Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1924, Page 18

O TAE SUNWIER STUDESATE. . Record Enroliment Expected to Be Boosted to 1,600 by End of Week. George Washington University will throw open jts doors tomorrow morn- ing to the largest summer school ses- sion in the history of the institution. According to Dr. William C. Ruediger, director of the school, more than 1,600 students \vill be enrolled by the week end. The sion of six weeks starts off tomorrow morning with an address by President William Mather Lewis. Daily during the week, and at other intervals, prominent persons Will address the arts and sciences | students. President Lewis hetds a most im- pressive list of speakers. On Tuesday Charles Moore, chairman of the fine arts commission, will give an illus- trated lecture on “Washington.” On Samuel P. Capen, r of the University of Buf- will speak. Thursday Miss Olive Jones, pa dent of the ional ucation 4 tion. talks to the dents, while on Friday Arthur v Dunn, national director of the can Ju ls th mer school work of second se lectures am. in G street, will Lisner and are tuke place at Huil chap. open to owing n ner” of Dr. week such ry of w 3 tant secre- of the Navy Harris Hart, ‘rintendent of public instruction ate of Virginia, are also in line for addresses End in August. will be announced the series will be Other_Jectures later. The last of given August 13, Despite the large registration of students for the first three weeks, iderably more than one thousand listed in all @ ts, work v ran Hall lding ex- pleted for the open- ing of the fall session, the latter part of September. buildin being as st roofed this 3 rted on the and there is every b h work being rushed for- regular pace now the 12 will be completed in sched- first two floors. lief that w ule Work has been started on the new Eymnasium, which will be erected on H strect neur 20th street e build- ngs on th have been ra i steel has arrived and the will be €d as rapidly as &ibl ay-out of thi pl i pecially pl students. The build struction. will contain showers for men and women and a floor which will be 60 feet wide by 120 feet long. There will be athletic ?m.-« and rooms for student activi- ies. During the summer the administra- tion building at 2030 G street will be remodeled. “Additional rooms will be available shortly EARLY MORNING CLASS DRAWS MANY STUDENTS American of steel con- lockers and University Finds 7:35 0'Clock Popular in Summer, But Winter May Be Different. Most of the students at American Tniversity are employed in government departments, and as a result they must do therr collegiate work before 9 o'clock in the morning or after 4:30 in the afternoon. The university has always offcred a few courses the early morning hour, but this season it Be- came necessary to schedule a greater portion than usual for 7:35 a.m. It a with soms givings that the adopt it means getting carly start in the morning to versity building and have the class begins. The results have shown that the plan met with high favor, for the early morning ¢ ses have been the mest popular oncs offered at the university. They average considerably larger than those at the later hours in the day. The university officials suspect, how- ever, that though the poli works out at this ason of the year, there might be another story to tell if morn- ing courses were introduced extensively during the term that begins in Jan- uary. Many members of the faculty are en- Joying long vacations. Dr. Paul Kauf- man pla way for four months and Dr ederick Juchhoff has gone to Chicago and other midwestern points for a long stay. Chancellor Clark in- tends to remain in Washington until past_the middle of July, however, and Dean Collier until some time in Au- Bust. breakfast before — PROHIBITION IS SCORED BY KING’S PHYSICIAN Tord Dawson Says Liquor May Be Benefit Rather Than Harm to Race. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 5.—Lord Dawson of Penna, the king's physician, entered the lists against prohibition, when the Bishop of Oxford's control bill was debated on its second reading in the House of Lords this week. He drew a vivid picture of the results of effacing the effects of a glass of an_alcoholic beverage at the end of a hard day's work and asserted “we haven't any right to do anything which would diminish cheerfulness and sociability of the world.” Ridiculing the idea that liquor was @ narcotic, Lord Dawson sald that a large majority of members of the medical profession were of opinion that it was a useful and beneficial substance in the proper quantities at the proper times. “Can it be said that we should have had some of our finest literature, paintings and poetry on a ginger beer regime,” he asked. During the debate, which often was heated, the Earl of Birkenhead seized the_opportunity for another fling at prohibition in the United States, which he sald had resulted in great general violation of the Jaw on the part of all classes. Lord Buckmas- ter, on the other hand, asserted that since the Volstead act had been passed, the jails had been emptied, savings deposits had increased, in- dustrial efliciency had been promoted and a higher level of comfort had been attained for women and children. The bill is foredoomed to failure, according to observers, but has had the effect of focusing public opinion on the question. Its proponents be- lleve that it will eventually result in the passage of some measure for further control of liquor sales. The