Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1925, Page 76

r [i] THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, WILL GETS A RAISE BY FANNY KILBOURNE They Were Practical and Their Household Was Operated on a Strict Budget System. HEN T married woman that she and her husband never have any words.” said Dulcie firmly, “I know t's one of two things: Either she's Iving or she doesn't know when she’s epped or Rosema . it hear a 14 I laughed Thout every- Merton and Jwavs so firm tha Why. take - Dule for the went money question Do possible = on vou a instant woman to penny of a hundred and month is spent? Why yeen walking from Dennis Walker's to zet melons | quarter instend of ipiece, and have put im- that my soul simply re- on a blouse in order to save and then to have Roszer Lane ne walking in with a book he's bought! Why, any woman on earth would ask him what the town has a public library for!” I didn't say much, help feelinz a little isuperior 1 liughed. Will and I had the whole hink ‘f dollars 1 on fi but I couldnt as |in of being casual and in broke through sheepish sun through the clouds. “He said that he figured it ought be worth,” said Will, and paused dramatically, % month."” oy [ STOPPED eversthing I was doing with a suddenness that nearly wrecked our dinner. And no wonder Twenty-five dollars month! Five dollars a month more is a raise. twen ty-five more 1ze of fortune. We'll be I said in an awed tone, ut my chair 1t the tabl going to werlook thos when we're 40 vears old and have eizht children: it's awfui how pulls out Mother's chair we have company. and then she slides it apprehensively, somebody hav- ing pulled a chair out from under her once when she was a child and she never having recovered Ner confi- dence—"we’'ll be having an income of $125 a month.” “M-hmm,” said Will, strain on all his blood vessels, to act casual about it But it was something that was a having. s Will drew Will is never little courtesies except when putting a trying 1noney on so perfectly arranzed budget hox worked perfectly to save each month, much dog nd dentists—which we even touched much for xur i Really a b so| h nninz out tome that little \ people . v all any ommaon tha ve'd like. that isn't was as large like a well-oiled machine sed to worry a lot becanse ot a raise. This working for was ‘on ither his f bank family vou every here re working cer Lane outside your for granted own that -dollar " salary whether it when vou're working r own father, all is differe; res t the whole e vours some time and. Your rent raised have sickness or anything dollars a month is just was lust 1 didn't like ask for more ther Hort o big time Bu 1 er vou need or for He will | business long vou don’t a hundred | s much this isn't or sa n havin just saving said alor Young coupl people who the same time ten a m sone alo right out | n account given us our lonz on the | per cent the| 1t 1 fF kept indred the book d geit fnz as any when some work at five have but feel- would feel | had started were getting nth more. It might like that for vears nd vesrs. In't been for Mr Van ' Sant's movieg out to Cali- | forr | Mr. Van Sant had taker sreat fancy to Will ever since Will worked | his head off on the hospital drive. and | when he was getting ready to move. he said he wanted Will to take charge of the \'an Sant Building, and the drug store block and the bun lows he owns out on Grand street, collecting the rents, seeing about re vairs and so on. This business would naturally go to the Horton Real Es- | tate Co., but Mr. Van Sant told Father Horton he'd like to have Will have | it for himself. and Father said, well, | he guessed Will had earned it and, all right, he could handle it of’ the | side. 1 was pleased. thinking that we'd be getting a_hundred and five a month | too. and could go into-the city once in | 2 while to the theater, which we really | couldn't afford on our budget and only went when Father or Father | Horton would take us. But I knew | gomething was up when Will came | home for dinner the day Mr. Van| Sant left. Will always shows every- or 1 SHE LOOKED KIND O SIRANGE WORD OF | pretty hard to be casual about. | him PRELIMINARY SHL SAID: “DOROTHY, CAN YOU Thei are men in make $125: in of them do except those business for themselves then Father they wren’t in the minting husiness Lane makes the most of voung crowd. and he's £105 only three months. Most of the voung fellows make ahout a hundred A jumps rizht up into an entirely different matter “There’s one thing we must he care ful al Will,” 1 