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The Washington herald., 1920-02-09
Instruct Ship Officers
To Typewrite Records

More careful preparations of ships
logs was ordered by the Bureau of
Navigation in a letter sent out last
night.
OFFICERS are instructed to type or
write leSibly in pen and ink the sheets
OF navigation data and remarks, and
10 prepare them in duplicate each day.
The original sheets are to be sent to
the bureau on the first day of each
month.
The Washington herald., 1920-02-09
Mutiny Charged Of Three
On Disabled Transport

Halifax y. s, Feb. s.-Charced
with being ringlesders in starting an
characterization row aboard the Unit
cd States army transport Powhatsn.
three OF the crew OF the vesel hsv-
been turned over to the police by the
military authorities in charge Of Jhc
boat
The fact that the Powhatan. in por'
for repairs. will not be ready 10 sail
for about two weeks, neccssitsted the
step.
The Washington herald., 1920-02-09
League Meeting This Week
To Discuss Nations Duties

London, Feb. S.-The council of the
league OF nations will hold a meeting
at st. James Palace Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday at which they
Will discuss the duties of the league
in regard to various questions now
confronting the allied powers. it was
officially announced today.
Among the questions to be taken up
will be that of the Saar Valley, the
question of an international court of
arbitration. regulation of public health
measures, and means for facilitating
international, shipping and railroad
transit.
The Washington herald., 1920-02-09
Mrs. Baer Returns Home.

Mrs. Libbie c. Baer, mother of Rep
resentative John NJ. Baer, has return
ed to her home at Appleton. Wis.
after months visit to Washington.
where she came to be treated for a Sc
we're case of lumbago. Mrs. Baer. VINO
is % years old, has written a number
Of books dealing with the civil war
era
The Washington herald., 1920-02-09
Fraternities to Give Receptions.

The first of series of receptions
by the Inter-fraternity Association
of George Washington University
was given yesterday afternoon at the
Sigma Nu fraternity house. Recep-
tions will be given each Sunday at
the various fraternities. University
matters will be informally discussed.
The Washington herald., 1920-02-09
NOtes Of the Churches.

Delegations of Boy Scouts at
tended the evening service yester-
day at Dumbarton Avenue NJ. Z.
Church and heard an interesting
sermon on The Giant Killer" by
the pastor. Rev. Walter G. Neil. A
social hour followed the service
A number braved the bad weather
yesterday to visit Fort Myer and
hear an address by Rev. NJ. J. Nc
keough. formerly chapla<l of the
Army Transport Service. Thrilling
experiences of the sea voyages to
carry men. munitions and food ''over
there" were related. The meeting
was in the post chapel and many en-
listed mcn attended.
The Call of the Deep" was the
subject of an interesting sermon
by Rev. Walter A. Morgan at Cleve-
land Park Congregational Church,
Lowell and 24th streets.
The Washington herald., 1920-02-09
L. E. Mitchell Talk Tomorrow.

The second of the series of eight
lectures by Langdon f. Mitchell,
Washington poet and playwright, on
Poetry as a Necessity of Life" will
be at HE o'clock tomorrow morning
in the Concordia Lutheran Church,
Twentieth and G streets northwest.
The Washington herald., 1920-02-09
KUTZ TO TELL GEORGETOWN
CITIZENS OF NEW PROJECTS
Commissioner Will Use Lantern
Slides to illustrate Lecture on
Municipal Advances.

