Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1926, Page 81

Campaigns for Correct Weights Conducted by Nation and States Conference to Be Held in Washington Will Relate to All Kinds of Commodities in Which Consumers Have Been Sufferers in the Past. BY REX (COLLIER. HE! common barnyard hen had better look to her cackling will he rutiniz- these days, or she shown up under the ing eve of science as a base deceiver of the owner of the hand that feeds her. \dvertising her product is all well enough t the product she adve spector come the weights and measures law. That may sound. off-hand, like fool- ishness, but » glance at the program of the weights and measures confer- ence 1o be held here Tuesday under puspices of the United States Bureau of Standards will disclose that the matter is to be a topic for serious de- liberation by the delegates, who will comse here from every section of the country. Oregon aiready has placed eggs of weights ut she had better bhe sure | ses is up 1o standard or some enterprising in- 1 measures may ong and nab her for violating THE .SUNDAY STAR: ‘WASHINGTON, D. .C, MAY 23 -1926—PART 5. Famous Warriors Were Prominent In Metropolitan Church History Rambler’s Further Discussion of That House of Worship Relates Partly to Excitement Produced When City Feared Spire Would Fall. HE photographs in last Sun- day's story of the Metropoli- tan Memorial _ Methodist Church interested so many persons that the Rambler is encouraged to write of the same church today. You will note that the Rambler admits it was the photo- graphs which “interested so many persons.” It has been said before of the Rambler's writing that the pic tures are good. You have been told some of the church’s history which is to be found in a brochure the title page of which is inscribed, “Twenty-Fifth Anniver- sary Services of the Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, D. C., held November 4, 1894.” At three services on that day the history of the church from its be- ginning in 1852 was related by Andrew B. Duvall, Capt. A. I’ Lacey, 1. O. Hall, Thomas G. Hensey, Miss Cor- nelia A. Pursell, Miss . L. Somers, Gilbert D. Fox, Dr. William S. Wash- | spire of wood. In the latter portion | very heavy timbers were used which run from 40 feet inside the masonr. work besides being otherwise secured with fron bars and bolts.” From the ancient accounts one | learns that part of the woodwork of | the base of the spire broke within the stone tower and the spire swayed in lits stone socket. One of the things | worth recalling is that during the | storm and while the spire was sway Prof. Frederick Widdows, the ‘ed in his steeple chamber land many times during the day | chimed famiNar tunes. It was com | puted that the steeple swayed 6 feet {from the perpendicular “and the wooden spire rose and fell in the masonry tower, but the stone walls held it. On tha afternoon of Febru- ary 3 the trustees of the church pub- notic In order to allay the excitement growing out of the insecurity of the spire of Metropolitan M. E. Church. it |is deemed proper and right to inform the public that work s been com menced under the able supervision of !r. Dewdney of the Treasury Depar ment and My, Charles- Walker, which when completed will render the nobie structure perfectiy secure for all com: burn, Cornelius Burlew, Rev. Hugh Johnston, Rishop John P. Mrs. Newman, Mrs, John A. Mre. T. L. Tullock. Mrs. J. « arah DL LaFetra. Mrs W, Talmud, 1ssey and Rev. Dr. v thin the scope of its law designed 10 prevent the under-weight evil in commerce, and as a rvesult of the dis- on of this egg-standardizing eovement it is entirely possible that B pation wide tendency to fall in line h Oresc SMERSON. PHOTO MADE 7 IN 1870, | MISS LENA RELAY. PHOTO MADE will foilo vrus y Naylor. r < tm 3 5 e DL Mo cacalladlt s thi g INBT. - | “Sumece it to u at the trustees ; = « 1 enalize ‘the perhaps unsuspecting those names is that on « wall of the ; G % have by # unanimous vote placed this|and the Rambler finds in The Sta ol whose fond - product - does not church s @ tabiet to John A. Logan, | 1391, died in Newport, R. I, November | wjgle matter in the hands of the|October 20, 1888, a story beginning e e Who was of the cangregation. The | 25 1049; Rev. Jesse Lee and Dan | guove.named able gentlemen and that [ “The work of rebuilding the towe: ot tablet is inseribed: “To the Deathless | postie of Methodism in 2 of the Church of the Covena nres officiuls after caverul study of the Memory of Malj. Gen. John Alexander | England, by David Snow. Boston; Rey being pushed rapidiy forward ) [ lien-fruit_question. Responsibilit Toghn. Six years in the House of |John Summerfield, died June 13, 1% was believed that the building would be ready for dedication “about the 1869, der the wWworests with O on's tutter and eeg men. The law merely tives a standard weight for eggs, of 1 fiv 8 ounces. 