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DISTANCE BETWEEN
MERIDIANS.

rs there any way Cor any rule that
can be remembered) to determine the
distance between the principal merid b
ians at any given latitude--T p, Chi
cago."
What you are after Is the vary
ing length OF a degree of longitude,
which shortcns as one goes from
the equator toward the poles. The
cause OF the shortening is best COM
pretended by glancing at school
globe, where the eye perceives at
once how the meridians converge
toward, and finally meet at the
poles.
There Is very simple rule by
which the length of degree OF
longitude in any given latitude can
be calculated. To begin with, the
length of degree on the equator
is about 69.14 miles. To find the
length OF a degree ut any latitude
north or south OF the equator II is
only necessary to multiply 69.14 by
the cosine of the angle expressing
the latitude. Suppose the latitude
is ~ degrees (about that OF Chi
cago). The cosine of AZ degrees,
as given in table of sizes and
cosines (which everybody ought to
use as Familiarity as a dictionary
and 1t is just as easy), Is the deci-
NAL .7431. Multiplying 69,1t by
.7431 we get 5I.37s miles, or about
81 as miles for the length of a de-
gree of longitude at Chicago. This
calculation supposes the earth n
perfect sphere, but such supposi
ton introduces no important error
for ordinary purposes.
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/ pAMr The WASHINGTON TIMES JULX r. 1e2o
The Duty of America Is to
Practice, Not Talk, Democracy

One of our great banks has figured that the world
laid average debt of $3.50 upon every man. woman and
lchild living The yearly interest toll per capita 80
Of course there are millions of inhabitants Of the earth
Who will pay none this debt directly and very little ndi
eey The savage and semi savage tribes OF ASIA Africa
and South America will pay only in having to remain In
backward longer than they would the civilized ma
sdons had not tried to destroy each other
The direct paying will have to be done by the indus
ous ecientthat to say by about half perhaps
,tss than half of the worlds population And they toll
rhe harder to lift this burden they should ask them
selves what they do to prevent its recurrence.
They propaganda into accepting and supporting
the learn since that most OF the things they had
been told to make them warlike were untrue.
They disiusoned but the old machinery OF decep
tons destroyed reformed 1t is active ever
The fact that thirty little still blazing among
embers of the big and that imperialism is still ram
pant among majority of the worlds governments proves
that thinking has yet to become general
The weary Old World has been fooled into expecting
immediate and complete rescue by the New.
Its people impatient because it does not come 1t
will not cannot in the way they have been mistakenly
hoping It can only through their fundamental
efforts and the longer they delay setting their own ruins in
order the harder will be their ultimate disappointment
This disappointment they will have to through 1t
is unacceptable And while they in their judgment Of
will be bitter Because they have understood little
l.; we have understood them they will swing from
IRENE of fauous trust to the opposite extreme OF entire dis
trust.
But extreme opinions do not last. Especially if not
based facts And here in America have control of
facts We determine for the future whether
shall deserve the worlds praise blame and therefore,
afford confidently to await the camer issue.
BY preaching gloriously in words and then failing sadly
in acts President Wilson has for the moment put this nation
in hole. He however will soon pass, and the mighty
forces of America will remain to correct his blunders
believe that it is both the duty and opportunity of
the American people take the lead in bringing about the
kind of thinking which will tend in the long run to
diminish war and invite peace.
They do it by voting decisively to keep out of
foreign entanglemants to play games of conquest
guarantee but perfect here at home the spirit and ns
buttons of great peaceful democracy example for
mankind.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22
THE CROWS NEST

immigration Commissioner Wallis
has the right idea when for once he
consorts with "squareheads, hunkies
and wops" and resolves to make the
motto of Ellis Island: "Speed the In
coming Guest-Politely." Too long,
has the marrow of Americas back
bone been treated like cattle.
The natives of a particular sec
ton OF the Golden West must have
pinched themselves twice recently
just to see if they were in full pos
session of their mental faculties,
when a looting cashier. who alb
seconded with the greater portion Of
the principal banks funds, was an
nounced as having taken his own
wife with him in the flight.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22
BY GARRETT r. SERVISS.
Eminent Astronomer and Authority
ON Suhiectn Of ScicntlAc intereat.

