Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1929, Page 102

- = L TIHIE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, - SEPTEMB Camera mounted at rear of plane for taking oblique pictures of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, golf course. —is best adapted for such aerial survey opera- tions, while standard mapping cameras which reproguce the maximum detalls at the specified altitudes are the most desirable phetographic equipment. toward the earth through an pro- vided for that purpcse in the bottom of the fuselage. These vertical pictures lack perspec- tive and present what appear to be flat sur- will aggregate more than $100,000,000. It wiil be the standard yardstick of this country’s to- pography. New railroad systems, highways, mines, irrigation projects and other engineer- ing enterprises can be planned directly from this huge map and its ramifications without any re-surveys. It also is the repository of in- valuable information for golf course architeets. Um SAM provides topographic maps of any section of the land ares surveyed at small costs to either public or private agencies. Maj. Newman has secured all the topographic data used in laying out five golf courses from the air from Geological Survey. With the es- sential air pictures and mosaics at hand as sup- plements to this topographical information, Ma}. Newman makes short work of laying out a new links. However, the commercial'golf course architect will have to master a knowledge of flying and the correct interpretation of aerial pietures before he will be qualified to follow in this cavalryman’s traeks. A prominent Chicago landscape architect is supervising all the plantings and landscaping of the grounds at the Army, Navy and Marine Corps sports center without ever having see: that club. Maj. Newman submitted a plethora of air pictures and topographic information to this specialist. These data were so complete that a personal visit to the elub was unneces- sary. Notwithstanding, the property will be ‘one of the most beautifully landscaped in this latitude when the planting campeaign is com- pleted finally. The development program includes two 18- hole golf courses, an ample battery of temnis courts, & large outdoor natatorium, a spacious fiying fleid, so that military and naval birdmen may fly to and from their exercise engage- ments, as well as two polo fields, where & s hoped that future international matches and horse shows will be held. The Army, MNavy and Marine Corps Country Club now has meore modern belief that physical fitness is as essen- tial in the system of national defense as mental keenness and strategy. War days. Military mistakes made by Confed- erate leaders in that neighborhood prevented the capture of our National Capital by the wearers of the gray. It was during the third year of the war that Jeb Stuart led a force of 6,000 Southern cavalry to within five miles of the White House. The Union seldiers guard- ing the approaches to Washington from the South aggregated only 600 men. They fired on the scouts and vanguard eof the Confederates, the skirmish occurring near the elevated first tee of the present goif course. The Confederate outposts reported that the Yankees were present in force. After consulta- tion with his staff, Stuart decided that to ad- vance on Washington would be futile, 20 he de- toured his forces across Chain Bridge and on to Get \sburg, where one of the most critical conflicts of the campaign was fought subse- quently. The Confederates missed ome of their most golden opportunities te win and surely to have prolonged the war by this tactical error. Certain of the fortifications which once guarded Washington are still preserved as the natural hazards of golf em those historic grounds. The authorities m charge of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps Country Cluo PITY THE STRONG BY JOHN KINGSTON FINERAN Pity the strong. The weak at least have ease In plaint and in surrender; when they fall Death turns its rage to braver enemies, And they have rest, and of their little all Some crumbs and lees wherewith to make content, And of the sheer prostration of their plight A certain peace of forces wholly spent, While still the stronger men go forth to fight. 5 For strength demands its service and its use, And bears more pain, and suffers of a pride Upon its courage, that may ask no truce, Nor peace forbidden, nor an ease denied Those poor most pitiful, so made to bear The whole black burden of the world’s despair. ] ewels BY WILFRED J. FUNK Emeralds and rubies were Like little pagan gods te her. She worshiped pearls and amethysts; The tiny trinkets on her wrists ; Would clink and jingle like a bell, And she was hung like Jesebel With bracelets and dangling things, And dazsling gems, and shining rings; But when her son was at her knee It was her eyes that blinded me. Love Came To Ae BY VIRGINIA BROWN My leve came to me at sun-up, _ Like a pale cloud Trembling in the arms of dawn; My love came quite suddenly— And was gone. My love came to me at sundown, Like a soft flame Throbbing with a gift of light. My love came quite suddenly In the night . . . intend to mark every historic spot en thelr property—some 40 altogether—with appropriate monuments of stone and bronze as identification of the stirring events which occurred at that point during the Civil War. 1lliseracy Being Banished. LLITERACY, like disease, s gradually being driven out of the world. The last half cen- tury has seen a tremendous advance toward the goal of general education. The past dec- ade since the end of the World War has seen this advance greatly stimulated. A study carried on by the United States Bu- reau of Education points out much of what has been accomplished. An example of the preg- ress being made in the educational world is found in the ease of Japan. In 1872, when the code of popular education was adopted, 31 per cent of the children of school age were attend- ing schoel. This percentage was increased to 99 in 1922, 50 years later. ‘The theory that eduecation should be limited to the ruling classes was overthrown in 1900 in the Philippines, and since that time iliteracy has been decreased by some 30 per cent. The mass-education movement in China of- fers the greatest possibilities for future de- creases. The plan now being fostered does away with the classical language and replaces it with Pei-hua for literary purposes. Should this ace complish what is hoped and as many as 300, 000,000 of the Chinese now illiterate become lit- erate, the illiteracy of the woridd would be re- duced by 30 or more per cent. The effect of national boundaries produced by the World War has been to reduce the illiteracy of many European nations. Languages which were suppressed are once more a matter of pride to native people, and the education of the children has become a firmly established gove ernmental policy. In the United States, where 50 years ago the percentage of illiteracy was 20 per cent, the numbers of those who eannot read and write have been reduced to 6 per cent or less. Better Quarters for Pigs. 4 IT seems as if the man who “kept a pig in the parlor,” as the old song goes, wasn't such 8 fool after all. He may, like the man who played the phonograph while his cows were milked, have stumbled upon a secret which farmers are beginning to learn after a long campaign by Federal experts in pig raising. ‘The Hoosier swine raisers, taking their lead from the advice of the Department of Agricul- ture seientists, have turned to sanitation and changed the flithy sty of the past into decent living quarters for their stock. The results have well repaid them for their efforts. One farmer had about given up hope of ever being a successful pig raiser. It usually took him about 8 or 9 months to bring a hog up to 200 pounds and by that time the profit was all eaten up. This year, trying for the last time, but following the Government advice, he raised 39 shoats to 200 pounds in five months and five days and received for them $897, or $374 more than -his feed cost him. Others have reported similar results, with an average of $6 per pig better return than in the previous year. . If this return can be made by improving the pigs’ quarters, there i= no telling what the re- * sults of housing them in the parlor might be. e e ——————— e e e e . g o S i S ——