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The Watchman and Southron **ttk??bea Wednesday aed Satur - day by Osteea Publishing Company, Sumter, S. C. Terms: $?.0? per annum?in advance. Adwrtiseaiettts: One JSquare, first, insertion, -_$L00 Every subsequent insertion .50 Contracts for three months or kmger will be t made at reduced rate?. AH commutations which sub serve .private interests will oe charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of re spect will -be charged for. ; J ;W0ift Stfmter Watchman was j founded in 1S50 and the True ! So?thron in 1866. The Watchman and* Southron now has the com bined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is _*nan t?ea?*r the best advertising medium in Stumter. ? " BE GENTLE. * WITH ELEC TRICITY boys, puttiisg"up aerial wires for a radio receiver, -let them fall over a high-tension electric light Tire, not thinking of the danger. The lijrht; wire was insulated, but the scraping of the radio wires b?t^^cLforth wore off the insula tion.. Suddenly there was a blind iitg flash and two boys fell to the Srouttd,, one dead and the other seTriousty shocked and burned. The falher'orfhe dead boy, running out, seised the wire and was killed. This is -the second accident of the' kmd reported lately. It i3 a reminder "of the extreme care that must .always be taken in any kind et twork -or experimentation con i?tOct^r' with electricity. Boys par^ j f?sttf&rly, in their enthusiasm for radio .as: well as for climbing light poles "and taking chances in dan gerous places, need to know some thing about yoltage and its perils, "I know about rectriciiy,*' a fvfc-yestr-old remarked proudly to his mother. "You have to be gentle with rectricity.'' He had the main ;pomt Be "gentle with electricity, and it trill be gentle-with you. BETTER BUSINESS The woman Who bad only small] s|icea of time, in which to shop for a large family glanced . with ap p^>vai ?f a fresh prece of wool homespun lying or a counter. She aid not quite dare buy it until she j had purchased, the girls' coats, lest | i? might not harmonize. Four days \ later she was back, asking for iL It was ail gone, said the saleswo man^."with a tone of finality. Three daysrTater she entered the store for something else, and {here on a rrmn^r lay a new piece of the bqmdpHSn. The remnant of the eld b%4t lay there, too, so she knew therejjia-d #een no mistake. ;Th^mc$ent may mean a little to m?C: Hut to women, the. pur chasing' agents of the; family, it isj eloquent -of the change in business , attitude in \ the last few months.; Last fall, or any time last year, had j the c?oth finally been sold out, it; would have remained so. This year, with ? no hesitation'at all, a new piece- was ordered. Last ".year . white goods were boug$jfc^s^gerly, even staples, one bolt iatu^sjjme. Any woman so . - ....^j ? ? ?- ?? ?"?' ? ?-?"?'<" adyenturoas?or old-fashioned?as 'to .-wra?t whole piece of white crepe to make up for her house hold had to wait until a piece could* be-ordered for her. . - ?-? ? ? Ko^, the saleswoman will have a pieee3*r#ught from the stockroom. ^ithojaT turning a hair. She gets one up ^very little while and sells it oUfcT.Stores are not afraid. Their cheer- Hi. being communicated to their -customers, just as their fear was. 1 UK?IPE FRriT Sunset: Magazine tells of an in vestigator of the California De partment of Agriculture who visit ed th^iinperial Valley last summer an<* i$K$?Q^<Mhat roost ?t the can taloupes being shipped were hard, unripe and tasteless. When he ask ed the-.shippers about it. they re plied, invariably tha. after five or six days on the road the melons would be ripe and ready for the market. ? The mvesrisrator made a test.. In the sftme refrigerator car he load ed crjtes of cantaloupes graded as tintipev just ripe and ever-ripe, and ihen accompanied the car on its cri>ss-countiv trip. At the end of the jorney he found the three trades in exactly the s?me'e??id?3on as fney were at the start. Th? unripe ores were unfit to eat. :- The ripe "ones, unloaded and kept for two riays in ordinary hvins^ temperature. '*\ re delicious. The dead-ripe one* 'remained good to eat for . two days and then turned^'Seft-rapitily.' He concluded that there was n > reason why a single crate-of unripe cantaloupe? should be*8hipped nut of California Surelv this eonclusi< n hokls valid for any other state, and ^ap plies, ilik^nise to l-.calshipments for a?y city market* ft: late years the selling: of fruits and vegetables .ir. an .unripe state, has become an almost universal