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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-23
A. P. MOORE is HONORED
AS THRONGS PASS BIER
Notables From d. C. and Nation to
Gather at Funeral for
Late Poland Envoy.
D. the Associated Press.


PITTSBURGH, February 22.-An al
most continuous line of Pittsburgh men
and women today viewed the features of
the late Alexander p. Moore, Ambassa-
dor TO Poland and former Pittsburgh
newspaper publisher, as the body re-
posed In a funeral home. The funeral
VIII be held Sunday afternoon at
O'Clock.
The funeral which will be marked by
simplicity, will be conducted by three
ministers. Interment will be made in an
Allegheny cemetery mausoleum beside
the body of Lillian Russell Moore, wife
of the Ambassador and famous actress.
Notables from Washington and other
parts of the Nation viii attend the
services. Col. Campbell B. Rodgers,
military aide to President Hoover, win
represent the Chief Executive.
The body Of Ambassador Moore
reached here last night from Los An
geies, Calf, where he died last Monday
OF pneumonia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-23
100000 PLANNED
AS j. S. PARK FUND
Proposed as Lump Sum for
Improvements in Nearby
Maryland.
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States could take title to all of the land
in Maryland beween the Conduit Road
and the Potomac River from the Dis
trict of Columbia line to the point
above Great Falls to which it is planned
to extend the proposed memorial park.
This, should the Potomac River park
project be carried out, would give the
Federal Government complete jurisdic-
ton, even as to development and main
tenance. of all the territory from the
northern part OF. the Conduit Road, a
Federal project, to the rivers edge.
And the money to be devoted to this
project would not be charged on the
proportionate basis to the lump sum
contribution to the State 1t is planned
to have this feature a strictly Federal
project.
However, the Marylanders, 1t was in
Dictated, made it known that they de-
sired to reserve their control over the
water power rights. A step in this
direction was taken by the 1929 session
of the legislature of Maryland, declar-
ing it to be the intent Of the IegisIa-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-23

amended in the House so as to pro-
h1oit the construction Of toll bridge
In the vicinity of the falls. A special
committee Of the federation was ap-
pointed at the last meeting to take
the matter up in the Senate for the
expressed purpose Of having the prohi-
oition against the toll bridge elimi-
mated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-23
Boy Takes 15-Day
Fine Rather Than
Giving Up Driving
BY -. '--ociated Press.

BY -. '--oristed Press.
SHENANDOAH, Iowa, Febru-
airy 22.-Ora Hankins. a minor,
drove his automobile too fast In
the presence of a trafflc off1cer.
In court today he was offered
q choice Of punishments. He
could work for the highway COM
Observation-Disclosures IS days,
sleeping in the city jail for
the same number of nights,
or he could obey the laws of
Iowa, avoid pool rooms nights
and forego driving or riding in
an automobile for six months
unless accompanied by one of
his parents.
Ora enjoys riding in automo-
biles. He chose to work on the
streets-gratis-for Is days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-23