ner of NJ street and Wisconsin ave-
nue.. occupied by the double stores OF
w. J. O'Donnell. has been purchased
by the Farmers and Mechanics
Bank. Plans for modern bank
structure are being drawn under the
supervision OF President H. v.
Haynes and the directorate. There
will be entrances to the structure from
both NJ street and Wisconsin avenue.
and it will have the very latest equip
ment for bank buildings. In securing
this location the bank officials re-
leased their option on the property
east of the present bank edifice. at
Thirty-first and NJ streets.
Next Saturday will be the 106th
anniversary of the first formal
meeting Of the board of directors
of the Farmers and Mechanics Bank.
Protect Crossing Policemen.
Attracted by the plight of the
crossing policemen in Georgetown,
who have been deluged with slush
during the bad weather conditions,
b. A. Bowles, cashier of tho Potomac
Bank, had an architect prepare de-
signs for a booth for the protection
of the constantly exposed traffic
officers. 1t is to be electrically
lighted and heated from the street
railway current beneath the tracks.
with electric signals on top of the
booth for the direction Of traffic.
II the District government has no
funds available for their construc-
tion il is proposed to ask generous
business men to contribute to a
fund for that purpose.
Discussing the needs of George
town. President J. A. oliver of the
NJ. c. Mitchell Company said capital
can be advantageously invested in
two paying projects modern
movie theater with first run" pic
lures. and an up-to-date department
store. Another good investment. he
believes, would be a modern apart
ment house centrally located. At
this time there is not a vacant store
in Georgetown.
Evening star., 1920-01-18
Virtues Reward.

"NTOW that we've got beer pro-
hibited, the next move, they tell
me. is to be the prohibition of to-
bacco. Coffee will come third
The speaker was Harry Leon will
son, the writer. He went on:
"At dinner party the other night
one Of these anti-cigarette fanatics.
a scrawny woman with mandarin
goggles and her hair parted in the
middle and drawn back tight. told
how she had cured her husband Of the
cigarette habit.
For years and years and years I
labored with him. she said. and two
years ago come next New Year he
swore off. Well. when he sw6re sn
] was SO overjoyed that just threw
my arms around his neck and kissed
him.
SERVED him durn well~ right, too.'
growled' an ex-brewer who is now
running an ice cream factory" .,2t
Evening star., 1920-01-18

of us might of thought 1t was the
obsequies Of Jess Willard or something
and on ] Of the useful information
pages 1t tells you where you can buy
burlap bags. in the case that some day
YOU would have a corps to dispose OF
and not know what to rap it up in.
On page % they give you information
for telephone users witch they don't
claim is useful but 1t says you can call
for information free of charge but no
pay for your time getting it, and also
the Co. wants criticism but it should
always be made by telephone instead of
writeing because II you done 1t by tele-
phone. why by the time you reached the
party 1T would be or yrs. later and
the management would OF changed
hands.
All told it looks to me like the tele-
phone witch was made in Germany was
enough excuse for us fighting them
where as the telephone directory witch
was made in American is a work that
should ought to go down in history like
"Huckleberry Finn or Casey Jones"
or something. RING w. LARDNER.
Greenwich, Conn, Jan. 16.
p. S.-The book also says that they
have got rest rooms for operators, but
don't say nothing about rest rooms for
birds that call up.
Copyright 1920. by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
Evening star., 1920-01-18
A Good Parry.

uT ADY ASTOR," said New York
clubman, drought more popu-
larity to the Astor name during her
election fight in England than either
the old viscount, William Waldorf, or
the new viscount, Maj. Waldorf. ever
succeeded in doing.
She's a clever woman. a witty
woman, and we Americans may be
proud of her though she has deserted
us.
"On the election platform she gave
many striking proof of her ready
wit. Thus one evening a sour-visaEed
female rose in the audience and asked
with kind of prim irony:
"If Viscountess Astor is elected to
parliament, will she work TO make di-
vorce as easy for us In England AS
It is in America"
Lady Astor countered brilliantly.
however. Looking at her questfoner
in a comnliserating way, she said:
-" PM sorry. madam. YOU are In
trouble .-
"And the house rosred WITH laugh
terv
Evening star., 1920-01-18
Mr.. carnegie's Advice.

