Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1923, Page 14

14 AR ON SOEL ISEASE OTUNED Dr. White Proposes Reports on All Cases to-Be Kept in_Confidence. According to a statement made by the Navy Department in refer- ence to the continued refusal of Rear Admiral Willlam. §. °Sims, United States Navy, retired, to ac- cept * the Distinguished Service Medal awarded him by the United States government for world war services, that officer has recelved the highest decorations which five foreign "governments have ' ever awarded citizens of other coun- tries, namely! The grand cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. Gedrge (Great Britain). Grand officer of the Legion of Honor (France). Grand Cordon, first class, Oroder of the Rising Sun (Japan). Grand cordon, first class, order Leopold (Belgium). Grand officer of the Crown'of Ita Rear Admiral Sims also has re- ceived the honorary degree of LL. D., from the following univer- sities: Yale, Harvard, Tufts, Co- lumbla, Pennsylvania, Cambridge (England) McGlll (Montreal) and Queens (Kingston, Canada) and from the following colleges: Wil- lams. Union, Juniata and Ste- phens Institute. g The statement adds that Rear Admiral Sims has been selected as the charter day ‘speaker at the University of California, Berkeley, this ve [ —_—— "QUESTION OF HEALTH Gen. Ireland Tells Social Hygiene Society of Army's Fight With Diseases. An outli mum leg of a program of “mini- lation” to protect the com. munity nst the ravages of social disease was presented by Dr. W. A. White, superintendent of St. Eliza- beth’s Hospital. last night before the annual meeting of the Social Hy- gienic Society in the District buflding boardroom. The legislation should make to health aut in sacred steps for fsolation of their Public e were taken At the conclusion of his address he | summed ress by 2 needed. he said, such diseases reportable orities, but fo be kept | by them while treatment and the ses from possible, confidence their dectaring | se is not 4 moral ! a question of | must b sted in it red. “be- | ¢ of the dangers that the disease | bring to our very doors.” | Must Back Up Opinlon. | d nbw (o foster. nurturel up public opinion for the of reasonable legislation,” he do not want to tak and we want what might be termed minority legislation that is, legislation which will - equally well received by the min- 9 B 2 ity as by ihe majority The Thrift week campaigners met ightened public op xn'inarll e P fose aromnd the banquet table last night Surgeon M in the Central Y. M. C. A. building United and heard final _treports” from their committee chairmen. W. C. Hanson. v cal dise tion at al health OF THRFT CANPAGY Workers Gather at Banquet Given in Honor of Speakers Who Aided in Canvass. coun At the these tally ico ais The public has pointed the finger orn wt us on account of the runt of venereal disease ~hich we have, and were inclined to | shun us as une vur efforts to | explain that iercal rate was) but an in X of the disease as it e iste ivil life in t vieinity iry posts did not meet with ideration e Alive to Sitw some vears, however, mai he were clusively outset diseases o | said that was due to the hearty co-operation siven by every worker. 3 More than half of the people living in Washington were reached through the thrift miessage. it was reported. Bighty thousand homes were reached through the mails. speakers addressed of | sisty-four schools, * forty-filne meet- not fundamen- Army or serv- of great { partment, ion { engr of | of others eliewhere in the. A vod people have stapped play-| The - Thrift week speakers, who ial evil and are mdking an effort | follow: Gen. H. M. Lord. control its ravages. The world | Worth. Frank White, r removed forever the prudery on ! Gy Withers, Mrs, ‘¢ this subject which had existed among | William Mather Lewi m the birth of the nation -and | Shears, A. J. Barrett, d_this evil in all its naked- | I. Talkes. T Now such meetings as this are | Mrs. . Idit lield all over the United States. | ington. IL meetings would have been im- | Miller, P, in any section of the United | Charles G fifteen vears ago. The frank- | -“fl‘““t"v,c e ness with which vencreal diseases scorge Cu are discusscd publicly is the great- nson. James J. Llovd. Robert W est zuuranty that they are to be !Blder, Mrs. William Chamberlaln, Mr: fought openly and in the proper|l¥man Swormstedt. Mrs. W. P. Bird, 2odde s Bemis, Maj. James Buchanan, Tie came to the point by citing fig- James, “John Dolph: Willlam and statisties in connection | Knowles Cooper. Ruby Lee Minar, H. cvalence of the diseases, For | B. Plankington, H. A. Latimer, Victor he said. during the period | T A. W. Defenderfer, Mrs. F. ol A 1. 