Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1922, Page 3

THE 16,586,419 Stray| Hello! Hello! Letters in Annual Dead Mail Bundle Despite the fact that letters sent to the dead letter office during the past fiscal year showed a decrease of 16 per cent from the year be- fore, 16,586,419 letters found their ‘way there after all, due to careless addressing, the Post Office Depart~ ment announced this afternoon. More than 600,000 parcels were undeliverable during the year, a decrease of 15 per cent from the year before. As holiday mail is responsible for a considerable part of dead letter mall, the depart- ment enews its appeal—"Be carefu! During the year 140,000 letters, without any addresses whatever on them, had to be sent to the dead letter office. It is estimated that the loss to the public through this carelessness was $423,000 during the yea: SCHOOL FUND CUTS - SCORED Y TIGERT Commissioner Depicts Re- sults of Ruthless Paring of the Budgets. PLEA MADE FOR TEACHERS 22 A5 IT OUER TO HiM- SELP ONCE OR TWKE FINDS NUMBER. Municipal, County and State Au- thorities Blamed for Lack of Education Requisites. Federal Commissioner of Education John J. Tigert, in his final Education week statement today, took a parting shot at those authorities responsible for the ruthless cutting of public school budgets and depicted the re- sults as follows: “We are housing thousands of young children in buildings in which we would not house race horses or our hogs or our cattle. P 'We arc paying many teachers ot our children salaries far below what we pay day laborers. “We are failing to provide play- srounds and thus leaving our childre: to the education of the city streets.” —_— PRESIDENT PRAISED BY REFORM BUREAU I l Stand on Dry Law Enforce- ment Approved in TRIES HURRIEDLY TO TFIND IT N BOOK AGAIN JUST AS WC FINDS With this, the concluding day ot ion. PAGE ON THE TIVE-FOUR Education week. designated as Resolution VERSION “physical education day,” Commis- sioner Tigert took the occasion to deplore the lack of adequate physical training in the schools of the nation. Small Per Cent Benefited. “Only 10 per cent of all the chil dren of school age in the country, be said. “are receiving anything which even pretends to be adequate physical education and health u-m'n-| ing. Only twelve states have statelPresident's message delivered yester- supervisors of physical education;|day to Congress, which resulted in nly 30 per cent of the rural districts | ¢ne adoption of a resolution com- ave any form of health inspection. nd 3 he emphasized, “during the past two vears municipal, county and state authorities have ruthlessly cut from school budgets requests for funds for physical education, for for playgrounds and for super- play activities. The United States is rapidly for- setting the lesson taught v the war as to the deplorable physical condi- discussed prohibition enforcement be- fore the supper conference late ve: terday afternoon of the International Reform Bureau at its headquarters, 208 Pennsylvania avenue southeast. The conference was part of the twenty-eighth annual celebration of the bureau. He quoted from the (C) Wheeler Syn. Inc. | mending President Harding for his stand on the question. tion said: “Resolved, That we congratulate the American people on the fact that we have a President standing four- square for. law enforcement and call upon all our people everywhere to The resolu- lor and Vogelgesang. | . Montgomery | Vorelgesans, N. LACKSAIDIND. €. Prevention Work Inadequate Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohio| 1 nominations of the following to OPERATOR IS A LONG SUDDENLY WONDERS TIME ANSWERING OPERATOR. MEWCRS OFFERS SILENT DRAVER AND TAKES A CHANCE “ NUMBER., PLEASE, ” ADMIRALS NOMINATED. 1 TUBERCULAR CHILD |, v o M. Taylor and Carl T. were today nominated by President Harding to, | be rear admirals. At the same time | the President sent to the Senate the be flon of & larga per cent of the youth [ rally to the great work as cailed for e iainsu N7l Rever TBare of this country. For a year or so after resident in 2 : : s : e were shocked by the realization Without Special Institution, |winiam r ayles, jr; Edwin H. Dodd t more than one-third of the men Louis Shane, John G. Church and Her- A delegation, headed by Dr. Wilbur | Crafts. superintendent of the bu- Is Plea. u, calied at the White House ax' 0 | 30 o'clock today and left with the | PN H President the resolution. Those in the delegation were Canon J. Frank | Chase, Rev. A. Edwin Burrows, Re: Henry W. Stough, H. B. Ferris, treas bert ( The Cocke. following were nominated be postmasters in Maryla . V. Flook. Boonsboro: Friend. Friendsville, and Vienna. examined in the draft had to be re- ysically unfit the nation aroused to the necessity f providing adequate physical educa. ion for the children of the countr: But we are now rapidly relaxing into our previous laissez-faire