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The Washington times., 1922-11-20
GARRETT p. SERVISS ON
KEEPING WARM
Really Mans Own Blood Not Atmosphere
That Provides Heat-How to Be Com
Portable Without Making Breeding
Grounds for Disease.

; radiated away into the cooler air
around IL. The normal mean TEN.
perature Of the blood is about 80
degrees +. That is well above the
temperature of midsummer air.
When the Chill Begins.
The surplus heat developed in
the body is sufficient TO permit the
air temperature TO sink TO 65 or 10
degrees without drawing seriously
upon the bodily supply OF heat.
When the air temperature goes
lower than about 60 degrees the
average person begins to feel chilly,
II in AN inactive state. The best
way TO warm up, then. Is not TO
start a fire, but to take a little
muscular exercise.
II the temperature sinks TO 80
degrees livelier exercise or mlld
warming of the surrounding air,
is called for. Vigorous persons.
when physically active, can Keep
comfortably warm in an air tenn
perature Of 40 degrees or less. But
if the temperature sinks much be.
low freezing, ears, fingers. ETC.. In
which the blood circulation is less
active, are liable to be frozen by
long exposure.
ANYBODY who, in cold weather,
has contrasted the delicious, salts
fying and not enervating effect OF
increasing the warmth of the body
from within by exercise, as against
heating the outside in order to
stifle the bodys radiation. will
never wish TO adopt the last-named
4. h.
first. But, of course, indoor work.
crs cannot take enough or sur
ficiently continuous exercise 10
keep warm in the winter months
of our latitudes-and so arises the
need TO call upon coal to warm the
air by yielding up the solar heat
stored in it during past geologic
ages.
Disease Breeding Grounds.
II the air temperature produced
by stoves and furnaces never ex-
ceeded say about 70 degrees in a
sheltered room. this device for
keeping the body comfortably
warm would work very well.
There would be no enervation.
no stifled feeling. no need for let
ting sudden. chilling drafts into
the room.
1t is too much heat and not an
excess of 'impurity" in the air
that generally makes living.rooms
uncomfortable good breeding
grounds for disease. Civilized
life renders it impossible for most
of us TO keep warm in winter IN
the best way. and the second
best way. which we have been
forced to adopt. has been but half
perfected.
The Washington times., 1922-11-20
Those Stock Dividends
And Their Plain Meaning.

The du Pont Company will pay its stockholders 30 per
stock dividend bringing its capital up hundred
millions The thing is happening in every direction
What back of these many stock dvdends7 You
answer to that.
Back of the stock dividends usually income dodgng
Most conveniently those that in the country
have decided that stock dividend isn't income
may go and sell stock which is handed to him
for five million dollars but the law says THAT ISN'T IN
COME.
that the company had previously issued to increase value
Of millions of dollars That has happened repeatedly
But THAT ISN'T INCOME EITHER
This country is able when to taxing little people
But falls down flat when taxing big people The
recent election may help to change that.
The Washington times., 1922-11-20

6 Observation-Disclosures that DR..
-. Sun Vat Sen was striving
~ to effect an alliance OF
China with Germany and the
Moscow Soviet government OF
Russia. the Hongkong Tele-
graph has startled political
China by its sensational charges.
According to the Hongkong
paper. documents that reveal the
purpose of the southern leader
were found in a safe following
Suns flight from Canton after
the revolt against him by the
forces OF Gen. Chen Chung
ming.
In a formal written statement.
DR.. Sun has answered the blast
directed against him.
The following is from a recent
issue OF the Telegraph:
1T has long since been charged
against Sun Vat Sen that he has
embraced Bolshevist doctrines.
Up until now there has been
lack Of concrete proof. but today
we are able to publish what we
know to be irrefutable evidence
that Sun has been conspiring to
bring about an alliance between
China, Germany. and Russia.
based on Bolshevist ideas.
when Sun Vat Sen and his
officials fled from their homes
on the night of General Chen's
coup In Canton the vice minis
lister OF finance left behind
safe. In the safe were discover.
ed certain letters. one being In
Suns own handwriting, proving
that negotiations were then
being carried on to bring about
the alliance already referred to.
We have taken every step to 10.
sure that they are genuine be.
fore giving them publicity.
Prom the translation It is
revealed that the leading spirits
In this movement are Sun and
Admiral Won Hintze. the present
German minister'to Moscow, and
who was formerly German min
lister 10 Peking. The correspond.
ence shows that Sun and Won
Hintze were arranging to es-
establish a bureau In Canton
which was to be the headquar-
ters for Bolshevik agents who
were TO be sent TO China"
In replying TO the charges, DR..
Sun says:
"Dr. Sun believes. that China,
at her present stage Of modern.
izatlon. stands In great need OF
assistance from powers who will
treat and deal with her as an
equal and a full sovereign state.
He believes that Germany and
Russia are now 20 circumstances
and governed that China can
treat with than on terms Of
The Washington times., 1922-11-20
Soviet Developing Flivvers.
MOSCOw.-The Russian II

