Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1923, Page 20

G. 0. P. LEADERS SEE CONVENTION HALL Are Well Pleased With Facili- ties for Session Available ° in Cleveland. By the Assoclated Press. SLEVELAND, December 15.—Re- publican natlonal committeemen in- gpected Public Hall today and after giving Implicit Instructions for ar- ranging detalls of the June 10 re- publican convention and ' expressing themselves as greatly pleased with the size and beauty of the wuditorium and congratulating the local com- mittee and themselves on the wisdom of selecting Cleveland and the ex- vellent facllities for handling the convention, left the city tonlght. National Chatrman John T. Adams of Towa, David W. Mulvane of Kansas, chairman of the committee on arrangements; Gen. T. Coleman Dupont of Delaware, chairman of subcommittee on arrangement Lafayotte B. Gleason, secretary of the convention, and James D. Pres- ton, superintendent of the Senate press gallery, all pronounced the wuditorium perfect in its adaptability for convention purposes Select Headquarters. Headquarters of the national com- mittee, it was virtually day, will be cstablished in the Hollen- den Hotel shortly after January 1. In a confercnce with Messrs. Du- pont and Preston, Lincoln G. Dickey, manager of Public Hall, was instruc ed in the few alterations required to hold the convention in the auditorium. It was d ed to set up 529 desks for the use of correspondents ing out daily telegraphic ac the convention. These in front of the larg elevated above the and somewhat below platform Approximately 500 other political writers and observers who are ex- pected to attend the convention will De taken care of on the main flogr. The tal h companies, press ws- soclation and locul newspapers will be given space in the basement and handy to the news per correspon- dent Messenger bo. will reach the legraph company headquarters by way of ramp. ‘Will Slope Seats. Seats for the delegates and specta- to: placed on the ground floor will probably be sloped toward the stage in order that all may ses the speaker better. Public Hall profusely. xcessive decorations would spoil the beau! of the hall” Chalrman Adams stated after viewing it. "A few American flags draped around the hall will be sufficient decorations,” Gen. Dupont sald. And perhaps pletures of Washing- . Lincoln and Harding,” Mr. Mul- ne suggested. “Then that's t} tions will be handled, Thompson, ch vention com ttee, declared. The visitors were all deeply im- pressed with the great beauty and 8ige of the hall, the ninety-foot ceil- ing without a pillar obstructing the interfor of the hall, and t! beautiful lighting effects, Mr. Preston's com- ment was that it reminded him of an “indoor Yale bowl." The republican leaders in inspecting the basement of public hall, strode stralght into a floor full of demo- cratic emblems, crowing &t the tops of thelr volces.' They were on exhibi- tion in & poultry show held in the basement of the bullding. “looks like we are in the hands of the enemy.” Gen. Du Pont said. “We are in no danger, they are caged up,” observed Mr. Mulvane. GERMAN COURTS FACING CLOSURE Lack of Funds Blamed by Minister of Justice for Conditions. a main, floor the speakers' will not be decorated - the decora- Col. Carm! A. irman of the local con- By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News, Copsright, 1938. BERLIN, December 15.—Minigter &t Justice Emminger announces that 4t may be necessary very. soon. to sclose the courts and open the prisons ‘B8 the department of justice ts with- out funds to pay wiiness, jury and ‘pther fees, or feed the prisoners. The treasury promises at best only /enough to run a skeleton judiclal Eystem, simplified to the bone during the coming year. The cabinet, there- +fore, i8 preparing an emergency edict climinating until April 1 jury trials end the coadjutator judges who sit With the presiding judge in many German courts. The Verdict and sen- tence will be rendered by a single udge unassisted. The system may e continued Indefinitely for economy 4f the reichstag assenta to a regular Jaw elmplifying the system on the foregoing lines until German finances wre adjusted, Stirred by