Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1924, Page 17

THE NEW BRITISH AMBASSADOR AND STAFF CALL AT THE WHITE HOUSE. Sir Esme Howard, who arrived in Washington a few days ago to take up his dutics as ambassador from Great Britain, The British party was accompanied by Third Assistant Secretary of State J. Butler Wright. MAKES DOLLS FROM SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS. Miss M. J. Roller of Takoma Park at work on one of her baby-size sleeping dolls. The head. pasts hands nd feet are made by soaking a Sunday newspaper in and the body is filled with feathers. employed at the Department of Agriculture. Miss Roller is an artist National Photo. Marguerite Licarione, a talented lit- tle dancer of Washington, who will be featured in the music fete at Central High School auditorium this evening. Photo by BrooksStevens WASHINGTON GIVEN MASONIC RITES LAST Oldest Inhabitants Given. Descrip- tion of Funeral for First Presi- dent by Fellow Member. NEWSPAPER STORY CITED| Recently Published Article Is De- clared Inaccurate. The Masonle rites were the last to « performed at the burial of George Washington. John Clagget Proctor *0ld his fellow members of the Asso- ciation of Oldest Inhabitants of the District at Union engine house last night. Mr. Proctor was prompted to. dis- cuss the funeral serices of the illus- trious leader of the revolution by a neWspaper article recently, in which ie said the fmpression was given that that burial ceremony ended withY he pronouncement of the rites of the church. The clipping referred to read as follows: “When the procession had arrived at the bottom of the elevated lawn on the banks of the Potomac, where the family vault is placed, the cav- wlry halted, the infantry marched toward the mount and formed tieir lines, the clergy, the Masonic broth- crs and the citizens descended to the vault, and the funeral service of the church was performed.” Discussing the quotation, Mr, Proc- tor sald: “That is all true, except that after the conclusion of the church service, the last rites of the Masonic fraterni- ty were conducted by the officers and brethren of Alexandria Lodge, No. 22, of Alexandria, Va. Reminiscenses Feature. Having no formal business to transact, the pioneer citizens indulg- ed in an hour of entertaining remin- iscenses of bygone days. Capt. George W. Evans, for many vears an official of the Department of the Interior, ta\d anecdotes of John Howard Payne, author of “Home, Sweet Home, and Walt Whitman, both of whom were at one time em- ployed in that départment. ‘Whitman, Capt. Evans said, served in the Interior Department in 1865 and 1866 and was asked to leave the service because exception was taken to a book of poems he had written. This action, however, only served to advertise Whitman's writ- ings, Capt. Evans said, and he was invited to accept another position immediately under the Attorney Gen- eral. The recent celebration of the 25th anniversary of the reorganization of the United States Marine Band caused John B. McCarthy to relate to his assoclates the early history of the band, when the now famous John Phillip Sousa was its leader. Jacob Eisenmann, 1842 Kalorama road northwest, was elected to mem- bership. Vice President Matthew Trimble presided. —_—— Dr. Katherine Bement Davis, who has had long official connéction with the penal institutions of New | York city, says that in her twen- ty-five years experience with pen- ology she has never known a col- lege girl gradute serving time for oriminal offense In a penal institu- Repair Work in Schools Is Restored, To Supervision of District Engineer Education Board Returns to Policy After Year’s Trial of Own Management—Janitorial Service Declared Inefficient—Approves Jefferson Day. ————————————————— Complete responsibility for han- dling repairs in the public schools was passed back to the engineer de- partment of the District government by the board of education yesterday afternoon after a year's trial under |a policy of divided authority and re- sponsibility. The Engineer Commis- sioner, together with the municipal architect, acting under his directlon, will have full responsibility for the wxpenditure of the appropriation for school repairs, About a year ago the school board, with the approval of the District Commissloners, took from, the muni- cipal government the authority for directing the expenditure of the re- pair tund. This system, it was charged by Ernest Greenwood, vice president of the board of education and chairman of its committee on buildings, grounds and equipment, in a report to the board, has been inef- ficlent, wasteful and tied up in. pro- verbial red tape. Mismanagement Charged. Instances of long delay in the transaction of business and general mismanagement were cited by Mr. Greenwood. Under the present sys- tem, he sald, there is no intelligent supervision of repairs. “The duty of maintaing the school buiidings as well as all District buildings in a proper State of re- pairs