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Well Deserved.

It was q well deserved award, in the
shape Of silver cup, which the Ameri-
can Orchid Society presented to Prof.
David Lumsden, horticulturist of the
Department Of Agriculture, In recogni-
tion Of his services in connection with
the national exhibition of orchids held
here last week.
Prof. Lumsden has at his home, in
Battery Park, a notable collection of
orchids, ranging from seedlings to one
plant forty-two years old. Here he is
carrying on experimentation based on
his early training in England and his
work at Cornell University.
Prof. Lunsden is thus one Of those
good citizens for any community to
possess, who knows what he loves and
Is true to his ideals. Work with flowers
Is not all blossoms; often it has its
thorny side.
The orchid is a peculiarly difficult
plant to raise, and presents many prob
lens, both to the experienced cultiva-
tor and to the amateur. The orchid
has the lure which most things have
which are thoroughly expensive, but 1t
constitutes, in addition, a peculiarly
interesting family Of plants, of world
wide distribution.
Orchids range from delicate things
assembling pansies to huge nly-like
flowers Of exquisite workmanship, caus-
ing the beholder to quote, involuntarily,
the words Of the poet about another
growing thing, only God can make a
tree"
Man, however, can work with the
Creator in the cultivation and develop
ment Of new forms. The rose, the
peony, the gladiolus, the iris, to name
but four, have seen many essentially
different varieties arise through man.
made experiments.
Among these experimenters the name
Df Prof. Lunnsden must be placed. and
flower lovers of the National Capital
rejoice that his work has been recog-
nized by such g graceful tribute as the
cup Of the American Orchid Society.
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home cities. It Is comparatively easy
to meet amid familiar surroundings.
Members Of the veteran associations can
keep in rather constant touch with
each other.
But the First Division, a part Of the
Regular Army, lacks, such a bond of
home. Both its original members and
the requirements were drawn from all
sections of the country. The veterans
have no sectional sentiment to cement
the links of memory which bind them
together. For such a division, as well
as for the other Regular Amy units,
Washington is the mother city. Here
they are building up their sentimental
associations. Here stands the beauti-
full memorial of the First to its dead.
The attachment of the members to the
National Capital may be expected to
grow closer as reunion follows reunion
and the incidents Of the war become
more and more refined in memory as
the men grow older.
Already, in fact, the men Of the First
are growing older. Many Of them are
close to middle age. There will be
gray heads in the gatherings here dur
ing the next few days which were black
on the battleflelds. During twelve
years the war has slipped long way
into the past.
There is no occasion to recount the
exploits of the division. Its citations
alone constitute a colorful page Of
American history. 1t served as a back
bone of the A. E. F. from first to last.
No other American division has a more
thrilling record. No other group OF
veterans have more to recall of the
stirring days of 1917 and 1918 out of
the humdrum workaday world into
which they have passed.
The First Division seems inclined TO
adopt washington as its mother city.
washington is glad to accept the honor.
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Rate by MaiI-Payable in Advance.
The Treaty Navy.

The General Board of the Navy has
now completed the program for build
ing the feet which the United States is
authorized to construct and maintain
under the terms of the London treaty
Of limitation. Extending over a period
Of more than five years, between now
and 1886, the program comprehends to-
tai expenditure of something between
65O.OoO,OOO and 81, 600, 100000. At such
q cost provided Congress approves, the
United States can achieve parity with
the now strongest naval powerful,
Great Britain.
Most of this cost will be devoted to
replacement of obsolete craft and con-
struction Of modern 10,000-ton cruisers,
carrying S-tnch guns. In up-to-date de-
stroyers, particularly, the American feet
- woefully deficient. Congress has not
authorized a destroyer since 1916, and
none actually has been built since 1920.
In the 6-inch cruiser class, $4,000 tons
Of new construction are called for. The
London pact allocates to the United
States $1,000 tons of submarines, some
$4,000 tons of which need to be built.
