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RadioC Concerts

1880 p. MINT. Royal Hotel Or
chestra. classic program. CFCF
| CID.
$500 p. m.-Chamber Music,
WOO (SoSl; Old Tune Program.
$40 p1 Morgan recital. wRvA
| $3.50 p. m.--Mandolin, Guitar,
Mandola Quintet. WANG (315).
$500 p. m.--Jacques Gordon and
ensemble. WGN (302); Ipana
Troubadours. WEAF chain. in
Guiding WCAP; Woman's Choral
Gang. WEAF chain, including
1920 p. Mold Time Fiddlers'
| Contest WIZ (333.)
LECTURES
$3.50 p. m.-Elementary Spanish
Lessons, Berlitz, WNYC (526).
1900 p. m.-'Matters Before the
House" Representative c. L. Faust
of Missouri, Republican. and Rep
resentative A. s. Prall of New
York. Democrat. WCAP (469).
1880 p. m.--Radio Nature League,
Thornton w. Burgess, WIZ (S3s).
Will Leads U.s." Prof. Alex. Sill
KDKA tsos9. ''S0urSh'
$3.50 p. m.--Radio, play-writing
by A. r. Liang. of Radio News,
WRNY (25s): Auction Bridge.
wCAP (469).
900 p. IT.. - Accounting"
knights of Columbus, WLWL
ORGANIZATIONS
200 p. m.-Synag0gue services
United Synagogue of America, ad-
dress on George Washington by
Aaron ]. Levy, WEAF (G94),
$500 p. m.-@City of Cleveland
program, WTAM $3.50.
CHILDREN'S HOUR
500 p. m.-Krazy Kat Riddles
KIub, WNAC (28O).
S:l6 p. Hn.--story Lady. WMAa
(44s).
5;oo p. m.-Uncle wip, wIP
$500 p. m.--Ford and Glenn.
Wis (s40; Uncle Bob. KYW
DANCE PROGRAMS
900 p. m.--Barn Dance, KDKA
(sO9).
1880 p. m.--knickerbocker Grill
Orchestra WIZ (455); RitzNCarl-
ton Orchestra WOO (50S).
400 p. m.--HuRhie Barrels
Orchestra. WEAF (492); Guy LON
bardos Royal Canadians, WTAM
$3.50.
12:45 q. m.---Kansas City Night
Hawks. WDAF $3.50.
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in a room which was being fumigat-
cd other nurses quieted patients.
So effective was the work Of the
hospital staff that by the time fire
men arrived, the fire was well un-
der control.
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BEST PROSPECTS
FOR TONIGHT

7---Aviation Id National Defense
congressional review ~ WCAP
f4ss).
sold Tune ProRram-WGR (31e.)
s:10-organ Recital WRVA
| (266l.
$50 = Radio Play Writing -
WRNY (25s).
9-Jacques Gordon and string
ensembie--WGN (s02).
10-Roxy and His Gang WEAF
chain. including WCAP.
fO:2O-old Time FiddIers' Con-
test WIZ (333).
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derstanding suddenIy somewhe

derstanding suddenly somewhere,
some time.
this season that we've been get
ding him with any regularity IN
the middle and mountain sections
~ the continent. But take II ne
q the same Roxy--tl1e same human
being with the simple faculty q
building real things with music
Giving the customers q sense Of
direction guiding them to the heart
of a song and placing the stetno-
acone tubes In their ears 20 they
NAV hear and weigh and get
meaning from every pulsation. With
tlle courage OF his own enthusiasms
ia kindles curiosity, In a. way that
leads tn interest by being essentlat.
" lust one Of the folks.
And that is the difference be-
twaan the raw materials for radio
e,iidance and program building that
are Roxy and his kind-and the
gentlemen with adenoidS ana the
instructive, patronizing system o.
i1asal vocalization.
81 well all listen to- Roxy tonignt
with 4 bit OF interest.
If there are those among the list
enera in who still wish 70 know
something about Aviation As q
Factor IN National Defense, the
airways along WCAP's wave length
win be freigilted with information
this evening from the storehouse q
knowledge 81 the subject possessed
by Representative Charles
Faust Of Montana, member OF the
WAYS and Means Committee 81 the
FIo1Iae. The honorable member or
Congress and Of its committee Of
holders Of the national purse
strings viii present what is possibly
q new point OF view-if there can
possibly be such q thing. Ana u
he fails, his colleague, Representa-
tive Aiming s. Prall Of New York,
4 member of the House Committee
on Banking and Currency, will DO
his best with the general topic OF
..Avia l6n.' 3
Both gentlemen participate in the
wear feature, Matters Before the
House, which goes on the air at
In corn-clogged lows, DR.. y. p.
