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The New York herald., 1921-07-16
Christianity Militant.
Spiritual Results Seen at the Chris.
tian EndeaYOr Convention.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: 1t is a
delight for a Christian Endeavorer to
read an editorial article like that which
appeared in your paper on Tuesday. 1t
must be heartening also to many men
and women who do not know the bless
iLg of affiliation with this great cause
but who do rejoice over every evidence
of spiritual values worked out to worthy
results.
/ am sure that our New Jersey En-
deavorers, many Of whom attended the
convention. would indorse every word
Of this note, but In my own case there
is an added satisfaction. Because of my
long connection with newspaper work
like immensely the editorial articles that
disprove some of the filings against the
spirit OF the American press.
NELLIE X. FooTE.
ELIZABETH, N. j., July Is.
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When Grape Meets Grape.

Grapes from our Pacific coast and
those from the Mediterranean coun-
tries-Spain. Italy, Algiers, Tunis-
will soon meet in collision. The
Mediterranean grape invasion will
begin early in August. The fruit
will begin moving overseas westward
in the closing days Of July.
Grapes from these far off countries
can be delivered in New York, in
Baltimore, in Philadelphia or Boston
at approximately SSS a ton. The
grower gets $50 at the vineyard.
Carriage and delivery on shipboard
cost $40. Refrigerator ships bring
them here at freight charge Of S22.
On top of these items is the duty.
about $50 ton.
During the war, with Mediterra-
mean grape shipments entirely cut off.
the price of California grapes here
I'm the East went as high as $50 a
ton. About the middle of last Octo-
Der there came heavy slump. Prices
reached as little as $50 ton. This
was below cost of production and
transportation. Many carloads were
sold to pay freight charges. Then
the surety companies were drawn
into the controversy. They had given
bonds in behalf of the shippers. On
these bonds some of them are now
being sued by railroads. And now,
on top OF this state Of affairs, comes
the threatened flood Of Medlterra-
mean grapes on our market.
All of which means that California
grape growers must awaken from
their high price dreams and get down
to the brass tacks of things as they
are and not as they we're when the
world was war lunatic asylum
either this or be obliterated by a
competition they cannot meet.
To be sure, this is an opinion which
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Don't Abuse Landlords.
Fair Words Might Attract Invest.
ment Money to Housing.

To THE New York HERALD: Would
/ be correct in saying that various well
irtentioned people. because of misdi-
rected energies. are doing everything in
their power to raise rents charged by
the landlords?
Isn't it fact that the landlord has
been painted as a person far worse than
the pawnbroker, the bootlegger the lot
terry man" If such reputation Is given
to landlords the many thousands of m
vestors with hundreds of millions of dol
lars at their disposal for investment at
a fair rate of interest will naturally re-
frain from becoming landlords. 1t stands
TO reason investors do not want to place
themselves in public opinion in a class
where they viii be continually referred
to in general way as rent hogs, rent
profiteers. rent gougers, &c.
This situation may be one thing that
Is preventing the law OF supply and de-
mand from operating, and this law Is
the only cure for the house shortage
If a newspaper publishes just a small
despatch saying that oil has been struck
in a new section of the country or gold
found in this or that region or such
and such legitimate business has been
very successful. Immediately you will
find millions Of dollars seeking invest
ment in these lines of business
Following this reasoning is it not a
fact that II the press would tell of the
wonderful opportunities in building and
renting property and what dignified
occupation this is to engage in hun.
dreds of millions of dollars would be
attracted and we soon would have plenty
of houses to go around at reasonable
rents? J. S. Otis.
p. 81 am not landlord, just a
lumberman.
NEW ORLEANS, La, July IL.
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SATURDAY. JULY 16, 1921.
Borah, an Honest Statesman.

