Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1923, Page 12

| HUGHES PLAN SNUB CALLED “BLUNDER" Lloyd George Urges Accept- ance of Ruhr Arbitration to Avoid Chaos. Associated Press TORONTO, October t Permanent Miiitary Hospital Toronto, where hundreds of dis- are quartered, was in rs ay by David Llovd George. | Thousands of school children strewed sath of flowers for the procession wotor cars in which Lloyd George his part: were driven from the to the hospital. All schools a of and wtation ed. \fter luncheon Tiouse Lloyd George world brotherhood at Government was to attend Rock in Potomac Channel Blasted, Cleaning Passage A large shelf of roclk in the Vir- ginla channel of the Potomac near the mouth of Rock creek has been removed by blasting, and the chen- nel at that point cleared to its rul- ing depth of twenty feet _The ofl tanker Paraguay. carry- ing supplies for the Washington Gas Light Company, was damaged by striking that ledge last spring. and_the navigation of the channel 1o Georgetown since then has been limited to vessels of less than eighteen feet draught. The ob- structing rock was removed by d namiting operations conducted by & force of men under Capt. Hen- drix Felton of the local United States engineer's office. HUGHES OUTBURST OCCASIONS GOSSIP convention. | me George and Miss Megan George | will be guests at various other func- which all will attend a House ton Sees Allied Blunder. Lloyd George left Ottawa for Toronto ! after saying that the fallure Britain to consider S proposal of nearly - ago that an international commi empowered to determine what' Germany could pay > blunders of histe was foreign v in the proposal to communicate o the United States indication tuterest, Lloyd G Should Be Acted Upon. “Action thould be taken upon it at It should have been acted upon hen first made. They must do some like that or chaos will follow. ©oiZe was in Spain, he said, brief press dispatches forth the Hughes proposal tely cabled London that on should be considered,” lated ex-premier. “When T re- ued to the house of commons the: enfed ever secing the proposal and e 1 imm e propo: von denied that it had ever been de- | It is one of the blunders of history tiais has been completely v arlooked, one of those blunders that trophe.” Fia pon_the s (' hie could not predict. Some of the sliould have cxerted pressu such a program, he declared, add- iz that even French premiers have their public opinion to consider. Propoxal Wax Timed. Hughes proposal, Mr s recilled. was made upon em question ond “ob- ¢ made” with the conference in would act estion 1 favor- the in Ot- nal for triendship Mr. Lioyd Georg tuwa last ni many de nd loyal Bare-headed, his long wlite hair making him conspicuous in u gather- ing of many notable men. he walked through union station and to_the 1chby of his hotel, the Chateau Lau- rier, receiving a continuous ovation. Crowds filled every crevice in the sta- tion, and in the hotel the colors of the empire and of Wales were passed. As he reached the st tion concourse a choir sang the Welsh \ational hymn ~while the veteran p: mier paused at attention. Welcoming him to the eapital were W. 8. Fielding, acting prime minister +'the absence of Premier MacKenzie- King in London: other government officials and dignitaries of the church. Dame Margaret Lloyd George and PMiss Megan were burdened with Rowers. Proceeding to his hotel suite, Mr. George remained in seclusion for a short time und then went to the Royal Ottawa Golf Club for an state dinner, tendered in his the acting premier and his ssociates of the cabinet. Proceeding o the club by automol tirough cheering crowds. ioes to Toromto. Mr. Lloyd George spoke briefly ‘at the dinned, discussing the reparations «cuestion from the standpoint of Pres- ent Coolidge’s position and in_ line ith his exposition of the subject with newspaper his trip from Montreal. He retired to Tis private car in order to leave be- ore m will face a strenuous programe toda: Lloyd George apparently is i n lent physical condition, saying that hoarseness, which appeared | t Sunday, had almost completely disappeared. 