1f the = Leghorn or industrious Ply- 1 ith Rock fails to leave in the nest n egg of at least that “‘heft,” she S anhbatives. . TT times elected | 1ged 27: Rev. Samuel L. Dickson {}: [:‘1‘::‘\;’::\“;".\. of lln-m|'||luxl‘!” (;n! : w: | Baltimore Conference died Novembe years in official life. Great statesman |13 1866; ¢ s Pierce born Stan of the mighty West. Commander of 1d 1831, died 1870 to the memor) the Army of the Tennessee and fore-|of his sainted parents Edward and most volunteer general of the Repub- |FEliza Revere and his sister Mary 1 lic he loved so well. Victorious in|Revere of New York: Rev. John Church ¢ anniversary The Star Sat said: “Fifty-five vears Jan4 yeally has mothing to®cackle over, ac g : 9 % ~ . : . L G ity 1o o1 | Strange. pioneer preacher in India 5 H THIS LABORATORY IS THE OFFICE OF GEORGE M. ROBERTS, SUPERINTENDENT OF WEIGHTS Al arms, Hlustrious in council. Esteemed | £ a3 , et e 5. 1560, the Metropo! cording to those who have made a JOF GEO o Lk el 4 s A O e shors. of hil|dled: November:. 2, 1852 Willl ago, 1569, the Metropo lose study of such things, . MEASURES, AT THE DISTRICT BUILDING. Lo B (\.,‘,'.' S T D. D of Cincinnatli €or | itan Memorial 31 Churen was ded This effort at standardizatl f th v L st rank, bravi e, died February 11, 18 Charles jeated and this event wi he a Al lon of e manhood. Generous, frank. brave, in: I:““.“‘ By 1:; disd abAToaHe )’:"‘1 Ar! Brited tomoriow Bishop Frank M | ¢ commodity is but | L nt, iy aity out of order quite easily hecause of |lons of ofl. On the first of the month, | method of checking up on dealers is | corruptibi - PR e Faaal onie of many interesting phases of the | e jangth of the cable from the meter | porhaps. o bill comes around for that | used also in California, Ohlo, Penn.|faithful friend, devoted husband, be | lawa. dJanuary 0 1870 Hev. Huseed aweil-known pouit patriot. honorable citizen, stor of the church, am. At 7:30 pm Bristol, a for will preach work of the tion's weights and |, 4 3 G ~ere Christian and Rev. i e o el els J o the wheel, the possibility of the {amount of oil, and the purchaser pays |sylvania and other States. loved ent, sincere Christian. Ale O JACH 2 . ia Wil sinit meeting of the Jeasures authorities, bent as they are | driving mechanism becoming clogged | it without a qualm. y ! While ‘the practice of measuring | humbly trust in God: if this is the end | Jacoh Young of the Ohio Conference; o b a bt mestlnmet jeta approximately what he thinks he | (.t Qirt orfce, etc. This is a matter | “Did he actudlly get the 300 gallons | gasolinie by a [flow inefsc fa not 50 Do mm‘\"n is al (ablet in mem. | Francis J. Wiley iedl at. Foo ClHow worth League Bristol will P e 5 - hat should i s Blowmer lof the [of cillhe orderad? ¥ quires reva s pa ¢| On the wall is also a tablet i em- | Francis 1. die w, . te. Bi | that sheuld interest the owner of the |of oil he ordered”” Nr. Smith inquires. | prevalent in this part of the country n the wall s also a tablet in mem. | ¢ November. 3. 1853, Mrs. Marilla speak and W. Clarence D < paving for ag the corner grocery, ¢ the department Store, the soda foun: 1:in or the gasoline station. Just as few persons pause to give thought to the egg-weight matter, so would few be able to discu: futelli- gently such important questions as the following. all of which are of vital concern to tha Government and State welght inspectors: Doe | cab, 88 well as the pussenser. 