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Reviews of THE MID-SOUTH; And Its Builders. Editor-in-Chief. C. P. J. Mooney. Memphis: Mid-South Biographic and Historical Association. S a piect of workmanship, alone, this big volume—a thousand pages big, or there- abouts—impresses one Wwith its dignity and seemliness. Size and proportion, paper, text and fllustrations; the color and decora- tion of the binding—these come to- gether in a distinguished book per- sonality that, by virtue of its con- tent, is designed for the use of libra- ries, chambers of commerce, and for Press reference. The purpose of the work is to set out in adequate man- ner the outstanding facts of develop- meat, during the past twenty-five Yeans, of that section of the United States known to its citizens as the Mid-South.” The record is calcu- Jated to stand as a permanent chap- ter in_the history of this s subordinate purpose is to pay tribute 10 those wgio, witiin this quarter-cen- tury period. have given themselves with foresight and enthusiasm to_the promotion of the mid-south. This proper special recognition covers about two hundred biographic sketch- es of professional men, manufacturers, bankers, publishers, poli- ticians, and so on, throughout the common list of occupations and inter- ests. Leading chapters of general character approach this biographic field. The first of these places the mid-south in history—a dramatic. panoramic view, thi: . Mooney himself. _Another ¢ r by same author deals with the cl and soil und productions of the tion. The geology of this region 8tre ing its soil esource and eco nomic significance, is given by Prof. E. N. Lowe. E. M. Holmes tells the sStory of the great levees, conservator: of the soil against the ceaseless wash of the Mississippl. Cotton in this area is discussed by Maj. George L. Fossick, and the hardwood forests by F. D. Beneke. The region as an agri- cultural empire is portrayed by Prof. C. W. Watson—these all men of spe- cial training. And just where is the mid-south? " Its heart Is the city of Lying on both sides of the it extends from south- eastern Missouri to northern Alabama and Mississippi, with slices of east- ern Arkansas and wes and Tennessee in between. An ad- mirably intelligent work of industrial propaganda. coupled with a substan- tial and interesting study of local his- ory. ROBERT HENRI; Hin Life and Works With forty reproductions. .Edited ippi. by William Yarrow and Louis Bouche. New York: Boni & Live- . right. This monograph is the first of a se- ries which, in full, is designed to con- ute an American art library. The prime purpose of the enterprise is to promote a larger interest in Ameri- can art, to diffuse more widely the in- dividual pleasure of this quickened interest and to stimulate, generally. an intelligent appreciation of art. To meet the purpose these monographs will present American artists of rec- ognized distinction. As one means to the desired end, they will set aside the obstructive technic of art lan- guage, substituting for this the com- mon currency of everyday speech. When artisis and art critics begin to talk there is nothing to do—but run. This plan is set to make one, on the contrary, look and listen. Rob- ert Henr, s the list here because he is an American artist of “unques- tionable” achievement. He has, more- over, with great independence and freedom. contributed substantially to an American outlook upon art, to a modern attitude before it. to a for- ward-looking spirit of intérpretation Not _only_a painter, he is a great teacher a3 well. And, best of all, he is a human being—has “profoundly human qualities” The book gives the main lines of his study and training. Where independence is the outstand- ing mark. It takes account of his ac- complishment and of the recognizion Wwhich this has brought. Forty exam- Dples of his work are reproduced here— work whose keynote is vitality, the seizure of a person himself, rather than the picture of a person. ‘A beau- tiful and instructive book that makes fair promise for the success of the Wwhole enterprise. POTOMAC LANDINGS. By Paul Wil- stach, author of “Mount Vernon.” etc. Photographs by Robert B. Whitman and others. