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Evening star., 1924-03-01
REALTORS SOUGHT
FOR APPRA|SALS
Growing Demand Creating
important Agency for
StabiIizing Values.

Realtors. like doctors or other men
with specialized knowledge. cannot
escape the ubiquitous indiVidual In
quest of easy" information. Against
dnconsidered opinion giving, the Ma
tional Association of Real Estate
Boards, through the official appraisal
committees Of its nearly 500 constitu-
ent boards. is developing the use OF
scientific appraisals. Such appraisals
are becoming an important agency. for
stabliliziug real estate values.
Requirement of the income tax law
relating to payment of taxes on the
increment of property sold during the
year is bringing an added demand Tor
appraisals made by official appraisal
committees. Authoritative appralsalS
by real estate boards furnish another
Service in insuring against fictitious
valuation of holdings pledged as col
lateral for bond issues
Against Casual Opinions.
Giving gratis. offhand opinions OF
real estate values on the part of
real estate man is practice injurious
10 the owner Of the property. the
prospective buyer and the real estate
dealer, II. r. Ennis. president OF the
Boards, brought out recently in an ad +,
dress before the Indianapolis Real
Estate Board.
Casual opinion giving is unethical
with respect to competitors con-
cerned in the contemplated real estate
transaction, Mr.. Ennis pointed out.
1t is unfair to the owner of the prop
erry because of the necessary tnaccu-
racy of such valuation. 1t may, by
diverting the buyer from accurate
Information as TO values, mislead him
In his investment.
Stabilize Local Values.
Sterilization of local real estate
values through "a continuing system
Of scientific appraisements is part of
a five-year plan of civic service and
professional upbuilding activities
which is being followed by the Oak
land (CalifD Real Estate Board.
Representative parcels of land in
FIVE sections Of the city are to be
chosen for appraisal as units of value
in the experiment for stabilizins
values. They will he reappraised
twice yearly. and the appraisement
will he furnished to board members,
TO banks and to assessors
Evening star., 1924-03-01

idential election and naming full
ticket Of delegates at large. district
delegates and alternates, thirty-eight
names in all.
A total of 1924 names appeared on
the petitions, Mr.. Corrick said.
Evening star., 1924-03-01
Fire Damage $3.50, 900.

DETROIT, March 1.-Fire of un-
determined origin destroyed the four
story brick warehouse Of the CONNER
cial Milling Company, resulting in loss
estimated by company officers at $3.50.
OOO Thirty thousand barrels of rye
corn and barley flour were destroyed.
Evening star., 1924-03-01

twenty-one years of age and that no
license be issued to any person not
an American citizen
Evening star., 1924-03-01

In New York state one woman In
every four is q wage Garner.
The Washington times., 1924-11-28

for Of course only eighteen and he is nineteen but
don't you think young people know their minds
eighteen and nineteen, Miss RobinsonY"
Yes, Nora young people can know quite little about
their minds at eighteen and nineteen but they can't
possibly know what their minds going be six months
hence year five years. And that the main point
in the argument against long engagements.
It's funny thing about Minds. There's nothing on earth
that feel sure of knowing Minds. And
there is nothing earth uncertain and mysterious
than those properties We regard minds as if they
tangible possessions that could weigh and gauge
and and control You might well try to weigh
nfinty dream gauge song or control
flea manipulate your mind in such manner. Even now
Nora when you think you're Of yourself you re
really profoundly ignorant about that mind of yours You
think you love certain people and things and hate certain
other people and things because they cheerful and honest
and beautiful and comfortable vice versa But YOU can't
possibly know how you would feel if things were suddenly
all changed and umbled If you suddenly lost your dis
comfort and encouragement breaking your spirit in
muddy watershow would you feel9 Suppose you stumbled
into sin folly Fred did the sameP Suppose new
situations awoke disturbing desire in you and Fred
But they can't know what am. | guess know
what am. guess know what want and don't want
cries Nora.
No, you probably don't know what you want or don't
want, Nora In far you see yourself you know
what you want and don't want But you can't see yourself
The Washington times., 1924-11-28