1917, until | Coville, Mrs. Farington. Mrs. Har- 1919, there were 557,000 aldwin, Miss Llizabeth Reese. s reported Laura Brennon, Mrs. Harold 0 discharges | Parks, Mrs, Ifaac Gans, Mrs. Basil ceded only by | Manly, S. H- Marks. L. A, F tuberculosis and | Gertrude Bischoff and T. W. nineteen in the bureau of Ly . Gifford, Maj. therine Morse, . Bdwin Tsaac_Gans, S A. Luce, Claud W. Owen, Salisbury.-J. T. Worth- T. Shannon, Mrs. Garrett H. Sinclair,\A. L. Baldwin, These nossibl er. Rev. hinn, @ e with ins The i for disu the ‘disciiarzes mental de Loa of 6S00.000 Days. Venereal discases causel time from duty ceeded only by spect In oth | br. for Collins. a loss of |ucating the public against the dan- of 6.800.000 days, e influenza in this re- [ed out that two general forms may words, the time lost | be assumed by educational measures. because of venercal ' disease was | The first is restrictive laws and reg- equivalent to the loss of one ve ulations which tend to impress upon time by 18600 men the individual that contracting a ve- He outiined threc constructive | nereal discase is a military offense, methods of controlling the soread of |and the second is instruction rela. infectious discases in general, which | tive to the dangers of venereal dis might be applied to the spread of | cases and methods whereby they may the venereal classe be avoided. E L nesaid, e Tlnee ot Gives Extended Reporta. isease ‘can be ‘climinated, as has| . = been done in the case of bubonici Col W.O. Owen, vresident, presided plague through the destruction of |t the meeting. Dr. Margaret Eck. rats ondiy. the avenue of trane. | Secretary, delivered an extensive re- mission can be blocked so that the | POFt concerning activities of the. or- infected agent cannot be. transmitted | Eanization during the past year, in from the source of the disease to a|Which membership jumped from 160 susceptible individual, as is doné in {last June to 332 activc members at the control of malaria, where the mos- | the present time, with 80 assoclated squito transmitting the disease is!and 200 affiliated members. a destroved; or thirdly, the susceptible | The nominating committee reporte: individual can be rendered immune by | the following to be additional HLEE artificial immunization as is doi bers of the board of directors, who 16 prevention of small were unanimously elected: Dr. How At b e ard Fisher, Mrs. G. Brown Miller, Rev. < John' M. Cooper, Mrs. Joseph Bischoff. Necessity of Eduentisn. Mrs. Maud Wood Park and Mrs. Wal- He emphas d the necessity of ed- ter Ufford. the source of the |AdmiralSimsHas High Decorations Of Other Nations HEAR FINAL REPORTS - be 3 chairman of the cxecutive committee, | success of the campaign | | ings were held in the Treasury De- | ving and priniing and numbers | Mrs. | { INQUIRE ABOUT OUR DEFERRED PAYMENT PLAN THE EVE VIRGINIANS OPPOSE NEGRO BEACH PLAN Senator Swanson and Rep- resentative Moore Head Body Calling on Weeks. Senator Swanson and Representative Moore of Virginia and three residents of Arlington counfy made a formal protest to Secretary Weeks at the War Department today, against the proposed | establishment of a bathing beach for Ime colored people of the District of Columbia at the riverside of the federal reservation at” Rosslyn. They pointed out that the site in question is near the southern approach to the new Georgetown, bridge, on the idirect line of travel between the Dis- - trict and Virginia, already badly con- gested on account of the narrowness of {the entrance to the-bridge and heavy traffic on three important highways centering at that point. | The establishment of a public bath- |ing beach there, and-the fact that {three rallroads are to have terminals {on the Virginia approach, they ar- gucd. would lead to further conges- tlon and interfere serlously with tl\e’ proper handling of general traffic. Secretary Weeks told the delega- tlon that he would take their repre- t%entations under advisement and sce what could be done to meet the wishes of the various interests involved. He has been informed, he said, that many | ‘of the colored. residents -of the-dis- | jtrict also object to the establishment | of the beach at Rosslym. | \EX-POLICEMAN JALED: " ANOTHER FINED $200 { | Former Members' of ‘D. C. Force } Charged With Robbery and Clrr'ying Liquor. | Edgar Raymond Dempsey. former Washington policeman, was sentenced by Judge Samuel G. Brent to one year in the penitentlury when he entered a plea of guilty to an indictment charg- ing housebreaking and robbery in fl!e‘ clreuit court of Falrfax Courthouse, | Va. The charze grew out of the entry of the home of Robert Arnold in North i Alexandria, Fairfax coun Dempsey, with others, {5 