Evening star. [volume], May 20, 1926, Page 6, Image 6

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r EMILE BERLINER
i REACHES 75TODAY
I
\ Noted Inventor Refuses to
Countenance Public CeSe
i
bration of Birthday.
BY FRFDFRH' WILLIAM WILE.
Today, May 20. marks the seventy
fifth anniversary of the 1-irth of one
of Washington's most distinguished
resident? Ftuile Berlin*-*'. inventor of
tlie telephone transmitter, the gramo
phone and the talking maenine disk ,
record, and restless crusader in the j
Bold of child hygiene.
The must modest of mi'll. Mr. Ber
liner declined to consider suggestions
for some puhlie form of celebration
of his birthday. Me announced in
stead that he would "disappear - ' from
Washington today in order to spend j
the time quietly with a favorite grand- |
child. Miss Gertrud - Sanders, an un- j
dergraduate at Kv. orthne-re College.:
Miss Sanders is the , ,‘ si daughter'
of Mr. and Mrs. J s' ph Zanders of
Washington.
Retains Great Fneig.v.
» It would hi far more appropriate to
Speak of 1 anile Berliner as 7a years
young. There is no man of 70
where in the Coiled States morel
; ©nr-rgeti.-ally active, lie is still invent
ing. “Acoustic tiles" are the latest t
fproduct of his ' emus They are iles
tined to revolutionize ititerii r atvhi
; teeture. By means <>f them the hear
ing facilities in churches, cathedrals,
'theaters, opera houses, auditoriums
* and assembly halls will he immeasuv
; tthly improved. A priest singing mass
on an altar in a building equipped with
“acoustic tiles” will he able to make
* himself heard, speaking in a eonversa
*tional tone, more than :i thousand feet
;*way.
The year 192*1 is the golden jubilee
©f the telephone. Berliner's lirst |
triumphant excursion into the inven
tive realm was in connection with !
•Alexander Graham Bell's solution of I
the problem j-f transmitting speech by
wir*'. Berliner, wh.o had arrive'! in
* Wa* hington in IS7I as a German lad
l:*, Mas making his living a* a dry
; goods clerk "ii .gfveiph street when
the exhibition i*:' the Bell telephone at
the Bhiladelphi i Centennial eleetrilied j
the world. I
Though utterly without technical j
.•education. Berliner began expert
jmenting in telephony at his humble
.lodgings in a house on Sixth street.
"The hov- (No x]j) ; tj|| stands. As it
happens t" be inhabited by a family
Which has no fewer than five members
'employed by the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone «'o . it has been
’do*.tiled, heeaus" of B*‘r!iner's ass.ieia
.tion with the premises, to . hr -ten it
-“Telephone Mouse.' ,\n appropriate
ttablet will record the history of the
building
Invented Transmitter.
Berliner’s telephone experiments,
conducted with crude paraphernalia,
resulted in April, i>77, in the inven
tion of the microphone- later pop- j
uiarly known as tiie telephone Trans
mitter. It is the same mierophonie |
principle, applied to rulio. that makes
modern broadcasting possible.
The microphone, or transmitter,
completed the 801 l telephone. Cn to
that time Bell's invention simply
■was a good receiver. In was a very
poor transmitter, even for short dis
tances. Eventually the Bell Com
pany, largely through the activities of
X. Vail, then superintend
ent of railway mails in the I 'nited
states Post Otllee rHqvutment in
Washington, a* quired the Berliner
■microphone patents. They w* re tri
umphantly defended by the Cell in
forests through 14 subsequent years ;
of the bitterest litigation in I'niied j
States Supreme Court history. B* • :
liner’s original soap i
box—has an honored place in the Na {
tional Museum. j
Ten years after patenting the micro-;
phofte Berliner turned ids attention
to the talking machine. In 1888, be
fore the l'ranklin Institute at Phila
delphia. he exhibited his invention of
the gramophone-—a word which is i
coined That machine proved t" be':
the direct forerunner of the modern
apparatus, which has set the whole
World to music through the use of
records." Berliner i."t only invented
the gramophone, but devised the
“lateral-cut disc" record, whereby it
became possible to manufacture an
unlimited number of the same re
corded impressions of speech or music
Tne disc record revolutionized tlio
talking machine art. as Berliner’s in
t option ot the microphone-transmitter
revolutionized the telephone industry
Is Given Full Credit.
