Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1925, Page 11

TRUGK-LOAD LAW DBSERVANCE URGED, Eldridge Wants Pohcemen> Detailed to Check Up on Violations. In an effort to prevent the streets and to elimina sary noise, T Director Eldridge yesterday ur; owners of heavy trucks to see that the tires are kept £00d condition and to exercise care ainst loading trucks above thelr capacities. he traffic director said he favored & few motor cycle policemen avai to check the loads of truc Police Department has tw s of load-testing apparatus obtained from the District engineer of bridges, which can be carried around by a policeman in a motor cycle sidecar. b Will Teach Use. Col. T. C. Moller, assistant traffic director, said he expected a represent- 8tive of the firm which makes these testers to be in Washington this week to give members of the Traffic Bureau detailed information concerning their use. The traffic code fixes the maximum gross weight of vehicles at 28,000 pounds, which means the weight of the truck and load combined. Officials say a truck usu welghs® a h as | its load, which make the heaviest load | allowable in ct appro: 1y 7 tons. Traffic I 8 ridze and Er neer of ik *. B. Hunt both de. clared y that the maximum limit of 28,000 pou 5 reasonable provided Tieations Jnid down tn the traffic code s to the width of the wheels and the thickness of the tires for trucks of various weight In other word both stress the point that the weight of the load on a truck is not particularly harmful to , tha streets if it is properly distributed on the axles, if the wheels are of proper width and thickness and if the low speed limits fixed for trucks are observed. unneces- Overloading Is Dangerous. eer of Highways Hunt as- t a small truck overloaded would do more damage to the streets than a lar, arrying only its sllowable lo: A 28,000-pound limit it not too Mr. Eldridge, “if the other condtions laid down in the regulations @as to the distribution of the load on the axles, the width and thickness of the tires and the spread of trucks are complied with. i “We do not want to make arrests 1f we can possibly correct a condition in any other way, and for that reason I would urge truck operators to keep in mind the regulations governing load: Mr. Eldridge said that in his opinion | most of the damage is done to the streets by trucks when the solid tires have picces broken out of them or when they exceed the special speed limit for trucks. When a truck with a broken tire strikes a small rut in the street, Mr. Eldridge explained, the impact is far greater than if the tire had been in good condition. Mr. Eldridge said that the limit of 28,000 pounds was approved by & motor vehicle conference committee composed of representatives of all branches of the automobile industry and _that the District also had the advice of the Bureau of Standards and the Bureau of Public Roads. traffic code contains a table showing the amount of load adowed for tires ,of varying widths and thicknees. -— 3 Flute Tooted for Nile Noble. A flute which made music on the Nile in the balmy air of Egypt 3,000 years ago, rec v played an encore in the University of Pennsylvania's museum, says the Capper’s Weekly. Unlike our flutes, the wind enters through slits in the side of the reeds instead of the ends, and each note end its octave are sounded at the same time, as if two flutes were play- ing. The notes have a soft and mel- low sound. The flute was found in the tomb of a noble of the time of the Pharaohs. If somebody could find & way to make it reproduce the tunes he played on it the twentieth century might hear some new and interesting music. PLAYER- PIANO The | Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, September 26.—Fall- ing in love is the cause of the poor college records made by some young men, Dean Herbert E. Hawkes of Co- lumbia College declares in his annual report, made public today. Of course, that is not the only reason. It might be a comblnation of low intelligence, lack of money and falling in love. It can be simple or very complex, for, in addition to the causes named, it might be poor preparation, poor judg- ment in .extra curriculum work, il health, family trouble or plain lazi- ness. It'might be a combination of these. “Some ‘of thess Hlg are remedial,” continued Dean. Hawkes, ““and do not mean that the boy is an undesirable. But a diagnosis must be made unless we make an adherence to a rule that failure in a certain number of courses means ellmination from: college re- gardless of the reason. | economic situation, THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 27, 1925—PART 1. Love, Dumbness and Lack of Money ‘Held Cause’ of Poor Coltege Records . “But in dealing with