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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06
BY GENE DAY.
BY GENE DAY.
~ EERING at the internal work
ings" Of a gasoline engine by
means Of special quartz glass
windows in its head as IL YuffS

- ings" of a gasoline engine by
means Of special quartz glass
l. windows in its head as it puffs
and purrs rhythmically is the
experience you may have if you visit
the automotive test shops of the Blu
reau of Standards while the new year
still is young.
There's nothing darker than the in
side of the automobile engine" has long
been popular saying among automo-
bile dealers. Since the dawn days of
horseless vehicles operated by gasoline
power certain Of the processes in the
remained unexplained. Even today
gueSswork is the only guide in some
phases of engine operation.
The automotive engine has refused to
bare all Of its innermoSt secrets. It
has challenged the best scientific minds
of our Millionaire automobile and aero
nautical industries.
Recently Uncle Sam, through his off,
cial testing agency, the Bureau of
Standards, accepted this challenge and
set about to determine new facts about
both old and new automotive engines.
The Government engineers rugged up
two different engines for unique expert
mention. One of these Set-ups features
the use OF four-cylinder engine pro-
vided with observation windows so that
what happens may be studied. A one
cylinder marine engine, equipped with
similar spyholeS, is used in the other
experiment, which is designed to aScer-
tain what takes place in the combus-
ton chamber after the spark ignites
the charge.
Some time ago the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics requested
the automotive specialists of the Bureau
| OF Standards to prepare a theoretical
| concept Of the fame front which de-
velops in gasoline engine when the
| charge is ignited, and what happens In
J the engine cylinder during the subse-
quent explosion. This was done and
as nearly as possible, the phenomenon
1 Of combustion was correlated with the
observed performances of actual engines
| When the intake valve of a gaSo-
line engine Closes" reports Charles F
Marvin, jr, who conducted this scier.-
tific investigation, "it traps a definite
weight Of charge in the engine cylinder
II leakage by the valves and piston Is
neglected, this weight remains constant
until the exhaust valve opens. During
| the short interval between these two
events the imprisoned gases undergo ex.
| tremely rapid chemical and physical
changes, which enable them to do work
on the piston. The amount of this
work can be determined with fair &C.
curacy. although tests demonstrate thai
it varies measurably for different en-.
CINE designs and operating conditions
THE entertainment of just wha5 &C.
ours In the cylinder during the burning
of the charge to cause the obServec
variations in engine performance II
rendered very dif1icult and uncertain
because Of the complexity and slsed Q:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06

been said, 'for the fond father when
so dear a link was severed and so
bright jewel taken away to add to
the radiance above, but he who had
surrendered many worldly possessions
in acts of Christian charity laid this
best and fondest treasure. with becom-
ing submission. at the feet of Him who
Shapeth the lily and coloreth the violet
and plucketh them from earth to shed
fragrance in the fair garden of His
keeping"
Mr.. Corcoran's gifts for various OBJ
jectS were varied and many. He pre-
sented the Trinidad tract, which is
now nearly all built up with houses,
to the Columbian-now George Wash
ington-University He gave the Wash
ington City Orphan Asylum the site
recently vacated by it at Fourteenth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06

taking an interest in the securities,
and that the very fact that the Lon
don bankers had taken them would
make them successful.
Less than fortnight after his first
interview, Thomas Barring returned
from the Continent. Mr.. Corcoran's
appeal to him was more successful,
and a transfer of $5,000,oo0 in bonds
was made to six of the most substan-
tial banking houses in London, it being
the first sale of American securities
made in Europe since 1887. In 1854
he withdrew from the firm of Riggs
& Co., but always maintained cordial
relations there.
X X X
pROBABLY the best known of Mr..
Corcoran's benefactions is the GAL
lery Of art which bears his name and
which has, since 1898, been located
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06

a grand ball for the benefit of the
Washington Monument. It was COM
pleted and would have been occupied
sooner as an art gallery had it not
been taken over by the Government
during the Civil War and used as the
Quartermaster Generals office.
The building and the ground cost
the donor $250,000 and the value Of
the collection of statues and pictures
with which the gallery was started
cost another 100000 Recently two
new wings were added to the new
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at New York avenue and Seventeenth
street northwest, in one of the hand
soonest buildings in Washington. Orig
inally the nucleus of this collection was
housed in the building at the north
east corner of Pennsylvania avenue and
Seventeenth street, opposite the State,
War and Navy Building. This old
structure. which is now occupied by the
Court of Claims, was begun by Mr..
Corcoran in 1857 and was opened to
the public in 1872, and inaugurated on
Washington's birthday anniversary by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06

