Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1923, Page 2

RGES RELENTLESS WAR ON DOPE EVL Physician Tells Convention of| Health Authorities Drug Ad- | diction Rapidly Increasing. The time has come when all forces fnust act and call a halt to “this Erowing evil” of drug consumption, Dr. Frederick Stricker told the thirty-eighth annual meeting of the conference of state and provinclal health authorities of North America, 1n session today at the District Med- deal Society building, 1718 M street. The cenvention closes tomorrow. Declaring that there is one drug &ddict to every 500 persons in the United States, as far as the number can be estimated, and that the trafiic n narcotic drugs shows the United States to be the largest consuming country, with an average of thirty- Bix grains of opium per capita, as contrasted with one grain in Italy, two in Germany, three in France @nd three and one-half grains in Holland, Dr. Stricker, in his report for the committee of drug addiction, declared that the problem can only be satisfactorily solved by the co-opera- tion of all the law-enforcing Health departments of s a states, he told the assembled health department officials, must undertake I ters at the Catholic University. PROBATION CONFERENCE BACKS VOTE FOR DISTRICT RESIDENTS (Continued from First Page.) by the judges here in this conven- tion.” A wave of approval swept the assembly indicating general agree- ment that the plea of voteless Wash- ington for national representation should be answered by Congress. This was really National Capital day at the conference. The principal addresses this afternoon were made by Miss Jeannette Ezekiels, assistant chief probation officer of the Juvenile Court of the District, on “New Meth- ods in Probation Supervision.” and by Rev. Dr. John O'Grady, director of Catholic charities, with headquar- afternoon all members of the confer- ence are attending & recepticn ten- dered by Judge Kathryn Sellers of the Juvenile Court, who is one of the | directors of the National Probation Assoclatton, and chalrman of the local committee in the Women's City Club. Dencribes District System. Miss Esckiel in describing the tensive character of probation pervision as it is developing in the Juvenile Court of the District, .cu.- phasized that this type f probation supervision s not offered as a model except as it may meet some necd or suggest changes in systems of pro. bation work already in operation. has been developed in Washington, she explained, until the nrobation de- partment staff consists of a chlef probation officer, an assistant chicf (case supervisor), an inv lgating officer, a probation officer for adults, eight probation officers supervising juvenile cases and a clerical force of six persons. An arrangement in effect since Jan- uary 1, 1923, between the Juvenile Court and the superintendent of pub- lic schools, was discussed and proved in- su- their part in ‘a campaign against the “dope” evil. Report on Drug Addiction, The committee on drug addlction Teported tihe following steps as nec- essary to “call 4 halt” to the drug pvil: 1. The enactment of state narcotic laws which will supplement the Har- rison anti-narcotic 3 » 2. Compultery and voluntary com- mitment of the addict. 3. Facilitws for treating addicts at all state Bospitals and penal insti- tutions. . 4. Contsd] of smuggling by interna- tional agrecment, 5. Abstlute prohibition of the man- ufacture of heroin. (This drug was branded in the committee report as the ause of the most atrocious erimes on record.”) 6. Education of the public, but con fined to “facts and conservative stat ments, Appeal to Medical Men. Dr. Arthur T. MeCormack of Louis- Ky., president of the conte ence, declared in his annual address that the death rate in the United States may be reduced from one-third to one-haif of its present proportion, and_that this would mean a reduction of 75 to 80 per cent in the present Tate of sickness. “Why has the medical profession lost its high place in public esteem?” asked Dr. McCormack. “That it has done so is proved by the fact that cults of healing, devised by zealous half-wits, grabbing knowledge and terminology from the garbage cans of science, using again and again the discarded, spoiled rubbish of the only profession that has cver advanced one step in the prevention or treatment of human disease, have been author- fzed In most of wur states to mulet. streat and mislead the mists ignorant Charges Law Violation. “These cults, highly trained in publicity and 'flauntingly violating the law in bootlesging to polsoned products of the ancient art of medicine to the destruction of health and the lives of thousands, take or- ganized advantage of mob psychology to create a false and corrupt demand Which weakens us in public opinion. In our hospitals we seem to be walt- ing like spiders for the helpless sick.” The report of the committee on medical service, presented by Dr. Matthias Nicoll, jr. showed the re- moval of physiclans from rural dis- tricts to the cities, and declared that “the most important problem in the field of medical practice which today confronts the people of the United Btates is that of medlcal service the fnhabitants of the rural district INVITE PRESIDENT. Harding Asked Horse Show. President Harding today was for- mally invited to attend the opening of the horse show tomorrow at the Virginia end of the Highway bridge. The invitation was extended by Ad- miral Carey Grayson, Melvin P. Hazen and Horace