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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-18
R.. J. G. ANDERSON OF the
Chinese geological survey
has recently published a

~ R.. J. G. ANDERSON OF the
Chinese geological survey
has recently published a
pamphlet with the title
Dragon Hunting in China" The
publication is not a wild tale about a
brontosaurus still surviving in an
underground lake in central China,
and the American Museum of Natural
History hasn't offered $4,000 900 for
his capture, dead or alive. Neither
does it refer to the search for rare
pottery antiques with the national
emblem in various impossibly hideous
forms, nor has it any obscure politi-
ical Significance. Fossil bones and
teeth of extinct animals are called
dragons bones and dragons teeth in
China, and are a regular stock medi-
Crushed Bones rs Medicine.
The American Museum of Natural
History in New York some years ago
obtained a small collection Of fossil
teeth and bones which had been pur-
chased by a German traveller in Chi
nese drug shops, and their use as
medicine was noted. They are. in
fact, quite regularly and extensively
used and are said to be administered
in four ways:
1. Crushed to a powder and swal-
owed raw.
2. Crushed and mixed with sour
wine and the mixture drunk OF.
3. The same mixture is left over
night, decanted. and the liquid is
drunk clear.
4. Powdered and fried.
They are said to be a specific espe-
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as he was at the time of his dis
charge. or at the time his policy
lapsed for non-payment of the pre-
miums. Now, however. if the pol
icy has lapsed more than eighteen
months his application for rein
statement must be accompanied by
the certificate of a licensed ply
stefan, showing the applicant to be
sound, the certificate to be issued
only after a thorough physical ex-
animation.
Reinstatement of lapsed policies
has been encouraged by the ruling
that only two months premiums
need be paid at the time of REIN
statement, no matter how long the
policy has lapsed. One months
premium is to pay for, the month
Of grace. during which time the in
sured was protected after he had
quit paying the premium. and the
other is for the first months pre-
MUM on the reinstated policy.
OF 4,631.993 men who took out
government insurance. less than
100000 have kept their policies
alive. There are some 10000 who
have converted their temporary or
wartime policies into some per-
manent form, the total amount of
those policies being $520.000.000.
Nearly 100000 men are still in
sured. but have not converted their
insurance into a permanent form.
which the law does not require
them to do until five years after
peace has been proclaimed. These
policies provide for total benefits
of $3.50, 100000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-18
DIR ACON HUNTNG' IN CHINA
- RETARDS SCIENTISTS WORK

! cially for diseases of the liver and
for nervous disorders.
| All of which sounds rather absurd.
but perhaps it is not more worthless
| than some of the household remedies
| that we use so widely in the western
world. Probably its chief value 10 as
a faith cure" the assimilating of
portions Of dragons inspiring the pa
tient with some of their vigorous and
energetic qualities. But also it is to
be noted that the teeth and bones of
animals, whether fossil or not. are
chiefly composed of phosphate of lime,
insoluble in their natural condition.
| but by sleeping in a weak acid they
can be partly converted into a soiu-
BILE acid phosphate. In this form they
would have the same tonic effect as
the acid phosphates sometimes pre-
scribed By physicians and more often
/ ia ken at the soda fountain without
any prescription. It would seem then
that. taken in sour wine. the dragons
teeth may really have some medicinal
value.
Why. fossil bones should be used in
stead of fresh ones is not SO obvi--
Gus. unless it be that as they have AL
the gelatin and organic matter re-
moved they may be more easily
crushed and dissolved.
Handbags Seientist's Work.
However much or little this use OF
fossils has served to reduce the prev
alence OF insanity or liver complaint
among the Chinese, it interferes seri-
ously with DR.. Anderson's scientific
researches.
For a. . consequence the fossils
have . very considerable commercial
value, and those who know where to
find them are very secretive about It.
Not only is it almost impossible to
material in the markets has come, but
any promising localities or prospects
are likely to be claimed by the owner
OF the land, or raided by inquisitive
natives, with the result of running the
specimens for scientific purposes by
breaking up the skulls to extract the
more valuable teeth. DR.. Anderson
has had to start a campaign of edu-
cation to teach the Chinese that good
fossil skulls are worth more to the
foreign geologist than their shattef-
ed fragments will bring at the local
drug store. 81
Important to Science.
