SectionOne Pages 1 to 24 K 104 Pages Nine Sections . VOL. XLI NO. 25 Entered at Portland fOreson; Postoffice as Second-class Matter PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 18, 1922 PRICE FIVE CENTS E, BAD I7IAN OF OMAHA WOUNDED, CAPTURED FRED BROWN HOVERS B& TYVEEX LIFE AND DEATH. s S MR. PICKERING LEADS RADIO CONCERTS SET FOR FESTIVAL .WEEK FEST1VA L GAIETY WEDDING OF PRINCE EXPERT OF LIFE L IN SCHOOL ELECTION HELD NOT FAR OFF "FETED TO ON IRS BOTH BOND ISSUE AND TAX FIRST OF FOUR PROGRAMMES EARLY BETROTHAL RUMORS PERVADE IiONDOX. , LEVY ARE AHEAD. .. . TO BE GIVEN TONIGHT. GARFAB PHONE IE VISITOR DQUBTFU ROYALLY REIGN . CUTS PROMISED Kerrigan Gets Ready to Run Again. CLEVER FLANS ABE LAID Reductions Held Certain Re gardless of Data. POLTTICS IS PLAYHD Identity of Secretary-to-Be Is Carefully Guarded House Cleaning Is in Store.- Reduction of telephone rates will be ordered; restoration of the 5-cent car fare in Portland will be ordered, and Thomas M. Kerrigan will then blossom out as an independent can didate for state public service com missioner against Thomas K. Camp bell, republican nominee. That, on pretty good authority, is the pro gramme which the recallerS intend Jamming through. Of course, the telephone company and the Portland Railway, Light & Power company will have a chance to make an argument, but the deci sion against these "soulless corpo rations" is a foregone conclusion. The new commissioners intend doing a 'lot of tail-twisting and Mr. Kerri gan, elected commissioner under the recall, doesn't intend making his exit from public life on December 31, next. Watch his smoke. Secretary sAlready In Mind. Newton W. McCoy and T. M. Ker rigan, public serviee commissioners by grace of the recall election, in tend starting things pronto. They have in mind someone for secretary of the commission. The identity of this secretary-to-be is carefully concealed for the present, but it will not be Henry D. Wagnon. In an ac count of the reorganization of the commission at Salem Mr. Wagnon was mentioned as a prospective sec retary. To this Mr. Wagnon objects. He emphatically denies that he is an applicant far the job, says he has I never been a place-hunter and does not want it. , True, admits Mr. Wagnon, he had much to do with the recall, although R. O. Duncan coughed ' up 'about fl30o to finance it' and Frank S. Myers went on the note, but Mr. Wagnon's labors were along other than financial lines. But as for wanting to be secretary of the com mission perish the thought. House Cleaning: In Order. A house cleaning Is on the cards when the new members of the com mission get their bearings. They have an idea that there is too much overhead, too many employes and too many technical men whose duties, apparently, over-lap. A re duction in the number of employes and a saving in salaries may be ac complished. Advisers of the new officers imagine so, at .least. Of course, there will be some new faces and when possible good recallers will be eased Into jobs, which is to be expected in all changes of ad ministration. Agitation against the old commis sioners, Fred G. Buchtel and Fred A, William resulting in their re 'call, was based largely on their de cision in the telephone rate case. Very naturally, McCoy and Kerri gan, who supplanted them, are looked to for a reduction of the telephone rates. This hope is not to be misplaced. Kerrigan Likea Jfevr Job. Mr. Kerrigan, to fame unknown, and born to blush unseen until by a . quirk of fate he sauntered into a recall nominating meeting and was selected as a candidate by two votes over F.-S. Myers, likes his new job. The dignity that doth hedge a pub- (Concluded onaF&ge 4, Column. 4.) 1 -vrv7 i " SHAKING tAoroft . - ' JAifcMsJ '' ' - ilk?? tr i 'CotAe. sopue NiSH Afc.SoN t . -CORN CO C5S.YJILU CHr? V , A ' - TO tr A JOG DONE QUE5Y0N ArES I ' , - . tAA.e. vt fcerrY Airv. Af - 'L? Tint Outlaw Who Chained Two Women . Together in Shack Is Felled ' by Posse's Bullet. RAWLINS. Wyo., June 47. (By the Associated Press.) Fred Brown, Omaha's bad i man, tonight rests upon a cot in the hospital at Wyo ming penitentiary, hovering be tween life and death. It is a 50-50 chance that Brown, who was wounded by a posse that captured him near Me&icine Bow early today, will recover, according to Dr. B, K. Sell, who is attending him. A steel-jacketed bulled 'from a. .20-.3I rifle is embedded in Brown's body Just above the heart. It was this bullet that ended Brown's career of lawlessness that began in Omaha May 27, last, when he kid naped two young women and later chained them together in a shack at Benson, a