Westcott, officers of the V"a hington Horse Show Association, Tnless business interferes the Presi- dent most likely will be on hand. et BORAH LEAGUE FORMED. Woters of Idaho Favoring Re-Elec- tion to Be .Enrolled. Reports reaching this ity from ¥daho announce the formation of the Jdaho League of Borah Voters, to be compriscd of all voters of the state “who favor the re-electicn of Wil- Yiam E. Borah to the United States Benate, or, for that matter. his elec- tion as President.” The president of the league is CI A. Sunderlin of ‘Burley ter sent broad- cast hé say: “The neceéssities for the Borah League should be obviously apparent to all citizens of the state who be- beve in American principles of gov- ernment, and who have a reasonable appreciation of the value of Sen- tor Borah to the state and nation. Senator Borah Is more than & politi- cal asset o the people of the state ©f ldaho, more than a political asset to the republican party. His is a personality that electrifies the na- tion with the brilliancy of his states- gnanship, and his character s a tower of strength to vitalize the moral fiber of our people. His grasp o©f political problems 18 so funda- mental that his leadership points the way for national greatness—the pre- perving of constitutional government, freedom from political alliances and & vitalized Americanism. NAMES U. S. DELEGATES. Harding Picks Twelve to Attend Navigation Congress. Twelve American delegates to the Rhirteenth international congress of mavigation, to be held at London in July, were appointed today by Presi- dent’ Harding. The Congress is the first to be held since before the war, &nd will deal with both i{nland and ocean navigation, with particular at- gention to engineering problems. The American delegation includes Fepresentatives of the Army, Navy, coast guard, geological survey, coast &nd geodetic survey, lighthouse serv- jce, Shipping Board and Emergency ¥leet Corporation and the military, naval and commercial attaches of geveral American embassies ih Eu- wope. . FLORIDA SHERIFF HELD. TALLAHASSEE, Fla, May 14— Bheriff J. R. Jones of Leon county, one of the principals in the Martin Tabert flogging case, was taken into custody by federal officials here to- day on a charge of conspiracy and kidnaping. Jones was {indicted Saturday at Pensacola, Fla., with Willlam Fisher, superintendent of the Putnam Lum- ber Company, and Walter Higgin- botham, convict whipping boss, fol- lowing an investigation into the death of Ned Thompson, an aged Y Mr. to Attend very interesting to the conference. In reply to the question what are the results of this new svstem 6f intensive supervision, Miss Izeklel said: “There is on the i probation officers an expresscd d sire to do better work and to antic pate the suggestions and criticisms of the supervisor. There is promptu=ss in bringing to the attention of the supervisor the need for special serv- ice, and working with outsic ae cles has done much to keep the pr bation officers alert and punc Consequently the resources of the city are better utilized, Children are no longer indefinitely carried on pro- bation, because the work s carefully plann a close follow-up is main- tained. Indiscriminate visiting has been lessened and the probation work as a whole shows more careful plan- ning. Co-operntion Easily Secured. “Co-operation from other agencies is more easily secured and maintained,” Miss Ezeklel pointed out, “so that there is less duplication of effort and service as a consequence. The com- munity is better informed as to the work of the probation department, and has come to realize that that procedure is not aimed to punish the children, but as far as possible to pro- tect, train and treat according to the standards that are firmly grounded in the principles and teachings that make for useful and law-ablding citi- zens : “Perhaps the outstanding resul she told the conference, “is the train- ing on the job that has come as a by- product. of supervision. In develop- ing a time and energy saving method in cultivating a_sympathetic and un derstanding _ attitude toward t he children on probation; in establishing and maintaining standards by which fleld work s measured: in endeavor- ing in every way to do increasingly better work the probation officers and others in the probation department have performed the major part. To set in motion and guide the task is but a part, the greater credit must go to those who have the faith and the courage to follow the plan that has been worked out and, for the time being, in effect.” Every person attending the confer- ence today wore flowers provided by the membership committee of which Mrs. D. R. Covell of Washington 1s chairman. Program for Todny. he program today included an ad e by Judge A, C. Backus of the municipal court, Milwaukee, who is president of the association, and a discussion_on “State Aid to Proba- tion” by Mrs. Corin C. Warrington Indiana state probation offi Mar- garet S. Moss, assistant director of the Pennsylvania children's bureau, and others. ; “State and Local Probation - ciations” was discussed by William Mueller, chief probation officer, su- preme court, Baltimore, and secretary of the Marvland Probation Associa- tion, and Charles L. Chute, general secretary of the National Probation Assoclation. : Secretary Denby of the Navy De- partment, former chief probation of- ficer of the recorder’s court, Detro is one of the principal speakers to night on “Probation Service a N tional Asset.” Dr. Willlam