Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1921, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1921. ADDRESSES HER PARCEL CAREFULLY AND TIES UP ADDRESS INSIDE Address your parcels correctly. Just how easy it is to misaddress them, or leave the address off en- tirely, is seen in the experience of a local woman, who says: “This is too good not to be told. She prepared that parcel care- fully. She put her full name and address inside the box, in case the wrapper should come off. Then she wrapped it carefully and tied it stoutly. Then she put her name and address in the upper left- hand corner—but forgot to put the name and address of the person to whom' she was sending it! e put the parcel in the box at 10:30 a.m. At 3 o'clock that after- noon there it was back in her hall again, with canceled stamps. The parcel had wasted the time and energy of all who had handled it, and had got nowhere. Be careful! —_— XMAS HOLIDAYS GIFT. Schools Close Thursday Until Morn- ing of January 2. ‘Washington’s 64,000 public school children were given their annual Christmas present today by school REPORTS AWAITED IN BOMBING PLOT Burns Expects to Find Com- plete Details on Return Here Today. LINDENFELD RIDICULED New York Radicals Declare “He Knows No More About Explo- " sion Than Burns.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 20.—De- tailed reports from Silvester Cos- grove, who late last week arrested in Warsaw, Poland, Wolfe Lindenfeld. alleged to have been involved in the Wall street bomb explosion of Sep- 99 ey P ites De- s tember., tu_to.J ware :f\l‘_‘fl:;f n‘i’;» to_ |authorities in the form of an order partment of Jusi clals here 10 g ranting them an el -day holi day. William J. Burns, head of the [% L ele¥en-day, holiday. The order stipulated that the schools will be closed from Thursday after- tiden until the morning of January department’s bureau of investigation, who came here several days ago to onsult subordinates regarding the reported confession of Lindenfeld planned to leave during the day fol where he hoped Cos- Brove's ed account of the arrest and confession would be ready for Usually the school children are granted a ten-day holiday at Yuletide. This year, however., the board of edu- cation agreed to allow the teachers and children an extra day to pre- his attention. o pare for Chgistmas and ordered that , Mr. Burns was of #he opinion that, ¢y cehools bu closed Friday Cosgrove had sent a lengthy report; and that the delay in receiving it ! COAL PRJCE S i, due to the work of decoding the ¢ Another Cut Made in Contract Lots biegram. He indicated the bureau of investigation would make no an- of Standard New River. Reduction in price of contract lots nouncement of its plans until it had arrested all the bomb plot suspec still in the United States. dence in the possession of the bureau will probably be turned over to the police H of various . who will be asked|of standard New River coal from to place under detention the persons | $ to $7.75 per gross ton was wanted. announced today by J. Maury Dove| Radical circles of New York were| Company. still_ridiculing the revelations made| Last April this coal was selling at by Lindenfeld. after arrest in|$9 a ton. It dropped to $8.75 a few Warsaw. Some asserted he “knew no | months later, and during the early nor explosion than | fall a price $8.25 a ton s fixed, Burns. others declared Lin- | which held until this latest reduction. denfeld had hoaxed the detectives whoi No reduction is looked for in had arrested him. Reports from War- [ anthracit saw caused the leading spirits in the radical to be held herel next Saturday consider cancella- | formation in his hands, that Linden- | tion of the call for the meeting. butlfeld became an active communist and it was said today the gathering|did not communicate with Mr. Burns would be held. Il for fear that his activities here ing of an American branch of the|would be detected. Mr. Burns. it is *hird communist internationale are to e discussed at the convention, it was said. BELIEVE FACTS WITHHELD. believed here, suspected Lindenfeld if “double-crossing” the investigat- iors of the bomb plot, and sent Silves- ter Cosgrove to Europe to ascertain his whereabouts. Then began the I match of wits lasting - for months, vhich ended in Lindenfeld's arrest ere at the request of Cosgrove. So many conflicting statements have been made on all sides of the Lin- | denfeld case that certain pointscan- not be straightened out until ad- Polish Police Declare Lindenfeld |5 Has Not Told All By the Associated Press. WARSAW. December 20.