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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-13
HONEYMOON
CHATTER
BY Les Conlxlin.

kkG GOD news. Clarence; the
~ hotel proprietor has ar
~ ranged to take us for
. moonlight sail tonight. All the
other guests are going, and may
Be We can arrange to play bridge
with those dear old ladies' from
Kalamazoo"
Every well. II you don't want
to play cards I'll talk to the cap
tain-he's very attentive to me
and promised to explain how the
engine works"
IT wish you would show : lit.
tie more interest in me instead
Of smoking cigars with the men
on the piazza every evening. It's
all right to disguise the fact that
we are honey-mooning. but you
don't have to act as II / were
your mother-in-law."
by the way, mother and father
wrote that they might come out
and spend next week with US.
They're lonesome without me, you
know. and I shouldn't neglect
them too much at first"
Don't tell me my bathing suit
is too risQue: you liked to look at
it well enough before we were
married: suppose you think I'm
going to parade around all
wrapped up like mummy.
-
Remember, you promised to
teach me how to play golf tomor-
row. Wen get IN early tomorrow
and play from dawn to dusk"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-13

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-13
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W1M Lemon

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0 mix the Juice Of
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-13

Remember. you promised to
teach me how to play golf tomor-
row. Wen get Up early tomorrow
and play from dawn to dusk"
Evening star., 1924-01-13

IT'S the belief Of Mrs. Crocker that
when the seas in a persons blood
there Is no way Of getting 1t out.
Evening star., 1924-01-13
Navy Probably
Plays Largest Part
In World System of
Communication by
This NJ e a ms.
Ira d e, Shipping,
Relief Work, Mill
tary Protection
and Other Activ-
titles Are Assisted
by Stations.

A NERVE system of communica-
~ tion that employs more than
n 1000 high powered radio
- I,.
Evening star., 1924-01-13

work, made more effective by radio,
the Navy has saved the lives of many
thousands of people"
The radio net" of the Army, en-
comprising 112 radio telegraph and
radio telephone transmitting and re-
ceiving stations at Army posts and
headquarters all over the country,
is of more recent establishment. 1t is
the outgrowth of the radio system of
communication established in France
during the world war, and which was
regarded as a model of scientific
achievement.
Secretary of War Weeks, in estab-
fishing the system in the United
States, felt there was urgent need
for u congratulations service or
ganized on a military basis to handle
every conceivable civil and military
emergency, and an entire year was
devoted to developing complete
radio net" covering every part of
the country.
x X \. x
N nine corps areas into which the
United States is divided for mill
Evening star., 1924-01-13

said Cap'n Jennie Crocker. "I recall.
at Grand Basan, for instance-neyer
having seen such high breakers-wc
couldn't even think of going near the
shore with our ship. II was a stranES
arrangement we were forced TO rC.
sort to-we had to approach the
shore in canoes. From derrick on
the pier large boxlike thing was
lowered for US to climb into from!
the canoe. We really should have
been acrobats, but even / managed
finally p get transferred. although
thought several times 1 should go
tumbling into the angry sea.
II understand that it's virtually
impossible for any vessel to dock a;
Grand Basan.
II remember the first view ! had os
the African coast. 1t was quite fiat
looking, and, because of the early
morning light. looked like a long
black mud bank, but as we got nearer
and 1t got lighter we could see a
thick growth of scrubby trees. I was
standing on deck with the mate, and
1 happened to look over into the
water-what a terrible shock I got
there were about two dozen canoes.
made from the bark of trees, being
padded alongside our ship by fierce
looking, semi-nude natives
Il called to my husband and asked
him not to let those 'savages' aboard.
I remember the captain was quite
amused. He told me they weren't
dangerous-they wouldn't harm me
that they were only hungry. We
threw them several large cans Of
corned beef and some American
crackers. and I've never seen such a
scramble. They knocked each other
out of those paperlike canoes ana
turned numerous somersaults into the
water, but most of them finally got
bite or two of the beef and crackers
and chartered to US like monkeys
their thanks and approval"
Mrs. Crocker hesitates to comment on
what women are doing ION land" these
days, for she has been Sailor so
long she feels sort of detached.
81 really don't know whether ! think
it's good thing for women to vote or
not. II seems to me the average wom-
an is better off looking after her hus-
band and children than spending her
time bothering about who should or
should not be the next governor. As
say. I'm on land SO little I really
shouldn't comment on womens position
today in politics.
Mrs. Crocker says that she and the
captain own little bungalow in a
suburb Of Boston and If the time
ever comes that they can't sail the
briny any more she supposes they will
retire there to spend the remainder
Of their days.
Evening star., 1924-01-13

