Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1923, Page 14

B e . an eam ] Makes the Deaf Hear| | Bomarkable Tnvention Enables the Deaf to Hear All Scunds Olearly. H Every one who is troubled with deafuess | 1o any form will be interested i the an | nouncement of the Dicto | Corporation, Sulte 1308, | Street, New York, that they bave at last| |perfected a device which will coable every one whose auditory perve is mot | to hear a. perfectly ¢ ja normal, - To test y kent 1t to a oumber | of people who had been deaf for years. | and’ they report most gratifying results Many state that fhey bear the slightest sound_wit fect ease, and that' their | | natoral hearing hax been greatly im. | proved. Inamnfacturcrs are so proud of thelr achievement and xo confident that | | every deat person will Le amazed and de-| | Ughted with it thut they offer to send it their own | expense, allowing the nser ten full davs to try it and decide whether the to keep It or not. tlon whatever, eve with deafness in | advantage of thi | Just send the | for descriptive | request Mterature NEW FACTORY or WAREHOUSE For Sale or Lease Alexandria, Va. 33,000 Sq. Ft.—One Story Brick R. R. Siding—Addit 1 nd. HOGE GRAIN & FE Alexandria, Va. Or Your Loenl Broker Confidence i We cherish ¥ confidence mean to keen it. Due to the accumulated ex- perience of this § office and staff of expert, care- ful dentists, 31 years of good, | honest dentistry ont to salt. one Examination of our many My Pertect Suction Teeth WIll Not Sitp or Drop—35.00. Other Sets of Teeth, $5 Up Fillings, 50c| Gold Crowns to §1 up and Bridge in gold, silver,| ork, $3.00—$4.00 $5.00 Per Toetn extraction . when work o FOURS. 9 A. M. TILL 8 P. M. SUNDAYS. 10 A. M TILL 4 P. M. DR. WYETH 427-29-7th €t. N. W. Oppostte Lansbu Bro., and owr Grand TUnton Tea Largest _and moss thoroughly equipped Dariors in Washington, Phone Metn 9135, Here are The Star Branch Offices in the Northwest— 14th st. and Vermont ave., Jobn C._ Haley. 14th and P sts., Day’s Pharmacy, 15th and U sts., I &, Clemence. 14th and Clifton sts., H. Colodny & Co. 11th and Harvard sts., The Har- Columbia road, Evans Drug Store. 8401 14th st.. Bronaugh's Phar mucy. Hoimead and O Pharmacs 14th st. and Colorado ave. Branch Pharma 17th st. and Park road. yers. 2434 18th st. 2162 Califo s pluce, Holmead . Piney Tiptou & John M. Thal, ave., Morgan Bros. 7th and K Goldenberg's (time cierk’s desk). 7th and O sts., Associated Drug res. 7th st. and R. I. ave., J. French Simpeon. Oth and U sts., McGuire's Phar- macy. 4ih and Elm sts., Douglas’ Phar- i 3301 Georgia ave., Rode's Phar- acy. ave. and Rock Creek Church acy. , Dupout Phar- , Pearson's . Hygean Phar- and M st., Wal- nal ave. and 1st st., Sylvern Laupheimer. North Capitol st. and R, 1. ave., Parker's Pharmacy. 1722 Pa. ave.. J. Louls Krick, G sts, Quigley’s Phar- and Pa. ave.. Herbst's ‘The Star prints more Classified Ads than all the other Washington papers combined — because they bring results. “Around the corner” is a Star Branch Office. THE SUNDAY Copernicus, Famed Astronomer, To Be Honoredo |Was First to Explain Movement of Earth Around Sun. Died as Treatise An— nouncing Discovery Was Completed. i ! BY JOSEPH J. AKSTON. Scientists and astronomers of many ‘ndtl(mullllofi in Europe and America nd high officials of Poland from the president down will cast aside their regular dutles for a few hours tomorrow and observe the 450th birthday anni- versary of Nicolaus Copernicus, who the first man to make a clear ysis of the movement of heavenly and who showed conclusively | that the earth moves around the sun. { In the city of Thorn, Poland, the | birthplace of Copernicus, the President {of Poland and his cabinet, government [ department heads, university professors students, scientists and astron- ther tomorrow morning s the unvelllng of a t to the great Pole after ¢ Church of St. Johu's. Address at Museum. Washington tomorrow afternoon Abbot, assistant sccretary of < Smithsonfan Tnstitution, will deliver