Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1925, Page 60

THE SUNI STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., JULY 9, THE AVENUE OF DEATH BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM of the ONDE threw t copy had g to his wife and upon the hearthrug of somewhat Victorian-look g-room, S They down fc months corner read stood the drawt had settled in a remote “Read that, Judith She read the paragray ‘One thousand pounds rew I | be paid for any information as to the present whereabouts of Sir Joseph Londe, bart, late of Melbourne, Aus tralia, surgeon-major in his majes forc ply Box 117, offices of this ing rey. nvited. aloud ean you. | Somebody badly that must T Joseph,” she exclaimed seems to want you very ‘Somebody wants me,” he repe bitterly ‘T know who it is, course. It is that h lunatic world of lunatics, Daniel ¥ »w what wants, too to hang How “Are peopl You huve Judith,” he beautiful 1 that's with you. But think ¢ the situation for me. “Don’t think of it begged. “You are too clever for them He nodded a But mad vou,” he she murmured. | nowadays ridiculous ever hanged not much went on, ligence ou ar matters horror of she | too | | dear, ever, far senting! people sometime: Not mad people like | 2ued, after a_moment’s pause, “but a man like Griggs! I have come to the conclusion that he | is no longer trustwo; I have| made a most int experiment upon hi Poor Griges have vou dc 1 have his m now n imbeci “What must see Londe she sighed. ‘“What losed I other fided a hopele the d but up in nde she exclaimed. “I f b onc: very be od her. F el HE rans the bell s curious expression ¢ hi f will interested,” assu waited. A | ? vanity stole | pale-faced earance. carrylng into stout face. ur Grig leasar He was flowers ring, my s in small bunch of Thou didst bawled Whi rubbishy manded. “Rubbishy! Why, tions fair, for Phyllis Dar man warbled. “As a matter he went on, confidentially, Tate and Marie Lloyd are lunching with me in the kitchen to meet the | mother-in-law of the President of the| United Stat | ““Capital, had better liege,” he | those | de- | with master re you flowers? doing t are carna the fat of fa Londe murn go and attend guests now,” he enjoined “Present my compliments and wishes to all.” | “Aye, aye, my master mariner!” | He departed. Londe looked vain-| gloriously toward his wife | Judith laughed immoderately, laugh- ed till the tears in her eyes.| Londe waited patiently for her ver- dict. | “And you call me soft” she ex- claimed, mockingly “What do you mean”" piciously “Mean! Wh: could tell that ¢ she declared the tim He picked the a m where he used to I us. I heard it often myself." “If T believed that!" he mut “Pooh! she scoffed “I may and silly, but éven I could see that he was acting. Follow him downstairs | in a few minut Joseph Griggs, on his return to the k seated himself at the table and re-| sumed the lstter from which his mas- | ter's bell had summoned k He read it over as far as he had gone “Honored Sir Replying to your ad in the Times, Y can put you on to Londe and shall be glad to handle the thousand quid. T know all about him, for I was his | warder in Chigwell Asylum, and I am| now in his service, also my wife. I| was with him at the house in Salis. bury Plain and helped him to trick the cops. If I give you the office now The pen seemed suddenly to become | wax in his fingers and a great fear went through him, like the shiver of | death. He had heard no footsteps, yet | he knew not alone. He | made an e eless! There was | a quick hissing sound, a faint cloud of | vapor—and the strength went from | his limbs the last gasp from an empty ter syphor You feel as though you were going o die,” Londe observed. *‘But you ar not—not, at any rate, until I say the word. Give me something, groaned. “I am dying.’ Londe felt his pulse. ured to “You your he asked sus- , a special ward ggs isn't mad at all “He was shamming all D that stuff in ok after | cred. | be soft | tchen, | the man AT ON HIS BACK. HIS I he progwounced calmly. vourself \fogether. You to write for me.’ * ok ok ow ANIEL ROCKE passed the lettef to Ann, as soon as he had 11 1 letter d it She studied it carefully: “Honored Sir “Seeing your advertisement in the Times, I can put Joseph Londe; as T am now living in ke same house with him. I kmow him well, as I was a warder in Chigwell Asylum, and he was there. My wife 1l 1 have been cook and butler to him most of the time since. “My terms would be a thousand about me and my wife helping in the escape from the house in Salisbury If agreeable to you, motor along the road between Cob- um and Ripley, near 4 o'clock tomor- . with a white handkerchief tied to right-hand door of the car. Come alone, or you will see nothing of “JOLN GRIGC The light flamed tn Ann's eyes, her | trembled, her wondertful self-possession seemed gone. Is thei any reason why shouldn’t be genuine?” she asked. “No, I don't know that there is,” Daniel admitted. It sounds all right From what 1 can remember of the man Griggs, 1 should think he -would sell his soul for a thousand pounds.” I1f this were only the end! she murmured passionately. ‘‘Shall we go down in the Crossley?"” Naturally. It lips air of You know why I am was always understood that hunted Joseph Londe together.” That's all very well,” Daniel re. ed. “But this is a different affair. The letter may be a trap.’ She laugh at him. “Well, 1 suppose youw'll take a few reasonable precautions,” she ob- ved. “You'll have to tell Sir Fran- about it, and he will come along o Nice ridiots we should look, motor- ing along the roads with & white andkerchief tied to the handle of our door,” Daniel grumbled. ople will think we have just married,” she W be murely It we had much,” he declared, gallantry. “Anyhow to_take you." “It is no good, Mr. Rocke; I am mot going to sit here and wait while you chasing Londe."” went, as she would, remonstrances, they had passed through Cobham that he was conscious of any real uneasiness. Close behind, aithough kept carefully out of sight, was a police car containing Sir Fran- cis, Windergate and two highly quali- fied subordinates. His own automatic was close to his hand and he had made up his mind to shoot at the slightest signs of treachery. For himself he felt nothing but a pleasurable thrill of excitement. He knew perfectly well that the nervousness at the back of his mind was wholly connected with the girl who sat by his side. Excite- ment became Ann well, except that her eyes were a little too pitilessly bright, her mouth drawn into a shade too straight a line. She was intense- ly alive—a human magnetic force. At that moment of crisis Daniel began to see certain things in life with singular and disconcerting clear- ness Ann, on the other hand, was en- tirely absorbed in their immediate object. “We ought to be seeing something of Mr. Griggs shortly,” Daniel re. marked I shouldn't with I'm mind so unwonted not going So s knew that ing his not until aniel always notwithstand- and it was 'R HE turned her head to look at him. His tone was unusual. Then she looked once more along the level stretch of road and pointed. A very old Ford car was drawn up by the side of the path. The bonnet was open and a man was apparently examining the engine. He stood up as they drew slowly near. He was Imost_unrecognizable, pallid, shrunk. en, and with a strange expression of fear. Daniel brought the car to a stand still. Griggs took a step forward and caught hold of the wind screen. He seemed in need of support. “Have you brought the master?” he demanded. Daniel nodded. “I have it in my pocket,” he said. “It fs yours as Soon as we can arrest Londe.” “He's a devil,” “You'll the h “Bring manded. “I'll be glad when it's over,” Griggs groaned, watching the other car slowly approaching. “I wish I'd never set eyes on him. You both follow me,” he went on. “About a money, Griges muttered. never be sure of him until are upon his wrists. to him,” Daniel us de HOLE IN HIS FOREHEAD, you into touch with | | this observed de-| ARMS OUSTRETCHED‘ STONE DEAD, W | mile along the road I shall turn to | the left. You will see a drive a few vards along with the gates open, | mosst_likely. | “The house is about | back and he's in it. As soon as you get within sight push along for the front door at top speed.” “Don’t you turn in there, Danlel asked Griggs looked up. | “No, I go on to the back | house,” Griggs exclaimed. ther drive leading quart You go up to the { and can be in the house before | he hears a thing. The front door's | always open and I've hidden the 100 yards too?" of the to the kitchen Ipounds down and no questions asked | key.' off and s. The at a Daniel re- two cars reasonable He lumbered | ported to Sir F followed the distance. | poThere's the house, ail right,: Daniel muttered, pointing through | the trees. *“The lodge gates must be | Just round the bend.” |~ Ann leaned forward “Look out,” she warned ending her hand to the r, “the Ford has stopped.” Daniel jammed on his brakes. The | two cars’ crawled round the corner and pulled up behind the Ford. Griggs had descended and was lean ing against a_gate, his forehead wet his eyes bloodshot, his color ghastly He was like.a man facing some ugl death and discovering himself to b a coward. “I can't do it, governor,” he moaned to Daniel. “I'm no saint, but I can't do it. I'm on the double cross. you get me? T understand,” Daniel said. “Go on.” | ! “posT oy | gates voice choked “not you or the other car Leave the cars here In the road and take [ the footpath through the shrubbery. And leave the young lady behind.” “Why do you want us to leave the here?" Daniel demanded sus. ord him, ex following Do | you turn the' man and barely in at those urged, his coherent, | | cai THE ROYAL PALACE OF FO “There's | front | | beneath | missed piclously. “A few minutes ago you urged us to rush for the house." “For heaven's sake don't ask me questions,” the man groaned. *I was on the double cross.” ’ He started off in the Ford. | “Come on then, we'll try the foot- | path,” Daniel decided. “It will only | take a moment or two longer. Miss Lancaster, you come last, please.'” ] Windergate, who had been drlving the police car, sprang back into his place. J clared an opp: fellows taking no chances,” grimly. “I believe he wants tunity to warn Londe. You come on through the shrub- I'll make a rush for it. We can’'t both be wrong that way Daniel opened his lips to protes but closed them again. After a Windergate's point of view was rea- sonable.’ It clear that Griggs was almost hysterical with fear. And it was quite plausible that his oid dread of Londe should have broken out again. Besides, Windergate was |a powerful man and a deadly shot even alone more than a match for Londe. So the car swept by them and Daniel made for the shrubbery footpath. A queer afternoon stillness reigned everywhere—an ominous and unwholesome silence. Daniel—perhaps every one of them cemed to sense coming danger. The car ahead had turned the last bend, they themselves were not far behind, when it was upon them. A deafening roar seemed to split and tear the air. The ground shook their feet. Daniel, who was leading the way, threw up his hands nd staggered, felt the earth rise up nd hit_his chin, and doubled over like a shot rabbit. The others, who were behind, saw things which he uprooted trees in the air, a i of dust, a shower of small| pebbles, which came down through the trees like hailstones, and a strange white light, come and gone in a moment, but which made the sunny afternoon seem for a second r two afterward as though it were he de- Daniel was up again on hi s feet almost as the others reached him dazed, but unhurt, save for a cut on the forehead. No one spoke. Thay all raced forward. Danfel was the first round the bend. He turned, olding up_ both his hand i shouted to Worton: S “Don't let Miss Lancast Keep her back.” gl * * ® % ANN easily evaded Worton's out- stretched arm. She was speech- less, but determined. They all saw what had happened together. The car, a twisted, unrecognizable heap of metal, Windergate more terribly dealt with—his clothing alone could have ldentified him—a great hole in the road, in which a dozen men have been buried, a twisted wire, a faint unpleasant smell. Then, after a glance, they all seemed to dismiss the whole matter as unimportant. With one accord they set their faces toward the stone house. A fury was in the blood of all of them. Daniel, with the habit of his varsity running days back again in his limbs, headed the line, and he carried in his hand, without concealment, his very ugly automatic pistol. There was no doubt in his mind as to what he was going to do. He was going to shoot Londe on sight. . . . They reach- ed the house. No need to ring. Griggs had kept his word so far that the front door stood wide open. There was a white stone, almost circular, hall. In the center of it a man lay flat on his back, his arms outstretched, stone dead, with a small bullet hole in_his forehead. Daniel, glancing nervously around, threw a handkerchief over his face “Griggs!"" he muttered. “That must have been gquick work. Londe was here, then, not many seconds ago. Come on.” * ook % HEY searched the silent house from attic to basement. As the moments passed, a dumb, despairing wrapped in the mantle of twilight. NTAINEBLEA could | cupation, but notwhers the sound presence of any human being. The Ford was in the back yard with its engine still throbbing. There was a dying fire in the kitchen, but no or one to tend it; food in the larder, bu fury seized them all. There were g1 , WHERE STUDENTS OF THE AMERICAN CONSERVATORY SLEEP, EAT AND Wl:)l’}K LIG. | BY STERLING H FONTAINEBLEAT Near Paris, June 2 | NE hundred and thirty-two | students are already enroll- | ed for the fifth annual Sum- mer session of the American Conservatory of Music u ordinary. Fontainet It sounds vletely extraordinary war it would have been and unthinkable Today country than America 1, imag inably, have a conservatory of music| in Fontainebleau Palace ! Exactly. “Fontainebleau” means the | grand old royal chateau itself! Amer- | ican students live, sleep, eat and work in the historical old homestead of | French rovalty! | It is the most famous royal cha- teau of France. It is full of precious | furniture, just as royalty left it. Yet | the American woman students, living in a section of the Louis XV wing, have just had their accommodations enlarged for thirty additional, with shining porcelain bathtubs and mmu ern brass bedsteads which royalt itself might have been glad to use. 3o back 250 vears. King Louis XTIV, at the height of French royalty, forced his court and family to make | invariable annual sojourns at Fon- tainebleau every Summer in honor of the family—this despite that he him- self had built Versailles to supersede the Louvre, in Paris, even, as royal seat! Have you read Dumas’ historical novels? “All their personages, from Chicot the Jester to the Three Muske- teers, pass through Fontainebleau Palace. It is the home of beauty romance. Its memories begin with St. Lo King of France, about A. D, 12 From him an old wing, “the Pavilion | St. Louls,” still exists. The whole place was rebuilt for Francis T about A.D. 1532. Nothing dates later than A. D. 1600 in the great additions of Henri 1V, except the Trinity Chapel, due to his son, Louis XIII, and