WHAT WOULD HAPPEN Eff THAT CREATURE WOKE.
You might suddenly change from careful discreet girl
into reckless destructive outlaw People sometimes do
just that. It's their Inside waking up.
But of life doesn't usually wake up our Inside in
that sudden dramatic way. We can usually make fairly
definite programs for ourselvesfor what know Of
selves-and count putting them But we can't
count too hard We must always allow for accidents
those accidents not usually caused by what life does to
but by what do with life grow and the Inside
part Of us reaches out and talks.
That is why you cant look ahead Nora That is why
you can't safely promise to be the five years for
it ism humanity possible that you will be the same Life
going to move along and you going to move with it.
Every day experiences will stimulate new impulses in
you Strange selves will wake-selves you had never
guessed you hid within that familiar body yours And at
the end OF five all Of Nora will be different All of
Nora will be readjusted, made over, turned about.
And the things will be happening to Fred as are
happening to YOU The uy you live the more fully
they will happen Il he goes to the university and is caught
in swift colorul current of life changes will be much
greater IN him than you But under any conditions YOU
will both be changed is quite possible that the new
Fred and the Nora will love other as much as the
present Fred and Nora do But it fair to gamble on a.
And IT ism fair to tie that strange couple by VOW which
you two may now wish to make but which they will wish to
unmake with all their hearts.
tc0DSrSht 1884 by King Syndicate. 1noA 49,.
The Washington times., 1924-11-28

a MINUTES carelessness may wreck life Of
fulness. minutes failure sometimes overthrows
g - years Of success.
In the way minute s crisis may bring the oppor
tunity for and may labor for long while
only to find his labors banked up suddenly at critical
moment
Genius is matter Of fifteen minutes said a. French
philosopher but behind that fifteen minutes there often
accrued the toll of a lifetime
No knows what a day may bring forth, but it is
safe that the day contains other things than the
accumulated results of mans efforts
We may go along for and to be accomplishing
nothing, but storing up energy against critical
hour hour when all faculties shall be put to the
test.
It is wrong say that this critical time is merely
matter Of luck Opportunity may have much to do with
success but not everything for opportunity constantly
coming to who not prepared for it. There
many in the condition Of the rishman who said
that when Opportunity knocked at his door he was out
In fact opportunity nothing but another Of saying
that the chance to the proper is nothing
but the break in the dam of who has succeeded in
png up all his behind him. If the dam breaks
and there is water to go will not make much
difference but if behind it there the accumulated
sources of the years, something going to happen
One worked faithfully for fifteen years and then
he stamped eighteen minutes upon the stage and was called
a genius
is wrong to think that the hours of preparation, al
though they may be quiet and uneventfu have nothing to
do with the hour Of They have everything to do
with it. But the question that of being prepared when
the comes and of not being called and found wanting
r Newspaper Syndicate)
The Washington times., 1924-11-28

= to become so dense as to equal
the iron in weight. bulk for bulk.
I. e.. cubic foot Of water would
have to weigh $50 pounds.
But right here lies the source
of the puzzle for those who fail
to understand the elements OF the
problem. They have heard that
the pressure Of water becomes
very great at great depths-which
is a fact-and they assume that
this pressure win enable the
water to stop the descent or the
sinking body.
But that could only happen II
the water, was so much con-
densed by compression that II
became, as just said above. equal
in specific weight to the iron or
other substance concerned.
Tests At so Miles.
Now, as a matter Of fact, water
is but very slightly compressibie.
Many experiments have shown
that the compressibility Of water
amounts to only about one
23,000th Of its volume for every
increase of zone atmosphere"
Fifteen pounds per square inch)
in pressure. The increase OF pres
sure in descending into the sea is
about at the rate of one atmos-
phere for every thirty.four feet of
descent. So at the depth OF one
mile the increase OF pressure Is
154 atmospheres. Since one at.
mosphere decreases the volume
of water by one part in $4,000,
T54 atmospheres would decrease
1t by about one part in i43.
At a depth OF two. miles the
compression would amount to one
part in seventy-two, and at q
depth, Of five miles to one. part
in thirty. Experiments at the
Jefferson Physical Laboratory
have indicated that at a depth
of eighty miles-more than
dozen times the greatest sea
depth - the compression would
still be only one part in five. al
though at that depth the pressure
would be 10000 pounds per
square INCH
What, then, does this mean?
1t means that at the bottom of
tuS sea- VI live AilAcS ucSPB Oto
cubic foot of water would still
weigh about sixty-six pounds,
against the 450 pounds of the iron
weight. Suppose the weight was
a chunk of coal weighing seventy.
five pounds per cubic foot. Since
that is eleven pounds heavier than
cubic foot Of water, and since
the water would gain only two
pounds per cubic foot at depth
of five miles, evidently the coal
also would sink all the way to
the bottom of the ocean.
/ intended to show by the aid
of a diagram the manner in
which solid bodies sink in liquids,
for that, too, seems puzzling to
many-but my space for this
time is exhausted.
The Washington times., 1924-11-28
By Garrett p. Serviss.
Noted Astronomer and Writer on
Scientific Topics of Popular
Interest,

