Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1923, Page 4

0. CHARTIES LT HAS 2097 NANES| Former President and Mrs. Wilson Among First Con- tributors to Fund. 10,000 MEMBERS IS GOAL Chairman Clark Issues Statement Explaining Purposes of Annual Drive. The Associated Charitles reported today 2,997 contributing members, a small gain over the number at the opening of its Easter campaign, and from now on those in charge hope the list will increase rapidly. One of the first responses to the Faster appeal of the Associated Char- fties came from Mr. and Mrs. Wood- yow Wilson. This Is a renewal of the gift which has come from one or both of them annually ever since Mr. Wil- son has been in Washington. In this connection the Associated Charities is in receipt of a letter from Mr. Wilson's secretary, John Ran- dolph Bolling, acknowledging receipt of a report made at Mra. Wilson's rs quest touching the needs of an appli- cant for assistance otherwise un- known to her. Mr. Bolling writes Mrs. Wilson remembers your uni- form Kindness in investigating cases of this kind which she referred to vou while she and Mr. Wilson were in the White House." ' Ever since President Roosevelt's time, if not before, the White House has made use of the Associated Char- itles, it is stated, in making inquiries as respecting the needs of not a few of the applicants for assistance, par- ticularly non-residents of Washing- ton. These responses are facilitated by the fact that the soclety has cor- respondents in more than 200 cities and towns of the country. Some of these correspondents include entire states in their territory Explains Campaign. Dwight Clark, chairman of the spe- elal finance committee of the Asso- clated Charities Easter campaign, is sued a statement today explaining the Easter campaign. His statement fol- low: With the approach of Easter. the board of managers of the Associated Charitles appoints each year from its membership a special campaign committee to head up its annual Easter campalgn for new members. “For three vears past this com- mittee has been made up of the younger and newer members of the board. The committes divides the work as evenly as possible, but elects some member to lead off as chairman Three vears ago it was Newbold Noyes, last year Willlam Flather. jr. and this year, much against my will, 1 was elected chairman. Our com- mittee jumps in at the er season to supplement the all-year-round ef- forts of the standing committee, known as the joint finance committee because it represents the Citizens' Relief Association as_well as the Assoclated Charities. The former or- ganization is, in fact, so closely al- lled to the Associated Charitles as to be practically a part of it. The chafrman of this committee is, as is well known, Milton E. Alles, who has served in this capacity ever since 1812, During the past eleven years Mr. Ailes has probably stood sponsor for more appeals for a single cause than any other man in Washington “Now, as chairman of, the special Easter committee, I naturally have some ambition to see that the cam- paign is as successful. or even more S0, than any of its predecessors. Last vear the Assoclated Charities and its branches. including the Citizens' Re lief Association and the summer out- ings committee. received support from 5.575 different contributors. in- cluding’ clubs, churches and other organizations. “Qur goal. then as now, was 10,000 members. The number actually ob- tained was a little better than the maximum of a vear before, which was but it was not enough and Mr. Ailes had to go back to our faithful friends and supporters again In September. the last month of our fiscal vear, to further as- sistance. 1 hope this can be avoided this vear, and it can easily be 50 if evervbody will do his part. “Some of vou have just turned in fncome tax returns. How much ex- emption did you ciaim for charity? Was the Associated Charities on your 1st? 1 hope so. At any rate, won't You put it there now. for next year's return? You have doubtless heard of the community chest. Perha You know that Cleveland has led this movement. Its ambition has been to be known as the city of good will. Can't we of the National Capital. the best city in the world, rival Cleveland in this respect, even though we have not the community chest? “During the next few days we hope to tell you more of the work of the Associated Charities and just what it is doingz. Watch these -columns, but don’t wait too long. What bet- ter time than this Lenten season to practice a bit of self-denfal? The price of a good cigar, a theater ticket or supper! What say you to starting a sacrifice column? Tell us what vou will give up in order to be oné of the 10.000 needed in this TFaster campaign of the Assoclated Charities.” Millions for Silence. From the Kansas Oity Star. Napoleon tried to suppress all polit- ical parties after he became emperor, Nevertheless discussion of the prof lems of state went on. A hotbed for such discussion was the salon of Mme. de Stael. The hostess took the