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. The joy of this book lies in the-re- creative skill of its author. Today & pilgrim to the landings along the Potomac would see few of the signs and would catch none of the atmos- phere of the old manor and planta- tion life bordering the banks of this stream. In the com of this guide, however, the pilgrimage be- comes a vivid repartaking of that life. The sources of intimate history were at the complete command of this author. With these to draw from he leads one back to the Poto- mac explorers and ploneers, to the days of the great land g-ants, to the picturesque mode of life developed from these huge holdings. At many a point on the Maryland side of the river Mr. Wilstach reconstructs a fa- mous old manor house in its prime, just as on the othe~ side of the stream, he sets up many a flourishing Virginia m: esion at some command- ing point ot its own plantation. But he does much more than to rebuild houses. He reconstructs the life within them One sees these people at their play and at ther work. The book is a complete and delightful picture of life along the Potomac from the early days forward. Good photographs show the present state of many of the famous houses that figure in the text. One can hardly think of a more enjoyable experience than, with this book as guide, to go over tite route Indicated in this hizh- 1y interesting and competent study. SMALL FRENCH BUILDINGS. By Lewis A. Coffin. jr.; Henry M. Pol- hemus and_Addison F. Worthing- New York: Charles Scribner’s Some contend that architecture is the most noble and interesting of the arts. And many agree that the com- mon architecture of a country is the history of that country in the con- crete, showing the stages by which it has reached its present status of civilization. The book in hand em- bodies this theory. Walking or cy- cling_through Brittany, Normandy, the Dordogne section. and through some of the adjacent interior valleys of France, these three wayfarers made the camera captures of which this book is composed. These are photographs of small buildings—peas- ant cottages, farm groups, the manor, a tiny chapel with, now and then, one of the smaller of the chateaux or an Inconspicuous minor church. A fresh fleld, in the main. Before each group of photographs—cottage, chapel, town house, manor and So on—the authors have made an intelligent and N R 2 el The First Helium Airship Has Just Flown Over the Capitol at Washington Read the wonderful story of the Sun element Helium in “Chemistry and Civilization” - 7, By Allerton LI LT 194 Boylston St., R, 2012002010/77777 770,00,707077 RICHARD G. BADGER, PUBLISHER, The Gorham Press, New Books concise exposition of the significance of each of these in the common life of France itselfl. Somewhat in detail, but, happily, more in mass, they point out’ the fitness of building to its use, the originality of design, the settling of the French village into its land- scape and, innumerable other points of interest and information. In effect, this is a beautiful picture book of his- tory of whose utility and “pleasant savor” to any lover of good building he authors express themselves as “hopeful.” True artisty produced this; story of France by way of its small buildings and common architecture. Delightful. especially so for the ar- tist, and_delightful, too, for the gen- cader with a bent toward this form of art. FAMOUS LEADERS OF INDUSTRY. By Edwin Wildman, author of “Re- constructing America—Our Next Big Job," etc. 1llustrated. Boston: | ‘The Page Company. This is the second series of Mr. Wildman's “Famous Leaders,” or_the “Life Stories of Boys Who Have Suc-| ceeded.’ There are twenty-cight of these “boys™ in thi them Charles A. Comiske: old Roman” of base ball; Glenn Cur- tiss, the airplane builder: Louis Lig- gett, the drug store man; Ellsworth Statler, hotel builder; William Childs of the Childs restaurant; George Goe- thals, who built the Panama canal; Herbert Hoover, head of the universal feeding industry, and many another who, by keeping eternally at it. has taccomplished grandiy that which he set out to achieve. As one of these says here, “Succ strictly a thing of energy and hours. Enough energy and enough hours, and you may shake hands with success. These stories are in no sense recipes for attaining this happy goal. Rather are they plain stories of just what this one and that one did with his “energy” and his “hours” set up in partnership over one scheme or another. Each