the beautiful Louis XV wing—where the American girls sleep. in their brand- new brass bedsteads! % %k % N American conservatory in Fon- tainebleau Palace! It is the very cradle of grand opera—because in it the world’s first operas, of Lulli, 1t Befor: is com the impossible no other | cou and {ing us m the war!” | the etry, etc., produced for the t time! Only an American could possibly be given Not even a French Summer conserva- tory of music could be proposed in it—although sweetly desirable. But, for America, it is one of France's ways of saying, “Thank you for sav- were fi conservatory such honor | | And, so, to music, they have added architecture and fine arts for us. Why, the palace itself is architecture and fine arts Gen. Pershing started it. People were saying that French military bands were better than those of the A, E. F. He wanted our bands to equal any in Europe. A military school of music was founded near Chaumont. Until long after armistice our bands and con- ductors were trained and super- coached there. When the boys went home the Chaumont School was closed. But *musical contact” had been made between large groups in America and France. It was too val- uable to lose Among Americans Walter Dam- rosch and Blair Fairchild were par- ticularly interested in continuing the group-contact. So, an idea developed of a conservatory in France for American artists and advanced stu: dents of music, the faculty to be of recognized French masters. The French government met more than half way. It gave up the Palace of Fontaine- bleau (no less) as superlative seat of such American conservatory. It opened in June, 1921, and has re- opened for a three-month session in Summer each year since. At this moment only the American woman students are actually sleeping in the palace. The men have tem- porary guarters in the town. There is only question of finding them a de- tached wing. The bijou pavilion in which the Czar Peter the Great and his party got gloriously drunk every -night in 1717 is spoken of as socially correct and artistically worthy. It is quite beautiful and has other memories. All students eat in a refectory in the palace. All class work and all work with professors is done in the, palace. A fine new organ has just been in- stalled in the Trinity Chapel (dating from the “Three Musketeers”) by the New York committee. It is played for the first time on July 4 by Widor, the noted organist—so many of whose American students have become them- selves great organists. * k x % 'HESE American committees share Jarge authority with French gov- ernment and French professors. Ap- plicztions for admission and examina- tion of students who apply from the United States are dealt with by an American committee. On enrollment arrangements are made with the French Line for reduced rates of transatlantic transportation. The cost of the three-month course is 5,000 francs ($250 at present ex- change) and includes tuition, board us { {tablished. and lodging and admission to all the concerts given at the conservatory. To live in a royal palace for §2.77 per day, Is in itself not excessive) From New York is cabled as fol- low “Award of the Fontainebleau prizes | in architecture by the Beaux-Arts In- | stitute of Design of this city to J. H. | Rafferty of the Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology and Luther S. Lashmit of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, has been an- | nounced. The awards followed sub- mission of 138 drawings by architec- tural students of all parts of the coun- try. “The prizes provide for a summer course of study at the American School of Fine Arts, in Fontainebleau >alace, near Paris, from June 25 to September 25, including transporta- tion and living expenses. “The problem of this year's com- petition was a ‘center for the exhibi- tion of building materials.’ Sketches were submitted by the contestants on March 21, the plans allowing until May 4 for the completed work."” Such cable shows the wide spread of the American work in Fontaine- bleau Palace. To the conservatory the French government and foremost American organizations have added this Fon- tainebleau School of Fine Arts. It may be mentioned, as showing the spread, that its director, M. Jacques Carlu, who has been a mem- ber of the department of architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology this vear, has just returned from the United States, bringing with him 10 students of the institute who will take the summer course at Fon- tainebleau. The Massachusetts “Tech” is, in. deed, one of the high patrons of the school. Two such high patrons stand behind its reputation in America. The Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology and the Carnegie Institute of Tech. nology are donors of the money prizes for distinguished work done which are to be awarded, henceforth, each Summer. * Kk ok % LIKE the Conservatory, the Schoo\( of Fine Arts is an outgrowth of the war. After armistice, our Gov- ernment established, as part of its Army educational system, an art. training school for architects, sculp- tors and painters, in the