Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 92, 18 April 1922 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM! AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1922.

NEED SPECIAL BOND ISSUE FOR DEFERRED IMPROVEMENTS, LAND

BRITISH SCULPTRESS PLANS TO SHOCK AMERICA WITH STATUE OF KING JAZZ

Need for consideration of a special bond issue to cover the cost of deferred public improvements, -which were postponed during war time and

the high price period immediately fol

lowing, was stressed by Walker Land, president of the board of works in an

address before the city council Mon

day evening.

"Several mldwestern cities I have

visited in the past few weeks are hold

ing special elections to decide on bond

issues ranging in amount from $00,'

000 to $ 13,000,000 he said. "These bond

issuer are to cover the cost of deferred improvements which were car

ried over from war time. . ,

"I think this is a problem we will

have to face some day, Our sewers

are old, and some of them were put in before a city of this size was even

thought of. - All these- Underground

pasasges should be-cared for before

any work Is done over them. I think

this is a matter worth considering."

Immediately after - Mr. Land had

spoken, the report ot the light plant for the month of March was read. It

showed operating revenue of $110,382;

disbursements, $42,073. In general fund, $66,329, and balance in sinking fund of $16,467 at the close of the

month: ;.V - .,. ' - Gapbago' Plan. ""''"

Complaints of accumulating garbage made by Councilman John E. White

were answered by Mayor Handley who stated that the city had a plan to gather the garbage and dispose of it by sale to a contractor, that contractor to

remove It from the crematory.

Oscar Williams, councilman at large

nanaca in a written report on the con

dition of the sewer in the alley be-

. tween North Twentieth and Twentysecod streets in the alley north of North F street. Water had backed up in cellars in that region, he stated. Complaints of Main street merchants regarding fakirs who have been obstructing traffic on Sixth street, just off Main, were referred to the ordinance committee. Urge Grand Jury Act The committee . investigating the light plant finance situation made its report to council Monday evening. The committee reported that it be

lieved this matter should be referred! to the grand jury, the body to which!

such investigation properly belongs. It would be necessary to hire an auditor and stenographer and would take up the time of members of the committee for several days, according to Frank Waidele, member of the committee, who explained the, report. Council accepted and concurred in the report "We are not going to sign our names at the bottom of any report which is made. .up. of" 'hearsay." was the burden of . Waidele' s statement. "Most of the evidence and Informatlon we found floating around consisted of rumors. It was always 'that fellow told me that but nothing definite." Joseph Walterman, sponsor of the resolution, was absent. Walker Land, president of the board of works, said that he was glad at least that council had been able to see the position of the board in the matter. ; . . " '. An ordinance appropriating $1,600, "$S00 of which goes for. garbage disposal and" the remainder for repairs ,to the crematory,. was given first, second and third readings and passed by ; council. . . w . ' -" Should Present Petitions Need for speedy action in presenting requests for; oiled ' streets was stressed by City Engineer Dell B. Da

vis. These petitions, which are pre

sented by the property owners, should be brought in at once, as the oil al'ready has been ordered and will be allotted as the petitions come in, he .said. Discussion of , methods for oiling streets in the same manner as other improvements were made by resolution, elicited a bit of history from Baltz Bescher, city clerk. One person had proposed that the oil be put on the street and ,the . amount charged 'against the property owner. ' Bescher ;said: "During the Zimmerman administrattion in 1910 to 1914. the streets were foiled by this method.' A man named 'Jones, of New Paris, came in and did 'the work and he-made, $800 on the . wrong side of the1 ledger for the city.

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Clare Sheridan. With eyes, tastes and consciences of Americans dulled by flappers, bootteggers and movies, Clare Sheridan, noted English sculptress, says they are due for a real shock when she unveils her statue of "Jazz" in New York next month. In u. effort to inject irto the statue all the bad things reformers say about modern dancintr the sculptress' molded two nude 'figures a man and woman dancing togethei.