ture to include that part OF Mont
gomery County in the vicinity Of the
falls within the metropolitan district
1t was not actually included by the
legislation. This act was passed. it was
explained at the time IL was under con-
Sideration at Annapolis, for the pur-
pose of giving the State of Maryland
and Montgomery County a hold on any
water-power development of the falls
that might be proposed, the matter at
the time being a subject of considera-
ton on the part Of the Chief of Engi-
neer of the Army and the National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion. OF course, IL Maryland desired
to reserve this right, in connection with
It's proposal to cede land to the United
States for the gigantic park develop
ment, special provision for 1t would
have to be made in the legislation of
the Federal Congress.
Cite Toll Span OBJECTION.
There seems to be some objection on
the part of the Maryland ofdcials to
the construction at this time of a toll
bridge at Great Falls. A charter has
been granted for the project, and some
work has been started. It is the view
of the Maryland officials, it was learned,
that If a bridge is allowed to precede
the acquisition Of the lands for the
park project that It would result in
vast increase in the present prices of
the land, brought on by the develop
ment which would certainly follow the
construction Of such a bridge. 1t is
their view that the bridge project,
whether free of toll, should be held up
until the virgin land is acquired.
On the other hand, citizens repre-
So
Federation. take the stand that a
bridge should be provided, and II there
Is no possibility Of having free bridge
built within a few years then the toll
bridge project should be allowed to 60
forward. The Cramton bill was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-23
ATHEISTS TO REPEAT
PENDULUM EXPERIMENT
st. Isaac's Cathedral, Where Earth
Rotation Was Tested rs Years
Ago, Now Museum.
By the Assoclated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LENINGRAD, u s. s. r., February
22.-The Atheist Society OF the Cod
less" today completed plans for a rep
etition in st. Isaac's Cathedral Of the
famous pendulum experiment by which
the French physicist, Foucault, rs years
ago demonstrated the rotation of the
earth.
The cathedral has been converted
into museum and the experiment will
be directed by Prof. Kamenschikoff,
who will use a pendulum about 306 feet
long. compared with the pendulum of
about 231 feet in length used by Fou-
cault.
e The weight or weights will be about
so Kilograms, instead of the 20 Foucault
employed.
Jean Bernard Leon Foucault noted
for his Investigations into optics and
mechanics and inventor of the gyro-
scope demonstrated the rotation OF the
earth by means of a graduated disc that
was seen to turn while a freely sus-
pended pendulum maintained It's plane
of oscillation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-23
0X0N HILL FIRE ENGINE
TO BE BOUGHT NEW
Volunteer Department Reverses
Decision Looking to Purchase of
Secondhand Apparatus.
By a stan Correspondent Of The star.

BY Stan Correspondent OF The Star.
OXON HILL, Md, February a.
Reversing their decision of last month
when committee was appointed to
purchase a secondhand IRE engine,
members of the newly organized Oxon
Hill Volunteer Fire Department have
placed an order for a new apparatus.
The new engine, mounted on q four
cylinder automobile, will be fully equip
ped. 1t Is expected to be on exhibition
at dance to be given by the firemen
in the Oxon Hill Consolidated School
March /.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-23

CAIRO, Egypt, February az (P.--
Van Lear Black arrived here today
from Tripoli, covering the 1,140-mile
hop in hours and so minutes without
a stop. He will remain in Cairo until
Wednesday and then will continue to
Amman, Palestine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-23
Hotel Operator Dies Suddenly.

MIAMI. Fla, February % (R).-
Ebert Eastman. So, hotel operator of
Harmony. Pa, died early today follow
ing heart attack while driving an
automobile with q woman companion In
BE- downtown street.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
WHEN WEATHER Is BIG NEW :

AS Mark Twain said, everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it. When the weather becomes exceedingly hot, or exceedingly cold. the talk about it grows 4pace, until almost every remark one hears IS a reference to that which nobody can control,
 The weekend and Monday stored up quite record for heat in these Eastern states. The heat vas so in tense, one will have noticed, that the papers, covering everything that happens, devoted front page space to telling the harassed public all the damages being done by the hot wave. The general impression seem cd to be that people were going crazy with the heat.
 When the break in the high tenn perature came it also was news, and good news. IumedIate.y there was luu in the conversation about the oppressive heat. There were other things to wisecrack about.
 Incidentally an aviator in Bridge port tested out one method to be cool on 3. hot day. lie went Up 28,oQo feet and the thermometer registered four degrees below zero.
 It may be a comfort on 2 hot day 10 realize that the hot spell only ex- tends within thin layer over the ground. and that above this layer il remains bitter cold, But that doesn't do anybody but an aviator a bit Of good on a hot day.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
TREE SITTING

The first person who sat ln 3 tree for any length Of time desired to attract attention. He did PlaylnG monkey n this manner is certain 10 differentiate the tree-sitter from tho usua! run Of humans, with q conse- quent display Of public interest. Perhaps, 100. there are some kind of contracts in store; and even the boy tree-sitters. in this go-getting gen erarlon. ars not adverse 10 picking up a little extra coin.
 But trea-sitting has come to be d public nuisance, f not a menace to the initiative young. First one start ed it and then another; and in one city there were dozens Of youthful tree-sir-srs jn action at one time, sorely trying the reporters assigned 10 keep tab on the ambitious young sters.
 A thing that has become so wide spread and common, however, has lost all it's pristine flavor, if 1t ever had any. The boys had better come down out Of the trees and think up something else.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
THE PRESIDENTIAL TRIP

