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the first contributions to the solution
Of that problem.
In the, beginning, the corps was
EMBODIED in the enthusiasm and deter
mination OF Dr. Myer. In fact there
was no corps. but there was Myer.
A chief without corps. It was his
consuming ambition to surround
himself with q stan OF trained as
sistanta He succeeded in this during
the war of 1861. But such were the
animosities excited by his success
that he was removed from the COM
mand OF the corps he had created.
and one year later he went out OF
the Army.
Myer entered the Army In 1854 -
IN assistant surgeon. His active in
terest In sign Language. already dis
played In his graduating thesiA was
manifested at once by its develop
ment into q system OF signal COM
munication, for two years later he
drafted = memorandum Of his device.
However, this attracted little or no
attention In the War Department II
was four long and weary years be-
fore Myer succeeded In bringing his
plans before a military board, then
two more years before Congress
created tho position Of signal of1icer
OF the United States Army. the first
known to history.
wttAi4 Eve, weeks AFTER reosiving
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LARDNER~ GETS 1924 FASHION DATA
Pitts burgh Wears Vests Outside of Coats.

| have a garment which the buttons
seems to of been tore Off OF and they
| fasten with safety pins. II makes
people feel sorry for you and at the
same time recognise that your home
life is unhappy.
Now. Prof. Speelse," said, "you
are going to wear, but what of the
ladiesr"
II was coming to that" he replied
with a vintage smile. "The ladies
are planning to dress in uisters.
These Will be of diamond or striped
pattern and in. very poor taste. but
ulsters all the same"
And is that all you half to Say
about ladies' garments?" asked him.
"Oh. no." he said. ."I have not even
started in about their shoes"
Now" said. II suppose you are
going to repeat the gag about men's
shoes being different colored."
NO" he said. THE Adiss are 60
ing to wear shoes that are mates, but
they have thought up one funny now
| city. One shoe 10 to be put on with
the heel facing in the direction that
traf'ic is headed. Then you can never
tell whether they are coming towards
/ you or vice versa"
Ibid you have . good time In
Pittsburghf' I asked him.
II did," was his reply, and am
sorry to be back"
That" said, after quite q bit
of thought, makes 1t unanimous"
RING w. LAHDNER
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1 stand ghast for that phenomenal.

/ stand ghast for that phenomenal.
Just the samely." l stick up, IL
are still glued to the idea that every
year are an Improvement on the one
before. Open the doors of your head,
Arthur Kickahaj jana, and listen how
the world progressed by leaps and. hops
in 1898"
while are waiting to change a
tire on my new musical hearse." he de-
crop. II shall listen to your statis-
ticks"
Following are some" / manipulate,
and spoke them:
Progressive improvements for 1928:
Science-A inventor living in Hotel
Algonquin, N. Y, have invented a word
less poem. This can be manufactured
by mixing salt with wooden alcohol.
No asperience required. Agents wanted.
Gas-U. s. Navy have got airship
named Lackawanna daughter of the
TarsJ filled with helium which axpect
to dishcover the n. Pole and cannot
escape. DIR. Cook. now resting in Jail,
feel quite similar.
Nature Gentleman living in Great
Kneck falls, Mont, have got horse
whose father was bull moose. Hiram
Johnson will be its name, If nomi-
mated.
Germany-She are still alive, in spite
of all we can do to help her.
Distinguished visitors-Hon. Lloyd
Geo., Hon. Papyrus and Prince Of Wales
come to America. Good time enjoyed
by all. Prince of Wales made most i'm
mense hit because he go fishing and
could not be captured by Pond lecture
bureau.
Pres. Coolidge-Since his incum-
brance Of office he have made two t2)
speeches to the press. One of them
was, YES" and the other was, mo"
He axpect to run again on solid Roose-
welt ticket.
Spiritualism - Scientifick American
have not yet found medium who can
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|yY YHEN Maj. Gen. George O.
NN Squier. retires tomorrow
Wv As chief sisnal oiicsr Of
the United States Army Il
will mark the passing of tho nfst
signal officer with the rank Of major
general. All preceding chief signal
officers were commissioned In the
rank OF brigadier general only.
The new head Of the Signal Corps,
Col. Charles Nick. saltsman. who viii
take ONCE on Tuesday January 1.
will be the second major general of
the Signal Corps ana the seventh
chief signal oficer OF the Army.
