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New Brake Said to Stop Car At 60 Miles an Hour in 25 Yards Special from Monitor Bureau. New York.—A new automobile braking system which its designers. assert is capable of bringing a mo torcar to a stop in 25 yards from a speed of 60 miles an hour, is to be exhibited to manufacturers in the United States by Marcel Guillel mon, engineer of the Renault Au tomobile company of France. Mr. Guillelmon, who is also vice president of Renault, Inc., of New York, has just returned here on the He de France of the French line. Two passenger cars and one truck, he said, are being brought to the United States for exhibition here. This exchange of designing prac tices and mechanical improvements, he added, is in line with the co operation shown French manufac turers by American motorcar build ers. Officials of the Renault com pany. Mr. Guillelmon said, have previously been granted extensive courtesies in the American plants for the purpose of studying pro duction methods. The brakes, Mr. Guillelmon said, are operated by a very slight pres sure on a pedal and the braking force on the wheels is supplied by the car tljrough a clutch mounted on the drive shaft. Paul Vavon, chief engineer of the Citroen Automobile company, was another passenger on board the He de Prance. This is his third visit here this year and his 12th in the last three years, he said. The Ci troen factories in Fiance are rap idly being equipped with machinery manufactured in the United States and after the first o£ the year it is reported they will be able to turn out 600 Citroen ears a day, Mr. Va von said. “Machinery is not the only dif ference between American and Eu ropean manufactories," he con tinued. “There is another import ant factor which is just beginning to be realised by French manufac turers. This is the morale of the workers. The French manufactur ers are making efforts to better the morale of their working forces and in the Citroen factories we try to make the workers feel it is their lcctorv by holding to the promotion system when m n are nteded for :n?r positions.” WINGS OF TWENTY FIVE YEARS From the Atlanta Journal Five-and-twenty years ago on the sands of a lonely South Atlantic beach occurred the first flight of an airplane. For 12 momentous sec onds the quaint little craft fluttered aloft. On the third trial it flew 852 feet, keeping a-wing for almost a minute. Such was the prologue at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, to the most wonderful era in the an nals of human transportation. The heroes of that prophetic day were two brothers, one of whom, Wilbur, has passed on. The other, Orville Wright, now gives to his fellow Americans and to his friends throughout the world this anniver sary message, through the Aeronau tic Review: “Twenty-five years ago the man who but expressed his belief in the possibility of human flight was an object of pity and derision. Today his successor who shows its future possibilities by triumphing over the ocean barriers which separate con tinent from continent becomes an international hero. In twenty five years flight has been extended from one minute to more than 665 hours one minute to more than 65 hours; from one-half mile to more than 4,000 miles; and from a few feet above the ground to more than 7t4 miles above it. Such has been the progress of the art and the change of the attitude of the public to wards it in its first 25 years. The strides made in aviation in the last two years would indicate that we have not even approached the limit of possibilities.” Rarely has a pioneer lived to see his faith so richly justified and his frontier so marvelously extended. The airplane has established itself as an implement of commerce, as a chief aid to exploration, as a pow er for prosperity and progress—all within less than a generation's span. More meaningful than its heroic ocean flights are its workaday serv ices. By its speedy transport of mails it effects large economies for banks, insurance companies and other corporations, and opens new realms of business opportunity. A year ago the American Railway Ex press company availed itself of air craft, and since has materially in creased both the mileage and the patronage of such lines. Today in the United States 266 companies operate 32 airways along regular routes which aggregate more than 13.000 miles; and the record is con tinually growing. If the oncoming developments of aviation be at all comparable to those of its first 5-and-20 years, how immense are the possibilities. Honesty Pays— Also Kindness From Dubuque Telegraph-Herald. One of the writers for the Central Press association tells a “human in terest” story about a girl clerking in a department store