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tank. We were busy all the time work
ing with the axiliary oiling system,
and every bit Of gasoline was pumped
from the auxiliary tank into the wing
tanks with wabble pump, which Is q
hand device.
The Government is to be compliment
ed on its lighting Of the transcontinen-
tai airway and the numerous enier-
gency landing fields between the Pa
ci1lc and Atlantic. During all the hours
Of night we always were In sight Of bea-
con lights, which are real friends when
flying after the sun has gone down.
However, we found 1t more dinicult
flying over the transcontinenta loute
than over the Northern route from Min
neapolis to Spokane. regard the
Northern route as one Of vital impor-
lance to the United States. rs it is the
aerial gateway to the Northwest, the
Orient and Alaska. It Is free from long
stretches of high mountains and can be
flown at o much lower altitude.
We have set q new record and 1t Is
our sincere desire that too much time
will not elapse before II Is broken by
some other pilots in one-thifd of the
time. To break this record will mean
another advancement in commercial
aviation. and that is where our interest
lies, II we are to keep step with the
foreign countries.
(Copyright, 1929. by North American News
paper Alliance)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-22
COL. YOUNG OF IOWA NAMED
AS McCRACKEN'S SUCCESSOR
New Assistant Secretary of
Commerce Was Flyer
During War.
Retiring Official to Join staff
of Commercial
Company.

Col. Clarence M. Young Of Iowa, d.
rector OF the Bureau OF Civil Aeronau-
tics of the Department of Commerce,
has been appointed by President Hoover
to succeed William p. MacCracken, jr.,
as Assistant Secretary of Commerce in
charge of aviation.
Secretary MacCracken rendered his
resignation to the President last April
with the understanding that he would
remain In office until the latter settled
the matter Of his successor. Mr.. Mac
Cracker Is to become associated with
q commercial aviation company. It Is
understood that Secretary MacCracken
suggested the appointment of Col.
Young. This appointment is known to
have been discussed by the President
and Mr.. MacCracken at the White
House yesterday and at the Presidents
Virginia camp over the last week end,
where Mr.. MacCracken was q guest.
Col Young, like his predecessor, Is an
active aviator and recognized author.
ity on aeronautics and has devoted con-
siderable study to the development Of
civil aeronautics. Moreover, he has
shown himself to be an ardent advo-
for the National Capital
Col. Young is native of Des Moines,
and during the World War he distin-
guished himself as flyer. The greater
part of the time he was attached to
the italian Air Corps as lieutenant,
and demonstrated his skill and courage
on more than one occasion during COM
bat with the enemy. At one time, while
plotting three -motored Caproni plane
In an italian bomb Squa dron. his plane
was shot down by Austrian gunners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-22
HOME ICE PLANTS
HELD SAFE BY j. S.
Three Agencies Join in Report
That Refrigerating Methods
Are Not Dangerous.
BY the Associated Press.


Three governmental agencies today
gave assurances Of the general safety
Of present-day household refrigeratine
methods.
A joint statement by the Public
Health Service, the Bureau of STAN
dards and the Bureau of Mines said
that its purpose was to relieve any un-
due anxiety in the mind of those pos
SeSSing household refrigerating systems y
Several Deaths" the statement as
serted, (which have occurred recently
in Chicago have been attributed to poi
soning by methyl chloride which leaked
from refrigerating systems. These have
received wide publicity, even among the
users of refrigerating equipment entire
ly unlike that to which the fatalities
have been attributed"
Accidents Are Few.
Serious accidents from household re-
frigerating systems, the statement con-
tinues, have been small in comparison
to the number in use, and added that
improvements might be expected which
would reduce the small hazard which
does exist.
Newspaper headlines and statements
to the effect" the report declared, that
the fatalities IN chicago were caused by
gas refrigeration without doubt had
reference only to the fact that the re-
frigerants were gases. Illuminating OF
fuel gas was in no way involved
Gas ammonia, sulphur dioXide anC
methyl chloride were reported to bt
the three most important gases uSec
in mechanical refrigeration. OF the
three, the report said methyl chloride
was the least poisonous, but that be.
cause of its slight and rather pleas.
ant" odor, which might not awaken q
sleeping person and might not be recog.
niZed by one who was awake, 1t prob.
ably contained a greater hazard thar
any other commonly used refrigerant
The two toher mentioned were saic
to have strong odors easily recognized
Studying Danger.
Studies are now under way for elm.
mating the danger from methyl chloride
and the report said that safety probably
would be accomplished by adding sons
strong odor or by substituting another
Pefrigerant
Individual refrigerators do not use
methyl chloride. the report said, and a
large majority of the electric refrigera-
tors use sulphur dioxide. GaS-fired re-
frigerators employ ammonia.
THE high volatility of all practica-
BILE refrigerants," the statement added
makes it quite improbable that enough
of these substances could be retained
in food stored in refrigerators to be
harmful"
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REGULAR NONSTOP AERIAL LINES
ACROSS NATION ARE PREDICTED
Refueling Planes at Each Field In Future
Will Save Time and Speed Flights,
Lieut.. Manner Believes.