—The Po- ght 1 lish police believe that Woife Linden- i e num A6 Mol o s hiding much of what he really | gtantly refreshing his memory and garding the Wall street ex- plosion of September, 1920, in connec- tion with which he was arrested here at the instance of the United States Department of Justice, and continue questioning him. Lindenfeld. who was also known as William Linde, declares the com- munists have planned a revolution in Poland for early mext year. but has asked the authorities not to ascribe the statement to him. His assertion that he knows M. Chitcherin, the soviet foreign minister. and has talked With him in Moscow is doubted here. According to Dr. Stanislas Gutkow- <Ki, chief of the Polish political po- lice, Lindenfeld's formal statement recites the details of his employment by William J. Burns, before the lat ter’s appointment as head of the bu- reau of investigatioh of the United State Department of Justice. Mr. amending his statéments, and (hei Polish police say that in several in- stances he has admitted making mis- statements. = The charge upon which he is being held by the Poles is that of being a communist propagandist | and a suspected spy. REPORT NOT YET HERE. report of Sylvester Cosgrove, Justice Department agent, who ar- rested Wolf Lindenfeld, at Warsaw, in_connection with the Wall street bomb explogion, was still awaited to- day at the Department of Justice. ‘Officials expressed surprise that the cabled report from Cosgrove had not | yet been received and declared that | every effort was being made to ob- | tain a reply to the department's in- | quiries cabled to Warsaw through the State Department. Word from Tk {ernment service, and especially in his | government?* Geodetic Employes Suffer From Inadequate Salaries Director Jones Tells of Expert Who Prepares Meals at Home So Wife Can Also Work— Makes Annual Report. One of the technical men of the construction and production of nauti- coast and geodetic survey has been compelled, on account of low salaries, to prepare his and his children's sup- per each night while his wife works in order to meet the needs of the fam- ily, and prepare his and the children’s breakfast, and put up his own lunch, while his wife rests for the night's work again. This instance is cited by Col. E. Lester Jones, director of the survey, in his annual report to the Secretary of Commerce, made public today, as pointing to the crying need of re- classification of salaries in the gov- bureau. s Salaries “Deplorable.” t it deplorable, and would it be ed anywhere outside of the asks the director. “There are many more such cases. How long must this go on?" pressing the belief that both the rnment and employes would be ners from the early adoption of irher salaries, Col. Jones says: “Under such conditions neither the Bovernment nor the outside employer can have the services of a vigorous, wide-awake, self-reliant worker, but must put up with.a man whose energy has been partly spent, and a continuance of this pragtice for a cer- | tain period results inevitably in the run-down, overworked, nervous and irritable or dejected employe. It would be far more profitable for the government to pay a higher salary and obtain the best efforts of the em- ployes for a more productive day. “L» cannot emphasize too strongly that unless this fundamental trouble is soon corrected a disintegration of the service will continue, with dls-| astrous results of which the govern- ment and the public will feel the ef- fect for yvears to come. The question is, will the pledge given some years ago. continually repeated and as often postponed, with the usual excuses, he kept now with the men who are the backbone of our federal institutions | or will the unredeemed promises con- tinue to prevail? Actual Conditions Related. “l have given you the above facts frankly, without obscuring the actual conditions, just as a manager would submit them to the head of a large business concern. “In this bureau we are endeavoring to give the public a salable article, but with these handicaps the output! is produced under unnece: ry dif-] ficulties which mean delay and| waste.” The director of the bureau cites the need for a new building to house the Washington oflice and chart-printing | plart of the bureau. Quoting from | the report: “The bureau is operating in eight buildings, five larger and three small- er, all but two more or less detached, and connected as far as is feasible