Rauling. ., The distlllers and agrarlans are up #n arms against the ruling of the foreign exchange commissioner to supply distillers with no exchange /1o purchase corn for the manufac- jture of alcohol. The commiwsioner s not a Volstead partisan, but his .xuling, which is backed by 'the cabi- net, has the double purpose of sav- ing foreign credits for food pur- chasey and also of forcing ths farm- ers to market cattle and hoga, which ere largely wintered on distillery refuse. iy any & land owners mai; distilleries on thelr gatates, turning potatoes and corn into aluohol a making big profits both ways. The, unkers have lined up the National ‘.l;;mern League in a vehement pro- CITY NEWS IN BRIEF, The Falrmont Owaere Association will meet T day. 8 pm. Bt 1361 Fairmont street. Bducationel features will be brought out in an illustrated leeturs, which glves up- to-date color scheme, furnishing and equipment of most livable apartment homes. All interested in community betterments invited. The Washington Chapter of Hadas= #ah will meet Tuesday, 8 p.m., at the Adas Israel Synagogue. Senator William B. MeKinl und Representative Thomas 8. Willlams will address the lllinois State Society Wednesday evening at the Washing- &n Club, 1010 17th street northwest. ere will be a short musical pro gram, dancing, cards and refresh- iments, This mesting has been desig- nated “congressional night,” and it s expected that a majority of the IIli- nois congressional delegation will be present. The free loby concert at the Y. M. C. A., 1736 G street northwest, will begin tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock, and will include on the program Mrs. Eva Clebithes, soprano; Mrs. C. E. Flem- ing, reader; C. A. Pendieton, bari- tone, and Miss Marjorie G. Davis, @ccompanist. B O she is only sixteen years ndon, 13 o T decided to- | THE BUNDAY Sleeping Person Loses Weight [RUNAWAY GIRL, GIVEN Delicate, New Scales Prove ADVICE, GOES HOME A man loses weight whenever he sleeps, and these scales can tell how much. With a dellcate scale so finaly bal- anced that it acurately records the amount of perspiration a human be- ing evaporates every few minutes, sclentists may now determine just how much welght a person loses or gains under almost any kiven condi- tion. A demonstration of this latest achievement {s part of the annual exhibition of the Carnegle Iustitution of Washington, 16th and P strects northwest, which will be opened to the publio at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and some interesting facts concerning body gains and losses have been obtained. It has always been known, of course, that « human being geins weight whenever food is taken or liquid js drunk, but a study that has only regently bLeen perfectad is that the body loses weight contin- uously and ‘imperceptibly througn the lungs and the pores of the skin Sclentists have termed this inces- gant drop ‘“insensible perspiration,’ although it {s not altogether calised by evaporation of water. Welght Changes Often. Tests have shown that the weight of an average man will fluctuate al- most every hour of the day. When he rises, for example, he may weigh half a pound less than normal. Aft- er breakfast, however, he has gained several ounces, but after walking to work he finds he has lost all of that and_will not regain it until he drinks & glass of water or eats his lunch. He steadily loses, however, while he Is sleeping. Although man or woman will lose considerable weight while exercising, it has been learned that the vast ma- Jority of the loss is nothing more or less than water evaporated through the lung and pores, a comparatjvely small lo being body tissue. Tes showed that & foot ball player will fose fourteen pounds in an hour and ten minutes, & marathon runner eight and a half pounds in three hours and a varaity oarsman more than five pounds in twenty-two minutes. OF, the fourteen pounds the foot bal player may lose, however, thirfeen an three-quarter poun; wuter and a quurte®of a pound body | tissue. “The lows in weight will occur jyhother w mur 1 walking, siiting atiil in u chafr or oven lying in bed. With ®ood modern mculew an adult may be | welghod to withi u third of an