Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1922, Page 17

¢ . before the Monday E URGES MORE HOURS FORMINOR SCHOOLS Supt. Ballou Thinks First and Second Grades Should Have Full Day. SHOWS LACK OF HOUSING Tells Monday Evening Club He Favors Physical Examination of Pupils at Intervals. A full day of school for first and second grade pupils as soon as hous- ing conditions in the schuol system make that possible was advocated by | Ballou in an address vening Club at the Cosmos Club building last night. In answering a question of one of the club members, Dr. Ballou also as- serted that he favors a physical ex- amination of all children when they enter the public schools and regular cxamination at intervals thereafter. At present, he said, it is impossible to comduct physical examinations in the achools, and they are made only when a teacher detects some trouble in a child that she ieels needs atten- tion. With Dr. Alien H. Willett, chairman of the education committee, presid- ing, the club devoted the evening to & discussion of school needs. ndorses Compulxory Law. The club adopted resolutions in- dorsing the bill now pending for com- pulsory education and for a child cen- sus to determine the future needs of the school system. Resolutions also were adopted placing the club behind, the campaign for more school bufld- ing and for an emlargement of the medical examining staff. In advocating a full school day for first and second grade pupils, Dr. Bal Jou said he did not mean that these small children should be kept at desks for five hours a day, but that they should be under school supervision for a five-hour day. This, he said, will 1ot be possible until playgrounds and other special facilities are available. Representative Millspaugh Speaks. Dr. Ballou was followed by Repre- sentative Frank C. Millspaugh of Mis- souri, who also recounted some of the deplorable conditons which members of Congress found in the local schools. Representative Millspaugh was ap- plauded when he said he hoped Con- gress soon would authorize purchase of the Patterson tract at 5th street and Florida avenue northeast for a park and athletic field for high school pupils as well as a playground space for children of the northeast. There is 10 park in the immediate veiinity of the Patterson tract, he said, and the stretch of land in question is admirably suited for park and playground purposes. Referring to criticism frequently di- rected against Congress for not being more liberal in appropriating for Dis- trict needs, Representative Millspaugh said: “Let me remind you that mem- bers of Congress are human, and when every morning's mail is loaded with appeals from constituents to lower the tax burden, with often a threat of retribution at the polls, it is not sur- prising that Congress goes slow in au- thorizink expenditures.” Speaking of District legislation Supt. Frank W. in general, Mr. Millspaugh said there is srowing tendency in Congress to act for the National Capital laws that the states may well copy. Dr. Ballou's %igures. Dr. Ballou gavé fluures to show how District schools are behind. Even with the forty-four additional class- rooms put into service this year, he said. the system still needs approxi- mately 125 more classrooms in the elementary schools and two more high schools in addition to the new Eastern. Dr. Ballou pointed out that last year he said very little about the high school situation, having concen- CAPITAL $,000,000 under SAVINGS deposits for you. New Year. HARRINGTON MILLS First s.re Pres. JAMES H. BADEN Vice Pres. & Cashisr National’s V PLAN. While you're saving it, you are insured for $1,000. French Detectives Dig Up 360,000 Francs Loot of Bank Clerk PARIS, December 28.—Detec- tives M dug up 360,000 franes, plunder of a clerk of the Bank of Frauce, who hid it in four preserve j.rs and burled them In different apots in the Park of Versaliies, in this city. The detectives any that Ar- |, mand Gremet, a former army nd knight of the Le- r, admitted that he s from the bank. kept 40,000 of them and Rhid the rest in the jam Jars. He fled to Brusselx, where he B 14.000 francs ponsession. He revealed ding places of the jnrs containing the other 360,000 tranes. {LEADS SYMPHONY SOCIETY | IN CONCERT PROGRAM IAlbert Ccates, Distinguished Eng- lish Conductor, Makes Initial | Bow to Local Audience. The distinguished English “con- ductor, Albert Coates, made his first bow to a Washington audience last night in the Central High School auditorium as guest conductdr of the Symphony Societ of New ¥ork in the fourth of its series of evening concerts under the auspices of the |\\' shington Society of the Fine Arts. The vigor and urge of this full- blooded Young man, almost a glant in stature, are so evident at the very joutset that the hearer had all he could do to avoid being swept away in a current too swift for his safety or comfort, and he had need to re- mind himself that balance and tonal quality must be considered. 