A stroboscope is best described as a
device which Slows down" or even
stops" the swift motion of speeding
parts. 1t aids scientific re-
search in much the same way that
slow-motion pictures simplify modern
teaching Take the case of the foot
ball coach for Illustration, He uses
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06
rHIRrYoNE QUARTZ WINDOWS SERVE AS ENGINE PEEpHoLEs

slow movies" of complicated foot ball
plays efficiently in schooling his charges
in intricate gridiron maneuvers as well
as in studying the formation of rival
teams.
The special stroboscope used in this
Government engine research consists Of
I've rotating disks, each q which has
The Washington times., 1929-06-03
Mr.. HOOyer'S Method in Local
Appointments

9 ENAToR CAPPER is quite pleased with President
y Hoovers methods of making local appointments and
believes Washington people have no serious objections
The Presidents of for local positions far
has been qualification high character training and experience
He seemingly ignored politics and politicians Senator
Capper says there has been entirely too much political in
uence behind local appointments in the past Again the
Kansas Senator is right.
So long the people Of Washington cannot by suffrage
select their local officials and long there il
way they can whole express their preferences for
ddate the President following splendid in hunt
ing for peculiar fitness and sending their to the
Senate.
He may make mistakes all human beings do, but the
chances are they will be fewer than he listens politicians
others who have special interests they wish promoted by
the installation into offices Of their particular pets
The man who gets high District office under the wings Of
local politicians of other politicians notabes under
obligations that will influence his in office AS Mr.
Hoover picks the has far picked them there
obligation to anybody The only obligation is to the
public honorably and fear!essy.
The Washington times., 1929-06-03
TIE SPARK-PLUG OF JAPAN
.BN Herbert Kaufman.

DDISoN, Chesterfield Chateaubrsnd Tallsyrand Bona
part Give Jefferson Washington possessed the
haziest Of ideas about Japan.
Isolated by religion and by law Nippon wended course
through the centuries uncoveted her ado
fgurehead the Tycoon in supreme command and her
Shoguns schemng and intriguing; medieval people
when steamboat and locomotive plotting economic
luton throughout Western civilization.
Dutch merchantmen occasionally drted into her ports and
at the peril Of their lives traded with pOte and
japanese mariners restrained under penalty Of death
from venturing away from local coasts.
Juns were limited in size by Decree that though
the spirit Of Columbus Marco Polo stirred within her
sailors might challenge the great wastes and pursue his
imagination beyond horizon headlines.
When Commodore Perry seered his tiny frgates into her
waters Japan primitive the England Of Arthurs
day
Mutsuhito the Mado was barely year old. At the age
Of fifteen, the burden Of State thrust upon him.
His childhood had been lived in the shadows Of mysticism
The soldiers surrounding his palace weird creatures panoed
vgilant watch lest mpious subject might chance to
look upon the sacred face Of the scOn Of the Sum-
capital not wsp Of factory smoke floaed to the heavens
did the wheeze Of single engine strike his ear
years after his ascent to the throne Muuo reathed his
upon the vase miracle in all the astounding annals Of
Within the span of e viewed progress other
race attained in thousand years
The clangor of phammers the putting Of trains the hum
Of roeys the whr Of printing presses the click OF tele
graphs the jingle Of phone bells the buzz OF power looms
in triumphant paean to celebrate the closing OF his
reign
Dreadnaughts lay anchor in his harbors social
order pervaded his realm Democracy had eveled all ranks
Armed bules longer utted the streets Samurai and
Samura bent edgers and held throes and
afficked in markep and shop and stock exchange
Shouderstrapped and peasants children risen to
taboo their humble ses patroed the decks of
cruisers planned for Irresistible army corps
Within time mighty nations the Chinese and the
Russian tasted the valorou nvincbe steel of his forces
Hospitals schools universities, colleges Libraries were
sproutfng in every city.
The first Powers the universe had sued for alliance with
his people
He accomplished than fiction, at its boldest would
have dared conceive possible and lifted empire and its
subjects to the peaks Of his own dreams
With Musuhto standing upright in his grave let
discount human prowess.
The Washington times., 1929-06-03
Washington's Sugar Bill Under
New House Tariff

