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Evening star., 1927-10-09
BY FREDERICK r. NEELY,


''The motor failed and the plane
crashed, killing the occupants"
| Several hundred, perhaps several
thousand, persons who read this fire..
quent line in stories of airplane acci.
dents, or hear it as relayed by word
of mouth, shudder and come to the
conclusion that when an airplane
motor quits, the plane crashes; that
when plane crashes, it usually kills
somebody, and, therefore. they'll never
| go up because the engine might fail,
| and so on.
When experienced pilots read the
| foregoing line in stories of airplane
accidents they want to run up to the
roofs and scream at the tops of their
voices that:
Dead engines don't cause crashes,
altogether; they cause stalls and the
crashes result from the stalls. 1t is
perfectly possible to get back to earth
safely with a dead engine. It's being
done every day by people who know
their aviation"
Pilot Is Blamed.
And then they would like to go on
with perfectly simple plan of reason.
ing to overcome this fear that they
believe grips the public every time
"engine trouble" Is assigned as the
cause of the crash. True, engine fail
ure Is probably the original cause. but
there are SO many steps that pilot
can take before the ultimate is
reached that the veteran" airman Of
10 years flying refuses to believe that
when a motor quits the crash will fol.
low and there's no use trying to pre-.
vent it..
Any pilot about Washington, and
there are plenty of them old in the
game, will obligingly go into the de-
tails of these ''engine failure" crashes.
II he knows with whom he Is talking
he will not hesitate to place the blame
on the pilot, if deserved, even though
the pilot has paid the penalty of not
carrying out the watchword of flying
--alertness.
Most airplanes are constructed with
an angle of incidence in the wings
which gives them the natural ten.
dency to climb. Put yourself in the
pilots cockpit, they will say; grasp
the stick with the right hand and put
the balls Of your feet on the rudder
bar.
Evening star., 1927-10-09
BY j. A. O'LEARY.

With such important new business
as flood control for the Mississippi
River and revision of Federal taxes
to be dealt with, the Seventieth Con-
gress also will inherit a number of
legislative problems left unacted on
by it's predecessor, the Sixty-ninth.
Some of these leftover matters had
advanced to within a few steps of en-
actment at the last session and prob.
ably would be out of the way now
had it not been for the jam that de-
yeloped in the Senate in the closing
weeks of the old Congress. While
the beginning again, since this is a
new Congress. their chances for pas
sage this Winter are bright.
In this class falls the public build
ings BILL authorizing an additional
100000, 900 for new structures in the
States and an authorization of $685..
900, 900 to buy all the private land in
the Pennsylvania avenue triangle for
the Washington Federal building pro-
gram. The District of Columbia por.
ton Of this measure passed both
sUTdnCtleS u SOIlSICSS dI tflS ElSL SoS-
sion, but the parliamentary situation
prevented Senate leaders from obtain
ing a vote on the House amendment
to increase the authorization outside
of Washington.
Postal Rate Provision.
The bill revising certain schedules
of the postal rates, including a pro-
vision to restore the rate of / cent
to private mailing cards, is another
that had reached the stage of con.
ference report when it was stranded
in the Senate fiilibuster last March.
The so-callcd alien property bill, in.
volving three major problems between
the United States and Germany grow.
ing out Of the World War, passed the
House at the last session, but was
one Of a number of measures still
gclamoring for consideration i'm the
Senate when the hour Of adjournment
arrived.
Because Of its urgency, the second
deficiency appropriation bill, which
died awaiting Senate action in March,
probably will be the first leftover
question to be taken up by the new
Congress in December. Nearly all OF
the Government departments and the
District Of Columbia are in need OF
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SEVENTEEN CONGRESS INHERITS
BATCH OF LEFTOVER PROBLEMS
Measures That Failed of Disposition at Last Session
Will Add to Troubles When New
Proposals Come Up.

funds to be provided for in that meas
ure to carry on essential functions
for the remainder of the current fiscal
year.
There is still another class of pro-
posed legislation that has been com.
ing up annually for a number Of
years, and some of these matters are
almost certain to be revived again
by the introduction of bills and COM
mittee consideration of them.
Railroad Consolidation.
