BARONESS BEGS
U. S. CITIZENSHIP
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Former Miss de Haven. Wife of
Baron von Aten, Seeks
Special Act.
fund of her grandmother, Mrs. Louise
Bigelow, wus $15,000 a yeur. and this
amount wus paid by the Northern
Trust company of Chicago until the
alien property custodian took charge
of the funds.
"About February, 1010, riots and rev-
broke out In Budapest,” Mrs.
CASTS OFF HER CHILDREN | i nlution
de Haven told the committee. "On the
W ill Recognize Them O n ly W hen T hey
Q u it G erm an y— In D a n ge r of Be
com in g D estitu te— $15,000
a Y ear Involved.
day of the outbreak an Immense mob
was resisted by the police near the ho
tel where I was. A fter the conflict
some 30 dead and many wounded lay
In the street near my hotel. The dead
were brought into the corridor of the
hotel and then the mob came In and
seized everything In the dining room
that could be eaten or drunk. The dis
turbance lasted all night.
“ In this situation I decided to accept
a German passport. I did not go my
self to the German authorities to ask
for It, but I sent a friend who obtained
It for me. Arrangements were made
for a train to take the German refu
gees hnck to Germany.
Germans went on toward Germany. I
gut off In the railroad yard. All 1 had
with me (¿as two small handbags. I
had nothing to eat or drink on the
train."
Because they sided with Germany In
the war Mrs. de Haven said she broke
off relations with her children. She
added la her declaration that she
would recognize them only when they
came to this country and became citi
zens.
“ It Is certain,” she continued, "that
unless relief by special act of congress
In restoring me to citizenship Is speed
ily ufforded I shall l>e penniless aud tn
dire want before 1 can regain my cltl-
zenshlp through the operation of the
suit for divorce, o f the borrowed mon
ey, $4,000, 1 brought with me to this
country, only about $3 t)00 Is now left.”
Representative Isaac Siegel ques
tioned Mrs. de Haven regarding her
use of a passport as a German subject
when traveling out o f Austria. The
use of a German passport, she said,
was against all her Instincts, but there
was no other way for tier to get out of
Budapest. She used such a passport,
she said, on the advice of Colonel
Yates.
“ My only wish Is to become an Amer
ican, to live over here, and. If possible,
to have money to live on. I am not
well enough to go to work. That Is all
I wish. I do not care whether I get
my German money or not. All I wish
Is to become an American, a good
American.”
New York.—Congress, through the
passage of n special act, will shortly be
asked to reslore to citizenship the Bar
oness Augusta Louise de Uaven-Alten,
the forntei -Miss de Haven of New
York, who In 1883 married the Baron
Eberhard von Alton, a German officer.
Caught In Budapest when the revolu
tion broke out In February of last
year, the bnroness, who Is now known
as Mrs. Louise de Haven, was forced
Borrow ed From Dressm aker.
to flee to Vienna as a German refugee,
“ The train took 24 hours to reach a
and after many vicissitudes reaclred
Switzerland practically destitute. On point on the outskirts o f Vienna. The
money borrowed from a professor in
Geneva, a childhood friend, she reached
New York several weeks ago.
The question of the restoration of
Mrs. de Haven to citizenship was
taken up by the house committee on
immigration and naturalization and
she recently appeared before the com
mittee and told tier life story. Under
German law her personal property has
passed Into the custody of her hus
band and her Interests in a trust fund
created Aiy her grandmother- who was
tiie widow o f Admiral Abraham Bige
low, U. S. N „ was seized by the enemy
alien property custodian. Her attor
ney, W alter Bruce Howe of Washing
ton, told the committee that Mrs. de
Haven was “ inevitably and rapidly ap
proaching destitution.”
When very young Mrs. de Haven
went with her father to live in Swit
zerland and was brought up near Gene- j
va. On her nineteenth birthday she
married Baron von Alten and went to |
live In Germany. She had two (laugh ,
ters, who are now mnrrled and living
in that country.
“ My mnrrled life was not happy,"
Mrs. de Haven told the committee. In
1010 she entered into a formal separa
tion agreement with her husband. In
1011, she said, she left Germany and
has never seen her husband since.
