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TEN PAGEar-v' AUTHORITY FINDS THAT Srsmmsmmamammsem v RADi&AND MANLESS f- Huge Tanks, Laden With Ex- plosives and Guided by Wire- less Make Fighting Terrible. Noted Persons Were fire to Mania for Self -Destruction; Why Some End Lives. efadletoii DAttV tASt OftlGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGtSt 30, 1021. of P BY HAHRT I ROGERS I WASHINGTON, P. C, Aug. 30 'Mother, take In your service flag for this in a wireless war:" In some such manner will the Doughboy's deprisive gibe at those who aw service behind the lines have to be amended in the next war If time foeara out the predictions of naval and military experts as to the pnrfradto is to play In the conflicts of the future. Destroyers without a fowl on hoard, manouverlng at full speed in battle formation: battle cruisers aig-xassing with lightning-life swiftness to escape the bomb of a pilotless airplane or the Unseen torpedo of a crew-less sub marine; whole fleets of dreadnoughts, whose monster guns, aimed by me chanical hands, belch forth tons of steel at other squadrons of electrically-manipulated war-craft this is the naval warfare of the future, ns it is glimpsed by the eye of scientific pos albility, from the not inconsiderable height of present-day achievement. On land the radio-controlled air plane or dirigible may operate 'even more easily than at sea. Carrying its death-dealing load of bombs or poison gas, which the pressing of a button a hundred miles away may release, it could soar over enemy cities, com pelling surrender of their Inhabitants by the mere threat of the destruction It might wreak. Should armies ever get within striking distance of each other huge tanks, laden with tons of high explosive might be guided by radio into the enemy lines and there exploded by closing a contact sw itch in the control station far in the rear. A few years ago such prophecies would have been hailed as absurd and rediculous. Today they are accepted as possibilities, even probabilities of the future and the not very distant fu ture at that - Navy Department experts have been working on problems of radio control for many months and have made notable progress, as was evi denced by the performance of the . radio controlled battleship Iowa, dur Inr the recent bombmg tests off the Atlantic coast. Army engineers, too, are giving Intense study to the sub ject What Army experts think of the fu ture of radio In warfare is shown in an official statement concerning the progress of experiments now being conducted at McCook Field. Dayton, Ohio. "The possibilities of radio control and Its application to war-time prob lems are almost without number," Kays the- statement. '"Radio control can be applied to any mechanical ap paratus that moves, whether it be in the air, on the ground, on the sur face of the water, or beneath the water. Huge land tanks may be con structed and filled with TXT and driven to any desired point along the enemy's lines, where the explosive can be fired by means of radio, or it can be applied in a similar manner to a boat, submarine, torpedo, or even an airplane, and the explosive can be fired when and where desired." Recent visitors at McCook: Field have been astonished at the gyrations of a brightly.painted, three wheeled vehicle which has been dashing to and fro between the buildings and among the airplanes on the field, under no visible means of control. It Is often seen to approach a group of persons. Its horn tooting wildly, and then, when apparently about to strike them, to stop short, ack. turn sharply to , right or left and then speed off in the vpnsite direction. The movements of the car are 'con trolled entirely bv radio impulses sent out from the station at the lower end of the flying field. The fact that no aerial or antanna system Is risible adds tv the mystification of the un initiated. The car Is of cigar-shaped construc tion, about eight feet long, and turns on three pneumatic-tired wheels. Its apeed ranges from four to ten miles; an hour, and the controls are so nice ly adjusted as to make steering along a narrow roadway an easy matter. An examination of the interior of the car shows an amazing collection of batteries, switches, wires, vacuum tubes, potentiometers, relays and mag netos, all of which are necessary to a complete control of the apparatus. The "brain" of lhe mechanism Is the seleclor. Various combinations of dots and dashes are sent out from the control station by means of a specially-constructed transmitter, each com bination calling for the accomplish ment of a certain operation of the con trol apparatus. It Is the function of the "selector" to decode these various combinations of dots and dashes and to clo'm the circuits to the desired controls. Bo delicately i the "selector" const rur d and so rapidly will it operate that It is possible to put in operation any of twelve distinct controls in a period of less than one second. That is to say, less than one second elapsed from the time any push-button on the auto matic transmitter at the distant radio station Is pressed until the control on the car Is