Assume a military emergency on
the Mexican border. Fort McAllen or
any one Of the other seven posts on
the border equipped with radio
flashes the news to Fort Sam Hous-
ton. The message is relayed to Fort
Leavenworth, where a modern high
powered transmitter relays it to the
War Department at Washington. Re-
verse the process and it becomes pos
sible for the War Department at
Washington simultaneously to in
struct all the border posts.
When the steamship Honolulu
caught fire off the Pacific coast, an
Army transport picked up the distress
signals, flashed the news ashore and
proceeded to the rescue.
Recently an arrangement was made
for tying the American Radio Relay
League into the Army net, as a re-
suit Of which greater speed and eff
cheney in handling local emergencies
when towns and villages are devas-
tated by fire or engulfed in foods
are made possible. BY getting news
quickly to the Army posts, armed
Evening star., 1924-01-13

salt. Only last month the Jennie
Crocker put in at New York with a
cargo of more than 100000 feet of
yellow pine which she brought up
from Florida.
Last fall the owners of the Jennie
Crocker had her gone over and made
spick and span for the coming win
ter season. "Cap'n" Jennie had say
in her interior decoration" for she,
with Capt. Nelson. has a small in
terest in the schooner. No Long
Island hostess or society woman in
town ever took greater pride in hav-
ing everything Just right" about the
quarters" than did "Cap'n" Jennie
Crocker.
Mrs. Crocker is far from being a
masculine type of woman. Were she
on land she would never wear a tai
lored coat suit, 1ow-heeled tan walk
ing shoes and mans sport hat, with
mans collar and cravat- never.
"Cap'n" Jennie Crocker. while she is
really an "old salt" is about the most
charming and feminine a person one
could wish to meet.
Witness the fact that her cabin on
the Jennie CroclSer is done in Gre
tonne! In the tiny reception room"
adjoining Mrs Crocker's cabin aboard
there are blue and white cretonne
hangings at the port hole, and for
to match; a nautical material, to be
sure white-capped waves, sailing
ships and seagulls
Besides the couch in the reception
room there are to be found two
leather chairs, also cretonned in
summer; a Morris chair. specially
bought for Capt. Nelson Crocker." ac
cording to his wife, and a library
table. There are shaded wall lights
with soft blue silk and a bridge lamp
for the captain to read or study by.
The Crocker library is not solely
nautical. either. There are recent
works of science, religion and fiction
on the captains shelves. Both the
cabin and reception room aboard the
Jennie Crocker have hardwood. inlaid
floors. The bedroom" is simply fur
nished with plain white enameled
twin beds, a chiffonier, dresser and
two chairs. There is running hot and
cold water in the cabin. Many a
small steam-propelled vessel becomes
insignificant, in point of comfort, or,
one might say, luxury, in corsvS5fson
with the Jennie ,Crocker.
In way, it would seem that both
lCapt. Nelson and Cap'n Jennie have
at last realized a dream of life
|time-they have a real dollars-and-
cents interest in their present home
on the sea. It's been the cherished
desire all these years that they
should some day own sailing ship
and Just now they are pretty close
i to the realization Of their hope.
Evening star., 1924-01-13