by communicating bridge: Two of the main buildings were designed and| built for dwellings and one of them was used for that purpose. One of the smaller buildings was built for and used as a stable. and another two of the main buildings were designed and constructed for use as a hotel and were rented to the government for the use of this bureau from 1871 to 1891, when they were sold to the gov- ernment to house part of this bu- reau. “As its work centers largely in the 1all conce: cal charts and it is therefore & manu- factory, the bureau operates under a signal handicap in buildings so little suited to its needs. It is a matter of economy to provide a respectable building for this service—it is waste to continue under existing condi- tions.” : The director also points out the need of more extended current obser- vations, to the lack of which is at- tributed the loss of many vessels and lives. CONSIDER UNITED HEALTH EFFORTS Co-ordination of child health ac- tivities in the District and through- out the nation was considered by speakers at a meeting of the Monday Evening Club held in the auditorium of the Cosmos Club last night. Dr. Richard A. Bolt, general direc- tor of the American Child Hygiene Association, and Courtenay Dinwid- die, executive of the National Child Health Council, told of the efforts which are being made toward na- tional co-ordination of the work of various organizations dealing with the health of children. It was the consensus of opinion of the speakers that although gaps in the work of various organizations exist, and some of the activities over- lap, the problem is being met with great spirit, and is in a fair way of being solved shortly, so that all or- ganizations may work together for the good of the children of America. Troubled by Lack of Uniom. Local organizations have been trou- bled by the lack of national co-ordi- tion of such wosk, it was declared. but the various organizations have gotten together with great benefit to red. Prevention of diseases hildhood was mentioned as an important step in which societies are engaged at the present time. The health education of children is an- other. The child health demonstra- tion being conducted at Mansfield, Ohio, was outlined. Mrs. Whitman Cross, former presi- dent of the Council of Social Agen- cies. told of the work being done by the council toward local co-ordination, in the course of the general discus- sion whiich followed. Dr. Joseph Murphy, medical examiner in the Dis- trict schools, declared that only 2 per cent of the girls graduated from a normal school recently were in per- fect physical condition. Dr. George M. Kober told of the strides made in recent vears in lowering the infant mortality death rate. Dr. Joseph S. Wall, director of the American Child Hyglene Assoctation, bresided. after being introduced by Arthur D. Call, president of the Mon- day Evening Club. Mrs. Walter S. Uf- ord, chairman ‘of membership, pre- ented a list of new members, who cere elected, as follows: Mrs. Ella G. s Isabelle M. Buckey, Regina Dillon, Miss Gertrude H. Bowling, Miss Margaret Hutchin- son, Miss Rose J. McHugh, Dr. Larkin W. Glazebrook and Mrs. L. P. Shidy. in early 07z MOVIES FOR CHILDREN. : Juvenile Show to Be Given at Ma- sonic Temple. Officers of the public schools weré directed today by Supt. Frank W. Ballou to call attention of the chil- bridge to a point near the District line. The assoclation went on record as favoring_the naming of a new school in Fast Washington either the Thomas W. Smith or Richard Kingsman building., Both men were residents of East Washington many years and were, identified with its development. Dr. Kingsman was a member of the board of education. crowded houses, he declared, should be stopped. Recently he was called to a house, where a family resided in two rooms, which were 8o crowded s to make the conditions insanitary, he said, and the occupants said they pajd $46 for the rooms, while the entire building, a ten-room struc- ture, rented for $50. New Bridge Urged. PAY OF D. C. TEACHERS HAS BEEN INCREASED Correction of Statement Made at Citizens’ Association Meeting. Clarence F. Donohoe and Dr. Em- dren to the juvenile motion plcturs ons urged an early start in the 2 - To thie Bditor of The Star: e attion of & néw bridge over| PAGEANT DATES CHANGED. |show to be given during the week be ginning December 26 in the audi- torium of the new Masonic Temple by the District Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Assoclations for the benefit of the