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gist of the Middle Ages, for he
actually chose his ground and
followed a plan or battle that has
won the admiration of modern
engineers. The armies. of course,
were those Of the age OF chivalry,
armored knights on horseback,
archers, men.at-arms to the NUN.
Der of many thousands on the
English side, while the Scots op-
posed unarmored footmen to the
charge Of these knights armed
cap-a-pie.
Bruce had prepared for the
English cavalry by digging a
great many pits in front of his
position and covering them with
grasses. He had formed his army
30 that marshes on one side and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15
RudoIph's Whiskers

Rudolph Valentino has cut out the red whiskers
We don't know whether he chased by bull chased
by his manager but do know that there's only thing
in the shape Of scenery than red wher and that
sitting the front porch in his undersht on hot
Sunday afternoon.
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uses an object-glass, or lens, to
gather and bring to focus the
rays Of light from the star or
other object examined, while the
name reflector is given to a tele-
scope which uses a concave mir
ror, instead of an object-glass.
With both of these classes of
telescope the diameter of the OBJ.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. or object-mir-
ror--is the most important factor
in determining it's power of
vision.
In fact, a direct comparison
can be made between a telescope
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ELSIE ROBINSON

scientious, kindly folk But they're liable to
err. They re particularly liable to err in this
matter of Tattling And in the vernacular
of Bills gang it's time somebody bawled
them out for the same. Having a few
ancient grudges of my own to avenge, I'm
strong for the job. Watch my smoke!
OF all despicable facts, Squealing On The
Other Guy ranks amongst the lowest. Most
of our morals are an acquired taste like
olives But our aversion to squealing has
been with us so long that it has become
normal human attribute. This is particularly
true of boys. The exigencies of male life
through the long generations have made it
imperative that man should stand by man.
For so long has this necessity prevailed
that the instinct against Squealing is born
in the average male, hitched to him like
his toenailS ONLY the human rats fail m
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LISTEN, WORLD!
REGISTERED q. q De-
PATENT OFPICB DIV
Is SqueGling Square?


stick out and seldom washed and that y
his hair inclines to henna.
How do | know these most intimate facts
concerning Bill2 Because I recognize
Regular Guy by the way he hits paper LII
! Z
Everything about Bills letter, from the S-1sN
large amount of glue he put the stamp IM
to the way he bit his communication off in
one wrathful paragraph, was Reg lar And -
most Reg lar of all Bills sentiments III "
Only Real Guy could feel that way about q +
Squeang.
You're pretty apt to prove your own
mettle, my friend, by the side you take in To rorr
this argument. MS F7I !
So hats off-here Bill! N~-
"DEAR MISS ROBINSON
- 81 know you like kids so want to tell you some
thing that happened in my school because think you will
take side Miss Robinson, all the teachers and the
principal very nice but they did something that
kills did something that bad. They cheated Well,
of the fellows knew it. Monday teacher found out
They found out about the cheating but they don't know
who did it
"Wel the principal called the whole school into assembly
and said that the fellows that knew had to tell on the
Others He said he would give until Wednesday and if
didn't tell the whole school would have to stay in to
O'Clock and that nobody but the players could go
game Saturday. Well, had a rally in the yard and
the boy that the president of student body he said
if voted to tell for to say Well nobody said l.
Now we have to stay after school and can't 60 to the
game. not even the rooters go.
But do you think that principal is rghH We all think
it mean trick to tell Please say yes you do because
all feel bad. CHILL WHITE
Will say yes?" You bet will kid with both nv
lungs and all face wide OPEN And IN here to tell the
world that I'm proud to know you and your gang It is
mean trick to tell It's rotten trick Bill It goes deep
INSIDE you and pos something that is clean and strong
Bully for you, that you refused to do it! AS for that
principal, my opinion of him isn't fit to eat
No. I'm not trying to stir up dissension in schools
Schools are highly necessary and educators are
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GARRETT P. SERVISS TELLS OF
THREE GIANT TEL SCOPES

instruments Have Probably Reached Maximum
Size, Due to Problem of Focusing Light
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A Real Miracle
Good Enough To Suit Anybody.

. s .
Here, ladies and gentlemen,
is a REAL miracle. In Eu-
rope, three thousand. miles
away, a man sitting at an in
struInent creates the picture
that you see here in wavy
lines. The instrument with
which he works connects with
an electric wire, the familiar
radio apparatus, terminating
in the building where the man
sits.
From the end of that wire
the picture, just exactly as
you see it here, leaps into the
ether and flies three thousand
miles through space, around
over the curving surface Of the
Atlantic Ocean. And the same
picture is reproduced on an
other piece Of paper in the
United States. It is photo
graphed, made into a plate
and printed in this paper.
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DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
Are Modern Women Losing Their
BEAUTY?
Ry DR. PRANK CRANE.

