Evening Star Newspaper, April 5, 1924, Page 9

Stock Market Recovery Héld__ " Due to Logical Adjustments Record Past Week Typical of -Wall Street’s Habit of Making Abrupt Rushes—Many Issues Benefited. BY STUART P. WEST, (Coprright, 1924, by the Consolidated Press Assocfation.) Speeial Dispateh so The Star. W YORK. April 5—A week ago attention was drawn to the fact that during the Jast two years Wall street been in the habit of rushing abruptly from one extreme to an- other and carrying both upward and lownward movements to excess. In Janunary, the stock market shut its eyos to everything except what was favorable in the busincss situas tioniand the cnsuing advance went to0 far because it-took too enthu- astic a view of things. Conversely, went down for practically two months, beginning with the frst of ¥obruary and this, while a perfectiy logical readjustment, in its turn, was overdohe. has price fresh the trade or other news, it merely been a recognition that the selling movement, in its ter stages, was exaggerating the unfavorable features in the business world and not taking proper account of the favorable, Rail Securities Flrst to Benefit. e turn came first in rallway se- rities bvcause these, all things con- are in a better po ition than > been for some time. It that old ividend payers, earning these vidends two and thres_ times over, sht not normally to be selling on 4 7 to & per cent basis. The trouble was, of course, the distrust of a gla’s of investments where there were possibilities of adverse legis- fative aotion. sariously affecting eliming power, The nching of a campaign in the ralls was delayed until there was reasnunable assurance that the agita- tise wr rate réduetion would fall at the gresent session of Congress. Un- dwl e transportation act of 1920, the Interstate Commerce Commission Wae given the power to decide what Wwas a fair return on property values and (o adjust rate schedules accord- mgly. It fixed upon 6% per cent as the fair return, and it so happens Wt not until very recently have rallway earnimgs as a whole pro- vided as large & yield as this. Under thess éircumstances, thers could be no zeneral rate Jowering or #ny reduction in rates to farmers without a compensating increase to other shippers—unless the so-galled h-Cummins act were amended so as to cut out what is known as the cuarantee” feature. Wall stree uot befieve that there is any lihood of this being done, with tax legislation and other meas. ures which must be crowded in dur- ing the limited time remaining be- fore Congress adjourns, Maintenance Work Passes Peak. The other main incentive back of the buying of railway securities is the knowledge thai excessive amounts have been expended during the last two 'years or more on maintenance; thig is a heritage from the period of governmental control. These exc maintenance expenditures passed their RAILWAY FREIGHT 'HANDLINGS GROW Heavier Shipments' Present Year Than Ever Before, Is Predicted. in BY J. O. ROYLE, Spectal Dispatch to The Staz, NEW YORK, Apiu o.—The railroads wf the country seem destined to move more freight this year than ever be- fore. They will have to do o in or- der to pay for the new equipment now going into commission and in pros- pect. In the last month there have been numerous fires in the raflroad centers of the country which have not nseded an appeal to the local fire de- vartments. The railroad companies have been burning up- thousands of ©old freleht cars to recover the iron and steel contained in them, New Car Orders ot Huge Volume. Orders for mew cars were of tre- mendous volume in 1923 and bhave held up remarkably so far this year; but jhey have nol exceeded the number of replacements required. There are now in operation about 2,400,000 freight cars. Taking the average life of & car as twenty years, the country requires at least 120,000 new cars an- nyally. The increase in population automatically requires an additional supply. s extremely probable, therefore etween 140,000 new ars will be or- del d built this year. Some of the roads have provided for their requirements. Others have not. There is no car shortage in pros- pact, but many roads will require ad- ditional__cars _of particular types. Nearly 75.000 ears have been ordered since January 1. arating efficiency, increased car mile- age, increased car capacity, loading and fewer bad-order cars will help the situation; but the industries inyolved in the railroad equipment in- dustry are anticipating £00d business. Equipment Companies Hopeful. This attitude was expressed by ‘William H. Woodwin, president of the Car and Foundry Company. who Aeclared the outlook for the industry =as brignt. s 3 “There has beer quite a bit of busi- ness placed (or thp car ‘equipment sompanies,” he said, “and it has not heen completed. 1 do not expect the total orders for equipment to be as big as last vear, but we are looking rward to £ood business. Thére is very sound financial basis at present. The oost of the new equipment and the freight to be moved to make it vay has been strikingly illustrated by C: J. McDonald, superintendent of perishable freight of the Southern Pacific. “A Pacifioc type of locomotive in The recovery of the last| wéek has not been due to anything | 130,000 and | peak some time ago, and now are on the down grade. The. result is that the extraordinary gross earnings re- ported month by month since the spring of 1923 are no longer being swallowed up in expense accounts, but are showing in the met. This means for most of the carriers con~ tinuance of a very satisfactory surplus ailable for dividends and, if the gen- eral business volume is maintained at anything like the present, and if noth. ing goes wrong in the presidential cam- paign, it undoubtedly means resumption or increase in numerous dividends, Cotton Trade Necessary. The most important