Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1926, Page 70

ECONDNI TESTS COMING TOBRITAN Open Mind and Seriousness of View Succeed Mob Pulsations of Past. BY EDWARD PRICE BELL. By Cable to The Star and the Chicago Daily Nev:s. LONDON, England, July 10.— Great Britain, like the whole of Hu rope, is passing through a historical crisis of the first order. Funda- mentally, as the writer sees it, this crisis rep: a struggle of the opean ¥ s for the larger lib- ; and the greater happiness which igs from widely diffused pros- Burope's workers are too poor. They know they are too poor. They have heard of America’s economic They are saying to their to their elite: “Show us a ~way out of this wilderness.” Certain natlons ot Continental Eu rope have political crises of a crucial character. These nations have not found themselves constitutionally. Their traditions not those of G ain. They are wavering RO between the realms of au tocr and democracy. jreat Britain has no political crisis. No one demands that the King shall go nor that Parliament shail shut up that any part of the constitution be sci ireat Britain's crisis is purely ply a socal and economic ¢ Moreover, the social crisis, so far as the phrase suggests class warfare, seems to have no really serlous fea- tures. I never Hive been able to ob- serve in the past, and cannot observe now, that the British masses are af- fected by any considerable antipathy to the British classes as such. Brit- ish workmen have no objection to education or refinement or decent lels- ure or a high standard of living. On the contrary, they respect these things, as they respect the gentle- man, so long as he is a gentleman. What disturbs the British working class is not social distinctions, but an economic condition that strikes it as squalid, unjust, insufferable and un- necessary. Is it unnecessary? Is there some- thing wrong that good will, energy, talent, science, modern methods and machinery can put right? This Is the burning_question of the whole posi- tion. Employers anda employes, the fortunate and unfortunate, are too far_asunder. Understanding, harmony of endeav- or, between the complementary fac- tors of production — thesé are _the great objectives toward which Brit- ish spiritual and Intellectual forces are moving. And these forces never before were so earnest as now.' Great Britain is aroused more thoroughly, is intent and experimentally construc- tive, over a larger area of her popula- tion than she was in the darkest hours of the World War. “Toil of thought for the national betterment”—the espression of Eng- land's greatest economist, Sir Josiah Stamp—is found in ail sections of the community. 4 It is a great spectacle—this spec- tacle of the morality and the intelii- gence of one of the foremost units of advanced civilization rallving to 1 world-honored flag, Dark as the ouc look it, one looks in vain for despair. Yet it is a fact that the actual meth- ods and mechanism of recovery are yet to be evolved. Too Many Ideas. ideas—-not at Britain’s embar- fassment now. There are not, of course, too many good ideas, but the task of winnowing the grain from the chaff is overwhelming. Into all the important detalls of a situation as fateful as it is comiple: 1 am hoping, with competent assis ance, to make more or less fruitful ingniries. - It is a subject that more and more enlists the mpathy and the interest, if not the anxiety, of the world. If students of government and of economics are turning their thoughts increasingly to the United States to plumb the secret of its growing wealth, so are they studying Great search of lessong for battling a Britain, with its problems of geogra phy, raw materials and popu.ation, in conditions that threaten -a degree of general poverty incompatible with the stability of capitalistic democracy. What are some of the surface as- pects of Great Britain’s profoundly altered mood? - Symptoms of post-war feverishness—the high temperature, the quickened pulse, the thirst for an unending sequence of e: gone. Great Britain's e; grave.and resolute spirit of a mation perplexed, or a mnation heavily bur dened, but of a nation calmly bent upon measures of redress. To dine at any leading hotel or. res- taurant in London at this time is to have an experience totally different from that of a similar occasion as late as 1924. Great crowds assembled then. Dinlng rooms overflowed. . Lob- bles were packed. It was a bedlam of pleasure. ill Winter has fallen over I do not mean that these din! are desolate or empty now. But al- most indescribable is the transiorma tion. No jostling concourse of revel ers. Just moderate gatherings of quiet diners. Immediate post-war stimuli no Jonger please. Syncopated music runs {ll with the national preoccupation. Dining tonight in London one does not jump