Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 201, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1930 — Page 9

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SCIENCE WILL CONTINUE ITS RAPIDSTRIDES Progress in All Lines of Endeavor Forecast for Coming Year. HUGE PROJECTS PUSHED \ Boulder Dam and Golden Gate Bridge Headline Engineering Feats. BY WATSON DAVIS ■ Os Sdenee Service (Written for The Times and NEA Service) Bridge, telescope, dam and airship—all larger and better than ever built before. Better health and fewer deaths. Progress toward the rescue of humankind from an eventful death due to lack of power. More knowledge of the human past and more plans for the human future. These stand out on Science's calendar for achievement in 1931. Utilization of sun power may approach closer to solution. Sun May Give Power Direct use of sun’s rays for power will become a stark necessity w T hen the stored supplies of fossil fuel, coal and oil, are exhausted. For this reason there is quiet research in laboratories on the problems of turning light and heat rays effici ntly into electricity. 4 The coming year will probably see an extension of hydrogenation of hydrocarbons in this country while other chemical processes will come to perfection and modify existing industries. Construction of the Boulder Dam, which will begin in earnest during 1931, \Viu give impetus to new method* for the transmission of electricity. The United States navy’s airship Akron will take the air about the middle of the year as the largest lighter-than-air craft aloft. The hull, Or frame, of a sister ship of the same size, 6,500,000 cubic feet helium capacity, will be laid in the giant hangar at Akron as soon as the fir'st airship is launched. Ocean Air Mail to Start The ( United States air mails promise to make the first step toward Europe following trails blazed earlieir by transatlantic flights. The postojfflce department at Washington i* contemplating a w-eekly carrying of the mails across the Atlantic by way of Bermuda and the Azores. European nations have plan* for a mail route across the “outlhem Atlantic to South America. Tyans-Atlantic steamship companies! are turning their designers tolarger and speedier liners for the) north Atlantic service. The Curjard line may begin construction of q. 73,000-ton ship during the year while American interests may counter by beginning construction of a ship larger than the Leviathan. The internationalism of science will be given impetus by Professor Albert Einstein’s visit to this country to check his famous theories at astronomical observatories in California. Continue War on Insects The conflict between man and insect will continue. Although 1930 saw tlje successful culmination of Uncle Sam’s entomological defense ajainst the Mediterranean fruit fly ill Florida, other pests, including the European corn borer, the Gypsy JJoth, the Japanese beetle, the oribatal fruit moth and the cotton boll weevil continue to be problems to agriculture. Smallpox cases were numerous during and unless vaccination is more widespread this will continue. Fewer cases of diphtheria are expected, thanks to toxin-antitoxin. Typhoid fever is at a low ebb and probably ill remain there. The death rate f#r the country as a whole probably will continue downward. Whether the birthrate will do the same, as it has for the last year, can not be foretold. Farther progress upon construction of the 200-inch telescope, to be twice as large as the world's largest now on Mt. Wilson in California, will be made during 1931. Giant Bridge Underway In California also another “world’s largest” project will get underway. This will be the $32,000.000 Golden Gate bridge to span with a 4,200-foot unbroken stretch the entrance to San Francisco’s harbor. It will take several years to complete this immense, structure. Natural gas promises to continue spreading its pipe line net across America. Pipe lines fcj* gas promise to become as common as oil lines and compete with railroads and electrical transmission lines in transporting of energy. clews to man's evolution are likely to be found in 1931 in China, which already has yielded two skulls of the “Peking man” who is expected to go down in history as an important ancestor of the human race. New evidence for or against a greater antiquity of man in the United States also may be found through excavations .in Gypsum cave, near Las Vegas, Nev. $50,000 HOME BURNS House East of Terre Haute Formerly Used by Rose Poly Students. By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Dec. 31. Damage estimated at $50,000 was caused by fire that destroyed the home of Mrs. Cary Grainger, east of Terre Haute. Lack of water hampered the work of city firemen. Almost the entire house was ablaze before neighbors discovered the fire and turned in alarm. The Grainger family w>as not at home when the fire started. The residence recently was used as a fraternity house by students at Rose Polytechnic Institute, nearby.

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Judge James A. Collins, who today stepped down from the criminal court bench after sixteen years of service.

