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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-08
$1,000 Down Secures
125 Acres, Equipped With

Good pair horses wagons. harness moving
machine. hay rakes sulliy plow. long list
implemcnts good stores. churches. advan-
tages a hand near R.R. town. y mile nrau-
tlful lake; 81 acres large crop-produclng
wood. timber. much fruit Fine 14-room
house to be proud Of, . good barns. etc.
owner wishes quick sale to retire. srlls real
farm with equipment $4,000 only $1,000 cash
needed Details page. 80 new fall catalog.
farm bargains Maine to Florida and west Ia
Nebra ska COPY free. STROUT FARM
AGENCY, l422 |. Land Title Bldg. Phila.
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CITY
SAMUEL w. LEWIS

REAL ESTATE TRUST BUILDING
Rooms Baths
125 S. 22d Observation-Disclosures. IS 5
900 $. 22d st.............. .
4OS s 22d st.....s.,.,..,.... 10 .
CENTRALLY located furnished house. 1o
rooms and baths hot-water heat, elcc-
trlc light; rental $4,000 year
S. VI. GAYLEY. loom Pine al
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STOCK FARM--Elegant stock or dairy
farm including stock machinery and
crops; finest locality: most productive farm
in New Jersey, containing 400 acres; highest
state of cultivation; good buildings, fences,
houses including mansion; splendid view of
surrounding country; Onc-hAlf excellent
meadow land. balance except 80 acres. which
Is an amount covered with natural forest,
underlaid with stone and gravel; high, roll
Ing, second To non" in the state: wen supuli"d
with water; delightful summer home. located
near birmingham. BURLINGTON county: main
sea shore line Penna. r. r. 40 minutes from
Philadelphia, between Mt Holly and Penn
herton: Clca- all inCumhranCN. r. NunrCc
Dobbns. 1911 SAMSON S:. Philadelphia.
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DAIRY FARM

Fifty acres; 10 miles from city Hall; ~
miles to station on Newtown division; stone
road: 2h story stone house. full set OF out
buildings 4-room tenant house: IL acres
mea dow; streams; acres timber: s875O
for quick sale w, Forrest Magee. South.
ampton. Pa. -
"a ACRES: a farm and home In excellent
condition; close TO railroad station; stone
dwelling, II rooms, complete bath. heater,
electric light: beautiful lawn; modern barn
stanchions, milking machines; all outbuild-
ngs; silo. running water: streams and
springs; water at buildings; real oppor-
tunity: 81, $50. j. b. THOMPSON Real
- -NAtnst chnstar pa '' WV
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RYDAL
Attractive Country

seat, modern English style residence on
hilltop, with acres of land, command
Ing fine view of Huntingdon Valley golf
links; house in perfect order. containing
II rooms. baths, open freplaces, hard
wood hoors; artesian spring; electric
light; gardeners cottage; garage, stable;
rare trees shrubbery; flower and vegS
etable gardens.
HERKNESS & STETSON
Land Title Bldg
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SEWELI1-One acre; 1-room cottage. all con-
venences stable, fruit. shade. near sta
ton: bargain for $4,000; $1,000 cash. Getty,
30 y. 18th
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IMMEDIATE POSSESSION
14-room modern house 3 baths h.-w heat
sleeping porch. inc. frst-hoor porch: IA rage
Inspection today and tomorrow
c. =. PETERS & SON, COS CHESTNUT ST
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FOR SALE--ACcount death; immediate pos
session; one of the finest homes in Pitman,
~ j., corner. has every convenience,
fine lawn cement cellar. reception hall.
4 rooms and inClosed shed on hrst floor,
fine bedrooms large bathroom. store
room and sewing room on second, large ras-
tered attic; house completely furnished. VIII
sell in one entire lot only. Address Isaac
II. Tilyer. Pitmau. or Textile National
Bank Philadelphia.
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LANGHORNE n "

