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haps best by Gilbert Stuart.
President jackson by Sully.
Lincoln and Roosevelt by
several artists, and Wood
row Wilson by John Singer
Sargent.
It is not too much to say
that in the years to come
Hodgson 'Smart's "Pres-
ident Harding" will rank
with the very best Of these,
and perhaps surpass them
all, for Mr.. Smart is q very
wonderful painter.
The portrait Of Marshal
Foch, which has been on
exhibition at tho artist 9
studio, in Mr.. Bush Browns
residence, 1929 g street
northwest, is another Of
equal distinction.
Foch came to Mr.. Smart's
studio to pose, the only oc-
casion whom he did SO for
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|" he British artist, e.
Hodgson Smart, who

|" HE British artist, r.
Hodgson Smart, who
-, painted what is con-
sidered .ths most successful
portrait Of Marshal Foch,
has recently completed one
equally satisfactory Of Pres
ident Harding, who gave
many personal sittings.
Z Tho President is very seri-
ously interpreted, with great
dignity, and the picture,
which h standing three
quarter length, cannot fail
to impress all by the splen-
did character depicted.
p It Il ono Of tho few great
portraits Of . President. One
may find in the Library Of
Congress Print Division al
most numberless portraits
Of noted Presidents.
Washington was success
fully painted by many, per-
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TOURISTS ABANDON SEA AND RAIL TRAVEL
FROM PARIS TO LONDON i'm FAVOR OF AIR TRIP

This means fog In the Channel"
Tho reporter nodded and passed
the note around. The whirr Of
tho propellers forbade converse
ton. Another note:
LAND TILL FOG CLEARS.
we have just got . wireless
from Croydon tths London air
poro that the fog covers the
English cliffs. We are going to
land and wait until the weather
clears up."
The passengers-even the Amer
leans trying to catch = boat at
Liverpool-were cheerfully re-
signed. Tho giant Handley exc
cuted . neat curve and landed In
. field just off Paris-Plague, q
famous seacoast resort twenty
miles from Boulogne.
Robert Mcintosh. the pilot, ap-
peared. smiling ruefully.
'"I'd like to take a chance" he
said. but our orders are very
strict when We are travelling with
passengers. There must be abso-
lutely no risk to them"
Here at Paris-Plage the passen.
gers discovered one Of the most
curious innovations since the war,
an air coast guard. In a small
hut was . middle-aged French
man paid by the French govern.
ment to record an movements of
airplanes landing or passing over.
Each airplane landing must pay .
tax.
Tho Frenchman greeted McIn.
tosh like an old friend, and offer
ed hot coffee or wine to the pas.
sengers. To Universal Service
he showed his log.book, in which
was the following entry:
December s1.-Pilot Mcintosh
flying Handley.Page No. s land
ed here. Wind blowing ninety miles
an hour. Another plane blown
over by wind and carried 100
yards without damage. McIn-
tosh, fearing similar accident.
again took off to complete voy.
age to London .,..
Did you mako London7" No
Intosh was asked.
"Yep-took mo six hours pretty
rough flyipg. though"
Six hours beating against q wind
blowing ninety miles. ground
speed-probebiy no miles n the
airf D. "a
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BEAM HAD NO EFFECT
ON rNFLAMMABIE FILMS.