to jazz; one grieves or rejoices h composers like Mozart, Verdi, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Tschalkowsky and Mascagnl. Prohibition is unknown in. Great Britain, British statesmen, whether opposed to alcohol or opposed to the social evil of betting, do not push reck- lessly into the domain of the moralist and educator. Fox-trotting and one-stepping - and waltzing convulsed all England for half a decade after the armistice. It was a sort-hurt people’s ecstatic escape. To the British capital flocked the greatest jazz artists of the world, Re- laxation, forgetfulness, joy—oases of joy in measureless wastes of bereave- ment—these were England. It is different now. Britons have come to see that the armistice was ot the end, but the beginning of thelr latest test as an independent, freedpm-cherishing and freedom-serv- ing people. So the frivolities, gen- erally speaking, have had their flaunt- ing day and passed into oblivion. Serfousness of temper, showing in look, word and act, has supervened in all the principal walks, if not in every nook and corner, of the coun- try’s activity. Science, literature,art and the drama are sensitive to the new emotions. Invention is at con- cert pitch. Doctripnaire thinking, pride of in- tellect, overconfidence in . cultural background are. perceptibly less dis- dainful than they were in days of comparative buoyancy. There was a time when intellectual Britain did not care. Salvation always would come to the British, not in any noteworthy part’ from abroad, but-nearly in toto from the fathomless wealth of their higtorical and cultural patrimony. Upon_this patrimony, undoubtedly, they still mainly depend and will go on depending. intellectual self-trust plainly has been shaken. = Fourfifths of Great Britain's 40, 000,000 people are very poor. They are as patient as they are poor. Rev- lutionary figns find them as asbestos. Sanle BLLEL. too man, thi rooms But thelr complete Frenchmen Seeking Refuge=in Cells Of Old Monasteries By the Associated Press. NICE, July 31.—A desire to es- cape, the unsettled problems of post-war France is driving scores of wealthy and prominent French- men to take refuge in the monas- terles of Provence, Even the monasteries which de- mand that the initiate take life vows are recelving more applica- tions than they can care for. The ‘monasteries which permit laymen to enlist as monks for in- definite periods are being besieged hy men who wish to escape the cares of the world: The Monastery of St. Honorat, situated on 'the Lerins Islands two miles from Can- nes, has not had a vacant cell for 18 months. This is {he first time since 1720 that the monastery has been full, RUSTED IO SAVED DY NEW INVENTION Scrapped Autos and Tin Cans Are Salvaged Through Electrical Method.. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, July 31.—Discarded tin cans and automobile bodies, as well as other forms of iron which now go to waste on dump' heaps, may be an important source of a very pure form of fron in the future, according to the Engineering-Foundation of this city. Twenty million tons of iron are said to go to waste annually because of rust, but this can be greatly reduced by the use of this iron, which scores even higher than a popular brand of soap, for the iron obtained by these electric methods is 99.96 per cent pure. Plant at Niagara Falls. It is called electrolytic iron, and o plant has just been established at Niagara Falls to produce it, says the Foundation, as a result of o operation between French and Amer can investors. While the first elec- trolytic iron was produced half a centiry ago in America, the original product was so rough and brittle that nothing much could be done with it. Scientists in many countries had been working on it, the greatest suc- cess being attained in France and the United States. Then, it was found that the firms in e#ch of these coun- tries had knowledge and patents which were valuable to the other, so they combined forces. The method consists in using bars of cast iron as anodes of huge wet batteries, the liquid being a solutjon of fron chiloride. The cathode, the other terminal of the battery, con- sists of a bar of steel, and when the current is passed through, the iron dissolves from the cast-iron.bar into the liquid, and at the same time is deposited from the solution onto the steel bar. s Stripping Machine Used. The iron deposited on the steel bar forms a cylinder up to a quarter of an inch thick. The metal on the inside next to the steel, which is de- is full of hydrogen, the iron brittld, but this gas is removed by passing the cylinder through an oil-heated fur- nace. A stripping machine is used which enlarges the diameter of the fron tube, so that it may be slipped off the stdel cathode, which is used over and over again. The tubes