Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1929, Page 6

BYRD DISCOVERES (REAT PROBLEN International Commission to{ Settle Ownership of Area May Result. Creation of an international arbitra- tion commission to settle the question of how far ownership is established for a nation by the setting up of its flag in uninhabited territory, may result from Comdr. Richard Byrd's discoveries in the Antarctic region. ‘This was indicated yesterday by an- nouncement that a vast new territory in the Antarctic had been claimed by Comdr. Byrd Monday for the United States. Records in the State Department left the question hazy as international law cited was to the effect that discovery, such as Comdr Byrd's, established a claim for his nation, but not a per- manent right to the country. S “How far the mere discovery of a territory which is either unsettled or settled only by savages gives a right to it,” one authority declared, “is a question which neither the law nor the usages of nations has yet definitely settled.” But another source asserted that “the ground taken by the British government, that a discovery made by a private individual, in the prosecution of & private enterprise, gives no right, cannot be allowed. “There is nothing,” this authority continued, “to support it, either in the reason of the case or in the law and usage of nations. To say the least of it, if a discovery sp made confers no right, it prevents any other nation from acquiring a right by subsequent discovery, although made under the authority of the government, and with an express view to that object,” PROXY FIGHT MARKED BY NEW EXCHANGES Rockefeller Group Repeats It Has Lost Confidence in Col. Stewart. By the Associsted Press. NEVW YORK, February 22.—New ver- bal exthanges today marked the cam- paign being waged by John D. Rocke- Zeller, jr., to put Col. Robert W. Stewart out of the chairmanship of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. The Rockefeller committee made pub- lic a letter to an unnamed Midwest banker in which it was asserted that “we can the truth of all Col. Stewart’s almost incredible story and stil, on his own n, we must come to the conclusion that he has lost the right to our confidence.” Albert L. Hopkins, Col. Stewart's per- sonal attorney, issued a statement say- ing that the Rockefeller committee’s document diates the 72-page docu- ent issued by Mr. Rockefeller's rother-in-law, for #n it he frankly ad- mits that the effort of Mr. Aldrich to involve Col. Stewart with Teapot Dome and Secretary Fall in that document was unwarranted by any facts known to any one.” { ‘The letter to the “Midwest banker” sums up the Rockefeller position in four questions regarding ther the stock- holders can have confidence in a chief executive who has lucted himself as the Col. sownrt did in the ntal The from ,the Stewart con- tingent that' the main issue is Whether Col. Stewart/ is the right man to head the com y, and_concludes. that he is on the of his record. MRS. THOMAS E. BROWN - AGAIN HEADS Y. W. C. A. Chosen President for Fourth Con- secutive Term at! Election of Officers for 1029-1930. Mrs. Thomas Edwin Brown was Shosen president of the Young Women's Christian Association for the fourth consecutive term at the 1929-30 elec- tion of ufl:::nl. held at the association’s traf secre- d- R. rer. Miss Helen Hudson, Mrs. Mary C. Stevens, Miss: P. Edna Thoenssen and Mrs: Ben Temple Webster, newly-elect- ‘8d members, also were of ly received. Miss Greta Finley, president of the ‘Young Women’s Christian Association of Montreal, gave a report on the Buda- pest conference last Summer. A Magnificent Oriental Rugs in all sizes and weaves, including of antique d and Friday, February 2P.M.Ea February 28th at 8 The above collection is | large New York importer from all the famous rug Far East. At SLOAN’S Art Galleries tmes 715 Thirteenth Street N.W. To Be Sold at Public Auction 715 13th St. N.W. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 28th and March 1st, 1929, at ‘ALSO 2 Special Night Sessions Tuesday, February 26th, and Thursday, On View Up to Hour of Sale Each Day TERMS: CASH Auctioneers W. E. RILEY, member of the Park Police, wearing one of the new cold-weather helmets adopted by the force. PARK POLICE READY FOR COLD OR MOBS Get New Fleece-Lined Helmets and a Store of Tear-Gas Equipment, The United States park police are mow prepared for Jack Frost or mob action in Washington's parks. New, warm, aviator-like helmets, lined with fleece, were issued yesterday to the 23 motor-cycle members of the force for use during “the wee small hours of the morning,” between midnight and dawn. Capt. M. H. Parsons, the Army Coast. Artillery officer who is superin- tendent of the park police, explained that similar helmets are in use in Mary- land, Virginia and other communities. Motor-cycle men testify that it is ex- tremely cold riding after midnight in Rock Creek Park and Potomac Park, and they welcome the helmet. ‘While the park police do not antici- te any disturbance of a major nature Washington’s parks, they have now laid in a store of tear gas apparatus calculated to quell mobs. This consists of two-gas “billies.” 