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Evening star., 1925-07-11
HUGHES is RETAINED
IN $4O,OOO,OOO CASE
Will Conduct Fight Against Illi-
nois Tax Upon Insurance Com
panies' Gross Receipts.
By the Associated Press.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, July IL
Charles Evans Hughes has been re-
tained by the insurance companies
of the United States to be chief coun-
sci in the appeal Of the National Un-
derwriters' Association from the State
Supreme Court decision that non
resident insurance companies operat-
ing in the State must pay a gross
receipt tax. The case Is being ap-
pealed to the United States Supreme
Court.
Announcement that Mr.. Hughes
would be chief counsel in the appeal
was made here last night by G. j.
Doyle, general counsel for the under
writer's. More than $40 100000 is in
yolved in the suit
Mr.. Doyle stated that because of
the important tax issues involved he
believed that arguments in the case
would be set for an early term of the
court. In the decision of the State
Supreme Court against the appealing
companies three justices dissented.
Evening star., 1925-07-11
National Union Outing.

More than 200 members and friends
of Mckinley Council, No. 992, Ma
tional Union, are holding their an
nual outing today at Chesapeake
Beach. The committee in charge is
composed of Jesse B. K. Lee. chair
man; William ]. O'Brien, Henry ].
StahI, Richard J. Jones, William G.
Belts, Charles S. Harris, Thomas T.
Ryan, r. H. Arnold, R. H. -Gulick,
w. ]. Carey. w. L. Dant and Z. c.
Walker.
Evening star., 1925-07-11
Sinking Steamer Saved.

NEW YORK, July IL CR.-The
Munson Line freighter Thomas P.
Beal, which went on reef in the East
River Thursday night with a lumber
cargo valued at 100000, was pulled
free late yesterday and was towed to
Brooklyn.
Evening star., 1925-07-11
FLOOD RUINS "a BRIDGES.
Many Homes Washed Away by
West Virginia Stream.

WHEELING, w. Va, July II Up.
-Boggs Run, emptying into the Ohio
River, here, went on a rampage yes
terday, following a heavy rainfall.
Thirty-four county bridges, including
eight concrete structures, were
washed out seven automobiles and
number of garages We're carried
away, and a number of homes in the
lowlands were destroyed. There was
no loss of life.
McMahons Creek, on the Ohio side,
flooded the mining villages of Neff,
BroOksrun, McClainsville, Echo and
Willow Grove
Evening star., 1925-07-11
SLAYER'S BODY TO STATE.
Virginia Youth Without Even a
Friend When He Goes to Death.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, July 1.-THE
State anatomical board will get the
body of Rodney Hoke, the young
Allegheny County murderer. No
relatives have claimed 1t. The young
man went to his death in the peni-
tentiary yesterday, not even a friend
appeared.
Gov. Trinkle refused to stay the
sentence, saying there was not a
word said in extenuation of the
crime. Hoke killed and robbed a
peddler.
Evening star., 1925-07-11

The fire loss in the United States
for 1923 amounted to $685., 900 900, the
largest in the history of the country.
Evening star., 1925-07-11
No Pleasure to Her.

From Judge.
Does your wife enjoy the radio?"
Certainly not! Why should she?
She can't talk over it. nor answer it
back"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-24

This lady have only takes Of the baby
and does her washing but does not get dinner or
clean my wife has those things to do STILL and she says
too tired for the baby night and that
did half having the baby, and ought to get up
with her night and early in the morning 1t is not so
much that mind the work. but do not think that taking
of baby is mans work, and do not think that
/ ought to be expected to.
''When argue this she simply that when can earn
enough stay home she will do it, but
you Elsie young fellow without any particular
doing pretty good to make $3.50 these days. but
it is impossible to keep wife and baby it, any
figure would be very glad for your advice
but do not print my Understand am not blaming
my wife, who very sick when our baby born, and
is strong she was but would like you to get my
side of too and besides is hard for anybody to be
at night and still go work in the morning and don't
think that in $3.50 arrangement like that getting
quite square deal" IT. u. NJ
Whadda you by 'man's work. brothers If you
going get choosey like that about your specifications
what's going to happen to whole programR The day
you started that $3.50 plan lost right to suabbe
that term And yet somehow persists in popping
up though economically you've eliminated it, doesn't
it. There DOES to be particular scope OF work
that belongs to and another scope that fits
doesn't there2 And you let her do work, how
refuse when she asks to do hers Per-
haps should have started this plan Or perhaps
and this is my larger hunchthe whole human race is
going to be better because for WHILE re forced to
$3.50 jobs with Tlly standing the gaff of office
work and Tom hoofing it when the baby squalls What do
you think Pals?
Syndicate
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-24
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
Home for Er-KingS
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE.

