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HE SUNDAY STAR, JANUARY 23, I®2T-PART T TROOPS THAT LEAD INBOY SCOUTTESTS Percentages Shown in the . Divisional Inspections Competition to Date. Troops 3% in the 1st Division. 16 in the 2d Division and 95 in the 3d Di-|{ vision lead in the standing of Boy Scout troops in the divisional inspec- tion competition up to date, it was announced last night. Troop 16 of the 2d Division tops the list v centage of 97.7i3, and Divi made the best showing in percentage of troops attending inspection. Re- sults of the inspection for Divisions 3 and 4 will be announced later. In- spection of Divisions 5 and 6 will be held at Central High School the evening of January 25, and for Di- vision 7 at St. George's Parish Hall. Baliston, Va., the evening of January 28. e arranged A number of troops ha alread; for special services on An- niveisary Sunday, Feoruary 6. Ail troops will be expected fo attend divine services in uniform on that day. The annual banquet of scout officials and troop committeemen will be held Thursday evening, February 10. Every scoutmaster is ed to reserve 1 date. This will e B1st Laec training cour A prospe ihe Gamimg cou will be available at scout headquar- ters in a tew da & ‘The court of ho: awards will nket Parish Hall next Tuesduiy eveuing at T30 o'clock. PR ST Opens Her Home To Public Every Tuesday Evening | CLEVELAND, January 22— Acting on the philosophy that | “to be happy you must make others happy,” Mrs. Myrta Per- kins Swingle maintains “open houwe” fn her home to the pub- lc every Tucsday night. “The objects of thexe gather- ingn,” Mrs. Swingle said, “are pr rily constructive and wil in a small way, help to over- come prejudice nnd spread the fdenls of friendhip and good Therc ix nothing to join, no dues to pay. The admissfon price ix one smile and they all pay it cheerfally.” The iden started, Mrs. Swin- &le expinined, when weveral young men who roomed at her home compinined of getting lonesome. “I went out’ ayd invited all my neighbors and friends In to spend the evening,” whe.contin- uwed. “We had a fine time. ‘But why,’ 1 axked mywelf, ‘should we hoard our fun welfishly? We ought to let everybody in. “The mext Tueday might we invited everybody who wanted to come. 1 consider my home in merely mine 10 hold in trust for a little while. And while I have it, I will nxe it to help brighten the lives of others. PLAN TO RELIEVE -SUFFERING RISH Meeting of the court of reviews for sccond and first class scouts has been postponed until Saturday evening. January 29, and will be held in the boys’ department at the Central Y. M. C.’A. at 7:30 o'clock. ‘Troop 21, Takoma Park, is trying out a new follow-up system for ab- sent scouts. When a scout has been absent for a certain number of meet- ings the patrol leader and assistant patrol leader call at his home to noti- 1y his parents that he is in bad stand- ing and seek their co-operation in renewing his interest in the troop. The Boy Scout Band furnished mu- sic for the annual reception of Me- tropolis Lodge, 1 O. O. F., last week. Stanley B. Phillips has become act- ing scoutmaster of Troop 40, meeting in the Wilson Normal School, in place of Mr. T. E. Snyder, resigned. because of absence from the city. Troop 14, Randle Highlands, H. G. Lugenheel, scovtmasior. has - joined the ranks of the “good turn” troops by furnishing provisions for a worthy family they discovered to be in need. Troop 17 is the first troop to be under the shelter of a university. Through the efforts of its scoutmas- ter. Maj. Wiilliam I Simpson. this troop has been granted the courtesy of meeting in_rooms of the George Washington University, at 2022 F street. Emmett Collier. has recently been elected senior patrol leader: Earl May, scribe and bugler, and Robert Corry. president. The troop meets on Friday night at 7 o'clock. Troop 2, Archie Davis, scoutmaster. formed a “sea scout” group, and is studying the lore of the sailor and the languaze and hondling methods ship, with the purpose of organiz- ed in a ship, with the purpose of organ- the District, The troop takes trips every summer in a motor boat owned by the scoutmaster. The boat is kept in condition by the boys. “FLOP HOUSES” REGAIN PRESTIGE IN BALTIMORE Ten-Cent Sleeping. Quarters Along ‘Water Front Are Filled. Food Prices Drop. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, January 22.