1|21 must be admitted thut the bome |as it is farther West the inspectors | ory of Gen. (i The Bureau of Standards has noted | owner has no way of knowing whether | constantly are on guard against faulty “In_memory | y : 4 ber 4 |2 Temdency to remaady this condizton |ne did of not. The tank 1s out of sight |maters, In this type of measuring de. | valor of Ulysses X. Grant, general of | 1362; William Hamilion, D. D, for 63 by connecting the meter direct to the {and there is no gauge to tell him | vice the flow of gasoline through a |the Army, and President of the United | SE0R8 88 AR S0l O € de transmission shaft. In this way the |about the contents. An unscrupulous |special metering mechanism operates | States, born 27 April. 18 died, £ < < 1875: Nacle Stephenson: M 'I"‘ cab owner is protected against lagging | driver could readily stop at his own ja dial on a meter attached to the | July, 1885. His frien e e x'r_,; v )“.‘l»' o | meters, but officials are not so sure ' house. or a friend’s, unload - |pump. Experts are not sure that|Childs erects this tablet as a token of | GuAVer 0 Fae trdt CCrman wethorst | | about the portection afforded the cab |ion fuel, and then proceed to his | these meters are accurate, and it has | affection while the whole country dnes Aoiie G Tues Meen Tohu Mot | {occupants ~ who are watching the | degiination with his short This | been found that some of them will [ honor fo his career and character. i 28, : . Joh: . . 1 > o R Jer should remind | L. D., one of the judges of the | onec I . 1. | charges mount up on the dial in-front | condition ought not to exist, and the | register not only the flow of gasoline, | Perhaps the Rumbler Tited States SUTNG Court. dier the passenger pay for a skid- | o5 conference 1% goln to take the prob. | but the flow of good old American free | vou that Gen. Grant was helpful in | Tnited Sto Austeis. Colas. - aln] read a brief paper on the the church. During the vears, under the pastorate of Henry Dawson has assu with_the | munity worship of the virtues and|P. Pierce died in India November 4. swntown hotels, is the super Thomas ding taxicab wheel? o e e s ¢ ¢ laing the church, was a member [April 4, 1861.” | i o ihe Sunday. achdol mmd e e our fuel tank for |9 the cab revolve, under the trans lem up with a view to remedying the |air. This is hardly fair to the motor- Bullaing, die .caurch, wao 2 e s he Rambler told you story of Lt Scheelv 13 ‘bresident of the (JTow much does vour fuel tank for | puigiion “method, the meter “talke.” |situation. It &8 propusd to adopt o |ist, it is believed. of the firat bourd of trustees, was in- |, The Rambler told you the story of ||\ ypq 1 BOLTON. PHOTO MADE | Eukens, Scheels Is preeddent or e T gallons of “gas~ | When the tires’skid around on slip- tank gauzing svstem, su that the pur. S augimied Dreaitest. aercii ¢ dous Mopulliog and dedicaton oc mieeptte | JAMES FRBAETONC A Epworth Leasue. s Mar every e e B o Ealias | BTy streets in a vain effort to get | chaser will be able to satisfy himsele | po oo days after the O086d Mrs. Grant |now remind vou of the exeitement |~ = Mr. Duvall related the church his Does the ittle clock 1 f“' * | “traction,” the little meter is skidding |as to the quantity of oil for which he ! Iqlu\’l. Y. while not classifiable as a | church, Februar L e Tl o e o ety 3 A relat h ' his 9 Clotk “anc 0L SAR0-4 aronnd) too, }is paving.” 1 & “commodity,” is nevertheless some. | was active and successful in collecting | § ashington when spire, 100s- | they promise to have the work com-|tory and recited his memaries of the ne meter tell a true story? too. |18 ps s e e i of the chureh |encd by wind, swayed and seemed | plated intide of two weeks It is|church fathers and mothers. The thing taht requires accurate meas ariation of a |and for paying the church d¢ ® % The slippage may not appear to be | Much progress along similar lines public through | site of the church was held in trust valuable paper|for the congregation for 16 vears fore the building of the church by lave vou actually as much fever as Your clinical® thermometer indicates? How much is “a package’? 2 Should ice cream be weighed eor easured? ach problems as these are the dally concern of the weights and measures enforcement officers. In States where 1here are adequate laws governing the sale of commodities with respect to weight or mass the consumer is as- | sured of a fair return on the money he invests. These inspectors keep tab products marketed for sale, from the time they leave the factory until they reach the buyer over the siore counters *ox o % ’m-ny-rr to inform tk the umns of you | (The Star) that Mr. Dewdney, having | b | secured the steeple both on the out-|Benjamin H. Duvall of Wesley Chapel | side with guys and on the inside by | He was an uncle of W. Clarence Du S, it is now pronounced by him | vall. Benjamin H. Duvail, who be. perfectly safe even if another storm |came a trustee of the church and | should evertake us before the com.