Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1921, Page 68

Part 4—6 Pages HE Pan-American bullding is one of the majestic and beauti- ful buildings of the world. Its walls are of white marble, and its architecture represents a combina- tion of the classical with the Spanish renalssance. The structure and its Kardens represent an investment of $1,100.000, of which the American re- yublics contributed $250,000 and Andrew Carnegle $850,000. The cor- ner stone of the building is inscribed. “Building of the American Republics. crected through the public-spirited zift of Andrew Carnegie and the con- tributions of all the republics upon ground provided by the government of the United States, May 11, 1908 When the building was planned it was provided that it contain an as- sembly hall which should be called @The Hall of the American Repub- or “The Hall of American Am- bassadors,” and before the corner stone was laid it was written by men interested In the Pan-American Union that this hall “will be an ideal place for great international conferences, for re- ceptions to distinguished foreigners, and for such other gatherings, not only American, but world-wide in in- terest, which require or are entitled bly room now bears the name “Hall of the Americas,” and it is here that the international conference on limitation of armaments will sit. The hall 1s 100 teet long and seventy feet wide. Within the main or east entrance is a lofty vestibule ornamented by four \ronzes typical of Enlightenment, Love Country, Law and Concord. This Vestibule opens upon a typical Latin smerican “patio” or courtyard, in ine center of which is a fountain esigned by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. The flooring, in tile, re- roduces figures of the old Aztec and Incan temples. The plants and flow- ers are representative of the flora of tropical ‘America. Gay-plumed par- rots perch in the greenery and tropic nish of wondefful coloring swim ‘inl the basin of ‘the fountain. Under the cornice are ‘the coat-of-arms of the and the names of American republic men prominent in their history. The glass roof of the courtyard, closed in winter for the protection of the tropic’plants, birss and fisnes, is kept open in summer. The secord floor, approached from the vestibule by side of the “patio.” contains a broad corridor or foYer, in which are s pended - the - national flags of * the American republics. On either side the adjoinimg corridors are bus the represeptative statesmen and nheroes of the American nations. This ONE OF THe; ENTRANCE LAMPS AT THE PAN-AMERIGAN BUILDIN¢ fover opens upon the Hall of the Americas—the hall of the arms par- ley. i * ¥ % ¥ eat building was set up with ee-fold purpose—an office for to & noble environment.” This asSom-'} two grangd. staircases on either| Th MAGAZINE SECTION . ¢ Sy She, WASHIN PAN-AMERICAN BUILDING .IS ONE OF UNIQUE STRUCTURES/ OF THE WORLD ELECTED as Location for Many of the Hearinga in Limitation of Armament Con- ference—Building Represents a Combination of the Classical With the Spanish Renaissance. Cost, With Gardens, About $1,100,000—Con- tributions of American Republics and Andrew Carnegie. i | i | i i NORTH AMERICAN GROUP AT PAN-AMERICAN BUILDI general work, a home of the Inter-|letin of the issue of May. 1910, and hational Union of American Repub-|as the Pan<American building srew lics, and a library in memory of Co-|out of and was set up as the home of lumbus. There is in the building a:the bureau it is reasonable that one library of 50.000 volumes—many of |should know something of the bu- them rare—and . with capacity for|reau's history. 100,000 bOOKS. | The first international conference of YWhen mone¥ was in hand for tneithe American republi me: at work of building and the site had,Washington in the winter of 1889-90 been bought with $200,000 appro-jand was called and held largely priated by Congress. architects all|through the instrumentality of James over the country were invited to sub-|G. Blaine. Secretary of State in the mit designs for the structure, in com- | cabinet of President Benjamin Har- petition. Seventy designs were sub- mitted, and from these, on June 1S. 1907, the committee chose that oft Messrs. Albert Kelsey and Paul P. Cret of Philadelphia. Preparation of the site was begun in thirty days. The laying of the foundation was hesun April 13, and May 14, 1908, the corner stone was laid by President Roose- velt. A large crowd of men of dis- tinguished station attended. Ad- dresses were made by President, Roosevelt, Elihu_Root, Secretary of State; Joaquin Nabuca, ambassador from Brazil, and Andrew Carnegie. The invocation was pronounced by Cardinal Gibbons and the benediction | by Bishop Cranston. John