school playgrounds. Thousands of tickets for the show already have been sold by the chil- dren in a ticket-selling contest con= ducted by the association. Saturday's Star carries a report of the meeting of the Central Citizens' Association, in which it is stated that “President Thomas J. Donovan de- clared that Washington school teach- ers had received no substantial in- crease in salary for years.” This state- ment 18 Incorrect and does a substan- tlal injustice to Congress and the Dis- trict. : School teachers have recelved an in- crease in salaries within three years of an average of 65 per cent, ranging from 140 per cent increase in class 1 to 26 per cent in class 6, besides the bonus of $240 a year. A teacher M class 1 who received $500 in 1918, in 1921 received $1,440; class 2, in 1918, $600; in 1921, $1,440; class 3, in 1918, $650; in 1921, $1,440; high school, in 1918, $1,000; in 1912, $1,640. and 80 on through the Anacostia river, suggesting that Con- gress be asked to make an appro- priation for a preliminary survey, Dr. Emmons said he thought a mer- ger of the street car lines would be effected by the time the bridge is under way and that no trouble will be encountered in the matter of having the line extended across the “The Word and the Way,” Bible pageant, announced in Saturday’s Star to be held Tuesday and Wednes- day evenings at Luther Place Me- morial Church, will be given Wednes- day and Thursday evenings. There will be no performance tonight. various classes. The policemen have received an av- erage increase in three years of 36 per cent. The firemen have averaged 40 per cent fn salary increases and | also the platoon system, cutting their hours of service in half. What the speaker had in his mind was evidently the situation of the statutory em- ployes of the District. In 1874 the meager wages of this “lost battalion” of District employes was cut 20 per cent. Not only has this never been re- stored, but no increase has been granted from that day to this. ‘WILLIAM McK. CLAYTON. HOME INSTRUGTION FOR TUBERCULAR Dr. Emmons Asks East Washington Citizens’ Asso- ciation to Support Plan. Dr. Charles M. Emmons, president of East Washington Citizens’ Associa- tion, at a meeting of the association held last night in East Washington! Hall, suggested that the association should take an active interest in the question of developing the plan for home instruction of tubercular chil- dren. This instruction would not be con- fined to tubercular children, he said, but to sick children generally, more especiully those convalescing from in- fectious ~diseases. It would require the services of but few visiting teach- ers, who also could assist in improv- ing sanitary surroundings of many of the sick, he pointed out. Such a method of looking after the children, Dr. Emmons said, would be productive of greater results than the establishment of one school to which children from all sections would have to attend. Would Clear Alleys. President Emmons discussed the questton of clearing residential build- ings from the alleys, and urged that the District make a sanitary inspec- tion of all rooming and tenement houses. “Some of these erry Christmas To All! Convey your wish in a Holiday Box of CORNWELL CANDIES. For family, friends and kiddies too, take or send some special CORNWELL favorite. MILK CHOCOLATES ITALIAN CHOCOLATES $1.50 Per Pound $1.35 Per Pound More than a score of varied fla- The samg flavors fascinatingly 7 ickl. ;fi;"f,:..-:".:;fl":f.,:fli:fi_y coated varied and concealed in shells of Italian dark chocolate. Cornwell’s Betty Box, $1.50 Cornwell’s Y Bungalow Box, $1.70 Sunday Paper Nougats, 95¢ Matinee Mints, 55¢ Xmas Hard Red Holiday Mints, 80c Lb. Candies A wide assortment, diffusely Gay holly-red creamy discs for festi i Choco- flavored, ranging at 25c, 30c and 40c per pound. Early Orders Advisable. ORNWELLS 1415 H Streel Candephone Main 875 insanitary build- ings are nothing but beehives of humanity,” he declared, “and the dangerous condition of some of them is simply appalling.” Profiteering in room. renting in Men’s Mocha Gloves Traveling Bags Burns, he said, sent him to Europe to | Cosgrove was expected hourly, of- All perfect skins: outseam, with Pennsylvania Extra good grade split leather—strongly trace the bomb plotters, advancing |ficials said, but if the report was G 2 o s Seventh - g . him $3.000 to cover expenses. Linden- | received during the day it weuld | Black Embroidered backs. 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