AIR BEACON ON ROOFAPPROVED Board Permits Oil Firm to Erect Aviation Signal. A combination electric sign and aviation beacon, to cost $56,000 is to be erected on the roof of the Merchants’ National Bank building by the Lincoln Oil and Refining Company. Permission for the sign was given today by the works board. There will be a tower ninety-two feet in height, with the word “Lincoln” appearing alternately in red, white and blue on each side; a 2,000,000-candlepower search light pointing continuously toward the new municipal airport, and on the roof a giant electric arrow with the letters “A 1 A M, 6 mi.” The arrow points toward the new airport. The beacon will weigh 54,000 pounds and will be in operation by March 1.

SWEAR JUDGES SOON Four to Start Appellate Duties Next Week. Simple ceremony will mark the assumption of office next week by four Democratic judges of the appellate court and Fred B. Pickett, supreme and appellate court clerk. The latter, who formerly was city judge at Richmond, Biederwolf. The four judges are Posey Kimc, Evansville; William H. Bridwell, Sullivan; Alphonso C. Wood, Angola, and Harvey J. Curtis, Gary. The two newly elected members of the supreme court are: Curtis Roll, Kokomo, who will succeed Willard B. Gemmil, Marion, Jan. 5, and Walter Treanor, Bloomington, who succeeds Benjamin F. Willoughby, Vincennes. Jan. 8. Personal friends of the jurists will swear them into office, it was announced, and informal receptions will be held. KEEP UP LOTTERY Stock Exchange Figures to Be Used in Racket. By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—The big business men of the policy racket gathered from Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Harlem left for their homes today after a two-day conference to reorganize the $8,000,000-a-week game of chance on anew basis, the New York Telegram said today. The new formula was made necessary by discontinuance of publication of the New York clearing house figures on which the racket was based. The delegates decided instead to use the third, fourth and fifth digits of the total daily sales of the New York Stock Exchange. CHARITY RECEIVED MUCH By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 31. —Charities in the United States received $2,450,700,000 in philanthropic gifts during 1930, according to fund-rais-ing agencies. The business depression did not check the contributions to charity, a statement by the John Price Jones Corporation said. Aged woman Dies By Times Special WHITELAND, Ind., Dec. 31.—Mrs. Mary E. Phipps, 67, wife of Dr. D. L. Phipps, former Johnson county coroner, is dead here after three years.

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BAN SALES OF FIREARMS, IS COLLINS PLEA Urges Congress Action as He Steps Down From Criminal Bench. LAUDS PROBATION WORK Surrenders Bar to Baker After 16 Years of Service. Enactment of drastic legislation to curb the circulation of firearms, the continued use of the probation system as a cure for the criminal minded, and greater regard for the defense of poor prisoners were among recommendations made by Criminal Judge James A. Collins today as he retired from the bench after sixteen years of service. Surrendering to his successor, Frank Baker, the bar which disposes of more criminal cases than any other court in the mid-west, Collins leaves behind him the actual disposition and trial since 1914 of 23,501 cases. Out of this courtroom 9,568 persons have been relegated to penal institutions. His record of cases stands as follows: To the state prison, 1,462; to the reformatory, 2,141; to the state farm, 2,728; to the Indiana woman's prison, 391; to jail, 1,897; to the workhouse, 68, and to the state institution for the criminal insane, 9. Sent Five to Chair Life imprisonment sentences went to forty-nine defendants- in the fourteen years, and the death penalty was imposed on seven. Five of these were executed. To Judge-Elect Baker, Collins leaves 925 pending cases, exclusive of 155 cases appealed from municipal courts and ten prominent jury cases. Recommending legislation to enlarge the scope of the court which he i; leaving, Collins said that “enough work now is pending in the court to keep the judge busy through the entire January term of six months, even though no new indictments are returned or affidavits filed tvithin that time.” Lauds Probation Work During his incumbency Collins has withheld judgment in a total of 1,146 cases, all of which carried penal sentences. The application of probation work made possible that suspension, Collins pointed out. “With the increased interest in probation work in our courts it seems now only a question of time until adequate provision will be made for supervision of persons held accountable to court officers,” Collins said. “The results obtained in the probation work of the criminal court is convincing that there is a need in Indiana for a state-wide probation system. Such a system woujld result in a tremendous saving to taxpayers. It would awaken public sentiment to the fact that hundred of persons are committed to penal institutions for first offenses, who are not inherently criminals, and who, given an opportunity, could be saved from institutions.” Criticises Recent Legislation “The defense of poor persons should be given a greater consideration. It certainly is just as much the duty of the state to save a man from imprisonment as it is to bring about his conviction. Poor persons properly defended would reduce our prison population,” he said. Collins criticised recent legislation for its “impression that several penalties will stop crime.” “Experience has taught us that the severe penalty never is a crime deterrent,” he stated. Referring to the need for curbing the circulation of firearms, Collins said; Hits at Pistol Sales “Under the subject, ‘Causes of Crime,’ the revolver and pistol should be placed at the head of the list. The unrestricted sale of firearms in large cities always has been a menace to law enforcement. Curb this evil and crimes in which the Tevolver plays so large a part will be reduced to a minimum. “If congress would enact legislation prohibiting the shipment by interstate commerce, mail or express of any kind of arms, except to licensed dealers, a great service would be rendered to the nation as well as the individual. “Drastic steps must be taken to meet this growing menace in America. No single problem dealing with crime is more important than that of depriving the holdup man and burglar of his weapons,” Collins said.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1930

