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Weeds SurUUe Pl0qy

THIRTY years ago scientists of the Depart
! ment Of Agriculture conducted, or rather
started. an experiment to determine the effect
on seeds Of ploughing them under Primarily.
the idea back Of the test was to find out il
farmers could get rid of weeds by this process.
Laying the groundwork for the test in 1902,
112 sets Of seeds were buried at the Arlington
Experimental Farm. Most of them were weeds
gathered near the farm. The seeds were
placed in pots Of earth and buried at three
different levels, inches, % inches and AZ
inches.
Some of the seeds were dug and planted this
year and Of the 112 varieties planted IS
sprouted and in the case of wild morning glory.
SO amazing was the vitality of the seeds they
had sprouted within two days of being brought
to the surface and started.
Seeds Of domesticated plants did not have
the vitality of the weeds due no doubt to the
fact that the seeds of domestic plants year
after year are coddled while the weeds, left
to their own devices for self-preservation. have
built up resistance to unhappy conditions
which permit them to survive. 1t is Natures
way to guard against bad season when no
seeds at all might be formed. 1t is her way
of preserving the species
The tests and the results so far obtained
indicate that those who wish to rid them
selves of any self-sowing plant, whether weed
domesticated plant, must cut the plants off
or plough them under before they go to seed
and perhaps continue the process for a num-
Der Of years to finally be rid Of the undesirable.
Evening star., 1932-07-24
INSTALLMENT III.

EFT it be understood at once that SpOoky
and Ken had nothing personal against
Miss Walters. OF course, there had
been that episode when she kept them
In one afternoon when they wished to
play base ball, because Of a paper wad-
shooting episode for which they were not to
blame Also, she had rather acid disposition,
and was prone to make cutting remarks when
the boys did not get their lessons quite As
rapidly as she might have wished.
In fact. of all the teachers they had had,
they probably liked Miss Walters the least
But that does not mean that they had any
thing really against her. She just was not one
of their real close friends, so to speak.
And so there was strange light in Spooky's
eyes as he began to speak into the telephone.
'"That woman who is just coming in is Miss
T1llie Walters" he announced, in the quiet,
even voice that the professor had asked him
to use. "She's an old maid. guess the only
reason she never got married was because no
man would be big enough goOf to marry her.
She lives with the Higgins family on Opal
street and nobody likes her much. She saves
her money and is supposed to have quite a lot"
Tell him about her false teeth" whispered
Ken.
'Oh, yes. She has false teeth" said Spooky.
sometimes when she gets mad they slip q
little and make sort Of clicking noise and
you'd swear they were going to jump out and
bite you. If you want to make hit with her,
Tell ucr some man LQlNkS Sne S WONDERFUL.
which is far from the truth, but it's what she'd
like. And tell her she's going to take long
journey and maybe that will make her start
thinking about it. and she'll really go away
and all the kids in town will think that's great"
A LITTLE breathless, Spooky paused. The
telephone set worked only one way, so they
had no knowledge of what was going on in the
tent below. But had they heard the use the
professor made Of their information, their
amasement would have been boundless.
Attired in his impressive robes, Prof Arzah
faced Miss Walters across a table on which
there rested a crystal ball. The tent was
draped in heavy hangngs, and q pot Of in
cense filled the air with its overpowering scent.
Excited and in the condition described as "all
of a-twitter," Miss Walters looked at the for
tune teller. whose piercing eyes sought elusive
secrets in the crystal globe.
II see," began the professor in a far-away
voice, II see you in position of great response
bility. It has fallen to your lot to exert most
important influence on others Every day you
draw upon your boundless wisdom and energy
to impart knowledge to those who are hardly
worthy of such good fortune.
IT see success in this work. see honor for
you, and perhaps measure Of rtches-but
more than you deserve"
"Oh, Professor!" exclaimed Miss Walters,
clasping her hands in high excitement.
"And, farther away, I see something else"
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old Farmers

