Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1933, Page 24

Material for this column must be in the state office, 1201 Sixteenth street, not later than the first mail on Wednesday preceding Sunday on which publication is desired. Petworth. ‘The assoclation meets April 4, at 8 p.m., preceded by an executive meeting at 7 pm. in the school. Dr. Sinclair Bowen will be the principal speaker. There will also be a musical program. Mrs. Fred Blood will preside. Stoddert. ‘The assoclation will meet at fi}e school tomorrow at 8 pm. There will be community singing, accompanied by | the Stoddert Parent-Teacher Orchestra. Oscar Kuldell will give solos, accom- panied by Mrs. Elsie Harvey Weaver. Dr. Paul J. Ewerhardt of the Child| Guldance Clinic, will speak on “Con- structive Management of Children.” The executive board met March 27. Plans are in_ progress for a school | luncheon to be held at the school April 6. Janney. The asscciation will meet April 4, at | 8 pm. The feature will be the Yale | Chronicle moving _picture, “Alexander Hamilton.” Mrs. Raymond will give a short talk on “The Educational and Cultural Advantages for Children in | Washington.” The study group con- tinues to meet alternate Wednesdays, at 1:30 pm. The next meeting will be April 12. Small children will be cared | for by the playground director. Jefferson Junior High. ‘The executive meeting will be held | April 6, in the school lunch room. The meeting will be April 11 at 8 o'clock, with the election of officers. which will Summer. continue through ‘Wheatley. Miss Susan Mellichampe. sixth grade teacher and captain of Wheatley Girl Scout Troop, anpounces that on April 21, District of Columbia Arbor day, Troop 57 will place a marker at the tree planted last year, with appropriate excreises; on April 27, the sixth birth- ness meeting and an election of patrol leaders for 1933-34: on May 11, all cards for merit badges or awards must be in the hands of the committee, signed by the proper examiner. No cards reccived after this date; on May 19, the Girl Scout Spring play will be held The proceeds will go for_trocp scholarships to the Girl Scout Camp: on May 25, troop court of awards will be held in the auditoriu:1 of Wheatley School at 3:45 pm. Al badges and awards will be made th.n, including camp scholarships. Under the supervision of Mrs. Nina | Russell, the grade mothers of the fol- lowing grades are holding teas on these respective dates:. Thursday, Mrs. Wey- rieh’s fourth grade, served from 2 to 3, vhen the children presented the play, An Arab Judge's Decision”; Mrs. Alice Brooks and Miss Susan Mellichampe's grades will serve Wednesday from 2 to | 3, presenting the “Spanish Tea"; Miss Eva Horvath's class will serve Friday from 1:30 to 2:30, presenting a “Mex- April meeting has been changed to April 24, at 7:45 p.n, in the school | auditorium. Gordon Junior High. ‘The executive board met Wednesday at 1:30 pm. The election of officers will take place at the April meeting. | Mr. Woodward, Mrs. Doudan and Mrs. | Pennington are on the Nominating Committee. Blake-Gales-Seaton. A program was given for the mem- bers of the association Monday after- noon at Seaton School. Entertainment ‘was furnished by the first grade orches- tra, directed by Miss England. “The Big Broadcast,” a play featuring fa- miliar_radio stars, Aunt Sue and Polly with Bowser, Pie Plant Pete, & piano duet, and a military tap dance were on the program, by pupils of Mrs. Moore’s sixth grade. Charles Fyfe, director of the Washington Boys’ Club, spoke about the Boys' Club. Thomson. A meeting of the association was held Thursday evening when it was an- nounced that Bundle day would be to- morrow. Dr. Belle of Southeastern University, spoke on “Comradeship.” Miss M. B. Belfield’s and Miss L. R. Hewston’s grades were awarded the attendance prizes. The fifth grade chil- dren contributed to the evening’s enter- tainment by singing a number of songs. A luncheon was held at the school March 17. Eliot Junior. ‘The Executive Committee will join the teachers at luncheon Tuesday. The monthly meeting will follow. Plans for the combined bridge, five hundred and bingo party, to be April 28, are being completed. Mrs. James Holloway, president of | the association, represented the organ- | ization at a defense conference held | at the D. A. R. Building March 31. John Quicy Adams. An executive board meeting was held Monday at the school. Merit badges | will be awarded to boys and girls of the Stamp Club, which is sponsored by the association and conducted by Mrs. Dorothy Rus. The Adolescent Study Group, under | Mrs. B. R. Wood, will meet April 5 at | 1:15 pm. A joint meeting and tea for the two groups will be held in April. Mrs. Elizabeth K. Peeples, director of the Community Center department, will speak at the meeting, April 4, at 3 pm, in the school. Bancroft. ‘The executive board met in the| teachers’ room March 28. The monthly | meeting of the association will be held April 4 at 2:30 pm. The speakers will be Miss Sibyl Baker, director of play- grounds in the District, and Mrs. J. N. Saunders, president of the District