Evening Star Newspaper, August 20, 1926, Page 4

g e TROOPS BEGIN HIK THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1926. {'343D RESERVE ENGINEERS LIVE . LIKE VETERAN TROOPS IN FIELD |N HEAVY RA| D C. Regiment at Fort Humphreys, Out of Public Engineer Regiment Snaps| Out of Fort Humphreys Bar- @ By a Staff Carreancndent of The Star | “ORT HUMPHREYS, Vi ugus | '—Another branch of Washington's izen ery found | tucked in little | | erove dow of | the administration at ma.«[ It is the Reserve Engi- neer ‘Regiment, nized for gen- eral serv members slipped ’ « of ¥ ay | camp | racks After Four Days. has been tente i the sh; huilding a ory of ATLEY The Sta Va., August finement BY WIL Staff 1 FO 20,k AM J.wWH post their b iment Engineers nu t they be tuker ifl, even if « une have tiously nee heen going about | ahsorbing lessons of war ithout the glamonr of public atten | tlon to encournge them. marching. | The men are living Hke soldiers o . for they have not heen S the comfortahle har- the other District been fortunate enough | ped in the tents | ownpour vered = we in fo nap then which they W ! as the 1 be in loafing in barr rvice with the hapit for Some . Ther ers and & beginning Shich 3 door camp here since s ssignment to tents is for the pur- the scheme. \ fact sent inin that the borra v low « | instead of hurrs D1 pose of testing Col. John Stewart The regir in Command. is _commanded by | Col. John rt, Washington con- Lentting en nd Capt. Charles | V. Johnson, treasurer of the Mont- | County Federation, is | ijutant. “A strenuous progran: mapped out for the n and is being strictly followed, | the .off a_ full day of| fore n the evening. H officers are turned out of their | at 5:45 clock every morning | 1 start right in with the daily rou- | with calisthenics at the top of t 15 minutes after arising. This | the to work up a hardy appetite Wasi . * breakfast, which is followed by a rainy s infantry drill. After this | in < the engineering pract which | m ollowed by lectures, n them, and they | The members of this outfit are run- | out on their prac- | ning their own camp without the zudi and bridge con-|of the ars, except now and then The elborate field ) a two on l was Training. tine been which welcome on vear barra th pres f is 1 buil i Sl or some military 24 been mapped out | weering subject. Capt. A, G. 3ot 1 Toombs has lectured to them on the fter ons-day use, | duti nd relations of engineer five-day rainy | troops: Capt. C. V. Johnson on regi n prepa administration: Capt. C! 2 Anderson, United States Army Engi- {meer Corps, on training methods and principles, and Lieut. William Chase Lon guard duty. A lecture on demolation was Sthem by Capt. Ball of the I *hool faculty and aerial photy 5 the subject of a lecture b gle Lieut. Gordon E. Textor, | post pr ave the officers ice and the | Military " program for the go into the d four day< ule wh er a prac e fact that machinery and reducing siency the \rd the seacetully | nspor- 4 the earth | by the con- given wwineor | phy Ma. | As the troops =3 t their m ndling of the field | b | Capt Spotlight, Camps Out Under War Conditions With Col. John Stewart in Command. w was the subject of a lecture by eut. Col. Harrison Brand. The camp-period has not been with- out its thrills, according to Capt. Johnson, and they came vesterday while the outfit was taking some equitation, mounted on some of the steeds furnished by the post. They rode to Dogue Creek and there en- aged in solving some tactical prob- 1ch us would be furnished them nt they are ever called into the service. One of the problems was to get a brigade of Infantry and a bat- tery of Ifield Artillery over the creek and its adjacent marsh lands. Capt. Johnson reported that they solved this problem with greater ease than in zetting back to camp on their dash- ing steeds. Their knowledge of mill- tary engincerinz, they say, is of little use to them in handling an Army his tactical ride some e wondering whether nificance to be at- 1 lecture on military 2 ling with “hanging,” which s given as soon after this drill as A1l the members of the regiment could be corralled from various points along the rondside between the whr game scene and the camp. As a part of their instruction the oficers of the