New-York tribune., 1922-10-16

| hey NUVe the Gol1 OF J6e WOTtQ,
but '0e haze soved oar COAL"
One of the latest theories in a
notorious New Jersey killing mystery
is: "The suggestion has been ad-
vanced that he met her in an en-
deavor to show her the folly Of her
infatuation for him."
He tells himself SO frequently that
he is meeting Her for that purpose
and that purpose alone!
| But after He meets Her he feels
sorry for Her because of this foolish
infatuation.
| And what can He do but comfort
Her?
Which makes Her understand how
noble He is -. thus increasing
Her foolish infatuation.
The nobility which thus enters the
affair raises it to Higher Plane;
the Element Of Spirituality sane
tions anything that may follow.
Before They part He has forgotten
why He met Her.
The Spiritual Element is upper
ceived by the Interested Onlookers.
Fate, waiting at the Left Upper
Entrance with a cruel grin and an
ak, blows this spiritual element off
the situation as if it were the froth
from glass Of beer. And then
neatly hicks their necks with the ak.
Real life keeps right on stealing
all the old hokum and hackneyed
sentiment from the popular plays.
Deaths from alcoholism are re-
ported to be on the increase in New
York State. That's what comes
when people drink Alcohol instead
of Wine and Beer and Whisky.
Great Britain and Irak have
signed treaty. For period Of
twenty years King Feisal of Irak
agrees to be guided by King George
Of England with regard to "inter-
national and financial obligations
and interests"
King George will be guided by
| whatever government is in power in
| Britain.
Whatever govern .ent is in power
will be guided b. the press of the
world.
The press of the world will con-
tinuo to be guided by arcly the cock
roach, Ike Marcosson, Dr.. Frank
Crane and Clare Sheridan.
Wat chance has King Feisal of
Irak got?
Capt. Peter Fitzurse worked out
plans thirty years ago to defect the
Gulf Stream in any direction re-
quired.
NBut he never hopes to have them
adopted.
His plans for making batt'eships
invisible to an enemy were pigeon
holed by dozen different govern
ments, and the thing has not been
done yet.
And yet the Captains plan was
entirely scientific and logical.
The Captain illustrated one day,
with a highball which Edom, his
colored body servant, had just set
before him.
He stuck a pencil into the high
ball.
"Note," he said, "that where the
pencil enters the liquid there seems
to be a bend or break.
The base Of the pencil seems to
be an eighth of an inch from where
it really is.
"This is in accordance with we'll
known law of optics. 1t is, in fact,
the principle of mirage; mirage in
desert places or mirage at sea.
"The rays of light which make the
pencil visible at all are broken at
the point where they leave the thin
ner medium of the air and penetrate
the denser medium of the liquid.
"lf you have ever speared fish
you will have noticed the same thing.
The fish is always few inches dis
tant from where he seems to be.
ut is not necessary that water
and air be in juxtaposition for this
illusion to be produced.
"A damp layer of air next to a
dry light layer Of air will work lust
as we'll the person who looks
through one layer Of air at an oh.
ject situated in another layer will
seem to see it where it is not. It is
merely the principle Of lenses.
!
"In deserts, or at sea, the mirage
occurs because these special atnaos-
pheric conditions have been acct
dentally created.
! SIT is my plan to create these sne-
clal atmospheric conditions deliber-
ately and scientifically.
"On the deck of each of nv battle
! ships there will be device for nro-
ducing chemically an aura of atnnos-
phere differing from the atmosphere
naturally and normally surrounding
the ship on that day.
|
"The mirage of the ship will be
seen by the enemy, not the real
ship. The real ship will be from q
thousand to three thousand wards
distant from where it seems to be.
II
/ "The enemy will shoot at the
mirage
| "Those in control of the runnerv
on my ships will not be bothered
| They will know the extent of the do.
Election from the actual, and viii