Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1922, Page 13

ESSAY - CLASSES UNCHANGED PROMOTIONS IN SCHOOLS Contestants for The Star's' Prizes Who Graduate Also Retain Standing—Will Publish Some Papers. Numerous, inquiries have come to,to make an eighth-grade pupil pro- The Star from school teachers afid | Moted ta Iigh school Submit ‘h" 5 essay In the senior group after having pupils relative to the classification of | Lrcihred it for the junior class. 1t contestants in this paper’s $1,000 prize | would be as equally unfair to debar essay contest on the subject, “The | 8tudents who graduate from the high Arms Conferende and Its Significance,” | Jino0ls next week from submitting who will be promoted to high school MELLON COMMENT ON BONUS STUDIED Secretary . Tells House Only Way to Make Provision Is by Added Taxes. Congressional leaders preparing to carry out the administration’s plan to put through a soldiers’ bonus bill were analyzing today the statement of the Treasury’s reason for contin- ued opposition to the bonus, as trans. their compositions after having pi mitted in a letter from Secretary by pared l!’ar n-; “";::Iins of ':helm for % T v at the beginning of the second|Several months while in school. Mellon to Chairman Fordney of the A l__l!br & '\{ s o~ adgltion: (o' recelving. canh! House ways and means committee. « February 1. On this ques- | gywardgs, some of the winners of the tion The Star has ruled that con-|contest will have their essays pub- Writing to Mr. Fordney late yester- day in response to a request for an pression of the departments Views,: ecretary Mellon declared that any attempt to provide for the bonus|Present semester. through use of the principal and in-| Under this ruling if an eighth- terest of the foreign debt to this|&rade pupil who is now grouped in country would bo “futile us well as | the junior claxs of the ' contest is unwise,” and that an attempt to do ! promoted to high school, he will re- so through new government borrow- | main in the junior class. If a high ings would be “dangerous in the ex- | school student is graduated before trome the closing of the contest he will If there Is to be a bonus, however, | submit his essay in the senior class. the Secretary said, it “must be pro-| This ruling was made by The Star vided for through taxation, and] because it would be manifestly unfair through taxation In addition {o the - taxes imposed by existing 1a EXPLAINS REAL WORTH OF TRAVELERS AID ESum..ces of goverunicnt receipts Mrs. Van Riper Outlines Scope of and expenditures for the fiscal years 18 and 1923 showed there would Work Which Needs $10,000 in Donations. ‘more probably” be a deficit than a surplus, he said, and there had been no allowance for such additional ex- penditure as would be involved in a soldiers’ bonus for the firSt two years. On the most conservative estimates, he said. this would probably be not Examples of the work belng done by the Travelers Aid Soclety of the District are being made public by the society In order to make known |the District of Columbia were heard the extent and character of their|Yesterday by the Senate District com- labors, and thereby encourage volun-imittee. Public accountants from all tary contributions toward the $10,000 Parts of the country were present at lished in The Star. The most meritorious compositions will be pub- lished for the primary purpose of fllustrating to the public the familiar ity of the Washington school_children with the developments at the epoch- making conference. How many of the winning essays will be pubMshed has not been de- termined. This point, however, prob- ably will be decided after the closing of the contest, the date for which will depend upon’ the adjournment of i the arms parley. CAPPER BILL TO LICENSE ACCOUNTANTS DISCUSSED |Senate District Committee Hears Views For and Against the Measure, Opposing views on the Capper bill to provide for a board of examiners to license certified public accountants in testants will be grouped according to the classes they have attended the less t .000.000. 