evil. Ii/Lig cities it '3 almost 'impossible'to obtain berries or to?natoes fit to eat be cause the}- ate shipped so green that,, if: they are allowed to ripen i:i the market they have no flavor. In almost every ci;j. large or small, the eyil e.tists? t.j.d grows. Where is it po^iolo to buy canta loupes, ? atermelons. ^peaches and other delicious truifjj with the fine flavor that comes, only from being ripe when they arc picked? Kere is something to which fruit-grow ers and dealers ever^whcie should give their attention. ? ?? ? '? . NOJPOWKR TO INQUIRE One of the most curious things connected with the coal strike is the way the government's hands are tied as regards official effort to study its causes. % Some time ago the Federal Trade Commission "undertook tos gather the facta of prices, costs, produc tion, ownership, etc., in the coal in dustry. It was far such purposes that Congress had created the com mission, and in this case Congress had given it. specific authority be sides. Nevertheless the operators were able, through the Supreme I Court of the District of Columbia, I to obtain a permanent injunction '' forbidding the commission to act in the matter. ? That injunction will Stand unless it is removed by the [Supreme Court ..of the. United I States. It seems incredible that Con . gress shotild'really possess no pow , er to authorize such inquiries, as the court has held. Possibly the law is faulty. But if the power is lacking, it ought to be provided, if it takes as amendment to the constitution. Otherwise the Fed era! Trade Commission, a necessary body, potentially as important as the Interstate Commerce Commission, will never amount to. much. T&St AMERICAN RACE . Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, of the Smithr sonian institute, addressing a body of scientists recently, called the American race the infant of the human family; Physically there is yet no specifically defined Ameri can type. There are many types, each representing the European racial group from which it came. Mentally,, however, there is an American face, as clearly marked to the psychologist as the Scandi navian or Greek or Chinese would be to the ethnologist. . The American possesses an un mistakable alertness, a nervous energy, an atmosphere of intelli gence and Independence which are peculiarly his own. If there is any one inclined to feel badly because there arc no physical race characteristics, he should cheer up. There is more cause for pride in these mental and spiritual Qualities'which speak so plainly of the nation's achieve ments, ideals and opportunities. -????'? ? WOMEN IS...IS?LfllCS , Mary Garrett Hayt addressing the League of Women voters at Baltimore, frankly declared that the women wanted more offices. "There, should be Tmany more wo men legislators and congressmen," she said. "Women should have j equal part with men on party com mittees." j, . Commenting on this, the New York Wor.'i says: "Are these aspirations, in the last analysis, ma terially different from the aspira tions of Tammany or of the Phila delphia Republican machine? They too want more of their., representa tives in office, in order to give the organization greater efficiency in government. They too regard the number of representatives serving them in the legislatures and in j Congress and on party committees j as the measure of their political j efficiency." This i3 hardly fair. Women, i now half tho voters, . have been i promised a square deal in politics, j and a square deal certainly ought to [give them a good deal larger repre j sentation than they have yet ob tained in our political machinery, j They need not be deterred in their j efforts, either, by the charge of j "practical politics." That term can j mean whatever anybody wants it jto mean. It is generally recognized ! that women have pretty high polit ical ideals, and if they Can realize [those ideals in our public life by I practical means, more power to them! There are plenty of able women, j For the present, at least, the women active in public life are probably of better caliber, on the average, than are the men in public life. Where they, have .gone into office, legislative' or executive, they have .usually . improved . things. . Few dispassionate observers arc likely I to believe that they would do any worse than the men have done. They may do better. The combina tion, too, of men and women in public affairs rriay raise the stand ards ?nd efficiency of both. m ? ? AMATEUR ATHLETICS j-.? It is reported by one interested in such things that