one staris out like a real story, as it is. For instance, “William Childs didn’t appreciate good cooking until he left the parental roof.”” And again, sturdy, hustling, self-reliant boy was Hoover.” and so on, through as interesting a set of stories as may be found. Infinitely more interesting than the tale about one Lecnidas, or | that one about Horatio holding a bridge. Nearer home, you see, and thereby much more gripping. Ad- mirable work that boys will like just as they like base ball, and marbles, and tinkering with machinery, and boy-scouting. The best of stuff for them and not a bit bad for their elders. RICH RELATIVES. By Compton Mackenzie, author of “Poor Rela- tions,” ete. New York: Harper & Bros. Rich relations, like poor relations, or any other kind of relation, behave, in the main, moderately well until there is a demand upon them by some unfortunate of their own blood. In these circumstances they do, in- variably, act up. Such is the situation in which Mr. Mackenzie places Jas- mine, the principal figure in this comedy of pure human nature. Or- phaned, Jasmine comes upon her father'’s family in England for sup- nort. Half Italian, the girl is out of step with these English relations from the start. But, she is a mild and docile creature that rather invites being put upon. And put upon she is in a variety of ways by the five or six families with which, in turn, Jasmine takes her chance. The situation gives Mr. Mackenzie a fair chance for the good-natured cynicism in which the comedy is projected. A book of genu- ine humor and ready laughter, even though the reader does have a quarrel with the general limpness of the girl who, instead of enduring sweetly the insults put upon her, should have gone out to hustle for hersclf. In that case, there would have been no story, Mr. ‘Mackenzie would have had no chancs at the frailties of his kind and Jasmine might not have had a genuine Cinderella ending of the mat- ter as she did have under the relent- ing kindness of the author at the last moment. Along the way, here, the pages are wonderfully clever in their diverse and individual treatment of so many kinds of pure meanness on the part of the human, THE BLACK MOTH; A Romance of the XVIII Century. By Georgette Heyer. - Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. To the extent that a novelist goes back into the past for action and atmosphere to that extent is he com- pelled to high-gear his inventive powers in order that he may deliver the matter into the full interest of the average modern reader. This ro- mance of the eighteenth century is a case in point. The stage coach is a slow coach nowadays. A beau in powdered wig and lace ruffles, taking snuff, is a joke. A belle, moving about as the hardly distinguishable center of bales of silk and of gew-gaws, is a silly spectacle for the most of us today. But, all the same, this novel of that period gives an admirably consistent piciure of the time and, what is more, achieves an adventure that is alive at every point. And this is how she does it: Holding fast to the externals of the time—the sword play and the high- waying, the gambling and the special form of lovemaking that goes with that day—she puts real men and women within this absurd elabora- tion of raiment, within this amazing ceremficnial of behavior. The “black moth” himself is a man—a devil of a man—but true and recognizable. The real hero, young Jack Car- stares—outcast and “on the road"— is as lifelike as a man walking down Pennsylvania avenue. A lovable hero and a worth-while one. O'Hara is a triumph of wenuine Irishry. The women? No, the women are not quite so true as the men, but, even so, they are better than nine-tenths of the women who walk through many a popular novel. A book of pains- ng sincerity in every particular land a good story as wel ANGELICA. By Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, author of ‘“Rosaleen Among the Artists,” etc. New York: George H. Doran Company. Being 2 sincere workman and having choten this factory girl, daughter of a janiiress, as her theme. Mrs. Holding makes her austerely uncompromising way througa the early career of An- This is the story of a deter- ambitious, common little girl who secures the place of companion to a rich sick wom: Getting this place is a bit of a strain to the reader—but, no matter, she