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The Washington times., 1923-08-21

, from west to east and the tide
strives to keep under the moon
or the sun, which, relatively,
stand fast in place, the tidal wave
moves westward. The result is
that the water acts somewhat like
band thrown around the axle Of
u wheel and held motionless while
the wheel rotates. Friction is
produced, tending to stop the
rotation.
This is a very crude presenta-
ton Of the subject of tidal fric-
ton, but it may serve to convey
the idea. Those who want to go
farther should study George Dar.
wins book on 1.-THE Tides" in
which he shows how the birth Of
the moon from the earth was
probably due to tidal friction.
At present the subject interests
us only with regard to the
amount of retardatipn that the tides
now cause in the earth's rate
OF rotation. The data and the
calculations are somewhat COM
plicated, and the result, as fig
ured out. seems too infinitestimal
to be worth considering at all.
1t is that, in the present state of
affairs. the braklng force of the
tides has become so feeble that
the length OF the day dlminishes
only one-thousandth Of a second
per century!
EXPLAINS 'QUAKES.
Prof. A. s. Eddington thinks
it probable that the superficial
crust OF the earth may yield
slightly to the braking effect and
slide more or less irregularly
westward. This would account
for certain anomalies that have
been noticed by astronomers in
the apparent movements of the
heavenly bodies. 1t might also
play some part in earthquake
phenomena. For an observer on
the earth's surface, a westward
motion Of the crust would orc.
duce an apparent frightening of
the day from noon to noon.
Suppose the sun to be overhead
for the observer at A. Then, il
there was no sliding Of the
crust, after twenty-four hours
the sun would again be overhead.
at A. But If in the meantime
the crust should slide westward
as far as from A to B. the oh.
server would not have the sun
overhead until the rotation OF
the globe had carried the line G.
BIB to coincidence with c
"A.
The Washington times., 1923-08-21

Gambling, MIR. Hoyne says, sis old sim" It's as
old the sin Of CAIN who killed his brother But envy
that made Cain kill Abel And it is envy desire to have what
others have that makes men gamble.
Mr. Hoyne tells the story about the beginning Of gambling
but does not guarantee it:
"Gannbing originated among the Lydiams during
famine. Madly they ganabLed aUhe they starred. For
a0hole days and nights together they played on seeking
IN the blazing excitement of aUining and losing to burn
up memory of the hunger that killing thena."
Gambling began long before there any Lydians
earliest savages praciced it. Children natural gamblers
You may them in the forming developing the
vicious habit And the lower the savage the
his gambling instinct
The Washington times., 1923-08-21

" HE question is often asked
whether the earth'S rota-
- ton on its axis, which serves
as the standard for all time meas
urement. is variable. Is the earth
clock either gaining "or losing, or
Is its movement perfectly con-
slant? We know that whatever
change of rate there may be is
exceedingly slight, but we also
know that even very small
change, il continuous in the same
direction, must eventually become
evident to observation and per-
haps momentous in its effects.
The great destroyer of motion
is friction. But the rotational
momentum Of a body as large and
as heavy as the earth Is tremen-
dous. 1t weighs six sextillions OF
tons and, though eight thousand
miles in diameter makes a cum
plete rotation every twenty.four
hours. Since 1t is admitted that
the so-called ether of space sur
rounding the earth has no effect
upon its motion, where are we to
find the friction that could serve
to slow up the movement Of so
Immense mass? There is no
aXlal friction, such as acts upon
wheel, because what we call the
earth's Axis" Is merely an i'm
aginary line drawn through it's
center from pole to pole, and not
a mechanical axle at all.
CONTROLLED BY MOON.
Nevertheless the earth has a
brake continually tending to re-
tard its rotation by friction. and
the action Of this invisible brake
IS controlled by the moon, and in
a lesser degree by the sun. It's
motive power is gravitation and
It's instrument Of application IS
the sea. The name Of this brake
Is the tides If the old Greeks
had known as much as we do
about astronomy. at the same
time retaining their myth making
FACULTY, they might have assigned
to Neptune, the ruler Of the sea.
the function Of timekeeper and
clock-regulator to the Olympian
gods.
The tides exert a braking ac-
ton upon the earth because the
moon and the sun tend to arrest
the rotation of the water and
hold 1t in line with themselves,
while, at the same time, the ro-
tating earth strives to carry the
water onward with it's own turn
ing motion. AS the earth turns
The Washington times., 1923-08-21
STEINMETZ PICTURES
CONDITIONS 100
YEARS HENCE
By HERBERT KAUFMAN.