In the much-discussed 1000o-ton
cruiser class, to be mounted with 8-inch
guns, the American feet, on a parity
basis with the British Navy, is entitled
TO 10000 tons. OF that total, only 140,-
900 tons are already built or building.
Four more Of these big cruisers must
be constructed, but only one may be
built at once. The treaty requires that
our three remaining 10,o0o-tonners shall
not be put on the stocks until 1888,
1894 and 1885. respectively, for compile
ton In 1886, 1897 and 1888. This was
Q concession made at London to the
Japanese.
In aircraft carriers the United States
3 assigned, under the parity agreement,
q total Of 135, 900 tons. The Navy Board
program contains provision for $500
tons Of additional carrier strength,
which, with units already afioat or pro-
Vided for, viii give us our treaty aggre-
gate in this most modern and indis-
pensable type Of war craft.
The Navy Board program presumably
viii be laid before the President by the
Secretary Of the Navy with recon-
mendations for its submission to and
approval by Congress. The friends of
adequate American preparedness at sea
have no reason to doubt that Mr..
Hoover will urge Congress to authorize
and appropriate for the London Treaty
Navy. In his recent Legion speech at
Boston the President used language that
entities the country to believe that,
having achieved parity in principle
with the strongest naval power In the
world" he holds it to be the funda-
mental duty Of the United States to
bring it about in terms Of ships and
guns.
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and thunderstormS bring fear to timid
souls.
So far Autumn is as dry as Summer.
| and colder, of course, which in itself
makes for dryness.
This is the season for chapped hands,
popularity regarded as q feminine failing,
but q state of hands observed on male
persons quite as often.
Now little girls knees chap readily.
Mother should see to 1t that they receive
an application of some healing lotion,
which will supply the oil which the dry
cold evaporates.
| Hardy young men who have adopted
the hatless vogue begin to look very
SNUG these days, as they see the oldsters
| who may have taken up the fad Tor
the Summer retreat behind hats at the
first nipping wind.
The old boys are right, though. Too
many Winters have gone over their
hated heads for them to dare the winds
Of the season.
Theirs Is not young blood. Their
hearts may be young and willing, but
their tissues are not so ready to accept
cold without protest.
There has been a great deal of plain
bunk written about the resistance which
one may build up by exposing himself
to cold water, Geld air.
Many people freeze their livers "a
facG in the name of hygiene, or mis-
taken notion that they are young
bloodS" in truth as well as in fancy.
Thousands Of persons heroically sleep
with wind blowing over them when
they would be great deal more COM
Portable, and perhaps q great deal
healthier, II they would use moderation
in this as in other matters.
X X X
Autumn Is a particularly good season
for reading, both the plain and fancy
varieties. What is more delightful than
to open the front door, after facing a
brisk wind for several miles, and take a
comfortable seat with a good book?
The outdoor air has toned I'D the
mind as well as the skin, and made the
intelligence respond as we'll as the blood.
One may see that we have nothing
against the use Of fresh air In proper
| quantities.
wind blowing along the street, whirling
| up the leaves for the dogs to chase,
blowing dust in eyes.
The mental attitude Of the watcher
Is that Of the man on the seashore in
Lucretius, who found 1t somewhat pleas
ant to watch q sailor Juggling at the
oars, not that he, the man on the shore,
wished him, the sailor, Ill, but that he,
the observer, was not subjected to such
| toll.
4 \ 4
One may view life as from an OBJ
servatory better in Autumn than at any
| other time of the year.
He has Just left the delights of Sum-
mer, he Is not yet sunk into the leth-
argy Of Winter. he has not begun to
| dream about Spring
Falling leaves, bonfires, swirling winds,
pumpkin pies, cold milk, roller skates,
foot ball games-these and a hundred
other matters and things put the con-
templative man into fine mood for
observing the world.
At this season he does not worry about
the "lure of the great outdoors" espe-
cially If he has got beyond the collegiatc
or foot ball age.
