Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1924, Page 17

CITES B SAVING N POWER PROLEET Senator Norris Declares Electricity Charges Could “The expenditure of $11,000,000 for truction of the proposed alls plant- under the the wholesale in two. would bring a power v plan would cut price of electric power sale of the electricity return of 4 per cont, keep the plant | v and, if would in repair annualty set save 000 tons of coal sinking fund de, off the entire origl Senator ther of the Great Lill, in an addre: . ) the Coune Assd cd fa- Lefore the mem- ticut Avenue Cit- ition last night at All Church, Conuecticut avenue cdral avenue Id require no expert to 'r is being wasted He told of The | vas | Falls power plant | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. -C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, THE THRILL THAT COMES ONCE IN A LIFETIME, House Member Dead | B. & 0. FILES BREF | ON PAPER RATES l : . Railroad Answers Contention 1 ¢ i of Washington and Balti- more Publishers. DERIVE A G Ou™ OF \'T. s AN AW HAVE' % brought out at a hearing be- | fore an luterstate Commerce Com- mission examiner on the re 4bunnlnlo-i I ness of rates on newsprint paper from | wmiil points to Washington @0 not| show that the Washington complain- I, Tants have been unduly prejudiced by . maintenance of lower rates to Balti- more, attorneys for the Baltimore and Ohio railroad contended in a brief | filed today with the commission. 1 The rallroad’s brief asks that the | proceeding be discontinued and the mplaint of more than a dozen news- Washington and It also recom- Harais SEwing REPRESENTATIVE H. G. DUPRE. |paper publishers in ! Baltimore dismissi | | | DUPRE SUCCUMBS 'mends that no for alleged e i movement nmission. sive charge ot nuwsprint be This brief w . Webber and Ja s of reparation on the nade by s filed nes OM ,MES, RADIO 1S ALL RIGHT FOR CHILDREN | SUPPOSE , THEY SEEMTO REAT DEAL OF AMUSEMENT AS FAR AS I'M CONCERMED FUL BoRE. BY THE WAY, YoU SEEN THAT MOVIE — | TRIEO To SIT THRouU OTHER. MIGHT ArMD — ME THE CONTINUITY WAS ABSOTIVELY | SOMETIMES THIMK | WILL NEVER WASTE AMOTHER EVEMING AT THE MOVIES . | SUPPASE '™ DIFFERENT. FRoM THE AVERAGE RUN OF MEN. GIVE ME MY PIPE AMD MY FAITHFUL Do& AND LET ME STROLL th GoD'S GREAT OUTDOORS T ALL | CARE For..l'M . 1924, oy e E R RRRRRREERERREREEEEEENE=——SS—S———————— —By WEBSTER. ISCHOOL BOARD IN QUIET SITTING DISPOSES OF IMMENSE ROUTINE No Indication of Discord Manifest Throughout M Peace and harmony marked the | proceedings of the board of education | yesterday afternoon—a sharp con- trast to the stormy sessions of the last month. As a gesult -an .immense amount of detailes routine business was transacted. Throughout the protracted sesslon there was not the slightest indica- | tion of discord amons the board per- sonnel. Some of the members even appeared amused at the peace and | tranquility. . The board, however, heard an echo of its previous dis cordant meeting when Sccretary Har- ry O. Hine_read a resolution adopt- ed by the Northwest Suburban Citi- | zens” Association deploring the un- harmonious actjon. This prompted President-James T. Lloyd to remark: “We ought to SoAKED BY SATANT GH ‘A COUPLE OF REEL S THE GoOs! iTwas AwFuL! ‘AMATEURISH! 2 AT's’ PECULIAR | SUPPDSE indorse that without A, | Hall, teacher, from cl Among Bpard Personnel eeting—Psychological Tests Bring Protests From Parents. from class 1, Franklin-Thomson School, to class 3, Abbot-Twining chool; M. E. Lowe, janitor, from Bradley School, to Park View School; W. Burleigh, teacher, music de- tment, from class 1 to class . E. Boyd, teacher, Randall Junior High School, from class 4 to class 5; P. L. Robinson, teacher, manua) training department, from’ class o class 4; 1 ith from stenog- rapher, - supervisors, 1o teacher, clas Shaw Junior High chool; E. . Murray, teacher, Mo chool, from clas: to clase 4; L. V. H 3, Cleveland chool, to class 4, Shaw Junior High and R L. Kemp, teacher, from class 1. Randall Junior High School, to . class 6A. Miner Normal School. Transfers—M. A. Robey, teacher. class 5, to teacher, class 5, Columbi Junior ' High