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Here are reasons aplenty for Chrysler
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fected in Chrysler's dramatic rise from
18th to 4th place.
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Gavel Chapter will meet Tuesday
and degrees will be conferred. The
home board will meet tomorrow at the
nome of Past Matron Lippard, 1916
East Capitol street, and also will give
a theater party March % at Keith's.
Evening star., 1927-03-13

The thirteenth annual visit of the
State officers led by State Councillor
j. d. Simpson was made to Independ-
ent Council and Washington Council
at Red Mems Hall, Nineteenth and
Pennsylvania avenue, March 2. The
State officers were received by Past
State Councillor Madison. Talks were
made by Past State Councillor Madison
Thomas j. Park of Winston Salem,
N. c., Council, E. II. Bailey, past grand
orient Of Oriental Court: M. c. Har-
mon, w. l.. Sudworth, National Com
mitteeman Seifert, State Councillor
Simpson, State Vice Councillor Harlow,
Charles Fl. Hid, w. S. Campbell, w.
M. Laroche. Councillor Kicker, of Ana
costa Council, and A. l.. Dahler, sec
retary Of the reunion committee. E.
P. Souder Of Washington Council en-.
Evening star., 1927-03-13

The Ionic Club. which is now meet
ing regularly on the first Tuesday of
each month in the /. o. o. f. Temple.
4Is Seventh street northwest, an
nounces its next meeting will be held
Tuesday, April s, at pm.
Evening star., 1927-03-13

Federal Chapter at the last meet
ing had as it's guest Past Grand
Patron George w. Mobray. The chap
ter was entertained by Mrs. Mary
Koenig in readings and Leo Wilkin-
son in songs, accompanied at the
piano by Mrs. Amy Wilkinson. There
were refreshments and dancing. At
Evening star., 1927-03-13

The March 21 meeting of Congress
Lodge Chapter will be charter and
honorary members night. The chap.
Ter VIII be entertained by De Molay
ooys IN a play. March 16 at the Colo
and dance.
Evening star., 1927-03-13

