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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1913.
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Cool Heads Over
A Heated Problem.
It Is highly fortunate that Senator Bacon’s sober
counsel has prevailed against the 111-tlmed Clark
resolution which, had It been adopted, would at least _
have embarrassed the President and his advisers.In
their efforts to untangle the serious Mexican situation.
This resolution demanded an Immediate Inquiry Into
conditions In Mexico by the Foreign Relations com
mittee of the Senate, independent of that which Presi
dent Wilson Is now conducting and It opened the way
to Independent action on the part of Congress.
Seator Bacon, who is chairman of the Foreign Re-
| lations committee vigorously op; csed such a move
| on the ground that It would tend merely to complicate
an already difficult pioblem. He called attention to
1 the fact that the President has sent a personal repre-
, sentative to Mexico in the hope of bringing about
some understanding whereby p ace and orderly gov
ernment may be restored and that until this effort
had proved unmistakably futile and other well-con
sidered and pacific p.ans of the ad: illustration had
failed, there should be no hasty interference. There
are two ways, as enator Bacon declared, by which
the United States may proceed to meet its responsi
bilities In this l ying situation- "One way is to at
tempt to do s" 1 .. omer . by the
strong arm, by force. Who will say that the latter
should not he the last to which we should resort?”
The administration’s policy toward Mexico thus
far has been thoroughly justified and Is approved
both in and out of Congress by thoughtful men Irre
spective of party. The time has nov evidently come
when some decisive move must be made, but for that
very reason It should made deliberately and with
full knowledge of all the circumstances. To this end,
the President has sent to Mexico as his personal rep
resentative "Mr. John Lind, whose mission It Is to
gather accurate information of conditions in that
country and also, if possible, to effect some plan of
peaceful agreement among the warring factions.
The reported declaration of the Huerta govern
ment that -it will not receive Mr. Lind unless he
comes In the capacity of an ambassador, officially
recognizing the Huerta regime, has given rise to
much concern. It may be, however, that what ap
pears now to be a dangerous difficulty will dwindle
to Insignificance. It Is scarcely credible that Huerta
would flatly ignore or insult the President’s special
representative who comes in a capacity really much
higher, if not more responsible, than that of any am
bassador. Furthermore, as has been pointed out, Mr.
Lind’s status in the Mexican capital will not depend
upon his direct relationships to the de facto govern
ment there. “He has gone,” as The Journal’s Wash
ington correspondent points out, “in the capacity of
adviser to the American embassy and whatever he
may have to say t. Mr. Huerta may be said through
the official in charge of the embassy, one astute in
dividual named Nelson ’OShaughnessy.”
Whether the Lind mission succeeds or fails re
mains to be seen. For the present, however, it is
clear that the wisest course the United States can pur
sue is that w-hlch the administration has adopted and
which it is following in a manner that merits full
and cordial confidence.
The New Balkan Treaty.
Whether the treaty agreed to by the Balkan Allies
will bring real peace or will merely affoi-d a short
breathing space in which the warring States will gird
themselves for another fierce conflict is a matter of
surmise. The terms of the tentative settlement seem
to be unsatisfactory to all the parties concerned ex
cept Rumania. Bulgaria has been allotted more of
northern Macedonia than Servia and Greece wished
to allow her. At the same time Bulgaria is sharply
piqued over being deprived of other important terri
tory to which she has laid claim and particularly
does she object to being assigned the task of ex
pelling, unaided, the Turks from Adrianople. Ru
mania, who took no part in the original Ottoman war,
gains most from the new treaty; and it was her
threat to hurl an army forthwith against Sofia, the
Bulgarian capital, that forced an acceptance of the
modified frontier.
In these circumstances it is possible that the Al
lies will renew their internal warfare, though if the
European Powers approve and sustain the terms of
'the treaty, or those of some subsequent treaty, it is
likely that neace will be restored in fact. The .,ig-
nificant aspect of the new arrangement is the weaken
ed condition in which it leaves Bulgaria atid the indi
rect, though impftant, bearing this wil/ have on
the affairs of the entire Balkan peninsula. Until the
recent war Bulgaria was clearly dominant among her
neighbors. But she must now give full recognition to
the rights and the influence of Servia and Greece and
even of Montenegro. If there is to be a Balkan con
federacy at all, it must be founded on an equality of
Interests and its maintenance will require nicely
, balanced co-operation among its component States.
