Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1921, Page 4

CHRISTMAS APPEA - FOR D. G. CHILDREN Aiding of Juvenile Protective Association Declared to Be Useful Gift. If you want to make a useful Christ- mas gift this year, a gift which will not only benefit the children of Washington but will eventually raise the city to an envious height in education and in- dustry, and which will accomplish some- thing of equal importance, If not more so—the elimination of crimes and crim- inals—your money in the “inds of the Juvenile Protective Associat.on will go a long way toward accomplishing these aims. Mrs. Edna Bushee, executive secretary of the association, has issued an appeal for $8.000 with which to continue work next year. The annual roll call of members has already brougit in § according to Mrs. Bushee, and every ef- fort is being made to compiete the de- sired fund in the next two weeks, so that the office can return to its proper duty “which is social service and not money- raising.” Many Children Alded. The big brother and sister work is one of the association's largest ac- tivities. In introducing this mov ment to Washington the association made it possible to help children who were in danger of being brought be- fore Juvenile Court as delinquents. Children who have been before the court are prevented from committing further offenses through the work and interest of some big brother or sister. The guiding rule of the association is “that the inefficient or criminal adult grows out of the neglected or delinquent child, and that it is far cheaper for the community to correct the child than to punish the crimi- nal” This rule is carried out to a large degree by making the commu- nity a good place to grow up in, with sufficient wholesome recreation to keep children out of mischief. Summary of Work. W. D. Bigelow, chairman of the committee on Big Brothers and Sisters, sums up the work ¢ rried on this committee as follows These men and women are all vol- unteers. They receive their instruc tions from an experienced social worker, who know from a vast num- ber of cases what should be done for different problems. M times the parents themselves have asked our help in caring for children in the dif- ficult teens. The boys may have started playing with a gang which causes a xreat deal of trouble in the neighborhood. The girls of high school age may have become head- strong and insist on continuous late hours at the movies or dance halls. The Big Brother or Sister is alwa; an attractive person, whom the children like to imitate. They are easily interested in other kinds of recreation which failed to attract their attention because they were not advertised in electric lights. Win Confidence. Sometimes the children are re- ported by their teachers as sullen or dishonest or difficult to control. The Big Brother or Sister wins the con- fidence of the mother, who is tired herself from overwork and the dif- ficulty of managing her children. Fre- quently some physical defect causes the unruliness, and the Big Brother sees that the child or the mother at- tends a_clinic. 1f improper food is one trouble the Big Brother or S arranges for help from the v housekeeper of the Associated Chari- ties. In fact, the Big Brothers and Sisters become the friends of the fam- ily, and help in every way but the giving of money to remedy the causes of trouble. And they are the most royally welcomed friends that you could imagine. DATES FOR MAILING CHRISTMAS CARDS Postmaster Chance Desig- nates December 11 to 17 for Local Postal Greetings. Postmaster Chance today designated December 11 to 17 as “Christmas card week,” during which time residents of the National Capital will be asked to put into the mails their Christmas greeting cards for local delivery. All such cards mailed will be leased” for delivery December cording to the plans adopted by the local city postmaster and superin- tendents of the Washington city post office, at a meeting held today. The man city post office and vari- ous branch post offices throughout the city will be designated by Postmaster Chance as places where sucn greeting cards, for local delivery only, may be deposited, with the understanding that they will be held by the post office for delivery December 22 Concentrated at Main Ofice. Such cards will be concentrated at the main office, postmarked, distrib- uted and routed to the various car- riers before the peak of the Christ- mas rush arrives. Mr. Chance is will- ing to kive assurance to patrons that -if they will comply with the idea as outlined there will be no danger of cards being prematurely delivered or delivered late. “Christmas card week” will mark the first time this plan has ever