Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1922, Page 2

2 * CHRISTIAS SALES " SHATTER RECORDS Merchants Report 25 Per - Cent Gain in Volume and 10 Per Cent in Profits. . SEE INDUSTRIAL REVIVAL Unprecedented Building Opera- tions and Lack of Unemploy- ment Are Factors. | | American business has climbed out ©of the rut of international depression and once more is on the high road to 1enewed prosperity. That was the aimost unanimous | opinfon last night of Washington's! leading merchants as they closed what was declared to have been the largest and most successful Christ mas season in the history of this cit mercantile business. And reports re- ceived from other large centers throughout the country, they said. re- flect like conditions. Some of the more enthusiastic mer- «chants here went 8o far as to declare 1heir business had been “phenomenal” when it was considered that the Yule- tide buying season this year was shorter than ever and that the amount of money actually taken in this year was far greater than before. despite the fact that prices are lower. len 23 Per Cent Higher. Our sales were 25 per cent higher ! and the amount of money taken in per cent greater than ever before in the history of this establishment. the head of one of Washington's lead ing department stores declared. That statement just about summed up the sentiments of the other merchants. very store had to sell far more 500ds than last year. or any of the overly prosperous war years, to bring 'n 10 per cent more revenue than their ledgers had ever show A general revival of industry. unpre- lented building operations and natural reversion of the American pub- Dback to its normal stride of prosper- were suggested as the reasons for the unexpectedly large Christmas sea The merchants were particulari astic because. they declared. no season had ever started more inauspi- v. With the coal strike and other industrial upheavals under way. Few Buyisg Da e organs and experts told t a big year this Christma. the general manager of the department store continued. “But certainly no out; ook could have been gloomier. Only Iwenty selling days elapsed between Thanksgiving “and ~ Christmas, because the former holiday fell on November 30 and an extra Sunday got sandwiched in between. You must remember that the public never begins to buy for Christ- mas until after Thanksgiving day. “Despite all of these drawbacks our tales were 25 per cent large- than we ve ever hnown. Prices were much inwer this vear than heretofore, but in mctual cash our business made a new 1ecord. probably 10 per cent greater than before. These facts certainly can be accepted as evidence that America has recovered from its post-war depres- ®ion and that business has actually turned that ‘corner’ we were hearing so_much about last year. ident of Parker- was even more en- He went back into the past, talked of the present and predicted for the future, saying: Due to Buil i the biggest business we have ever had. I give credit for conditions in Washington largely to the immense building activities. Building has been «arried on here on such a large scale that * unemployment has once more disappeared und every indusiry is kept hut One sure indication that everybody had money this vear was the fact that the vast majority of our cus- tomers demanded the best merchan- dise—quality goods. Cheaper, in- ferior gooas were seldom called for T have been told. by trustworthy persons that like conditions prevail throughout — the country. Money seems to be plentiful and the public has regained its contidence in the future and has ceased hoarding. “I do_believe, however, must expect an advance in prices un- less the present experimental tariff is changed. 1 hope this increase will not be permanent, however.” Business .in stores devoted exclu- sively to women's wear reported a banner season this Christmas and their managers pointed with grati- ! Hospital, iguests on Wednesday from 4 to 6 p.m. {northwest. KELLER WILL NOT REPLY TO REQUEST FOR LIFE GUARD If the 5300 block of 41st street, Chevy Chase, needs repairing. it will get It, Engineer Commissioner Keller stated yesterday. The colonel indicated, however, that he would make no reply to the suggestion of Arthur E. Cook of 5302 41st street that a life guard be stationed at that point to keep children from sinking in mud. Mr, Cook, who is private gecre- tary to Secretary of Labor Davis, ‘wrote to the Commissioners Fri- day telling of street conditions in the vicinity of his home. — YULETIDE SPIRIT PERVADES CITY ON EVE.OF CHRISTMAS (Continued from First Page.) night, when “Old Doc Sharp” and ‘Six Lion Cubs” are to give an entertainment and jollification for all the children of the community around the community Christmas tree in the yard of the Community House. The tree will be brigntly lighted and decorated and a number of visitors are coming to play host to the crowd of children. On Tuesday at 8 p.m,, in the recrea tion hall of the Community House. a cast of children wiil give two Christ- mas playettes, the “Dream Maker" and the “Bag of Dreams.” The Episcopal City Mission has ar- ranged an extensive program. Cele- brations of the holy communion have been arranged for at the reformatory at Lorten. Va. the workhouse at Occoquan, Va.: the jail at 19th and B streets southeast the Gallinger Hospital. the tional Training School for Boys, the National Trai ing School for Girls, the Tuberculosis