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been carried to the other side, to descend upon land or ice on the North American quarter, of Andree will doubtless tell this story fully, and will probably establish the fact that no Polar “discovery” was effected. . The little' island upon which Andree, Frankel and Strindberg perished eould easily have been reached from Spits- bergen for their rescue if word had come of their plight. But there was in 1897 no means of communication. Had the Andree equipment included a radio such as that which Byrd carried on his South Polar Expedition there would have been no tragedy. The balloon in all likelihood descended on or near the island shortly after the start, perhaps within a week. The last word positively known to have come from Andree was dispatched about twelve hours after the start and re- ported “all well.” The wind, which had borne them northward from Danes Island, the base, apparently had not | then changed. Evidently it soon after- | ward shifted to an easterly direction. The first rescue expedition set out d in November, four months after the fed To It ar ot JhNarwied ied: | Start, but no trace was found. Hag the Tescuers gone straight to White Island, g ¢ géi’ifi'iu!‘-&fifi*?n :-. which even at that late season was within reach, the ht Tax Reduction and Politios. R ey Jauna the three men alive and saved them. 1t is impossible, at least it is unwise, But it was not to be. ' Not for thirty- to predict now what the ‘state of the three years were the pitiful proofs of Nation’s finances will be next Decem- | their fate to be discovered. Three brave ber, when Congress must decide vlhot.h-l men sacrificed themselves to science, er conditions warrant & continuation and without contributing anything to of the oné per tent reduction on the | knowledge of the region they sought to normal income tax rates voted last year, | explore. They were, however, pioneers This, in brief, i the sense of the|in Polar flight, and though their effort statements issued yesterday afternoon|Was ineffectual it presaged later achieve- by President Hoover and Secretary| ments in adventures by air over the Mellon. The statements were primarily | ends of the earth, designed to offset the pessimistic tone ST ST B ©f newspaper-articles appearing Thurs- The New Tariff Chairman, day afternoon and yesterday morning| Although at first blush the appoint- in which it was set forth that if any|ment of a high-tariff Pennsylvanian as hope could now be found for continued | chairman of the United States Tariff Ccmmission suggests inflexibility rather than otherwise in administration of the Hawley-Smoot law, Henry P. Fletcher brings'to the post a unique background. One of the country’s most experienced career diplomats, President Hoover emphasizes his long and meri- torfous service abroad and his intimate knowledge of international economics. After all, the tariff is both a foreign E [HE EVENING STAR "WASHINGTON, D. O b S SR S RS A THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor AR P SRS S The Evening Star per Company SRR, " g0c per month ! Rate Sta “"u"m month et SATURDAY. ....August 23, lml Rate Mall—Payable in Advarce. “Aryhld n’: Virginia, Elli an ’Illndl!. 75+ $10.00: 1 o, y only ERE IR Other States and Canada. 2 e Ay Onus Member ".& the Associated Press. - o m‘. ,D. is exclusively entitled was Neither the President nor Mr. Mellon s willing to promise tax reduction now. The best that either can say is that predictions at this date are premature. #ix weeks can be attributed. in part at Seast, to the advanced imports that were rushed to the country ahead of | and a domestic affair. The flexible new tarf law. In estimates con-|Plan, by which rates are to be ad-| 8épleted revenue, upor. which |Justed in case of need, is essentially pessimistic news dispatches were |concerned with competitive conditions account has been taken of | Overseas. Few Americans have en- from foreign debt interest|Joved Mr. Fletcher's first-hand oppor- which shquld aggregate about | tunities for knowing what these con- / moF of the savings repre. | ditions are. in éxpenditures appro- 1t was twenty-eight years ago when he Congress, now set at | entered the diplomatic service, which he, the administra- | W8S destined to adorn almost uninter- heavily .on ruptedly for a quarter of a century. Mr, with plans Fletcher served successively in Cuba, China, Portugal, Chile, Mexico, Luxem- burg, Belgium and Italy. Between the tax reduction MmUst | 4ive he was Ambassador to Mexico and later at Brussels and Rome he was Un- the situation | o cretary of State In Washington. In that post he had close and constant however, than the economic fac- | “"" to reduce taxes or in.|duestions which impinge upon our taxes is capitalized by foreign relations. Mr. Fletcher is a No had Mr, | Latin American specialist, speaking published than | SPanish' fluently in consequence of his of Tennessee delivered an | Many years of service on both sides the evi) | Of the Isthmus. In 1923 he was chair- trying to make political cap- man of the Fifth Pan American Con- non-partisan affairs as tax | ference at Santiago. In 1928-29 he other words, Mr. Hull im- | #ccompanied President-elect Hoover on E!gl i ! g & gEE H i | i | 2 E 4431 i : ! ] i g E 2 22 L2 ) stre for something tangible as an To & grest many pecple—perhaps with & more highly cultivated ear for music—the sounds of the. mechanized music that is delivered from metal mouthpieces and discs in leu of imme- diately preseut performers are unpleas- ant. That they are more agreeable, or rather less disagreeable than