Eminent Astronomer ana AuthoTity
on Subjects Of Scientific Interest.
III a perfect sphere were placed on
perfect plane would the sphere remain
and S. S. s.. Norfolk. Va"
TOR the sake of completeness
you should add the condition
L that both sphere and plane
are perfectly rigid and perfectly
homogeneous throughout. Then the
contact would be a point of inhni-
tesminal magnitude and the sphere
would be gravitationally balanced
upon that point.
This implies that the gravitative
force Is exerted perfectly normal to
the plane or that the plane is per-
fectly at right angles to the direc-
ton of the force-otherwise the
sphere would roll.
II any outside force were eXerted
upon it, as, for instance, the attrac-
ton of the moon, or that Of the sun,
or even in the perfect case we are
supposing, so immeasureably slight
a force as the attraction of star
trillions of miles away the sphere
would move. The slightest move
ment of the earth's crust would
upset it, as would the wash OF the
most insignificant atmospheric wave
or the unequal distortion caused by
the solar radiation striking the
sphere on one side only, or any
electric or magnetic action, or any
other of a multitude of imaginable
sources of disturbances of the
spheres equilibrium.
In a word, the absolute perfection
Of shape, poise, homogeneity. bal
ance Of contending forces, etc, re-
quircd to render the sphere truly
motionless would be beyond the
conditions OF nature as known to
or comfortable by us. The sphere
would be at the very limit of sta
bility.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22

There are lot OF chaps running
loose around this country who can't
tell you much about gland grating.
further than that it is said to prove
big hc!p to the graftee. but of the
plain old-fashioned kind. they surely
could inform one, II only they would
open up for a few moments.
The grass in front OF the Marion
front porch has given out even be-
fore the boys begin to march, so old
Or. Harding gets busy and sees that
limestone goes over the old patch.
However, to our way of thinking he'd
better get asphalt II he doesn't ex-
pect that yard to look like tho surface
Of some Of our leading thoroughfsres.
WILLIAM NJ. CONRAD.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22

We sometimes wonder IL Clark Crit
fifth thinks rluch of Bulwer Lytton's
statement that sin the bright lexicon
of youth there is no such word as
fail" as the line of recruits keeps
up the steady march toward the
bushes.
AS LEV. Col. John L. Hunt. COM
mandant Of Castle william Prison,
Governor Island, y. Y, charged with
a violat n of the Goth article of war
In that is conduct was prejudicial to
militar discipline and tended to
bring disgrace on the military serv-
ice nv not having Stacker Bergdoll
properly guarded, faces a military
cour the country is getting a bit Of
sati action.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22

Even though they held back tive
returns for quite some days, 10, -
l.. Bristow reports to Candidate Hard
ing for the Kansas wheatfelds, by
announcing that the old sunnower
state can be looked to for 100000 ma
jority.
II calling Volstead an atheist Ia a
violation of the Minnesota corrupt
practices act. we wonder what the
Judge who has just put Preacher
kvale out of the running, after the
people gave him big majority,
would have to say " he heard some
of the choice remarks passed by
brother Kentuckians to each other,
when they get all heated up in a hot
State campaign. He'd probably send
a lot up Tor life
The Washington times., 1920-07-22
Once-OVers
Copyright, 1920 International Feature Service Inc.
UNEXPECTED GUESTS.


decide O some
with
will
a
drop those good folk time
hospitable
fact that provisions nard to get the summer home least 1t
Friends who drop in the oane of the lives of who live
lakeside
he welcomed cooked oodw you
something which will
fol- the table
And make the variety Of nature that will provide
and
The Washington times., 1920-07-22
WHO REMEMBERS

When the fellows used to take
their girls walking up or down Penn
sylvania avenue instead of on F
street, as now?
When we used to go to Bay Ridge
instead of Chesapeake Beach, and
the old water toboggan they had
there?
The buggy occasionally seen on our
streets, having the horse in the rear,
pushing, instead of pulling?
HOMER.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22

our republican form Of
government" said John M.
Baer, cartoonist- Congressman
from North Dakota. Full
fledged Americans should be
full-franchised citizens. Many
of the residents Of Washing
ton are direct descendants of
patriotic ancestors who toiled,
suffered, and died for human
liberty. Our heritage of re.
ligious, intellectual, and po-
litical liberty was made pos
sible only through their SELF
sacrifice.
1.-The people of the District
of Columbia are assuming all
the obligations without en-
joying the full privileges.
I'll
The Washington times., 1920-07-22
BOsTON's PUDDING STONE.