Hospital, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for the Insane. the Home for the Aged and Infirm at Blue Plains and Vet- erans’ Hospital No. 32 at Mount Alto. The City Mission is helping with the Christmas morning service at Garfleld Hospital, with music and distribution of flowers for the char- ity patlents of that institution, when‘ the nurses, at 6 o'clock Christmas morning, will have a procession through the free wards and sing carols. At all the institutions name; Christmas good cheer boxes will be distributed. A large corps of work- ers has been busy at Trinity Com- munity House during the past week packing 3.500 of these boxes. Each box contalns an apple. an orange. candy. nuts and Christmas pos cards with a stamp on them. Te Decorate Ji Tree. The City Mission is to decorate the Christmas tree in the rotunda of the ‘Washington jail and will hang a pair; of socks on each cell door, one of; which will be filled with Christmas cheer. \ The City Mission also Is providing six Christmas trees for the Gallinger | one for each ward. On Christmas eve at 11 o'clock there will be a midnight eucharist at Trinity Diocesan Church for the gen- eral public. Beginning at 11 o'clock there will be a musical program con- sting of old English carols by the choir, solos by Master Edward Crouch and C. McGee, and a cello solo With organ accompapiment by Clifford Kershaw. Rev. David Ransom Covell, superin- tendent of the City Mission, will con- duct the service and preach the ser- mon. Holiday week at the City Club will be marked by three entertain- ments for the members and their wives and families. The first feature on the program for the week will be the club's at-home reception to the wives of members and their woman mas is 1 On Friday afternoon. December 29, the wives and children of the mem- bers will be guests of the Associa tion of Theater Arts at two playlets and a musical interlude to be pre- sented at 0 p.m. at the Trinity Commun‘ty House, 3d and C streets Tre grand finale of the holi- day week will be the club's New Year eve bohemian night ball, start- ing at 11 p.m., December 31, with a supper in the main ballroom, after which dancing_and merrymaking fication to the fact that the bulk of | their sales were of the better class 5f Foods. They, too, accepted this as an infallible indication that the pub- lic has money again and is willing to ! speud it. Frank R. Jelleff. president | of Jelleft's, Inc.. was asked what, in his opinion, had helped most to make Business so unexpectedly large. | Credit to Advertising. i “Advertising.” he replied without | Resitation. “In the newspapers and | in the store. Not only have I gotten remarkable results from newspaper advertisements, but we have been paying more attention to our show windows. We have been dressing them more attractively and with & better class of goods. The result has been almost remarkable. Scores of customers have come in and expressed surprise that we carried ch high Ruality: they never knew it before, they saia.” But if the mercantile business en- | joyed an unprecedented Christmas 3cason this year. the produce and pro- vision merchants decidedly have not, according to the head of a firm that is recognized as one of the leaders of | ( tiose lines in Washington. partly blamed the tariff but he also bilamed Congress for “scaring the life out of all government employes by threatening to reduce their sal- Avies.” The foremost merchants of the other | lines, however, enthusiastically sup- ported the oplimistic statements of | the mercantile houses/ They were not | #nly pleased over their Christmas Hhles but they declared the business arometer now says. in unmistakable nguage: H {1 “Continued fair and warmer. i ! ! SPEAKS FOR MERCHANTS. He, too. i L. n. Anton Stephan Appreciative of Co-Operation of Public. “The Merchants and Manufacturer: sspciation desires to express its ap- eciation to the public for the fore. nded manner in which the big vol » of Christmas shopping was says Gen. ident of the organisation, ement issued last might. T feel quite sure that when the d it will be found | high point in volume. ““The business houses with which e association has been in communi- last few days have sald that the volume of business ahead of that of last year. ‘This is a gain out of the ord in view of the fact that commodity prices in 1922 were far lower than o o” amsociati iginated the “The assoclation or! Shop Early for Christmas” campal; which was heiped this year by the joint campaign between city post office and the association. “Business executives have testified to a high sense of appreciation of the employes dll'lfl: i b season, and wi tonight and the completien of -deMy- eties. T am quite sure thst pot. onmly the employes of business houses, dut tu | Anton Stephan, | s Ch the uu‘-’o’of business | s will continue from midnight until . The house committee. under the direction of Frank H. Bryson. has made elaborate preparations for the speclal program. Army Oficer Plays Samtas. The employes of the Acacia Mutual fe Association held their annual Christmas celebration yesterday at noon around a tree set up in the large workroom. Following the usual custom, the directors awarded a bon | | Employes of the miscellaneous di- vision, office of the adjutant general, recelved gifts yesterday from a Christmas tree, distributed by a Santa Claus in the person of Col H. Tebbetts. A community Christm: tree will {be erected through the