reserve regiment were placed in command of the 13th and 29th Rewular Engineer troops sta- tioned here to train them in handling troops in « parnde. Maj. John T. Costello acted as reviewing officer, with Capt. son as adjutant. The following reserve officers furnished the officer _per for the companies: Capt. J. W . Capt. L. R. Mason, 1. R. Toombs, First Lieuts. C. D. Jewell, J. R. Arnold, E. C. Burt, 11 It, Haar, James M. Marshall, V. V. Martin and E. G. Slevers. D. C. Men in Group. The following Washington men com- nose the officer personnel of the regi- ment: Col. John Stewart, commanding; Lieut. Cols. Harrison Brand, jr.; John Li | S. Doyle and Walter D. Young. R. Beebe, John T. Pitcairn, Richard Ralph and Majs. Matthew Costello, Hugh H. J. Quigley, Charles Ralelgh . Thoma: Capts. John W. Johnson, William R. Mason, Joseph Alfred G. Toombs. First Lieuts. James R. Arnold, 1Ed- win C. Burt, Herbert R. Haar, Charles Frank B. Lewis, James M. ctor V. Martin, Edward . William J. Simpson, Frank William T. Wilkinson and Davis, Charles V. S._Jones, Langdon V. McNary and Second I liam D. Cha tin lliam H. Bell, Wil- . Howard C. Cross, Mar- Richard G. Hensley and Cook. A r Sergts. Charles H. Bradley, Theodore Schultz and Corpl. James heffield. MILLIKAN'S RAYS PENETRATE Band Me: WHERE X-RAYS ARE POWERLESS 1 the abot > that the task was too wreat | ¢ the Army mule, the mem not orning Recently Di Feature in With vops standing around | »stions, the males and the b men succeeded In noving the motor transpe ion to hard ground Company . commanded by Capt Georg W Johns, 4 Riee ¢ for the en eamp Ly Smithsonian ffering su An of the powerful pene- | trating newly discovered by Millikan will be included in the next | annual report, on the | of h the institu- ion is now engaged. These new rays visible, but, like X-ray: can metals, A thin sheet of ad, however, as evervbody Knows, will stop vs. Milikan's rays will el through a layer of lead six feet ount Smithsonian | wh v put on its tirst exhl- | compilation in the harrac wnd | ed that 1 all space is alive with he do not origi- . but come in to us of light from the universe beyond the atmos- Probably they are formed in the breaking up of the atoms which pose the stars Yo one can vet foresee by what re. | markable uses they mav come to | serve When Faraday demon- I strated before the Royal Socie that to obtain an o move a wire. a woman of what That dis- of all Fara- ems that new r: on the ear the velo nite h ty < the pole of a mamnet, the audi <ed him the experiment wa covery formed the i T electrical n fadam, will you tell me use is @ new-born babe?” babe has grown up into 25 So it wmay prove with rardsman, n that the tood be Nichol: ex: of the Closed Gap. aseq | The rordir | power o] the foned |y, broadeasting radio, En |or Hertzian rays, have waves from 1160 to 3,000 meters. I Y vears ago { found rays in the sun’s and moon's | heems, quite invisible to the eye, of !a wave length of a hundredth of a millimeter German scient later found that r: ten times longer than sent out by special they extended the radlo from the usual h down to as short as one or 1,000 times Langley's longest. e late Prof. Nichols, who S0 ally on the day the al Academy of Sclences Build- dedicated at Washington, the gap entirely between and the short- their National the madel which nizations of coun- * to copy. He said that indicated | he repre dinner. closed u ! the long: est radio Light, sists of | 0.0004 we sec with, con- between the lengths nd 00007 millimeters, and sun ain all v fes of rays from 0.014 milllmeters in wave orter sun.rays than 0.0003 h us because in the high longer sun than millimeters are cut off by the vapor which pervades the air. . indeed, even when freed from ases, Is very opaque to still than 0.0003 millimeters, ing vacuum apparatus umann, I n Millikan and sthers have traced the lamp spectrum 0.0000-millimeter waves and After this we come directly domain of X vs used In practice. They run to 100 ~ter still, or about 5,000 times n yellow light. The new N an has found are < shorter in _their ajn the average X umut from thes in being wve len ays e e 10,0003 to { length cannot | v.014 on Engi- now for oper valuable tr ik b s and tion yond. the means vaves and differ th. Some few