When President Hoover visits Glacier National and the Yellow stone parks during August he will have no time en route to make ad- dresses.
 Preparing speeches for vacation trip is no way for a President to en- joy the summer. Besides, what one says under such conditions counts as much as what one says after due dehberation in Washington.
 And this is no time to talk about the wheat surplus in the West. Once President Taft while making such a western trip. made a few extempor- aneous remarks in Kansas and he regretted them to the day he left the White House, if not afterwards
 The President will do a little fish ing-if he gets the chance-but as 1t requires five days to travel through the Yellowstone alone, if one keeps or the move, 1t is likely that he will not even have much time for fishing.
 He sets good example to fellow Americans, however. To most ot them, particularly those in the Easc, the nations national parks are merely things they read about. Mill lions of Americans have lived and died without having ever been in any Of the great national parks of the West.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
MIR. GRaCE'S SALARY

There can be no question but that Eugene G. Grace, president of the Bethlehem sreeI Corporation, re- ceives the best salary Of any man in the country.
 True, he told court that his salary was only s1oooo year; but the Bethlehem company has a bonus system for it's sa.aried officials which is the best system Of the kind ever devised. If Mir. Grace did not get the bonus regularly he would resign from the company.
 Last year he received the tidy sum of sl623.753 in salary and bonus, which sum was 3.319 per cent of the net earnings of the company; or, to put it another way, 1t eQuatled the entire annual preferred dividend O. the corporation.
 Other high officials of the com pany likewise drew big percentages in bonuses.
 And that, mates, is going some!
 All of which would have made no difference to anybody had 1t not been for the fact that the stock holders of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company some time ago voted to merge with the Bethlehem con- pany-before they knew what Presi- dent Grace was getting.
 After they found out about the "princely salary" they seem to have been sorry they ever voted for the merger. not being particularly keen to contribute that much money to he presidents bank account every year It simply went against their grain.
 The average man naturally will De inclined to ask how a man, even
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
THE TALL BUILDING RACE

Former Governor Alfred E. Smith Of New York announces that the Empire State Building, being con- structed on the site Of the Waldorf Astoria. will be even higher than at first contemplated IL will be 1,248 feet high, the equivalent of 1O2 stories above the street level. It will be one-ffth higher than anything ever constructed by man" he says.
 He would be q rash man who would care to forecast that this height is to be the limit in buildings. Yet the Woolworth tower held the worlds supremacy for approximate ly Is years; and today the Chrysler building gets it's pictures in the papers as the worlds tallest.
 By the way, who remembers when ,he Singer tower vas the tall build ing champion; or the Metropolitan tower? Or who remembers the day when visitors to New York used to make it a point to look at the Flat Iron building?
 In tall buildings it is like in prize fighting: The champion Of today is almost forgotten tomorrow, when the new champion has his ephemeral day.
 There is a suspicion current, how ever, that the Empire State building when completed is going to be the champion for quite a while.
 MT. Smith is president of the company erecting it, and down in New York they are already calling It Smiths Building"
 And there were sundry c. o. P. 'ers who. during the 1928 election campaign, wondered how the af- fable Democratic candidate would make living after he was through! with public office.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
NOT so BAD OFF

Taxation was the underlying req son for the dictatorship in Germany. giving to Chancellor Bruening an opportunity to put through the in- creased taxes that the Reichstag would not allow.
 By the time he Is through it IS probable that Germany will be the most heavily taxed nation on tho globe, based on the percentage Of taxation to national income.
 Up to now this dubious honor has gone 10 Great Britain.
 And as far as the United States IS concerned, our percentage Of tax alton to national income is far lower than in any European country.
 The percentages are; Great Brit ain, p; Germany, 201; Italy, 18.o; France, ii; United States, 1o.6.
 Still, We grumble q great deal about OUT taxes.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
THE AMERICAN WORKMAN

