Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1923, Page 14

The Mystic Shrine ' Convention Notes \ Bryan Roach, world champion rider, and Buck Lucas, champion bull dogger, will be two of the cowboy features at the rodeo, “The Passing of the West,” to be held here May 30 to June 9 near the Union Station plaza. That every home and building in the ecity shall be decorated with the national and Shrine colors is the 2im of the chairman of the citizens’ committee on decorations, Charles J. Columbus. May 28 is the time limit e he sale of Shrine grandstand seat- | will begin Thursday instead of toda #s previously announced by Chai = man Ogram. About $45,000 worth of tickets have already been sold. A warning is given out to auto- mobile drivers not to drive any nearer than necessary to the grandstands that are being constructed on the avenue. Tt is stated that in front of ihese places there is a likelyhood of the machines picking up stray nafls Several punctures already are be- lieved to have been caused. G Dr. Harry T. Levey has accepted the managemnt of the Almas official auto parking stations, and promises mem- bers of the Shrine and the public that all tourists will be well taken care; ©f by the committee. ' Dr. J. T. Prendergast. chairman of the auto parking committee, has been nick-named the “Vacant Lot King.” He states that he has ulready secured space for 45,000 machines Washingtonian is asked to 4o his or her part in nailing tkce propaganda sent out that Washing ton js going to charge exhorbitant | prices during Shrine week. In regari | Lo the housing situation.every temale | so far has notified E. P. Morey, fhe | housing chairman. that they are well satisfied with arrangements A Shriner from California reports today that the railroad compani-s in that state have announced thai the are no upper or lower berths av able from now on until June = | Treeland Kendrick, potentate for | many vears of Lu Lu Temple, Phila- delphia. and probably the most wide- 1y known Shriner, arrived in town today for a brief visit. Mr. Kendrick is one of the #ponsors of the crippled children’s hospital movement The no parking_below K street day draws near, May 25 being the duy. The record for inaugural grand- stand seats is 20,000, it has been | stated. The number of Shrine seats will be 43,000, more than double any other occasion. STRANGE ANIMAL LIFE IN KANSAS AEONS AGO State Has Supplied Museums of Werld With Remarkable Remains. From the Kansas City Star. Barly Kansas animals lived many thousands, some of them millions, of vears ago. The chalk cliffs of the western part of the state tell the true | ory of a remarkable animal life—a ory t shows many wonderful animals were peculiar to and limited ) the regions now within the limits of ‘the state. Some of our large Eroups seem to have originated there. ology has proved that in real arly times western Kansas, parts of Colorado, Wyoming. South Dakota and Nebraska were covered by & large inland se« full of many kinds of semi- tropical plantsand animal life. Along the shores and on the rich and well watered plain (the Rocky mountains had not yet arisen) roamed and| grazed, or hunted, many other ani-| mals. ‘Many remarkable incidents are clearly recorded by the bones. teeth, tracks and imprints left in the rocks. This Is “Some” Fish. In the very early time there was a very big fish similar to the noted game fish, the tarpon. of our seuthern coast. , He was twelve to fourteen feet Jong and had a broad, powerful il "and numerous sharp conical "eth, two inches long, in the front of ch jaw. Kansas University has the best pre- served specimen of this species. Another large fish found in this sea had very large shoulder fins, with a sword-like bone on the front edge of each. These bones he might have! used to cut his foes, but more likely hie used them to rush into a school of smaller fish, swinging the mighty swords right and left, hacking the fishes to pieces and then eating them bis lsisure. The skeletal remains | of these and many other species of | fishes make up large masses of the | rock in western Kansas i Some of the Dinosaurs. | In this sea lived u large number of | species and millions of specimens of | reptiles. Among the more prominent | were the dinosaurs or “powerful 1iz- ards.” Some of them were the largest animals that have ever existed oni carth. Such a one was sixty-six feet long, eighteen feet high at the hips, had ‘a very long tail and