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The Denver Jewish news., 1923-05-16

There is another story about the early
days of the Revolution when the Jews,
who We're more bettered than the gener-
ality of the population. secured posts as
government officials in large numbers.
The story Is called How they got to
know in Heaven That there was Com
munist Revolution in Russia
AFTER October %, 1917. they were as
founded up in Heaven to find long lists
of dead coming in from Russia-shot,
dead of starvation, executed. and they
couldn't understand what was the mat
ter. So they decided to send down some
one to investigate. First of all they
sent down II real Russian. PobiedOnost-
zev. the one-time president of the Holy
Synod. He got out his sleigh and his
spanking horses and went dcwn to Rus
sia. Days passed, and there wsis no
word from him. At last, there was n
| telegram. As soon AS he had come
down to Russin. he wrote. his horses
had been requisitioned in the name cf
the Revolutionary Republic. which pro-
hibited private property. and he was
unable to get any further. He urged
| that something should he done to help
him to get back TO heaven. Besides. he
couldn't understand the language. They
spoke such funny words as "Natcliak"
"Sovnarkos''.. 'Narkcmin.l,.l' and so
on. (The Authorizations in current use
in Soviet Russia) So they sent down
Jesus of Nazareth. Again days and
weeks passed by. They began to get
anxious no in Heaven. At last they re-
ceived "a telegram. Somehow or other
he had managed to smuggle it through.
As soon as he had come down to Rus
sia. he wrote. they had conscripted him.
being of military age. and hnd put him
into the army.
Things We're getting bad. So il WAS
decided to send down Moses. Before
long there was telegram in Heaven:
To Comradc God. Everything all right.
have got an excellent job at the Pfod-
komgub (Ministry for Food). Send
down Abraham. Isaac and Jacob.
Another joke (therc are hundreds of
the kind) tells of an old Jew. Singer
ing along the streets of Moscow with IL
staff in his hand. ION being asked
where he was going. he answered: ITO
the Kremlin.' Why" And his reply
game. Because | want to die among
Jews
The Denver Jewish news., 1923-05-16

mandiren" In Iiddish: Ten Jews in
Command?' The passion in Soviet Rus
sia for abbreviations is responsible for
n good deal of word-play. The abbre-
Walton for the prohibited trade in val
ues, '.Zelek (charity is interpreted as
..Zarski, Denikinsky.. Kerensky" (the
different forms of Russian currency.
''rrent" is Interpreted as "Trotsky
Razreshil Evrejan Swobodnuju Tor
govlu'-"Trotsky has permitted the
Jews to trade freely And "Nep," the
New Economic Policy strangely in
English the initials come to the same
thing) was interpreted as "NujnO Eyre
jam Parnoso'-';Jews need to make
living" And so on, and so on. They
can be cited without end.
Every new stage in the development
of Bolshevism has found its expression
in eur Jewish folk humor.
When the "Nep." the new economic
policy came into being. and Jewish mer-
chants were again permitted to engage
in trade, the story is told of specula
tor. profiteer. sitting III restaurant
in Moscow, and eating enormously, till
his bill came to millions. Some one sit
ting near him began to protest: How
can you find the heart to spend mil
lions on your food. when they are mil
lions of people dying of starvation on
the volga? Look :" And he pointed TO
a poster on the wall, where it said:
twenty-five million people dying of
hunger"
''Pah!'' came the answer. You know
what Soviet millions are
The Denver Jewish news., 1923-05-16

What is the meaning of Xix (Ien-
'ralni ISpolnitslni Komitet--Centrhi
Actions Committee. "Zehn 1den kom-
The Denver Jewish news., 1923-05-16