young and dy- namic human beings static rules and tests are not the last word. If we could really know our students, in their minds, their temperaments, their their health, their ambition, it is altogether likely that we could admit a freshman class nine- tenths of which could graduate, in- stead of only about 50 per cent, which is approximately the present propor- tion in Columbia College. “The great and commanding chal- lenge to. our American education dur- ing the next decade is the more accu- rate knowledge of the kind of young people we are trying to educate. We must not only know the level of their intelligence—this we can now deter- mine with reasonable assurance by means of our mental tests—but we must learn thelr biologic and economic background. their significant interests, their ambitions and their characters.” | TRIPS WITH MRS. COOK’S HUSBAND ARE ADMITTED Woman Denies Anything Was Amiss in Journeys With Spouse of Slain W. C. T. U. Worker. By the Associated Press. VINTON, lowa, September 26—Mrs. Hester Siéling of Sioux City was oned last night before the cor- | - which is investigating the s. Myrtle Under- wood ook S0 land head of the county women's or- anization of the Ku Kiux Klan. A statement by Mrs. Sieling_had admitted she knew (lifford B. Cook, husband of the slain temperance “quite well” and that she had gone on frequent trips with him while they lived at Sioux City. They stayed at the same boarding house. Mr: ling also admitted, the sherift that she knew Cook was a married man, but denled that there was any- thing wrong about their relations. State Agent George Atkins said that Cook had told officers that he re- garded Mrs. Sieling as a “sister.” | Ruhl said Early Dawn Summer Crown. Jay E. House in the Philadelphia Ledger. The one endurable moment of a corn-belt Summer is early dawn. The furnace of earth having cooled in the arms of night, a cooling breeze blows as darkness strikes its tents. But it comes too late to succor those who have tossed in torment through sleep- less hours. They are already up and doing. Presently a blazing sun mounts the sky to burn a parched earth and the cooling breeze dies away. The thermometer jumps to 100 in the shade, then to 102 or 104, and hangs there all afterncon. Out of the south- west comes a gusty, fitful breeze, so { hot that it dries the perspiration on suffering humankind. Weeks later the | sun goes down and hot, sticky, tortur- | ing night closes in. There {8 no sleep | —only now and then a feverish dream. _— Physical Test Idea Is Old. Although health examinations are |more numerous today than ever, | especially on the part of adults, it is not a new idea, for, according to Dr. Alec Thomson of the American Medical Association, the idea was brought up in France in 1870. There is a growing interest in the United States which first received the idea about 1900, but according to Dr. Thomson, it will be many years yet before the good results can uclunly be” tabulated. 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Gemire has been invited by the German actors’ association to discuss | means of furthering a Franco-German theatrical éntente. But he sees in such a beginning the possibility of internationalizing the drama. “What I look for,” said the French producer recently, “is a sort of in- ternational exposition of cotemporary dramatic art, to begin in France under. my direction. Just as the League-of, Nations has been created for the inter- | - nationalization of peoples, I would like to institute & ‘universal league of dra- matio art’ and internationalize the theater. “Each country would send its tech- niclans to the exposition I have in mind and each would present his con- tention of the theater and of theater management. I have already received the adhesion of Japanese producers to such a project, and they have sent plans for their new wood and card- board theater. I hope to build three of these theaters in Paris, in which foreign companies would be invited to play regularly. I would have a the atrical studio seating 500 person: comedy theater seating 1,000 and a lyrical theater seating 1,800. Com- panies representing each nation would have the use of these three stages for three weeks each year.” —_— Mile. Renee Lascasade is the only woman physiclan in the French colontes. A. Kahn Inc. 935 F Stress Several weeks ago Mr. Adolph Kahn returned from ARMY-NAVY UNION. PLANS BIG PARADE Want 500,000 to March in Philadelphia During the Sesquicentennial. The question of when and where the National Cerps of the Army and Navy Union, U. 8. A, will hold its thirty-eighth national encampment convention next year, will be deter~ mined during a ' visitation of the National Corps commander, Chauncey 0. Howard, and-the