THIS special session Of Congress may really do something
to relieve the American farmer, but the tariff
bill the becomes law there will be anything earth
but relief for American consumers.
High prices living oppressive will become higher
still when the average person gets through paying increased
tariff charges on nearly all the necessities of life.
According to tariff experts the people of Washington pay
about ST. 34680 in taxes sugar each year under existing
They do not pay directly Of course but the aggre
gate is there Under the bill framed by the House the in
in alone will the yearly total here to O36
$50, $69O,00O than at present
Add to this the increased tariff WOOL which will be
felt wooen garments and upon other articles widespread
and is apparent that the cost Of living here must rise
Some day Congress may feel necessary pass legislation
that will give the of the American people
tunity live better and comfortably That may be
the next great problem the political parties Of the country must
face .,
The Washington times., 1929-06-03
LISTEN WORLD!
BrGUe Eyes
By Elsie Robinson

Tad is dead.
i His tired. tortured body has
gone its way. But IL you ever
saw Tad's face-n you have only
seen the picture of Tad's eyes
you cannot believe that Tad, him.
self, has ceased.
The world did not know much
about Tad's eyes, but it knew q
great deal about Tad's fingers.
For 80 years those fingers made
the world laugh and sigh and
ponder, with their cartoons.
Wiser fingers never worked over
a drawing board. Yet for the last
eight years they labored literally
on the brink of the grave.
For eight years Tad was a pris-
oner in his home, shut out from
sight and sound of the world he
loved so weli-shut out even from
his Misunderstanding death every
second Of that time. And know.
ing he faced death, Tad's fingers
drew from the brink of the grave,
but that grave could put no
shadow in Tad's eyes. They were
the eyes Of a great fighter. In
them sat victory. For Tad had
conquered the greatest horror a
man must face. He had con.
quered his own fear.
Ever since men first fumbled
their way toward thought they
have considered the mystery Of
death. And always their hearts
have quailed before the evidence of
crumbling flesh. AS knowledge
grew, fear grew. If one could re.
solve the body into a handful of
chemicals, what hope remained of
life eternal? Where was the soul
If we were but mineral salts plus
water?
But there was Something that
even the wisest chemists could not
reduce to a formula and that was
the Something that peered indom.
table, from brave eyes. Bones
may be lime and flesh may be pro-
The Washington times., 1929-06-03
ONCE-OVERS
Keep Up a Good Appearance

Keep Up a Good Appearance
A N occasional fleeting glance at
"A yourself in the mirror and
you realize that you are slipping
in appearance.
You wear as good clothes as
formerly, but, somehow, you don't
look as crisp and trim and neat
as you did.
You begin to wonder what is
the cause of the change.
Perhaps you dismiss It with the
thought that you are getting old.
Certainly age may make some
changes. but if the truth were
known 1t is not so much age
creeping on, but laziness.
You don't take time to manicure
your finger-nails.
If they are clean, you let that
suffice.
Your collar does not fit you and
your tie is wrinkled, perhaps, If
you are a man. :.
Saving on your laundry bill at
the expense Of your appearance.
Are you losing your pride?
If you are employed outside
your home and begin to look q
little down at the heel, it won't
be long before your employer will
Judge your work by your groom.
ing.
Man or woman, you cannot af-
ford to let yourself down In per
IRouaj RppearancA
The Washington times., 1929-06-03

teid, but there was q Presence in
brave eyes that was more than
lime or proteid or any perishable
material substance. That Presence
lived in Tad's eyes.
Life hurt him, wore down his
body, but as the body failed that
Presence loomed the more
brightly. It was not a vague ex
pression-a trick Of lighting or
coloring-born of the flesh, to
pass with the flesh
1t was something detached from
the fIesh-triumphant over the
flesh. 1t was the proud, free soul
OF Tad that gazed for a while
upon the passing scene, from out
those pain-rimmed sockets, and
then went to other business.
Tad's fingers gave to the world
great pictures. But Tad's eyes
gave the world something greater
than pictures. Tad's eyes gave
men hope.
For Just as Tad's eyes had freed
themselves from the shackles of
fear and pain, so the sight of
them set other men free for q
while. Seeing the courage in
them it was possible to believe
that a man might be something
more than body, and life a
greater adventure than this little
passage between the cradle and
the grave.
I don't know how 1t is with you
but I'm not very brave-faith
doesn't come easy for me. I can
listen to sermons and not get
particle of comfort. can read
the Bible and the grave seems
just as deep.
BUT 1 CAN'T LOOK INTO TRI-
UMPHANT EYES, LIKE TAD'S
AND DOUBT IMMORTALITY.
YOU CAN REASON AWAY
TAD's BODY IN TERMS OF
CHEMISTRY
BUT YOU CAN ONLY EX.
PLAIN TAD's EYES IN TERMS
OF GOD.
The Washington times., 1929-06-03
FaiIure Brings Success

