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Palisadian., 1923-09-21
ECUADOR PINEAPPLES HUGE
They Grow to Weight of Twenty-Five
Pounds in the Province of
Esmeraldas.

Ecuador Is fast becoming great
fruit-growing country, said Frank Ed
ward Kink of EsmeraldaS, Ecuador, to
the New York Times.
"Pineapples grow TO a weight of 25
pounds in the province of Esmeral-
das," he declared. "This Is about
twice the size of the pineapHes grown
in Hawaii and shows that we must
have very superior soil. Moreover,
there Is no place in the world that
produces such large, thin-skinned,
SeedleSS oranges.
indications are that the province
has also a considerable wealth in oil.
There are a great number of oil seep-
ages which would indicate a great pro-
duction Of high-gravity oil. The char
acter of this oil is higher than the IA
nous Pennsylvania Oil, and has been
produced in Ecuador for the last 300
years, but it is only recently that mod
ern machinery has been used for drill
ing, with excellent success One month
ago an English company brought in a
well of 300 barrels an hour of SO grav-
ity oil. These conditions combine to
encourage immigration, which is stead
lily increasing in Esmeraldas."
Palisadian., 1923-09-21
Years Added to Life.

The general effect Of the emergence
of women from earlier conditions it is
still too early to measure with con-
vincing accuracy. especially If the
observer has not felt the weight of
past restrictions. But some of the
gains made are sufficiently common
and obvious to force recognition. For
instance, ten or twenty years have
been added to the lives of women,
both in active work and in enjoyment.
A century ago fifteen was marriage
able age, thirty was mature matron-
hood and forty was old age. AS to
anything over forty-that was sheer
senility. Women live somewhat longer
than do men. but their life cycle in
mems minds covered, in the past, only
the child-bearing period; they had less
childhood, less youth, less maturity and
far more Of the least desirable period,
old age Save as somebody's mother
or grandmother, they ceased to be.
Today they have longer childhood,
longer youth, and maturity holds on
steadily, with health and strength, am
bition and enjoyment, we'll into what
used to be mere f1reside knitting time.
The woman of fifty and onward has a
wide, free outlook; many have under
taken new trades and professions and
carried them on successfully. This is
a great and benefcent change Of
status.-Current History Magazine.
Palisadian., 1923-09-21
TIME TO VIEW WITH ALARM
Starting Exploit o: Pennsylvania Girl
Whose Fance Was in the
Sheriff's Custody.

Had an Oppenheim, Chambers OF
McGrath written tale few years
ago of a girl who forced her way into
a sheriffs home and then, single-hand-
ed, freed her fiance from the nearby
Jail with the aid of the keys and re-
yolver she obtained in her housebreak-
ing, readers would have been amused
at the idea girl could do such
thing.
But truth continues to make fiction
look silly. And times have changed.
The Warren (Pa.) girl who did that
thing Is a type that the writers of
shockers have not caught up with as
yet There are policewomen and
women deputy sheriffs today-also girl
bandits. Milady n her emancipated
state both enforces the laws and
breaks them. No task Is too much for
her.
If the facts in this case were as they
are told, here was love laughing at the
locksmiths and the sheriff and all the
embattled array Of the forces of law
and order That's the way the movie
scenario writer's would look at it.
Many other persons will take that in
judicial attitude toward the exploit of
this lass, too
But are not the ladies going bit
too far? Nobody, not even judges and
juries, have objected very strenuously
so far to women shooting up their hus-
bands at odd times, even to their
shooting up other Deople's husbands.
Palisadian., 1923-09-21
WILL USE Gas
IN FUTURE WARS
Entire Armies Will Be Put t.
Sleep and Made Prisoner,
Says U. S. Chemist.