Barrett, at that time director of the Bureau of American Republics, presided. The build; was dedicated Tues- day, April 26, 1910. The assembly |room, then called the Hall of the Republics, with a seating capacity of 700, was crowded with persons of great worldly distinction. The in- | vocation was delivered by Cardinal { Gibbons. Addresses were delivered ; by President Taft, Philander C. Knox, ! Secretary of State: Senator Elihu! Root, Francisco Leon de la Bara,! Mexican ambassador, and . Andrew Carnegie, and benediction was pro- | nounced by Bishop Harding. Presi-! dent Taft, in beginning his speech, | said: “It is now nearly two years| since my predecessor, Mr. Roosevelt, | laid the corner stone of this buildin; and there testified to his interest, an the interest of the people whom h represented, in its construction and i in its meaning. He added something | to the enjoyment and jnterest of the | occasion by differing somewhat from | him who had made the occasion pos- sible, Mr. Carnegie, as to the method by which péeace should be obtained.! But that they were both strenuousrison. It was unique in the history of and determined to have peace, there|the world. It was unlike the Hague wias no doub | conferences which followed it in that The story of the inception and de-|it was not called to prevent or to velopment of the Bureau of Ameri-|1jmit war or to provide rules for can Republics is sketched in its bul-|the conduct of war or to mitigate the evils of war. “It was,” says the his- torian of the international bureau and its building, “a peaceful gather- ing of peaceful nations in peaceful times to talk about peaceful things.” Out of a resolution adopted at that conference grew the International Bureau of American Republics, an office established to further the pur- poses of the conference. It was strengthened by the subsequent con- ferences at Mexico and Rio de Ja- neiro, at Buenos Aires and at other places. Wash the permanen and a small bu! 2 bureau was organized 1890. A RESOLUTION of the second con- ference at Mexico in 1901-02 pro- vided for the establishment of a Co- Jumbus memorial library under the charge of the bureau. The library outgrew its quarters and there were other demands for Tincreased space. The matter of taking larger quarters was considered by the board of gov- ernors in 1903 and it was decided to seek the building of a structure to cost $125,000, together with the site, and that all the American republics would be asked to contribute on a per capita population basis. The Latin American countries promptly made appropriations aggregating $50,000, the understanding being that the United States would contribute $75,000. Congress was tardy in acting and did not make an appropriation until 1907. The following is from the history of the bureau: ilding was rented. The in August, * %k X ¥ the bullding planned to cost $125,000, of which only $100,000 would be available for the building proper, would prove inadequate and would in a very few years become like the old ‘building on Pennsylvania avenue— overcrowded. President Roosevelt's second administration began in March, 1905, with Elihu Root as Secretary of State. Mr. Root's interest in Latin America, the bureau and in the ques- tion of a new building was soon made manifest. Following his visit to L THE FAMOUS ington was chosen asi t place of the bureau “Meanwhile the opinion spread that D GTON, D. 9 South America during fhe session of the third international conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1906, John Barrett, who was then United States minister to Colomkia and had previously served as minister to Argentina and Panama, was clected director of the bureau early in 1907. Mr. Barrett re- ti from the office of director in 1920, having served thirteen years, and was succeeded as director general by L. S. Rowa, professor of political science, University of Pennsylvania. member of the commission to com- pile and revise the laws of Porto Rico, delegate to the third Pan- American conference at Rio de Janeiro, chairman of the United States dele- gation to the first Pan-American sci- | entific conference at Santiago, Chile: member of the United States and Panama joint claims commission, as- \istant s cretary of the Treasury and ‘hief of the division of Latin Ameri- can affairs of the State Department. Those preceding John Barrett as director were William Curtis (1890-93), who was exccutive officer of the first Pan-American conference, chief of the Latin American depart- ment of the Chicago exposition and correspondent of the Chicago Record- Herald and various other I Clinton Furbish (1853-97), g Smith (1897-98) and Frederick Emory 1(1898-99) were eminent publicists: | W. W. Rockhill (1899-1905). who was ambassador to Turkey, ambassador | to Russia, minister to Greece andi China_and assistant_secretary of state {Willlam C. Fox (1905-07), who was con sul at Brunswick, Germany, and minis- ter to Ecuador. The assistant director of the Pan- American Union since 1905 is Fran- cisco J. Yanes, a Venezuelan, who has held responsible posts in the foreign service of that country, represented the Pan-American Union at the fourth | conference at Buenos Aires, and (8 an authority on South American affairs. statuary and bas-reliefs n-American building one distinguished structures of America. On the east wall flanking the entrance are two groups of statuary, colossal size, one symboliz- ing the energetic and aggr ive ispirit of North America, and the other |the more leisurely and restful spirit iof the south. The group representing North America was chiseled by Gutzon Borglum. The main figure is an Anglo-Saxon woman holding the torch of enlightenment and with one arm about a youth, typifying the restless spirit of enterprise. At her feet are grouped implements used in the liberal arts. The group senting South America was done Isidore Konti. The woman crowned by t ‘mbolizes wisdom, protection peace accorded to the spirit of prog- ress expre: d in the figure of youth at her side hoiding in his outstretehed hand the winged globe of ad ment. The lineaments of the s follow the char outlines, and are shown as the represen and fauna of South Ameri iN the wall CAR these groups on the eas erals, and the other, by Isidors Kon depicting a scene between San fartin and Bolivar at Guayaquil in 1822, a scene probably as familiar to South mericans as Washington’s farewell Ito his generals, or Washington laying repre- | are bas-reliefs. one hy Gutzon Borglum being the familiar subject of Washington's farewell to his gen-| BY STERLING HEILIG. PARIS, October 20, 1921. OU are master. of a splendid but terrible secret,” said Sir Julius Wernher to the chemist Lemoine. “That secret must die. Only you and 1 will have known it, and we shall forget it, the same day! How much do you want for your silence?” These words, published in the Paris and London papers in/January, 1908, were generally credited as having been truly pronounced by the life governor of the De Beers Company. The entire Paris jewel trade was in excitement, equally with that of London. Men were already making syninetic rubies und sappnires—real vnes—and the French government pawn shops were relusing Lo advance money on them. “iI; now, they manufacture dia- monds,’ d Andre FKalize, whose tirm were historical jewelers to the crown of France, “great values will rade away.” “Will the syndicates suppress the secret, if there be one?” he was asked. “Alas!” he answered, “if Lemoine has 1ound the secret, others will find it [ “What, then, is your conclusion?” yearls will go up,” he said, “the oyster, keeps its secret! * k X X "THE oyster did not keep its secret. You read only a few months ago how the pearl trade was thrown into uproar by the appearance of “Japa- nese pearls’—quite real ones—pro- duced, by growth of several years, in the improvement of an old trick, by insertion of the mother-of-pearl nu-{ cleus into the very liver of the living | oyster (which protects itself by mak- ing a pearl around it)—doing delib-; erately what happens accidently with grains of sand for natural pearls. And now again, diamonds— A mystery 13 showing the tip of | its nose. It was only in 1908 that Lemoine. French chemist, was railroaded to jail | on a charge of swindling—and, in fact, | making gractically no defense at the | last moment—becuuse he “made dia- | monds” in the presence of hard-head- | cd speciali nd men of affairs like | Sir Julius Wernher, Jackson and Lord | Armstrong, Oates, head chemist of the De Beers company in London, and Andre Normandin, that other eminent chemist, who, having seen Lemoine operate, persisted always that he did} make diamonds. The prosecution let the story half-way out—and diamonds, | after wabbling, seemed safe. Pearls went up when diamonds wab- bled, but in the great war these storles i weré forgotten. Diamonds and all | Jewels went up, up, up—even the in- | flux of bloodstained “bolshevist stone: | from Russia could not saturate the | free market. Then the oyster gave up its secret Pearls went tumbling and diamonds profited. H Yesterday! Today they talk of diamonds—and ! Lemoine! Lemoine, mysterious chem- ist, did his time in a French jall. He passed out during the war into the| great world without fracas—and just disappeared. Evidently h not | | likely agaimio propose to “make dia- | imonds” for the life governor of the; De Beers company, or Oates, its head | chemist in London. | ENIGMATIC PERSONALITY SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 30, 1921. ARE DIAMONDS BEING MANUFACTURED BY LEMOINE, A FAMOUS FRENCH CHEMIST? A Which Persists in the ‘Little” Diamonds is RE Synthetic "King of Gems™ to Follow Manufactured Rubies Pearls?