Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 265, 21 August 1919 — Page 9

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM THURSDAY, AUG. 21, 1919.

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ENGLISHWOMEN TURN EYES TO UNITED STATES

From Actress to Duchess, They See Promise of Careers in America. (New York Times) "I've been thin Ring of going to America" that is the rather indifferent sounding sentence that meets the American woman visiting in England. One detects, however, under the bored quality of the remark a really enthusiastic and vital interest in the land across the seaa. And the reason for this is that to the Englishwoman America looks like a land of promise as faras opportunities for her life and her work go. To be sure, she may be wrong, and if she has the courage to go there Bhe may meet with bitter disappointment. Still, her point of view remains. The little slip of a girl who runs the lift in a large apartment House sits in the corner of her square car diligently studying from a tiny book and now and then making peculiar looking marks upon a surreptitious looking piece of paper. She Is delving into the intricacies of shorthand, and inquiry ehows that before she took upon her shoulders the task of running a lift she had served some one's meals from some one's kitchen. Rise No. 1 reported when she took on this present job. But now ambition has her In its grip, and she would go on to investigate the mysteries of the places where stenography Is the open sesame to larger things. After days of "lifting" an American passenger up and down she turns a wide-eyed, questioning look In her direction and ventures: "What chance would a girl like me have In America?" Ensues a lively conversation and a confession of aspirations Aniericaward on the part of the one on the verge of being a stenographer. She has had her day made brighter by a graphic description of the land of promise. "Are Clothes Any Cheaper?" Then, in a little old house, erected somewhere in William the Conqueror's time, sita a little old lady, surrounded by her goods and chattels of old family origin. She has been 1-obbed of half her income by the high rate of war taxes and the prices of all the things she needs mo3t have soared to the sky. She is discouraged about how her life is to proceed if these conditions are not alleviated. So, to the American caller, when the time Is quite auspiciously ripe, she puts the same old question, dressed in different form: "Do you think I could live happily and at all within my means if I were to move to America?" Ttiat Is a question rather harder to answer than the query of the girl on the lift. An Englishwoman of fashion, who has spent much of her time In the past in America, collars the friend 1-jUly arrived from America and, draw'.jig her Inco a private corner, she rrcpounda this weighty problem : "Am clothes any cheaper in the United Pfatei than they are In Lon don? ' The truth will out tncy are "Well. I say," vaazea the Fnclich-! new, wouldn't it. to go to America to ' i.v rm.!H wrrHrf.h fnr t,. vf-s.- and i thereby save one's pasage money?" That is a rule which used to work in exactly the opposite direction. A girl in a tailor shop presser and - cleaner docs an extremely fine Job on a lot of American plaits in an American skirt and then, when she delivers it back to its owner, her face burning with excitement, she stops a moment upon the threshold to stammer the fast becoming familiar sentence: "Do you think one of my ability She goes on to explain a little: "You I see, all the men are coming back, and in our business men can do the Jobs just as well as we, and I'm sure I don't want to go on living without making any money for myself. There's my husband, of course. He doesn't very much like the idea of leaving England but I think if I were to go over there and find something to do he might want to follow me after a year or so." A fine reversal that of the old system when papa used to seek the foreign land to make a place for his wife and family. But this lure of America and the ways of women there is too much even for an English inbred system. Artist, Actress and Maid. Another one an artist had been in America during all the long war and at the first opportunity had rushed back to her beloved England. Oh, ves, she was willing to stay there forever, for she loved her native land and she was through with America forever. That was in May. Early in July she was seen to be haunting the British customs, trying by hook or crook, to got permission to go back to America. She was questioned very gently as to her change of attitude and mind, whereupon she admitted a bit reluctantly that one could do so much more with ones' work, it seemed, in New York than one could in London. There wasn't more appreciation. Oh, dear, no, but there was more sale. Same way with an actress. She had taken her way to the British Isles for the express purpose .of marrying a British officer and 1 nf tnkinir nart in a production in Lon-1 don. But she wanted to get back, and she wanted it badly much sooner than the boat was to sail. She, too. was after the rate of pay and, in her case, the appreciation of Americanas (for she was an American) carried much weight. At a hotel a perfect English maid such as is entirely extinct in America sefved breakfast to her American patron regularly every morning. She was as fresh as any spring flower in her bright pink frock and her frilled apron, but a worm was eating at her young heart, for after many days she popped the fatal question: "If I should take service over to America, do you think I could find employment after I got there?" Could she? It would be a shame to tell her how easily she could providing she were willing to go on with her chosen profession. And this wonder in the realm was willing to go on being a servant. As soon as her "boy" came back from the fronf she was going to take him then, ami transport him to the bright and sparkling America, where it would be possible for her to adi more to the family exchequer.

