Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1927, Page 41

EXPERTS STUDYING TRAFFIG IN CITIES Council of Engineers Begins Survey of Regulations in 250 Communities. A study of traffic conditions in 250 elties has been started by a special committee of the American Engineer ing Council, 26 announced here president of the counc S. Kimball of Cornell University The committee, headed by W. B. Powell of Buffalo, aims. according to Dean Kimball. “to rccommend na tional standards that wiil simplify the drivirg utomobiles and gradually improve str and highway condi tions.” The study will occupy about six months. Variance in_traffic eome so lrritating that rists are losing pati Dean Kimball added. “The ave ver is unable to un- derstand why these rules are not sub stantially the same everywhere and why there should be differences in the meaning of twinkling colored lights in New York, San Francisco, New Orleans or Duluth. Would End “Confusion.” “Nation-wide prevalence of this no- tion bas led to definite engincering ef- fort to end this confusion with the co-operation of the National Confer- ence on Street and Highway Safety sponsored by Secretary of Commerce Hoover. “At the recent session of the con- ference the American Engineering Council, through its representatives, offered to make a national survey of municipal tmaffic signals, signs and markings with a_view of presenting a standard code of practice to be rec- ommended for general adoption by the oities of the country, both large and small. ““This offer was unanimously accept- ed, and the council has been prepar- ing for the work by organizing a small working committee composed of rep- resentatives of national bodies most affected by the tangle of traffic regu- lations. “This committee has prepared very comprehensive questionnaires designed to ascertain the present practice in 50 cities, as well as what experi- ence has proved to be the most ef- fective methods. Accurate Replies Sought. “These Qquestionnaires are to be handled by an engineer delegated in each city under survey as sponsor for complete and accurate replies which are to be obtained by him from the most authoritative sources on each olass of traffic devices.” The investigating committee in- oludes Dr. E. G. Lloyd, Bureau of Standards, Washington; E. P. Good- rich, consulting engineer, New York City; Sidney J. Williams, National Safety Council, Chicago; Ernest Smith, manager, American Automobile Asso- ciation; Thomas Fitzgerald, vice presi- dent, Pittsburgh Street Railway C Col.” A. B. Barber, manager, trans- portation division, Chamber of Com- merce of the United States, and di- rector, National Conference on Street and Highway Safety: L. W. Wallace. Washington, executive secretary of the American Engineering Council. The committee has voted, Dean Kimball also announced, to recom- mend that another conference on traffic ordinances be called by Secre- tary Hoover in the near future. SPRING BIRD.CLASSES‘ FOR AUDOBON SOCIETY Local Sessions to Begin March 14 in Assembly Hall of Thomson School. The Audubon Society of the District of Columbia will hold its Spring bird classes in the assembly hall of the Thomson School, Twelfth and L streets, March 14 and the five follow- ing Mondays. Classes will be held for children at 3:30 and for adults at 4:45, at which special lectures also will be given. There will be no charge. The early classes will be devoted to studying bird skins to enable the students to recognize birds in the field. ‘The chairman of the bird class committee is Mrs, Florence Merriam Bailey and the other members of the committee are Mrs. James H. Albur- tls, Miss Katherine B. Baird, Miss Mary R. Brickenstein, Miss Helen B. Childs, Miss May T. Cooke, Miss Ester W. Scott, Miss Emma Strider and Miss Mary D. Suter. Announcement is also made of the annual field meetings which begin April 16 and continue for the ensuing six Saturdays. The committee in charge of the later activity is com- posed of Clarence R. Shoemaker, chairman; Mrs. Clarence A. Aspinwall, Mr. and Mrs. Leo D. Miner and Mr: Robert M. Reese. GASOLINE STABILIZED. Little Difference Seen Between Winter and Summer Fuel. Gasoline being sold to American motorists is becoming well stabilized as to characteristice and little dif- ence is seen between Summer and nter gasoline, the Bureau of Mines declared after a survey con- ducted in 15 cities throughout the country, including Washington. The motor fuel sold here was found to be of the same characteristics as that s0ld in other cities in the East and of uniformly high standard. there has been a distinct difference between Winter and Sum- mer gasoline, the bureau said, that marketed during the Winter belng more volatile than that sold during the Summer. This Winter the differ- ence between Winter and Summer line is shown only in a minor a vesterday by the Dean Dexter rules has be- BUSINESS EXELUDES BABY Miss Storm Jameson Says Latter Is Full-time Job. LONDON, March & P).