Evening Star Newspaper, June 13, 1926, Page 4

MITCHELL TO OPEN - IEFEIECAIPAE Former Air Officer Asks Le- _gion Support in Drive for Preparedness. A national offensive, to be conduct- ed through the aid of Americ glon posts to convince the people of the mecessity of adequate military arms and of the vital impor- tance of air forces, is planned by Col. Willlam _Mitchell, form assistant chief of the Army Air Service, whese bitter arraignment of the gene staff and its policies forced resignation from the Army Speaking last night ta Jegionaires of the District. his gues! an elaborate bart at the Villa Roma on th ville Pike, Col. Mitchell declared the re sponsibility fu kening the nation to its rested with the Relterating general staif his ahout 500 who were que gainst the were broadeast his sen- , Col. defi- > for st which the tion durir onal courts-martial 1 11 called on the to join him “a real alir ' ut_Co-ope an, it is expla 1. nt sort of co-oper; onaries in his nd adequate 1st returned here tour that took him where he was in representatives. the Vincent shington, al- is ve mode air le has speakir S State touch W Legion His own L jon post, B. Costello Post of W) ready is behind him virtually as a unit, it is said. The former air gen- eral slated be elected m- mander of the post in Septembe “As a member of the gen at the time of the war,” Col. Mitchell told the sathering last night, “I found it tmpossible to make the staft realize what war conditions faced the United States. These generals seemed more interested looking up the Army register to see when they would get their next raise.” Outlines Plane’s Need. Reiterating many War Department s, Mitchell turned to advocacy of a greater air force, “The World War demonstrated in- disputably,” he asserted, “that a na tion ¢ depend upon . under mod- ern war tactics, is \lue only for defense. A nation can no longer af- ford to throw ground forces into of fensive drives. To do so isimply means utter exhaustion of fo Troops annihilated before in armed with machine modern arms. that wins is the one that gets the jump in air attack. “These older men of the general staff, who tell us that no foreizn power ever could get an appreciable air force to American shores are not facing f The former general then the effectiveness of coast artil and airplanes, point ing out the bifr guns, which he ¢ “pun’kin slingers.” staff n e ry as ion to Aid. Legion must take ooked to by the knowing what Legion posts ational defense until an awakened public opinion is re- flected in the acts of our representa- tives in Congress.” The lexionn: gave Col. Mitchell an ovation at the close of his address Thomas Walsh, commander of the Costello Post, acted as master of cere- monies, assisted by William Franklin, adjutant of the po: Costello_post members and representatives of the Society of 40 and § and the McGroarty- McConnell Post predominated at the gatherin Brief addresses of greeting were made by Chief of Police Edwin B. Hesse; Inspector Henry G. Pratt, chief of detec Watson B. Miller; Thomas Paul McG “The Ame up this issue. people of the war conditions should discuss T han I committee as chell were Mr. Frank- n, Dr. B. C. McNei Raymond I3 v is residing at I e, Vi rank Col. Mitc wood, at Middleh Rockford College President Hon- ored by William and Mary. President William Arthur Maddox of Rockford College, 1llinois, a native of Washington, where he spent his youth and many relatives and friends, recelved the honorary degree of LL.D. from the College of William and Mary at its 1 commencement exerc last week. Dr. Maddox honor graduat of the class of 3L and Ph. D. de University, where he education before going to Rockford College, of which he has been pre dent since 1919. the bishop's counctl diocese of Chicag in social service w Dr. Maddox a Theta Delta Chi, T Pl Gamma Mu, scholastic fraternities is a Phi Beta Kappa of William & nd hold: Budget Meeting June 21. The semi-annual government's busine; will be held Monday d at Memorial Continental Hall, when President Coolidge will address the gathering to explain his budget program_for the next ; Budget Director Lord will speak also. The N: Band, Lieut. Charles Benter, leader, will render a musical program from 7:30 to 8 o'clock which hour the President is schedu- led to speak. The program will be broadcast. $5,825,000 IS SOUGHT FOR NEW BUILDINGS IN DEFICIENCY BILL Ohio, $90,000; Wilmington, Ohio, $35,000 (for site), Donora, Pa., $20,000 (for site). Lewis- $50,000; McKees Rocks, Pa., phant, Pa., $20,000 (for ; Sayre, $20,000 (for site); Tama- $27,000 (for site); Tarentum, P ,000; Waynesburg, Pa., $25,000 (for Lancaster, S. C., $50,000; Chamber- lain, S. .. $25,000; Athens $60,000; Seattle, W liamson, W. Va., 3 Wis., $150,000; Tomah, Buffalo, Wyo., $40,000; $40,000. Chicago under another item would get $2,225,000 for a purchase of a site for Federal building and improve- ments at the Marine: Hospital; San- dusky, Ohio (additional story), $40,000; Pittsburgh, $1,127,000 (for purchase of additional land, for a new post office building); Paris, Tex., $84,000 (addi- tional story); Seattle, Wash., $20,000 for purchase of land and improve- ments for the assay office. He's right down. Everything _is days 1t at the point of the latest ar there from the wilds of C Rica. He Is the only animal whose natural position s upside down, and his name is ald Sloth (or possibly Geraldine). M: S tands down as of the earth om_the view- up. W diffcult for a member 1s walking on his hands is for Presi dent Cooli or somebody else not werobatical. . Were it not for the limt this peculiar animal wot spend the remainder of its back, pawing the air. the opinion of Mr. Sloth to han ind cons dent opponent of tion, The local Zoo’s particul ved from Costa irtesy of Samuel Kress ¢ Fruit Company. whose Aready have sent numerous anim here He is the only one of his il of trees ! have to its Limt were 1 ently b nti-lyn sloth has L throu: |ve THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, JUNE 13, 1926—PART 1. SLOTH, UPSIDE-DOWN TRAVELER, IS LATEST NEWCOMER AT ZOO it of view, he's upside- in Washington and \most any afternoon lope apartments, not lio use, ing may be viewed in the ante- far from the h e to the Smithsonian Tn- sloth h perpetually permanen move aided toe he limbs with eas 1s helpless “out of it element”’ the ground. It neve leaves a tree until it has stripped it ot all its How it gets to the next tr explained in the stticial t M per annum, antil he is able to loth family one offspring the voungster | himself. The the wooded a, extend- conecernin onditions 1d (ine?) declared in Cost . hing seems very day T'm here, howeve re Raising his deck glasses, Lukens of the Coast and Geodetic vey peered intentl ) o by the Romblon acr ves ur sel, hag unded mall flect in hurried we eviden the brown-skinn t frantically to up for their i a keen 1 , he gave an orde wheel. The R to the right, follc wnel through the treacherous ds. A second order sent pa w to the boat dav < for Springfields and nition. Shots Scatter Samales. “Drop a few she 1 the lieut ain. f ricochet ned Sams reefs, wder of the Ky with hastily the beach, or four d o boats blon fol- erew. their h the the nea the comn lowed qu The natives upe ption of thre the shelterin These few ndishin FIERCE SAMALES IN _PIIiIAlPPINES TRIBE OF WEIRD SUPERSTITIONS Fear of Edge of World, Spirits Reimbodied in Cobras and Other Terrors, Added to Hostility, Hampers U. S. Survey Lieut. | them | evider | | rounding | the but Hu-! anding party » chots ach vinta and the men from the Romblon were on their way to the ship “Theyll pl mented Lieu the them, “but maybe ing us.” menacing rifl vasted no time. com- »ed by > behind descendan the old had been ht in plundering expedition ~ southern 1 const, AS s the more t to the hills at th ) their open to the spoilers. A Filiy nd ¥ left temporarily on Arrecife by the Romblon, had also Qeparted without ceremony for a safer retreat. The Samales had then pro- ceeded to tear down the carefully erected triangulation signals, app! priating the wire, cloth and nails for their own use. Surveying Always Hazardous. Surveying in the Philippine Islands alw s carried on under difficulti “[and the least of those is the di pearance of markers and signal tions. Even with the peaceful natives of the northern islands the enginecrs find trouble, mainly through deeply ‘rooted supel Lieut. R. F. A. Studds ¢ and Geodetic S uch incidents e survey of the ands north of Luzon. “On my very first shore duty I ca np against one of those traditing My party had landed to place a si tower on top of a mount 1 asked the panglim, or v for guides through the.interior he re- fused to lend any of his men because of a tribe of wild men with tails which he said lived in the hills. I overcame this objection only to have the n: balk as we neared the summit. I found that they believed the end of the world Jay just over the peak, and that they would fall into space if they took one step too far. We finally had to go on alone. “At another time our cargadores (pack bearers) almost deserted when told to pass near a rather gloomy cave. Their head man explained fearfull at the cave was fillled with fierce cobras, re-embodied spirits of men who had hidden treagure there. Seven men who had attempted to enter the cave were Kkiled, re said, and