A lady who writes from the
Bournewood Hospital, Brookline,
Mass. expresses her curiosity con-
corning the great quantities of
rock called by the residents pudding
stone. which she fnds in that
neighborhood.
She says the theory OF these de-
posts is that they were carried
there by the glaciers in the glacial
period, but she doubts that expla-
nation and thinks, because the mass
in which the rounded stones (pud-
ding stones) are embedded resem-
bles dark, solidified mud while the
stones themselves "seem to belong
to the sea-" that the cause of the
phenomenon may have been a great
upheaval ages ago around the pres
ent site Of Boston harbor. She says
that a friend of hers, on seeing the
curious rocks. remarked jokingly
that a part Of the ocean bed of
destroyed planet had dropped
there"
l have often wondered why
women do not show a more general
interest in the earths autobiog-
raphy. Whatever the cause may be,
geology has had no Mary Somer-
vile or Maria Mitchell. And yet
it's story is one of the most roman
tic that science has to tell. The
objects that 1t studies are continu-
ally before everybodys eyes and
under everybody's feet, and what
can be more picturesque than
geology's domain, with It's rocky
shores, precipitous ravines, high
breezy hills, towering mountains.
rocking stones, moss-covered boul-
ders and precipices whose faces
sometimes resemble the edge of an
age-stained book, whose every leaf
contains a narrative of things that
were long before man was?
l see this lady strolling from the
hospital doors In search of natures
tonic, and finding IT, as an inquisi-
tive mind Ia sure to do, in those eN-
haustless aspects of the outer world
which were not created for us but
before us, their origins antedating
the Oldest human tradition by mil
lions of years. and leading the i'm
agination back, aeon beyond aeon.
to the time when the earth was a
starry spark shot from the "dyn-
annie encounter" of ancient suns.
1t Is a pleasure in fancy to stroll
with her, and talk about the
strange conglomerates that "the
residents call pudding-stone," and
to show her that in addition to
her own notion that the convulsive
earth, in the ancient days when
Boston was perhaps a volcanic CEN
ter, upheaved the ocean bed there.
and the theory which she has heard
or read, but doesn't believe. that
the glaciers brought these deposits
from afar, there is a third explnna-
ton OF the origin OF pudding stone
which lies back Of the others, and
must include them both, since II is
more general in its data.
CONSOLIDATION OF GRAVEL.
This explanation is simply that
conglomerate, or pudding stone, is
consolidated gravel (using the word
gravel in the widest sense), and
that II is a typical shore formation,
originating in shallow water. near
land. The stones embedded in the
matrix consist usually OF some form
OF quartz or quartzite rock, but may
also consist of limestone.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22

President and pledged their lives their fortunes and
honor nation Surely after fulfilling all these duties
which with citizenship they should have the full rights
of citizenship itself.
I'VE can no longer deny the men and women of Wash
ington this sacred right cast ballot It would be un
American to deny them this right Let's light Liberty
torch in the District of Columbia. Let US free these
citizens"
The Washington times., 1920-07-22
FOR GRAMMAR SHARKS.

On this subject OF cake-eaters and
their lady companions, how should
we designate the latter-cake-eat-
rixes, cake-eaterettes or cake-eat-
resses?
troubles. The cake-eater eats it be-
cause there are no more free lunches.
FRED VETTER.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22
REECE BEAM can certainly pitch
ball. C. B. and P. H.

Probably that old Indian
in Oklahoma. who bought a
white hearse to take his family
riding had in mind the old song:
I'd rather be on the inside
lookiAg out than on the out
outside looking in"
MILO II.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22

Here lies the body of Patrick O'Fall,
struck in the head by a German ball
Said he as they laid him away 10 rest:
IT'S a punk old place. I'll do my best,
But when the awful trump shall sound,
And I'm out of this here ground,
I'll try very hard to be serene
TIL / get the sucker who cracked !
r. II A
The Washington times., 1920-07-22
1nEARDanSEEr|fiSSA:S

overheard one vamp tell another
that one satisfaction about low-cut
shirt waists was that "the lower we
wear our waists the fewer men stare
us in the face" SlNBAD.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22

I have discovered that on the
moonlight steamer excursions
the girls have no need for coats,
wraps, etc. They all use the
Armstrong heater. D. o. T.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22
THEIR FAME WORLDWIDE.

l received letter from a girl ID
San Francisco, who wrote of having
met a sailor who told her "all about
+ street and its queer people" Now
she wants me to tell her all about
them. I'll send her II and and also
write her.
I'm away for my vacation. Loyal
to the old column and Bill.
EDMUND s. SULLIVAN.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22
KENNETH BIRGFELD.

