Evening Star Newspaper, September 14, 1930, Page 18

B—2 » ELABORATE WATER SUPPLY PLANS LAID Report Warns New Sources Must Be Found for Nearby Areas. BY DONALD A. CRAIG, While Washington and the adjacent | sections of Maryland and Virginia are | still suffering, directly or indirectly from the disastrous effects of the worst drought in the history of this region, & special report, drafted by representa- tives of the Federal Government and these two States, sounds a warning that the time has now arrived when serious attention must be given to finding new squrces for water supply, or making effective use of sources already pplying water to Washington and its virons. | Although the committee makes it elear that there is no immediate dan- ger of a water shortage in this section, and probably will not be for some years, it believes t no time should be lost in preparing for conditions that must surely be met. 8o important does this subject ap- in the minds of the committee~ men that already a preliminary study of the subject has been made and sug- estions have been submitted to the ational Capital Park and Planning Commission for increasing the water supply of the District of Columbia; Montgomery and Prince Georges Cou ties, in Maryland, and Arlington Coun- ity, and Fairfax Coun- i Facts Made Public by Grant. Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of the National Capital Park and Plan- Commission, at whose suggestion Great Falls of the Potomac, where the river is tapped for Washington's water supply. falls, maintains a water level to feed into the great conduit which carries water to the Dalecarlia reservoir. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 14, CRAMTON 10 ASK OFFICIAL RECOUNT Defeated Candidate Says One Error in Each Precinct Would Change Race. By the Associated Press. LAPER, dry leader, announced today that he would ask for a recount of the vote in the seventh congressional district in last Tuesday’s primary election in which he lost in the race for the Republican nomination to Jesse P. Wolcott, Port Huron luomefn In & formal statement outlining his reasons for asking the recount, Repre- sentative Chamton said his purpose is to develop the truth rather than to win the nomination.” An official canvass of the vote.in the six counties in the district, completed yesterday, showed that Wolcott won the nomination by 102 votes. The Port Huron attorney as one of the planks in his platform the submission of the prohibition question to a refer- endum. Representative Cramton pointed out in his statement that the total vote in the seventh district was 51,404, that there are nearly 200 voting places in the district and that if an average of one error per precinct was made in tabulating the vote, the result of the election could be changed. “Under these circumstances,” he said, “it is not necessary to charge or believe fraud or intentional mistake has_occurred.” ‘The recount will be sought in all six Mich,, September 13.—Rep- | resentative Louis C. Cramton, House | A dam, located near these|counties of the district. Representa- tive Cramton declared that “while 1930—PART ONE. ° To Address Ad Club 4 MISS OLIVE SMITH Of the Amos Parrish organization, New York, will be guest speaker of the Ad- vertising Club of Washington Tuesday afternoon at 12:30 o'clock in the Na- tional Press Club. Miss Smith is held in high esteem by department and specialty store executives. there were majorities against me in only two counties, and a recount in those counties only would seem likely to benefit me, my purpose is to develop the truth rather than win the nomi- nation.” Motor Cars Lose Power. BOGOTA, Colombia (#)—Automobile engines lose 25 per cent of their power when they reach the great savannah on which this capital is built. The rarified air of the high altitude is given as the reason. RITCHIEISURGED 10 CALL ASSEMBLY ‘Mary|and Drought Loss Set| at $37,000,000, Half of Average Crop Value. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. | NORBECK, Md, September 15.— Gov. Albert C. Ritchle was urged yes- | { terday at a meeting of the Manor Club | | of the Western Maryland Farm Bureau | officers and county extension workers |to call a special session of the Mary- | land General Assembly to consider an | appropriation for drought relief. | | The request took the form of a reso-| lution and will be forwarded to the State Farm Bureau for approval be-| fore it is sent to the Governor. | ‘The meeting yesterday was devoted | } almost entirely to & survey of the dam- age done throughout the State by the | drought, which has lasted since early Spring, and discussion of relief meas- | ures, Loss Set at $37,000,000. | The loss in Maryland so far, directly attributable to the lack of rain, was set at $37,000,000, or approximately half | | the average value of crops. The real seriousness of the situation, however, was seen in the acute shortage of feed for live stock. It was said that this shortage will not make itself felt to the fullest ex- tent until Winter sets in and that it will continue for two years, since the grass, clover and timothy planted this year, which should furnish the fodder | Tor next year, has been parched and | destroyed "by ' the heat and aridity. There will be more hay this Winter than next, acoording to the consensus of the meeting. The farm experts classify the farmers of the State in three groups. The first, containing about 50 per cent of the to- tal number, consisted of those who were able to underwrite their own loss. The second group, about 35 per cent, were those with sufficient credit to enable them to continue farming, while the last group, about 15 per cent of the farmers, were those with no credit. Varied Classes Affected. ‘This latter group, it was pointed out, either will be forced out of business Shis Winter and