Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1922, Page 4

* 4 HEADS D: C. SCHOOL BETTERMENT MOVE Henry Glassie Appointed to + Direct Drafting of Im- £ provement Program. NAMED BY DR. SIMON Civic Bodies to Unite in Drive to Secure Requisite Appropriations From Congress. HENRY H. GLASSIE. Henry H. Glassie, chairman of the School committee of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, was appointed today by Dr. Abram Simon, president of the beard of education, to head the citizens' committee of five to formu- late a school improvement program and direct a concerted movement of the civie bodies of the District in se curing appropriations from Congress requisite to carry it out Other members of the committee are Dr. Milton Fairchild. head of the Character Education Association; Ira B. Nutter. chairman of the school com- mittce of the Rhode Island Citizens® Association: Mrs. Rafter, president of the Di gress of Mothers and Parent As tions, and Dr. U. J. Daniels, rman of the special committee on educatios of the Federated Civie As- sociations. Committee Representative. authorized to ap- Dr. Simon H. M. Crandall to Change Name of Local Theater. Harry M. Crandall, ow:er of the thea- ters bearing his name in Washington and vicinity, has acquired control of NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. the Garden Theater. on 9th street be- [ tween D and E, and will operate it as the eighth Washington playhouse in the Crandall chain, according to an- nouncement made today from the Cran- dall executive offices. The name of the theater will be changed from the Garden to Crandall's Central Theater. The house will be renovated and reseated on both the or- chestra and balcony floors. New stage settings and new projection booth equip- ment will be installed. —_— RUSSELL DENIES HE ' TRIED TOPAY GIRL ‘Mississippi Governor Says i Her Statement of Attempted Settlement False. | { 1 By the Associated Press. H OXFORD, Miss., December 8.—With jmore than a score of witnesses, cluding Theo G. Bilbo, former {ernor of Mississippi. yet to be heard from, the trial of the $100.000 dam- age suit against Lee M. Russell, | ernor of i ippi. by Miss Franc {C. Birkhead. stenographer. cntered upon its third-day session here today in the United States district court. The witnesses to be called are for the defense, while additional testi- mony in rebuttal is expected to be presented by Miss Birkhead. Bilbo Cited for Cgntempt. Resting its case by counsel for the plaintiff. ‘a lengthy wrangle over the much discussed “Mary™ letter. and an order by Judge E. R. Holmes citing Mr. Bilho for contempt of court were_ the’ important developments in the case vesterday. The trial was started Wednesday, following two days of argument over a demurrer by the dufensc. which was overruled. There was no indication carly today when the trail would be brought to a close. Gov. Russell witness b: ing counsel He was on examination, for the day. Never Tried to Pay Her. _The executive, in answer to a ques- tion as to whether he had authorized some of his friends to cffect a set- tlement with Miss Birkhead. replied with dramatic never auth to pay her a dime,” adding. as he looked toward where Miss Birkhead sat with her in- called as the first the defense after oppos- had rested their case. the stand. under cross when court adjourned a deliberate falsehood and he knows it Miss Birkhead had 1 i SEES IF' HE CAN TELL. ANYTHING BY FEEUNG THE LETTERS (C) Wheeler Syn. Inc. COURT DECISIONS AID TO U. S. TRADE BOARD Commission Finds Unfair Compe- tition Law Developed by Many Opinions. Outstanding features of the past vear for the Federal Trade Commis- sion, as outlined in the annual re- port to Congre made public today, were development of the law of un- fair competition as exemplified by court decisions creating precedents for its further application and a number of important economic in- quiries. There was an increasc in the number of foreign trade com- plaints. indicating a _corresponding increase in the number and pros- perity of foreign trade associations TRIES TO MAKE OUT THE WRITING THROUGH THEM GO AS THEY ARE THE ENVELORFS tee by the joint con- ssociations and the ion Tuesd: feren: board the i xraceful conditions in the s were discussed and the resultant im- perative needs outlined. The com- mittee. the school board president believes. is representative of the vari- ous organizations in Washington in- terested in public educati its personnel is thoroughly far with the schools and their short- omings. Informed The Star. M as he is official pointment he will call a meeting of the committee and begin the prepara- tion of the school betterment pro gram. The school improvement program. Chairman Glassie indicated, will b worked out in