Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1923, Page 18

18 JEWISH EDUCATIO OCCUPIES SESSION Third Day of Chautaugua Society Meeting Opened by Miss Pashelles. Further discussion of Jewish educa- thonal marked the opening sessions of the third day of the thir- ty-second annual conference of the Jewish Chautauqua Socfety, holding its meetings here, December 23 to December 27. Rabbi William Rosenau of Balti- more presided at this morning's meet- ing at the Washington Hotel, the head- arters of the convention. Miss Car- matters T'ashelles opened the séssion with | for | demonstration of Lesson shers in Third-grade Work." as her subject “Deborah, ted ansas City, M disct een of sion was aper by Rabbi Tedesche. Sidney he of T on “Shall cparate Sub- which was Ettelson of tabbi Haven, Conn., read a pap Ethics Be Taught as a frct? the discussion led by Rabbi Harry Philadelphia This afternoon group conferences on third-grade work and ethics took place, followed by reports of the Yarious group ehairmen. Tonight the local joint Jewish women's organizations Will tender a banguet at the Washington Hotel Tonor of the visitors and delegates 10 the conference Take Sightseeing Tour. A sightseeing tour of the city by the delegates took up most of the aft- and was f of w. on yesterday the evening by primary and sehiool work brew Te The 1 lowed in group conferences on second grade Sunday at the Wa m He- ser study of the individual psychology of the child in order suc- cessfully to convey to him the lesson sought to be taught. was urged at the meeting, at which Mrs. Harry Rose- water of Claveland presided over the discussion of prim grade work, and Miss Anne Fineman of Pittsburgh cad in the discussion of sccond-grade Tomorrow in the auditorium at the Washingten Hotel a number of papers will be read dealing with Jewish edu- cational {deals and will be followed by a general discussion. Society Officers. officers of the = ety are 1. Elk honorary president; K. s president: Rabbi Nathan, president; Emil treasurd Dy Ienry Berko- neello: Dr. William Rose- chancellor; Dr. Harry W. vice chancellor: Dr. Louis I. Mann. vice chancellor: Jeannette Miriam Goldberg, tury Board of directors—Leon L. Berko- wit Philadelph Joseph Caplan, Philadelphia; Arthur A Fleisher, Philadelphia; Walter Fox, Philadel- phi Dr. Jacob oldbaum, Phila. delphia; Julius Goldenberg, W shing- ton, D. C.; Joseph J. Greenberg, Phij- adelphia; Rabbi David LefKowitz, Dallas, Tex.; David J. Loeb, Phil delphia; Os Philadelphi Mrs, Tax Philadelphia; Emil Mayer, Frank J. Ru- henstein, Abram 1on, The Abram \rthur Marvin Selig, wit nau. vice Ettelson, n Vil adelphiu; Clevelang, BRAZIL MINERALS VAST. Report Soon Due of Wide, Unde- | veloped Belt. CHICAGO, December port to be mado by L rington. curator of Iield Museum of concerning the rich and relatively unexplored mineral belt of Brazil, will be laden with far-reaching com- ercial possibllities, Dr. H. W. Nichols, oclate curator, said last night. I'ha Brazillan {ron deposits alone, which are of high grade, are among the most extensive in the world, whereas the deposits France and Ger- many have been in controversy over we wouldn't look at, Dr. Nichols said. The time ripe for using the Brazillan iron ] arrington’s arrival at New York after two vears in Brazil was announced Jast night. W the first tidings the muse ceived that he had obtained and bl diamonds. 5.—The Oliver C. geology atural Histor: o Far- for the the ! New | COURT FINES EDITOR FOR GIVING COST OF EGG Berlin Journalist Violates Law by Printing Higher Than Official Figure. iated Press. BERLIN, December 25.—Market re- porting is a - dangerous calling in these days of high llving costs in Berlin. Erich Dombrowski. the editor on the Berlin Tageblatt, who is held responsible by the courts for every- thing published in that paper, was charged recently with “attempting to ralse prices artificlally.” The case resented against him was that the ageblatt quoted eggs at 150 billion marks ecach, when the officlal price fixed by the government was 20 bil- lion marks less. Dombrowski testified that he and his representatives had tried to buy eggs at 130 billion marks, but that dealers_would not sell them for less than 150 billions each. Consequently, in their opinion, that was the market i P'the court was inexorable. It held that since the government fixed the price of an egg at 130 billion marke ! that was the price, and the publica- tion of a higher price was a crime ainst the government for which the | sr was fined 