may be used as they come from the ma- chirie for some purposes, or they may be flattened or slit and made into plates, from which other iron objects may be made. Since only iron is deposited by this process, it is suggested that waste iron from dump heaps might be re- claimed by dissolving it in the iron chloride solution and recovering it electrolyticall; MALARIA TAKES LIVE OF 2,000,000 YEARLY Station at Leesburg, Va., Gathers World-Famed Experts to Study Disease. ial Dispatch-to The Star. EW YORK, July 3 laria is at Jast getting as much atten- tion as that which prevails around - THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. NAVAL LIBRARIES SAIL SEVEN SEAS War'Vessels Fully Equipped With Books for Tars Off Duty. Books sail-the seven seas on ships of the Navy and reach far corners of the globe wherever the Navy and Marine Corps are located. These books might literally be called books of travel. Naval libraries may be found. in the legation of Peking, on board ‘the stationships at Constantinople, in the radio stations in_ Alaska. At the marine station in Haiti, on board the submarine resting on the ocean bed, or on the Islands of Guam and Samoa, sallors and marines follow the for- tunes of “The Three Musketeers,” trayel the great plains with Zane Grey, thrill with Curwood to the order, “Get your man!” or sail the southern seas with Conrad. Among the archives of the Navy Department there is a large valume, yellow with age, bearing the date of 1844. Its lengthy title reads, “Table of - Allowances of Equipment, Outfits, Stores, &c., &c., &c., for Hach Clns.wI of Vessels in the Navy of the United | States.” Herg are listed all the stores necessary to equip a vessel for a cruise of one, two or three years. To the ears of the modern, unless he is a reader of Marryat 8r other writers of sailing days, many of these stores have an unfamiliar sound. ‘:slsters. “jeers, “jeer leaders,” ‘“Flemish horses” — strange _sea-going terms. Visions of romantic advent: are raised by the words "sp{mker, ‘mar- linspiks,” *'mizzenmast.” / Library Old Institution. Among the tables of candles, candle- sticks, quill pens and red tape ap- pears table XTII.—Library equipment. Even as far back as 1844 the Navy Department was providing libraries aboard ships. At this time these con- sisted of professional reading only for officers and no attempt was made to provide recreational reading or books. for the crew. The list comprises books on international law, courts-martial, science, navigation, gunnery, naval tactics, geography, biography and his- tory. Today & selection covering a wider range of subjects is allowed. Recre- ational reading fs” provided and one section of the ship's library is plan- ned for the use of the crew. Tradition still glings to earlier days, however, for of the 140 titles on the allowance list of 1844, 10 appear in the libraries of modern war ships. The commissloning library of the U. S. S. Saratoga, the new airplane carrier which goes into commission this year, has been selected. This li- brary contains 800 volumes carefully chosen to meet the needs and please the tastes of the many types of men who will comprise her officers and crew. There will be men of all grades of education, from the American boy whose “mule died and he could not go to school after that” and the Fili- pino mess attendants, to the Annapolis educated officers. There will be men of mature tastes and boys of high school age, who still enjoy a story of sport ‘and school life. . Many Trades Represented. Many trades and professions are represented—electricians, engineers, office workers, doctors, radio opera- tors. For the officers there must be books on naval history, tactics and stratagem, international law, diplo- macy and foreign relations, for gen- eral study; marine engineering, elec- tricity, ordnance, navigation, for preparation for examinations. History, blography, science, travel and literature for general reading is provided for both officers and crew. And for the enlisted man the library includes, in addition, standard texts to supplement the study courses is- sued by the Navy Department to assist him to advance in his ratings and to enable him when he returns to ecivillan life to he better fitted for his particular trade or occupation. Wide Variety. On the fiction shelves of the U. 8. Saratoga there will be a repre- sentative collection of the classics in good editions as a foundation and the.