These Chinese fossils are OF very
considerable interest and importance
to science. For various reasons
scientists have come to believe in re-
cent years that the cradle of the
human race, the part Of the worl6
where-if anywhere-man really
evolved out of the animal world and
acquired those qualities of mind and
body which have set him apart in
higher plane Of existence. was some-
where in central Asia. Only after he
had acquired that dominance over
the rest Of nature did man invade
and overrun the rest Of the old world.
and still more recently the new word,
This theory is believed to be equally
true Of many races of the lower AMI.
mails now widely distributed ever ~
world. ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-18
SECRET SERVICE JOBS
ARE EAGERLY SOUGHT
More Than 1000 Applications for Every
Vacancy Received From Those Who :.
Aspire to Be Detectives.

ties, who saw that it was an inper-
feet plate, but in the light Of long
experience they guessed that where
that plate came from there were
others in process OF manufacture.
With no other clue to work on, they
began an investigation. and soon ar
rested three men. who admitted that
they had been experimenting with
counterfeit plates for several months.
Twelve such plates were found in
their possession, some of them so
well made that bills printed from
them would have been very. hard Of
detection. SIS
Forge Pay Checks.
More than 100 convictions have re-
suited from the work of the secret
service agents in running down per.
sons who obtained fraudulent pos
session of government pay checks
during the war. and cashed them aft
er forging an Endorsement. Hun.
dreds OF checks also were passed in
stolen from the Offices of disbursing
officers and filled out falsely. Many
Of these checks were stolen from
mail boxes. where they had been LETT
by the postmen for disabled soldiers
or dependents of soldiers. but this
form Of thievery has all but ceased.
Because of the billions Of dollars dis
bursed from Washington, and of the I'M
experience Of many disbursing officers
who did not safeguard their recoI ds
properly. the National Capital became a
rich field for crooks and the secret serv-
ice found plenty to - right at it,
doorstep The latest piece Of cTiminali-
ty to engage the attention Of the bureau
here has developed IN the bureau Of var
risk insurance. where a number Of dis-
abled soldiers were induced to part with
a part Of their money due from the gov
eminent on the ground that by such .
method they could get more than the
government would otherwise pay them.
Investigation has shown that the sol
diers were the only losers. as the en-
ployes Of the bureau have no power to
increase the amount the disabled men
are paid. Only minor employees Of the
bureau have been involved
Stolen Registered Bonds.
The large issues of liberty bonds have
given the secret service added duties in
tracing stolen registered bonds. Theft
of coupon bonds does not dtrnaely con-
Germ the bureau any more than lie theft
Of currency, but as regfsteESd bonds
cannot be transfsrred or tn Interest
collected without the signing sof the
different class.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-18

A PLACE on the United States Sc
~ cret service force is the most
n sought for position in the United
States. More than 1000 appli-
cations are received for every vacancy,
and every mail brings new requests.
Most of these are from 'sleuths' who
have completed the course of some mail
order detective school No sooner does
the average graduate" get his diploma
and star than he sits down and writes to
Washington that he is qualified to do
a government position.
In all such cases the applicant is out
a two-cent stamp. for the detectives in
the government service are recruited
from the city detective forces, and none
is accepted until he has proved by years
Of work his ability as a crime investi-
gator.
The secret service was created in 1864
to trace and arrest counterfeiters Of
United States currency. principally the
old "greenbacks,'' and detection of
makers and circulators Of spurious
money has always been it's chief func-
ton. Consequently it has attained a
high. degree of efficiency in that line.
and it has become automatic that no
counterfeiter can get away with it.
Cleverness Against Cleverness.
But high wages for skilled and I'M
skilled labor do not seem to have ap~
pealed to number Of clever men who
! during the last few months have at
tempted to beat the high cost of living
| by making their own money. In conse-
Quence the secret service has been I'M
| usually active, and five gangs of coun-
terfeiters operating in widely different
parts Of the country have been rounded
! UP and their plants coniscated.
