Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1928, Page 66

POLICE TRAINING | SCHOOL SUCCEEDS Institution Started Ten Years; Ago Is Aid to D. C. Bluecoats. ag a policoman in Washington requires A large quantity of interesting &nd very specialized knowledge. 1 tramng school of the Metropol Police Department has instructed ¢ every member of the depart and it has instructed them | some very obscure and individual sub- ecls For example { Wilson, at 3 aam.. secing the door | of Johnson's coal offi open. enters same and steals $34.95 from cash on commit rob- lement or ma If you fov ar- | a of the school on the lest examination. Thore were between 30 and 35 policemen in the school and the Depart; and been to the started in 1917 Shelby, then a of Maj of police mitted to The ses-| about seven not many d at firs', —to send | s Inspector W S sergeant., under Pullman, in be. radu - Tudes vear the comnosed of the force. he object will he men as fast as istruct so well. by the way. that scme of his coriginzl examination questions are s veed—was sucreeded by Sergt. Edward Currv vhen Shelby was promoted to 7 Seret. O. S n includes g geography, crime classification, police and traffic regulations. police manual, investiga- | tions and reports. first aid. calisthenics | end miscellaneous subjects. including Constitution and Federal Government. | local history and government. courts | #nd court procedure. licenses. organiza- tion of the police department and re- Jations b-tween the citizen and the Ppoliceme: thenics class includes the 3 and trigger soucezing, a very snecial cise vhich policemen are supposed to be most efficient. There is target prac- tice with revolvers at a gallery under Poli's Theater. | Lectures are delivered by the heads | of the department on the special sub- ! tote-a-tete wi rtial solar eclipse she always keeps | MOON'S DISREGARD OF CELESTIAL “DATES" PLAYS HAVOC WITH STUDENTS WHO ESTIMATE ECLIPSES Lady Luna Has Habit of Being Late for All Her Appointments. {STUDENTS PLAN ACTION | Orthodox Mathematics Call- ed Into Use for Settle- ment of Trouble. Lady Moon, the carth's erratic flap- per daughter, never keeps her cosmic | dates. Whenever this light-headed damsel of the skies—and the cruel, cold- hearted creature she is, omers say—has an appointment for a h the sun at a total or waiting the impatient planetary system, sometimes much as a second. Such conduct is extremely annoying to the sun and carries with it at least a suggestion of lese majeste. This maiden, after all, is only the daughter of one of his poor tenants and he is compromising his dignity in engaging any flirtation with her. He has, it reported, spoken very bitterly about it and reproached the earth for not ng the girl a better bringing up. Flouts Learned Gentlemen. The moon’s procrastination also is most aggravating to various learned gentlemen on earth who serve as so- cial secretaries to planetary society and in this capacity arrange the dates which the moon breaks with so little regard for the astronomical proprie- ties. She continues to flout them in the face of their most eloquent exhor- tations that she remember her breed- ing and reform her way Some of them simply have thrown up their hands and declared that there is no comprehending of lunar psychology. There simply is no way to appeal to the better nature of the flirtatious flapper, they say. and turn their at- tention to jotting down appointments for more reliable and matronly person- i such as M Venus and squire of the for as ranus. Such notable philcsophers as Sir Isaac Newton have lectured her in vain. They have patted her on the shoulders paternally and they have spanked her. She has just gone into tantrums and insuited them. The deuce with your dry old calculus.” she screams, and throws their appointment books in their faces. “I'll take my own time to powder my face and fix my hair. If the sun wants me he knows where to find me.” Thus she has gone on putting kinks in the most abstruse of mathematical calculations and bringing the gray heads of the planetary date-makers in SOrrow to their grave. Some of them, indeed, have taken a Il.x.l:" tolerant view and suggested that They have suggested the application of a new sort of cosmic psychology in dealing with her to replace the orth- . odox gravitation theories of Newton and the rest. German natural Einstein. Astronomers at the Naval Observa- tory, however, are old-fashioned in their views on the proper conduct of celestial maidens. They have decided to give the errant