A. White, superintendent of St. Elizabeth's Hos- pital, will speak tonight on “The I dividualization of the Criminal and its Significance for His Treatment Washington Representatives. Well known Washington social workers who are taking a prominent part in the conference include: Judge Kathryn Sellers, Juvenile Court; Rev. Dr. Willlam S. Abernethy, Cal- vary Baptist Church; Miss Grace Ab- Dbott, chief, children's bureau; Charles A. Baker, president Federation of Citizens' Associations; Dr. Frank Bal- Jou, superintendent public schools; Mrs. E. K. Bushee, Juvenile Prote: tive Association: E. F. Colladay, pre ident Board of Trade; Mrs. David Covell, Trinity Community House; Judge Willlam De Lacy, former judge, Juvenile Court; Rev, George Diffenderfer, Federation of Churches; Miss Estelle Foster, chief probation officer, Police Court; Dr. W. C. Fowl- er, health officer, District of Colum- bia; Rev. James E. Freeman, Church of the Epiphany: Dr. L. S, Glazebrook, Juvenile Protective Association; Mrs. Charles Goldsmith, Hebrew Charities; Mrs. Eula Grey, president Washing- ton Council of Social Workers; Oli- ver D. Hoyem, secretary, national committee on prisons and prison la- bor. Royal A. Hughes, president Washing- ton Bar Association: Dr. Loren B. T. Johnson, St. Elizabeth's Hospital; Judge J. Wilmer Latimer, former judge of Juvenile Court; Gideon A. Lyon, assoclate editor, Evening Star; Justice Walter I. McCoy, chief jus- tice District Supreme Court; Judge John P. McMahon, Police Court; Dr. John Thomas V. Moore, Providence Houpital; Mrs. Fannie Morse, superin- tendent National Training School for Girls; Judge Mary O'Toole, Municipal Court; Dr. John O'Grady, director Catholic charities; Mrs. Glenn Plumb, Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, president Congress of Mothers and Parent- Teachers' Association; Justice Con- stantine Smyth, chief justice, Court of Appeals; Amos A. Steele, chief pro- bation officer, Supreme Court of Dis- trict of Columbia; Francis H, Cteph- ens, corporation counsel; G. A. Sterling, superintendent National Training School for Boys; Mrs. Edward L. Stock, Maj. Daniel Sullivan, chief of metropolitan police; Mrs. Mina C. Van Winkle, in charge of women’s bureau, metropoli- tan police. D, C. Women Head Committees. ‘Washington women who are cHair- men of special committees Include Membership and registration, Mrs. David R. Covell; publicity, Mrs. Giles Bcott Rafter; entertainment, Mrs. Ed- ward L. Stock. —_— JUDGE SELLERS HONORED. Judge Kathryn Sellers of the Juve- nile Court has been honored, in the opinion of the legal fraternity, by her election as a member of the council and executive committee of the Amer- fcan Soclety of International Law. The assoclation is composed of 1,000 leading _barristers of the United States. Women have been eligible to membership for only two years. This is the second honor to come to 2 member of the Washington Zonta Club within & month. Miss Eleanor Hamilton, _ great-great-granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton, has been chosen to unveil the Hamilton me- :a:r(u near the Treasury next Thurs: . 1 s. 1t} \ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. G, MONDAY, MAY 14, 1923. (| |4 Few of the Fifty-Seven Varieties of GOEDS 10 IES"” Supplies the District Must Buy Y early - INHOUNTS DEATH lGirIs to Be Called for First | Time—Miss Trojan Denies f Mystery Letter. | | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Mar 14—The Cook ounty grand ry today resumed in- { vestigation oZ the disappearance of | Leighton Mound, Northwestern Unir versity freshian, and the finding a { week ago under an Evanston pler of |2 skeleton fdentified by Mrs. Mount {as that of her son. For the first time girl students of the university whl be questicned. The inquiry, it is admitted, has de- veloped nothing tangible after a 5 Scores of witnesses rding to reports from to add to fucts previ ;ounl)' known-- that young Mount Al appeared after an interclass fight | twenty months ago and trat a dis- articulatel skeleton was found last 1 Monday. i Broadening ! | have failed, acc } the jury room, its investigation. the istate’s attorney's office has delved {Into the death of Louis Aubere, North- western freshman, killed three weeks ago in an automobile accident, and announces that it is prepared to ask {the grand jury for manslaughter in- { dictments. ‘Assistant State’s Attorney Scarbaro says he has evidence that | Aubere’s death occurred during a | hazing episode, when the automobile lin which the student was riding was jdriven at another student car for the purpose of ramming it. Girl Questioned. Miss Phyllis Trojan, a student, was asked last night about a “consclence (letter” said to have been received by the narents of the missing boy about two months after he disappeared. stating that his body would be found “near his home and in water.” She {#aid she knew nothing of the letter or of Mount's disappearance. Samples of her handwriting will be taken, investigators said. Solution of two of the mysteries that have been puzzling investigators was reached last night when Louis Hanke, editor of the Daily North- western, admitted he was the author ctter to the state's it a telegram had year ago last Christ- Mount from her son. ., president of the sen- jor class at Northwestern, told the assi: nt stat attorney he was re- for the report that an effort Wus being made by the university to suppress the facts. PAY OF 100 RAISED AT PRINTING OFFICE Increases for Six Classes of Government