Jead in the ar- guments. At length Napolen, who had spies in every part of Parls, learned of her parlor speeches. At first he dared not take open actlon againet this high spirited woman. He sent a relative of his to see her ‘with this injunction: “Tell her that If she will quit talk- Ing she shall have back the millions of francs that her father lent to Louls XVL Find out what she wants. Mme. de Stael listened coldly to the offer. She refused to accept any- thing. “What then do you want, Madame?” ehe was asked. “Tt is not what T want,” sald Mme. de Stael, “but what T think."” ¥ And she went on with her political discussions. Napoleon could not buy her off. He could not make her stop talking. so he finally ordered her to Jeave the country. She spent ten years in exile. Hoped to Rule France. rom the Kansas City Star. Abbe Sleyes was a powerful force in France before Napoleon became su- preme ruler of that country. This clerical gentleman had drawn up many of the constitutions which the fires of revolution had burned. The career of Napoléon fascinated him. His brain and Napoleon's abil- ity as a general would place the two of them in control of France. Then the abbe could push the general to one side. When Napoleon Sieves and several of his partisans were diecussing politics. The abbe was silent while the discussion ram- bled on and on. He grew impatient and said, finally “Enough of things are needed, sword.” He hoped to be the head and that Napoleon would be the sword. As it happened the two men worked to- gether for a time, but when Napoleon Jiad gotten all he needed from the bbe he threw thai man to one side. was ‘in_ Egypt, chatterboxes. Two a head and a Washingtonians have to date contributed to the support of the Associated Charities. Are you one of these? If you are not, and if the thought of a hungry Washington baby or a deserted Washington mother reaching for your hand means more to you than a gesture, fill out the blank below and swell the total. Urge your friends to do likewise. Washington cannot turn away from its helpless ones. ASSOCIATED CHARITIES (Including Citizens’ Relief Association). Howard S. Reeside, Treasurer, 923 H street northwest: Inclosed please find §.. payment in full first quarterly payment PERTRR PRI 1] (Kind of membership desired) (or contribution) for the current year. MEMBERSHIPS. Associate $2.00 Active . 8.00 Bpecial " 1 Sustaining Oapital .......1 Name 00 Address ce.ceecccascecsesiver (Payment can be made in four quarterly installments.) RAPSMENTOO BUSY 10 SERVE ON JURIES Justice Stafford Discusses “The People and Their Courts of Law.” Describing the importance of a jury as a means of maintaining law and order, Judge Wendell Phillips Staf- ford of the District Supreme Court declared “a man who is too busy to render his service as a juryman is too busy to be a citizen,” in an address on “The People and Their Courts of Law” before the Washington Study in the Highlands apartments yester- da. “It is the duty of the people to support the courts and the law,” he s “In a court the people see the government in action.” Upholds Trial by Jury. Upholding the policy of trial by jury, he pointed out that through it the people were enabled to 1 the courts as their own. lators, governors and judges powerless to punish the meanest crim- inal unless the jury of twelve men pronounce him guilty. Trial by jury is as good and safe a metho X furtherance of law and orde be maintained” he said, and “to do away with this method we should lose ome of the greatest bonds be- ween & people e v - twcen ple and the govern Touching upon the unwillingnes: ss o a numbelt of people to serve ufi Jurlflsf he explained that many,of the men whom he had insisted oh serving as jurors had afterward thanked him for making them do so, telling him that through serving that they had learned to appreciate a numbe- of the diffi- culties of the law which they had never thought of before. Tendency to Disagree. Describing the tendency of jurymen and judges to dMagree, lie said often some of the best decisions are ren- dered after much controversy among those deciding upon the case, as, through the various arguments pre- sented, all have been enabled to see the case from many different angles. Expressing his belief in human na- ture, he pointed out that It was the tendency to trust it too little rather udice. Courts must ple by their justic He condemned the so-called “un- written law” as cne of the crudest methods_to_be resorted to in render- ing a decision, stating. “When we bring it into use we are going back to where we started at the begin- ning of our progre However,” he said, “unwritten law furnishes the machinery to enable the law to ex press the will of the people in cer- tain cases. “Women serving on jurfes will in- troduce in the courts a ne element of common sense and knowledge of affairs,” he said. Duty of the People. In conclusion he pointed out that the law is not perfect, but stated, “Whereas impefections exist, it was the duty of the people to sup- port the law as a whole