were in turn transformed into cobras. No amount of argument could overcome this be- lief. The cave was later explored by Americans with flashlights, but neither treasure nor cobras were seen. “One of our parties was completely disorganized when two Army airpl came from Manila to make an aerial survey. Our cargadores dropped their packs and took to the hills. We had to scour the whole section to find Even the villiges were desert- ed, some of them for two or three ind survevor is a brother to | v of Cami- ut. Studds came cross hinese occupation dating th centur Odd Chi- irjal pots, containing only heads bones, were discovered in one ot far away were stone steps believed to have led to an This island is| a_refuge for | somewhere about | the guin 1 On another island Lieut. Studds es. tablished a small station beside which he intended to pitch camp a little later. On his return the tion and sur- 1 had been burted deeply s from a nearby voleano. ide the crater of an ex- with the dubious com- rock cobras and large was the experience of officer and his part under ip of n rats, - survey a four: in the s} di nother vol ive with its nd choking rous smoke. whose treatment of later found to be superstition in the han- clouds of su Lieut. quite plays « re zood seamen, but only so ou do not overrun their be. te of their queer a form of ghost called the aits for a chance to carry off de We once had to put a sick | shore to prevent spread of a us disease. Some men were > for him, and the ship's tor went ashore twice a day. On third night the man died, and when the doctor went ashore he was astonished to find the body roped and pped to stakes to keep the ‘wak- wak’ from taking it away." Thowa s ORMOND MILTON WEDS. Miss Traendly of New -York Be- comes Bride of Washington Man. Special patch to The Star. W YORK, June 12.—Miss Ma- rion Traendly, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Traendly, today was mar- ried to Ormond Milton, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Philip Baldwin Milton of Washington, D. C. The R, Dr. Wal- lace performed the ceremonly, which took place in St. Paul's Church, Flat- bush. The bride was attended by her ter, Miss Charlotte Tracndly, as m: of honor, the other attendants being Mrs. Clinton S. Burr, Mrs. William N. Packard, Miss Anne Miller and Misk Josephine Traendly, another sis- ter of the bride. Mr. Milton had Edgar Landis for hest man and the ushers were Prince Dmitri Eristoff, Norman Hubbard, Charles Carlin and Charles Traendly, a brother of the bride. % WILLINGDON DUE JUNE 30. Canada’s Governor General-Elect to Sail From Japan. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 12 (A).—Word was received to- day that Lord Willingdon, Canada’s governor generalelect, will arrive here June 30 aboard the Empress of ia. Willingdon, who will return to England for a_short stay before tak- ing up his official duties in Canada, will board the ship at Yokohama, Japan. He is expected to make his official report as head of the Boxer Indemnity Commission in July. In the belief that if shooting rights of Ulster, Scotland, would, if developed in England, bring nearly $10,000,000 a year, farmers and others are starting a movement to develop the game preserves, SUNER ANT PES FACES HOUSEWVES Department of Agriculture Tells How to Get Rid of Insects. This Is the time of year when ants get pesky and worry the housekeeper into warfare to rid the premises of rs. _The little red ant, in This insect renews its at this season in District dwellings, causes considerable annoyance to householders and is the bane of the pantry. Not only may the campaign of the pest be prevented by simple sanitary measures but it may be entirely annthilated by potson warfare in scientifically proved d according to the Department Agriculture. The little red or Pharaoh’s ant, fondly termed Monomorium Phara- onis by the entomologists, is a tropical 0ld World species which in the tem- perate regions passes its existence in heated houses. They are not so de- structive to household effects or sup- plies as they are frritating from the mere fact of their presence and their faculty of getting into articles of food, particularly sugars, syrups, cakes, candles and cooked foods of animal origin. Nearly All Alike. Jits and life history the house ants are all much alike, and, in com- mon with other social insects, present that most complex and interesting phase of communal life, with its a companying division of labor and di- versity of forms of individuals, working together in the most perfect harmony and accord. The ants ordi narily seen in houses are neuters or workers. In the colony itself, if it be discov- ered