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Evening star., 1925-10-23

Answers TO readers questions regard
iuS diet will be given by Winifrcd Stuart
Gibbs food specialist. writer and kc-
turer on nutrition. Questions should be
accompanied by q self-addressed. stamped
envelope as only those OF general interest
VIII be answered IN this column; Others
Every effort will be made to answer
questions promptly. but we .bespeak the
Indulgence OF our readers for any un-
Rvoids le delay. The number of letters
received is large and each must take its
turn.-Address: Winifred stuart Gibbs,
~ West 39th street. New York City.
Evening star., 1925-10-23
Copyright. 1925,

35. Finishes.
sc. Metal.
SO. Girl.
80. An enumeration.
"A. Spanish definite article.
46. Babylonian deity.
Evening star., 1925-10-23
MENU FOR A DAY.
BREAKFAST.
Stewed Prunes.
Hominy with Cream.
Baked Sausages.
Bran Mullins.
Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Fish Chowder.
Crackers.
Orange Crumb Pie.
Tea.
DINNER.
Scotch Broth.
Lamb Chops.
Boiled Sweet Potatoes.
Baked Squash.
Asparagus Salad.
Fruit Tapioca Pudding.
Coffee.
BRAN MUFFINS.

BRAN MUFFTNS.
Two cups coarse unsifted bran
meal, one cup -four. one tea
spoon baking soda, one.half tea
spoon salt, one egg, one.half
cup molasses. one cup sour
milk. Do not have the batter
too stiff or yet too soft. Bake
20 minutes in a moderate oven.
Evening star., 1925-10-23

ORANGE CRUMB PIE.
Pour one and one-half cups
scalded milk over one-half cup
cake crumbs. Let stand five
minutes, beat until smooth and
add one beaten egg, one. sixth
teaspoon of salt. juice OF one
orange, one teaspoon lemon
juice, one-half cup sugar and
grated yellow rtnd of half an
orange. Turn into u pie plate
lined with paste and bake in
moderate oven until firm in cen.
Evening star., 1925-10-23

Y HILE the idealism Of the
young Jews who come
NN from everywhere to settle
Y here is one of the chief
nofn+S nf ipt in n
Evening star., 1925-10-23

There are all sorts of ways of saw
ing, you know-and sometimes the
girls who pride themselves most on
their economy and thrift are, in real
ity, doing the most eXtravagant and
foolish things.
Evening star., 1925-12-03
Ordered to Baltimore.

Maj. Samuel II. Stewart, Coast Ar
tillery Corps, on leave of absence at
Flushing, n. T., has been ordered to
Baltimore for duty at headquarters, Sd
Army Corps Area
Evening star., 1925-12-03
DRIVE FOR CHRISTMAS
SEALS PROGRESSING
0ne-Tenth. Of Quota Expected to
Be Secured Today-Fell Short
Last Year.

According to the mail returns up to
noon today at the Social Service
House. the headquarters of the Christ
mas seal sale campaign Of the Wash
Evening star., 1925-12-03

DIR. j. Stanley Durkee will deliver a
lecture, why Am | Here?" tomorrow
evening at First Baptist Church.
Evening star., 1925-12-03

Maine State Society will meet De-
cember IL, pm, at Thomson
School. Musical and literary program
Evening star., 1925-12-03

The Chevy Chase Circle Of the Child
Conservation League will meet tomor-
row, pm, at the home of the presi-
dent, Mrs. w. e. Springer, Is w. Len
noX street.
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ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES.

