Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1923, Page 3

— _ RMY T0 GIVE WAR EXHIBITIONS HERE Infantry Will Stage First of Maneuvers on Monument Grounds Tomorrow. Demonstrations of ‘the work of the Army of peace and war will be staged by troops in the district of Washing- ton, under the general direction of Brig. Gen. Bandholtz, for the purpose of convineing the people of the neces- sity of maintaining an army well traincd for immediate use in case of need: The-firct of the demonstrations b; the infantry from Fort Washington Md., will be staged tomonrow, be- Einning at 4:30 o'clock p.m., on the ‘Washington Monument grounds. The other oxhibitions so far planned by ien. Bantiholtz will be given by the ficld artillery on October 22 and the cavalry, bothi organizations from Fort Myer, Va., on October 29, The Army Band wil pmy at ad of the demon- strations, The infantry demonstration will be staged by a war-strength platoon from the 3d Battalion, 12th United State Infantry. It will consist of three phases: first a few minutes close order drill, to illustrate the ac- curacy and precision of platoon move- ment; second, formal guard moun ing; third, a rifle platoon in_ attack. In the last phase of the exhibition the reduction of a machine gun strong point will be illustrated. e machine gun nest will be locat- ed in the bushes Monument. from the corner of 16th and streets and will proceed in a southeasterly direction. A thin screen of scouts Will precede the platoon to determine the accurate location of the resist- nee. Th scouts will be fired upon ¥ the en The: drop to the round, take cover, and return the tire Uie scout returns to the platoon er with information as to the re- sistance. The piatoon leader comes forward, makes his reconnaissance nd estimate of the situation and is- Then, using the smallest f men possible, he proceeds attack, simulafing as near- terrain permits the actual tactics. 3 t war-'ime COADJUTOR BISHOP NAMED. 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A 11 for the pastorate,—will eandida morning at 11 o'efock and eveing at »'m COME AND BRING OTHERS, " Violins—Cases—Bows | i under service conditions ° northeast of the | The attack will ke made | Paul | Greek Sculpture { Dug Up in Rome Street Repairing By the Associated Press. ROME, October 10.—Excavations in Rome's ancient main street, Corso Umberto, have brought to light many pieces of &ncient Greek and Roman sculpture. Four tri- umphal arches’ stood in the Corso in ancient times, and many frag- ments unearthed during the i{m- provements that are belng made | to the thoroughfare are thought to ", be portions of these arches. In the Via Pleblscilo there are traces of a great imperial palace, and the walls of an anclent temple. At the Pazza Sciarra, a Corinthlan column was discovered and a frag- ment from the temple of Neptune. In the Via Caravita two anclent columns were unearthed and also fragments from a mediaeval chureh. " NEEDED AT ONE |Col. Sherrill Tells Board of Trade of Present Unsatis- factory Conditions Here. | Stressing the need for an immediate adequate public building program for Washington and pointing out that governmental, employes had already outgrown available office quarters in the District, Col. C. O. Sherrill, su- perintendent of public buildings and srounds, speaking last night before {the Board of Trade, urged the or- |ganization to co-operate in getting the proposed program through Con- gress. {Maj. J. Franklin Bell, recently ap- pointed Engineer Commissioner of the District, and Maj. Gen. John A. Le- jeune, commandant of the Marine |Corps. Two committee reports were and reservations, Fred J. Coldren, chairman, and on streets and avenues, George C. Shinn, chairman. | Cites Expansion of Activities. Citing the steady growth of Wash- tington {of governmental activities, Col. Sher- rill, called the attention of the board to 'the many temporary war struc. tures and asserted that these bulld- ines were on heir 1 leg: “The repair alone.” said Col. Sher- rill, “to make -the buildings usable ! year after year costs a staggering sum. They have rapidly