of Columbia Congress of Parents and ‘Teachers. ‘The association will give a card party at 60 M street northeast April 5 at 2 pm. Keene. The executive board will meet tomor- ican Fiesta”; while Miss Steele’s and Mrs. Mitchell's kindergartens will serve Friday from 10230 to 11:30. These af- fairs are held to allow every parent an opportunity to meet the children's teachers, day a parent-teacher pin was presented to Mrs. Bulah Kight in recognition of her work as chairman of Student Aid at_Wheatley. ‘The regular meeting of the organiza- tion will be held Tuesday at 2:30, when J. J. Crame, assistant superintendent of schools, will speak on ‘“Campaigning for the Elimination of Destructiveness.” Election of officers will be held. Under the supervision of Miss Kate Bresnahan, arts and crafts teacher, the Parent-Teacher Sewing Circle is meet- ing regularly to complete costumes for the May festival, to be held at Wheat- ley May 1. Macfarland Junior High. An executive meeting was held Mon- day evening in the school by the asso- ciation president, Maj. Ralph E. Davis. Funds were voted in support of various school activities. Plans were made for a benefit movie to be held early in April at the Colony Theater. Instructions for commencement ap- parel have been circulated among par- ents of 9-B children. Edmeonds-Maury. The executive board will meet at 2:30 pm. April 3, at Maury School. A luncheon will be held at the Edmonds School, April 5. Out of all children entering school this year in the Edmonds and Maury Schools, 31 were found to be in perfect physical condition, and blue ribbons were awarded at an assembly last week. Mrs. J. D. Denit, president, also gave each child a pink carnation. Free lunches are being served every day at the Maury School by the mothers of the association for children from both schools. Bryan. At a meeting of the association Miss Marie Moore, teacher, played the piano, and Miss Meyers, teacher, read the State president’s message. The meeting was “Fathers’ Night,” and a suprising number of fathers and mothers at- tended. Miss Martin of the Bureau of Education spoke on the “Unusual Child.” served in the housekeeping room. Mrs. Williams, Juvenile Court -air- man, gaver a report of her committee in serving Bryan week at the Juvenile Court, and Mrs. White gave a short report of Student Aid work. Monroe. “Child Guidance” was the subject of the address delivered Tuesday night by Miss Susie Quander at the meeting of the association. Reports were made by the following chairmen: Mrs. Fel- ton, Clinic Committee; Mrs. Harvey, Sewing Committee, and Mrs. Cassell, Finance Committee. Central. “Across Modern Asia by Motor” is the subject of an illustrated lecture Dr. Maynard Owen Willlams of the National Geographic Society will give at Central High School tomorrow at 8 Tow at 2 p.m. in the school. The regular o'clock at the association meeting. Army and Navy News Army. | Infantry activities of the Army and | those of the Chemical Warfare Service will be supervised by Ma). Gen. Stephen 0. Fuque, chief of Infantry, and Maj. Gen. Harry L. Gilchrist, chief of Chem- joal Warfare Service, respectively, until | May 4, under a ruling that has been made by the War Department. Both | of these general officers were tendered | their appointment as chief of Infantry | and Chemical Warfare Service arms on March 28, 1929. Both accepted their appointments that same date, as a re- sult of which their appointments as the head of these two Army branches be- | came effective as of March 28, 1929. | ‘Their appointments as the head of | these two War Department bureaus, however, were not confirmed by the | Senate until May 4, 1929. Under the ‘War Department ruling, the four-year term of both general officers will be computed from the date of the Senate’s confirmation of their nomination, viz., | May 4, 1929, which will extend their | tenure of office as chief of Infantry and chief of Chemical Warfare Service until May 4, 1933. | Lieut. Col. Thomas E. Jansen, a re- tired Army officer of the District, who has been placed on active duty for the 931 fiscal year, has assumed duty in > office of the director of the Bureau ihe Budget. | | Navy. | With the appointment of a new As- sistant Secretary of the Navy, reappoint- ment of Rear Admiral Emory S. Land as chief constructor of the Navy, and Rear Admiral Percival 8. Rossiter as surgeon general of the Navy and chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, there remains for settle- ment the key position in the Navy De- partment of chief of naval operations. Admiral William V. Pratt will continue in that office until May 1, when his suc- cessor will take over his duties. Final determination of the shift of | flag officers to and from shore duty, in- | cluding designation of the next com- mander in chief of the United States fieet and other high fleet commands, will be delayed until after the new chief of naval operations takes office. Recommendations have been under | consideration in the Navy Department, | and probably will be approved, for be- | ginning construction after June 1 of | the four