1t is known that would like to cstend his trip and it b admitted today that the proposal for him to go to Vancouver before leaying this continent has not been entire abandoned. ANNOUNCE WIDE ‘S_UPPORT OF COMING “MUTT” SHOW Humane Education Society Man- agers Encouraged by Pooular In- dorsement of Provosed Exhibit. Impetus to the first annual Wash- ington “mutt” show, which will be staged the latter part of this month by the Hum Bducation Society, given vhen, at the nnual meoting of organizatios vas announced that practically s _prominent person in this city is a lover of animals will support the a events of the seagon. Officers of the society wer vesterday's ineeting which was Lield at the home na M. Fatton, treasurer, ewark street. The following were chose: President, riggs; vice presidents Fletcher, rs. Jesse Lapham, Mrs. Mark Potter, Mrs. A. Rhcinstrom “and Ars, H. L, West asurer, Miss Pat- ton; assistant trezsurer, M arles Mr: and corresponding sec- Eddingfield. will be in con nection with the “Be Kind to . Ani- mals” crusade, which is being con- ted by the Humane Bducation So- The society maintains an ani- est farm” of eighty acres in Montgomery county, Md., where aged and worn out animals may spend the remainder of their days in peace and quiet. clected KNIGHTS TEMPLAR HOLD FIELD DAY ON ELLIPSE Six Commanderies, With Nearly 1,000 Participants, in Annunal Drill and Review. Six_commanderies of the Knights Templar are holding their annual fieid day and_inspection this atfter- noon on the Ellipse. Nearly a thou- +#nd are participating in the drills. which are being reviewed by the =zrand commander of the District of Columbia, Willlam K. Ree \ Commanderies represented included Washington Commandery, No. *3 Co- lnmbia Commandery, No. 2; Po-mic Commandery, No. De Molay Com- _mandery, 4; Orient Commandery, No. 5, and Brightwood Commandery, !’inrmseu began shortly before 2 « nd were witnessed by a large mit- | Lloyd | crence on_the { standards of | correspondents’ on | he nd make it | Secretary Protests Heav Demands of Qutsiders Upon Time of Officials. BY CE. Secretary Hughes' speech, protest- £ that too many organizations an individual: outside t government ,m; a practice of bothering federal officiafs and that about half the time siven Ly public executives “to ;contacts that are really unnecessary occasicned today not a little gossip 25 to just what the head of the D partment of State had in mind. For many monthe there bave been vepeated requerts trom the outside from various focieties assock tions who feel that th hould make known to the of State their on foreign policy on all the soviet governm fa be recognized to dema coloved man in Halti be frgm Americun restraint. _Mr. Hugshes has no obecticn to get- ting the views of all kinds of orgu! ations, but what he finds is that the same things that are said to him an usually be put in writing just as well and time saved. To refu: to give his time to various org: zations { of & national scope leads to bad feel- ing and al! sorts of ill effects for the administrotion. Fo give one's time -ans, as Mr. Hughes describes. it. countless intrusion upon serious work.” DAVID LAWRI range the Is Studious Type. Mr. Hughes o3 to concentrate is of the reflectiv d studious class of state he recognizes { that the press, for instance, is an im. portant institution and he gives {least twenty minutes of his time near- iy e day to the confcrence with the correspondents in order Lo answer { their many questions, there is not the islightest doubt thit he wishes even that task could be spared, so that he i could work uninterruptedly when he wants to do so. { Then there is the feeling thut the {press by its enterprise discusses ir {print many delicaté situations which 1t be more easily adjusted by the itgelf if tho v on his work. He on the { whom the Department of & the process of negotiation. Some {times a situation is completely al tered by the necessity of denying ov amplifying an innocently intended press report that has produced irri tation. i “When Secretary Mellon of th {Treasury Department took office he is sald to heve remarked to his ifriends that a government portfolic iwasn't a bit like a private business. because nearly haif of his time had to be given to members of Congre who were seeking jobs for their friends. _Personnel problems ought to be handled by lesser execu- i tives were thrust upon the Nead of a fdepartment by the insistence of mem- ibers of the legislative branch of the! ! ie he passedgovernment, to incur whose ill will j of Rockville. department | iwas not ise for the {head. who must go before Congress |10 et necded appropriations or san {tion for other acts. i Misxes Old Freedom. | Secretary Hughes has spent a great many rs on the Supreme Court of the United States where neither the | press nor outside organizations can take up any time of the court. 