Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1926, Page 76

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. JANUARY 3. C, 1926—-PART 5. Love Makes Gamblers of Us All BY ROYAL BROWN He Was Young and Liked to Take Chances, But Now OW and sweet, the familiar old | air drifted up from the campus to where Larry Weston had achieved the solitude he sought. They were singing “Lowell Forever,” and though the words were indistinguishable 10 his ear, his mind supplied them with subconscious pr cision; the swan song of the senior sung with their caps in their hands their inspired young fac ted to the soft June stars. In 1916, as a senior, his voice had| blended with the rest.. In 1916—u nigl ady with lights and music and laughter—a night on which the grads | apture their youth. Men of | and feeling incredibly But Larry stood alone, hands | into hi ets and a_bitter twisting his lips. So it was| Judy Sears discovered him course, she knew he emember nor re all ages boyish. thrust smile that of weither she h time would her At much been ha » had with | £ the her 12 very had arms suppli onscic en Larry’s first impres | would have rematned | is or hal Dicky Smith | poked hin dicating the limou- | sine of i price in which she | sat—it shone with much brass work as was the fashlon in 1916—said: “'Se that chariot of gold over ro—the one with the kid in it? That belongs | to Johnny S Think we'll ever| come to class day in anything like that They—Larry been seniors then. Big small colle The sort of nev *hieves national pr suddenly a little group stars cajuses it to flash br the foot bail firmament had such a group that vear. | he eleven, on which Larry had| ved right half, had beaten Harvard of the sporting page such as | on of | h Smith—had men in a ollege that ge until athletic antly in They had | and Dick of Lowel, Lowell, Lowell, Larry w Amherst, Wesleyan, 3. Dartmouth, 12 t marshal of his class that year. ¢ Smith, varsity quar ter and catcher and captain of the nine, for which Larry had pitched, had cond marshal. 1 r big hour. ing had stirred, an \f apprehensive they took in Johnny s’ limousine Every Lowell man knew Johnny | Sears. He was not only one of Low- ell's legendary athletes, byt he was millionaire. In 1916 he | see 40, but he was already a member of one of the world's noted banking firms. The kid in Johnny Sears’ chariot. | Larry had realized, must be Johnny daughter. It was as such that he accorded her a second glance. He had seen that she not only had the extrem- ities of a baby calf, but that her nose s freckled and her mouth too big. For the rest, her hair was obviously red—and bobbed. | But that had been in 1916. In 1924 e ight years. No more than| an infinitesimal moment, as a sclen tist computes time. But as a man reckons existence it remains a not in- considerable span. In it much can be achieved—or not. Men who were out- standing in college can sink into ob- scurity. Ugly little girls of 12 can— it you belleve all you read—become miracles of loveliness. P D They fel ha F his own volition Larry would not have returned to Lowell had he not encountered Dicky Smith in New | York. The latter took it for granted | that Larry would want to go back for day. “You won't know the old he had added. “All under new agement. Johnny Sears is presi- | dent now, you know. He'’s out to get ten million for Lowell, and believe me he will. Better conceal your assets before Johnny gets you. He's got most of the alumni on the verge of bankruptcy. I've envied you way off in China—" “I get malil even there,” Larry had cut in with a transient grin. The grin had been reminiscent of the Larry of other days and it had made Dicky realize suddenly some subtle change the years had wrought. e had given Larry a swift, keen glance. He found him lean and lithe A only | ) | alumni directory | truth? tensity and epergy that had won him | inter: ional repute among financiers. | Lowell was on the verge of bank: ruptey. It needed capital and this he | set himself out to get. - | Larry had seen him in action for the first time at his own class dinner earlier this evewng. ‘Put cotton in your mith had whispered as up for Johnny Sears. siren’s volce. Then Johnny speak. To him what have been “old stuff it was tol many of his hearers. His picture of Lowell and its needs was a canny mix- | ture of sentiment