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The Washington times., 1922-04-10
Using the
Invisible Arm
~ HE time would not seem to be
far distant when by means


of forms of electric or radio
activity we shall be able to oper-
ate machinery at a distance.
Already messages are being reg
ularly sent through the air, across
the Atlantic, and need not even
to be carried upon cables. 1t will
not be long before the wireless
messages of this kind exceed the
number of messages sent on sub
marine cables. Telephoning has
also successfully been accom-
plished by wireless. 1t is no un-
common thing for the man in an
airplane to speak to people on the
ground by means of the wireless
apparatus and have them hear his
own voice.
We smiled some years ago when
we read extravagant stories of
aerial torpedoes being directed
and guided in their flight from a
distant station.
M. Max Laubeuf, formerly chief
engineer of the French navy, in
his presidential address to the So
ciety of Civil Engineers, discussed
the other day the driving of large
ships from a distance by means of
Hertzian waves. He made refer
ence to the experiments made dur
ing the squadron maneuvers of
the United States fleet when "the
battleship Iowa with nobody on
board was driven with the utmost
ease by the battleship Ohio, which
kept at distance of five miles be-
hind. The experiment lasted
three hours and no mishap what
ever happened"
M. Laubeuf further explained
that the water and OIL taps of the
Iowa were opened and closed by
the waves emitted from the Ohio
in order to increase or diminish at
will the speed of the driven crew
less battleship. The helm was
also maneuvered from a distance,
and the Iowa avoided with great |
accuracy the air attacks made
upon her.
"This experiment." said the
speaker, "made a deep impress
sion upon the officers who wit.
messed it. Hereafter human life
will be spared in a number Of
cases-for instance, the bottling
up of a port with sacrificed YES
sells. 1t will be possible to drive
thus airplanes, battleships, de-
stroyers or even submarines.
What an immense vista is opened
before us, and what will be the
future of naval and air warfare
as the result of such discoveries!"
All this serves but still further
to sharpen the point that the in
ventive powers of man are be-
coming so enormous that the
world can no longer go on as it
has gone on in the past, periodi-
cally drifting into preventable
wars.
The capacities of destruction
are becoming so vast that wars
will no longer be between armies
of selected soldiers, but. will be
campaigns to exterminate whole
|
Consequently, control of the
war-making power must be taken
from the old type of imperialistic
statesmen who would use these
new agencies of science for world
and vested in the
people, whose normal desires are
for peaceful progress.
The Washington times., 1922-04-10
Promotion
of Travel
AFR. EDWARD A. FILENE,
W the Boston merchant and
y - I.xoa4ox. e IL Ia4a.....

e~ director of the Interna-
tional Chamber of Commerce, ad-
dressing the National Merchant
Marine Association some time ago,
suggested the building up of the
Merchant Marine by inducing
Americans to travel by, cutting
rates and changing accommoda-
tions so as to enable large num-
bers to take vacations in Europe
at nominal cost.
81 believe" said Mr.. Filene,
"that hundreds of thousands Of
Americans would spend their va
cations in Europe if the trip were
brought within their means. ]
am told that such ships as the
George Washington carried dur
ing the war a number of soldiers
more than double their ordinary
passenger-carrying capacity, and
that a ship with nominal accom-
modations for seventy-fve first
cabin and forty-fve second cabin
passengers carried from 800 to 900
troops.
tI am further informed that
subsistence costs $1.75 per day for
first-class passengers and that it
cost only rs cents per day for
troops during the war. The facil-
tiles which our boys found good
enough during the war are good
enough for us in peace.
"'I want to ask the shipowners
whether it is not to their advan-
tage to take shiploads of young
men to Europe in much the same
fashion as they took soldiers to
France during the war, and
whether the cost of vacation TX
Europe could not be made to com.
pare with a vacation here.
"I want to ask whether small
profits made from very large
number of passengers carried on
the transport. plan would not com
pare favorably with larger profits
from smaller number of passen-
gers carried in the regular way"
This. idea of Mr.. Filene is a
good one, and ought to bear fruit.
First of ALL one of the most i'm
portant things for the population
of any nation is travel. The curse
of the past has been provincial
ism.
In former times people spent
their whole lives in their native
village or province. Their views
became narrow, their religion be-
came hard and their politics be-
came contentious.
Their principal feeling toward
other communities was that of
hate and suspicion, because as a
rule we do not like what we do
not understand.
Travel today is more or less a
luxury. 1t takes money and 1t
takes leisure, and only a small
class of the population possesses
these things.
Travel is not mere vagabond-
age-it is education.
And it is the most valuable kind
of education, because it enlarges
one g ideas and improves the quail
ity Of his tolerance.
There is no reason why good
and wholesome food and sanitary
accommodations could not be pro-
vided for plain, common people at
very low cost, so that the girl
who sells white goods in the de-
partment store in Chicago or the
farmers boy in Kansas who has
saved up a few hundred dollars
could go abroad and see some
thing.
The trouble with our industrial
The Washington times., 1922-04-10
Another One of
Those Things
By BUGS" BAER.

