Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1923, Page 2

-~ PROPOSEDINBILL “Representative Cramton Said; | to Have Official Backing for Measure. Establishment of & separate bureau in the Treasury Department for pro- hibition enforcement is proposed in a bill introduced in the House late ye terday by Representative Louis C. Cramton of Michigan, which, it is un- derstood, has the support of President Coolidge, Secretary Mellon and the Anti-Saloon League. The bill as introduced is different in two detalls from proposed legisla- tion on this subject which Represent- stive Crampton had previously an- nounced his intention to father. “The commissioner of internal reve- nue, now under the law charged with prohibition enforcement,” Represent- ative Cramton points out, “has in collaction of federal taxes one of the heaviest administrative tasks in the goVernment, with thousands of em- ployes and with complicated questions of law and of administration con- arising. His burdens are heavy enough without the task of prohibition enforcement. Wants Cabinet Contact. “On the other hand, prohibition en- forcement, involving as it does the great problem of supremacy of law and prder in the nation, is a task suf- ficlently great to justify the organiz tion of a bureau for that specific pur- pose “The organization of an independ- ent bureau apart from any depart- ment of the government has been proposed. Aside from the fact that the expose of scandais in the Vet erans’ Bureau emphasizes the unde sirabllity of creating further inde pendent bureaus,’ ~ Representative Cramton explained, “the problem of rational prohibition s one which from time to time will call for cabinet discussions, and on such occasions the prohibition enforcement organiza- tion should be represented at the cab- inet table.” Arguing also against the proposal that the work of prohibition en- forcement should be lodged "in the Department of Justice, Representa- tive Cramton states his position as follows: United Eftort Sought. “This proposal would contemplate only the enforcement of the law con- cerning prohibited liquors, while ad- ministration of the laws concerning permitted liquors would remain in the Treasury Department. These two activities are too closely related to make desirable their separation. Even under administration of the law as to permitted liquor has come the assessment and collection of many millions of daliars in prohibited taxes, and this work should be retained in the Treasury or revenue collection de- partment “In view of the recently proven ef- fectiveness of the customs service in taklng care of some smuggling ac- tivities and in view of the proposed equipment of the coast guard for a continuous campalgn agalnst Smug- glers at sea, all of these activities should be under the supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury, and necessary unity of action would be secured.”” With reference to his bill Repre- sentative Cramton stresses that it would transfer to the national pro- hibition commissioner all of the du- ties and power and authority'of the | of internal revenue commissioner with reference to permitted and pro- | nibited alcoholic lquors ‘and nar- cotics, except the collection of the| alcoholic tax on lawful ordinary sales. “The bill carries the provision intended to free the prohibition enforcément service from politics, transferring to the eivil | sorvice the entire prohibition en- forcement organization and requiring | those now in the seryice to pass an examination in_order to remain,’” Representative Cramton said. SENATORS T0 STUDY | D. C. CAR LINES| Senator Ball, chairman of the Dis- | trict committee, said today that his! committes would conduct an investiga- tion into the street raflway and bus | line situation in Washington soon after | the Christmas recess had ended. The committee will consider pro- | posals for merging the street car lines | and also for merging with them the bus lines. In the opinfon of Senator Ball the | present law which levies a tax on the | gross earnings of the street railway companies should be changed so as to tax the net earnings of these com- | panies. If the bus lines are to con- | tinue to operate independently, he said, | their earnings also should be taxed, | and they should be called upon to car- ry a certain fee for the use of the streets. The proposal of Senator McKeliar of Tennessee to force the street car com- ganies to return to & five-cent fars will | e given consideration by this commit- tee while the whole matter is under dis- cussion. 