—After an absence of several years, Baltimore's 10-cent “flop houses’ are again in vogue, and lodging houses, especially around the water-front, are getting back to pre-war levels. The 15-cent “flop” in choice locations and the 25-cent snooze in a real bed are now less in demand than the 10-cent shelves. $ ‘The patronage at these establish- ments has been increasing every night since the beginning of the year and the cold snap this week found nearly every one of these “hotels” filled to capacity. To the regular number of the city's homeless men and the grow- ing army of the jobless, there is to be added always tne regular “week- enders”, composed mostly of farm hands. ‘The “flop: houses” do not serve breakfast. They have no space for feeding facilities. The bunks and sleeping racks take up all available space, ‘The men come in, pay the price for ir bunk or rack and then “turn in this case con- sisting merely in fiinding the “soft side’ of a pine board and using what clothes they wear for covers, Nothing ends the slumber but hunger. That drives the men out to find what a few nickels will get them. The cook shops and lunchrooms in | the neighborhood of the “flop houses” have gone back to normalcy in the way of prices more rapidly than others. —_— MUCH OVER 1919 FIGURES. Baltimore’s Export and Import Business Nearly Doubled. Special Dispateh to The Star. BALTIMORE, January 22.—Figures compiled by the. marine department of the Baitimore custom house and submitted to Collector of Port Ryan show that the export and import busi- ness, as well as the tonnage of ves- sels passing through the port af Bal- | timore during 1920 almost doubled the figures of 1919 and reached the highest record in the historv of the | port. The total tonnage entering the port was 4,695.814, distributed among 1,602 | paign. compared with a tonnage of ['one of their number, and assisted also ‘vessel 2,614,102, with 1,000 vessels, in 1919. The export tonnage of 1919 was %:’02,567. while last year it was 5,218,- | During the year the domestic mer- chandise exported from Baltimore showed an increase of $18,896,099 over | 1919, while exports of foreign mer- | chandise decreased in value from $938.398 to $804,899, leaving only a trtal of $133,499 for the year. The statement of collections and dis- bursements shows an increase of $83,- 089.22 over 1919. —_— TAXLESS DOGS DOOMED. WINCHESTER, Va., January 22 (Bpecial).— A wholesale killing of dogs is to be begun ‘throughout the state early in February unless own- ers pay the state tax. The department in charge of the en. forcement of the law has let it be known that the practice of being lenient with delinquent dog owners gone out of fashion, and that thefs will be no trifling with the law, i MRS. W. S. G. WILLIAMS DIES. BALTIMORE, Md., January 22.—Mrs. ‘Willlam Smith Gittings Willlams, widow of W. 8. G. Williams, dled here today after a lingering iliness. Mrs. Williams ‘was formerly Miss Belle Deford of Bal- timore, and was prominent socially for many years. Three daughters survive tH. Local Committee Named, Will Ask Aid of All Wash- ington. Organization of an honorary commit- tee of Washington citizens for the pur- pose of relieving acute distress in Ire- land was announced last night by Peter A Drury, president of the Merchants’ National Bank, its chairman, 2 The local committeé will be a part of the American committee for relief in Ireland, a national organization formed in New York' several weéks ago, which IROWELL URGES END TOWARS INWORLD Canadian Pins Hope for World Peace to League of Nations. Canadian residents here have re- gate to the lea before the « w York la ue of nat diae is to ve must avert another ar,” Mr. Roweil suid. ih part, as follov “When we recali the awfui wi of life and property ‘in ihis wu- a4 the crimes and horrots ) terize it, and stil: He con worid-w.d economic and indus.ii : ganization, which even now s the future of our civilization over large areas of the world's srfice, 1i men who declare there is no substi- tute for war as a means of setthng ternational disputes and taat there no better way than the one along Which the nations have travelcd in the past, confesses the utter bunk- Tuptey of statesmanship-and the fail- ure of our so-called Christian- civiii- zation. Pins Hope to Leagne. “I do not believe statesmanship 1s bankrupt, or that clvilization has failed. Given an honest desire amoii- men and nations for a better way, that better way can and will be found. After five weeks' experience at Ge: neva, I have returned convinced that the league of nations is 4 most hop ful and practical experiment, the most hopeful our humanity has yet tried for providing a substitute for war, and for saving civilization fro the collapse which threatenes it un- less a substitute can be found. “The entry into the league in good faith of all the great powers with the determination to qo-operate in lieve, guarantee the success of