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Evening star., 1923-03-04
BY LESTER LEAR.

AN a self-made young man
who has the probability or
earning a million and a half
dollars during the year main
tain his equilibrium and presence or
mind in the face of such phenomenal
success?
Can this same self-made young man.
If he is but eight years of age, re-
main the same lovable and unspoiled
boy he might be were he not so rich?
In other words, could any youngster
of eight years, after being petted by
a nation and booked to be a mil
lionaire, as Jackie Coogan is, be a
real American kid, with the same
desire to play in the mud, shoot mar
bles and build houses out of chairs
that other boys of eight years have?
Jackie Coogan is the living proof
that such a thing is possible.
When we called to see Jackie in
his suite in the Biltmore during his
recent visit to New York he was hi
tariously and engrossingly interested
in a game of marbles with one Of
his numerous grown man-friends.
SblHt mere Jdchle f1CTt are w U
men who want to see YOU. One wants
TO draw some pictures of YOU and
the other wants to talk 10 YOU" an
nounced Jackies father.
With look of regret at the mar
hles on the floor. Jackie Immediately
abandoned the game and presented
himself for an Introduction. 1t
wouldn't have required the services
of an expert in child psychology to
see that Jackie would much rather
play marbles than be drawn. But
Jackie gave no indication. He is too
well hammered for that.
The thing that most interests US,
when we see a celebrity for the first
time after seeing his picture time
after time is-does he look like his
picture: Some celebrities do and
some don't. Jackie, if anything, is
really smaller than We were led to
believe by his pictures. Slim and
with sandy-colored hair. his big
brown eyes seem bigger and browner
than they really are. And when he
smiles-well. that smile is going 70
earn IL million and a half dollars for
him this year.
The thing that impressed US most
Is Jackie'S voice. What pity 1t
cant be portrayed on the screen
along with his smile. His grammar
ia perfect his enunciation clear and
distinct and his voice the same low
able little child voice that any young
ster of eight years might have.
:: :: :: ::
WAVING his picture made is an old
i i story to Jackie. our visit
meant little in his young life. Obedi-
entity he climbed onto the divan pre-
paratory to being sketched. then
wicgled onto the arm of the dlvan
in order to watch the artist.
rs il hard to do that?' he asked.
few minutes later the artist said he
had seen a picture that Jackie had
ns:nted during the filming OF THE
Kid" Jackie had seen an artist at
work and wanted to dabble with the
saint himself. The result had been pre-
seryed as a keepsake. and it was this
that the artist referred to.
Il never painted anything Jackie
answered with the guilelessness of
childhood.
VINO but an eight-year- being
famous actor. would think of re-
nouncing claim to any accomplish
ment"
Evening star., 1923-03-04


" " thing to be a colledge
professor.
NO, much to do. said Mr. Hen
messy.
..But a Gr-reat deal to say. said
Nr Dooley. "Ivry day tn mln!lt
pick up me pa-aper. afther I've reaa
m criminal an other pollytical news
n. snoort;n' news. TIL rale-estate ad-
vertisemints. TIL invytation firm tn
cultured foreign gent to meet aii
american lady iv some means, IN
snoortin' news over again, tnln III
iditorvaIs hasten to find out what
III colledge professor has to say
Il wish tn iditor wud put it in tn
same column iv the pa-aper ivry day.
,rhjn he wudden't have to collect amy
other funny column. Humorous:
r,ro-dssor windhaul iv Harvard
makes a. savidge attack on Abraham
Lincoln
AS it is. I sometimes have to hunt
through tn pa-aper firm tn New
Jersey murder on page wan 10 Tn
religious notes on page two nun
5herd an four befure ! come acrost
me fav-rite funny sayin's nv funny
fellows.
rye been collictin' these wurruds
il wisdom f'r a long time. Hinnissy'
an, I'm now prepared TO deliver ye
s,,nple coIledge lecture on all sub
ticks firm tn creation iv tn wurruld:
young gintlemen: 1 will begin be
ca In: that / have me doubts about
III. Saryous stories consarnin' TIL ere
,titns*iy TIL wurruld. In tn first
nIaea dismiss with loud laugh tn
1hekry that 1t was created in six days.
cid make such a poor wurruld as
this in two days with scroll-saw
"..akeily preposterous is tn idee
1haf twasn't'made at all, but grew
nm ,3Iitziy nawthin' Me idee is that
IN. hsHrruld is a chunk iv TIL sun that
Wa eflipped off be collisyon with
tn. moon, cooled down. an advertised
fr roomers.
LAS to it's age, l differ with tn
BiuIe. Me own opinyon iv tn arth is
that it is about twinty-eight years
old. That is as far as go back.
Sc sCPEAKIN' iv tn Bible, 1t is an
y inthrestin' worruk, but tn En-
glish is poor. ] advise all iv ye not
10 injure yeer style be readin tn
prisint editions, but if ye want rale
good English ye will read tn Bible
1hransIated into Hoosier dfIcct be
pro- iissor Lumsum Jiggs iv tn Cni-
ssrsity iy Barry.s Coruer. wan iv our
Evening star., 1923-03-04
ny STERLING HEILIG.
:, PARIS, February 10.