suburb of Omaha. - Brown lies upon his cot with his eyes closed, apparently unconscious. The penitentiary officials say they believe he is shamming. Quick thinking by a woman re sulted in Brown's capture. The woman, whose name is unknown to the authorities, lives near Medicine Bow. Last night she saw a motor car driven by an unshaven, unkempt man stop near her home. Having heard that" Brown was in the neigh borhood, she telephoned the authori ties. A posse quickly formed. Just at dawn the members sighted an automobile stalled in an irriga tion ditch at the side of the road ahead of them. 11 As they approached a man leaped from the machine and with an au tomatic revolver in each hand made a dash for the shelter of a largej boulder not far from the side of the road. Members of the posse opened fire and Brown fell to the ground with a bullet -wound through the left shoulder just above the heart. He was lifted into an automobile by his captors and driven back to Medicine Bow. Brown confessed that he was the man who overpowered two city po licemen at Sidney, Neb., last Monday and lett them tied in pie county fair grounds there while he continued on his way. The keys to the Sidney jail were found in Brown's pocket. JUSTICE OFPEACE FINED One Jurist Levies Assessment Against Another for Speeding. ALBANY, Or. June 17. (Special.) One justice of the peace fined an other here yesterday when A. Klockman of Klockman, Idaho, was arested in Linn county by a state traffic officer for exceeding the speed limit on the Pacific highway. Mr. Klockman pleaded guilty and when the arresting officer said the Idaho man was traveling 42 miles an hour Justice Olliver fined him $12, $1 for each mile of excessive speed. Mr. Klockman is justice of the peace in his home town, which is named for him. He is ' also post master there and president of the Idaho Continental company. HARDINGS OUT YACHTING - President and Wife Take Guests for Week-End Trip. WASHINGTON, D. C, June 17. President Harding was host on the Mayflower on another week-end trip today. The party included -Attorney General Daugherty, Chairman Lasker of the shipping board, Speaker Gil lett and Mrs. Gillett, Senator and Mrs.. Kellogg, Director of the Bud get Dawes and Mrs. Dawes and Jesse Smith of the department of justice. The Mayflower was scheduled to return Monday morning. FAIR WEEK FORECAST Normal Temperatures to Prevail on Coast, Is Prediction. WASHINGTON, T. C, June 17.- (Special.) Weather outlook for the week beginning Monday for Pacific states: Generally fair and normal tem perature. Portland Upholds' Name for Hospitality. GUESTS LOUD IN PRAISES Parties Are Taken for Trip Over Columbia Highway. MAYOR 1 BAKER LAUDED More Automobiles Wanted for XJse of Lodge Members Who Arrive " in City From Now On. APPEAL FOR AUTOMOBILES Mayor Baker late last night urged that all automobile owners of Portland take cars to the Union station at 7, o'clock this morning to care ; for the Shrine visitors who will arrive this morning. Au tomobiles are also needed to carry Shrlners on trips over the Columbia highway. These trips will begin at 8:30 this morning from the Multnomah hotel. All auto owners are urged to aid in caring for the ' visitors today. True to form, Portland threw open its arms yesterday and throughout the day as Shriners by the thou sands poured Into the city from their convention in San Francisco, met them, feted them, carried them out on the highway and then showed them the various residential dis tricts of the city. The Shriners, a bit weary after ac cepting the strenuous entertainment programme In San Francisco, as well as the courtesies that were extended them in various cities on their jour ney to the Bay City, declared that Portland's hospitality was the climax. Portland's "remarkable reputation, gained in 20 when the greatest imperial g council session of the Mystic Shrine in history was held In the City of Roses, brought the eastern people to this city with an expectation that they will be royally entertainetLand that there will be no waits or delays about it. Portland Upholds Reputation. Portland upheld its reputation by caring for every visitor who passed through the gates of tfhe Union Sta tion yesterday, and thjey began com ing as early as 6:30 4- M. and con" tinned throughout the -.day until 8:45 P. M. last night Mayor Baker did herculean work in rounding up cars. For instance, about 3:30 P. M., wnen thousands of Portland motorists were on the" highway with the red feazed visi tors, word was received that several special trains were due, and that no automobiles were at the Union Sta tion to carry them uptown. Mayor Baker first called ob the police bureau ordered put the patrol wagon and assigned a dosen offi cers to telephoning car owners for help. He then appealed to the hotels and obtained busses, and when the Medinah special trains arrived the Chicago folk, numbering about 800 in all, were whisked uptown with out a moment's delay. Autoists Answer Call. Answering the call of the commit teethat had been working through out the week recruiting cars, there were cars by Ijhe score at union sta tion at 7 A. M. .