s« on_Copernicus, his life and cal theory In the auditorium Museum. The meeting for by Prince Albert i and Counselor Kwa- Pollsh legation, and d by officials of the lega- miversity professors, stu- ment employ in leading cities of the coguizance will he taken of the All westings of this nature have arranged for by a committee ed by Prince Radziwill and com- «d of Bronislaw Kulakowski, or of the Now: New York, and president of the neers and Me laus Copernie: University, ¥ Polish king, In the year of 1400 reorgunized through the efforts Ladislus Jagiello. ud s fanious Jaglelion Library tating the rise of the study o philosophy, mathematics and nis three years' f Cracow Young cow. the uncle, Bishop of ELrmeland, & Nicolaus and made him v the canon law. which he took up at the age of twenty-three, at the Bo- University, v by atter Maria N Domenico A_year on the distance of the son and the movements of Venus and Mercury planets, which has started him in the ‘direction’ of elaborating an en- ew system of astronomy, that Jn epoch In the history of Kuman ught. Nominated a canon of the Frauenburg Cathedral in 1497, he entered the prie: hood, but clung fast to his determina- tion "to complete his academic career. In 1501 he recrossed the Alps and two vears later received a doctor's degre law from the University of He then, together with his brother Andrew, entered the medical school at the University of Padua, where he remained until 1605. Upon the request of his uncle, the Bishop of Ermeland, to become his physiclan, Copernicus returned that year to his native country and lived at the episc pal palace of Heilsberg until his uncle's death in 1512. Epoch-Making Treatise. Then he returned to Frauenburg, ap- plying himself vigorously to his capitu- lar duties. Administrative and political conditions he worked under were very harassing. As & commissary of the diocese of Ermeland he constantly met with opposition and was handicapped n his work upon the reform of the cur- rency, & scheme he 1aid before the dlet of Graudenz in 1522. His medical skill, always at the service of the poor, was frequently in demand of the | rich. Amidst all these dutles he yet found time to elaborate an entirely new sys- tem of astronomy, by the adaption of which man’s outiook on the universe fundamentally changed. From the observatory he had bullt for himself in Frauenburg he sought to test with imperfect instruments the truth of his theory opposing Ptolemaic doctrines of early date. Continuously, for a number of years, he spent all his fres moments on, the elaboration of his helllocentric the- ory. ‘The epoch-making treatise in which it was set forth was Wrtually finished in 1530, a brief popular ac- count of its purport being written by Copernicus in that year. But the first complete printed -copy re: Frau- enburg barely in time to he laid on the writer's deathbed. His life- work was dedicated to the Pope Paul III_and its first edition was printed in Latin in the year 1543, when Coper- nicus, seized with apoplexy and paralysis and embittered by life made unbearable by his opponents, wa quletly awaiting his death. On_the morning of May 24 of the same year the soul of a great man, whom the iworld calls “solls stator—terrae mo- tor” (“the one who stopped the sun and made the earth move"), departed {into the unknown. In the memory of Copernicus a mountain on the moon 18 named after McCLURE HOMES AND FINANCE CORPORATION Free to Asthma and Hay Fever Sufferers Free Trial of Method That Anyone Can Use Without Discomfort r Loss of Fime, We have a method for the control of and we want you to try it at our No matter whether your case is standing or recent development. s present as Hay Fever, vou should send for & free Trial of our method. No matter ju what climate you live, no matter what your age or oc- cupation, If you are troubled with Asthma or Hay Fever, our method should relieve you promptly. We especially waht to send it to those apparently hopeless cases, where all forms