Evening Star Newspaper, March 5, 1922, Page 2

4 % AT BAN OF TRADE: - Membership Committee “Af-| -fair One of Most Enjoy- able in Years. MANY NOVEL . FEATURES Zntertainment Combines ‘Mnsic, Dancing and Other Talent in Round of Merriment. *“Hail, Hail Gang's All Here sang members the Washington the of at the annual midwinter dinner of the mémbership committee of that organ- ization last night at the Willard Hotel. The “gang” was all there, all right, from President Bradley. and the surviving charter loexl line members to the| in the entertainment Murray und George fuvorites Estelle onnor. Wails_of teeth will of the board wh dinner hear all fourth annual enterts vorking memnbership comimitte. cus dinner, dinner From' the ¢ e flake epi-| whatever that iz, to the mouses chantilly, which was some of an ice cream concoction, there was no lagging behind on the part of | the “gang.,” excepting. of course. to gaze on the bevy of beautiful dancers and singers who figured prominently in the affair. One Figure Laekl There ywas only one familiar figure Jacking in the show, and that was popular Charlie Waters, who has been the directing head of so many of the hoard’s entertainments. William Cla- baugh, however, proved a capable toastmaster and evervthing went smoothly. i The only serious few minutes of the evening were spent listening to Representative J. N. Tincher of Kansas, who made himself immedi- atel popular by announcing at the beginning of his address that he| would only speak a few wor | 1t is Congr: said Mr. Tincher. “that makes Washington drink water, ! so that 1 am heartily in favor. of providing .an adequate amount of | good \drinkiug water for the people of the District. 1| shall support the amemiment offered to the appropria- tion_ hill for the construction of ad- ditional water supply for Washing- ton. While I am_in favor of water supply, 1 am not in favor of harness- ing the Potomac to furnish water Power at government expense to ad- territory. re representative. made a dscided hit with the business men of Wash- ington when he said that as long as he had been here he had never been unfairly treated by one of them. He touched briefly conference of the limitation of arma~ ment and said that in his_opinion the agreements reached at that com- ferente were a step forward in goud zovernment and good civilisation. Taxpayers of the United States, he said. should not be compelled to wup- port a large standing military f@rce. And now to get back to damcers, singers and talent. Of course, afl the board members must be clasgéd as singers. “Honey Boy" Evans led them sh and gnashi ard when members did not get to | th (GLOB CONTRACTS Board of Trade—six hundred strong— | ! Countyy Club on the 406- jelub. i} passing through the commo- i ments on the recent: conta - OONDAY .LENTEN SERVICES B. F. KEITH'S THEATER 12:30 to 1 o’clock Beginning March 6 Monday Introductory Service SHORT ADDRESSES Every One lnvitel—No Collection FOR GOLF COURSE sonal Links to Be Started at Once. t tion of the first fourse of the MURDERED TAYLOR, SAYSNOTE WRITER Police Receive: Letter, Author Declaring He “Killed Pic- ture Director. | By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif, March 4— Capt. David Adams of the Los@An- geles police department, announced today that he had received a letter from a man whose name he refused to disclose, stating-that the writer had killed William Desmond Taylor, motion picture director, whose re. cent death has baffled investigators The letter, Capt. Adams said, was written by an educated man, was Rent from a city in Connecticut, the name of which he declined to disclose, and made circumstancial statements that filled in precisely with facts developed by the police. pt. Adams said he would not say definitely that the letter was g gen- uine confession, but he would Cont constge golf cre Mar, land timct. Work on the course is to begin im- mediately by Lew Valentine of Ardmore, Pu., nationally known link builders, with u view to making play possibly’ this summer. Construction will be under the general supervision of Col. Ularence O. Sherrils, chairman of the Yrounds committee, and Dever- eux Exmet, the golf architect, who design®d the three courses. Arrangements are being made by the butlding committee, headed by G. Logan Y’ayne, for the award of con- tracts for the erection of the new clubhouse. Plans for the structure, as designed by Philip M. Jullien, Washirgton architect, w by the hoard of governor cent meeting. According to a description of the dious 0bby’ you come to 12x13¢ feet, which open room proper. long, With a 20-foot end of the promenade the main i dining room and banquet room, and at the other end of the promenade is the.Hving room. billiard room, men's lounse and ladies’ retiring room. Im- medately in front of the clubroom is 4 pertico 253x50 feet, and in turn the entice front of the' building is sur- rounded by a terrace 25 feet wide and 230 feet long. \ Balcony