The Washington times., 1931-01-21
Letters to the Editor From Readers of The Times

coming automobile owing to the
above reason (an Army truck
unloading furniture at 2100
Nineteenth ST..
If there were lights at these
points much of the traffic max
ing use of Nineteenth Street in
order to avoid the lights of
Connecticut Avenue would
again use Connecticut Avenue
The Washington times., 1931-01-21
Do Officers Dominate
Legion Council?


In the discussion of paying
veterans their adjusted compen-
sation there has been a great
deal of press talk on the stand
of the American Legion.
It would be interesting and
very enlightening, too, to know
just what per cent of the Le-
gion's membership is made up
of ex-Army officers and to
what extent they are members
of the executive council?
I recall the Minneapolis con-
vention at which time they
went on record as opposing the
present compensation law. But
when the act was passed, were
the first to hold out their dish.
Those that don't need the
money can leave it with the
bureau, but those that do, and
from my observations there are
plenty, let them have it.
The Pension Bureau recently
paid under the act OF June
2, 1880, $1,000 claims of Span
ish War veterans and I can
tell you that business at Christ
mas would not have been so
good had it not been for the
payment of these millions and
the bureau is to be congratu-
lated. I think Congress will
agree on that. J. B. BENDER.
The Washington times., 1931-01-21

of automobiles is allowed on
both sides of the street and if
a large car or moving van is
parked on Nineteenth at Cali
fornia Street it completely OBJ
structs the view.
We have had three serious
accidents and only last week a
child in crossing between the
white lines walked into an on
The Washington times., 1931-01-21
The Marry-GO-ROund
BY Helen Rowland
What's the Matter With

What's the Matter With
Marriage?
Half the people in the world
seem to be trying to pep up
marriage and put new life into
it.; and the other half appear
to be trying to kill it. Every
body is busy putting modern
improvements" on the dear old
institution.
But marriage doesn't need
any MORE modern improve
ments. 1t has as many, al
ready. as canned goods and
kitchenetteS. 1t comes in al
most as many varieties and
brands as pickles do. and has
as many safety-devices as the
latest motor-car, or the newest
gas-range. 1t is almost fool
proof.
There is the sweet. old
fashioned domestic brand that
mother used to make. The
solid, settled, suburban variety,
with bungalows and babies and
embroidered guest-towels and
regular meals, and nothing to
worry about but the Christmas
bills and the inStallments on
the mortgage.
And there is the fifty.fifty
brand, with your own jobs and
separate latch-keyS and two
pay-envelopes, and a studio
apartment, where you can play
@t housekeeping, with sketchy
breakfasts and delicateSsen din
ners and gay parties and all
that. The love-nest marriage!
And there is the part-time
marriage, in which you have
separate apartments and sep
The Washington times., 1931-01-21
Do YOU KNOW THAT,

A unique marriage custom Is
carried out by the Dolphin and
Union Straits Eskimos. A mar
riageable girl is placed in a
circle of suitors, each armed
with a hook made of caribou
horn. At a given signal they
rush for her, each pulling her
his way with the hook. The
one who gets her. if she lives
through the ceremony, will be
her husband.
The Washington times., 1931-01-21

France is planning to take
census of the black and unciv1-
lized subjects in Central Africa.
Ethnographical and scientific
material will be taken OF the
wild tribes under French rule
in Senegal, French Guinea. Nj
geria, Cameroons, Equatorial
Africa, Togoland and the ma
tives under other foreign rule
in Nigeria, lower Sudan, Ethio-
Ria,
The Washington times., 1931-01-21
Hearst Papers Advocate

Honest friendship nations entGn0ln0 alliances
Nth none"-George Washington
Proportional representation United States Senate
to Senator's Legislation to enforce
prompt constitutional redpportonment In the House OF
Representatives.
Separate departments of Army OF the NdDy and OF the
Forces united Secretary OF National DEFENSE
e. the limit of Federal poDerS to abolish
literdcy under q Secretary OF Education.
Installation of the first OF January toIo
ing the Nopember election.
Selectiue immigration only those suited for Aert
can citizenship and American needs.
Deportation of undesirable aliens and extension OF citizen
ship period to 10 years.
Complete publicity for income tdreS to prevent o0 tar
dodgers from escaping taxation.
Modification OF Volstead act to permit light OneS and
beers under Federal regulation.
The Washington times., 1931-01-21
Buy Apples Early"
Is Writer'S Slogan

Is Writer'S Slogan
Editor, Times:
Out of respect for the plucky
men and women who in this
winter weather are trying to
make a living as apple and
tangerine venders, may I sug-
gest the slogan. do your apple
buying early?
While apples do resist the
cold, tangerines do not. Every
one should buy at least IAN
apple a day." and buy it early.
On going to work let us make
up our minds to patronize the
apple dealers, and buy the
apple or apples on the way to
the office. This may make it
possible also for some of the
apple vendors to shorten their
long hours of exposure to the
weather.
IRA JEWELL WILLIAMS.
The Washington times., 1931-01-21

and tighten the traffic in front
of the school.
We have taken the matter up
with the District Commissioners
and they refused our request.
In a resolution adopted at our
January meeting we asked the
Kalorama Heights Citizens AS
sociation to cooperate with us.
and they in turn adopted a
resolution to ask for improve
ment in traffic conditions at
these points.
We have an enrolment of
855 pupils and 28 teachers.
DOROTHY RUS (Mrs.)
President j. E. Adams Parent
Teacher Association.
The Washington times., 1931-01-21
TIMES KNOWLEDGE TEST

Match correctly:
/, Sugary needless
2. resist suspense
s. starvation Saccharine
4. uncertainty want
5. rash withstand
Do you know:
6. What is a tangent?
7. Where is the Passion Play
given?
8. What was "Father
Mathew" famous for?
9. What is meant by pot
pourri"?
The Washington times., 1931-01-21
Parent Teacher Head
Cites Traffic Hazard

I would like to call your at
tention to the immediate need
of lights at Columbia Road and
Nineteenth Street, and Florida
Avenue at Nineteenth Street.
Nineteenth Street is a mar
row street and a hill at these
streets which endangers the
lives of. our children. Parking
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WILSON BIRTHDAY
TO Be CELEBRATED
Distinguished Guests and
Public to Honor War Presi-
dents Memory Today.