attitude. Yesterday the bureau of advice and As- |information of the Tuberculo: Monroe. We all know how imperative that| Addresses also were, made_ at Iho' : ce | UDDEr conference by Senator Henry d is. What wa do need to have|p, Jivers on the reguiation of motion | burned into our conmsciousness is that | pictures, Canon Chase, Dr. S. Edward the nation which refuses to remember \'_ounx} Dresrien]t, of thleew & Oék & i ey lciety for the Prevention of Crime; the lesson just learned in regard t0ifeers Pickett, Wayne B. Wheeler, Dr. | the physical condition of its people Crafts and Dr. Robert Watson, presi | will ultimately pay a terrible price |dent of the bureau. for its neglect. New directors were elected at the On this. the last day of Education jconference: Senator Willis, Repre- week. T wizh to emphasize w sentative M. Clyde Kelly of Pennsyl- carnestness and force of whi ' Representative Homer Hoch of capable that none of the improvements | Kansas. Representative John M. Nel- and advances either in phyisal educa- |son of Wisconsin, Rev. Freely Rohrer tien or in any of the other phases of | and Rev. Charles H. Butler, the latter public school education. which educators | also being chosen assistant secretary All over the country have been so elo-jof the board of directors. auertly setting forth this week. can be | ‘“Beer and Wine Delusions™ was the hrought about without funds, and also [ Subject of an address by Dr. Harvey that at present we, the richest nation | W. Wiley before the night meeting of fa the world, are failing lamentably in | the bureau in Mount Vernon Metho- yroviding adequate funds for the edu-ldm urch. Other speakers were cation of our childrer. Rev. Young, W. W. Millan, Mrs. Lo- gan. rs. onroe. Dr. Watson an: . Children Inadequately Housed. | Frank Chase. secretary of the Watch “We are housing thousands of young |and Ward Society of Boston. on “The children in buildings in which we would | Ne' Puritanism and the New Obscen- ot house our race horses. or our hogs or our cattle. We are paying 1eachers of our children _— Need of Physical Training. urer of the prohibition national com- | sociation, which o .| mittee, and who introduced the reso- | recelves many Tt is necdless to argue the need of | [ution: Mrs. Ellls Logan and Mre. SeEet e physical education for our children.iHarriet E 5 formation as to hospital and san- | atorium facili- | ties, had again | called to its at- tention one of | the gifficult | problems that are continually arising affecting the care of chil- dren suffering from tuberculosis in its incipient stage. This problem. briefly statec was what to do with a fourteen-year- old boy who needs hospital care and whose parents cannot afford to send him o a private sanatorium. where the expense would be from $18 to $25 a week. Unfortunately the District of Columbia has no proper place for such a patient. If he is sent to the Tuberculosis Hospital, he must min- gle with adult patients, and be placed in an open ward with such patien Usually such a child has the child’s instincts of restless activity. It is difficult for him to fit into the regime of the hospital, which is designed for older patients, most of whom are in & much more chronic_condition. The only relief by way of diversion that the hospital has to offer is through the occupational therapy classes, or- ganized and carried on by the Tuber- culosis Association, until such time as Congress is prepared to make an ap- ipropriation to take over this work. With Adult Patients. PROGRAM BAGKED | Original Plan of Education Board Approved by Spe- { cial Committee. iFIRST MEETING IS HELD Five Named by Dr. Simon Launch Work to Better Educational Conditions. ity The celebration will conclude with many [a_meeting tomorrow afternoon at 3 aries far be- | 0'clock in the Mount Vernon Church. a rovide playgrounds and are o - 3 thus le{a\'}_‘n; our children u_,mme educa- | Efae‘;“:pf:ai’e‘fs“‘i‘fif g:S};Lav A'_clkerm-wn. tion of the city streets. ese state- - Henry W. ments are all literally true. | Stough and Rev. A. Edwin Burrows. “It is unbelievable that the American POISON CANDY CHARGE MADE. people will fail to carry forward suc- cesstully the great experiment in demo- -rr;(‘h: em{;‘mn&' ls_larle“d by m"\‘ fore- FHILADELPHIA, Pa.. December 9./ Even in these classes the boy would athers. But the time has come for ac- | _ 1 . i Rdw 16 1 (o Be Boscat e aner s st Mrs. Elizabeth Beard of Reading, {have to mingle with adult Da_flen 1 every city and every county of the |Pa. fifty-two Years old, mother of {and the program for his care and countrs. when next he is called upon to | seven children. charged with mailing | treatment, if planned along the lines ég;mx of polxone‘d;,:rlmdy to Mrs. Amge of model children’'s sanatoria, would amurs, was indicted yesterda: i the federal grand jury. Y DY lcall for an entirely different proce- dure from that which the hospital