"IN considerable fear" said bank
-. er. 81 once consulted MIR. Car
negie about anew venture. The bust
aess looked as.if # ought to be profit
able. There seemed to be public
need, Of It. Sill there was SOME Fisk
involved, and j was afraid.
But Mr. Carnegie laughed At Try
fears.
"Jf 1t is good thing plunge in
he said. Fear is old womanish. Fear
is what keeps untold millions from
making fortunes. When Benjamin
franklin thought Of starting q news
paper i'm Philadelphia his mother.
greatly alarmed. tried to diss uade
him. She pointed out that there were
already two newspapers In America
Evening star., 1920-01-18

not make another draft? Ry the per
fection of appliances there Is no
doubt in my mind thst a constant
and never-failing current may be oh
tanned powerful enough to telegraph
across the ocean. TO 'decompose water
for light Cor use the electric cur
rent itself for light stid for various
mechanical purposes. And to this end
wish to write down some facts and
ideas, hoping to add more ana. go
further until successful experiments
are made and the reality of this
dream come to pass. -'N~ 49, - :
in, 1853. August. 15- 1 wrote a little
paper. which ] shall transcribe here;
believe as soon as something can be
found to bear, the. same relation to
the earth that wire does a t@Ie-
graphic communication can be made
without wire. What relation does
wire bear to the earth? That il a
question to be settled, and one which
I must. write more about ut another
time;f but nit serves to conduct q dis.
tinct portion Of fluid from roint 10
point, etc.
"A subdued form OF staticaI elec-
tricity may be used for telegraphic
purposes Dynamic and electro ma e.
netic fluids are both used. but both
are chemically or mechanically made,
Staticat fluids. resides abundantly in
the atmosphere; and then structure
say, of points-p1aced' IN the air at
perhaps cloud heighth. If OF sufficient
amplitude, would BE- h: never failing
source of an abundant current. This,
them, may supersede the use of gal
vanic batteries for dynamic and cleo
tro- magnetic machines for electro-
magnetism; and a great abundance
always obtained without any expense
but for the original structure.
"As water. especially salt water
and particularly a current of warm
salt water, is a good conducting me-
dium. powerful current of atnlos-
Evening star., 1920-01-18

twenty. And thus far have never
toid the world That Lam here; only
minute localities. few. in number.
have ever known my .uni,nportant
presence. But ! see ana know this
that mind moves the world. Mind. not
muscle. proves the. more available.
Persons who do not think never
amount to any valuable total The
lowest order of biped specimens. think
the least. Those who think least are
the lowest order of men. The great
est men that we have think most.
Those who think most and strongest
become the greatest men.
Il will make a statement of some
things that l will do. which IL i live
until another New Year day (and
think. ! most know / shan) / will
5 hayel;% enced and. made some
progrssss fn.,:.t I will thinks, I viii
thinki more. than i ;kA ys in the
habit Of thlnllssas .S;lsl 10
the woil9 fhl niRKe ssr
proyemer will have m6meM
Draw ny aslIts sfnay dig 1t from goldaa
mouistsiss But viii not. BY the ac-
tion of my brain 1t shall come to me as
the cooling shadow of some good that
/ have caused. will use money f6f
no meantor selfish purpose. see that
it is. a1twozedged instrument, and i
will use it as tool to do good with.
will do good .%s.; q.
Tn OTtober Of sthe same wear l1Sb3l
the inventor wrote this 'yearning and
Evening star., 1920-01-18
S Ielegraphy Befdff{eMtalffeejd5fhlii lfej 5fliiW Bonn