MOSCOW.-The Russian "fliv.
yer" is now an actuality.
Soviet Russia has recovered
her industrial strength to the
point that she is actually build.
ing all.Russian light cars. The
first all.Russian automobile has
just been completed in the Rus.
sian state factory near Moscow.
All materials for the machine
were Russian and particular al.
tention was given in designing
the machine with new devices
which make the motor capable OF
carrying heavy loads over the
rough nnssian roads.
Completion Of the automobile
was the signal for a great cele.
bra;ion. Kalinin and the Army
Chieftains Kameneff and Noroshi.
loft participated in the celebra.
tons. and the workers who
turned out this Soviet flivver
presented the first OF their prod.
uct to Kalinin, who accepted II
and said that he hoped that
these machines would become as
famous i'm Russia as the Ameri.
can car has become throughout
the remainder of the world.
The state automobile factory
is now equipped TO turn out
twenty machines month for
the remainder Of this year. In
1923 the factory will turn out
200 cars month and in 1924 IL
will deliver 1000 q month.
The Washington times., 1922-11-20
NAN IS DESCENDANT OF FISH,
AIJTHOR.EXPLORER SAYS
Jungle Studies Convince Professor William Beebe OUR
Ancestors Were Once Water Animals.

scientific knowledge can be made.
1.-The land minnow was only
one OF several small primitive life
forms that we studied Observa.
ton of the iguana and the hoat-
zin also helped to show a revolu'
tionary trend.
"If you watch the iguana.
reptile, spring from the branches
of tree and trust itself to the
air. you realize plainly the in.
stinct that brought reptiles up TO
the bird stage.
THE hoatzin illustrates the
same step. II is part bird, part
reptile. obviously a holdover from
the time when animals emerged
from the sea.
"The wings Of hoatzin mes
things are armed with two well
developed claws and the birds
Chamber about branches In
reptilian but wholly unbirdlike
manner"
(Copyright. 1929. by Cosmopolitan
News Service)
The Washington times., 1922-11-20
SEXES MUCH LAND
Who Forced to Give Up
Big
By T. E. Powers
Copyright. is2a. by ssss Company.

ties are now attempting TO secure
redress by appealing to a neutrai
tribunal, with the hope OF haltins
the confiscations and competing
the government to respect the
rulinEs Of the Versailles treaty,
the instrument. It will he remem'
bercd. to which the state owes
it's existence.
I'VE know full well. con-
tinues Count Sternberg, that the
government will not stop with the
seizure Of these preliminary lands
and estates, but will exempllfy
the axiom that appetite grows
with eating
Used BY Nationalists.
This Agrarian law for break
ing up Of large landed properties
though 1t originated In the desire
OF the state to crafty the land
hunger of a peasant population,
is being used for nationalistic
ends. by introducing the Czech
coionists into essentially German
speaking districts. II is the same
policy as II. n. Brailsford points
out in a recent number OF the
New Republic. which earned gen.
eral execration for Bismarck when
he adopted this course against
the Poles.
Brailsford further says that
"the course of an aggressive ma.
tionalism has been stamped over
the whole of Central and Eastern
Europe"
Politically. Czechoslovakia can
never be a unitary national state,
as II has inherited the polyglot
structure Of the old Austro Hun
garian empire. the only difference
being in a name. But whereas.
the dual monarchy has a popula.
ton OF fifty millions in which TO
absorb the many nationalities, the
Republic OF Czechoslovakia has
only thirteen millions. As q con.
sequence of this, the racial prob.
lem is a most acute one. and
will not be solved until the gov.
ernment retrieves many or It's
initial errors.
In this connection II is inter.
csting to note statistics just pub.
l'shed on the inventory value in
gold marks of 1853 domains taken
away from the former German
lessees In West Prussia and the
province Of Posen by the new
owners, the Poles. The total
amount OF these confiscsted prop.
critics is something like fifty mil.
lion gold marks or fourteen bill.
lion paper marks, to which must
he added the estates OF the ex.
pellcd settlers. amounting TO an.
other thirty million gold marks.
The Washington times., 1922-11-20
ONCE OVERS
WHAT YOU ARE.

