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The Washington times., 1927-05-17

linen with gay Innings are priced at
"a. These are great favorites for
gifts. Travellers love to stop in Mr..
Fosters. whose shops they perhaps
know in other cities. They feel ct
home ana as though they were on
friendly soil.
Charming enamel pieces, vanity
and lip stick sets, as we'll az many
kinds Of little travelling clocks, will
appeal to you.
Gold rope necklaces, hoop earrings
to match, a wide bracelet formed
Of many strands are new ideas in
costume jewelry.
The Washington times., 1927-05-17
If You Plan
To RedecoYate

your house In town or your house
In the country, do without fail go
into the Lansburgh Interior Decorat.
Evening star., 1927-05-29
Rest Cure for Razors.

TT is we'll known that our metals
are conductors Of electricity. Steel
is an excellent conductor, and when
this metal is fashioned into tools with
sharp edges the electric current that
is continually passing through the
metal will leave the body at the
sharp edge or point.
BARRIERS tell us the razor gets tired
and is improved after a rest. This
is true in scientific sense. 1t is
not exact tzz al res taats the razor
needs. although tfiTt term will express
it pretty we'll 1t seems that any
razor, after constant use on the hu-
man face, will become not exactly
dull, for the barber can sharpen it.
but rather sluggish. when it has
lain for "a few weeks without work.
Constant use and continued sharpen
ing put the molecules into sluggish
and it is impossible to get
the same edge as when the steel has
not been used for some time.
When the razor lies idle and the
electric current is passing off at the
edge the particles are being toned
and tempered. and the edge actually
becomes more smooth and really
sharper and more fit to remove the
beard.
1t is claimed that razor wrapped
in rubber cloth and placed in drawer
away from any damp will not be bene-
flied by the rest as we'll as q razor
that is simply laid away rather care
lessly. without any insulation. 1t Is
the same if the razor is inclosed in
a glass case. for the insulation pre-
vents the electric current from pass
ing through the metal.
Evening star., 1927-05-29

TT has been found that the rings Of
growth visible in the trunks of
trees have q far more interesting
story to tell than has usually been
supposed Everybody knows that
they indicate the number of years
that the tree has lived. but sci
enlist in the Southwest has made eX-
periments and observations which
seem to show that trees carry in their
trunks q record of the weather con-
ditions that have prevailed during the
successive years of their growth.
Several trees, each more than 130
years old, were feIled. and the order
and relative width of the rings OF
growth in their trunks were found to
agree exactly.
This fact showed that all the trees
had experienced the same stimula-
ton in certain years and the same
retardation in other years. Assum-
ing that the most rapid growth had
occurred in wet years and the least
rapid in dry years, it was concluded
that of the 1874 years covered by the
life of the trees, so had been very
wet, extremely wet, IS wet, IT av-
erage as to the supply of moisture,
10 dry, very dry and extremely
dry.
But when the records Of rainfall
running back as far as 1854 Were con-
suited it was found that they did not
all agree with the record of the trees.
Still it could not be denied that the
rings in the trunks told q true story
of the weather influences that had
affected the trees in successive years.
The conclusion was therefore reach
ed that the record of the rings con-
tained more than mere index of
Evening star., 1927-05-29
43 States Have Established 600 Parks
For Benefit of Millions on Vacations

Rendezvous Mountain Missouri en-
ployes funds from fish and game Ii
censes to add to it's parks in the
Ozarks, and its holdings now exceed
$4,000 acres, development of only
two years.
An interesting enterprise in Kansas
looks to the creation of a lake Of 900
acres by damming Minnesota River,
near kingman. which, with ample
land around it, will form a State park.
A survey of the country made by
the national conference has disclosed
in every State some areas which
should be conserved for their scenic,
recreational, scientific or historical
value, or for the restoration of wild
life.
retaliation now is general that the
acquisition of such sites liz a. duty
clearly laid upon the State, in it's field,
just as allied duties devolve upon the
Federal and municipal governments, !"
says statement from the conference
ut is appreciated that it is a good
thing to adopt vigorous policy along
this line. for the immediate recreation
al values. for the time when increased
populations will make it harder and
costlier to acquire such lands, and as
sound, practical business policy.
1T becomes more evident every
year that the tourist business affords
one of the sureSt cash revenues the
State can develop. With improve
ments in highways and increase of
automobile and railroad travel, the
people Of the United States have be-
come the most travelled in the world
A beautiful waterfall, a cool canyon,
a mountain or q lake will remain I'm.
seen until a road is built to it and it
is advertised.
Therefore, many States are CORE.
lating their park or conservation ac-
tivities with their highway programs"
Evening star., 1927-05-29
Primitive Wheat.