@HARLES p STEINDIETZ takes imaginative squirt
at 2023 and newspapers feature his auguries their
front pages.
Not soothsayers could share spotlight positions with
Poncares attempt stradde Cancellation with dissenting
allies and fulfiment of treaty terms in the Ruhr
hotel fire which nine guests burned to death
and twenty-five horribly injured; word of how two
loads of bandits hold up road house near Detroit shoot
several prominent business men, loot $50 diners and dancers
and afterward murder policeman We've more than
enough problems occupy immediate Interest," Such the
prevention of another coal strike, to which President
Coolidge hours conference with Chairman Ham
mond unions and mine their long drawn
dispute at Atlantic City.
Reasserted opposition to the bonus by the United States
Chamber of Commerce. and opinion from Investigators
that soldiers compensation along suggested lines will cost
the nation tend to remind that the troubles
of the day than sufficient.
The kidnapping of three-months-old baby crowded
New York street, Ku Klux disorders in four States and
Congressman Dyer plan to bring the hooded knights under
Federal jurisdiction by introducing his antynching bill
with amendment prohibiting masked societies. typhoon
off Macao strewng 200 dead folk in its wake and the
inauguration of twenty eghthour coasttocoast air mail
service lighted by ranscontinenal night bea-
alone happenings to concentrate readers attention
on passing moment rather than coming century.
The Washington times., 1923-08-21
Mans LOrgnette

ONDON-After the horn
trimmed spectacles comes the
AA lorgnette.
A man in the Distinguished
Strangers Gallery in the House
of Commons was seen the other
day looking through gold
lorgnette held daintily to his
eyes.
"A number Of men use double
eyepiece lorgnettes. but it Is not
generally" said a leading opti-
clan. A single eye-piece with
tortoise-shell rim. and a handle
about half the size Of that fitted
to the ordinary double eye-piece
lorgnette has become exceed
ingly popular with men,"
The Washington times., 1923-08-21
Some Asses-There Are
Many Kinds
CONTINUED from first two columns.)

CONTINUED from first two columns.)
makes them walk in their stalls all night Some
times bet goat put into the stall with the race horse This
C;ets the horse and he sleeps instead of stall walking
to prevent the horse sleeping at night and
r. win money by betting that he will lose criminals have taken
the goat out horses STALL making the horse useless AND
tired out in the morning; hence this expression get nus
GOAT The expression does not come says Mr. Aoyne from
The ancient Jewish Of selecting scapegoat ana SEND
inc it off into the wilderness carry away the sins Of the
people with It,
The Washington times., 1923-08-21

The very interesting thing in this picture of the adv donev
nat tailed TO value her real charms little reproducton
IN the upper corner of Whsers picture Of his
mother. F - -" o"n
Contrast that quiet old lady sitting in her chair hands
folded with the old lady sitting below powdern b
donkey nose and you that there reason for NJ
Hoynes indignation with the donkey human race
the phrase TO get his goat Some race horses II
stall walkers They know in advance they are to
Continued in last columnsl
The Washington times., 1923-08-21
TODAY'S SAFETY TALK
Prepared by the National Safety Council.

Even adults need protection
tgainst poison. Death caused by
aking poison by mistake is n
common verdict at the coroner's
inquest. A separate cabinet for
poisons would prevent MANY a
fatal mistake.
Poisons should be correctly
labeled when purchased and kept
in the same container.
The Washington times., 1923-08-21
The Great Enigma

MK OSCOW - mo one knows
N Russia without seeing the
AVA interior" said Congress.
man Beedy Of Maine, after a trim
through the Volga regions. II
was surprised at the size of the
VOlga fleet and the good accom-.
modations which we were able
to obtain"
The Washington times., 1923-08-21

" HE skull and crossbones is
not sufficient protection on
bottle containing poison
Every child has an Unsuitable
curiosity to investigate every
thing and he Is likely to sample
the contents Of any bottle within
his reach. Therefore. poisons
should be kept in a separate cab.
met under lock and key.
The Washington times., 1923-08-21
A Dwarf With a Titan,s Head.