New York.-Whole armies put to
sleep and taken prisoner in gas war
fare is by no means an impossibility
25 years hence, Col. Raymond f.
Bacon, chief Of the technical division
of the chemical warfare service, A. e.
F.. says in description Of the pos
sibilities Of the future art of war
made public by the American Chem
ical society.
The $2,0O0,0OO spent on the research
organization did more toward winning
the war; Colonel Bacon asserts, than
any S2OO,OOO,OOO spent in other ways.
Great Lesson Of the War.
One Of the greatest lessons Of the
war has so far gone almost unheeded,
according to Colonel Bacon, who con-
tinues:
ITO say the use of gas in warfare
must be abolished Is almost the same
as saying that no progress must be
making it more efficient or more hui
name.
eff one reads of the great battles of
history, one will find that the vic
toriOus general conquered his enemy
usually because Of the fact that he so
chose his position as to have his flank
protected by river. mountain range or
some naturally strong barrier.
Much of the strategy Of these bat
ties consisted in maneuvering so as
to obtain the advantage of position.
With the use Of gas it is possible to
saturate piece Of ground so that no
troops can cross it, and thus make an
artificial barrier for the flank or pro-
tect the lines of communication. More
over, these artificial barriers can be
kept barriers for just as short a time
as the strategy of the particular bat
tie demands.
"These are but hints, but show the
tremendous unexpected possibilities
Of gas in warfare.
Imagine Hand.to-Hand Battles.
Zone can easily imagine the situa-
ton at the time the fighting was hand
to hand with the spear or the sword,
and gunpowder was first introduced,
which in those day, perhaps, permitted
the antagonists to fight at a range Of
100 or 200 yards. There must have
been a great outcry as to prohibiting
the horrible new mode of warfare, and
1t must have been felt that it was very
unfair to stand off 200 yards rather
than to meet in combat man to man.
"But no one looking back on that
period would attempt to say 1t was
possible to have stayed the hand of
progress and to have prevented by
any legislation or agreement the use
of gunpowder In warfare.
Moreover, the consensus Of opinion
today would be that the hand-to-hand
fighting with spear and sword was
more cruel and inhumane than the
fighting with the gun and the bullet.
Similarly, at the present time we can
not effectually stay the progress of
science. and to attempt to do so is
not only unwise but is also prevent
ing the possibilities of really more
humane type Of war"
Palisadian., 1923-09-21
Australia Will Have
CAPITAL Like the u. s.

Melbourne.-The next session Of the
Australian parliament will be in Can
berra, the new federal capital which,
like Washington, D. c.. Is city To-
Gated and planned for the special pur-
pose Of being a national capital. The
Australian capital was laid out by an
American architect. Walter Burley
Griffin Of Chicago.
Canberra Is situated on a splendid
undulating plateau about 1900 feet
above sea level, little to the north
Of the highest peaks of the Australian
Alps.
The city site is divided by three
large sheets Of water, supplied by the
sluggish Molonglo river, and adorned
by parks and boulevards The par
lament house and government build
ings will face a central lake, with
streets laid out in octagonal form
around them. On one side will be a
fan-shaped residential quarter; on the
other the university, municipal and In
dustrial centers.
Main thoroughfares will radiate
from the parliament building.
Palisadian., 1923-09-21
Yucatan Likes Wheat Bread,

Corn tortilla, for ages the favorite
bread Of Yucatecans, is threatened by
a modern competitor. Little baking
is done in the homes Of Yucatan, the
frying pan being the standard imple-
ment of cookery. The simple but
wholesome Mexican tortilla is an ar
ticle of general diet, but wheat bread
Is now being widely consumed. The
wheat bread supply Of the entire pen
insula of Yucatan originates in
bakeries and consists principally of
long, sour French loaves. According
to Consul o. G. Marsh of Progreso
about four years ago a progressive
Yucatecan opened a modern bakery in
Merida equipped with American ma
chinery and using American fresh
yeast. This bakery enjoys remarkable
success. A great variety Of rolls, bis
cults. ETC., raised with baking powder
and containing lard and sugar are pur-
chasable.
Palisadian., 1923-09-21
Blind Man Has Read
Bible Through Is Times

Middletown, Conn.-The feat Of
reading the Bible through Is times in
raised print has been completed by
Urban L. Penney, blind man of Win
stsd. 1t has taken him almost fifty
years to complete the task. He has
now started out to read the Bible
through for the sixteenth time, al
though some Of the volumes are in
tatters in places from much handling.
Mr.. Penney learned the raised type at
Perkins institution in Boston in the
early 70s from the late Dr. Samuel G.
Howe.
Palisadian., 1923-09-21
WHERE ALL THE SUGAR GOES
Bakers and Makers of Candy and
Soft Drinks Use Vast
Amounts OF IL.