Workers Granted. mas Mrs Jam Approximately 100 employes of the government printing office today were working at substantially increased salaries as a result of an order for increases for six classifications of em- ployes signed by Public Printer orge H. Carter last week. Mr. Carter signed the order just be- re he started on a two-month trip urope, where he will be the official presentative of the United States the master printers’ congress of the world, to be held in Sweden next month, { increase ifications receiving the nd the old and new scales re as follows: Photo ~ngravers, from to $1 per hour; press re- , from 80 to 85 cents per hour; men in charge. from 80 to 85 ats per hour. with title of head pressmen; pipefitters, from 75 to 80 cents per hour: sheet metal workers, from 75 to 80 cents per hour; skilled worke female, to helpers, grade 1, at 40 cents per hour; one Dipefitter- Sheet metal worker, from 80 to 85 cents per hour. The total amount of these raises will aggregate approximately $12.000 per annum, it is estimated. This is the second increase than month. On April §, Public Printer Carter signed an order in- reasing the salaries of seventy-one stereotypers and electrotypers from 50 to 90 cents per hour. These in- creases amountedd to slightly less than $18.500 in the aggregate annually and both added will run the total of both sets of increases to somewhat more than $30,000. Public Printer Carter was empow- ered to make these increases under an act of the last Congress which gave him authority to set scales for certain classes of employes, - SOCIETIES PLAN FAIR. i Two Orders to Co-Operate in Two- ‘Week Carnival. Dancing, sideshows, vaudeville and novelty games 'will be the featured attractions at the fair under the joint auspices of the Natlonal Masonic Fishing_ Club, Inc., and Sioux Tribe, No. 18, Independent Order of Red Men, which opens tonight on the vacant property at the northeast corner of 14th street and Flordia avenue northwest. The fair will continue tbrough May 26. “The Great Gongaluly,” a freak from the Moon mountain, and “Bos- a snake charmer, are two of the sideshow attractions. Music for the dancing will be provided by the Kallipolis Grotto Orchestra. A large pavilion has been erected on the grounds for this purpose. ASKS PRESIDENT FREE WARTIME PRISONERS Alton B. Parker Favors Release of Espionage Act Violators on Promise to Obey Laws. NEW YORK, May 13.—Allon B. Parker, president of the National Clvic Federation, today made public & letter he has addressed to President Harding, recommending that all federal prisoners now serving terms for violation of the espionage act be placed on the same basis, by commutation of the twenty- year sentences given three men to ten Years. Cofncident with the commutation of the sentences, Mr. Parker recommend- ed that the President make a public statement to the effect that all of these prisoners can now return to their homes and engage in lawful callings provided they will by oath or affirm: tion promise to support the Constitu- tion of the United States and the con- stitution of their respective states. “I am confident,” he said in the let- ter, “that if the American people realized that the reason for the pres- ent imprisonment of the majority of these men is that they refuse to sur- render their intention to undermine and destroy the peace and order of the community, you would not longer be. importuned in the interest of their un- conditional pardon. —_— The first elevator of a modern type was exhibited in New York, in 1853, but not until twenty years later we: elevators used for carrying passen: gers. in a bit more | | eans, ed in Distric |D. C. Purchasing Officer iCould Give Women Point- ers in Expert Shopping. ! i | discriminating housewife who { mal the clerk take down every sam- ple on the shelf before she reaches » selection has nothing on Marion C Hargrove. purchasing officer for the District. Mr. Hargrove goes milady one better '3 the storekeeper confine his painstaki parchase of automobiles. When he buys matche: he ix just as particular as though he city official as one of those individuals who just can't be pleased. He doesn't lght twelve matches from a dozen different boxes because he wants to be fussy. 4 He' does it because practically eve: thing the District uses must be bought on_competitive bidding, and when he tells the city fathers they should buy matches from Bill Jones & Co., he must be prepared to si represent the most economical and se iceable purchase. ¢ This microscopic method of buying District only used paper, pen Doints and matches. But if you were to drop accidentally into Mr. Hargrove's sam. ple storercom in the District build- ing you wouldn't be able to tell whether you were in a department store or a hardware establishment. In fact, It resembles the picturesque general store at a country cross-road, Where the village merchant sells everything from safety pins to trac- tors. Every year the District spends ap- proximately $3,000,000 on miscella- neous supplies, and, no matter how large or small the article may be, Mr. Hargrove must give equal considera- tion to every sample submitted. Just now he is buying the bulk of the requirements for the fiscal year beginning July 1. Here are some of the things that strike your eye as you glance about the storcroom: Buys Everythink. Joe cream freezers, baby's shoes base balls and bats, garbage cans, children’s clothing, paints, street- Sweeping brushes, small pleces of machinery, tools, hats