'The night for Toronto, where he!judges regulate their own time. What ¢ Ar. Hughes misses is that freedom { which he enjoyed on the bench when {he could work all day on a legal opinion if necessary and turn out a atistactory piece of work without being harassed by a dozen differen ! demands on his time. ! "The Department of State is an e: eptionally busy institution nowa- ds It began to develop unprec edented jmportance with the out- | break of the I 2 and the question: period. Besides the formulation of a policy, the Secretary of State must give time to conference with the bureau chicfs and subordinates and { also watch the administrative side of {the whole organization. To/ be {cbliged to receive callers day in and {day out. who could just as well ! write what they have to say is what i Mr. Hughes had in mind in his chiding {remarks last night when he referred ito the “unceasing requirements of {those who have little to do with public business and by their constant importunities for extra-official atten- { tion use up the nervous energy which ishould be devoted to public service,” H (Copyiight, 1923.) FORD PLAN APPROVED. 1 {Interstate Body Accents Railway | Profit-Sharing Proposal. A profit-sharing plan adopted by Henry Ford for the benefit of em- ployes of his railroad, the Detroit; Toledo and Ironton, was approved | yesterd: v the Interstate Commerca Commission. The corporation was au- thorized to issue $1,000,000 in cer- itificates of indebtedness, to be dis- tributed among employes, according to terms of the profit-sharing scheme and to bear a varying interest charge, depending upon the profits of the {road. This plan is said to be similar {To others now in operation in the Ford enterprises. i Improvement in service and pro- spective incroases in efficiency on the aiiroad line, the Ford application {said. was the consideration involved lin the issuance of the new securities. NEW FREIGHT RECORD. 11,007,274 Cars Loaded in U. 5. Dur- i ing One Week. The volume of revenue freight load- ed on American railroads again ex- ceeded all records during the week i ended September 29, when, according to the American Rallway Assoclation, the total reached 1,097,274 cars. This was 4,707 cars more than the previous high record for the week ended Sep- tember 1 and 119,483 more than for the corresponding week last year. Except for grain apd grain pro- ducts, increases were shown. in the loading of all commodities, as com- pared with flgures for the correspond- ing week of 1921 and 1922. Despite the record number of cars loaded the ssoclation reported 41,000 surplus eight cars, in good repair, on Sep tember 30. Mighty few people get nervous pros- tration from. trying to make other people happy. s the type of man who | that | THE EVENING ASKS EQUAL WAGE ! i i { ! 1 i i i | 8 FOR BOTH SEXES 1 4 Mrs. Sheridan, in Address tol Electragists, Denlores In- equality in Pay. That women are paid less then men for the same services rendered by {them in the business world was de- !plored by Mrs. Sarah M. Sheridan, {Vice president of the Detroit Egison {Company, in an address on "Womenl {in Industry” before the delegates at- | {tending the twenty-third annual con- | jvention of the Association of| i¥lectragists, International, at the | liotel Washington this morning. | i Mrs. Sheridan urged that when jwomen occupy positions equal inj { responsibility and ability to tljose oc- | cupled . by men the compelsation | should be the same as men. She| {declared that women were prompt.| orderly, interested, loyal and cheerful | {workers in’the business iworld and ithat, contrary to the opinions of many, ithere was no reason thut they shouid | {lose their feminine qualities from fcontact with the world Busfness Woman's Versatility. i Mrs. Sheridan pointed out that {woman who had been in the business {world and then married would have ia better understanding of her hus. | band’s buslness and would broaden their outlook on life | Roe Fulkerson of bington spoke ! on “Personality in Busines nd told the delegates that by process of de- | duction any man who was carning weele wa ally “worth his | wife and fam vice presi nmonwealth | fternoon tie delegate. 