Messenger: who's the swell ye wuz talkin'
TO- Jimmie?"
Newsboy: "Awl Him an mes worked to-
gether for years, He's been editor O. one O. my
papers"
Evening star., 1932-07-24
The Other Kind

Customer Gin drug store): Il want q little
pink tablet"
Druggist: whats your trouble?"
Customer: It want to write a letter"
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DecebtiUe

Young Wife: IF this is an all-wool rug. why
Is it labeled cotton'?"
Shop Assistant (confdentially): "That,
madam is to deceive the moths"
Evening star., 1932-07-24

his theories. The popularity Of the Chinese
shadows provoked the taunt that M. de Sill
houette had published his book as an advance
notice for the show.
Hence the shadows were called "silhouettes"
and the name was naturally extended to tho
portraits then in vogue, which presented only
the outlines Of faces and figures filed in with
black
Evening star., 1932-07-24

the professor continued. Il sea man a tall.
dark. handsome man who admires you greatly"
Obj Miss Walters gasp was laden with
ecstasy
You do not know it now. but this man will
mean a great deal to you" Prof. Arzah prophe-
sled. He may make you very happy. And
through him. or perhaps on your own account
you are going to make journey to far places"
THERE was more in the same manner but
] the professor, with creditable tact made
no mention Of Miss Walters false teeth. nor
Of the fact that she had never succeeded in
landing q husband. But he did his work 50
well that, . few minutes later the teacher
bounded forth from the tent with shining eyes,
to spread the praises Of the fortune teller to
all who would listen.
As . result. business began to boom. In .
few minutes there was . line before the pro-
fessor's tent. composed mainly of women.
Sp 2oky and Ken were put to 1t to supply inter-
estin. stais about all Of these people, but
they had not overstated their knowledge of
the town and its inhabitants. and the informa-
tion they gave the professor was intimate. &C.
curate and interesting.
It was late when the carnival closed and
when the boys has collected their money they
ran all the way home, expecting to hear from
their parents about the late hour But when
Spooky reached home he found the house
agog with excitement. His father. his mother
and his elder sister were all discussing the
merits Of Prof. Arzah with such interest that
they never noticed the time of his arrival
4 AR. GREEN was inclined to be somewhat
w skeptical about the professor. but Spookys
mother was championing him violently.
II don't care what you say. Will Green!"
she announced in determined fashion Hes
simply marvellous, and I'm going to him the
first thing tomorrow afternoon"
"Oh, all right" said Mr.. Green. But I
think you could find something better to do
with your money. with business as it is"
spooky stole quietly up to bed, his heart
troubled within him. I. was one thing to earn
money by helping to fool other people in the
town, and something quite different when your
own mother was one of these fooled. He did
not 60 to sleep for long time, trying to decide
II 1t wouldn't be better to resign his position.
Then came fear. He dimly realized that il
his part in the fraud were found out he might
get into trouble. What had he heard about
people being arrested for obtaining money
under false pretenses, or something like that?
Wasn't this fortune-telling business q swindle?
And weren't he and Ken as guilty as the pro-
fessor and Mr. Oliver.
He worried about that for a long time and
finally decided that, now they were into it. the
only thing possible was to stick it out. Then
he began to think of his mothers proposed
visit on the following day. and q great idea
came to him. After all. If he was going to go
on with this business he might as well make
the most of it.
(To be continued next sunday)
Evening star., 1932-07-24

The Definitions Are:
HORIZONTAL.
l. Center of auto wheel.
f. A pear-shaped fruit.
T. To run an automobile.
9. Shade of brown.
10. Greek letter.
IL. Used with either
13. To change gears.
Is. Dine
10. Part of a wheel.
~. Section of a cirlce.
VERTICAL
l. Warning device.
2. Toward the top.
3. wager
4. Part of an autos cooling system
S. Neuter pronoun.
s. Toothed wheel.
8. Where water in a is cooled.
IL. We
IL. Old Testament (Abbr).
IA. Masculine pronoun.
Is. Feet (AbbrD.
II. Exists.
Is. l.
20. Father.
81 Kings counsel (Abbr)
Automobile words make up our word chains
Change one letter at a time, always forming q
real word.
Change PUMP to TIRE in five moves.
Change LAMP to PARK in five moves.
3
In the sentence below, the missing words are
pronounced alike but spelled differently Can
V0u guess them?
She began to - her hands when she dis
covered the loss OF her -.
Evening star., 1932-07-24
PUZZLES

