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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-25

WHERE ARE THE REST OF
THE FINGER BOWLS! =. I
SHOULD THINK YOU MIGHT
HAVE THINGS MORE on YOUR
MIND-OR DON'T YOU KNOW
THAT THERE SHOULD BE MORE
THAN TWO?. REALLY MOTH.
ER. Y0u WERE AWFULLf
CAPEf Fss. .
, 1927-03-31

[JAUNAAL 1IUNGLL
u ST. CR ok.
Continued from yesterday's Avis)
list Member for C|bristiansted Town
(~Cauc0atd): MIR. Chairman, | was only
seeking information.
Bird Member for Frederiksted Country
District (AHder8eu) remarked: Mr. Chair
man. | have always understood that the
list was a part of an ordinance. May
be the Council is not to be guided by
the Rules Of Business. That is Imma-
terial to me as far as that goes. ii the
amendment is up for discussion ! viii
like to say a couple words.
The Chairman remarked: If this is
a draft IF ordinance the law demands
three discussions. ] think it would lie
pulling hairs il we 90 to make ALI that
fus to amend a list which is not an ordl-
nance.
1st Member for C~hristiansted Town
(CuueQqta) remarked: Mar. Chairman, /
want 10 point out as regards the proce.
dure. Il the Hon. Member introduces
this amendment as an ordinance he has
the right to speak on it without consent.
If it is a resolution he cannot speak be-
fore he has obtained the consent OF this
Council, and that is only reasonable.
LIST Member for Frederiksted Country
District (BJ0ck20o0d) said he had an or
diuance with him which was introduced
by Government in the Sixth Council,
Second Session April 20, 1928 and read
it for the information Of the members.
He further said chat there was no state
mpnf ON II as TO how maDV discussions 1t
YVES subjected to.
LIST Appointed Member (Couiter) re-
marked: Mr.. Chairman, | would prefer
to with lraW this amendment and INTRO
duce it in the proper form. j dc not
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-04-30
ST. PAUL HO
Not All Can Worthily
Wear "EIiiah's Mantle"

History Is full of instances of men
OF whom it has been said: "The man.
tie Of Elijah descended upon him."
1t means that he was a worthy sue
~cessOr of some still more famous mas
ter. For instance, Pitt the Younger
worthily succeeded to the mantle of
his father, the famous earl Of Chat
ham. On the other hand, Richard
Cromwell quite failed to wear the man.
tie of his father, the mighty Oliver.
The phrase is obviously Biblical.
When Elijah the prophet went up "by
a whirlwind into heaven" the mantle
with which he had divided the waters
Of the River Jordan fell from his
shoulders. Elisha, his servant and
successor, picked up the fallen cloak.
for 1t seemed to him that it would
serve to prove whether he was true
successor or not.
The story goes on: HE took the
mantle Of Elijah which fell from him,
and smote the waters and they
parted hither and thither; and Elisha
went over. And when the sons of the
prophets saw him, they said.
The spirit Of Elijah doth rest on
Elisha"
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-04-30
Work in Locomotive Cab

Account was kept recently of the
effort exerted by the man at the throt-
tie and the fireman in making a run
of less than 200 miles. On that 200
mile trip they perform 5,123 individual
acts, which are divided up as follows !:
Steam throttle is operated 1928 times !;
the whistle, 28S; brake valve, 90;
blower valve, no; air fire door, 945 !;
bell ringer, 200: leech. 80; right in
jector, 700; left injector, 80; water
gauge tests, 30; and equalizing brake
and discharge valve, 752.
In addition to all these activities,
there is the road to watch with all its
signals, functions, highway crossings,
passenger stations, bridges, culverts
and tunnels. Taking all this physical
and mental work into consideration 1t
was estimated that 3S foOt-tons Of ef-
fort are exerted In making the round
trip in question.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-04-30
Animals Never Quite
Lose Fear of Snakes