functioning. Such speed of control 1ms never before been accom plished. The car has been controlled equally well from an airplane and from a ground transmitting station. UY MARGERY REX (Written for the International Ncw; Service.) j NEW YORK. Aug. 30. Suicides are j on the increase. j Especially among children. j Reports covering suicides for the , first six months of this year show! thi't 214 boys and girls have kill-! ed themselves. During the same period of 1920, 5?5 j children ended their lives. The figures come from the Save-a- ! Life League, of which Dr. Harry, March Warren is president. The object of the league is the pro-' vention of suicides, and its head ro- j ports thar the increase in the number : of self-inflicted deaths is the after- j math of war among adults and the Tear of parental anger due to failure in school examinations in the case of j children. Of the many children who killed ! themselves in the first six months of this year Dr. Warren said: "Many of these children leave notes j in which they declare fear of examina- tion impelled them to die. j It is not the examinations, really, j but the barbarous threats of parents ', to inflict terrible treatment In case I children don't tass. Many fathers and j mothers are rough and mean to their unfortunate offspring. Pome teachers are severe. Many children are in poor ' health and therefore wenfc in their i studies and in resistence. I "Many parents actually presecute ! their chiWren. I cannot understand j how this can be. They select one par- ticular child as the victim of their j temper." j The difficulties of childhood and of I that period of adolescence during j which the child becomes an adult were i understood very well by George Eliot, ' the writer, who reflected upon her ' own youth, the hardships of which : made her contemplate suicide: j "The impenetrable puzzlements of youth! I was happier w hen older. j "If there is" any terror of despair j equal to that of adolescence it has jet ! to be discovered." j Napoleon Weak at 17 ' At the age of thirteen Lord Byron, i in school at Harrow, spoke of the at j tractions of death. Later, in Cam-' bridge; he kept pistols about "with ; which to answer some of these ques- j tions." Napoleon said: "What madness impels me to desire j my own .destruction? . Pince death j most come, why not kill myself? Why j should I endure these days when ! nothing r am. concerned in prospers?" ' This at seventeen later he felt more sure of success. But what of the adiirt's suicide? Mr. Warren says: "The increased number of suicides : is due to the aftermath of war. People wroutrht up during that period are re-: laxed now and in this let-down condi- i t'on often think of death. j "During the war there were few! suicides. Misery likes company, and i when many persons had the same bur- dens thev seemed liehter to bear. i "In May and June, w hen the world I is bright and gay, and when people are outdoors and looking happy, there are many suicides. Miserable people cannot endure to contrast their lives with those of contented persons. "November, that black, horrid month, finds few wishing to die. A general air of gloom has settled upon the world, and troubles are easier to bear. j Tis a Common Trasoly "The tragedy of suicide is a com- j mon one. There is no thought that comes quicker when adverse condi- j tions pile upon us. Teople think: I 'What's the upe?" "Would-be suicides need - friend. and to quote the words of Paul 'this! is the thing I do." j "We must keep people from de stroying their God-given lives. We. get them when they have reached the ' most desperate stage of existence. ' "Hope is what they need. .. "Two things cause the deatre to end 1'fe, a multiplicity of sorrows and loss es and a great loneliness. We instil new hope, give people a second wind.' We ?how them another way out. We point out the awful risk of taking such a step. Try to Kwp Plans Secret "When we are sick we go to a doc tor; if In need of legal help to a law yer. Why, then, when w-e mean to IT DOES MX HEART GOOD TO MEET SUCH FINE AND HEALTHY YOUNG AMERICAN BOYS , AND GIRLS AS YOU CAN BOAST OF FOR AT NO TIME IN ANY TOWN ON THIS SIDE OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, II AVE I EVER MET A FINER BUNCH. AND I ONLY HOPE THAT AT SOME FUTURE DATE I MAY RETURN, EVEN AFTER THESE CHILDREN ARE GROWN, SO THAT I MAY SEE THEM AS MEN AND WOiMEN, FOR I KNOW THEY WILL BE A CREDIT TO THEIR HOME TOWN AND A SOURCE OF GREAT JOY-TO YOU, THEIR PARENTS. . Wil I,. . "BUT $20,000- WortH ot HigH : ' Grade Furniture Always. Be a-Booster for PENDLETON ; ' THE BEST TOWN THAT I HAVE SEEN IN ORE GON ; I AM NOT HERE AS A PUBLICITY MAN FOR YOUR FAMILY OR CITY, I AM HERE TO SELL' - . AND SELL IT I WILL! YES, AND THE WAY SOME OF THE PEOPLE AtiE BUYING, MY CON TRACT:WILL SOON BE COMPLETED. HAVE YOU GOT YOUR SHARE? NOW YOU ARE GO ING TO BUY BEFORE I LEAVE, SO COME ON IN, THE WATER IS FINE, GET IT OVER WITH, THEN I CAN SELL YrOU SOMETHING ELSE. . ' ...... g ,.a. .yff, The Place The Time i4.,4""i"'l'o Now! m. m n ww j-s"wy m imi nm ijsiii jiiin 1331 YOU S AY E MONEY Don't forget the pig race Thursday morning, the