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The Washington times., 1918-04-08
Kicks Against the Beeler
Suggestions
They Are Not Fair Sporty Patriotic So Let Us An On
And Help the Country Win the War
By EARL GOODWIN.

We have to take things as they
IF could magician, g wand and produce
street railway system with double the carrying capacity Of
the present pair of roads would do and everyone would
be happy.
But we have lost the magic wand and had to send
for John Beeler who is NOT magician, merely rail
road expert
am induced say this because of several letters reach
ing complaining that Mr. Beee fayors the street rail
ways and works against the pubcs interests that his plans
plain of bringing the mountain to Mahomet IN
stead of making Mahomet go to the mountain,
The congestion the street railways be relieved
two ways One method is to lay tracks and get
That viii take about two years at the shortest
Steel tracks MUCH harder to buy than diamonds
The other way to adopt the Beeler suggestions Some
of these suggestions make the railway companies work
harder make the public change its habits Some of them
admittedly methods Of adapting daily life to street
situation which has gone beyond the bounds OF human
aid To adopt these suggestions would take few days
Mr.. Beeler knows the street situation is bad
don't know how bad he thinks it Is but he expert as
have told you before Also he has made the ONLY improve
have had for several years past So, remember
that discard the Beeler suggestions for staggered hours
ton steadily growing worse and worse all the tme be-
you cannot get steel rails and The Fho
make such things either In the army making
nitions of
would be thoroughly ashamed to grumble about get
ting to work hour earlier If / thought by doing
could help win the And that's what you viii be doing
Remember that Washington is the main shop. Crowd
harder for the war work to be carried have always
believed should be treated better and should have had
cars but that CANNOT get them let's be as
complaining about the home situation In the
trenches are about THEIR conditions In respect of the Ger
murderers just ahead of them.
The Washington times., 1918-04-08

A PRIL is an excellent time
~ for evening observations
Of one of the most mys-
terious of all celestial phenomena
the Zodiacal Light On a clear
night, as soon as the twilight has
faded, careful observer may see,
il the air about his point of obser-
walton is not too much permeated
with artificial illumination, a soft,
pearly light, in shape like a slend-
er pyramid or cone, rising from
the horizon at the place of sun
set, leaning a little southwark
and sometimes reaching at least
half way to the zenith, but fading
so gradually at the edges that its
true boundaries are difficult TO
trace.
inexperienced observers, when
the Light appears unusually
bright, sometimes mistake it for
the tail OF a gigantic comet. Its
axis lies in the plane of the eclip-
tic, which is the apparent yearly
path of the sun through the sky.
In February, March and April the
ecliptic meets the western horizon
at a steep angle so that the sun
goes down almost perpendicularly
in middle latitudes and the Zodi-
acal Light streams nearly straight
upward. This is the chief reason
why the phenomenon can be bet
ter seen in the spring evenings.
On the other hand, the best time
for morning observations of the
Light is in the autumn. The
finest view | ever had of it-a
view astonishing in its beauty and
grandeur-was from the summit
of the black crater cone OF Mount
Etna, 1000 feet above sea level,
before sunrise in the early
autumn. In equatorial regions the
Light is seen extending to and be-
vond the zenith and occasionally
completely spanning the sky.
Reflections Freak.
The general explanation of the
zodiacal light is that it is due to
the reflection ofS sunlight from a
di fnse swarm, or cloud, OF meteoric
particles circling around the sun
within a leps-shaped region whose
greatest extension lies nearly in
the plane Of the ecliptic and, at
least slightly, overpasses the orbit
of the earth.
AS far as 1t goes, the evidence of
the spectroscope, analyzing the
light. supports the conclusion that
in its nature 1t is nothing more
than reflected sunlight.
Associated with the zodiaeal
light Is another phenomenon Of a
similar light, though much less
conspicuous, the Gegenschein, a
faint rounded patch o. light seen IN
The Washington times., 1918-04-08
Mysterious Zodiacal Light
Is Due
By Garrett P. Serviss.

