Evening Star Newspaper, July 4, 1925, Page 3

MAN'S IHPOTENT N CE OF ARET Weapons of Civilization Weak ‘ Against Nature at Its Worst. BY JAMES B. WHARTON. Bpecial Correspondent of The Star and_the North American Newspaner Alltance With the Amundsen-Elisworth Polar expedition. OLSO, July 4—That snow and ice an’s relentless and uncompro. foes in the Arctic s the polar > which the Amundsen-Ellsworth lition brings back with it to civili he polar waste is a cold and hostile expanse of frozen water, fashion nature intg a nding lanx of fantastically parison with foned by the Our first vond com- weapon ever fash. hand of man. velation of the power of ice came on the day the expedition landed in Spitzbergen, now more than two months ago. There we saw yuny man fighting the ice with dyn: mite, in an effort to clear a way for our ships nito Kings Bay. And it was a long and desperate battle, in which the ice yielded only a narrow lane after a stupendous expenditure by man of his explosive and his in- genuity First Effort a Skirmish. more day we labored snuously to little ships into All mited with nervous prows until s was cleared. But this wa ish to the sunter t at lati tude 87.44 by the eirs wa & hand-to-hand which won over apparently le odds In the Arctic, man also has a feel 4ng. I think, of being imprisoned. ,Amundsen put it very neatly one day When he coined the phrase ‘prisoners of inaccessibility The miners who Atve for m months, vear out of touch with the wor lonely outpost in that they nev hemmed in powering force. 1 remember w ©of the first ou han a s et our con: insuper: lose this feeling by some over: ng the departure ing steamer from Kings Bay, soon after our arrival to make preparations for the | It was the first outgoing ship | he season, and th passengers | ted the ladder with something of | same sensati a prisoner e he his_jail at L long sentence. The pas- | s were mostly men, but there W women, all c yving cheap 3 ross the sno the ice-covered ladder, dressed E: a ew York subway Springtime. The men w suits without overc women high heels. es of life that people always | for the parts they pla | They dress rather for the y would like to play, no m how unsuitable the costume may the must the e don't they rts | ter | be (Copys should come even to the Arctic Circle, the temperature fell suddenly to somewhere below zero, and a wind roared in from the west that nipped ears protected by several thicknes: of wool. Then came a howlin, for their surrounding For strange n it must them much discomfort—the m Spitzbergen want ess as city cler] women as wives of | city e one discordant touch | was snow and ice, from which | now they were making their escape. | Small Boat Is ed. | During our stay in Spitzt welcomed e criy steamer ich came i port_aft nine-month battle with ) the icy h. She was an 80-ton| sealing ship, which had struggled all | the way back from Greenland with | only one biade left in her propeller. She could never have made Kings Bay except for the fact that she for- | tunately fell into the Farm’s broken fce wake and thus enabled to get through the frozen harbor. But her crew were happy to be safe again and they had with them a cargo of | 400 seals, a very profitable catch for | so _small a boat | The universal Northern enemy, ice, | fought continuously for possession of | our airplanes as they lay in the open | during the days of preparation for flight. Each morning icicles would | have to be brushed off the wings, and picks and shovels would be busy clearing the bottom of the hull. some bring | s of | day wi ping into | Summer Never Comes. | Summer never really comes to this Northern land. Two days before we hed Kings Bay, on April 13, the r was open. A month later it ered over from shore to shore layer of ice half a foot in In mid-May. when Spring | with a thickne: 1S HER formerly incorpora known as | zier. Inc | M. FRA’ B d after this date S.D. 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Half a dozen times during our stay in Spitzbergen filled the steamer’s tanks with snow ice in lieu of fresh water. We would moor the ship alongside an iceberg, and the crew with picks and shovels and o | would spend the day tearing great | chunks of ice from the be and ks, reduced and clean. g here a steampipe rapidly the ice to water, (Copyright, 192 paper Alliance TWO ENGINEERS HURT All rights re IN CRASH OF TRAINS . Collision Near Roanoke Sends Vic- tims to Hospital and Calls Out Relief Special. By the Associated Press. ROANOKE, Va., July 4—Engineers of both trains were severely injured when two Norfolk and Western freights collided head-on at Hester, a flag_stop, miles from here, short- ly after 8 a.m. today. The injured men, Mark A. Lucas and T. W. Dal- ton, both of Roanoke, were rushed to a Hospital here. Dalton sustained se- vere cuts about the head, while Lug suffered scalds. A relief train, carrying doctors was sent to the scene of the collision. Did Not Want the Car. Robert Massie, an automobile sale: man down in Texas, had a “hot” prospect for a sale out driving the other afternoon. The prospect was a Mexican. Massie had him about sold until they stalled on a railroad track atop a grade-crossing, and, before they could get it going again, a train came along and they had to abandon it and see it demolished. True to life, and tragedy, the gen tleman from Mexico decided he didn't want the automobile after the train ad dragged it down the right-of-way for a few hundred yard: Purdue Professor Dies. LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 4 (®.