for boys and girls, typewriter ribbons. Now. lest some taxpayer should be puzzled to know just what the city government does with such things as ice oream freezers and children's clothes, it should be explained that the Commissioners have to buy the ing agencies and other institutions, such as the Home for Aged and In- firm and the training schools. Despite his manifold duties, Mr. { Hargrove has no assistant. After 'lhlrty Vears of experience in his pres- ent position he knows the good brands, but the law requires that he must examine carefully each make ' offered. CHURCH PLANS SPECIAL SERVICES FOR SHRINERS Sermons and Recitals at Mount Vernon Place M. E. Edifice Are Announced. i Mount Vernon Place Methodist Epis- copal Church South. the home church of all Southern Methodists. will hold special services for _the visiting Shriners during the first week in June. This is the first church to an- nounce a special program for the on- coming nobles. 2 Sunday morning services will be for Shriners and visitors only. All reg- ular attendants will have their serv. jce in the basement of the churche The Rev. Dr. Clovis G. Chappell, pas- tor of the church, will preach. Monday night at 8 o'clock the chorus cholr of seventy-five will present “The Atonement” which was given recently at Keith's Theater. This cantata was composed by R. Dean Shure and Rossell E. Mitchell. Organ recitals will be given Tues- day, Wednesday and Thursday nights, followed by short sermons by Dr. Chappell. A special sacred music concert will be held Friday night, also followed by & short sermon. —_— LIGHTING UP SHRINE WEEK Program on Pennsylvania Avenue Announced by Committee. The display lights on Pennsylvania avenue will be lighted at night from May 25 to June 10, it was announced today by R. P. Andrews, chairman of the Shrine committee on decorations and lights. The lights will burn all night long June 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. The other nights they will be turned off at midnight. ; Mr. Andrews today called attention that for the first time in the history of the city the decorations and light- ing on the -Avenue will extend from the Peace monument to Washington circle. Heretofore, he stated, the dec- orations have stopped ust the other side of the White House at 17th street. PROMINENT OHIOAN DIES. CINCINNATI, May 14.—Col. Charles B. Wing, sixty-nine, widely known paper manufacturer, died at his home here. Col. Wing was prominent in Ohlo political circles and was a mem- ber of the staffs of Govs. Bushnell and Nash. Funeral sefvices will be held Tuesday. —_— China stil] leads in silk production, although the actual amount is un- known, with Japan second, ’ —he finds out whether the sample is all Nor does he | or pen points ! were buying &n expensive diamond ring. { However, do not picture this genial | supplies used by municipal child-car- | institutions. I troit in wonltlait e such. @ trylng Joblif the | Sar &ud not more than Left to right: DOG SLAYER IS HELD IMMUNE UNDER LAW Judge Hardison Dismisses Defend- ant Brought Before Him on Charge af Killing $30 Animal. There is no law in the District of Columbla, according to the interpret tion put the question by Judge Robert Hardison in the United States branch of Police Court today, to pun- ish a person for the slaying of a dog, te propgrty of an individual. sifred Van Horne, a young white man, was in the court today, charged, section 848 of the of Colum Code, with kill- the property of one Her- at $30 on the information thing in th such an_off was made, the only de that approache: if such it can be construed s: “Whoever malicious- injures or destroys, or attempts njure or destroy, by fire or other- any_movable ‘property not his| o . “shall be punished by for not less than o ten yea The case against the defendant, al- though the court said_th dence conclusive that he killed the dcg, as dismissed for want of a_law, or | provision in the District of Columbia | code under which the offense could | be punished The court h-ld that a dog under the code could not be con- strued ag “movable property.” BOYS SAID TO ADMIT STARTING BIG FIRES Loss of $500,000 by Furniture and | Electric Concerns Attributed to Desire for “Fun.” own imprisonment GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., May 14— Two boys each of whom is thirteen years old, have confessed, the police eay, that they set fire to three furni- ture factories and an electrio com- pany buflding here recently, causing an aggregate loss of about $500,000 “We did it for the fun of it the boys are sald to have told the police follow!ing their arrest today. ! The youths, Donald Crampton and ! Ralph Bosch, ‘are said to have started | fires in the Sligh and Evans, and Retting factories with matches and praper. The Litcher Electric Company building, they sald, was set on fln—i wred to be one of the best in New ampshire and approximately $600,- 000 was involved fin its purchase, from the Garnet Grit Company of| this city. Nathan C. Harrison of this city, who The following nominations also were made: Mrs. Charles Cecil, member- ship committee; Mrs. Wesley Stoner, entertainment, and Mrs. Leland Stan- ford Conness, publicity. A large dele- gation from the District of Columbia in the rear, lighted matches having been dropped into a plle of packing boxes. The Stickley Brothers Furni- chased by the Ford Motor Company, it is learned here. The sito 15 da: acted for the Ford company in the deal, said that the company planned to mine and ship the garnet to De- King, treasurer, and Mrs. Sarah New- man, auditor. Federation of Women's Clubs was present and attended the luncheon which followed the election. Mrs. ture Company plant was set afire by means of oil and matches. The boys are held at Police head- quarters. Proposed Industry Near Danbury, N. H., for Supplying the Mate- rial for Auto Manufactory. BOSTON, May 14.