there are 3.000 young men and boys in the District of Columbia who are actively par ticipating in amateur baseball this spring. It is likely that other sports, such as golf and tennis, would show up equally well, if some one took the trouble to present the faets. What is true in Washington is no doubt true all over the country. Amateur athletics appear to be making rapid progress. The public enjoys watching professional sports as keenly as ever, but an ever in creasing proportion of citizens is taking part in the amateur coun terparts of professional games. This is as true of women as of men. The same trend is shown in the schools. Modern grade schools have gymnasiums as part of their equipment, and the younger chil dren are given better physical edu cation than they had in the days of three-minute recesses for deep breathing and stretching exercises. High schools and colleges are playing up their big inter-school contests more prominently than ever before, but at the same time they have developed a strong foundation of intramural athletics which reaches practically the en tire student personnel. This is a- thoroughly satisfactory state of affairs. The whole public is in beter health than formerly. Professional athletics can be overdone. This is rare with amateur athletics. which mean principally more healthful outdoor exercise for the average person, more wholesome recreation for mind and body and more joy brought into life through the spirit of play. .BONUS. PROSPECTS The American Legion is now en gaged in a national inquiry as to the preferences of war veterans with regard to compensation. Whatever the decision of the ma jority may be, it will carry weight ; with Congress and with the public. Results so far are somewhat re assuring as regards the state of mind of the veterans themselves and the probable effect of bonus legislation on the country. In Kansas, for example, it is found that hardly any of the men want the cash bonus. Almost every where the men are said to prefer j the paid-up insurance and home aid provisions. Accordingly, it is predicted that the measure will probably limit cash payments to $50, making no great drain on the treasury immedately. The public objections to proposed bonus measures have been based mainly on the prospect of a big bonus paid in cash or credit. There is naturally far less objection to giving the men insurance policies and aid in obtaining homes for themselves, or special privileges of settlement such as may be provid ed in a separate land reclamation bill. -? ? ? WAR THREATS. The wars have died out. but there are still armies in the field, and rumors of war persist. Every few days there is a new scare from some source or other. The diplo matic turmoil at Genoa, the differ ences between England and France, the fears of Poland and Roumania. the insolent marshalling of troops by the Soviet government, all have intensified the world's anxiety in recent days. It is all disquieting enough and lamentable enough, but it i3 not to be taken too seriously. A modern degree of preparedness is wise, no doubt, in every country that can afford if. but there is no need of panic. The nations are discontent ed and resentful and quarrelsome, but not bellicose. The psychology of Europe today is not a war psy chology. Statesmen may bluster, but it is evident to any careful ob server that the nations do not want to fight. The nations are all democratic now. and they know well enough who do the lighting in warfare and what it means to (hem. The people of every belligerent country have had enough fighting, and tin- peo ple of every neutral country have seen enough of it. They are not eager any more to kill and be kill ed. They know the hollowness of the old catchwords with which statesmen charmed millions to war fury. They know the hollowness and futilty. of war itself. The statesmen know, too. They understand now how little can be gained from victory and how much can be lost in defeat. They know that there are literally no victors of the last war, and that another war would leave evenSess possibil ity of gain, in indemnities or ex tension of empire. If the nations fight, therefore, they will fight in sheer malice, to destroy each, other; and they arc. hardly so insane as to attmept it. The real struggle is for economic advantage by peaceful means. It may be easily seen, therefore, wherein real preparedness lies. The big game today is the laying of economic lines for reconstruc tion and future development, and it is this work with which states manship ought