1t would accomplish nothing, Mr. Mellon argued, to set aside the foreign debt for the payment of the - bonus, even if enough could be realizéd in time. Retirement of Bondn. he said, in justice to the millions o berty bond hoiders, the government boynd to apply any principal pay- ments by Jforelen Eovermmen!s, A%|needed by the organization here to|the public hearing. well as a ‘oceeds of 3 2 Tetirement” ot Coutstanding " liverty | ATy on its program for the presenti The proponents of the measure year. Mrs. M. F. Van Riper, executive secretary,” makes the following state- ment “If you were in the Unlon station and saw a helpless blind man alone you would want to hurry and offer your assistance, or if you saw a lonely child come crying from a train you would want to put your arm around her, comfort her and try to smooth away her troubles. If you saw a boy whom you recognized as a runaway you would like to get his story and help restore him to his parents, anrll if you saw an innocent, unsuspecting girl appreached by a man whose ev dent intent was e you would want to interfere, but you wouldn't know just what to d “But,” continued Mrs. Van 'Rflper.l Ppointed out to the committee that the District of Columbia was the only spot in the Union which did not have .!Iigh 13 la: aniel J. Donovan, District audis told the committee that the Coml;?!r: sloners were-in favor of the bill with certain amendments, which he filed with the committee in a brief. The amendments are intended to prevent accountants from obtaining a license by virtue of employvment in the g6v- ernment service here. J: H. Covington, counsel ;American Institute of Accountants !Carl Nau of Cleveland, Ohio, presi- jdent of the institute; Edward E. Gore, member of the board of examiners in 1llinois, and Robert H. Montgomery of Pennsylvania, spoke in favor of the measure. while ths opposition was represented by William T. Anderson, John R. Hutchinson, the latter presi- dent of the National Association of Certified Public _Accountants, and Frank Broker of New York. harges were made by the opposi- tion, who urged national legislation on the subject, that the Capper bill was class Pegislation in the interest of the American Institute, while Che proponents charged that the National Association issued certificates for a fee to people who were not public accountants. —_— bonds, about 10.000.000 of which were issued in the first instance to provide for sdvances to foreign governments.” Interest collected, he declared, should also go to provide interest on liberty bonds, so that if the proceeds of the foreign debt were applied to the bonus the government would to that extent have to provide for the principal and interest of liberty bonds from other sources. This means, he asserted, taxes otherwise unnecessary. “The plan to use the foreign ob gations to pay a soldier bonus, fore,” Mr. Mellon continued, still leave the burden on the ders of the American taxpayer. Discussing the financial outlook of the government, Mr. Mellon presented detailed figures covering budget est mates which, he said. indicated deficit of over $24.000.000 for 1 a deficit of over $187,000.000 for 1 not allowing for $50,000,000 requested the Shipping B ment_of claims, for Russian 3 United States Grain Corporation and $5.000. 000 .to be paid -as the 1 n ment under the treaty with Colum- bia—a total of $112,900.000. Must Reduce Expenditures. To overcome these dencits, he ex- plained. expenditures must be reduc- ed in the aggregate by about $300. 000,000 in the next two years, while the same time the ‘government “the Travelers Aid workers do know what to do. They are doing It’ a and every day—many times a day. They are performing all this service and more. The Travelers' Aid functions while others sleep.” Last night the societv took care of a Polish refugee girl, sixteen years old, who was en route to a brother in California. The girl could speak no English, which made it almost impossible for her to transact any business in connection with her trip. Mrs. Van Riper had been notified by a branch of the society in New York of the girl's description, so identi- fication was easy. She was furnished € with food, her reservation procured Ve Coas + & heavy shrinkage of receipts. | and was kept under the guidance of | proe weet s At omats Lime. iew of the depression in busi-|the Travelers Aid workers until the 'ules. Full information 1418 H st. n.w.