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Evening star., 1924-03-16
Bucharest Proud of Position as Little Paris of Ea

total destruction, and passed the new
laws by which the land has been
given over to the peasants, only
small portion being reserved to the
mobiles.
More than 100000 acres, a tract
about as large as the state or Massa-
chusetts, has been carved out Of the
estates, and this is being distributed
among the non-landholders and small
farmers In some Of the provinces or
states the size OF the holdings that
may be retained by the rich are lin
itec to ESQ acres. and the allotments
vary, according TO the character o.
the country.
OF course, all the land taken from
the mobiles is supposed to be paid for,
but the payments are made at pre-
war valuations. and often on paper
basis rather than gold. In fact, in
most of the payments no real money
passes, the government giving the
former owner OF the land longtime
government bonds, which may or ma
not be paid in the future The amour :
Of land given to the peasant upon
payment OF the government prices is
limited TO very small tracts, the unis
ranging from something like twelve
to eighteen acres, according to CO.
tain conditions. A great deal OF the
land taken over by the government
formerly belonged to the churches.
the Orthodox Church owning BY far
the most.
(Carpenter's World Travels. CspyrisAt fs:4l
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The Happiness Boys.
Elks Banquet Broadcast from the
Copiey Plaza Hotel, Boston.
Closing Reports Of the New York
State Department Of Farms and Mar
kets.
Reading Of the Scout Oath.
Vanderbilt Coffee Orchestra
Cutting Out Cross Talk and Spark
Interference.
Housing Conditions In tho United
States.
Mouth Organ Selections by Charles
Holland.
Nov" says the Mrs. "I guess that
viii learn you not to leave me home
alone evenings"
You said a mouthful," says. But
still and all a man has got to practice
self-deniai. Besides which am glad
/ did not hear the mouth-organ Sc
lections as mouth-organ selections
over a radio always upsets me-"
What is they about mouth-organ
selections over the radio that upsets
your asked the Mrs
"Just the thought" says, "the
thought that nobody can get at a guy
that is playing them"
In conclusion would like to state
that 1 have just one criticism to offer
namely that the afternoon programs
should ought to be devoted more to
stuff the kiddies likes and evening
programs appeal more TO grown ups
instead of vice versa The gents IN
charge seems to think that anywheres
from pm on Is ok. for bedtime
stories whereas will say that any bed
time stories listed after 6 pm. means
a upheaval in the family at lease.
And the other day in the middle q
the afternoon they was number put
on over in Newark by chorus o.
beauties from the Music Box revue
and nobody home to hear them except
the wife and kiddies who don't appre
ciate beauties from the Music Box of
any other revue a specially when they
half to look at them through ioou
Copyright 1se4>
Evening star., 1924-03-16

orable of the Thracians. They fought
with the Romans in 100 B. c., and it
was in 106 A. D. that they were con-
quered by Trajan, whose victories are
commemorated by the column OF Ira
ian at Rome. Herodotus called the
Dacians the immortals, and he learned
that they believed in the transmit
grafton of souls and never spoke Of
dying.
The Dacia of that time was larger
than the Rumania Of today. 1t had
it's Roman cities, schools and aque-
ducts, and the conquerors imposed
their language upon the people. The
tongue now used is rather Latin than
Teutonic. 1t corresponds somewhat
to the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
and French, and it is said that when
the Rumanians go to Italy they can
master Italian within a very few
weeks.
The people here are proud of their
Roman origin, and the founders of
Rome are among their national he
roes. One of the monuments of
Bucharest is a great bronze shewolf.
with the two naked babies, Romulus
and Remus. on their knees, feeding
away, and the picture OF that same
famous scene in the history Of Rome
Is engraved on the back of some of
the paper currency which the gov
ernment issues as money.
The nation has been conquered
again and again, but it has always
| striven to maintain its own institu-
tions and language. When the Ger
mans dominated the country, from
1S4s to 1867, they tried to introduce
the German language. and the Hun
garians. who followed, attempted the
same with the French. Nevertheless,
Rumanian is now spoken by more
than half the population of the new
kingdom. and it is the Iegalized Ian
guage of the realm. like it. 1t is
one of the softest and most melli
fiuous languages Of the world, but,
nevertheless, some Of the aristocrats
here will use only French, English or
German. 1 dine every day in the res
taurant belonging to fashionable club,
| where the walters speak French and
English, and I am told that many of
the well-to-do families of Bucharest
converse together only in French.
Evening star., 1924-03-16
Radio Thought That May Upset You
Is Inability to Get
Some Persons Who Are on Program

