Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1922, Page 3

WOULD GIVE EDUCATION BOARD ENTIRE CONTROL OF SCHOOLS Supt. Ballou, Before Congressional Com- | mittee, Protests Divided Authority. Refers to Curtailed Appropriations. Complete authority over all ma ters) have attended school, just because pertaining to the schools should be cen- | there was no census of children of a 2 : Supt. | School age. He urged the passage of tered In the board of education. Supt. | FHUOPH AEC: (e BTESC (hE RETEREe OF Ballou of the public schools vesterday | this new law. afternoon told the joint congressional: Dr. l‘,all(;:j said m%thszrict hnu:i 15: caaticati ‘ i school buildings. ere is need o committee investigating the school L I L e e uation here. . | buildings_to keep them from deterio- “All of the school business should be |ration. He said that $200,000 was handled by the board of education,” said Provided. although the schools had Dr. Ballou, “and then the board should | estimated that $422,000 would be Ve held fully responsible for the schools needed. He told the committeg that assembly and everything in then “The board of education and school | ha uld be used also as officials do not now possess the author- | gymna s, were greatly needed. ‘After Dr. Ballou's discussion of the ity which they saould have if they are o be held responsible for the educa- need of giving the board of education {full authority in regard to school £ ‘matters, and ample appropriations, tional tem.” he continued. 3 Senator King suggested that the As long as the board of education iimes are not normal and that it was does mnot_control the finances of the|pated HNC e conomize wherever pos- schools it cannet control education as|giple. To this Dr. Ballou replied that | it should. it was poor economy to reduce school ‘Tells What Happened to Estimates. Dr. Ballou described what had hap- ened to the estimates prepared by tae funds below a point where an ef- ficient system of educdtion could be hoard of education for the schools for the coming fiscal year, and said that it maintained. Cites Plan for Branch Libraries. showed how the board was clipped of authority. The board, he said, had sent The superintendent called to the attention of the joint committee the T n co-operative plan entered into by the 1o the District Comumissioners school eS| board of education and the board of ima a aled sometaing ov 5 Lo L 316060900 The lnard had corefully | zustecs ofithe Rullic Likcary, whore Druned these estimates before submit- ting them. They covered what the board by branch libraries are to be estab- considered essential to the proper main- lished in a number of the schools, for the use of the children and alsa, for tenance and development of the school Eystem. the people who live in the neighbor- hood. At his suggestion Dr. George S Selie 5. Bowerman, librarian of the Public o e e . | Tibrary, submitted the plan In detail | Tonates” Toe eotivnates then went. 16 the | 10, the committee and pointed out the bureau of tie budget. which cut them | Yalue of thie work. Dr. Bowerman dowh another $300.000, and finally the | gh et BLEERLOTE TR M o e been House appropriation committee cut the fac 5t Bo fie e Sabeen estimates down $800,000 more. So the| Provision made only one brancl school items in the District appropria- | ibrary in the metropolitan district, tion bill, as it passed the House, totaled | 30d that in cities of a similar size a oty 36Bac 000 dozen or_fifteen branches would be Dr. Ballou's testimony was given at| found. He laid stress upon the value the final hearing of the joint committee | ©f the education obtained through on the school situation. Unless it is found necessary to take additional testi- use of libraries, and said that the nony, the joint committee will close the branch libraries and stations main- tained in the schools would do a investigation and draft its report for #ubmission to Congress. great amount of good. Four members of the board of edu- cation, Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, acting president; James T. Llovd, Mr: Susie Root Rhodes and William F. Houston, were present and gave to thegcommittee suggestions regarding the schools. Mrs. Rhodes, who is head of the municipal playgrounds as well as a member of the board of