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
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' 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
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A tiny bottle of Freezone costs
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tudes, and that both kinds of Waves
should occasionally be fpund to pro
duce co-ordinate effects, simultan
| eously noted and harmoniously nc-
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corded by the perceiving faculty in I
the brain, is not so very surprising.!
But It is a great stimulus to investi
gation, such as makes one wish to I
liye a hundred years and watch the '
flowe'r of humanity unfold.
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Hy Associated Press•
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