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in terms of gold dollars are now only a third to one-half what they were before the war and that costs are thus reduced. Others, like Lord Sheffield, writing in the Manche Guardian, insists that prices in G . many are about offset by the depre- ciation in money. He admits that German workers are recelving less real wages now than before the war, but ascribes Germany's competitive capacity to superior ability, will and orgamization. Work for Smaller Return. All agree that the German workman labors for a smaller return and fewer comforts than do the workmen of France and England. Being of thg defeated nation, the German worker expects to bear part of the burden of defeat, whereas the workmen in the victorious nations demand a share in the fruits of victory. Another of the ascribed causes of Germany's success is the “trustifica- tion” of German industry. (Hugo Stin- nes alone controls 1,340 companies.) Thus the German trusts are enabled to underbid competitors even to the extent of taking losses in some lines with the virtual certainty of recover- ing that loss and making a profit on other lines in the same general con- tract. The old German system of government subsidies also favors the German manufacturer, as does the selling for foreign currency in the ex- pectation of temporary rises in the value of the mark, which is manip- ulated for the purpose by industrial- to one-tenth of the cost of their pro- duction anywhere else in the world. For example, an electric switch, costing 10 cents to produce in Ger- nany, is selling in Great Britaln at $1. "Almost dally come reports that 'Germflnl are underbidding British firms from 20 to 50 per cent on con- tract work. The latest example is on ilhe projected Havre-to-Paris oil pipe ne. The Daily Express asserts that Great Britain is being driven from markets that were formerly exclu- sively hers. A British officer recent- ly returned from South America re- ports the existence there of an elabo- rate German trade _organization which is driving out both British and American products. The importance of this to the forgign trade of the United States is ious, for with Europe's buying ‘capacity crippled as it is, South America is one of the few rlch]dundevelopcd markets in the world. Make Profit at Disadvantage. It is obvious that the power of the Germans to underbid is chiefly in those lines for which their own coun- try produces the raw materfal. Other raw materials the Germans must pur- chase abroad at ruinous rates for their depreciated marks. Yet even so in many lines the Germans can make a profit and undersell others on some products whose value is not o much in the material as in the skillful workmanship added. There 18 a considerable controversy Kritsch dead and attended to Stew- art's injurles. Theorles as to Cause. Mr. Wentworth could attribute no reason for the accident, but pointed out that the airplane had just been equipped with a new Curtiss motor. The motor had been flown for about fitty hours, he said, and when the plane left the ground, was function- ing perfectly. When the machine had goue up several hundred feet, he explained, the engine appeared to mis- fire, and shortly after stopped dead. The crash followed. Mr. Wentworth suggested that possibly a stoppage of some sort occurred in the gasoline teed pipe. Kritsch once before had taken @ flight_in one of the airplanes oper- ated_by the company, circling over the Industrial Home School, Tenley- town, D. C.. where he was very popu- lar with the boys, Yesterday he went to the home and brought seven of the youngsters to the flying field in Virginia to watch the flights. In response to “dares” and appeals of several of his young friends, Kritsch made arrangements with Pilot Stewart for a short trip in the Hé previously had shown the the various parts of the air- plane, explaining the method of con- trol and operation, etc. Griet Among Boys. was stated at the Industrial today that the boys earted over the GERMAN TRADING STORMS BRITISH Competition and Underselling Methods Causing Much Anxiety. BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL. By Oable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1021. LONDON, England, July 25.