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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-19

glider wouldn't glide. All the calcula-
tions were wrong. Then we became
interested in the scientific side, and
conducted our own experiments on
which we based new calculations. II
was not so much inspiration and
genius as understanding of the laws
of physics that made these expert.
ments successful
Felt 1t Would Fly
"Another question that bothered US
was: Would we be able to fly it
after we'd built it? Man had never
flown in a heavier-than-air machine
before. In fact, I believe our big
gest thrill came from lying in beG
and thinking about flying. We didn't
know what might happen"
On the other hand, while the sense
of achievement as the first plane
settled to the ground after it's in
itial flight was strong, the thrill that
day vas rather less than might have
been expected.
'sWe were certain it would fly"
the inventor said. WED figured
everything out carefully and knew
exactly what it ought to Go. We
built small models and made wind
tunnel tests, just as they do now,
and we'd have been much more sur
rrised if It hadn't flown"
When the two brothers made that
first flight in a powered machine,
only a handful of the friends braved
the cold and stood on the windswept
slope to witness the talIe-off.
Development Unlimited
Wright was apparently amused to
recall low far short their imagina-
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Christopher .Harz, dean of Uncle
Sans package wrappers lis having
q busy time of it as Christmas
nears. Out of the 10000 sacks
OF mail handled every day by the
general postoffice of New York City,
he and his. seven assistants get
several hundred packages which
must be re-wrapped ana tied. Chris
is 81 and could retire in a few
moaths with 25-yeM service
.4ocord, but he doesn't intend to-.
tn stick around for a long time
yet, he says. Maybe some day
folks will learn how to do up their
own bundles, then l won't be
needed.
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Price Tags on Stock
Exchange Seats Mount
(contlnued FROM Page one)

100000 shares are dealt in each year.
And the price of seats has kept pace
with the increased trading.
Valuable business Asset
seat on exchange has become Il
valuable business possession. It may
be family heirloom that can be.
passed on to- succeeding generations.
The membership is limited to LOO,
which number.was authorized in 1873
when 4Os new memberships We're
created to pay for the then new
stock exchange building These
memberships sold for something over
$4,000 each-4as low price then--a ana
the purchasers We're often joculariy
called srThe Forty Thieves"
A nation Of Investors from bankers
to bootblacks is the indirect cause
for the rising prices of seats. With
the buying of securities in lots from
10 to 1000 shares and even more
trading activity has mounted to 1G
years from 17S,OOO,0OO shares an
nually to record total of 52,0O0.ooo
shares in 1925.
Seats on the exchange, meanwhile,
have risen in value from a low Of
$4,000 in 1915 to- the record high of
$170, 900. Some firms specializing IN
odd lot business and catering to the
small investor have eight or nine
memberships to handle, the business
of buying and selling on the floor.
-<
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get them on paying basis before
turning them over to private opera
tors" He declared, however. thar
the air NAIL routes were the most
important step yet taken in the de-
velopment of commercial aviation.
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LOVE WISE

Him: "I love you as no one ever
loved before"
Her: II can't see much difference"
The Weather Vane.
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the ar mail route contracts to pr:-
vatc concerns at the present stage,
The routes are not paying propo
sitions now" he said and what
private operators can afford to stand
the losses? The government should
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Wright Says that Air,plane
Progress Is Greater

Continued From Page one)
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"No Breakfast Complete Without
Tho Dispatch.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-19

100000 shares are dealt in each year.
And the price of seats has kept pace
with the increased trading.
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Moved by Coincidence
to Mdke kesfifution

The American treasury derives a
certain amount Of pin-money from res
titutions made by persons who are
troubled by the prickings of con-
science. In one year the amount re-
ceived from this source exceeded
5000. Among the contributors to this
fund are taxpayers who have min
imized their incomes, importers who
have evaded customs duties, letter.
writer's who have used stamps that
have done service before but had not
been defacsd, government clerks who
have exaggerated their expense &C
counts, and old soldiers who wish to
make amends for a saddle blanket
stolen long ago.
One Of the most curious recent ex.
amples Of penitence was that of a
Washington woman who was lin des-
perate need Of a story which could
be procured only from newspaper In
the files of the Library of Congress.
1t was several columns long, and she
felt unequal to the labor Of copying
1t, SO she took the paper away with
her. Thereafter her conscience gave
her no rest until she sent four cents
In payment Of her debt.-Manchester
(England Guardian.
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AFTER SEVENTEEN YEARS