NF course, Chrysler "e6o". has a
~ seven-bearing crankshaft.
For every six,cylinder Chrysler, since
the first Chrysler three years ago, has
a seven-bearing crankshaft, which
means SO much in smoother pCrform-
ance and longer life.
Besides, Chrysler go" has other adj
mitted superiorities whose combina-
tionis found in no other car at its price.
Speed of 60 miles plus, dash of 5 to
Is miles in 7A seconds, economy of
% miles to the gallon;
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1t Is care, not breeding cost that
makes for the major expense In dia-
mondba breeding. However, one
expert attendant can care for $4,000
easily, If supplies are convenient and
the pens well arranged. Fortunately
for the breeder, the diamond-baCks are
not subject to epidemic diseases.
Fish has served as the staple article
of diet at Beaufort. Blue crabs and
fiddler crabs are fed occasionally
oysters are an excellent food for the
young kept in the dollhouse during
the Winter. AS the jaws of the terra
pin are relatively weak, it is i'm
portant to run whole fish or crabs
through a meat cutter. Only fresh
food should be used.
At Beaufort in single season 100
adults consumed 300 pounds of fish.
However, the food involved but
trivial expense. At the rate of cents
pound the cost per head for the
entire season was cents. And the
cost of feeding the young is very
much less.
The terrapin is a careful and eff
cient nest builder. 1t lays it's eggs in
a jug shaped hole about five inches
deep, which it digs with it's hind feet.
With great patience the animal con-
ceals the location of the nest by crawl
ing hack and forth over it and pack.
ing it down, once it has replaced the
sand.
Egg-laying at Beaufort takes place
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blankets. or reused by an extra vicious
plunge of the boat. would stare and
mutter at the captain and wonder
why he sat so upright and grim and
silent. On the rare occasions when
the captain bent and fumbled in the
locker underneath where he sat all
hands seemed to awake, as if the mo-
ton of his arm sent to them some in
sistent message. He would straighten
with hottie of liquor in his hand
and drink. Then he would pass the
bottle. and the others would drink
Not too much. He warned them of
that. and he furthered his warning
once or twice with blow of the tiller
wrenched from the ice sheeted rudder-
head.
Against the captains knees was
the apprentice. lie had long since
ceased to think of adventure. The
pain Of life was his, because he was
young and his vitality fought harder
against numbness and apathy. He
nodded and doZed and, awakening at
times, he would look up patiently into
the mask that was the captains face.
as if seeking something there. The
captain saw to it that he was kept rs
warm as possible.
The boat filled with ice and frozen
snow She lay low in the water. The
captain stirred and shouted. He
kicked the apprentice. and the boy
worked his way for'ard and shook the
others. They reused They labored
with sudden new desire for life, and
cleared the boat somewhat, and it rode
lighter. Then back to apathy they
sank. The captain remained upright
in the stern sheets, grim and stead
fast. The apprentice huddled at his
feet again.
The snow whistled away and the
naked sea danced under the pallid
white sky. The wind eased off. 1t
became a little warmer. The men, re-
vived, began to poke grimy faces out
of their clothes and blankets. After
a while they ate. opening cans of beef
and mutton with an ak.
The sea was subsiding. The
dropping of the wind caused the
swells to ride smoother and less
brokenly. The captain rasped orders.
Doggedly the men worked. A few
oars were thrust out, the siumpy mast
set with difficulty, the sea anchor
hauled in. Then the boat was run
ming before the seas again. her sail
bullying. The captain held the tiller.
staring grimly ahead. unchanged. He
still drank occasionally. He did not
bother to eat. Some OF the men be-
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dence that it is absolutely essential to
its well-being.
The novice should not essay the
task of breeding diamond backs. An
expert Is demanded at all times, for
circumstances continually arise that
must be met with dispatch, prompt
decision and ultra patience. For in.
stance, there Is the matter of locating
the farms. An unframed person
would be liable to build them on high
ground remote from salt water and
away from tidal flow. Then there are
the problems of proper control of the
rat and muskrat. common nuisances
to the terrapin breeder. Unless he is
prevented by efficient safeguards, the
willy muskrat will dig beneath the
walls, furnishing the terrapin with
a ready avenue of escape.
AS for the rat, sometimes In
single night one will destroy dozen
or more young.
Brood stock must be selected pains
takingly. preference being given to
freshly caught stock i'm good condition
and from single locality. Females
should be at least five and one-half
inches long. and males over three and
a half inches. The necessary ratio OF
females to males is about 10 to l.
Female terrapins separated from
males have produced a high percent
age of fertile eggs for as long as
three years. and even few fertile
eggs the fourth year after separation.