Just to avoid any chance of error, we will
Inform you that this is an automobile radiator.
Step the gas!
THE RADIATOR,
Evening star., 1932-07-24

EFT it be understood at once that Spooky
and Ken had nothing personal against
Miss Walters. OF course, there had
been that episode when she kept them
in one afternoon when they wished to
ralav ha hall hoca1.sa of a r,ar,or
Evening star., 1932-06-05
W1ISV 205.4 Meters.
VJDN 1,460 KilOcycles.

"Jo' 1,46O KiIocycles.
10 O:OOa-Modern Living.
0:3Oa-Salon music.
IL :00a to 12:l5-Services Of the Fourth
Presbyterian Church.
2:00-Church of the Air.
2:30-Hazel and Jane.
3:00-Studio feature.
3:3O-Volunteer of America.
3:45-Stamps and Their History.
4:OO-Frederick Gross, tenor.
4:3O-Gospel Twilight Hour.
5:0O-With the Composers, by Betty
Place.
5:15-Joseph Muscatello, baritone.
5:30-Mervin LeSsner, baritone.
6:O0-Michaux Radio Revival.
7:00-Elizabeth Holder, contralto.
7:30-Mina Andrews, pianist.
7:45-Roland Wheeler. tenor.
8:00-Service at First Church Of
Christ Scientist.
9:15-"MemorieS of France" by Ger
maine Johnson.
9:30-Mormon Church Service.
10'0c-Gospel Tabernacle Sc '-ce.
1890 to 11:0o-Radio Evangelistic
Service.
Early Program Tomorrow.
10 :00a-Modern Living.
10: O:3Oa-Household Chat.
:45a-Helpful Hints.
:3oa-Shirley Ernest, soprano.
11:58a-Time signals.
II 12:00m-Dance music.
l2:30-Popular ballads.
1:00-Crisfield. Md. program.
1:3o-Harry Waddington, piano-ac-
cordionist.
l:30-Smiles and Tear Drops.
Evening star., 1932-06-05
Behind the Microphone
BY THE RADIO EDITOR.

circuit of an H. F. valve and the
grid circuit of the first L. F. stage
to produce an efficient detector;
by exposing the plant to short
wave oscillations the sap rises
with greater speed, and, apparent
ly, If the radiation is too powerful
the stalk is capable of bursting
into flame"
A FTER four years of litigation
"A and indecision, the question
whether radios domestic short
waves shall be allocated to COM
munication companies for the
establishment of intercity radio
telegraph systems to operate in
competition with the wire tele-
graphs arises once more to plague
the Federal Radio Commission.
Like Banquo'S ghost, the spec
ter Of the Universal Wireless Com
munications Co., ill-Starred prof.
ect for a nationwide radiotele-
graph system serving 110 Ameri-
can cities, will not down. That
project was virtually Endorsed by
the commission when in 1928 it al
located 40 of the precious CONT
mental wave lengths to Universal,
only to recapture them last year
when the company went into
bankruptcy.
Today the commission is again
faced with the problem of dispos-
ing of these and other continental
waves, which the Court of Appeals
of the District Of Columbia more
than a year ago ordered allocated
to their. c.: A. and Mackay COM
panies Gin such manner as Will
serve the public interest" The
vagueness of that order led the
commission to ask the court last
December to clarity :.s mandate.
In a surprise reply, rendered las.
Evening star., 1932-06-05