r RECENTLY ran across the story of Ned Nearly. 1t
goes like this
- One morning when he very little boy, MS
father and mother all his brothers and sisters were
surprised find that he did not down TO breakfast
His mother up to tap his bedroom door,
'tCome Ned said she, ''arent you dressed YETI
YES Mother very nearly he piped although as mat
of fact he still In bed.
When at last he down to breakfast 1t was nearly
over and he had to go without very nearly.
When he to school and found himself among lot o.
good boys very nearly good boys he learned to
read WE'LL write properly, to calculate correctly
though he very nearly did all these things.
His father blamed him. his mother disappointed IN
him and his brothers and sisters said he silly.
Whats the trouble9 asked Ned IF don't read write
and count very well indeed do very nearly.
When his school days and he went to work ne
applied place for job but late for bis appoint
men though he very nearly time. He lost the JOB
He tried for another place and very nearly got It, but his
writing not quite good enough.
Thus day after day. week after week and after year.
he did very nearly well, but always fell little short
This road of nearly leads to nowhere and one finds
out after awhile that people do not want things nearly
done well enough, they very nearly find it out.
After while he became old and was buried, and
tombstone set up him with the words Here lies
the body of Ned Nearly, not quite.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-24
WORDS OF WISE MEN

He that studies alone will know how things ougn1
to he that studies will know now Ihlngs are
Fear that makes faith may break faith
No be provdent of his time who IS not Pruuen
in the choice of his company.
An honest mind is in the power OF dlsnonest 10
break peace be guilt or CONSCIOUSNESS
How much happier is he who remains lmmoVaole 0nu
smiles at the madness of the dance about nm!
Cunning pays regard to virtue and is out the 10"
mimic of wisdom.
We are all of us more or less the slaves of opinion.
It's bad weather that reveals good seaman
There is little in belief there everything in practice
There gains of sort without pains OF some sort
Reflection sometimes shows yourself you really
Let upon for the deficiencies of fortune
Books teach very little of the world
Rumor sort of talk spread about without any author
to which wi has given beginning and credulity growth
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-24

- NE reader wishes to know
the diameter Of an atom or
~ oxygen and that OF an atom
OF nitrogen; also, the diameter or
an electron and an ion, and the
size OF the spaces between the
molecules OF iron, silver, alumni
mum, copper, and ice.
Another reader asks what IS
there between the electrons in an
atom: what between the atoms i'll
q, molecule, and what between the
molecules in a mass Of ordinary
matter. He would also like to be
informed how the revolving cleo
irons are held in their orbits about
the nucleus OF an atom il there is
nothing between to form connec-
ton. He also is puzzled by the
fact that, although they are sup
posed not to be in contact, the
molecules Of q body resist efforts
to force them nearer together.
These questions are at the
same time obvious and deep; so
obvious that everybody asks them;
so deep that nobody can answer
any Of them except In an approx.
mate or hypothetical way; while
some Of them are perhaps I'M
answerable-atl least, at the pres
ent time.
Let us consider some OF them.
First as to the diameters Of atoms.
For information about this we
must go to the authorities who
; have approximately determined
the size OF atoms by various cal
culations based upon experiments.
for atoms are far too minute to
be directly measured by visual
methods. Nobody has ever seen
an atom as an atom.
Sizes Of Atoms.
Robert A, Millikan, in his book
on 1.-THE Filectron," says that Thy
a method which we cannot ex-
plain here) ut is found that the
average diameter Of the atom
of the mon6tomic gas helium ID
2x10' ceftimeters, that Of the
diatomic hydrogen nOlecule is a
trifle moro, while the diamatars
of the molecules Of the diatonnic
gases oxygen and nitrogen are
so per cent larger. This would
make the diameter Of a single
atom OF hydrogen a trifle smaller.
and that Of a single atom Of
oxygen or nitrogen a trifle larger
than that Of helium."
BY '"2x10" is meant divided
by 100, 100000. or / divided by
so, 100000. A centimeter equals
O.3937 Of an inch.
In ComsIock and Troland's book
on "The Nature of Matter and
Electricity" ii is said that "the
diameter Of the smallest atoms
must be closely in the neighbor-
hood of. one three-hundred-mill
Of an inch, and that Of the largest
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-24
GARRETT P. SERVISS ON FACTS
AND MYSTERIES OF ATOM
Science Unable to Explain Why Bodies React in
Apparently Empty Space.