BARGAIN INVESTIGATE
On Lincoln Highway; u mile to station; 10
acres: dwelling, all conveniences; in good
condition; careta ker's dwelling. barn. stable
Of all kinds in abundance; beautiful lawn,
shrubbery and shade owner built property
for himself; well elevated; will reduce to
500 900 II sold at once; investigate.
~ ARTHUR p. TOWNSEND
LanEhorne Pa.
AT SACRIFICE-All-stone house. large stone
garage. ~ acres property and more II de-
sired; fine old shade and shrubbery; house
has IA rooms, baths electric light. steam
heat; thoroughly modern equipments prop
erty situated on high elevation; near station
85 minutes ride from Philadelphia. Apply to
owner. on premises. Phone Langhorne 40 j.
ON TROLLEY; near station; very desirable
surrounded by old shade: barn. stable and
garage. chicken houses fruit and berries In
abundance: possession at once; S6OOO
ARTHUR p. TOWNSEND
IanRhnrne Pa
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h j. DAGGER
2O7 ". Main St. Amhler Pa
Choice Country, Home

Al acres, 1s miles from city Hall on ma
cadam highway. n mile from station. near
school. stores. churches, etc, stone house.
all convenienccs, necessary outbuidings
fruit. old shade. woodland and stream; price
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Furnished
FAR NJ.

4S-ROOM HOTEL furnished complete. on
Pacific ave. very reasonable. COVENTRY.
1917 S. 56th. Woodland 1l37.
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SHARON HILL

DESIRABLE 10-room stone and shingle
house; steam heat, electric light. sewer.
$4,000 WILLIAM s, ATCHISON, Sharon
Hill, Pa, or 701 Bailey Bldg. Phila.
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LANsDOwNE
$4,000 Possession Nov. y

B. e. cor, Lansdowne and Greenwood aves.
a wonderful location and a good buy.
s. W, COR, LANSDowNB AND Abe
MARLE AVES.-Colonial tile dwelling ant
2-car garage; SIS. 900.
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HAyER FORD
HIGHLAND PARK

,TwN-R ROOM residence, stone and stucco ir-
Nrlosed porch h.-w; heat, gas elec. lot
7sxlao; magnificent lawn fruit trees; $4,000
Barnes, 1901 Chestnut st. or Hlghland Park.
s6so0-Six rooms and bath. u square from
cars; detached; on lot 50xl10 feet; room
for garage. WILLIAM J. OFT, Brookline,
Ph. Phone Llanerch 293
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NARRERTH

$4,000 FgSG4+22%s sn q t2s n.slSs RgMoahS%s s5@B?
TO tion; beauties; possessing al!
hi = n00 those latest appointments ana
D Z,OOO convenienCes.
JOHN A. CALDWELL, at the Station.
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Narberth, Pa.

IMMEDIATE POSSESSION
A brand new detached up-toI the,minute MI
ideal and most convenient. See Samuel II.
Atherholt builder and owner, Hampden
ave "Anthwyn Farms" minutes walk
east Of Narberth station. --
tOS0O SEVERAL DESIRABLE NEW
p/)oO homes ready for early OCCUPANCY;
right up to the minute: tireplaces, hardwood
JOHN A. CALDWELL. at the Station.
Narberth, Pa.
s11 5OO-1I9 story bungalow; built With
hollow tile: . sleeping rooms. baths; high
elevation: other new. up-to-dnte homes from
w D. 4 H t. sMEDLEY. Narberth, Pa,
NEW houses, all conveniences S50N up
ward. HARRIS REAL ESTATE opposite
station Narberth. Pa. -
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
A Versatile Mine

4 MINING plant that produces
4 n both coal and sand is, according
to writer in THE Scientific Ameri-
cam" located in Ohio. This unique
mine covers about $50 acres.
"The surface stratum is high grade
moulding sand and has an average depth
of about nine feet. 1t is deposited on
q bed of shale about five feet in thick
ness and under this is a seam Of ex-
cellent coal averaging from four to
five feet.
shipments Of sand already have
been made to foundries throughout
the country. A considerable tonnage
Of coal also has been mined. As the
shale stratum is uncovered by the re-
moval of the sand, steam shovels will
be utilized to strip the shale, thereby
exposing the seam of coal, which will
be mined in the open.
I'm comparatively few localities is
the coal seam sufficiently near the sur
face to permit Of. stripping. The sand
IS mined by steam shovel and is con-
veyed by mine cars to a stockhouse
from which it is loaded into cars by
a belt conveyor. A force of nine men
can load 400 tons of sand day"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Yellow and Black Are the
Wasp's Color Favorites