|president of the hoard. and was etion of the work now commenced.” | known to all us as a lawrer. was a An interesting thing which the|brother of W. Clarence Duvall. Mr. | degree in the temperature of a patient * % may be a matter of life or death. It N s hat this church truly | |2 thermometer should register a tem- | ] © ShoW g ettt M | perature higher than that actually | ot e fell vou that on {affecting the patient, undue alarm | odist Church,” let m D ehich | br {may be caused and improper meth. | the windows are '”"“"‘“'";i T | 0ds of treatment hurriedly resorted to, | in the words of a Methudist historian, | perhaps to the Injury of the person | “constitute a centenary of memoria Vil Tr, on the othier hand. the lttle | of early American Methodisni® ' OB W, column of wercury should lag in re. | the \\mnln\\ls .]\r((» n.'mw'\ la'x‘\.\ltn_u'w‘::! Itambler recalls in association with 1‘}i\"<]~“ "\‘- " hfrmv"-"- now "'d“‘\"‘;']" porting a patient’s actual condition, | bishops and dates a2 10 9%, | this steeple matter is that on the|of the board of truste s attending physicians might be luiled ¥ \\lu‘\l{njh- “-““} "”*"']‘“I i ) | evening of April 25, 1876, the Rev. Dr. | baper of l-r.4lmw;‘<hn;= facts ""d the into a state of complacency extremely | Richard atcoat. died July 5. John P, Newman. then pastor of the | lrustees of the first board and of harmful for the one being examined. ! Willlam luring. The slightest | . McKendree, died reh urch, gave 4 “epire lecture" Theother Methodists prominent in th e i et : da o[ 1535; Enoch Georg 4 August advertisement inThe Star was: “From | building and support of Metropolitan e LT, s el | gge. Tiobert W Eioherls, dind Washington to Jerusalem—an eve.|l Would uote from that paper, but t8 tiouninds ot clinicdl Sth€rmom: | ¢ “154a; Eiiiah Medding; died e ha BBl CRC-scenes. i this story is long enough eters for the manufacturers prior to | o% 1848 BHAaR LECANE S December ning in the Holy City—scenes, inc thelr antry intothe inarts of trade,|: 1832; John Emory, it | dents and observations in the Holy _— 1935; Thomas Coke, died May 3 E Gia) rtaretimmioge | e T ] ind Pressure Tests. sac] Stru 80 sted o ound | ; v a 3 {r::',hi;"n§:,".z’;:]"'tn"‘l,",f"‘g,:m',,""‘ s | Francis Asbury, died March 31, cheologists, ministers and Sunday sands of thermometers sent broad- | . o riihoire cast throughout the country have not et i) been so tested, however. The danger b of such a practice is apparent to the medical profession, and Senator Cope- land of New York. himself a phy sician, has attempted to have adopted regulatory laws governing the sale of | | | | ] 7 2n inspector suspects that a manu- facturer is selling a product under weight, he has the authority to halt ivery of the commodity pending a heck on the weight. It is his duty » see that the net welght laws are . r.zidly adhered to, and he sees to it that the local laws governing the sell- $nz of packages by weight or volume are respected The tendency nail over the country wway from measures and toward siandard welghts. Many commodities, particularly in the way of food prod | 816." ; | You may read the following in- | | scriptions: *““Rev. Robert Strawbridse | { founder of the first Methodist Society i | SW rules governing the safe guarding of buildings against gales have been prepared hy the Bureau of Standards as a result of wind-tunne! tests, in which models were exposed to air streams moving at a velocity as high as 76 miles an hour, tha equivalent of 100 miles an hour on Weather Burean recorders, Popular spire incident of Metropolitan recalls to mind the fall of the tower of the Church of the Covenant, August 1588, Nobody was hurt. | The tower fell about & o'clock in the PHOTO | ™orning. but there was little doing in Maryland, 1760: v. Asabel E. Phelps, died March 15, 1853; Rev. Jesse Walker, died October 4. 