that shows that, in the long run, honesty pays. It also, however, shows that some thing is to be gained by kindness. The salesgirl was caught in the act of stealing. The superintendent confronted her with the evidence and asked her to sign a confession. After she had done so, he sealed the confession in an envelope and put his own name on it. “This goes into a strong box,” he said, “and nobody but you and I will ever know about it—provided you do what I ask. First, I want your promise never to do it again and then I want to know just why you thought you must have more mon ey.” She told her story. There was sickness at home, and her need for money was not because of mere craving for luxuries. The superin tendent sent her invalid sister to a hospital at the store’s expense. That was 10 years ago. and today the little salesgirl is not only one of the store’s valuable employes but one of the most loyal. The little envelope has long ago been burned. That one misstep and its conse quences brought her to a realization that “honesty is the best policy,” and the superintendent’s kindness has been instiflprf A TOY NO LONGER New York Evening Post. A deserved honor has come to a New York inventor in the award of the coveted John Fritz gold metal to Elmer A. Sperry for his gyro compass and his gyroscopic stabil izer. It is now 30 years since he be gan his experiments with the gyroscope, then a toy chiefly in teresting for its curious antics. Its first practical application was to ships, where it counteracted the rolling motion and made sea travel more comfortable. But the most im portant use to which it has been Jmt is as a stabilizer for airplanes: n the field of aircraft development the gyro-compass has also played an important part. France recog nized the value of the stabilizer some years ago, when the Aero club of that country awarded a prize to Mr. Sperry for his device. His work in this important sphere also includes the invention of drift and turn indicators, w'hich have helped to make flying in fogs safer. Mr. Sperry’s inventions do not stop, however, with his contri butions to the cause of aviation. He began his career as an invantor wfth one of the earliest arc lights .and his later perfection of electric light ing has been one of the most im portant aids to the motion picture industry. New Yorkers have often seen his great searchlight in Brook lyn stabbing the darkness of the night with its powerful rays, and his improvements of searchlights have become standard. In electro chemistry also, which plays so im portant a part in mqdern industry, he has done important work. He is less well known than some ot^er inventors because his devices have not touched everyday life so di rectly as theirs: but his place in the long list of Americans who have Dad Knows. From Answers Canvasser: Is the master of the house in? Young Father (wearily): Yes; he’s asleep upstairs in his cradle. -44 Dad (to daughter)—Now that your mother’s away for a holiday, you’ll have to see that I get up in time for work every morning. Daughter—All rightie, dad. I'll try to get in, In time.—Judge. -- ---4 ♦ Tin* public was barred from the Tunney wedding, which was proper enough. When millions marry, a big "gate” would be a superfluity. For Evening Weal / __ (furious beads like lacquered gun metal reeds cover the surface of this latest model of a famous Paris dressmaker. It is designed for tk* **itcrnoon tea or evening wear. ^lBlcrDfctlonal Illustrated contributed to the advancement of applied science is high. The best evidence of his standing lies in this impressive award. WE RE ALL INVITED! From the Florida Timcs-Union. Agricultural wedding of consider able interest happened recently in Ohio. The headline read: Corn Cobb. j A Kansas City man started for the office in something of a hurry yesterday morning, and on the way to the front door he seized w'hat he thought was his topcoat from the closet and fled down the front steps to the bus stop. As he boarded the bus, he found that instead of the topcoat he had brought along the coat to a castoff summer suit that was hanging in the closet. And all the way to town he marveled at his luck—for among other things in that closet that he might Just as well have taken along were his din- i ner Jacket, his hunting coe.t. his bathrobe, a suit of pajamas and a long tailed nightshirt. 1 For the Outdoor Girl — -—- . .-. *■* «aww Here is a slate blue flecked wool creation with bands of tan kasha which Drecoll, Paris couturier, is featuring to his smart outdoor clientele. 