SOME interesting results of Investigations
have been given by DR. Harold the Iinnean
Society in lecture on "The Color Sense of Wasps7
Dr. Wager made his by
ard and setting pieces of
The experiments show that seeking wasps
(Vespa rgo guided by their social instinct
brance OF locality and their distinguish conspicuous
color contrasts They probably SMELL but
experiments made est this.
Under the conditions of the experiments
by the color white yellow
less strongly by weaker
blue white They showed very
the coors but could
had less free choice unammed by stronger
instincts, they flew following orderyeoy
black red, blue, white.
The in the experiments showed very pronounced
deny back always the
vousy obtained irrespective might happen
to be there When the
they much puzzled only
time they able to discover it in its place.
Their social instincts clearly Indicated
they always strongly waps than v
place color This attraction for other strong that
they would frequently fly at first
by dead preference other
ate neghbonood which free OF They rarely
settled however, piece of
T6aes.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Spllds

II IS to the land allotment holder,
remarks writer in Popular Me-
chanics," that Great Britain is look
ing for assistance in the food situa-
ton. particularly as regards the
supply of potatoes.
"It is planned to increase the
number Of allotments from 1900, 900
to 100000 by the next planting
season. At the present time there
is only about one allotment to every
ten or twelve families, but by tax
ing advantage of a large amount of
land that has been growing up in
weeds it is hoped to have this up to
one allotment for every five families.
There are, even now, several cases
where there is plot for every
three, and in one or two cases every
two, households"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Outside COlOrS

wood and composition shingles in many
varieties of color.
These can be ordered in groups; for
instance, there are various shades Of
brown or of green which were stained
or fred with the direct purpose of
associating them. A roof all in one
tone is heavy and monotonous. 1t
lacks life ard looks wofully new.
Therefore many roofs Of shingles nova
days are laid in different tones.
If the roof is 20 be green in effect,
three kinds Of shingles are dipped
in green preservative shade, and
each wood takes the stain differently.
so that the roof at once shows the
modulated softness generally found
only in the old roof.
Tile, whether fat (shingle shaped) or
half round, comes in every shade of
brown or red found in autumn foliage.
They also may be had in all the tones
of green found in spring and summer.
Occasionally blue or yellow or
even a NAIVE tile IS introduced when
the roof is being made, just to give life.
Colored tiles set above the doorway,
beneath the caves as medalions, above
or beneath windows, in the vestibule
floor. IN terraces are exceedingly eff
fective when the house is made Of hol-
low tile, stucco or brick. In q house
made Of wood color is gained by stain
ing the blinds, the roof beneath the
caves, ceiling of porch. sometimes even
water barrel, IN some such positive
tone as peacock blue or dull gold.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Bright Twins

EDROFESSOR Sir ]. J. THOMSON, in
the course Of lectures on "Spec-
trum Analysis and the Structure of the
Atom" at the Royal Institution, dealt
with some debated points bearing on
the close connection between electricity
and light, states a writer in English
Mechanic and World of Science" He
held that luminosity was due to the re
turn Of negative electricity to atoms
that had been deprived of it,
Light, he proceeded, seemed to pass
through matter, such as glass and wa
ter, more slowly than through empty
space. This was an important point
slurred over in the textbooks. What
was the explanation? He offered one,
based on abstruse calculations and IL
lustrated by diagrams, to show that
the light-wave really travelled through
glass and water with its usual velocity,
though the apparent velocity was slow
err Electrons were stirred to the dis
charge of force in another direction.
SO that energy was shifted, and the
part of the wave arriving in good time
without the energy had no effect, the
energy coming later.
An interesting problem was how did
the single electron in the hydrogen
atom remain In equilibrium 1t was
supposed that this was due to rotation
in an orbit round the positive nucleus
But this, he suggested, was not the
right explanation. There was no evil
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Almonds

The almond, which is said to have
originated in the countries border
ing the Mediterranean from which
most Of the worlds supply is pro-
duced) is the first of the deciduous
fruit trees to start to grow and To
bloom in the spring, asserts a writer
IN "The Reclamation Record" and
the last to lose its leaves in the fall.
California, it appears, produces
SO per cent of all almonds grown in
America and Northern California so
per cent of the total for the state.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Wireless VS.. Wire