The war laid an extra heavy bur-
den on this branch of the govern
ment's machinery, and hardly had the
amount of work begun to lessen,
when cvounterfeit bills began to ap-
pear in unusual quantities. and the
| work Of the criminals made their de-
| lection difficult.
In one instance a group of three
plates, were caught before they had
put a single piece of faulty paper
| into circulation, their apprehension
being the result of a lucky accident
and some clever detective work.
| AS has been related already in the
daily press, a bather in Lake Michi-
gan at Chicago. a few weeks ago
struck his foot against something
sharp. and on INTOXICATING found i,
was a copper plate engraving of a
ten-dollar- federal reserve note. He
turned it over to the federal authors
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-18

it is these three that Gen. Hines is con-
centrating under the new transportation act to
demonstrate the practicabiity CONNER
cial basis of operating the inland water
routes as they may be co-ordinated with the
railroads
Gen. Hines agrees whole-heartedly with. the
determination of Chairman Esch of the house
commerce committee Representative A. P.
Nelson who is leading the inland waterways
campaign. and other friends in Congress of
transportation development, that all means of
{ transportation must be utilized to their cap
ability. in order to meet the present and grow
ing demands of the country--raiiroads water-l
ways and highways. OF these. he emphasizes.
the water route is the cheapest and the one
natural means Of transportation 80 'E -
During our national existence millions upon
millions of dollars have been spent, year after
year. in the development of various river and
harbor projects, but the returns from these
investments have been negligible because
pended under a system of individual initiative.
Now for the first time the legislative and ad
ministrative branches of government are view
ing inland waterway development whole
and to be co-ordinated properly with other
agencies of transportation.
During the first year of its waterways oper-
atoms. through 1918 and 1919. the admins
tration fleet transported 109,21S tons Of cargo
on the Mississippi river proper. while 12464s
tons were carried on the Warrior river. The
greater part of this tonnage represented car
go which in the normal course of events would
have been carried by rail.
X X **
The three barge lines thus being tried out
1. The New York canal section, on which
barges are operated from Buffalo to New York
city through the Erie canal and down the
Hudson river. There are now in operation
on this line twenty-one towboats and seventy
four barges. In May they handled 2s,5oo tons
of cargo. large proportion of this was
grain from the Great Lakes region. That
particular section. during the present quarter
May, June and July-is of great value to-
American commerce due to the tie-up of the
railroads AGO.
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PLANS TO PICTURE
AREA OF THE u. S.
Up-to-Date Topographic Map to Be Com
pleted by the New Board of
Surveys and Maps.

the southwest, the board will under
take to supplement maps already in
existence with more detailed maps
showing the Typographical features Of
the section in question in greater de-
tail A large part of it's work will be
dissemination of these maps and
spreading of publicity concerning the
various areas being mapped.
The New Topographic Map.
But the largest and most necessary
work-that which will be immediate
ly undertaken-is completion of the
general topographic map of the
United States. Development of the
motor truck and the airplane has
been so rapid in the past seven years
that Topographic map-making has
failed to keep pace with the improve
ments in engineering. Automobiles
may now go to places wnere seven
years ago motor could not be trust
ed and airplanes have hown across
the continent in groups. Location of
good roads for the automobiles and
of landing fields for the planes is one
VI the HeCeSSltIeS LOT amp1nCaClCn OF
the transportation system, and with
this work the board Of surveys and
maps is directly concerned. even go
ing so far as to give its approval
to better roads movements and eff
forts by civic bodies AMI groups of
citizens toward obtaining landing
places for airplanes. The representa-
tives of the Army on the board are
directly concerned with the location
of military roads or of, roads good
enough to be used as military roads
in time of national emergency and
with location of : airplane landing
fields.
So vast is the task assigned to the
board that its work. according 70
Birdsev, cannot be finished
for a long period of years. In. the
meantime reports of its work win
be turned over to the President for
hts approval and further suggestions
for improving the work will be in
vited. 49, 80
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is being reduced almost daily.