Fan GABRIEL DOUMERGUE, a French painter, says
that fifty per cent beautiful fifty
years ago than they are now.
Evening star., 1924-06-08
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
Md, June Especially.
First quality cattle of all descr1p-

BALTIMORE, Md, June (Speciai'.
First quality cattle of all descr1p-
tions are in more or less constant
demand, as most of the arrivals on
the wharveS are of common to ordi-
increasing, and the market is easier
Handy-weight calves continue in
good demand right along at full quo
tations, but heavyweight calves have
to be sold by the head on their
merits. Old sheep in light receipt
and fair demand. Quotations today
at Light street wharf:
Beef cattle, first quality, to 8;
medium, to Z. Bulls, as to quality.
to 6. Cows, choice to fancy. AZ to
51s; common to fair, 2 to 4. Oxen,
as to'quality, Az to 61z. Milk cows,
choice to fancy, per head, 5000 to
1900; common to fair. per head,
5000 to 5000. Calves, veal. choice,
10; ordinary to medium, to 9, rough,
heavy. common, to Z. Sheep, choice,
to s; old bucks. to s; common, 3
to 4. Lambs, fall choice, IA to Is;
fair to good, IL to Is; common, thin,
9 to 10; spring, as to quality, is
to Is.
Hogs, straight, Z to 8; sows. 5 to s;
stays and boars, to 4. Live pigs
as to size and quality, 10 to IL;
shoats, s to 9.
CHICAGO, June 7.-Hogs-Receipts.
5000 head; uneven; mostly steady;
mand moderate; bulk good and choice
250 to 325 pound butchers, 7.30a7. 40;
top, 75O; bulk better grades, $50 to
225 pound weights, 7.15aL30: bulk
packing sows, 6.40a6.55: bulk good
and choice strong-weight killing pigs,
6.0ea6.25; estimated holdovers, 1000.
Cattle-Receipts, 1000 head. Com
pared week ago: Beef steers. most
grades yearling and fat she stock,
strong: yearlings higher in spots;
losses earlier in week rega1ned; plain
native grass steers and cows slow;
Gamers and cutters active, steady to
strong; bulls strong to Is higher;
vealers mostly 50a75 higher: stockers
and feeders 25 lower; extreme top
matured steers, 11.35; best yeariings.
steers, S.0Ga10.50; stockers and feed
ers. 5.75a7.75; fat COWS, 5.00a7. 90; beef
heifers, 6.S5aS.00; Gamers and cut
ters, 8. 00a4. 90; veal calves, S.25a9.25.
mostly direct: market nominally
steady; for week around $1,000 head
directs; ia cars feed lots Compared
week ago-Better grades spring
lambs mostly 4Oa5O loWers range
offerings showing least Declines; clip
ped lambs, 1.00a1.50 lower; spots
more; in-between kinds down most;
culls, native, 2.00a2.5o lower; fat
sheep, 1.O0a1-5o lower; top range
srrineers, 1740; top natives, 1878;
best Clip lambs. 14.50. Bulk prices
follow: Fat lambs, 13.0oa14.25: range
springers, 16.50a17.25; natives IL GOA
1880; yearling wethers. 1I50a12.00;
aged wethers, 6.25a6.5o; fat ewes, 4.5o
a6.00.
NEW YORK. June 7-Wheat-Spot,
steady: No. 1 dark northern spring.
G i. f New York. lake and rail.
/ 1.4o1k No. hard winter. T. o. b., lake
and rail, 117Z; No 1 Manitoba, do.
IIgx: and No. 2 mixed durum do.
115E. Corn@Spot, firm; No. yellow
and No. white. C l. track, New
York, domestic, an by rail, S7h and
No. 3 mixed, do, 96h.
Oats-Spot, firm: No. 2 white. 60c.
other articles unchanged
Evening star., 1924-06-08

new units. Some of them are merely
old currencies masquerading under
unfamiliar names, while others ac-
tual1y represent new monetary stand
ards designed to replace exchanges
whose value has shrunk to almost
nothing in postwar imitation.
Latvia Coin the dat"
The Republic of Latvia. for in
stance, has adopted as it's standard
unit the lat, equivalent in value to
the gold franc. Copper and nickel
coins based on the lat have been is
sued and arrangements have been
completed for the minting of silver lats,
The Free State OF DanZig also has
established a new unit, the gulden,
which is equal to a gold franc.
I1ithuania on the other hand has
European precedentS and
fixed the nominal value of it's new
unit, the litaS or lit, at one-tenth of
the American dollar. Austria has an
nounced the introduction of new
silver shilling" coinage, and several
German cities, including Hamburg
and. Bremen, have adopted emergency
currencies. The latter has issued
notes which bear on their face the
value in dollars and the equivalent
in gold marks.
Czechoslovakia has undertaken the
coinage of gold ducatS, which are not
included in the regular monetary sys-
tenn and not accepted as legal tender,
but are valued by weight in foreign
trade transactions.
Evening star., 1924-06-08
NEW YORK BANK CLEARINGS.