Pavillon de Bellevue, at Meudon, down the river from Paris. When the A. E. F.'s Bellevue School was discontinued there was such a demand for something similar and permanent for American prac- titioners and advanced students that the French government itself lent a hand. Through its ministry of beaux-arts the school at Fontainebleau was es- 1t is open to 100 American students, the selection of whom is placed in the hands of an American committee in charge of Whitney Warren, represent- ing the department of architects, and Ernest Pelxotto, representing the de partments of painting and scuipture You can easily imagine that stu. dents, having taken one Summer course in Fontainebleau Palace, make the greatest effort of thelr lives to re- turn for the second and third time! Former students who are In New no one to cook it. Upstairs one be American Music Students Favored With Use of Fontainebleau Palace = alfeianang: i York have formed an alumni there, with weekly meetin and a monthly dinner ~ that sometimes reaches the 100 mark in attendance to preserve the fair memories and serene atmosphere of this most won derful of schools. The fine arts students share the community club with those of the conservatory. Twice during the Sum mer they unite for modern demon strations—to celebrate the Fourth of July and the Fourteenth of July, which is the “French Fourth.” All the rest is old world sweetness, romance and beauty. Around Fon. tainebleau >alace are peace, quiet and dreamy meditation, fragran a note of benignant melancholy Here was the old court, in lazy Summer days. < Here were intrigue, love, laughter. Today there is silence. A snatch of music enlivens it—good music, the coaching of a conservatory. tudents of architecture roam through galleries and salons whose walls are marvels of carved wood- work, whose ceilings and floors are priceless marquetry. The palace is full of precious old furniture of kings—as if it were, still today, the country home of rovalty, with family and court only gone to town for the week end. Is it not the very place of art and inspiration? For 100 years it has been a silent show place, with personally conducted parties of tourists penetrating, awe- struck and whispering, a few gal- leries. Only for American students of these splendidly privileged schools does Fon- tainebleau Palace become again a kind of Summer home, to work and dream in! Ears Grow Tired, Too. SCIE.\'(‘E always has maintained that the human ear, unlike the eye, cannot be fatigued, says Popular Science. Now, though, as a result of some interesting experiments with radio apparatus, Prof. Albert Sidney Langfeld, director of the laboratory of experimental psychology at Prince- ton University, asserts that the ear apparently does become physically tired. Prof. Langfeld led the sound from oscillating vacuum tubes to head- phones that were adjusted until the wearer declared the sounds reached each ear with absolutely equal volume. ‘Then one phone was removed and the hearer required to listen with one ear for a minute. At the end of that time both phones were used again, and invariably the subject reported hearing the sounds more loudly for a time in the ear to which the phone had just been added. Initials on Pigs. ENGL!SH farmers propose to tattoo their initials on their pigs after this, instead of marking them by notching their ears, using black pig- ment for Chesters and Tamworths and light-colored pigment for Berk- shires. Cattle also are to be marked In‘this fashion, group | with | SION SEEMED GONE. T everywhere signs of very recent oc-(had been slept In, and there were |clothes were all ( one room and a and silk and But the clothes—a man's in woman’s, all perfume crepe de chine, in another. | BY VISHNU R. KARANDIKAR. ODERN women they become ambiti dream of perfect with men, rarely ha ined a sta where the whole life would be turned wWomen uppermost |and in every way. | when he wrote | thought only of was made a preserve der the benev Jut never has watively or otherwise. World a country ruled by wom womer, Where man wus tole merely as a necessary evil Such a feminine Uto established fact for th India arliest traditior »d of the great d to have taken or fifth mill It was after the greatest soldie times w in to the quer those regions for who was the emperor W the southwest coast the Peninsula that he crossed mountain ranges and on t waters of Malayalam fronted with z half-dressed wom He found it difficult »wers, who were down thelr bows and render uncondition effective _weapons of thei But this warrior was ainst such adversaries and F quereti them—agreein marry the queen at vear's campaign, if would W to Delhi, the capital of India ever hose times. Kingdom of Won pellation the ruler gave to t try, and it is known to this day t me. The women of this king dom were described as being skinned, with long dark hai | physique, lotus eves on a full-moor face, the eyelashes being long y making the orbs I | neath them look like the blue lotuses of Indian lakes. Five hundred g from th, Malay: equ i existence in rted an fourth i Christ. this neral south his i army to control his willing