was experienced In contacting any Of
the. crews. Much Of our success, In my
opinion, was due to the national serv-
icing hook-up arranged under the direc-
ton of Capt. Frank Hawks.
Americas wide-awake attitude to its
new form of transportation, the air.
plane, was reflected across the route.
to be alive to the importance of the
flight and the many serious problems
constantly before us. The common
understanding between them and our
selves. although separated by thousands
of feet, was seen in the manner they
had prepared for our reception.
All of the airport managers were
ready with weather reports and the
many things so important to the COM
mercial flyer. The pilots and interested
spectators knew our mental attitude and
encouraged us over the next difficulty
with messages Of good cheer.
No Great Preparations.
No great preparation was made for
this fight In the form Of comforts and
training. The flight was started two
weeks after 1t was first thought Of.
A stock model airplane from the Bull
factory was sent US and q Wright Us
motor was installed just as 1t would
have been installed in a plane for
ordinary use. We walker and myself
undertook no special training, but left
our jobs as commercial flyers to UNDER
take this transcontinental flight.
We are now ready to pick up our
work where we left of. Our physical
condition is normal and with the excep-
ton of being a bit sleepy We feel as II
nothing out Of the ordinary had hap
pened
This Is due to the consideration that
airplane producers are showing toward
passenger comfort, which was not re-
duced by the installation Of the 200
gallon auxiliary tank. In the tail of
the plane We had q normal-sized single
bed mattress. However, this bed was
never used by us for what it had been
intended, as It was generally covered
with oil cans, food containers and other
things passed up to US by the refuel-
ing planes.
Neither Got Much Sleep.
Art Walker and I got practically no
sleep during the entire time. This was
caused by adverse weather conditions
and the necessity Of pumping gasoline
into the wing tanks from the auxiliary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-22
G. w. U. PROFESSOR
TO PURSUE STUDIES
z. L. Kayser Granted Leave to
Prepare for Special Work
at Columbia University.

Elmer Louis Kayser, associate pro-
lessor Of history At George Washington
University and for the past II years
secretary Of that institution, will he
absent from the university throughout
the coming academic year while he
pursues further study at Columbia
University in preparation for special
work he will undertake at George WASH
ington in the Fall of 1880.
An alumnus of George Washington
University, Mr.. Kayser received the
degree of bachelor of arts with special
honors in history and public speaking
there in 1917. and the degree of master
Of arts in 1918. He was appointed
instructor in history in 1917 and the
following year he was made secretary of
the school.
He has been director of the Summer
sessions at George Washington since
1925, has been assistant librarian and
recorder of the university, and during
six years of his service there was sec
rotary Of the board Of trustees. In 1920
he became assistant professor in history
and in 1924 was made associate pro-
feSSor In history.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-22
COL. GRAHAM TO RETIRE.