always out of order when we buy it
or goes wrong the next day and ain't
never the same since.
Like for inst we bought a grand
fathers, clock which they said was a
S-day clock and would guarantee per-
feet time If you wounded it once every
8 days whereas in reality you got to
wind it every day and keep kissing it
and petting 1t to make II run at all
and when It does run, why when you
want to know what time it is all as
you half to do is call up central.
But any way my friends kept pes
tering me and pestering me about this
here radio and IL you don't want 1t for
yourself think OF the kiddies, heavens
bless their little hearts, so 1 invested
in one and instead Of being a COM
plete flop like we expected, why on
a still day when they amt no inter-
ference, we can all but hear stations
in N. Y. city, a distance of over II
miles.
Some of our neighbors that is also
infected with radios are always tell
ing that last night they listened to a
fine concert from PWX Havana or
WFAA Dallas, but / figure that these
is the same kind of people that says
their baby don't never wake up nights
or that they can get IL miles out Of 4
gallon. However leave them rave and
personly I am satisfied as long as /
can tune in on the Happiness Boys at
Newark or maybe catch a few stray
sentences from WPAB on Life
Amongst the Women Students at
State College. Pennsylvania.
What amazes me the most in re-
CARDS to the radio amt the scientific
angle which don't make no pretense
Of how do they do it, but the genius
displayed by the boys and gals that
gets up the programs for knowing
just exactly what the public wants
and providing sane in fact 1t is get
don't feel like he can AFFORD to leave
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her through door-crack while acting
very Japanese spy. y
Pretty soonly she stop and put on
another face and enrush to Talefone.
"Give me Name 21144 and let me
know when you have got the wrong
number" she clabber.
While listening unpatiently she got
that number pretty o. X.
II are asking for Hon. c. w. Quack-
mire," she dictate. "Ah" This with
sweetly smiling. THAT you, Dolling?
Well, Jack, dearie love dux, this are
sweethot. tell you something. got
rich siprise for you. Come home
early to splandid fattish dinner-may-
be I will make you cocktail first
from my extra hair tonic. What
got to eat? O heavens, how we shall
enjoy il. Creamed pork soup with
Japanese noodles. F'iligree of sole
with totter sauce. Fry potatus. But
tered beefsteak pie. Minced pie with
ice cream, molassis, chocolate & horse
chestnuts. What you think that, my
own sweet geese"
Then I hear Hon. Talefone swal-
lowing a gentle sob while saying
fiirtatiously.
"I love you" (Please ask your
printer to repeat this several times.)
Therefore ! sneek back to Kitchen
feeling cracked in several places.
Hoping you are the same
Yours truly.
HAsHIMURA TOGO.
fCopyright, lS24)
Evening star., 1924-03-16
By FRANK G. CARPENTER.
BUCHAREST, Rumania.