conformity with the views expressed at the joint citizens' conference by Supt. Frank W. Ballou and Dr. Simon and others. The big- gest problem facing the committee, he emphasized, is not the drafting of the program, as this alread been done by the officials, ways and means of bringing it to a realization. . Favors Increased Taxation. As chairman of the school commit- tee of the Chamber of Commerce Mr. Glassie has taken an active part for years in a school-betterment program for the District. He is a strong advo- cate of increased taxation to provide the, school needs, providing no other effective method can be designed to secure additional school appropria- tions from Congress. It was Mr. Glassie, who struck the keynote of the joint civic conference With the school board, when he pro- claimed that the necessary school building program will not be secured untql the voice of the people of the District, in complete harmony, says effectively to Congre “We want this program carried out, even if it makes increased taxation We are willing to sacrifice -other de EQUALITY IS URGED his appointment by of ilassie said that as soon INU. S, EDUGATION o e os. Commissioner Tigert De- clares All Children Should Have Same Opportunity. Inequality in the amount and kind ®f education offered to the children of the United States and the need for equalization of educational oppor- tunity was emphasized today by John J. Tigert, federal commissioner of education, in his daily education week statement. “There is a startling inequality in the amount and kind of education offered to the children of the United ioner Tig- ‘Large numbers of children are handicapped by the most meager schooling, while others are profiting !in: at 13 i ifled the governor told her that he had authorized Theo G. Bilbo, for- mer Governor of Mississippi, and one or two other friends to make a set- tlement with her. Miss Birkhead, under cross-examina- tion during most of the morning. added that during the campaign for the governorship in 1919 she in- formed Oscar Johnston and Earl Brewer, a former governor, both po- litical opponents of the governor, of the alleged wrongs which form the basis of her suit. She also admitted receiving a monetary for information by which one new paper was enabled to score a “scoop" in printing her allegations first. Made Charge Against Doctor. Both sides offered witnesses in an effort to fix the authorship of the |Panies. “Mary” letter, handwriting compari- sons ‘being made particularly of the letter “M” on the original letter, and formation of the character, by Mr. Russell, Gov. Russell repeated his testimony that when he first met Miss Birkhead she made charges against Dr. Henry Boswell, superintendent of the state tuberculosis sanitarium at Magee, where she formerly was a stenogra- pher, similar to those she made against him. Dr. H. F. Garrison and Dr. C. D. Mitchell, then members of the board of health, corroborated this testimony. with the declaration that Miss Birkhead had threatened to kill Dr. Boswell. i DOLLAR DAY TOMORROW. ‘Will Receive Last of Contributions for Women's Colleges. Tomorrow is dollar day, and also the last day for contributions for the of America are raising $2.900.000 in order to obtain Mr. Rockefeller's gift of $1,000,000. Women's Union Christian Colleges for lgms of the orient requests that every j $1 tomorrow at the Y. W. C. A. build 3 F street, where the gen- eral secretary, Miss MacArthur, is acting as treasurer of the Washing- ton fund. enate Committee to Resume In- vestigation Thursday. Investigation of oil and gasoline iprices will be resumed next Thursday by the Senate manufacturers' sub- committee, it was announced yester- day by Chairman La Follette. The inquiry was begun last sum- mer. but was discontinued when Con- gress adjourned in September. Chair- man La Follette sadd it was expected to call the officiaf of some of the larger companies to testify next week and later to summon the officers of the smaller companies and the rep- resentatives of other lines of business and organizations as well as individ- uals having a direct interest in the subject under investigation. Subpoenas are being drawn u; summoning the heads of some of the arger companies, including the va- rious Standard corporations, it was said, but the names of the officials to be called were not announced. by the best modern educational op- ] ¥62rs. portunities. “For example. in 1920. a child was in school in some states on an aver- age of fifty-four days in a year. while In others the average days attended were 123. The average expenditure for a child’s schooling ran from $16.50 up to $113.07 in others. One state spent one-fifth as much on teachers’ salaries as did another, while the average expenditure on