gets it. What she does with it is the main business of this story. What life does with her, meanwhile, is also a part of this account. This abounding, untrained sort of girl, placed as Angelica is placed, appears to have just one thing to do. That is to go wrong. The intimacies of this way- wardness are given by the author in a strictly truthful account. A most piti- ful story that takes its place beside “Liza of Lambeth,” that poignant and perfect story by Somerset Maugham. S. Cushman Boston 17, Mass. Y 2z 101710707700 PO LA GIFT BOOKS. THE DISOBEDIENT KIDS; And Oth- er Czecho-Slovak Fairy Tale: By Bozena Nemcova. Interpreted by Willlam H. Tolman, Ph. D. and Prof. V. Smetanka. Storles seiected by Dr. V. Tille and illustrated by Artis Scheiner, academician. Prague: B. Kocl. THE WITCH WO! 3 An Uncle Remus Story. By Joel Chandler Harris. With illustrations by W. A. Dwig- i Cambridge: Bacon & Brown, By Charles Wells R l.‘ New York: The Neale Publishing | Company. THE JOYOUS G Lindsay and lustrated by V UESTS. By Maud milie Poulsson. Il-| M. Berger. Boston: | Lothrop. Le hepard Compan FAIRY BREAD. By ra Bene! VX Thomas Seltzer. N FLEE WHO LIVED BEFOR By Padriac Colum, lustrations by Willy Pogany. York: The Macmillan Company. THE SECRET WAY. By Zona Gale. New York: The Macmillan Com- vany. SONGS OF FLORIDA: And Other Verse. By George Graham Curric. New York: James T. White & Co. FIR-FLOWER TABLET Poems translated from the Chinese by | Foorence Ayscough, Hon. Men orth China Branch, Royal Asiatic Society. English versions by Amy Lowell. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. PLAYS OF OLD JAPAN. Translated | by Leo Duran. New York: Thomas | Seltzer. 1 TORTOISES. By D. H. { New York: Thomas Sel | SEA AND SARDINIA. By | rence. With ei or by Jan Juta. as Seltzer. THE SKELDON SIX ROSE ht picture New Yorl M. Remick, author of e loch Girls” series, etc. Illustre by Isabel M. Ca Phil The Penn Publ GRAY SQUIRREL. ton Lippincott, Wil i the hing Company By Joseph W' author of “I : The Penn OF JOMN | AND BE eth H. Cheney. Longstreet Pr The Penn Publishing Company. MARGERY MORRIS IN THE PINE WOODS. By Violet Gordon Gra. author of “Margery Mor Illustrated by Isabel W. by Hattie Philedelphia: Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company. RL AT BULL RUN. By 1 Curtis, author of “The Little Maid's Serie etc. Illustrated by I Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company. LITTLE MAID OF OLD NEW YORK. By Alice Turner Curtis, author of “A Little Maid of Prov incetown, Illustrated b Elizabeth P . Philadelphi; The Penn Publishing Company. LAFAYETTE. By Lucy Foster Madi- son. With illustrations in color by Frank E. Schoonover. Philadel- The Penn Publishing Com- TANGLEWOOD TALES. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. Illus in color and pen-and-ink s s by Vir- ginia Frances Sterrett. lel- phia: The Penn Publi m- pany. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. One Hundred Popular Books in Science. The following list, which will ap- pear in this column successive Sun- days in December and be reprinted in the library's January bulletin for free distribution. was compiled by a committee of the Washington Acad- emy of Sciences at the request of the public librarian. Astronomy. Abbot, C. G. The Sun. 1911. Best book on the sun; readable, though technical in plac i Ball, R. S. The Story of the Heavens. 1892. Delightfully written in pop- ular language. Dyson, F. W. Astronomy. 1918. mentary, yet thoroughly re Hale, G. The Study of Stellar olution. 1908. Interesting, well illustrated, authoritative summary of results relating to the consti- tution of stars and sun. Lewis, I. M. Splendors of the Sky. 1920. Popular, accurate, up-to- date. McKready, Kelvin. A Beginner's Star Book. 1912. Many fine illus- trations. Turner, H. H. A Voyage Through | Space. 1915. Pleasingly written and reliable. The Adolfo Stahl Lectures in As- tronomy. 19 Twelve lectures on modern astronomy by members of the Mount Wilson and Lick Ob- servatory staffs. Accurate, inter- esting, non-technical. Chemistry. Slosson, E. E. Creative Chemistry. 1920. Very interesting, readable book, showing particularly the important place of chemistry in modern industry and warfare. A book about chemistry and what it can do, rather than a book of chemistry. Can be recommended both to general and technical readers. Hendrick, Ellwood. Everyman's Chemistry. 