Some of the American people are
for a soldier bonus, some of the
American people are against soldier
bonus, but if THE New YORK HERALD
knows anything about our national
character and conscience all the
American people are for honest, fear
less, rugged conduct in high public
life.
WILLIAM E. BoRAH knows that the
present bonus measure is a legisla-
tive fraud upon the soldiers them
selves, and he stands up on the floor
of the United States Senate and says
so. Senator BoRAH knows that re-
committing the bill until next Janu-
ary, when there will be no possi-
bility of paying the money then or
soon thereafter. is an electioneering
swindle, and he says so. Senator
BoRAH knows that voting in Con-
gress to keep alive measure which
those voting for it hope is dead is
political cowardice, and he says so.
When members of the United
States Congress supposed to have
self-respect and obviously seeking
good regulations are ducking and
lodging and fleeing the square issue
of the bonus scheme as the rank
est poltroon on the battlefield would
not run away from showers of lead,
these straight, manly words of Bo-
RAH, the fair, clean fighter, should
sink into the public memory:
"On this floor to-day we have
heard something about bringing this
bill back here in six months. and I
want to say that If anything could
be characteristic of supreme moral
cowardce in this situation it would
be precisely that. We ought to have
the courage If we are against this
bill to say so and give the reason
why There Is no sense in trifing
with this matter by sending it back
to committee and then bringing it
back again when we know conditions
will be no better.
There seems to be an opinion in
some quarters that a large block of
votes is involved. Whether this block
be large or small, and don't think
II so imposing as some appear to
think it is, we should, nevertheless,
proceed with courage in matter of
such supreme Importance to the peo-
pie of the United States"
The American people have not al
ways agreed and will not always
agree with Senator BoRAH's political
creed and party doctrine; they will
respect, admire and trust him as an
honest, fearless man and fearless,
honest public leader.
The New York herald., 1921-07-16
Bobbed Hair.
Flippancy Not the Only Reason for
CurtaiIed Locks.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Can a
ladys coiffure change her character? Is
young lady's department changed. her
manner altered after she has had her
hair cut for comfort, for convenience
or for the improvement which Is a re-
suit of bobbed hair?
Anybody who will give the matter due
consideration will invariably reach the
conclusion that the views promulgated
at Hartford. Connecticut, against this
mode of hairdressing are platitudes un-
fair to many decorous young ladies and
not justified by the improperly of the
few whose behavior would be fippant
regardless OF bobbed hair.
MARY b. FLANNERY.
New YORK, July 10.
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That Ought to Settle It.

From the Eldon (Mo.) Advertiser.
To whom It may concern: To those who
have said or may believe that Joseph Side
bottom. deceased. died believing that J. T.
Roberts stole his plough are laboring under
a wrong opinion. MARY SiDEBorruM
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!. DR. W. A. Murrill will give an illustrated
lecture, Immunity to Disease in Plants" IN
the museum building of the New York Bo-
tanical Garden, Bronx Park, p. M.
The Hall of Fame, New York University,
University Heights, will be open to the
public. 2 r. NJ TO p. M.
Elliott-Fisher Company. convention, Hotel
Commodore, beginning A. NJ
Cleveland Discount Company, meeting,
Hotel Commodore, all day.
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Peruvians will understand what
North Americans mean in speaking
of a "he man" when step ashore at
Callao our commissioners to Peru's
centenary celebration. Major General
HUNTER LrGGETT and Rear Admiral
HUGH RopMAN.
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"Braddock's Defeat"

TO THE NEW YORK HERALD: Can you
tell me where / can get copy of a
poem entitled "Braddock's Defeat? /
remember these lines:
Monong ahela, dost thou say Monongahela
flood?
Ah, tell me II II bushes still and stu It's
stream runs blood.
SHAW MARTIN.
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New YORK, July Is.

A poem of the same title is printed
in american History by American
Poets" but the lines you quote are not
given.
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Tho Associated Press Is exclusively entitled
to the use for republication of all news des-
patches credited 10 II or not otherwise
credited IN this paper, and also the local
news published herein.
All rights of republication OF special des.
patches herein are also reserved. q
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Credit where Credit Is Due.