when the sound films were introduced, is not any particular solace. They may, indeed, be eventually brought to the point of per- fection, but in the meantime much suf- fering will be inflicted, and many peo- ple will be driven from the places of require & very great improvement in the quality of the film plays to overcome this handicap. Possibly jhis is all evolutionary, a transition of public enter lent from direct presentation to one hundred per cent indirect. The latter may be the fate of the stage. If 50, humanity will !have lost something fine and precious and gained little, if anything. Perhaps humanity is evolving likewise. If so, it is not in truth advaneing. o Under the Mat. Hiding the front-door key under the | mat is still practiced. Only recently & felonious - entrance was made to a Washington home by a burglar who was put to no more trouble than pick up & key from beneath the doormat, An old and foolish tradition has put the seal of its approval upon this '“hldinl" place, evidently. It descends | in the direct line from the quiet village days, when there were few ecrooked gentlemen at large. Then it was feasible—nay, sensible— for one to put the door key underneath the mat, so that other members of the household might enter at will. Just why the door itself was not left open is & matter for conjecture. Times have changed, however, since the idyllic days of horsehair sofas, bug- gles and George Ade-fables, Clever gentry who would not stick at using automatics to effect an entrance laugh up both sleeves at city folk who have no more gumption than to rely on antiquated methods. If one must leave a key—and dupli~ cates may be secured for as little as taeunty-five cents each—it would seem only the part of a rudimentary wisdom to secrete them in flower boxes, or even hang them on a nail by the latch. Often such plain places are overlooked. But beneath the mat—never! e “Sparks flew” at the Institute of Public Affairs, held at the University of Virginia, recently, according to the correspondents, when Norman Thomas, esteemed Socialist, and Martin Insull, electric power magnate, clashed on the political philosophies of big business. Is it possible that these writers had some thought about one side being safely “insullated” but did not quite dare come out with it? ————— ‘The last survivor of the Monitor- Merrimac fight has died, aged 91. It is hoped he will get a royal reception from the ‘crews of the Victory, the Bonhomme Richard, Old Ironsides and the Long Serpent. R SRR Maine States singles champlonship. He should change the spblithg’ of name slightly to Rockefeller; they never lose i 5 political capital out of the latter's pre-inaugural trip of good the President, in Mr. | ¥ill to Central and South America. , is in difficulties be- Mr. Fletcher has a chance to render party made | truly_eminent service as head of the 1 out of tax reductions| TWFHf Commission. It has been the ‘Somebody from Republi- proczaimed ampition of more than one mwmmwmmmmmumnuu cccasion and politically capitalise | tAFIff out of politics” It is partic- 's views on political capitaliza- | UATIY the expressed purpose of the mmmmmfilflmhmflmnhm of President’s state- | the provisions of the recently enacted law that its acknowledged inequalities muwmwhl'rmdwtul strictly non-partisan basis. The flexible provision was inserted and modified for that definite object. Though it has been in the tariff law for the past eight years, it remained more honored in the breach than in the observance. President Hoover is formally pledged to put teeth into the flexible clause, Henry P. Fletcher of Pennsylvania is the dentologist chosen to direct the execution of the President's will It is destined to become & major opera- 'm ‘The country wishes him well in fluent | iy performance. ——— vt Sydney Franklin reappears in the Ho, hum! Bobby Jones acquires an-|arena and kills two bulls, but is jeered other cup, the Athletics & greater lead | by the crowd because his costume of ond the Mellon interests another bank. | salmon-pink silk is not of the tradi- . tional matadorean shades. There have The North Yields Its Dead. | not been any of them yet, Spanish or foreign, quite nervy enough to wear all i Bef isgz i 1 i tter of tax reduction depends on what inspection in Decem- is elected in it H § : 5 | Voteless Cubans plan to come to ington to present their plight. If case rested with the citizens of he District they would be likely to re- ceive sympathy. Washingtonians know ) how it is here, and it is not so.good, e The Public and the Robot. “airship.” Partisanship in the dispute between covered and these, upon examination, the theater owners and the musicians is will disclose the happenings between the not necessarily involved in the evident mn(mmflnhhntmm'hm of the public for the continuance is evidence in the dispatches of “music in person” in the entertain- { far recelved that Andree and his ment-places of Washington. The aver- lived on the island for some age theater patron does not:care par- time, perhaps for several months, before ticwlarly about how many men consti- they perished from lack of food or from tute an orchestra or what they wear or the intense cold. | Whether they play on the stage or in So many years have passed since the the orchestra pit, or what they are paid. Ancree party was given up as lost that Thcse are matters of indifference which hope of ever learning the exact place affect merely the parties at direct in- of the melancholy ending of #his ad- | terest, the owners and the players. But ture had been abandoned. Many |as between what may be