Big Sewage Disposal Plant for Chicago
Grade Crossings
Cause 2,000 Deaths
Fatalities and Injuries In
crease Every Year.
Chicago will have the latent, largest and most allentiti,
under construction 1s completed In 1927. It will cover 1*
of aerating filters through will« h the sewage passes and
batteries of settling tanka und grit chambers where th««
remaining will be piped away, dried uml sold for fertilizer.
In the plant.
rwage treatment plant in the world wiien the plant now
cerea and will cost »18,MX),(XX>. The plant « onslsls of acres
re ecelvea Its first chemical treatment, uml of three huge
s llUdgr pro. ««« h Is completed. After lu-lng treated, the sludge
1 he Illustration shows one of the many compartment»
Keep Contact With
M’MillaiT by Radio
New Short Wave Length
Sending I» Succe»».
calling. "HI
Washington.
you relay n MacMillan messsgç to the
The sender I» John 1.. llelnartz
amaleiir radio “wizard,” aboard th*
Bowdoin.
an amateur
radio operator- one day In
Cunada; the t xt ilny at St.
burg. Florida ; nguln out In
Cleveland, und on some occasions In
England.
For It Is one of the Interesting
nsp««fs of the MacMillan Arctic ex
(«edition which Is using the new lustro
menta of aviation uml color pholog
Is by n method so new that It Is yet
experimental.
But the experiment Is working
nightly, and also nt midday which Is
one of the new tilings al«out the new
short wave length* sending.
Even to the “listener In" the name
Relnartz may be strange; but to every
amateur, code-using rmlio operator the
menns
world over, the num
• umn
a special "hook up.”
teurs, whose amateur standing Is at
tested and gunrdeil by the membership
In the American Radio Relay league,
are on their toes to "catch Relnartz.’
Relnartz has to his credit not only
the development of a well-known re
ceiving circuit, but holds numerous
long distance records for transmission
of signals.
Jackknife Used for
Removal of Tonsil»
('ordova, Alaska. — A tonsil
operation wns performed recent
ly at Bering River. on Controller
buy. CO miles east of bore, by Dr.
W. W. Council of Cordova, with
a Jackknife and denatured alco
hol.
When Doctor Council arrived
nt Bering River from a hunting
trip he was called on to handle
the case. He hud no Instruments.
With the crude outfit be per
formed the operation with iuo
ceas. No anesthetic was udmln-
Istered. The alcohol wus used
to sterilize the knife. ,
hud taken up this hobby while still
slstsnce of some frlemlly telephone
engineers the telephone was then still
in Its hand cranking days had begun
experiments In the infant radio Held,
itudlo was then a matter of • «•oh« rers"
and rather crude
and
signals could lie gotten over only Ilin-
Bed distances with the equipment then
available to amateurs.
After a year of clerking In the dry-
goods store, Mr. llelnartz h«n.ne a
clerk In tin- electrical department «f a
been me
big silk mill.
more actively connected with el«-trical
work, ami prior to Ids recent selection
to have « barge of radio communication
on the MacMillan expedition, be "as
In charge of tlectric.il disposition In
Qta thill.
When the crystal detector came in.
Mr. Relnartz whs one of the first i«mt-
teurs to make use of it. With home
made transmitting and receiving equip
ment he kept up bls experiment» with
fellow amateurs until America went
Into the World war. An accident nt
training enmp incapacitated him and
he spent the remaining period of the
war teaching radio In a trade school.
Heap» Clipping Waves’ Length.
Relnartz' greatest accomplishment,
however, was making (wisslble th««
sending and receiving by amateurs
with Inexpensive equipment, of waves
shorter than ttie most powerful pro
fessional station could semi a few
Mr. Relnnrtz was born In t'refeld.
In the Rhine provinces of Germany, In
and Is of French extraction.
After four years of schooling In Cre
fehl, he came to Amerien nt the nge
Of ten. timi settled In South Mun
ehester. Conn., where he completed
schooling and Ims ainei made his
home.
lle
on leaving scho<
clerk In n drygoods store. He stomi
tills one year, meanwhile dabbling with
WILL MARRY A PRINCE
hail not been permitted to enter.
As soon ns the war restrn-lmr on
nullo nctlvlty wure rvmove«!, Mr. Rein
artz (eli buslly to work agnln ut hls
nullo experlments. By 1921 he had
cult, which he Improve,! In 11*22. Thia
soon became popular with br<«a<1cnst
listener» In be< ntise of Its slnqillclty
of tuning and Itx sensitivity
Amateur» “Talk” With France.