affect ht, but most are wholly in- Vit We may call them the ob- i\r ure cousins of light. | | All Tn 50 Years. veries in the ex-| | tension of the spectrum have occurred | s | within the last 50 vea Each of | ) |them as it came along got into the | nnual report of its year. report is a chronicle -of the im nt advances of sclence, It in. | summary of the institution's - each vear and a number of | ted on the basis of their | ‘orm t layman of the »nquest of nature. Such | great d as the fact that mo quitoes spread yellow fever, as Dubols’ | vo ttie 10,000 ¥4inding in Java of the manlike fossil, | more black snakes will be imported to | Pithecanthropus erectus; as Rontgen's Texas {n an attempt to war on the |stumbling on X-rays, as Thomson's ratulers, proof that the tiny atoms k snakes hefore an | als. i overed Force Is to Be Described Annual Report From Institution. electrons a thousandfold smaller than themselves, Snstein’s theory of relativity—all such epic developments in science find their way in readuble form into the Smithsonian Institu- tion's annual reports, The reports constitute one meahs of fulfilling the purpose of the institu- ton, “the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men,” as stipulated by the Englishman, James Smithson, when he left his fortune of $550,000 in trust to the United States. very year these reports are mailed frec to libraries and scientific institutions in every corner of the globe. The travel- er in Siam, in Borneo, in Eecuador, in Alaska will find the green-bound vol- umes of the Smithsonian reports with thelr golden torch occupying a place of honor on the library shelves of groups who have gathered together in the pursuit of knowledge. It is so also with the three other serfes of publications issued by the Smithsonian. These include the Con. tributions to Knowledge, the Miscel- lancous Collections and’ the Special Publications. Diffuses Knowledge. Unlike tho annual report, the papers published in these series are chiefly of a technical nature for the use of ientists and students. They are mainly original paners constituting definite advances in knowledge. They are published without cost to the au- thors and are distributed free to libra- rles and sclentific bodies. Thus they are of importance in the bullding of the pyramid of human knowledge. Research without publication s, of course, largely futile. It is like s building stone left in the quarry. Many of the results of research that the Smithsonfan has published would otherwise never have seen the light, for their technical nature precludes a popular appeal, and they are fre. quently costly to print. No profes- sional ~ publisher ‘would undertake them. Yet without the publication and world-wide distribution of such technical materfal sclance could not possibly have had the remarkable ad- vancement recorded in the past half century. Since 1916, however, lack ot funie has forced the Smithsonan to suspenc publication of the Contributions to Knowledge series and to cut to a third of their normal number the Miscel- laneous Collections papers. This tends to retard the progress of research and the increase of knowledge. If the work of the Smithsonian s to con. tinue fruitful it must be enabled to re. turn to its normal output of scientific publication. s Not Guilty. From the Boston Transeript. She (first time at the ball game)— What's the excitement now, Jack? Her Escort—That man stole a base. She—How can they say such a mean thing—the bases are all there, I can see them. Householder —never defers the over- hauling of heating plants until Fall. The time to handle such @ work is right now. We make replacements and @ repairs of the right g kind at satisfactory prices. c t¥PROMPT SERVICE Maurice J. Colbert Heating—Plumbing—Tinnipg 621 F Street Phor LOST BRITISH SUBMARINE AND ITS GRAV AINDERY o o & Unpesoon Upper H-29, British undersea boat which sank at her berth, carrying five men to death, the fifth to go down since end of war. Lower: Divers at work at spot where H-29 took her fatal dive. HIRTH DENOUNGES FARN LOAN PLAN Head of Corn Belt Committee Says Rumored Proposal Would Fail. By the Associated Pree: COLUMBIA, Mo., August 20.