education, told of the co-operation between the municipal playground administration and the schools for the benefit of the children. Dr. Ballou was questioned by Sen- ator King as to the co-operation of jthe community centers and whether the centers were a hindrance to the schools. Dr. Ballou replied that he the Senate by Sepator Capper of Kan- | considered the community centers Outlines Coustructive Program. Dr. Ballowswent over in some detail for the joint committee the construc- tive program for the school system here which the board of education formally approved last December. and which has been discussed with many of the civic organizations. It provides for expenditures of $10,000,000 for buildings, etc., covering a period of five years, to bring the housing of the pupils up to what it should be. It provides for a new salary scale for the school teachers. in accordance with_the bill recently introduced in MRS. CARUSO, CONVERTED TO SPIRITUALISM, I0INS SET TO ATTEND SEANCES NEW YORK, February 18.—Mrs. Enrico Caruso, widow of the Metro- politan Opera star, today announced that she was interested in spiritual- ism, and had ‘enrolled in a small group of society and stage people who have been attending various seances in the last few weeks. “At the first meeting the medium nadn't the least idea whod I was,” she declared, “and he said: ‘I .see somebody asleep, and there is a chapel, and a priest, and a nun, I also see a cross. Don't worry.' " Mrs. Caruso interpreted ~this to mean' the chapel where her husband ‘ rests in Naples. It is being cared for by members of a religious order, and | the cross is the small cross of her rosary which sne had placed upon her husband's body “I am not seeking any message from the dead,” she exclaimed, “but 1 have become tremendously inter- d in the subject in purely an im- personal manner.” Then she told of once 2 remarkable exhibition” by a young man, whom she described as a rather sickly youth, wao gave one a “peculiarly “weird feeling,” com- pounded partly of interest and partly of repugnance. He sat upright in a chhir, she said, and when approach- ing a trance his eves rolled back- ward in their sockets, his body be- came rigid and jerky and he talked in the Choctaw dialect. NEW DELAY FACED IN OPENING SCHOOL Eastern High Will Not Be Ready February 1, 1923, Unless $375,000 Provided. Opening of new Eastern High School, planned for February 1 next, will egain be necessarily postponed to September, 1923, unless an appro- priation of $375,000 for equipping the new bullding Is provided in the pend- ing ‘deflciency bill, Charles Hart, principal of the school, told members of the Home and School Association of Eastern High School at a meeting last night in the auditorium of the school. 3 All but approximately $100,000 of the orlglgnl appropriation of $1.500,- 000 for building and equipping the new high school has been expended, Mr. Hart said, while the remaining sum is needed for putting the grounds in condition, grading the athletic field, inclosing the grounds and build- ing a stadium. Much Equipment Needed. Mr. Hart declared no funds are itnessing sas: for the readjustment of the ad- | were doing excellent work. ministrative staff, with a busines “ Colored Schools Represented. manager who shall be an assistant superintendent; increases in the medi- | Mr. Houston, a colored member of cal inspection staff, and more play-|the board, told the joint committee grounds. .. |that he believed the estimates for the Dr. Ballou told the joint committee | colored schools had been pared too that forty-four new classrooms were | greatly by the Commissioners, bureau of the budget and the House. He said that 31 per cent of the lchool’ opened in September of last year, but that they did not begin to meet the requirements of the increased school | population of the District was col- population. He said it %ould have|ored. The estimates as submitted by taken 183 new classrooms to meet the | the board of education had been situation then, and and it would re- [per cent for the colored schools and quire 205 new classrooms in 1 73 per cent for the white. The pro- Dr. Ballou also discussed the new | portion had been cut, however, until unior high school buildings, now fas the bill passed the House the pro eing appropriated for. He said|portion was 90 per cent for the white that the estimates for these build-|schools and 10 per cent for the col- ings had been $500,000, but that|ored. The figures, he said, had refer- Congress was providing only $300.