ounce. Fifty men 5 nts showed an average loss in weight, when quiet (n of lorty grams per hour, or one and & third ounces. After elght hours in bed the average adult welghs ten ounces less. Double Tests Made. The experiments have been made with the subjects both nude and clothed, with the result thut it ha been learned that the body loses sentially the same welght under efther condition. A “life-guard,” who was examined In both conditions was found to have lost twenty-four grams an hour nude and thenty-seven grams an hour clothed, the loss occuring both from the ekin and the lungs, but | chiefty from the latter. | On Friday evening, during the re- | ception of “the presldent and board | of “trustees of the Carnegle Institu- tion, a human subject was caused to sit in the scales for an hour and Af- teen minutes. In that time he lost ninety grams, or about three ounces, while sitting perfectly quiet and at This being loss, inquiry are prespired an unusual amount of s elicited the informa- tion that the subject started for the reception late, ran the last two or three blocks to make up for lost time and set In motion a&n unusual amount of evaporation. Thus it will be seen that the body, without our being in th#east mane ner consclous of it, is wearing slowly away hour by hour and then re- creating itself through the absorp- tion of oxygen, food and other mat ters. So accurately does the system adjust the amount of alr that is breathed that it coincides identically with the production of carbon diox- ide in the tissues, which, in turn, is determined by the heat production of the body. This study in nutrition will be kept as part of the exhibition toe morrow, Tuesday and Wednesdsay, when the general public may view it. The hours will be from 3 o'clock {n thf a.ll!ernoonl \;nul 6:30 g’chek. and scientists will be on hand to explain the exhibits. e —————————————————— NOVEMBER REDUCES INDUSTRIAL LABOR 7,430 Establishments Show Drop in Employes and Pay Totals. Total number of employes in 7,430 establishments in 51 manufacturing industries decreased five-tenths of 1 per cent, whilé the pay roll totals dropped 1.4 per cent during Novem- ber, the United States employment service announced yesterday. At the same time, however, increases in em- ployment were shown in 25 of the 51 industries and increases in the amount paid In wages in 18 industries. Sev~ enteen of the 51 industries showed increased per capita earnings in No- vember over the month preceding. Comparing November, 1923, with the same month of 1922, for 3,288 estab- lishments in 43 industries there, was an increase in the twelve months of 15 per cent in total wages and an in- crease of 8.1 per cent in average weekly earnings. Increased employ- ment was shown In 27 of the 43 in- dustries, while 33 showed increased pay-roll totals. Seventy-seven per cent of the es- tablishments reporting as to their operating schedule in November were working full time, 21 per cent were 'mx( ng part time and 2 per cent were not in operation, a decrease of nearly 4 per cent in full-time opera- tion, as compared with the October report. Reports from the Interstate Com- merce Commission show an Increase on September 15 in all employes on class 1 rallroads, including executives and officlals, of 1.4 per cent as com- red with August 15, 1923, and an ncrease of 1% per cent as compared with September 15, 1922, ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES, TODAY. The Red Triangle Outing Club will meet at Rosslyn, Va, at 2:30 o'clock, instead of 36th and M streets, as orig- inally scheduled. Buy round-tr ticket to Great Falls. Hike start: from Spring Hill station. Campfire party if desired. Visitors invited. Bill Richardson, leader. The Wanderlusters' hike will start from Connecticut avenue and. Portor street at 2:30 o'clock. Mr. Kemmerer will lead. Ldn of the juvenile lumbis Hall, Washington Mission- .E? e Takomh Park, at § z COAL DEALERS DISCUSS PROPOSED FUEL YARD BAN Assoclation Also Adopts Resolution Indorsing Mellon Plan for U. 8. Tax Reduction. A proposal submitted to Secretary of the Interfor Work Friday by the Natlonal Retail Coal Association and representatives of local coal dealers for abolition of the government fuel vard was discussed -yesterday at a meeting of the board of directors of the local coal association at the Shoreham Hotel. * The association adopted a resolu- tion endorsing the Mellon plan for tax reduction and recommended its early adoption by Congress. President Crowell addressed the meeting on the proposed coal insti tute, and short addresses were by Roderick Stephens and by Joseph 'Toole, resident vi Ofsthl‘ assoclation. 