Is the Clarendon Citizens Asso-
citation going to get busy Kidding
the town of mosquitoes and weeds
while everybody is trying to find
out who is mayor? A. c. II.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22
Votes For Washington

1T is until minds refreshed by the appeal
of than 100000 voteess Americans in the District
of Columbia for national representation that pause
to consider the full political rights enjoy through
The Washington times., 1920-07-22
EXPLANATION SATISFACTORY.

Colored Parson-"Bredren ives N
de spirit and de spirits in us
Brother Jonas-"How's dat? How,
date"
Parson-"It's dis way. II yer puts
de poker in der fab and il gifts red
hot dere you hab the poker in de
fab and de fab in de poker"
w. d. PAYNE.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22

Ask any fair flapper II she
wears half-hose and she'll tell
you the truth. One fellow asked
several and the answer each
time was: "None of your BUSH
ness Nj. p.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22
TEMPERATURES AT POLES.

IA claims that the north pole IL
the opposite. and 0 &C. claims that they
are the same. Who 10 right7"
''B" Is probably right, taking the
The Washington times., 1920-07-22

The man who tries to count the
holes and ruts in Washington road
ways, and streets will go crazy over
the iob
The Washington times., 1920-07-22

The way for Milo H. to get re.
venge on a player piano next door
is to install a photograph and give
them jazz for jazz. R. R.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22

The Best People
on Earth have put
their o. K. on
Warren Gamaliel
as a lot of their
brogans tram p
down the grass in
the first front
yard of Marion.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22

FRED w. BOETTCHER sends
me drawing of the newly elected
president Of the "Porker's Union"
The genuine curb-lizard will actual
ly fight il you call him anything
else than "Porker."
NOW AFTER JOHNS BROTHER.
lie who steals away my rights
Is lower than submarine.
Poor John Barleycorn 10 dead
And they are after old Nicotine.
EDWARD J. IRWIN.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22

Kvale can't lay
his downfall to
kale.
The leaky old
ship surely must
be sinking as we
see the first of the
rats, the Sheikh-
Ul-1slam, making
his dive overheard
from the Turkish
cabinet.
Old Mars gains
on the pacihsts
as he adds the
smashing in China
@ the thirty-odd
wars now waging
all over the map.
AS the White
House conference
breaks up some
one might at least
propose a vote of
confidence.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22

T h e Republic
ans this time
won't need any
plum-tree shak-
ers, as from the
looks of things all
they'll need will
be a lot Of volun-
err gatherers
W ! t h good sized
baskets.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22

There's many a
slip between the
Cup and the Lip.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22

I've come to the conclusion that
it's true that profanity is due to
limited vocabulary.
DAN MCKAY.
A teacher called on her pupils to
write a sentence containing the word
"disarrange." Only little Italian
boy had the dope. He wrote that
when his father went to light the
stove he always said: "Damma dtsss
range" l.. q.
BECAUSE IT'S TRUE.
VIII your contributors tell me
why n mans wife is referred to
as his better half?" have never
heard a satisfactory explanation
JACQUES l.
Twice n certain number equals
2i0 plus five times another num-
Der The sum OF the numbers is
10. Find the numbers.
HARRY ROSENFELD.
The Fairfax county farmer stroll
ing down F street with his wife, saw
the sign: Ladies dresses 20 per cent
or"
"By polly," 7 heard him say to hi,
wife, ~ they take much more on
don't sec what will be left" and abs
looked shocked. X. s.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22

AS you have so many good sharks
writing to our column, I would like
to know how long does a dream
| last? ERNEST G.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22

last? ERNEST g.
At the movie, when I was trying TO
buy a ticket, a dame jumped in front
OF me and inquired of the cashier:
do you sell stamps"
1--WE have nothing left but pork
chops" the cashier answered.
BEN B.
In New Orleans the cake-eaters
are called "jelly-beans." 1t seems to
be cream puffs" would suit them
ELSIE.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22

Kvale can't lay
his downfall to
kale.
The Washington times., 1920-07-22
GARRETT P. SERVISS' ARTICLE
Of
- and Puddn Amateur

tween the two hemispheres must
have occurred many times in past
ages, but since it's total period is
is p, 900 years. human affairs under
go fundamental revolutions and
pass through long intervals of for
getfulness during a single swing Of
the mighty pendulum!
The Washington times., 1920-01-17
SAYS CHORUS GIRLS CAN
PROTECT THEMSELVES