2:00-Salon music.
2:30-Anna Hess, soprano.
3:00-Henry Lee. pianist.
3:15-Studio feature.
4:00-Gaffer Grey.
4:15-Songs by Jimmy Nichols.
4:30-The Professor.
4:45-Tea Time Music.
5:30-News flashes.
WMAT 475.9 Meters.
WMAL $50 KilocycIes.
9:00a-Columbia Church Of the Air.
9:30a-New World Salon Orchestra.
1O:OOa-Duets by Julia Mahoney and
Charles Garlic.
l0:30a-Voice of st. Louis.
11:15a-Watch Tower Service.
IL :3Oa-The Street Singer.
IL :45a-Emery Deutsch's Orchestra.
l2:OOm-"The Policies Of American La
bor," by Matthew Woll.
12:30-Community Center Recital.
1:00-The Merrymakers.
1:30-Ann Leaf at the organ.
2;0o-Columbia Symphony Orchestra.
3:00-Cathedra hour.
4:O0-Evensong Service from Wash
ington Cathedral.
5.OO-Qulet FarmOnleS.
5:30-Roses and Drums.
6:O0-"Telling the World" by DR..
Julius Klein.
6:15-Chicago Knights.
6:45-Frank Young, pianist.
7:0O-William Vincent Hall and Fred
die Rich's Orchestra.
7:30-The Highway Traveller.
7:45-Modern Male Chorus.
8:O0-Howard Barlow's Orchestra and
ToScha Seidel.
8 80 to 900 PM. Ad't,
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Evening star., 1932-06-05

9:00-Highlights, featuring stage and
sports celebrities.
9:30-Ziegfeld Radio Show.
10:00-The Gauchos.
10:3O-Eddie Duchin's Orchestra.
II 1:0O-Gus Arnheim's Orchestra.
IL 1:30-California Melodies.
IL l2:00-Weather report.
Early Program Tomorrow.
8:OOa-Little Jack Little.
8:15a-GypSy Music Makers.
8:45a-The Dutch Girl.
9:O0a-The Singing Vagabond.
9:15a-"Opening the Mornings Mail"
9:45a-Academy of Medicine program.
10 :00a-Morning Moods.
1O:30a-Talk by Frank Roscoe.
1O:45a-Ben Alley, tenor.
IL :00a-Ted Brewers Orchestra.
IL :30a-Columbia Revue.
II 2:00m-George Halls Orchestra.
IL :30-Madison String Ensemble.
1:00-Ann Leaf at the organ.
1:3O-Songs by Elizabeth Barthell.
1:45-Columbia Salon Orchestra.
2:15-Sam Prayer. pianist.
2:30-Arthur Jarrett tenor.
2:45-Four Eton Boys.
3:0O-WestphaIs Orchestra.
3:30-Columbia Artist Recital.
4:00-Romance
4:3O-Snooks Friedman's Orchestra.
5:00-"Current Events" by H. v.
Kaltenborn.
5:15-Science Service program.
5:30-George Halls Orchestra.
Evening star., 1932-06-05
.RAIN the radio audience to
listen-then you're on the
road to a new art form.