After II years. white America just discovering Matt Hen
the coored American who made possible for Peay reach
the North Pole and who actually preceded the white dscoverr
the POLE
In accounts of Peays feat Henson has been for
goen in the American Museum of Natural History where
pictures of all the who accompanied Peay upon the pole
finding trip there picture of Henson the biography of
Pear prepared by who should know the details the polar
expedition thoroughly the bares mention made of Henson
But following the recent interest in aerial polar exped
TONS true and fuller accounts of Pear trip being made
of this dgent research has the discovery by white feature
writer's of Matt Henson Negro the right hand of Peary and
whom the Commander praised sincerely and oundy for his
ability, courage and loyalty.
1t is interesting watch the attitude white journalists
taking this matter after the trg interval of II
when the time for honest praise One the fair and
unbiased accounts of Hensons part the expedition 1909
given in the current issue of Liberty magazine.
After ALL recognition may not count Henson has with
his eyes, has with his body been nconing part
adventure that has been recorded with due honor the history
of the world And that be enough But the world
in another Somehow has found Henson and
somehow its is bent heapng upon him the
recognition that due II and that should have been
but recorded the story the Peay expedition
That Henson has been found after all modest
ebttered and efficient in his everyday
adventurous efforts pleasing to the casual
should point moral to the Woodworking ambitious people any
group.
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The horse y enc 81 the most low
ing and faithful Of dumb animals, and
many stories could be written Of him.
But one viii sufice at the present
time. This story rang through the
world some years ago, for it was in
the tensest time Of the World war,
and the incident was on q bitterly
contested battlefield. During the
aghting at Loos the men in the
trenches observed, to their great as
constituent riderless horse stand
ing out In No Mans land, between the
firing lines Of the armies. For two
days and nights the faithful creature
stood there. At last some men crept
out OF their trench and crawled to
the horse. The animal was un-
wounded, but it was standing guard
over its master. The gallant lad who
had ridden it and tended it lay
stretched in death at its feet, and all
the terr0rs Of machine guns, bombs,
and shells had failed to shake the
constancy and affection of this faith
full steed.
The men who went out to see could
not get 1t away from its charge, but
returned to their trench and told the
moving tale. Then other men, who
understood the ways Of horses,
crawled through the deadly area. They
blindfolded the horse, and at last,
when 1t could no longer see the form
1t had loved, the animal was content
to be led away to food and safety.
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Wood for NeUsprint

Since the customary units Of wood
measurement-cord, log measure or
lumber scale-do not represent an
exact quantity, the cubic foot solid
wood is used. Even this unit is varia-
BILE as to pulp yield according to the
character Of the wood as to species
and rate Of growth. However, taking
the dry weight Of spruce as "a pounds
per cubic foot the commercial yield
Of 100 cubic feet would be about 1890
pounds Of mechanical pulp and of sui
phite pulp, 1,0S0 pounds. CONNER
cially, newsprint is made from a mix
ture Of rs per cent mechanical and 25
per cent sulphite. Consequently,
ton Of newsprint would contain 1900
pounds mechanical and 800 pounds sui
phite. Then 1900 pounds mechanical
would require 66.2 cubic feet wood;
500 pounds sulphite would require 4S.5
cubic feet wood; one ton newsprint
would require 1877 cubic feet or
272S.S pounds ovendry spruce wood.
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DsSfk Hasfsnsl b.
Gun Of Cold Water

