Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1924, Page 4

o THOUSANDS PAY LAST| TRIBUTE TC MURPHY | East Side Sends Humble Citizens to 1t there be one thing in which mlglt wlfll B-idl in America is pre-eminent it is a dis- wosition to follow the truth. It is Funeral Cortege. this sentiment which characterized the voyage of Columbus. It was the moving impulse of those who were the leaders in the early settle- ment of our country, and has been followed in the great decisicns of the nation through ail its history. Sometimes this has been repre- by political action, some- by scientific achievements this occasion the emphasis is side of science. SERVICE HELD IN CATHEDRAL Gov. Smith Among Pallbearers for | Tammany Chieftain. i times on on the Ry the Amsociated Press NEW YORK, April City and nation today, mourned Charles F. | Murphy and hanored him in death as ~w have beén® honored the me ropolis in livig memory i'rom the teeming Bast Stde the bomes of the wealthy, from every ocial station. from the manifold walks of life of the greatest city in the world, ‘there came to, (he bier the Tammany chieftain in his modest fo great | h avenue n ll\Nr grief l 28, science T mean the careful assembling of facts, their compari- son and interpretation, Of those who are entitled to high rank in both our polf a cintific life, perhaps Be Franklin was the carliest and f the most conspicuous exam But it the same spirit that has moved roush all our life, which makes ticularly appropriate that our national government should be active in its encouragement of the searching out of the truth in the physical world and applying it to the well being of the people. as it Is interested in the searching out of the truth in the political world, with the same object In view, Quotes Washington's Advice. President Washin in his f: American Promote, then primary import for the general diffu- In proportion 1 government inions it was ‘nited Jefter- our third Pre was him a research worker by natural and loved the problems which hoir. last respects to their friend a ve hir brouder lnowledge sad The streets near the unpr of our natural surroundings. The entious home soon after duybre heginning of our government vere crowded they seldom have | (herefore. had to do with the in hecn h a solemn, respectful multi- | coption of scientific research in sde y the United State: Before the house sixty-five police- Americ men kept the crowd in orderly lines| jnec’ five periods as the men and women silently filed that of Slliman, the Agas- into the house and passed the mahos- period, the present period of coftin. perative rosearch, when no one . tes. and the future, for SEepiGiEiedn WAEoRES: definite foundations are be- eds of poorly dressed erks, laborers Wwith their hands walked room, kneit resumed their t i 1 f Ruyves Mega e first large palaeonto (s filled to o story in thfs country avenues Wwe st room of the White moves with difi- By in m ast 17IR street home i Patrick’s Cathedral o3 and woémen united Laborers Pay Tribute. Mr. Murphy had been a man of the and had remained East his heart even unto the pin e of his power, and it his people of the East Sid who, by the thousands, expr: t grief today. Among laborers whom he hildren to d in need, and mev ped rise to power i rly this workers hurrying thr treets stopped and turned teps to East 17th s t. the nen was n obje nstit sion of the mornin son thei olf be divided the Jefferson Hund girls, lunches the darkened and beir various d ant Square Par ity and 1st and wded that traffic n period b son's te ntology in the United beginning in the of Jefferson X or g n even resi- Jefferson arranged Alds Scienee. period covers large- f the last century ational In- of Jlished in which prom th> American Philadel- American Also, in an ex-President of the was conoerned in titution for ney Adams in ng amended the the Smithsonian & it the broad Ik tod third period, that of Agas- brings a President for- din tHe promotion of science ham Lincoln, deeply interest- n the welfare of the American ople, confessed that up to the when he became President talked with Joseph He of the Smithsonian Former Prosident The doors of the to ail Sillin 2 hour later the c Hown the brownstone s est , Gov. Hague of Jersey City, Copeland ‘and high ‘off city Army and Nav Sidewalks Are Lined. The crowd parted. The silence wus broken only by shuffing of thousands of fect and the clicking of cameras. { At 2d avenue column halted to allow to fall in at the rear were lined s 1 persons deep.| Throughout the lehgth cf the avenus | along that thoroughfare | to the catt suspended Fifth avenue, ordinarily hectic. g d colorful. was hushed. Scores o s heany bared s the procession passed. At 45th street Smith, his staff and the pall- E left their motor cars and fell 1 on foot Lehind the hearse. The | Governor, long a friend of Mr. Mur-| .= phy, was deeply aff would seem th for a moment of pure pleasure in | contemplating the attainment. But t to us than mere up- | accomplishment is the this is also a time hould consider with | t these newly estab- conditions mean in terms of :r opportunity d Senator Is of the s heavy 1 °3d the the mourners The sidewalks an street and then head | COOLIDGE DEDICATES NEW HOME OF SCIENCE | (Continued from st_Page.) the natural time to hait Many Delegations Attend. 