buildings per child varied from only $1.50 to $32.07! Rural and City Schools. “The most striking inequality is ‘between the rural and the city schools. More than two-thirds of the =chools of this country are one-room rural schools. There are approxi- mately 186.000 of these one-room schools. Between ten and twelve mil- Hon children are enrolled in these one-room schools. In nineteen states there are one-room schools in which teachers are receiving less than $300 a year. It seems ironic to call such a sum a salar The medium salary for the onc-goom school teacher falls between $300.and $400, while in cities “The way to equalize educational|¥ith opportunity is from the bottom up, not from the top down. We must re- place the small. antiquidated, one-room school by large consolidated schools. Consolidation has been eighty ars and it has been found that it "is within the power of the. consolidated school to meet all the re- quirements of the finest type of school now known. Consolidated Schoel. “The consolidated school is employ ing better prepared teachers and pay- ing them better salaries; it is de- velop@ng school plants with audi- toriums, laboratories and shops, and it is promoting the health of the chil- dren by medical inspection, well pre- pyred lunches, and eafe ‘transporta- tin from home to school and return. “But the necessity for the consol dated schools exists in some cities as well as in the country. That a city of 400,000 population should have 100 to 150" school buildings is both archaic and extravagant. It would be as rea- zonable for such a city to have 150 first-class hotels or theaters. consideration ['price-maintenance seven colleges for which the women | park, the United Transportation Com- The Washington committee for the|the Public Utilities Commission at a one interested in these projects leave | trict building. The rate of fare an- the same opportunity that the child|companies to the establishment of the in the city school would get in elght | bus line operating under the export trade act. Petitions for relief from unfair competition numbered 1,065. A total of 111 formal complaints were issued, while 211 cases were disposed of. with orders in 97 to “cease and de- sist” unfair trade practices, and dis- missals in the remaining 114. The inquiry into the petroleum in- dustry in California tended to show combinations obnoxious to the Sher- man law, the report said, while that into tobacco prices disclosed efforts of the “successor companies” to the former ‘‘tobacco trust” to arrange plans with job- bers. The export grain inquiry, it was stated, showed very large profits in that industry during 1920 and 1921, with the business concentrated in'the hands of a comparativly few com- PERMIT IS ASKED FOR NEW BUS LINE Transportation Frorfi 15ih and H Streets N. E. to Po- tomac Park Proposed. Maintaining the public convenience necessitated the establishment of a bus line from 15th street and Mary- land avenue northeast to Potomac pany today filed an application for authorization of such a route with hearing in the boardroom of the Dis- nounced for the busses was six tick- ets for 50 cents or 10 cents cash. Application Oppose: Representatives of the Washington Railway and Electric Company and of the Capital Traction Company oppos- =d the application on the ground that such a line would only duplicate and parallel the service now furnished by both companies for the greater part of such distance. Crandall Mackey, representing the bus line, declared in his address to the comimission that the patrons of such a line would be enabled to reach a terminus from the starting point in from eighteen to twenty minutes. He maintained that on the Washington Railway and _Electric lines the trip would _occupy _approximately forty-five minutes, because of the necessity of making two transfers en foute. which meant considerable wait- ing_time. On this point President W. F. Ham of the Washington Railway and Electric Company declared that such an estimate was “extravagant.” but admitted thirty or thirty-five min- utes as_the time necessary to make Pl such a trip on the Washington Rail- way and Electric lines. Raflway Comj fes Hea ‘Both Mr. Ham and John H. Hanna, vice president and general of the Cap- ital Traction Company, outlined the opposing positions of their respective W. Elkins Reed, formerly connected the Washington Rapid Transit Company, and A. J. Farrara of New York, with several other New York men, are backing the new company. Mr. Reed stated after the hearing that ten busses, at $6.500 each, would be o dered upon the granting of the applica- tion, and that the funds invested amounted to approximately $150,000, of which $50,000 is held as surplus. Route of Proposed Line. The exact route of the