styled present have come from time to time of music and absent,.betveen human and finding of relics of the victims mechanical, there is a decided prefer- the North, of messages borne by car- ence. Yet in the negotiations now in wler pigeons and by vials incased in progress between the owners and the Bbuoys. One ‘somewhat circumstantial musicians’ organization this factor of story came & few years ago of the find- 'favor is apparently not being considered ing of an Eskimo who had & pistol of by the former. The reason would seem she type thought to have been carried to be that if the musicians are barred Andree and who told of getting it | from the theaters they will go out in white men who came down tmm'every one of them, and the public will sky in a | awhite house.” There be left to take what it can get in the based upon vague re- suggestions, way of entcrtainment, “robot” music from the farthest North in Can- and all. the explorers had descended This preference is somewhat more had been siain by savage rig ¢ than a matter of taste, as between the direct sounds of musical instruments would r ow seem that all these tales’ played by men in the presence of the ve been untrue. The place where the hearers and reproduced sounds reaching found ‘les in precisely the the ears of the auditors through ma- t Nansen warned Andree, ‘before his start, th~ winds would" [ HH gk chines, It is mcrg than a preference for the quality of th: “natural” music and /that of the artificial or reproduced. It 1s & preference for some present evi- ‘dence of human action jn the program ® of entertainment. It s, in short, & de- i i anything. i g SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER m‘ N. Superabundance. ‘When your troubles you're relating In a tone that's all severe, You will find nobody waiting Your remarks to ar. ‘You may think them worth ntfvn&!n(. As you seek to make them known, But your friends no heed are lending; ‘They have troubles of their own. If your moods are acrobatic Or you hit & comic style Or develop thoughts erratic, ‘They may greet you with a smile. But it’s all a different matter 1If you seek to heave a sigh. The demand for hard-luck chatter Never equals the supply. Spectacular Effect. “Was that man ever a lobbyist?” “He may have been,” replied Senator Sorghum. “He had & way of saying ‘Good morning, Senator,’ in a confi- dential tone that was calculated to give & casual observer an idea that we were quietly discussing matters of great im- portance.” Musical Appreciation. “I suppose you will buy your talented son a Stradivarius?” “Yes,” replied Mrs. Cumrox. | one instrument at a time. At present he is learning to play.the violin.” Permanent Demand. “Reform!” 'Tis sure to make a hit 1f worked with proper skill. This world has always needed it, And maybe always will. Always Obliging. “Don’t you use & great many canned vegetables?” asked the new guest, diffidently. “Yes,” replied Farmer Corntossal, “just as & matter of accommodation. The Summer boarders need the tin cans to carry fishin' worms in.” Disclosed by Cards. “You're sure they are mismated?” “There is no doubt of it,” replied Miss Cayenne, “She is an expert at bridge ‘ and he is a champion pinochle player.” Out of View, Where is the Summer girl of yore? Of fluffs and frills we sing no more. So startling is her fashion book That—Lonest—we're afraid to look! “De man dat goes around wif a chip on his shoulder,” said Uncle Eben, “don’t get along near as well as de one dat's willin' to go a lttle further an‘ tote a bundle of firewood.” ———————— And on Roller Bearin, Prom the Philadeiphia Evening Bullet Return of *5,000 : big Ohlo roller-be dication that the wheel beginning to turn again. e ———— 1 Vital to America. Prom the New York Times. ‘There ?nll‘nlndunry polar entertainment on that account. It will | ™} Perry Rockafellow receritly lost the | recogn! “But, | & BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. One good thing about growing old is that one’s feet stop growing. The shoe problem is solved for life. “Give me size 6 and % C,” one says, or_whatever it may be. 3t is the same at 30 years as at 30, the same at 40 as at 30, and no doubt will be the same at 100 if one is lucky enough to get there. People often say, “Oh, I wouldn’t want to live to be that old!” but why 2 It depends uj the ion of two things, & m‘r’i?us mind and an in- telligent one. One may possess a mind and also be curious, but if the mind is not intelli- gent and if the curiosity is not in- uua:nz, t00, the one will indulge in peevishment and the other in carping, merely. ‘To grow up cefully, and to grow old the same way, means to be inter- ested in everything, but in none too much. * k% x Feet and shoes undoubtedly have more to do with life than many would be willing to admit. To hobble through the years with feet that hurt is to suffer the tor- ments of the damned. One can put up with a great many more unpleasant things if only his feet do_not ache. Mankind's recognition of this truth is shown by the tremendous vogue dur- ing lhe..m 10 years for “health shoes” of all 3 Some go in for arch supports, some throw the toes in, some force them out, some make the walker toe straight ahead, others force him to walk on the outside of the feet. There are as many brands of these shoes as there are ers, and no doubt there are a million wearers for every manufacturer. Shoes are on_our composite feet, the national feet, for from 8 to 18 to 24 hours—in some instances—a day; some people may be said to live entirely in shoes. Some have shoe obsessions. Women often specialize on them, buying two or