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KEEPS TABS ON
THOSE WHO MOVE
People of Birmingham Cannot
Escape Bills and Rent by
Old Expedient.
must report all transfers
Ordinance Requires Owners of Vans
or Other Vehicles to Report All
Moving to Police—Helpful
to Authorities.
Birmingham, Alu.—Those who find
U cheaper to move than to pay rent
or meet other bills, are pretty well re-
lurnied In this city, or ure in process
of being weeded out in either case by
mouns of an ordinance so riveted that
offenders cannot escape. The ordi
nance requires the owner of every
transfer or other vehicle to report
promptly all moving to the chief of po
lice. and entries of the same are at
once made In a book duly alplmbeted
nnU dated, and the book is always
open for the inspection of any and
everyone who may ask to see It.
Of course one who plans to turn
delinquent will try to conceal his idem
t ty while in the net of moving, hut
the ordinance makers foresaw that
Impulse itnd ultuelied penalties for
false names or misleading reports,
which fairly shut out that form of
trickery. Altogether the ordinance has
worked so well that Birmingham lias
solicited by other cities for copies
, f the act and for tin* experiences un-
tier It which have made it a magic
cure for bill-evasion, it is a llxiure
111 Birmingham, for it lias been in
force since March of 1913.
Generally Helpful.
Its enactment came about in that
year through Hie Retail Furniture
healers' association. At the ensuing
election it had till utile enforcer in
('oiuniissioner of Public Safety Arlie
Barber, who thoroughly believed in it
anil kept everybody concerned up to
the scratch. He found that some of
the colored laundresses had a fashion
■) suddenly changing their addresses
when well stocked with the linen of
tli.-ir clients; that in some districts
merdue gas bills gave sufficient ause
f,.r families to vacate quarters and
‘lolinquentB for rent and for t. ales-
- accounts were common i all
urirts. The telephone company had
ion to .compliment the* cot lis-
s or on the accuracy and com; ’to-
the records In' tlwx-boolc i t. ilift-
clilef of police, for In one case the
< initially escaped damages for non
delivery of a message, In a suit in
whleh the person addressed had,
moved, l.ut claimed to be living in Ids
old home a! the time of the message
11 is claim was thrown out of court by
iii‘ evidence of tlic chiefs records
furniture dealers who bad been be
hind Hu 1 original enactment soon found
their troubles eased'by it. and finally
i,.ey ware almost without bad bills.
Police Are Benefited.
In time the detective department of
Ha- city benefited by the'ordinance,
; r it enabled them to locate wide
lilies, bootleggers, bond-skippers
d Hie kind of women who scattered
i I'lnselvos over the city after the
< dshment of the old red-light dis
trict. *
once there was a concerted attempt
the transfeft warehousemen to undo
i he ordinance. They obtained a . re
straining injunction against its en
forcement, and went into court on the
issue of constitutionality. The Su
preme court ruled that it was both
institutional and reasonable. Minor
changes were made in It, not Inter
fering at all with its efficiency, and
it is here to stay, with the approval
of every reputable interest.
day In the week.
«om. For general
houaecleanlng.
IK Solid Cake
No Waste A
SCIENCE SEEKS
SECRET OF MARS
Star Sleuths Prepare to Solve
Mystery When Planet Is
Nearest in 1924.
MANY THEORIES ADVANCED
Scientific Eyes to Strain at Telescopes
and Wireless to Be Tried to Read
Sky Secret—Chilean
Venture Derided.
New York.—The secret of Mnrs may
be read In 1924 when the red planet
makes its closest approach to earth,
although astronomers are "skeptical of
the theory of Marconi that the Mar
tians are signuliug us by wireless,
and take no stock in the 00-foot whirl
ing dislt of quicksilver which it Is
promised will magnify the power of
vision to 20,000,000 times Its normal
strength.
In 1321 Mars will come within about
80.000,000 miles of the earth. Be
cause of its eccentric orbit, compared
to the more nearly circular one of the
earth, Mart approaches that close only
once in fifteen years.
In 1924 observatories will bo much
better equipped to study Mars than
they were In 1909, when the planet lust
appeared at Its biggest and reddest in
our sky. Iu 1024 Mars will be the
cynosure of teleseopes all over the
earth. The 100-inch Hooker telescope
nt Jit. Wilson, and the marvelous
instruments and methods for analyz
ing light which are In use there, may
definitely solve tlje question whether
Mars is inhabited.
As the distance of Mars front the
earth varies from 35,000,000 to 284,-
000,000 miles, the wireless signals from
that planet, if there are any, will have
a better chance to register in 1924
over the comparatively brief span of
35,00^,000 miles.
Those "Signals” From Mars.