Noted Astronomer and writer on
Scientific Topics of Popular
Interest.
r EFT us not be offended by the
antiquity of the following
Ia puzzle; on the contrary, let
US respect it for it's cheerful old
age, it might have bothered Noah.
and still it is as fresh as il 1t had
never been answered.:
kindly, advise me If a ten
pound. or HEAVIER, weight. drop
ped into the deepest part of the
ocean would sink to the bottom
In either case kindly give me
the scientific reason"
Apparently the scientific rea-
son required has never been made
plain. and perhaps it never can
be for everybody; there is great
virtue in the old plan of try,
try again."
In almost the same mail I re-
ceive a letter from a marine en-
gineer in Detroit who says: I
have had two black eyes and a
pretty bad nose from this question.
said the Titanic was on the
bottom of the sea and they said
It was not The ratio was three
to one. / won my bet, and the
black eyes"
Now for the question about the
weight. In the first place all
would depend upon what the
weight" was made Of. It might
be a wooden weight Of ten pounds,
and then 1t would not sink. But
II 1t were made Of iron, lead, stone,
glass, or anything specifically
heavier than water. 1t would sink,
and would go to the bottom.
Pressure of Water.
What do we mean by 'specifi-
cally heavier. than. water? We
mean having greater weight than
an equal bulk. or volume. Of
water. For Instance, we know
that a cubic foot of sea water
(which Is a little heavier than or.
binary water) weighs almost sixty
four pounds. We know also that
a cubic foot of wood. saw Of
white oak. weighs about forty
eight pounds. Therefore, the
wood is specifically lighter than
the water. and will float. with
three-fourths Of its bulk sub
merged.
Now a cubic foot OF cast iron
weighs $50 pounds. against sixty
four pounds for water. Whence,
we find that iron is specifically
about seven times as heavy as
water. The iron. therefore. will
not only sink. but 1t will keep on
sinking until 1t Rets to the bottom.
Why will 1t keep on sinking?
Because at no point on its way
to the bottom is the water as
heavy. bulk for bulk, as the iron.
In order to arrest the sinking OF
the iron. the water would have
The Washington times., 1924-11-28
ONCE-OVERS
TAKE A LITTLE TIME TO PLAY.

Are you attached to your job that you never take
recreation?
Do feel that you take time for any outdoor
exercise?
Do you wonder how certain take much time
for play and yet do much workG
It's because they play that they can work better
YOU perhaps waste lot of time just resng2 when you
might spend that time gaining physically.
You say that when you get at night that the thing
you like best is to be able to stretch in any easy chair
and read before the fire the weather is cod just o
around" if it is hot.
But that old machinery inside of you nedes rest and
some change.
you do not get exercise of Sort different sort
when you resting from that of your daily job you are
wasting your rest time.
RrLt should not mean stagnaon.
Tsatuso Services. ~
The Washington times., 1924-11-28
Learn from Japan

Baron Hayash Japans Ambassador to Great Britain saws
the League must urge disarmament Cautiously The League
is toe young for complete disarmament yet says he
Japan setting the example in disarmng cautiously
can call it that While American simpeons SCRAP
the Washington which have spent $35 100000 Japan
building many swift cruisers for desroyers Also
she has seventeen factories working night and day turning
ou flying machines of which than 80 per are for
fighting.
What country President Coolidge do you suppose Japan
has in mind she builds those fighting panes7 China per
haps or Korea, or Siam?
The Washington times., 1924-11-28
ELSIE ROBINSON

very far. You can only see the surface OF
yourself. Beneath that surface lie all sorts
of amazing things Of which you have never
dreamed. Cruel, savage appetites; frail,
wistful wonderings; stark fears, jealousies,
hungers, half-forgotten horrors. All these
things lie beneath your surface, Nora. You
were born with most of them lying there.
They were left there by the millions and mil
lions Of people who passed before you were
born and left their mark upon your mind.
Some of those people were more brutes than
men. Some Of them were ignorant savages !;
all of them were tangled in webs Of fear
and lust they could not understand. And
part of them all lives on in you.
It lives on in you right now. 1t is THERE,
right inside you, a strange creature, both
beautiful and hideous, half asleep.
The Washington times., 1924-11-28
LISTEN, WORLD!