- | ence to schoo buildings. He urged 006 each. Buildings erected for|the nged of granting all the appro- these sums, he said. would not even|priations needed by the white schools accomodate the pupils now ready to|as well as those needed by the col- o into them, without taking into!gred schools. consideration any future growth. He| The assistant superintendent for said it was short-sighted policy. | colored schools, Garnet C. Wilkinson, The board of education. he said, had | gave strong indorsement ‘to the pr done everything possible in the way frosed compulsory education law, to of eliminating costs in the construc- | the bill for free text books for high school pupils, to the plan for junior high schools and other Tecommenda- tion of these buildings, and he be- lieved that if $100,000 were allowed tions of the board of education. _— for each building—with these econo- TO TAKE COURSE. mies—it would be possible to put up buildings which would meet the present needs. i Senator King Assents. e Senator King of Utah agreed that| Thirteen enlisted men of the medi- t would be ecomomy to construct . bulldings of adequate size to meet | cal department have been ordered to the needs, rather than to build other |take a course of instruction in labo- b\l_i_l:lngs “i‘dtt';- : : ratory work or in X-ray manipulation e need of more edquate pay for : h "land technique at the Army Medical the teachers in the public ‘schools| 800 MRS BT SR o ates Charles P. Gould, Raymond Stewart and William J. Forsyth at Walter Reed General Hospital, this city, and the following named at other station: .rgt. Kennetn V. Gilbert and Privates was emphasized particularly by Dr. Ballou, who said that under present dwin C. Hanscome, Leonard Wallach, Edward A. Bates, Matthew Ferantin conditions the District ds at the lGeorge L. Jahmke, Paul R. Pusey foot of a list of forty -cities when the highest salaries paid in_the ele- Coleman Butler, Everett C. Newton and Ralph C. Leonard. mentary schools are taken into con- SERGT. WALKER RETIRED. sideration. He said that the schools here should pay salaries which would be an inducement to bring the best teachers in the country to the eapital city. Sergt. John H. Walker, medical de- partment, on duty at Walter Reed General Hospital, this city, has been placed on the retired list of the Army and will proceed to his home. After stressing the need of a new SPECIAL NOTICES. arrangement of the administrative WILL PERSONS HORDING BOOKS ON LOT staff, which, with other things, would provide for a business manager, Dr. that was donated to Casualty Hospital during the drive please return them to Mrs. John O. Ballou pointed out the great need of ’ Wineman, 521 13th st. n.w., Dot later tm, law and of a school census. He said that children have lived in Washing- ton for two or three years and never 7 WILL N S debts unless contracted by myseif in_person. TRUH 7AR. 1. ave. n.w. 1 WEEKLY VAN S ments between Washington, Halt and New York. THE BIG 4 TRAN a new compulsory school attendance February 200 NOTICE TO THE CREDITORS, IF ANY, OF the Arlington Fire Insurance Company for the District of Columbla—The said company. hav- ing been dissolved and the undersigned Baving been appointed receiver of its assets by a de; cree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, passed in Equity Cause No. 80626, notice is ‘hereby given to the creditors of said company, if any, and to persons having claims against it to exhibit their claims with the Youchers thereof legally authenticated to the subscriber at his office, 500 5th ington. D. C.. on or before Frids of Mareh, otherwise the company will be divided among. s provided by said decree and said cred. itors may be excluded from all benefit of said assets. WILLTAM E. EDMONSTON; Recetver, 500 5th_st. n.w. CONSOLIDATED CAR FOR_ HOUSEHOLD goods “for California about February 25th. Reduced rates and quick _service. ty Storage Company, 1140 15th_st. YOUR ROOF— The late snow has weakened your roof o a great extent. Let us prepare it for the spring rains. SPECIAL TRIPS. EXPENSES. Florida, by auto, 14 days. $130. ‘Boston, by boat or anto. 7 days, $64.50. Bermuda, 10 days, $128.50, DELTA TOURS, 500 Bond building. 