- . The large number of specials routed through Portland was de layed, however, and many' of thess cars were not called upon for serv ice until the afternoon. The two special trains from Medinah tern-pie (Concluded on Page 16, Column 2.) CARTOONIST Complete Returns From 61 Pre- cincts at Midnight Show Big Majorities. F. S. Pickering, an east Bids grocer and candidate of the so- called patriotic societies, which in clude the Ku Klux Klan, apparently was elected school director at yes terday's annual balloting, replacing A. C Newill, chairman of the board. Complete returns from 61 pre cincts give Pickering 6409, Newill 4643. ' . Both the bond issue of 33.000,000 for new school buildings and the tax levy of $1,000,000 for- mainte nance during the : coming year carried by a substantial vote. Totals at midnight on these two' Issues were as follows: Bond issue. yes 6835, no 2487; levy, yes 6696, no 2543. Chairman Newill of the board of directors conceded the election of Pickering last night after scanning the returns at school beard offioes in the courthouse. Newill carried 15 precincts out of the 95. Among them were west aide precincts, Irvlngton, one Sunnyside precinct, Holladay and Alameda. The only precincts voting against the bond issue among the 61 first reporting were Holladay, Eliot and the old Couch school. Complete count on scattered pre- (Concluded on Page 17, Column 1.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TODAY'S Fair, winds mostly westerly. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 78 degrees; minimum temperature, ' degrees. Departments. Editorial. Section 3, page 8. Dramatic. Section 4, page 6. Moving-picture news. Section 4, 'page 1. Real-estate and building aewa Section 4, page 10. Churches. Section 5, page 2. Pooks. Section 5, page 3. - " Schools. Section 5, paged. , Automobiles, Section 6. Music Section 4, page 5. Chess and checkers. Section 4, page 11. Radio department. Section 4, page 9. Boy Scouts. Section 4, page 11. Garden department. Section 4, page 8. Women's Features. , Society. Section S, page 1. Women's activities. Section 3, page 6. ' Fashions. Section 5, page 4. Miss Tingle's column. Section 5, page 4. Madam R Idiot's column. Section 5, page 5. Auction bridge. Section 4, page 7. i Special Features. Weddings in water newest thrill. Maga zine section, page 1. Dehydration, food marvel. Magazine sec tion, page 2. "The Hand on the Shoulder," fiction fea ture. Magazine section, page 3. News of the world as seen, by camera. Magazine section, page 4. Hill's, cartoons, "Among Us Mortals." Magazine section, page fi. Can ten bury Tales From a Smoking Car. Magazine section, page 6. Why Dempsey can't decide Which girl he - loves. Magazine section, page 7. The ghost that hypnotized a bank presi dent. Magazine section, page 8. Gossip of world capitals. Sec. 3, page 10. MUwaukie preacher is also painter. Sec tion 8, page 11. Famous women. Section 4, page 8. M argot Asquith finds illlberalism in America. Section 4, page 11. Married life of Helen and Warren. Sec tion 4, page 11. Festival of Roses opens Tuesday. Section 6, page lt Foreign. Wedding of Prince of Wales again rumored. Section 1, page 1. Canton captured by General Chen. Sec tion 1, page 3. Politics already has entered Hague con ference, despite declarations to con trary. Section 1, page 3. Jealousies defeat international loan to Germany. Section 1, page 4. German reparations business bungled, says Andre Tardleu. Section 1, page 6. English public sees menace in French militaristic policy. Section 1, page 7. Extension of moratorium for Germany probable, says William Bird. Section 1, page 7. -National. - More than 20 amendments proposed to federal constitution. Section i, page 6. World peril seen in declining birth rate among white nations. Section 1, page 5. Missouri women row about Senator . Reed. Section 1, page 4. Seven rail unions vote for strike. Sec tion 1, page 2. Row over bonus breaks in senate. Section 1, page 18. ' Domestic. Mayor Rolph fights railroad divorce. Sec tion 1, page 17. Finger printing urged as means