Under this heading are such. topics
as railroad consolidation, the future
operation of the Muscle Shoals prop.
erty in Alabama and the question of
setting up some machinery to en-
courage peaceful relations in the coal
industry as means Of preventing
future fuel emergencies. The extent
to which these questions will be con-
sidered is not SO certain at this time.
Senator Fess. Republican, of Ohio.
had bill pending at the last session,
which probably will be presented
again to encourage the unif1cation Of
the rail carriers in accordance with
the aim to group the railroads of the
Nation into number Of strong sys-
TENS for the general improvement of
transportation conditions
AS set forth in a report made to the
Senate on this subject more than
year ago, the rail facilities of Amer.
lea at that time were owned by l 500
and operated by about 1000 separate
railway companies.
The Fess bill would declare it to be
the policy of Congress to encourage
unification of the roads into a num-
ber of well balanced systems, with a
view to maintaining necessary weak
and short lines, maintaining existing
routes and channels of trade as far
as practicable, promote economy, pre-.
serve the advantages of effective com.
petition and to move traffic at the
lowest rates compatible with the
maintenance of adequate and efficient
transportation service.
Procedure Is Outlined.
In order to carry out that policy
the bill outlines detailed procedure by
which two or more carriers would be
permitted to move voluntarily to-
ward unification, subject to approval
of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. The proposed measure then
provided that afted seven years the
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American insistence upon equality
with Britain in the matter of fleets.

American insistence upon equality
with Britain in the matter of fleets
Failing this, Europe generally has
undertaken to find an explanation
based on it's own experience. More
over, at Geneva and in the League
one most frequently hears new ex-
PLANTATION voiced. From the League
point of view the United States Is be.
coming a menace to Europe collec-
lively. Quite naturally, then, Europe
must unite against us. And where,
save at Geneva, can that union be
accomplished?
I have made various endeavors to
discover the origin of this belief. 1t
would be an easy and simple solution
to find that it had been the result of
British propaganda stirred by the fail
ure of the naval conference and the
resulting strain upon AngloAmerican
relations. But I am frank to say that
no such cause Is discoverable. 1t
seems rather to have developed in
Geneva spontaneously than to have
been brought here from England.
u X X X
The temptations to reason by anal.
ogy are many. Europe is conscious
of the fact that we alone emerged
victorious from the war and that the
economic and financial consequences
of this are to give the United States
power beyond that enjoyed by any
other nation, even in the pre.war Pc
riod. The use of our financial power,
too, has been such as to arouse al
most universal European resentment.
But last year all the denunciation was
confined to the money side. Shylock-
ism was perceived, Caesarism was still
hidden.
Today you cannot proceed far with.
out seeing the utter transformation
Germany, before 1870, says Europe,
less idea of military domination of
the continent. But military victory
won so easily and at such little ex-
pense changed the whole mentality of
the people. Is not the same trans
formation at least possible in the case
of the United States? This was the
anxious Interrogation Of one Of the
most liberal of German editors.
That conflict between the United
States and Great Britain Is at least
conceivable Is the view of many con-
tinentals if of few Britons. The Con.
tinent is used to British sea suprem.
acy. At the moment it is even recon.
ciled to it. Britain as the guarantor
of France under the Locarno pacts is
a necessary elsmsnt in French sscu'
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PLANE AND MEN CAN BE SAVED
BY PILOT If ENGINE GOES DEAD
Fatalities in Military and Mail Services Reduced to
Minimum by Experience-Stress Laid on
Preserving People Before Craft.

Now you are flying along peacefully
at thousand or more feet. The stick
is in neutral" thereby overcoming
the angle of incidence, and the plane
flies on a level course. Just for curl
osity, ease back on the stick and you
will see the nose go up slowly. Stimuli
taneosuly, the arrow on the air-Speed
indicator, which. for example, has
been resting at 30 miles per hour, be.
gins to drop. Keep that same grip
on the stick and the arrow falls lower
and lower until it reaches go" or even
80. There's the stall in a majority
Of the faster planes.
Then things will happen thick and
fast. With a mighty swish, the plane
may fall off on one wing and go
plunging down, nose first, into a spin.
In your dizzy rush downward you note
the altimeter reads 1900 feet, so there
IS nothing to worry about. In a few
seconds you have acquired sufficient
flying speed, through the spin, and
you pull out gracefully.