| hest of the fictlon output of more re- cent years. There is a generous al- lowance of Western stories by Bower, Grey, Curwood, London, Raine and Mulford; of mystery and detective stories, ranging from Sherlock Holmes to Oppenheim; of the classics of the sea by Conrad, Marryat and Melville, with other sea tales by Con- nolly and McFee. Humorous stories are represented by Irvin Cobb, P. G. Wodehouse, Elmer Davis, E. J. Rath and others. Stories of sports, includ- ing boxing, adventure tales from many lands, short storles, historical novels, love stories. large centers of population, and prac- tical methods for extensive control in large areas have begun to materialize. The campaign against the mosquito in the country has been greatly alded and abetted by the malaria fleld sta- tion at Leesburg, Va., established by the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation. Here mem- bers of the hoard’s own staff, State health officers and men on fellowships from foreign countries can get first- hand practical contact with the whole broad problem of mala: prevention. The mosquito-carried plague exacts a heavy toll from many countries be- sides the United Stdtes. From $250.- 000,000 to $300,000,000 is the bill the British empire has to pay for sick- ness and death due to malaria, ac- cording to an estimate by Dr. Andrew Balfour, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medi- cine. To the total of 2,000,000 lives lost a yeaw throughout the world is added the Incalculable loss in_ dimin. ished industrial efficlency due to “chills and fever.” PR PASTOR HEADS LEGION. Minnesota State Veterans Directed’ by Rev. M. D. Haferman. ST. PAUL, July 31 (#).—Minnesota, American legionnaires now have a “sky pilot” as their State commander. He is Rev. M. D. Haferman, former State legion chaplain. He is believed to be the first minister to head a State legion department. Rev. Mr. Haferman was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Joe O’Hara, who resigned to enter politics. He will serve but a short while, as a new commander will be named at the State convention in August. Man ‘Works Coal Mine -Alone. Willlam Cope, 78 years old, has a coal mine at Sedgeley, England, which he works single handed. For the last 50 years he has owned the pit and worked it alone, his miné be. ing probably the only one in the world’] that has mever been interrupted by a_strike. there Is a point beyond which human endurance cannot go. ' N It is a realization of this fact which is producing the altered mood in Great Britain and arousing economic curiosity with an Intensity and on a scalé heretofore unknown. Thereare few so blind as mot to see that an economic revolution s inevitable. The only question is whether it shall be accomplished by vielent or peace: ful means. “Thrilling” Reading. And what does the sailor consider a thrilling book? The dweller of the o rier U. 8. 8, Saratoga has been given a special collection of books on aero- nautics. ' When the U. §. 8. Niagara avas on special duty in the Caribbean, the Mbrary of that ship was furnished many tales of the Spanish Main, and the explorers and pirates who had safled it. Shore Stations Equipped. ' The shore stations also have their libraries, and during the course of the day the librarian performs many du- ties which do not come directly under the category of “library.” Advice is glven on points.of etiquette to the boy invited to dinner; places to see and things to do in town are suggested to the recruit sbout to make his first Iiberty; one man is helped to pick out a birthday present for mother, and another 1s advised on the price he should pay for a camera for sister's graduation. The man whose educa- tion has been neglected comes to the librarfan for help in his spelling when writing letters. Many disputes are settled in the library., One such; as to whether the earth or moon were larger was the cause of a whole bar- rack of men going in for astronomy. The most interesting libraries in the Navy aré those in the “hospitals. The collections. number from 500 to 5,000 books and are carefully selected. They- are used by patients, hospital corps- men, doctors and their families and nurses. To the library is one of the first excursions from his ward for the patient on crutches or in a wheel chalr. - Much is done in a hospital by the intelligent selection of books ‘for the men. . e Mycosis Kills Penguins. - A mysterious and baffing disease known asmycosis . makes living a highly precarious business for the penguin, beloved of Robinson Crusoe and Anatole France. It infests the lungs and respiratory passages, caus- ing death. The disease (for which no remedy has vet been found) may rage acutély without registering any vis- ible signs. Jor Economical Transportation D. 0, AUGUST 1, American Legion. Elaborate plans are now belng worked out by American Leglon de- partments throughout the United States for theil participation in the eighth annual national -convention of the organization to be held in Phila- delphia, from October 11 to 165. Comfortable rooms ‘at reasonable rates have been listed for 150,000 men, women and children who are expected to attend. fi Tirst-grade hotels have