Robert 1’. Williams of Watertown, N. Y „ with his family arriving tn New
H e r F un ds H ere Seized.
York from Europe, after a lapse of six years, more than five being spent In
Tw o years later she again brought an enforced stay at Wiesbaden, Germany. Mr. Williams and his family were
suit. This time she charged her hus touring Europe when the war began, and though armed with proper cre
band with misconduct. The war sus dentials were not permitted to leave Wiesbaden, the German commander
pended all proceedings, for the law suspecting Mr. Williams of being a spy. During the war they were forced
would not allow litigation against an to subsist on German government rations, and It was not until last month
that they received permission to start for the United States. Mr. Williams
officer on active duty.
Mrs. de Ilaven’^ Interest In the trust Is the son of Termer Supreme Court Justice Pardon C. Williams.
HELD FIVE YEARS IN GERMANY
TEMPERATURE IS NEGLIGIBLE
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F lo w e rin g and F ru itin g Period of P r a c
tic a lly A n y P la n t C an Be Controlled
by Le n gth e n in g D a y by A rti
ficial Light.
Washington, D. C.— Government ag
ricultural experts have discovered that
plant life seems to depend on light,
rather than temperature, for nourish
ment and may be controlled by regu
lating the hours of light and darkness.
The principle Is revolutionary; hut
it rests on actual experiments, in which
It was demonstrated that plants sub
jected to alternate periods of light and
darkness in enrefully determined pro
portions could be brought to maturity
at any time of the >ear.
"Greenhouse experiments," says an
announcement by the department of
agriculture, "prove that the flowering
and fruiting'period of practically any
plant can he made to take place at any
time of year by darkening the green
house I d the morning and evening, if
Man With “Ingrowing
Grouch” Is Divorced
Los Angeles.— A man with an
“ Ingrowing £ inch"— so he dub
bed himself— was divorced by
Judge Crnil. L. E. Ilnss, statis
tician employed by the state de
partment of labor, is the man.
Helen nnss, who wns represent
ed by Attorney Or...th Jones,
secured n divorce on the ground
of cruelty.
Ross had brought the suit, hut
failed to appear In court He
charged his w ife with cruelty
and among hi« grievances was
that his wife kept too many cats.
Her main grievance against hinj
was disclosed In a batch of let
ters from a woman who signed
herself “ Your Baby."
View of the Thomas Morse mull plane which recently accomplished a feat long the dream of aviation pioneers,
when with a useful weight almost equal to Its own, It gracefully left the snow and slush at Ithaca, N. Y. The craft
Is a biplane evolved and produced by the Thomas Morse Aircraft corporation.
Its weight empty Is 2,81)0 pounds.
Its weight loaded Is 5,500 pounds. Thus Its useful load is 2,610 pounds, or only 280 pounds less than the weight of
the cruft. Many planes carry less than half their weight.
Owes Big Debt
to Chemistry
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Much of Industrial Wealth Can
Be Traced to Effort of
Some Scientist.
MOST FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE
H a s to D o W ith Food W e Eat, W ate r
W e D rin k , C lo th in g W e Near, and
in V a ry in g Degree W ith E ve ry
A rticle
in Com m erce.
By W . L E E L E W IS .
(H e ad of the D ep artm e nt of C h e m is
try, N orthw estern U n iv e rsity and
the D iscoverer of "L e w isite ,” the
M ost D e a d ly G a s E ve r Produced by
Man.)
“ Render unto Caesar tbe things tlmt
are Caesar’s. . .
Beneath a simple grave in Northum
berland, Pa., lies the dust o f a hum
ble English
clergyman. ■ He
was
driven from his native land by re
ligious Intolerance, and sought aud
found in Americn Intellectual freedom.
This man, Priestly, never earned over
£30 a year, yet he discovered oxygen
and laid the foundation o f modern
chemistry.
The great steel Industries o f our
country, the vast rubber business, the
tremendous packing Interests would
deem it a rare privilege were this man
living, to contribute to Ills comfort,
and give him the scientific tools that
would glndden his heart, and to ac
knowledge their Immeasurable debt to
hltn. But for the man. Priestly, they
can only lay a wreath on his Inst rest
that plants kept In the dark for a part ing place.