Forerunner of the Aerial Flivver By FREDERIC J. HASKIN

WASHINGTON, April 18 After successful flights across the Atlantic one of them in a single leap and the exploits of aircraft during the late war, it might be supposed that the conquest of the air had been accomplished, and that aviators ara "birdmen" in fact. But the thing toward which students of flying are turning their attention now is the possibility of sustained flight without power the kind of flight possible for an albatross, an eagle, or a sea gull. These birds and many others are capable of keeping themselves in the air. and of actually

climbing higher and higher, without anyapparent effort other than holding

their wings extended. The pursuit of this development is arousing more interest abroad than it is in America, the German flyers beingparticularly active in working to accomplish this end. It is now a little more than 19 yeatrs since the first

The loss came through the failure of certain property owners to pay their assessment. ' The city attorney refused to sue because it was distributed among a large number of property holders and the amounts were small, ranging from 75 cents up. The same

thing occurred during the Robbins administration, and the city attorney again refused to sue for payment." Prods Committee

In reports on ordinances, Mayor Handley called the attention of the

ordinance committe to the fact that two measures had been referred to them some four or five weeks ago and the state law provides that reports on such measures shall be made not later than! the second meeting after such

action.

The two ordinances referred to were

a measure appropriating runas tor a police car and one amending the building code. Councilman Fahlsing asked two more weeks in which to make a re

port. The request was granted.

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controlled flight in a power propelled

airplane was successful, the machine

being piloted by the American pioneer

flyer, Wilbur Wright, at Kitty Hawk,

North Carolina. In the years between heavier than air machines have been

perfected in many details and huge

planes able to carry bombs weigh

ing thousands of pounds have been

constructed and their worthiness prov

ed. But development of the so-called

"glider" has lagged in America in

comparison with our late enemy, Germany. Study of big soaring birds, notably the albatross, has led to the accomplishment of remarkable results, although it cannot be said for a fact that the powerless airplane is perfected as yet by any means. It is a fact that certain of the birds can remain for hours in the air without an apparent expenditure of energy in the way of flapping their wings. Gulls following a ship seem to hang stationary behind it. traveling forward at the limited speed of the vessel. The larger seabirds, it is claimed, have been observed for as long as daylight lasts, keeping the air and cruising here and there without once moving the wings in the motion known as flapping. Soaring Birds as Models. In the studies of the birds as a

model for "gliders", it was noted that the birds best capable of this sustained flight without effort have wings extending a considerable distance out from the sides of the bird, and tending to be narrow rather than broad wings. This idea has been followed in making gliders. , By glider is not meant a machine that will merely coast down the wind, gathering speed from loss of altitude. Such a machine would be useful only if started from the tap of. a hill, with

J a landing place somewhere on the plain below. This sort of thign would

be and is relatively easy of accom

plishment The ambitious goal of the experimenters in this line is a machine without power which will rise of its own volition, utilizing air cur-'

rents for the purpose, and fly about

here and there without artmclai

means of propulsion, such as the propeller used by all airplanes. .

The best record: thus far obtained in

this respect is credited to a German

experimenter, a man named Hartn. This man, according to accredited re

cords, made his machine rise from a

standstill without assistance, and eventually gained an altitude of about

200 feet above the starting -point,

keeping the machine in the air for 21 minutes. When he did land, it was at a point only 35 or 40 feet below his starting point, and that after being in the air for more than a third of an hour. ' Too much should! not be ' expected from the perfection of the "Glider" in the way of actual long flights without

any power whatsoever. Harth re

quired a wind of about 20 miles an hour to make his remarkable record. Obviously it is impossible to get anything like 'lift' from the air when there is a dead calm.

The big development which would

seem to be possible in the near future, judging from the German experiments, is the aerial "fliver" a small

safe plane, extremely low-powered

which the average man could afford

and operate. On many occasions, such

a machine could be operated without

the use of power, when at sufficient

altitudes to take advantage of the winds which are encountered more

frequently high in the air. Also,

sufficiently skillful operator of such

an aerial flivver could use it as

glider nearer to the ground when con

ditions made it posible.