three pairs at a time. Their closets will be filled with shoes. They keep them in racks, in boxes, on the floor, under the bed, in the attic. * K K K Most of us haven't enough money to hldul:l our fancy, and many of us would not if we could. Those in the latter class ask nothing better than & pair of shoes that is comfortable. Given comfort, style may go hang. To ha hoes that are easy on the feet is the one practical thing. Some people are lucky—they walk into & store, put on & pair, and walk out. have- found fl‘lel'r l;loeh He‘:‘loe- forth bu & new pair of shoes is no more dt":u'lt than telephoning. They are lucky. The writer here is lucky. He has been wearing the same of shoe for a long time. In any make style, this shoe fits, and without pro- test. No corns, bunions, calluses or whatnot mar the symmetry of his hoofs. A new shoe feels like an old shoe. Being with a friend, once, in whose shoes sell for two and a times tuned the price of his, he was impor- to purchase a pair of the ex- nsive foot own‘lnr. pe“llll why should And, why should any one change his “brand” when the shoes he wears suit him from the ground up? o For truly a well fitting shoe fits that ny—nndfllmwlyl." * % x % to the subject of baldness, about which every man has & theory, there is no subject quite like feet for the amateur specialist. Bootblacks who swing a id cloth over your toes insist on that you have fallen arches, while m repair men lament with the way the heels of your old.m have run_over. “But I do not have fallen arches,” you protest. “I can and do walk fc miles every day. I walked 10 the other g;y s”nd without an ache, pain or even TN, “You have fallen arches, all right” o the hall;est“boot’_b'llck. nod- I-re points lt“ge offending foot. “If you never have any more fallen :urcryu than I do, Tom, you will get off kv, e curve is wrong here.” He m ts to an impeccable instep. be this way.” * ok k% It is not generally known that the successful ':u of shoes, and hf“: e on o y feet, depeml‘my upon knowing wgen not to_wear them, The person whose feet show no blemishes, or more serious defects, in most cases will be discovered to be one who has learned this secret. Indoors he off his shoes as much as possible, wearing comfortable slippers on all feasible occasions. This is the secret of foot health. What if some acquaintance, slipping in to catch you in slippers, frowns upon r lack of dress parade? He is an mus, and has not learned how to_live. There is no more charming feature of home than slippered feet, or, rather, the right to go in slippered feet. The feet are given a chance to breathe, which they do as surely and as_plainly as the Jungs. Who has not experienced the relief of taking off shoes and stock- ings after a hard day and permitting the feet to be exposed to the air for a time? It is better than a water bath, this air bath. and perhaps does the feet more good. Mankind’s propensity to joke about the feet has caused the neglect of these hardest working members. The result is shown in every bathing pool, espe- clally where women fail to wear bathing shoes, We were at & pool recently, and were amaged at the ugly, deformed feet ‘There is .a vell recognized, conven- tional plot for mystery or detective stories comparable in conventionality to the rope ladder and singing trouba- dou. plot in medieval love stori 8o well recognized is this ylot that it is surprising that so many people con- tinue reading samples of it indefinitely. ‘There is a particularly gruesome mur- der in the opening chapter. A famous detective is called in, and discovers .11 sorts of suspicious circumstances which the reader knows will Lave nothing to do with the murderer. The trail will grow !ot only in the last few chapters. There are several persons in the en- vironment of the victim who have not a'‘ogether exemplary pasts or who have motives for hatred which might have led to murder. These, of course, are not the murderers. There also is in the environment a sweet, Madonnalike Wo..aan, a tlv man, a devoted wile, an upright husband, lifetime friend, & philanthropist, a Sunday school teacher, or a lovely young girl. One of these is, of course, the murderer. A skilled reader of mystery stories can almost unerringly pick out the guilty person in the first or second chapter by ;:7:‘, the one :::;t likely in real life to e commi a crime. Plots for storles of Latin American revolutions are g trifle more varied, though there is c« siderable sameness about c‘gm There are always the outgoing and the in- coming dictators, with their adhering plotters. There is an archplotter, clev- erer iian all rest, who is in his turn pl tted against and betrayed. There are dungeons, blown-up railways, ht attacks on haciendas and supply stations, smuggling of secret papers, shootings from ambush, jungle scenes, false messages, and, ‘of course, & ‘woman, beautiful, scheming and not too scrupulous. * kok ok Arthur Bullard’s “Volcano” introduces many of the stage effects of the con- ventional romance of Latin American revolutions, but it has also elements of originality. Its scene is the Republic of Calboa, whose capital and harbor is Concepcion. “No ships were allowed to pass into the dock after the eves shadow of the fort of Corpus Chm stretched out across the Narrows and reached the opposite fortress ‘of the Morro on the voleanic island of Del Muerto, that all but blocked the mouth of the harbor.” Let those who wish get out an atlas and identify the place. which the women and girls displayed. On= migkt have thought they gloried in their c and other excrescences, thev displayed them so largely, as if inviting spectators to look at them. Soft rubber bathing slippers would have saved the world the sight, so again we recommend slippers. It is said that corns and other growths on the feet would disappear of themselves if the victims would go bare- footed for the necessary space of time. ‘We belleve this is true. It is difficult— nay, impossible—for the ave: person to go without shoes entirely. near- est he can get to it is the care-free | caped use of slippers dui leisure hours. ' If Wmfln“ln be omitted, too, or 80 much the better. Th ves. xfle- | Haskin, director, Washington, D. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Many readers send in questions signed only with initials, asking that the an- r in the newspaper, The ted and would not accom- modate a fraction of such requests. The answers published are ones that may interest many readers, rather than the one who asks the question only. All questions should be accompanied by the writer's name and address and 2 cents in coln or stamps for reply. Send your question to The Evening Star Information Bureau, mder‘l:c Q. Can blind people be taught to swim?—D. C. M. A. It can and is being done. It is necessary to explain what is to be done, then let them feel the strokes as they are demonstrated. Othe instruction is the same as with pupils who can see. Q. Please publish a description of the Japanese beetie, which is causing such havoc.—A. W. E. A. The adult Japanese beetle is about three-eighths of an inch in length and about the same in width. It is bright metallic green in color, with coppery brown wings. Q. What Dmrrflcn of the cultivated jand in Brazil is given over to coffee? A. One-third. In Sao Paulo about 58 per cent is under coffee. Sao Paulo has become the richest and most pow- .:‘h::l politically of all the Brasiljan s Q. ‘Was Disra Jew?—P. J. D. A. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Bea- consfield and prime minister of Eng- land, was of Jewish birth. His father, [ rwise | District of Q. How are navel Oranges propa- gated?—C. S. A. The original seedless oranges were' produced in Brazil by means of budding mdflmmn'cummmhmm United States all descended two imported Brazilian trees. Buds or bud- ding sticks are taken from seedless orange trees in Spring or Fall and in- serted in 2-year-old seedling orange trees of ordinary type. When the buds send out shoots the seedlings are cut J.| back so that only the budding portions | develop. Q. 'Where is Southeastern Univer- corporate name of the Young Association College of the Columbia has recently been changed to Southeastern University. Q is the water level higher than usual in Lake Ontario when the sou;l‘try is suffering from drought?—F. A. The Army Engineer Corps says that the water level of Lake Ontario is considerably. higher than usual this Summer on account of heavy precipi- tation in Lakes Superior and Huron last year and the year before. It ordi- narily takes from one to two years for the surplus water in the upper lakes to reach Lake Ontario. Q. Who said “God reigns and the lo‘ovemment at Washington still lives” ?— 20 A. James A. Garfleld used this ex- pression in addressing & crowd from the balcony of the New Yofk Customs House following the death of Abraham Lincoln. Q, What is the population of India?— however, Isaac Disraeli, left the syna- | % gogue during the early childhood of his_illustrious son and Benjamin Dis- raell from his early youth was a devout member of the English Church. Q. How many rural mail routes are there?—C. C. P. A. There were in operation June 30, 1929, 43,840 mail routes, which were served by 43,724 carriers. Q. Where is the apostrophe placed in the phrase, “Neds and Marys house”?— A H N A. It is correctly expressed “Ned and Mary’s house.” If each has a house the phrase would read, “Ned’s and Mary's houses.” Q. Will a concrete road blow up un- C'arles, Benton, innocent, but not -3 in ocent rs he locks, lands at Concep- cion on.a mission which looks very suspicious to him and would have mw no one but & man at the e..d of resources. His troubles begin iumediately, and he finds himself locked up in the court room of the Alcaldia and later pacing back and forth in a dungeon of the Morro, sur- veying with, horror the instruments of torture with whiech it is furnished. Clever as Benton is, he is something of # muddler and would never have es- from the sadistic Enrico, son of the dictator, .if it had not been for his Haltian servant, Leon, with the timely assistance of an eruption of the volcano Del Muerto. He has abundant oppors is gl tically all the benefit of bare feet, if the slippers are soft . ‘The bare- legged fad of women be ex- tended to include the feet. Hawks’ Flight Brings Nearer Regular Coast-to-Coast Trip Development of reliability in motors an.. consistent performance by pilots is ized by the press in its apprecia tion of the new transcontinental speed record of ~apt. Frank Hawks. of a little more than 12 hours from coast to coast is accepted as bringing nearer regular commercial transporta- tion on safe planes over this route from breakfast. to. dinner. “The latest flight,” according to the Pittsburgh Post ~az .13, “reveal sistency in machine and man which, at the time, say when Curtiss amazed the' country by flying from Alb. 1 t0 , would have been regarc 1 New York, X ing of airplanes air tion can be made: more than reasonably safe. +Japt. H: xs” comments the New York Sun, “bettered the transconti- record by 2 hours and 20 min- utes. What other records he better 1 the statisticlans of aeronautics will fig- ure out. T d.'ails are important and