—Con- siderable concern is felt throughout Great Britain over German competi- tion with British goods. The anxiety is due to lower production costs in Germany, partly because of the de- preciation in the value of the mark and partly, it is feared, because of superior energy and {ndustry among German workers. In a featured ar- ticle the Daily Express asserts that “In_every country in the world Ger- TIRPLANE CRASH - KILLS PASSENGER Karl Kritsch Expires After : 200-Foot Nose Dive and . Pilot Stewart Hurt. Karl Kritsch, twenty-nine years ‘old, 1353 Good Hope road southeast, financial clerk for the board of chil- ‘dren’s guardians, was almost instan ly killed, and Bertram M. Stewart, ‘twenty-six years old, the Manchester apartments, airplane.pilot, was seri- ‘ously injured shortly after 3 o'clock sterday afternoon when a pas- senger biplane crashed to earth from a height of about 200 feet at the inorthern end of the Arlington horse ishow grounds. \ Mr. Kritsch, who was a passenger boy 1t Home School there are broke is known, habitually deatch of Mr. Kritsch, who oftel and who occupied the front cockpit, isuffered a broken neck and fractures| | of virtually every bone in his body. dying before he ched Emergen: Hospital. Pilot Stewart, e thind Mr. Kritsch, is at “Hospital, suffering from cerations of the face and possible fracture ‘the ribs and right leg. Physicians say he will recover. 3 Engine Trouble Develop. The_airplane, OXXG6, and ope! the North American A sportati iCompany of this cit soff from the starting field, north of tfe horse show grounds 3 ast of the experimental farms in Vir- ginia, and had risen probably 200 feet when engine trouble developed, fore- a landing. i Pilot Stewart endeavored to *his machine for a turn to enable him fto land_within the ra track in- closure, but the low altitude prevented uccess of this euver, and the plane went into a nose dive, plow ng through the inner fence of the rack to the ground. + Many automobilists and other plea ‘ure seekers who were watching the and R. Preston Likes with the pupils. 27 West, in charge of the oifice of thi board of children's guardians, sai hat Kritsch was one of th Emerge 1: H. White, and h sister, William Good Mr Hope road southeast, ir. ourt House, Va. neral arrangements hav. completed. Piiot Stewart has had about 2. -xperience. He was fo ioned officer in th by T merly a com the war as Texas aviation field. His parents _live in Colorado. morning at the Di: It is up to th Virginia_author side of the river. TIdentified. From The Boston Transeript. Edith—Nobody loves me. Ethel—Oh, posed, has he? ights saw the cr: Wentworth, president of thé aerial ransportation line, and several others were soon on the scene. They fran- ically cut away the straps and wire ‘and in a short time succeeded in r dmoving Kritsch and Ste t, bosh of 0f Limited Power. szhom were thought to be dead at the | " ‘time. The injured men were taken | From The Boston Transcript. iby motorists to the hospital. Stewart| Mrs. A—DMoney won't do every- “was removed to the institution by J.| thing. “H. Hudson, a personal friend of the| Mrs. B—No; it won't keep a_ coo! vilot. Dr. T. 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He was single and is survived by his A Army air service and was stationed instructor at a He is single. itt viewed the body of ict issued a certificate of es to render a spe- B cific verdict in the case, it was stated, as the accident occurred on the other then Reggie has pro- i who has made up her mind to leave. Deferred payments > make the possession First : of a Hoover a very payment ‘easy matter. only ....... n spent his Sundays at the home or on Ella H. o d e S e AMUSEMENTS not been 0 STRAND—Vaudeville. George Morton, billed as “The Black Dot,” heads an attractive vaudeville program_at the Strand Theater this week. Following an engagement in Europe, Morton appears in black face, gives songs, dances and a monologue modeled after Al Jolson. He was forced to respond to encores until he was tired. Basil Lambert, an ac- complished xylophone player. opens the bil] with a repertoire of classical and popular selections; Ryan and Weber, recently a feature of “The Royal Vagabond,” won applause with novel songs and dances, while Tom Davis and a capable cast offer a humorous ,domestic farce. Check- mated,” a satire on unionism and strikes when carried to the extreme. Ajax and Emily, acrobats, follow with an exhibition of marvelous feats. “Lovetime” is the feature photoplay, with Shirley Mason as its