neck, yet A very small head und an insignifi- cant brain. The estimated weight of the monster is rom fifteen to twenty | tons, yet its brain weighed scarcely more than a pound. Another huge dinosaur developed | a big, heavy armor-like bony plate | over his head and neck. On this plate were three horns, two of them many inches in diameter and from eighteen to twenty-four inches long, This massive helmet was a defensive and | offensive structure. Many of the dinosaurs were large and powerful, ruling by brute gforce. But all lacked brains, and so lost out in the struggle for existence. Lizards for All Museums. Another group of reptiles were the | very long, aquatic lizards with large : heads, large, most powerful jaws and big. conical teeth. The size of the mouth opening could be increased by | a_second hinge in the lower jaw. heir jaws would have allowed them | to swallow a lion at one gulp. A thousand specimens of these skele: | tons have been taken from the west- 'n Kansas field. All of the museums the world have been supplied, and plenty are left in Kansas. Swimming around among these sea | serpents was the king of the turtles, | Archelon, with a shell ten to twelve | feet long and a head a yard long. There were also the flying rep- tiles, or Pterydactyls. They soared through the air, and probably dived into the water and caught fish with their long sharp beak. Kunsas has the distinction of furnishing nearly all the flying reptiles. Amelent Birds in Kanwas, The Kansas chalk beds furnish the ! only skeletons of anclent hirds found | on this continent. These birds, while! not as old s the ones in Lurope, are remarkable in many of their charae- teristics. They had teeth. They had no wings—only one small bone where the wing should huve heen. But t legs and beak were long, making a total length of more than five feet. Out on the plains roamed, grazed. fought and fed herds of many speci of the early horses, monster bisons, mammoth hairy elephants, huge mas- todons, gignt sloths, as well as the 1like Camelops and the piglike les and primitive deer. ———— Fable of the Time. From the Hartford Cours There is & story of a man wi pleaded with his grocer for ‘e!:: flour becsuse his family was in dire iand the hydrogen gas {livhed bevond doubt by the text of IREPORTED PETROLEUM CAN BE MADE FROM COAL From the Ki City Star. When kerosene first came into use as a Jamp illuminant it was called “coal ofl,” for it was suppowed petroleum somehow had been: formed from coal. Later that theory was called in ques- tion and geologists stili are disputing the origin of oil. But even if coal ol turns out to have been an inappro- priate name in the past, it may prove to be true in the future, for pstro- leum can be made from coal, and some day we may have to make it that way. Theoretically it is simple enough. Petroleum is & mixture of compounds of hydrogen and carbon. Just hitch up these tworelements and there you are. But there are other hitches in the proceedings. Either carbon or hydro- gen will unite readily with oxygen. but they have littie liking for each other. Only when stirred up by high heat and forced into contact by high pressure will they combine. Besides the expense of the process, there is the expense of the materials. Carbon is cheap and abundant enough in the form of coml, but hydrogen has to be obtained by tearing it away from the oxygen with which it is combined in water. This may be done by passing steam over red-hot iron turmings which pick up the oxygen and release the hydrogen. Or steam may be passed through beds of hot coal which give what is known as “water gas” a mixture of hydrogen and car-: bon. monoxide, -both good combusti les. In making synthetic petroleum the cozl is first powdered and mixed with heavy oils. This pasty mess is put into a tight steel retort and a current of hydrogen or water gas is run through the vessel at a temperature of some 700 degrees Fahrenheit and a pressure of a hundred atmospheres. Under these conditions the carbon unite in_ all sorts of ways and form liquid prod- ucts, und an oil much like natural petroleum distille off from the retort. | This is redistilled; the lighter frac- tions are collected as gasoline, kero- sene, benzine and the like, and the | heavy residue is returned to the retort and mixed with the next batch of coal It is sald that by such a process as| high as 87 per cent of the carbon in the cozl can be couverted into liquid hydrocarvons, such