flapper one more good spanking with orthodox mathe- matics before falliag back on the Among these is the philcsopher, Albert the astron- | dy Moon simply was not understood. | | | PROF. JAMES ROBERTSON. !the family. They are in quite a huff | | with her, for her vagrancy throws out | | all their calculations. If she only kept | her appointments with in a ten-mil- | lionth of a second, or cven a millionth, | they say, they wouldn't care. But it is quite a different matter when there is such a scandalous delay as a second. | Robertson in Charge. The work of recalculating the move- | ments of the moon will be in charge | rector of the Nautical Almanac Office, who will try to account for the dis-i crepancies by pure mathematics. This | is an extremely complicated task. Prof. Robertson explains, and may require several years. | “It is tru Prof. Robertson said, “that astronomers have not been able | to predict accurately the the moon by the law of gravi which is simply that every pariicle of | matter: in the rse is attracted to every other particle by a force propor- tionate to their masses and inversely proportionate to their distance apart. This continual failure has been ad- vanced as a fact that disproves the law of gravitation. I am not willing to subscribe to this view, however, and turn to the Einstein theory to ac- count for the motions of the moon | without giving the older view one more | thorough trial. “The whole thing, of course, is ex- | | tremely compiicated. The sun is pull- | ing on the moon in one direction, the earth in another and the varlous| planets in still others, all with forces ! proportionate to their masses, as com- | pared with the mass of tie moon. The moon, in turn, is pulling on all these. There are so many variables in the equation that there is plenty of oppor- | tunity for a serious error to have crept | in somewhere. It is comparatively simple to calculate the relations of | two bodies produced by the force of ‘gravity. When we come to three bodles it is vastly more complicated,' and with more than three the compli- cations become so great that they can be ironed out only by years of work. “In the past the problem of the motion of the moon has been ap- proached in four general ways, none of which have been able to predict the position of the moon to the degree of accuracy which astronomy demands. Such men as Newton, Laplace and D'Alembert have been able to predict | psycho-analysis stuff of Einstein and |the position work, and Newton was ts with which they are most famil- | thr others. They feel that a few extra ' so discouraged that he delayed the At the last session the late In- | blows administered in the planetary | publication of his theory of gravita- Evans. Inspector Shelby. ln~| soector Harrison. Stoll. Insoector Head- | ley and Lieut. Burke addressed the' sivdents at various times. In addition to the regular staff of instructors and the officers who deliver ctures. courses are conducted by Dr. | J. J Kilroy of the board of police and fire in relations between the board and the officers.-and by Daniel -Ring of The Evening Star on the rela- tions between policemen znd newspaper | me i | | CATHEDRALS BOLSTERED | BY MODERN MATERIALS| Bcientifc Methods Used in Repair-| ing of Ancient Edifices in Europe. Correspundesce of the Assoctated Press, NEW YORK —Scientific application of modern methods and materials to crumbling walls and vaults gives new | icases of life to three of Europe’s most | famous cathedrals, St, Mark's, Venice, has been reopened | after the completion of repairs which, in the opinion of Italian engineers, have made the building safe. 8t Paul's, London, and the cathedral of Mayence. Germany, similarly owe their continued usefulness % the skill of | modemn bullders. St Mark's was originally finished in 1063. After the fall of Constantinople | # was lavishly ornzmented and faced and founda- led with concrete td W take up th wom it propor- | {mposed | . arves to Newcastle, d.