At tills time “bands" of wave lengths
were being nllotted for various uses.
The amateurs of one country were
given a band near 50 meters, but by
special arrangement tlh-y exchanged
this bund for one of much higher wave
lengths, asserting that It was impos-
ns
ns 50 meters.
Relnartz believed that It could be
done, and luul been pegging away
steadily reducing bls wave lengths.
Finally. In 11*23, he reached 70 meters,
the record at that time for amateurs.
He explained his methods to a French
amateur. De Loy, who had a station
in Nhe, and to officials of the Amer-
lean Radio Belay league In Hartford
Cpnn.
the first
In October,
way amateur rommtinlcatlon between
France and America was established
with the equipment that Relnartz had
designed.
After achieving 70 meters, Relnartz
succeeded In August, 1924, In getting
down to 40 meters and got the 40
meter signals through first to the
I’acllic const and then to England.
Belgium. Sweden
Scotland, Fr
South America and Australia. These
were night signals. By October he was
using 20-nieter waves and nt this re
markably short length or “high ire
quemy” had established two-way com
munication at night with Santa Mon-
.. from his home nt Manche»
leu
ter. Conn. Until tills contact llelnartz
had the 40 and 20 meter field prac
tically to himself.
!
The first daylight transcontinental
; transmission
nmuteurs was
accomplished by Relnartz Inst Decem
ber, the signals going through clearly
nt noon on 20 meters.
Miss Anita But l.lhme, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Bal Llhme of Chicago
and New York, who late this summer
will be married to Prince Edward
Joseph Lobkowlcz of Vienna, mem
ber of the nobility.
a
Washington.—Farmers
gross im-om«« of $l2.13G.I'<k),(»MI from
ngrh'ultural production for the year
ending June 30 Inst a larger gross in
come than In any yenr since 1921—ac
cording to figures made public by the
Department of Agricult lire. For the
year ending June 30, 1921, the figure
was »11.288,000,000.
In arriving nt the gross Income the
department deducts cost of feed, seed
nnd wnste from the value of produc
tion. According to the department’s
experts, the Increase over Inst yenr.
amounting to about 7% per cent, was
due nlmost entirely to higher returns
from grain nnd ment animals, purlieu
lurly whent nnd hogs.
Exclusive of live stock nnd feetl sold
to other fnrmers the gross Income from
sales wns $9.777,000,000. ns compared
to »8,928 000,000 In 1924. Food nnd
fuel produced and consumed on the
farms was valued nt »2,359,000,000.
Expenses of production for the yenr
were put nt »6,480.000,000, or approxi
mately 2 per cent more than for 1924.
when the figure was $0,303,000,000.
The net cash Income from sales was
»3,291.000,000, ns compared with $2.-
506,000,(MX) in 1924. The net income
from production. Including the net
cnsh »ales nnd the value of food nnd
fuel produced nnd consumed on the
farms, was $5,05O,000,(MX). This figure
shows nn increase of 14.75 per cent
<«
Put» Radio in Coffin
t.
for DX After He Die» £
Sam It.
Antfeles
By C. B. AUOL, President National
Kimball, elderly San Femandlno £
Safety Council.
valley rancher, has placed an
Chicago.—Mor«- than 2,000 persons
order with a Los Angeles under
lost their lives at grade crossing» In
taker for a »1.300 steel coffin
11*24, and there were more than (!.<*>»
equipped with a radio receiving
Injured. In spite of the fact that rail
roa<i official», automobile manufiKtur-
Kimball explained that he Is
era ami state and county road commls-
convinced that the soul lingers
slonerH have co-o[»erated to provhle
near the body until the Duy of
suitable warning In the form of me-
chanlcat devices to attract the mo * Judgment, und that he will be
able to “hear what Is going on
torist’s attention and prevent him from
In the world” after he dies.
crowing the track» In the face of a
locomotive, the fatalities am! Injuries
have Increased from year to year.
Various methods have been suggest
ed for relieving the situation, the and passing over the railroad grade
principal an,I most diwussed of these crossing.
Yet. It Is estimated that
being the elimination of gra«le cross only about 5 per cent are extremely
ings by »«■paratlon of grades.
In- reckless, using no «-are whatsoever.
deed, tbl» would prevent any further On the assumption that we have 17,-
railroad ?ron»lng accidents, but It Is 700,000 automobiles In this country
estimated that such elimination would thia year, it means that there are 875,-
Cost |25,<»M».fM»><«** and would take 000 reckless drivers, each one of whom
at least 300 years. Most people are Is a potential train wrecker.
familiar with the mu«-b talked of nnd
Laws Inefficient.
sometimes tried schemes of warning
I.awe compelling the motorist to
at railroad cro»»lugs.