14th and MACK TRUCK, LARGE, FROM WASHING- ton to_all points bétween Bultimore, Philadel- hia, New York, Bridgeport or Boston. furni- Rire or freight, g Feb. Address ames D. Barry. 608 NTED—TO B! Tire from _New . York Philadelphia. JMITH'S TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO. No More Leaky Roofs. Lot me apply one coat of asbestos roofing ce- sment te any kind of roof. I guarantee 1o re- gair all leaks arising from natural cause ears free of charge. - Also sold in bulk. 5-ga Bucket, $1 gal., delivered. MADISON CLARK, 3314 Pa. .. _Lincoln 4219. ONE MINUTE'S THOUGHT WILL CONVINCE O that you should be saving something and 28 will find 50 Detter place fo save than the ome Building _Association Prow. RONCLADé‘o;;"""j,.:,‘ ‘é&’.’.‘ii.?:ic n.w. 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HODGKIN, The Biggs Enginccring CD., 12390 Wisconsin ave. Phone West 67. P PR L st. n.w. . . 817. WARREN"W. BIGGS, Preadest YOU REMEMBER ME! | SERVICE PRINTING JohnHodges,the kbindes| 15 more than mere printing—corisult us. HIGH GRADE BUT NOT HIGH PRICED. s f‘....s..“fi. W Vo | THE SERVICE SHOP iR iR wa| FYRONS ADAMS. S ‘W. STOKES SAMMONS. , 830 13th St« &% Window Shades aplowest fac- available for lockers, manual training equipment, rifle range, lunchroom, laundry, gymnasiums, assembly hall, public library, school library,” bank, office training and typewriting equip- ment, domestic science equipment, all laboratory equipment other than furniture, domestic science equip- ment anad domestic art equipment. No provision, he said, is made for janitor service and unless provided for in the pending deficiency bill, it would be impossible o open’the new building on February 1, 1923, the date planned. On the other hand, he em- phasized, it is useless to provide for janitor service unless an additional appropriation made for equipment. Contractor Has Agreed. “The contractor has _definitely agreed to have the erection of the new Eastern High School completed December 1, 192 said Mr, Hart. “Unless provision for the above made in the pending deficienc for the necessary equipment, it will be impossible to open the new build- ing before { eptember, 1923. The need for immedi.te action is imperative.” An effort to secure the deficiency’ appropriation of $375,000 needed to equip the school will be made by the following committee, appointed by Arthur Fobb, president of the asso- ciation: David Babp, chairman; Mrs. Gilbert Mutchinson, Hubert A. Clark, Dr. Cherles Butler and Miss Freda D. Egber'. ; Firetrap Charges Dended. Albert Harris, Mr. he de in the original plans for the building. is inconceivable that the Com- migsioners and thee fire department wguld pass a school that is-a so- cglled fire trap,” sald Mr. Harris. “If e plans for the school are defective ow they were at the beginning. hey are not defective now. The anges made ht. hen municipal architect. the original steep, slanting roof, with considera- constant menace.” Consequently, Thus the fire trap has been elimi- nated from Eastern High School.” Made One Radical Change. Mr. Harris said he made but one for the school. made to the entrance of the building and will make it “safer and more sensible,” he declared. The municipal architect said that he eliminated another fire hazard at the new Eastern by placing a dome in | the auditorium of the building, which will supplant a considerable amount of inflammable stage scenery. Other- wise, he asserted, the aauditorium In the new school will not differ essen- tially from the assembly halls at Central or in other modern high schools. Expect 1,500 Pupils. Althought school officials believe the enrollment in the new Eastern when it formally opens will be in the neighborhood of 1,600, Mr. Harris pointed out that the seating capacity of the auditorium, which includes a balcony, will be about 1,200. It will be impossible then, INe declared, to seat the entire student body at any one time. Subjects of vital interests to par- ents and children were discussed by members of the association and the aculty of Eastern. The topics were ‘Obedience—Its Meaning in the Home and School by Mrs. Gilbert Hutch. “Wkat Is to Follow