And then there Is this one. When
the first Soviet thousand roublc notes
were issued, they were called ''Srool-
ikcs'' (Israclites) because they pro-
claimed not only in Russian but in al
most every other language in the
world. even in Chinese. the motto {:
"Proletarians Of all countries. unite
c'The peasants whu could not under
stand the strange lettering. decided that
ii was Jewish. and that is how the notes
got their namc. The curious part about
it was that practically the only Ian
guage which was not represented on the
notes was liddish and when the ques-
tion was put, Why" the answer was
pat The modcsty of the author.
And then there is a class of jokes
about the way in which the Jews dis
liked going into the Red army. There
is this for example:
Where are there nine Jews and one
uon-Jew:"
I'm the Sovnarkom (Soviet govern
mcnD.
''Nine-nnc Jews and one ncn-Jew:
In the Gibispolkom" District Ac-
tions Committee.
Mine hundred and nincty-nine Jews
and one non-Jcw:'
In the AllRussian Ispolkom" tRus-
sian Actions Committee).
Nine million non-Jews and hand
full of Jews
In the Red army
What is the meaning of Xix (Zen-
tralni ISpolnitslni Komitet--Centra'
Actions Committee "Zehn 1den kom-
The Denver Jewish news., 1923-05-16

Then there are a number of anecdotes
dealing with various phases of life un-
der the Soviets. "You ask how man
age to live?" Jew is reported to have
said. My eldest son is a 'Pinkom' Tin
the Commissariat for Finance) my
second son is .Politkom' Gin the Com
missariat for Politics, my youngest
son is IA 'Narkom' Tin the Peoples Com
missariaD. Excellent, but with all
these Koms l get 'kom' enough to eN-
list l''Kom''. Yiddish for ''scarcely'o.
And there is this one to sum up the
average Jews eorception of the Soviet
Republic 'rhree people are seated at
ii table a 'awyer. IA doctor. and n COM
munist. asoj disp ate which of them had
been first. The lawyer contends that
lawyer. cane first. because when Cain
killed Abel t,.ere must have been n law
yer 70 conduct the prosecution against
him. The doctor pOohpoohs the idea.
He Is sure that a doctor came first.
For" he says. when God had the rib
cut out Of Adam in order to create Eve.
there had to bea doctor there to perform
the surgical operation The Commup,
list then takes his turn. What was be-
fore Adam" he asks, before the crca-
ton of the world:'' And the answer
comes: Chaos We'll. then" he re-
joins. that must have been Ccmmun-
ISM
The Denver Jewish news., 1923-05-16

Do not live near n pious fool.
Meat without salt is fit only for the
logs.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-05-03
bAGREDIDo EN>UN BALE

.E51 N
lE1 dfa % de Jabril proximo Ipasado,
en- ell barrio Lomas, en- momentos que
sc eelebraba una jarana-baile emil la
casa de Juan Santiago, los individuos
Juan Ferrer, Nicomedes Ferrer y Ra-
mon Cintron, acometieron y agredie-
ron con una navaja, un vase v una
piedra, respectivamente, a Francisco
Febo, produciendole golpes y heridas.
Los agresores fueron arrestados.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-05-03
DEPARTAMENTo DEL INTERIOR

III. i, .,.a-. a. Mayo L..
c Relacion de los tapores que Sc han
communicate porj inalambrioo ennola Els
tacion de; Ensenada, Puerto Rico, du-
rantc las ultimas Eeinticuatro horas :
Ponce. Pto.i RicpslZdsquchanha, Ma
nistee, Odewaltl, Glare, Govt John
Li5pfd Lind. Ma}rtapcaaibp, Tnlia, PhPilaaSd Philadelphia.
Marina, MIa Leon Leon XII Manzaf4nqrfs7 a39zf4
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-05-03
AGREDIDo CON UNA cUcHILLA

Is ~ & i + +
En- Ia noche del 23 al "a del mes
.pr6xino pasado, en- la Aldea Sanchez
Lopez. de Vega Baja, el individuo Ma
'nuel Manzano acometio y agredi6 con
una cuehiIla plegadiza a Fundador
Nieves, produci6ndole una herida gra-
ve en- el music derecho. La misma
noche, v en- nonientos que eli guardia
de Ia policfa insular Victor Manuel
Pizarro, No. $50, trat6 de investigar
'el hecho anotado, Manzano acometio
q dicho policia con una navajo, sin
Ilograr heririo. Manzano fpe arresta-
do v una vez en- el Dep6sito Municipal,
acpmetio con IN pedazo de hierro al
Alcaide do Carcel, Sr. Angel Roman.
sSe han jurado varias denuncias con el
|indicado Manuel Danzano, en- relaci6n
con los hechos mencionados.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-05-03
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ent frnqueo Peo q
! oaserado
psdRc 7lTN
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-05-03