Motorists all stop at grade crossings would tie In
know the railroad cro»s-bu«k grade effective because we Americans do
crossing »Igns nt the side of the high not react to law and discipline of the
way; in some sections of the country person as do other people whose life
the motorists are familiar with the history has been less rugged.
The
bumps In the road opposite to the whole matter of preventing public ac
grade crossing, they are familiar with cidents—and grade-crossing accidents
the bell systems and the light sys are only a part of the great number
tem» of warning. These devices tire of avoidable mishaps which occur
effective In that they give warning, but every year In this country—can be
beyond this they are useless.
laid to the public conscience. Without
Drivers to Blame.
a crystallization of that inner feel-
It Is not the crossing wherein the Ing against the public accident, the
accident hazard Iles. It is not the lo safety movement will fail.
comotive which bears down on an au
Undoubtedly a great step toward
tomobile that Is the cause of an ac the solution of this problem will have
cident.
It Is not the automobile it been taken when the various states re
self. All of these devices are almost quire the mental and physical exam
mechanically perfect ami are not dan ination of every automobile driver in
gerous In themselves, but In their op the country, and do not let him or her
eration.
Simmered down to a fine drive an automobile upon the streets
point we shall nil hnve tn admit that and highways without essential quali
It is those of us who drive automo- fications.
biles who are chlefly responsible for
grade-crossing accidents.
Strange as It may seem, 70 per cent
of all the grade-crossing accidents,
wherein motorists nre killed, occur In
broad daylight. Slxty-three per cent
occur at grade crossings where the
view Is entirely open and unobstruct
ed. Fourteen per cent of grade-cross
ing accidents are due to the driver of
an automobile colliding with the side
of a moving train. Twenty-five per
cent of all automobile drivers fall to
use reasonable care In approaching Tells of Political Creed He
Prince Bibesco Thinks
U. S. Girl» Heaven Born
Atlantic City. N. J.—American wom
en must have come from lieaven. In
the opinion of Brince Antoine Bibesco,
Rumanian minister to the United
States, who is seeing quite a few ot
them on the boardwalk during his so
journ here. Making it clear that lie
was not discussing evolution, he pro-
ceeded: "Some countries have beau
tiful women and some have brilliant
women, but it lias been left to Ameri
ea to produce women both beautiful
and brilliant." Brlncess» Bibesco was
an English girl.
TWELVE BILLION INCOME
FROM 1924 FARM CROPS
Largest Return in Any Year
Since 1921.
WICHITA’S CHOICE
over the previous year's »1.925.000,000.
Still, the average net Income per
operator, Including all farmers, ten
ants ns well ns owners, amounted to
only »870 In 11*24'25, compared with
»704 the prei’edlng year, and covers
the return on the farmer’s equity In Ills
property ns well ns earnings for the
labor of himself and his family for the
year.
Miss Wildeana Withers, eighteen
years old, who has been named as
“Miss Wichita" for the annual beauty
pageant to be held at Atlantic City.
She excells tn sports. Is an excellent
swimmer and diver and ranks at the
top In collegiate aétlvities.
Sweden Develops Radio
at Expense of Cable
Gothenburg.Sweden.—Wireless trans
mission of messages has so developed
In Sweden that the government's sta
tion at Grimeton now sends about 95
per cent of all telegrams from Sweden
to the United States. The receiving
station, on the other hand, gets only
about 40 per cent of the telegrams coin
ing from the United States.
In order to meet the new competi
tion the cable companies have re-
#uced their prewar rates.
~ The Grimeton wireless station was
built for direct communication with
the United States.
Mussolini Writes
Fascist History
Brought Into Power.
“Old Faithful” Geyser
Alters Eruption Period
Yellowstone National Bark.—Even
Old Faithful, supposed to be the most
constant, and certainly the most cele-
brated geyser in the world, Is under
going changes.
This year, Old Faithful Is erupting
every CT minutes and his outbursts
last for about five minutes. In the
memory of living scientists, tills geyser
became active every GO minutes, and
there Is much speculation as to
changes beneath the earth's surface
which are slowing down this old won
der.
— Many geysers In the basin of the
Fire Hole river, the greatest geyser
area In the world, have ceased shoot
ing entirely within the last 50 years,
while others which were formerly in
active are again shooting.