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HUGE LENS IN ML WILSON OBSERVATORY TO SHED NEW LIGHT ON PROBLEMS OF THE AGES

PASADENA, Cal.. Aug. 21 Scientists who attended the recent convention here of the American Association for the advancement of Science announced their expectations of important scientific discoveries through the huge lens at the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory which they assisted in formally opening. Dr. George E. Hale, planner, founder and builder of the institution, presided at the formal ceremonies which marked the culmination of nine years of Intense effort in the interest of science. Edgar Lucien Larkin, director of the Mount Lowe observatory, also near this city, has Just made public an article in which he explained the great work of Dr. Hale and the results other scientists expect from it. "Years of mathematical work," wrote Dr. Larkin, "computing and analyzing geometrical curvature of the huge mirrors and lenses, coelostate, revolving mirrors, diffracting, grating, spector-hellographs, spectographs, photometers, and a wilderness of electrical apparatus beyoud the imagination of men fifteen years ago, astonish the beholder beneath the great white dome covering the 100-inch and the 60 inch telescopes." The entire astronomical world, continues Dr. Larkin, was startled when Dr. Hula proposed a mirror having a diameter of 100 inches. Making of the 60-inch mirror had taxed the resources of the skill of man to date. can rot be made." But the larger , mirror is 101 inches in light gathering I

diameter. 'children in Philadelphia. Dr. Larkin continues: Eaton left College Point, Md., that "The square of 60 is 3,600 and of morning to carry the air mail to New 101, 10,201, the difference being a ; York. All went well until he reached measure of excess light secured with ; the area over West Philadelphia, which to form images of object in that ' Then his oil failed him and his Liberty priceless place. the focal of a con-j motor began to creak from want of cave mirror or convex lens. lubricant. As he was over the city "The discovery that light could there was no place for the aviator to write on sensitive negative plates, the ; land, so he decided to continue, hoping new science of photography light to reach Bustleton Field. Meanwhile writing was one of the most valuable he used the emergency pump in an atever made. This science has greatly tempt to keep his motor lubricated.

displaced visual astronomy. The work ! of making the lens proceeded for two years," says Dr. Larkin, "before it began to assume the proper curvature. Finally the delicate polish was completed and then the process of depositing the pure silver film on the face of the mirror began. It was made in St. Gebain, France. "All scientific eyes," he continued, "were theoretically watching in nervous expectancy the eventful day when the giant mirror began its ascent from the shops in Passadena to the summit of the mountain. Every possible care had been taken to avoid accidents. Early in the morning the momentous journey upward over the steep roads began and continued until nightfall, when the precious eye at last rested in safety on the high summit. "The curvature of the mirror is perfect, well within the limits of the lengths of the shortest ultra-violet energy waves that can be produced in modern photography. "Astronomers are watching the discoveries to be made in photography of Two store clerks shop assistants is the English word sat at luncheon in a pastry shop. They had finished their .cakes and tea and had come to the cigarette portion of their meal. "I say," said the blue-eyed one to the brown-eyed one, "my young man has enlisted for three years. I might as well go to America." " You wouldn't be doing so bad at that," replied her eager companion, who proceeded then to tell of the wonders of the store clerk's wage across the water. The beauty of that young man seemed visibly to grow dim and fade away. And in his honored place there began the growth of an ambition. And, since the war, many competent women in England are assuming the management of hotels doing everything which formerly only a man could be held responsible for. One of them, important of mien behind her desk, leaned across to the American customer to whisper, "Do you think there would be opportunity for the development of my sort of work in j America? From the highest to the lowest, in all sets and classes of society among women, the question is being asked. It is all part of the effort at reconstruction at which the English have so much more work to do than the Americans. They may decide that "today at home is best," but this is what they are asking now and this is the wav their minds are running. They have an Idea that America is the haDDv hunting ground for women and thev want to try their luck In the game... , , .. ,.. ,

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spiral nebulae. There may be island universes, other congenles far and away beyond the confines of our universe of a billion suns within that band of suns the Milky Way. The world is now looking to the observatory for photographs of thousands of clusters of suns and thousands of nebulae, but the interest is centered in the mysterious spirals. Photographs of their spectra will be sent to all other observatories so that all may know the composition of helium, hydrogen end other elements in primeval states of matter." SOFTEST. PLACE TO LIGHT WAS TREE, SO HE LANDED THERE (Philadelphia Record) PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 21 Samuel M. Eaton, Jr., pilot of a WashingtonNew York mail airplane, the other day sent his machine crashing into the top of a tall tree. in Germantown, when his engine "froze" from lack of oil. The long branches of the tree caught the plane tightly and held it high in the air, the aviator wedged in his seat, though unhurt. After remaining in his perch for half an hour he was rescued by firemen, who put a long ladder against tne tree ana helped him to the ground. Eaton has a home with his wife and However, the motor suddenly stopped and the hand pump failed to give enough oil. Guided to Tree There was no place for Eaton to alight, as he was flying over houses at the time, and the yards and lawns were too small. So he took a chance. Ahead was the big tree. As he floated downward without power, he directed his machine into the topmost limbs of the tree. The branches stopped the plane and held it firmly. However, a branch flew across the fuselage in such a way that the aviator could not get out of his seat. The tail of the machine flew up and the nose down. There, Eaton and his plane hung in mid-air. Someone telephoned for firemen, who came along with a truck and raised one of their long ladders. While an interested crowd looked on, the firemen climbed up the ladder and extricated the aviator from his seat, carrying him to the ground amid cheers. FIRST AMBASSADOR FROM U. S. TO PRAGUE ,. f Richard T. Crane. Richard T. Crane is America's first ambassador to Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia. He has becrun hia oipiomatic worK witn a speech in which he lauds the Czech republic i and likens the new nation to the 1 original American colonies.

