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THE National Woman's party have had a very interesting Convention this week in Washington. There is no reason to question their earnestness, their woman's persistence and determination, nor their drawing power. They had a galaxy of attractions, and men as well as representatives of other organizations of women, were quite ready and more than willing, to appear and testify. They propose to continue their activities until they have effected "the removal of all the Temaining forms of subjection of women." Just what these remaining forms are, some men arc wondering. In fact, if enumerated, most men would vote to grant them at once, that this branch of woman's work might end and women rest from wearying.

It is interesting, however, to recall to mind the tremendous advance women have made in the past fifty years along the road of complete equality with men. Then the movement waf known as "Woman's Rights." Its chief objective was to gain legal rights, the right to own property, to economic independence and for the wife's freedom from economic subservience. Those were the days when Dr. Mary Walker insisted upon wearing trousers, when Pennsylvania still had a law designating the size of a stick a man might use in whipping his wife, when, on marriage, all a woman's property became the sole possession of her husband, and when even her children were her's only so far as that pleased her husband. But'all of this has now been changed.

She has every right a man has and her own besides. She also has all political rights. What else she wants, I it is only for her to say. Men have grown wiser with the years and have learned the folly of opposing, not one woman's will, but that of combined womanhood. Next to an operation for appendicitis, extracting sufficient income to satisfy Sam's needs is the most fashionable pastime.

Eater, Mr. von Tirpitz. There is nothing more impressive thin the great solicitude which all the German leaders of the old regime have for the United States. They have wonderful sympathy for this country and can see us already surrounded by enemies as they once said they saw Germany. The latest of these contributors to this symposium of anxiety for our welfare is Von Tirpitz, to whose genius for getting in bad, Germany ov.es her unrestricted submarine warfare.

It was he more than any other, who'forced the United States to enter the war. If his judgment as to remedies and policies for this people is as valuable as it was for the Germans, it is something to( be regarded only by its avoidance. He also has that same mental innocence which has characterized all the others of his bund, in his apprehensions for America. This country is now, he says, where Germany was before the war. That is, of course, the United States is the one real commercial competitor of Britain.

Like Germany, we would rival the British on the seas both in naval power and in merchant marine. Arrayed on the British side, or tied by British is all the rest of Europe white Japan will always aim according to Von Tirpitz to create enmity between this country and Great Britain. To American memory is also recalled quite incidentally and with Prussian naivete the Alabama of civil war days which, of course, is not calculated to increase American trust in the British. It certainly is uncommon, thoughtful and kind of Von Tirpitz and his bund to take such brotherly interest in the United States after what we did to them and theirs, including their ambitions. It shows that they bear no rancor.

They would keep us out of bad company. They would warn us and be an ever present raven to our possibly trustful complacency. They wish us good not harm. All they want is another great war and that it may come quickly, so Germany may be neutral, gather in the trade of the world, supply the belligerents, avoid the payment of alt reparations for this war, and after dog'has eaten dog, be iri fact the world's master. These Prussian philosophers have at least learned that world dominance may come in the way of letting the rest do the fighting.

Yet do they also show that this world has no place for that and that the ambition to dpminate, or even -the fact of excessive power, is the greatest of menaces to world peace. After pasing the compliments of the season, Senator Dial and Judge Landis may be expected to lunch together and enjoy the joke. Fooling With the Buzz-Saw. This Congress now closing its final session, enacted budget law. It was vetoed by President Wilson on what seemed to many but a technicality.

The House, however, accepted his judgment and f1' change necessary to meet his objection. 1 did not have time to do this, though I apparently disposed to do so. the confident expectation, of the public i of the very first acts of this final session would be to complete the passage of this most important-measure. It was regarded as the greatest achievement of the special session of 1920. But nothing has been done.

Why nothing has been done, why there has been no response when response seemed so easy, no one has pretended to say. There has been not so nuich a mention of budget during this session, where so much time has been devoted to wholly new legislation of questi6nable value, if not fantastic form. But the House took one admirable step. It or-1 ganized to put in effect the law by forming a single enlarged appropriation committee to which was added the chairmen of those other committees that had had the right to "frame special appropriation measures. This was sensible.

It was conforming to party pledges. It was essential to making good the promise of econpmy in expenditures. The administration in submitting its final estimates played the usual game. It granted everything asked by everybody, leaving to the Republicans the onus of denial. It certainly was desirable, if not indeed essential, that these estimates should be considered as a whole and balanced one with the other.