Not more than half Of the sugar we
Americans consume is used in our
homes. The rest goes into manufac-
tured products. The estimates of the
quantities used in manufacture run
this way:
Our candy makers alone use more
than 100000 tons, and 10000 tons
more go to sweeten up chocolates and
ice creams.
Every year the bakers dip into the
national sugar bowl for well over 45,-
600 tons for bread, $1,000 tons for
crackers and 10000 tons goes every
year into frostings and odds and ends
in the bakeries.
Fourteen thousand or more soft
drink makers hit the nations sugar
bin for at least 10000 tons for their
concoctions and another 100000 tons
goes into condensed milk.
Twenty thousand tons Of sugar Is
chewed up each year in gum; and less
aesthetic jaws worked on another
$4,000 tons that goes into the nations
"eatin' tobacco" this not including
about 5000 tons that goes to smoking
tohaccos.
Palisadian., 1923-09-21
FEET INDEX TO CHARACTER
Pedal Extremities While at Table in
Restaurant Reveal Owners
Inner Selves.

Have you ever noticed peoples feet
York Sun and Globe. Best index to
character available. Observation in a
quick-lunch palace will bear this out.
The diners carefully watch their ma
nipulation of silver, arrangement Of
fingers from thumb to ''pinkie," angle
of head to table, and diameter of the
mouth opening to receive the food
Few pay any attention to their feet,
and accordingly, there's the place
where their true inner selves step out
and betray the jealousy guarded Sc
cret Of their ego.
The man who keeps his feet fiat on
the floor, straight in front of him, is a
rare specimen. He's a practical, hard
headed business man who stands for
no nonsense and leaves nickel tip.
The girl who sits with the toes of
one foot turned at an impossible angle
to the toes of her other foot is an in
durable romanticist, and like as not is
reading Love Stories" while extract
ing nourishment from charlotte
russey sort of pastry. She'll probably
leave two tips, or no tip, and start to
walk out without paying her check.
A precise person, who probably
whistles his SIS and is immaculate in
appearance, always aware of every
thing but never known to smile, sits
with ankles daintily crossed. If the
owner of the ankles is a girl, she does
not betray violent enthusiasm for her
food, no matter how hungry she may
be, but like clockwork regulates her
chewing, swallows Of water and move
ment Of her eyelashes.
The scatterbrain can be recognized
In an instant. He probably has one
foot wrapped around the leg of chair
and the other trespassing into terri
tory on the other side of the table,
He doesn't know whether it's his own
foot or his neighbor's foot that is hurt
when chair steps on it, but smiles
with equal foolishness one way or the
other.
The man who crosses his legs at
in his lunch. He eats because it's part
Of his daily program, but would be
just as well pleased If he never ate.
His mind is on the office.
Every one knows the individual
whose feet are we'll out In the aisle,
where the waiter. and patrons fall over
them. He's inconsiderate, bully at
home, and ready to snarl at mo-
ment's notice.
The best of all is the tomboy sort of
girl, who parks both heels on the bot
tom rung of her chair, and starts to
sway back and forth if the waiter is
slow about the order. She's a good
sport and If she ever forgets her
purse the cashier will be willing to
trust her until tomorrow, something
that no other patron would get If he
were introduced by J. P. Morgan him.
self.-New York Sun and Globe.
Palisadian., 1923-09-21
Snakes Spoiled His Fishing.

Sacramento. Cal.-James Remick, To-
cal auto accessory merchant. has just
returned from fishing trip in the
wilds Of Sierra county. Remick says,
with much impressiveness, that in the
stream where he angled for the elusive
trout large and apparently hungry
snakes grabbed the fish as fast as he
hooked them. When Remick discOv-
cred what was happening, he simply
wound up his line, declaring the COM
petition was too keen.
49,
Palisadian., 1923-09-21
The Site Of "Arrowhead,"

Who ever built the house, he build
ed better than he knew, or else Orion
in the zenith flashed down his
Damocles' sword to him some starry
night and said, Build there" For
how, otherwise, could it have entered
the builders mind that. upon the
clearing being made, such, purple
prospect would be his? Nothing less
than Greylock, with all his hills about
him, like Charlemagne among his
peers.-Herman Melville.
Palisadian., 1923-09-21
Shakespeare's Vocabulary RlvaIed.

Probably no living poet has a more
extensive vocabulary than Gabrielle
d'Annunzio, who is to visit Paris in
the spring of this year. "Most peo-
ple," he once said, use only 800
words. l employ $4,000, which 1 Gull
from different volumes, some taken
from an old book on agriculture, some
from an old translation of Ovid, 9TH
ers from Machiavelli's works. Old
Italian authors are my daily bread"
Palisadian., 1923-09-21
oh. Yo,I Cynic

J. NJ. writes: Someone predicts
that this is to be bad year for
bachelors. Does that mean that lot
of them are going to get married -
Boston Evening Transcript.
Palisadian., 1923-09-21
Action In All That Counts.