—Ad. ness, he added, there is grave doubt|train started westward. vertisement. whether the estimates of receipts | \hich appear in the budget can be | reuliz ized. The overshadowing problem of the } Treasury., Mr. Mellon declared, was the handling of the public debt, “mounting at the end of the past r to $23,438,984,351, of which 00,000,000 falls due’ within the teen months. The refunding of this vast maturity, he asserted, would require the Treasury’s con- st ' g , ¥ How much additional taxation would be necessary to pay a soldiers’ bonus, Mr. Mellon declared, would be diffi- cult to estimate, but on the basis of the McCumber bill, it would appear that the total cost would be about $3,330,000,000, of which at least $850,~ 000,000 would fall due in the first! two years of operation, and possibly as high as $1,000,000,000, if an unex- pectedly large number of veterans| should choose cash. The minimum cost he placed at about $1,560,000,000 based on cash payments. and the maximum cost at about $5,250.000.000, if all the veterans should take certifi- cates in lieu of cash. | These estimates. he added, took no | account of the cost of administration, | and the expenditures involved would ; be in addition to about $450,000,000 a | year for 1922 and 1923, already esti- mated for relief of disablédl veterans. ——— e LEADERS AS,DELEGATES. By the Associated Press. ’ » TOKIO, January 24.—The Japanese delegates to the Genoa economic_con- ference, according to the Nichi Nichi, will be Baron Gonsuke Hayashi, ambas sador to Great Britain; Viscount Ishli, one of the vice presidents of the league of nations assembly; K. Otchial, am- bassador to' Italy, and K. Moxi of the ministry of finance. In_addition, four or five officials or the Bank of ‘Japan and of the Specie Bank are to be appeinted secretarles of tha delegation. - Closing Out Women’s shoes . that were $5 to $10, in final sensational : clearance for Get Your Rest at Night— Zemo Soothes Eczema, Tetter and Rashes ] : E‘.EE § THE EVENING STAR, WASH GTO: H'Short_ Lines” RECOMMENDS CUT INPRESSMEN'S PAY Rev. J. S. Montgomery Re- ports Arbitration Board Favors 5 Per Cent Drop. A reduction of 5 per cent in the wage scale of union pressmen has been recommended by Rev. James Shera Montgomery as chairman of thé board of arbitration- between the closed shop branch of the local Ty- pothetac and the Washington Print- ipg Pressmen’s Unlon, No. 1, it was announced today. The board of arbitration held two sessions. At each session the argu- ments of each side were presented | nd rebuttals were given. In making the recommendation for settlement Dr. Montgomery sald that ommendation is due those who are directly engaged in the settlement of the matter in dispute. | Praises Woge Spokesmen. “The spokesmen of their organiza- tions presented most clearly and in- telligently the question of the basic wage scale, which is the only one before us,” he added. “Also, each one in every way gave evidence of a deep desire to have a fair and just settle- ment of the problem at hard. The chairman acknowledges his sincere appreciation of the gentiemen who have argued this case. The employers and employes entered into a contract negotiated on Septem- ber 2, 1919, calling for a basic wage of $40 per week, based on the forty- eight-hour week. By mutual agree- ment the forty-four-hour week was installed on May 1,1 The number of working hours, however, was not involved in the arbitration proceed- Since the establishment of the $40 Montgomery sald, passed, two and a ve: vhich time * 3 1 the industrial financial interests of our country ix months,” he continued, iy shown a tendency, but d a material decrease in e cost of living. Also in all lines i Shur competitive. business life las surely tightened all lines of in- now just passing ough the aftermath of the world 3 it is incumbent upon izens to do their share in stabiliz- esent_unsettled conditions back to life a nation w cit ing the and in bringing ide prosperity. N herefore in-view of all the facts presented, and with a thorough con- sideration of the prevailing business [ conditions, it is my firm conviction hat there should be a small decrease in the basic wage scale of $40 per weelk, and | recommend a reduction of 5 per cent.” The reduction will bring the wage seale to $38 per week. —_— PARK BUYING PROPOSED. Klingle Road Areas. Provision for the purchase of Piney Branch Valley Park and Klingle Road Valley Park as a part of the park- way System of the District of Co- lumbia was contained in a bill in- troduced_in the Senate yesterday by Senator Ball, chairman of the Senate District committee. The measure will be given early consideration by the committee, and. following its report. will be pushed to