It was a movement for real economy; to simplify national expenditure and guard against waste. But it has come up against age-old human nature which puts self first. Some members of the committees shorn of their power to dally with the pvblic Treasury and dispense largess, have devoted much of their time to simply making trouble. They are doing their level worst to discredit and hamper the new system. They are trying, like the liquor men of old, to make the new conditions worse than those that were.

They want back their power to dispense loaves and fishes, not in the interest of the taxPayer, not for economy, but for personal, political advantage. Having failed to perfect the budget bill by making it law, this Congress leaves it for the next to begin over again. If the next Congress fails in this, if these obstructive tactics are continued, the Democrats will not fail to see their advantage of a material issue in the next election. If the UniteV States Treasury is bothered to find space in which to store its filthy lucre, it might spread if around a little among the folks who have no fear of financial germs. A Crowing Demand.

1 hose who largely control the moving picture interests are among the shrewdest of American business men. It is essential to their continued hold upon this business that they should constantly and rightly interpret public sentiment and publie demand. If they are as shrewd and as keen to see as they are credited, they can hardly fail to sense the now insistent demand for wholesome, amusing and educational pictures for children. They have had temporary spasms in this direction, but they have never given what was wanted. They have produced but few films especially for children that have been free of the sensational, that have not been spoiled by some touch of the morbid, the horrible, or the gruesome.

They have not been able to get clear of their melodramatic in? stinct, their devotion to death-bed a bit of maudlin sentiment or hair raising adventure, accident or killing. They could learn a lot as to just what parents want for their children and what children most enjoy, by viewing the pictures tb? of Washington have shown the past month and more for child audiences. In fact the gtown-ups have enjoyed them as much as have the youngsters. Or they might call in consultation a grouj!) of educators, men and women, a group of parents of both sexes, and a group of those interested in child welfare. These could tell them their mistakes.

They then would not attempt to merely dramatize stories nominally for children, many of which emphasize, when pictured, what the text leaves submerged and what in fact should not be there at all. They would not seek for dramatic effects of the street variety. They would stick to the simple, the pretty, the delightful, the cheerful, with plenty of action and mirthful situations, but without a hint of the morbid, or splashed with wrong teaching. They would interlace these with what is genuinely educational. Either the moving picture men mast supply this demand, and supply it with full sets of reels covering entire show periods, or they will find their child audiences taken from them by the schools, which are already becoming rivals, and by organizations like this fthe women of Washngton.

After four years of experience as a vocalist, It is to be hoped Paderewski may be induced to let the piano again do his talking. May Day Fete. Mr. W. D'Arcy Ryan has" a right hunch.

The Herald votes for the May Day fete, which he has proposed. It should be quite evident that Washington may as well good-by to any elaborate inaugural festivities Mr the future. These are gone. They probably will not return. It is hardly possible that any future administration will venture to revive them.

This may seem foolish to Washington and to many outside this city. But precedent is precedent, and the decision 1s that of economy run mad in spots. It is a response to that simplicity supposed tk be so distinctive of democracy of the American brand. But a May Day fete would be Washington's own. Washington do this for itself.

It would be one thing Washingtonian that was wholly free from Congressional or government supervision or control. It would be good for Washington to do one big thing all by its lonesome and to copceive, run, manage and accomplish one thing without any interference. Moreover, no other city has such -setting for such an affair. No other has such streets, such a wealth of public buildings, so much of architectural magnificence, or an equal beauty in flowers and Foliage in parks and water frontage, in the openness of its plan and advantages for decoration. Just a hint, there is nothing that can compare to the dome of the Capitol its-night lighting.

This is just one feature. The play of searchlights on the White House, on the Monument, the Mall and along th? Speedway would form other incidents. Washington has everything conceivable that lends itself to spectacular effect. Here also the one place in America every-' one wants to see. Here fc where everyone wants to come.

Here is the shrine of their loyalty, where they outpour that love of country in every American heart. If there is a special occasion, they will come in floods, and be richly paid for the coming. If his income is the measure of a man's success, Uncle Sam takes it. i in' i ay. tin What the Nation LJ tf-fffTI COMM.

THHOail URGES TO UYKIt BILL. Congress has an unparalleled opportunity to stimulate trade between the United States and China In the pending Dyer bill, which would place American business men on the same footing as the British firms operating there. Commodore I-. Volpicelll. for twenty years Italian consel general in Southern China said when seen at the Lafayette.