efforts of the ‘Woodside Development Corporation, with the co-operation of the entire community of Woodside and Silver pring. Md., in the mansion house on the Noyes estate, now Known as ‘Woodside Park. The committee in charge of arrange- ments consists of: Dr. J. Henning Nelms, rector of Grace Episcopal urch. Woodside, Md.: Rev. Ralph D. Smith, Woodside Methodist Episco- pal Church, Woodside, Md.; Mre. Rob- | t Langley, president of _the Club of Silver Spring. Md Miss D. Fox, president of the Current Comment Club. Silver Spring, Md., and Mrs. Henty P. Alden, Silver Spring, AMd. Santa Claus will be on hand to meet all the little children of Silver Spring and Woodside and promises to pluck off a present and a bag of candy for each child between the ages of four and twelve years. Santa Claus, Jr. also will be there to greet the chil- dren. A program has been arranged by | Dr. Ralph D. Smith, which will in- clude selections by Saunders’ Orch tra. a Christmas recitation by Miss Pauline Whitacre and selections by a quartet. There also will be commu- nity singing of Christmas carols. The women of the community are now en- Eaged in helping Santa Claus make his Christmas bags and filling them with candies. nuts and presents. Ghristmas cheer will be distributed by the sections of the District chap- tor of the American Red Cross to the —————————————————— those stalwart public servants,’ the personnsl of the city pdst office, will all have an opportunity to enjoy Christmas. ‘“The ministrations of our police department during this busy period have been such as to merit the high- est praise on the part of business men, for whom I &m now speaking, and am sure the public has noticed the fine spirit with which the men in the police department have. handled ey, Sullt he chiet of é “Maj. Sullivan, the chief of police, is'to be further congratulated for th high degree of efficiency of the plain. cigthes men and women who hfi. g - e for ‘business men and women are Tdeed grateful.” THE : SUNDAY. STAR, WASHINGTON ICHARGE RUM PLOT INTRIPLE ARREST Moses Jacobs, Druggist, and Two Employes Held for Alleged Conspiracy. LIQUOR BLANKS SEIZED Forged Prescriptions Said to Have Been Used to Get Supply of Whisky. Moses Jacobs, proprietor of the Mar- ket Pharmacy, 7th and P streets northwest, and two colored men em- ployed at the pharmacy were arrested last night by police and prohibition enforcement agents and charged with conspiracy in connection with a sy tem of obtaining whisky with forged prescription blanks. At a special preliminary hearing late last night before United States Commissioner Macdonald. bonds of 1$2,000, $1,000 and $500 were required of Jacobs, Daniel Cox, colored, junior clerk in charge of the pharmacy, and Thomas Crews, also colored. The trio are said to have confq their part in the alleged conspiracy as follows: Blanks are Seised. Jacobs purchased the counterfeit prescription blanks from an unidentified man at 25 cents per blank. Jacobs and Cox., it was stated, would fill out the prescrip- tions for whisky and give them to Crews, who would secure the “pre- scribed” liquor from various drug stores and take it to the Market forged 11 Pharmacy. In this way the pharmacy, the men are said to have stated, re plenished its supply of whisky with- out bemng forced to go through the legal course of procuring it. The raid, which resulted in the ar- rest of the three men, was partici- pated in by Officers Naily and Brodle of the sixth precinct, Prohibition Agents Ruby, Fowler and Evans and Sergeant McQuade of No. 2 precinct. In Cox's apartment, over the drug store, the officers sald, were found seventy-five preacription blanks al- leged to be counterfeited and forged, end in the files of Jacobs' place of business, they also said, was found a number of blanks which had been filled. TAKES POISON AND GAS. Woman at Hospital Tells Physi- cians She Is Tired of Life. Mrs. W. P. Brown. thirty-three years old, was removed from a room at 1402 Belmont street northwest vesterday afternoon to Emergency Hospital, suffering from ison and the effects of inhaling illuminating gas. She is said to have told physi- cians at the hospital that she “was tired of life”” Her condition is not regarded as critical. At the hospital it was learned Mrs. Brown took the poison late Friday ght, swallowing a small amount at a time. When the poison burned her throat she is said to have inhaled the wounded veterans in local hospitals and elsewhere. The canteen service will Ve Christmas dinner to four wards af ‘Walter Reed on December 30. Special Christmas glcm will be distributed in _all the hospitals to- morrow, and the women of the com- fort section, under direction of Mrs. Charls Lyneh, chairman, will take fruit and candy to the men at St Elizabeth’s Hospital and Mount Alto on Christmas day The Women's Oversea Leagu is afliated with the District cl ter, Red Cross, will a Christmas party at St. Elisabeth’s on December 0. The children of the Junior Red Cros: of the District chapter have been pry paring gifts and _surprises for the patients at the Children's Hospital, which has been adopted by them. Many of the customs popular in the old Yuletide celebration in England will be features of the entertainment to be given tomorrow afterncon at the headquarters of the Y. W. C. A., 1333 F street northwest. The building will be open to the public from 1:30 in the afternoon until 8 o'clock in the evening. - The program, however, will