of pre serving identity of babies. Section 1, page 4. . Expert doubtful of life on Mars. Sec tion 1, page 1. Head of harvester company operated on by glandular expert. Section 1, page jo - PERRY INTERERETS Bobby Murray, High-Voiced Won der, to Sing Wednesday, and ' - Berrian Band to Play. The first of a series of four radio programmes listed 'for this week will be broadcasted from The Ore gonlan tower tonight, when Rev. J. F. Huckleberry, pastor of Grace Baptist church, will, conduct serv ices for radio listeners, delivering a short sermon and assisted by the male quartet of his church. The members of the quartet are G. K. East on, L. R. Marvin, C. D. Hageman and H. P. Barrett. Myrtle Noorlln, pianist, will play both the organ and piano accompaniments, as well as a prelude at the begin ning of the services. The hour for broadcasting is from 7 to 8 o'clock. The programme for the service fol lows: Quartet. "I Can Tell Jesus" (Towner), "God Has Done All He Can" (Lorenz), solo. C. D. Hageman, "Is He Tours?" (Harkness), sermon by Rev. J. F. Huckleberry, "Inspired Logic," quartet; "Fill Me With Thy Love" (Wilson); solo, C. D. Hage man, "To thNe Mountain" (HewittX; quartet, "Forward, Soldiers of the Cross"' (Schuler), "In the Blessed By and By" (Wilson), "The Church in the Wildwood" (Pitts). Tomorrow night a programme of solo numbers and several eelections by a vocal trio, arranged by Mrs. (Concluded on Page 6. Column 1.) Domestic Labor federation decides hereafter to hold conventions in October. - Section 1. page 10. Indiscriminate giving away of babies alarms New York and society. Section It page 7. Noah's ark held extant in Egypt. Sec - tion.l, page 2. Posse captures Omaha, bad man. Sec tion l, page L Pacific Northwest. Oregon national guard service entitles imapiain Gilbert to lieutenant-colonelcy. Section 1, page 8. Three persons killed in auto wreck. Sec tion 1. page 0. Washington fires are saging unchecked. section J., page tf. University of Oregon to graduate 219, section 3, page 7. - Civic symphony orchestra of Seattle, wasn., talented organization, section -i, page J.U.- Convention spree story overdrawn. Sec tion 1, page . , Idaho democrats now striving to put Qown party lacuonausm. cecuon x page 9. Drive to defeat Washington legislators near. Section l, page a. -Sports. Washington ready for oar contest. Sec tion 1, page o. ... . t Nautical aporta big Rose Festival feature for Wednesday afternoon. Section 2, page 5. Great races at t.atonla will rival in in- terest Kentucky . Derby. - Section 2, page 4. War-torn French boxer coming to Amer ica. Section 2, page 4. Tualatin club expects many to enter golf tourney. Section 2, page 3. Center tennis championship meet is postponed one day. Section 2, page 3. Pacific Coast league results: At San Francisco 10, Portland 4; at Doe Angeles 3, Seattle 7; at Salt Lake 9, Oakland 11; at Sacramento 8, Ver non 3. Section 2, page 2. r California wins team honors at Stagg field meet in Chicago. Section 2, page 1. Whlskaway beats wonder colt in Carlton stakes. Section 2, page 1. Commercial and Marine. Large Indian loan depresses gilt-edged securities fox time. Section 1, page 23. Stocks display much firmer tone on New York market. Section 1, page 23. All grades of flour decline in local mar ket. Section 1, page 22. Bulge in Chicago wheat market at close. Section 1, page 22. Longshore strike declared broken. Sec . tion 1, page 22. Motorshlp Californian rates among best carriers of its type. Section 1, page 21. Portland and Vicinity. Children throng parks when playgrounds are officially opened. Section 1, page 16. Miss Alice Robertson visits Indian school. Section 1, page ltt. ' Political "circles now keenly alive over forthcoming contests. Section 1, page 15.. Rose displays to be judged Tuesday. Section 1, page 14. Lumbermen aroused over efforts of rail roads to prevent rate cuts. Section 1. page 10. . Fine radio concerts 'scheduled for fes tival week. Section 1, page 1. Shrine visitors feted royally. Section 1, page 1. - ' Carfare-and phone rate cuts promised. Section 1, page 1. Speed-fiend goose rides on radiator. Sec tion 1,: page 20. Advisers of Hall suggest recount. Section 1, page 15. Festival gaiety soon to reign. Section 1, page L Mr. Pickering leads in school election. Section 1, page 1. SOME RECENT NEWS Stage All Set For Rose Show Tuesday. GUTTERING DAYS ARE AHEAD Many Events to Provide Fun for Visitors. CITY TO BE FAIRYLAND Indians to Take Part in Fiesta. Battleships Are to Be In . Harbor for Show. The stage is set for ringing down the curtain Tuesday morning on staid, sober old Portland