the High School +—Fducationally and Vocationally,” by Daniel A. Edwards, former presi- dent of the board of education, and Misd B. L. Gardner. Music was fur- nished by the quartet of the Eastern on played several cornet solos. years ago, schpol. P e —— HAYS’-SUCCFSSOR RICKED. Chief, But Name Undisclosed. The -successor to Postmaster Gen- eral Will Hays has been decided upon by President Harding, it was learned yesterday at,the White House. The make : h} understood. - It was explained that Mr. nation to the White Hou: successor will not be made-known. The date for the Postmaster Gen- been set for March 4. tucky, Tennessee, the Virginias and Carolinas and make every one of, them a Rob Roy, Dr. Berea College, bers of the Caravan Club at their The educator, himself a product of the mountains of Kentuil glowing terms of fhe sterling char- acter Americans,” opportunities dail, F migfants from Europ “America has no ty than to assimilate these rugged pgople, who only need a little touch of culture to raise them to a stand-| ard unequaled it is the duty of all schools, and churches to follow the example | set by Berea College them out of their w first ranks of society | Dr. Day touched on the vast natural | resources of those sections of the | country inhabited by peoples among | == whom he he had no criticism of the fact that | 90 per cent of the Charges that the new high school is | sources were controlled by outside in- | ia veritable firetrap were denied by |terests he did think that a little of the wealth should be used to benefit arris also defended the changes | the natives. He gave statistics to show that more than being educated at present, way, perhaps, nevertheless the effort is being made.” The speaker was given a rising vote of thanks at the conclu- slon of his addres:. ferthe *plans” wers | oHioward Omohundro ~presided, plans wero | P on or officers to serve the club durin turned over to me they called for & | the ensuing vear was held. = 0 Following extremely close balloting, ble timber on the roof. This was a|the following were nominated to con- | 1ltend for the various offices at the asked for a reinforced concrete ToOf. ! election which will be held next week For pre: Henry Stei J. Mullane and H. & secretary-treasurer, radical change in the original plans |2nd I This change was | Covell, George C. Gary and J. Parker Naugle. WATTERSON BIRTHPLACE CORROBORATED BY EDITOR | Supports Contention of The Star That Noted Journalist Was Born That Henry Watterson, last of the old-time editors, was born in a house President . Chooses New Postal ASKS BIDS FOR U. S. SHIPS] $3,000,000,000 in Vessels Oftered by Emergency. Fleet Corporation. The Shipping Board today President, however, is not willing to | bids for -practically: the entire fleet s_selection public yet, it is|owned by the government, built at a cost of approximately $3,000,000,000 Hays hag not'sent his official resig- |and including about 10,000,000 tons and until | of steel vessels, Joseph W. Powell, this has been ‘done, the. name of the | president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, Offers fot the purchase of any or eral's exodus from official ‘life has}all of the steel.cargo vessels, steel ' Several men | passenger and cargo vessels, former have been urged on the President to | German passenger and cargo vessels, fill the vacancy, but no one has been | former German sailing vessels NEW FINNISH MINISTER PRESENTS HIS CREDENTIALS. Dr. Axel Leonard Antrom (left), new min! States, photographed nt the White House yesterday, accompanied by Robert Wood Blisw, third axsistint secretary of state, and Judge Bruno Kivikoskl, secretary of the legation of Finland. URGES EDUCATION FOR MOUNTAINEERS Dr. Day, Berea College Head, Cites Sterling Character of | $75 Byt cost | proc i the Hill People. the processional route, about a o Tn o ¥ cen-| mile in length, is progressing | Educate the mountaineers of Ken briskly. The vantage points most | ‘was the plea of| Day, president of to the mem- Jonathan ¢ wed Westminster the, stand” for the occasion. This hos- K weekly meeting in the New City Club| pital is in urgent nced of funds. Al o o urgency will be lessened in a Yesterdayjatiersioon degree by the readiness of scores spoke in ized of o these’ '“real rcd-blooded; tion and begged the same be given them as are extended to latest arrived im- Col. i at Need Touch of Culture. bigger opportuni- dered Ind., area. in this country, and; colleges| in bringing Ilderness to the he said. i = vorks, and said that while | &5 productive re- i = 3,000,000 Being Educated. 