Monkeys will never face snakes.
Even those born in captivity show the
widest alarm If one is placed near
them.
Darwin once made an interesting
experiment with monkeys and snakes.
He was anxious TO discover which was
the stronger emotion, curiosity or
fear? l recently saw film in which
the experiment was reproduced, writes
a correspondent of the Montreal
Herald. 1t was taken in the London
ZOO. A snake was placed In a basket
with the lid closed, but not fastened.
This was put in an enclosure In which
there was number of monkeys.
At first the basket was not no.
ticed, then one and another of the
inquisitive creatures approached it,
and after a lot Of hesitation the BRAY
est slowly opened the lid. All peeped
In, but when the monkeys saw what
the basket contained the lid was IL.
stantly dropped, and all of them
dashed off to the most distant corner
of their compound. They could not
be induced to approach the basket
again.
1t was found that baby chimpan-
zee born in the zoo, and never having
seen snake before, was thoroughly
scared when one was placed near it,
while an infant orang-outang cried out
in great alarm when 1t saw one for
the first time.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-04-30
THE DEAD'S TRIBUTE FOR THE LIVING

of the hardest world that newspaper
editor The editor continually being cussed and discussed by
the whom he endeavo help by his aboous e
forts to wholesome articles for them to read Certain
conditions that exist in the community nation the editor
pected condemn condone and usually either the editor
catches for doing the thing according to the wise
who always right.
condition exists here the Twin Cities that rather
reluctant herald the world but has the point where
feel that unbearabe by the intelligent members the
we'll needless imposition the innocent victims of the
ridiculous practice That practice is the ndiscreon
csed by great persons who elect themselves to visit the
and thereby do harm than good the members of the
family well as the patient
We had the painful experience of visiting old friend of
suffering from minor ament of the heart Much to
regret ladies crowded into the bedroom and when all available
filled good religious we meanng) sister gave
her chair to and comfortably seated herself the
bed the lady, The silly of this that the lady who
argument about trle which they differed How
stupid argue with whose heart isn't funconng properly
We have tolerated people crowdng into the sick
ing gossip loud talking telling the sick how badly they look and
speaking all of the deaths in the neghbohood of
with the maady and endless list of other things
but instant attention recently which makes all OF
the above named vices look like virtues
Friends and neighbos sent flowers tribute to the de-
family Lovely floral tributes they too or the
dead) But this dear weeping family thoughtes to
the tributes from the casket and send gift
to young person confined the hospital Could anything
be place than flowers to the living that had
lying the bier of the dead and had absorbed OF
the that usually encountered around the caSke?
We call the attention of readers to these conditions
group help the few who guilty of such
conduct The few the who the to
be dscreded Loud talking the streets and public conveyance
going the with bedroom slippers changing So
bills on the street
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-04-30
EUading State LauDs

In American constitutional law an
original package" means the package
In which goods are shipped from one
state to another. The United States
courts held that where an article Is
imported into one state from another
1t does not lose the protection of the
interstate commerce clause while the
original package remains unbroken
and Is the property Of the importer.
Interpretation Of these decisions made
1t possible to evade state laws by
selling direct to the customers in orig
inal packages. The Importance of
this is in its bearing on the sale of
cigarettes and other commodities
about which state laws differ.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-04-30
Diplomatic Official

There were some doubts as to a
mans fitness for the school board, but
his first speech in his official capacity
silenced all critics. He listened to sew
eral recitations with grave and in
terested air, and at the end of the last
one he rose to address the school, "by
request" "Some things are in my
province as member of the school
board, and some are not he said,
with genial smile. tits within my
province to say that l never heard
scholars answer up more promptly
than you children of District No. 1.
AS to whether your answers are or are
not correct, it is not my place to say.
Your teacher knows, and in her hands
I leave the matter"
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-04-30
Soap Berry Still Used

