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all proportions to the civilizations that
inspired and freed us, but which long
have cramped our style.
My little figure of Ruskin seated. in
bronze in the Metropolitan. is heroic
though not Is inches long. One of
Americas ablest sculptors, in looking
at this. asked where the big figure
was located. I replied, There is no
other" Oh he exclaimed, Il
thought this must be a reduction from
an heroic figure
This effect is not produced by lack
Of detail. simplicity of modelling Or
other tricks. 1t is wholly one Of COM
position. poise, Of ass-juXtapostion---
Of relative dimensions. relations Of ex-
tremities to the main body. The
Nero" has the same quality--it is not
over II inches Highland so has the
female figure in the group, Have
Pinned Unto You"
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to a few that Franklin K. Lane made
the first suggestion that led to the
definite financing of that great work.
X X X
BEFORE I enter more particularly
into great mountain carving, and
why. let me analyZe further, and drive
home, this spirit of the heroic and
colossal. We are living in the age Of
it; our age will some day he so desig-
mated; ours will be called THE Colossal
Age" Once understood, life takes on
a wholly new value, for you have been
given a new standard of measurement
for the material and the living. con
scious universe: for the bigness as
against the littleness of everything
in it.
l have said colossal was a matter
of scale, relatively. AS / have often
more than limited that we in America
are developing in dimensions out of
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gone into the tremendously high
radio towers might no longer be neces-
sary for radio of the future.
X X X X
HIGH frequency is still in the ex
perimental stage, in spite Of the
combined efforts of the experts of
great nations to explore the secrets
of the upper atmosphere where the
mysterious layers reflect back the
waves at varying heights and at
varying hours. But it is interesting
to note that on the program of the
forthcoming conference. there is a
definite place assigned to the expert
mental and amateur worker. on the
ALLEGATION chart.
The developments Of Armstrong,
and of Matthews and other noted anna
tours of earlier days have insured
that much. and it is probably not too
much to say that the efforts Of the
-
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brilliant young workers in their own
homes have done much to goad the
official radio interests into an upto-
date progress that red tape might
have denied them.
The crystal-controlled transmitter
that has come into such popular use
with the latest type sets recalls the
story told last Winter at one of the
meetings held at the Department of
Commerce by the local radio club.
Quartz was used a hundred years
or so ago for all our spectacle lenses
and when radio enthusiasts first
started using the crystal for their
work some four or five years ago,
they used the whole crystal. rather
than merely a small slice Of it. as is
done today. since the demand became
so tremendous.
The first oscillators used were
spectacles, and they oscillated nicely,
SO when one Of the big radio COM
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as did Alexa nder and Pericles. but
Alexander the more, though Pericles
was the better ruler.
In nature the mighty, turbulent
Missouri has the element of a great
life. The Mississippi. on the other
hand. is just an overgorged canal,
incapable of delivering the life her
great upland tributaries give her.
The Missouri is a kind of god. that
leaps from the lap of the mother
mountain, full grown. loaded with
snow, ice and power. supported by a
veritable army of tributaries. the Lit
tie and Big Horn. the Yellowstone, all
driving him on for thousands of miles.
He races, plunges. tears the earth
apart: begrimed with the wreck of
life. Of little homes destroyed on his
way. he arrives at the great pacific
Mississippi muddy and bloody with
the life he has taken.
The foregoing is written solely to
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tiles. Abbot Thayer's work. on the
other hand, is distinctly heroic; in his
art is something deeper and greater
than technique.
The first Brooklyn Bridge is colos-
SAL 1t might span a world. 1t has
the elements of true proportions, with
power expressed where needed. The
two great piers serve to bind the cities
together by great silken web. like an
Aeolian harp strung for the gods. The
other bridges are plainly dull, ordi-
nary, or. like the Fifty-ninth street
bridge. just big misuse of steel
Small heads, hands and feet suggest
bigness in the figure. but that by no
means implies a godlike or heroic
quality in the mass. Overstout people
have these proportions, but they never
suggest the heroic. Amateurs and
imitators follow and are fooled by the
trick You see none of that in Abbot
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Thayer's, nor do you feel it in the
best of Angeles work. Winslow
Homer's landscape has somewhat of
this same sense of the colossal. even
when he deals with a strip of beach.
His beach is the shore of a world and
his sea extends into the infinite.
Recently I asked Jesse Jones. the
builder: why are you erecting these
superstructures in Texas? You are
not. cramped for space" I marveled
at his great reply.
II want" he said, "to lift Texas into
the scale of the Nation
X X X
IN pioneer work Coils ?. Huntington
= was a colossus; so was J. J. Hill.
jefferson and Franklin thought ever
in universal terms: those two were
world chara cters: they inspired build
ing in world dimensions. Whitman
and Browning had the grand stride,
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and thus many more problems are
to confront the 500 odd members of
the assembly. who will gather at
the Chamber Of Commerce. Fifty ma.
tions are included in this conference,
where the ALLEGATIONS of the ''freQuen.
cies'' for their air-borne message
traffic will play a prominent part In
the discussion.
The STATE DEPARTMENT has already
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Sculptor Finds That
Life Under Present
Conditions Takes on
Wholly New Value,
With New Standards
of NJ e a sure ment,
Which Are Beyond
the Achievements of
the Past.
BY GCTZON BORGLUM.

