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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-08-20

The main trouble with the school
of experience is that you never
graduate from tx.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-08-20
STATS DIARY
By Ross Farquhar

Friday-well me and Jake got in to
trouble today on acct. of are appa-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-08-20
The Chronic Live Wire

"IVIC pride and a conscientious performance of
\ community duties characterize the best business
men and citizens everywhere. Buy anything no
matter how commendable general principles, may
be run into the ground.
We have in mind what We have termed the
chronic live WIRE" He is always "good fellow" al
ways booster, always full of pep" and enthusiasm
and always with grand scheme that won't work. He
gladly plays the part of community goat because he
is willing to neglect his business if he has any, in
order to serve innumerable commissions boards
and committees supposed to be for the promotion of
mass prosperity and uplift.
Nearly every town has such character He
means well and is fairly useful to everybody and
everything, excepting himself and his own family He
is living example of local patriotism run to seed
Unfortunately, he becomes so thoroughly Wrapped
up in optimism that he loses sense of proportion and
OFTEN ends in personal bankruptcy through his amb
ton to be public benefactor.
Many OF US have passed through that stage and
some have survived but hundreds have ruined them.
selves through trying to carry the entire community
burden.
- Boost, but don't "bust" yourself doing it.
.
Hard Times and Bad Checks
I F times are hard, and some SAYS thew are peonle
seem to be getting by through the simple expedent
OF writing checks regardless of whether funds in
the bank justify it or not
One Farmont bank received twenty -eght such
checks IN single day last week. and the next dav
broke the record with thirty Doubtless the other
banks received quite as many, the average number
OF no funds checks clearing daily through the Fair
mont banks must run well over one hundred
Evidently great many people "don't believe in
the law that makes issuing funds checks crime
Tor which people in Jail somewhere all the time
II all such offenses were prosecuted, we'd have to
start prison camp something like an army canton
ment.
If the evil is not abated, or continues To ;ncre.se
from the present peak business men will have to nro
tsct themselves by refusing to take checksFairmont
Sentinel .e.se-sv, 49,.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-31

main building to reach toilets, also for
drinking water: children use play rooms
and playground Of Van Buren, main
school.
Stanton.
Stanton, Alabama avenue and Naylor
road southeast: Four class rooms; seat
ing capacity, 1853; enrolment, 1903; no
part-time classes; lighting satisfactory:
heat unsatisfactory from hot-air fur
mace; SCOT and coal gas abundants or.ly
toilets are In wooden, unheated out
mouse some distance from school, which
have no sewerage connection. no run
ming water and not even connection
with septic tank, being of o1d-fash-
Toned country type and very insanitary:
four rooms in basement are available
for play space; outside playground large
enough, but has holes and mud in wet
weather, being in need of resurfaclnu
and grading; boys of sixth and seventh
grades must walk about l mile to Van
Buren, School and the girls to Randle
Highlands School for manual Training
and domestic art work.
Congress Heights.
Congress Heights, Nichols and Ala
bama avenues southeast: Twelve rooms
In permanent building, two in single
room wooden portable buildings and
Two In a wooden annex: total seating
capacity OF all buildings, 637; enroll
ment, 500; no part-time classes: light
ing satisfactory In main building: steam
neat satisfactory; only inside play space
furnished by two dark, damp basement
rooms; outside playground large. blIt
needs grading and fence: toilets old
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-31


building is unsishtly. lawns needing
attention.
Dent.
Dent, Second street and South Caro-
lima avenue southeast: Eight class
rooms, seating capacity, $50; enroll
ment, 2e3; no part-time classes, no
rooms for manual arts, etc, and boys
and girls must go to another building
in all kinds Of weather, storeroom
needed, lighting satisfactory, steam
heat satisfactory, old-stSle toilets, no
teachers toilet, playground small, con-
GREETED, but meets the need; building
faces Garfield Park.
Van Ness.
Van Ness, Fourth and M streets south
east: Eight class rooms, one of which is
vacant; seating capacity, 252; enroll
ment, 1877; no part-time classes, light
ing satisfactory, old hot-air fan eys-
tenn heats building unevenly, rooms
often cold; SCOT blackens walls, CELL
ings and desks; coal gas often very bad;
Anticipated toilets, teachers toilet
needed, two inside play rooms, outside
playground meagef. exterior unsightly,
shrubbery, ETC., needed; no running
water except drinking fountain above
basement.
LenOx.
Lenox, Fifth and G streets southeast:
Eight rooms, four used for regular
classes. one for business practice, one
for sewing. one for cooking and one for
beauty-parlor instruction.; seating ca
pacity, 1853; enrolment, 1856; not sum-
cient room for boys vocational work
and they have to 60 to French School
for this; lighting satisfactory, heating
satisfactory, inside play space satisfac-
tory, outside playground meager, partly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-31