not begin until 4 o'clock. A specia invitation 18 extended to all girls and women in the city who are strangers here. The program will be given on the third floor. A great Yuletide is to be lighted in the open fireplace to em- phasize the cheer of the occasion. Many gifts have been received, which will be placed about the Christmas tree and distributed between 5 and i 6 o'clock in the afternoon. Many of the quaint old Yuletide legends, as well as Christmas stories, will be related. The stor! will be told by Mrs. Cornelia Warnecke, Miss | cai Henricks, Miss Myrtle Johns, and Miss Susanne Montgomery. Mra. Edna K. Mears will lead in singing Christ- mas carols. Mrs. Mears will also give violin selections, accompanied on the piano by Miss Cora Moran. Refreshments will be gerved from 4 until 8 o'clock. Mrs. Harvey Friend will preside at the tea table. The en- tire entertainment is under the di- rection of the committee of which Mrs. Chester D. Swope is chulrman Practieal Gifts Provided. ‘The Knights of Columbus committes on educational and welfare activities will carry out a definite program of providing Christmas cheer. No less than 1,525.. maimed, diseased . and mentally affiicted ervice patients will be visited and given Christmas boxes containing selected comforts to meet the particular needs of h individual. They. will contain and aggregate a total of 1,750 almond ba 35,000 cigarette: ,750 tooth- brushes, 1,760 tube: 1,750 short stori apples, oranges and tangerine: ivory combs, brus! 350 cakes of shaving sosp, 1,750 packages chewing gum. 500 pounds special Christmas candy, 350 Knights of Columbus match safes filled with many books of Knights of Columbus matches, and Christmas cards. ' In addition to the hospital service, the orphaned children will be recipi- ents of toys made in the Knights of Columbus toy-making school by the insane ients at St. Elizabeth’s Hos- pital. ;’helo toys have been accumu- lating since last Christmas, at which time fifty-six cases were sent out to as many different orphanages, after the local needs had been taken care of. Some went as far as Minnesota and Louisiana. Nativity Chapel Services. ecial arrangements for celebra- tion of Christmas have been made at Nativity Chapel, which has been at- tractively decorated for the occaslo: The festival of the Holy Nativity i to be celebrated by the vicar, Rev. Enoch M. Thompson. The choir, in charge of Albert Whitmarth, is to present & niuld choral service to- morrow at 7:30 and 10:30 a.m. The recsption: is to .be held the o{ New Year's day in Na- Rev. Thomas J. Brown, pastor of 8t. Luke's: Colored &og Church, has arranged special Chr! services today at 11:30 am. Holy communion will be celebrated. There is also to be a service Christmas morning at 30 o'clock. A -m-u‘:: of the ashes of the fi even! tivity The French peasantry always 3. 325 sterilized phaving | SENATE PAGES GIVI VICE PRESIDENT TIPS Senate Boys Told at Annual Dinner of Great Opportunity at Capitol. Vice President Coolidge, who en- tertained the pages of the Semate at & Christmas dinner yesterday in the Senate restaurant. following out a custom inaugurated some years ago, gave the boys some wholesome ad- vice when it came his turn to speak after the dinner. He said: My fel- low public servants: u are just as much in the public service as the President, members of t cabinet, senators and representati and it is your privilege and duty to best of your ability and diligence to your work as any of them. Always be on time: be attentive to all re- quire habits now that will warrant success in after life. You are boys that are favored and much will be ex- pected of you, and I have no doubt that you will become men of char- acter and ability. You have wonder- ful privileges in being pages in the Senate. I lived nn the farm as'a boy and I was twelve miles from the rail- road, and we could only hear the train whistle when the wind was in the right direction. While your op- portunities he: re immeasurably greater, I would not have made the exchange with you if I had had t! opportunit: 1 think the farm life is very, very interesting. ‘You boys must be thrifty, and re- thy father and mother is the beginning of wi dom.” MAILS HAVE HOSPITAL FOR STRAYING GIFTS Many Broken Parcels Patched Up, But Others Go to “Morgue” to Break Hearts. A hospital in which the next of kin seldom, if ever. are visitors: a_hospital where casualties multiply at Christmas time, when all the rest of the world is presumed to be glad—such is the hos- pital for “wounded mail’ maintained at_every post office of any importance. Patients at these hospitals are the innocent victims of those who are sup- posed to love them most, even though they are sending them to others. They are the ties between friends and be- tween relatives, vet, because of a little ess on the part of the senders, they fail to complete the link, and, bro- ken themselves, often become the causes of broken hearts for those who fail to receive them. Some of the packages are repaired 1{and resch their addresses—after Christ- mas. Others must be returned to the senders for repacking and readdressing. Still others, and far too many, must be sent to the morgue—in this case the dead letter office—destined never to per- form the service for which they were intended. 