NSS'0" 70 NJ '"~s s~'
The fact Is that in order to do any
thing In this world worth doing, we
must not stand shivering on the bank
thinking of the cold and the danger,
but jump in and scramble through as
we'll as we can.-Svdney Smith.
Palisadian., 1923-09-21
Costly "Medic1ne." I"

1t was customary with the Arabian
physicians during the highest era Of
Saracen learning to administer pre-
cious stones in the way of medicine.
Palisadian., 1923-09-21
Eyelids of Snakes.

Snakes eyelids are transparent
scales fixed over their eyes, and, being
immovable, they give the reptile a
piercing look
Palisadian., 1923-09-21
Hairbreadth Was a Measure.

The word hairbreadth, now used for
infinitestimal space, once named reg
ular measure. 1t was the width Of
sixteen hairs laid side by side.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-01
Veterans Support u. S.
In Deportation Case

At the instance of the Admiral
Peary Post of the Veterans OF
Foreign Wars, through it's COM
mander, Lieut.. Kenneth L. Coontz,
the District of Columbia Depart
ment of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, through it's department com.
mander, Brig. Gen. Anton Stephan,
has taken a definite stand in the
George Mandes case. A recent de-
cision rendered by Justice A. A.
Hoehling, Of the District Supreme
Court, decreed that George Mandes,
former manager of the Boston
Hotel, be deported from the United
States. The Veterans Of Foreign
Wars are appearing in the case as
Anxious Curl" "a friend of the
COURT before the appellate division,
urging that the upper court affirm
the decision rendered by the lower
court
Lieutenant Coontz, appearing in
behalf of the Veterans, maintains
it is the stand of that organization
that there are too many undesirable
aliens in this country who have
neither respect for our laws nor for
the flag, and whose presence is
doing much toward undermining
the Government. The Veterans
maintain that the time Is at hand
when true Americans should take
firm stand against these unde-
sirable aliens and to see that they
are deported.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-01
COLLIER SELECTED
SESSION DELEGATE

DIR. Frank w. Collier, director
of research, will represent the
American University at the annual
meeting Of the American Geo.
graphical Union at the Carnegie
Institution April 1913.
DR.. Paul Kaufman, professor Of
English literature. spoke before the
Shakespeare Society OF Washing
ton Tuesday. His subject was
"Shakespeare's Influence on the
English Language" At the Arts
Club Thursday evening he delivered
a lecture on Back to Nature
in Literature and Elsewhere"
Axel l.. Astrom. Minister from
Finland, addressed the student body
and faculty Monday. On account
Of the Easter holidays. the lee
ture of Alois Stangler, charge
d'affaires of Czechoslovakia, an
nounced for tomorrow, will be
postponed until Monday, April 8.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-01
CONDUIT ROAD
FILTER PLAN I
To Be RUSHED
Plans Have Been Drawn Up
and Work of Construction
Is to Begin Without Delay
MAIN is NOW BEING LAID
Water Supply of Washington
win Be Augmented by Some
Several Millions of Gallons

A considerable increase in Wash
ington's water supply will be real
ICED with the completion of new
filtration plant on Conduit road at
the District line.
Plans for the plant have been
completed. Work on its erection
win be started in the near future.
Meanwhile q water main is being
laid in Conduit road in order that
the plant may start to function i'm
mediately upon its completion.
The plant, estimated to cost over
81 900 900, viii be equipped with
the largest pumps obtainable,
Through this plant the water sup
ply in the Mt. Pleasant and George
town sections win be increased to
Q large extent.
Measures to increase the water
supply in the Reno and Chevy
Chase sections are being taken by
the District Water Department,
which is installing a new 10000 900
gallon pump at the Bryant street
filtration plant The pump will re-
place one of smaller capacity and
win insure the two sections an
adequate water supply.
Officials Of the water department
estimate that 72,000,000 gallons is
the maximum capacity of present
conduit system. With the compile
fion OF the Filtration plant the
maximum capacity will be increased
several million gallons.
In making plans for the Shrine
convention, officials of the water
department declare that the water
works will feel no strain as the re.
suit of the influx of thousands OF
visitors.
Plans for assuring an adequate
water supply for visitors during the
convention are in charge of j. s.
Garland, superintendent of the
water department and Capt. John
e. Wood, assistant Engineer Com
missioner.
With the arrival Of warm weather,
Mr.. Garland plans to call upon Dis
trict residents to conserve water.
This procedure is a yearly seasonal
custom of the water department who
have found that householders waste
thousands Of gallons of water daily
during the summer months through
non-essential purposes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-01
Citizens, Attention!

