Blind Man Is
Good Machinist
and non« of us but Jong for our night,
but I sometimes wonder if the blind
have not a keener mum « of enjoyment
of the thing« they ran mid do enjoy
than have those who run m ««.”
Scenes in the Zionist Colonies in Palestine
"WALKING” ON WATER
Operates Lathes, Drill Presses,
Grinders and Other Machines
in Machine Shop.
nnd with tbe help of bls fingers be
rends quicker than some of the men
who huve their Might. He uses every
machine tn the shop except the dry
grinder, and I expect every day to hear
him demand that. He operates the cy
lindrical grinder, milling machines, en
gine und turret lathes, drill press«*«,
shapers und planers. His work Is a
marvel of neatness, and he Is chain
Foreman In Shop 8ays H« Is as Good lightning for speed.”
as ths Bost and Bsttsr Than Many
While a student in the state school
for the blind Enslng played guard on
—Raads Micromotor
the school's football team.
Readily.
"There is no reason why a blind
Ann Arbor, Mich.— Blind Gerald man with a normal brain can't work
EriMlng of Grund Itaplds Is working and enjoy himself ns well as the man
In the engineering shops of the Utd- who can we,” Enslng says. "True,
versify of Michigan, and dully op we miss the great blessing of sight.
erates lutbra, drill presses, grinders,
shuiwni and planers, und according to
the shop foreman, E. M. Swwt, he In
doing It um well uh the best, und bet
Cite Lord’s Prayer
ter than most of the other students in
in Legal Briel
the shop.
Enslng tins been blind since he was
Kt. Louis.—A petition In the
eight years old. lie la studying In the
Lord’s Prayer was quoted In a
university on u Bed Crons scholarship i
brief tiled by counsel for nine
for the blind, given by the Detroit
bakeries who are attempting to
chapter of the national organization.
enjoin the enforcement of an or
He has pledged himself to devote him
dinance requiring bakeries to be
self to teaching other blind people
!; closed after 9 a. m. on Kundays.
how to become H«ursup(>ortlng after
"Advocates of this law are
ho has completed hla work iiere. For
guilty of hypocrisy and fly In
the pant five years h« lias taught Ibu
I the face of a divine mandate,”
blind the art of basketry, which be
A. N. Sheldon of Ventura, Cal., s
himself learned In the Michigan j said the brief. "In the Lord's
flfty-two-yeur-old farmer. Is shown
"walking” across San Francisco bay
School for the Blind, and has taught ; Prayer we find the petition:
j 'Give us this day our dally
on bis "water ski.” Two light wood
them other trades also.
bread-' Bread is needed on Sun-
en pontoons are arranged to slide
Help for Sightless.
back and forth in a strong wooden
"I demonstrated to my own satis ; day as much as on any other
day, even though legislative
frame. Sheldon's feet are slipped in
faction that blind men could work on
Holy Boilers make that prayer
to straps, and by moving bls feet he
factory machines," he said, "but I had
“walks” on the water.
difficulty In getting places for the ; a mockery and try to prevent
the I.ord from acceding to our
blind. Then came the Bed Croas
request."
Golf Caddy Sues for Loss of Eye.
scholarship offer. I will get to know
The brief also asserts that the
East Orange, N. J.—A suit for $8.',-
the men nod they to know me und my
closing ordinance Is In conflict
000 for the low of his right eye, blinded
work. They will seo what a Wind
with n state law which permits
by a blow from a golf ball, was
man can do, mid 1 believe they will
the Sunduy sale of drugs and
brought by Cornelius Toohey, four-
help to open the doors of the manu
provisions.
teen-year-old cuddy, against Franklin
facturing planta to the sightless. Of
< Webster.
course lu shops of «i>eclal production
where the work must be done from
a blue print, the blind man would be
too greatly handicapped, and In shops
where there Is a great deal of noise
there Is a great hazard for him."
Enslng came to Jie university about
six months ago und was led through
the shops, past the whirling ma
chinery, and told where each piece set,
and whut If was and where there were
belts In which bls clothing might get
were cut Into blocks by vertical planes,
tangled. After that be threaded his
Interesting Researches Made by with the base of each block at a depth
way among the machines without help,
of sixty miles below sea level, and the
mid operated his own machine with
the United States Coast and
area of the bases of the blocks were
out accident. Some of the machinery
Geodetic Survey.
he operates makes alaive 800 revolu
the same and us large ns 100 miles
square, these blocks would have the
tions a minute.