development in *he business situation during the week was the sharp recovery in cot- ton prices, accompanied by a substan increase in prices for cotton goods. It is mnot yet clear by any means that cotton-mill owners can make money at existing quotations. But it is clear that mill curtailment was carried far enough to stimulate the demand for print cloths and other cotton manufactures, This renders it safe to say that the cotton trade has turned the corner. On the other hand, there has been no improvement in other agricultural lines. Wheat prices continue to sag and there is real depression in the cattle industry. It is good politics, special a presidential year, to h measures of relief like the Mc- 2 , which aims, with the assistance of government credit, to aid the wheat farmer to £uccess- fully market his product. .But the ultimate solution of the problem will not be found in artificial expenditures of this sort. The essential fact is that competing countries with lower labor costs can greatly undersell the American wheat raiser. Under these circumstances, no dependence can be placed longer 'upon the foreign outlet for the American surplus. The wheat farmers must be made to realize that they will bave to cut their production to suit the requirements of the domestic giarket alone. The 12 per cent reduction eported in winter wheat acreage, With the prospect of a slightly larger per- centage in the epring wheat area, in- dicates a good deal of progress, but 50 far it has evidently not been enough. Money S Equal to Demand. The investment demand, both for old and new securities, is well sus- tained, founded as it is upon the signs of a superabundant money supply. Time loans and commercial paper are now being quoted at the lowest of the year. The danger al- is under conditions like thes new capital offerings will be shed to excess and the market be me overloaded. But this stage has ertainly. not vet been reached. The iatest reports are that new business coming into the steel com panies has fallen off from the very high level of a fortnight ago, and that competition is on the increase. But if the second quarter is not to be as favorable as the first, the state- ments for the three months ende March 31 are going to make an ex celient showing, and this is what the market at the moment s more inter- ested in, The oil data are very con- flicting. The curtailment of output, which went on from September to the middle of March, has been checked, and production is on the increase. But so far the increase has been small and does not threaten to affect prices. If the oil companies can get present prices for their big surplus of low-price-cost crude in storage, it will mean large earnings and quite possibly a series of dividend in creases. It is this that the market for the oll shares is reckoning upon. BUTTER MARKET REACTS FROM UNSTEADY STAGE Past Week’s Quotations Show Re- covery From Demoralized Con- i ditions of Previous Week. By the Asseclated Press. CHICAGO, April G—The butter market this week has reacted from the demoralizing conditions of last ‘woek, and prices showed an upward trend. The week closed with the markets steady. Chicago bought more for consumption than the séa- board markets, where buyers pur- sued a hand-to-mouth policy. Although receipty were lighter than the previous week they wers equal to | the corresponding week last year. Production inddcatlons were oconfus Ing. Judging by receipts at the four markets, produetion decreased. R cent storms in producing centers hav. gelayed shipments and that may have {4 later effect. Storage stocks were abqut 160,000 ! | pounds heavier than at the close of | , the previous week. The gain in New York storage holdings was attributed to movement of forelgn butter held in_bond. Foroign butter exerted some in- fluence over domestic markets, Feavy supplies of Argentine found a slow sale, and a similar situation obtained with other forei stocka Arrivals at New York incibded 4,410 easks of Danish, 7,024 boxes Argentine and more than 23,000 boxes of New Zea- land, of whioh 12,000 are scheduled for reshipment to England. COMMODITY NEWS WIRED STAR FROM ENTIRE COUNTRY ST, PAUL, April 5.—Bids on $1,390,- 000 worth of paving, grading and bridge construction embraced in the state highway bullding program will \ i I _THE EVENING _STAR, -WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1924 Takoma Park Baptist Church Announced Dorothy Dix’s Letter Box Father Who Persistently Discourages His Chil- dren—Shall She Marry a Foreigner Against Her Parents’ Wishes? DEAR MISS DIX: What do you think of a father wha is always telling his children that they have no sense, and will never amount to anything? In spite of his discouraging remarks, his daughter, who had to listen to his croaking all durthg her school years, has a splendid pesition, and is thought highly of in her place of business. The som, a splendid boy of sixteen, has not only this same crosking to contend with, but the father is always threatening to send him to the reform school, for no other reason than that the boy occadlonally goes to a movie, or a echool dance, and presses his clothes to make them look meat. Ought not the father to thank God for having children who have never caused him a bit of worry or trouble, and who have practically supported themselves since they were fourteen by working in vacation and doing odd jobs in school time? ANXIOUS. Answer: T think this man iz not only a cruel and unnatural father, bt that he is a fool as well. He has failed to do a fathers part in cherishing his children, and he has deliberately done all that he could to make failures of theni' by discouraging them and sapping their courage. One of the greatest forces in the world for good or evil is the power of suggestion. With it you can almost make success or failure, and theso children must