—Red, white Correrpo NEWCASTLE. ks 2nd black ) that the ard repre isrchl Investigation pros seerves ure of C oversupply of German | ore, which have beer | ie eAport Lraae . ed . Steam Roller Defined. LONDON am 1 mOUvVes aud not mowr « lure drivers of seam 1ol need B have a mowr. ‘Thiz p has been estah- | dshed by the Auvsmoblle Association by & Yest cese whereln a man who hao a1 en o sesimn roller for 30 years with- | out liense wes srrested for « o 15 are Jocn- &, 51 there- | 2 in England w drive a! . When Liars Meet. 0 the Open Kosa P 3 K. day warchied €1 and waluted I wuuld lLke @ ip 1o his lave of shscnce What for?” queried the officer o wanle e tu help “Idon't Mke 1o refuse you tie colunel, “hut I've just recelved B Jerter from fe wayIng Whist ehe o come bome e Caums you'te mure bother thish belp. ‘The muidier d g Vuraed VG &u. Al lue slopped and re bisthes Calone), Ve teghnen Jooealy. and L'm o q of them s . ot 60y Porte Ricsn Bulies shiowed that only wne nad an Rotive cose of rickels end It bad been Fept in & oriler lighted oply by elecunc Lgnt Erambiation her | woodshed may bring her to her senses and make her a respectable member of Hupmalile for the cars—lor o Covers tion for some time because of it. “I do mnot, however, believe this is SYARES SNARl N2 CNoale SNl NSNS 2 due to & defect in the law of gravita- tlon, but to defects in the theorics of the moon and the difficulties of ap- plying these theories. I have in mind a fifth method of approach to this problem, which, I have considerable confidence, will solve it to the required degree of accuracy. I do not think we ever will reach the point where our predictions will be absolutely cor- rect. The problem is too involved and the human mind too limited for that. But I do think we can reduce the error to a very minute amount, which will have very little effect on other | astronomical calculations.” Calculates Eclipses. Prof. Robertson’s interest in the vagaries of the earth's irresponsible and exasperating daughter is due to the fact that the Nautical Almanac Office calculates the time of eclipses not only for the United States, but. by agreement among astronomers, for Great Britain and France, and the predictions cannot be brought down to the desirable split second until the moon is cajoled or chastised keeping her dates. He also points out that the moon cannot be relied upon for nautical observations until the required correc- tions are made. She is all right for rough _calculations of time and posi-| tion, but worthless for the exacting purposes of mariners. Were it not for this, Prof. Robertson indicat: the Naval Observatory as- tronom would be inclined to let her | go dancing her way to destruction | | without any further admonitions on! their part, for they are convinced that she is a pretty poor sort at the best— a very vampire of the heavens, shal- |low and cold and heartless for all her beautiful face peaking over pine- fringed horizons and hypnotizing young lovers. But when she gets to inter- { fering_with eclipses and_ snickering at of Prof. James Robertson, assistant di- | the philosophies of mathematicians it | time she was put in her place and made to stay there. YOUNG WOMAN SCALES HIGHEST AFRICAN PEAK Daughter of Mountain Climber As- cends 19,321 Feet After Pene- trating Wilds. Correspondence of the Assoctated Pr KILIMANJARO. East Africa.—! Sheila Macdonald, a 22-vear-old don girl, has just won th~ distinction of being the first woman of the five persons who have | succeeded in climb- ing Kilimanjaro. the highest moun- tain in Africa. The summit is 19,- 321 feet high. Miss Macdonald is a daughter of Claude Macdouald, Lancaster Gate, London, a well known member of | the Alpine Club, who has climbed many famous peaks. She began her mountaineer- ing in_ Scotland and Switzerland | when only 12. She had to penetrate through many miles of wild and unopened country to reach the base of Kilimanjaro. The mountain came into prominence when in 1890 the country, now known as the British Tanganyika Territory. as ceded to Germany. The Kaiser wished to possess the highest peak in Africa. The boundaries were drawn. therefore, to include it in German East Africa. Sheila Macdo she was More than half the Chinese in this country live along the Pacific coast. into | A Y OLD SALTS DREA ON CONRAD PORCH Ancient Mariners Gather at: Home of Noted " Author. | Correspondence of the Associated Press, | BISHOPSBOURNE, England.