W7ILL ALL the telegraph and teie-
phone poles, wires and instru-
ments connected with these methods
of communication be simply so much
scrap" in g. year orso? Repre-
sentative Steenerson, of Minnesota,
ranking Republican member Of the
House Postofice Committee, pre-
dicted Eyes" if the progress now
being made in wireless communities
ton continues. Mr.. Steenerson, as
quoted in "The Wireless Age" saysi
"Radio communication Is the coming
thing. It is making such rapid strides
that before the end Of the year the
average American will not be bothering
much about the transmission of an erdi-
nary message over an ordinary tele-
graph or telephone wire or as to
whether the ordinary telephone or tele-
graph wire is owned or controlled by
government or private interests"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

lay down requirements on the fol-
lowing lines:
For training. A 1O0-horse-
power rotary or radical engine.
For fast scout work.-A 800
horsepower radial engine.
For reconnaissance. - A 500
horsepower water or air cooled
engine.
For two or three scatter fight
ers. A 75O-horsepower water
cooled engine.
For long distance bombing
A ,OOO-horsepower water cooled
engine;
and q similar programme for air
ship engine development. 1t is
assumed that at present the 600
horsepower engine is the practical
limit for efficient propeller con-
struction. Any further horsepower
required in very large types of ma
chimes would be obtained by the
multiplication Of units.
1t is vitality important that the
government should make clear to
manufacturers with as little delay as
possible the types and horsepower Of
the engines they require developed
for military service, SO that the va
rious manufacturing firms would not
De producing engines Of types vary
ing between 25 and so horsepower of
each other, as in the case Of the 375
horsepower Rolls Royce, the 400
horsepower Liberty and the 450
horsepower Napier. A definite state
ment now would enable manufacture
ers Of commercial engines to approx
mate their types and horsepower to
the future requirements of the gov
ernment without unnecessary conlpe-
tition or overlapping.
In order to encourage initiative
private firms should not be held down
to rigid detailed specifications, but
should be allowed to prove their own
designs, provided that they follow
the general specifications outlined by
the Air Ministry as to weight, horse
power and revolutions minute. In
the past we have relied upon foreign
sources for at least cne- third of our
engines and for about so per cent of
our designs; and we have, unfortu-
nately, suffered from a dearth of
successful all-British designs. The
Air Ministry should, therefore, do all
in its power to interest and encour-
age our engineering firms to design
and build aeroplane engines.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

q S MARS trying to signal US?
E If so, why can't we get them
& Is it because their civilization is
SO far ahead of ours? These
questions arise as one reads the fol-
lowing from "The Electrical Experi-
menter":
"The earth-bound layman still per-
sists that Intelligence can only exist
on earth. Such childish reasoning
shows what sort of intelligence bios
SONS on this planet. It never occurs
to these reviewers to question why
Nature in her wisdom should have
singled out the little speck called earth
on which to plant beings endowed with
reason. Why should there be such an
exception? Life in some form or other
is certain of being found on myriads
of worlds throughout the universe.
And if one world dies, all life does
not die with it. Svante Arrhenius
shows US how life-bearing spores are
carried by the pressure of light
through interstellar space, notwith-
standing the absolute zero which pre-
walls there.
"In our planetary system, conditions
for life, such as we know it, probably
only exists on two planets Mars and
Venus Life on the latter being more
or less doubtful, due to its heavy
water-laden atmosphere, there remains
Mars, body much older in evolution
than the earth. Conditions on Mars
we know by direct observation as well
as deduction are favorable for life,
and we may be certain that it exists
there. And If we once grant this, we
must also grant that it must have ex-
listed for hundreds of thousands Of
years prior to that on earth; conse-
quently Martian civilization must be
thousands of years ahead Of ours.
From this we must deduce again
that the Martians probably signalled
to us ages ago, when prehistoric man
still roamed the forests. But why
go so far back7 Suppose the Martians
had sent us radio messages only
thirty years ago. We could never
have received them, for we then had
no means Of recording them. Detectora
and audions were undreamed of.
an all this warped logic, we pre-
suppose wireless signals. But why
should Il civilization so far ahead o.
ours use--to them-obsolete radio
waves. which, like as not can never
hope to bridge 35,00o000 miles? If
tho Martians are signalling to US, you
may be certain that they use an en-
tirely different means than radio. To
be sure, 1t may turn out to be one Of
the many wave forms of the ether
but we can only make q poor guess at
1t to-day. Meanwhile Martian signals
probably fly about our heads day and
night, as they may have for thousands
of years, but we are still deaf and
blind to them. The Martian wave de-
tector sf II remains unnvented. AT
that the Martians probably have used
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04


