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30 and 81 and also on June IL neces-
sary.
Nearly every one OF the Is balloons
in the race will carry radio receiy-
ing set this year. Increase in the num-
Der of radios is due to the fact that
balloonists credited their victories in
three national and international races
to information picked out of the air.
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Sergeant Is Retired.

| Sergt. Daniel p. Dunkerly. Quarter
master Corps, on duty at the Army
Medical Center, Walter Reed General
Hospital, has been placed on the re
tired list of the Army, at this own re
quest, after more than 80 years ac
kive military, service.
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May 80 of receiving weather bulletins
and press reports.
The stations are WBZ, Springfield,
Mass; WIZ, New York; WSB. At
ianta;' WHAZ. Troy. ". Y: WTAM,
Cleveland; WCCO, Minneapolis. The
six were selected because OF wave
length and geographical location. They
will broadcast on the nights of May
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SIX STATIONS TIED UP
FOR BALLOON RACE
Contestants Assured OF Weather
Reports for Meet in
Akron May 80.

AKRON. Ohio. May IL H1.--A tie-up
nf six of the leading radio broadcast
Ing mtatlnns In the country has been
effected to insure contestants In the
1877 national balloon race from Akron
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Ordered to Military School.

Mai. Richard 8. Dodson. Field Ar
tillery, has. been detailed as military
instructor at the Virginia Military In
stitute, Lexington, Va. He is now
completing course Of instruction ut
the Army War College, Washington
BARRACKS ~
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Local Radio Entertainment
sam~m~~~~~-~aa~~~zs~@
Thursday. May II. 1927

NAA--Washington Navy Yard taai,b
Metersl.
1016 a.m.~~~Wseather Bureau rs.
ports.
S.4S pm.-~-W Gather Bureau Fennrtst
955 p.m.-~~Arlington time signals
1905 pm Weather Bureau re-
ports.
WRHF-~NVashingt0 Radio Hospital
Fund tsSG.3 Metersl
II to IL noon~~Current svents and
police reports.
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Doesn't hurt one bit! Drop little
"Freezone" on an aching corn, in
stantly that corn stops hurting, then
shortly you lift it right off with
fingers.
Your druggist sells tiny bottle of
"Freezone" for few cents, sufficient
TO remove every hard corn, soft
corn, or corn between the toes, and
the foot calluses, without soreness or
irritation
Evening star., 1927-05-12
WMALr-NashinEt Radio Forum
loAaA Metarnl

$50 to 7 pm.~~News Flashes
to T:15 PIN Buddy" and his
luke"
7:l5 to 7.45 pm.~~Dorsch's Dough
Boys.
and Leslie Mack, THE No. 10 Duo"
sos to $40 p.m.--Donaid Brown.
concert pianist.
$40 to . p.m.~~Isabel Pechin Nc.
Arthur In representations.
Q to 10 p.m.~-Auths Musical En-,
semble. with Mary $. Apple, con-
tralto.
10 p.m.--Latest News Flashes.
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WRC-Radio Corporation OF America
(468.5 Meters).

(468.5 Meters1.
3 p.m.~Play-by-pl account of the
Washington-Chicago base ball game,
broadcast by Thornton Fisher from
the studios of The Star.
pm--Waldorf-A Astoria Orchestra.
from WEAF.
6:15 pm.--Kitt Hour Of Music, with
Minnie Nolllmann. soprano, and
Charles Miller. saxophonist.
{ p.m.-South Sea Islanders, from
WEAF.
7:30 pm.-Half Hours With Great
Composers. from WEAF
s p.m.-Time signal. from WEAF.
s pm--Clicquot Club Eskimos,
from WEAF.
p.m.-Sylvan Trio and Florence
Adams, reader.
$40 p.m.--kurt Hetzel, pianist.
10 p.m.--Le Paradis Band.
IL to II midnight-Vincent Lopez
and his orchestra.
Early Program Tomorrow.
6:45 to T:15 a.m.-Tower Health Elk.
ercises, broradcast with WEAF.
Ills a.m.--Rolfe's Palais dor Or.
chestra, from WEAF.
IL noon--Madison Orchestra, from
WIZ.
! to 2 p.m.-Organ recital.
3 p.m.-Play-b play account of the
Washington Chicago base ball game,
broadcast by Thornton Fisher from
the studios of The Star.
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Monday December Was Introduced by
Wilson Offered and Speeches De-
livered Show Conditions in Washington at That Time.