the night sky opposite to the posi-
ton OF the sun. Unlike the zodl-
acal light, the Gegenschein is about
equally visible at all seasons OF
the year, except when its place
happens to fall in or near the
Milky Way, or when its light is
overpowered by the moon. 1t was
regarded by Prof. Newcomb as
probably an intensification of the
zodiacal light at the point where
the effect Of the reflection from the
meteorlc particles is sent back
nearly straight toward the sun.
and therefore toward the earth
lying between that point and the
sun.
The apparent size OF the Gegen'
schein varies with the acuteness OF
he observers eyes. Prof. Barnard,
who probably knows more about 1t
from personal observation than
any other astronomer. has some
times seen II about ten degrees In
diameter, although usually he finds
its diameter nearer five degrees.
Peculiar Power.
AS with all phenomena arising
beyond the limits of the earth, and
appearing in interplanetary or in
terstellar space, there is something
about the Zodiacal Light that gives
it a peculiar power over the spec
tator. Instinctively the mind rec
ognizes the .stupendous units OF
size and distance that are involved.
Surprising the light rejecting
swarm to extend a million miles
beyond the earth's orbit, and to fill
all the intervening space to the
sun, the circumference of the
lenticular region thus occupied is
not less than 590,OO0,000 miles.
The word "fill," however, should
not be understood as implying an
enormous quantity of matter or
great density. On the contrary, the
particles reflecting the sunlight
must be SO sparsely scattered that
placed in the midst Of them we
should be unaware of their aggre-
gate existence. 1t may well be,
too, that there are no solid parti-
cles, or meteors, concerned in the
phenomenon, but only, as New
comb suggested, very tenuous
gas.
With regard to the Gegenschein.
Arrhenius has made the pictur-
esque suggestion that it may be
due to a kind of cometary tail. at
tached to the earth and formed of
electrified corpuscles driven of
from the earth, and then repelled
by the sun in a long streamer, just
as occurs with a real comets tail.
This, however, seems to make nee
essary separate explanations for
the Zodiacal Light and the Gegen-
schein, while appearances strongly
2uggsst their essential identity.
The Washington times., 1918-04-08

TIE is puzzled and bewildered.
II He has tried to do every
= = thing he thinks is fair and
right, and he Is in the middle of a
deep-blue muddle. So he has writ
ten me a letter.
Letters, by the way, are charac-
ter revealing. This one is straight
forward and well expressed. 1t
shows that the writer is a man of
kindly impulses and deep affec-
tions, one who in the adjustment
Of a difficulty is willing to go two
thirds of the way to the other
persons one-third.
Family Burdens.
This is his life as he describes
it. He is a driver, and he is paid
,,ood wages. These he turns over
to hs wife, withholding only
enough for tobacco and minor ne
cessities. He gets up at five in
the morning and prepares his own
breakfast. His working hours are
ostensibly from six in the morn
ing until five in Intervening, but
five" is a mere term for any time
when he gets through-sometimes
it is eleven.
If he gets home at a normal
hour he finds his wife and baby all
dressed up and ready to go out.
His wife insists that he accompany
them on visits to friends and rela-
tives, or else take them to the mo-
ton pictures. If he demurs, be-
cause he has had an extra hard
day, there are tears and tempers.
II the quarreling is prolonged
she goes to her mothers, taking
the baby with her, and does not
return for n day or so.
He asks this question::
do you think q man who works
sometimes from fourteen to six
teen hours a day at hard labor is
ready TO go home and carry . baby
around visiting, or sit at a show,
when every muscle aches and rest
and sleep seem the only and grand
est things in the world?
81 feel like chucking up the
whole business" he goes on, land
letting her do as she likes. But,
Mrs. Woodrow, / have the grand
est little baby, and would rather
stand anything than give 1t up"
Oh, marriage, is certainly a COM
pIex affair. | wonder if his wife
Is one Of those canary-bird women,
or II she just hasn't yet looked the
facts OF life squarely In the face?
A Canary Bird.
The symbol and counterpart OF a
certain type OF woman is the ca
nary bird II is a pretty, funny, silly
little thing. quite content to hop
about In its ornamental cage and
twitter. II dreams OK ~ lnde-
The Washington times., 1918-04-08
Thoughtless Little Bird,
Sing for Hubby
By Mrs. Wilson Wo o d r w.