A CITY of 100000, that had only
~ 100000 at the close of the
~ world war; capital of a
= country as large as Great
Britain and Ireland. twice as large
as New England. aid larger than
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania.
Delaware and Maryland all Joined to-
gether; the capital of a people who
number 100000, more than twice
as many as Belgium or Holland. or
equal to all the people of Mississippi,
Alabama, Tennessee and kentucky;
a city Of novels and palaces: u
city Of great white villas and beau
tiful gardens shaded by tall forest
trees, with statues and fountains and
all the surroundings of the luxurious
rich; a city of the poor, on the out
skirts of which half-clad gypsies and
naked gypsy babies live in shacks; a
gay city; a pleasure-loving city; a
city where license is said to run riot
and love affairs correspond to those
Of old Rome; city Of fine public
buildings, with a great white palace
In the center; of big banks, with
floors of mosaic and counting rooms
heavily carved; of fine museums-in
short, pretentious, ostentatious,
overdressed municipality in the midst
of a nation of peasants, where the
plain, the simple and the ugly still
hold their sway.
Coming from Belgrade, the capital
of Jugoslavia, and Sofia, the capital
Of Bulgaria, Bucharest strikes one as
exceedingly beautiful. Its modern,
artistic improvements delight the
eye, and it's new asphalt streets, after
the stone roadways and cobbles Of
the Balkan capitals, soothe the soul.
Bucharest has long avenues Of beau
tiful homes. 1t has several large
parks and one great driveway. which
its calls the little Champs Elysees, a
half-mile longer than that between
the Place de la Concorde and the Arc
de Triomphe in Paris. This road is
lined with old forest trees, and a
crowd Of eQuestrians trots back and
forth through the riding paths which
border it.
The pavements are filled with a gay
throng on foot, and on the main
roadway richly-dressed women and
men, in carriages drawn by fine
horses. with coachmen dressed in
green velvet gowns, green velvet
caps and brass belts that shine like
so much gold, are out to see and be
seen. With these are mixed auto
mobiles, the best of the cars of
America moving along with all the
well known makes of Italy, Germany,
England and France.
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The highest priced nurses, and the
highest priced also, are those who
speak English. The people seem to
have a natural talent for learning
LANGUAGES Even the babies speak
EngIish-I mean those who are born
with a silver spoon in their mouths.
4 Nd this brings me to the classes
\ of people. Before the world war
the Rumanians were divided into two
great classes small, rich one,
which owned most Of the country,
lived in great luxury. and had money
to burn; and a very large one, which
had either small patches of land or
toiled for the nabobs. Prior to 1913
more than 100000 acres, or half Of
the cultivated lands. were owned by
1000 proprietors, and the other half
belonged to 6,50e,000 peasants. There
was practically no middle class.
Many of the aristocrats lived in Paris,
and their estates were managed by
agents, mostly Jews. who sent the
profits out of the country.
The government was that Of an
oligarchy, and this is to a large ex-
tent so today. There are nominal
elections. but they mean only the
ousting of one group of big families
and putting in that of another, so
that the peasants are still ground
between the uppe- and neither mill
stones of the aristocracy. 1 am told
that this condition is rapidly chang
ing, and it is safe to say that a gen.
Grafton or so will reduce many of the
hite-collared. silk -shirted states
men of the present to the fur-apped,
cotton-trousered peasants of the fu-
ture.
Today the peasants of Rumania
wear their hsirts outside their trou-
sers and they fall to the knees. Some
of those who affect the new indepen-
dence are beginning to put in thei,
shirts, and this is becoming badge
of advanced political thought ]
would say, however, that the Little
Dickey Deuts are still numbered by
millions.
The basis of the old aristocracy was
land. Many Of the great estates be-
fore the war covered tens of thou
sands of acres. On some of them the
people were practically serfs, and on
many the owners did not farm the
lands, but gave them over to the
peasants, who paid one-half the
produce or money rent. The peas
ants owned most of the livestock
They furnished most of the plows
and other tools, and they erected a
large part of the buildings. When
the great revolution in Russia &C.
Cured and bolshevism seemed about
to sweep over this country, the aris-
tocrats realized that this meant their
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Bucharest is fond of it's title. ''rhe
Little Paris OF the East 1t likes to
think that the trees along this drive
way correspond to those Of the Bois
du BooIogne, and right In the center.
initiating Paris. it has built an arc
de triomphe, which in the distance
looks like a gigantic monument of
pure ivory, but when one nears it he
sees that the ivory is beginning to
peel and that gaping cracks are
spreading apart the foundations. This
monument was built at the time OF
the kings coronation, a few years
ago. 1t Is made of material some-
what like that of which we construct
our buildings for a worlds fair. 1t
cannot last, although it is now under
repair Unkind people say 1t Is a
fair sample of much of the Rumanian
capital-all show on the outside and
but little substantial within.
However that may be, the build
ings here are beautiful. The fine
houses are covered with artistic
carvings that look like stone, but
most of which are shaped with a
trowel. The people love white, and
most of the homes of the rich are
snowlike palaces looking out OF
green trees. There are many build
ings Of Byzantine architecture. with
domes and cupolas and artistic
curves inlaid with colors. In the in
terror of the dwellings the walls are
painted or stenciled rather than pa.
pered, with an effect that Is surpris-
ingly pleasing.
THE stores Of Bucharest make a
good show. They, have we'll
dressed p1ate-glass windows, and the
shops seem splendid to one who has
just come from Russia, Greece or the
Balkans In those countries the signs
over the stores are in letters which
look as though they were chopped
out of the Greek classics. Here the
letters are Latin, the same - we use,
and one can read the inscriptions
He can also make out the news from
the papers and keep track OF the
operas, theaters and moving picture
shows.
All Of the big cities of central Eu-
rope are growing. Berlin has gained
Evening star., 1924-03-16
Chemical "ElementS. "

