Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1921, Page 17

SOCIAL AGENCIES ELECT OFFICERS Clearing House for D. C. " Charitable Activities Per- fect Organization. CHILD WELFARE WORK CALLED GREATEST NEED All Branches Urged to Co-Ordinate Policies to Push Necessary Legislation in Congress. Organization of the Washington Council of Social Agencies, which will be the clearing house of social activities in the District of Columbia, wag perfected yesterday afternoon at a meeting held in the Raleigh Hotel, over which Mrs. Whitman Cross pre- sided. elected and the committee list and their chairmen announced. As child welfare legislation seems to be the greatest problem facing the ®ocial agencies at this time, as point- ed out by Walter S. Ufford of the As- sociated Charities, this subject will be the first order of business: of the permanent organization. It was vot- ed at the meeting yesterday that this Guestion should receive first consider- ation, but the matter as to whether it should be taken up at a special meet- ing or at the next regular meeting was left for the executive committee | to decide. Officers Elected. The officers elected were: Mrs. Whitman Cross, president; Newbold Noyes, vice president; William Knowies Cooper. treasurer, and Mrs. John P. S. Neligh, execufive secre- tary. There was nof a dissenting vote on any of the officers. the secretary casting the unanimous ballot upon the motion of Mr. Ufford. Miss Mabel Boardman, Dr. J. C. Freeman and Corcoran Thom were elected members-at-large, and the ap- plication of the Girl Scouts of the D trict for membership in the organi- zation was approved. All of the pub- lic welfare institutions of the city also were entered as members. Mr. Tfford explained that it was the i tention of the executive committee to place all public organizations on the membership list. and that if any had been left off it had been an oversight. The question of the financial fed- eration of the organizations compos- ing the council is to be studied by a committee composed of Dr. John O'Grady. St. Vincent de Paul's So- y: William Knowles Cooper, Y. . A Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith, Jewish Foster Home: Mrs. Herbert E. v. Y. W. C. A, and Ne Noy ASsociated Charities, o oold Noyes, Announces New Committees. The new committees of the organi- zation were announced by Mr. Ufford, Who explained the different headings under which they are divided. They are: Committee on family work, Mra Walter s Ufford. chairman: commit- community and neighbor] work, Mrs. William Knowles Gomood chairman: health and hospitals, Miss .V{‘ulbc!l‘ Boar;ilr'nnn. chairman, and in- stitutions. Miss Sofle Sw: League, chairman. atetTuniae Mrs. Cross expressed the ho the committee chairmen wosld® hioe an early organization meeting of their respective committees for the purpose of discussing ways and means with them and bring in early report: The success of the work of the or- ganization consists in keeping its di- visions to a small number, Dr. O'Grady informed those at the meet- ing. and he expressed the hope that it would not become unwieldy in operation. This would happen, he pointed out. if there were too many divisions. Confine the work under as few;headings as possible, he said. Reports of the work and activities 'ENLARGED MUNICIPAL COURT TO AID SUPREME JUDICIARY 'New Scope, Effective June 1. Expected to Relieve Docket of Higher Body From More Than 1,100 Cases. The permanent officers were ! The recent legislation enlarging to $1.000 the jurisdiction of the Munici- pal Court of the District of Columbia will become effective June 1. Under the new law that tribunal will have exclusive jurisdiction over all cas in which debts not exceeding $1,000 are sought to be collected and of all action for the recovery of damages not to exceed $1.000 for personal in- {Jury. assault, assault and battery, slander, libel, malicious prosecution and breach of promise to marry. At this time the Municipal Court is limited to cases involving amounts up to $500 and the District Supreme Court has concurrent jurisdiction oxer ases of $100 and up. Defendants seeking delay may now remove their cases before ‘trial to the District Su- preme Court by certiorari. The con- current jurisdiction of the Supreme Court as well as the right to transfer jcases to that tribunal by certiorari ‘are abolished by the new law. Force Six Years. Decided innovations are made by | the new