Commodore Volpicelli has lived in China for nearly forty years. He has written two books on the Far I Bast: "The China-Japan War." and Russia on the Pacific and the Siberian Railway," besides a pamphlet on the silver question, ahd many artides on the Chinese language. He started the propaganda which abolished judicial torture in China and during the frequent revolutions iir-Canton In the years, he worked persistently for peace among the rival factions and received Numerous war medals for the dangerous risks he cheerfully faced for the cause of peace. American trade with China- will collapse unless the present' handicaps are removed from the American business man, Commodore Volpicelli declared. BRITISH HAVE BUILT IP GIGANTIC TRADE.

"The British," he continued, "have built up their gigantic trttde in China by the intelligent comprehension of the simple principle that it is better to sacrifice uncertain small fiscal profits and to obtain certain large commercial profits. Instead of strangling trade at Its inception, by charging' taxes on nascent companies, they authorize these to register as British companies in the British colony of Hong-Kong and exempt them from the Income tax." Volpicelli explained that this exemption should not be considered as a favor or a privilege, but more as a Just recognition of the special local conditions. Trade in the Far East is very different from trade anywhere else. The office staff is very numerous, highly paid and the foreign employes must have long costly leaves and their passage when they come out must be paid by the firm. The Chinese have been heavy investors in foreign firms operating in China, stnoe they have been shrewd enough to see the advantages of the legal position of foreigners under the exterritorial rights granted citizens and subjects of otber governments to make up for deficiencies in Chinese laws.

WHITES AM) JAPS NOT SUBJECT TO CHINESE LAW. Under existing treaties with China, white men and the Japanese as well are not subject to Chinese laws nor controlled by Chinese officials. Therefore, whenever foreigners in China are defendants in a civil or criminal case they are tried according to theil own national laws and in their own courts by their own Judicial officials, either their own consuls or the judges of the supreme courts. Similarly when Chinese are defendants in suits brought agaiaet them by foreigners they are treated according to their own national laws in their own courts and by their own officials. Chinese investments in foreign firms have increased as the years have gone on, and Great Britain has secured the larger share of these interests, Volpicelll says "Owing to lack of adequate laws covering American trade in China, America has had no part in this industrial Joint account or co-operative development.

The opportunity is opened to Americans now to make the first real steps In this direction in connection with the proposed legislation for Federal incorporation of companies in China" said Volpicelli. "Up to a year and a half ago ail Americans who wished to capital in business in China, ViClr 'n Hong-Kong. They thus secured the protection of a foreign flag and were allowed to manage their companies as they I found in 1915 a Hong-! Kong ordinance made it compulsory! companies registered! in China to be controlled by British subjects. AMERICANS HARD HIT IN DOUBLE WAV. "This affected Americans in a double way: All those employed as managers and directors, who had built up during long years of intel- I ligeht, patient work a large busi- ness, were suddenly dismissed.

All I those who had invested their capital and thus indirectly had built up, a large business, suddenlv found I that their "capital would be con-J trolled by strangers, whose Interests! were often antagonistic to American interests. They were no longer allowed to take cars' of their own property. 'To register their business as American business they would immediately be subjected to both State and Federal taxes, owing to want of special legislation devised for the special conditions of doing business in the Far East. "I was in Sha'nghai in the fall and winter of 1919 and remember vividly the consternation among the Americans, at the sudden hostile legislation enacted by thc British authorities. I knew the manager of the Astor House, the principal hotel in Shanghai, which had always been an American hotel.

I knew that he had sacrificed his position as captain of one of the large steamers I knew what intelligent and palas he had expended In raising the Astor House- to the height of prosperity, and I was told he had been regretfully dismissed, as the new ordinance required It." Volpicelli recommends the immediate passage of the Dyer bill, which would make impossible the above, and similar dismissals and failures which' marked the close of 1919 in American business alrcles ih China. "Now Americans have the greatest opportunity In their history to build up a large trade in China," he said. "The only thing wanting is just legislative treatment by their own government." F. W. G.

Big I-and Deals Closed. FREDERICKSBURG. Feb. 13. E.

F. Burkholder, of Streator, 111 has purchased "Cabin Hill." in Hanover County, containing 1,120 acres Purchased also the Gourd Hill Farm. In Hanover County, containing 810 acres. His son-in-law, Kalph Harmon, purchased 130 acres of land In Hanover County, all from the Great Eastern Land Company But Watch Out When THE HE REVIEWS WHILE El ROPE WAITS FOR PEACE, by pierrepont B. Noyes (The MacMillan Company.) This book is small enough to go in the pocket of any Senator or Rep- resentative.

