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Evening star., 1925-05-12
REAL AR|STOCRACY
IS FOUND IN CIRCUS
Ringing Arena Produces
Artists Boasting Descent
From Former Stars.

One hears a great deal of the ariS-
tocracy of the stage, but little of the
aristocracy of the "sawdust arena.
And vet there is a real aristocracy be
meath the white tops"
Il saw you the other night" said
a young woman in a group that met
Rose Reiffenach of the Handsome
HungarianS' after a recent perform
ance of the Ringing Brothers and
Barnum & Baily Circus. Il think you
are a really great equeStrienne.
Maternal GRANDMOTHER Star.
Thank YOU" replied Mile. Reiffen-
ach. My maternal grandmother was
really great artist. And my sister.
AIitzi, rides better than | do" The
flash in her eyes denotes the great
pride she felt in her lineage.
There are circus performers whose
first Fairgrounds were the old earth
banked rings. The performer who
cannot go back at least two genera
tions in his circus ancestry is a mere
f1edgling.
With the Ringling and Barnum and
Bailey Circus are a great many per-
formers who trace their ancestry
from two to eight genera tions. May
Wirth. the famous somersaulting
equestrienne, comes of a noted family
of riders. SO does Mile. Jenny
Rooney. The remarkable Nelson
family, consisting of father, mother,
six daughters and a son, are the de-
scendantS of three generations of the
worlds greatest acrobats.
Others In Noted List.
The Hannafords have descended
from a family of noted riders. The
father of the famous Clarkonians of
the flying trapeZe owned a travelling
circus in England fifty years ago.
Jules Turnour, dean of the hundred
clowns and almost as old as Dig
Eledy Dan" of story book fame, is of
the sixth generation of "Joeys."
There are more than 500 man and
woman performers with the big show
Evening star., 1925-05-12
ALEXANDRIA.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, May II (Spe:
ciaD.-Members of the National Edi-
torial Association win visit Alexandria
June IS in connection with their tour
of the historic points of interest in the
State following the annual convention
in Richmond June l. The delegates,
representing papers from every sec
tion of the United States, will earlier
in the day visit Washington. After
the visit to Alexandria and other his.
toric points nearby the convention
will adjourn. A committee of 30 is to
be named to arrange for entertain
ment. A. l.. Reynolds is chairman.
Evening star., 1925-05-12
DIES AFTER PHYSICIAN
SEWS UP HIS HEART
Colored Man Stabbed by Woman
He Was to Have Married
Survives Only "a Hours.

The delicate operation performed by
DR.. Harry Lewis, in which three
stitches were taken TO close a stab
wound in the heart of Clarence Car
ter, colored, 10 years old, of 1926 +
street, Saturday, failed to save his
life. Garter died Sunday noon at
Emergency Hospital, having lived -
hours after the operation.
Carter was stabbed in the heart
it is charged. by Ada Simpson, sc
years old, Of 1749 F street. who was
to be- married Saturday night to Car.
ter. She was held today by cor
oner's jury for. action of the Distric 4
grand jury
Evening star., 1925-05-12

Again this year we publish bigger, greater
White Roll Call. 1t is the most convincing
performance document In the field of
motor transportation. 1t is indisputable
evidence of White Truck leadership.
Here, in open book, is the transportation
history of S37 of the country's foremost
truck owners-in all lines of business, all
loca 31,093 Whites of all
models in fleets of 10 or more.
1t shows an increase of 80 owners and 1927
trucks over last years record. Normal
business changes, mergers and reorganiza-
Evening star., 1925-05-12
THE WHITE COMPANY
CLEVELAND

Let send you free the complete White Roll Call book
let, tracing the building of these great While fleets year
by year The Roll Call has been grolUine steadily for
IS years. Write The White Company. Cleoeiand-or
request it of the branch office dealer near you.
Evening star., 1925-05-12

tons have caused few fleets to decrease
and others to lose their original ownership
identity.
In addition to the owners on the Roll Call,
tens of thousands of owners operate White
fleets of less than 10 or single Whites.
There are more White Trucks in service
than trucks of any other high-grade make.
We say again, as we said in 1924 no
other truck manufacturer has ever pub
lished such volume of evidence of unin-
terrupted service at low cost. No other
truck manufacturer can.
Evening star., 1925-05-12
MANY PAY TRIBUTE.

ST. PAUL, Mimi. May Il tA.P1.-
Prominent members of the bar. includ-
ing Frank b. Kellogg, Secretary of
State, today attended the funeral
services for Cordenio \. Severance OF
st. Paul, former president of the
Evening star., 1925-05-12
Dental Hygienists Meet.

