Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1922, Page 16

ich An Optical Delusion An ADITORIAL ARLIEST users of spectacles wore them to cure painful eyes, and knew nothing at all of the corrective uses of lenses. ' They believed the giass itself had cn’:;.lve wers, especially when g:lored. Many Chinese glasses are brown. Today every one ° knows it is not the healing property of the glass that velieves painful sight. It is the making of lenscs so that they act as support to weakened or Iimpaired eye machinery A that gives spectacfes be- neficent power: "Have our experts make and adjust lenses to lend corrective aid to your eyes—now “See ETZ and Sce Better” 1217 G Street N.W. Royal . Vacuum Cleaner Easy Laundry * Washer Two of the housewife's best friends. Meet them at night for your dinner at one time.in its carcer possessed all the danger- ous characteristics of TNT. The spices in the apple dumpling you ate for dessert once boasted an equally strong clalm to its dangegous pro- pensitles. The sugar you put on it to add to its tastiness had and still has the potentialities of dynamite. Ixperts of the bureau of chemistry of the United States Department of Agriculturo are authorities for these strong statements. But they say they might go further and add that the rice in your pudding was just as “flighty”; that tho napkins you use, it of cotton; the shirt on your back, if also made of cotton; the shoes on Elements in Food Found To Have TNT Potentialities . : That the loaf of bread.you cut last mines has long been the bane of en- | ginéers and operators. THe government's etudy of dust explosions has resulted in the for- mation of a serles of safety rules. These Include recommendations that the dust be prevented so, far &8 pos- sible and be quickly removed; ma- chinery producing frictions be kept in repalr and lubricated; machines generuting static electricity be grounded, to be drained of electricity; and open flames, such as matches, lights and fires, be eliminated. CURB SPEED MANIACS. Maj. Sullivan Says Jail Sentences Await Violators. Imposition of prison sentences awalt persistent and repeated violators of THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. /0., TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1922. |7~ MUDDIMAN’S™ House Passes Measure $4,000,000 | Baltimore, has been ordered to this | AGRICULTURE BILL CUT. Below Last Year. The agricultural appropriation bill, carrying approximately $35,000,000, was passed by the House yesterday after members had been forced on record on the question of putting back the $360,000 ltem for free seed, which was elimi- nated by the committee framing the measure. The seed appropriation stood up when the bill was presented to the House proper, but on a point of order by Rep- resentative McArthur, republican, Ore- Bon, opposing the distribution, a roll call was ordered. The f cates won by a vote to 1 Thnx‘lll as sent to the $4,000,000 under last yea tions. PUT ON RETIRED LIST. Master Sergt. Robert V. Medical Department, stationed In this city, has b d on the retired list and will proceed to his hame. Johnson, city for duty as a member of a board of officers recently appointed. vice Maj. Gen. Charles S. Farnsworth, re- lieved. . CRONKHITE SENT HERE. Maj. Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite, at Savings Department - Open Wednesday and Thursday Till 5 P.M. One Deposit $8.20 e Deposit to your own credit once a month in the COMMERCIAL NA- TIONAL’S Insured Savings Plan 120 monthly deposits and you collect $1,000. Your life-is insured from the mo- ment you are ac¢epted un- der the plan,‘the Continental Assurance Co. of Chicago paying the full $1,000 you had set out to save to your beneficiary if you do not live to complete your deposits. In addition, the Bank pays the full amount of your sav- ings balance. Your deposits are completed for you if you become permanently dis- abled. At the average age the total deposit is $8.20 the speed law. Maj. Daniel Sulllvan, superintendent of police, today di- rected members of his force to “curb the speed manlac” in an effort’ to give the public the benefit of safe streets. * 3 Referring to the so-called “speed maniac,” Maj. Sullivan sald: “He is the bane of an orderly civill- zation, and society demands that the public thoroughfares be made free of his kind, as no law-abiding citizen has any sympathy for the man who, by his actions, evidences a reckless dis- regard for the safety of others.” In cases of" second and third of- fenses the police will exact increased amounts of collateral or demand a real estate bond for the appearance of defendants. —_— CAPT. TAUSSIG TRANSFERRED. Capt. Joseph K. Taussig,-attached | to the cruiser Columbia, has ‘been as- signed to duty on the receiving ship nat Pritadelnhia. your feet and the rubbers over them, and finally, e coal which cooked e all at one time, in s of manufacture or )r your use, equally - MUDDIMANg 616 12th St—1204 G St. MAJORS REASSIGNED. Phillp J. Coulter and Charles r, Medical Corps. have been relieved from duty at the Army Medi- hool, this city. Maj. Coulter is assigned to duty at the General