5 = B enator King of Utah addr association Friday night, relaties (o D to’ Russia Inat cidents of his tri, dwelling on the eco- summer and nomle situation in that country compared with the United States. UNION OFFICERS CHOSEN, —_— Bookbinders Here Elect Heads for % Coming Year, The International 3 Bookbinders, Local” Unieg rto0d, of Slected the following officers for thy coming vear: 'resident, Harry F, Oehler; William_A.' Dempsey; rlres’:den!. gording secretary, B . 3 financial !:crekli’)’ Evgw:mfl.‘b,?l}.lfln‘ treasurer, Joseph " BL Fitspatrick gpector, ' Edward Fuhrmann: g rge Furm and arms, %gon C, A mbers of the finance committes are Wiiliam F. Ryan, Pperd, m%n:‘ W, K:lrcnnyerl.l S executive commi . Dotod of J. W. Broskey 1. &, Se ey Sidney Howell, Joseph Mitohell et W. “Herrmann, G Willlam . Ryan. 50 © Urmage an yan. Delegatea to allfed prin radey council are Charles F. ll:'rn‘vtlmnn empsey and James Graham. Delegates to Central Labor Unton are Joseph D. Mitchell, Harry F. Oehler, James Graham, Edward l¥lln. nagan and George B. Hedges. STEAMERS IN COLLISION, HAMBURG, _December _18eThe Hamburg-American steamship. veoe Comac, outward bound, collided n tae Elbe Estury today with the Swedish steamship Lisa. The West Comac Was obliged to :M.udvlrl:n. yage. Travelers’ Aid Society Has Numer- ous Cases of Children Who Leave Home. Arthur C. Moses, president of the Travelers' Ald Soclety, has announced some of the latest experionces of the workers at the Union station, Who handle many cases weskly of runaway children, stranded adults and others who flud themselves In unfortunate circumstances upon ar- riving in Washington. “One of our most rpcent cases, sald Mr. Moses, “was thut of & boy bLrought to us for help. Upon ques- tioning, we found the lad had run away from his home in North Caro- lina, and we got in touch with his father, who turned out to be & dep- uty sherift, “In_another case a young Jewish girl from Baltimors, who had tired of living with a blind father and a hard-working mother, started out to ‘aee the world! but she got no for- ther than Washington, where she fell into the hands of the Traveler Ald, and she was mightv glad to a cept the help of that soclety in re- turning to her people, whom, she concluded. were ‘pretty good folks, even if they wers poor.' “Two Washington children, one elght years old and the other «laven, decided that they would play truant Entertainment for your entire family and friends, not only for a few days, but for a life- time, and our $5 Christ- mas Club opens the way for you to make this supreme gift to your loved ones. ER STAR, WASHINGT 0., DECEMBER 16, 1923—PART 1 T e A e e e T I L L el L L SR D from the publlo mchools, nnd thoy conoslved the fdea of muking the Union station thelr he art and lnlurln“ place, But the lan. did not work, as they wers qulel ,{pll'k- od B, by the Travalura' Aid Hocloty, and the teachers wnd purents nerived wimultaneously to take chinrge of the Youngnters n atill wnother came w womnn of middle uge, Who refused to lvave her ralirond train at her deatinailon, was Induced t t off at Wurhington, The Travel Ald workeru woon dis covered that It wus m Guun of mencal derangement and located her nu i re- :7’"-‘"?1‘". of un hospltal at Colum- object Mosew, “Any human being v the of our help” chrerved Mr. Who added thut “we huve hunireds of e Where we rendor amsistunce ouree of & single month.” ———e PATENT AID GIVEN JAPAN. All its files of putents destroyed by the earthquuke, which ruined a new patent office, the Japaness govern- ment has requested the United States for a new set of records. Sadamase Toki, wecretary of the de- partment of agriculture and com- merce at Toklo, called at the patent sesking coples of the laws, and regulations