Hullinger listening In at Clinton,
received twenty overseas programs
on nine.tube super-hetrodyne dur
ing the international tests. Because
OF which he viii receive the first
prize cf $50 offered by The Radio
Digest for submitting the bes.
record Of foreign radio reception
during the tests.
Harry Leadbetter. Of New York
City, won the second prize: II. Liv.
ingston. Of West Plains. Mo-, third;
and James L. Snyder. or Patton.
Pa: Paul III. Davis. of Oyster, Va.
and Master Sergt. Louis Hahn, of
New York City. fourth, fifth and
sixth prizes.
For those who can get it in the
mid hours or broadcasting, the vio-
lin recital by Jacques Gordon SEIZED
uled to go forth on the atmosphere
at this evening from WON, Chi
cago, promises much. Mr.. Gordon
Is one Of the chief members of
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
a very big figure in the Middle
West musical world and is keenly
interested in radio concert1zilg. He
has surrounded himself for this
radio evening with a very able as
semblage OF musicians, among whom
hope, will be Alfred Wal;enstein,
solo 'cellist of the Chicago Sym
phony Orchestra, an artist and a
real neighbor, than which what
could be whicher?
OF rather more than passing in.
terest should be the estimate or
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NURSES BATTLE FIRE;
OTHERS QUIET PATIENTS

PHILADELPHIA, FEB. 171-WhiIe
sverRl of the nurses and physicians
IN DIR. w. L Clarke's private hos
pital battled flames which broke out
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Has Voting Record

LONDON, Feb. 17.-Sir Frederic
Wise is the most constant attend
ant OF the House Of Commons. He
has been absent for only five votes
ont of the last sos taken.
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An Ontario coal company has de.
veloped q fuel in the form Of coke
that win burn freely in ordinary
residence heating furnaces or
kitchen ranges.
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Buy Diamond Dyes-no other
kind-and tell your druggist wheth-
err the material you wish to, color
is wool or silk, or whether it is
linen. cotton or mixed goods.
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OF rather more than passing III.
terest should be the estimate or
the life and character of George
Washington, Aaron j. Levy will
present this evening at O'Clock
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by way OF the WEAF m1cr0pnOne3.
The address is to be part Of the
synagogue services broadcast under
the direction OF the United Syna-
gogue Of America.
Old fiddlers' contests seem TO b
popping up here, there and every-
where. Station WBZ launches one
on the air this evening at 10:20
New England, SO the station pub-
Lefty engineer announces.
In this connection it might not
be amiss to remind the listeners in
that things are moving along at
l1unming pace for q big show at
WRC Saturday evening when the
oId-time fiddlers assemble to see
Uncle Am Stuart get the Washing
ton Times trophy cup and hear him
defend 1t against Fiddlin' Charley
Bowman. The fiddlers viii respond
to all requests, after the Stuart
Bowman bout, the pre1iminaries OF
which viii be announced In a day.
or two.
An old tune program from WGR
at and program Of songs Of the
South at III from WSM ought to be-
gin and end a. most profitable eve
ming with the dials. Here's hoping
you get some Of them. The pro-
grants follow:
Station WRC
RadiO Corporation Of America
AGO Meters
1855 q. Huntington time sig
nails.
IL moon Organ recital BY Ger
trude STnaIIwOod, broadcast from.
the studios Of the Homer Z. Kit
Piano Company.
1 p. m.-Lee House Trio, under
the direction Of Samuel Udfin,
Broadcast from the Lee House.
Ais b. m.--Meyer Davis lie Pa
raids Band, broadcast from the
cafe LIE Paradis.
p. m.-G George r.. Ross, pianist.
$50 p. m. Herbert and Frank
Burkart. violinists. Mrs. James
Bernheimer at the piano.
5:45 p. m.-AIoha Players, under
the direction Of Alma Wolking
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by way Of the WEAF micropnones.
The address is to be q part Of the.
synagogue services broadcast under
the direction OF the United Syna.
gogue OF America.
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Each 15,cent
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lingerie, SILK 8,
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DIR. G. DE ANIEZA7A
Noted Boston surgeon who re-
Gently returned from Italy, and
while there examined Premier
MussOlini, prOn0ullcing him well.