1 Whether it was only the hearer who needed to fild himself last night. or whether there deyeloped as they played a mutual adjustment be- tween the conductor, the orchestra and the walls of the auditorium, is immaterial. The essential fact is that Mr. Coates’ mastery of his or- lche ra, of his music and of his audi~ ence was amply demonstrated. The great sweep was there and the broad outline and also the sense of color, of the mastery of detail, which is a very different thing from a mas- tery by detail. It was a complete personal triumph. The audience recalled the conductor time and time again. Twice did he sumgnon the men who had supported him so valiantly to rise and share jin the applause, and twice did Mr. 1 Tinlot, the concert master, grasp Mr. Coates by tue hand to testify to the orchestra’s recognition of the leader- | ship under which they had achieved i such a performance. The program was solidly and ad- mirably constructed. Th Master- singers' Overture led off with a note of ~ triumph. The Tschaikowsky “Romeo and Juliet” fantasy was a soul-stirring tragedy _in musical tones, and the Brahms Symphony No. 3, in F, presented in its four move- ments a hundred different phases of beauty and power. —_— 'BENEFIT_FUND FOR SICK. The Women's Union of thé bureau jof engraving and printing will pre- sent the St. Pagrick's Players. in “Leave It to Plerre.”” at Carroll Hall, 4 G street, tonight, for the benefit of the sick fund of the local. The presentation is in charge of the executive committee of local 105, com- posed as follows: Miss Belle Trou- land, Miss Mary K. Campbell, Miss Gertrude M. McNally, Miss Ella Wal- ter, Miss Louise Dangle, Miss Clara Dangle, Miss Mary Morgan, Miss M non Miller. Mrs. Ella Stork, Miss Lillian v, Miss Nora James, Miss Mary Nan Colvin, Miss Louise [ trated on the needs of the grade schools. As a matter of fact, he con- tinued, the high school situation is quite as distressing, and he cited fignres showinz the congestion. Walter S. Ufford, A. J. Driscoll and Arthur D. Call, president of the club, took part in the general discussion of the school situation. The club voted to hold a banquet in place of its regular meeting in Febrwary. % RESOURCES OVER $15,000,000 " Protected Thrift— ““Insured Savings” UST $8.20 will start you on the road to $1,000—the full amount is a certainty Commercial INSURED the Just make 120 monthly deposits of (at the average age) $8.20. Should you be- come permanently disabled the Continental Assurance Company will complete your S]lould you not live to complete your de- posits, $1,000 Insurance goes to whomever vou designate, as well as the savings bal- ance credited to you here at the Bank. It’s a new step—the right step for the Call and get full deétail R. GOLDEN DONALDSON President JAMES B. REYNOLDS Vice Prea. LAURENCE A. SLAUGHTER e : | 14th at G THE PLAN MACFARLAND MEMORIAL HONOR Georgetown Citizens’ Asso- ciation Calls on Other Bodies to Co-Operate. First steps toward securing for Washington a statue or similar me- ‘moral In honor of the memory of the late Henry B. F. Mactarland, former District Commissioner and civic lepd- er, were taken last night by the Georgetown Cltizens' ‘Association at a meeting in Potomac Savings Bank Hall, Wisconsin avenue and M street northwest. On motion of A, R. Shepherd, Jr. ‘son of the late governor of the Dis- trict of Columbia, & resolution unanimously adopted eulogizing Mr. Macfarland, urging the erection in his honor of & memorial and calling on} the various trade bodies, civic organi- zations and other groups of citizens to co-operate with the Georgetown association in raising funds for tne memorial. Exnmple of Citizenship. Fragk F. Leetch, one of those who seconded Mr. Shepherd's motion, re- called the splendid example of citizen- ship set by the late Commissioner and praised his untiring efforts to pro- mote what was best for his city, not only while he sat in the District build- ing, but after he had returned to pr vate life. Barring. he said, possibly Gov. Shepherd, Mr. Macfarland had done more for Washington than any cther Commissioner. It was eminently fitting that a statue should be placed to his memory in some park or site designated by the government, he added. 2 Mr. Leetch stressed the necessity for gotting _the ance of other or- ganizations in order to obtain enough funds to erect a suitable memorlial. Copies of the resolution will ther: fore be sent to each of the citizens' a.