MUSICIANS SAY IT WITH CABBAGES

Artists Revel in Revenge as Gotham Critics Peiform

By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—The music critics of the New York newspapers gave a concert Tuesday night for the musicians of the town. The musicians, according to reliable reports, got even for the nasty things the critics have said about them during the last year. The concert was intended as a benefit for the unemployed, but it was doubtful who received the most benefit. The critics, it was understood, received several cabbages and eggs. When Samuel Chotzinoff of the World, and Jerome D. Bohm ;f the Herald-Tribune, arrived in full dress suits, considerably confused, the highly dignified concert hall of the Barbizon-Plaza was filled with an enthusiastic crowd of opera singers, piano players, cornetists, harpists and assorted string quartets. The musicians, without exception, were of a single mind. They were there to deliver poetic justice. The program consisted of Brahms’ variations on a theme by Haydn. As Chotzinoff and Bohm advanced with firm strides to the piano on the platform, the audience eyed them without visible respect. When they flipped the tails of their coats and sat down, a loud hissing arose. They got their feet on the pedals and began, rather shakily. a u n AFTER a few moments they warmed up. Torrents of sound poured out of the instrument, and down over the heads of the audience. Chotzinoff swayed rhythmically, his hands flying up and down the keys at almost invisible speed. Bohm, not to be outdone, became almost entirely invisible, but reappeared later, mopping his brow. The audience laughed. The performers worked harder. The audience roared. And then, at a crucial moment in the piece, a large, stout gentleman in the third row, who looked like a bass drum player, stood up and hurled a bundle of celery and a head of cabbage directly at Messrs. Chotzinoff and Bohm “Rotten!” he shouted. “Lousy. I want my money back.” Two others stood up and shouted for a refund. Another gentleman was convinced that they were playing in wrong tempo, and told them so from the rear of the hall. The uproar was tremendous. In the face of it, however, the two gallant artists stuck to their instrument and finished the piece, with perhaps only a few more variations than were written in the score. At the end, Bohm inquired with determination whether the audience would like to hear it over again. it tt MME. MARIA JERITZA, Metropolitan opera star, who had hired a whole row down in front, groaned in unison with her friends. A gentleman in the rear imitated a cuckoo clock. A shower

DRY RULING ASKED Supreme Court Urged to Give Early Decision. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. A speedy supreme court decision on the ruling of Judge William Clark that the eighteenth amendment is invalid has been asked by the government in documents filed with the court by Solicitor-General Thomas D. .Thacher. The government's brief said the government was ready to argue the case at any time and expressed fear that the Newark ruling would encourage disregard for porhibition laws and hamper their enforcement. Filing of the brief Tuesday coincided with an annual review and forecast on the subject of prohibition issued by the Anti-Saloon League. The dry organization predicted that 1931 would see ‘no material change in the situation except in improved enforcement.” CHURCH ELECTS NEW SUNDAY SCHOOL HEAD % Roberts Park M. E. Chooses Staff Led by Raymond Herath. Raymond Herath was chosen as superintendent of the Roberts Park M. E. church Sunday school at the annual meeting of the directors Tuesday night. Other officers named are Mrs. Jesse Kenworthy, secretary; C. A. Barrett, treasurer; D. R. Eanest, libarian; Ms. M. M. Lain Sr., superintendent of the cradle roll and beginners, and Mrs. C. G. Shriver, Mrs. James G. Haston, Mrs. W. H. Cooper, Jess F. Ewing and Dwight Johnson, departmental superintendents.