its expense, from its burdens upon this
community in every form"
AT the close of Senator Davis speech
Senator Doolittle offered the follow
ing amendment as an additional sec
ton to tho bill That the sum of
800 900, out of any money in the
Treasury nor otherwise appropriated,
shall be expended under the direction
Of the President of the United States
to aid in the colonization and settle
ment. with their own consent. of free
people of color from said District, in
the republic of Liberia or Hayti, or
elSeWhere.'
on March Is, 1862. the emancipa-
ton bin was again before the Senate
and Senator John Parker Hale of New
Hampshire spoke on the measure as
follows:
This question of emancipation
whenever it has been raised in this
country, so far as | know, has rarely
ever been argued upon the great and
fundamental principles of right; the
inquiry is never put, certainly in leg
i%,ative circles, what is right, what is
lust. what is due to the individuals
that are to be affected by the meas
ure, but what are to be the conSe-
aucnccs. Men entirely forget to look
at the objects that are TO be affected
by the bill. in view of the inherent
rights of their manhood. in view of
the great questions of huma unity, of
Christianity and of duty; but what
are TO be the consequences, what is
to be the effect upon the price OF
sugar, tobacco, cotton and other nee
essaries and luxuries of life. The
honorable Senator from Kentucky
looks upon 1t in that view entirely.
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ut does not become me to venture
my opinions against the opinions of
that Senator who has lived among
the population of which he speaks
but il is as much my prerCSative as
it is the honorable Senator's to read
a little history and to know what il
it's teaching upon this question. ana
by that test to compare the prediC
tons of the honorable Senator will
some predictions of a different chan
acter that have been made elSeWhelf
OF on other occasions.
"Mr President. it seems to me thar
in the good providence of God, He
presents to this Nation an opportunity
never presented before. If the rebel
lion which is now rending this re
public and which is strewing oui
plains with the dead of our young
men who have gone out to do battle
in the field has horrors, if it has mis-.
cries, If it has everything or almost
everything to make humanity weep.
it is not without some aspects that
relieve the dark shade of the picture.
If this rebellion---I trust ere long to
be crushed out--shall in the progress
of the great injury that 1t is doing
afford this republic-these United
States-the opportunity of trying
here. in this little District of less than
10 miles square, the experiment
which other nations are trying upon
a great scale, and If we are enabled
to show to the world that it Is some
times safe to do right and not always
ineXpedient, then, sir, we shall have
achieved something at which human
ity will fejoice. and something for
which ouy posterity, to the latest
generatioHt, will bless u.s."
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The Rambler Tells of Introduction of District Emancipation Bill