MussOlini, I'M an interview with
the surgeon, said there would be
no war Of his making. and terms
himself as ''tI1e pIlysician-In-cIlief
to the Italian government. =
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Solution TO Monday Puzzle.
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it. The way in
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Earth Is Put on the Scales of Science
ByD. G.. Worker in Underground Room

experiment is another task, and a
much harder one.
Suppose some one made YOU a bet
that you could find no possible way to
get the earth's weight. Could you
suggest any plan at all? Superficially
the job seems impossible. Even in the
widest flights of fancy, with huge
interstellar creatures handling scales
of incredible size, the task would be
hopelesS-how, for instance, could they
make the earth stand still long enough
to be weighed?
Scientists, however, seem to have a
way of sneaking up behind formid-
able, impossible" problem like this
and solving it by apparently simple
methods totally unlike those any one
else would suggest.
DIR. Heyl is weighing the earth by
digging down into it 80 feet and set
ting up, in his underground cell, a
miniature system representing the
earth and some smaller external OBJ
iect. He applies the results obtained
from this to the known facts about
the earth,s power of gravity and its
volume; then he solves a problem in
relatively and proportion-and the
earth is weighed,
A 140-pound mass of steel is the
miniature earth. A pail of gold weigh
ing one and one-half ounces represents
a small external body. Dr. Heyl has
the little gold ball on the end of a
short aluminium rod, swinging free in
glass case from which all the air has
been exhausted. The steel mass is
outside the case. AS by the well
known law of gravity all bodies at
tract each other (the more the heavier
they are and the nearer each other
they are), the presence of the steel
mass nearby causes the gold ball to
swing slightly toward 1t. BY careful
measurements, then, DIR. Heyl can find
the weights of both the steel and the
gold bodies. their distance from each
other and the force Of the attraction
they exert upon each other. He finds
a certain definite relation between
these things.
This furnishes the needed clue. If
we have weighed some small body
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cold-tipped rod swing little NOR
than il should AS the experiment l.
being performed underground, al
moving masses, such as the automo-
bile mentioned are directly above the
swinging rod and do not affect its SLOW
oscillation from side To side.
How much does the earth really
weigh. so far as we know? The All
swer is approximately 5000 900 600 :
600 goo .000 900 tonS-if that means
ANYTHING. Stated in words, it is six
sextillion, or six thousand million mil
lion million tons
But by the time DIR. Heyl is through
we should know the first four figures
exactly The first three have already
been found. For the fourth we shall
have TO wait until the experiments are
completed.
About 30 years ago Prof. Boys. a
British scientist, made public the cal
culations he had reached after years
of work with the best apparatus at
oxford and London at his disposal
Almost at the same time a lone Jesuit
teacher of physics in Bohemia. who
had retired to end his days in a mon
aStery. gave to the world his result
on the weight of the earth. This man
was DIR. Karl Braun, and his figures
agreed with those of Boys. though the
two men had worked independently
ignorant of each others labors. But
since the date of this remarkable CO
incidence no further advance on the
accuracy of the figures has been made
When DIR. Heyl is finished il is hoped
that the official weight of the earth
will have at least one less vague
cipher in it.
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near the earth s surface. what are the
things that we know? We know the
distance from the small body to the
center of the earth tsince we already
know the earth'S SiZel; we know the
power of attraction which the earth
has for this body, as measured by the
scales. we know the weight of the
small body We know everything ex-
cept the weight of the earth. BY APP
plying the law of the fixed relation
ships between all these things. as de-
termined by experiments with the
miniature system, the only unknown
element in the equation, the weight
of the earth. can be found 1t is, OF
course, not as simple as this eXpiana-
ton may appear to make 1t, but those
are the principles followed.
RI. Heyl says that the hardest part
of his job is in measuring the force of
attraction between the steel and the
gold bodies in the miniature system.
The force of gravity seems large
enough TO us to be distinguished
easily. but that is because we are
measuring it with reference to the
huge bulk of the earth. When you
bring the problem down to merely a
lump of steel and tiny ball of gold
the attraction becomes so small that
measurement is immensely difficult
~ iAeSi lids iau ~ hS dIe ~ mn
lionthS of a grain. a rough idea of
what this means can be had if you
can imagine splitting a silver dollar up
into million pieces and then split
ting one of these million pieces into
400 pieces. One of these final tiny
segments would weigh about one-mil-
lionth of a grain.