1 he garment is NOT of the silhouette order, but of the comfortable, roomy variel)). Hunting Honey In the Sudan Every year after the rains have ceased and when the long grass, which in many places grows to a height of over six feet, has been burnt to brittle dryness and bleached to a pale yellow by the tropical sun, natives in the south and certain other parts of the Eastern Sudan prepare to gather the harvest of wild honey which awaits them in the hollows of the trees in the forests. First the dry grass is fired when a favorable wind is blowing, and a great sheet of fire, sometimes many miles in width, sweeps across the uninhabited countryside, clearing away the tangle of briar and grass which would otherwise prove a dif ficult barrier to the honey hunters. Contrary to what one would expect, comparatively few trees are seri ously injured by these fires; as a rule they quickly recover from the scorching. Having cleared the country of grass, thr honey hunters collect their simple belongings, skins and gourds in which to place the honey, a small quantity of millet flour, and perhaps one or two spears. Some times the honey hunters may have a camel or two to carry their be longings, more often they possess donkeys, but frequently the natives set out. on foot, without transport animals of any kind. They often remain out in the forest for two or three months at a time, subsist ing almost entirely upon the honey which they collect. Their method of extracting the honey from the sometimes deep holes in which the bees hive is very simple. First, a wood fire is light ed near the tree and then, when it is burning brightly, the honey gath erer seizes a brand, extinguishes the flames and holds the smoking wood to the hole. Usually two or three fresh brands are used before the bees are sufficiently drowsy to enable the honey gatherer to thrust his arm into the hole and take out the comb. It often happens that the entrance to the hive is too small to admit a man s hand, and in this case a sharp native ax Is used to enlarge it after the smoke has been applied. These holes are usually cut w'ith care and neatness, for wild bees will very often return to one of these hives if its position has not been left too widely exposed. In their search the hunters are ably assisted bv the honey bird. This small bird frequents the neigh borhood of the trees in which honey has been hidden, and upon the ap proach of man commences to twit ter loudly and persistently, at the same time flying to and fro across their path and gradually leading them to one of the hidden hives. Having extracted the honey from the first hive, the Sudani throws the bird a small piece of the comb and then waits for it to start off again. In this way the bird may guide the honey hunters to several hives in one day. .-« # Ford's Spread in Europe. Chicago Journal of Commercs. When Henry Ford shut down his plants for purposes of reorganiza tion. a question widely discussed in Europe was whether he had thereby given European manufacturers of low-priced cars their long awaited opportunity to compete successfully with him. After he reopened his PULMOTOR FOR ASTHMA Chicago.—A pulmotor was used successfully here in overcoming a case of acute asthma. The patient Mrs. Adeline Seipp, was treated by the fire department first aid squad. When her husband was unable to locate a doctor, he called the fire men, who worked nearly four hours before Mrs. Seipp was pronounced out of danger. Attending physicians said it was the first instance in their experience that a pulmotor was used in treating critical asthma. plants, would he be able to recove tie European business which he hai lost? The answei depended mainly or the nature of his new model. Whei this was revealed, the European manufacturers foresaw that Fori would succeed in winning a large: share of the European market that, ever before. Now the announcemen is made of the formation of a nev, British corporation, the Ford Moto. company, which will make an ag gressive drive for business in Europe, Africa, and Asia Minor. Ford distributing companies in that vast territory will be acquired by the new corporation. Like Ford of Canada, the new British company will offer stock for public subscription. The offerin will amount to 40 per cent of the total stock. Presumably the remain ing 60 per cent will be held by the Ford family. The company will b capitalized at o 7.000,000. It is natural that we should think of this Ford venture as an expan sion of American foreign trade. Yet in most respects the enterprise will contribute directly to the well-being of Great Britain rather than of the United States. The foreign trade will be trade in products of British manufacture—the For.' car produced in the Manchester plant and the projected Dagenham plant, and the Fordson tractor produced at Cork When the Dagenham plant is com pleted it is expected to have an an nual capacity of 200.000 cars—al most double the present combined