Herald-Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 23 April 1920 — Page 2

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THE HERALD-DEMOCRAT

FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1920,

l!& WAS ASTS !*! PEACE TIME

Lessons Learned “Over There” to Ba Used in Making of Maps.

TELEPHONE AS SPVGATOHES Flays Important Part ;n Upsett.ng Plans of German Agents During War.

m?X ,,r v/ELl Ufl0ER m \ WORK OUT ELABORATE CODE

Plan Worked Out by Which Variou* Governmen* Boards Will Co Op. crate in Making Large Scale Map of Country. V New York.— WliiU* ilrnivlng up a i'll111ini!ry of lutplllgcm e Tor a corps of muiiHuver in I''rance lust winter tlie officer in cluirpe found himself In need of ii little outside in forum lion. TurnitiK to Iris sertreiint, lie snid: “Sergennt, where is the island of St. Ileletm?” "Sir." snid the sergennt, "1 do not know ; lint if die colonel will furnish me with n car mid u hachured map I'll find it." Our three i.nnios went to tlie front with a supply of limps whieh eoliti l>uled miglttil.v to our s.iore-s. laist July, -ills tlie New York I’ost. the engineering council culled ITcsident Wilson s intention to the hick of co-ordina-tion in tlie imip-umking agencies of his country. The matter was not pigeon-holed; various hurenus were re<iuesietl to confer and decide upoa a genet ill plan by whieh the work could lie curried on most expeditiously and without o\eriappiiig or duplication. To Map 3.000,000 Square Miles. To make large-scale maps of over three million square miles of territory is a gigantic task, lint it is hoped and believed that it will he achieved. One 'lunger lies In overorgaulx.atlon. There are at present no fewer than eleven map-making and three map-using hoards operating under government control. It will readily he seen that the hurean of soils needs one kind of map. the bureau of Indian affairs another. lint, except for highly specialized work, the I’nited States geological survey would seem to lie ti e logical tody to prepare tlie standard topographic maps, ii lias its own photolithographic and engraving plants and the maps it hits already produced have bum declarM liy experts to ho tlie c(|ual of any. It is safe to av-unic that it was tlie excellence of detail of tlie maps furnished us by tlie allies that led tlie c<*nfcri nee to IT i l that to do the wo-k for the whole-country ns France or Germany had done it would take loo much time. I ltd ter n map with few details now limn one with all in the distant future. <>nr third of tlie area of continental I'nited States, exclusive of Alaska, has already been mapped in this fashion. Tlie establishment of basic horizontal and vertical controls Is about half completed. And a plan has been worked out by which the various hoards " ill co-operate. .Making llie personnel permanent will do much to standardize tlie woi 1;. Aerial Surveying. Revisions are to be made as fast as changes due to development occur. There is to be a central Information oflico. not simply for the hem tit of tlie hurenus concerned, hut for the general public ns well. The gem nil scale recommended Is 1 dVJ ."TOn; where larger or suialVr scales are desirable a special corps will he nppointcL Aerial surveying is to play an important part. Graphic scales in English and metric units will he printed on all maps prepared for general use. as well as a dia gram of the control on which the map is based, together with date of survey and locution of nil permanent marks. That each map will explain the sym hols used hardly needs to he pointed out. In modern warfare the map Is more powerful than the sword. Germany knew this. Prisoners captured from the Germans could locate any object, from a single tpuehlnc gun nest to a full buttery of artillery; they had been taught to read their maps. The men of our own divisions, from ranking ofllters to scout privates, became skilled at it—in time; but. it was dillirult work at tirst. We were not n mn|sreading people. Men In the service who two years ago would scarcely have attempted to find their way from point to point within a single county would at present know precisely how to orient themselves anywhere in France If supplied with France's excellent carles topogruphlques. The same can lie done In this country once the necessary ■naps are available. It Is merely a question of utilizing the arts of war in times of pence. It Is an Important en terprlse now happily under way. If the government completes It the public’* Interest will he equaled only by its gratitude.

The Lure of a Siren. I.aGrange. Ky.—When the siren blows here, nil citizens will grill) their guns and run. For it incans n door or window of the People's hank has been opened. Prompted by robbery of seven Kentucky hanks recently, the People's hank lias placed a siren on top of (lie building, with an attachment leading to all windows and doors. A Tragedy of the War. Owensboro, Ky.—Mrs. Lucy l(. Lawrence. an aged widow, has received a box from overseas headquarters. In It was the liihle she had given her son Armstend. her letters to him, which he had never lived to read, and one he had written to her Just before l" was slain