Effect Planned. A mezzanine floor is provided in tne hujlding, so as to give a balcony ef- fect to the clubroom, where members may look on during Jarge enterta This mezzanine floor also s a_presidential suite of four rooms, with a private passage to the directors’ room. making it possible | to use the latter for conferences. Several small card rooms and a large card room are provided in one sec- tion of this mezsanine fh with a reading and writ The second foor is ac Iy to badrooms for the accommoda- tion of club members who wish to live at the club, and contains fity bedrooms with bath: promenade o the club- | 40X80 feet inz. At one is that the department put much cred- land quick investigation. The jetter_expressed regret that he could no lect the res s offered for the arrest of the slaver, but an- nounced that the writer was leaving the country immediately. 1t gave re- venge for an old feud as the mot or the shooting of Taylor, and was connected with the previous investi- Kations 4pt. Adams declined to give out any further details and said he would not show the letter at present. in several popular songs and feveral embryo Carusos were noticed, “Miss Washington” Preésent. Margaret Gorman. christened “Mis: Washington” after she had swept the boards in several local and national | beauty contests, was there as an as- sistant to Jame« K. Young, who dedi- cated his _song “Your Smile” to the “prettiest” girl in the United States. Miss Gorman smiled throughout the well rendered song and speddily wor the hearts of all concerned. Several of the members carried home roses thrown to them by ton”; however, it is belfeved that the only’ ones who did this were those|®n the other side whose wives were in the balcony and were therefore perfectly cognizant of how they came by the flowers. of hard to explain otherwise. Taking matters in their natural se quence, it is best to go back to the be. ginning, when “My Country. 'Tis of | Thee.” wiN'sung by the entire assem- ! biage. with Mrs. M. Robey as “Miss ! Columbia” in the spotlight. Mr. Clabaugh, chairman of the din- ! ner committee and presiding genius| of the evening. then said a few words; “introductory remarks” is what they were ¢ermed by the elaborate pro- ! gram. Presidens-Rrad made a short ad wess of Welcome an introduced three | charter members of the board—Isa A Col. Myron Parker and ore Saks, Jokin M der. “Mr. Saks asserted, | when i turned to the table, that thej re: they ot so much applause | was because they didn't attempt to! make a speech. .. Damee Charms Guests. é Washingion Quartet, a familiar el songs to be followed, as Clabaggh could gt them 3 Estelle Murray and Royal Foster serpeytiae tango dance. “Belections” by the Simpson five ofAhem, sisters. not selections, were ! m. After Mrs. Anna | ,Qien Robey and Maurice H had sung number of delight fullold sonzs who should appear on the sceme-but George O'Conmor, who needs | no introduction to the local business men. Well, “George” and Matt Horn, his accompanist. simply brought down the house. When the applause final- | Iy died away both of them looked | pretty tired f responding to many encores. When He S Cousin Carus plause from the ext came Mis: mentioned, corps of _ particularly able : dancers. This act also wus accorded | rrolonged applause. i Other acts were an operatic solo by Mile. Piccolini, late of the ftalian Opera Company; the national dance by mem. bers of Miss Mwrray's baMet. and the | grand finale, “Girls, Here, There and | Everywhere i | rendered several | Mr. sters, | a drew vo “gang. Murra That's all, but {t was enough to afford an enoyable evening to quite a number of T. B. M.'s. Those who did not get there ought to feel pretty blue this morning. WHISKY 'AND STILL FOUND Treasury Watchman Charged With Illegal Possession. +A five-gallon still, four and one- half gallons of corn whisky and| thirty-tiree gallons of wine were the | confiscated items in a raid by revenue men and police of the eighth precinct { last night on the home of Daniel Brown, 226 Quincy place nortireast. Brown, who ix sixty-three years old and a watchman at the Treasury De- partment, waz about ready to leave s hema for duty at midnight when Aacting Lieut. Sullivan of the eighth precinct, with Revenue *Agents F. T. Rome and P. E. Heims and Precinct Detectives Murphy and Poole, arrived . at the house. Brown is charged with the illegal possession of a still and the ililegal possession of whisky. MRS. G. W. PRATT DEAD. Mrs. Georze W. Pratt, seventy-eight years old, widow of George W. Pratt, @fed at Garfleld Hospital yesterday morning after a short illness. Funeral services will be held to- morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at Chainbers’ undertaking establishment, 1400 Chapin street. Interment will be at Congressional cemetery. Mrs. Pratt was a_ daughter of Col. Henry Harper Hazard and Mrs. Hazard. ~ She was a member of tive Phil Sherfdan - Women's Rellet Corps, i ‘Miss Washing. | 