Nothing stingy about Uncle Sam when it comes
kto moving the crops.
The “Syndicated” War Scare.
There is a persistent and seemingly concerted ef
fort to force the United States into a ‘Mexican war
despite the administration’s well-considered and well
conducted plans to effect a peaceful settlement of the
grave issues involved. Whence comes this pell-mell
spirit tl{at does not pause to weigh the human cost
nor to avert, if possible, the farflung problems which
such a conflict would entail? Certainly, It does not
come from the rank and file of our thoughtful, pa
triotic citizens. Evidently it proceeds from interests
which are seeking war as a means to advance their
own selfish and sinister ends.
Senator Williams, of Mississippi, in addressing the
Senate yesterday declared it to be his deliberate opin
ion that there is now “an organized and syndicated
movement to bring about war between the United
States and Mexico, organized and syndicated through
newspapers with money behind it, and not all of it
Mexican money.” His suspicion is by means ground
less, for while the President and the State depart
ment and the Foreign Relations committee of the
Senate are exerting every effort to adjust our strain
ed relationships toward the troublous country across
the Rio Grande and are going the well-measured
length of diplomatic counsel to avoid drastic pro
cedure, we find, other influences doing all within
their power to Inflame public feeling and to drive
Congress to precipitate action.
It Is assuring to know, however, that we have at
the head of this Government statesmen who will not
be rushed Into committing the nation to a war that
can be averted on reasonable and honorable terms.
And It is even more asuring to know that they are
supported by the country’s sober and dominant
thought. What the ultimate outcome of the Mexican
situation may be is as yet beyond prediction. But up
to the present hour, the administration’s course has
been eminently proper. President Wilson and his
advisers evidently have confidence in the mission of
Mr. John Lind who has been sent to. the Mexican
capital as the President’s special representative. That
is apparently a decisive move on the part of our
Government. Until the success or failure of this
particular mission ic determined, there is no excuse
for hasty action.
The complications or perils which the jingoes dire-
fully forecast will attend Mr. Lind's presence in
Mexico are not likely to materialize. His status does
not depend upon the recognition of the provisional
government of Iluerta or upon that of the revolu
tionary camps. He goes as adviser to the American
embassy, through which he may present any plan he
has to convey and conduct any negotiations he de
sires. Huerta’s bark is more dreadful than his bite.
The probability Is that he will think a long time be
fore offering any affront to a special representative
of the United States.
If by any chance war with Mexico should be inev
itable, it should come as a last resort, as the only
possible means of preserving our national honor and
of meeting our responsibilities to civilization; it
should never come In response to the clamor of
selfish interests. Such a war would not only burden
the nation with a tremendous cost In money and
lives; it would also set back those great causes of
economic and political reform In which Congress Is
now engaged and upon the success of which the peo
ple’s welfare so vitally depends. It would mean a
continuance and ev-.i an increase in the high cost of
living; it would probably mean the Indefinite delay,
if not the defeat of tariff revision, of banking and
currency reform and of the country’s orderly progress
along paths of business freedom and prosperity.
Every American who regards his own interests
and who truly loves his country -rill applaud the
prudent, farsighted course which the administration
is pursuing, a course which will protect our national
welfare by peaceful mean j, so long as that is possi
ble but which will be ready for honorable force, If
need be.
County Fairs.
In commenting on the impressive list of county
fairs which are to be held in Kentucky this year,
the Louisville Courier-Journal pays a merited tribute
to the value of this very old but now renascent in
stitution. The typical county fair of today, it truly
says, is first of all educational in purpose and is no
longer to he regarded “merely as a medium of
amusement.” Indeed, the clamorous fakirs and
gaudy sideshows that monopolized the interest of
fairs held some years ago are now becoming con
spicuous by their absence or, at the most, are occupy
ing a secondary place on the grounds, a fact which
is distinctly advantageous to the larger and more
wholesome purposes of the fair. The Courier-Jour
nal remarks in this connection:
“The county fair should he an exposition of
county resources and a mirror of agricultural
progress and domestic endeavor. By way of va
riety amusement features are necessary but they
should not be in such number as to overbalance
or overshadow the serious business of the fair.