Man Who Directed Work of Enemy’s Agents Planned to Disguise Telephone Conversation so as to Mislead Anyone Listening In as to Places of Meetings—Calls Easily Can Be T raced. It would he interesting to know just how much of it part the telephone played In upsetting plans of German agents during the war. So nearly universal Is the use of the telephone In these modern times that to listen in on a man's telephone calls Is to penetrate well into a knowledge of Ids daily activities, writes Fred C. Kelly In the New York Tribune. The German agents recognized this faet and were careful to becloud their conversations ns lunch ns possible. For example, Paul Koenig of the Ilamburg American line, who directed ninny Gerninn agents in this country up to the time of his internment, had worked out an elaborate code by which ilieetlug places of the agents in New York could he disguised when mentioned in conversation over the phone. Here is a page from Ids little black secret memorandum hook: The, Code. "Operatives of the K. S. division when receiving instructions from me or through the medium of my secretary ns to designating meeting places will understand that such Instructions must he translated as follows: "A street number in Manhattan named over the telephone means that the meeting will take tdarc live blocks further uptown than 'the street mentioned. "Pennsylvania railroad station means Gland t'entral depot. "Kuisviliof means general post office. In front of I’, o. box s it). “Hotel Ansonln means cafe in Hotel Manhattan (basement.) “Hotel P.elnionr means at the bar In Pabst's, Columbus circle. v “P.rooklyn bridge means bar in Unicr den Linden.” Likewise, the Imperial German embassy was always referred to as (i.OtlO; won Pa|ien, 7.0ii*t; Hoy-Ed, 8.0(H), and Hr. Heinrich Albert, the commercial attache of the embassy, 11,000. Calls Can Ce Traced. Nevertheless, regardless of the care one may take to cover up the real na ture of a telephone conversation, the telephone Is one of the greatest single sources of information about what another man is doing, provided one may have access to the records. Most hotels and apartment houses preserve the records of the outgoing telephone calls from each room or apartment and the time of day or night that such calls were made. When there is a criminal Investlga tlon a hotel will usually permit tie cess to such records, on the theory that the hotel's responsibility to so elety, in the Interest of good govern rnent. Is paramount to the courtesy It owes a guest. Any tcle|phonn user may call Central and ascertain the name of the subscriber having any listed number. Hut even without the names, with nothing hut n list of numbers that somebody has been calling from his hotel during a period of several days. It Is surprising how many facts are Instantly available. To anybody famllinr with the city the name of the telephone exchange Indicates the location. Clews Easily Followed. In New Y’nrk the Rrond mid Rector numbers are down in the flnnnclul section, and the Riverside or Moruingshle numbers are up in the residence districts. So that if a man comes to New York for a week or two nod makes frequent calls of numbers prefixed by Rmad or Rector there Is a fair chance that ho may tie Identified with some kind of llnnncial operations. On tlie other hand, if he calls nothing hut residence iiumbera, such ns Riverside or Schuyler, and calls them In. say, tin* afternoon hours, perhaps there are women In the ease, for men are not usually at home during the afternoon. Making a •■Date.” Not long ago there was a setnl-crlm-Inal investigation In which It was learned that a society suspect four or five times a week called a certain number at about 0:30 p. tn„ and almost Invariably followed this by Immediately calling a certain other number. What did that seem to Indicate? Simply that the man telephoning had a young woman friend whom he thought w-ell enough of to take to dinner several times n week. He called her, ami then when he knew that his dinner engagement with her was as.tired lie called a restaurant to engage a table for two. This was only a rough guess, but further Investigation revealed that the guess was exactly right. Guesses Sometimes Fail. It would not do, however, to rely on a hasty conclusion. I know of n case In which a man called a restaurant every night at 7:30 or a Utile later. Two Investigators were working on the case. One guessed that the

mao nniNi no a lot of entertaining at ■ that restaurant. He probably called ' to reserve it table, or to confer with | the hcadwaitcr about something to I he served. The other investigator, j the more experienced of the two, j shook his head. j “.Vo." be said, “he hasn't been calling to reserve a table, because that ' restaurant is never crowded, uti l. | iiiiMcncr. the rush would he over, im.vI how, by 7 My idea Is that he is I a hit sweet on the cashier and calls j her at 7 :.ll), because that is shortly | before she goes olT duty and he desires to meet her afterward." The Important Point. This conjecture proved to he substantially correct. The restaurant cashier was not only the man’s sweetheart hut his accomplice In a number of illegal transactions. In endeavoring to get a line on a man’s character through his telephone calls it Is indeed about as Important to know with whom he lies been talking ns to know what he said. For he might talk so guardedly as completely to obscure the real object of a con vasal ion ; but there still remains the question of why he ever had the conversation. Finding a Guest. When the pm-Gennon plotters were r.t the height, of their activities suspicion was directed by a telephone Clew against a mysterious stranger who was known to h ive occupied sent No. 17 in a certain I’tillmnn chair car. 1 Department of Justice investigators ! learned at the ticket office that the | seat had been reserved through the ; head port' r of a big New York hotel. ' This hotel porter might ordinarily not have known who got such a rcsorvrtlon. hut in this Instance the transne- [ tlon had been particularly Impressed 1 Upon the porter's mind by difficulties | encountered. A hotel guest had tried | to reserve a seat on a certain train after till scats had been sold. He ask- | ed the porter to keep on trying to get ! one up to the Inst minute, and If sitecessful to call him at room 717. The ! porter remembered the coincidence i f ; the seat number being 17 and the man's room number 717. All that re- i malt ed, then, was simply to find tin ) name of the guest who had occupied room 717 on the date in question. j