and hard-headed | business. He had swayed them pow fully. And then abruptly he had| pau “Well that And brift Dicks cheer went | “He's got a had begun to| he said must had demanded—just | Larry had recaptured b ca pu down for d said. ive old Larry flamed his way through I He had taken their breath moment. And then they him The cheers had reached Judy wait-| ing in her father's car outside. She| was acting as hie chauffeur, whisking him from one class dinnér to another. “Were all wse cheers for she had demanded. “No—they were all for Larry West on. I don’t suppose vou remember | him—he was the captain of the eleven | back in 1916. Remember him? her eves and <ee I looked in foot ball tog day when she was 12 gown who had well, that v for had cheered you She ry could cl As he h and, on that in his ¢ap and ther had added, he's been back He went out to China, | her time war. nis,” the first after the you know Of course, he had not really believed | that Judy knew that. But she did.| She had seen Larry's name in the | “Laurence Weston, branch manager, International Ex- port Co., Shantung, China.” “Why were they cheering him?"” she had asked. “‘Bécause my silver-tongued—or per- haps 1 might say my golden-tongued —oratory wooed five thousand out of him. “ve thousand! bave taken your Graclous he must breath away I—hope he has it.” she had protested. The class of 1916 had not doubted it. The dinner after Johnny Sears had quieted it had become an ovation to The old gang had pummeled yishly—and enviously. ‘Let’s all go out to China!” Dicky Smith had suggested | * % ok % | HEY had driven Larry almost to the point of confession—but not quite. Instead he had escaped them at the first opportunity and now, to- ward midnight, he found himself on | the “Rez.” Once when Lowell was young the Rez had been distinctly utilitarlan, a small sheet of water serving the col- lege. Now it was preserved as a tradition. Here annually freshmen | were ducked. And here usually tryst- | ing couples might be found. But now | it was deserted. A glamourous June night soft-star- red and heady with music and laugh- ter. A night to bring back youth— but Larry had lost his again. They had cheered him, flattered him. What would they say if they knew the That he was a four-flusher? He winced. At least he was not that. His gift had been impulsive and unconsidered but he had been sincere. He had wanted to give . . And so Judy discovered him. ‘m Judy Sears—daughter of John she told him, smiling up at him. ‘Then before he could speak she added: “I often come up here the last thing at night; it gives one a feeling of peace, don't you think?"! Larry nodded assent, fhough he had not found peace here. | “But how,” she demanded, “did you manage to escape? Don’t you know that you are the hero of the hour? Everybody s talking of your gift— and father is as pleased as Punch Larry smiled, a mere flicker of lips. It's no more than I ought to give,” he answered evasively. To tell her the truth—on top of his gift—was impossible. It would have left her speechless, he believed. | flectively. | So for class day. e had come through the war with distinction, adding a bit to his own reputation and to Lowell's. Even old Prexy, whom Johnny Sears had succeeded, had referred io his war record that other June night in 1919. cholar—old for the He had for almost had died gentleman a Greek scho were his passion. been president of Lowell 40 years when in 1922 he From under bushy eyvebrows his wise old eyes had regarded Larry—Kkeen, yet kindly. He had had the appear- ance customarily of keeping himself aloof. Yet the were moments when he could be aordinarily human and even i e To Larry he had proved himself so. “I hear,” he had announced, ** vou won the war—or most 4o you plan to do mow been like old Prexy, bubble vanity with an ed amusement got a chance to go ; had_answered. exy had repeated re suppose the ends of always allure such £ and a Prex clas; the de. icking air of 1 out to I “r mus iina the o ou. But this straight business, rry hed protested. Prexy had put a hand on Larry shoulder. “I watched you, Weston, 1l through college. And I've heard more or less of your exploits since. And iU's my belief that you are a born gambler. I'm not referring to cards, but to your attitude toward life. You have taken chances alway And you've got away with