School; R. "A. Booth, teacher, class 3, Domestic Art, to reference.” Work Is Facilitated. Disposition of routine business | matters was facilitated by referring { virtually everything to the newly Morse School; Ruth McKelway, teach- er, class 2, from Plerce-Webb School to’ Gage School; J. C. Fisher, teacher, Emery-Eckington School, from grade 3 to grade 4; A. N. Thrasher. teac class 4, from M arland Junior High unsel for the Baltimore Years ago fo Dossibilitic s many opposed use they did not un- . and som: in the last ong, accord- letter from to the com- Great be left out of the War timates. Fy Se vton D, approved ad a cha to Senator Nor mittee asking npropriatio tinent of War at first Suddenly disappr plan, of mind alt I consumer, reduce it some. ts would be cut turn reducing ould er e Senator Norris stressed creased use of electri That would come about in the redue- tion of the cost of electricity. He 10ld the association that he sent an neer to Canada to inv e al hume there that was 1 ted at Niag i jlie, in New Or - . trie toaster and clec- irie fans even in the kitchen, and the entire electric _bills for the year amounted to § “Instead of beauty of the ereated (wo surrou the natural Potomac., there will be beautiful lukes, where s could be made beautiful * Senator Norris point- < parliamen ociation adopted a resolution dent Coolidge, in the S not renominate strict of Colum to consider the names o Baker and Lllwood L. After a lengt Morgan, chairman of school committee, chool situation here as 2 pointed to the John on School as already overcrowded, ith 1,900 new houses and apart- wents being built in the immediate locality, which means a school popu- Jation increase of over 3,000. It ~o pointed out that the iB grade of John Eaton School had only thir- by books for forty-iwo aightening and widening of v road also wis asked Removal of the rxwitch at Portel onneeticut avenue to another tion Lecause of the develop- of traffic at that point was ad- vocated. The organization will urge Congress pa the pending “alls power plant bill. STRAND MUSICIAN DIES. William Soper Recently Operated on for Appendicitis. William Sope old. for many vears drummer in Strand Orch and well known as an in Washing- February 1 append that Great University | following held Saturday at his late residence, 17th street southeast, and burial w: in Glenwood cemetery S Ho s survived by a widow, Mr: Minnie Soper; a five-year-old so: his mother, Mrs. Ella Soper of 104 00 wenty | ation of the | opposed it for | ! [ night shortly after 9 o the | Difference in Ratex. \'> With respect to newsprint paper moving from New Ingland points to | Washington & altimore the rate | Representative, in Eighth s “wotimecon snoutd cxceed the | EY by not s than 6 Term, Was Dean of Louisi- hundred pounds, the ana Delegation. With regard to Representative Henry Garland Du- REF HLNESS ate cents one attorne per s contend. riginating i i i in northern New % ana | { the difference in rute should be not less than 5 cents per one hundred pounds, while from trunk line origin difference in the Wash- should remain as at proposed by T. manager for the Publishers' Association, | ely too Jow @ level, the ane ni based on disregard those fac refal and carrier com- have played an im- construction of involved in the Washington the rate S Tl points {pre of Louisiuna. beginning his cighth | IS onsceutive term representative | prasent. and dean of the Louisiana delegation | Doaes ‘;.‘.“n..- House. dicd at his residence, | v, GrOEMEE h ard street northwest, after a ibrief illness early today. He recently {suffered a stroke of apoplexy and had | cen eritically ill since. The body will leave W, ted rates an, traf mileage s tors of com petition which shington to- | portant part in o the rate lock and will | the, Fote, LG e cans Saturday m T R n- | posed Funeral servie will be held at | :ll Hy TS ‘i of Tev :\:L !ll‘u‘ : SR priet adds, While 1o compensating in- ptown Jesuits™ Church, Catho- | L5 5 Tramic would result from u | rate d Auy decrease in news ted | print the attrneys pointed ou s|will inevitubly lead to lowering c & irates on ximilar