piaintiye note that sppears in his
diary: u. should ,ske to go into the
cornfeld OF sorie plantation with the
oxen and gather punkfns U spell it
just as 7 inrended too in an old red
cart. 7 am not Lazy never was
iazy-but don't want 10 work i'm my
office today: I want to go out In this
sunshine that> comes straight out Of
heaven do hate to he etefnafly
confined to business in order to live"
The following quotation from his
diary proves that Dr. Eoomls was q
believer in wireless telegraphy rs far
back as 1858: 'v.'''-
washington. ID. G.. February 90.
1864 r. got this little hook today
that may collect and put together
some papers and ideas that I have
had for a long time upon the subject
of electricity, and more particularly
as that element Is connected with
telegraphy. -
IT have been for years trying to
study out a process by which stele-
graphic communities tions may be made
across the ocean without any wires,
and also from point to point on the
earth, dispensing with wires. And
the grand feature which l. have
hoped would characterize the plan
is that the electricity tor electro
magnetism-thea element oEsSpower
Gused) i, would; he drawn from the
latmosphere, and not produced by
artificial OF, mechanical ,aeaIis..a T To
use that which nature seems to have
already produced and keeps constants
ly on hand in such immense quanti-
{ ties.
"The lightning with its thunder
crash seems to be the most powerful
and terrible thing in nature. There
always seems to be an abundance of
this electrical element; and why not
use it for. various purposes? S, a
"Franklin certainly did draw down
electric fluid from the clouds; why
Evening star., 1920-01-18

would finally give you a firm that sold
artificial limbs that didn't come near
fitting and you would buy one and half
to walk down the st. all out of kiIter
and people would laugh at you and
make you feel like a fool.
Also they have got OH this same page
a list Of dog specialists and people that
clean carpets and guys that refinish
beds and firms that sells glass tops for
furniture as IL a person like myself
didn't have enough furniture that my
kids could break without haveing glass
tops on them, but II didn't have a
telephone directory in the home why l
couldn't look in the main part Of it and
find so many guys that didn't sell glass
tops for furniture.
But of coarse that Is all in the ad-
vertising coils. and the real useful in
formation Is in the middle of the page
in small type and alphabet order like
for instants 1t says the Brooklyn bridge
was built in 1883 and is IS IT. wide
witch gives old timer like myself the
confidentsi to cross acrost 1t because II
its lasted that many yrs. maybe it will
last till l get acrost it and If it's S5 IT.
wide your not libel to bump into any
body from Brooklyn.
Also in the Gs. it says Grants tomb
on Riverside drive is occupied by the
remnants of U. S. Grant where as most
Evening star., 1920-01-18

pheric electricity may be Made tn
traverse such a path from shore 10
sIsore ot the Atlantic ocean. f''H
"rhe collecting apparatus. or points.
may be stationed OH the mountains
to save building high strucsures. and
thence conveyed on wires 10 the
point Of Immediate use. And ssN
alons this conducting wire the fluid
may ba taken out and used for tsIe-
graphing, and. reinterred for further
purposes. am conAdent that iohie
simple apparatus, can bsz devised by
which the atmospheric electricity can
be collected" Il -stsf''.sf
The reader should not overlook the
fact that the above ideas. c61eernIhG
wireless telegraphy were written BY
DR.. Loomis exactly sixteen years Be-
fore MI. Marconi was born in Bp.-'
logna. 1taly--ApriI, 25, ,,1S74.
The last words written In the diary
of this man, in 1886, shortly before
his death, indicate that he newer lost
his sense Of humor. notwithstanding
his many keen disappointfients. 1t
Ao&NS' ASNoohSfi - Suit We ClVtfCS
from Mr.. Fox. He had them made
to my measure In Baltimore. 7 have
made a set Of teeth foT HIS mother.
Teeth, $40. Clothes, 31s."
s During his long years Of residence
in this. city DIR. Loomis lived In the
!, house at 122s. N estrest' northwest,
d His old home is now 'occGbied by his
four grandchildren, Misses Anna,
Helen, Margaret and Frederick Rose.
Richard Rose, brother OF these
grandchildren, was killed in France
fighting for the country his grand
father was so eager to honor with
his invention. Young Frederick Rose
seems to have inherited the electrical
genius of his noted ancestor.
George C. Loomis. a Washingto ton
business man and nephew of DR..
Mahlon Loomis, lives at 2S12 ssth
place.
Evening star., 1920-01-18