will have to take up another profession or they will become objects of charity. The 15 per cent who face almost in- evitable bankruptcy, in the absence of some - governmental relief, the Farm Bureau officials declared, are for tho most part tenant fermers, small - pendent operators and proprietors of large establishments who have been going on small capital and much cerdit. At the present time, it was brought out, there is sufficient feed for the live stock, but the farmers are using the fodder they normally would have re- served for the Winter months. When the Winter feeding period commences in the middle of October this supply will have been exhausted in many cases and feed will haye to be bought from other sections of the country. Cold Storage Co. in New Hands. WINCHESTER, Va., September 13 (Special) —The Berkeley Springs Ice & Cold Storage Co., Berkeley Springs, ‘W. Va., has been sold to Harry C. War- den, Berryville, Va.; J. Ashby Sprint, ‘Winchester, and J. F. Wilson, Martins- burg, W. Va. it was announced here today. Warden is to be president; Sprint, vice president, and Wilson, sec- retary-treasurer of the corporation. The plant, formerly known as the Morgan Contuy Cold Storage Co., has a storage capacity of 65,000 barrels. London's street cars have had, in the last five years, a net surplus of nearly $1,100,000 & year. pply Committee was formed, made public yesterday the main facts of the committee's prelimi- DAry Te| 3 Col. Grant served as chairman of this Water Supply Committee. He ex- ained that he does not desire to alarm residents of this section with prophesies of & ahoru.&:ent water in the near future, but he want to call sharp attention to the fact that the normal inorease in the population of the metropolitan area of Washington compels the responsible authorities to move without delay. It is the opinion of the committee that more water must be found for the adjacent sections Import;il_at Planet Coniing Tiny Eros, Which Will Move Very Near to Earth, Will Provide Astronomers of World With *Yard- stick” for Measuring Entire Solar System. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Far out in space the tiny planet, Eros, ‘Washington and at least within the next 50 years. He and the Army eer officers, who are attached to the Wasl n area, Te- 0 that it takes years to plan and establish & new or improved water sys- tem, are not letting the grass grow under their feet. Maryland and Vir- ginia authorities are heartily co-op- erating. ‘The Water Supply Committee, in its to the National Capi- “possibilities, of them,” as being 1z - eonu‘dmuomn: tity of water . Increase of of wa taken from the Potomac River at Great 3. Taking water from the Potomac River at Little Falls, 3. Development of reservoirs on one or more branches of the Patuxent River . Development of one or more reser- voirs on Seneca Creek, or its branches, in Maryland. 5. Development of a reservoir on Oc- Bevelopient of smali . ment of ler stres Virginia for local use. g m Committee on Water Supply. ‘The Committee on the Water Sup- ply Problems of the Washington Region —+to use its full and official name—con- sists of representatives of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, the United States Engineers’ Office, the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the Alexandria Water Co., the City Manager of Alexandria, the Maryland-National Capital Pl‘x'k and Possible Arrangements. ‘Three or more possible arrengements have been considered by the commit- . ‘The “more promising” are: 1. Maryland, Virginia and the Dis- m of Columbia to proceed independ- ntly. “2. Joint action by these three au- thorities to draw water from the Po- tomac River at Great Falls, . The District of Columbia and 25 2t present frogn the o e Potomac River; Mpryland and the District to join in developing the Pataxent River and Sexeca Cresk, and Virginia to supple- men:um supply from available local rate action by the different au- th::&‘u is favored by the Maryland members of the committee, by the Dis- of Columbia representatives and by the United States Engineers Office. The Arlington County members favor Joint action to draw water from the Potomac River at Great Falls for the whole region. The third possibility is not being definitely backed by any s\!llp of members on the committee, but method of adding 5o the wates supply water suppl: e committee given considerable detailed study to the various proposals that have been here briefly outlined. How they will work out will be explained later in this series of articles. “Water Service Lagging.” Attention is called by the committee to the fact that “only a small area of the total metropolitan area is now being served” It says that “water service is lagging considerably behind the urban development of new areas.” “And yet,” continues the committee in its preliminary report, “like highways, parks and other elements of planning, Water service plays a part in determin- ing the direction of urban growth.” is the first of @ series of articles are_of "special timeliness on_ac- from which suflered this They deal with the present uture water supply of Washington d_mearby portions of Maryland and iroinia and _particularly with @ pre- Hminary report of a committee, created it m of Lieut at the suggestio Col.” U. S. Grant, 3, director of the National Cap- figi Park ‘and Planning Commission which has already begun work to find more water for the increasing population of this region, of which Washinoton is the center. This which U. S. CLERK SUFFERS is moving rapidly toward the earth. Astronomers at the Naval Observatory here already are making preliminary mined observations of this moving point of light in the heavens, which, during its present visit, is expected to furnish a new ‘“yardstick of the solar system.” It will be photographed again