100king the links will be entirels Sort | | plete water system installed, which jare to be i yesterday by Senator King. democrat. The ground floor. w s im- mediately below the mam_entrance floor, contains the men's locker room, with' one thousand lockers, a large grill reom, overlooking the grounds. here members may dine after play | | without dressing for dinner; a bowl- | ing alley, with four all, a swim- ming pool. thirty feet by eighty-five feet; a full-sized gymmasium, forty- | five ‘feet by ninety-five feet. and a { ladies’ locker room, with lockers. | { *“As the building is to be erected on a side hill the ground floor over- h increased Activity With Bushel of Bad Paper Brings Special Effort. - Declaring that more fraudulent ¢hecks have been passed in Washing- ton in the past few weeks than in iny former corresponding period, po- lice officials issued orders last night for a “round-up” of bad check operators. orged and worthless checks have been passed frequently here of late, said one member of the police force last night. “The d >artment prob- ably has as many as a bushel of checks that represent thousands of dollars obtained by swindlers.” Inspector Grant, chief of detectives, called atrention 'of members of his squad to the situation, and requested that special efforts be made to break up this practice and bring the guilty parties to justice. Wilbur ~ N. Bashore, rs old, Scuth Patterson Park avenue. Baltimore, Md., rooming at | %68 12th street, employed as oollec- tor for the Prudential Insurance | Company, and~ William H. Morris, twaity above ground, whereas the entrance the building will ibe on ground level the main { floor. Homes Near Club, “Sketches for country homes and bungalows ranging from five to twelve rooms have been prepared and it is expected that a number of these vill be built during the Spring to ac- commodate members who wish to take up their residence adjacent to the golf links, where they may have the benefit of the social ac s as vell ‘as the golfing to be enjoved by the club members. A number of deep wells are to be drilled and a com- will supply water for the entire prop- | erty. At the same time a complete ewerage system will be installed and | an_electric light plant of sufficient capacity to supply light and power for the residences ax well as the club proper. In this way the entire property will be assured of every modern_ convenience. A garage for the of not less than fifty cars is planned for the use of the members, and parking space for not less than one thousand cars is contemplated in the rounds lay-out. Ample provision has been made for tennis courts and the: constructed at once so a to be in use for this fall. The residence located at the north- west corner of the property, together with_the stables and barns. is to be put in shape at once for the use of | the members who enjoy fox hunting. as this it to be made z special feature of the organization. A fine pack of hounds has been secured and great in- terest is being taken in this feature ! by numerous members of the organ- | ization. accommodation Darnall and held on four charges of forgery. i Eetting three of them cashed. It is alleged that-Bashore became familiar names are alleged to have b forged and alsb the banks in which the persons had money deposited. Reports of the forgeries were made to the police, and yesterday afternoon the young men were arrested. De- tectives say they admitted their con- nection with the check transactions. v [MAN DIES SUDDENLY IN <ROOM 'IN -HOTEL The .alien property custodian, would be directed, in a resolution introduced Utah, to _transmit to the Senate the names of all attorneys employed iu | the conduct of alien ‘property cas Senator King said that a similar r olution, adopted last January . had been ignored. Peckskill, N. Y., Visitor Registers With Congress Heights Woman as Mr. end .Mrs. Wright. Frederick F. Roe of Peekskill, N. Y. died suddenly last night in his room at the Continental Hotel. He was accompanied by a woman who gave her name to the police as Selected as Queen of Alabama’s ‘Carnival D. C. The register for the room oc- cupied by the couple showed the names, “Mr..and Mzs. J. A. Wright, \ White ‘Plains, N. Y.” The woman told | the police that she was unaware of { the fact that such a registry had been i made. { The death occurred shortly after S o'clock. When the police arrived, | in"response to &' notiflaation 'from | Coroner Nevitt, it was 11 o'clock. Nevitt, on_arrival, said an autopsy t‘\l" be performed this morning. Roe's .immediate relative.. accord- | ing to the woman who furnished his | Frederick F. Roe, jr., connected with an ice manufacturing company of Peekskill. 