Failure Brings Success
II you are a real hustler, you
will not permit feeling of de-
preston to master you.
Setbacks come to practically
everybody.
It Is wen that they do.
II. they did not, many would go
through life without bringing their
best into full play.
,ss 3 !. You have been surprised, at
times, but what you have been
able to accomplish under the de-
uands Of circumstances.
Each successive victory over
circumstances or conditions has
increased your confidence in your
own ability.
often you have wondered at the
faith some men seem to place in
their own ability or capability.
Experience has probably taught
mem the value OF working out diff.
ficult problems and each one
solved made the next one easier.
often the difference between the
man who is successful and the
man who fails is difference in
confidence.
one does not gain confidence by
0ide-stepping responsibility.
. Struggle without let-up, and
faith In the future, IL the secret.
. Ik the price is teo high for you,
!, - 4 ananlaaD- I'D tan
The Washington times., 1929-06-03
A FOREST PUT TO WORK

dents engage in making a typical
forest management plan including
the necessary work in surveying,
timber cruising, determination OF
rate Of growth and the amount
that can be cut annually or
periodically, and the best silvicul-
tural policies to pursue on each
of the compartments. Every
phase of the work from planting
the trees to the marketing Of the
product is included. In charge OF
instruction are Prof. Harold c..
Belyea, Prof Svend Heiberg and
Clifford H. Foster, the director Of
the forest.
The following were planted dur
ing the months Of April and May
red pine, 5000, Scotch pine,
5000; jack pine, 5000; white pine,
1000; larch, 5000; spruce, 5000.
In addition to these trees $4,000
transplants of various species
were set out in new beds between
the old Woodward headquarters
house and the New York Montreal
highway.
The Washington times., 1929-06-03
SIDE VIEW OF GERMAN WAR MONUMENT

eTHE usual ideas Of monument is general on
horse The horse has only two feet the ground The
eneral is waving his sword looking fierce and handsome
or sometimes you beautiful figure Of Victory laying
wreath on tomb handsome lady holding the wreath
been shot pieces and eaten by gnrene before the soul
departed
The Germans according the pictures you here ev
Neuy believe that monuments should be made to look
Mgly as ITSELF A.
These pictures give two views Of modernist German war
memorial unveiled at Dusseldorf.
General Ludendorf who this monument on which his
name was inscribed with other Mortified and de-
snanded that his name be taken from the monument
The Washington times., 1929-06-03
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Louis E. Bisch-
UTHoOPING-CoUGH is called by
w rh&ysfctaua vaArf1yaaig So


