NEW INSURANCE CHIEF RETAINS OFFICE FORCE Thomas B. Donaldson to Fol low Outlnes Given by. Governor Sproul Insurance Commissioner Thomas Blaine Donaldson, of Philadelphia, who was sworn In to-day at the of fice of Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth F. A. Godcharles, announced that Deputy Insurance Commissioner Samuel W. McCul loch and the staff of the department would be retained. He issued a state ment in which he declared that In surance matters would be taken up in accordance with the outlines given by Governor Sproul. "In so far as the administration of the Insurance Department is con cerned during the coming months. 1 can only refer to the most interest ing and comprehensive utterances of Governor Sproul oq Tuesday last. It is. as you will recall, his entire pur pose to co-ordinate alt activities of the State for the advantage of the people of the Commonwealth. He made it emphatically clear to me that he would not countenance per functory work: that our first obliga tion was to effect the very best we could with the rncpi.s at our dis posal. He pledged full aid within his power to further any practicable and constructive recommendation or activity of the insurance depart ment. For my own part. I consider the present staff my associates. Many of them ljave been my friends for several years. They include some who not only have served this State with fidelity for twenty and more years but who are recognized au thorities on all branches of insur ance and insurance laws. I consider myself most fortunate in having the aid and counsel of these men. our concerted efforts will be to cope with whatever duties we face in a manner that will meet with the com mendation of Governor Sproul. He is far from hazy as to what he wants. We. as a cog in the great activities of the Commonwealth which are to be furthered in tho coming four years, are at his com mand. I have had no opportunity whatsoever to take up in detail th? matter of rehabilitation or changes of activities in the department." Gravitation Puzzles By GARRETT r. SERVISS "1 have been hoping for some time that you would take up the subject of fails from aeroplanes. How fast does a body fall the first ten feet.- the second ten feet, and how far to attain its maximum velocity? Would one falling from a great height be unconscious or dead before reacli in the ground?—F. H. K., San Francisco." There is reason to believe that one of the least painful of all forms of accidental death is that which results from a full from a great height. It is likely that virtual un consciousness exists almost from the start, on account of the confusion of mind 4 oduq,ed by the rapid rush j through the air. and long before the! ground is reached the velocity of the ; fall greatly exceeds tho velocity of i i nerve conduction, and much more j than that of muscular contraction. I The consequence must be that ■ there is no time after the body first touches the ground for a nervous wave to pass to the brain before that organ, has entirely ceased to function, or even to exist as a mech anism. The speed of the nervous impulse is about 100 feet per sec ond, but a falling body acquires j that speed within a little over three seconds after the fall begins. At the end of the first 10 feet of fall I the speed is about 25 2-5 feet per! second. During the second 10 feet! the speed increases to 35% feet j per second. A fall of 100 feet produces a speed of 80 feet per' second, and after falling 156% feet I the speed becomes 100 feet per sec-1 ond. A fall of 4.000 feet develops a ' velocity of 506 feet per second, ! and requires about 16 seconds. I These calculations take no account of air resistance, which would change the result very little for the short falls, and not very much for the longer ones. In all these cases the velocity continues to increase until the ground is reached. "A and B are arguing on the laws of motion. A says that because i there is no resistance in a vacuum a body in motion will continue in motion. B says that a body in mo tion !in the air will stop immedi ately on entering a vacuum. If A is right, can an airplane travel out side the atmosphere? 'C. S. Framingham, Mass." "A" is right. Motion cannot be destroyed without resistance. A body moving in a vacuum ■ would Barley is mixed with -wheat 1 in making I | Grape-Nuts No sweetening required. The § food is readu-cooked —savino j * fuel. About naif the milk or® . 1 cream needed for the ordinary cereal is sufficient for GrapeNuls. Economical-everu atom eatable. A delicious, nourishing food! "There's a Reason for Grape : Nuls. j * llllllllllll ' ITRTDAY EVENING,-- $lO,OOO IN JEWELS GO WHEN BACK'S TURNED Whqje Police Force Joins in Hunt For Aged Colored Man When Diamonds and Pearls Disappear The biggest robbery of weeks, the theft of a sample case of $lO,OOO worth of pearls and diamonds, was reported to the Harrlsburg police de partment this morning. M. Shultz, a jewelry salesman employed by the firm of Joseph H. Mayer and Broth ers, of New York City, informed the officials that his sample case with that amount of goods had been taken by Perry Joppy, a sixty-year-old col ored man who had been carrying the case for him. , Within one and ore-half hours, Joppy had been located, the case and the entire quantity of goods recovered and returned to the wor- continue to move forever, unless some force from outside, such as the attraction of gravitation, whica acts across what xve call a vacuum, interfered. "B" should get by heart Newton's "First Law of Motion," which reads: "Every body con tinues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line except so far as it may be compelled by force to change that state." When a body is moving through the air it is corttinually resisted by the air, but if it passes from the air into a vacuum, from that mo ment all resistent to the motion ceases. The aeroplane supposed to pass out of the air into a surround ing vacuum would continue in mo tion.