proposed line is as follows: From 15th street and Maryland avenue northeast, west on Maryland avenue to E street, and west on E street to 14th street and Pennsyl- vania avenue northwest: thence west on Penrisylvania avenue to 15th street, where a south turn is made down 15th street to B street, and west on B street to 21st street. That territory lying in- side the Mall already has been au- thorized for use of the line by the office of public buildings and grounds. COLORED YOUTH SHOT. Claud Holmes, .colored, twenty-four The | years old. was arrested this morning of the same states the medium salary | maintenance of so many small plants|by Detectives Darnall and Spring- for clementary teachers runs from! s appallingly extravagant, for it eats|man when he appearcd at Emergency $1.000 to $1.200. up i extra sites, extra costs for fuel, | Hospital with his brother, Quinton “In some rural schools the schoolllight and janitor service what ought| Holmes, eighteen years old. who was term is only sixty days, whereas the|to go into modern educational oppor- | suffering from the effects of a bullet cities of the same states have a school term of 180 day: This means that the child in those particular ru tunities for the children. “Equality o nity will not wound in his left side. educational opportu-|reside at Johnson Hill, e possible so long as|county, schools would have to be in school | we conduct our educational system |curred The brothers ‘Arlington ‘where the shooting ‘oc- Claud Holmes V this morning. twenty-four years even if all other|on the basis of the Iittle red school-|told the detectives he had shot his brother accidentallye conditions were equal, in order to get b ‘house of one, or even of eight, rooms = PORTRAIT OF A MAN MAKING. HIMSELF TROUBLE- SHOW TAX RECORD, MELLON IS DEFIED Representative Frear Re- | peats Charges Corporations Escaping Penalties. Repeating on the floor of the House his charges that corporations are es- caping penalties and taxes through failure of Secretary Mellon of the Treasury Department to enforce the law, Representative Frear, republi- can, Wisconsin, challenged the Secre- tary yesterday to urge the President to let Congress see the records of his office. Reading a long list of large stock dividends declared by various cor- porations, Mr. Frear asked if Mr. Mellon did not “begin the stock mel- on cutting with a 200 per cent cut for Gulf Oil, your own company.’ Mr. Frear said he also had been informed that an organized coterie of agents exists for presssing tax re- funds and tax contests in the bu- reau, headed by “a former White Housge usher. who was made chief of the income tax division without pre- vious experience and whose income now exceeds that of the President.” On the resignation of this official, he said, his information was to the ef- fect that a brother-in-law of the man had been appointed chief solicitor. “Own Companies Represented.” “The first named chief solicitor.” GUESSES HELL LET | D. C. ACCIDENTS CITED IN WORKMEN’S BILL PLAN Representative Fitzgereld Says Human Interest Demands Action of House on Measure. | Arguing that human interest de- | mands prompt action Congress on the workman's compensation bill to relicve those injured in all sorts of employment in the District of Co- | Tumbia, Representative Boy G. Fit gerald ‘of Ohio today laid before his | colleagues in the House seven par- Iticular instances of industrial acci- dents of the sort his bill is expected to relicve. his measure is now unfinished busi- ness before the House on District day and stands in the way of any other District measures. It was in an ef- fort to get the workman's compens | tion bill’ ont schooltea ay bill and other im- | portant District legislation might re- i ceive consideration, that ten members of the House District committee sign- ed a petition asking House Leader Mondell to allow Monday next to be used as District day, which petition has been refused. — BRIEF HOUSE RECESS. | Mondell Says Important Bills Will Curb Holidays. The tentative program for the holi day rec of the House was an- nounced today by House Leader Mon- dell. He sald that because of the need to expedite the passage of the appropriation bills and other im- portant legislation that will follow the appropriation bills he finds a gen. eral agreement among members that the holiday recess should be short as possible. So that his tentative Mr. Frear said he had been told, “is or has been the attorney for some of your own companies, practicing be- fore your department, seeking to re- licve these companies of taxes. ‘The methods of the appointment of Commissioner Blair, internal rev- enue collector,” Mr. Frear continued, “the tax still due from the estate of his father-In-law, J. W. ‘annon, amounting