WITH STRIKERS.

War Savings Head Makes Appeal for Rigid Saving, Wise Spending, by Workers The 12,000 Indiana factory and store workers, who are members of Indiana Thrift Societies, were sent an appeal asking them to help combat the high cost of living Wednesday, by the state war savings headquarters at Indianapolis. William Mather Lewis, director of the savings division of the treasury de partment, is sending the same appeal to the 6,000,000 members of thrift societies over the country. It follows: "No solution of high living costs can be reached until the country shakes off its present spending intoxication and settles down to demanding the receipt of a dollar's worth of food or material, measured by the labor or effort required to obtain that dollar. "One great trouble is that millions of people are not spending from their earnings, but from their savings of the last two years. Liberty bonds and other securities, accumulated by the most worthy patriotic sacrifice during I the war, are being cashed at a loss to purchase luxuries at prices exorbitant even for luxuries. The people have themselves to bl ime if prices of necessities have followed the prices of luxuries upward, when merchants observed the absolute carelessness with which people parted with their money. Must Practice Economy. "It is not essential that we return to the extremes of economy, still less to the actual sacrifices of war times. It is essential, however, that we keep firm hold on the savings accumulated by purchase of war finance securities, not only as a matter of selfish benefit but as a factor in bringing prices down. The time for patriotic service is now. The cost of living has presented a crisis affecting the nation and its people no less than armed strife." C. B. Beck, Wayne county chairman for the war savings committee, has as yet, received no information regarding the appeal; he stated Thursday morning. VOTE IS (Continued from Page One) Every married man's vote must represent at least two people, his wife and himself. Frequently he has two daughters, a widowed mother, and an unmarried sister, in which case his one vote is representing six grown people, and this one vote of his can be offset by the vote of an unmarried man who is representing no one else in many cases. "No, men and women, home inter ests, and business interests will never be represented or safeguarded until every inmate casts his and her own ballot, and for that reason the ratification of the federal amendment is of immensely important consequence. "We cannot deal with the business problems and international complications with which we have to cope now, against nations which are fully represented, when the women of this country are only half represented," said Mrs. Trout. "Even German Women Vote" "Six Austrian women have recently ben elected to sit in the Austrian cabinet. Even the women of Germany have suffrage, now!" said she. "So much work the women of this country have been able to do has been purely remedial. How can things ever be really done until the right kind of people are working side by side united on a high moral basis?" "Modern inventions have really made us part of the earth," said she, "and for that reason the League of Nations should not be made a partisan issue." Thought It Was Cyclone; Was Only Air Rush From Propellers of Big Plane ZION CITY, 111., Aug. 21 In testing the motors of the big Lawson biplane in Milwaukee the propellers threw a stream of air that tore through the wide open door of the fifteen foot building in which it is housed and struck the Rosenthal Corn Husker plant, a quarter of a mile away. It caused such a stir among the employes of the plant that they thought a cyclone had hit the place. An 800pound box to which the tail was anchored with stout Bteel cables and held by three men, was tossed about by the gale. The propellers are ten feet six Inches long and are driven by two 400-horse power Liberty motors. Grasshoppers have their front legs. their ears on A severe headache is complaint with the bear. a common