- but it could no longer maintain, or add to, its motion by impulse from the screw, because the screw would have' nothing to act upon. The machine, as a whole, would go on with the motion it had at the instant of passing out of the air. But, because of the absence of resistance, its rudder would cease to be effective in guiding it and its planes in sustaining it. It would continue on in a straight line, ex cept that the attraction of the earth would curve its course down ward until It again entered the at mosphere, wlien it might once more become maswr of its "movements. Even a balloon would continue to rise after passing from the atmos phere into a vacant region above, because of the momentum that it had acquired while being pushed up by the pressure of the air. But, as in the case of the airplane, this mo tion would finally be arrested, and turned into a fall, by the unceasing pull of gravity. The atmosphere at a height Of twenty or thirty miles is so rare fied that the space it fills may be regarded as practically a vacuum, so far as its resistence to the mo tion of a heavy body is concerned. When the Germans were bombard ing Paris churches front a distance of seventy-five miles the projectiles went nearly, or quite twenty miles NAME COMMITTEES FOR BIG RECEPTION H. \V. Long Is Chairman of General Board; Membership Is Expected to Grow to More Than 500 Plans for the big homecoming celebration to be given the returning soldiers of the Seventy-ninth and Twenty-eighth Divisions in May and June took on a new impetus follow ing a meeting of the Home Folks Victory Association of the World War held in the Armory last night, when it was announced that civic and industrial organizations, fra ternal associations and city officials will co-operate in making the event a reception to be long remembered. The general committee which will have charge of the arrangements was announced at this meeting. H. W. Long will be general chairman. The comtnittee includes: Mayor Daniel L. Keister, Ross R. Seaman, E. J. Stackpole, Clarence O. Rackenstoss, Mrs. Maurice E. Finney, Mrs. Elizabeth Sullivan, Mis. Josiah Wilbur, Mrs. Charles Thomas, Mrs. H. N. Bassler, Mrs. E. Shell, Mrs. R. Crow, Mrs. J. T. Long, Mrs. J. L. Shader, John H* Troup, Luther McLaughlin, Mrs. Jacob Hitz, Mrs. George W. Roberts, Mrs. E. Z. Gross. Mrs. John Campbell, Mrs. Thomas P. Moran, George S. Reinoehl,, president Chamber of Commerce: Eli N. Hershey, presi dent Rotary Club: L. F. Neefe, pres ident Kiwanis Club; Mrs. Lyman D. Gilbert, Red Cross; Robert B. Reeves, Y. M. C. A.; R. J. Seltz, president Knights of C-olumbus; Rab bi Louis J. Haas, Jewish Welfare Board; Mrs. W. Jennings, president; I rted salesman. Joppy was found at I the Penn-Harrls Hotel by Detective Shuler and Patrolman Schelhas at the Shultz rooms where he had gone when he thought the salesman had entered the hotel. Schultz and Joppy were walking up Third street with Joppy follow ing slightly behind the salesman when the latter entered the E. G. •Hoover jewelry store, 2 3 North Third street. Joppy believed the salesman had gone up the steps of the Third street entrance of the Penn-Harris and went in and as far as the door of Shultz's room, where he was wait ing when he was located by the offi cers. high, and it was the imperceptible resistance which they encountered at - that elevation which enabled them to attain so enormous a range horizontally. If a projectible entered a vacuum at the distant of leaving the muzzle of the gun it would retain the muz zle velocity to the end of its course, except so far as It was opposed by gravity. If it were travelling in a horizontal direction and passed from the air-into a vacuum and later from the vacuum back into air again, the speed with which it en tered the vacuum would be main tained unchanged as long as Its course lay in the vacuum, but the moment it re-entered the air, re sistance would again be encounter ed, tending to retard the velocity. Hopes Great Britain • Will Keep Grip Upon Her Maritime Rights London, March 14.—Sir Edgar Bowring, the New Foundland High Commissioner in London, at a lunch eon tendered him by the British Empire League, expressed the hope that Great Britain would never hand over her maritime rights to any League of Natiohs. Referring to conditions in New Foundland, the Commissioner said that the policy of the government was one of "back to the sea" and the government intended to develop fish transport and cold storage. Old-time methods ih the fishing industry weije being replaced by more modern methods. The Com missioner said that the New Found land government was arranging to settle returned soldiers on the land and emphasized the importance of improved steamship servjee across the Atlantic and cheaper rates. Mrs. Herman P. Miller and Mrs. I Meade D. Detweiler, National War Aid Society; Captain M. Neilson, Salvation Army; Joseph J. Galvin, War Camp Community Service; A. ,W. Neate, entertainment director; j