— Dr. Percy Norton Evans, head of the chemistry department at Purdue for 25 years, died at his home in West | Lafayette late last night. Dr. Evans had been in failing health for several months. _Nephritis caused death. a week before. | ‘|ed by other events as narrated be- o|led by we | THE EVENING o A TR - The two Amundsen planes at the hop-off from the surface of Kings Bay, Spitzbergen. them includes all members of the base p . by North American iPATRIOTS RALLY I TO NATION’S CALL FOR DEFENSE TEST (Continued from Jand, beginning at 8 o'clock, follow low | | 8:30 to 9—Patriotic message to the |citizens of the District of Columbia |by Edgar C. Snyder, chairman, com-| munity center council Oath of allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America by the| new citizens, native and foreign born, | Brig. Gen. Goerge Richards, | United States Marine Corps. | Pres tion of a copy of the Con- the United States of h new citizen by Mr. J P president of the Fed | eration of Citizens’ Associations, Dis: trict of Columbia | Message from Cuno H. Rudolph, | president of the Board of Commis. sioners of the District of Columbia. “Defense Day,” Mr. Isaac Gans, chairman Defense day committee, Dis- Columbia n. S .D. Rockenbach, com- | manding district of Washington and| | military’ adviser to the citizens’ com mittee directing the defense day test. “America,” first and fourth verses, »y all assembled; leader, Rollin Bond. | Part II of Program. | 9 to 10—Historical pantomines and | marches. { March of vesterday, “Colonel March,” played by the United States Marine Band. All participants in the following pan- tomine scenes will take part in this march \ | Pantomimic scenes’ of colonial his- |tory: 1, Indian frontier raid, 1775; 2, | signing of the Declaration of Inde- | pendence; 3, Winter at Valley Forge: 14 amin Franklin at the Court of |F , inauguration of Gen. Wash- | ington as President, Federal Hall, New | York, April 30, 17 March of today in honor of the flag of the United States of America, led by companies of United States Infan- | try, United Nawpl Air Service |and United States Marine Corps. | _Civic participants: Boy Scout and | Girl Scout carrying the flag designed | for the District of Columbia by the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation, District of Columbia; Mrs. Maud Howell Smith impersonating the District of Columbia; 40 girls carrying large flag of the United States of America, marchers led by Mrs. Flor- ence Fenton Barnard. ‘“The Star. Spangled Banner” by the United tates Marine Band. Fireworks. Business at Standstill. Business. both governmental and private, was at a complete standstill today. Every department, except the War Department, was closed until Monday. Some of the Government bu- reaus quit work at noon yesterday to give their employes an opportunity of spending two full days on recre- ational tours or at beach or mountain resorts. Thousands of Washingto- nians took advantage of the occasion and left the city over the holidays. At the War Department, however, all officers were on duty in uniform, }and civilian personnel necessary for | the functioning of departmental m: WANTED * 2 Experienced Real Estate Salesmen Apply Sales Manager 919 15th Street N.W. Fr. 1140 THE ARGONNE 16th & Columbia Road Several very attractive apartments ranging in size from two rooms, reception hall, kitchen, bath and bal- cony, to four rooms, kitchen, reception hall and bath. Service unexcelled prices reasonable, THE ARGONNE 16th & Columbia Road 2R Z 7 7 WY 7 %, rty, and most of the population of the little mining village of Ny-A: Newspaper Alliance.) | broadcasting STAR, WASHINGTON LANDING PLACES LIKE THIS OFFERED TO AMUNDSEN PLANES o The edge of the polar ice cap north of Spitzbergen. The jagged peaks show the kind of landing place which offered itself to the Amundsen-Ellsworth flyers all the way from Spitzbergen to Latitude 87.44. The crowd around alesund. chinery for test purposes also was retained despite the holiday. After re- ports from the nine corps area com- manders directly in charge of the tests outside of Washington have been re ceived tonight, the data will be com piled and communicated to President Coolidge. The three-corner radlo broadcasting exchanges be tween Vice President Dawes at Chi cago, War Department officials in Washington and telephone company heads in New York will wind up the day for the War Department. The plan includes mobilization of the big stations