CHEMICAL science has made such
~ great strides in recent years that
textbooks on the subject become OBJ
solete not long after their publica-
tion, by reason of discoveries that
science. The ATOM" by which the
very formation Of the word means
something that cannot be divided. is
resolved into "corpuscles," OF which
there are many in every atom, NOV
ing in orbits, like the planets OF the
solar system.
Some time ago it was apparently
decided that even the elements"
must 60 An element is something
that cannot be resolved by any
known process into anything more
simple. Thirty years ago there were
sixty-eight known elements Then
came the discovery Of argon, neon.
xenon and krypton; Of helium. which
was recognized as constituent of
the sun, and named, more than fifteen
years before it was found on the
earth; and, finally. radium.
But II the discovery of radium
added one to our lists OF eienents.
the establishment OF the fact of
radio activity, with which that dis
covery was closely connected, has
threatened to demolish the whole the
ory which Is based on the idea that
there are many elements.
Sir William Ramsay, the discoverer
Of argon, succeeded in producing
traces of lithium by treating salts OF
copper with the emanations from
radium. Moreover, it is inferred.
with some reason. from experiments
that have been made, that radium--
an elements the result Of the dis
integration of another element, prob
ably uranium, and that radium itself,
by the loss Of heliunl, another ele-
ment. finally transmutes itself into
lead, still another element.
Yet, again. helium is a product OF
the emanation from radiun1. But
Ramsay found that IL the enianation
is dissolved in water, neon iS the
result; IL in copper sulphate. II is
argon. All there facts seem to tend
in one direction, namely, to give sup-
port to the idea often advanced By
theorists that there is but one eie-
ment, the ultimate particles Of which
whatever we may call theur-are
combined in various ways to make
up the substances which we have
called elements
It Is q homely figure, but one may
iiken the elements to church, a
bridge, q wall and stable. all OF
which may be built Of bricks Alike
in shape and size, but the structures
differ in form and In use. The figure
fails when we suppose the church TO
transform itself into a bridge by
losing some of its bricks. as copper
is degraded into hthipm by losing
some Of It's heIium.
Evening star., 1924-03-16

the house for even minutes a day
for fear they will pu: over something
which he would not Of missed it for
the world
Like for example l had to be away
from home a few hours the other
night in connections with a Get To-
gether Meeting of the Seven Card
Peek League and when / got back the
Mrs. had compelled 4 list OF the fol-
lowing features that had took place
in my absents:
The Importance of Funding the
Inter-Allied Debts.
England's Political Situation from
the syicwpoint of a Defeated Candi-
date
Handy FIashlight Battery Enter
tainerS.
Evening star., 1924-03-16

wish for is to be my own sweet self,
multiplied by fat"
Very WELL" pronounce all those
iunching casts with 81 & grone.
"Si2ce you are so strange about it.
we shall allow you to kill yourself
with your own stew-pans."
Soonly after that they all 60 home.
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! think they was pretty mad, for they
kiss-kiss Mrs. Quackmire 81 times,
which are dangerous sign among
ladies.
when at lastly they was gone I
observe Hon. Mrs. c. W. Quackmire
walking forwards & back while snip
ping her fingers like lion. ! observe
Evening star., 1924-03-16

Mrs. Zeno Grass. s'What she need
are 100o$ worth of refrigerated sun
shine from the office of DR.. Henbane."
''Dr. Spearmfnt's strained excelsior
diet would make a new woman from
her" pronounce Mrs. Eellroar.
Il do not care to be a new woman"
agnosticate Mrs. Quackmire. "All I
Evening star., 1924-03-16
BY RING LARDNER.