have had exceptionally strong minds and wills, or else they would have succumbed to their father's tactics, and become the nonentities he tried to make them. In tormer times it was thought good for a child's soul to keep before its mind all of its defects, and to tell it continually how dull and stupld it was, and what a_bumble placo it was destined to take in the world, or how homely and awkward it was and to make it generally. feel that it was such a hopelessly unpromising specimen of humanity that its parents should bave taken It out and drowned it as we do the runt one of a litter of pupples. But intelligent people know better than that now. They know that you can get the fixed idea of its stupidity so firmly Implanted in a child's mind that it will never make an effort to exercise its intelligence at all, We know that the more we speak of a child's awkwardness the clumsier it gets. The more you convince a girl she is homely, the homelier she will be. And, on the contrary, by pralsing a child's intelligence you can fire it with an ambition that will keep it at the head of its class. ~You can cure awkwardness, which is ouly self-consciousness, by flattering a child into thinking better*of itself. .And you can make aimost any woman pretty by dressing her up and making her vain enough to carry herself like a beauty. We all unconsciously live up to our blue china and try to be what people expect us to be. DOROTHY DIX. . e s e EAR MISS DIX: I am twenty years old, and very much In love with a young man who Is in business for himself. He is a fine character, and has proved himself very much of a gentleman ln every way. My parents refuse to let me marry him because he is a foreigner by birth, but he has been in this country nearly twenty years, is a naturalized American citizen, and was an officer of higl standing during the war. Still in their eyes he is a forelgner. That is their only objection to him. 1 have decided to marry him anyway, but thought I would ask your advice first. What shall I do? HEARTBROKEN. Answer: Wait another year, Heartbroken. If your father and mother have nd other fault to find with the young man, except that he is of foreign birth, they will be almost sure to come around when they find that your happinese is really at stake and that your love is not just a passing girlish fancy. - Certainly, they are very unreasonable to stand between you and your happiness for the sake of a silly prejudice against foreigners. That is the result of provincialism and ignorance, because the Anglo- Saxons have no monopoly on virtues. The people of every nation have the same good qualities and bad, and there are just as many kindly, honest, well-meaning people in one country as im another. __ International marriages are nearly alwa £irl has to go to her husband's country to iive, because American women do not easily adapt themselves to the customs of other countries, and American women have much freer and broader lives than do the women of foreign countries, so that they feel as if they werc imprisoned by the soeial usages of other lands. But when an American girl marries a foreigner who lives in this country this danger is clminated and the marriage stands just as much chance of being happy as an American one. Indeed, many forelgn husbands have qualities that American husbands might well emulate, for the forelgner is often more of & lover to his wife, more domestic and more interested in his home thay is the American husband. DOROTHY DIX. « e e ]DEAR DOROTHY DIX: 1am a young man with a profession, and a bright future before me but I am making little at present, and willynot be in a position to get married for at least four or five vears. There is & young sirl I am interested in, but not in love with, who cares o great deal for me and cagt help showing it. But she has such big ideas about the way she wants fo live that 1 am afraid ehe is too extravagant for me and my pocketbook. I don't want to encourage her too much, yet I don't want to set engaged. What shall T do? LEXED JOHN. s unhappy when an American Answer: I should think your only safety is in keepin, girl, as she evidently fascinates you. That kind. of ln‘ut;fl.nt'hacy;lr:lmw’;'l’: luxurious tastes and who wants the best of everything for herseif, has a great allure for poor men simply because she is something that they can't afford. Tt is on the same principie that our appetites crave cake instead u: {;lfuln bread, and we would rather have the luxuries than the necessities of life. " I;(ull lt“l; n_t‘firrlbll! l'):inaka éor a man wi e girl w milllonaire ideas. he always sperds more than h She always kesps bim poor,’and shep!s always dissatisfied, *Ne areator misfortune can happen & man with a n - i wlfeBwllh a champagne tagte, WE=hasr incoma. than to Save & ut If it is going to be four or five yvears befor [ v, have no business thinking about matrimony at ah. D:n"'{"zxn.“;:m":-'erl? b in the noose of a long engagerent. Wait until you are ready to marry, and then pick out your wife, DOROTHY DIX. th a thin pocketbook to marry (Copyright, BEDTIME STORIES The Boldness of Whisky Jack Impadence is always bold And pnbecoming young or eld, —Farmer Brown's Boy. Whisky Jack, the Northern cousin of Sammy Jay, was making himself very much at home around Farmer Brown's sugar camp in the Green Forest.” Hes followed Farmer Brown's Boy from tree to tree as the latter went around collecting sap. No sooner would Farmer Brown's Boy empty & pail and hang it back on a tree than Whisky Jack would fly down and alight on the edge of the pail and look into {t, Sometimes he would hardly wait for Farmer BErown's Boy to turn his back. “Did you ever ses such boldness! exclaimed Chatterer the Red Squirrel. “That fellow i either o foolish that he doesn’t know enough to be afraid or elge he is the boldest person'1 ever saw! Look at that