The founder OF the oorpS aAd tic
first ehisf was Brig. oSn. Albert
James Mysr. who served from 1850
70 1880. He was succssdsd In once
by Brig. Gen. w. B. HAssn, who
served from 1880 10 1897. Then
came Brig Gen. Adsiphsns ofssly.
who held ofIlcs from 1857 10 1906. He
was succeeded BY Brig. Cen. lanes
Allen. who remained from 1906 TO
1914 ana than WAS succeeded BY Brig.
Gen. George r. Scrivea. who stayed
from 1914 to 1917. The lattAr VA
the last officsr with the fank o.
briesdier general % 10 chisf signal
ofllcsr. Maj. Gen. Dquisr then sac-
ceeded Gen. Scriven.
Gal 8AltsUan has DoeA -, Auty
with the ID Corpe Area Aoa4QuArteS1,
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communication without being allowed
one assistant. This was fruitful In
results, for It was found that the in
dividual signal officer was valuable
only as q part Of perfected machinery.
This acknowledgement led to the es-
tablishment In washington on August
80, 1851. of the Signal Corps camp OF
instruction. This camp was located on
Red Hill, in Georgetown. Here instruc-
tion in the work was given by Lieut..
Samuel T. Cushing.
The Signal Corps. as an organiza-
ton, became law on March 3, 1883,
when the following officers were des-
ignated in the corps: Chief signal
officer. with the rank OF colonel which
was later increased to brisadier gen
sral and then major generals n lieu
tenant colonel. two majors. one cap
tain and eight lieutenants. DR.. Myer
was the first signal officer. He sought
to obtain certain control OF the tele-
graphs. Thereupon the blows fell In
the year 1853. the same year that the
corps was officiaily created. he was
relieved from command of the Signal
Corps and ordered to the Mississippi
for duty.
Gen. Myer was not only banished
to remote military station. but the
United States Senate failed to confirm
his appointment and the President OF
the United States revoked it
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Governors Island. N. T.. 90 signal
ofacer. During the world war he
held the rank OF brisadier general
from July -, 1917, TO March 10. 1919.
He was appointed IN the cavalry as
an additional second lieutenant fol-
lowing his graduation from the Mill
tary Academy At Went Point.
s While Il II generally recognised to-
DAY that the signal Corps has done
nnuoh toward the Advancement OF
thinee scisntih6 Il 10 not SO well
known that the man who first con-
csivSA the eorrs ana established It
did - At the ooSe of his iiSSs am
bitten. Tise teundsr was Albert
James Myss. Doctor In the Army.
His sistsr ana brother Are still resi-
dsnts Of this city. II 10 Hso inter
sssing 70 recall that the frst camp
es the sisAal Corps was IN Washing
ton.
Il was Just sixty-four years ago
that Gen. Mysr formed this sndis-
psnslhle branch OF the American
Array. me genesis OF military signal
ing u written IN the labor OF Myer.
IN svery campaign from the re-
metsst times the mAintenance OF
communication by transient signals
lid presented itself TO commanders
g. of pasaanoant lnportAncs. The
waving torch and AA9 Of Aysf were
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city reported In Pittsburgh by DR.
Speelse has to do with shoes. In
other years it has been customsry
for the well dressed man to weaf
two shoes the same color. or nearly
SO. but this year the fashionable
Pittsburgher will take new lease
of life and wear two, shoes Of differ.
ent hues. One may be red and the
other black or tan or narrow ssbrs
stsipe.
The socks will be pulled on over
the shoes, so that you can never tell.
The expected result II that spec-
tators will keep saying to themself,
7 wonder what color shoes he hAs
got on"
No riEht-minded American will
wear overcoats this winter unlest II
gets pretty cold. But 1T 10 well to
have them around the house in the
case that they happens to be . sud-
den charge for the worst In the
weather. IS
The smart cvercoat wearer win
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are performed and the family re-
ceives relations, friends and. If he
will. the passerby in the street.
| 1t is the great day for paying off
social duties to relatives and ac
quaintances. Naturally the saints
most chosen are those celebrated in
the winter months, when there is
time for festivity. So the first diff
Guilty OF jumping thirteen days be-
comes apparent There is scarcely
q fortnight in the calendar without
it's slava day. And family without
! its slaya would be worse off than a
boy born on February 20 of leap year!
The first great Serbian problem was,
therefore. to find a fortnight, which
has nc slava. The patriarchate was
| bombarded by letters and petitions.
