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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
GASOLINE MEASURING
| SAFETY CURB URGED
Weights and Measures Conference
Is Told Of A. A. A. Program
to Guard Autoist.

! A strong plea urging that adequate
safeguards be placed around the meas
llring of gasoline In the various States,
so that car owners, who annually lose
millions Of dollars at the hands Of dis
honest vendors, can be assured of the
quantity they purchase, was made at
the recent session of the National Con-
ference on Weights and Measures in
washington by Ernest N. Smith, gen.
feral manager Of the American Automo-
bile Association.
[ Mr.. Smith outlined to the conference
the program Of the more than 1000
iafiiliated A. A. A. motor clubs through
which 1t Is hoped to curb the activity
lof "gyp" gasoline vendors. The three
major features of the program are:
I First, the adoption Of new legislation
IN weights and measures by those States
where the existing weights and measures
law Is inadequate.
second, setting UP of State and local
enforcement organizations with large
enough personnel and guficient author
sity to administer the law.
+ Third, adequate appropriations by
state Legislatures to enable the enforce
sment organizations to rigidly enforce
the law.
: The A. A. A. general manager called
the attention of the National Confer
sence to the recent survey by the Amer
lean Automobile Association, In which it
was found that the motoring public in
EJhe United States is losing twenty mil
lions of dollars annually at the hands
of dishonest gasoline vendors.
Despite this unwholesome condition
within the ranks Of the oil industry"
ne continued, land although the more
responsible oil companies are waging
continuous warfare on 'gyp' vendors. the
industry recently proposed to the Fed
teral Trade Commission national code
of practices which in no way makes any
effective suggestion for eliminating
many undesirable conditions"
The statement continues:
"The National Conference on Weights
and Measures has done o splendid piece
OF work in drafting q model State
law to meet existing needs. Motor
clubs afiliated with the American Auto
mobile Association have been requested
70 lend their wholehearted support TO
secure its adoption where needed.
The existing laxity In checking up on
The thousands of gasoline pumps that
have sprung UP along the roads like
mushrooms has led to the present con-
dition. BY the same token, It has Gre
ated most profitable field OF dishonesty
for those who make practice Of profit
ing through . growing public demand
for product"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
AUTOISTS URGED TO PLAN
NOW FOR LATER TRIPS
Veteran Dealer Points Out Benefits
Of Well Prepared Summer
Vacation.

"'Plan now for the motor tour intend
ed for later In the season"
This is the advice given to local mo-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
POLICIES NOW AVAILABLE
FOR STUDENT AVIATORS
Those at Schools Approved b!
Board Of Underwriters
Are "Covered.s

In striking contrast to year or two
ago, when even regularly licensed pilots
with thousands of hours in the air
could not obtain insurance, students at
aviation schools are now considered
good risks and are eligible for pro-
lection, says the American Air Trans
port Association.
The great strides made by aeronauti-
cal engineers in perfecting equipment,
the gradual elimination of wildcat"
flying schools and the drawing into the
instruction field Of experienced pilots
are given as reasons for the change.
Students at schools approved by the
board Of underwriters are now "cov-
cred" during their periods Of training
~ D blanket policy. CoyegaGs includes
MnG&6GnAs wniR N Ii
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

florists by Rudolph Jose. veteran auto
much pleasure and satisfaction Is de-
rived from the laying of plans for the
annual motor outing, and, furthermore,
well laid plans means q better, smoother
and generally more care-free trip.
Experienced motor tourists have
learned that there is definite value in
the suggestion to plan early for ones
automobile trip" Mr.. Jose says. mot
only Is there JOY in consulting maps,
laying out routes and plotting ones
itinerary generally, but there comes as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

All prices T. 90 faeeesy
Flint. Miehisss
COMPARE the delivered
price as well 40 the list
price In considering auto
mobile values. Chevro-
let's delivered prices in.
clude only reasonable
charges for delivery and
financing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

the added strain Of high-speed driving
and great heat.
1.-THE owner will find that whatever
thought and attention he gives to the
trip and to the car before the outing
tour is started will return ample divi-
dends In greater pleasure and economy
rs well.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

the result Of such planning far more
satisfying touring experience.
I'm addition to planning early for the
motor trip, 1t would be well for the
owner to begin putting his car In shape
for 1t. Letting the car go for months
without servicing, with the thought in
mind of having a lot of work done at
once just before the trip, surely Is not
q practice to be recommended.
1.-THE car itself should be running
well, the motor in good condition and
the tires should be able to withstand
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