sonnel Of the Jennie Crocker. In
cidentally. did I tell you Captain and
I own several shares of stock in her?
She was formerly the Ruth Martin
and sailed out of Boston. On the
Jennie Crocker is my father-fn-law,
Charles A. Crocker He's our stew
ard. Mr.. Crocker, sr., has been at
sea ever since he was boy. Then
there's our nephew, or rather Capt.
Crockers nephew-Charles Raymond
Delaney. Charliss just sixteen, but
he's got the sea bug, too, and his
uncle gave him a job on the crew.
"Charlie's brother Ralph, who lives
in Saugus, Mass, spent two years
with his uncle and me at sea. Then
still another brother, the late Harold
Delaney, was with the captain
awhile--in fact, until he was drown
ed. You see, that old devil. Sea- as
they say in that Eugene O'Neill play
Of seafaring folks. Anna Christie,
takes his toll sooner or later
Harold was drowned a few years
ago when he fell off a launch in
which he and Capt. Crocker were rid
ing out to naphtha boat nearby, the
Florence and Lillian, the captains
sailing ship at that time. His mother,
Mrs Delaney -Beardsley of Boston,
was almost crazy and tried her best
to keep her two other boys from TAX
ing fling at the sea, but she couldn't
keep them off it, not even after the
sad fate Of her eldest son Harold.
IT firmly believe there's no use in
trying to stif1e the desire to go to
sea Maybe not many women have
1t. but ever since I was little girl I
have had a great love for the water,
and my father used to take me on
short voyages with him when was
growing up, so I guess this made me
more crazy about It. well remem-
Der reading sea stories behind my
big geography book up in a little
country school in Maine.
when Capt. Crocker ana I married
he was just a mate. He was then
crazy for me to go along on voyages
with him, but It wasn't so easy for a
mates wife as for a real captain. so
told him to hurry up and get a
captainship, and then I could go
along. He worked hard and studied
and it wasn't long before he was a
captain.
1--WE been going to sea with my
husband for twenty years. I never
thought of applying for license be-
fore. It always seemed somewhat
like a college diploma-the only use
one has for it after one gets 1t is to
hang 1t UP In the parlor."
Nelson A. Crocker and Jennie
Holmes went to school together in
the little town Of Machias, Me. Theirs
was . romance that started when
Mrs. Crocker's hair, which 10 auburn
now, was . real old-fashioned rcd"
Evening star., 1924-01-13
BY w. RENWICK SMITH.

A WOMAN sea captain-and the
~ very first at that. "Cap'n"
n Jennie Crocker, if you please,
or soon it will be, for Mrs,
Jennie Crocker, native of the state
of Maine and Wife of Capt. Nelson
A. Crocker, for more than twenty
years licensed master Of sailing
vessels, will soon be awarded her
own license.
Here's a woman who says she'd
rather battle angered waves in a
sailing ship any day than take her
place in a town somewhere and be-
come the respected wife of a high
1y respected landlubber. It's the
tenrptest on the perilous water for
Jennie Holmes Crocker rather than
the tempest in a teapot in a home.
Mrs. Crocker is delightfully."- fem
mime and let you in on the maritime
secret. lives in a "cretonned cabin"
when at sea, but she has never had
time for the ordinary sort of life a
woman leads in a small town-it
would bore her to death, she says.
MY life has been on the ocean
wave for more than twenty years and
I'm content to live the rest of 1t at
Evening star., 1924-01-13

Cordova, Dutch Harbor and St. Paul,
in Bering sea, is often the only means
of communication with the frozen
north, inasmuch as the Alaskan
cable Is frequently out of repair.
without radio" declared Secretary
of the Navy DENLY, in a signed state
ment, "our work in promoting the
development of foreign commerce
through the protection of American
merchant ships would be greatly
hampered Maritime losses have been
greatly decreased through the use Of
radio in warning ships of impending
danger. The giving of aid to suffer-
ers in shipwrecks, earthquakes, fires
and plaques, in time to be of real
service would. in many cases, be diff
cult. if not impossible, without radio.
Through timely warnings made pos
sible by radio, and through it's relief
Evening star., 1924-01-13

and worn in long plaits down her
back. They were childhood sweet
hearts in a small town.
x X
THE Jennie Crocker, the former
Ruth Martin. is q four-masted
schooner with a net tonnage of 1872
or thereabouts. At present she is in
the service of a New England ship
ping company and for the past six
months has been hauling lumber
from Florida ports to the east. From
time to time during her brief career
of three years--for the Jennie Crocker
was built in 1920 at Portland, Me
she has carried fertilizer, coal and
Evening star., 1924-01-13