cannot be many times this"
For the diameter OF an cleo
tron we 60 again to Millikan. who
probably knows more about the
subject at first hand than any
body. He estimates the diameter
at 2x10is centif1eters, which, he
says, is one 50,000th Of the radius
Of the atom.
Question Of Space.
Now the diameter Of the earth
is about one 11.6OOth OF its dis
i lance from the sun, % that an
electron revolving around the
nucleus OF the atom (which has q
still smaller diameter than the
electron) has comparatively much
more empty space" around It
than the earth has In the solar
system.
! This brings US to the questions
of the second reader concerning
what, IL anything, fills the spacs
in the atom between the revolving
electrons, which never number
more than 80.
Perhaps this touches upon the
greatest mystery that science has
yet to solve. II there is nothing
between the earth and the sun, By
what means does the sun hold the
earth in its orbit? Similarly, IL
there is nothing inside the atom
except the sparsely distributed re-
volving electrons, what enables the
nucleus to hold them in their orbits:
Is il the ether? And IL so, how
does the ether do it? But some OF
the Einsteinians say they have no
need of an ether in their specula-
ton, which considers what we call
attraction to be q property OF
space" But IL space has a prop
erty, or structure, which governs
the movements Of matter, then
space itself must be some real thing,
for nothing can govern nothing.
Factor Of Electrons.
Take the question about the
molecules OF body which, though
theory saws they do not touch.
nevertheless resist squeezing. II
there is nothing between them now
do they manage to push or repei
one another? Can electric repul-
sion explain it? Read and ponQer
fhis abatement from MillikAn:
The reason that two molecules
rebound from one another Wnen
in their motion OF thermal aqua
fion their centers OF gravity ap-
nroach to a distance OF about 2xlU6
centimeters is presumably that the
atom ia a system with negative
electrons in it's outer regions. When
these negative electronS In TWO
different systems which are com
ing into collision approach to about
this distance. the repulSions be.
tvueen these similarly charged
bodies begin to be felt, although at
a distance the atoms are forcelesS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-24

TO WALK THE FLOOR WITH THAT $3.50 BABYR
EEnEAR MISS ROBINSON:
GAS an advocate Of the fifty-fifty mode of living
ought interest you, and ought to be able to
advice I will tell it briefly can, going
three years the beginning for without the begin
ming you will not be able to understand present
trouble.
cat the age of twentyone employed shipping
a large who advanced their employees
slowly very substantially in the way of salary My
wages at that time $50 month, and going with
young lady employed in the place. she receiving
salary $780, We naturally attracted to each other
from the first and spite of the fact that she getting
than me- began going together After few months
nearly broke and would have to cut it out,
and she being fair minded and ntuitive girl mmedl
ately guessed the reason, and put it to in nice way
She said Il value you for FRIEND and don't whether
you have money spend not. We will dutch treat
after this and will both enjoy each others company
without either going broke
CHOW this hard take at first have always been
used to treating the girl but she nice about it
to her of reasoning You understand that she
girl who pretty and popular and could have had
other fellows who could do for her WE'LL after that
it time before dead in love with her. you could
help it, she had such wonderful disposition We went
together for year. and in that time had another
and to 1925 in the line of work She
still getting her hundred 1t looked like it would be
years before could get married. but finally agreed
marry had gone together, is ffty-fifty
basis could not consider it $685. but with the
bined salaries of 1926 could get along fine
OpyrighL King
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-24
: By ELSIE ROBINSON

We were to do everything fifty-fifty. Ny
wife's very practical and worked out plan
for us in our apartment, where l did certain
things and she did certain other things, so
neither one had all the work. / am not one
who believes in a girl cooking and cleaning
and everything and still working We got
along fine for the first year and part Of the
second, that is until the baby arrived on the
scene. Naturally my wife quit her job
while before, but with what we had saved,
we came through with the expenses all right,
and when the baby was three months she
went back to work, on account of our being
able to get an old lady in the apartment
house to take care of her during the day.
But now she is back at work and we
have our trouble for the reason that
our old schedule does not work good any
more
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-24
President Coolidge Will Fix It
He Lives in This Century.