OURISMAN CHEVROLET SALES {
610 II St. NE.
18th St. and Good Hope Rd. Sc.
Anacostia, D. G..
BARRY-PATE MOTOR CO.
1918 Connecticut Ave.
2525 Sherman Ave.
H-B CHEVROLET SALES, Inc.
1909 Wisconsin Ave. NV.
WOLFE MOTOR co.
Silver Spring, Md.
% u a l. / Z
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Wood Waste, Regarded as Source of Fuel
For Motors, May Change Lumber Industry

$4,000 cubic feet Of gas viii be made
In the cracking operation.
1.-THE above Is representative Of only
one kind Of wood. For the other kinds
the yields Of other products may be
similarly shown" 20
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1929-12-29
WHO IS RIAL?
BY MA AoUINo

aho is Rizal7 Why do Fi1ipinos oe1e-
brate Rial Day? These questions and
lot OF others are constantly asked by the
average Ams rioan every time the Ei1ipiuos
eathsr together to celebrate, revere, and
honor this i1lustrious man.
ny answer is very simple. Dr.. Jose Ri
zal y Nero ado is the father of the Philip
pines, just as the great George Tashin ct n
is the father Of the United States of Ame-
RIGA.
To all Fi1ipinos, Riza1's name is the
watchword Of Filipino liberty and freed ON :.
That very il1ustrious man, the most cour-
ageous Filipino Of all times, loyal and
true, whose mighty psn rocked and blasted
the great soverei gnty and supremacy Of
Spanish colonial enterprise, caused that
cove rnme Mt to loose it's prestige aud the
respect OF the world. Rial, knowing that
the pr Toe OF his patr 10 II sn ant losing
his life, Joined the rank of the inmo al
on the morning Of December 80, 1896, in tn
Bagunb cyan field, Man lila, that he Chit
free his beloved pc op1s and country from
the hands of tyranny and oppre ion.
r,r Rizsa.s memory. his teachings, his
forever among his people. Rial loved
ty aud the pursuit of happiness. His ex-
amp1es aud his leadership have been a
great inspiration to His memory lives
forever, and who are living shal II carry
out the work he left for to do, ITO
free the Filipino pc ople FIR ON he I'll tn at
kinds them- to -Snxara ian-pnWer .-----------
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1929-12-29
The
RECURR EFT SPIRIT
By u. Young

Every year I sec that same cid admir-
able spirit of cooperation, Of loyalty, |
and of uuselfishness. In the 1at>r part !
Of the year, ev-ry Filipino is wrapped
wi tn that spirit of MY country, right or !
WRONG" It seems that Riza1's true spirit
of loyalty aud love for his Mothsr land an
ina tes the heart of avery Filipino, and IS
refleotea in his thoughts when the Goth Of
De osmber nears. I S sincerely believe that !
every Filipino's hear is always onrap-
tured with the thought OF his try, but
it is only at the thought Of Riza1's death
and sacrifi ices that there seems to be
mighty upheava1 Of the real spirit OF the
Filipino pie. Standing inf1y, one Is
able to voice his pro te SITS in feeble ut
teranoes; but when Rial Day approaches,
not one stands alone, but great mass,
it viii show to everyone its true worth
and that it will unfold the ideals OF the
Philippines before the eyes of the Ame RI
cans.
Any one Watching tbs plans for the
coming Rial Day Observance can see the
fine subtle spirit Of cooperation and Of
unselfi shuess. Every Filipino is trying
to do his best Tor the program not in Or
der to make better impre ION than his
friends, but in order that by Getting to-
gether they batter leave true un-
der standing Of their country in the mind
of the ir que SITS. Every is uuse fish
concerning the Rial Day fund. One eives
not what he can afford, but what he wi she
not what he wishes, but what he is able II
Year in and year out, probably since
1895, therz is that recurrent spirit d
You cannot say that it is fruitless, be-
cause with each attempt OF ing your
worth to all the people, the closer is
your independence.
Q
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1929-12-29
The SIGNIFICANCE of
D z c z n B z R 80
By C. %. Arc angel