annual production of all British automobile manufacturing plants. The makers of these 200.000 cars will be British workmen. The money received as wages will contribute tc the general prosperity of Great Britain. Moreover, a large percentage ol the public stock offering will be tak en by Britons. The prosperity o! the Ford enterprise In England and Ireland will be their prosperity. It is also true, of course, that the Ford familv will receive the dividends on the 60 per cent of stock held by them. If the new British company were a Ford family enterprise practilly all the earnings would bs returned to the business. This can not be done when there is a large public ownership. Starting Tomorrow The flowers are brilliant with those poignant colors of farewell that flaunt triumphantly, flouting the dread of winter. Most gaudy are certain gladioli; and about these a single rubv throated humming bird is, in his dainty fashion, ex ceedingly busy. He is wholly con cerned with the wild honey dew in those gorgeous bells, hanging to him. like a huge carillon from the swaying spire of the stem. Yet this tiny fairy, as frail as thistledown, is on the eye of a prodigious jour ney, such a one, indeed, as night appall the oldest traveller. He is starting for Central America to night. Yet se seems Joyously un concerned, probing with ecstatic bill thte iridescent depths of the mighty bells. He does not appear to be buying travelers’ checks. He isn’t rushing around packing luggage and purchasing tickets. Something in his heart tells him that the time has come: but he knows that all is well. He has something to sustain him besides his wings. Perhaps it is what all of us must have —Arch ibald Rutledec. in "Children of Swamp, and Wood.” THE LABORER By Laura Gerahtv He is an artist though his work low on common soil, Because he sings of things that raise men’s hearts above their toil. He is a traveler though he seldom leaves the village street, When by the hearth he tells of for eign lands subtle and sweet. He is a sage, though scarcely can he write his humble name; A poet, hoarding beauty without thought of wealth or fame. He is. I think, the richest man I know, though passing poor; Go in! To find a mine'of gold be hind that cottage door. I Baree and the Beavers From Baree, Son of Kazan Deep in the northern forests the beaver does not work and play In darkness only, but uses day even more than night, and many of Bea ver-tooth’s people were awake when Baree began disconsolately to In vestigate the shores of the pond. The little beavers were still with their mothers in the big houses that looked like great domes of sticks and mud out in the middle of the lake. There were three of these houses, one at least 20 feet in di ameter. Baree had some difficulty In following his side of the pond. When he got back among the wil lows and alders and birch, dozens of little canals crossed and criss crossed In his path. Some of these canals were a toot wide, and others three or four feet, and all were filled with water. No country in the world ever had a better sys tem of traffic than this domain of the beavers, down which they brought their working materials and food into the main reservoir—the pond. . . . It was early In (he afternoon that for the third or fourth time Baree walked out on the dam. This dam was fully 200 feet in length, but at no point did the water run over it, the overflow finding its way through narrow sluices. A week or two ago Baree could have crossed to the op posite ride of the pond on this dam, but now—at the for end—Beaver tooth and his engineers were adding a new section of dam. and in order to accomplish their work more eas ily, thev had flooded fully 50 yards of the ‘low ground on which they were working. The main dam held a fascination for Ba,ree. It was strong with the smell of beaver. The top of It was high and dry, and there were dozens of smoothly worn little hollows In which the heavers had tnken their sun baths. In one of these hollows Baree stretched himself out, with his eves on the pond. Not a ripple stirred its velvety smoothness. Not a sound broke the drowsy stillness of the afternoon. The beavers might have been . . . asleep, for all the stir they made. And yet they knew that Baree was on the dam. Where he lay, the sun fell in a warm flood, and it was so 'omfortable that after a time he had difficulty in keeping his eyes open to watch the pond. Then he fell asleep. . ., Just how Beaver-tooth sensed this fact Is a mystery- Five minutes later he anme up quietly, without a I splash or a sound, within 50 yard* | of Baree. For a few moments ha , scarcely moved in the water . . . i and it was very soon apparent that \ Beaver-tooth had but one object In ' mind—getting a closer