1917. Specifically “de- signed for those who declare that they do not know anything about the subject.” Dgncan, R. K. The Chemistry of Commerce. 1907. Interesting in- terpretation of various phases of modern industrial chemistry. Martin, Geoffrey. Modern Chemistry and Its Wonders. 1915. Describes in non-technical language some of the striking modern advances in chemistry. Physics. Frederick. Matter and En- ergy. 1912. One of the best avail- able accounts of fundamental physical and chemical principles. Very bricf, comprehensive, au- thoritative. Tyndall, John. Fragments of Science. 1884. Though now fifty years old, these spirited essays by the most ardent proponent of the scientific method remain essentially correct and only the more firmly estab- lished by the later progress which has amplified our knowledge in these fields. Einstein, Albert. Relativity. 1920. As simple an account as is readily possible of old and new theories of relativity by the originator and leader of this revolutionary school Soddy, of thought. Whetham, W. C. D. The Recent De- velopment of Physical Science. 1909. One of the Cambridge school of physicists tells of the work on the borderland of physics and chemistry during the impor- tant period to which he and his colleagues made valuable contri- butions. Ames, J. S. The Constitution of Mat- ter. 1913. Long and varied ex- | perience and close association with developments of modern physics enabled the author to pro- duce this valuable book. Cro bines comprehensiveness with simplicity. Fleming, J. A. Waves and Ripples in Water, Air and Aether. 1502.. Old book—course of Christmas lec- tures to a juvenile audience at the Royal Institute, London — but much of the field covered has not changed in recent years. Most readable, instructive, delightful. Perry, John. Spinning Tops. 1901. Popular lecture stimulating the imagination by illustrating the wealth of interesting phenomena connected with a commonplace toy and the elegant simplicity with which the science of mechanics unifies these effects. Miller, D. C. The Science of Musical Sounds. 1916. Written by one of the foremost authorities in Amer- ica; very readable and particular- ly strong on the experimental side. » !awarded the cut-glass blow-out patch {had to put in something for the chil- Mrs. Joseph Sniffle, who is just learning to drive her new car, was last week by the Zigzag Motor Club. Mrs. Sniffle, it seems, was driving downtown for the first time, and it is he tried to have the traffic cop ed for flirting when he waved at her to stop. “I thiuk cars are going to take a the man to hix wife ax kot beyond control 2 embankment, tak- ing two other ears with it. Ch This being we felt we we made up the puzzle shown u can y itseif. It's not a puzzle, so the child won't have to cut Picture PuzziE @ the Sunday paper all up to enjoy it. BEFORE IT HADPEMNS. you're supposed to do with 1t is really the best part of the puzzle itself. The real feature of it, however, is the fact that the child can work on it for two or three hours at a time and not be able to make anything out of it when he gets through. In that way the puzzle is never solved, and is, there- fore, good indefinitel! The sales manager of a local auto- mobile snles agency said recently that In spite of the present slump in busi- ness he had a force of very indepen- dent salesmen. He said that they were not taking orders from anybody. NOVEL DESIGNS IN RADIATOR CAPS THAT ARE SAID TO BE COM- AS REGULAR (SEVERAL 1922 THROUGH EQUIPMENT ON MODEL CARS, Dear Editor: I have a 1909 Ford car which is in good condition except that a part of the radiator and one of the wheels is missing. The tires, are all pretty good, and it don’t use very much gas, but on a cold morning I have quite a lot of trouble starting it. This is partly due to the fact that it has no crank-handle, and as I have just spent 35 cents to have my valves ground, 1 don’'t want to spent the money for a new crank. in the morning without it ZEKE FLIVVER. How can you? ‘We bite, Zeke. CHRISTMAS POETRY. BY 0. OSCAR FISHFACE. When it rains my car leaks Through the top and the side: And the springs must be missing From the way that it rides. ‘To drive with no top In the sleet and the snow, Is very unpleasant, Says Horace De Flow. When it snows in the morning And it snows in the night, It makes all the trees As a4 matter of fact, finding out what And the pavements look white. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR THE AUTOMOBILISTS Answers to Last Week's Questions. 1. When a storage battery is being charged, electricity is not stored up in the cells, as is sometimes supposed, but is ¢ :d by action of the cur- rent upon the acid in the battery elec- trolite or solution. The electrolite is composed of sulphuric acid and water, and during discharge the acid of the the cells. In charging, a flow of cur- rent goes through the battery oppo- to that of di rge, current ing the acid in the plates to re- n to the original place in the elec- When fuily charged, the so- test point of te cau L trolite. lution will be at its gre; density, and if tested with a hydrom- eter will buoy it up to 1,285 or 1,200, the fully charged reading. The whole son of charzing is to discharge the q from the battery plates, when it will mix with the solution and re- store the battery to its proper strength. 2. An electric generator is first run motor when first assembled and being overhauled to mall amount of magnetism in ficld poles. This magnetism in the poles is ssary for the gen- erator to build up lines of force, which lines in turn are cut by the re- volving armature, producing electro motive force or pressure at the brushes. The current is colle . Pass on to the hd then to the re not pern ometime: iron, but t rent p ing into them and retain a smail emount of this magnetism. It is necessary that they are partly magnetic, otherwise the® generator would not create current. 3. Do not attempt to adjust the clutch of a new car too soon to rem- edy slipping. The new clutch has a tendency to slip, even when properly adjusted, the fabric being stiff, but it will be worn in after a period of use. 4. To remove a steering post with- out damaging it with a stillson wrench, clamp two pieces of wood, & surface of each of which has been hol- lowed out to fit around the post. Hard wood blocks would be Dbest. This furnishes a good brace for a jack to exert pressure in loosenins the piece. Work may be aided by blows on the blocks by a ham 5. Two cars may be brought into Low operating cost the garage by one person, for in- stance a disabled car being towed by another car with only one operator, who of course drives the towing car, by the use of the tow bar, which is linked to the front car and clamped to the front axle of the disabled car. The bar extends back to the tie rod of the rear car's steering gear and is fastened by means of a stud to a clamp which is placed on the tie rod. When the front car turns a corner the rear car will also turn in order, as the tow bar swings in a propor- tionate arc and moves the tie rod to which it is pivoted, the tie rod direc- ting the front wheels in the desired direction. 6. Valve stems which are extremely looke in their guides may possibly produce a knock because of side play and_improper seating under presure of the valve springs. Another trouble yfrom worn guides or poorly fitting stems is leakuge of oil from the crankcase. 7. To close up the pedal slots in fioorboard to prevent draft in cold weather, tack a piece of canvas or sheet rubber on the under side of the board over the slot. Cut a slit i the material, just large enough for the pedal levers to pass through, mauking sure that their motion is not impeded. . Vibration of speedometer indi- cator is caused by loose connections, unions of the drive shaft, the flexible housing for shaft bend at too sharp an angle, improper mesh of drive gears or most commonly, lack of | Tubrication. I 9. If it is desirable to improve an 101d type carburetor for better vapor- - !ization, install a hot air jacket on the !inlet manifold and connect to the jacket a flexible tube running from the en- gine's exhaust pipe to the Jacket and another from jacket back to the ex- haust pipe, thus allowing the hot ex- haust gases to heat the misture be- fore it passes into the cylinders. The jacket may be made of a pipe somewhat larger in diameter than the manifold, should cover about three-fourths or more of its length, and must be closed at each end by HAYES SHOCK ABSORBERS for all cars Lambert Trublepruf Tire Co. 2203 14th St. N.W. North 6146 SEMMES MOTOR COMPANY 113234 CONNECTICUT AVENUE TELEPHONE MAIN 6660 DODGE BROTHERS SEDAN ~ How can I start my car| shall be placed near the top of the welding to the manifold. The jacket can also be heated by extending a tube from the exhaust pipe through the jacket and down toward the oil pan, where the cxhaust gases will escape. 