II ToMER sA1Nr-GAuDENs is the
- son of-just Saint -Gaudens!
OF his father, Augustus
Saint-Gaudens, the grand
old American sculptor. We say, SIM
ply. Saint -Gaudens. as we say Long
fellow. whistler, Edison. Seldom do
the sons Of great men attain per-
sonal distinction. Homer Saint-Gau-
dens, still a comparatively young
man, has-worked up to be art d.
rector OF Carnegie Institute.
Backed up by all the weight of
Carnegie at home and abroad, he has
been two months in Europe on a
| notable mission-of preparing what
was, yesterday. "the greatest art
show in America" and what has,
since, passed even beyond that fine
description-notably
Like this: The twenty first inter-
national art exhibition of Carnegie
Institute, which opened last April in
Pittsburgh, and has since been tour
ing Tin its European section) Roch-
ester. Toledo, Omaha, Cleveland and
st. Louis. was. already. "the only an
nual art show in America where
artists. critics. museum directors and
the public c-could brush up on and
review what is being done. currently,
in Europe" Now, by the number and
| eminence of foreign celebrities which
! it will hang beside our best Ameri-
cans. the twenty Carnegie in
| ternational is actually shifting the
| center OF gravity of the art world
westward.
BY its tours OF American cities
(Which continue annually, Carnegie
permits YOUR home town to start
rivalry with the Paris Salon.
saw Homer Saint -Gaudens yes
terday in Paris.
How many pictures are you taking
back?" I asked. I'VE hear OF an
| extraordinary new jury system, which
permits France. for example. to pick
out her own best painters and send
them over to us. to compete with
the world. Is it equally true of Eng
i land. Italy, Spain, and so on?"
! I'VE are taking back about 40
\ European painters" he answered.
| "and. in doing so, We started the sys-
! tenn to which you refer and which
We shall enlarge next year-of let
(: ting the artists Of each country them
selves choose their best men. For
| France. England and the United
| States it is established. In each
| Carnegie makes a committee of seven
| representative men. To these we
give lists of painters of their land
! whom we think decent-large lists
| and then we leave the choice entirely
| to those national committees.
I'VE have ROOM We say to them.
for forty invited paintings from
| France, forty from England. eighty
| from the United States, and SO on.
You take this list of the painters
of your country and pick as you
please from it, according to your
knowledge and judgment. You hand
US back the list which you will thus
make of your important painters as
/ you see them-and the director Of
Carnegie will act as your executive
| and ask these painters for pictures.
| 1T is thing that has not been
done anywhere" said the art director
of Carnegie. because these national
! committees are not advisory, but
| have absolute power. The ony con-
troll we have in their picking Of
painters IS the original control We
had in choosing them. the national
committees"
Even here, of course, Carnegie is
Evening star., 1923-03-04
A New River.
THERE has been discovered in

THERE has been discovered in the
Mont Blanc region great
subterranean river with a volume of
about $4,000 gallons per minute. 1t
runs from the base of the mountains
under the Saleve and Jura Alps This
river, which has been named Faux
Bellies sends out many branches,
which have formed little lakes and
wells of pure and extremely cold
water in the northeast departments
Of France and in some southern can
tons of Switzerland. -~
1t is said that the waters of the
"Eaux Bellies" at depth Of from IS
to $50 feet, have carved out under
the mountain wonderful caverns and
grottos full of stalactites and stalag-
mites. Some of the cavcrns near
Geneva are 90 feet high and 15o
broad.
Evening star., 1923-03-04
The Kiang of Tibet