minutes. Cheaper than rail and
steamer"
over . gateway was the informa-
ton:
PARIS AIR STATION.
Expresses 10 I.onden. brussels, Rette,
dam. strasbesrs. Prague, warsav
bucharest and Censtantiseple.
Just inside was . wafting.room
with q large time table, showing
not Only the times Of departure
and arrival Of airplanes. but also
exact information ~ ID the condi.
ton Of weather at all points
along the various routes. Thus.
though It was clear at Paris. q
shaded portion over a map Of the
Channel showed that there was
fog lowering over the English
coast.
PLANES THICK IN AIR.
Port arrangements were similar
to those at coastal docks. To the
right was the passpurt office; a
Rhed indicated where the customs
mon examined baggage; another
shed was occupied BY ticket Of
fices.
whitewashed lines spread across
the vast airdromc. There were
labeled: "Londo1 - Departure"
"London-Arrival." Others show
ed where the planes for central
Europe took off and laLdsd.
The air was full OF sound. Giant
airplanes hovered overhead, some
departing, some arriving. A uni
formed attendant carried luggage
to an enormous Handley-Page
straining at the chucks on the line
Observation-Disclosures"
Inside the airpians the passen.
gers apartment. built to hold
twenty. resembled the interior Of a
narrow Pullman. Luxurious wick
er armchairs lined each side, each
with a plate-glass window which
could be opened or closed at will.
On the floor was n Brussels carpet.
Maps on the wallis indicated the
route. A printed sign stated that
smoking and throwing things from
the windows were prohibited. and
that in the event Of ;bunderstorms
passengers need not fear. a. the
machine could not he struck by
lightning. It was learned that the
aerial wireless dsscendins from
the cockpit acted ss q conductor.
IAN set. sirf' inquired the uni
formed page boy. aged twelve, who
has more lthan . thousand air
hours 10 tAis orsdit and who
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wouldn't, swap his Job TO Be- King
Of England.
The pilot and his assistant clam
bsr through the plane. open . door
at the front end and disappear into
their cockpit.
'ContactP'
Propellers whiried, the chucks
were tugged away, and In twenty
seconds Le Bourset was 200 feet
below.
Passengers included the director
Of an English company, who trav-
els to and fro by air several times
q month an American woman and
her nine-year-old daughter; two
American business men, one going
to catch Q liner at Liverpool; q
French senator and an italian on
q stretcher who had been seized
with diabetes and who was en-
route to London to consult q
specialist. His nurse said that
doctors had warned him that train
or boat travel might kill him.
PASSING IN THE AIR.
Almost before Bourget had been
left behind the town Of Beauvais-
during the war one Of the British
army's largest munition dumps
was in sight. Over Beauvais the
London bound airplane passed a
Messageries-Aeriennes express
ninety minutes out Of Londan. The
nine-year-o girl. who had never
flown before, waved her hand out
Of the window ecstatically.
Fifteen minutes more, a silvered
1--WE are passing Etaples."
The assistant pilot went back to
the cockpit. The passengers could
now. see a vague. misty expanse
ahead to the left.
THE Channel"
Again the assistant pilot appear.
ed and wrote another note.
OVER SEA IN A FOG.
I'VE are going to try to cross,
but the fog looks pretty low"
The airplane descended TO Q few
hundred feet above the earth. In
another instant the Channel was
underneath. ....r
Over the Forest Of creeoy, hal.
lowed OF English history, slight
souffs of rain cioud& began to pass
the plane and It descended. The
cockpit door opened and the assis.
tant plot appeared. sitting next
10 the Universal servioe man he
soribbied q netei r..
The weather n rather dud.
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BY BASIL woON,
Univsrsal Service.

PARIS. July I.
TT II now 20 easy to ny 10 Lon
don that the old transporta-
u ton methods by sea and rail
are gradually being abandoned
by American tourists In favor Of
the newer and quicker air way.
An indication of the popularity
Of the London-Paris air ferry may
be obtained by . table showing the
growth Of the service since its In
ception in 1919.
In that year there was only one
company at first, and then two,
operating one airplane each way.
In 1890 there were three com.
panies operating Q like number Of
services.
In 1921 there were four com.
panies and four planes each way
daily.
Since 1919 there, have been forty
two days on which no flying was
possible owing to fog. Fog Is now
tho solitary enemy Of the airways.
In all other weathers-gales. hail.
thunderstorms. rain-the airboats
fly according to schedule.
Casualties have been less than
one-half of one per cent of passen.
gers carried, according to official
French statistics.
FOG ANYWAYS ONLY HAZARD.
Every day thousands Of req
istered letters and packages are
sent by air between the two
capitals. Great art firms, such as
Duveen Bros. Carriers. Selig-
man, Jonas, Knoedler. use the air.
way almost exclusively for the
dispatch Of fragile treasures. Paris
dressmakers send their latest fash.
ions to London by air. often with
mannequins to wear them. Banks
use the airplanes frequently for
the sending Of important drafts
and documents.
A representative Of Universal
Service was asked by one Of the
great air ferry companies to so TO
London and back by air to view
improvements in the service. The
reporter. who had been a flyer dur.
ing the war, but who had not since
bcen up, was amazed when he
reached Le Bourget. the French air
port.
Permanent concrete hangers
were placsrded with signs rssdins
'Tendon by Air nxprsss In rs
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COLD LIGHT" i'm PRACTICAL TESTS AMAZES SCIENTISTS

