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Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-06-29
LONG TEST FLIGHTS
MADE AT KEYP0RT

BY Special Correspondent.
REYPORT, June 29-The big
Aero3ar.re F-5-L Navy cruiser
which was launched TIE past week.
was gwen g test 4ighr 10 At.aaEc
City and return over the week Shd.
The big flying boat left the Aeronla-
rine mooring late Saturday after
noon ard ~ ore hour and ten min
u.es ron thai tine size lad landed
at Atlantic City. seve-a. passengers
having made the trip. among whom
were Paul G.. Zimmerman and r.
deb. Newman of the local plant.
On Sunday afternoon Cyrus ].
zimmerman, chief test pilot for
the company, took a smaller plane
and flew to Atlantic City. where he
visited with the occupants of the
big ship, returning in the early
evening.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-06-29
MARGARET W!NANT BRIDE
OF HERMAN MILLER

By Special Correspondent.
rOrTENvILLE, June 29:-Miss
Ns-ga~et Xabe, W:nart. daughter
OF Police Sergeant ard Mrs. Henry
3. Wsnart. OF GOA Amboy road,
Pleasant Plains, and Herman Miller.
of Prince Bay. were married at $3.50
o'clock Saturday night at the home
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pleasant, as Glaishers own sensa

pleasant, as Glaisher's own sensa-
tions proved.
Writing for the British Associa.
ton for Balloon Experiments as to
what happened after reaching the
five-mile level, he said:
up to this time / had taken OBJ
servations with comfort, and ex-
perienced no difficulty whatever in
breathing.
"Then, having discharged sand
we rose still higher. The aspirator be.
came troublesome to work and l be-
gan to find difficulty in seeing
could not see the column
Of mercury in the wet bulb Their
mometer, nor the hands of the watch
nor the fine division Of any instru.
ment.
"Shortly after I laid my arm on
the table, possessed Of its full vigor
but on being DESTROYS Of using it a
little later I found it powerless. ]
tried to move the other arm; found
it powerless also. I tried to shake
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Some Remedies

Borax, hypochlorite of lime, stone
lime, copper sulphate, iron sulphate
and pyrethrum were some of the ma
terials used. Some of these sue
ceeded in killing the Larvae, others
did not, but there was one serious
drawback to the whole poisoning
scheme. In most cases it destroyed
the film in which the Larvae lived; and
without the bacteria in this film,
which are responsible for converting
the sewage in the tanks into the de-
sired nitrates, the whole efficiency
and action of the plant are ruined.
BY lucky accident DR.. Headlee
brought to his laboratory on one oc-
casion some Of the filter stones and,
desiring to keep the material on them
alive until the following day, covered
them with tap water. On examining
the material the next morning he dis
covered that the maggots of the
sprinkling sewage filter fly were
dead-in other words, had been
drowned. 1t was thus learned that
atmospheric air is necessary for the
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had, therefore, to place his arms on
the ring and drop down.
"He wished to approach me but
could not, and when he felt insensi-
bility coming over him, too, he be-
came anxious to open the valve
This he finally managed to do with
his teeth"
Both men regained consciousness
after the balloon had descended sew
eral thousand feet, and they man
aged to make safe landing.
Two facts having a direct bearing
on the question as to atmospheric
conditions above the earth were
established by them. One is that
sounds like that made by passing
railroad trains can still be heard at
height of about four miles. but
that at six miles there is perfect
silence.
The other is that up to certain
point, scientifically referred to as
the level where Inversion of atmos-
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life Of the Larvae and that they cam
not survive long under water. 1t
did not take long to follow up this
clew. The filter bed was flooded
with water, which was allowed to
remain for twenty-four hours, after
which the etiiuent was examined. 1t
was full of dead larva-not one had
survived. The experiment was re-
peated twice with the same results
One hundred per cent of the Larvae
and pupa were drowned, but the
film remained uninjured. The plant
has had such a flooding system es-
tablished, and once every two weeks,
except in winter, the bed is flooded
to kill any Larvae that may have
Eatched since the last flooding AS
a result the citizens in the imnedi-
ate neighborhood to-day have moth
ing to complain of in the way of
the sewage flies.
Although the amount of sewage
disposed of by this particular plant
at Plainfield is relatively small,
being estimated at only 100000
gallons daily, much larger plants of
the same kind are being operated
successfully. The cities of Colum-
bus, Ohio; Baltimore, Wheeling and
Atlanta dispose Of all their sewage
by the sprinkling filter method, and
since it avoids the menace Of stream
pollution it is almost certain to be
adopted more generally in the
future. When the size of these
cities is considered, we can appreci-
ate more fully the economic as well
as the sanitary value of the discov-
cry of means to control such a
serious pest as the filter fly.
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New Jerseys Pest of Strange Flies