. . The real county fair, agricultural, indus
trial and mechanical, should never languish for
lack of interest. Primarily the average fair is
for. the benefit of the farmer and this is right
and proper, fo*r practically every county is an
agricultural county and the farm is the founda
tion of general prosperity
It is a noteworthy and highly gratifying fact
that county fairs have been greatly on the increase
in Georgia during the past few years. Their dis
tinctive character varies with the locality. In some
districts corn. exhibits are stressed, and everywhere
such exhibits, are encouraged. In others, emphasis
is laid on poultry and live stock. In still others
truck products are especially interesting. In Cobb
county a hay show is to be held this autumn. The
significant thing is that so many individual counties
or groups of counties are conducting these enter
prises for the educational stimulus they will have
on the immediate neighborhood. A State-wide
fair is, to be sure, highly important and commend
able, but these smaller fairs which are within reach
of every farmer in their particular county or dis
trict have a peculiarly direct and intensive value.
A Farreaching Decision
On Georgia Freight Rates.
The recently announced decision of the Interstate
Commerce Commission in the case of the Board of
Trade of Carrollton against certain railroad compa
nies of the Southeast marks an important step in the
establishment of just and reasonable freight rates in
Georgia. The relief it affords is not limited to a
particular community, for the principles enunciated
in this wholesome decision open the way to far-
reaching readjustments in traffic rates throughout
Georgia and, indeed, throughout the South.
There appears elsewhere in today’s Journal an In
teresting summary of the Commission’s ruling to
gether with comment on its salient features by Mr.
Edgar Watkins, of the firm of Watkins & Latimer,
counsel for the Carrollton Board of Trade. To this
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clear account of the issues involved in the case, little
need be added. As Mr. Watkins points out, Carrollton
has been subjected to freight rates that were dis
criminatory as wel. as excessive. Its shippers were
charged rates which, in proportion to the distance
concerned, were much higher than these charged
competing points. Thus on many commodities the
rates from Baltimore to Carrollton weVe actually
higher than the rates on the same commodities mov
ing over the same line and in the same direction to
a point considerabl; beyond Carrollton; that is to
say, a shipment which moved through Carrollton to
the more distant point would be charged less than
when it ended at Carrollton.
This arbitrary manner of dealing, the roads sought
to justify by contending that it was simply a logical
application of the so-called “hasing-point” system.
But Mr. Commissioner Clements disposes of this plea
by holding that the basing point system of rate mak
ing “does not now demand that joint through rates
over long distances to local or non-competitive points
should be made by adding to basing-point rates either
the full locals or high differentials.” And he declares
further In this connection that:
“In the making of joint through rates on long
distance traffic to local or non-eompetitive points,
the differentials above the rates to the basing
points should bear some reasonable relation to
the total distance involved, in order that the
rates to the local point may be just and to
avoid subjecting such local points to prejudice
or disadvantage that is undue,”
The principle thus set forth is, indeed, significant.
While recognizing natural basing points it affirms
that “the rates charged towns other than basing
points shall no longer be arbitraries but shall have
reasonable relation 10 distance.” This solution, as
Mr. Watkins says, “is conservative and wise and
points the way to a closer approximation to rates
based on the principle that the greater the distance
freight moves, the greater the actual rate, though
the rate per mile lessens with distance.”
Following the decision In the Carrollton case and
modeled upon the opinions therein set forth, is an
other with reference to LaGrange and other Georgia
towns similarly concerned. The relief thus granted
amounts to far more than a reduction of excessive
rates, It also lifts a burden of discriminatory rates
which, after all, constitute the gravest of traffic evils.
The development and prosperity of Georgia depend
very largely on the protection of Its people against
inequitable freight charges. The Commission’s de
cision in these cases goes far toward the reform of
existing inequalities and is, therefore, a distinct ad
vantage to the common interests of the State.
Give This Bill a Chance.
It is commonly recognized that one of the most
urgent public needs in Georgia. today is the estab
lishment of a State bureau for the registration of
vital statistics.
A bill to this end has been favorably reported both
in the House and the Senate and, if given its due
place in the calendar, it will doubtless be passed at
the present session of the Legislature.
^ A measure that so materially concerns the people’s
health and their economic Interests as well deserves
particularly generous consideration at the hands of
the rules committee. Its passage will consume ap
preciably no time, for there is no difference of opin
ion as to its merits. It will not impede the progress
of any other hill nor delay any other business.
Surely, then, the Legislature can spare a few
minutes for the enactment of a measure that will
bring incalulable blessings to Georgia through all
the years to come.