ALL cultivated plants have their
ancestors" which remain in a
savage state. The greater part of our
vegetables and fruit trees come from
Persia, where they yet have repre-
sentatives that grow spontaneously.
All potatoes come from one tubercle.
The grapevine originally grew only on
the plateaus of Central Asia. Wheat
originated probably in the Valley of
the Euphrates, where the necessary
humidity first seemed to work on
plant life most favorably. A traveller
who recently visited the highlands of
Galilee reports that he has found wild
wheat that must be the progenitor of
the modern wheat. This wild wheat
covers extensive areas and is vigor-
Gus plant, with marked nutritive prop.
critics. 1t seems proof against drought
or frost and adapts itself easily to arid
soil.
Evening star., 1927-05-29
rs Elder Brothers. Dead in War; Await Pilgrims Coming

smashed elsewhere on that front of
Paris, it would have met more Ameri-
cans. thrown into sectors both weak
and strong.
And soon. in spots quite unexpected,
such Americans were smashing on the
German front, as when Tennessee.
the Carolinas and New York, along
with the English and Australians.
broke the unbreakable Hindenburg
line.
HurIah for the elder brothers!
When the Germans swept the
Chemin des Danes like chan and
crossed the Aisne in six hours they
counted ON separating the French and
British before the Americans. not
hab.tuated to wars rigors. could ar
rive in full force and get organized
against them.
There was just one thing they could
not imagine, could not count on. that,
arriving in new swarms of raw troops
daily. the Americans. while gettir=
organized all right o1: :se1r owr fr>>-
would fling themselves in anywrsr'
as .tss,ied and habituate themselves -
rigors as they met them,
Evening star., 1927-05-29
Wonderful Alpha Rays.
THE Alpha rays from radioactiv,

THE Alpha rays from radioactive
matter, it appears, consist of ver'
liable atoms of matter projected at a
speed averaging 5000 miles per second.
1t is the great energy of motion of
these swiftly expelled masses that
gives rise to the heating effect of ra
dunn. Yet they do. not go far. The
swiftest alpha particle travels seven
centimeters I'm air. under ordinary con-
ditions, before it is stopped. But on its
way it plunges straight through every
m5lecule in it's path, producing posi-
lively and negatively charged ions in
the process. On an average, an alpha
particle. before it's career of violence
is stopped, breaks up about 100000
molecules.
Evening star., 1927-05-29
CURIOUS VILLAGES IN ENGLAND.

THE English village is very dear
to the heart of poets and painters
md thousands of the communities are
charming. A few, however, are more
amusing than anything else. as, for
instance, one which consists entirely
of old railway Carriages as the
English call them, even the chapel
being composed of ''four-hors
trucks" Another village. with a
population of 1,1OO, and taxed at the
valuation of $4,000. has neither school,
church nor other public building, the
only thing of the sort being a letter
box on q pillar.
Villages with but a single inhabit-
ant are not unknown, one of them
being Skfddaw. in Cumberland. The
single villager complains bitterly
because he cannot vote, there being
no overseeer to prepare a voters
list and no church or other public
building on which to publish one,
as the law requires. The lonely tax
payer In a Northumberland village
has declined to contribute money to
maintain the roads, on the ground
that the one he has is quite sufficient
for his needs. In the Isle of Ely is
little parish with about dozen
inhabitants, which has no taxes.
since there are no roads or public
institutions of any kind and conse-
quently no expenses.
Kempton. near Bradford, can prob
ably lay successful claim to the dis
tinction of being the longest village
in the world, as it straggifs along
the road for a distance of miles.
Sometimes an English villa se will
entirely disappear, having been built
either on the edge of the crunibling
Evening star., 1927-05-29
Coloring Woods.

THE use of colored woods in the
construction of furniture has long
been known, the material being stained
after the necessary seasoning proc.
ess. Within the last few years. how
ever, a method of Austrian origin has
been employed, whereby the wood Is
colored when in a green State.
BY means of heavy pressure In
closed vessel the sap is driven out
of the wood and is replaced by the
coloring fluid, which may consist of a
solution of the more permanent ami
line dyes. The hest kind of wood for
treatment are found to be birch,
beech, alder, plane. elm and lime;
oak, fir and pine being unsuitable be-
cause they do not stain uniformly.
The colored wood is used for furni'
ture making and for the manufacture
of doors and window frames. 1t can
also be employed for outdoor purposes,
in which case no painting is necessary,
although a coating of yarnish would
seem to be necessity. For the mt
ting of ships, railway cars, and similar
purposes. this stained wood appears
to be eminently fitted.
Evening star., 1927-05-29
BY STERLING HEILIG.