From the Wichita Beacon.
Many man who wakes up to find him
self famous would have oversight II his wife
hadn't called him.
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These Piping Times.

Knicker-The swords are beaten to plough
shares.
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MEMORIAL EXHIBITION
OF THAYER PAINTINGS
To Be Held in Autumn at Mu-
seun-Other Art.

Late in the autumn the metropolitan
Museum Of Art will hold a memorial ex-
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II st. SwrTHIN meantit we shall all
need rubber boots for the next forty
days.
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EVENTS TO-DAY.

Highest temperature, rs, at 2:30
Lowest temperature, 67, at 4 L. M
Average temperature, ~.
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A Fighter.

When first he landed over here
We wrongly called him Carpenter.
But when again he sails away
Wen hail him as Carponteea.
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n,ENvoI.

And though defeated. still these French
Fight mighty well in ring or trench.
n. r. w.
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LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS.

The temperature In this city yesterday
as recorded by the official thermometer, /.
shown In the annexed table:
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Cost the Chief Disadvantage;
Nearly $1,000 900 Spent Now

The chief disadvantage Of rigid air
ships is the tremendous cost. When the
2R-2, which formerly was the R-3S, but was
renamed by the Navy Department after its
purchase from England, pokes her nose
across the American three mile limit it
will mean an expenditure of almost s5,OOO,-
600 as an original outlay, and high CON
tinued cost of maintenance
This comes about from the fact that the
airship itself cost about S2,OO0,OOo, and the
hangar which is to be its home at Lake
hurst, N. J., required another $4,000 900 to
build. The rest of the money went for the
sending of crew to England to bring the
airship home, innumerable experiments,
the provision of fuel and helium gas and
various odds and ends.
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main negative, was OF immense value in
the German naval machine, for they gave
assurance all the time of the position of the
British High Seas Fleet.
One of the interesting incidents OF the
war-almost inconceivable and unimpor-
tant except that it indicates how high it
is possible for airships to fly-is the fact
that one of the German Zeppelins was imme-
diately over the scene Of the battle of Jut-
land and yet did not know anything about
the engagement. For some unaccountable
reason the craft had gone to a tremendous
altitude and thereby missed the show.
To house the giant airship there has been
under construction for year or more at
Lakehurst, N. j., the largest hangar ever
built in the world Great Britain formerly
owned the largest hangar, at Howden, Eng
land, but it now is forced into secondary
erected at Lakehurst at cost of approx
imately S2,OOO,O00.
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base every four or five hours Tor addi-
tional fuel; kite balloons must be anchored
to one of the ships If they are to be kept
from floating away with the wind; various
technical disadvantages appear in other
types.
Rigids, such as the ZR-2, cannot be easily
destroyed by an enemy. 1t is possible for
them to get away on short notice, even IL
they are sighted. One of them is able to go
to within sighting distance of a hostile
fleet, report its location by radio to its
base and then take to its heels. Such
signal, of course, would be a sign for the
enemy to start after the rigid, even IL it
had not been observed before To send
an airplane out after the rigid would re-
quire time in the climbing. with the
chances that the airship would be safe.
1t is possible for the airship to stay up at
night, motionless, or approach the enemy
without detection. Then at dawn, which is
the ideal time for attack In many in
stances, the position could be reported.
Not so, of course. with airplanes, which
with night flying have difficulty, particu-
larly over the ocean.
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Helum gas will be used In the great
compartments of the rigid, of which there
are eighteen. This gas is derived from GER
tain oil fields, the Government maintaining
huge plant for it's production in the vicin-
ity of Fort Worth, Texas The gas is not
inflammable, which is not true of other
gases in balloons.
Hydrogen is highly inflammable An in
cendiary bullet would set an airship on fire
If it were to hit, but this it not true of the
helium gas. In this regard the United
States has a peculiar advantage over all
the other nations of the world, since the
only known supply OF helium is in America.
This Is said to be one of the governing
factors in the recent abandonment by
Great Britain of the further development
of this type of lighter than air craft.
Just what it Is going to. cost the Govern
ment to operate the ZR-2 is problem that
will not be solved until it is tried for a
while. II is known that 1t is going to be
highly expensive. For one thing, 1t will
have to have a crew OF not less than 500
men to get IL in and out Of the hangar.
The reason is that no mechanical contriv-
ance as yet has been developed for manning
the. craft when 1t is down. In the case of
some of the semi-rigids in the army and
navy at present rolling track has been
devised which permits the anchorage of
the airplane and it's being showed under the
roof. The ZR-2, for the present at least,
will have to be handled by man power so
that the anchorage lines may be shifted
rapidly and wherever required.
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In its outside measurements the hangar
is 954 feet long. $50 feet wide and 200 feet
high, but this, of course, does not correctly
portray the inside measurements. The con
struction is such that there are various Of
fices aud complete shops along the outsids
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The German Government found airships
of great advantage during the war. They
we're the Zeppelins. and they were used on
observation duty over the North Sea. The
position by the tremendous building just
information they supplied, while in the
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Takes Crew of Fifty Men
And Can Sail for Weeb

