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Evening star., 1924-10-30
Holing Through.

Yesterday. shortly after noon, the
head OF the contracting company
which is boring a tube under the
Hudson River for the accommodation
of vehicular traffic to and from New
York, quietly and with no ceremony
pressed button that set off the last
blast in the boring operation. The
two ends Of the tunnel were holed
through to an inch. This procedure
was to have been marked by a con-
siderable formality, with the Presi-
dent Of the United States making the
contact to explode the charge. But
on Monday Clifford M. Holland, chief
engineer of the work, died suddenly
as result of an aff1iction Of the heart
believed to have been due in the main
TO his constant employment under
ground in high atmospheric pressure.
In consequence Of this tragedy all
ceremony was avoided and the last
blast was just like any one of the
many that had preceded.
This great work was started just
two weeks more than two years ago.
1t will take about as much longer to
complete. Holing through is simply
the first stage of the procedure,
though the most difficult and dan
gerous. When once the bore is COM
pleted the remainder of the work can
be carried on with less risk, although
it is necessary for the gangs to work
during a great part of the time in
the high pressures which cause in
many cases a malady known as the
bends" 1t has been the belief of
the medical profession that this all
air bubbles into the blood. 1t is ex-
cruciatingly painful and frequently
fatal. Many a tunnel worker has been
crippled for life. Only the stoutest,
sturdiest men can endure the strain
of continuous high pressure with the
alterations Of increasing and de-
creasing pressures as they enter and
leave the bore.
This tunnel will doubtless prove a
great aid in the facilitation Of traffic
between New York and New Jersey.
Provision is made in the plans for
an immense volume. 1t has been pre-
dicted that it would cause a consid.
erable migration from New York City
to the Jersey side, but this would en-
tail provision in Manhattan for motor
car storage, which of itself would in
volve a tremendous expenditure With
the Hudson River tunnel established
it is likely that tunnel will be start
ed between Manhattan and Brooklyn,
though the need on that side is not
so great owing to the several bridges
that span the East River.
Evening star., 1924-10-30

to have dogged its footsteps. AS a
prospective aqueduct from 1888 to
1S4S it gave great promise Of being q
success, but when 1t became an aque-
duct, In 1S43, it was not a success,
though it did we'll its part IN carry
ing water and floating canal boats.
But it did not make any money and
disappointed those adventurous men
and the Congress who brought 1t into
being. When it became a private toll
bridge, in 184647, it made money for
its owners, but those who used it said
the tolls were. too high and the bridge
was shaky. Throughout its career as
a toll bridge, from about 1847 to 1861
and from 1855 to 1886, it was generally
denounced by those who had to use it.
On Wednesday,, April IL, 1888, the
opening of THE Free Bridge" was
hailed with as big a parade and as
fine outbursts of oratory and brass
bands the District had known up to
that time. Paeans to the bridge were
sung with full throat. But first one
and then another of its piers got out
Of plumb. In each case the old bridge
had an alihi. Its friends would say
that the piers had not been built on
bedrock below the river. Men came
to use machines not thought Of when
the bridge was built and put greater
weight on it than any bridge of 1888
was supposed to shoulder. After long
delay the Key Bridge came, and the
old Aqueduct stands forsaken. 1t
should come down. and no doubt Con-
gress will appropriate the money nec-
essary for its removal.
Evening star., 1924-10-30
Ibanez Plan to Gust King
With Pen Amuses Editors