cnactment which makes the { Municipal Court a court of record 1 and provides that it shall have a seal, furnishes a right of trial by jury Wwhere the amount involved exceeds $20 and declares its judgments final except where the Court of Appeals shall allow a writ of error to review any such judgment. All judgments shall remain in force for six years and i no longer unless docketed in the Dis- trict Supreme Court. Judgments of the Municipal Court shall not become liens on real estate unless docketed in the District Supreme Court. The jurors provided by the new law are to be drawn by the jury commis- sion, which provides jurors for the various branches of the District Su- | preme Court, and they shall receive | the same compensation of $3 per day for their services. Juries may be javailable throughout the calendar year in the Municipal Court, since the law provides that a special term for jury service may begin on the first Tuesday of August and terminate on the first Tuesday of October. The jury commission is to draw thirty- 8ix names of prospective jurors at least ten days before the beginning of each term of the Municipal Court ‘and may draw additional names to ill the panel when required. Appeals Are “Abolished. All appeals to the District Supreme Court from the Municipal Court are abolished under the new law. No ap- of the various organizations already members of the council were made by their representatives, several of ‘whom filed printed copies of the an- nual reports for the record. Owing to the pressure of time, many of the reports were delayed until the next meeting. Those who reported were: Canon William Tayloe Snyder, Episco- pal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital Mrs. Harriet S. Monroe, Gospel Mis- sion; Walter S. Ufford, Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, Citizens' Relief Association and As- sociated Charities; Mrs. Clara F. Smtth, Instructing Visiting Nurses Society; Miss Gertrude E. Mac Arthur, 2 A.; Mrs. Dudley Morga Christ Child Society; Mrs. Henry B. Brown, House of Mercy; Dr. Harry S. Benton, Child Welfare Society, and Mra. Randolph Mason, Washington Co-operative Society. There was a general complaint throughout the reports that the or- ganizations were materially hampered in going ahead with more effective work by limited funds available. Child Welfare Diseussed. After receiving a number of sug- gestions of matters which should be discussed at future meetings. it was gecided that the proposed child wel- fare legislation was the most impor- ant. Mr. Ufford pointed out that it |conduct of business in THE EVENING STAR WAVSHI GTON D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 15. 1921 peal as a matter of right is provided. but any person aggrieved by any final judgment of the Municipal Court may petition directly to the Court of Appeals for the allowance of a writ of error within ten days after the | rendition of the judgment. Any jus- tice of the Appeliate Court may grant the writ. | ~1n _addition to the new proceedings involving $1,000 or le&s. the Municipal “ourt shall have jurisdiction of such cases now pending in the District Supreme Court involving such sums or of the class of cases of which the Municipal Court would have jurisdic- tion under the new law. There are about 1,100 of such cases mow pend- ing in the District Supreme Court. but it is expected no steps will be jtaken to transfer this large batch of cases until after a conference be- tween the justices of the Supreme Court and the judges of the Municipal Court. Remains “Poor Man's Court.” | “The Municipal Court will {the 'poor man's court, despite the additional authority and volume business given it by the new law.” said Judge George C. Aukam today. Ne formal pleadings will be required in cases involving less than $500, but no decision has been reached as to just what pleadings shall be filed in the cases of larger amount. The cost of filing in small cases will re- main at $1.60, except where a trial is demanded, “when the cost does not exceed $2.10." With his associates, Judges Kim- ball, Mattingly and Terreil, Judge Aukam will hold a conference short- ly and a decision is expected as to jthe rules of procedure, practice and pleading under the enlarged juris- diction. At this conference fees and costs for cases involving more than $500 will be formulated, including Ithe price to be charged when a jury !trial is demanded. When the new