11,000-ACRE TRACT ‘WILL BE COLONIZED (Continued from First Page.) tract In question every six months. I belleve it figures on about four vears to develop the whole tract I understand they also want a similar tract In Prince Georges, St. Marys or Calvert county. Thelr' plan, as I understand it. is to cut the tract up into -farms of from 20 to 160 acres and sell them on emsy terms. They will _sell farms on terms which wiil provide for a cash payment and pay- ment over & number of years, the purchaser. being allowed a period of fiftesn years to complete the trans. action. “The Farms Company has & pald- up stock of $250,000. I cannot say Jjust what the price at which we have agreed to mell the 11,000-acre tract is, but {t is sufficient to glve us interest at @ per cent for the period during which the land had been held. I un- derstand the Welles Corporation ex- pects to have 100 families on the land by April 1 next. Houses will be built for_them. Zenneth McRae is secretary for the t{mmigration commission of southern Maryland. The members of the body are Dr. A, H. Wood, president of the University of Maryland, who is chair- man; Joseph A. Wilmer of Charles county, flllam 8. Chichester of Prince Georges county, Thomas Par- ran_of Calvert and Truman Slingluff of St. -Marys county. It is sald that the commisslon on the Drum Point road will meet shortly after the first of the year. Mr. Parran and other southern Marylanders have been in- vited to appear before it. At a meet- ing of the executive committee of the commission to be held before the conterence of the general committee it s expected that representatives of the Washington, Baltimore and An- napolis Electric railway, of the Balti- more and Ohlo and of the Pennsylva- niarailroad will appear. The present plan, it is said, is to bulld @ road from Millersvills on the ‘W., B. & A. line to Drum point, Cal- vert county. “It has been found,” said Mr. Crompton, “that the Maryland con- uumtlu‘: {‘orbld:oth‘:dll‘lte to mlk'.e appropriations to. n _construet- ing such & road,:but there'.is no bar to gnn it .counties from floating bands for that purpose. .Two of the: counties .already bave the.suthority to issue such-bonds.” - I am . introduciog also | Prayer Offered Daily by Bishop "\ For Cathedral Thix ix the prayer beinz de- livered by Bishop Freeman day nt the luncheon of patgn workers: O Lord Jexus Christ, who h: taught us that all things nre possible to him that believeth, and that Thou wilt favorably hear the prayers of thowe who ask in Thy name: we plead the Tulfillment of Thy promixe, und bexeech Thee to haxten the bullding, in the Capital of this nation, of Thy houve of prayer for all people. Make speed to 1p us, O Lord, whom with the ther nnd the Holy Spirit, we worship and glorify nx one God, world without end. Amen. {GREAT THEOLOGICAL d LIBRARY PLANNED (Continued from First Page.) sald that there was a unanimity of opinion among the outstanding fig- ures of the t.me as to the immense importance of the project. There will be no business luncheon of the campalgn machine tomorrow, but workers will devote their entire energles to the work in hand. The tinal “victory” luncheon in the local campalgn will be Monday at 12:30 p.m. at the New Willard Hotel. Team No. §, Frederick Brooks, cap- tain, toda won the American flag which ch day goes to the team bringin in the largest 2um. Mr. Noyes called attention to the spirited contest being staged by three teams, No. 6, of which Harry <. Boss Is o n; 28, of which Franklin 1lis s captain, and 26, of which Dr. Sinclair Bowen captain. The first team mentioned ad a total of $10.294, the second team a total of $16,264 and the third team a total of $16.000. Subscriptions reported today were: Division A, $1 vision B, $8.309; division division D. $6.956. Bishop Freeman today announced details of what !s planned to be the foremost theological library in the United States, to be built on the east side of the national cathedral. It is also planned to build In the Cathedral Close a hotel where students coming to the cathedral for study may be housed at moderate cost Announcement of these plans in the midst of the campaign to raise the District's -share of the $10.000,000 needed to complete the building of the National Cathedral within five years recalled to ampatgn workers meeting at their daiiy business lunch eon this afternoon the New Wil lard Hotel the threefold object of the National Cathedral Foundation, as stated in the charter granted by Con- : “The promotion of re- gion, education and charity.” Mrs. Violet Blair Jannin 1s the donor of the gift of $50.000, which will be used to erect one wing of the ational Cathedral library. Library Room Plan Given. On a plate in the reading room will be the inscription: “Mary Jessup Blair Memor!al Room.” This read- ing room, patterned after a gentle: man's oak-paneled library of the Tudor period, will have windows on each side, with bookcases lining the walls from floor to ceiling. A large | Tudor fireplace will be the outstand- |ing feature of the reading room and over it will hang the portrait of George Washington paihted by Gil- bert Stuart and recemtly presented to the Natignal Cathedral by John Jay Chapman.’ This: portrait’ is now In the Corchran Art Gallery,.where it wiil hang-uatil .the memortal-room is ready . Bpace witl be left on the walls of the reading room for portraits and: for otRer hppropriate glfts. » The. winga will be twe stories high, The Blage memorial wing will have a large room.which will contain, untii more of the library is bullt, the val- uable colliction of approximately 0,000 volumes now owned by the | cathedral, This collection ‘includes - the library of the Rt. Rev. Henry Yates Satterlee, D. D., first Bishob of Washington: the library willed to the cathedral by the late Rev. Richard Pardee Willlams; D. D., canon of the cathedral and Archdeacon of Washington: also_the iibrary of the late Canon Willlam Tay- loe Snyder, togethgr with valuable books from the “libfary” of the late George McCrew. D. D., and many others. When finished it is expected the libra- ry will have 300,000 volumes, which will make it the foremost theological library in the country. It Is not proposed to duplicate books in the Library of Con- gress, but to supplement thege and make it in the hope of stimulating students and theological writers. The cathedral au- thorities feel that in these days the- ology has lost somewhat in this coun- try its rightful® position as the queen of sclences. - Cuitivation of the science of theology is the object of the cathedral library and is part of the movement for the new reformation, to which Bishop James E. Freeman has stressed since his con- secration. It will become an essential part of the preaching mission of the national cathedral. The campalgn teams met at luncheon today with the satisfaction of knowing that they Were nearing the million- dollar mark in local subscriptions, the grand total to date, as officially’ an- nounced by Corcoran Thom, treasurer, being $831,912. Work of the teams yesterday number, captain and amounts, . George R. Wales... Aritur Buet | I by team Tollows. 32| 2883s 231 Wilmer Commander C. T, Jeweil. 18] Fraocls, €, Wallace. . % 14 Mrs. Walter R. Tuckermas.. Total, Division “B'. 15. John F. Dryden 10. Stuart B, Marshall Cxi e 29 £2E3 £5E1 8| BEELs 558537 8| gesss 210 Mrs. Harrlet Total, Division Arihur Hellen AMorven Thompeon « i Weaver . Lol 58 e 2 &s8sses8ls o’ 83 Total, Division “D'.. H 8 ,995.00 Execctive committee ... ++. 100,116.00 Grand total for December 20, 1028..8147,111.00 Grand total to date.... +8831,912.00 9 Gitts of $100 or more were officlally reported yesterday, as follows: Charles H. Hagner, $100; W. L. Treu- holm Abrams, $100; W. W. Chiswell, $250; Willlam J. Flather, jr. 3250; E. H. Bachschmid, $200; R. L. Bowle, | $100; George Calvert Bowie, $10 M. Bowle, $100; Mr. and Mrs. R. Finney, $100; Bianche §. Mirici, $10/ Minor_Cooper Realty Company, $200} Miss Bertha Chinn, $125; Dr. Francis , $100; Deaconess Yeo, $125; Miss fe Jackson, $200; Mrs. Minnige- rode Andrews, $2,500; Admiral Rores- seau, §100; Mrs, C. J. Bell, $100; Mrs, George Marye, $100;. Mrs. Roberta Witmer, $500: ‘Anita Goft, $250; Mrs. Kirk Porter, $2,000; Mrs. Cary Sanger, ; G.'H. Myers, $1,000; Mr..and Mras. 5. Garland, $500: C.'A. Aspenwall, C. B. Hune, $600; T. C. Spence, Pickens Neagle, $250; C. D. Drayton, $100; Mr. and Mrs. H. L. West, $100; Mr. and Mrs. Biliot Gor- don, $200; Miss Louisa Robinson, $500; Edward F. Locker, $250; Mrs. Frazer, $260; Mrs, C. Willlams, $250; Mrs. Kratz, $125; Mrs. §. L. Rutherford, $100; Mrs. Newton Gulick, $100; Rev. H..S. Smith, $100; Frances P: Shivas, 500; Mary,f. Maxwell, $600; Dr. and rs. A..Camp _Stanle; 00; W. H. Herron,: $100; Mr. and Mrs.John C. Boyd and. Mrs. Walter.W. Boyd, $5,000. L. Nicholsop, $100; Dr.' W. T. . $250; Mys. H. V. A. MacMur- rimarily a library for stholars, | SANTA TO APPEAR FORPOOR CHILDREN Over 700 to Receive Christ- mas Presents at Keith’s From Mission. Santa Claus, in the guise of John Bennett, superintendent of the entral Union Mission, will distribute 0 presents to needy boys and girls at Keith's Theater tomorrow morn- ing at 10 o'clock. This will be the regular Yuletide distribution of gifts Ly the mission to those boys and girls who are not on Santa Claus’ regular visiting list. Mrs. Coolidge has been Invited by Mrs. Bennett and has replied that she will make a special effort to be present. In addition, it Is expect- ed that many clergy and members of the women's organizations connected Wwith the mission will attend. The boxes have been reserved for these guests. Christmas carols will be ung by members of thé Epi Church Cholr. HEaRY Baga of Presents, Each of the 710 bags has been filled Witk gifts to fit