is placed by act of Congress under the municipal architect, under the direction of the Engineer Com- missioner,” declared Mr. Greenwood. “Divided responsibility in matters of this kind cannot possibly be desir- able, and where the law distinctly fixes the responsibility in any par- ticular matter related thereto noth- ing is to be gained, in the opinion of your committee, by an attempt at concurrent jurisdictio Limits Use of Fund. Another recommendation of Mr. Greenwood’s committee, that none of the repair fund remaining from the $300,000 appropriation be expended for the installation of electric lights in the schools, was adopted. On Keb- ruary 15 last Mr. Greenwood said, there remained in the repair fund $58,847.68, and that this amount should be kept intact for imperative repairs. Charging that the lack of efficlency in the school janitorial force has caused damage in school heating plants that could be prevented, Mr. Greenwood recommended that 'the superintendent of janitors be ‘held responsible for all damage to school property due to the lack of proper supervision. The recommendation was adopted. “An examination of various ex- penditures during the past year has | brought your committee to the cno- clusion ‘that a considerable portion of the moneys which are spent for .repairs are spent for what might be termed the repair of , preventable damage,” sald Mr. Greenwood. "It has been noted that unusually cold weather at the end of the week is followed By an unusually heavy de- mand for repairs due to the freezing of steam plants, lavatories, etc. Re- cently the steam-heating plants of six different schools froze up between Saturday and Monday morning. Your commpittes 8 of Lho-onibiop that this is due to a lack of efficiency in the janitor service.” Foundation In Settling. by the board, upon recommendation of Mr. Greenwood’'s committee, to in- vestigate a condition at the 'Wilson Normal School due to the settlement of certaln walls and foundations. “A study of the substrata indicates that there is an old water course running beneath not only a large portion of the Wilson Normal School but direct- 1y underneath the Ross School, at a level of 140, Mr. Greenwood report- ed. “There'Is also a sewer running along Harvard street, which turns al- most directly in front of the basement of the Wilson Normal Shcool, run- ning underneath a portion of st to 1ith street. In our opinion, pits should be sunk to discover the exact condition before any project for the correction of the situation is adopt- ed, unless the Engineer Commissioner finds that the situation is dangerous.” The board, on the recommendation of Mr. Greenwood's committee, also decided to discontinue the use of the Johnson system of temperature regu- lation in the schools. A surplus of $72,000 accrued from the erection of the addition to Western High School will be utilized, as the result of action by the board, to con- struct another story to the school. This will give Western ten additional class- rooms. Accept Memorial Offer. The offer of Chinese Minister Sze to establish-a_memorial at Central High School to Miss M. Eila Morgan, late teacher of English, was accepted. The memorial will be an English room, re- fitted and equipped to suit the exact purposes of an English teacher and to serve also as a small auditorium. By a vote of 4 1o 2, the board, upon the request of Mrs. . B. ap- proved the observance of Jefferson day in the schools on March 14, On this ,day teachers will instruct their pupils on Thomas Jefferson as an educator and istatesman. Mrs. Baggs pointed out that a campalen is under way to have each school child in the country con- tribute a penny toward a fund for the purchase of Monticello as a national shrine. The board, however, deolined to approve the solicitation of funds from the District school children for this pur- The gift of a number of stones and shells for a museum display in the schools was accepted by the board. The donor is Mrs. Horatio King of the Rochambeau apartments. Proposal for Playgrounds. Snowden Ashford, chalrman of the education committes of the Federa- tion of Citizens’ Associations, asked | the board to express its views on the { following question: Whether it would be more beneficlal to placd the school playgrounds, after school hours and in vacation time, under the , supervisor of municipal playgrounds, or whether it would be more advan- tageous to place-all playgrounds un- der the supervision of an organiza- tion to be formed under the direc- tion of the board of education. The matter was referred to the committee on athletics, of which Capt. Julius L { Peyser is chalrman. The action of school offictals and Miss M. Gertrude Youns, principal of ithe Peabody-Hilton group school, in shutting off the heat in three rooms at the Hilton bullding will be. inves- tikated by the committes on_person- lneL A_resolution from the Stanton The engineer department was asked | tadoceed! Gohiook and his staff, at the White House yesterday afternoon for a call on President Coolidge. tional Photo, EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D.