It is this difficulty in measurement
that has led DR.. Heyl TO establish his
laboratory 35 feet underground. There
the delicate miniature system is not
effected by the attraction of moving
bodies nearby. If the experiment we've
being performed in a city building,
the parking of an automobile outside
would create enough disturbance to
ruin the experiment. Indeed, the
presence of person within 10 feet of
the apparatus is enough to make the
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Let you go?" she cried. Let you
go, But are you mad
oh" he said pitifully, what is
this new mockery,'
You See." she sighed I've gone
and fallen in love with YOU again,
That rather takes the edge off my
joke, doesn't it, Oh, dear Maxi
milan. | have waited 10 love you as
! love you now ever since I married
you four years ago. But you never
would let me. Be honest. sweet
would YOU ever let me love you?
You We're always the world spoilt
darling. the brilliant and dashing and
wealthy Duke of MaII-and l our
American wife, Darling. what lot
of trouble you give those who love
you, | have had TO go through all
the bother of divorcing you to make
must go through all the bother of
marrying YOU again because you've
made me love you"
"Oh. but Iisten"' he made to protest.
II certainly won't" she cried. Il
must say. though. that you've made
love to me divinely these last few
months, and the real Ava would have
fallen for you. I'm sure, if she hadn't
been in California all this while.
dyed my hair a little, but the only
real difference between me and Your
wife was that | listened to YOU while
you talked about yourself. Darling. "
said she. kiss me. else how shall I
know that We are engaged to be mar
Iie6 1''
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was contemplate: therefore it was
good to die. Loving as he had never
loved before. he was unloved: there
fore il was good TO die.
He told her how he had been warn
ed that the cock on St James tower
had crowed thrice that dawn And
then he was amazed. fdr as he made
To rise he could not. He cried out in
his wonder.
She said: BE still
He cried out his despair
She said: BE STILL"
Her arm was tight about his shout
der and that was why his happiness
had left him like startled bird. He
sobbed: Child, for PHYS sake. It's
too late now. Let me die in peace.
To have died without your love was
blessedly easy. A moment ago l was
happy
Die. You And. as she Knocked
him thus the cold irony of the English
tongue tore aside the veil Of the Amer
lean accent, and when the duke stared
into her eyes he had leapt up and run
away for shame but that her arm was
still tight about his shoulder.
You, Leonora. YOU. And so you
have revenged YOURSELF
She whispered: BE still
4 ND as he made to tear himself
away, she said: Yes. I wanted
to be revenged. I wanted YOU to fall
in love with me. I wanted you TO
look a fool
Then you must be very content,
LeOnora, Let me go now"
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BY CARL SHOUP.

7 y a little chamber dug out of the
earth 81 feet below the street
level a scientist sits and figures
i In front of him. inclosed in d
glass case. is a imple-looking in
| strument-so simple that ii is mystic
rious. 1t consists of a thin aluminium
| rod tipped at each end with ball OF
| gold and suspended from It's middle
by a tungsten filament. Outside the
| case and near it are two masses OF
steel, each weighing 140 pounds. The
scientist, alone in this strange re
treat. moves these Jumps of steel with
suitable apparatus, watches the
slight swinging of the aluminium roc
inside the case and notes the results.
He figures carefully. for it is a deli.
cate job that he has undertaken. He
is weighing the earth.
Such is the operation as it appears
to any one who Is a novice in the
sport Of weighing earths. For DIR.
Paul Heyl of the Bureau of Standards
who is the scientist referred to, there
is probably nothing strange about it.
He has worked in this Subterranean
laboratory off and on for year. He
will probably be there. off and on, for
at least half a year more. Finding
the weight of an object as large as
the earth is not something that can
be done in a day. The same measure
, ments, the same calculations. must be
repeated time after time to assure
accuracy.
But why should any one want to
weigh the earth? Outside of pure in
tellectual curiosity there would seem
at first glance to be no practical rea.
son for all this work and worry. This
appears especially true when we re-
member that our globe has already
been weighed several times-not to
such an exact figure as DR.. Heyl
hopes to reach, but to a figure mar
velously close, considering the diff
cultieS in the way. Probably no one
who reads these words will ever have
occasion at any time in his life to dis
earth weighs. Certainly it is not q
, staple topic for the club or the bridge
table.