now! Just look at that! He doesn’t know what fear o ‘Whisky Jack had alighted almost at the feet of Farmer Brown's Boy, and when Farmer Brown's Boy step- ped toward him he hardly moved. He didn’'t move until he had to to keep from being stepped on. Then he flew up on a branch just above the head of Farmer Brown's Boy, cocked his 1924.) BY THORNTON W. BURGESS ky Jack's eyes sparkled more than *|ever. Parmer Brown's Boy finfshed frying the bacon and put it on a plate on tho table. Then he turned to got “DID YOU EVER SEE SUCH BOLD. NESS™ EXCLAIMED CHATTERER THE RED SQUIRREL. something else he needed. Whisky Jack hopped to the edge of the plate and helped himself to a piece of bacon. ‘armeér Brown's Boy turned just in time to see him do it “Hi, there, you robber!” heé shouted. Whikky Jack sald nothing, but his eyes sparkled more than ever, und he flew out of the open door to & tree, where he ate the piece of badon with- head on one side and his black eyes snapped in the most impudent way, “I hear be is & cousin of yours," sail Chatterer to Sammy Jay. “He cer- tainly has impudence enough to be. Sammy opened his mouth to deny Improvement in op- | better | It that Whisky Jack was a relative of his. But just then Whisky Jack screamed harshly. It was so like the voice of Sammy Jay that it was hard to believe that it was not Sammy's voice. Sammy closed his mouth with- out saying a word. It was useless to deny that any ome:with & voice like that was related to him. No one but 4 Jay could scream like that Whisky Jaek had followed Farmer y over to the sugar house. be opened here April 22. BOSTON, April 5,—For the first time in months, there has been a slight softening of raw wool prices here, Sales of fine medium territory have made as low as $1.35 o $1.37 and Obio delaines have changed hands at 56 cents in the grease. snu| VP'EMHD. April 5.—The Midland | ,, "0 8% Rutomobile cn':ng’s,mp:?&m’“&?m:: The door sigod o Whisky Jack for ‘the first quarter were 574 per |0°W to the table Inside. = His bright cent greater than in 1923. Two of the | €Ye8 sparkled as ho satisfied his o | osity about all the strange things in company’s three divisions are booked | Farmer B n's Boy bej | thene. % to — fry some bacon for-bis dinner. is- NEW ORLEANS, April 6.—Manufae- iturers of summer clothing here re- iport sales ahead of those of last year, PLAHS ‘MIDWEEK SERVICE. but the margin of profit is closer be- At the morning: service in the cause of advances In cost of mate- Church of the. Covenant tomorrow rials. Al factories here practically are sold up to capacity and shipments Rev. Dr. Charles Wood will presch on “Christ-Given Efficiency.” The out hurrying in the least Sammy Jay had seen it all. Sammpy is himself something of a thief, ‘s everybody knows. -But Sammy wouldn’t think of ll.ll;\l( in any such bold fashlon as this, He s too sus- ielous. “Well, I pever!"” exclaimed mmy. “I never did!" And right then, although he wouldn't have ad- mitted it and although he didn't real- ly want to do it, he began to admire that cousin of his from the Far North, Boldness always wins admiration. (Copyright, 1924, by T. W. Bargess) : “Whisky Jack Gets In't Want."” SHRINE VISITS CLASS. The Vaughn Bible Class of Calvary Baptist Church will have as its guests tomorrow morning members of Al- mas Temple of the Mystic Shrine The next Something He 1915,” he sald, “cost us $25584. Twenty-seven per cent of the 1923 would take gross earnin from | Ozark apple crop has been shipped to Bauling 92 carloads of fruit from market so far. The total crop is esti- Fromo to Chimgo to pay for it imated at 3,491 carloads, as compared ow the ;nn'ne Zomts gu‘. ."z .n!fi ‘wllb 2,677 cars the previous year. <¥en at the Iincrease Teigut rate e 54 carionds would bave to be hauled | HOUSTON, April 5—This state s o pay for it. We paid $13,124 for 'expected to produce at least 1,875,000 bwitch engines nine years ago, the bushels of Bermuda onions this year. equivalent of the sum received for This would be a gain of 220,000 hauling 56_cars of cantaloupes from bushels oyer last year. i Brawley, Calif, to El Paso. Now it — Jreuls e nacesmaty o Baul U8 Ses the, ’?.l‘?mu‘ Window eass Pacy W T TE TS Y T [Ren reves weneed civet tane 4 plants ine lan It esti- Cost of Oarriage Compared. mated window glass prveueuo.n will *In 1915 we had to haul five car~ be from 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 boxes 10ad® of oranges from Los Angeles to | less this year than in 1923, ¥l Paso t6 pay $1.200 for a box car. | PHILADELPHIA, A —T Thé same now costs $2,300. Fir |Philadelphia and Siin &n.lzwl:: cross ties which we could buy for will start constructidbn on its new" $3,- 35 cents then cost $1.12 iece in |500,000 elevator and pier here in June. 1923, making the total for tles for |Six'conveyors will enable four steam. one mile of track $3.225, as d |ers to load grain simultaneously. with $1,018." N Fog b e i it in the rallway N, .a.(.-u.. April Increased activity 5. —In the ry has followed the or- signal indu; der of the Interstate Com- e of the sy . were Inisslon uird nine ey Kot L R 3 are already beginning. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, April 5— evening sermon, also Dr. Wobd, T T Rareifying. Voices. and Their Meaning.” /This is to be an official visitation of ble at !wfl!mdm&lfllmhw. ‘church, accompanied. by its band, glee club and patrol. Prof. will teach the Bible lesson. Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohlo is listed among the speakers for the annual banquet of “the. class next Friday evening. The executive com- mittee met during the week, at the home of B. 8. Garber, to plan exten= sion work, of the class. PLAN SONG SERVICE, - « the Orient, . wi Gimprialof ‘Mtasion ‘Beations Visiied n 1925, s the subject of an’ 8d- to be given at the meeting of Society of the Covenant Mon- g.y morning at 11 o'clock A_n rmer president of the society, Mrs. H,_Newborry, who has just wturned frod & trip- around “the "Dr.'W. 3. Humphreys professor of ~metereological physics, westher bureau, United States Department of B cuitiee, 18 to ive an Nigetrated fecture on “Fogs and Clouds™ befors the Men's Society of the ohurch Tues- day evening at 8 o'dlock. "At the midweok service for prayer d conference next. Thu ‘eve-| 'The services at the Park View ing Dr. Wood will discuss “Work-|curistisn Church tomorrow at 7:45 ers for and Against E«z it - po st 4 song service, followed. by a sermoa ., DR. PECK TO PREACH. by, tho pustor, Rev. Walter I Smith. 4edn, ppremeditated, Rurcaobips T:-‘nq-ri’ufld-wcm £y ot Dr. 0»-% Tho Shurch - A pas = eetied the Masonic body, which will assem- ita headquarters op I3th| Dedication Program The new Takoma Park Baptist Church, just completed, at Piney Branch road and Aspen street, at a ©oSt of $80,000, will be dedicated at ©xercises beginning tomorrow and continuing for a week. At the services tomorrow morning the sermon will be dellvered by the pastor, Rev, Earl La Rue, and in the evening Rev. Franklin L Winter, as- sistant “pastor of IMrst Congrega- tional Church, will preach. Community night will be celebrated Monday at 8 p.m., with E. W. James presiding. Prof. L. D. Bliss is to de- liver an address. Church night will e celebrated Wednesday with a sup- per from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, and a meecting at 8 pm. Rev. Dr. W. S. Abernethy, pastor of Calvary Baptist Chureh, will dellver the principal ad- dress. ' Others who will speak will : ‘Thomas S. Brock, superintendent of the Sunday school; Mrs. William Henderson, president of the Ladies’ Walter Irey, president of the nen’s Bible class; Miss Evelyn Hen- ley, president B. Y. P, U.; Mrs. F. W. Pearce, teacher of the woman's Bible class; Mrs. Charles W. Flora, presi- dent ‘of the Woman's Missionary So- ciety; Miss Christine Beard, president wide Guild; Mrs. L. A. Jones, shoir and music committee; “Remi- niscences,” H. G. Heiges. Friday Night Program. Denominational night will be cele- brated Friday at 8 pm., with L. R. Grabill presiding. Addresses will be made by Rev. I. T. Stevenson. R Thomas Browne, Rev. J. C. Ball, Rev. J. H. Strong, Mrs. 0. E. Howe, Itev. EASTER REVIVAL OPENS | AT GOSPEL ASSEMBLY | i The Full Gospel Assembly, 930 Pen sylvania avenue northwest, opens its Easter revival tomorrow at 3 p.mm., and starts a pew Sunday echool one our earljer. Thede two events mark anotherr step forward In the plans of the pastor, IL L. Collier. The assem- bly has Becured the services of the singing evangelists, Rev. and Mrs. W. C. Peiree, who recently have conduct- | ed Bible study conferences in Canada | and the west. Tt is planned to hold a daily noon- time prayer and reading from the book of Revelations, lasting from 12 to 1 o'clock, especially for busy men and women, and others who want to spend a few minutes in prayer and meditation during this Lenten season. There is to be an hour of study in the dispensations &nd prophecy every evening at 7 oclock, and an evan- golistio . meeting, beginning at 8 o'clock, . Evangelistic meetings will be conducted also every Sunday l'tel’-s noon at 3 o'clock. —— SUNDAY SCHOOL SENIORS | WILL HEAR DR. STAUFFER| Rev. C. R Stauffer ‘will have as his morning subject tomorrow at the Ninth Street Christian Chureh “The lord’s | and in the evening “A Young | amed Saal.” ment of the Sunday school. A. C i superintendent, ‘will attend the evening service and participate in the program. The Dorcas class of women, J. A Scott, teacher, will hold its monthl and_business meeting at _the 5 o'clock Monday evening. Class will meet the home of Mrs. A. W. Sherier, 327 Mary- | land avenue northeast, Monday at § pan. Mrs. F. A. Carpenter is the teacher. | The Lydfa class, A. (. Bishop, teacher, will hold its month'y business and soetal | meeting at the home of Mrs Ethel { Fowler, 6811 Sth street northwest, Wed- nesday evening. Sunday will be the firet of three de- ciston days in the Sunday school, Maj. W. W. Kirby, superintendent. The Naom( elase, Mre. H. B. Gilstrap | teacher, will hold its monthly business and mocial meeting Monday evening at the home of Mra ¥. M. HDI, 230 11tk | street northeast. “REAL SANITY” IS TOPIC. Rev. Dr. J. J. Muir is to have for b hiset tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock, at Temple Baptist Church, | “abounding Hope and at $ pm., | “Real Sanity.” The Lord's Supper | will be administered at the close of the morning service. W. H. Gottlieh s to address the men's Bible clase at | 9:30 a.m., while Mrs. I J3. Forbes ig to address the Euzelean elass. {_‘The Crusaders are to meet at 3 p.m {when Miss Meynes, the leader, is t continue the story study on mission- lary work in Japan WILL GIVE CANTATA. The National Cathedral choir wil sing the cantata, “Olivet to Calvary. at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, in Bethelehem Ch of the National Cathedral. Rt. v. James E. Free- man, D. D, Bishop of Washington, will 'preash the sermon. This service is to broadeast by radlo, The preacher at the 11 o'clock serv. ice will be.Canon De Vries. | | { U. 8. ENGINEERS T0 SPEAK. Col. C. H. Birdseye, chief topo- phic engineer, United States seo- foeieal sursey, will give an illustrated motion picture lecture and: lantern slides_on “Boating in the Grand Can- yon” Monday at 7:46 pm., under the auspices of the Men's Club of the Mount Pleasant Congresational Church, Columbia road near 14th street. BAPTIST WOMEN TO MEET. The quarterly meeting of the Bap- tist Women's Missionary Association is to be held at Grace Baptist Church, Monday at 11 a.m. Mrs. R. A. Hen. \charge of the [the Eldbrooke Methodist Episcopal yof derson of Coyncil Virginia, who, with hor husband, has been in charge of the Buchanan Mountain School in southwest