Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02

terms or Summer, has TINS season every
available abode crowded ana tents
placed wherever practical. 1ne 4-mile
tran to Glacier Point, which MARKS the
valleys terminus, is proving irresistible
for MOONLIGHT picnics, the participants,
OF course, looking like Eskimo In ap-
parel,. but acting entirely ike Ameri-
cans IN producing thermos ooiIieS niisd
with strong beef tea, as wen as the
fragrant oolong and nicely toasted sand
wiches Of every variety kept piping not
In thermal baskets.
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Mr.. Herbert H. Kimball, the expert
Of the United States weather Bureau,
who casts an eye over solar radiation.
an exceedingly valuable subject IN fore
casting, has namesake in New York
City with whom he is being constantly
confused. DR.. James Henry klmpaIl,
head of the Weather Bureau OF that
vast center and the real power behind
the throne in the matter of transaIlan-
tic flying.
The New York DR.. Kimbal, as be-
comes his responsible post, is an aroent
hyer and takes his spin in the air just
as often as his duties permit. He is a
graduate of four great universities ana
for 40 years has studied the Vagarles
OF the weather all over the United
States and the West Indies. A phllos-
opher, with all the calm that such q
term implies, he is utterly unmoved
when interested persons dash into MS
office dispute his forecast, tear their
hair and protest and insist that any
number of ships have reported fair
weather and good indications OF It's
continuance, and that millions will be
lost II the aerial expedition does not
start at once. He has no authority to
stop any fool flyer but few with heavy
financial hackers refuse to follow DR..
Kimball rather than vaguely known
captains at sea. "Old Doc" Kimball
though his years are still on the sunny
side of so and his doctoring all of the
terrestrial physics. called meteorology,
his last word on the weather is anxious
ly asked by every flyer out Of the great
aviation center.
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Mr. John Harsen Rhoades, who is
widely known figure in Wall Street,
wrote last Summer a book of whimsi-
cal philosophy, with reminiscent tinge
called Random Thoughts of Man OF
Fifty" He has recently confessed that
he unburdened himself of the literary
urge more for his young Joan than
through any hope of attaining fame.
servationS on life as he found it, all
told with quaint and mellow humor, has
been in every sense a success, and since
Wall Street financierS do not write a
book every day, especially one which
passes the gamut of the reviewers with
out being ridiculed or unduly praised,
this maiden effort has been purchased
in gratifying numbers and figured in
the Christmas stocking of all on Change.
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know his mind during the years when
his fortune was in the making and to
appraiSe the times In which he had his
beginnings. now so vastly changed. AS
human document, many award Ran
dom Thoughts" first place in the book
year, not alone for its obvious literary
merit, but because it deals entertain
ingly and fairly with subjects such as
high finance, Wall Street and the Stock
Exchange, all of which the public re-
CARDS with intense interest, and they
get peep behind q curtain held back
by one on the inside.
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Sir Charles Marston, who arrived in
New York recently with his wife, for
merly Miss Ruth Miller of Ithaca. is a
leading authority on church policies and
has been active in the various eccles-
iaStic controversies, which have dis
quieted the established Church of Eng
land. But he is more of q scholar than
a controversialist and while Lady Mars
ton Is visiting her kindred, he intends
to glance about and discover how the
High, the Low and the Middle-of- the
Road Episcopalians Jog along in the Land
of the Free. Sir Charles viii without
doubt find many aspects of the question
which do not enter into the discussion
in Great Britain, but as he is to be the
guest of Bishop William Manning, he
will have all the angles plainly placed
before him. Like all who are interested
in church lore. the two splendid Cathe-
drals In course of erection will engage
the VISITORS atfentinn-thaf of Ct Ininr,