- 0, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1924, [VESTIGATING THE WAGE SCALE OF UNCLE SAM'S POSTAL EMPLOYES. First hearing of the joint subcommittee of the Sevate and the House relative to wage increases for the employes of the Post Office Department. Members of the committee are Senators Edge, Phipps. Moses, Ferris and George; Representatives Paige, Ramseyer, Sproul, Bell and Meade. The photograph shows only a part of the e ing the first meeting. BATTLING THE FEROCIOUS IGANADON IN LONDON. But these lads are not trying to emulate their i veman ancestors. TBey are helping salvage life- ize models of antedilu an beasts which were covered with water and mud in London’s recent flood. Crystal Palace, where the models were placed, was covered with water. Copyright by Upderwood & Underwood AINTS PICTURES rvice and h: big painting of a_carrier of infantile paralysis. wd attend- ational Photo. OF FLIES. Prof. L. H. Wilder of the public health Fifty flies of the same variety were used as models for the unufual painting. which will be used by the public dread paralysi health service in its fight against the Copyright by Kadel & Herbert Took 3 Blankets As He Left Armys; Now Asks to Pay A veteran of the world war who returned to civil lits in 1919 has written to the Secretary of War saying that when he was dis- charged he took three used Army blankets away with him, and re- cently reached the conclusion that he had been guilty of stealing, it was learned today In order to ease his conscience, he now wants t e restitution, and said if the Secretary would tell him the value of the blankets he would pay for them. The adjutant general of the Army was delegated to arrange for set- tlement. —_— the action of Miss Young and the of- ficfals and charged that Hugh F. Mc- Queeney, superintendent of janitors, spoke threateningly to the principal. The request of Alfred L. Stern, di- rector of Washington's first annual radio show, for the use of the Central High School auditorium on March 18 for a benefit performance to be staged by “Roxy” and “his gang” from the Capitol Theater in New York was de- nied. Mr. Stern was offered the East- ern auditorium. Changes in Personnel Changes in personnel approved by the board, which include the appoint- ment of seventeen teachers, follow: Resignations—E. U. Gilbert, teacher, now’ on leave of absence: W. E. Allen, Janitof, Towers School; Henry Ehm, watchman, Fastern High School; Annie Hurley, caretaker, $10 6th street south- west, and Lillian Walton, dental prophy- lactic operator, Shaw Junior High. Terminations—E. B. Fitzgerald, teach- er, class 6A, Central High School, and Marguerite 'Neal, teacher, class 6A, Central High School. Leave of absence—J. J. Dickerson, Janitor, Patterson School. Promotions—E. _H. _Schoenberger, teacher, Congress Helghts School, from class 2 to class 3. Transfers—A. M. Stringer, teacher, class 2, from Brookland School to Emery-Eckington; Vena Spence, teach- er, class 3, from Hine Junior High to Mactarland Junior High; P. S. Bayard, janitor, from Logan School to Patter- son School, and Steven Anderson, jani- tor, from Hilton School to Logan School. Appointments — E. 8. ~ Thomson, teacher, temporary, class 6A, Central High School; E.. D. Canpon, tempo- rary teacher, class 1, Curtis-Hyde School; R. C. Humphrey, temporary teacher, class 3, Emery-Eckington School;” H. M. Gerst, probationary teacher, ciass 1, speech correction; C. J, Galpin, permanent teacher, class 6A, Central High School; A. G. Getty, STREET CAR WAGES MAY BE ARBITRATED Union Executive Board to Decide .on Course at Meeting Today. SEEK 14-CENT Capital Traction Company Will Ac- cept Ruling of Neuntral Board. Amicable settlement of the street ear wage question was practically assured today when George E. Ham- ilton, president of the Capital Trac- tion Company, made known the com- pany’s willingness to submit the mat- ter to arbitration. “We are perfectly willing' to agree to arbitration if the men ask it,” said Mr. Hamilton. John H. Cookman, secretary of the union, announced that the executive board would meet some time today to draft a letter to the company re- questing such a course of action. The union yesterday made public its application for an increase from 56 to 70, cents an hour for motormen, conducfors and bus operators. Mr. Hamilton at the same time announced that the company did not feel it could increase wages at this time. The contract between the company and its men provides, however, that in event of a disagreement over wages both parties shall agree to ar- bitrate and shall abide by the find- ings of a majority of such board. The executive group of the union that is meeting today is composed of B. Scott, J. J. Abel, L. M. Carder, R. Phelps, J. L. O'Brien and R. M. Chinn. RADIO WILL CARRY CANCER WARNING Church of the Covenant and Other Stations to Broadcast Data on Disease. Radio will carry & warning against cancer when the Capital joins in the natlonal campaign for eradication of the disease, March 15 to April 15, it was announced yesterday. Rev. Dr. Charles Wood, pastor of permanent teacher, class 6A, Wilson!the Church of the Covenant, will em- Normal School; L. D, Hall, permanent teacher, class 6A, Eastern High School: E. E. Hilton, permanent teacher, class 2, Park View School; Le Rabenhorst, permanent teacher, ¢lass 3, Burroughs School; R. S. Brigham, permanent teacher, clas A, Columbia Junlor High School: Cella Oppenhelmer, permanent teach- er, class 8A, Columbia Junior Hi School; Lelia Sellers, permanen teacher, class 6A, Central High School; B.