—A rumored plan of President Coolidge for a fund of $100,000,000 to loan to vari- ous farm cooperatives would “end in dismal faflure,” Willlam Hirth, C lumbia farm journal publisher and chairman of the corn belt committee, declared in a lengthy ement issued here Wednesday. The President Tues- day made it known, however, that he had no knowledge of such a plan. “Instead of ‘pouring oil'on the trou- bled waters’ it will be taken by think- ing farmers throughout the country as further evidence that the President nd the leaders of the Republican party do not intend to c: out their solemn platform pledge to ‘place the agricultural interests of America on an equal basis with other industry. he contended.” The real purpose of the plan, Hirth charged, is *to supply a political soothing syrup that will tide the Re- publican party past the November election, rather than to deal fairly and in a statesmanlike manner with the great question.” “Time and again the farm leaders have stated that what the farmers need is not a chance to go further into debt, but a price for ’lheh' com- modities that will enable them to pay off a part of the enormous debt which they already owe,” Hirth continued. Tn the meantime, there is no oc- casion for anybody to be alarmed over the ‘farm revolt’ running amuck, for never have the farmers thought so clearly and so soundly now. At its recent meetings in Des Moines the corn belt committee discussed the sit- uation fully and dispassionately, and at the conclusion of its deliberations it_unanimously adopted a resolution which proclaims the doctrine of ‘pro- tection for all or protection for none.’ “It is up to the industrial East,” Hirth declared, “to decide whether there shall be hell in the kitchen or whether it will concede to the farmer a dollar of the same purchasing power as the one it exacts of him.” An Indian from Oklahoma recently bought what was thought to be the only remaining wooden bath tub in Kansas, He made it into a huge tom-tom. Before Bidding Good-by to the Office —Do These Two Things— Rent a safe deposit box for the safekeeping of vour valuable papers and jewelry—the cost is small —they can be rented for as little as $3.00 a year. Make a will and appoint us executor. You will automatically leave worry behind and enjoy every minute of your leave of absence. Second National Bank “The Bank of Utmost Service” 509 Seventh Abe Martin Says: hain't it a relief when a clerk Iy confesses he hain't got what we're lookin® fer? An assistant is one who does all th' wor (Copyright. John F. Dille Co.) CONGRESS MAY PROBE D. C. BREAD PRICE RISE Chairman Rathbone of Subcom- mittee Will Call Up Question at Coming Session. Increase in the price of bread in Washington is to be the subject of special consideration for legislation when Congress reassembles. Repre- sentative Henry R. Rathbone, Repub- lican of Illinois, chairman of a spe- cial subcommittee of the House Dis- trict committee, which has been making an intensive study of the cost of living in the National Capital, and who co-operated in the Senate coal investigation, will direct the attention of his subcommittee to the bread question, Representative Charles Brand, Re publican of Ohio, measure for a standard legal loaf of bread, will also push an investigation of the cost of this basic food. He has already sought detailed information through the Federal Trade Commis- sion. . Bread recently advanced 1 cent a loaf here. o American typewriters supply 70 per cent of the demand in Argentina. Street N.W. 1333 G Street N.W. who fathered a! PRESIDENT’S MEXICAN POSITION INDORSED Convention of Evangelical Leagues and Sunday Schools Favor Neu- trality in Religious Dispute. President Coolidge’ “hands off” policy liglous controversy he regards as y Mexican af fair so long as ns of this tion are not subjected to mistreatment, vesterday was indorsed by 300 young people attending the sixth annual convention of the Evangelical Leagues and Sunday Schools of the Atlantic district of the Evangelical Synod, which closed its se at the Concordia Lutheran Church, Twentieth and ( The resolution approving the ad- ministration policy was presented 1 a committee headed by Rev. Paul Schmid altimore and including Miss ¢ Santelmann of Washing- ton, Paul _Briesemeister ¢ “henectady nd John M. roehlick of I NE 9 The final session was