Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1921, Page 13

I FORD . SADOS . Dr. Philander P. Claxton Pre- ' sents Building Program to Meet LocaliNeeds. A school-building” program for the Xistrict of Columbfa,, cilculated to et the needs of ‘tHe District for the next twenty years, is contained’in a report on the local situation made by Philander P. Claxton; former commis- | sioner of education, tg'Stnator Capper of Kapsas, chairman of ‘the subcom- mittee on schools of the District.com- mittee. This program contefnplates the ex- penditure of $18,000,000 in the erection of twenty school buildings of -the most approved style. Dr; €laxton sug- gests the purchase of sites for these &dhools now. each site to contain four or five acres of ground; and to be-lo- cated away from the business centers and junior high school should be built to accommodate 1,200 to 1,600 pupils, he said, and each school should be equipped with laboratories for domes- tic science, shop for metal, wood and leather work, an auditorium supplied with musical instruments, projecting &pparatus, swimming pool and a play- &round large enough to accommodate | @t least one-sixth of the school enroll- ment at a time. Dr. Claxton’s Proposal. Dr. Claxton said, in part, in hig re- ort: ; A2 the schools are organized on the work-study-play plan, -in_which the ohildren study and recite frgm .books & receive oral nstruction’ half of the | day, and engage in special activities in science laboratories, shops, sewing and cooking rooms and auditoriums | or assembly rooms one-third of the time, and spend one-sixth of the day in the gymnasiums or on the play- grounds (three hours for study and oral instruction, two hours for special activities, one hour of supervised play), then it is not necessary for every child to have a separate seat in ! the school. For the slogan ‘A seat for every child’ which means a class- Toom for every group of forty chil- dren or less, but usgally no provision for any of the mecessary special ac-| tivities and no opportunity for play, may be substituted the better slogan of A seat for every child when he needs it and the other facilities when he needs them.’ One classroom will then accommodate two classes or sec- tions, or eighty children. For a school of 1,200 children fifteen classrooms @re needed, instead of thirty: for a &chool of 1.600 children twenty class- Tooms, inst of forty. For each School of this size the city can well afford to employ a competent super- | vising or administrative principal, | ‘with_such clerical assistance as may | necessary for such details as can be looked after just as well, and per- haps better, by a clerk on a small | salary than by principals, who should give their time to other and more important things. Find Should Supersede. All Others. “These school * playgrounds should of the city. Each elementary school | Civilization, declared the President, i tiom, | dent PresidentUrge.sU.S.[ndependen;:é By the Associated Press. = VALLEY - FORGE, Pa. June President and - Mrs. Harding, who spent the week. end at the country {home of Senator P. C. Knox here, left for Washington in their motor car at $:35 a.m., daylight saving time. They were accompanied By thé senator and Bfig. Gen.. Sawyer, the President’ physician. A scrmon of faith in- established ia day of peace and good will through- out the world. was preached President Harding yesterday from a woodland pulpit overlooking Gen. in Valley Forge. 3 Thousands Hear Sermon. This na- he added, could discharge its responsibilities to humanity only if it preserved secyrely its independence of action and the traditions inherited from the fathers. . “An America dedicated to its stand- ards at Valley Forge,” said Mr. Hard- ing, “will hold fast and suffer, if need be,” until our inherited institutions are justified and guaranteed anew. When 1 pledge America to world helpfulness, at the same time I ex- act a pledge that America will cling to her own independence . of action and to hemown consclence. The President's address was _de. livered from the cloister of the Wash- ington Memorial Chapel to a crowd of several thousand persons assemblé under the auspices of the Forge Historical Soclety. Attends Service in Chapel Las been yeset by “vandals. alley tended service within the chapel it- Self, to which he and Mrs. Harding motored from the home of Senator Philander C. Knox, with whom they are spending