could claim an up-to-date sprinkling
sewage filter plant. Wherever such
plant is found, however, there will
also be the flies-swarms of small,
light-colored, mothlike insects which
swarm about houses. get into the
food, and are even accused by some
OF being the carriers of infection.
When the authorities of the Plain
field plant called DR.. Headlee into
consultation two years ago little was
known of an effective way to exter-
inmate the pest, but certain
amount Of work had been done by
previous investigators at other
plants, who had used hypochlorite of
lime as poison, and had thus re-
duced the number of flies materially.
DR.. Headlee started in systematically
to make study of the life history
of the pest.
1t took but short time to dis
cover that the breeding place of the
flies was the Shiny covering which
coated the stones in the bottom Of the
filter bed. This covering is a gelac
inous material containing large
numbers of bacteria and minute in
sects and plants. 1t was here, just
inside the shiny covering, that the
fly in its larval and pupal stages was
resting, with its breathing tube
thrust up just high enough to take
in the atmospheric air. All through
the spring and summer DR.. Headlee,
with his assistant, Charles S. Beck
with, watched the habits of the fly,
observing that it fed on the film; that
it laid its eggs, which looked not I'M
like very small grains Of rice. on the
stone, and that the larvae evidently
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the air to break the perfect silence
Of the regions between six and seven
miles above the earth"
The balloon finally began to de-
scend after Coxwell, who retained
consciousness even longer than his
chief, had managed to pull the valve
rope with his teeth.
"Mr. Coxwell told me afterward
that while in the ring above the
balloon basket where he had gone to
mend a break in the rigging he felt
the weather becoming piercingly
cold Glaisher went on in his re-
port to the British association.
"Hoarfrost was all around the neck
Of the balloon
Con attempting to leave the ring
he found his hands were frozen. He
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Into the Great Silence

Moreover, in all these flights,
when the men had passed above the
four-mile level and had risen be-
yond the screen Of atmospheric par
ticles which make our "sky," they
entered the stratum in which absolute
silence reigned and in which vision
was remarkably clarified.
The armament above became al
most black, due to the absence Of
light refraction; the stars were
easily visible, even in brightest
day, and the cold was terrible and
intense.
But in each instance certain phe-
nomena were observed, which brings
up the next question Of Importance
TO the inquirer az to conditions 'up
there" and this is the subject of
Inversion of temperature.
For great many years man be-
l'eved that temperature invariably
changed with altitude, and that as
height increased there was always a
corresponding drop in the mercury
Now we know better than that
and the discovery is due entirely t.
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myself and succeeded, but I SCENE
to have no limbs.
Beyond Reach of Sound