Lieut.. Col. Harry Graham, Air Corps,
stationed at headquarters. Sd CORPS
Area, at Baltimore, will be -.tired De-
cember Is on his own application. after
more than 80 years service; Col. Paul
c. Hatton, Medical Corps, has been
transferred from Denver, Colo, to San
Francisco; Capt. Gerald H. Totten,
Quartermsster Corps, from Chilkoot,
Alaska, to San Francisco: Lieut.. Col.
Charles w. Tillotson, Infantry, from
Omaha, Neb.. to San Antonio. Tex;
Capt. Henry w. Isbell, Infantry, from
the War Department to Vancouver Bar
racks, Wash: Capt. Thayer d. Sterling,
Quartermaster Corps, from Brooklyn,
N. Y, to the Panama Canal Zone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-22
REBUILT WARSHIP SAILS.

Oklahoma Leaves Philadelphia for
First Trip in Two Years.
PHILADELPHIA, August az RD.-
Carrying 10 oflcers and Q crew Of 1856
men, the reconditioned battleship Okla
homa sailed from the navy yard yester-
day on its frst voyage since it docked
here nearly two years ago.
Rebuilt from stem to stern and from
her double bottoms to the tops of her
fighting masts, the ship will be given
a "shakedown" cruise Of q month. The
new equipment and recondition cost
$500, 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-22
THREE AWARDED MEDALS.
Two Given d. S. c. and Another
D. s. M. for War Service.

Beauvais Clark Of Philadelphia and
George L. Smith of New Castle, Pa,
have been awarded the Distinguished
Service Cross by the War Department
for extraordinary heroism In France
during the World War, the former
while serving as sergeant. Battery F,
108th Field Artillery, 28th Division and
the latter while serving as a private in
the Medical Detachment. 125th Infan-
try, 32d Division.
The Distinguished Service Medal has
been awarded Lieut.. Co. Harry S.
Grier, United States Infantry, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, now stationed at the Army
War College, for meritorious services
in various capacities with the Army of
Occupation in Germany after the
armistice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-22
RADIO PERMIT SOUGHT.
Bell Telephone and u. G. A. Ask
Experimental LicenssA

The Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Inc. filed application with the Federal
Radio Commission today for . change
in experimental short-wave lengths to
be used by the experimental station at
Whippany, N. J. The call letters Of
the station would be w3XN.
The whippany station In experiment.
ing with telephone communication be-
tween planes In the air and ground
systems Of the Bell Telephone.
The Radio CORPORATION Of America
applied for o renewal Of the television
license for the portable station serving
New York and New Jer--y at Bound
Brook, N. J. The ca. letters are
W2XBV. The broadcasting station
WIZ also is located Mt Bound Brook.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-22
Quite Adept at Marrying.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, August ~ Up.
Leroy A. Skinner, who has been
divorced six times, must make Mrs.
No. z and No. 8 coincide, II he would
be a husband again. BY court order he
is forbidden to marry again unless he
reweds his last wife.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-22
DELEGATE NAMED.
Col. Martin 20 Represent q. 8. at
Mexico City Assembly.

mS41CO NlLy AbSemDlys
Col. Lawrence Martin of the Library
OF Congress has been designated by the
President as q delegate on the part Of
the United States to the first General
Assembly Of the American Insti-
tute of Geography and History. to be
held at Mexico City September 16. He
replaces DR.. Raye r. Plat of the
American Geographical Society of New
York, previously designated, who Is UNI
able to attend the meeting.
Honduras has abrogated its inactive
general tariff revision law of 1927.
The Washington times., 1929-02-28
President Coolidge and the
Amended Retirement Law

HALF decent retirement law for superannuated civil
n service employees has passed both houses OF Con-
0ress It will go to President Coolidge after the Senate
concurs in minor amendment.
The House of Representatives despite past efforts OF Chair
man sne of House Rules Committee to stall OF action
passed the Senate bill without one opposing vote
The Washington times., 1929-02-28
FAIRY GOD-CHILDREN
IN Herbert Kaufnlan-