commodities whose | 1o transportation forms an important [ for | part of the traffic handled by some of | - lthe o ing carriers. H i | Question Jurixdiction, s il be ) Generally the railroad bricf points ith Dupre and Miss, Out that rates on newsprint paper to o had been living with | Baltimore from all the territories of | Sandos \“"" Communter ]““tiorlglyx named in the proceeding are | born in Mr. Dupri ,,a}r.n depressed basis and are lower| lifelong friend. | than specific rates examined pre- | 1 by five other sisters, Mrs. O. W. M- | reasonable, i R . Neese and Miss Lilly Dupre, both of | The brief voncluded with b- | Was Purchasing Agent for United servation that the commission is | ey, Orleans: Mrs William Alexander | ! Robertson, . Jubisson and | without jurisdiction to stablish | M A B Pavy"ot Opelous His | rates for future application from Ca- | States Chamber of pos 3 “ulham, has been | nadian points of origin to Washing- | in“chirge wf the funeral arrange. | ien apa Baitimare, o 0 4 ' Commerce. [ments. 5 Elght_other Washington users of | ‘Despite Mr Dupre's death inews print paper Jjoined with The | Evening Star Newspaper Company | House remained in session today continue consideration of the tax bl ind the Washington Publishers” As: ociation five weeks Leaders, however, decided to adjourn late in the day out of respect to his Maint against the Jhio railroad and the | memory | . R H vific railros alleging exc Mr. Dupre was born in Ope news print puper from mill p hear Lake Charies, L. 3. and | 10 DPOINts of consumption. A hearing e > A, Inid 4144 s held before- Examiner Hunter of was educated in public schools there. | the [Interstate Commerce At the age of nineteen. in 1592, he ! sion, and the commission was briefs filed the complainants | basis would cause | POSING ASTHE BLASE, CYMICAL, - MISUNDERSTOOD MAN OF THE WORLD | Repre ive Dup jsometime bufore he die be held th !will be sent [Opelousus, L buri: turday panving the W hington to |his mother, Mr. old ! fternoon. funeral party ctired, who home town the ol the te Raymond W. Moultor, forty-eight timore and anadian Pa- Graduate of Tulane. ssive rates street northwest, vesterday. No funeral services will be held. The body will be cremated as requ Mr. Moulton shortly before hi ir. Moulton was born in thi July 2,18 He was the son of Mrs. A Moulton and Ilorace B. Moulton. ' He attended the public schools here a | luate of the National Uni- v School. During the insur- in the Philippines he served as | te secretary to Brig. Gen. Theo- | He went to the island although serving | went through | during the | death. | { of bachelor of arts and sul he received the degre: laws from the same institution. SOROPTIMISTS GUESTS. | I 1895 Mr. Dupre started the S | tive practice of ew Orleans. | Miss Helen Wood Entertains 100 {and the year 1900 found him assistant | | city attorney of that municipality. In i i . Soroptimixts’ Club was euter- | jus veac e lne e b ted to the | inea the Hurley motor show uisiana house of tativ oms by Miss Helen Wood last night two four He s ‘were 100 members and go cted in | Dresent. and became In'! " prize he was eiccted toglowing: y-first Congress of the United | Edmons s 1o fill,the unexpired term o 1 : Glmore, who died in of iection also returned him quently | of bachelor of with in evers: uprising. previous to tha served for many rtment time Mr. Moulton 15 as @ clerd being condected with | T He s i adjutant general's office at which time he was trans e Philippines. War College Chief Clerk. When the Army War College wa about to be organized Mouiton assigned to duty chief an important part the_organization of t was | ker of the hous sented 1o Ryan, A Margar. Jeann we M on, 3 the fol- | E. Jones, Mi ._Nora Moyer, M He was re-elect 7 Forman, Mrs. e Coleman, Dr. ;. C. Krier, Mrs. | succeeding Congresses and at the last | t institu- | election his candidacy was not even 1 “taking a keen interest in Lulu Waters, Tess Meldinger, Miss Celest Hodges, Miss Helen Barn- hart, Mrs. Ruby J.ce Minar, Mrs. Ethel tlon. chief of staff of selected by Lien Upon creation of the office of he was the the Army