star. Miss Mason is seen as a peasant girl in picturesque Savoy, loved by a true- hearted scion of aristocracy, who re- fuses to bow to the conventions of the circle in which he was reared. The story is made up of obstacles thrown in the way of the young couple. o e k Photoplay Features. PALACE—“The Man Who.” Bert Lytell is the plcture star at Loew's Palace this week in a comedy with a purpose, “The Man Who." and his quiet, effective acting keeps the play within bounds. A little over- acting would turn it into a farce. The idea of a man walking on Broadway and 5th avenue in his bare feet. but otherwise fashionably ~dressed, to arouse the people to the fact that the cost of shoes is too high, is the height of the ridiculous. [This situa- tion is brought about by a Red Cross nurse, high in social circles, who has been nursing Lytell, a returned sol- dier. He falls in love with her and she demands that he do somcthing famous before asking for her hand. His efforts, of course, fail, but while putting over his stunt, another girl appears on the scene and reaches his heart through timely nursing of the bruised feet and an elaborate lunch- eon. The first girl is shocked at the bare-footed exhibition, but the sec- ond girl backs him up and all ends happily. The photographic work is excellent. Pictures of the recent national golf tourney at the Columbia Country Club, a short comedy, Mutt and Jeff in new adventures, and the Pathe News and Current Topics also are shown. CRANDALL'S—“Trust Your Wife” Katherine MacDonald is the pic- tured star at Crandall's Theater this week in “Trust Your Wife,” a First National attraction and a screen adaptation of H. S. Sheldon’s play, “Consclence.” It concerns a poor young married couple who visit New York to “put over” & money-making scheme. Living far beyond their means- to give the impression of financial stability, they seek the aid of Slater T. Holcomb, millionaire and roue, who, attracted by the beauty of the wife, brings pressure to bear against the husband. Frantic in her desire to aid her husband, Margot Hastings goes aboard the Holcomb yacht to Intercede in his behalf; but before she can leave, the craft is steaming slowly down the river. The husband reaches the dock just too late. From this situation is built a climax that places heavy demands upon the emotional ability of Miss MacDonald. and other short pictures complgte the Dill. METROPOLITAN—“Home Staff.” “Home _Stuft”—a sort of “Old Homestead” type of film, is enter- taining patrons of Crandall's Metro- politan this week, with Viola Dana picutred as an actress who loves “the cows and chickens.” A supplement- ary attraction is Harold Lloyd, ac- robat and comedian, in a three-reel comedy. Viola is Madge Joy, ‘leading lady” stormers, dropped for financial reasons by the company, and seeks refuge at the home of a farmer—Pa Deeps—who doesn’t want any actress in his, as he announces. Madge becomes an admirer of a champion onion raiser, Rob Deeps, son of the farmer, who has never seen Broadway, but longs to do so as keenly as Madge longs for the onion patch. A dramatic_ vein of econtinuity brings_the audience up to the time when Madge becomes a top-notcher in the world of drama, and the farm- er's son,. a successful playwright. His first success is “Home Stuff.” They're reading it with their heads close together, when the big fade- out comes. Harold Lloyd deserves more than passing word. His new film, ‘Among Those resent,” gives him an opportunity to ,out-Douglass Fair- banks. His tales in the comedy out- Baron the redoubtable Munchausen and the entire story moves long with laughs/in abundance. “Topics of the Day” and news reels complete the program. COLUMBIA—“Too Wise Wives.” “Too Wise Wives” a Lols Weber roduction, is featured this week at ,0ew’'s Columbia. It is pleasing both from a scenic and a dramatic angle. Louis Calhern, Phillip Smalley, Mona Lisa and-Claire Windsor are seen in the principal roles. The story is spun about a merce- nary woman and the marriage of a former sweetheart out of pique of her desertion. The man becomes bored when he discovers his own wife too attentive. The other woman seeks to attract him, and intrigue threatens to wreck two households. A scandal is averted when the too-loving wife interoepts a letter to her husband from the other woman and eventually brings all concerned to a realization of the situation. ‘While