IF coal strike continues
u until July, we will have
to depend on sunstrokes for
our heat
MINERS are determined
NA that furnaces shall be
deprived OF their breakfast
food.
GOAL barons are just as
~ triply determined that
kitchen stoves shall go to
bed early.
TBGLAR bins are slowly
~ wasting away to zero.
OK hundred thousand
~ bituminous lapidarists
have cancelled work in
mines and not one hatful OF
anthracite delicatessen is be-
ing manicured-
PUT unless slate miners
~ 60 on strike too, we can
still get tons from coal deal
ers.
CTRIKE has unqualified
~ support Of longeared
mine mules. Only time they
pipe daylight is when mine
catches fire or plumbing
breaks and floods works.
I ONG-EARED public is
~ surface mule. Doesn't
make any difference whether
miners or owners win ANAL
garnated argument. Public
loses. BY request.
TOAL costs so much now
~ that you shouldn't burn
Il. Ought to eat II.
STRIKE is good sign Of
~ Orevival Of business.
When generous conserva-
ton OF war,umes SINNERS
down to parsimonious liber-
ality OF peace, when smoke
OF industry is wiggling forth
from smokestacks Of re-
juvenated breweries, when
work is 20 plentiful and
wages 30 luxurious that
laboi ers can afford to strike
then prosperity has got
us by ears once again.
Il EFT 'em strike.
1T shows they've got work.
EVEN II we don't get any
AZ coal this winter we'll
never run out OF fuel so long
as Europe keeps on print
ing paper money.
Evening star., 1922-05-23
BACK COMMISSIONS
FOR 4QOM|DD|ES

Commissions for all of the approx
mately 400 midshipmen in this years
graduating class at the United States
Naval Academy virtually were assur-
ed today, when the Senate naval COM
mittee voted unanimously to recon-
mend confirmation of their nomina-
tions for ensigns, sent to the Senate
yesterday by President Harding.
The Senate committees decision
nullifies the provision placed by the
House in the naval appropriation bill
which would give commissions to
only 200 of the class. AS the Senate
cannot act on the appropriation meas
ure until after graduation of the class
next month, the provision will fail.
The question before the Senate COM
mittee was whether, in view of the
House expression, to proceed with
confirmation of the nominations.
Sentiment in the Senate was said
to be overwhelming in favor of CIV
ing commissions to all graduates who
complete their course. Admiral Will
son, commandant of Annapolis, has
advised senators, however, that 100 or
more midshipmen plan to resign after
securing their commissions. Senators S
today said that this number probably
would be reduced after the commits
sions are finally granted and uncer-
1aintY removed.
Evening star., 1922-05-23
F|NGER-PR|NT ALL
P.O. WORKERS,
I TO GUST ROBBERS
Discovery of 49 Crooks in
$2,OOO,OOO N. Y. Robbery
! Inspires Changes.
PRESIDENT ADVISED
OF EFFICIENCY MOVE
Acting Postmaster General Bart
lett Urges Need of Safe
guarding Mails.