present measure provides that the in- habitants of each locality shall vote each three years on total prohibi- tion, reorganization under state con- trol or no change. This Fish Has Two Mouths. In Albany, Ga., H. H. Williamson, @ dentist, is preserving a curlous specimen of fish containing two fully develg}ud mouths, which he caught recently. One mouth is in the usual place: while the other is under the ead much the same as that of sucker, World Flight Progress in India Enables Pick-Up of Lost Time| Flyers Now on Edge of Persia—Want to Make England Soon Because of Prospects of Early Autumn BY LIEUT. R. J. BROWN, JR., Chairmar World Flight Committee. Much to the surprise and gratifica- tion of the officials of the War De- partment, the United States Army air service round-the-world flight was able to completely refit the air cruisers with new wings, and new motors and to replace the pon- toons used for landing on the water with the regular wheel landing gear, which they will use until England has been reached, in three days, when it was thought improbable that this complete metamorphosis could be accomplished in less than a week. However, this splendid progress was not unattended by misfortune. The flight commander’s jinx seemed to have followed him to Calcutta, for while working on the upper wing of the cruiser Chicag he slipped and fell, fracturing a rib. Lieut. Lowell Smith did not nsider this painful injury of sufficient importance to keep him from taking his accustom- ed place in the pilot's cockpit of the fagship and leading his flight to- svard Allihadbad on the dawn of July 1 Flew Into Mountains. leaving the royal air force : at Dumdum. North Calcutta, ight soon passed out of the lo nds of the lower Ganges Valley, with its paddy fields and teeming vural population, into the high, rolling and somewhat mountainous country in northwestern Bengal and finally into the plains of Bihar and the united provinces of India in which llahabad is situated. The country flown over during this journey is devoted entirely to agri- culture and that portion over which the flight passed in Bengal. Bihar and the southern part of the united provinces, is perhaps the most densely populated rural area in the entire world. The population is composed mostly of Hindus and Mohammedans and though, the cultural differences between these people is great, they intermingle in all the towns and carry on ordinary business inter- course without friction. A number of animistics, worshipers of the ele- | ments, will be found throughout this area, in all classes, even among the subtie minded Bengali scholars. Welcomed by Britixh. When the flight landed at the roval air force airdrome, west of the sacred city of Allahabad, the American air- men were welcomed by the Englisn aviators stationed there. While all of these officers Stuart Maclaren succeed in flving round the world first, they have taken hix American competitors to their bosoms with that characteristic hos- pitality and sportsmanship for whic they are noted throughout the world, The distance from Calcutta to Alla- habad, 475 miles, was cavered in six hours and twenty minutes' flying time. or at the rate of about seventy-one miles per hour for the entire dis- tance, flying against head winds and encountering several thunderstorms, which made it necessary to detour considerably from the direct route and contributed to the slow average speed for this flight. However, con- sidering these obstacles, the planes were able to make much faster time than had heretofore been possible with the heavy., bulky pontoons, which were left at Calcutta. The flight landed in perfect cond are anxious to see Capt.' in North Atlantic. tion at Allahabad, ready for the flight the next day to Ambala. Just before sunrice on the morning of July 2, the three airplanes of the American expedition eircled over the airdrome and the City of Allahabad and started northwest toward Delhi and Ambala, 530 miles away. It was originally contemplated that the flight would land at Delhi, but after Lieut. Hal- verson, the advance officer for the fourth’ division, through which the flight is now passing, had made an inspection of the landing fleld at Delhi he decided against the use of the airdrome there on account of its restricted area and the fact that the royal air force was only using the field as an emergency station, and altered the itinerary of the flight to take in Ambala, 150 miles farther north, which has an excellent air- drome and possesses every facility for the convenience of the fivers. The flight, however, passed directly over Delhi’ en route to Ambala. At one time Delhi was the largest city in India, covering a space of twenty square miles and having a population of about two million. It is now reduced in circumferance 10 seven miles and in population to a little over 200,000. A vast tract cov- ered with ruins marks the extert cf the ancient metropolis of the Mozul Empire. The present city is sur- rounded by walls of red sandstone thirty feet high. There are soven coloxsal archel gates surrounded by rounded bulwarks. The palace of th great mogul, built by Shah Jehan, is v far the most imposing and ma nificent building in Delhi, and per- haps the most wonderful structure of its kind in India. Phantom of Paxt. In 1911 the city was proclaimed the capital of India and the supreme government was transferred there from Calcutta. The city, though a monument of the past, is only a phantom of its former