by Professor Carver, of Illi-
nois University, in the periodical Of
the Carnegie Endowment for Inter-
national Peace, has recently been
published, part Of which follows:
I'm order TO get clear idea of the
relation of thrift to the strength of
the nation in war time it will be nee
essary to analyze the nature of thrift
and its relation to national economy in
general. To begin with. it should be
perfectly clear that thrift does not
mean the boarding of money. To hoard
money is one of the most thriftiess
things one can so with 1t. The miser
of romance who kept his money in a
secret hoard where he might gloat over
it and enjoy the sensation of feeling,
hearing and seeing it, was, in the
strictest possible sense, a thriftless
consumer of wealth.
"Instead Of using money as tool of
production or instrument of business.
he was using it as a means of direct
for the adornment Of his body would
scarcely have been more frivolous.
thriftless or selfish
Thrift, TO less than extrava pancs
consists in using money-that is. in
spending it. The sole difference Is In
the purpose or purposes for which il is
used or spent. TO spend money for i'm
mediate and temporary qualification ia
extravaganza. To spend it for things
which add to ones power, mental. phvs-
ical, moral or economic, is thrift. To
spend it for tools of production where
with one may increase his productive
power Is thrift
For farmer to spend money on a
luxurious automobile when he needs "a
tractor with which to cultivate his land
is extravaganza. To spend the same
amount Of money for tractor when
ne needs one with which to cultivate
his land more thoroughly and increase
MS productive power is thrift. Money
Is spent as truly in one case as in the
other. 1t stimulates business "a ef-
fecSlvely in the one case as in the
pther. But when money Is spent ex-
travagantly it adds nothing to the pro-
ductlve power, either of the individual
a1aon. 10 spend it thriftilv
is to add to the productive power Of
both the individual and the nation"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

many methods on US. It is not even
impossible that they may have used
reflected sun rays. Bell and Tainter
IN 1880 demonstrated wireless tele-
phonetic photophone-by making use
OF a vibrating light ray falling upon q
selenium cell. Speech was transmitted
over many miles this way. With nee
essary refnements such system
might bridge interplanetarian space.
"As to ore planet understanding the
other, that is of course child's plav,
Still, many humorous editorial writer's
have misgivings on that score. They
are afraid that or Mars = 2 might
equal perhaps, 8 or 3, so how could
we get together, they ask.
"A simple example might serve as an
illustration. Suppose an American and
a Frenchman, neither knowing the
others language, were connected by a
long telegraph line. Both are ignorant
of the code. But both have enough
sense to tap the key. Suppose both
have the desire to enter into comrnu-
nication, what will they do? Tap out
cots from one to ten, of course.
Thus -. .... ..... etc 1t will
take them many months, if they keep
at it, to work out sort of interna-
tional language by means Of dots. And
the higher their intelligence the
quicker they Will understand each
other.
THAT is the basis Of interplaneta-
rian communication"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Shells as Feed

America possesses some Of the
largest chicken hatcheries in tho
world, single establishment some-
times having a capacity of 226, ,oeo
eggs. One room in such hatchery
has 5000 eggs in process of incu-
baton at one time. An interesting
by-product Of the industry are the
shells which accumulate in noun
famous piles. They are not wasted,
however, but are ground and sold
to chicken raisers for feed, princi-
pally as bone builder, thus compist-
Ing the cycle to every one's satis~
faction.-PopuIar Mechds4oss
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Cripple Greek Wins
s. ANE OF the longest and most

&c bNE OF the longest and most
hazardous engineering feats
ever attempted" according to q
writer in '"The Scientific American"
has just been brought to a salts
factory conclusion. That is the
Roosevelt deep drainage tunnel in
the Cripple Creek, Col, gold min
ing district-named in honor or
Theodore Roosevelt, who was Presi-
dent of the United States at the
time it was begun in 1907.
"In 1906 it appears the operators
in the Cripple Creek district dis
covered a diminishing Of the ore
bodies on the upper levels which
called for further development
work, and the result was the COM
mence of the tunnel. The total
length from portal to breast is 24y
355 feet, or approximately 46 miles.
"In January, 1918, the total
water discharge at the portal was
about 1000 gallons a minute, but
it steadily declined, and now the flow
is about 1000 gallons minute. The
maximum discharge was 1900 gall
Ions per minute, this coming in the
early part of 1915. The total cost
of the work amounts to nearly
s815,OO0, and the average cost &
lineal foot is $500"