Much of the grent Industrial wealth
of the day underwent In midsummer
the changes that in nature come in the of this country can be traced to the
fall and that, heretofore, ‘.lave been at effort o f some obscure chemist, some
tributed to lower temperatures. This zealous devotee to pure science, who
wns true even when the dark houses thought little o f self and who never
registered a higher temperature than shared In the fruits o f his researches.
the outside atmosphere.
F u n dam e ntal Science.
“ The length o f the day.” the depart
From the standpoint o f material re
ment’s
nnnouneement
said,
“
Is
proved
the day Is too long, or by lengthening
sources chemistry Is the most funda
the day by artificial light if the day Is to be the most potent factor in deter mental science. It has to do with the
mining
the
relntive
•proportions
be
too short.
tween the vegetative and fruiting parts air we breathe, the water we drink,
F lo w e rs T h a t Bloom in Spring.
of
many crop plants. Indeed, fruiting the food we eat, the clothing we wear
"Spring flowers and spring crops
and. In varying degree, with every ar
happen to he spring flowers and spring tuny he completely suppressed by a ticle that enters Into commerce. Chem
day
too
long
or
too
short.
This
new
crops because the days at the season
istry Is the science o f the composition
o f their flowering and fruiting have principle undoubtedly explains the er of matter, and matter Is that upon
the proper dumber o f hours o f dnv- ratic behavior which has been observed which energy, human and otherwise,
with many crops when they are shifted
i llght."
is expended.
The science embraces
The discovery may be of the highest to different latitudes.”
the star dust o f outermost space, the
importance In the future planning of
swirling volcanoes of sun gnses, and
cropping systems for different regions. W OMAN'S STOMACH JUNK PILE the hncterla thnt nibble our food.
Eventually it may be found, accord
Consider the value of a single dis
ing to -W. W. Garner and II. A. Allard, O p e ra tin g S u rge o n s F in d 1,200 Pieces
covery In abstract chemistry’. Klreh-
scientists In the bureau of plant Indus
of M etal In side of In san e
off, over a hundred years ago, dis
try, who conducted exhaustive experi
Patient.
covered that starch could he con
ments, that the animal organism also
verted Into sugar h.v dilute acids.
Is capable o f responding to the stimu
Baltimore.—-An Inmate of the Spring- The United States alone Is richer
lus o f certain day lengths. They be field State Hospital for Insane, at Bal
by $40,000,000 a year because o f that
lieve that the migration of birds may timore, swallowed 1.230 metallic arti discovery.
Perkin discovered mauve
be an illustration, on the ground that cles and is still alive, according to Dr.
In the coal tar dyes.
Its value was
direct response to such a stimulus J. Clement Clark, superintendent.
would be more In line with modern
When the woman refused to eat, fol
blologlcnl
teachings
than theories lowing her admission to the hospital, a
which nssume that birds “ go south” hard mass was felt In her stomach.
as a matter of Instinct.
She was operated upon at a hospital
Experiments were conducted with a and surgeons found 1,280 pins. 45
large variety of plants. It wns shown safety pins, 138 hairpins, 30 pieces of
conclusively that too little “ sleep.” or, wire, 0 buttons, an Iron hook, a nail, a
In other words too many hours of day- | paper clamp and a garter buckle.
light, would prevent many plants front
even reaching the flowering and fruit
ing stage.
Peeeping Frogs Sing
It was found also that plants would
not reproduce except when exposed to j
in Nepaug Swamps
5
n favorable length of day. nllhnueh too !
much daylight for flowering ami fruit- ¡| Winstead.
Conn. —
Peeping | !
Ing might stimulate profuse vegetative !|
frogs were hear! in the cowslip { ]
growth. A length o f day favorable
;
swamps at the base of Yellow *
both to reproduction and growth re ; Mountain In Nepaug.