LONDON, Jan. 1.-THE Rev. stew
art Headlam thinks that chorus glrls
can look after themselves and does
not take much stock in tales that
touring companies are really dis
guised travelling harems.
"As rule, these dear girls ca
look after themselves" said the MIN
lister, who Is well known In the theat
rical district. II have known theE
for years and years and years. Gen
erations of them l have known. There
are some wrong ones among them, the
same as in other professions. and
there are some silly ones, but the
majority can manage their moral az
fairs thoroughly we'll"
But despite his views. expressed be-
fore the London county council, the
council recommended that proprie-
tors and managers of touring COM
panies should be licensed the same
as theatrical employment agents
The Washington times., 1920-01-17
PROF. GRICCS LECTURES
To GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

A region where streams and river,
form over night. and disappear. whei
food may be cooked over vents in The
earth when the yspors are not to-
hot and gaseous. and where sn ~
must be gathered from almost per
.pstusl drifts to make iced drinks for
parched throats OF men working by
these natural fireless cookers. was
described by Prof. Robert +. Griggs.
in lectures before the National GeJ.
graphic Society yesterday.
Prof. Griggs' addresses contained
his report on the sixth expedition sent
by the National Geographic Society to
this region OF natural wonders, which
was discovered by an expedition sent
originally to study the effects OF an
eruption OF Mt. Katmai. the word
biggest volcano.
Motion pictures taken there were
given their hrst showing yesterday
in connection with the lectures. one
OF The interesting phenomenon shown
was rn@ pouring OF water over the
vents. which are so hot that the
water disappears in vapor. as II b
magic. before II reaches the OPENING
Another remarkable picture show"t
how salmon jump up the falls of q,
river. at an estimated rate OF d hG!.
million in a few days.
The Washington times., 1920-01-17
HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION
TO MEET DOWN SOUTH
Session Called TO Receive Report OF
Pathhnding Commission on
Southern Roads.

James Sproull. acting president OF
uhe BAnkhead National Highway As
ssociation, has. called at Birmingh ham,
Ala, February 3. a meeting or the
board OF directors OF the Bankhead
National Highway Association, which
10 composed OF one vice president
and two directors from the States OF
Virginia, North and South Carolina
Georgia, Alabama. Mississippi, Ten
nsssee, Arkansas. Texas, New Mexico
Arizona, Oklahoma, and California.
This meeting Is called for the pur-
pose OF receiving the report OF the
Pathfinding Commission that inspect
ed the route from lei Paso, Tex,
through the States Of New Mexico,
Arizona, and California to its desti-
nation, San Diego.
The meeting is a most important
one on account OF filling vacancies
ON the board OF directors. hearing the
reports OF the officers passing upon
a number OF appeals that have been
fiIed at the headquarters of the as
ISOLATION. Also to arrange a program.
the basis and representation, defining
who Is entitled TO membership in the
association at the fourth annual con-
vention that meets in Hot Springs,
Ark, April 16 and II 1920.
]. A. Rountree, secretary OF the
association, has sent an urgent appeal
The Washington times., 1920-01-17
ITALIAN CATHOLICS TO
INSTALL THEIR OFFICERS

The Installation OF officers or the
italian Catholic Society will take
place this evening at a special meet
ing at it's hall, 7l9 Sixth street north
west.
Guests OF honor will be the Very
Rev. Mgr. AIuigi Cossio, auditor OF
the apostolic delegation; and NJ.
Strizzi, OF Philadelphia.
Officers OF the society are B. Bal
ducci, president; V. Pope. vice presi-
dent: N. Nencioni, financial secretary
M. Bello, treasurer; c. D'Arcangelo,
vice treasurer, T. Giuffre, marshal;
b. Landi, E. Kappa, and M Astore,
trustees; V. Colucci, investigating
committee; B. Sapienza. V. Lattanzi,
and l., Sciacca, hagbearers; Il. Y.
Cavalier, custodian, and the Rev. DR..
N. NJ. De Carlo, spiritual director.
The Washington times., 1920-01-17
HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION TO MEET in SOUTH

to all OF the officers and directors
and all parties concerned. to attend
this meeting. 1t is expected that
there will be a large attendaPee. as q
great deal OF interest is being mani
tested in this great National High
way, which starts at Washington and
passes through twelve Southern and
Western States.
Reports at headquarters show great
activity In building the Bankhead
Highway through every State II
traverses. Much erecting OF perma-
nent markers will start in the next
thirty. days. II is hoped that II can
be marked from Washington to San
Diego In the next ninety days.