—You can- not run a business and a baby at the same time; a baby is a whole-time job.” said Miss Storm Jameson, the British novelist, taking part in the discussion started by G. K. Chester- ton in his debate on that subject with Lady Rhondda. In private life she is Mrs. Guy Chapman. “I once ran a baby myself,” she said. "I ran a good many other things at the same time, since I and the baby were living in a somewhat rural community, with the nearest shdp 5 miles away d the nearest telephone half an hour’'s walk.” Metal Roofs Block Sparks. Sparks from chimneys in New Braunfels, Tex., have little chance of doing harm, for it is a city covered with metal. Ninty-five per cent of the roofs are of sheet steel. Thirty rs ago a fire chief began outlawing wood roofs within a small zone. Gradually the whole city was included. A nursery deck, where small chil dren may play, is provided on some new steamships. jackson place, it was | District Na ! THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. MARCH 6, 1927 PART 1. tional Guard All of the units of the local Guard will get a long trip away from the National Capital during their anuual encampments this Summer, cxce; 121st Regiment of Engineers, which it was decided I ek must go to Fort H . Va., for its per Both officers of the Engineer re oping th act favorably on the of Col. John W. Oehmann, co | ing the regiment, and Maj. Gen. A: { Stephan, that the organization t ve: be sent to Virgi Beach, \ the purpose, if nothing clse than 0 keep up the morale ization, which is consid ea to t ' mp ground so né he Lome station. nly did the War Depar reject the propcsal that the En Beach they even ref low the the dates recommended for the campment. 'The local Guard of fully cognizant of re the ‘regiment and the dates the greatest number of men may obtained for active field duty, ask that the or tion be sent to ¢ from July Howeve the War Department has dictated that I go two weeks later, or from 14 to 28 reason is given except that the two weeks selected by th 31 Guard there will be s of two Reserve regiments, 50 men, Fort Humphra this alone active Natior regin ting of some 500 men is fo to remain away for two weeks longer. Furthermore. the troops of the Dis trict of Columbia do not occupy the same quarters as the Reserve officers while at Fort Humplreys, but are in two widely separated sections of the vast A composing the camp—an area large enough to accommodate a whole division of troops. However, the at War Department will grant at least one of the recommendations, and that is that while the local regiment is at Fort Humphreys it be given an area in which it can w unmolested, an‘i carry out a general scheme of engi- neer work covering the entire encamp- ment. Heretofore it has been forced to operate piece-meal in various sec- tions of the camp, with no general objective. The units which will go to distant points are the 260th Battalion of Coast Artillery, which will go to Fort Monroe, Va., and the 29th Division Staff, the 29th Military Police Com- pany, 29th Division Headquarters De- tachment and Company A, 372d In- fantry, which have been ordered to proceed to Cascade, near Pen-Mar, Md., for their annual training. This is the site of the new State camp of the National Guard of Maryland. The following enlisted in the Guard last week and were assigned to units: Beverly Davenport, 1030 .Seven- teenth street, Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery; George K. Dunning, 1009 Fourth street southeast, Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery; Joseph B. Dar- cey, 4711 Brandywine street, Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery, and Murray A. Easten, 2426 Pennsylvania avenue, Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery. The report of Capt. Clay Anderson, United States Army instructor as- signed to the local Guard on the work of the Army correspondence course, covering the month of February, just made public, shows 19 officel and enlisted men on the honor roll; 3 officers and men qualified and 13 other officers and men who have submitted material, but have not qualified. Those on the honor roll, with the number of lessons and examinations they have turned in and taken, follow: First Lieut. Hugh Everett, 61 lessons, 7 examinations and 7 sub courses; First Lieut. Homer B. Millard, 38 lessons, b examinations and & sub courses; First Lieut. George F. Har- bin, 18 lessons, 2 examinations and 2 sub courses; Corp. John G. May, 14 le sons, 1 examination and 1 sub course; First Lieut. George L. Evans, 9 lessons, 1 examination and 1 sub course; First Lieut. Walter A. Knight, 9 lesson: examination and 1 sub course; Lieut. John R. Quade, 9 lessol examination and 1 sub course; Walter S. Welsh, 7 lessons, 1 examin; ticn and 1 sub course; Maj. Julian S. Oliff, 7 lessons, 1 examination and 1 sub course: First Lieut. Thaddeus A. Riley, 7 lessons, 1 examination and 1 sub course; First Lieut. John E. Tem- ple, 5 lessons. 1 examination and 1 sub course; Capt. Samuel R. Turner, 5 lessons, 1 examination and 1 sub course; Second Lieut. John ¥. Fitz- gerald, b lessons, 1 examination and 1 sub course; Sergt. Joseph Turco, lessons; Capt. George W. Johns, leesons; First Lieut. James M. Magru- der, 5 lessons; First Lieut. Willlam A. Mushake, 5 lessons; Second Lieut. kEn- rique C. Canova, 5 lessons and Pv Luther B. Hall, 5 lessons. The following are on the qualified list: Capt. Clarence S. Shields, 4 les- sons; Pvt. (first class) Ira D. Grin- non, 4 lessons, and Pvt. Cooper B. Rhodes, 4 lessons. j Others who have submitted material are: Second Lieut. David W. Milne, three lessons; Chaplain Arthur L. Smith, three lessons; Capt. Willlam B. Beuchler, three lessons; Capt. William F. Jorgensen, two lessons; Capt. Charles E. Smithson, two lesson Pvt. James P. Bowers, two lesson Staff Sergt. B. 