Winds Blowing Upwards I Winds'blowing in a general upward

direction are recorded with more fre

quently than is -ordinarily believed. The coloring of the ground, with the

consequent varying of the sun's heat,

causes the air to rise quiet generally

over some areas, with compensating

descending airs over other portions of

ground. Inequalities of the surface

hills and mountains force moving air

Into an upward direction. It is these air currents which the skilled manipu

lator of a glider takes advantage of in order to climb in the air above his starting point. Earlier glider records were remarkable, but were beaten by. Harth in his trip made last autumn. One German glider flew about six miles, and in the course of the flight rose 300 feet above its starting point. But the landing point was fully 1,500 feet below the starting point, and the flight last

ed a much shorter time than Harth

eventually was able to accomplish.

Later on another German kept ' a

powerless plane In the air about 15

minutes.-

The great accomplishment made by

Harth, though, was not so much the time record he made, and the actual ascent into the air without power, as the fact that the plane from start to

finish of the flight, "lost altitude" or

came down, at the rate of only about two feet a minute.

The machine used by Harth did not

have a rudder to guide it. This had been dispensed with, and movable wing tips used. Without any effort

on the part of teh aviator, the Harth

machine heads into the wind when it

changes direction. On the day when

his great record was made, the wind

was said to be blowing in guflts, snd changing direction often. The ma

chine headed into the wind whenever

such a change came. So slight was the inclination of the ground that ob

servers , of the flight asserted that

upward currents of wind had little to

do with the climbing of the machine.

Little Power Needed About a 20-mile wind was blowing

when this noteworthy feat was per

formed. Aeronautical experts say that very little power for artificial

propulsion would be needed in a light plane built along the lines of a soaring

bird to give the same lift as that acquired from a moderate wind. The "wing loading" of the German gliders is little. By this term is meant the weight sustained by each square foot of wing area when the machine is in flight. The gliders best known have wing areas ranging from 160 to 175 square feet. Assuming that the aver

age flyer weighs 1Q5 pounds, the wing loading varies from about two pounds

per square foot to one pound. The

Harth machine weighs about an even

hundred pounds, probably the lightest

of the gliders. Having a wing area of 165 square feet, the wing loading is just about 12 pounds per square

foot when a 165 pound man is being

carried.

Naturally, the development of the glider is as much In its infancy as

power driven airplanes " were in the days of the first machine, which was pushed from the rear by propellers. Nineteen years have witnessed amazing development since the pioneering done by the Wright brothers in the face of public ridicule. The next de-

i cade may witness the merging of the

glider into the low-powered, low-priced flying machine within the jeach of the ordinary pocketbook.: It would not be fast, but would have compensating advantages of ascending into the aicat very low speed and the ability to land

almost anywhere at about the same

velocity, instead of requiring regular

flying fields for both starting and ending flights.

TENOR IS MAKING RAPID

PROGRESS TO RECOVERY

NEW YORK, April 18. John Mc-

Cormack is making progress toward

recovery from his serious illness. His physician declared today that Mr.

McCormack was doing very nicely.

having continued the improvement

noted in his condition yesterday.

Girl Wear Bobbed Hair,:

Earpnfis, 2,500 Years Ago By Associated Press.) j ' BERKELEY, Calif., April 18. Bob- fc

bed hair and earpuffs1 were fashionable

2,500 years ago, according to the results of an investigation conducted here by students of the University

of California, who recently produced

The Vision of Marpessa," a Grecian

outdoor pageant.

Several of the girls had demurred at

taking part because they feared their bobbed locks would not look suffi

ciently ancient. An investigation was started and the students and their faculty advisors found that the Greek women of centuries ago bobbed their hair, used earpuffs and also resorted to billiantine and other beauty aids on occasion.

Bread made of clay, grass and mou, as eaten by the victims of the Russiau famine, was recently exhibited at Riga,

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