destroyers, Nos. 356 to 359, which are authorized and for which initial funds are available. In view of | the fact that the four preceding de- | stroyers were assigned to navy yards for construction, the latter four will probably be placed under contract. These destroyers will be of 1,500 tons displacement. If the construction recommendations are approved, it is expected that the Navy Department will | be ready to call for bids in time to per- | | mit the giving of orders so that work | may begin on July 1, or shortly there- after. Disabled American Veterans At the last regular meeting of Rea Chapter, No. 5, Inc., the following were given the obligations by Chapter Comdr. Walter H. Colston: Sam Berlin, A. T. Skinner, Robert L. Parker, E. Ram |10 per cent preference to the ex-service | man or woman upon appointment and retention in the Federal service. | Comdr. W. H. Colston appointed Jo- | seph Idler as chairman of the Enter- talnment Committee. The president called together a num- | ber of the members last Thursday at | the home of Mrs. B. Frank Joy, vice president, and formed a study gro:x)}‘).‘ e day of the troop, there will be a busi- | awards or badges will be awarded on | At the executive board meeting Tues- | Coffee and sandwiches were | THE SUNDAY STAR, WAS D. C, APRIL 2, ing, the design for the 3-cent A was of Dutch type and was buil | of peace, April &), 1783. BY JAM:iS WALDO FAWCETT. The Stamp Club of th> Paul Junior High School is planning an exhibition | for the week following the Easter holi- | days. The Washington Philatelic So- ciety has lent some of its frames for | the purpose, and they are being set up |in the school library. John Henschell, president, is in charge of arrangements. Albert F. Kunze, leader, Washington Stamp Club of the Air, will give the second of two talks on Balboa and the discovery of the Pacific over Station WOL at 1:15 o'clock today. Next Sun- day he will discuss the Newburgh com- memorative stamp to be issued April 19. The club will sponsor a special first- day cover and cachet service for that occasion. Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock Mr. Kunze will address a meeting of teach- ters and playground directors in the Commissioners’ room of the District Building. All interetsed in the educa- tional phase of philately are invited to attend. Responding to Postmaster General Farley's request for suggestions for the improvement of the postal service, the Washington branch of the Society of | Philatelic Americans last Tuesday evening passed a resolution favoring the sale of postage due stamps to col- {lectors and the issuance cf an 18-cent | | stamp for registered mail and of a 13- cent airmail stamp. Congratulatory greetings were sent to King Fuad I of Egypt in recognition of his birthday. It was explained that the King is an enthusiastic stamp collector and that | he is responsible for the artistic stamps | now emanating from his country, | On Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock at | 1103 Vermont avenue the branch will | conduct an auction sale of 96 lots of stamps and covers, United States and foreign. A treasury of values is in- | dicated by the list of items to be| offered. The Washington Philatelic Society will meet on Wednesday evening at 8| o'clock at the Hotel Carlton, Six- teenth street. No program has been announced. A commemorative series of stamps to celebrate the centenary of v:cwna,‘ Australia, will be issued early next year. Designs are being prepared. If, as seems likely, Japan annexes | the former German island colonies | mandated to her under the Versailles | | treaty, there may be new philatelic | issues to mark the event. Collectors | | also are watching the Hitler regime in | Germany in expectation of develop-? ments which may imply new stamp | issues or overprints. | Newfoundland will have a set com- | memorating Sir Humphrey Gilbert. | They will be on sale August 3. / Nicaragua issues of 1914 have been | surcharged “Vale” and new values as | follows: 1c on 3c, light blue; lc on| 3c, light blue (1931), and 2c on 4c, dark blue. | Poland is bringing out & new series | of official stamps for department use. | Tripolitania has a set in connection | with the 1933 Trade Fair. The values and colors are: 10c, red violet; 25c, green; 30c, orange brown; 50c, violet; | 1.25L, blue; 5L plus 1L, brown, and | 10L plus 2.50L. red. Six airmails also | are available: 50c, green; 75c, carmine rose; 1L, blue; 2L plus 50c, violet; 5L plus 1L, orange brown, and 10L plus| 2.50L, black. The Boy Scout organization of Hungary is to be honored in a new stamp sponsored by that government. They already have been recognized by the same authorities on a previous oc- casion. Boy Scouts also appear on stamps of Leichtenstein and Rumania, and Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the world-wide fraternity, is represented on stamps of the Cape of Good Hope. | A new stamp is expected from Bul- garia_commemorating the birth of an elr to the throne, a little princess, | whose arrival was announced several weeks ago. Spain has a new stamp depicting the Gate