pendent flights, or Of seeking its
own food. or Of choosing its own
location for a nest. Its mind Is
occupied with its bath, the nsh
bone upon which it shsrpens its
bill, and such table delicacies as
chickweed and bird seed.
But the instinct Of self-preserVa-
ton, or rather self-interest, Is I'm
planted in It's tiny brain. 1t sings
for its living, and so 1t pays as II
goes. It wouldn't have the orna-
mental cage and the chlckweed II
it didn't. II wouldn't get them II
1t were not for its light and ex-
quisite song, and the cat would get
IT,
There are women who haven't
the instructive foresight OF the
canary. They want the equivalent
OF the ornamental cage and the
chickweed, etc, but they refuse
to burst into song. They nave no
idea OF the Quid pro quo.
This mans wife entered into q
business partnership with him
when she married him. His agree
ment was to make the living; hers
to expend it in maintaining their
mutual home. But what is the re-
serve capital on which they both
depend? It is the mans health.
To preserve that he requires
nourishing, well-cooked and SUI
ficient food, proper hours OF rest,
decent, clean and comfortable sur
roundings; and as health of body
depends very greatly on ease OF
mind and freedom from worry,
these are as necessary as the ma
terial comforts in keeping the
capital intact.
Just Thoughtless.
But this woman isn't thinking
about the reserve capital. She is
considerin nothing but her own
personal desires and pleasures
and vanities. She isn't even think
ing about the baby, when she
drags it from pillar TO post every
evening to the unhealthy excite
ment Of lights and voices and
people Wnen IL sHou'u Oe souhu
asleep.
A certain amount Of amusement
is necessary to all of US. Why
then does she not do her visiting
in the afternoon? A suspicion
comes to my mind that she
does. But it only serves to whet
her appetite for more.
Wake up, little sister believe,
and your husband believes, and
your baby believes that you are
really all right, with the best in
tentions in the world. although you
:eem a bit thourhtlesS and incon-
siderate. And against the belief
OF three. you know, nothing can
prevail.
The Washington times., 1918-04-08

STORE IN NEW YORK CITY.
The building in this picture occupies the entire block
between Thirty fourth and Thirty fifth streets and Fifth
avenue and Madison avenue in New York city.
On it hangs the biggest Red Gross hung
mind Americans of the international philanthropic enter
This great reminds that looking at events we
sometimes miss their meaning.
Huxley in his lecture the coal beds reminded stu
dents that would have puzzled the ancient salamander
OF the carboniferous big of belly and short OF legs
like Fasta to understand the falling of the seed from
the fern trees He could not have guessed that the falling
pollen make coal beds that would make possible the
steam engine of few million years later and thus be the
cornerstone Of civilization.
When you watch big store or big industrial enter
prise you do not always know all the meaning the real
meaning OF such an institution.
For instance some years ago in New York city man
with powerful face and strong body could be carry
ing home his little in Sixth the goods that
he to sell He bought for cash and carried the goods
home on his back.
Nobody knew much about him until he killed himself
working hard Then the country heard of the death of
Benjamin Altman Those that didn't know supposed that
he spent his life only in collecting merchandise and selling
It for profit.
his real work was gathering together merchandise in
order that the price for which he sold might make possible
the gathering together of another collection the greatest art
collection ever given by an individual to the American
public
This collection Altman, in his will gave to the people
It is now the chief treasure and great educational
force in the Metropolitan Museum in New York city
Incidentally good ideas are catching. When Michael
Friedsam who succeeds Altman head of the firm, read
the will that gave Aman's old masters to the American
public and gave his modern pictures of the Barbzon
school to his relative and heir Michael Friedsam he the
said Michael Fredsam Immediately proceeded to give the
pictures which he had just inherited to the Metropolitan
Museum gave them in the of his beneacor and
friend Benjamin Altman, with mention of his name
Friedsam.
This interesting big flag of the Red Cross organization
is Of many things that tell to Judge from the
side.
Only when is gone and the story told you
really know at what he working and what he doing
Carlyle with his close to the French Revou-
on able thinker that he could write only foolish
sense and calumny concerning its leaders They were
greater men than he but he couldn't guess it.
History represented Louis X1 as the worst King of
France-and he the best and useful King that
France ever had.
CONTINUED n Last Column)
The Washington times., 1918-04-08

A New Customer for Daniel Willard.
RAY BAKER, Director Of the Mint.
has been across the American con-
tinent sixteen times and has travelled
to Europe six times and has done
various and sundry other travelling
feats, but he IL today celebrating his
first trip on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad. having returned safe and
sound from visiting Baltimore with
the President via that line. 1t Is
believed now that others win make
the same venture
The Washington times., 1918-04-08
The Biggest Red Cross
Confined from First Cofumn.)