38-caliber gas shells and tear gas bombs. Capt, Parsons declared that their use entalls no harmtul after effects, but will subdue crowds without force of arms or clubs, Tear bombs have been used by the metropolitan police in gambling raids here with good effect, he said. —_— Experiments are under way in Ital with the use of the rotor principle g the pwlsltm of aircraft, the rotors bel led with for buoyancy. US. TIKES ONCREDEY ! ROYAL TIRE SYS TEM 5 Minutes By Your Watch Opens A Charge Account. Bring’ Your Auto Registration Card. 2250 Sherman Ave. aify nse of Cuticura Soap Sold Everywhero 35e. oach S —— BLOOD PRESSURE! Do you have difficulty in breath. ing, headaches, dizziness, heart palpitation? Are you easily tired —lack vitality? These are serious symptoms —they may point to over - burdened kidneys and a poisoned system, which puts you in danger of High Blood Pressure or Bright's Dise: Mountain Valley Mineral Water from Hot Springs, Arkansas, has assisted thousands back to health. This natural aid to relief is prescribed by physicians in the treatment of High Blood Pressure. You use Mountain Valley Water at home just as you would at Hot Springs, Arkansas. Phone for additional information and booklet. You have ing to gain. Mountain Valley Water Co. #12 Colorado Bldg Fhone Metropolitan 1062 TRADE MARK | . 1 REGISTERED Collection of and Carpets in particular an unusual number extra large carpets. 25th, 26th, 27th and ch Day. whliog P. M. Each Evening being sold by order of a and represents examples | weaving districts of the ‘| is building there his early American THE EVENING FORD ASSEWBLIG COLONAL VILAGE Magnate Brings Relics of Past Days to Dearborn Collection. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, December 14—A twen- tieth century traveler chancing into a village under construction near Dear- born, Mich., would probably feel much as did the Connecticut Yankee when he burst in upon King Arthur's Court. Within sight of the most modern in- | dustrial center in the world Henry Ford village, where everything is to be as| things were a hundred years or more !ago. One may peek through a window and see a woman by the hearth at a| niddy-noddy spinning wheel. She will | be in the costume of another age of AmeRcan history, and the furniture of | the house will be the envy of collectors. Museum to Edison. Here industries will be carried on “with the same tools and devices as when the Middle West was the American frontier. Mr. Ford, whose reputation as a collector is well known, has gathered from New England, Maryland and Virginia and what was the Wi STAR, WASHINGTON, ern frontier the objects to form a living icture of 'S progress. pA feature of the village is to be the Edison Museum, & permanent rec- ord for the world of the achievements of Thomas Alva Edison, from his lend Henry.” The museum includes experimental laboratory - of Edison, chased by Ford and transferred to Dearborn. Edi- son also participated in the corner- stone ceremony marking the first actyal work on the museum. On a column of concrete he walked over the still wet surface, Jleaving his footprints, and drove Luther Burbank's spade into the biock to remain. The spawe, a part of Ford's collection, in its new location links the work of two of the most important contributors to American science. ‘The museum. & model of Independ- ence Hall in Philadelphia, will contain the models of Edison’s inventions, his notes written during experiments and the tools with which he worked. Inns to Be Brought. Near the village the inventor is to be further commemorated in the repro- duction of Menlo Park, the Httle place in New Jersey where he first amazed the world with electric lights and work- ed out the phonograph and moving picture. But the colonial village will be as interesting as the Edison section of the 125-acre project. It is expected that buildings purchased by Ford in many sections of the country will be brought to Dearborn and reassembled. There are to be old inns, such as’the Way- side Inn of storied fame, now owned by Ford, and old windmills, Life will be lived actually in the colonial fashion, and people ‘will earn their livings by the performance of tasks in the manner of another age. D. .C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 19%9.