'Ree seemed 'to ‘be -about fifty-three or fifty-five years of age. According to information obtained by the police, the death apparently { took place faimost immediately after { the arrival of the couple in tire hotel. Shortly after the bellboy .had left the couple the office of the hotel was notified of a case of serious sickness in the room and immediately sent for a physician, who pronounced thei man dead on his arrival. ‘Detectives Fow- ler and Flaherty @are making an in- vestigation. . URGE BONT'S BILL. A petition urging ‘the ‘passage of the adjusted compensation bIll for - former service men @ women was i MISS MARIE COURTNEY, received yesterday by Representative Promiwent debutante uf Moblle, Ala..{ Halvor Steenerson of Minvesota. It revently adjudged Alnbama’s prettlest| is ‘signed by .F49 business ahd :pro &ivl, and seiceted an queen of the car- } fessional ‘men -and womten, bankers; sival and. Mardti Geas to e keld imffarmers and Iaborers residing.in: Mebile, vicinity of Mahnomen, Mina. 5 say | ence in it, and was making a thorough | signed by a name that had net heeni th ROUND-UP ORDERED OF FORGERSIND. . twenty-two | | Charlotte Kenton of Congress Heights, ; Dr.{ | correct name to the police, is his son, | | 1 i | i i x vears old, 917 New York : the 3 avenue, were arrested yesterday aft- | Plunkett had fnitiated it. A cousin of ernoon by Detectives Springmann and | Plunkett, a Maj. Cole, told me that Plunkett had taken Russell from be- i hind the comnter in a Dublin draper’s | | with the signatures of persons whose | of | in both movements, the esthetic and on i THE_SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, PRPPOSED NEW CONGRESSIONAL COUNTRY CLUBHOUSE. C, MARCH 35 D. LEADER OF THOUGHT IN DUBLIN SEES HOPE IN RURAL DISTRICTS George Russell Discourages Growth of Irish Cities—Plans Co-Operative or Guild System. BY FORRBST DAVIS. Bpecial Correspondence of The Star, DUBLIN, ‘They cultivated their tiny_ of soil ungeientifically, they pal high tribute to the “gombeen men un-| the local traders, they lived in sanitary, inadequate cottages. Today owners in spite of “the have become indépendent of local trader: tage is on the way to becoming sentimental memory, to be cel brated in such in Athlone.” ‘There are a half million farmers in Ireland who® own land. They not onmly most numerous also the most favored economicall 'he: leaven that has brought about | improvement in rural Ireland the co-operative movement, Sir Ho ace Plunkett's Irish Agricultural O ganization Society. 900 of the hal which maintains 300 enterprises, creameries, teries and steres. To get at the meaning rule to agricultural Ireland necessary the leaders in this movement. it poat, ‘artist and econom sage. seldom strays from his beloved and was readily accessible. ‘A. E” fn His Office. “A. E” loves to talk. sought him out in his homey office on the top Hoor When square, he talked almost uninte ruptedly for an hour. discoursing on i Abbey | the co-operative movement. polities, Gaelic eulture, the Theater, the Yeats boys—Willle an Jack—and America, which he quaint views. ‘Dublin has the finest con\'trulflodn' remains agrarian and the land stav H And of any city in the world,” and if the others of hi as fascinatingly as Russell be true. 1 have been told he sai that and that sooner or later every who is any one to view ated above the rest, him lead a witty and wi of views, his good-humpre beamng over the reddish wa tace. brow From his Plunkett house office “A. E.” edits the Irish Homestead, wee! organ of the Irish Agricultural Organization Society. He is the voice of the united farmers of Ireland, the mane, shrewd counselor. movement eight vears Four checks. for sums i shop,. where - the, latter had gone to $350, are alloed to have hios nEAGME | Work after he came to Dubli by the defendants, Bashore it being | north Ireland to study art and had charged, forging them and Morris |2bandoned §t. fro ‘A ‘Natiomal Figure. At all events, many his a sance of Gaelic culture. Ireland, February 7.— Thirty-two years ago the farmers of Ireland, the small peasant proprietors who had only recently re-pessessed the land, were an unproperous lot. patches these same peasan: land- trouble,” are relatively well ‘off, their stand- ard of living has been raised, they the and the thatched cot- | American-made bal- lads as “That Tumbled Down Shack mall their constitute the class. but they are which enrolls 130, million farmers, and co-nperative baking fac- of home to consult the opinions of Sir Horace Plunkett has been in America on a hollday, but his amazingly gifted llde.