The manufacture of soap upon a
very large scale dates only from
1923. The use of soap is of great an
tiquity. A well-equipped soap fac
tory was found by the excavators of
Pompeii. Historical records of Italy
and Spain show that soap was in use
in those countries In the Eighth CEN
fury. The soap berry was used before
soap was manufactured. Soap berry
is the common name of several spe-
cies of Sapindus and Of the fruits
which are so rich in saponin that they
were employed for the same purpose
as alkaline soap before the days of
that article. The Chinese prefer them
even yet for cleansing the hair and
delicate silks.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-04-30
BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY
By WILLIAM FEATHER

in Philadelphia Public Ledger
EXPERIENCE COSTLY but reduce the expense it
if we will profit by the experience of Others
Let tell something the learning of which has brought
tears disappointment and failure into the lives of thou
sands.
Don't shortweght your employer
When any of given job to do, let do it the very
best know how Let put heart and soul into that job
Let us give employers all We have in u.s.
That is the royal road to success.
Whatever doing do it with all the that is in
Set your pace don't wait for the sting the whip
urge you Learn to work without supervision.
Don't listen to the little devils who whisper in your tell
ing to "take it easy" you get with this.
Anything less than your best unworthy YOU you do
your best you cannot fail
All experience attests to the truth of this
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-04-30
Famous Early American

Stephen Girard was born near
Bordeaux, France, May "a. 1850. He
took to seafaring life, became mas
ter of a sailing vessel, then owner Of
several ships in the American coast
ing and West Indian trade. He set
tied in Philadelphia, increased his
feet, and amassed a fortune. the
greater part Of which was left to
found and endow Girard College for
Orphans in Philadelphia. He was re-
garded, at the time of his DEATH as the
wealthiest man In the United States,
although compared to some modern
notions his fortune was perhaps only
a modest one-soine 100000.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-04-30
TROOP IS, BOY SCOUTS

St. Paul. They colored boys Their leaders coord They
from representative homes They contests
make public appearances with the best boys from the best fam
lies of St. Paul. All of us will be rated by this comparison.
Among the questions asked Do their people care? Are
the boys neat and clean appearance and conduct? Are they
obedent commands? they alert? The comparison with
help.
Ask any housewife the neghborhood where the members
of Troop IS ve they will tell how the boys conduct them
Selves that there fairness in their that there is al
petty pferng the neghborhood that the boys
good workers when hired to wash windows paint clean
up rubbish make garden Mr. John Kelly and his assistants
deserve great credit for this unrng work boys
the Troop committee is busy raising funds to
vide gym boys they may have better opportunity
competition dollar good word will do much Most of
can give both We representative citizenship
turn. Is it worth while?
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-04-30

The biggest dividend payers in the world good mar
They can be cultivated by taking pains.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-04-30
Synthetic Products

Synthesis means putting together,
and it is, therefore, the opposite OF
analysis, which means taking apart,
splitting up into Its constituent parts.
In chemistry, synthesis is making
rapid strides, and substances are
made now synthetically to such an
extent as to do away with the neces,
sity in some cases Of producing them
by natural means. The production OF
indigo Is a striking illustration of this
fact.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-04-30
DULUTH NOTES

Services were well attended Sun
day at St. Marks church. DR.. A. N.
Abrinen, Dean of the East End Bible
School, addressed the Sunday school.
Mr.. Geo. Adams is Superintendent.
Rev. Beasley continues to improve
and is looking quite himself again.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-04-30
Snakes Used Incidentally

A French doctor says that in many
houses in his district dried adiers are
preserved, and when any member Of
the family catches cold or suffers
from chills and fever, he Is given a
dose Of liquid prepared from pieces Of
the dried snake boiled in water for a
quarter of an hour. This opens the
pores and causes the patient to per-
spire.
Pieces of dried snake are also sold
by chemists to drive away, among 9TH
er things, the rosy rash that accom-
panies measles.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-04-30
Unclaimed Riches

Hundreds Of thousands Of dollars
in cash are taken annually from the
mails in the United States where let
tiers have been improperly addressed
and delivery is impossible. One post
office alone took $125,OOO in cash from
such letters, although in this instance
$4,000 of it was returned to the send
er. The other letters had no return
address on them. This same post Of
fee reported 100000 perfectly blank
envelopes with letters inside deposit
ed In the mails in one year.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-04-30
Unit of Horse PoWer
an Arbitrary Findin9