The American workman IS no miracle worker, is the finding of the International Labor Office, which was commissioned by the Twentieth Century Fund of the United States to make study of living costs in Europe so that the Ford Motor Company plants in Europe might pay precisely the same relative wages as are paid to Ford work men in Detroit.
 The Ford workmen all over the world are giving the same tools and the same machinery, and those en- ployed include Englshmen, Irish men. Dutchmen, Frenchmen. Bel gians, Danes. Germans, Italians, Spaniards. Swedes, Films and Turks.
 Then the officials use "compara- tive statistics" to check up the diff ferences in the output of the various nationaEties.
 A copyrighted dispatch in the New York World, quoting Sir Perciva Perry chairman of the Ford Motor company in England, contains the following illuminative paragraph;
 "Comparative statistics have en- abled us to establish the fact that the American workman is no miracle monger; neither is the British. Irish or Continental artisan an inferior creature, Given like con- ditions and treatment, European workers actually beat their Ameri- can cousins. as proved by the stand ard of minute costs"
 It is the American system that counts, not the output of the indi- vidual worker. There are thousand" of workers in America who were born under foreign flags who have proven before this exactly what Sir Percival discovers through his scientific charts of production.
 The native American worker, It also might be added, is something of an individualist and does not take very kindly to most of the scientific
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23

just made complete report" bear ing on it's finances; and from this it is learned that the comany during the past year substantially added to it's holdings of New Haven railroad stock.
 New Haven railroad stock finds d ready market at a good price so long as the Pennroad Corporation stands ready to buy all shares offered for sale. In due time it will own most of the New Haven railroad, if not also plenty of the Boston & Maine.
 This is a subject that has agitated various commercial interests in New England which have been demand ing that the New England lines re- main independent.
 While they are talking, however, Pennroad continues buying.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
Observations On The' Weather

Washington, July 23.-Forecast for Southern New England: Fair tonight and Thursday; moderate temperature, gentle variable winds, mostly westerly
 Forecast for Eastern New York: Fair tonight and Thursday; slightly warmer Thursday; gentle 10 moder- ate northely winds becoming vari- able.
 Forecast for New Haven and vicinity: Fair tonight and Thurs day.
 Conditions: High pressure covers the country east of the Mississippi river. Thunder showers were re- ported from many stations east of the Mississippi Temperatures are lower in the northeastern districts but are rising again in the Missouri and upper Mississippi valleys.
 Conditions favor for this vicinity fair weather with slowly rising tenn perature.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
EDUCATING CHILDREN
 IN MOTOR AGE

It IS indeed gratifying to learn from a recent report of the state motor vehicle department that con- sistently better records are being made by children under Is years ot age in avoiding accidents on the streets and highways.
 No kind of education a child can receive is more important than the type which enables it to remain in the land Of the living Several years ago the schools throughout the state began giving increased atten- ton to safety education Of children, and with most gratifying results. Child pedestrians are increasingly becoming more careful, and the ln- jury list of children has decreased steadily since 1927.
 During 1929 total of S9 children were killed by automobiles in Con- necticut; which is still a grewsome total, yet IS considerably less than ill 1928, when the total was 1G4.
 The state motor vehicle depart ment IS of the opinion that similar ideas of safety first should be inn parted to adults. Some children, having been impressed with the need for being eternally on their guard against automobiles, are more prudent Tn crossing highways than their elders.
 The need for pedestrian care is evidenced by the fact that the num- Der of pedestrians killed continues to overtop the number of occupants Of cars; and while the total of kill cd pedestrians increased from o55 in 1928 to 259 in 1929, the number of occupants killed decreased from 211 in 1928 to 207 in 1929.
 Deaths from motors in the state are now well above an average of one a day. II was as recently as 1927 that the deaths were slightly less than one day. Careless, thought less, reckless and foolish automobll- ing and pedestrianizing" caused 356 deaths in 1927, and the high figure caused much indignation. But in 1928 the list had mounted to 466, and in 1929 the total, by a remark able coincidence, was exactly the same.
 A similar increase since 1927 has been noted in the total of injured. In that year there were 11,979 per sons injured; in 1875, 12,7a7; and in 1929, 13.607.
 A decrease in the total of chill dren injured during 1923 is again gratifying, due to the reasons previously mentioned. There were D. 8o5 children injured in 1928, while 2,7S9 were injured in 1929. There was an increase in injuries sustained by both occupants and pedestrians.
 If more safety could be provided at intersections Of streets and high ways the accident rate unQuestion- ably would take q drop, there hav- ing been a steady increase in inter- section accidents in the face of a constant decrease in accidents along clear courses, hills, curves, along good road surfaces along rough roads, and during clear or stormy weather.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23