said seriously. “\We mustn't let it make us a bit differ in our manners with our old friends Tust because we'll be able to live dif ferently in some we must be awfully careful to appear snobbish ‘Oh. sure.” knows, it him_ about et, I don't think any who are in ind eve zene 1 of o heen getting any out ways, not even id will wiis unnecessary to ez being snobbish. If will suddenly became a millionaire he'd still let old Petey Jensen, who is the town’s handyman, and doesn’'t own rit of clothes but overalls, Bill." And he got to talking about Ireland once to the night at the harvester company and brought right along home to suppe anything, Will could stand being a little more snobbish. Still T think even he realized that a family which has an income of $1 month is in a little different social class from one which has only a hundred In Montrose, though exactly easy to tell just what vou do belong in Not in the class with the Burrisses and the Scogginses and Mr. Gordon. of course. Scoggins is president of Roger Lane's bank. and the Burrisses own almost all of Water street, and Mr. C -don once ran for Congress. Still, Jean Gordon married Howard Merton's cousin and does her own washing. and Mr. Burriss is Father's regular part ner in the Men's Bridge Club. Then there is the new harvester com pany crowd. They keep maids, which even the Scogginses don't do, and have dinner at night regularly, and every thing sporty like that. But Dulcie and Rosemaryand I belonged to their bridge club for a while, and Mrs. brother is crazy about Madge Edwards, one of our crowd. That's the way Montrose society is. though, all mixed up. Old Petey Jensen mows Scogginses’ lawn, but he saved up his money and sent his daughter to the university, and if she didn't run A nst Margery Scoggins for class secretary and beat her! TS stick x o ox % “y B L350 Wi ““just the same. and use the extr; a month partly save more and partly to do a few things we've heen wanting to do and couldn’t.” That sounded oodness ition it is mnever class to our old budget like a good idea to AND WILD AS SHE CAME 1 then | ot | tell’s |t ather never | partell had sot it for five y X e | retectory Montrose of 50 who don't watchman | enough to zet Curtis’ | the | | awtuny indifferent, his |and does all the work that Mr. Grabo like a delighted | gets the credit for, and a lot of other things. But the amazing thing she told me, that simply knocked me cold, was just before Will and Mr. Bartell there for dinner. She had he come very confidential and she told me her husband's income. It was eighteen hundred dollars a vear, fifteen hundred salary and three hundred bonus. Why. isn't claimed. T busband gets.’ It was perfectly that funny!™ I ex- lary my true. because the honus wasn't part of Chandler Bar Tt came at New Yi nd was \ present from the company, nothing be counted on Of course, Mr ars now would, but still was just the same ind probably alway Lis actual salary as Will's. After she had told me that, T just sat, ple-eved, and looked around Betty Bartell's porch, at the wicker chaise longue and the smart wicker bird cage with a fernery all made in one. I looked through the French door into her living room, which a Chinese rug and is simply rich looking, und on'into the dining room, which has a table. Their maid, in a black dress with white apron., was etting the table, and the whole at- mosphere was simply oozing with lux- ury. In that one brief slimpse | realized the nitude of the jump that Will and 1 Wl made. T the social class we had soared inte AU first it was almost dazzlin have so much to spend for luxuries or the thin we t might not seem Inxurious to millionaires and such people. but they certainly did course = & to us Gosh with I'm vou spotlight ad zet zoinz to supper in the Fall ¢ As a4 matter of fact only two dollars and a quarter, but till Will got his raise we had never seemed to be able to get it out of our budgzet any one week, and had kept putting it off. It has been just the same about salad pla Six crusted glass salad plates only five-fo Wil for this. use coming home our flivver. “but You need ft if v afler 0 n Winter the light cost call_him |and yet till Will zot his raise I had out | able them marvelous never seemed to squeeze As 1 told luck that will it did seem our If | financial situation should have chang ed just when I began getting intimate with Betty Bartell, because I simply couldn’t have faced having them for dinner without salad plates Then Will subseribed to a golf mag azine. That was pure, unadulterated extravagance, He