of the Sun, Toledo. Portugal has brought out the tenth | annual issue of the Lisbon Geographi- cal Society stamp. The color is green. | | New envelope issues of the United States have an altered watermark with | | the date 1933, A series of cacheted post cards cele- brating events in the history of Mary- has been announced by Mrs. James H. Dorsey, 7 St. John's road, R land Park, Baltimore. The first, April | 21, will commemorate the first Mary- | land colony; the second, May 16, the building of Fort Frederick; the third, May 27, the first use of the telegraph, and the fourth, June 5, the laying of the corner stone of the first Methodist institution for higher education. Each | card will be illustrated with a photo- | graphic view and each will be appro- | priately cacheted. The price per card will be 10 cents, plus postage. Robert L. Cook, P. O. Box 795, As- bury Park, N. J., will sponsor, April 19, | a Patriots’ day cachet, to be mailed from historic places in Monmouth County. One cover free; on others a service charge of 5 cents each. The Massachusetts Cachet Society will release a set of presidential cachets, beginning with Thomas Jefferson, April 13, and James Buchanan, April 23. Those interested may write: Brayton Jones, 109 Summer avenue, Malden, Mass. Other new cachets are: April 8, anni- versary of Cortland County, N. Y., sponsored by International Airmail So- clety, 1800 W. Fayette street, Syracuse, N. Y.; April 9, centenary of first tax- | supported library in America, sponsored | by Peterborough Stamp Club, Peter- | { | | sign? LTHOUGH Washington's headquarters at Newburgh, N. Y., still is stand- stamp to be issued April 19, in com- memoration of the end of the Revolutionary War, will be taken not from a photograph, but from an old-engraving by James Smillie. ‘The house t in 1750 by Jonathan Hasbrouck. The Father of His Country was residing there when he sponsored the proclamation © an object of considerable controversy. Critics declare the design is, “unhis- torical.” Isaac R. Pennypacker, for- mer chairman of the Valley Forge Park Commission, says: “We know on the highest authority of the Episcopal Church that Washington never was known to kr in prayer.” The same scene, as repr..ented on a bronze plaque on the front of the Building in New York, shows Washing- ton wearing gloves of & kind not yet in- vented in his day. During 1930 the parcel post mail | was handled at a net loss of $15,000,000. The value of special issues of stamps to science is manifested in the series sponsored by Norway in 1925 to aid in firancing Raoul Amundsen's first flight by airplane to the North Pole. According to Karl Vieth, writing in “Die Postmark,” Vienna, there were 1,836 new stamps produced during 1932 as against 1,753 in 1931. Collectors who specialize in varieties, i. e. differences in printing caused by different accidental marks on plates, are interested at present in a report to the effect that there are specimens of the common 5-cent beacon airmail stamp available which show a strong scratch across the face of the design, running from the base of the tower downward to the word “mail.” New stamp plates used in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing during the month of February were: Numbers 21096 to 21111, all Oglethorpe commemora- tives, 400 subjects each. Plate 21108 is supposed to have been withdrawn. Plate | 21096 has a heavy dot or gash in the letter “T” of *cents” in one stamp of the upper right pane. Plate 21102 has & strong scratch on a stamp in the up- per_left pane. There are many other variations reported. The Boston Glsoe says: “A man passing a fish market in The Hague was called by a man, who, in cutting open a codfish, had found a let- ter inside the fish. The address had been all but blotted out, but the con- tents were still readable. It proved to be in Norwegian, and the conscientious fishmonger required the help of the postman to get it delivered. Presum- ably the letter had been blown from the hands of a sailor at sea, and the cod had picked it up.” Germany's naval program for 1933 starts with replacement of four 30- year-old battleships with new 10,000~ ton ‘“vest pocket” cruisers. The Deutschland will be put into commis- sion April 1, replacing the Lothringen. German navy vessels, like those of the United States, cancel mail aboard. Col- lectors of marine postmarks can count on some new cancellations. Eddie Collins, manager of the Boston Red Sox, once was an enthusiastic stamp_collector. busy to pursue the hobby and it is understood that he has delivered his albums to the care of his two sons. ‘The death is announced of Frank W. Wright of Elmira, N. Y., who was for many years a well known collector. He had served as president of the South- ern Tier Stamp Society. ‘The St. Paul Sunday Pioneer Press and Dispatch now has a stamp column. The Government Printing Office is bringing out an up-to-date edition of its pamphlet, “A Description of United States Postage Stamps and Postal Cards,” last published in 1927. Every collector should have a copy. The price is only 10 cents and orders (wrap- ped