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gan to smoke. and that appeared to
lift desire within him.
He spoke to the apprentice, and the
boy struggled up and CROPPED inside
the mass of the captains clothes.
eventually finding a pipe and pouch
of tobacco. The pipe he filled and
thrust into the captains mouth.
Once lighted, it puffed triumphantly.
the smoke streaming downwind,
challenge and mockery to the waste
of waters. The hours passed. Near
nightfall one of the men died. They
had to put him oversize. doubled up
as he was, stiff and frozen. before
his passage was known. His blankets
were divided.
THEN darkness came, queer phos
phorescent flames ran under the
sea. The wind zoomed in the sail
Occasional sprays flashed aboard from
the bluff bows. Some of the men
dozed on the bottom boards again.
close together. The captain stared
unwinking ahead. a mere automaton.
South. They must get south to the
sun. Involuntarily he lifted his face
then, and his eyes fell on a star,
solitary winking point of light in the
Dlank darkness above. He almost ut
tered an inarticulate cry. His lips
parted. then closed again. No need
to raise futile hopes.
He could see the decks OF his first
ship and himself standing at the rail,
a young officer. with new gold braid,
such thin little band on his cuffs.
The vivid secret terrOrs of his first
watch alone came back. How afraid
he had been lest he give a wrong or
der. The pride of his first command
thrilled him. 1t had been a great
moment to walk UP the gangplank
with four new gold bands on his cuffs,
and men saying "Sir" and touching
their caps. 1t had been a great
moment to take over a ship. to be
lord of her. to guide her across the
wastes.
But that wasn't all. He under
stood that now. after the years. The
glamour and the glory were tinsel
things, unless there was something
solid below. There was always lot
OF loose fo'c'sle talk about luck and
opportunity raising a man to COM
mand Perhaps those things did en-
ter in. but there was more to the hold
ing of command than just happening
to be around when things cropped up.
Because a man was qualified to wear
the four gold bands on his cuffs and
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Ut IS sad news for the food con.
noisseur that the supply of dla-
mond.backed terrapin, one OF
i Americas most priced delicacies,
is being depleted to very seri-
Gus degree.
Consistent demand throughout the
large Eastern cities has led to per-
sistent everlasting. This fact, cou'
pied with frequent carelessness in
breeding, has created such an alarm.
ing situation that the United States
Fisheries Bureau is marshaling its
highly efficient staff of technicians
and it's modern equipment in the d.
rection of immediate Improvement. =.
However, the pessimistic color of
the terrapin story is frightened
somewhat by note Of optimism
from Lewis Radcliffe. deputy COM
missioner of the Fisheries Bureau.
He says that practical method OF
terrapin culture has been devised at
the Government fisheries lanora-
tory at Beaufort, n. c.. where, since
1902. extensive researches have spe.
cialized in breeding the after-the-
theater tid-bit.
plans almost completed will make
II possible for the station to release
upward of $4,000 young terrapins for
stocking purposes. thus aiding ma
teriallv in rehabilitating the supply
in nature.
In North Carolina, the State au-
thorities have taken the necessary
step of prohibiting terrapin fishing
for period of five years.
The Government culture method in
wolves the use of extensive equipment.
At Beaufort there is series Of terra
min pounds, laying beds and Winter
hothouses for keeping the newly
Matched terrapins growing while their
less fortunate relatives in their natural
habitat are spending the Winter IN
dormant state underground.
Along with the several thousand ter.
ranins that have been Matched and
raised in confinement, the original
lots Of breeders, secured in 1907, are
thriving in the pens at the station. In
addition, thousands have been nber-
ated to replenish the stock IN open
waters, or distributed to other places
for experimentation.
The priced tiiamond-backs must be
reared in scientifically built quarters.
A really first-rate terrapin farm should
include an Enclosure, in which many
adults may have roomy and comfort.
able quarters suitable for feeding and
| safe enough to insure proper egg lay
and building so heated as to house
the young nicely during the Winter
months.
| An ideal location for a terrapin pen
! is on some we'll protected, gently slop-
ing shore of sand or mixed sand and
clay, where the rise and fall of tides
bring in an abundant supply of clean,
! pure, salt or brackish water. Most
Enclosures. except for the laying beds,
should be under water at extreme high
tides and it is desirable that part of
the area be under water at low tide.
This arrangement compels the females
to resort to the laying beds to deposit
their eggs, provides for bathing and
for crawling about freely and basking
in the sunlight and insures good hi.
bernating bed for the adult stock in
!, the Winter. a pound 60 feet square
will comfortably accommodate 720
adults or several times that number
OF young. Although terrapin drinks
: freely Of fresh water. there Is no evil
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A Fortified Monastery.