1835: Stephen Olin, D. D., and Nathan Bangs, D. D.. u | New Y o ‘onfte wce; James clinical thermometers. He has intro- | New YO East SRREEti o duced two bills in this connettion, one | 1% GO T york Fast e requiring that all ciinical thermom- | S Hine "or Baltimore, for | MRS, MARY WILKERSON, tcts. are of such a texture and phys- | i Bh e Rted, AN NG o X 9 - lon that part of Conneecticut avenue 1cal muke-up that mearuring them is | The ok & llceniing syslesn ! o Sorale | §0.veart & mermberiof ha I CILY MADE IN 1 | in those davs even between § and 9 | Mechanics say larzely u matter of g Lima manufacturers to test their own prod. | tion died Bere died ©etober 17, 1556: ——|a.m. and 4:30 and 6 p.m. There was| The tests discl At akarae beans in the pod. te straw- ucts under Federal supervision. Both | L0l John Berry. died Taw: Joio: labout to fall. To do this he refreshes |an investigation and the investigators | rary figure pressire pe bers ns and numerous other bills have been heard in committee, | Y Fison €T - o Shington, | his memory by turning to an old Ram- | said they found that there was too | square foo 1Y vears ago Table are not e meas but have not heen acted upon by Con- | - GFegn Mo Do S€CTT: John Cogge. | ble which he probably wrote in 1912, | much pressure on the foundation, the to resist whic bi& bintings sumer may get nearly gress. The various proposals regard- | gpan"horn in E: sex County, England, * % % % | sandstone was too soft, the mortar|have since been bui as almost one- as much food one time as he ing this Federal regulation will be dis- | Shan D = — ’ - Sl P b { was too thin, the cement not up to|third greater than the actual pressure «oes another time, and with the same cussed in detail at the conference this T &y NE of the heavy storms of Wash-| qandard, and a few other things were ountered in a 76-mile gale. wmount of money expénded—depen week. iy, wiltontial e aaig fee ington broke on July 4, 1874, and | wyong. The Evening Star Wednes.| ‘The old O i Rada vttt ing wholly on the way the commodity TApMI o L en the weather became caln, it was | gay, August 1888, printed this cate calculations, but in recent years ‘The troublesome question of what “a ating would be fraught with package” is has bothered offcials for S e & R elgh vears. e net welght amendment to cestigators have found that the Toods e all variations in the pure food law requires that the m-'e"'-;;tff:m-: of ice cream, as a mat- | OUNE 1O gnantity. i g T, @ - = welght of the net contents he stamped | e o act 1s just about half air. If |dicular and it was reported that it Tietaflers, especially hucksters and | COLLECTION OF CONTAINERS INTENDED TO SHOW THE NEED FOR |on ail food packages. o such i law | oroond e e o er aorde. the | C0Ud 1ot be set right. 1t would have peadiers. prefer to sell by STANDARDIZATION OF MEASURES. can be invoked by the inspectors with | esique would half fill the b Yn | L be rebuilt. The lean of the steepie it is pointed out by regard to shoeblacking. paint or a [effort has been made in Wisconsin to [ Wi 0t nsidered :1;:}77‘1‘;:“; ax::dl e the weights and measures ¢ - thousand and one other Siges & e {ut the |a very serious draln on the passen- |already has been made in the gasoline | ;o0 (bl commodities. Buyving such | [cEulate this alr content of ice cream. | where was a good deal of merry talk “The heautiful stone tower of the| scientists had determined that the Church of the Covenant, in course of | methods used involved several errors erection at the corner of Connecticut|The actual wind-tunnel tests showed avenue and N street, Re . S that 22 pounds’ pressiure to the square lin, pastor, fell down early this mor! was encountered fn 76-mile-an ing. A portion of the west and south|hour winds and that the 30-pound walls about 20 feet above the founda-| pressure was not reached until the gale attained a speed of 883 miles an acked in the container and heaped the measure. Weighing such w thought that the steeple of Metropoli- tan Church had heen damaged. 