observation i of Baree. ... To get a better look, i the old beaver spread his flat tail out beyond him and rose to a sitting posture on his hind quarters, his two front paws held squirrel-lika over his breast. In this pose he was fully three feet tall. He probably weighed 40 pounds. . . . Suddenly he gave the mud of Ore dam a single slap with his tall—ami Baree sat up. Instantly he saw Beaver tooth. and stared B( a vet-tooth stared. For a full half minute neither moved the thousandth purt of an inch. Then Baree stood up and wagged his tail. That was enough. Dropping to his fore icet, Beaver-tooth waddled leisurely to the edge of the dam and dived over. He was neither cau tious nor In very great haste now. He made a great commotion in the water and swam boldly back and forth under Baree. When he had done this several times, he cut straight up the pond to the largest of the three houses nnd disappeared Five minutes after Benver-tooth’i exploit word was passing quickly among the colony. The stranger— Baree . . . was very young anc harmless. Work could be resumed. Play could be resumed. There was no danger. Such was Beaver-tooth’s verdict. If some one had shouted these facts In beaver language through a megaphone, tire response could not have been quicker. All at once It seemed to Baree, who was still standing on the edge of the dam, that tne pond was alive with beavers. He had never seen so many at one time before. They were popping up everywhere, and some of them swam up within a dozen feet cf him and looked him over in a leisurely and curious way. For perhaps five minutes the beav ers seemed to have no particular object In view. Then Beaver-tooth himself struck straight for the shore and climbed out. Others followed him. Half a dozen workers disap peared lr. the canals. As many more i waddled out among the alders and I willows. • • • Baree was fascinated by this work, nnd he never grew tired of watrh j lng It.—From "Baree, Son ef Ka / zan,”' by James Oliver Curwood. Tariff Case to Court From New York World. The supreme court of the United States may be called upon in the near future to decide whether the action of the president in changing a tariff duty under the flexible S provisions of the law is final, or whether this action is subject to review by the courts. Suit has been instituted in the United States customs court by an importing con cern contesting the validity of t';e president's order increasing the duty on sodium nitrate by 50 per cent. It is contented that the tariff com mission did not make the complete investigation of foreign and domec tlc production costs which the law prescribes, and the plaintiff compa ny wishes to summon members or employees of the tariff commission before the court to substantiate this claim. The government denies the right of the plaintiff to compel the commission to explain its acts. On the issue thus raised the case will probably be carried to the supreme court, for a determination whether executive changes in tariff duties, as provided in the Act of 1922, may not be set aside by the courts if they are not made in ac cordance with the law and the facts. This is a question of great Impor tance. To bring in the courts a3 the final arbiter would radically charge our tariff-making machinery. Con gress until recently exercised ex clusive control over the rates, and when it delegated partial control to the executive In 1922 it probably did not expect that this would raise the question of judicial con trol also. The constitutionality of this delegation to the executive was upheld by the supreme court some months ago, and now comes the question whether this delegation does not carry with It the review of executive acts by the courts. -♦♦ -- Hope for U. S. “Calf ”re ” From The Living Age. "Will the United States produce a Lorenzo the Magnificent?" asks Armando Zegri in Reportorio Amer icano, a literary weekly published at San Jose, Costa Rica. He answers his own question thus: “Probably, though under quite dif ferent circumstances and in quite different surroundings from those the famous Italian knew. “Those who from a distance watch the political activities of the Yankees must not forget that the cannibal spirit of imperialism is off set by the fact Yankeeland is destined to have a great artistic future. I know that art and Gringo land seem like contradictory terms to those who dislike the Yankees, or who have not lived in Yankee land long enough to understand the idiosyncrasies, the past, the present, and the future of the people. But as a matter of fact, at this very mo ment the United States is contribut ing to the artistic life of the world three highly important qualities: order, organization and economy of detail. “Day by day the atmosphere