interesting, but the facts which will most impress the popular understanding are embodied in the sturdiness of his plane, the power of its engine, the accuracy of its instruments, the ef- clency of the service rendered to it and the command of his exacting profession by Frank M. Hawks.” “Two years ago,” remarks the Cleve- land News, “the people of the Nation would have enthusiastically acclaimed the accomplishment. Today they nod itel - and go about their business. uth of the matter is that the speed and endurance of the airplanes are to- day accepted facts, not subjects for amazed specula’ “n.” Gazette says of the significance of the record: “At ‘the spzed he maintained it would be possible to fly across the United States and the Atlantic Ocean as well within . period of 24 hours. That is approximately one-third the distance around the world. A rate 0.’ two or three times as great would en- akl: an aviator to follow the sun aroun the earth in a perpetual midday ract Of course, such a trip is still well ouf side the bounds of practical endeavor, but it is not unreasonable to expect it will be brought into the realms of pos- sibility by the perfection of airplanes d airplane equipment within the next few years.” * kKo “Most citizens dismiss the matter with a brief word of comment.” declares the Schenectady Gazette, while stating that “g generation ago thc 1an who prophe- sled one would be able to have break- fast in San Francisco and dinner the same day in New York would have been looked upon as & fit subject for observa- tion by mental specialists.” “Tremendous progress that has been made by the airplane—a progress that is more marked every year,” is hailed by the San PFrancisco Chronicle with J{the tribute to Capt. Hawks that he hs “demonstrated the tremendous speed of the plane of the day.” The Cincinnati Times-f-~ off rs the conclusion: ting Hawks' statement that this ter- lr ce was only cruising speed for { his plane, there is no reason to doubt that the record from the Pacific to the {Aulnm: will soon be lowered, presum- ably by him, to 10 hours. This is truly amagzing progress, even in that spzc- tacular world of aviation, where .50 ecords have been tumbling Intely.” “Nothing seems impossible in the air,” comments the Lexington Leader, pre- dicting that ‘“other planes, yet more speedy, will be built and other pilots will eross the continent ‘n eight hours, perhaps in six.” The La Crosse Tribune s ‘,%w winged spirit of progress that makes America not satisfied to rest on past accomplishments—the winged cour- ac which cends her out again and again.” The® Hayerhill Gazette lons “gelestial _exploration, toward which man must eventually aspire and for which he must bulld machines of in- credible rfll able to contend with un- | challen; forces.” g *E % The achlevements on the record, in opinion of umeenrk lunl':.c ‘The Kalamazo0 | su heavier-than-air machines.” The Mor- gantown Dominion-News avers that 9 er and commercial Havks. In the air,” pa. per, “it can be accomplished without adding to the normal hazard of discom- fort of ngers. Only perfection of engine dependability is involved.” The San Anton! io ress qu as believing * t t & tronscontinental air transport service on a 12-hour schedule could ° : operated in a way to assure safety for all concerned and flwt; { feed taken wings," remarks the Roanoke Wofld-rmn. pointing out that “the time for trans- continental travel has been reduced to & matter of hours where only a few years ago it was days, and before the railronds & matter of weeks and months.” The Altoona Mirro: com- pares the speed with that of ‘"ie early, days of the pioneers when it sometimes took adventurers t-aveling from the country’s Eastern coast to the margin of the Pacific Ocean fully two years to complete the journey.” ) Says Airships Can Cross Ocean on 2-Day Schedules Prom the Jackson Oitizen Patriot. Alrships capable of carrying 100 pas- sengers and 10 tons of mail could cross the Atlantic on a regular schedule of two days for the Eastward trip and two and a half days for the Westward flight, according to Sir Dennistoun Burney, designer of the R-100. He asked Can- ada_the other day to co-operate with land immediately’ in establishing ch s passenger line, suggesting prompt 50 as to get ahead of Dr. Hugo Eckener, who is' organizing a ‘line for regular commercial flights between Ger- many and the United States. As a result, is is possible that rival airship lines may wage as intensive a campaign for passenger business in the skies as the opposing steamship com- les are now conducting for the héavy trade on the seas. L ‘The R-100 and the Graf Zeppelin have nwceuful.li demonstrated the practica- bility of safely conveying pussengers long distances by airship at a speed far in mhlvl of the fastest Atlantic steam- ships. Atlantic in 55 hours minutes, The R-100 took 78 hours 51 minutes, but was delayed by a storm. That people are now ready to embark for long voy- ages at airports rather than from rail- way stations and steamship piers has been amply proved by the popularity of networks of air lines over Europe. ‘Whenever the world comes to a new service, the forthcoming. It is Germany and England sought to gain supremacy of oeeuhm:lna steamship passenger service. Millions of dollars were invested in luxurious vessels of which 25 are insured at the present time for $5,000,000 or more each. Fares are not” likely to be excessive when once the air lines are well estab- lished. Airplanes have not had the suc- cess of dirigibles in flights between the New World and the Old World, but the airplanes are rapidly the