1 30 utomobdile tour to the Lincoln Mount Yernon, and the tomb of sold ‘Gen. Squier Speaks. Possibilities of th radio w f=cribed by orge 0. quier, « -hief signal of the United | States Arm address before | the delegates . Squier L explained will i eventuall, a radio set is indispensable. o Radio ‘outfits may ompuact that the; asily handied as the telephone, “ana- thy | | power for these sets would be fur- | {nished from a central power station in a similar manner that electric pow- j¢r is now furnished, asserted Gen, | Squier, who said also that redio would | joyentually take up the broadcasting | of news and advertisements, not tak ling the place of newsp: corollary to publications. Give Electrieal One of the P{)flgl,&:m, will 0 > Th 4 written «nd will be produced o for the twenty jvention. Tt will be given at Carroll | street between 9th and 10th ' = northwest at §: hur Carroll, local Elsctragist, i lhe_ director of the which was i | written by Thomas F SHafl of the Society for Llectrical De. cclopment. Tho¥e who will take part, all of whom are in the electri ical business here, are: Marjorie A. Brown, C. F. Noake. Mrs. Frank Shull G. W. Chembli H Renfro, W M. Jewell, Mary en Smith, Dorothy | Waters. C R. Morelock., Y. A. Price, | X. C Lease, Joseph I'rank, Thomas ! }Shull and Arthur Hathaway. | ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md.. Octobe cial). —Mrs. Marjorie Savin Pilson, | prominent resident of Chevy Chase, | i this county, who on May 13 last was granted a limited divorce by the late | Judge Edward C. Peter in the court here from Edwin . Pilson of i Washington, awarded the custody of | the three children and al- a month for the mainte- e of the children, has instituted suit here for an absolute divorce. per- manent custody of the children and altmony and counsel fees, esented Arlington | cemetery the un- | own de- f today's! omedy-drama, i 10 (Spe-y L She is rep- 1 Attorney John A. Garrett The bill sets forth that the c were married in \\'ushin‘l::: e 1905, by Rev. Donald ¢ ' lived together there, {gon and Chevy Chase ‘until O | tober 1, when “the plaintift w; :descrted. The children. cording o | na 19 the bill, are: Margaret S.. Elaine H and Nancy T. Pilson, aged thirteen, nine and eight years, respectively. Davis Funeral. { The funeral of Maurice W. i son of Jr. and rs. George W. Daviy, {who died on Saturday. aged fwenty~ icight vears, took pluce yesterday | from the family residence at Halpine, Rev. Nolan B. Harmon, jr.. pastor of he Rockville Methodist Chureh, who s chaplain of Henderson-Smith-1d- monds Post of the American Legion of Rockville, to which the deceased belonged, conducted the services. and X members of the leglon—George W. Valentine Wilson, Harold th. J. Stanley Gingell, 0. E. Benson and’ Warner T Pumphrey— were the pall bearers. Burlal was in Rockville Union cemeter: Within the last few days Rev. 8.} 1J. Goode, pastor of the Rockville Christian Church, has officiated at the marrfage at his home here of Miss Eloise Bohannon and Gilbert M. | Chilton, ‘both of Washington. and | Miss Mary Lee Ellis and Hilton W, | Yowell, both of Rectortown, Va. } { i Licenses have been issued DLy clerk of the cercult court here ‘f’;? the marriage of Aiss Flora V. Alder- ton and Virgil G. Myers, both of Washington; Mrs. Vida J. Turner and Arthur D. Turner, both of Washing- ton, and Mrs Buwima Lilllan Boswell o o "lains, Md. and Boswell of Waldorf, Md. b Reception for Faculty. The members of the faculty of th Rockville High School and. cpunty public officlals were glven n recep- tion at _the home of Mr. and Mrs, i Robert E. L. Smith here last evening by the Rockville Inquiry Club. The guests of honor numbered about thirty and members of the Inquiry Club” were present. A musical pro- gram, participated in by Misses Mary Almoney and Eliza Choate and Mrs. Harold C. Smith, was rendered; Mrs. Ernest Offutt gave a reading, and ad. dresses of welcome were made by Mrs. Ernest L. Bullard of the Inquiry Club, and Mr. Smith. An_informal banquet, at which Prof. Edwin W. Broome, county superintendent of schools, was toastmaster, was held and toasts were responded to by Prof. Harry B. Beal and Miss Maude Fng- land ‘of the high school faculty, and Mrs. Otis M Linthicum and 'Mrs. Walter A. Willlams of the Inquir: Club. The home was beautitull decorated. The Takoma Park volunteer fire de- partment has recommended the ap- pointment of Martin Iverson as a forest warden for duty in the vicinity of Takoma Park, and President Wil- son 8. Ward of the Montgomery County Volunteer Firemen's Associa- tion has asked Gov. Ritchie to name