Old Faithful still sends steam and
water Into the air to a height of 150
to 200 feet ami is surrounded day and
night by throngs of tourists awaiting
his outbursts.
Rome.—Not satisfied with having
created Fascism, with having put It in
to effect during three arduous years,
and with bearing the herculean resi>on-
siblllty of bolding simultaneously five
cabinet posts, Benito Mussolini is now
undertaking the task of incorporating
his achievements by becoming the In
terpreter and historian of the political
creed he brought to power.
Undaunted by the almost super
human exertions and responsibilities
of bls unusual position, the premier
has found time and energy to con
tribute to the political monthly. Ge-
rarchia (Hierarchy), which he found
ed, two carefully written articles, ex
plaining the Fascist conceptions ^, the
“1922 revolution" and ef the new la
bor union.
Points the Way.
The articles, apparently the Initial
ones of a series, each militant and con
troversial in tone, survey the histori
cal background of the subject mat
ter, justifying the Mussollnlan point
of view, and aggressively point out
More Water to Be Given Minnehaha
how the 1922 revolution and the Fas
cist labor union can be used as
weapons in the struggle to Fascistize
Italy.
Writing on the labor unions organ
ized by his party, Mussolini argues
they are different from those in all
other countries In two respects: they
accept fully the Idea of fatherland,
rejecting any Internationalism which
Implies political adherence or class
fealty breaking through national boun
daries, and they consider capital not
as an element to be suppressed, but as
one to be liberated and strengthened
for the benefit of the fatherland.
Insists It’» Insurrection.
Supporting the thesis that Fascism
came into power by a revolution and
is now defending itself as a revolu
tionary government, the premier as
serts that the two years before the
now famous “March on Rome” consti
tuted a war between Fascism and the
government then In power.
Answering the objection that the
march on Rome was a parliamentary
coup d’etat, Mussolini maintains that
it was an insurrection, adding that a
revolution does noi necessarily coin
cide with its most important insurrec
tional acts which, he declares, is but
a single moment of the revolution and
often not the first one. If the Fascist
revolution were comparatively blood
less, It was merely because the gov-
' ernment In power realized it would
have been folly to resist.
The premier concludes his survey
with a plea that Fascists realize the
possibilities and necessities of the revo
lution. that they keep ever in mind the
need for defending It and using It mili
tantly against its opponents who are
hence not merely peaceful parliamen
tary enemies but traitors and subvers
ives.
•
■? Maoris Trace Forbears
Jakoba
said he had traced
his
to Hawaiian
Islands
A
to of a the chieftain
3 ancestry
Honolulu back
—Many
Maoris 1 5
named
who consider
ruled the
Is- ft
X of
New Hema,
Zealand
their
i>
land of
Hawaii,
After in
a devastat-
• race
had
its origin
Hawaii "J $
& centuries
Ing war in ago.
which
was de-
§
It Hema
has been
re- 3 t
5 feated badly
and forced
to flee
5
Ivealed
by Rntlna
Jakoba,
a J,
S prominent
from the Island
his is life,
he $
§
Maori. for He
here
X with
and a group
few companions
set sail A
of Mormon church-
to visit
v. workers
for the from
south Australia
in huge war
ca- S 5
J th«
noes. famous
Maori Mormon
legends have
It that
temple
at ft §
5 Laie,
they landed
3
Oahu. in New Zealand.
3
Jakoba said the Maoris had S
ft established the names of the ea- x
i noes In which their ancestors §
went from Hawaii to New Zea- 3
? land.
g
Yellowstone Park Staff
Recruited in Colleges
Ashton, Idaho.—Yellowstone park
has a vocabulary all Its own, ami tour
ists visiting It the first time have many
surprises in stor«* for them. An auto
mobile driver Is never a chauffeur In
"gear-Jammer.”
n park.
waitress is always a "heaver" and a
cook is known only as u "meat-bur
tier.”
Most of the employees In the hotels
and camps of the park are students.
Twenty universities and colleges are
represented among the hundreds ot
waitresses and housemaids working In
the big hotels and camps. There are
also many school teachers among the
women employees, and this year most
of these motored to the park In their
own cars. 'Die chauffeqgs and other
men employees of the transportation
and hotel companies also came chiefly
In their own autos. Many of the stu
dents motored all the way from New
York and large numbers of them
came from California.
***
Minnehaha falls, the beautiful and famous waterfall nt Minneapolis, has
been nearly dry for some years owing to the diversion of water. The city has
now ar:ange<l to supply water for the falls either from wells or by tapping
an un lerground stream, and Minnehaha will be restored.