devoted to a tes to the them. The st evening was by z0ld of Baitimore, Md ed by other leaders of the con- vention. declaration of a ing to the re- Mexico, which cangeli princip Re Easy One to Crack. From the London Tid-Bits. “I wonde aid Legget, “why old Tomlinson changed the name of his new bungalow?” “Changed its name? friend. “Surely not. proud of it, bec: out all by himself Nutshell, “That’s same, ft's 3 At this point a third man spoke. “Tomlinson,” he said, “got tired of that name because small boys used to ring the bell and ask It the ‘kernel repeated his He was rather he’d thought it It was called the wasn't it?" said Legget; “all the Morse Pharmacy 1901 L St. Is a Star Branch These Branch Of- fices, located in prac- tically every neighbor- hood in and around Washington, are for the convenience of pa- trons of The Star Clas- sified Section. You will find it much handier to drop into the Branch near you than worry with get- ting your advertise- ments to the Main Of- fice. They will be handled with prompt- ness and efficiency. No fees are charged at the Branch Offices— only regular rates. The Star prints MORE Classified Ads every day than all the other papers here comhined. 1f RE- SULTS are to be had, Star _ Classified Ads WILL GET THEM. “Around the Corner” is A Star Branch Office !Girl Saves Friend, {11, From Drowning, But Loses Own Life By the Associated Press. DADE CITY, August Thornton, 17-year-old schoolgirl was drowned in a lake near here Wednesday after rescuing an 11 year-old companion from deep water. The girls had gone to the lake, but only Eva could swim. When her companion waded into deep water and screamed for help, Eva pulled her to a post rising out of the water. After boosting her to the top of the post, the older girl sank out of sight A coroner’s jury attributed the drowning to a heart attack. FIGHT FOR REVISION OF TARIFF CERTAIN, CAPPER DECLARES ntinued from First 20.~Eva Kansas than at this Senator Capper sald. “It is £oing to be a banner year for the arty. Senator (‘urtis lected | ever received. Paulen” will > re-clected by a tremendous vote. Besides this we will re-elect every Re- publican running for House and will siiin one seat in the body. Judge U. Guyer will defeat Chauncey Little, Democrat, In the second district.” Wadsworth Also Calls. Right upon the heels of Senator Capper, who left the c at noon for Magnol ! Senator James Wadsworth, jr., of New York, Republican leader of this State, who is engaged in a spirited campaign for reelection. With his arrival the President again was afforded an op- | portunity to indulge in one of his strongest fancles, that of talking politics. Since coming to the Adiron- dacks the President has heard and read much about the senatorial cam- paign in this State, and he had ex- pressed a keen desire to hear from the Senator personally just what the real situation Is and just what his prospects are. Another guest to depart today from the Coolidge camp was Julius Rosen- wald, directing head of Sears, Roe- buck Chicago mail order house, who came to White Pine Camp Wednes- day. He told newspaper men that the President asked him to come and tell him about the husiness situation of the country and to offer any sugges- tions he may have to im:prove things, He declared; however, that he learned more from the President than the President. did from him. “I was amazed Mr. Coolidgze’s knowledge of conditions throughout the country,” Mr. Rosenwald said. “T couldn’t believe a‘man as busy as the President could know so much ahout everything in general. His knowledge and ‘information was astounding. It | was genuine, too. He took away my breath when he quoted figures and r cited facts. He even told me things about my own business. Therefore, T doubt very much if T was able to be of any assistance to him. Middle West Report Pleases. Mr. Rosenwald brought some fig ures to the President which showed an inerease in the retail and 1 der business of Sears, Roebuck all of which were taken to ndicate | that business is betier than was an- ticipated earlier in the year. There was one significant thing about these figures that was especially interest- ing and pleasing to the President, and that was the apparent prosperity in the Middle West. The President has