them e sir! But— “Have you ever in your ously played safe? “Why—perhaps not! . t's a virtue 1 suggest you ac- quire. If you will make an honest effort to, T'll be much am now of your ultimate success. Chat's all. h L v was no more. But id then had made a profound impression on Larry, who knew how many men, prominent in college, had_drifted into obscurity atterward. Even old Prexy might have been surprised if he had realized how much Larry had taken to heart what he had sald, how hard he had striven to profit by it. And—to what end? To Lowell he had returned defeated. And here, this night, a sudden flash of his old fmpulsiveness had betray him. His classmates had cheered, realized, not so much the man who had given $5,000 to Lowell as the man- ner of man who could make so princely a gift eight vears out of college. But when the truth leaked out the cheers would turn to jeers. He had cut himself off from Lowell. he belleved. But again he reckoned without Judy. “I discovered Lowell's latest bene- factor up on the Rez, forming her father at that precise moment. ‘On_the Rez? there?” “I didn't ask him. Perhaps he was repenting his. rashness and contem- plating suicide. Johnny Sears had smiled at that. “I rather wanted to see him myselt,” he remarked. “You're going to. He's going to spend the week end with us at Ham- ilton." “You've Invited him?” No—I thought the invitation had better come from you. It to me that as I've never been intro- duced to the man: £ “Why this sudden interest then?" “How do you know its sudden? 1 may have been nourishing a_secret affection in my heart for him " Her voice he had “I'M JUDY SEARS—DAUGHTER OF JOHNNY,” SHE TOLD HIM, >suLING UP AT HIM. — tronzed and fit looking. But some- thing seemed to have gone out of him ——the old, irrepressible audacity that tiad carried him through Lowell, and ter that the war. They had come back to Lowell to-| ward twilight the day before. As| Diclky i said, the place wz ‘hanged. The old charm was still| there, but there was a crispness to it. Lowell had been rejuvenated. Johnny Sears bad returned to his alma mater to perform a service of love. Every newspaper in the country had featured tie_news. Tie had thrown himself into the re- :bilitation of Lowell with all the in- | when she said good-night to him. He did not know Judy—yet. Nor did he know that he was to know her very well before he was much older. But Judy had already so declded. but in spite of herself she colored. “Why—you're blushing!” he ac- cused her. “You're enough to make me blush— lite con- | Judy was in-| What was he doing | occurred | in him | for | as never so light, | He W as Penniless, Jobless. He promised. And she told him what intuition had told he “But- * he protested. “This week end,” she jflrml, “Alivy commanded ND so Larry found himself vited to Hamilton |self the following Friday swinging off the train at Hamilton. | In a smart roadster sat Judy wait ing for him. This was the first time | he had seen her since 1916, for to sec | her that night on the Rez had been limpossible. So until she smiled greet ing he was not sure it was she. he realized that she hadn't c | unrecognizably since she was 1 |1t did not occur to him, as it had the | othe time, that Johnny Sears’ daugh nothing to write home about. ather,” she told him, “said some- thing & potential foursome be- fore dinner. feel sure you are ted. Then after dinner Judy claimed Lz They drove off together to an other North Shore show place where dance was on. The younger set now <, well groomed young men | with a Harvard crew captain and a | ranking ayer among them; wred, audacious girls. | They all accepted Larry as ind unquestionably as had Johnny Sears’ friends. The prettiest girl, who d flirted with first the Harvard crew tain and then the ranking tennis v, apparently found him ame as ir when it came his turn to dance | with her. | “You aren't* ely, “one ent’ men, are you They had been conds then. | v pretty fice nd candid ually i she of those protested horribly strong incing all Ty g i down Her eves met his, deliberately be for dance like one,” he out of practice.” she said. “I hoped it was my effect on you. 1 sometimes have it on the most finished perform- | ers—they are so overcome by the precious privilege of dancing with me that they forget all they know. Larry smiled. “I can imagine