—Sterling Heilig Writes of a Rumor Question of Trade Interests Being Able to Suppress Secret of Manufacture—To Make “Big" Diamonds 1s a Crime. | |mond-and-iron-dust from the polish- ing wheels. They can even pulverize thelr own diamond dust from cheap stones—with iron dust added, and some carburets to save the new-made diamonds from combustion. As Le- moine’s own crucibles were already made to stand terrific heat and pres- sure, the sudden cooling of the mix- ture might have given him large dia- monds from small ones. Are we in 1908 or 19212 To the French chemist languishing in jail the time passed slowly in his feverish anxlety. His situation was atrocious. Accused suddenly by the i rnor of cheating the De ‘'ompany by hocus-pocus, he must stand mute. Should he justify and Japanese French Capital—The Honorable: to Make | THIS IS SUPPYSED TO BE PESCHER (FACING THE CAPITALIST FINA OF DIAMONDS. hange the morali ipt 4t big ones wrongful? siz: Here breaks the new story. 1 tell as rumor, and cannot prove'it—why, they could not prove it at Lemoine's trial, after months of snooping and | hundreds of They say that Lemoine and new asso. ciates have been quietly flooding the ! world with diamonds—just as real as | any diamonds that come from the) earth. ! VWHILE Lemcine awaited trial Paris there were those who doubt- ed how he could have “salted” cruci- bles of raw material in presence of | diamond experts like Oates and Wern- her. Lemoine was absolutely naked, to prove his good faith. Oates and Wernher admitted that they handled the empty crucibles. * % ¥ in| AZTEC GOD. down his commission at Annapolis, or Washington crossing the Delaware are to the people of the United States. On the pillars of the fountain in the court “are symbolic figures. designed and executed by Gertrude Vanderbilt Nhitner, representing epochs in _the life of the three ancient Mexican ra-es—Aztec, Zapotecan and Mayan. The pavement of the court, red- tiled in striking contrast to the pol- ished marble floors of the ‘surround- ing \corridors, is semi-barbarous in design, reproducing archeological fragments from Mexico, Guatemala and Peru. The two superimposed basins of the fountain are supported by three figures, each representing a period in the aboriginal civilization of the country south of the Rio Grande. The first is an archaic fig- ure, Aymbolizing the Mayan period; the' second, the Azte.® and the third, the Zapotecan period. The basins are decorated with strange hieroglyphics of the three periods. Feathered ser- pents’ heads are used in the lower water, It is known that the serpent was worshiped by the natives of Central America, and the Teathered serpent is one of their best known emblems. Near the fountain an ancient war- rior in full-feathered costume is de- by grotesque accessories, and on each of the fountains similar groups are portrayed.” This fountain is one of the most remarkable in Washington— perhaps in the United States. called an “electrical fountain.” can be made to present a most elabo- rate lighting display at night, and an everschanging form of water dis- charge. At the base of the fountain are water-forms, representing boiling sorings, and _on these the national colors of the different countries in the Americas may be made to play. In the pool of the fountain swim hun- dreds of strange and gay-colored tropfc fish. In the grounds at the rear of the building is a sunken garden called [ the Aztec garden. In the center is & large rectangular pool, thickly sprin- | kled with water lilies, blue, white and pink, and presiding over the pool is an Astec god known in English and Spanish as the Sad Indian, and it is said this Indian is a famous char- acter in .Aztec mythology. At the end or bottom of the garden-is the build: ing the “Pan-American Annex, with a three-arched loggia of Astec tiling. The tile effect is an effort to reproduce the best work of the earlier days of Latin America. The figures recall the mythological period of the Asxtecs and the Ingas. basins as gargoyles for the falling ! picted on . the pavement, surrounded | | Ihey themselves put the “black powder” into the crucibles, supposed !xo be the raw material of diamonds. hey closed the crucibles. They emp- tied them when fired. They treated lthe burnt stuff with Lemoine’s acids —and they brought out large-sized diamonds! What _was the famous ‘“black owder”? There are refractory clays, are earths, et hich, dissolved, might _cover