Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1923, Page 4

DECLARES PARENTS " NEGLECT SCHOOLS Lack of Interest Displayed, |+ Capt. Peyser Tells Busi- ‘ness Graduating Class. Lack of interest in the school dis- played by many parents was criticized by Capt. Julius 1. Peyser, president of the District of Columbia Public School Association, at commencement exercises of the four-year graduating class of Husiness High School last night in the school auditorium. There are thou Tever visit the sch nds of parents who ols where their chil- dren spepd a greater part of the day Capt. Deyser said. - These parents, he declared, do not even take time to see that the teachers “are duly compensated for their valuable services” and take too much for granted. Capt. Peyser also scored the use in the schools of obsolete textbooks —*In ®ome schools in this happy land of ours,” he said, “children are using histories and geographles which were printed prior to the world war. Maps change Song on Bananas AllWrong,Export Statistics Show As a piece of commercial informa- tion, that plece the bands about the United States now play so much— “Yes, We Have No Banan ‘woefully misleading. Consul Heard at Nicaragua, one of the great cul- ture centers for the fruit, has re- ported to the Commerce Department that banana exports to the United States in recent months have been record-breaking. In April, the Nicaragua banana shipments were 331,491 stems, in May, 317,006 stems, while during the present month the shipments may run to more than a million stems. Only a few years ago the total an- nual banana export to the United States was but 890,000 stems. s HOPE ETNA’S FURY HAS PASSED PEAK; PERIL STILL GREAT (Continued from First Page.) woulll have been obliged to remain awaiting death in their abandoned home: Priests With Procession. Village priests, bearing crucifixes, or the statue of the patron saint, ac- THE EVENING STAR. Etna Was Spouting Destruction Centuries Before Christian Era “The newspaper men writing about Etna were scooped some years ago by three rather well-known fellow craftsmen: Homer, Pindar and Plato,” says a bulletin from the National Geographic Society. “For this vol- cano, greatest in Europe and ranking with the greatest in the world, ha been pouring out lava and ashes, de- stroying farms and villages and in- teresting philosophers and scientists since the world was young. Pindar was the first writer to mention Etna’s fires, in 474 B. C., and since that time more than 100 eruptions are said to have taken place. “A much more remote history ‘of Etna has been pieced together by modern geologists who look upon the whole island of Sicily as a contribu- tion from the great reservoir of molten material under the mountain. They picture a time when the gea rolled over the site of Sicily. Then, presumably In the Pliocene age KEt- na's tip emerged; and through the ages it has steadily built itself and Sicily up. “Etna might be described in the terms of an eastern religion as both the creator and destroyer. It has created Sicily; .its disintegrated lava has given a soll of matchless fertility which supports rich vineyards and orchards; and it has drawn to its slopes, in spite of obvious dangers, than ten miles from the crater, has always escaped. The city and port of Catania, about twenty miles from the crater, has, on the other hand, been Etna's chief victim, and reputed to have suffered more from eruptions and earthquakes than any other place of Importance in the world. Because of partial destruction in 122, Rome remitted part of its taxes for a decade. ‘There in 1169 the cathedral was ove whelmed by lava and its worshippers and bishop destroyed. In 1669 a river of lava rose above the sixty-foot walls, poured into the streets, de- stroved a large part of the city, and, flowing into the sea, ruined the har- 0 ‘The streams that have poured down FEtna's sides during the past few days can hardly be different from the numerous preceding flows that have been so frequently described. The typleal river of fire from Etana flows in a relatively narrow stream. It moves sufficiently slowly so that men and animals may keep out cf its path. and large crowds of peop's assemble to watch its progress. 