There are approximately 1000 users of cleo
ricity in Washington who have share in the fund
which the Potomac Electric Power Company is i'm
pounding: That fund is close to $38OOOOO
To fight the increased rate The Washington
Herald and The Washington Times subscribed
$1,000 toward fund of $4,000 to retain the serv-
ices of Conrad Syme in completing the fight in the
United States Supreme Court. The Columbia Typo
graphical Union, No 1O1, contributed $500 the
Connecticut Avenue Citizens Association con-
tributed $780, Conduit Road Citizens Association
$35; Thomas j. Donovan, So There is still 81 655
to be subscribed.
Mr.. Syme has not sought compensation for this
work in behalf of the residents of Washington This
fund being raised at the suggestion of the Public
Utilities Commission The of So, 900 is not in
tended of the value of Mr. Syme's
services. 1t is indicated, merely because So 900 was
the appropriation requested by the commission for
this work, and which Congress failed to grant
To complete this fund promptly The Washington
Herald and The Washington Times suggest that
citizens and organizations interested in the campaign
NIL out the following coupon and send in their con-
trIbutlons to THE ELECTRIC POWER CONSJJM-
ERS' FUND" in care of either newspaper The names
OF subscribers will be printed in all editions unless
otherwise requested
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-01
TEXT BOOKS IN DC.
SCHOOLS DEFY USE

Washington school children are
using thousands of "repulsive-look-
ing" text books. Some Of them are
SO "grimy" they can hardly be
read.
Many elementary school children
are handicapped in the study Of
geography because maps are miss
ing in the texts they use.
This was disclosed yesterday by
Stephen e. Kramer, assistant super
intendent of schools, who declared
that some Of the hooks in use
are so ugly that they are not fit
to be SEEM
Because Of lack Of sufficient
funds. the Board of Education has
been unable to replenish the supply
OF new text books from year to
year.
Kramer pointed out that the
maps in Biographies. used con-
stantly by the pupils for references
of various kinds, after such hard
use, are frequently lost.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-01
Presbyterian Church
Elects New Officers

The annual congregational meet
ing of the Sherwood Presbyterian
church was held Thursday even
ing for the election of officers and
closing up the affairs of the year
which ended March Is.
Reports were submitted by the
various organizations. which show
ed that the benevolent contribu-
lions amounted to $2.669.0o, and the
current expense fund $4,384.00.
There was also reported a balance
Of $3,o87.00 in the building fund.
Officers were elected as follows:
Elders, Mr.. Henry B. Davenport
and Wallace E. Perry, three years;
Deacons, Mr.. Julian F. Belfield and
Frederick H. Bletsch, three years;
Trustees, James P. Benfer and
Arthur G.. Miller, three years, and
Howard L. Webster, one year;
Walter Wolf. clerk Of the con-
gregation and James P. Benfer,
auditor.
James NJ. Rauch was elected
superintendent of the Sunday
school. Plans are now under con-
alteration for erection Of a new
Sunday school building, which will
accommodate over TOO people.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-01
Dance and Card Party
To Mark X. of C.. Easter

One Of the most elaborate OF
Easter celebrations to be held in
this city will be that of Washing
ton Council, K. OF Gu, Atm, bggg
ton Council, K. of c., at the Wash
ington Hotel next Monday evening.
Dancing in the Rose room will
begin at 8 o'clock and continue
until midnight. There win be card
playing in the Salon des Nations
from to IL o'clock, with q prize
for each table.
The deputy grand knight Of the
council and twenty-five members
comprise the committee In charge
of arrangements.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-01
Free Swimming Lessons
For ID. C.. Girls 8 To IL

Free lessons in swimming for
Washington girls between eight
and sixteen will be given at the
swimming pool OF the Young wo-
mems Christian Association. 614
e street northwest, on April 2, 5,
4, and 6, at 1870 p. ma
All applicants must register as
soon as possible. Membership in
the association IL not required for
this vacation privilege. The swim
ming directors of the department
will be in charge, so expert in.
struction VIII be given to all girls
availing themselves Of this op.
portunity.