the experiment, but even if other great powers do not enter, the league has already demonstrated its great util- ity as a means of international co-op- eration, even in its present form and with its present membership. But while they may be able to weather save civilization. The situation de- mands the co-operation of all na- tions able to help. is composed of Americans of Irish an- cestry in every section of the United States. The committee, according to a formal statement issued, is non-political and non-sectarian in character. Its appeal will be,based on.the broadest humani- tarian matives and will be made to Americans of all classes and creeds, ir- Tespective of their sympathies with the present struggle now going on in Ire- land. Cardinal Gibbons, Thomas F. Ryan, John D. Ryan and Edward Doheny head the list of the national commitiee, of which Morgan J. O'Brien of New York is chairman and John J. Pulleyn, New York, treasurer. The local committee is composed of the following: Mr. Drury, chair- man; Rev. Thomas J. Shahan, rector of the Catholic University; United- States Senators David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, Thomas J. Walsh of Montana and James D. Phelan of California; Chief Justice Constantine J. Smyth of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Maj. Gén. Frank M. Mclntyre, U. 8. A.; Admiral Wil- liam E. Benson, United States Ship- ping Board, John Burke, former treas- urer of the United States; Alien Prop- erty Custodian Francis P. Garvin, Assistant_Attorney General Thomas J. Spellacy, Dr. Henry Allen Tupper, pastor of the First Baptist Church; Rev. John B. Creedon, president of Georgetown University; James Maher, clerk of the United States Supreme Court; John B. Densmore of the Department of Labor; Attorneys Daniel O'Donoghue, Frank . J. Hogan, J. Spaulding Fiannery and Timothy T. Ansberry; James A. Cahill, vice president Commercial National Bank; Willlam M. Phelan, president Washington Savings Bank; Hugh Reilly, merchant and banker; James F. Shea, real estate broker and banker; Drs. Charles P. Neill of the Southeastern railroad, John F. Mpran, J. Thomas Kelly and Henry J. Cros. son, Daniel J. Callahan, president of the Norfolk and Washington Steam- boat Company; Richard V. Oulahan, newspaper correspondent; Joseph A. ‘Whitfleld, president of the City Club; J. J. Noonan, Willlam F. McNally, Underwood Typewriter Company, and Edward J. Walsh, manager of the Northwestern National Insurance Company. Definite steps for arousing the in- terest and sympathy of the people of Washington were discussed at yes terday’s meeting, and it is expected that a general conference will be called this week, when plans will be made for holding a public mase meeting. CHAPTER IS YEAR OLD. Founding of Alpha Chapter of the Delta Phi Epsilon Fraternity a year ago at the Georgetown School of For- eign Service was celebrated at the chapter house, 1335 Connecticut ave- nue, last night. . Dr. George Otis Smith of the geo- iogical syrvey spoke on the promo- tion of foreign service education, and Raymond Cahill gave a history of the fraternity. John J. Walsh, president of the chapter, made the address of welcome. . Huston Thompson, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, spoke, and Paul E. Shork, president of the eighth district of Phi Beta Kappa, spoke on “Fraternity.” Musical numbers were given by James Gallagher and Wil- liam McCardell. e $350 COLLECTED NIGHTLY. Young Woman Workers at Belasco Total $2,400 for Week. An average of more than $350 was collected nightly from philanthropic members of Belasco Theater audiences during the week just ended by a group of young women clad in evening dress, assisted by Harry Delf, one of the prin- cipals of the “Jimmie" company. Their total of over $2,400 has been turned over to local headquarters of the Hoover cam- Chaperoned by the mother of I by Mrs. Anna L. Fisher, who is a cap- tain in the Arabian army, the list of included Misses Frances Brady, Ruth Richart, Laura Neal, Marguerite Kitzer, Helene Faleska and Lenore Schultz, the last two being from the Lithuanian’ legation. STATES IN IRISH ACTION. New Jersey Meeting, First in List, to Be Held Tomorrow Night. The first of a series of state demon- strations for the purpose of appeal- ing to the government of the United States to consider the advisability of granting recognition to the Irish re- public will be held tomorrow night at the Central High School, when the New Jersey branch of the American Commission for Irish Independence will conduct a mass meeting. It is planned to have delegations from each state in the Unfon meet in Washington during the winter and offer