000,000 mountaineers were in a crud: K and, ppointing A. R. Speare and A. ned tellers, voting for nominees = ! ent, Rufus Pearson and ; for vice president, John, Shepard; for | Jesse B. Adams S. Shepard, and for governors, be chosen, Rev. David Ransom Shaffer, William L. | —_— on Pennsylvania Avenue. Pennsylvania avenue near 3d street, as stated.recently in The Star, , has been corroborated by a letter from Arthur Krock, Louisville Times. He asks that the authorities charge of setting up the proposed bronze tablet be apprised of the fol- lowing facts, ‘Watterson: . “Representative and Mrs. Harvey M. Watterson were living at the Ex- change Hotel when, some months be. fore the birth of their son Henry, they removed to the home of Mrs. Nancy Brawner on Pennsylvania ave- nue near 3d street. bo’;‘}‘. F‘sebr‘l;:rysla. 1840, 2 o Sunday Star of January 22esald, in_part: Lo “The Congressional Directory for High School Gleo Club and Otto G.|the twenty-sixth Congress shows that JiBn F of the school orohestra, who | the first session was from December 2, 1839, until July 21, 1840. Principal Hart reported that the|that time Representative and Mra | ononiiuont at Eastern nas reached|Harvey M. Watterson lived at the 9950371 boys and 628 girls. Four |home of Mrs. Brawner on Pennsyl. e said, there were less| vania avenue between 2d and 3d!3 Joars 05 students enrolled in the |streets, where the big elm now atanas. | opposite the Botanic Garden. gt;l;l‘yu V{l' bo:g &nt!;“ehrunry 16, ), S ,argus A e at’ that addrese. Faspomn editor of the in vouched for by Mrs. During As —— ivited announced today. con- mentioned as a strong contender in|crete cargo and tanker and steel and official circles, except Dr. Work, now first assistant logleal. cholce. Hubert | wood oceangoing 'and harbor tugs general, who is believed to be ll:r '"tlllbfitrr:lf who 15 ieved to ¢ | un 1 s d, Mr. Powell el.ml no I"I.l‘.:‘l‘fi PRICE FOR OBSERVERS AT PRINCESS’ WEDDING LONDON, to pay it the equivalent of $75 or more for a glimpse of the royal | Palace and Westmins ding, February 28. Bidding for seats at windows or on the roofs of buildings ‘lanking coveted ar of people to accommodations. The hospital real- ASSIGNED TO STAFF DUTY. ister from Finland to the United GLIMPSE LOWEST, he Associated Press Feb some persons who can afford ssions between Buckingham er Abbey on Mary's wed- day of Princ those abgut parliament adjacent to Westminster _these will afford a view e arrival and departure of the ding party. hospital, opposite abbey, is counted the “grand- pay generously for nearly $100,000 from the sale fhlsfie!ng seats” last corona- ay. [ — Charles J. Symmonds, cavalry, mp Sherman, Ohio, has been or- to Fort Benjamin Harrison, for staff duty in the 5th Corps THE MASONIC MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION First mortgage loans on improved real estate........w........- Real estate............. Liberty Net premiums in process All other assets....... TOTALIASSETS . cos it s s ot e s e s st e B s et s A RGOSR 57, Total L iabilities: . ivic sl ceiocnison-loaielsiomicinioieis sisiiaials s i olominioieiimieioiare s cieie BALANCE TO PROTECT MEMBERS’ CONTRACTS: Reserve American Exp. Table of Mortality 3'2% on all policies.. Net surplus....... Most Successful Year in the History of the Association New Insurance Issued Gain in Insurance in Force Insurance in Force December 31, 1921. . Membership December 31, 1921. Assets .. ceee Increase in Assets........ Increase in Reserve....... Increase in Surplus Total Amount Paid to Beneficiaries THIS UNEQUALED RECORD SHOWS THE POPULARITY OF THIS ASSOCIATION AND PROVES THAT THIS FRATERNITY APPRECIATE ITS UNEXCELLED LIFE INSURANCE PROTECTION AT LOWEST NET COST, COMBINED WITH ABSOLUTE SECURITY, PERFECT SERVICE AND SQUARE DEALING Progress of the Association Under the Legal Reserve Plan YEAR 1903 1907 = 1911 1915 1918 1919 ‘|GIRL OF 13, LICENSED . Okla., U.5. TRADE BALANCE Four Times Greater Than a world trade balance four times| greater than the last pre-war year.