é}fl)rg‘e ‘W. Russell, the famous belittered, of Plunkett House in pleasant Merion never has visited and of which he holds circle talk it must | he keeps open house every Sunday night one Ireland goes there the patriarchal-appearing “A. E." sitting in a great chair ele- and to hear exchange blue eyes ste of hair which covers his lower He entered nfter E.” is today one the two or three most compelling unsound and dangerous _principle. But the 500,000 peasant landowners, who constitute the strongest group numerfcally, will doubtless have suf- ficient influence to get what they need from a free state parliament. “Irish thought has been largely preoccupled with politics for the la century. Whether it will shift easi ! to economics, whether the men who {have hated English rule will be able | to turn to and hate oppression and economic injustice as heartily, no one ia can_tel “The British government has I helped the 1. A. O. S, paving us a pound for every pound subscribed for organization and educational work. {That is ended mow, of course, but 1 fancy the free state will continue the | subsidy.” For a Gulld Irecland. Russell has a notion of a guild Ire- land, an Ireland which will be ma up of economic units—farmers, trad- ers, professionals and workmen—whic will safeguard the i sts of their members much as the 1. A. O. S. has attended the needs of the farmers. “There are some thinkers he said, “who believe Ireland's best destiny to He in the direction of a_co-opera tive commonwealth. 1 share that {view. What we want in Ireland is {to develop all of our people, in the iremote districts equally as lurban ones i “That, to me, is the model Ireland. a small nation. may set for tly world. In great countries, such as England and America, vou have tremendous vital cities. They are the hot, pul ing centers: they drain the land and cause social unbalance and life is cold apart from them by contrast. “I would have reborn Irclar shrink from developing Dublin, Bel- fast, Cork. Limer| and the ‘other cities at the expense of the villages and the open country. Co-operatian can prevent that economic and cul- tural combination among the farm- ers and villagers, for the betterment of_their lot. “If I were charting the free state course toward rural Ireland I should give the widest play to local welf- government. 1 would have the peo- ple grow relfant through full exer- cise of their common powers. 1 would carry the principle of co-op- eration into Rovernment.” A. E. is not so certain of the lution of the labdr problem. He not apprehensive about the possibil ity of communism so long as Ireland = e- Y. is r- is 1 r- nd tin the hands of the peasants. he offers co-operation as a substi- tute. “Let the laborers organize to sell their services co-operatively and to buy in common. Let them incorpo- rate all branches of labor, management. and when_ they have become sufficiently enlightened they own and control industries as Italian trades unionists have done Wwith_success. Would they pressing such views in America™ he asked with a twinkle as I took leave. {D.'C.-APPROPRIATION BILL AWAITS SENATE ACTION n ir | Measure May Come Up Tomorrow for Conmsideration in That Branch of Congress. | 1 m still waiting an ‘opportunity for con- Jnanimeus consent was given late enate—the proposai to change the Senate rules so that all appropriations bills shall be the appropriations com- mittee—not later than 4 o'clock to- | the agricultural, and they, too, with | morrow afternoon. ' i Stnn Fein brought about the revival | i I | of nationalism. “It is too eafly to gauge with any accuracy the effect of home rule on|afternoon the growth of those forces which |tained on the resolution have been remaking rural Iréland,” Russell told me. “An Irish government will /2pre- sent, of course, all elefhents in Ire- including the ones which are 1and. Senator Phipps of Colorado, charge of the District bill, ready to call the bill up yesterday in case a vote was ob- the change in_the rules. 'But ‘debate on -the resolution - was continued until a partisan discursion of the Newberry election case begans which { chants and others who view it as an morrow. Tgnorance Ts the Cause ‘of much sickatess - Recognizing this, we have for many years made education in real, specific hygiene the keynote of our werk. ‘With a large and naturally susceptible, but intelligent, negro_population, and with no up-to-date milk laws to support our effcrts, we have, by educational propaganda in our schoo's and in ‘Washington newspapers, reduced the tiaberculosis death rate both among white and col of Columbia well in the and states. Our 12 Health Rules; ¢on lored people and placed the District front rank with more favored cities densed into. six, teach: 1. Aveid ‘hodse dust ‘and Impiire or close wit, Hay and right. -2.'Get -all the.light and sunshine possible into your home. 3. ‘Drivik ‘plenty ‘of ‘pastearized ‘milk and cream, None 4.Eat plain, nourishing food. raw. ‘5. Get ‘gufficient sleep‘by ‘rétiring surly envugh. 