their pleas separately, according to announcement made last night by the committee in charge, Former Representative Eugene F. Kinkead of New Jersey will preside at tomorrow night's meeting and the speakers will include former De cratic _National Committeeman liam B. Bowley, Attorney General Thomas F. McCrann, Rev. Harrold Sweeney, Rabbi Thorner, Representa. tive Thomas J. Egan and Isaac Bach- rach, all of New Jergey. volunteers , Calls for Friendship. “The press has 'stated that the Canadian delegates at Geneva pre- sented not only the Canadian view, but also that of the United States, on many of the questions that came up for consideration. May I presume to say that we understand your point of view better than does either of our mother countries, Great Britain or France, and, on the other hand, by reason of our close assoclation with Great Britain in international af- fairs we understand her point of view better than you. “May I, in conclusion, express what I believe is a cardinal principle of our policy—that Canada associated politically with Great Britain and geographically with the United ates, the daughter of one and the ster of the other, and bound to both by ties of race, of lankuage and of common ideals, shouid as- sist in fnterpreting the one to the other and in promoting that cordial understanding and whoie-hearted co- operation so urgently neecded in view of the present critical world situa- tion, so that the men of our race, whatever land they may dvwell under whichever flag they may ., may march together to further thuse {deals of peace, justice and ordered liberty for the realization of which the world so anxiously waits and upon which the future of our pres- ent civilization depends.” _—_ CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. Rev. John F. X. Murphy will lee- ture on “Ireland, Past and Present,” Tuesday at 8:15 p.m. at the National Catholic Community House. Seeretary Wilson will speak fom row evening in the Young People's building, Alexandria. The Rainbow Division Veterans, District of Columbia Chapter, meet tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at 1004 E street. St. John’s College Alumni Associa- tion holds its annual reunion Satur- day evening at the School of Com- merce and Finance, 1311 Massachu- setts avenue. ‘The West End Citisens’ Associntion will meet tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at the Concordia Lutheran Church, 20th and G streets. H. K. Bush-Brown will speak. The Asso- ciation, Washington Branch, will meet Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the New ‘Willard Hotel. Dr. A. R. L. Dohme will speak on “Therapeutics.” The Junior League wil ture Wednesday morn| Archer. The Audubon Soclety will 1 hear a lee- ing by Willlam T Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the UY:% States National Museum. Dr. H. C. Bryant and Dr. L. H. Miller will illustrated lecture: The Polish Club has elected the following officers: Stanley W. Wisni~ oski, president; I. Jawny, vice presi- dent; A. Kubeljis, secretary; 'J. Stan- iszewskl, treasurer, and E. Slowinski, sergeant-at-arms. ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. TODAY. League of American Pen Women meets at 4 o'clock at 1722 H street Ernest Thompson Seton speaks. give Central and people’s rellef commit- tee meets at 4 o'clock at the Adath Israel Synagogue. Matthews Dawson lectures at the New Thought Temple, 1814 N street, at 3 o'clock. ‘Wanderlusters’ hike starts at Michi- gan avenue and North Capitol street at 2:30 o'clock, Trinity Community House holds a meeting of the Men's Ciub at 12:30 o'clock. Dunbar Civic Center holds a meet- ing of the Community Band at 4:. o'clock. Y. W.C. A, 614 hcuse at 5 o'clock. speaks. street, holds open Miss Mary Riley TONIGHT. Padraic H, Pearce Councll of the American Association for the Rec- ognition of the Irish Republic meets at 8 o'clock at Gonsaga Hall. Padraic H. Pearce Branch of the Friends of Irish Freedom holds an Irish cailidhe at 8 o'clock jat Typo- graphical . Temple. Polish Club meets at 7 o'cl Pythian Temple, 1012 9th streer. " ey ik OFFERS El 0,000 REWARD. ‘W YORK, January 22.—A re- ward of $10,000 for the arrest and who ran down and killed Miss Anna Bloom, January 14, was offered to- night by the victim's uncle, Larry Cooper, & lace importer. Miss Bloom was found in a dying condition on a Cooper Square bench where, police belleve, she was car- jried by occupants of the car after being struck. o ful t 2. N a ¥ n ko eae MILAN, January 22.