The Dental Hygienist Association of
the District held it's monthly meeting
last Wednesday at the home of Miss
Nathalie Ostlund. The main topic was
the selection of a uniform pin for the
graduate hygienist. The social was
enjoyed with dancing and singing.
Evening star., 1925-05-12

Appropriations were made yesterday
by the board of directors of the Cham
ber of Comerce to increase the size
and efficiency of the credit system of
the Retail Merchants Club. -Four new
members were elected, James Jaffe,
Frank W.-NiXon, Robert Elliott and
b. H. Apter The clubrooms of the
chamber have been renovated. and a
vote of thanks was extended the com
mittee in charge, which was headed by
Claude w. Fletcher.
Morse Decree To Be Entered.
-Four years of litigation may end
Friday, when Judge Edmund Wa9dill
is scheduled to file a final decree in
the Virginia Shipbuilding Company
Evening star., 1925-05-12

American Bar Association, who died
last week at Pasadena, Calf. Serv-
ices We're held at Cedarhurst. the 500
acre estate of the Severance family at
Cottage Grove. near here.
Evening star., 1925-05-12

More than a third of the rubber
boots manufactured in the United
Evening star., 1925-05-12
Leaving POhick Church.

Rev. A. Campbell Fucker, for three
years rector of historic Pohick
Church, where George Washington
worshiped, has resigned to take
charge of Christ Church Episcopal
School in Middlesex County. The
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-24
Real Irish Names
For Irish Forces

! DuBEfN,s Aug. as.-Pians ha9s
been completed for .supsfsesing
British names .sfor eemponents of
tho Irish. Free State Gr,ty with
Hames of purely Irish origin, 8;
The miiitary barracks at Dublin,
for instance, are henccforth to be
knowp as Griffith and Collins bar
racks W eommemoration of the late
Arthur sGriffith and Michael Col
ii,,s, EHgfish ,Ifalacs. sucip MS the
Royal, Wellingto,r, Richmond, Vic.
toria, regiments, etc., under the plan
will now be known as the O'Tools,
O'Briens, O'Neils, O'Connors, Mac
Mahons, O'Brynes, there being n
sufficient number of distinetively
Irish elan names to go the round.
Robert Emmett, Daniel O'Con-
nell, ParneH, and many other names
distinguished in Irish history are
also down in the plan for use in
connection with the designation of
military depots, and contingents of
the army.
The strength of the Irish Free
State army now stands ut 27 battal-
ions with enrollment of $4,000 Off
GERS and men.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-24
COMMUNICATIONS BY
RADIO WITH OTHER
PLANETS BARRED
by Press staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Aug. ra4.-The
earth is forever barred from COM
munieating by radio with other
planets, according to discovery
announced by the navy department.
An impervious layer of electrically
charged molecules surrounds the
earth S atmosphere like the skin OF
an orange, and through i, wireless
waves cannot pass.
What the world loses in extend
ing its knowledge Of the universe
by this discovery it gains, however,
an increased efficiency of terrestrial /
wireless communication. The know.
ledge of the existence of the oiniz.
ed layer ails immeasurably in the
solution IF many radio problems
aid, according to the department.
should cut the cost of radio trans.
aiISsion to tn. :,action of its Pres
ent expense.
so far as the discovery has been
.:rplied, IL affects only dot and
G,;sh transmission. not raiio bread
tlsting OF vo -.
The layer is described as "a plane
of maximum density at varying
heights above the surface of the
earth dcrending upon tn. ccaslcss
biIlowiig Cf the atmospheric enNc.
lopc that surrounds the globe. Its
maximum height should not be above
800 miles, the outermost limits of
hydrogen gas and probably is be-
4 y that.
When Il radio wave is dispatched
from Il station, according to an ex-
p!anation of how the layer works,
;he elec:'p magnetic Wa 70 shoots
sky-wa', until it hits tins layer,
whence It rebounds 20 the cartl; or
travels along the earth like sound
waves under the vault of q dome,
another branch Of
the same wave 'scoots <'tcr: the
earth for u distance.
Scientists experimenting with
short wave lengths radio transDiis.
sion have hecn bafflel by the Pc
culiar behavior of these waves. Sig
Of about 80 or 81 miles when they
would disappear ana con!d not AGAIN
oe heard until points hundreds OF
miles distant picked them mp. These
intervals Of silence oecams known
Il, skip-di: tanee.
lrom experiments, i: was deter
lli,a.d- that 1.-The two " ives existed.
one that f:.. along 81 earth and
one wkich ran a.ors the dense up
rr layer. From these experiments
climates If the Cf,.. t.v, height
Of the layer were made, these esti-
mates being essentially in agree.
ment with the estimates derived
from observations on the skip dis
lance.
With the present knowledge Of the
subject, high frequency transmits
sion stations can be built for $780,
coo. Similar stations with poorer
service and higher operating costs,
built on the old plan, cost s2,oO0,-
300.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-24
NO LABOR PARTY