president of a steel corporation, can be worth s1,623,75S in salary to the concern. The verdict will be that he cannot possibly be worth that much 10 any concern.
 The President of the United States has quite an important job, and he only gets $75,ooo a year and house rent and expenses.
 The salaries of Supreme Court justices. senators and congressmcr pale into ignificance in compari- son with Mir. Grace's winnings.
 Now if Mir. Grace got that much money in dividends. through owner ship of I large amount of stock in the company It would be different. Somebody always gets the dividends If any-and they are left to divide among few or many as the case may be.
 But Mir. Grace gets that money aa ! salary and bonus" and if he owns stock in his company the divi- dands will be in addition.
 f the Youngstown stockholders ger sore enough, and the merger sticks, they might be able to dis charge MT, Grace, In that case. corceding that Mir. Grace has not wasted his money in riotous living, hs can retire and live off the inter- est Of his money. He has been shak- ing down huge salaries for many years and is one Of those successful men we read about in the blah magazines.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
25 Fears Ago Today

Sixty-four men will be taken to camp this year by Company ], Final drill was held at the state armory last evening.
 c. r. Smith, president of Landers, F'rary 6; Clark, has returned from q fishing trip in Canada.
 The 'city fathers" are holding their annual outing today.
 The new addition to the McMillan store on Main street is rapidly being completed. Only the iron work re- mains to be done at the present time.
 The peach crop seems certain to be d record breaker this season.
 The famous Wood brothers are performing at White Oak park this week. They offer S1,000 to anyone who can duplicate. their tricks.
 The Y. NJ. T. A. &5 B. building committee will meet this evening at 7:30 o'clock.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23

production system; he is not extra fond of being a cog in a machine.
 Let a Yankee be confronted with the necessity of doing a job and nine times out Of ten he will be putting in some of his time in inventing a new system to get it done quicker with the aid of some machinery he is inventing.
 He is still busy inventing new ma Chinery, too, as reports from the patent office in Washington state that the force is overworked.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
this evening to listen to mess of royal opera. I stayed home to count my money. And it's about time.
 Copyright, 1880, Mcknight
 Syndicate, Incl
TRUCK SIDESWIPES TROLLEY

Boston, July 23 (UP) = A Bos- man were injured and several oth- CTS shaken today when a truck loaded with crushed stone sideswip- ed a trolley car on Washington street near Dudley street.
 James Gum, 70, of Roxbury, the passenger. was taken to City hospi- tai suffering from injuries to his back. Thomas Mccarthy, motorman of the car, went to his home in Brookline after receiving hospital treatment.
 Everett Babcock of Winchester. operator of the truck. was unin- jured.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
FOREIGN EXCHANGE

New York, July g LP-Noon- Prime Mercantile Paper 3-3 1-4 per cent.
 Foreign exchange steady; demand rates (Great Britain in dollars, oth- CTS in cents): Great Britain. 4.86b {; France 3.93 7-16; Italy 5.23 9-16; Germany 23.S7h.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
SLEEPS ON RAILROAD TRACK

Willimantic, July 9 P-William Phillips, 64. no home, completed an slumber last night in police headquarters here. Phillips original choice was on the tracks of the New York, New Haven X Hart ford railroad tracks, but a Boston, bound train contested his claim after it had been brought to a jerking stop. Phillips was booked on an in toxication charge.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-23
PAYS FOR DAMAGING ENGINE

PA1S FOII DAMA(IINT ENCIIN ID
 St. Albans, Vt, July 23 (UP) - Proctor Drugg of Proctorsville has paid $23.66 to the Central Vermont Railway for damage resulting to a freight locomotive which struck his stalled automobile on a grade cross- ing in Roxbury recently. The out-of- court settlement was announced here today.