of pennies came down on the stage. Another delegation from the Metropolitan hissed in French. The performers bowed gracefully, accepted a wreath, and retired, to make way for their colleagues,

REPORT GIVEN ON COMMUNITY FUNDSPENDING Disbursements of $836,279 and Balance of $97,598 Shown by Insley. Total disbursements of the Indianapolis Community Fund for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1930, amounted to $836,279, it was announced today by William H. Insley, president, who made public the statement of cash receipts and disbursements. Total receipts for the fiscal year were $927,856.79 with a balance of $97,598.60 on that date. Thirty-five social service agencies in Indianapolis shared in the Community Fund for the year. * Approximately 65,000 citizens subscribed to the recent Community Fund campaign when approximately $894,000 was given. Ten years ago a total of 12,000 persons were members of the fund. The fund of $894,000 is for use over a twelvemonth period. The certified audit, prepared by Pace, Gore fc McLaren, for the twelve months ended Oct. 31, 1930, follows: RECEIPTS Payments on 1931 subscriptions. $t09,836.38 Payments on 1930 subscriptions. 709,838.35 Payments on 1929 subscriptions. 21.261.90 Payments on suspended accounts 1,430.00 Interest on bank deposits 490.16 Proceeds of bank loans 85.000.00 Total receipts $927,856.73 DISBURSEMENTS To Member Organizations, 1930 Accounts — Alpha Home Association $ 4,600.00 American Settlement Association 8,024.00 Bovs Club Association 12,300.00 Bov Scouts of America 18,500.00 Camp Fire Girls 5,000.00 Catholic Community Center... 26.525.50 Catholic Women’s Association. 2.500.00 Christamore House 12.800.00 Family Welfare Society 228,500.00 Planner House 21.328.00 Florence Crittenton Home 7.600.00 Girl Scouts 7.250.00 Hawthorne Social Service House 7.C00.00 Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays 400.00 Indianapolis Day Nursery Association 8.166 00 Indianapolis Flower Mission.. 3,412.00 Indianapolis Heme for Aged Women 8,000.00 Indianapolis Orphan Asylum.. 4.600.00 Indianapolis Traveler's Aid... 6,424.39 Jewish Federation of Indianapolis 49.500.00 Old Folk's Home (Altenheim>.. 5.000.00 Public Health Nursing Association 33.000.00 Red Cross. Indpls. Chapter... 30.000.00 Saint Elizabeth's Home 8.844.00 Salvation Armv 29,100.00 Social Service Department. Indianapolis Church Federation 5,500.00 Society of Good Shepherd.... 2,500.00 Theodora Home 3.700.00 Volunteers of America 14,297.09 Wheeler City Rescue Mission.. 12.000.00 Women’s Improvement Club... 4.000.00 Y. M. C. A. —Central Branch.. 51,500.00 Y. M. C. A.—Colored Branch.. 7.450.00 Y. W. C. A.—Central Branch.. 34.500.00 Y. W. C. A.—Colored Branch.. 18.000.00 Y. W. C. A.—Alabama Street Branch 3.000.00 To Member Organizations, 1929 Accounts— Family Welfare Society 500.00 Wheeler City Rescue Mission. 588.97 (Total paid to member organizations. $702,810.55.) Expenses of 1930 campaign, deducting $11,405.57. advanced prior to Nov. 1. 1929 20,303.43 Administration, collecting and accounting 23,224.61 Council of social agencies 8.043.91 Centralized service to agencies.. 3.513.25 Publicity 2,717.58 Repayment of bank loans with interests 60,640.84 Eauipment purchases 245.75 Annual meeting 401.28 Recreation survey 230.50 Cast work survey 600.64 Advanced 1931 campaign expenses 13.a46.85 Total disbursements 836,^79.00 Excess receipts over disbursements 91,577.57 Balance forwarded Nor. 1. 1929 6.021.03 Balance. October 31. 1930.... $ 97,598.60

CLEMENCYJS SHOWN Baltzell Paroles McDaniels for Two Years. Cecil (Pete) McDaniels. 314 Douglas street, convicted with five Indianapolis policemen, on charges of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition statute, has been shown clemency by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. Judge Baltzell suspended for two years McDaniels’ four months jail sentence and paroled him to the Rev. C. B. Riley. Suspension was granted by the court because of the serious illness of McDaniels’ wife. Science Society Elects Head CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 31. Dr. J. Howard Brown of the Johns Hopkins school of medicine, Baltimore. was elected president of the Society of American Bacteriologists at the society’s thirty-second annual meeting. Baltimore was selected as the site of next year’s meeting.

who performed on the flute and the harmonica, and gave vocal solos and inspirational speeches. The other performers included Leonard Liebling, Sigmund Spaeth, William J. Guard, Julian Seaman and F. D. Perkins.