Waidemar Kaempffert. one-time
editor of the Scientific American and
co-author of “A Popular History of
-American Invention." lias said
“Whatever the telephone and the talk
ing machine may have been before
Kmile Berliner's time, it cannot be
successfully disputed that, he convert
<d them into the instruments they
are today."
, The I* rankiin Institute has bestowed
its gold medals on Berliner for his
‘contributions to telephony and to
the science and art of sound repro
nuotion ’ and for liis gramophone.
Here in the District of Columbia
Knul B* r iner is best known to the
modern generation for Ills unremitting: i
Services in the tie-.; of child health
2, i prevention ot tubercular disease.
To that work he has practically de
voted the past quarter of a century of
his active life and unstinted portions
o. his fortune. Jn 1901 he founded
m \\ ashir.gton a "Society for the Pre
vention of Sickness.” jt was the
Chrysalis of a movement that eventu
ated, in 1907, in the holding of a
national milk conference in the Capi-
r 1 c l ( y- There for the first time milk
standards w.-re promulgated, and the
<»ause of Pasteurization of all doubtful
n tile received tlie emphatic indorse
ment of the conference. From 1917
v , 1 922 Berliner was president of the
Association for the Prevention of
Tuberculosis for the District of Oo
himbio. The other day I)r. George
ST. Ko!>er. eminent Washington medi
cal scientist, in a public address in
honor of Berliner's approaching
Seventy-fifth birthday anniversary
Ixcorded that, during the year ended
une 30. 1925, of 9,277 babies born in
he District only 113 died from in
tstinal troubles. “No better proof
D«ld he given,” said Dr. Kober, “to
idieate Berliner’s clear insight into
le method of conducting popular
Jealth education.”
Has Faith in Washington.
» Emile Berliner has been a long-time
Aid inveterate believer in the future
Washington as a city. His earliest
(timings from his telephone and talk
ire machine inventions were invested
fn Capital real estate, of which he
jjemains an extensive holder.
JHe married in 1881 Miss Cora
ller of Washington. They are still
grounded by a largo family of
dldreti and grandchildren.
■ The man who tatight the cowboy
<b whistle grand opera celebrates the
diamond jubilee of his birth in wholly
Unimpaired mental ami physical vigor.
Prom the volcano of his inventive
resourcefulness it is safe to predict
still further eruptions.
Before the year is out “The Rife of
Emile Berliner" will be added to the
biographies of the many Americans
whose scientific achievements have
contributed to the progress of the
world.
No objection is felt to the work
of the agitators, provided they do their
agitating with a hoe or rake.
| SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OLD TODAY
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MANY BIDS RECEIVED
FOR HEADSTONES
Firms in Europe Take Part in Ef
fort to Get Contract for Sol- j
diers’ Graves.
I Officials of the War Department are
considering bids just received from
j many dealers in monumental stone In
the Fniti'd States and Europe (mainly
France!, for supplying headstones to
J replace existing wooden markers on
the graves of 30.405 soldiers in Atneri
I can cemeteries in Fit rope. Bids were
iqiened in Boston and Baris. and have
been s, lieduli d and forwarle! t > the
* (Juartei'in.-irter Gi-tior.il in this city for .
I eonsidi'f.itiou and -iimiendatlon to j
j the Se< retari of War.
('ongrers has appropriated sr.afl,ooo I
for the expense of the Atneri* an Battle 1
Monument * 'omtniss! ■** during the;
current tiscal year, and it has been !
estimated that available funds will I
defray tin* cost of tii- 1 ins’.-illa’.io:*. 1
of about 1 5,000 h.ea*! .t ines. Addition, j
al funds will be needed for file 1 -.4-a5
headstones required to complete the,
work.
Details "f the bills re■ »*i\••*! are mg
forthcoming as vet. but is known tint
they cover a wide rang** of prices,
as well as several varieties of stpn*-. 1
but mainly marble and granite, tn
der the specifications the stone* are ;
are t*> 1 e cut in the form either of)
I crosses or stars of David ami those
| vim the tomb of the unidentified dead !
will bear tlie legend:
j Her** Rests in Honored Glory, j
An American Soldier.