It is small enough to go in the pockets of those who make the noise which Senators and Representatives listen for when i they put their ears to the ground The facta which are contained in this beek are so stated and are of such a nature thai they could be carried the heads of Senators i and Representatives and the rest of us without displacing anything which we could not well afford to lose. From April. 1519. to June. 1920.

Mr. Noyes was American rep- i resentatives on the Rhineland com- i mission. He has naturally been in close touch with the problems of the peace settlement. Further- more, he is not writing to exercise his imagination, and his conclu- i sions are not based on their apac- ity to collect votes. Mr.

Noyes is the head of a great business en-; terprise, and as far as we know i does not want to be elected to anything. He is neither an ignorant idealist nor a rabid reactionary. He i does not hold that the league of Nations is a perfect political Instrument that will cure the world's ills in the twinkling of an eye. nor docs ho give us any of that fantastic bosh about American participation meaning the surrender of our sovereignty and the loss of our independence. He envisages the European situation as it affects America as a whole and not as it pertains to one or another of our racial and political groups.

Mr. Noyes believes that the world needs a League of Nations, but he also believes that no league can be effective without the United States. He believes that the German indemnity should be placed at a figure that Germany can pay. As France would necessarily lose by this, he we relinquish, our claims France for our loans during the war. He does not favor thfc cancellation of England's debt to us.

Mr. Noyes backs up his argument with facts clearly, concisely, -And briefly presented. THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1920. Edited by Edward JO'Brien. (Small, Maynard and Company.) Mr.

O'Brien's yearbook has become an institution. No matter what we think of his taste, he remains the only American who makes a painstaking, annual appraisal of our magazine fiction. To be sure, in 1920,. W. D.

Howells' collection of great American short stories and the O. Henry Memorial collection, edited bv Blanche Colton Williams and others, were published, but neither of these actually competed with Mr. O'Brien in his field. Mr. Howells selected "Great American Stories" covering a period of The O'Henry Memorial collection contained stories published in 1919 from which two prize storiea were selected, but apparently did not represent so wide a reading of magazines as does Mr.

O'Brien's yearbook. Since 1915 Mr. O'Brien has presented year a careful analysis of magazine fiction, containing not only a rating of authors and stories, but a rating of magazines as well on the basis of the percentage of distinctive or good stories published during the year. -such work, has. of course, a historical value and is or deep interest to all students of the short story.

Its weakness, naturally, lies fact that the whole thing hangs on the Judgment of one man. If you happen to disagree with Mr. O'Brien, his selection is of small use to you. But he has the virtue of being explicit as to the reasons for his choice, perfectly definite in his criticism, and as consistent, probably, as It' is given man to bf. He asks first of all for sincerity.

He has no use for the author who "compromises with his readers." that is, who writes what he thinks they prefer. He tests a stOTy both- as to subject matter and as to style, and If it meets both tests, classifies t' the Whistle Blows for RALD BOO it as "distinctive." He has, of course, his prejudices, and, being a serious-minded gentleman, leans I toward the tales which many read- era classify as unpleasant. Aiso he a great deal of what he calls "the Henry James tradition." holding very high in his esteem such authors as write with the Henry James air of sophistication, i Nevertheless he seems open minded, Only ten of the authors whose sto- ries appear in the 1520 collection have appeared in the year book before. and of the other ten. few have names that are widely known among magazine readers.

Katherine Fullerton Gerould, ilbur Daniel Steele, and Rupert Hughes are there, to be sure, but they are flanked by Konrad Bercovici. Edna Clare Bryner. Ethel Storm and others whose presence suggests that Mr. O'Brien is not bound by the tra- dition of name at least. WAKTKDt A FOOL, by Philip (Harper and Brothers.) An erstwhile actor returned from? the war answers advertisement headed.

"Wanted: A Fool." His adventures, naturally, are many and hair-raising. There are so many complications and so many side issuef dragged into the story that at it becomes arduous readj ing. but there is plenty of action underneath all the wanderings and philosophising. There also a good deal of stage atmosphere which Dr. Curtiss has handled so successfully in the past, a love interest, and nn- i merous thrills.

The story is too cluttered, however, for comfort, and one feel, that if the author would try it cutting oul all unnecessary complications this time, it would be a far better and more In- teresting performance THE I'JSDERWOOD MYSTERY, by i Charles J. Dutton. (Dood, Mead and Company.) No time is wasted by this author. The plot begins to thicken on line Ave of page.one. Thereafter things get thicker and thicker until it ap, pears that all the possible solutions Of the mystery have been proved I impossible.