The need and the value of a system of vital statis
tics in conserving public health and in promoting the
State’s practical interests are so obvious as to require
little comment, suffice it to say that without an
adequate and authentic record of births, deaths and
the causes of deaths, scant progress can be made in
campaigns against disease.
One other important fact should be noted. Georgia
now has no place or mention .n the health reports
compiled and issued by the federal census bureau,
simply for the reason that the bureau collects such
statistics from only those States which have a satis
factory system for the regitration of vital statistics.
The only available records of this kind In Georgia
are from the cities of Savannah and Atlanta. Thus
in those reports of the Government which deal with
health records and conditions and which are read
as authoritative throughout the nation, .Georgia is
conspicuous by her absence. This circumstance is a
serious disadvantage to the State’s economic progress
and development.
The bill now awaiting passage is a model of its
kind. It meets the requirements of the census bureau
and the federal health authorities. Its enactment will
mean the saving of money and He saving of lives.
It should be given a place on the calendar and press
ed to a speedy passage.
THE BLOODY KNIFE
BY BR. FRANK CRANB.
(Copyright, 1913. by Frank Crane.)
When a man acquires a peck of trouble it looks
to him like a bushel and a half.
We make a deal of pother and spend considerable
sums of money toi secure for the children an education.
By education we generally mean readin’, ’ritin’ and
’rithmetic, the three r’s, with a
dash of the ologies.
But a child gets much more
body, mind and soul stuff out
of his play than out of his study;
which truth Emerson turned into
an epigram: “The school boy
learns more from the book un
der the desk than from the book
on the desk.”
The acquisiton of the three
r’s is carefully supervised by
the teacher. At recess and be
fore and after school the child
is let run, and acts upon his own
unguided initiative.
It might be an interesting ex
periment to call arithmetic and geography play, and
to have the pupil make games of them, doing as he
may be pleased; and to have the teacher take charge
of his vacation hours and carefully manage his sports.
Out in Gary, Ind., they do this. They have play
ground teachers.
It is much harder to teach children how to play
than to see that,they work. For the former, it takes a
natural born teaching genius and real child-love; any
placeholder can do the latter.
The essential element of efficiency in a teacher is
the ability to make play out of work.
In a toy shop in an American city there has re
cently been offered for sale a wonderful plaything—a
small, sharp Bowie knife, with a red splotch of paint
on the blade representing blood. With these knives
the little darlings can play bandit and robber with
delightful realism.
Who is there that can imagine a child can get in
one hour’s Sunday school instruction enough antidote to
counteract the moral effect of six days’ amusement
with a bloody knife?
The bloody knife stands for a whole series of
forms of play that are demoralizing. In their street
games children develop destructive tendencies. That
seems to come by nature.
Constructive and wholesome games, of building,
devising and beautifying, could be made as interesting
as murder, violence and theft; only they must be
taught. #
It is much the same with grown-ups. Our charac
ter is determined more by our amusements than by
our occupation. What sort of fun a man likes means
vastly more b,y way of showing what kind of man he
is, than the character of his work.
The State—that is to say, the People—has never
realized the importance of amusements.
Is it not time to ask ourselves how we and our
children are diverting ourselves, when we see imita
tion blood-stained knives for sale in the shops?
Quips and Quiddities
“Well, my dear,” said Mr. Wiggins on the night of
election day, “did you vote this morning?”
“I did, indeed!” replied Mrs. Wiggins. “I not only
voted, but I wrote out my reasons for voting as I did
on the back of the ballot and signed my name. You
men may feel the need of a secret ballot, but I’m not
afraid to have anybody know how I voted or why.”—
Magazine of Fun.
• • •
The lady litigant had paid out good money to clerks
and bailiffs till she was nervous about it.
“Who is that?” she whispered to her lawyer as a
new functionary put in an appearance.
“That? That’s the crier,” the lawyer replied.
“Goodness! Can’t I do my own crying and save
her?”—Magazine of Fun.
• • •
t ‘
“Then you have explained to your fiance that you
will bring no dowry?”
“Certainly.”
“He swore that it was a matter of indifference to
him.”
“And how has he conducted himself since then?”
“I don’t know. He h^s never come back.”
• e •
Secretary Bryan was listening with an inscrutable
smile to the praises of a financial magnate that a sen
ator was singing at a dinner.