Virginia for fifteen yeafs will be the spesker at the morning pession. Luncheon will be served at 1 o'cloek snd the aftéernoon session will begin at 2 o'elock. WILL HAVE COMMUNION. At Trinity Diocesan Chureh tomor- row Rev. wvid Ransogp Covell will preach at 11 a.m. on Evening and the Morning." There will be a celebration of the holy communion at 11 2.m. in addition to the plain celebration at 8 am. At 8 p.m. the Order of the Eastern Star will make a visitation to Trinity. There will be special music, and Dr. Covell will preach. The Young People’s Society will meet at 5 p.m., with Miss Wil- kins aa leader. At the Thursdey_ ‘'night Lenten prayer service, at § o'clock, there will be a_ sermon on the fourth beatitude—“Powerful Pity.” Confir- mation instruction for the next sec- tion of the class to be confirmed, April 11, will follow prayer service. The Tuesday night class for boys, the Thursday afternoon class f« 7 ‘the Friday night children's entertai: yment and the . Wednesday Afternoon | Woman's Auxilitary will be held next { week ag usual. DR. DREW’S SUBJECTS. ‘Jesus, the Light of the World,” is the subject of the sermon by Rev. Dr. P. W. Drew, itor of Cosmopolitan Baptist Chi N street between 9th and 10th streets northwest, tomosrrow morning, and at 8 p.m: and Christiantly.” The - old folks' . con- cert is to ‘be repeated April 21 at 8 pm I e e B Rev. hn Compton Ball will speak a6 Moitopoiitan Bapiise CRUFCE For morrow “Christ in Geth- semane.” ’ ) on ‘s ‘Supper will follow the ser- (R TR g L G mortigest, tor H. W. O. Millington, Rev. F. W. John- son, Rew K. E. Richardson, Rev. C. B. Austin, Rev. J..J. Muir and G. E. Dunkum. The Takoma Park Baptist Sunday School was organized March 2, 1819. The chureh was: organized June 5, 1919. The organization meetings were held in' the residence of Mrs. Georgle R. Fraser (one of ite members) at 664 Highland avenue. Services were held there until December 18, 1921. From December .18, 1921, to March 31, 1923, services were held in the building of the Takoma Park Severith-Day Ad- ventist Church. % The first superintendent of the Sun- day school was Harry G. Heiges. The present superimtendent is Thomas S. Brock. Rey. Thomas Browne served as_acting pastor from December 21, 1919, to November 13, 1921. Rev, Wil- tiam Earl La Rue came to the church trom the Lyell Avenue Baptist Church of Rochéster, N. Y., and assumed his duties November. 15, 1921. The church erectéd a parsonage at 6511 Piney Branch road. which was first occupled June 15, 1922. Ground was broken for the new church May 18, 1928, and the. corner ‘stone laid September 9, 1922, Officers of church and organizations Rev. William Earl La Rue, pas- Walter Irey, clerk ud Living- ston, sr., treasurer and chairman ot building commiitee; Charles G. Royle, financial secretary. Deacons—Charies G. Elliott, John L. Fletcher, Harry G. Heiges, Thom: W. Marshall, sr.; Fred W. Pearce an Elmer E. Reynolds. Trustees—Jjohn L. Fletcher, chair- Charles G. Elliott. L. R. Grabill, Thomas and Otto L. Veerhoff. Revival to Begin At Fifth Baptist Church Tomorrow| Revival meetings aré to begin at Fifth Baptist Church tomorrow and continue until Baster, under the direction of the pastor, Rev. Dr. John E. Brigss Evangelists T. 0. Reese and Theodore H. Farr are to preach and sing at all services -tomor- row and daily next week _at 145 pm. The large chorus choir will oceupy the platform back of the pul- pit and lead the con g regational singing Dr. Briggs has sent an appegl for personal work- ers, and _those who can sing are requested to join the junior and adult choirs. WORKERS AT Y. M. C. A, TO SUPPLY PULPITS The religious work department of | of the Y. M. C. A. has arranged to | supply a number of local pulpits to- morrow due to the absence of the Methodist ministers attending their annual conferences. At the Dumbarton Avenue Method- ist Episcopal Church Emerson Ro- hart will speak at the morning serv- ice and W. 1. Smaliley in the evening, John Bennett, superintendent of Central Union Mission, will have morning service of Lhurcq‘ W Loving will speak at the Mount Tabor Methodist Protestant Church at 11 o'clock, and David Mc- Cahan will speak at the -evening service. The pulpit of the Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church South will_be supplied tomorrow morning by Page McK. Etchison, director of religious work of the Y. M. C. A. Mr. Etchison will speak at the even- ing service of the Mount Ralnier | Christian Church. The Church of the Coyenant gospel team will have charge of the morn- ing service at the Woodside Methodist copal Church st 11 o'clock: CHRISTIAN CHURCH POST ASSUMED BY J. B. DUKE The board of officers of the Ver- mont A day evening elected J. B. Duke vice hairman of the board in the place made vaeant by the death of Dr. Charfes A, Hays Mr, Duke will serv also -ax chairman of the adv committee. J. Bchuyler was elected a member of the board to fill the vacancy. ‘The Hible Defective or the’ Bible Effective” will be the subject of the study of the Crusaders’ class of young women tomorrow morning, under the leadership of Dr. Wilmer Souder, teacher. _ Chapiain C. Q. Wright of the Navy, who died at his home in Washington suddenly last Thursday night, was an active member of the board of officers the Vermant Avenue Christian Church, and as chairman of the com- mittee on worship presented a report of the work of his committee last Thursday evening. Chaplain Wright recently served as acting pastor of the Bullston (Va.) Christian Church until the services of a regular pastor could be obtained. “Jesus Facing the Cross” will be the subject of Rev. Dr. Earle Wilfley's sermon tomorrow morning. The decoration and equipment of “annex 1" of the church for the use of the cradle roll, beginners and pri- mary departmenis of the. Sunday school, under the plans worked out by H. L. Pickerill