Enslng believes drill pressure ma-
same mass; that is, they would weigh
chines lend themselves es|>ecfnlly well
the same.
to tdlnd operators. Metal-working
Weight Is Equal.
factories offer greater opportunities
By menns of the geodetic observa
to the sightless than the wood-working Mountain Masses Found to Be Due tions by the United States coast and
Industries do. The greatest [Misslbltt-
geodetic survey, the weight of these
to the Presence of Lighter Mate
tles for the blind operators, be be
blocks have been found to he approxi
rial in Earth's Crust Un
lieves, will be found In the plant of
mately equal.
This result had been
der Them.
quantity production of small articles.
suspected for decodes, but Doctors
Foreman Sweet says: "Mr. Enslng’s
Bowie und Hayford have proved It.
Washington.—Mountains float Cu
work Is not performed automatically,
Geological science will be profound
ns one might suppose. It can't tie bic yard for cubic yard, mountains ly changed by this discovery, for now
done that way on some of the ma weigh less, not more, than the val we know the mountain masses are due
chines. He reasons, and he sees with leys. The mountains are held up by to the presence of lighter material In
bls sensitive fingers what another man the lighter material of the earth's the earth’s crust under them, and that
sees with his eyes. We allow every crust flowing under them. This hns the ocean bottoms are low because
student a limit of 3-1,000 of an Inch been proved by researches conducted the material under them Is denser or
In the work he does, but Mr. Enslng by the division of geodesy of the coast heavier thnn the average.
never uses up that margin. I can't und geodetic survey, under the direc
Doctor Bowie concludes that there
tion of Dr. William Bowie, chief of tbe
say the same of most of them.'*
Is no tendency for the mountain
division, and his predecessor. Prof.
Proves His Efficisncy.
mnsses to brenk down through the
Tbe foreman admitted that he snw John F. Hayford, now with North earth's crust, ns they are not extra
Enslng come Into the shops with drend. western university.
loads. They are like the portions of
It has been found that the earth's
“When he wanted to he put on the
Icebergs projecting out of the water
crust
Is
about
sixty
miles
In
thick
planer I rebelled, but after the first
which are held up by the ice which
dny on the planer 1 forgot all about it. ness, nnd near that depth, probably is below or In the wnter. The ice
below,
the
material
of
the
earth
is
He rends a micrometer ns accurately
berg floats, nnd so does tbe moun
nnd ns readily ns nny other student. yielding to forces which act for long tain.
He has rigged up a little contrivance times.
Doctor Bowie also holds that, as
The earth's crust floats on this yield
that he attaches to the Instrument—
mountain system nre in arens which
ing
muterial.
If
the
earth's
crust
Just two rubber bunds and a needle—
were once very low tn elevation, moun
tains are caused by a swelling of the
material In the earth's crust under
them. A lessenlni of the density of
three per cent In n column GO miles
long will elevnte t*'e area about 9,000
feet
Such a change In density, due
to physical or ch?mlcal changes, Is
within rensonnble limits.
TAKING UNIVERSITY COURSE
Mountains Float
Like Icebergs
CHANGES GEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Red Cross Workers of Japan
Flow Is Below Crust.
As the mountains, plateaus, valleys
nnd the ocenn mens nre In equilibrium
there must have been n transference
of material from the column of the
enrth's crust under nn nrea where sedi
ments nre deposited, back to the area
from which tbe material was eroded
by water nnd wind.
Doctor Bowie
believes that the flow of material takes
place Just below the crust, that Is
somewhat below CO miles.
The ex
act depth nt which the flow from one
column to another takes place may
never be discovered.
Doctor Bowie states that, as ma
terial Is eroded from n mountain nrea,
the new material pushed in nt the
bottom will tend to keep the aver
age elevation of the mountain system
approximately constant.
When ma
terial Is pushed into the column under
n mountain system to counter-balnnce
the eroded matter, every particle of
the column is carried upward Into a
colder zone.
