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Long, Deep Lakes May Take Place
of POtOmac's Beautiful Valley

for use in the provision of park sites.
and it is believed that some of this
money could be used on this project.
Also the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission has authority to
use it's land purchase funds for the
acquisition of lands in the metropoli-
tan areas of Maryland and Virginia.
Appropriation to Be Asked.
H viewer, this commission has
formed the policy of not purchasing
any lands outside of the District OF
Columbia at this time, beca'. e of the
tirel,- out of the District taxpayers
pockets, and they could not see their
way clear to spend this money for
parks in Maryland and Virginia. On
the other hand, efforts probably will
be made before the next Congress to
have that body provide Federal funds
for the purchase of lands desirable
outside of the District of Columbia
but in the metropolitan area.
1t Il estimated now that there are
approximately 2,400 acres of land be
low CIR at Falls which would have t.
be acquired and above the falls $1,000
acres, and it is also estimated that i:
would require $500 an acre for what
Is cdlled the nOWaSe rights OF THESE
lands
Strong representations are to be
made to the Power Commission by
the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission, which is DESTROYS ot
preserving this area. Members of this
commission also point out that if the
power project Is allowed the water
will wipe out Cabin John Valley, de
clare, to be one of the prettiest pieces
of virgin scenery in this area. The
| back water from the first dam would
in this section, rise to within few
feet of the top of the Cabin Johr
Bridge. said to be thSr1argest single
span bridge in the world.
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Auction First Works
OF Famous Authors

Auctions of first edition works by
great Scandinavian authors and poets
are a regular feature of Oslo life.
Considering the world fame these
writer's have gained and the compare
lively few remaining copies of the first
editions. the prices paid are astonish-
ingly low. At the latest auction such
rare books as the first editions Of
Henrik Ibsen's Brand" ard Peer
Gynt" were sold for 80 crowns and IS
crowns respectively ia crown is worth
approximately its par value-268
cents and 1.-THE Pillars Of Society"
for % crowns. His first drama.
"Katilina," brought the only remark
ably high price, 265 crowns about 500.
Many first editions by the famous
Danish critic. Georg Brandes. drew
still lower bids. His great "Michel-
angelo" fetched about So. the average
price for his other writings being 81
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aids comparable with those that have
been enjoyed in increasing measure
by marine navigation since the estab-
lishment of the first lighthouse in this
country in the year Ills. But no sub
sides have been provided for. and
there appears to be little likelihood
that they will be required
| In carrying out this policy a code
of air commerce regulations has been
promulgated. A force of inspectors
Is now busy working on some 5000
applications that have been received,
covering planes, pilots and mechanics
In about equal numbers.
! There has also been organized an
| information division which is encour-
| aging the establishment of airports
| and making studies in connection with
| tho development of commercial aero
| nauticS. A system of national air
ways, with powerful revolving search.
| light beacons and boundary-lighted in
termediate landing fields and other
aids to air navigation provided by the
Anyways Division, is giving n marked
| impetus to commercial aeronautics, as
it makes possible the successful day