CONTINUED from First Cofumn)
Modern criticism looking modern commerce and In
dustry has in reality little idea Of the things that are
being produced by hard work and self denial as the sas
mander of the old carbonrous days had Of the that
the huge fern tree forest doing it dropped the dust
that to form the coal beds-to supply heat light and
power the human for civilization not to be born
for millions Of years to coma.
The Washington times., 1918-04-08
Dear MOtherland of France


By Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Copyright. 1s1s star CO.
Our motherland, dear motherland,
The source of beauty and Of art,
Who but thy children understand
The love which permeates each hearti
We see through rainbow tints of tears
Thy glory of thousand years.
o country of the great and freel
We live for thee, we live for thee,
Dear motherland Of Francel
o motherland both blithe and brsvsl
What magic lies in thy name-Francsf
Yet can thy radiant mein be grave
And stern thy ever smiling glance.
And when thy sons and daughters know
That enemies would lay thee low
And dim thy fame on land and sea,
We fight for thee-we fight for thee,
Dear motherland Of France!
Dear motherland Of Joy and mirth,
Dear motherland Of faith divine,
A thousand years the wondering earth
Has seen thy star in splendor shine.
Still shall it see that star Of France
Its splendor and its light enhance.
Dear motherland, when it need be,
We die for thee-we die for thee,
Dear motherland of Francel
The Washington times., 1918-04-08

JAMES B. GREEN. Of the Evans
building, says he saw John Crosley,
the old @. A. c. athlete director, q
year and half ago. and that he was
standing on his hands.
The Washington times., 1918-04-08

OF course. everyone understands
that the price should be 80 cents less.
But 30 cents less than what1
And, speaking Of coal, why could
not the city seii coal 70 N citizens -
It does water? And ice? q, rf
The Washington times., 1918-04-08

FRANK DOREMUS was q ST
Abans Churchgoer yesterday.
The Washington times., 1918-04-08

Have heard Q great deal Of discus
sion about the price Of coal? No one
seems to know what the price should
be. A little information as to what
price, Of the different grades Of coal
should cost the consumer would no
doubt be greatly appreciated BY most
everyone.
The Washington times., 1918-04-08
Reminiseenee:

No doubt you remember Sladss
West Washington hotel over IN
Georgetown near where Charlie
Stohlman used to sell doughnuts
and pies. Well, the foot-rail L still
there. J. d. II.
The Washington times., 1918-04-08
HEARD AND SEEN

close to death tried to got doctor
Saturday and was twenty minutes
getting central" to answer. The
service Is improving. TIE last case
of the sort l heard Of. central
didn't answer at all.
The Washington times., 1918-04-08

That Zoo Pump Handle has been
fixed? Thanks.
The Washington times., 1918-04-08

Saw MAJOR CAL oLoUGHLIN in
his new uniform yesterday.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-31
37-Cent Cotton; $2.26 Wheat

In spite of the wide protests of the
farmers the basic price of wheat for 1919
is officially fixed at S2.26 per bushel.
Unofficially the current price for cash
cotton is fixed by the spectators oil the
various cotton exchanges at 81 cents, with
free predictions that the price will go to
40 cents. Some of the less restrained
among the cotton bulls predict so cents.
We have several times drawn attention
to the curious disparity in the govern
ment policy with regard to these two
staples. AS every one knows in normal
or pre-war times when wheat averaged
around dollar bushel cotton averaged
around 10 or II cents. Since the war
opened the lowest price for wheat has
been about 90 cents, for cotton cents
In word, normal prices were in the re-
lation of about 10 to /. On this basis a
relative price for wheat would now be
about 1910 per bushel, with cotton at 81
cents. Both staples are war commodities,
cotton more than wheat 1t has been
estimated that full half or more of our
cotton crop is now being utilized directly
for the wars needs. The proportion for
wheat could scarcely be above 20 per
cent. At the prevailing price the pres
ent cotton crop will net the planters of
the South about billion dollars This is
paid by all the nation to a small section,
which pays small Federal taxes of any
kind and almost no income tax.
IF the Government hoe +;Yoo IN fv +lo
price of wheat we feel it might also con-
slider cotton. The relative price for cot
ton would be 22 cents.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-31
]. Donald Cameron