the week end. At luncheon Gov. Sproul and Sen: tor Penrose also were guests at the Knox home and during the afternoon Senator Knox and his three distin- guished visitors had a long talk. Late in the afternoon the entire party took an automobile ride through the Valley Forge Memorial Park and paid a short call at the home of E. T. Stotesbury, financier, and member of the Morgan banking firm of New York., in the Chestnut Hill seation of Philadelphia. The evening was spent quietly at the Knox estate; the President and Mrs. Harding retiring early in preparation for tomorrow’'s 140-mile motor ride back to Washington. At the memorial chapel, whose cor- ner stone was-laid in 1903 by Presi- Roosevelt, special patriotic serviees were held yesterday in honor of the coming of President Harding. Former service men bearing the nresidential flag &nd _the national colors preceded the ' President and Mrs. Harding up the aisle to their take the place of all other play- ‘grounds for children, and all_super-, vised or directed play of the District’ should be under the direction of the board of education as a part of the puhll;c ichool worls. “If the present ratio of population of the two races holds, there shoud be in the elementary schools in 1930 approximately 46,500 white children 2 in 1940 approxi- n: 56.000 white children and 25.000. colored. For the white chil- ry_en in the elementary and junior b &h schools in 1930 there will be needed. therefore. twenty schools of 1.209 children and_ sixteen of 1.600, and’ smaller schools for a total of 900 children: for the colored chi dren, seventeen schools of 1.200 chil- dren, and smaller schools for a total of 1100 children. “By expending an average of a lit- tie'tless than $1,000,000 a year for the next twenty years the city may then ,.be adequately equipped with comparatively new school buildings. §‘No suggestion is made here-in re- gard to a high school building pro- gram. except that all the high school buildings should be built-to’ accom- modate from 1,000 to 2.000 children, and that they should all be cosmo- politan high school: > . . INFANT MORTALITY RATE. One mother died in the United ‘States in 1919 for every 135 babies born, and every eleventh baby born died before it was a year old, accord- idg to a statement today by the chil- dren's bureau of the Department of Labor. - Six_countries, figures made public by the bureau show, have a_lower infant mortality rate than the United States, and sixteen in a- group of peventeen. a lower maternal mortal- ty. | YOUR OLD i o ey + SILK Prices reduced for a limited time future delivery. DAMASK 627FStLNW. --and BEST for use on farms outhouses. In cither the form o essy to apply—and al w‘um. rust, fire and mm; of 930-32 E St. N.W. FURNITURE BY OUR EXPERTS AT LITTLE COST TO . YOU': ‘WORK FINISHED ON SHORT NOTICE oy Your 3-Piece Parlor Suite Upholstered And polished to look -new again at this special low price TERIALS, VELOURS, TAPESTRIES AT LOW PRICES SLIP COVERS MADE TO ORDER Take adv: ® _AND OTHER MATERIALS NoW REDUCED. American Upholstery Phone. Write or Call Man" WIII' Bring Samples YONORE METAL ROOFING is just the :‘n‘n:i terial for covering your ]xgno'r_e Merar JOFING; [ron @klio& Gloe: reserved pew and during the services the two flags hung from opposite sides. of the chancel. Patriotic airs were sung for the occasion, after con- clusion of the _regular Protestant Episcopal service. Text of President’s Speech. The President’s speech follows. “I have always been grateful to my zood friend, Senator Knox, for the service he rendered to the nation as one of its ablest statesmen, but find myself paying the tribute of add- ed gratitude because today, for the second time, he has made it posible for me to come to this shrine of American patriotism, and_join with you in tribute to those who.gave us the heritage of liberty and nation- ality. 1 thought while the rector was speaking how indisgolubly we.are linked with the beginning. Washing- ton came to Valley Forge in the mak- ing of the republic and you made him President because of the things-he did here',l and a century and a third after-- d 1 come. as President, because We share thé heritage he left us and we can join in paying tribute to his service. “It is good to come to this shrine of liberty, not alone to offer willing tribute - to .those .who . perished here, but . to rededicate ourselves to the patriotism which suffered and sacri- ficed here in order that our new standards of_freedom and democracy should abide. Valley Ferge Tested Liberty. Valley . Forge tested the heroic resohition of the new world con- tenders for liberty. -In the crucible of suffering they blended the con- flicting elements of the colonies and revealed the meta] of the republic. “They proved that lofty herolsm is not always tragic, but devel its supreme offering in the dull, pro- longed suffering which glorifies abid. MADE NEW $9 Bl o now held for $1.50. 