and night operation of aircraft over
definitely established routes on resu-
lar schedule, which is one of the cor
ner stones Of the success of air trans
port.
The mileage of national airways op.
Grating January 1, 1927, was 1910
miles. OF this mileage there were
then lighted, or in course of lighting,
3,427 miles. 1t is planned by Janu-
airy /, 1928. to have a total lighted
national airway mileage Of S,263 miles.
With the improvements that have
been made In the design of airplanes
and engines and in the aids to air
navigation there has been a great in
crease in the safety and reliability of
regular scheduled air transport op-
GRAFTON. During the year 1926, 90
per cent of all scheduled fights on
the United States Air Mail Service
were completed, and the planes flew
on their regular day and night sched-
ules 2,292.o63 miles per fatality. which
is indeed a very enviable record.
Air traffic has shoHn a steady in
crease with. the result that several
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tween the Chinese factions its attitude
Is strictly neutral, but the statement
finds deaf ears.
We are all at sea as to developments
at Hankow. Vaguely, very vaguely,
we hear that the Hankow authorities
are complying with the suggestions
Of Gen. Feng Yu-Hsiang, are purging
out extremist elements, have banished
Borodin and the other Russians. 1t
may be more formal Illustration, it
may be genuine Accommodation
and it may be that there's nothing in
the reports.
Peking's representative on the
Council Of the League of Nations has
thrown up his job and left for home.
1t is said that the total of the
international garrison at Tientsin is
approximately 5000, made up about as
follows: 1000 America ms, 1000 British,
1000 French and 1 900 Japanese The
legation guards at Picking total about
1000.
United States.-The new bridge of
concrete and steel connecting Buffalo
and Fort Erie, Canada, was opened to
the public on June /. Adequate pro-
vision is made for both pedestrians
and vehicles. The structure is a mile
long and has clearance of 100 feet,
ample for the highest masted vessels
using the river. The Canadian termi-
nus is on the ground where the battle
of Fort Erie was fought in 1912, and
the. American terminus is on the site
of old Fort Porter. The ceremony of
dedication will take place on or about
September 1 and will be commemora-
tive Of more than a century of peace
between the United States and Canada.
President Coolidge and the Prince of
Wales are expected to attend.
NOtes.-Apparently at the tri.power
naval conference all hangs upon tho
question whether compromise is pos
sible between the American and Brit
ish attitudes respecting cruisers. The
end of another week should see the
determination Of that question.
The German government has at last
consented to verification by allied ex-
perts Of the destruction of certain
German Notifications near the Polish
border. which had been constructed
in the teeth of the Versailles treaty,
and which that government some
months ago pledged itself to destroy.
AS result, we are informed, of ad-
vice from the League Council to Bel
grade and Tirana. the Albano-Jugoslav
quarrel has been patched up: I repeat
the expression, patched up" The
attache Tor quasi-attache) of the Jugo.
slav legation at Tirana has been re-.
leased from durance vile. and Belgrade
has withdrawn the sharp note sent to
Tirana.
DIR. Hiyedo Noguchi. the distin-
guished Japanese bacteriologist, has
discovered the organism which causes
trachoma. Between this discovery and
the discovery of an agent to put the
little rascal completely out of business.
the interval should be brief.
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Germany Promotes
Week End Vacations