Invention of Los Angeles Man Will ReVolu-
tionie Motion Picture Projection and the
Study of Germ Life-TakeS the Heat Out of
a 100000 Candle Power Beam That Has a
Temperature of 1000 Degrees Fahrenheit
and Concentrates Ii So 1t is Harmless.
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many radiations, all fundamentally
the same. but each radiation hav-
ing its own particular wave length.
To some of these radiations our
eyes are sensitive, and a. . con-
sequence We have the sensation Of
light.
There are rays In tho upper and
lower registers Of the great scale
Of light to which our eyes are
blind. and which. therefore. 20 far
~ We are concerned. are invisible
light" Those In the upper regis
ter We speak Of as the ultraviolet
rays" and those In the lower a.
the 'infra-red."
These two types Of rays are at
the extreme ends Of the whole
scale Of radiant energy which
manifests itself to our dim eyes as
light. They vary greatly in their
physical properties. Their pene-
trablity, refrangibility. power to
produce heat and their wave
lengths are all different.
OLD EXPERIMENT OF
THE BURNING GLASS.
In our scheol days We have all
tried the effect Of concentrating
the suns rays with q convex lens
Tor burning glass n we used to
call io and bringing the beam Of
light to Q focus on the backs Of
hands. It burned.
This burning power Of light is
now known to be due to the &C
ton Of the invisible infra-red rays
at the lower end Of the scale or
spectrum. These infra-red rays
bear the same relation to the other
notes in the scale Of light as the
lower notes on the keyboard Of a
piano bear to the upper.
Rays Of light. like notes on the
piano, have different wave lengths.
The least refrangible Of the infra'
red rays have q wave length 500
times as great as that Of the ex
treme upper limit Of ultraviolet.
when light passes through a
transparent substance - for ex-
ample, through water. air or glass
III IN bent out Of It's course, or
"refracted." All the different rays
composing II refract In a different
manner.
Acting upon this knowledge OF
the behavior Of the different rays.
Ritterrath set te work to devise
an apparatus which would cause
the infra.red rays in a beam OF
light to disperse themselves. This
10 what his apparatus does.
This beam Of light Is passed
through a spiral stream OF water
which is kept constantly flowing
through the apparatus. The infra-
red rays, dispersed to the outside
Of the beam, impinge upon the
molecules Of the. flowing water.
are converted into heat and this
heat Is Immediately carried away
by the constantly flowing stream,
through the water. outlet.
II 10 all wonderfully simple
when you know how II 10 done.
but n took Rtterrath years OF
patient research before he sue.
cseded.
How well he has succeeded vas
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brilliantly Illustrated In Los An
geles March Is. We are all IA.
miliar with the green aphis. or
plant louise" Every one knows
how soft and delicate are the
tiny bodies Of these little crea
lures.
What would bs the effect Of
focusing the rays from the con.
vex lens Of your school days upon
the soft. green body Of an aphisf
Even 20 small beam focused
by your little pocket lens would
almost instantly kill Il
Would you dream Of getting q
battery of six 70-ampere arc
lamps concentrating their light
into one beam Of $4,000 candle
power. with heat enough In II TO
burn a hole through the body
Of an elephant, and then direct
this terrific shaft of light and heat
upon these excessively tender.
tiny green bodies and expect them
to Live? OF course you would not.
But this is what Ritterrath has
done. He has thrown O beam Of
light Of 10000 candle power di.
rectly upon the excessively tender
bodies Of such minute creatures
as the aphis, the mealy bug, the
red spider, and the larva Of a
small syrphid fly.
Unfiltered by Ritterrath's ap-
paratus such q beam of light would
have instantly reduced such crea-
lures to microscopic specis Of
charred cinders.
Application Of New
Light Almost Endless.
But the tremendously concen-
trated beam from the fun hat
terry Of lamps played upon them.
projecting their moving bodies
magnified many thousand times