—A plant for the quarrying and finishing of garnet for use in_the automobile manufacturing industry will be erected almost im- mediately on the 200-acre property near Danbury, N. H. recently pur its rough state until plant here is completed. e —_— Mrs. Oddenheimer Chosen as Presi- dent. Mrs. Frank Oddenheimer was elected president of the Political Study Club at the final club meeting of the sea- son in the Franklin Square :Hotel Saturday afternoon. Other officers elected were: Mrs. J. E. Barnes, vice president; Mrs. P. M. Burton, record- ing secretary; Mrs. M. X. Sullivan, corresponding’ secretary; Miss Rachel Seibert D. Boak, retiring president, presided. Pride Goeth Before a Fall, From the Kansas City Star. A young soclety matron was taking her baby for an airing in its buggy. She was_fairly strutting down the boulevard, so great was her pride in this first born. Two little girls, play- ing on the apartient steps, smiled at her as she passed. One of them turned to the other and said, “Now, that's what I'm going to be when I grow up. I'm going to be & maid, 80 1 can take people’s bables out for an airing.”, ng Ofcer Hargrove and hix clerks teating and exnmining everything from baby shoes to garbage A. H. Clark, J. E. Poole and M n C. Hargrove. PRESIDENT LISTED UNVEILING SPEAKER Will Address Hamilton Statue Gathering at Treasury Thursday Afternoon. President Harding will make the principal address at the exercises in- cident to the dedication of the bronze statue of Alexander Hamilton, Thurs- day afternoon, on the south terrace of the Treasury Department. The executive also will formally accept this memorial on behalf of the people of the United States. The ceremonles will be presided over by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, and Justice Van Orsdel of the Court 'of Appeals of the District of Columbia will make the presentation of the memorial on_ behalf of the Alexander Hamiiton Memorial Asso- ciation, as its president. and on be- half of the Alexander Hamilton Me- morfal Commission, as one of its mem- bers. Rev, Edgar A. Hamilton of Baltimore, Md., a great-grandson_of the first head of the Treasury De- partment, will pronounce the invoca- tion and 'Rev. Edgar L. Hamilton of Anderson, Ind., also a great-grandson, will pronounce the benediction. Miss Eleanor E. Hamilton of this city, a great - great - granddaughter, | will unveil the statue. Incidental music_during the exercises will be furnished by the United States Ma- rine Band. In honor of the occasion, two coast guard cutters, the Apache and the Manning, will bring detachments of the coast guard to participate, and the emploves of the Treasury De-| partment will be excused from their duties at 2 o'clock for the remaindar of the afternoon. The rutters will be anchored in the Potomac river opposite the Lincoln memorial, #nd will fire & salute at the moment of the unveiling. The ceremonies are scheduled to start at 3 o'clock. GIRL WHO FLED CULT READY TO FACE JURY Ester Widders Will Tell What She Knows of Alleged House of David Immorality. ST. JOSEPH, Mich.,, May ii—Ester ‘Widders of Mansfleld, Ohio, who re- cently fled from the House of David colony, was among the witnesses ewaiting a summons today before the grand jury investigating charges of; immorality in the cult. She was brought back here by At- torney General Dougherty, ~ who abruptly terminated last week's ses- sion of the grand jury by his unex- pected departure to the girl's home. SIX CITIES MAKE BID FOR CHURCH GATHERING Presbyterian General Assembly Thursday to Consider Invitations for the 1924 Meeting. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 14.—In- vitations for the Presbyterian Gen- eral Assembly for 1924 have already been extended by six citles and will be considered on Thursday, May 24, the closing day of the 1923 general assembly, which opens here next Thursday. Citids desiring to_enter- tain the next assembly are Atlantic City, Baltimore, Cleveland, Grand Rapids, New York and San Francisco. Capt. Robert Dollar, Paoific steam- ship magnate, and a Presbyterian elder, has extended the invitation to meet in Calffornia. The general as- sembly has never met in San Fran- cisco, " although it has met in Los Angeles and Portland, Oreg. —_— TO ENTERTAIN VIRGINIA C. OF C. DELEGATES HERE Gov. Trinkle, Representative Moore and Others to Attend Meet- ing in Capital. Elaborate arrangements for en- tertaining Virginia visitors to the chamber of commerce meeting to- morrow night were announced today. The guests of honor will be Gov. Lee Trinkle and Mrs. Trinkle, Rep- resentative R. Walton Moore, I. C. Marcuse and J. A. Gawthrop, presi- dent and secretary, respectively, of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, and representatives of the Alexan- dria and Winchester chambers of commerce. Col. Hiram Smith will be in_Gov. Trinkle's party. The program calls for an address by Gov. Trinkle, to which R. N, Harper will respond on behalf of the local organization. The enter- tainment feature of the evening will be singing by the Rubinstein Club, with fifty voices. The principal item of business will be