The term ''hOrse power" was orig
mated by James Watt and Matthew
Boulton, the British mechanicians who
improved the steam engine, took it out
Of the chemical laboratory, and put
it to practical. use Watts first work
with the steam engine was done In
1765, and his partnership with Boulton
was from 1774 to 1900.
AS soon as they placed their engine
on the market there arose need for
some means of gauging and compar-
ing its strength. The horse became
their comparison, although the term
horse power had no precise meaning
at first. But the inventors made
practical tests and found that the
average London dray horse could
work steadily for eight hours at the
rate of 33,OOO-foot pounds an hour.
Later experimenters got results diff
fering considerably from that Of Watt
and Boulton. and 22,OO0foo pounds
per minute is more nearly the average
to be expected Of the horse, but $4,000
pounds has been adopted as the unit
and has become a universal standard
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1927-04-30

Why not put subscribing for the
Echo in your cooperation plans?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-24

negroes. It is charged that Briggs
was their collector.
Representative F. III. La Guardla
today demanded" of Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon the immediate sus-
nension of Mai, Heise, on the
strength of Heises admissions in the
Federal Court yesterday. At the
same time Mr.. La Guardia announced
his intention of demanding the imme-
date indictment of Heise for assault.
The demand for Heise's suspension
and the announcement La Guardia
would ask an indictment against
Heise were contained in a telegram
sent by La Guardia to Secretary
Mellon.
Physician Takes Stand.
Mai. Chester p. Mills. chief prohi-
bition administrator, while declining
to make any official statement of the
charges, pending the outcome Of the
trial. declared that Heise had denied,
on the stand, that he had actually
tortured Briggs, admitting, Maj. Mills
said, that he had merely threat
ened to-
Previously, Maj Mills went on,
Briggs had thanked Heise, on the
stand. for treating him like a gentle
man." and Benny Richmond, the
man said by Briggs to have been
kicked, beaten and thrown through a
window, had denied he had been
beaten.
DR.. Leo Fitz Nearon, who said he
| treated Briggs for 'severe pains
in the head" the day after the alleged
third degree beating in Heises office,
testified at the trial today, substan-
| tiating Briggs charges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-24

went in at 10 o'clock. and were still
closeted there at II o'clock, while
curious persons fingered outside the
hotel, and the doorman still growled
because they didn't go in the main
entrance. 80 / could open the door
for him.
Decides on Future.
Lindbergh ended his first day here, a
long and strenuous one, with one thing
definitely settled--he will devote his
future to the development of his
country's commercial aviation. This
much was apparent when he closed
his conferences with the air chiefs and
retired shortly before l o'clock this
morning. and it was confirmed by Sec
rotary Hoover before he left for New
Orleans last night.
ut is with definite and practical
plans for the development of CONNER
cial aviation that Col. Lindbergh pro-
poses to devote HIMSELF the Secretary
said. Il believe after the discussion
we have had with him that he will
bring about accomplishments in the
tield.' he added.
After luncheon with Secretary Hoo
yer yesterday the flyer and the three
Air Secretaries went for cruise on
the Sylph, Secretary Wilbur's yacht.
Others taking part in the discussion
held aboard the yacht were Capt.
Emory S. Land, assistant chief of the
Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, and
Lieut.. r. w. Douglass of the Army Air
Corps. Maj. Lanphier was to have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-24
BYRD FLIGHT NEWS
WILL Be FOR ALL
No Especial Bulletins" Dur
ing America Trip to Go
to Anybody.