- ! sociations. the Chamber of Commerce, | Board of Trade and similar organi tions, with a specific request for their co-operation Following’ | Associated Charities by Miss L. Harlowe, the association voted contribute $100 to the society. Bowles complimented the Assoc } Charities and its workers for their accomplishments. ’ Regret tha. Capt. Falvey of the se enth precinct has' been retired expressed in a resolution adopted by the members. Resigns as Delegate. Owing to business affairs which ne- | cessitated his absence from future! ,meetlngs of the association for some !time, Albion K. Parris resigned as | delegate to the Federation of Citizens': Associations. President Joseph Oliver appointed Mr. Shepherd to take his place until such time as he was able to attend the meetings. | A donation of $15 to help mect the| | deficit of the federation in connection | | With its recent drive for members was | voted on motion of Mr. Parris | Capt. George L. O'Connor of the| military intelligence section, U. S. A., spoke hriefly on the organization and operation of the military intelligence section, pointing out the varied and intricate matters with which the sec- tion is called on to deal. l Refreshments were served follow- ing the business meeting. talk on the work of l‘he W. ROSES REMIND OF WEDDING. When George W. Wallace, District water registrar. walked into his ofs | fice yesterday he found on his desk | a silver bowl filled With twenty-five | roses. a token from his emplo; on' his twenty-fifth wedding annive Broken Lot Sizes ( s | 1235 L P EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DUNBAR STUDENTS DEEPLY INTERESTED-IN CONTEST c v = P‘rincipal-Smi'th Believes Some Will Be Among Wim}ers in The‘ Star's $1,000 Essay Competition. A majority of the 1,500 students at- tending the Dunbar High School are expected to write essays for The Stars $1.000-prize-essay contest an the topic, “The Arms Conference and Its Sig- nificance,” is was said today by Prin- cipal Walter L. Smith. This estimate, Mr. Smith, said, is based not on a census, but on the number of students who are studying the rules for the contost, which are being published from time to time in The Star. The Dunbar students, Principal Smith believes, will be represented | among the winners of the contest,’ cighty-cight of whom will be award- cash prizes ranging from $100 to $5. He pointed out that ever since the inception of the arms conference the students have been intensively study- ing its proceedings and have famil- farized themselves with the various phases of the epoch-making event. shers of civics, history and Eng- ve'dwelt on the con- in their classes LIBERTY’S FOUNDATION TRACED BY SPEAKER Representative Glynn of Connecti- cut Addresses’ State Society. The foundation of American democ- racy and liberty can be traced back to in the town meetings Which grew prominence among the colonists, espe- cially in New England, and which originated in Connecticut, accordgig to James P. Glynn, representatiVe from Connecticut, who was the prin- cipal speaker at the regular monthly meeting last night of the Connecticut Society of the District, at the Had- leigh Hotel. These town meetings formed a is for the beginning of American , and were productive of great | culminating in American in-| dependence,” Representative Glynn said. Will Kelsey, editor of the Meriden, Record, another speaker at mecting, gave some interesting and amusing reminiscences | of the early history of the Nutmeg. state. Henry M. Camp, president of the so- clety, who presided, stated that it is the object of its officers to make the organization one of the largest numbers in the District tainment feature of the program in- < by Earl Carbaugh, ac-j piano by Mrs. Car- haugh, and Miss Gene Shaffer. accom- ed by Miss Helen Scarf. Refresh- neing followed the busi- meeting. The music was fur- E by a scction of the United States Marine Band. The following were elected as mem-i bers of the board of directors: Mre. T. F. Clarkson, Fairficld county; C. P.| m Smith, Hartford county; N. J. How-| d, Litchfleld county; Mrs. G. B. Fisk, Middlesex county; Miss Jessie Holt, New Haven county; Mrs. C. G. Lippitt, New London county; Miss Louise Wobbecke, Tolland county, and George W. Eastment, Windham G This llowing were elected to mem- Edward Judson, Miss He- , Mrs. Louise Bartlet, Irances O. Abbott. Miss Marietta Luther. Fullér, Wiliiam: A. . B. Fiske and Miss lena Mr J. Tibbets, Mr Kelsey, EA Sweepin 0 - Sacrifice of every Suit or Overcoat In Our Stock .~ * The Quality and Price of These Suits and Overcoats Speak for Themselves $30.00 Suits and Overcoats. . ... $35.00 Suits and Overcoats.. . ... ... $37.50 * Suits and Overcoats... .. .. 2 $40.00 Suits and Overcoats. . $42.50 Suits and Overcoats.... .. $45.00 Suits and Overcoats. ... ... ~ $50.00 - Suits and Overcoats....... $55.00 Suits and Overcoats. . .. .. Just 52 More of Our Suits Left b L 937 838 2—42 ‘STANLE) 1209 Pa. Ave. NW. Values Up to $47.50 reparing the students for competing n the essay contest,"according to Mr. Smith. To supplement the classroom study, a special assembly "will be called either Thursday or Monday, at which one of the members of the faculty will trace theé conference de- velopments from their incipiency. In- dividual students also will be called upon to discuss certain topics per- taining to the conference before their classmates. = Special programs also will be held this week in several other higl schools and junjor high schools fi order to aid students who are to write essays for The Star's contest. The special programs will be held plrls- ularly at Eastern and Western high schools and the Columbia and Shaw Junior high schools. ‘The