1t in a crowd of mixed emotions. Be- the sstream destroy his valuable orchards, may kneel peasants from a threatened village, weening and praying that the flow be deflected, and tourists from a far land. vie ing what can be to them a mag- nificent activity of nature. Priests head processions of the nious coun- try folk: candles are lighted, relics exhibited and altars set up. WASHINGTON side the small farmer, trembling lest | D HIGH COURT TO HEAR APPEAL OF INDIANS Suit to Keep Lands From Be- ing Sold Goes to Supreme Court. John G. Morrisan, ir., on behalt of the Chippewa Indians of the Red Lake distrigt of Minnesota, will take to the United States Supreme Court his sult for an injunction to prevemt the Secretary of the Interior and the commissioner of Indlan affairs from selling lands of the Indians to the state of Minnesota. The District | Court of Appeals, which recently de. | cided against Morrison's contention, today granted his request for an ap- | peal to the highest court in the land. Morrison claimed that 600,000 acres already had been conveyed to Minne- sota without consideration to the In- dians and that unless the court in- terfered another 300,000 acres would be similarly disposed of to the in- jury of the wards of the nation. Justice Hoehling of the District Su- preme Court sustained a motlon to | dismiss filed by the government of- 1923, C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, w03 Supreme Court to hear his plea in behalf of the Indlans: The Court of Appeals aleo allowed an appeal to the United Btates Bu- premes Court ht the request of the Bt. Louls and Bouthwestern Railroad Company, which is seeking to compel the Interstate Commerce Commission to permit the exmmlil.nllon of certaln with the office to act as executive agent in the place of Mrs. Ells H. ‘West, until a permanent successor is GUARDIANS WILL NAME TEMPORARY EXECUTIVE]-x;;« atadiiiel G b7, | Wi W, Millan, prestdent of tne Permanent Buccesser to Mrs. West | Dot Sl today that the board intends to look carefully ‘Will Be Chesen Garefully, for & new agent and that he does not Millan Declares. apers of the commission. The Dis- expeot the permanent officlal to be B e .| selected at today's meeting. rict, Bypreme Court denled the re-“ When the board of children's quest of the raliroad company for a |guardians meets at the District build- mendamus, and the Court of Appeals'ing this afternoon it probahly will se- To hang a screen door properly hire a upheld that actlon. lect some. worker already connected man to help you do it, then help him, INQUIRE ABOUT OUR DEFERRED PAYMENT PLAN W. B. NMoses & Sons Furniture Established 1861 Linens Carpets F Street and Eleventh Upholstery Preparing for Inventory We have carefully examined our stock of Summer Furnishings and odd and discontinued furniture, which, hundreds of thousands of tillers of | the soll and their towns and villages. Towns Succeed Towns. ficlals on the had not sufficient subject matter to prosscute the suit, ground that Morrison interest in the entitle him to that the state of “Bencath the rays of the sun the stream seems black except when, like | the crest of a breaker. the edge of | the oncoming wave breaks, disclosing | heir complexion, histories, their ‘storles and philosophies, but the proper appro- priations do not come so that the chil- company the sad procession and en- courage the parishioners. The sound of chanted prayers rises above the n dren may be taught what exists today rather than what happened years ago.” Two selections by the Business High School Orchestra, under the direction ) of Miss E. L. Thompson, opened the exercises. The presiding officer was Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, member of the board of education. Inyocation was invoked by Rev. John S. Moses. Scholarship Awards. Allan Davis, principal of Busine announce the scholarship awards which fol Four-y State University to Joseph Achste ter, class valedictorian. who obta forty excellent ratings in h years at the school. This nu ix more than required tion, and represents the ing€ in every one of the subjects he undertook Scholarship to Washington nad Lee Tniversity to F ry Wagener: schol- arship to Pace and Pace Institute to Thelma Morris, scholarship to Wash- ington College of Law. to Dorotheal Wassmar scholarship to N University Law School to Cons Fogle. Bronze Bronze in awarded t Tow ar scholarship to Marvland t- . ignias and Honors. gnias of the school were the following. for excel- Jence in scholarship Joseph Charles Achstetter, Minnie Viola Bell. Anna Mar Clark Karet Frances Foley. ne te. Thelma Grace Morris, Sthel Hope Ritter, rtiude Bernice Rosenber son. Mary ter and mann Honor 1o ship: Ethel Ginber; Florenc biatt, ginia R William v Rie List of Diploma Winners. Diplom esented to the following 105 s by James T Llovd. member school board: Laura Amery lda . Marie Beach, Minnie Viola Bell, Charlotte Gortrude wrrington, Elzabeth Cecllia Cavanaugh, Catherine Willl Chamberiain Margaret Crynant Chase, Anna Marie Clarke, Margaret Pvely Cl h, Alice Bern a Con', Nina Olive ndall, Mildred Ri Crump, Mar t Louise Curtis, ) garet Cecilia. Dickinsen, Anna C line Mary Dorothy Eldott, Hilda manuel eryne Alicia se Fenby, Beva Fogie, Margaret Eva Fridell, Martha ner Ethel Ginberg, Hahn, Clarice Edn Annic Hayes, Louise B! Holtzclaw, Erma zabeth Johnson, Esther lard Johnson, Margaret Jones.,. Middleton Joyee, Mildred