for simulta- neous distribution to listeners over the country of the addresses Acting Secretary Davis, Gen. Pershing and others, which will bring the sec- ond annual defense test to an end. telephone and Varied Air Program. Aircraft of every type possessing military value to the Army Air Serv- ice and pilots from many fields are ready to take the air at Bolling Field this afternoon for a two or three hour demonstration of flying as part of the Defense day program arranged by _the district of Washington. Yester: evening huge bombing planes, small pursuit planes and ob. servation craft arrived from Lang- ley, McCook, Chanute and Selfridge Fields to augment the squadrons here A feature of the display this after- noon will be the flight of three new pursuit planes, the fastest and most agile in the world. They will be in command of Lieut. Frank O'D. Hun- ter, a famous war pilot, and Lieuts. L. W. Sanderson and H. J. Norton of the Marine Corps. Other events on the program include bombing and de- struction of an observation by Air- planes, formation flying, acrobatics, balloon chasing and balloon ascen sion. Maj. Henry B. Clagett, in com- mand of the fleld, will be in charge of the entire program, while Lieut. L. V. Beau, jr., operations officer, will ect the entertainment. 1,500 Are Enrolled. Authorized by Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, commanding the District Militia, to enroll persons for the De- fense day, Col. Stirling Kerr turned over his offices at 433 Third street to- day and secured a total of 1,500. Two hundred would have been sufficient, he was informed. The 1,500 enrollments will go to the credit of the District National Guard. Col. Kerr's offices were made headquarters of the 29th Division, Headquarters Company and Headquarters Detachment. AMBULANCES, $4.00 Up to date—Fully N“‘XM with rolling cot, ll.mtcherl blankets anc illows. CHAMBERS' BROWNSTONE FUNERAL HOME. Col. 432 U Painting--Paperhanging Homes, Clubs, Schools, Office Buildings, Apartment Houses Harry W. Taylor 2333 18th St. Col. 1077 gi —is destined to eclipse all suburban areas about our city Watch it! BETTER STILL—SEND FOR LITHOGRAPHED P RINT AND GO OVER GROUND YOURSELF, OR WITH OUR REPRESENTATIVE. Hedges & Middleton, Inc. | ploughed D. C, SATURDAY, GHOST OF OLD 4th SMILES WRYLY ! ON NOISELESS, DESERTED CITY | Thousands Leave ,Capital, Picnics and Poetry Re- place Liquor and Explosives as Amusements of Those Who Spend Holiday at Home. . Washington .apparently celebrated the Fourth today by getting out of town—at least that portion of its populace able to command any sort of_transportation Trains and electric cars were crowded to capacity. Decks of the river boats were crowded. The auto- mobile highways into the green lanes of Maryland and Virginia were so filled with cars that gasoline fumes drowned the scent of honeysuckles. Those who were obliged to stay in the city staged their holiday in their backyards, on their front porches or in the parks. Gone was the nolse and furore of yesteryear. In the city itself it was the ghost of an Independence day—a pale, voiceless, tired shadow stubborn frequenting the places where it once had known such riotous merriment Last night the moon looked down on slumbering suburbs and on parks the silence of which was broken only by the twittering of the night birds Policewomen yawned on thelr beats There were no bell ringings, no bon- fires, no revolver shots, no clanging patrol wagons, no drunken fights in the alleys. 0ld Ghost Sees New Age. The people were gone. It was a new age. The ghost of Independence day climbed sadly up on the Capitol dome and looked over the city. He had been a sad scalawag in his day— a brave, noisy, rough-and-tumble fel low, a flashy dresser, impetuous, un thinking, quick to anger, a Hogar thian character at his best after the first few drinks of whi possessed of a bombastic eloquence—inevitably ending his holiday sprawled behind the tavern, snoring noisily About 10 years ago, roughly calcu- lated, the old roisterer who had been sousing all day d the yoad. Something ran over him The criminal was a hitand-run driver and never has been brought to justice Some say it was the New Age speed- ing with high-powered motor through the sleepy villages of the time that has gone who finished the poor old bum. He was wrapped in a sheet buried without much ceremony. He will never disturb the peace of the nefghborhood calling for “just an other little drink™ any more The ghost climbed down from the Capitol dome and sneaked bac through the moonlit mist to his grave without even bothering to haunt his son and heir, the New Fourth, a and quite different sort of chap from the | old man. The young fellow the tavern. He Is a lover of quiet, of birds, trees, flowers, gardens, mountains, wave-lapped beaches. fast motor cars. He enjoys a picnic with his wife and babies or with his favorite Sabbath school In Rock Creek Park better than a drunken fight after a hilarious evening He is closerfisted and