Since it's organization the bureau
has paid death benefits on .12s,3o0
policies, the total amount of such
insurance being $1.142.o0o. 900. In
addition total permanent disability
has caused 1886 policies to mature.
representing benefits Of $2s,537,-
900.
Not all of the benefits given for
mer service men by the bureau Of
war risk insurance are of a none
tary nature. The medical division
Of the bureau has treated or ex-
amined nearly half a million pa
tients since organization and has
placed in hospitals under govern
ment supervision $1,000 patients.
There are now 1880 soldier. pa
tients undergoing treatment at the
direction Of this bureau.
Entirely separate from the insur-
compensation and claims division,
which looks after the payment of
benefits to the service men or his
dependents, other than insurance
benefits. This division is now
making payments on $4,000 death
claims and 134,400 total or partial
disability claims. which amount to
$6,165, 900 monthly. A service man
totally and permanently disabled
draws, his insurance benefit and his
compensation, but il only temper
ariiy or partly disabled he gets the
compensation. but not the insur-
aifce benefits Efforts will be con-
tinued next year to get Congress
to allow partly disabled men to
draw insurance benefits in proper
ton to their disability.
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railroads are tremendously in excess of their
combined facilities. They $500, 100000
behind maintenance and equipment. There
is existing unsupplied demand for 100000
freight cars If every locomotive plant and
railroad material shop in the country were
worked at capacity for three years it would
no more than enable the railroads to catch up
with the actual, present demands.
: Considering this situation and the very i'm
portant aid in moving needed supplies by
barges in.aE4 waterways under the Rail-
road Administration during the war. and with.
view to affcrding American industry and
commerce the largest possible relief for the
future, Congress provided in the transporta-
ton act Of 1920 that:
"On the termination of federal control all
boats. barges, tugs and other transportation
facilities on the inland. canal and coastwise
waterways acquired by the United States in
pursuance of the fourth paragraph of SECTION
s Of the federal control act transferred to
the Secretary of War, who shall operate such
transportation facilities that the lines of
inland water transportation established by
through the President during federal control
shall be continued"
During the war the railroad situation be-
came critical that the director general,
seeking to divert over the water routes such
freight as they could properly handle and
finding them without sufficient floating equip
ment. was obliged to build a considerable fleet
of barges and lows. When the railroads were
turned back to private ownership there were
no private owners to whom to turn back this
fleet. and so as the War Department had for
years been more intimately connected with
waterways in general than any other single
government bureau the new legislation called
upon the War Department to continue the ex-
pertinent
Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines has been ap-
pointed to take charge of this new bureau
of inland and coastwise service of the War
Department, because during the war he was
in charge of overseas transportation and later
was chief of the bureau of transportation.
Three barge lines were authorized to be OBJ
Grated by the government during the war and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-18
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

NCLE SAM is writing traf-
fic history these days, for
he is giving a practical
demonstration of how the
inland waterways can be used in
cooperation with the railroads to
relieve the transportation conges-
ton so pronounced during and
since the war and which has been
q check and damper upon all in
dustry.
This is being done by authority
from Congress and with an ap-
preparation of four million dollars.
While there are hundreds of navi-
gable streams in this country that
should become natural carriers of
commerce, commercial test is
being made on just three projects
with a view to such successful op-
Grafton as will induce private en-
terprise to take up and carry on
the inland waterway transporta-
ton development.
Congress for the first time an
noCnced a definite policy in the
Cummins-Esch transportation act
this year, Ito promote. encourage
and develop water transportation.
service and facilities in connection
with the commerce of the United
States, and to foster and preserve
in full vigor both rail and water
transportation" 1t ordered con-,
tinuance by the War Department
of an interesting experiment start
ed by the Railroad Administra-
ton to meet war needs, which
promises to go far toward settling
to the benefit of all concerned the
long standing and Sometimes bit
ter controversy between Compel
ing rail and water transportation
interests.