t. Gen. Young, RAYMOND MOULTON | MONUMENT BODY To MEET/ CLAIMED BY DEATH i Will Hold Ninety-First Annual | | tomorrow, at the University Club. imemorlal to members who died dur- vears old, for six years purchasing|president of the society, will enter- ) in @ com- lmgent for the United States Chamber of | ¢ain the members at luncheon at the | Commerce, died at his home, 2618 13th | Upiversity Club, at 1:30 o'clock. The { President of the U | virtue of his office, sted Y | the Washington National Monument | city | d | retained uni {tary in the | Gene created standing committees without consideration. Considerable time was devoted to a discussion of the intro- duction of the psychological tests in the schools. Protests from several parents against the introduction of these tests at the Force School pre- ¢ ussion. of the te: intendent of Strong made by Jan Foree School, | upervising | who fer A ! liam, princip: Miss Jessie | principal of the second div lis introducing the psycholog in the schools. Subsequent | board voted, on motion ¢f Mrs. Ray- | | mond B. Morgan, to approve the pre ent system of applying the tests, pre vided it was ned only by vol- {untary contributions from the par- ents of children in the schools af- fected. i Athletic Change Discussed. | The question of adopting the two- jsport rule in the high gchools was | referred to the committee on athletic: when the board of high school pri |cipals advised the board that it did | {not s any pressin change in the present tion from the incipals, submitted Kramer, principal of Cen- | evplained that the two-sport| » would work unnece ary hard- on the schools with small stu- | bodiex which have f MAY FILM PAGEANT. | woui were from the B cher Associ the board. Thes | dors for teachers, a - | ten-y 2 building program, | “The Dreamer Awakes” to Beibettir lights for the schools, and ad " : vocated the financial independence Viewed by Theatrical Men. | of s ility e thor The possibility of filming the cru-! e director of a number of | kinderzarten teache lishment of a kinde rece Session Here. The Washingon National Monu ment Society will hold its ninety-| first annual” meeting at 12:30 o'clock | iz ng 0 A | will be considered by .- llocal theatrical men who will attend | the next performance of the produc-| tion on Sunday at Poli" The production is being given for the benefit of home and foreign mis- 1, teach- | sions and is being produced under i : H. | the auspices of the Catholic Students i acher. class § | of the school system. cd Miss Cathe- der pageant, “The Dreamer Awakes,” | gar to raice fund | estab- | garten unit in in Personnel. inel approved by ing the year will be read, and new members elected to fill the vacancies. Justice Van Devanter, first vice Changes Changes in persi of Catholic colleges in the Dis trict and_members of the Studen Mi tvill take part production. "he production, which work | Charie of Rev. Dani Lord, s of thel Ghariotis faculty of the University of St. Lout: vitor, and under the direction of Mrs. Marie i ' Moore Forrest. will be pre Poli's next p.m. ington | ited States, by teacher, class | is president of i vis, in hool Society. in . Bates and Lieut. their retirement. While serving as to Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, while the latter was chief of staff, Mr. Moulton was offered a position in the postal service, which he ac. cepted. Subse he became private secretary Postmaster hcock. of the or- u Phi Fra- that capacity by Lieut.| Gen. Chaffee o and View s ) hool, ark ark View me, labore H. M. KOLB FAiLé DEAD. M. Kolb. ty-three vears old, empioved at the Burlington Hotel for several years, dropped dead there, | afterngon. Coroner Nevitt ficate of th from an rt private secre- uently to Hit Moulton one ganizers of the Sigma ternity. He is survived by his w Jennie M. Moulton: a son daughter, Marth £ Manua ankenship, , uren, from; of the chool Washington will el tomorrow on; his father, Mr. Moulton: four| ington's birthday, at 1 o'elock, a brothers, Clarence, Trving, Wilfred |cording to an announcement from t and Frank Moulton, and a sister, office of the Merchants and Manufac- Moulton. turers’ Association. | Whiton, teacher an_ School, from class Arthur | | from Strong \‘«-hm.vl to ,%r;mml to Langley Junior High School; M. Lockwood, teacher, class Ketcham-Van Buren 'School to Bryan School; M. E. Cocok. teache E Ketcham-Van Bu School. : V. H. Wil- am-Van Buren 5 to grade teacher, Buchanan grade 7 to grade s 1, from Edimonds from ‘grade Munster, from chool, from’ practi hematic: R Letcher. 