—The American ambassador to Italy, Robert Under- wood Johnson, was one of the speak- "lers at the annual banquet of the American Chamber of Commerce here last night. He expressed confidence in Italy's ability to achieve commer- cial reconstruction, “in which,” than she yet apprehends.” Declaring that Italy had already proved that she realized the only way out of her trouble “lies in devoted and incessant work,” continued: “Italy was the right flank in the war against the central powers. and now she is the right flank against the storm, no one nation alone can|polshevism, demonstration that only old-fashioned virtues can save man- national disinterestedness of kind."” The America was proved in the war, the ambassador said, and at the peace conference America displayed no taint of sordidness. “In the future, with every confl- dence, we shall do our duty by & suffering world and a big brother to the nations needing us,” the speak declared. “Every American abroad must spread American ideas by giv- ing an example of the best in the national character, exemplifying our doctrine of live and let live and fair play for all” Better Working Conditions. ROME.—The postal and telegraph employes have been joined in their movement for better working condi- tions by the clerks in the civil serv- fce, who are asking the appointment of a_commission to weed out useless employes and ameliorate the eco- nomic condition of those remaining. These demands have been answered by the sovernment with the state- ment that a parllamentary commis- sion composed of deputios aiready exists for studying such problems, and that any salary increases must he voted by parliament. Accepts Minixter's Resiznation. MADRID.—After a lengthy cabinet council .he " zovernmen: acecpted the ~estenation of Lorenzo Pasqual as min- ister of finance. Confldence was ex- conviction of. the automobile driver|to Impromptu Seek Identity of Girl Babe Found in “Wild Man's” Care Mississippi Authorities Think Child Was Kidnaped by Primitive Man and Woman—Both Declared. Mentally Defective. U. 8. Is Big Brother to Weak; Gist of Foreign Happenings Ambassador Robert Underwood Johnson Assures Italy of America’s Willingness to Help Needy Nations. he the interests of peace would, I be-|added, “America has a larger Interest the ambassador | Spal er HOUSEBOAT ON WHICH PRESIDENT-ELECT AND PARTY HAS DEPARTED FOR CRUISE DOWN COAST OF FLORIDA. « v ¢, u7 Seontor Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, pliced at the disposal of Mr. Harding for his pre- craft, eighty-two fect long. perd. It is equi) pressed at the council n Premier Dato’s ability to decide upon the attitude to be adopted by the other ministers. In the lobbies of congress today the idea was general that the min- isterial crisis caused by the resigna- tion of the finance minister would extend, and probably woull lead to the resignation of the entire cabinet. Nothing definite is known, however, but it is supposed that Premier Dato will make most vigorous efforts to avold further ministerial changes, at least until after the approaching visit of the Belgian royal party to n. Seals at Mercy of Idle. ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland. — Seal herds on_the ice floes off the Labrador coast and in the mouth of the St. Law- rence river will have no protection next spring during the hunt annually car- ried on by a fleet of vessels from this port. The Newfoundland govern- ment has announced suspension for one season of all restrictions on the “killing of the animals in the hope of providing employment for many men now idle. Legation Now Embassy. MADRID.—A royal decree just is- sued raises the Spanish legation at Brussels to the rank of an embassy. ipped with wireless and two fifty horse- EVERY OVERSEA DIVISION HAS PART IN PROGRAM | Armistice Day Committee to Have AsMaidens Hunf For' Husbands NEW YORK, January 22— Every year is a leap year among the Garo women In Assam, writes a missionery’ to the American Baptist Foreign Mis- sfon Soclety. “Among those who have been Christianized, the bride takes the inftiative in mar- ringe.,” he says. “She goex to roon:, and v hid fetch the brid quette for resint until vi Off. Occasion his wife by o it ix the wo him;: that is to fricnds do it for her «© Bl see nuca press-zangs bringing home their spoi “in the early days, © at vio- tted, such he strug= a 1o the rexcue, th i the noise m: =lingz youth. reluctance < rexistance, thouzh, are xcidom ax real they sound. 