FRIEDMAN, ONCE HOOTED FROM U.S.,

WILL TRY RETURN BERLIN, Aug. 21 Dr. Frani Fredrich Friedmann, who was hooted out of American medical circles several years ago, desires to return to the United States and prove the efficacy of his "turtle serum" as a cure for all but the most advanced cases of pulmonary tuberculosis. Friedmann is by no means the dis credited man in German scientific quarters that he is among American doctors. On the contrary, he hae been offered the chair of tuberculosis in Berlin University, which position he has been unable to assume as yet, ow ing to faculty opposition. If the assertions of Doctor Fried mann can be substantiated he possesses the secret of a serum, one injection of which usually suffices to cure incipient cases of consumption. The German public is inclined to accord him all consideration due the inventor of such a cure. "If the American medical profession will extend me the opportunity to return there and vindicate the claims which I make for my serum, I would gladly undertake the Journey," the professor is said to have told an inti mate friend recently. "My tests, covering six years, have proved conclusively that the serum does cure tuberculosis except in the most advanced stages. My aim is to inject the serum into childern, in order to head off the disease and thereby to reduce greatly the death rate due to consumption." MILK WAGON DRIVERS WANT $50 WEEKLY AND 6-HOUR DAY NEW YORK. Aug. 21 Drivers of retail milk wagons in New York City have formulated demands for $50 a week and a 6-hour day, to be presented to their employers when their present contract expires the last of October, it was learned last night. They also will ask for a two per cent, commission on all sales, time and a half for overtime, and dauble time for overtime Sundays. The wholesale drivers will ask $55 a week. GERMAN SAILORS CLASH WITH YANKS COPENHAGEN, Aug. 21. Collisions between German and American sailors on Tuesday at Neufahrwasser resulted In the wounding of several civilians and one German seamon, accord ing to Danzig dispatches received here today. Neufahrwasser is a seaport four miles north of Danzig. FORMER PREMIER RULES PORTUGAL Dr. A. J. d' Almeida. Dr. A. J. d'Almeida, former premier and minister of colonies, has been elected president of Portugal. During the latter days of the monarchy he was imprisoned several times on account of his extremely radical ideas. He is a Socialist and was premier from January, 1913 to April21,1914.

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C Senator Marconi. I Senator Gngilelmo Marconi, the wireless inventor, has been mentioned as Italy's ambassador to tb United States to succeed Count di Cellere, resifrrted. The Italian government, it is said, counts on the popularity of Marconi in this conntry to be a factor in healing: the breach between the two nations caused by the flume controversy. 4 T oliver Injured in Auto " i i Cxx' Lrasn on main Otreet William J. Tollver, 33 North Fifth street, suffered internal injuries and several minor cuts, as the result of an automobile accident at Sixteenth and Main streets, Thursday morning. Toliver, who, accompanied by his wife, was driving south on Sixteenth street, had just turned the corner at Main street, when his car was hit in the rear by a car driven by Phillip Worrall. 2014 Main street. Mrs. Toliver suffered only a few cuts on the arms and face from flying glass, while Worrairs car was damaged. Doctor W. G. Huffman, 28 North Sixth, who attended Toliver, said that he would in all probability, recover, unless he was internally injured. He was taken to hia home. An antiquarian has discovered that 1,500 years ago, the Aztects had perfected dentistry as an art.

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SALE OF BAY RUM FOR

DRINK IS VIOLATION OF LAW, IS JUDGE'S RULING (By AKocU.tdf Pr INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 2L - If the opinion of acting Judge J. D. Robblns, of city court holds, the sale of bay rum, whether It be used for toilet water or as a beverage, will be In violation of the state prohibition law. ' Judge' Robblns expressed this opinion In the case of a local druggist, who had been arrested charged with violation of the prohibition law, after a colored man had purchased 60 cents worth of bay rum at his store. The defendant admitted the sale of the liquid, but said he sold it as toilet water, and not as a beverage. "Under the existing law if I sold whisky I would violate the law regardless of the purpose for which it was intended. If this man sold rum he is guilty under the statutes," said Judge Robblns. American "Y" Men Went Through Mutiny in Russia fBy Associated Press) ARCHANGEL, Aug. 21. The American Y. M. C. A. men, Howard E. Merrill of Somerville, Mass., and Thomas L. Cotton, of Lingle, Wyo.. were caught amid heavy shell fire in a mutiny of Russian troops at Turgas on the Dvina drive sometime ago. Their experiences have just now been told. Merrill and Cotton who were formerly Dartmouth college athletes, were the only Americans in the village which was garrisoned by Russian troops, with a few British officers. The Rusians, fearing that they were about to be cut off and surrounded by the Bolshevik, determined to mutiny. They escorted the two Americans to a blockhouse which was under fire from Russian artillery. The blockhouse eventually became too hot for the Russian escorts and they fled leaving the Americans to maKe ineir escape to Archangel by rowing 250 miles down the river. I ASK PROMPT REPAIR OF PENNSY BRIDGE Immediate action in the repair of the Pennsylvania bridge, on West Fifth street, Chicago division of the road, will be asked in a letter to be sent to the superintendent of the road here, by the city clerk, oidered by the board of works at its meeting Thursday morning. The bridge not only is in a dangerous condition but is too narrow, members of the board declared. The Berlin Zoological Gardens company is on the verge of failure. Wine-tasters, employed in their professional duties, seldom swallow the wine they taste. 1 Friday, August 22. Saturday, August 23. LEATHER NOVELTIES If you are looking for anything made of leather you will find it in our stocks. We try to carry it all.