><<WKYILL it lasti" says Nora. Elm
" perfectly sure that it will, but
w mother saws that II ism Il fair to
The Washington times., 1924-11-28
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
The Minute SUnLIOws the Year
RY M. FRANK CRANE.

"A MINUTES carelessness may wreck life Of
"a fulness. minutes failure sometimes overthrows
&c ~ wears Of success
The Washington times., 1924-11-28
A Plucky Little People
Three Cheers for Australia.

The United States is sending great fleet Of fighting ships
TO within sight of the shores of Australia Such
ships will be of much Importance in the that coming
But at least the trip of fighting ships to Australia
useful It should be taken by the Australians expression
Of admiration for their courage They nation with fewer
inhabitants than the city Of New York their country
in their way keeping out Aatc immigration and defyng
the powers of Asia right under the shadow of thousand
million Asiatics That's plucky little nation.
The Washington times., 1924-11-28
Let Us Hope Not

Doctor Edwin Sosson gathering Of scientists
in New York that chemistry will do many wonderful things
Among others will control the size and Of animals and
will enable human beings to control the Of children
before birth.
Let's hope that the learned doctor is mistaken and that
the Power that rules this little earth will retain the control
Of
Men are conceited and women so good natured that If
control possible, few girls would be born The
number wouldn't be sufficient to supply population to
Civilizo the With ounumberng women three to
the world would go back to barbarism.
The old words Thy will be DONE much better for us
than IN do as choose and my baby shall be boy or
girl, as I decide to have it.
The Washington times., 1924-11-28

mother says that 1t ism t fair to
either of us to be engaged for five years.
And of course we can't possibly expect to be
married before then, because Fred has to
have his four years at the university and it
will be at least year after that before he
could support me. Mother says we will
change so much in that time that we will
hate being bound to each other. She says
that she was engaged to three different boys
between the time she first met dad and
finally married him.
But I don't think she can Judge for me,
do you, Miss Robinsonf Mother and are SO
different. She is happy go-lucky and jolly,
and am much more careful and serious.
am positive that | will never love anyone
but Fred and he is just as sure about his love
The Washington times., 1924-11-28
GARRETT P. SERVISS ON HOW
FAR AN OBJECT SINKS

Substances That Have Greater Weight Than
Equal Volume of Water Always Reach Bottom.
Evening star., 1924-12-12
CHILDREN'S HEALTH
reviewed TO WOMEN
Workers Explain Improvement
y Plans at Dinner Given at
Women's City Club.

How the health of the Washington
child is being cared for was demon
strated Wednesday night at the Busi-
ness and Professional Women's dinner
at the Women's City Club. Walter Uf-
ford, executive secretary of the Associa-
ton for the Prevention of tuberculosis
Mrs. Ernest r. Grant. director of
child health education, and Mrs.
Agnes II. Stewart. director of occu-
pational therapy OF the association,
were the guests of the club.
Mrs. Stewart described 'toccupa-
tional therapy." or treatment for the
i'll by light work, as it is carried on at
the tuberculosis Hospital The work
is financed by the Christmas seals
sale.
Mr.. Ufford told of former years in
which the American Red Cross had
acted S patron of the society in the
sale of Christmas seals Mrs. Grant
declared her conviction volunteer
agencies must continue to do health
Evening star., 1924-12-12
PLAN GAS FIRM MERGER.
Consolidation of Maryland and
West Pa. Companies Asked.

BALTIMORE, Md, December r.
The West Virginia and Maryland Gas
Company of West Virginia yesterday
applied to the Public Service Commits
sion for permission to purchase the
West Virginia and Maryland Gas
Company of Maryland and the North
ern Natural Gas Company and con-
solidate under the name of the Cum
berland and Allegany Gas Company.
The petitioners also state that as
the supply of natural gas is rapidly
decreasing, they wish permission to
erect an artificial gas plant, the first
unit to be ready within one year.
The companies involved supply nat
ural gas to Cumberland, Oakland and
other western Maryland communities
Evening star., 1924-12-12

work in Washington. "Since e1e-
mentary education has been made
compulsory by law, it is my belief
that eventually health education will
also be-" she said. Mrs. Grant pre-
sented statistics to show that many
of the school children of the United
States are suffering from remedial
physical defects.
DR.. A. Francis Foye, president of
the Womens City Club and examin-
ing physician with the Chesapeake e
and Potomac Telephone Co., added a
statement of the prevalence of NAL
nutrition among young girls of the
District.
Mrs. David Jacobs of Denver, Colo,
spoke of her work there and the fact
that Denver is ahead of Washing
ton in health work since they have
been provided with preventorium.
Evening star., 1924-12-12
Represents Committee.