to be primarily con cerned rather than questions of ar mies and navies and balances of military power and punishment for past offenses. LANEY IN RACE FOR GOVERNOR Senator From Chesterfield County Endorsed by His County Convention Columbia, May 4.?Senator Geo. JLaney, of Chesterfield county, was endorsed for the governorship by his county Democratic convention last Monday, and political gossips are now devoting some of their time to this new turn in the po litical situation. Mr. Lancy has been mentioned for sometime as candidate for governor, but not before this has anything in the way of a public announcement come from him. The convention's en dorsement is taken as indication that he intends to offer for the chleft magistracy. ' v BEVERIDGE HAS 18,000 LEAD Progressive Candidate For Senator Defeats Harry S. New Indianapolis, May 4.?Returns from additional precincts received from Tuesday's primary* senatorial race only served to inccase the lead of Albert J.,Beveridge over Senator Harry S. New. Beveridge':- major ity is 18.000. All Republican con gressional incumbents contending for renomination were victorious. In the Democratic congressional campaign eleven of the thirteen districts have been decided. . Last of Chippcwas Dead Sault Ste. Marie. Mich., April 2S. ?Peter Waiska. the last of the Waiskas, proudest branch of the Chippewa tribe, is dead. Waiska, who was 7S, carried with him to his grave the pride of race that made his forefathers outstand ing among the variotfs Indian bands native to the Great Lakes district. His death was caused by exposure to the cold, an element at which he scoffed in former years. The Waiskas inhabited the re gion now known as Bay Mills and the Waiska river and bay district in Chippewa county when the first white missionaries pushed their way into the wilderness. The tribe, with its centuries old pride, looked with disfavor upon the white man, who came and cleared the lands, then broke them with the plow. Peter Waiska until the last main tained the same feeling of hostilty. as befitted the final survivor of his race. His friends say his melan choly increased year by year as lie saw the forest dwindle and disap 1. ear and the face of the land change from a vilderness to a manufacturing and farming dis trict. At four o'clock on the morning of his last day of life Peter walk ed alone far into the country until he reached the. forest. He sat be neath a tree and meditated upon the fate that had befallen his peo i pic. The cold finally overcame him and he sank into a slumber from which he did not awaken. Peter Waiska, born an Indian, reared an Indian and an Indian at heart until the last, except that he j had adopted the white man's re ligion, went to his last resting place, not in the forests through which he had roamed throughout his life, but in a white man's cem etery. A simple cross marks the grave. j We have a feeling that if the j world should stand at ?ho .ludgc j meat Bar just now it couldn't do j better than enter a plea of insan I ity. ? ? m -'? I if all the bills sent out on the j first of the month were placed one ion top of another, they would fill a j very* large waste basket. I Scientific terms are all right, but j none has been able to improve upon the old-fashioned description of a j "misery" in the back. l;i this glad spring season, one jean creep along country roads and eat the dust kicked up by the other i fellow's car. ?? ? ? I There are some very remarkable infant prodigies, but we have yet l?> : hear of one who voluntarily washes his ears. About the only time m small town really enjoys a scandal is when the preacher is caught holding the so prano's hand. ? ? ? When a man starts out to make :i fool ni' himself he always finds siomeone to help him. i To-day's Best Jokes and Stories i What is Sumter going to do about j a base ball team or are they go- j j ing to wait until the season is j i half over? A newspaper heading says: "May j 1st begins a week for Postal im- j provement." Thank God for that. I Come on Sun. don't be afraid to come right out and shine. There isn't anyone afraid of freck-! les and sun burn. A girl came into the office yes- j terday and says she, "Is this thej Item office?" and says we, "Well, | it ain't the New York Times." and j says she, ''Think you're smart, j don't you?" and says we, "Well? we ain't no Ben Franklin." says I we, "but we got through the gram- j mar school all right." Gracious. A wedding party was disturbed | by the crying of a baby belonging I to one of the women guests. One! of the young