10. Compression leaks in an engine are more noticeable at low than at high speed. If an engine has good compression there is a springy resist- ance when cranked by hand, although the best way to test the compression is by use of a gauge. This Week’s Questions. 1. How is electrical current pro- duced by a storage battery? 2. Why will the durabllity of a tire be lessened by under inflation? 3. How does a weak exhaust valve spring cause misfiring of an engine? 4. What is a method for testing an engine for bearing knocks? 5. Will a carburetor giving good re- sults on one engine work as satis- factorily on an engine of a different make? 6.What kind of lubricant can be used for the universal joint? 7. Is it necessary to adjust brake bands of both wheels evenly if an equalizer rod is used in the operating mechanism? 8. How s a tire vulcanized? 9. What is “specific gravity”? 10. What is meant by “torque”? Does it apply to any kind of ma- chinery? (Copyright, 1921, Thompson Feature Service.) ENGINEERS DEVISING METHODS TO PREVENT THEFT OF AUTOS The first step which the automobile thief generally takes in changing the identity of a stolen automobile is to change the engine number so that the engine cannot be identified. Realiz- ing the need for a method of number- ing engines, which would make it ex- tremely difficult for thieves to change engines’ numbers, the engine manu- facturers’ standards comm:ttee of the Soclely of Automotive Engineers ha recommended adopting the following method of numbering engines as be- ing the simplest, most effective and practical system’ for numbering en- | Eines which has becn devised for pro- tecting automobiles azainst tiefi: The identitication number engine right-hand side of the crankcase proper in a position in which it van be read easily. It shall be between two vertical ribs or beads one-fourth inch wide, one-eighth inch high, three inches long and three inches apart. The surface of the casting betwe the ribs shall be left rouzh as cast and unpainted even on the finished car. The numbers shall be evenly stamp- ed in the casting one-thirt inch deep and shall be on b high and of script form. The first di- it shall be stamped ciose to the left- hand rib and the last digit shall be foilowed by a large star or other character to prevent adding digits. A star or other character shall be stamped immediately above and be- low each number to prevent adding another number. The numbers shall be stamped twice on each casting lo prevent correcting any errors made in stamping either number. A 7% per cent reduction in theft insurance premiums will result if this method of numbering eagines is approved for future passenger car models. Among several sugge: were received as a_m venting engine numbers from being changd were casting a pad of special alloy steel in the engine crank case. on which the engine numbers might be stamped. casting of an opaque material in a eyl such a w y photographs would show the numbers and casting on a small, thin. brass plate with edges crimpled down one-eignth inch and knurled so as to anchor the edges in the crank case, the num- ber being stamped on the brass plate in the usual way. The recommendation will be voted on by the engincers of practically all the engine and auimobile mnufzctur- ers at the annual standards meeting of the society of Automotive En- glneers in New York at the engineers’ building on 39th street, west of 5th avenue, on January 10 | * » More Mites Storage Batteries are reduce in price representing Willard Batteries Authorized Service Stations Bradburn Battery & Elec. Service 616 Pa. Ave. S.E. Lincoln 1430-4 Modern Auto Supply 817 H St. N.E. Lincoln 3896 The John A. Wineberger Co., Inc. 2700 Ga. Ave. N.W. Columbia 565 s Battery & Elec. Service Smit 2119 18th St. N.W. North 9928 E. J. Penning 1740 14th St. N.W. North 7938 Standard Service Staticn 5th & R Sts. N.W. North 9681 Brookland Garage 1000 Mich. Ave. N.E. No-th 1021 Walte Auto Motor Co. 1420.36 Park Road MAIN STATION Washington Battery Co. OusaRrsg,, 1621-23 L Street N.W. Main 180 Col. 1317 o Power!