final passage in the Senate. thc (., 'WEDNESDAY, P / CITIZENS ASKFUN FORWATER SUPPLY North Capitol and Eckington Association Appeals for $3,000,000 in Bill. An earnest appeal to restore to the District appropriation bill the $3,000- 00 item for continuing work on vashington’s additional water supply was made to Congress by the North Capitol and Eckington Citizens' As- sociation, meeting at the Emory School, last night. The association adopted, without a dissenting vote, resolutions calling the attention of Congress to the fol- lowing facts: That the average daily consumption of water is now dangerously close to' the capacity of the existing conduit; that $200,000 has been appropriated to begin the new project, and failure to make an ap- propriation in the next District bill will mean the loss of an entire yeaf in construction work. President Seldon M. Ely announced that the resolutions would be sent to the Senate appropriations committee. The association acted promptly fol- lowing the announcement yesterday that the House appropriations com- mittee had eliminated the water item from the Commissioners' estimates. Mr. Ballou Speaks. Superintendent of Schools Ballou told the association that the tract from 18t to 2nd streets and from T to Seaton streets northeast is be- 1€ considered by the school authori- ties, as the site for a new MoKinley High School, as well as for the Eckington Junior High School. Dr. Ballou said he did not believe the kind of a junior high school the authorities desire can be built with ~ the $300,000 authorized, and later in the evening the association adopted a resolution asking Congress to raise the limit of cost to $400,000. In answer to question, Dr. Ballou stated that the junior high school would be 8o placed on the tract of land In question as to leave room for & senior high school later. The placing of one of the new Junior high school buildings in this Section will Eelp rather than hinder your chances of obtaining a -senior high sctool in Eckington later, the superintendent of schools. He said the school board included | in its estimates ti®s year an item to buy ground for a new McKinley High chool, but the request was not re- tained' in the final budget. He ssid former students of the Tethnical High School were more favorable to ?rclildlt:r‘ l.thehnel;r institution in the vicinity of the Iowa Avenue Junior High School. Dr. Ballou said he did not agree ‘wllh them, regarding that location as 100 close to Central High School If the new high hool is to go in that direction, he comtinued, it should be located farther out 14th street. Need of High Schools. That there is an urgent need now Bill to Purchase Piney Branch and | for more high schools was demon- strated by the superintendent when he declared there are 3,000 more boys and girls in the existing high schools than those bulldings were designed to accommodate. Even when the new Eastern and the two junior high schools are finished they -will provide for only 2,000 of that sur- plus enrollment. . Ballou said 1t {s the hope of school officials to make the junior JANUARY .2 TAKOMA PARK GIRL BRAVES JUNGLE PERIL AS MISSIONARY . Clarence E. Wheeler, in Heart o.f 'A_frica, Has Wild Animals as Her Dooryatd Guests. BUSIESS PUPLS D STUDY COURS Two-Year High School Grad- uates Will Get Diplomas Tomorrow Night. Diplomas will be presented to forty-four graduates of the two-year course of Business High School at the mid-year commencement exer- cises at the school tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. The four-year graduating class of Business will hold its com- mencement Friday night at 8 o'clock. The two-year graduating class held its class night exercises last night in the auditorium of the school. The program consisted of a one-act play written for the class by Mies Margaret Bayly of the faculty. It was a morality play prophesying what will become of the members of the class “in future days” The most_ attractive features of the per- formance were dances by the society buds, bells and butterflies. William B. Harmon, class president, made the opening address. He was followed by Marguerite Croson, class poet, and Benjamin Moss, valedic- torian. Allan Davis, principal, re- sponsed in _behalf of the school. Music was furnished by the school orchestra. Those who -took leading parts in were Bet! Per- Future Day kins, Eu:enia) ‘ohlfarth, William. Harmon, Mary