Famous,'Yet Unknown

American Girl, Unrecognized in Home Land, Comes Home After Starring in London.

By NEA Service NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—1 t was a cheap New Jersey amusement park, the sort of summer carnival resort that boasts a ferris wheel, a few trick rides and a dance hall. But on each Thursday night, a tryout weis held and theatrical tyros were given a chance to be laughed at or applauded. And on such a night it was that Estelle Brody made her first public appearance. Just a few weeks ago, Miss Brody returned from London, where for five years she had been the star cf British International Pictures. After a few months of Broadway theatricals, by way of recapturing her American accent, Miss Brody intends to return to the cinema. nun AT any rate, out of the Jersey first appearance came a vaudeville opportunity which wound up with a “big time” appearance on Broadway. At the time, a road show was being cast for “Little Jesse James ’ and she was billed in the leading role, and routed south. Thereafter, deciding upon a vacation. Estelle went to London and it so happened that London was in its first movie toddling steps. She got a job with the old Gaumont Company and from there stepped into a British musical success. Then the British International Pictures was being organized and Miss Brody found hereslf a star in a strange land. For a dozen productions she appeared in leads, but British pictures never managed to get very far from New York. And so, something of an unknown in her own land, Miss Brody returned with laurels from abroad.

$10,482,375 IN TAXES TO BE DISTRIBUTED

City, County and State Government Units to Get Shares. Distribution of $10,482,375 fall taxes to city, county and state government units was announced today by County Treasurer Clyde E. Robinson. Except in cases where units already have received portions of the fall tax installment, the revenue of each unit represents funds for expenditure during 1931. Funds will be distributed as follows: State general fund, $635,906; state school fund, $275,696; eight miscellaneous state departments, a total of about $240,000; the Marion county general fund, $735,000, with the free gravel road fund receiving $96,846, the sinking fund, $493,190, and the tuberculosis fund $94,846. Eight other county funds received an approximate total of $806,000. To the city general fund goes $2,029,887, plus $323,201 for sanitation; $49,312 for flood prevention, $44,373 for recreation, $126,525 for parks, $188,708 for firemen’s pension and $131,500 for the sinking fund. The school city will be given $3,358,027 for educational purposes, of which amount $2,600,000 already has been advanced. Os the total taxes collected $lO,016,104 represents current collections, $376,108 represents delinquent collections and $90,163 special revenue. THEATER ISJOMBED New Orleans Movie House Demolished by Blast. By United Press NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 31.—The Valentino'theater, suburban motion picture house, was demolished by a bomb today and nearby buildings were damaged. Police believed at least six persons were injured. A grocery store in the rear of the theater almost was leveled by the explosion. Windows blocks away were broken.

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A criticism written for the World by Charles N. Drake, substituting for Chotzinoff, referred to the affair as “a not unsuccessful attempt to establish the year's low record in musical depression.”

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Churches Fail By United Press BENTON, 111., Dec. 31.—With the resignation of Rev. H. B. Cox of the Baptist church and the Rev. William G. Johnson of the Christian church, both because their congregations could not pay them, Benton today faced the prospect of being without a minister.

RAIL RATES REDUCED Lines of Northwest Adopt Class Fares Tonight. By United Press ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 31.—A system of class rates on transcontinental trains similar to that used in Europe will go into effect tonight for a six months trial on lines serving the northwest. Tourist car patrons may travel under the test plan for 15 per cent less than the standard fares while day coach patrons may travel at a rate 24 per cent lower. These new rates are comparable with the three and four classes of travel in European countries where the prices are commensurate with accommodations. It is the first time such a system has been tried in this country. YOUTHSAVES~FRIEND IN FILM EXPLOSION Rescues Companion From Flames In Blast of Movie Machine. Robert Inhoff, 16, of 1418 King avenue, was in city hospital today, recovering from burns sustained when a motion picture projector exploded in the home of a friend, Francis Stapp, 18, at 518 East Tenth street, Tuesday. Stapp, upstairs when the explosion occurred, dashed into the basement and pushed Inhoff upstairs to safety. Mrs. Pearl Keaton, mother of Stapp, swathed Inhoff in a blanket, smothering the flames. Inhoff was burned on the face, body and arms.