When General Iisbsr was assassi-
natsd at Cairo BY an Egyptian fanatic
In 1900 the French authorities con.
demned the murderer. to be inpaled
alive. The sentence was duly carried
out and the punishment was borne
BY the criminal with true oriental
stoicism. The French account Of the
execution states that soon after Ais
implement the wretched man asked
for q drink. A French soldier was
about to hand him some water, but
was prevented by the chief Of the
Mamelukes, who cried "Gardez-vous
en- bien vous feriez meurir I instant
CO criminel." It Is q widespread idea
that q cup Of cold water drunk while
undergoing extreme torture, such as
implement causes instant death.
Moore In his yelled Prophet Of
Khorassan" speaks OF
Such treacherous life ~ the cool
draught supplies
To him upon the stake, who drinks
and dies.
The Egyptian fingered in torture for
four hours, till the Mamelukes left,
and the French soldier was able to
accede to his request unchecked. He
gave him a cup Of water, and the poor
creature expired Immediately.
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The Safety Valve

Signed contributions not over
three hundred words In length win
be printed In this column. The
Echo Will not be responsible for
any OF the opinions which may ap-
pear in the column. -
Tho Editor.
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Poem to COuntee Cullen.

In the famous column, "a Line o
Type or Two" in the Chicago Daily
Tribune of July 6, appeared a poem
to Countee Cullen, the brilliant Ne.
gro poet. This column was origin.
ated by the late Bert Lesion Taylor
and was the first of the famous col
umns of modern newspaperdom. The
poem of the famous column reads:
To COuntee Cullen.
1t matters not if your skin is dark
AS the midnight jungle track,
I thrill to the beat of the song you
sing
Feeling the torture and rack
That sundered the souls of your
brother slaves
For hundreds of dead years back.
Under the march of your musical
lines,
Under the tread of their feet,
hear the wind in the jungle pines
And the drone of the tom-tom's
beat,
With ebon savages under the sun
In the shimmering tropic heat.
Chance gave you the soul of a min
strel fair
Housed in blackamoor's frame,
With your heart tuned high to the
upper air
Though a scion of scorn and
shame,
Refusing an outcast's usual lot
And turning it into fame!
THE FAUN.
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No Old Maids in Tibet

Mbetan nuns excepted, no Tibetan
women 60 through life unmarried.
Tibetan women see to that. Accord
ing to their ideas the average Euro
pean is not good looking. Europeans,
they say, have too large noses, "like
kettle spouts," and ears too big, like
pigs ears; eyes blue like children's
marbles; eye sockets too deep and eye
brows too prominent. On the other
hand, an average American seeing a
Tibetan woman for the first time,
would be likely to say, "There amt
no such thing."-Capper's Weekly.
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Discovery an Accident,

Charles Goodyear, who discovered
the process Of vulcanixing rubber, OK
pended all his means In experiment,
with various mixtures and processes
which should remedy the fatal defect.
Of India rubber in its natural state
since 1t Is brittle in cold weather and
sticky In warm weather. The grea,
secret Of vulcanizing, process in
which the two substances, submitted
to a high temperature, are converted
into elastic, enduring, heat and cold
defying material, now in use, was an
accidental discovery made by Good
year while standing by a stove and
idly subjecting a mixture Of rubber
and sulphur to its heat.
Famous Old Statue
The "victory Of Samothrace" can be
dated at about the end Of the Fourth
century. 1t was found in 1858, brok-
en- into a multitude Of fragments
which have been carefully united.
"There are" says F. B. Tarbell. mo
modern pieces except In the wings.
The statue stood on pedestal having
the form Of ships PROV, the princi-
pal parts Of which were found BY an
Austrian expedition to Samothrace in
1876. These fragments were subse-
quently conveyed to the Louvre, and
the Victory now stands on her orig
mol nadsstal"
Belief in Toad Stone
W. ]. Rolfe in his notes on CAS- You
Like It." says: Better naturalists
than Shakespeare believed in the toad
stone, the precious jewel of the text.
Fenton, in his 'Secrete Wonders of Ma
ture' (1669), says that there is founde
IN the heades Of old and great toades,
a stone which they call borax or
stelOn; it is most commonly founde In
the head Of hee toad, Of power to re-
pluse p0ysons and that it is a most
soveraigne medicine for that stone.'"
illusions to It are frequent in the
literature Of that day.
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DODGING A TEST CASE