PARIS, May 20.
HESE are their brothers-they
should be called their elder
brothers-whom the Legion
Il men are going to visit in our
cemeteries in France.
They are tragic and triumphant
American soldiers who died winning
the war to rescue France and the
allies.
And these things happened up and
down the railroads just before the
saving of Paris.
1t was at Tours, in fact, on July 4,
1918.
For that date the American officers
In Tours organized a great ball In the
opera house which paralleled precisely
the historical chapter in Vanity
Fair" where the British danced in
Brussels the night before Waterloo.
The parallel was glorious and tragi-
cal, because a third of our lads at
least went from that ball at Tours to
fight within the week.
The French did not then know it,
however-did not know that Paris was
going 70 be saved. or how Americans
were being thrown into the breach.
So there were murmurs among
French civilians at Tours about
. American frivolity.
At that moment Ella Wheeler Will
oox, soon herself to pass away from
earth, was at Tours, staying at the
same hotel as myself.
Overnight Of July she wrote-and
II was printed on the back Of the ball
program--a poem which SIMS up that
glorious Fourth of the American Le-
cion and the sentiments which made
ton With the Dance.
We have come over death-charged seas
To tight the foes OF France .,,
The, foes of France. the foes OF earth.
The foes OF God on high -,
Oh think not that because we laugh.
Because sing and dance,
We have forgotten this grave TACT
Tomorrow. We may die
As David danced before the Lord.
We dance, now in our JOY
At being part of this great force
For Justice and for truth.
We glory in our right to live
And use our manhoods dover,
Aud, if need be. the right to die
In this stupendous honr
America holds out her hand
TO beautiful. brave France
Her friends are ours her Toes are ours
So. on now, with the dance
Past Tours, in those days, the fate
of France was played before our eyes
in three acts or scenes.
First, came the rush of wealthy
refugees southwark, families from
Amiens, Compiegne, ETC., and from
Paris itself.
They slept in chairs in the Hotel de
1'Univers, crowding parlors, Railways,
billiard room, smoke room and bar,
with their rich pigskin valises for pill
lows. There was not a vacant room
or any warehouse space in Tours,
Nantes, Anglers, ETC., and the trains
Evening star., 1927-05-29

went packed, with families standing
in the aisles, to Bordeaux and the
| south.
The next scene was the moving
northward, past Tours, of endless mill
tary trains, by day, by night, packed
with American soldiers from the de.
| harkation ports of St NaZaire.
Bordeaux and Brest. In the first days
bof one week lit was whispered at
/ Tours) some 10000 Of them passed the
city, going northward.
After the rush south, the rush
The third scene is the German turn
about and retreat. and Paris olsen
gagged, Between the scenes there is
no space. in my remembrance from
Tours, but a phantasmagoria of ex-
citing days, when those masses were
rushing southwark, our boys were
rushing northumberland, suddenly,
every one hurrahed, because Paris was
waved,
Such are the elder brothers await
Ing the Legion visit-in particular, at
Suresnes Cemetery, just outside Paris.
OH the hill across the River Seine.
Some were killed not far from
Paris: but the American Ambulance
Hospital of Paris. at Neuilly, received
American wounded from all parts of
the front. as it had done for French
wounded before we came into the war.
In Paris, also, there We're big pri-
vate hospitals and clinics financed by
Americans, receiving the wounded,
like the Girls Club. the Rodman
Wanamaher House, the DR.. Blake and
W. X. Vanderbilt Clinics and many
others whose history has yet to be
written in one book-of what we did
and suffered in the war,
Many Of the elder brothers have, Of
course, been taken to America. Sew
enty-five thousand American soldiers
at one time were lying buried in
France, and fewer than 1000 now
remain.
The Suresnes Cemetery. just outside
Paris, is the most beautiful and has
reached the highest degree of develop.
ment. AS Col. Frederick Van Duyne,
chief Of the Graves Registration Serv-
ice of the United States, told us only
last week, proNer gravestones will GER
tainly be erected in place Of the origi-
nal wooden crosses at the head of each
plot by the time the American Legion
reaches Paris to visit the elder broth
ers in it.
The beauty OF the Suresnes Gene
terry is not alone from it's location on
the hillside across the River Seine,
Evening star., 1927-05-29