pared to the names in the telephone di-
rectory witch is only so per cent dead
when you try to call them up.
also wished 1 could bring 4th.
modern vol. TO prove my assertions but
unfortunately the only telephone books
l got in the house is the latest one from
Greenwich where you all ready know
the number of the grocery store and
butcher shop and taxi cab Co. and the
man who lones you money, and also
the N. Y. city telephone directory Of
May 2. 1919. and ]. suppose II / live here
q couple more yrs. they will give me a
October book OF 1919 and keep me up
to date.
SO. will half to prove my point II any
by quoting from the n. Y. city telephone
directory of May 2, 1sts,-as follows a.
they say: .f -, ..,'''
In the first place IT says that useful
information can he found OH page IL.
SO You turn to page ii ana the first
think- that strikes you in the eyebah is
q at witch says We sell artificial limbs
that fit. Well suppose that some morn
ing you was to whke up and have a
craveing for a artificial limb that fit and
you didn't know how to go about 1t to
get one ana they wasn't no telephone
directory in the home, why where would
YOU be al? You would half 70 call up
and ask for information witch is an
other word for practical joke ana they
Evening star., 1920-01-18

telephone they wouldn't know what to
do with the rest OF their time where as
now when they get tired Of poker ana
bridge and etc. and have got few days
left on their hands why all as they hair
to do to kill a couple of days is try and
get somebody on the telephone. ~.
But Il don't want my genial readers to
think this cfHbby article means that
don't hold no brief for the telephone
Company. On the other hand II 1t
wasn't for German iusenting the teie-
pfon q why they wouldn't Of no .Ameri-
can invented tie telephone directory
witch n the greatest Institution We got
lefti here from 4 amusement pt. OF view
since tns salooa was Wiped out and
the fpufb0ss 0f this letter is TO point out
Of havefiE telephone
S;rectofy IN the home for birds. thar
can't AFFORD to subscribe to the pubic
library and etc. : ,.,s .,sf
: Tho telephone directory has never
been gave the credit IL deserves. and
personly have got regret In life witch
Is that l didn't keep all the telephone
directorys witch was ever gave to me
as It would SAKE. me from buying q
cyciopedia witch costs $2s per case as
opposed TO q telephone directory, that
don't cost nothing II you ever get II ahd
has cot s or times ss many nai,les In
II aid lie si,fesr that tie ~iisnies IN the
cycfopedfs is-se per cent:'iesd COM
Evening star., 1920-01-18
The Wound Stripe.
! CONGRESSMAN WAS taking shout

A CONGRESSMAN wss ia alking shout
Army. supplies.
Most Of our Army supplies" he ~ Id.
were good---costly, but good. Now
and then. however. the supply depart
ment struck snag.
81 said to a doughboy joker one day:
why. George, is that wound
stripe you've got on your ARM
eyes, sir, II is, sir said GeorAe
How did you get it?' said !.
Shawn myself. STR said George.
with an Army razor"
Evening star., 1920-01-18


be few people left In the U. s.
that still thinks we wasTt justi-
fed or something in !declareing
war on Germany, but / guess these
birds would feel different If they stopped
to think about the fellow that invented
the telephone and IL Louyain and the
sinking of the Louisiana was crime
what about the invention of the tele-
phone witch comes from the Greek
words tele. meaning far off, and phone,
meaning sound. and maybe it's on acct
OF me liveing in Greenwich, witch isn't
far off from the sound, why maybe that
is why the telephone service is so--well.
you know.
When man stops to think about the
telephone, why you can't help but be-
leive about the Germans for instants in
venting tear gas and etc. but not only
that but it also shows how vs. denoc-
racy the fellow WAS when he invented
something that nobody only me leisure
class can use becaIse for inst. and
you couldn't never afford 1t even IL we
only figured our time at 10 cts. per hr.
witch nobody gets as little as that now
udSS oHiy the presiueHt vi eohese vi
soldier or something, because for in
stants If / am out here In Greenwich
and want to talk to somebody. in N. Y.
city. why 1t wouldn't only cost me about
So to go down there and see them where
II / telephoned 1t would be 30 cents
for the call and days. TO put 1t through
and II | worked on a hr. basis at 10
cts. per hr. why that would be a total
of S1.60 for the . days that 1t took to
Evening star., 1920-01-18
hstrated Feasibility of Wireless Communica-
Backing for His Plan-His Patents-Tests
Pngress for. Financial Aid-ltems From the