Wecklerley, Catherine Courtney and Agnes Morat. Two-Year Course Graduates. Graduates of the two-year courss are: Anne Aein. Virginia Augusta Baumbach, Esther Louise Brown Sallie Elizabeth Clarke, Ruth Veron fca Cole, Mary Catherine Courtney, Marguerite Ann Croson, Elsie Helen Drechsler, Helen virginia Egloff, Elizabeth Mildred Farnham, Mary Feinstein, Sarah Louise Feinstein, Dorothy Margaret Ferraro, Rosetta Fleiskman, Edith velyn Hammill, Dorothy Rebecca Jarvis, Martha Ma- tilda King, lda Dorothy Kushuer, Regina Mary Lavezzo, Thelma Lock- ver, Jeannette Mary Marucci, Mauvra Celest Mendel, Agnes Emiiy Morat, |Helen Margaret Paget. Florence Elizabeth_ Perkins, Helen Lomax Peyton, Esther Ada Ratino, Mar- garet Gilmore_ Rich, Glad; Myr- tle Richards, Ella Melissa Roberts. Gertrude Hanna Ruzicka, Louise Mary Sartori, 1da Esther Silverman, ) Mary Verdier Weckerly, Myrtle Eliz- abeth Williams, Mary Eugenia Wohl- farth, Rose Florence Wolpe, Mary Wolpoff. William Henry Clampitt Edwards Cooper. Roy Le Edwards, William Bosenworth Har mon, Benjamin Moss and James An- drew Rollins. _— HAMPERED BY HIGH WIND. Cutter Has Difficulty in Towing Half-Sunken Schooner. NORFOLK, Va., January 25.—High wind continues to hamper the coast guard cutter Manning in her fight to get the half-sunken schooner Blanche C. Pendleton from Cape Hatteras to Hampton roads. The latest radio re- port of the cutter showed that only slight progress been made toward this port, as the northeasterly gale had freshened and the sea was rougher. " Down in the heart of Africa, thirty-herd boys were so scared that they three miles from the nearest mail de- | could hardly be induced to go back livery, and haunted by the roar of |0 find another feeding place for the lions, hyenas, leopards’ and other| «Tpere are very few cattle up in wild beasts, is a Takoma-Park girl |this country, but we are experiment- who Is braving all these dangers and |{ng with them on this mission, to see discomforts that go with missionary |1f the tsetse fly will not spare them, life out in the wilds to teach the)president Roosevelt must have ex- black-skinned natives the principles |plored. Mr. Wheeler has been out Mrs. Clarence E. Wheeler, formerly > ; Migs Helon E. Walde, the Seventn-day | TIN5 others on his list'that he has Adventist missionary located at Mu- sofu Mission, Broken Hill, Northern {shot. But the hawks are the most troublesome lot, €0 he has made war on them and brought sixteen down o Rhodesja, has as her dooryard guests |far. I, even I, have taken lessons in after nightfall the wild animals of |aiming a .22 rifle—and hit the mark the jungles, and although she lived|four times out of the few times I alone for a week shortly after her ar- |tried. But I have not ventured to rival from this country the serenade of the hyena, the cries of the leopard and the roars of the lion “did not seem meet a lion yet! “The most thrilling visit we had to frighten me so much. All Kinds of Animals. was the one to Victoria Falls, and tter just received from her from there the boatride to Living- stone Island, where we looked upon the renowned Livingstone tree. Our hearts fairly ‘burned within us’ as we walked upon the same soil that this brave, faithful pioneer first ex- plored. The rainbow at the falls is most grand. Children Interesting. “But I haven't told you anything about these 130 little black faces that sit so quletly every day to be taught their letters and to listen to stories about Jesus. They are an interest- ing lot, their eves fairly shining with interest. But when we got out our phonograph (a little Stewart we pur- chased in Cape Town) then you ought to see them laugh. They think that is about as bad as witcheraft, I guess. Not as bad, I mean, but as strangely weird. In spite of the fact that she sees no other white women, except the wives of other missionaries who come at intervals, Mrs. Wheeler ays she enjoys her work, and is now | mastering the language of the na- tives in order to talk to them with- out the help of an interpreter. HUSBAND ON BAIL. Thomas S. Ryan Was Arrested After Wife Died of Poison. PARIS, January 24.