8 The department’s phrases of warning evidently have become to many mere meaningless phrases, it was said, for | no other interpretation can be advanced after a visit to a post office hospital, where stack upon stack of love takens remain as mute evidence of lack of re. All this, also, it was added, means more_and unnecessary work for the pestal employe. |Union Asks I. Johmton of Machinists Files Petition and Says . Others Wili Join. Charges Wanton Spend- den Greater for Public. A petition asking investigation into the expenditures of railroads in cop- ing with the national strike of shop Interstate Commerce Commission by the International Association of Ma- chinists, it was announced yesterday by W. H. Johnston, president of that organization. Other railroad unions participating in the strike, which is asserted to be still in progress on a number of roads, will join in the pro- ceeding later, Mr. Johnston added. By “wanton expenditure of ‘lnm'll made available to them through ex- cessive freijght and :-nnmflm» charged, ral s - on 'vjv’;leh”m"-mn ‘st:l( persists t?"n urden of transportatio g-‘!l- t;,n:h wbn:; public. In addition, a Ere s ot are DI distorisd Jabor and’ other operating cost iiems.’ . Declared Responsible. Commission was de- fal respons] NG THREE PARTAKING OF CHRISTMAS FEAS PAGES ON U.S. SERVICE Of Rail Labor Policy Cost ing of Funds Makes Bur- ! crafts employes has been filed with the ; D. ¢, DECEMBER 24, 1922—PART 1 Yuletide Spirit Much in Evidence at Capitol.. |Fog of Hatred Blocks' Peace After War Terrors; Says Pofie Pontiff Considering Call of Ecumenical Council at Rome in 1925—Regrets Strife Which Has Rent Italy. By the Associated Press. ROME, December 23.—Pope Piu: considering the . possibility of calling an ecumenical council in Rome dur- ing 1925, the next jubilee year of the church, it was announced in the encyclical ued today. A general meet- ing of the whole episcopacy In this center of Catholi- cism, says the en- cyclical, ould be E most suitable tof the coming jubilee year, whence im- mense advantage might come to the | cau; of peace after so long and so profound an upheaval, But the reassembling of back to individuals. families and s0- 5] clety the true. healthy Christian irituality, as superior to the philos phical as revelation {s superior to pure reason; the capacity to teach true democracy. instilling iInto the masses the spirit of true fra- ternity, ¢ o Considering General Meeting. “Therefore, by restoring Christ's ireign we shall have done eMcaciously ithe work for the present and future pacification of humanity—the work prepared for us with the almost di- vine instinct which Benedict XV ad- mirably developed. These two pro. grams” melt into one: ‘Christ in Christ's kingdom. Before such a vast labor. the ency- clical continues, *‘the heart of the hply father would fail without the help of M his faith in God and his episcopaey. - Therefore he was considering the pos- sibility of a general meeting of the whole episcopacy in this center of | Catholicism. POPE PIUS. | “The meeting.” he continues. “would I? most suitable to the coming jubilen ear, the ecumenical council at the Vatican whenoe Imi h se advantagn would be such a grave event that it{might come to mm.n in necessary to wait and pray, as did | afce T uoRian e the pious leader of God's elect people, untll God gives a clearer sign of His vishe: after so long and so profound an un- heaval. But the reassembling of the ecumenical council at the ‘atican ;would be such a grave evant that it Regrets Strife In Italy. ‘17 necessary tlo :nn and pray. aid The encyclical begins by expres-{ ¢ impious leader of God's prople. ns of regret for the strife and vio- | Untl God gives a clear sign of his noe which, until recently, have rent | *ishe! Ttaly, the Pontiff's own country and | at of the chair St. Peter. tuation, continu the docu- ment, seemed to threaten the very life of the country, despite the efforts {of the Vatican to abate it. But, in contrast with these deprecated event: were some happy ones. such as the USTY CHEERS FOR VICE PRESIDENT COOLIDGE JUST PRIOR TO T ARRANGED BY HIM YESTERDAY. Churches Join in Christmas 3 Pageant Held at Central High full of interesting historical detail. Judy Lyeth. who played the part of Must Bring Them Back. Referring to those too numerous groups and masses and which eithen altogether or in part are ignoring our Lord Christ, are still outside the pontiff quotes the ‘These also 1 must that there be one fold Large audiences showed much in- bring. back. terest in the lovely Christmas pa- meeting in Rome of the twenty-sixth | und heph. = the boy David, was very artistic in joerionn mhephapn. geant-drama. “The Word and the 4 on In e it aiene international = eucharistic A happy fact,” the encyclical con- her imperson: H. E. Davisson enacted the role of Samuel, the high priest, and Marion Kiess was Jesse, father of David. In the second scene Albert Parr imper- sonated King Saul and Katherine Gault was Michal, the daughter of Saul. In the elaborate scene depict- ing the coronation of David the fol- lowing had parts: Maurice H. Jarv Maud Howell ith, Arthur Whit Arthur Briscoe, A. D. Spangler, Doro. thy Cable. Marian Florence Evelyn ‘encourages this hope, sinca almost all the states in the world have lately, contrary to human ex- pectations, entered into or renewed their friendship with the apostolic e, Way,” which was presented by the interdenominational committee of the churches of Washington in the audi- torlum of the Central High School yesterday afternoon. and evening. This pageant was not the usual