Mr. Iverson for the position. At a recent meeting of the Parent- Teachers' Association of the Wood- side Publi¢ School, the need of a new hool building at Woodside to meet the rapidly increasing growth of the school was considered, and, follow- ing an address by Maj. E. Brooke Lee, a committee was named to bring the matter to attention of the county board of education. —————— George BarnHart, colored, twenty- five years, 813 1st street, yesterday afternoon was taken to Freedmen's { Hospital from in front of 823 3d street. and treated for a fracture of the skull. Police reported that he was struck with a brick thrown hy an unidentified colored. man, and Sur- geons at the hospital said his condi- tion was critical. Police of the sixth precinct are looking for -the brick throwsr. i G e S i NEEDYWIFESPLEA i persous | session of 1 \saloon as a “div |w apers, but as a ! jadvertisers and to encourage the over TAR, One Bootlegger Found Who Uses Boots for Liquor By the Associated Press. STAMFORD, Conn., October 10.— A bootlegger who actually kept his liquor in boots was caught by the Rolice yesterday, and today he ap- pealed from a sentence of $500 fine and costs and thirty days in jail He is Isadore Shapiro, second hand clothing dealer, who also kept boots for sale, and in which boots he kept liquor. He told the court it was bis private stock. T i 1 | RESULTS IN RAID i | Vice Squad Gets Three Patrol Loads of Witnesses at 607 New York Avenue. 1 Complaint of a wife that her hus- band was squandering funds needed { for food, in a mear-beer saloon at 607 ( w York avenue, known to the po- lice as “The Bucket of Blood." ¥ terday caused a. raid under super- vision of Lieut. Davis of the second precinct, resulting in arrest of t conveyance of three pat loads of patrons to the precinct as witnesses and the seizurs of a quan- tity of liquors i Those arrested were Julius T n, orty, and Sherman C. Keife two, both giving the address Massachusetts avenue their dence. Bach was charged with sell- ing intoxicants and with illegal p 1or. Near-Beer Saloon “Dive.” i unexpended balance of WASHINGTON, D. C, | | Trade Body to Aid in Securing? New Facilities for Dis- | trict Office W SIS The Washington Board of Trade is behind the efforty of Recorder of | Deeds Froe to secure a new huudmg! for the invaluable land records of the | District, and have appointed a su committee, of which Wiiliam E. Léahy ie chairman, to interest local mer-| chants and others In securing action| at the coming session of Congress. | In a statement of conditions sent to the Board of Trage by the recorder, it is shown that he deposited in the United States Treasury, $43.004 the of his office for the last fiscal year. The recorder also points out u there are nearly 70,000 deeds | other papers affecting title to real ! state which have not yet been spread | {on the records, because of the crowd- | ed condition of the rooms occupied | by his office and the scarcity of em- ployes. L All of these papers are in danger of being lost or destroyed by fire, he states, and would be impossible to Dla These papers involve the title of real estate valued at millions of dollars. The attention of the committee alsy is call to the ouster suit which the new owners of the building now oc- | cupled by the recorder of deeds hav commenced in the Municipal Court and which has been suspended only | | {until next March in the hope of favor- action toward a he record also sixty 1 _employes ,000 feet of floor able congressional new bLuilding. notes that the are crowded into Guaranteed Quality at The National Police characterized the near-beer |8 " which has caused ! «lmost nightly visits by the police to ! the - neighborhood on account of brawls and intoxication cases. When the v squad arrived at the building. which was formerly d | s a factory by an ice cream manu-i acturing company. about twenty-five | or thirty, patrons were grouped about s. “Lient. Davis, Sergt. McQuade, ink and Revenue Agent Amis walked in about 5 o'clock yes- terday oon. invited all of the patrons sit tight,” and etarted a s search, which they say bout twenty gallons cf & Ted-eye” and corn eky and eral barrels of “'very cider. several patrons. police cac found. These have government witnesse The two proprietors were releas: on_$2.300 bonds each. Two day a mother of < dren living in Cherrydale, Va i to Revenue Agent Amis tha nd was spending all Bucket of Blood 1 were actually in want of