ofPiahalers, douches. opium preparations, fumes, “‘patent smokes,” etc., have failed. We want to show evers one at our expense, hat our method is designed to end all dif- cult breathing. all wheezing, aud all those reible parory: This free offer 18 too important to neg- fect a single day. ' Write now and begin the method at once. Send no money. Bimply mail coupon below. Do it today—you even do not pay postage. FREE TRIAL COUPON FRONTIER ASTHMA CO.. Room 23¥, Niagara and Hudson Sts., Buffalo, N. Y. Bend free trial of your method to; Ofters an Exclusive District Franchise Contractors It will quadruple the business of the contractor who secures this ex- clusive sales plan, because it allows the most liberal terms to the home buyer and enables the builder to realize the full construction cost and profit from first mortgage fands upon completion of the home, Business Men It offers a most unusual epportunity for a business man to organize an agency to handle McClure homes under this original system of financ- ing. Landowners It is unquestionably the soundest and most attractive method for the realtor or landowner of city, subur ban, industrial, beach or resort prep. erty, to turn this anproductive land into immediate profits. M'CLURE HOMES AND mAN&B CORPORATION COLUMBIA TRUST BLDG. FIFTH AVE, AT 34th ST, NEW YORK OITY n450th Birthday NICOLAUS COPERNICUS. From a sixteenth century print. him. show any monuments gruce the s of the oltles und states cus studied, taught or niost beautiful statue X stands_in The to claim countrymu . bullt a monument to him In Wal 1 the German panthean. The folly their claim was easily brough light by many historical proofs e lishing the nationality of Copernicus as that of Polish beyond any doubt One of the best proofs, perhaps, may serve the fact that Copernicus when a student at Padua reglstered hin self in the Polish aibum of the Padu: Tniversity. TO HONOR ASTRONOMER. Germans and Poles Both Claim Capernicus as Citizen. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, February 17.—Upper § lesta 15 by no means the only bas for quarreling between the Germans and the Poles. Thelr annuai squab- ble over the question who is cutitled | to clalm Copernicus, the famous & tronomer, us comes to its annual climax tomc Monday fWill mark the 450th y of | i the birth of Cope tions have been made for celebration of the event or of_the German-Polish borde |, The citizens of Ermcland, in thel | Prusstan _district, are especially in- terested in Copernict because it a ways has been one of its pet claims that Thorne in that district, original row anniversa 1 pre patriotic both sides | rman merch native of Craco | __Copernic W | Febr 19, 1473, the Ermeland bisghopr the hands of the Poles 24, 1543, or 229 yeurs before t stans ed in retaking ti trict. nt there. i Poland. seve < | | dis- | ST. 'WASHINGTON, WALLAGE REQUESTS GEORGIA ARRESTS Secretary Urges Attorney General to Action in Slay- ing of Agent. Firm and prompt federal action against the persons who killed Max Lochridge, an employe of the United States Department of Agriculture, en- gaged In cattle tick eradication work in Echols county, Ga., and who was| shot to death February 3 while in performance of his duty, has been' asked by Secretary Wallace of the Department of Agriculture, in a let- ter to Attorney General Daugherty. “I have not yet been informed,” says Secretary Wallace, “whether any steps have baen taken by local author- ities to apprehend and punish th gullty. If the departments endeav- ors to eradicate diseases of cattle in See Us Before Buying Diamonds D. O, FEBRUARY 18, 1923—PART 1. the United States are to proceed ef- fectively it is absolutely essentizl that its officials and empioyes be se- cured against violence in the per- formance of their work.” The killing of Lochridge and the serious wounding at the same time of another federal employe, Roy 8. Ritchie, were the culmination of a series of difficulties in Georgia, where efforts are being made to free the section from cattle ticks. The kill- ing_was committed at a time whén Lochridge and Ritchie were serving an_offic notice. Secretary Wallace has ordered the dipping of cattle to go on. _—— The Bath Club, one of the most ex- clusive in London, now admits women to its membership and already more than 400 woman members have been enrolled. ‘ %3 ED A KEY .You need our instant dupli- cating service. Duplicate key, 25c. | Bring your locks to the shop. | TURNER & CLARK | Basement. 