1t also is perfectly possible to be in
some planes that will stall unless You
keep watching them like a hawk.
More than once students have become
enthralled by some sight on the
ground while handling planes in the
air. and unknown to them the angle
of incidence has caused the plane to
climb Slowly, but .teadily, until it is
ready to go into a spin.
-.
Crashes on lTake-Off.
If the plane were one or two hun.
dred feet above the ground and the
events took place, the story
would be sad one. The plane would
strike the ground on it's nose and he
would be a lucky man in the front
seat who escaped with even serious
injuries.
In these cases the engine did not
fail. It was the work of the pilot that
caused the spin. In a majority OF
cases the same truth can hold good
even If the engine does cease to func.
ton. p
The most frequent crashes resulting
indirectly from dead engine, as the
pilots will emphasize, occur on the
take-off. Very few pilots survive from
his type. These crashes are brourht
about in this manner:
The pilot prepares to take-off by
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~ ENEVA.-Wrltln from tnlS
side of the Atlantic last year,
set forth in detail the inn
~ pressive phenomenon Of Amer
lean unpopularity. We were
then "Uncle Shylock" from Lands
End to the Urals. We were even
more bitterly denounced in the coun-
tries with which we had been asso.
ciated as allies during the war than in
Germany, to whose ruin we had con-
tributed the decisive blow. Viewing
the same problem after the lapse OF IL
months, how do we now stand?
At the outset one must note a
change, a change at least in degree.
Whatever else Europe thinks of the
American Nation, it no longer concen-
trates it's attention on the financial
issue alone. Again, where it's opinion
tended to be explosive in 1925, it is far
less passionately expressed in 1927.
AS an American, one Is infinitely less
unpleasantly conscious of European
resentment. Even the brief Sacco-Van-
zetti outburst has died away and left
little aftermath.
I do not think, however, that one
can fairly say that we are more pop.
ular today than a year ago. A great
deal OF the outward change has re-
suited from the improvement in finan-
cial conditions, notably in Belgium and
France. A year ago both countries
were in the throes of grave crises and,
in Brussels and Paris. American debt
policy was held responsible. Today the
crises are over. Sterilization in Bel
GUM, a system of pegging in France,
have resulted in ending fiuctuation in
exchange. Immediate discOmforts are
at an end.
Uncle Sam, then, is far less ia
miliarly presented as Uncle Shylock.
But that unlucky old fellow is, one
must confess, taking on still another
disguise In European eyes. He is COM
ing to seem not a little imperalstic
and perhaps bit militaristic-or more
exactly navalistic. For this the Amer
ican action at the naval conference Is
largely responsible.
In European eyes blame for the fail.
ure Of the conference itself is rather
impartially distributed. On the whole
the continent looks a little aghast at
what 1t conceives to have been British
blundering. But in the larger sense 1t
holds America responsible because 1t
totally fails to see any reason for the
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Evening star., 1927-10-09
BY FRANK III. SIMONDS.

- ENEVA.-Writing from this
side Of the Atlantic last year,
I set forth in detail the i'm
pressive phenomenon of Amer
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lators must in the meantime ne kept
up to the normal abundance.
Daily energy allowance per pound
for young and middle aged adults:
Without exercise, 1915 Galleries
per pound.
With light exercise. 1918 Galleries
per pound.
With moderate exercise, 1920
calories per pound.
With hard muscular lsbor, 2o-23
calories pc. pound
With very severe labor, 2327
Galleries per pound.
The suggested diets which follow
all have similar amounts of building
materials and regulators. Some,
however, are low and some are high
i'm fuels.
edge the amounts OF the building
and which adults need daily are:
Protein, 60 to 100 grams.
Calcium. 81 grams.
Iron. .015 grams.
Phosphorus. 1872 grams.
The diets which will appear with
following articles. even those of low
est fuel value. have enough of the
above building materials. In addi-
ton these diets will supply the other
needed building materials and regu-
lators. When you have determined
which diet is best for you and most
suited to your tastes. detach the
sheet containing 1t and place 1t
where It is easily referred to as you
market and prepare your meals.