He finds the lure Of the small indoors
| charming, intriguing, interesting, He
has Autumn at its best.
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Autumn, ambling into town, comes
as an old acquaintance, not as q
stranger.
A Summer with drought was some
what new; most of us had never seen
anything like it before.
But Autumn, with lowered tempera-
lures, sharp winds, turning trees, the
smell of burning leaves, is as old as
ourselves.
Perhaps the first memory Of most of
us is of a keen Fall day, when we ran
and played and kicked In the brown
and golden leaves.
Sharp is the recollection Of the red
leaves found In childhood days-red
leaves which stand out like an illumi-
mated page in memory'S book.
4 \ + +
Victor Herbert sang your praises in
one of the best of his smaller orchestral
works.
The poet Bryant (also the newspa-
per MANI sang you in verse.
The short story writer Poe, in one
of his lyrical moments, between his
pangS of suffering, wrote mediocre
thing to which he attached the word
melancholy" as descriptive Of the sea-
son.
0lIlC6 udy Tile Vi AIuALldA44bJ
has grown more optimistic, more in
clined to look upon the rosy side of life.
We no longer, as people, luxuriate in
sadness.
So Autumn, 1930's Autumn, does not
strike most of us as melancholy, but
rather as poppy, as filed with zip, zest
and vigor.
No doubt our better heated homes and
other buildings have a great deal to do
with this change of state OF mind.
Surely there must have been some
thing melancholy about Autumn to a
man who, like Edgar Allan Poe, found
it necessary to use blankets to keep
warm during the daytime.
He who leaves a coy, warm home
today, in the suburbs, and journeys in
heated car to an Office building which
is more often too hot than otherwise,
Is in better frame of mind, as it were,
to appreciate the sharp beauties Of the
typical Autumn.
A man who is warm clear through Is
better able to praise freezing, and frost,
and snow, and ice, and sleet, and even
billiards..
Imagine those old-fashioned homes,
where rooms with f1replaces were called
cheat rooms"
Ice formed readily on the panes.
Home-lovers toasted their feet and
faces while their backs remained per-
manently cold.
Chairs had wings to them, in order
to keep of side drafts.
There was no lolling around the house
In shirt sleeves in those days, those
happy, innocent and perhaps more
healthful days.
y
Autumn now means a change from a
light suit to a slightly heavier one, and
the substitution of q light topcoat for
the old-time heavy overcoat.
This, of course, for the thousands Of
office workers. Men who work outside,
on buildings, on trucks, as letter car
riers, delivery men of all types-these
necessarily wear heavy underwear, IA
vor leather windproof vests, like large
woolly overcoats.
This Autumn probably viii offer nc
such violent contrast with Summer as
in the average season, when rains fal
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The Boy and His Dog.

Greater love hath no man than this,
that man lay down his life for his
friends" declared the youngest and
longest lived of the eyangelists. A
touching instance Of this climax Of af-
fsction is reported from Washington
State, where a ten-year-old lad stepped
protectingly and deliberately between
his dog and the muzzle Of gun.
The result was not the laying down
of life, for only a shoulder wound re-
suited, but the fact remains that this
small boy faced, for anything he knew
to the contrary, grim death itself in
order to save his "friend"-for II the
dog is known the wide world over as
the friend Of man, he is doubly so the
friend of the small boy who holds his
ownership and his entire devotion. 1t
was an older boy, actuated by spirit
OF mean bravado, who pulled the trigger
Of the potentially lethal weapon, but ht
does not enter the inspiring picture ex-
cept incidentally.
The combination OF small, restless
and affectionate boy and of adoring dog
is ages old and approaches perfection
as closely as anything we have on this
earth. Many a pet, pure-bred or mon
grel, has hurled himself unhesitatingly
into fatal fray in order to protect his
small master, and under many small
sized, none too clean, gingham shirt Oh
chequered jumper exists reciprocally
chivalrous spirit as fine as anything
Galahad ever experienced. A boy is &
wonderful thing: a good dog scarcely
less 50, and the combination OF the two
has virtues and advantages scarcely x
be comprehended unless by those who
once were boys and who once owned
dogs.