The Rector's Aid of st. Margaret s
Church will have a turkey dinner and
bazaar today and tomorrow from to
10 o'clock, to be held in the parish
hall. Dancing tomorrow night.
Evening star., 1925-12-03


tivities. This is the same goal as that
fixed last year. but which then was
not quite reached. as the number of
seals sold fell 10000 short Of the
quota.
In a recent study as to the effec-
tiveness of last years mail sale, Wash.
ington ranked first in the efficiency
Of its mailing list.
Figures reported by the Health De-
partment for the fiscal year ending
June 80. 1925, as compared with the
death rate from consumption 25 years
ago, show saving of 907 lives
through the cutting down of the
death rate from pulmonary tubercu-
losts during the last generation.
The public is familiar with the mod
ern health crusade introduced in the
public schools by the tuberculosis as
ISOLATION, the extension of its nutri-
ton clinics through its child health
education department. it's Sunday bull
letins in the newspapers, which urge
immediate examination on the first
suspicion of the presence of tuber.
culosfs, and its emphasis on the i'm
portance of automatic health inslr-
ance through annual physical exami-
nation for adults as we'll as for chill
dren.
Health for all and safety for each"
continues to be the slogan of this So
ciety. The seals may be had in any
quantity at the headquarters Of the
association. 1922 Eleventh street. and
soon other sales stations will be omen
ed throughout the city,
Evening star., 1925-12-03

Cathedral Heights Citizens Associa-
ton will meet, 8 O'Clock, at St. Adams
Guild Hall.
Evening star., 1925-12-03

Rebekah Lodge. No. 6, /. O. 0. F.,
scheduled for tomorrow night, has
been postponed indefinitely.
Evening star., 1925-12-03

morrow, 2 pm, at Mount Vernon
Place NJ. E. Church. South. Bring
Testaments and Bibles for logging
camps.
Evening star., 1925-12-03

turkey dinner will be served by
the Ladies' Aid Society of the Rhode
Island Avenue NJ. p. Church today
and tomorrow evening from to Z
O'Clock. A Christmas bazaar will be
held in the Sunday school room from
to 10 O'Clock
Evening star., 1925-12-03

Alpha Delta Phi will hold luncheon
at the Franklin Square Hotel tomor-
row afternoon at 1890 o'clock.
Evening star., 1925-12-03

The Presidents Own Garrison
NO. lO4, Army and Navy Union, will
meet, o'clock. in boardroom OF the
officers
Evening star., 1925-12-03

A Christmas bazaar will be held in
parish hall of the Church of the
TRANSPORTATION. Gallatin street. Light
supper served from to 6 o'clock.
To be repeated tomorrow.
Evening star., 1925-12-03
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF,

The Stearns Bible class will meet to-
morrow, ] pm, at Mount Vernon M.
r.. Church. Rev. X. B. Moomaw will
be in charge
me "0mans InterdenominationaJ
Missionary Federation will meet TO.
Evening star., 1925-12-03

The Tivoli Pastime Club will give
d oance In private ballroom of the
Arcade, o'clock. Visitors welcome
Evening star., 1925-12-03

Columbia Camp. No. 1923, Modern
Woodmen of America. Will meet for
election of officers, Pythian Temple
Usual campaign refreshments.
Evening star., 1925-12-03

The National Fellowship Club will
give an informal dance in rose room
OF Washington Hotel. Visitors vel
come.
Evening star., 1925-12-03

lngtOn i uDerculO-
sis Association. A 1t
was fully expect
ed that the record
would show today
cash received for
at lea ST $50. 900
seals, or one-tenth
Of the quota
which the local
association has set
as its minimum
goal for the con-
tinuance Of it's
y-or r;o,,r l,oaItA
Evening star., 1925-12-03

The annual visitation OF Miriam
Evening star., 1925-12-03

The fourth of a series of free lee
lures on social service will be held
under auspices Of Sodality Union. in
conjunction with the Catholic Char
tiles. o'clock, at Col Z street The
speaker will be Dom Benedict Brosna-
han. and his subject: Some Ethical
Problems of Service to Others" Pub.
lie invited.
Evening star., 1925-07-26