90 LET'S take squirt at the who lift his voice
above world wrangles political Jurors, crime outcries
the deafenng whr of propeers and the walls Of gen.
eral tragedy.
You know course he's the greatest electrical engineer
alive You probably remember from photographs the
dwarfish twisted body with which childhood accident
handicapped his start.
Steinmetz has been known to hat nor be
without cigar.
gave electricity its mathematics he figures without
pencil paraleeppedons and calculations
that would the type off adding machine brain
tablets.
raising in greenhouse his two hobbies,
the designing of turbines and the manufacture of synthetic
lightning bolts casual laboratory incidents
The Washington times., 1923-08-21

Mr.. H oy n e
says:
"Women are
b u t parvenues
in liberty; and
b e C a u s e the
dearest a t tri-
butte of woman
hood is mod
esty they find,
[ suppose, the
most emphatic
expression Of
their new gain
ed freedom in
orgies Of i'm :
modesty, like a
minister's S O n
who is excess
slvely blasphe-
nous. T h u s ,
they think, they
m o S t forcibly
demonstrate to
men their right
to do what they
please. !"
The Washington times., 1923-08-21
Some Asses There Are
Many Kinds
Thomas Temple Koyne's Book Lists FEY

Mvsef and Fellow Asses is the title of Mr. Hoynes
hook dealing with weaknesses The pictures in this
column are taken that book and made by Earle R.
Kirkbride.
The Washington times., 1923-08-21

Gambling is
old as sin. It is
the d e e p e S t.
rooted amuse-
ment. The lure
it carries is the
promise of pos
Gble and i'm
mediate FIRE e.
d ON from la
Dor. For the
risk demanded
g a m b l i n g
seems to offer
returns so enor-
nous til a t it
8 u g g e s is the
g e t in g Of
something for
nothing. -
The Washington times., 1923-08-21
The Rise of the Slavic Peoples.

BORROWING his prophetic eyes, we behold grandchil
leaving in suburbs several hundred miles
from working centers leap into their fhvver planes
begin their labors at O'Clock and quit at l.
Our will each raise the bulk of family food
and devote abundant leisure to study and research.
There won't be smokestack in sight wsp Of
smoke Reclamation processes shall have made all forms of
refuse valuable that litter and waste shan be apparent
anywhere.
The only household servants will be operated by push but
tons Anthracite beds and oil wells will be turned into
great central heat and energy stations Science by that
time shall have learned to drive locomotive pound of
coal per mile quart of kerosene per miethat is If
the wizards haven meanwhile htched cars to wireless
harnessed them to wave motors.
Steinmetz expects Germanic and AngloSaxon to
surrender domination to the Slavs who because of
genital aptitude for collective action will eventually rule
Europe
Herbert Hoover recently conded to the writer much the
views
The Washington times., 1923-08-21
ReuLitu Tan,es the Widest PrOphecie

LII THE foregoing is not only probable but an under
~ estimate Belamy's Cooking Backward and Jules
vernes' myopc look forward, the farthestfung e1
pectations of Franklin Tnda and Neutrality-suspicious.
early forecasts and Bells later specuations longest
bowshots of the strongest fancies-ddnt and can't
possibility.
Bv 2O23 there be no mails between New York and San
Francisco Pittsburgh and London will record
talking films orders from merchants in Pekn and
anhour sky freghters will make deliveries OF goods before
sunset Watch radio telephones will keep everybody
in communication with the ends of earth.
The human body will be without mystery Surgical pho
tographv advancing from the present crude Xay machines
will reveal through powerful charging the slight
est bemish or disturbance any organ inch OF BONE
Cancer tuberculosis infane paralysis locomotor ataxla
and leprosy will be eradcated.
Even America will have but newspaper published be-
side it's own pulp mills which will grass and leaves
instead of precious timber for print stock.
Suppose you guess the rest!
The Washington times., 1923-08-21

Thus Mr. Hoyne urges the Importance of egosm saying
don't study develop ourselves this earth in
hated by human donkeys nobody will do for and here
you part of the picture that Mr. Kkbrde makes to illus
trate that idea.
One Of the choicest donkeys in Mr. Hoynes collection and
deluded donkey all of the stock gambler
and this is how MIR. Krkbride shows it.
The Washington times., 1923-08-21
Garrett P. Serviss Explains How
Tides Act as Brakes on
Earth's Rotation.
By Garrett p. Serviss.

nomer and Writer Scientific Topics of POpu
ular Interest
The Washington times., 1923-08-21