alleged to have repre- sented himself as a prohibition officer, and later forced Arnold to get into an ulgmohllc and robbed him of $102: in | orge Lomax. _another former | member «f the Washington police i force, pleadcd guilty in the Rockville, Md.. police court to a charge of hav ing intoxicating liquor in his possession with the intention of ‘selling it and was fined $200 and costs by Judge muel Riggs. LomaXx was arrested several weeks ;ago near Chillum, ‘Prince Georges county, after he, in an automobile, was chased for ten miles by Motor Cycle Pollicemen Jones and Burdine Lomax’'s machine collided with an- other car. which made possible his arrest —_— To sentence: three women to death in two days was the trying duty that recently fell to the lot of a justice in the famous Old Baily court {in London. | gers of venereal discase, He also point. | - W.B.Moses & Sons ; Furniture | Carpets i i i i jand IG. Hard, third vice pre: WAR ON BANDITS CUTS POSTAL LOSS OVER $1,000,000 Losses to the government through mail ‘bandits in major mail robberies have been mate- rially reduced by the relentless warfare waged by the Post Office Department. hey have aggre- .gated only $24,653 for the last nine nonths, compared with $1.129,366 or the year ending March 31 last. Two years ago $§.346,407 was stolen "from the malls, of which $3.286,017 was recovered, leaving a net loss of $3,060,390. There were no major train_hold- ups or major mail truck hold-ups in which.the outlaws made their escape with loot in the last nine months. One major robbery of a post office station and two major robberies of postal messengers or malil carriers involved $79,200, of which $54,647 was recovered, leav- ing a net loss of $24,553. 'DECLARES HE HAS FAITH INLEAGUE OF NATIONS Col. John Temple Graves, Address- ing Mississippians, Sees in It “Universal Peace.” “I have faith in the league of natio; because 1 have faith in common se and because’ a universal peace is one of the most practical and mos: desir- able things in the world,” declared Col. John Temple Graves, in an address be- fore the Mississippi State Soclety, at the Washington Club, last night. The speaker advocated a constructive rather s se {than a destructive policy on the part of | governments, saying “it is as wise fo devise means to prevent wars as it is to prepare for them.” and that this “great cause” is a challenge to the statesmen of the United States and to thote of the rest of the world as to what action they will take in regard to it. ‘ulogizes Missisxippl. Col, Graves also eulogized Mississippi its people for their customs and traditions. and paid_tribute to Senator Pat Harrison and Senator John Sharp Willlams. The mecting was in the form of a ra- ception and entertainment. Mrs. David Kincheloe rendered several old planta- tlon songs of ante-bellum days and re- cited a monologue. and Mr. Charlton Clark made a few remarks in regard to a pageant of the history of Mississipy: Following his talk. he was chairman of the committee on arrange- ments for the pageant, and it was de- cided to hold the same some time this | winter. Those in Rece! Those in the rec the evening were: president of King, first vi ng Line. iving line e: Mrs. Percy Williz e presiden; dent: Mrs. lie Brinker Wolfe. secretary: Senator and Mrs Harrison of Mississippi, Representative Benjamin G. Humphries of Mississippl. Representative J. W. Collier of Mississippi and his daughter, Miss Emma Collier: Maj. C. R. Petti former president of the societ ! Oscar Wilkinson, Dr. and Mrs. Clifton P. Clark, Charlton M. Clark and Mr: Clark, Carl Schaefer and Mrs. Schaecfe! Mrs. Percy E. Quinn presided. Dan ing followed. ILL OF PNEUMONIA. Representative J. M. Rose of Penn- sylvania Some Improved. Representative John M. Johnstown, Pa., is il] with pneumonia in his apartment in Congress Hall Hotel. He was taken sick at dinner Saturday The doctor said today that there is a_slight improvement in Representa- tive Rose's condition. Rose of ESTABLISHED 1861 February Sale of apnointed | i Mrs. Robert | | i { | rious pi | the { Bven probation will not help him in F at Eleventh G STAR, "WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, JANUARY URGES HOMEIN . C: FORINEPT CHILOREN Judge McMahon Hesitates in Sending Feebleminded Boys to Jail. PAROLED BY MARYLAND Lads Plead Guilty to Five Charges of Chicken Stealing in Police Court. —_— i The urgent'need for the erection «f a home for feeble-minded children in the District of Columbia was brought out in a statement of Judge John P. McMahon in Police Coust to- day, while trying a case of two boys, James K. Mothershead, aged eight- cen, and Willlam H. Kearns, aged geventeen, both charged with several cases of petit