consideration of the report on the messions of the United States Cham- ber of Commerce recently from the delegates of the local chamber who attended the convention. | League, will preside at the opening | Wife NamesRadio ‘Corespondent’ in Suit for Divorce By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 14—His ra- @10 set was named as corespond- ent by Mrs. Emma E. Mapother today in a separation sult against George Mapother, wholesale drug- gist. Appearing before Supreme Court Justice Lewis with an application for alimony pending trial, Mrs. Ma- pother declared Mapother insisted on sitting up most of the night lis- tening in on concerts and what not, and keeping her awake the rest of the night quarreling. Mapother denled the charges, which the petition listed under the general description of “cruel and inhuman treatment.” Decision on the application was reserved. GALES AR STARY OF BALLOON RACE Several Smashed Against Walls as Others Start for Hostile Territory. By the Assoclated Press PARIS, May 14.—The north to northwesterly gales prevailing in Paris yesterday brought disaster to several of the twenty spherical bal- loons entered for the Grand Prix of the Aero Club of France. They were smashed against the walls of the Tullleries Palace, while the others, taking off after difficult operations, are headed for Germany and Russia, where the pilots are liable to arrest and {mprisonment if they land. Three countries, Belgium, Italy and France, are represented in what promised to be the greatest lighter- than-air race since the Gordon Ben- nett cup was founded until a squall struck the Tullleries gardens, and some of the balloons, which were just beginning to be filled, were carried away like feathers. No lives were lost. Blanchet, Cor- mier and Bourdariat of France and Seratzky of Italy, watched their bal- loons disappear while they were standing on the ground. Lieut. Ernest de Muyter of Bel- glum, twica winner of the Gordon Bennett cup, 18 favorite for the grand prix. At latest reports the racing balloons were headed east over Lor- raine, A few days ago the German gov- ernment issued notification that any aviator or “man landing from the air” on German territory, would be arrested immediately unless he had passports from the German diplo- matic missions. ONFER ON WAGES FOR WOMEN HERE Delegates to Discuss Effect of Supreme Court’s Low Pay Decision. i { The wage problems of the woman workers of the country, in view of the decision of the Supreme Court holding the minimum wage law for women in the District unconstitution- al, will be discussed at a conference of representatives of national organi- zations which opens here tomorrow at 9:30 am. The conference will be held in the offices of the National Women's Trade Union League, 1423 New York | avenue, which issued the call for the conference. It will be in session through Wednesday. An effort will be made to reach some agreement as to the best means of safeguarding wage standards of woman workers. Among the ques tions fo be discussed are the follow- ing: “Legal Tmpl Court_Decl s of the Supreme s About Wom- en’s Wages,” “Shall the Power of th Supreme Court He Restricted " “Shall the Federal Constitution Be Amended to Insure the Protecton of Social Legislation and the Rights of Labor?” “Shall We Attempt to Secure Modifled Minimum Wage Laws?” Gompers to Attend. Mra Maud Swartz, president the National Women's Trade Union of of the conference. Miss Mary And- erson, director of the women's| bureau, Department of Labor, will be the first speaker. her #ubject belng “Facts About Women's Wages.” Jesse C. Adkins, chairman of the minimum wage board of the Dis- trict is to talk on “Legal Implics tions of the Supreme Court decisfo: At the afternoon session tomorrow. President Samuel Gompers of the American_Federation of Labor, will preside. The speakers will be Mat- thew Woll, vice president of the A. F. of L; John A. Ryan, director of the social action department, National Catholic Welfare Council, and E. P. Costigan, attorney. At the Wednesday sessions, morn- ing and_afternoon, the speakers will include Mrs. Florence Kelley, general secretary of the National Consume League, and Miss Rose Schneider- man, vice president of the Nationa Women's Trade Union League. ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. Former Navy Yard Worker Shoots Self; Wounds Fatal, Is Said. Suffering from ill health, Marion Gamble, sixty-two years old, former navy yard employe, was found in the basement of his home, 1101 Potomac avenue southeast, this morning, having | attempted suiclde by shooting. His condition is critical. Surgeons at Casualty Hospital say he cannot re- coyer. Mrs. Gamble, being deaf, did not | hear the report of the pistol, and the body was found by Evelyn Ferney- hough, a relative, who was sent to call Mr, Gamble to breakfast. Gamble had been employed in the navy yard for a number of years. He was well known in sporting circles in South Washington. 