K tloWll 1 tilt !<> <i* 'll.
•
Indian Names Widely Used.
A careful study of the origin of thej
names of the rivers ami Stares in the I
Foiled States, not to mention many -
of the cities, shows that the Indian
names have been widely used, with i
only slight changes, if any. Half of!
the rivers and B’uites in the country j
have Indian names or corruptions of!
them. I
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RITCHIE DENOUNCED
BY LABOR SESSION
Maryland and Uistrict of Coluni-;
; bia Federation Adjourns To
day at Salisbury. Md.
*spf»nial Dispatch to Tin* Sta.'
SALISBURY. Mil . May 20 F’<*c
tion of officers and m-rion noon a n •
lution denouncing < 1 >v Bitcltu- " r h
c< »urse in the Con* n t
cot featured ’he r'o.-ing s*" re-us to
day of tip* M r; lord and Distrht < <*f
Columbia Federal ion of labor. 'l'he
! resolution, introilui'c ! hv Fdward Ik
Bleretz of t In* l "inioro Building
Trade* Council. i-t'l 1 com i.d*"f b*
! oppose tip* ! >e:w <•*■ • governor for
j anv offic;* he nn\ ■ : 1 ihg h t>*
! of failing to protect the jc-tde in l***r
(milting the »'"g > development
i hv Private inter. -:.
i There are mi!'.' *’•'* ti*m con
jf > fm th ' an*l fifth
'vice or • idr-pt s. with <'. .'.'l*'long *d
I Baltin* : ' ’»ril ol
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j u f Fsiilitnore Mas retnin ’ a *•< 1. wlitl*'
11. *'. .•onlter of \ - -i-n v n
i chosi't* for it’*- s*'*’on*l V.- ■ p t sidem y.
Mi s Gertrud UeXaily *’ ushit
ion for tip* tbird
I'mijer! , *i Lonaconinu and Fred
ori. k ci.tnp. t**l for the ':• _7 meeting.
Wasp's "Intelligence" High.
1 The solitary \\ *••!> is -• *: i to have
i its r.-asoiilng faeulti - dcv**iop.s! to ft
| iiigii degree. It is sai.l t la-re _is no
animal fouml i*> ha v auinial intelii-
I ponce superior to tin- detn- j
I otistrate*! prim ip-*!!\ m-.iho*! *•! ;
! providing a fresh canw'm *' tor its
: young .-us- .It the nr.-- Mia-n l\ *-y |
; come from tic egg. t-he <! - - it l-y i
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j * til!;* r |x- inste; -1 .-f k '"mg it ottt
: - uterpill ir then r< -overs
J from its paralysis about the time the
I eggs hatch.
'MEDIUMS ENLIVEN
HEARING IR HOUSE
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j Groups’ Frequent Clashes
With Houdini and Bloom
Feature Session.
There were lively claslu-s today be
tween Harry Houdini, the magician,
am! Representative Sol Bloom (if New
! York, on the one hand, and several of
I tin* host known spiritualist mediums
in Washington, on the other, at the
hearing today in the caucus room of
tlie House Office Building before the
McLeod subcommittee of the House
! District committee on the bill to drive
I fortune tellers out of the District.
Dr. .Jane Coates, 1030 Irving street,
who testified that site is a native of
Maryland, her father a prominent at- 1
torm-y ami whose family has been
prominent since the settlement of this
country, read into the record a formal
siiiii.-np.-nt denying that she had
claimed that there lm*l been table rap
pings in tiie White House. Bite said
she had sent a copy of this statement
io tin- Wiiite 1 louse.
j t Woman Accepts Challenge.
Mine. .Marcia, a Washington me
dium, claimed 819.900 n money which
Houdini dramatically threw upon Up*
mb!** as a challenge to an> mediums
(in tin- room to make it physical rnatii
f- station which he could not prove a
| fraud allowing the committee to be
* judge. Mute. Marcia claimed to have
I predicted the election and death of
j ITesidoitt Hunting.
j .Mine. Mare: t demanded vinification
land Justice from the committee from
a statement she claimed Houdini had
made that he caught her and that she
had stolen Sio wit's h belonged to him.
The s|o had been paid to Mine. Marcia
bv Rev. Rose Mekenherg, uho was
one of Mr. Houdini’s investigators.