THE necessity shapens poor mems wits kinder than
l the paternalism which dulls initiative
Poverty may be stern teacher but in no school Is SELL
reliance thoroughly learned and quickly maturea'
Other alma matters indugent They don furnish
enough roughage for mental digestion Unbalanced coege
overfeed the head and undernoursn tne legs Aa
why university graduates often find it hard TO get Ioo
linC They aren't trained to stand their feet.
Consequently boys who don't know the derence peWeen
the pons asinOrum and Ponds extract are making n
while polished youth fumbles and slips the slopes OF re
Law medicine chemistry and engineering are precise cur
Northumberland in practcaliies and definite obecyes
But the cultural courses which attract tne " p
leave EN- all dressed up, and no place to CO.
It's important be well informed-but it's more important
to know how and where to use the Information
Otherwise its value equivalent 10 metal In hs ur VI
power in embarrassed rivers.
Diplomas that don't confer degree OF common sense are
simply scraps Of paper. -
The alumni of experience building most of the countrys
chains
No theory cannery label motion pictures Wrgiey
didn't discover how to make chewing gum millions IN 'eA'
book.
The syndicate controls diamond output studied organ
zton and management under the tuteage Oh tne
pack. VII.
Adolph ochs Frank Munsey Joseph Pulitzer and Victor
Lawson achieved journalistic distinction without suggestions
from the professors So did Northcliffe.
Emil Beriners three Rs sufficient tools Tor the Co
invention long distance telephony the disc talking machine
and the helcopter.
And aviation wasnt realized in the Halls of Minerva
every Bell and Cure check dozen Stepnensons ArA
wrights and Watts.
Half standard principles by which experiment. proceeoS
were Matched in haphazard nests. .
Penury breeds originality and competence comparable TO
the choicest exhibits of Harvard and Oxford
If you don't believe it, the Patent Office, Wall street.
Westminster Abbey.
The good fairies seldom pamper their godchlldren.
They set em early and give them running start
over the silver spoon teethers.
Read biography and tax stsand count the handicapped
winners of the human race. -.
Forget your disadvantages and tackle vast ambition
Copyright, by and Herbert Kaufm"n)
The Washington times., 1929-02-28
THEY READ IT AND DO IT
MERIcAN school teachers and educators generally ma

MERICAN school teachers and educators generally may
( = be interested in this picture
Europe has endured dangerous outbreak Of influenza
accompanied by cold weather such unknown hitherto
The words the blackboard put before the children
eyes the time each with his little cup of dis
anfecng fluid throws the back and garg heroicay
suiting the action to the word.
Nothing is more important especially children than
actually to let them DO the thing that they learning
What applies to children applies to older people
When Professor Nicholson Of Chicago University who
hs Nobel pss Tor physics and ss distances composition
taught them among other things how to the speed
of light Fortunately for himself and the world Professor
Nicholson not content merely to tell how others had
done it. He said to the young men of the naval school
1--WE shall construct simple apparatus, and shall actually
liet you see how the speed Of light is measured"
He constructed the apparatus and after informed
scientists of the world that they off several thousand
miles second in their of the speed of light
which he established accurately at trife above 10000 miles
q second.
It may not make much difference how fast light
travels thousand miles less second wouldn't worry
But it makes an enormous difference to the world scientists
to whom unit of is lone light year. the
distance that light travels in year going 10000 miles
second.
When you consider that it takes light more than million
years reach certain parts Of the universe visible through
the telescope understand that the speed of light
means something
To return to our children They are told that germs of in
uenza lodge in the passages of the mouth nose throat
fastening in the membrane where they excellent
nourhment in the little blood vessels They breed hundreds
Of millions in short time, dreadful illness and often
death
Garging cleansing the nose throat and air passages and
the mouth with dsnfecng fluid kills germs faster than
they breed.
Fortunately for dsnfectant powerful enough kill
disease germs not powerful enough to do bodies
HARM just blow hard enough to kill mosquito does not
hurt the back of your hand.
Fathers and mothers might show this picture children
who often will heed what they print and especially in
pictures, while paying little attention to words.
The human in its lower animal FORMS had been warned
by things that SAW hundreds millions years before
it able to talk and understand the spoken word
less read
Some bright child probably will ask: Mamma, under
stand it, but where did they spit after they garged?
The British maker Of this picture have forgotten
about that.
The Washington times., 1929-02-28
LISTEN WORLD!
I'Ue Bought a Little Red Chair
By Elsie Robinson