arrangement in the Municipal Court is well started it is expected that the congestion which has marked litigation in the District for so many vears will be relieved in a great measure. With its docket freed from more than 1,100 cases, and with the immense volume of appeals and certioraris abolished. the District Supreme Court is expected to make inroads into its congested calendar, and lawyers and litigants may hope to have a case docketed and disposed of in short order instead of having to wait two or more years for a trial, while- witnesses died or became scat- tered and justice was often defeated. remain — is the first duty of the social agencies to see that the child of school age remaing in school, asserting that there are a great many people inter- ested in child welfare work. He urged that the members come pre- pared for very open and free discus- sion on this matter. 'The belief was expressed by Mr. Ufford that the leg- islators would listen to the word of the council on this matter of child welfare legislation when it came up for consideration. Dr. O'Grady pointed out the impor- tance of this subject aiso. He said that the big question would be as to how to treat the child who will never be able to get higher than the third or fourth grade in the schools. He said he had a number of such charges now, and that it was useless to keep these children in the schools, as they would never be able to grasp the subjects of the higher grades. Mr. Ufford also said that the coun- cil should make known its stand on the charities indorsement cemmittee a8 soon as that organization had map- ped out its program. MR. DENBY PICKS AID. Secretary Denby has appointed Owen Rippey of Detroit, Mich., as hi confidential stenographer to assist his private secretary, Mr. Carey, in the his office. Hupmo e mefllbewellmpaidifyoudonot leave the Show until Hupmobile. you have seen the When you see it, you will be instantly impressed by its new and greater beauty. ?t has a new top, a plate glass window in ‘theback curtain, new fenders, a new finish, improved uphoistery, and other new details, such as moto-meter, wind- shield cleaner, and outside door handles. The Hupmobile has always attracted unusual attention by reason of its won- derful goodness. To surpassing beauty. that is now added Sterrett & Fleming, Inc. DISTRIBUTglltISng’ Champlain St. at Kalorama Rd. (Below 18th) Phone North 5050 Gobbler Growing Fat For the President’s | Thanksgiving Dinner On a large piantation away down in Mississippl there i a proud, handsome young gobbler turkey who has been welected | from among a large flock to be | fattened and otherwine well primed for President Harding's first Thanksgiving day dinner in the White Iloune. Although the fact s heing kept from this honored bird, the White Houxe bay been ad- vised. The information and de- tafls were contained in a letter recelved yesterdny from H. W Mason, n wealthy planter, whose place Ix situated near Cryntal Spring, Miss., and who, according to hix own admfsion, is an ardent admirer of the new chief exeentive and alwo is anx- ious to show that as fine, If not finer, turkeys can be rained in Missixsipni than in any other state, He stated in hix letter that it in_hix ambition to nourish thin selected gobbler along the mont careful and scientific lines be- fore he xhins him on hix doleful though distinguisxhed mission. A cow hax heen offered P dent Harding by a Liberty e, “to raine very good Jerney cows and to place them where they will be mont appreciated.” During the Taft regime Paul- ine. a prize Guernsey, furninhed milk for the White House table. CONGRESS G. 0. P. MAY END POSTMASTER ‘SPOILS’ ! Consider Bona Fide Inclusion of Such Positions Under Civil j hearing, did not formally consider the ! John B. Colpoys. John F. Service | matter again on account of the shorttello, C. F. Crane, J. Harry Cunning- - i rpmalmnfi b'ef:;_rela(;!