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Evening star., 1923-11-11
Washington Flyers Make History
seisb the Pilots Who Have Their Thrilling Achievement


scious several seconds. Then l re-
member hearing the roar of the motor
again and in another second the black
curtain began to lift slowly. though
it was all of a minute before I could
see anything. Even then I was
groggy for the next ten minutes.
"All the time ! was blind I was fly
ing by feel but I was fortunate
enough to get Strengthened out of
that tight turn and fly level until /
could see. 1t certainly was a dis
agreeable experience and it taught
me never to make such a sharp turn.
especially anywhere close to the
ground"
1 asked hm about landing at such
high speeds.
That doesn't bother you so much"
he replied. after you have been fly
ing at that rate for little while you
become accustomed to it and you
make what would seem an ordinary
landing in a slower ship All the
difference is that you roll a long way
on the ground before stopping. OF
course it takes a big field"
How high a speed do you think a
man can stand without breaking down
under the strain?" inquired next.
81 don't know" he answered. but
we're not anywhere near it yet. In
straightaway flying man can stand
a much higher speed than 900, I am
sure. but he will pass out at lower
speeds if he makes tight turns
Before I left / asked him what he
considered the greatest danger in the
tests at Mitchell Field.
Diving" he replied tersely. "Both
of those boys are determined to beat
higher and higher, so they can get
momentum from a dive. The other
day AP civilians is AP tn almost
every one at the naval air ssation)
went up 5000 feet and dived almost
to the ground so he could ave the
highest possible speed when he went
over the wire. He didn't clear the
ground twenty feet when he levelled
off. Every one thought he was going
straight in and one of these days
some one is going into the ground
unless they stop >sese tests or stop
the diving from hig... aeitudes."
And now it is stopped. But prob
ably when conditions are better and
pilots have regained a little of the
caution which is supposed to exist
to some extent in all of us, the order
will be rescinded or modified and then
it is not unlikely that the coveted 800
miles an hour will be reached-and
passed!
Evening star., 1923-11-11
Washington Man Studies Fish Tribe
That Takes Lives OfMen and Cattle

neyed to South America to collect mu-
scum speciments and motion picture
studies for the Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia. Large among
his ambitions was the project to get a
cinematrographic record of the famous
p1ranha.
The man. eating fish long has been a
mysterious terror. Legends have been
told of how it attacks and devours alive
the unfortunate Brazilian Indian who
chances into it's watery haunts.
TX ROOSEVELT. dur
T. ing his South American explora-
ton, witnessed the incredible ferocity
of this fish and wrote vivid and spec
tacular account of it in his Through
the Brazilian Wilderness" But still the
piranha remained little known. Its ways
of life were more invested with the
fantasy and fright of myth than illumi-
mated with the clear precision Of sci
ence.
Now the ubiquitously prying motion
picture camera was setting it's film to
record the secrets Of the finny cannibal
Was the piranha as fierce and blood
mad as accounts would have it?
A naked Indian came along, padding
a canoe. He swayed carelessly. The
frail craft overturned and the man
splashed into the water. A numberless
shoal Of piranhas was instantly upon
him. Myriads of sharp teeth nipped and
gashed the flesh Of his legs as his arms
cared him to the surface. He kicked
and struck out in frantic terror. but the
swarming fiends closed in upon him,
snatching bits Of flesh from arms. legs
and trunk. The churning water turned
into bloody foam Despairingly the
Indian swan. Now one of his fingers was
nipped off, then one of his toes. A fish
leaped from the water and bit ravenous-
ly into the soft fibers of the throat.
Madly the doomed swimmer tore it
away. His blood Redeemed the water
for yards around. A'leg muscle eaten
through and the limb hung still. A
score of fishes swarmed about and tore
at it. Other assailants bit away fibers
of an arm-pit and the arm fell limp.
Still others tore open the unprotected
abdomen. The convulsively struggling
body sank in a cloud of crimson and at
the muddy bottom of the river the
piranhas completed their savage re-
past.
THERE have been cases where the
l. remains of fully clothed men have
been found, naked skeletons within the
garments. The piranhas, never biting
at the cloth. had entered the openings
at arms, legs and neck and had gorged
themselves until nothing but stripped
bones were left.
Even the most formidable fish," says
Evening star., 1923-11-11