it.” “Imagine it—but not feel it vour- self. Are you in love with Judy?" “What?" gasped Larry. ‘There’s no reason why |shouldn’t be,” she retorted “And that would explain your im munity to me. Would it be too mu to ask you to hold me a little closer Then before he could recover she launched a fresh audacity. “Judy is « .'" she remarked. n't it too bad has no sex attraction? Oh, don't look so horrified’ Or as If you thought | I was being catty. I am just repeat {Ing what she herself says. I tell her {all she ngeds s a line. Do you like | mine?"” |, In spite of himself Larry smiled. T | think it suits you better than it would Miss Sear: “Naturally—mine matches my tip- |tilted nose and the come hither in my |eves. Judy’s would be different— rongly maternal perhaps. She's the {mother type. Stray cats and slightly you calmly. {damaged young man have an irresisti- | jble appeal for her.” | Larry, murmuring an apology {the step he had involuntarily m | tried to smile. “I'm not a stray he remarked, “so I suppose— | “OR, I don’t mean that you are the |least bit damaged,” she replied. “Only |unresponsive to my hest efforts That's why I asked if you were love with Judy. | Larry simply wasn't, of course. had never occurred to him. But on the way home it did occur to him that some | man might well be in love with Jud: Almost any man, in fact, save hi | self. for in again. He * ok % % OW, of a Sunday morning, they sat wet and glistening on the | edge of the raft that was moored off Johnny Sears’ private bathing beach | Larry wore one | suits; Judy wore unrelieved black, velously. “Aren’t vou ever going to tell me | anything about China—or your ad- ventures there?” asked Judy abruptly. Sears’ This, suited her intrusion of a serpent into an Eden jof sorts. “I told a friend of mine a little about China as I found it,” he evaded, “and he asked me to spare his fllusiong.” “But,” she protested, “China sounds | so Interesting. Do——" There she stopped short. A vell had fallen over | his eyes. “T'll race you ashore,” she chal- {lenged and dove off at once. Th | emerged together from a smother of |surf.. She faced him, lithe and alive | and—adorable! As his eyes met hers | they were no longer veiled. It was her eyes that became suddenly veiled They were both young; as he had torn ashore in pursuit of her some- |aroused in him. This she saw | thrilled to before a comber swept upon | them, caught them unsuspecting and | thrust them shoreward. They recov- ered themselves laughingly, but her We must hurry,” she said, | we'll be late for luncheon.” And she set him an example by | hurrying off to her dressing room. But once there she stood for an ap. preciable interval still in her bathing suit, with her lips a little parted and in her eyes the expression of one who {listens. Judy was listening. To a lit- tle song her. heart was chanting | shamelessly, exultantly. | “He does. He does. ! sang. | But Larry! He was like a man who | has ventured unwittingly into a trap { with no realization of his danger until | the trap suddenly snaps shut. He ! might have so excused himself. he didrrt. { little song. “You've made forty different kinds of a fool of yourself,” he was assur. ing himself, “and you'd probably made jthe forty-first if she hadn't saved | you.” So he interpreted Judy's sudden | withdrawal—she had sensed his mo- | mentary madness and fled forthwith. Well he was glad of that. He told himself so. “What time can T get a train this | afternoon?” he asked at luncheon. | This was addressed to Johnny Sears. Larry had not even looked at Judy his eyes were avoiding her. And so he did not see her swift glance of pro- test. This_afternoon?” protested Sears. | “Why, I'm golng over the road myself {in the morning. Can’t you wait until {then? I wish you would; I haven't | had a chance to talk to you about China and I want te.” China was the last thing Larry wanted tg discuss with Johnny Sears. Yet: “I think,” he heard himself say- ing steadily, “that there .are some { things I should tell you about China.” ~“That will give us a chance for one | more foursome this afternoon,” ap- or- He does!” it His heart was singing no Although she would have put it that | putting such thoughts in my head.” | Proved Johnny Sears with the smile she had decided to know him better. | She had made up her mind to that | * ok