Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1926, Page 22

SUNDAY APRIL ties—corn, wheat, cattle and swine, and possibly wool, beans and some STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, other products. ASKS $]m]7mvm Similar in Principle. | Mr. Haugen, who is preparing the bill at the committee’s request, will present it in executive session Mon- day or Tuesday, It §s similar in prin- 1 ciple to the corn-belt plan and the Dickinson bill, also pending before the committee, but differs from the Tincher proposal, embodying Secre- tary Jardine's recommendation for farm velief, in that it provides for an equalization fee. Senator Capper, Republican, | sas, Introduced in the Se 2 THE 18, METEOR SHOWER THIS MONTH HURLED FROM HALLEY’S COMET other discarded pieces of furniture and household article will be removed. The Commissioners expect the 1926—PART CHIGNON IS NEXT GIFT residents of Washington to observe | [:AP"-AL ELEAN UP OF PARIS TO FASHION the week by cleaning up their prem i £ S ises, ridding yards and alleys and| acunt lots of trash, repair their |Originator of Pompadour Now to homes and_outbuildings, and othes i wise beautify thelr premises. Civie Introduce Novelty Which Seems and trade organizations also have of Doubtful Popularity. been urged to assist by aiding in a | movement to keep the parks and |Bs the Assoclated Pres L thyama vane PARIS, April 17.—Paris, which gave The proclumation setting aside the | | World the pompadour, is about tu week 1o clean up expressed the | | o b ) i belief of the Commissioners that con. |, \iPether the world will accept i certed action on the part of residents y = b ¢ UI€ DOPACORte =8 PrOvE will result in making the Capital the | ot(ot, At prosent PRI, CUet cleanest and most beautiful city in | \COPRMEGN OF Fus BAEH (00 < e the United States and “a matter of | yor" oW, on the neck Is o pro pride to the Nation.” & P W vy ;. By i E il Tamir v i and, anyhow, how do you keep it on” ety (e Dok : o Nevertheless, at the famous Spring e | Praises Hindenburg. ‘h‘m :.nr in Paris a chighon, with a ning and refuse de-| POTSDAM, Germany, April 17 OP)| 1o houl it to eningied: heada Jka o President von Hindenburg was | leech, attracted as big crowds as fres WEIGHT STRESSED BYDR. STONEROAD School Punils Will Be Well | " Examined Before Ath- | letic Tests. Amateur Photographers Can Help Solve Heavenly Mysteries by Taking “‘Snapshots” of Sky One Hour Long for Scientists. Residents Urged to Co-oper- ate With Officials in Spring day the measure which would pro Beautifying Process. {vide by appropriation a revolving d of $100,000,000 for loans to farm = By the Associated Press. organizations, with additional credit | Wushington's An appropriation of $100,000,000 for | facilities made available | week, proc Vo iiiRatine ot cobion b Fort Offers Measure, Commissioners available under the farm- bill | _Representative Fort, Republican, | Iorrow with being drafted by Chairman Haugen of | New Jersey. also introduced a bill | the street c previous had outlined to the |Dartment. New Haugen Farm Bill Will Carry $150,000,000 for Other Commodities. display is on May 5, the meteors ynay be seen from April 29 to May § and on any of these nights it may pay you to try your hand at photographing meteors with your hand camera. The camera must be on some firm support, as a tripod, and pointed to the northeastern sky, the lens being opened to the widest extent. Keep the shutter opened for an hour at a Nearly half a century will elapee s | before Tlalley's comet again will visit ihe regions of the earth, but if you I look to the mortheastern sky about p 20 and see some shoot- . ; & the chances are that you Mhe physical training department [ 78 S ing some of the pleces of of the Washington public schools, in | this famous comet. As these shoot- requiring underwe it children o be | Ing st or meteors, come from a edipined 1 point in the constellation of e Aquarius, the water bearer. which annual “clean-up” the medical inspector and il before being ad ppro mitted to the regular his Sprin ion to th wment for velghed ges This work irze number connection witl veight-height-: »y the child he nent of ciation the funds raised by mas seals. Dr. Rebecca the physical traini he schools, rece ipals to have pupils fc ously unde ht thus cited for i athletic tests has drawn spacial atten- the move shool children weording o importance of hayi 1 and measured s carried on in a public is known as the rvey” conducted ucation: depart and financed with a part of the sale of Christ- director of rtment of eroad Weighing the child is found to be one of the means of intevesting a child in his own development and health,” Dr. Stoneroad said. “All children do not grow at a uniform rate from onth to month. and there is a sea sonal difference in guin for different iren. Slight fuctuations need ause 1o alarm, but in the end there should be a fairly definite normal in > in both height and weight The age-height-weight table of Baldwin and Wood, which is used in our schools. is compiled from meas- nurements of 36,000 native-born chil- dren living under the most favorable conditions. The normal weight is not an average weight expressed as a line, but is a broad zone extending from 10 per cent below the average to 20 per cent above the average.” Dr. Joseph A. Murphy, chief medi- cal inspector in the public schools, has accordingly sent a letter to the doc tors on his staff of examiners asking them to make the examinations of all such children upon notification of the eacher in charge. NIECES GET ‘:GOOD WILL.”| One, However, Left Property by Robert Harvey. To all his nieces, with one excep- tion, Robert Harvey, who died March 4, leaves his “good will,” ing o the terms of his las: Stame filed today in the District Court. The excepted niece Simmery of Cambridge have his interest in cert at Amherst, Va. The remainir 1s devised to his end, ¥ ne Barber. Charles R. Wrenn November 10, 19 six children ‘$1 and leaves his penter’s tools and stock 1r tion to a grandson. Don W remaining estate is left William B. and Marshall Wrenn former Is also named as executor. . Mrs. Jessie W. Marshman, who dicd April 4, left a §1,000 Liberty bond and certain jewelr to her daughter, Esther W. Marshman. The rem ing estate, including premises 5. Quincy street. goes to her husband ifenry A. Marshman. ire estate y is left by abrielle Ber as executrix. Supreme Mass., property estate by his will dated car corpora nn. The The of Charles I his celey. who 1s also Auto Route Distance Atlas _M}x{yh.nd, Delaware, Morthern Virgiria, District of Columbia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, York and New England. schools in | the local Tuberculosis Asso- | " | ber of Margaret | . glves each of his | to two sons, | will to his | ses in the Kast jusi before the sun, ambitious persons starting out on pre-breakfast golf games before sunrise have the best chance of see- ing them. Though these meteors seem to { move along paths radiating from a point in_Aquarius, near the star “eta Aquarii,” they actually are moving in lel orbits. Just as the rails of k seem to come together in the the perspective effect makes meteors seem to come from a ain point, which ustronomers call The meteors always move along the same general path and when, in April, the earth crosses | it the shooting stars are seen, giv- | ing rise to an unusually large num- meteors in a night, or an “meteor shower.” Come From Comet. he meteors of the April shower, nically known as the “eta Aquar- have been observed for many yeurs at the' same n, and it/ has been shown by American | astronomer, Dr. Charles P. Oliver of | the Leander M y at the University of Virginia, that | the path through which this shower, | moves corresponds closely with that | { of Hulley's comet. So in ihese shoot- |ing stars we apparently have some | of the material given off by this| | famous comet hitting the earth's atmosphere and then by friction be- coming incandescent. Observations of meteors from one branch of astronomy in which the amateur can greatly aid the profes-| sional star-gazers, for to find the act path of a meteor, to tell how high it was when it first began to glow and to determine the direction from which it was coming requires a large | number of observations. Dr. Willard J. Fisher of the Harvard College Ob- | servatory is studying meteors and | has received many valuable reports | from persons who are not astron- omers. | ""A good way of obtaining an accu- rate and perrianent record is by the use of photography, and the better | the camera and the faster the lens and the plate or film the more me- teors may be caught. At the Har- vard Observatory the sky is photo- graphed in sections every clear night, |0 that hundreds of thousands of plates have been obtained. On many of these Dr. found trails of previously unnoticed meteors, but the amateur photogra- pher can in ma et i good. 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