tentiaf between the plus" and the
minus current
Similarly in the body. the nerves,
those tiny fibers which spread
throughout the whole system, are the
connecting links between the cells.
They are bound together in small
bundles, just like the wires in COM
plex electric cables. The nerves make
it possible for the cells to act to-
gether instead of separately: they add
the energy of one cell to that of it's
neighbors and convey the accumu-
lated power to the great body cen.ers
or terminals.
Where are these terminals or poles
situated? Obviously, answers Dr.
Grille. in those places or regions
where the electric tension is greatest
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them in a large aquarium which was
furnished with water plants to simulate
living conditions. There the man-eat-
ing fishes were kept and studied with
the motion picture camera.
The result of the study showed that
the ferocity of the piranha has been in
nowise overstated. A trace of blood in
the water drew the fishes like SO many
flashes toward it. They seized upon
large pieces of flesh and tore them to
pieces in a frenzy. A mass of sleeps
entrails was put into the water and
quickly drawn out. The fish were
hanging to it and only after many sec
onds did the fierce jaws release and
they dropped back into the water.
Evening star., 1923-11-11

street and Pennsylvania avenue, look
ing down toward the Capitol, and one
of these planes were to flash past the
Treasury straight on down the Ave-
nue.. You would not even have to
crane your neck to see it. By raising
your eyes slightly you would see a
blur somewhere above 18th street
and before you could focus your eyes
on this it would have travelled down
to 9TH street To be exact, in thirteen
and one-half seconds the plane would
have passed above the dome of the
Capitol, while behind it would begin
to reverberate the peculiar cracklings
and thunderings which follow the
swift passage of these high-speed
planes through the air.
What are the feelings of pilot of
one of these fast planes" / have
heard many people ask. Fortunately
1 am able to answer that, having in
terviewed one of the other Navy pilots
of the racing team which entered the
Pulitzer race.
In straightaway flying the sensa-
ton is not much different from that
of ordinary flying at one-third the
speed, except that there is increased
vibration and painful suction on the
eardrums from the vacuum created
behind the plane. To lessen this pain
the ears are stuffed tight with cot
ton. which is a common practice,
even with slower flying ships"
4 x x X
THE racing plane takes off, at a
i higher speed than usual and lands
at one still higher. from seventy to
ninety-five miles an hour, but it Is in the
turns that the racing pilot experiences
his greatest thrill and where the
greatest danger lies. If the ship" Is
banked too sharply at very high
speed the pilot will lose conscious
ness, because of the centrifugal force
which withdraws the blood from the
brain. One pilot described this to me
as it happened to him the first. time
he turned his racer too sharply.
'"The first thing l knew" he said.
my head and shoulders were being
forced down into the cockpit and I
felt as though my body had suddenly
gained four or five hundred pounds in
weight 1 could not even move my
arms, for they hung like lead weights
and with no more feeling. Then
black curtain seemed to be drawn
down over my eyes and felt my
senses going. .
Luckily 1 was at a high enough
altitude so that this could happen
safely, for I was probably uncon-
Evening star., 1923-11-11
Electricity Called Real Life Force
OF the Body by American Surgeon

there would be no chemical action in
the cells, no electricity would be gem
Grated. and the machine would cease
working; in other words. the body
would die. And this is exactly what
happens if we are deprived of air or
stop breathing for a few brief min
utes.
In an electric battery wires are
necessary to connect one cell unit
with it's neighbors, to collect the ac-
cumulated current and send it
through cables to the important CEN
ters or terminals, which then repre-
sent the total pressure of the bat
tery's entire electrical power. The
driving force between the two poles
or terminals is known as the electri-
cal tension or the difference in po-
Evening star., 1923-11-11
BY PROSPER BURANELLI.

