The Syracuse Journal, Volume 24, Number 14, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 30 July 1931 — Page 7

General Pershing’s Story of the A. E. F. (Copyright, I*3l. ia all eountHea by the North Ameri- J})/ GfinCFttl eon Newapaper Alliance. World rights reaerred, «F including the Scandinavian. Reproduction in whole J - ft or in part prohibited.) -WNU Sarrice t/Oflfl tfe

CHAPTER XXXVII —Continued

Foch—A final decision cannot be made on That subject. That will evidently depend upon the degree of Instruction of the units. In the crisis that actually confronts the allied urniies U Is effectives that we lack. The method of employing these units fs a question to he handled in due course and according to their efficiency. j Pershing— I would like to have the conditions under which these units ajre to he employed determined now, and to fix the time during which the regiments and brigades will be used separately. I Foch—Make your proposition on that subject. I then explained the details of the system that whs being followed where our divisions were In training with tilie French and |he plan agreed .upon with tiie British. I :•••bled that it was fully understood that if an emergency should arise while <»tir troops were In training they would go Into battle as part of the divisions with which th y were serving. Pershing Refuses to Consent. [ General Foch then said: “I do not doubt the excellence of the method, hut in the crisis through which are passing I return to the-’ decision of the supreme war council, «nd 1 ask you to transport <!uri:ig May. June and July only infantry and machine gun units. Will you consent*'” Pershing— No. I do not consent. 1 propose for one month to ship nothIng but Infantry and machinegun units, and after that the other arms [and service of the rear troops to <<>rj respond. Foch—ls you adopt the plan I propose yon would jhave by July 31. 300,more American Infantry. Pershing— Yolk said just now that 'you wo;:!.I furnish the, artillery, ate! ,-u-n artillerymen, « ‘.fell would he J joined with our infantry to complete <uir divisions. Then Why not consent to transport our artillery personnel along with our Infantry? Foch—l repeat that It Is the Infantry of which we have the greatest ; need at this time. I would like to have General Bliss tell us the considerations which led to the decision taken by the supreme war council at Versailles. Bliss—The collective note recotnj mended to the Foiled States to send ' only infantry until the supreme war I council should give instructions to the contrary. The government of the United States, in conformity with this note ami with the recommendation of Secretary Baker, consented to this plan. As far as the employment of the units on the front is concerned, the question should be decided by General l‘»rs!:;ng according to agreement with the. commander in chief to v \ they may be attached. Foch Fear* Disaster. Pershing—l have been d the las’ eig-|t mi>ni!s. tir-t with Gen «ral Petain and then with Marshal Haig. The method agreed upon lends naturally-t<» the formation of constituted A meri. an dlvlWons. General Foch said he wished to see American divisions constituted and J - an American briny formed as large I as possible, hot the policy he was then advocating would have made it Imp<»ssib!e to form an American army without serious delay, if ever. Continuing. he said : . - ■- “But do not forget that we are in Che midst of a hard battle. If we do not take steps to prevent the disaster which is threatened nt present the American army may arrive in France to find the British pushed Into the sea and the French driven back behind the Ix»lre, while it tries in vain to organise on lost battle fields over the graves of allied soldiers.” He was assured that It was fully understood that If an emergency should arise while our troops were In training with the British or French they would go into the battle and do their part. I then gave him the numbers to be shipped’ during May and told him that It Irtid l»een agreed be . tween the British and ourselves to consider the question for June later. J Informed him that the British shipping authorities now thought It would l«e possible within the next three months to transport to France 750.000 men. With reference to the German attack at Seicheprey on the Twentysixth division the night of April 3121, mentioned at the beginning of this .chapter, that point was the focus of a German raid covering a three-kilo-meter front extending west from the Bois de Kern I eras. . It catne during a heavy fog and was a complete surprise to our troops, who were considerably outnumbered. Seicheprey was taken by the enemy, but co-operation was re-established throughout the division and the original front was re • captured on the following dny. In this affair we lost one officer. 80 enlisted men. killed; 11 officers. 176 enlisted men. wounded; 30 officers. 211 enlisted men. gassed, and five officers. 182 enlisted men, missing and prisoners. The losses of the enemy In killed and wounded were reported as even greater. CHAPTER XXXVIII The question of the shipment of American- troops, and particularly their allotment to the allied armies, had assumed very great importance In the minds of the allied leaders. Accordingly a session of the so- ' preme war council was called at Abbeville May 1. 1918, and Premier Clemenceau opened the meeting by referring forthwith to the previous recommendation of hhe council’s military repreaentativeryaa to the disposition of American trOope.