favor of the traveling coming down. Dirigibles offering e comfort and luxurywk;:em‘n '1.;;. ‘mankind l::e likely soon leav! airports and North Ame: for flights m.xmem not through, moun waves, and often far above the storms, and another long step will have been taken in the conquest of the air. - Veteran of Hundred Wars. From the Loulsville Times. China has the distinction of being only country in the world where it possible for a middle-aged native to & veteran of a hundred and is be Marathon Dance Experience. "::. the 3: ‘Wayne News-Sentinel. ybe t American boy who slept through the Ttalian earthquake has had nce as & marathon dancer, s Conditions Improving. Prom the Little Rock Arkansas Democraf. be improving. Folk Todks Are e withe out & otes the airmen | tom, ‘The Graf kp?:lin crossed the | ey only recently that |shi lic, and rates are|ijon tunity to discover that the Caribbean Development Co., by which he has been sent . out to grow oranges on jungle land, is merely a blind for a group of criminal adventurers who are buried treasure and securities on the land of the former dictator, Ricardo. Benton is the decoy to draw the atten- tion of the present dictator, Jimenes, hile the adventurers land in a cove near the Hacienda Ricardo, equipped with a wrinkled, 'zellow sketch map, and make away with the treasure. Ben- ton’s fate is, of course, a matter of in- difference to every cne. are several very tense, dra- matic scenes in “Voizano” One is a night visit through t ¢ jungle of Ben- ton and Leon to the hut of the voodoo fllruu under a gia..t ironwood tree. thither by the ing of the tom- ), they find the wiz:ned old negress awaiting them on a rustic throne at the foot of the tree. They witness the sacrifice of a red and a white rooster, and then the charming of the sacred snake from its bandbox by a half-witted Negro girl, who dances wildly about in d'?r intense heat from the sun?—E. . G A. The Bureau of Standards says that concrete does not blow up. Concrete, however, as well as practically every other material, expands with an in- cresse in temperature, On a very hot day, under & sun with no clouds in the sky, concrete roads will become very vuu:' and expand to a considerable exi e design of the road to accommodate this is called Wmm""t"m“ led, ent “al e point where it has been raised in the alr, The more cement that has been used per unit yolume of concrete the greater Con- be expansion, crete also changes its volume due to changes in water content. Drying out causes %’ and wetting causes expansion. built roads provide for this expansion and contraction. Q. What was Germany’s loss in men during the World War?—M. C. A, Germany lost 1,611,104 soldlers by death during the World War, The total number of German casualties, including wounded, prisoners and m\uh\&, WaS 6,066,769 out of a total mobilization of 11,000,000. 'A. It is 340,000,000. ‘This almost equals the combined population of North America, South America and Africa, Q. Are freight trains ever a mile lonAg‘:';‘c. c'frei any ight trains are now a mile in length. Q. How many natural bridges are there in the United States?—W. F, A. There are more than 50 natural bridges of considerable size and interest. Q. Who wrote the words to the song “Anchors Aweigh' N. A. A. The words, with the exception of the last stanza, were written by Comdr. A. H. Miles, then a midshipman. The last stanza was written by Midshipman R. Lovell, class of 1926. Q. How old is the Nebraska State Journal?—H. 8. A. The daily Journal began publica- tion on July 20, 1870-—more than 80 years ago. It had been published three years prior as a weekly. Q. Do Brazil nuts grow on trees?— If meens are not taken in the (G. M. A. Brazil nuts do grow on trees. The tree is quite tall and the nuts n clusters of 18 to 24, borne cl ins d, very hard capsule. Q. Why is a guinea worth 21 shil- lings?—G. A. P. A. A guihea is an English gold coln Fas b0 called 4nd was et sHuLK. OBt was 80 and was it el pass for , but the inferiority of t.hemni-im eoi:n it '= never worth less than 21 shillings and from 1717 on had the fixed value of 21 shillings. Q. Is goiter more common among men or women?—F, L. A. Goiter occurs muth more fre- quently among women. High]ights on the fide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands L MERCURIO, Santiago.— The mayor of Santiago has sent out a circular letter to all his. sub- ordinates and to all department heads instructing them to for- bid demonstrations arranged in - their & trance with the snake coiled about her. Reassured by the ceremony, Leon sets forth bravely on the desperate en- terprise before them. “But now that he (Benton) was out of the closeness and heat of that mystery house, tlie clear alr of the night about him, sweet and clean, he felt a little less enthralled. Of course, he did not believe in this mumble-jumble. It ‘was hypnotism or trickery.” But it was obvious that the effect on Leon had been very real. His confidence was exuberant. Once’ twice he stopped and pounded his friend and master on the back. “It couldn't have been better. Now we are safe. ‘We are both friends of the snake.” The climax of the romance is the eruption of the voicano Del Muerto. By a queer concatenation of circumstances, iton Lumpley, chief crook, of the Caribbean Development Co.; the devilish Enrico and - the fascinating C.rmen Ricardo, beloved of Benton, are all immured in & dunecon of the Morro when the n.ost terrible eruption of Del Muerto ever known occurs. ‘“The rock heart of the mountain ground and groaned deafen- ingly. A lurid glare, as though all the sky was aflame, led in