k% ANDS thrust back_in his pockets, his thoughts flowed again through dark channels. This was his second visit to Lowell in eight years. And he belleved, his last. Thetyear affer “thy tyar! ehded —1919— he Had becn glad to get back “There is something in your head. Tell me what have you in mind,” he pleaded. Judy hesitated. Then: “Do you be- llieve in feminine intuition?” “I believe that like masculine hunches ‘feminine intuition is right— well, perhaps 50 per cent of the time.” “This is the 50 per cent that is ght,. then. T-—prowise jou won't tell?” that was in a masculine way as | charming as Judy’s own. “We'll have | a chance to talk tonight after dinner.” “And after that—the dark!” thought Larry. * ok ok * 'HE moment came, He and Johnny Sears leaving the others, moved on to the library. “Are you going back to China?” be- gan Johnny Sears between puffs of his cigar. And- when Larry shook his plain. | i {don't think 1 mar- | The question to Larry was like the | | thing inextinguishably male had hel'ni and | | | in- | He found him- | Eead he added, “Have you any plans Larry moistened his' lips. And then | deliberately forced the truth through “I left China,” he flast silure. 1 think that it is that before you say shed he cams | them. nd absolute f: { best you know As hr | feet involunt Sit_down Iy, “You v said Johnny @y vou left Chin abcolute failu Yet you ga 4 $5.000. 1 don't quite understand 1 ve it, of course | I may as well be honest vou, | Larry. “When I left China after ing my transportation and trav | checks T had a bank bala actly $5,009. 1 still the ban halance of—nine _dolla Johnny | w might have spoken. but he gave him no chani am telling you this | because I feel I should. T do not re- | gret the gift. I cannot explain why I | made it. I felt, while vou were speak. ing, as if I must—give all T could. I was trylng to impress anybody else.” I—well, call it Sears quiet . flat o ex- you or an impulse— “Are you given to acting im <7"interrupted Johnny Larry smiled w “it was first one that got away with me five vear: “You mean that—you never took a chance all the time you were in China?' “Never—knowingly. That wa got me, I suppose, though | funny, everything considered paused. “I'd been—well trying to straddle « #ap between the two rival political { factions out there. You know China and how much a part political condi tions there play in business? Well, I simply couldn't bring myself to ko in with either faction. Bristol, my as sistant—he’s a_Lowell man. class of 21; you know him, of course. “Bristol was crazy to take a chance. I wouldn't. And then I went off my pins—the strain got me. I suppose and had a touch of fever. I was out of my head for several days and more of he office for ol me n the in what seems Larry of weeks. He kept te e golng great.” “Weren't the: “They were, “The minute I j ture Bristol plunged in and took the chance I wouldn't. Things happened fast and he picked the winning side | just in time, Gambled on it and came | through.” | “You resigned, then?" | “What else could I do?" demanded | was in ing things * K Kk LARRY HAD NOT EV! LOOKED AT JUDY: HIS EYES WERE AVOIDING HER. ¥ ok ok K led that a man of old Pr sent out to Chi you u- | me 1- | be people lation an ve me an increase in 4 when it was all Bristol’s doin 1'd have felt vellow clear through if I|that is b hadn't told them 3 ned.” |'them You are ahsolutely sure that All-A wouldn't - the sagie thi You took them naturall you hadn’'t been sick? There Prex eV could w th 1 too quixotic, Weston mfidence and a swiftr Larry merely shook his head. John- | that is more than half t ny S 1 nothing for a mMOmMeNt. { you came a Cropper you v Then st both you and Bristol {and at them. Do you sec your c s to go to China,” he an- | griving at nounced r . 1 Yes, sir,” He pa but Larry was|head whirl surprised to speak I followed you in college,” Johnny s went on, “and 1 knew of your I had an idea just what your were and what m be e The one thin e was that You must Xy's type ymmended the DLreed You took made vou 1 the that's what rica stuff—and duri ich a 1s bel up again vhat I'm Larry said sh to JoHNNy s im. “Supposing, instead of telling in mind for you I s will you take a chance ard 1 suggested, “thee ve had this- t un- e S leaned record he ubilit z counted on us that never oceur you would ever y have changed since red to make you . 