“The military representatives.” he began, “expressed the opinion tn their joint note No. 18 that only Infantry and machine-gun units should be sent to France for the present. Since then the agreement between Lord Milner and General Pershing, signed at London April 24. 1918. has Intervened. This agreement makes a change. “It bad been understood at Versailles that America would send 120.000 men per month, which the French and English armies would share equally. Under the MilnerPershing agreement it appears none go to France. The" French have not been consulted. We might suppose that in compensation the American troops arriving in June would he given to France. But It now appears they are also to join the British. 1 wish to protest that this is not satisfactory. “I am not discussing the figure of 120.000 meh; I am prepared to accept that these men go to the British In May. J am asking to receive the same number of troops In June. There are close to 400.000 Americans in France at present, hut only five divisions, or about 125,000 men. can be considered ns combatants. That is not a satisfactory proportion.” Milner Defends Agreement. Lord Milner arose, much Incensed at M. Clemenceau's statement, which lie considered quite unjust. “M. Clemenceau has Intimated,” he -t, ,!. "that there was something mysterious about the London agreej&S Balloon Observer Aloft ment. 1 believe that an explanation is necessary. He appears to believe that the -agreement we signed is a reversal of the supreme war council's -- n. I know only of a joint note embodying the recommendations of the military representatives, but it is of no value without the approval of the governments. ~ ’•Besides. M. Clemenceau seems to be under the Impression that half of the American troops were to go to Trance and the other half to England. Ido not recollect any such deAll that General Perilling and I have urged is that infantry and machine gunners should be sent to France. We lead no intention of depriving France of any American troops. I do n<tf know that anything has been said regarding their allotment on arrival In France. We simply wanted to hasten their coming.” Pershing Upholds Independence. “In making the agreement with Lord Milner,” 1 interposed. “1 had in mind bringing troops as rapidly as possible to meet the existing situation. Lord Milner Is quite correct In stating that there was no agreement as to the allocation of American troops either to the British Or French armies. There is no agreement between my government and anybody else that a single American soldier shall be sent to either the British or French. "There is in existence an agreement between Mr. Lloyd George and myself that six divisions should be brought to France. M. Clemenceau will remember that 1 spoke to him about going to Ixmdon to arrange for thq shipment of American troops to France and that he approved because It would expedite their arrival. 1 also spoke to General Petain about IL” Clemenceau Is Insistent. M. Clemenceau remembered my speaking of it. but disregarding his previous approval continued his objections. saying: “We have been Informed that nothing had been decided on at Versailles, , but something has been decided on at 1-ondon. ami France was closely concerned In this. It was decided that six divisions should go to the British. Well. I will not argue about that You announce to us artillery for the month of June. “Where four are In alliance, two of them cannot act independently. Nothing has been provided for France in June. “The appointment of General Foch ns commander in chief is not a mere decoration. This post Involves grave responsibilities; he must meet the present situation; he must provide for the future. “1 accept what has been done for May. but 1 want to know what is intended for June.” M. Clemenceau said the French had not received certain specialists they bad asked for. and also quoted from the conversation 1 had held with General Foch with reference to sending over troops In May and June. Mr. Lloyd George then said: “I am of M. Clemenceau’s opinion. The Interests of the allies are identical:. we must not lose sight of that, otherwise the unity of command has no meaning. We must consider what 18 best for the common c*»se.