"No aid comfort will be given those who seek
to launch third party movements" With this
nouncement from the American Federation of Labor,
has ended short excursion into party politics by
great labor organization which previously had refrain
ed from party alignment.
The Federation is not going to keep out of poll
tics. makes clear but is going to its old pol
icy of seeking to accomplish its purposes through the
existing parties by membership in them and influence
with them instead of adopting starting any other
party. This means that in the immediate future, as
in the past there will not be any separate labor party
in America acting big factor in national politics,
there is in many other countries.
1t is an American decision for the American way
OF doing things. Political parties abroad largely
economic groups seeking their special interests.
American parties whatever their faults and weakness
es, have been far nearly crosssectons of the
ton seeking the welfare of far greater number and
processing more genuine patriotism.
The practical results too, are usually good or
better than those obtained abroad by specialized
parties. When labor for example, does not start out
to fight powerful parties rival those parties
less likely to fight labor There legislation and adj
ministraton advantageous to ALL with less strength
wasted in mere fighting.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-24
LOWER WATER LEVELS

&FCanadians all along the Great Lakes are comment
ing on the low water level. The phenomenon is
marked especially in such regions Georgian Bay,
who're slight variations of level make big difference
in transportation and sport. Many islands formerly
separated by water now Joined by land. Rocks
and bars have risen from the water in thousands of
places ~ $@st .a<
The difference is likewise evident to observers
along the southern shore of the whole big system of
lakes and rivers, from Duluth to Montreal. Dozens of
lake ports the American side have found channels
inadequate, and dredging necessary. Small docks
everywhere are standing at awkward height above
the water. Countless little bays and agoons have
dried up.
IT may be exceptional year, series of years,
regards weather and rainfall But everywhere the
phenomenon is blamed mainly the Chicago drainage
canal The entire population surrounding the Great
Lakes will rejoice when the heavy loss of water from
Lake Michigan into the Mississippi is reduced And
the experience should be warning along every navig
able body of water in the country, not to tamper
duly with natural water levels.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-24
RADIO ACTIVITY
CITED AS CURE
FOR JAP QUAKE
by United Press Leased Wire

TOKYO. Aug. 24.--Radio activity
is leading cause of earthquakes
and other seismic disturbances, ac-
cording to a theory brought for
ward by DE. Nakamura, ,seismologi-
cal. expert AND professor in, the I'M
pcrial University.
Nakamura li;ts Just completed q
stir1y OF the lSan.iu district, where
severe qu,ikcs took place this
.spting ,qpda soon will publish bro
.ehufe on the 'reIation Of radio active
hot springsTin this area to the earth
trcmors. -
~ Says Earth Expanding
According to the Nakamura theory
the earth instead of constantly con
tracing rs it cools toward the cen
ter, is exraisling because of radio
which sefs up an internal
pressure. 1t is this pressure from
thc interior of the earth outward
which causes disasters such as the
Toyooka quakes in May in which
more than 200 were killed.
The theory is described, by such
widely known seismologists as Drs.
lmamura and Yamazaki, who assert
the Toyooka disaster and all other
earthquakes in Japan are correctly
ascribed to disloeations of earth, US
ually in the great faults which ex-
ist on the bottom of the sea ut many
points. off the Japanese coast.X "
What IS become of the monkey
gland discovery? You don't see
many old men stealing apples. =
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-24
Giants on Guard,
Buried Alive, Is
WOrkmen's Belief
ny United Press Leased Wire

Il a a. q
TOXIC, Aug. 24.-The gruesome
myth of the human pillar" has
been verified by unearthing OF
skeletons in the grounds of the I'M
perial Palace in Tokyo.
,Workmerl repairing the ancient
citadel IN the Nijubashi were hor-
rified to uncover the skeletons OF
number Of giant men standing guard
IL feet below the surface OF tha
earth, to protect the fortificarlon.
The skeletons were taken as vcri-
fication of the tradition Of the
"human pillar" Il superstition of
ancient Nippon. 1t was custom,
according to mythology, to sacrifice
human beings upon beginning cree
ton of fortress. Living bodies of
the strongest men of the nation
were buried in the belief their
strength would be impaired to the
building.
News Of the discovery was kept
secret by the government but leak
cd out when workmen who had
found them repeated the tale. The
skeletons ferc turned over to the
Toxic Imperial University for ex-
animation and burial.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-24
Pastor Restores
Peace to Herrin