and again by observatories scattered over the earth in a world co-operative pro- fllm sponsored by the International tronomical Union, which is expected to shed new t on*one of the most fundamental problems in astronmy. Will Enter Orbit of Mars. ‘The little mneb—n is not much more than a big lder whirling around in space—will come during January to within 16,200,000 miles of the earth. This will be the closest approach of a measurable celestial object, except for the moon, in many years. Eros will swing well within the orbit of Mars, but will stay outside the earth’s orbit. Eros is only one of a thousand odd of the earth's baby sister planets, little masses of rock moving in orbits around the sun. It is about 15 miles in di- ameter and, astronomers believe, ir- regular in figure, because of its queer habit of disapearing at certain stages of its progress. It now is a star of about the seventh magnitude—seven times less brilllant than can easily be seen with the naked eye—and when it comes closest to the earth probably can be seen with fleld glasses. It is of extreme importance to as- tronomers for two reasons. First, it comes very close to the earth. Second, 1t is so small that it can be considered 2s a mathematical point having no mass, breadth or thickness to upset cal- Sun Is Inadequate “Yardstick.” If astronomers knew the exact dis- tance of any object in the solar sys- tem they could calculate with exactness the distance of any other ob- Jject. But, it is explained at the Naval Observatory, they do not. The present yardstick, used for measuring plane- tary distances, is the space between the earth and the sun. Astronomers can determine exactly that an object in the heavens is three times as far away as the sun or one-half as far away. This can, after a fashion, be reduced to terms of error, because they do not know how many miles away the sun is. ‘The present calculated distance of the sun is 92,870,000 miles. The ac- cepted figures in the United States was calculated by Prof. Simon Newcombe, formerly of the Naval Observatory, us- ing about 200,000 observations extend- ing over approximately 250 years. Astronomers in other countries have worked out the problem with about the same results. And this figure, the astronomers say, is correct within some such trifling error as 100,000 miles. ‘They want to get rid of this error—in- significant when the extent of the heavens is considered but of vital im- portance when it occurs in the yard- stick of space. Astronomers Find Sun Too Big. Actually, the sun—one of the stars and treated as such by astronomers— is not exactly where it should be, ac- cording to Newcombe's calculations. Its mean longitude is off about one- and-a-half seconds of arf. The sun is 50 big that it makes precise astronomi- cal calculations difficult. Its radius, MODERNIZE Your hntlngephm is a home. Your AMNESIA RELAPSE By the Associsted Press. OCHATTANOGA. northeast, Washington, who is suffei from amnesia, has had a relapse an will be sent to the Veterans’ Hospital in Memphis or Augusta. American Legion officials tonight said they were making tha necessary arrangements. ‘Tenn., War Rints walked into police headquar- | ters here almost a week ago and asked ‘where he was. Sent to a hospital for observation, he was found to be suffer- ing from & complete loss of memory. During s tem) recovery on Thurs- Sk R e Aapeoss unds Thursdas. AMERICAN HEATING il 907 New York Ave. equal | very of miles, but with a rather high degree | alth depend, upon uniform tempera- ture during cold Winter months. Why not be assured of getting the maximum of comfort this Winter by in- stalling this fully guaranteed AMERICAN RADIATOR HOT WATER PLANT approximately 430,000 miles, is more than four times the probable error of the distance calculations. | The distance of Eros will be deter- | by trigonometric calculations. the known diameter of the earth as base of a triangle with the star in its apex. With the base line and two of the angles known, it will be possible to calculate the other elements | of the triangle with considerable ex- actitude. Its close approach will give a fairly large angle, compared to the almost_infinitely small angles obtained from observations of more distant heav- enly objects. ‘The astronomers hope to get the dis- tance of Eros within approximately 100 miles. This will require making observa- tions accurate within a hundredth of a second of an arc. The work at Wash- ington will continue for about six weeks, starting January 1. Observatories in the Southern Hemisphere may continue even longer. Observations made all over the world will be sent to a committee of the International Astronomical Union, who will subject them to rigid analysis, throwing out all those which are doubt- ful. Then all will be used to calculate the nearest possible correct figure. If the distance of Eros at its nearest approach can be calculated within a hundred miles, then the distance of the sun and every other object in the Solar system can be calculated with the same degree of accuracy. Most of the observation work will be photographic. ‘Will Use Third Kepler Law. The distance of Eros can be used as | s yardstick of the Solar system by sub- stituting it in the equation of the third law of Kepler, which for nearly 300 years has been the formula used by astronomers in measuring distances in the heavens. ‘The observations, it is explained at the Naval Observatory, involve consid- erable licated lure to d he' dlspe zon, and even for the temperature. Eros was discovered in 1898 by the astronomer, Witte, of Berlin, but it al- ready had passed out of its closest op- position to the earth. Thousands of observations have been made since, the orbit of the planet has been determined exactly, and its size determined. 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