dime) may be sent to the superin- tendent of documents, G. P. O., Wash- ington, D. C. ‘The following questions, says Ralph A. Kimble, must be answered for the proper classification of a stamp: What | | kind of paper is it printed on? Is it watermarked and, if so, with what de- Is it perforated, rouletted or im- perforate? In what manner is it printed—engraved, typographed, litho- graphed or embossed? What size is it? What is its color? Does it bear a surcharge or overprint? What is its denomination or face value? In the years 1867-1878 Austria main- tained a post office on the Island of, Cyprus. Stamps of Austrian offices in Turkey were used and the postmark was “Larnacca di Cipro.” The island at that period was under Turkish rule and had no stamps of its own. ‘The 7-cent and 9-cent stamps of the George Washington Bicentennial series | of 1932 are likely to be the rarest in the set. Wise collectors are saving them. The famous dirigible Graf Zeppelin is scheduled to meke 36 trips between Europe and South America per year, be- ginning this Summer. New = stamps, overprints and postmarks are indicated. An application for a commemorative stamp to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of Brooklyn Bridge has been denied by the Post Office Depart- ment _authorities. Bridges are repre- sented on 2 stamps of the United States, 1 of Canada, 5 of Honduras, 1 of Sal- vador, 5 of Albania, 1 of Algeria, 8 of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1 of France, 3 of Greece, 1 of Lebanon, 5 of Luxem- burg, 2 of Rumania, 2 of The Saar, 1 of Somali, 6 of Syria and 3 of Turkey. George N. Thomas, writing in Stamps, says: “To my mind a clean, well con- Subtreasury | At present he is too | (Continued Prom First Page) | mestic rate of 6.3 cents in 1929 to 5.6 | cents in 1932. Three million electric refrigerators | had something to do with this increased call of the home upon the power plants; and the sales generals of power are| counting on the elecgric cooking stove, the electric water heater and other re- cently improved household liances to increase the home demand in 1933 to yet higher levels. One of the man- ufacturers has mounted a portable electric kitchen on a motor truck and it is traveling the country in an in- tensive campaign to promote home electrification. A power company in | Connecticut has adopted the novel idea of renting ranges, offering them to its customers at 30 cents a week; and in Maine a similar plan is placing electric | water ‘heaters in homes. Economic Use of Range. “An electric range can be used eco- nomically where a domestic rate of 3 cents a kilowatt hour is available,” explained L W. W. Morrow, editor of Electric World, “and in about 70 per cent of the United States such a rate | may now be had. The electric water | heater is economical at a rate of 11, cents a kilowatt hour—and in certain American cities domestic current may be had at that figure. y “The thing that will bring cheap elec- tricity is more consumption. If all the homes in America would double or treble their use of electricity the effect would be to lower the price. The aver- age electrified home is using something over 600 kilowatt hours in a year. Put an electric range in that home and you immediately add 1,500 kilowatt hours to the annual power requirements—it takes that much on the average for a year’s cooking. Then if you put in an electric water heater an additional 3,- 000 kilowatt hours a year will be re- quired to feed its coils. Thus these two appliances will multiply the home de- mand for electric energy eightfold— and with that increased load rates would go down.” But the utility strategists in many cities are faced with the problem of at- taining some reduction of rates now in order to win public acceptance of these new household units with theif heavy consuming requirements. To bring rates down, more and yet more operating efficiencies must be attained. Thus the problem rests finally on the men whose job is that of devising machines and processes and hook-ups to do a me- chanical task a bit faster than it was ever done before, a bit more econom- ically, & bit beiter. “And power is a bigger thing than the power industry,” said George A. Orrok of New York, international au- thority on power engineering, designer | and supervisor of installations. “I have | been interested in tabulating all the va- | rious prime movers or generators of | mechanical energy. They include water wheels, turbines, locomotives and other | steam engines, gasoline, oil, gas and| other internal combustion engines—a. grand total in the United States aggre- gating 1,193,000,000 horsepower.” One horsepower is rated as equiva- lent to six manpower. On this com- putation, if it were necessary to load onto human muscles the work capacity represented by the total combined me- chanical horsepower of the United States, more than 7,000,000,000 men would be needed! The world hasn't that many people. “More than half our total horse- power,” continued Mr. Orrok, “is in- stalled not in mighty waterfalls or giant steam plants, but—where do you suppose? In