4 the entrances to cross streets, =outh of the cathedral, dnltgauum‘ from political societics and organ tions afliated with Tammany Hall | tood in military array In and around the estimated 13,000 persons ered, 8,000 occupying every at athedral poiice had gath- available | “Along with those relationships of icti of pace in the majestic GOtMIC | g, academy which have been & was held inside ihe crowds out- | sidered, there also open to t wde bowed their hoads in prayer. |body, as to other sclentific agencies, route of fhe eortege 16 Cafvify ceme. | a1 exceptional opportunity and a re- in Queens, where interment took | sponsibility for aiding to steady the \ thought of the people by interpreting R et | in some measure the meaning of the rapid advances now being made in | scie atific understanding of man and 1 KII.I.ED 8INJURED | uuideinics. IN $l 000,000 FIRE k‘;;,“‘t:"dg:"s.:zfr:"r;:su:fiaa‘::: o Service to People. con- se in complexity and extend itself | in space and time. It is to| be expected that adjustments in our Lawrenec and Dracut Bender Aid |scientific data will bring into con- |Unuous roview much that pertains to Stricken Lowell—Militia . also to the fundamental philosophi th orid’s think Called for Duty. |portant a part of the world's thin ing. We should never blind ourselve to the fact that the people h | philosophies now, and always will have them, and that consciously or 28. --C'm- subconsciously they have religious be- - |iiefs also. |and religious thought forming o im By the Associated Press. LOWELL, Ma: April fireman was killed, cight were jured and a property loss of anprr‘x-\ imately $1,000,000 was caused when fire, starting early yosterday in the heart of Lowell's business distriot, swept through five buildings. de- atro¥ing two of the city’s largest of- fice bulldings, a theate the Knights of Columbus building and large zarage. In addition to the sounding of a| “The academy will always be con- =eneral alarm, the militia units sta- | servative in holding fast such knowl- tioned in the city were called out,|edge as may seem securely founded. together with all reserve and spe-|but it will never look With favor cial police in the city. Aid was sum-|on the defense of any view merely. moned from the city of Lawrence|because it has been held. vnfl the town of hmc\u before the | Though we may never be advo- fames could be brought under con- | cates of philosophic or religiols sys- rol. Only the presence of a caAnal should assist in that {n- nearby tha square in which the biaze originated enabled the fire-fighters to direct enough streams on the fire | to prevent a gencral conflagration. Edward P. Cunningham ie| the result of-the collapse of 1 of the Assoclate building. THOUSANDS FILE BY GIRL SLAYER'S BIER| Funeral of Wanda Stopa Sched- uled Tomorrow From Her Childhood Home. Need of Clear Thinking. | dant national disasters, some | h we have seen in recent dec- have demonstrated fully that nothing more deadly than 1 philosophy. especially if ft tran; itself into terms of eco- nomic or political policy. Such be- |liefs never arise from attainment of the truth, but always from the lack |of it ades, there bad n is tion a the world seems to present viewed through the cves of And we should help to keep from serving in when science. false assumptions the place of truth. Prayer by Bishop. Dr. A. A. Michelson of the Univer- sity of Chicago and president of the academy. presided and introduccd | the speakers. Tho Rt. Rev. James B eman, Bishop of Washington, asked divine. blessing upon the cere- | monies and Dr. Vernon Kellogg. per- manent secretary on the National Re- search Council, spoke for that branch of the academy. The bullding was accepted by Dr. Michelson from Gano Dunn, chairman of the building com- | mittee. Mr. Dunn detailed something of how the academy acquired the tract upon which its new home stands and how, later, the bullding itself, one |of {he handsomest in Washington, | was raised. he said, the fire of scientific research and ogress has been burning in the minds of men. The new home of the academy, he continued, is one of its altars. Even the stones of the walls, the speaker said, were creations of sci- ence, artificially made to improve acoustic properties. 