6. Tsy to avoid worry. Be cheerful. Think kiddly. ,Your mind acts on your body. If you tire easily—or are losing weight—and have a persistent light cough—or hoarseness—di %0 'to the Hesith D o _ndt Tose time. See ctor, or Clinic, 409 15th St. N. & ‘uesday, Thursday or Saturday, at 24 o'clock. Friday evenings from 47:30-9 o'clock. Examinations free. ‘Consumption cun be <ured omly in 'its ‘early stages. . This, Bullstin 4s 'Paid for by the 3 YBHSLNW, in the! including | put me in jail for ex-| The District appropriation bill is !sidcmlion in the Senate. It may een {figures in Erin and, in the opinion of | come before ' the Senate tomorrow. the outstanding Irishman of . He in not a politician, ul- | | though he has been @ nationalist and |3 a home-ruler, and his two main con- | business-of the cerns are with the economic develop- ment of Ireland and with the renais- Ho is leader | handled by osterday to .vote on the unfinishei! in | was praposing lasted until nearly 7 o’clock. and the | opposed Jto co-operation, the mer-|Senate then took recass until to- | | 1 | i i i | i { | l L on ‘whether speculation is a menace 1922—PART 1. HIS YEAR LIKE TWENTY, PRESIDENT TELLS CLUB 1 from First | the office alone, much less devote his time to the trying problems of the nation. “I don’t believe any of you have fully understood the problems the administration took up,” declared the chief executive. “And when I say that I am not critical. kam Dot unmindful of the fact that my distinguished predecessor was fll and that the nation was adrift in war’s aftermath. The problem of readjustment was infinitely more difffcult than any of you imagined. Enjoys Cemtact With Press. Beginning his extemporaneous speech, President Harding, in re- ferring to the achievements of the first year of his administration, id that he enjoyed himself “quite as much as any one of you. It is not hard.” he added, “for me adjust myself to the humor of the rough-neck reporter. 1 have had my day there. If I do adjust my- self to the seriousness of the ex ecutive it is because of my e perience.” Then the President referred to the fact that ht desired the hu- man contact, and that as a conse- quence he found his days filled, and, therefore, had difficulty keep- ing abreast of his task. ~1 never find my work done. I find myself unable, however, to keep aloof. One cannot be Presi- dent and keep aloof. He wounld be fit to be President if he Indicating how fully his re- sponsibilities were bearing down upon him and how much relief it was to be “plain folks” if only for a few minutes, the President remarked: “It is good to come and forget at such an event as this—to be Just really human for a while.” Hard to Be Huma “If there is anything wrong WHA the White House job it is the inability to be a human being" he continued, and then to relieve the tension he interjected: “I am not referrigg to any piece of legisla- tio And there was an appre- ciative wave of laughter. ‘““There are many compensa- tions,” declared the President. “These are in effort to restore order, to restore stability, maybe in adding to the guarantee that civilization comes with growing aspirations and is being retained and will be handed on to the gen- erations of Americans to come.” Then disclaiming any idea of flattering the newspaper men as- semblcd around him, the President said that the power of the press was for a great good. He referred to them as the “molders of pub- lic_opinion. “Beyond all laws, public opinion is the greater power.” And he again referred to the helpfulness of the press. “You and I together in reason- able simplicity and purpose can make this government a world influence. A Symbel of Security. “If we can make it the sheet ancho? of modern democracy and the symbol of ecurity throughout the world; make it the expression of the aspirations of mankind throughout the world; then we shall have contributed to the cur- rent which keeps alive the great stream of civilization.” Before going to the Press Club, President Harding attended the ninth annual celebration of the founding of the Labor Departm: as the guest of Secretary Davi. He shook hands with the several hundred members of the depart- ment and in & short talk expressed his pleasure at being present. " Mr. Harding was given an_ova- tion when he entered the Press Club and his enjoyment of the in- formal exercises was apparent in frequent smiles, which crept over his face. A demonstration of radio telephony was in progress when he arrived and the President join- ed the band of interested hearers. Cnke With ‘One Candle. At the conclusion of the demon- stration, Gus Karger, master of ceremonies, brought forth a glant bowl holding a cake with one can- dle burning. From the bowl he slowly drew gifts symbolic, he said, of events in the firat year of Mr. Harding’s administration. The President smiled often during presentation of the gifts. Prior to the reception to the President, the Préss Club's radio- Phone was. dedicated. A prepared elaborate program of music and addresses sent out from the naval air station in Anacostia was in- terfered with by static conditions, W. C. Horn, a representative of the Westinghouse Electric and Supply Company, who installed the radiophone, operxted the machine and explained 'its mechanism. e also outlined .~ the fundamental principles of wireless. After Mr. Harding conclulled his address, he remained at the club for some time talking with the newspaper men. 1.R.PICKELL WINS DEBATE Argues That Speculation Ts Berefit | to Grain Marketing. _LEXINGTON, Neb., March 4.