TO the editor: Well friends we
finely got one OF these here
radios put in the house and
all my friends is giving me
the hoarse laugh because when radios
first come in style I says not for me
because I never had no trouble spend
ing a evening without help from New
ark and Toronto and further and more
1t is q standing joke in our cozy little
home that whatever we buy Is either
Evening star., 1924-03-16

The square mile under the con-
troll Of the Corporation Of London
contributes one-quarter of the total
income tax collected IN the United
Kipgdom. so : go
Evening star., 1924-03-16

Public Buildings With White Palace
in of of
Walh-iom
er cion o LandsDi Anstocats
Evening star., 1924-03-16

4 CITY of 100000, that had only
~ 100000 at the close of the
~ world war; capital of a
cOunfry az large aS Great
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-19

The little wooden boat that
carried the radio apparatus for
a party Of Government surveyors
on a perilous 3o0-mile trip
through the toughest waters Of
the Colorado river, will feature
the Department Of Interiors ex-
hibit at Washington's first an
nual radio show at Convention
Hall the week Of March 10 to
26. The radio apparatus on this
boat kept the party in constant
touch with world affairs while
cut off from, civilization in the
mighty chasm of the Colorado.
The trip was from Lees Ferry,
Ariz., to Needles, Calf, the last
stretch of the great canyon Of
the Colorado that had not been
surveyed in detail for accurate
mapping purposes. 1t was made
to locate sites at which dams
could be built to utilize the vast
ing waters for flood prevention,
power development and irriga-
ton.
Col. c. H. Birdseye of the Geo
logical Survey, who had charge
Of the expedition, viii lecture on
the exhibit each day Of the show
and explain to the visitors in
detail the experiences of the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-19
Boat Used by Canyon
Explorers to Be Shown
At First Radio Exhibit

survey as well as the part radio
played in making It a success.
In spite OF adverse prophecies
that a radio set could get nothing
In the depths Of the canyon,
Colonel Birdseye points out that
station XIII at Los Angeles was
heard plainly at points where the
canyon is narrow and nearly
i 900 feet deep. From the head
Of Badger Creek rapids, seven
and one-half miles below Lees
Ferry where the party camped
for the first night, down through
the canyon, he said, the radio
outfit was set up from place to
place and received messages
from Los Angeles. Salt Lake
City, San Francisco and on
one occasion from Colorado
Springs.
John ]. F Mulane, who has
been appointed by the show
committee to run the midway
as we'll as a freek radio show.
Urges all persons with novel
exhibits to communicate with
him at room 610 Continental
Trust Company Building. Valu-
able prizes will be awarded to
winners Of a freak radio contest.
The midway will feature dancing
and novelty games.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-19
VACUUM TUBES
HARD TO-SUPPLY.
Shortage Keeps Up, But
Means of SubStitu-
ton Found.

The vacuum tube situation, to-
day, is as serious as it was last
winter.
At that time it was believed
the radio industry would suffer
for lack of this vital element of
the receiver. Advent of spring
apparently caused a slackening
in sale of apparatus. This gave
tube manufacturers a breathing
spell, just long enough to catch
up with back orders.
The popularity of radio through
out last summer and the readi-
ness Of the public to accept radio
as an outdoor as we'll as an in
door sport, undoubtedly helped
use up what little reserve in
tubes was accumulated in the
early spring. An explanation of
the shortage, however. does not
in the least supply the missing
article.
A prominent business man had
burned out one Of his tubes. He
remembered that his Federal re-
ceiver was equipped with special
rheostats to fit any tube. So he
put in a WD-12, jus . to see what
would happen. The scheme
worked-with a six-volt storage
battery, too.
The three-range rheosa with
which a large Buffalo radio man.
ufacturer eQuips their sets is
made in one model with six
different types of tubes to be
used in as many different sockets
Each tube filament is controlled
by a separate rheoStat. This
type rheostat is available at
radio shops.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-19

eminent, will be appointed by
the Commerce Secretary. No
salaries are provided but ex-
penseS in connection with meet
ings are to he paid out of Com
merce Department appropria-
tons.
Broadcsating and other private
stations located within such prox-
unity to governmental stations as
to interfere with Government
business must not operate dur
ing the first fifteen minutes of
each hour. the bill sets forth.
On the other hand. Government
stations located within a hundred
miles of commercial stations,
may not handle commercial traf.
fic.
Divulging of commercial or
private radio communication is
forbidden. All sos or distress
signals are given right of way,
and penalties for transmitting
fraudulent distress signals are
provided.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-19

The $500 worth of prizes be awarded winners in the
freak set contest at the Radio Show display
in the window of the National Electrical Supply Com
pany where they have attracted avid interest Most Of
the prizes were donated by the members of the Radio
Merchants Association Of Washington under whose aus
pices of the show is being staged