doesn’t play golf, himself: he's alwavs peating joke he heard once that he wouldn't even know how to hold a caddy. but for Judge | Some unknown reason he'd been just hankering to take that magazine. It seemed a positively feebleminded thing te do to me, but T couldn’t sav any- thing against it because Will was nice about my getting a satin bed spread. which he thinks is all folderol and which 1 admit, myself. isn't practical And’ the comfort of being able to subscribe to Mrs. Scozgins's charity! She’s erazy about cats. and this charity is to take care of homeless cats. As Will said, there are philanthropies closer to his heapt, but that it was nice to be in a position to shell out $5 when it pleases anybody as much as that pleased Mrs Scoggins. She took us home from church in her limousine and, by the grace of heaven, Belty Bartell and Mrs. Stevens happened to be passing just as we were getting out. Betty joked me about being right in with “the old guard”—even if the Har vester bunch respect and Mr. Gordon and we both got out the Burriss |and I could see that she and Mr tevens thought more of me for it to |l didn't say anything about the cats, B in a position to zo inw the to the theater once in a were alwa B! city whils, we NTO THE LIVING ROOM, AND WITHOUT A J LEND ME A HUNDRED DOLLARS?” thing in his locks. like an open-face wateh. It's just like the Father heard. that eating onions is the se- evet of curir cold, but i hard to keep it a secret. 1 was broil- the steak and tryving the potato be they were done and mak siuce for the caulifiqwer, 15 Will came in the door of heing as preoccupied woman. is—I don't care cook 1t a time like I knew something had happened. Well,” said Will, “I closed up the deal with Mr. Van Sant this morn- inz And 2 month Driskly stirr into the mi Will leaned against the kitchen able and crossed his arms and legs. What is it, Will?" T asked sharply. When Will acts as casual as that it always means something impor “ive a month, did you say?" ked carelessly Well, aren’t you Well1." Will * whirled around on his forefinger. “Wel11, I didn’t_set any price, just asked him what he thought it would be worth to him." “What did he say?" Will just couldnt keep up the bluff is sure cream And in sy Ny that. e s you're going to get the five just for yourself?” I asked, ng the flour and butter his hat s awful | how !me, and to celebrate we went up to,other people who were going. One! the city for dinner and to the theater | night we met the Burr the first week. When we were taking our seats who should come into the very row ahead of us but Mr. and Mrs. Bartell. They are in the har- vester crowd—not the biz bugs, of course, but still in that crowd—and they looked like a million dollars. They seemed awfully glad to see us though, and made us stop in the Mary grill while we were walting for 11:39 train, and have some fruit Mrs. Bartell and I sat together on train going home and got vel well acquainted. She is only three or four years older than I am, and|m; didn’t_seem snobbish at all. | | in the ation, and they insisted on to dinner at the MacWelton I accidentally saw the dinner chec and nearly dropped dead. Of course. the Burrisses are old enough to be our parents and didn't expect us to do anvthing in return, hut we were both-glad Will was mak- ing that Van sant money. It was very gratifying two weeks later to tell Mrs. Burriss that we had four tickets for “The Scarlet Mask,” and would like to have her and her husband for our guests. It is strange, though, but in the idst of all such gavety and pros- es Montrose si aking 1 Hotel first She in- | perity there were times when I would | vited Will and me for dinner the next | fee] worried. It was a vague worry— Friday night, and asked me to bring | couldn't just put my finger on what my sewing and come early in the|was troubling me—and I decided that afternoon. It was a lovely afternoon and we sat out on her porch and sewed and | talked and got acquainted in the sud- den, surprising way you do once in while. Betty Bartell is the kind you get acquainted with quick. She told me more inside stuff about the | Harvester crowd! How Mrs. Curtis, | the vice president’s wife, is so stingy | that she keeps her soap in the attic (1l it gets dry,and goes further; how I Mr. Stevens 15 Mr. Grabo's assistant . it was mainly because, being naturally a sympathetic person, it bothered me ' that we were letting our budget slip. But it would have been very hard to keep it straight. Extras were So mixed up with our old running ex- penses. For