been triea out in the postal history of Washington. Postmaster Chance de- sires that the cards to be malled un- der his plan be restricted to those for local delivery only. He is of the opin- fou that If there 1S a proper response from patrons to his suggestion that it may be practicable next year to apply the same idea to Christmas parcels for local delivery. Over Million Cards Mailed. It is estimated that last year more than 1,000,000 Christmas cards were mailed here. These included cards in envelopes and the old-fashioned postal cards. Thése were deposited in rireet letter boxes, and became mixed with the regular letter and package mail, resulting in congestion of the mails Bt the city post office a few days prior to Christmas. s the practice of exchanging Christmas greeting cards appears to be rapidly growin Postmaster Chance declared, “the problem of their handling becomes more difficult. It is for this reason that I have de- cided to try out the plan, which I hope will solve the problem.” Announcement will be made shortly as to the proper postal branches at which cards may be mailed under the Telease” plan. . WILL NAME OFFICERS. George Washington Legion Post to Make Nomination. Officers for the coming year will be nominated at the meeting of George ‘Washington Post, No. 1, pioneer post of the American Legion, Wednesday night at § o'clock, in the boardroom of the District blulding. Election of officers will be held at the first meet- ing in January. e election of delegates and alter- netes to the department convention, to be held Monday, December 19, at G. A. R. Hall, 1412 Pennsylvania ave- nus, will also be held at the Wednes- day night meeting. The election of i ntal officers for 1923 will be at the convention. Mr 2,000 Fold Increase In Petrograd Rents Is Decreed by Soviet REVAL, Esthounia, November nts who wax angry when landiords add 135 or 20 per cent to th apartment remts have lens eause for com- piah xrad. By efieiul deeree, aceord- ing to a_radic dixpatch from Moncow, Petrograd remts have been imereaned by 2,000 times t paid on October 1. to luxt summer mo pald under the "Thin sum, in American money, represented about 2 ecemts monthly, hut wax, perhaps, one- fifth of the tenant come. The raise in rents was taneous witl in: of a new creaxed wnges, wome pers having their salaries increased by as much asx 300 or 1,000 times. ROGRAN OUTLINED FOR HEALTH WEEK Ailments of Children to Be Basis for Arguments in Campaign. imul rati or diseased; that they have bad teeth, infected tonsils, spinal curvature, weak hearts and various other ail- ments, will be used next week, which has been designated as “Health week” by the National Health Council in co-operation with the Rotary clubs. Five million school children of the United States are said to be suffering from malnutrition. The school chil- dren of the District of Columbia un- tortunately are no exeception. This has been shown, the Washington Tu- berculosis Association points out, by two weighing and measuring Lests, which showed 30 per cent of the pu- s of the graded schools of the Dis- to be 10 per cent or more unde: weight. This means that they are retarded a year in body growth. ded. In an effort to meet this serious situation the Tuberculosis Associa- tion last year provided two nutrition workers to assist Dr. Joseph A. Mur- phy, chief medical inspector, and hi staff of school doctors and nurses in the conduct of six nutrition clinics. These clinics were so successful and aroused so much interest both on the part of teachers and parents that it proposed to double their number after the holidays. The Tuberculosis Association is pre- pared to furnish again two nutrition workers for this purpose and to add to this staff if the proceeds of the Christmas seal sale enable it to do so. In this connection, the association has just issued a new health record card’in three colors, on which to re- cord each month the weight of the children of the nutrition classes. Each Color Significant. Each of the three separate colors has a significance all its own. Chil- dren found to be of normal weight for their height and age are given a white card. Children who are from 3 to 6 per cent underwelght receive a blue card. All those 7 per cent or more underweight are given: a red. card. It is the latter group of children that is found to be seriously retarded in body growth. On the reverse side of the card are printed measures to be followed in or- der to gain correct health and weight. FOREIGN CAPITAL URGED FOR DEVELOPING RUSSIA Baron Korff Stipulates, However, Money Should Come From Eng- land or America. Need for foreign capital to exploit the vast resources of Russia is imperative, but the capital desired