of Knoxville, Tenn: James l.. Green
leaf. president of the American Society
of Landscape Architects; John Oliver
LaGorce. vice president of the Ma
tionaI Geographic Society; Mrs. Stella
Lewiston of California, Richard Lieber,
director of the Indiana Department
Of Conservation; former Gov. Pat NJ.
Neff Of Texas, Wilbur A. Nelson,
State geolOgist Of Virginia; Maj. Will
liam A. Welch, general manager and
engineer of the Palisades Interstate
Park of New York and New Jersey,
and Theodore Wirth, superintendent
of the municipal park system OF
Minneapolis, Minn.
Reports will unfold numerous pases
of park progress during the past year.
The host of the conference, New
York, will reveal dozens of new enter
prizes in the program of expansion
made possible by State bond issue
for SIS 900, 900, which program in
cludes the increase of the Adirondack
State Park to more than 1000, 900
acres. In this tract are lands about
! Lake George. New York also launched
a project TO provide recreation areas
/ for every section of the State, devel-
! oped the c0untrys greatest county
| park system in Westchester, which
| the delegates VIII see in a days tour
during the conference, and is planning
TO linz up State parks, forests, his
| torical and scientific shrines in a COM
| prehensive parkway and highway
plan.
Indiana. which has increased by
one or two units yearly, has acquired
| and developed 1000 acres in the Dunes
I Park on Lake Michigan. which will
serve Il population of 5000, 900 in Chi.
cago ard northern Illinois and In
| diana.
| Southeastern Wisconsin is cam
! paigning for State parks in a dozen
counties now without such provision.
Kentucky has acquired several new
parks under provision of recent legis-
lation and private gifts, and the State
| is keenly concerned in avoiding the
DETACHMENT, by hydroelectrical devel-
opment, of beautiful Cumberland
! Falls.
Marked interest has been aroused
among Southern States lin the last
| few years.
The Texas legislature has ACCEPTED
Evening star., 1927-05-29
BY e. MORAN.

NIFTY artists and illustrators In
~ the Department of Agriculture
have entered a departmental
contest to do an oil portrait Of
Isaac Newton, first Commits
sioner Of Agriculture, the portrait to
be presented to the department for
exhibition in it's gallery OF portraits
of Commissioners and Secretaries of
Agriculture. The portrait is to be
painted from a photograph taken
during Commissioner Newton's term
of office, 1S62-1S67.
Three generations of the Newton
family have been connected with the
Department Of Agriculture. The
elder Newton was appointed Com
missioner of Agriculture by President
Lincoln in 1862, Isaac Newton, jr..
later was placed in charge Of the de-
partment's experimental farm at
Washington, and Miss Amanda A.
Newton, granddaughter of Commits
sioner Newton. has given more than
25 years' service to the department as
a water colorist and plant painter.
and now is engaged in making wax
models of fruits and vegetables for
use in department exhibits.
Commissioner Newton was born on
a New Jersey farm, but moved in his
early youth to Delaware County.
Pa, where he devoted his life to scien-
tific farming. He established what be-
came known later as the Model
Farm" because of the new practices
which he put in effect The "Model
Farm today is within the city limits
Of Philadelphia, forming one of the
suburbs of the city proper.
Long before Lincoln was elected
President" Miss Newton says. my
grandfather used to send butter each
week to the White House. l remem-
Der also my father telling of a fatted
calf grandfather fed and sent to
Washington, where 1T created q sensa-
tion and was later presented to the
White House. Father always remem-
bered that, because he had to break
eggs in the mouth of the calf as
means of feeding it properly"
1t was while Isaac Newton was
making reputation as a farmer out
of the ordinary on his model Penn
sylvania place that he won the friend
ship of Lincoln and frequently went
to Washington AZ the request OF the
Chief Executive to consult on mat
ters relative to agriculture. He was
made chief of the division of agricul-
ture in the Patent Office. and when
the Department of Agriculture was
established, in 1862, was appointed
commissioner.
plant .nrona eating garden and an
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eDayWhe Meet nFreT


not the only Americans the Germans
met Tor might have metz in their on
rush southwark to Paris. Yet those
machine gunners probably saved Paris.
All know also how our I'd Division
had the luck to be the sole troops bar
ring the German march on Paris
when. wheeling west from Chateau
Thierry. they debouched along the
main Paris highroad. less than 20
miles from Paris. SO was Belleau
Wood all drenched with German gas i'll
vain. -
But ~ there were yet other
4: I:..asrt-3 Ns.
WhereveGEle last awful German
drive on Paris smashed into the front
it met tho new, unWelcOme. uneX-
pected American uniform. Had +
Evening star., 1927-05-29
"Dust Devils"