II dimly saw Mr.. CoXwell and en-
deavored to speak to him but could
not. Then, in an instant, intense
darkness overcame me, SO that the
optic nerve lost power suddenly, but
l was still conscious, with as active
brain as at the present moment,
while writing this. l thought l had
been seized with asphyxia and be-
lieved / should experience nothing
more, as death would come unless we
speedily descended; other thoughts
were entering my mind when | sud
denly became unconscious.
81 cannot tell anything of the
sense of hearing, as no sound reaches
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the surface Of the atmospheric sea
in the bed Of which, like some CROP
ing form of marine life, he has so
long been held prisoner.
What, then, is it like up there
among the stars, or even a little
lower down?
Some things we know already.
We know, for example, that some
distance above the earth's "atmos-
pheric envelope" but below that
stratum Of "inf1ammable air" which
science has discovered, are trade
winds which blow from west to east
with unfailing regularity; and we
know, too, and this is even more re-
assuring, thAt at that level it is far
less cold than had long been sup
posed.
up seven MILES
For some Of this knowledge we arc
indebted to scientists like M. dc
Bort, discoverer Of what is called
Inversion Of temperature, and for
the rest to our own courageous
aviators, and to balloonists like
Henry Glaisher and his assistant,
James Coxwell, both Britons, who in
September, 1862, rose to an altitude
calculated by them as about seven
miles, which was higher than that
attained by Major r. w. Schroeder,
the American flyer, in his sensa-
tional "jump" at Dayton, Ohio, last
month.
Glaisher's experience was espe-
cially valuable from the standpoint
Of the person who wants to know
"what it is like up there" because,
the aspirator having quit working at
an altitude of five miles, he and his
companion were more or less ex-
posed to conditions as they actually
exist while the giant gas bag was
dragging its undirected route up to
and back from the seven-mile level
Aside from the scientific data OBJ
tanned the trip was remarkable as
an added contribution to the story
of human heroism and hardship in
the cause of aerial discovery.
The ascent was made in England
Glaisher experienced no difficulty in
breathing up to the five-mile level
and the deduction drawn from his
achievement is that any normal man
who does not exert himself and Is
not unduly sensitive to "air sick
ness" need entertain no fears as to
his respiration up to that point.
Higher than that, however, the
conditions are apt to become un-
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believe that in union there is
strength, as many as sixty specimens
being found huddled together on one
square inch of stone.
There seemed to be but two
courses in getting rid of the fly:
either to shut off the air supply or
to kill the insect in its immature
stages with a dosage of insecticides.
The first plan was impracticable and
expensive, so the entomologists set
to work to poison the Larvae and
OUOR
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An Increase in Warmth

AN increase IN Warntn
M. de Bort proved that not only
does the principle of increasing cold
cease to function at an altitude of
from six to eight miles above the
earth, but that exactly the opposite
occurs, and from there up it con-
stantly grows warmer.
Sounding balloons with self-re-
cording instruments have been sent
up to a distance of seventeen miles
and have invariably confirmed this
discovery. In the cases of the
aviators just mentioned it was
found that, for some reason not yet
explained, the weather boundary"
comes little nearer the earth and
then the temperature begins to
change before reaching the six-to-
eight miles level.
So, then, the situation presented
to those who are planning the Super
Terrestrial and arranging to launch
man on his greatest adventure in the
air is this:
They know-as, of course. DO
we who are fairly consistent read
ers of newspapers-the conditions
; as they exist up to six or seven
miles. 1t is there that nature plays
the parts with which we are most
familiar There thunders roll, light
ming flashes, clouds gather and ele-
ments clash in never ending strife.
1t is from there that we get such
wintry storms as recently expert
enced, and where the humble drama
Of rain, snow, sleet and weather
unfolds itself.
They know, too, that "atmos-
phere," as we know it, although in
constantly thinning quality, extends
above the weather strip" to a
height of about twenty to thirty
miles, but beyond that, what?
1t is here that real difficulties will
begin, and the Super Terrestrial
will encounter its greatest obstacles
provided, of course, that long be.
fore that bourn is reached the pre-
sumptuous craft has not been de-
stroyed as the consequence of its
own daring.
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CLOSED AIRPLANES, built the idea of the submarine
are soon to attempt to reach attitudes here the
rare to support he Shat 1thi their ass-sided cabin the
avlators v keep themselves ue by means of ogygen car
75ed IN tanks
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\hL career OF an entomOlOglst
is as varied as the list of in
sects which he has to COM
bat. Let any one in New
Jersey who thinks in terms of mos
quitoes and house flies only accom-
pany DR.. T. j. Headlee, state ento-
mologist and entomologist for the
state experiment stations, on his
daily rounds, and he will learn that
there are more bugs in this one little
state than he could ever in his wild
est imaginings dream.
The work Of draining the marshes
to control the mosquito pest is we'll
known; what DR.. Headlee has done
to rid the New Jersey home Of the
ever-present house fly is also famil-
lar, but few Of the uninitiated ever
hear of defenses raised against apple
aphis, of flank attacks on plant lice,
Of the poison barrage against army
worms which Dr.. Headlee conducts
every year to the advantage of the
farmers pocketbooks. Every once in
so often a new pest appears, is
tracked to his lair, his life habits are
studied and steps taken to prevent
injury by him.
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Carriers of Infection