The Germans are a Woodworking
nation and comparatively few of them
enjoy the Saturday half holiday. None.
theless group of industries, aided by
the authorities, decided that Germany
ought to take more interest in week
ends'-if the English have them, why
no the Germans? Therefore there has
been held week end exposition"
with appropriate bun, allows. portable
and otherwise. with hammocks, fish
ir.T rods and other vacation phararher.
MALTA
Among the approved and recon-
mended week end furniture are whole
collections of stuffed field mice. In.
teres>ing was a ski field with jump
created on wooden scaffold and
covered with artificial snow.
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n old friend, Mr.. ]. w. Dunno, has re.
" Gently sent me a book he has writ.
a ten, IAN Experiment With Time" 1
4 a find it Enthusiastically interesting book.
1t has stirred my imagination wildly. and
think most imaginative people will be stirred
by the queer things he has advanced in it. l
do not think it has yet been given nearly
enough attention.
Years ago, in the last century. Mr.. Dunno
came to me for the first time. He was
then young captain in the army and he had
to go out to the South African war He wanted
to tell me something, an idea, that he didn't
want to have lost it, too abruptly for explana-
tons, Boer marksman CHANGED to wipe
him out of existence. 1t was the idea of an air
plane with V-shaped wings based on number
Of experiments he had made with paper models
perfectly sound idea, which has since been
realized in very stable. but not very swift
agile machine. If Dunno had had money
and opportunity for experiment, am sure that
about A. D. 1908 he would have constructed
a practicable heavier.than.air machine, but he
had to go off to his blockhouse work in the
Orange River Colony, and he never got free
hand to build until other investigators had
passed him by
In those days it was extraordinarily hard
to set people to show practical interest in the
aiv. He came to because l had written
what was considered very wild stuff about
fight. l had said that we should fly before
1850! Not a dazzling hit, but better than the
mighty majority opinion that we should never
fly at ALL This magnificent encouragement won
DUNES gratitude and confidence; he put all he
had done far in my hands and I was to
lock it up and keep it secret for him until he
was either killed or could go with his ex.
periments again. He had to come to me- a
perfect stranger before he could find any one
who would take him seriously enough to harbor
what he had to deposit.
Spent Funny Afternoon.
I still remember very cheerfully funny
afternoon we spent in my garden at Sandgate
while Dunno rushed about, climbing up walls
and jumping to garden seats, to release
little f1uttering paper models which illustrated
this or that aspect Of his idea.
He struck me then as having one of the
most patient and persistent minds had ever
encountered. None of the magnesium flare
about his mind, the sort of thing that goes
fizz and lights up everything-as much as it
is ever going to light up everything-but wary.
observing, and, when at last it gets on a trail,
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probably, the greatest in the world in
proportion to the population.
/ Perhaps the most interesting figure
of the jubilee celebration was the in
auguration of the Victory Tower at
Ottawa built as a memorial to Ca
madam participation in the war;, with
its carlton of bells. The tower,
planted on cliff 800 feet high, rises
800 feet above the new Houses of
Parliament. In it Is a carlton of SO
bells cast at the famous foundry of
Gillett & Johnson at Croydon, Eng
land. The largest bell weighs more
than 10 tons, the smallest IA pounds
The experts say it is the finest carlton
in the world. At IL midday on July
an electric signal from George V re-
leased the carlton, which pealed forth
in God Save the King" followed by
20 Canada" the music being broad
cast to the ends Of the earth. 1t may
be remarked in this connection that
the war left Canada a debt of about
SO ,000, 200, 900 and cost her so 900 lives
greater than our loss).
Prince Edward Island. smallest of
the Canadian provinces, has voted to
remain dry. All the other provinces
have voted for government control of
the sale of liquor in place of prohibi-
ton. except Nova Scotia, which has
yet to vote whether or not it shall
make a change.
France.-Poincare has submitted his
1928 budget to the finance commission
of the French Chamber. 1t shows a
small surplus. Poineare thinks it can
be kept balanced without additional
m
iety on that head.
Paul Valery has been installed as
Anatole Frances successor at the
dent Ueconte de Lisle treated his
predecessor, Victor Hugo, most cav
alierly). he damned Anatole France
with faint praise-very, very faint.
Nevertheless, while expecting great
things from M. Valery, we shall con-
ttnue to read with undiminished de-
light and admiration the creator of
"Maitre Jerome Coignars" and Mon
sieur Bergeret."
Spain.-Some weeks ago it was
officially announced that the long
promised National Assembly would
surely meet on September 13; that,
composed of government nominees, it
would draw up a new constitution
providing for Parliament to be elect.
ed by universal suffrage; that, the
constitution completed. a Parliament
would be elected under it's electoral
provisions; that the constitution would
be submitted to this Parliament for
ratification; and that, ratification
given, the return to "normality"
would be considered completed. But
recent statement to the press by
Dictator Primo de Rivera creates
doubt whether the assembly will meet
on September 10; doubt as to the pro.
posed objects of the assembly should
it meet; doubt, even, whether it will
ever meet. The dictator observes that
the assembly is to be composed of
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New Image of Buddha
Made With Concrete