the tuning unit, 1t was then led to the
grid OF the detector tube, with a grid
leak and grid condenser placed in be-
tween. The fllament OF the tube was
then lighted with single dry cell
while the phones were connected into
the plate circuit along with a 22h.
volt 'B" battery.
We hooked up the receiver and
found that 1T worked fairly we'll on a
local station. But improvement was
obviously necessary.
Smith Puzzled About Tubes.
Now how do we add more tubes
and anplification7" Smith asked.
"It would be simpler to change the
circuit, wouldn't it?' I answered.
He hadn't considered refiextng or
adding regeneration as improving the
set. To him 1t was always a matter
OF adding some fixed units, probably
because he had seen a neat and com.
plete one-stage audio-frequency ampli.
fcation unit in an accessory store
window.
The single-circuit, single-tube re.
ceiver was soon converted into a two.
circuit regenerative receiver by in.
serting a vartometer into the plate cir.
cult. It was also necessary to change
the wire to the grid, so that 1t lead
from the antenna lead-fn instead of
from the variometer of the aerial.
ground circuit, and to make a few
other changes in accordance with the
needs Of the circuit. But with these
comparatively few changes the set
was greatly improved. though very
little actually had been added.
Now we've got regenerative re-
ceiver that will surely annoy the
neighbors, but it illustrates the way to
go about adding to set" I explained
by adding principles as well as parts
we keep on until we have a set that
is highly advanced and, accordingly
highly satisfactory. It Is a far cry
from adding to the set In the way you
proposed"
well. anyway" Smith admitted
I've added something to my store OF
radiology. That's what countsn'
Next week, No. 81: Circuiting the
Circuits.
Copyright. 1925 by the Gilman Feature
Service.)
Evening star., 1925-07-26
DEAD ZONE" TEST
MACMILLAN'S RADIO
Short Wave, Reinhartz Hopes, Will
Penetrate Auroral Band-Ama-
teurs' Aid Asked.

The Macmillan Arctic explorers are
expected this week to enter the
auroral band, into which no radio mes
sage has ever been known to enter
and from which no message has ever
been received.
To maintain communication with the
world is the big task John L, Rein
artz, jr,, operator for the expedition,
has set for himself. BY means Of the
radio equipment that he has perfected
especially designed for this work,
RetnartZ hopes to send from the
steamer Bowdoin the first wireless
the auroral band and to pick up the
words and coded messages that come
into the band from the United States.
Prize Offered Amateurs.
The secret, Reinartz believes, lies in
the short wave, and in an effort TO
prove his theory the young engineer
has enlisted the support Of many
radio amateurs throughout the United
States, Australasia and Europe. A
prize has been offered to the amateur
who lends the greatest help in pick
ing up messages from the dead zone. :"
Last year on the BoWdoin's cruise
two-day communication with North
America was maintained fairly con
stantly except when the ship was in
this auroral banda region Of never
ending daylight covering approx
mately 8 degrees.
While the ships are in that region
this year the wireless transmitters
probably will be worked almost con
tinuousl.r throughout the "a hours in
an effort to pierce the great silent
spaces of the North.
Evening star., 1925-07-26
NEWS
KEEPS RADIO BUSY
Station in California Gets
Message Mixed With One
of Pacific Fleet.