of the United es patent office, with which he was furnished. Arrangements are belng made by the patent oflice to turnish the Japanese government a complete met of the officlal gazetto, which has been issued weekly since 1872, and an effort will be made to furnish the Japanese patent office with coples of printed United States [of View. LEADERS OF NEGRO RACE TO MEET HERE Writers and Scholars of American Academy to Gather This Month. The American Negro Academy will hold fts twenty-seventh annual meet- ug in this city Thursday and Fri- day, December and 28, at the Clevelund community center. Thie organization composed of writers, authors and An%ng its members is Prof. Alain I oy locke of Howard University, who was Luxo Exypt, during the opening of the tomb of King ankahmen and who will report his_observations at the tomb. The program for the ses<ions of the academ to which the |m|rl|: is invited, follow Thursday— p.m., annual address of the pres dant, Arthur A. Schomburg, subject, “Racial Outlook From a World Point Paper, “Black Folk as They Have Been Portrayed in Repre- sentative American Art, Sculpture and Palnting, n H. M. Mur- ray. (Hllustrated by lantern slides.) Friday—7:30 p.m., he Mili- tary Career of Col Capt. Frank R. Steward tion, notes made at Alain LeRoy Locke The business will be in Luxor, Egypt, sessions of the Player-Piano 295 library of the Musolit Club, 13 street northwest, at 11 o'clock. Officers of the’academy are pr dent, Arthur A. Schomburg, Brooklyn, N. Y.; vice presidents. J. R. Clifford, Charles D, Martin, L. Z. Johnson, Joseph J. France; recording secretary, Thomas M. Dent; librarian, T. Mont- gomery Gregory; treasurer, Lafayetto M. Hershaw; executive committee, John W. Cromwell, Kelly Miller, Alain LeRoy Locke, F. H. M Murray, John B. Bruce, and corresponding secre- tary, Robert A. Pelham, Washington, D. C SINGLE STANDARD URGED Co-operation of all nations in de- veloping a single standard of morals Is urged by Grace Abbott, chief of the children’s bureau, in her report as unoficial representative of the United States on the advisory com- mittee on_the traffic of women and childron of the league of nations. Miss Abbott was appointed by the retary of State early in 1823, to represent the United States in an un- official and consultative capacity on this committee. She reports that as the result of a resolution adopted by | the advisory committee, the council {of the league has appointed a com- mission of experts to investigate the | international traffic in women and children, Other important resolutions adopt- ed by the advisory committee and approved by the council are that the council draw the attention of all go: ernments to the desirability of ratif. ing the convention of 1921 with re- gard to th tions of persons {KAPPA ALPHAS MEET IN D. C. DECEMBER 27 Fraternity Founded in 1865 Under Robert E. Lee to Have Ball and Banquet. The Kappa Alpha Traternity will hold its thirty-secor# bjennial con- clave in this city December 27, 28 and 25, at the Washington Hotel, The fraternity was founded at Wawshington and Lee U, iversity, in 1865, under Robert E. Lee, at that time president of the institution. There will " @& get-together smoker on the 27th, a ball on the evening of the 28th and the climas of the convention will be the bLar quet on Saturday night, the 28th. At this banquet, the participants, among the alumni and students, will includs Henators, EOVernors, representatiy college presidents, Justices nd others. Among the speakers at quet whl e pard of Texas Carolina, the 1 tor Morriy McLeod of & sey of Tennessee, Gov Pearson Hobs Mikell and J will be toastmaster. Local mem committee honorary ch. Smith, act mple Graves neis S. Key- H. . Van or; Howard , L. H. Boyd, Lifetime for the Entire Family, Join Now! s now. Reap the reward of im- mediate selection. Come in Choose your instru- ment, which will prove a IMMEDIATE DELIVERY TIME TO LOSE-ACT NOW! It is easy for you to have one of these beautiful instruments in your home on Christmas morning, but you will have to act quick. Hundreds of people have taken advantage of this greatest of all $6 Christmas Clubs. 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