great afflu- ence. The flight landed at Ambala after five hours and twenty minutes in the air, covering the distance from Alla- habad at the rate of ninety-three and one-half miles per hour in spite of numerous thunder and rain storms which _they were forced to pass through en route. The flight is now passing through that portion of in- terior India which is subject to the southwest monsoon in the summer, which is always accompanied by heavy electrical storms and torren- tial rains. Due to the terrific heat on July 2 the engine in Lieut. Nelson's plane. the cruiser New Orleans. cracked a water jacket, and al- though considerable” water was lost before Ambala was reached, he landed safely and none the worse for | hig_experience. The landing field is within the can- tonment of the British-Indlan army The officers of the roval air force met the American flyers with the same cordiality which their brother officers had accorded the Americans at Allahabad. Every facility of the British airdrome made available for the American aviators, and the slight damage to the cruiser New Orleans was quickly repaired Difference in People. At _Ambala the changing character of the native population will be noted. The “up-country” man is en- countered, many of these being Mo- hammedans and all of them more upstanding and martial in their bear- ing than their countrymen farther south. On July 3 the world /fl left Ambala for Multan, 3256 miles to the west, flying along the fringe of the Great Indian Desert, which is largely embraced in the Province of Raj- putana. 3 The country which- was flown .over fs the seat of the anclent Hindu chivalry and the inhabitants are still a proud race, although they have lost many of their former admirable characteristics. This country is made up largely, if not entirely, of native states, and the prestige of the Euro- pean is still high and the presence of a white man in these reglons will generally be looked upon as a great event and hospitabe corded by the hative everywhere. The flight to Multan was not ac- complished without difficulty, al- though oniy four Tours and forty- two minutes were necessary to make the trip. A very heavy sandstorm was encountered” and the excessive heat made flying difficult. Lieut. Smith’s report suys that they landed at Multan safely, but very tired, The fivers again landed upon a British airdrome and were shown every courtesy. Cross Edge of Denert. ¢ On the 4th of July the American ex- pedition left Multan:in the early morning and headed down the Valley of the Indus toward Karachi, on_the Arablan Gulf. The country which was flown over en route is not subject to heavy rains and thunderstorms like the Ganges Valley. Though the country immediately adjacent to the Indus is fertile and thickly populated, that portion which was truveled over by the flight is -on the edze of the Great Indian Desert, and in pursuing a straight line, the flight did for a dis- of about 100 cross over as during this time that Lieut. engine in th New ' again crac jacket and though a great deal of ater was lost, finally landed Toval force airdrome, achi, where ar- een made for the landing of the flight by First Lieut Halverson dvance officer of the population flight will ag: change motors. The great heat wh the flight has encountered in In has made this course ne ry. Lieut. nith foresaw this situation while still in Calcutta and shipped two new motors by rail to Karachl, making three motors for the flight’ when it arrived. Karachi being a minor de- pot, had already one motor among the supplies and spares which had been shipped there from the United States. With the assistance of the royal air force, the flizht should suc- ceed in replacing its old motors with the new ones in not more than three days and be ready to procecl to Bag- dad by July light In Russin. It was planned to mak: :tops at Chahbar, Bandar Abbas and Bushire, Persia, and then to Bagdad. How- ever, the stops in Persia are not over 350 miles apart and with clear weath- er, it is very probable the flight will attempt to complete the journey from Karachi to Bagdad in two flights, omitting the stops at Chahbar and Bushire. On account of the quick work at Calcutta. the flight ha picked up four days on its schedule, 50 that the delay at Karachi will not nterfere ser with the plin which have & d on the pr ress of the flight, and it is quite pos- sible that more time will be gained before England Is reached. Lieut. Crumrine, dvance officer for the sixth div Jled to the commanding officer of the flight at Caleutta, that indications in the north Atlantic point to an early fa:! and that in all probability, ice will be- £in to form in the harbors on ine east coast of Greenland in late August This knowledge has given added impetus to the flight and every ef- fort will be made to complete the re- maining 4.500 miles to Brough (Hull) England, in record time. e Wind Halts Sledges. Sastrugi” are long dune-like ridges of snow formed by the wind, says Na. ture Magazine. They form an annoy- ing obstacle to sledging in the polar regiol Baby Might Be a Farmer If baby only knew what medical scientists tell us about the length of life of the business man and the farmer, he might grow up to be the latter. But when he’s only a baby, you owe it to your child to see that he - gets plenty of fresh air. For the scientists attribute the farm- er’s long life to the long hours he spends out of doors. 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