date for the closing of the con- test will be announced later, as it the arms parley. . Meantime, the con- testants are urged to keep in close touch with all important develop- ments transpiring at the conference as chronicled in the daily press. TREASURY WILL AWAIT FUNDING BILL PASSAGE Pians for Debts of Foreign Nations | raii7oad, says the extension will tap Not to Be Formulated Yet, An- nouncement Says. Formulation of definite plans for funding of debts of the various for-|which lie between St. Marys county. to this country willjnow constitute the eign nations await enactment of the funding bill, it was sald at the Treasury. When congressional authorization is received, it was said, negotiations probably would be begun with Great Britain, the largest individual credit- or, and upon the completion of fun- ding arrangements with that country the debts of the other nations would ; coast, be considered. Definite arrangefents, such as the |Of the commercial activity of southern fixing of maturities and other de- tails, it was added, Would be deter- mined in accordance with the situa- tion in the individual countries. from one European nation that payments due in April, but it was the policy of the American government to obtain from the nations an ap- | it proximation of the date when they could begin payments in order that in The enlel"rlhtre might be no interruption to the general funding scheme when once inaugurated. It was indicated that a careful study, as a means of guiding the government in its negotiations as to the resources available for pay- ment and the terms which might be fixed, would be made. 20 WEEK ENDS IN JAIL. Recorder Punishes Worker at West Hoboken, N. J. WEST HOBOKEN, X. J., January 1. —Convicted of annoying women, but saved from a straight jail sentence by the pleadings of his wife and children, August Schmeberger was sentenced to Fpflnd the next twenty week ends in a cell. Recorder Walter arranged for the masher to be locked up every Saturday at noon and released on Monday morn- ing. $22.50 $25.00 $27.50 . $30.00 $32.50 $35.00 $40.00 $42.50 Clothes Shop ’ In Ftree : this connection it was declared that | siom: Mo Dake dosiane oot Son iinformal advices had been received |ern Maryland was it cti ™ would be unable to meet the interest | st it cwos e atyland: and TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1922 IAPPROVAL IS GVEN Old-gime Beds Lose Individuality in New Standardizing Move. Beds are to lose their indi- viduslity under standardization plans of the division of simp! fled practice of the Commerce Department. They will no longer appear in uncouth and l sizes, triek proclivity the hours FORNEW RAILROAD Southern Maryland Line to Be Extended to Patux- _ent River. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, January 17.—The ex- ension of the-Washington, Brandy- wine and. Point Lookout railroad from {ts present terminus at-Mechan- icsville through St. Marys county to the ‘Patuxent river, a project long hoped for and dreamed of by south- ern Marylanders, was assured this morning when the public service commission approved the application of the rallroad for authority to con- struct the necessary trackage. The commission also authorized the company to issue additional stock, to be sold at par, to the amount of $100,- 000, in order to finance the construc- tion of the first section of the new mattresses. 3 to,slide to the floor In of deepest slee _Standardiza department declared, me. great deal to both the bed mattress manufacturers a ,Keneral public, and the govern- ment is co-operating in the plan to keep the bed wi bed ds. Un standards went.” i | :SIGNS PLEDGE TO ASSIST IN BUILDING AUDITORIUM Judge Mary O’Toole, Municipal Court, Heads Committee on Fund for New Convention Hall. Judge Mary O'Toole of the Munici- pal Court, first president of the Women's City Club and a prominent figure in women’s and other organ- izations in Washington, signed the { ofticial pledge card of the Washing ton Auditorium organization com- mittee yesterday, and agreed to head a_committee of women to sell $5,000 worth of stocks and bonds in the The rallroad was_originally capital- ized at $100.000. It is planned to in- crease tho capital stock eventudily to $600,000. Roadbed Already Started. _Some work already has been done in preparing the roudbed. which will oliow in great part the right of way | . . . aidont & raged scveral years huo, | (ashington Auditorium.” Charles 1 ;‘:he line to Hollywood will probably | committee, sald today that Judge e gomuiciad sun fu opsrafion by Wip OToole's signature brings the izt of A 3 < | committee chairmen to about fifty. W Bernard Duke, president of the | Tye plan of the central committee is to secure 100 Washingtonians to head 100 committees, who will campaign for a minimum of $5.000 each, thereby bringing $500,000 together for . the erection, of a mew Convention Hall from Brandywine to Mechanicsville, | %t ien€8Oh L O ings thaf Washington, so representative of a country which is rich in possibil ties but