ladies present re-1 marked to the bridesmaids, "What a' nuisance r >ies are at a wed-! ding!" ? *T should say so," returned the latter, and added without very full consideration, "When I send out the!invitations to my wedding I shall have printed in the corner, j 'No. babies expected.' " Modern Version. Old Father Hubbard went to his ? cupboard, To"tickle his palate, that's all; In forty-eight hours, a prayer and ' flowers, Adas! It was wood alcohol. ?Practical Druggist. Poor Father. The Pastor?So God has sent you two more little brothers. Doily? Dolly (brightly).?Yes, and lie is the only one that knows where the money's coming from. I heard daddy say so.;?Practical Med. Not Serious. Jerry?Heard Mrs. Cheapskate j had an accident in the car yester- | day. Joe?Oh, it didn't amount to j much. Jerry?Neither she nor the car (hurt? I Joe?No, only a little paint; j knocked off both.?Gas Magazine, j A Case of Horse and Horse. -M. D.?I paid $10 a few days i ago to eliminate the knocking in j my machine; now it's just as bad as ever. Mechanic?Doctor, I may say \ the same of my rheumatism, which I .you treated. So we might call it square. A young colored couple were sit- j ting at the foot of the statue of liberty. Henry was holding Mandy's j hand. "Henry," said Mandy, "Docs you j all. know why dey has such small j lights on de statute of liberty?" "Ah dunno," replied Henry, "un- j 1 less it's because de less light de j i mo' liberty." In our own case, a strike would | be the triumph of a fishing hole | over duty. One of the infant republics is j talking of prohibition. Oh, well: | the good dry young. A man is old when foot comfort i seems of greater importance than tickling his vanity. Things might be worse. Suppose j some patriot should organize a fliwerite bloc in Congress. i ?? The man in the smoker who j scolds because women smoke is j the one whose pipe smells like that, i Too many people think they j I can't be their brothers keeper with- j lout putting a ring in his nose. . A prominent cartoonist errs in giving Noah a bald head. If he had been bald, the two flies never j would have survived the cruise. j ! . - About the only change in woman j is that she has learned to be the keeper of her own conscience. These warm days remind us that in a few weeks that kind of folks will be bragging about their daily baths. And yet, if all available water power was converted into electri cal energy, the coal bin would be a has-bin. And yet it must bp confessed ithat a few who belong to the Capi tal group think the Labor group \ belongs to them" . j We have a suspicion that Charon I is Offered many a fat bribe to ferry lover truck-loads of tax-free secu ! rities. News item, 1975: The movies have outgrown the notion that the efforts of an amateur to hit a golf bull are funny. _ One reason why the old-timers were hardy was tlmt mothers had no booklets entitled "Care of the ! Infant." At that, wine women and song Was ;? combination little more ob jectionable than shoe polish, flap pers and jazz. in a hmd for tax-free municipal j bonds, there is no reason why wc i shouldn't have streets paved with j gold right here. our government plane t<> live b< - vond our nu-ans again next year. - -?'They are ruining their eomplcx ' ii'iis."' says a doctor. Why. they arc : rank trie, them! TAXI MURDERERS TO BE SENTENCED Gappjns, Fox and Kirby Will Be Sentenced at Lexington Court Columbia, May 4.?Jesse Gappir? and probably C. O. Fox and S. J. Kirby, the three men now in the death house of the state peniten tiary, convicted of murder last sum mer of William' Breyell, a Colum bia taxi-driver, whose undoing caused a man-hunt over Georgia and South Carolina, will be re sentenced to the electric chair dur ing the week of May 22. when court starts in Lexington, accord ing to an announcement made to day by Solicitor T. C Callison. i who prosecuted the men. Mr. Callison stated that he will * ask Judge Devore to resentence the! men early in the first week of the Lexington court. Gappins will be resentenec?, the supreme court having rhis week dismissed his ap- i peal, which was based on the al- i legation that the clerk of court records in Lexington did not show that the grand jury which indicted j him had been sworn. This ground Of appeal the supreme court ruled! was without merit. The appeals of j Fox and Kirby have never been i perfected, though their attorneys: gave notice of appeal. The solici- I tor will ask the circuit judge at j Lexington to throw out their ap peals and sentence the men again. It is expected that. the