News from the Navy. Macmillan ex-
pedition for the United States is caus-
ing flood OF radio messages to MEM
Der stations Of the American Radio
Relay League throughout the United
States and Canada. Some OF the more
active stations handle several hun
dred words each from WNP and
WAP, the short-wave stations on the
Bowdoin and Peary. Messages to
friends and relatives Of the members
of the expedition, news dispatches TO
the National Geographic Society from
Donald B. Macmillan, reports to the
Navy Department here, all swell the
total Of traffic that these amateur
stations handle.
Several unique events have marked
the reception of the two stations
since their entrance into the northern
seas. The Antipodes have reported
with station FAC in New Zealand,
owned and operated by /. H OMeaha
of Osborne. acknowledging receipt OF
some Of the messages from WAP.
This station has picked up signals
practically every night since the ex.
pedition first reached Newfoundland
waters.
Messages Tangled.
From California comes the report
of L. Eldon Smith, district superfn-
tendent of the American Radio Relay
League, with station 6BUR at Whit
tier, that his reception Of message
from the Macmillan expedition on
40,meter wave length got tangled with
one from NRRL, the 40-meter expert
mental station operated by Lieut.. F.
H. Schnell, traffic manager OF the
league, on board the U. 8. 5. Seattle,
flagship Of the Pacific feet.
At that particular time the Navy
Macmillan expedition was skirttng the
Labrador coast and the Seattle was
steaming about 1000 miles south of
Honolulu.
From still another part Of the world,
London, England, comes the word that
J. A. Partridge of station 2KF had
carried on communication with WNP
on July 12. r. Bartholomew Of Gar
rachales. Porto Rico, owner Of station
ASA, also carried on regular traffic
with this record-breaking short-wave
station.
Voice Tests Heard.
Voice tests over WAP have been
heard in a large number of stations.
with the best results reported by
Austin Wheeldon Of Ellsworth. Me-;
w. C. MONTGOMERY, jr., of Memphis.
H.,
Converse, Ind. B. II. Taylor of Haver-
hill, Mass, failed to get the voice tests
clearly but reported that they were
made when the expedition was at
Hopedale, Labrador.
The greater part Of the traffic be.
tween WNP and WAP and this coun-
try has been handled with fine speed.
Stations that have made consistent
records of several hundred words each
day over extended periods are 1MY,
Donald c. S. Comstock. East Hart
ford, Conn; 1CKP. G. H. Pinney of
South Manchester, Conn; 2BGG, E. H.
Keeper Of Elmhurst Manor, New York;
8DW, z. B. Duvall of Mount Rainier,
Md; NKF, Naval Radio Station at
Belleville, Nd; INK, headquarters
radio station of the American Radio
Relay League. and sBKR, ]. M. Meyer,
Milwaukee. Wis.
Evening star., 1925-07-26
No. 20: Adding to the Set.

Smith was struggling through what
radio fans recognize as bad radio
weather" 1t was only natural that he
should look into the possibilities OF
making the set more useful by enlarg-
ing 1t. A point that he hadn't taken
into consideration, however. was that
the manufacturer of the set had al.
ready considered these points.
You can't add stage of audio.
frequency amplification to your set.
l said, because that would just re.
suit in distortion. You are using two
audio-frequency tubes and two audio-
frequency transformers. That's two
stages OF audio amplification, and they
are sufficient"
but I thought that If could am.
plify some Of these faint signals get,
my receiver would be more useful be-
cause it would operate just as well
when everything Is in its favor,
Smith argued.
Another stage Of amplification
would enable you to make some OF
these faint signals very audible. but
unless you want pure noise wouldn' I
advise you to try it. You'll be ampli-
flying static, interference, battery and
tube noises as WELL
Smith, however, was still deter
mined to try additional amplifcation
but / managed to save him some
trouble by suggesting that he start
improving his sons crude set, develop
ing 1t into q portable affair for the
car. He agreed that it might not be
good policy to change the circuit of
his high-grade, we'll built set, for he
could never do such skillful soldering
nor lay out the units with such care.
Goes Back to First Principles.
This took him right back to first
principles, but as usual 1t started him
on the road to a better conception OF
the mystery Of radio. The boys set
was so elemental that Smith at once
recalled how absurd IL was to regard a
stage Of audio-freQuency amplification
as the one important way to add to
the set. When he examined the one
tube set, he readily saw that adding to
a set might mean changing the circuit
tuning the circuits with variable con
densers, installing a grid leak. adding
more tubes, adding transformers. sub
stituting better transformers, and &C
on.
Smith had some stock radio units
on hand, so that simplif1ed the process
Of adding TO the small set. We al
first discarded the two-sltde tuning
coll, which the boy had made himself
We then inserted variometer in the
antenna-grCund circuit, and also q
variable condenser. Smith recalled
that the variometer was merely f1xet
coil with a rotor coil connected ir
series. The current had to trave
through both coils, and by turning tn,
rotor the inductance could be varied
This enabled Smith to tune for the
proper, wave length. The variable
condenser, of course, attended to the
| matter of capacity. --
! After the current passed through
Evening star., 1925-07-26
American Radio Memorial.