course. l do not attribute personal
unkindness 20 the Senator; | speak
Of class and / speak Of it as d
philosophical truth--than for this
boosted white Caucasian race to en-
slave the colored race. to keep them
in state of ignorance, to keep them
in state where it is a penal offense
to teach them to read so much of the
Bible as that they may learn that
God made them, and that Christ died
to redeem them; l say it is cruel and
unjust to such a people. denied the
right of bringing a suit in court.
denied the right of testifying as to
their own personal rights and wrongs
the whole intelligence of the world
shut out by the bar of an ineXora BILE
penal statute from enlightenng their
understandings; to pronounce them as
degraded, ignorant. incapable of rep
resentatiOn, because under the crush
ing weight of all these disabilities
they have not made such progress as
to enable them to step at once on an
equality into a condition which their
masters have enjoyed for many
years"
When the District emancipation bill
was before the Senate on Wednesday.
March 10, 1862. Senator Pomeroy Il
Kansas spoke for it. He said:
II have been little surprised to
find that upon a bill of this charac-
ter. we should have the entire quos
ton of the colonization and condition
of the races of the world brought into
the discussion. / have noticed that
persons who have constitutional OBJ
jections or difficulties in regatd T.
having free colored men about them
never have very severe difficulties in
having slaves about them. Culored
men are as sweet AS the ialm Of a
thousand flowers in slavery, hut ii
they are free they have n tremendous
odor. and men are anxious To colon
ize or Danish them. | should infer
from the arguments against this bill
that If we abolish slavery in this Dis
trict we shall have an innumerable
number added to the colored popula
ton OF the District, and hence :hs~e
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incident in New World history. After
such a life the humdrum career Of
a country physician had little APP
peal.
A FNTER coming to Washington he
\ retained his interest in birds. At
Glenn Dale he found a bluejay with
a broken wing. He set the tiny bones
successfully and nursed the little
creature back to health. To the end
of his life this bird was his constant
roses. sitting on his shoulder to watch
some of his most delicate expert
mentS.
Some of the inspiration for his
breeding work he obtained from his
violin. Old neighbors describe MN
as an accomplished artist on this in.
strument. He had the faculty Of
thinking out intricate scientific for
mulas in the language of music. The
same curious characteristic has been
shown by some of the most notable
mathematiCians.
Associated with Mr.. Morrison at
Glenn Dale is Martin Bilon. Eu-
ropean horticulturalist who long was
DR.. Van Fleets assistant. Mr.. Bilon
can be found any Summer day with
his magnify!ng glasses. bent over
some rose bush. He has an en-
thusiastic faith in the possibility Of
new American race of roses and is
anxious that more amateurs take up
the breeding work.
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of the Bureau of Foreign Plant In.
PRODUCTION of the Department of Agri-
culture. When he left the Pennsyl
vania practice and went to Ruskin he
took with him several hundred rose
seedlings. Among them was one weak
little plant, a cross of the Japanese
wild rose species Wichuriana and the
old-fashioned tea rose Safrano. OF
the entire collection this seemed the
least likely to amount to anything.
but the instructive sense of values Of
the plant breeder impelled Van Fleet
to cling TO it. At Ruskin it blossOmed
puny little flower. This was crossed
with one of the French hybrid teas
With the breakup of the Ruskin col
Ony DR.. Van Fleet returned to Little
Silver, N. j., where he planted the
seeds of the new cross. A few of them
terminated and the resulting bush
was the now famous climber which
bears the name of it's creator. He
named it Day Break. The blossom
aroused the enthusiasm of the repre-
sentative of New York seed house.
He agreed to purchase 1t, but haggled
over the price. $3.50. which DR.. Van
Fleet asked They finally struck a
bargain at $75, the plant breeder to
give up all rights in his creation.
x
DR. VAN FLEET kept one Seeding
for his own use. The New York
firm placed their plants in a green
house and tried to force them. The
canes grew spindly and the blossoms
were imperfect The firm decided that
it had made bad bargain. The plants
were taken out of the dollhouse in the
early Spring and set in an open field
hnt LII al
Fleet, in the meantime, was waiting
patiently for his rose. which he con-
sidered the most perfect he had pro-
duced, to appear on the market. He
had been told it would be advertised
in the 1906 catalogues.
He had taken cuttings from his
own seeding and obtained a few new
bushes, which were doing better than
he had anticipated. Just before he
came to Washington the head of the
same firm visited his garden and was
enthusiastic over the new rose. DIR.
Van Fleet told him it was of the
same variety that had been sold to
him a few years earlier. The result
was that the rose was purchased
once more, this time for S100 with
another unnamed seeding which
promised well thrown in for good
measure. This second was the Silver
Moon, the large, semidouble white
climber with golden center. which now
runs the DIR. Van Fleet a close second
for popularity in this part of the
country.
Another notable introduction of
this formative period was the Amer
lean Pillar, lusty, single -blossomed
climber which first attracted atten-
ton in England and France but which
for the past 10 years has been among
the most conspicuous objects in
American gardens. Up to this time
DR.. Van Fleet had worked entirely
on his own resources. With the IA
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lean Rose Society. 1t is a strong
growing bush and bears double rose
pink blossom. 1t is fairly constant
bloomer. Last year another rugosa
! hybrid was approved. the DR.. i. NJ.
Mills, named for the president of the
American Rose Society.
These roses were described recently
by DR.. Fairchild as poems published
after the death of the author" But
they were created with infinitely more
work than ever was expended on
verses: they have far wider circula-
ton than is likely to be attained by
a poem in this age of prose. and they
have added permanent beauty to thou
sands of American homes. They rep
resent the best years of the lifeWork
of one of the greatest of plant breed
erS.
Some of the work on which DR..
Van Fleet expended his most patient
efforts failed completely. He worked
for years in an effort to obtain a cross
of the single yellow species rose of
China. the hugonis. which probably is
the most beautiful of all unimproved
varieties. The only result was to OBJ
tain a slightly more floriferous hu-
gonis. The good yellow bush rose still
is unattained.
DR.. Van Fleet did not devote all his
time to rose breeding. In his last
years of Glenn Dale the chestnut
blight had killed the groves over q
large section of the East Within 90
years it will have killed them all. He
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/ which would grow in trash piles, il