the narrow windows. For a moment the rending contortions continued, then the earth ioises ceased. Silence—the dreag silence_of fear—held all the world in awe. From outside there came, faintly, shrill shrieks of terror. * * * Thenh the v 3t shock of all. The solid stome floor danced and jerked beneath them. ‘There was a roar like the explosion of & vast munition dump. Benton w: hurled violently from his cot. Lump- ley, who had been standing up, was tossed as far as his leg chain would allow, Carmen was thrown full length the T aving floor. * * * Above them there was deafening impact. ‘There was the rending of masonry—as cloth ripped. The whole outer wall of their prison crumpled and fell with a resounding splash into the Narrows— pe “ed off sheer from the living rock.” * K % X Volume I of the new “Encyclopaedia of the Social Scierces,” blhh:(“”dur- the past Winter under the editor- of Edwin R. A. Seligman and Alvin .{ohmon. runs r-ly t rough the word “allegianc..” There are many volumes to follow. The publishers’ announce- mer’ of the ground to be covered by the encyclopaedia includes anthropol- ogy, economics, education, hmy.orw. philosophy, political science, psychology, social work, soclology, statistics. Prof. £ ligman in the introduction defines the soclal sciences as those “which deal with the activities of the individual as & member of a p." The classifica- of the soclal sciences includes “the purely soclal sclences; the semi- sclences and the sciences with social implications.” It see: s as if all human 1 owledge must:fall under this very broad classification. What about the soc'al implications of household chem- istry ancC medicine? And mechanics and cominercial arithmetic? The ar- ticles on alimony, sentee ownership, academic acclimatization, adojescence. adutera: | tem among the | QU tion and adult education are most interesting. * ok kW Twenty-five countries and more® than a hundred authors contribute i. the volume “Great Sea Stories of All Na- gon‘:. edl;ed wnhAlnhl?tMu;flfin by . M. Tomlinson, Aeschylus and, Homer of dyu contribu course, among and are b7 no mear.. the least interest- | ling stories. tions bt pk&n to strengthen their popularity with their supe: “sent voting, ab- d honor by the rank and file of their respective bureaus. The mayor points ut that, while co-operation and good are necessary ts in the functioning of effective city government, this attitude should not be develo) in excess, There have been too fre- quenuy'nlhmn of theu-nplcyu of m chiefs and - them with a specles of Ad\lhunnh’mnfnre y deserved by any of these officials. Such demonstra- are felt, no doubt, by the’ em- rs and fo retain them securely in their positions. Such servile laudation and donation of presenis are exhibitions' not only unnecessary, but | frequently _detrimental to the best achievements of the mun! govern- ment, Such actions savor of nepotism and patronage, which impair both the 1oy, Heads of depart- . Heads of also are forbidden by this or« der to circulate petitions or blanks to be filled up with lists of their adher- ents to be used at elections or in other ways to fortify them in the retention of their posts. * ok w % Humans Intended’ to Eat Flesh of . Certain .Animals. Malay States producing a quantity slightly larger. Inasmuch, however, as the tin of Bolivia is located in mountains of this metal, its supply I8 . practically inexhaustible, but the les~ sened demand and the diminution el consumption will exercise a radical check upon further production. The new P. M. G. metal can be used for all the for, and for P it is new uses for if the price is ever to former level when tin was the chief ex- port of Bollvia to the United States and tries. Otherwise the tin any other Bolivian commodities can be shi) to customers in Europe and North America. The chief need of Bolivia to solve her El Nuevo Diarip, Caracas.—The latest | ghnntuy to seize upon this ill-fated ity the fad of vegetarianism. Disciples of this cult are a veritable horror to.all the butchers and, rs of it The idea that abstinence from flesh any form rendefs a man more spiritual and holy has recently gained much credence, and thousands of people are sustaining themselves on the fruits of the field and orchard. The victims of this fatal appetite are to be seen in every quarter of the city and, from letters and information we have re- celved, are still silent proofs of the un- desirability of the regimen to which they are at present addicted. Both the teeth of mankind and the injunctions in the Scriptures attest the fact thaf we were all intended to eat the flesh of certain animals. Indeed, many of them have no other purpose in exist- ing, and their races would long since have become extinct except for man's pagation of them for this purpose. Koll hoped that current exponents of this vogue will soon in their sanity along with a bal diet of meat, vegetables and fruits, all of which Heaven wisely provided for our sus- tenance and enjoyment. * ok ok X Eight Political Agitators Held by Police. the age walks and gardens by element in_the course of their demon- | {! strations. It is estimated that the cost oring these areas to misfortune. They awal Fonentary. entary to the authors. The women in books whom most men would prefer to marry are those who wait without complaint and who suffer with: ing to blame. t man, for in- stance, would not go to the altar with Solvels or Griselidis? Prison Rules Ignored And 4 Lives Are Saved Recent XS, | keepers. me: ng drowning when the boat in which on the they were taking a pleasure trij Hudson becam o r. Ins e filled with wal