1233 New York Ave. Real Diamond Bargains Diamonds Left on Sale 2l4~carat Fine Perfect Soli- sorgeous ¢;-carat Fine Blue White Soll- $155 2-carat Fine Perfect Solitaire Diamond Ring, $450 tatre Diamond Ring, set in Tiftany mount- ing heau- handmade be tiful mounting. Must wold at ance. . $100 Diamond Cluster Ring; 7 blue white dia- 6 monds, platinum setting. . 10 16-100-carat Fine Perfect Solitaire Diamond, perfect cut; cost $ originally T o $2,700 $650 Platinum-Diamond Bar Pin; could used as 5FAT $425 All Platinum Diamond Dinner white diamond. Party $150 KAHN OPTICAL CO. taire Diamond Ring: platinum-d tamond mounting. Party must sacrifice . Es 52617 Tth to a Stove ranges that have really reliable talk may have led you to think. More Convenience Outlets Make More Convenient Homes Don't be a Slave ‘When a woman finds that she can do cooking better than she ever did it before, do it with the utmost fuel and food, and at the same time free herself from the necessity of forever standing guard over a hot stove, she ia likely to do something about it. Westinghouse 3-19-B Automatic Electric Ranges are getting all desirable results for thousands of women. . — ‘They are the and this control is one of the things that makes economical to use. Nor is their price as high as of automatic Potomac Electric Appliance Co. 604 14th St. N.W. (Branch Store, 14th and C St. N.W.) Electric Heat and Cold Corporation 1622 You St. N.W. C. W. Dauber, 2320 18th St. N.W. J. C. Harding & Co., 709 12th St. N.W. H. C. Roberts Electric Supply Co. Agents-Jobbers, Westinghouse 806 12th St. N.W. 905 7th St. | Always Right"n Quality and Price Phone Main 167 Personal Comparisonthe true Test of Values (19%° February Sales of In this our first Februarv Furniture Sale, uncommon op- portunities are presented to buy good furniture at a saving of 107 to 407. New, well=selected furniture of standard makes and quality. We let you be the judge. You’ll find our claims are truly modest. ' Credit Privileges Extended to Those Wishing this Accommodation ' High-Grade Davenports and Library Tables Of Excellent Design and Workmanship Davenport ‘Table, handsomie antique T any, 54 inches long; artistic in sign and well design, size 22x48 inche. of genuine mahogar ish, Reduced to inch top: doubie column base; a real artistic and table, finished in mahoga; . Hepplewhite 4-Piece Bedroom Suite o inches long; ahogany finish; sturdily constructed. Reduced to.. Davenport Table of genuine mahog- i de- finished. Reduced to Library Table of Renaissance period i 1 constructed hell fin- $19.00 $24.00 $28.00 Colonial Design Library Center Table with 20x42 colonial vell made Reduced American walnut coustruction; dust-prooi drawers, with mahogany bottoms. All large ieces—48-inch Dresser, 48-inch Full-mirror 7anity, 42-inch Mansrobe and Bow-end Bed. Redueedito cicoccicisocrcessission l Duofold Bed As easily operated as the open- ing and closing of a desk. A handsome davenport by day—a comfortable bed when required. Frame 18 of oak, covering of imi- tation brown leather. Cabinet has porcelain sliding top guaranteed not to buckle or to bulge; satin-finish white enamel interior. A Cabinet of § 0 teal valus. Februdry Sale 3 Of an Walnut, includ ing six Tapestry Upholstered Chairs, 54-inch Buffet, Oblong Table, Wood Panel China Cab- inet and Cup- board Server. In $ the February ] Sale on . Felt Mattress make; Simmons wrapped in sealed package to insure absolute cleanliness; 50-1b. weight; roll edge; hotel st well tufted and covered in art ticking of excellent design