| necessary, and which would not re
uuire any elaborate culture. They
| must be good roses, of almost as fine
a quality as those obtained from the
greenhouse. The bushes must be dis
case.reSistant and easy to secure
They must he the kind of roses which
the busy housewife could plant ant
then forget about, except for enjoying
their beauty.
There was very little in existence
which could meet these qualifications
American gardens then were in the
transition stage between the June
blooming hybrid perpetuals and the
rontinuous-blo hybrid teas Both
these families had serious drawbacks.
The former bloOmed only for few
weeks each year. Few of them pro
vided good cut flowers. The latter
required continual culture. They
grew, for the most part, only into
dwarf bushes. with little decorative
value unless planted in masses. They
were subject to all sorts of diseases.
x x x
THE hybrid perpetuals and the
hybrid teas, exquisite creations in
The hands of the expert rose grower.
were the result of centuries of plant
breeding. Their ancestry. through
thousands of years. could only be
deduCed Through them ran the rose
blood of China. India. Persia. Turkey
and Southern France Their fore
fathers had been brought into Western
Europe by the Crusaders. Through
centuries of evolution they had be-
come adapted to the European
climate, which is quite different from
that of the middle United States,
with its dry, hot Summers and long.
cold Winters. Here they were exotic
plants. They would thrive. true
enough, when planted and cared for
by persons who know all about them,
who could provide a favorable loca-
ton and who had time to devote
10 them. But they were likely to
prove spoiled children in the hands
of the average homemaker. There
could be no such splendid cottage
garden displays as those which il.
Illuminated the May countryside Of
England, France or Denmark.
DR.. Van Fleet set himself to the
tedious and intricate task of creating
a new family of roses. He sought
to produce. first. a climbing rose
which would grow with little care
and no particular soil requirements.
but which would send up 20 to 80
foot canes every year and blossom
recurrently through the Summer. pro-
ducing blooms of as good quality as
the average hybrid teas. When he
work the only climbers avail
able north of the Potomac were the
multitiora hybrids, which grew Justify
enough, but which were subject TO
mildew and which produced only
small, clustered flowers, Of no par
ticular value for cutting and of some
what questionable decorative effect.
They bloomed only once i'll June
or early July. Such were the old
fashioned Crimson Ramblers.
The second objective was bush
rose. five or six feet high. which
would be resistant to the diseases that
afflicted the hybrid teas, and would
produce hundreds of blossoms at
time throughout the Summer. Some
of the lustier hybrid per: etuals fur
nished almost the required growth,
but they blossomed only once.
Towards these two detectives DR..
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ton Of freedmen, and Senator's
Doolittle. Hale OF New Hampshire
and PCmeroy of Kansas made longer
speeches opposing it. Senator Davis
expressed the anti-negro opinion held
by many, perhaps all. members of
Congress from the border States,
though such members, of course, were
Union men. Hale and Pomeroy ex-
pressed the sentiments held by aboh-
tionists. The Rambler cannot reprint
the speeches in full, but he has made
extracts from them, and he believes
that the extract from each faithfully
shows the tenor of the whole. Sena-
tor Davis said:
Il think / am better acquainted with
negro nature than the honorable Sena-
tor from Wisconsin tDOOlittlel. lie VIII
never find one slave in a hundred
that win consent to be cOlOniZed when
liberated. The liberation cf slaves
in this District or in any State Of the
Union will be just equivalent to set
Ting them in the country where they
live, and whenever that policy is in
augurated. especially in the States
where there are many slaves, it viii
inevitably and Immediately introduce
a war Of determination between the
two races :" There are great
]
many vagdbond negroes in Il state of
slavery in this city, for the number OF
slaves that reside here, u great many.
They are now idle and comparatively
worthless and whenever they are liber
! ated they become greatly more so.
I A Negroes idea of freedom is freedom
| from work. as a general rule. l have
! known hundreds of slaves in my eX-
! perience that have been liberated,
which slaves previous to their liberia
/ ton were Industrious, We're orderly,
were we'll behaved, and in, / may say,
! 80 cases out of 100 after they were
liberated, they became lazy, indoent.
! thievish vagabonds. Gentlemen
y.,3 have lived in the slave States
and who know what the free negroes
are Il communities of considerable
numbers of them know that they are
the most worthless and vicious and ex-
lpensive of our population. l maintain
that it is a matter OF humanity to
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about % miles west of Nashville
where they proposed to dedicate
their lives to the creation of beauty,
deVoting to manual labor only such
time as was necessary to gain bare
livings.
x X &x
THE scheme, which originated in the
u brain of an Indiana socialist edi-
tor, attracted a diverse lot. They
were, for the most part, mediocre
artists and artisans. Some were
philosophers; some were buns. Most
of them were lazy. None had very
clear ideas of business or economics.
Consequently, as invariably happens
in such experiments, the Industrious
few provided daily bread for the
sluggards until they became sick of
their bargain. Curious cults devel-
oped. The town of Ruskin, establish
ed on a thousand acres of hard clay,
was as ugly a group of implanted
wooden shacks as disgraced any
american mill community. The soil
was unproductive. The settlers
wrangled among themselves. Finally,
the whole community went into the
hands of the receiver. an example
which has been followed almost in
variably by communistic experiments
ever since.
American industry itself, outgroW-
ing it's grimy adolescence, took up
the more substantial ideas in Rus
kins philosophy. Factories evolved
from SCOT belching eyesores TO archi-
tectural masterpieces. Railroads be-
gan planting thousands of rambler
roses along their rights of way.
Flower gardens .blossomed in mill
yards. This, after all, was the ulti-
mate object of the more sincere
members of the Ruskin community
those whose interest was not con-
fined to living without labor.
Among these latter was DIR. Van
Fleet. His is the only name that
survives out of that unfortunate eX-
pertinent. He had been the physician
Cs the community, and in it he had
invested his small savings. He had
sought only leisure 10 devote TO the
work which had become the passion
of his life-rose breeding He was
one of the most enthusiastic amateurs
in the science of hered.ty. He sought
to turn the ATendelian law into q
vehicle for the creation of loveliness
Ruskin hGd seemed % offer a con
genial atmosphere for The pursuit Of
his hobby to which, as d country
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Maryland Station Creates New Roses for America