“He’s the architect of his own fortune, too,” said
the senator; “entirely the architect of his own for
tune.”
“Well,” said Secretary Bryan, “it’s a lucky thing
for him that the building inspector didn't come round
while the operation was going on.”
Nine Million Amusers
It has been roughly estimated that 10 per cent of
us, the people of the United States, keep busy and earn
our living amusing the other 90 per cent. This 10
per cent includes those who do the actual work of
amusing; singers in grand opera, light opera, concert;
actors in the “legitimate” theaters, in vaudeville, in
burlesque, in small shows; performers in the various
departments of the innumerable circuses, carnivals,
street fairs, baseball players, football players, basket
ball players, motor racers, aviators, boxers, innumerable
exponents of innumerable forms of professional ath
letics and professional sports.
It includes also the people who promote these amuse
ments; who incorporate companies and manufacture
devices to be used in amusing—film companies with
aimies of employes in the moving picture field, for ex
ample; the people in their large office forces; the peo
ple who manage and direct theaters, amusement parks,
race courses, athletic fields, etc.; stage hands, mechan
icians, electricians and employes in countless other
ramifications of the general business of amusement.
It includes •'Iso the people who promote these amuse-
tainment, those who finance them, those who manage
them, those who execute them, those press agents, ad
vance men, sign painters, “spielers” and “bankers,”
etc., who advertise them and draw the attention of the
rest of us—the patrons who comprise the other 90
per cent.
Pointed Paragraphs
We feel sorry for the chap who is known only as
his wife’s husband.
• * *
It is easier to break a man’s will than it is to side
track a woman’s won’t.
* * *
When a man hangs on a woman’s words they are
not married.
• • *
There was once a married man whose wife’s folks
didn’t try to work him through her. She had no
folks.
m m m
Life is not always one grand, sweet song for the
man who is married to a woman who thinks she
can sing.
• • •
“What Is so rare as a day in June?” asks the poet.
We don’t know—unless it is praise for a man who
has been dead a year.
• • •
You’ll never have good neighbors unless you are
one.
• * .
When a girl is hard to please she is seldom worth
the trouble.
• • •
A man is all right in his way as long as he keeps
out of your way.
Aneroi . Tests in Aviation
BY FREDERIC J. H ASKIN.
The three largest aeroplanes ever ordered by the
United States government are t 0 be delivered for final
test l. These aeroplanes are for the
use of the War department and
are expected to include all that
is newest and most practical in
aeronautic construction. They
are to be tested more .rigidly
than have any other of the fly
ing machines which have been
purchased by the United States
government. To secure the
standards by which accurate al
titude tests might be made, the
bureau of standards has been
experimenting for months with
aneroid barometers, the instru
ments by which altitudes have
been measured by aviators from
the beginning of the » science.
These experiments give the surprising result that, ac
cording to the most scientific test ever made in the
world, no aneroid now in existence can be proved to
be accurate. Consequently, every one of the world’s
records for altitude may vary thousands of feet from'
the truth.
• • •
The aneroid barometer Is a small instrument used
for registering atmospheric pressure at different alti
tudes. It was invented by Vidi, a French scientist, in
Paris in 1848. The principle of the aneroid used for
testing these great war aeroplanes does not differ
from that of the original instrument used by Vidi. The
aneroid has had comparatively little use until thet
development of aviation. It was practically unknown
outside of scientific circles. Travelers in unknown
regions used it for testing mountain heights and at
mospheric conditions, but it had no general use so,
excepting to a few scientists it made little difference
whether its registrations were accurate or not.
...
As it is the only instrument known to register alti
tude, the development of aviation called it into popu
lar favor. When the war department prepared speci
fied requirements for its aeroplanes the bureau of
standards began to test the instruments by which the,
altitude was to be measured. These tests have been
most Intricate and careful. The results indicate Inac
curacies which must interest the aviators of the world.
Mayo D. Hersey, r '' the bureau of standards, who has|
been in charge of the aneroid experiments, sailed for
Germany last month. He will confer with a number|
of European scientists who also have been studying
this subject. An endeavor is to be made to determine'
some means of perfecting the instrument so that its
registrations may be depended upon A bulletin upon
the subject of aneroids is now in course ot prepara-,
tion by the bureau of standards and wlil issued in a 1
few months.