be comes more and more favorable to the development of art. American art Ls beginning to be democratic: that is to say, within reach of the majority of purses and the majority of intellects. The rich men of Wall Street have begun to take a direct interest in the development of a native American art." Senor Zegri points to Increasing American importations of art and artists from abroad and to the even more rapidly increasing exportation of American artistic efforts—the plays and novels of Thedore Dreiser, Eugene O’Neill and Sherwood An derson, for example. “The ‘self-made man’ will be fol Pretty Soon Now. From Life. Messenger: Yes, sir, I started out .th my first message 46 years ago. Innocent Bystander: And how many more years do you figure be fore you’ll finally deliver it? --♦ ♦ Q. The dresses of olden times ap pear heavy. Is it known how much ihey weighed? T. E. M. A. In the time of Henry VIII the well-dressed woman wore a costume that w-eighed 35 pounds. In contrast to this costume, we have the modern appsrel, weighing three pounds or Imh. shoes and ail lowed by the 'sell-made artist'; and the Latin nation^ wno have sneered at the Yankee Colossus’s infatua tion with business will very urooa bly see their intellectual market places Invaded, before this century is ovc', by art 'Made in the U. S A.’,” says Senor Zegri. -•«--— Business for Barges. From Detroit News. A shipment of 150 tractors, routed from Chicago to Minneapolis on the Upper Mississippi barge line, was unable the other day to find cargo space on the upbound barges. At the same time a consignment of 14 carloads of fann implements of fered for shipment was unable to find room on the government's car riers. The line to Minneapolis is a new extension of the govern ment's original service lower on the Mississippi, from St. Louis south, and on the Warrior in Alabama. Only a few weeks ago. the head of the corporation m charge oi the service, Major-General Ashburn, is sued a warning to the Twin Cities and the upper valley that if the line was to be a going concern it would have to be a two-way service, with freight for its upbound barges as well as grain on downstream runs. Tlie warning was hardly neces sary since the upper river is al ready complaining of insufficiency of equipment and service, and de mand has arisen in Minneapolis for a doubling of the size of the marge terminal there. Downstream freight Is offered far in excess of the barges' capacity, and, as we have seen, upstream shipments are al ready unable to find cargo room. Yet it is only a little while since officials, speculating on the propo sition of a nine-foot channel into Minneapolis, announced that there was Hardly enough business avail able to keep the line alive. Here history repeated itself. The St. Louis- New Orleans line was launched with misgivings in many quarters, and now has many times as much cargo awaiting its serv ice as it can possibly handle. It Is a curious thing, this timor ousness over the ability of water transport to make good, particular ly in these midland stales, which have pleaded, clamored, Argued and cajoled for years for a transport service as quick, economical and convenient as the government’s barges are offering today the length of the Mississippi. -.--—M Still a Best Seller. From New York Sun. In November, 1682, John Banyan was born. He was a tinker's eon. and out of the wealth of his re ligious experiences he wrote a tale that must be kept in stock today by every bookseller who hopes to satisfy the requirements of a mixed patronage. There is nothing to sug gest that "Pilgrim's Progress" has been outmcdeled by modernity. This year it appears in spec'al edi tions, many with biographies of its writer. They supplement the sup ply of plainer edillone printed and circulated in response to the call for modest volumes for readers not col lectors. No new fashion on new mechan- • tsm no new theory of physics can render obsolete the tale the thinkei told. It Is a record of the spirit, set down In words and phrases that have never grown old. “Pilgrim’s Progress" Is old fash ioned? Yes. So, too, is man's soul. —-»♦ ■■■ —— Q. How old should a parrot bo when it begins to talk? E. B. A. If a parrot is a talking parrot It should talk before it is one year old. -- ♦ ♦---» iNO lipping. From Passing Show. Nervous suitor: I say, 1 believe your brother saw me kiss you. What shall I give him to make him keep silent? Girl: His usual price is fifty cents. Q How many vessels have passed through the Panama Canal? H. S. A. Figures compled in the war department show that 46,833 com mercial vessels have passed through the canal since its opening up to July 1, 1928, paying tolls of $193, 307,728 and carrying cargoes ag gregating 215,286,199 tons.