1t shed by the 1 shone directly on Johnn wd, vet not unkin v hardly saw him his working out so differently from & he had previsioned. had him id Johnny Se owe me an explanation.” That Larry reco zed of. And so he reps what th Prexy had said back in June, 16 3004 Heavens,” murmured Johnny Sears when he had finished. “So that it!" From the humidor he took a 10 it unlighted in his he said. “Old Prex He is one of ons. But old much like a hatched ot We wor- nees. We filled h horror He disaster for us 4 me now 10 me onc what I heart—that to him than d fre 1 ove: " protested Larry bew was the only time he ever— it p: There is no quest y but what he wanteg to do a service. Instead he harmed you Old Prexy born to be what he be- » me, “Johnny rs came—a dyed-in-the-weel conserva- |beguiled that young ve. He couldn’t have hecome any- |man to contribute the ing else—a pioneer, for instan has in the world toward cause £10,000,000 fund. certainly, would never have recom- Judy said t rom mals we 1 ite old 100k flown was had the who one ove line 1 duckling vou. Br ried him. his kind was fore This has remembe dly. 1 think t you was from hi vou were dea :s he 1 ther. : plenty of chan ) his fe nd so did I > shake he ask Johnny know wha after class da Ju old AL?” Larry zasped PARIS, December 23. Mosul, the Yezidis have lived 4,000 vears in conflict with their neighbors. In facial contour, | they resemble strikingly the old | | Assyrian types on ancient As-| | syrian monuments. They worship the powers of darkness and evil. | There are 30.000 of these devil wor shipers now in Mosul; and the strange thing is that they have maintained their cult unchanged through the ce turies. | They recognize good spirits and a| | beneficent God, but believe the bad| !to be more powerful—so, they pay trib. | ute to the bad. i | Every year, with gorgeous cere-| monies, they sacrifice a bull to the| powers of darkness, and there are| grim tales of virgin maidens killed in | tribute to the devil, in a hidden moun- | tain temple filled with old Assyrian| glory, which no western man has seen. | The Yezidis are known to be rich | {in gold and jewels. But none are| { worn or sold. All are used in decora- | | tlon of their temples and, especially, | | the images of their wicked gods. | N | | an ugly being. He is represented fo: their worship as a golden nd the workmanship of thi i aid to be almost Incomparably beau- | tiful. | | During most of the year the pea-| |cock remains ensconced in glory in| {the mountain temple, amid flashing | jewels. The rest of the year the Zolden bird is borne from place to ! place to be worshiped. The people must bow to the ground when it is brought near to them, and may look at_it directly only when afar off. | The general places of worship are | in groves outside the temples, at mid- | night. Sufficient to say, the -ceres| monies are more in the nature 0(‘A orgies than anything that could be | icalled religiou | | “Just the opposite,” explain the | Yezidis, “like everything in the world!” Now, the Yezidis and their Satan-{ worship have occupied considerable | space in the European press of late, | doubtless because of the very great prominence of Mosul in world politics. A powerful section of the English public will certainly, it is said, raise a storm of opposition to “any giving | of countenance to deliberate worship | of the enemy of God and man.” Be-| cause these same Yezidis, 30,000 strong | and holding aloof from hll nelghbors, are not primitive ju-ju victims, as in Central Africa, but they carry on con- tinuously from the old-time Mani- cheans—most _powerful underminers of the early Christian Church. But the most astonishing part is yet to come. Now that the Yezidis® Satan-worship is the item of the nour, it turns out that the Yezidis are not alone—similar mummeries persigt in Liurope itself! They hayg never ceased_ Yezidis, Ancient Inhabitdn to be practiced in secret in France, Italy, Germany and England, it would seem. since the traditions of the Manicheans were still alive (a po ful sect held and governed from Toulouse) H Making all allowance for the part taken by charlatans and impostors in modern Satanism. there is one fact that remains, Men and women educated earning of our century, posse the inheritance of Christianity with the most dang narcotics