Happily fit time was found, some
| where in the early summer.
Then a more serious protest began
to be heard.
| The Vatican, though admirably
| innocent chad it not stopped and long
| delayed it's conference was blamed
| for propaganda.
Easter is the great orthodox festi-
1
round in Serbia that Easter would
now fall on the Catholic Easter day,
and the cry went UP. The govern
ment wants to make Catholics of
! us!''
There was a way out. The new
| orthodox calendar is an improvement
on the Gregorian, and twice, it ap-
pears. in fifty years the Easter di-
verges by few days. IL the~ehange
could be made in one of those two
years it would be clear to all that
Serbia was not Catholicized! OF
course, fear arose that ii might be
necessary to wait perhaps q score of
years before this divergence would
first appear, but q little manipula-
tion has reduced the happy date to
1925.
So, after all, the Serbian population
(and with 1t all Jugoslavia, waiting
PATIENTLY will not only get into line
with US for the day of the month,
but be all set to enjoy the simplified
calendar Of the Vatican conference
as soon as January l shall next fall
On Monday-for, you see, they won't
be following Rome, the whole thing
being fixed to shoot automatically,
a long time in advance, by those two
Serbian mathematicians!
Who cares? We have done we'll.
Soon we, shall be'all in line together,
burning up the almanacs!
4 4 \ X
NEW YEARS is fixed. So they have
moved 1t. Easter is movable.
So, don't touch it.
In the old days, before the Gre
gorian change, Easter Gas everybody
does not know was a double-header-
Easter and New Years, all in one.
Remember this.
Civilization was long perfecting a
calendar to keep up with the sun.
The apparent solar ellipse turning
| slowly and the eQuinoxes not being
J fixed points, the civil year of Romu-
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fetch them a ghost, but they have
dishcovered a old lady who can take
off her shoes with her hands tied
while setting in the dark and play a
banjo with her bare toes. II this do
not deserve l0,o0o$ prize what do?
King Tut-Iie are now open for Wis
itors who are permitted to scratch
matches on his bed & treat him Just
like amy other king In this safety nrst
for democracy period.
Labor-Hon. Sanl. Gompers have
passed rule which make 1t impossible
for Bankers to join Brickliars Union
for fear too much wealth will Jump into
the hands of the few.
Prohibition-U. S. Govt. have ap-
propriated $4,000. .ooos SO to hire more
revenue agts.. thusly bringing drunk
enness within the reach of all.
Old age-Hon. Jno. D. Rockefeller are
still the oldest man in the world for
his age, but Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depew
are still much funnier than him.
Crime-Kidnabbine, bank robbery.
shooting tcrap & gum. divorcing.
eloping. splitting on sidewalk. birth
control, mobbing and /firebusging are
growing so swollen In Great Cities
that Hon. Police Force cannot give
their Annual Benefit Ball more than
Zee a week for fear of siprise.
Immorality-The Clergyman's Union
promus to shut up six ts) theaters
in N. Y. because OF the naked way
they act. This are unfair to several
other theaters which are just as dull
& only ask 6.3os to see 1t.
X X
r SAY those statieticks to- Arthur
Kickahajama, japanese under
taker, while he listen somewhat
Have you got reasons for believe
that 1924 will be better still than
1923 somewhat he require baffably.
"Undoubtlessly," 1 negotiate. AL
ready I can hear signs OF brightness
on every hand. For how can amy
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yr. be dull when . or IL gentlemen
are. equally striving to be next rfeA
of u. s. ?"
with 70 many candidates In the
field," say Arthur, "ise4 SHOULD In
deedly be q year OF bright pfomIA"
Bright promises viii commence
In January" develop, and swell UP
tili they BURT at Nth Conventions In
June or July. Have we felt slightly
wobble In our hearts this year, rear.
ing that World were going to the
damnation chow-dogs. Not 30 from
now on. From every Democfatlek
platform we will soonly hear Of the
Great Prosperity about to hit us In
the head. From numerous Repub-
iickan Clubs we shall be told how
golden rainbows shall kwoop down
on every American farm howeverly
mortgaged. People have merely TO
stick their ballots In the right box
and get the country saved from War
or the League of Nations, or what
ever are the matter with II.
Think that Arthur Kichahajama,
and go away smiling to your funeral.
1924 VIII be the Year or Hope with
every Candidate getting more and
more. musical until November when
every man will be expected to do his
duty. sometimes twice. With such
look forward into the future can you
dare to feel sad & pressed in your
soul?"