“What Is the situation today? The British army has had heavy fighting and has suffered heavy losses. All available drafts have been sent to France and we shall send ail who are available in May and June. This would be the case even if all the who arrive in Europe during these months should be assigned toithe British army. “At present certain British divisions havp been so severely handled that theji cannot be reconstituted. General Foch will remember the number.” “Yes. ten.” Foch answered; “As wq cannot again pyt them in line.” Mr. Lloyd George continued, “they mujst be replaced by new units. The Gertsans are now fighting with the object of using up our effectives. If they can do this without exhausting their own reserves they will sometime' deal us a blow which we shall not’ be able to parry. “In the meantime, I suggest that the decision for the allotment of the American troops for June he taken up when that month arrives. In May, In fact, either of our two armies may he ’hard pressed. That is the one which should be re-enforced. It is not desirable now to decide how troops arriving iri June should be allotted."’ Foch. Also Cites France’s Nee<L To this, Foch replied: “It is undeniable that the British army is now exhausted; so let it receive immediately re-enforcement in May. But lately the French have had grave losses, notably at Montdidier, and both during the last few days lufve been tiuhting shoulder to shouldef. Sb American aid is now needed [almost ns much for France as for Grefat Britain. Above this question of aid to the French or to the British is aid to the allies. “We are agreed that the American army is to re-enforce the British army a't once; in June. we. too, shall need itjfantry and machine-gun units. So let iUS make the agreement for June sit once by saying: the same Shipmept of Infantry and machine guns ak' for May. If there is tonnage available we shall devote it. after that, tjo the elements necessary for filling up the American divisions! 1 am sute that General Pershing, with his generosity and his breadth of view, [ivill grant the fairness of this view will extend for June the agreenjient decided upon for May.” Whereupon Mr. Lloyd George gave support to the principle, saying that British recruits would not be available Until August and he understood ft wak the same for France, when both pould be able to furnish their own recruits. He then asked that the May program be extended over June, In wliiieh M. Clemenceau joined. Pershing Insists on Own Army. In ifeply. I said: • I d° out suppose that we are to understand that the American army is to Ibe entirely at -the disposal of the French and British comnjands.” M. [Clemenceau said that of course this WM aot tlie intention. Continuing. I said: “Speaking for tny government and mysellf. I must insist upon our intention to have our own army. The principle of unity of command must prevail in our army. It must be complete, under its own command. I should like to have a date fixed when this will be realized. I should like to make It clear that all American troopls are not to be with the British, ns there are five divisions with the Frt-ni’h now and there will be two more' in a short time. “As to the extension of the May agreement to June 1 am not prepared to abcept IL The troops arriving in Junej will not be available for the front before the end of July or the middle of August. So we have the whole month of May ahead before deciding whether an emergency is likely to arise in June. I have explained to Lord Milner and General Foch why 1 do not wish to commit the American army so long in advance. If need be, I shall recommend the extension into June. I can see no reason for it now.” CHAPTER XXXIX “1 am commander in chief of the allied armies in France.” said General Foqn, “and my appointment has been sanctioned by the signature n<>t only of the British and French governments but also by the President of the United States. Hence. I believe myself in a position to insist

Early English Dramas Acted Only on Sunday

Though legislators in 1780 frowned on Sunday amusements, some of their predecessors regarded them with a mqr» tolerant eye. In the Sixteenth century Sunday was almost the playgoer’s only chance of entertainment. It was not until 1579 that plays were acted on week days, and until a considerable later date Sunday was still regarded as the occasion for the production of new pieces. Queen Elizabeth patronized Sunday plays, \s did llso James 1. and even the higher clergy took no exception to the practice. Indeed, we read of the then More People, Speedier Money ■The mofe densely populated a locality the more rapid will be the velocity of circulation, because there will be readier access to people from whom money is received or to whom it Is paid. A lady who has a cRy house and a country house states that In the country she keeps her money In her purse for weeks, whereas in the city she keeps U but a few day*.