of getting a real Satan. The Lucifer 9 worship s arted in Paris b Before the war ard of) claimed tc I the | ism and all that is toda of ' with the obj destroy ous experiments notism with the they want from who profess openly two women. use commun led “Red” e pres Fame and Temperament. (Continued from Fourth Page.) |tion and borrowed the necessary equipment. Members of the hotel staff and the singer's tired and exasperated retinue put the ladders into place and assisted the temperamental lady up- | ward. s she reached the balcony the | She_paused to look about. her face [he|radiant and the melting black eyes + | shining. | “Ah,” she ! tonight one is cony. It's a short distance from the ground. How about a ladder?” | Back to the waiting prima donna went the envoy. “A ladder?” said madame, when situation was explained to her, but certainly S ghed rapturously, Some one rushed off to the fire sta " a burglar!” “for “YOUR ROOMS LOOK OUT ON THAT BALCONY,” SAID THE MAN. | AGER. “HOW ABOUT A LADDE “A LADDER,” SAID MADAME, RADIANT- LY. “AH, BUT CER-. But| Nor do the Yezidis make the devil| TAINLY ts of M(r)rsulr, Worship Powers of Darkness and Evil reddle | n an organized sect. | the Luciferians (then | Why Briefl Love m not hesitated. Ly hers are rself.” he rer B thouzh hi heart = ) g as Larrs stood ve him little push. 3 cast te race, you know The east tesrace looked out 3. One who saw Judy there might have believed her lost in the beaut of the night, unafvare of Larry's e&n proach. But then one would not have known how tightly her hands wer lenched I w elling he o the around f. I won't—I But she did, in spite ¢ promises. As their eve | both started to spe s their ey se pause ke for then thless s mble, 1t i« of us all. Sears’ d her orld « when the 11 uch = ques Zir! at the prefy one I Ay lance the other ihat flirted ko nd damage ippeal for in airing dan & tanch You're :r no chance to fin he was conscious immediately tak ver one offered . e assured " But sh 16 up on its ruins hip of Sa inly, i rious to mnote the plans made by evism. Commun ism and Red principles of all shades— claimed as means of action previ 1914 1 nd fe s the Luciferian: - —e | Blood Volunteers. 13 thousand volunteers, who can be called upon to give their blood in transfusion cases, are being enrolled | by the London Transfusion Service, {little known branch of Red Cross |work. This service to London hos | pitals was organized because doctors found it so difficult to obtaln blood | it type when a transfusior ry to save a patient’s life he blood of each human being belong: to one of four chemical types, and an |individual who is willing to transfer | some of his blood can be used only if {he has blood like that of the patient To date the London transfusion corps has served 247 cases, but calls from hospitals have become so numer ous that a few hundred volunteer re erves are no longer enough. The | organization states that calls come ir at all hours of the day and night Within an hour of the request the ervice has a volunteer of the prope: t the hospital. Test for Pearls. NEW process for distinguishing between natural and cultured |pearls was described before the Frenci Academy recently. The method. very simple and ines pensive, requires the inserting of : miniature tube in the hole bored in the i pearl for beading purposes. Within the tube are two little mirrors very close together, at right angles to each other and at an angle of 45 degreex | with the sides of the tube. When a iight is thrown into the tube |on the first mirror it is reflected on the second mirror if the pearl is com posed of concentric lavers, as is the case with all natural pearls. If the core of the pearl is not composed of concentric spheres the ray of light in stead of striking the second mirro: shines through the substance of which the cultivated pear] 1s made and ap pears as a tiny spot of light on the surface. —e Powerful Engine. HE engineering division of . the Army Air Service has designed an experimental engine which is ex pected to develop 2,400 horsepower. The new engine is of the “X” ty, with four banks of six cylinders a ranged in the form of an X, and will be supercharged and geared down. It is to be built by the Ellison Engineer- ing Co;n'lmny”ols Tndianapolis and if successtul wil e the nost powerful @ero engine in the world,