Hunter Kelly, Myrtle Mary Keyser, Sylvia Smith King, Lillian Kirson, Martha Katheryne Knee. Mary Elizabeth Larcombe. Bessie Miriam Leibsohn, Jessie Catherine Livingston, AL:n('l! lh H . - \'I.':vh Jekephine Agnes e elen T othyMecarty,” Gertrude MeClosky Maria Catherjne Marques, Kathryn a Mateer, Hazel Lorralne Miller, rgipia Louise Miller, Thelma Grace Helen Florence Murphy, celyn Mycrs, Erma Louise Katherine Neri, Helen Osborn, Fthel Hope Ritter, Gertrude Bernice Rosenberg, Henri- etta Rosenblatt, Norma Repetti Rousee. tric Rassell, Mar- garct Regina Ryan, Marion Lee Salb, Regina Marie Schloer, Doris Davies Schutz, Mary Sherman, Mildred My on, Kathleen Teresa Smith, Reese Staub, Thryza Steers, Virginia Perry Thomas, Martha I u-l line Walker, Edna Victoria Walter, Evelyn Ware, Dorothea Matilda| Wassmann, Rosa Matilda Wassmann, | Fannye Sonia Watzman, Evelyn White Anna Louis Worley, Joseph Charles Achstetter, Robert’ Elmer Barry Charles Edwin Berr dore Briil, Michael Emmett Broderick, David Charles Buchalter, Harry Theodore Robert Chaconas, John_ Joseph Col- lins, Pearson Chapman Conlyn. Thom-. a3 Joseph Connor, m Alfred her, Israel Gerber. Francis Chris- tian Huhn, jr. Russell Marion King, Gregory Joseph Lanigan, Love, John McAulifte, seph McCarthy, Robert Charles Alfred Monroe, seph - Mudd, Everett Llewellyn Noet- zel, Francis Mahlon Padgett, Edward Henry Riecks, Grant Beckham Smith and Charles Lewis Walker. ' WAR TRAINING VIEWED. Film Exhibition of 20th Army Division in France. vo-reel film Showing the 29th Division in France was viewed by a large crowd last night at the National | Guard Armory, 472 L street north- west. The division was commanded by Gen. Morton and the scenes were of training activities and conditions &t_the front. Three similar reels which will show actual fighting at the front will be presented within the next few weeks. The entertainment, in_charge of Sergt. Slocum of the Signal Corps and Sergt. Arthur L. Milimore of Company D, ‘was one of a series, of weekly entertainments to be given by the welfare council of the guard, to mcquaint the public with its activ- tfes. —_— Parlors are large front rooms in which | phonographs are kept. _— l;llve Your Papering and Painting —done this summer, N¢ inconvenienoe B or dirt; oompetent workmen; moderate charges, Awnlags mede to order and ro- Daired, CORNELL WALL PAPER CO. ¥14 18th N.W. Main 5373-3874 an Kirson Henrietta egina Ryan b, Evelyn sher and Edward Lilll at of the Bauleir, Bowler, Gar- Ruth Cynthia Haimes, Alice i Katherine k2 Morris Virgin Smmett May Charles Jo. Glasses Fitted SEMONES {of the forest caught fire: the air was teen | { the {alarming that military | called out. i ashes rumblings of the eruptions and the patter of falling stones and cinders;: the stricken people seem in dumb despair, hardly eonscious of whither they are going, invoking the saints and inquiring tremulously “'what have we done to be visited by this awful scourge?”’ A solemn service invoking mercy was held in the ancient beech forest at Castiglione. Owing to the shade of the trees and the darkness caused by the ashes, the light was too feeble for the reading of the gospel, and torches were utilized. The nearness of the stream of lava was such that before the end of the service the edge so hot and vitiated by fumes that breathing and some of the people alarmed at the danger 3 started to depart, at which the old priest officiating rebuked them and lengthened the service by adding prayers for the faint-hearted. KING RUSHES SOUTH. sulphurous difficult, were 30 that th. Orders Authorities to Intensify Their Relief Work. ROME, June 20.—King Victoria Em- raanuel, speeding southward to Catania, received throughout the night tele {eraph and radio m. ortinz { the progress of Mount E | The rch refused to jissued instructio {relief work ialso sent words of encouragement to | the authoritles, who are endeavoring {to-ald the refugees. Premier Mussolini, hurrying to Rome from -Piacenza, sent’ word that the en- heart of ‘the nation and all the | i s of the Italian race were out- Istretched to Sicily, whose noble people have been tried so frequently by such catastrophes. FIGHT FOR SAINT'S STAFF. i t and | the He intensify | ople Seek Relic to| Stop Lava’s Flow., DON. June 20.