Hos- pital, Hot Springs, and Maj. Sinclalr to duty at Fitzsimons Hos- pital, Denver, Col. ) preparation death-dealing. However, there’s no need now to back away from any of them. They're tamed, the ‘Agriculture Department chemists assert. The secret of thelr destructiveness s dust—the dust which is produced In their manufac- ture. Surprising Disclosures. For a number of years department experts have been studying the ex- plosibility of - carbonmceous dusts, for the ecducation of manu- urers and workers in materials | ch produce such conditions, and surprising disclosures of general in- terest have been made. It is just about a year since the largest ‘grain elevator in the world, the Northwestern, at South Chicago, 111, was destroyed by the exploslon of grain dust in workrooms and stor- age bins. Nix workmen lost their Watch for It— Setligm Gutir G at 12th STREET N.W. rs and Ladies' Ready-to-Wear. Fi 616-17 ST. N.W. lives in the disaster, which wrought PA * THE MAN'S STORES* , 1005-1007 PA.AVE ducing a variety of articles, that one $1,000, you are insured for | il | property * damage ' estimated at ] 5 5 I[[ll | $8.000,000. While: there have been mionthly; [l | many other similur explosions in ele- : = il | vators, flour mills and plants pro- While you are saving | (i 1s the brought the sub- st mos to public atten- $1,000. ’ | i 2 Il | tion. the department says. {l] When wheat grains or other cereals \| | are handled in bulk, friction pro- ‘W e specialize at {duces quantities of fine dust, and llll { when train and car loads are han- fill | dled daily the amount of this dust [/l | that accumulates about the plant on floors and projections is enormous. Dust clouds long hang in the air. It has been determined by the experts that this dust produces with the air a mixture as fickle and_ explosive as that formed in the carburetor of an automobile.” It can generate gas oxplosions as powerful as those in our “Lunch Rooms™ in serving good, wholesome, foods as quickly as possible, thereby accommodat- ing our patron whose -time for dining is limited. g At the “Bantam” —covers both Ask for Descriptive Booklet AETERRERRERERTORTARRRDRRRRRREER O illl| rifie and gun barrels. ANl that is | the table service and eeded to ar o ruc v 1 . R Il | start a slow fire, the flash travelng become very popular from dust erain to dust grain. Tt with those folk who may el through dust conveyors, Il | corridors or blowers to distant. parts would more leisurely l OADING veour meichandite Caplital and Surplus, $1,400,000,00. (il 1 of the plant, where, if sufficient =| dine. isido vith th = 2 R. GOLDEN DONALDSON Il | pressure is built up the explosion oc- < 1s dene with the greatest President. 1 | curs. BELLE‘V"U'E FARMS of care—if you give us a ring it Effect of Explosions. b Ok S bl to do the job. We do not HARRINGTON MILLS, JAMES B. REYNOLDS, I | Dust explosions, government rec- drop” it on our truck and First Vice President. Vice President. ords show, o wrecked well built LUNCHROOM trust to luck that it will not JAMES H. BADEN, Vice Pres. and Cashier. LAURENCE A. SLAUGHTER, Vice President. be harmed! We see to it that loaded frgight t it will not be! d skeins of| [334-36 G St. 1338 N. Y. Ave, 1 structures, ! “BANTAM” DINING ROOM . turned into tw p strongly built their found- of the North- “Phone us to move” Resources, $15,000,000.00. 14th at G blu\\')ll 0”]“ ‘::nncrete bin ,3’2 G SL M o5 Taabies tHiclc } A long list of similar disasters is 1 e S [ the hands of the wovernment investi- | (I OO erchants Transfer gators, and not all are from cerenll dust explosions. 2 An explosion of ordinary powdered table spices in a spice factory, recent- ¥ wrecked the factory, exacted toll {of six lives, injury to twice as many { others and high property loss. |, Au cxplosion of powdered or con- | fectioners’ sugar in an eastern refin- ery wrought damage estimated at §1,- 000,000 and cost four lives.® Breakfast cocoa preeipitated In a | | thick cloud from burning bins in a factory fire exploded® adding-to the % wreckage of the plant and to the HHIER? ives and money. I x girls rking in a factory pro- |ducing aiuminum articles burned to death when fine aluminum dust from | their buffing machines exploded in | their faces with a concussion heard two miles distant. Starch exploding in another factory resulted in 43 deaths and damage es- timated at $3,000,000. Dust from hard rubber being ground to powder exploded in another instance, killing eight workers and partially demolishing the plant. ‘While handling cottonseed meal a Wisconsin plant was damaged by an explosion in that product and three workmen were killed. From Various Processes. Any number of explosions of light {wood dust in woodworking plants have been reported to the Depart- ment. Leather dust, formed in pro- cess of manufacture, has also caused explosions; dust from various proc- esses in paper and cotton mills, rice meal dust, feed dust and other grain dusts have all caused terrific explo- sions, resulting in loss of life and y. Explosion of coal dust in and Storage Co. 920-922 E St. NW. 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