guaranteed accommodations for about 32,000, apartment hotals and apartments will care for. about 26,080 and the re- ‘mainder will be cared for among 40,000 residences which have been made available for Legionnalres and their tamilies. Due to the ready response of Quaker City housewlives for suitable rooms for the Legion visitors, no residence rooms will be more than three miles from the city hall. All will be located on direct. trolley or motor bus routes which run to the central section of the city and ‘to the Sesquicentennial Ex- position grounds. Three badges of distinctive design will identify Legion visitors and friends at the Sesquicentennial city. One badge will identify Legion dele- gates and alternates, a second badge will be for members of the Legion and their families who attend unoffi- cially and a third badge’ will be worn by Philadelphians who donate their motor cars for the visitors. The con- vention badge will be an essential part of each visitor's equipment, for it will entitle him to certain courtesies and to admission to entertainment events, Dr. B. W, Black of Salt Lake City, Utah, several times national expcutive committeeman of the Department of Utah, American Legion, has been pro- moted to the position of medical di- rector of the United States Veterans’ e || RO e New I.‘ow.l!riceS : . $ - AT %Ton‘l‘mcg375 reduced plains may dream of the rolling main and the farmer boy long to be a pirate. The sailor reads of cowbow life and leaves the story of the sea to his d-bound brothers. The Western Story is the most popular type of fiction in Navy libraries, This fondness is not conflned on board ships to the bluejacket. Next in popularity to cowboy and mounted police tales comes the mystery story. Here the officers and older enlisted men enjoy .a foreign setting and a dash of international intrigue. Al though the average -sailor does not read sea tales, he does enjoy Conrad. A surprising amount of serious reading is done by the crew. There are ambitious men who avail them- selves of the educational courses and .make use of the nonfiction in the crew’s library. Officers are fiction readers, too, but a modern naval officer can give but a small part of his reading time to novels. He must study the various technical subjects -of his profession in order to be in line for promotion. Space Is Problem. The problem of space for libraries aboard men-of-war is a difficult one. Travelers on palatial ocean-going Hners are accustomed to huge saloons and reading rooms. On a battleship there is not the same spaciousness. (Chassis-only) fo b Flint: Michigan Engineered to meet the most severe re- quirements of commercial haulage, Chevrolet trucks have won worldwide acceptance on the basis of low first cost, : low-operating cost and slow deprecia- ? . tion. This spectacularly growing popularity has made necessary a greatly increased In the newer and larger vessels there is a small crew’s room with bLook- cases, tables and chairs. Here are housed "the books selected for the g;lew'n Hbraxh'y.l e’é‘he books for the cers are shelved partly in'the cap- tain’s cabin and partly in the ward room. A card catalog indicates where each book may be found. In smaller vessels and those of carrier type, however, there is no provision made for library space and the crew’s library may be found most anywhere~—along a, dark passageway below decks, in a gun compartment, screened off from the crew’s messroom, or adjacent 1o the ship’s hospital, or “sick bay.” While the library on the larger ships is in charge of the chap. lain witha yeoman to assist hjm, on' the smaller vessels the “library yeo- man” may be a hospital corps man or any other seaman who can be a short time dally from his other duties. i ‘When @~ naval vessel i assigned to a special duty or to a cruise in special collections of division and the cruhlf"(‘lh:&-“ { o . /M phis, recently sent to Euro) whiters, travel have been supplied oY el Dbooks and histeries of be visited. The tey \ production —the savings of BARRY-PATE MOTOR CO. . L 1218 Connecticut Avenue : 2525 Sherman Ave. AERO AUTO CO. R - 1101 King St., Alexandria, Va. - L. TAYLOR MOTOR CO. - . T 14th and T Streets NW. Veterans of Great War LET, 1926_PART 3.' _ Bureau following the resignation of Col. E. O. Crossman. Dr. Black was assistant medical director of the bureau. Announcement ‘of bequest of 20 scholarships for ex-service men or blood relatives of veterans of the ‘World War was made by,Department Adjutant Floyd J. Heckel,of the IIli- nois . Department of the American Leglon. Under the will of La Verne Noyes “30 World War veterans or persons descended by blood from some one who served in the Army or Navy of the United States in the World War and who are deserving and needing of assistance are eligible for the scholar- ships.” | The scholarships are to he awarded without regard to differences of sex, race, religion or political party. Mr. Noyes declared in the will the pur- pose of the scholarships is to ‘“‘express my gratitude to, and in a slight de- gree to reward, those who ventuwed the supreme sacrifice of life for this country and for mankind in this war for the liberty of the world, and also to aid in keeping alive, for generations to come, the spirit of unselfish D&t?