The modernized image of Buddha--
made of reinforced concrete. the first
of the kind ever constructed In
Japan-is now complete in Uyeno, on
the outskirts of Nagoya. 1t is so feet
high. standing 8 feet higher than that
famous Great Buddha at Nara.
The face measures "a feet from the
tip of the chin to the top of the head:
the eyes are each 1212 feet long; the
nose is So feet lo~~; the mouth 43
feet wide, and the hands are each 90
feet from the wrist to the tip OF the
middle finger. the thumb being 1T
feet long. The image is built exact'A
after that of the Great Buddha y.
gSamakura. a.
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, air transport companies can talk
about their net earnings, and more
will be able to do so in the near
future.
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Camps Would BE Removed.

Further. II was pointed out, there is
O plan which was suggested some time
ago and IS being given consideration,
to make this gorge area more Access
sble to automobilists and pedestrians,
and this involves the purchase of the
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal from it's
owners and turning it into practi-
cally level roadway, following the line
of the river as far as Cumberland.
Hundreds of. camps and Summer
homes now lining both banks of the
river would have to go, and officials
point out that such a virgin recreation
area as the river now provides along
It's banks should never be allowed to
g. before the advance of commercial
ventures
The present Chain Bridge would be
under water, and it would be neces-
Sary in the construction of a new
bridge to carry it farther back to the
heights on either side Of the river,
conceded by engineers to be a most
expensive project. If the project is
finally defeated it will be possible to
replace the present Chain Bridge by a
structure at the level of the present
one.
II g conceded shat the provision of
r PARKWAY would be costly one, and
ii the Federal Government does not
see fit to provide tho funds. then the
States of Maryland and virginia would
be asked to provide funds for the pro
vision of an interstate park. Mont
:pmery County next year will obtain
from the safe OF Maryland $4,000
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would use the current did not follow
the project, then some one would
have TO pay the cost, and it was
added that it has been the history
of public utilities that when they
are not getting a fair return on their
investment the first thing they do is
to go before some public service or
public utility commission and ask
it to fix a fair charge for their prod
ucts based on the amount of money
invested, taking into consideration
the valuation of the plant.
Will Wipe Out Scenery.
The construction of this power
plant, it was pointed out would de.
stroy for all time the scenic beauty
of the Potomac River from a point
above Great Falls down to Chain
Bridge, where it is proposed to con-
struct the first dam. This would
raise the water to the heights Of the
cliff, and to within a few feet of the
Conduit road, under which is carried
the lines for the water supply of the
Capital City. The ancient and histori-
cal Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, now
unused in it's upper stretches, because
of breaks during the flood of several
years ago, would be entirely wiped out
and under water, together with the
quaint little lock houses built years
ago, to say nothing of the virgin for
ests which line the banks of the river
in this area.
This first dam would back the wa
ter up as far as Great Falls, bringing
the lake level to the height Of the
gorge at this point. In order to build
the lake and give it a clean bottom,
all of the vegetation, according to the
engineers, would have to be cut down.
Then at Great Falls it is proposed
to erect another dam, which would
put the Falls proper entirely under
water. Members of the Park Com
mission say this should never be al
lowed, as there is not another piece
of scenery like this in the neighbor-
hood of any capital of the world This
lake would back the water up as far
as Brunswick, Nd, just few miles
from Harpers Ferry, w. Va, where
the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
join. And further up these rivers
would be more impounding dams. But
the Park Commission is not concerned
with the area so far up the rivers.
but is very DESTROYS of preserving the
area in the vicinity Of the National
Capital
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-10
BY HENRY w. BUM.

THE following is a brief sum-
l mary of the most important
news of the world for the
i seven days ended July 9:
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Great Transportation Era Seen
BY Three Air Secretaries of u. S.

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~ ENEVA has turned out to be
about the least propitious
place in the world to hold the
~ three.power naval confer
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1927-05-26
THEY ARE now POUNDING
DOWN The HOME STRETCH And
RACE Is CLOSE.
this WEEKS EFFORTS WILL DECIDE.
FAST AND FURIOUS BATTLE Of BALLOTS
WILL END WEDNESDAY,, JUNE 1st.