CHAIR FOR THE BABY I'M
GOING TO ADOPT!
I'm going to put that love into
circulation again. NY boy was The
bOhniest lad that ever lived. He
was 81 years old and he had
brave golden head and gay
laugh. He was never mean or
stingy in all his life. 1t would
make him sick and mad TO know
that / was boarding his love. not
sharing it with some other little
shaver. So I'm going to share 1t.
I'm going to adopt little brother
to sit in that red chair and play
with my boys toys and read my
boys books and wear his Boy
Scout pin and use his love.
/ have a big job to do and as
soon as finish that and get some
money I'm going out to find my
baby. l want one about two
years old with stick-out ears and
freckles and red hair. but. CT
course I'll take some other shade
il they haven't that color in stock.
And / don't want a nice little boy.
/ want one who will make lot
of noise and track in mud and
swipe cookies and drag in all the
dogs in the neighborhood and get
into fights. So | can quarrel with
the neighbors again about their
kids and MINE.
The more think about him the
more excited / get / could write
about that little boy for days on
end. It's strange thought I'd
never be able to write about
little boy again. BUT love goes
right on if you give it CHANCE.
III certainly be glad when l fin
ish this job and can go out and
find him.
Perhaps it may have bored you
to hear all this. Maybe my editor
will ask what in heck I'm using,
his paper for anyway. But there's
just a chance that somewhere
there's another mother who is let.
ting love lie useless in her heart
as / did-and this may show her
a way out. l hope 1t does.
At any rate, wish YOU'D give
me a hand. If you have time I'd
be nightly glad If you would
write and wish us luck-me and
my little new son.
The Washington times., 1929-02-28
WISE SAYINGS

The chief difference between a
wise man and an ignorant one
is not that the first is acquainted
with regions invisible to the Sec
ond, away from common sight and
interest, but that he understands
the common things which the Sec
ond only sees. king.
Necessity reforms the poor and
safety reforms the rich.
-Tacitus.
We always love those who ad-
mire us. and we do not always
love those whom we admire.
La Rochefaucauld.
He who knows not how to dis
simulate cannot reign.
Louis XI.
And frame your mind to mirth
and merriment.
Which bars thousand harms
and lengthens the life.
Shakespeare.
Get good counsel before YOU he.
gin; and when you have decided
act promptly. -Sallust.
The Washington times., 1929-02-28

THIS is going to be the queer
Il est article.
never wrote anything like
this before for newspaper, and
probably after the editor reads it
l never will again.
Properly speaking. 1t isn't an
article at all. It's very intimate
letter--to YOU.
I've been writing to you for
quite a time. Writing about all
sorts of things-often about my.
self because | know myself better
than / know anything else.
have told you about my being a
liar and coward and a con-
ceited ninny-and other vital
statistics. Though l hate to ac-
knowledge it, you frequently agree
with me.
And now and then-because in
some strange way you seem as
near to me as my own blood kin
Il told you how my heart was
broken when lost my only child
three years ago. l told you that
partly to ease my own pain and
party because 1 hoped. through
my confession, to comfort some
other poor mothers or father
heart little.
Well, today I'm going on with
that story.
But I'm not going to tell you
again how my heart was
broken
I'M GOING TO TELL YOU
HOW MY HEART WILL BE
MENDED!
For three years I've been lying
with my face to The ground, with
all the love that my boy might
have had accumulating in great,
bitter reservoir in my heart. Love,
that should have been living water
to some little tad, stored up, use
less, in my selfish grieving heart.
But I'm not lying on my face
today
I'm up and laughing! f..
And the love in my heart is get.
ting ready to be used again.
FOR I'VE BOUGHT A LITTLE
RED CHAIR
I'VE BOUGHT A LITTLE RED