UTHooPING-CoUGH is called by
w physicians pertussis.
And 1t is a contagious disease
that il generally seen in young
children but may actually affect
adults.
AS the child grows older the re.
sistance to an attack of whooping'
cough increases. In infancy, how
ever, it is often fatal.
The exact cause OF this disease
is not clear as yet. Undoubtedly,
however, it is caused by a germ of
some kind. Many believe 1t is
caused by the bacillus which was
isolated by Pfeiffer and which is
found in the mueus after a cough
ing spell.
Whooping-cough develops very
gradually. 1t takes from seven to
fourteen days for it to manifest it.
self after an individual has been
exposed to it.
First there is a catarrhal in
flammation, like an ordinary cold.
This lasts for a week or two, with
cough, but the typical "whoop" in
the cough, after which the disease
gets its popular name, does not ap-
pear until later.
When the whooping stage ar
rives the child suffers a great
deal. The coughs are explosive in
character, they follow one another
rapidly and in a whoop, and it
would seem as though the child
erA4~R k4 aknlyn 20
Often during the whoop the face
gets purple, the eyes bulge, the
veins Of the scalp and face stand
out prominently.
After several such croaxing
coughs mucus Is finally brought
up out of the throat and this
mucus is very thick and ropy.
Children usually become very
exhausted from these coughing
attacks.
The whooping stage of pertussis
lasts, as rule, about a month. 1t
may last a shorter or a longer
time, however, depending upon the
severity Of the disease.
Usually the coughing attacks de-
crease in frequency and severity.
Sopetimes mild coughing persists
for months, especially during the
winter.
Pertussis is about twice as fire.
quent in winter, anyway, as dur.
ing the summer. EpidemicS are
very common.
I have pointed out In a previous
article that measles is not the
harmless disease so many mothers
hold it to be.
The same may be said about
whooping cough.
Not only do children "catch It"
very readily. but serious conpli-
cations may follow, aside from the
fact that the disease itself often
kills in the very young.
Hemorrhages in the nose and
from the mouth may. of course,
occur, because of the violent cough
ing. Occasionally hemorrhage In
the brain has taken place. Con.
vulsions are not uncommon.
The most serious complication
Of all is pneumonia, and death, If
It occurs, is usually due to this.
In summer diarrhoea is often
another complication and as such
Is dangerous.
Children who have had whoop.
ing.cough once are not likely to
contract It again. Unnecessary
exposure should be avoided, never.
theless.
Pertussis should not be treated
without the aid of a physician. as
parents often do. Remember that
1t may prove serious In its con.
sequences.
II your child has been exposed
to it, you may be almost sure that
he will develop 1t later on.
Therefore do not take chances.
Don't say: "oh, let him have Il
and b donA With it"-
The Washington times., 1929-06-03
MEDITATTONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland
The "Kiss.and-Run Lover

The "kiSs.anu.Run" Lover
GGNKEN have changed" says the
N1 modern girl. "You don't
understand. They demand so
much more Of girl these days.
And IL she is non-pettable she is
out of the picture"
Oh, no; men have NOT changed.
Men are running strictly true to
form.
Men have always been as seri-
Gus as women forced them to be
and as irresponsible as women
permitted them to be.
Men have always taken as much
from a woman as she would give,
and given as little in return as
she demanded. Why shouldn't
they?
Men have always had the i'm
pulse to make love lightly. Your
great-great-grandmother sang pa
thetic little songs about the lover
who kissed and rode away. The
"kiss.and-run lover" is as old as
Adam.
Men have always wanted free.
and.easy love-making. But men
have not changed.
If anybody has changed, 1t ts
woman. It Is woman who has
set all the changing fashions in
dress, manners and love-making,
ever since Eve changed the first
national costume and the first
place Of residence.
Man. like the Rock Of Gibraltar,
is a process of geological forma-
tion-and, as far as his natural
instincts and impulses go, he has
not changed one jot or little since
the first Great Lover swung from
tree to tree in search Of coconuts,
amusement and adventure.
II you are looking for somebody
who holds a woman's kisses at a
higher valuation than she puts on
them herself, you are not looking
for a man; you are looking for a
miracle.
Taking the run Of the mill, men
are good, bad or Indifferent, just
as they always were. There are
more good one than bad ones, and
more Indifferent ones than ever.
: But there are few Saint An
thongs among them. Men do not
DEMAND petting. They simply
TAKE it, because they can get it
so easily and plentifully-
freely. Did you ever see any fruit
left on the branches that hung
over the fence?
With the cakes all laid out on
the table and a "Help yourself"
sign over them, would you expect
a small boy to restrain his appe.
tite for sweets? And with girls all
around him, willing to be loved
today and forgotten tomorrow" do
you expect a man to be a Gala.
had?
It is woman who has set the
styles in love-making, and If she
doesn't like them she can change
them tomorrow. Men will always
follow her lead.
Blame the times, blame the fem.
inists, blame your fellow-women
but never take a woman more
seriously than she takes HER.
SELF! Put that under your per.
mapAnt EayA
The Washington times., 1929-06-03

.cENIoRS Of the New York
- state College Of Forestry are
specializing IN forest management
and stlviculture on the Charles
IAthrop Pack demonstration for
est near Lake George. After
camp special trips viii be taken
10 the Yale demonstration forest
at Keene, ~. H.. and the Har-
ward forest at Petersham.
The new headquarters house
sets back in the beautiful white
fpine grove about one hundred
feet from the main highway which
traverses the tract for about 215
E1aiIes. The house on the road to
/, Montreal will serve as a place for
ev1Gitors to stop and secure
information about the forest and
from which parties will be taken
over the forest on trips Of inspec-
fion.t A large assembly hall viii
bo provided where. meetings may
be held and lectures given.
At the Pack forest the stu.