2 Orders take: age of this of Phone Main 8139 8 | s home, silo, tin or galvanized roofing it i ifetime of protoction aguinst Write for the complete story Main . 890 | d l i xl l by | i ! | i | ! in Pledging World Helpfulness Leaves Valley Forge Early Today After Preaching Stir- ring Patriotic Sermon Sunday in Woodland Pulpit —Thousands Hear Address—Visits Historic Spots. ing faith and unalterable resolution. 6.—| We Americans have wrought so mar- velously and 86 seemingly easily that it brings us ‘to a.new- appreciation tand amid the scenes of the dear- ly puvchased republic.. We need to know the making of an inheritance to qmeasure our own responsibility in ervation. . 0 “I thought as we rode through the park today, yielding our emotlonal reverence to the outwgrd signs of the great memories, indicated by the preservation of the tremches and ‘the American institutions and of hope for | reproduction of the. huts in which the patriots suffered, that if we can find satisfaction in these outward manifestations of their service and sacrifice, how much more important Washington's historic camping ground { it is that we retain for all time the substance of things for which they contended. Our Duty to Fight Injustice.- “I do not mean to say that the order established by Washington and the heroes of Valley Forge is to be held to resist’ the order of human progress. The wonder of it is that they made that order so readily re- sponsive to the mighty development of which they never dreamed. Our supreme task is to preserve the voiee . THE - EVENING fundamentals of our new world lib- | erty and guard against the abuses and injustices which have sought' to ttach themselves to the established order since the world began. The ra- tional ‘wWork of every civilization is to cure without destroying, and guard against the enemies of 1lib- erty which come to us cloaked in pretended helpfulness. Here is the chief difficulty of the world today. In the turbulence and upheaval of world war, when all humanity was distracted ‘and distressed. the van- Just before the address he had at- |9818 Who operate amid calamity have sought to loot suffering civilization. But an America dedicated standards at Valley Forge will hold fast and suffer, if need be, until our inherited institutions are Jjustified and guaranteed anew to this gen- e I we could only bring all America to this shrine, if we could bring those who are the natural inheriters and those who come to share our inheritance, we should effect a realization which would strengthen the American resolution. “I am less impressed by our helpful example to the world in whose firma- ment there are the shining stars of scores of new republics, aglow with lib- erty lighted on these beautiful hills, than I am impressed by liberty’s bestowal on those who came to join us in the Ameri- can achievement. Children Picture Equality. “I had an exceptional and unexpected and most delightful welcome on_ yester- day afternoon. Before we had fairly viewed our surroundings there came romping and rollicking several hundred school childrert from Philadelphia, who had: coms pit to Valley Forge to get youth's impress at this patriotic shrine. They voiced a most delightful welcome. They bestowed the_reverence of inno- cence and unselfishness to one called to authority. 