Refusal of the Supreme Court pass which
voved the legality of contracts binding property Wash
ngton not to sell homes Negroes establishes the right to bar
them out of prescribed residence districts by this method The
effect of the decision to leave in force uncns issued by low
courts preventing such disposal of property where agreement
has been entered into not to sell class
issue has aroused deal of controversy number of cities
1t has intensified racial anoses and from time brought
about otous conduct deporabe from point of view The
Negroes of this city entitled to opportunity to acquire good
homes from alleys and ss raise their standards of
living to educate their children They integral part of the
community Whatever helps them helps the city whole and
whatever harmful to their physical mental and moral welfare
inevitably reflected upon the general pubc-From Baltimore Sum-
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UnconpIimentdry

Little Dolly knew all about the hand
organ and its accompanying monkey
for she had been amused by them fire.
quently in the street.
When she heard church organ for
the first time she watched the organist
long and earnestly. Finally she caught
sight Of the blower, who was pumping
up and down in the background.
"Motherw she exclaimed, "that's
the biggest monkey I ever did see!"
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Take Your Choice

I had bad cold and husband, want.
ing to make me comfortable, as he
thought, started to put something
around my shoulders.
I said, II don't want to be bundled
up like an old woman"
Friend husband shot right back,
TITS better to be wrapped up like an
old woman than be wrapped up like
King Tut."-Buffalo Express.
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Literal Truth

The familiar sign, "Shoes Repaired
While You Wait" lured Norman
Kerry into little Hollywood shop.
II can't do them till Wednesday. !"
said the cobbler as Norman laid down
his package.
But the sign says, repaired while
you watt" protested Kerry.
Sure" was the cheerful reply.
"And you'll have to wait till Wednes.
day."-Los Angeles Times.
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Ttoo Centuries Of Crusades

The objects Of the religious wars
called the Orusades were originally to
insure the safety Of pilgrims visiting
the holy sepulchre and to set up Chris
tian rule In Palestine. Later on the
attack was directed against Egypt and
even Constantinople, and in the Four
teenth century the conquests Of the
Ottoman Turks turned Crusading into
a defensive movement. It is usual to
speak Of the Orusades as six or seven
in number, but actually the movement
was continuous for over two centuries,
hardly decade passing without one
or more expeditions.
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SOUTHERN DALIES FLAY +
N. A. A. C. p. CONFERENCE
Continued from page ID

editorial which follows attempts to
argue that Negroes would be wiser
not to insist upon rights but instead
to accept the place to which the
white South would assign him.
On the other hand, the associa-
TONS activities in behalf of justice
for the Negro brought forth highly
commendatory editorials from other
papers such as the Chicago Daily
News and the Chicago Evening Post.
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'INEFFICIENT' COLORED WATERS

The recent of the Canadian National railway ousng
coored walters in favor whites one index of the growth of
color feeling in the Far North
In giving for releasing the colored
ment that they inefficient the official required
give out statement has laid himself open being
pure ackass with of the dscement than acass
usually credited with having.
One need not far of course to find that the
Vanced Tor the release of the the real the
ROADS change OF policy In the story which quoted Off
cla branding the cored workers Inefficient another statement
gave the real cause of the change Briefly according
clal Charge Canada does not want color problem
reason coored people should not be encouraged migrate
Dominion.
What these will do who suddenly and without notice
thrown out of acute problem which the
dian National has not taken the trouble attempt
to avoid color problem The action of the
the eptome of unfair treatment In this day collective bargain
ing by of trade unions shop committee systems
method of the Canadian National well nigh unbelievable
1t but another indication of the old truth that single
of men acting Individuals hope
cessfuly with powerful business interests.
The to avoid such situation only Underwriting
but form of occupation where considerable group
have kind of service to render organized effort Years
white abOres learned the bitter lesson and since that time
they have erected around themselves formidable wall protec
ton by organization.
Sooner later the black worker must realize that the finger
the wall has been writing for him. too that he not excepted
but rather sought out by the meess grinding the economic
MILL and that the to gain of security for him.
SELF and his family and his aspirations follow the lead the
white worker and band himself together groups which will
collective bargaining power.
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There is no road to success but
through clear strong purpose. Moth
ing can take it's place. A purpose
underlies character, culture, position,
attainment of every sort.-T. T.
Munger.
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Place candles in the refrigerator
for a couple of days before lighting
and they will burn twice as long. 1t
will also prevent the wax trickling
down over the candlestick.
Evening star., 1926-10-13