Extension of finger printing to
the entire postal service of the coun-
try is under consideration as a re-
suit of the discovery announced to-
day that 49 of the 460 employees Of the
registry division of the New York
city post office had criminal records,
although certified by the Civil Ser
vice Commission.
Acting Postmaster General Bart
lett reported to President Harding
upon the action taken at New York
requiring the compulsory finger
printing and photographing of the
$4,000 employees of the postal serv-
ice III New York city. All of the
forty-nine employees so far discoV-
cred with criminal records have been
dropped from the service, Mr.. Bart
lett stated.
master general feels as if the re-
suits obtained with finger printing
at New York are but additional argu-
mentS for the character examinations
examinations which he advocated
when president of the Civil Service
Commission.
Discovery in Arrests.
Mr.. Bartlett told the President that
the discovery came during his inquiry
into the arrest last week of seven
employees of the office at New York,
the arrest clearing up postal rob-
berries extending over half year ana
involving almost S2,000.000. The ar
rests also thwarted gigantic rob-
berry planned for last Friday night.
Mr.. Bartlett stated that the men
arrested had admitted that they had
secured employment in the registry
division at the New York office for
the sole purpose of robbing the mails,
and declared that he feels 1t neces-
sary to have the entire $4,000 en-
ployes there ger-printed-
Mr.. Bartlett said that both he and
mitted to being finger-printed. and
that they both believe that the step
will be of the greatest benefit to the
service, tending to eliminate untruSt-
worthy employees and protecting the
great bulk of honest employees.
Would Cover Employees.
If consideration now under way by
high officials of the Post Office De-
partment develops. II Iaax--ae thai
tuted in New York city will be ex-
tended to all large city post offices,
where already new employees are
finger-printed. Under the wholesale
arrangement all employees of such
offices would be f1ngerprinted, and
perhaps also photographed.
The Post Office Department is leav-
ing nothing undone, it was intimated.
TO absolutely rid the postal service
of poor quality employees, many of
whom We're taken on during the
war because the service could secure
no other kind. In the future a clerk
will have to look like an honest
man, it was intima ted, as well as be
able to pass a certain mental test
Acting Postmaster General Bartlett
will return to New York later in
the week to continue his personal
investiga ton. He stated today that
the work being done there has the
entire support of Postmaster General
Work, now in the middle west. Mr..
Bartlett will later visit the Chicago
office. where conditions similar to
those prevailing in New York. are
said to reign.
Evening star., 1922-05-23
DEMAND RECLAMATION
AS PLEDGED BY G. O. P.
Northwestern Editors Meeting
Threatens Party Bolt if Smith
McNary Bill Fails.

YAKIMA. Wash, May 23.-Eleven
republican editors of Yakima valley
newspapers at conference here yes
terday decided to telegraph President
Harding and the Washington con-
gressional delegation that unless the
Smith -McNary bill is passed they
will no longer consider themselves.
either by reason of past affiliations
or the party's future promises, to be
bound to continue support of the
national republican party"
The message declares that the re-
publican party pledged itself to "a
speeded-up and enlarged program Of
reclamation" and that the Smith Nc
Nary bill was framed as a fulfill
ment of that pledge"
Failure of the republican majority
in Congress to pass the Smith-M
Nary bill will be regarded by US as
an inexcusable breach of the faith on
the part of the national republican
party" the editors declare.
Evening star., 1922-05-23
PRESIDENT HOPING
FOR CUTS| IN RATES
But Executive Fully Realizes
Obstacles Railroads Face
in Taking Step.