20 FAMILIES HOMELESS. Fire Causes Loss of $125,000 in Newport, Ky. NEWPORT, Kv. May 14—More than twenty families were made homeless and property damage esti- mated at $125,000 was caused by fire { intelligent by those in the u HIGH PRAISE GIVEN D. C. POLICEWOMEN Mrs. Van Winkle’s Policies Approved by Civil Service Body Member. Inquiring whether the standards of policewomen in Washington are too high or whether standards for police- men are not too low, Mrs, Helen H. Gardener, a member of the United States Civil Service Commission, to day asserted that Police Lieut. Mina C. Van Winkle asks a standard of women that no policemen are ever asked to fill. Mrs. Gardener's address was' made at the opening session of a three-day convention of policewom en from forty cittes of the Unite States at the Grace Dodge Hotel Mrs. Van Winkle has brought t the police department of Washingtor, a “protective and 1d that has formed a e contribu tion to polic Gardener | said “She thought one potentfal crim inal saved from committing crime was better than the ninety and nine allowed or encouraged to break the law and then dragged into court, dis graced publicly, punished, incarcer- ated, made to serve te loose to ‘g0 and sin no mo; Prevention Ix Object. “She brought to bear the n prevention a tion to both soclety and the eriminal himselr, the court, the prison anc evitable destruction of sou The entire group of numbering m a trial Justi The court proce It Bertrand Emerson, United States attorney. This after- noon the delegates returned to the Grace Dodge Hotel to hear addresses Allan Johnstone, executive secre- tary of the Maryland Myglens As- sociation; Miss Helen Scoficld an Dr. Edith Hooker of Baltimor Van Winkle, who s pr International Associat women, will deliver port tonight _ Short talks were made ing session today voper of Dr. G. M. n the " Federation Churches. Visit Juvenile Court. Tomorrow morning the delegate will_attend a trial in the Juveniie Court. Following the trial the « will be discussed f: the woman's viewpoint. Tomorrow noon a demonst hearing conference as ced in L Angeles for d girls will T held, with Dr ale Dr. ' Mary O'Mal Richmond of St. I Mrs. Edna Johnston. superintendent of the house of detention, and Police- woman Rhoda J. Mil The confe Court_trial trial will be an assistant distr sistant president Protestan a Police which the Ralph Given, attorney. HEBREWS TAKE UP SORAL SERVIE Conference of Leaders Here Considers Questions Relat- ing to Finances and Training. deal for t ocial service in this 1 presented for ¢ national confers w hi Two important questions e with the finances and trainin work of Jewish country have sideration to the of Jewish soci a four-da Washington At this morning's sc jority report of the training for Jewish was read by the chairman, Dr. Julius Drachsier of New York, The mu jority of the committee recommendes in a report that those desiring to he social workers in the Jewish field would necessarily have to bhe colle graduates and that the present no sectarian schools of social serv work would constitute the large pa f the training for those intend: to enter the fie Would Create Committee, Dr. Drachsler's plan calls for tie establishment of « committee of twenty-seven, which would see t a ocourse dealing with the Jewish point of view prior to the non-gec- tarian school would . committee would the subject tuken provide a supplementary course in Jewish questions after the student has completed his course. Exception to this plan service n 2 Hote conferen e ion the ma committee social on service & was taken who filed rely Jew was neces on .fol- a resolu- ces Taus- erence, that cepted was e on_resolu- ow. Maurice in favor of report urging t school of social service sary. Considerable disc lowed, with the result th tion presented by Miss sig, president of the co the majority repo referred to the comr tions for re Hexter of B the minority ead by T wig Bernstei Boris Bog charge of the joint Amer! Relief work at Petrograd pressed his ideas on the subject Suggestion of National Budget. The other question which came be fore the conference at the obenin essions last night was the sugges tion that a national budget be insti- tuted to provide for the flnances fc the national Jewish philanthropies stead of the present method of obtain- ing money. The plan, as proposed by Samuel A Goldsmith of the bureau of Jewlish social research, called for the utiliza- tion of the machinery of the Amer- jcan Jewlish relief committee, which was organized to relieve the distress of the Jews in Europe as a res the war. The co-operation of committees in the various Jewish communities would also be a part of the plan, which was referred to a committee for report at next year's conference. Several of the members of the conference voiced their oppo- sition to the plan proposed. Discuswes “Changing Ideals.” Miss Frances Taussig, president of the conference, addre: d the m t- ing last night on “Changing Ideals i Jewish Social Work,” “and pointed out that it was something more than a minimun standard that socfal work wanted to establish. “Our social work has set itself the task of orgunizing the community for the effective pres- rvation of this newer and more adequate basis of the life for the in- dividual, the family and the who! community,” declared Miss Taussig Frederick William Wile addressed the meeting last night, which was under the chairmauship of Mrs Charles Goldsmith of :his city. Rubbi Abram Simon pronounced the invoca- tion and Miss Sylvan Levin and Elizabeth Gutman provided the musi- cal entertainment. which destroyed an entire city block here yesterday. The fire, of undetermined origin, started in the Frank Voss & Sons planing mill and spread rapidly to the adjoining lumber yard homes. ~ The residents were routed from their beds and fled in scant attire. " *Twas Cruel of Her. From Lite. ‘Wifey—John, I'm going_to name our little son after the man I love better than any one else in the world. Hubby—Phyllls, how could you And I hoped you would name it after me.