liSten-then you're on the
road to a new art form.
So believes Vernon Rad
cliffe, director of the N. B. C..
Radio Guild, who in the last
three years has seen radio drama
emerge from its cocoon, develop
wings. and take flight as a full
fledged division OF radio enter
tainment.
Under Radcliffe's direction the
Guild presents each week a recog-
nized play by a master playwright
to nationwide audiences. He de-
clareS that the thousands who
first listened to the early produc-
tionS have increased to millions,
and that out of these experiences
new dramatic force is gradually
evolving.
Some call it broadcast drama" "
says Radcliffe. 1T isn't any more
broadcast drama than you could
call the drama of the theater
stage drama But whatever it is,
this new form of expression is
something with which we must
reckon. 1t has something-a
third dimension-that the stage
doesn't have, and it is infinitely
more difficult to deal with this di-
menSion of sound than with any
other dramatic entity,
First, we had to develop a
listening audience. People were
accustomed to being amused when
they turned on the radio. They
hadn't learned to listen to the
spoken word without embellish-
ments. Now, after three years of
painstaking work, we know that
people have developed this listen
ing sense, because we are able to
do things on the air that we
couldn't have attempted three
years ago. For example, we
learned that the voice is an in
strument, and that by subtle
placing it can be directed-With- y
out the listeners knowledge-in
producing almost any desired
emotional effect"
TUBELESS radios, with some
L magical substance performing
the functions now left to the deli
cate tube mechaniSmS, have long
been talked about in radio, and
many have been the rumors, never
authenticated, that they were ac-
cOmplished facts. From the
French Academy of Sciences
comes this story, quoted from
Wireless World of London, about
the discovery of plant life with
| the characteristics of radio de-
tectorS:
In a recent communication TO
the academy, M. NADIA Marinesco
claims that the rise of the sap in
the capillaries of vegetables
shows a difference of potential be-
tween two points of a stalk. For
instance, geraniums, fuchsia and
other sapS hold negative charges
the positive charges remaining o.
the inner surfaces of the capillary
On applying electromotive forces
to the plants, M. Marinesco found
that the sap assembled more easily
than it descended, the negative
charges, therefore. being more
pronounced toward the top than
at the bottom of the plant.
by tracing a curve or graph of
the phenomenon, M. Marinesco
claims to have discovered the
characteristics of a wireless de-
tector. 1t is sufficient, he states,
to insert few centimeters of
geranium stalk between the plate
Evening star., 1932-06-05
NEW RADIO SERIES
1OSTART TONIGHT
Stars of Theatrical and
Sports Worlds to Appear
i on WMAL Feature.

A. NEW series of programs featur-
~ ing internationally known stars
II of the theatrical and sporting
4 \ worlds will make its debut to-
night at o'clock over WMAL
and associated Columbia stations.
Irving Berlin. Sam Harris and
Georges Carpenter will be guests on
the initial program. Music will be pro-
vided by Jack Denny and his orchestra.
The Ziegfeld Radio Show at $50 also
will feature group OF stage stars led
by Jack Pearl, German dialect comedian
Eddie Bowling and June MacCloy Of
"Hot-Cha" fame. Charles Carlile,
tenor. and Jean Sargent, contralto, are
others who will take part in this
broadcast.
Story of Daniel Boone.
The Roses and Drums dramatic
sketch at $50 will depict Daniel
Boone's trail blazing activities through
the wilderness between the CarolinaS
and Kentucky in ITS. Glenn Anders
and Suzanne Caubaye. both stars CT
the dramatic stage, will play the leadAg
roles.
Southern California and Pixies Peak
will pe described in the Highway Trav-
eler program at 7:30. Frank Westphal's
Orchestra and Brooks and Ross will
supply an appropriate musical setting.
The Columbia Symphony Orchestra
in It's concert from to 3 o'clock will
offer a program composed entirely o.
the works of TschaikoWsky. The fea-
ture will be the Symphony Pathetique.' -
which the orchestra will play in full.
Ceremonies at the unveiling and dedi-
cation of the Monte Grappa Rock in
Cleveland will be broadcast at 9 o'clock
this morning by WRC and other
N. B. c. stations. The principal speak
ers will be Newton D. Baker and Col.
Pennaroli, aide de camp to the King
of Italy.
Cemetery Dedication.
The same chain of stations also will
carry this afternoon at 2:l5 the services
officially dedicating Johnson Island in
Lake Erie as a national cemetery. Mrs.
w. E. R. Byrne of Charleston. w. Va,
president of the Daughters of the Con-
federacy. will oficiate.
The only international rebroadcast
on the WRC schedule will come from
Berlin at 4:30 1t will be special
program in recognition Of the activities
of American women in Germany. Those
taking part will be Janet Fairbanks.
soprano of Chicago; Mrs. Edna Ziemer,
teacher at the American School in
Berlin, and Mrs. Lillian T. Mowrer art
critic.
Paul Robson. famous colored BARI
tone, will be the soloist in the Electric
Circle presentation at o'clock. His
program includes a number of the
spirituals for which he is most famous.
Services on VOL.
VOL will broadcast the morning
service of Calvary Baptist Church. and
its usual array of musical features.
These will be provided chiefly by Jimmy
HARRISON, pianist; the Crystal Quartet
and the Maryland Collegians.
Elizabeth Holder. contralto: Nina
Andrews. pianist and Roland Wheeler,
tenor, will contribute to the program OF
WJSV. In the afternoon this station
will broadcast several outstanding musl-
cal features, including the regular
with the Composers program pre-
sented by Betty Place, pianist.
Evening star., 1932-06-05
Wave Lengths Reallocated