The crew Of the zR-2 is fifty men. The
economical cruising speed Of the airship is
sixty miles an hour and,a this rate IL may
stay away from its base in continuous
flight for week. In one position the air
craft. with proper supplies aboard, may
stay out indefinitely.
The New York herald., 1921-08-14
By DONALD M'GREGOR.

COPYRIGHT, 1921, by THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau
Washington ID. c., Aug. 13.
HE rapidly increasing Importance of
aircraft in the national war machine
will be emphasized again in a few
days with the arrival in the United States
of the rigid dirigible ZR-2, which now is
scheduled to start on flight across the
Atlantic Ocean from England on August 25.
Three days later-if all goes well-the
giant airship will poke its nose over the
coast line of the American continent in
the vicinity of New York city, joining the
forces of the Atlantic fleet. The people of
the United States thereupon may feel an
even greater security than at present in the
way of national defence, since the arrival
of the rigid will mean the filling Of gap
that has been apparent to military observ-
ers since the beginning of the lighter than
air development
Primarily the ZR-2 is intended for obser-
vation purposes IN time of war, taking up
the patrol of a specified area or remaining
at some important station on watch for an
indefinite time. It's ability to perform cer-
tain duties is unequalled by any other
type Of craft, even airplanes, seaplanes and
other styles of balloons.
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edge of the hangar, which is built for two
airships like the ZR-2.
The inside measurements with the shop
and Office space eliminated, are S07 feet
in length, 264 feet in width and 1913 feet in
height. 1t is the intention to house in the
hangar both the ZR-2 and the ZR-1. which
is now building, and they will sit side
by side under the great roof as a protection
from the elements.
The construction of the hangers is highly
modern. The great building is Of steel
framework, covered with fireproofing ma
terial and filled in with adequate window
space to provide for ventilation. The roof,
while of wood, is such that there is vir-
tually no danger of fire.
Could Hold the WooIWorth
If Resting on It's Side
An idea of the size of this mammoth
building may be gained when 1t is consid-
cred that the great Woolworth Building,
tower and all, if laid on its side, could be
hidden within the structure. Probably
the most remarkable feature of the build.
ing is it's doors.
There are four of them. one pair at each
end. Each door weighs the stupendous
amount Of 1,341 tons. In each is 459 tons
of steel, including the great trussed braces
that give stability to them when opened,
and S38 tons Of concrete the balance be-
ing made UP of the windows, sheathing
&c. 1t takes four twenty horsepower cleo.
trio motors to run them but in their
grooved tracks they open and close easily
and without noise
The vast expanse of roof Is utilized as q
lighting station in case the ZR-2 should
make night flights. There is a battery OF
eight searchlights on each corner and two
monster searchights at the south end are
installed to sweep the heavens in emer-
gency. Within the hangar at night there
Is a wonderful system of flood light that
makes the interior as bright as day and
permits work on the monster airship night
and day
On the ground level, concealed and pro-
tected by gratings. are strings Of powerful
lights that throw their beams upward
Along the inside top OF the roof-techni-
cally it is called the main catwalk"-is
another string throwing beams downward
Along the three side "catwalks' at vary
ing levels on each side are other strings
that cast their rays right and left
Still another novelty is enormous tanks
within the hangar that will store the rain
water that falls on the great roof. Proper
ly strained, this rain water will be invalu-
able for batteries Of the airship, of the at
tendant motor cars and for drinking in an
emergency. The entire hangar is perma-
nently camoufiaged with brown and white
sheets OF asbestos. the effect concealing
the size of the building amazingly.
All Labor Saving Devices
To Keep Down Cost of Crews
Every modern device in the way Of labor
saving has been provided at the hangers
There are tracks into the building for trans
porting the machine in that manner. II II
Is found to be practicable. Small engines
then, such as may be seen operating the
trains OF the childrens railroads in the
amusement parks, are to be used for the
hauling.
The ordinary means OF taking the airship
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Different From Others
In Holding It's Position