The participants in such partner
ship enjoy q happy communion O
spirit scarce possible even between {
bog and his claun. They share adyep
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The First Division.

The First Division begins its twelfth
annual reunion in Washington today
No organization deserves more whole
hearted welcome to the National Cap
ital. Most Of the A. e. F. divisions
were essentially sectional, each draw
ing the great majority Of its person
mel from few States. Now theg have
division homes-such as Boston for the
26th, New York for the 9th, st. Louis
for the seth, etc. The majority Of the
nat0 who returned from France still
M somewhere In the vicinity Of thes'
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Higghligghts on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

ponderable and invisible, are yet capable
OF producing the same results without
inconvenience and expense.
Already there Is q marked falling OF
In the consumption Of coal, and the
MUD fuels now substituted for 1t viii
soon be superseded by other agencies
simpler and more efficient, recurring
little or no mechanism, and leaving no
residue.
Modern Appliances
Distract School Children.
Fl Nuevo Diario, Caracas-School
examinations, always q terror for
the Juvenile element, seem to have be-
come increasingly so In recent years.
With the multiple distractions which
country, 1t Is small wonder that they
cannot give the time to their books
that they did In the years before the
automobile, the sport, the radio and
the dance existed, or before such of
these diversions as did exist did not
usurp the time and interest they do
today.
But examinations seem Inevitable
despite these changed conditions, and
many students, at the end of the school
year, come to their tests with no
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studying. The feeling Of disgrace,
when they do not accomplish (pass) the
tests, Is augmented by the grief Of the
parents, who desire their offspring to
do well in school. These conditions,
taken together in several recent in
stances, have led school boys and girls
to attempt desperate things.
One boy in Cologne, Germany, rather
than face his father after his failure,
ran away and hid upon q desolate is
land in the Rhine, 'and tried to live
like Robinson Crusoe. Another, in
England. attending the school at Har-
row, tried to hang himself. A 14-year-
old girl in Vienna tried to suffocate
herself with gas, and numerous others
In our own and foreign lands have
left their paternal roofs and are trying
to maintain themselves.
So intense has become this universal
fear Of the finals" that many schools
Of all grades are considering doing
away with them entirely, and instead
mark the student for success or failure
on the average Of their daily Rotations.
1t is q tragedy with many children to
fail, but when they give all their time
to sports there Is often no alternative
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lures rich and sometimes racy; they
share actual guilt and untrue suspicion
thereof with a sublime serenity. The
dog shares his masters sandwich with
as great q nonchalance as he con-
tributes heas to the small human per-
son. In spite Of strict family prohibi-
ton, they often share the same bed.
To the immortal category of Damon
and Pythias, David and Jonathan and
Roland and Oliver, let there be added
Any Boy and His Dog. The one great
disadvantage in the scheme Of things
is that the boy becomes q man while
the dog becomes but a beloved memory.
Perhaps providence so DEGREES 1t lest
the ultimate parting wrench become
unbearable.
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Power From Sea Water
Explained by Science
From the New York World.

ETom the HeW xotk WorIo.
So far as the dispatches indicate, this
power machine that has been set up
by Prof. Georges Claude at Matanzas,
Cuba, with its gigantic pipe for bring
ing UP cold water from the bottom Of
the sea, does not involve any principles
unknown to science. It was shown long
ago that water, If confined in q vacuum,
will give of steam at temperatures far
below its ordinary boiling point, and
also that cold water will condenSe the
steam and restore the vacuum. So that
when Prof. Claude takes advantage OF
this and uses warm water from the sur
face to produce the steam and cold
water from the bottom to condenSe 1t
again, he Is not exactly an innovator.