With such lively prospeckts" he
81 g. grone, Il can see no large
prophets any more In the undertak.
ing businesy>"
Thusiy speaking he depart of to
berry the remainders or s. kato, Jap
anese real estate. who were h dead
beet when alive and are still a
pretty lifelas vegetable, by golly. ,
Hoping you Are the same
Yours truly
b HAsHIMURA TOGO.
tCopyfixht, 1881
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"O the editor: Our fashion edf-
tor has just returned from
Pittsburgh, where he has
been studying what smart
men and women will wear during the
yr. which begins the day after to-
morrow. He brought in expense
acct. which kind of took the joy out
of our life but we have made 1t
practice to never scrimp where the
spending of little money works to
the benefit of subscribers.
His total expenses for the week he
was gone amounted to $47.20, OF
which $4,000 was for railroad fare,
$500 for hotel bill and the other $40
for cigarettes. He must of reeked
with smoke.
He agrees with vanity Fair" that
lounge suits will be double breasted.
Instead OF the usual price for any
kind Of q suit, namely $500. these
suits will run as high as $41.o0
apiece and that don't include the cost
: Of the lounge. which the most COM
Portable ones, with one extra pillow,
. comes to about $500.
A distinct novelty In regards to
LneS0 Suits lays III tu6 IdCI IHdI tno
vest has to be put on after the coat,
but when a person has done II a
few times. you should worry. 1t be-
comes second nature.
The trousers will be donned up
side down, with the cuffs at the top
and the waist line around the feet
The trouser cuffs will be held UP by
suspenders on one side and belt on
the other. This gives touch OF the
bohemian.
According to Mr.. Speelse (the
fashion editor referred to) the best
dressed men in Pittsburgh will never
leave home without q safety razor
in their pocket, as they is no tell-'
ing when a new ,whisker will crop
out These may be obtained at $1.00
and up, but the most fashionable
ones has diamond studded blades
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and sells as high as $214. These are
carried in the vest pocket outside
the coat.
Taxicabs and street cars are
rapidly being equipped with lather
and the street cars was already equip
ped with strops.
Another in ovation for 1924 IL In
regards to clean handkerchief. The
new regime declares that nobody
must ever go out unlest they have
got clean handkerchief, any flavor
Smart Pittsburghers will wear
what is known as the circulating
collar. This Is the invention Of a
captain of police and il a collar that
revolves around the neck so fast that
nobody can ever tell II the collar Is
soiled or no. This collar runs by
electricity and makes practally
5000 revolutions minute. The
necktie, OF brown hue, must be
tied loose 30 as to not interiors with
the revolutions Of the collar.
But perhaps the most startling nov-
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Among these others put down the
orthodox populations Of Jugoslavia-
that Is to say, Serbia and Srem.
Now. here is thing not known ir
London, Paris and New York: Just
when the Vatican had called it's con-
ference in 1922 1t was learned that
there were mathematicians also in
Serbia. On the calculations Of two
such the synod OF the Greek Ortho-
dox Church had decided at last to
adopt the Georgian calendar as we
still have it, plus the simplifications
which the Vatican conference would
recommend to general knowledge. II
looked as IL Serbia ct al. would be
stealing a march on the rest of CIV
ilization-Serbia, still at this minute
thirteen days behind our own Gre
gorian calendar, as will appear.
Hitherto orthodox non-acceptance
or Gregory's reform in 1852 had gone
on increasing the confusion of dates
and days until now, in a country like
Jugoslavia, part Roman Catholic
Croatia and Slovenia) and par,
orthodox Serbia and Srem), 1t was
intolerable.
Holy days in Jugoslavia, strictly
observed and taking up quite one.
third of the year. have been dupli-
Gated, and employers of labor find
that this has demoralizing infiu-
ence. One would have expected
therefore, that the change would be
welcomed.
The change was, indeed, welcomed
and October Is, 1913, was actually
fixed for it to take place. During the
two intervening years the Vatican
sat tight, holding OF Its conference
in order not to stir up orthodox sus-
capabilities.
Now you know why calendar re-
form was delayed in the whole civil
lied world, while Serbia, snug in her
Tess known corner, prepared to take
the plunge she had delayed since 1889!
Otherwise the Vatican. in starting
up the conference for which the
world was waiting. might innocently
cause hot-headed Serbians to boil
with indignation at (perhaps)
Croatian boasts that Jugoslavia was
following Rome.