THE opening up of mysterious
Tibet as result of various ex-
peditions by the British and others
has awakened the interest Of natu
ralists in the Tibetan animals, a num-
Der of which are peculiar to that
lofty region. Among these, one of
the most remarkable is the kiang. an
animal intermediate between the wild
horse and the wild ass. 1t is de-
scribed as standing about thirteen
hands high at the shoulder. it's color a
bright red bay, the muzzle. under
parts and legs dazzling white. 1t is
confined to the central desert Of
Tibet, where in the winter it develops
a coat as thick and rough as a door
mat.
Evening star., 1923-03-04

admission by their merit, rather than
merit mixed with reputation). So, far
England, France and America. and
ultimately all. The committee must.
in the nature of things. be composed
of representative men in their art
ard country.
Here is the French committee:
Henri Martin and Ernest Laurent
(from the "Old" Salon des Artistes
Francais) lie S;daner, Henry Lerolle
and Lucien Simon (of the Nationally
and Georges Desvallieres and Maurice
Denis (of tho Salon d'Automne).
These French masters, anxious to
send over the best possible French
section" said Saint Gaudens, have
groups, without being too radical.
either old or new. Carnegie Institute
tries to give the news; and just as
newspaper screens a little (does not
give all the details of a man being
hanged, SO We are not going so
far as cubists or the like-although
they are news, too, but too radical
into new stuff in the Salon d'Automne
we have Marquet. Flandria, Signac!
And the same is true of all the
nations"
1t is interesting to learn what
French painters have been chosen by
their own eminent men to head the
list of fifty or sixty likeliest. from
whom to obtain the forty best invited
pictures.
There will certainly be pictures by
Albert Besnard, ]. E. Blanche, Bern
ard Boutet de Monval, Charles Cot
tot, Jules F1andrin. j. L. Forain,
Charles Guerin. Henri Lebasquo, A
K. x. Roussel, Signac and the seven
of the French committee. in addition
to a numbe of others. But the seven
(who, inviting, are invited) go into
the big show ''hors concours"-that
is beyond competition" and conse-
quently not eligible to prizes. Also,
this number of others" do not in
clude the American painters of Paris.
who are somewhat like Mahomet's
coffin, suspended between earth and
sky.
Here, indeed. are elements to take
the French bun. We hear talk of
men in authority who actually bend
backward to avoid any appearance
of reaching out to favorites, however
In this sense this year
Carnegie is risking curvature of the
spine
1. To preserve the open door while
allowing national art in each land
largely to determine best choice and
get the pictures, because there are
high masters who do not care to
submit for acceptance; and.
2. To content the American painters
of Paris.
1t would be unjust to claim that
these boys have at times a kicker or
two among them. Rather, in isolated
cases, the Carnegie objective has
been misapprehended. 1t is not pri-
marily to encourage American paint
ers of Paris. but to take back an
nually a vital European art show
regularly limited to about $50 can
vases, the pick of Europe.
Now, you cannot have the pick
without picking. For the French pick
Carnegie has asked French masters
to do it-but with an addition to safe
guard the good old winning of his
way" before jury of admission.
For this part all French painters,
known or unknown, may offer-"but,"
insists Saint Gaudens, there Is no
invitation to submit, which used to
worry people" From among such
offers, few or many, the French COM
mittee will vote in fifteen, in its
capacity of jury of admission. Pre-
viousIy it has invited forty, which,
of course. reduces volunteer offers
Evening star., 1923-03-04