X x X X
The railroads today view the
waterways not as an undesirable
competitor. but as a very neces-
sary ally in the solution of the
enormous national transportation
~.oh1ovnc Tho dcmapds nm tho
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Though the director Of the war
risk bureau and the Secretary Of
the Treasury have always been
very liberal in their rulings affect
ing the men who served during the
war, the man who joins the Army
today must act promptly it he
wants to carry government insur-
ance. He may take out a policy of
$4,000 or less within four months
after his enlistment, but If he does
not avail himself Of the privilege
within that time he cannot get in
surance thereafter.
A soldier whose policy has lapsed
may reinstate all of it or any part
thereof. but he may not increase
the amount. Many instances have
occurred where man who carried
$4,000 during the war continued
paying premiums on but $1,000 or
less since his discharge. The re-
cent ruling of the Secretary will
allow him to reinstate the rest of
= his policy If desired, but IL he car
ried only $1,000 during the war he
. cannot now increase the amount
above that figure.
4 X
There are six forms into which
war time" or term insurance may
be converted. three being endow-
ments. two of them paid-up poll
cies and the sixth straight life"
policy.
Since. the Rehabilitation of the
armed forces has been practically
accomplished the personnel Of the
buresu of war risk Insurance has
been more than cut In. half. The
number employed Is now 1850 and
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fcials who have furthered this demonstration
that this will lead to the establishment Of
similar commercial lines on many other nav
igable streams and generally will stimulate
operation on the nations inland waterways.
In making this demonstration the War De-
partment is operating these barge lines
strictly commercial organizations. observ-
ing all the laws and rules and regulations as
laid down by Congress and the Interstate
Commerce Commission and conforming to COM
mercial practices, Generally speaking. the
rates now charged are about 30 per cent less
than the rates parallel railroad routes.
Eventually. IT. is intended and expected that
through the Interstate Commerce Commission
will be worked out a system for joint use of
terminals and adjustment Of rates. SO that as
much as possible Of the bulky and weighty
matefials-coal. sand. stone and other rela-
lively non-perishable time cargoes-shall
go forward by water route. while the quicker
service on the railroads. will be conserved for
perishable food products and other urgent
freight. ---'...#-
BY the construction Of self-propelled barges
carrying 400-ton cargoes, while towing other
loaded barges. and by other innovations in
waterway equipment it is anticipated that the
ton mileage cost of inland waterway. trans
portation may be permanently lowered, and
thus helping materially toward reducing the
cost of living.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-12-01
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Important
News Events
of the World
Summarized
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Personal
Joseph j. Ryan, youngest son Of
Thomas Fortune Ryan, millionaire
capitalist, is dead ut New York.
The sum of $e3.OOO,0OO has been set
aside by John y. Rockefeller of New
York, in a fund to be known as the
Laura SpeIlman Rockefeller Memorial,
in honor of the wife of the financier.
George NJ. Smith, managing editor
of the New York Tribune, died sud-
denly at his home in New York from
ptomaine poisoning, complicated with
heart disease.
DR.. Charles HI. Villas, regent of the
University of Wisconsin, died at his
home at Madison.
John Beall, ninety years of age. In
ventor of the Beall degerminatOr
known wherever corn is milled, died at
Decatur, ILL.,, of pneumonia. His in
ventions are known throughout the
world.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-12-01

Exports during October increased
nearly S150,000,000. while imports de
creased approximately S1,00,QOO, for
eign trade figures made public by the
Department of Commerce at Wash
ingt0n show.
w. A. r. Ekengren, Swedish minis
ter 10 the United States, died at the
legation at Washington after a brief
illness.
President Wilson at Washington has
committed the sentence of Franz Rim
telen. German convicted OF wartime
conspiracy, on condition that he leave
the United States before next Janu-
airy 1.
Practical suspension of the natiaas
business marked the observance of
Thanksgiving day in Washington.
Campaign expenditures of the lie.
publican national committee between
June IA and November 10 totaled $4,-
O22. $50, and receipts amounted to So
S33. 1872. according TO a final report re-
ceived by the clerk of the house at
Washington.