Radio fans and amateurs when in
New York City should visit the unique
wireless memorial down on the Bat
terry, near the Barge office. 1t was
erected by the Radio Corporation of
America in memory Of radio operators
lost at sea while standing by at their
posts Of duty. The list includes 10
stuck by their keys, sending out sos
calls or handling communications
with answering ships. Most of them
shared with the captains that sacred
tradition of the sea-being last to
leave the doomed ship or going down
with 1t.
The memorial comprises a large
fountain and stone monument
flanked by classical stone benches on
either side. A tablet on the front of
the monument carries the inscription
in memory of the lost operators, the
lists of the men being carved on the
other three sides.
The first name on the front is that
of Jack Phillips, operator on board
the s. s. Titanic, which sank after
hitting the iceberg in April. 1912.
Phillips. it is reported. had difficulties
with his apparatus and worked prac-
tically night and day prior to the ac-
cident in an effort to keep in touch
ship he had succeeded in getting in
touch with the Carpathia. Although
rescued when the vessel sank, he died
shortly afterward from exposure, due
chiefly to his exhausted condition.
Ferdinand ]. Kuehn, operator of
the S. 8. Monroe, which sunk in the
Atlantic in January, 1914, might have
survived had he retained his life pre-
server. 1t seems that shortly after
he had sent his distress call the cap
tain ordered all to abandon ship.
Kuehn. strapped on a life preserver
and was ready to leave when a woman
passenger asked him where she could
get a drink of ice water. Urging her
to forego the drink. kuehn noticed
she had no life preserver and offered
her his own. This she took and was
soon safely seated in one of the ships
boats. Kuehn, however, either never
had time to find another or could not
locate one and was lost. The then
Secretary of Commerce, William c..
Redfield, in a letter to the boy s
mother commended his heroism.
life while on duty, as recorded by the
inscriptions, was George c. Eccles
Of the s. s. Ohio, which foundered
off the Pacific Coast in August, 1909.
The next record is that of the lost
car ferry, Pere Marquette, which
sank in Lake Michigan in 1910, carry
ing Stephen F. Sczepanek, the radio
operator, to the bottom.
Two operators were lost in the Pa
cific in 1913 Donald Campbell
Perkins, who sank with the S. S.
State of California, and Lawrence
Prudhunt, on the S. S. Rosecrans.
Evening star., 1925-07-26
STRIKERS VICTORY SEEN
Judge Unwilling to Enjoin Tailors
From Picketing.

CHICAGO, July 25 CP.-A victory
for labor and peaceful picketing" was
indicated in the statement by Cir.
cult Judge Hugo Pam, who is
hearing the petition of the 1nterna.
tional Tailoring Co. for an injunction
restraining 400 strikers from picket.
ing its plants, that nothing had been
introduced thus far in the hearing to
Justify issuing an Injunction.
The tailoring company's petition is
the first to be asked since the passage
by the last Illinois legislature Of a bill
legalizing peaceful picketing by men
on strike. The hearing is considered a
test case.
Attorneys for the company based
their plea on the theory that no
picketing is peaceful and that any
picketing interferes with the enjoy,
ment of the property under surveil
lance.
Evening star., 1925-07-26
TESTS ARE ARRANGED.
Value of Superpower for Broad
casting to Be Tried Out.