muddy in wet weather; antiuuated
toilets; exterior unsightly, building
needs paint and lawn needs improve
ment.
WaIlach.
Wallach. Seventh street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue southeast: Oldest school
building in the city, but well built and
condition generally good; IA class rooms,
seating capacity, $50; enrolment, 500;
no part-time classes, lighting satisfac-
tory. hot-water heating plant salts
factory. old-style toilets, inside play
rooms adequate. outside playground size
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-31

type; more drinking fountains and wash
basins needed: no principal'e once;
annex, containing two classes, heated
portable without artificial likht and
daylight poor; heated poorly with stoves
and poorly ventilated. Lunch room or
modern playground badly needed for
$50 children who live q mile or more
away and must bring their lunches to
school. A modern addition Is badly
needed. The enrolment Is increasing
and very crowded conditions expected
soon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-31
URGED FOR WAR HONOR.
Jersey Veteran Is Four Feet Ten
High and WEIGHS 1oA.

Nicholas Casale Of Newark, N, j..
4 feet 10 inches in height and lO4
pounds in weight, was nominated yes
terday for designation by Congress as
the smallest fighting soldier in the
A. E. F."
A resolution introduced by Repre-
sentative Hartley, Republican, New
Jersey, proposed that Congress so
honor Casale in recognition for con
spicuous bravery in Boisemmot,
France"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-31

Two deaf mutes were married by
signs recently at Holy Trinity Church,
Bristol England, the words Of the sery-
ice being translated for the couple and
the clergyman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-31
FairbrOther.

Fairbrother, Tenth and z streets
southwest: Eight class rooms, six used
for regular classes, one for sewing and
one for housekeeping instruction; seat
ing capacity, 239; enrolment, 49, 10
part-tiIne classes; lighting satisfactory;
old hot-air heating plant fairly salts
factory: old-style toilets; playground
very marrow, but new space soon TO be
availablg; lawn unsightly, chiedy due
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

The radius of the universe is APP
proximately 9,50o,00O, 900 900 900, 900 900
miles.
This is the calculation just sent to
the National Academy of Sciences by
Prof Wilhelm De Sitter of the Univer-
sity of Leyden, Holland, based on the
velocities of spiral nebulae, or island
universes. as measured by the Mount
Wilson Observatory of the Carnegie
Institution of Washington.
Beyond Is Nothing.
Prof. De Sitter, one of the world S
foremost mathematician astronomers,
whose name is commonly linked with
that of Einstein, is an honorary member
of the National Academy. The calcu-
lation is for the distance from the
center of all creation to the further
most bounds of space and time in the
complicated relationship they bear to
each other in hyperdimensional aStron-
omy. Beyond this distance in any
direction from the center is the I'M
imaginable nothing, where space and
time have not yet come into existence
His calculation, Prof. De Sitter says,
is for creation at present. 1t is ex-
banding to infinity and now is twice
the size 1t once was, but the calculator
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
COL. LOUIS M. EVANS
DEAD AT AGE OF So
Civilian Chief Engineer of Signal
Corps Stricken While on Duty
at Fort Meade.