—Every | day finds a few ancient mariners com- fortably rocking on the new Conrad | memorial porch and dreaming of the | days when the seas were peopled with wooden ships and iron men. The old salts regard Joseph Conrad | as their own property. He is one of | the few writers who could write about | the sea without having sea dogs turn | up their noses. Look Askance at Visitors. The veteran sailors look askance at | the crowds of literary visitors from all | over the world who also visit the | memorial porch of the Bishopsbourne | town hall, to examine the tabiet dedi- | | cated to the great Polish writer who | became a British subject and adopted English as his writing medium be- | | cause it was so much richer in sea | terms than any other language. | . Bishopsbourne, an inland Kent vil- lage near Canterbury, was the home | of Conrad for the last five years of his life, and it was {near here, the Oswalds, that the au. {wthm' of “Victory” and so many other famous sca storles embarked on his | final voyage into unknown waters. | | When the village hall was built four | years ago Conrad contributed liberally | | to the fund for the social center. So | when the villagers decided to erect a memorial to the novelist it was decided | that the building of a roomy porch |on the hall to welcome wayfarers would be a memorial most to the liking of the lamented novelist. and Mrs. Con- | rad heartily supported the idea. ! Poles are numerous among the tour- ists who come to visit Conrad's last home. The novelist always retained great love for the land of his birth and made frequent visits to his old home, but he had passed his most | active years at sca and was happlest living within a short journey of the great English ports, where he could watch shipping that linked England with the remote parts of the world President Roosevelt was a great ad- mirer of Conrad. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt was among the early con- tributors to the Conrad memorial Shaw, Hardy, Kipling. Galsworthy and scores of other famous authors sub- sgribed to the fund for the Conrad shrine. FIREMEN AID OPERATION. Berlin Laddies Help Doctor Revive His Patient. nce of the Associated Press BERLIN.—Justly described as the mald of all work, Berlin's Fire De- partment added another credit mark to its list of heterogeneous accomplish- ments when, in response to an emer- gency call from the West End. three fire wagons dashed up to the desig- nated house with two oxygen contain- ers. The 8 O S signals had been sent out by a doctor who, with the assistance of a eolleague. was perform- ing an operation. in the course of which he suddenly discovered that he did not have a sufficient supply of the teviving gas for his immediate require- ments. As the lateness of the hour precluded his getting a fresh supply of oxygen elsewhere, he bethought him- self of the eve | ment, which, sure, { promptly on the spot with the desired i article, R A NANZA | Correspon | naval |of the Republic. i at Charleston. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. .TEBRUARY 26, 1928—PART 4. 1000 U. S. PRIVATEERS PREYED ON BRITISH DURI iShips Were Granted Commissions to Seize Enemy Boats and Split Spoils Among Officers and Crew. More than 1,000 American privateers preyed on British shipping during the Revolution under commissions from the Continental Congress. The first authentic information on the extent of the American sea power came to light with the discovery, in the files of the State Department, of a tattered ledger giving the number of commissions issued to the various colo- nies for outfitting privateers. Out of a total of 1.030 such priva- teers commissioned, Massachusetts alone furnished 280. The ledger was a part of the records of the Naval Board of the Continental Congress. The records discovered in | the files of the State Department con- tained also a journal of the Congress from May 10 to June 26, 1775, and | various rough drafts of recommenda- | ions, letters of marque, court-martial | proceedings, etc., that passed through | the hands of the board. All these rec- | ords have been transferred to the Li- | brary of Congress. Naval History Obscure. | ‘The men who served the Colonies on the seas left scanty records, and the history of the Revolution, ac- cording to Library of Congress officials, is a very obscure chapter in the story A few outstanding exploits, such as those of John Paul Jones, stand out, but no permanent ecord was kept of the thousands of | others. ‘The sea warfare was in charge of three naval divisions—the Eastern, with headquarters at Newport; the Central, with headquarters at Bordenton, N. J., and the Southern, with headquarters These division boards functioned under the neval board of the Continental Congress, but they kept their own records, so that the officials at Philadelphia had only a vague idea of who actually was in the service. At the end of the war, it is likely, the division boards destroyed their records. No trace of them ever has been found. Nobody knows the names of the ships, the captamns and the crews of a great | many of the Colonial vessels. | ‘The best records to date have