LARGE canoe drifted on murky
~ waters. A white man and three
~ Indians in it cast out lines of
4 a wire and drew in fish. The
water creatures were not large. being
about the length of a small-mouthed
bass and as thick of body. But they
were vicious, ugly brutes that threshed
against the bottom of the boat and bit
savagely at wood, at each other at
hands that reached to take them. The
men seized them at the gills, drew the
fluke hooks from their mouths and
tossed them into an aquarium tank at
one end of the boat, preserving the
while a wary caution.
Once boy made careless move as
he jerked at the shaft of hook. The
swift, strong jaws snapped the thumb
between knifelike teeth and with
powerful wrench stripped the flesh from
the bone.
These 'fearsome creatures were the
celebrated piranhas or man-eating
flashes of the Amazon, probably the
most ferocious of animal things. They
were being gathered to act, even as
pretty girls delight in acting, before the
motion picture camera.
Arthur S. Fisher of Washington jour-
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Col. Roosevelt. 1.-The sharks or barra-
cudas, usually attack things smaller
than themselves. But the piranhas
habitually attack things larger than
themselves. They rend and devour
alive any wounded man or beast: for
blood i'll the water eXcites them to
madness. If piranha bites an OK
taking off part of an ear of perhaps a
teat from the udder of cow-the
blood brings up every member of the
ravenous throng which is anywhere
near, and unless the attacked animal
can Immediately make its escape from
the water it is devoured alive"
The Fisher expedition collected a
large number of piranhas and placed
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increased the determination Of each
pilot to be the victor at all odds, a
determination which was overcoming
every consideration Of personal safety.
Foolhardiness will be the comment
Of many who read these words. If
so, it is to foolhardiness, then, that
the world owes in this as in many
other things in the past it's actual
advancement. An extremely reckless
feat once achieved ceases to be reck-
less in the eyes of the people. 1t has
been done once, they say, and it will
be done again. Soon it will be taken
up and added to the list of things
which, once miracles, are now a part
of our daily life.
WITHOUT the great competition
w between these two Navy flyers
in their struggle for supremacy,
either man would have rested sat
isfied with a lower speed, believing
that he had done his best. Instead Of
that we have witnessed a series of
thrilling contests. with the victor of
oAAS AAAA Wy hoNih6 tihC W hShho
edge the applause at his success be-
fore his laurels were snatched from
him by his eager rival. Up and up
went the speed record until the chief
of aeronautics at Washington wisely
forbade further flights of the sort
in the fear that the desire to excel
might grow into a mania which would
needlessly endanger the lives of both
pilots.
So for the time the record remains
at 1865, very little short of four and
one-half miles a minute. Stop for a
moment and ask yourself if you real
ize exactly what this means. In order
to gain a mental image of such tre-
mendous speed let us suppose the
Washington Monument to be laid on
it's side and one of these racing planes
to be flown over it full tilt. The Mon
ument is 555 1-5 feet high. 1t would
take only one and four-tenths seconds,
or less than a second and half, for
the plane to pass from the base to the
tip. Were you to stand off to one side
and watch closely you would not see
more than dizzy blur.
Like the old story Of the first auto
mobile speeder who went through a
little village, it would take two men
to tell about it--one to say, Here he
comesr' and the other. There he
goesm Except that in this case the
second man would hardly give the
first one time to open his mouth.
Aro;u ~wnNooa thof ~ou pcra 70
be standing at the corner of 18th
Evening star., 1923-11-11

world. "is nothing more than an cleo
tro-chemical mechanism, or electric
battery, constructed on the pattern of
constituent electrical cells there are
$500 10000 100000 of theml, each of
which is in itself an electro ch emical
mechanism. The positive pole or ter
minal Of the whole human battery is
the brain, the negative pole is the
liver, the connecting wires are the
nerves, and the electrolytic fluid in
which the mechanism is immersed in
the blood which contains the body
Evening star., 1923-11-11
Only Dictated 1t.

From the Atlanta Chronicle.
An aged negro appeared as a wit
ness before a congressional commit
tee. In the course of his examina-
ton these questions were put to the
man: What is your name?"
Calhoun Clay, sah."
Can you sign your name?"
''Sah?"
"I ask if you can write your name.
We'll. no sab. Ah nebber writes ma
name. All dictates it. sah.'
Evening star., 1923-11-11

Y HAT is the human body :?
What really is this collec-
" " tion of bones, blood skin
hair and tissue which each
Evening star., 1923-11-11
BY DONALD EDWARD kEYHoE.

A LTHOUGH the accounts of the
~ recent speed tests at Mitchell
Field have been complete from
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-13
HARDING RECOGNIZES
WORTH OF WOMAN
MRS. BARNARD TO
POST OF POSTMASTER AT
TAMPA AT BIG SALARY.