trio will go to the electric chait sometime during the summer.' MISS M'CORMICK STILL SILENT On Reported Break in Mar riage Engagement Chicago, May 3.?Confirmation of the reported estrangement be tween Miss Mathilde McCormick, daughter of Harold McCormick. and Max Oser, her fiance and form er Swiss riding master, was refused at the McCormick home tonight. "Miss McCormick and Oser have announced their engagement; that should be enough," said Howard W. Colby, intimate friend of the family. Mr. Colby asserted that "we have decided to keep still and just let the papers print anything they want to." He added that neither himself nor anyone else was au thorized to speak for Miss McCor mick and that Miss McCormick had no statement to make at the pres ent time. "Miss Mathilde has not seen anybody today," said a statement issued from the McCormick home. She has made no statements." Mr. McCormick, who arrived to day from New York, also refused to comment on his daughter's ro mance. Persia's Troubles?Poverty. Bol shevism and Brigandage Constantinople, ?' April 3.?A se ries of battles for the possession of Tabriz, second capital of Persia, has been in progress since the Brit ish troops were withdrawn last year as a result of which the city has recently been taken by Lautih Khan, according to advice's receiv ed here from Teheran. Lautih Khan was commander of the Per sian gendarmerie forces in the region of Urmia. He set his troops in movement against the Teheran government on the ground that they had not been paid for five months. His forces surrounded the Persian Cossacks and Armenian battalion at Sherefl.ane and dis armed them and 'some of the pris oners joined his ranks. With an army of 10.000 men Lautih Khan then organized an expedition against Tarbriz which was defended by the Shah's loyal Cossacks and Persian gendarmes commanded by Swedish officers. Overcomin?r their resistance, he made a triumphal entry in Tam briz, occupied all public buildings and issued a manifesto to the peo ple proclaiming his intention to work for and assure the prosperity and independence of Persia. The Shah's governor and his assistant in Tabriz have been arrested and tried by Lautih's courtmartial. Lack of money to pay the troops and gendarmes, Bolshevik propa ganda and brigandage appear to be the causes of most of the revolu tionary movements in Persia, say the Teheran advices. If ever we learn to understand the language of monkeys, we'll probably discover that they object to the Darwinian theory also. When a man drops dead in Phil adelphia they don't blame him a \ bit. . \ ? m ? # i A bachelor's main troubles are i that he has no wife lo blame for I them. j If variety is the spice <>f life the ? weather man's life is all spice. - i Wmidcr what a bald-headed man i thinks about while shaving? -*~?~0 j Be friendly with the people you j know. If it wasn't for them you ! would be a total stranger. -? m 9 Among those too busy for a va cation bootleggers b-ad the list. -? ? v This ghost sc< n by a prominent race horse man was probably not Il ling but the ghost of a chance. if everybody stopped smoking cigarettes whom would they bum : them from? It's rather dangerous, these days to make a speech praising "the laws ot" the la mi." People may suspect that you're a bootlegger._ hT)() quickly relieves Colds, Constipation. Biliousness and Headaches. A Fine Tonic. MEASURING DISTANCE BY RADIO POSSIBLE Wireless is Making the World Smaller and Smaller Each Day Washington. April 22 ?-"How far is Paris. London. Berlin? "The man in the street and the geography class answer in miles to day," say a bulletin issued from the j Washington. D. C. headquarters of i the National Geographic Society i ."But in a year or even a fe i months, the answers may come ii , o,uarter-turns of a little black knob. "For radio is affecting geogra >1 y as it is affecting many other It- v If you can hear voices and m .e and perhaps even the hum of J ; f tic in the streets .of a distant i y, that city must straightway ie j much of its remoteness. The World's Longest Radio V a *s. "Even today when radio ? phony is in its infancy and o telegraphy is merely a slightly ler er brother, our own country se ins to be shrinking rapidly, and nations seem to be gravitating closer to- I gether. It is as though Europe 1 and America, and presently, the j other continents, were being towed j toward ^ne another by tightening! hawsers of ether waves. The cap-1 : stan points for these ethereal ca- j feles?the great radio telegraph sta tions?take on a new geographic