staff of Washing- ton to the Philedelphia divisional en- campment -of - the Department of Pennsylvania, Army and Navy Unlon, according to an announcement con- tained in the “General Orders No. 1, Series of 1926-28,” just issued from the National Corps headquarters, G. A. R. Hall, 1412 Pennsylvania avenue. Officers to Be Installed. Comdr. Howard in the publication announces_also that the {nstaliation of Col. J. M. Hinkson of Philadelphia as natfonal patriotic instructor and Willfam A." Hofmann, also of Phila- delphia, as chief national deputy and organizer wilPbe held at that time. sneral Orders No. 2, to be issued in U\\(v er, and General Orders No. 3, to be 1s nouncements of the ment convention, says. In the current publication Comdr Howard discusses the theory of a huge mobilization of active and for- mer sérvice men and women, in per- son or by proxy, suggested as part of the sesquicentennial festivities. Miltions Eligible. “The idea 1s expanded In the theme “Prepare to Mobilize.” *“The Na- tional Corps has been informed that there are several million men In the United States who have rendered hon- orable military or naval ser¥ice. All who are of good character are eligible for membership in the Army and Navy Union. “Five hundred thousand men and women should be mobilized in Phila- delphia during the sesquicentennial for a mammoth parade down Broad street,” the publication says. “All officers and enlisted men now in the Army, Navy or Marine Corps who can arrange to be present are requested to participate as members or as guests of the Army and Navy Union. At the close of the parade all guests who are elfgible and have presented -their ap- plications, will be requested to ‘“rally ‘round the flag” and obtain a badge and button of the Union at the great- est class ‘muster’ ever held in this country. fonal encamp mdr. 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Expériments conducted under the RUMANIA TO PAY CLAIMS OF U. S. CORPORATIONS Agreement Reached on $3,500,000 fo Baldwin Locomotive Works and Transoceanic Company. By the Assoclated Press. BUCHAREST, Rumania, September 26.—The Rumanian ministry of finance | today announced that an agreement | has definitely been reached for settle- ment of the Rumanian government’s debt to the Baldwin Locomotive Co., amounting to approximately $2,500,000. The agreement calls for a cash pay- ment of about $250,000 on October 1, payment next March. Liqui- | ance will be epread the debt meanwhile 6 per cent. A agreement also has been reached for settiement of the $1.000,000 debt to the Transoceanic Corporation of New York. The-finance ministry says that, with dation of the these agreements, all the debts of the | Rumanian government to private American firms have been amicably settled. School for Fox Breeding. From the Kansas City Star. Another college yell may soon be !l reverberating about the land, for there's something new in the realms | of higher education in the United States—a university of foxology. With & 75-acre ranch by way of a campus the Rusch School of Fox Breeding, first and only intitution of its kind in the land, recently was opened three miles from North Fast, Pa. The school was founded by Louis Edward Rush of Washington, D. C., president of the American Fox Institute. A class of pupils from all parts of the United States and Canada has re- ported for the first course of instruc- tion, a Summer session of eight weeks, and a considerably larger class is being enrolled for the first scholas- tic year, which will open in Sep- tembe Hens—Keep Kids’ Soon Be Advertised direction of J. 8. Hughes, professor of chemistry at the Kansas State Agri- cultural College, give evidence for these conclusions. An egg a day was included in a ration deficient only in vitamin *D" which was fed to 48 chicks, divided into lots of a dozen each. Chicks fed on eggs lald by hens that had re- celved both sunlight and artificia ultra-violet light grew up thrift ;uwls. without any indication of weak egs. Eight of the 12 chicks whose diet | included an egg a day from hens which had been kept in a room lighted' only by glass windows, but which re- | ceived ultra-violst light treatment | one-half hour dally, developed mild cases of rickets. They were able to| stand, but had weak legs. A third pen of chicks got eggs from hens which had received plenty of sunshine, but no ultra-violer light' treatments. These chicks were | thrifty. All the chicks in the fourth pen contracted rickets and four of the lot | died. Their diet included an egg a sible for the day from hens which received no IJ" in the eg direct sunlight, but all the sunlight : that penetrated a large south glass window. 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