Master Charles Martindale in the
Government case against the STAN
dard Oil Co. of Indiana.
The company is charged with main
tanning a pool of the patents in vio-
lation of the Sherman antitrust law.
Robert E. Wilson, assistant in
charge of research work of the Stan
dard Oil Co. of Indiana, testified yes
terdav in refutation of the Govern
ment claim that the patents are
worthless and cannot be pooled.
The process known as the Burton
patent, Wilson said, has been owned
by the Indiana company since 1918,
and was not anticinated hY any other
Evening star., 1926-10-13

on Monday on the complaint of his
wife, who is suing for separation on
charges that he was about to leave the
courts jurisdiction.
Mrs. Goldenweiser alleges that her
husband has a sweetheart in Seattle
known as "Kewpie," a Mrs. Sawyer
in Los Angeles and a stenographer
known as Miss Cooper, somewhere
near New York.
Although he posed as a great NOR
alist, teacher, writer and lecturer"
Mrs. Goldenweiser AYERS. "in his spare
moments he seeks the companionship
of frivolous women, corresponds with
them, goes with them and deserts me
Evening star., 1926-10-13
THREE WOMEN NAMED
BY MORALiST'S WIFE
Says Husband Has Sweethearts in
Seattle, Los Ang les and
New York

BY fhs Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 13.-Alden
Goldenweiser, anthropologist and lee
turer in the new school for social re-
search, was locked up in Tombs pris-
Evening star., 1926-10-13
OCEAN VIEW COUPLE
WE'D so YEARS TODAY
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NORFOLK, Va. October 13.-Mr.
and Mrs. William B. Muller. who were
married in Washington October -.
1876. celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary at their home in Ocean
View last night.
Mr.. Muller was born in Alton, ILL.,,
but went to the National Capital in
his early youth, where he served his
apprenticeship as a sheet metal work.
Evening star., 1926-10-13
Limited Divorce Granted.

Justice Stafford in Equity Division l
has granted a limited divorce to Mrs.
Eta S. Harrah from Eugene H. Har-
rah and allowed her permanent ali
mony of $40 per month. They were
married September 6. 1923, and the
wife charged cruelty and intoxica.
ton. She was represented by Attor-
news Cantrell G. Field
Evening star., 1926-10-13

Steam heat for the new steel six
room houses in Germany is supplied
by a boiler connected with the
kitchen range.
Spain will start at once its pro-
gram to build or rebuild nearly $500
miles of highways
Evening star., 1926-10-13

patent that would make it worth
less, as claimed by the Government.
This patent. he testified, was the
first by which gasoline could be
cracked" in commercial quantities,
and was supreme in the field until
1919.
Evening star., 1926-10-13
CRACKING PATENT HELD
SUPREME FOR 6 YEARS
Standard Oil Official, in Reply. to
Government Charge, Denies
Process Was Anticipated.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 13.-De-
velopment of 'oil cracking" process
patents by which gasoline is obtained,
was traced yesterday before Special
Evening star., 1926-10-13

and our 11-year-old daughter for
them"
The Goldenweisers were married in
1906
Evening star., 1926-10-13

err. The day he finished his trade he
was married to Miss Elizabeth 4.
Ports. native of Washington.
The couple lived in Washington
many years. but came to Ocean View
in 1897.
Mr. and Mrs. Muller have raised
family of 10-siX boys and four girls
most of whom will be with their
parents at the celebration tonight.
Evening star., 1926-10-13

Polish coal is being used in Great
Britain, IL steamers loaded with the
fuel having recently arrived in Eng
land from Riga