Lieut.. Col. Louis Milton Evans. SO
years old, Of the Signal Corps Reserves
and civilian chief engineer Of the Sig
nal Corps, died yesterday in Walter
Reed Hospital.
Col. Evans, a resident Of Alexandria,
was stricken suddenly while on active
Summer training duty at Fort Meade,
Md.
After employment as a young man
with the telephone company here, Col.
Evans joined the Signal Corps as a CT
william in 1908. His interest in electrical
and radio construction work was largely
developed through his association with
Gen. George o. Squier, former chief of
the Army Signal Corps. He was ap-
pointed civilian chief engineer several
years ago.
Commissioned a captain in the Signal
Corps at the outbreak of the war in
1917, Evans was subsequently promoted
to a lieutenant colonelcy, the rank he
continued to hold In the reserves. He
was stationed here throughout the war
Besides his widow, Mrs. Mary B.
Evans, he is survived by his mother,
Mrs. Olivia w. Evans and a brother.
Guy B. Evans. He was a member of
the Alexandria Washington Masonic
Lodge
Funeral services will be held Monday
morning at IL o'clock at the Alexandria
residence. 9l2 Cameron street. Inter-
ment will be In Bethel Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
WOODLOCK TO WRITE.
viii Tell Impressions of I. C. C. and
Defects of Law.


NEW YORK, August 2 (P.-The
Wall Street Journal announced yes
terday that Thomas F. Woodlock, who
resigned as a member of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, will join
its staff as contributing editor within
a few weeks.
Mr.. Woodlock will write a daily
signed column in the paper the an
nouncement said, land his viewpoint
will also find frequent editorial ex-
preston"
Among the first of Mr.. Woodlock's con-
tributions," the statement continued,
probably will be his impressions of the
work of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, its problems, its difficulties
ard the defects in the law. These will
be written in frank and penetrating
style and with the background of a
knowledge unsurpassed in America"
Mr.. Woodlock joined the Wall Street
Journal. when he first came to the
United States from England After
the death of Charles H Dow in 1903
he acted as editor of the publ alton
and in February, 1905, was formally
appointed to that post.
Later he became member Of the
New York Stock Exchange, continuing
there until 1918, when he became as
ISOLATED with the American Interna-
tional Corporation. He resigned in
1928 to write special articles and in
January, 1925, he was appointed to the
Interstate Commerce Commission by
President Coolidge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
RADIUS OF UNIVERSE MEASURED
FROM SPIRAL NEBULAE DATA
6, 800 600, 100000, OOO,OOO,OOO Miles Is Cal
culation Sent Academy of Sciences by
Il Professor for AL Creation.

Is unable to determine whether the
initial state was experienced finite or
an infinite time ago. He describes the
universe as "homogeneously filled with
matter and having a spherical SYM
metry throughout its history, its radius
increasing from an initial value to
infinity"
Prof De Sitter speaks of a "Still very
mysterious lamba. which is a measure
of the inherent expanding force of the
universe"
Independent Universes Is Theory.
The spiral nebulae upon whose be-
havior the calculations are based are,
at the closest, approximately a million
light years away from the earth, or the
distance that light moving at 186,000
miles a second would cover in a million
years. They have been observed to be
receding with enormous velocities. They
are believed to be independent universes,
comparable in magnitude to the universe
of which the Milky Way is the center
and the sun. with its planets, an insig-
nificant unit.
Any actual numbers arrived at, Prof.
De Sitter points out, must be considered
only as rough approximations. He does
not make his calculations in miles but
in parsecS, one parsec being approx
mately 100000 times the distance be-
tween the earth and the sun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
DR.. FOWLER GETS TOKEN
FROM FELLOW WORKERS
District Health officer, Recovering
From Operation, Receives
Flowers and Cards.

DR.. William C. Fowler who is recov-
ering from an operation in the Johns
Hopkins University Hospital received a
pleasant surprise yesterday on his thir-
tenth anniversary as District health
officer. The surprise consisted of huge
basket of flowers sent as a token of af-
lection from employees of the Health
Office and individual cards.
DR.. Fowler, who has been in the Dis
trict Health Office 35 years, was ap-
pointed as head on August /, 1918. En-
ployes regretted that he must spend his
anniversary in the hospital, SO DR.. Ed
ward j. Schwartz, acting health officer,
conceived the idea of making the day as
pleasant as possible for him
Each one of the 85-odd employees sent
him message, most in a humorous
vein, and DR.. Fowler was able to devote
the morning to reading these.
DR.. Schwartz said that he was going
to Johns Hopkins tomorrow to see If he
could not persuade DR.. Fowler to return
home in few days. He is getting along
In good shape, 1t was said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
Marriage Licenses.