rlotous Yuletide performance, but was full of the dignity of the religious side of Christmas. The production was composed of several biblical epi- sodes that are well known' to people of all faiths and the impression left ‘Wwith the audience was one of extreme simplicity. iss Bess Davis Schreiner arranged the various biblical scenes and Mrs. Marle Moore Forrest directed the pa- geant. Because of {ts spiritual char- acter and in order that there should be no interruption to its continuity, it was especially requested that there be no applause. Rev. George M. Diffen- derfer read the prologue and Rev. Earle Wilfley was “The Volice. Open! Setting Beautiful. The most beautiful of all the scenes as the opening setting. which symbolized the beginning of time, a: was entitled “Let There Be Light. This scene was given by the students of the Caroline McKinley Studio. The beautifully shaded costumes, from { white to rose, which were worn by the girls, who formed the largest srouping in this scene, were espe- cially suggestive of the whole pur- pose of the pageant. The central fig- ure, in golden yellow, was excellently posed, and the other figures, in soft blue and green robes, completed the {llustration of this symbolic setting. The first episode. “God's Promi Abraham,” was in two scene: first, illustrating the parting of Abra- ham and his brother, Lot, and the second, Abraham’'s eacrifice of his son, c, were under the direction of Miss Jennie White and were given by the Young People's Soclety of 8t. Stephen's Episcopal Church. Those taking part in these scenes we Abraham, Arthur White; Lot, Rev. Philip Ayres Dales; Sarah, Mrs. Philip Ayres Dales; Isaac, Milton Scrivener; servants, Jack Dudley, S8ewell Scriv- ener. Churches Unite in Eplsede. The next episode, the ‘“‘Reconcill ation of Jacob and Esau.” wag give: by the New York Avenue and Eck- ington Presbyterian ohurches and the Church of the Covenant, under the neral direction of Mrs. oodpasture. GThgse taking part in it included: Jacob, Victor Russell; Esau, J. Martin Scranage; the angel, Ralph Robert- son; Leah, Grace Goodpasture; Rachel, Esther Goodpasture, and mesesengers, J. E. Veitch and Joseph Kuhns The third episode, which told the love story of Ruth, was given by the First Congregational Church, under the chairmanship of Ml Olea M. Wood. Miss McKinley' eading of the twenty-third psalm was splendid. The three scenes included a scene between Naomi and Ruth, the barley harvest and the final betrothal scene between Ruth and Boaz. Those in the leading rol Ruth, Caro- 1ine McKinle: able to meet nearly all the members of the sacred college, together with hundreds of bishops from all parts of the world. Another happy event, the encyclical points out, was the unforgetable manifestation that occurred during the transportation of the image of the Virgin Mary from Rome to Loretto. The encyclical says the church doey not interfere in purely human thingr. but also does not permit political powers to make this a pretext to lessen the rights concerned by God. The pontiff adds. therefore, that ha adopts the words of Benedict XV: “We tolerate nothing contrary to tha liberty and dignity of the church, the benefits of which are benefits of the highest importance to the progress of civilization.” Pained at Italy. The Pope expresses pain at seeinm that Italy, “our mother country, where . who rules the courts of history, has fixed the seat of his vicar on earth” is not among the states rep- resented at the Vatican. He refers to the guaranty whereby “Divine Providen: which guides hu- man events * * * with inestimable benefits for Italy herself fixed the sovereignty of the Deep Fog of Hatred. Proceeding to enumerate the evils of the present, the Pope says that mankind, the social classes and the various peoples, have not yet attained & true peace after the terrors of w: He alludes to the public life of the peoples still surrounded by a deep fog of hatred and mutual differences Lyeth, g sroun from Vermont Avenue hristian Church and the Luther lace Memorial Church which had charge of this episode. Vision of I . watak: and offens: The second most strikingly beautl- | *“y¢% TN 0 iohed nations are suf- ful of the settings was the grouping |fering gravely from this,” the encyli of ths ‘figures {n the ‘wislon ‘of{cAlicontimes Sunivictoriounaation 4 v cted. Small nation: {.':"‘l‘;-f s‘:’h'l;:"r‘,"t"_“gg" fne %'f:;’ complain of being outdone, victim {Church of the Epiphany. Denis E,|iZéd and exploited by larger one: Conpell hed the r:,: 'of 1ealah. which | While the latter complain of being Be"livested Witk ‘great dignity. The | isliked and plotted against by small Srouping of the elghteen prophets " ryis situation, the encyclical poi vl . point abaut the central figure was effective. | our, increases “the anxiety of the peo- ut the most striking feature was | D10 "IFTRSeR TOS anxISEY 0TI P the silhouetted figures of the Lost Tribes of Israel as placed in the fore- Lasesalug ep Sacial) Tise. ng?d of lhle nountm Aah o Another most deplorable evil is de- s grouping was blen nto the | clared to be the loosening of social ! symbolical idea of the second gEroup | tjes, chiefly through “the class strug- under the direction of the Caroline Mc- | gles which have become the plague Kinley Studio, which indicated the pass- ciety, of which they attack all ing of time uD to the period of the na- | the vital forces, namely, work, in- oty lo! -;u‘l'm _In this