reached the state where they will have to be abandoned as unsafe. Even if an adequate build- ing program was decided upon, con- struction of new buildings could not keep pace with the demands for new office quarter: A new structure for the bureau of in- revenue, the controller gen- Department of Justice, an ar- chives bullding and a building for the Department of Agriculture. Maj. Bell Praises D. C. Government. Bell, in a brief address, com- plimented the board on its city goy- ernment. “You may be sure.” he said, ou have a government in which man is honest and one. in which every man earns his salar; He touched briefly on the work of the zoning commission; and said the aim of the commission was to retain the residential aspects of Washington. He also spoke on taxes and what the public receives in re turn for them, and the boulevard sys- tem of fast traffic. which, he said, seemed to be @ need of the near fu- ture. ' 1 Gen. Lefeune's Address. Gen. Lejeune, after giving some early history of the Marine Corps, ternal Other speakers at the meeting were | ipresented and adopted; that on parks | and the continued expansion | the city of | . 8TAR, WASHINGTON, EYDTLE. WILFRED, "G TOLD _NOT TO HANG UP BECAUSE “HE SIMPLY MUST * HEAR LITRIE WILFRED SPEAK THROUGH THE PHONE f;_: X NEWU.S. BUILDINGS f i HASTENS TO PUT INIT'S ALLRIGHT SOME OTHER TIME WILL DO JUST AS WELL. HEARS SNICKER TROM STENOGRAPHER'S DESK- BEHIND FIVEAOUR EH00L DAY WILLREMAN |Sum. Ballou Says Protest of Teachers Cannot Be Heeded. The five-hour-a-day program in the primary grades of the District pub- lic schools is here to stay, Supt. Frank W. Ballou declared today in answer to the protest of the first-grade teachers against the lenghtened school day in the first and second grades. The first-grade teachers pre- ! Five new buildings are needed at|sented a resolution to the teachers | Webster and ¢ . jonce, the speaker asserted. They are ouncll last night strongly opposing {the five-hour-a-day and urging that {the former schedule of three and a half #ours a day be restored in the | primary grade i Dr. Ballou indicatd that there may be some modification on the present curricula of the primary grades if it is found that the pupils are burdened intellectually. But the five-hour day will remain, he said, pointing out | that the plan was only adopted after i careful consideration. i Adopted After Survey. - Before adopting the fivezhour sched- {ule in the primary grades, the super- | intendent declared that a survey was made by the Cnited States bureau of ! education showing that Washington was one of the few cities in the coun- {try having a population of 100,000 or !more that had a three-and-one-half- {hour program for primary grade chil- dren, ! Moreover, Dr. Ballou said the chil- sald that when he was appointed to | dren in the primary grades in some {his present office he determined that | of the cities are vounger than those 'nhe policy of the corns should be eco- | jn Washington, and are better able nomical, ‘of as much use to the public { (o ctand any intellectual strain that as possible and be the finest body of lmay be imposed upon them by the military in the world. He urged that | Jengthening of the school day. 'ENING TO GATHERS , "ROM THE, SOUNDS, THAT WILFRED HASIFLAT- LY REFUSED TO SPEAK- THROUGH THE PHONE ANSWER IS DROWNED BY TERRIFIC CRASH AS WILFRED PULLS PHONE OFF THE TABLE AFTER, TWO MINUTES OF MATERNAL COAXING WI(L- FRED 1S INDUCED TO SAY BLA-BLA-BLA !BARRY FARM CITIZENS | j APPROVE ESTIMATES) Also Indorse Fine Arts Cammls-! _ sion Program for Their | Section. | Bstimates of the District Commis- | vloners submitted to the budget bu | reau were unanimously indorsed by the members of th Barry Farm Citi- | zens' Association at their meeting last night in the St. John's M. E. | Church. | The association approved of the rec- | ommendations made by the Commis- i on of Fine Arts, relating to the i |‘Barry Farm subdivision. On the mo- { tion of Mary Taylor, a letter was di rected to be sent to the commission thanking it for its interest. | A resolution made by Joseph Blunt |asking the