automobiles. The 26,000,- 000 automobiles of America aggregate 650,000,000 horsepower. The central stations of all the public power com- panies (including railroads and trolleys) total just around 50,000,000 horsepower.” Individual Power Source. About 26,000,000 horsepower is rep- resented in individual installations in factories and other industrial plants. Textile mills, chemical works, sugar re- fineries and others require steam and heat as well as electricity in their proc- esses. Many of them find it advan- tageous to operate their own boilers, pass the steam through an engine or turbine to generate power, and then to use the spent steam in their manufac- turing. Lower costs of fuels since 1929 have accelerated the tendency to de- velop small individual plants, and many factories are now ‘“‘rolling their own.” “It is an engineering fact, however,” continued Mr. Orrok, “that a steam unit of less than 50,000 kilowatt ca- pacity cannot be operated as economi- cally as larger ones, irrespective of the temporary advantage that cheap fuel may seem to give. Power will increas- ingly become a central station product. The tendency of central stations is to locate near the city or place of con- sumption and to aveid long transmis- sions of power.” “The superpower” and “giant power” programs, which were so actively to the fore six or eight years ago, have | | Florida. RESORTS. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. FOR A HAP nt Boardwalk Palm Sunday and Easter parades are almost ready to start. Join them . . . or view them from a comfortable deck chair at Chalfonte-Haddon Hall. Spend the whole of Easter week with us and bencfit not only by a change of scene, but by entertaining surroun: Cram your days full of pleas- ant hours. On the squash courts. In the game rooms, In A= MCEAEHCEAECS VANTAGE POINT 1933—PART TWO. Power Holds Great Promise posed by a tendency to decen- “As an experiment,” related z , “the whole eastern half of the United States, from Boston to Chi- cago and south to Pensacola, has been synchronized and run as one vast single system for half an hour. It does not appear that such long-distance con- nections are advantageous for actual transmission, but the use of any portion of the interconnected network is pos- sible, and sections are being called into daily service as needed.” And water power? Hydroelectric in- stallations were completed last year at Safe Harbor, Pa., on the Susquehanna t Rock Island, Wash. on the Colum- bia, with numerous smaller scattered project< in New Hampshire, Montana, Texas, Massachusetts, California and Developments now under way at Flathead, Mont., and the Diablo! project at Seattle are scheduled for | completion in 1934. Meanwhile the Federal Government is pushing its vast $165,000,000 develop- ment on_the Colorado River at Hoover Dam. This project, which will provide 1,200,000 kilowatts, was begun in 1929 to be completed in 1937, but work is already a year ahead of schedule, and there is a fair prospect now that the plant will begin to pump out its elec- tricity early in 1936. St. Lawrence Development. In the offing is the St. Lawrence River development, which is to, be financed jointly by New York State, the United States Government and Canada. New York recently reorganized its pov.er industry as a corporate agency to repre- sent its interests in the building and operating of the St. Lawrence dam and plant. The full development is esti- mated to produce 1,500,000 kilowatts, half to be allotted to Canada and half to New York—Iif the present program goes through. Another vast scheme comprehends the Columbia River, where it is said a po- tential 1,500,000 kilowatts are going to ' ‘waste. { Finally, there is Muscle Shoals, on the Tennessee River in Alabama. For been de; tralize. erected, in Newark and Schenectady, in addition to the ploneer installation at Hartford. Mercury is boiled in a closed system at 958 degrees: the mer- cury vapor turns a turbine, after which it gives up its heat to convert water into steam, and the steam is used to turn another turbine. 'The dual turbine attains an efficiency greater than any single unit. Nor is power generation confined to the vapor of boiling liquids and the weight of falling water. tion power plant in California is in- stalling a large internal combustion unit of the Diesel type—and there are | others using this kind of prime mover. In New Jersey there is a queer set- up of rotors in an open meadow—it is an experimental plant established by n: group of public utilities to test the racticability of wind power. A com- pany has been formed to utilize the 60-foot rise and_fall of the tide in Passamaquoddy Bay &8 & source of | power—and plans are awaiting govern- | A central sta- | | the sun. They were coated with & chemical that has a peculiar sensi- tivity to sunlight. A slender insulated wire led from one section of the disk and another wire from the chemically coated surface, and they were linked to a meter. As I watched, the meter's pointer swung out and out. It was measuring a current. It was & current generated in the disk by the light of