2 “Enthralled as I°was by ‘their chorus of cheer and . cordiality, I found myself riveted to a study of their faces. Per- haps they are all American-born, but their parents came from other lands as ‘well as our own. Among their parents there may have been distinction in em- ployment, in pursults or in soclal status, but you could not distinguish it in these hopeful, rollicking children. They were the budding youths of honest, righteous, Justice-loving democracy, destined to come to radiant bloom in the equality of American_opportunity. is is the heritage. from Valley Forge—equality of opportunity, sus- tained in justice, with maintained au- thority under law and order. This is what made America; it will lead us to, future triumphs. " “I like to say to you—perhaps y6u Like me to say it, because I am-qm. Co il AR, WA ‘ST - Of Cincinnati, who recently set a w at Mineola, and who yesterday met flight before thousands of spectators —————— swerable to you for the policy of the republic; I believe I speak what is in your hearts and in the heart of all America when I say that we ought to have the courage, the ap- preciation, the resolution, the con- science. and the judgment to®main- tain unendangered the inherited foun- dations of the fathers, and, mindful of their suffering our part to humanity in the gcne tions to come. I can think of an ca that can maintain every heritage and yet help humanity throughout the world to reach a lits tle higher plane. Pledged to World Helpfulaess. “But when I pedge our America to world helpfulnes at the same time 1 exact the pledge that America wil cling to her own independence of tion and to her own conscience.. Who can say what tomorrow has for the world? We are only a century and a half from Valley Forge and a centur and a third from the adoption of tie Constitution, and yet I can say with- out boasting that outs is a command- ing position_ in the world today. Th world could’ never scttle its present- day turmoils and complications with- out the helpfulness of American in- fluence and example. Who shall say if we hold the helpfulness of Amer can influence and example? Who shall say if we hold fast,to the tra- ditions of Valley Forge what the tuture shall have in- store? “I want an America of preserved conscience—I want an' America of preserved righteousness — aye, an America clinging-to-the-religious d Votion which has been the anchorag of our civilization. Who shall if we cling to these things what w may accomplish? We are _alread up in the world, but the sun of our natipnal life has not yet fairly ap- proached its meridian. .1t is only morping. in_our national .life. What is a century and a third.in.national iife?- It is only a snap of the finger. Coninecticut Avenue Personality in “Interior Decorations Beautiful _Se!ecte.d“offerings in Furniture, Floor Coverings and Decorations - for'the discriminating;-at-prices-that-compel-interest Conne SHINGTON MISS LAURA BROMWELL y | of them all as loyal Americans with at-:‘Eighteen_tll‘-Strect AR STUNT FATAL TOWOMAN EXPERT Miss Bromwell, Loop Record * Holder, Dies by Fall in Borrowed Plane. FLEW DESPITE 'WARNING D. C, Cincinnati Girl of 23, Noted for Her Daring, Was Advised to Take Up Aviation. By, the Assoclated Press. MINEOLA, N. Y., June 6.— Miss Laura Bromwell, holder of the loop- the-loop record for women, and one of the best known woman pilots in the world was killed at Mitchell Field yesterday afternoon. Miss Bromwell was flying at an al- titude of about 1,000 feet when the accident happened. She had just completed one loop and was about to make a second when something went wrong with the plane and it crashed to the ground. Miss Bromwell, whose home was in Cincinnati, was twenty-three years 1d. She established her loop-the-loop record on May 15 last, when she ex ecuted 199 loops in an hour and twenty minutes. The same afternoon she piloted her airplane over a two- mile straightaway course at the rate of 135 miles an hour. Military Observers® View. Military observers, who nessed the flight, declared that the girl's airplane motor stopped abruptly as she was making the upward turn of the loop. Suddenly the machine fell backward into a tail spin and dropped like a plummet onto a road just outside the field. Miss Bromwell had tested her ma- orld'x loop-the-100p record for women her death’ while giving an exhibition at the same fleld. Army officers said, and had pro- nounced it in good condition. Miss Bromwell's machine Who can imagine in quaffing the cup of rational American optimism what | the future may have in store? “I can well believe that long before of'national life has passed its nmeridian—I can _well believe that, with maintained foundations, the one undred million of today will be the s of the future. I like to think of a bird. the motor stopped and the plane lurched sidewise. It seemed to re- main suspended a minute and thel started its meteoric drop. A dark object flew from’ the ma- chine and many ing that the straps holding the avia- faces to the fron on to achievement, clinging to their | traditions, and joining in a great | swelling chorus: “Glory be to God in | the highest, on earth peace, good will |to men.' * MEMORIAL TO U. S. NURSES WHO DIED IN WORLD WAR Corner Stone Laid in Bordeaux, France, for Nurses’ School, to Be Erected by Americans. By the Associated Press. BORDEAUX, France, June 6.