instance, the budget al- lowed for having little Ella Crownin- shield come once a month to wait on table and do the dishes when we had company for dinner. But now that 1 could afford her much oftener I didn't know whether to take her 75 cents a the Scogginses | time out, of “labor and service” or set it down to extras. Almost every branch got mixed up. Will got stuck for a $10 subscrip- tion to the basket ball team. Bol Courtney, who asked him for it knew about the n Sant job, and Will said he didn't have the face to give just . the way he did last all He |said he was making nearly as much | Bob now and he felt that if Boh | ve ten, he ought to, too. But while | 1 %ot the two hefore half out of and_half the “im division, Will said he was med if $10 was either amusing or | improving. So, in one way and another, our old budget zot so mixed up that it didn't seem worth while t to use it at all. T knew it was silly to worry over | this when we had $125 a_month com- ing_in, but it made me fe guilty whenever I thought of it. | " Then once in a while I'd get irri- |tated at Will, when he bought things | that even on our income seemed down- Iright silly. We had a real quarrel | over a correspondence course in parlor magic that he subscribed to. - I said it was silly and selfish to be thinking of sleight of hand, when we could have bought things we really needed for the $15. Wil said he'd like to <ee anyvthing sillier or more selfis than my spending §15 on one party, just to impress Betty Bartell and Mrs. Stevens etty’s chum. who is also in the Harvester crowd. 1 reminded Will that he made very nearly as much as even Mr. Stevens—I think Mr. Stevens does get over two thousand: but that's not much more—and that if the Stevenses could to give that kind of party we But th two opinions E ut what we did a few dayvs before Christmas. We were coming home on the train with Mr. and Mrs. Burriss and Mr. Burriss asked Will if he was in position to swing second-hand roadster Mr. Burris' son had bought a new car and shipped his old one home to his father. What he wanted a new one for, I'll never tel vou: the old one was a knockout. But Mr. Burriss didn't want another open car, and he said he'd let. Will have it cheap and pay for it ax he liked, so | much a month if he'd rather He likes Will an awful lot Will and T sat cussing it that night. were hoth mad to get Will is just crazy about he said that one w he could teach it t of his voice auld v dis we 2 o'clock Of course the roadster engines and a marvel. sail come to the sound ut of his hand There was room for another car in our garage, and the idea of having two when our flivver sedan had seemed rich beyond compare wis enough to dazzle anybody all, the two together won't cost any more than the Stevens's one.” 1 reminded Wil And vou make about the same as Stevens ioes. I've zot decide right away.” sald Will. “Because—this is a funn ane—old Petey Jensen wants to buy we don’t. Seems he's been savin for ten vears. and he's going to et an sutomobile this Spring.” > & WELL. that real a man who mows’lawns and tends furnaces could buy that car it as a funny thing if a couple that went ound with the Harvester crowd an | came home from church in the Scoz- ginses’ limousine couldn’t. We de {clded to pay for it. month by month, with the Van Sant memey, and that it should also he our Chrisimas presents 10 exch other So we were really at the very of our prosperity that last duy cember, as [ sat embroiderin !in the afternoon. It had bee Christmas; the new roadster in our garage: the Burrisses had invited us to g0 into the city the next evening to the theater: and 1 was feeling peaceful and prosperous and content It is strange how you can sit and embroider on the edze of a great chasm in_ vour life, without even knowing there is a chasm there and that vour rocking chair is edging con. stantly closer to the edge. As 1 looked out of the window saw Betty Bartell hurrying up -nowy path to the door, J was just pleased to see her coming [ didn't know that her knock marked the turning point in my whole lie. he looked kind of strange and wild as she came into the living room. and hout a word prelim’'nary she up il ars Adways 6 me ‘After My decided us if peak of De- happily 2 grand and the Dorothy, can dred dollars?” “A hundred ‘Why, Bett dred dollar “Can you get it?" she asked. And her eves looked so wild and her voice was queer and tense. | “Why, I don't see how I can~ I faitered. “Will and I agreed we would never borrow from other people un- vou lend nie a hun dollars! T haven't get gasped. 