Commissioners to erect three additional traffic _signs was adopted. Talks on fire preven- | tion were given by John Chinn, Daniel Banks. i E. S. Hoftman, president, presided. F. H. ESCHERICH DIES. Had Lived in Capital Forty Years; | Was Long a Mason. : Frank H. Escherich, living at the| Masonic and Eastern Star Home, died | yesterday, aged eigbty-thres years The funeral will be held from th wundertaking establishment of 8. H Hines Company, 2901 14th stree { rorthwest, Friday afternoon at o'clock. Interment will be In | incoln cemetery with Masonic hon-| ors. 1 Mr. Escherich was a native of | German; He had been in this coun-i try for sixty years, twenty years of ! the time in_Baltimore and the re-! mainder in Washington. He was a| { machinist by trade. For a long time | he was employed by the Droop music house.. He was a member of Ar- minius Lodge, No. 25, of the Masons. He had been at the Eastern Star He is GOOD BOY ~ ALL OF WHICH UNDERSTOOD EVERY WORD- AND NO, HE'S AFRAID HE CANT STOP T HEAR LITILE ALICE Now } will be of assistance in his work be- | Y —By GLUYASWILLIAMS’ | gsmmMSTflMEH ' g NEW G. W. U. HEAD HEARS HER ASK DOESNT HE LOVE Hi5 UNCLE ROBERT AND 15 QR ISNT HE GOING TO BE A WILFRED DENIES REALIZES WILPRED'S THERE NOW AND TRIES TO GET THINGS GOING BY TALKING BARY TALK O HIM ) LS WILFRED'S MOTHER VES | S CERTAINLY WONDERFUL - GERMANY WILL PAY 155 U. S. WAR CLAIMS 000,000 Payments to Americans. i Virtual settlement of war claims aggregating more than $10,000,000, held by Americans against Germany, has been reached through negotia- tions between American and German representatives of the Mixed Claims “ommission in Germany during the < last few months. | The American ang Gerifian agents, Robert W. Bonynge and Count von} Lewinski, reached tentative agree- ments on 155 claims and their find- ings will be presented to the commission for approval. The commission is preparing to re- | sume its work, suspended while the agents conferred and gathered evi- | de in _Germany. Dr. Wilhelm Kiesselbach, German commissioner, returned here vesterday from Berlin, completing the personnel of the body and it is expected that several de- cisions, possib! including some of the Lusitania claim cases, will be rendered soon. While abroad Mr. Bonynge inv gated th procedure of the m arbitral tribunals in Paris and Lo lon and is said to have obtained in- ormation on disputed points which | ¢ ore the commission. Others of the merican staff who participated in he Berlin conferences included Alex- ander Otis, counsel; Henry B. Morrow, counsel and secretary, and John J. Edwards. assistant counsel. | | | i | fon |grounds in the rank of their seniority. land that the democrats w 1923, President Lewis to Be Pre- sented at Sylvan Theater Roll .Call. George Washington University's student body will stage its first roll call at the Sylvan Theater, south of the Washington Monument, tomorrow clock. The event is nformal student in- liam Mather Lewi: the new president of u.tl-.mmmu..n All classes will be sUspended to- morrow afternoon and the students will form under banners denoting their classes. These groups will form the slopes of the Monument afternoon at 5 designed as an auguration of W A_ter the tormation of the student groups the official party consisting of Howard Lincoln Hodgkins, dean of the department of arts and sciences: the deans of the several colleges, and President Lewis, will arrive. Dean Hodgkins will introduce Mr, Lewis to the students. Immediately following two studen representing Georg and Martha Washington, will present the key of the universily to its new administrator. These students will be garbed in the quaint costumes of the “Irevolutionary period. President Lewis, in his speech of acceptance, will outline his plan for a greater George Washington U versity. He believes firmly dent activities and their part in a well rounded college life. The first mission of a university, however, in the opinion of the new president, is education, and students should be honored as highly as foot ball heroes. Hepes for Co-operation. Mr. Lewis hopes to develop a spirit of