forces can be rushed to the scene
with minimum of delay. The serv-
Ice is operated with military precision
and is backed by the nations COM
plete military strength.
The radio broadcaSting system OF
the Department of Agriculture is now
capable of flashing weather. crop and
market news TO the remotest sections
Of the farming community. Approx
mately $50 radio telephone broad
casting stations operated by state and
municipal government agricultural
agencies, commodity exchanges, news
papers and banks daily dispatch cur
rent agricultural news to farmers.
The primary system Of the Agricul-
tural Department. includes the Navy
stations at Arlington. Great Lskes and
San Francisco. which literally blan-
ket the major portion of the agri-
cultural territory with crop and mar
ket advices. The messages are dis
patched by radio-telegraph and
picked up by the secondary chain Of
stations for re-hroadcasting by radio
telephone. The phone stations are in
close touch with the numerous branch
offices of the department over the
country and receive direct the news
in local markets.
The number of receiving sets on
farms is rapidly approaching a quar-
ter of million" declared Secretary
of Agriculture Wallace, in his recent
annual report to President Coolidge.
Thousands of letters from farmers
in the files Of the Department of Agri-
culture attest this fact and the prac-
tical value of the service.
Appropriate warnings of frost have
often saved the west coast fruit grow
ers millions of dollars, through en-
abling them in time to place heaters
in orchards. In the southwest, ad-
vance Information Of storms has en-
abled the stock raisers to rush their
live stock to cover. In the corn and
wheat regions radio advice of i'm
pending devastation from insects has
enabled growers to take prompt steps
to meet the oncoming hordes.
= !: I: x
THE radio service on crops is ma
tion-wide in scope, information
on acreage and condition of crops
coming by radio and cable from for
eign representatives VINO have made
contacts with foreign agricultural
sources. The size of crops in other
parts Of the world is of vital inter-
est to American growers, particularly
as regards crops such as cotton and
wheat, which compete with American
time than it takes to tell about it
messages are filed at European radio
stations. received at Washington,
analyzed, and then rebroadcasted
over the country for the information
of agricultural interests.
If you're a business man and next
Friday night hear over your radio set
that 10000 Chinese babies are bare
footed for want Of 10000 pairs of
American booties, or that a similar
number of Burmese ladies crave calico
dresses, you'll recognize the new radio
service of the Department of Com
merce. More than 1000 government
foreign-trade representatives, consuls,
commissioners and attaches in as
many places all over the world are
daily combing the markets for sales
outlets for American goods. The news
is flashed to the United States by ca
BILE or radio, and then prepared for
simultaneous release by radio and the
press throughout the country.
Evening star., 1924-01-13

sea, and when 1t comes my time to
die 1 want to die at sea. The sea
is my very life. OF course, like to
go ashore now and then to see some
Of my relatives and get a few new
clothes-even a lady captain you
know, must have a few pretty things
around her-but to live on land
steadily-I could think Of nothing
more impossible"
Though Mrs. Crocker knew as
much about navigation ten years ago
as she knows today she Just never
bothered" abou. applying for a SAIL
ing masters license until recently.
1t was because of a suggestion Of a
friend who said she might as well
have license as long as she could
get one" that Jennie Holmes Crock
er, veteran seawoman, made her ap-
plication. She was informed by the
office, which also controls sailing
craft, that her license would be is
sued within two months.
Many's the time "Cap'n" Jennie
has manned" the Jennie Croker
when Capt. Nelson, her husband, lay
sick a-bed in the cabin below with
an agonizing fever, and though her
wifely and womanly heart was with
the man below, she guided the sailing
vessel through a tropical storm to
calm waters.
Africa that "Capn" Jennie Crocker
was called on to meet what was,
perhaps, the greatest test Of her
nautical career. Capt. crocker had
contracted q terrible tropical fever
while In Africa and for three days
was unable to leave his bed. 1t was
during this near-tragic situation
that Mrs. Croker had to assume
virtual control Of the Jennie Crock
er. She seems to regard her duties
at the time as quite unimportant and
rather hesitates to go into detail.
However, she did say this much
about It:
There was reHlly nothing else to
do. I simply had, In a way, to as
sumo command, for the mate nat
urally didn't know some OF the
things a captain has to know, and
knew them, so It was up to me to
well, you might say, save the ship
Capt. Crocker couldn't even raise his
head from the pillow-even broth
nauseated him. All really did was
to calculate latitude and longitude
from the sun readings so we could
keep our course. My husband was
too Ill even to give me coherent
answer to q, technical question. 1t
was, after all, a pretty good thing
that knew little something about
the business OF reckoning. wasn't
it,"
u X 4
IT'S the belief OF Mrs. Crocker that
= when the seas in a persons blood
there is no way Of getting 1t out.
Evening star., 1924-01-13
"~ "~ ~ " %% R R AIN ' ~ " '"' '"'