TRAVELLERS in Death Valley of
California have described the
wonderful contortions of the sand
pillars that whirlwinds sometimes
send spinning across the hot plain.
Even more remarkable are the dust
devils" frequently seen in the valley
of the White Nile. Sometimes two of
these whirling columns. gyrating in
opposite directions. meet. and, it is
said. if they be well matched, the col
ision stops them and a struggle en-
sues as to which way they shall twist.
Gradually one gains the mastery and
the two combined begin to gyrate
alike and then rush on together. Some
o. these whirls will. it is declared. strip
the 'flothes from an Arabs back. or
twist o goat round and round like
ton,
Evening star., 1927-05-29
"Down Brakes"

Tn accounts of railway collisions one
frequently encounters this state
ment:
''On seeing the danger. the engi-
neer whistled down brakes and re-
versed the lever"
AS a matter of fact. the expression
down brakes" has been obsolete for
a long time. What the engineer
really does when a collision seems i'm.
pending is to shut off steam. apply
the airbrake and open the sand valve.
All this takes about five seconds. and
i'm that time all that human effort is
able to accomplish for the train and
passengers may be dopc, Railwav
--.<<-r1 .sSe+ss ,nsA sAt At.ee1 nsTsr sIr,r, z
has been applied. because the rever.
sal reduces the resisting power Of the
brakes.
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his room at the Patent Office. He
hastened to the farm. a mile away,
toe.nstruct the workmen how to save
the wheat The sun was hot and he
was wearing high silk hat. In NOV
ing hu.2!edly about the grounds he
became overheated. His son took him
TO the little Office on the farm and
summoned medical assistance.
The portrait is to be painted from
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experimental farm were assigned to
the new commissioner. Tests were
made of new varieties of crops, the
seeds of which later were distributed
among farmers. Special effort was
,l.1<.1e by Commissioner Newton to en-
courage cotton and tobacco cultiva-
ton by distributing free seeds through
out the Southern States.
Commissioner Newton in July. 1866,
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the formation, at Des Moines, Iowa,
of the National Conference on State
Parks. It's officers, all of whom have
served throughout it's history, are,
President, John Barton Payne; vice
chairman, Stephen T. Mather. director
of National Park Service; executive
secretary, Beatrice M. Ward The
conference maintains permanent head
quarters in Washington, ID. G.
The National Conference on State
Parks has on it's executive committee
leaders selected to represent regionol
and national phases of the work.
Among these are David c. Chapman
Evening star., 1927-05-29
HISTORY STOLD IN TREES

the annual rainfall; that It showed
what the character of the seasons
had been as To sunshine. tempera-
ture. evaporation. regularity or ir-
regularity of the supply of moisture.
and the like: in short. that the trees
contained indelibly imprinted in their
trunks more than 100 years OF ma
lures history.
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suffered a sunstroke while in the field
on the experimental farm, made
temporary recovery. and died from the
effects of the illness on June 10, 1867.
Several varieties of wheat-Tappahan
mock, Mediterranean and others now
in general use--were being tried. The
grain had been cut and was lying on
the ground when a thundershower
appeared. The commissioner was in
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23 sites donated to the State during
Gov. Neff's term and will provide for
their maintenance.
Alabama's Legislature is considering
bills for central State park com
mission; for purchase from the United
States War Department Of Fort Nor
gan on Mobile Bay for State park,
and for the acquisition of 1.625 acres
of Federal land in Little River Gulf.
Mississippi recently created a for
estry commission, with power to ac-
quire parks; Oklahoma has q similar
agency which is studying park posi-
bilities, especially in the mountains
Evening star., 1927-05-29

Of it's southeastern counties, and the
Legislature of Arkansas has just Gre
ated State park commission.
Georgia has ecquired forest park
sites, by Donation and North Caro-
lima has received another gift at
Evening star., 1927-05-29

Il photograph taken during Mr.. New
tons term of office, 1S62-1S67. The
portrait must be in oit ~ ~<.S-as.
mounted on stretcher. tie s.ze to be
so by SO or 30 by 4S inches. The
contest closes March L.. 1928. The