larceny. Both boys pleaded guilty to five charges of chicken stealing, which had occurred at different times in v ces through the city. It was: stated by the sister of young Mothers- | ficad. that the boy had the mind ufi child Besides that she stated, ihe boy was almost stone deaf and '\il’\l now being taken care of by the Maryland Training School for Boys at Loch Raven. Paroled Affer Short | The boy had been sent there a joy-riding e pade several vears ago, she said, that happened in Mary- land, and was sentenced to stay there until he was twenty-one. But the boy had been paroled for a snort time to come here, where it was hoped, an operation might restore his hearing. During th time the bnoy ! had taken the chicken: Ralph Given, assistant United States attorney, informed the court that there was some question as to wheth- er the Maryland school would allow the boy to return. He argued that it would be a gross injustice to send the boy to jail, where he woujd come in ontact” with m havdencd crimi- nals, and that the Maryland hool was the place for him if they ould take him, as the boy, according to ail evidence presented vas not a crimi- nal. but mentally deflcient Judge M . after hearing the 3 ntinued the case over un- disposition of the Maryland ! als could be learned. In | tative of on. he declared that in the case certainly ' for the Star later the evidence {convinced him of the great need of an institution for feeble-minded in thi ik We have no such place.” he sail, | a minor that is mentally deficient through perhaps no fault of his own, | and commits a crime, must elther be | sent to jail or the insane asvlum, ! both of which places will do. him no | &ood. 1 hope that the Maryland offi- | elais will allow the bo¥ to be taken | back. There he has a_chance to be corrected and trained. If they do not, 1 will have to do something for boy that will do him no goud. | this case. The other boy, 1 think, is mentally deficient also. James™ O'Shea, attorney Young | Mothershead, added his belief to that of the judge's, that an institu- ion should be ereced for such cases. | “In my study of criminology,” he | told the court, “I have seen many | such cases, where unbalanced boys, if { taken to a'proper place and corrected, | would never turn out hardened crimi- | nals that the influence of the penal institution makes of them.” for Linens Upholstery 0, 1923 MAIL CARRIERS TO DISTRIBUTE GRAIN TO BIRDS Starving country birds soon may 'be watching-as vigilantly for the mail man as letter-hungry hu- mans do. Postmaster General Work has issued orders to rural route mail carriers to distribute grains along their routes for starving birds, when supplies of such bird feed are furnished to them, The order resulted from a re- Qquest of a state game warden, who asked that the carriers be permit- ted to participate in the benevo- sdent work of furnishing food to birds when the groupnd is covered with snow. Rural foute carriers were asked to rneder -all possible assistance in the good cause, ACHVES BULDNG AS STUMBLING BLOEK Congress Conferees Reported in “Strongly Opposite” Positions on $2,500,000 Appropriation. The conferees of the Senate and House on the independent offices ap- propriation bill vesterday afternoon found themselves in strongly opposite positions regarding the Senate amend- ment proposing to appropriate 500,000 | to begin the construction of a $2.500.- 000 national archives building in Washington. The House conferces declared that the House would not accept the amendment which was of- fered by Senator Poindexter of Wash ington.” They said that the House had refused to appropriate money for the construction of post offices and other public buildings in the United States and that it could not now be expected to reverse itself on the gquestion of economy It is possible, two-hour meet| conferees will it was said after a g, that the Senate id-on the archives building amendment. provid the House conferees will agree n amendment placed in the bill the nate for $1,000,000 to construct steel filing stacks for government records in the central court of the Pension buildin, to | OF TEACHERS IN D. C. Tells Newcomers’' Club He Is Un- able to Live on His Salary in Schools. That it impossible for music | | teachers in the public schools of the | { District to live decently on their sal- laries was the statement made by E win N, C. Barnes, director of music | in the schools, before the Newcom- | ers’ Club at the City Club yesterday. Mr. Barnes was emphatic against the action of Congress in cutting sal- ‘ aries of local gchool teachers, and de- | aries” bill did not go into effect he, | personally, be unable to con- tinue his 3 The teacher also deplored