and the Sunday school committee; have been com- pleted, and the new quarters will be used tomorrow for the first time. Similar improyements for the other departments of the school are going forward. LOWREY WILL SPEAK. Representative B. G. Lowrey of Mississippl will fill the pulpit at the Rhode Istand Avenue Methodist Pro- testant Church, 1st street and Rhode Island avenue morthwest _tomor- row mornipg at 11 o'clock. His sub- ject will _be “The Primacy of the Kingdem.” Mr. Lowrey recently ad- dressed the men's organization of the church on “Negro Philosophy aund Dia- lect of the South.” The evening servies at 8 o'¢clock will be an _illustrated service, subject, “God's Naturs Book” by the men’s organization. “LIFE FROM LIGHT,” TOPIC After an sbsence of a week Dr. J. Stanley Durkee will preach at the First Baptist Church, 16th and O streets, - tomorrow morning and eve- ning. At 11 s m. his subject will be “Life from Light,” and § p. m. “A Gamble for a Coat.” Professor Ferry will resume his organ recitals from 7:40 to 8 p. m. DR. W. L. DARBY T0 SPEAK. Dr. W. L._Darby, executive secre- tary of the Washington Federation of Churches, will preach tomorrow, both morning and night, at Mount Vernon Place M. . Church South. His !“”6 and Rev, W. M. Navu\-'at the Central of 'Winchest . Chureh &-“é.'flm:u& Randaiph streta b e nue Christian Church Thurs- | Shepherd | iBishop Will Hold Confirmation: Rite Throughout City The Bishop of Washington, Rt. Rev. James ¥ Freeman, will visit Christ Chureh, 315t and ‘O streets northwest, tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock and admvnister the rite of confirmatioh. The class will be presented by Rew, J. H. W, Blake, the rector. Christ Church parish is one of the old parishes of the city, and the present building is the third church to be erected on the same site. Tomorrow at § p.m. the bishop will visit St. Thomas' Church, 18th and Church streets northwest, and confirm g class. The rector of St ‘Thomas' Chureh, Rev. Dr. C. Erpest Smith, -recently compléted his twentieth year as rector, and + « Bishop Freeman joined in the eel- ebration of that event at a special Service in St. Thomas' Church. Monday _at 7:30 p.m. Bishop Freeman will visit Esther Memo- rial Church, in Congress Heights, and confirm a cluss. This chapel was' erected twenty-two years ago by Mrs. Arthur E. Randle, in mem- ory of her mother, Mrs. Esther Shannan. Thursday, at 4:30 p.m., a_con- firmation $ervice will be held in the Bethiehem Chapel of the Na- tional Cathedral, “at which the bishop will confirm a class com- posed of the students of the National Cathedral ~School . for irls. The following evening Bishop Freeman will confirm a clase pre- sented by Rev., A. J. Torey, vicar of Epfphany Cbapel, 12th and C streets southwest. AMERICANISM PROPOSED " AS AMENDMENT BASIS Special Dispated to The Star. BALTIMORE, April 5.—Constita- tional foundstion for the single standard of morals, Sabbath preserva- tion and compulsory Bible instruetion in public schools has been laid In a single amendment soon to be voted upon In Oregon, Rev. Dr. Clarence True Wilson, secretary of the board of temperance, prohibition and pubiic morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, told the Baltimore annual conference of this depomination here this week. “This amendment will be known as | an Americanism amendment.” he eaid. We have got to have a broad term to cover these things or it will he thown out. Americanism covers them | all. ~1f the amendment is passed it Will sweep the nation, come up to the borders Gf Pennsylvania and New York and all perdition ean't stop it. ‘A minister once told me that Da- vid used five stones in_his sling be- cause Goliath had four brothers. Da- vid went in to clean out the whole gang. The prohibitionists went into it with one stone amd then. quit. Don't worry &bout prohibition; move on and take the next works of the enemy.” Dr. Wilson also made a plea for tree-will offerings on a Sunday morn- ing tq pay off the debt of the Meth- odiet building in Washington. Dr. Wilkon. said- they were flooded with inquiries fram the decent people of Europe asking about conditions in & saloonless nation. . SPEAKS ABOUT RUSSIA. Rev. W, L. Scheding will preach at Bt. John's Lutheran Church, 43 and D streets southwest, ‘tomorrow at all the services. At 10 am., German; 11 a.m., English, and 7:45 p.m., English, i He will also 5?2* at the church Mon- jday evening.at the joint meeting of 31!12 Brotherhood and Ladies’ Ald Bo- ciety on his experiences and existing conditions in Russia and Germany. | Another speaker at the Monday eve- ining meeting will be Miss Berths | Heigen; secrétars of the inner mission ‘flcmmluse. of the jocal Lutheran Al ance. : | R LANHAM, KEITH SPEAKER. Applied Christianity means service, Representative Pritz Lanham of Tex- jas told the Lenten congregation &t services yesterd afternoon - at | Keith's Theater. There will he no midday service Sundsy, but services will be resumed Monday. Declaring that every .man is “self made,” Mr, Lanham said that through the Jove of Christ, “we can make our best sqlves, Christ's teaching of service, he continued, Is the only 5‘"!5 that makes for optimism in a world where many regard “man” as synosy- mous with “money bag. “It is pessible for every ore of us to render servi the “Texas con- gressman declared, urging his hearers to “begin at home" by telling som member of the family how much they were loved. {ANNOUNCES TWO TOPICS. Bev. Dr. Smith to Preach Tonight on “Why Have a Church.” The Sunday morning topic of Rev. Harvey Baker Smith of the Columbia Heights Christian Chureh will be “Life’s Monumental Hour.” 1In the evening Dr. Smith will falk on “Why Have a Church?" Interest is being, taken by the young pedple of the church In their two de- partments, the senior and junior, re- cently organized. These two