30 billion marks By the Ass: 'SPIRIT OF OLD DAYS OVERHANGS JALAPA Capital of Mexican State Barely Tinted by Progress of 20th Century. . capital of the Mexican state 1 Cruz, which was one of the first towns to fall to the insurrection- lists in Mexico's newest revolution, is a cul-de which old Spanish and Indian customs and the flavors of past centuries linger to a greater extent than in most of the other cities of Mexic says a bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the National Geographic Society. “There the ‘milk wagon' is a jar laden mule, lovers nightly ‘play the bear' be- fore their sweethearts' barred windows, and with each booming of the hour by the cathedral bells, watchmen sound their whistles and call out the tidings of the night “Only in the past few years,” contin- ues the bulletin, “has there been added a dash of twentieth century apparatus and twentieth century ways, and as yet those traces of modernism serve only to accentuate Jalapa's quaintness as the few graine of salt that an expert chef scatters bring. out the flavor of a cus- tard. S Human Burden Bearers. | “The railroad bound for Mexico City pas: Jalapa by on a lower level. Spread out and upward on its hiMsides, the old city has gone on its ancient way little disturbed by the trai that roil by several times each day Some of the freight that goes up to the city from the station is carried on mule drawn tramears, but most of it is borne on parallel poles, each end of the de- vice serving ds shafts between which plod solemn mules. And competing with the mules is an even more ancient | method of freight transfer, that of the | cargador. Your trumk, if you stop off {at Jalapa, will probably be taken to | your hotel balanced on the sturdy back | of one of these human burden bearers, |u.e weight held forward by his broad head strap. “As in_modern cit tate there are ew horse-drawn !trucks in Jalapa. But while horse- {drawn vehicles are becoming passe in Yankeeland. their age has never even been reached in Jalapa. All day one hears the musical tinkle of mule bells as trains of the animals pass along the streets laden with sacks of coffee and sugar from nearby plan- tations, cans of milk from small farms. bags of charcoal from plts in the hills or fearsome collections of native pottery for the market. The city is in the edge of a rich planta- ton country and its big warehouses fairly bulge with coffee and sugar as- sembled there before it is sent to Vera Cruz, seventy-five miles away across the ‘hot country’ for shipment abroad. { s of the United ! Mule Yard Forums. “The prominence of the mule in | Jalapa gi rise to one of its most characteristic features. Scattered over the town are big open courts formed of narrow roofed stalls where are quartered alike mules and muleteers, DEER LINE HIGHWAYS. Fed From Motor Cars by Children in California. SAN FRANCISCO, December 25.— Wild deer from the foothills above the Santa Clara valley have descended to safe pastures adjucent to Palo Alto and Los Altos, about forty-five miles from San Franeisco, and have become tame that they trot nonchalantly wlong highway: Even terrifying motor cars fail to the arrivals scamper into the . _In several instances children fed them from their hands. Shooting is prohibited in the imme- diate vicinity. WARMTH WAKES SNAKES. Hibernation Disturbed by Mild Winter, Virginia Report. WINCHESTER, Va. "The mild weather has brought snakes out of their winter dens. John Rod- =ers of Silver Grove can vouch for it. odgers was awakened a few nights ago by a commotion in his chicken coop and_ his first thought was of burglars. Seizing his shotgun and lantern, he started to investigate and found that the burglar was a blacksnake of enormous size, which already had killed two young chick- ens and apparently was squeezing a hen to death. Rodgers killed the #nake with a club. When the hen recovered her breath she started squawking. Too Much Style. From Life. Yon Yonson of the lumber camp returned only two days after leavin, “or an Intended visit of a week with relatives. The camp cook, surprised, exclaimed: “Back so soon? Didn't the folks use you right? “Oh, folks ban gude.” replied Yon, “but dey put on too much style: Dey even eat pie with knife ihstead dere hand December 25.— Portland Hotel Dining Room 14th and Thomas Circle Luncheon & Ya carte, 1 to 2:30 PM, Dinner 5:30 t0.8 P.M. Table d’ hote.. $1.00 Music by Sol Minster Typewriters Lowest Rental Rates General Typewriter Co. 3 Stores 1423 F St. N.W.