1t was und to be 6 inches out of perpen- as left the Bureau of Standards. " - : : 5 ! : - § decided that manufac- | "¢ o Akt hour. equal to 115 miles an hour as housewife, under su-h a system, is|ger's pockethook in one or two short |industry. The District of Columbia i8 | 554 1 : It has been d Y fac- | i) the city about the Capital’s leaning | L e AL at the mercy of careles: e, Dut shen consideration 1s given |among many States which keep watch [£P0d%: It I pointed out, s akin ta|turers should not whip ther creatil|iower, or leaning stceple. A great | e Weather Bureau reckons velocits. iradesmen. Hucksters and peddlers |to the vast number of taxi passengers | on gasoline pumps with a view to ] ,,45"Cary in size of container 5 q into a mass more (])..n_“ “'N;v De. | Storm broke on Washington at mid- | ere ‘”V:"w;m_l .(i“‘ my"" *\»\_ H\, 1 it easier to measure goods whos ney is invoived in even a |seeing that the motorist gets the full - original volume as a liquid. night. February 2 . Part of the Bl SEXCd, Oy @ beies 1 ure goods t e money | mentary gusts recorded in New York Neteh them: The cry mensire: eell | SHtnt error the problem becomes of |5 Fallons he orders at the service sta- | by i "r,rc‘;?;";)g;fl-e;"‘;"f"»"h:“':‘:‘"“‘f partment of Agriculture, on ::‘:(':L:T" roof of Foundry M. Church wa grew to astounding p ions under | enough importance to the weights and | tion. Under the direction of Superin-| 0" giniensions may hold widely hand, ?fls "mmm”"nh'mm:“,eigm her, | Plown off. The St. Clotd Hotel, south fnch practices, and the consumers an- | measures authorities for them to take | tendent George M. Roberts of the |gecr © WS RRE FIEY, JRE e to | 26, kfiod G T west corner of Ninth and F, lost its nually lost miilions of dollars in com- |up in national conference. 1t will | weights and measures division of the | thick walls, false bottoms and 8o on, | * vasous angles of the ice cream dis- | [00F, The Coast Suivey bullding and | aodities paid for, but not received.” | be thrashed out from all angles at the | District government, inspectors are The general trend of welghts ot :x;o .l;vq’t:ior] il b capiaeres % | the Academy of the Sacred Heart were The proper weighing of foods is in- | coming parley, and special contempla- [ sent out in a fiivver equipped with a | measures experts is to encourage ex- | e conference. and a special commit- | 1amaged. Damage by wind was com sured under the Federal food and|tion wil be given to the claim that |false tank. They pull up at a #as|tension of the net weight law (o cover | tee apponted At last years conference [ MO I the ity and suburhs, he drugs act, but there exists no Federal | balloon tires serve to eliminate most ' pump, selected at random. order 5 |all commodities. There being no Fed- | il make a report covering the whole | i continued heavy during February 3w governing the sale of other prod- | of the skidding formerly regarded as | zallons of “gas,” and then drive away |eral law of so broad a scope, the ;.:;u::a e P 3 and the Metropolitan spire swaved and St. Paul. Minn, ever having at tained such speeds Square, low buildings offer the min imum resistance, since the currents are deflected equally around the sides and can rise and flow over the top Conditions are reversed in a tall and narrow building. The air currents cannot rise easily to flow over the top. wets, The States themselves, how- | prevalent. | and measure the contents in the aux- | States have been dev * and the bellef was that it would fall. 3 a cted rar ever, are joining In wh hotnts to P fliary tank filled by the dealer. Every |guide them ,ne,df,;\tf,],‘: ‘;rt:t:'ffé"‘,:f Sorehthe . A reporter for The Star was sent to e e e & mational' “correct welght” campaign [now’ and then they. find the tank is | tions, as was done In the case of the | GUPT: ROBERTS of the Washington |look at the swaving steeple and he GBS Thsccarely o o 10 protect the buver not only of foods, | THE growing popularity of ofl heat- |anywhere from a quart or {wo to as | net weight provision of the pure food welghts and measures division be- | wrote what follows ¥ the reason why so many buildings are , lmtof hardware, fuel and other neces. ing among home owners has di-|much #s a gallon “short.” 1If the [aw. The movement to secure Federal | lleves that the National Capital is This steeple is known as the Kelso > unroofed in gales. — eities. rected the attention of officals to the | shortage is traceable to a defective |jegisiation of this character will be |Protected by an ideal law. ~Under |spire and it is one of the tallest and ; The rear face of the building is The taxicab problem is a typical one | fuiel oil measuring stem Most | pump, the inspectors usually are leni- | thoroughly gong into by the assembled | this law he i empowered to in-[handsomest in the city, l:fl‘lll)_,' of grace: subjected to a terrific outware l‘ ,,‘“ as confronting weights and measures offi- | householders have their fuel-oil tanks | ent, merely advising immediate repair | delegates. 