the by Congress in the proposed sala of Dr. Frank W, Ballou, superintend- ent of schools. The speaker was Ic in his praise sald that, while they 4 Keep Your LEANING. looking like new. Dyeing Department. vour garments need kind just lacking in were, ing pupils and develdp. well clared that if the proposed “new sal- [of the Distriet, tistics along country w having ship of the children of Washington, and |John K were woefully | and Orville New Pressing and make garments last and keep them And when the color goes out of style have it changed by our saving money on good dressin Call Main 4724 CLEANERS ' & DYERS MAIN OFFICE 740 12™ ST NA MEXICAN NEW SIE BARNES SCORES PAY * DECLARED FRAUD OVER U. S. DEBTS American newspaper publishers ho have been invited by R Gonzales of Orizaba, Mexico send Afty or seventy-five copic their Sunday pap and pr $100 upon receipt of the first ment, will be bothered more Post Office Department ha issued a fraud order against Gor zales, who never remitted and dis posed of the paper: its as he was able constructive great part, that in music, most time theyt will would for the e advocated an instrumental as vogal course in the sche and gave man how far ad other cities t present Burkhart presided ed the following names been admitted to member. Dr. J. T. Wolf, A. J. Schippert Campbell, Thomas J Little, Dr. George B. Drown show lin to thi of the Joseph nnour il A Garments Repairing A simple way of attention of INQUIRE ABOUT OUR DEFERRED PAYMENT PLAN W. B.Moses & Sons Furniture Carpets February ' ESTABLISHED 1861 F at Eleventh Furniture Linens Upholstery NOT special suites bought for this sale, but our entire stock of household furniture reduced from 109, to 409, Below are listed a few items indicative of the splendid reductions THIS three piece mahogany living room suite, consisting of large ! davenport, arm rocker’and armchair to match. May be had in selection of damask or tapestry, spring seat and spring cushion construction. Davenport has two pillows and roll. Begular price $350.00, February Sale Price ... e -$275.00 Oriental Rugs =2 riental Rug The World’s Bright Eye, the Sun : An ADITORIAL , 3 Z‘T!ifi’ not gI)e!i:‘\red at It is possible tol look That ‘there is any rila- st She wumr 1 you o tion between the new sunspots and recent troubled by moving spots in your ordinary carthquakes. However, field of visien, .Etz op- such spots may help us to determinc general tometrists may be able to remedy the condition weather conditions in advance. with properly adjusted eyeglasses. To make the most of Sunlight and Artificial Light, wear Etz Eyeglasses. . CANE, wing-back armchair or arm rocker. Regular price $46.00, February Sale Price.....$29.50 SPECIAL cane back and uphol- stered seat arm rocker or arm- chair. Regular price $35.00, Feb- ruary Sale Price ....$25.00 V) % EVERY rug is specially marked for this occasion and the prices are interestingly low. | | Dining-Room TEN-PIECE mahogany dining room suite, consisting of buffet, china case, oblong dining table, closed-in serving table, 5 side chairs and armchair to match. Chairs have blue leather seats. Regular price $425.00, February Sale Price.............c.0ovvven.......$319.50 1217 G Street N.W. A Few Room-sioizes . Mahal, 10.7x13 ..... Savalan, 10x13.7 ... Hamadan, 10.8x13.3 Mahal, 10.2x13.6 ... Mabhal, 9.7x11.10 .. Hamadan, 9.2x11.8 Hamadan, 9x12.1 .. Mahal, 9.6x11.11 .. .$520.00 .$390.00 .$395.00 .$475.00 .$415.00 .$385.00 .$390.00 .$435.00 < > =f ) Arak, 7.9x9.7 .... Hamadan, 9.4x12 . Hamadan, 9x10.11 Hamadan, 9.3x11 . Hamadan,-8.1x10. Kurd, 7.5x123 .... Mahal, 7.10x104 .. Mahal, 9.2x11.8 .... Hamadan, 8.8x12.2 . ...§270.00 .§360.00 .$348.00 ..$372.00 .§332.00 .$340.00 .$375.00 .$395.00 .$385.00 How about your mouth? Very. few people escape mouth troubles. So look on your toothbrush today, and if you see any sign of bleeding gums, go immedi- ately and get a tube of Pyrodento Tooth Paste and use it religiously on your brush. Massage your gums with it, and you will save yoursélf heaps of trouble. ! | | | ~ ‘Persian Runners. .$78.00 to $115.00 Chinese Carpets ............ccovevvnenn.....$132,00 to $435.00 Small-size Chinese Rugs.............. $18.00 to $65.00 Mosuls, sizes 314x51% feet........ 2 $45.00 to 560.(10 Hamadans, sizes 214x3 feet Seeeva......$28.00 to $42.50 . Extra Quality Dozars, sizes 414x61/5 feet. . $95.00 to $175.00 acemee aaiate THIS dainty four-piece bed room suite may be had in combination mahogany or American walnut; suite consists of dresser, large vanity dresser, bow-end bed and chiffonier. February Sale Pricé of suite, $235.00 Dresser $68.00, vanity dresser $80.00, chiffonier $43.50, bow-end bed $43.50. INQUIRE ABOUT OUR DEFERRED PAYMENT PLAN v