sincerity, although his methods may
be questioned. Literature and the
writer's of literature have been i'm
portant factors in every revolution. It
has been noted, however, that the
most effective revolutionary propa-
ganda is that provided by writer's
who gain and hold the confidence of
their countrymen by staying in the
country which they would serve. In
the nature Of things, the seeds of
revolution are of slow growth. Dr.
Butler Of Columbia has just pointed
out that our revolution was completed
In the hearts and minds Of Americans
before 1t gained expression in overt
and obvious acts. Something OF the
kind must take place in Spain before
there can be a great change. That
Senior 1baneZ can work such q change,
smuggling in pamphlets from France,
efforts may make trouble for the
Spanish authorities"
The notable thing, in the opinion of
the Springfield Union is the probabil-
ity that If Ibanez has decided to come
out f1at-footed against the Spanish
military directorate, not sparing even
the King, then the directorate is
really tottering, because "Ibanez is an
expert in striking while the iron is
hot; he has specialized in doing this.
and the fortune he has made from his
books indicates that none Of the ad-
vantages of specialization has been
lost to him." Furthermore, the Read
ing Tribune believes that Ibanez,
with his ability to reach millions of
readers throughout the world, may
be able to make Alfonso appear a
very sorry figure" because "a definite
drift toward a republic has long been
observable in Spain.''
What will come Of Ibanezs sum-
mons to lovers of Spanish liberty
remains to be seen," concludes the
Milwaukee Journal, but perhaps it
is fortunate that in Latin nations.
where relationships are more likely
to develop, there arises a spirit now
and then-a poetic spirit-to sound
the call to freedom
Evening star., 1924-10-30
A learned cat, reading In the ency-
clopedia that felines should be given
meat only every other day, undoubt-
edly would exclaim:

A learned cat, reading in the ency-
clopedia that felines should be given
meat only every other day, undoubt-
edly would exclaim:
"Bah!"
Much in the same way, the average
human being may be excused If he
yawns nightly upon reading various
weighty bits of advice doled out on
all sides by those who are pining to
rescue mankind from it's sins.
He is told that coffee is nothing but
caffeine, that tea is worse, that candy
and cakes will ruin him, that cigar
cites and cigars are terrible, that
warm rooms O. nights will make him
susceptible to colds, that setting-up
exercises are necessary, that one
never should lie abed in the morn
ings, that under no circumstances
should one ever read in bed or fail to
take his cold bath.
These are but few Of the instruc-
| tions. inhibitions and prohibitions he
meets daily, either in reading or
| orally. Any reader can make a little
list of his own. The trouble is that
for every slice of advice he can find
an equally good authority saying just
the opposite.
One eminent doctor tells you to
| cease eating hot bread. Another
out a book to prove that this fear Of
hot bread Is unwarranted.
So the average man of average
years Of discretion must be forgiven
when he lays the book or article
down, and, like the academic cat
aforesaid. exclaims:
Bunk"
Not that there is not much good in
all this. There is. The key to this
| overfiowing knowledge. however, is
| more striking application of the old
maxim about one mans meat being
another mans poison.
Each individual has to weigh 1t for
himself, and determine Just how far
he cares to go with 1T. Take your cold
| bath in the morning. Some find 1t in
vigorating, others find 1t nuisance.
Many a stout fellow, who ought to
be able to roll in snow If he pleases,
will admit, il hard pressed, that he
shivers at the very thought Of getting
up in the morning and taking a really
cold bath.
Temper the water a bit, take that
| breath-taking chill off, he will enjoy
1T, but even then he gets up late
many mornings, and has to forego the
| somewhat dubious joys of the much
hSi oiAOo Cdiiy lioI hih5 pluhSC.
The trouble with all matters of this
kind is that often they run counter
to the things that must be done in
daily living. Doing ones work and
! taking ones pleasure-are not these
the two mainsprings of our existence?
Around these two necessities the
other actions OF our days must be
grouped. whether we care to admit
1t or not. The man who likes his
books will not give up reading in
bed, once he has found its joys. simply
because some expert" has said it is
hard on the eyes.
He will recall that Mark Twain did
1t. Mark Twain was an expert, too.
X X \
1t is really too bad that in the
working out of our complex existence
so many appealing things are dis
covered to be harmful.
One sympathizes with old Omar,
when he declared, in his enhancing
quatrains, that had he the making
of the world he would tear it to bits
and mold it nearer to the hearts
desire"
In such an event. were the remaking
Evening star., 1924-10-30

accomplished by a large feet Of fog
dispelling planes is only to be i'm
agined.
Inasmuch as in one case at least
heavy rain has been precipitated. it is
quite possible that rain production on
a practical scale may be possible. But
thus far rain has been caused only
when heavy clouds have been present.
1t might have occurred anyway in the
course Of nature. The great problem
Of the ''rainmakers" has been to pro-
duce precipitation of an apparently
dry sky. So much has been accom-.
plished, however, by the use Of air.
planes that no limits may be set to
the possibilities. especially in view Of
the recent experiments.
Evening star., 1924-10-30
The Aoueduct Bridge.