Mrs. Elizabeth Barnard, recently
appointed postmaster for Tampa by
President Harding, is the first woman
of the $6,000-a-year grade in the Unit
ed States postal service. Since there is
no apparent opposition by the Flori-
da senators to her nomination, the
confirmation is regarded merely as
routine for the senate. Heretofore the
largest annual salary paid woman
postmaster was $500
The office to which Mrs. Barnard
has been nominated pays the same as
the postmastership at Baltimore and
other large cities. They are just six
postoffices which pay more than So
coo year
During the lsat year Mrs. Barnard
held the office of assistant superin-
tendent OF mails at Tampa, being the
only woman in the United States to
hold that position in a postofice as
large as that of Tampa. She was re-
Gently rated by the United States civil
service commission as one of its most
efficient employees.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-13
SAYS FORD'S OFFER is
NOT BAD PROPOSITION
CHAIRMAN MADDEN THINKS
1T SHOULD BE ACCEPTED.
"UNVARNISHED FACTS"

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Convic-
ton that the government should ac-
cept Henry Ford's offer for Mussel
Shoals was expressed today in the
house by Chairman Madden of the
appropriations committee. Analysing
the Ford offer, Mr. Madden said it
was mot bad proposition at all"
adding that he felt congress in ac-
cepting it will have acted so as bet
ter to provide for the common de-
Tense and for the promotion of the
general welfare"
Declaring the government owed it
to the nation to see the Mussel Shoals
project through to completion, Rep
resentative Madden said the sole ques-
ton was whether there should be fed
eral or private operation. Calling at
tention that $107, 100000 already had
been expended on the project, he es-
timated that the government would
have to sink" another $84,000,000 to
complete it, before we can function
on an economical basis, excluding OF
course, let me emphasize, any return
whatever on the investment"
Under the Ford offer, he continued,
the government would invest only
$50,000,000 to complete Wilson dam
number 3, which would end the de-
mands upon the federal treasury and
be an investment of $l57, 100000, in
stead of $191 100000"
For a period of 100 years." he went
on, "the government would be freed
OF any expense in connection with
these dams, locks and power houses
and machinery. Throughout that pc
Rod the farmer will have been get
ting his fertilizer and the government
will have had at its disposal a plant
fully and modernly equipped and
ready to produce explosives and other
war materials. The government will
have been freed from all the hazards
attendant upon such a vast enterprise,
it will have been saved the expense
of research and experimentation and
the burden will have fallen upon 9TH
ers to keep these plants equipped to
conform with the march of progress.
Now it is not my purpose/to urge
you to align yourselves on one side
or the other of this proposition. l
have striven to give you the plain I'M
vanished facts as | have found them
so that you might the better determine
the matter for yourselves.
1T is a business proposition with
me, purely and simply, | feel that we
owe it to the taxpayer, to the farmer
and to the nation to finish the under
taking and get it into operation at the
earliest date practicable
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-13
BOTTLE FOR EACH
LIGHT ON BROADWAY
WITH LID OFF SEATS ARE AT
PREMIUM IN THE CABA-
REFS AND RESORTS.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-The lid is off
and the cork is out-on Broadway.
Curfew, sounded by Police Commits
sioner Enright, rang for the second
time at 2 o'clock this morning
" in some places, but in others only
the echo was heard.
A tour of inspection of the bright
light cabarets begun at ii o'clock last
night and lasting until 3 this morning
showed that:
Of about 10 places visited seats
were at a premium up until the last
minute in practically all
Despite the absence of police vigil
ance few, if any, of the resorts were
selling anything harder than sarsa-
parilla and ginger pop.
1t was a case of every man Tor HIM
self and while every man did not
have a case few had less than quart
with them.
There's a bottle for each light on
Broadway.
Little disorder marked the sound
ing of the curfew at o'clock, diners
jokingly obeying the mandate OF the
police commissioner to quit dancing
at that hour.
AS a result the "one-arm hash hous-
es" and the open all night beaneries
reaped a harvest, for those who. had
a few drops left to consume found
such places suitable for that purpose.
Visits to the Moulin Rouge in
Broadway, between Forty-seventh and
Forty-eighth streets, the Palais Roy
ale, the Little club, in Forty-fourth,
Gypsyland, in Forty-ffth street, Gal
lagher's, the Board Walk, Montmar-
tire, the Plantation, Monte Carlo, the
Sideshow, the Tent, Palias de DAM
and finally Joeps revealed the resorts
peopled as thickly as forests. A glance
about the crowded rooms convinced
onlookers that ginger pop was not the
only beverage being consumed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-13
SAT Millionaires Sail on
The Mauritania; Gary
Suites Cost $40,500.00
Pleasure Cruise That Will Cost Mil
lion and Quarter Dollars VIII
Last Only 90 Days.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-The liner
Mauritania, chartered at cost OF
S125OOOO. sailed Wednesday with 54I
millionaires and near-millionaires on
the most costly pleasure cruise ever
arranged in New York.
The cruise, across the Atlantis and
through the Mediterranean, will last
sixty days. :,
Ebert H. Gary, chairman of the
United States Steel Corporation, with
Mrs. Gary and party OF friends, &C,
cupied the Mauretania's two regal
suites. American Express company
charts showed the cost for the two
suites to have been S40,5O0. The
cheapest accommodations on the liner
were held at $1,000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-13
GOVERNMENT HAS A
NEW TYPE OF COTTON
SENATOR GEORGE HAS LIMIT
ED QUANTITY FOR DISTRIB-
UTED ON APPLICATION.