the picture probably is in- tended to interest women, it yet has some appeal to men. Husbands who wish simply to be let alone and wives ‘who leave nothing undone to please their mates may find it enlightening. ENICKERBOCKER. Viola Dana’s new Metrs picture, “Home Stuff,” and Harold Lloyd's comedy, “Among Those Present,” with ¥ AIRPLANE AFTER BEING DISMANTLED AND GROU “Short and Snappy,” a new comedy, |- TAKEN FROM THE SCENE S ACROSS THE ROAD. short pictures and orchestral accom. paniment, are featured at Crandall's Knickerbocker. From Tuesday to Friday, both in- clusive, the Knickerbocker will be closed for redecoration, opening again Saturday at 2:30 p.m. —_— CUCKOO A QUEER BIRD. Deposits Eggs in Others Nests to Avoid Trouble of Hatching. From the London Times. l Much has been written and more [will be written about the various phases of the cuckoo's life. The cuckoo may begin to lay in the last days of April, but May 12_may be jtaken as about the average date for laying tozpegin. Laying con- tinues “until approximately June 24. I have taken a fresh egg as late as July 8, but that is am exceptionally late date. The egg is generally, but not al- ways, laid and deposited during lhel | afternoon. The most usual time is between 3 and 5 o'clock in the after- noon, when the owner of the selected nest is_almost certain to be off to feed. This is why a cuckoo’s egg is often found in a much less incubated | state than the other eggs in the nest ! with it. Nearly always the cuckoo finds | the nest by watching a bird building its nest. It usually visits the nest more than once before depositing an | egg In it anfl must often have two or three nests to select from. The cuckoo has favorite perching trees and from the seclusion of the branches of these trees watches the movements of a possible victim. How many eggs does a cuckoo lay? This question still cannot be answe: ed. At present twenty-ome is the known maximum. My observations have led me to think that it is rarely. if ever, less than twelve and that the maximum is determined entirely by the conditions of the season and the surroundings of any particular cuckoo. The egg is laid on the ground as near as circumstances permit to the selected nest and conveyed, into the nest with the bill. The whole opera- tion is very rapid; the cuckoo stays at the nest only a few seconds. In this short time it places its egg in the ngst and picks up one of the other eggs And flies away with it. usually dropping it thirty or forty yards away. It is possible and probable that when the cuckoo deposits an egg in a large nest, such as a blackbitd’s or thrush’s, it actually lays it there. A lcuckoo some times to my knowledge puts an-egg in a deserted nest, but nearly always in a nest already con- taining eggs. Sometimes dummy nests are put up with eggs in places fairly open to view at. spots fre- quented by cuckoos, and occasionally an egg is found in one of them. It is a well established fact that a cuckoo fostered by one species of bird will use that species as victims; if posaible, it will keep entirely to that species, but circumstances may make it use some other victim. HEART DISEASE UNUSUAL. From the London Times. That a great many people suffer anxiety on account of supposed dis- eases of their hearts is very certain. That the current statistics of heart disease are exceedingly unreliable is also most probable. They are found- ed on single signs and symptoms which have been detected, andthe meaning of which has often not been understood. | _In view of this, great public im- portance attaches to a statement made by Sir James Mackenzie in the Lancet as the result of his extended | research work_at the new St. An- drew’s clinic. It is: “To begin with, to be able to un- dertake an inquiry Into prognosis, it is necessary to have a knowledge of the symptoms of heart fallure; and so far very little has been done to discover what these are; for a great many signs which have no re- lation to heart failure have been mis- taken for signs which gave that knowledge. An {investigation into this subject has revealed the fact that no physical sign or peculiarity of the heart itself can ever give the information as to its functional ef- ficlency ® ® * go that one can say that no abnormal sign is of itself a basis for prognosis. This statement of fact should be widely known, 80 that alarming forecasts of