Honoring the birthday anniversary Of
woodrow Wilson and the League of
Nations, a distinguished gathering OF
officials and friends of the late war
President will attend the annual meet
ing of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Committee of Washington at $3.50
o'clock this afternoon at the National
Theater. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson will be
among the guests of honor.
The chairman of the Executive Com
nittee, Frederic A. Delano, will open
the meeting and DR.. James Brown
Scott will preside. Mr.. Delano will
prcSent Rev. DR.. James H. Taylor, pas
ter CT Mr.. Wilson'S church, who will
pro- ounce the invocation.
DR.. Scott, one of the technical adj
viSers of the Government at the Paris
conference, will make a preliminary
address before introducing the principal
speaker, John III. Clarke, former Assoc
ciate Justice OF the United States SUI
preme Court. 49,
This meeting is commemorative of
the seventy fourth birthday anniversary
of President Wilson, and is under the
auspices of the permanent committee
of 100 which has been formed to take
charge of all meetings that are held
each year in honor of the war Presi-
dent and the League of Nations The
meeting this afternoon is open to the
public. Among the guests will be many
official members Of the administration,
the = Diplomatic Corps, the Supreme
Court and of Congress.
The officers of the Executive Com
mittee are Frederic A. Delano, chair
man; Robert w. Woolley, vice chair
man; Mrs. Huston Thompson, secretary,
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KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
PLAN ANNUAL DRILL
Six Teams Each to Execute
20 Maneuvers at This
Years Contest.

The drill schedule for the annual in
door drill and ball of the Knights
Tefiplar, Washington jurisdiction, to be
held February 8 in Washington Audi
toritlm, was announced yesterday by j.
Fred Huber, chairman of the Drill
Committee.
Edward P. Hazleton, inspector, gen.
eral is in general charge of this phase
of the affair. He is also arranging for
the Grand Commandery inspection.
The schedule this year has been con-
siderably enlarged and calls for the
execution of 20 maneuVeTs by each Of
six drill teams competing. From is to
20 minutes will be required by each
team
The committee which arranged the
schedule consists of the following team
captains Mr. Huber, De Molay; Ed
ward A. Poynton, Washington; Ray
molld P. Bosch, Columbia; Walter e.
HaNener, Potomac; Otto B. Roepke,
Orient, and Robert S. Boyd, Bright
wood.
1t was also announced yesterday that
Walter w. Weber, past commander of
the Denver, Colo, Commandery, will
act. as senior judge of the competition.
Two other Judges will be selected later.
Mr. Weber was one of the judges at
the triennial conclave of the order in
Detroit three years ago and expects to
serve in a similar capacity this year at
the conclaVe in Minneapolis, MINI.
Individual sword Tnaneuvers by
KNIGHTS representative Of each team, a
new feature. have been added to the
proRram this year. A separate prize
wiI.be awarded the winner of this con-
tegk.s
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CUBAN EDITOR HELD
WITH rs STUDENTS
Secret Police Raid Home Of Rafael
Soils While Meeting Is in
Progress.
BY the Associated Press.

By Che Associated Press.
HAVANA, January Continuing its
campaign against political agitators and
those accused of melting discomfort, the
Cuban government tonight raided the
residence of Rafael Suarez Soils, one OF
the chief editors Of the newspaper Diario
de la Marina, and arrested Soils along
with 26 members of the Student Conn
mittee of the National University
The 26 young men and women were
holding a meeting at the Soils home
when secret police descended on the
place. All were taken to the Bureau of
Experts for questioning.
Tonight's wholesale arrests consti-
tuted one of the strongest blows yet
struck by the government In its cam
paign against oppositionists.r Many Of
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those arrested were sons and daughters
Of prominent families.
Other arrests were reported in various
provinces.
Aldo Baroni, the other Diario de Ia
Marina editor, who fell afoul of the
Cuban government and was ordered de-
ported after Is days of confinement IN
the political prison at Cabanas fortrss q
intends to leave for Mexico tomorrow SyV'
but some details relative to obtaininr
OF passport tonight remained to be
cleared before he could leave.
Baroni had intended to leave for
Panama and was on board a Panama.
bound ship waiting to leave this port
when news Of the revolution there
reached Cuba. Then it was decided ID
permit Baroni TO so to. Mexico instead.
APgoYffnase v1ny,.,loAsa,, -. - -
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LECTURE TOPICS VARIED
Library Bulletin Schedules Janu

Library Bulletin Schedules Janu-
airy Educational; Programs.
Lectures on subjects as diverse as
modern psychology and the poet vergil
are offered to Washingtonians during
January. These, together with courses
of study. exhibits and musical events,
are listed in the January bulletin of
Informal Educational Opportunities in
Washington, just issued by the Public
Library. /.
Copies may be obtained without cost
at the central building of the Public
Library at Eighth and K streets, or at
any branch or subbraxich.