to $569,369, and other matters that will be presented for- mally should be given full publicity by a thorough investigation of such charges. “Among other charges placed in my hands by well informed witnesses, that should be investigated, Mr. Frear continued, “are that the Alumi- num Company of America received from Treasury officials an amortiza- tion of $15,000,000 on about $30,00 000 valuation, although the property was then employed generally in pro- duction.” He mentioned also the Standard Steel Company as having an “alleged $5,000,000” tax due. A Property Car. From the Birmingham Age-Herald. “You'll never make a motor sales man.” “Why not, sir?” ‘ou tried to sell that movie actor a flivver, instead of showing him the most expen: € cars we Carr: “Don’t misjudge me, boss. ie just wanted something on four wheels to drive over a clifl.” - Into your seething, ness of District Better Than a Typewriter —A Silent Typewriter thraldom bring soothing silence—speed in- creased but tension annulled by the quiet quick- The Noiseless Typewriter \The soundless appearance of the characters on paper is uncanny and the operating action of - ligation— Virginia and West Virginia plan is that the recess shall be from ]Saturday, December 23, to Wednesday, [December Over New Year he thought that the recess would be not more than one day, or possibly two days. —_— {HAYS ‘SITS IN’ AT CABINET Wil H. former _Postmaster { General, at cabinet meeting } today, having come down from New . where he is now “king of the s to hear President Harding | speak before Congress today. Mr. Havs told newspaper men after the | cabinet meeting that he did not vote, but merely watched his former as- sociates work, BROAD GREEK CITIZENS MEET SILESTA, Md.. December 8 (Special).— At the monthly meeting of the Broad Creek Citizens” Association, held at the Silesia_School Saturday, December 2, 1822, the following_officers were elect- ed: Dr. Arno Viehoever, president; James R. Edelen. sr. first vice presi- Frederick J. Adler, sccond vic president; Rudolph F. Adicr. treasurer: fiss A. M. Stein. corresponding secre- | tary, and George Taylor. financial secre- tary. A review of the vear's work w: read by the secretary. ~Herbert Tayl reported the progress made on road work xince the last meeting. and a day was appointed when additional work is to be done. Arrangements were com- pleted for the Christmas entertainment and anniversary celebration, which will be held at the Silesia School, tomorrow hot-paced commercial The Noiseless is so light it seems totally de- tached from the letters flying into place. Dem- onstration without ob- Main 837 of Columbia, Maryland, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1922. —By GLUYAS WILLIAMS, SE[KS m mscR[fl" MRS. HUMES' STORY $500,000 Heart Baim Attor- neys Offer Rebuttal Evidence. Personal testimony and documentary evidence were offered today by Attor- neys Daniel Thew Wright and Philip Ershler before Justice Hitz and jury in Circuit Division 1 tending to dis- credit the statements on the witness stand of Mrs. Elsa Portner Graham Humes, star witness for the defense, the loss of whose affections forms the subject-matter of the $500,000 heart balm suit of her former husband, Lieut. Lorimer C. Graham, U. S. N., against her present husband, A. L. Humes, wealthy attorney of New York. The defense cloged late yes- terday afternoon and rebuttal evi- dence was given today. Judge Wright read to the jury a number of letters from the former Mrs. Graham to her husband during the summer of 1918, when, according to her testimony, she no longer had any affection for him. The letters are addressed as “Dearest lamb.” and wind up with “Much love. Elsa.' Priest In Witness. Mgr. P. C. Gavan, pastor of Sacred Heart Church, at 16th street and Park rond, was called to tell about the marriage of the Grahams, in 1911. unusual about the ceremony which impressed it on his mind, as during the twelve years in whi as an as- sistant at the Cathedral. in Baltimore, he had married about 375 couples. After the ceremony, he recalled, late that evening he had been summoned by telephone from Washington and asked if a ring had been found in the parlor of the cardinal’s residence, where the mar- riage had taken place. Requesting that the inquirer hold the telephone, Father Gavan said he went to the parlor and after a search found the ring between the seat and back of an upholstered chair. He had the ring boxed by a jeweler and ment to the address given. Mgr. Gavan could not recall the address MAKING A The priest said there was nothing | and said he would not remember it if he heard it. Objection Is Sustaimed. In response to an inquiry by Attorney Wright, Mgr. Gavan said Mrs. Graham had repeated the worde of the Catholic ceremony