dissolution and also doubtful or mysterious suggestions of evil to come may So far as pos- sible be avoided. The truth is that until we know more of the manner in which symptoms are produced we cannot afford to stress interpreta- tions which may have been put on them. Disease of the heart itself is not commo! but infrequent—in spite of statistics to the contrary. Until we know on what evidence these statistics have been produced we should refuse to accept them. This 18 not to say that the heart does not suffer in various general conditions of infection or exhaustion. It assuredly does. But if we see only the heart and forget the general con- dition we see only an effect and shut our eyes to the cause. This is one of the basal reasons why the future of health in this country de- pends on the insight opportuni- ties of the general practitioner. . Of 4,200 Species in Europe, 420 many is underselling Britain.” are given. mans are sending steel $ - - in England. OF THE ACCIDENT TO ITS OWN KARL E. KRIETSCH. PLANTS AID PERFUMERS. Are of Value for Scents. From the Columbus Dispatch. Of the 4,200 species of plants gath ered and used for commercial pur- poses in various parts of Europe 420 a fragrance that is pleasing and ! largely into the manufacture | rfumery, soaps and sachets. | s ot white flow- | ers than of any other color gathered. of these 187 ext in order come yellow*blosoms with 951, 75 of them being sweetly perfumed.- Red flowers number 823, of which 84 are fragrant. The blue flowers are of 594 varieties, but from only 34 of them can sweet-smelling extracts be obtained. There are 308 different blossoms of violet hue, 13| of which are pleasantly odoriferous. As their several colors cannot be drained from the flowers and used commercially, as is their fragrance. man is compelled to look elsewhere for his paints and dyes. The color we have come to know so well as; “khaki” originates from matter sup- | plied by the cuttlefish. From this fish we also get.sepia. Prussian blue is made by fusing horses' hoofs and other refuse animal matter with impure potassium car- bonate. Turkey red s made from madder plant, which grows in Hin- dustan and India; yellow comes from the camel. Carmine, crimson, scarlet and orim- son lake are among the fine colors furnished by the cochineal insects. The yellow sap of a tree In Siam produces gamboge. _——— Glories of St. Stephen’s. From the London Times. The history, architecture and to- prography of the houses of parliament were dealt with in an illustrated lec- ture given »y Mr. Thomas Wilson, clerk of works to the Palace of West- minster, at a meeting of the London Society held last evening in the lec- ture hall, Adelphi. The speaker pre- sided and tho large company present included several members of parlia- ment. Mr. Wilson said that of all the an- cient bulldings which existed at the great fire of 1834, which destroyed the old Palace of Westminster, none had such a brilliant and tragic history as St. Stepken's Chapel. which was used since the relgn of Edward IV as the chamber of commons. Its origins were indefinite, but it appeared to have been founded about seventy years after the oonquest. Edward III wag_usually regarded as the builder, as Stephen was its founder. "The bullding was in hand during the whole of the fifty-three years of his reign, and probably expressed a. cou- ple of generations of English crafts- men's effort. It contained a series of remarkable and beautiful wall paint- ings which were covered by walnscot. ing when it was first used by the commons a8 their meeting place. In 1500, when 100 Irish members were ided - to_the - house of commons, it was foynd necessary to take down the walnscoting put up by Wren in or- der togcut back ‘the wall some tw feot bétween the buttresses to give the necessary space for additional seats for the Irish members. Behind this paneling the paintings were re- discovered, and for the lats time there was disclosed to human sight a fleet-} ing glimpse of those gorgeous medfe- i val wall decorations, sculpture and stal fass which made St. Steph- en’s Chapel a shrine of English art in: the fourteenth century. The archi- tects practically paid no attention to the preservation and recording of the wall paintings, and the fire of 1834 completed the work of their destruc- tion. _ From the New York Hetald. 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