our star. Sunlight was being con- verted directly into_electricity! Is the copper oxide disk a_ shadow of something that is coming? Perhaps. Of this you may be sure: The power people are experimenting with new gadgets of amazing possibilities. In- dustrial recovery may find walting in the laboratories some things undreamed of in the old philosophy. The promise of power, suggested En- ginere Orrok as he locked up bis desk, is the promise of plenty. ment permits. Atomic Power to Come. Atomic power? “We are waiting— waiting patiently—hoping—experiment- g," answered Mr. Orrok. * of those fellows who looks for a radical chane: in our power development. Steam, oil and gas will outlast my time—but the next generation may see atomic power. “There are fully 300 research men in this country today exploring the possi- bilities of “suspected new sources of power. There are at least 30 working on the idea of the primary battery. Suppose we could get 100 per cent of the heat value from coal, and turn it into electricity directly, instead of hav- ing to make the best we can indirectly of the 30 per cent that we now get? That's what these young researchers are working toward.” I remember seeing in the Westing- house research laboratories a row of small copper disks at a window facing S STEAMSHIPS, years there has been a proposal, or a series of proposals, to enlarge this power plant under Federal auspices. Despite these big projects and the 15,- 000,000 horsepower of harnessed rivers already at work in the United States and the estimated 38,000,000 yet await- ing capture, Engineer Orrok is inclined to believe that the future of power lies with steam. Nearly 60 per cent of the electric energy generated in the United States last year was the product of steam. And the largest installation made—a 320,000-kilowatt addition to the Hudson avenue station in Brooklyn | —was a steam installation. “Where you can build a hydro plant close to its ‘load,’ and on a stream that is not subject to drought, and at an initial cost not greater than an equiva- lent steam plant, then that’s the thing to do,” said Mr. Orrok. “But such sites are scarce. The initial cost of a hydro installation is, on the average, nearly double that of a steam plant. ‘Waterpower sites are rarely found in populous regions where power demand is greatest, therefore additional expense must be entaialed to provide transmis- sion lines—which may cost anywhere from $20,000 to $1,000,000 a mile. “A modern water turbine, such as those being installed at Hoover Dam, will convert 90 per cent of the energy of the falling water into power. It therefore is a very efficient prime mover. There is no possibility of ever improving its efficiency more than 10 per cent. Steam Turbine Capacity. ‘The best steam turbine, on the other hand, is able to convert into power only about 30 per cent of the heat released in the burning fuel. Thus there is op- portunity for a 70 per cent improvement | in steam efficiency—and this is one rea- son why I put faith in steam.” The fact that the electrical output | from the modern steam unit's utiliza- | tion of a pound of coal has more than | trebled in the last 12 years is evidence. Mainly it is a result of increasing both the temperature and the pressure at which the steam turbines work. Other developments are pushing into the spotlight. The publication Power recently listed half a dozen new steam improvements—one a rotating boiler | which is integral with the turbine and | spins at 3,000 revolutions a minute as | it supplies its whirling partner with a torrent of superheated steam. Another innovation, which comes from Ger- many, is a high-pressure boiler which generates its steam in a single coiled tube one and one-half miles in length. A new internal combusion engine which burns hydrogen as its fuel was recently perfected abroad. Meanwhile, in America, the mercury vapor generator has its testing period, and now two plants are being RESORTS. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. tre PY EASTER the tonic out-of-doors. Get working on the golf score. Ride on the beach. Snooze in the sun. In the hotel there's dane- ing, entertainment. And the marvelous food and comfortable room that has so much to do withmakingaholiday successful. DAILY Per Person (2 in a room In CHALFONTE In HADDON HALI Meals included. European Plan also. LOVELY FLORIDA Sailings from Baltimore u 2 MIAMI“MAGIC CITY” Radiant flowers, beautiful palms everywhere; sky and sea eous blue. est number of visitors since 1926. Miles of palm lined beach for surf bathing. 