The Aqueduct Bridge is still stand
ing, and money is needed to remove
1t. Nobody uses the bridge, and the
current of traffic passing over the
Key Bridge increases. The District
Commissioners, who have jurisdiction
over the superstructure, are taking
from it such material as they can use
elsewhere. The United States engineer
in charge estimates that it will cost
3250,000 to take down the superstruc-
rure and stone piers, and that will
have to be authorized by Congress.
1e would use the stone Of the piers
:tor building sea walls for the Ana
costa Park.
There is something tenacious about
tle old bridge. 1t balks at giving up
the ghost and disappearing from the
landscape. It's gray piers have been
part of the up-river view for nearly
q hundred years, and the iron super
structure has been with us since 1S8S
It ought to be said that the old bridge
given us the best in it, though 1t has
never been satisfactory to all our peo-
pie. Perhaps It was beyond the power
oi engineers in the fourth decade Of
the nineteenth century to build .
bridge which would have approval of
people in the third decade Of the
twentieth century. Perhaps in a score
Or two Of years people will be saying
that the Key Bridge is not very much
Of a bridge, after all, and ought to
- replaced. with a modern structure.
NJ AQueduct Bridge has not had
. 60u Nreer. Bad luck seems
Evening star., 1924-10-30
THIS AND THAT
BY c. E. TRACEWELL

placed In our hands, we would make
cof1ee good for every man, woman and
child In the world. We would do what
no manufacturer Of decaffeinized coffee
ever has succeeded in doing. We would
make 1t tasty. full Of pep" and go.
Because cup Of good coffee is mighty
good. Coffee graces the tables Of the
world. and we imagine 1t still will con-
tinue to do SO, despite what any one
says
Tea. too. has its place in tho home, az
1t has in commerce and history. The
trick about tea is to make ii with a tea
ball. Some may call it merely "colored
water" SO brewed, but actually 1t Is
best this way. Life would be poorer
without tea.
The point about these two beverages
Is that they are so wound up with our
lives that only in newer, better world
will we be content to get along without
them, for then We will be satisfied with
water, as we ought to be now.
Candy may be bad for us, too, but the
male world continues to eat it, Just the
same.
1t is base slander upon the other
sex to picture them as the ultimate con-
sumers OF tons Of candy, when any man
knows that an Office Of male workers
can imbibe more chocolate bars in "a
hours than all the girls in the Veterans
Bureau could in a week
AS for cigarettes and cigars, they
are habit, pure and simple, but the
world goes putting ahead, despite all
the words to the contrary, and I am
afraid there is not much that can be
done about 1t. A perusal of the in
ternal revenue statistics for this year
as compared with last makes this
very plain.
We are told one never should sleep
In a warm room; but to deprive a
bedroom of heat simply exposes the
average person to pneumonia That
Is the fact, whether one likes 1t or
not. A good warm room, with plenty
Of cool air sitting in from an open
window, gives you fresh air in abun-
dance.
How many men really take setting
up exercises in the morning? Mil
lions have begun them, and the same
millions have given them up, because
they become boresome. Undoubtedly
they are fine thing-but SO is Bum
vans "Pilgrim's Progress" and, hon
estly, who reads that any more?
The "ice cold morning bawth" dies
hard. Thousands Of determined men
have INDUCED in this rite, until
finally they thought up some good
excuse for stopping it.
When man takes a cold bath
every single day for months, in order
to harden" himself to cold weather,
and then takes the worst cold he
ever had at the very first touch of
Autumn, he may be forgiven for pass
ing up the matin shower thereafter.
II he will temper the water enough
to take the curse off," probably he
will be able to go ahead with his
self-imposed program of physical
Righteousness, and certainly he will
be great deal cleaner for it.
1nhabiting the bed after the stand
ardized time for quitting it is a most
enjoyable habit, one INDUCED in not
only by thousands Of so-called 'Iazy
boys" but also by scores Of manly
men and lovely women.
And reading in bed!
There is true luxury, IL ever
there was one. A tired body, a good
book, a comfortable bed, and a light
properly placed, and one is as near
heaven as he will ever be before he
gets there.
Evening star., 1924-10-30
Sand Blasting the Clouds.