co-operation among the students that will co-ordinate the student with the social and athletic side of school lfe., Edward L. Scheuffler, a member of the university’s debatfng team, will respond to Mr. Lewis in behalf of the student body. He will pledge the support of the student body to any plan for a better institution. Music during the ceremonies will be furnished by a band. Freshmen caps and parti-colored balioons wiil aud color to the gathering. ‘The first 3.000 students afriving at the Sylvan Theater will be decorated with uni- versity buttons, Plans for the roll call ha 2lura sociation, under the direction of Al- bert Harris, municipal architeef, of the District. TEXAS G. 0. P. “MILITANT.” DALLAS, Tex., October 10.—Pres- ent plans are to make the republican party jn Texas the most militar minority party in the country, R. B. Creager, republican national com- mitteeman from and state chairman, | sald. The Texas committeeman pre- dicted that President Coolidge will be the republican presidential nominee select some man not men- *ioned. now generally for the Daily . Special Tomorrow’s Special Hupmobile 1922 Touring $675 This includes a special cut for today of $100 from the -already reduced price. This car goes on sale to- I |FIVE KILLED iN TRAFFIC | HERE IN PAST MONTH | Maj, Sullivan’s Report Shows 301 Injured on Fftreets in September. 'Five persons were killed and 301 | tnjured on the streets of Washington | during September, according. to the | monthly réport of Maj. Daniel Sulli- | van, superintendent of police. | This, however, was an_encouraging | {improvement from previous records, | which- registered fourteen deaths for | July and ten for August. | While the total number of accidents | lin September was greater than in | { July or August, the number of fatali- ties showed a gratifying dro i Maj. Sullivan said his trafiic office; were on the alert throughout the month for violators of the regula- i tions. ] — i STREETS HONOR HARDING. 3 SureRelief: " BELLINS AN 25¢ and 75¢ Packages Everywhers Paints, Oils, Glass and Brushes ° (4] ESTION' Becker Paint & Glass Coc: 230 Wiseo Ave. West o7, ATTLE, Wash., October 10. Olive street and Olive way in Seattle today are Harding way, under an o; |didance of the city council. Along th two thoroughfares the late President Harding received the greet- | ings of thousands of children on a visit to Seattle less than a week be- fore his death. Near ‘two car Jines—well terest intellingent homeseckers. O O T T L O DI T T L aannn A Few Days and Our Supply of This Type Will Be Exhausted. . . . constructed—convenient churches and schools—in a wholesome community—should in- LT LT R R e - Look Before You Leap In Buying A Home, Satisfy Yourself as to the Elements that make up a Home of True Value. $8,530 FLAT TIRE? MAIN 500 LEETH BROTHERS Service Charge never Over $1.00 to stores, Columbia Park Homes Afiord All These Features and Advantages $8,350 Large Porches Deep Yards Six Rooms—Tiled Bath Hot-water Heat Electric Lights SAMPLE HOUSE 740 Ingraham (Between 7th and 8th Sts.) Open ond Eighted Uniil 9 P.M. Take 14th St. car to 8th and Kennedy (two squares south) or 9th St. car to Ingraham (two squares east). D. J. Dunigan 1321 New York Ave. N.W. Phone Main 1267 Includes Concrete Alley Six Rooms, With All Modern Conveniences Extra Large Porches 4317 3rd St. N.W. Between Varnum and Webster Open and Lighted Daily Until 9 P.M. ——— e LU T T T T T A MODERN HOME-- IR HIN Y H I LB ATUET T T b Illl.llllIIIIllll}lll[llll_lulfllll"l | % what on the same lines—that its ad- minfstration be as economical, that it |become of as much use to the pa- triotic American public as possible and that it be made into the most beautiful city in the world. The speaker said he did not believe that the Americans living outside of { Washington knew the needs of thelr { Capital city, and that if they did, sup- {port for needed improvements would !'ve speeaily given. i Committee Recommendatio f Four| recommedations were made in the report of the parks and reserva- Itions committee. They are: The acquisition for park purposes, immediately, of the Klingle