Promises by various newspaper
syndicates of special bulletins from
Comdr. Byrd's airplane during it.
tight across the Atlantic have brought
out emphatic official statements from
| the commander himself and from the
| sponsors of the flight that as has beer
| thoroughly understood from the be
| ginning there will be no special bul
| letinS' for anybody.
Every message that comes from the
| plane in transit will be available tC
all newspapers and all news associa
| tons. None will be especially IA
| vored--not even The Evening Star
| which has shared in the purchase OF
| Comdr. Byrd's own story of the ex.
| plot, to be Cabled by him to The Eve
ming Star and associated newspapers
from Europe after his arrival.
The official statements were prompt
ed by a publication which has bought
one of the numerous stories of the
flight" offered by syndicates as COM
ing from members of the crew of the
airplane, printing a statement that
Lieut.. Neville, the radio operator on
the plane, would send it bulletins dur
the epoch-making Journey" Comdr.
Byrd promptly issued the following:
No Special Privilege.
ANY report to the effect that any
special newspaper or group of news
papers will receive radio messages
direct from the plane or any one on
the plane is erroneous. That would
not be fair: we want everybody to
get the news from the flight"
Rodman Wanamaker's America
rran s-OceaniC Co. owner of the plane
and official hacker of the flight, issued
this:
In order to set at rest all reports
or rumorS to the contrary, Grover
A. Whalen. vice president of the
America Trans Oceanic Co. and per-
sonal representative of Rodman
Wanamaker, sponsor of the Amer
lea. emphatically states that any and
all messages from the America dur
ing the flight from New York to
Paris will be received at the head
quarters of the company at Roose-
welt Field, there to be disseminated
to all the newspapers and radio
companies simultaneously.
On Equal Basis.
This will include all reports of
the progress of the flight and per-
sonal messages to the families of the
crew. No newspaper or individual
will receive any message dlrect from
the America, as it is the intention
of the America Trans Oceanic Co. to
treat every one on an equal basis in
order to avoid any possibility of mis-
understanding"
The messages will probably be re-
ceived direct by the Radio Corpora
ton Of Americas stations along the
coast until the airplane passes well
out to sea. Later messages will be
relayed by ships to the Radio Cor
porations office in New York. Thence
they will be sent over special wire
to the Garden City Hotel, where an
office has been fitted up for decod- |
ing them. The messages will then |
be sent over a special wire to the |
hangar on Roosevelt Field and dis
tributed to reporters from all news |
papers and all news associations that |
want them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-24

By the Associated Press.
Preparation of complete ocean
weather charts and dependable fore
casts every day for the benefit of air
craft navigatorS as well as masters OF
water craft on the North Atlantic is
a project which the United States
Weather Bureau hopes to accomplish
within the near future.
The transatlantic airplane flights
have stimulated the receiving Of ocean
weather reports, enabling the bureau
to keep the present Byrd flight we'll
advised as to the winds, storms and
fogs which would be encountered in
the crossing. This service was made
possible, officials said, largely by the
voluntary cooperation of shipmasters
and of the radio companies, which col
lected the ocean weather information
twice daily and delivered it to the bu-
reau for charting and analysis.
Expects DiscOntinuance.
ain future transatlantic flying, such
voluntary cooperation will hardly be
as readily Forthcoming" the officials
said, "since the novelty of the enter
prise will be gone and public interest
less keen. Officials of the Weather
Bureau are accordingly figuring out
what can be done to stimulate inter-
est in ocean weather reports to add to
the safety of flying and Of navigation.
1T is their hope that shipmasters
will continue the work when the pres
ent flying season is over. Neverthe-
less, something more permanently de-
pendable is essential.
THAT more complete and ex-
rrnD. re organization of the ship serv-
ice is necessary is shown by the fact
that on some days while the flyers
were waiting for favorable conditions
the Weather Bureau did not get a
single ship report from areas 1000
miles wide in the Atlantic
Even on May IS, two days before
Lindbergh made his successful flight,
no report was received from any ship
between midocean and the Irish
coast. It was not until he had started
that weather reports from ships be.
came nearly adequate. When Cham.
berlin made his flight the amount Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-24
WIVES OF FLYERS
MOTOR TO PRAGUE
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
VIENNA, June 24.-Mrs. Clarence
Chamberlin and Mrs. Charles Levine
left by motor this morning for
Prague to join their husbands. who
flew to the Czechoslovakian capital in
the transatlantic plane Columbia yes.
terday.
PARIS, June "a (P.-The Amer.
can embassy was informed today that
the American flyers Chamberlin and
Levine. who are now at Prague
Czechoslovakia, would arrive in Paris
Sunday night.
CThe Paris office OF the United
States Lines announced yesterday
that the aviators would sail for home
on the Leviathan July u. taking
their record breaking monoplane Co.
lumbia with them.)