n HE colossal in art is the urge in
man to rival the phenomenal
in nature When the primitives
i began to think and really mas
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But-reduced prices
are now possible be
cause great popularity
and steadily increasing
demand have resulted
in immense production.
The Famous Tone
Mellow and true-a
result of the bui1t-ill
tone chamber of violin
wood.
The Freed Eisemann
Selec t e d for the
Presidents yachEthe
Mayflower. And de
spite the many fine
European radios ex-
hibited, the Freed
Eisemann won the gold
medal at the Interna-
tional Radio Show in
Florence, Italy.
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NATIONS CHAMPION FATHER
IS GREETED BY PRESIDENT
Farmer of II. With 81 Chill
dren, Receives Much
Praise.
Congress AppIauds When
Bland Rises From His
Gallery Seat.

President Coolidge and Congress
paused today in their consideration OF
such state problems as foreign rela
tions and national defense to acclaim
Americas champion father"-Reuber
Bland Of Hobersonville, n. Z, who
boasts of 81 children.
Mr.. Bland became aroused over re
ports that Il constituent OF REPRE-
sentative Upshaw of Georgia had laid
claim to the offspring title during 4
recent visit to the White House, and
I'M view of the fact that the Georgian
was the father OF only 26, he felt II
his duty TO come forward and show
President Coolidge what a real father
looks like.
The 72.vear-old farmer was present
ed TO Mr.. Coolidge this afternoon by
Representative Lindsay Warren OF
North Carolina. and Carl Goerch. Reu-
ben's home town publisher. who
brought him to Washington. Shortly
afterward he was introduced to the
House amid uproarious applause.
Mr.. Coolidge gave the presidential
palm TO Mr. Bland without hesitation.
Shaking the siuewy hand of the why
framed little Southerner, the Chief
Executive extended his congratula-
llOHS III lpH6S VI uilNoAANVt'iSN 'N@A-'-'N
don.
You ought to he thankful for an
YOUR blessings" the President re-
marked.
In presenting his friend TO the
House, Mr.. Warren characterized
Bland as "a man who has and is con
tributing more TO the man power or
the Nation than any other citizen.
To-day, when the national defense
Of the country is being debated. 1t is
fitting that we should stop and pay
tribute to so valuable a contributor
to the cause" the Tarheel Representa-
tive declared.
"Incensed and indignant that one
would be so bold as to attempt tt
usurp his well earned laurels. Mr.
Bland has come here and sits yondeI
in the Speakers gallery. He is the
father of "a children, and this wonder
full accomplishment has been tn'
subject of song and poetry for many
years. He stands in a class alone. Ht
is the champion father Of America. Ht
is a walking advertisement OF tn
great section of the country he hail:
from He is supreme in his line, un
equaled and uneXcelled"'
Mr.. Warren said that when tn
twentieth child arrived at the Blan'
household former Representative
John II. Small of North Carolina
promised to present the father will
suit of clothes for each child tha'
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came thereafter Fourteen times was
Mr.. Small called upon to fulhll his
pledge" Mr.. Warren asserted. Il ask
! this splendid American and North
Carolinian to rise in the gallery SO
that the members of this House may
see what a real father looks like" As
Bland rose. beaming with smiles. the
entire membership greeted him with
wholehearted applause.
Throughout the morning a steady
stream of callers visited Mr.. Warren's
office to meet Reuben and hear what
he might have to say for himself
They found short, sturdy we'll
dressed farmer with anything but a
harassed look on his deeply tanned
Countenance.
He disclosed that he had been twice
married and that only IL of his
children now are living. Most of
them are married and they have up
held the traditions of the family by
presenting him with 81 grandchildren
Bland said he thinks his own
family is about complete now. The
Oldest child is 81 and the youngest, 10.
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WOOD RAPS GEOGRAPHIC BOARD
AND FINE ARTS COMMISSION
Charges Charles Moore Group Is So Ex-
tending Work Demand for Adolf
ton May Result