Under areas of heavy
sedimentation, the material of the
enrth's crust Is pushed down Into hot
ter regions. A piece of material may
thus be raised up or carried down as
much as six miles and, nt times, more.
The grent changes Tn temperature are
probably the cause of the uplift of
a mountain system In an area of sedi
These Japanese lied Cross workers are lined up in Tokyo ready to en mentation, and of the sinking of the
surface where erosion has been great.
train for Siberia and Manchuria, where their services are greatly needed.
Th<-se photographs, just received from Palestine, show the ty|»e of frame houses that shelter many of the recently
arrived Jewish colonists, and farmers at Attara, near Jerusalem, using modern American implements and excellent
mule«.
Graphic Tale of
U-Boat Murders
I
British Captain Testifies to
Submerging That Cost the
Lives of Crew.
THREE SHIPSAREJORPEDOEO
German Commander to Be Put on
Trial for Brutally Inhuman Acts
at Sea—Captain Is Ship's
Only Survivor.
Ixmdon.—A graphic account of the
torpedoing of the British steamship
Torrington in April, 1917, and the sub
sequent fate of the crew was given by
th«» only survivor at Bow street police
court, says the Dally Telegraph, when
Sir Chartres Biron sat for the purpose
of taking evidence on commission in
support of charges which have been
formulated against the submarine
commander, a Captain Wilhelm Wer
ner.
Mr. V. M. Gattie conducted the pro
ceedings on behalf of the British gov
ernment and Doctor Bunger represent
ed the German government.
Mr. Gattie explained that Werner
was one of the German officers against
whom It was proposed that proceed
ings should be taken at Leipzig. He
bad not yet been arrested, but It was
thought desirable that, while Captain
Starkey, the principal witness, was In
London his deposition should be taken,
so that Ln the event of the accused
man being apprehended there need be
no delay In his trial.
The charge against Werner was that
he, being in command of the submarine
U-M on April 8, 1917, In the North
Atlantic, 150 miles southwest of tbe
Scllly Isles, torpedoed the British
steamship- Torrington, and afterward
wilfully murdered, by drowning, 34
members of tbe crew. That was the
vessel's total complement other than
Captain Starkey, who was the only
survivor.
The Torrington was owned by the
Tatham Steamship company of Car
diff, and was proceeding from Gibral
tar to Cardiff. She was an ordinary
merchant vessel, not a war vessel at
all, and carried one gun for purely
defensive purposes, ns many ships did
during the war. On the morning of
April 8 the second mate reported that
there were some lifeboats on the port
bow, nnd the course of the Torrington
was slightly varied with the object
of rendering assistance if necessary.
Insulted by German Captain.
Suddenly Captain Starkey noticed
the wake of a torpedo which was com
ing towards him. He maneuvered,
but was unable to avoid it, and the
torpedo struck the ship, which did not
immediately sink but was consider
ably damaged. Soon afterwards the
submarine came to the surface and
opened fire on the Torrington. Ap
parently the firing was not very suc
cessful, for nobody was killed and the
vessel was not further damaged. See
ing that there was no possibility of
saving the ship. Captain Starkey gave
orders for the crew to take to the
lifeboats.
The port boat left with
some of the men under the first mate,
and Captain Starkey took command
of the starboard boat
When the latter was about a quar
ter of a mile from the Torrington the
submarine drew up close, nnd Captain
Starkey and the men with him were
ordered to go on board. They obeyed,
and Werner took Starkey below and,
after asking some questions, told him
he was a pirate nnd would be taken
to Germany nnd shot, while ns for the
crew they could swim. Directly af-
terwards Werner went on deck, the
alarm rnng for stntions, nnd the sub
marine submerged and remained so
for twenty minutes. Everyone of the
twenty men who had been left on deck
was washed off nnd drowned, nnd ns
regarded the men In the other life
boat, the only assumption wns that
they were disposed of In some way or
other. They were never seen or heard
of again, although the sea was per
fectly smooth and their boat was in
perfect condition.
later witness heard that the Torring
ton was sinking. When witness ar
rived on tbe submarine he found two
other British captains already there—•
Captain Draper of the L’mvotl and
Captain Ashfield of the Petridge—
both of whose ships had been sunk.
Told He Was Lucky.
Mr. Gattie—Did you have any con
versation with the members of tha
submarine's crew?