| nofwithstanding a decline of 52 per cent in imports for 1921 over 1920, the { Department of Commerce announced { today in a review of world trade con- ditions. Mediterganean countries were $2,40! . 000,000, and more than half this total was taken by the three western Euro- pean countries—England, France and central Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Switzerland, and one-eighth Spain, loan and other bonds.. Cash in banks and in office. . Loans on associations policies.. .. 1,721,058 2,220,990 1920 3,084,141 1921 $4,603,095 $42,448,000 $101,222,295 WATCH US GROW! OFFICERS: BY M. E. CONFERENCE, BECOMES PREACHER | By the Associated Press. TULSA, Okla., February 18.—A thirteen-year-old girl was among seven persons granted licenses to preach by the northeastern Okla- homa conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church-here vesterday. She is Miss Fay Emery of Mlami, who began preaching last summer in the mining district near her home. She is in the seventh grade at school and says her am- bition is to become a foreign mis- sionary. The girl became a church mem- . X : 3 ONLY FOUR DAYS LEFT TO ENTER STAR'S ARMS ESSAY CONTEST Pupils From Seventh Grade Up Studying Developments of Conference—Some of - Winners to Have Work Published. Only four days remain for pupils in | honored by having their compositions ber two years ago and Immedi. |the public, private and narochialjieuplished in'The Stax & S ately became a Sunday school |schools of the District to enter the| .jace. STl PRz I cich o teacher in the primary depart- |competition for the eighty-eight cash|been divided—scnior and junior—w Cted in all church actiities and |PTiZes. amounting to $1.000, to be e BI00 Thuretore contisianis n tho soon attracted the attention of |awarded winners in The?Star's essay |and those in the junior group u like her pastor. Under the directjon |contest on the subject. “The Arms, brize. of Rev. George A. Kleinsteiper she prepared a sermon and delivered it from his pulpit. Soon she was urged to address regularly the in- mates of the Old Ladies’ and Men' homes. Later she filled vacancies at Picher, Okla., and then preached at Baxter Springs. PILED UPIN 1921 Last Pre-War Year Despite Import Decline. The United States piled up in 1921 Exports for the vear to European- Belgium. About one-fifth went to Europe, Holland, Germany, to ‘the western _ Mediterranean countries— Portugal, Italy and North Africa. Scandinavian countries took $110,000,000° of American exports, while eastern Europe, Russia, includ- ing the Balkan states, Poland and Finland took $52,000,000, and the Bal- kan and near east, Rumania, Jugo- slavia, Greece, Turkey in Europe and Asia, Egypt and Persia took $54,000.- Imports in 1921 from the European- Mediterranean region amounted to $568,000,000. More than half of these came from western Europe, centrall Europe with $177,000.000 coming next, | and the western Mediterranean sec- tion ranking third with $97,000,000. Imports from eastern Europe were small, “as might be expected from the general demoralization of pro- duction in that region as a result of the war and from the fact that it is primarily an agricultural region and, | therefore, has little to contribute to! the requirements of the United States.” o) Exports to China last $108,290,435, against $1 Z 1920, and $24,872,745 in the pre-war vear of 1913-1914. Exorts to Japan jast vear were $233,423, against $377,941,926 in 1920, and $51,205,520 in 1913-1914. .ORDERED TO HOSPITAL. Fbut Maxwell Cole of the Navy has been ordered to the Naval Hospital at the foot of 24th street for observa: tion and treatment. FIFTY-THIRD Al : Year Ending De: Chartered by Special Act of Congress, March 3, 1869 ASS of collection. ecemens ASSETS Ins. Issued During Year Ins. in Force End of Year 334,450 $393,250 $1.480.500 138,618 412,500 2,166,575 2 2 WILLIAM MONTGOMERY, President. J. HARRY CUNNINGHAM, Vice President. J. P. YORT, Secretar{vafi}l A > CHARLES E. BALD 3 Actuary. . ‘Treasurer. and are beliaved to be thorough!l 16,896,250 - 40,841,750 The second prize in each class will Conference and Its Significance.” The |y, 350 making o totar of $100 contest closes Wednesday, George| There will be two prizes of $25 each Washington's 'birthday anniv in each class for essyosa whose & ¥ ANNIVErSArY.