_\t::rnm(-n[»hnm. John Dolph. John Joy on. The | ajority in Con-|of Congr c indicated the com-|Sciden M. Ely. W. T. Galliher, H. H. | rene A ring nians | mittee might consider the record of |G Gockeler, 1. C. Graham, for a bona fide inclusion of presiden- | that hearing sufficient upon which 10| Wil . Robert N. Harpe: tial postmasters, which for long hasjbase a decision without Treopening|irs Hendley. Frank been the chief patronage spoils of the | the question for further testimony. | Hogan, Newton A. James, Joseph D. party successful in national elections, | The citizens’ joint committee is g0- | Kaufman, James Hugh Keeley. Philip in the civil service ing before the country with its case, | Kine Wilton J. Lambert. John B There apparently is a wide diverg- |as well as before Congress. A good |t VtO% < (et Cong oo ence of opinion among the House re- | start already has been made in this T iesa G el publicans as to what should be done | direction. and. at yesterday's meet- | R0t B elo¥G, B & i with the order of former President|ing, plans were made for enlarging | Macfarland, Arthur el Wilson placing postmasters under the | the campaign of education, which, it . Roy L. Neuhauser, Theo- civil service. Replies to a question- | is hoped, eventually will enlist the No. O'Toole, Louis naire sent out by Representative|support of every patriotic American. Ottenburg. Oyster. ik Fess, Ohio. mirr]‘nan of :he republi- Conventlons to Be Told. i', er. J‘;;'"' “’I-‘L’] d’;’”"""- Mr: can ‘congressional committee, it was s i ¢ na- nnette Pavl, A said today, contain suggestions rang- | Tt was decided to tell every na-|pie gjpert Schulteis, ¢ ing from restoration of the old sys- tem to retention of some kind of a civil service principle. The replies are being tabulated and will be laid before Postmaster Gen- is expected to take them with him when he talks the sit- uation over with President Harding. Mr. Hays has given no_indication of make President and a final decision eral Hays, who what recommendation he will to the i8_not expected for some weeks. Retention of the civil service prin- ciple in whatever worked out publican leader Great numbe: plan finally ceived b General. ST. PATRICK'S DANCE. Kallipolis Grotto's Band and Drill Corps will present a masque dance at Thursday Patrick’s day something green, . Gold prizes for a St. Patrick's day costume and be pre- the New Willard Hotel aight in honor of St. “Kindly wear reads the announcement. for comical sented. ORDERED TO SAMOA. costumes will Lieut. Commander Daniel Hunt, at Corps Training School, San Francisco, has been ordered to the naval station at Tutuila, Samoa, the Hospital for duty. 7 90 1L, man, who, in a letter re- ceived today at the White | House, said it was hin hobby is expected by soffie re- of applications for post office appointments are being re- genators and representa- tives as well as by the Postmaster TO BE ASKED OF NEXT CONGRESS Citizens' Joint Committee at Meeting De- cides to Wage Fig}\t Without Abatement to Americanize Citizens of Washington. in an_effort ire to bear upon A new hearing before the House these organizations bring perso diciary committee on the proposal to) TS TLTot Americanize Washingtonians will be| Discussion at the requested immediately after the con- ;TI;‘I with Dr. Georgl meeting was gen- Bowerman vening of the special session of Con- oLl Doy ety sress April 11 The request will be|bllen Snencer Mussey, Mrs. Anna C = sl 5 endley, Jesse (. Suter, Villiam made by the executive committee of |yt M, YOTSC 14 athers ‘ndvancing the citizens’ joint committee on uggestions designed to cement and tional representation for the District [make more effective the general plans = o |of the committee. Mr. said of Columbia, which, at a meeting in|ihat the indorsement giv nal the Board of Trade rooms yesterday |representation for the 1t the afternoon, decided to wage the Tep-|convention in Atlantie ity resentation fight before Congress|of the Chamber of Commerce of th | |witnout abatement. United States was tantamount fo a | | Theodore W. Noyes, chairman, pre-jreferendum vote on the subject | Isided at the meeting, which drew a|There were four hundred delegates at the ¢ - said, and only one large attendance and developed fresh evidence in the reports submitted of | |the committee's determination to leave no.stone unturned until Wash- n suggested that maga- zine articl with the uncon- 1 n stitutional situatio ashington ingtonians have been accorded their | Would “help ‘the renr hieton constitutional right and proposed that the commit Volstead Favors Action. seck the aid of the chief periodical When informed today of the com- Executive Committee Named. mittee’s announcement Chairman| 1t was decided to hold the next Volstead of the judiciary committee. ! mecting April 18, Chairman Noves i who presided over the representation !announced the appointment of ihe | hearing given shortly before the close | following exccutive committee of the last