has been retarded in its de- velopment by the lack of railroad fa- cilities. The three miles of the present line entire railroad mileage the county. The county: now ships large quantities of pulp- wood, and will be enabled to increase this business greatly on the comple- tion of the new line. The eventual terminus of the road, at Esperanza, is across the Patuxent vention Hall such as is propose #aid Miss O'Toole in a letter to Chair- (man Harper. “I am only too glad to be associated may rest assured that my committce L will be so organize, o quic Fiver from Drum Point harbor, one Of |the minimur. amount o Stocks and the finest anchorages on the Atlantic|ponds called for. and only a few miles from| «In fact, it will be our purpose to Solomon’s Island, the center of muchirealize even more than the task that has been assigned u Philip King, president of the Mer- chants and Manufacturers’ - Associa- | tion and brother of Harry King, who has pledged himself to head one of the 100 committees, announced yester- day that he would work with his brother's committee for the $5,000 goal. L Not merely from the standpoint of v! = _ i the dollars that come to th e - e o0 st when he wasa Dol ity fromadig assemblage.” said Mr. frour Leotardtown 1o Wanfl:gt;-r’.‘g'"" in a letter to Chairman Harper, and that it had to be well planned be- | ont Mmore particularly from the bet. Maryland. "Z'New Line Greatly Needed. The extension will be a much-need- red that south- 200 years behind to the poor trans- portation system. 2 ndihac ter understanding and cducational This company operates™the only|f2ctors. do blg conventions appeal to gasoline motor railway car on tracks | Tyt Geom Cauroin 0 the in the state. and just now there are reports that this form of passenger transportation is running a race with the motorbus and the trolley bus. Mr. Duke declared that the operat- ing expenses of the motor car had been almost nothing, and that it had sup- plemented his passenger service to such an extent that it had proved to beniothing short of a “salvation to the road.” tradesmen, of the professions’ and all classes of peopie’ generally tend to the refining and betterment of all who come within the range of such gathering: —_— The scientific study of electricity be- gan in the sixteenth century when certain_experiments were shown to Queen Elizabet] the nation, should have a typical Con- | in this wonderful movement and you! o 17 HOT FIGHT LOOMS - ON LAKES ROUTE Designation of Committee to Consider Report Promises to Start Controversy. Speaker Gillett has announced that it will be determined at a hearing to- morrow which of three committ merchant marine, commcerce or ways and means -will be given jurisdiction over the report sent to Congress yes- terday by President Harding of the international commissjon on the pro- posed improvement of the St. Law- rence river to make a great-lakes- to-the-sea waterway. This action i3 :taken as indicating that there will be a bitter and probably a protracted fight in Congress over the proposed legislation. G Proponents of the project declared they would oppose any efforts of the merchant marine committee to have the report referred to it because sev- eral members of the committee ex- pressed opposition to the proposition. Once referred to a committee, lengthy hearings in an effort to obtain the opinions of experts appear certalr. Recomme! tions Made. In th Senate the report of the cowrmission, which recommends that improvement of the New Welland canal between Lake Erie and ake Ontario is tncluded with that of t St. Lawren between Lake On and Montreal, was sent to the foreign relations committee. The commission recommended that the cost of t| improvement for navi- | gation purposed be borne by il United States and Canada in propor- jtion to the benefits derived by each country. The commission also recommended that the cost of “navigation works" | for the combined use of navigation {ana power, over and above the cost of works necessary for navigation alone, should be apportioned equally between the United States and C ada. Operation by Board. The report suggested that “naviga- tion worke” which would not lie ¢ in_one country. able of economic and eflicient ction, Maintenance and opera- tion within one country as complete and independent units,” be maintai ed and operated by w board on whi Canada and the United States would have equal representation. The commission’s report emphasized the necessity of further studs of the project by engineering experts, and recommended that the United States and Canada enter into treaty nego- tiations over the proposal. ONLOOKER SHOT AT DUEL. TAMPA, Fla. January 17.—John E ' Mait of this city was shot through the abdomen, while watching a re- Volver duel between two flecing me- | groes and two pursuing city dete i Tives in the principal retail street { today. One of the negroes was wounded, but was dragged into friend’s automobile and escaped. The other escaped down a side Street. 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