The old idea Of artificial rainmak-
ing by bombing the skies has been
developed in the course of expert
ments conducted by Army aviators
near this city. Primarily, however,
the purpose Of these cloud attacks
has not been to bring rain, but to
dispel fog. Though the work has not
passed yet beyond the experimental
stage. it seems to have been estab-
lished that it is possible to scatter
masses Of clouds in the higher strata
OF the atmosphere by the discharge
OF electrified sand, a process devised
by a Harvard scientist. One of the
aviators reports that he "dug an i'm.
mense welr' into one cloud bank,
which, however, was SO thick that he
could not drive the aperture to the
under side. In another case a cloud
which evaporated when attacked re-.
formed in lesser volume at a lower
level.
In one Of the experimental flights
q dense cumulus cloud which was elec.
trically charged was attacked, and
one corner Of 1t was broken up with
the result Of the precipitation of a
heavy rain that lasted for four hours.
This occurred over Chesapeake Bay.
The practical utility Of cloud-dis-
pelling work by aviators is not to be
questioned. II it is possible to dissi-
feet above the surface, it is probably
possible to scatter dense fog, which
is merely q low-lying cloud. at sea
level. The advantage to navigators.
especially in harbors. is evident. Thus
FAR the experiments have been con-
Quoted on . comparatively small scale
with only two planes. What might be
Evening star., 1924-10-30
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Gentle Hypocrisy.

Gentle Hypocrisy.
In struggling for enthusiasms daily
We cannot always mean just what
we say.
We talk about an entertainment gayly,
When, honestly, we wearied Of the
play.
We tell about a game Of golf as
proudly
As if life depended on a shot
And try, by speaking long and even
loudly,
To seem enthusiastic, when we're
not.
We do not wish to chill a fellow spirit
Who strives to find enjoyment here
and there.
His happiness, nobody wants to
queer it,
And SO we make believe we deeply
care.
We shout our plaudits at speech
protracted,
Though privately we think it TOM
myrot.
1t is q rule by courtesy exacted
To seem enthusiastic, when we're
not.
Evening star., 1924-10-30
Britain Goes Conservative.

An overwhelming victory for the
Conservative party has been the re.
suit of the elections which took place
yesterday in Great Britain. The
earliest returns indicated a considera-
BILE gain for that party at the expense
of both the Laborites and the Liberals.
AS more constituencies have reported
these gains have increased until the
count at 4:30 pm. today, London
time, stood thus: Conservatives, 373
seats; Laborites, 1873; Liberals. 3S, and
other parties, u, total of 561 out of
615 seats The Conservatives have
thus won an absolute majority over all
In the next House of Commons, en-
abling them to organize the govern
ment, probably under the premiership
of Stanley Baldwin.
This is not an unexpected result.
OF the two parties greatly in oppo-
sition, though jointly numerically
stronger than the ministerial La
borites, the Conservatives were in
a position to make the greater
gains. They had a more distinct
policy to oppose to that of the gov
ernment than had the Liberals, whose
position has been rather midway be-
tween the Conservative and Laborite
lines. The Liberals could offer moth.
ing to attract voters from the Labor
ranks, while the Conservatives, with
d more definite opposition, could draw
voters from the Liberals.
An intensive campaign has been
conducted during the past three weeks
TO arouse the entire electorate to OBJ
tain a full expression at the polls. 1t
appears to have been remarkably sue.
cessful, the total vote far exceeding
those cast at any previous British
election. Great numbers of women
went to the polls yesterday and the
results seem to reflect their influence
markedly.
The Liberal party passes into the
position of a small minority. 1t may
not muster so votes in the Commons,
which will deprive it of any power
or influence in the shaping of ma
l1Olldl pOiiCleS, VI even III lHS lOl
ton of a formidable opposition by
coalition with the Laborites. The
former leader of the party. Herbert
Asquith, has been defeated at Paisley,
his longtime constituency, which
probably means his disappearance
from public life for a while, perhaps
permanently, though he has an
nounced that he does not intend to
retire. He was beaten at Paisley by
q Laborite by ma jority of 2,400.
1t is too early to estimate the effect
Of the Conservative victory upon Brit
ish policies in either the international
or the domestic field, though it may
fairly be presumed that there will be
a pronounced change Of course in
both The Laborite defeat was prob
ably largely due to resentment with
dealings with the Soviet government,
especially aroused by the publication
on the eve of election of a letter
alleged to have been written by
Zinovieff urging Communist propa-
ganda in Great Britain. Whether
that letter was genuine or not, its
production created profound sensa-
ton in view Of the dealings between
the Laborite government and the Mos
COW regime.
Evening star., 1924-10-30
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN

Q. Can Senator Brookhart of Iowa
continue to call himself a Republican
after the party organization. has
repudiated him?-A. T. s.
A. There Is nothing to prevent
Senator Brookhart's calling himself a
Republican. voting the Republican
ticket and voting with the Republi-
cans in the United States Senate. That
is something for him to determine for
himself. However, he may not be re-
garded as a fellow partisan by Re
publicans. That Is for them to deter
mine.
for the killing of Consul Imbrie p
N. V. w.
A. The Persian government paid
Mrs. Robert w. Imbrie 100000 as rep
aration for the assassination of her
husband.
Q. The fence in our back yard is
whitewashed and we find that it rubs
off on the children's clothes. What
can we do to remedy this?-K. d. C.
A. Alum added to whitewash will
prevent it's rubbing off.
Q. How many dog routes are used
for transmitting mail in Alaska
T. G. o.
A. The Post Office Department says
that there are 63 dog routes, which
are run in relays and which all to-
gether employ about 5000 dogs.
@. I frequently see this I'm the
paper, president and Mrs. Coolidge
attended the First Congregational
Church in Washington, of which he
is a member" To what church does
Mrs. Coolidge belong?-T. EN-.
A. Mrs. Coolidge is member of the
Congregational Church at Northamp-
ton. Her membership has not been
transferred to the First Congrega-
Q. Does slavery actually exist to-
day in any part Of the world?-D.
S. T.
A. During the October, 1923, ses-
sion of the League of Nations it was
stated that slavery obtains in three
areas, involving over 100000 slaves.
These are Abyssinia, the inundated
areas of Southwest Africa and Tan
ganyika.
Q. Who said Il came; I saw; God
overcame"7J. C. D.
A. These are words spoken by John
Sobieski to the Pope when Sobieski
presented himself with the Mussul-
man standard.
Q. Can the mole see?-H. T. r.
A. The Biological Survey says that
while not totally blind, the common
mole Of the Eastern United States
can at best merely distinguish be-
tween light and darkness, as what
remains Of its organs Of sight lies
wholly beneath the skin. Degenera-
tion Of these organs has apparently
not proceeded as far in the Townsend
mole, which usually opens its eyes
when annoyed by an observer.
Q. How long has there been a law
that a person had to live in the
United States for five years before he
could become a citizen?-W. A
1906. e ''
Q. What are Druses?-G. T. T.
A. Druses are people of mixed
origin who inhabit a district in Syria.
Their religion is Fundamentally Mo-
the teachings of the Mosaic law, the
Christian Gospels and the Suf allie
gories with those of the Koran. They
believe in the transmigraton of souls
with constant advancement and puri-
fcation. Their teachings enjoin alb
stinence from wine and tobacco, from
profanity and obscenity, and polyg-
amy is unknown among them There
are a few hundred of this sect in the
United States.
Q. How much does it cost per acre
to plant a forest in the Lake States?
F. S. S.
A. The Forest Service says that
the experience Of the last 10 years