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"There Is a program signed by Lord Milper and General Pershing at London. I ask to be made a party to this arrangement, since America has given me the strategic direction of the war, or else I have no reason for holding the position. “So I ask that an agreement be made this evening among Lord Milner, General Pershing and rayself, extending to June what has been decided on for May. “I cannot forget the responsibilities weighing on me, because of the fact that the allied governments have intrusted to me the direction of operations in France.” Os course all present knew that no s authority to dictate regarding such matters had been conferred upon him and bis remarks only showed that the allies were ready °to go to almost any length to carry their point. Clemenceau Makes Plea. Premier Clemenceau then said he agreed with General Foch and favored an American army, but that the Germans were at Villers-Bretonneux, and if the lines were broken there the enemy might quickly arrive under the walls of Paris, and liaison between the allied armies might have to be established on the Loire, or if the lines were pierced at Hazebrouck the enemy could reach the sea. “What is important for the morale of our soldiers.” he said, “is not to tell them that the American soldiers are arriving but to show them that they have arrived.” In my opinion the plan proposed was entirely unsound, and I thought that-the best and quickest way to help the allies would be to build up an American army. Moreover, the implied presumption that the council might dictate to us either as a council or through the allied commander in chief in the arbitrary manner indicated set me more firmly than ever ’ against American units serving in allied armies. The day’s discussion j made it quite clear that both allies , intended to get commitment to the : proposed schedule as far into the fu- ■ ture as possible. Saw Pers’hing Opposing Wilson. A telegram sent by the British see- [ retary of state for foreign affaire ; April 8. 1918, to Lord Reading, British ambassador at Washington, said: “It is evident from the brief account of the conversation that General .Pershing’s views are absolutely in- j consistent with the broad policy which ’ we believe the President has accept- 1 ed. The main difference, of course, is that we interpret it as meaning | that 480.000 infantry and machine guns are to be brigaded with French i and British troops in the course of four months. General Pershing ad- [ mils no such obligation and does not ! conceal the fact that he disapproves of the policy. ; “A second and minor difference is that, while the British government quite agrees as to the propriety of ultimately withdrawing American troops i brigaded with the French and British so as to form an American army, they do not think this process could or ought to be attempted until the end of the season for active operation* this year draws to its close, say, in October or November. “1 am unwilling to embarrass the President, who has shown such a firm grAsp of the situation, with criticisms of his officers. But the difference of opinion is so fundamental and touches so nearly the issues of the whole war that we tire bound to have the matter cleared up.” Three-Meet Privately. At, M. Clemenceau’s suggestion the meeting of the council was adjourned at this point that Foch, Lord Milner and 1 might meet and examine the question and see if some agreement could not be reached. Whereupon we repaired to an adjacent room and went over the whole subject again. My proposal was more liberal than the circumstances or, my own views on the subject really warranted. It conceded priority for a limited number of the infantry and machine-gun units, but generally it contemplated the shipment of artillery for divisions and corps and railways troops, mechanics and labor troops for the service of the rear, all of which were badly needed. It was the distinct understanding, however, as already promised by Foch, that if we would consent to make the concession as to infantry and machine-gun units the French would help us out with artillery when the time came to form an American army; But, of course, they could net furnish men for other services, pffir for the services of supply, wlthdtst which we could not function as AD army. Others Insist on Program. When we met Milner, and especially Foch. insisted that the. war wotiM be lost unless their program was retried out. I repeated the arguments already to the council and added that I full realized the military emergency, but did not think that the plan to bring over untrained units to fight under British and French commands would either relieve the situation or end the war. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

bishop of London producing “A M’.fsummer Night’s Dream” at his tov?n house on a Sunday evening as late «s 1631. The practice, however, was net without many opponents, and there can be no doubt that Sunday performances had not a little to do with the Puritan dislike of playgoing of every description.—Manchester (Eng.) Guardian. Fruit for Royalty Alone "One orange, please”—“Ah, no, me laddie, ’tis king’s fare”—and so it was, for way back in 1300, fruits .and desserts were considered as part of the food of royalty alone. In the reign of Edward L a Spanish ship brought to Portsmouth a cargo which included Seville figs, raisins or grapes, “a bale of dates. 230 pomegranates, 15 citrons and 7 oranges.” Ia Praise of Gossip Neighborhood gossip is the most entertaining and the most perilous form of news reporting.—American Magazine.