Yes, I was bemoaning my fate, and
a man named Kuper, who was lead
ing seaman, said, “You are lucky you
have your life.” On another occasion
I was talking to the senior wireless
operator, and he also said I was lucky
to be alive, and added, “There are too
many about now or I would tell you
something more.” I used to get the
English wireless news every night from
this man, and one night he said: “Your
crew never got home. They were all
drowned.”
Witness went on to say that on
April 14 the submarine sunk another
ship, named the Tora. The captain
was brought below by Werner and the
submarine then submerged, as she had
done after tbe Torrington was tor-
pedoed. When she rose again Werner
sent for witness and asked him if he
would like to see a ship sink. For
the sake of getting some fresh air he
replied, “Yes,” and he went up Into
the conning tower and saw the Tora a
short distance away. She did not,
however, sink until some time later.
Two or three days later another
vessel was sunk by gunfire, and again
the submarine submerged after tbe
captain had been brought below. In
neither case, as far as witness could
see, was there any necessity for sub
merging.
Witness was eventually
landed at Heligoland and remained a
prisoner until December, 1918. Before
he left the submarine one of the officers
gave him a piece of torpedo as a sou
venir and a pass bearing the U-boat's
number and the commander's name.
Replying to Doctor Bunger, Captain
Starkey said the Torrington was char
tered by the Italian State railways.
He could not explain how It was that
he was allowed to escape alive when
he might become such an Important
witness. He supposed Captain Werner
did not think he knew what had hap
pened to the crew.
Doctor Bungar—Several
German
witnesses have stated that a British
destroyer was approaching while this
was taking place.
Witness—There was no destroyer
near, to my knowledge. If a destroy
er had been approaching, the subma
rine would not have come to the sur
face twenty minutes afterward.
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• M
Before the submarine submerged
members of the German erfi got Into
Captain Starkey’s lifeboat Mnd rowed
away, and they afterwards returned
with loot from the Torrington and
also provisions, which w^rej Identified
by Captain Starkey as having .been In
the other lifeboat Captain Starkey
was afterwards kept a prisoner on
the submarine, and while he was on
board two other British ships were
torpedoed and their crews disposed of
in the same way. He was eventually
taken to Germany, and after the arm
istice he came back to this country
and told his story.
Insulted by German Captain.
Capt. Anthony Starkey of Cardiff i
gave evidence bearing out counsel’s |
statement He said he was thirty-foar I
years of age and was now master of ।
the steamship Brendon. Describing 1
what took place after he went on board
the submarine, be said that Werner,
who spoke good English, asked him
his name, and when he told him he
said. “You lie,” arid pushed over an
old copy of Lloyd’s Register, In which
the name of the previous captain of
the Torrington appeared.
Witness explained that he had only
been captain of the vessel for four
months, and Werner then asked if he
had any gunners on board. He re
plied that they were on deck, and
Werner remarked that he did not see '
anyone in uniform. Witness replied
In a jocular manner that he had not
given them time to put on their best
clothes.
Mr. Gattie—If you had known he
was coming you would have dressed
up for it. Was it the practice for
gunners to be dressed In uniform?
Witness—No; they were members
of tbe crew. Werner then said, “You
are a d— pirate. You deserve to be !
shot, and as for the others, let them
swim.”
'
Had you any idea then what he
meant? No, I thought it was just an
expression like "Let them rip,” mean
ing let them go, don't bother about
them. Werner then went away and
the submarine submerged.
Continuing, witness said that after
the submarine came to the surface
again the German sailors returned
in the Torrington’s lifeboat, and he
noticed that they had, among other
To inquire as to the welfare of an
things, some of his personal clothing
and also tins of meat which had been Arab's wife or daughter is regarded
in the port lifeboat About two hours as an Insult.
New Power Unit for Airplanes
This is the power unit of a new plane developed by the Galludet Aircraft
dompany. The makers claim the new unit makes possible a 20-hour flight,
from London to New York. A plane equipped with three or more such units,
having a total of 4,000 horse power, could, it is said, cross the ocean with 12
tpns of bombs. The unit here shown consists of three 400 horse power Lib
erty motors geared to one 18-foot propeller. Th« government has ordered
three of the Galludet planes.