Criticism that the Fine Arts Com
mission is so extending its operations
that a demand for it's abolition may
result, and characterization of the
United States Geographic Board as
"a little hit worse than nothing.
with appropria tons for it's support
thrown away on fly specks." was
made before the House today by Rep
resentative Will r. Wood of Indiana
in reporting the independent offices
appropriation bill.
1t was an increase of $4,000 in the
appropriation for the Fine Arts Com
mission that provoked Chairman
Woods censure, but the 1000 was al
lowed in the bill as reported. This is
for travelling expenses to allow the
members of the commission to meet
more frequently in Washington.
Mr. Woods took exception to the
activities of the commission with re-
gard to designs of an apartment
house at Second street and Massachu-
sets avenue, the lighting of Union
Station plaza, street car loading plat
forms on Connecticut avenue and the
proposed boulevard to Mount Vernon.
When Charles Moore, chairman of
the Fine Arts Commission, was a wit
ness before the subcommittee, Mr..
Woods admonished him. IF you will
simply cOnfine yourself to the things
this commission was created for you
will not have any trouble with this
committee"
Mr.. Moore denied that the com
mission has been unduly active or
gone beyond the duties assigned TO il
by law. 1t has not taken up any mat
ter that has not been referred TO it
by a Governments agency, and he eX-
planned to the committee the tire
mendous increase IN work before the
Fine Arts Commission in connection
with the public building program.
Arlington Memorial Bridge and many
other matters connected with the de-
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WOMEN APPROVE
PARK BOND ISSUE
100000 Project Endorsed at
Monthly Meeting of City
Club.

The 100000 bond issue now being
considered by the Federation of
Citizens Associations for the pur-
chase and maintenance of additional
public parks and Fairgrounds in the
District was indorsed by the Won
ems City Club at the regular monthly
business meeting of that organization
held last night at the Womens City
Club.
Miss Mary +. IIazenby, chairman
of the parks and coming committee,
spoke favorably of the bond issue,
which she said was of vital interest
10 all civic clubs in the District.
Miss Lazenby stated that some
District organizations are unwilling
70 join hands with the Federal Gov
eminent in preserving park lands
that viii be lost or will have TO be
bought later at a much higher figure
than at present.
The Womens City Club is espe-
cially interested in securing an So
acre tract of wooded land near the
Bureau OF Standards for park.
This land can be purchased at a
reasonable price at present, and
unless 1t Is bought now the land may
be purchased for other purposes or
will increase so greatly in value that
1t will be impossible to buy il. it
was said.
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velopment and Identification of the
National Capital.
When Mr.. Woods was criticfsing
the Geographic Board, he was told
that it was established by President
Harrison In an Executive order. He
replied: We'll, he was a great man,
but somebody must have imposed
upon him.
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DEATH Is ACCIDENTAL.
Coroner's Jury Returns Verdict in
Channel Case.

James Channels death from injuries
-eceived in a traffic accident in front Of
:. coal yard at 483 + street southwest,
about 1890 o'clock Tuesday morning.
was the result of an accident. accord
lug 10 a verdict Of a coroner's jury at
IN inquest conducted at the morgue
today by Coroner j. Ramsay hewitt.
Channel former resident of ST
AIarys County. Md, is alleged 10 hav"
made an unsuccessful attempt to
yoard a moving coal truck, driven by
frank Williams. colored, II Canal
street southwest. Tic missed his foot
!nR, fcll ana Ntt-s van oN.i.
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DEFIANT WARDEN
STILL IN CONTROL
Colorado Governor May Be
Defeated in Move to Gust
Head of Prison.