as are found in natural petroleum. The coal-tar prod- ucts can be used as material for dyes and drugs. preservatives and per- fumes. The nitrogen in the coal, which is jost in ordinary combustion. ie here obtained in the valuable form of ammonia. $500,000 SOCIAL PARASITE. British King's Proctor and Staff May Lose Jobs From the Arts and Decoration Magszine. Protest is being made against pay- ing more than $500.000 a year for the maintenance of the king's proctor and his etaff. The king's proctor is a le- | gal official whose duty it is to inter- vene for special reasons and try to prevent two people being divorced. | even if both are anxious to have the marriage kwot cut. It is motorious that when two people do not get along well together, one of them. generally the husband. feeling it is his chivairous duty to take the blame, becomes guilty of statutory “deser- tion” and then statutory “miscen- duet”; but care has to be taken that in a legal sense he is “a bad lot though everybody, even the judges, know the whole thing is arranged The representatives of the king's proctor. however. are ever on the prowl—it being aileged they open let- ters and tap telephones—in order to discover if- there is “collusion” and then the whole proceedings are stop- ped. Or if divorce proceedings are taken oun the ground of infidelity, in- quiries are made to find if the piain- | tift led a spotless life, and. if it ir | unearthed that either he or she may not have been saints, there is “inter- vention,” and, if it is proved both parties have been sinners, them di- | voree is refused. Public opinion is strong against the whole thing, especially the well un- derstood subterfuges and ignomini- ous, though fictitious, blackening of une's character to comply with the Tequirements of the law. Attempts to alter the law hitherto have failed, chiefly because there is a comsider- | able body of religious opinion which ! hiclds that making divorce easier de- stroys the fanctity in which marriage should be heid. But the nosey-parkerism of the king’s proctor is resented as alien to the English epirit, and there is now strong objection to spending large sums of public money in order to keep him in existence. USED ANESTHETIC A.D. 220. Chinese Surgeons Gave Patients “Ma Yao” Before Operating. From the Eansas City Star. An_anesthetic, whose effects were like those of ether or chloroform, was used in China in 220 A. D. by the rurgeon. Haoua-t'ouo. This is estab- Kou kin yi tong, which was brought to the aitention’ of the Academy of Sciences in 1849 by Stgnislas Julien. The Chinese anesthetic,"known as ma yao—that is to say, ‘the remedy which takes away feeling"—was ex- tracted from Indian hemp, which also yields opfum. The old Chinese text tells us. “Haoua-t'ouo gave a dose of ma yao to the patient, who a few minutes later became unconscious—that is, as though he were deprived of life. As the case demanded, Haoua- t'ouo would operate upon the person or amputate and remove the cause of sickness. Then he would draw the | feet again without having felt the least pain in the operation.” Paris Bright With Tulips. Paris Item in the Christian Science Monitor. The Tuileries gardens are now blooming with flowers all of a single kind—tulips« The long lines of the old royal flower beds are filled with color and the people crowd in to ad- 1 mire. ‘The plants have been furnished by Dutch bulb growers at the suggestion of the Dutch minister to France. 200000000000000000000000000000000 00 THE ODDS? 41 AGAINST YOU Pyorrhea imperils the teeth and fiulth of four persons out of every five past forty and thousands younger. Nature warns ym.;t of its coming with bleed- ing gums. Take no chances: Act! need. “Well.” responded the grocer, “if yeur family tarving, T'll let vou have & sack of flour, but don’t go and sell it and use the money to take the family to the circus.” “Oh, no,” was the reply. “I won't do that, because we have the circus money saved up already.” That would seem to be the German position in seeking a foreign loan to meet reparations payment Had Long Experience. From London Passing Show. Counsel = The eross - examination dldn'la‘rfl to worry you at all. Have I i G A TR Brush your teeth with rnans FOR THE GU More than a tooth it checks 35¢ and 60 in tubes THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON At the Bottom of the Ladder. e ' Suits Priced Below Par An Opportune Saving on Clothes That Would Pay a Premium