Rome's conduct here was perfect.
Yet October IS passed and the Serbian
synod had not then, or since, made
the decree concerning it--in fact. does
not intend to do 80 for some time.
Other orthodox countries having.
at last, on October is adopted the
-"new" calendar of Gregory by jump
Ing thirteen days and being set, to
add the simplifioations just q little bit
before we get them, the Jugoslavian
delay. which has delayed us all, Is OF
palpitating interest.
Il 4
A 8 1t turned out, there are touch
ing and amusing family compli-
cations. The patriarchate at Belgrade
itself tells the story. One of the most
important phenomena OF Serbian
life is the family feast day, or the
Slava, when, on the feast of their
particular saint, certain ceremonies
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III o Editor, The star;lDearest Sir /:
Arthur Kickahajama, Japanese
undertaken, frequently call at
my Thipking Studio (kitchen)
In am or merning because. he say,
whenever he see me 1t make him love
his work more & more. Yestdy he ar
rive up pretty darnly early and ask to
bora my ottomobile mittens.
why you require such 'stylish?" l
ask to know
Because" he report, ION Dec. 81
are going to ride in very enlarged
funeral"
Sorrow negotiate. "Who are you
axpeeting to berry now9"
1923" he statistick,
"Reely?" I vampire. Il heard that
he was enjoying a good deal of dis
ease. What you think made him sick?'
Too much inceme tax & too few
bannannas," he dib. He are now GO
ing to q place where bannannas are
plentyful and nobody sings about it, A
place where there are no incum tax
because there are ne incum. A place
where there are no lawbreakers be-
cause there are no laws"
"Geedy!'' l pefuse. "Then we shall
have New Yr. to take his place. Have
anybody been elected for that job?"
1924 are elected" deeroke Arthur
while putting Grape ON his high-top hat
That will be happy year, maybe"
I decompose.
"Annything for change, as the
Snake Charmer said when she took OF
her bow constriptor and put on rat
tlesnake." Arthur say this with voice
II are tired Of hearing people saying
Happy New Yr. so muchly. 1t inter.
fere with my business. Yet l keep my
mind open like garage. What, you
see about 1924 that make you feel go
darnly brite & optomattic?"
Arthur Kiekahajaina.' l peruse. do
you not remember what Lord Tinnysoh,
farlNs bookmaker. say when he see a
Laundry washington his shirt so 1t will
be pure for Jan. /? wiring out the new.
wiring In the old = he dictate. And this
should make you feel entirely hopeful" !"
II are never hopeful about Laundry"
he grud. "Yet my brain still remain
open to your talk. What you see about
1924 that will be a improvement on
1923?"
AZ see plenty" This from me- "F'or
instanoely, look at High Cost of Life"
II cannot look up that far Arthur
sip, because my kneck are slightly
stiff''
UVET it shall come downwards
perhaps" 1 rove Congress,
Lord Mellon, Pres. Coolidge and the
Retail Liquor Dealers Assn. are all
working ruthlessly & toothlessly to fetch
down that high-up menace until it shall
be within the reach of ALL You know
what l axpect maybe on Jan. /. 1922"
Speak swiftly" narrate Arthur with
watch. my next funeral are at s.41.'
81 should not be SURPRISED" l say.
''if / aspect to get no bills at all on
that happy anniversity."
..Yeu are talking like ADAM" he di
vludge.
"Like which Adam?" 1 ask to know.
Franklin P. or Jane?'
Like Adam /. king of Eden" he
amplify. ION first day of Creation
he stand up amidst trees & dictate,
.tiurrah, hurrah. This are the only
New Year day in history when no
body has to pay no rent or nothing
Yes report Mrs. Eve who was there,
and that are why this place are called
Paradise
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THERE were kickers, already, in
= 1852. England herself accepted
the present 0regoriAn calendar only
In 1854 GOO years lAteD, whereas
Spain, Portugal And italy adopted it
the sanas day ~ Rome, France the
same year. parts Of Germany the year
following t1SSs}, but other parts
only In 100, ~ in Denmark and
Sweden, while Russia and other coun-
tries. holding to the Greek orthodox
church, never!
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PAHlS, DeCemDer ~.
Ew YEAR this time falls on .
Tuesday. It will never hap
pen again. Once more, re-
spectiveiy, New Year Will