1If the youth dislikes the match, there ix rarely any redress. “Women of means are allowed t0 choose a temporary husband and when tired of him, pay him off and take another.” Big List of Features in All- sionaries weie incuned to rush, I SUGGESTSAWORLD ECONOMICMEETING British Leader Sees Solution of Unemployment in Conference. Cross-Atlantic Cable Service to The Star. | 1ONDON. Junuary 22—Proposal of rnational conference of the world for a settiement c siiuation, to be hald bably in Washingion, and in cone Hiirdins's proposed in- ‘e on disarma- . Grattan Doyle, an er of parailment end + lpro s ruational com- uine the assets of the torn rope and prepare a plan for the mobllization of these, so that an international bond > could be floated, secured by asscts and backed by the credits of the countries involved and by the international commissfon. “This would immediately solve the problems of international exchange and enable the Eurdbean countries to buy the raw materials they need,” he Star Jazz Review. Every division of the American army that saw overseas service dur- ing the war will be r: “all-star jazz review.” vaudeville and minstrel show which is to be given under the auspices of the Armistice day committee of the local American Legion posts at Poll'’s Theater next Friday afternoon. It is the aim of those who are ar- ranging for the affair to offer an en- tertainment that will be far out of the w! Elmer resented in the | left BOY MISSING FROM HOME. Boblits, ith him. sixteen years old, his home at 1340 Valley street, Anacostia, about 8 o'clock morning and failed to retur: ing to a report his father made to the | police last night. The boy was re- ported to have said something about going away and it is believed he went to Baltimore. He took his Bicycle said. "It would start the factories and abolish widespread unemploy- ment. One of the real causes of the present industrial unrest is the un- reasonable attitude of labor and its alleged leaders throughout the world. “As a matter of fact, 1 belleve the United States has been harder hit than Britain. Her proportion of up- employment is higher. However, owing to the recent coal strike, we're a big loser and the States are a gainer in the world of fuel” ordinary and which will give the res. idents of Washington an opportunity ito see for themselves just what talent there is among the local service men who followed the flag overseas, The bill of entertainers will be a long one and will include a number of men who are now being treated at Walter Reed Hospital. The glee club of that institution will be one of the princi- pal features. I Officers and members of the various local American Legion posts who pro- moted the Armistice Day celebration last November and a number of men and women prominent in social and business circles of the city are in charge of this entertainment. It is explained by them that its prime ob- ject 1s to raise money to meet the def- icit faced by the committee following the Armistice day celebration, which Wwas not a success financially. because of the rain. Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, who has been prominently identified with sol- dier welfare work for a long time, is easurer of this performance and will be one of the directing heads in its management. She is being assisted by other socially prominent men and women, and it is predicted that the Provides Twenty-Five Scholarships. MADRID.—Scholarships for Spanish- American students in engineering, archi- tectural, fine arts and law schools, are established by a royal decree. The scholarships number twenty-flve, and each has an_annual valuation of 4,000 pesetas. i Aids Italian Workmen. ROME.—Premier Glolitti has pre- pared a bill to be. presented to parlia- ment concerning the participation of the workmen In the management of indus- trial plants. The bill takes into account the project preseted by the workmen and owners in the form of a joint com- mission having to do with the recent controversy in the metals trades. The ministers of industry and labor assisted in ‘preparing the bil. The Catholic party also will present a measure deal- ing with a plan for the workmen to share in the management and profits of of the plants. By the Associated Press. LAUREL, Miss, January 22—Au- thorities today were conducting in- vestigations in an effort to ascertain whether the two-year-old child found with Albert Parson, seventy-two- year-old “wild man,” and an appar- ently demented woman, who he sald was his wife, had been kidnaped. The trio, almost naked when found esterday in a remote section of the river bottoms, were fed, clothed and placed in the county poor house at Ellisville.. Their finding cleared up frequent reports of a “wild man” inhabjting the woods, The physical condition of the babe, who stares with wide eyes at unac- customed sights and shrinks as an animal might from the kindly hands of well meaning persons, has led the authorities to believe she has not been with ‘her