4. from iott School ts Junior’ High School; I. M ron, teacher, class 3, from Mon gomery "School to Cley Wilkinson, Bunker Hiil Road_School to Scheol, and E. B. Lisem- class’ 6A, from Arm- ner Normal School Anna Re - domestic s 3L robationary teacher A, Eastern High School; L. R atherm tionary teacher de School; G teacher, class . Hellen Myers 3, domestic probation MeKinley High 0. temporar s 4, Columbia Junior Hizl H. M. Gerst, temporary teach- . Shecch ‘corrcetion depar Davis, teacher, class Schmidr . Franklin-Thomso Yocun, probationars Business High probationars Polk Schoo Appointments. H. D. School er, c ment chool teacher, clas: S Maude McBride, ‘probationary teacker, <l 1. Wallach-Towers School M. McCullough, probationary teache cl John Eaton School: G. permanent teacher, class 6A. High School; S. P. Ossar . domestic cla M. Haring. t teacher, class 3, music de- , and E. V. Hammond, per- manent teacher, class 3, drawing d partment. AL W. Campbell, permanent tea el drawing departmen Orme. 'permanent teacher, Gales-Blake School; manent High S ch caretaker, Jones, janitor, Hutcherson, Milton Dav : George Monroe. M. L. Pet class rle janitor. -hoo 7 aretaker, w. two portables temporar: her, ! Bunker Hill Road temyporary teacher, rong High rporary Arm- 2 Mot L. Drew, temporary teacher awing departmen probationary teacher, department B, srob iona High R tement—O. H. Corkery, pr her, class 3, Ketcham- in bationar Yan first incumbent of that post, as the latter's private secretary. He was R b e Ward, Mrs. Higriet Locher and Miss politics, he became a figure of state- Sifgreavet, wide prominence at the democratic state convention fn 1908, when dele- gates to the national convention § Denver were selected. In Washington Mr. Dupre resided at 1410 Girard street for several years. Tth street southe: two brothers | and two sisters, Hobart and Charles Soper and Mrs. Milton M. Beck and Mrs. Florence Ridgely i Mr. Soper was a member of the Strand Orchestra when the theate was first opened as a motion picture | house and also at tie Garden ater named the ntral. He member of 1l American Federation of Musicians. See Clearance Adver- tisement, Page 10 1 1 PM. Tomorrow But They Don’t Keep It Over 80 out of every bundred men make enough money between thirty and fifty to keep themselves and their families in comparative luxury for the rest of their lives, but they don’t keep it. Over - spending or speculation robs them. One dollar a day for 20 years saved out of your earnings will give you a bank account of $10,000. Learn to save as well as earn. Intelligent planning will enable you “to live just as well as you do now and with much less expense. Our savings depart- ment invites your ac- count. Lincoln National Bank 3 - Tth and D Sts. N.W. SPEAKS ON LINCOLN. Representative Rathbone and A. J. Gore Address Illinoisans. Representative Henry R. Rathbone 1linois spoke on the life of Lin- the meeting_of the Illinois ¥ in the Washington Club A. 3. Gore, local real es- aiso snoke. The plan of hing buildings in Washington 1o tue various state societies vious | giscussed. The commit s ting the matter for the Illinol society | vonditions were | is composed of John O. Berkley, Her- service division of | hert W. Rutledge, A. R. Bailey and Association s | Theodore G. Ris ! the decline, de thbone sang several num- volbme rem: | Starr gave a piano solo, the loadings being Ada Louise Townsend gav { the n)l The program nonding i L. HAAS & COMPANY |z 1,.Day Special " Reduction Sale From8 AM. to 1 P.M. (Washington’s Birthday) el . -SUITS Made-to-Measure —$3()-50— These are woolen (ENDS), onckand two suits of a kind selected from our regular stock. 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