The main question, then, is whether his
invention Is commercially important,
and on this one would like to have more
expert opinion, formed after thorough
observation on the spot. According to
the dispatches, the apparatus generated
enough power to light forty 500-watt
bulbs, but whether this power was IN
excess Of the power needed to pump
cold water up from the bottom Is not
stated and it is very vital point.
To the layman the whole device looks
like q second cousin to a perpetual-mo-
ton machine, and therefore not very
promising; but this objection was raised
to the locomotive, the steamboat and
the airplane when they were in the ex-
perimental stage. That any OF these
could possibly carry enough fuel to pro-
pei itself was held to be a prima facie
absurdity; yet they did propel them
selves, and at pretty lively clip. The
very least that can be said for Prof.
Claude Is that he has tackled project
that men have often specialized about,
and brought it to q point where its
possibilities can be definitely determined.
1t may prove be as impractical as as
the tides But It may eKenf1allg be
Iglattng CT G.x1aA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-23

Metropolitan actors and actresses,
Temporarily at liberty" have been
touring the sticks under assumed names
for as little as thirty-five dollars per
week instead of a former $500. and
glad to do it. In addition to maintain
ing the necessary supply of Galleries,
this experiment has had another
pleasing effect; many received just as
much hearty applause for really good
work as If they had been extensively
"bally -hooed" under their real titles.
1t proved a sort of thespian blind
fold test"
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

at the opera in Russian Is it wen per-
formed?-L. B.
A. Most of the men 60 coatless. Some
wear no collars. Many OF the women
attend dressed as they were ct work
during the day. Few Of the latter wear
stockings. In the large cities opera IS
magnn1cently produced.
NJ. M.
A. independence Hall SAYS that tina
question as to what caused the hall "a
crack is purely q metallurgical one, Az
with many people, disorder might be
called hereditary, dating from birth,
so the defects in the Liberty Bell are
dated from the day of its casting.
Metal castings are subject to strains due
to natural shrinkage while cooling. The
original crack was probably due to
cooling strains.
Q. Why is It believed that the earth
is slightly flattened at the poles2 -
T. T. s.
A. The substantiation of the theory
OF the shape of the world with the tat
ness of the poles is highly technical.
Sir Isaac Newton deduced from the
mechanical consideration Of the figure
OF equilibrium Of a mass Of rotating
fluid that the form Of the earth wa
an oblate spheroid The questieN WA
permanently settled by the Lapland exc
pedition sent out by the Academy o.
Sciences, Paris, in 1875, under the
auspices OF Maupertuis and Clairaut.
The flattening of the pole has also been
proved by actual experiments in degrees
OF latitude by observations Of the PEN
dulum.
@. How does the camera work which
gives depth to a picture2-F. J. w.
A. The invention was perfected by
George K. Spoor after IA years expert.
mentation. He uses a camera with two
lenses, both of which record impress
sions on the film through q single
aperture, and new methods for devel-
oping, projecting and recording sound
are features of the process. The double
exposure camera places it's identical i'm.
preSstonS on the film in staggered"
formation and thereby gives the Ilu.
sion OF depth on the screen. The new
film Is run through the projection ma
chine at speed at which the individual
pictures merge.
@. How are Presidents chosen for pic
lures on postage stamps?-C. B. II.
A. The Post Office Department says
that there Is no rule regulating the use
of Presidents portraits on postage
stamps, except that it does not use por-
traits Of Presidents who are living. In
many cases influential individuals or
ganize a memorial association which
promotes the idea, and II at this time
the Post ONCE is in need Of new series
of stamps the portrait Is accepted.
Q. Where is the largest lake wholly
within Canada?-E. T.
A. Great Bear Lake, in the Mackenzie
district of the Northwest Territories,
Canada, Is the largest lake wholly within
Canadian territory. Its area Is approx
inately $4,000 square miles.