strange “guard- lans” very long. Plump, apparently well nourished, and active, the little one does not seem to have undergone any of the hardships which have scarred those in whose company she was found in the woods near the vil- lage of Lux. High water drove them from their accustomed haunts nearer the river. Parson tonfght still insisted he caught his wife” In a bear trap twenty-three years ago. Through primitive farming, gathering of wild fruits and trapping of game, the pair, according to Parson story, have taanaged to exist and keep healthy. A ramshackle cabin was their home and the few times he ventured within sight of regular inhabitants the re- port was sent out that the “wild SOCIETY HAS DANCE. Tennesseeans Make Merry at the Thomson School. Musical selactions, songs, recita- tions and comprised the en- tartainment program of the Tennesser ich met last night chool. Rufus Pour- The musical program the direction of son presided. und o8 on of Verdl's “Souvenir” and na” were interpratea b line A Wlillam.tte in a acompaniel by Miss ralE Th - solo s Restiess Sea recitation “Nathan's Mary Scudder, there Following a by Miss cin 3. —_— TRIBUTE TO BURNS. Caledonian Club to Celebrate 162d Anniversary of Poet’s Birth. The 162d anniversary of the birth of Robert Buras, the Scotch poet, will ced by the Caledonian Club DS S inner at the Garden Tea House, 1014, Vermont avenue, Tues- o 1ub, will “fugh Reid, chief of the club, Sastmaster, and, in addition B e romptu. tousts offered by mem- Will be_ delivered by who will ;llj gn it We Celebrate,” and ohn DTI:‘CIR..)\,VPIO will take as his theme “Our "Adopted Country.” The ‘committee in charge of ar- rangements Is composed of Alexander Douglas, chairman; John Duncan, Willlam' Graat, W. 8 Crawtord and David Black. bers, addresscs William Jardine, —_———————— man” had appeared. Littde credence was placed on the stories of the “wild ma appearance, but the swamps d_ woods where he was said to have been seen were shunned a’ most of the residents in that sec- on. Parson, the authorities assert, is mentally defective, while the woman is less able to talk or reason than her companion. “My eye was scratched out by a wild cat,” the woman said. “I had a fight with one once.”” Other efforts to make her tell of herself were unavail- ing. Her many scars, unkempt hair and occasional lapses into lunacy gave her an appearance which caused of- ficials at the poor house to redouble their efforts to find how she came to be in possession of the baby girl. Parson, who said he was seventy- two years old, and looked more, de- clared he was within his rights as a homesteader on the property where he was found. When captured Par- son wore two pairs of trousers, nothing else. The woman wore an old house dress, torn and tattered. ‘The child was naked. -When taken Parson was using a blind horse, which he sald he cap- tured, In rather crude efforts pow a patch of sedge. Apparently willlng to care for the couple and accept with reservation their statements as to how they lived and how they came to adopt the wild life, the authorities tonight expressed themselves as principally interested in locating the parents or other rela- tions of the bnh{ girl. That the couple should be the parents of the cg:ld was considered highly Improb- able. STOPS SALE OF TONIC. Health Officer Will Have Product Analyzed. At the direction of Health Officer Willlam C. Fowler, the police last night instructed druggists, near-beer |establishments ana delicatessen pro- prietors to stop the sale of a certain tonic, which is taken as an aid to digestion, until health department . chemists have had an opportunity to- {dctermine what the Ingredients are. ! A police official asked the health officer yesterday to test a sample of the product to determine if the rcontents correspond to the label. ! Dr. Fowler stated last night that ja_preliminary examination led his chemist to suspect the presence of wood alcohol. Dr. Fowler expects to have a com- plete report from his chemical labor- atory by tomorrow or Tuesday. TWO HIT BY AUTOS. Mrs., Hallie Smith and Bernice Brown Given Medical Aid. Bernloe Brown, colored, four years old, 647 A street northeast, was knocked down by the automobile of James L. Dietz, 1606 East Capitol street, at 6th and B streets north- east, yesterday afternoon and pain- fully injured. She was taken to Cas- ualty Hospital N Mrs. Hallle Smith, = seventy-eight years old, 916 16th street, was knocked down by an automobile driven by Clarence B. Wright, 4620 30th street, at Pennsylvania avenue and Jaokson place ycsterday after- ;oon. She was treated at Emergency 080! N audience will be one of th - resentative ever gathered ar a bena: ath performance, rs. Dimock ‘announced that, with one exception, fitrymfi‘:‘:: has been sold and nearly half of the Seats In the orchestra have been con- tractd for. Gen. Pershing will oc- cupy a box. MOTION PICTURE BENEFIT. Columbia Women of G. W. U. to Raise Funds for Scholarships. Two benefit motion picture T- formances will be given at the Knjelk- erbocker Theater February 2, by the Columbia Women of George Wash- ington University. The proceeds are to be applied to the organization’s scholarship fund, the university's centennial fund, and the fund for equipping rest rooms at the law school. The patronesses will be Commis- sioner Boardman, _Miss Charlotte Harding, Miss M, Y. Wheeler, Mrs. Douglas R. Birnle, Mrs. Charles J. Bell, Mrs William Miller Collier, Mrs. G. H. Grosvenor, Mrs Louis Jertle, Mrs. Walter Tuckerman, Mrs. J. E. Raker, Mrs. Percival Hall, Mrs. A. Lisner, Mrs. Charles H. Stockton, Mrs. Thomas Sidwell, Mrs. Charles Warren, Mrs. Theodore Noyes, and Mrs. Edward H. Everett. LECTURES ON GREEK. Prof. Phoutrides Discusses Modern Poets and Writers. Prof. Aristides Phoutrides, formerly of Harvard University and the Uni- versity of Athens, spoke on “Modern Greek Poets and Writers” at the first meeting’ of the Greek-American fi?;;etl’;tot‘h W;x:flrgtobn. ;A)eld Friday e Arts Club. Dr. Carroll presided. L e A musical program was rendered by the Greek Mandolin Club, of which Sophocles T. Papas is director. The . Visit us today, and for yoursell. Terms Agreeable to You Popular Hitsin Q R S Word Rolls 1213—Thinking of You T e 1 Eyes ........... 0T Wik Coiid )75 | n—pretacns, Weri- 61 95 1291—I'm a Lonesome Little Rain Drop McHUGH 927 G Street N.W. Hmof!hecisbmted Hallet & Davis Pianos DISCOUNT Given on Remaining Stock on Hand of the Celebrated HALLET & DAVIS LEXINGTON and CONWAY PLAYER-PIANOS demonstrate these instruments 1204—T1've Got the Blues For My Kentueky Home . $1.25 1296—Look What You've Dome With Your Dog- - $1.25 Gone Dangerous 1305—When I Lost You, Mother of Mime. $1~25 & LAWSON Greek Dramatic Association, Panos Papageorge, director, presented sev- eral Greek dances. This club is organized to cultivate mutual acquaintance and cordial re- lations between Greeks interested in America and Americans interested in Greece. Th organizing eommittee, to whom was left the plans for the next meeting, when permanent officers will be selected, consists of Manuel Cam- bouris, Mitchell Carroll, Miss Anna Darlington, Eusta Glycofrides, Theotokes Theos and Henry S. Wash- ington. Among Greeks present were Rev. Oikonomos Tobanos Lavrakas, pastor of the St. Sophia Church, and Messrs. Dracopoulo, Demopoulos and Koundouriotis of the Greek legation. |- TO FIX FOREST POLICY. Snell Bl Hearing Set for 10 0’Clock Wegdnesday. Hearings on the Snell forest policy _bill are scheduled for 10 o'clock Wednesday before the House com- mittee on agriculture, 8 This bill, introduced by Represe tative Snell of New York, provides for an annual appropriation of a million dollars ‘for co-operating with the states in fighting forest fires, for 2n annual appropriation of $10,000,000 for obtaining additional forest lands and for other items of national forest i policy. At the hearings, the American For- estry Association announced, will be representatives from every sectlon of the untry. To the association is com- indorsemenis of the Snell bill from scores of business organizations. The Snell bill has the united sup- port of every organization interested in perpetuating the forests and every busines . dependent upon forest prod- ucts. These organizations and industries have formed a national forestry program committee, of which R. S. Kellogg of New York city is the chairman, e ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. Rev. A. J. Graham Will Lecture Here Tomorrow. Lectures on Christian Sclence will be delivered at the Masonic Templa Auditorium, 13th street and New York avenue, tomorrow afternoon at 4:45 and at First Church of Christ, Scientist, at 8 o'clock by Rev. Andrew J. Graham, C. S. B. of Boston, mem- ber of the board of lectureship of the Mother Church. He was for elghteen | vears rector of St Mark's Episcopa- | lian Church of this city. The lectures are under the auspices of Fourth Chureh of this city. No collection is taken and they are open to the public. The. lecturer will be introduced in the afternoon by R. Lyman Harvey and in the evening by Miss Josephine G. Adams. e . Foasilized bones of a huge elephant fecently: discovered in France include a tusk ‘welghing 400 pounds and tooth welghing seventeen pounda. 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