For the last 20 years Mars lias
been reported frequently to be at
tempting to sigpnl to us by wireless
rays, by flashes of light, and even, ac
cording to some imaginative specu-
latists, by writing sign messages of
planet-wide size over tHe 'latitudes by
means <
>f tin
Mat
s canal system. It
lias eve
a bet
n suggested that we ao-
knnwlei
ge r<
•ceipt
by forming words
In Vcgi
tat ion ove
r the blank of tlie
Sahara
dcse
t.
— The
Marta
mi wifeless eoaimuniea-
linn th
eofy.
is n
ore plniisihle than
any of
the others
because that great
Invent')
irt*
that he lias picked
UP
(.•less
\va\
cs loo miles long,
While 1
it* KI*
Mites
produced oil earth
by art
fieifil
mo;
as are ahotlt tell
miles 1
Mai
y ways of explain-
lug this
iKive
oeeu
rred to skeptics, but
the Jit
mini
si-
nils lnuV more in
them t
> int
■rost
conservative selen
tists 11
:n :in
of
ite previous types.
Then
was
a m*
: atUm ia i'.' '0 when
it WitS
r«'l><>
•toil
lait signaling from
JlilfS It
;<! be
■;» <i<
■ :tod n t the L iv ell
ole i n a
01\V
it V\
tgsttlir, Aria. This
was ha
setl on a
nisunderstandlng of
ft teles
-it pit
lies.'
:;e concerning some
proje- ■
d lit.
its o
er the rim of JIars.
Inst :
of !
resei
ting a perfect out-
line, M
irs s!
If) wot
slight excrescences
of llgli
a
base
were calculated to
be l'roti
17 1
. HO
idles above the stir-
face of
the l
Janet
Sim
lar P
rejections From Moon.
Shull
If is(
luted
projections of light
had he
■It SC
Ml Ol
the mfmn, log this
was ea
sil.v (
iscov
ered to be the sun-
light t
ppinj.
the
imnmlain tops, an
effect
i-jildc
on
earth in mountain-
oun eounif.v
when
the rising sun gilds
the mi
it mils
\vh
un the lower parts
of the
mountains
and the valleys are
still it
dar!
mess
Bat
Mars
has
no mountains, ae-
cording to general agreement among
observers. It was believed also to be
almost cloudless. The occasional
high lights, however, are now agreed
to have been clouds which arc thought
to occur, though somewhat rarely.
Electric currents which apparently
wander through eternity hit the earth
here and there, causing a mysterious
hissing and crackling in wireless ap
paratus nud sometimes upsetting hu
man electrical contrivance:-, as the
great magnetic storm of last J\ny did
on un unprecedented scale. Such cur
rents, called "strays" or “atmosphe
rics,” have been occasionally Inter
preted as signals from Mars, when
they came with a regularity that
A FACT:,
What* would be regarded ai extraordinary
in any other deanery It simply part of the
day’s work with the Capital City.
We are determined to always produce better
dry cleaning and dyeing than you have ever
known—and, fortunately, we have the facilities
and experience to carry out our plana.
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t'lirtnlua
Itlankc ta
Draperies
Pan
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Bugs
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Capitol City Dry Cleaning & Dye Wks.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
seemed fo ho directed By a human
Intelligence. But they have been
shown most unmistakably to be con
nected with sun spots.
The scheme, attributed to I>. David
Todd of Amherst, a well-known as
tronomer, of using a great abandoned
mine shaft In Chile for the making of
a colossal telescope, has been the sub
ject of no little scientific discussion.
This shuft, which Is said to have a
00-foot diameter, Is located near the
equator. It is, therefore, in the pfane
on which the earth and ail the other
planets whirl round the sun. The
shaft telescope has the disadvantage
that it could never be shifted, and
could only be used for that port of
the heavens which pusses over It. But
It is calculated that Mars will pass
directly over It when It becomes a big,
red disk In 1924.
Many Astronomers Scoff.
Many astronomers have scoffed at
the theory of such it colossal tel
escope, alleging thnt if the mechani
cal difficulties could he overcome the
enormous magnification sought would
be useless, because the observer would
see nothing but a blur. On a small
scale, Dr. Robert Williams Wood of
Jolms-Hopklns had built a practical
concave-mirror telescope on Long
Island by rotating a basin of mercury
until the liquid metal shaped itself into
the proper concavity. There are
limits to Its use, however, according
to astronomers, if the attempt' is
made to build the abandoned mine tel
escope.
The greatest teleseopes now in use
sometimes achieve a power of 3,<XX>
times as great us that of the Unaided
vision. This is only when the state
of the atmosphere is at Its best. Or
dinarily astronomers have to be con
tent with much less, sometimes with
n magnification of 2tX) or 300.
“The atmosphere fixes an outside
limit of magnification,” said Dr. Frank
Schlessinger, director of the Yale ob
servatory. "Limitless magnifying
powers could not be used. Telescopes
will probably be made larger than at
present for use on mountain tops and
especially favorable locations, but the
tendency is to lose in distinctness as
magnifying power increases. Event
ually the object gazed on becomes a
blur, as if seep through a beat linze.