until the fiawis In it could be corrected. There never was any great race of people that did not support the law. Mr William Howard Taft was guest of honor at a luncheon, follow- ing the address, while Mrs. Charles Warren acted 'as hostes Other guests were: Mrs. Richard Harlow, Mr. W. R. Turner, Mrs. L. H. B. Smith, Miss Gertrude Fetterman of Philadelphia, Miss Maud R. Cavanagh, Miss Maria Ewing, Mrs. George P. Scriven. Miss M. McQuade, Miss Ei- mer Murphy, Miss Lleanor Ewing, Mrs. G. L. Hutton of New York, Mrs C. C. Marbury, Miss Ellen Olson an Mrs. Brodhead. A rising vote of thanks was ex- tended to Miss Maria Ewing for the course in government conducted un- der her supervision, just completed, and an announcement was made that another course would begin the 18th of next October. inspire the peo- Why We Write Left to Right. From the Detroit News. In its earliest stages writing origi- nated from a series of pictures, each representing first a thing, and sec- ondly an_idea. The next stage was to leave out most of the lines of a re- curring picture, so that one stroke might come to mean, say, a licn, or the idea of hunting it. And even to- day some of the writing of the werld is only a continuation of these word- pictures. Other writing developed Into the expression of sounds which we know as the alphabet, and this type of writ- ing has been set down in all sorts of ways. Right to left, left to right, one long spiral line without end, have all been emploved, while one form even began at different ends of alternate lines. Each people developed its own al- phabet, but whereas the easterns mostly write backward or down- ward, our own branch of the human race (which had developed what is called “cursive Wwriting,” that Is a hand in which each letter can be joined onto the others, without lift- ing the pen), long since adopted left to right as the style most coavenient for this particular script. And so long have we done it that our left to right is now instinctive. The Wise Critic. From London Opinion. 1 read that book you wrote ahout ancient history,” said Lowbrow. “and I can't say much for it; there are too many mistakes in it “How s0?” inquired the surprised author. _“Well, one thing made me laugh. You said a guy named Epicurus wa born in 348 B.C., and then a little further on you said he died in 270 B.C. That kills him off before he was born.” _— The truth ip that money is not so very important unless you haven't 3. Unique 1709 Deed To Be Given to National Museum Mrs. George O. Tenney and her sister, Countess von Krockow of Berlin and New York, are to come to Washington tomorrow to present to the New Natlonal Mu- seum an original deed to a grant, dated 1709, to land situated in the valiey of the Hudson The property is declared to be the only property in New York state that has come down directly in the male line from generation to generation, the seventh of which 1s still living in the old stone house built in 1727 at Sau- gerties-on-the-Hudson Mrs. Tenney and the Countess von Krockow are stopping at Wardman Park Hotel, STORING HELD CRUX OF COAL PROBLEM By the Associated Press. PITTSBURG, Pa., March Safe storage of bituminous coal is proba- bly the only solution of stabilizing the coal industry, according to a re- port made public today by the Car- negie Institute of Technology and the United States bureau of mines detail- ing the results of a joint study of the spontaneous combustion of coal. “As long as the peaks of demand react back to the miners,” says the report, “the industry will be a season- al one, with a resultant unsatisfac- tory labor situation. If som: system could be devised whereby coal could be stored economically, with little de- terioration and danger of spontanecus combustion, the mines would be oper- ated practically the whole vear—say 300 working days, instead of 180 to 270 days, as in 1920—at a uniform rate of production. Unfortunately, no such general storage system has yet been devised.” Fine coal dust and molst afr quick- 1y increase the hazards of spontancous combustion, according to the report. Another ' conclusion was that I mixing of fresh coal and old coal d not develop any more heat than that due to the coals themselves when piled separately. Various methods suggested for storing coal were stui- ied during the investigation. but “many of these methods.” the report concludes, ““do more harm than good and others are prohibitive on account of their cost. Bring the family here for up-to stock this spring is bigger and better than_ever. be agreesbly surprised at our LOW PRICES. Brown or Patent For Growing Girls Sizes 814 to 11, 2.49 Sizes 1134 to 2, 2.98 Sizes 21; to 7, 3.49 $ Women’s Gay $9.69 Patent trim—stylish ‘Women’s Brown Oxford. Also Black Goodyear Welt ame Style Oxford, Litle Gents’ Brown Blucher, Durable. Sizes 9 to 1315 Same Style Oxford, $2.69 See ' Our 729 Seven $3:8 Women’s Patent 2-Strap Pump th St. BLANTON ATTAGKS PLAZA “ATTTUE” “Disgusted With Selfish, Ar- bitrary Action of Council” on Hotel Rentals. WANTS GUESTS TO PAY