the need of each par- ticular child, and on each bag is the name of the child who will recelve it. The contents, In addition to in- cluding many little things that will Rladen the hearts of the recipients, will also contain many practical gifts n.f clothing. It is expected that each child avill be accompanied by one of Lis parents, and in consequence pro- vision has been made to accommo- date nearly 2,000 persons. Ushers Will be girls from the local churches and sororiti The 710 bags were made by members of the Women's Co-ope tive Society of the mission and were filled by individuals and at the vari- ous city churches. They will be stacked on the ge, and as each child passes befs Santa Claus he or she will re the bag bearing the name of the recipient. The thea- ter was obtaine through he cour- tesy of Roland S. Robbins, manager. This_visit of Claus to the peor children of Washington is not he only Yuletide activity of the mis- sion. Bags contalning articles of wearing apparel and other gifts have been prepared for the 125 inmates of the Home for the Aged at Blue Plains D.C. These bags will be delivered on Christmas morning. Also the mis- slon will _distribute, through the courtesy of George D. Horning, 123 pairs of new shos and 250 pairs stockings to children in need of them. And, still further. the mission will distribute 210 baskets of food to needy families, and on Christmas day will serve two dinners, one to all who apply at its temporary location, 432 10th street northwest, and an- other at the Children's Home, main- the two children living there. temp.-ary location of services will be held every hour on Christmas day. beginning at 10 o'clock in the morning. and at each service there will be a different leader. At the the mission _— IN MAYFIELD CONTEST. Additional Petition Filed Bearing on Texas Senatorship. An adaitional petition fn the con- test growing out of the election of Senator Mayfleld of Texas was filed with the Senate yesterd 1t_bore the signature of Henry Ygung of San Antonio, who asked that We be heard in connection with any Ifbquiry into the validity of the election in 1922 He attached copies of corfespondence with the secretary of state for Texas leading to the refusal of the latter of- the official ballot. ray. $200; Mrs. Charles. Jacobsen, $100; Jane B. Silvester, $100; Leo Baum, $100; Howard Mogan, $100; Hayne Ellis, '$250; James Owens, $150; M. £t,' $100; Dr. D. D. V. Stuart, §100; Mrs. Harley C. Gage, $100; Nicholas Luquer, $1,000; Miss Neville Johnson, $500; T. 'A. Weedon, $100; Willlam B Trott, $100; V. R. Singleton, $100; V. B. Digbe, $2560; J. H. Covington, $1.000; T. R. Jordon, $100; R. E. Pairo, $100: Mrs. Guy Scott, $50 Mrs. C. A. Herter, $500; Admiral _and Mrs. Cary T. Grason, $2,000; J. W. Carmalt, $250; Wil- iiam King, $100; Miss M. B. Anderson, $150; Mrs' Ross Perry. $250; Mrs. F. Faust, $250; Maf. and Mrs. M. L Blackiy, $150; Charlotte M. Stell- wagen, $200; ‘H. Hamilton, $100; B. Stryker, $100; Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Oden, $100; T. L_ Block, $100; Borkeley Simmons. $100; Hoover Zook, $100; Dr. Mead Moore, $100; H. F. Knapp, $100: Mr. and Mrs. Wil- lam H. Church, $100; Henrletta O. Bard, $100; Howard Etcheson, $250; G. Perry ' Leishear. $100; Dairy and Miss Thompson Weas, $2000 H. C. Sheridan, $1,000; Mrs. ;ax%z;en F. Coonly, $1,000; F. E. White, Mr. and Mrs. Lester C. Wilson, $1,000; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mason (Gunston Hall), $1,000; Anonymous, $1.000; Mrs. Ashton de Peyster, $500: {N-tional Electric Supply Company and Mrs. . C. Graham, $200: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henry Butler, $100; Nannie B. ! Macomb, $100; Mrs. M. Ciagg, $25 Miss Elizabeth D. Long, $100; W. M. Freeny Company, Inc. $100; Leeth | Brothers, $100; Robert A. Clssel, $100; Lester Barr, $1.000; Mr. and Mrs. John N. Harding, $10 $160; A. B. Hayes, $150; E. A. Harri. Baker. $125; Mrs. E. A. g s Mrs. Elizabeth B. Williams, $100; Dr. H. W. Wiley, $100; George W. Webe $100; John Z. Edwards, $1.000; Georg O. Vass, $100; Robert D. Weaver, $20i H. R. Dulany, $100; A. P. Madeira, $100; Mr. and ‘Mrs. Wililam M. Ken nedy, $500; Dr. Thomas L. Rust, $50 Miss Florence M. Harding, $100; Miss Gena R. Harding, $100; Mrs. Fannie J. Barrett, $100; Miss Allene Barrett, $100. Canon Myer, $250; Arthur B. Heaton, $100;Wharton E. Lester, $100; Miss Mary B. Adams, $500; Miss Tomlin, 100; Mrs. Henry Arnold Backu 500; A Friend, $100; Rev. and Mr Atkinson, $250; Roy L. Newhauser, $100; Mrs. B. H. Warder, $5,000; Thomas M. Kearney, $100; Horace | Dulin, $100; William H. Martin, $10 T. C._Dulin, $100; Anton Stepha $100; W. H. Martin, jr., $100; Dem. onet's, Inc., $100; telle, $100; Henry C. Karr, $100; Mrs. James Berry, $100; T. F. Dornin, $100; J. Harry