and opened, will be found a the larger wingless females and, the proper season, the winged male During most of the year, however, the colony consists almost exclusively of workers, with one or more perfect males. Winged males and re produced auring the Sum mer and almost immediately take their nuptial flight. The males soon perish, and the females shortly after- )f their own wings, which attached, and set about the shment of new colonie: , which are produced in ex traor numbers by the famales of “queen” ants, are very minute, whitish objects, and are cared by the workers, the young larvae being fed in very mucn the same W 1 the colonies of the hive bee. The so-called ant eggs, in the popular con- ception, are not eggs at all, but the white larvae and pu females and males are much I than those of the workers and many times larger than the true eg: Some Are Inaccessible. The distinctly hous biting ant nt and othe ng in the wood articles of fur. In h it imported work, ma or niture, are often very difficult to eradicate because of their inaccessi bility. If the nest can be located by following the workers back to their point of disapy nce, the inmates of the nest, if nearby, x ometimes be reached by injecting a litle disul phid of carbon, kerosene or gasoline into the opening by means of an oil can or small syringe. In the use of these substances, naturally, precau- tions should be taken to see that no fire s present, as all of them are in- flammable nee of the red ant can be o ¢ cleaning up all food scattered by by keeping in the pantr. in antproof metal containers or fce boxes all food supplies that may attract ants and by limiting amount of such article ble to daily needs elling substances such as camphor naphthalene in connection with been found imprac ratively little bene- fit. Sodium fluoride powder dusted about the runways of the as been reported to give e sults. The collection of ants by the use of attractive baits such as borax and sugar dissolved in boiling water is a remedy of doubtful value. A more eflicient method where it used, is @ SYrup po arsenate of soda, the idea being that the ants will collect this poison syrup and convey it into their nests, so that not only the ants which collect the cyrup are ultimately Killed, but the inmates of nests feeding on it also succumb. The formula for the prep- ation of the syrup is one pound of sugar dissolved in a quart of water to which should be added 125 grains of arsenate of soda to be placed on small sponges left at places fre- quented by the ants. ORIGINAL BOOM TOWN OF GOLD RUSH FADES Coloma, Calif., Once 10,000 Popu- lation, Now Has Only 150 Inhabitants. of most re and food supplies has tical and of comy By the Associated Press. SACRAMENTO, Calif., June Hidden in the Eldorado County hills northeast of here lies the original hoom town of the gold rush ds Coloma, on the site where .James Marshall found the first flake of yel- low metal that was the impetus for the greatest westward movement known to mining. Once a city of 10,000 population, it has dwindled until the census taker must count carefully to register a al of 150. In this village in which California’s present-day prosperity was born there remain on its main street only a combination grocery store and lunch counter, a post office, an automobile service station and here and there the shell of a fire-gutted building or the weed-grown foundations of busi- ness blocks. When the gold fever was at its height, stores of all kinds lined the streets of Coloma—there were 14 hotels, the inevitable Wells-Fargo ex- press office and the usual saloons, gambling houses, a_Chinese bank and even a sewing machine agent’s office. There was a jail, an armory, four churches and three schools. Fool's gold still glitters in the sand near the monument marking the site of Sutter's sawmill in the mill race of'which Marshall made his discovery, but the yellow wealth of '48 went with the six-pony express lines that operated between Coloma and sur- rounding mines delivering mail for a dollar an_ounce. The old jail which hou: killers and bad men in those day@{now is a stable. On a slope back offthe town is the lonesome-looking ‘memorial statue of Marshall with bronze finger pointing to the spot where the gold rush began. Swedish Lutherans Pick Omaha. PHILADELPHIA, June 12 ().— The Lutheran Augustana Synod, holding its sixty-seventh annual con- vention here, today chose Omah: Nebr., as the place for the 1927 con- vention. Moline, 11, and_Joliet, TII., also sought to win the 1927 meeting. 12— HATCHET IS BURIE Pennsylvania State Commit- tee Elects Officers—Pri- mary System Hit. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA. June 12 Republican State committee, appar- rently burying all factional differ- ences, today elected all officers unan- imously. There was nothing on the surface to indicate the bitterness that was engendered in the regent primary election. An outstanding feature' of the meet- ing was an attack on the present State-wide primary system in_ Penn- sylvania by United States Senator Davis A. Reed, who said the Republi- can party should return to the con- vention system. Senator Reed sald that the large expenditures of money in the recent primary, which is now a subject of investigation by a United States Sen- ate committee, was virtually required because of the silly mechanism of primary elections that was thrust on us in a burst of unconsidered reform 0 years ago. He referred to Penn sylvania as “no petty Western State.” William L. Mellon, Pittsburgh, nephew of the Secretary of the Treas ury, was named State chairman with- out opposition: W. Harry Baker, who as in the field for re-election, with- awing after a last-minute harmony n had been arranged by the lead- Mr. Baker was elected secreta —~The « position he held for years prior to| his election as head of the committee four years ago. Team Work Praised. The Republican party in Pennsyl nia, whatever it may be in other tes, is a great team,” said Senator Reed in his address. “We have our rows part of the time about issues and people in this position and that, but when we have finished our family fights, we pull together as a team and every one of us has no doubt now of the men for whom he will work next November. “There is one lesson we have got to draw from this last primary, and that is that this beautiful, rosy reforma- tion we adopted 20 years ago, called the popular primary, is an illusion. The whole country is startied and our friends, the Democrats, are pretending to be chocked, at the amount of money that was necessarily expended in this last campaign. The people who criticise it forget that they are talk ing about a hard-fought primary in a nation of 9,000,000 of people. Blg Area to Be Covered. “This is no petty western State with a population of a seventh or eighth_that of this city of Philadel- phia. But this is a nation, this State of ours—9,000,000 of people to whom the lessons of the campaign and the chments of the candidates have o carried. This was not a contest between three men, candidates for Senator, and four men, candidates for gov- ernor, but there was an infinite num- ber of candidates for Congress, for the State Legislature, for the State Senate, for positions in our party or- ganizations and for county offices, and necessarily, in all propriety, the ex- penditures of vast fums were requir- ed because of the silly mechanism ot primary elections that was thrust on us in 2 burst of unconsidered reform 20 years ago. ‘Wants Convention System. “IWe have got to get back to the convention system. Now we have given this fancy reform a fair show. We have tried it for 20 years. And we have seen the time arise when no man of moderate means has a China- man's chance of getting nominated for office. “We ve seen the time come when either & man must pour forth his en- tire personal fortune, or his friends must pour forth theirs, and that is wrong in a republican democracy such as ours.” R SILENT RAILWAY. MOTOR CAR TESTED IN SWEDEN Engine Vibrations Eliminated by Slinging Power Plant Under Body of Vehicle. Special Dispatch to The Star. STOCKHOLM, June 12.—A “silent” railway motor car without engine vi- brations has been achieved, and during its recent trial run over the Swedish State Railways from Malmoe to Stockholm the passengers heard no other noise than that of the wheels clicking against the rail joints. "It is the design of a Swedish engineer, Magnus Tacklind of Stockholm, but has been manufactured in Germany. Except for certain motor parts it will later be built in Sweden. The absence of the noise and vibra- tion is due to the fact that the motor is not placed on the same frame as the passenger car itself, but is entirely isolated from it, being slung under- neath, The power is transferred to the driving axle from the motor through five different sets of gears, which are kept going all the time to make the driving smoother. The speed attained reached over 50 miles an hour, while the consumption of fuel, a mixture of benzine and ben- zol, averaged about eight miles to the gallon, or about twice that of an ordi- nary taxicab. Its seating capacity is 60 persons, but a trailer with the same number may be coupled be- hind. It is a “one man” car and is operated from the driver’s seat through electrical connections. NEW TYPE MEGAPHONE