and on the vaudeville stage. For a
time he operated a garage in Brook
lyn at Schermerhorn and Court
streets, in the days when garages
were about as common as airplane
hangers are now. His days in Brook
lyn when he "palled around" with
newspaper men in q neighborhood
bowling alley form a warm spot in
his memories of life before he became
the parent of a young millionaire.
His position as father Of Americas
most beloved child hasn't changed
Coogan. senior. To use an apt ex-
preston in slang, he isn't at all up
stage" nor has he forgotten the days
when ten or fifteen dollars constituted
farther, we doubt il Coogan, senior.
has forgotten the days when he him
self was eight years old.
The toy that most interested
Jackie (and Coogan. senior, too) was
the gun. The soldiers were arrayed at
one end Of the room and Coogan, sem
ior, proceeded to demonstrate the
proper way to kill wooden soldiers
with toy guns. One rubber-tipped
dart landed on the wall another bare
ly missed a window, but none hit the
soldiers. During the exhibition
Jackie was fairly itching TO get his
hands on the gun.
please, daddy, dear. may ] shoot
the gum Jackie inquired of his fond
parent
Perhaps Coogan, senior, wanted TO
demonstrate to US that it really was
no easy matter to hit the soldiers and
that in comparison with his son he
himself was quite a marksman. At
any rate. he turned the gun over to
Jackie. who Topped to the floor. took
careful aim and knocked over a SOL
dier the first time
X * + 4
0UR own observation is that Jackie
iOis no genius. He is an ordinary
American youngster whose ability has
been properly handled and developed
from early childhood. just as any
other normal youngster could be de-
veloped under proper conditions And
his development has left him a per-
fectly normal boy who likes to play
in the mud, romp with his dog. cavort
in his little base ball uniform and
generally cause CONSERVATION by
completely covering his clean clothes
with dirt. Nor have his development
and success spoiled him, for he is
unusually we'll hammered and obe-
dent for a boy Of eight years.
He is not self-conscious as most
eight-year-old boys are. His expe-
riences have removed the very word
stranger" from his vocabulary. He
is perfectly at home with anybody
as much as any other boy would be
with his own parents. He doesn't try
to "show off, before strangers, how
ever. In brief, he is just as cute, just
as lovable and just as clever in real
life as he is upon the screen.
Jackie's parents are careful to see
that the little movie star has twelve
hours sleep each night. At in the
morning he gets out Of bed and plays
until 9. when he eats. From 1896
until 1870 he is at the studio with his
tutor, and these hours are spent ir
alternately working and studying
From 1870 until $50 he plays. After
eating, he plays until s o'clock. wher
he is tucked in bed for the night
Such is the daily routine of this self
made little millionaire of eight years
Evening star., 1923-03-04

Homer Saint -Gaudens, Carnegie Director,
Developing Plan by Which Foreign Nations
Have Control of Their Own Showings in In
ternational Exhibition on This Side of Atlantic.
Artists of Each Country Themselves Choose
Their Best Men-In addition to Invited Paint
ings, All Have Privilege of "Winning Way"
Evening star., 1923-03-04

circumscribed in such committee
choosing by noblesso oblige. for one
thing, to give each school a chance,
and by it's very object-to attain the
best forty invited pictures possible
in France, this season (plus the un-
invited who break past the jury of
Evening star., 1923-03-04

Nv YELL, SIR. said Mr.. Doo-
~ ley. "it must be grand
" " thing to be colledge
profiSSor"
Evening star., 1923-03-04

L career. TIL postgraduate coorse
is TIL best in tn wurruld. Th' en-
thrance fee Is all he has. Th' wur-
ruld takes it away, firm him III miuyit
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-11-22
When Your B Battery
Falls Below Is Volts

When the 221s-volt B battery falls
below 10 volts cut off the cardboard
which covers the bottom of the cells
and punch a deep hole with an ice pick
or other instrument in the base of each
cell little bit off center so as not to
meet center carbon rod With an eye
dropper saturate inside of battery with
strong solution of sal ammoniac, which
can be purchased at any drug store.
If this is done the chances are good
that the voltage Of the battery viii
rise to 20 volts. II 1t does not the
voltage can be raised by giving the
battery a small charge just as II 1t
were a storage battery.
1t Is advisable to keep battery so
treated upside down and cover each
hole with piece Of adhesive tape TO
make ii simple to add more solution
from time to time.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-11-22
ODD SEA MONSTER IS FOUND
1t Is Eight Feet Long and Resembles
an Elephant Without Trunk
and Whale.

There has been exhibited in Buenos
Aires what South American scientists
believe to be hitherto unknown sea
monster, captured some twenty-five
miles from the coast near Mar del
Plata. 1t was at first supposed to be a
shelless sea turtle, but expert exami-
nation shows this is not the case.
1t resembles rather an elephant with
out trunk, or, more properly, an
enormous elephants head with ears al
most perfectly identical with those Of
that animal. 1t also has some features
similar to those of a whale. It's color
is brown, the mouth is large and
spherical.
1t is nearly eighty feet long and APP
proximately four and half feet in
diameter. It has two vertical fins be-
hind, one above and one below, remote
ly suggesting the screws of a propel-
Ter. The flesh is almost as elastic as
rubber.-Living Age.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-11-22
USE RADIO IN RESCUE WORK
Series of Experiments Are Being Car
ried on at Colliery in
England.