Only through great instruments like
•that at Mount Wilson, and then only
under most favorable conditions Imre
objects magnified as much as 3,000
times been seen with an unblitrred
vision.
If Mars Were a Mile Away.
Tlie mine telescope, if it met the
sanguine expectation of it projec
tor, would magnify 25,000,000 times,
which would bring Mars optically with
in a mile and a half of the earth. At
first thought this would scent to give
tlie astronomers a sight of Mars equiv
alent to that wlficli an nlr -pilot—ob
tains of the earth ns be flies a mile
and n half above It. At that height
an airman could see cilies, towns and
Individual -buildings, farms, orchards
and a Thousand marks of the activity
of man. Under the same advantages
an astronomer would soon know all
about Mars, where the creations of in
telligent beings are believed to ex
ist on a much grander scale than on
on rtli.
But here a difficulty arises. Tlie
airman Is unconscious of tlie rota
tion of the earth, because gravity pulls
tlie earth and air and the airplane
with it uniform motion. On the other
hand, it JIars were brought within a
tulle and a half of the earth it would
be whirling so rapidly that the fea
tures Of the landscape would he lost
to the eye, as are markings on the
propellers of an airplane revolving at
full speed.
If it magnification of 25,000,000
times or anything like It could be ac
complished the observer could only see
a small patch of Mars. Mars rotates
its 12,000-miie circumference once In
a little more than 24 hours, so that
at its equator it Is making a sliced
of about ten miles a minute, or about
live times tlie speed of a racing ear.
if the observers were content with see
ing Mars 15 miles off, the portion vis
ible to them would still be streaming
past the telescope at the rate of a
mile a minute.
A camera of Instantaneous action
might take pictures at this speed on
earth, but it could not be made on
Mars. A magnification of 25,(MX),000
times woyld mean thnt the light of
Mars would be diluted to one twenty-
five-millionth part of its brightness in
the sky, which would not be adequate
for rapid-fire photography" or even for
ordinary vision.
WIRE HOLDS MILLION VOLTS
Electrical Pressure Secured for Firs*
Time Carries Current
1,000 Miles.
Pittsfield, Mass.—At the Pittsfield
plant of the General Electric company,
for the first time In history, the tre
mendously high Voltage of l,000,00t
volts was obtained, generated and
transmitted by engineers of the coni
puny, working under the direction ol
the chief engineers of the plant. Th«
pressure will carry electricity 1,00C
tulles.
Officials said thnt much valuable
data were gathered Indicating Un
commercial possibilities of such n lilgt
voltage. An official statement said:
"The pressure of 1,000,000 volts nm"
over was generated by trunsfonnet
equipment designed along standard
lines, with a current nt ordinary
household frequency of sixty cycle!
per second. The physical laws up
plying to the behavior of high voltage-
were foul.il to hold go. d at this
enormous pressure."
LISTEN HERE, KIDS1
No Exams, No Home Work In
These Public Schools.
Evanston Superintendent Announce*
New Regime Which Include* Mu
sic, Folk Dance* and Movies.
Evanston, 111.—Music Is just as Im
portant ns the multiplication table and
folk dancing Is as great a spur to
youthful bruins us Is geography, in
the opinion of Frederick W. Nichols,
superintendent of school district No.
76,, comprising the South Evanston
schools, who announced a new regime
for the Lincoln, Oakton, Central and
Washington grade schools.
The four schools will be open to
the ptipiTs from 8:30 o'clock In tlie
morning until ten at night. Classes
will last until 3:30 in the afternoon
but pupils will he permitted to go
home at any hour their parents de
sire.
“I am going to eliminate home
work," said Superintendent Nichols.
“It Is the bugbear of school children.
And there will be no examinations;
they merely worry the youngsters.
The students will do all their scholas
tic work right in the classrooms.”
In addition, the schools will remain
open until ten o'clock in the evening
for special classes In manual training,
music, languages, art, dramatics, ath
letic games, folk dances, domestic
silence and movies. The pnrents will
be Invited to come to these classes
with their children.
“Examinations are an unhealthy,
antiquated tyranny,” added Superin
tendent Nichols. “Growing children
should not be compelled to sit in class
rooms nil day and then tug hooks
home for night lessons. You can't
get an estimate of u child’s mental
equipment by insisting that he cram
a lot of facts in his head and scribble
ns tunny ns lie can remember on the
semester exam papers.
“I'm going to teach these youngsters
to think for themselves. Dancing and
music lessons will be mental t«.iics v
By the new classes pupils will gain
self-reliance, a love of schoul life,
and agile minds."
I’EAs WANTED
We buy peas, any variety and any
quantity, from a “mess to a cur load.
Edwards & Patterson, opposite The
Mililedgeville News office. Telephone
No. It.
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