SPREADS SOUND BETTER University of Illinois Professor's Invention Radically Different in Construction. Special Dispatch to The Star. URBANA, I, June 12—A new megaphone which distributes sound over a greater area has just been de- veloped by Prof. F. R. Watson of the University of Illinois, authority on acoustics. Already cheer leaders at the Universities of Illinois, Michigan, ‘Wisconsin and Minnesota have adopt- ed the new instrument and indica- tions are that its use soon will be- come widespread. The megaphone is constructed of tin; it is only a foot and a half in length and, strangest of all, has only a narrow rectangular opening. It is almost flat in appearance and is used in a horizontal position, with the r tangular opening in a vertical plane. Construction of the megaphone is based on the sound fraction theory that sound passing through a narrow aperture spreads out. The ordinary megaphone differs from Prof. Wat- gon’s in that sound passing through it tends to travel only along the axes of the megaphone and not sideways. It permits only those in front of the announcer to hear. Sounds issued through the narrow opening of the mnew megaphone spread out in a wide area. The com- monly used megaphone can be used only to direct sound audibly along one plane. - SLUSH FUND PROBE MAY BRING CONTEST IF VARE IS ELECTED ) or, and Woodward for secre- tary of internal affairs, Vare was on’ the ticket with Beidleman for governor, James for lisutenant gov- ernor and Woodward for secretary of internal affairs. Democrats frankly admitted yester- day that they intended to make the most of the revelations of corruption in the Pennsylvania Republican primaries in the coming congressional campalgn. They will charge that the Republicans are engaged in buying offices. It will be used as an argu- ment, of course, in behalf of Mr. Wilson, the Democratic nominee for the Senate, next November. But the chances of Mr. Wilson against Mr. and Vare factions in the recent pri- in view of the fact that the Mellon and Vare factions in the recent prim- mary have now gotten together, elect- ed their State committee officers and announced they will carry on for Republican victory in the Fall. May Investigate Illinois Vote. In fact, the senatorial investigating committee is looked upon : able adjunct to the Demox paign for control of the Senate and the House in the next Congress. As soon ns the Pennsylvania primary investigation has been concluded, it is expected that the committee will turn its attention to the senatorial primary in_ Illinois. The investigation of the Pennsyl- vania_primary will be resumed at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning in the Sen- até Office Building. The hearing was cut short yesterday afternoon because the committee had exhausted the wit- in Washington. Many of those summoned had been given fon to absent themselves be- » of the election of the Pennsyl- vania_Republicz 4 Philadelphin yesterday. Vare i3 the only one of the three senatorlal candidates who has mot yet been heard by the committee, It is expected he will be questioned by the committee this week. Both Gov. Pinchot and Senator Pepper have testified. Others whom the com- mittee is expe to hear are Harry A. Mackey, statewide manager for Vare, and Representative John Morin of Pittsburgh, who was manager for Vare in the western part of the State. A number of subpoenas will be is- sued for other witnesses whose names have not been announced. C. J. Goodnough, statewide man ager of the Pinchot campaign, wa the only witness at the hearing yes- terday afternoon. He estimated that the expenditures for Gov. Pinchot would not exceed $175,000. He said that very little money had been raised by the county organizations as | distinct from the statewide organiz tlon. It would not total more than $10,000, he said, outside of the $10,000 which Mrs. Pinchot contributed to the Philadelphia city, or county, organ- ization. He said that there was a defl- cit of about $4,000 in the accounts of the statewide committee, but that this was offset by a balance of $4,000 in the hands of the Philadelphia com- mittee. Had Read of Threats. Mr. Goodnough, who has been a member of the Pennsylvania Legisla- ture for more than 10 years and was | speaker of the asscmbly in 1 asked by Senator Reed knew about a report that Mayor Kline of Pittshirgh had addressed a meet- ing of city employes before th mary and told them that if they did not support the Pepper-Fisher ticket on election day they would lose their jobs the day after. Mr. Goodnough satd he had read this report in the newspapers at the | time of the alleged meeting, but that he had no personal knowledge