To this generation j. Donald Cameron
had become an almost forgotten name
But in his time he was very powerful
political autocrat.
When the spoils system was in full
flower, in the period just after the Civil
War, state leaders of the type of Cam
eron and Conkling were at the head Of
disciplined armies of officeholders and
offlceseekers They ruled with sem-mli-
tary discipline. They controlled party
action through their grip on party CON
ventons chosen by inside methods. In
the effort in 1880 to nominate Grant for
third term Conkling, Cameron and
Logan constituted a trlumvirate which
came near imposing it's will on the Re-
publican national organization, although
they represented a small minority of the
Republican voters.
Cameron got his power through in
heritance. His father, Senator and Sec
retary of War before him, W s man Of
great force and craftincss. who had kept
to the front in Pennsylvania, first as a
Democrat and then as Republican. He
was man Of the people, adrot and con-
cliatory, and achieved leadership in spite
Of obvious shortcomings. The younger
Cameron never courted popularity. He
rather scorned it, He dealt with legis-
latures and officeholdng Intermediates.
and when the bonds Of the old close cor
poration system of party government be-
N b~ lac
thority or prestige
He never ran for an elective office in
Pennsylvania. And he thought that
Quay, his coming rival and destined sue
cessor, would never venture to run for
Office But Quay was shrewdcr He took
chance before the people and was elect
cd State Treasurer. Thereafter Cam
New-York tribune., 1918-08-31
"Absurdities of Nomenclature"

New England may have lost her politi-
cal influence as we pointed out the other
day; she may even be back number in
literature. But it is wellnigh incredible
that the good old New England names,
especially the Indian names, should be
derided. The Saccarappa has been
launched at Hog Island, and The Ecef-
ing Sem speaks Of her as one Of the cab
surdities of nomenclature" and suggests
that her face may be saved by calling
her the Scrapper. The jest is unworthy
of the occasion. What is there absurd in
Saccarappa? Is The Erening San un-
familiar with one of the choicest lyrics
of the young New England school?
80 Mr.. Austin,
Since I've been in Boston,
Everythng's Been happiness, without a
grief or pain;
My heads in such a whirl,
III be wiser girl
When go back to Saccarappa Maine"
classical episode, with which no
lover of poetry should be unacquainted!
Saccarappa. Hear the syllables roll out
trippingly on the tongue! Hog Island
can find an inexhaustible vocabulary in
New England, from Mooseucmaguntic
to Cuttyhunk. All the ships that can be
built would not leave the cupboard bare.
Manomet and Monhegan alike suggest
the winedark sea which these will
plough. There cannot be too many "ab-
surdities of nomenclature" in this kind.
Quinocontaug, Chepiwanoxet. Pappoose-
squaw pronounced Popsquash) EVERY
where, from Montauk Point to the St.
Croix River, there is romance, poetry, all
the splendor of imagination for our snip
builders to seize upon. Saccarappa an
absurdity? Our only fear is lest they
fail to recapture that first fine, careless
rapture.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-31

British Minister of Air stated that thew
would have to stop production of the Hand
ley-Page machine IN two weeks unless we
could furnish engines to put in them; that
their Rolls-Royce production has not been
up to expectations and that they were de-
pende' absolutely upon our shipments of
Llbe' motors for the Handley Page ma
chine and would have 10 stop production in
two weeks if they did not come.
"The De Haviand 4 is faster machine
than the British splendid climbing
power, but Of short radius that is. short
endurance. As a machine for quick trip
for observation or for bombing or for ma
chime gunnery it very effective machine
1t IS quick acting machine, perhaps the
most effective Of any Of its type 1t has
not a large radius of action It can he
gone from base but an hour and ffty
minutes, but during the time it is up it is
very effective mach Me- and it's perform
ance in speed and climbing excels the Brit
ish machine Of the same type materiallv."
SENATOR REED "lt is good climber"
MR.. RYAN: "Yes, ,ir."
SENATOR REED: at takes 40 minutes
to go up 10000 feet
Mr.. RYAN: "That is not the fact.
thlnk, Senator. will give you the per
1ormance on that climb. We had it the
other day Senator. The De Haviland
equipped with Liberty motor has ceiling
OF 1900 feet and a epeed of l1s miles an
hour at $500 feet t climbed $500 feet
III Z minutes and secon DIS, with four guns
-four machine guns"
SENATOR REED: II cannot understand
those figures in connection with the ones
that we have been given. They are utterly
irrecorcilabe
MIR RYAN: 81 am Wiling to give these
tgu1Hs They are under the stamp of the
bureau OF Military Aeronautics. am will
'ng to put them in the record