is either English or American because “it is less danger- ous,” declared Baron Serge A. Korff, former governor general of Finland, after the Russian revolution, at the public lecture in the New National Mu- seum last night, held under the auspices of the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. & “Inside capital cannot exploit the ratural resources,” said Baron Korff. Should America or England fail to in- Vest in Russia, the way would be open for German or other foreign capit: whose _influences ‘““would mean _th strengthening of the ideals that we were ialways fighting against.” If this aid does not come soon, he continued, the entire country of Russia possibly will be subject to disintegration, and the result, of course, will be worse than the fate that has guided Russia since the revolution. Referring to the vast amount and number of loans made Russia by France, Baron Korff stated the total amount due the French government through government loans, private investments, private capital and pri- | vate enterprises amounted to 4,658.- 000,000 francs. Add to this the amounts loaned by Great Britain and other countries, the total debt would reach 10,000.000,000 francs. Recently the bolsheviki, continued the baron, an- ! nounced their willingness to pay the state debts contracted, but mnot the private loans or those secured dur- ing the war. In view of this attitude, he said, | the French government has under- taken to pay the private investors and now is paying them, not in cash, but in goods and commodities. But difficulties hindering the pay- ment of the debts by the bolsheviki have arisen, Baron Korff said The loss to Russia of her slevic provinces, such as Esthonia, Latvia, Bessarabia and parts of Poland, all of which possess great natural resources and which could aid largely in cancel- ing the debt, must be considered, he said. The method of government under the bolsheviki is another handicap. About the only plan to consider, the baron said, is to apportion the debt among the Russians living in these provinces. Under this scheme Poland could assume about 11 per cent of the total debts, Latvia and Esthonia, 2 per cent; Bessarabia, 1 per cent, and other former subject nations proportionate amounts. Russia has virtually nothing to ex- port, the baron said, this having been seen by the results following the re- sumption of trade relations with Eng- land, What little goes out of Russia, continued Baro Korff, falls into the hands of Sweden, Norway and Den- mark. —_— AD CLUB TO HEAR EDITOR. Louis Wiley of New York Times to Address Meeting. Louls Wiley, managing editor of the New York Times, will be the principal speaker at the biggest meeting of the year of the Advertising Club of Wash- ington, which will be held Tuesday on the roof of the Washington Hotel. A special feature of the meeting will be the initiation of new members, which formality will be carried out by the drill team of the Kiwanis Club. Among the prominent guests will be: Lord Riddell of the British arms dele- gation, M. Philippe Bunau Varilla of the Prench delegation, M. Stephane, Lau- vanne, editor of Le Temps of Paris, and Will H. Hays, Postmaster General, Arguments that fully one-third of | LEFT TO RIGHT, ADULTS, DR. G. H. HEITMILLER, DR. JOSEPH A. MURPHY, CHIEF MEDICAL INSPECTOR OF THE SCHOOLS, AND MISS BERTHA the Washington school children are WALIDR, SCMOOLINURSE Wil eCdelivered by "Bianor Bawing |t 1t b A T iy undernourished, physically defective H. Hughes, Attorney General Daugh- Chairm erty, Bishop Luther B. Wilkon, former Ing Boarn tes that the EX-BOOKKEEPER CHARGED N. A. Yeager Accused of Taking ‘“ Would Clothe Police In Coats of Armor While on Riot Duty LOS ANGELES, December 3.— Recommendation that Los Angeles policemen wear coats ©of armor when amswering riot calls or seeking for desperate criminals hay been m: Capt. R. Lee Heath- police divisio “These coats or pretectors are made of special steel PRESIDENT T0 ASK SHIP SUBSIDY PLAN Recommendation Will Be Made to Congress in Spe- cial Message in January. Establishment of a ship subsidy policy by the United States as a means of aiding the merchant marine and the ship building industries of this coun= try will be recommended in a special message President Harding will send to Congress ecarly in January _Although therc have been Intimations recently 1o this™ effect, it has only lately become known as a fact at the White House. The message will contain definite recommendations and will take up the entire subject of the American wald. “The protectors should be fssued to members of the fiying squadron.” HAYNES WILL SPEAK 10 DRY ADVOCATES Prohibition Commissioner merchant marine and methods of in- 3 2 creasing