° The “village smithy” will stand beneath ‘spreading chestnut tree” and show youn‘tmrlu how men used to do with brawn what machinery does todsy. COMMUNITY CHEST SEEN AS MODERNIZED CHARITY Age-01d Spirit in Twentieth Cen- tury Guise Pointed Out by Elwood Street. Elwood Street, director of the Com- munity Chest, last night told the Lay- men’s League of All Souls’ Unitarian Church that “social work as practiced by the agencies which make up the Community Chest is the age-old spirit of charity in modern guise.” “We have found, however,” sald Mr. Street, “that these agencies cannot be effective if -each goes at its work by itself. We have learned that we must have co-operation and teamwork if these agencles are to work effectively and economically and serve the com- munity adequately. “The consequence of our seeing the community as a whole and of our reali- zation of the need of unity in social planning and action has been the cre- atlon of our Council of Social Agencies for effective planning and for the im- provement of methods and of the Com- munity Chest as a means of joint finance with resultant economy in money raising and efficlency in money spending.” Speeding cars are stopped at the will of the driver t] clocks,” new substitutes fo instantly h “wheel Lis OWN Licc STORY 9.9 8 crew. BIGINS IN THIS PAPLR MONDAY ELBRUARY 25% . . UT*of a storm-lashed sea in 1926, there:flashed’ the;terse; dramatic ;story of Captain‘Fried’s.daring}rescue{ofithe freighter “Antinoe ‘weeks ago, he thrilled the world by battling, a;roaring: westerly;galejto save the crew;of’ the foundering “Florida.” Yet, in all' the acclaim; honor and fame millions have heaped upon him, little has been told of the gallanticaptain’stlife.” Again only.a few, Now, in:this outstanding autobiography of the:year, he tells the story of his remark- able career:. why heiwent to'sea:.. . his exciting:experiencestastheiclimbed’ to sucs cess;... .- histviewsyand_observations: opope.the inspiring story of a man ‘who made his) dreams ‘of . romance, adventure:and accom- plishment on the bounding seasicome,true. It is told in:27 chapters, oneaofiwhi,:h;will appear:dailysbeginning{Februaryi25. TELLS 7HY MUSE SPEASNG TOEA Scientist Explodes Belief Pitch Depends Wholly on Frequency of Vibration. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 14—An ex- planation why music is pleasing to the ear has been found, as far as possibly it can be discovered, by Dr. Harvey Fletcher, member of the technical staff of Bell Telephone Laboratcries. This is in the manner that the ear sorts out vibrations after they pass into its interior for delivery to the auditory nerves. The ear does not translate the sound vibrations exactly as received, but registers them in accord with a system of its own. Most music, transmitted as received, probably would not be as pleas- ing as it is under this arrangement. New Pitch Knowledge. Knowledge of this system came part- ly from Dr. Pleicher’s discovery that musical pitch is not what for many years it was supposed to be. The belief was that pitch depended wholly upon the frequency of vibration. Thus, mid- . dle C in the musical scale was supposed An Associated Press Feature for he Foening Staf. to be produced only by vibrations at about 250 a second. In all musical notes there are other harmonic vibrations besides the funda- mental, and these harmonics have high- er vibration frequencies, Experimenting with middle C, Dr. Fletoher removed the harmonics of lower pitch, until there remained only the harmonics above a frequency of 600. But still the pitch stayed at that of middle C. The pitches of other musical notes remained con- stant under similar tests. Sounds Are Traced. ‘Tracing these sounds into the ear, Dr. Fletcher found that there is a modu- lating effect in the middle ear, which transmits to the inner ear stimulations quite different from those impressed upon the outer ear. The inner receiving part of the vibrations that are harmonics of a given pitch, vibrates at all or at most of the points which would vibrate if it received the full tone. ‘These inner ear vibrations pass to the auditory nerves as sound. So the sound heard is determined by the manner of vibration of this inner ear, and a sound which sets harmonic points in the inner ear vibrating is heard as the sound of that pitch, even when some of the es- sential vibrations belonging to the pitch are missing at the sound's point.of | origin. Union Jack Appears on Eggs. ‘To identify egp laid in England or Wales, all such hen fruit being stamped with a silhouette of Great Brit- ain, with a Union Jack, in & circle, and the inscription “Produce of Eng- land and Wales.” The plan is part of a national marketing scheme which has just been started, and nearly 150 egg associations are co-operating. * Matchmaking Mabvil. | There Has Just been put /into opera- tion in an English match-making fac- tory a new machine capable of making 24,000,000 matches in an ordinary work- ing day. 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