—Learning that people of Linguaglossa were carrying in procession today the staff | f St. Egidio, which i supposed to ve the miraculous power of stop- the advance of lava. the people stiglione marched 'to Lingua- . according to a Rome dispate to-the Central News, and foreibiy seized the staff, intending to to_save their own town. The struggle for the use ;lal‘f was SOl orces were but in the meantime a bishop arrived and took possession of the staff. Describing the danger to the town of Linguaglossa from the great lava flow from Mount Etna, a dispateh to | the Daily Mail, coming by way of Re says: “Upon a spur of high ground, whi hitherto has saved Linguagiossa Lo dividing the lava stream, stands, as it has stood since the middle ages, the statue of Linguaglos: patron saint, Egidio. Manv of the inhabit- ants 'regard the division of the lava by the hill as a.miracle achieved by the saint, although the lava is al- ready at the base of the statue and threatens to plle up to the crest of the spur and then overflow into the own. ome of the inhabitants k. throughout Monday under & rain ‘of blistering ashes around the surpliced parish priest, who, near the statue, invoked heaven's mercy. Some bolder men take turns and climb the spur to deposit flowers and candles by the statue, but so intense is the heat that gnly the strongest can perform the | eat. “At Linguaglossa the air has be come too hot to bear for any length f time; masks for the eyes, nose and mouth must be worn, as the falling ' inflame the eves and make breathing difficult, and also get be- neath the clothes, causing irritation of the whole bod: Jury Allowed To Shed Coats In Sultry Court | The extreme heat in the United States branch courtroom of the Police Court building today was so oppres- sive that when the jury was called to try a case Judge Robert Hardison threw 'all formalities in the discara and told the members of the jury that if they cared to thev might take off their coats in an effort to keep more comfortable. There was a stampede of jurors skinning off their coats. The ap pearance of a jury in their shirt- sleeves looked queer, but it spoke eloquently for the humanity in the heart of the judge. The jurors ap- { preciated the privile; s one writer puts it “towns suc- ceed towns along Its base like pearls in a necklace, and when a stream of lava effects a breach in the chain of human habitations, it is closed up again as soon as the lava has had time to cool.” Many of the villages on the mountain’s siope are bullt almost ex- clusively from blocks of black lava, and have a somber, depressing aspect in consequence. “It is on the lower slopes of Etna where time and weather have most completely broken up and w Virtually the whole circuit is a gar- den snot.of date palms, bananas, oranges, lemons, olives, fiks and al- monds. ' Farther up are nut trees— notably the beautifully ordered filbert orchards near Castiglione—and a for- est zone of chestnut, cork, pine and ak. Above 6,300 feet is the region that fire has kent for its own domain —a_drearv. rough. black lava and a Down from this region and into farm zones. tongues of molten lava have encroached at frequent intervals. These of Etna's potentialities for destrus | tion, only so long as they must be. have || Some _enterprising planters blasted holes in fairly recent flows and have made the artif fractured material support olive almond and citrus trees. Few Villages Escape. “Few of towns and villages near Etna have escaped destruction or serious damage fyom one or more of the numerous eruptions. One town that seemingly lives a charmed exist- ence is Randazso, which, though less FAVORS FORD OR BRYAN. Representative Democrats Electing Either to Presidency. If either Henry Ford Jennings Bryan will accept the nomi- nation for President he will be nom nated and elected, according to Re, ntative Edgar Howard of Colum- Sees Neb.. who has just completed a | tour of thirty states for the purpose of sounding out the sentiment of the people and who is now in Wash- ington conferring with democratic party leaders. Representative Howard believes that neither Henry Ford nor Mr. Bryan really wants the nomination, but says the people of the country are demanding that one or the other d_for election. Representative Howard is a veteran newspaper publisher, having owned and edited his home town paper for more than twenty-five years. He is a veteran campaign orator. ALURMNI TO CELEBRATE. Brown University Graduates Here to Have Smoker. Washington alumni of Brown Uni- versity will celebrate commencement day this evening with flreworks, a barbecue. a smoker.and the award- ing of mock degrees. While stu- dents today at the Providence insti- tution are concluding their fous course, the graduates in this ci vicinity are preparing for the gath- ering at § o'clock this evening at_the home of Chester C. Water: avenue, Takoma Park, D. C. PERPETUA BUILDING ASSOCIATION Pays 6 Per Cent on shares maturing in 45 or 83 months. It Pays 4 Per Cent on shares withdrawn be- fore maturity. Assets More Than $8,500,000 Surplus More Than - $850,000 Corner 11th and E Sts. N.W. JAMES BERRY......President JOSHUA W. CARR, Secretary f | From Home the summer. It will keep you on in Washington. as often as you desire upo notification—but send the ol address as well as the new. 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