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Before such scale could he drawn
up all our knowledge on this subject
would have to he assembled. 1t would
also he desirable to bring together
doctors who had made special studies
of the various phases of health related
to weight and let them give each
other the benefit of their knowledge
and opinion
Because weight control is so closely
related to public health. the American
Medical Association co-operated in the
calling last February Of the first adult
weight conference. IT met in the New
York Academy of Medicine and was
attended by 90 of the leading physi-
clans and dietitians from all over the
country. Each one of the men in
vited was n leader in some field of
health related to weight control. Each
came to tell the conference what he
knew about the subject. to add to his
knowledge what the others knew and
to draw new conclusions from this
intimate interchange Of ideas.
X * X
\ TTENDING the conference from
New York were DIR. Wendell G..
Phillips. president of the American
Medical Association DR.. Charles l..
Dana. chairman of the public health
committee Of the New York Academy
of Medicine; DIR. f. II. Lewinski-
Corwin. executive secretary of the
public health committee of the New
York Academy of Medicine: DR.. Har-
low Brooks, professor Of clinical medi'
cine. New York University; DR..
u. ~ of
cal EDUCATION, Columbia University:
DR.. Menas s. Gregory, professor Of
psychiatry at New York University
and director psychiatric department,
Bellevue Hospital: DIR. Louis l.
Dublin. statistician. Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company; DIR. Haynes
Harold Fellows. in charge of depart
ment OF gastrology and instructor Of
medicine, Cornell University, and di-
rector of metaboliC work for employees
of Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany: DR.. Charles Davenport. director
eugenics laboratory, Cold Spring Har-
Dor.
Chicago members were DIR. Morris
Fishbein, editor Journal of the Amer
lean Medical Association and Hygeia:
DR.. Arthur J. Cramp, director bureau
Of investigation, American Medical AS
ISOLATION: DIR. Solomon Strouse. author
of recent researches on control of de-
posts of fat in the human body: DR..
Anton Julius Carlson, professor OF
physiology, University of Chicago.
The Mayo Clinic, at Rochester.
Mimi. was represented by DR.. Rus
sell Wilder. professor Of internal med
icine.
From Baltimore there were DIR,
Lewellys r. Barker, emeritus profess
sor Of medicine, Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, and DIR. Joseph G. BloodgoOd,
professor of surgery at Johns Hop
kins
Prof. Flora Rose, director of the
college Of home economics at Cornell,
came from Ithaca.
DR.. Henry l.. X. Shaw, consultant of
the division of maternity, infancy and
child hygiene in the New York State
department Of health, was there from
Albany.
New Haven, Conn, representatives
were DR.. Lafayette B. Mendel, pro-
lessor of physiologic., chemistry at
Yale University. and DIR. John T..
Lane, consulting dermatologist, New
Haven Hospital.
The United States Public Health
Service at Washington was represent
ed at the conference by Dr. Hugh s.
Cumming. surgeon general. and by DR..
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with me. For, to the passionless Es-
kimo, no item in life shines as does
the adored child.
THREE sleeps later Metok went out
into the night. He returned with
a shout. ut Is the end of the wind
was his glad cry.
"Ai-O. And of our babe.' moaned
Alataq.
Metok sobbed as he leaned over the
tiny one. 1t breathed. But it's walls
had turned to little gasps. He
Strengthened up suddenly, fiercely. Il
shall bring meat before l sleep" he
grimly told the woman.
He hitched his six surviving dogs
to his smallest sledge. The animals
We're living skeletons. Their diet for
two weeks had been only some putrid
seal blubber and little scraps of skin
cut from an old shirt that had be-
longed to the Eskimo's grandmother.
The air was now calm. though bit
terly cold. My spirit thermometer
showed minus 81 degrees. The stars
were knife-thrusts in the blue black
metallic dome overhead. A quarter
moon hung above the southern hori.
zon, shedding it's wan rays over this
land of desolation.
AS my joint was still lame, Metok
let me ride. But the weak dogs found
me heavy. I sat with my rife on my
knees. A fox as well as bear would
have meant a meal; even the sinking
wolf with it's acid flesh was not to be
scorned.