President Harding was repre-
sented at the White House today
as merely hopeful that voluntary
reduction in transportation rates
would result from last Saturday
nights White House dinner con-
ference attended by nineteen of the
leading railroad executives Of the
country.
Obstacles in the way of obtain
ing voluntary action by the rail-
roads in the way Of rate reductions
on the thoroughgoing basis de-
sired by the administration were
described at the White House as
somewhat formidable.
The President was said to feel that
while the Interstate Commerce Com
mission is completely empowered to
reduce rates, 1t would take, as one
official put it, Tong drawn-out proc
ess" to get substantial decreases by
detailed commerce commission orders.
The major alterations necessary in
railroad rate structure would come
about very quickly, in the administra-
would go into conference with the
Interstate Commerce Commission, and
take the steps in a whole hearted and
expeditions fashion.
Many Difficulties Seen.
In stating difficulties in bringing
about voluntary agreements as to
reductions officials pointed out that
some railroads have more traffic in
basic commodities than in the clas-
sified freight shipments. and accord
ingly "a coal railroad could not be
expected to shout itself hoarse for
coal reduction" even though other
railroads with more of other freights
to handle might consent.
Another difficulty was cited in that
some eastern railroads are earning
more at present than they have earn
ed for many years, while in the west
railroad earnings continue to be very
low, comparatively. This requires q
particular care in the making OF
discrepancies in the territorial earn
ings already indicated.
Steel Changes More Likely.
President Harding was said to feel
that he does not have as much hope
of securing immediate results from
his Intervention into the transporta-
ton field as he does from his urging
of abandonment of the twelve hour
day in the steel industry. which was
taken up almost simultaneously and
in the same fashion. namely, with
men chiefly concerned invited to the
White House dinner table.
Railroad presidents who talked
with the President had many troubles
to recount, it was said. The wage
situation, which is controlled largely
by the Railroad Labor Board. was
freouently cited by the railroad men
as one barrier to rate reduction.
While no changes in the transpor-
tation act will be advocated by the
administration as result of the dis
cussion, President Harding is said to
feel that the Labor Board, now sta
toned in Chicago, Ought to be
brought to Washington, so that there
can be some contact between those
who AK rates and those who fix wage
costs of transportation"
Evening star., 1922-05-23

Opposition to the daylight saving
plan now in force in this city, in the
ratio Of eight to one, was expressed
by the votes received by The Star to-
day. However. a little less than so
per cent of those who voted against
the present plan on the coupon print
ed in The Star yesterday and reprint
ed today express a desire for setting
the clocks ahead one hour.
Letters poured into The Star Office
today from those who wished to ex-
press themselves on the proposition.
but all of them have not yet been
tabulated. OF the total of 16S which
had been tabulated up to the time this
was written, $50 were against the
present plan and eighteen for it. OF
the $50 against the present arrange
ment, 104 voted against any kind of
daylight-saving by setting the clocks
ahead, while forty-six voted for the
advancement of the hands of the
clock one hour. Of the eighteen for
the present plan, ten were In favor of
opposed. it.
1t is desirable that the people ex-
press their opinions on the PROPOSE
tion as quickly as possible, to the end
that public opinion on the whole mat
ter may be determined, to show Con-
gress and government officials just
what the people here want. There
has been so much difference of opin-
ion expressed by people of the city in
letters to The Star that it was be-
lieved that the only fair way to de-
termine the real sentiment was by
taking a test vote, and therefore there
is printed on page of today's paper
a coupon on which readers are urged
to express their opinions.
Evening star., 1922-05-23
STILL VAPOR TO YIELD MILLIONS
MORE GALLONS GASOLINE A YEAR

tained in refineries whose general
methods are more efficient than
those employed in hundreds of
smaller skimming plants that have
no recovery systems.
Unless preventive measures are
adopted, the bureau says, losses of
gasoline from failure to condense
still vapors will increase in the
future, because crude oils are being
handled in the field with increas-
ing care to avoid evaporation, and
will, therefore, contain much
lighter and more volatile fractions
than at present.
"Still vapors." as defined by the
bureau, are vapors containing
quantities of gasoline in vapor
form, oyer and above the gasoline
vapors. which pass through the
condensing process. In other
words, more complete distillatfon
would involve the still vapors" as
well as the heavier vapors. which
are now utilized to form CONNER
cial gasoline. The majority of re-
fineries in this country now allow
the "still vapors" to remain un-
uaAd
Evening star., 1922-05-23

More complete distillation Of still
vapors at petroleum refineries will
result in addition of 120.000.000
gallons of gasoline to the yearly
national output, the bureau of
mines announced today
AS result of q detailed investi-
cation, D. B. Dow, petroleum en-
gineer of the bureau, estimates
that 50.0o0.0o0 gallons of gasoline
were recovered from uncondensed
still vapors at refneries in 1921.
Application of this system to all
ref1neries would give q possible
gasoline recovery by this method
of A20.o00,000 gallons annually,
the bureau announced
With the cost of gasoline to the
consumer steadily mounting the
bureau has interested itself in the
problem of adding to the nations
fuel production. Calculations OF the
bureau arc based on results oh.
Evening star., 1922-05-23
HOW FAR CAN MAN 'JOLLY' GIRL
ANSWER ASKED IN DIVORCE CASE
Continued on Page