1 a hun- we were sick and absolutely starv- | And all that we have saved, been buving some farm land Verblen with." Jetty kept unbuttoning and | toning her fur coat frantically. “I've got to get it somewhere,” said in the same tense voice. {means my whole future with Chand ler. I owe it at the grocery and other stores here, and vesterday a credit man was up and threatened to zarnishee Chandler's sala 1 put him off, tellinz him T could pay it to- | day when we got the bonus. Chandler {and I quarrel all the time about tmoney, and I did promise him I { wouldn't run any bills, but—" she | shivered: *“Oh. "I'm afraid tell him?” “Will he give bonus?” I asked. She stared at me, her eyes getting | dark and tragic. “Dorothy,” she said. Chandler had | just telephoned me. There isn't any { bonus this year: i j Betty began to cry. “I'm afraid to tell Chandler,” repeated. “Maybe you could borrow some from Mrs. Stevens,” I suggested. “Mrs. Stephens!" she sobbed con- temptuously. “Mr. Stevens doesn't get any bonus, either. But out of their mean-—"" “Their savinzs—they've got as much as we have. They'll have to let their sun-room furniture go back: they're !buyving it on time. They're as far back in their rent as we are—their car is mortzaged. t0o.” I just stared at her. After a few { minutes she buttoned up her coat and | wiped her eyes. { _"Well, I'll have to try Mrs. Curtis then,” she said in a _hopeless tone. | wilrs but she t to vou some of the she savings, I “She lent some to me once, and didn't | tell Chandler; but she said she never would again. Maybe—oh, she'll have ito—I can't tell Chandler—he’s always { cross about money, and this time he'll be so worried besides—I'm afraid to tell him—oh, I hate Mrs. Curtis—but | she’ll have to lsnd it to me—I'm afraid | to_tell Chandler—if they garnishee his | salary he may lose his position.” She went at last into the cold De- | cember snow. holding the fur coat she i hadn't paid for tight around her. * % % * iI WENT back to embroidering, feel- {* ing shocked and sorry. I wasn't as sorry for Betty as I would have | been if T hadn’t been pretty sure Mrs. Curtis would lend her the money. Mrs. Curtis is stingy and sharp- tongued, but they say that underneath she is awfully good-hearted. But I | home I just stared in helpless sympathy. | D. ¢, DECEMBER 27. 1925—PART 5. kind of | MRS, SCOGGINS TOOK | S HOME THE GRACE OF HEAV HAPPENED TO BE PAS STEVENS TING OUT, certainly sooner or later \e 10 evervhody of it is fearfully ways heard thi was shocked. 1 suppose the knowledge has (o but the first shock upsetting. 1 had al fety was corrupt but 1 had never taken much stock in it. And now it had suddenly come to me, right among my own friends 1 could scarcely believe vou could belong to the crowd and yet owe money to the gro cery and the butcher shop! That vou could keep a maid and have dinner at night, and vet be shiftless. have to borrow money, something which Will and 1 have always thought was down right disgraceful, nnless you're or something. That you could have a six-cylinder car and still be buyinz a wicker bird caze on time It enough to shock anybody and I switched on the kitchen light and started to zet supper, feelinz half duzed Ly the revelation. I heard Will's step crunching up the walk nd looked over my shoulder at him as he opened the door. Before he had had time to take off his coat or stamp the snow off his shoes I knew <omething was wro Bad news w stamped all over epen counte. nance. “What's manded Will did not any. either Mr. Van “Coming back?" 1 echoed “Yep. Had a letter todav. He doesn’t like California. Says he like 4 place vou have some weather vo stay in the house for. He's coming | back “And it. That Harvester o his Wil 1 de- the matter beat around the bush Sant is coming back.’ he'll take buildings then?” “Yep. My job's gone twenty-five per. 1" 1 sat down limply “Oh, my so in @ chair by the kitchen table. “Isn’i that the limit?” Will asked For & few moments we just stared each other. Then the real meaning of what had happened began to perco- late throuzh me. “Why, we won't be gzetting a month any more.” I said. Will shook his head gloomily. “What hits me hardest of all, care of his own And my $12 he clety | realize that 3 of the two-c shonld just FROM CHURCH IN HER LIMO! - . BETTY BARTE AND ING JUST AS WE WERE s had Cr a month ve had ever hefore. more than and foeling we had bee: We had spent made. 1t didn't were the figures, at them Will. “vou us with said. “ix won't eep the r “Oh, Will irly Kind K esus wail all the time han had possible: but tf imply stared Well.”" said ou've brought parties “Where I've brouzh Where 1'v2 brought I didn't buy stop-i or take an idiotic ight-of-hand, did 17 you've just been tryi Betty Bartell's every said Will. “Pink r class voursell Ur I said suddenly, hopefully, “w money enongh ont of what we've saved and pay for it out- right.” That's look at the check much we can I xet the teakettle and we spread the on the kitchen table out the last few were in a hurry forward the 1| few minutes of subtrac could tell uch we And as Will subtracted check. 