its utility and i Listed for Mass Meeting of |irmmtder 2t 4hi 5orins, 10 Ject is now being made preparatory to the drafting of the legislation 2 Ship Officials Give Afd. Chairman Lasker of Shipping Board and other offic it cerned with the marine n Anti-Saloon Workers. Prohibition Commissioner Haynes will be the principal speaker at the mass meeting of the Anti-Saloon|SEvned with the marine League, to be held here tomorrow [the details of subsidy proposs at the Church of the Covenant in|&MOuRt of money necessary, it was said, has not yet becn determi One of connection with the Workers' Confer- ence, which closed its general sessions last night at the First Congregational Church. The meeting of the board of di- rectors of the league will be held Mo day afternoon and Tuesday the twen- tieth national convention of the or- ganization will open. Convention Spenke: the obstacles toward perfere ment of American vessels by th ernment lies in a of trea gotiated with time nations ithough the e srm Congress that enforce that pro- it vision of the is Shipping is study of ship subsid subjects under investig ing_a special Among the tion Ly a spe- Prohibition Commissioner Kramer and several senators and representatives. “BOY FROM PONAPE” IS FOUND SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT “COMICS” o The convention will close next| s, AFTER 15 YEARS IN AMERICA STYLED AFTER MAYA HIEROGLYPHS |rhursasy”night.” when witiiam Ten- | 08 TInI G 0 e board are »iie: nings Bryan is scheduled to deliver | DIIE TOULes, types of vesscls, revenue, an address entitled “They Shall Not |yms€s Amimnligration. operation, inxur- Found: Amons 10708771 rest- Mugazine received the following Sunday supplement “com: in locating some of the verdure- | P45 0 1 Cherrington, seoretary of | PEAHINE Of enci: upo: Jierehnate e ents o e Unite States, e :: " v v i cove: e ive S £ 3 y absidy, donts e Unite tal s, the T e P with words issuing from the | covered monuments o |the executive committee of the Anti- method of applying a subsidy. oy from Ponape,” o meri- your December magazine. 1t is of mouths of the figures are follow- iiiithe vaar 1000 m};“rdi” o Mr | Saloon League and also secretary of Board Appointed. can from that tiny island of the | special interest to me because I | ing a pattern set by the hieroglyphs Morley. but instend of watching | the World League Against Alcohol”| The hoara apr oed by B K aroliiie ; am: Uriel adley, ‘a Ponape boy’ y ‘ i - e el sm, ye: ay told the conference boats appointed by Mr. Lo “In the December issue of the N o o T ge Bati 1 Jert | Of the Mave empire mostremarke | Shmas OLRLes o N er oF prestats || pLiL e Jgonpel of prohibition” must to subsidy stndy tional Geographic Magazine Junius Ponape fifteen years ago next Jan- A N b s a5y 1 aslcet ball Rubber e era | be carried to the entire world. 2 Johnson, dean o BxaWocdizelates Nowonia stosrljustyiml thethe as e I e e e ord. | batted with wrists, elbows and “Dry World” Next, Great Step. | tylvania: Winthron 1. Atk of Yan and othier Dacifc Jelongs | MInanIon ot henrd from suyines, | D& toSvivenus Merley, siuiling of || bips fu She elfort Mo BR them | While every effort should be made | president of the Amer oA A L L L L e e "o Beginnoni "ot "the | American antiquities,' who ad. | (hroush u stone ring high on the |in Americs to aid enforcement.he | Quners Association by A native awhe inquired about a | world war. Have sent registered iressed members of the National face of a-wall” The feat 5o |said, the nert great siep should be |H. H. Roussean and Clar ormed. as o- 2 anizations in | formerly of the Shipping B the New Masonic Temple. In the period from the beginning of the Christian era to the arrival of Cortez the Mayas built a series of great cities with temples, pyra- mids, and massive buildings, but thexe are now covered by other countries was suggested as 3 logical means for carrying out oy e plan. Several messages from India, where William E. (“Pussgyfoot”) Johnson has made a “tremendous success,’ ing to reports, were read to the work Grovenor M. Jones Department of Com Burtax p i revenue law inj | of 50 per cent on {to he the su nt Hardir but have never heard from them. I enlisted in the United States Army at the opening of the war and served until its close. My peo- ple may think I ‘went west.'"” Information from Franklin, Ind., is that Uriel Hadley now is a suc- tators were supposed to strip off their clothes and jewels and throw them to the successful player. The Mayas were the mathe- v :al prodigies among the peo ples of the world. Their records nted the con- United States. native sai “There memory of m face fell in disappointment,” Wood wrote. “He could not under- stand that anybody