The great martyr and true saviour of
our beloved Philippines, Dr. Jose Rial,
poured his blood on tho Bagwnb ayau field on
that Memorable date of Decente r 30, 1896.
for the sake Of libera ting her from the ty-
rapnioa1 severe ienty Of ths past regime;
mourn; but round the death bed Of Rial
wh o lowered above all, the people Of those
Isl and Joined in their profound
row by all the peoples of the Christian
world.
The Spanish COVE rnment, induced by
some re Ii 81 Gus elements, fully co nvinc-
ed that by oondemnine this fearless advo-
cate Of liberty to die, it would restrain
thsi sBfE tat
oOuceptio on urged the also on ted people
to volt. After a mighty struggle Of
the Filipinos vi tn the benevolent assist
Iance of Devine Provid ence ucoeeded in re-
polling the supreme power of Spain in the
Isl ands; and re publ lean form Of govern
me Mt was she'd in Malolos under he
lie adership of &c nera1 Emilio AguiDaldo.
The eventful December 80, 1896, the
day of Riza1's martyrdo ON, has been written
lon the pages Of our ma tional history---a
most melancholy day, for the entire archi-
Pelago grave1y mourn for Riza1's untime1y
death.
Let me remind you, my dear ooun trynsn,
of the sacred words Of our hero and pa
triot; "oue inporta la nuerte, ST musre
por 10 que Sc ANA, por la pa tria por los
seres que Sc adoran? ouiero haoer YER a
los que nos niegan 81 patriot sno, que no
sotros sabemos morir por nue. stro debor
lpor nuestras conviooi Ones
THAT matters death if we die for What
I've love, for our country and for the being
deny US patriotism that know how to die
for our duty and for our pr inciples."
THE FORUM Is READ FRo COAST TO COAST
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1929-12-29
By Geo. Lagare, President

Last year, with Mr.. MA .Aquino, Mr.. Z.
F. Franoia, and several other prominent
idea Of Organizing a Filipino club whereby
the spirit of cooperation among the Flip
mos Of Brenerton and the state Of ia sh-
Amer loan public could understand what the
Filipinos really This was rea1izod
after surrounding all obstacles with the
splendid cooperation of the men who are
now members Of the success SIS full ly-orGauized
Filipino Progressive Association.
As presi dent Of the association,
convey my sinoerest gratitude first, to
our Anne r lean lends and the pub lie whose
kind and sympath etic attitude furnished US
with the Inspiration to march forward to-
ward our goal; ond, to my fel1ow-offi-
GERS whose spirit OF service and untiring
efforts greatly lped ne to solve the
most complicated problems of tbs associa-
my fe11ow-nembers VIII Sc loyal support and
cooperative spirit enabled the Filipino
Progre sive ASS iation to reach the sum
nit Of success and a happier and nob1er
life.
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1929-12-29
OPEN FORUM

THE
FILIPINO PR OGRESS1VE ASSOCIATION
of Breme T on, dash.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-15
The Summer White House

For nation which makes cult OF personal
health and efficiency $50 years may seem tritie
long in which to provide summer residence for the
President But now that we finally have gotten
around to the idea there should be delay in max
ing it effective.
Occupants of the White House have been too
modest to ask for a vacation home for themselves,
and congress apparently has been too busy to take
the initiative But Coolidge has requested congress
to provide for Hoover and his successors what he
did not have.
Mt. Weather, Va, proposed by Coolidge and IN
formally approved by Hoover seems to be an ideal
place for the purpose. 1t is up in the clouds OF the
stored Blue Ridge sixty miles from Washington BY
remodeling the weather bureau buildings on that
federal property the cost of the summer White House
will be less than $4,000.
Even those who love Washington most never boast
Of its summers. White House physicians always have
tried to keep Presidents out Of Washington during
the hottest months. This has resulted in hit miss
rest trips by Presidents and qlndgnihed bidding by
politicians and resort interests every year Tor
the temporary White House
Mt. Weather will change all Of that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-15
Page the Red-Baiters