Congress May Be Forced to Abolish Places, Representative Says in Letter. “Thoroughly disgusted with the self- ish, arbitrary attitude of the Plaza Council,” Representative Blanton of Texas, in a letter to Director Watson of the United States Housing Corpo- ration today, expresses the hope Mr. Watson will not hesitate to have the buildings torn down should the coun- cll refuse to pay the additional charge of $4.50 needed to finance the rental due the Baltimore and Ohlo railroad. “In my judgment,’ Representative Blanton declared, “their attitude is golng to cause Congress to reach the conclusion that there is only one thing left to be done, and that is to abolish and remove these hotel build- Pointed. The letter of Mr. Blanton follows: “As one member of Congress 1 de- sire to warn you that you have no authority whatever to obligate thc government in any way for the rental charged by the Baltimore and Chio Railway Company. 1 shall oppose any move whatever to pay any por- tion of same out of the Treasury “I have become thoroughly disgust- ed with the selfish, arbitrary attitude of the Plaza Council. The government has furnished ‘the supendous ~over- head embraced in the cost of all these buildings to these tenants, whol without charge, and for s>veral years they have reaped this benetit, at the expense of the whole people. Ye: tney would now try to force the govern- ment to pay out $65,000 annual rental additional for their beneflt “In my judgment their attitude fs going to cause Congress to reach the copclusion that there is only one thing left to be done, and that is to abolish and remove these hotel build- mgs hope that you will not hesitate to. have these buildings removed, should this Plaza Council refuse to pay the additional charge of $4.50 needed to finance the B. and O. ren- bacit Meeting Call Expected. A call for a general meeting of the women guests of the hotels to be held Monday night to decide their fu- ture attitude in the controversy over what rent shall be paid is_expected to be sent out tomorrow. The Plaza Council met at the hotels last night with _attorneys representing the women guests, but no decisive action was taken, according to Miss Martha Taylor, president of the council. The | entire matter of the future atfitude of the guests will be considered at the meeting scheduled for Monday night. Protests from the guests, while they would be considered, would probably have no effect on the course of the government in asking the Increased rental, Mr. Watson said today. The increase in the rental charges was carefully considered before it was ordered, he said. and cannot now be reconsidered. The increased rental charge is necessary to accumulate a surplus to pay the rental charges due the railroad company, which owns the property on which part of the hotel project is constructed, he added, and no provision has been made to pay the rental charge out of an appropri- ation. The hotels must furnish money for the rental charge themselves out of the money taken in. _ Simple Division. From London Passing Show. Husband (going through house- keeping accounts)—But what is the rthly use of running accounts with { four grocers? Wife—Well, you see, dear, it makes the bills so much smaller. $1.98 Patent 1-Strap Pumps, Broad or Narrow Toe Sizes 814 to 11, 1.98 Sizes 11% to 2, 249 Sizes 213 to 7, 2.98 AR RAAES S, A0, Suede, 1-Strap, 2.8 $3.98 %% % e % asceseassasn: Ry Brown Goodyear Welt Rubber Heels Same Style Oxford, $2.98 TITTIET T evey D. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 23 NDIAN GIRL BIDS FOR SUITOR BY DANCE FOLLOWING 4-DAY FAST The modern debutante and her com- ing out parties have nothing on the Washoe Indians of Nevada, who have a unique dance given to every girl in the tribe to announce publicly that she is ready for marriage, according to a'report to the Interlor Depart- ment today from the Reno Indian agency at Reno, The dance or is called “the girl's dance,” and the gir] who | the night the family of the girl is the central flgure eats nothing for 'money and other presents to —_— T ! 1923 four days. On_the fourth night the dance is held, beginning at 8 o'clock in the evening, and continues until sunrise the following morning. In a circle and move by short d steps sidewige around the room hum- ming a chant. The girl, by some older woman, apparently chaperone, carries a long staff to sup- port her because of her weakness through loss of food. As the dance progresses late into Bive the Satisfaction pmpanied to keep them movi others to join in t after midnight a The ceremony clo: n the girl is take nd is en xage brush money is concealed. |later before the and throws the can of Shortly money to Almost our favorite ipponese business man wh in Honolulu. ¥ri Shiya meets the chillier w prose he assemblage outside ater 1s then dashed over her ter which she is ready to re- : a proposal of marriage. English as Advertised. ng and to he dance. feast i 8 at sun- outside cloped in in which appears them. 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