There is a solution, of course, and it is a surprising one. though to us it did not seem to be particularly ingenious. A very famous and scholarly detective, named Bartley, and his Dr. Watson, whose real name (poer devil!) is Pelt, are i engaged Xb solve the mystery of the murder-of John Underwood, a very I wealthy man Mr. Underwood found dead in hit library, the doors and windows of which art- all found locked from the inside.

The suicide t.hcory has to be abandoned because the pistol with which the macrnatr was shot is not to be found, and. "prthermore, there is no motive for suicide. Underwood's yon. his secretary, his wife and a friend of the latter, are all at one time or another apparently guilty of the crime. Then, to complicate matters, the author introduces robbery, assault and blackmail, which quite effectively keep the reader, as well as Pelt and the local police, off the right trail.

It is a good story, but unfortunately rather carelessly written. Even in an atmosphere of violence there is no good heafon for including the English lansuage among the victims. -THAT AFFAIR AT THE CEDARS." by Lee Thayer (Doubleday. Page and Company). According to the blurb on the jacket of this book, this new story by Mrs.

Thayer is more than a thrilling mystery story. It is. we are told, a novel of American life. We think this is unfair to Mrs. Thayer.

As a novel of American life, it is not much, but as a mystery Story, it is very much above the average. For one thing several of the characters are drawn with more than one dimension, which is unusual in mystery and it Is this perhaps that Is responsible for the business about a npvel of American life. The story opens briskly with the shooting of Raymond Austin. At it appears to be suicide, but a likable young Irish oetective who happens along quickly Dinner Darling 11 I FEED STAStE KSHELF 30KN0TES discovers any number of clues which indicate that murder has been done There were many pood reasons for murdering Raymond Austin, and the young deteetive's problem is to discover which of those who would be more or less justified In having done the deed belongs the doubtful honor. When Peter Clancy.

the sleuth, announces that he knows who is guilty, three persomconfess. The identity of the murderer, however, is very painstakingly concealed until the last moment and the reader is led to suspect not only the three who confess, but three or four others. The guilty person is so shielded by the author from suspicion that when he suddenly acknowleges his guilt, it requires a good deal of explanation to show how he could possibly have been the murderer CHINA. hy Harold M. Yinacke tPrinccton I'niversity Press).

This book covers a period of twenty years, giving a clear and interesting account of Chinese polltics from the Boxer days to the ascendency of the Tuchuns. Prof. Yinacke is concerned almost exclusively with internal affairs, avoiding as far as possible the subject of Chinas foreign relations, and saying but little regarding the influence or loreign ideas upon the Chinese constitution. The author is optimistic as to the future of China, a feeling which he justifies by the rapid growth of national feeling during the period covered by his study. E.

P. Dutton and Company have ready for Immediate publication Alexander M. Bing's work on "WarTime Strikes and Their Adjustment." which will be a notable addition to the history of Industrial development during the last ffcw years. Frederic C. Howe, formerly Commissioner of Immigration at the Port of New York, accuses the Soviet government of Russia of "sabotaging freedom" In his new book.

"Revolution and Democracy." announced lor immediate publication by W. Huebach. Unless this sabotage of freedom atops. Mr. Howe says, the Soviet rovernment of Russia is bound to fall.

Mr. Howe also accuses labor of sabotage In limiting production; most of the current troubles, according to him. are due to the fact that sabotage is practiced and that there is no ideal of service. he says, is as guilty as capital in this regard. The author, who resigned as Immigration Commissioner last fall, is at present a member of' the commission investigating conditions in Ireland.

He is an authority on civic welfare and has written many books on agrarian conditions in this conntry and Europe. Sir Philip arrival in America coincides with the ninth printing by Harper Brothers of "Now It Can Be Told." his great book which the truth about the war. and was the official "best seller" among the nonflction titles of 1920. Sir Philip is planning a lecture tour which will afford many Americans the opportunity of hearing the man whose book of American impressions, published ahortly before Christmas by the Harpers, tinder the title of "People of Destiny," created such a atir. Mrs.

Mary Austin, author, "26 Jayne Street." 'The Ford." "Isidro" and a number of remarkable novels has recently accepted a place on the National Community Council at Washington. Mrs. Austiji was the organizer the first community theater movement in this country, and the great width of her knowledge of many localities and many people make her an ideal member of such a board. The publication of "Madaav" Ethel Sidgwicks first novel since the war. will be made by Small.