for 1ote for school bonds, will remember the facts brought out during the past week and vote accordingl. SPECIAL NOTICES SPECIAL NOTICES. adult patients is able to provide. ATIONA PIT THE 3 This 18 but a single example of the | oD o s ecem A failure of the District of Columbia to nnual meets bank for the Slection of diectors: md trii® | make proper provision for its tubercu- | acting of other business properly and Iaw. |lous children. This need should be e fully coming before said meeting will be heid | frankly faced and some solution arp. o e at the banking house on Tuesduy, the Sth of [ should be found. Children twelve and! Chairman Glassie in opening the {anuary. AD. 1925, at 12 o'clock noon. Polls | under are received from time to time | meeting said that it is not the pur- Setock meon 1o 1Tpacrs open from 12at the Children's Hospital, but this|pose of the committee to originate NAIRN. Cashier. e = admirable institution cannot specialize | anything., but to marshal the neces- in this class of sufferers in the same |sitles in support of the board of way that a sanatorium especially de- ',d“cmon 2nd to find ways of bring- The orikinal school building pro- gram of the board of education con- tained in the budget for the next fiscal ycar was approved today by the committee of five appointed by Dr. Abram Simon, president of the a concerted campaign for the better- ment of educational conditions in the District. In a resolution adopted at its first meeting today in tae office of Henry H. Glassie, its chairman, the commit- {tee declared that “we stand for the program of the board of education entire and complete, as a minimum program, undiminished both with re- spect to buildings, salaries and every other item. of the Jational Capital Rank of Washiogtun, D. C.. v the election of directors and the trans- action of any other Lusiness that may be b-ought to tie attention of the meeting will ©~ held at the bank Tuesdas. Janary 9. 1923, intween the hours of twelve o'clovk noon and H. C. STEWART, Cashier. TOAD OF FURNITURE, | VA.. DEC. 11: PITTS: 13 AND 18 WEEKLY D FROM BALTIMORE. b . PHILADELPHIA AND NEW )RK. THE BIG 4 TRANSFER COMPANY, | C.. 1125 14th ST. N.W. MAIN 2159 THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE SHARE- Tolders of the Columbia National Bank will he held Tuesdar. Jaouary 9, 1923, at its banking house, 9i1 F street n.w., Washing- un, D. C., for the election of directors and wuch other business as may properly come hefore the meeting. Polls open from 12 noon untll 1 o'clock p.m. FRANK J. STRYKER, Cashler. E NATIONAL METROPOLITAN BANK OF ‘Washington, D. C., December 9. 1922—The anoual meeting of the shareholders of this bank for the election of directors and the iransaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting will be ineld at the banking house on Tuesday, Janu- ary 9, 1923. at 12 m. Polls to remain open nntil 1 p.m. Transfer books will be closed from December 31, 1922, to January 9. 1923, toth dates included. ~C. F. JACOBSEN, Cashier. THE ANNUAL MBETING OF THE STOCK- holders of “The Real Estate Title Insurance Company of the District of Columbia,” for the purpose of electing fifteen trustees of the company for the ensuing year in to be held at the_office of the company. No. 500 5th at. n.w.. on Tuesday. January 9. 1923, at 1 o'clock p.m. Polls will be opened at 2 o'clock and cloved at for the transfer of tock i IF YOU AlllE DESXBDIIZ’E! OF UNITING WITH I Fovtant fratemity of CUNSCLITED Rons: | slgned for tuberculous children would | fng Washington's necessities effec- write to P. 0. Box 92, Cherrydale, | do. A recent authority on the treat- tjvely to the attention of both houses stating your name, age, place of birth, | ment of this group has laid down |of Congress. home and business addresses, as well as the | these principles of action for children | * . beginning this work.” said Mr. Dames Of she,fraternal onders, If any, In which | exposed to tuberculosis in their own | Glassie, “we are much heartened by you oo membership, _ 9°_ I nomes or actually suffering from the | the public Statement made by that DOLL HOSPITAL trouble: (1) Contact cases with pass- | strong friend of the public school, able home conditions may be taken |Senator Capper, and by those stancn Don’t Wait for the Rush. care of in the Open Air School. (2)|friends of the District, Represent- % Contact cases who are not ill in im-|atives Zihlman of Maryland and Have Dolls Repaired Now. proper homes are proper subjects for | aMoore of Virginia, and other public SALE OF FINE DOLLS a preventorium. (3) Children Who|men who know the exact situation. R actually have tuberculous disease)They realize that we are not asking should go to a special sanatorium.|the impossible. This is of necessity GARREN @It is Sften impoesible to decide |a period of economy and retrench- - - ‘where a given cl elongs in s ent, but econom: does not mean 907 H Street N.B. Lincoln 4019 | clagsification, and if he s ill with an | cutting down AR e b A New Roof With a Brush Let me s one coat of uid _Asbestos Roofing c;.