1 stared at the check horrified amazement We had a halance of $10.2 “That can't “Why, we had Zot Your raise—d We were almost re payment on the Verblen 1 Will went back the figures while I watehed him in feariul tasci- nation. There wer Before he got the made out hardly a for almost everythir the rent and payments or But there had o many since that we had had to < for—theater tickéts, Mrs the subscription to the golf s of check stubs. And mistake we could find! aybe there's a bunch of left in the budget box,” said hopafully We zot where Taney see less, e your ust 1 gasped. S cick Lets | a S course wil in = raise 10 live vou satin bed the stove check book out We'd both made when we t carried took back « up to turne spread W nantly cauzht way checks ind h 11 E ok disgust nd 1 indig voice feel guess my hroke smarting in_my eyes vwfully mad Will be blaming me like that: but I couldn't seem to 4y just mad—I couldn't choke back forlorn feelinz. It is 2 terr to have vour husband you. Some way, I kept see ty Bartell. afraid to tell Chand ihout the $106 “Well, 1 I wasn't only _one that wanted to subseribe to Mrs. Serog san my could 1 it hefe did the how 1 have. last in thing ainst = Be he & when vou remember 1dy make righ $200 ped you !/ . ler n't c-c-cats’ Wil just & checkbook. The forlorn me. chokinz back in a great sick wave there beside me miles off. It at the eling swept >ven madness Will standing seemed a was as though we wer> people who had never liked each other at all. There was a long si lence. Then Will said slowly 1 was th= one. though, that wanted to zet the roadster. e 0. You weren't.” “I wanted it iust as bad as vou did." Suddenly, Will pusned back the check hook, sat down beside me on the one kitchen chair, putting his arms around me to keep me from falling off. “Doll,” he said solemnly. “‘we've been a pair of fools'" Oh. the unexpected of that sentence! I dropped mv head on Will's shoulder and sohbbed in sheer relief. Will's arm was tight around me and he said “we The next Petey stared omily . stubs hadr payin in cash the land things send a’ heen 1 said honestly money Will, out the tin box, and locked it Dust had sifted in a little. But there was no bunch of money. There was a 50-cent piece in ihe ~Doc tor and Dentist” cubbyhole. a nickel and two pennies in the “Labor and, Services, And that was all Not a sinzle dollar hill And $10.07 he bank. The truth once. In un heavenly sound dawned four on months hoth getting morninz we Jensen’s bhefore went at to 10 o'clock million | down | and sold him fore Ye. hudzer hundred dc pres new get that the first to mind the up it to be starting the the good old wonld work After didn't seem even We agreed that it’s bette to live on a hundred a month and know just where you're at than o fifteen hundred a vear even —and think that vou're the Vande bilts, while you're really just eatinc up your old savings. Why. at 1t rate we were going one more raise would have put us on the town Father Hortor hinted pretty strongly the Year's dinner that Will was g have a regular raise hefore long was nothing to worry ahout. thoi there would be no problem as to wh social set it would put us into. Tha New Year's eve Will and I picked o our social set for life pretty biz right nd the Burrisses belong young crowd and the nigh ster plant! It's earn their mones who plan ahead Ne Will's we we: mother's dusted o divided Honestly r's dinner. we and ars. od way after all we knew shock we vear As a matter of fact at It's a set here Montrose. Gordon and most so does Petey Jensen watchman at the ha all the people that before they spend it and save something, whether it much or little. It's old ladies whn know they can afford suppor homeless cats before they out do it: furnace men who send their girls to colleze. They may n a big car or a wicker bird cage quite as soon as the Betty Barte when they do there’s no mortgiff the car, and there’s money enoush left over to get a little birdseed the bird. We had had