NEW YORK, June 7.-The actu1l
condition of clearing house banks
and trust companies for the week
shows an excess in reserve Of $a9,-
190.530. This Is an increase of ST.
727,S6o.
Loans, discounts, etc, 1880, ,79s, 900:
increase, $3S, 900.
Cash in own vaults, members Fed
eral Reserve Bank, $47,578,00O; in
crease, S5,09S,00
Reserve in Federal Reserve Bank of
member banks, $573,721, 900; increase,
$22, 2,640,O00
Reserve in own vaults, state banks
and trust companies, $S,599,000 in
crease, $524,000.
Reserve in depositaries. state banks
and trust companies, $1O,2aS,o 900; de-
crease, $709,000.
Net demand deposits, s4,131, ,o74, 900;
increase, S156,543,O00. United States
deposits deducted, $17,eS1, 900.
Time deposits, 1So its s47s'o47.ooo; de-
Circulation. ss2,s41.ooo: decrease,
Aggregate reserve, s5s2,55s, 600.
Excess reserve, $39,190,530; IN
crease, $2,727, $50.
Summary of state banks and trust
companies in Greater New York, not
included in clearing house statement:
Loans, discounts, ETC., $853,091 500;
decrease, $1,S63. 900.
Gold, $4,359,900; increase, $39S,900.
Currency and bank notes, $21, 1885,
400; increase, $973,90O.
Deposits with Federal Reserve
Bank, sS0,179,3O0; increase, $5,751,300.
Total deposits, 1925, 1854 500; in
crease, S32,S40,500.
Total deposits, eliminating amounts
due from reserve depositaries and
other banks and trust companies in
New York and United States-De-
posits, $S66,505,500; increase, $20,300,-
500. Banks cash in vault, $34y227, 400.
Trust companies cash in vault. &72.-
s<a1A 20a
Evening star., 1924-06-08
SURPLUS FREIGHT CARS.
Total of 331, ,O12 May 22, Railway
Association Reports.

NEW YORK, June First class
railroads of the United States had on
hand 331sOI2 surplus freight cars on
May %, according to the car service
division of the American Railway
Association. This was an increase of
1906 compared with May IA.
On account of the slack movement
of coal the surplus coal cars on hand
totaled 170.333. Surplus box cars
numbered 1889; surplus stock cars
1874 and surplus refrigerator cars
1854 Three is no car shortage any
where in the United States.
The report further discloses that
the freight cars id need of repair on
May Is totaled 1914, or per cent
Of the total in use, while the loco
motives in need of repair numbered
1856, or 1874 per cent of the total.
Evening star., 1924-06-08
BALTIMORE PRODUCE.