0il Operator An-ested FORT WORTH, Tex., April 28— Herbert C. Schultz, arrested in Mil- waukee yesterday, is under indict- ment here, charged with using the mails to defraud in _connection with operations of the Kelly Petroleum By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 28 —Thousands to- day continued to file past the bier of Wanda Elainé Stopa, who killed an 4ged caretaker who stood in the way of her vengeance and later killed herself at Detroit. Meanwhile prepa- rgtions were being made for her fu- neral tomorrew aftérnoon from the home of her mother and two brothers. The mother's grief was’ intensified »y knowledge that there was to be 10 priest at the funeral services. Miss Stopa had given up_the chureh in her Bohemian quest for “intellectual free- dom.” Meanwhile “Ted” Glasko, Wanda's hiisband, was Meing returned tq De- Since time immemorial, | trodt to answet (o a charge of big- amy, Company. He was indicted last spring. LN THE _EVENIN stitution, he was inclined to view the institution less luxury, but he be a grand school if it produces such_thinkers zs he Later on in 1864, when the very founda- tions of the nation were shaken with civil war, the same Presi- dent looked from the Executive Mansion on the Smithsonian build- ing, which was burning, and re- marked to some military gentle- men presen entlemen, beyond is a national calamity. We have 1o time to think about it now: we must attend to other things. se days of strife that a senator from Massachus- etts. Henry Wilson. later Vice President, put through the two houses of Congress a bill incor- porating the National Academy of Sciences in the United States ot America. President Lincoln signed this bill. Just how much the v influenced the recognition necessity for s a body is not but war problems were ed to the academy and acted Since then many government ntific questions have been re- ferred to it by the President, mombers of the cabinet. and com ittees of Congress, and the acad- members have lent themselves work of s0lving these prob- knowing that their only sation would be the knowl- hat they had scrved the government of the United States to the best of their ability The period of individual work in sclence continued in America up to the time of the world war. Then a change came over the e tablished methods of warfare, Tr stead of individual fighting indi- vidusl, it was masse zainst 1 Selentific problems in re- search for the solution of wWar matters could not, therefore, he solved by onr but must be worked out by interested in the sam 14 2ing this fact. and knowing the many experts in the us fields of science covered e emy, a request was made to President Wilson by the academy to cull the leading scientific men of America for service under the guidance of the National Academy ses and tc anize a body e probl which required co-operative research. Research Council Begins. began the National Re- h Council. and later the Coun- f National Defense requeste act as the department of rch of that body. Aft was signed the United States, tating the value of what had been done. r he National Academy Of Scie reorganize the National h Council under its charter on a permanent peace basis, and with this request operation in scientific research as glven a firm foundation. Upon t sumption of this added respon ity it was found that the old quurters of the ac emy ut the Smithsonian Institu tion were not ade A num of philanth d what s £ ampl avaliable sufficient to street betw to th space & tributed a su is not a place of one to lead the publ deeply and seeing n explain funda myste Nothing with mote promise than the fifth period. that of the fut of American science, could come to the American people. The scientific man is rending the earth to reveal its secrets. Truth must prevail for the betterment of mankind and with the energy that the men of sclence are putting into the problems of research, Dingenes would certainly have a chance to lay down his quarterstafl and lantern and rest, it he would turn his search in their directic Sces New Day in This magnificent b being dedicated to new d ence. ding now science predicts tific research. It is destined to illuminate the scientific world illuminating thi ne of the most sibilitles for ser tional Academy of future lies in its inspiring the peop! insistence upon h and nothing but the ing everything life as a nation be borne in mind peculiar relation of the academy to e government of the United St may concern the conduct of specific researches the example of gnified emphasis upon the truth reached by correct thinking in every department of research, and in its practical applications, ma be a contribution of inestimab value to the whole people. It is for this purpose that the government sets its stamp of ap- proval upon this effort and joins in dedicating this building to the betterment of the human race by achieving a clearer knowledge of mmOAL BSTANTIAL Reduchona on all our coals for Apr. delivery. W. A. Egg, $14.00 W. A. Stove, $15.00 W. A. Nut, $1450 W. A. Pea, §1125 B. J. Werner 923 New York Avenue Franklm 7626 of America ving the truth, truth, regard that touches ou It is always to that while the Ground- anper Shoes Relieves All Foot Pains 1315 E St ,,Nationm heater Bldg. CLAFLIN Read With the Light Over Your Left Shoulder 1314 G St. ty Club Bldg. IllllllllllllllllllI1I'IIIIIIIIIIIIIII||Illl|l|l||lllll||llllllmm"d —overhauling of the [house by all means {should mclude the Roof, Gutte; Downspouts, and Chimney Flashings, |T Whatever Tmnmg work |is required will be done |best if Colbert gets your job. Noted for our de- pendability and reasgn- ablcncss, for years. urice J. 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