—Thomas Stewart Ryan. the American newspaper corre- spondent who was taken into custody last week after his wife 0ok poison tab- lets, which later resulted in her death, will be released tomorrow on bail of 5,000 francs, the investigating judge announced 1od: van, who w a widely known' violinist, known profes. i xionally as Miss Audrev Creighton, died n the American Hospital at Neuiily on January 19. —_— CANADIAN UNION BALKS. LONDON, Ontario, aJnuary 2 Members of the Canadian Brother- hood of Railway Employes have re. fused to attend a meeting to discuss proposed affiliation with the Interna- tional Brotherhood. Leaders asserted they no longer would send their money “across the line,” but would | perfect an organization of their own. | In a she say: ‘When 1 said T was going up among the lions I had no idea I would be in such a wild country as this is, where the lions, hyenas, leopards and all manner of wild animals are frequent guests in the dooryard at night, tak- ing away what they can, if it be a reedbuck skin or the skull of some other animal, a sable perhaps, or do- | Ing mischief of any kind. They would like to get a goal from our graal, but lately they have not managed to dig a place open far enough before they were heard and scared away. The serenade of the hyena is something fearful. However, it did not seem to frighten me 50 much, even though I was staylng alone in this mission | house just a week after we had landed here. ‘Mr. Wheeler had to_ visit four | outschools in the neighborhood, o it took him away from home for over a week. / Lions Stampede Cattle. “One day, at high noon, the lions stampeded the cattle twice and the high schools twenty-four-room build- ings, with gymnasiums and assembly hails. It may be necessary, however, { to keep them down to sixteen rooms, he added. On motion of Dr.. T. W. Stanton, the assoclation indorsed the bills now pending to amend the compulsory school-attendance law _and to provide for a school census. The association also {ndorsed the bill to provide free text books in the high schools as well as the elementary grades. A musical program was given by Russell Rooks and Miss Ethel Nugent. The following were elected to mem- besship M. P. Barr, Roy C. Clark, rs. John Edwards, Dr. Ella R. Fales, Thomas D. Fields, Mrs. Phoebe B. Fugitt, Mrs. Carr ' E. Fuhrman, By- ron S. Gable, C. k. Hohoff, Mrs. Alice G. Howard, Waltes M. Leonard, ! Charles P. 'Siebold, Mrs. Catherine McGal Donald Spenger, John W. Thomas and George H. Yocum. ——— Belief in the evil eye is common among the peasantry of Spain. A stag’s horn is considered a good safe- guard, and small horns, tipped with silver, are frequently hung about the « children’s necks. At Our 7th St. Store Only HE final wind-up of our Winter Season .brings a shoe opportunity that will be eagerly grasped by thrifty shop-- POR SKIN IRRITATIONS incomplete all along the line. . Included in pa.ri are Brown ‘ahd leathers, are usually due to straining ! pers. Hundreds of’pairs of High and Low Shoes—small ends of lines that have sold this season at $5 to $10— have been gathered at our 7th Street Store for a Final Clean-up. All are Attractive, High-grade Shoes—but sizes, of course, are fabrics and combina- ‘when constipated. Najol being s lubricant keops fore prevents straining, Black Lace Boots, Tan and Black Welt Sole, Oxfords and Sports Pumps. ‘Pumps, Strap Effects and other Novelties in Afternoon and.Evening Slippers of 'various All Sales Are Final A>nd no Phone, -Mail or C. O. D. orders ac- cepted at this price. tions. Of some, only a few pairs of a kind. In others, still a fair range of sizes, All in all, nearly every foot can be fitted in one. sort or another. And what a Sale at Two Ninety-five! at e the most liberal 273 BLUE WHITE, BRILLIANT, FULL-CUT GENUINE DIAMONDS / —-An Opportunity To Invest Your DIMES In DIAMONDS We’re going to start 1922 business with a bang, and for that reason we’re making, offer since we inaugurated our policy of selling standard merchandise cash prices on liberal credit terms. We Are Placing On Sale Set in mountings of 18-kt. and 14-kt. White and Green Gold. All new patterns. gentlemen. At the Thrift Club Price, $34.50 : ,‘ WE CONSlDEIi THESE RINGS . WORTH SO -MUCH MORE THAN $3450 THAT WE WILL GLADLY ALLOW YOU AN EXCHANGE VALUE ‘OF $37.50 . AT ANY. TIME. YOU WANT TO TURN'IN ONE Of THESE RINGS ON A LARGER STONE. z Tlmyonr ity to make your spare change work for you in a value of the diamond and the pleasure you receive in wearing an exquisite .piece of jewelry. i A FIRST PAYMENT of $1.00 Puts the Ring on Your Finger. Balance Can Be Paid at the Rate of $1.00 a Week or $4 a Month. \\\\\\lhll_v/@/ . L S TN " OPTICIANS: _—