in Satisfaction Regardless of Price $07.50 Reduced from various higher prices—every suit of certified quality and rich in evidence of hand tailoring. Styles for young men and all men; single and double breasted business suits, Norfolks and sport models. Some with two pairs of trousers. Light, medium and dark shades—plenty of grays and blue serges. All sizes 33 to 48. D. C, MONDAY, MAY 21 1923, BRANDS GOUGING CHARGES UNTRUE Almas Potentate Says Sacra- mento Paper Falsifies D. C. Shrine Plans. Stories recently published in the Sacramento Bee, California, declaring that Washingtonians were planning to gouge thefr visitors here during the Shrine convention, and that Wash- ington is not following the business ‘psychology of treating them right €0 they will return again, but get- ting them while the getting is 00d.” were branded as “malicious and false” today by members of the 1923 Shrine Committtee. The stories were signed by Leo A. McClatchey, Washington correspondent of the newspaper. In refutation of the statements of Mr. McClatchey, & letter has been ex- hibited ‘at Shrine headquarters from Een All Temple of Sacramento signed by Joseph H. Stephens, the potentate, and Ellwood P. Morey, chairman of the housing committee, which states that all arrangements are very satis- factory in e w, Leonard P. Steuart. potentate of Almas Temple and heaul of the Shrine Committee, issued the following statement on learning of the stories: “We will fight these misstatements with all our power. They are mali- cious and detrimental to the good name of the city. On every hand our committee has found co-operation and the fairest play. Up to date I have come across only a few such scur- | rilous attacks upon our city and I am endeavoring to learn their source Recently a clipping was sent to me | that Washington could not possibly house all the visitors. This report i without any foundation whatever. | The other Jay a paper in Syracuse printed a story saying that no auto- | mobiles would be allowed to come into the city. This is equally un-| true, for we are at present making | arrangements for the parking of 45,- | 000 machines. | —_— | The Philippine deep. the deepest | place yet discovered in the sea, could | swallow up the highest mountain in | the world and the water would be | 3,000 feet deep over the summit. | A HIT BY TWO BULLETS. Coroner Performs Autopsy on Mur- dered Man. Dr. Herbert E. Martyn, coroner, performed an autopsy on the body of Edward Walters, colored thirty years old, 10 Gordon avenue northeast, who was shot to death Saturday night in a free-for-ail fight between the police and Gordon avenue. He found that two .32-caliber bullets had wounded the colored man, one having entered his head and caused death, while the other entered his hip. Identity of the person who inflicted the wounds has not been definitely determined, according to the poli Coroner Nevitt viewed the morgue Yesterday and decided to hold an inquest later in the week, police desiring additional time in which to make a fuller investigation They’re from Missouri. From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Admiral R. E. Coontz, who was born | at Hannibal, Mo.. is commander of the fleet of the United States, and Gen. J. J. Pershing, who was born at Laclede, Mo.. {8 commander of the armies. All true Missourians will ac- cept this as additional assurance that the country is safe from attack by land or sea COAL BASIS deputy | residents of | the body At | NAMING SUCCESSOR 70 HOUSE MEMBER G. 0. P. in Michigan District To- day Filling Vacancy Caused by J. C. M. Smith’s Death. KALAMAZO0O, Mich, May 21—Vor ers in the third congressional district are selecting one of three candidate |in a special primary publican nominee for congressional ! representative to succeed the late Representative J. C. M. Smith. the candidates are Eilton R. Eaton former sheriff of Kalamazoo count and for many years previous a prominent Michigan newspaperman B. E. Kies of Hillsdale, a farmer {and A. B. Willlams of Battle Cree & lawyer and manufacturer. The successful candidate will op pose Claude S. Carney, an attorne: { here who is unopposed for the demo | cratic nomination, at a special elec- tion June 19. The term for which a representative to be chosen ends | December 31 today, as re Orders for Memorial Day WREATHS —should be placed now, particularly if you want them sent out of town. 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