Langston B. Mcbride, 23, and Garnetta "
D. Gross, 81: Rev Miller shelton.
Dickinson. "a Rev. W. z. LaFue.
Raymond l. Furbey. 80, and Ef1e j. Onley
~; Rev. George Rankin
Percy 4, shaw. q; and Ruby NJ. Ware
Davidson. 49, both of Richmond, Va; Rev
" Fred W. Bse e is. this city, and Grace NJ
Kimmel. IS. Chevy Chase. Md; Rev. Homer
Luther Pitts. 27, and Birdie James. al
John Geores. sehlosssr. ir.. g. and Erma
John NJ. Littlepaee, "a. and Ruth E. Eos.
ter, a; Rev. John c. Palmer;
ss Fff Rev. le Charles 50 ve eHa s' :
willie J. Nelson, q. and Eleanor C
q Mes:y "a Req ssdd SSR r. sas Gresham
and Cynthia 3 cunningham, 1927 18th street
as sh ReR Homer 5 a. aeS
Arthur s: PieTee; 81 and Mary e. Gibson
81 EDWARD Nss A E. sro W1i ~. and Norma L
MyeT F. Miller, 80, and Shirley Ninety
Gerald n. vest ST Is. this city, and Lotti.
p. Richardson, .is, Monmouth. MI Rev
AS CHARLES Is \ Gfssn, IS. Fort Myeg: vai ant
Alice Fountain, 20, this city; Rev. J. O.
Es cseii Cole. II, as, and Alice G. Bonnet
James NJ Gittings 81, and Olive NJ. Bar
toilet, 20. both OF Takoma Park, Md; Rev
Emerson 81 Donnell. 80, Milwaukee. Wis
and Lois Nichols, %, this city; Rev. N. Ad
Earl R. Beal. 80. and Benza B. Bell, 40
Rev William NJ. Smoot.
Frarcfs = Shea, 20, Montrose, Pa. ant
Edna Van Gorden, Il. this city; Rev. james
howard p. Smith. ~, and Mildred I. Re
petit %; Rev. Eugene J. Connolly.
Howard Dickerson, 81, and Jessie Penn
lone, 81; Rev John c. Mosley.
Morris Trctick, a. and Bessie Lyles, II
Rev Thomas A. Cunningham.
Ira E. D. May, "a, and Elizabeth j. Gar
man, u.s. botn of Williamsport, Pa; Rev
Thomas p. Gunther, "a, Fort Howard, Md.
Rev, L. I. McDougle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
ID, c. GUARD UNIT
LEAVES TOMORROW
FOR 2-WEEK TOUR
Fort Humphreys, Va, viii Be
Scene of Training and
ManeuVers.
TROOPS TO MAKE TRIP
TO CAMP IN BUSES
Advance Detail Will Have Lunch
Ready on Arrival at
Training Site.