Maynard 6 Company aarly in March. Wrttm of fM piMtnttM la tkf Opes in amlif their roRtrfkilioBi 3M words or Rm.li:? TO the Editor. The Herald N. Opinion no doubt Tnf no opinion. Which quite with the signers letter.

Sh. ha? no knowledge of what the Irishman of today is doing I have run up against a most wonderful proposal tion the Irish in this country doing to help this country. They In fact do more for the country than they (pet credit for. but that doesn't matter, the Irish are not looking for publicity. I am connected with a local insurance company.

I have some data to offer your that might prove to there thaj the Irishman is worth having in this eountrj. England as she has always doing is and always has controlled the insurance of this countrx, t- day, though, she it. and mighty fast. The here in this country is asking that the British insurance boycotted. The American public is and the thinn working out splendidly.

England up to date has lbst nearly $of insurance from this country, the money is being put in American companies and that kept in this country. We need more plans of that sort here to make America the most wonderful! and most powerful country on the map. HOME OPINION Scientific Notes and Comment Calendar of Activities of Societies I In ashingt on IliAlociril Soeletj. I this evening. (iome? in Relation 'I rcdity" C.

McClung: a Factor in the Guinea Pig? to Tuberculoid." Dr Sewall Wright Arrhrolnitiral Snriftj. Henry Butler 11 street, today. 4 o'clock. Prof Robinson, of HopkmJ Cniversity. ill speak on logical Excavation in Western Asia and the Sevln Chun Asia." for Inqair? Public today.

4 of Fa-'iuha' paper. "RecogTi itions in I'hiJ losophy," led by Prof Huhj ardsoo. I Medical Society. Medical H-i dims 132D street, this v. r.ir.c.

o'clock. ''Recent I nt in Otology." by II rtl papers on use of X-raThomas A Groover Merritt; Case Report. i 1 Thomas M. Foley. I EARTH SPKM I HAKES BETTER AKMK.H7.

Mapping the red and end of the spectrum iias cn oih of the jobs of the au of Stand ards. How lines been discovered and method! of photographing tins- I.e. I developed Wa t'dd Kiess at the meeting at ot Standards Ij The rare earths speetrl that are particulars strong in tliJ yellow, green, red and eranp. vawJ and the bureau has ing with the 1111 I and the New Harnpsh rr State lege in determining the purity the spectrum of the especially purt chemicals they haw to replace those imported from Germany. "Rare earth cores in the graphitl carbons for arc lamps arc a technical utilization of thl fact that these compounds i yttrium, lanthanium.

thorium, eel I Hum and samarium when volatilize' produce the so-called lorir heal waves to which the eye is mod 1 sensitive." said Pr Kicss. in plaining that this development improved the quality of archghj SPKCTROSCOrK DYE AXALTMff. What kind and how u- liphj a dye transmits or an determined and can he used tfl identify that dye. if .1 M. told the staff meeting at the Fu reau of Standards yestcrdav Each and every dye has its "w'j "transmittancy" factor.

he which varies regularly 'concentration of the dye s.duti"fJ Thus. spectral analysis lutions can be used to supplement and in some cases r- chemical methods of analysis commonly used. For m' I tures this method can also he in many cases, said Mr McNi. HELI1 A "OW WASTED DAII.A More tnan one million of the valuable helium, which usballoons and airships, cmp'- fcM either commercial or milr poses, are wasted every ac tsording to Dr. Rtchaid B.

Moare chief chemist the Bureau ot Mines, who the Columhui section of the American Hiefit a' Society at Ohio State I niv, This gas. which is superior tl hydrogen, because it will ict cx plode, should be ssid Pr i Moore. During the war the army navy and the Bureau of Mines, cooperating, did experimental on the extraction of helium from natural gas, and a large extraction plant was built and duction purposes at the war. Already 299.0OO cubic feci 1 the gas have been produced In storage in Texas Congress now being asked for sufftcien funds to complete experiments work and produce for commercial and future military needs Dr. Moore said that helium tf found in the air In the proportioi of one Wtrt to by volume, if the gases which come from springi and in certain natural gases in th? United States The fact that heliun exists in these American pases li reasonably large quantities maket the whole question of its use it aeronautlca.

not only a commercla possibility, but a practical under taking. W. Di i vr fri".