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Ask about South Pacific and South Sea Island Tours. First, Cabin, Third Class to Honolulu, Suva, Auckland, Sydney JAPAN Choice of 2 Rout : CHINA - MANILA .. Direct Express: Empress of Asia and Empress of Russia make Yokohama in 10 days. Via Honolulu: Em- pressof Japan (largest, fastest liner on Pacific) and Empress of Canada add but three days. Sailings from Vancouver and Victoria. Re- duced summer round-trip fares . . . Firstand Tourist Class. Also, Third Class to Honolulu, Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila ONLY 3 T0 4 DAYS OCEAN TO EUROPE VIA S T. LAWRENCE SEAWAY Going abroad this Spring? Write for the Canadian Pacific travel-time map. Find out the advantages of sailing from Montreal or Québec (trains to ship-side at Québec). You cross the Atlantic where it’s narrow- | seur, A. J. Ormond, Harold T. Hughes, | A past commander's button will be | borough, N. H. April 9. tribute to| tered: lightly canceled stamped is of far est. You save two full days of open-ocean. B. C. Saum and Maurice Schultz. Logan | 3. Purcell presented the applications for | membership of 14 candidates, Carl Beuchert_presented applications of 10 | and Walker Colston and James Kehoe presented Raymond Moore. ‘The chapter will have a large dele- gation in the Army day parade April 6. Federal Chapter, No. 6, held a meet- Mayor Cermak, sponsored by M. A.| Campbell, 3005 N. Clifton avenue, Chi- | cago, Ill, and April 26, surrender of Johnston to_Sherman, sponsored by L. F. Ditzel, 2100 Mount Holly street, | more worth in every way than an un- used specimen. True, the unused one is very pretty to look at, but it lacks the philatelic value of the stamp that has fulfilled the mission for which it CHALFONTE-H ADDON HALL You replace them with two interesnng days on the smooth St. Lawrence Seaway. Frequent sailingsto Britishand Continental ATLANTIC CITY ports. Empress of Britain, size-speed-SPACE marvel. Famous “Duchess” liners for smart economy. Popular “Mont-ships” for solid comfort, low cost. Attractive, low-priced Tourist and Third Class on all ships. 1 each. |ing last Wednesday evening in the art Chairman James Kehoe of the De- | galleries of the Sears, Roebick Co., 1106 partment Recruiting Committee an- ecticut avenue. Comdr. Oscar G. nounced three prizes had been offered | Jones presided and introduced National to the chapter and individual member | Comdr. Willlam Conley, who has been | obtaining the greatest number of re- | in Washington during the past week for | was issued. The canceled stamp has gone places and done things. * * * I have a fine mint set of Zeppelins that I would gladly trade for a set that had been used. The unused set are only pretty labels, nice to gaze upon, but the Baltimore, Md. Use commemoratives on packages of covers. LEEDS LIPPINCOTT COMPANY Thomas Sawchinski of Germantown, | Pa., is a stamp collector six years old. | Recently he was taken in charge by a | cruits. A loving cup has been offered by Department Comdr. Ashi to be given | to the chapter making the greatest gain, the cup to remain in the possession of the chapter which for three consecu- tive vears shows the greatest numerical gain in membership. Dr. MacNeil is offering a cup to the chapter which shows the greatest membership gain at the national convention in June. Chairman Kehoe is offering a gold membership button to the individual bringing in the largest number of re- cruits, Tha chapter indorsed the bill intro- duced by Representative Lamar Jeffers, which will give 5 and 10 per cent a series of conferences relative to the legislative reduction in veterans’ com- Ashi also spoke. Federal Chapter will hold a public meeting Friday evening in the audi- torium of the Interior Department. There will be several speakers, music. Department Comdr. Ashi requests all work to be done to call Department preference to ex-service men who served country during the war u'm 5 and National 8472, branch 141, pensation recently passed by Congress. | | National Legislative Chairman Themas | Kirby and Department Comdr. Joeeph | ‘The United States Marine Band will furnish | ex-service men and all others having Employment Officer John Arthur Shaw, policeman in the business section of | Philadelphia. The officer thought the child was lost, and, after discussing the matter at some length, Thomas agreed. “I came down town to look at some fancy South African triangles,” was his | explanation. At the police station he | regaled patrolmen and detectives with stories about stamps while awaiting the appearance of his parents. King Carol of Rumania has given orders that postal clerks when cancel- ing stamps bearing his portrait must | use care not to obliterate his features as depicted in the design. The Valley Forge stamp representing | °f George W. a% asies has been™ Tomance of crossing oceans and moun- tains hundreds of feet in the air in the company of the eagles Wwill never be theirs.” STAMP DEALER! A WISE MAN Buvs Gond Property when Others are Sell- ing. 19ih Century Stamps are Scarcer Each Year. They are Good Investmenis. My Stock Is Worth Investigating. Stemp Al- P LT S U Sy HARRY B. MASON, 918 F N.W. H. A. ROBINETTE Dealing in stamps for 30 vears. Albums wnd accessories. One of the finest stocks and possessions to be found right 809 ith St. N.W, ¥ree Price Lisyy 9. always buf consistent bhelbarne, ATLANTIC CITY Maintaining the same high standard as t with a decided revision of rates with the trend of the times ... $5 UP DAILY—$30 UP WEEKLY for large double rooms with bath (two persons), European plan. 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