—J. 'Ralph Pickell, Chicago economist and financial writer, tonight = defeated George J. Jewett of Portland, Ore., president of the Northwest Wheat Growers' Association, in their debate ‘to the marketing of grain. i ‘Mr; Pickell contended speculation SCHOOL RULING ON SKIRTS FAILS IN COURT TEST Suspended Girls Win Over Order to Wear Dresses Three Inches Below Knees. LAWRENCE, Kan, March 4—A ruling that higk school girls’ skirts must extend three inches below the knees was thrown out of district court here today by Judge Hush Means. The ruling had been made by the school board of the Vineland rural high school, in this country. Becauss, according to the echool board, thelr skirts were too short, Alice Hansen and Maud Buchanan were suspended from school last appeared in court seeking He toll the judge both dressed in mothers. father, redress. girls were modestly clothing made by their be readmitted to school. ADVOCATES RAZIG FEDERAL HOTELS Head of Realtors Urges and the Avenue. Early development into a park system of the “vista” between Union station and the Capitol and of the south side of Pennsylvania avenue, from the Botanic Gardens to the Mall, was advocated last night by Irving B. | Hiett of Teledo, president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, who arrived in Washington yesterday to preside at the midwinter meeting of the executive committee of the association. The meeting will be held tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednes- day at the Willard Hotel. Mr. Hiett says his hope for this improvement is due to a natural { pride in the capital city, common to the heart of every American citizen, and enhanced in case by the fact that he was a resident of this city during the war, while Serving the government in the United States Housing Corporation. Cleared of Bulldings. “The next time I come to Washing- iton 1 would like to find that the south side of Pennsylvania avenue has been cleared of its present buildings and developed along the lines laid out Ly the Fine Arts Commission and the War Department. 1 should also like to see the g Station plaza replaced by xpanse of parking. view to the Capitol,’ With regard to the federal hote Mr. Hiett pointed out that he had hand in vlacing them where they are, &s an cfficial of the Housing Corpora- tion in 1917 and 1518, and that he b {lieves now ‘they have served their | purpose and should be removed. H Sees Great Development. The realtors’ head was taken on {a tour of home sections in the out- ilying distric improved since he {lived in Washington, and he was greatly impressed with enormity of dwelling operations h declaring i that Washington has made marked | strides in_home-building since 1918, { He remarked about the quality of a broad affording a clear said Mr. Hiett | apartment houses which have gone up. and plaza improvements would {hurried, Mr. Hiett emphasized that {he did not want to be put in the ilight of a stranger criticising the i city, as he contiders himself by rea- on ‘of former residence and national interest a whole-hearted citizen and booster of Washington. Mrs. Hiett accompanied her hus- band to this city. They are at the Willard Hotel. i | ILEGION TO CAMPAIGN T0 FIND JOBS FOR 700,000 iMacNider Asserts Concerted Effort Would Find Employment for 500,000. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 4.—A campaign {by the American Legion to obtain | employment for 700,000 veterans of the world war now idle and in need !nas been under consideration by the legion, Col. Hanford MacNider, ma- | tional commander, announcea tonight in an address at a dinner given in his honor by the Iliinois department. National business, civic, fraternal and welfare organizations have been ;different asked to co-operate and a survey conditions in each locality will completed before March 20, which of be Tuesday. Today G. H.'Hansen, Alice’s | | l | CITIZENS WILL ASK FOR 3-TOKEN SALES lFeueration Reaffirms Stand H Beautifying Station Vista |ra: the homes erected and the number of {livan upon his promotion to superi In expressing hope that the avenue | capably be | that office. { | for Merger of Trolley Companies. ASKS RATE FOR PUPILS Favors New Bridge Over Anacostia River—Congratulates Maj. Sullivan, The Public Utilities Commission will Judge Means ordered that the girls(be requested by the Feperatien of Citizens’ Associations to direct the street car companies to sell three to- kens for 20 cents, as well as six for 40 cents. When it met in the boardroom of the District building last night, the federation instructed William McK. Clayton, chairman of the utilities com - mittee, to take up with the commis- sion the question of allowing car riders to invest less than 40 cents at « time in tokens. reaflirmed their r of merge tng a = - ission and oppos- x on stre - bove a4 6 per cent re- ations Mr. Clayion submitted the follow- ing report of the utilities committee, which was adopted: “1. The