NEW YORK, July 25 GP.-Tests of
the value of superpower in radio
broadcasting will be made today, next
Tuesday and Thursday by station
WGY, Schenectady, N. Y, Martin p.
Rice, broadcasting manager Of the
General Electric Co., announced yes.
terday. The power to be used will be
sc, 900 watts, 100 times as great as the
power used by the average station.
and the greatest power ever trans.
mitted by any station.
The programs will begin at mid
night and last for one hour. and will
be sent through WXAG, one of the
experimental licenses issued to the
company. using a 379.5-meter wave
length. Special listening posts have
been established in this country and
abroad. Investigators hope to learn If
the high power will ride over the
prevalent midsummer static.
Evening star., 1925-07-26
LOCAL STATIONS CONFLICT
Sharing of One Wave Length Pre-.
sents Problem In Air.

Washington, with its one broad
casting wave-elngth. shared by two
Glass B stations, one operated by the
Radio Corporation of America and
the other coming under the Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany. is threatening to present a
problem for the Department of Com
merce to settle.
Recently the A. r. & r. station,
WCAP, has been using only about
two hours of each of its three eve-
nings. Seeing the opportunity to
introduce additional features, the Ra-
dio Corporation station booked late
concerts for its off evenings after
the other station had said good night
This week after WRC had announced
one of it's late concerts WCAP re-
manned on the air until midnight,
necessitating cancellation of WRC's
program. Both of the stations deny
that there Is any hard feeling.
Evening star., 1925-07-26
Why You Should Not Force Your
Vacuum Tubes.-Part III.

Another curve which shows some
interesting facts about vacuum tube
operation is the plate voltage against
relative audibility curve when the wv
I9s or C-2ss tube is used as a detector.
You will notice from the curve
shown in Figure 1 that the relative
audibility increases as the plate volt.
age increases. 1t would seem that the
most logical thing to do would be to
increase the plate voltage as much as
possible so as to get maximum re-
sponse. That Is exactly the way 1t
works out. and the more you increase
the plate voltage the greater will be
the response. Do not jump at con-
clusions, however, until you see the
other side of the picture.
Evening star., 1925-07-26

with the added advantage of lessened
distortion, the plate current or drain
on the battery has been cut down
to about half what 1t was before
merely by using a cheap little c bat
terry to put a negative bias on the
grid.
to one-half appeals to you. my advice
to you Is to get a c battery connected
into your circuit.
Evening star., 1925-07-26

GRID Vo 1T.
Fig 8

At 40 volts plate voltage the re-
sponse is very good, but 1t is by no
means the maximum obtainsble. 1t is
readily seen that at 20 volts greater
audibility Is obtained. Now let US
consider what happens to plate cur
rent consumption as the plate voltage
Is increased, the filainent voltage, ETC.,
remaining constant, as before.
Plate Voltage Shown.
The curve for plate voltage against
plate current is plotted in Figure 2.
You will notice that at 40 volts plate
voltage the plate circuit draws slightly
over l milliampere. At 10 volts, how.
ever. the plate current jumps to
slightly over 3 milliamperes, or almost
three times the value when a voltage
Of 40 volts is used on the plate.
This means that the greater drain
imposed continually on the B battery
will allow 1t to last much less than
one-third Of the time that 1t would
last IL a plate voltage Of only 20 volts
was used
If you consider that the extra vol
ume is worth the price, that again is
your affair. But II you are Of an
economical turn OF mind and do not
care to be handing money over the
dealers counter so often, you will
take my advice and be contented with
slightly less volume.
C Battery May Help.
If you are using the tubes as audio
ampliflers and have never thought II
worth while to use q c battery, per.
haps a glance at the curve shown in
Figure will convince you that 1t is
better to buy 60-cent c battery than
to replace block Of s0-volt B bat.
teries.
This curve shows the relation exist
ing between grid voltage and plate
current, the fllament voltage and plate
voltage remaining the same.
You will notice that at zero grid
voltage the current drain in the plate
circuit is about nilliamperes. with
a negative bias Of as volts, the cur.
rent drain drops down to slightly over
milliamperes. or almost half the for.
mer value. Without decreasing e,gnal
strength. and. as a matter of fact,