| PETER | I the I i GREAT 1 By FANNIE HURST W (© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) (WXU Service.) THE thing that broke Peter Tarbell’s spirit was a ringing blow across the right cheek, administered to him, within full view of a crowded back-stage, by an extravaganza queen then in the full glory of her raonarchistic reign. As doorkeeper and general guardian of the constant runnel of traffic of one sort or another through the small office that led to the wings of the theater. Peter constituted a one-headed cerberus vvho stood guard against claimants for the attention of the high-handed musical comedy despot of the moment, Hilda Taypay. A of colorful naughtinesses, temperamental outbursts, generosities, tempers, affabilities and nonsen-e of a brand that had captivated Broadway, to be in her troupe associated in any way with her in the theater, was to be victim, of her despotisms as welf as recipient of her repentant favors. Those who played with her, however, feared her more than they loved her. and it could not be said, even in the indulgent mood of wildest charity, that Hilda was kind to thejesser people about her. Impressed by greatness. she was capable of paying consent homage to those whose professional rank towered above hers. Little people she despised because, apparently, to be able to express contempt emphasized her sense of power. Thus it happened that on a spring morning during a rehearsal, Peter, admitting to the wings a young man whom he had been instructed by the great Taypay never to deny admission, found himself suddenly the public victim of her great wrath. “How dare, you.” she screamed at Peter, hurling a distaff which she had been carrying in a dance number at him—“how dare you admit that swine to my presence? I never want to see him again!” and there in tiie full view of the assembled company, swung out an arm. full width, and let her hand bang resoundingly, against the young doorkeeper’s cheek. It was one of those events that cam come.to a sleeper during nightmare; it was public humiliation of a sort that can cause the throat to close and the eyes to flash into blindness. There, in ’.he presence of at least sixty people, many of the.stage hands his personal friends, a woman, without the slightest just provocation, had slapped him in the face. For an instant his impulse had been to leap at her and crush his fingers into her ornamental throat, but that impulse died almost as it was born. Aside from the impregnable solidity of her thronb, and the power of her slightest word, there was only further indignity and humiliation and self-abasement to be gained by letting go of his wrath. e Peter Tarbell, then thirty, well salaried, ambitious, eager for advancement. turned without a word on his heel and walked out. while to the strain of the interrupted melody, ex- , travaganza’s -darling, prancing distaff in hand, resumed 'rehearsal of tiie dance number she had been practicing. There were fifty dollars for a-half month’s wages due Peter, which he never claimed. There were personal objects, books, papers, small baggage lying about the office which lie never returned to collect. The one idea was to get away securely, permanently, quickly from the scene of his humiliation. to forget, if possible, the fiendish onslaught against his dignity and his peace of mind. The theater and everything pertaining to it became anathema to the quiet-faced, unobtrusive young man, who from that day. for many a year to cbme, was to carry the sting from a woman’s hand across his face and heart, and whose fingers, throughout the years, were to itch to throttle the white neck of Hilda Taypay. It is, of course, difficult to hypothecate what would have been the destiny of Peter Tarbell had he remained in the atmosphere of the theater. It is. however, fair to assume he had been on the way to higher position, since his rise had been steady from call-boy to general manager of affairs of rear stage. - Be that as it. may, from the day Peter walked put, his destiny fell along lesser lines. At forty be was superintendent of a huge apartment house on the residential upper west side of New York. Eleven men worked under him, electricians, janitors, elevator boys and furnace-room men, but in reality, Peter’s position, while the

Revolver Not Needed to Rout That “Burglar”

Monte slept well because he needed the rest after a hard day, but he was wide awake in an Instant when he thought be heard a noise in his front parlor. He came to this realization only a moment before bis wife prodded him in the back: “Wake up, Monte,” she commanded. “There’s some one trying to get in below.” Monte sat up. “Well, what are we going to do?” he asked his wife in a whisper to avtyd detection. “I guess you’ll have to go downstairs and call the police,” she offered. Monte had to hold himself up in dignity to his better half, so he crawled out of bed, quietly grabbed a bathrobe and went to a dresser where, after much fumbling, he obtained a rusted old revolver. Fortified, started down the stairs stealthily. Half way down, when he could peer through a door into the living room, he saw a shadow. Not much like tiie shape of a man. He grew braver. At the bottom of the staircase be switched on the living-room