Charles H. Burg, commander Vet | eratos of Foreign Wars; Harry S. ! Watson, commander Post 58, G. A. : R.: D. D. Hammelbaugh, Sons of ! Veterans; George S. McGoWan, Cap s tain E. Laubenstein, PhiUp German, j Christian Nauss, E. D. Humer, Fred j W. Huston. The membership of the associa tion has now passed the 200 mark. ] Five hundred members are needed, and Chairman Long believes that this i number will be secured with little | difficulty. The Twenty-eighth Division is due in Harrisburg in May and the Seventy-ninth will return in June, it is believed. The present plans are to keep the organization intact fol lowing the first reception. The sec ! ond is to be a repetition of the first. It is planned to have the One Hun dred and Twelfth Regiment < Band play for the Twenty-eighth Divi sion's homecoming. They are to be asked to play, for a benefit concert following, and funds secured from 1 this concert will be used to welcome | the second unit. To secure funds to welcome the first unit, a benefit performance will be held in the near future. Further details about this •will be made at a meeting to be held March 27, it I was stated. KARRJBBURG TELEXSRXPH MONTALVOSAYS CUBA WAS FIRM FRIEND OF U.S. Secretary of Interior Denies Story of Hun U-Boat Base and.Spies By Associated Press. Havana, ftfarch 14.— Denial that a German submarine base was main tained on the coast of Cuba and that Cuba was a hotbed of German pro paganda was made last night by Juan Montalvo, secretary of the in terior, in a statement in answer to declarations made in a speech In New York recently by Maximilian Toch, camoufleur employed by the American government. Quotes Yankee Speaker "Havana newspapers on Saturday, March 8," said the secretary's state ment. "contained the remarks of a Mr. Toch, who Is said to have spoken with the consent of the secretary of the American Navy, to the effect Jhat tho United States naval authorities believed a German secret base exist ed on the north coast of Cuba and that Cuba was practically one big nest of German spies, 'more of whom were to be found in this country than In the United Spates itself.' He added that "rich German firms in Havana were notoriously aiding the central powers.'. "In the matter of a German naval base in Cuba, it has been establish <ed that no foundation for the as sumption exists. The Cuban navy, although small in comparison to the American navy, was put under the guidance and - virtually at the dis posal of the American Navy Depart ment for the purpose of lending as efficient service as possible in the Caribbean sea and the Gulf of Mex ico. As for the reported nest of German spies, tlje American intelli gence service, both of the naval and Post Office Department, can best testify concerning the sincerity and efficiency of the co-operation given by the Cuban intelligence service during the cause of the war." Extraordinary Human Faculties Recently a letter dropped down to me out of the ether, as it were, from a collateral descendant of Zerah Col burn, that extraordinary metliemati cal seer who appeared and disap peared like a rocket a century ago, and while I have been re-reading it, another letter has come from a young lady, who pleasingly sends me her photograph, and who illustrates in her own person a phase of human faculty quite different from Colburn's but In some respects even more won derful, since it relates to impres sions upon the brain that appear to be entirely unknown to the vast ma jority of mankind. WhatZerah Colburn did was to astonish the best mathematicians by giving, with practical instantaneity, answers to problems which they could only solve by a long process of cal culation on paper. There can be no doubt that ho saw the answers, that they were pictured In his brain along with the problem Itself, so that they constituted, a logical and mentally visible continuation or completion of it. What Zerah Colburn did was to could only arrive at by a series of successive steps this wonderful boy —he was only six years old when his elders discovered his powers—was able to reach at a single step. In fact, t he was hardly conscious of taking any step at all or of making any efTort. The real effort for him came ] when, in response to urgent question ing, he tried to tell how he did his amazing feats of calculation. I In some cases, apparently, he never was able to find out, and the ex planations that he finally did offer were evidently concocted only to sat isfy the insistence of the questioners and did not represent any conscious process that went on in his brain. His mind acted like a calculating in which the arrangement of th e elements of the problem auto matically sets forth the solution. In the cases in which he was able'to go back, by much efTort, over the ground that he had instantaneously covered in reaching the result h e showed that the successive steps were of the same order as. those employed in formal mathematics, but he had flown over them without even knowing of their existence. It is not Improbable that the school ing which he received and the at tempts, which were forced upon him, to make his methods explicable to others, as well as to himself, grad ually dulled and finally destroyed his intuitive power, for as lie grew older h e lost the faculty that had made him world-famous for a few years. Now, the faculty oi the young lady of whom I have spoken rests upon mental' vision of a different kind. Her own words will best describe It: ' . "Sinc e