Ford parkway, the Piney Branch parkway from the Tiger bridge northwestward, ! widening the Piney Branch parkway {from 16th street westward and the acquisition of the Patterson tract. That appropriation be urged for fm- iprovement of the Anacostia flats above Bennings bridge. That the undeveloped areas already purchased for connecting roadway between Rock Creek Park and Po- tomac Park be made productive of the planned result by appropriation for its immediate improvement, Passage of the bill for permanent park commission as recommended by the board last year. The streets and .avenues committee made two recommendations: That the board urge Congress that funds be appropriated to provide adequate playgrounds and play spaces for the children: of the city and that, until relief is afforded by Congress, such measures be adopted by the District government, consistent with law, as will minimize the danger of accidents to_children in the. streets. Edward F. Colladay, president of the -organization, presided. VISITS TAKOMA LODGE. Call on No. 29. The annual visitation ‘of the Ma- sonic Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia to Takoma Lodge, No. 29, was made last evening, led by Dr. M. F. Finley, grand master of Masons. The lodgeroom, in Takoma Hall, %as converted into an autumnai scene. Members of the lodge prior to tho ‘visitation had gathered large branches of trees and leavés that gompletely covered the walls and oor. Following - the regular busines: several musical selections were sung by the special quartet of the lodge. “Qctober” refreshments, includin apples, pears and grapes, were served, together with an additional fall symbol—popcorn. The next visitation of the_ serles Zil be to Anacostia Lodg —on improved D. C. property at prevailing rates of interest. See Mr. Field * - 'Hedges & Middleton, Inc. ‘ 1334 H St. N.W. | I | Franklin 9503 Masonic Grand Body Makes Annual | the eity of Washinglon be run Some- | The fight against the five-Nom-day program recently adopted in the pri- {mary grades of the public’ schools |Was opened by the first grade teach- lers at a meeting last night of the | Teachers' Council, the first of the cur- I rent scholastic year. | Arguments of the teachers for the {abolition of the five-hour schedule are: Children Get Restless. The pupils of the primary grade. being small, become restless and ill at ease as the day wears on and, lack- ling the power of concentration, do |not profit as they should when the | duy is made too long. | "2—As a result of the present ex- iperiences, the new plan is causing {the loss of the valued spirit of co- joperation formerly had.in the pupils lof_the primary grtdes. " 3—Tired -children require special {attention and individual instruction, and the large classes.make this im- possible when the day is five hours long. | Jas much greater this year under the re- cent system than it was last year. This will happen because the val- uable special out-of-class - attention lto each pupil who Is backward is lost. 5—The present plan calls for the devotion of a part of each afternoon to regulate recrcation. This is almost impossible, or at best a great hard- ship, because no apparatus has been provided. : 6—The directed and strictly super- vised activities of the classroom or playground cangot be substituted for the free recreation that-puplls would find if released fromr school. BUILDING OPERATIONS LARGE. Building operations begun during September involved a total of $2,49: 668, Building Inspector John P. Healy reported to the Commissioners'yester- day afternoon. Permits were issued during the month for 110 dwelling and four apartment houses. We haye. apn immediate cash buyer for income property N.W. up to $250,- 000; also customer for downtown business prop- erty up to $300,000. ' Pre- ferably leased to. one ten- ant. . Quinter, Thomas & Co. Real Estate Financing 819 15th St. N.W. Main 8416 ' 4—Retardation of pupils will be Home for the past four years. survived by a son and a daughter, Frangis Eg herich of Warrenton, Va., of Sandy Spring. 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