- otic devotion which these men dfs- played and without which no free gov- ernment can long endure.” “The McGroarty-O'Connell Post, No. 7, the American Leglon, at its last meeting elected officers as follows: Lee Schwalm, commander; Neal Lana- han, first vice commander; Eugene Callaghan, second vice commander; Charles Ellsworth, adjutant; Willigm Opitz, finance officer; Kenneth Baker, chaplain; Albertys Schroeder, welfare officer; Henry Smallwood, sergeant- at-arms; Byrd McDonough, master-at- arms; John Shepherd, quartermaster; Robert Hundley, Christopher Mullady, Charles Franks and Edwin Royster e \ OURISMAN color bearers; Earl J. Cannon, Ameri- canization officer. 0. Heath Knight and Heath Morris were elected to membership. A rising vote of thanks was extended Raymond A. Burke, post commander, Who has served. for the past two years. A let- ter of thanks was sent to Mrs. Henry Dimmock for her contribution of $50 to help equip the drum corps. The post indorsed Harlan Wood for department commander. Delegates to the departmental convention are Har- lan Wood, Raymond A. Burke and Neal Lanahan. The alternates are Charles Ellsworth, Eugene Callaghan and Raymond Davey. The next meeting will be held Au- gust 12 at 8 pm. in the board room, District Building. Veterans’ Joint Committee. At a meeting of the Veterans’ joint commitee in the office of the chair- man, Harlan Wood, last Tuesday, the following members were present, Natfonal Comdr. C. O. Howard, Army and Navy Union; Department Judge Advocate. James A. Burns, Senfor Vice Comdr. Thomas J. Frailey, Maj. Charles William Free- man, Comdrs, Plerce and Thomas Veterans of Foreign Wars; Clarence Brower and John M. Watts, Soclety of Santiago, A number of resolutions and com- munications were recelved from the United Veterans’ Council of California urging the support of this committee in its fight to secure and maintain veteran preference in the Government service In compliance with numerous re- quests from veterans and posts locally and throughout the country the com- mittee resolved to prepare and pre- sent resolutions asking for corrective legislation and administrative needs to the national conventions of all the organizations. It ds the opinion among veteran groups that if each organiza. tion adopts a similar preference pro- gram that this unity of demand will meet with more success before Con- gress and the executive departments. Heretofore the lack of an identical program of measures, it was pointed out, has resulted jn confusion and af division of opinion as to the wishes’ of the several veteran organizations. The American Legion ateits national convention in Omaha adopted a num- ber of resolutions sponsored by the committee with the result that there are now' pending in Congress bills having remedial obje The com- mittee decided to request the Ameri- can Legion to reaffirm its stand of last year and to solicit the support of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Army and Navy Union and the United Span- ish War Veterans of the pending measures. The committee will meet next Tuesday to consider the forms of resolutions to be submitted. Chairman Wood, James A. Burns and Maj. Freeman reported the re- sults of communications and confer- ences in a large number of individual cases where appeals were filed seeking the assistalce of the committee. Sev. eral employers of the Treasury De- parument, it was stated, were retained when it was pointed out that to dis- charge them would result in a viola- tion of preference. The chairman was authorized to appoint subcommittees to handle pending cases requiring attention. o New Waterloo Bridge. Great bridges are not built in a day, nor are they begun without exhau: tive consideration. England con tinues to debate the new Waterloo Bridge. One of the latest suggestio: is a “double bridge,” with a twent) fivefoot interval. Engineers point out, however, that such a structure would increase the obstruction of ver_traffi AUTO WHEELS AND DEM. RIMS Rundlett Rim Co. 1336 14th St. N.W. which are now passed on to buyers in the form of adrastic price reduction. In. . establishing . these phenomenally low priceson the most dependable and dur- able Chevrolet commercial chassis ever built, Chevrolet again emphasizes the greater dollar-for-dollar economy of buying and using Chevrolet trucks. 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