and for ushering In the fairy realm of Rosaria over which Queen Harriett will reign for four happy, glittering nose x esuvai aays. A veritable kaleidoscope of at tractions will follow the opening of the annual festival. Kvents will crowd odOk' another in such quick succession that It was found neces sary to extend the festival to four days instead of three as originally arranged for the merrymakers who will make Portland their mecca during the week. City to Be Fairyland. To begin with, the City of Roses will be transformed into- a fairyland withVts colorful street decorations, its beautiful festival center, its won derful rose show and displays of its fireworks at night. And then there will be the glittering panoply of the parades and pageants. There will be something for all to enjoy won derful music for the music lover, beautiful flowers for . the lover of nature's wonders, beautiful floats and beautiful women. For those who are sport fans there will be the exciting races of the re gatta and for the "boys" who like to be reminded of the old times there will be the Indian pageant with its attack upon the emigrant train. Then there will be the dancea and receptions and various social func tions which fill out the days. ' Destroyers to Be Attrattlon. The fleet of destroyers, headed by the battleship Connecticut, will no doubt be one of the big attractions during the festival. Arrangements will be made for the public to vilit the ships. The hours w'll be an nounced after a conference with Ad miral J.' T. Chase, in charge of the flagship Connecticut, and Command er L.'N. McNair of the flotilla of destroyers upon their arrival here. Elaborate arrangements have been made- for the entertainment of the men aboard the naval vessels. To Mrs. M. E. Young, working in conjunction with Fred "W. German of the Rose Festival committee and Lieutenant R. E. Kerr of the Untied States navy, belongs the credit for the big entertainment for the. 1200 sailors from the vessel tomorrow and tomorrow. night. Arrangements have been made whereby Council Crest park, with its rides and big dancing pavilion, practically will be turned over to the navy boys and their friends. Tickets to Be Distributed. Tickets will be distributed to the ships tomorrow morning by Lieu tenant Kerr and tickets for girls who will assist in the entertainment by dancing with the sailors'may be obtained at Meier & Frank's, Olds, Wortman & Kings, Lipman, Wolfe & Co.,' the T. W. C. A. and the Port land Gas & Coke company. The big crest pavilion will be especially decorated for the occa sion with international code flags furnished by Beebe & Co. ' The work will be done by men from the United States navy recruiting station in the Dekum building. Hostesses from the Community (Concluded on Page 14. Column 3. HAPPENINGS. Duke of York Also Is Expected to Marry Beantiful English Girl Interest" High. (Copyright, 1822. by the New York World. Published bv Arrangement.) LONDON. June 17. (Special Cable.) With the prince of Wales nearing home after his prolonged visit to India and Japan, the rumors of his early betrothal are renewed and grow louder. Aluncugh. the press as a whole has maintained discreet silence as to the prince's marital prospects, it Is understood this sub ject has engrossed the attention of the royal family and of certain min isters of state for some time. There seems to be a feeling that the prince of Wales will choose an English girl for his wife, and no name is mentioned more often in conversation in society than that of Lady Rachel Cavendish, daughter of the duchess of Devonshire, who was one of Princess Mary's bridesmaids. The prince will attend a dance given by the duchess to Lady Rachel on his birthday just three days after he lands in England. King George and Queen Mary will attend the dance. But there is an even more imme dilate Interest in the marital pros pects of tho prince's brother, the duke of York. For some time past Lady Mary Cambridge, another of Princess Mary's bridesmaids, has been much in the company of the royal family and has been seen fre quently riding in Windsor park with the king and the duke of York. She and Lady Rachel Cavendjsh are among the prettiest girls in English society. It was thought that the engage ment of the duke of York and Lady Mal-y would be announced at the recent dance given by Princess Mary, and some newspapers considered it certain. There was, however, no such announcement. Since then. Lady Mary has been at several race mets with the royal family and she has been almost daily in the duke of York's society. AVIATORS BREAK RECORD Salt Lake