upon the screen. for upward Of an
hour leaving mealy bug and aphis.
red spider and syrphid larva in
just as good health at the end of
the experiment as II they had been
gamboling beneath the benevolent
beams OF a gentle August moon.
The amazing potentialities which
lie in the path Of Ritterrath's dis.
covery almost stagger the imagi.
nation. It's applications to science
and industry are almost endless in
variety.
1t must inevitably revolutionize
research In baterioiogy. cyto,ogy,
embryology and general biology.
For the first time In history the
inquiring eve Of science can look
directly upon life processes now
veiled in obscurity.
For the first time In history we
can throw a beam of intense light
upon the most minute and delicate.
living things, exposing their hid.
den life processes, without running
the risk Of instantly reducing them
tas we do now to microscopic Gin.
ders.
This Los Angeles scientist has
placed In our hands. under our
complete control, q iong-sought,
potent weapon. which eventually
must enormously influence our
struggle against our most tn
sidious enemy-the disease germ.
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Danger of Theater Fires From Exploding Films
Said to BE Overcome by Surprising Device.
I'm Spite of Their Terrific Power Rays Will
Not mjure Insect Life or Explode 7 N 7.
New Fields of Research Opened by the Dis
covery, Which Has interested All Scientists.
prpATprnK na LAW MnruAYr
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"NHE interest OF inc Ahoficah
public has been deeply aroused
Of late over the possibility of
realizing the scientific dream Of a
century-the production Of light
without heat
Famous scientific bodies In the
Mast and tho great vehicles Of pub
Iicity throughout the country from
ocean 10 ocean proclaimed that
now at least there was . "possibil-
ity'--in f.ot. even . probability
that one Of the toughest problems
which had ever confronted science
was ut last on the point Of being
finally and definitely solved.
> All this potsntiality has become
. aprovsn actually. definitely dem
onstrated By Max J. Ritterrath, Of
Los Angeles. RitterTath has given
20 the world what Prof. Harvey, Of
Princeton. has led the East to hope
for sorns time.
sfko hao SnAou hB So1io ABhS
iamp light, gas light, electric light.
or sun nght-in fact, any kind Of
light without regard to its origin
and. without diminishing It's inten-
sity, has changed It into light with
out heat, the elusive. long-drean-
sd-of "oold light" the allurins mi
rage which has bsff1ed science for
many . decade.
WONDERFUL DISCOVERY HAS
BEEN PROVEN A SUCCESS.
Princeton University announced
recently that tho mysterious light
Of the glow worm. which burned"
and yet did not consume and had
puzzled the minds Of men since
the days Of Plato and Aristotle,
is now understood and can be put
In . bottle. corked and stowej
away on the shelves Of . chemical
laboratory.
Prof. e. Newton Harvey. OF
Princeton University. devoted eight
years to patient investigation be.
fore he solved the ases-old mystery
of the heatiess light Of the glow
worm.
Years ago, while ne was leaning
over the taffrail Of q liner which
was plowing her way through the
Sea of Japan. Prof. Harvey's In
terest was aroused by the long
wake Of beautiful blue light which
the churning propellers left upon
the dark face Of the ocean.
This elfin light was Produced by
q minute crustacean which abounds
in these lstitudes and lights UP the
surface Of the sea for miles.
The light emitted by this little
sea creature differs In no essential
from that Of the glow worm and
the FREELY. Because they could be
obtained In such vast quantities,
Prof. Harvey used them In extract
ing the mysterious luminous sub
stance which enables these little
creatures to emit light without
heat. a'..
This Substance. now successfully
isolated. has been named ''luci.
ferin." A flask of water contain
Ing II seems 10 be filled with burn
ing water" Such . flask iiiu.
mines . dark room 90 Cat II d
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PRESIDENT HARDlNGS NEW PORTRAIT BY E. HODGSON SMA
q EXPECTED TO RANK WITH BEST. I'm LIBRARY COLLEC