"Men not what they think they but what they
think that they are
Here is a statement you should ponder.
If you think you inferior you will be what
you think
If you convinced that you cannot do certain thing,
you won't do it WELL for you think, you
When you begin to think you are slipping backward,
down you go.
Down you go, unless you have sufficient hold your
self to get rid of such destructive thoughts.
You will not be a has-been long you convinced
that you not sbeen.
You cannot be good man and think evil thoughts.
Your life is purer than your thoughts.
You NAY keep your evil thoughts in check, but you
not respect yourself knowing the depth of your
meanness.
conscience prcks you cannot get happiness out
of liir.
Perhaps you need personal hOusecleanng.
The Washington times., 1922-11-20
BY Garrett p. Serviss,
Eminent Astronomer and Author
ity on Subjects Of Scientific
Interest.

TyHE difficulty in getting
enough coal TO keep warm
Il this winter will be an aid to
thinking. Some OF the more OBJ
ylous and practical thoughts in
spired by il are already in cur
rent exchange wherever people
meet TO talk OF sit down To read.
There are also more philosophical
aspects OF the subject which have
a deep. though less Immediately
evident. practical interest. Some
of these concern the science or
economies. with which ] am not
about TO deal. but there is one OF
physiological and biological ma
ture that seems TO me very I'M
portant.
Why do we heat our rooms In
winter? "Why, TO keep warm
YOU say: that's easy.
Yes. It is an easy answer but
very superficial. II our thoughts
never went any further or deeper
than that the superiority OF lhe
human TO the simian would not
be so self evident.
IL would be more SUGGESTIVE OF
the essential truth if the reply
TO the question was: we neat
our rooms to save our bodily
heat"
Blood Provides Heat.
II is not the warm air thai
keeps US comfortable at our work
or our pleasures. but it Is our
warm blood. The atmospheric
heat may. indeed, make us very
uncomfortable through it's Vari'
ability and its excesses' Dut the
blood, as long as ii is in a heeithy
condition, never incommodes us
with it's heat because It's 'efn'
norature is constant. That con
s,ancy is the measure OF 'he
perfection of the bodily mechan'
ISM There Is no man.made lur'
mace or engine capable of match
ing it. oa ,ir
ia the outside Of the body 10 pre-
vent the escape or the nat @ ai
bodily heat is a crude device. Inc
body can supply its own loss Oh
heat much more effectively by
ans Of muscular exercise, whlch
,ses the consumption OF larger
amount of oxygen. or, IN other
words, increases the temperature
of the bodily furnace.
In fact, the body is an engine
which always, except in cold
weather. has little more neat
than il needs, and this surplus Is
The Washington times., 1922-11-20
SAP AND SALT
BY BERT MOSES

tcopyrisht 1924. by Premier syndIes,.
Homeliness seems to be neces.
sary In a woman to make her Il
good wife.
Success looks bigger while YOU
are chasing II than II does after
you catch Il.
No one can be either great or
right much more than a quarter
OF the time.
The real hustler hustles with
his head. the activity Of his body
being purely incidental.
Those who work because they
like Il are better workmen than
those who work because they
have TO.
You can afford to waste a lot OF
politeness because Il doesn't cost
anything to carry a complete ns.
sortment % II.
Hez Heck says The sody
fountain has not yit created any
great poets."
The Washington times., 1922-11-20
BY Caroline V. Campbell.

Universal Service Staff Correspondent.
II ERLIN.-"Kid-glove Bolshev.
Id ism" Is the name the large
landowners in CZechoslo-
vakia apply to the high.hsnded
measures taken by the govern
ment in confiscating private prop
erty and turning it over to the
state.
Already 100000 acres Of forest
land belonging to thirty-seven
owners have thus been expropri.
ated--a drastic measure only to
be fully understood by going back
to events which happened in the
year 1919.
Scarcely had the revolution
grown cold when a group in whose
hands rested momentary power
met and declared themselves a con-
stituent assembly. although pos.
sessing no mandate from the
people. and from which all non.
Czech, nationalities, including i'm.
portant men of finance and own.
ers of big estates, were excluded.
A constitution was drafted with
out the participation Of a single
German representative, one OF the
first acts of the new assembly be.
ing the passage of a law providing
for the appropriation of the estates
of the members Of the former
reigning family as we'll as the
large properties belonging to the
Austrian and Hungarian aristoc-
racy.
No Compensation Allowed.
No compensation whatever was
offered, while others were for
lands coming under category.
placed upon a list for an event
ful compensation to be estimated
by the government.
The names of the original own
ers were erased from the lists at
the registration office and re.
placed BY that Of the state as the
new owner of the properties.
Every sale. every lease and every
change of any kind whatsoever
had to be registered at the "Bu-
reau for Landed Property" espe.
cially created for this purpose,
and permission granted for such
negotiations.
II is only recently. four years
after the close of the war. that
the Government has commenced
CARRYING out It's real program Of
confiscation. affecting, as has al.
ready been stated, 100000 acres
or forest lands belonging to In.
dividuals who have made them.
selves persons non grata with the
authorities.
Best Property Taken.
Moreover. the property selected
for confIscation has 70 far been
the most highly cultivated &C.
tstes on which are the most
valuable castles. According 10
The Washington times., 1922-11-20