chicken race Saturday afternoon at four o'clock, and rememher, you may get a floor lamp or thephonograph free. , V-W-...... i a ' . :-. ,- ... I: i ; ,Y'X ' f D 'v. ',-. H X:U- - ' "j ? , ' ' ' I- ' ' l . J.T.CALLAHAN America's Greatest Sales and Publicity " Expert. ' ' f n n t-m ; T,ML " ' n take a much greater step do we noi talk It over with some person of dis cretion? "jiecrctiveness always marks the person who conies to'me to discuss a contemplated suicide. The man or woman before me describes the troubled mental state of u'irlend.' GUNNERS OF NEW MEXICO ARE STILL IN THE LEAD WASHINGTON-. Aug. SO. (I. N. S.) The buttW-xhip New Mexico, flagship of the I'ai'ifie flnrt. Is perhaps one of the l-si. if ml the beM. fiphiinc ship afloat, m Mie bavin of firi-if(3 recent ly ewfrp!etrd. This vessel rme off h the highest honors for battlesfclr n;c!enty. junnery ni tRfinctrlcj cf T hi tn bar cUm of the American .... Original One-Piece Suits r v f V" e ; Si X i f h jff Thll M liKt vi v ti.f ids rti-"! i''-''.r.',r jvrr. -vhl' h tr tr-f;.:l" I.IMi'f r y trcrr. tn the h e p -),-!- a ti. ;. b. rri B Cirrrr.: ii t r"' r.-.t pw.fc Uut they finally te'l all. "Many men write to me to get them wives, but thU Is impossible. Those fellows say they would marry girls that were unfortunate and betrayed and not ask questions. I tell all lone some folks to fro Into church social life, where they will meet people. "In the past six months there nave r"n a 4i timber, of young men who have taken money from banks or from tbe'r firms who Viou(?ht of killing themselves. Perhaps, their salaries were too small to permit them to live nndeMre?ent conditions. Many men play the market with sad results. T tften go to employers with erring men and ask for another chance for them. Thu munasers usually permit 'be men to repay from their salaries and do not send them to jail. I always wain young men to do this and not to run away. Thus tho debt Is paid hi, fit itnd the world is never the wiser. Affinity Caws Multiply "There are many "affinity eases. They write or rail to tell me of the wreck of life without the lovel one iVvo is somebody else's-wife or hus-J band. They tell of golne over to look at tho river. They consider t!iom-i selves" unique types of matyrs. I tell them that port of thing is much com moner than generally believed and that lots of people have the same de lusions from which they suffer. "In later years they will look back iwith unbelieving minds on the tor- I Mires they suffered through such Ideas. ' "I am not aware that we have ever 'ost a person. It Is possible, but never have I read hi tli newspapers of lhe ub ide "f ojiyone. i limn we tried lo live." Eut man' famo'13 men of the pas' have de-ipatred and thourht of death md lived en to fln4 fame and happl ne?B It) some cases. John Hay, statesman. '. and writer, Just afjer his graduation from college became melancholy and wanted to die. Charles Darwin wast sad before he dis covered the monkey theory and said ' life is too puzzling to endure." Later on he thought butter of it. v Lincoln, at the age of thirty-two, wrote to Stuart, his friend: "I am the most miserable man alive. I must die to bo better. I cannot write more." In a note" to another friend he enclos ed, a clipping on suicide. 'SOLIDARITY" OF BRITISH AND ' AMERICAN SEEN BY PLAYWRIGHT LONDON, Aug. 3".--(I. xN. "There ia no shadow of doubt a as wn.er Hummed up Ms experiences to vMlo on tv lecture tour in the L'nlte I the solidarity of the goodwill existing between the Americans and the Kng ll.h.".. With this comment Mr. John Drink- ntroducmg "Mona Lisa" V V7 ! y "" A i 5 1 . ? .'l.iie. from which he has utriu'i; Just i i ... She'i qqecn of her flats .mo uof now at wu Mont,, V.n. Mf"nf: : ?! 1 'n her. t U tW'i-CbAwpisii idonto.CarlJ siok Um vriter, . He Is thor , optimistic r b. ut tlie future of the relations between tho two great Knglish-speuklng nations. "No 1 ton son ti Ho Snml." "-- "Of coirrse,'' ho went o-h. "there is the small minority, wllh a loud voice. which wants watching and answering iiom time to lime, but thcro Ih hit rea .0:1 to bo scared nbJJt them , . "Americans and Englishmen veve, of . use, made to "Ike eoi h etlirr. A' .though 1 would not live anywhere elso but in Kngland, I have tho highest r gard for Anierlcans. A man like J. W. Davis, the retiring ambassador, for ex ample, is the salt of the earth." Ha Is enthusiastic about "bringlnir tho two nations closer together by i tho aid of literature and the fine arts. 1 "Iltorntiiro Move Westward." ' "It Is a great pity that ' the great stream of literature moves westward," lid commented; "there is a great and ircnorous public for English literature In America, but one cun hardly suy tho same here of American books." Mr. Drllikwator suggested thut some such body as tho English-Speaking I'nlnn should organize a lecture tour in England for soma halfrdojcn-of Hie great men of American literature. uW, ing as his reason that if England wanted to strengthen Ita frlendshle with America she should pay an me of hor writers the compliment that they have paid Englishmen and begin to take tome Interest in American works.