JOFFRE HAILED AS SAVIOR OF HIS HOMELAND Marne Triumph Attributed to 'Papa’ and Potency of 4 French Wine. DRINK ROUTED GERMANS Invaders’ Wild Revels on Road to Paris Helped in Their Defeat, BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor Marshal Joffre and the bubblewater of France saved the allies from defeat the first year of the war. The world has heard plenty of the brilliant, rapier-like Marshal Foch and how he won the war in 1918, but altogether too little of that equally great hero, the dreamyeyed, stolid “Pa” Joffre, now near death, who won it in 1914. Foch just as surely would have lost the war in 1914, had he been generalissimo then, as Joffre would have lost it in 1918 had he retained command. Surely the saints must have been looking after France and her allies for things to have been arranged the way they were. When the conflict suddenly burst upon Europe in 1914, France was terribly unprepared. She had no modern artillery to speak of, except that marvelous 75-millimter field gun of hers, and very little ammunition. Also she had just changed her conscript system, for the time being demoralizing her army. Faced Mighty Foe All told, Joffre had under him at the outbreak of the war only 600,000 half-trained, poorly equipped solr diers to throw Into the field against Germany’s standing army of 800,000 storm troops, which were instantly expanded to 1,100,000, with 2,200,000 landwehr within easy reach. The Germany heavy artillery was the most efficient in the world. It was this mighty military machine which battered its way southward into France, along routes decided upon long in advance, toward Paris. The thin lines which Joffre at first was able to fling in front of the invaders were hardly more effective than prostrate bodies in the path of an advancing juggernaut. They delayed the march a little, but that was all. Back and still farther back the body-racking, heart-breaking retreat continued, day after day. France, a bundle of nerves worn raw, watched with sinking heart. Was the story of 1870 to be repeated? the people asked. Was the kaiser to make this war, too, just a big parade to Paris, where, according to rumor, he had already ordered dinner? C lamored for Battle Why didn’t Joffre fight back! Why so little news from the front? And why did each meager communique tell only of falling back, nearer and nearer Paris? Had Joffre no spirit? Stop and fight was the cry that went up all over the country. Stop and fight, even if you lose. At least make the Germans pay for their victory. But Joffre kept on retreating, without offering more than a rearguard resistence. “I’ll not sacrifice my men for nothing,” he told official messengers from Paris. “Go ahead and move the seat of government to Bordeaux if you like, for I shall go on retreating, to the Pyrennes if necessary. “If I can help it there will be no decisive battle until I see a chance of victory.” But meantime he kept on bringing up reserves. On Sept. 5 the French army's left pivoted on Paris, the center sagged below the Marne, and the right, draped over the fortress at Verdun, terminated at the Swiss border. The Germans had advanced so rapidly they were ahead of supplies. They had even outstripped some of their artillery. Wire Aided in Root “The hour had come!” Joffre ordered that day, and the battle of the Marne was on. Gen. Ferdinand Foch, commanding the French center, carried the day there and victory soon perched upon the allied banners. Had another than Joffre been in supreme command at the time, or another than Foch been at the key position on the Marne, the story might have been different. I think it would. I was with the French as they followed the retreating Germans northward across the Marne and on to Rheims and the Aisne. That country, of course, is a labyrinth of wine cellars, and ordinarily these are filled chuck-a-block with the choicest wines and brandies. But everywhere I stopped I heard the same story. There was no wine left. The Germans had drunk it all. There had been high old times as the kaiser’s victorious legions had rollicked southward toward Paris-wild parties and much toasting and clinking of glasses. I saw champagne and liquor bottles strewn for miles along the roads and all over the fields. So it has always seemed to me that “the Miracle of the Marne” was nothing more nor less than the spirit of France symbolized by “Papa” Joffre, on the one hand, and the iridescent mist above bubbling amber in delicate, long-stemmed glasses on the other. Abused, the spirit struck back, unsteadying the hand and tangling the feet of the' invaders, until, beaten, they fell back. Capital Divorces Doubled By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. —Divorces granted in the District of Columbia have doubled in ten years, latest census figures reveal. Women were complainants in most cases in 1930. Widows in the district this year totaled 29,000, neatly three times as many as widower*.