been | a large collection of bonds filed with the Continental Congress by the cap- | tains of the privateers, by which they agreed to confine their activities to These ' British shipping and property. bonds usually were for $20.000, to be | sacrificed in case the captain violated | his agreement. This was about the only hold, it is explained. which the | Congress had on these privateers. There | was a strong temptation to turn from ! privateering to out-and-out piracy, and | many probably did so. sacrificing their | bonds for the rich prizes which they | were able to capture. Captured Boats Sold. | Privateering was very popular and | profitable. The captain and crew kept | what they got. The only rule was that | a captured vessel must be brought into a port where there was a Continenal | admiralty court, where it was appraised | and sold. The proceeds went to the men who had captured it, and with good luck an ordinary seaman might have a very comfortable sum laid by. | This, it was explained at the Library of Congress, was one of the reasons | why it was so hard to procure enlist- ments in the Continental Army. For the soldier there was nothing but hard living. constant danger and extremely low pay. i The sailor had no harder life, was subjected to no great danger and with | good luck might secure from a sincle‘ voyage what was a moderate fortune for those days. It has been known by | XLXBXBXBIZIBE FISK TIRES Now Guaranteed 12,000 Miles per Regulars 30x3'4 Ove 30x31 S. S. 31x4 324 33x4 32414 33x5 On a Year’s Bas . > —By The Hecht Co. A yearly guarantee of 12,000 miles on any Fisk Tire bought here. Most Fisk users, however, get anywhere from 18,000 to 25,000 miles out of their Fisk tires. 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Fitzpatrick of the division of manuscripts of the Library of Con- gress, that a great number of priva- teers must have operated, but there were no actual records to prove ft. “Unfortunately, these records contain no names.” Mr. Fitzpatrick sald. “If they did, they would be priceless. But even as they stand they substantiate some important conjectures in history for which there has been no definite proof before.” Nine States Entered. Besides Massachusetts, the following States supplied privateers, or at least received commissions from the Conti- nental Congress Pennsylvania. 164; Maryland. 120; New Jers 70: Rhode Island, 37; Connecticut, 87; Virginia, 44; New Hampshire, 35, and North Carolina, 58. ‘The papers throw some valuable light jon the activities of the infant Navy itself, aside from the privateers. One is an order of Commodore John Barry, pear before the Central Navy Board at Bordenton and explain to the members why “he had treated them with disre- spect and indecency,” as they had com- plained to the congressional board. The resolution adopted urged the Continen- tal Congress to authorize district boards to dismiss any officers who, in their opinion, should treat them “with dis- rmlnd int . anders of naval vessels of “10 guns and upwards” were authorized by another of these papers to expend not more than $5 a week for maintenance when on shore, and not more than $2 a week at sea, where, it is assumed, toeir was supplied to them. | Officers Allowed $4 Weekly Lieutenants, surgeons, captains Marines and chaplains‘were authorized to expend $4 a week for maintenan on shore, “if the vessels are not in condition to receive them on board. One paper is a draft of an order to Barry to dismiss four lieutenants in | Philadelphia who had demanded more {pay. A'later order restores these men | to duty after they had made proper vnpology, One order to captain and crew of any privateer who | had succeeded in burning a British | warship in the Delaware River. The fragment of a journal of the pr ceedings of the Continental Congre: {in the collection is one of three such which have been preserved. Who kept it or why is not known. One of others was kept as the personal prop erty of John Hancock. The reason for | the other is also obscure. The prese | manuscript is approximately 1as the other two, but there are sor | changes in details which are expected | to prove of great value to historians. is the rough draft of New Task for Goats. | then stationed at Philadelphia, to ap- | Cc respondence of the Associated Posas | SYDNEY, Australia. — Goat rac have been introduced to amuse ¢ | tired of dog and horse racing. The Mayfair Shop., T Third Floor hree Themes —print, lace, en- semble. 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