£
sults In the “ ever-hearing" type of ¡1
“ Tw o more hard freezes and «
fruits.
they'll he out for good," sold i
By employing dark chambers the scl
Deneon Riley Munsted of Ne- 5
entlsts shortened or lengthened the >
paug.
life cycle of plants and forced some of '
John Scanlon of New Hart- } !
them to complete two cycles In one son- ,
ford, rural mah carrier, while $ j
son. Violets, which naturally bloom ; traversing his route ovei Lake S j
only during the comparatively short j
Wonksunkmonk hills this win- >
days o f spring, when covered with | ; ter scattered grain for a flock of 2 j
light-proof boxes for a time were made I ;; partridges, with the result th„t !
to bloom again during the summer j ; the game birds now a ' ’alt his 2
Biloxi soy beans exposed to the light
; arrival and follow his rig for n 2 I
for only five hours a day flowered near 1
1 considerable distance.
2 j
ly three months earlier than plants left :
One of the partridges fagged j
in the light all day. but attained only i
Scanlon a distance o f a half j
about one-eighth o f the height.
mile, he snld.
2
PLANT LIFE IS
RULED BY LIGHT
U. S. Experts, After Experiments,
Advance Principle That Is
Revolutionary.
CARRIES WEIGHT ALMOST EQUAL TO ITS OWN
Indexed by an Immediate Investment
of $750,000,000.
The mercerizing o f cotton has add
ed to the delight and wealth of the
world. Recent improvements In the
incandescent Inmp has meant a saving
of $30,000,000 a yenf in the cost of
lighting. Yon may reach for a match
as you rend this. I f so, remember It’s
chemical history, and pause to con
sider Its place In modern elvlllzntlon.
Fou nd atio n of M a n y Industries.
Chemistry is the soul o f the pack
ing Industry where by-products such
as digestive ferments, sonp, glycerine,
fertilizers, etc., have become ns Im
portant ns main products.
Chemis
try Is the foundation o f the rubber In
dustry, giving cheaper and better
processes o f purifying, vulcanizing,
and recovering. Sleel Is not n native
product but Is a chemically modified
product.
It Is stated that the Res-,
seiner steel process adds $20,000,000
to the world’s wealth annually. Chem
istry has given us the Davy Inmp, the
mine gas Indicator, the gas mask and
the standardized explosive. Chemis
try has given us most o f our phnrma-
ceutlcnls, and chemo-thernpy Is just
in its Infancy. Ehrlich made over !)00
arsenical compounds before he struck
upon those particular combinations
known ns “ sansnlvnrsan" and “ neo-
snlvnrsnn." Chemistry has given us
photography, moving-picture films, Il
luminating gas, fire extinguishers, ar
tificial gasoline, metallurgical proc
esses, water-softening nnd purifying
agents, synthetic fertilizers, Insecti
cides, paints, explosives, glnss, paper,
the gas mantle, the storage battery,
the arc light nnd has stabilized many
an Industry by working up Into useful
products every trace o f raw material.
Chemistry has standardized food
products and multiplied the sources
of supply. It has attacked nnd par
tially solved the population problem o f
sewerage and waste disposal, nnd wa
ter supply.
S a lv in g B ig Problem .
There are 33,800
pressing down upon
earth's surface, nnd
starving for fixed
tons o f nitrogen
every acre o f the
yet our fields are
nitrogen, and iu
times o f wnr our present source of
supply of nitrate for explosives Is, to
say the least, precarious.
Chemistry is today solving the prob
lem o f fixed nitrogen.
To further elaborate chemistry’s
contribution to human life would be
to write a technical history of Indus
trial development.
The other great
contributing factors have been the or
ganizing ability of business men nnd
the technical skill of the engineers.
To improve American chemistry, to
apply It more nnd more ns nn effi
ciency measure In American Industry,
Is better national protection than pro
tective tariffs, bnttleships or coast de
fenses.
The highest chemical effi
ciency will make us invincible In com
merce and In war.
As population increases nnd con
servation becomes a matter o f vital
itiiportanee, It follows thnt chemistry
must nssume a more nnd more signifi
cant place In the well-being o f man
kind. Chemistry belongs peculiarly to
the age o f Intensive utilization of a
country’s resources. Tlie cream-skim
ming period has passed; this Is the
age o f by-products.