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LOS ANGELES, Calf. May 23.-
The extent to which a man may
practice deception in the wooing
and winning of a maid. when such
Misrepresentation chiefly concern
his virtues, graces, accomplish
ments and social standing, is the
fine line which Judge Hahn has
been asked to draw in the suit
for annulment Of marriage
brought by Laura 8. Fowle against
Charles A. G. Blossom.
Ministers. welfare workers and
clubwomen at once pounced upon
the suit as raising a question Of
vital importance to the whole
country. already agitated over the
question of uniform divorce laws.
to make stronger the bonds of
wedIock. The majority opinion
today seems to favor q definite
and fixed code to hold tc check
Evening star., 1922-05-23

the imaginative wanderings of the
male wooer and to grant the wife
relief il she can prove that her
husband has transgressed the
limit in his roseate dreams of past
and future in the course Of his
woofng.
West vs.. New England.
Judge Hahn, however, has found
another angle to this particular
case that largely is geographical.
1t SO happens that Laura s. Fowlc.
before her marriage to Blossom,
was a prim and pretty maid Of
Boston, schooled in the precepts
Of New England manners. while
Blossom. of Los Angeles, was a
product of the great west, the glo-
rious and boundless west of free
dom of action and vision-a man
'.>of. big country. who saw things
lin big way, to put il politely.
The annulment of the marriage is
sCcstinued On Page .. Colun.AA
Evening star., 1922-05-23
WOMEN TODEMAND
F. STRICT PLATFORMS
New Voters Lean to Pro-
gressive Wing-0ppose
professional Politician"
BY DAVID LAWRENCE,

Political phrases are banded about
loosely but the indications are that
campaigning hereafter will require
more accurate definition of what's
progressive" and what's "reac-
tionary," or Conservative"
The consensus of opinion here is
that the women are leaning toward
the progressive side in each Of the big
parties. But what is the progressive
side? Is it still what it was in 1917
revolt against party organizations
and the conservative policy of let
well enough alone? Is it a protest
against machine control or is it an
affirmative activity, a course of po-
litical action with a well defined OBJ
jective?
Means SOmethin9 Definite,
Well, whatever it may have been
in the past, whatever personal fond
ness for the Rooseveltian philosophy
or doctrine it may have meant to re-
publicans, or whatever affinity it may
have denoted in the democratic party
for wisconsin, it is going to mean
Politicians have already sensed some
of the tendencies of the woman voter
and are beginning to analyze and
study them further.
The first and most decided charac-
teristic which has yet appeared is the
judgment of the individual-his men
tai and moral value to the community.
The women have shown a remarkable
inclination toward the candidates
whose personal reputation is devoid
of the taint of professional politics.
A man who has been playing pol
itics" all his life and is part and par
eel OF the old-time political organiza-
tions has much less chance nowadays
as opposed to new blood.
Feeling More Intense.
Second. the feeling against party
organization and previous methods of
party canvass is growing more intense
every day. The solicitation of votes
through the hiring of professional
ward workers may have worked all
right in the past, but from what lit
servat1on of the woman vote, the Gus
tom is bound to hurt the political
candidates who use it rather than
help them. In short, the women are
inclined to be rather resentful of at
tempts to influence their votes-tbey
want to be left free to make up their
own minds.
Third, the women are anxious to
quiz the candidates and get them on
record on definite queries of interest
to them and the community. This is
getting to be more noticeable in state
and local elections where women
have organized and the candidates
are showing much more regard for
these questionnaires than ever be-
fore. And what's more, the women
are beginning to check up after cleo
ton and see whether the candidates
have sincerely kept their promises.
Far From Radicals.
Is the woman voter a radical? Far
from 1t. Candidates of proved worth
to the Congress and state legislatures
who are conservative in their policies
but who work hard at their jobs and
attend to business have received the
support OF woman voters. 1t isn't
so much the particular trend of a
candidates thought on public Ques-
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