Cunningham, $10 James Berrall, $100; C. Engel’s Son E. Edmonston, $100; Mr: $100, and Cyrus Mantz, AND ONLY 2 DAYS of | tained by the mission, to the thirty- | ficial to place Mr. Young's name on | Sharon | Spencer Gordon, | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRID COMPLETED AFTER St. Thomas' Epixcopal € Edifices in Country, 30 YEARS’ EFFORT reh, 15th street near Dupont Cirele, Special Rites Commemorate 30 Years of Church Work Here| St. Thomas’ Now One of Most Beautiful With Splendid Par- ish Hall--Dr. Smith Rector 21 Years. Today is listed on the church calen- {dar as St. Thomas' day and, coinci- dentally, special services are being held at St. Thomas' Church, 18th and Church streets northwest, to com- memorate the completion of a thirty- year bullding program. The services will conclude tonight with dedication of the extended chancel and parish hall and the honoring of Rev. Dr. C. Ernest Smith upon the completion of twenty-one years of his rectorship. This morning the usual services on the festival of St, Thomas, the apostie and martyr, were held at the churc beginning at 8 o'clock with holy eucha. rist, and at 11 o'clock matin and holy eucharist were observed. Last night before a large audience a motion pic- ture was shown at the parish hall. Dedication Service Tonight. Tonight the dedication will take !place. The ceremonies will begin at 8 p.m. with a procession into the ! church, through the sanctuary into the arish hall. In the great hall benediction, prayers and blessing will be said. Rev. Dr. Smith will then speak on “Culmination of Five Events.” Charles J. Bell of St. Thomas' vestry will lintroduce Rt. Rev. James E. Freeman, | Bishop of the Episcopal diocese, who will address the gathering. Melville Church, warden and member of the vestry, will speak on “History of the | Parish and Two Rectorships.” Other | addresses will be made by Capt. En- {nalls Waggaman and N. Sumner My- | rick. | Corner Stone Lald Thirty Years Ago. | Thirty years ago the corner stone of | St. Thomas' Church was laid by Bishop {Paret, then bishop of the undivided {diocese of Maryland. On June 25, 1899, the first service was held In the new church. Up to that time services in St. { Thomas' parish (founded in 1891) had been held in & temporary chapel, which lafterward served as parish hall until |it was taken down ‘eighteen months lago. | Rev. J. A. Aspinwall, son of a promi- !nent business man of New York city, iwho founded the Panama railroad and lafter whom the city of Aspinwall (now 1 Colon) was named, was then living in | Washington as a retired clergyman, his home being at 17 Dupont Circle. 'Ad- vantage was taken of the opportunity Ito invite Mr. Aspinwall to become the Hfirst rector of the new parish. He ac- jcepted the invitation and until his | resignation in June, 1802, was rector of St. Thomas. Coming of Dr. Smith. In November of the same year the | present rector, Rev. C. Ernest Smith, |DD. D.CL. came from Baltimore, whers for ten years he had been rector of the Church of St. Michael and All Angels, to be the rector of St. Thomas' i parish. | The church, which had been bullt {from the designs of Mr. Theophilus | P. Chandler, a distingulshed archi- itect of Philadelphla, was conceded from the first to be a very beautiful | specimen__of Gothic architecture. {During Mr. Aspinwall's rectorship | three memorials wers given, which !add much beauty to the interior—the | exceedingly handsome reredos, the ! pulpit and the eagle lecturn. When Mr. Aspinwall's resignation took iplace in 1902 there was a_consider- iable debt on the church—$72,500. But this was &ll paid off in ten years, jalong with the interest it had cost the parish to carry it, a total sum iof over $100,000. On St. Thomas' day, December 21, 1912, the church, being then free from debt, was consecrated by Bishop Harding. Since that time there has been a continual succession of beau- tiful gifts, nearly sixty in number. Among these are twenty-two me- morial windows, the graceful angel font near the southwest door (a copy of the famous Thorwaldsen font in Copenhagen _Cathedral), ~the rich quartered oak screen which extends across the full width of the church from the north to the Eouth wall, forming & vestibule at the west end: an exquisitely appealing statue of Christ, the world's Consoler, in one of the quatrefolls of the greot lan- tern tower, the most impressive fea- ture of the church; iron g an1 railing separating entirely the chan- cel from the nave. Panels in Chureh. ver the reredos is the east win- dow,""which ‘depicts Chrlst in ' the highest panel of its central light, en- throned as the Creator of the worll Below this central panel are twei~ others; six of these portray the events of the creation as given in Gonesls; the other six portray thei same events as described in the Bene- dcite. glass, now numbering twenty-two,| are the work of Henry Holiday, R.