The bureau of industry of the Unit
ed States department OF agriculture
has developed new and improved
type of cotton that has the merit of
being an early variety and boil weevil
resistant as early as practical.
Some of the enterprising farmers of
Terrell should procure some of these
seed and give them a trial. Senator
w. F. George has been allotted 900
pounds of the seed for distribution
among farmers who would be inter-
ested in receiving them. OF course it
is not guaranteed that this cotton will
entirely scare away the boil weevil or
that its use will avoid the necessity
of any other effort by poisoning or
otherwise to destroy the pest. 1t sim
ply means that this seed has been i'm
proved as above stated along the line
of quick maturity in the hope that ii
may get by to a large extent before
Mr. Weevil can destroy it.
Reports Are Requested.
The request is made by the depart
ment of agriculture that those recelv-
ing the seed shall make a report OF
the results in accordance with in
structions furnished with the seed and
it is hoped that by another year suf-
fcient seed may be produced as re-
suit of the planting of quart to pro-
vide for the raising of at least one
bale of the variety used.
While the seed will be sent out IN
separate one-quart packages and no
person is supposed to have more than
one quart it is true that an arrange
ment might be made by which few
neighbors could put their seed togeth-
er and in that way have enough to
give them a real test during the sea-
son of 1923 which would not be SO
practical if only one separate quart
were planted.
An earnest request is made that
any farmer, whether landlord tenant
or cropper, who desires to make an
actual test of these seed will furnish
his name and address to Senator Wal
ter F. George, addressing him al
room 129, senate Office building,
Washington, d. c.
These seed are all to be sent out
by March 1st, and if requests are nos
received ten days prior to that date
the seed will be otherwise disposed Of
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-13
Description and Life History of Boil WeeUil
REPARED BY UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT AGRIcULTURE)

lures. the development OF the weevll
is much slower than during the mid
summer months.
~ The cotton plant produces
MANY more squares than it can carry
to maturity as bolls. This surplus is
shed by the plant throughout the
season, under normal conditions about
90 per cent OF the fruit being shed.
(8) Up to a certain point weevil
puncturing Of fruit does not reduce
the cotton crop, because large num-
bers of forms would be shed normal
(9) The weevil has decided ten
dencv to seek moisture wherever it
NAV be found on the surface OF the
plant.
Direct Control by Poisoning With
Calcium Arsenate.
In the years which have elapsed
since the advent of the boil weevil
into the United States every conceive
able means of direct control of the
weevil has been tried repeatedly. Ow-
ing to the peculiarities of the weevil
attack. which have been mentioned,
most of these attempts have been un-
successful. Some methods were found
which would control the weevil, but
these were either impracticable or too
expensive for use on a commercial
scale. During comparatively recent
wears. however, method OF poison
ing has been developed which has
proved very successful. This consists
OF treatment of the plants with pow
dered calcium arsenate BY a special
lied method.
II has long been known that pois-
oning the boil weevil IS possible TO a.
certain extent, but on account of the
peculiar habits of the insect it was
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