• • •
A collection of all the recognized makes of ane
roid barometers in the world was secured by the bu
reau of standards for making these tests. Each was
subjected to the same rigid examination and experi
ment. Specially designed apparatus was provided for
raising and lowering the temperature to correspond
with atmospheric changes at various altitudes. Sci
entific observations of every change wer) taken /id-
croscopically and recorded accurately for months.
These records prove the great Inaccuracies of all of
these instruments. It was difficult to secure two
identical registrations from tne same instrument un
der the same atmospheric conditions.
, • • •
The construction of the aneroid seems simple. Its
basic principle is a hermetically sealed metal box from
which the air has teen exhausted. The bottom and
top of the box are slightly corrugated and of paper
like thinness. The air exhaustion has been so complete)
that they would fall together If permitted to take their
natural position. To prevent this a strong spring is
attached to the flexible top. When the pressure of
the air is decreased by an ascending altitude, the
spring relaxes and the top rises slightly. When the
pressure Is increased by a descent the spring tightens
and the delicate metal recedes a little. To the spring
is attached a line thread-like chain attached to a lever
which moves at each change In the atmospheric pres
sure, thereby indicating the pulsation of the vacuum
box. ,
• • •
Many conditions affect the sensitiveness of the lit
tle instrument, For instance, if a flying machine
ascends at a high rate of speed, a greater decrease in
the pressure of air will be noted by the aneroid than
if the same altitude was achieved by a slower ascent.
At present no means of making accurate allowance
for discrepancies from this cause are known. The an
eroid commonly used in aviation is supposed to be able
to register an altitude of at least 15,000 feet. Thera
is no certainty that it ever has done so. There is no
method of determining absolutely whether or not
any aeroplane ever rose to more than a fraction of
the altitude accredited to it. It is also possible that
the aneroid may not register at all after, a certain
height, so that a daring aviator may have gone much
higher -than his instrument Indicated. Consequently,
this careful scientife test of the aneroids of the world
indicates that every aviation altitude upon record is
more apt to be wrong than right.
• * •
The three new war aeroplanes, now almost com
pleted, are to be tested according to the strictest speci
fications covering every point. Each must show a
minimum speed not .falling below thirty-eight miles
with a maximum of at least fifty-five miles an hour.
It must be capable of a cross country run of 180
miles at an easy glide, and of executing a figue eight
in the air in a rectangle of space not exceeding 600 by
250 feet without decreasing its altitude more than 100
feet. It must be able to carry a load of 450 pounds
in addition to two persons, a pilot and an observer,
besides sufficient oil and fuel for at least four hours.
It must be equipped with engines capable of being
throttled so that one person may operate the airship
if need be. It must be capable of being shipped by
road so that it cannot be more than ten feet wide in
shipment and it must be so constructed that it can be
made ready for operation in one hour, without re
quiring the services of more than six men.
• • •
While these machines are all being built by Amer
ican firms they are to be equipped with propelling
power of foreign make. This is the first time this
government has permitted any other than American
r. achinery in an aeroplane designed for public use,
and it is believed that the purchase of these now un
der consideration will act as a stimulus to encourage
the improvement of the aeronautic machinery of this
country. The three engines selected are the Austro-
Daimler, the Gnome and the Renault. The cost of each
fully equipped aeroplane will approximate $10,000.
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The altitude requirement for each of these ma
chines is to be an ascent of ,2,000 feet in ten minutes.
As this altitude can only be measured by the aneroid,
there is no means of knowing whether the new ma
chines will comply with it or not. The aneroid which
has been unofficially adopted for the testing of war
aeroplanes consists of three parts which are enclosed
in a black leather case resembling a tiny camera In
appearance. The parts include the aneroid itself, con
sisting of the vacuum box, spring and lever, the clock
work which operates a registering apparatus and the
register which includes a tiny roll of paper and a mi
croscopic pencil. Instead of indicating the change*
in atmospheric pressure by hands moving upon the
face of the aneroid, this instrument marks them auto
matically upon tne paper. Each sheet of paper is
supposed to hold the registration of four hours
changes, this being the proposed duration of a trip in
an army aeroplane. The register attachment is a new
development whic.t aviators commend because it is
believed to be more accurate and more easily read
than the old aneroid face. It gives the added ad
vantage of furnishing a permanent record of altitude
which can be produced at any time to Settle A dis
puted point,