Such is the tale of the sprinkling
sewage filter fly, which at one time
threatened to torment the citizens of
Plainfield, Dunellen and North
Plainield, three Jersey- towns which
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Died of Exposure

Died of Exposure
In April, 1875, M. CASTOR lis
sander and two companions con-
firmed these findings when they rose
from Paris in balloon to height
of nearly six miles, but in this case
the expedition was marred by the
fact that both companions of NJ.
Tissandier, having less stamina than
he or the British aeronauts, died be-
fore the gas bag returned to the
ground.
If further confederation is desired
as to conditions as they exist on the
FIRST lap" of the aerial journey into
the void they can be had from the
experiences of the aviators who,
since the advent Of airplanes, have
tried to reach the Gid of the world S
atmosphere.
Two of the most prominent of
these, at least among the American
aviators, have been Major Schroeder
and Roland Rohlfs, who have en-
gagged in unique contest for high
est records above the clouds.
Major Schroeder in his flight a
few weeks ago attained an altitude
of 36,020 feet, at which height his
thermometer registered SIS degrees
below zero Centigrade. or 81 de-
grees below zero Fahrenheit. So, in
his case, as we'll as in that of Rohlfs
when he reached 10000 feet in July
last, and that of Adjutant Casale
of the French army, who rose 33,137
feet several months ago, the aver
age of fall of one degree in tenn
perature to every 800 feet of alti-
tude was fairly we'll maintained.
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al Submarine" to Explore World Above the Cloud
Oxygen Will Be Car
ried to Regions
Without Air

the researches of M. de Bort, the
meteorologist already mentioned,
and to the enterprise Of other in
vestigators who have conducted a
series Of experiments with small
sounding balloons"
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Region of Strange Perils

Here new dangers will appear in
the shape of drifting ''ice Clouds"
which for imaginative purposes may
be likened to icebergs; the void will
assume totally alien aspect; me-
teors and shooting stars will occa-
sionally fash across the path. and
the traveller will enter the boundary
of infammable air." or pure hydro
gen.
Passing through this - always
supposing, of course. that it is not
snufcd out long before like d pea
rut shell under the foot of an Gle
phant-the Super Terrestrial viii
emerge into the stratum Of heiium
| which on earth is created from ra-
dunn and encountered in practical
quantities only in test tubes.
Then-but perhaps this is enough
for the moment. Even the most
voracious seeker Of knowledge as
to what things are like up there"
will have been satisfied long ere
! this, and the first voyage of the
Super Terrestrial need not be chart
ed further.
Provision would, of course, have
to be made for changed conditions,
Mr.. Post concluded, in touching on
the mechanical necessities of the
undertaking. "Of course, with the
thinning of the atmosphere the
Super Terrestrial would encounter
less air resistance, and provided the
propellers were adjusted to increase
purchase, tremendous speed would
be attained.
''Thc propellers would revolve
much faster and the craft would
shoot ahead like a meteor
and it-that is, the Super Ter
restrial, if you desire to cali it tnat
is the next thing on the cards"
To Attempt Flight
Discussing the practicability Of
the ssz--ss~ TERRESTRIAL" as we'll as
his own recent altitude fight, Major
Schroeder said:
Some day, doubtless, some such
craft will be built. The idea of an
Enclosed cabin for the aviator has
received considerable thought, and
intend to make an altitude flight
IN one in a few months. We are
working on such an airplane now.
Man will continue to strive for
higher and still higher levels, and
some way to protect him against
rarefied atmospheres must be ADOPT
ed. In an inclosed cabin, artificially
supplied with oxygen. he will receive
this protection.
"In connection with my own re-
cent attempt for a new altitude rec
ord it might be well to explain tina,
/ am not making these flights mere
ly to win publicity or to satisfy q
desire for excitement. AS chief test
pilot for the army, am merely car
rying on the work of the army
which is to obtain as much usefu
information about upper atmos
pneric conditions as possible"
\
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phere" occurs, the fall of the mer-
curry averages about one degree
Fahrenheit to every 800 feet.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-10-30
SAYS G. 0. PTS
FARMER FRIEND
Clark Savidge Defends Its
Record OF 20 Years