—The corner stone has been laid for the Florence Nightingale School ' for urses, which is to be a memorial to 284 American nurses who died during the world war. The school is to be built with 800,000 francs raised by American nurses. Miss Helen Scott Hay of Havana, I1L. chief American- Red Cross nurse 3 1a2id_the stone for Mi ent of the urses’ A tion, in the presence of a detachment of bluejackets from the | American torpedo boat Childs, Rear Admiral Thomas agruder, representing the American ‘mbapsy :>-American Red Cross. offi- cials, French' authorities and French nurses. marching on and ‘her fall into space, turned their heads. to be a seat cushion, swung_clear of the seat as the plane | star to fall upside down. R. H. Depew, manager of the Cértiss Field here, issued the following state- ment relative to Miss Bromwell's ac- cident: “Miss Bromwell's own plane was out of order. She borrowed a Canadian training plane, a type which. because of Miss Bromwell's small stature, was unsuited to the stunt. “I warned her not to attempt to loop it, but she disregarded the in- structions. In the middle of the sec- ond loop the cushion she sat on fell out, and she evidently sli of reach of the controls and able to right the plane.” Always Had Daring Spirit. CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 6.—Mi Laura Bromwell, i | 1 into the,Ohio river on a wager, comment. Several Cincinnati the loop. common pleas court. cticut . Avenue Affiliated. . Establishments Whese Busineas Standards Are Strengly Enderwed by The Con- meeticut Avenwe Amoctation. Stery & Cebb—Realtors. Underwesd & Underweed—Pho- tographers. ‘Washingten Cadiline Co. Randall H. Hagner & Co ~Real Estate. ' Allsa B. Walker & Co.—Realtors. The John A. OMeurke Comin- terior Decorators. chine before engaging in her stunts, went through the first loop with the grace She had just started a second, when suddenly the hum of|into $1,000,000. trix in her seat had broken, letting shuddered and It later proved which becanfe released when Miss Bromwell was d out | maid al feat . which. caused much newspaper busi- ness men, attracted by Miss Brom- well's daring, prevailed upon her to take up nvxnlon.land v:llhhin a few destroyer | months she had distinguished herself t. P | bocause of her adeptness at looping |val War College, Newport, R. L. ha New Shadow-proof Skirt Baffles Eyes of Male Observers Hpecial Dispateh to The Star. NEW YORK, Jume 6—The X-ray properties of the summer mo matter how sheer the mate- rial may be. One of the larger 5th avemue shops has designed a shadow- proof petticoat especially t bafile the rays of light and the eye of the masculine observer. These mon-diaphanous adjuncts to the toflet are of washable satin in white or flesh color. Scallops or a hemstitched hem finish them at the bottom, and they are sald to assure a amart effect in a practical fashion. PITTSBURGH FIRE LOSS Blaze of Unknown Origin Calls Out Entire Fire Department. No Loss of Life. PITTSBURGH, Pa. June 6.—Fire of unknown origin starting in an office building in the downtown section of Pittsburgh early this morning was brought under control at 3 a. m., after the entire fire department of the city was called to the scene. There was no loss of life reported, but the dam- age was estimated at between $500,000 and $1,000,000. For a time the business district was threatened and firemen wearing gas masks fought their way through smoke and flames to extinguish a blaze in several buildings which menaced nearby storage houses, ware- houses and other office buildings. l sc&ne until an early hour this morn- ing, pouring water into the ruins of the” buildngs until after daylight. Thirty-seven lines of hose were di- rected on the buildings until after daylight. The Briggs Machinery Company and other concerns, including the Fairbanks Scales Company, the Pitts- burgh Office Equipment Company and the New York Wall Paper Company said their losses would total well PLANS FLOWER CARNIVAL. I Fire companies were kept on the| H WALKERINPARK RUNDOWN BY AUTO Lorenzo Brown !;'atally