sixth episode | qustry, art, commerce and agricul e role of Mary was enacted by Mrs.!tyre, all of which contribute to the QUs D. Swett, and she aided her simple | yublic and private welfare and pros- nes very much with the singing of { perity. The struggles appear to be the Annunclation song, In & sweet!forever irreconcilable, being influ- soprano voice. The climax ecene of the | gnced on the one side by the un- m Mm,lo depict the coming of Joseph | satiable avidity of obtaining, and on to_ Bethiehem and the part | the other by the ténacious selfishness which the wise men and shepherds | of keeping material things” > playe this story of stories was the | . Between the lower and the directing mr;:;r&eene. with the angels grouped | ciasses, the pontiff notes, there is ] ® anger and the shepherds. | mutual competition to dominate and }‘;'”hlm“ and their retainers bowing |therefore frequent strikes, with: both umbly before the Holy Family. sides contributing to the cause, to- 1 Those having the principal roles|gether with revolutions and riots, re- I pilis episode | were: The Angel|action and repression, ending in gen- abriel, ph Robertson; Mary. Mrs. |eral discontent, with reciprocal of- Qus D Bwett: Josepn. Rev. Meade |fenses and mutual harm. nnfl ton ;fiiwg:ih::: gl::‘r?::l% xt:-:' Deplores Spread of Restlessness. “May God make this hour strike McNew: the Wise Men, Warren L.| “In the sweet sanctusty of the|fRd may wise men of good will not Gelg;':_een;- family,’ A me‘flw:u‘men%l oo, “the | of the most solemn and fecund hours, £ germ of dissolution has also pene- ihoth for the restoration of the king- Thompeon, Evelyn Davis, Emily Hoff- | trated, fostered by the war and the 3 di 4 rist, - man, Mathilde Porter, Jeanette Albert, | increased - immorality, whence this | ton of Starsy ang the entive moos germ is-propagated to all individuals. S ius Helon O'Roar ane_ s i ss Helen O'Rear and Mrs George | e deplore the spread of morbid rest-| Jubiles vear s observed in the romoms were in charge of the TOUD | lessness among the people of all ages | Catholic Chureh every twenty-rth Bt S ARqundry Methodist Church |and conditions of insubordination and | year from Christmas to Christmas. WhichT Gevelopentthese aocata Chureh, { of unwillingness to labor. As the lJast ordinary jubilee was ob- posrenee | “We deplore that modesty in wom- | served in 1900, beginning on the eva jen and girls is trampled under foot|of Christmas. 1899, and ending Christ- by looseness in. dressing. in talking | mas eve, 1900, next jubilee year and in dancing unseemly dances, with|is due to begin on the evening of open insult to the misery of others,)December 24, 1924, continuing until often.rendered more provoking by the | Christmas, 1525 SUH Bmv E.m Tou Trequent ostintation and tme {have enriohed, but not improved.” Joint Sessiom of Operators and and continues: and has re- mained violated, thereby creating an abnormal condition of things which has caused grave sadness to the con- science of Catholics, both in Italy and he whole world. ‘'We are invested of a unique and competent authority in this very grave matter and are responsible be- fore God. We protest. as our vener- ated and great predecessors protested, against such a condition of things- not for vain, earthly ambition, for which we would blush, but for our sense of duty, remembering that we must die, and not wishing remorse upon our death.” Nothing to Fear From Heoly See. The _pountiff adds that Italy has nothing and will have nothting to fear from the holy see, as the gum will be always animated with senti- ments of true peace coupled with justice, so that it may be said: "Ju tice aand peace have kissed each nl;fiir by ends his encyclical with the peroration: | The pontiff.complains that In conse- quence of the war the churches have not all yet been returned to religious i services, while the ranks of the clergy are still decimated, .and missionaries WALSKA T0 OFFER CHICAGO CONGERT Society Waits Engagement Announcement by Mrs. Edith McCormick. are obliged to abandon the fields of their apostolic endeavors. o enis E. Connel Miners to Be Resumed { “These great spiritual evils,” he bert Parr, and head reaper. i continuet ‘had some precious com- Starkweather. January 3. i pensation when they refuted oft-re- | peated calumnies, it being clearly ap- i parent_how high the pure and gen- erous flame of love of country burns in hearts consecrated to God.” Sentiments Annihilating. Enumerating the causes of the present evils, the pontiff says their’ chief origin was in the right to do | violence which reigned among men, ' almost annihilating sentiments of | mercy, charity and compassion, while | the ficticious peace written on paper has not yet reawakened those noble sentiments, indeed has embittered and | almost legtimatized the opposite sentiments of rancor and revenge, making men lose the sense of -per- sonal dignity and of the value of human life, owing to the prevalence of brutal force and of overwhelming numbers, z “Love of country inciies to many virtues and even to admirable heroisms when it is guided by Chris- tian law: but it incites to grave in- justices when it becomes unchecked nationalism, when it forgets that all peoples are brothers in the great family of humanity; that other na- tions have the right to live and pros. per and that it is never either wise or just to separate what is honest from what is useful. Atheism Is Denounced. lical