early childhood I have had the power of seeing sounds, devel oping until almost every sound rep resents a distinct picture to my mind in both color and shape. To illustrate, the different notes of the violin pre sent different colors and shapes from the same notes on other instruments. I do not„ipean that I can differentiate the color of each treble note, but the aggregation of treble notes will pre sent a different color from that of the bass. On the organ, for Instance, the soft notes of the treble make a picture as of a vapor, pale yellow or golden mist, while the bass makes a picture of dark' rolling clouds. Again, the tenor voice is a transparent greenish yellow, whilst the soprano Is yellow without the green. Some voices, however cultivated, present no color to me. Within the last year I have discovered that under certain .conditions of excitemept, or teitsi£y, unknown persons speaking to "me through the telenhone present such a clear picture of themselves to my mind, In minute detail—teeth, coloring, eyeglasses, etc.—that I have afterwards recognized them on "the street. You have spoken. In your 'Romance of the Brain,' about the power to see the color of names, which I do Just as you describe. A bird Is singing outside my window now, and if necessary I could paint its song both in shape and color." Since Francis Galtqn wrote on the subject of mental Imagery, and on "number-forms" and "color associa tions," which are phenomena of the same character as those described above, this peculiar faculty has been much studied by psychologists. Mr Qalton remarked, what I have myself noticed, that persons possessing the faculty are sometimes worried by Its thinking, apparently, that it may be; an undesirable abnormality, possibly i capable of developing injuriously. I But there Is no reason for any appre- I hen'sion that kind. It is rather a thing which any j through the telephone, there is poth- j should welcome on account of the | interesting vistas which It opens into | the half-hidden powers of the mind, i Even when it takes the form referred j to in the latter portion of the letter] quoted above, that of a visualization ! of an absent and unknown person ; through the effects produced upon the j cells of the brain by the vibrations j of the brain by the vibrations of j the person's voic e transmitted j hrought the telephone, there is noth ing calculated to produce anxiety on the part of the possessor of so re markable a faculty. It may be one which the entire human race will cevelop and en- Jpy in the future. The color of music is hot a new idea. Sound waves is not a new idea. Sound waves and light waves both affect the brain LIFTOFF CORNS! j Apply few drops then lift sore, i touchy corns off with fingers ' Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a little Freezone on an aching corn, instant ly that corn stops hurting, then you lift it right out. Yes, magic! A tiny bottle of Freezone costs but a few cents at any drug store, but is sufficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn be tween the toes, and the calluses, j without soreness or irritation. Freezone is the sensational dis- j covery of a Cincinnati genius. It is wonderful. | —-- -1 ~ 0 *^!TY" Margarine h churned 6y tht I | F fl | _■'- Capital City Dairy Co., Columbus. Ohio. I e/l aradc Margarine Makers Since 1884. | ■ ~ "PURITY" NUT MARGARINE Contains Ac >pr< samafely The Same Number of Food Unifs As Buffer ' MOST women know that" Purity " Margarine is a pure, wholesome food. But few women realize, until they come to analyze it, that "Purity" is practically the equivalent of butter. We quote the following statement by L. B. Allyn, Pure Food Expert, Westfield, Mass.: "Oleomargarine, when properly made, contains all the nutritive value of butter and there is no more wholesome food product offered to the public. Its food value is practically the same as butter.'* I • . Buy Purity Margarine, therefore, not only because it tastes like butter but because it closely parallels butter in food value and nutrition. Serve it on your dinner table and use it for cooking. Know from your own experience the joy of saving money without sacrific ing one bit of quality or fine flavor. ("Purity" sells for about one-third a pound less than butter). If your dealer does not carry it or will not get it for you, write direct to us. CAPITAL CITY DAIRY COMPANY Branch 40 S. Delaware Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. Phones—l3c.ll Lopibar 147:5—Keystone 2880 I •• t * | • • # .'I cells through special organs respond ing to vibrations of varying inten sities and widely different magni tudes, and that both kinds of Waves should occasionally be fpund to pro duce co-ordinate effects, simultan | eously noted and harmoniously nc- • WOND | ] i ( : ]LOTHES j I. ' Reflect-the Latest I Dressy Spring Styles j ' \ Wonder Clothes for Spring and Summer are pO yp Kx-5 here—hundreds of beautiful, snappy suits to pD) H /c-" please you. Clothes for men and young men || /• t^iat ave come direct from our big factories, IJ*) If! rf \ 7 /1\ IAY where : they were designed by master tailors pi m id W xJhlf/A y/k\ and made up in the very latest styles that will til m prevail this sprin £- '' if '£ ' WONDER CLOTHES § l/WJ *1 $ 99=M i f I $E' =YOUNGMEN£|£|= If; / I nttlm ou can t eat Wonder Clothes for quality, ffl I 0m style oprice. They are made of fabrics that m Iff I ' 1/ j really wear. 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