5 spect all weighing and ,measur- | ful proportions and pleasing color. T ol Nowide etk drows o it ¢ sale of [ The ing to and fro of the spire h « gt iiif"m"n‘?l‘d‘ffin.“ii.‘l I;:Lxr:«‘-‘:or Colum- | With the :uF { wind today very high-velocity stream the still air be "THE ice cream problem is one of out- DiTd condemn those found not to |much alarmed the residents in the | B hind the structure, leaving a partial standing importance at this time, |meet standard requirements. All | neighborhood of the church who fear | & ) { fl | yocuum chere. "In cyclonic disturd There appear to be widely divergent |goods sokl by weight must have |damage to life and property I it falls ances bulldings frequently appear to views among officials as to whether | charges reckoned on a net weight |The police cut off travel during the ::\.\};."- (;", as |I;.~ 'f",”, w -”l 1,.,.3‘,‘1..‘;,. fce cream should be sold by weight |basis. Coal must be sold by the “long |morning by stretching ropes acros: o, fata feon the a1} préveiire within or by measure. Many Interesting fac- |ton.” A “loat of bread” is defined to | Fouranda Half street above and be- | K and the semi-vacuum tithout 4 tors are Involved in a discussion of the | mean one avoirdupois pound of the [10W ' str e models used in the wind-tunnel L o measures | About 1 o'clock that day workmen ; . . tests were simple boxes of various subject, which was taken up in earn. | staff of life. Standard “dry measures”| A h ¥ wor REV. TIMOTHY DOAN. DATE i f - est about a year ago after fce cream | for use in markets and stores are pre. | Were sent up the "l'l-]m"‘]“‘;:*;" L PICTURE UNKNOWN, .}:fl,'f:..{.j,:’"e”,',":"‘f:."; g retallers had proteated that the' tooth: | scribed, . When a customer asks for a |and knocked out the slats from the L NOWN. ain types of buildings. Each g 5 belfry, that wind might have free —| wali was drilled with 70 small holes g, e bl b iaalione of ook ;‘,‘:zh‘;‘h;':wfi‘l e l?apsrl‘\'l:ifu{wrel:e‘;::flfifgl passage. The Star man took pains to | tion seems to have been crushed out|and 49 more were bored through the g e huY § gallons of cream.’ |just that, no B hen he wants some |tell something of the steeple, more |and the entire tower fell in on itself. |top. Rubber tubes catching the alr sell about 4 gallons or sor" el man he ‘must buy it by | than the news that it might fall. Ie | So complete was the collapse that the | forced through these holes on each of At the time it was proposed that all | weight not mass. wrote: ““The steeple is 230 feet high, [ great mass of stone was piled around | the five exposed faces led to record. fce cream 'be-sold by weight. This Ban'\m of this persistent super- |about 100 feet being a tower of Seneca | the base of the tower and did not ex-|Ing instruntents outside and gave an i wesiibn et with welght. This | Because O ghts and measures. in. |Stone masonry on top of which is the | tend bevond the curb of the street. |accurate measure of the air pressure Proval on the part of the manufactur. | spectors, the _old-time dealer with There were no scattered stones in the |on sides and roof. The models were ars, who polnted out that this would | fraudulently-inclined ideas is rapidly street and the great tower, 158 feet | mounted on revolving bases, so that involve added labor and increased ex- |becoming extinct. No longer can he high. seems to have come crashing | they could be turned gradualiy to give pense to the consumer. The house- |unpack his vegetables and replace down in nearly a straight line. The |13 different exposur simulating the wife, they claimed, does not want to |them so loosely that he has several only portion of the tower remaining | fesults of a shifting wind. buy ice cream by weight, anyhow.