Y el Congreso. idc que ha de tra-
tar? Pues temas definidos y dc pura
y practica. aplicacj0n. Refornas de
las Camaras de Comerc;o espanolas
en- Iltramar; Sc ha dicho de elias d.
san oganizaciones inanimadas, mu-
clias veccs ficticias. Hay, piles, que
rccrganizarlas y ccnstitufrlas en- yerda-
deras colegiaciones dc comerciantes y
prodnctores cspanolcs, con el concur
80 q Intervention dc nucstro Estado,
haciendo que influyan en- los informes,
propagandas, asistcncia a yiajantes de
comercin, arbitrajes diferentes entire
compatriotas y sus cntidades, prepa-
racion de ferias y exposiciones Y tfa-
bajos preliminares de Conyenios y
Tratados de comercio.
Los espaIolcs. qne no cstdn en- rs
pana slcnten tambien otros deseos, d.
incidentalmentc expondran en- Madrid
y Sevilla De ciencia cierta Sc que eI
gobiemo estd bien dispuesto para die
tar medidhs que satisfagan algunos
de las lasiiimas aspiracioncs de nues-
tros compotriotas en- Ultramar. pom.
go pof ejenplo tres que sigucn. Hay
constituIdas nrehas sociedades espa-
dolas en AInfr IA que adqnirirfau ma.
vor fuetza II n0sotros. rclaeionndos
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-01-05

masses of water below. Heralded by
the laundering roar of a thousand
breakers combined, the dreaded tidal
wave was upon us at last. OF all the
horrors of this dreadful time. this
seemed the worst Chained to the
spot, helpless to escape, with all the
preparations made which human skill
could suggest, we could but watch the
monster wave approach without the
sustaining help Of action. That the
ship could ride through the masses of
water about to overwhelm us seemed
impossible. We could only grip the
lifeline and wait the coming catas-
trophe.
with crash our gallant ship was
overwhelmed and buried deep beneath
semi-solid mass of sand and water.
For breathless eternity we were
submerged; then, groaning in every
timber, the stanch old Wateree strug-
gled again to the surface, with her
gasping crew still clinging to the life
lines-some few seriously wounded,
bruised, and battered; none killed;
not even one missing. A miracle II
seemed to us then, and as look back
through the years II seems doubly
miraculous now.
Undoubtedly our safety was due to
the design of the ship which permit
ted the water to run Off the deck
about as II would from raft or float
ing plank.
Stranded High on Shore.
"The ship was swept on rapidly for
time but after while .the motion
ceused. and, lowering lantern over
the side, we found ourselves on shore,
but where, we knew not. Smaller
waves washed about us for a time,
but presently they ceased
"The morning sun broke on scene
Of desolation seldom witnessed. We
found ourselves high and dry In a
little cove, or rather indentation in
the coastline. We had been carried
some three miles up the coast and
nearly two miles inland. The wave
had carried us over the sand dunes
bordering the ocean, across a, valley.
and over the railroad track. leaving
us at the foot Of the seacoast range
OF the Andes. On the nearly per-
pendicular front of the mountain our
navigator discovered the marks Of the
tidal wave, and, by measurements,
found 1t to have been Al feet high, not
Including the comb. Had the wave
carried us 200 feet further we would
inevitably have been dashed to pieces
against the mountainside."
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-01-05

is charged and discharged. However,
the radio impulses come so fast that
the condenser charges and discharges
almost instantly.
The low capacity fixed condenser In
the grid circuit Of the vacuum tube
detector functions as checking con-
denser for the radio currents to the
plate of the tube and Is generally
about 0.0005 microfarads. Without
this condenser In the tube circuit the
signals will be much weaker and the
bulb may have a tendency to choke
up so that no plate circuit will flow
through the circuit. Fixed condensers
must be made Of the best grade Of ma
terials possible; that is they must
possess high insulating qualities so
that the charges will not leak or
through poor insulation. Condensers
made Of pure mica and copper foil are
to be preferred over paper and tinfoil
condensers, as they will build up their
voltages to the highest point without
leaking. before they suddenly dis
charge.
Variable condensera should also pos
sess insulating qualities and such parts
as insulating bushing and top plates
should be made OF good grade bdkelite
or equally good insulating material
Fiber washers and bushings soon de-
velop leaks, as fiber has the property
Of absorbing moisture and warps In
time, causing the plates in the conden-
ser to touch. Variable condensers are
generally made from aluminium so as
to make them as light as possible.
Aluminium has the property Of keep
Ing its shape in fiat plates and Is also
good conductor. 49,
Built-up variable condensers with
metal washers used as separators gen.
orally give more satisfaction than 9TH
er types. Experience has proved that
they keep their plates separated with
out scraping and the number Of plates
can be increased or decreased at will.
A variable condenser inserted In se-
ries with the antenna and tuner de-
creases the wave length Of the anten-
ma circuit as II Is varied. When the
plates are separated the wave length
IL the shortest. and even when the
plates are interineshed the wave
length Is shorter than II the condenser
were out OF the circuit A variable
condenser In shunt with the secondary
q the tuning coil VIII increase the
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-01-05
Watch Your "A. Battery.