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Miitlaiue Salvailor Dlego-Ferimntle/., though a newcomer to the diplomatic set in Washington. Is the ranking hostess of the Mexican embassy staff. Her liuslmnd is counsellor of the legation and charge d'affaires during the absence of Ambassador nouillas. The ambassador will probably he away from Washington for the next several mouths. WAR ROMANCE REVIVED Couple Who Kissed in 1862 Are Wedded In 1920. A romance whieh began In istj'j culminated at Lexington, Ky., In the uiarrlnge of Kdwnrd F. Haley, a Confederate veteran, and Mrs. Joseph Hales, a wealthy widow. The bride says she Is u third cousin of President Wilson. Fifty-eight years ago Haley went from Garrard county to Madison county and kissed his cousin, Mattie Maupin, then a seven-year-old girl, goodby. and marched away to serve In the Confederate army. When the war ended the girl often wondered what had become of Cousin Ed. hut he did not return. Hut one day recently there was a knock at her door and she was greeted by an old man. He explained that he was E. F. Haley, now seventy-four. Their friendship grew, and Anally he proposed. Mrs. Hales was at first reluctant, hilt when Haley returned to the house with n llaense with both name* Inscribed on It she agreed to marry him.

Dream Comes True. Several years ago the father of Charles l\ Hoist of Butler, I’ti., (luring a dream saw at a certain spot an oil well. His son, after becoming n member of an oil company recently, recalled the dretnn and persuaded his partners to drill on the spot. A fiftybarrel well was the result.

Eggs Survive Train Wreck. In u Baltimore A Ohio wreck near Kane, Pa., recently two passenger coaches were derailed and turned over. The thirty passengers were Jarred and humped, hut three dozen eggs carried In a market basket in one of the cars survived, not one of them being broken.

Certain Re.t'nni Why Runner’s R«markeble Time Will Hot Be Found in Sporting Archives. O. i; nrmlfnte of Ncilia told a '''!i\v at u Xenia ifinner. "A group of fa rotors and spor'lng men." he said, "sat In tie* Muokin;.: room of a fatno.ts country luuel one evening when the talk turned to running. "A sporting nmn otTered to b"f yon that he could run i mile nit t straight ruMil In -I minuti',- ntnl ‘Jo As the record is l minutes and seconds, a rich farnicr very promptly took him up. "The money was put in a stakeholder's hands, a stretch of straight hard, level road between two uiilostones was agreed on for the race, and the ronipany separated, to unit ag:t t in the morning. "Well. In the morning the sporting man appeared in a striped jersey and white running drawers, and he certainly put hi a good run. With an timieoili s and boggles rae'ttg along j behind him In iietuiilty did Ills mile ! In 4 minutes and 1S seconds, breaking | the world's records “His farmer opponent gladly paid I up. and amid the congratulations of { all hands the sparking iiuni hurried hack to the hotel to take off his running clothes. “The others hurried hack to feast him. hut he wits gone when they arrived. He was gone and they never saw him again. They subsequently learned, though, that In the night lie mid a confederate had gone out and shifted one of the milestones so ns to bring II L’uO yards nearer to the otln r.“ Irrigation Among the Incas. It Is well known that the natives of Pern, at the date of Plzarro’s eonquest, had reached a high degree of culture. One of their greatest .works has recently roused renewed wonder on the part of modern engineers. This Is the Irrigation ennui constructed by order of Vlrncochn ; the canal is ,T^ meters deep, and almost flC>0 kllomuters long, running through tin’ present departments of Hunnenvellea and Ayncueho; it converted the plains of Oastrovllloinu and Cnngallo Into flourishing pasture land. The work is all tin* more surprising when there Is taken into consideration the nature of tlie land, which is between 3,000 and 4 MK) meters above the level of the sea, and was encumbered with gigantic rocks Hint had to he removed without the aid of machinery, explosives, or Iron Implements. There were high slopes to be connected by bridges and mountain torrent* (hat had to he •urned to use.

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