The Naval Board opposing President Coolidge will demand
big oldfashioned navy One hundred million dol
lars year for twenty what the board spend
building obsolete battleships and other naval Junk
The President however will stop that and see
that this country supplied with the world best fleet of
fighting airplanes.
had only enemy bateships to think Of we should
need much of air fleet.
Two flying machines costing $4,000 could any S45
$1,000 baeship the in hour hundred thou
sand dollars worth of flying machines would easily destroy
the TWO THOUSAND MILLION DOLLARS worth of ships
that foolish Naval Board proposes build.
Fortunately President Coolidge living in this century,
not in the last.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-24
Laws for Some
Not For All.

Mrs Scott wife Of Michigan Congressman suing for d.
Torc describes party at her house. saying the drinking
about the Tin the average Congressmans house
Washington The fact that prohibition laws control
the legislators that the laws has something
general public contempt for least part of the
The miraculous thing is the patience of the ordinary people
They well that the laws regulating them do regulate
the wetodo The latter do they please Yet the little
80 cent of the them the laws when they
class
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-24
LISTEN, WORLD!

TTERE'S Modern Marriage-with Capital
Ms. A fifty-fifty split, with Hubby
" buying the bacon, and Wife buying
the beans She's a stenographer and he's
shipping clerk, neither one of 'em making
large salary, but by pooling the cash, and
dividing the work in the apartment they've
managed to live like kings-or rather, they
DID manage until the baby came!
They re both supporting that baby-they're
both paying the old lady who cares for it
by day-so WHO OUGHT TO CARE FOR
1T BY NIGHT9 She says she's done her
part by having It, and the least he can do is
to walk the floor as may be necessary now
it's here, and he says he's willing to do the
square thing, but BABY TENDING ISN'T
A MANS WORK!
How about it Gang9 How can you answer
letter like than anyway? WHO OUGHT
The Washington times., 1925-10-30

regular army as a major of infan-
try in 1920. He has the degree OF
LII. B. of Georgetown University,
and A. NJ. of Gonzaga College.
The Washington times., 1925-10-30
QUAIL, RABBITS PLENTY
FOR MARYLAND GUNNERS

The nearby counties of Maryland
are expected to be torn by the blast
Of many firearms on November 10,
when the Maryland hunting season
opens. Quail and rabbits are re-
ported to be more plentiful than for
many years, due to an open winter
and to the abatement of disease
that has been rampant among
rabbits.
Deputy Game Warden Joseph w.
Bowie. of Montgomery county, an
nounces that Washington hunters
will be welcomed, providing they
pay the nonresident license tax Of
5000 and are careful to obtain per-
mission before going upon property.
Sportsmen are also warned that
they must wear their tag number in
plain view on the back of the coat
between the shoulders and must at
all times carry their license
The resident county license will
be $1.10, the resident Statewide
license $40, and the nonresident
license $1,000. The season closes
January /, 1926.
The Washington times., 1925-10-30
GOVERNESS LEAVES ALL
TO HER RENEEAcTORS

Describing them as my most
kind friends and benefactors," Elise
Witzel, who died August 10, eighty
-four years old, leaves the bulk Of
her estate to the Misses Margaret,
Mary and Charlotte Cullen. in whose
home she had been governess for
forty years.
requests of 500 each are made
to Elise Lindenkohl, of North Eliza
beth, N. j.; Lulu and Emma Geiger,
Of Newark, N. j., and Elise HerZog
and Augusta Herzog, of Caldwell,
N. j. Testatrix owned twenty shares
of Western Union stock valued at
$4,000, and had cash amounting to
81 ,469.82. Attorney Henry w.
Sohon represented the executor.
The Washington times., 1925-10-30
PUBLIC HEARING
ON TAXES IS
CLOSING
Special Interests Have Last
Day for Appeals Before
House Committee
BY A. o. HAYWARD