federation deeply regrets that the Public Utilities Commission should have bstituted for the law a ‘public poli: discriminatory in its operation and leading away from merger rather than toward Want Three for 20 Cents. ‘The federation asks that the commission reform its finding so that the companies be directed to sell three tokens for 20 gents. “3. The fedcration again fndors legislation for a commission separai- and apart from the District commis- sion. “4. The federation again opposes all proposed legislation having for its purpose the imposition of an ex cess profits 1ax to be levied on the r riders of the District of Colum - bia as vicious in principle and ubor- e in practic The federation agai merger of all the street car the District of Columbia and previous of the v referred to by the committee in the first paragraph of its report the decision of the commis- sion 10 keep tie rate of fare the same on both companies. The federation cor.- tended at the street car hearings that vernment hotels on Union |under the law the commission should give each company a rate of fare that would yield a reasonable return their respective valuations. Want Half-Fare for Puplis. The delegates authorized Mr. Clayton to endeavor 1o have the Capital Truc- tion Company establish a haif-fare for school ehildre: W. B. Todd. chairman of the com- mittee on highways. parks and water- ways, made a favorable report on Yhe resolution advocating erection of a new bridge to carry Pennsylvania avenue southeast over the Anacostis river. The federation approved the report. The federation adopted unanimous! a report of E. B. Henderson. chair- man of the police and fire comm:: tee, congratulating Maj. Daniel Su!- tendent of police and voicing th federation’s confidence in his ability to discharge the duties of Prestdent’Baker reminded the dele- gates that revision of the constitu tion would be taken up at the nex meeting. 11,323 TREES WANTED FROM VIRGINIA SUPPLY isume of Applications Are for Use on School Grounds, Forester Reports. Specinl Dispateh to The Star. CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va.. March 4 —That appli 3 forest trees from the Virginia state fores: nursery have been received is stated 1y Chapin Jones, Virginia state fprester. Forester. These trees are grown on the grounds of the University of YVir- Einia for the purpose of encouraging State {the reforestation of otherwise idle land. and are shipped while very small, as is always done when trees are pianted for timber growing. Mr. Jones stated that the first ship- ments were_made in the spring of 1921, when 7,920 small scedlings and transplants were shipped to. thirty applicants in_ twenty-tw. counties of Virginia. While the trees are of the sizes and specics co sidered best for ~ forest planting. Will be known as American Legion !&nd are raised for that purpose, some jemployment day, he said. “Properly supported, this concert- ed, localized national effort will re- sult in the relief of 500000 men in thirty days,” Col. MacNider asserted. President Harding has begn request- ed to set aside the day by proclama. tion to obtain relief for unemployed veterans, and governors, mayors of cities and local leaders have been asked to co-operate, it was an- | nouncea. “Resplendent dignitaries, great ad- | dresses and solemn music paid kom- jare to the unknown soldier last No- vember,” Col. MacNider safd. { unknown soldier even now vour door. tion will work.” is passing Your faith and appreci inspire him. ' Give him First Woman Admitted to LADY RHONDDA, of the applicantions for been for use in decorating school grounds. For this use there is charge excapt the cost of shippine while for use on private land a small charge is made. The trees for distribtution this spring will be lifted and packed soor before the spring growth begins. and they should be planted as early as possible. The bulletin describing the trees available, which can be obtaimed from the state forester at Charlottes- ville, states there are available this spring more than 30,000 trees of the following speci Scotch pine, white them have ‘'This | pine, loblolly pine, cypress, northern red oak, black locust and catalpa. February Circulation 93,588 One Edition Daily District of Coiumbia, as.: FLEMING NEWBOLD, Business Manager of THE ENING and SUNDAY STAR, does wolemnly swear that the actual number of copies of the paper named sold and distributed during the month of February, A.D. 192 as follows: DAILY. ROES RS RS bttt PRt oimt-CTRE RN [Ty Less adjustments.... tal daily net circulation. 'l‘)‘:l -ve:ua net paid circu- Dafiy "ayerige number co%le- for service. etc... Daily average net circulation. SUNDAY. Coples. Days. 94,455 1 83130 Less adjustments.. tal Sunday net circulation. {(\":u:e net paid Sunday cir- culation Wife of Sir Hamphrey Mackworth, is | Average numb he daughter of the iate Viscownmt Hhondda, Great Britain’s Wwar-time service. etc. Average Sunday net circula- tion %% 55