8. McDonald, two le sone; Corpi. Malcolm F. Baile: lessons; Pvt. Joseph C. Read, son; Maj. Ralph 8. Childs, one lesso: Bergt. Albert Bilver, one lessol ond Lieut. Alford L. Jorgensen, one lesson, and First Lieut. Robert G. MacCartee, one lesson. The following have been transferred from the active list to the rese list of Company A, 121st Engineers, be- cause of business interference: Pvts Andrew L. Loffler, John B. Revie, Arthur J. Sullivan, Willlam Thompson and David H. West. The following reductions in Com DR. W. B. CALDWELL AT THE AGE OF 83 _While Dr. W. B. Caldwell of Mon- ticello, Ill, a pracitcing physician for 47 years, knew that constipation was the curse of advancing age, he did not believe that a “purge” or “physic” every little while was necessary. To him, it seemed cruel that so many constipated old people had to be kept constantly “stirred up” and half sick by taking cathartic pills, tablets, salts, calomel and nasty oils. In Dr. Caldwel vrup Pepsin he discovered a laxative which helps to “regulate” the bowels of old folks. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin not only causes a gentle, easy bowel move- ment, but each dose helps to strengthen the bowel muscles, £l D the local officials are hopeful that the | | pany , have been James 1. |ane G | moted privates, e C. Thompson. Those p fill these vacancies: Fre first class, to cor s, Ira Grinnan, H. Patterson ind Austin N. 4 1as been or wted to first sergeant, Com Engineers, and Corpl cceeds him. Pvt. War. mpany A, 12lst En- n ordered promoted to corporal. iminary rifle « seleciion of candida 1 which will represent at the international wetitions | for the United ritle | ersies, particuls i srtain picnic gro | tions of two hours, m.. once a week, se of the bass ball Permits can be btained The teams d thin 15 assigned . will be forfeited. Ro:k Creek West Potomac ade of 15 cents two hours, or two one hour, for a special vation, or 10 conts for a single 2 of one hour's duration Hours to Be Changed. as announced that a change is made during the coming season s for the special @ that the players who from the courrs ne in which to Task of Putting Them Inte Shape. With t he appro: to be will t in the ment K | may reacl have | them, These Italy, in M, 10n Gh Che fis ich will be participated i% by | mber the local Guard ¢ will be under the dire ) Jensen. Ordnar » will certify ail the rec wtional Rifle Assoc bizh men of today who will partici to be held next month at | Va. | om elected t | the fina | Quantico, i > withdrawal of the United | m the mail guard it giving up of qugr building of the Goy group on the Union za, which they we National Gui 15, and oms and com- | : two buildings Guard now has for armor T orga ation, it ily in need of these quar- | the companies were that all of the men could! locker rooms at one | > their clothes for the A number of the rooms in this | building also will be fitted up as class | rooms for the instruction of officers |and men in military subjects, as with { the present armory facilitles, lacking | a drill hall, this is about all the train: ing they receive during the Winter months. th storer mak | which th purposes sald, was bs [ters, as | eramped Owing to a peculfarity in the na tional defense -act, all officers of the National Guard must hold commis- sions in the Organized Reserves. Al though an active force, being trained for ufe in time of war, it was said that the act prevents them from exer- cising command in the Army of the United States in time of war unless they hold commissions in the reserve. | which is 2 component of the Army of the United States. Brigade headquar ters has issued instructions to all offi- that they must apply. for commis- sions, and they will be fésued in the same rank which these officers hold in the National Guard Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan presented commisslons Tuesday night to Second Lieuts. Hobert T. Walker, John F. Colbert and William G. Rose, who re- cently passed military examinations for promotion from the ranks to offi- cers in the infantry branch of the Guard. With the receipt of their com. missions they were ordered assigned as follow Lieut. Walker to command the Headquarters Detachment, 29th Division Special Troops; Lieut. Colbert to the same unit, and Lieut. Rose to the 29th Military Police Company as second in command. R SPECIAL CLASS FORMED. Pre-Nuptial Books Enrolled School of Instruction. LONDON, March 5 (#).—Pre-nuptial cooks are to have their own classes at the Institute of Hyglene, which has opened special evening sessions for shop girls and stenographers unable to attend during the day. There had been a large demand from girls en- gaged in business during the day who wished to acquire the lore of cooking before marriage, and the special classes were organized on that ac- in “1 suffered with pimples on my face for twelve months, They were | Cuticura Soap, Otntmentand Tal- {cum promote and maintain skin | purity, skin comfort and skin health often when all else fails. for Old Folks ly establishing natural “regularity.” It never gripes, sickens or upsets the system. Besides, it is absolutely harmless and pleasant to take. 1f past 50, buy a large 60-cent bot- tle at any store that sells medicine or write “Syrup Pepsin,” Monticello, 1il. for a FREE SAMPLE BOTTLE and just see ‘for yourself. | D. 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