and had taken Graham 1s Ler husband “until death do us part.” At- torney Wilton J. Lambert, for. Humes, lobjected to the repeating of the ques- tions put to the contracting parties at the marriage and the court sustained the objection. Lieut. Graham then took the stand and denied many of the statements of his former wife. — SCHOOL KEYS DELIVERED. Addition to Monroe Building For- mally Dedicated. Keys to the recently completed ad- dition to the Monroe School were formally turned over to Dr. Abram Simon, " president of the board of education, by Engineer Commissioner Keller at’the dedicatory exercises of the new annex vesterday afternoon, which were held under the joint au- spices of the Commissioners, the school board, the Columbia Heights Citizens' Assocfation and the Monroe Home and School Assoclation. Speakers at the exercises were Ste- phen K. Kramer, assistant superin- | tendent of schools: Henry W. Draper, A. M. Edwards, Mrs. J. R. L. Beane and Mrs. Lucy Swanton. TOWN COUNCILMAN DIES. James Parr Represented Fourth Ward in Riverdale. Md., December 8.— ‘ouncilman James H. Parr. fifty-two years old, died suddenly about noon yesterday here. Funeral services will probably be held Monday, by which time a daughter, Mrs. E. R. Doss of Houston, Tex., is cxpected to arrive. Mr. Parr 8 auditor for a Washington pub lishing company. He had been in bad health several weeks. He rep- resented the fourth ward in the coun- cil. A native of Galena, Kent count Md., he lived in Harpers Ferry, W Va., and Washington before coming to Riverdale about four years ago. He married Miss Grace Cochran of Harpers Ferry, who, together with these children, survives: Mrs. Doss and Mrs. E. W. Snook and Misses Dorothy E. and Bessie Parr of Riverdale. —_— The north and south poles are the points on the earth’s surface near- est the center of the earth. SLOGAN at his home | COME $150,000 IN VALUABLES STOLEN AT RICH HOMES Thefts Revealed After Battle Be- tween Police and Gang of Thugs. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, December 8.—The theft by a gang of negroes of $150,000 worth of valuables from the summer homes of Harry Payne Whitney and other wealthy New Yorkers was revealed last night by detectives after a battle in “Hell's Kitchen,” on the edge of the uptown theater district. The de- tectives made two arrests, and recov- ered loot valued at $50.000. Mort of the recoveredsloot has bren identified as the property of Mr. Whit- ney, according to the authorities. Other | victims of the robberies, which are ai- leged to have been committed in Nassau county homes between November 6 and November 29, included Henry Halsthen Willlam Allison and J. F. Gibbons, at Plandome, Long 1Island, and Acosta | Nichols at Cold Springs. The two men in custody were charged with possessing stolen property. —_— GOES ON RETIRED LIST. Francis T. Quigley Quits G. P. O. After Service of 36 Years. After a continuous service of most thirty-six years, Franeis I Quigley of 1 Park road re: Wednesday, from the governmen printing _ office. A= a printer Mr Quigley held practically every posi- tion in the composing room durinc | his three-decade connection with the printery . Friends and fellow workers durins { the early part of the week presented him with a number of gifts and cards exprossing their sense of loss at hix separation from the office. P — The new thing is often the old thing Irefound. Even the political equalitx {of the sexes was anticipated centuriex ago. It has just heen discovered that in the vear 2400 B. C. a city in Asia | Minor ‘was ruled by a prince and princess with male and female prefec, and that the women had precisely the same power as their colleagues. TRUE Saturday Morning It Begins “Thie Tasiion Shop Men’s Suit Sale 3= $28.75 53 3.75° E started out the year 1922 with the slo- gan “1922 will be a Fashion Shop vear.” any suit sales. But the fact remains that this hasn’t been as big a suit season as we had expected and plan- ned for. But a fact is a fact, and an issue is an issue. And if the weather man had not played any tricks on us we would not have found it neces- sary to make the prediction true with the aid of And so to make the slogan “1922 will be a Fashion Shop year” come true, we are going to put on sale the bulk of our suits at the astonish- ing low prices of ¥237, $287%, $337, There are fine, hard-woven worsteds, English and Scotch ideas in tweeds, fine weave blue serges, in every model, young mannish and con- i servative—including Norfolks and the Famous Brooks model. There are two-pants suits in- cluded and even those famous Goodman and Suss suits. No charge for alteration Yashion Sho FRED PELZM Pres. Goodman & Suss Clothe: Tailored at Rochester Manhattan Shirts Stetson Hats—Interwoven Socks 9th &E t