| A., the acknowledged head of "his! profession. In consequence of all the work being from one hand the result is of a markedly harmonious charac- ter throughout. But, further, each| window has been arranged to fit into a settled plan; in fact, for every Window in the church the design has been already chosen and only awaits the appearance of the domors. Thus nothing has been left to haphazard choice. 3 The chancel, inclosed Wwith gates| and iron grillwork on & stone wall, is worthy of special attention. The sanctuary lamp and great gospel lights have been universally admired, and_likewise its carved oak priests’ stalls, all done by hand. The organ, Just rebuilt by Messrs. Lewis and Hitchcock, was opened by the organ- ist last Wednesday and is Now a very fine instrument. Ot all the window ing St. Thomas pr llglr ‘coast in India is perhaps the most_Interesting. The costumes In that window were taken by Mr. Holl- day from two hrf‘ columns he found in the British Museum, con- taining admirable color reproductions of many paintings in the cave tem- ples, dating backto the first and sec- that represent- ing on the Ma- ond centuries B, C. Singularly enough the artist himself spent several weeks on the abar coast, and while there made a sketch of a Buddhist tope (a mausoleum containing a relic of Buddha), little dreaming that he would ever be painting a window for a church in Washington in which he would represent St. Thomas as stand- ing in front of that tope and preach- inE to the natives gathered around m, Illustrate History. In each of the sixteen windo around the lower part of the church is a single figure, which owes its place in the series as illustrating an €ra or event in the long and glorious history of the Angelican Church. The series begins with Joseph of Arima. thea, the traditional founder of the Church in Britaln, and ends wi Blshop Seabury, the first bishop to exercise Episcopal functions on Amer- fcan soil. Thus the whol eries i meant to teach the lesson of the con- tinuous life of our church from the firsg century until now. The saints commemorated, together with the mention of the services they render or the parts they filled, are as follows: 8t. Joseph of Arimatheau, to commemorate the traditional planting of the gospel in Britain, A.D. 38; St. Alban, Britain's proto-mgrtyr, mar- s | tyred 'at Verulam on the site of St. Alban's Abbey A.D. 315; St. Patrick, the son of a British clergyman, who in the fifth century founded the Irish church; St. Columba, apostolic mis- sionary to’ Caledonia’ and founder of Iona, ‘who died Ascension day, 597; Queen Bertha, who, being a Chris! tian, moved King_Kthelbert to per- mit Augustine. Rome's firs mis- slonary to Britain, April, 597, to preach the Gospel of Christ to the AY, D%CEMBER 2 “KNEW I'D NEVER RAISE HIM! IS PLAINT AFTER SON, 78, DIES “I knew I'd never be able to raise | that boy” moaned Carrie Thompson, {104 vears old, when she was taken to | Emergency Hospital yesterday after- {noon, after having been found at her |home prostrated at the death of her “boy” Mildridge, seventy-eight, Carrie was discovered by a neigh- | bor scated on a chair in the kitchen jof her home, 1128 Connors court |northwest. She was in such an en- | feebled condition that it was deemed | | #dvisuble to take her to the hospital. | _Twenty-four hours before Mildridge |PRESIDENT FIGHTS BACK AT SENATE | i | !hll well satisfled with the culmina- tion of thelr Interview, and although both declined to make any reference 1to what the President told them, they | cach sald the interview was entirely |Batisfactory and that they felt sure that the matter would work to the | #atisfaction of all concerned within Ia short time. Nelther of these sen- Illorn would venture an opinion as to the President's reasons, nor could |they offer any idea regarding the dent’'s future ocourse. The con- s of opinion is that the Presi- dent was not playing politics, nor will he show by any future action any resentment for the rejection of | Chairman Farley. In this connection the President is known to have been advised by any number of republican senators and others that there was considerable n to Mr. Farley and that he ly would be turned down by e nate because of the technicality regarding the geographical apportion- ment provided by law for the selec- tion of the members of the Shipping Board. Did Not Take It Serfously, It is known further that several days ago when the matter of this geo- graphical technicality was brought to his attention President Coolidge held that if the Senate saw fit to permit the nomination of Albert D. Lasker, who lived in the great lakes region, while T. V. O'Connor