~APT. NELSON A. CROCKER has
been around the world several
times and, with his wife. has beer
to Africa three times and into TIN.
Caribbean waters numbers Of times
as well as having made several direct
trips to Portugal. There's hardly q
promontory along either the Atlantic
o rPacific coast that is not a familiar
sight to both the Crockers. For the
past few years Capt. Crocker has
been master of schooners plying W
and down the Atlantic coast and en-
ployed in hauling lumber cargo.
"My first long trip was to the coas:
of Africa a number of years ago
Evening star., 1924-01-13

you just have to go to sea and
work it out, but you never do-not
really. ] came from seafaring stock
and so did Capt. Crocker. Neither
of us could help it, 1 guess-seing
to sea. My father, the late Edgar
Holmes, was at sea most Of his life.
My brother Leonard went to sea as
an engineer on steam vessel, but
poor Leonard one day disappeared-
whether he was drowned we never
heard, but I guess it was the sea
that got him, for he's never come
back, and it's been over twenty
years ago
NOW take, for instance. the per-
Evening star., 1924-01-13

tary purposes there are fourteen ma
jor radio stations with a radious of
1000 miles each. This radio net
proper" cost Uncle Sam $500,000 and
includes stations at Washington, d.
c.; Governors Island, n. Y; Balti-
more, Md; Atlanta, Ga; Fort Hayes,
Ohio; Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind;
Chicago, ILL.,: Jefferson Barracks. Mo-;
Omaha, Neb.; Fort Sam Houston,
Tex; Fort D. A. Russell. Wyo.; Fort
Douglas. Utah; Fort Leavenworth,
Kan; and San Francisco, Calf. All
stations are operated by remote con-
troll at a distance of one-half to ten
miles.
Within the corps areas there are
also 9S stations at Army posts to
provide intercommunication between
posts and with respective corps head
uI1artprS
The Dolores star., 1924-05-30
CHAPTER III

How about ride over to the South
Fork this afternoon, Zen?" said Y.D.
to his daughter the following morn
Ing. II just want to make sure them
boys Is hlttin' the high spots. The
grass is gettin' powerful dry an you
can never tell what may happen"
You're on" the girl replied across
the breakfast table. Her mother
looked up sharply. She wondered II
the prospect of another meeting with
Transley had anything to do with
Zen's alacrity.
II had hoped you would outgrow
your slang. Zen," she demonstrated
gently. Men like Mr.. Transley are
likely to judge your training by your
speech
II should worry. Slang is to Ian
guage what feathers are to hat
they give it distinction, class. They
lift 1t out of the drab commonplace"
"Still, would not care to be dressed
entirely In feathers" her mother thrust
quietly.
Good for you. Mother!" the girl ex-
claimed. throwing an arm about her
neck and planking firm kiss on her
The Dolores star., 1924-05-30

the owners for the hay rights of these
lands for five years. beginning with
the present season. He is already cut
ting farther down the valley. and will
be cutting here within day or two"
1.-THE trout ought to bite on a fine
evening like this" said Transley. ~
have an extra rod and some flies. Will
you try a throw or two with me?"
II would be glad to. but l must get
back to camp. 1 hope you land a good
string" and SO saying Grant remount-
ed. nodded to Transley and again to
the men now scattered about the
camp. and started his horse on an easy
lope down the valley.
"Well. what Is 1t to be? said Lin
der. coming up with the rest of the
boys WARP"
"War II they fight" Transley re-
piled. unconcernedly. "Y.D. said cut
the hay: spite O. hi an high water.
he said. That goes"
Slowly the great orb of the sun sank
until the crest of the mountains
pierced its molten glory and sent 1t
furnishing their rugged heights. In
the east the plains were already
wrapped In shadow. Up the valley
crept the veil of night, hushing even
the llmitless quiet of the day. The
stream babbled louder In the lowering
gloom; the stamp and champing of
horses grew less insistent. the cloud
lets overhead faded from crimson to
mauve to blue to gray.
Transley tapped the ashes from his
pipe and went to bed.
The Dolores star., 1924-05-30
His Fate

What about your nephew, Elrod.
who used to drink so heavily?" asked
Beenaway, who had Just returned to
the old home town.
Nov, there's poor Elrod!" replied
old Riley Rezzidew of Petunia
Looked like he felt just nacherly
compelled to try to drink all the Ticker
there was, But when he couldn't get
any that was fit to drink. he"
Great Scott! He didn't die, did
he?"
"Worse than that He took to writ
ing poetry, and is at 1t yet."-Kansas
City Star.