Hurt. Motorist Tries to Avoid Hitting Child. Lorenzo Brown, nineteen years old, Charlottesviiic, Va, on a visit to Frank Barham, 3121 Warder street, was run over by the automobile of Herbert Baumgardner, forty-six years old, 414 10th street southwest, on the roadway in the park near the burcau of engraving and printing about 11:30 o'clock yesterday morning, and so NEAR MILLION DOLLARS badly injured that he died at Emer- {gency Hospital shortly after noon. Baumgardner was. charged with manslaughter and released on bond of 33,000 for his appearan Brown and B. P. Lewis, a companion, came hers on an excursion from Charlottesville to spend the day with Barham, and the three young men were walking arm in arm when the accdient bap- pened. It appears that a little child ran from her mothér and was in the path of Baumgardner’s automobile, and the motorist, in an effort to prevent striking the child, made a quick turn he direction of the young men s and Barham managed to jump to the side of the roadway and escape the machine, but Brown, who was in the middle, was not fortunate enough to get out of its way. At an inquest at the District morgue today a coroner’s jury held Baumgard- ner for the action of the grand jury. Hurt When Auto Overturas. Four persons were in an automobile that turned over on the road about {two miles this side of Marlbors, Md., last night about 11:45 o'clock, the accident happening on a curve, it is reported, about the time one of the {occupants called the attention of ! Joseph Naily, driver, to something. None of the quartet was -danger- ously hurt, it was said at the Emer- gency Hospital, where they were taken. Their names and addresses i were registered as Joseph ‘F. Nall 507 5th sireet northeast; Leroy Ne son, 1651 4th street; Elsie Clark, 700 C street northeast and Ella Wassman, 414 11th street northeast. Nally was the only one detained at the hospital after first aid was given. spectators, think-|Roosevelt Memorial Association to Boost Building Fund. A business meeting of the Georgia Division, Roosevelt Memorial Asso- be held tomorrows night at 8:30 o'clock at Chateau Bonaparte, 1627 K street. Arrangements will be per- fected for the June flower carnival, which is being arranged in the in- terest of the Bulloch Hall building fund. At this carnival the prettiest will be crowned queen of the car- nival. She will be attended by twen- ty maids from Georgia. The presi- dents of the various state societies here have been asked to designate twenty of the prettiest girls from their respective states to serve as to the queen. The District Com- missioners have been asked to desig- nate twenty pretty girls of this city. Mizs Ina Emery will be in charge of the carnival. COMMANDER IS ASSIGNED. Lieut. Commander Joseph Y. Drei- sonstok at the Naval Academy, An- napolis. has been assigned to duty with the naval examining board, avy Department. NEW IDAHO'S COMMANDER. Capt. Joel R. P. Pringle, at the who was _killed Wwhen her airplane fell at Mineola. was well known in Cincinnati. Always of an adventurous disposition, she once dived oft the chief suspension bridge a- been assigned to the eommand of the Miss Bromwell was a cousin of battleship Idaho. Jacob Bromwell, former judge of the 4 ‘The summer dus can be quickly re: effectiveness with —than comes, annual D of a H First House Paints, " Porch Paints, . Roof Piints, Screen Paints, Wall Finishes —but it tonians. fiation for the District of Columbia, | Georgia girl, chosen by popular vote, | TRUNKS MADE TO ORDER CALL FRANKLIN 4856 TRUNKS AND SUIT CASES Broken Trunks Repaired TOPHAM'S, 80 L St. NE. (Formerly James S. 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Leroy Brooks, three years old, 5618 Colorado avenue, was knocked down by an automobile in front of his home last night about 8 o'clock, and his face bruised. He was givem@rst ald at Wal- ter Reed Hospital. John E. Brown. ten years old, 3504 T street, received injuries to his lip and right knee last night when a small wagon in which he was riding was struck by a street car on 34th street near his home. He received first ald at Georgetown University Hospital. William Talbert, four vears old, 3245 P street, was knocked down by an au- ttomobile near 35th and R streets ves- terday afternoor, and his head slightly cut. Physiciang at Georgetown Uni- i versity Hospital renggred first aid. 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