could live in ne boy Th the existing m levies expected in br are dense N e Aot Know the ‘hoy | cessful photographer there. The | jungle. Collectors of chicle to sup- | khow thut they in - o e Amercd cesstul DhotoETapher Hhere T | iy the big Amcrican demand for | cept of zero 500 years before the |ers by Ki Rev, James Cannon ir. | Congre et O EOnRLe w days ago the | America wan Rev. Thomas Gray, | chewing gum have played an im- | Hindus and 1000 years before it of Birmingham, Ala. The mecting or- | Preside D asenber b editor of the National Geographic | now a minister at Franklin. [ e e e Storicy fcelared, | came into use in western Europe. | dered the following message went 10 |the act strongly recommended ot r. ohuson. 2 » - . z “Fatlow ISANE Workers @iet i | 50 por conh o ik b Il nspector approved plans for seventy | pray for you. Assure people of India Hieme e covered that the accounts of several depositors had been juggled, accord- WITH EMBEZZLEMENT | " to the police. One woman de- | positor repogted a shortage of $850, | while the account of the late Moses Sinsheimer showed checks charged against his account purporting to have been given after his death. D. C. BUILDING ACTIVITY SHOWS BIG INCREASE we ‘ask them to join in the glorious task of liberating whole world from slavery to alcoholie traffic. A resolution by which the league would request the American govern- ! ment to ausk Great Britain to stop liquor trafic between the Bahamas and coust cities of this k and seventy-one frame dwell- gs. November a year ago the de- rtment authorized only ten brick nd ten frame dwellings. Last month permils were taken out | for six apartment houses represent ing an investment of $746,000. Las vear during Tarif May Be Dixcussed. Tariff matters, it is reiterated be expected to occupy @ promit place in the communic In con- rection with this subject one recom- mendation which has bheen forecast would ask that the President be glven i [ i P 1 tion Inspector Healy Reports Construc- ovember no apartmer $1,150 of Funds of Second | “le s ;;!h(l{‘rtrlixrl‘gfll‘“\"(“l.;‘:“ gave tion Permits for November Rep- |’ . "ciarte ferred to the convention of the|Jimeret; 1 b National Bank. | were n;[unrlerl he charged them to the resent $2,328,127 in Value. !n"l("hvm‘.‘n:_un(al, ":ln‘x:‘h L:»‘f:mn in all it ::eohl'u“o;\wé.gm‘:;n:(dmg the work | Amerion valuat basis to meet accounts of various depositors. Ask- P new subi sections « S Jlong specif wport situations which re- Charged with of | e What he did with the money, In- | There is far more building activity | Fistriet, Jed &l viner scciong, O e warutes ‘was adoptad "8 quired special treatme funds of the Second cetor Grant stuted, his response |in Washington this winter than there i ytheg e e e e e lonned while employed there as bookkeeper, o | was a vear ago, according to the| Repairs to buildings authorized last| DATA QN FOREIGN MONEY. could best b e lAret Be utnn id he did not have one dollar of the left. zer appaared in Police Court to- . He entered a plea of not guilty test this izing the g in the use duties The Ph 43. latest report of Building Inspector | month amounted to Healy, sent to the Commissioners GOMEZ IS IMPROVED. today. The report shows that permits is- twenty-four | mone i a v | me! Patrons of the foreign money order of affixing offices may get Information daily as to the fluctuations of foreign ex changes under arrangements made by Neil Anderson Yeager, years old, w: afternoon by Detectiv: Kelly. The young man, who resides th Wood-Fo ppines probabl report will be referred on at 31 Mount Pleasant street, is said 1 IbMount7E Koot s or the action of the grand jury. He|_ A ) - CARACAS, Venezuela, December 3. to have admitted to Inspectar Grant | (e o $2,000 bond for his ap- | ued during November represent an| =WUEAG Tenetnes, VEOHINT B0 the Post Office Department. Informa-|to by President Harding, but it is said and th es that he ob- | Learance. outl; of $ 127. Records show !Jt S - sident-clect of | 1on will be telegraphed to post offices{he will not nforce its recommenda- funds. | {that during November of 1920 per-|Venczuela, whose convalescence from ajthroughout the country. The new |tion at this time with the specific re- tained $1, : Congress modif, 0w posses nt legis procedure will enable the department ¥ th 1o make changes in conversion rates within two da quest tha lative powers Ph cove: only $466,145 were |serious illness was halted last week by pneumonia, is improved. He expects to leave soon for Puerto Cabell | mits aggregatin The best fossils of the dinosaurs are | issued found in America and Belgium. During the month Jjust HURLEY MOTOR CO. 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