Congress, stated that, if| Milton Ailes, Ross I'. Andre he again is made chairman of the|George F. Bowerman, Thomas Brac committee, he would endeavor to get!lay, E. (. Brandenbu Chapin early action on the request for a new | Brown, Walter A. Brown. Roy C. ‘hearing. Mr. Volstead said his com-|cClaflin, William McK. Clayton, (harle mittee, after concluding with the last Allen C. Clark, Washington of the un-American con- | bold, . Seymour, A ditions prevailing here and to enlist | clair, Charles S. Shreve. Florence the aid of the delegates in creating |Stiles, Jesse C. Suter, Odell S. Smith, | sentiment in the states for the es-|Bdgar C. Snyder. Washington Top- tablishment of liberty in the Nationaliham, A. §. Worthington, Corcoran Capital. The conventions plan was presented by Mrs. Anna C. Hendley, and, on motion of E. C. Branden: burg, & committee of five was named to specialize in this field. The com- mittee includes M. A. Leese, chair- man;: Mrs, Ellen Spencer Mussey, vice chairman: A. E. Seymour, Jesse C. Suter and Roy I. Neuhauser. The meeting disclosed other lines of approaching the country which !are under consideration by the print publicity committee. of which G. A. Lyon is chairman. Reporting for the committee, Mr. Lyon, ®ho alFO_l){- | ficiated as secretary at the meeting, lin the absence of Secretary Otten- berg. stated that two subcommittees, | ; one consisting of newspaper cor- mours Compal in uit to re Tespondents covering the Capitol and cover $5.657 alleged to have been col- e a0t Clocal mewspaper men, | lected by the government as income Would e named to aid in the pub- | in 1915. _ il Naity campaign. Mr. Lyon saiq that | “It seems incredible,” said Judge copies of the recent hearing before | Booth, in handing down the decision, the Judiciary committee would be | “that Congress intended to distributed among the Tiembers of | income a business transaction whic the new Congress before it assem- | admittedly produced no gain. no profit, bles April 11. | and hence no income N income was created, it was contended, and the St DIk Reormantned. n|EOvernment had collected taxes on APeakerat iChattman: Pravaesburs | el Th;!-"“"ff;‘“ Erew out of stated that the committee is being |~ o ool -con of the company. reorganized and girded for battle and | et would be ready shortly to do effective | The chamber of commerce of St. work. A subcommittee on state so- | Catharines, Ontario. has decided to cieties, he said, would work through | admit women to its membership. Thom and W. B. Westlake. MAY RETURN $18,000,000. |Test Case Shows U. S. Collected In- come Tax Erroneously. The United S ates Court of Claims, in a decision erday, cstablished a precedent which it is cxpected will involve an abatement by the govern- ment_of $18.000.000 erroncously col- lected in income taxes. It rendered ckholder of the E. T du NEW REPRESENTATION HEARING | judgment in favor of C. W. Phellis. a | Pont de ‘ Censors Criticise | Movie and Order | | Cuts by Telephone | picture | billed by a Pitt: | for Monday h; by the board, a the ahow might be held declded to do the cenmoring by telephone. A telephone circuit hetween | thin clty and Philadelphin | met up, and icate filma we diaplayed nt points. An the pictare wa ored in Ph | delphin the changen des | were telephoned to Pittsburgh. AUSTRIANS CONSIDER WORLD WAR ON JEWS | Anti-Semitic Congress Would Have Monthly Demonstrations All Over Austria. March VI 15. — World-wide | war on Judaism was contemplated in | resolutions passed at the closing ses |sion of the Austrian anti-Semitic | congress yesterday. A world anti- | Semitic congress was called to meet in Budapest next autumn, and a cen- | tral bureau was created to get in {touch with anti-Semitic centers | throughout the world | Provision was made in the resolu- | tions for anti-Jewish demonstrations similar to the one that occurred here jon Sunday in every provincial capital | of Austria once each month. The resolutions call on the govern- | ment to expel all alien Jews by April 1 or accept responsibility for grave consequences and also to impose ex- | ceptionally severe penalties on all | alien Jew offenders. A demand that ary night schools only in proportion to the permanent Je sh population | is made in the resolutions. VIENNA, March 14 —The anti- Semitie riots last night did more dam- ! age to plate glass than to human beings | The firmness of the police in holding | the bridges &ept the crowds from