They're pounding down the
home strech! The fatal last week
is at hand. After weeks of siren
eous effort on the part of ambi-
tious workers who have been
surviving zealously in quest Of sub
scriptions and votes, they see vic
tory just head of them. With
the closing just a few hours off
the curtains will have come down
on one of the most far-reaching
circulation campaigns ever con-
Quoted in this part of Virginia.
Many new subscribers have
been added to The Dickinson
County Herald, new friends have
been made, come to stay we hope,
with Dickinson County's pro-
gressive newspaper.
All is anxiety as the candidates
pound down the home stretch,
vieing with each other to reach
the wire first. Coming under
the wire first in the Herald Cir
culation Drive means highest
honors to the victor.
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mer. Our instructor, Mr.. ]. LIE
wyn Reynolds, a name known
throughout the county, we think
deserves the praise of the people
of Dickinson. His untiring efforts
have won for him a place in our
hearts that cannot be filled by
another. He has stood by us all
and has done more for the far
mers of Dickinson county than
any other man could do and he
stands high in their midst today.
Let's all give three hearty cheers
for J, Lewyn Reynolds and we
sincerely hope that his next year
will be as successful as this.
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LOCAL ITEMS

Read the life story Of Ruth
Brown Snider in the Sunday edi-
ton of the Washington Herald
on sale each Saturday evening at
the Office of The Dickinson Coun-
ty Herald.
Miss Eva Gcse, of Castlewood,
is visiting Miss Virginia Damron
during commencement week.
For SALE: One 1924 Model
Chevrolet Touring Car in good
condition cheap. Apply at Herald
Office
Mr.. John Henry, Baker, of Tivis
Va, had the misfortune to loose
his dwelling house, with all its
contents by fire last Friday.
Everybody see Rudolph Valen-
tino in COBRA" a Paramount
Release at Clintwood Theatre
Friday and Saturday night SOC
P. M. Admission. Is and 25c.
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but carved indelibly in all that we
strive for now.
And it is to these unwritten
stories Of sacsifice and love and
forbearance that attention is call
ed; for they make Memorial Day
truly universal among all classes.
The brotherhood Of man is
shown to be real in the cotemp-
lation that no matter how high
men rise in the accepted scale of
success, all must return to the
mortal element from which they
sprang.
We then begin to understand
that is the soul that develops
alike from humble situations and
from high POSITIONS
So Memorial Day is the time
when the precepts and examples
Of those who have lived and loved
leave their mark upon our mem
Dries and are deeply engraved in
the hearts of men.
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1927-05-26
THE STRAW VOTE.

The straw vote campaign will
continue so long as we have space
for same; but cannot promise our
readers how long this will be.
The ballot appears in this issue.
AS a correction of the voting
rules of last week s issue, we sug-
'gest that any one desiring to vote,
simply mark your ballot the way
you. want to vote ana mail it in a
plain envelope without any marks
of Identification whatever of any
kind. We do not care anything
about knowing who votes for
who. The reason that this was
put in the last weeks rules and
regulations, was chat we had in
mind that someone might vote
more than once; but this restric-
ton is Illuminated and you can
vote as many times as YOU please.
Here is how they stand at the
time we go to press.
You noticed in previous issue
of the Herald that we had start
ed a straw vote campaign. We
have received several votes up to
the time we go to press, but not
as many we had anticipated, due
to the way the announce ment
and voting conditions were drawn
and published. We want to make
this clear to everybody and will
say that it is not necessary that
you sign any name on the envel-
ope or ballot, or make any dist
inguishing marks in any way,
that we are any one else will
know who voted the ballot. This
was restriction or rather a re-
quirement in the announcement
in last weeks issue of the Herald,
but we do not want to know how
you vote all we want to know is
that you voted for some one.
The actual standing of each
candidate will appear in next
weeks issue of the Herald. So
come on voters and vote for your
favorite Candidate and let's have
a little fun. A voting coupon
appears in this paper.