Cultivate your
egotism, then,
dear r e a d e r;
poke around in
yourself. You
are the only
thing you real
ly do own, you
K n o w a n d
when you leave
this world you
are he on e
thing you must
take with you. /"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-03-14

watertown-At the sale Of Pedi-
greed cattle held by the Watertown
Holstein association at Watertown. T.
II. Campion OF the Milwaukee Agricul-
tural school bought a record-makng
S-year-old COW Of the Milford Meadows
farm OF Lake Mills for $525 and a
2-year-old of Fred Gerr Of Lake Mills
for S470. r. Y. Rasmussen Of Deer
field. H., paid Henry Dolan of Colum-
bus $500 for a 4-yeaT-Old HOlstein COW
and John NJ Kelley of Baraboo, vice
president of the National Holstein
Breeders association, paid $3.50 for
one he purchased. Henry Dolan OF
Columbus purchased from the Harves-
ter Farms, Mayville. Harvester Home
stead Matador," a record bull, for
$500. Several other pedigreed bulls
sold from $500 up.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-03-14
S. CAROLINA PENSIONS SLAVES
State Legislature Votes to Pay Loyal
Negroes Same as confed-
crate Veterans.

Columbia, s. c.. March S.-Falthful
negroes who stood by their masters
during the Civil war were voted pen
sions by the South Carolina legisla-
ture. The house passed the John
stone bill, providing such pensions,
which already had passed the senate,
60 to "a. The bill provides that slaves
who served the state and their mas
tiers in the Confederate army during
the war shall be granted pensions I'M
der virtually the same conditions as
those now paid to Confederate vet
Grams.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-03-14
Believes Public Wants II.
WORLD REVOLT POSTPONED
Lenin Says Event Waits on China and
India-Must Educate Far East
Hordes.

Moscow, March 6.-Premier Lenin
contributes a lengthy article to the
Pravda, in which he reiterates that
II is likely to be postponed until the
masses of the people in India and
China are sufficiently educated and de-
veloped TO wage the struggle. He says
the interventiOnists in Russia and
Europe were defeated and the counter
revolution was broken because Of dis
sension in the camp Of the eastern
explOiters and the western explOiters,"
namely, Japan and .merica.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-03-14
WOODS WILL GO TO Japan
Ambassador to Madrid Transferred
to Tokyo-A. p. Moore Named
for Post in Spain.

Washington. March 5.-Cyrus f.
Woods of Pennsylvania, now ambas-
sador 10 Spain, was named by Presi-
dent Harding TO be ambassador TO ia
pan, succeeding Charles b. Warren,
resigned.
To succeed Ambassador Woods at
Madrid the President nominated Alex
ander p. Moore of Pittsburgh. former
publisher of the Pittsburgh Leader
and husband of the late Lillian Rus
sell. Both nominations were con-
firmed later by the senate.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-03-14
BURNED TO DEATH IN AUTO
Body Of Gustave c. Andersen Found
in Smolderins Embers Near
Elgn, 90.

Chicago, March S.-A man, his body
burned TO a crisp, was found in tile
smoldering embers OF an automobile
Wednesday night at an isolated point
on the Higgins road. nine miles east Of
Elgin.
The body was identified through
the automobile license. as that of Gus
tave G. Anderson. employed by the
American Sand * Gravel Co. at Al
gohquin. No clue 10 the death was
found.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-03-14
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News Of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

La Crosse-Damage estimated at
several hundred thousand dollars was
caused in western Wisconsin by the
rain, sleet and snow storm Sunday,
March 4. The weight of the heavy
snow driven by a strong wind broke
down miles of telegraph. telephone
and electric light wires. Hundreds Of
poles were snapped of. Streets Of
La Crosse are Uttered with broken
trees. Railroad traffic was paralyzed.
The southern Minnesota line of the
Milwaukee railroad was the hardest
hit. Trees and poles were found at
frequent intervals across the track
All available linemen are working day
and night repairing damage 10 wire
lines. Some of the rural telephone
lines will not be repaired inside Of
two weeks. Ten inches of snow fell
here.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-03-14
PRESIDENT PLANS
TWENTY SPEECHES
Harding to Ask Public to Back
League Court.
TO GO DIRECT TO PEOPLE
Issue Will Come Before Next Session
of Senate-chief Executive Hopes
to Force Favorable
Action.

Washington, March G.-The earnest
ness with which President Harding ad-
heres 10 his determination that the
United States should be represented
on the court of International justice
created by the League of Nations was
asserted in "A letter made public ut the
White House written By Mr.. Harding
to Earl ID. Bloom. lieutenant governor
of Ohio
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-03-14
ONE KILLED AS PLANE DROPS
Another Army Air Service Officer Prob
ably Fatally Injured at
Mitchell Field.