Lieut. Davis and | nt over to the Vir- | ev- On [ en listed ! and the ¢ food. Sergt town to mother showed s selling CALLS ADVERTISERS The | 2 Three Big Super-Values of “THE NATIONAL” | 25,000,000 persons SATURDAY HOLIDAYS URGED ON PRESIDENT Lord’s Day Alliance Delegation Ad- vocates Half Day All Year for U. S. Workers. Saturday half holidays throughout the year to all federal employes, ‘especially those in the Post Office De- partment, was advocated by a delega- tion from the Lord's Day Alliance of the United States, while calling on the President at the White House. The delegation told the Executive that it favors one day of rest in seyen for every workingman. The principal object of the call was to invite the President to attend the obgervance of the thirty-ffth anni- versary of the founding of the alli- ance, to_be held in New York vember 11. Members of the delega- tion said afterward the President did not decline and that he expressed himself in such a fashion as to give them a hope that he may attend. They explained to the President that the "alliance has a membership of in seventeen de- nominations of the Christian Church. Secretary of Interior Work accom- panied the delegation to the White House and made the introductions. Dr, John H. Willey chairman of the delegation, in addressing the Presi- dent explained that the alliance is in | da- | no sense a body devoted to the vocacy of blue laws but that it de- votes its activities 1o opposing com- mercialization of the Sabboth day. space in the present office and retard the work of each other, besides bring- ing about unsanitary condition, The business of the office jumped nearly 200 per cent sin it is shown. The total number of 1917 was 6. while in cal year 70,704 papers were receivad. The cash receipts of the office last year were §$12 1. Furniture Co. Hours, 8 AM. to 6 P.M. OGLETHORPE BODY TAKEN FROM GRAVE Bo!el of Georgia’s Founder Vn- earthed for Removal to Atlanta. By the Associated Press, CRANHAM, England, The body of Gen. James E. Oglethqrpe, | founder of the state of Georgia, was uneartned today by the excavators un- der the direction of Or. Thornwell Jacobs, wha plans to have it removed |to Atlanta. PROTEST REMOVAL. October 10.— By the Associated Press. SAVANNAH, Ga. October 10.—A protest “against the act of removal” of the body of Gen. James E. Oglethorpe from England to the United States was forwarded today to the State De- | partment in Washington by Georei | officials of the Society of Colonial Wa. | At a_meeting held here last night, a resolution was adopted and has been ransmitted to Secretary Hughes with {a request that it be forwarded to the | British government graves of Oglethorpe and his wife,” the Tesolution said, “shouid "not be dis- turbed.” DAHLIA SHOW OPENS. Blessoms. of Unusual Size and Bril- liance in Takoma Exhibit. Dahlias of many hues. chosen for | their unusual size and brilliance, are being shown this afternoon and eve- ning at a special display arranged in the Takoma Park Librar koma Horticultural Soc: The exhibit opened last nig failure of the lighting system to function necessitated the _turning away of large numbers of patrons. iy o e HEH MOTIVE SEEN INPRIEST'S SLAYING | Brother of Mrs. Strutynsky Visits Her in Cell—Doctor Finds. Paranoia. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 10.— Motives ar to those which induced Miro- slav Sichchinsky to assassinate Count | Andreas Petotsky, Governor of Ga- |licia, in 1908 caused his sister, Mrs {Emily Strutynsky to kill Rev. Basi | Stetsuk, Ukrainian priest, slain Sun- | day morning in St. Michael the Arch- angel Church here, the brother after visiting his sister in jail. | chinsky, a professor in English an | Ukrainian at a Ukrainian college in | Rochester, N. Y., accompanied his s ter's husband, Rev. Nicholas Strutyn |sky of Ramey, Pa, to Chicago yes- terday. He said cause masses.” said i he shot the governor be- laughed at the starvi His sister, he eaid, sh. Father Stetsuk because he told h “Everybody should mind his own busi ness” when she ngked the priest re- garding conditions among the Ukrair fans in_the old count Mrs. Strutynsky, examinatio: by Dr. Clarence Neymann, an alien ist, declared she would rather dle fo the killing than be freed and having her motive misunderstood. The alien ist said Mrs. Strutynsky had an un- usual case of paranoia and, in opinion, would have killed another i she had not slain Father Stetsuk. “he