organi- zations have taken chirge of the eve- ning services of the church for the past twop weeks and have shown marked abiity in handling tho situa- tion. —————— GIVES TWO SERMONS. Rev. G. G. Johnson Talks at Im- manuel Baptist. At Immanuel, the National Baptist Memorial Church Rev. Gove G. John- son preaches at both services tomor- row. The Lord's-supper follows the morning sermon. In the evening at 7:45 o'clock the song service, led by the male chorus, will be followed by rmon _on, “The World Criy rated by a new map. ALLIANCE WILL MEET. The third evening meeting of the Woren's Alllance of All Souls' Uni- tarian Church, and tbe last of the season's evening meetings, will be held in Emerson assembly room, Pierce Hall, 16th and _Harvard streets, next Thursday, at'8:156 p. m. Lewis Corning Atwater, organist of All Bouls', assisted by a double quar- tet of men's and women's voices, with incidental solos, will give an evening [ENTERS SIXTH YEAR, AS LUTHER PASTOR Dr. Difienderfer’s Service Marked by Increase of 450 in Membership. | BEV. Di. G. M. DIFFENDERFER. Rev. Dr. George M. Diffenderfer be gins the sixth year of his pastorate at Luther Place Memorial Church tomorrow. Since he assumed the pastorate 430 persons have joined the church andg the church property has been Beauti- fled within. The men's Bible class has been organized and has a member- ship of more than eighty. A youns ladies’ Bible class has been organized called the Rainbow class, with a mem- bership of fifty. The Christian Hn- deavor Society has been enlarged and bas become a strong adjunct to the church work. A junior soclety has been organized. Active in Civie Affairs. Dr. Diffenderfer has been active sommunity and civic affairs in city, He aided (n_the formazion of the Federation of Churches four vears agon, and has been active in its work. being president of the same for the pgst two years. He assited in or- ganizing the Interracial league for a better understanding ‘among the races, and has served as its president for the past year. He is a member of the advisory board of the Howare University Scheal of Religious Yow cation. He is also a member of the board of trustees of the large om phanage of the Lutheran Church ak Loysville, Pa., and of the board of trugtees of the proposed Standarc College for Women of the Lutheran Church, which he is trying to locate in_the National Capital. He will preach a special anniversars sermon tomorrow at 11 a.m. R WILL DISPLAY FILMS OF JAPANESE RUINS The National Coundil of the Epis- copal Chureh, through its departments of misgions, has sent to the Epissopal Clergy of Washington & list ef lantern slides and motion picture fillms recently prepared from photographs taken in Yokohama and Toklo, Japar, during and since the earthquake anc fire which destroyed those cities i September last These siides and films will be loaned for local display Every one of the Episcopal churepes was rondered unfit for use, and most of the buildings of the universities. schools and hospitals under ohurot management Wil have to be replaced Enough remained of St. Paul's Unl- vergity to permit the continuation of the oourses of instruction. and the classes of St. Paul's Middle Sohool are being held in the same rooms as the upiversity olamses It Rev. J. & Motoda, the recently consecrated Jap anese RBishop of Tokio, in writing to the national oouneil described him- self us “the bishop of a heap of ruins. The national council has adopted extensive plans for the rehabilitation of the Episcopal Church in the de- vastated districts In acoordance with the plan adopted by the govern ment for the rebullding of Tokio, it is proposed to move some of the in stitutions to new locations whieh will be more suitably placed when the new development of the city is eom ! pleted. It is proposed to build five new churches in Tokio and vialmity and to repair three others For one of these a considerable sum of money was in hand before the earthquake, and this is still available. The whole project of reconstruction will coat $3,000,000, and it is proposed to pro- ceed At once to secure that sum by means of general offerings in all the Episcopal churches in America. SPEAKS ON BOYS’ WORK. Rev. Liston J. Orum, O. H. C,, master of St. Andrew's Mission School for Boys, in the Cumberland moun- tains of Tennessee, is to deliver a lecture illustrated by stereopticon views, in St. Paul's Parish House, 33d street near Washington circle, Tues- day at 8 p.m. The lecture will deal with the worl ! which is being carried on by his school, which was started about twenty years ago by members of the Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross in Franklin county, Tenn. The school i situated on a farm of 125 acres, and bas a chapel, three dormitories and recitation building. INVITED TO COMMUNION. All members of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew in the Diocese of Wash- ington have been invited to join the chapter of the Brotherhood at the Church of the Ascension, 1Zth street and Massachusetts avenue northwest, {in_a corporate communion at tha early celebration of the Holy Bueha- rist Palm Sunday morning. A fellowship breakfast win we served in the parish hall following the service. st S PREACHES AT BALLSTON. Rev. Dr. John Lee Allison will have ias hig subject tomorrow morning, i | the Ballston Presbyterian Church on | Wilsen boulevard, “Neglecting the Great Salvation. { ", head- N\ PUBLIC MASS MEETING “LAW OBSERVANCE AND CITIZENSHIP” Sunday, 3:30 O'Clock CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH ] Addresses Hom.. WILLIAM E. BORAH, United States Semator from Idaho “Respect for Law Basis of True Patriotism” Hon. CARTER GLASS, United States. Senator from Virginia “The Government and Law Enforcement” GEORGE L. BAYLISS, Soloist; LOUIS ‘A POTTER, Organist FRED B. SMITH, Presiding. Doors Open 3 O’Clock