Site demanded Ih.nt ills charge that
she Mas a thief he stricken from the
record, and on interposition of Mr.
■ doom th.s was done.
Hater, when Rev. Mekenherg at
tempted to read into the record
names of prominent society women
as clients of Mine. Marcia, deducted
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from the license plate numbers on the I
automobiles in which they had come j
to her residence, Mine. Marcia pro- *
tested against those names being di- j
vulged. fn this again she was sus- j
tuined by Mr. Bloom. ;
Shows Spirit Writing.
For the delectation of the audience
and at the request of about a dozen
members of Congress, Houdini gave a
demonstration of spirit writing on ;
slates. He had Representative Rath- ,
hone hold two slates tied together j
with a handkerchief, and had Kepre- i
senUitive Hammer place a card in a I
dictionary. When the slates were j
opened the card and slates purported
to contain a message to Mrs. Florence
Kahn, a member of Congress from
California, who said sh<- had never
spoken to Houdini. On cries of many '
members of Congress who were at
tend.ng the hearing for an explain*- j
lion, Mr. Houdini said that while, as >
president of the Society of American j
Magicians, he couldn’t expose any j
tricks of magical nature, he could [
expose that one. He had previously j
heard the name of Mrs. Kahn* and j
had prepared the slates for Mr. Ham
mer to put the card in the book in a
i rutin page, and said that the rest
was simple deduction. He made that *
demonstration to expose alleged spirit
writings.
Houdini also did a trick of appar
ently removing a part of Ills left
thumb for the benefit of the sub
committee. Other spiritualist mediums
who testified were Alfred H. Terry,
who has been licensed for 2<> years
and who has been pastor of the first
Spiritualist Church for the hist 20
* •vov - 'ons that
should be written into the law cover
.... . .-.pauUiiiiM me
diums would not I.** Interfered will*
nor classed as fortune tellers.
Woman Also Testifies.
Mrs. Filer Macldiren. 2702 Ontario
road, said she iiad been a spiritualist j
medium for live years and nev* r .ad- ,
vi-rtised. Her price is S 3 a ha I
promising nothing. Site said s.a- had j
at times been offered as high as SI,OOO j
tint accepts nothing beyond her regu
lar fee. She (ailed herself a spiritu
alist attorney and said she used tier
crystal globe only to center h* r eyes
upon mental concentration.
While Mine. Marcia was testifying
she challenged statements made by
Houdini that the mediums had preyed
upon susceptible people and those of
weak mentality, purporting to be title
to bring messages from their loved
dead and later receiving extraor
dinarily largo gifts. H<* cited s:ei‘Y"o
received by Clan* Barton and $2,->"O,-
000 which Luther Marsh had given
away. He argued that the $2 or $3
f fee was only the opening wedge to
j get such large sums from persons a.
i prey to lonesomeness for their dead.
Mme. Marcia asked. “Would any
j of you call the late Florence Harding
! degenerate, weak-minded, unbalanc
ed?” The audience applauded vigor
ously.
There were repeated clashes be
tween Mr. Bloom and members of the
subcommittee conducting the hearing,
who were endeavoring to expedite the
1 hearing of witnesses when Mr. Bloom
j was anxious to hold rather extensive
1 cross-examination.
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o’clock, a number of persons in the
audience vigorously challenged Mou-j
dini, and there were spirited contro-j
versies in several parts of the caucus
room, which at times threatened to j
come to blows. Among the most j
emphatic of Houdini’s challengers j
was a. Marine Corps officer.
Col. Andrew Vennie Lies.
DOIJKVIbbK, May L'O OP).--Col. j
Andrew Vennie, resident manager of
Churchill Downs, died suddenly at j
his office at'the track here today.
Snake Imitates Branch.
The brown tree snake in Queensland
! knows both defensive and offensive
camouflage, as observed by » ren-i •
i expeditionary party. The exhibition
was given in the t> p «>f a • asuarina
tree.
j When the snake's enemy, the l;,n ..
ing jackass, came along, rather tt a
j he eaten, the snake raised its head «
i few inches and las-amc rigid. imita* og
ja broken bram h. When the bird - f
j prey bad gone the snake set a !>itd
! trap h«f making a longer "stick. ' ot;
j itself and waiting. it was a c li
st rictor.