IAN did not descend from
M the monkey tribe; he came
AVA from a fish.
So said Professor William Beebe'
famous scientist and author, FOL
lowing his return from ten
months of studying primitive hte
in the junglss OF British Guiana
as director of the Tropic Research
section of the New York Zoology
cal Society.
Thus, when an irritaled person
refers TO a fellow h"ing as A
moor fish" he is hioloc ,cally right.
Judged by scientific and piscato-
rial standards, man is mat very
thing.
DR.. Beebe. 80 far as is known.
is the first scientist to see a Ilsh
walk.
He discovered how it rises on
it's fins and uses the fins as arms
and legs. Hence said Dr.
Beebe, mans arms and legs were
once fins and has ancestors were
water animals.
LAND MINNOW METHODS.
when the land minnow reaches
an obstruction it makes a frantic
concentrated rush, jumps, and
clings to the obstruction with its
tail. E.
1T has an adhesive tail
Then II makes another jump,
and so on and ON until II reaches
the point il Is making for, gen
erally secluded spot under
Ieaf. where IL can lie in wait for
insects. | have known land
minnow TO live for nine days out
of water.
THE land minnow. fl figuratlve'y
speaking. lives in backwater
from prehistoric times. ii is
relative of the four.eyed minnow
of British Guiana. but the Tour.
eyed minnow, I'm spite OF its visual
perspicacity. never worked out Il
scheme for leaving the water,
"The land minnow took the
first step one bright day several
million years ago and Ih'N ne;
came stuck. Its fins remained
fins in spite of all II cou'd 90.
Some other fish that have since
disappeared. did "A little better
and as n result we nave li"''
"Scisnce has known that the
land minnows existed, but didn I
know how the little fish man.
aged to put three or four hun
dred feet between II ana the
nearest patch Of water. The sup
position was that the fish wrig'
Rled or crawled."
LIFE IN THE JUNGLES.
DR.. Beebe related in a simple
way the most amazing facts
about life In the far away jun
giles, the last stamping grounds
OF animal life.
Ibid you discover any new
forms Of animal 'ife?" he was
asked.
Yes; on this trip we found
about $50 forms, including In
sects, unknown to science. And
these were discovered In an area
that included only one-quarter OF
square mile.
Man knows little about the
Jungle: n is easy to find new
animals and insects. The diffi'
Guilty comes IN naming them.
"put I avn not 80 much inter.
esied IN discovering new forms
ef life as In studying the ones
already known. In that way
hsiieve . greater centribu,ios 70
The Washington times., 1922-11-20

, personnel receives similar no.
tice of dismissal.
The peasant population stlll
clings with affection to their old
masters, and mass meetings have
been held protesting against what
they term an illegal and prcda-
tory policy" The damaged par
The Washington times., 1922-11-20

Count Adalbert Sternberg. one Of
the men whose estates have been
appropriated. notice Ia received
stating summarily that the own
ership and inventory are to be
turned over to the State on such
and such a day"
On certain estates the entire
The Washington times., 1922-11-20
Kindness Teaches Children.

POPLAR BLUFF. Mo.-"Be
kind. but firm" IL the recipe for
the control OF children, offered
by Mlssourl's oldest school teacher.
She is Mrs. T.. w. Williamson.
Of this city. known to more than
5000 school children who have
been enrolled I'm her classes dur
ing the last thirty.six years
Mrs, Williamson began teaching
In Poplar Bluff In 1885.
The Washington times., 1922-11-20
Il Begins to Be Exciting.

There IL to be a womsns auxil.
lary Of the Ku Klux Klsn. Now
the secrets Of the order are likely
o come out.
The Washington times., 1922-11-20

There are six railroads that
come under the designation of
Northern Pacific: Southern Pacific;
Union Pacific; Great Northern.
Chicago. Milwaukee an -. Paul.
and Atchison. Topeka ana Santa
ra A
The Washington times., 1922-11-20

The most conservative estimate
places the number Of species ot
insects IN existence at five million.
while the estimate Of Riley, the
.amous entcmologist. 10 ten mil.
lion.
The Washington times., 1922-11-20
A Hair-Raising Offer.