not clsfmssny new ,,feeistxr or fecora:
ing instrument: hut, what r 61afn AZ
my invention or discovery. and desire
to- secure by letters patent, is the
utilization of natural electricity from
elevated poihts by connecting the op-
posits polarity Of the celestial and
terrestrial bodies or electricity at DIFF
fereat points by suitable conductors,
and. for telegraphic PURPOSES. relying
upon the disturbance prSduced In the
two electro opposite bodies (of the
earth and atmospheric NY an inter-
Iuption of. the continuity of one OF
the conductors from the electrical
body being indicated upon Its opposite
or corresponding Terminus. and thus
producing a circuit or communica-
tion between the two without an arr
tificial battery or the further use of
wires or cables to connect the coop
Grating stations. 81. ,...,t:.:;3,;I ~; !:
''MAHLoN. LooMIs.', {
;;,as xa* 49, S;Ss,,;4sis S;Ss,s,;4slis ~, ~, ~,
At odd Intervals from early man.
hood until a short time before his.
death in 1856, DR.. Loomis kept diary,
wherein he poured out his thoughts
on various subjects. TO show the
quality of his mentality and the gem
uine bigness of the man. the writer
quotes from an entry made in Janu-
ary, 1853: "Having been born in the
year 1926. l suppose / must be, ac-
cording to arithmetical computation,
somewhere near the age Of six and
Evening star., 1920-01-18
'SAs IN' A EELLOw 'LIlfE% MYSELF
DlDNT' RAVE ENOUGH EURNI-
EUhE THAT MY 4 KIDS C0uID

put ths telephone through where
could 20 down and see them and get
back ina hrs. or some such figure.
!. sgt In the case. of the 1iesure class
ns aiEelent as the only real work they
,snaK g DO the whole yr.' q ROUND Is make
out their income tax 'bianks witch only
-se g ees ~ 3 nios tS SnIure' out how t1ey can
7pest' the' SOvts sna II Il xaxnt fdf Tie
Evening star., 1920-01-18

40 THE EDITOR: They seems to
be few people left in the U. S.
that still thinks we wasn't justi-
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-05-22
REPORT VIOLENCE
IN SUGAR FIELDS
Michigan Inquiries Into Dyna-
hitting by Strikers.

SAGINAW. Mich. May 22.-Actlng
under instructions from Gov. Sleeper,
Capt Marsh. head OF the state constahu-
larry is in the beet sugar district Ia this
section today investigating reports Of the
burning and dynamitlng OF several farm
houses occupied by sugar farmers. by
alleged "nlghtriders' in an attempt to
intimidate the workers who have refused
to join the strike against the sugar as
ISOLATION in protest against what they
term unfair prices in the 1920 crop con-
tracts
During the last week reports have
reached county authorities that a house
near Hemlock, owned by a sugar planter
and housing sugar workers, was blown
up on May and the worker frightened
out Of the community and that several
houses occupied by sugar workers in
other parts of the sugar growing district
around Elkt0n have been burned.
Gov. Sleeper said that II necessary he
would order the state constabulary to
patrol the district 10 protect workers.
W H wallace, general manager of the
Michigan Sugar Company, declared there
is no justification for the reports Of vio-
lance