-!‘.":"eo any kind «":‘:}m 1 guaras- ailment unidentified he should g0 to ' ture, Also eold in bulk, $1 ’:'e‘&"u Line. 4219, 2 children’s hospital. When a man finds his income di- minishing, he does not cut down the Preventive Work Inadequate. |children's’ food supply: he does not Suckets, dei. in D. C. imate It is the belief of many health|economize on milk and eggs. On the SON CLARK, 1314 Pa. ave. s.e. workers, who have studied the prob- contmz‘l. h}t‘a mrd huls( r[.;‘s’ exlvendl« ‘TH . N - | tures, in the order of eir impor- oM B tarinhon. lem of the child exposed to tubereu- | 0CQ .14 cuts down those which are o - k1‘31 11th st. oo — losis, that not until Washlngtorfn i8] o¢ the least s,gnlfifanfie. lHe begins e undectakingibaninssnj heretoforsiich! better equipped to care for these four | his economies with the luxury and N Sons at the above < 83077 1x mow betas condacted by as, 454 ws | classes of children in the way Indi- il continue to furnish satisfactory service 10 ca4eq can the District of Columbia be display items of expenditure. Yet, in this period of economy, there are peo- WILLIAM J. NALLEY, said to be doing adequate preventive THOMAS E. NALLEY. work for those groups from which ple in Washington demanding new sites for parks. We on the contrary CHARLES G. NALLEY, Son: most of the sufferers from tubercu- losis in adult life are recruited. To arouse public opinion to the| Members of the committee, in addi- seriousness of the situation and the |tion to Chairman Glassie, are: Dr. Mil- inadequacy of the present situation to {ton Fairchild, head of the Character meet it is one of the aims of the Education Association: Mrs. Giles ings.” Other Members of Committee. annua) meeting of the shareholders of 1 partmental Bank will be held at its Phanking house in Washingtoa, D. C., dny, January 9, 1923, at 1 o'clock . 1he election of directors for the ensuing year and for such other busizess as may properly come before said meeting. £oT 1CI0S President. L. A ROSAFY, Secretary. seal sale for the general support of its work. Something over 800,000 of these Christmas health tokens have already ‘been sold and paid for since the cam- paign opened. The goal is 3,000,000 seals sold in the District of Columbia. TRIBUTE TO R. F. EAGON. The joint amnesty committee an- nounced today that a meeting will be held in the Shubert-Garrick Thea- ater tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock in memory of Ricardo Flores Eagon, a “political prisoner,” who died re- cently in Leavenworth. Mrs. Winnifred Mason Huck, rep- resentative from Illinois; Mrs. Har- riet Stanton Blatch of New York, Dr. John A. Ryan of the Catholic Universfty and Prof. Paul Brissenden of Columbia University will be the speakers. ‘The purpose of the meeting. which was arranged by a special commit- tee of men and women in Wlsh(n!’-l ton, is, the announcement continued, “not only to pay tribute to a man who paid with his life for his ideals in free speech, but to appeal again for the release of the sixty-two men still in prison under war-time legis- lation solely for their opinions.” Teacher Association; Ira Nutter, chairman of the school committee of the Rhode Island Avenue Citizens Assoclation, and Dr. U. J. Daniels, chairman of the special committee on education of the Federated Civic As- sociation. USE OF NAME UNAUTHORIZED Dr. T. M. Foley, 1334 19th street, yesterday reported to the police that unidentified persons had money for the cancer hospital in t| clty since the close of Cancer week, using _the name of Dr. H. H. Kerr, 1742 N street. He said that Dr. Kerr, who is out of the city, wanted the public to know that he has not authorized the use of his name in connection with the solicitation of funds for the hospital. e S WOMEN IN IRISH SENATE. By the Associated Pres DUBLIN, December 9.—The senate of the Irish Free State will have four woman members, the Dowager Count- ess Desart and Mrs. Wyse Power, nominated by the president of the dail; Mrs. Green a historian, and Mrs. Costello. both of whom were elected 1by the lower chamber. REMODBLING, EPAIRING eatimates. J. L. Ph. Col. 9 TALBERT, 8087, HOL m;x G{l HEAT 1 Heating. —will have an empty mean- iR = . Rem - g"t water fore-another Tuietite by en: services of jge’ cating. |lafiag the terr The Biggs Engineering Co. WARREN W. BIGGS, President. 