New York. March 5.-Lieut. Stanley
Smith. army air service. was killed
and Mai. FolIett Bradley was probably
fatally injured when a giant Martin
bomber In which they had just left
Mitchell field for Chanute field, Ran
tout, Ill, was forced down in Brook
Ign.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-03-14

Madison-Dr. Leon Jacob Cole, pro
fessor of genetics in the University
of Wisconsin, has been appointed ehlei
OF the animal husbandry division, bu'
reau OF animal industry Of the United
States department OF agriculture. The
University OF Wisconsin has granted
him leave of absence for a year, be-
ginning July 1, the date on which hi
appointment is effective. DIR. Cole has
had supervision of all plant and ami
NAL breeding work carried on at the
university and has been especially in
terested in a study of the heredit!
factors determining the milk and meal
production in cattle.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-03-14

Rhinelander-At the invitation Of p.
]. Cain. Oneida county treasurer, the
Wisconsin County Treasures ascot
alton will hold it's annual outing in
Rhinelander some time next June. the
5ate having not yet been determined.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-03-14

Madison-Dr. F. E. Tryon. Baraboo.
was appointed by Gov. Blaine as coro-
ner of Sank county. He will I'LL the
vacancy caused by the resignation OF
John C. Wade for the remainder of
the unexpired term.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-03-14

The "shoe cobbler" bin introduced
BY Assemblyman John W. Eber. Mil
waukee. was indefinitely postponed by
the assembly. The Eber bin would
provide for a shoe repairers' board
OF three members and would require
a two-year apprenticeship before
granting a journeyman's license. Up
on the payment Of $40 a master shoe
repairer's license would be obtained.
renewable yearly at the same fee.
The bill was recommended for pass
age by the committee on manufacture
and commerce.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-03-14

Madison-Justice Charles II. Crown.
hart, of the Wisconsin Supreme court,
will be unopposed at the judicial cleo
ton on April 3, the secretary of state
has announced at the time for films
nomination papers closed. Similarly,
six circuit judges in the state win be
elected by default, due TO lack of op-
position. They are: Charles VI. Dav-
idson Of the Thirteenth circuit; Gull
lick n. Risgord of the Fifteenth cir
cult; Chester A. Fowler of the Eight
zenith circuit; William b. Quinlan Of
the Twelfth circuit, and Oscar NJ.
Fritz and Walter Schinz of the Second
circuit. Without opposition to Justice
Crownhart. the spring judicial cleo
ton will lack a fight of statewide in
terest. Local elections are scheduled
in all of the counties.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-03-14

rshfeld-Several women may SIT
OF the jury which viii hear the case
OF John Magnuson, central figure IN
the "Yuletide bomb" case and charged
with the murder OF Mrs. James Chap
man. He will be tried during the
spring term of court for Wood coun-
", which convenes March II at Wis
consin Rapids. the county seat Eleven
of the thirty-six persons drawn on the
Jury panel for the term are women,
the first time in the history of the
county women have been requested to
serve as jurors.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-03-14

Oshkosh-In one of the shortest
trials before a jury in municipal court
at Oshkosh on record, William John
son was acquitted of a charge OF IL
legal possession Of intoxicating liquor.
Trial Of the case began at $3.50 and
was concluded at 1880 and within
fifteen minutes the jury returned with
its verdict finding the defendant not
guilty. One of the jurors was a woman
and there were but eleven jurors, both
sides consenting to trial with that
number.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-03-14

wausau-W. r. Snarr Of Rockville.
Md, who purchased several carloads
Of grade and pure bred cattle in Mar
athon county last fan, again is IN
the county arranging for a shipment
OF Holsteln and Guernseys to his ma
tive state.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-03-14

Philosophy is a saft e-sllua
on.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-03-14
Will Take Stump.

Publication of this letter Immediate
ly after adjournment of congress and
the failure OF the senate TO act upon
the Presidents request for authority TO
name an American member OF the in
ternatiOnal court signaled the inten-
tion Of the President To exert all the
influence he can upon the country in
behalf of his proposal during the long
legislative vacation.
Mr.. Harding is expected TO take the
stump in support of the world court.
During the summer and fan he Is ex-
pected 10 make twenty addresses On
the subject.
Believes Public Wants u.
The President confidently believes
that the great majority Of the people
are with him In his conviction that
the United States should participate
in the international court and he pro-
poses TO leave no stone unturned 10
convince the new senate that its favor
able response TO his request should be
promptly granted.