our fling at prosperiiy It nearly ruined us, but neither of us was sorry. It was something to have learned that there isn't any income vou can’'t spend more than. XNo mat ter what we may ever have. we never feel so rich asa And 1t w: fun to s sially. We aren't sorr but we've had our last soar. Wi and T have picked our social set for the rest of our lives (Cansrizht Mr And of our 1995 1 Europe to Keep Tab on Am erican Acts Which May Affect Weather Adversely BY STERLI HEILIG. PARIS, December 17 T is a delicate subject. Beginning with New Year's, they will keep tab on us; but we shall know noth- ing of it. France, Belgium, Eng- 1 land and Ireland will try, by every | scientific meuns, to ascertain how much | | America is injuring their climate and | | their weather—and how much, per- | haps, immensely greater injury is | threatened in the future both by | | American radio increase and American plans for deflecting the Gulf Stream!| | AN four threatened countries are | particular friends of the United State: They do not want to make hasty {accusations against us. Yet their | weather ha alread: suffered pe- culiarly and with increasing intensit; | —from 19 (date of the Senate bill | on the Gulf Streamy to 1925, in the | | vast wireless business and American | radio broadcasting of the present | | hour. These alleged causes ‘e as far apart as the poles: but the results are identical to the coastal climate of France, Belgium, England and Ireland —rain, continual rain, and cold, in- creasing cold! All along the Breton coast the Win- ters were formerly so mild, and even | warm, that palms, fuchsi mimosas flourished in the open air, {today along the Riviera. i change! The famous Roscoff” are reduced to a single, sole survivor. The equally famous “Parasol Pines of Oussant,” Camaret and other beaches of Finis- itere cling on as last witnesses to the Gulf Stream’'s former beneficent ac- tion of the Breton and Norman coasts and hinterland! “Our Winters were like those “of the Riviera, and our Summers were | magnificent™ says the illustrious | | Georzes Toudouze. He is so much af- fected by the facts that he published, | |last September, “The Man Who Stole { the Gulf Stream”—putting into form ! of a scientific romance facts which no ! French friends of the United States | would put out as otherwise than fic- | tion, at the present moment. The robber of the Gulf Stream. in Tou- ‘ydnuze'! story, is made a Mexican en- gineer of Aztec descent. : Now, the dates correspond peculiar- y. Charcot, the great French deep-sea explorer, 'has made a vast number (series) of temperature soundings, in | his specially equipped science ship, the Pourquoi-Pas?” and is “‘convinced | that the Gulf Stream is changing| place.” “It displaces itself” is Charcot's ex act phrase. At the same time, Charcot takes note of the chilling of the French north coast. It dates from some years before the war, on an increasing scale. Now, as early as 1900, the Ameri- can engineer Slooper drew up an ex- tended scientific plan for deflecting the Guif Stream, to favor the climate | of our Atlantic coast. In 1912, the Scientific American | published full text of a bill laid on the table of the United States Senate, pro- posing to construct a submarine dike from 250 feet to 500 feet high and 250 - . { ! | i 251 | statements of the great oceanographic riles lons. to bar the route of the Gulf Stream off Newfoundland and throw fts warm waters back toward the shore of the Upited States What such a dike, if once con structed. could do. now terrifies French and other imaginations by hand. something the Gulf Stream troubling. In Stream™ icebergs at Roseoff on the Breton cc of France, whert formerly a famous lot of fiz trees. eucalyptus and parasol pines of southern climates testified to warming effects of the Gulf Stream. has sk happened 1o is all very and Concarneau, authority, Prof. Thoulet of the Fac- ulty of Sciences of Nancy, in his monu- mental book, recently published, on 1'Ocean,” page 381, second edition. “If, as nothing prevents from be lieving,” says Prof. Thoulet. “the in cessant work of coral insects should intercept the passage of the Gulf Stream at its actual point of compres sion in the Strait of Florida (Elorida Channel) and force the mass of ‘warm water to pour itself more to the south, all the European equilibrium would be modified. Spain and Morocco would be transformed into a furnace like Senegal, while France, Belgium. Eng; land and Ireland would chill to thé point of having coasts like Green land:” Of course, such a swinging