In the near future radio telephony
will probably play an important part
in the work of colIiery rescue parties.
AS the rescuers carry out their duties.
constant communication will be kept
up with those directing operations
from a base. That is the object un-
DERIVING series of experiments being
conducted at Ashington colliery in
England. A considerable measure of
success has already attended their
efforts, and quite recently speech and
music were successfully received I'M
derground. A party equipped with a
three-tube receiving set descended the
shaft of the Carl pit and fixed 20
foot aerial on the bulks supporting
the roof. Only one head phone was
used, but so clear was the reception
that the five men composing the party
all heard distinctly. Experiments
have already been carried out to
depths of 300 yards, and it is expected
TO test reception at depths of 1000
yards.-Scientific American
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-11-22

Run wire from the switch level o.
your left to the binding post at the M
per left and mark this A. The Other
switch is connected to the other bind
ing post and marked G. A wire is run
from the left side Of the tuning coil
winding to one Of the variable con.
denser terminals, then to one binding
post on the detector From the other
detector binding post wire is run to
the phone condenser and then to the
phone binding post on the left. An
other wire is run from the other vari-
able condenser binding post to the
right-hand end Of the tuning coil wind
ing, to the phone condenser and then
the other phone binding post. The set
is now completely wired and the cabi-
net can be closed and sealed as shown
in Fig. 8.
For use the aerial is connected to
the binding post marked A and the
ground to G. The phones are connect
ed to the binding posts on the bottom
of the panel. Most of the tuning Is
accomplished through the switches,
while the variable condenser is used
mainly to tune out interference.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-11-22
Variometer Stators
May Be Easily Made

A simple way of making the outer
coil of a variometer so that the wind
ing is opposite the rotating ball is de-
scribed below.
Fig. l is the molder. 1t consists Of
half a ball cut out at one end so that
a plug will fit in.
Fig. shows both pieces fitted to-
gether ready for winding. This is
wound with suitable wire and then
covered with a mixture of sealing wax
and rosin, ON the wire, SO that it will
hold the wires together. When the
mixture has hardened, the end plug is
taken out and the winding is pulled
off, as in Fig. 3.
Two of these windings go with a
variometer and are placed in boxes
just deep enough to cover it. The coil
should be placed exactly in the middle
of the box and the same mixture
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-11-22

Immense icebergs drifting down
from the high north like castles Of
glistening silver are blocking the har-
Dor of Old Fort Bay, an ancient
Freneh-Canadian fishing place on the
coast of Labrador In some way the
fifty inhabitants have notified the
government of Canada that they are
starving. Colonel Billy" Bishop, v.
c., the man who brought down 81
German planes during the war, is
going TO take food to the people of
there. There you have a good peace
time use for an airplane and an able
aviator.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-11-22
This Crystal Receiver Provides Sharp
Tuning, Thanks to the Variable Con-
denser.

apparatus. Yours may be OF old ma
teriaI or of material bought for the
purpose.
To begin with, cabinet is construct
ed to the inside dimensions of by 9
inches by 6 inches In depth. The
material used is birch one-quarter
inch thick. 1t is put together with
small screws and glue. When the glue
has set it Is stained mahogany color
and vanished. This coat is allowed
to set for three days and is then
rubbed down with pumice and water
and vanished again. If this Is done
carefully you will have cabinet close
ly resembling a factory product.
The front panel is of bakelite or
formica one-Quarter inch thick and cut
8 inches wide and inches long. Be
fore drilling, template of the front
panel is made of heavy paper and the
location of the instruments is figured
out and marked on this, so as to re-
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-11-22
The Same Thing.

When Mr.. Wombat came home and
announced that he would have to can
eel his vacation plans Mrs. Wombat
demanded to know what was wrong.
He explained that he couldn't leave
business. Whereat she was, to put it
mildly, peeved.
you put aside thousand dollars
for this trip, didn't your
Il did"
"Here / am expecting trip to the
seashore. You've got the money. And
now you say you can't leave business"
You take the $1,000" suggested
Mr. Wombat calmly, land buy some
new clothes. Probably do you as
much good as a trip to the seashore"
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-11-22
Simple Way to Build
Your Own Loud Speaker

A few pieces of gas fixtures, re-
ceiver, and large funnel are all that
is needed to make the loud speaker
shown in the illustration.
At the ten-cent stores you win find
U-shaped pieces of gas fittings which
sell for ten cents each. Purchase three
of these. Also one small piece tstraight)
four inches in length and one straight
piece six inches in length. Each Of
these cost ten cents also. This makes
a total of fifty cents for gas fittings.
Next purchase large tin funnel in the
same store for ten cents.
A small round (fat) piece of brass
(9) is sweated onto the end of piece