BY the Associated Press.
DENVER, January 6,-Assurance
that any one trying to break into the
State Penitentiary at Canon City
would receive the same treatment
planned for persons attempting to
break out has placed the institution
in a state of legal siege, with Gov.
Clarence J. Morley threatened with
defeat in his efforts to GUST Warden
Thomas J. lyman.
In commenting on the governor $
charges of characterization, i'll treat
ment of prisoners and drunkenness,
and his subsequent order relieving the
warden from duty for 10 days, lyman
told Morley that your order of So
called suspension has reached me and
amused me very much. The COVER
nor has no more right to remove the
warden of the penitentiary than the
man in the moon
lyman maintains that he is en-
ployed by the Civil Service Commits
sion, and as the governor has been
unable to assemble that body to pass
on the order he will disregard it.
Morley's term expires Tuesday next.
Efforts Of Sheriff Clifford K. elias
son. appointed by Morley as acting
warden. to enter the prison yesterday
were unsuccessful. He was told the
institution was closed for the day.
The two-year fight between lyman
and Morley has been further intensi-
fled by release by the warden to the
Denver Post of Il list of 149 paroles
and pardons he said the governor had
granted. The list contained the
names of % convicts serving life sen
fences, 10 of whom were convicted of
murder.
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There is no man so friendless as
the one who has lost his political
mill
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MAGRUDEK is FREED.
Says He Shot Harvey Rowe at
Cabin John in SeIf-defense.
Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
R0EkA-II IA I

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Nd. January C.
frank James Magruder. charged with
assault TO XIII Harvey Rowe, was ac-
quilted by a jury in Circuit Court
after three hours deiiberation last
night. Rowe testified that he was
shot three times at the Magruder
home in Cabin John. while engaged
in a fight with Frank Graham, and
his story was corroborated by Mrs
Harry Hazel. Magrllder said he fired
ia Self-defense after being rushed by
Rowe when he tried to part Rowe
and Graham. Graham. who was
under an indictment in the case. was
not present. and the police have been
unable 10 locate him.
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Compulsory military service has
been established in Iraq.
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OUercOUtS
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THERE are also
IL certain hig h e r
ranges of Overcoats.
on W h j c h corre-
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price-conc G g ions
have been made. No
single Over C oat In
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BROTHER OF SLAIN
MAYOR is ARRESTED
Accused of Killing Follower OF
Burger Gang in Feud in South
ern Illinois.

BY the Associated Press.
BENTON, H., January G.--Jeff
Adams. a brother of Mayor Joe
Adams of West City, who was killed
recently in gang warfare, was ar
rested here today on a Gallatin
County warrant charging him with
the murder of Ward Jones Of Harris
burg, follower OF Charles Burger.
gang chieftain. Adams was taken to
Shawneetown.
The body of Jones was found Oc-
tober %, at the edge of a creek, just
off the State highway, near Equality.
The Adams brothers were sup
porters of the Shelton gangsters.
rivals of the Birgerites for control
of the southern Illinois coal belt
liquor traffic. Birger was charged in
a Franklin County warrant 10 days
ago with completely in the murder of
Mayor Adams. but he IS still at large.
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TRAINING SCHOOL
FUND REACHES $4,296
$1,675 in New Subscriptions Re-
ported in Drive for Bud
get of $4,000.