set to work with Chinese varieties to
produce a resistant strain of chestnut
with which the hillsides could ne re.
planted. Probably he succeeded. It
is still too early to say wherh~r re
varieties he originated will prove en-
tirely satisfactory under American
conditions. But il chestnuts ever are
restored to the United States. 1t will
IL OFF the Ias.s iaiI down by DR.. Van
kTeat
lie was continually at work on new
varieties Of fruits and vegetables.
The Van Fleet raspberry is one OF
the best improved varieties for the
Southeastern States on the market.
He did a great deal of work with
strawberries He originated new and
valuable varieties Of geraniums. pep
pers, sugar corn. goOseberries. cannas
and gladiOli. The Socialist physician
impressed his name indelibly on the
history Of each of these plants.
Van Fleet was essentially the artist
one Of the most notable artists ever
employed by the Government. His
name belongs with the small. select
group which includes the names Of
| Whistler. Whitman and Burroughs.
| The one publication credited to Van
! Fleet in the catalogue of the Library
| of Congress is book on native birds
| written for children. He wrote sew
| eral department bulletins. however.
! He was a notable ornthologist, but
! his work in this line was soon over.
| Swallowed by his flower breeding. In
his earlier days this follower of one
! of the most peaceful Of human pur-
suits was somewhat Of an adventurer.
/ Shortly after leaving college he had
| gone to South America as a wood
| chopper on one Of the gangs employed
| in building the railroad up the Anna.
! ZOn as far as the Falls of the Madeira.
/ \ few years later he was commits
/ stoned by Harvard University to go
up the Amazon as a bird collector.
/ and the specimens he secured still
constitute a notable part of the Har-
ward collection. Later sill he went
to Panama on a Photographic ex
| petition. during the DAYS when the
! French engineer. DE Lesseps. was
| making his futile effort to build a
| canal through the fever-ridden jun
/ giles. He tramped across the isthmus
| with his camera and secured one Of
/ the few Photographic records of that