London will give 10000 pounds
for a head OF hair"
The Washington times., 1922-11-20

MAN did not descend from
M the monkey tribe; he came
AVA from a fish.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-29
Juniors are Rehearsing
for the HippOdrOme
(Cotniued from Page ID

SCOt'lueO lIou dRc -
The clowns nave been selected
for their part in the performance:
Donald Cutting, Allen Byl, Joseph
Blanchard, Lyndon Arnold, Ralph
Pierce, Gerald C. Rich, Allen Car
ter, Bailey Brown, LeFolrest
Thompson and Howard Farmer.
Then there are fairies, witches,
acrobats and many others all be-
ing drilled by Miss Comstock with
Miss Lola French the accompanist
to entertain the big tent full We'd
nesday afternoon.
This afternoon comes the picnic
The Juniors will meet at the tent
and equipped with lunch will hike
to the golf links or the knob for
supper out of doors. Old Father
Bad Habit, a huge creature of
straw will be burned after the
Juniors are through with him.
Each resident Of Mayor Fitch's
municipality will write his bad
habit ona slip Of paper, this will
be pinned to Father Bad Habit
and consigned to the flames.
At Friday nights session of the
Chautauqua Miss Lucille Paul,
captain of the guards, made sohrt
speech, read the rules of the Jun
ior Chautauqua and requested that
all Complaints against Juniors be
brought to her
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-29
Oriental Evening
at Chautauqua
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Continued from page one)
like while the Chinese were con-
tented and peaceful. He said Japan
wanted to dominate the East and
had already secured Formosa,
Korea, and parts of Manchuria.
The tale of woe and starvation
that has resulted in the spread of
Russian bolshevism was enough to
satisfy all students of history that
sovietism is no kind of government
for China. Dr.. Hung said that
while thousands of Chinese favor
ed Japanese principals and thou
sands more the doctrines of the
bolsheviSts there were many other
thousands of his countrymen that
looked for a closer relation with
the United States and the ultimate
triumph in the Orient of republican
ism. He reminded his audience that
the Chinese republic had only been
in existence 10 years and that this
was not long ENOUGH to judge of
its success. In closing Dr. Hung
made a strong plea for better un-
derstanding of the Chinese people
by Americans and pictured the two
republics, one with 105, 100000 and
the other with 350,000,0 900 inhabi-
tants as partners in a worldwide
movement for ultimate democracy.
The Boston Light Opera Com
pany presented Little Red Riding
Hood" this afternoon and tonight
will give Gilbert & Sullivan's ia
NOUS opera "The Mikado." There
are nine artists in the cast and the
production will be the most popu-
lar of the entire course.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-29
ST. JOHNSBURY
Local News

Mr.. and Mrs. CharRs Creaser
and two children of Dorchester,
Mass, who are taxing a two weeks
motor trip have been visiting their
parents Mr.. and Mrs. S. J. Creaser.
They left Wednesday for Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. James Elliott are
visiting in Groveton, n. H. They
made the trip in their car and We're
accompanied to Newport by Miss
Elizabeth Davis of that city who
has been their Gaest.
Mrs. Frederick Bassett and lit
tie son are visiting Mr.. Bassett :
people in Lebanon, n. H.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Burbank
of Chicago were recent visitors in
St. Johnsbury, calling on old
friends. Mr.. Burbank is at the head
of the Chicago office of the CHM
Publishing company and with Mrs.
Burbank is taking a months mo-
tor trip through the east.
Mrs. S. J. Creaser who has been
iii for several weeks, is much i'm
proved.
Mrs. Thomas Brightly and son,
Warren of Turner's Falls, Mass,
and Mrs. L. B. Brown of St.
Johnsbury Center spent Friday at
the home of Mr. md Mrs. William
J. Holloway. Homer Sargent of
Magog. p O., has been a guest the
past week at the Holloway home.
r. l.. Johnson of the Randolph
Herald and News was business
visitor in St. Johnsbury Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. W. Magoon
leave Sunday to spend two weeks
at Old Orchard, Me. They will be
accompanied by friends from Ber-
lin, n. H.
Dan c. Gage, now of South Pas
adena, Cal, met with a sight acct
dent Saturday morning in starting
his car in front of oolworth's.
store. The car struck baby car
riage The carriage was injured
but the child was unhurt. The
baby's mother is Mrs. Moore of
Maple street. Mr. Gage promptly
settled for all damages. This is the
first accident that Mr.. Gage has
had since he began to drive in
1910.