smail-sized diamonds in a crust; and when submitted to 3,000 degrees centigrade the crust might liquefy or vitrify and Itberate the diamonds_without bhrming them—in | case the heat be cut off spon enough. But would an expert diamond chem- ist like Mr. Oates, examining the! black powder in his own hands be. tamined with his own hands), permit diamonds—the very things that he was looking for?, Lord Armstrong himself insisted that “it was a fine black powder.” Which drove them to the idea of tricked crucibles, with false linings of the same such rare earths. Be- tween false lining and true crucible certain saited diamonds might be concealed. When the false® lining burnt away the jewels would be re: vealed. And to vitrify such earths it Would be necessary’ to “astonish” them (as porcelain makers say) by plunging the crucible into_ water. This, it muet be admitted, Lemoine always did, or played a big hose on them. But—walt!—so did Molsson, to { obtain _pressure to make his true but tiny dlamonds which nobody ever Idlsput(’fl, - Furthermore, at Lemoine’s trial, ex- | perts testified’ that both these “sait- ifng"" explanations were impossible— the crucibles were not refractory thousands of expense. | fore putting it with his own handsj iinto the crucibles (which he had ex-; lumps 4o pass, which covered “salted” | 1T, the. be any doubt,” Count Pescher l&‘; alleged to sa “let us make middle-sized ones—and preserve our honorability.” So runs the rumor; and, as a fact, the influx of fine stones into the cur- rent. diamond stock of consumers (supposed hitherto to have come from tormented Russia) consists notably of stones between ten and twenty jcarats, after utting. Speculative tourists. women out for bargains. local Jjewelers. vading taxes and a line of varied categories have been picking them up on the quiet. In Switzerland alone, they say, more ten-carat diamonds have becn absorbed than all Russia contained in 1914 The war made a wonderful period for quiet sales tailor's contractor in Paris who em- ploys five or six journeymen and “cops out 6,00 says. “Are you investing in war bonds”" he was asked. The man grin- ned confidentially. “I buy my wife some diamonds,” he said. “Always more diamonds. You can hide them in a revolution. So great was this capacity of the public to absorb diamonds that (th: say) the official market did not feel it. Prices rose and the trust released more stones. But today they realize and this “other" sale has existed— ~nd this ‘other” supply continues. Russia can no longer explain it. * % % * 0, they talk about the “black dust” which Lemoine supplied to the chemist Oates. “Diamonds are cut by polishing them with other diamond surfaces,” said Prof. Le Chatelier, who took Moisson's place at the Sor- bonne. “What falls from the iron wheel? An oily mud, composed of diamond powder placed upon the wheel, of other diamond powder from ithe stone which it is polishing, and THE CAMERA) EUROPE” 1S CLAIMED TO BE THE G A FRENCH CHEMIST IN THE MANUFACTURE . Is the mak- |a lot’ of iren pa; profiteers | I remember a little | francs per week.” the tailor | {for ten minutes at a time more hun- himself by making diamonds before the trial experts, the bottom would fall out of the trade—and he, Le- ne, would lose all the vast profits his discoyery. What comfort or profit would it be to him that his accusers would lose equally? 17ty revenge fills no man's st Yet shou ‘use or be unable at the trial he for five years or more as a trickster—but he would preserve his secret. And revenge on the monopoly by letting loose big di monds on the public would be very filling. . As a fact, he went to prison. As a Iffi(‘l. he is out of prison. And as for |the ‘remaining facts, we have these rumors. ‘tu make d must go to i Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. When Representative Thomas §. Crago of Pennsylvania @nd Repre- sentative A. Piatt Andrews of Mas- sachusetts happened to meet in the office of the sergeant-at-arms of the House the other day to be swora In ln new membefs they had an inter- \esting reunion. “What the — are you doing here?’ Crago asked An- drews. “Waiting to be sworn in. And how about you?". “Same here.” ThEy had been classmates in Princeton ahd had not met in nearly a quarter 8t % century, but come together by a for- tuitous ‘chance to be sworn iu on the |same day as a result of special elec- {tions in their respective states. Rgpre- jsentative Crago succeeds the late | Representative Garland of Pennsyl- {vania and Representative Andrews succeeds former Representative | “Tony™ Lufkin of Massachusetts, Who {is now collector of the port of Bos- ton. i * % 2 Senator Morris Sheppard of Texa has established a new record for long distance oratory in COngress In the olden days the noted orators specially during a filibuster, usually gained spirit for their work fron occasiona! quaffs of invigorating re- freshments, and arranged for occa- | sional interruptions to give them sec =0 i ond wind, or to have long documen's ONLY PHOTOGRAPH OF COUNT, read into their speech by the clerks EVER TAKEN. THE “MOST]| 1 1 wder from the wheel | ~with the oils which | ere—and which also prevent being itselff @ hold ft the diamond powders from breathed by the cutter. uch diamond powder is not very ! valuable,” continued the professor. Was Lemoine’s secret here? Really, it may.be childishly easy—once you have the turn of hand. “Moisson made his tiny diamonds | from the same stuff—pure carbon and | iron. Into his electrc furnace he pul' iron, containing. naturally, a little pure carbon. and by the aid of a sud- den cooling of the outside of the mass he imprisoned the carben. Under the influence of terrific pressure at the center of the little sphere (cold out- | s'de, but still wh ot inside) thej pure carbon crystallized into tiny ! dizmonds. who kno < but what L. employing diamond dust in! much carbon with little} ¥ not have obtained far moine, little carbon with much crubicles are said to be massive cyl- inders as high as your head and as thick as your leg, with a small hol Senator Sheppard im Action. Not so with Sheppard. He is an | Toédstools and Mushrooms | See those little white things bobbing up on the golf course of a morning? Watch out, this is the mushroom sea- son in these parts. Many fatal pois- onings reported are not due to mush- rooms at all, says the American For- earths, but of pure carbon. ““Carbon for electrodes!”. exclaimed Francis Laur. “Chemically it is very elegant to have in contact with the d;amond raw material a carbon lining i by little, furnishing the mixture with !a’crystailizable carbon vapor to help | make the diamonds—who knows?” Who knew in 19082 Who knows to- day? 98 * kK % !Com\"r PESCHER s the most enig- H matical figure in Europe at this | moment. { Few know if he be Austrian, Ru- manian, Russian, German or French. | Many have met him. More have heard } about him, and there it ends. He has been back and forth in Paris, long. There is a_photograph alleged to be his, and which looks like him, posed on the interior stairway of a highly first-class Paris club: but was it tak- en while the building was entirely occupied by & notable restaurant, be- fore the ciub moved into {t? The Comte de-Pescher has friends among the best, acquaintances, in any case, and enjoys an unblemished rep- !utation. Nevertheless, Count Pescher jis enigmatical. This {s the man, they | say, who “financed a French chemist to make diamonds’” -Why not? Sir Julius made a contract to learn how, and broke it, apparently: but Sir Julius wanted to_ stop making them. To make diamonds is a perfectly le. gitimate enterprise, they say, when the diamonds produced are real—and ttle. Moisson made little ones, some thirty years ago, and he remains, by the token, a prinoe of sclence. Does | that does not melt, but burns. littie | estry Association, which urges the !greatest care be taken in selecting this article of food In an article in the American Forestry Magazine at- tention is called to a statement by Prof. Louis €. C. Krieger, who said: “To ask a person to gather his own mushrooms for the - table, without previous instruction that will enable nim to avoid the deadly Kinds, is equivalent to, if not worse than, in- viting him fo put his unprotected hand into a den of rattlesnakes. In- deed, of the two risky performances, the latter would be the safer; for there are at least two known anti- dotes for rattlesnake venom, whereas there is none for the poison or poi- sons of the exceedingly 'common Amanita phaloides and its multitud- |inous forms and varisties.” On the subject Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, C. M. Z. 8., writes in American For- estry E ‘Every word of this can be indors- ed and inasmuch as the poisonous specjes of mushrooms met with are numerous, and often closely resemble some of the harmless ones, one should be:as certaln of diagnosis of a harm- less or edible species as knowing black from white, or srsemnic from gunpowder. : “When properly prepared some of our mushrooms stand among the most delightful foods known; and when the forester is serving far from civiliza- tion, in a country where many species grow in pleiity at certain seasons of /the year, it i8 of great advantage to him to be able to gather with cer- Mushrooms are in the market again! | tainty as to their non-poisonous qual- low for the raw material. Their car- bon :;\r;iks are ahlsol massive—must be lr?lfl:lt