The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 06, 1922, Page PAGE 2, Image 2
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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
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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.
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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.
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. 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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-?'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. . \
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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.
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i Wmidcr what a bald-headed man
i thinks about while shaving?
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j Be friendly with the people you
j know. If it wasn't for them you
! would be a total stranger.
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Among those too busy for a va
cation bootleggers b-ad the list.
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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._
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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. The Postoffice
department at its several stations,
sends on waves for the most part
between 1.000 and. 4,000 meteis
long."
Why are all these men idle?
! Aren't there a fe-w more streets
where perfectly good paving can
be torn up and replaced?
Frankly, our ambition is to tour
Europe as a celebrity and get paid
for telling folks over there what
we think of 'em.
? ? i? - ? -
It isn't the cost of a pair of white
shoes, it's the upkeep.
Strongest crop reported so far is
onions.
The year 1929 will be a great day
'for those Texans who have caught
the seven-year itch. "
Fine thing about a 16-year
flapper is she will outgrow it
3 ears from now when she is 2-5
4
In the annual race between
weeds and vegetables the weeds are
leading by a few inche?.
Suppose the man who committed
350 bu"glaries for his wife had
been this man with 13 wives?
Why is it that some man with
real knowledge of the facts always
has to butt in and spoil the con
versation ?
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