salary was practically that of the stage-door regime, was little above that of a managing janitor. His jobs were chiefly menial chores. Locks to be repaired on> apartment doors; foyers and elevators to be kept in show state; vacant apartments to be shown to prospective tenants and altercations of one sort or another to be adjusted between his help. There were compensations, of course. He had married, meanwhile, a quiet, enormously strong and quite personable girl who had been employed as housemaid in one of the apartments of the building in which he was employed. There were no children. Peter would have liked it, had there been. With the strange pride of the frustrated, strong Tessa would never admit her disappointment. At fifty, Tessa, with one of those quick corrosive changes which can sometimes attack the strong, began to succumb to a cruel form of rheumatism which knotted her joints so that within a period of two years she became practically bed-ridden. It was •terrible to be forced to behold the slow disintegration of the magnificent body that had been Tessa's, and with the physical, there began slowly and surely to sink into desuetude the mental. A companionable, sweet-natured and helpful woman began to slump into a querulous, bed-ridden invalid, ' half frantic most of the time with pain; intolerant of it, all of the time. Poor Peter! The spectacle of Tessa, slipping Into her invalidism was one which he could only watch with a sense of helpless despair. More and more, her predicament became a drain opon*his time and energies. At fifty-five he had lost the position of superintendent over the large upper west side apartment house, and on smaller nay, and in quarters much more cramped, was presiding over the tawdry destinies of a six-story tenement house on the lower east side. This time his living quarters were two rooms below the level of the sidewalk, and his monthly stipend less than half of what it had been in the larger building.' And yet in some ways life was easier. The little apartment he shared with the now completely bed- ’ ridden Tessa, meant fewer hours to demote to the chores of keeping the household moving. And yet, there was about the envi.’ronment of this liouse something so depressing that it .seemed to Peter, struggling always with the problem of keeping afloat the sinking spirits of Tessa, as if tiie rows of days were simply^too drab to face. It was not alone his own plight, but day after day there marched before his troubled eyes the woes of the poverty-stricken, the lame, the halt, the blind, who dwelt around them. Evictions, for reasons of poverty or sickness, were not unusual. , It was a grim, hitter job, this business of being janitor to the povertystricken families of the building. Sickness lurked under that roof, crime, grime and sometimes even hunger. Otie old woman, as a matter of fact, had been found dead in her rear apartment of a simple complaint easily diagnosed. Hunger. Little wonder that Tessa, who had always been sensitive to pain of others, lay there not only drenched in her own misery, but seeming to feel, with the antennae of her intuition, the poverty that lay everywhere around her. - Lean mean years filled with terror of one sort of another, but through it all Peter and-Tessa clinging fast to the murky nest of. the two rear rooms they called home and as time moved on Peter becoming more and more obsessed with the fear of losina his job through having to give more, and more time to the task of tending Tessa. The night that he found a. ruin of a woman propped up against the door as he was about to enter his apartment proted a memorable one. It was while he was picking her up to carry her out to the curb and turn her over to the mercies of the corner policeman, that recognition came to Peter. Recognition, and a flash of anger so blinding that it seemed to him for a moment that here, now nothing could prevent his digging talons Into the throat of the creature before him. Pent up in him, all through the years, were passions about to be released. Here in his arms a derelict, a remnant, a skeleton of comic opera, was the object of his lifetime of hatred. . . . Somehow again, once more, it did not work out that way. Peter’s talons did not sink, in to blemish that last remnant of the beauty of Hildas throat. He has given her roof, and in her befogged way she knows that a janitor, whom at heart she despises for being a menial has come to her succor. v. There are two women for Peter to tend now. The helpless Tessa and the curious temperamental derelict whom they have taken into their home. Sometimes she sings and creates the furore of cracked melody and pitiful dance In the little tenement they all share together. Sometimes she rises In wrath and strikes the old janitor whose bumble lot she shares.

lights. There was no one there.

He listened and the noise was repeated. Turning his eyes to the window from where the sound emanated, he noticed a large German police dog trying to get in. Seizing an overshoe he opened the door and let it fly, with inaccurate aim, but successful effect, The burglar disappeared.—Brockton Enterprise. Splendor for Dog* Dogs that are paraded by women owners along Park avenue, and other thorqughfares are usually clad in coats of many colors, brushed and groomed to the nth degree. Tiie latest in sartorial elegance, recently observed. Is a dog’s coat having a small side pocket from which, neatly folded, protrudes a monogrammed handkerchief. Its utility is puzzling. Some people’s lives seem to be made cheerful solely by p continuous succession of hair-breadth escapes from somethine or other.