|boxes more than he got from the 4 standing is lhe'l_nwer part, some 25 or - e She wants to purchase a definite quan- | wholesaler or farmer. Welghing these g 3 30 feet high. The north half of the Blood Reveals Sex. tity—sufficient to flll 'a_ certain num- [commodities has made such habits tiled roof as far back as the lantern ber of plates, and she is not particu- | passe. was crushed in. A portion of the BLOOI) can reveal sex, according (o experiments conducted recently by clals. The “bad news” meter usually [ buried+in the yard. The tank wagon |of the pump, but if they are convinced is connected to the front wheel of [pulls up, runs a flexible pipe into the | the shortage is a deliberate attempt to the cab, officlals explain. With such |tank and proceeds to fill the con-|defraud the consumer, court proceed- - & connection the. meter is likely to get [ sumer’s order for, let us sa) 0 gal-|ings are institutdd. This false-tank W. C. DILLER (LEFT), CHIEF INSPECTOR, AND'GEORGE M. ROBERTS, welghs. . Furthermore, it was declared that various brands and kinds of ice cream weigh more than others, due to the consistency and the whipping pro- cesses used, and that whereas a pound of ice cream one day might produce six plates, the same amount tomorrow mignt fill only five. The question finally revolved itself around the amount of air in ice cream. ‘Those who claimed they did not want to pay for air were answered by the manufacturers with the statement that but for the air content, ice cream would be nothing more than frozen milk and cream, properly sweetened. It would not possess that fluffy tex- ture that makes it palatable. One expert even declared that it is the air in ice cream that serves as a cush- ion to prevent the cold ‘rom causing larly concerned about how much it| The weight inspector goes about his | 4 - stone gable in front is in ruins and : . the large central window with its| duties unostentatiously, usually with- out the knowledge of the beneficiaries. Every time he halts a coal truck and compels the driver to go to the near- est platform scale and reweigh his load, he Is taking a drastic step de- signed to make the consumer's dollar go a little farther than it was calcu- lated to go. Sometimes this protective interest works the other way, and the manufacturer or wholesaler has the inspector to thank for a considerable saving effected through correction of | an arror in the customer's favor. Which ever way it works, the gov- ernment is doing its best, in co-opera tion with State authorities, to see that the American busiress man sells, and the American consumer buys, exactly what a frank and honest transaction between the two should demand. Even if the innocent barnvard hen curved stone arch. The walls east of the tower remain intact. and with the exception of the fall of one-half of the west roof the disaster is confined to the towel The colored watchman at the build- ing said that he heard cracking ounds during the night. About 5 o'clock the west side of the tower base bulged, and then the south face. The tower crashed, shaking the ground yand filling the neighborhgod with dust. It seems that the sound did not wake many persons in the neigh- borhood and there was no excitement. The committee named by the District government to investigate the matter | consisted of Bernard R. Green, civil| engineer; Thomas B. Entwisle, build- | ing inspector, and Clifford Richardson, inspector of asphalt and cement. Re- building the tower and broken wal Dr. Dewey C. Steele of the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Steele used the blood of cattle and found that when | the blood serum is diluted a hundred times and then properly. treated with chemicals a few drops of methyl green dye can be introcuced, turning the biood serum to green if it came from females and red if it came from males. County Hospitals. O most States in the Union have ut least one hospital in every county? Jleports for 1925 show Con necticut, Maine and New Hampshife were the only States that did have at least one hospital for community use in every county. About 10 per cent of the New York counties were without such hespitals. The worst record shown by Georgia. almost 70 per cent | of the counties being without grdinary , SUPERINTENDENT, EXAMINING A 'the familiar pain between ‘he eyes |should suffer a boycott in furtherance |MRS. W. W. FISKE. PHOTO MADE T-ANJINCHOR:TWOQ, _ ., _. . thatcomes from eating the.cream-100- 9f the cause. ; IN 188k T C Lol ot 4h Samdsg is K] was begun soon after the collapse, hospitals.