heard all sorts of conflicting tales | about conditions in that section, and | he was naturally happy to see cold figures dealing with the subject. Confirms Fight on Smith. Mr. Rosenwald, while declining to discuss politics with the correspond s, confirmed a report published in 5 that he favored the with drawal of Col. Frank R. Smith, the | P. Senate nominee in Illinois. titude has e Republicans in it is feart grows, C Brennan, Derio- cratic bos: is running against Smith, may be elected in November. Under the circumstances, the Illinois | Senator in the Seventieth Congre may dgtermine the Senate’s com plexion. Mr. Rosenwald had Intended tol leave the camp vesterday, but he had a recurring hear 4 which, while not considered serious, kept him close to his room. He appeared recovered today and, while speaking of his con- dition, said that the excitement follow- this viewpoint ing an invitation to visit the Pre: OPEN ALL DA and IN BOTH F ot PROPOSES SMITH UIT SENATE RACE Rosenwald Raps lllinois Can- didate—Nominee Refuses to Answer Critic’s Attack. Associated Prees. August sums of paign last By the CHICAGO, tures of v Tliinois 20, Expends th April st money primary ca by senatorial nom by the Senate cantpaign fun mittee, may result ire the name of an candidate appearing on n ballot. down independent the November elec An investigatic Cheago Daily News savs, resentment again: the public utili tie: i<k fund” of Cok Frank L. Smith, Republican, and ( we F Brennan, Democrat, senate nom: nees. In the same printed a_ stateme; wald, Chicago philanthr which he said that Rep in voter of Illinois should reject Col. Smith because he was tinanced in his cam by “heads of & public wtil the discloses ial story th by J nsw Re pist, in cat Doubts Smith Seating Mr. Rosenwald, who is at the mer White House conferring - President Coolidge, expressed ¢ as to whether Col. Smith would seated if elected. “If Col. Smith does not accept Jle and resign the Rey > in the fie clean e st with bt inevit: m voters should plac protest eancidate a publican on 4 corruption | atement said Informed of the store in the News Col. Smith, who is recuperating from fliness near New London, Conn., sald “I do not feel 1 _am called upon to answer Julius Rosenwald or an other individual.” Yeyond th he would not comment, but his spokes men here declared he would not sign. re Insull Gift $125,000. At the Senate committee here it was brought out that Samuel Insull, Chicago utilities magnate, con tributed $125,000 to Smith's primary campaign fund; Clement Studebaker, §20,000, and 1 “opley, $25.000, A contribution 00 o by Insull Brennan, who was unopposed for the Demoeratic nomination, also was re vealed by the committee. Wil ulding of pul ty and James Andrews of Kewan, were quoted by the newspaper favoring an inde pendent candidate. Spaulding said down-State le were considering the advisability of holding an pen State convention™ for the selection f Spaulding was quoted he public utility fight “is » thing pending he- ites Senate at this missioner Springfield, 1., sa e bigg fore the Ut time.” Both drews to favor the independent CIT‘; NEWS IN BRIEF. Washington Wanderlusters will . a corn roast at the clubhouse, nklyn Park, Va.. tomorrow, 6 p.m., direction of Jesse o ORGANIZA:[iON ACTIVITIES Angeles in the Unity set, on “Meta- o'clock and Mayor An Ithough Democrats, were sald clection of a Republican as candidate. Spaulding i Rose Humble Los Calif, will Auditorium, physical Devi Willia 5. Sons Civil W Temple o'clock Auxillary, No. erans of tha in Pythian street, at 8 Il meet 1012 Ninth Bobby an Observer. Bobby b long & looked curiously rls’ dormitory where T had taken him wi eat, and with great constern: rspered loudly to me, “Why, S I the only man eater here?” dent and Mrs. Cool probably was heart the cause of his attack. At least that was the reason he gave hig host and hosge: Secretary Agriculture will arrive at White Pine morrow to spend the week-¢ n. wing of New, York, coauthor the Dawes reparatic 1 call for conference some Jardine ump to Owen Y SATURDAY The Two Fashion Shops . Offering Every 3-Piece Spring Suit Hot-Weather Suits STORES Alterations at Cost No Charge Accounts No Exchanges e Tashion G Fred Pelzman, President op 15th & G Next to Keith’s