j Machines That Are | 4 Almost Human £»• I By E. C. T AYLORjI The Wireless Light IT WILL not be many years, scientists predict, before we will go home, press a bbtton, and a crystal globe, having no wires inside or out, will cast a pleasant light in our homes. This wireless light Is now a fact, ' and is used in .several robots that surprise us by their human-like per-* formances. The new wireless light loooks like a crystal sphere when not lighted. It has no filament inside it to burn up and break, and has no metal inside or out. It contains gases rendered highly luminous by a high frequency electric current in a near-by coil of wire. In homes of -the future mechanical age, these coils could be placed in the walls, and no lighting apparatus or wires, only the crystal lighting globes, would be exposed. One of these wireless lights, a huge one, operated by radio, recently was mounted on a tower in Schenectady, N. Y„ and it threw off sufficient light to read a newspaper two miles away. These wonder lights cost little and give off almost no heat. ' The new magic lights are similar to the neon tubes used for the new type of outdoor advertising lights, but cast a soft glow instead of the glaring red or blue of the neon outdoor tubes. The neon tubes need wires, but the magic light has no wires, and the crystal globes could be carried from one place to another and set down where one wants It. This magic wireless light utilizes the principle of the ordinary electric doorbell, where by pressing a button, a current of electricity is sent through a coil which repeatedly pulls a hammer that rings the bell. Scientists discovered that In the neighborhood of a rapidly changing magnetic field, electrons in a gascharged bulb started first one way and then another, thus producing light. The wireless light can be used only in proximity* to changing magnetic . coils. For home lighting these coils would be placed in walls, and they could he started agitating by pressing, a button, just as the doorbell is made to ring. This principle of magnetic coils Is used to imake a robot work in the Unit'ed States government assay office in New York city. That robot literally picks gold out of the air. A considerable quantity of gold, formerly was lost in the fumes that passed off during the smelting process In the assay office. Now these fumes are forced to rise between two metal plates. -These plates are charged with a high voltace electric current. The gold partlcTe’s in the fumes become electrified and settle on the near-by electrodes. Then they are shaken into a collecting chamber below. Hundreds of ounces of gold, worth many thousands of dollars, have been recovered in this way by the robot. Another magnetic robot now used by railroads detects broken rails, and prevents accidentsThe robot Is housed on a small car resembling a handcar, that is - towed slowly over the rails. As it passes along the rails ft sends an electric current through the rails directly beneath the car. When a break In a rail Is encountered. the current Is interrupted, and the robot squirts a dab of paint on the spot where the break is indicated; This device detects flaws of so minute a nature that they could not be seen by the human eye. Countless railroad accidents have been averted by the use of the robot The magic light Is helping to perfect television, that remarkable device that brings pictures of actual events along with sound over the radio. Scientists have progressed so far in this, that six-foot screens have replaced the fourteen-inch screens of a short time ago, and many more persons now can sec the radio talkies and movies than formerly. With a development of the new magic licht. It is predicted that two-way television will be speeded. Demonstrations already have been made, showing both parties to a telephone conversation, and it will not be long, say scientists, before you can see the person you are talking to over the telephone. You also will be seen, though. (©. 1931. Western Newspaper Union 1 Best Wood for Chessmen The forest products laboratory says that the best ’ chessmen are probably made from genuine boxwood. This wood Is Imported in relatively small quantities because of its scarcity and high price. It probably can be readily had, however, in the small sizes required for chessmen. West Indian boxwood should also be suitable for chessmen. The wood is much more common and is considerably lower in prire. Among American species holly Is probably best suited for chessmen. Tfe’s wood Is light colored, rather hehvy. and quite hard. It carves well and takes a smooth finish. Opera Start’ Pay Limited Opera stars of Germany are to receive not more than SIOO a night nor more than $0,500 a year, according to a recent decision of the German Stage, society. This limitation of compensationj is caused by the bad financial condition of most German operas. It Is feared, however, that famous foreign artists will refuse to appear in Germany at these rates. Stuck Then there is the man who thought he would play a joke on the Post Office department by addressing a letter to “Mars” and sticking a two-cent stamp on It But It was returned to him marked,’“lnsufficient Postage.” Lasting Prin\Pap«r Newsprint paper that ban stand being baked for 72 hours the boiling point of water Is strong efcough to be suitable for permanent library archives, government scientist!' say.