denounces atheism t cause of the evils af- flicting the world, as it separates men from Christ, who sal In the story of David, the boy shep- herd who was chosen by God to be- come & king, the three scenes were C. C. Probe By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 23 —Repre- sentatives of the bituminous coal op- erators and the union miners of_the country will meet in Chicago on Jan- uary 3 to resume work gn the reor- ganization of the industry where it was left off when their meating was adjourned at Cleveland October 2. Notification that the joint session would be held in Chicago beginning January 3 instead of Cleveland was received by oficials of the Illinois Coal Operators’ Association from the joint committee today. Reorganization of the industry, in- ‘cluding a fact-finding commission, which was appointed by President Harding, and a joint committee to de- vise & method of negotiating future wage scales to eliminate strikes and suspensions, was authorized at the Cleveland meeting which brought a settlement of the coal strike. The wage committee, however, in several conferences held hers failed to agree upon any plan of wage negotiations. HEROES TO BE BURIED WITH FULL WAR HONORS Rites for Carlyle Prichard and Raymond Smith at Arlington Next Thursday. Carlyle Prichard and Raymond ith, heroes of the 424 Dl{']“:lon. who were killed in France, will be buried in Arlington cemetery Thurs- day with full military honors. Prich- ard wi férmerly of Headquarters Compény, 163d Infantry (2d Montana! y and pan: Iowa). Smith was formerly of Com- pany A, 168th Infantry. Young Prichard, who answered the call of June 5, 1917, was killed in ac. the Ourcy river, le the 163th its st | o, hard an By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 23 —Ganna Walska, wife of Harold McCormick. will return to Chicago in February to make her debut in a concert here, her husband’s home town, Jules Daiber, her Dpersonal representative, an- nounced tonight. M. Daiber arrived in Chicago today to lease Orchestra Hall for the con- cert. To . reporters he announced that Mme. Walska will yet sing *“ - possibly at a Paris opera house, which she recently pu ed—just to show Chicago that she can do justice to the role. 1 Quarrel With Director. She' had been engaged :y (g.- Chicago Opera Company, under the bi . McCormick, to sing “Zaza” here two years ago, but left the city suddenly on the eve of the scheduled performance. No expl tion of her sudden departure was ever oftered, but gossip in the opera com- pany said it followed a heated quarrel ity | with Gino Marinussi, the director. to have laws and governments with- | M. Dalber's announcement that out God, and family without God.|Mme. Walska will extend her Ameri- lowering the great sacrament of mar- |can concert tour to Tllinois revived riage to the level of a mere civil|the discussion as to when and where contract, thereby undermining not{Mr. McCormick will arrange for their only the domestic, but also the social | second marriay The present mar- foundations. > riage, contracted in Paris, is not “The atheists want God banished | recognl in - Tilinok from the schools, Which, therefore.|golemnised within would become incapable of preparing | after Mr. McCormick's divorce by Mrs. the .elements of peace and order for|Edith Rockefeller McCormick, daugh- families and for soclety.” ter of the Standard Ofl founder: Pacification of the Spirit. Iilinots law forbids divorced pe: Going on to enumerate the reme- gfi{""l'gu"::’!fn!" December 28, Diverced Wite’s Plans. The Chicago Dally News today story “All soclety is nfidently of when ‘Mre. McCormick will_announce her own approaching marriage to Edwin Krenn, the young Swiss architect, who accompanied her i h cinues | Joure o Bwittariands (o o 3 ¥ ues 5 e ot rasott Daily News continued that Mra, papal docum: . “respect, for or: The dor and Wil Teturn, but |McCormick has turned over the man- only the Catholle. Churchj, the united ment ‘of ‘some of her property to {nfallible holdet and interprster there are those that this dootrine of 2. the ‘W, H. JOHNSTON. months.” the petition said, a result of their costly and utterly un- ‘warranted labor policy. ® ® ® The pres- ent freight and passenger rates were 1y determined by you on the assumption that adequate standards of Ty o W e ful 3 Consequently, it at -ny’ time they are | was killed by k ot not fulfilled, it becomes the duty of | machine guns while advancing up your honorable body to act in & way | Hill 212 His home was in Carneyville, EELIIL Taord (s Saousiet the sito: te Smith, who voluteered in ation and = edies.” i the old Towa later the 165th Infantry, killed' by high Condition of Equipment. xplosive shel :-‘ly 15, 1918, in é: yo! Railroad equipment has been allowed | Thar P o, Ty :‘n fall into disrepafr, :}-e petition con- r.runl:s p-rlo‘d nufflm the -nun“t"" reduced _rail n: and shortages of cars loco- in Lorraine. His home w: motives have handica; .mm- i‘,‘:&}’.“ Creek, lowa. el and 1 earn! 50 conditions were declar "nu.‘ln ‘worse” on the Mulufi‘ o ’ year. next Thursd: e peace O e e re 41t brethren:’ and also: “This is My commandment, that ye Jove one_another- as -1 have loved » “"After. which.8t. Paul wrote to one another’s 1t the law of “Bea and so fal 't of a The Now Tork. Now. Haven. and | vail of o At that e v ssiford, two -:fl’t‘_fif#"mh: the | Sapeoity elcasionsly - to. fght tha effective, ins and to bring mulated so many rul