In his new protest, Senator Famous,
who insists he speaks with the authority
Of the permanent executive committee
OF 10 of the Egyptian Parliament, which
now is prorogucd, declares Egypt is
standing for defense of the sanctitY of
treaty engagements with the powers,
including that for the neutrality OF the
Suez Canal, under which the defense
of neutrality is confided TO Egypt. The
document contends that the British lie
Inaud is that Egypt should surrender
that duty and hand over the canal zone
10 British troops, i'll breach of the
treaty of 1868
1t affirms that in his conversations
with Prime Minister Macdonald in
London in October Premier Zagloui
pasha refused the demand and Of
tored to hand over the canal to the
League of Nations to settle its status.
This offer, the memorandum asserts,
The British rejected
Evening star., 1924-12-12
ASSAIL.S HEAVY COSTS
OF MERCHANT MARINE
Plummer Says United States
Spends Twice as Much as Private
Ownership Would Require.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 12.-E. c.
Plummer, vice president of the Ship
ping Board. told members of the
Maine Society of New York at their
annual dinner last night that the
Government is annually spending on
Shipping Board vessels twice as
much money as would suffice to place
privately owned American shipping
on permanent basis in our foreign
trade"
"One-half the best life of these
ships already is gone" Mr.. Plummer
asserted. Good business sense would
suggest solving this problem of our
American merchant marine while
these ships still remain a potential
asset"
Constructive legislation soon
must be made effective, he asserted,
if American ships are to remain on
the seas.
Evening star., 1924-12-12

her treaty engagements. which Egypt
refuses to accept.
The protest concludes by arguing
that this is the leagues primary
function and duty-to insure respect
for treaty obligations and therefore
to uphold Egypt in her honorable stand
against British aggression.
Evening star., 1924-12-12
SYNTHETIC GIN STOPS
GLAND development
DR.. William Held Says, With Care,
Man Can Live $50
Years
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December 12.-"Man,
with his splendid muscles, blood and
organs, could live $50 years, but he
must not drink synthetic gin" said
DR.. William Held of Chicago, glandu-
lar specialist. who sailed yesterday on the
liner Cleveland, to do research work
in the laboratories of DR.. Emil Holden
of the University of Halle and DR..
Steinach.
DR. Held said synthetic gin is
harmful, for it puts the arteries in
such condition that they will not re-
spond to gland rejuvenation
For two years he has been expert
menting with a serum made from
blood of gland-fed apes. to be sold at
a price within reach of the average
person.
LAS it is now. only the rich can
have their glands rejuvenated," said
DR.. Held.
Evening star., 1924-12-12
Push Air Mail Service

OMAHA, Nebr., December 12.-Oma-
ha, as national headquarters for the
Air Mail Service, has taken the lead
in a movement to give the service
more liberal patronage. One hundred
business men signed a pledge to mail
at least one letter a day for a year
by airmail
Evening star., 1924-12-12
Cairo Premier Better.

CAIRO, December 12.-Former Pre-
mier Zagloul. who is suffering from
chronic bronchitis, was said yester-
day tG be much better He is receiv-
ing his intimate friends.
Evening star., 1924-12-12
NEW CAIRO NOTE
GIVEN TO LEAGUE
Senator WayIays President
of Council, Makes Second
Protest Against British.
Nv the Associated Press.

1N tnn ASsOcldteu ffesS
ROME, December 12.-Waylayin
Afrano MelIo Franco, president of the
Council of the League of Nations, at
the door of his hotel, the Egyp-
tian Senator, Famous, succeeded in
handing him "a new protest against the
English action in Egypt and fresh
demand for intervention by the league.
Senator Famous also succeeded in OBJ
tanning interviews with Niscount Ishii
of Japan, Alberto y. GUAM of Uruguay,
Foreign Minister Benes of Czechoslo-
Nakia and other members of the council.
President Mello Franco said later he
had not had time to peruse the docu-
ment and had not decided what course
of action to take but had consented to
receive Senator Famous this afternoon.
The Egyptian parliamentarian an
nounced he had forwarded a copy of
tho new memorandum to the secretariat
of the league and to all the members of
the council.