BALTIMORE, Md, June Z (SpeciaD.
With both packers and shippers
competing for the offerings of the
native and nearby Strawberries. the
market has been fairly active the
past week, but only choice sound ber-
ries will command top quotations.
The market closed firm today at Z
to II quart for Eastern Shore
stock and 10 to 20 for Anne Arundel
berries While receipts are fairly
liberal, daily arrivals have been kept
closely cleaned up during the week
and a good demand is looked for dur
ing the coming week.
Asparagus, new beetS and cabbage,
spring onions. peas and radishes and
other early seasonable vegetables are
in good demand and meet with ready
sale when of good quality at the fol-
lowing quotations.:
Asparagus, $50 to 400 a dozen:
LIS to 2.25 for No. IS and LOO to 1.5O
for culls; beets, 200 to 400 hundred; !;
cabbage, 1.25 to 1.50 crate; carrots,
500 to 700 hundred; kale. so to 65
bushel; lettuce. as to 1.50 bushel !;
spring onions, 1.50 to 1.15 hundred ::
peas, 1.25 to 1.75 per hamper and
3.25 to 400 per barrel for small June,
and 200 to $50 hamper and 800 and
500 barrel for large telephones; rad
ishes. $50 to 500 hundred, with long
white bringing top prices; rhubarb,
LOO and 200 hundred, and spinach 40
to 75 bushel
New potatoes from Virginia made
their first appearance this week and
met with ready sale at 200 to AIS a
barrel, while the market for old po-
tatoes also rules frmer under light
supplies. at 1.50 to 200 per 100 pounds
and half price for No stock. Mary
land and Virginia McCormicks and
reds, however, will not bring over
1.25 to 1.50.
The egg market is firm and values
show an increase of 2 Il cents a doZ-
en- over last week, the market closing
strong today at &c cents a dozen.
Native and nearby firsts in free cases
and Il to l cent less for eggs sold
cases returned. With the warmer
to exercise more care in grading and
packing their eggs as well as ship
ping promptly. Under rules of the
local butter and egg exchange all
offerings must grade as firsts to draw
full quotations. Buyers now are
all held small or dirty eggs are slow
sale even at sharp discounts.
With the exception of old ducks
which are in liberal receipt and not
much demand the live poultry market
rules firm under a good and active
movement and receipt of desirable
stock light. Spring chickens especi-
ally are wanted and those weighing
TX to pounds apiece meet with
ready sale at 40 to As cents a pound,
while smaller and Ieghorns sell most
ly 35 to 40 CENTS No surplus of fat
old hens in the daily arrivals and the
market is firm at 25 to % cents and
% and 23 cents for rough stock and
leghorns. Old roosters are in. liberal
supply and not much demand at Is
and I6 cents. Pigeons fairly firm at
40 and SO cents a pair for both young
and old.
Evening star., 1924-06-08
. BY GEORGE T. HUGHES.

NEW YORK, June Tt has been
n week of sustained strength in the
market for investment securities. Es-
pecially has this been the case with
United States government bonds, all
the active issues of which have made
new high records for the year and
some of them new highs for all time.
The buyers have been the banks,
embarrassed by surplus of funds, for
which they could find no other profit
able employment. Money market
rates have been at the low of the
year. In fact, call money has been
lower than in several years. The sup
ply of time funds has been greater
than the demand. These factors COM
blned make the foundation for a
strong bond market.
Favorable Omen for New Financing.
All $his is a favorable omen for
the large new financing to come. Rail-
roads and utilities in need of new
capital are finding this their oppor-
tunlty and the outlook is that their
demands upon the market will stead
ny increase. In sense low prices
stimulate the demand in the case of
money as in that of any other COM
i'S- IL Is uOuDtlul WHetneT re-
funding operations such as those the
railroads must undertake within the
next twelve months can be accom-
pushed without some increase of
fxed charges, but these operations
can be undertaken now on better
terms than they could a year ago.
Ihe position of the industrials is
not so assumed in view of the doubt
as TO how far the trade reaction will
go. The brightest outlook is fox the
utilities. Low prices for materials
are distinct advantage to them.
They have no troublesome inventory
problems to solve. History tells that
they go unScatched through all but
the most serious depressions. More
over, the current earnings state
ments of the public utilities make
cheerful reading.
Market Takes Notice.
The market has taken cognizance
of this favorable outlook for the
utility companies all this week and
both the stocks and the bonds of
these corporations have been in de-
mand at advancing prices. The price
gains have naturally been larger in
the stocks than in the bonds and
good deal of the buying has undoubt-
edly been for speculative account
Curiously enough, the preferred
stocks of these same corporations
have been comparatively neglected
and the situation is in some cases
that a higher return is actually OBJ
tainable at present quotations ana
Evening star., 1924-06-08
ODDLY NAMED COINS
PUZZLE U. S. EXPERTS
ZlDty Of Poland and the Tcher-
Vonetz Of Russia Battle Foreign
Exchange Traders.
LAT AND LIT ALSO UNUSUAL
Currency Of Latvia and Lthuania
Is Newly Adopted.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Juno 7.-Foreign ex-
change brokers in New York, whose
trading market hangs suspended on
myriad telephone wires, are strug-
which recently have come into ex-
istence, the Russian tchervonetz and
the Polish zIoty.
Trading in these currencies, locally
has not yet reached extensive proper
tions, but dealers assert that before
long the two odd-sounding exchanges
will be quoted as freely as sterling
or francs In London. the tchervonetz
already has virtually replaced the
old Russian ruble as a trading unit.
The latter, however, despite it's in
ffnitesimal value, is still preferred in
the scattered dealings in this coun-
try.
Zloty to Replace Mark.
The Polish zloty officially will sup
ercede the mark as that country's
unit of exchange on July l. 1t is now
being quoted slightly below par.
which is SIS to the dollar, but few
transactions have taken place. The
zloty is legal tender in Poland today
together with marks, which are ac-
Cepted at their conversion value of
$4,000 900 for each new unit. An at
tempt will be made shortly before
July 1, to shelve the almost worthless
paper mark. but conversion privileges
will be extended for another year. An
emergency issue of Zloty notes will
be replaced by coins after January i,
1925.
Introduction of the Russian and
Polish newcomers into the foreign
exchange ranks directs attention to
the appearance abroad of many other
Evening star., 1924-06-08
Week of Sustained Strength
For Investment Securities
Actiue Issues of Government Bonds Make
Ne,U Highs-Public Utilities in FAVOR.
Outlook for. Industrials.