The work of the rigid Is individual, and
by no means takes anything away from the
value of other types of aircraft. Its primary
value is its ability to remain in the air over
long period and to remain stationary in
the air, thing that heavier than air craft
cannot do, since it is their flying speed that
keeps them afloat.
The ZR-2-the United States is to have
two of them soon for the ZR-1 is now in
building-will be used by the naval forces
as an adjunct to the fleet At this stage
there Is no intention of using the airship
for combat, although such thing might
be possible because of the fact that forty
one tons of weight, explosives or poison
gas il desired, could be carried. Observa-
tion duty will be primary.
If war should develop the airship would
be used for scouting, to locate the enemy
fleet and reporting back its position, its
tactical formation and the like. 1t might
be placed on cruising duty many hundreds
of miles off shore to signal the sighting of
hostile craft. 1t could take up an advan-
tageous position in the protection of a
harbor, such as New York harbor, and by
this means the men behind the heavy guns
would be kept informed of what to expect
In time or combat the rigid would be
used for fire control-that is, to observe
and correct the shooting Of guns, to insure
a higher percentage of hits than ordinarily
would be obtained IL the fire were directed
from the approximate surface of the water.
Such thing is essential in these days
when naval engagements begin when the
opposing capital ships are out of sight Of
each other below the horizon
Easy Bit of Mathematics
To Find the Enemy Target
The presence Of balloon over battle
ship permits the accurate location of the
target, since 1t creates triangle, of which
one side and two angles are known. 1t is
then simple matter of triangulation to
obtain the range.
The same thing is possible, of course,
with other types of flying craft, but in each
instance there is some Limitation or disad-
vantage. Airplanes, for example, must keep
In motion at flying speed. returning to the
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The Ne York Heras Magazine Section haze been
II thoroughly informed the strides made aviato here and
ABROAD but oays story of the rigid lighter than AR dir
gb mavys ZRs especially timely Herewith
hitherto unpublished about the great craft and its
Lakest ~ j. The photographs
article Herald staff photographer also
and of exceptional interest.
scheduled take off from England August
August present Great Britain plans
deobe airshp feet More than 900 INFESTED
stations Zeppelin
All disposed the smaller bps" already
hdystacks
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Another Million Spent in Training Grew for
Transatlantic Flight, Helium Cas- Expert
ments, Etc, and Maintenance Will Re-
quire 500 Men at the Great Lakehurst,
N j., Station = Rigid Lighter Than
Air Machines Considered Highly
Valuable for Scouting and Range
Finding Off Shore, but Great
Britain Will Scrap Her Flotilla
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Monster Airship Cost $2000O00 Hangar as Much Mo1

These
an beside somplee
ndpo
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All Labor Saving Devices
To Keep Down Cost of Crews

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