Washington's contribution to the
drive of the National Training School
for Women and Girls today amounted
to s4.296, Miss Mamie II. Burroughs,
president of the institution, an
nounced. The quota for this city is
s25 900 and since the last report OF
subscriptions was made, $1,675 has
been received. This sum was given
by the following:
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"THE sole and sin
gle exception TO
the reductions above
is in the case of the
standard-priced S so
Saks "Cri ION
Sack Suit. This price
is mainta j II e d the
year round.
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To completely electrify this set all that
is necessary in addition to the Westine-
house "A" Autopower is the Fleetwood 81
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We must impress upon YOU that this
console cabinet illustrated above is APP
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their catalog and that
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MYER COHEN
ment of aviation in Rumania. We
are making great progress"
He asked Acosta il he believed
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SsStteaaae9 . 1eSH ~
.ass. chahSsEll sn eAasi's =
This affair wsa tEIne aOssthsr
six Americans who have flown across
the Atlantic, Q record which, 80 far
has never bean eQualed-
Commander Byrd was guest OF
honor at q dinner last night given
by Capt. Richard D. White, Ameri-
can charge d'affaires, at the Ritz
Hotel. His three companions dined
at q little restaurant in the Mont.
narte district. Theid identity soon
became known and the restaurant
became 90 crowded that the pro-
prietor had to close the doors.
Byrd Is enthusiastic over the
amount Of scientific data obtained
on the flight of the America. Like
Lindbergh he believes there viii be
a regular transatlantic air service
within 10 years.
The nlonoplane America which
brought the fliers to France will
not take the air again In Europe
this trip, II was decided today.
The plane viii be dismantled and
shipped directly to the United
States by steamer from Cher
bourg, 1t was announced.
The motors and the instruments
already have been Grated and are
now at Bayeux awaiting shipment
to Cherbourg. The huge wings will
be taken by motor truck from
Ver-Sur-Mer to Cherbourg.
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PLANE FACTORY,
Indy s AIM
By International News Service

WICHITA, Kan, July A.
"Hello-that you. Jake?" said Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh, New York.
to-Paris hero. talking over long
distance telephone.
yeah. Slim. How are you? Con-
gratulationsr'
Thus the American air hero con-
versed with j. NJ. Moellendick,
president Of the Swallow Airplane
Manufacturing Company, of Wichita,
Kan.
1t was not feigned or profess
sional familiarity that tinged the
conversation. 1t was friendship Of
long standing.
Jake. are you coming to ST.
Louis to build airplanes?' Lind
bergh asked. I'm thinking of
starting a factory here and would
like to know if you are coming
up" he said.
Haven't had time to give it a
thought. Slim. Business is so good
right here that really I don't see
any reason for making q move,
MoelIendick declared.
And so the conversation continued
for about Is minutes, with Lind
bergh failing to get any kind of a
promise from Jake Moellendick to
move TO st. Louis and help him
develop a new airplane project.
Moellendick went to ST. Louis in
response to attractive offers that
enterprising city made for the OPP
Grafton of a Swallow factory there,
q few months ago. but declined to
negotiate with interests there.
The youthful manufacturer says
he has been literally swamped with
orders for airplanes ever since
''Lindy" landed at lie Bourget field
in France,
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Justice Of the Peace Lloyd, Of ri
angle, Va, struck the small car
driven by Hamilton, and occupied
by william Fades, of Elkville, Va,
completely crushed it. and then
ran over it.
The big sedan came to rest On
top of the smaller machine.
Hamilton was pulled from the
wreckage and pronounced dead.
Fades was thrown clear and suf-
fered only minor injuries.
Rolls Down q Hill
All of the injured were taken TO
the Marine hospital at Quantico
and treated. They are expected to
recover.
At a coroner's inquest held last
night by Coroner Mastella, Of
Manassas, Va, it was testified that
Miss Poll was driving at an ex-
cessive rate of speed but no ex-
PLANTATION for her having lost con.
troll OF the machine was given.
The coroner ordered that she Be
held under a $4,000 bond for a hear
ing before the commonwealth attor-
ney on Wednesday. She furnished
the bond and was released.
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Tnree otner persons were seriously
injured in traffic accidents occurring
IN nearby States. They are Francis
x. Shoemaker. % years old; his
brother. Harrison Shoemaker, 2s,
both Of 21S Fourth st. S. E., and
James McLain, %, 1873 Morse st,
N. E.
The Quantico accident occurred on
the Washington Richmond boule-
ward.
Miss Poll is said to have been
operating the automobile which was
occupied by her mother, Mrs. S. C..
Poll, sister. Miss jamie Poll, IS,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Dante CortOpssi,
all of Richmond.
Miss Poll was proceeding down
a steep grade toward Washington
when her automobile is said to have
sideSwiped an automobile operated
by G. M. Gibbons. 1856 Calvert st.
N. w. and occupied by Mrs. Mae
c. Gibbons. of the same address, and
Robert WorrelI. 1925 X st. S. E.,
tearing off a front wheel of the
latter car.
Careons leo Feet
The Poll car then careened for
more than 100 feet, according to