present dividend rates on the pre-
ferred than on the common stocks.
This represents, of coures. the specu-
lative conviction that larger earn
ings will mean larger returns for
common stockholders.
The fact, however, that these ad-
vances have been brought about by
speculative buying only means recog-
milton on the part of this element
of the inherent strength of the posi-
tion of the utilities. There is rea-
son to believe that the small capital
ist who buys primarily for invest
ment is not blind to this situation.
At any rate, confidence in the sue
can Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany's new $50, 0,000.000 stock issue is
growing. The testimony is that the
small holders are ready to avail them
selves of their rights" under the
new offering to a greater extent than
the owners of large blocks. But the
stock and the rights" the latter
traded in on a when issued" basis,
have been consistently strong, to the
surprise of certain bankers and TO
the confusion of certain spectators
1t is a rather convincing demonstra-
tion of the merit of the principle OF
customer ownership.
Foreign Bonds Firm.
Coming back to the bond market, it
is interesting to note the way In
which foreign. bonds have held up In
the face of all the disturbing news as
to political conditions on the other
side. Whether this is due to faitn
in the ultimate outcome or whether
it is founded upon the high return
these bonds give at current quota
tions is difficult to say. Probably
both influences are effective. Traders
have discovered that they can Duy
French bonds, for instance. and, II
they hold them long enough, sen
them for less than they paid and sun
make money. The explanation OF TINS
seeming paradox lies in the dlHer-
ence between the rate at which money
can be borrowed to carry the ponos
and the rate expressed in the coupo..
The national foreign trade con-
vention, in session at Boston lh!s
week, has been discussing this mat
ter of the attitude of the American
investor toward foreign loans Ine
was of the opinion tnat
America must make foreign invest
ments If she is to develop foreign
trade. The problem is to educate the
individual investor to the advantage
of such purchases from his stand-
point and to teach him how TO dis-
tinguish the good from the bad. rms
is likely to be long process. ana
it is suggested that manu-
facturers and bankers form corpora
fions to investigate foreign proJects'
To make loans when the inquiry oe-
yeIops real merit and to issue the
American corporations own deoen-
lures against these foreign secofi
ties
Evening star., 1924-06-08
LAND BANKER CREDITED.
Aid UpGft of Communities and
Farmer, Official Says.

COLUMBIA, S. c., June IA gen.
eral upbuilding of the rural COM
munities" has resulted and the
farmer is being taught "a. much'need-
ed lesson" in regulating his business
through operation of the federal land
bank in the Columbia district, accord
ing to l.. l. Guion, acting president of
the bank.
Heretofore the farmer has tended
to let obligations drift from year to
year. but he now realizes that he is
4 member of great cooperative as
sociation and that he has obligations
to the association" Mr.. Guion said.
Interest and amortization payments
must be met promptly, as only in this
way may he and his fellow farmers
enjoy its advantages"
Amounts of loans in North Caro-
lima, South Carolina. Georgia and
amount. Mr.. Guion said. loans have
been Cancelled with total principal
and interest of s16.321.130.
1T is almost impossible to tell how
many farmers have been able to buy
farms since the federal land bank
ttnued. 1t has been more of ques-
tion Of keeping the farmer on his
feet rather than helping the farmer
buy farm.
1.-THE standard of living probably
would drop. in thesaverage case, 1or
one or more years while the farmer
is paying for his farm and purchas-
ing machinery. but would rise even
tually to above the level of the ten
ant farmer" the acting president
stated discussing the standard of llv-
ing of the land-owning farmers
Mr. Guion expressed belief that
while establishment of the bank has
not decreased the number of farmers
who mortgage their crops in advance
to buy supplies, he thinks the bank
has. through extension of credit to
community, beeh instrumental in
effecting improvements which nave
increased the tax valuations OF iano.
with resultant additional revenue TOT
schools Thus in way, he Sald,
better educational opportunities nave
been afforded farmers children