1010 14th ot v.w. “Tel. Frank 212, Floors FEFIVSHED, POLISHED OR wazed by electric machine. R. 2 . NASH, North 7908, o THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THB BTOCK-| | Satisfactory and holders of “The Columbia Titte Insurance Com- | ['EE MILLION| 3 NES pany of the District of Columbia.”” for the OLLAR: | Complete Printing purpose of electing fifteen trustees of the P;uni‘ 2 company for the ensuing year will be held st Service. the office of the company, No. 300 Sth sireet n.w.. on December 18, 1922. at 1 o p.m. The polls will be open beiv “n the hours of 2 and 4 o'clock p.m. ty fer books will ba closed ten d: before Daeting. GEORGE G. McELWEE, Sec: ‘BB ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- Siotders of the Columbia Permanent Bullding ‘Association for the election of three directors Wil be beld on Tuesday. Dec. 12, 1922, at 8 *clock p.m., at the office of the association, o1 7th st s.w. Polis open from 4 to & o'clock p.m. CLARENCE 1. GESSFORD, Sec- Setary. THB_ANNUAL_MEETING OF THE STOCK- Tolders of The Natlonal Tribune Company will be held at_the office of the company, 4244 G st. n.e. Washington, D. C., on Thursday, January'4, 1928, at 4 p.m.. for the election of trustees for the ensuing yesr and for the transaction of such other Susiness as may le- fally come before it. M. D. ROSENBERG, Eecretary. 463,9.16,23.30,ja2 WANTED_TO BRING A LOAD OF FUR- witure to Washington from Baitimore, Phila- el and New York citv. SMITH'S TRANSFBR AND STORAGE C0., INC. The National Capital Press 12101213 D ot n.w. FIREPLACE FIXTURES Iaane ‘Heating Plants Repaired. R. K. FERGUSON, Inc. Heating Dept. 1114 9th st. Ph. M. 24902491, P._c,.l uipped to | nnflb't‘;?‘:oflnmvllum %HE SERVICE SHOP, BYRON S. ADAMS, Fiuymss. local Tuberculosis Association, which [Scott Rafter. president of the District | is today carrying on its Christmas|Congress of Mothers and Parent- | to Allister, school board, to formulate and direct | —By GLUYAS WILLIAMS. ] ! (2 WHETHER THAT NUMBER ENDED WITH FOUR-FIVE OR FIVE -FOUR. WAITS - MORALLY CER- TAIN THAT RE'S GIVEN THE WRONG NUMBER I Guvas \WILLIAMS HOSPITAL URGES " ABORATORYNED Freedmen’s Annual Report | Also Says Efficiency De- mands Increased Force. Stressing the imperative need to the hospital of a laboratory building. the annual report of Freedmen's Hos | pital. made public today, also urge an increase in the force of emploves. The long hours of daily work which a number of employes now perform. the report says, most serious obstacle to maintaining the desired standard of service. Regrading the proposed laboratory building, the report sayvs ‘Greater importance cannot be attached to any part of the hospital organization than a laboratory wherein accurate and scientific work can be done to sup. port the clinical service of the insti tution. The report says $60,000 wiii be required for the building, The total number of patients re- ceived during the vear was 3,554. Of ! these, 835 were pay patients; 1.214. lincluding 123 births, were United tates indigents, and 1,445, including births, were District of Columbia indigents.” There from the hospital during the fis vear 3,479 patients. There were 1,797 surgical operations performed, and 341 births at the hospital during the vear. Receipts from pay patients amounted to $22,486, against $24,219.25 for the preceding year. There were 885 pay patients from twenty-four states, including two for- eign countriex, divided as follows: 294 male colored. 586 female colored, in 75 different occupations and the pay patinets 56 _different occupations. There were 1,788 administrations of anesthetics, as against 1,781 last vear. There were 1,017 radiographs made 91 X-ray treatments given and laboratory examinations made. LAND OFFICE PATENTS JUMP 5,000 IN YEAR Annual Report Shows Entries Al- lowed 2,787,011 Acres More Than Previous Year. Increased business in the general land office was noted today by the commissioner in his annual report for the fiscal vear ended June 30. 1922, Approximately 65,000 more patents were issued during 1922 than in 1921, involving an increase of 2,787,011 acres, the commissioner said, notwith- standing “the handicap of the heavy arrearage that the commissioner in- herited from the last administration.” solicited " During the fiscal vear entries were allowed for 10,367,153 acres, of whlch! 7,070,175 acres were taken under the stock-raising homestead act. The area patented during the year totaled 12,904,821 acres, a substantial increase over the area patented the year previ- ous. Total cash receipts for the fiscal year were $8.813,659.16, the commis- | sioner reported. The sum of $199,059 was collected and turned into the United States Treasury, and $179,114 recovered through civil and criminal actions in cases of depredations on ask for new sites for school build- | the public lands. through the activities of the fleld service. Substantial progress was noted in the matter of reclamation of desert lands. Desert land entries received during the year totaled 1,671 and 1,659 patents- were issued under the law. Power applications involving 674,000 acres were received under the federal water power act. During the year 416,435 acres of public lands were withdrawn or placed in a state of reservation. and 6,236,611 acres hereto- | fore withdrawn or reserved