HERRIN, ILL.,, Aug. 22.-- Harsh
words and gun toting have given
away to psalm reading and Bible
carrying. in this section -once
known as bloody Williamson coun-
ty.' sf-
And Howard s. Williams, tall and
peppcry evangelist, once newspap-
erman, is hailed as, the peace nego-
tiator.
Williams, who halls from Hatties-
burg, Miss, came here some three
months after the last memorable
street duel, in which Glenn Young,
Ora Thomas and two other men had
been shot down. Theirs was just
another chapter of the period of
hate which has swept, the county
since 1922.
Revival Services
Williams opened Il small revival
service, as many another evangelist
had done. The town at first paid
little attention to this stranger who
spoke of the brotherhood of man. -
But as Williams unlimbered the
crowd increased. Klan and anti
klan supporters both started attend
ing the tabernacle where Williams
held sway. The conversions began
to mount.
Then one day Williams surprised
everyone by walking into the lobby
of the cigar store where Glenn
Young had fought his last battle.
With very few words the evangelist
started his little group of helpers
to singing, hylnn.' There was u
brief talk and II prayer.
After that Hcrrin aud Williamson
county belonged to the youthful
evangelist. Stores closed at noon
for an hour so that everyone could
attend the noon day services, The
night services were packed.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-24
Bedtime Stories
BY HOWARD E. GARIS
Copyright, 1928, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicats
UNCLE WIGGILY's IcIcLEs

"Oh dear sighed little Weezie
the bunny rabbit child.
'.What S the matter!'' asked he
twin brother, Wizzie. They were sit
ting in the long, green grass behint
Upcle Wiggily's hollow stump bun
galow, trying to keep ial the shade OF
a large toadstool.
Its so hot!'' complained Weezit
81 wish | didn I have to wear fun
all summer us well as all winter.
"But fur is nice and warm when
| tie cold winter winds blow and the
ground is covered with snow spoke
| Wizzic. "And, besides. our fur lsn I
as thick and warm in summer as 1t is
when cold weather comes.
ats warm enough - sighed
Weezic, land IN SO hot-aren I
you.
Wizzic said he was, and then he
hoped up from beneath the toad,
stool and looked around.
"What are you looking for! =
asked his sister.
~ thought maybe Daddycums
Uncle WiggiIy might be bringing
Us some ice cream cones, said VIZ
z.c. "That would cool lis off. >
"Oh dear. would love to be
cool. but IN SO hot said Ncezic
again, and just then Il jolly, laugh
ins voice cried:
"Who is hot. Who would like to
BE- cool?'
"Wc are. We would!'' answered
the rabbit children and up Eopped
Uncle Wiggilv himself, his pink
nose twinkling just as happily on
this hot day us if it were Christ
mac.
well. it is hot, agreed the bun
nv gentleman. "But II YOU two viii.
just close your eyes for 4 little while
when | tel you TO open them again
you will be nice and cool!' -
"Oh, happiness! cried Weczie.
and at once she closed her eyes,
while her brother did the same
thing. Then Uncle Wiggily hoped
around until he found some queer,
long, thing. crooked sticks. Next
he broke off the stem of a milkweed
plant and when the white juice, or
sap, oozed cut, the bunny painted
the sticks white with the miikwecd.
"Now II sprinkle some salt on
while the milkweed plant is still
wet, - whispered Uncle Wiggily to
himself, land the sticks wall look
just like freezing cold icicles. III
hang them around the edge of the
toadstool and when Weezie ami Wiz
zic open their eyes and see them
thev will think they are real ieicles
and they will be cool! y
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-24

Soon the queer white sticks were
dangling fro mthe toadstool. and
Uncle W;ggily laughed as he
stretched ont on the ground beside
the little bunnies and closed his eyes.
Il IL make believe awaken when
they do and pretend to be surprised
too,' he chuckled.
Well. the funny part of it was that
when Weezie and Wizzie closed
their eyes they went to sleep. And
when Uncle Wiggily closed his eyes
he, also, went to sleep. And while
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-24
Fish Dynamited
In Two Sierra
Mountain Lakes
by United Pre.s Leased Wire