nrn':flbili‘fnm. as ve:ll lIl’beln: pounded in with sledge hammers. | called “the silver-tongued Demos- Al this speaks eloquently of ex-| thenes from Texarkana." cessively. high temperatures— not| Senator Sheppard talked without in- 5500 4 Dt o oo terruption for six hours and ten min. 2. egrees, but eve X e o e e nade 't CEX5%% | utes on the peace treaties, which, the 2 S5t oficial stenographers say, is the best dreas o volts and amperca thun Moia: | SEE0TE {07, & SRERNOY SECCP Srr son could dream of. il B o o Teassive. coplen, siedge. nammered iy, | ETCEs He 12 @ Eraduate of the Uni. +| Versity of Texas, Yale Law School must stand pressure that one hesi- J e i and_Southern Methodist University, S ‘K‘:"“- in all of Whlch;e -lm- k;own “the T e is a Kappa Alpha 5 ta Kappa fraternity man, T is sufficient, they say, to find &!3nd sovercign banker or national way of consuming the oxygen, "Mi {reasurer of the Woodmen of the to burn the diamonds produced. The | World, the second largest fraternal caw materist—-LEmome's “black pow-{ STLnor CH4ST I (e United Biates. der"—is comparatively cheap dia-| Few members of Congress realize the difference between an “enrolled” bill and an “engrossed” bill—and be- cause he didn’t_know this_difference Representative Thomas L. Blanton of Texas made a lot of trouble the other evening, although he failed in his purpose to tie up business. When_ the reapportionment bill was under debate and a bitter contest re- suited. Blanton demanded the reading . - of the engrossed bill. Ordinarily when ities, a mess of these delicious mor-{pnis is dane the House adjourns until sels for his imorning or evening meal.|the next day to allow the bill to be But, mind vou, “there’s death in the|engTossed, but on this occasion a cup” and, unless one is certain of the |Night scssion was to be held, in an s bevond all doube, It is decid | effort to dispose of the bill and allow edly better to stick to the regular,the members to enjoy a week end camp fare and pass the mushroomnn“‘-}z{:‘"elthw provides that the bilis by. g The death cup or destroying angel | Shall be engrossed upon a distinctive s the name. by which the big anzel| blie paper. so that they may readily is the name by which the big foud. | be distinguished This blue copy indi- of the Amanitn phaloides, one of the | e s most deadly fungi known, and is fre- quently mistaken for a mushroom oal {;J‘;z:‘;”::‘,’,.,‘.‘,‘,",,,‘“:.’,;:;’“::Hfl.“fl.“fi'é , with nearly always fatal re- - eaten, Wi twilight zone between day shitts and sults. night shifts. It also happened that Fungi grow in all sorts of places— the type of the bill had been in open meadows and pasture lands;| “thrown in” and so it had to be set up along roadsides and water courses; in | again. Outside operators and press men were called in and the bill ‘was ready by §:20 p.m. when the House reassembled for business. The only exception to the blue- print rule is during the last six days of a session, when theré is much many parts of open and shady woods; in deserted buildings where there is! but little sunlight and no fresh air{ circulates; while, fipally, many curi- { ous fungi grow on old logs, dying| trees and in_numerous other places. The specles known to be edible are! congestion and a rush to get-the. called mushrooms by most people, | legislative slate cleaned. Then the while all the suspected ones are des- | €NErossing can be done by handwrit- ignated as toadstools. ing, typewriting or in other-ways. “Many fungi are the deadliest of all| The engrossed bill is the officl known enemies of trees and the vae( COPY of the House action and t- rious kinds of grain. The ‘diseases' ;fi:fo:{'lrtmfl;m-r et g AT oW T e they = tee on enrolled bills. and thought he a red was delaying the proceedings until few years ago destroyed tons upon|pis committee could vise the meas- tons of wheat in this country and in} j “ppClauey “or the Commitise o6 Capada, while all will remember the | enrolled bills is to examine the meas- damage done to the chestnut trees by | ure as it comes from the Senate, in still another fungus, which destroyed | yte 2% 0L f1d) passage and to certify indeed, nearly exterminated them. |, tne Speaker that it is a correct Now comes the ‘white pine blister—-| transcription on parchment of the 3 Mokt fatal fotm ot fungus, demand. ; measyre under consideration, Then poselssen ot mugh snemice to SuxDert | the Speaker signs and the clerk at- y com! ousands of! “As a eesn v Sors of Dincs Ghall mot e extermicl g tahr s e r e ot the pe- Bated In'varioud parte-of the SOUREFY | SrpertioniaeEt BRL A SRSreie Roink s _an where it has made its appearsace. to _be made. Tethods of engroming & too, is a fungus and a cousiu of the toadstools.” J‘