\S. Reed. janitor, Tower: 8chool: Willilam Wolfe, caretaker. 810 6th street southwes! Floyd Good, Janitor, Hilton School; C. B. Auth, watchman, Eastern High School; H. G. Smothers, temporary teacher, class ploy the broadcasting station at the church in the drive, and Dr. James A. Gannon, chairman the radio com- mitteo, 1is arranging for experts on cancer to speak at other local stations. Announcement was made yesterday by the District of Columbia committee of the American Soclety for the Con- igh | trol of Cancer of the appointment of t| Dr. Truman Abbe and Dr. S. R. Kar- peles as chairmen, respectively, of the committee on _ theaters and speakers’ bureau. The former will arrange brief programs in the inter. est of cancer comtrol, at amusement H. | houses, while the bureat is to furnish “four-minute men” tc talk before 5. O Street Vocatjonal School; E. T.|various organizations requesting.their stenographer, McKinney, = tem %5, divisions 37~ an supervisors’ offices, 13; Oraetta Hughston, appearan The District committee is organis- permanent | ing for the campaign in the offices of teacher, class 2, Birney School, and | the Medical Society of the District of O. M. bavidson, permanent teacher, | Columbla, 1716 Manual Tralning class 6A, Armstrong M stréet northwest. Any information desired may bé ob- salned by calling Main 38k INCREASE | | Geological Survey Report Prospectors to ery spring Grandfather Earth| | saunters flirtatiously down the ave- | nues of space in a new green suit | to catch the eyes of coy stars—but the old gentleman is fourfius] = as | a fashionable fellow. His undershirt |1s old as the ages, frazzled, full of | holes—assuming the said undershirt | to be the rock jacket which, at varie ous depths, lies under the soll and water everywheré. ’ This conclusion is reached from a study of subterranean water pockets recently completed by the geological survey, largely as a guide to weli diggers. The day is passed when a crotched hazel bought in the hand of a sorcerer will locate these holes in the shirt where water is stored up for men, and a deep knowledge of gedlogy is required to detect them. The report was drawn up by O. E. Meinzer, Interior Department engi- neer, who has spent many years in studying the lore of the rocks. | Are Underground Reservoirs. These holes in the subterranean rock, both large and small, are the underground reservoirs that feed springs and wells, They are the re- sult of processes that have been at work on the materials of the earth since the beginning of time. Some of the holes existed in_ beds when the materials that formed them were laid down, such as the spaces between grains_of sand in sandstone or the room between pebbles that compose a bed of gravel. Others result from cracks and joints Into which hard, brittle rocks, such as granite and elate, have been broken. Other crev- ices and caverns still were produced by the work of ground water through thousands of centuries. The water percolating through the roc! JUDGES FOR MUSIC ESSAY CONTEST CHOSEN Prizes Offered for Discussion of Value of Opera to Na- tional Capital. Edouard Albion, director of the ‘Washington Opera Company, today announced judges of the music essay contest conducted under the auspices of that organization, which will close at-6 o'clock Saturday night,-as fol- lows: Misses Jessie MacBride, Eliza- beth Ellicott Roe, Dick Root and Es- ther Linkins and William Moore. e subject of the contest is ‘What Is the Value of an Opera Company to_the National Capital?” ‘Winners {n this contest will receive four seats in the orchestra as first prize and two as second prize for the performance of ‘“Carmen” Monday night. 