cleaner- mouthed than the old man. He likes to lle in the hammock and read poetry on a hot Summer afternoon. He likes to swim, to play golf, to bat tennis alls back and forth, to fish. He vs moonlight and roses are not im proved by mixing them with whisky and fists, that there is no patriotism in noise, that the real flag of America has a backsround of green and stars and stripes of a thousand shades of color—the great countryside with its fields and villages and has foresworn cities. Those who know him best say there SACRIFICE In Beautiful Corner Rittenhouse and Utah Sts. Spacious Lawns, Wonderful Shrubbery 10 Rooms—3 Baths—2-Car Garage—A.M.I. Selling at $6,500 Below Cost. Reasonable Terms Inspect 9 AM. to 9 P.M. RIALTORS — BUILDERS who are buying WARDMAN’S HY NOT make that, 100% CO-OPERATIVE Study this Cozy “Bungalow” Apart: ment Home, with three exposures. neighbors, $42.80 a Month and Small Amount for Operating Costs Buys It? Edmund J. Flynn Authority on Co-operative Apartments 1412 Eye 86 N.W rE"_’. 9503 opped to sleep in | CO-OPERATIVE APARTMENTS yourself? It amounts to just that if you are occupying and purchasing one of these popular new APARTMENT HOMES! The advantages of a are manifold, and include a large monthly saving, assurance of good ership and management of your own building just as_ you and your co-owners see YOUR FAMILY AND YOURSELF —FOLLOW THE CROWDS TO— 55 M STREET N.W. Open 9 AM. to 9 P.M. JULY 4, 1925. was a great change noticeable in his character when he came back from the war. Before that he had shown tendencles of following the old man’s footsteps, used to sneak a few swigs from a gin bottle behind the school- house and loiter on the fringes of noisy parties. He was interviewed this morning as he was changing a tire on one of the nearby Maryland roads, sweating and cursing a little at the task. “So the old man’'s ghost was around last night,” he said. “It must look pretty tame to the old fellow now. He did according to his lights in his day tried to be patriotic the best he knew how. But to me there's more patriot- ism expressed in the voice of the sea waves or the birds singing in the woodland than in the explosion of 10,000,000,000 cannon crackers. One uttains a greater love for the country by watching the green ribbons of grass unwind along its roadsides than by listening to a milllon village pargons, country lawyers, legislators and such like shout to high heaven and twist the tafl of the lion. “As for the old man—he thought he was some scrapper, but he always end- ed up wit™ a couple of black big head g ich stay week, an Jds clothes all covered with blood amdnud. 1 could beat him up with one hand tied behind my back. “I'd hate to think of an army which must fight a war as wars are fought | nowadays, made up of poor, old bums like the old man. In no time at all the enemy would be sitting in the White House.” Exodus Sets Record. Which all comes back to saying that the young fellow led an enormous pro- cession of Washingtonians out of town today. At Union Station it was ated that the crowd purchasing tick- ets for the past three or four days had |been more than double the ordinary number and even er than last Fourth. But the most striking dis- tance noted this year was in the num- ber purchasing long-distance tickets. | A great increase in the, local business |is expected, but the ticket sellers found themselves making up tickets for hun- | dreds of Washingtonians bound for | distant points—for California, for Yel- |lowstone Park, for the White Moun- {tains. Most of these left three or four ago in order to be at their desti- nations in time for the national holi- av. It‘was estimated that more than £0,000 tickets a day have been sold for all sorts of trips on the Fourth. treet railway cars going into the suburbs pulled out with every seat taken and men and women standing in the aisles. The traffic into nearby Virginia was particularly heavy, it | was’ stated at the office of the Wash- | ington and Old Dominion Railway Co. On the whole, officials id, it was bet lter than last vear in spite of the | threatening rain early in the morning. Many entire families with wraps and lunches defied the clouds and left for the country at dawn. Steamboat travel also compared very favorably with other years. Every pos- sible ticket ‘was sold on the boats running down the river and on the boats. of those who left the city traveled by auto. It was estimated that a considerable majority of the 100,000-0dd cars owned in the Capital were pressed into service for the new age way of celebrating Fourth of July. . Independence day doesn't beat a drum and blow on a bugle any more. He swings a golf stick or munches ches in the shade. Chevy Chase Sunday —~ OWN YOUR OWN APARTMENT HOME with monthly payments of ¥s Rooms and Bafll—SSl‘w“ | 4 Rooms and Bath—$40.40 A Plus small monchly assessment for operating costs NEW 1009 monthly rent paymentto APARTMENT HOME the satisfaction of own- fi. 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