—616 14th St. N.W, while against the walls are piled great tiers of pack-saddlex. These places, reminiscent of the wagon yards of our old west, are Jalapa's forums and coffee shops—the Fultah Fisher's boarding houses for her dry land mariners. Fires glow in_the courts in the evenings and about them the mule drivers loaf and joke and curse, swap varns, drink mescal and settle to their liking the affairs of their turbulent republic. “To many Mexlcans Jalapa is ‘the city of eaves. Its one climatic curse is the ‘chipi-chipi,’ a soggy, dripping fog like those of ®cotland at their worst, that settles down on the town during the rainy season and blots out the sky for days at a time. Pious and impious allke mumble prayers on such occasions: ‘Holy virgin, let the sun shine again' Because of these drizzling fogs the eaves of the houses are extended over the narrow side- walks. Pedestrians, like the citizens of medieval London, hug the walls, and the water drips harmlessly into the streets and trickles off in a single gutter down the middle of the road- way. The queer name given to these dense fogs is believed to be an effort of the Indians—and a good one—at onomatapoela, the words simulating the continual half-gurgling, half- chirping sound of water running from the eaves. Law of the Pot Shot. “In Jalapa live old Spanish ilies whose history there runs back almost to the days of Cortez, Some have palatial city homes and also wide- spreading haciendas and commodious country houses not far away. In the early days much dependence was placed on ‘miradores’ tower-like lookouts on both town and country houses, between which signals could be exchanged. Only a few ‘miradores’ linger on old Jalapa houses, but the conditions that made them necessary have not altogether passed. They were most useful in the days when Jalapa was a post station on the old highway—named 1llke moet other THE EVEN NG_STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1923. e R S ——N———————S BIOLOGISTS 10 USE (Trail of Person “Who Knows” Elusive in.- War Department CANAL ZONE ISLAND Gov. Morrow Sets Apart Six Square Miles in Gatun Lake for Research. Gov. Jay J. Morrow of the Panama Canal Zone has set aside in perpetuity the Barro Colorado island in Gatun lake as @ forest reservation to be used gs & biological station. The station is to be under the di- rection of a committee of the Insti- tute of Research in Tropical America, an organization initiated by the Na- tional Research Council. The institute is supported by the museums and colleges of America, which are to give annual donations for its maintemance. " < This island is said to be a beautiful area of virgin, troplcal forest, six square miles in .extent, on which buildings are soon to be started for the sclentific handling of biological research work. The beginning of this tropical biologlcal work is to be made earl: in the coming year by Dj James Barbour of the Museum of Compara- tive Zoology, aided by Dr. Edward Wigglesworth and Mr. W. §. Brooks of ‘the Boston Museum of Natural History, who are to visit the Canal Zone, Cuba and Central America with the objective point of beginning the organization work of this biological station on Barro island in Gatun lake. Dr. Barbour, who is to be engaged in the pioneer work in Panama for this station, hopes to have at least tempora living quarters erected and a water supply established and tralls cut through the island jungles, o that naturalists may have reason- able accommodations when they visit the stat next summer. SOUTH SEA FERTILE FIELD FOR SCIENTIST Pan-Pacific Congresses Have Been Means of Stimulating Great Interest in Research. The two pan-Pacific science con- gresses, which have been held, one at Homolulu in 1920, and the other In Australia during the past sum- mer. brought to the front the un- explored scientific wealth in the far south Pacific. In recent vears the committee on Paclfic investigations of the nattonal research council has emphasized the mportance of this practically lim- tless fleld of scientific endeavor, and has redoubled its efforts to encourage research undertaking in the Pacific area, especially of problems which are peculiar to that region. The committes of the council for this work on the Pacific coast, which was begun a number of years agc for concerted study of the scien problems of the Pacific area, was first suggested by the National Academy of Science in the organiza- tlon of a committee to direct at- tention to the importance of de- veloping scientific work in the coun- tries