to Coast Run Made in 6 Hours 2 Minutes. ' SAN FRANCISCO, July 17. A rec. ord for airplane time between Salt Lake City and San Francisco was made by the United States ar mail service today when three flyers, working in relays, negotiated the distance in six hours and 12 min utes. ; The record announcement was made by the air mall service after all past records had been consulted Pilot H. B. Levise, who started the trip, jumped off at Salt Lake at 4:16 A. M. He negotiated the jump to Elko, Nev., in one hour and 54 min utes. Pilot William F. Blanchard made the next relay to Reno in two hours and 18 minutes. The last re lay, from Reno to San Francisco, was made by Pilot Harry V. Huking, who made the trip in two hours flat, arriving here at 10:32 A. M. The trip was planned for the pur pose of freaking the record. EX-MOVIE PRODUCER DIES Crystal Hampton Succumbs to Effects of Poison. NEW YORK. June 17. Miss Crys tal Hampton, former, head of a mov ing picture producing firm which bore her name, died today from the effects of poison sihe swallowed in tine rest room of a Broadway hotel two weeks ao. .The police said- that at tiho 'hospii to'l Miss Hampton toild them she was married to Harry Schute at Allen town, Pa., several years ago, but tlhat tihemarriageihad been annulled. LAWMAKER GRAVELY ILL Physicians Report Condition of Senator Crow Serious. t'NIONTOWN, Pa., June 17. A bulletin Issued today by physicians attending United States Senator Crow declared the patient's con dition was "very grave." The senator is at his summer home in the mountains near here. Planet Is Nearer Earth Than in Ten Years. RECESSION BEGINS TODAY Elements Hinder Scientists in Pursuing Studies. VARIOUS THEORIES HELD Existence, It Human, Xeeds Greater Intelligence to Com municate With World. BY HENRY NORRIS RUSSELL, Head of Department of Astronomy, Princeton University. NEW YORK, June 17. (Special. - Many persons during the last week or two have notiqed an un usually large planet glowing red in the southeastern skies and have wondered what its name is. It is the planet Mars, most familiar of the planets. But even those who know it well have been. struck by its unusual brightness. The reason for this brightness is that Mars is today, June 17, about 1,000,000 miles nearer to us than lt was two weeks ago. ' There need be no cause for alarm. The huge sphere is not coming any nearer. After tomorrow lt will be-' gin to swing away from us again, and within the next two weeks will again be some 43,500,000 miles away from the earth, as it was a month ago. Different Orbits Traveled. But today it is nearer the earth than it has been for 10 or 12 years. Roughly speaking, its orbit began to curve toward us a year ago, when Mars was more than 200,000,000 miles away from us. By June, 1923, it will again be that far distant As Mars and the earth pursue their respective orbits, the earth, which completes its circuit almost twice as quickly as Mars, catches up with it at intervals of slightly less than two years and two months. On every such occasion Mains and the earth are on the same side of the sun and fairly near one, another, but the orbit of Mans comes consid erably nearer to Che sun on bine side than on the other. At the present time Mars is in that part of its orbit where the ear-tin catches up with It and is therefore consid erably nearer to us than it could be if it were on the opposite side of its orbit. ObnervuliuUH Are Difficult. It is easy to see that at the times of these close approaches to Mars the earth will always have Lo be in t'he game part of Us own orbit anid this happens to be the pant wlhAch the earth traverses in the summer. This is an inconvenient thing for astronomers wbe live north of tihe equator, because Mans when nearest to us is arways opposite to the sun in the skj. In summer the sun rises high in tiie sky and Mars necessarily hangs low even at midnight. The astron omer has to look through a much greater thickness of our atmosphere in order to see Mars than he would . if it were higher up to tihe sky anid this makes bis observations decided ly more difficult. To the eye, how ever, the planet is a very con spicuous object, brighter, than the brig'htest stars and even surpassing Jupiter, though by no means equal to .Venus. Other Problem Pressing. The average reader may be some what surprised to hear that Mars at its present favorable approach will probably be studied in rather a small number of observatories. The, rea son for this is that the number of astronomical problems which call urgently for observations of various (Concluded on Page 4, Column 1.)