to lay rrows and sur- the more a him in n" was the ap- ¥ miles in 40 to 200 mile lam is the most fa mous land in South India, equaling in tradition and culture the wonderland of Kashmir in the north. The people are a very mild race, following the |age-long manners and customs of the Aryans, but guiding their life by different set of rules from those plying to Hindus generally. Manu, the great Aryan length, and o ap- lawgiver, (Contin _Second Page.) with calcium arsenate. mishap means certain aboard the plane. The pictures taken have demon- strated the practicability of this method of spraying the cotton plants to control the boll weevil, and hav been shown all over the South. The result is the organization of several commercial units which undertake to spray cotton fields from aeroplanes a stipulated fee. The job is done quickly and at comparatively low cost when the expense is shared by groups of farmers. Perkins and Eugene Tucker, another department camera man, together have shot scenes of forest fires from aeroplanes where an accident to the plane would have precipitated them jinto the roaring furnace below. Maj Lowell Smith, one.of the round-the- world flyers, was in command of the air squadron making these pictures. They have climbed Mount Hood at a height of some 10,000 feet to take cloud formations for the Weather Bureau. The Weather Bureau recently has been making pictures in connection with new meteorological experiments in studying upper air currents. Per- kins was detailed to ‘“shoot” death to all from both aeroplanes and dirigible: The night after Perkins was relieved from duty, Lieut. Thomas H. Neal and C. Leroy Meisinger lost their lives when the balloon in which. they were flying fell as the result of what is known as a “static” discharge. The Post Office Department wanted some movies of the Air Mail Serv- ice. They called on L. W. Beeson of the Bureau of Animal Industry to do the job. Beeson flew mail lane from Washington to Frisco in making a pictorial record of the cross-country route and secured val- uable views enabling the air mail fiyers to minimize the danger of their every day flights. CE THE Army and/Navy photographers occasionally do some movie work such as the recent pictures taken of the eclipse of the sun and in record- ing land and water maneuvers, but most of their pictures as “stills.” This also is hazardous work, particularly a | The slightest | the | scenes at Scott Field, taking views | the air| THE LIGHT FLAMED IN ANN’S EYES, HER LIPS TREMBLED, HER WONDERFUL AIR OF SELF-POSSES- ed. Once remain t e stepped more nde (Copyright by E. Phillips Oppenheim.) Where Women Are Rulers And Men Serve in Home ia the recog aba. in Mz > wom her ay leave announces yrce. Her ith her, the t all ove Seriptu th, m to the of the 1 explai maharanee the c rt sisters are s eldest sis ger a ern conditions ol ma strative e har s not prope to be > wh over. servant nd set asi ss were a spirit of re. the younge: t with the mo: utside; and in law was finally a M am rriage and as- his chil self instead of his wife. But been passed, dead letter, mer even it Camera Men Risk Lives | when ng pictures in places inac- | cessible oth er than lv,‘ plane or dirig- derable pictorial work of is_done for the Coast Survey in yielding s of shore lines and moun- = field for camera work large crop areas 1 crop report creage and ary exper: ments of the Army Air Service with utomatic cameras indicate the prac- ticability of this method of estimat- {ing crop areas, particularly in the | cotton and rice’ growing region: The aeror photographs are made at a of from 7,000 to 10,000 feet, each picture representing an area of approximately one square mile. The picture: ater joined together in a huge mosaic map and ve a representative ble of exter sive crop.areas. The chief value of th work is its m 1l accuracy and the ability to c a large area in a few hours’ fij The Government camera men whose { headquarters here at Washing ton spend most of their time on the {road. They have photographed in movies and * " most of the nat ural wonders in valleys and moun tain tops throughout the width and breadth of the land. There are lit- erally millions of mnegatives ana prints in_the Government files on all conceivable subjects from agri- culture to war. The motion pictures are shown all over the world, many of them carrving legends ‘and titles translated into a dozen languagss The “still” photdgraphs provids en unending source of picture material for newspapers and magazines, in addition to preserving photographic records of Uncle Sam’s multitudinous cientific studies. The Bureau of Standards, for example, has a com- plete pictorial record of practically every plece of experimental work done at the bureau. The Forest Service picture library contains over 5,000 prints, made in practically all the forest lands in the United States. Thrilling scenes’ are depicted in both the “still” and motion pictures, but the more thrilling the scene the greater the risk of the Governmient camera man, unmindful of dange:rs in the Jine of public duty. this char: and Gec photograr tainous I 1