interest. "Wave lengths are not an in fallable index to the power of a radio station nor to its sending range, but they indicate compara | tive strength at least roughly. The i station which of all those in the world now regularly uses the longest waves?23,000 meters or approximately 14 miles?is near Bordeaux, France. It is the La Fayette Station, built by the Unit ed States navy to facilitate Ameri ca's part in the world war. and since sold to France. This station { which until recently was unchal Icnged as the world's most power ful station, sends its telegraphic messages with ease?and practical ly instantaneously, of course?over the 4,000 miles of water and land i that separate Bordeaux from Wash ington: and it has been heard oc casionally in French Indo China, 6,000 miles to the east. "Lafayette's title to first place is now challenged by a commercial ' station recently opened on Long I Island, which, if it is not yet more I powerful, will be when additional i units are added. This station {sends on the second longest wave j in use, 19.004) meters or nearly 12 j miles, and is employed for trar.s ! mitting messages to Germany, j about 4.000 miles away. : Conimuirioates Over 5.000 Miles, j "Although the United States j Navy's station at Annapolis, Md., Iis assigned a wave of 17,145 me 'te'rs (roughly 10 1-2 miles), the ! third longest in use. it is easily one I of the world's most powerful sta I tions. - For that matter, so is the j navy station at Cavite, Philippine 'Islands, operating on 13.900 me ! ters. The navy depends on the Annapolis station? which is oper ated, incidentally, by remote con trol by means of keys in the navy building in ? Wahington?to trans | mit messages day in and day out (over a radius of about 5.500 miles. I This range includes the extreme ! eastern end of the Mediterranean I Sea, and the same territory can j also be reached from the opposite I direction by the Philippine station. "The United States navy has } the most complete system of high } power land stations for radio tele ' graphy of all naval establishments. [Southward of the great Annapolis j station it has among its larger ] units the sending plant at Cayey. j Porto Rico, using a 10.510 meter i wave, and another at Balboa. Ca ! nal Zone, sending on 10.110 mo i ters. The eastern portion of the i Pacific is covered from the conti j nent by a station at San Diego, Cal j ifornia and another on Puget ? Sound. The former uses waves of ; 9.SOU meters and the latter of 7, I 100. In the Hawaiian Islands the j navy has two sending stations, one using 11,500 meters and the other 8,87."). On Guam is a naval sta tion which sends on 9,145 meters; and finally, in ,the Philippines is the 13,900 meter station which com pletes the navy's band of radio stations around the world. In prac tically no place where its ships are ! likely to cruise will they be out of I range of dots and dashes from one ?or more of the navy's sending sta tions. British Jumps Shorter, "The British navy does' not maintain a system of land station.-; j of its own but uses those of thfe i British postoffice. These postal [stations practically encircle the [ earth, but-they do so- in ?much .smaller 'jumps* than those of th^ United States navy, and therefore I use less powerful stations. "Of the twelve longest wave sta ! tions which follow Annapohs," seven I are in the United States or its ter i ritories. They are commercial sta I tions at Baxtiegat, X. J.. 16,800 me i ters; St. James, Long Island. !<", 465; Kohuku. Hawaiian Islands. 16,300: and Tuckerton, X. J:, 15; 900; the navy station at Cavitc, P. I.; and commercial stations at New Brunswick. X. J., 13,600 me ters and Bolinas. Ca!.. 13.310 me ters. The live foreign stations hi this group are British stations- ac Leafield, near Oxford, England. 15.500 meters: and Carnarvon, j Wales. 14.400 meters: a Dutch sta tion in Java, 15,(500 meters: a Japanese station at Iwaki; 15,000 meters; and a French station at Xantes, France. 13,800 meters. 'There are only seven other im portant long distance stations using waves of 11,0 00 meters or more. They are Abu - Zabul, near Cairo, Egypt, 13.300 meters; Xauen, Ger many. 12.60 0: Lyons, France, 12, 500: Stavengcr, Xorway, 12,000; Marion. Mass.. 11.620; a station on the west coast of India, 11,200; and Rome, 11,0 00. "The United States array has i numerous sending'stations at its forts and posts scattered over the United States which operate on ; wave lengtlis from a few hundred to 10,000 meters. 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