were re- | stored to_entry or other proper dis l position. The net increase in national forest area, the commissioner report- ed since the beginning of the fiscal year as 13,866 acres. Patents for mineral lands were issued on 574 ap- plications, involving an area of 53, 043 acres. The commissioner calls attention in the report to the rapidly diminishing public_domain, calling, he says, for a careful scrutiny of all proposed legislation looking toward final dis- position of any considerable acreage, He suggests that with the public land laws as they now stand, it is ap- parent that our remaining stock of public land will not continue to sup- Ply the demand for any considerable ime. CREDITORS 'ASK RECEIVER. Creditors of the Hines Auto Supply Company of 920 D street northwest and 419 10th street northwest yester- day asked the District Supreme Court to adjudge the corporation bank- rupt. ~ They charge insolvency and ask the appointment of a receiver. Attornevs Loving & Hamner appear for the creditors. 4 male white, 1 female white. { The indigent patients were engnged! [Senator-l':lect Opens Attack on Su- 920 | ljudiciary subcommittee yvesterday by 216 S0 TOURI Visitors for Past Year Exceed Previous Year by 44,493, !MAY BE SELF-SUPPORTING U. S. Reservations, When Con- 1 structive Outlays End, Expected i to Pay Own Upkeep Thereafter. Declaring that “the national parks are perhaps the most popular insti- tutions fostered and developed by the national government today, the an- nual regort of the director of the na- tional park service, made public to- day, points out that 1,216,490 per- sons visited the parks during thel past vear, an increase of 44,493 per- !sons over the record travel of the i previous year. Sixty per cent of the visitors to the parks during the past year came in their own. automobiles and more than two-thirds of these availed themselves of the opportunities to camp out, the report aided. This year's total of visitors shows an in- crease of 881,691 more than were recorded in the parks in 1915, the report says, adding that “it is obvious that the parks are among the most popular_institutions fostered by the government. Progress was reported on the na- i tional park to park highway. which touches in a great circle the major national parks of the west, and is declared to be one of the most im- iportant highways from the park standpoint. About one-fourth of the 6.000-mile “objective has been com- | pleted, the report says, and it is hoped | that the various states through which the remaining unimproved sections i pass will include them in their plans { &r early improvement under co- i cperative’ arrangements for federal { aid. | Cont $1,000.235. Administration and protection of the parks cost about $700,000 for 11922, “the report said, revenues amounting to $432.964.84. while the appropriation was $1.446,520, leaving a net cost of $1.000.255.11. Approxi- mately $300.000 ‘was spent for con- tinuation of new road projects. The report points out that after con- } struction of proper roads, the layout { of additional necessary trails and the jerection of proper ~aiuministrative buildings and other structures the buld be on a solf-supportinfi‘ In eontemplating the cost of the national park system to the | federal government,” it adds. “it should be remembered that the parks and monuments in attracting a travel { of 1.200.000 visitors keep at home and distribute among the states travel money mounting into the tens of { millions of dollars.” Rocky Mountain National Park_in Colorado ranked first {n the number jof visitors during 1922, with 219,164 ! zuests of the park: Yosemite National are regarded as al Park in California ranked third in inumber of visitors behind the Hot { Springs Park in Arkansas. Avallable for Winter Sport. The charm of the national parks, the report points out, lies not alone in_ their summer grandeur. Unex- i celled opportunities are offered for jwinter vacationing and for winter | sports in the parks. Yosemite \'al-l iley is accessible in winter and ac- lnnmmodl!ionu are available for visi- tors. Rocky Mountain, Mount Rain- fer and Lafavette National parks are also available for winter sports, while Grand Canyon. Hot Springs and Hawali are the present all-year parks. An interesting development in the Hawaiian National Park {s the re- were _discharged | appearance of the lake of living lava | classificatios in the Kilauea crater. which drained away through subterranean vents in May, 1921. SHIPSTEAD LEADS FIGHT AGAINST PERCE BUTLER| preme Court Candidate Be- ! fore Committee. | i Efforts to defeat the confirmation of Pierce Butler, St. Paul attorney, nominated to be associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United | States, were begun before a Senate Senator-elect Shipstead, farmer-labor- ite, of Minnesota. The hearing was behind closed doors. Further hear- ings on the nomination will be held | next Wednesday, the recess being taken at the request of Mr. Ship- Stead for time to present witnesses to support his charges. While Mr. Shipstead or members of the committee would not discuss the former's testimony, it was learn- ed that he submitted a detailed state- ment, with four major counts, tacking Mr. Butler. The principal one was understood to relate to the traction fight of the Twin City Rapid Transit Company, of which Mr. Butler is counsel, and cer- tain phases of financing in connection with i{t. In this connection Mr. Ship- stead was said to have asked that the committee summon Dr. Delos F. Wil cox, a New York expert, who filed report in the traction fight. Other witnesses £ald to have been | given in a list to the committee in- cluded Prof. Schaper and Max Lowen- thal of New York: Prof. Felix Frank- furter of the-Harvard Law School, a son-in-law of Justice Brandeis of the Supreme Court: Prof. Stanley Rypins | of Minneapolis and Prof. Gerhard Dietrichson of the University of - | noie. H In opposing Mr. Butler, Senator! Shipstead was understood to have emphasized the nominee’s “long serv- ice as counsel for varlous corpora. tions” as having imbued him with a corporate “viewpoint.” L0 LI A I SRR First Mortgage Notes We have for immediate de- livery first mortgage notes in denominations of $250, $500 and $1,000 bearing 6%% interest and secured on approved Northwest R property. i R The real estate upon which R these notes are a first mortgage is conservatively worth 50% R more than the amount of the loan. % We see to the collection of the interest, payment of taxes R and insurance on all our loans without cost to the investors. MOORE & HILL INCORPORATED 1420-22 H Street N.W. t Wi m Real Estate Member of ‘ashingto! 3 Over 22 Years Withbut o Single Loss 0700 R P R, S'I'S Abe Martin Say TONATIONAL PARKS | == | nB:: ?u'o‘- el%b-’ OnE NEWCIVIL SERVICE « 3 RATINGSASSAILED {Reform League Speaker Hits . Proposed Substitute for Sterling Bill Plan. ;RAPs CONGRESS GROUP I Mrs. Edith Roosevelt, Widow of Ex-President, and Others Elected i to Council's Membership. i i — [ The system of ratings devised by the bureau of eMiciency as a subsu- \ l:.‘"'x for ’the reclassification of the Y s 5 ivil service as provided for in the ha.x\niirli‘dlbiestfircl;e;:xll' ';]: :‘L‘;‘_’ Sterling-Lehlbach bill was denounced 2 d piste € < 2C57|by Robert Catherwood at the con- sion o’ th’ Colonial Bridge Club |cluding session of the forty-second ylsterday anfiual meeting of the National Civil Mrs. Libbia Moots. who used‘h‘{lfifii,’f&i“{&'f““ SV t’ be Mrs. Tilford Moots before | “The National Civil Service Reform she wuz emancipated, Sundayed League is emphatically in favor of at Bun_ker Hill, Indianny. Mr. Catherwood read to the dele- ireau of efficiency could “be made 1o official Federal Body to Hear Semator Sterling, Mrs. Willebrandt and Chief Justice McCoy. the Sterling-Lehlbach bill, and wants to see it enacted into law,” declared Mr. Catherwood, who is a member of ‘lhe league’s legislative committee. “If Congress, in fair and open judg- ment, concludes that there is to be |no reclassification, then we will have lost in g fair fight.’ i /Reads Smoot's Letter. SPEAKERS FUR BANUUH ‘1,4(0§ a letter, which he said had beeu ,sent December 6 by Scnator Smoot to {members of President Harding's cab- inet. in which information was asked which would assist the Senate appro- priations subcommittee, of which Sen- ator Smoot is chairman, in determiu- {ing whether the classification systen: 1in process of installation by the bu- serve as a permanent basis for sa ary standardization in the depari- mental service. Mr. Catherwood, a former presi- dent of the Cook county, I, civil service commission. characterized the bureau of efficien plan as provid- ing for little more than “a mere .-ullerlm!v of opinions of supervising “Why not call up the bureau chiefs and ask whom they want promo and whom they want fired and be done with it?” Mr. Catherwood said. Efficiency Burean Assailed. “It_is time 1o say quite frankly." Mr. Catherwood continued, “that the bureau of efliciency seems to be used by a very limited group in each house of Congress as the snuffer-out of ali kinds of progress in the civil ser:- ice administration. The bureau since its creation some vears ago as | separate agency has pursued a course |of sniping. first at the reciassifics- tion commission set up by Congre and later at the legislation which as proposed as a result of that commission’s work.” The election to membership of Mrs Edith K. Roosevelt, widow of Theo- dore Rooseveit. who was Unitec States civil service commissioner be- ore he became President. to the council of the National Civil Service Reform League was announced today Mrs. Roosevelt has been consultcd and has agreed to serve on the league’s counc Other new meribers council of the league lean James of this city the American Civie the