Credit—Service—Low Prices at The National Furniture Co. e e e ) With every purchase amounting FREE 2100 or more we will give FREE our Your-piece Sheflield Silver Service, or our choice of our 42-piece Decorated Dinnerware Set, or our 26-piece set of Wm. A. Roger: Silverware. Buy On “The National’s” Easy Credit Terms stated. liquor | & SE E OUR BEAUTIFUL E (HIBIT AT CONVENTION HALL THIS WEEK, YOU MAY HAVE COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS BY CALLING AT THE STORE his | TO MASS MEETING Better Business Bureau Wants Dis- | 3 cussion of Inmcreased Activities. Plans to be n ‘or a mass meeting of ull advertisers, to be held kere next month to discuss the activ- | ities of the Better Business Bureau, together with the matter of an en-| largement of its scope. The iollowing committee of the bu- reau is handling the preparations: I1. H. Levi. chairman: B. L. McKee Isaac Behrend, Howard M. Cool, Wil- liam Gallih b5 oodward., and I. L. Goldh: Ceordi the committee last evening by ard M. Cool. director of the burea investigations that lo adver er than ¥ July 20 to October 5 investig tions of auestionablé merchandise | advertisements were made and errors were fourd in only 112, while 1 were found to be correct. “All investigations show that the great majority of retail advertising is truthful,” according to Mr. Cool. “It is unfortunate, but true. that when the public 'is -disappointed in one retail advertisement. the confi- dence is undermined in_ all retail a vertising.” 1t _is therefore necessary to the Better Business Bureau, to in sist upon co-operation from all retai are enthusiastic advertiser to bring statements within the boundary integrity and conservatism. The statistical report together with ! a general survey of merchandise ac-{ tivities is now being sent to mem-! bers of the bureau. PAPER FOR PARENTS. Junior High Students Pt Out Spe-| cial Issue. The parents’ number of the Junior High School Pioneer, an attractive tour-page pamplet printed by the pu- pils of the Columbia Junior High School, made its appearance today. The organ_contains an article by Miss Alice Deal, principal of the school, in which she outlines its hi; tory and lauds the Parent-Teacher Association for {ts co-operation in making the institution—the pioneer of its type in the District—a succes: There also are short stofies, giving the names of the new faculty mem- bers, and describing the gifts to the school from the Pavent-Teacher As- sociation. The first meeting of the Parent- Teacher \Association of the current school vehr, the paper announces, will be held tomorrow night. Mrs. Jerry South is president of the organiza- tion. his of ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va, October 10 (Special).—More than' 2,000 persons visited the fall show of the Alex- andria merchants which opened for three days In Armory hall last night. The lights were switched on by Mayor W. A. Smoot. The $26 prize was awarded to Raymond Hulfish 322 South St. Asaph street. M. H. Boswell, lineman, who was thrown from the top of @ forty-foot pole yesterday, will recover, .it, was believed at the Alexandria Hospital this morning. It is not known wheth- or he was thrown from the pole when he came in contact with high voltage wires or whether he lost his footing. He landed on his head. . The Kiwanis Club will be feted by the Business and Professional Woman's Club at a Halloween in the Westminster. building _the night of October 30, it was decided at a meeting held in the rooms of the chamber of commerce last even- ing. 2 P &be L. Cohen has been elécted to head the orthodox Jewish congrega- tion here. He succeeds B. Abramson, who has resigned after nine consec: tive terme. The will of Miss Annie S. Hender- son was admitted to probate in the court today. Re | Pollard of Chester, Pa., ‘aw administrator, 7 us Dr. WS nal Ten-Piece Bedroom Suite and Outfit At a Remarkab_le B . s e A WONDERFUL BARGAIN! White Enamel Metal Bed, Spring, Mattress, Two , Pillows, Dresser, Chair, Rocl Rug—ALL OF TH price of $69.75. Golden Oak Chiffonier, ker and a Room Size ESE for the one low Easy Credit Terms HANDSOME OVERSTUFFED LIVING ROOM SUITE, as pictured; upholstered in a very good grade of tapestry. It comprises a big Settee, Chair and Rocker—just as pictured. A wonderful bargain! : $69.75 AR A Wil EIGHT-PIECE GOLDEN OAK DINING ROOM SUITE, as pictured, comprising Exten- sion Table, Buffet, China Cabinet, Server and four Chairs to match.