0. K. TAX UNIT INQUIRY. Senate Committes Reports Couzens Measure Favorably. - A resolution of Senator Couzens, republican, Michigan, proposing an inquiry into the operation of the in- ternal revenue bureau was favorably % he S nwng&y;;urfin .12"(. euul | places. {Mysterious Inner Recesses of Rock " | Source of Waters Under Earth Shows That Deep Knowl- edge of Lore of Stones Is Essential for Well Meet Success. different it creates 3 solving the rock others it-fills the exist- duces opposite In some large ope material. = openi There are probably huge under the earth, according Meinzer's report—great, mysteriou recesses of space in eternal darkne. with no opening into the outer atmo phere—mammoth limestone _hal where the demons of death . wou find appropriate dwelling places and where the waters collect. They are nearly as safe from the entry of hu- man explorers as e remotest stars. low Through. Gravel. Gravel, Mr. Meinzer states, is the most likely material to yield and car- ry water. Great underground river: purified by their long filtering, flow through the gravel beds and wells sometimes yleld more than a thou- sand gallons a minute. Next to grav- el comes sand, sandstone, limestone and basalt, in the order named. Hard- er rocks yield water, if there are no sand formstions available. Clay for- mations are the most unproductive of all. They are too soft to have joints or other open spaces, and their pores are too minute to vield water. The occurrence of water in rocks is profoundly affected by their struc- ture. The dip or slope of the forma- tions, the fractures that have been produced by the tremendous stresses of the uncasy earth, the dikes or walls of rock which were formed b the cooling of molten lava which w forced upward through cracks— affect the likelihood of ground water. The driller, to mect with sucosss, the survey report concludes, must know the clues afforded by the sur- face into these-formations below, but once learned, they will enable him to accomplish miracles more astounding than any credited to the sorcerers of o OBTAIN APPEAL IN SUIT ON DINING CAR ILLNESS Couple Seek to Collect $125,000 From TU. S. Railroad Ad- ministration. The District Court of Appeals has set aside a verdict rendered in favor of the Rallroad Administration and James C. Davis, director general, in two damage suits aggregating $125,- 000, brought in the District Supreme Court by Dr. D. D. King of Greens- ?{«;ro. N. C, and his wife, Dora B. ng. The plaintiffs charge that while on their wedding tour, December 30, 1919, Mrs. King was made i1l as the result of eating veal furnished on a dining car. A new trial is ordered. —_— Students in Contest. Students of the Y. M. C. A. College will participate in a public speaking contest in the assembly hall of the institution tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Those who will speak are: Paul L. Brindle, Mrs. A. Rea Williams, Philip J. Newland, C. C. McAfee, John A. Cotton, Z. C. Hodges, jr.; Mrs. Frank E, Sutch,. J. O, Childs and Walter J. Telma. The judges will be John Hanna, Joseph K. Moyer and Addi; saon V. Wilsem effects caver: | HISTORICAL MOVIES TO BE SHOWN HERE Three of Yale University Press Series “America in the Mak- ing” to Be Exhibited. COMMITTEE IS NAMED | iAIumni Body in- Capital to Ask | 3,000 to Showings. “America in the Making” will ¢t reflected fn a spectal showing of three of the Yale University Press se- ries of accurate “historical phote dramas, “The Chronicles of America.” to be held Tuesday evening, April 1 under the auspices of the Yale Alumu: Association of Washington in the main auditorium of the Central High School. The pictures to be shown are |“TJamestown,” having to do with the |first permanent settlement in Amer- {ica under v. Pale, picturing glso the romance of Pogahontas and Rolfe; “Vincennes,” portraying |exploit of George Rogers Clari 1n capturing the Indian outpost and add- ing to the Union the five states of Ohio, Indial Michigan, Illinois and | Wisconsin; ““Wolfe and ~Montclam." a_reproduction of the struggle on the Plains of Abraham, which settied the question of English-speaking domi- nation on this continent. Committee Named, At the weelly juncheon of the Yaie Association the following generat committee on arrangements was ap- pointed: Ernest Knaebel, president: Arthur “oote, Joseph Fairbanks Dr. Paul Kaufman, E. E. Berney, D. D. Lambert, David Karrick, John Dry- den. Thomas G. Shearman and New- bold Noyes. Invitations to the special showing will be sent to about 3,000 persons prominent in public life and repre- sentative of the many different pa- fotic, fraternal, educational, civie nd women's organizations. “The Chronicle? of America” num- ber in all thirty-three three-reel pic- tures reproducing the outstanding events of American history from the discovery by Columbus to Lee's sur- render at Appomattox. The pictures already produced, in addition to those named, are “Columbus,” “The Fron- tier Woman, Danfel Boone" and “Peter Stuyvesant.” \ e Woman’s Club Leaders to Meet Here Tomorrow. The executive committee of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs will gather at headquarters 11734 N street, tomorrow morning to discuss arrangements for the law enforcement convention to be held here April 10 and 11 under the aus- pices of the federation. Convention headquarter® will be at the Scottish Rite Temple. Miss Lida Hafford, cheairman of the executive committee, Has called the meeting. Among those who are ex- ipected to attend_ Mrs. Herbert Hoover, _gencral —chmirman; Mra Henry W, Peabody, national presi- dent, "and ‘Mrs. Robert-Egnsing, seore-