There are two very important rea-
sons, however, for finding how much
the earth would tip a mythical pair
of gigantic scales big enough to hold
| it. First, all our figures on the
weight of the sun, the moon and the
planets are based on the figures given
| for the weight of the earth. II there
] is an error In the latter, there is bound
! to be an error in the former. From
| the earth's weight as a starting point
astronomical ranificactions stretch
out in every direction. Unless the
starting point is measured accurately
all the other calculations will be
| wrong.
But if you do not happen to be in
| tensely excited over just how much
| Jupiter or Venus weighs, you can still
sympathize with DR.. Heyrs project
| for the second important thing about
the weighing of the earth is that in
this way it's density can be found
And when the density is known more
light is thrown on what the interior
of the earth may be like. This brings
up everything from wandering poles
to earthquakes and volcanoes and
makes the experiment in the little
cell take on a more practical aspect.
It is easy enough, then, to find good
reasons for weighing the globe on
which We live. But to perform tho
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der your gentle enchantment Dear,
your silence Is destroying all of me
but my love. Won't you give me even
so much as queen will give a beg
gar, that, had he been another man
in another world, he might have
kissed her hand?"
Now night had extinguished all but
the last tapers of twilight, and in the
dark silence the maid whispered to
his ear: Your grace, she Is asleep"
y Il X
THE duke told his chauffeur that
he would not need him again that
evening. But he had not walked
about n dozen yards across the Place
Vendome when the GREATNESS voice of
his valet detained him.
This telegram" the valet painted
came the minute after you had left
this afternoon. | took the liberty to
follow you"
The dukes face paled as he read.
The telegram was from the hall por-
ter OF his club in st. James street
The valet. an old servant, was CON
cerned AT his masters pale looks.
Il hope | did right, your grace"
quite right. Martin" And sud
denly the young duke smiled. You
have brought me this wire at Illst the
right moment. / can't. Martin. thank
YOU enough. Meanwhile. old friend
go back and pack We are for Mall
tonight. Paris is no place for an Eng
lishman to die in For PHYS sake,
Martin. don't look so gaga-but CO.
Miss Lambs maid did not attempt
To conceal her surprise at the duke s
quick reappearance. But the young
mans face was so strangely set that
.h. hnl ~
sight of her mistress
III be- she sighed. "dismissed"'
The duke smiled. and maybe he
never was so handsome nor so gay
as at that moment.
The maid said: MY mistress still
sleeps. 1t is wher she is happy that
she sleeps
Happy Does it make a woman
happy, then. TO see a man destroyed
by love-"
1t is more comfortable, Your grace.
TO he loved than 10 love. But I know
nothing Of my mistress heart. |
came 10 her service only the other
day. Yes she is asleep. And the
room is dark"
The duke said> Good, This is. in
deei my lucky day"
Bur q few minutes before he had
left that room in a storm of rage.
Now great peace was on him He
let the minutes pass by, standing
there in the soft darkness His sight
began to distinguish the objects in
the room. ON a table some roses
We're fainling in bowl. He made
ubeiSance and kissed a rose for kiss
ing a rose will clean mans lips
Then he knelt beside the still figure
on the couch and he kissed her
mouth.
oh" she cried and she cried. You
thief
He said: Your voice is so cold that
ice would seem like fire beside it But
| don't care" And again he kissed
her mouth. Then he said: Your lips
are burning. That is very odd. Your
voice is Very cold. but Your lips are
burning. Now. why is that"
For shame" she whispered They
are burning for shame that you are so
little Of a man"
He laughed. his lips by her ear:
Beloved. do you think I would die
without kissing your lips? Honestly,
beloved, could YOU expect it,
Die" she whispered.
He would have laughed again but
he fancied that maybe too much
laughter would not become his situa-
ton. would appear like bra vado. But
he would have liked to show her he
was happy and why he was happy.
A vain man. he had realized that he
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Found in Wisconsin

4 STEEL sword. of the type used
by the British Army during the
was plowed out Of an Indian mound
near Melville, Wis. Except for
slight corrosion the sword was as
good as new
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q dove on spacious lawn. rode fair
white yacht. From It's stern hung a
cluster of golden cherries, for such
was the pretty nautical device of the
young Duke of Mall.
1t must be granted by the most fas-
fidious that the scene was set for en-
chantment. Yet in the yacht ragged a
storm: the Duke of Mall was having
& row with his lady.
"a the moment Of our intrusion my
Lord Duke was saying:
by Heaven, Leonora, I am sick
and tired of it,
That small. lovely head, those wide,
deep, gentle eyes! Yet stern Juno
herself did sometimes walk the earth
In those very eyes. She was not more