already was on the board from that district, he could not understand why, after establish- ing this precedent, 4 technical viola- tion of the law should be used in the case of Mr. Farley, who, like Mr. Lasker I8 a resident of Chicago. It ie thought by those who saw the President today that during the holi- days he will give considerable study to the future personnel of the Ship- ping Board, and that shortly after the Senate reconvenes he will be ready to resubmit the nominations of Mr. Haney and Mr. Thompson, and wili probably be in a position to make a Qecision as to the selection of a suc- cessor to Chairman Farley. In fol- lowing out strictly the geographical feature of the law, it is thought that the President will cast about for a W chairman somewhere in the ¥ t vicinity of Missourl or Io: had heen found dead seated where the mother was found yesterday The mother, suffering from senility told how her Mildridge had been in the habit of running away from her and of the trouble he had glven her. | She loved him just the same, she said, and found comfort from the fact that it was the Lord's will that he should | be_taken, , Mildridge had not been in the best of health the past two or three years, it is stated, and his aged mother had done her best to care for him. Her chief trouble, she explained, was in keeping him in the house. It was said at the hospital today that the aged woman probably will be able to turn home in a d: or tw PLANSTOAVEND GAS TAX NEASURE Zihiman Would Exempt All Cars Under $1,000—Wwill Fight Blanton. | S When the House District coxn m! tee holds its special meeting Jan- uary 4 for further consideration of the gasoline tax auto reclproclty TELLS OF “MAKING” OIL STOCK MARKET Livermore Gives Senators Intimate Details on Wall Street. Jesse L. Livermore, New York stock broker, today gave the Senate public lands committee some intimate details of operations on Wall street and, Inci- dentally, upset popular bellef as to a broker's commission. Appearing as & witness In the inquiry into the leasing of naval oil reserve: Livermore described the formation i October, 1922, of a group to “make & market"* for the stock of the Mamm Oil_Company, the subsidiary of Harr F. Sinclair, which was organized to op- erate Teapot Dome Reserve No. 3. As a result of an advertising campaign, the witness sald, public subscriptions twere received for 151,000 shares at $40 a share, and 109,000 shares were allotted. Purchase of Shares. These shares subsequently were re- urchased by the syndicate Interested n the issue at prices ranging from $40 to $56.50. On the entire deal, Livermore said, involving sale and re- | purchase of more than $10,000,000 worth of stock, his personal return was $9,916. “Why did you have to repurchase?" asked Senator Walsh, democrat, Mon- tana. To furnish a stable market" was the reply. “That was why I was re- tained. Many of the subscriptions received, the witness explained, were from “professionals,” who were certain to let the stock go at the first oppor- tunity to obtain a price higher than that of Issue. Unless there was a buying agency to take these offerings, he said, the public would have no confidence in the issue. Much of Mr. Livermore's testimony covered the same ground as in the Senate inves- tigation last spring into ofl pric ihxll, Representative Fred N. Zihim, | of Maryland, who has had this Jeg: |1ation in charge, will be [to offer an amendment to sonal property tax a now h prepar. the per endment bill Zihlman | stands In | Repr nta | preparea wi compromise which would relleve per sons owning utomobiles up to tho alue of $1,000, which Is the exemption allowed on hold furniture in existing law. Such a compromise was suggested in the meeting of the Houst District committes vesterday, when several of the leading advocates of a per- sonal property tax in addition to the cent gasoline tax expressed them- iselvest as disposed to fay a compromise. ey | | WIIl Tax Wenlthy, | Representative that this would e will endment as an s now house- sald today care of about b automobile owners . while imposing a tax owners of expensive cars members of the coi was their intent to to pay a personal B sentative Zihi- upon the District arding the per tax and how the pro- ption of $1.000, the same {as on household furniture, would af- {fect D ict automobile owners. { Representative Zihlman will alsa be prepared to cor the threat |made by Represent Blanton, crat, of iat he woul kill the bill ul!ngul).n;u: Was a “tax lue measure” over which District committes ad no rig) sdiction. Repre= | sentative i ter confcrence { with severa best parlia- | mentarians in Congress today pol out that Hindes 17 lv il jthat “the rule he committes for the District of Columbia jurisdice tion of subjects relating ‘to