of the Gulf Stream around in such a_way is not feared from Americans. It would equally strangle Washington and Quebec in a polar Winter. Nor do they greatly fear that Americans will squarely build the dyke off Newfoundland to throw the warm waters on to the American shore, but rather some more partial capture of them, or even some engi neering work for another, purpose, like the Key West Railroad. Yet - Americans had the big N foundland idea “so strong that it got to the Senmate.” And, on the other coff.” Concarneau, but they are old fellows So the French (and equally the Bel- zians and othel ream.” although they hesitate accuse Americans of having done it. The railrard to Key West, although huilt on arches, may conceivably have some effect on the Guif Stream. not noticed by Americans on account o the “cold wall,” but more or less suifi- ent in the spreading drift of the It is a delicate subject. Thése peo ple know only that their climate is not so warm and their weather not so zood as formerly—quite recently! The dates correspond. Have not Americans the right improve their climate? Or, on | other hand. do_vou see small differ- ence between “The Man Who Stole | the Gulf Stream™ and “The Nation That Stole the Gulf Stream”? Even the specialists admit that they do not | altogether understand how the Gulf | Stream is deflected actually at its va- to THE “PARASOL PALMS OF CONCARNEAU,” ON THE COAST OF BRIT- TANY. THEY ARE WHAT REMAIN OF THE “RIVIERA PALMS,” WHICH FORMERLY FLOURISHED UP AND DOWN THE BRETON COAST. ) are convinced that | doinz < . omething has happened to the Gulf { ‘ew scientific people even realize its “The Man Who Stole the Gulf | also the | to | | swept rious points and how it zets to E rope. These questions are new extremely delicate it They are Alread < and sealions yawp on | France experiences another had thir —her weather has become alarmin<! iny. No French paper prints but the thing comes out in discreet conversation—this new rainy weatker is due to American radio! It is not scientifically 1 proved, Today still there is “the fig tree of | thouzh scientific men have proved it Roscoff” and “the eucalyptus of Ros- |t Parasol pines still remain at | $ their satisfaction ¢, are formed by dust particles that they Attract moisture. Amcrican broadeasting is doing such a vast amount of this that Rain clouds. they the jonization of extent or results Hlows. they think, easily of the earth causes at ric movement eastward. Amer ica herself does not suffer much from the new radio rain clouds. She is free of them, in great part even perhaps hefore they are fully formed. to join the Atlantic rain Gulf Stream eastward to account for | clouds. themselves increased by wire its bringing lesser warmth to Roscofi. | less. and western Europe i | quence. in conse continually deluged by new rain’ Who shall forbid a nation to do a the broadeastinz that its people e sire, in their own territory? Are they | obliged. in any way. to consider the | sible consequences | | | { | | | | | to tions 3,000 miles away? Who shall say that a nation shall not receive all the transatlantic wire messages it wants. while it, flinzs receives its own radio broddcast domestic and forelgn” Will another nation, sincerely grate ful for vast help in war, feel permit ted, even in its press, (o suggest that its weather is continually and increa ingly injured by its benefactors—3,0 miles aw Radio rain is a new thing—the new est thing. Tt exists almost entirely for western Burope and enormously for France. This is due to the fact that the Atlantic Ocean is full of water and that there is such a vast extent of it. Alm. United States. other popuia no radio rain falls in the To collect these new rain clouds American broadeasting (agitating in all directions to great distances) requires the immense wa tery stretch of the Atlantic. The at mospheric movement eastward attends to the and France is becominz 1t is geographical situation. Who can complain of geographical | situation? If Americans should swing the Gulf Stream toward their shore, would it not still be geographical situation? If it should rain in France until folks &row webbed toes, dare France ask us to stop broadcasting? The things are not yet proved. Western Europe worries. They can just keep tab on us, in watchful wait- ing. They begin, I think, on January 1,1926. It will be painful study, never mentioned! Just for Spite. Policeman (on shore}—I'm going to arrest you when you come out of there. Man (in water)—Ha! ha t I'm not coming out. I'm committi sulcide.