Still M u ch to Be Done.
There Is a danger thnt grent Indus
trial organizations who owe their very
existence to the science of chemistry,
in the fullness of their, present pros
perity may forget their debt to the
past nnd their obligation to the future.
There Is still much to bo done In the
Improvement of old processes nnd the
discovery of new. T o handicap the
chemical laboratories of our educa
tional Institutions, whence cotnes the
strenm of technically trained men, nnd
the unselfish contributions o f pure
science, Is effectual to kill the erst
while goose thnt laid the golden egg.
The universities cannot carry the
burden without the aid of enlightened
Industrialism. They cannot raise the
price o f their product to meet the ever-
Increasing cost o f laboratories, scien
tific equipment, high-grade Instruction
nnd pure research. No thinking tnan
can fall to recognize that the ranks o f
the teaching profession, present nnd
prospective, are becoming seriously de
pleted through the Inability o f our ed
ucational Institutions to bear unaided
the problem of ever-increasing costs.
It Is short-sighted policy fo r big
business to attract from the universi
ties our best chemists, to pick before
they nre ripe our young men In course
of training, or by a lack of sympathet
ic support to Jeopardize the future out
put o f scientific research.
L ocks W h isk e y in a Safe
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P ro fe sso r K n o w s F rie n d s A re Honest,
but Is n ’t T a k in g A n y
Chances.
In a liberal supply before constitu
tional prohibition went into effect.
I’ rof. Allyn Is working overtime try
ing to keep pace with the demand for
Westfield, M ass— Twenty quarts of annlysls o f home-made beverages.
bottled-in-bond
whisky,
owned
by
One small bottle o f home-made
Prof. Lewis B. Allyn, Hie noted pure
wine, which the owner nssured hint
food expert, tins been kept In Ids safe
possessed n real kick, proved to be 28
since Jan. 10.
per cent alcohol, or from tv’o to three
"1 know my friends are honest,”
times the alcoholic content o f wines
lie says, “ but I am taking no chances.”
form erly offered for sale. Ethyl alco
The whisky Is required from time
hol may have been added to the con
to time In the professor’s research
coction, Prof. All.vn thinks. At any
and experimental work, and be laid
rate, it Is the moRt remarkable of tbe
hundreds of “ harmless home-made
drinks” he has yet analyzed.
MODERN CLIFF DWELLERS IN FRANCE
j
T e m p e ra tu re ’s Effect Slight.
Temperature appeared to exert no
Influence In the tests. A striking II- I Each dny nearly 250.000 people use
lustration of the relative unimportance I the Charing Crosa Station of the Lon
o f temperature was given in the fact 1 don underground railway.
BIG ST E E L PAY BUYING HOMES
W o rk e rs A re N o t W a s tin g H ig h W ag e s,
R e c o rd s in P ittsb u rgh D is
trict Show .
Pittsburgh.— Highly paid steel work
ers and coal miners In Pittsburgh nnd
Allegheny county nre not spending nil
their money but are using a consider
able part o f It to buy homes, nrcnrdtng
to John I). Graham, recorder o f deeds,
whose report for 1913 has Just been
made public.
During the year the number o f deeds
and mortgages filed was 60.437, ns com
pared with 31,305 in 1015. For the
first quarter o f this yonr the number
was 16,385, ns compared with 7.980 In
the first quarter o f *015.
The majority o f the properties are
small houses.
Aged
M a n W r it e s C ards.
Elizabeth, Ky.— Charles Friend of
Glendale, who Is eighty years old nnd
never would be taken to be over sev
enty, was In town the other day. He
still writes visiting enrds for the
young people nnd so steady his hand
and so perfect Ills eyes that they al
Unfortunate persons of France whose houses liuve been destroyed through most loo» like they were engraved.
the ravages o f war have hit upon a novel Idea evolved by man centuries ago. Whenever he takes a notion that he
CHIT dwellings neatly arranged on the side of mountains are serving many In wants to go to Hodgenvllle he walks
these trying days. This photograph shows one of the many cliff dwelling« there nnd bark, a distanco o f teu
miles each way.
seen at Dieppe, France.