Members of the 121st Regiment OF
Engineers, the largest contingent OF
the National Guard of the District OF
Columbia, are preparing to don their
military uniforms tomorrow and go
into the field for two weeks of train
ing. For the past two days a special
detail of officers and men, composing
the advance guard, have been moving
the heavy paraphernalia, including
tents and cooking equipment, from the
Pennsylvania avenue Storehouse to the
campsite at Fort Humphreys, Va.
The Engineer regiment Is commanded
by Lieut.. Col. John w. Oehmann, who,
in civil life, is the building inspector of
the District of Columbia. He has is
sued orders for the assembly of the
troops at their armory, at Sixth street
and Pennsylvania avenue, early tomor-
row morning, where they will don their
packs and take up their rifles, in time
for an early start to the camp.
Transported in Buses.
There will be no long march facing
the local contingent. They will be
transported to the camp in BUSES, which
will leave the armory at 10 o'clock to-
morrow morning. The troops will be
at the armory, and will be carried di-
rectly to their company streets, and the
advance guard will have food ready, SC
that they will lunch tomorrow in the
new mess shacks, which have been
constructed for their use during the
two weeks that they will be in the field
This Will be the first time that the
Engineers have had to establish their
own camp at the Virginia post. Here
tofore they have occupied the war
time-built barracks, but these have
cin0o haaY1 m 10 r0OY11 for fIc
permanent construction for the Regu-
lar Engineer troops stationed at the
Army'S Engineer base. The local En-
gineers have been assigned site In
the reservation, between the highway
leading from the Richmond-Washin
ton road and the entrance to the post
proper Several weeks ago Col. Och
mann and a staff of officers went tc
the post and laid out the company
streets and marked the locations fol
the mess Shacks, headquarters and va
rious camp utilities, which were fol-
lowed by the advance guard in setting
up the camp.
Maneuvers Second Week.
The Engineer contingent will remain
at the post for two weeks, spending the
first week in routine military drills and
receiving instruction in the building
and demolition of roads, bridges and
trenches. At the beginning of the Sec
ond week there will be company ma
neuvers, to be followed by battalion ex-
ercises and concluding with two-day
regimental problem, during which the
troops will be required to remain away
from the base camp and bivouac in pup
tents. Athletic and drill competitions
have been arranged for several after
moons during the encampment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
HOBART BROOKS DIES
AT AGE OF SO YEARS
Former Newspaper Man, Widely
Known, Was Native Of Illinois.
Long D. c. Resident.

Hobart Brooks, SO years old, formerly
connected with various newspapers and
for many years q resident Of this city,
where he was widely known, died a. his
home, 816 Fifteenth street, early today.
i'll.
Mr. Brooks was native Of Petersburg.
Ill, and came to this city when a child
with his parents, the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert I. Brooks.
He is survived by his wodow, Mrs
Kate Neal Scott Brooks: q daughter,
Miss Katherine May Brooks, of the So
ciety department of The Star; a sister.
Mrs. May Ramsdell, former music edi-
tor of The Star, and two nephews,
Hobart and Paul Ramsdell.
Funeral arrangements are to be an
nounced later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
MAHAFF|E NAMED
MEMBER OF |. c. c.
Capital Resident Succeeds
Thomas F. WoodIock of
New York City.

Charles D. Mahaffie, a resident OF
Washington for Is years, has been ap-
pointed by President Hoover to succeed
Thomas F. Woodlock of New York as a
member of the Interstate Commerce
Commission. The President announced
yesterday he had accepted the resigna-
ton of Mr.. Woodlock.
Mr.. Woodlock, former editor of The
Wall Street Journal, retires from the
commission to resume duties with That
publication in New York. The Presi-
dent announced his retirement from
distinguished public service with regret
and emphasized that he retired of his
own volition to enter private life.
Mr.. Mahaffie, his successor, has for
many years been financial director of
the commission. He was a Rhodes
scholar in 1905 and was solicitor for
the Interior Department from 1916 to
1921. He was counsel for the Railway
Administration during 1921 and 1922
before entering the Interstate Com
merce Commission in 1922 where he has
been in charge of railway consultations
and constructions. He is considered
to be an expert on railway matters.
The new commissioner is native of
Oklahoma. He resides here at the La
Sale Apartments, 1923 Connecticut
avenue.
WOODLOCK TO WRITE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
PRESIDENT HAS QUIET
HOLIDAY AT CAMP
Only Companions in Virginia
Mountains Are Mrs. Hoover and
Few Intimate Friends.
Y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ORANGE, Va, August I'm an at
mosphere of complete holiday from of
fetal business, President Hoover rested
today at his lodge in the Virginia
mountains, with only Mrs. Hoover and
few intimate friends as his COM
panions.
Photographers were permitted to in
terrupt the camp routine for the first
time this year, the President having
relaxed his rule against pictures to al
low the cameramen to make shots of
the camp showing the many SRprove-
mentS made since last year.
The party encountered cool weather,
in sharp contrast to the heat of last
week end, and last night a fire was
necessary in the large open fireplace of
the community hall for the first time
since Spring.
Horses awaited those members of the
party who are fond of horseback riding
early today for exploration along the
secluded bride paths leading along the
crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The Chief Executive planned to take
his exercise hiking He expects - .e-
turn to the White House early Monday.