Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1923, Page 10

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY,HNOVEM'BER 1, 1923. BULSEYE S BYNEWNAYY GO Superdreadnaught Maryland, in Battle Practice, Makes Big Record. Police Free Co-eds ‘Riding the Blind’ To Class Studies By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.,,November 1. —Two University of Minnesota co-eds caught ‘“riding the blind” at La Crosse, Wis. while on their way home from the Wisconsin-Minnesota foot ball game last Saturday told friends they “dldn’t missa class.” be- cause the police chief was sympa- thetic when they told him “we haven't time to stay in jall” because of * | classes. ¢ chapter In the history of {naval gunnery was written on float- Mg targets superdreadnaught Maryland's 16-inch -sterday for the first time in actual battle practice Gunners of the Maryland celebrated |3 the initial firing of the big rifles by hurling a 2.000-pound projectile straight through the bull's-eye of the distant targ thelr second shot | splitting the raft squarely In the{s ets were changed twice during y drill, yet both sets looked hough they had been riddled by shot ng the two runs on the target sent their charges to tling regularity. s most remark- the fact that not rs ever had fired Maryland's per- y of recrults, :xperienced men. motion in Water. companied by The . explosive 0 pounds of steel deck gear rattled ch tin battle practice was gunnery exercise, nmander F. M r of the bat- e from muzzle to about six miles. Next ttlefleet returns in the Carib- 1l fire annual practice, he said, 11 of the 16-inch rifles will at a range exceeding 6-inch gun battleship di- the other ships being 1z and the Colorado. it was explained, will nt line of America's sea Maryland and her sister o 624 feet in length, with a eet and a 32-foot draft. slectrically driven by four ering 33,000 horsepower to The girls, Hazel Casserly and Elsie Mott, both of Minneapolis, are seniors in the physical education department. Harry P. Brown, night patrolman of La Crosse, stopped them when he saw them get off the front end of a Chi- | a.m. volver sticking out of one of the girl's pockets.” Brown sald. “She sald she had it for protection.” Brown put the case up to Chief of Police J. Webber, who released the girls when they told him they had :30 classes at the university. left, riding In the baggage car, and arrived here twenty-five minutes be- CURB ON THEATER GROWS IN NEW YORK Catholic Church in Fight Against Portrayal of Divorce Laxity. Stage Dress Hit. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, November 1.—New | York is beginning to take seriously the movement to curb the theater in | this city. New forces are coming into {the fight. The Catholle Church’ is marriage relations and subtle propa- ganda for easier divorce laws. | "It is bad enough, reformers say, to |have the courts cluttered up with lamentable divorce proceedings with- cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul train at,!out having the causes that lle back “I saw the butt of a re-|of | pheres. | There is everg indication that the growing sentiment for fixing some sort of limit to the liberties that playwrights may take with their pub- They |lic may soon extend to the authors | some ‘uf books who belleve that In this | modern age they may write of reali- | watching the stage in order to pros | test agalnst a lax treatment of the, so many soclety separations pa- | | raded on the stage in bedroom atmos-. drawn aside. It is against this new cult of writers, who are bringing the frankness of the old French school into American and English literature, that the protest Is being raised. The writinge of this cult, eagerly seized upon by the yaunger generation, are blamed for much of the immorality which it is admitted exists through- out the country today to an extent lttle dreamed of by parents who have no consclousness of the “progress” made in “liberalism” gince the be- ginning of the world war. - Too Much Liberty Feared. | It also is charged that the Iiberal views of the writers of today are re- sponsible for the liberties being tak- en by some of the theatrical pro- jducers in the matter of costumes, | the approach to the altogether being a bit too rapld for those who would guard the public from contamination. Some actors and some producers are rather inclined to blame the ever resourceful press agent for spreading the impression that the stage is grow- ing worse and worse. For Instance a | sketch at the leading Keith Theater |in this city, with the splendid Nazi- |mova in the star role, has just been | withdrawn. It was biiled as “sen | tional” and as “dramatic dynamite, Hence it attracted_unusual attention. It was withdrawn because of a pro- test lodged by Father John B. Kelly, | chaplain of “the Catholic Writers' Gulld. The sketch was written by George Middleton and had been per- formed on the Orpheum circuit for cight weeks before being | brought to this city. Only two per- | formances were given here, when URGES BIRTH CONTROL. tion. CHICAGO, November 1.—Making birth-control conference. “Children ©of a great problem.,” he sald. “Which s moral, to bring chil- dren inlo the world hopelessly handi- capped or to exeroise God-given rei son and consclence. It is the chil right to be well born and welcome. The assumption that fear of con- sequences is the only thing effectual in deterring youth from immorality i an insult, sald Mrs. Margaret San- ger of New York. She said that some persons opposed birth-control educa- tion on that assumption. “If you are honest only for fear of the policeman, just how honest are you?” she asked. @ She sald that she was convinced early marriages and birth control would cause a substantial decrease in promiscuity. Rev. James Austin Richards, pastor of the Congregational Church at Winnetka, 1ll.. also advocated birth | control on ethical grounds. | e | A man’s greatest height is attained | between the ages of twenty-eight and Rabbi Says It Is Only Moral Solu- || children a game of chance is tmmoral | | and unethical, Rabbl Louis L. Mann |} of Sinal Temple, Chicago, declared ||| at the close of the middle western ||| by choice is the only monudloluuon i fore class time. exceding fifteen ch guns, eight 3- fnch anti-aircraft rifles and two 21- inch torpedo tubes complete the ar- mament. CASH BONUS AGAIN DRAWS BARNES’ FIRE Chamber of Commerce Leader Says Lountry Should Reduce Tax Burdens. INDIANAPOLIS, November 1.—Op- position to a cash bonus for world war veterans was reiterated by Jullus I. Barnes, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, In an address here last night “The Chamber of Commerce of the United States,” he declared, “must here and always reaffirm its opposi- tlon to the cash bonus because, In- trusted as it is with the leadership of tndustry upon which employment and opportunity rest, it must continue to demand such progressive relief in shall not hold constantly ca the shadow of Industry and depressed to the point of widespread unemployment. During his address, which was be- fore the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Barnes said that aside from the sacrifices which war de- mands of all classes of citizens, whether in or out of the military service, the financial cest will be borne for generations by the Ameri- . “in spite of d a social injury. 1d war America was for- ual war did not cross It was fortunate entry into war it ears sold the products of its Inc ies to the imperiled na- tions of Europe, nations afterwards allied with us in a common defense. “The same courage in leadership called for in the prosecution of war is required today in the solution of these problems of peace.” D. C. RECRUITING BEGUN FOR COAST ARTILLERY ce with the recent au- Maj. Gen. Stephan of ard and the militla bureau, recruiting was begun vester- day for the reorganization of the District of Columbia coast artlilery, the new regiment to be known as the 247th Regiment. coast artillery. 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