TRINITY CENTER, Calf, Mug.
24.-lNearly all the trout i'll two
Sierra mountain lakes have been
dynamited and game wardens were
investigating, it was learned here
today.
The dynamiting was in Lake Hol-
land and Granite Lake, each about
half mile in diameter, located high
in the Sierras near the Siskiyoll
county line.
Trout were ruthlcssly slaughtered
by the thousands in the dynamiting
and large number of the dead fish
were left in the water.
No clews to the perpetrators have
vet been uncovered.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-24
PARROT !, Is FOUND =
AS TEMPERAM MENTAL
AS AN OPERA STAR
by Uuit-a press Le,.Sd5 Svar

BY unft~a Pres1 Lcsa<d1 tvirr
LOS, ANGELES, Aug. ga par.
rot may be just at tempcrmcntal
as an opera star.
Garnet Holme, director of the
pageant play of San juan Cnpistra-
no, aiseeNeyedr this.SheA hns atAamPts
ed tosstar holm, ,xhefmissios pet, in
the production. 'N 50
Holme had Lola taken from her
cage and placed on an improvised
perch on the stage. Lola would
not stay put. After many attempts
to have the bird keep its position,
Home gave it up.
"Let me try said Mrs. Henry
Herbert, who appears in the play.
The reward for her efforts was an
ugly bite in the arm.
Lola won t appear in the show.
The lumber mill business in Clacka
mas County, Oregon, lost money this
year and fires have added to the
losses.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-24
BARRIERS DESERT
MEN TO SHINGLE
WOMEN'S HI A / r
By United Press Leased Wire

LONDON, Aug. 24.-London is
threatened with a dcarth of BARRIERS
for men owing to their wholesale
desertion to shops catering exclu-
sivcly(to the bobbing and shingling
of women's heads.
The deserters say they find work
ing on women s hair not only more
profitable, but that it also affords
II more interesting field for the dis
play of their artistic talents.
. a good job of shingling and bob
bing womcn's crowning glory, it
seems, leaves the artistically mind
ed barber with a feeling of person
al satisfaction infinitely greater
than he can derive from the unrom.
Iantic shecring Of a male dome.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-24
INITIATIVE BABIES

Science surely is wonderful. Almost as wonder
full nature 1t has brought forth the fact-not
yet universally accepted-that babies learn to cry by
imitation. 1t has been generally realized that babies
learned to talk by imitation but proud parents and
less biased relatives have somehow held the common
belief that crying natural gift
1t is not so. An eminent scientist of London
cites the case of baby who taken railroad
journey at an mpressionable age and then cried like
a locomotive whistle. Another baby he vouches for
steamboat trip and then cried like fog horn
This theory seems to explain much which bachelor
friends of the parents have long found profoundly
weird and inexpainable in the cries of infants. 1t
also suggests quite forcby that the modern custom of
Keeping baby quietly at home in its kiddy-coop
during its early is great advance former
customs which permitted taking wee child on excur-
sions out into the hideously noisy world.
There almost no automobile accidents in Dem
mark" reports safety enthusiast. There al
most no automobiles in Denmark
Nov that everybody knows all about evolution,
business proceed usual
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-24
WHAT WE'RE DRYING AT

"WhAt is the final objective of business?" asks Ed
ward A. Fleae, Boston merchant. He answers this
question like this:
Basiness is trying to make it easy possible
for everybody to obtain the necessares of fe that
mankind will have more time. for other things
So far, he observes, most people obliged to
spend nearly all their available time in hard work and
application to make both ends meet
but some day this will not be Mankind
get through its chores feed and cothe itself in small
fraction of its allotted span of years. The rest will
be devoted to the really worthwhile thngs-to the
search for beauty and the advancement of knowledge
1t is pleasing prophecy. And business is un
doubtedly working to that end, consciously uncon
sciousy-if by business" understand the general
system of industry and trade which makes up our in
dustral civilization. Little by little it appears,
approaching the miennal situation that Mr.. Fiene
describes
But full realization will take long time. How
much of population is, yet really interested in
the search for beauty and the advancement of know
ledger" How many yet spend wisely what leisure they
have? This is matter of slow growth.
Two more things needed, too, before mankind
can depend on getting through the necessary days
work in few hours and the necessary lifes work
in a few years They peace and cooperation. The
race whole gain full deficiency and
realize the fine flower of its possibilities while nations,
and groups within nations fight each other instead Of
working together.