Marshal Foch Is also noted for its Characterization. This
picture hangs in the Cleveland Museum. The facstous
sketch marks spot on stairway where General Pershng
fell In coming to pose for the artist. .--,. 5-s .f
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TIE Presidents latest portrait painted by Hodgson
Smart the English artist has been declared by
perts noteworthy addition to the gallery Of Pres
Dental portraits The threequarer length picture Of
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pose, aud hss expralsed him.
self as much pleased with
the picture. p,
Photographs Of this last
subject are not yet avail
able, but a little incident in
that connection has been
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By PATRICK De LACY MULHALL.

Ax1S4 04 ~ Ax4x1AAs
possible to read q book within
distance Of few feet with no other
illumination in the room.
LIGHT SUBSTANCE CALLED
'LUCIFERIN' Is A PROBLEM.
This mysterious luciferin seems
to be q highly complex carbon COM
pound, which IN the presence Of
an equally mysterious cataiyser
has the power Of ccmbiriing with
oxygen, disunitins again and again
recombining, continuing this re-
versible chemical process indefi-
nitely, and meanwhile producing
light without heat
All this n marvelousfy interest
ing and Of undoubted Importance
as an advance In sciences
But
Hsrs . question arissss
ID this discovery usabie3 Does
It solve the problem Of really pro-
ducing cold nshtf Its scientific
importance In unasssilabie. Its
tremendous interest II undoubted;
but win Professor Harvey's dis
covery enable us to achieve the
easy production OF cold lishtf
II his lucifertn could bs produced
in large enough quantities It would
bring to pass some Amazing revo-
lutions in science and industry.
But can It be produced easily In
large quantitiesf The answer Is
mot yet" And 90 the achieve
ment Of cold light by tho discovery
Of the Eastern scientist still re.
mains from the point Of view Of
practical utility merely as . pos
sibility.
WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOM-.
PLISHED IN LOS ANGELES.
Let us now consider what has
been accomplished in Los Angeles.
Ritterrath has succeeded in pro-
ducing cold light. He has demon
strated that 1t can be delivered at
almost no cost. practically unlim-
tied in quantity, Of any desired in.
tensity, and. so far as cooling the
light Is concerned. regardless Of
the source Of origin.
In a demonstration given March
Is last, before 500 prominent
scientists and business men of Los
Angeles, in the Laboratories Of the
Goldwyn Motion Picture Produc-
tion Company at Culver City, Rit-
terrath concentrated into one
beam the light coming from q bat
terry Of six arc lamps, each drawing
seventy amperes.
The temperature in each Of these
lamps at the crater Of the arc was
$500 degrees Fahrenheit.
When the beam from q single
lamp reached the gate" OF the
projecting machine II stu regis
tered the terrific temperature Of
1900 degrees Fahrenheit.
This temperature will explode
the ordinary nitro-cellulose film
in the motion picture industry in
~ seconds.
II the film IN Q projecting ma.
chine gets jammed. or Tor any
reason ID held Stationary IN the
"gats." IN three and . half SEQ
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PORTRAIT OF FOCH
BY SAME ARTIST
>z.>s ALSO NOTEWORTHY
The Marshal of France Came to Mir. Smart's
Studio to Pose, the Only Occasion When He
Did So for Foreign Painter-HaS Also
Painted a Picture of General PerShfng.

fell on the stairs" ex-
planned Mr.. Smart.
II sketched the following
theme on the wall, and had
candles burning ready to
surprise the general when he
came for his next sitting"
The General had a hearty
laugh when he saw Mr..
Smart's humorous study on
the wall, and said that he
did not object at all to hav-
ing it published.
To the
MEMORY
THE UNKNOWN GENERAL,
Who Fell UnaEmed at
This Spot
March 80, 1922.
His face is immortalized
above lin the studio of e.
81. S.)
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Foch picture Is Mr.. Smart
latest work, the portrait Of
General Pershing, which has
also been on exhibition in
his studio with the other
two, and for which the Gen.
eral ha, come personally to
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amperes. any one Of which would
record q temperature Of 1900 do
grees Fahrenheit at tho point
where the beam Of light passed
through the film. all six beams
were concentrated into ono and
directed upon standard film
which was left standing stih and
subjected In this manner to q
beam Of 10000 candle power for
one whole hour.
At the end Of the hour the film
was a. completely unaffected by
the passage through II Of this tre-
mendously concentrated ray Of
light as II Il had been kept during
the whole experiment In total dark.
ness In an ice box.
BEAM HAD NO EFFECT
ON INFLAMMABIIE FILMS.
A beam Of light Of such intensity
should have instantly exploded 20
inflammable q substance ~ nitro
cellulose. - .
But all the $4,000 candle power
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CHIEF EXECUTIVE
INTERPRETED WITH
j Y ~: SPL LENDID DIGNITY

The Picture, Which Is a Standing Three
quarter Length, Cannot Fail to Impress All
by the Character Depicted, Say ConnOisseurs
- who Have Viewed Work OF British Artist.
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Within a foot Of this here
" wall,
The General fell.
Oh, do not blame the shot or
shell,
For truth to tell
Through deeds untold and
actions bold 49,. -
He rode through hell!
Butt ~.-..
Twas not where bullets fill.
ed the air ..,
He met his fall
TutE
o, mol Just lack of slightest
care.
And flop he went upon the
stair.
And that was all.
Mr.. Smart is leaving
Washington this week to
spend the summer in Cleve-
land, where has has a mum.
ber Of new commissions.