In an effort 90 prove that the re-.
publican party had been the friend
of both farmers ana laborerH during
20 years OF administration OF state
affairs. Clark V. savidge. commits.
sioner OF public lands. reviewed the
legislation Of the period in an I'D
drcas az Lcvy'a Orphoum theatre
Friday noon.
savidgc'a main point was that the
republicans had conducted a business
administration. ana he urged hin
hearers 90 beware OF overturning
efficiency by voting Ia "A group Of
untriod men with radical theories.
Col Roland w. Hartley. defeated
candidate for the republican nomlna.
ton for governor. also spoke.
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rising from their knees. standing
erect IN the consciousness OF their
power. hailing one another a. com.
radcs across the boundary line In
every tongue OF the race and the
whole world Is aflame with the so.
ciai revolution.
The insignificant minority Of non.
producing Parasites shall no longer
rulo and wreck the world, Their time
In up. They must now go. and We
socialists are organized for that very
purpose.
Tho people versus the parasites
that II the issue and the only one il
sue that Will confront you on election
day.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-10-30
Filipino Students
Plead for Freedom

surely you VIII grant va what
YOU teach ua Go revere"
That theme. phpsed by AuEustin
raincoi. one OF the speakers for
Philippine freedom, on tho annlvcr'
sary OF the Flag Day OF tho islands,
pcrneated the celebration al nlanc's
cafe Friday night.
Filipino high school students gath
cred with their teachers TO plead for
American generosity In granting the
islands independence.
The occasion was the anniversary
OF the granting by America OF the
privilege of fiying the Filiplno flag,
which was defeated by the SIaniards
Ia 1896.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-10-30
PREPARE TO
GREET DADS
Homecoming Week at U. to
Be Big Affair

When WashlnRton'A grads return
ia their Alma Mater during Home
coming Week. the latter part Of next
month. they're going 10 have a high
old time. Tho studies are already
hard at work preparing stunts for
the entertainment OF tho old timers.
Robert Macfarlane was Friday ap.
pointed chairman OF the uomeeom.
ing Week celebration by Robert
Abel. president OF tho Associated
Students.
Others appointed ON the committee
with Macfarlane arc Eugene Me.
Chung. Ernest Campbell. Mitchell
charnley. William Mcdonald. Vivian
keilam. lnez Watkins and Esther
Melhy
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-10-30
ny EUGENE v. DEBS
Socialist Candidate foe President

ATLANTA. Ca. Oct. so.-This will
be my last word in the presidential
campaign. II Is enough for mo 10
have been one Of the standard bear.
crs OF the working class. regret
only not having been able 20 meet
the workers face to face as In other
days
II tho earth and all IL contains Is
not for the people-not a handful OF
them. but all the people-then therc
Is certainly a mighty mistake some.
where that needs the Almighty's cor.
rection.
A very small. insignificant mi.
nority OF the people practically own
and absolutely rule the United States
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-10-30
Booze Raid Launch
Is Sold at Auction

Tho RnHOllne launoh Jervia IBlnnd
that figured prominently IN the
Mendowdnlc booze raid case. WIS sold
at public auction by the United
States marshal'a office Friday for
$3.50. G. Tborsen WAS the successful
bidder.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-10-30

That insignificant minority has its
seat OF government In Wall Street
and Il Is there that every solitary fed.
erai Judge Is named who lays down
the law to the people. II Is also
there that the candidates are chosen
and the platforms written for the two
dominant political parties. thru which
this Insignificant minority secures
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-10-30
PEOPLE
THE EARTH,
DEbS' VIEW
Socialist Candidate in Pris-
on Speaks Final Word in
Presidential Race

EDITORS NOTE reiiewinr arsi-
Gle by Eugene '. oeh- i the fourth
and last Of . series writtea Tor the
tnitcd fre-s b. the presidential can
didAtes
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-10-30
Broke Parole; Gets
Term in Reformatory

pom admitting that he broke bis
parole and committed burglary again
within month, a. G. Harmon. 20,
was sentenced. Friday. by Presiding
Judge j. r. Ronald. 10 serve from
three 90 10 years In the state reform,
atory