The public's participation in the
work of framing the new tax reduc-
ton bill ends today.
Treasury officials again will ap-
near tomorrow before the Ways and
Means Committee to endorse and
oppose the varied suggestions adj
vanced by special interests in two
weeks of public hearings. There
after the Republican members Of
the committee will retire to write
the bill. When it is concluded, the
Democrats will be >invited to en-
dorse it. The Democrats are to
have no hand in the actual author
ship of the bill.
Treasury officials have shown a
purpose to adhere to the sugges-
tions made at the opening Of the
hearings by Secretary Mellon. They
are not expected to make new re-
Communications nor to abandon
their position either as to the total
safe cut of $500. 900. 900 or most of
the particular items Of total exemr-
ton, reduction or continuation in
existing taxes.
Outstanding drives on the COM
mittee for tax changes were made
by the governors and tax officials
of thirty-two States for repeal with,
I'm six years Of the Federal estate
and gift taxes; by corporations for
repeal of the capital stock tax or
its merger with the general corpora
ton tax, and by the automobile in
dustry for relief from taxes on
automobiles, trucks and accessories.
Hearings before the committee to-
day Included appeals by John NJ.
Biddle, of this city, for repeal Of the
10 per cent tax on club dues; w.
r. Craig, New York; relief from the
transactions taxes on the New York
Coffee and Sugar Exchanges; T. Gil
bert Pearson. New York, represent
Ing Audubon Society; William ii.
Brady, New York, repeal of the
theater admission tax; Alfred p.
Thorn, for the Railway Executives.
in favor OF lifting special taxes on
railway transportation, and Edwin
r. A. Seligman, New York, tax
expert, on general taxation.
The Washington times., 1925-10-30

For the past three years promi-
nent officers of this department
have requested the former executive
officer to- order meetings held for
this branch of the service without
success. Upon assuming charge or
the local headquarters, Major George
quickly saw the demand for meet
ings on the part of the local reserve
adjutant generals and the first meet
ing will be held the third THURSDAY
in November, and all future meet
ings will be held the, third Thurs
day of the month.
Training in the Third corps area
for the 1925 citizens military train
ing camps is expected to be more
decentralized than ever before. The
1925 training program was divided
into four camps: Fort Eustis, Vtr-
gina: Camp Meade, Maryland; Fort
Monroe, Virginia, and Fort Hum
phrey. Virginia. Next summer it
is believed that in addition to the
above mentioned camps, infantry
students from Pennsylvania will De
trained with the Twelfth infantry
at Fort Howard, Maryland, and Fort
Washington Maryland. The Sixth
field artillery will be >o9 duty ut
Camp Meade for the training OF me
c.. T. M. c. candidates of the field
artillery course.
In the event that Camp Meade.
which has been declared p4rIna.
ment army post now, is training
camp OF any size in 1926. Brigadier
General LaRoy S. Upton, u. s. A.,
who commanded the camp in 1926.
will be the commanding genera!
there again in 1926. He is next to
the senior brigadier general OF the
corps area. Brigadier General Rob-
ert Callan, commanding the ceas..
artillery. Fort Monroe, being the
senior.
There il some talk of the home
station of the Sixth field artillery
being transferred from Fort Hoyle.
Maryland. into permanent quarters
at Camp Meade. Maryland. Briga-
der General Fred Collins. command
ing the First field artillery brigade.
also would be transferred to Camp
Meade with the First field artillery
brigade, the First ammunition train
and the Sixth field artillery in this
event.
The Bear. coast guard cutter. has
arrived at San Francisco. California,
and has completed her 1925 annual
cruise into Behring Sea and the
The Washington times., 1925-10-30
SUBSTITUTE FOR WHEAT
REPORTED BY RUSSIANS

TIENTSIN, Oct. 3O.-The pros
pect of an adequate substitute for
the flour at present obtained from
wheat, at one-third the price, is
afforded by the reported discovery
Of two Russian chemists at Hardin.
North China. of a new. method of
treating the soya bean.
It is reported that the Russian
chemists have perfected a process
from grinding soya beans and at the
same time extracting the oil which
has hitherto made the beans dis
tasteful.
The result is said to be that the
soya flour cannot be distinguished
from wheat flour.
The Washington times., 1925-10-30
READING "BOMB" FOUND
TO CONTAIN FISH BAIT

READING. Oct. 3O.-A ''mys
terious" package, that looked like =
small metal bomb carefully wrapped
in a newspaper, was found in an
alley here and brought to police
headquarters.
After various operations. soaking
in water and other treatments to
prevent an explosion, the can was
opened and was found to contain
earth and fishing worms.
Some angler on his way home, or
perhaps a schoolboy, halted on a
fishing trip by a truant officer, was
responsible for the scare. Sergeant
Scott and Detectives Harrison and
Zawidski solved the mystery.