within and bordering upon the Pacifio ocean, in view of the im- portance of 'developing the work there and the {mportant contribu- tlon to scientific knowledge which would eome from such studies. Mexican roads, that City. “Highwaymen infested the couniry around Jalapa to attack the coaches and mule trains, and often, growing more bold, raided neighboring haclendas and even'the town itself. A law that recalls strikingly those atirring times still exists on the statute books—a rule that an American might well call ‘the law of the pot shot.' By it a citizen is privileged—it almost becomes his duty—to shoot on general principles at any horseman leaving the city at gallop. ‘One American who has cast his lot in Jalapa has brought to the city most of its modern trimmings. But he has worked slowly lest in mingling the twentieth century with the sixteenth he bring about a sort of social and ‘eco- nomic indigestion. Twenty vears ago he built an electric light and power Two years ago he introduced busses and gave most of the Jalapenos their first sight of an auto- mobile. Then, after observing the ways of Main street's booster clubs, he con- structed an_amphitheater for civic cele. brations. built for Jalapa a full-fledged | scenic driveway and organized a mer- | chants' assoclation. “But fete days pass, automobiles pall, especially on Jalapa's bumpy cob- bled streets, and the ‘chipi-chipi’ blots out even the ‘road of the clouds.’ At best the things of the twentieth cen- tury merely graze the edge of Jalapa's consclousness. Beneath, the Jalapenos live happily in the atmosphere of the centuries that are gone.’ ‘El Camino Real'— led from Vera Cruz to Mexico _mess, we value still more the cordial’ relations that have Christmas existed between us. Dew 1 Why the rewrite man failed to obtain a story from the War Department the other day: “Give me the Quartermaster Gen- eral's office,” he said when the pearly voiced operator answered her board signal with “War and Navr." “The line's busy, will you wait?” The rewrite man would wait. Tt was 10 o'clock. Several minutes later sh turned to the line with the news can have them now.” The rewrite man made known his re- queat for a story along a certain line (nothing tremendously important by the way) after which lengthy recita- tion he was referred to Mr. Somebody, who is in charge of that particular de- partment. Geta new connection. The connections were switched and after_going over the entire story again. Mr. Somebody regretted that he didn’t know about that certain thing although it was in his department, but he was sure Mr. Nobody could tell us, after which was requested the second trans- {"i{r, Nobody happened to be out, but his first assistant. after hearing th third oration thought he wouldn't know what was wanted even if he happencd to be in, but he would very gla transfer the call to Branch blah-biah, which he did. A very nice young woman, at least gladly | one with a voung voice, anaswered Branch blah-biah and said, after being told the story that Captain Anybody down in the Munitions building would be the one to give us all the facts as she knew for a certainty he was in active charge. Again Is Tranaferred. “Will you kindly have me transfer- and like her predecessors, she was willing and polite. The Captain's phone answered. Tt was now 10:25. The caller was pretty tired, but started in anew to tell the story. hy the Captain is on leave and won't be back until the firat of January, but Major—"" crack, crash, the call was disconnected. We didn't know the num- ber we were talking to. There was only one way of finding out and that was to_call the Quartermaster Gen- eral's office and go on down the line. We had reached the extremity of dis- tress when the city editor said “get on” something else. Extraordinary Ratiocination. The Boston Transcript credits this item to an English paper: “A motor car plunged into the Thames at Richmond last Sunday It is thought that the driv failed 10 keep to the main | night | Mrs, ! road.’ MEMBER BET ! honey. who with Henry i the real sponsor of the proposed th that the Minnesota In Democratic been marked 1 wide convention J to reorganize the party Bell of Detroit, Minn., organize the state for Wi Adoo, hit u snag when well, member of the der 1l committee and pri money THIRD-PARTY MOVE DEALT HEAVY BLOW Minnesota Members Vote Against Holding of Farmer-Labor Convention. a call nuar Special Dispaich to The Sta ST. PAUL, Minn., December straws show the direction the | $aid. farmer-labor party’s political wind, | avers there will be no national convention | of that party in St. Paul on May 30, | A body blow has been dealt the pro- posed convention ‘In Minnesota and other blows of a similar nature may be expected soon after the holidays, Thig blow was the adoption of & reso- luion by the farmer-labor party of the third congressional district disapprov- ing the proposed May 30 national con vention. A bitter fight the olution. tion from Minnesota “McAdoo's whole said, —1r of man deference to Wall street of and the B in y new orgay national vent i state ol H ign ev in the will county. tion polities, but wil farmer-labor vic tion next year. rters fo opened_in nary 1 for d | pectea arch ecates for xt the preceded adoption of L taption o week from The national conven- defended by William Ma- Teigan, secre- Magnus Johnson. ix d ounced by rairman of of the was tary to Senator It was de Paul, “committ national party red A. Pike of St the state central party in Minnesota, The farmer-labor party in sota would b lled upon to E arge part of the ex < of the pa- convention d Pike believes | 3 YORK direct freight service from Colombo to Boxton and ginning February 20, nounced by the Minne- h Cunard 'ER BUSINESS BUREATU Formal is needed circles the w Rob tempting to Hiam G. Me 4 No- dent of the ation League of Minnesota, de- ced McAdoo's dryness. Nowell is expected to be for Under- | wood and likely will put up a strong battle for an uninstructed delegation record.” “shows him to be on the side of who would keep on business peculiar erator who may found advocating his nomination.” Republicans met here F the Volunteer Republican Club | “This | dabble 1o pre- sta not 1t ctory . Paul soon | 3 announce- | it uf the opening of the campaign President Cal. regulating with brand ¢ 1o in the Coolidge cam- ol President’s personal cam _U. S.-TO-INDIA LINE OPENED. December 25.—A been K has | for a state- | 19 in St. Paul | Nowell due now be new atta and New York an- in GERMAN SAYS STEAM MADE MOON’S CRATERS | From the Kansas City star The old problem of how the maa in the moon got his funny face has been solved, says Prof. G. Dahmer of Ber |lin. Too ‘much blowing off steam ruined his comple: the scientist declares as the res:it of experiments which he believe. explain the great sl and curious form of the lunar “volcanoes.” Earlier volcanic theories as to their origin met with the objection that the craters weré utterly unlike thoss produced by volcanic action on the earth. A theory that they were dur {to the impact of Rreat metenrites found yome support from experiment« which ‘showed similar craters migh be caused in pasty material by throw ing hard masses into it. but t failed to unt for the regy | shape of thie craters. Since they ar. | nearly circular all meteorites whic might have caused them must ha. hit head-on, a most improbable ever Dr. Dahmer asserts that the crater | were caused by impact, but that t force was directed from within an was probably that of steam through the then pasty crust at | mendous pressure. This “steam jr | theory accounts for the central ¢o of many of the craters, the cireuls | shape. and the distant crater w buiflt up by the wave due to the i pact of the steam on the soft crus The shape of the craters is stated t vary according to the toughness « the crust at the time the explosion ! happened on, of or- in the ex H. foree be- S. KANN SONS Co. Telephone Main 7200 “THE ER" Penna. A BRUSY COR e., 8th & D Streets ale 500 Exceptional Dresses Offered at an Absurdly Low Price Because this sale was planned several weeks in ad- vance, and we secured from the makers very gratifying price concessions, the advantages of which we pass on to you. One of the remarkable points of the sale is the won- derful"variety of styles offered, the high quality of the materials, and of workmanship also. —If you have a dress need in the near future you will save money by purchasing in this sale Daytime /N =X Materials —Canton Crepe —Satins —Sain Crepes —Velvets —Poiret Twills —W ool Jerseys ~—Vella Vella —Taffetas Silks —Georgette Crepes —Moire Silks Afternoon Dresses The Styles brown and black Evening Dresses Navy blue, ) also evening shades in rose, tur- quoise, gold, jade, French blue and orchid. Sizes For Misses and Women. The styles include tailored - dresses, panels, pleats and drapes. tifully trimmed with beads, lace, embroidery, buttons, fancy buckles. We have added to the sale lot one rack of higher-priced dresses from stock. Kann’s—Second Floor. Many are beau-