American Associa ¥ Women: Mr. liams and Mrs. 5 Baltimore: Miss Neva Deardorg an {James Mcfratt. Philadelphia: Charle: G. Dawes, Chicagv, former director «: the budget: A. R Wate, - Ibury, Conn.. was re-eiected chairma, of the council of the league. Savings of $700.000.000 annua! FRANCIS 4. GOODW Senator Thomas Sterling of South Dakota, Mrs. Mabel Walker Wille- brandt, assistant attorney general, and Chief Justice Walter I. McCoy of the District Supreme Court, are an- nunced as speakers for the banquet of the Federal Bar Association. to be held at Rauscher's Tuesday evening, beginning at 7 o'clock. . Senator Sterling will discuss * elected to the ere: Miss Har . president ociation a: % dexiie cil. imight be made by abolishing use: egislation:” Mrs. Wil- | 1l ces in the civil service and dis- lebrandt. the “Nationality of Women | PhaTeing incompetent. emploses oot Pl See These Homes Tomorrow Individuality Character Construction 8 Rooms—2 Baths Double Brick Garage Park Hotel) Always Open and Lighted Under the Recent Cable Act.” and|putting into effect other methods, & Justice McCoy will talk on “The Gov- |cording to resoiutions adopted at th ernment Lawyer.” Francisi M. Good- ! final session. win, assistant secretary of the in-| Tpe measures suggested also includ.- terfor. will be toastmaster. reclassification of the civil service Tickets may be obtained from the substantiaily along the lines of the representatives in_the following de- Sterling-Lehlbach biil. adoption o partments: State, J. B. Matre: Justice, | civil service laws in the thirty-eight R. S. Collins; Commerce. E. K. Magie: : states that have none, and introguc- Labor, L. L. Nettleton; Interstaté|tion of modern emplovyment methocs Commerce, J. T. Marchand: Agricul-|in the public service, fure, Fred Lees: Interior. W. J. Mc-| “Three billions of doilars are an- Gee: patent office, S. F. Smith: pen-|nually expended on the pay rolls of Gee: psion office, 8. F. Smith: pen- |our national, state and local gover sion office. A. D. Stangler; Treasury, | ments,” the resolutions stated. Long: internal revenue,|large proportion. carefully estimat Robert C. Tracy and Miss Eisen- |at one-quarter of this vast sum. c hart: prohibition unit, Miss Rohleder; | be saved by the application of thes- estate tax. F. S. Sandford: Post Office, | measures. Walter E. Kelly; Navy. John J- Kelly war, D, J. Barton; Shipping Board. War Digonty: alien property custo-| HUSBAND SEEKS DIVORCE. dian, John M Ewing: Federal| Avsolute divorce is asked in & su: Trade Commisision. Herbert fu AWSr- | fied by Charles E. Pfeiffer agains: o":xEmélffifix’el o ientz: corpora- | Lillian Pfeiffer. They were married sl ineel's office. W. IL_Wahly:iat Grand Rapids. Mich., July 14, 1917, Hon e “Buresu, Charles Cramer. |and have no chiidren. The husband 5 —_— charges that his wife attended = | number of “booze” parties. An ai- NEW KINGSMAN SCHOOL | IS5 Forteponicns 12 pamea. Atuctr nevs Fred C. Geiger. H. M. Fowler FORMALLY DEDICATE A "E. Geiger appear for te Latest Addition to District System | Is Located at 14th and E Streets Northeast. ichard Kingsman School, at 1t Cand B streets and Tennesace avenue northeast, the newest addi- tion to Washington's elementary | school system, was formally dedi- cated with appropriate: ceremonies Jesterday afternoon in the school.| FRepresentatives of the District Com- | missioners’ office. school authorities, a ‘delegation from the Northeast | Washington Citizens' Association, parents and teachers took part in the = - X e "to the_ new bullding were turned over to Miss Grace S. Silvers. principal, by Dr. E. G. Kimball, suger- | Yising principal of the seventh divi- sion.” Brief addresses were made by Dr. Abram Simon. president of the board of education; Stephen E. Kramer, assistant superintendent of schools: Dr. Kimball and Alexander T, Stuart, director of intermediate in- | struction, The latter extolled the sterling qualities of Dr. Richard Kingsman, in whose memory the school was named. e He who never relaxes into sportive- | ness is a_wearisome companion. but beware of him who Jests at every- thing. PaN Surrounded b; Washinfton's finest residential section. Containing seveg million feet of forest-covered land, with six miles of improved streets. Includes what remains of : ) “The Triangle of Increasing Values between Connecticut, Massachusetts and Cathedral ave- nues (Woodley Rd.). Over three million feet of land sold. Over seventy homes from $15000 to $200,000 built and under construction. Wooded villa sites, lots and finished homes of brick and tile, with lots from 50 to 115 feets front; or if desired, we will build your home in the same substantial manner that has characterized our work since 1899. Park Office, 32d and Cathedral Ave. (Woodley Rd.) Middaugh & Shannon, Inc. Builder—Exclusive Agent—Owner. Woodward Building, 15th and H Sts. Main 6935 Booklet mailed on request. Massachusetts