When your storage battery II
Cranky" do you have It recharged
without having 1t looked over by an
expertf If you do not take any no
tice Of 1t you are apt to be buying q
new battery In short time. Many
are the things which can. go wrong In
a storage battery. Here are a few Of
the more simple troubles which lead
to bigger ones: Letting the specific
gravity Of the battery go without no.
tice. not using distilled water. over
charging, letting the battery stand idle
for length Of time without charging
and drawing too much current from It
These are only few Of the many
troubles which occur in storage bat
teries of the lead-plate type.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-01-05
Carried Inland
by Tidal Wave

two days by one of the most violent
eruptions of Vesuvius recorded In
many years.
1T is also a significant fact that
the fuming island off the coast Of
Alaska, called Bogoslof No. 3, APP
revenue cutter, visiting this island,
was astonished to see that the noun
tain. or hill, some 400 feet high, on
the island, had disappeared. and in
Its place bay had been formed.
Soundings showed a depth of from
8 to 20 fathoms of water.
Quakes Preceded katmai Explosion.
"The greatest of recent volcanic
disturbances which blew the top off
Of Mount Katmai in Alaska and gave
birth to the wonderful Valley Of Ten
Thousand Smokes was preceded and
accompanied by series of severe
earthquakes"
Admiral Billings described the great
tidal wave which he saw at africa,
then in Peru, some years ago. He
was an officer on the United States
steamship Wateree, which was an
chored In the harb or at africa at the
time of the cataclysm
Sometime after the initial tremor,"
he wrote, "the sea receded dntil the
shipping was left stranded, while as
far to seaward as our vision would
reach we saw the rfocky bottom of
the sea, never before exposed to hui
man gaze, with struggling fish und
monsters Of the deep left high and
dry. The round5ottomed ships keeled
over OH their beam ends, while the
Wateree rested easily on her floor.
like bottom; and when the returning
sea, not like wave. but rather like
an enormous tide, came sweeping
back, rolling our unfortunate COM
panion ships over and over, leaving
some bottom up and others masses of
wreckage, the Wateree rose easily
over the tossing waters unharmed.
From this moment tie sea seemed
to defy the laws of nature. Currents
ran In contrary directions and we
were borne here and there with a
speed we could not have eQualed had
we been steaming for our lives AT
irregular intervals the earthquake
shocks recurred, but none of them so
violent or long-continued as the first.
about $3.50 p. m. the lookout hailed
the deck and reported breaker APP
preaching. Looking seaward. we saw,
first, a line of phosphorescent light,
which loomed higher and higher until
1t seemed to touch the sky; its crest,
crowned with the death light of phos-
phorescent glow, showing the sullen
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-01-05
What b. Meant BY Resonanee.

You'll read In any radio magazine
or other publication that in order to
detect incoming waves you must bring
your secondary into resonance. Sounds
oddlike. doesn't it7 It's very simple.
Take two tuning forks. Adjust them
to the same pitch and strike one. The
other will respond to its vibrations.
That's resonance.
Resonance In radio means bringing
your couplings to u point of sympathy
by tuning carefully with the incoming
wave and you'll get 1t.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-01-05