| ok is adjudged third hest There- and all compositions must be in the | fore o togal of $100 will be awarded hands of th contest_editor on | o' third “prizes that date or in the mails postmarked ' before midnight of that day. Puplls Studying Hard. The fourth group will consi five prizes of $15 each for eacn class, making a total of ten prizes, or $1 There will be twenty « of § Pupils in virtually all the public o atdd b prim ‘ schools from the seventh grade| $agh #warded as fifth prizcs, o through the senior institutions have | D[/ €4ch class. B e been intensively studying the develop- | “Tifir prizes of §5 each will be ments of the armament conference,| gyarded as sixth prizes for each class, making a total of $2 fa- miliar with all the importdant phases 1: is readily Se at the prizes of this historical event. Therefore, | roige: from i maemun of £103 10 & none of them should fail to devote an | minimum of $3. and & hour or two to writing a composition | widely over the two classes which may win one of the cash prizes. fore, virtually all the In addition to receiving a cash prize,| whose essavs show some of the winners 1 be further may win CORDIAL WELCOME BY BERMUDANS By the Ansociated Press. | and will be the guests at the HAMILTON, Bermuda, February | Government House during their visit here, but will devote the 18.—Charles Evans Hughes, Amer- ican Secretary of State, and Mrs. Hughes arrived at Bermuda yes- terday for a visit with their daughter, Miss Elizabeth Hughes, at Honeymoon Cottage. They were met at the dock by Governor General and Lady Wil- cocks, A. W. Swalm and Clay Mer- rell of the American consulate, Colonial Secretary H. M. M. Moore and Chiet Justice Sir Colin Rees Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Hughes will attend a reception at the Princess Hotel WEAR WEDDING CLOTHES AT SILVER ANNIVERSARY greater part of their time to visit- ing their daughter, and enjoying a_complete vacation The Secretary’s arrival took on all the interest that such an occa- sion might be expected to aro Hundreds of s in white flannels ummer gowns stood along the water front and cheered when the distinguished visitor _stepped anding stage to come a Moving picture operator: tographers “shot scene, and Bermuda has seldom seen so much enthusiasm over an arrival. | residents of this city for about twelve Original vears. They were born in Frederick | county, Mr. Thomas fifty-one years {ago and Mrs. Thomas, fif ars ago. | Their old home was Carroll Manor, near Frederick, Md. They are mem- bers of the Grace Reformed Church ! of this city. R o D e R 3 member of Hiram t— - !Lodge, F. A. A. M, and is a former Celebrate Event—Three of Orig- | Loten. B A p Ao dliote Camp, Modern inal Attendants Present. | Woodmen of the World. Mrs. Themas |is a member of Fidelis Camp of the Wearing the clothes in which they | Royral Neighbors. were married twenty-five years ago! arfd with three of the attendants at the | original ceremony present, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence S. Thomas of 717 Massa- chusetts avenue northeast celebrated their silver wedding anniversary in their home Thursday night. i George Thomas, brother of the “bridegroom.” who acted as best man a quarter of a century ago, when| Rev. S. S. Miller of the Reformed Church, Mount Pleasant, Md.. pro-| nounced the marital vows; Mrs, Ern- est Michael of Bellevue Farm. Fred- | erick county, Md., sister of the “bride,” | and Bernard Thomas, nephew of Mr.| Thomas, are three of those who were | at_the wedding, who took part in the celebration. 3 The couple have six children, Misses | Rachel and Rebecca Thomas and Eu- gene S., Clarence’S,, jr.; Frederick H. and Donald and ~Arthur Thomas, Thomas have been NNUAL REPORT cember 31, 1921 OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ETS . $1,578,654.85 e . 177,410.97 3 2 . 1,145,41943 . 5 762,686.55 . 5 126,487.99 $82,572.30 oo SA2Z1Z96100 306,561.27 $4,520,522.27 $42,448,000.00 -.. $101,222295.00 55,148 $4,603,094.57 $1,518,954.00 $1,282,156.00 $225,575.00 $2,363,465.00 4,152,075 11,052,500 ' 24,044,612 37,657,924 71,097,545 GEORGE W. EVANS, Assistant Treasurer. 5 J. B. NICHOLS, M. D., Medical Director. . CHAS. B. BEALL, M. D., Asst. Medical Directgr. JAMES P. SCHICK, General Counsel.