THE most strongly fortified monas.
terry in the world is at Solovetsk.
in Archangel. This monastery is In
closed on every side by a wall of
granite boulders. which measures
nearly mile in circumference. The
monastery itself is very strongly fort.
fed. being supported by round and
square towers about 80 feet In height,
with walls 20 feet in thickness.
The monastery in reality consists
OF six churches, which are the re-
positorfes OF many valuable statues.
and also Of precious stones. Upon
the walls are mounted huge guns.
which in the time of the Crimean War
were directed against the British
White Sea squadron.
The monks who inhabited the mon.
astery at that time marched i'm pro.
cession on the granite walls while
the shells were flying over their heads,
to indicate what little fear they had
of An attack by the British fleet.
Thousands of people come annually
to SOlovetsk from various parts of
Russia to view the churches and the
relics. They are conveyed in steam.
ers commanded and manned solely by
the monks.
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Frozen Eye Glasses.
OPTICAL glasses cannot be c,

OPTICAL glasses cannot be cut un
less fixed immovably. To this
end they are glued to iron frames
of different sizes and various shapes.
Until recently, when finished the
plates of glass have been knocked
from the frames with a light ynallet.
cautiously struck upon the edges of
the plates. The work was hard and,
as the least SILVER of the edge,
though imperceptible, disqualified the
lens, the workman needed a very
light, skillful hand. The discovery
was made by an expert optician that
the blocks of crystal separated more
easily when they had been exposed
to the cold during the pi9ht This
discovery has effected a revolution In
the manufacture Of special glasses.
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Never mind" The captains lips
frightened under his beard After all,
any help would be too far away. He
might get his approximate position,
though. But never mind. "If the
weather makes We'll have to aban-
don" he said. She'll never stand
hammerinG"
Why hadn't he checked the COM
passes himself before leaving port?
They had been acting erratically ever
since. Perhaps the steel in the cargo
was to blame, hadn't been allowed for
enough.
The next morning the men worked
| through the dark hours with the aid
! of electric clusters and many hurri-
cane lamps. The sea was dotted with
iettisoned cargo. The ship seemed to
rurge and labor a little more freely.
The captain was worried lest she
break her hack. Only her strong con
struction had so far saved her. that
and the fact there was not great
amount Of cargo aft, while the for ard
! holds We're pretty well filled.
Two anchors We're out aft. the port
how anchor having been rowed out to
! a position about hundred fathoms
astern and to starboard of the ship
and there sunk, with n heavy wire
cable attached. A sheet anchor, fas
tened to a new manila eight.inch haw
| ser. had been taken and sunk astern
and to port. The wire was run
through the fair.leaders and a snatch
| block and back to the big drum OF
the starboard winch. The hawse,
was similarly treated. save that il
went on the port winch. 1t took -four
men to hold and surge the wire, two
! to handle the hawser.
Several hundred tons had been jet
/ tisoned from the foreholds. The tide
was rising. For two hours the pumps
had been sucking at the bilges. with
some small effect. They were stopped
to throw all the steam TO the engines
and winches. The mate stood on the
| fo'c'sle head. The second and third
officers We're aft. There was mar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-18
BY JAMES n. MILLER.

Ut IS sad news for the food con.
noisseur that the supply Of dia-
mond.backed terrapin, one of
i America most priced delicacies,
is being depleted to very seri-
New Britain herald., 1927-02-19

feat OF Suns troops was to the
American Baptist missionary depot,
and it was done by the fleeing
northern troops, not by the victori-
Gus southern soldiery. The retreat
of Suns troops is authoritatively re-
ported as having been disorderly in
the extreme. with looting the, prin-
cipal objective in lieu Of victory.
Evidence is accommodating that the
southern Cantonese troops are by far
the most reliable soldiery in China,
we'll disciplined-even If accomplish
ed with the aid Of Russian officers
and having due regard for the
rights of noncombatants. Should
they capture Shanghai, as appears
entirely likely, it is more than prob
able that the chief danger to for
eigners will lie from the defeated
northern troops If the British and
Americans, as well as other foreign
troops, are forced to protect their
nationals by force of arms it is safe
to conclude at this time that their
guns will be pointed toward the
northerners more frequently than
toward General Chiang's southern
Cantonese forces.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-19
A COOPERATIVE FLOP?