wave iengvh of tie circuit, depending
upon the number OF plates that are
inserted In the condenser as II b VI.
ried from 1S0 degrees to zero.
BY reason of this characteristic the
variable condenser allows for very
close tuning.
A condenser consists Of two electrt-
cal conductors separated by an insu-
lator. The electrical conductors are
called the plates and the insulating
medium separating the plates Is called
the dielectric.
In Fig. Is shown q simple conden-
ser consisting Of two plates. A and B.
with air between two plates acting a.
the dielectrlc. II now battery @ -
connected to the two condenser plates.
the positive side of the battery to one
plate and the negative side to the 9TH
er plate, current will flow. This cur
rent that flows from the battery termi-
nails when the battery Is connected to
the plates of the condenser Is called
the charging current. During the proc
ess of charging condenser an elec-
trio displacement takes place In the
dielectric. This electric displacement
gives rise to an electromouve force
which tends to oppose the applied
electromotive force from the battery
@. Finally point is reached where
the back e. m. (. and fhe charging cur
rent become zero.
If the battery @ be disconnected
from the condenser a potential differ
ence will exist between the two con-
denser plates that will just be equal
to the potential Of the battery O.
Short-circuiting the condenser plates
will cause the condenser to discharge,
condition that will exist until the
potential difference between the plates
has been reduced to zero or until the
dielectric has again resumed Its nor
NAL state.
The charge that can be placed on
a static condenser depends upon three
factors. First, the area Of the conden-
ser plates; second, the thickness and
composition Of the dielectric, and third.
the potential difference applied to the
plates by the battery @.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-01-05
RADIO FLASHES

1t Is now the thing for social
clubs to have "radio commit
tees"
An eastern Institution for the
blind has installed radio for Its
boys. The boys receive lessons
in the code and learn to copy
commercial messages.
Dry cells cannot successfully
be used for the filament supply
of vacuum tubes. The batteries
will hold up for about five min
utes, and then they will slowly
die down. until nothing at all can
be heard.
Radio waves from Queenstown,
Ireland, were amplified in New
York with such success that
they disturbed the proceedings
Of the Supreme court In build
Ing opposite the receiving sta
tion.
At present France has the
most powerful radio station in
the world In the American built
Lafayette towers near bordeaux.
The station now being erected at
Port Jefferson. Long Island, will
by the end Of the year take first
place.
DIR. h. w. Nichols. an eminent
, electrical engineer. announces
that the ether Is not only not Of
use In radio transmission, but
that II IL an interference. DR..
Nichols believes that much can
be done to remedy the static dis
turbance by a means of sharper
tuning.
Radio outfits have become so
numerous In the apartment
houses in New York that 1t has
become problem to find space
for the antennae on the roofs.
A scheme is being developed to .
have community service rem
dered to tenants over the house
telephone wires.
DIR. Marconi 10 reported as
saying that radio will result In
the junking of the ocean cables.
Mr.. Mackay Of the Commercial
Gable system. says Alsuconi
"taIks through his hat" It
seems TO us that neither could
he called a disinterested witness.
1t Is only fair TO Marconi, how
ever, to say that 4 Is doubtful
u he uses his hat az . means Of
trnhsmission the ether = too
handy.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-01-05
CONDENSER ACTS
AS STORAGE TANK
How the Fixed and Variable
Types Are Constructed and
What They Do.

A condenser In q radio circuit is q
storage tank for electrical charges.
This storage unit may be either fixed
or variable. The fixed condenser,
which consists principally Of a few
sheets of metal foil, intersectloned be-
tween paraflined paper or mica and
bound tightly together. and which, un-
like the variable condenser. does not
cost very much either to buy or build,
Is the one generally used on the re
eeiving circuit of the vacuum tube.
When connected across the termi-
mails of the receiver, the fixed conden-
ser has the property Of discharging
with great violence across these ter
minals and setting up stronger cur
rents to act upon the magnet coils Of
the receiver. II the condenser were
left out of the circuit the receivers
would still respond to the impulses
of the detector's rectified currents, but
when they are added to the circuit.
these currents build up voltage In
the condenser so great that when II
Is discharged 1t does SO with violence.
This discharge occurs at each impulse
In the voice Of the speaker. The voice
impulses set up In the condenser are
forced to discharge Immediately, In
order to leave room for the next
charge and to prevent the condenser's
becoming overloaded. Just imagine a
reservoir of water filling slowly until
the water were up to brim, and then
food gates opened SO that the water
all ran out. This Is a good example
of the manner in which the condenser