the Disa trict of Colum other than appros pris Rey property ta nan today called ditor for figure sonal prope | posea "exe | Zihlman also quotes from Hindes' precedents to show that “the subject of tax sales and taxes in the District of Columbia is within the jurisdiction of the committee on the District of Columbla” and is pre= pared to show three or four cases in which on was uphel Open Evening: Until heathen people of Kent; St. Augus- tine, to commemorate his landing on the southeastern coast of England, (i A.D. 597 St. Augustine, leader of an | Italian mission to the English in the sixth century was consecrated to the episcopal office in France; St. Aidan, a missionary from Iona to the Eng- lish In Northumbria, and first bishop of Lindisfarne, who died 651 A.D.; St. Hilda, who as foundress and abbess of Whitby is numbered among the buflders of the English Church. Venerable Bede, whose Historla Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum made him the historian of the English peo- ple, a shining example of monastic plety, died 735 A.D; St Swithun, bishop of Winchester, A.D. 836-862, who bore a great part in inducing King Etheiwulf to aseign to the Church _perpetual donation of tithes: John Wycliffe, to commemorate the “Morning Star of the Reformation,” who gave the English people the Bible In their own tongue; Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, Who in the making of the Charta, June 15, 1215 A.D.. was the leader ‘of the English people; Arch- bishop Cranmer, chief agent In the reformation, Archbishop of Canter- bury, 1533-1556, and martyred by the Papal power: Willlam _Laud, Arch- bishop of Canterbury, 1633-1645, mar- tyred by the Puritan power when, for a brief period, it ruled in England; Queen Anne, & benefactress of the Church of England and of the church in this part of America; Bishop Sea- bury, consecrated at Aberdeen, Scot. land, November 14, 1784, Bishop of Connecticut, first bishop of the Ameri- can church. New Parish Hall. ‘Within the last eighteen months the church has built one of the most commodious and convenient parish halls to be found in the country. It is remarkably well adapted to serve its purposes®as a place for meetings and for Sunday school and other teachings; also for that social work which plays such a large and influen- tial part in the work of a modern arish, At the same time that the all was being built the chancel of the church was being extended east- ward by nine feet. These improve. ments have cost the parish over $80,- 000. But their value to the parish cannot be reckoned in money. Wheth- er one enters the church and notes the extremely churchly character of its east end, or enters the parish hall and walks through its various rooms, there is just this one impression left upon the mind: Here i{s & church and parish hall complete in every partic- ular. Added to this, nine years ago there was bullt a rectory on New Hampshire avenue not far from the church. Rectories are sometimes too large and sometimes too small for the familles of different rectors, but this cre seems to have no disad- vantase of any kiid attaching to it. The dedication of the parish hall and extended chancel synchronizes with the completion of ~twenty-one All the windows of storied|years of the rectorship of Dr. C, Er- | nest Smith. During that time there have been 463 baptisms, 662 confirma- tlons, 207 marriages, 385 burials and $639,524.96 total receipts. The whole appropriately will take place on the patronal festival of the church—on the feast of St. Thomas, apostle and martyr. _ KHAKI IS BANNED. Mounted Policemen Ordered to Don Blue Uniforms on May 1. The Commissioners today ordered policemen on motor cycles and horses to discard thelr khakl suits and don uniforms of blue on May 1. The purpose of the order, Com- missioner Oyster explained, is to have all members of the force garbed alik Maj. Sullivan told the Com- missioners it has been found that blue cloth uniforms are more serv- iceable and appearance drab, than the khakl and olive —_— If a man is not vain he is likely to suffer from the vanities of othera. present & much neater SX Aok R Pevete e | . EBONY, $1,150 Small Grand MAHOGANYY CASE, $1,250 Also Our O. J. De Moll & Co. BABY GRAND | ~Tacss45 Either of the above will make a most desirable and magnificent XMAS PRESENT SPECIAL NOTICE To CASH BUYERS: We will consider 60 days as cash on any Victrola, Piano or Player-Piano. To INSTALLMENT BUYERS: We will accept a small first payment on ;‘H’I; Vlwtroh. Piano or Player-Piano, and regular Monthly Payments to start ‘eb. lst. e EMMONS S “SPECIALISTS IN PIANOLAS AND REPRODUCING PIANOS® 0] DEMOLL K DEMoLL PiANO Washington's AEOLIAN HALL ~ Tivelfth and G Streets Steinway and Weber Duo-Art Pianolas—V ictrolas—Aeolian Vocalions =