The Connecticut tobacco growers
for some years have been indulging
in the Coolidge panacea for agri-
cultural ills, they have ben treating
themselves to cooperative market
ing. How well it has worked can be
judged from the disaffection that
has cropped swithin influential
tobacco growing circles, resulting in
an effort to break up the associa-
ton.
Cooperative marketing is a mild
form of agricultural sterilization. 1t
seeks to obtain the best possible
price through cooperative action;
but it does not effectively dispose of
a surplus. In this lies the main
difference between the coop plan
and the McNary- Haugen scheme.
but the McNary- Haugen plan would
try to dispose of an onerous surplus
in foreign markets at any price It
would bring. Domestic consumers
would be left to pay the regular
prices and enable the growers to
show a profit.
1t is the surplus that has put the
Connecticut tobacco growers into
difficulties. The coop plan worked
splendidly except for the surplus.
Last year an agreement was reached
to plant a lessened acreage to the
weed, but the warehouses were al
ready filled with a product that
doesn't spoil. Meantime the grow
ers, or at least many of them, have
become dissatisfied with the prices
obtained by officials of the associa-
ton, prices that were in part die
tated by buyers with full knowledge
of the surplus on hand. The associa-
ton officials in all probability could
not get cent more than was re-
ceived; but the growers expected
more. and thereby hangs the tale
Of dissension.
Perhaps tobacco is different from
many other products that can be
marketed favorably by such asso-
Citations. OF the hundreds of coop
associations in the United States, the
tobacco industry apparently contains
the most dissatisfied members. In
fluences over which the Connecticut
association cannot have control have
had hand in the difficulties; not
ably the increase in cigaret smoking
and the proportionate decrease in
the use of cigars. a lessened market
for leaf has resulted, and no amount
of cooperation has been able to
meet the circumstances entirely.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-19
FARM BLOC'S
STEADY GAIN

The farm bloc in Congress has
shown a steady increase in strength
since last year. In view of the fact
that sundry administration authori-
ties a year ago had forecasted the
gradual lisintegration of the bloc as
agricultural prosperity became
more pronounced" this is sgnifi-
can't. Not only does the farm bloc
not agree upon the nature of the
prosperity it is enjoying, but during
the past year the cotton belt has ex-
perienced terrific setback and
economical woe is general through
out the south. The farm bloc lead
ers, therefore, performed u master
stroke when they solicited a perging
of the western and southern agricul-
tural interests, adding tobacco grow
ing TO the industries OF the soil TO
be enhanced by passage of the Nc
Nary Haugen farm relief bill. This
combination not only upset all the
calculations of the administration
but there is a possibility that the
merger viii remain permanent now
that the western and southern soil
tillers have discovered that in such
New Britain herald., 1927-02-19
THE SIEGE OF SHANGHAI

Failing to stop the consistently
victorious Cantonese troops in China
the shattered troops of Marshal sun,
defender" Of Shanghai, is rapidly
falling back upon that important OBJ
jectiye of the southern armies. A
siege of Shanghai is entirely likely,
with much difficulty sure to arise
for foreigners who have crowded
into that metropolis for protection.
British troops surrounding the for
cign quarter, and British and Amer
lean warships in the harbor. may be
drawn in to protect their charges at
the point Of the rifle. TIE outlook
Is not encouraging.
The Nationals, however. have
possessed other important cities
without causing trcphlation among
the foreigners and may do likewise
in Shanghai. Reports from Hang
chow are that the seizure Of that
important base was done i'm meth
odical manner and with the rights
Of noncomhatants fully respected.
What looting there has been in
china has been in sections where
various bands Of warriors were not
in restraint. The chief lootine re
ported in Hangchow after the de-
New Britain herald., 1927-02-19
a bill over the Presidents veto il
such a move becomes necessary.

such a move becomes necessary.
AS this is being written the Nc
Nary Haugen bill lay before the
President for his signature or veto.
The President is contributed with a
task involving the most serious po-
litical consequences. That the White
House occupant is DESTROYS of run
ming for a third term is generally
accepted among Washington OBJ
servers: to do so, however, will re-
quire a minimum of opposition both
in the convention and during the
following election. Fracturing the
hopes of the farm bloc through a
veto is a poor way of soliciting
farm aid, both at the convention and
at the election.
To sign the bill, however, means
a qualification Of the former atti-
tude of the President. He went to
Chicago to preach cooperative
marketing to the farm bloc leaders;
he has opposed the McNary- Haugen
type of farm relief in his messages.
For the President to flop on this
question now means he thinks more
of political expediency than he does
of his principles so eloquently ex-
pressed previously.
In C. Bascom Slemp's book, THE
Mind of the President" the former
presidential secretary states. the
President has never changed his
position on a fundamental public
issue" If this is to remain true
there can be nothing but veto of
the farm bill. Such a veto will re-
suit in obstructive tactics by the
bills advocates to compel the calling
of a special session Of the 10th Con-
gress for early consideration of the
measure, with the ultimate possibil-
ity of strong enough support to
override a presidential veto.