what has become of the fellow who was so sure
that the Soviet government was pungng Russia nlVo
hell and dragging the rest of the world alongP WhaV
has become of the fellow who saw in every American
statement reporting Russian progress evidence Oh
Bolshevik propaganda and gold?
If there are any such red-hunters left, what are
they going to do with all these Wall Streeters loaning
money to Russia all these American corporations do
ing business with Russia all these conservative news
napers and magazines carrying news favorable to
Russia?
And what are the red hunters going to do about
Thomas D. CampbeIlP Campbell is from Montana
where he is the largest wheat grower In the world he
has been in Russia helping organize agricultural pro-
duction He suddenly has been called home. He IS
friend of Hoover The political writer's say he going
to be secretary of agriculture.
"Russia seems to have gone further than any OF
us in thinking out the application Of industrial meth
DDS tn the business of farming" says Campbell. he
adds that Russia expects to buy in the United states
IN the next five years. s4OOOO0OOo worth of farm and
road machinery. He hopes they will have opportu-
nitv" to get reasonable credits here.
an,arentlv. American big business is quite ready to
. Moscow The General Electric recently extended
TO Russia fve-year industrial credit OF szoooooUo
prussia has large contracts negotiating with otner
American corporations such as Stanoaro OL' AiV0A4a
tional Harvester Ford and General Motors.
Trade between the two countries last year amounted
70 s112 600 ooo which more than double the old
trade turnover between the United States and Czarist
Russia.
We have vague recollection that the red-hunters
used to advertise Soviet Russia as the chief menace 10
world peace When she presented complete as
armament proposal at Geneva, they called II TRICK
Now how are they going to explain Russa's leader
ship as the first nation in the world to make the KEEL
logg ant-war treaty effecye9 Foreseeing monthsano
possibly years of delay before the Kellogg pact pc
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-15
Hard Winter in Europe

VT is hard to visualize conditions
/ in Europe from the Pacific
coast. One could take a five hour
trip into the Sierras and get pref
ty good idea of what they are. Far
too vivid for most of us, so we do
the best we can to get the picture
by wire and print.
From ten to twenty thousand dead:
wolves entering a schoolhouse and
eating little children, not to men
ton four or five grownups who
came to the rescue; bread 1es and
hot tea for the freezing poor in
Vienna; deep snow in Rome; coal
supplies cut off by the blocking of
railroad tracks; most great harbors
icebound, save on the coast Of Spain;
the canals of Venice frozen over for
the first time in 40 years; the
coolest weather in some places for
more than 200 years-it is a freak,
or a portent?
Our weather bureau seems to
think that nothing more consequent
tial has occurred than peculiar
combination of atmospheric pres
sures. 1t is unscientific however, to
suppose that such combination
occurred without cause, even if it
does not occur very often. One need
not believe we are moving into an
other ice age to assume that there
is a deft reason for the European
cold snap-a reason that has mani
tested itself before and that it will
do so again,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-15
Drys Still Powerful

Hope that the power of the organized drys over
congress was weakening seems to have been prema-
ture. They not only cracking the whip of old,
but note of authority is creeping into their
demands since the election, if they felt their
power had been strengthened.
Witness the progress of the Harris amendment ap-
proprating an additional $24,0OO0O0 for prohibition
enforcement. The senate might have approved it with
out orders from the dry leaders, but all question
ished when they made their position known in no
uncertain terms, and had their condemnation of
Secretary Mellon read from the senate floor.
The house exhibited its fear by refusing to take
a record vote on the amendment and instead, send
ing it to conference. Thus members avoided the en-
barrassment of recording their choice between the
dry leaders and the administration, and single
individual can be singled out for punishment.
So authoritative is the mandate of the drys that
the important deficiency bill, to which the amendment
was attached, remains deadlocked and is threatened
with defeat
Perhaps even more significant was the yelled
threat of of the dry leaders to President Elect
Hoover that the drys would organize movement to
oppose retention of Secretary Mellon if he did not toe
the line they drew it. This bit of arrogance is
reminiscent of the days when the late Wayne B.
Wheeler dictated the course of legislation and the
conduct of executive officers of the government.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-15
". +.
TRACY
SAYS:
Europe Is Afflicted With
Lou Temperature, While
Chicago Suffers From
LOW-MindedneSS. "

GAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. IS
- People out here are accused Of
Dragging too much. Maybe they do,
but they have some excellent eX-
climate, scenery and, best of
all, a go-get-it complex which can
show results.
Nature has been very kind to
California. Oranges ripen in the
Sacramento valley, while at True
kee, $50 miles away, dogs race
through deep snow.
You can stand on Mount Whitney,
which is the highest peak in the
United States and look down into
Death Valley, which is the lowest
point.
You can rest in the cool, damp
shade of giant redwoods right after
lunch and get to desert as bleak
and barren as the Sahara before
sunset.
Nature hasn't done it all, how
ever, it took men of skill and vision
not only to build such cities as
San Francisco and Los Angeles, but
to provide more irrigation than any
other state can boast, to bring in
the oil wells, develop hydro electric
power and construct road system
such as Rome in her palmiest DAYS
never possessed. Whether in lem
ons, the latest and jazziest talkies.
or registered airplanes, California
leads,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-15

or philosophers is so great that all the fainter higher
details of the solar atmosphere swallowed up in the
great blaze of light from below.
The Spectroheliograph is telescope to which a
spectroscope is attached Light from the telescope
enters the spectroscope through moving slit ar
ranged that light in succession from each portion Of
the suns surface is admitted.
There is a second slit behind the spectroscope. A
Photographic plate is arranged to move behind the
second slit in unison with The motion of the first one
The result is that the light from each portion OF
the passes through the spectroscope it is recorded
in its proper place on the Photographic plate
This means that photograph is obtained in sin
gle spectrum line Since this single spectrum Line is
the result IF element such hydrogen or CAL
cium for example, the resulting photograph shows
the distribution of this element through the upper
atmosphere of the and therefore is good photo
of the upper reaches Of the suns structure
The spectrohelioscope is improvement on the
spectroheliograph 1t has a vibrating slit which
makes direct observation possible The spectrohelio-
graph could be used to take photo
series of photos taken in quick succession would
show changes taking place in the sun.
With the SpeotrohelioScope, however it is possible
for the observer TO watch the changes they take
place.
With the aid of his inventioas DR. Hale pointed the
way to an understanding of sun-spot structure and
the arrangement Of gases in the suns atmosphere.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-15

TTHE universal celebration of Lin
l. coins birthday reminds one
that we have overlooked John EricS-
son, the inventor of the Monitor,
without whom the crushing of the
confederacy would have been more
difficult.
Had not the iron-clad Merrimac
not been stopped, northern towns
could have been bombarded, the
United States navy, then a wooden
creature, would have been helpless,
the blockade Of the south would
have been broken, and no one knows
what the end would have been.
Il
Ericsson was born in Sweden, but
became a naturaliZed American in
1848. The Monitor, however, was
not, as generally believed, evolved
all of sudden to combat the Mer-
rinac.
Ericsson constructed the model of
the Monitor in 1854 and sent his
plans to the emperor of the French,
but Louis Napoleon refused to adopt
the craft
Then when the United States gov
eminent learned that the Confeder-
ateS were making the ironclad Mer-
rimac they accepted Ericsson's de-
vice, and it did the work.
y n
The death Of Bishop Henderson
of the Methodist Episcopal church
from d cold, contracted while at
tending the burial of friend, re-
minds one that funerals beget
funerals.
II
1t appears that the United States
navy now is regarded as a beauty
parlor, rather than a branch of the
national defense, more than $50
men having been refused admit
lance to the navy at Norfolk be-
cause they were too homely to wear
the uniform"
The country is entitled to know
the name of the distinguished
genius who ordained this supreme
test of pulchritude for seadogs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-15
Questions and AnSzgers

who is found to be a member of any
we'll recognized religious sect or or
ganization at present organized and
existing and whose existing creed
or principles forbid its members to
participate in war in any form and
whose religious convictions are
against war or participation therein
in accordance with the creed or
principles Of said religious organi-
cations, but no person so exempted
shall be exempted from service in
any capacity that the President
shall declare to be noncombatant."
Before parliamentary government
was established in England dill the
king have absolute power?
The English house Of lords dates
from the assembly which met in
November, 1895, known as the model
parliament. Prior to 1865, when the
first house of commons was sum-
noned by Earl. Simon de Montfort,
the kings of England did not rule
absolutely They had advisory coun-
ellis and generally acted after con-
sultation. Although in early times
kings we're regarded as "the foun-
tain of all justice" they did not
arrogate to themselves full author
Ity.