of the matter. The committee, it is expect: ed, will summon M Kline and question him about it Mr. Goodnough told the committee that he had been informed in Phila- | delphia many of the voters had been | isted” in marking their ballots at the primary. This, he said, was against the law. He told, too, of the efforts of Gov. Pinchot and his friends in the State Legislature to have laws | enacted amending and strengthening | the election laws of the State at a | special session last Winter. A dozen | bLills, he said, had been offered to | remedy the situation and all of them had been pigeonholed in committee or had been adversely reported, due to the efforts of the “gan Plans to Tmpeach Mayor. Mr. Goodnough said he had declared he would offer a resolution to im- peach Mayor Kline of Pittsburgh be- cause of his coercion of city employes, when the Legislature meets “I will offer such a resolu said. | At the earller session vesterday. | committes heard from an eyewitness | how the watchers and worl t the primary had been paid off in eash at the Pepper-Fisher and Vare-Beidel- | man headguarters in Pittsburgh. The long line of men waiting for money he eaid, resembled a run on a bank It took days to pay them off, and most of them were pald with $10 bills and many of them received rolls of bills. The witness was Frederick Beutel, | who had charge of speakers and meet- | ings for the Pinchot committee in | Pittsburgh. He is instructor in law at the University of Pittsburgh. * he | UIGIDE IS KNOWN EVEN TO PRIMITIVE Is Most Common, However, Among Highest Civilized. City Rate Grows. Special Dispatch to The St CHICAGO, June 12—Suicide, charac teristic of modern western citles, is | found also among all except the most | simple of primitive peoples. But the suicide of primitive people differs in geveral ways from that of present-day America, according to a report to the American Anthropological As: jation by Miss Ruth Shonle, graduate stu- dent at the University of Chicago. While primitive people commit suf- | clde because of quarrels, love affairs, deaths and illness in the same manner | that civilized people do, such suicides | among primitive people are very rare. | This personal type of suicide, which | sceurs when individual wishes or need are disturbed, is found most frequently in modern cities, where the individual | is allowed to drift along by himself | without much supervision by society. In the primitive village every need | of life is recognized and regulated by | the group, consequently there is lit- tle opportunity for an individual to be- | come disorganized and unhappy. The | stable customs and incorporation of | the individual into the neighborhood | in civilized rural and religious com- | munities makes them similar to the primitive society, and they also have few suicides. In the United States the city suicide rate is more than 30 per cent higher than the rate in rural dis tricts, while in some European coun- tries two to three times as many sui- cides per unit of population occur in cities as in the rural communities. A striking contrast to Europe and America is found in the institutional sufcides among primitive people—suii. cide which occurs at the command of the tribe and with its tance, and usually with some ritual. Such sui- are those of the sick and aged | skimo and Northern Asiatic tribes, punishment in parts of ‘Africa; they are most widespread in the Pacific Islands and Africa, where it is customary for the widow to com- mit suicide with the assistance ~f her friends at her husband's funeral. This ne kind of ide formerly was found in the Orient, the “suttee” of Hindu widows being perhaps the most conspicuous example, but it is not found in Europe and America because the individualism of the last few cen turies has released the individual from the strict soelal control which is nec- essary for such sulcides, and also be use in these countries Christianity has given to human life a value para- mount to all other values LEJEUNE WILL SPEAK. Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, com- mandant of the Marine Corps. will be the guest of honor and speaker at the final luncheon meeting for the season of the Washington Advertising Club next Tuesday at 12 clock in the blue room of the Men's City Club. The entertainment pro I in- clude a dancing feature by Baby Mar- garet Levy, and music will be fur- nished by John Slaughter's orchestra. Prizes will be awarded. in and suicide Modern Girl Travels Light. From the New York Post. Complaints of a falling off in busi- ness by the express companies serve to emphasize the ehanges in women's wearing apparel. The dmother of the present-day girl would not have dreamed of going away during the Summer without spending the previous week packing two or three Saratogas, all the while lamenting her lack of trunk rcom. The material alone in her bathing suit would have been sufficient to make a dozen bath- ing suits of today. On arriving at her destination, grandmother would pass many anxious hours locating her baggage, and when she did find it she would be shocked at the dam- age wrought by the old-time baggage smashers. The modern girl is wiser. She packs a half dozen dresses in an ordinary bag, twice as many pairs of stockings, and takes all along with her. Her baggage is the least of her worries, and on the whole, she | was the wo | 1909, | than normal proportion. BHHOUND GAN WORLD' HEAVEST North Carolina Claims Title| Held in Britain by 739 | Pounder. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. CHARLOTTE, N. C., June 12—That PARADE OF MASONS FIELD DAY FEATURE Stadium Fete Saturday to Aid Children’s Dormitory Will Include Base Ball. Association of Worshipful Masters of 1926, which has in charge plans fo: the annual Masonic Field v, for the benefit of the children's dormitory of the Masonic and Eastern Star Home, to be held at Clark Grif- fith Stadium Ju . declared yester- day t the program promises to produce the finest entertainment ever given on a similar oce The program will diversion, it is said Masonic Field d Il be a parade of various M bodies in the stadium, w John A. Lejeune, cr Marine Corps, as mars W be members of the Sojourner composed officars of and Marine Corps who th be pleasing bition ar orgar will by Masoni zations. The annual base ball tilt the nines of Almas Temple lipolis Grotto will bring the climasx In this brot ¢ love that feel off the d Eastern hetwes the con feld is u the Masonic jurisdiction will be to be applied a on the children’s dormitory co ed for t hildren. This of the o ne charities espoused by th fraternity in the Dis. trict, o the inception of the ide :h_succeeding Assoclation of Wor 3 fed for- ward the work Box seats ara now being sold in tha rting goods department of Saks & Mail applications for box seats are ent direct to R Schreiner, grams will be sold members of the ters. g Marine Corps Orders. Col Halford has been rred from the Naval War Col- Newport, R. I isco to Q fre xas to Q . Perrin, from nd Second Lieuts. ; J. N. Hart at Ham t Lakehurst Roads T W, W, David Lambert, the British colossus, d's most corpulent man | 1s emphatically dented by iina. And not without reason. | For not so many years ago there | Ilived a glant in this State who gave | fant-Killer really looked— ] d that's no fairy tale. According to the Dictionary of Na- | tional Blography, edited by Sidne: Lee, volume 4 of which appeared in the British giant attained a welght of 739 pounds before his death at Stamford in 1908. He w then proclaimed the world's most corpulent man of whom authentic record ex- isted. The North Carolina giant exceeded Lambert's weight by ‘more than a third and is believed to have been the world’s heaviest man. He was Miles Darden, and was seven and a half feet tall and weighed a little more than 1,000 pounds when he died in Hender- son County, Tenn. on 1 Darden was born in North Carolina in 1798 and lived a quiet life and w little heard of outside his native county. He married twice, but none of his children attained much more In 1850, it is recorded, Darden’s coat was buttoned around three men, each of whom weighed more than 200 pounds, and together the: ced in it across the square at Lex At that time it, required 12 cloth to make Da In 1853 he was al after that it was neces: to haul him around in two-horse wagon. When he died, his casket w 8 feet long and inches deep and 32 inches across. venty-iw r vards of black velvet was req tire. to cover the sides | and 1id of the coffin WEDS AT HOME PLATE. Tennessee Player Takes Bride Be- fore Game in Knoxville. OXVILLE, Tenn., June 12 (®). ng the home plate the a . Frank Pack and Miss Ortha Daile, both of Knoxville. today weve married as a prelude to a double- header base ball game between two local church teams, on one of which Pack plays shortstop. Following the ceremony the groom took his place with his teammates while the bride watched the athletic K Wahabi Only a Revival. ibism, the m L s T ent in an sense. It Was initiated 1 40 by M Abdul Wahab, t having spent ¥ {one a conception of just about how | K he teachings He took an » bring about m and the e Ottoms Mohammed | oath to dedicate h \ revision of the fter the war DR e R Spain Revises Criminal Code. The ancient crimi 1 eode of Spain lis being revised. 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