the The rioters then vented their i wrath on the windows of the Jewish | stores, stoned automobiles and raided a { large restaurant, wrecking the place and | beating the diners. |~ sari Fidak, a Hunga | ghetto ian actress, was | aragged from an automobile and | whipped. Most of her clothes were torn { from her body. The leaders of the riot {say that the movement is directed against foreign profiteering Jews, not | Vienna residen RAILWAY WINS SUIT. | A verdict in favor of the Washington ! Railway and Electric Company has been | renderea by a jury in Circuit Division 1, I before Chief Justice McCoy, in the $50. {000 damage suit brought by Mary B { Lewis, who claimed to have caught t | heel of her shoe in a hole in a car step. | She was thrown to the ground and suf- | fered a broken hip. The company de- nied there was any defect in the car step, which contained no hole large ough to engage the heel of a shoe. it appeared for the company. MARKET C0-OPERATION. | Co-operation between the bureau of | markets here and various state bu- reaus is the object of a conference i being held at the Department of Agri- culture. Delegates are present from 1\'ermnnt. New York, Massachusetts, | i Pennsylvania, New Jersey. Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin and Missouri. —_— SENT TO CAMP MEADE. Col. Melville S. Jarvis, 65th Infantry, at San Juan, Porto Rico, has been | transferred to the 55th Infantry at Camp Meade, Md. 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Indignant at the reported spread of “red” propaganda in the nation's capital by ceiving pay the Piney hundreds of persons res from the government, Branch Citizens' Assoclas tion demanded the appointment of a a commi on Americanizat meeting held in the Church jast night A strong plea for the members ot the association to join the Home De- fense League was made by I I, Hackenberger, who referred to the | testimony ‘presented by William ¥ Westlake, president of the Federa- tion of Citizens' Association, before |the Senate District commitfee yes- jterday to the cffect that hundreds of “red” agents were employed in the i government departments Mr Hackenberger backed with patrioti {Mr. Shorey and G A. Finch 5. D. Pabst, a resident of Rochester, .. said that he was amazed at the n at reet lowa M s strongly addresses by |lack ‘of patriotic enthusiasm displayed in Washington. rely do residents I here make any tion to display the [flag on mational said Mr | Pabst n ms in my Yhome city there is scarcely a house the town that docsn't hang out the colors.” On the motion of T. L. Shorev, a spe- cial committer was appointed to attend to patriotic affairs, and it was urged that suitable demonstrations be held May 30 and on the Fourth of July. H e motion of W. F. Peabody the f ascociation indorsed the movement for more rigid law for the District govern- ing the sale and possession of danger- ous weapons. A resolution by Chester Morrill that the association recommend the appoint- ment of a_woman to succeed Municipal Judge Doyle was referred to the commit- tee on law and lation. Mr. Morrill suggested Miss Mary O'Toole, president of the Women's City Club, for the ! position. {" Edgar B. Henderson, presided, | new members elected to the , lust night included Francis {Phil C. Arth, Alexander D. 'and J. Lynn Yeagle GEN. SAWYER ASSIGNED. Directed to Report to President Harding for Duty. Army orders yesterday included one calling Brig. Sawyer, medica’ |section, Officers’ Reserve Corps, into |active military service and directir him to report personally to the Presi- dent of the United States “for duty Gen. Sawyer has been provided with an office in the State, War and Navy building and will ha Browt Hamilton en. such clegical assistance as his duties require.” His office is in room 244 on the second floor of the west wing. not far from {the office of Secretary Weeks. | Though not specified {it is known tHat Gen. 3 serve as the personal physician of the | President and Mrs. Harding. and will make a special investigation and study of the public health and wel- fare activities of the government, At the War Department it is said Yhat Gen. Sawyer is not expected to per- from the usual duties of a military aid to the President. Col. Clarence S. Fidley, the engineer officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, was chief military aid to former President Wilson and is serv- ing the President in the same ca- pacity. 7.90'