1.-The babies must live" muttered
Metok as he strobe YEARLY at the
upstanders. But tragedy seemed to
dog his footsteps. For we found the
ice edge at which walrus should be
playing no longer existed. In the
calm. fearful cold, the CONCEALED brine
Of Baffin Bay extended miles out to
sea. 1t was madness for us to drive
onward. The first whisper of a breeze
would have taken us to death in the
black waters to the south.
But there was no choosing Deaf
by starvation was closer to us than
by any other form just now. One
dog dropped as we travelled. This
meant that the why team had lost
its stamina even more than we sup.
posed.
Suddenly ahead through the dim
light I saw wall of vapor. This
I. meant we were near the sea, one of
. the spectacular phenomena of the Far
, North: the smoke screen of the ocean.
ture of the ocean never goes below
Is degrees Fahrenheit in any part of
the world. So when the air tempera-
ture is in the f1fties below zero there
| Is a tremendous difference between
| the two. The result is exactly as If
| kettle of hot water were lifted off
the stove into room 70 or so degrees
cooler.
| We came to the edge of the ice. Off
| through the heavy vapor we could
hear the painting and snorts of the
walrus herd who came here to feed
upon the CLANS that grow In the mud
brought out by the Summer streams
of glacial water.
| Silently Metok hitched his team to a
ring of ice he cut in the foe on which
we stood. The dogs half-heartedly
cooked their ears toward the occas ional
| bull roar which drifted in from our
game. But they were too close to
death to show any real animation.
The hunters next move was to
draw from the sledge his harpoon and
eflx at its end the barbed point to
which. was attached his long line Of
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great shout of welcome Now I
could return TO the warm stone igloo
and share with the mother and child
the fruits of our success.
/ sprang to my feet. In my re-
joicing, l forgot the wind and the
cold. and the snow smother swirling
about my furclad body. 1 stumbled
In my excitement as ran toward my
friend. My arms were outstretched.
Just before l reached him, Metok
rose. He more than rose; he lowered.
He expanded. / stopped. my heart
in my mouth. What was this ap-
partition?
The next instant / knew. Ny ears
told me as well as my eyes. It was
not Metok. / stood face to face with
a gigantic polar bear, twelve feet
tall. and broad as an adult OK. His
roar drowned even the billiards.
tumult
Instinctively had brought my rifle
from the igloo. 1t was now I'm my
hands. I had but to place It to my
| shoulder and take the stupiiest sort
OF aim and my bullet would dart to-
ward my foe at the nearly incredible
velocity Of $500 feet per second. He
would slither helplessly to the snow
and die. Another mass of meal
| against our famine.
These thoughts flashed across my
mind. Then, as If touched by the
wand Of an Evil Spirit, my brain be.
! came limpid water. / found that I
| could not think.
The bear advanced: IL feet away
now-10-s-. I could almost reach
! out and touch him. He dropped TO
| all tours, yet stood nearly to my
shoulder. In the half-light. his size
was monstrous. My heart pounded
against my ribs. MY eyes burned
with the panic that seemed to have
paralyzed me.
On the bear came. lie did not roar
again. But his breathing was Il gasp
Ing exhalation more horrible than his
first noisy threat. He breathed upon
me as 1 fiattened desperately against
the granite wall. Nausea swept me
at the acrid odor which issued from
his mouth. t,r.-a.
A moment :. year. I waited:
waited inert with dread. Waited for
him to strike. :. tft ..
He did not strike. He kept on.
At the igloo entrance he paused and
shifted. Once more his great pointed
head rose. and his jaws stretched.
while he roared a sort Of terrific, gut
tural groan that went booming up the
gully. -.
Half-fainting, I watched him draw
from within the fresh-scraped hide Of
his mate. whom he had killed, Pant
ing. he took the heavy burden in his
cleaning teeth and TURNED. He. pass
ed me, dragging the skin, not TURN
ing to look. and disappeared, into the
smothering blast toward the ice,cract.
L remember no more. Metok said
he found me in the igloo. ! was Ill
for days. high fever and fits of de-
lirium. Alataq's nursing brought me
around.
When my brain became clear Me.
tok said: Few escape the White
Fear. You did. No doubt the al
might devil has another use for
your pale body"
A year later in New York told
the story to man who knows about
such things.
Yes" he said. without great sur
prise. ''the male bear often returns
for the skin. of his mate. Did you
shoot him?'
mo-" said I. without shame.
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