A reallocation of radiobeacon wave
lengths used by Canadian and Ameri-
can beacon stations along the North
Atlantic Coast was recently effected by
the Light House Service in cooper.
alton with the Canadian Department of
Marine to provide wider separation
Of frequencies between neighboring Ca
madam and American stations and thus
facilitate the taking of bearings by
navigators.
Evening star., 1932-06-05
Mexican Licenses Threatened.

In the wake of its recent decision or
dering eight stations off the air for
"wave wobbling," or failure to maintain
their assigned wave lengths, the Mexi-
can government has announced that 1t
shortly will revoke the licenses of other
stations If they do not pay their federal
taxes shortly. Mexico charges license
fee of about 81 per watt per year.
Evening star., 1932-06-05
Tune in From Mine.

Testing radio as possible substitute
for wire signaling in mines. a group of
British engineers several weeks ago took
a portable receiver to the bottom of a
Wakefield coal mine, $500 feet deep
and tuned in perfectly to nearby
station
Evening star., 1932-06-05

week without a written opinion,
the court refused to do so.
In a word, then, the buck has
been passed back to the Radio
Commission, which must now de-
eide whether to stand by its origi-
nal contentious or modify them
so as to accommodate the two
communication companies.
Evening star., 1932-06-05
RADIO VIA PHONES
New Swiss System Eliminates Buy.
ing of Sets.

ing OF sets.
A system whereby telephone sub
scribers can enjoy radio broadcasts
without actually owning a radio set has
been inaugurated recently in Switzer-
and. To date total of approximately
1000 installations have been put into
effect in Basel, Bern, Geneva, Zurich
Chur, Lausanne. Lugano, Locarno, Bell
inzona and Montreux.
The advantages which the Swiss tele-
graph and telephone administration
claim for the installation are (a) nc
antenna is necessary; (b) reception OF
the broadcasts from the two large
broadcasting stations. which are served
with special underground wires fol
broadcasting service, is absolutely clear
(c) there are no atmospheric disturb
ances; Cd there Is no static caused by
electric railroads or machines in the
neighborhood; te) no battery is needed
% there is very simple receiving de-
vice, and (g) listening-in is very easy
for sound volume can be regulated.
Evening star., 1932-06-05

Gas Stations Plentiful.
There are automobile service stations
in all parts of the world, a survey of
ia foreign countries shows.
Evening star., 1932-06-05
Major Radio Features
INTERNATIONAL BROADCAST.
Broadcast from Berlin, WRC, 4:30.

SPEECHES.
1.-THE Policies of American Labor" by
Matthew Woll. WMAL, 1900; Tell.
ing the World" by Julius Klein
WMAL, 500: National Defense" by
Maj. Gen. Paul M. Malone, WRC
$50.
CLASSICAL.
Toscha Seidel, WMAL, 200; Paul Robe
son, baritone, WRC, 900.
VARIETY.
Wayne Kings Orchestra, WRC, 200;
Rubinoff's Orchestra, WRC. TOO;
the Highway Traveller. WNfAL, 7:30
Ziegfelds Radio Show. WMAL, $50
California Melodies, WMAL, 1880.
DRAMA.
Moonshine and Honeysuckle, WRC
1870; Roses and Drums" WMAL
$50.